December 9th, unless I’ve lost track of a few dates, first hour of the afternoon lecture. We have today quite a little bit of coverage to do, because today we’re going to tie in several points now that we have covered ARC and Be, Have and Do, and all these cycles. And today we’re going to tie these into a first, a „What’s wrong with this universe,“ and second, a working package for an auditor.

All right, this is the first hour of the night lecture, December the 9th.

Now, as you well know, there… there… there might possibly be something wrong uh… with the MEST universe. There might be something wrong with it. It’s an incredible thing that uh… anything could be built on a hundred and eighty degree reverse vector. Never give a win without giving a lose. Never let anybody get ahead unless they’re backwards.

In this hour I’d like to cover something about flows. You have already had some acquaintance with Technique 80 and Technique 88. If you haven’t, you should have. The book 8-80 is, as I say, the high tide of the Confederacy on agreeing with the MEST universe. It covers flows; it covers dichotomies; it covers how you make energy and covers all sorts of things. It doesn’t cover ‘em to the extreme limit that they can be covered, but they certainly are covered to the level that an auditor should know about them.

Uh… I don’t know if you have heard a tape on game processing. I will cover game processing before I get out of here, try to at least. But uh… how do you set up a game? How do you set up a game that will just go on forever?

But this book is written as though we knew nothing but this kind of processing. It’s written from that viewpoint. And uh… what you should know about flows is that they are of tremendous, unbelievably tremendous concern to your preclear. That’s very interesting.

Well, you say it’s one kind of a game and uh… lying right underneath that kind of a game you have an entirely different game going on. Now that’s set up this way. You very often find your preclear is suddenly turning up and he’s complaining that every time he goes into a between-lives area or something of this character, or what he calls that, he is saying that he’s… he… he’s being promised that if he just goes back one more time, why, the next time, why, he’ll practically be ruler of the universe, and all that sort of thing. And uh… this time he has to accomplish so-and-so and so-and-so. And they give him a very specific goal. And then what do you know. They booby trap it. They give him a very specific goal and then give him an aberration that makes it impossible to accomplish that goal.

He is down scale because he won’t go up scale through the flow bands. It would be wonderful if he could suddenly postulate himself at 40, and then ride it. But if he could postulate himself at 40, he would have to postulate himself at 40. And then to postulate himself at 40 he would have to suddenly postulate himself outside the MEST universe, bang! Because 40 has potentialities and capabilities, but not geographical location.

Actually, who’s they? They are uh… people remarkably like thee and me, but uh… either just a little further down or a little further up on the tone scale, what you call a player, an assistant player. And the game divides down into players, assistant players, pieces, and broken pieces. These are actually the component parts of a very wide game. But you can actually take an E-Meter, take any preclear – they don’t know anything about past lives or between-lives or anything of the sort – you put them on the E-Meter and you say, „All right, do you have any basic goals?“

You couldn’t have a 40 who was also even vaguely connected with a body. A 40 wouldn’t be connected with a body – not even vaguely. He wouldn’t be holding on to anything that looked like an object. He wouldn’t have any of these various spatial and possession limitations or necessities or any framework by which to form up a necessity. He could postulate: „Now I will pretend I need something“ but the actuality is that he’d never be able to convince himself that he needed anything.

And the fellow says, „Oh, I don’t know,“ the E-Meter goes bang!

So look at your preclear… look at your preclear who thinks he needs all sorts of things, and look at your difference between that and 40.

And you say, „Well, now uh… at the beginning of this life did you have a certain job to do?“

Well, the reason your preclear thinks he needs all sorts of things has something to do with a body; is down at the lower band of the scale; is not that he cannot use ideas. It is simply that he is, you might say, like infantry – pinned down by enemy fire. He’s really pinned down! In a most adequate sense, uh… he’s pinned down by flows, because he can’t handle them himself, he escapes back of them.

„Well, I… I kinda… kinda felt like it, but uh… uh… I’ve… I’ve often had the idea,“ and the E-meter’s going bang! bang!

Now when I say „flows“ I am being too narrow in that terminology. I should say „ridges, dispersals“ uh… all of those things that constitute manifestations of energy, including „objects.“ Now you might as well say „object“ as say „flow.“ A flow is an object. It’s a particle flow. It’s a flow of particles that has been postulated that something is there and that something is changing. And because there is something there and that something changes, we have „have.“ And out of this you get „time.“

And you say, „Did anybody tell you before you were born that you should do so-and-so and so-and-so?“ And the E-Meter will go off its pins.

Now uh… you just postulate that you’ve got a… a particle, and then the particle is something else in this space in which you’re oriented, and you have an object. There isn’t, really, any difference in the anatomy, except more of it, between a solid object and any bit of energy. The physicist is learning that slowly, but he gets all snarled up every once in a while.

All right, you start tracing this down and you find out that all his life this individual has been trying to accomplish this thing, trying to accomplish it; but he can’t accomplish it because he has an aberration that… now you can just trace it right there. What is the thing he has which does not permit him to accomplish this goal?

It was with great shock that he opened up with cyclotrons and found out that an electrical flow had mass, and that an electron had mass. Well, sure it has mass! How the devil did he think it could change in space if it didn’t have mass? This would be the idiocy beyond idiocy, you see, to suppose that there was a whatsis which could exist without a something-sis. That would just he idiotic.

Of course this works out mechanically. You find out that an absolute’s unobtainable here; therefore if you had an absolute right, you would get the end of the universe. It just works out that way.

Now you could say an idea, that’s observable and within experience, can exist without relationship to space or energy. There are ideas floating along the track in this culture which are killers. They’re just ideas, that’s all they are, they’re just floating along. And they’re not floating along in time – that’s because they don’t exist in time. They are carried they are in agreement with people, and therefore being in agreement with people, people – conceiving that they move in time and have to have – suppose the idea to be in motion. Because it’s with them in present time and their havingness in present time is different than the present time which immediately passed.

An absolute right would be a right on all eight dynamics, and if all eight dynamics were right, you would pass instantly into a static, and the universe would not be here anymore. And if you had an absolute wrong then all eight dynamics would be wrong and you would have the death of everything in the whole universe to have an absolute wrong.

Do you see how easy that is, then, to conceive that an idea… it has motion in it? Well, an idea contained in a mass of energy and inflicted upon the individual out of a mass of energy, and by a mass of energy, isn’t an idea, but an energy pattern, being inflicted by energy – a certain pattern of energy hitting a person.

So, it just works out mechanically, not paranoiacally, that uh… the individual who is given a basic goal in any between-lives area is also given much more abundantly the reasons he has to lose. And you will trace for any lifetime or for spirals or for the whole track, these various efforts to get something done. The pc definitely has the idea that he is an integral part of a large goal, that something is really trying to be done in this universe. And the most appalling, and upsetting thing in this universe is the fact that he has never at any time on the track been able to accomplish wholly one goal. Because every goal he has ever been given has a big lose tacked to it. You cannot win without losing; that’s this universe.

Now this would be what you might call an aberrated idea. All the axioms uh… deal along the line there with uh… homo sapiens and his view of energy. And homo sapiens, in viewing energy, views his ideas as an energy form. Every thought is preceded by an effort; it says – I think it’s Axiom 121 – uh… every effort uh… then will result in some sort of a thought, too – one way or the other.

Now let’s take a look at that and find out if the universe at large is more or less rigged on this basis, and in the meanwhile I invite you to do a little experimentation on the E-Meter with those principles.

Well, isn’t it interesting that uh… isn’t it extremely interesting that a homo sapiens would be pinned down to that degree? Because he… this is true as far as he’s concerned. You take any thought, almost any thought he has and uh… you can start working with it and it will turn into an effort. In other words, his thinkingness is at the effort band and therefore he’s having a rather rough time of it.

Uh… it’s… it’s… it’s just horrible, I mean this couldn’t happen to somebody. I mean he’s given the basic goal: at this time he ought to get something done and they… all kinds of specious statements have been made and this time he’s decided… You’re awfully… looking awfully gloomy. Don’t tell me that I’m hitting… hitting home with this.

So let’s… let’s take a look, then, at what thought would be. You’d have thought, then, at one end existing without energy, and then you would have thought existing with energy. And let’s just, out of uh… anybody or any being on which energy can make a large effect would be considered to be an aberrated being, so therefore Axiom 121 becomes correct, when we say – I think that’s the number – when we say, „Every aberrated thought is preceded by a counter-effort.“ And that’s true! Because you can run down the track on any aberrated idea a person has and find that idea all wrapped up in energy for which he is taking no responsibility, and which, therefore, has a command value on him.

Well, his… his whole modus operandi keeps getting jammed and he can’t quite figure out why this is. Well, he’ll jam it himself. You watch this odd phenomenon of a fellow going right straight toward a goal and he’s just evidently succeeding beautifully on this goal and then the next thing you know, bong! He’s wrecked his car or he’s… he’s thrown something in there. There’s something weird has entered in suddenly that kept him from reaching that tall cliff.

All right, what’s the answer to this? Then we have two categories of thought: There’s the category of thought which you could call the postulate level; and then you could have a… a category uh… which would have to do with uh… an evaluation or uh… a supposition or a play-like sort of a… of an idle speculation or a meaningful speculation or anything like that could be with that postulate. And it would be just a little bracket down from the postulate. And that’d be clear up the tone scale, clear up off of 40.0 – above that. You could have a postulate, then; you could have combinations of things that would add up into postulates and so forth. You could also have sensation up there, because a fellow can postulate a sensation, and he could also postulate that a sensation could exist without energy. Uh… there’s no limitation up there at that band.

Well now, this is a very simple thing. That is: no win without a lose. Of course, if any piece won, that piece would be a player, and here on Earth we on… by and large, don’t even have pieces, and out in the slave strata of the outer… of outer space you don’t have pieces, you have broken pieces. And a fellow gets up to being a piece again and uh… he… he wants to go right into action unless you’ve pulled the trip on this goal.

Now let’s come down band and find out what thought is as supposed by homo sapiens. Thought is something that you’d better think about because you would have to pr… propose and resolve problems relating to survival; and you have homo sapiens’ definition of mind. That is a different type of thinking, actually, and a different type of mind because it plots itself against time.

It’s a… it’s a phony, this goal is. In the first place, nobody has any use whatsoever for this universe. There is no show to be gotten on the road by the MEST universe. That is the horrible thing about the MEST universe, is that there isn’t even a secret about it. The big secret about the MEST universe is that there is no secret.

Time has to have a havingness; has to be space and energy to have time. And so therefore you have the postulates and evaluations way up here could exist without time. You… you could do anything with that because you’re integrating and you’re multiplying and you’re adding into the formula of thinking; you’re adding zero. So one equals two, and so on. There isn’t any time factors involved in that. And when we come down tone scale, the mind of homo sapiens poses and relates problems relating to survival.

You will notice the modus operandi of mystery in this universe. You see, it doesn’t happen to be a pattern for all universes, fortunately, but the modus operandi of mystery is simply to hide nothing.

Then what is the mind at the theta level doing? You could say it’s amusing itself. You could say it’s uh… it’s postulating purpose so that it will have purpose. But it’s not a driven activity. And thought, to Man on the level that we first had it in Dianetics – that’s perfectly correct, that material, by the way. That is Man; that’s how he thinks, and so on. The Axioms describe that activity. It is a process which is a driven process. You sit homo sapiens down and feed him full of food and give him everything which he wants and you don’t pose any problems in his road, and so forth. He doesn’t stop thinking, but he starts speculating. He starts sort of postulating and fooling around and so forth. He isn’t idle uh… mentally, but he’s still doing a bridge type of thing. He’s trying to think above 40.0, and he’s actually existing lower on the scale than that.

Lord Dunseny tells one of the most wonderful stories about a monastery which was scheduled to fall one day, and this monastery was up on a high hill and there was a rumor and a legend had gone forward for many centuries that on a certain day the monastery would fall. And uh… the day came, and one of the peasants in the valley walked up to the monastery and walked in the front gate. He was quite astonished to find no guards on duty because the guards were back in a corner of a courtyard weeping because that day the monastery was scheduled to fall.

But if you want a man to think… homo sapiens to think, take a whip. Get a machine out of repair. Get something intimately related to survival going haywire, and homo sapiens will think. At the level of homo sapiens it is true that necessity is the mother of invention. Above 40.0 there is no necessity. Immediately that sometimes goes against somebody’s grain, when they recognize that above 40.0 we don’t… we don’t have this… this drive, drive of necessity.

And so he walked on through to an inner chamber and he was not stopped because all of the guards there were weeping ‘cause the monastery was scheduled to fall that day, and he walked on into an inner sanctum and an inner sanctum sanctorum sanctorum plus, and uh… finally came down unguarded corridors to the largest central room of this entire place where the mystery of all mysteries of all mysteries was kept, and here behind, at the far side of the room… obviously, the mystery was behind these huge black curtains, and he walked over and he looked at the curtains and he thought, „Well, it’s a very adventurous thing to do,“ but the monastery was scheduled to fall that day, so he adventured to do it. And he reached up and he pulled the curtains down and there was nothing there. And the monastery fell that day.

Then they’d say, „Well, you wouldn’t get anything done.“

That is any mystery there is in the MEST universe. Of course, it fell, it didn’t have a mystery. And that’s true of any mystery. The boys who sit down and beat their knuckle bones and drums… oh, be… beg your pardon, they don’t do that in this culture. Let’s see, what do they do in this culture? Oh, yes, they… they uh… flick a phallic symbol over the audience. Yeah, now just a minute, I’ll get it. I… I get these ethnologies mixed up. Uh… they uh… yeah, they have these gourd – no, it’s beads, beads, beads, they count beads in this place. Anyway, uh… they… they had uh… all of these things of that character.

„Well, why do you want to get something done?“ Well, uh… you see, it’s uh… – Man trying to think about 40.0 puts it back into the framework of homo sapiens. Well, we’ve got homo sapiens’ framework pretty well nailed down and uh… you look at that, „Yeah, yeah.“ So just w… watch this when you’re processing a preclear; watch him come up scale. He will do more and more of speculation without MEST universe reason, he will do more and more thinking without MEST universe reason connected with it. No driven thought. The driven thought starts dropping out and simply postulate level and „What-if’s“ and „Let’s play likes“ uh… will start drifting in. And uh… you get more and more of that as you go up scale.

Now there is a tremendous facade, with tremendous proof and yet the biggest business of the Middle Ages was manufacturing authentic religious relics. All you had to do was hide their history and they immediately became authentic.

Well, this thing would break, theoretically, and the person would be relatively free of being driven around 24, 25, 26 on the tone scale – up in that hand up there. His space would be so adequate and his needs would be so lacking in needfulness, that he could do a great deal of fooling around without getting into very much trouble.

Now just look at this, look at this. The monastery fell that day because the mystery is no mystery. And, of course, when its mystery was gone, the monastery was gone, all right. You lift the curtain on the MEST universe and you find nothing there. It’s just empty.

Now there’s no necessity to be right. Uh… there’s no penalty for being wrong; uh… there isn’t any „hit or God-help-us“ level of survival going on. We… we aren’t… we aren’t running along at the tick of o’clocks, and uh… when it gets to be such and such o’clock, that’s uh… that’s uh… such and such a period of havingness one „have’s“ uh… at the dinner table. And when it gets to be the next period of havingness, one „have’s“, and then one works through the next 48 hours so that one can „have,“ and uh… he… he… he works hard. And then he gets some havingness so that he can „have.“ In other words, he’s just got lots of this sort of thing.

They… they tell you, „All right, now what you’re supposed to do, is you just go down to that galaxy, that solar system, or let’s do something or other, and let’s get everything all set because actually the real truth of the matter is that uh… this culture’s growing fairly old and we need a new culture and we ought to do something with that.“ And you go down into this system and you find everybody rushing this way and rushing that way and trying to get something done, and just the second a man finds his hands upon the bushel basket full of gold, just the moment the person is about to drive in the last spike of the imposing city, just at the instant when he has success within his grasp, just as Dumas ended his… after twenty years, the marshal’s baton of France is being extended to the hero of the story, and as he reaches for it saying it was about time he got it, a cannon ball takes off his head.

And if he… if he runs into a long period of „not-have’s“ why he gets skinny and he doesn’t do so well and they bury him. So you… you see how this plots? As you regulate havingness you would be regulating the driven characteristic of thought. And havingness is a sort of a driven way of thinking about things.

There’s no win. Now this is… this is actually part of the postulates of the MEST universe. Don’t… don’t… don’t look at it in reverse. Don’t look at it and say, „The energy behaves that way. That’s why these other things behave that way.“ No, the energy behaves that way because of postulates. You see, the postulates are senior to, in any case, the behavior of any particular field of action. The postulate is the senior thing in the pc although the pc is made out of energy.

Now what pins him down is, just that: it’s, just havingness.

Now how does the energy behave in the MEST universe? Well, I want to show you that the mystery was no mystery. We have two kinds of energy in the MEST universe. There’s have energy and have not energy.

Now when you jump this fellow out of his body, get him to Theta Clear, he is still not adequate in his handling of energy and he will keep on banging back against the body and… and still being part of a MEST group and he’ll caroom off the walls, so to speak, and fool around and fool around and fool around – unless you recognize where you’re going and what you’re doing. You’re trying to bring him up above the level of driven thought. And it would be only fair to say that an individual becomes an… unaberrated when he ceases to be in the driven thought band.

MY! Some of you look awfully grim about this. I don’t… I don’t really blame you as a matter of fact. Uh… it… it so happens… it so happens that there are goals amongst the universes, there are universes. It so happens that there are universes where uh… love and other things can flourish and where a person can sit down on a pink cloud for twenty or thirty thousand years, and just sit there and nobody will come along and say, „Hey, uh… now uh… we’d like you to volunteer.“

Necessity is the mother of invention. It is also the mother of aberration. When he hasn’t a necessity to drive, or when his necessities are so easily fulfilled that uh… you get a complete fluidity about it all, he’s gone up above your action band.

And the fellow says, „I don’t want to volunteer,“ and uh… so then… then there’s this… he hears this little hissing sound, ssssssssss, and he says uh…

But don’t think that just because he goes up the pole and gets ecstatic and starts spinning like a spinning mouse uh… that he has suddenly achieved this goal. There is the phenomenon known as „going up the pole.“ That’s when somebody doesn’t even begin to handle energy, but he just suddenly, somehow or other, latches on to about 40.0 and goes out the top and still holds on to the MEST body at the bottom, and he’s done the incredible thing of making a circle out of all this: he’s joined 0.0 up against 40.0 and to listen to the guy and to talk to the guy, you couldn’t really tell whether he’s ecstatically alive or fatally dead. He’s a terrible state of confusion. This is „going up the pole.“

They say, „All right, now that you’ve volunteered, you know you’ve volunteered, don’t you?“

You can get some people with such a terrific drive of inspiration. Sometimes you will get an idea and this idea will give you a little surge up the pole. And you’ll… you’ll just – bing-zing – and you feel real good and you’re happy and carrying on. Now you can count on it if you get it while encumbered with all this MEST, that this MEST is going to reach out and in three hours or three days or three months or three – well, it’s… I’ve never seen one last longer than three months uh… pull you back right down into the grind. And you say, „Well, I… I found what that ecstacy was once, but that was quite a while ago, and then I learned that one had to be more practical about things,“ and there you go.

And he’ll say, „Yes, I agreed, yeah, I volunteer,“ on his way, there he goes.

So what’s… that’s the thing that uh… what’s the difference? Well, lend me your ears. Look: Driven thought is driven home by energy. And your thetan, even though you pushed him through a very small knothole, will still have all of his ridges and his various histories and energy patterns connected there unto him. If you looked at him on a plot, you couldn’t even vaguely get him on a plotting board. He is big. These ridges and deposits of energy and so forth, go out just ad infinitum.

That’s a very odd thing but you’ll get any pc that you want to put up there will say, „I volunteered, yes, I agreed to this.“

The best way to test this, and this is s… something you can amuse yourself with sometime, is to start shooting ridges-by velocity. Just pick up velocity of flow and start going through the first bands of ridges immediately near the preclear. Then pick up some more velocity; it gives you the formula in ridge-running, how to do this. Just extend it further. And get him going through with velocity, this bank, that bank, next bank, next bank, next ridge, next ridge. And all of a sudden he’s saying, „You know something?

And you just ask him three times, no more, no less, don’t infer anything, not even by a tone of voice, and just say, „Are you sure now that you volunteered of your own free will?“ He will look kind of odd for a moment. And you say, „Well, now we’re just asking you factually just to make sure we get it straight. Was it of your own free will that you volunteered? Was there any… there was no persuasion of any kind used?“ And the E-Meter suddenly goes neeeeooooow.

It… it’s just… it just goes way on out. Oh, I’m out here miles. That flow just went for miles and miles and miles.“ He’s not at the outermost limit of his own activity, because once… once upon a time he was pretty big and he still remembers it out there at that distance. He was big once. And he can still hit those ridges out there.

The body that’s held in pawn, the goals which are extended to him, these big volunteer projects, started out something in this fashion. There was a big building. He was curious, he was very curious, and he… he wanted to know what was in the big building. It was very fancy.

Well, here’s this tremendous mass of energy. What are you going to do? Be the complete idiot and… and… and uh… electric shock him or something and get this energy off? Well, there isn’t any energy manufactured in this MEST universe that compares to theta-manufactured energy. And by the way, when I… when I said, „Would you be idiotic an… and give him electric shock, something like that, I didn’t mean any aspersion against psychiatry. You understand that. I… I’m in complete propitiation against psychiatry and uh… uh… uh… in… I… I uh… I realize that uh… that our survival depends completely on getting the medical profession and psychiatry to agree with us. And we wouldn’t be able to survive unless we did that. And after the material we covered this afternoon, this demonstrates completely why we should go around seeking somebody to agree with us.

Maybe this fellow had a… had a… job, maybe he was already doing something. And he was going around through the civilization. He was already in use and uh… he saw this big building and he thought uh… he’d heard some mystery had taken place in there so he goes in to take a look. It’s wide open, it’s very easy to walk into, and what does he find?

All right. We get this velocity line way out there, and we find out this fellow’s got lots of energy on him. You’re not going to take it off artificially. The best way they do it between lives – here… you can, by the way, find facsimiles on that thing that are 74 trillion years old – MEST universe havingness. That’s… that’s been around for quite a while. And mind you, this fellow’s gone through electronic incidents. He’s gone through between-lives implants, he’s been… he’s been psychotherapized. He’s been stupidificated uh… in any bracket you could think of. And what do you know? The between-lives: All… all they do, you see, instead of trying to erase engrams – they didn’t know how to erase any engrams. They… that’s the wonderfullest gimmick you ever saw in your life: There’s… there’s… there’s a little… by the way, did you ever see these circular file card things where you lay off one file card at a time on a circle? Well, supposing each one of those file cards had a picture on it and were spinning toward you, and then spinning away from you. It would certainly look like you were being presented with all the scenery of your life, wouldn’t it? I mean, if there were scenes on this sort of thing, you’d see these scenes in front of you. And then they’d go away and then they’d recede. And you’d say automatically, „Why those things are all erased.“ If you were told that forcefully enough, and if those scenes were general enough, and if those things did look enough like the environment in which you had recently lived, you would say, „Well, yes, sir! That’s… just… just look at that stuff! I mean, that’s erasing all of my memory of this whole thing.“

He finds this enormous stone hanging suspended in the middle of a room. This is an incident called the Emanator, by the way. And this thing is, by the way, the source of the Mohammedan Lode Stone that they have hanging down there that uh… when uh… Mohammed decided to be a good uh… small town booster in uh… Kansas Middle East or something of the sort… by the way, the only reason he mocked that thing up is the trade wasn’t good in his home town. That’s right. You can read the life of Mohammed. And he’s got a black one and it’s sort of hung between the ceiling and the floor and, I don’t know it… maybe it’s called a casbah or… or… or something. Any… anyway that thing is a mock-up of the Emanator. The Emanator is bright, not black.

Now actually, there’s a gimmick like that, and on these pictures… oh, you could get a preclear to run this, he’d go half screwy. Every once in a while he gets a visio. By the way, you’ve got to know about this. I’m not telling you this stuff for sensationalism, although it’s very sensational, I suppose. Uh… uh… prefrontal lobotomies aren’t, you see. I mean, that’s common, that’s routine. But this stuff: Too sensational.

And so your volunteer, who is just on a sightseeing trip, goes in and this thing is standing in the middle of the room, and it’s going wong, wang, wang, wang, wong, and he says, „Isn’t that pretty?“ It sure is. And then he says, „Neeeooow ponk.“ Well I tell you, they cart him from there and they take him in and they do a transposition of beingness.

Anyway, every once in a while you get your preclear with a stuck visio, and it isn’t a visio. And very often it’s a visio that happened to him, and all that sort of thing. I mean, that’s usually the case. But all of a sudden you… he’s got a visio and it’s a winter scene. And it doesn’t relate to anything he ever saw and he says, „I wonder if this is a past life of mine, or… or what this is?“ and you process him for a little while and he’s got this visio back again. And you process him for a little while and he’s got this visio back again. And it shows a big… it looks something like… well, it possibly looks uh… uh… who are those characters that had all the lithographs here on Earth? Currier and Ives, yeah. I’ll have to read up on Earth and get a little more accustomed.

Transposition could be the technical term for… and is a very, very technical term and a very authoritative word, and I want you to take particular note of it because I just made it up. Uh… the transposition would be that act of taking a person who is here and under influence, like hypnosis or something of this sort, persuading him to be somewhere else and then monitoring him somewhere else by addressing the body which is kept in a state of trance or drugs here.

Anyway… anyway, Currier and Ives snow scene. He’ll be sick of it after a while. He’s stuck in a between-lives wipeout, and it’s one that fell this way and he can’t bring himself to believe that it wiped out because it connected up with some valuable snow scene memory in his last life. And when this thing came up, why it suddenly clicked past and he looked at it and he says „Oh gee. That sure reminds me of Bessy.“ Rroom! And he’s got it right there, and it’s in balance. Like a mock-up, you see?

You will find the lostness of your preclear normally stems from these transpositions, and why he can’t remember his past track, past this life, is partially because he doesn’t have anything from that period and the other is that he’s lost his space, and if he’s having trouble with space you’ll find these transpositions.

The mock-up will often lock up when it strikes too close to a MEST universe actuality. If you’re having lots of trouble with some mock-up sometime, it might not be your preclear’s ability at all: It’s just you’ve insisted on mocking up his mother when you should have been mocking up something that had a pumpkin for a head, you see? I mean, he… he… he couldn’t handle this mock-up. And the reason he couldn’t is every time he starts to handle the mock-up, he begins to think it’s his own facsimile. And then he doesn’t know whether he’s handling the facsimile of mother or a mock-up of mother. And if he can’t make up his mind about those, you’ve locked him up in a maybe; when you’ve got him all messed up in this maybe, then of course he’s in an uncertainty and an uncertainty… and a state of uncertainty, an unbeingness are the same state. So he can’t handle the mock-up. Just make him sure that he turn that facsimile enough colors and enough idiocies in it or enough changes in it until he’s completely sure that it’s his facsimile… his own creation, pardon me. And that it is not a real universe facsimile.

Little girl, she’s sitting on the curb, she’s playing uh… with a… jacks or something of the sort, and this will be in the year, oh, a couple trillion years ago, and she’s sitting on this big, beautiful city and here’s a very, very nice-looking hussar uh… who rides up and says uh… officer, and he said, uh… „How are you?“ and… and gives her some candy. Well, after she passes out, uh… why, he takes her across the saddle bow and takes her into the… into the big castle and there she is placed in a room remarkably like those that are in use right at this moment. Uh… there’s a shining grate or something of this sort and it keeps her in a state of trance.

All right, this… this stuff going by under his nose, clickety clickety clackety clickety clickety, and he’s in the between-lives area and he’s sitting there, and then all of a sudden the whole thing goes „Whirr“ and he sits over to the right of it. And he says, „What do you know? My life disappeared.“ And then it goes „Whirr“ and he’s sitting over to the left of it, and he says „What do you know? My life disappeared.“

Well, they take her, persuade her that she is a prostitute or something like that, or they get a prostitute and they bring her in there too. And they swap those bodies and then they will send this little girl off to all of a sudden occupy or take over the body of some political uh… some queen or something of the sort someplace or another, and make a prostitute of her so that she will disgrace the king and the government will fall. And this is politics par excellence MEST universe.

Well, you know, those between-lives implants are in and sometimes they… sometimes he’s been turned this way and sometimes he’s been whirred the other way, and sometimes they’ve been fed in that-a-way, because he didn’t care which end was up, you see?

Uh… isn’t this wild? Incredibly wild. I haven’t seen this done here on earth uh… to any great extent at all. As a matter of fact, I haven’t seen it done here on earth as such. I’ve done it, but I haven’t seen it done.

And these silly implants, he… he starts shifting, and he’ll suddenly get views of himself over here. And you’ll run into this when you start creating mock-ups with him, or something like that. He’ll occasionally sort of get an odd idea of views of himself, in clothes that he didn’t have any idea of at all. And you’ll say, „You’re out of your body“ and he’s looking at this thing and he isn’t sure what’s happening. Oh, it’s just very fascinating.

Now when I started finding this on the E-Meter, I decided that it’s something we ought to look into. And so I… I got ahold of a… of a… of a… well, he was in terrible shape anyway, and uh… uh… he… he… he’d never liked Dianetics. Ah… and uh… I don’t know, he’s probably all right right now, he’s probably happy. Ah… we had an awful lot of trouble with the body though. Uh… and uh… he went afterwards down to Fairhope, Alabama, and he hasn’t been doing too well, but one of these days we’ll give him his soul back. That’s all a joke, by the way.

It also tells you something else: Those pictures on that file card machine are usually within a half a century of the knockout. Somebody was around with a camera, folks. And that’s… that’s oh… he… then he conceives his life to be wiped out and he’s a new being. And it’s very astonishing. This guy claims he’s never had… he can’t remember anything about his past life and you strain and sweat over this thing. Do mock-ups of little spinning wheels like this and Llama prayer wheels and tie pictures on ‘em and do other things with it. And he’s liable to get a horrible feeling in his head suddenly and all of a sudden say, „I wonder what ever did happen to my classmate Joe.“

Uh… anyway, just experimented – this is a number of years ago – just experimented this way, can you send a person zip zip zip. Well, I didn’t know the mechanics exactly of what they did in this universe with this thing, you know. Could you send a person zip to here and there to there? Was this just astral walking? Or was it actually… did we produce a result? Well, it’s all right to sit around and theorize and say, „Well, astral walking is this and something or other is that.“ As a matter of fact, astral walking is the palest shade of anything like this. Just the palest of shades. And uh… this uh… do… can we actually make this person influence somebody at a distance?

And you say uh… „Oh, your university, huh?“

And by working on it, really working on it, putting him into a very deep trance, narcosynthesis uh… which is used every day on people. And… very, very, very funny, I mean nobody ought to fool around with a human mind that doesn’t know his hat from his horse, uh… nobody.

„No, no – no this was uh… this is the good old space academy.“ And you say, „When was this?“

That’s right, uh… because psychiatry does this unwittingly all the time. They throw a guy under narcosynthesis and they say, „Be back on the battlefield now, all right you’re on the battlefield. Well, you were unconscious at that moment so we won’t pay any attention to that, now let’s go through,“ and so on. And the guy comes home and he walks around like a zombie and they wonder what’s wrong with him.

And he says, „Oh, I don’t know, compared to present time. I just happened to think of Joe, that’s all. He’s a good friend of mine. I wonder where Joe is.“

You go ahead and you get one of these fellows and you have to collect him off this battlefield. They actually sent him over to the battlefield and the guy’s been sitting over there on Green Beach One for three years looking at the waves come in, saying, „I wonder where the battle was?“

And you… E-Meter – and he starts thinking this over.

Yeah, yeah, wonderful, isn’t it? All right, uh… so I sent this… this… this – three guys as a matter of fact – I sent several of them, but I… I hate to break down and tell you about that. Uh… none of them liked Dianetics so it’s all right uh… and uh… one of them was, well, that’s all right.

And he says, „Gee, you know that was over a million years ago!“

Ah… anyway, could we take a homo sapiens and just simply tell him he was somebody else and make him orient and regulate and monitor the activities of the person we told him he was? Yes, to this extent, to tell this guy, drugged, to go over and get ahold of Bill and be Bill and have Bill get into the car and drive straight up to the front door.

He’s hit some sort of a between-lives wipeout in other words, and it’s wiped on – bong! And he’s got that life and this life then… incredibly enough, it will spark up a person’s memory, just snap, if you run one of these things.

You give it 15 minutes and you look outside and there’s Bill. So just as Bill is going to get out of the car and before you have any slightest chance of doing anything else here just take this fellow and bat him around a little bit and wake him up and say, „You are still Bill, now drive down to the City Hall and apply for a marriage license. Now you are driving down, now apply for this marriage licence. Now go on down there. Now go on, walk up,“ and so on.

Well, what do you know? Even that kind of treatment, or even the kind of treatment of sitting him in the chair and… and just… by the way, there’s waves there, flows hit him when he’s in that position. He is swept into this place with flows. He is pinned down with flows. He’s gone away from there with flows. He’s shot back here again with flows.

All of a sudden this fellow Bill calls you up and he says, „You know,“ he said, „I’m beginning to worry about my mind. You know that yesterday I applied for a marriage licence and I don’t even know any girls.“ This was in Hollywood, and of course no Bill in Hollywood would be interested in girls.

It’s very interesting, I mean, the what… the way they use flows.

So you want to know: Can it work – does it work? Does it exist? Is it phenomena? Boy, is it!

And not all of that! Not even things like… like hitting a fellow with mega… uh… volts and so on, wipe out these ridges! You’ll find all this stuff on these ridges. It’s fabulous! Every man is carrying a very complete history of himself with the things sufficiently messed up because of the agree“, and „have“ and „when I want I can’t have“ and „when I… when I can’t have I want“ and… and that sort of thing interplaying, blocking these things out. He… he’s got a complete history of himself. It’s a completely unimportant history of himself. You don’t care anything about that history of himself. It’s just his identity in the MEST universe, and it isn’t even very adventurous. And it’s… the sensation on it’s kind of poor.

Your preclear has been… been shuttled. Many of your preclears that are really lost have been shuttled from hither to thither to whither until they finally don’t know what… if they’ve got any space. One moment they… they’re… they’re sightseeing, they’re on… they’ve just gotten off a ship or… or something of the sort, and they’re walking along and there’s this big, beautiful building and it says Free Excursions: See the… the panoramic or something, and… and they walk in and that’s… their ship is still sitting out on some airport some place. The baggage is still in some waiting room, the wife and kiddies are still wondering – hardly, because this is probably millions of years ago – they’re still wondering whatever happened to him. And, of course, it’s just too horrible a fact for him to face that all of a sudden, he could cease to be here and suddenly materialize there as somebody else. You wonder what happened to his space – it’s scrambled all over the place.

There’s more… there’s better stuff earlier. But those ridges are sitting here. And those ridges are sitting out there five feet, and they’re sitting out there 30 feet, and on in. And his history of the MEST universe is sitting on top of these ridges. These big ridges are held up in front of him. He actually has something on this is… calling matrixes. You have a uh… there… there’s actually a network up here, and there’s the one type of facsimiles on one side of it and another type of facsimiles on the other side of the thing. The fellow’s built himself up a beautiful energy scheme. And here it sits. And nothing has wiped it out. Sometimes… sometimes somebody will blow one, or explode one or change the position of one, or cave in one of these ridges on the fellow, or… or something like that will happen. But the destruction as compared to the bulk of material present is minimal. Something like scratching a fender on your car. Nothing to it.

Now I… I could give you… give you a rundown on this and maybe… maybe I will. But it’s… it’s just too fantastic for words. That’s just too fantastic so, of course, nobody would believe it, and that again is the main stock-in-trade of the MEST universe.

Well, what do you suppose? You don’t… you don’t think then that you’re suddenly going to get this preclear to postulate that he’s at 40.0 without going through the steps of him being able to handle energy, do you, and have him be clear and stay that way? No sir! Because until he can learn to handle force completely and utterly, he is unable to handle his ridges. And if, he could handle force completely and utterly, he could blow this whole shooting match. And then and there, and only then and there, would these things cease to have the effect upon him of command and necessity and demand thinking. Then his mind’s free.

You notice that everybody triggers on a „I can’t believe it.“ You notice that… that’s some of the nicest mechanisms there is. The reason why Scientology can’t actually take the guts of nuclear physics, extend them; we’re more usefully in the direction of chain fission, low-order chain fission than the boys are out at Los Alamos. We could take that, we could ship it to Russia, we could ship it to Germany, we could do anything we wanted to.

We’re actually doing the same thing we were trying to do with BOOK ONE. We’re trying to wipe out this energy which has messages on it which gets enforced by physical pain. Only the physical pain, as it turns out to be an electronic type flow. We’re still trying to do the same thing – we just understand it better and it’s a lot fancier. And the process is a lot simpler. But the end goal on it is the same thing. And that’s: Let’s knock out every single cockeyed engram this guy’s got.

I could go down here and take an electronic laboratory and build a gimickgahoojit that would bop bop gamma rays like mad and we’d just have the most fun. Nobody would pay a bit of attention to what was going on. Why? That is the main mechanism of the MEST universe. Does it immediately agree with a person’s immediate surroundings? Well, if it doesn’t, it doesn’t exist. Oh-ho, nobody is really permitted to imagine out beyond the surroundings in which he finds himself. That’s one of these agree mechanisms.

You want experiences? The time to have experience is now, and will have – not did have. An experience that you DID HAVE is no good to you. Really isn’t even good data. You could probably sit down and figure out better data. What’s it appertain to? It appertains to you. So you dig up the past life experience. Now you need to know how to make iron in Upper Bavaria. That’s great. It’s just what you needed!

You do something that is completely out of agreement… supposing, supposing we went down and… the doggonedest things could happen, you know. Ah… you could suddenly take over the Empire State Building in New York City and uh… if you had it on the proper deeds and so forth and… and everything was all set up, why, you’d have the Empire State Building as long as you’d gone through the agreement of the environment. The whole society is wide open, it’s just like it’s Swiss cheese, it’s very solid compared to this… this society. It just lies here; it’s as porous as a sponge and nobody eats it up. Somebody ought to wonder why.

One preclear all of a sudden… he’s sitting on the chair, starts to go this way, I thought for heaven’s sake! And he said, „What do you know?“ „Gee,“ he said, „I spoke very good sign language, very good sign language“ – he was born in New York City. This guy… I don’t know how he ever wandered East again. I guess on the prevailing westerly winds. Uh… but he had spoke this uh… spoke an excellent sign language hack there about the middle of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. And he’d all of a sudden recovered his total bank of sign language. Now isn’t that fascinating? I mean, that’s JUST what he needed. A communications system that’s as dead as the leaves of yesterday. Oh, I guess it would be interesting. You could have Hopalong Cassidy, take three or four of the signs and do them in a movie, but uh… they’ve got a book on it. The book is wrong, but they’ve got a book on it.

There’s two reasons why, is MEST has no real value, and the other reason why is… is because there are a lot of people making awfully sure right now this place doesn’t get eaten up.

That’s very funny, by the way. The guy really did know sign language. And he was from the lower East Side New York. I know something about sign language. It was fascinating all of a sudden to see him waving his hands around and going through „may the sun shine brightly in your eyes“ and so on.

Now I ask you to… to qualify all that I’m telling you and realize that it’s far too incredible, far too incredible to oh… actually be. But don’t get an E-Meter and start asking questions. You start to collect your preclear in space, you start to sum up his space, where did he suddenly cease to exist and where is he still trying to hold on, and you will get a state of mind which says… which has no fluidity. It… it says… it says, „Now look, it’s happened to me once too often. I was here and then all of a sudden, bow, I was someplace else and… and I… I’m sure I’m here,“ and your preclear is hanging on to any anchor point the MEST universe cares to give him. He knows he’s here.

But anyhow, data – data is of very little good to you. You can pervade and approximate and get data faster than you can remember it. You want to know all about a machine? Just look at the machine and own it for a minute and you’ll be all through the machine suddenly, pervade it. And you all of a sudden say „All the working parts of the machine.“ Now you really want to inspect this machine and take it apart? Why worry about MEST? Go out here… you’ve got a mock-up of it? Now, take the mock-up apart and look it over.

Your preclear as you’re processing him on mock-ups will occasionally open his eye and look around the room just to make sure he’s here. And he’s… he’s… where’s here? Well, any here is better than no here, so he at least knows he has a location, that he hasn’t suddenly gone zook and appeared on Arcturus as a street sweeper.

Isn’t that interesting? That’s the way that thing spells on the principle of hydrogenation. Must have been designed by the US uh… Forestry Service or something of the sort.

Oh, it’s fantastic enough uh… when you come to think about this, that uh… that something like this could go on and never get detected even vaguely. Well, fortunately, it’s very easy to solve. It is tremendously easy to solve once you know spacation. Because you can just solve it by mocking up anchor points and that sort of thing and the fellow is ill… you’ll wonder why this makes a fellow feel so much better. Actually he’s… most of your people have been transported and supertransported too wildly for his own credibility, much too wildly.

Uh… that… that’s right. And uh… you know, a very little practice… a very small amount of practice, you could take practically any piece of machinery and without reading its label, once you know how to do this, you can tell people where and when it was manufactured. And if you’re real good you could tell them the name of the chief mechanic that built it. I mean, the data is there to that minute a detail.

Now, at the same time, just because that condition of affairs can exist – and it can only exist because it is unknown, that is, it’s a mystery, it’s hidden – just because that strange state of nonsensical things can exist uh… disconnected uh… uh… the fellow loses when he thinks he’s winning and he wins when he loses and all this is hidden back of the lines, is because of two things.

Do you know that you can read a book that you know not the language of and never knew the language of simply by reading the meaning that the last person that read it put on it? Sounds silly, doesn’t it? But it’s true. You just don’t read the letters. Just read to the… just read to the depth of the energy deposit of the… by the way, what you mostly get is… is the disagreement the fellow had with the book.

That is, one, the preclear himself never got oriented the instant he stepped into the universe. He was disoriented at that moment because it was strange space and he is at the present time gripping with terrible tenacity to any orientation to which he can credit a reality – any one. So one of the reasons why mock-up creative processing works is because it, for the first time, starts to treat the only anchor points he ever had or he ever will have.

Now those… those all sound… those all sound wild and incredible. You’ll be doing them one of these days. And… and you can… a lot of you can do them now, and… and you won’t think anything about it at all. It’ll be routine. But don’t try to tell anybody, and don’t let your preclear tell you at any moment, that all he has to do is simply rise to the high and beautiful plane of pure thought, without anything ever having any effect on him again in the line of energy. Bull!

He… he doesn’t have any other anchor points than his own anchor points, but somebody could come along with trickery and drugs and persuasion and shift him from one place to another just grandly and beautifully and here you have, then, your preclear losing space and appearing in one space and in another space.

He’s got to be able to handle that energy. Otherwise the energy can command him. And that’s the trick of this universe – is, you command the energy, or it commands you! If you want to command this universe, it is a universe of space and energy. And if you want to command it, you’ve got to be able to command space and energy.

This material becomes deadly when your psychotic is faced with it – just deadly. Oh, it’s just grim. The poor guy has com… he has adequate reason to be completely fruitcake, anybody has, and somewhere along the track he’s taken refuge in the fact that he was no longer responsible so somebody could stop punishing him.

A universe of your own might also come down to a manufacture by space and energy. It might do that. Doesn’t have to, but if it did you’d certainly better know how to control space and energy. And if you made a universe of your own and you made it just in… just like… no energy in it, no space, you didn’t go by these things, or you had 88 dimensional space, or some darned fool thing, boy, you’d better know how to handle energy!

And you see when a guy can’t die, he can be punished and punished and punished and punished and punished, so his final answer to inability to die is to say, „I’m not responsible and I can’t be responsible,“ and the… the substitute in the thetan for death is insanity. And that, of course, came about and the person chose the substitute of insanity before he chose uh… to have a body and have it die.

Some day somebody will show up and he’s got a new gimmick on the subject of energy, and he’ll take a look at this nice new universe you’ve got there and pick up the agreement level and he’ll say, „Well, here we go. I think that uh… yeah, I… I like this. I’ll have it.“

You know, it’s a very good thing to have a body because we have an agreement here… here and that is to say when you kill the body the fellow is legally dead. You can only go so far with punishment. You can’t keep going after that point.

And you say, „You know, there’s a funny thing, but back in the MEST universe we had a habit… system by which that person who had to have something always found it disagreeing with me“ – POW! Discourage him in it.

Now these incredibilities add up to a squirrel cage, and when a fellow starts looking at the unknowness of it, he’ll suddenly stop knowing himself.

All right. Therefore, I hope you get this much more clearly on why energy stands as a… a barrier – the sinister barrier – between aberrated thought and being free to do anything you please with thought. Now it’s an easy barrier to cross – extremely easy to cross as long as you actually cross it. You can cross it in a mock-up. I mean, you get way up scale and you don’t realize you’ve gotten this far up scale and… and one night you’re walking home and you’re sort of – you… you haven’t any thought really on the subject of this universe. I mean, you’ve just been going along. Maybe at the same time you’ve been holding down a job or something of the sort, and going through routine motions, and you’ve just been carrying forward mock-ups and you’re just doing your job in processing, and maybe processing some people now and then. You say, „Well, now when I was a little boy I used to have a… I used to have a dog, and so on. I bet I could think of a much cuter dog than that,“ as you’re walking home. So you just mock up this dog. And all of a sudden this great big dog from – lives in the neighborhood – comes out, he goes „Brrrrrrrrr“ and your dog jumps on him and tears his throat out.

What is knowingness composed of? It’s composed of having anchor points and being able to handle and combine energy. That’s all known… knowingness consists of really. It’s… if you can do that then you have the capability of knowing, which is to say, computing anything that has to do with a universe. Now if you can do those things, you see, the data which we have here… look, all of the data we have is MEST universe data. There’s datum after datum after datum and they’re all MEST universe data just as though they were important.

You got two… you have two choices at that point. You either… you either just go out and by assist of mock-ups or something or other, why mock out of existence this… this particular uh… end of things that you’re fooling with, or you mock it into existence or something of this sort. And what’s the use of working? You just mock up a plant and put it all on automatic and then blow it up or something.

It doesn’t really matter a tinker’s doggone where this preclear has been transported to from one place to another; it does not matter a bit how much MEST universe space he has lost. It doesn’t matter how many identities have been taken away from him, really, in this universe; that is of no consequence. Rut a psycho, all of a sudden, is faced with some terrible problem in this life and he starts to look for the answer and he starts to look, God help him, in his facsimiles, and the second he starts to look for the answer to some all-pervasive problem about knowingness, the wrong place to look is facsimiles because the energy in them is rigged backwards. It is zong, 180 degree wrong. So uh… the fellow starts looking through this and of course he knows less and he knows less and he knows less. What is he finding out from these? He’s finding out past identities, but these identities were not his identity.

Uh… the… by the way, if you know… if you were to do that you’d be in a heck of a lot of trouble. Do you know that if you went out here on the marshes someplace and… and bought a piece of land and mocked up a plant, complete, and then blew it up, do you know that you’d be arrested for willful destruction of property? The motto of this universe is „We must have, and if we have, we’re going to keep right on having. And the more you have, the more we gotcha!“

His identity is solely and only his own beingness high on the tone scale, that identity which he assigns to himself is his individualism; that’s his individualism. Uh… he is actually has to be robbed of his individualism to become John Jones, which is an identity.

All right, your other choice is, of course, is uh… just to stop right there on the corner and manufacture a little space and put a pink cloud in the middle of it and sit down and think the whole thing over.

So uh… that’s all the identity the fellow’s ever going to have and he just hasn’t made up his mind to it. Uh… but he still thinks that it was more important to have been assigned an identity; you get preclears coming around and saying, uh… „I was uh… Noah,“ or… or… or something of this sort, „and I have these terrible crimes upon my back, yap yap.“ It will… so what, so what?

All right. The bridge must lead then across energy, and the abyss is the abyss of force. Now we talked about a bridge and about a chasm and the abyss; the mystics talk about the abyss and so on, through the past. And what is the abyss? What are you trying to bridge? Well, you’re trying to bridge very clearly, the necessity of energy. And you’re not going to do it by saying, „I don’t want anything to do with energy. And I’m going to deny myself a body. And I’m going to deny myself sensation. I’m going to not use this and I’m not going to do that. And I’m going to back off from this whole thing; and just to show this universe what’s happening and that I’m boss, I’m going to sit right here on these spikes. And I’m going to sit on these spikes and hold this arm in this position for 30 years – that’ll show them.“ And what do you know? 30 years later he’s still there. They prove that conclusively… when they sit on spikes for 30 years they prove that they can… they are still there at the end of 30 years. Well, it’s a good experiment, but it shouldn’t be carried out so often.

You’ll find, by the way, another manifestation is preclears will shift identities and borrow facsimiles like mad. There’s what they call the Christ game and that game has been played and played and played and played – honest to Pete, these cards are just so thin. They’ve been laid down amongst the coffee cups and so forth of a whole universe.

Now the fact of the case is, then, is that you… you have to, not necessarily partake of action or really even engage in action, but you’ve certainly got to be willing to handle action. You know, if you. were to make, just as an experiment – this is one you can reach because it’s an action postulate – if you were to just suddenly make the… the statement to yourself „I’m going to use this body for everything it’s possibly good for. I don’t care whether I wear it out or not, I’m going to get everything out of it that could be gotten out of it and I’m going to make it do everything a body can do and I’m going to use it with the wildest abandon possible. I’m going to feed it all the good food I can possibly do, I am going to engage in the most horrendous affairs that anybody ever engaged in since Don Juan, I am going to put this… this body in a car and drive it faster than it’s ever been driven before, I’m going to teach this body in order to do this and do that, and I’m going to rig it up with titles, and… and… and I’m going to do all these things with this body and there’s nothing going to stop me doing these things with this body“ – all of a sudden the darndest little surge will go through you. You’ve just consented to the first step on the road, and that is „to use it.“

You’ll find out thousands of years before the year one A.D. Earth, you will have facsimiles and dolls made up like Christ. Fac One a million years ago is occasionally rigged with Christ and the Devil and an angel. It’s a fascinating thing, it’s an old game.

Up to that time you may never have recognized… you may never have recognized one thing – that you’ve never used it. You’ve taken care of it.

Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. Well, one of the reasons he was… he swept in so suddenly uh… and… and he would go forward so hard is he had a good assist back of him in terms of an implant.

You know the fellow who spends all of his life trying to get a costume in which to play the part – about the time he gets the costume, gets buried, grimly enough. We spend all of our time getting dressed for the play and then no play. At first you’ve just got to have the object so that you can have the action. Then after that the object becomes the object.

All right. Now he… you’ll find preclears, and this is a little problem that will come up with you. You’ll find preclears all of a sudden are Christ. You will actually find a preclear will go all the way through with a crown of thorns and every other darn thing. Just look for an overt act against Christ, and it solves itself.

It’s an odd thing that in English – beautiful stuff, language – we have the word „object“ as meaning „goal.“ Yes sir. We also have the word „identity“ and we also have „identification,“ and it means exactly what it says: An identity is the bottom scale.

What they’ve done is picked up an implant phrase and done a mock-up on it. They can do it… they can do this. They pick up some kind of an implant or some kind of a terrible upset or a conviction of some sort or another, and then they’ll go ahead and, my lord, they’ll carry that cross clear up to the top of Golgotha and get themselves nailed on it, and uh… very few of them go to the point of getting the… the uh… gall bladder stuffed in their mouth or something like that – little Christian niceties – uh… but uh… they… they… they will be just about as good as this as they know about Christ. They’ll add no new data to the situation.

Now what, then is our… it just shows, demonstrates, that’s a little trick to demonstrate to people, that someone was very clever doing this and that avoids saying that we’ve been very clever in undoing the riddle. Because of course the word „identity“ means that, because what are we doing? We’re tracking agreement. And what is language? Language is the communications of agreements and disagreements, that’s all. Of course, that language sits together that way. Wouldn’t sit together otherwise. If there’s a single word in English now that does not mean what it’s not supposed to mean, why it’s because… it’s because something has been entered on an arbitrary reason, like transcendentialism or something of this sort. But even… even then the fellow had enough sense to have the name „Kant.“

This is an overt act against religion, and the person has been made guilty in terms of some religious cult, and so on and the only reason that could ever happen to him is because at some time or another he has deserted a group which was a high ethical group and after that he can become prey to other things.

All right. In other words, you are essentially at the level you pick up a preclear, or the preclear is essentially energy. That’s a low level. But boy, he’s got to be that low level. And when you get him out of a body and you get his energy all developed and he’s all set and he’s roaring to go and he’s just… he’s practically a ball of fire, why what do you know? He’s going to have to be perfectly willing to use that energy in any department – willing to. It’s not necessary that he does, but he’s got to be willing to. He’s have to be able to use that energy to deliver somebody a zap, for instance. What you playfully used to do called a „nip.“ You take two energy beams and you slap them together just back of a guy’s ears. It kills him. It’s an easy way to break a thetan out, though.

Man’s degradation always stems from his first desertion or breakage of, really, the Code of Honor. He breaks the Code of Honor and after that he starts downhill and he gets worse, and worse, and worse, and worse, because his trust in himself is worse and therefore he can’t trust what his own space is or his own energy is or anything else.

Now when we have… so… so… he… he should be willing to do that. Why? So he could reassure himself – not advising you to have anybody do this – but he’d have to do something along in that order; at least go down here and knock out a couple of big neon signs or something of this sort, or plug himself into the main power lines and short ‘em out. To do what? To show that all he has to do is change a postulate and he’ll keep right on going. Because he’s arduously learned that when he uses his energy he starts failing in this universe. Well, you see, you’ve got a new system. You can use all the energy you want to, all you have to do is run out an evil effect that you had from it or simply learn how to sidestep the backflash. You can either receive the backflash, or let the backflash go through you. You get so split-second in your timing that you can put out an energy beam and then its backflash doesn’t find anything there to go through – nice trick, see? This would be like firing a rifle and then not being there to get any recoil.

So this is a completely wild picture when you look at Man’s location in the MEST universe and what he has or has not been through. The picture is just incredibly wild. And you start to search through facsimiles to set this picture to rights, all you’re going to find is the track of agreements which lead him to finally agree to be what he is right now. Now you’ll be able to map that, but as far as his identities being shifted in space, being shifted in time, all of these things – of no importance. The dickens with it.

Or… or you simply change the postulate or make a mock-up or run it out right away, The guy simply… he… he… he knocks down the Edison Company sign and short-circuits the whole joint and blows all the main fuses in Philadelphia. Well, have him sit down and uh… run it out, you see. That’s what’s important.

And you… if your poor… if your poor psycho can only realize this, brother, it doesn’t amount to two whoops and a collar button what you’ve done, where you’ve been, who you’ve butchered, how many crosses you lugged to Golgotha, oh, that… that’s really vicious. You go down an… an insane asylum corridor and you see these religious implants are just leaping, it’s something in the order – it’s at least one out of three inmates in any asylum are spinning on religion. Why? God occupies all space. That’s all you have to convince a guy and he’s dead. That’s right, that’s all God’s space and any space which you occupy will be God’s. Oh, brother, just look at that as an operation. The guy can’t throw out any anchor points of his own without getting God into that space. And he’ll spin like a… like a spinning mouse if he finally gets this down the line.

And the… that’s… that’s just being able to handle energy on a snap bang basis. But you’ve got a method of doing it. Why did the handling of energy get you into trouble and how could energy, then, assume this much control and command over a person? And why did these flows and dispersals become so terribly important to him?

And you look down these things and you find these guys are trying to depend upon or trust upon the other thing that they’re worried about, God help them, is they have found out how perishable a commodity ARC is in this universe, how perishable; they have had an ARC break with the rest of the race.

Well, the reason they did is because they kept heading him down scale. And he finally got into the bracket where energy meant nothing else but these diagrams which you had this afternoon – last few lectures.

Now this actually violates the individual’s own reality. It actually violates any way he would set up a universe if left to his own devices. He would set this thing up on a high-level ARC and try to keep it there, but he has been tricked here into believing that certain things comprise ARC and he… he’ll – all of a sudden you t… start tracing back a preclear’s life – where are his major ARC breaks? And he all of a sudden realizes that this human being’s no good and that human being’s done him in and that human being’s no good, and that he can’t help some other human being, and this sort of a progress has been setting in on him just… just year in and year out and he has never found this out.

Now it… it said simply and positively that every one of those diagrams made the handling of flow as the complete modus operandi of existence about the most horrible thing that you could do – just terrible. But you have a new way of handling it.

A human being finds it almost impossible to do these two things – one, be a driven slave under the whip of energies and necessities and spaces which are not his own, and to be at the same time a real being.Hefinds it almost impossible to cross the MEST universe with faith, hope, charity, love, friendship and so on. It’s dog eat pig.

As a matter of fact, if you want people to agree with you, outflow at them. It’s very simple, just outflow good and hard. And if this fellow doesn’t agree and you’ve blown up in his face, so to speak, uh… I mean you… you… you’ve got… you’ve got this fellow and he… he hasn’t agreed with you and you’re going to sell him this piece of property, you’re going to reduce his survival by making him acquire something, why just… just start giving him hell, that’s all. And just give him some more and give him some more, and he gets all ready to fight; then start making noises like you’re exploding – anything like that – and the first thing you know he’ll say, yes, he’ll do it – providing you’ve got enough strength, of course – of course.

Look at… look at the way… look at the way the food system’s rigged. If anything is silly, it’s rigging a food system so that every time a being eats, something has had to die. Isn’t that wonderful? Every time a being eats, something has had to die even if he’s eating celery. The cells that go to make up that celery are live cells, that’s livingness. Here is theta has got this weird endless chain.

Now of course, if you want somebody to want, you keep walking away. Just keep walking in the opposite direction and you can get somebody all balled up on this one – terrible. I mean, it’s horrible the ease with which you can use those flows and monitor interpersonal relationships.

Go out and look at the sea sometime if you want to see how bad off theta can be. Take… take a big spotlight down in tropical waters and shine it into the water alongside the thing and then… then just… just watch. You don’t have to do anything, just turn on the spotlight and the little fish will come up to see what’s happening to the… in all this light, because they figure light=algae, that sort of thing and uh… they’re eating the algae, and the next thing you know there’s a flurry and a flash and there’s another big fish in there and he leaves a lot of maimed little ones and then he comes back and eats two or three of those, and then there’s a big flash from the bigger fish that’s suddenly cut in half by a barracuda and there’s a big flash because this time there’s blood in the water and you see a big barracuda come in there and then you see the slow lazy turns of a shark and Mr. Shark will come in there. Mr. Shark looks… looks awfully religious, he… he… he… he is… he’s… he’s very nice.

But that’s a monitor from a „let’s pretend“ basis. It couldn’t possibly be serious to you if you were doing anything like that. You wouldn’t be doing anything to anybody to louse them up, really, if you were at that band. You might amuse yourself or amuse your friends or amuse them. There wouldn’t be very much viciousness in it.

You know he has lids on his eyes and he can blink at you particularly when he’s dying, the most touching blink you ever saw. And uh… so Mr. Shark comes in there and starts to mop the joint up and then maybe a couple of sharks will get in a fight and then the shark that gets wounded gets eaten up by the rest of the sharks present, and if you’ve ever seen a bloody swirling turmoil that will really turn you just a little bit gaggy and cold, just do that trick sometime in tropical waters.

Now what… what are we trying to… what are we trying to get, then? We’re really only trying to get this bank… this bank that goes out to darn near infinity, which has more engrams on it than you could possibly count. You could sit down for the next 50 years and just count them, one by one, as fast as you could count and you wouldn’t be able to count all of the facsimiles on these ridges – much less run them out.

Now that’s… that’s… this universe then throws some sort of a… of a vile curtain across things. It’s… it’s an interesting thing, one of the commonest incident you’ll find in pcs is somebody telling them what they really face in the MEST universe and making sure that the guy knows how bad it is. Just… just… just pounding it to them, and then just breaking them down and showing them how degraded he is and so on.

We were interested before in making the best homo sapiens that we possibly could make. Okay, we’ve one goal; that’s attainable, that can be achieved. Gets up to about 4.0 or 5.0 – that’s all. You can do that by running out the most horrible things with overt acts and motivators and so on – even by old-time engrams.

They get a fellow… you see, if a fellow didn’t consent to become degraded one of the fine days he could just suddenly throw out his chest and there would be a sort of a flash and a tinkle of glass and a faraway cry of the inventor of this place as he fell through all of his own space.

What are you going to do now? You got another goal. You’re trying to make the clearest thetan you possibly can make, so you’re dealing with a new subject through a new goal to a new thought level. And THAT one leads up through not becoming a well-mannered, if somewhat indifferent uh… able to handle what comes up, not lose one’s head in emergency, be skilled at what one is doing, homo sapiens.

I think he should fall through all of his own space endlessly myself, I think we should have endless space, a sort of a circle with leading type gravity. Because look at that, every… every sensation, then, every sensation is based upon some debasing thing. This is not native to theta, theta can be pushed in that direction. Because bad and good are practically without classification, but it can be pushed in that direction and it can be trapped in that direction and it can be made a slave to do this sort of thing, but God help us. The fellow who has had these ARC breaks, ARC breaks, ARC breaks, down the length of his life, what he’s doing is making the basic error of supposing he’s on his home ground.

This requires a… a perfect – I mean, thi… this… this guy… this guy is… that you’re trying to make and get up tone scale up here, he… he’s got to be a killer. He has got to be able to handle unlimited force. And don’t think for a moment that you’re ever going to escape it. If he can handle unlimited force… you see what’s the matter out there, and you get out here to… to ring 99 thousand, you actually have… in Man you have a miniature of a complex electron. And in those ridges and so forth, you might as well call the thetan himself the proton and those other things out there you might as well call them electron-neutron orbits. And sure enough, an electron orbit and so forth looks just about like a ridge.

He is underestimating the amount of power and force that is driving or that the… his friends think are driving them. He’s faced, then, with people who are not able to act out of their own election but people who are caught enmeshed and enmired in a world where something has to die before anything can live.

You see, an… an electron orbit isn’t a little… a little thing in pink pants or something that is racing around like… racing around this proton the way they’d like to have you believe in the elementary physics textbook. They change their minds by the time they get up to the advanced physics textbook, and then they change their mind again when they get up to… at really advanced physics, super advanced physics. And then when you get into elementary nuclear phenomena, boy they’ve changed their mind so many times, nobody knows what the heck cooks. And after you’ve been on a project for a while and you’ve really had to work with it, the best thing you can figure out probably is, it probably looks like an onion.

Now it’s… you’re undoing then a very strange picture. You’re undoing a very strange, complex and upsetting picture.

Now you… you… you have an embryonic – uh… not embryonic, but you have it in a pattern form. You… you don’t really have a solar system, that is to say, a sun and a whole bunch of planets flowing around the sun any more than you have that in nuclear physics. It… it’s a… it’s more like an asteroid belt. Uh… if you could figure a solid asteroid belt at every planetary belt, you’re beginning to get in somewhere close to it; and then if Earth had… had these solid belts that went out as far as… as Arcturus, you’d get some kind of an idea – uh… light… many light-years away… you’d get some kind of an idea of what… what complexity you have here in operation.

You find… you think your preclear’s liked some of it, he’ll try to hold on to something because he’s liked some of it and you process him for a little while and all of a sudden – boom. He finds out that wasn’t the case, that he had himself kidded one way or another about that.

Now although apparently these rings are responsible for the production of energy, the gimmick is that they’re not. What’s responsible for the production of energy is not an interlocking flow from this; it’s strictly ‘a postulate. You say, „Let there be light“ – WHAP!

And uh… he… you find out that… he tells you probably that he won a prize and then we found out the award of the prize was getting up on top of a chute and going down the chute and getting all the emotions installed one after the other, and he gets to the bottom completely degraded. The emotional shoot, it’s just an incident. And so they had a big contest to find who the smartest thetan was in this area and at the end of this contest the thetan that had won the prize got to go down this chute. And of course that finished him.

Now you can build all this complex structure. It’s something like an engineer would sit down and he would build a little gimmick that was to do everything that was to be done with this particular machine. And he’d build this little tiny gimmick and all you had to do with this gimmick was simply… simply connect it and it would do everything. And then he sits down and he says, „Now let me see…“ and he starts building tubes and wires and modulators to unmodulate what he has just modulated, and condensers to uncondense what he has just condensed, and uh… rectifiers and uh… uh… all sorts of… of uh… inducers and transducers and persperators and… and he keeps adding these things on to his circuit and adding them on to his circuit and adding them on to his circuit. Until he’s… one day – by the way, did you ever see a Wright Whirlwind engine? That… that’s really a gorgeous engine. It… it puts jets in to furnish heat, and then it’s got veins to take the heat away in the slipstream. And it… it just works on that principle: You… you work like heck to make all this heat, and then you work like heck to cool it all down. And then you’ve got parts that go on beyond that basis, and they heat up and they cool down, and they heat up and they cool down. When you finally get through you have a very wonderful aircraft engine, as far as MEST engines go. But it… it looks very silly. It looks like the piece of mechanical buffoonery they have in bathrooms and call flushboxes. Did you ever try to fix one of those things?

You’ll find that comparative operation in Formosa, the little Nippo did 50 years ago or so, more than that, a grab of a little island called Formosa. Formosa up to that time was inhabited by the Chinese and had uh… its mountains were full of head hunters and uh… hut it had a lot of randomity and uh… people were quite sick on it. And the Nippo, however, has taken great care that no Formosan has ever risen to any stature that would permit those people to govern themselves, and uh… the way he has done it is by awarding prizes to learn the Japanese language and by carefully making a drug addict out of any potential leader that rises amongst the people. He carefully makes a drug addict out of him.

But it’s wonderful: There’s little rods that push up levers so that other levers will close and so on. And they came along with a jet engine and this jet engine has still got more on it than a jet engine should have. But it’s getting simpler and simpler and simpler. They just get in – every once in a while some engineer gets a brand-new idea; this idea mainly consists of suddenly jumping on to this engine and tearing out a whole bunch of parts and throwing ‘em away and then hooking everything in straight. And he stands back real proudly and actually he has made a considerable advance in the engine. Until the next engineer comes along and he’s going to make a big advance in this engine, and he tears off a whole flock more parts and he throws those things away, and the thing flies better.

That is just typical of MEST universe control. You’ll find out that those people who best approximate the modus operandi of the MEST universe in methods of control are the most successful in the MEST universe.

And then one day, one day, somebody comes along and he tears all the cylinders off and he tears all the cooling systems off and he tears the gas tanks out and he tears everything out on the whole thing and he says, „Well, let’s see. Let’s put this propeller up out here. Okay. We’ve got this propeller.“ I’ll be a son of a gun if it doesn’t run like mad. That would be a postulate at work.

Well, this is a complete reversal to the purposes and actual uh… hopes of… of a thetan; he… he… he knows this… this is just… just haywire. Ah… what? Evil is rewarded, uh… only evil is rewarded with success, you mean you have to follow along with these trickeries and twistings and turnings and upsets one way or the other in order to… in order to bring about anything like success you have to be a dirty double dealing dog? uh… uh-huh. But remember what the fellow who is successful wins, he wins MEST. And that, of course, is the trick within the trick within the trick within the trick.

Actually – well, there isn’t any reason why you couldn’t do that. It… it reduces down to that. The more MEST you hang on something, the more MEST you’ve got to hang on something in order undo what some of the MEST is doing. And it can really get complicated after a while.

After a fellow has completely won the MEST universe, what does he have? He has, God help him, the MEST universe. But these tricks as they twist back and forth follow no good pattern of logic. Your thetan believes earnestly, it is very touching, this… this effect, he will believe consistently and continually and earnestly down to the bitterest day of his death that he has actually been trying to act somewhere within the framework of decency to the allowable uppermost limit. I don’t care whether he’s Pretty Boy Floyd or Mussolini or anyone of the sort. He thinks he had to do what he did when he did it in order to accomplish a goal of a wider level than… you know, he… he… he doesn’t think in terms really of evil goals.

Well, a fellow’s ridges have gotten into that shape. He’s got pluses that cancel minuses and he’s got this’s that cancel thats’s. And the final result is, he is so solid that he does not produce energy anymore. Because the way you produce energy is, you take this propeller off the hub and you throw the hub away and the plane really starts flying. And he merely says, „Let there be light.“ – Bang!

He’s… he sort of gets this way and he gets that way and he gets his values assigned some other way and he gets these things crossed up. And he tries to figure out this riddle. And maybe he hasn’t got a very good think tank to figure it with.

That sounds odd to you, and if it wasn’t for this silly system of „We’ve got to plant. it so that we can perceive it,“ it wouldn’t be possible because, you see, all the time it isn’t there. But it sure looks like it’s there when you’re down at one end of the tone scale and something comes along and guns one of these ridges into an explosion. You suddenly get this creepy feeling that such and so is about to happen.

And uh… the next thing you know, why, uh… he’s finding himself doing the damnedest things.

Well, there’s wave lengths on those ridges that homo sapiens is too low on the tone scale to touch. And therefore he’s got to be way up tone scale in terms of energy; he’s got to go way up tone scale, way up, in terms of energy to run out the high-level ridges.

Well, to a limited degree he is successful. But all such successes are disposed of and any kind of success is disposed of. The reward of the most successful writer in the whole universe is a loss of his ability to write. The final reward of it.

The reason why your childhood lies forgotten is this: It has a faster speed than adulthood, and you don’t pick up the same waves – it’s going too fast. If you just would readjust and just run for a minute just as fast as a child and say, „I’ll feel like a child.“ Zing-zing! More scenes would click through about your childhood than you could count. That’s why childhood blanks out; that’s why the whole track blanks out. And that’s why you have come WAY up scale in the ability to handle energy to clean up all those ridges, and be in to a position where you can really get down to work using postulates or using energy.

The reward of the greatest conqueror that ever rode with sword or tank or rocket wagon across the stars or across the steppes or any place else was not just six feet of earth. It was infamy, utter debased infamy. It didn’t matter what he started out to do. He wound up doing about 180 degrees different.

You’ve found out all there is to know about energy. Actually you’ve come to the last port of call on the subject of energy. Now you’ve got to track back. It’s like a game, parchesi or something of the sort.

So remember this when you look at your preclear. You’re looking at a puzzle that every time an individual started to go in one direction to meet a goal, the game was so rigged that he wound up with a… just exactly the opposite polarity of goal.

Let’s take a break.

That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That’s one of the fundamentals of this universe. That to which he devotes energy, he finally has. How do you work this out?

Matter is condensed energy. So therefore, if you keep pouring out energy on something you will eventually have it. I mean, it’s just as simple as that. It’s just horribly simple.

Now we’ll get a group that is, you see, we… we’re actually in a very strange situation. That’s why I can speak up well in advance of your own experience on this line is I… I know what you’ll find.

You might sit there; an auditor would say, „My God! Gee, this sure is wild. Boy, how wild can this get.“ Believe me, it can get a lot wilder than I’m talking.

And… and you’ve… you’ve got somebody that every time he had a goal, every time he postulated a goal, he postulated simultaneously his failure in the goal and didn’t know it. Every time he had a goal. We could bust that cycle. We can break it to smithereens.

But get that. He wanted to do this and this. And he’ll find himself finally having accomplished that and that. He will find it now has an opposite meaning.

Let’s take the cops. You wonder why police forces periodically collapse. Why, you’ll have to have the heads of the detectives changed and the… the Chief of Police changed, and all the rest of the… the… the people in the City Hall changed one way or the other. They’re fighting crime, and they were putting energy on crime. And they’re putting energy on crime and they’re putting more energy on crime. And what do they finally have? They have crime. Now, that’s true and could work out this way, you see.

If they started putting energy on honesty and put more energy on honesty and… they’d finally have honesty. But they would just have to forget about crime.

You see, a criminal goes down and he busts into a store window, and then… then they… this happens a few times. And the City Council has to pass a law saying, uh… oh, this… this is common throughout the universe, had passed a law that after a certain hour nobody could be on the street, something like that. You… you’re not going to… you’re… you’re part of that town and you’re not going to break into any shop windows. And yet what do you find happening? That during certain hours of the day you find yourself restricted in the space in which you were permitted to move. Why? Because some stupid uh… yap out of some reform school or something of this sort has busted into stores too often. And you are penalized. That is law at work in the universe. Penalties, penalties, penalties.

You don’t have to commit the crime to be subjected to the law. Your group, any member of the group, the foulest member of the group gets the most attention under law. Your newspaper headlines for instance are given to the foulest murderer. They’re not given to the most honest citizen. There could be some citizen who, by his good works and winning ways and a few other things, had really improved the hell out of the town and he is just made an announcement that he’s just improved the devil out of this town.

And so you look around and they said, „Yes, sir, there’s… there’s 92 acres of park fixed up and the kids have got a playground and… and this will cut down juvenile delinquency and everything else,“ and… and uh… sure he… he’ll… he’ll get some kind of a mention back alongside the obituaries or maybe when he’s dead why they’ll run it as part of the funeral notices and it will be the last line. Of course, much bigger right above it will be the name of the funeral parlor where he’s buried.

But uh… this is typical, and so we get what is known as a dwindling spiral. And the dwindling spiral is based upon that principle – that on which one expends energy one has.

Now because you can break this cycle and because there is such a thing as auditing, it is quite safe for an auditor to audit. It’s quite safe for an auditor to audit because he can rehabilitate himself. He can knock this stuff out and particularly now with creative processing. The theory of validation processing arose in 1951. It was based on this, I… I concocted it because I saw that the more you validated something, why, the stronger it got, as a basic theory. So let’s see what we validate and start working out on validation processing and sure enough it works.

But energy is such that every time you try to go toward a plus or good thing the guy’s bank will flip into a minus and, boy, if you’ve never examined this you’ve got a treat in store. In the E-meters’ uh… boxes Volney has a… a… history of that in the back of the E-Meter manual he’s sending out. Uh… pleasure moments, they’re running a pleasure moment with an E-Meter.

You say, „Let’s get a time you were eating a steak dinner.“ And the preclear starts to eat a steak dinner and all of a sudden there’s a big drop on the E-Meter. And you say, „What you dropping for on the E-Meter?“

And the fellow says, „Well, I dunno… I’m just… I’m running this incident but I… I’m really not enjoying this steak.“ And you say, „Well, what’s the matter?“

„Well, it reminds me of my poor husband.“

And… very interesting, you can’t have any pleasure, you see. Uh… the goal is pleasure so you have pain. The goal is pain, you’ll have pleasure – goes in opposites. So every time you try to run a pleasure moment, any time you try to run a pleasure moment on a pc you’re going to get something or other, and then when you’ve run enough painful moments he’s going to extrovert and he’ll flip up the line, but that’s not breaking the cycle.

The way you break the cycle is to really get what you validate. Put energy on what you want, therefore an auditor really hasn’t got a heck of a lot of business monkeying around too much with psychos and neurotics and… and ills and ailments – why should he?

This is probably a new thought to you, some of you, you’ve got yourself plotted out you’re going to help people. Good, good, nothing wrong with that, except this. This is something like turning a., a uh… 12 cylinder Hispano Suisa uh… loose in order to run between the kitchen and the living room.

Now that’s just one of these minor, minor affairs. You see, once you’ve broken the cycle and you can make the able more able, let’s apply it to you first and let’s make that ability more able than that has ever been able to be able in this universe and let’s… let’s just fix it up so that short-circuits the action of the universe against you.

You’ll win, you’ll win because you’re no longer playing ball with the plus-minus set-up of the MEST universe. Oh, we… we’ve got a nice big win for you. Why, I… I wouldn’t uh… we got a nice big win for you, here it is, here it is, now you’ve got it? Well, what do you know? You’ve lost. I mean that’s typical. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised one of these fine days to see all sorts of… of… of… ships and beautiful women and cargoes of gold, and diamonds and pearls being flown… flown in here just like mad with ferry services and… and governments of the world trying to buy you off. The natural impulse is to halt an operation which will break the cycle called MEST universe.

Oh, man, the guys who are being the most victimized by it are trying the hardest to keep it ticking, keep it ticking. All you’ve got to do is just step off that line. Just step off that endless belt, and just… just skip its idea of every time you win you’ve got to lose and every time you lose there’s some win connected with it and it’s all parity and that sort of thing. You can actually turn around just off of that use of creative processing and the rehabilitation of your own universe and your own capabilities. You can turn around and you can make this universe do anything you want it to do. It will do anything you want it to do, if you want it to do anything.

Now we wonder… we wonder about this – can you really reverse the vectors on the MEST universe? You sure can. You sure can, but don’t think you’re going to do it without a screaming, smoking flash because there… it’s not a mild one. But you see you’re playing the MEST universe’s game. All this is too incredible. No… nobody believes it. What do you know.

Supposing you, as a group, suddenly decided to wipe out crime in the United States. Supposing you just decided to do that. Now you devoted your attention to crime and so forth, well, you know the MEST universe’s rules of opposites. You’d know you’d have to put your attention on honesty in order to wipe out crime. So you’d take all the criminals and you would make sure that they made sure that they set an example of honesty so everybody would be honest.

That sounds strange but that’s what you would do. It would be a very successful program. Uh… you would just put the police, you would put the police in cages so to speak. And you would… you would set the criminals up so that uh… the criminals up so that the criminals were very sure that uh,. they weren’t fighting crime, they were just making sure that everybody was being honest.

You could form an organization with… not even with Scientology, but just something like Alcoholics Anonymous uh… which would uh… make every criminal responsible for one more criminal or something of that sort, just treat it as a disease and it would work out right there without any processing. You could end crime. You could end it utterly. And uh… you can win is what I’m trying to tell you, because you start tracking back with your preclear through he was here and he was there and he was shifted someplace else and his identity was so-and-so and he owned – the hell he did, the MEST universe never let go of anything yet.

After a fellow has built something out of the MEST universe, it still belongs to the MEST universe. He’s maybe got a label on it but that’s an identification. It just says it’s MEST. And so he goes on with this endless chain and he gets nothing when he finally finishes; there is no reward.

And as a net result we have, when we look this picture over there, we… we see that an individual in order to win has to get off the treadmill of the win-lose built-in little gimickgahoojit in the MEST universe. He… he has to get off of that treadmill because it is pure deception. And when I tell you about some preclear being… being flipped from this body into that body and elsewhere and this being done and that being done and he getting ‘tween lives and he’s given goals and he’s given missions, he’s supposed to do this and he makes products, all that sort of thing – every one of those is a trick and a trap. You’ll have what you devote energy to, but remember that it’s your own energy you’re devoting to it and it doesn’t necessarily belong to the MEST universe at all.

When you devote your own energy to it, you’re going to have something worth having, but when you insist on having that energy handed to you by the MEST universe, you’ll wind up with trash – every time. So what I’m trying to stress here is the confusion that’s the MEST universe is not even uh… important anymore to address even vaguely. All you have to do is rehabilitate the individual’s ability to handle his own and make his own space and energy. And only then can he or you be sure what is happening.

In a moment, next hour, I will cover… I will cover these contradictory flows to show you how the MEST universe flows are set up and what’s wrong with them.

Now let’s take a break.