Thought, I've been describing as the "to-beness" and as the recording entity or thing. That's thought. Life. Call it sloppily, if you will, thought, or call it more technically and accurately theta, being the Greek letter and meaning nothing more than just a symbol by which we understand the state of "to-beness" and beingness and the state of experiencing and recordingness. This is impinged on the physical universe and it handles effort.

Now, if anyone wants to know what effort is, just let him reach down along the side of his chair... And just try it: reach down along the side of your chair, if you don't know what effort is, and pull up. Just reach up. Reach up two or three times. Now go back through the action of having pulled on the side of the chair. You can feel your arm stretching out. You can feel a sensation in your arm as you go back through this facsimile two or three times.

Here for the first time we had accurate tools with which to move somebody around on the time track when he was wide awake and alert, and moving him around on the time track very often resulted in an arrival in a past death. This is something that shouldn't happen. I mean, people live only once - everybody knows that. Of course, remember now, there's no proof, no proof that you only live once. But everybody knows that you only live once - one of those "everybody knows" things.

Now if you can't pick it up, don't worry - you need a little Postulate Processing or something of the sort. But you should be able to get this effort. You should be able to feel this effort. That's effort. Now, if you want to go into physics, effort is force and direction.

Now, I tried at that time to do some research in this line. And do you know, it was as though I had murdered somebody or as though I were contemplating, when I said I was going to do this research, the looting of Fort Knox or something - very criminal. Or as though I were about to commit mayhem on some fragile little child or something. This I mustn't do!

Now, when you apply an effort, you push against something or pull against something, try to change a direction of something - but it's always concerned with two precise things: either your effort to make something remain in a state of rest or your effort to keep something in motion, and as a subunit, change. To remain in - something remain in a state of rest, keep something moving, or to change the speed or direction of a movement. And these are all the categories of effort there are. That's all.

Well, Dianetics didn't get there by not doing, by refusing to do what one thought he could do. So the next thing you know, I ran a few preclears this way and that on the time track and found the three lines. There was evidently a genetic line, and he could go down a genetic line if you wanted him to, or he could go down a theta line - theta body. Fascinating. You could send him down a theta-body line. Or you could send him back into corpses from which he'd already expired - a little bit of recall being on those corpses. Oh, it was wonderful - age flashes and so on.

Any body in the physical universe is trying to obey Newton's laws. They usually succeed. And therefore, anything which your body is trying to act upon in the physical universe is trying to remain in a state of rest or it's trying to remain in motion or it's trying to change - either go faster, go slower or change direction.

The odd part of it was that very occluded cases that hitherto hadn't responded well at all suddenly began opening up and feeling better after they'd run these things.

Now, that's all that bodies will do. That's all energy will do. Energy is a mass of particles, which is a mass of motion.

But of course "everybody knew" that you only lived once, and the battle royal which ensued on past deaths actually barred any research on them for about six months; merely because every preclear that I asked to run one was promptly and imnlediately invalidated. And it made them ill to be invalidated.

Now, therefore you see that you, as an entity capable of exerting force, can do these three things: start, stop and change. That is effort. Your mind, in perceiving, is doing nothing but estimating efforts. When it is applied to the physical universe it is doing nothing but estimating efforts - either estimating them to be done immediately or to be held in abeyance to be done in the future. And sometimes your mind will get up on a maybe, whereby it's trying to estimate past efforts which you already estimated and didn't estimate correctly.

I didn't know why it would make a person so ill, You could invalidate an engram - that didn't make him very ill. But if you invalidated a past death, ohhhh!

And, really, the only way you can be wrong in the physical universe is to fail to estimate an effort. It's as simple as that If you walk over and pick up your hat, you estimate the amount of effort which you will have to apply to overcome the gravity and air resistance on your hat, the amount of grip that you will have to put on the hat to create enough friction or enough support in order to hold die hat. Simultaneously you are putting forth continuousEy the effort at keeping yourself in balance in the physical universe. That's all there is to it. Very simple. But you see that you could do many of these actions, and therefore it'd start looking very complex.

But the amount of recovery in terms of Tone Scale, when you'd run them through these things, more than justified a very wide research on them. Nevertheless, I still left it alone, to some degree, until I figured out a way of proving it.

How can you he wrong? You reach over and start to pick up the hat, and you pick up the hat as though it weighed a ton and it only weighs two ounces. Naturally, you'd sort of go off balance and so on. That is being wrong. Or if you go over to pick up the hat and you've estimated that it weighs two ounces and this hat has a brick in it, you start to pick it up and it actually weighs several pounds, you'll get the sensation of being wrong.

There were three ways of proving it. The laws of delusion had to be studied. What are the laws of delusion and hallucination! Well, I won't go into them but they're very specific. And the law of a true incident is very specific. A true incident behaves in such and such a fashion, and an illusion or a hallucination behaves in such and such a fashion. Therefore, how did past lives behave! Well, they behaved as incidents - not as hallucinations. Very interesting.

If you go to open a drawer, you estimate the amount of effort which your fingers have to exert on the knobs of the drawer in order to create sufficient friction and how much grip you have to - and then how much pull you have to exert to open this drawer. And if you do it correctly, you don't really pay much attention to it because the drawer opens. But supposing it sticks. What happens on a sticking drawer? You keep juggling it, and you juggle it harder and you juggle it harder and if it's still sticking and it won't open, you get quite angry about it and suddenly you - well, you get sort of the idea you don't want anything to do with that drawer; you're kind of scared of it. But you may monkey around with it a little bit more, and then you'll say, "I don't want anything in it anyway!" - which you do.

Then I began to wonder why it was that the main ones I found were deaths by violence. Well, that, as soon as I knew about effort and countereffort, was very easy to resolve. Of course a death by violence would seize upon a person more avidly than a mild, quiet family standing around, two candles at the head, two candles at the foot, everybody weeping for poor old Joe or something. Because the counter-effort would be so severe in a death by violence and the intention and the protest of the individual about going through it and dying would be such as to give him a facsimile where he could latch himself up. Very interesting.

Now, the second we recognize this we have the Tone Scale - the Tone Scale extrapolated out of effort. And what is the Tone Scale, but the range of emotion. The Tone Scale goes in harmonics of movement, and that is all. It's a very simple device by which a person's ability to estimate effort is measured. That's his reason. That's a direct measurement of his reason. His ability to handle effort, of course, is an index to his emotion. So quite commonly we assign emotion to this Tone Scale, and it's a gradient scale of emotion. But that is the derivation of the Tone Scale. And you've had this happen to you and you've seen other people do this, and so we get the ranges of the Tone Scale.

Well, as soon as we got Effort Processing, it became impossible to keep people out of these thinga It was no longer a question of selection. The auditor who got an effort within an effort within an effort... For instance, you ask some auditor [preclear], "Run the effort it takes you not to see," and he'd get some sort of a somatic or an effort and he'd turn this on, a past death or something. Well, all you had to do was just go out and pick uy, anybody and stun them with this.

Supposing you were very, very happy and excited and exhilarated, and you were going in there and you were going to get out that phone book - my drawer that holds the phone book sticks, by the way. You're quite cheerful about this thing and you're really exhilarated and you're going to get out that phone book and look up that number, and the drawer sticks. Well, you're still enthusiastic, so you pull on it again. And you're still not willing to pay much attention to it, so you yank it some more, and it's not bothering you too much, but it's bothering you enough so that you're about 4.0 by this time. And then the idea starts to sort of fade away and you start to concentrate upon this drawer. And the idea and the drawer - the level where the fading of the exhilaration of the idea, and the attention shifting to the drawer, is boredom. There is a point there of motion which would be the equivalent of boredom on the Tone Scale.

A little high-school girl I ran a few weeks ago (I ran her back along the track), "Go back to an earlier-life incident and find the incident in all early lives which is realest to you - most real to you in all early lives. Let's find that incident," She looked at me; she'd never heard of this. And here she is in pantaloons, listening to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. So she quotes it to me verbatim, comments upon his voice - which was high and squeaky - and got the whole sequence and so forth. And I brought her up the track again after running it a few times. She just couldn't figure this out. "What is that! Could I have lived before!"

Now you start to get antagonistic toward the drawer, then you'll get angry at the drawer, and then you could be afraid of the drawer, and you could actually be in grief. Have you ever seen anybody cry when they couldn't get something done? And then at the last resort they say, "Well, I didn't want it anyway." That's apathy.

She went home, of course, and told her mother, and her mother said, "Well, I don't think any of us know about that," and it closed her off. Next time she came I processed her for almost two hours before I realized that there must have been an invalidation there, flipped that off and accomplished the remainder of the processing in about half an hour.

That is extrapolation of the Tone Scale. The Tone Scale extrapolates in other fashions. You take a little boy, and the little boy comes in and he tells you he wants a nickel, And he'll tell you very cheerfully he wants a nickel. And then the next thing he says to you, if you won't give him the nickel - well, he's not quite sure for a moment that he wants the nickel; that's as he passes the boredom stage. And then he gets a little antagonistic: "What's the idea of not giving me the nickel?" And you still don't give him the nickel, and he says, "Roarrr!" and you're liable to get quite a tantrum on your hands. And then he'll sort of get scared if you still don't give him the nickel. And then he'll cry if you don't give him the nickel.

Why was it that the invalidation of a past death produced such a terrific sag in tone? Well, that's very simple. Immortality, survival, is the answer. If a person runs a past death or a past life which he is certain and incontrovertibly knows is completely real and that it happened, he all of a sudden is holding in his two hands a proof of his own immortality, and it consequently reduces the fear of death very markedly.

By the way, as he passes fear, he will lie to you, Oh, he'll tell almost anything in order to get the nickel, and propitiate you, and he's - usually some reason he wanted the nickel in order to buy you something-propitiation, which is at the level of I.1.

What is the fear of death derived from? The fear of death is not derived from pain, but only from the "fact" that you only live once, that you are finite and that the future is very uncertain. But when a person runs a past life that he knows is real, he all of a sudden realizes it goes out for a long time into the future too, and it goes out for a long time into the past. And he's pretty hard to handle in terms of control if he has high reality on past lives. Why? Because what's the worst thing you can do to him! The worst thing you can do to him is kill him.

You go down the line and you strike his grief, he'll cry. And then if he passes that point and doesn't succeed, he won't take the nickel from you. He says he doesn't want the nickel, he doesn't want anything to do with the nickel. This is negation. You can watch this. But this is the Tone Scale in action. Now, that is emotion.

Don't you see how the society's control over an individual diminishes! Because what's the worst punishment society can meter out! Death. And if it no longer matters as much as it did hefore, of course the person's ability - I mean his susceptibility - to control is less and people don't like this sometimes.

Now, up above this, what is it? It's the intention to exert effort. The intention to exert effort bridges into the body by emotion. In other words, the physical-mental bridge is emotion. Motion is actually motion. Emotion is motion. You see, your intention in the handling of MEST objects produces - and also MEST situations - produces an emotion. Your ability to control motion is a direct index of your emotion.

All right. That contains, at once, the reason why a person goes up so high in tone and, at once, the reason why people protest so madly against running them - I mean against having them run in others - and why they are invalidated. That's on a reason level. But this still wasn't good enough.

Now, there's another test on this. The intention and the effort bring about this Tone Scale - and do you know that people on the Tone Scale handle things in a repeating cycle? There are harmonics on this Tone Scale.

Theoretically, if you ran every violent death off of a case and ran it up to complete higher reality, the tone of a person ought to go up to 20,0, Just like that it ought to do that. There's no reason why it shouldn't. Well, it didn't! Hmmm.

But let's take from 2.0 on the Tone Scale down to 0.0, and we find out very easily there, that motion is a direct index of emotion. Why? Because of this estimation of effort. So that motion - what does a person do with motion? At 2.0 he sort of bats it back; that's antagonism. Marowh! You say something to him, he'll snap back at you. If you threw something to him, he'd bat it back at you; he'd slap it rather angrily.

And this is something like, as elementary a problem as, "I have two apples. I know I have two apples because there was an apple and here was an apple." And after you put the apple here and here, you start counting. And you count one. No, there's something wrong there. So you take an apple here and an apple here and you put them side by side and you take your hands off of them and you start counting. You count one. Where's the other apple!

Motion - as he goes down to 1.5, he will hold on. Anger - he will hold on, no matter how loudly he's roaring; he's getting tense. If you throw motion at him at that moment, he will hold that motion. He won't let it very far in, but he won't let it out. There's where you get your arthritic diseases - I mean your depository ills, like arthritis.

In other words, everything went out to indicate completely that the running of the worst past deaths that you could find on a case would result in a fearlessness with regard to death which would react in a person's tone. So that he would handle himself with confidence, not in fear that his next move would bring about his death, because death wasn't something to be afraid of.

Now, when you come down the Tone Scale a little bit further, the person will let the motion go slightly by and sort of pretend it didn't. What he's doing with regard to the motion, actually, is sort of hoping that it won't hurt him. And his reaction to it is to sort of let it go by. Therefore you have covert action.

What is failure! Failure is nothing more nor less than a gradient scale of death; it's a little bit of death. So if he isn't afraid of death, he isn't afraid of failing. And if he isn't afraid of failing, if he isn't afraid of being defeated by life, he'll win. And this is the way it figured out. So I put an apple there and an apple there and I count and I get one. There's something wrong here someplace. I go back over it again very carefully, again investigate the laws of delusion and the laws of incidents. Sure enough, those deaths were real. People would call off places where they obviously had never been in this life, and give one data and languages which would check completely. Wonderful! Nothing to this at all. And yet they didn't improve. Why!

Now, in grief, an individual will take this motion, and a person in grief is sort of molded by the motion. That is to say, any motion that hits this person will mold him. If a person is in grief, you notice they're pretty limp. They will stay- the way you put them. The way they receive motion, then, is just in a forming state.

Well, the first sequence of answers started coming out of the genetic line. Now this line is a series of genetic incidents, and these incidents, one after the other, form what you're now using for a body It gives you the pattern. Now, there's some very severe incidents on that line.

And when you get them into apathy the motion goes through them. They will not get out of the way; they will knock aside on it. It will sort of go through them.

The second I discovered this, immediately what we had there made the psychogalvanometer a valuable instrument. Up to that time a psychogalvanometer had relatively small value. Why! Because the death of Grandma will fall maybe one division, two divisions, three divisions, four divisions, and the fellow actually can tremble this much and you're never quite sure whether there's charge on it or not. But these facsimiles - very specific facsimiles - of the genetic line, and a certain type of incident, threw charge on the psychogalvanometer which went in terms of dials' worth. In some preclear, the dial will drop as many as twenty widths of the whole dial on one of those incidents.

So that you can actually take a preclear and test him in this fashion: If his hand is put on the table in front of him, you come over and you hit his hand. If he's in antagonism, he'll immediately flick your hand away. If he is in anger as a chronic tone, you slap at his hand and you'll see him tighten his hand - because people can be this way all their lives through one of these tone bands, you see? Slap his hand, he'll tighten it up. Fear: You slap his hand, he'll take his hand aside, and then when you're not looking he will put his hand back. Covert action.

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Now, as far as grief is concerned, if he's down in the grief level, you can take his fingers and pull them together and his fingers will stay pulled together. And as far as apathy is concerned, you can just move straight through his hand. And his hand will more or less - not, as in grief, stay where you put it - your hand will move through his hand, and then his hand will flop afterwards. That's apathy.

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This harmonic goes as well from 2,0 to 4.0. You get the same motion reactions from 2,0 to 4.0; you get them on up the Tone Scale in that repeating cycle.

Now, on the genetic line there were such incidents as the clam - the Weeper, we called it, the Boohoo. That's the reason people cry. There was mitosis - the basic mitosis that begins all mitosis is on that line. Highly aberrative. There's the photon converter, like an algae or something of the sort; lots of charge on that.

Now, the higher levels of the Tone Scale of course are handling motion with more and more resilience. There's more return. A person comes back quicker into it. Actually there's not an awful lot of difference between 3.0 in the handling of motion and l,5 - not a lot of difference. A person has a tendency at 3.0 to be rather - a little bit conservative and to sort of hold on to things. That's conservatism. All right, so much for that. This Tone Scale is easy to understand.

And very particularly, the psychogalvanometer began to work when I figured out that it was what a person did to somebody else that was the somatic he got. Now, this transfer of somatics produced what we call an overt act. You choke somebody someplace and you get the somatic yourself. And most people were holding on to these somatics.

But above this we have intention. And when we get down to who are you, you are you. And your state of beingness is what establishes and guides you, and so we have self-determinism. It goes to the extent that if you make a postulate, you will be held by that postulate. You will hold yourself to this postulate. You cause you. But after you've caused you, at any moment you are then an effect of your own cause. You say, "I am hungry," and even if you're not - if you're really causing this - you can then become hungry.

But these still didn't resolve the problem because you didn't get the tone rise you should expect to get. But this was terrifically helpful. This would turn on emotion on preclears who hadn't emoted. This would change the shape of somebody's face very easily. This would locate the charge and get an enormous charge off of a case. Very, very helpful.

First you're cause and you say, "I am hungry," and then you become effect a moment or so later and you're hungry.

We were not trying to bring people up to 4.0 anymore. That was too easy to reach. You can reach 4.0 with the Handbook for Preclears. You just keep chewing at that and you get up to 4.0 - but that's way down there. We were interested in 8.0, 10.0, 12.0: Where's an incident can - by running it all by itself, will bounce the preclear to 12,0! And that's all we want to do with - we don't want to truck around with this long run - takes hours to clear a person. Let's get busy!

Or you say, "I am full, and even if you aren't, you can actually produce the sensation to yourself of being full.

Well, I studied and I thought and I studied and I thought and figured and figured and ... You know, the first thing I knew, I saw the machine dive on "before time." It says, "before time." "Has anything ever happened before time!" - wondering whether or not somebody might not be pre-aberrated. And the machine just started going crazy. "Before time."

A person is as healthy and sane as he is self-determined. Self determinism should be very free. The environment should not affect an individual unless he expressly desires it to affect him. Stimulus-response is very low on the Tone Scale - it's around l.l - very low. The idea that because you see something in the environment it's going to affect you, gives you some sort of an idea of the Tone Scale of the people I was working with in the first book. The first book is, to a large degree, a stimulus-response dissertation. And if you want to know how stimulus-response works, you can study it in the first book. That's stimulus-response, and it's very, very sharp the way this works.

"Did something happen before time! Did somebody aberrate us before time!" And all of a sudden you get this horrible picture, this horrible idea of maybe this is hell and once we lived in heaven, and somebody came along and picked us up and said, "Mmm. You're a bad 'un!" took us before a tribunal or a council and then dumped us on the chute and we arrived here on Earth. Crash. Well, this is not very solid. But the lady went off the top of the dial on running the first part of it. The first time I've ever seen anybody go off a psychometer, all the way up, off the top. And we only ran just a little bit of it.

Now, working with processes which pick one up out of that level faster, you don't have to work with this low-level process. Stimulus-response is an unhealthy circumstance whereby the individual is affected willy-nilly and without choice by his environment.

And then I tailor-made the idea, thinking that this was all by counterthought in some fashion - done by counter-thought in some weird way I figured - all of a sudden realized we had the Handbook for Preclears, and there had a map. It's from "not-know" to "know," it's from "effect" to "cause." In other words, if we run the cycle backwards, we will run time in reverse; therefore regret will vanish off not-knowing, and a person would theoretically go through this incident from not-knowing to knowing, not-knowing to knowing, not-knowing to knowing, and pretty soon would get into the state of knowing, running this incident. Fascinating. Ah-ha!

Self-determinism goes up to enormous heights. And it doesn't mean that a person becomes completely indifferent and detached. He can become very, very intimate with existence because he dares to be, at a high level of self-determinism, A person is as sane as he is self-determined.

After I ran it for a while, experimented with it a bit more, located it in other people, and ran into something I had known of in mysticism - the third eye. This eye of the soul, the jewel eye, so forth, lot of complimentary things about this. And then suddenly located circuits. The second I located this, I located circuits. What are circuits? Circuits are divisions of your own mind which seem to make up other personalities, and these other personalities affect you and argue with you and so forth. And here was a brand-new therapy.

Now that should be fairly simple. It comes to this degree: Do you know that nobody can be sick unless he has desired to be sick at some time or other? That's very fascinating.

What you did was take the youngest circuit - that is, the last one, closest to present time - and find out which circuit back of that had set it up; and you went back through about four circuits and you blew out those four incidents, and you would turn on this eye. Only one thing wrong with it - the eye turned out to be an engram. Get this: The jewel soul, the soul of souls, the super-valuable entity, turned out to be about the most lousy, stinking trick ever done on the human race! It's a manic of sorts.

You say to somebody, why, you say, "Nobody can do this I never wished I was sick - not in my whole life."

Once upon a time, a fellow by the name of Henry Ford said, "Undoubtedly, lying under the seas of the world are railroad tracks, rusting away, the forgotten and hidden relic of former great civilizations." Mm-hm. I - don't know about Atlantis. I haven't been there - not lately.

And you can always throw him this little curve and it usually throws him, if you get that reaction. You say, "Did you ever try to keep from going to school?"

Now, this was very interesting that we all of a sudden began to turn up with information which was not B.T but B.E. - before earth. But that could also be merely before this civilization, if you want it to be that way, if you wanted to make it that way. And we really started localizing this stuff. It had on it thought, emotion and effort. And it is simply a manic which degrades, and it's laid in on a pattern.

And he says, "Oh, that. Well, yes, I pretended I was sick a few times then,"

Well, I guess if you were a civilized people and you kept being hit by the barbarians and your patrols kept getting cut down and so forth, you'd eventually do something about it too. Particularly if you had supersonic sound and you knew how to lay in an engram, even if you didn't know how to pick one up.

"Well, let's remember one of those times." And we find out that he's using this same mechanism to keep from going to work, years later. Only by this time it's developed into what they call a chronic whatever-it-is. Such a thing as an allergy can develop in this fashion. The Little boy is forced to eat something and he says, "I don't like it." Still they insist he eats it, so he says, "It makes me sick." And he says this very emphatically and he argues with it and he loses the argument. Twenty years later you pick him up and you find out very mysteriously that corn makes him sick. Now why should corn make him sick? Well, he said so. He's boss. So he said so, so now it's got to make him sick, because if a person doesn't obey his own postulates he is wrong. The second he doesn't do what his postulate said, then he proves that he is wrong.

When did it happen? Maybe a million years ago. I can't get a proper estimate on it in terms of time, but it's some such order of magnitude. What were we and who were we?

And it's an odd thing about rightness and wrongness, but the - as wrong as you can get, of course, is dead. And if you get completely wrong, you're dead. So wrongness is a measure of level on the Tone Scale again. And when a person gets down around 2,5, 2,0, 1,5, 1,0, believe me, he can't afford to be wrong! Being wrong just once will finish him - boom!

Well, they did a nice, thorough job. They hit you in the middle of the head with a supersonic pellet and they said this would make you good and happy and cheerful and honorable. And of course it took you way down the Tone Scale. It's the supersonic equivalent of a prefrontal lobotomy. And then they hit you in the stomach to produce anxiety.

And yet he's at a level where he's forcing himself to be wrong. And he's in a terrible chaotic state. Below 2.0 a person is more MEST universe than he is - he's more controlled by the MEST universe than he is by himself.

Sound. Did it with sound. Wonderful gimmick. And is that stuff sticky! And I'd run into this somatic on preclears before and I thought it was just a board, like a board had been pushed up against - the fellow had been squashed. And it would never release.

And so you find that at very low levels on the Tone Scale people worry madly about their own postulates - the second they begin to know about postulates. Then they'll start worrying about postulates and they'll go back and they'll pick up their own postulates. And then they get afraid to make postulates and so on because they can't afford to be wrong.

The way you release it is get it as sound, get it as a vibration and try to keep it from vibrating, and all of a sudden the thing will start blowing out. Turn on the eye, try to keep it from vibrating; you'll get the rest of it. It'll take quite a while to do. But you can feel yourself go down Tone Scale as this stuff hits you.

That is why invalidation of a low-level preclear can be almost fatal - because you tell him he's wrong, invalidate him. You say, "Something is wrong about what you remembered," and he just can't stand that strain.

Who did it? Why? I'm sure I don't know - yet - as completely as I might. But, boy, I'd sure like to find some of those guys!

Now, you can take somebody way up the Tone Scale and you can say, "You're wrong," and you can bring out mathematics, you can bring out Bowditch, you can bring out anything you want to bring out and demonstrate to him conclusively and utterly and forcefully and with harsh words that he is awful wrong. And he will look at it and he'll say, "Yep, I guess I was. What did we have to eat tonight for dinner?" he says, "Let's have some of that." I mean, that's about as much effect as it is. He can afford to be wrong.

If this were just found in one person here and there, this would be one thing. But it isn't. It's pretty uniform. And the availability of that eye, to some degree, establishes a person's effort to get out of it You see, when you're yourself you'd have that. Well that'd be pretty bad because you'd be half asleep or three-quarters asleep. When you're running past deaths, what were you running into? You were running into this thing.

It's something like - a person's position on the Tone Scale is something like working with a bank account and not working with a bank account. You have a nice cushion of $100,000 in the bank. Well, you see, you can afford to make a mistake. That $100,000 represents a lot of survival in terms of years and lots of MEST and lots of service and so on. So you've got $100,000 there worth of survival, and you could be wrong; you could make two or three $10,000 deals that would go very wrong. You'd lose these $10,000 deals and you'd be all right.

Now, I'm talking to you about a research line as sober and as consistent as any research line was ever conducted. A relentless search - a very relentless search - to find the wild variable. You followed all the laws you knew about thought, all the laws you knew about mind, and it didn't quite turn out right. There was something there; somebody was stealing the second apple. What was it? Well, this was it. Now, you all look very grim. (laughter) When you get around to this thing, there's real honest-to-goodness terror in it. It's practically all the terror there is on a case. It's the anxiety stomach, it's your fear of arrest, it's your fear of being mauled around, it's your unwillingness to be, and it's also - God help us all - the installed circuits. They put a man on one side and a woman on the other side, and every time you've been jealous, every time you've been upset, one of these things has gone into restimulation and come back and kicked you. Aw, what a dirty trick! Now, of course, this has lasted for a long time.

But let's suppose you're living an existence with - like me - without a penny in the bank, and let's make a $20 error - nerryow! That's awful wrong. So, very materialistically, we could draw the Tone Scale in terms of money.

I wouldn't dare tell you about any part of this and so excite your incredulity unless I could show it to you in processing, and unless it was a very, very fast route out. And it's a very fast route. It takes quite a while to coax a preclear sometimes into running it and to get out all of its manifestations and to get his sonic on full in it and to run all the columns backwards and forwards until a person does get up to "know," But every time in the past when you tried to say, "I know," you've come up there and this confounded incident would kick in and say, "No, you don't!" And down you'd go.

Of course, I should amend that immediately and tell you that as you go up the Tone Scale, there's another law in operation. It is crudely expressed, hut you just can't throw very much theta around without MEST moving in under it. MEST sort of has an affinity for theta, and you throw much good theta around and the MEST actually moves under it. And the person with the $109,000 at 0.5 wouldn't have anywhere near the henefit of that $100,000 as a person at 8.0 would get out of fifty cents.

Every time you tried to say, "I am cause, I amount to something, I'm important," this incident would kick in and say, "No, you're a slave." And in addition to that, circuitry setups: They gave you somebody to walk through life with you and keep you on the straight and narrow. Also to obey their laws and like them. And to stop shooting their patrols to pieces!

A person at 8.0 could probably walk out on the street without a cent in his jeans and walk dlown the block and find out that he'd - two hours later and three blocks later that he'd had a wonderful dinner, that he's attended a party and that somebody was going to give him a ride in a nice car.

Evidently this was an advanced society which moved in - a society possibly not even as advanced as ours - which moved in suddenly on almost a cave society, almost Stone Age. Maybe it was planets that got crossed. Or maybe it was merely continents that got crossed. People would hardly know that. But whatever it was, here was a retarded society being suddenly hit.

You get up the Tone Scale very high and you get into a situation where - well, who owns the physical universe? So what? I mean, so - it doesn't matter. As far as cushions are concerned, why, the MEST moves in under, that's all. So you see, I'm not being materialistic about it. I'm just giving that as an illustration.

Here was the story of the Polynesians; here is the story of Tahiti. A barbaric but very happy, very dignified, very cheerful, honorable people that suddenly objected to someone coming in and say, "We're going to make your laws now and you stack that wood over there and draw that water," And so you said, "Noo! Workers of the world will now arise," And you started cutting them to pieces And they objected to this, naturally.

How much future do you have? Well, oddly enough, the Tone Scale itself is a measure of future. It's also a measure of the amount of effort you can dare expend and the amount of emotion which you can absorb or emanate.

So they evidently cooked up - maybe they did it this way. Some places they might have done it one way, some places they did it another way. They might have cooked up a big story about "this is the great thing to do; this is the stuff. We're gods and we're really going to make you into gods, and..." Pow! "We'll fix you up." Bap! "Turn on the sound." Actually, the sound box they've got runs with a crank. I don't think they even had electric motors. But there's some sound like electricity in there.

Here we have a problem in future. The higher you are up on the Tone Scale, the longer you're going to live in a life span; that's all there is to it. The Tone Scale drawing in Book One is drawn exactly on that predicate - that survival can be graphed. A potential survival is the height on the scale against time, which is the length. And you have it graphed right there. And the higher you get up this Tone Scale, the better potential you have.

The poor fellows who manage power stations! Ohhh! I often wondered why they were so crazy I often wondered why when you got into the navy and you'd listen to a ship's generators pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, pulse, all night long in the air vents and so forth, that you'd eventually get kind of groggy. And you'd wonder what was wrong with your head - you have a headache. And you'd notice this amongst the men.

Where do you find the accident-prone? He's down below 2.0. He's trying to kill himself and take a few more along with him. And it's a weird fact, but there are people who just sort of walk down the street, and cars run into telephone poles and linemen fall off of lines and ...

Well, I had an electric typewriter and it sat there and it whined and whined and roared and roared and roared, and it put years and millions of words' worth of lock on top of this, with all the postulates in it. It's made the case kind of rough. But it was this one.

I studied this one time in the National Casualty figures, and found they had some fascinating evidence on it. That one fellow had never done a single thing wrong, he had never broken a single traffic rule, he drove very circumspectly and do you know that in a space of three months seven people had died in his immediate vicinity? He was driving along, parked for a stoplight - perfectly legal stop for this stoplight. A person comes up driving like mad in the rear of him, runs into the rear of him, gets killed. Bang! Didn't hurt him any. Death sort of followed this fellow around in this fashion.

Now, separating it out and getting the locks of electric motors and that sort of thing off of it, we were starting to whip ourselves. That's why we started to go down the line in a hurry. We had a choice, then: we were either "them" and vicious, mean and degrading, or ourselves with somatics. From that point on, that was our choice: either to be mean, wicked, ornery, vicious, degrading your fellow man, but very thorough and ride over everything, about 1.8 or 1.5; or if you wanted to be good, decent, noble or upstanding - lung somatics, nose somatics, bad eyes, headaches and general frailty. Because you'd have to take one or the other.

And 1 knew a girl once that every time she would ride in the car there'd be more accidents! And do you know that I had gone along for just years and I'd never even seen an accident. She tried to explain this to me as being very observant; she was much more observant than I was.

Therefore, anybody confronted by somebody being good ... You see, if a person is confronted by somebody being very good and very honorable, the valence is stolen to some degree you see, and they have a tendency to flick into this other valence. And when you've got somebody being very mean and very wicked, you have a tendency to flick over into the good valence. And this has been this endless drama going on, on, on.

Well, this was not really - to be taken into account, because the accidents we saw were usually blood spattered all over the wreck immediately across the road, and I don't think I would have missed them if they'd happened in my vicinity.

It's easy to run this incident - do it with thought, emotion and effort. Very simple to run it. What's difficult to run is, is this supersonic is so solid that you have to realize that it was such a kind of a wave in order to run it at all. Before that it wouldn't budge, because you couldn't get a preclear to run a vibration. He thought he was just being pushed, and as a push it didn't go away. And it hit there, and it hit there, and it hit there. Somatics are with it and so on. A person kind of - feel awful crippled up running this thing.

So there is something more operating here, where you get into the Tone Scale, than immediately meets the eye. As one goes up the Tone Scale he has potential survival. Therefore, he can afford to lay out more future estimates of effort, he can afford to indulge in more emotion, he can afford to enjoy things. He has a future to spend. In the same way, a person low on the Tone Scale thinks wholly of the past, a person up just a little higher on the Tone Scale will think, at best, occasionally of the present, and a person who is very high on the Tone Scale thinks only in terms of futures.

How many hours it takes the average person to run this, I don't know. But I know that running it runs you off the top of the scale. Sometimes there are quite a few Iocks on it, like overt acts. There'll be a few overt acts on it and then it'll peel down and there it'll be.

Very interesting various combinations, but past, present and future are the three criteria of psychotic, neurotic and very sane. You want to get an immediate test for these three things: Does this person dwell most upon the past and worry and maunder round about the past? If he does, pretty bad. If this person deals - is just barely able to cope with the present, not too well off. But if he can deal with future and plan into the future, he's pretty well off. His self-confidence, his self-determinism, are the same measure, in other words; and as he goes up the Tone Scale he has more and more self-determinism, he has more and more self-confidence, he has more and more future that he can lay out and expend, and more and more certainty and surety that his future will come about the way he planned it.

How many people present have a ringing in your ears! Is there anybody here who doesn't have a ring in his ears at one time or another! You don't have a ring in your ears!

Now, there we have this Tone Scale, we have this estimation of effort. And we notice something else now: that at the bottom of this scale we have mostly concern with effort. Very low on the scale we have concern with effort to such a degree that a person is always tired - always tired; can't even think of estimating an effort. That's what tiredness is.

Male voice: No sir.

And as you come up the scale a little bit further, the only effort that a person could estimate would be something which was certain not to be opposed, so that any effort he estimates has to sidestep real or imagined physical universe obstacles. That's covertness, at I.I on the Tone Scale. Get up the Tone Scale at 1.5, the kind of effort he estimates is the estimation of destructive efforts.

Good.

[At this point there is a gap in the original recording.]

Second male voice: Me neither.

The higher levels of the Tone Scale, we get into motion - emotion - and so we have emotional responses, and in this band we have considerable attention to the emotional reaction on the aesthetics. For instance, a person hears music: the music doesn't draw pictures for him or give him colors or something of the sort, the music affects him emotionally, It doesn't particularly stimulate thought, it affects him emotionally.

You don't. Mm-hm. That's very interesting. Because that is the thing in chronic restimulation. That ring and that note is part of that engram.

Now, as he goes up the band, his emotion level starts to fade out into thought - intentions and thought. Now, thought gets more and more and more embracive and esoteric as you go up the thing, until a person's imagination is almost completely free. He can do anything with this.

I told you T was going: to tell you a fairy tale, and I don't imagine there was a single one of you could imagine it was that wild. But it's not a fairy tale. That's the road out.

If you notice, people low on the Tone Scale are very frightened of imagination. That's because it can be confused with delusion and hallucination. That is why we tell our little kids they mustn't imagine so many things - of course eve don't, but a lot of people do. Because imagination can be confused with hallucination or delusion.

Now, you'll find all sorts of strange things happen when you get near this incident, because it's full of lies. A guy will run dub-in, But he can't dub in those somatics. And you get him to run those somatics out and devil take what he's coming up with. And then when he's got the somatics out, why then take his data.

Actually, hallucination and delusion are very specific things. If you wanted to call them imagination at all, you would say a person imagining and not knowing he was imagining would be a person who was hallucinating, but a person who was imagining who knew he was imagining would be creating up the line.

But that was the incident we kept running into and that's what, evidently, we've been playing tag with. I don't know of an earlier incident than this that is anythiny. Sure, maybe you got caught and maybe there are earlier incidents along the evolutitmary track which are worth running once you've run this. Rut that's the only reason you're down here in this [tapping on blackboard] band - down in the counter-effort band. You run this and you shoot up above it.

Of course, it's supposed to be a very bad thing to sit around and imagine and do nothing but imagine and daydream. And by the way, people who are doing that aren't doing, really, much imagining. What they're doing is a playoff of an incident they're stuck in, and they're trying to resolve the incident. And you get imaginative therapy, so that you can ask preclears to imagine what sort of an incident is worrying them, and they will give you a whole run of it; and make them run it a few times and you may get the real incident to turn up.

How well this will hold, I can't tell you from case to case - in terms of all cases. I haven't run all cases But it's right. And every time I've ever processed a preclear, there was a ghost of this one around.

This branches out and has been superficially used in terms of play therapy, or psychodrama, where a person is made to imagine these various factors. Lack of interpretation is the only reason why those therapies did not succeed. They didn't succeed, not a great deal.

A person gets into that incident and gets it restimulated, he's liable to stay and run philosophy or something thereafter. A person tries to go into mysticism and use his thought and so on, such as teleportation or ESP or any of these things, he gets that one right square in the face. It tells you not to be and not to do. So your mystic who is progressing earnestly, hard, and in spite of anything just will key that up into higher and higher restimulation. Higher and higher. Higher and higher. You get more and more nervous about it. Great stuff!

But as you go up along the level of thought, you would get up to the fourteen buttons. You'd know, you'd be cause and so forth. The trouble is, you wouldn't be in very much action way up there. Because you get at 20.0 - you consider 20.0 more or less the optimum, a person's mixture of thought and action - they're still active in the physical universe. Now, if you start to move above there, theoretically they're starting to do a separation.

But it's what makes law and order be "law and order!" to you, with an exclamation point, because it's punishment-drive control. And punishment-drive control is not successful.

As a person goes down the Tone Scale they are doing a separation from MEST by trying to die. And they're going into it more and more and more and more solidly, and what's "MESTier" than a dead body? It's awfully MEST; used to be worth ninety-seven cents.

Of course, you say at the same time, whoever it was - whatever race it was - that suddenly came along and managed to get practically the whole kit and caboodle of us ... I'm very anxious to get ahold of a Negro and a Chinese and an Indian - I mean an American Indian, because I think the American Indian and the Mayan might possibly have escaped it. I'm not sure. But I want to know in terms of races. Right now I want more data. I know about the white race, because there's always been this ghost there, and the number of people who will pick up this incident - very, very large number of people.

Now, as a person goes up the Tone Scale he starts to stretch out away from MEST more and more and more and more, and he'll actually get a cleavage to a point where he can do strange things with his body and it doesn't bother him. This is not particularly wonderful, by the way. It is awfully hard on a body to let it lie on spikes. Careless of one, too. And it's interesting, but not very productive of anything. But you take some of the very learned wise men, you don't find them in very much action. They're up too high. And they forget to eat and they forget to sleep and they forget to take care of this body at all, and one day the body sort of withers away, and somebody goes whooh! at it and it disappears. They've separated out. That doesn't mean they died, particularly.

Now, what benefit you can expect out of running this is to go right on up Tone Scale. But in the process - perhaps not always - to have some of the confoundedest, most horrible somatics you've ever had. Some of them are really rough. They are side somatics, back somatics, stomach somatics and there's a certain fear on it. But actually, once you start to look at it after you've seen a map of it, it can't scare you as much anymore. And once you know what to run out of it, it can be run. But it's been there, and it's been there for an awful long time.

Once in a while we hear of somebody taking his body out through the top, as we call the Tone Scale getting up to 40.0. That would be very interesting. The top happens to be a minus 273 degrees centigrade. And that's awfully cold for a body, since a pork chop freezes at minus 100, when pushed into liquid air or something that's minus 100. It freezes to a point where the slightest tap will cause it to fracture into millions of little slivers So it's very uncomfortable to get the body to a minus 270 degree centigrade, and I doubt anybody could. But what would you want a body for up there anyhow?

I wrote a story one time rather poetically talking about somebody laying across the face of Earth a black enchantment. It's a Chinese fairy tale, which is the fairy tale I'm telling you tonight. I heard it from the last of the jugglers of the empress dowager, a juggler whose lineage had reached back to Kublai Khan, and he had come into China, his ancestors had, with Kublai Khan. And he was just a bum anymore; that empress dowager's court had long since disappeared, gone to dust. He was a street juggler. He was a very clever old man. He was about eighty. He was very knowledgeable.

That's just a little bit of razzle-dazzle I'm adding in here, but it's speculative on my part, because you start to run people too far up this Tone Scale and their body starts to get cold. You tell them, you tell anybody to sit still: if he sits still enough long enough, he'll get awfully cold. He'll also start to get counter-efforts, by the way, because he has slowed down to a point where counter-efforts can hit him. And he may start slowing daeun the Tone Scale, particularly if you tell him to sit there quietly and concentrate on a state of not-beingness. If you have somebtxly you don't like, ask them to do this as an experiment. Don't do it yourselves.

And he told me this story of the Chinese legend, the story of two heroes and a little girl. And the little girl all of a sudden realized that there was a black enchantment lying over the whole world - that some wicked magician had put this black enchantment over everyone so that no one could be happy anymore. So she went and found the two heroes, and they went down and they found the magician, they slew him and they lifted the black enchantment,

Now, there is an interesting manifestation, because if he'll sit there and concentrate on not being, of course he's taking his [tapping on blackboardl intentional line and he's coming from up here "to be," down to the bottom toward "not be." And if he thinks himself "not be" as an intention and you tell him to sit still with this intention, naturally he will start to get counter-efforts - which I will describe in a moment. And that is to say, old punches and thrusts and bumps against him will suddenly act against him again out of his engrams to such a degree that a medium can sit there and get kicked by them and slapped by them.

Well, that's what has happened, approximately, to this degree: a black enchantment has obviously been laid across man, who, natively has every potential for good, for constructive action.

And it used to be explained that an idle spirit was doing it. There is such a thing as an idle spirit, by the way, but it's mainly counter-efforts that are doing this I've seen a medium, by the way, get a black eye just like that, and I was very mystified at the time I saw her get this black eye. But since, I've wondered who was it gave her the black eye! I scent a scandal there somewhere.

But how would you keep a people from realizing it? You'd divide them within themselves. You would teach them that they had - could know only law. That they were incapable of assuming full responsibility, that they were not to meet in groups or perform various actions, and that they could not unite in a single effort forward toward the conquest of the material universe. And that was what we were told, evidently. And man has been living up to it very well ever since.

When I said there was such a thing as an idle spirit, a demon circuit can do the most remarkable things - very, very remarkable. Thought is very remarkable. Anybody who tries to discount it and say that it's not, just hasn't watched it very much. And that is, by the way, the case with so many things in the world, People who discount things very often don't know much about them. And they haven't the knowledge, so they have to gain importance by discounting instead of knowing.

I don't know if actually, if this tape will ever go out of this room, as far as publication is concerned. This sounds utterly mad, but that's what it is - madness!

Now, this state of beingness: If you tell a person to sit still and go up in this state of beingness, you're more likely to get them cold, They start up, up, up, up. They're being; they're going to be, they're going to be. Of course, unfortunately something else happens to them - they hit Facsimile One if they keep this up. All you have to do is postulate "Now I'm going to be," "Now I am going to know," "Now I am fully responsible," "Now I am cause," and you just concentrate on this for a while, and if you're lucky you stay sane for hours!

Have you ever been around an insane asylum! You can think back over it now and you can see how many poor guys were caught in this one - how many were caught in this one. "Somebody's hooking wires up to my brain. Somebody's going to read my thoughts" - on and on and on and on and on. That is the computing psychotic. And that is what a computing psychotic is: it's somebody caught in this incident. A dramatizing psychotic is somebody vdno's caught in an engram. Get the difference! Caught in this incident. But the only way a person could get caught in an engram is to be caught in this incident first. That would bring his tone down to a point where he couldn't handle himself.

I covered this last November and nobody took much of a word of warning on it; and some terrifically interesting results have happened though. And some actually very worthwhile data have turned up in the form of the fact that people can evidently stay this way for days, maybe even weeks, on a "I know, I am, I be" - way up. And if they could only go to a quiet place that would be relatively unrestimulative, they might even then be able to maintain that state continually.

Here was your fear of death. Here was your shut-off of knowledge of past lives. Here is your fear, and here is incompetence.

The only liability that inhibits this is Facsimile One. Just try and say you're going to be and you're going to know, and so on, and you ask two preclears out of three on a psychogalvanometer "What would happen if you knew?" and that needle will go bong! Oh no, they don't want to know. "What would happen if you really were?" Bong! You'll get a needle drop. Very fascinating. They don't dare know, they don't dare be. State of beingness is down.

Now, those of you who know full well how to run this material, if you team up tomorrow, try and run it a bit, hm? Won't hurt you any That's a map I give you. And tell me what you get on it tomorrow night.

So that you could concentrate a person out up through the top of the stack. I've watched these operations, by the way, in various studies, and I often wondered why they didn't succeed to the degree that they should have succeeded. And it was actually because they didn't succeed when they theoretically should have succeeded that made one begin to suspect something and look around for what turned out to be Facsimile One.

All you have to do is look for the ringing in your ears. It's supposed to be timeless. It is lost on the track. It is timeless. It moves with you - that sort of thing. And this ringing in the ears is you being even with it one way or the other. Aw, it's an interesting thing, but it's an awfully dirty trick.

Now, all of this Tone Scale, then, is a gradient scale of attitudes, of emotion, so forth, and it's a method of graphing personalities, but it's also a method of processing.

If we can start shooting people up by running this single incident, if we can start shooting people up to 20.O - and I don't care what you run out of people to shoot them up to 20.0 - that's where we want them.

You will notice there is a counter-effort band. And this countereffort band is down there a little bit above 2.0 - about 2.2 - down to about 0.6 or somewhere in there. And in that band a person feels counter-efforts.

Oddly enough, evidently, the only reason I went on and invented Dianetics was because, to get me, they had to pull me out of the brush with both feet flailing; and my intention as I went into it was something quite beyond them, and that is "Someday I'11 get even with you bastards and find out. And the rest of the people you're doing this to are going to be undone." And evidently this is almost very close to mission accomplished, Now, I would like you to look it over and get some reality on it for your own sakes tomorrow on a co-auditing basis. You can always scan off something which you've audited through. It sometimes gets very, very heavy and very hot, but only when you're rather tired. You shouldn't run the incident, I don't think, when you're very tired. So try it out, will you?

Now what is a counter-effort? Any time you start moving and something stops you, the thing that stops you has exerted against you a counter-effort - an effort counter to your effort to move. And when you are trying to remain in a state of rest and something tries to put you into motion, that something that tries to put you into motion is a counter-effort. And when you are trying to change direction or velocity, anything which prevents you from making that change or seeks to prevent you from making such a change is a counter-effort.

And thank you very much for your very, very patient attention tonight. And don't have too many nightmares.

Now, you could call these efforts of the environment. Being run into by an automobile is a counter-effort; being run into by a pedestrian is a counter-effort; dropping a book on your toe makes the toe receive a counter-effort, and so on. Any effort the environment can exert against you, in other words, can be a counter-effort - can affect you.

So what do you find on the Tone Scale? That a person from 2.2 down is incapable of handling these efforts the way he should. So from 2,2 down he'll try to bat them back and he won't quite make it, so the thing will be there, still being batted back.

In anger he's holding on to it very hard. An effort comes in at him - a counter-effort, see? And he holds on to it very hard; or, lower than that, it's - he's letting them go by, and coming back to position because of them. And so you have a band where effort is being very destructive. A person's efforts aren't met with success, and the counterefforts are something he can't get rid of. So any time in his life when he was hit so hard that he had to hold on to the motion formed a 1.5 incident or 1.5 facsimile. When that goes into restimulation, he's still trying to hold on to this counter-effort. In other words, right in that band he is worried about counter-efforts.

Unfortunately, the body is composed, in structural members, mainly of counter-efforts. The first effort theta ever received was a countereffort - by theory. So that you have counter-effort became effort, a counter-effort became an effort, a counter-effort became an effort, and that is the cycle of existence. So that if you processed out every countereffort which a person had on his whole time track, he would, of course, disappear. And this is not gainful in therapy. (laughter)

That's why I keep talking about a preclear going poof! on the couch. It would be, if you processed out every counter-effort he'd ever received, he would have nothing left to hold on to or with. Now, the only time counter-efforts are worrisome is when they lie in this band, and the only time counter-efforts can badly influence an individual is when he's lying in this band of about 0.6, or something like that, up to about 2.2. And then counter-efforts can influence him very uncomfortably.

Now it's an odd thing, but a facsimile tends to vibrate against the intentional speed of the person - speed of the person. Oh, this is, this is very rough - it's just an approximation, an analogy - that everybody is running so fast or at so much a vibration level or something of the sort.

[marking on blackboard] Well, you get up here, up to 20.0, he's running at such a vibration speed. When he's running at 1.5 his vibration speed would be so-and-so. This would just be some way you could match up the engram with him.

Now, a person would have to be running at 1.5 to have a 1.5 facsimile hit him. He'd have to be angry in order to have an anger facsimile stick with him. But a person intentionally is in this band somewhere, to be affected by counter-efforts.

And how do you get rid, then, of counter-efforts? Sometimes you have to process out a great many counter-efforts, because knowledge gets tied up in counter-efforts. And this knowledge gets wrapped around, you might say, by - the counter-effort, and a person doesn't know what the incident is and he becomes very puzzled about what this sequence is. "Why do I have a pain in my esophagus?" he will say. "I can feel - it's just like..." And you say, "What's it feel like?"

"Well, I don't know It feels - I don't know, it feels like something's choking me."

Well, you can run it as an overt act; make him choke somebody else - that'll take the charge off of it, something of the sort. Or have somebody choke him. It's really a counter-effort contained in a facsimile, you see? Just as if you picked up the table and slammed it down on your toe, your toe would have received a bang. Now you go back through that bang a few times and you'll feel that table banging the toe, hanging the toe; and that's effort. And a lot of effort going out in all directions, trying to meet and check counter-effort, creates what we call pain. So you get pain in the toe - very simple.

Well, here's this band, this counter-effort band, and if you kept a person just plowing along and fooling along in that 0.6 to 2.2 band, he would go on getting counter-efforts ad infinitum and forever. What you have to do is straighten out his reason as his ability and his concept - that is, ability to reason and his concept of existence, as well as his facsimiles. The trick is to make him understand so much, so fast, by either recovering it from some particular incident that's buried or something of the sort, that he'll jump up above that band. And the second he jumps up above the band he doesn't have a non-self-determined battery of counter-efforts hitting him. Psychosomatic illnesses, by the way, are in this band from 2.2 down to 0.6.

Female voice: Ron, a preclear who can get only a concept of a countere effort euould be above the band?

No, anybody can get a counter-effort...

Female uoice: Only a concept?

.. he'd probably be below the band.

Female voice: Uh-huh.

A preclear, in other words, would probably be below the band if he could only get a vague concept of one, because anybody can move down the band. But, of course, there is a trick to getting a counter-effort if you're way up the band. You say, "Now I will be angry" - zing, bang! You'll get a counter-effort. Nothing to it. You just match your own speed to a facsimile's speeds.

Now, that band, in other words, is the band where you will find counter-effort very definitelyi, and very effective on the individual. These are aches and pains. The whole gamut of aches and pains is in that band. Your trick is not to process out all the aches and pains but to shoot this person up above this band, above the counter-effort level, and the second you do, he's not troubled by these things anymore. They go away.

Above this level you have free emotion. This level of counter-effort has, going below it, misemotion. That's just to say there'll be fear - there'll be a lot of fear, there'll be apathy and grief on the lower end of that. These misemotions - or a little bit above that, anger - you process these misemotions and a person begins to be able to contact his real emotion, which is above 2,2.

All right? You want a person up to a point where he can regulate himself, choose his own facsimiles and more or less dictate his own existence. And the way you do it: you can get off misemotion, you can get off counter-efforts - but just to the level, and of the importance, that he will spring well up the Tone Scale and he'll be above the counter-effort band. And maybe that's a lot to assimilate all at once, but I am going to go over these things again on it.

(Immediately after this on the reel, with a sight fadeout and fade in, another lecture starts. The R&D volumes placed that segment at the begining of the next lecture, "Discovery of Facsimile One". This seems correct so we have done the same).