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

This is December the 16th, first hour of the afternoon lectures.

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.

Now in your textbook, Scientology 8-8008, you will not find the complete steps of uh… Spacation – that is to say Spacation is broken down into six very precise steps. It’s done like you empty water from a pitcher into a glass and back again. It’s about that simple. I gave you these yesterday. I’m going to have that mimeographed and probably as you hear this as a tape it will be in your hands as a mimeographed item.

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.

I’ll read those, however, just to make sure that they’re on the tape.

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.

One. Spacation. One: Establish an anchor point and hold it, exaggerating the automaticity of it and slowing it down until the point can be made to persist easily without attention from the pc – without any effort.

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.

Two: Establish two-dimensional space, hook it to two big toes and elbows of pc, exaggerate and bring under control its automaticities – stabilize.

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.

Step Three: Make two-dimensional planes, solid and unresisting at will. Make pc penetrate it or not as he chooses. Make it resist or not resist, heavy forces thrown at it.

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…

Four: It’s all right. You’ve got this. Four: Establish and find empty a large box which also encloses the pc in the couch. Unmock the latter two. Inspect it from all sides, stabilize, make’ solid or empty at will.

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.

Five: Locate home universe in center. Bring it under control with exaggeration of size and so forth. Banish it at last.

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.

Six: Make mock-ups and destroy them in this space.

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 that is the length and breadth of the technique called „Spacation“ which is Step Three of the Standard Operating Procedure.

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.

And that’s very simple because that can be remembered in this fashion.

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.

One: A point. Two: Dimensions. Then, Three: Dimensions. Then you find what’s in the center of it. And then you do mock-ups and destroy them in that space. Very simple: One, Two, Three-dimensions.

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.

And the second technique which is not in that book is Flow Balancing, which has a colloquial name „Give and Take Processing.“ That’s going to re… cover quite a bit of ground here today. In fact, I’m practically going to talk about nothing else all afternoon.

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?

And the material, then, in your text, Scientology 8-8008, is not in any way contradicted and matches up these lectures.

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.

In these lectures you have a lot more of it. The material which is in there very briefly and very staccato as given its proper breadth and evaluation in this lecture series.

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.

That textbook, actually, is not a textbook which is supposed to be… just handed to somebody and he reads it. He uh… the… the point of the matter is it was not written for that purpose, and although that textbook is being translated into German and Spanish and just released, uh… it’s almost an overt act. Because it’ll make very good sense to you, measured back up against these lectures and a man would practically have to make or unmake or re-evaluate the universe backwards and upside-down in order to fit what he knows of experience into that book.

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.“

The lectures and other material which has gone before and which you’ve already studied form a bridge between the experience of man as he walks around and pretends to be active and so forth, and the level at which we’re operating.

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.

If you looked at all of the consecutive techniques which have been developed, you would find that they composed a gradient scale, a relatively smooth gradient scale with only one or two items out of line on that scale. These items are not so much out of line as they are just more heavily evaluated than they should be. One, are words in engrams. That’s still more important, really, if you’re just going to process an engram, than it is to process the mechanics because the mechanics of the engram agree with the material universe, and words, at least, are still partly theta.

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 so, we have in our techniques as they reach forward from 1950 straight on through now, a bridge which covers the evaluation of the commonest, most ordinary level of experience in any culture on earth here, straight on through, step by step. It goes from what ordinarily can be found to aberrate people and if alleviated will bring them up into a better state of rationality. That is the running of engrams and locks, and grief charges.

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 that goes from there into the mechanics of what aberration are and those are introduced, more or less, in SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL.

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.

And then we go forward to a better appreciation of language as contained, no matter how briefly, in SELF ANALYSIS, 1951, and then go on to ADVANCED PROCEDURES AND AXIOMS with the establishment of the goal of self-determinism as the most valuable of these goals; and we go straight on from there through 1952, taking the GE, discovering and resolving the problems relating to the GE, discovering that that is NOT the road and finding that one has to process, if he processes the pc, the pc – and who is and where is the pc. And we find him. He’s very accurately locatable.

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 from those studies and experimental and temporary techniques we came right on through to Standard Operating Procedure, Issue One. And from there, as more results and more studies have been conducted by myself and as I’ve seen these techniques in the hands of auditors, we come up, straight away, to Standard Operating Procedure Three which, if you’ll notice, has, as its main deletion, the – from Operating Procedure Issue One – the removal of any agreement with the MEST universe.

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.

We don’t… Issue One said DED-DEDEX running for a Step Five. You don’t find this in Step Three. And now we go straight on forward to… Issue Five of Standard Operating Procedure and that has simply done this: It has taken up the whole problem and in putting it out in Standard Operating Procedure Issue Five, we have included all the steps which are necessary to clear a thetan and make an Operating Thetan.

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 actually, it is not just the Step One. Step Two and then we do something else. It is what we do. And no matter where we find him in the case, we process him at that point, get him up to a Case Level One. Then we do everything else there is there.

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.

Of course, you’ll find it unnecessary in the main to do Six and Seven as Steps on most preclears. Rut you would be completely amazed how often you will have to do them to somebody who is apparently quite sane and still operating.

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.

And so, Standard Operating Procedure Issue Five, then, is the direct and immediate result of two and a half years of application of various principles, aligned and organized, as they were found to operate in the society and in the hands of auditors.

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?“

And… but we have this as a package which contains in it the basic techniques that you use to head somebody up toward an operating thetan so that he can really get there.

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

Now the odd part of this is that it misses one big point, but it hits this point in Step Three. It doesn’t do one thing. In other words, if you had this list and you did just these things you would get an operating thetan, except for one thing. You would not have rehabilitated his primary desire in the MEST universe, and if you can’t rehabilitate that he will be unwilling to quit a body and operate, and I’ll… I’ll cover that.

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

He, in other words, will stay as a stable theta clear, but he will stay in immediate and intimate contact with bodies. And he will continue to do so until this point is resolved. And in view of the fact that continuous action straight up against bodies and this terrible dependency on bodies exists, you’ll find that your, quote ‘stable’ theta clear will have to sit down and work himself every few weeks to be stable unless this point is resolved. He will flicker, and uh… he will get involved.

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.

Now because you as a thetan are educated into the principles you need to know in order to remain stable, it’d be perfectly legitimate to call an educated thetan who had been treated just to a point where he didn’t enter the body if the body was hurt, to treat him as a theta clear – stable.

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

But you… you just spring somebody and you don’t do anything else about it, they’re going to be back in their heads. That’s why it’s cruelty to do it, because one point won’t have been solved. And that point is sensation, need for.

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.

And if you haven’t got that in beautiful shape, why, uh… your pc is going to find such a need to hang around bodies and such a disgust of himself because he is hanging around bodies continually and is dependent upon them, that he’ll fluctuate, up and down the scale, up and down the scale, back and forth. And he becomes unstable, you might say, emotionally. Because he on the one hand knows he shouldn’t be associating with such company, and on the other hand he has to. And so he’s still subject to flows.

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

Flow balancing is part of this answer. But a good and adequate understanding of the principles underlying this are the better part of the answer and a technique which is not flow balancing at all, but which is in addition to all those given and which you’ve already heard about, must be noted as the extra technique to make an operating thetan. There are many other things you can do with a thetan, but let’s get this little extra one in there. It’s not one of the steps.

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.

The reason it isn’t one of the steps is because it is an education. It is not really a process. It’s a return to what he once could do and prepares him to do that again. And that is, it demonstrates to him that, one, he as a thetan can contact directly from the environment much better any sensation that environment might possibly deliver to a body. And if he can contact directly any sensation immediately from the environment – you see, he’s not in the body, he’s not connected with bodies, he’s not using a body in any way and he can still contact from his environment and experience any sensation that a body can contact and experience or can be gained from bodies – he of course, at that moment is willing to give up the idea of the body. And until he has realized that, until he knows that, until he’s completely assured this in the case, he will not leave a body alone but will keep hanging back and hanging around and diving down scale and going back into the head and out of the head and around and around and around and around about the whole thing.

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.“

And that is done by rehabilitating his own ability to perceive. This is not too difficult because the only ability to perceive there is, what do you know? – the thetan has the only ability to perceive. And he’s… thinks he has to do it through the body and he’s so accustomed to this and he’s so certain of this that what you have to do is demonstrate that the thetan’s ability to perceive directly in the environment and to capture and experience, create sensations, must be possible – can be possible to him.

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.

So this becomes very simple, really. What do we do? You get him up scale to a point where he can feel that wall. And he can feel that wall much better with his own contact with the wall than he can with his fingers of a body – as a body. In other words, he can feel the wall straight and he doesn’t need any fingers to contact that wall. He can feel the size of, shape of and weight of objects without any interposition of a MEST body’s fingers or muscular reflexes. He can see anything that he can see with a body and be as certain that he is seeing it, as with a body.

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.

But that follows. That is a very… well, that’s very tertiary. It’s uh… it’s below secondary. It’s secondary, for instance, that he… be able to contact ordinary things. What you want him to be able to contact are things which are strong, exciting, interesting and complex sensations. And he must know that it’s possible for him to, one, contact them in the MEST environment and, two, create them and contact them himself – both without a body.

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.

Now that sounds like quite a trick. But the reason it sounds like quite a trick is that is a trick. You… you have to be able to do that. If you could realize how completely the thetan is dependent upon sensation for a conviction in this universe that he yet is alive, you would realize that what you are rehabilitating there is the only reward he has for living – the beautiful sights, the beautiful sounds, the beautiful tactiles and, what do you know? A thetan has thousands of perceptions – thousands of different perceptions. I don’t think you could get down and list all these perceptions. It would just go on and on and on and on and on.

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.

And the MEST body can only contact, at the outermost extreme – I added them up one time to a great degree and I got about 55. And that is almost 40 more than are commonly listed in textbooks which have, laughingly, dealt with this subject. They haven’t dealt with it laughingly; they’ve dealt with it absurdly. I don’t know why they didn’t just sit down and categorize the number of things of the environment there were to contact and then go and ask somebody if he could sense ‘em. I… they didn’t do that. They… they uh… made up a theory – never tested it.

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.

All right, therefore the rehabilitation of sensation is very necessary, because need for, desire for sensation is the only thing which keeps him in the vicinity of a body. And the continued belief confirmed by what is apparently quite real experience, if not actual experience, what’s apparently quite real experience that only the body can deliver unto him, these sensations. Why, he hasn’t got a chance. He… he doesn’t dis… doesn’t believe that he could survive, he wouldn’t know he was alive or anything of the sort.

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.

As a result when he is a theta clear he has to go up to level of operating thetan, and that consists primarily of the rehabilitation of sensation, perception of. It also depends on two or three other little things that you might miss in passing.

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.

So before I go Into a much lenghthier dissertation on this, I’m just going to mention these things. And I might mention them again and I might not.

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?“

But uh… I’ll mention them right there because they’re quite important. And that is, your theta clear is in a state where his memory does not immediately confirm to him any duration of beingness as a thetan. And so he is in a state which does not evaluate himself as a personality. He sees himself as an identity with the body; everybody who comes along has given the body credit for everything, has given the body a name, has designated with relationship to the body so consistently that it really… it’s… it’s… this is… this will be amazing to you but it’s something I’ve run into several times and just ran into again. The thetan moves out and leaves the personality in the body.

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 you’ve got a fellow who is… thinks… he’s quite convinced he’s a thetan clear. And for what does he use these skills and talents and this freedom? Well, experiment with or… or to fool around with or see how curious it is. He doesn’t use that state as a state of being alive, as a state which has a personality and which has, indeed, the only personality he will ever have.

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.

And so he leaves the personality behind. He thinks he has to be in some peculiar frame of mind or that he’s sort of an automaton. Now he just hasn’t come up to the point where he’s grasped this. But grasping that simple detail is quite important.

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.

And you as an auditor can save yourself an enormous amount of rehabilitation of this preclear. Outside his head he’s a mechanical object, he thinks, or something like this. Or he’s a spark. And he re… kind of regards himself as… as the body has regarded fire – useful, it uh… not very uh… and so on. And as a result he has no evaluation of his own capabilities and much more important than e… just evaluation, he has no appreciation of himself just directly as himself. He uh… doesn’t say, „Now I have moved out of this body. I can be happy. I can be sad. I can sing, I can dance, I can do all of these things.“ No, no! He says, „The body can be happy. The body can be sad. The body can sing. The body can dance. And I can sit back and look at it.“

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.

He is sort of like… like… that uh… the apex, the… the… the highest peak of all educational goals – a spectator in the stadium. And he sort of sits there and he… he thinks that… and it really doesn’t occur to him that the BODY sing and dance! Indeed! The body can’t sing and dance unless he handles it like a puppet, but he’s set it up on automaticities so it will sing and dance.

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.

Why does the body sing and dance? Why does the body express joy or anything else? It’s because the thetan likes to sing and dance and express joy, I mean, this is very simple.

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.

So he’s done a differentiation sub-zero when he should have done an identification. He should have picked up his own capabilities right with him at the moment he moved out.

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.

You know, you can do a very, very graceful dance between the moon and Venus. There’s a lot of space. It’s a big ballroom. If you can’t make a space, the whole MEST universe is full of it. Even, quote, „solid matter,“ unquote, is about, I would say, a hundred and two percent 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, where you have a theta clear, then, who has no appreciation of himself, it just doesn’t naturally, mechanically follow, you see? I mean, this is just something that occurs to him or doesn’t occur to him. Hi… he goes around and „Yeah, I’m a theta clear.“ And he looks around at all these bodies, „Haven’t they got interesting personalities. That’s fine. I… I’ll watch them,“ and so forth. And he goes around and sometimes he’s sort of sad and s… kind of goofy, or something of this sort. He can go around and he can experiment – stick his… a beam in a electric light switches or something and wonder if it shocks 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.

That’s right. He hasn’t any concept of the fact that he IS joy; he is a higher level of aesthetic than a body could ever be. And that he can, in his own interest – what do you know? – take a larger and more effective role in the affairs of being alive, I won’t say „human affairs,“ but in the affairs and concerns of being alive than a body could ever do.

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.

What does he do for randomity in a body? He goes to the office, he goes home. Or if he has money and so on, he would go out on the polo field or the flying field or something of this sort and amuse himself in a plane. And in order to account to himself and… settle his own accounts that he was worth something, what would he do? Why, he’d join the local philanthropy society or the charity or… he’d make sure that the Boy Scout troop was running all right and so on.

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.

And when we were young we were quite enthused about helping out groups and helping people out. And then we found out that they could just turn around and slough you, so to speak, that you had to be pretty strong to help anybody out. And… and we kind of thought that was bad, then we thought it was good. And then we found out we didn’t have any time to do it because we had to work too hard to eat and all these other affairs came into the line. And we… we found out that really the only thing we could do for them was give them some advice once in a while which they didn’t need, and some money which WE needed. And uh… it… it was sort of sad.

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.

But that’s what a homo sapiens does for randomity, and this thetan as homo sapiens, operating as this level. What? You… you mean this person has no purpose or goal of beingness?

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.

Here… here he’s capable of stepping outside the economic concerns of the world. Here is he capable by his own actions of becoming partisan in causes much broader than he would ever be able to touch. Man, for instance, gets… gets enormous randomity out of who’s going to be secretary for the local Lion’s Club.

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

A thetan can participate… well, he could go out and have a fine time campaigning for some congressman. You would be amazed! He would just sort of appoint himself guardian angel to this or that… an… and uh… this or that cause. Well, what’s the difference? I mean, are we suffering from some… some strange malfunction here? When all of a sudden this homo sapiens, he was Interested in helping and participating and being interested and doing all these things, and don’t forget this one, collecting MEST.

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.

He was interested in all these things. And now… now all of a sudden as a thetan he moves out and leaves his personality and all his interests and goals in that body, because they were all postulated for the body. And your thetan is too much of a – to be very technical – goofball to recognize that his beingness is himself. All he has to do is suddenly wake up to the fact „What do you know? I’m me!“

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.

He isn’t a piece of energy that just… just sort of regards himself and says, „Well, it’s… when I was a body I was something or other, and when I’m in a body everybody says, ‘Hello, Joe.’ What do you know? Nobody says anything to me“ – mostly because his communication level is poor.

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.

Why is his communication level poor? He doesn’t think anybody will talk to him. There wouldn’t be any goal for anybody to talk to him about, in the first place. He wouldn’t have any conversation on that level. He comes back into the body and he goes around and he looks up some other theta clear who is also in his body and commu… they communicate. It’s very silly.

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.

A theta clear with his memory rehabilitated – and that, by the way, is the other point – his memory has to be rehabilitated. He’s really a walking zombie. He’s forgotten everything.

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.

He doesn’t have any more memory than a homo sapiens, and that’s practically blank. „What telephone number? What address? Uh… where did I put my hat?“ – some of those big…

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.

You know, homo sapiens, by the way, doesn’t even have to ask those questions. Homo sapiens can simply pervade an area as homo sapiens and be maybe 25 percent of the time right. Then he can’t count on it 75 percent of the time so after that he would rather ransack the house for his hat, than suddenly look around his house and then go pick it up and say, „I wonder how that hat ever got underneath the kitchen range.“ But uh… he can do that.

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.

Now, therefore we’re talking, when we talk about sensation, self- appreciation and the rehabilitation of memory, we’re talking about – and by the way, possessions – we’re talking about ‘will haves’. And a person without ‘will have’ is quite dead. He… he’s in fact, it… somebody really ought to bury a ‘will have’ because he actually becomes odorous. Do you know that he dies – a ‘will not have’, a ‘can’t have’ and so on?

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.

The guy whose case – a ‘will have’ case, who is cut off completely and can’t ever have any more. A guy who has lost his hopes. You cost somebody about 80 percent of his hopes and you walk around and he even smells bad. He won’t even have a body. He’s sure of this by this time, you see. That’s very interesting.

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?

So you’re up against a case of ‘won’t have’ because he hasn’t thought about what’s valuable to have. So, you’re up against the common denominator of all goals: „What am I going to be? What am I going to do? And what am I going to have?“ And your thetan has never asked this for himself. He keeps asking it for the body. „What’s the body going to have? What’s the body going to be? What’s the…“ What the hell with that body! Tha… that’s not important.

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.

But it is important what is a thetan going to be? what is a thetan going to do? and what is a thetan going to have?

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.

Now it… it’s a very silly thing, but all the literature which is published and which this individual has read is slanted toward the life and death of a homo sap. „The hero and the heroine, huh, uh… they… they… they get together, you know, and then… then the villain comes along, and he’s in a body too, and he has all these sub-villains and they’re all in a body too, and then they… they… the hero and heroine they… they get in trouble and they have a fight with each other and some misunderstanding and then the hero, somehow or another, gets all fixed up with the villain. And then the hero’s and heroine’s parents, you see, they’re in bodies too. And they have names. And they’re all – they… they… they get married, and this is a happy ending.“

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.

Now, there… what’s your thetan’s orientation? God help us! The Saturday Evening Post – blow your brain out! They… they – I mean, the… the Post, the… the… the Gazette, the… bodies, bodies, bodies, bodies. Limited sphere of action. Bodies walk to a corner; they don’t transfer across half of the planet. They go carefully to the corner to get a package of cigarettes. „Sigh! Well, we got… the cigarettes. Now… we’re going home again. Now that we’re home… we have to go out… and work… to make some money… to buy some more… cigarettes. Now… we’ll go to the corner…“ Oh, no!

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.

You know what you’re facing? You’re… you’re facing an appalling lack of literature. Do you realize homo sap has had built for him by generations and generations of artists, sculptors, musicians – not so much the musicians – and particularly the writers and dramatists, the cultural background of how wonderful it is to be a homo sapiens and how cruel the gods are. „Mary had a little lamb.“ But it’s been going on for thousands of years! And every time you got this… this thetan comes out, what’s his orientation? „Little Jack Horner sat in the corner, eating his curd and hay.“ Saturday Evening Post – ugh! Time magazine – ugh! Uh… the… the works of Thomas Hardy.

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.

Uh… the closest… the closest piece of work to a thetan is Alice in Wonderland. And the person who can appreciate Alice in Wonderland at least has some small goal as a theta clear. It’s sort of a idiotic goal, but it… it’s better than none. He can… he can play this game, only he doesn’t have to eat the cake, you see? He can play this game of get terribly small and the tables terribly big, and he can mock up white rabbits and caterpillars and Mad Hatters and they’ll mad hat, too. He can go through this game. But he’s actually uh… quite accustomed, if he’s got that orientation. He’ll find himself right in his element.

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.

That famous German mathematician was not doing anything, if not writing straight out of a… the child’s and some few adults’ self-knowledge of what their real capabilities are.

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

So you’re walking into a dirth of culture for the thetan. The culture is designed for homo sapiens.

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.

You’ll notice in a movie or in a novel, or even what is called, in the Twentieth Century, a novel, that the writer is doing the same trick, doing it much more crudely. And Hollywood is, and the rest of the studios around are really being even cruder than that. They’ve gone down to where they play Ivanhoe, and so on, with… with absolutely none of the subtleties of even Ivanhoe. Ivanhoe does have a few, you know. It… it’s… it’s not what you might call the most subtle story in the world, but, it isn’t all going around with hairy chests because of the… of the dame, sort of a thing. But they just lost… they just lost all this.

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.“

And they – clear back, and all the way along the line the modern writer, the writer of the Middle Ages, right straight on back, all doing the same thing.

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.

The Greek chorus, everybody stands around. And originally the Greek chorus, you know, said, „Maaa-maaa-maaa.“ That is… was a Greek chorus. I’m not exaggerating. That’s exactly what a Greek chorus was. And after a while they said, „What do you know?! We can wear various masks. We don’t have to all wear goat masks and go ‘maaa-maaa-maaa’ on all the holidays, so we’ll talk after this.“ And thus was born modern drama.

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.

I… I… I know all about that. I’m an authority on it because I wrote a play one time in college which took a prize of some enormous scope or other for the prize winning one-act… it was a hot Sunday afternoon when I wrote the thing. It took almost 20 minutes.

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?“

Anyway uh… they gave me a book called The Theatre by Cheney and on another hot Sunday afternoon I read it. So I’m an authority on the theater. I have at least read a book on the subject, which puts me a little bit ahead of some of the other boys. I also talked to Haywood Brun once. As a matter of fact, he and I were very good friends.

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.“

But… oh, you… the… you… you don’t quite see where I’m heading here. Your faces look a little blank.

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.

The Greek chorus moves on to the stage and turns verbal spotlights on the hero, and they might as well all stand there with big signs, „This is a hero.“ And the other part of the chorus stands there with big signs on, practically, and they say, „This is the heroine.“ And then it depends on what mask is sitting up there, if it’s the mask with a grin, it’s comedy, which means man decides man’s fate; and if the mask is a scowl that… or sad or tears or whatever that other mask is, that… that means that’s a tragedy because God decides man’s fate. And difference between these two things, comedy and tragedy, is whether man decides his fate or gods decide his fate.

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.“

Oh, this is great! This is all mapped out – clear back there in Ancient Greece they had a beautiful map drawn of it – and it’s all a theta trap, all the way along the line. And don’t regard it any other way. It’s just a theta trap.

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.

If an artist knew what he was selling out, he wouldn’t have done it. But it depends upon the skill of the artist to keep people interested enough to walk this treadmill called the MEST universe.

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 from the early Greeks who put their gods into anthropomorphic shapes, and from their Greek choruses which pointed out that everyone is attracted only by the heroism of a body, or the heroine-ism of a body, either way, the artist with his paint brush, the writer with his typewriter, have been selling out: The glories of being a body – it’s frailty, it’s tragedies, it’s comedies. And your thetan has been indoctrinated in this (You hadn’t thought about this until I mentioned it, had you?) – your thetan’s been indoctrinated in this for 74 trillion years.

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.

So you want to know why he moves out of the body without a personality? He knows nobody’s got a personality but a body. Everybody from Somerset Maugham back to Euripides said so. And they said so – and this is what’s criminal with aesthetics. It has never entered anybody’s mind to be a god. That would not be permitted, anywhere in any literature except somebody being insane and completely monomanic and paranoid and all of the nasty words you could heap on it, because the gods are too far above us for us to ever contact. And they fly around in the air. Except in the Arabian Nights where we find the afreets as gods of a sort – but they’re ugly and they’re mean and they’re horrible and they’re vicious and they do terrible things to man.

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.

So we couldn’t touch the gods of the Greek hierarchy. They’re above touch. And one would be insane if he thought of himself as one. We could not touch the so-called spirits of the early Arabic literature and Persian literature, Hindu literature because they’re evil and abandoned and eschewed by every man. And we couldn’t possibly touch ghosts, could we? From Charles Brockton Brown, the first American novelist, who called the attention of the literi of Europe to America – the literary people of Europe were quite amazed at the end of the 18th Century to find out there was an American who could write. That American was Charles Brockton Brown and he wrote ghost stories. And they are ghost stories of such a nature as to make Edgar Allen Poe get kinda pale and green. They’re really wild.

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?“

And that was something you mustn’t be. The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow – the most horrible thing in that was a ghost. Uh… they make a movie that has a ghost in it, and the ghost is either sad and disappointed, or he has to haunt someplace. And the ghost is always sad and he doesn’t have a body and he’s always this that he doesn’t have a body. And a body is so important and so on and so on and so on.

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.

They boobytrapped the literature. This thing start to sum up as to why your thetan is apt to move out into a vacuum of ideas for himself? Well, they have been writing about bodies as attainable and desirable, and as the hero and heroine of the piece, and the gods as untouchable and only the insane ever believe they are anything like gods or spirits. And as the spirits as either evil or utterly lost.

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 this has been said with the finest brushes, with the best words and with the most thrilling music and the finest statuary in all this whole line called the MEST universe. The best skilled minds of this whole universe have devoted themselves exclusively toward keeping people interested in bodies. They’ve sold you out.

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.

That’s right. You should have about the same level of regard for that sort of an operation as you have for Benedict Arnold.

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.

The only way anybody could ever be made to do anything in the MEST universe at all was to interest him, in some fashion or another that would keep him on the treadmill. And even the slave in the presence of some big, vague, thin promise of an aesthetic such as a play, such as a circus that he might go to, such as being permitted to assist in some pageantry, even a slave would go on living in a body in the hope that he could obtain some aesthetic sensation. And so a collar could be placed upon him.

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.

He didn’t do what was obvious that he should do, which is simply lie down and die – just back out of the head and give this thing a stiff push.

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

Now have you got some idea about goals? The picture has been painted that the body has a goal, and to be a ghost or a spirit is a horrible fate. And ghosts or spirits, you noticed, are all avoided by everybody. Nobody ever talks to them, nobody’s ever nice to them, nobody ever does anything for them except scream and run away from ‘em. That’s… that’s the spirit – that’s his lot.

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.

And if one attempted to be a god, that of course would mean he was insane, you know? So nobody’d have anything to do with him, either.

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.

Well, even the gods were only happy when sitting in their stone idols, sculpted by some sculptor, bejewelled by some gem-cutter and written about by some poet. Only the god who did that was fit company for humans. We found big, tough, mean, erratic gods as things that you didn’t have much to do with – Baal, Moloch – bad, bad business.

The steps are orientation in his immediate present time surrounding.

All right, what’s lead this to then? Boy, it leads to a problem for you. You’re sitting there thinking this is all very interesting, and he’s being very rhetorical and that’s fine and it’s all very pretty and he’s stressing that point awfully hard. Of course, that’s interesting. It’s the first hour of the afternoon and he probably hasn’t warmed up yet.

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’.

But you know, you know that moves your thetan back in the body? Unless you can supplement that literature and actually fly into the teeth of Michelangelo, Euripides, Praxiteles and all the rest of the boys on the whole track – unless you want to fly into their teeth, you’re not going to get anyplace.

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.

You see, the aesthetic scarcity in this universe has been played upon very heavily, and it’s the aesthetic alone, as you’ve read in 8-80 if you’ve studied that, which really pins this thing down but gorgeously. And that aesthetic, if it is very strong in one direction, will incline the person in that direction. And if the aesthetic is only in the direction of a body, it will incline the individual in a body.

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.

Fortunately animals are fairly aesthetic. They’re nice to look at and they’re quite exciting, they’re quite interesting. Once in a while they have interesting personalities – we’re going to get into bodies. And so you, every once in a while, found the thetan playing about the highest game that was permitted to a thetan as himself. And you can read all you want to about that, as it is completely misrepresented and miswritten in Frazer’s Golden Bough, The King of the Wood or The God of the Wood. That is a completely reverse interpretation in an effort to be terribly deep and subtle about the easiest thing in the world.

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.

There was this wood, see, and this thetan didn’t want anything more to do with those umph! umph! bodies. But there were a lot of wolves and rabbits and deers and other things in this preserve, and once in a while some little kid’d come to this preserve and… and gather hazelnuts or something of the sort. And this thetan would reach out and he’d pick up all these nice trees, that is to say, he’d just spread himself all the way through this wood. He would BE the wood – that was his identity.

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.

And he became the patron saint, you might say, of the animals and the birds, and the guardian of that place.

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.

And if you think that some of the hunting accidents you read about were accidents, you’re badly mistaken, because that goes on today. There are thetans… if there are thetans who are still active to any great degree on this planet, they would be active in that capacity and area.

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.

As a matter of fact, I think we have somebody right here. A couple hundred… few hundred years ago – not… in very, very recent times, spent about 200 years in an English wood. Just… just came out of space and said, „The dickens with all that! I got ray burns on me enough“ he says. And became the patron saint of a British wood. Is that right?

„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.

So when we got… we had that. And your thetan could do that. He interested himself in the affairs of animals. And Brer Bear would walk through one day and would find himself incline’. to be just a little bit nosy about something that was none of his business and he would get the severest cuff that a bear ever received – Bap! „Just another one of them lightning storms! Humph! Humph!“ and walk on down the line.

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.

Now there are tribes in the world which today still carry forward the superstition that there are such things as guardian angels and spirits.

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.

But the civilized world which has agreed thoroughly with the MEST universe and has made enormous progress, is very certain, extremely certain, that that is merely superstition and backing them up is the fact that spiritualism itself is about the dizziest thing anyone could get himself into.

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.

Just go out and sit on a carrousel and speed it up to about, oh, I’d say, 80 rpm and that’s a real nice straight course compared to following spiritualism as ritualized; because it’s ritualized so that if anybody ever did contact a spirit, he would just be some spirit that would really try to knock him off like mad. It would be some spirit that was kind of trying to get a body…

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…“

You… you know some of these thetans that you move out? I mean, these thetans are in good shape. But it’s this idiotic thetan that can’t have a body any more. He’s done too many overt acts. So if they did contact anybody so he would come around, and they say, „Now, tell me – tell me. What will be the fate of wab-yab, so on – in case she marries the Duke of Porkpie? Uh… tell us the future.“

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.“

Well, listen: Next time you move a preclear out, you ask him, „Tell me the future.“ And he’ll give you all… he’ll give you more future, and more variety of future than you have any use for. Because he has all possible combinations of track at his disposal if he wanted to examine all of them.

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

But the track of the future is simply the course in history of the havingness of the present. And it’s what you do and what he does with the havingness now which makes a future.

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.

And so you can shuffle these factors any way you want to.

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 thing to do is to get down and have a paw-wow with this theta clear on the subject of „How many havingness would we have to shift to bring about this result?“ and that is logic, isn’t it?

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.

In other words, would we send the Duke of Porkpie a new hat uh… with arsenic in the brim? And, let’s see, that disposes of that havingness. Now that makes – I’m not saying you would – go on such line, but if you were trying to decide futures, it would be on very orderly, well-understood lines. Except your latitude to dispose of that future grows as your ability to control MEST grows. When I say „control MEST,“ it’s „How much MEST can you control?“

(Voice:)… for laughs, really.

Well, you can control as much future as you can control MEST. And you can control as much past as you’re willing to shatter future. You can control as much past as you’re willing to take the responsibility for ruining the present.

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

Yes, you can control all kinds of future, but let’s not go down and ask madam Zogey or Zog-Zog or somebody of the sort to conjure up her favourite spirit and ask her what’s going to happen, because you can get better dope from your theta clear. He’s higher in tone and he knows more, and he has more abilities than any spirit that we’ll wander into Madam Zog-Zog’s academy.

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

You can look around all you want to. I’ve talked with some of these medium thetans, and they’re really stupid. You throw them a terrible, terrible curve. You… you just…

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.

Isn’t that a good one? He… he developed a whole lot of… he talked about these things as entities. He hasn’t realized yet they they’re thetans that have really gone to pieces in a big way. And they’re… they’re so sold on religion and that sort of thing that you, in order to… that they consider themselves good. You show them black mass symbols, upside-down crosses, uh… daggers through the Bible uh… and all of these various odds and ends. And you just show ‘em one of these things, just throw that illusion up in front of them good and strong. Their capability to produce for instance, even illusion is pretty good. And you just throw that up good and strong and they go „Eeeeeaaaaaowwwwww!“ – they get out of there.

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.

And the bad ones, you show them a crucifix, uh… a Bible, the proper religious symbols, make the proper words and signs and that sort of thing, and they all of a sudden look around to see where these are coming from and they see a bright spot of light, which is you, and they say „Oh, my God! The voice of God!“ and zing! Or they explode, or something. It’s fascinating! Fascinating!

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.

You’re straight into the practical realm of spiritualism. Now think… think of it… think i… of the amount of future which you want to forecast. You’re always shoving around pieces of MEST in the hope that it’ll change a future. You want to make things easier for yourself. But primarily, you’d be much more interested in making things easier for others and squaring things around for others, and so on.

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’re willing to assume some responsibility on the line, you can always shift a little bit of MEST or get… incline somebody else to shift some, and you’ve changed the future.

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!“

You don’t do it by going around and hooking yourself on to the left ear of a fortune teller and letting her interpret what you say. No, you get up to speed, and you just do it, that’s all. So that the Prince of Monaco or something of this sort reports a big robbery of the casino and then finds all the money in his desk. The police… after he’s collected the insurance policy, of course, or something like that. And then, of course, Monaco gets up for sale and… and uh… and you’ve got somebody on hand to be bidding the highest bid – a very simple business.

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.

You’ve got a kingdom established and then you incline a couple of… a couple of fellows to… to go around and spread the word, messianically, that uh… here’s a better kind of freedom, or something of this sort. Or… or there’s more women per square inch in this kingdom than any other place. Or… or it’s wide open…

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.

Think of… think if you did this: If you just went around and forced open, in some fashion or another, gently – not disturbing very much – but forced upon an area of the world in which a man did not have to have a passport properly certified, properly visaed. You wouldn’t collect criminals. You’d collect a lot of revolutionaries from time to time, but mostly you’d collect people who were just terribly victimized by the incredible stupidity of bureaucracy. You think the State Department of the United States is bad, or… or that other such stateships and so forth are bad…

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…“

When the war steamrolled the nations of Europe, they shifted the boundaries of everything in all directions. And there are many, many luckless individuals who had no citizenship, actually, in their own land, were transported across the border without moving. And found themselves citizens of something else of which they had no cognizance and which, because of defeat and chaos, never did become capable of issuing them a passport.

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.“

You know that there are men walking earth today furtively, in earth’s alleyways. Why, because nobody’ll grant them an identity. They… they… they aren’t French, they aren’t German, they aren’t Russian anymore.

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.

Some pilot, all of sudden, decides that 14 million slaves are too many, he’s in the Russian Air Force – he lands. You’d think that he’d be greeted just with wide open arms by the allies or something of the sort. They greet him all right, and they treat him nice. They, of course, want to show him the place and then send him home with some propaganda or something of the sort. And he isn’t interested in that. He’s got some sort of an idea he’d like to get out of there and get to be an airlines pilot on some of these fabulous airlines he’s heard about that fly oceans, and so forth – big ambition. He’s not interested in, and there isn’t any reason why he should be interested in, monomanically, the Russian Central Government. He’s a human being. He is potentially able and free.

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.

God help him if he ever landed outside that border. The Russian Government’d never issue him an identity. Neither would the French. Or anybody else. And he just wanders around then in rather a fog.

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

Now what do you do… what would you do… what would happen if you should suddenly establish a hospital area? You know once upon a time there were shrines upon this earth run by thetans who did instantaneous healing? Nobody ever recognized it, right down to this minute, that that’s what was happening. There is one down in Ecuador. I’ve mentioned it several times and I’ve mentioned it cautiously because before we had existing techniques, the less said about this sort of things, the better.

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.

I said there were such things as miracles. There’s one place down in South America high in the Andes which has the tremendous mountain of crutches – a mountain of crutches thrown away there by people who came there and worshipped at the shrine and went away whole. What do you think was doing that? Ginger beer?

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.

Well, let’s be practical about these things and… and… and get our… get our sights here into a level of orientation.

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.

There are goals and abilities to which a thetan can ascend. There are futures worth having, there are havingness worth having, things worth doing and identities worth being. These have not been supported by the artists or writers of the MEST universe.

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.

But you don’t need a thousand poets to pave the way. They’re very bad trail blazers and they’re very good slaves.

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?

But they’re your competion. And you’ve got to give this thetan goals and better goals than he could have had as a MEST body, because he won’t accept a wicked or… bad goal. He really won’t. He won’t be interested in it.

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.

Well, so it’s got to be a pretty good goal. Well, there’s lots of goals; and did you ever stop and think what’s going to happen to all the thetans who get theta cleared who aren’t auditors? Well, somebody had better establish a sanctuary.

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.

And what about all the thetans that have not been able to pick up bodies and who are completely lost and wandering around in a daze? They’re your brother and your sister, and that’s no kidding. That’s a fact. And their disability is such, and so on, as to make them uh… completely beyond our reach – unless somebody takes an interest in ‘em.

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.

And there’s a level that’s completely outside of MEST bodies, working with more important beings, actually, than you’ll find in MEST bodies. And you say, „What happened to Napoleon? What happened to Charles of Sweden? Where is Hannibal after he crossed the Alps?“ Where are these guys? You’ll find them leaning up against a tombstone someplace wondering where they go next. Well, you can always tell them. I do every once in a while. Okay, let’s take a break.

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 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.

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!

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.

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!“

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.