Well, I expected you all to be practically blown away today here after your CCH 2. I understand you found some walls.

Thank you.

Today I'm going to talk to you about universes - a very important thing.

I'm going to take up now a thing called a dynamic. There are eight of them. And you know all about them. Long before you took this course, you heard all about these things. You know them cold. You can rattle them off just brrrrt! Can't you?

You'll find most of these lectures are concerned with fundamentals -that they are fundamentals about fundamentals, probably about which you've never heard.

Well, there are certain things that you ought to be able to rattle off, brrrrt! Scales - you should be able to rattle those off just brrrt. The dynamics, certainly. Process commands - the exact commands of the key processes. The Auditor's Code. The Code of a Scientologist and the Axioms.

The whole of the subject of Scientology has to do with knowingness, hence its very definite definition of "the science of knowing how to know."

If you know all those things just brrrt, you'll have no trouble. You'll have no trouble if you know those things well. You won't be floundering around.

Knowingness is above all other things.

Now, if you don't communicate, you aren't. The whole subject of universes is tied up in that - the whole subject of universes. If you don't communicate, you aren't. A thetan has no mass, has no visibility. Until he puts up a particle of some kind or another, why, nobody can see him.

Every now and then you're going to get somebody coming along telling you that thinkingness is knowingness. It's not.

Out of this you get such a thing as ARC - ARC triangle, reality. The distance across which one communicates, affinity. The communication particle that travels amongst terminals. These things are the fundamentals of any umverse.

There's a Know to Mystery Scale. A person does not think about what he knows. He knows what he knows.

These discoveries are native with Scientology. They made the whole thing look very plain.

And sometimes you're studying something and studying it and studying it and studying it, and you're thinking about it and thinking about it and trying to figure it out and so forth. And then one day all of a sudden you know it.

Let's get right down to fundamentals and let's take a look at these things called "dynamics." Now you're going to wonder how these dynamics compare with universes. Well, if you look them over you will find out that the dynamics, as listed, give you subdivisions of functions and actions, rather than things. It's how far and how much in agreement and so forth.

And you've just done a terrific jump on a scale known as the Know to Mystery Scale because thinkingness, worryingness, puzzlingness are way down low on that scale and knowingness is clear on up to the top of it.

Now, because dynamics were a very early development, many discoveries proceeded from them; therefore, it may occur to you that the dynamic subdivision looks a little bit crude when we look at the four universes we're interested in studying. But you're to some degree looking at much the same thing, particularly when you consider function as being the realm of the dynamics, and things being the realm of the universe.

Now an individual who knows, just knows. That's a fundamental that is too fundamental for anybody to grasp. That is too fundamental.

There are eight dynamics and these would be in common to any physical universe or any being. We're not limited now by saying we have a - just this universe and so forth, when we look at the dynamics. These would be in common to any universe anyplace.Now you wonder, if that's the case, why, this second universe the mind now, that's the second universe. But the second dynamic isn't at all the mind.

Now an individual who knows some symbols is again way down below on the scale. He just knows some symbols. He doesn't know these things.

So you'll just have to get used to the idea of the things - the targets - are four universes. And these dynamics are urges or impulses. They are actions, urges, impulses which could be native to anything.

Now, knowing by symbols, to a large degree, is knowing on a via. But when a person is doing a totality of symbols or a totality of figure-figure or a totality of mystery or confusion, symbols can be used to put him on a road to knowingness. It is possible for this to happen and that's what we are doing here, essentially.

And as we look over the picture of the dynamics, we find in actuality that we can draw a picture, and it's a very important picture in an understanding of the dynamics.

We are not trying to give you a great many symbols. We're not the medicalprofession, after all. We're not trying to give you a great number of things to memorize. We're trying to lead you to know something.

A lot of people come along to you and say, "Well, this thing can be drawn into a picture," and then draw their favorite engram. It's very funny. In this particular case, however, you'll find this is not an engramic thing.

And when you know it, it won't be because I told you to know it. It will be because you yourself have observed it and now know it. And the only thing I can do for you is to tell you to look in a certain direction. And when you've looked in that direction, if you saw anything, it was totally because you saw it. Do you understand?

If we drop a pebble into a pond, we see a concentric ring immediately outside the drop, and then another ripple and another ripple and another ripple and another ripple, until we have many concentric rings.

So all I can do is show you that there is a trail, there is a pattern and there are certain things more important than other things at which you can look and that there are certain stable items - there are certain definite things or knowingnesses which are quite senior, quite superior, to other knowingnesses.

Well, if we look at the dynamics in that fashion, we'll find out that we are comparing with the ARC triangle of space, affinity, distance - distance has a lot to do with affinity.

Now, when we go into any flight of this character, we bypass practically every subject or science or academic study there is. Scientology will never be an academic study. It is directionalizing someone's observation to get them to observe and, if possible then, know. But people, in observing, can still flinch and they can still go chasing off down some side road.

Give you a little side look here. They used to say absence makes the heart grow fonder, you know? During the war, most of us found out it merely made people forget.

And you show them a black panther and you say "That's a black panther. Now, if you look over in the corner you'll see a black panther". There's a black panther there.

Affinity, to a large extent, is - I have never been totally satisfied with this as an exact definition - the consideration of distance.

Everybody agrees there's a black panther there and you expect this person will now look over the black corner - in the corner and notice this black panther sitting there. And do you know something? A great many people will not look at the corner. A great many more will not even stay in the room. And the largest percentage of them will unfortunately, find something entirely different in the corner. They'll find a pantheress, certain age, certain type, from a certain place, but they won't find a black panther. Get the idea? They'll find a bunch of vias.

And as these things go out, a person's ARC is stretched just a little bit more, just a little bit more and a little bit more, the further they go out from that first pebble splash. You understand?

And every once in a while you point somebody's attention in some particular direction and you say, "Look over there". And you run into a factor that you'll be having a lot to do with known as "confrontingness". And instead of confronting the reality of that thing, they tumble right on down scale and confront some lower part of the Reality Scale. They confront something else.

In other words, the closer in they are, the less easily he loses them, the better grasp he may have on these things. Now therefore, if you drew a series of circles around a dot and there were eight circles and you labeled them in this fashion, you would understand these dynamics much, much better.

There are many people who have started into a study of Scientology and have wound up sitting on a mountain top meditating. All the things they were shown, they couldn't look at. So they decided to kind of introvert and let the rest of the world go by. Do you get the idea?

The first dynamic is the same dynamic as the first universe. That is self. But the first dynamic also includes symbiotes or the additions to self - the most intimate things to self. People will say their possessions are more or less the same as themselves. You know, a fellow has a - he has an identification between his hat and his head and himself. They're very close, very intimate.

Now, it takes a little bit of nerve sometimes to confront the world about us and to confront the various universes there are. In fact, it takes so much nerve that every human being there is, at this time, is failing totally to confront the second universe about which I'm talking - the universe of the mind.

Old Germanic custom was to include the whole family as self, from the head of the house. Well, that was a bit aberrated. But there are certain things that one identifies with self. They're the things which help one - most closely and intimately - help one survive. We have a tale of survival when we have these dynamics.

The whole of the professions of the mind, up to the advent of Dianetics and Scientology, would not confront the mind. This is one of the most interesting, unbelievable things there is about this subject. Because it was there to see!

So "self" is the urge to survive as self - all by oneself. And this includes, of course, the survival of one's most intimate things, such as the body. Most people, particularly this day and age, will tell you that the body is self. It's really not, but that's the way it is. It does include something intimate. If you were in a doll society where everybody was running a doll, they'd say, "Well, myself? That's this doll." If you were in a society of robots, they'd say, "Well, this robot, that's myself" You get the idea? It's very intimate to self. "My hat, that is I."

But you'll find all sorts of interesting things about this second universe such as "Well, it's imaginary". That settles the whole thing, you see? "Oh, yes, it gives people sciatica and arthritis and lumbosis and it ruins their lives and starts wars and so forth, but it's all imaginary. There's nothing real about the mind. It's all imaginary".

For instance, we find Alexander the Great, after he had gotten through not conquering the whole of the known world, we find him losing his hat while boating in a lake and a slave dived overboard to retrieve this hat. And the slave picked up the hat and put it on his head in order to facilitate his own swim back, and of course Alexander had him totally executed because this omen meant that the crown was going to pass to other heads. That was himself - this silly straw hat was Alexander.

That's one of the first things that you hear from nineteenth-century subjects - that a mental image picture is imaginary. It's not even a statement, you see? It's not imaginary or anything else. It simply is.

Well, silly or not, it nevertheless has to be included into an estimate of the first dynamic; that is, very intimate possession. Urge toward survival of. It's this tale of survival that runs through these dynamics that most attracts our attention.

Now, it has many other characteristics, has many characteristics that you could then describe, but only on looking at it. You can't discard the whole thing by saying, "It's imaginary", because in doing that, then you discard the whole rationale of psychosomatic illness, of aberration, insanity. All of these things you just throw overboard and say, "Well, we'll go study druids and trees. Yeah, that's an interesting subject. We can confront that". But the people actually can't confront the mind.

Now, the second dynamic is the next ripple. And that is urge to survive through children, family - or in a robot society, the robot factory. That's the second dynamic. That has a creative impulse. That is surviving by creating an endless chain of bodies which can be occupied, one after the other, and the things most intimate to the care of those bodies, which would of course for a woman include the husband in this particular society. In a robot society it would include the robot repairman.

Now, there are four universes, in essence, and people are trying very hard right now to confront the fourth and the third. But the world outside Scientology; which is one of the things that will provoke you as a Scientologist, are not at all confronting the second or the first.

And we have this chain of survival going up the time track - replacement of bodies. And that means new bodies, it means the sexual act in this environment, this time - the sexual act, the immediate family, children, so on. That's the urge toward survival through this particular action or thing. Not so much thing as the action.

Now, what are these universes? You should know them rather well since they are quite different universes and they are highly specialized, each one. And yet they all stem from the first.

The third dynamic is the urge toward survival through groups. Individuals collect together and attempt to survive as a member of a group, or get a group to survive. That's the enhancement of the survival by groups. And you get the old Revolutionary saw, "United we stand, divided we fall" - all that sort of thing.

Now, the first universe is the universe of the spirit. We call this a Greek letter, which was the letter the Greek used to represent thought. And that is what thetan means. Thetan isn't any odd word. It's theta. Now, you'll occasionally hear it pronounced "theeta" and so on. Well, this would merely be an argument amongst the Greeks.

Well, group merely means a segment of a whole. So a group could be a club or a group could be a class, or a group could be a - any collection united with a common purpose. Now, that could actually go up as high as a nation.

Now, theta is a symbol in Greek to represent thought, but to us, is used to represent the beingness, the person, the individual, "I".

So the word "group" there is used quite expansively. And we get down at the bottom

Now, you'll find some counterpart of this in other studies but none of them compare to it so don't fall into a trap. Because these other studies haven't understood this thing, their definitions for it are then not adequate, don't you see? It has to be specially defined in order to understand what we mean by it.

- a fellow and the three fellows he goes out and drinks with, see? That'd be the - kind of the near side of the ripple. And as we go out further, then we get a whole nation.

Religion was the only area where this first universe had any credence. And religion of later years - not condemning it at all, but just commenting on it - was talking about, "You must save your soul." That's pretty good.

It is the third dynamic which springs up and becomes so strong in a time of war. And then everybody forgets the first dynamic and the second dynamic - soldiers don't but a lot of other people do. And they go out and kill off other third dynamics in order to get one dynamic to survive, so forth - very interesting psychosis.

If you ever want to get a good laugh out of a bunch of auditors, say, "Well, one of these days - I'm so - I'm getting so disgusted that one of these days I'm going to turn in my thetan."

Anyway, we move from the third dynamic into the fourth dynamic. Now, of course, the group, the third dynamic, had its symbiotes, by which we mean the accompanying survival factors. The club had the clubhouse, you see, and the class had the classroom and they had possessions in common. When we get this fourth dynamic, this becomes quite interesting - quite interesting because we're speaking of a whole species. Now, the fourth dynamic to ants would be ants. And the fourth dynamic to dolls would be dolls. It'd mean all dolls. Fourth dynamic to dogs would be dogs. It'd mean everybody wearing the same school type body. You understand? It'd be the same body class. Species.

You see, saving your soul" is - leaves us in this horrible conundrum. Who's you? Who are you? And what's this thing you've got in your hip pocket called a soul? I don't know. Religion, ghost stories, these things took up this thing called the "spirit". But, they meant so many different things by it. Just as your spiritualist also has an "astral body". And when you exteriorize somebody - this is a known operation to a spiritualist - and he says at once, "Oh, you mean you made the person step out of his corporeal body in his astral body?"

And the human race egocentrically likes to think of itself as having the only fourth dynamic. So every once in a while, even carelessly in writings, occasionally you will find the fourth dynamic expressed as mankind. And people will most glibly say mankind is the fourth dynamic. Don't lose sight of the fact that it's actually species, not mankind. Because someday you're going to wind up with a bunch of robots or something of the sort, and you're going to say that mankind was really the lord of all and you're liable to get your head bashed in. Of course it'll be probably easier to fix because it merely takes a tinsmith, but...

You say, "No. No. No. I'm talking - no, no. How did we get the - over in this mess? No, what we did essentially is I asked him to exteriorize and he, a thetan, stepped out of his head."

Now, there we move up, you see, into a further ripple. It's just a little bit bigger, a little bit wider, and now we get into a much wider one - the fifth dynamic. And the fifth dynamic is all living things. Urge to survival through the survival of all living things. Well, that has to do with cabbages and kings and coal heavers and blades of grass and anything that's alive. Anything that's alive: bird, beast or fish; animal, vegetable, but not mineral. Anything that lives - urge toward survival because of.

"Oh," he says, "that's right - the astral body walking. We know all about that."

Now we move up to sixth dynamic and we get the urge toward survival of the physical universe - interestingly enough, the universe in which you happen to be living. That physical universe. We don't say there's just one physical universe, you see? There are other stars and galaxies and we don't mean just going out to the stars. We mean another time track entirely, with walls just as solid as these.

Well, we go further than that. We even know what an "astral body" is. An astral body is simply accumulation of rather solidified facsimiles of somebody who was so dumb that he got into a Fac One machine. He got implanted, in other words. And he believes and has an energy accumulation that he calls a body. But that isn't a thetan.

Matter, energy, space and time characterize, really, the total composite of a sixth dynamic - matter, energy, space and time.

No, a thetan is defined very thoroughly in the first Axioms of the Axioms of Scientology. There is actually no further description than that. There's a description of his capabilities. You could go further about what he can do.

Now we move out to a further thing. And we get out here to something else - something else known as spirit or spirits or thetans or all thetans. And we move out of the zone and area of matter, energy, space and time of the physical universe into.

But a thetan actually is something that has no mass, no wavelength, actually no position - unless he so declares it - and is that thing from which you get matter, energy, space and time.

. . See, that's a totality thing, the matter, energy, space and time. Well, we move over to the totality of spirit. That's every thetan. That's all thetans, regardless of whether they're powering something or not, don't you see? And that's urge toward survival through them, or that.

Now, we're talking about beingness. Until you realize - well, when you get to be an Operating Thetan, you'll realize you authored all this. And if you go totally crazy, why, you will know you did. The man who gets into a God valence is just going on the mockery-inversion, you see, of an actuality.

And then we get out to the eighth dynamic and I'll point out something about the eighth dynamic. It does not take into account at all a Supreme Being. The eighth dynamic is simply an "8" tipped over on its side. And that is "infinity." That's the rest of it.

And the individual thetan creates many things, knowingly or unknowingly, and the remaining universes actually stem out from this first universe.

Now, when people ordinarily get out to the eighth dynamic, they start looking for a god. It's very amusing what they will pick for a god. They'll pick stone images, they'll pick a tree trunk. So the thing - the thingness of it, or the identity of it, and so forth, is not particularly germane to anything. It is simply an infinity dynamic - it's survival through the rest of it. But when we get out there, however, we have to put something there that says the supreme creation of everything or the supreme creator or some such concept. Well, those concepts belong on the eighth dynamic.

But because other universes stem from this first universe, let's not neglect the existence of this first universe. Let's recognize with considerable clarity that an individual is and that he has capabilities, and that he is not a mass. He's really not a location.

Now, we've gone out so far now, from the first dynamic, looking out all through the rest of these ripples clear out here to the eighth dynamic and the rest of the pond, that our eyesight gets pretty bad. To tell anybody what the eighth dynamic is before they can see the eighth dynamic, is an overt act.

Unfortunately, when you have no mass, no location, no space, of course, you have at the same time no reality - as ARC is defined - because it doesn't advertise until it advertises. And so it isn't.

Now, priests have been pulling this overt act quite successfully for a number of trillions of years. They get a group of people and they say, "You want to know what made all this? You want to know what made all this? Well, Ugh made all that. Now, every time you go past this cairn of stones, you have to deposit half of any meal or meat that you are carrying at this cairn of stones, in order to pacify Ugh. Otherwise he'll get you."

But that's no reason why it isn't aware. You see? Awareness is not actually a total thing. Just as I said knowingness is way up top scale, so awareness is right along with knowingness. There has to be something to know before you can know a thing. But there has to be something doing the knowingness. Now, let's not omit the something that does the knowingness, something that does the creatingness and so on. Let's start in where we should start - which is a thetan.

Now, this rather elementary transaction is even with us today, surprisingly enough. When you pay taxes on lands in some European countries, you pay the tithe rebate - something that is paid in lieu of tithes. And tithes were taxes paid to the church so that God wouldn't get you, or Ugh wouldn't get you. Or somebody like that, you see? And even today this appears in parts of tax bills, which is quite amazing. That really has survival.

Anything that is alive either has or shares a thetan. When I say "shares" I'm thinking of these vast ant armies and things like that. And every once in a while, why, you'll look into this - you'll puzzle over this one too - is this vast bunch of ants being run by one thetan or does each ant have a thetan or what's this all about? And there are a series of experiments that you can actually conduct that lead you in the direction of making up your own mind concerning it.

Now, we can't exclude things. What the eighth dynamic really is I leave up to you - totally up to you. That's your baby because I'm not going to give you myopia or astigmatism out that far.

One of them is take an ant as he scurries along and make him turn around by putting a match or something in front of him and you keep turning him around and annoying him and annoying him. Ater a while, you become aware that something, someplace is getting angry. It's quite - it's quite odd.

Now, let's take a look at this backwards, now. First we've got the infinity dynamic - call it Supreme Being, call it anything you want to. The infinity dynamic - the eighth; merely means the rest of it. That point beyond which we usually get myopia - eyestrain, very bad.

Now to decide does each blade of grass and each cell have a thetan or is it a thetan, you'd have to also have a total awareness of how capable something might be in creating.

The seventh dynamic, Well now, the seventh dynamic is something that people find rather unreal, before they get some processing and have any reality on themselves and so forth. In fact the seventh dynamic is terribly in disrepute at the present moment. "When man is dead, he's dead," they say. No, he's not dead.

Now, can you create something that is apparently alive? Well, I am afraid you can. So we can't make a definite statement and say that everything that is alive is inhabited by a thetan. See, we can't say that.

It is so in disrepute you can hardly even cheer up a bereaved family. You can say, "Well, I tell you where he is right this minute. He's probably over there watching to find out if you give him a decent burial before he shoves off, finds the nearest maternity ward and gets going again." And they'll say, "Oh well, w-w-ee-mm-mm- mm-mm. Poor Charlie. Poor Charlie, he's dead. Yep, that's it. That's-poor..." That's what they believe.

But we can say, with great definiteness, that every human being you run into is a thetan, plus an identity, plus a number of combinations, automatic responses, plus a body, in a physical universe. We can say that. We know that positively.

Seventh dynamic there - people are already getting eyestrain when they get out to the seventh, you see? But that's the dynamic of spirit - urge toward survival through spirit.

Now, whether every cell there is, is a thetan, whether every ant there is, is a thetan, that's something - well, first place, we don't have to know it. In the second place, you yourself poking around can get into your own trouble solving this one. Okay?

And the sixth - urge toward survival through the physical universe. Fifth - urge toward survival through all living forms. Fourth - urge toward survival through species. Third - urge toward survival through groups. Second - urge toward survival through sex, family, creativeness - whatever keeps up the robot line. First is urge toward survival through self.

Now, that first universe has as its most intimate next universe, the mind. Now, the mind is in itself a total universe. It's a true universe in that it has space, it has mass, it has energy and it has its own independent time. And that is the mind.

Now, those are functional; they are not necessarily things. But let's take a look at this urge toward survival. Now, there's a cycle of action and it begins with create and it ends with nobody creating. The original cycle of action, as brought out, was create, survive, destroy. That is only an apparent survival curve - only apparent.

Now, the number of things which can be in a mind are about the number of things which a thetan can dream up or postulate. And that is pretty close to infinite. There's all sorts of things, items, spaces, conditions that can exist with regard to a mind.

This, by the way, is not necessarily native to Scientology. It's one of the few things in Scientology which aren't native to it. It goes back to probably the first lectures of Dharma, undoubtedly ten thousand or more years ago in India. And you find it today in the Vedic hymns. Creation, and following creation, why, there was a continuation, and following - this is a very short-handed statement of it - and following creation, why, then there was destruction and an end of it. That's very old; that piece of information is very old.

Now, fortunately for us, any thetan in this universe is doing or creating or composing these things in the mind according to a certain pattern. There are certain basic laws he follows in order to have all of these combinations stay that way in a mind.

Comes from the rather logical observation - not logical observation but the rather definite observation that that radiator over there gets made and then it's there for a while and then somebody breaks it up.

You'll find in the Axioms a list of these postulates that more or less have to be made in order to keep a mind that way. And the Axioms are simply the rules of the universe of the mind that makes it a mind.

Now, that's not very real, truthfully. Looking at it much more functionally and practically, what happened with the radiator was - is it got created and then it continued to be created and continued to be created and then after a while somebody created a mish-mashed radiator. And when they stopped creating a radiator totally there was no radiator there. Well, people are so obsessed on the subject of continued creation that they even continue to create a thing after it's been busted up - which is quite interesting.

Now, fortunately we know those things, otherwise we would go totally adrift. We would never be able to take anybody's mind apart or process anybody or do anything with anybody. It would be all impossible because the number of things that can be in a mind, the number of conditions that can be in a mind are as many things as a thetan could dream up. And that's the thing he does best - dream things up. They're just an infinite number. But they are all dreamed up according to certain definite patterns.

You'll find that in the mind consistently and continually. They're still creating something which is long since gone. In fact, those little wheels and google-goggles you see in some people's fields are just fragments of mock-ups that are still being created and the fragmentation is still being created at the same time. And it's just all busted up. It's a broken-up creation.

And if a person is here in this universe to be processed by you, he dreamed them up according to the Axioms. You understand?

Now, the cycle of action we're interested in at this moment is that things are created and then they go on being created, which is survival. And then they cease to be created, which is of course the ultimate destruction. Now, that is a rather ultimate cycle of action.

So that gives us at once a little more than half a hundred stable data that you have to know pretty well about how the mind is and how it got that way, in spite of the fact that there's an infinite variety of things that could appear to be different.

Most of the cycles of action that you see are the short-sighted ones, the very limited cycles of action - an extremely limited one, which has to do only with a few million years or something like that. Or a few thousand years or a few hundred years - or a few years. This fellow was born, by which we mean his body, and for a while he survives, and after a while he gets old and then they put him in a coffin and that's it, you see?

So at once let us isolate the known from the possible or the unknown. The known are the Axioms. And the possibles? It doesn't mean that the fellow got here or dreamed these things up in some different way. He dreamed them up all according to the rules. But there's an infinite number of things he could have dreamed up, you see?

But it didn't mean that he was no longer created or that that body was no longer created. It merely means that its conditions changed. Well, if we look at an absolute

Infinite number of postulates.

- absolutes are unobtainable - but if we look at a nearly absolute cycle of action, we'll find out that it starts with nothing, continues with a creation, is continued in being created and is created as it continues, and continues only because it's created and then ceases to exist. Everything connected with it ceases to exist when it is no longer created, you see? That would be a near-absolute statement on the subject. So this cycle of action is very interesting.

You start getting into the number of postulates and the types of postulates and the types of ideas and the conflicts amongst them, which a person runs into as he goes through an engram, let us say, and you'll say, "Oh, wow! How can anybody be that mixed up?" He can cause himself tremendous trouble with these things.

So the whole of the dynamics, when we say survival, have to do with continuous creation. And man is continuously creating all of these dynamics - except the first. He is it. Now, but very intimate to the first, he creates identities - poses - which identify him; very intimate to the first dynamic. So just those first few Axioms are true. He can't do anything else but survive, is the truth on the first dynamic. And that's the dynamic he's most anxious about surviving on - which should tell you a great deal. He's nuts!

For instance, I'll give you an example of a random postulate. "A problem is something that cannot be solved." Think that over for a minute. "A problem is something that cannot be solved." Now, this individual has decided this - so that somebody tells him he has a problem making his bus every evening. Obviously to this person, the bus can never be made. He never can get on the bus. Don't you see?

He is interested in the survival of this identity, the survival of an identity known as John Jones. That's about as introspective as he is. He's interested in this survival of an identity and he is so fixated on this identity that when it disappears or no longer has a calling card, then he says that he is somebody else. And you get this phenomenon, which is not at all always present or necessary, of forgetfulness after life. When a person (quote) dies (unquote), why, he forgets the life he has lived, if he's silly. And that's survival of identity, you see - a symbiosis.

The person has a problem with his family. Well, obviously, there's nothing you could do about it of any kind whatsoever. Because by definition it's something that couldn't be solved.

Now, on the survival of the second dynamic, this individual is keeping a body line going or keeping a line in continuous parade, keeping it continuously created - this is a very easy one to see - babies, you know - so that he can come back and pick up another calling card that he knows how to handle. See, he's picking up another identity thing that he knows how to handle and if he keeps this line going, why, then he can always step back into the time track with an identification - simple. Simple mechanism of survival through creation.

And you follow this down reductio ad absurdum and you say, "Then the problem, two plus two equals four, is not susceptible to solution. Is that correct?"

Now, you'll find he's always trying to keep a group created one way or the other. He isn't working so hard these days on keeping mankind created or the whole species. But he isn't working too hard on it, and you only see abortive efforts to support this. You see a lot of suppression on this line, just our current state of beingness. You see a lot of suppression on any of these lines, by the way, because they always have the counter-action of creation. People don't want it created. And after it's created they not-is it.

And this person will tell you, "That's correct."

You'll see the attempt to level racial lines and knock out racial distinctions and so forth as part of this fourth dynamic effort of creation, but at the same time man is so willing these days to kill off another segment of the human race through war and so forth that you begin to wonder if this dynamic is even functioning.

"Oh, but wait a minute," you say, "the solution of the problem is four." They say, "Well then it's not a problem."

Now, survival in terms of life forms becomes very, very obvious. An individual survives because of other life forms or survives interactively with other life forms, with the greatest of ease. Eating is a very peculiar phenomenon to the Western world, or to mankind at this particular time. Things are eating.

And you'll say, "Can this individual be thinking at all? Is he capable of analytical awareness at all?" Oh yes, he is. But he's walking through life across a number of road blocks of some magnitude. He's made up a whole bunch of obstacles and although they're all made up according to the Axioms - the rules of their makeup was according to the Axioms - they have specialized characteristics. Now, that's the variety you run into.

You'll find in old Indian books - it said, "Things got very bad. The whole race went into a decline. Everything was upset. Man, in effect, had gone to hell. He had begun to eat. It was so bad that he had even ate other animals."

And don't you ever make the mistake, please, of saying, "Just because somebody can make up his mind to an infinite number of things, that there are then no rules by which he does it." Because you yourself at that moment are asking to get lost and to be standing in the middle of a vast forest of trees, not knowing which way to go or what to do.

Well, that to us today is almost a novel look. But if you look at it you'll find that - in general, that fifth dynamic is to a large degree a consumption thing now. Man is very interested in consuming the fifth dynamic so that he can go on surviving, which is about the silliest thing you've ever wanted to see.

You just remember that if he made the postulate, he made it according to certain rules and it comes apart according to certain rules and those rules are found in the Axioms.

Now, how you can sit around and eat death all the time and expect to live, I don't know. But you go into restaurants, they put dead animals on the table. It's a fact - they do! I'm not running down eating, but I'm just showing you how these dynamics cave in at this particular time, showing you they can differ or vary in state and function. That's a survival dynamic, but the survival is sort of caved in on the first dynamic, don't you see? Socially, at this time.

That's heartening to know. That's what makes Scientology a subject. Scientology, at this instant, is actually a world monopoly on the field of human thought and reason - also on religion. That's a mouthful but it's true. It's a world monopoly. Use the monopoly as in - doesn't mean that it's held down, nailed down and nobody can have it. But it does mean that you won't find this information anyplace else.

Now, that sixth dynamic out there - people have stopped looking at it almost entirely. They walk on it and run into it and they study it and investigate it and so forth, but you ask most people to look at a wall and they say, "What wall?"

Now, what's the third universe? The second universe is the mind. Now, what's this third universe? Well, it's actually really a sort of a subdivision, a sort of a Q and A, rather than a real universe and - you could argue about this. But to most people it is a universe, so we include it in it. And we include a body.

Now, the seventh dynamic has gotten in... totally into disrepute. Survival through the seventh dynamic - hardly anybody's doing it. And the eighth dynamic, well, that's a flip of the coin. That's about the way the thing sits at this time in this particular social strata.

A body is apparently a universe. Actually, they've made a whole science out of it, haven't they? And it - a body plus its immediate possessions is just about as much universe as lots of people have. They've completely lost the second universe; they have no awareness at all of the first universe and this leaves them with a body. And whether that body is warm or cold or whether or not it is sitting in a certain room is their greatest and practically only concern. So it must be a kind of a universe.

Now, you can see then that the attitude toward these dynamics or the attitude on these dynamics could be different from one social period to another. Maybe in ancient India, maybe people didn't eat. If so, they had a wide-open fifth dynamic. You see? They weren't destroying the fifth dynamic. They were just letting it live and being in association with it. Now they're eating it.

Now, the whole of medical science is composed around this thing called a body so there must be a lot to know about a body.

So you could see there's different things, different attitudes toward these dynamics.

Well, the one thing they never cover directly in medical science is where did it come from and how did it get that way. They start telling you all sorts of things about birth. I don't know what this has got to do with the creation of a body. You can take somebody and make him go through all of the - of the agonies and somatics of birth, without having a baby appear.

Now, if you can see that, you could see less easily - it's less easy to see, but still very visible - that individuals have different strengths on these dynamics, from person to person. The urge to survive, the urge to create.

A birth is not the source of a body, nor is sex the source of a body. It's merely the mechanics by which a body arrives. And I don't know that one can't just appear - unless somebody has made up a whole set of rules by which it must appear.

Now, the way we describe this - I didn't just for nothing draw you a series of concentric circles. You've got to understand this because a little bit later on in this course, you'll be halfway around the bend if you - if you don't grasp what I'm telling you right this minute. You could invert on these dynamics. People can invert on them.

Well, the rules by which it must appear are, more or less, the rules by which this universe lives. The rules by which a body must appear and the rules by which it must continue and the rules by which it must die are all a special set of rules. Very, very remarkable rules, too.

And by inversion, we mean he ceases to go out and see out plainly and starts to be totally crushed in backwards, you might say, on these. So that an individual who is attempting to destroy children or forbid sex or something along that line, we could say he's on an inverted second dynamic.

Now, the mind tremendously influences the body - tremendously. Because the mind is a created thing, the body is a created thing; but the body is a sort of a calling card. The mind does not give you, at once, the individual's identity but the body does. Somebody comes along and presents you with a body. That's his calling card. That's his identity. And that's about what a body is.

Now, you see the cycle of action operating here? All right. As long as we were going out on the straight circles, we had survival, urge toward. Now we start to collapse these things, we get destruction, urge toward. Or ceased create, urge toward.

A body is something that makes people aware of a thetan, and that's the way it's done, you know? Do it some other way is not cricket!

So an individual goes this way: He starts out with a fairly unlimited view and because of the dwindling spiral, by which we mean simply an individual - the worse he gets, the more capacity he has to get worse. Get the idea? That's the dwindling spiral. The worse he gets the more capacity he has to get worse. The worser, the worser.

I remember distinctly one fellow who was terribly upset - he was consistently and continually upset because nobody upset - would accept the clanking of chains as a good, valid announcement of his presence. People would all run away every time he made the sound of clanking chains. And after a while, he got totally discouraged and stopped being a ghost.

You break up a few ignition wires in a car and you're going to find some other ignition wires going, too, you see? You get a compounding destruction.

And this has happened to so many people that there's hardly a castle now in the whole of Europe that has a good, honest, hard-working, self-respecting ghost in it!

Now he's out here, all eight in good shape. And then he draws back to all seven in good shape, but the eighth -now, I won't try to give you the painstaking gradient scale of withdrawal on each one of these because there are many cycles of inversion here. But he will tell you, "Spirits are okay but somebody ought to kill that god."

Now, the fourth universe is the obvious one. That is the universe of matter, energy, space and time common to each and every one of the thetans in that universe.

Now, let's say he inverts just a little further. He can't reach quite so far here. And he's on the sixth. The physicist is on the sixth right now. "Physical universe? Why, that's okay. It ought to go on forever, it's a noble and great thing. But spirits? Ha! No such thing. And if there were any -hn-hn-hnn."

Now, because there is a physical universe does not mean there are no other physical universes. Because another crew of thetans, agreeing on another time track, could have a universe just behind this one or just ahead of it, don't you see? This is something that you also can go wrah-wrah trying to figure out.

Now, a little further inversion: "Living things are all right, but inanimate objects - whanh." You'll find many mystics around that are exactly on that kick, exactly have that attitude. "Living things, anything alive - that's all right. But inanimate objects? Well, that's pretty bad. Somebody ought to do something about that."

But this universe is so precisely on a time track and everyone accepts so precisely its time track, that it's a universe in common to a great many thetans.

Now, that's a little further inversion, isn't it? Now this individual says, "Mankind is fine. Man is noble but snakes should be slain." You see, he's standing on the fourth and trying to kill off the fifth. See that? You hear many expressions of that sort of thing.

But just as - just as the early explorers, not the learned ones, but the - people were financing them and so forth - the early people interested in exploration tended to scoff a little bit at there being anything beyond Italy or Portugal, Spain, France.

All right. This individual says, "My particular group, who are against the drinking of tea, are perfectly all right, but all other social groups in this country ought to be kicked in the ocean. And maybe the country ought to be kicked in the ocean, too." See, he's at a narrow part of the third dynamic, looking at the other part of the third dynamic and he just can't make it, don't you see? He's fading away.

Obviously that was the center of the world and obviously there wasn't any more world. And of course if you sailed out in some direction or another, you'd drown or a wild beast would get you or things ended there. They didn't know what was over there. But the only thing that was real to them was the immediate town and maybe the countryside and then, by hearsay, the rest - in which they resided -and by hearsay the rest of Europe.

Now he says, "When it comes to the family, they're all right. But other people, such as the people of this town - oh, they're pretty bad. No, something should be done about them. They probably shouldn't all be executed at once. Maybe one a day."

This is-this is pretty odd. They just knew this much. And even though there was that much, they didn't pay any attention to the "that much." They just looked at this much down here and they said, "This is it. This is it. There's nothing else."

You see, he's back at the second trying to destroy the third. Now the individual says, "I intend to live forever," by which he usually means a body or something, "but people who indulge in children shouldn't. Children are a very bad thing." This is more widespread than you think. There are many such "clubs," and so forth, that are just death on the second dynamic. They're on a deeper inversion yet, you see?

Now, I can go back and dig up textbooks printed not more than ten or fifteen years ago, which advise you that Earth is the only inhabited planet. Well, how do they get such an idea as Earth is the only inhabited planet? That's come up as a brand-new scientific idea in just the last couple of decades - not amongst science-fictioneers, but it's come up as a new scientific idea amongst physicists and so forth, that other planets might be inhabited. Ah, I think this is absolutely fantastic!

They're getting isolated on the dynamics, totally fixed on just one of the dynamics.

They look out there and look at all these suns and they have some kind of an idea of the way planets are formed. And even Charles A. Lindbergh, flying through the super-stratosphere, found Earth was shedding spores and you might say seeds, one kind or another, all through space - just raking nets through the upper stratosphere and so forth, found out that very, very light, tiny seeds and so forth were passing right straight on out of Earth.

What I'm describing to you here is, the fellow usually has the rest of the dynamics intact as we go down the line here. The ancient church, for instance - there've been churches that forbid children and all kinds of things. So, "Self is all right, but children, ahh, that's a pretty dim show. There shouldn't be any children. Not really. Not really."

Well, here is Earth strewing a whole track. You mean this stuff in the past billions of years, has never at any time ever lighted anyplace else? Just saying that Earth is the source of all this - which it isn't.

See, he's just sliding along the cycle of action a little bit further on each dynamic, and as he slides a little bit further along the each - on the cycle of action as these dynamics dwindle down, the dynamics get less and less real to him - the urge to survival and creation and so forth. He also at the same time has less responsibility for these dynamics, and so on.

But we're into an imponderable. How could anybody imagine that this was the only inhabited planet in this whole - well, galaxy, much less universe? That takes a wild piece of imagination, from the way I look at it. How egocentric can people get? What conceit! They say, "Oh, this is - this is the one planet that's inhabited." Silly!

Now, he gets worse than this. He gets worse than this. We now start in to a cycle on inversion - I'm not giving you the whole story of inversion because it's a very long one. But you can see it very plainly that as an individual fades out on the upper dynamics, why, he's more and more fixated on the lower dynamics, you see? Until we get down to an individual who falls back from the first dynamic. Now, he doesn't want to survive on the first dynamic, but children are okay. Look at these - look at these patterns of inversion here. See? Children are all right. Children are fine, but he ought to kill himself.

All right. Now, I give you that. Let's look at the idea that there's only one physical universe. See, this takes some egocentricity itself to suppose that this universe, because it's so solid to us, is the only universe there is. All you'd have to do is shift the time factor by about fifteen or twenty seconds and you'd have a whole different universe. All you'd have to do is skid on the time track, just fifteen or twenty seconds and you are liable to wind up someplace else! I don't know how anybody stays in this universe! Gosh, you wake up every morning and say, "Did I make it?" What alertness!

I'm afraid you will find the bulk of the human race sitting right there at this time. Self-destruction is almost customary, see, but some sort of sexual activity is all right, within limits.

Well, we could say - although we can't pound it down with a hammer and say that this universe is here and visible to us because it is made by us, but I think you would come very, very close to the truth.

Now we go down a little bit further along the line and we find that he is now fixed in the third dynamic, and is kicking the second and all other dynamics, you see? Now we're getting a sort of a propitiative type of inversion here, you see? Now the individual is totally a third dynamic - he is a group. He is not himself, he doesn't believe in continuations of the body line or anything of the family. But he is a group. Sometimes we find soldiers getting into this state.

I'm unwilling to settle that, thud, across the boards, as I am several other problems, because as individuals go up scale they like to discover them themselves.

Now, an individual, fixedly, can become a man only and can never have anything to do with any other type of body. Or he can become an ant only and only have to do with ant bodies - or a snake and have nothing to do with anything but snake bodies. You know, you get the idea. The fourth. He's fixed on that and all others must go.

And there's no danger of upsetting anybody to have him missing this piece of information. One, are you one person or are you part of a big thetan? The idea of everybody is kind of mish-mashed into one person and so forth is a very favorite idea in some countries.

Now we get him down to the fifth and living things. He gets a sort of a total propitiation to anything that's alive, and any other dynamic must be killed. By this time your understanding starts to get stretched as you look at this individual as a PC. Because this is about the silliest thing a fellow could say. "Life and living things are wonderful, but everybody ought to kill pigs." It just doesn't make any sense.

Most revolutions get started on the basis of "We're all one." They say it in different ways, but they have a revolutionary, religious basis. And they say, "Well, we're all one," and so on. That's the overt-act motivator sequence at work.

Well, somewhere along this line a person goes totally irrational - that is to say, he doesn't compute any longer. We see the pattern of his dwindling spiral, but we don't quite understand it unless we understand the pattern of his urges toward survival.

The truth of the matter - which I'm not going to thrust down your throat - is, apparently, that you are you. And I won't say that's all you are, but that is definitely indicated by all the facts.

What are his urges toward survival?

But you find a lot of people around that say "You are somebody else". And you'll find a lot of schizes in sanitariums that are being different people at different times, all in the same day, you see? So much so that they, therefore, must be different people anyhow and, thenfore, all people must be the same - if you're good and crazy, you can believe this - that all people are one.

Well, his urge toward survival is "all living things must survive." That's quite obvious

This doesn't mean that you can't communicate across to other people without going through MEST, though, you know? It doesn't mean a lot of things. But you are definitely you.

- all living things - he mustn't kill anything. You have a whole - several classes of India are in this state right now. They walk down the street and here's a cockroach running across the street. And oh, they just go almost mad because they almost stepped on a poor cockroach, you see?

But this physical universe is definitely this physical universe. And it probably is here with us and we don't lose it all the time because we keep on mocking it up.

And they turn right around and slay anything, actually, through carelessness. They keep nothing straight - it's not a nice, direct kill-it-off; it's just a chop-it-to-pieces sort of a thing with inattention, you know, and very covert. They can't see the dynamic, they're just going to knock it to pieces, see?

Now, those are the four universes we are most intimately interested in.

All the children can all starve to death but you mustn't eat any cows, you know? This kind of thing. Silly. If everybody's got to eat, why, then they eat. But they say, "Well, everybody can eat, but you mustn't eat certain things." And all gets all mixed up. It's very - getting very irrational when you get down this low.

We are only interested in the body because it's a sort of a fad at this time. People have bodies. Other times they have robots. Other times they have dolls. Other times they have sets of chains. They are known by the tin cans they rattle or something of the sort. There are different fads at different times along the track. So you'd say the body universe would be the calling card or beingness universe.

Now you'll find an individual who is totally fixated on MEST and he says, "Living things must go! MEST - that's the thing." Horribly enough, most scientists calling themselves that today in the physical sciences believe this. If you talk to them they say, "A brain" - by which they mean an electronic brain - "is very superior to a human being. The human mind is susceptible to error. But a UNIVAC or an ENIAC or something like that, it's right there every time. Always accurate. MEST - that's the thing! Count on it. That's our pal; that's it. But this life business, well, the devil with that." That's how they can confront or not confront destroying so much life with weapons and why they go in for the building of weapons of this type - because living things are no good.

One of the reasons Scientology is important at this time - looking again at this body universe - is because nobody issued you a book of operating instructions. And you can look around in a body when you get it and you won't find any book of operating instructions in its pocket.

Now, we get down to this level and you've met people, I'm sure, who are totally involved in the world of the spirit. But living things aren't so good. And the physical universe, that's not so good either. But the spirit world that's wonderful. And their little pal that stands three feet back of their shoulder and tells them all the answers - how they can win the next lottery or pool, and gives them good luck and tells them which way to go and wakes them up in the morning and puts them to bed at night - they're usually on a total inversion. They themselves are over there.

Another thing is, when you made up your own mind - looking at the second universe - when you made up your mind, you very seldom issued yourself a book of operating instructions concerning how you made it up. So you had to be "found out", because you'd forgotten - and so had everybody else!

You'll every once in a while hear somebody say this. If you - if you do very much work with exteriorization, you'll hear one of these people say, "Well, I'm over there." I don't know how "I" can be over there because the definition of "I" is here. It's the hereness of the individual. But he says, "I'm over there."

How do you make up one of these silly things called a mind? It's got machines and things and stuff and pictures and spaces and all sorts of things in it. How do you make one up?

Now this individual will be totally swamped and there won't be anything real. You understand, there's nothing wrong with this attitude beyond the fact that it's a bit barmy when it excludes everything else. What I'm mainly talking about is the exclusion factor here, with total fixation on just one thing, you see? And we have no other - no other view.

Well, you'd have to know how to make one up in order to take one apart. Not necessarily. You could blow one apart. Several therapists have tried this in the past.

"There is nothing alive but us chariot drivers" - get the idea? And chariot drivers wearing green ribbons are okay but those wearing blue ribbons should be killed, you see? And then maybe chariots are okay. They go down scale. You know, chariots are okay, but chariot drivers - they're no good. And then horses. Chariot horses are all right, and pretty soon chariot harness is all right, but horses, chariots and drivers, that's not so good. And we get a continuous fixation of attention, do you see this?

There was some cult, I think it was called - just a minute, I'll get it. It's the cult of psychiatry, nineteenth century, mid-nineteenth century. Psychiatry - originated in Russia. And this cult - this cult actually believed that the way you solved somebody's mind was to electrocute them. See, if his thinkingness wasn't all right, why, then you electrocuted him and you had it made, do you see?

We're talking now about fixation of attention on various parts of life to the exclusion of all other parts of life. But they don't only neglect these other parts of life, they also go through a cycle of wanting them destroyed, utterly. While their attention becomes more and more fixed, these other things become less and less real. And they should be, also as another idea to them, destroyed.

And sometimes, there was another one called the psychologists back about the same period. And they believed if you bored holes in a brain, the evil would leak out. I think - I may have my data wrong, because I haven't had money enough lately to send out an archaeological expedition to find out what happened to these people.

Now this is what we know more or less as an inversion. An individual's on an inverted third. Well, he thinks he is - we say inverted third. He thinks he is the group. He is the group. You understand? He doesn't have a first. He's not himself. See? Has nothing to do with his family. He is a group. You get the idea?

But the truth of the matter is, is they had some very peculiar ideas. And the longer you're in Scientology, the more peculiar these ideas will look to you.

So we get fixed beingness as we step down on - first, you see, they just fade out. The individual can't see so good. But when they start onto this next inversion, the individual becomes obsessively and only each one of the dynamics in turn. And his urge to survival is totally rationalized as that dynamic he's stuck on. That must survive - all other-that must go. It's either invisible or it must be killed. You see this?

The only trouble of it is, is sometimes you're quite horrified by what they do do and what they used to do - the witch doctor sort of thing with the gourd rattle or the auger or the shock machine or some such thing. And you don't confront it as something funny. I'm not going to tell you you will someday confront this as funny because it's really not very funny.

You have to understand that because it has a great deal to do with the various mix- ups people get into. If you don't understand this when you do a Dynamic Assessment on somebody it'll be just so much bad dough to you. There'd just be a mess.

A funeral is funny. I remember when I first started to laugh at funerals. It was very funny. It was back about 1952 and I was waiting on a side road and here was this great, big hearse came by, you know? And it was just heaped with flowers, you know? And people came along back of it in great big limousines, you know, and they were all wearing black crepe and everybody was sobbing. And back of that were more limousines and more people and there were more limousines and more people. And I watched this thing go by and realized that they were going to put something in a hole in the ground. And I had just completed a series of studies on the subject of exteriorization and I had tabulated exactly what a person does with regard to death, you see? And it looked very funny to me. I could see the thetan, you know, following along the funeral train up above here, "Are they doing it all right? Are they being respectful enough?" Yes.

You start scouting the dynamics of this individual. Now, these dynamics are actually real functions. They are. They aren't something we just dreamed up. They are. They do exist. Urges toward survival. And we've compartmented them in this particular fashion, because people do seem to compartment them in this fashion.

As we look over - as we look over the earlier studies of these four universes, we find a great many clumsy assumptions and a great many heroic remedies.

Now, our attention and sets of rules and so forth on things - things - that's four divisions of universes. They're universes, you see? They're things. It's like I have four tin cans up here. But one's attitude toward those things, or one's hopes for those things, or one's intentions toward those things are expressed in the dynamics.

Nuclear physics is the final remedy of physics. They're trying to cure the whole subject, I suppose. It's very, very wonderful to look at the amount of work and endeavor being put in to destroying this many mock-ups this fast, you see? Wholly pointless, but individuals are doing it. And they are engaged on it, and nations are spending great deal of money in order to do this.

Now, an individual can have many intentions toward himself. He wants to create himself; he wants himself to survive, he wants himself to destroy, be destroyed or cease to be created. He has many ideas and attitudes toward himself.

But the only thing they ever do is bring about a further confusion. Unless you unmock a mock-up or hit it at source or take it apart by looking at it - as-ising it, we say - unless we do it that way, we're just going to get more mish-mash. It's just going to be a big mess. And the more times we blow something up - like a mind or a body - the more times we blow something up, the more times we destroy it by mauling it around, the harder it is to look at what was wrong in the first place because it's just being stirred up and mixed up. Don't you see?

And so he has toward each one of the dynamics. He wants groups to be created, he wants groups to survive, he wants groups to be destroyed, he wants them not to exist at all. See, he has different attitudes according to a cycle of action for each one of the dynamics.

So most remedies in these four universes have been based on destruction. We were going to remedy everything by destroying it. The mind, they were going to destroy the mind by boring holes in the brain or by electrocuting somebody or doing something like that. That was the way they were going to remedy the mind. All they will ever do is bring about a further confusion in the mind.

Now, this makes at first glance a rather complex picture. But it's not complex. All you have to do is know these dynamics and be able to spit them out, b-r-r-r-r. What are they?

As far as the body is concerned, they're going to put it under ether and they're going to operate on it and they're going to go this way and that way and do this and do that and fill it full of medicine and hang it up by its heels and let the medicine run out - whatever they're going to do with it. And you finally wind up, they have a more messed-up body than they had previously. Now, it's perfectly all right with me if they set somebody's legs. But look at the orderliness of setting somebody's leg. Look at the disorderliness of cutting out somebody's gallbladder.

The individual; sex, children, family - second dynamic; groups, third dynamic; mankind, fourth dynamic; all living forms, fifth dynamic; physical universe - matter, energy, space and time, hence MEST - sixth dynamic; all spirits - big, small, fixed and unfixed, crazy and sane - seventh dynamic; and whatever else there is, eighth dynamic. Those are those dynamics. An urge toward survival is the keynote of a dynamic.

If you want to patch up plumbing, all right, call it patching up plumbing. If you want to do carpentry or welding work on the body, why, all right, all right. It's perfectly okay. But the funny part of it is, even that leaves its own trauma because the destruction and the basic difficulty was not gotten rid of. All they did was patch up something after the fact.

Now as an individual becomes more and more fixed on parts of life, more odd things start happening to his urges toward survival on these dynamics. Some very odd things begin to occur. He gets the second dynamic totally confused with the sixth dynamic. Yes. These dynamics start to identify, one with another. He cannot separate them out. He can't differentiate amongst them.

In the physical universe, nobody's ever going to do anything about this physical universe until they look at where it comes from.

We've had several fantastic cases of this in the last couple of hundred of years in Europe: a fellow by the name of Napoleon, another fellow by the name of Hitler and so forth. If you'd run a Dynamic Assessment on these tellows you would have been - probably not surprised - but you certainly would have been edified.

And if the nuclear physicist is trying to get rid of people - if that's his goal - why, okay. He could get rid of them much better other ways - birth control, things like that - if he really has to get rid of all the people on earth. Or if he's trying to just blow the universe out of the firmament, he's not going to get anyplace doing that. He'd better find out where it came from before he did something about it. I don't even know what he's trying to do with the universe.

The dynamics they had crossed with what dynamics - about the weirdest thing you ever saw. Napoleon's attitude toward his own family was obviously worse than his attitude toward himself. He was evidently a fixed second, with destruction the rest of the way. This individual was quite an interesting individual. Crazy as a bedbug - I don't know why they ever put him in, but there he was. Hitler - same way. And if you'd examined his dynamics you would have had a clue to his behavior.

But you'll find the physical universe is based on certain laws and these laws are called the laws of physics.

What were his dynamics? What dynamic was he operating on? One should say, what inverted dynamic was he operating on? Stalin - look at Stalin. He was a great, imposing figure until he decided to pick up another body. This boy killed about ten million of his own people "saving Russia." That's a wonderful, wonderful thing. How could he ever reconcile this? What's logical about this? Well, it was probably very logical to him - very, very logical to him.

You don't have to know anything about the laws of physics, if you don't want to. Some people are allergic to these laws because they've been made to study them too hard. But when an apple falls it is obeying the law of gravity. There's Boyle's law and there's the laws of acceleration and there's laws of expansion of gases and coefficient of expansion by thermal distortion - all kinds of interesting laws. You can find them all in a basic physics textbook. There aren't too many of these laws. And you'll find everything in the universe is more or less obeying these laws.

He killed about ten million Russians - I mean, himself; personally, you know, ordered the execution of; to "save Russia." Well, he had a hundred and ninety million to go. But he was sure working on that third, wasn't he?

Nuclear physicist has found a few laws he doesn't know where to place. And he thinks he's escaped the law of gravity and a few other things. And nothing is funnier than to see some nuclear physicist step off of a ladder and hit the ground because he hasn't gotten rid of any of the laws that apply to him. And he's still obeying the law of gravity, even though he thinks there are holes in space and that he is destroying energy by blowing up atom bombs and so forth. It's not true that he is disobeying any of the laws. And when he looks a little distance, he'll find he's still within the basic laws of the universe.

This man was death to every third dynamic he had anything to do with - absolute death. Look at the original members of the committee to which he belonged. What happened to those men? Every one of them with a widely gaping slit throat.

I don't particularly rag nuclear physicists anymore. There are a great many nuclear physicists who are Scientologists. And if they weren't held captive by governments and things like that, why, they would undoubtedly long since, of their own accord, have done something about an atom bomb. But the atom bomb has now become the property of a general - and various generals own these atom bombs. And they're not interested in the scientific import, they're merely interested in the military objective. That nobody has defined the military objective to them is beside the point. They're still interested in the military objective of these bombs.

I don't even think he was trying to put Stalin up. I don't think he looked that far. He was just death on the third dynamic. Associated with a group? He had to kill a whole group off, and he'd work on it as hard as he could work. Now, this - this gives you some sort of an evaluation - not necessarily of sanity - an evaluation of a person so that his actions could be understood or predicted.

The end product of war and government is, apparently, denuding earth of business and people. That's apparently its end product. But regardless of what its end product is, the atom bomb follows certain laws. The body follows certain laws. The mind follows certain laws. And a thetan, as hard as he tries to make a postulate that makes him follow different laws, still follows laws directly related to a thetan.

Now, you knew what Stalin would do - if you'd looked him over carefully and found out what his intention was toward groups, you knew what he would do to almost any group that he had anything to do with. If you'd have improved the man, if you could have improved him or reached him or talked to him, it would have been rather easy. You'd have found some dynamic he wasn't crazy on.

Now, we are rich at this time in that we know these laws. Now, we didn't dream up the laws of the physical universe. In Scientology we found a few of them they didn't know existed but this is not any vast part of our sphere. Almost any physicist is better off for knowing Scientology, as many of them will tell you. But we're not too interested in that.

But obviously you couldn't have talked to this man about international relations or anything else. He was crazy on the third dynamic, so anything you said to him would have come out some other way, to him. He must have been doing a terrific dub-in on the third dynamic. And yet there he was ruling Russia.

We're above the point of the creation of the universe when we're in Scientology; therefore, the laws of creation of the universe are just another set of laws to us. Those laws are basically postulates.

Well I don't know why man follows the insane, but you find an old shaman's rule - the shaman's call, it is called. You find in many ancient, barbaric tribes that the whole tribe does nothing in terms of leadership but follow the insane. They find somebody madly spinning that's gone utterly around the bend, they elect him to the next shaman and take his orders verbatim - which merely says that group, individual by individual, is pretty potty on the dynamics, too.

Now, a body obeys a certain series of laws and a person inhabiting it abides by certain things and he does certain things. He Qs-and-As with the demands of his body and how it's constructed and how he makes other bodies and so forth. In other words, it goes by certain laws and all of these laws are basically postulates.

Now, looking over these dynamics we can find where an individual's thinkingness is blocked. It becomes very important to know where his thinkingness is blocked on functional creation. Creation. Where is his creatingness blocked? Because there's where he's taking no responsibility, and thus case-wise we are quite interested.

And we come back to the mind. And we find out minds are very different in content and behavior but they obey certain laws and all of these laws are postulates.

An individual who's talking about killing the third dynamic is taking no responsibility for it. What is he doing with it? Well, he's going to do something awfully irrational with it. There are some individuals who just froth at the idea of the seventh dynamic. They take no responsibility for anything on the seventh dynamic. They're just caved in on it, they froth at it. Well, that individual is not in too bad a condition because he can still sense it - and I say too bad a condition - he at least has it still in view.

And we come back and we look at the first universe. And we find that we have a thetan and there's something he can't do a single thing about: he's a thetan. And below that, he has made up a series of laws, which gives him the other universes.

What about the individual - and this is where it gets important to you as a professional auditor - where does it cease to be in view at all? Because if it ceases to be in view at all, it doesn't exist anymore, it is not viewable, a person comes up through destroying it before he starts to take responsibility for creating it, before he can live with it. So he has an awfully long way to travel when he's totally blanked out on this subject.

The fact of being a thetan is not something anybody dreamed up. It is.

An individual who goes out and looks around the day will omit that dynamic from his view that he is most blunted on. You could take an individual down the street and ask him what he saw. And the odd part of it is, he will omit each part of the dynamics he's totally blocked on. He does not see them. They just disappear. It's about the wildest thing you ever saw.

But when a bunch of thetans get together and agree with great duress on a number of postulates and they say, "This is it," and "This is the way it works," and by natural selection sort of get the ones that don't - people don't agree with so well - out of the road, they get a working structure which you then call a universe.

You get into this in testing. We have some confrontinguess tests that I'm working on, and you would be surprised. An individual looks at a picture of a dog. He's totally blocked on the fifth dynamic, you see? Individual is practically wiped out on the fifth, particularly on dogs - that part of the fifth. He looks at this dog - it's obviously a picture of a dog and he says, "It's a cat." Well, that's pretty good because dogs are associated with cats. But what if he says it's a stalk of celery? But do you know they do it?

There's only one universe along the line which you can't do anything about. You can change all these other universes - change any universe or set universes back together again because they're just laws and all of those laws are simply agreed- upon postulates. They're considerations.

Now, I'm giving you your first little magnifying glass with which you can look into the minds of your fellow man. It's this dynamic, the picture of the dynamics. His urges toward survival, his responsibility for creating are all represented by these dynamics.

Some fine day you'll be getting processed and you'll all of a sudden hit one of these considerations that you have contributed to one way or the other. And you'll see the corners of the room start going creak, creak, creak, creak, creak, creak. And you'll say, "Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah! Rrrrrrup! I shouldn't have touched that one!"

You'll find that his main urge toward survival is separated into eight. And you say, "Well, he has a great urge to create." Well, it has eight subdivisions. If you put a big magnifying glass on it, it would immediately break down to these eight arrows. The big arrow becomes eight little ones.

And it's with great relief that you can go ahead and touch it again and then find out that you can consciously put the center of the room - or the corners of the room back where they should have belonged in the first place, and still go on living in the room without burying the law out of sight the way you thought you had to.

Now, by taking the problem apart we find we can confront it easily. If we just say, well, this individual destroys everything he touches. .. Well, I don't know - that's no entrance to the problem and it's too general an observation. We have to know something about the dynamics to know selectively what's right and what's wrong with him. Now, we look at the dynamics we can find out these things. We can take the problem apart enough to look at it. Now, if we can take it apart that much, we can also straighten it out.

Nevertheless, a thetan, first and foremost - a being called you - can be modified by other opinions, conditions, surroundings, environments; can be modified by postulates, by universes and so forth, but only in its own belief. Only beliefs can be modified. And these beliefs lead to such things as beingnesses and capabilities and incapabilities and all sorts of expressions of personality and individualities.

Every once in a while you'll have a young girl that you're processing say, "Well, I felt wonderful last night, but now that I've come in today, I feel terrible!" And you say, "What happened?"

But a thetan is. And he has certain characteristics which are apparently unalterable. And these characteristics are practically, totally summed up - certainly all of them are summed up in the first ten Axioms of Scientology. These are native characteristics, you might say.

"Well, I found out as I was lying in bed that I felt wonderful. And then I began to feel terrible. And I don't know what happened."

We are a being and we are studying a being that is. All other things are mutable, changeable, susceptible to alteration. The whole - the whole of the mind can be altered, all of its laws can be knocked out, other laws put back in. The whole of the body can be changed, shifted, altered, when you get up high enough. And when you are way, way, way up high, you can even do something about the physical universe, in changing it around.

You say, "Who did you talk to?" See, not knowing all the dynamics and not being used to handle a picture, you could make this mistake. You say, "To whom did you speak?"

Every once in a while you find somebody who has gotten up to a state of Clear and you tell him to "Now, just look at that little set of atoms over there and get the idea that you know exactly where they came from." And, of course, they disappear and that's it!

"Nobody."

He'll say, "Oh, I shouldn't have done that!" You say, "Well, go ahead and put them back." "Oh, I can't do that!"

"Well, did your mother talk to you? Somebody invalidate your processing, something like that?"

Now you say, "Now look, you got rid of them. You can put them back."

"No, no, no. I didn't even tell anybody I was processed." You'd go on being totally baffled unless you know something about the dynamics. Who'd the girl talk to?

"Huhh, all right, if you say so." So he gets the idea of them having been created a long time ago and that he's now forgotten when they were created, and they're back.

Herself! She's on a total kick of self - first dynamic destruction. And every time she finds out she's feeling good, she makes herself feel horrible. And it's just as easy as that. And the only thing you've got to do is stretch the dynamics out and get her some reality on the first dynamic!

He finds out how he does this, you see? There's just trick - little tricks by which he buries things out of sight and creates something and then says he didn't, and makes up something that he's totally responsible for and says, "I have no responsibility for it whatsoever. I don't know where it came from."

And you say, "Well, obviously she's on the first dynamic because there she is." Oh, is she? You don't know that at all. There's some social machinery sitting there, but there might not be any first dynamic at all. You might be talking to the whole Prussian army! But you're certainly not talking to the first dynamic. You got the idea?

And by this process he gradually gets the permanence that you observe or the setness or the tremendous unchangeability of these additional three universes. The unchangeability of his own mind, the unchangeability of the body, the unchangeability of the physical universe - all of these things come about by these various tricks that he plays on himself. He says, "I can't change it. I haven't any responsibility for it. I haven't this, I haven't that," and so forth.

Now, as individuals create, as individuals seek to survive, they seek different forms and have different urges. Urges toward the various parts of life, concentration and fixation on these parts of life, establish to a large degree their (quote) "sensibility" or (quote) "rationality."

Processes aimed directly at the mind upset these basic concepts on his own part and take apart things which he has long ago forgotten how to take apart, and sets things right which he has long ago messed up and wishes he hadn't, and puts things back in order for him or puts back into his hands the power to put these things back in order.

When a person can see all of life and see every part of life and confront any part of it, including himself, he's in terribly good shape. And to describe what happens to him as he falls away from this optimum condition and arrives where he is, is to describe where his dynamics have failed, one after the other.

Now, the first impression that you get as you study at HPA/HCA level - the first impression that you get is the only thing that can be changed is the mind. And we're not terribly interested in exceeding that in this particular course. The only thing that can be changed is the mind. Well, the mind can be changed. It is changed because it operates on certain basic laws. But it is more fluid - it is less fixed and it's less set.

And so we can understand man and so we can process him. Thank you.

Dianetics talks about the anatomy of the mind. Scientology knows about four universes. Dianetics is totally dedicated to one universe, which is to say, the universe of the mind. And "Dianetics" means dia-nous, through mind.

Thank you.

As we look this over, we find out that by knowing the laws of the mind, by knowing how the mind operates, by knowing precisely how it got that way, we of course can change it around into some better circumstance and condition.

And in view of the fact that minds have been changed around so much, so thoroughly and so haphazardly in the last Lord-knows-how-many millennia, or millions of years or trillions, it's about time somebody went back to basics and put one back together again the way it should go. And you'lll find out people are happier when this is done. The proof of the pudding is always the eating, always. The proof of it is that people feel better when their minds get straightened out.

Now, I wouldn't say their - would feel better if their physical universe got straightened out and they could walk on ceilings. I wouldn't say they would feel better running doll bodies or robot bodies than they are running human bodies. I personally believe they would feel better, but that's a matter of opinion, don't you see?

And we come back to the one positive thing that you could address. And that is the capabilities of the individual himself and those things which impinge most closely upon him, which are his ideas, his experiences, the illnesses which he is unwittingly packing around infecting himself with, the insanities that he held close to his bosom - Lord knows how long ago, you see - but now has no further use for. All of these various things you will find he is in considerable dissatisfaction with.

His condition of body stems from his condition of mind. And his ability to observe the physical universe stems directly from his own concept - the first universe ability to perceive and create.

We're interested basically, then, in this second universe. We can know this most easily. We can take it apart most readily. And by doing so, we can graduate upstairs to a point of knowingness on the other three universes. So our immediate focus of address is upon this second universe - the universe of the mind.

And we'll look that over and see what makes it that way.

Thank you.