All right, this is the second hour, December 15th, afternoon lectures. In this hour we’re taking up even further the information on cases which are Two, Three, Four, Five cases. And we must cover, now, Spacation as a process. This process applies very, very intimately, very, very, closely, and quite precisely to Three down.

Third hour of lecture, December the 15th, afternoon.

The Three case establishes by holding a point, whether or not that point can be held stably. If that point can be held stably, then all one does is just carry right on with this technique known as Spacation as given right here, and springs his preclear.

We have a subject here which is quite pertinent to Standard Operating Procedure, because it really covers from Step Two down. It covers… covers that case to which you will have to do Spacation. It actually covers a Step One case.

The process known as Spacation has as its first step the establishment of a point, and the maintenance of that point in a constant location in space in the vicinity of the preclear. After the point has been established – and by the way, if it is simply held, even though it flickers, it will rapidly (this is for later stage cases) – even if it flickers, it will rapidly assume a constancy, because all the things making it flicker tend to go right on off the case. And so we have… we have a condition here of „How well can one hold a point.“

But, this… this process applies, then, to all cases. But this case is Four, and then Five, Six and Seven all fall under this category.

Now with a Step Three, he’s got to be able to hold that point, and later on, how well can one hold a point. And how well one can hold one is remedied by, of course, simply holding one. And by exaggerating the things which it tries to do, and then minimizing the things that it tries to do and applying a cycle of action to that point. This point sits there and it starts to shimmer. The preclear can’t stop it from shimmering. Well now, that’s what’s wrong with the preclear. He’s been trying to stop an action. Any time in any process, and this is particularly pertinent to psychosomatics, a preclear has consistently and continued tried not to have the pain of something, has tried to stop a motion, has tried to stop an action; he is on a single flow. And, as we know, a single flow or a single effort will lock.

And the process you do for Four is to return – the guy can’t hold a point steady. It’s… you could go right straight ahead and bull through on Spacation. You could do that. But you’ve asked this person, now, „Be two feet back of your head“ – he wasn’t. You’ve asked him to put out a beam, push himself out of the back – he didn’t… he couldn’t. You’ve asked him to hold a point steady – he couldn’t.

Of course, then, if a man tries to stop the ringing in his ears for years, or tries to stop the pain in the knee for years, or tries to stop himself from seeing blurredly for years, or tries to stop himself from stuttering for years, or even for months, he has built up one flow that has tended toward stop. And the condition will spring. All you have to do is demonstrate to him that he can start it. And having started it, you then increase it. And having increased it, then you decrease it. And that works with any chronic somatic. –

Now the next step is… next step is „Get a… make a mock-up of your childhood home. Make a mock-up of it.“ And then get him to handle it just in the way you handle mock-ups. After you’ve done this, you can flip back into Spacation.

And if you’re going to address a chronic somatic exactly, you can knock the thing flat very swiftly, simply by exaggerating its condition and then minimizing its condition until the preclear realizes that he is actually in control of it. What he has tried to do is back up from it; he has tried to retreat from it. And his consistency of retreat has established a one-way flow, which, of course, has stuck and has latched him up in a situation where he cannot get rid of his condition. He’s holding on to it desperately.

You aren’t in each one of these cases on this Standard Operating Procedure, going back and doing Step One again, you understand. You’re going back upscale.

That fella… fellow who is trying to desert his body for many, many years or even centuries, has tried to desert his bodies and get away from bodies has, of course, set up a one-way condition whereby he’s trying to desert bodies. This is reversed very, very simply solely by making him try to take possession of his body. And he will argue madly, by the way, when you first… the first moment you start to give him… you start to tell him, „Now, all right. Let’s take possession of this body.“

You get him to get that. If he can do that in Operating Procedure Issue Five, if he can get a mock-up of his childhood home, and then exaggerate what it’s doing and not doing, and then change it and position it all the way around and handle it until he can just call up and throw away the thing at will, by creating more of them, by remedying the scarcity of it, by making things more exaggerated about it and so on, you’ll find out that you’ve returned somebody into a state where he can very easily do a Spacation. You will probably not have turned somebody who will immediately be able to step out of his head. You can test it if you want to, but probably not, just on it…

„No, no! No, no!“ He’s got a lot of reasons.

If you did this job superlatively well, uh… he would be able to. But we won’t count on you doing a job that is just ne plus ultra super, not because you couldn’t, but because it simply is putting too much details and too much stress on one step of a case, that’s all.

You say, „All right, now let’s take possession of just your right ear – that’s all. That’s all we want – just your right ear.“

So this next one is: Can he get his childhood home back? Get a good mock-up of it and mock it up and handle it. That’s your step.

„Oh, no!“

And let’s say that he can get that mock-up – he gets it immediately – so you’ve said, „Be two feet back of your head.“ Then you’ve said, „Put out a beam.“ Then you’ve said, „Get a point.“ Now you say, „Get a mock-up of your childhood home.“ Not a facsimile of it, a mock-up, see? You could change it around to make sure it’s his… his mock-up. You’ve said that. You get that, and then you just simply go around, position it in space, change it, change color, do other things with it until you can control it, utterly. Then you go back up to Step Three and do a spacation.

And you’ll find out that he is stuck on a one-way flow which says, „Get away with a body – get away from it.“

After you’ve done a Spacation, you can ask him to move out of his head with beams, if you want to, or ask him to step out of his head – it doesn’t matter what. You just go right on through with the routine then of Space… of Step One.

He’s got to be able to use it 100 percent – use it, abuse it, do anything to it – before he’s actually free of it, because as long as the body is antipathetic to him, it controls him. He must be in a complete state of disregard of the body, actually, in order to be a good, solid theta clear.

So, that’s the… that’s the extent of Four. Four has to do with the old house. ‘Cause of course when you do this you’ve picked up his anchor points. Bam! You… he’s probably still running on these anchor points. Even though he had an office which covered eighteen floors of the Rockefeller Plaza and even though he was very loose in the way he lived, or… or anything, it didn’t matter. Any one of your conditions has nothing to do with this. He’s probably still running on the anchor points of the old house. Probably as he sits there at this mahogany desk which on Saturday nights is used as a skating rink, and so on, he’s still using a shanty eight miles south of the slum into the slumier slum on the south side of the car tracks, or someplace. He’s probably still using those orientation points which is what spoils his manners and everything else.

All right. Any time then that an individual is in a condition of backup or stop on anything, you as an auditor have only to reverse and exaggerate the action. Let’s take this point. This point could be a ringing in the ear, a bad knee, bad eyes, anything. You e… follow pretty well the same process. We put it into a cycle of action and then put the cycle of action under the control of the preclear simple. There’s really nothing to it.

That’s right, ‘cause he’s orienting everything he’s doing against not just the conditions of his childhood – yap-yap-yap-yap. I mean, good old child psychology! Somebody give me a tommy gun! Uh – he isn’t doing this. He just happens to have only a couple of anchor points. And he hasn’t got an anchor point on 42nd and Broadway, or one in the Bronx, although he’s working in Rockefeller Plaza. His anchor points… he’s lost. He’s badly lost. His anchor points are over in South Keokuk or North Bergen or… or someplace or another, and they just have no relationship to the anchor points he’s using and he can’t fit the same space in, and he’s never been able to fit the same space in at any time.

For instance, somebody feels terrific degradation. You just make him feel a lot more degraded. He… he feels like he can’t be proud of himself. Okay. Let’s just exaggerate the condition. Let’s just exaggerate the dickens out of this condition. Let’s get him feeling that he’s old and an old tramp in terrible, ragged clothes and he’s starving and diseased and he’s crawling around… along a… a snow uh… covered countryside and being driven with pitchforks away from every place. And he says, „Well, it can’t be this bad. The dickens with it!“

And it changes, of course, his mode of existence. He couldn’t help but change his mode of existence because he’s got to fit in with his environment, hasn’t he?

Exaggerate the condition which is feared.

We’ve been taught so long that man’s salvation depends upon his ‘adjusting to his environment’. So his environment is not Rockefeller Plaza with a thousand square yards of desk. His environment is Shantytown.

That which one fears one will acquire, because he’s trying to back up from it and his backing up from it, of course, brings it to him. You back up from something in this universe, by its laws of flows… by its laws of flows, this condition will result in his having it.

Where his anchor points are, that is the environment in which you will find him. If his anchor points – and excuse me for introducing Space Opera – but if his anchor points are 18 planets away and that society is strictly uh… tooth and claw; if… if… if it’s a society in which… which a man is… is only worth as much as he has in the bank, where justice is delivered only to those who have the wherewithal to buy it – uh… in other words, a society you wouldn’t even know about – he’ll be operating on that society because his anchor points are there and he doesn’t have anchor points here. He’s clipped back that early on the track, and he’s not even using this lifetime anchor points.

Now you know those having and agreeing and so forth. Well, if he tries to disagree with something, what does he do? It’ll agree with him and stay with him. Now that’s a horrible condition. I mean, it’s the… the booby trap, the MEST universe size. But that is the condition in which he will find himself.

But you can make him go through and jar out of the old anchor points by showing him that he had earlier anchor points in this lifetime, namely his childhood home, and then you use those to reorient him. But, by doing what? By pointing them out? By mentioning anchor points to him? He may keep telling you, „The fire plug at the corner of the house – I can’t seem to do much with it! It’s just there.“

So when he’s tried to back up from a condition… back up from a condition – the only way out is through. So if you start him through and he’s willing to live and use this body and do anything with it, all of a sudden he’ll say, „I’m talking about getting out of this body.“ The first throng he’ll be, is he’ll be wondering, „You know, I should wonder that this body doesn’t try to get away from me!“ Then the next thing you know, why, he’ll be walking down the street one day and he’s liable to keep right on walking and he’ll say, „A… a… a… I forgot me body! Just a minute – I’ll go back and pick it up!“ The way out is the way through.

And you say, „Well, you work around. You want to get that fire plug moved.“ The whole house, you’ll find out, is probably turning on that fire plug. Only you take it, say, „Turn the mock-up around now.“ It’s pinned on that fire plug and the mock-up just suddenly swings around on that fire plug.

Now let’s look at this point: All these conditions are the same as this point condition. You put up this point. All right, the point shimmers, the point wobbles. A lot of facsimiles start pouring out. All the… any one of those conditions I gave you about that point start occurring. How do you remedy it? Well, you let this point shimmer. Only you make it really shimmer. „Now let’s make it shimmer some more.“

Very interesting condition. You’ll finally get this up to a point of where he – also, it might have been a temporary anchor point. He might have some kind of a temporary anchor point. He’s got the house as a sort of a general setup of anchor points and the instant in which he’s stuck on the track, with that, had some particularly interesting feature – snowman. Uh… he fell and broke his arm or something of this sort. Big crash, and he’d just built a snowman. And you’ll find the house there, the fire plug there and the snowman there. And he’s sort of orienting on the snowman. And the house will swing on the snowman. You won’t be able to do anything with it.

And the fellow says, „I can’t control it to that degree because the second I try to make it shimmer, it starts rushing off and going into random motions all over the room – zing-zing! Boom-boom!“

There’ll be some object in that mock-up with which he can do nothing. Don’t point it out to him, just make sure he does something with it, ‘cause that’s his anchor point.

And you say, „All right. Each time it comes anywhere close to you, give it a push and change its course – that’s all. Just once in a while, change its course. Let it go very random and then change its course once in a while with a push. It doesn’t matter how random it’s going or how seldom you change it, just once in a while punch it.“ That point’ll tame right down and all of a sudden remain in one place.

There’s the temporary anchor point, then, which is the incident in which he’s stuck – and you don’t need to know which incident he’s stuck in. And there’s the childhood anchor points. And those will all be sort of nervous to… to him. I mean, pardon me, he’s nervous about doing anything with them, because he knows if he moves those, he’s lost – although he hasn’t seen them for 30 years. If he moves them, he’s gone.

Or let’s say the second that he uh… stops this point, he gets facsimiles of people rushing in from all directions, or doing something of the sort. And they start pushing the point around and they start interfering with him and jumping on the point and riding the point and changing the point to something else and doing it this and doing it that. You just make him get more people and have them change it more often and have him push it in more places, and have it go in a more random situation.

All of those things assume enormous importance to him. And what you’re doing in a Step Four, is you’re just plowing this guy up, because it’s certain that Step Four is not in present time even though he’s very sane, very efficient and a good guy. It’s just a lead-pipe cinch that he’s not in present time. He’s in present time up to Three, but Step Four, he’s not in present time.

And if you can’t even… if he can’t even control it to that degree and this condition still occurs, have him, once in a while, slide in somebody new that manhandles it. Just have him slide in a gremlin or slide in a point changer – make him the umpire in all this chaos. And have him slide in this point changer, and have the point changer give it a whip, too. That point will calm right on down into his… skill.

And that’s the dividing point. You know that for sure he’s not in present time. He knows he’s in present time, but he is orienting severely by the past. Therefore, if he steps out of his head, he knows he’s liable to step right straight into the Battle of Trafalgar. If he steps out of his head, he’s liable to step straight into uh… the middle of a war he just went through. See, he’s not in present time. The reason he can’t step out of his head is, he isn’t here. And he’s liable to go on.

Now you have this happen faster, you make him increase it, and then you have him decrease it. Whatever action is going on, make him increase it and then make him decrease it slightly.

We’ve already a… The borderline – when we have passed from Step Two on to Step Three, we’ve started to move a bit out of present time. But we don’t get noticeably out of present time until Step Four – Case Four.

And make him occasionally come on to the realization that he is to some slight degree controlling this thing. No matter how arduous this is as a process or how long it takes, you can do it.

Now we started in… this person was collected at a point and in a point only in Step One. And from that point on he is dispersing. He’s in, you might say, negative space. In other words, he’s in space that isn’t here, he has anchor points that aren’t present, he has all sorts of odds and ends, and we’re trying to remedy those, then. Step Two, Three, Four. The reason why he has to use beams to get out in Step Two is, of course, the fact that he is unable to change postulates. But he can make a beam.

The point… the point insists on expanding, and it goes out and it goes „Waaang-Boom! Waaang-Boom!“ and it’s going out. You make it go „Waaang- waaang, Boom!“ that’s all. Just catch it on the fly and make it do one extra one once in a while.

All right, that… that’s… They’re very simple then, isn’t it? Now we got right up to Step Four. Now let’s take Step Five – I’ll cover that with great rapidity. That’s just Black and White Control Processing. We’re actually back to something slightly resembling Three. We want a spot… this guy. What characterizes him is he can’t get a mock-up. We find out he can’t get a mock-up because he can’t get the old homestead – simple. He can’t get the old home, so we know he can’t get a mock-up. So in view of the fact that he can’t get a mock-up and can’t control a mock-up, we know we’ve got to handle, then, because if he can’t get mock-ups well enough to mock up the place he was raised, he can’t get mock-ups – not worth a nickel. So just don’t worry about it from there.

Oh, he’ll say finally, „The dickens with that! I can make it go Waaang-Boom! too. I can also just make it go Boom! Now it’s just sitting there.“ Exaggerate the condition.

And your next step after you’ve found out he couldn’t get a mock-up, would be a simple… you… you said, „All right. Can you mock-up the house in which you were raised?“

In other words, what am I saying then? I’m just saying, „Apply a cycle of action to it. Start, Increase, Decrease, and Stop. All right, so much for that point. And when I say, „So much for that point,“ I’m also at the same time saying so much for any chronic, somatic or emotional condition which you run into in any preclear. Just apply a cycle of action – increase it and decrease it and stop it and start it.

„Ohh-hahh-yayy-mmmm-te-dash-mmmm-hahh… houses keep flying through here – ahhh-mmmmmm-mmmmm…“

„Now make yourself feel worse. Now make yourself feel MUCH worse. Now make yourself feel just GRUESOMELY worse. All right. Now that you’ve done that, make yourself feel a little better.“ Well, that’s easy by this time. „Gonna make yourself feel worse than you did before. Good. You got much worse now?“

You could go on with that for a long time. Don’t go on with it any time at all.

„Yeah.“

Up to this point you have said, „Be two feet back of your head.“ He wasn’t. You have said, „Put out a beam and push it against your forehead. Now push your forehead two feet in front of you.“ And he was – or he wasn’t. I amend that: You said, „Two feet back of your head“ – wasn’t. „Use a beam, push yourself out of your head“ – he didn’t. „Put a point out in front of you and stabilize it“ – he couldn’t. „Get a mock-up of the place you were raised“ – he didn’t.

„All right now, decrease the worseness. Now feel cheerful. Oh, you can’t do that? Well, feel cautious then. Oh, you can feel cautious? Good. Now that you feel cautious, now feel degraded. Yeah, feel really degraded. Feel like you couldn’t hit anybody in the whole world, that you wouldn’t even be able to hit a snail in the whole world. That’s right, now you got that feeling? Now fix it so any snail in the world could beat you up with complete impunity. Got that? All right, that’s fine. Now fix it so that there is one small algae, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that you could beat up if you were cautious. Now just get that algae there, and ‘let’s be very cautious and let’s beat him up.“

The next thing you say to him is „Take a black spot and put it on the wall.“ And that is a Step Five.

And the fellow says, „Oh, well, some other algae’s liable to do that.“

You needn’t inquire any further in this case. You needn’t, really, inquire any further. You understand that you can take these later steps and you could… you could interchange them. I’m recommending them to you in this order for a good reason: It’ll save your time. It’ll save you lots of time, if you do them more or less in this order.

You say, „All right. Now have all the other algae come in and beat you up. All right, now you… you can beat up two algae now.“ And in such a condition you can work a fellow back up, really, in an hour or two of processing. You could take Joe Lewis for instance. Now you would work that process… that’s the process you would work on Joe Lewis. You’d have him back in there climbing into the ring, this big, black glossy tiger, see… panther climbing into the ring and looking around and his opponent comes out of the corner, he picks up one fist, he takes one look, he takes one blow and it’s the end of the fight. Joe Lewis could do that today. You could upset every single fight promoter, betting ring or anything else that you wanted to do, by processing Joe Lois for as little as five hours. You could just ruin the whole fight game. By doing what? Exaggerating his defeatedness. And then minimizing it, and then exaggerating it. Because he’s gotten down to a point where force will no longer permit him to handle the force in his facsimiles.

All right, we’ve got that Step Five, „Put a black spot up on the wall.“

And his facsimiles move in on him and he’s sitting right now in the midst of every fight he ever had, just as a preclear is sitting in the middle of every fight with force he ever lost. He’s sitting right there – 74 trillion years he’s been losing fights. And you want to know how good he can get? Look how bad off he is.

He tries and he tries and he says, „I can’t do it with my eyes shut, but I can do it with my eyes open.“ Okay. You’ve got a Five. You work him from there.

Now let’s remember that then, apply a cycle of action to this. He says, „It does so-and-so.“ That’s why you have to find out what it’s doing. It’s saying, „It’s doing so-and-so and I can’t handle it. It’s doing so-and-so.“ You just either make it do more so just bluntly, just tell him to do it more so, or occasionally introduce a new factor – in other words, change. You just increase it or you change it. And then you decrease it. No matter how tiny an amount you succeed in changing it or altering it, he can then change it a larger amount and a larger amount until the darnedest things will come under somebody’s control.

How do you work that thing? You move the spot two inches to the right, and you move it two inches to the left. And he says, „There’s lots of spots up there too.“

If you were to say to a preclear who’s out of his body and who couldn’t even move a cigarette paper to „Get how terrible it would be to move the cigarette paper,“ and then have the cigarette paper moving him all over the place and get cigarette papers coming up and chasing him, and now let’s get molecules out of cigarette papers chasing him – if you were to just exaggerate this disability to a point where it really degrades him – oh, he’s… feels in terrible condition.

You just say, „Pick one of them and stick it with that.“ Until – and you work with him, no matter how labouriously, with his eyes open or his eyes shut, until he can put a black spot up there and turn it white and shift it and turn it black and shift it and know he’s shifting it and know that it was he who moved it, and that it was his black spot. And you just WORK with that.

Degradation is actually an inability to handle force. Lack of pride because one’s force is gone. Upscale, a person feels very competent. He walks in to the… up to the… the bois in the morning and uh… Henri has swatted him on the cheek with a glove. He walks out in the bois and he takes out his long rapier and with great expertness and great glee he goes through Henri’s guard and Henri dies very quickly, under great competence.

If he gets too many black spots, make him get a lot more black spots and then cut it back down again. Exaggerate those conditions, in other words. Run a cycle of action on what he’s doing. Black and white control processing.

The next thing you know… the next thing you know, this fellow… this fellow is not any longer interested in killing Henri. He is afraid to be competent. Not so much because of the backflash of every time he’s applied pressure, because he loses. He loses a few times so he recognizes that his competence against Henri was competence. And what knocked him off was competence. So what’s wrong with it is competence. And competence in the handling of force, then, must be eschewed. And if competence in the handling of force is eschewed and abandoned, you’re not supposed to have anything to do with it anymore, then of course you have to abandon force, because if there’s no competence with the force, the force becomes completely random. As a net result his competence goes by the boards and he begins to feel how? Degraded, because he can’t use force.

Now don’t mix that up with Black and White processing. Black and White Processing is Technique 8-80, and that sort of went by when you weren’t looking. And I got a letter from an auditor this morning, he’s been all over the East uh… the West Coast. And he’s uh… been using what? Black and White Processing – Technique 8-80. He was having tremendous success. He’s just been having a fine time and he wrote in to say how well it worked. It works. But this is not the same process. We’re not interested too much in a chronic somatic as such to be handled by Black and White. Mock-ups handle them faster. Or handling and exaggerating the actual disability.

How can you get ahead in the world and how can you dig yourself out of this universe and lift yourself up ranks and… and… and go up the line and so forth? By recovering the use of force. The guy can’t use force, so you exaggerate his inability to use it. The dot won’t stay still. Now, you make him move this point, just… it’s… he finally conquered it. Now let’s move it just a little bit. Let’s move it in some other direction. let’s move it in some other direction. Change its color. Put it behind his back. And every time he puts it behind his back, he gets another one out front.

Did you see me process that pilot the other night? I gave him a lot of mock-ups. One of the reasons I gave him those mock-ups is ‘cause I like General Bradley, and uh… we obviously had somebody who was stuck in a space hat. Remember, he couldn’t… he couldn’t break that bowl with that ear in it? No, that would be painful, and that sort of thing. Rough deal.

So you make him put two out front for every one he puts behind his back. Two out front. And he gets to doing this after a while and he can’t stop it. So you say, „All right now, put four out front for every one you put behind your back. Put one of them behind your back and put four out front.“ And this finally gets up so the whole room starts getting full of these darn things. And he can’t tell which point’s which anymore. He’s just getting the whole thing…

And then when we finally knocked the thing out, don’t think that that was just the technique that knocked it out. It wasn’t. He was then ready to use that technique, and I just did it very directly and made him exaggerate the buzz in his ear. And then decrease it and then increase it and then decrease it. And finally get the other ear ringing. Now make the other ear ring. First I had a statue out in front of him there and made its ear ring. And then had him shifting from one ear to the other ear until all of a sudden he was… had it off in one ear and on in another ear. This sort of struck him as odd, and we turned it off in both ears. Now that’ll probably come on again, he probably won’t uh… pick it up again… do it, but it will come on less. Although I told him all he had to do was anytime it came on, was make it louder. He’s handled it well enough by this time that if he’d just do that one step, he’d just make it louder, it’d go off again. If he’d just… demonstrating to it, he could hold it, he could do it.

And you say, „Are you willing to start over again on these points? Well, that’s fine. Let’s put those all in yesterday, and let’s get a new point.“ And he’ll say, „Yeah!“ „All right, put that point behind your back.“ „Okay!“

That’s just a quick patch-up, and you handle any of these chronic somatics this way. So we’re not talking now about Black and White Processing. It’s a very interesting process, and all that sort of thing, and… Nice to know that those things do all those things and that there was a process there, and so forth. And you’re talking about Black and White Control Processing.

Now… now that you’ve got that conquered, let’s build some two-dimensional space. Don’t get into any big arguments with the preclear about the fact you couldn’t possibly move around in two-dimensional space. You can move around in two-dimensional space, because it’s a postulated area of only two dimensions that has two or more anchor points. So we put four anchor points on this two-dimensional space and we do things with it. First we fit it over his body. Then we put it below his body. We put it above his body. And what do we use for anchor points? His body! That’s the only orientation he’s got.

And the level of importance is that Black and White Control Processing as a discovery is many times more important than Black and White Processing. Don’t underevaluate this little, innocent simple technique whereby the fellow puts a black spot upon the wall and finally holds it there. And don’t glance over it and walk away from it and say it’s not important. You’ve got a preclear who is in the dark. He’s seeing only blackness. He can’t control a mock-up, he can’t get anything but the vaguest concept of a mock-up. He can get a concept of it. He could imagine that he was getting one – not good enough. A guy either has a mock-up or he hasn’t a mock-up.

A preclear in this state is oriented in relationship to his body and to nothing else. So we put these two anchor points, and let’s… let’s just routinize this thing – it doesn’t have to be this way, but this is mostly because it makes the preclear so angry and uncomfortable. Uh… make him lie on his back and put his hands under his head and use his two elbows as anchor points: And make him put his big toes about a foot apart, and use those as two anchor points. And have this two-dimension space running from those two big toes up to the points of his elbows. And when he starts to shift his elbows around or move his feet so as not to have those anchor points anymore, make him pull it back into that condition… circumstance. He’ll get very tired of it after a while. He’ll get very restless. I’ve never had a preclear yet who didn’t get extremely restless when you made him lie in one position and restricted his freedom of motion and made him handle something that he would much rather run away from. The way he’ll run away from it is by curling up, by closing his feet together, by putting his arms down at his sides, and so forth. He just keeps running away. He doesn’t want to get under this tension, because you’re just about to put him under terrific tension.

So what do you want in this case? You want a black spot up on the wall. And he says, „Am I supposed to see it?“

Now, you take those two anchor points – his hands are behind his head so his elbows are out the akimbo, not akimbo, but his elbows are sticking out. Those are two anchor points. He’s got these two big toes as anchor points. Now have him put some two-dimensional space between his two big toes and his elbows.

What do you tell him in that case? „We want you to see it, no matter how thinly. Eyes shut or eyes open; we don’t care. We want you to see it, no matter how thinly.“

And when he does that – my God! Coffins, deaths, all kinds of horrible things start to roll off of this case like mad. Do you pay any attention to these things? No! You just make him take this two-dimensional space and hold it until you can make that space lie quiet. That’s the main thing that space is supposed to do, you understand. Space is supposed to do that. It is supposed to be quiet!

Now there are other little techniques that are quite interesting. This fellow is really in agreement with the MEST universe. He’s gotten down and agreed with the MEST universe until he’s just grovelled in the dust. He hasn’t any energy manufacturing left or anything else. He may be a very good guy. This has nothing to do with character. He might be a very savvy individual. He… he might be able to use good logic and do remarkable things, but these steps are not steps that are associated with ability, where it comes to handling the MEST universe. They are not steps that fit in on a tone scale. They’re just steps of how far a guy is into the MEST universe at his level of the tone scale. And the further he is into the MEST universe, the less he can make his own. And we’re trying to make him make his own universe. We’re trying to head for the creation of mock-ups, their variations, and the creation of space.

How do you get somebody from ever having any space any more? Make him jiggle and jitter. If you can get a guy nervous enough, he wouldn’t have any space any more. But how do you get somebody nervous? By making the space which he occupies untenable. What is nervousness? Nervousness is that condition which results from having one’s space as occupied made untenable. If you take some fellow and run him headlong into a tree, the tree is occupying the space he should have been occupying, and of course that space is untenable, so the fellow after that gets nervous about trees. This is very simple with the stuff we’ve been over about Spacation.

If we turned over to this fellow and we asked him to do something in the MEST universe, he probably could. He’d dig in just a little bit deeper. But he is fixated on the MEST universe. He is convinced! The MEST universe has convinced him, and you will find out that it has knocked him silly. You’ll find out this person has led a very tempestuous life and many things have displaced him in space. A lot of dreams are dead or blown up. He may have lived four or five lifetimes that would have killed a normal human being. Well, let’s not be critical of this person just because he’s a Step Five. He has a disability in our eyes because it blocks the route to a fast process.

We’re going over this as a rote process now. You just hook those anchor points down there to the toes. Use those toes as anchor points, those elbows as anchor points and the thing starts shifting and curling up and rippling and turning over and flying away and so forth. So you just make it shift faster, you make it fly higher, you make more people come in and interfere with it. You get more gruesome things happening because it’s there. You make it roll up and unroll faster. Whatever it is doing, exaggerate it and then each time come back and decrease that. And then fix it on his body again, so he orients it. And you keep that up until he can hold that two-dimensional space right there without a qualm.

And actually, I don’t know of any process except irresponsibility and responsibility – running that, and running DEDs and DEDEXes as such on him, long hours, long, long hours of this – that’ll snap him into line so that he can eventually become a theta clear.

Now in the process of doing this, he’s going to get nervous. Particularly his… his arms are going to get jumpy. The small of his back is going to get jumpy, and his legs will get very jumpy because legs are what one uses to remove oneself from space which has become untenable. So naturally his legs wall get jumpy.

I’ll tell you a lot more that’s wrong with this fellow the last half of this hour, e… under a general subject. But all we’re interested in here is the ability to control a black spot. The ability to control a white spot. Make it increase and decrease in size, make it go away. Make it come back and go away. Let’s put a black spot under control. That’s all we’re trying to do with this case.

Now did you ever want to know what this manifestation is called? „nervous legs?“ You ask somebody, „Turn on sonic,“ and the guy… all of a sudden his legs start to jerk. He can’t turn on sonic because if he really found out that he was in a space big enough to turn on sonic, it would be made so untenable for him so fast that he’d have to run away. So his legs are all set to run the second you ask him to turn on a sound. Or any perceptic.

And we work Black and White Control Processing and I don’t care how many hours we work it. We work it until he’s got a positive action there that can flip a black spot up on anything; turn it white, make it big, make it small, turn it off, put it in last year – do anything with it. Throw it up on another wall – do this and do that until he can handle that black and white spot.

And he knows he has to have space in which to turn on energy. If he can’t have any space, he can’t turn on energy, except to do anything but run. So his legs get very jumpy and he gets very upset.

Don’t start leading into this technique as an invitation to do a mock-up. Do it for itself. Do it for itself with this guy.

And you just keep putting that back on his body and hooking it up to his elbows, and then increasing it and making it fly around and do all sorts of things and change character and go behind him and above him. And make it worse! Any condition he reports as happening, make it worse. Until the first thing you know, he’s handling two-dimensional space. Then you put the two-dimensional space below him, his body in the same position; then turn it end for end; then put it above his body, then turn it end for end; then make it stand up and make it in various parts of the room. And finally, he’ll be able to hold it very calmly, without any change, very quietly, on top of his body. He will have conquered two-dimensional space.

Do you know that most of the people you’ve got doing mock-ups can’t do it? Throw a real black spot on the wall that is actually sitting there on the wall that they can see on the wall, and then turn it off, turn it on, move it here, move it there, and get instantaneous action on that black spot. It’s quite a technique all by itself.

Now what’s the value of this? You’ve just shown him that there were anchor points which could be held stable. How do you expect a preclear to run anything or develop any energy at all if he doesn’t have any anchor points? This fellow hasn’t got any anchor points. Well, where could he put the energy if he doesn’t have any anchor points? Everything belongs to everybody else; it doesn’t belong to him.

Now let’s just make up our minds if he didn’t answer up instantly to Step One, Two, Three and Four that we’re going to go into Black and White Control Processing on this fellow, almost on the order of it’s mud from there on down. We’re going to get him so thoroughly accustomed to being able to turn on and off black and turn on and off white that he hasn’t the least or foggiest notion that it’s difficult or there’s any question about his handling blackness. And that’s all we’re going to do with him. We’re not going to shift over and do some other technique. And just because he can suddenly get that black spot, suddenly run him into Spacation. He’s in no state to run Spacation – not even vaguely.

All right, next step on Spacation is to make this piece of two- dimensional space demonstrably solid and then unsolid, to convince people it’s solid and then convince ‘em it’s not solid. And just go through the routine: Now you pick up that space… make the preclear take that space and shove his – this is not actual, this is just his figurative – arm through it, demonstrating it’s not solid. And then make it solid. And figuratively hit it with his fist to make it make a sound to demonstrate it is solid. Then to make it not solid. Then to make it solid. Then to make it not solid. Until at last he suddenly recognizes something that is the most vital thing on the whole track: How did things get to be solid? Why do you think this wall up here is solid?

Now this fellow, to a large degree, is usually under the heading of what we will call for our own notebooks, an Invader classification. He feels quite… quite upset. If you’d caught him a few years younger he probably would’ve had full perceptics. He probably could have been theta cleared in a very short space of time. But life catches up with these boys fast.

Now if he’s been convinced, he can convince somebody else that it is – this wall’s command value over him lessens. This’ll upset him, by the way, because he’ll feel immediately if he does that he’s liable to start making mistakes and walking through doors with his body without taking ahold of doorknobs. He’ll get certain that this kind of a condition would exist and it’d be very embarrassing to him. It’d be very embarrassing to him if he forgot to remember that his clothing was solid and walked out of them in the middle of the street.

The paymaster is sensation – sensation. They want sensation out of the MEST universe, and they start picking up sensation from the MEST universe and it makes a one-way flow from the MEST universe to them. Then they can’t make up any energy and throw it out again.

Any kind of a condition could result from this, but that’s only because he is unable to control solidity and unsolidity at will. Furthermore, every time this individual’s been in bad condition, been placed in bad condition, it was by a force which convinced him. And how’d it convince him? By taking over the space he was occupying. One gets convinced the MEST universe exists at the moment it collides with the home universe and takes over the space of the home universe – one is then convinced of the existence of the MEST universe. More powerful space, of course!

What’s wrong with them is hands and feet, and unable to create energy. And if they created any energy, they would practically perish with the feeling of horror of having done so. It is a sick feeling that uh… I have seldom seen in any other line or level. I’ve never seen anybody feel, really, that degraded in real life. It’s quite remarkable – quite remarkable.

So, the solidity of space is the first step on particles. You see, there is no such thing as a particle. There is a postulate about particles. But you get solid space – you can do anything with it. It doesn’t even have to be a particle. This is really senior magic.

Now, you’ll find some of your preclears, after you’ve done mock-ups for a while – and you’ve done a Spacation and you’ve done quite a lot of other things and they’re just getting along fine. And one day they go sag! What did you hit? This guy has an Invader spiral. He’s got space opera on the track and something slapped him into it. And you didn’t get rid of it, and you hadn’t caught it earlier.

Now any time this individual’s gone through a tree, he has had it demonstrated that space could be solid. Any time he has run into a brick wall, he has decided that space could be solid. He’s run into enough of them back along – every time he has fallen and hit a planet, you know, jumped out of the second-story window or something, and hit the ground, he… has been demonstrated to him the planet is solid. Any one of these conditions are convictions. Of course, he had to have a higher level belief in the thing, or conviction. He had to accept somebody else’s evaluation in the first place to get into that condition. Or he had to sell people and fail to sell them on the solidity of his own space. If he couldn’t have space that solid, then nobody else… anybody else could come along and demonstrate that their space was solid and his wasn’t.

So don’t think your Five is the only Invader.

So let’s take a look at this situation, and find out that the making of solid, two-dimensional space, and the unmaking of it at will, is of the essence in reconvincing him on the subject of energy.

How do you handle it? Mock-up hands, mock-up feet and mock-up energy flows going in all directions, till you’ve finally got this fellow totally capable of being able to put out a straight energy beam from himself to any object, clearly, quickly, and turn it off and turn it on. You’ve got to rehabilitate his use of handling raw energy.

So, how do we do? He rams against it, he knocks it with his knuckles, and he finds out it’s impossible to go through it – utterly impossible to go through it. But he says, „Yeah, I made it solid, but it’s solid all the time. This thing has been solid from the beginning. It is a solid piece of two-dimensional space and that’s all there is to it and I can’t do anything with it.“

Now your Five should be worked until he has enormous positiveness on black and white spots, until he can vary them and turn them into crosses and make the crosses cross, and have a white cross and a black cross, and make those cross; and a white circle and a black cross and make those cross. And put ‘em anyplace – ceiling, floor – and make them persist.

„Well, that’s fine. Have it much more solid. Now get things like 16 inch guns firing into it, uh… airplanes crashing through it going faster than sound, and all of them just folding up and stopping when they hit this two-dimensional space. Let’s really exaggerate its solidity. Let’s make it hyperbolical beyond hyperbole. Let’s get it so that we have huge battering rams run forward by a thousand men hit this space. They’ve got spike points on the battering ram, and it doesn’t penetrate the space, and nothing penetrates it either. He’ll all of a sudden say, „Nothing’s this solid,“ and he’ll let something go through slightly. And after that it’s easy to break it down. And you just break it down to the point, then, to where you have this very small caterpillar come up with a very small hair off of his chin and push this very small hair through the space, and demonstrate it goes through. And after that he can move through this space at will.

And if anything starts happening when he does this, just keep on making him make black crosses and white crosses, white spots and black spots. You’ll find out once in a while that it may pay you to exaggerate the condition – may pay you to. But it’s a dangerous thing to do, I warn you. Because this fellow is so close to the fringe when it comes to mock-ups. He’s so afraid to see something not real, that he’ll practically spook if you suddenly flooded him with all sorts of things. This guy’s got all sorts of things. This guy’s got all sorts of things.

Now supposing he can’t make it solid, supposing he can’t make it solid. Well, get it out horizontally and make it support something. Don’t have it hit, make it support something. Put on it a dust mote and have it support the dust mote, and not go through. And make sure the dust mote doesn’t go through. And the guy will eventually get the idea, all right, he can hang a dust mote on this.

He’s got things like big spinning discs and racing lines and… and beams that are… suddenly will appear in his… in his facsimiles. What you do is take a MEST universe equivalent of these objects and make him work with them, if you’re really doing it. He’ll get quite sick while you’re working with him. He keeps seeing a wheel. And you’ll get black and white spots and so forth. And he keeps seeing a wheel and he keeps seeing a wheel. Well, stick with him with a real wheel. Put an automobile wheel down there and rotate it and monkey with with it for a while. If you run it long uh… enough, he’ll be all right.

Now let’s keep building it up from there until this thing can have cannonballs rested on it, until it can have a man rested on it, and until it could be hit by a sixteen-inch gun, or have a battleship or a faster- than-sound plane hit it and it wouldn’t go through.

But there is a danger when you’re running such a level case that you don’t run him long enough on the process and you’ll have to pick it up on black and white spot processing.

Now get him to change and shift solidity, pierceability and unpierceability – enterability and unenterability of that two-dimensional piece of space.

Now this stuff will really key out on black and white spots. He can… you can insist on his handling black and white spots until it keys out.

Now once in a while you’ll find this two-dimensional piece of space gets terribly fragile. Well, if it gets fragile, just keep breaking it up. Take a piece of two-dimensional space and break it up some more. And then… then throw those fragments away and get another piece of two-dimensional space and break that up. And another one and break that up. And all of a sudden it’ll get stronger.

All right, when I talk about exaggerating a condition, you’ll find an awful lot of fellows who are just getting mock-ups and they’re just doing fine as long as you give them mock-ups bop-bop-bop-bop-bop-bop-bop. Don’t give them mock-ups, though, bop…bop…bop…bop. They can only hold on for a split instant. They can’t conserve the mock-up, very often.

In other words, you toughen this space up until it is completely under his control. It’s enterable or not enterable. It can move here, dispose there – anything can be done with this that he cares to do with it.

All right, very often a guy will tell you also about some visio he had in childhood (if you want to play around with this it’s all right) some visio he had in childhood. He keeps seeing all of these faces, and the faces would keep coming in on him and he couldn’t get them off, and so forth. One chap told me that he used to regularly, when he was a little boy, stare into a flaring lamp for an hour at a time so he wouldn’t see these faces so he could go to sleep. Every time he’d start to go to sleep, he’d see these faces. So he’d have to stare into the lamp.

Next step. Next step is to get two such planes and enclose a space with them. Two planes of two pieces of two-dimensional space and put them about four or five feet apart. Make a box – a big box. I don’t care how big you make it – 20 feet by 10 feet by 10 feet or something like that.

Childhood is really – if you only knew it – a time of very bad terror. These things start keying in one way or the other and there’s no ARC with a grown-up on the subject. Grown-ups know that babies just arrived and they’re brand-new and they don’t have any past or background. There’s no reason for these nightmares except some of the stories they’ve been hearing. And they know all about this. They don’t know anything. I’d do a lot before I’d put a child to sleep in a dark room, believe me. Brrrrrrr! What do you want to have on your hands? A three-year-old who… who has got an electronic incident in full play? And how would you like to have to live with that for the next three years, huh? Keep putting him in the dark and putting him in the dark and he keeps protesting and he wants to come out again. You put him back and put him in the dark again and he comes out and he protests and he’s saying he can’t do it and so on. So, because you’re big and strong you take him by the throat and throw him into bed and say, „If you get up out of there again I’ll shoot you dead!“ and turn the… close the door on him and leave him in the dark. Then you wonder why the kid gets sick?

But get this: That box encloses the preclear and the preclear’s bed. And the first thing it’ll remind him of, of course, is a coffin. And that is the space they’ve made very antipathetic to homo sapiens. They take a guy while he’s still in the head, and they fill the body full of formaldehyde and they do all sorts of gruesome things and then they put it in this little, tiny cramped box and they let… shove the lid down so it’s completely armor-proof, seap-proof, uh… bill-collector proof, I suppose, and bury it deep in the ground. It’s just a dramatization of a control operation. There isn’t any reason that anybody should do this. I mean, this is just nonsense beyond nonsense. Preserve a dead body? Let’s go down to the slaughterhouse and every cow they kill, let’s fill that cow full of formaldehyde and bury it. It just makes as much sense as people keeping this relic around with powder and paint on its face buried deep in the ground.

Boy, boy, there’s real stuff waiting for him! Real good stuff. If he’s demonstrated a fear of dark in the first place, he’s had something to do with deep space, just automatically. It means electronic incidents.

It’s just… it’s just odd – just weird! I mean, how can a society go that nutty? Or, I should say, much greater dignity, how does it come so extremely aberrated? Well, it just goes nuts, that’s all, and… on the subject of bodies. „Care of the body… care of the body… care of the body. Nothing but bodies… nothing but bodies. All the space there is, is MEST universe space, all the space there is that can be controlled by the body. The body occupies the only space.“ And so, boy, right out of this…

Another thing, it’s kind of bad to leave a beam shining across a kid’s room – just a streak of light, a solid streak of light going across one corner of the room, because it’ll seem to get solider and solider and the kid after a while will jitter on it. He’ll wake up suddenly and he’ll see this thing, and that’s just no good. Somebody’s gunning for him.

You think you’re just in beautiful shape, now that you’ve got a piece of two-dimensional space. The guy can hold a point steady. Now he can hold eight points steady. He’s got two pieces of two-dimensional space and this makes eight points. It makes a rectahedron.

All right, so much for that. Black and White and Control Processing consists, then, of Black and White Control Processing – that’s right. And that’s what you do with this fellow. And then you move up into Step Four. We’ve… we’ve got a different modus operandi, you see, with this Standard Operating Procedure. We’re going to pick him up at the lowest step we can, and then we’re all going to do all the steps backwards until we get to One. So we’re going to hit Four, Five – Black and White Control Processing. We get him so he can do it. Move him to Four. He gets the childhood home, mocks it up, tears loose of the anchor points. Take him to Three – Spacation. Take him to Two – put out a beam and push himself out of his head – or just be – Two or One.

All right, here he sits… lies in this box. And the first thing you’re going to get… you say, „All right, let’s feel all around and make sure nothing is there but your space and the walls. Now cover ‘em with fur or put rugs on ‘em, or something of the sort. Now turn ‘em end for end, turn the walls end for end. Now rotate them a hundred and eighty degrees. Now handle them. Now color the walls red. Color them blue. Color them green. Shift it up higher – pull it down lower.“ And all the time let the body… you know, don’t let this guy lie on the couch and construct this thing out there somewhere on the other side of Marcab.

All right, and then you go on with the process of One, which is to make yourself a theta clear. What’s Six? Six – the best process I know of for a Six is by experience. And until I experiment with other processes, I’m not going to recommend another thing for the Six, really, except ARC straightwire. And one of the best sources of ARC Straightwire of which I know, is SELF ANALYSIS – just straight off.

No, uh… you are about to unmock one body and one couch.

But the peculiar attention should be paid in that to re-establishing his certainties about something. And there’s no reason to go and take a drive off on new, fancy processes which have not been adequately tested. This is not Fairhope, Alabama, uh… it’s not Squirrelville-on-the-Colorado it’s not Menningitis-on-the-Topeka. And ARC Straightwire has pulled more neurotics up through the band than I know of, because ARC Straightwire… your Step Six is a neurotic step. If the guy can’t do any of these things and if he just gives up on a Black and White Control – he can’t do that – dive in, fella! ARC Straightwire – good, old-time, covered in SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL, and so on. If you just follow the directions of the old American edition of SELF ANALYSIS – „Can you recall a time when…“ and then particularly the last page, „Remember something that’s absolutely real. Remember something that’s real to you. Remember a time when you were really in communication,“ and so forth. Just orient him and at least find him in the MEST universe. He’s not only lost his own universe, but he’s been driven out of the MEST universe too.

Now, he’s got this space, and make him reach from where he is and feel all around the floor of it. That’s why it’s good to have rugs on the floor and silk walls, or something of the sort, so he can get a tactile on them. And make sure that’s his space. Now you make him feel all around and make sure there’s nothing in there but himself, as a thetan. And he’ll tell you long in advance of where he can actually stabilize this. „Oh, no. There’s nothing in here,“ he’ll keep yap-yapping at you. You just make awfully sure. Because when he gets this… when he gets this sensation, you can tell. It will come as a considerable surprise to him. It will really shock him. You’ll always see this surprise. He won’t just take this calmly because what he’s actually done is make some space, and he’ll suddenly realize he’s made some space. And what you do is have him sit in there as a thetan, in the middle of that huge spatial area and he reaches from one part to another, inspects all the corners, inspects all the walls, inspects the ceiling. And each time he determines that there’s nothing there but that space and himself as a thetan. You get him to inspect this real good, see?

This person, by the way… you go down the line on this and these various levels, you find yourself somebody who is disabled, evidently is a little bit zing-zing on you, doesn’t seem to be quite balanced – remember that that is a test. And there’s no reason to change it at this date. For two years that’s been snapping neuroses. Or it’s at least been making a neurotic out of psychotics. That’s a… that process, for some reason or other, is a pluperfect killer, and that is ARC Straightwire addressed toward finding a time when he really felt in communication with somebody; when he really felt somebody loved him, somebody else felt he loved them; and when he was in full agreement with something or he wasn’t in full agreement with something – a time which was completely real to him.

Now, you number the corners. You don’t have to demonstrate to him. You just say, „Number those corners one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight, and you’ve got all the corners numbered?… All right, go to corner one. Now feel all through the place from corner one. Now go to corner two. Now make… feel all through the place from corner two and make absolutely sure there’s nothing in there. Get a good tactile on the floor and the ceiling and the walls. Now go to corner three and do that. And go to corner four and do that and go to corner five and do that, six, seven, eight. Now make this completely certain there’s nothing in there.“

Do you know you can see a case go „Snap!“ right up, a jump in tone?

Probably some kind of a condition like this is going to happen. He will either find it impossible to maintain this steadily, or he won’t. Other things will keep popping in there that he doesn’t want. If they do, make him keep filling it up full of all kinds of impossible things. Again, exaggerate the condition, and then empty it out, and then fill it up and then empty it out and fill it up and then empty it out and finally he’ll say, „The dickens with it.“

And by the way, that’s one that I could get awfully red-headed about. Auditors have known this since time immemorial. It’s been taught to every auditor that ever went through any class anywhere, and I have, by God! picked up cases that were being worked on heavy incidents being mauled around, this way and that, that had never been asked this question.

Now if he says he can’t get rid of the furniture – the furniture is too great an actuality to him, Father was a furniture dealer or something like that – enlarge the space and start putting furniture in it. He’s got one couch in it already; have him put dozens of couches in it. Have him put couches all through the thing and then take them out again. Fill up that space and empty it until he’s sitting there with a complete certainty on the possession of that space.

Here this guy is. He’s got glasses eight feet thick, he’s looking out over a… a misconstruction of body, he’s fallen over… over sidewalk cracks, he’s… he’s… he’s just stumbling around, he’s lost… he’s gone. And somebody says, „Well, we can’t do anything for the case because he can’t run an engram. We tried to run birth on him eighteen times running. He doesn’t seem to get any perceptics when we try to run birth on him.“

Now, he isn’t going to get the complete certainty right at first, but he can get it. He’ll think that’s very peculiar because he’s going to have something else sitting in that space and you can just count your bottom dollar he’ll have something else sitting in that space: and that is what’s left of the home universe will be found in that space.

By the way, there’s still clowns out in the sticks that are running birth on people. There’s still those. I… there’s one pair of auditors in particular that have been running birth on people now that I know for two years. They have had not one success in those whole two years. And they keep running birth on everybody they get their hands on. Wonderful! Just gorgeous. They’re both stuck in birth, of course. And by tacit consent they won’t do anything about it.

But before he attains that, you’re going to have facsimiles flying off this fellow like mad. You’re going to have him dug out of this, and into that, and… and shot here and maimed there and lying someplace else dying. And these facsimiles are going to come through boppety-boppety-boppety- boppety-boppety-boppety-boppety-bop! And he keeps trying to tell you about these facsimiles.

What about this? Every auditor has been trained in this, and every once in a while I get ahold of one of these cases around, and the guy is falling all over himself and nobody is asking these questions: „Can you remember something that is absolutely real to you? Can you remember a time when you were really in communication with somebody? Can you recall a time when you really agreed to something? Can you recall a time when you really agreed with? Can you recall a time when you felt some love for somebody, when you knew they felt some love for you? Can you recall those times?“ That’s the total list, right there. Just those questions.

Well, just… just disregard them and go on with the space, or if they become too annoying, throw in a few more agonizing deaths into the chain. Just throw in some deaths that are a little worse on the thing. „Well, get the… get a death now where you’re being disemboweled by a horse. Yeah, you got that? Well, all right now. Let the chain go on – look at the rest of them… All right, now run in there one now where you’re tied over a cannon’s muzzle and it’s fired. You got that? Well, let that one go on by. Now get… get one where you’re down at the bottom of the sea.“

And have this fellow’s case break! Sounds fantastic! I mean, you keep giving out this little… little… this little piece of information. It could actually be written… written on the inside of a matchbox cover. It could… you could just… I… I sometimes feel kind of inarticulate about it – because it’s so simple. All you do is say to this person, „Can you remember a time that’s absolutely real?“

The fellow keeps saying he’s drowning or something. Oh, he… he’ll go through agony in this sometimes. And he keeps drowning or something. Say, „All right, get one of being at the bottom of the sea and have a couple of big sharks come along and grab ahold of the body and hold it still while bullet-fish fly through it. You got that?“

I’ve been handing that out as a datum and handing it out as a datum and I still find people that have never had that question asked, who are just strictly fruitcake. And somebody’s trying to run something… trying to get into communication with him, saying… they come around and complain to you, „Well, your technique there doesn’t work uh… and uh… this Effort Processing isn’t so good, and running engrams don’t work. I’ve had this preclear and I’ve processed him now,“ (Let’s tell a real lie. Let’s do a winner on it), „18 thousand hours.“ In other words, „I’ve processed him uh… eight hours simultaneously every hour, for the last eighteen years, and I haven’t been able to get the case break.“

And he says, „What’s a bullet-fish?“

And then you get ahold of this case and you ask him that question and the case snaps. And then the auditor goes around and says, „Well, it’s just because he’s got altitude, that’s all.“ This is… this is… this is incredible. So… so don’t miss that one on… on Step Six.

And you say, „It’s a bullet-fish, of course. Put some in.“ Anything, if that gets too bad… ordinarily you can just disregard that chain of deaths, because if you were to hold that consistently and let him look, he would see practically every past death he had rushing off of this thing.

And if a guy looks pretty tippy on his pins to you, or if you go… as you go down the list – Brrrrrrrrr – this person says, „Oh, yes – yes. I get this… this beautiful home of my childhood. Yes, this beautiful home. Yes – yes, I get this beautiful home.“

Why? He’s been living since the explosion of the MEST universe… I mean, pardon me, explosion of his home universe at the hands of the MEST universe in borrowed space. So the second he tries to make any of his own space, all the borrowed space starts flashing at him. Every time he tried to possess space and was stopped, every failure to continue to own space is liable to show up in this space he’s trying to create.

You say, „Can you remember something that’s absolutely real to you?“ like that. This guy is observably off. He’s off the third rail. He’s being pushed down the track by the weight of the society.

So there he lies – all sorts of situation can show up there. Exaggerate the situation, and decrease it, increase it, run a cycle of action on it and keep putting that big box together there and uh… until he’s finally got space and then he’s going to find somewhere in there a high degree of probability that he will find a home universe. And he’ll be something ‘like the black spot over in one corner, or a tiny little dot in the middle. Or he’ll try to go through the middle of it. And he’ll say, „Every time I go through the middle of it it feels like I’m shot or something,“ or „like I’ve just been hit by Niagara Falls“ – anything along that line.

Now that’s… that’s one that in any auditing, and so forth… So as I say, that when we drop from Step Six and Seven toward a new process we’re, quote, ‘hauling coals to Newcastle’; we are building up new electric shock machines for Menninger; uh… we are doing some other completely unnecessary action; uh… we are electing a new congressman – uh… it doesn’t matter. It’s just something that doesn’t need doing.

And uh… so, what do you do with this universe? If you were to ask him to put something in this rectahedron after he’s sure that it’s absolutely empty, you will get a sour reply. He’ll put something in it. he’ll be mean about it, or he’ll be unhappy about it. He’ll put something in it. He’ll be upset about it. He… he won’t want to put anything in it.

Why? Because cases have been breaking all over the place. When a guy doesn’t break a psychotic on Step Six, that boy isn’t any good as an auditor, that’s all. He’s so darned scared of the psychotic that he won’t have the psychotic long enough to break the psychotic’s case.

He’ll tell you it’s lonely, he’ll tell you that it’s no fun, he’ll tell you all sorts of things. „So, if this is all there is of building your own universe, I don’t want anything to do with it,“ he’ll be feeling.

If a person doesn’t want to have a psychotic around him, if he’s afraid to have a psychotic around him, he won’t take possession of a psychotic long enough to break the case. That’s very obvious to you now at this stage of the game in your training. If he’s busy running away, he’ll make the person more psychotic.

Why? You’re staring the MEST universe’s collapse and end right in the teeth, and it’s such a major failure that he doesn’t want to build a universe. He has nothing about that now.

And as far as Step Seven is concerned, we’ve still… we’re still… we… we – by the way, I was using this process 18 months ago. This is not a new process, „Where is the light switch? Can you remember me? Who else do you remember around here? Where’s the wall?“

So, what do you do? You get him to go in there, around and through that – of course, he’s in this space all the time. You make him look around and make sure the place is empty. And he’ll eventually find this thing somewhere in there. He won’t know what it is; he won’t be able to get rid of it right away. So you turn it into a gaseous mass, you change the color of the gas, you move it around into the various corners, you solidify it, you just give it straight mock-up change. You keep using it. You decrease it till it occupies the whole space and decrease it down again. The fellow’ll begin to tell you all about his home universe, if you do this.

Now we can just modify it and we know why that process works. Been using this process for a long time. Didn’t quite… too well aware of why it worked. Well, it’s Q-1 is why it works. Get the guy to locate things.

And you don’t have to suggest „home universe“ to him. He’ll just tell you about it, and that’s that. And uh… you just keep working it; don’t let him go into large details about the thing. He’ll start wondering how on earth…

Now we can do it a little bit better, but we’re still doing the same process. Get him to locate… get him to locate that wall. „Find that wall. Find that anchor point. Where is it? Find that anchor point. Find that one. Find that wall. Find that light switch. What’s the realest thing in this room to you?“

And, by the way, you needn’t tip him off to this degree unless it’s just too… unless he’s just too wild on the thing and he’s wasting too much time, as to how his home universe got that way, and what happened to it. He’ll tell you all sorts of stories, because the fact of the matter is that the loss of it and we’ll cover that in the next hour, what loss is, and a little more of the anatomy of loss so you can see how this thing works out – made him forget it. And he’s forgotten it. And he’s forgotten it with a vim, because that was the biggest loss he ever had. That was his and all of a sudden, wham!

The guy all of a sudden looks around for a long time and he finally says, „That bedpost. What do you know! The bedpost is real!“ He’d go over to it and tap it lovingly.

What happened was, evidently, the MEST universe just came over and took it over. It just took it over. And it ran into it or fell on top of it, ‘cause this universe is expanding and it keeps hitting these things and so on. And it got on the wrong wave length or something happened and he suffered this. And the next thing he knew – really this is what happened – it went out and he came in. He didn’t have much of an entrance point or anything else. He just found himself there one day. He didn’t know where he was and he didn’t know what was happening, and he might have had some strange adventures and so forth. But after that he was a homeless waif – because he never found out what happened to him.

Now if you had a small statue, a statuette, or any aesthetic article – a real, good aesthetic article – a picture, something very aesthetic, and you were to go into an insane asylum with that thing and set it up, you would show these people and they would see for the first time something that was really real to them. That’s what aesthetics do for people – it’s real. And would you just drop it at that, and say, „Okay. Sit there and look at the Virgin Mary“ or whatever it is? You’d never show her, by the way. Get a nude, if anything. Virgin Mary, all those statues, are remade statues of Isis. You still find them in catacombs, by the way, and it says on the top of the base, it says „The Madonna“ and turn them over real quick and look at the clay on the bottom of them and you’ll see the Egyptian symbol of Isis. They just imported Isis and Horus who was found in the bullrushes as a child. They took those statues and that became the early Christian statuettes. Very amusing.

And that’s where your people are lost on the time track. They’re lost because they don’t have any space – it’s very simple.

Uh… so some aesthetic item which has no real religious connection. But it… it suddenly gives them a reality. They can see it. They know it isn’t going to hurt them because aesthetics ordinarily are not force. If you’ll notice, the whole race sort of is on a tacit consent about making anything forceful really beautiful. They… they… they… they play off the majority of the items which they manufacture which are destructive and they make them ugly, not beautiful.

All right, we change and alter this mass that he can’t get rid of called the „home universe“ until he’s perfectly satisfied about the whole thing. And then and there he will… will discover that space is his. He’ll find out that space is his, that is his space. He can do as he likes with that space, and he’ll find out something very strange. The mock-ups that he puts in that space appear and disappear with such ease, compared with the mock-ups he puts out in the MEST universe space. He’s been putting up mock-ups, let’s say, rather poorly. They’ve been shimmery, they’ve been thin, all that sort of thing. After you’re done (and this process is known as a Spacation), after he’s done a Spacation in that space, mock-ups can appear, disappear – bing-bang! Beautiful! He can move ‘em, change ‘em, put ‘em automatic, take ‘em off automatic and so on. He’ll find himself able to handle them in his own space.

Take a tank. Boy, that’s about as aesthetic as a pig.

Is this space actually his own space? If he has done this sufficiently and if he has done this well enough, he actually has parted company with MEST universe space. It is his own space.

All right, let’s take a look, then, at uh… this contact with… Let’s locate something in the real universe. You’ve got to bring this guy into the real universe before you can get him into his own universe. And you’ve got a double bridge to get when you’ve got a psychotic.

You’ve got a certainty of dimension which is not coincident with MEST universe dimensions. And therefore MEST universe could not override that space.

That’s why, if you take a psycho or a heavy neurotic, processing him until he finds something in this universe – the MEST universe – which is real to him, is effective; because he has been driven out of one, home universe, two, MEST universe. And he’s not in the MEST universe. He’s not in any universe. He just goes into some facsimiles or something. So you want to coax him out of that facsimile into the MEST universe. And then coax him from there into his own universe. And not necessarily take a long time to do it.

Now you could go far in this direction to where he could be so expert in creating space and unmocking, that he could go out and look at an automobile and there wouldn’t be any automobile there anymore – for anybody. At first these spaces just disappear for himself. It… he’s… it won’t occur to him that his body might disappear or blow up or something as he’s doing this. He probably won’t think of it.

The steps are orientation in his immediate present time surrounding.

If he does think of it, don’t worry about it. I’ve done this to quite a few people and expected, in the early ones, that we would suddenly have somebody turn up missing on our hands, but nobody did. The preclear continued to remain visible to me on the couch but sometimes would get kind of thin – you’d kind of start seeing through them a little bit – not theta-wise. I mean, they just… just sort of looked kind of thin and unsubstantial.

Now you’ll notice that they’ll fly around the room, or they’ll just sit there like mad, and you can’t do anything with ‘em; you can’t get them to give up anything. You can’t get ‘em… in communication with ‘em. What are they doing? They fall into these categories of cases which I gave you, and one of those categories of cases is ‘holding on’. The other is ‘holding on so bad, they abandon’.

Now, they’re liable to take off from that and go racing right on down the time track to present time on convictions – what they’ve been convinced of, what… the game they’re trying to play, and that sort of thing. And if they’re capable of seeing energy areas on themselves, they will see all sorts of energy areas on themselves. It’ll just surprise the dickens out of them how many energy deposits are convictions. They’ve been convinced they ought to play a game – they should play the game. „All right, how do you play the game?“

All right. Now, they’re… they’re sitting there. You can’t get anything out of them. This is a Step Six – Seven. Six or Seven. You can’t get anything out of them. They are… now you… you kn… you know this guy’s probably holding on. If you put him on an E-Meter and say, „Are you holding on?“ the E-Meter goes ‘zong!’ – it’d drop. That’s true of upper level cases, too. They’re holding on too. I mean, there’s just more of it down here at the bottom of the line.

„Well, you play the game so that when you walk along here and you’re hit by this, you say, ‘I’m hurt’.“

Furthermore, the particle, space, has become an object and a word is an object and time is an object when you get these cases. You see, in this wise, a Six and a Seven do compare with the tone scale. But don’t… but don’t… this… this whole process – this Standard Operating Procedure – is not aligned on the tone scale. You get that idea. It’s just accidently that Step Six and Seven line up with the tone scale. These people are psychotic. When they can’t do any of these things, they’re… they’re… they’re – good-bye.

„Well, I’m not hurt.“

Uh… by the way, some psychotics can do the upper ones, so you see, this is not a… not a tone scale thing. You say to some psychotic, „Be two feet back of your head. You’re there? Good! What postulates would you have to change about being crazy? Fine. Okay. Where’s your clothes? That’s right. You can go home now.“ You think I’m kidding you? But that… that’s… that could be it.

„Well,“ they say, „well, you walk along there and when you’re hurt, you say, ‘I’m hurt,’ and that’s… that’s the game on this. And then I walk along here and I say, ‘I’m hurt,’ and I’m hurt, and uh… so on.“

So, it doesn’t matter who you’re working with, you see, you work Standard Operating Procedure. I told you at the beginning of these lectures today, that’s any case. That’s the psycho, too.

But this fellow says, „But I’m not hurt.“

And you get down into the lower bands, you can’t attract his attention or get him to do any of these other things; you have to do these lower band things, which is to get some accessibility. And then you go right on through the rest of it.

„Well, you just… just… this is just the rules. It’s the way you play this game.“

All right, so what’s the score with this boy when you get him… get him oriented and you find out that he’s not – pardon me, not to say ‘oriented’, that’s a technical term – uh… when he’s holding on, you’ve discovered he’s holding on, holding on. You come in and you say, „Well, now put your purse down on the chair.“ And this person has been in there for six months, or been home and wouldn’t go out of the house or something of this sort since the baby came or something. You say, „All right, now, let’s put your purse on the chair.“ She’s been sitting there holding that purse all this time.

„Well, it’s a game – that’s all right.“ The most idiotic thing.

„No-no! No!“ Look at you… finally decide they can trust you. And they may go so far as to let you hold it for them – maybe. But to put it on a chair where nothing’s holding it? Uh-uh! Maybe they’re so good that they’ll eventually be persuaded to put it on the chair. Do you know that that starts to break their case at that moment? They have an object and they put it away from them. You just handle it by separating them from objects. That’s all – you just separate them from objects.

You make a hole – there’s a hole there and there’s something in it. And the fellow goes into it to find out if there’s anything in it and he doesn’t find anything in it so he takes things out of it. You know, he makes up things. And people say, „Well, this… no-no. That isn’t what it is – no, that isn’t what it is. No, that isn’t what it is.“ They just invalidate the heck out of a guy like this.

They’re just holding on, that’s all. They’re just holding on to everything. They’re holding on like mad. They’re sitting right in the middle of inhibit – loss. And they’ve had to hold on a lot of things in their life, so they’re just holding on. They… they know that that’s all they can do.

So, he is asking to be convinced continually, and any time he can find several people to agree with him, he’ll be convinced uh… on something or other. And he’s being invalidated continually. And the major ones are done by force and both of them depend on the banishment of space, really – banishmnent of the concept of how much space one can occupy.

So what do you do with this case? You maybe get them to let go of something. But is that trying to exaggerate their condition? No, we follow the same rule of the cycle of action, all the way down along the line. We give them things.

When you’ve taken your space from the MEST universe, you have taken spurious or specious space. It isn’t real space for you because you… it’s not your dimensions. You’ve borrowed some other dimension and that’s about the most serious thing you could do is to take a dimension that is not of your own determination. And after that, you have difficulty with energy because you can’t put mock-ups in space which isn’t yours. And you know the space isn’t yours and so therefore you can’t put mock-ups in it. If you can’t put mock-ups in it, that means you can’t put energy in it.

You go on out and you find scrap paper and you find chewing gum and you find some more pocketbooks and you find some pillows and you find some other things. Present time objects, see. And you give ‘em to them.

Now you can get practiced enough on this so that you can simply turn around and put in MEST universe space energy. You can get to a point where you’ll string a little thread of energy between two cans, E-Meter cans, and the E-Meter – has anybody done that since I mentioned about it there? work? Did it work?

What’s the treatment they get in a… hah! hospital? Everything is taken away from ‘em – including space and all objects. Well, if you could give ‘em back some space, if you could just give them some MEST universe space and you could load them up with objects, it’ll break the cycle. They say, „What do you know? There is some plenty around here someplace. Maybe I’ll part with the… I’ve got all these o…“

Voice: (?).

By the way, be fully prepared, if you’re really processing at the bottom of the scale, for this person to take all these pillows and just hold them tight and not give one back to you. But they might exchange a pillow for a word. That’s right. They’re going to exchange a pillow for a word, or a pillow for a phrase, or a pillow for a mock-up, anything, any kind of a deal. But they’ll deal, deal, deal – trade, trade, trade – conditions, conditions, conditions. Good Christ! They remind you of an oilman or something. Deals! Big deals – big dealers. „MEST! Oh, that’s important stuff.“

LRH: Oh, did you get a… just a little twitch on it?

When MEST gets too important to somebody, then he tries to hold on to it like mad, he’ll go mad trying.

Voice: (?).

And the next stage of psychosis is – you just look at the other condition. And the other condition is they’re giving everything away. So you get down to Step Seven, they’re either holding on to everything or they’re giving it all away. You try to put clothes on them, they throw them all off. You try to put sheets on the bed, they throw them out the window. You try to put anything in that room, they throw it away. They… they… they… they just know they can’t have anything.

Yeah, you’d have to put a pretty good… be pretty good at stringing, beams, and you’ve got to put a pretty solid beam between the two of ‘em and just let let it sit here for a moment and you’ll get interesting results on the meter. I’m fixing a meter up to do that.

So you get them to throw all sorts of things away. You point out they’ve missed three or four items in the room. You give them a stack of things to throw away. You give them newspapers to throw away – old newspapers, give them old magazines to throw away. Give them all sorts of things to throw away. Just exaggerate the condition. They’ll suddenly realize they acquired these and threw them away. That’s a heck of a note. They’ll realize that suddenly.

The point is, then, that you are rehabilitating space for this preclear. Now this process called Spacation will spring somebody with great ease – after he’s unmocked the body a few times and he has had facility in creation of space and so on, moving in and out of the head or being where he wants to be in the MEST universe becomes very easy to him.

And then what do you do? „Remember something that’s real to you“ – right on back up the line and Black and White Control Processing. Or let’s mock-up the old home town – right on up to the top of the tone scale. We won’t care how, quote, ‘crazy’ or how raving mad a Step One, a Step Two, a Step Three, Four, Five, Six or Seven is, it just so happens accidentally that nobody gets into Step Six or Seven unless they’re crazy. Nobody gets that bad off unless they’re really mad.

Now your Step One case can go right straight ahead on his route and go ahead and do this. But believe me, your Step One case should be put through a complete Spacation before your… consider him an operating thetan. You just take him from there on up. With a Spacation he becomes more or less an operating thetan rather than a theta clear. And he gets very able – he’s not too bad off, your Step One case.

(Voice:)… for laughs, really.

These other people, you’ll find out on lower step cases, that you just push them through a Spacation anyhow, and sometimes have to before you can do a darn thing with them.

(LRH:?) All right. I’m glad he explained it was for laughs.

Actually, in view of the fact that space is beingness, you have to be able to handle space before the preclear can be anything.

No, you understand that a… that a Two, Three, Four can be just as mad as a Seven, though.

So it’s a good thing to do, to put… as you go through this process, to be very careful about that particular set-up.

Now what’ll you run on this? Well, you can sometimes have to do the darnedest, most unusual things, in some cases, so you have to be versatile. You have to know all of this stuff, some thing that seems to be called for at that moment, and you just do it.

Now we’ll put that as a Three level. And the reason we leave One and Two as they are without stressing Spacation to any great degree, is because you can completely alter the beingness of a man, his condition and so forth, by steps One and Two – without any Spacation or anything else. You just tell ‘em, „Be two feet back or your head,“ or „Push yourself out with an energy beam.“

You could do the thing which is given to you on the formula and get away with it every time. But all of a sudden we’ve audited this person, we’ve said, „Be two feet of your head,“ and they did a bunk for Arcturus. Huh! That’s not in the school solution. Well, that one happens to be, but there may be some that aren’t. You just do the same. Just… just… just you’ve got – my God! You’ve got Flow Processes and you’ve got dichotomies and you’ve got Mock-up Processing and you’ve got Control Processing, you’ve got Orientation, you’ve got Spacation – all of these things.

Now when that guy has had that done, when this has occurred, you’ll see facial changes and personality changes of considerable magnitude. And when these changes have occurred they are very worth just striking for, just as their own, because it’ll happen in more than 50 percent of your people, much more than 50 percent if you use Step One and Two, that they’ll simply be outside, and will go through these paces. And they can be brought up to a stability without Spacation.

First and foremost, you have to be in communication with the person. So you’ve got processes which get you into communication with him. That’s right. There are processes. I just gave you one. They got too much, so you give them more. They haven’t got anything and they don’t want anything – take it away.

Now, you’ll be surprised. It… it… it just changes the fellow, changes him very markedly to have this happen to him. But by the time you’ve got to Step Three, they hold that space point steady, and so forth, there’s just enough little buggy things wrong with them that they… they can’t quite do a Step One and Two.

All right, a person will be sitting up on the ceiling grinning at you ghoulishly, with a head the size of a tennis ball, screaming the glee of insanity and five minutes before this you were talking to her; she’s a perfectly sane girl. Completely sane, sober, conscientious, polite. A little bit… well – but polite. A good wife, good mother. Good normal homo sapiens. And you, all of a sudden, said, „Well, all right. Put out a beam and push your forehead two feet forward.“

Well, if you do a Spacation on the Three case, he’ll move right up into a One category and you just go on with Step One.

And she suddenly screams with laughter and plasters herself up against the ceiling and sits up there and says, „Heh-heh-heh-heh! Try and get me down now! Heh-heh-heh-heh!“

Only when you’ve got him stabilized and outside and able to lift his various arms and limbs and so forth, from the exterior as the One does immediately, you’ve got an operating thetan. And you’ve got your other jump because he can make his own space.

And you say, „That… well, that wasn’t in any of the lectures.“ There will be situations that aren’t in any of the lectures. I would hate for you to go out and be calm as an oyster all the time. If I… if I… if I thought for a moment that I was the only one who was going to have to do any worrying in the preparation of Scientology, I’d feel very bad. I want you to do some worrying too.

All right. Spacation, then, is a process of rehabilitating space by first, ownership and stabilization of a point. Then ownership and stabilization of more than one point, namely four points; and ownership and stabilization of a two-dimensional plane hinged on those four points. And then ownership and stabilization of two such planes; and then ownership and stabilization of a rectahedron. Think that’s a tetrahedron. Uh… no, a tetrahedron is s…

So I could tell you that there’s all sorts of things liable to happen. Sometimes it isn’t a thetan. Hmmmmmmmm. Sometimes what comes out of the head – ummmmmmmmmm.

Voice:…

No, no, I’d better… I’d better make it straight. It’s always a thetan that comes out of the head. But sometimes he sure doesn’t bear any resemblance to himself. Nice girl – she’s sitting there on the ceiling. What am I going to do? Let’s see. It costs, I think, 25 pounds a minute to call London, and uh… Ron’s in London. He couldn’t process this girl for an hour over the phone. Do I… even if I did get somebody to process her over the phone, would I hold the phone up to her on the ceiling or hold it…“

LRH:… four points… it’s a tetrahedron, isn’t it? No, it’s actually a rectangle. It’s a rectangle. Is that a rectahedron?

So, no. Just uh… whatever they’re doing, get some more of it. And remember such factors as glee of insanity… irresponsibility, irresponsibility, irresponsibility. You can get very… you can use old processes if you want to. „Get the beautiful sadness of being responsible for everything on earth. Now get the beautiful sadness of having this beautiful tomb for having been responsible for everything on earth.“ „Yes, yes.“ They can get that. „Boy!“ they say, „that’s phoney.“

Voice: I think so…

You say, „Get uh… run Rising Scale on the beauties of uh… being somewhere else.“ But whatever you do, do something and do something effective. Action is always superior to inaction.

LRH: I haven’t done any solid geometry in a long time, in English, that is.

So uh… if you lose your nerve at any one of these points and you do get a preclear all fouled up and you find out that he was sitting on the 20th Century Limited tracks and the train came by and ran over him and the body dies there, and so forth, just report it honestly to the police exactly what happened: The person died of heart failure – and you were having a quiet social chat with him and afternoon tea.

Well, anyway, you build that and that stabilizes into his own space. And we have the essential breakdown, the essential points of space, the essential ingredients – the characteristics of space, which are anchor points – two dimensions and three dimensions – and you have the most elementary space there is.

Actually, there’s no danger in that happening. The body keeps on running – much…

And when he has claimed this completely as his space you will find him able to do a great many things which he was not able to do before.

Now one of the things you shouldn’t do is try to overload the guy’s capacity as you come down the line. I mean, let’s not… let’s not brutalize him. Let’s… you can brutalize some preclears – sometimes you have to. The guy’s perfectly well off, he’s not in bad condition, he… he’s just getting too darned self-determined to be processed. Do something to bring him down tone scale – scold him a little bit so that you’ll get some more processing, and then he’ll go back up tone scale again, or something of the sort.

All right? There is no substitute for a rehabilitation of space, to return to an individual a rehabilitation of his beingness. But don’t think because he’s done this indifferently or suddenly or quickly or snappily and then stepped out of his head and so forth, that he can create space worth a darn. I mean, he… he’s able to go through these steps, maybe. But if you haven’t done a very good job, and if he can’t do it the next time easily, and if he can’t do it for about four or five consecutive times, easily, so forth, he’s not stable on the subject.

It’s something like giving somebody a… they used to try to get people on these old Mathesons. They used to invalidate them until they could get them back on the dial and read them so that they could be processed.

So the next time you get ahold of this preclear you put him right straight through all the steps of a Spacation which are, establish one point; establish four points; establish eight points; and establish its emptiness. And uh… you finally will find him quite stable. Otherwise you’re liable to unstabilize him. If you put him through a Spacation once, you get it indifferently well, and all you’ve succeeded in doing is throwing him through 565 past deaths or some darn fool thing like that, or run him against the old home universe, and – you’ve charged him up to a fare-you-well! Bad deal, strictly. Okay? How much you got left on that tape? Voice: About seven minutes.

Well, now we have here gone over this Standard Operating Procedure pretty thoroughly, and it is different than described, in that you go from Step One down to Step Seven and then you go back up the scale. See, you don’t just flip back to Step One every time he makes it. This is a different type of process. If you make him accomplish Six, go to Five. If he goes to Five, go to Four. If you accomplish Four, accomplish Three and then Two or One.

Now that’s quite sufficient for me to tell you a very important datum uh… about all this. Loss is loss of space as its most important loss point – loss of space.

And just uh… if he… if you’ve got him down to Three, then do Three, then do Two, to One. It doesn’t matter one way or the other. If you’ve got him to Five and you accomplish Five, then accomplish Four, then accomplish Three, then accomplish Two or One.

So anywhere down along the line, what kind of mock-up do you favor for any case from Three down? What kind of mock-up? You take the most beloved living place in the current lifetime of your preclear and do standard mock-up manufacture and shifting with it – even if he does it poorly – making many of ‘em, changing it, altering it, lessening the quantity, increasing the quantity, placing it behind the back and afar and above and around, until your preclear does not give a… two whoops and a continental about it, and can handle it with great ease. Because there he is still tied with this lifetime’s anchor points! And that will be, usually, his childhood home. And more locks will fly off of this. You’ll be amazed! Oh, the locks will fly off of it, in all directions. But you’ve rehabilitated his space considerably when you’ve done this.

Well, now that’s… that’s your process. I dare say we ought to have a rough draft of that process mimeographed and given for your… an insert here. But from what I’ve told you here, as often as I have told you and as hard as I’ve explained to it, what’s Step Three? Voice: It’s that spot business. Black and White, spot on the wall. LRH: Shoot him. Shoot him. What’s Step Three? Voice: Spacation. LRH: Spacation. What’s Step Two 2 Voice: Uhhh – be behind your forehead two feet. LRH: That’s right. That’s too slow, though. What’s Step Five?

And don’t be surprised when other houses like it start to show up automatically. Of course, you’re just peeling the track. All kinds of things will show up as marked out MEST universe space which he has tried to claim. And in view of the fact that was MEST universe space with imposed MEST universe dimensions it of course was not under the good control of the preclear.

Voice: I’d better change some postulates. I’m getting caught off base. LRH: Your preclear will always catch you off base. What’s Step Five? Voice: Black and White spots.

A preclear can afford to lose anything he has as long as he does not lose as well his ability to create.

LRH: Right. What’s Step Seven? Voice: You remember something real? LRH: That’s Step Six. What’s Seven? Voice: What room? LRH: That’s right. What room? That’s right. Okay. What’s Step Two? Voice: Uh… push your forehead two feet forward. LRH: That’s right. What’s Step Five? Voice: Uh… Black and White spots. LRH: Okay. What’s Step Four? Voice: Get your childhood home. LRH: That’s right. That’s right. Which step is Spacation? Voice: Three. LRH: Which step is Black and White spots? Voice: Five. LRH: Uh… which step is ARC Straightwire? Voice: Six.

But when anything is based upon the speciousness of MEST universe anchor points, of course, he is anxious about it in the first place. And then when he loses it, the MEST universe has to be waited on for the MEST universe to give him permission to have more anchor points.

That’s right. Honest to Pete. You ought to know these things just brrrrrrrrrr! because you’ll remember, then, to do them on that line. Understand the processes outlined in this book, works. It’s just slower than the process which I’ve just outlined, because since that was written, enough tests have been made on this Spacation to indicate that Threes and Fours are particularly in terrible shape. We’ve actually got the same cases there. We’re just giving them different processes.

So you start handling that childhood home. You want to know what happens to a pc’s childhood. Why is a pc’s childhood occluded? Well, a pc’s childhood is occluded because, one, he was moving faster when he was a child than he’s moving now, and therefore in order to pick up facsimiles of childhood he’d have to generate and move a lot faster as a preclear. And that also applies to why can’t he pick up early track as easily as he can pick up later track. And that’s because he’s moving too fast and too strongly on the early track for him to have uh… for him to pick it up now. He hasn’t got enough speed, you see; we’re going through a slow-down process, as one goes down the cycles. So we can’t get these things earlier very easily – mostly because of speed.

They’re in terrible shape on anchor points. Until you’ve done something with anchor points and established anchor points, the guy isn’t here, he isn’t there, he isn’t anywhere. And you could do a lot of monkey business on the case.

So, in childhood, however, uh… that’s one reason. And the other reason is these anchor points. And because childhood is studded with loss from one end to the other. There is more loss per square inch of havingness in childhood, because one attaches such enormous importance to trivia. Everything is given to one, everything is assigned and owned in some other fashion. One’s toy – he has to be very careful. You just think for a moment and just try to remember a toy you had when you were a child – just one toy. If you remember a toy, the toy which you remember was a toy which you were given and which was not interfered with very much. Nobody cared enough about the toy except you. That was one toy.

So these steps which I have given you, it’s just in interest of it being faster. It’s not a question of whether or not that old one didn’t work, or this one doesn’t work. This is faster.

Now your havingness, then, was slight and your space compared to your size was pretty large. But you got nailed down. MEST universe anchor points had been assigned to you. And if you were racketted around much and you were changed from home to home and area to area, just anchor points and anchor points and anchor points and anchor points, and the guy just all snarls up all over the place.

Do you know that the first issue has DED-DEDEX running for Step Five? Oh, it… it’ll get you there – DED’s and DEDEXes will really get a guy there. But, my gosh! At what expenditure of time? Enormous expenditure of time!

Sooner or later as an adult, one time too often, (I’m going to cover ‘forget’ and ‘remember’ in the next hour) and one time too often he loses a set of anchor points and it’s too much for him. And the whole track, actually will jam right at that point – jam! He will at that moment run out of space for his facsimiles. He hasn’t even got space for his facsimiles anymore. And uh… having no space for them, of course, the only space left to them – he’s not going to part with them! They just simply move in on him – crash! And he’s got ‘em! That’s that.

I don’t know how many hours it would take some case or other. So in the interest of time we’ve brought all of these cases, now, down to pretty low numbers of hours.

An electrical shock moves one out of his last efforts to maintain anything like space – the last efforts to maintain space are psychotic or neurotic. Because one is saying, „I’m not responsible for anything, and therefore it’s all right to leave me in this space. I’ve abandoned all responsibility for all force, and I’ll do whatever you say, and I can still have some space, can’t I? I’m still permitted to have some space. You see, I’m nutty. I can’t do any wrong – can’t – I mean, can’t harm you very much.“ And uh… that’s just a protest. That’s… that’s the last shreds of beingness – complete irresponsibility.

Do you know that you will have a theta clear in about 25 percent of your cases in about 20 minutes to a half an hour? You don’t know this yet. But in that… about a quarter of your cases this will be „Ha-wham!“

All right, so they just move him out of that into utter abandonment. They move him out of that into death. And they do that very simply. And… or they collapse the track on him. And that, of course, prevents them from moving out of anyplace. They have to stay there then. There… there’s a forcing mechanism. It is about as sensible as… well, these things are very sensible, well, about as sensible as anything else in this universe.

Another percentage of the thing – take you two or three hours. When you’re starting to get up on the smaller percentage of the line, it’s going to take you many more hours. Now that’s to get a theta clear.

We have a profession that pretends to heal, and it destroys. It’s no wonder, you see, that somebody believes great evil of you as a Scientologist. If you get out practicing for a little while, they’ll believe great evil of you. The reason why? You’re obviously doing good so obviously, you must be evil. Reasonable. It follows.

The state of operating thetan really is only this: You make darn sure that he can do everything from One to Five with thoroughness, neatness and dispatch – One contains all the lifting exercises. Make space, do terrific mock-ups, so on.

If a fellow can’t move around anymore, and if he’s all pinned down, and he’s very upset and he hasn’t got anyplace to go, why, let’s take what’s left of him, his body, and let’s fill it up full of electricity which is highly antipathetic to him, and fix it up so he can’t even be there. And then explain to everybody that this makes him well, you see, with sort of a snide, pompous expression on one’s face. Great stuff!

So what’s an operating thetan? He’s not just stable outside of his body; he’s a college kid on this subject. He can do everything from One to Five backwards and forwards and upside-down, with complete perfection, complete certainty, and with what speed? Milliseconds! Milliseconds. He has to be able to pick up a finger of the hand and pick it up swiftly and cut it loose instantly. He has to be able to create space – not only in this slow, slow process of one dimension and four dimensions and so on. No. He has to be able to create space in ‘Bap!’ and he’s got the space created. And it’s all empty and there’s nothing in it. Just like that. So it’s just drill from theta clear to operating thetan. When you get him up to operating thetan he’ll probably be able to knock over the Empire State Building.

Force, and the application of force to the individual is primarily a question of changing space for him – making him abandon a piece of space.

Okay. Uh… That’s said as a joke. I know that nobody would do that. I know that if you were going to knock over any building you’d knock over the building which is occupied by Time Magazine. I’ll get you their address.

The highest level of conviction there is is to knock hell out of him. That convinces him. Of course, way up above that he had to have better conviction in the field of reason.

Okay. Well, there is Standard Operating Procedure, and don’t think that’s all we have to know in this business, because I’m going to go into Memory: What is it? Why is it? What fouls it up? And how do you recover memory of the whole track? For this reason, for this very adequate reason: It’s very often the preclear keeps insisting that he be able to remember his whole track for some naive reason. And you better restore it to him with complete certainty. And it’s one of the processes, and so forth. and it will assist you enormously to understand the disability of the preclear who is sitting in front of you, if you know the operating mechanisms of memory itself – because they’re brand-new. So come one, come all. See you at two o’clock tomorrow.

So knowingness is upset by force. Force crashes into the individual and it upsets his space – it’ll upset his knowingness. Why? Because something occupies the space which he should have been occupying and makes it impossible for him to occupy that space.

And if he’s unable to create more space at will then, of course he considers that he has been displaced in the space. And in Spacation, you’re teaching him that he can make any kind of space that he wants to make at any tine he wants to make it. And when he’s done it a little more often, a little more often, a little more often, he finally realizes that he has all the space anybody could need in which to do anything, and he finally doesn’t worry anymore about having to have space where the body is.

The process of Spacation, of course, follows that because the body is in that quadrilateral, octilateral – whatever it is – uh… because the body is in that blown-up coffin, why, uh… it gets unmocked. And you never ask him to unmock his body at all. It just disappear on him. You point it out to him afterwards his body wasn’t there.

He says, „That’s right. The body isn’t there.“

„Well, why does your body have to be there now? Why don’t you just move out two feet behind your back?“ Okay. Let’s take a break.