It's October the 17th, the first morning lecture.

Now, I've had you batting around, ever since you've been here, on various subjective processes. And you've found out that you've been using relatively objective processes, to a large degree, to bring up preclears' tone to a point where you could work subjective processes on them.

Now this morning I'm going to go into material which makes this one of the more important lectures of this series. And perhaps you will now see why we have been working with subjective techniques so arduously.

I hope something like this conclusion has come forward to you. If you think it over it may take more time for you to digest the fact, but for God's sakes let's digest this as a subjective-objective certainty as an auditor, as a preclear. Now, let's get this one. Because there is every reason in the world why you, as the experts, really ought to know this. If for six weeks I could teach you nothing else, we would have - we would have won the fort.

Now, there isn't any - any argument with it that what is wrong with the mind is the mind and the only thing wrong with thinking is thinking; that everything that is wrong with the mind is in the mind and it's not in some other mind.

The reason why Dianetics hung fire and a great many of the people interested in Dianetics, exclusively, never advanced, is simply that no technique existed which could demonstrate to them immediately that we needed a faster action and a higher action process. They wanted slower motion.

An auditor ought to get this down pretty well. I'll go over it again because it's one of those "superobviouses."

All right. Now, we changed horses with a name. And we dropped almost immediately from contact with the operation all those who had been impeding the motion of the operation. I finished up my research and we're going forward just fine. See? Subjective reality.

What is wrong with the thinking process of the mind is in the mind itself It's not in some other mind. The only thing wrong with a mind is that it thinks.

They speak, by the way, such people, about subjective reality. Of course this process has subjective reality. Whole track may have subjective reality, but it doesn't have objective reality. Of course they mean by that, I suppose, that - they mean that subjective reality is the only validity which could be gotten on whole track because they can't get objective - that's what they mean by it. They mean this series of syllables which connotate, in their significance, this series of syllables. I mean there's nothing more deeply significant than that about this where there was a quick, fast way of dropping out, for a moment, impotences of the equipment.

However, trying to remedy (I hope you will now see to some degree) a thinking process with a thinking process is on the order of a truck trying to repair a truck - a truck trying to repair a truck. Everybody knew that a thinking machine could not solve a thinking machine. It's quite obvious - been obvious to everybody that the problem couldn't be solved.

Now we have an ability to go back and pick up these very same people - squirrely, struggling, anything they like - and turn them right end to. We have very far from abandoned them, but once in a while a fellow can get so interested in pulling somebody out of quicksand that he doesn't notice he's sinking himself. All right.

Why has it been so obvious to society that the problem of the mind couldn't be solved? Is because it was a problem and problems are solved by thinking machines. And they maintained that an organism could not solve itself, and there is actually a mathematical rule or law concerning this. They say, "A part can only compare with a part and embrace a part and a part can't embrace the whole which embraces the parts." You think that over again. A part - a part of a pie, while it is like the pie, cannot be the whole pie because by definition it is part of the pie. Two pieces of pie, unless they are halves of pie, cannot be a whole pie. You see how this is?

If you learn the value of processes and the value of goals, you will also learn, immediately, what you have to do to increase the beingness, potentiality, health, activity, sanity and ethics of an individual. See, what do you have to do to do that? I hope you can also see that on the DEI Scale, cruelty, poor ethics and God knows how much else, cut in rather automatically from contamination with the universe. And these things should come clean to you and come clear to you as what they are. They're just a consideration.

It's so obvious on observational level that they've carried the observation into thinkingness. So they said, "A mind, which is some tiny segment of the universal mind, could not then solve the universal mind." You follow that? There's an unreasonable assumption there.

Now, Dick was just saying if you could just throw an aesthetic at the bank, a big enough aesthetic at the bank, you'd blow it up. Too true. The only trouble is aesthetic is a consideration. All right. If he said - if he said, at the same time, "If you could throw a big enough consideration at the bank, it'd all blow"; well, it follows the same. See, I haven't agreed that you could throw a big enough aesthetic at the bank, it would all blow. Huh?

The first assumption is that one which has brought mysticism on the rocks every place mysticism has ever been adventured upon, and that is that there is a universal mind. That's the first unreasonable assumption there. And the second unreasonable assumption is that the mind has to do with quantity - second unreasonable assumption. And these unreasonable assumptions put together by unreasonable men produced something chaotic. And they said, then, that the mind could not solve the problems of the mind.

Male voice: If you think aesthetic is a consideration, there's no aesthetic big enough. Aesthetic is an action, not a consideration.

Organizations of science, so-called, which have existed in the past have existed on this basis: that the mind was a very, very complex problem and that the mind could not solve the problems of the mind. And upon this defeatism all of their research was based.

That's right. But consider is "to look at" in its first definition. See? In other words, if you could take a look at the bank, it'd all blow. That's very true.

Any genius or any such activity is entirely based upon neurosis. This makes insanity cause for all aesthetics. So artists have been asked to go crazy before they could be artists. And in the culture of the arts you find a great many people who are trying to follow this and be completely mad so that they can be artistic. And you find all the work being done by pretty darned sane people. They're just working along. And it's when they start to get neurotic that they stop producing.

I can give you a very close-up process which is not too workable because it's too close range, whereby you merely have the preclear look around inside of his body - just keep him at it. It's too closely connected and it's - therefore it's too slow. He can't get enough velocity in his look. But he will see the ridges from the inside. And as he looks at them, they will start to change character. And theoretically, for a few hundred hours, all he'd have to do is just look at how it looks from the inside and it'd all blow up. But that's really too close a range. So it's so slow.

Now, unreasonable assumptions concerning the universal mind and its character could not help but come about since anybody who really started worrying about - introvertively - worrying about his own mind and then worrying about other people's minds was simply worrying. It took a high level of action to do something about the mind. And of course that's the one thing the mind isn't. The only thing that's happened here is a fairly high level of action was applied to the problem.

But if he could look over his ridges adequately, beautifully and so forth, from a range of a couple of miles, believe me they'd blow. There isn't any doubt about it. I mean, it's just - no doubt about it whatsoever. Because I've done it.

The society at this time is in a wonderful condition about the mind. It's in a condition of complete defeat. So much so that if you announce you know something about the mind, you are immediately branded a charlatan. It's one of these "everybody knows." "Everybody knows you can't do anything about it, so anybody who tries to do anything about it is immediately a fake." This just follows through - bing, bing.

You have a - you have a - you have to be careful in handling Homo sap because it's not nice to kill people in this society. And you know about the horrible face of Medusa or something - the hair, the snakes in the hair and everybody that looked at her turned to stone. Well, if you looked straight at enough admiration or enough admiration looked straight at you, you wouldn't turn to stone, you'd just disappear as a body, that's all. That's the theoretical end.

This is a very dangerous assumption since it leads the society to believe that those people who could do something about the mind are not therefore powerful. And the power which could be applied to the situation, whereby you had a very good set of clear minds applying themselves to the problems, would be horrible to contemplate.

But if people are taught not to like things, consistently and continually, they then draw back from things. And in drawing back, things encroach upon them.

Actually, I don't think any of you will go on terribly long worrying about the problem of the mind itself. As I told you yesterday, the mind is a thinking machine.

And that is your second stage of resisting. You resist, resist, resist. That builds up a lot of facsimiles. And then you start drawing back from these facsimiles. And, of course, being connected with them, simply pulls them in on you. That's the second stage and that's the stage your V's in. He's withdrawn from his bank and the only reason he's done this is because he has an insufficiency of motion. He found out that he didn't have enough force to knock all these people off so he had to get away from them. Somewhere in his career he was a bad boy, he was a real bad boy. Yeah. According to MEST universe consideration he went around knocking people off and so forth.

How do you make a thinking machine? Very simple. You put a bunch of spheres - concentric spheres - down around a vacuum and then you crush them in on the center point. And just before it blows up it'll start to think.

I know one auditor who very carefully - by the way, everybody is a southpaw earlier on the track, and they've shifted over in desperation to the right hand. Well, this southpaw in space opera came about - para-Scientology - came about where the individual carried his gun on the left-hand side of the body and drew it and used it with the left hand (the blaster and so forth). And you'll find that people are very, very unwilling to use their left hands. They just don't want to - don't want to use that left hand and - because it kills people. Just as simple as that. And when people get killed their emotional kickback and so forth, is telegraphed through on the back blast and it makes one feel bad and one goes on down Tone Scale on a - on the overt act-motivator mechanism.

When you put a thought into one side of this machine, it'll curve around and go through pockets and condensation-rarefaction centers and so it will vary its own wavelength and color. But it associates one thing to another thing and associates another thing to another thing and another thing to another thing and another thing to another thing until finally you have a whole concatenation of what pretends to be relevant data. Actually, you've only got a concatenation of similarities. What you want, if you want to produce a solution, is a concatenation of identities.

All right. The second you get into facsimiles, you get overt acts and motivators. You don't get - you don't get any action about overt acts and motivators until you get into using facsimiles, because you'd never take a picture of what you did. The reason motivators and overt acts, and the reason why DEDS and DEDEXes get into a remarkable state is a very simple one. It's simply that you've still got a picture of them. And then you tried you try to get - somebody knocked your head off so you take this facsimile as the pattern of how to treat somebody else. You try to make him accept this facsimile, which is to say, knock his head off And, of course, your facsimile didn't perfectly Q-and-A your action. So they're not answers one to the other. They're not a question and answer. They're off. The person stood further away, he looked different, a slightly different weapon was used and most particularly your own body and condition were altered in position and so forth. So you just don't use the same facsimile.

Well, why produce a concatenation of identities, because the first identity and the second identity would be coincidence. What is the answer to anything? The thing. That is all there is to that. There is no problem about it.

Therefore, one facsimile trying to identify themself with the other facsimile jam together. And when you pull these apart, by any process which will pull them apart, you get an interesting reaction.

But for the sake of randomity man - thetans - began to use minds. They're cute. They surprise them. They do strange things and they're unpredictable and it lent some randomity to existence.

Somebody complains to you all the time about what his father did to him, have him bat his father over the head two or three times and all of a sudden he'll remember the time when he practically ruined Papa. He'll say this doesn't have any effect on him. But if you process that a little bit, why, he'll then drop back - he'll come up, if you don't touch it too hard. But if you process it too long, he'll drop back into another overt act-motivator facsimile. And if you process that one too long, he'll drop back into an earlier one, and an earlier one, and an earlier... Why? Well, you're just processing facsimiles. These facsimiles are pictures made by the thetan whereby he resists, in a pattern, the incoming or outgoing waves of the MEST universe.

All right. You've worked during this past week on a number of subjective processes. You've found that some of these subjective processes were very workable - within limits. But all the time you seem to come up against a sort of a barrier - nothing quite happened in the case; the case got lots better.

The facsimile is a very silly thing. It is a surface picture. It doesn't have any bulk or quantity or mass in the bodies which it takes a picture of. It's a shell. It's a picture of a front of something. Or if you're trying to impede somebody going away using tractor beams, it's the picture of a back of things. So you get a picture of a whole lot of backs or you get a picture of a whole lot of fronts. And this makes facsimiles look very dizzy indeed. A person starts running these and he'll have a lot of them that are beautifully clear and he'll have a lot more that are completely black. Well, is this black facsimile any less a facsimile than the ones that he can see so beautifully? They sure aren't. He's just got a tractor beam looped on the other side of the facsimile and it's facing out from him. He can't see it, of course, because the inside is black. It's just this kind of a dizzy series of tricks that makes this universe so silly.

Now, those cases which got better, really, were operated on subjective - I mean, objective techniques - objective techniques.

Every once in a while, just for - just for kicks you have a pc reach out and turn one of these black packages over. And he's got his wife or something upside down. Or, early on the track, he simply has a white ridge. He wanted to stop some energy from leaving him. He wanted it and so forth. So he put a tractor beam on the other side of it and this energized it white. It's very, very silly. But you can turn any one of these screens over and find out that it was originally a facsimile of resisting leaving - a facsimile which resisted expansion. You see? The people were going and you took the facsimile of the other part of it or the money or something of the sort.

One auditor here told me, "Well, I had this preclear," one of us here, "and I put him on this Perimeter Processing. He went way off the bottom of the scale and didn't even read. And then I gave him some Six Steps to Better Beingness to get him up again, and I got him up again about 1.3, something like that. And I got him up on the Tone Scale and so forth. And then I gave him some more processes on this Perimeter Processing and he fell off the scale again, and so forth. And so I gave him some Six Steps to Better Beingness and he came back up on the scale, then, so I could work this Perimeter Processing."

Now, a lot of these facsimiles that you pick up on a V, you just turn them over and you'll find coins. You'll find cars. You'll find people. Or you'll find little objects of one sort or another. Fascinating.

This is something like keeping a man - keeping a man sick so that you can feed him medicine.

Male voice: Is that where that "left behind" computation enters on the occluded case?

Now, I don't want to add this in on a disgraceful note or certainly not a sneering or contemptuous note or anything like that, so don't let this occur to you in that fashion. But nobody called to my attention something you should have called to my attention. And I've been waiting patiently for two days for somebody to call it to my attention.

Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't want to be left behind. He's stuck in a departure. Somebody's departing from him.

I've been talking about a thinking machine and I've told you several times how you made a thinking machine. And nobody's called it to my attention. Why? Because there is no answer to the thing except the thing. You haven't been looking at something - something terrifically obvious.

Now, it's perfectly all right if somebody - if this person departs. He's okay. But if somebody else departs from him, that's not okay. See? This is simply a matter of who betrays who and overt acts and motivators and so on. It's not terribly complex.

What's wrong with a Resistive V? He's thinking. I told you he's in the center of a thinking machine. Well, how do you make a thinking machine? It's a little worse when you realize that this material forms one little, tiny, brief chapter of 8-80, a textbook in your hands. And yet you haven't told me what's wrong with this V.

Well, out of - out of these very simple things I'm telling you about this morning, you get this enormous amount of complication because a thetan can do anything, he can be anything, as long as he doesn't think he's impeded from doing something and as long as he doesn't think it's impossible to be something.

All right. What's the sequence of Perimeter Processing as I've given it to you? What is it? One of you did discover blanks in running it, so I added blanks into it.

Very remarkable that you can take somebody and hypnotize him, which is to say, take away their responsibility for the actions which immediately succeed. Same thing. Hypnotism is just taking away from a person responsibility for the actions which he will now perform. You can hypnotize somebody and put him on a stage and have him give a very intelligent talk. You can hypnotize an actor who knows that he can't act anymore - you can hypnotize him, actually, and he'll go through a whole thing just in beautiful condition. Actually, many people can do things when they are drunk that they can't do when they're sober. Same deal. He just doesn't - isn't taking responsibility for it. Everybody knows he's not responsible for what he does when he's drunk. In other words, he can't assume ownership of this much force. But if he can make somebody else own that force, he can still function.

Explosions, nothingness; black explosions, nothingness; vacuums, nothingness; blanks, nothingness; explosions, nothingness. This is the way we're doing it. What's missing?

Well, you get this same mechanism taking place in the MEST universe. As you start down the line, if you own that much force, you couldn't do it. But if the MEST universe is doing it, you could do it. You see? It's what's known as an alibi. Even the cops will let you off if you have an alibi. You see? The reprieve from the MEST universe, then, is that it becomes all the fault there is and then you can do anything you want because look what it's done to you!

How do you make a thinking machine?

Everybody's going around saying, "Look what they did to me. I'm not responsible for it." He's merely saying he wasn't in sufficient amount of motion. He wasn't this way and he wasn't that way.

Male voice: Implosions.

Well, just conceive of the thetan as in the center of a sphere which is pounding him continually. And you got it! And that's the boy as far as you're concerned. And use for your processes moving him from place to place, faster and faster and faster, or Perimeter Processing, remembering that your implosions have to be added to that list.

No! That's right.

Now, I want you to see, the rest of today, on the very cases that you are doing, what these two processes do. One is objective and the other is subjective. Because you will change the perception level of your case and that's all you want, a communication change. How great a communication change can you get on a case? You can get a communication change which makes him see, feel, hear and be totally on his own energy.

Female voice: Well, we've been running implosions.

Why does the energy of the engram bank collapse upon the preclear? It's because he doesn't have enough force to hold it off; he thinks. Now, how do you give him enough force? You get him into enough motion. If you can get him into enough motion he will then have enough force. It isn't that he gets into the motion and then accumulates the force. If you can get him into enough motion he'll eventually get into a situation where he can keep putting up anchor points rapidly enough and effortlessly enough so that he'll continue to have his own space. And so when he has his own space, why, he of course can go into all the motion he wants to or put anything into motion. He has to take responsibility for his own force.

Have you been running implosions with Perimeter Processing?

Now, this means that the MEST universe is only bad because you can't escape from the spot where the waves are hitting you. And any spot in the universe is being hit by waves.

Audience: Yeah. Yes.

But your first drill is to bring a person into being here, there, everywhere you can think of in such a way as to realize that he doesn't get damaged as the thetan when he's hit by a MEST universe energy. You get it so it'll go all the way through or you can stop it or anything else you want to, but you've only done half of your process if you stop at that level of the band. It's like stopping running an engram at boredom; the guy isn't well, you've got to go one step higher to get him happy. Well, you have to run this one step higher. You have to get him up to a point where he can move from place to place so fast that he finally gets to a point where he can generate all the energy he wants.

Well, good. How many have?

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Male voice: We have put that into operation.

We have observed here, I'm sure, in your own mind, some sort of a picture of what this problem looks like. It's a problem of crush.

He was processed.

People who get stuck in vacuums - that is to say stuck out in absolute zero - get into a problem of lead-away. Their points are being yanked away from them faster than they can stop them going. They get this in space opera.

Male voice: We all have - Alicia did, wasn't it? Yeah.

Now, here's why space opera gets into restimulation in a thetan. It's the only counterirritant he can pick up in terms of facsimiles where the points are going out.

You put it into operation?

Imagine a man in a spacesuit, all of a sudden - he's got pressure in that suit, you see - all of a sudden... An understanding of what a vacuum is, you know, it would help you out a lot if you don't immediately grab a vacuum.

Male voice: I didn't have to.

A vacuum is simply a place where there is no particles. Now, to get no particles in this universe would be impossible. But it's a near vacuum out there in space, and you get no motion in this vacuum. The only reason something explodes which is put into a vacuum is because there's pressure in it. And what you get is the pressure in a thing blowing out into the place where there is no pressure.

Why?

There's fifteen pounds per square inch registered on your body right this moment, and yet it's inside the body and outside the body too, so, of course, it is balanced and you don't notice it. But if you, accustomed to fifteen pounds per square inch, were to suddenly jump up to twenty pounds per square inch, believe me, you'd notice it.

Male voice: Well, I didn't - imploded it from time to time. Hm?

Divers going down in a diving suit get bends and so forth. Now, that's a kind of an implosion. Here's the terrific increased pressure of the sea water trying to creep into this suit. Well, let's take him out in space and let's put fifteen pounds or twelve pounds - which was the more common atmosphere used - about twelve pounds per square inch of pressure inside the suit, and he's surrounded by no pounds or almost no pounds per square inch. Now, suddenly a bullet or a meteorite or a faulty manufacture cracks his space helmet or slits the suit, and there's an instantaneous pale pink mist. He explodes out.

You can't run it without him - somebody imploding.

Now, the explosion is the counterirritant. And the reason why your pc is so happy with explosions and so forth is he thinks he has something that will blow these shells off of him which he accumulates down on planetary surfaces. So he picks up the facsimiles of space opera, which are explosions, in order to remedy planetary surface existence, which brings about, most ordinarily because of reflective waves and so forth, implosions.

All right. We have another case in point. We got a Step I in the course and he was processed on something on this order. And he ran a couple or three implosions on him; perception went off and the perception got worse and the perception got worse and then all of a sudden brightened up. Doing what? Running implosions on him. This should be getting very significant to you. I'm glad you did add that in, some of you. Actually, all you need, actually, to run Perimeter Processing - because this was a mock-up process for this class's work. I wanted you to take a look at something.

Now, as a further test of this, why don't people work harder in hot climates? You've got intensity of light and heat going in all the time. Now, in an ordinary climate he can at least get rid of body heat outwards - it's less than 98.6 - so he can at least radiate heat, and as long as he can radiate heat he's fairly happy. Now, he radiates heat down to the bottom of the tolerance band of freezing, and after that, why, he can't radiate heat fast enough to keep the extremities of the body supplied well enough to radiate heat, that's what freezing is. Freezing is an absence of motion.

I think you're convinced now of one thing: that there is some kind of a perimeter around somebody and that it does dwindle when you start to throw energy at it. Is this true? It does dwindle when you start to throw energy at it. And if you run it long enough and arduously enough it'll even expand sometimes, but then it'll promptly dwindle again. Now, I'm not - I'm not laying traps for you. I was just trying to make you look.

So, a person who can radiate heat in a cool climate is in good condition, but in a hot climate he can't radiate as much heat out, so he gets less motion. He's not radiating as fast, so he accepts the environment; the environment pounds him in. Hot summers pound him in.

Now, do you see that? Does it come home to you that man is sitting in the middle of a thinking machine as the reason why he thinks? This fairly obvious to you? And that it works from the outside in, rather than from the center out. Is this fairly demonstrated or do you have doubts - anybody have any doubts about it?

It does something else: it keys in prenatals. The prenatal nine months is spent with an inability to radiate, and it's all absorption, mostly absorption, and we have Mama at 98.6 - she's real hot. If you've got prenatals in restimulation, they've been put in restimulation by a lot of hot weather.

You want to know why this is being proven? You want to know why I'm taking so much trouble to make a point of this?

An American living in the northern part of the United States most of his life can go to a hot country and go downhill in an awful rush. He drops his motion curve faster. People who've been living in that hot country have more or less genetically adapted themselves to it, but you find the Nordic going to hell every time he hits a hot climate. He comes into a hot climate and mops everything up and bumps everybody off and stirs everything up and builds everything up and so forth, and then runs a very fast curve and then all of a sudden quits.

One, it does run out a lot of concepts which have to be run out of a Resistive V, get him over a lot of humps, and so forth, in order to get a good straight path. Teaches him something about life.

For instance, it only took one generation for the Vandals, who were able to lick everything down through Spain and North Africa and who sacked Rome - Rome was practically untouched up to the moment when the Vandals, who had arrived through Spain, left ancient Carthage (the area of Tunis), went back up to Rome from the south, sacked Rome and even took the gold temple roofs off Palatine Hill and took them back there.

Possibly, while this was being run, a lot of things about existence may have occurred to the person if it was being run with any thoroughness at all. A lot of little figures - figure-figures - of why he was doing this and why he was doing that should have jumped up and presented themselves. Did they?

We find a very short time later, Belisarius, with troops who were well indoctrinated in the Middle East - hot country people, but real good troops - Belisarius came in there with a handful of troops, and all these Vandals did was stand around on the battlefield and weep. And Belisarius' men just shot them to ribbons and killed everybody and married all their wives. Anyway... And then Justinian took it away from them and we have an Arab North Africa.

Yeah, one. Anybody else get any idea concerning existence at all?

Anyway, we get this problem of no radiation as being the primary problem. A man can't put out effort, can't put out anchor points, can't get things to go away from him, can't throw things away from him, if he can't stay warmer than his environment and so radiate heat, if nobody lets him spit, if nobody lets him smoke and blow smoke away from him, he gets real unhappy. In fact, he gets real sick. In fact, he goes into no motion and in fact he loses.

Well, there are much handier ways to get ideas concerning existence, but did anybody start thinking while running Perimeter Processing?

Now, what's memory? And all of a sudden we'll just, apparently, switch horses. What's memory? What's forgettingness? Forgettingness is the opposite of rememberingness. Rememberingness is the opposite of forgettingness. When one starts to use facsimiles - he gets to using them, you see, totally automatically, the MEST universe starts bombarding him and he starts resisting it and so it makes pictures. That's all.

Male voice: Yeah, I did.

Now, what's - what's memory? And what's forgettingness? Really, a thetan can forget and remember any experience he has ever had so long as he has not begun to depend upon pictures to do his remembering for him.

Yeah, well now, here we go. Did you start any thinking? You didn't get any thinking at all?

Now, an experiment on this is quite demonstrative. If you were to take somebody who had a good memory and force him to keep notes of everything, he would become dependent on the notes, but you would find, actually, that his memory - his ability to remember - was decreasing.

Male voice: Nope.

The insistence in colleges on notebooks and notes on lectures (and my joking comment on it, with the tremendous resistance I was getting from people up Tone Scale here very early in this course) demonstrate this. When you put everything down in a notebook, you see, you've got it, and you don't have to remember it, because you've got a picture of it. You've got a symbol of the pictures which were handed to you.

Good. Well, what do you know.

All right. Let's go a little bit further than this. I wouldn't say, by the way, that the university - university had any mayhem or taming activity in mind. I don't think their purpose is to make people tame enough to be handled and taxed heavily. I wouldn't go so far as to say that. I wouldn't say that this is a machination, mostly because there's no reason criticizing decadent and soon-to-disappear organizations.

Male voice: All I thought about was - once in a while I'd think, well, this is about the right way to arrange this and that's all.

You wonder why I've never monkeyed around with universities.

That's about all.

By the way, I pulled an awfully good joke that nobody ever appreciated or anything else. I started writing my name down with a tremendous number of degrees. And I thought that was a terrifically good joke, and nobody seems to laugh. So I had underestimated or overestimated the humor level of this society. This is serious to this society; it's real serious.

It actually produces less thinking than many other processes we run into.

Just how a name - by the way, this always used to - used to make me laugh quietly to myself as an author - just how a name had anything to do with it, I could never figure out, because they take your name and they put it on magazines and they put it on books and this theoretically, you see, makes people buy more books. But what do you know, my highest rates came about under five other names. And I could always invent a name and throw it into a publishing office and get almost any check I wanted from the office. All it had to do - was the quality of the mock-up, the story. And if you were to sit on an editorial desk for a while, you'd realize this. But I was paid much better money in much better publications under other names than my own. So names, you see - as a writer I was educated to believe, you see, that names were rather nothing much. And I had to start using a name, however, in Dianetics and Scientology, just to put a trademark on things. I would much rather that we had used something like Freud, Junior, or something like that. It would have been much more popular.

All right, you think I'm belaboring something and have laid a trap for you. I haven't laid a trap for you. The MEST universe has.

The whole thing is a complete mock-up. When a fellow starts considering his name as a terrifically serious thing, he's looking at a symbol, and he's looking at the very thing which police use most handily. And now the cops have discovered that people have fingerprints, so nobody is free anymore.

How is it that a person gets inside this thinking machine and then gets squeezed out of it so that we have negative dynamics?

By the way, the greatest slave there ever was, was a citizen of the Roman Empire. When the Roman Empire reached its greatest boundaries, there was no place anybody could run. He couldn't leave because the only civilization there was, was monitored from Rome, and if he was in bad with the government - everybody knew this - he was done. Gibbon has a beautiful paragraph on this. It's in a subnote. And when somebody was banished from the Roman Empire he had no place to go. He could go and live with the Scythians.

This morning I hoped there'd be some dull clicks and some sharp clicks in this class.

Yes, and he - there's just - he was just gone, you see, he was lost completely.

I told you the dynamics are a dwindling series of spheres that concern themselves with the immediate environment. Is that right? You get the eighth dynamic, that's all the way out. The seventh dynamic, that can be anyplace out there. Six, five, four, three, two, one.

Well now, when you get a beautiful dossier system which is international - if you had one government throughout the world with one dossier system, then anybody sneezed through the wrong nostril or something who could get in bad odor with the government, why, he would be done.

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Now, actually, people hanging on to their names is people trying to hang onto this level of control. Why? They desire it. Why do they desire it? Because it's been enforced upon them and then inhibited. So, all of a sudden they want it. The slave loves his chains. Here's a practical application of it. All right.

Continuing this morning lecture.

He has to have the area called the United States today and his own identity inside the United States or he can't have any anchor points, because everybody presents him with anchor points. In order to do anything for this society you had to start accepting this society's anchor points and some of its values and study it just a little bit and look it over carefully to discover where you were going, what you were doing. Otherwise, you couldn't look the way other people were looking in the society - that was quite important. You could keep looking at things the way you were looking at things, but that didn't necessarily make sense to everybody else in the society even though it was better for you. You get this?

Now, don't sit there and look at me like a bunch of birds that have suddenly spotted a snake. Although you well may! But let's not identify the cross-emotion. I am displaying to you the complete anatomy of a trap called "MEST universe."

This isn't wandering off the point. This is DEI, DEI. And this is forget and remember. Forget - boy, you'd certainly better forget those old identities, kid. If the space opera cops caught up with you, oh boy!

All right. Let's take this box of matches here and let's consider the perception of light. What's light do to that box of matches? It's a very simple answer - you can be far too strained about it - it simply comes in and hits it and a little bit of it glances off. Remember, it comes in and hits it - all of it that's going to come in and hit it - and then a little bit of what's hit it glances off. Is that right? Okay. It's in a sphere, then, as I hold it up here, of light waves hitting it, isn't it? Hitting it from every side and a little bit of it's glancing off Right?

All you've got to do is take somebody who is occluded and double terminal "I'm under arrest," and boy, he'll start sweating it out. Just out of thin air, take some nice, quiet old lady who is - she's an occluded case, and you just double terminal "I'm under arrest." Oh, it - will it produce an effect! "This is strange, isn't it?"

A little bit earlier in the week I showed you and asked you to run how the emanation of reflected waves go out from a person in the shape of a mock-up. And he, very often will turn around and try to catch his emanation - he doesn't want to be seen. Right? Well, what gives him an impulse to do that? There's a lot more lightwaves coming in and hitting this box than there are departing from the box. Therefore, the main force vector with relation to this box is a vector arrow pointed where?

Of course, "under arrest" is a complete stop motion. People are terribly afraid of that, so they're afraid of everything which stops motion, so they resist everything which stops motion. And if they resist all the things that stop motion then they're taking pictures of them, and then all of a sudden they find out they can't resist them anymore so the pictures collapse on them, and you got it! Okay, that's the mechanism as it goes.

Audience: In.

Now, if you teach somebody that he has to be remembered by putting forward a facsimile, and he can only be forgotten by destroying a facsimile, you've put the total stress of thinkingness and the pleasure he's taken on the track of havingness into the possession of the MEST universe itself Now you see, he's handed over to the MEST universe itself, then, any fun he ever might have in thinking, "Boy, we sure did a fine job on Arslycus when we finally shoved the dynamite under that one key pin and let her blow." People, he thinks, have probably been looking for him ever since, really.

In. From 360 degrees of a sphere. Right? And a little bit of that's escaping. But it's escaping into what? New force vectors coming in which are stronger than the escaping vector.

But DEI: Desire, Enforce, Inhibit. At first a person was enforced with an identity, he was made to have a certain wavelength; he wasn't permitted to emanate any other wavelength. Why? By DEI.

There's such a thing as a dark star. Dark stars are not non-burning stars. They are burning red, but the electrons are no longer able to escape their field of gravity and so they no longer can emanate light. You get that? Gravity itself can bring them back. It can't emanate anymore because it has enough mass to attract back into itself anything it tries to get rid of. Do you get the comparative level of this and this box of matches? All right.

First, he wanted to be, so he could be a member of the club or some thing, and then it was enforced upon him and then they didn't let him have a wavelength, so he desired, then, a form, and then they enforced the form on him (and Arslycus is, by the way, that pattern) and then they inhibited him from having this form, so boy, he really began to thirst for a form. Well, finally he really couldn't get his forms straight and he - nobody would let him really attach himself to a form, but he could have a name. And people got down to the level where fame was the thing you wanted to have. You wanted to endure as a name. Well, one of the reasons for this is because very often you hang up a famous name as a fighter or something of the sort, and people simply run away from it. You know, they're afraid of the potential force that goes behind it. So, oh naturally, all one has to do is hang up a famous name, you see, and everybody will run away or everybody will come... See, that's all there is to it. It's nonsense, you see, to think that anybody wouldn't desire fame - it's just DEI, DEI. You go on down scale with the thing and finally you get to the point where you want a name to endure.

There's no real essential difference between a planet and a man or a star and a man; no essential difference. He himself is as well off as he can emanate theta-wise. If you get him to fighting lightwaves and he starts to put out his own flitter - if he has been made to fight and match the wavelength of lightwaves, he'll no longer put out flitter because it is going out against a continual impact of incoming lightwaves. And he will go into the situation where he's trying to get rid of the lightwaves, after a while, and trying to turn them around so they will go back out again.

Well, that's real silly, but it all enters in from the top down on this basis only: A person starts to think about the future when he's insufficient - has insufficient confidence in his ability to produce force. He starts to think when he can't lightning-bolt. He starts to need a name when he doesn't want the effort of zapping. You see?

I call your attention now to the Axioms: the received motion and the push-out again of that motion. We are above this level of the Axioms with what I'm telling you this morning. Theta receives a motion and pushes it back out again. It has stopped using its own horsepower and is using pictures of this stuff: lightwaves. You see that? Now it's already entered into human beingness. And the Axioms are designed to delineate what human beings are doing. Thetans - thetans have stopped emanating their own energy in favor of trying to get rid of energy which they have received. Three-hundred-and-sixty-degree vector of light is hitting this matchbox.

Everybody would - you know, the terrific politeness during periods of history when the dueling code has been in existence is indicative of this sort of thing. The courtesy involved in the thing. Well, it only got discourteous when such a - such a level of force dropped out of sight. Nobody respected it. Nobody expected it. As an actual thing, why, people got more and more discourteous to each other and so forth, until they were taught, then, that they ought to be courteous to each other, and you just got this dwindling spiral, then they enforced courtesy and then they wouldn't let people be courteous. People were too courteous, so therefore, they were sissies, and then that made them desire, then, to be sissies. Oh, boy, here we go.

All right. What about sound? Three-hundred-and-sixty-degree vector. There's very little sound reflecting off of this matchbox compared with the amount that is hitting it.

But do you see how many racks of consideration a preclear has to go through? He can't remember the whole track for - first, because he hasn't got any facsimiles. He hasn't got any facsimiles because he began to make too many facsimiles above that level, and above that level he began to desire to make facsimiles so that he could remember; and then he began to desire to destroy facsimiles so he could forget, way down. And now we go up higher and we find out that forget and remember don't have too much to do with facsimiles, they simply have to do with whether you pull in or get out something.

Let's go a little further now. Any sense perception hits in, in strength and goes out in weakness, so that a thetan begins to believe, after a while, that any force directed at him is strength and any force which he directs is weak. All he's done is fought the MEST universe to a point where he's gotten this kind of a computation.

There's a line in - I think it's under something or other - language and aberration it's - there's a whole chapter toward the back end of Self Analysis that talks about the shadows in Lake Tanganyika and there's a matter there of forget and remember. How do you get somebody to forget something? Well, you take it far enough away so he can't see it. And you keep taking it away and taking it away and taking it away and taking it away, and he'll, after a while, not contact it and so he will have forgotten it.

Now, there's a reverse of this. Out in the vacuum of space a thetan doesn't have enough horsepower, when he gets pretty weak, to pull back in what the vacuum is taking away from him. If he has more pressure where he is than the vacuum around him, we've got an explosion. But if we come down on a planet we have implosions. A thetan in space is extroverted perforce and on a planet, introverted perforce. But even so, out in space, it isn't cancelling because he's being hit with what we call cosmic rays. He's being hit with meteorites, dust, and so on. And all of this is operating just the same as the lightwaves again. So it's only a slight bit that that vacuum assists him. Once more: any incoming wave. Now, you see, he actually gets into a sort of a self-clearing operation, though, if he gets out into space good and solidly. The space will take it all away from him. See how this would work?

Now, how do you also get people to forget something? You push it up close to him, you push it up close to him and you put it into the form of a feeling instead of the form of a thought, and you get it down - you put it so close to him it's a feeling, which is lower than the level of thought. Those are the things people don't dare think about; they've crushed in too tight. The center of a thinking machine doesn't dare be thought about; that's one of its rules.

All right. Let's take this 360-degree sphere and find out that a thetan in this universe is in a manufactured trap which first gets him to desire these incoming waves, then gets him to fight them so that they fight back, and then gets him to a point where he'll inhibit their coming in. And as soon as you get him to inhibit their coming in, he gets into a pattern that looks like a shell. And the type of violence which matches it is an implosion where all on the perimeter collapses into the center. And that's a thinking machine. That's all.

So, forgetting is primarily, however, a pull out. But you can have the other type of forgetting. You smash in a guy hard enough and he gets too far in and he doesn't dare contact a particle because it's too close.

Now, here's a fellow going around occupying a geographical locale - a body. Lightwaves are hitting this body and bouncing off of it, but more hit than bounce away. That's a fact. You can take them off in chunks, but they don't bounce away.

All right. Remembering, in essence, in its first definition, is pull in; a fellow pulls in his memory. A fellow dramatizes this well up on the track by taking a picture of something he sees and then pulls in the picture and examines it. That's one of the tricks a thetan has. Only it's usually that the picture is different than what he took a picture of. He's already gotten into the game of being a thetan cameraman.

All right. What's this mean? It means that the ambition of the thetan who has been in this universe any length of time at all is to hide, get into a cave or a head and let these lightwaves bounce off a face or a skull in preference to hitting him because he thinks he's on the same wavelength as this universe and has no other wavelength.

Now, we get up above this and it's simply you just pulled in the facts, and well above this you just simply knew about it, that's all. You didn't push out anything or pull in anything. The space had nothing whatsoever to do with remembering. And sure enough, now a person, to get full memory on everything under the sun, had certainly better be up to a point where space has nothing to do with it, whether it is pull out or push in. Now, why is the past life out of sight? Why is that nothing? Well, boy, everything that did the remembering and the forgetting there, the whole package, has been taken out and buried in some marble orchard. Of course you can't remember that; that's been forgotten merely because it's gone away from. You see the definitions as they pile up?

Now, there is the occluded case, pure and simple. It has no more complications than those mechanics. The individual has ceased to put out - generate - his own energy to any marked degree; has become dependent upon MEST energy to a marked degree; and then he's taking facsimiles of this MEST energy and he's using them to redirect his motion and to remember and to do everything. He has become dependent upon this universe and so patterns all of his actions with this universe and, who knows, may someday become a police officer.

Well, how do you get this? You just get up into sufficient motion and all of a sudden the guy starts remembering. But you start him up into sufficient motion, he's liable to start remembering - if you don't have a technique that's real fast to do this, he'll start remembering things that slow him down. And he'll start sitting around thinking about things instead of just knowing about them. All right.

Male voice: Now wait a minute!

That tells you then that objective techniques about motion are superior in the direction of memory recovery, and objective techniques which recover actual motion are superior in holding the bank out or blowing the bank up. And objective techniques that restore motion or let a person have motion or not have motion at will - which is self-determinism about motion, is what you're trying to restore - you'd get him up to a point where he has, really, no need of motion. But you have to go up through the motion band. And you better go right straight up through the MEST universe.

Police action is nothing more nor less than MEST universe action. It's just: Hold them still; put them in a box; don't let them out; hold motion.

If you have a slow technique restoring motion, he'll just start thinking about this lock and that lock and the other lock and this experience and that experience and this loss and that loss and he'll just go through this over and over and over again. Slow auditing, real slow, painfully slow auditing will actually key in slow motion incidents. Facsimiles respond to wavelengths. Moments of grief are slow moments, moments of apathy, slower.

Force is motion. When you want to inhibit the force of an individual, all you have to do is inhibit his motion. If you want to inhibit his force, you inhibit his motion. If you want to inhibit his motion, why, you tell him force is bad. See, "He who dies by the sword, lives by the sword," or something of the sort. And then neglect to tell him that "He who doesn't - he who doesn't live by the sword dies a lot quicker." See, we've got "force is bad, force is bad, force is bad."

All right. Let's take a look, then, at objective techniques and we find out the objective technique, in the final analysis, which restores motion is the best technique you'll ever get. But there is something to be said for object - for subjective techniques. Perimeter Processing run to unintrovert the fellow, to help him out - adding implosions to it. Now, by the way, there are two kinds of implosions: there are white implosions and black implosions.

Now, the thetan has one automatic mechanism (a wonderful mechanism) which takes care of force. The force which is built up upon him is actually not in the form of electrons and molecules. It's the pictures he takes of the electrons and molecules. Why does he take pictures? Totally automatic mechanism. He starts fighting this stuff coming in with his own force and it makes a picture. He resists. Then he gets so he believes he wants this stuff, you see, DEI. And then below that, we've got another DEI. We've got desire taking place after an inhibition has taken place.

You'll find out that at first he just can think - get the idea that there is an implosion somewhere. He won't be able to see one, and then after a while he'll get the idea that it just comes down kind of chunk! just so far, and then it doesn't go in any further. Don't bother with this. And get these things up - all these quantities, all these things to do-up twice: have other people doing this and thinking this on the outside of the perimeter, and have him doing this and thinking this as far out as he can inside the perimeter.

If you want to know why Acceptance Level Processing (which we'll go into later in the course, next Monday, Tuesday) works, it is simply this mechanism: he has been inhibited from having something long enough so that he craves it. And that's desire, that's all. Anytime you want somebody to really crave something, why, inhibit them from having it - a long time. He'll go into apathy about it and fluctuate around about it, but that's only at the bottom of the scale. And that's where it finally leads him. He goes into DEI DEI, DEI.

Male voice: At the same time?

You can turn on the strangest appetites in a pc - weird appetites. Just take anything that is made scarce in the society. And you'll find people with a tremendous appetite for dirt. Oh, they're clean, burnished people, by the way, they're very burnished, they're very clean. They would never get out, even in old ragged overalls, and get a spot of grease on themselves. And you just start feeding them dirt in mock-up form and it just goes into the ridges, just - schluurp! schluurp! schluurp! And they get, "Gee, nice, beautiful dirt; nice, beautiful dirt." Wonderful. But you theoretically could push them down the other way. You could make them have something under duress and then fix it up so they couldn't have it and they would start wanting it again, all over again. So it's a dwindling spiral. And this is the dwindling spiral of the universe.

And not thinking it. Hm?

The thetan, to all intents and purposes, stands in the middle of a continuous bombardment which reduces him smaller and smaller and smaller. Now, a thetan can be what he can see. He can see what he can be. And, by golly, he can't put anything out far enough to see it if he thinks that it is under continual bombardment which is driving it in on him. So he can't be anything. So he thinks he is nothing. And there's your basic explanation of why the thetan, in each case, says, "I'm not here. I'm just a body." He thinks he's nothing.

Male voice: At the same time or alternating it?

It was quite a job digging up the answer to this riddle because he has come into a desire for some of the damnedest things. The MEST universe has bombarded him on a 360-degree sphere inward long enough so that he desires to be the center of attraction. It isn't natural at all. A thetan does not want to be seen. He has no desire to be seen. His basic desire is to put something out to be seen. So you see in this universe he's right there being hammered and pounded and the first thing you know, he's got to be the center of attraction.

Alternating. Other people-himself, other people-himself; and then, once in a while other people for other people. Implosions-explosions.

Oh, boy, that's a planet. A planet's gravity core (center) is of course the center of attraction of the planet. And boy, that planet has sure got a big ridge on it. But everybody treats this planet pretty nice. I don't know, they call it Earth. And they're not too bad to it. But, in essence, this planet is pulling away from space - the vacuum of space. It's balanced its gravity against the vacuum of space.

Now, can you get terribly undirective about this? Yes sir. You can just tell the fellow, "Well, now get vacuums - just start throwing vacuums around, and have somebody else start throwing vacuums around, and have other people throw vacuums at other people." He can do this.

And every once in a while you'll run a preclear up to a point where he achieves a balance between the exterior environment and himself. And when he's at that balance he's going to look a lot happier and feel a lot happier. Well, then you leave him alone and he goes off down the street and he goes home and he hits sound waves. And how are they hitting him? Three hundred and sixty degrees inward. He gets into a hot sunshine - 360 degrees inward. That balance goes by the boards! And all of a sudden he's stuck in his head again.

And then you can say, "All right. Now have people throwing explosions at other people. Have people throwing explosions at you and you throwing explosions at other people. And you throwing explosions at yourself and other people throwing explosions at themselves."

And then as auditors we say, "Well, now, the Theta Clearing is all right but after you theta clear somebody, why, he's liable to go down Tone Scale and just wind up in the soup again." Well, part of this is motion. This society itself imposes culturally a slow motion on an individual.

You can take each one in that direction, which is just strictly brackets, using blanks, nothingness; explosions, nothingness; black explosions, nothingness; white implosions, nothingness; black implosions, nothingness - we just go round and round. And we can run each one in a bracket, which makes a very long technique, by the way, when you start writing it down. It doesn't much matter whether you do it right or wrong, if you just get the guy to get the idea that he's having implosions happen and then explosions happen and then implosions happen and then explosions happen, that other people are having implosions happen and explosions happen and implosions happen and explosions happen, and other people are making other people have implosions happen and explosions happen and implosions happen and explosions happen. Now, let's take a lot of nothingness! See?

The effects of this - we have a guest here this morning that was just telling me a sad story, which is the old story of the only - we used to say, "All editors are failed writers." It's true. No - nobody would be an editor if he could still write. The bitter truth of this is such that it makes most editors savage when you say this to them in casual, polite conversation. And he was mentioning to me somebody else in another field of the arts who was stopping motion, stopping motion, stopping motion.

All right. "Now let's get an idea that you're making explosions happen to other people. Now implosions happen to other people. Now other people making implosions happen to you, explosions happen to you. Other people making explosions happen, implosions happen to other people." See? You can run this technique any way you can think of You don't have to run it in a fancy pattern.

Well, you get somebody who has failed as a writer who then becomes an editor, of course, he's on an enforce level. He's got to enforce people writing, which is the job of an editor. And then, as soon as he drops just to the lower part of that band, and he'll drop there fairly soon, he's going to inhibit writing. He's going to have "stop motion." And so it would work out in directing, so it would work out in painting or anything else. So the wrong place to learn anything about painting is in art school. Wrong place. Wrong place to learn anything about writing.

You'll find the guy sitting in the middle of his imploded own universe. An occluded case is really sitting in the middle of his imploded own universe. That was the first thing that caved in on him before he got here. He's got that, and that's usually a little, small, black ball.

The only excuse we have in Scientology for handling an education pattern is we're all more or less agreed on an education pattern, so we are in communication on that basis. But the total subject of our education is speeding up motion and undoing education which makes it very, very acceptable. All right. (I hope.)

When you do a Spacation, if you ask a pc to look around real carefully without you telling him what he's supposed to find, you'll find a little black ball sitting in the cage with him. That's his home universe; that's the only thing he's really going to hold on to. His home universe, it all fell in - poom or moob. You know an explosion is boom! so an implosion is moob.

Anyway. What's this - what's the problem you're looking at, Mr. Anthony? Domestic relations? Banking? Industry? The problem on Earth would be you're looking at an implosion happening - not that's obviously going to happen. You're looking at one happening. People fight shy of this problem. I'm glad two or three of you are real, real, real smart and in this lineup started to add implosions, because most people simply avoid it. Which is a demonstration - that the rest of you who avoided it - a demonstration of two things: That the answer to the problem, if it is the answer, has to be made more complicated than it is. Now, the other thing that it's a demonstration of is that the MEST universe don't want you to reach out for any data or get out in any direction whatsoever. People become hectically in motion as a protest. They become sedentary as a surrender. And they'll go through this cycle. They get hectically in motion, then they go through surrender, and so on.

You'll find out that he's been fighting the battle of the MEST universe, and you'll find out many more implosions would have to be run on him than explosions. Yeah, because many more implosions have happened to him than explosions as long as he's been in this universe, see.

You're not going to solve this with thinkingness because it's a problem of motion. There are two answers to it. One is to subjectively free up and re-create the ability of the thetan to use his own energy - to create and use his own energy. That's one problem answer. And that is the answer to Subjective Processing. The other is Objective Processing. Get him so used to this universe, so accustomed to what's coming in, that it doesn't worry him and, objectively, get him up to a level of motion by geographical drills whereby he stops moving like MEST particles and starts being in different places like a thetan. There's your whole - your whole package, the whole of our solution. There's many ways this can be handled.

Now, you could do that for a little while - you could do that for a little while, and then, just avoiding doing anything else complicated at all, just tell him to be at one corner of the desk and be at the other corner of the desk, one corner of the desk... He says, "But, I can't be at either corner of the desk," he'll say or something like that.

Well now, you start getting him to use his own energy, and the moment you get him to approximate what you have in terms of well, it's Perimeter Processing, which as I say is a mock-up process - Perimeter Processing - and you start throwing implosions around as the added attraction and you start going around the little roulette wheel, round and round, the guy's all of a sudden going to feel scree-chug! He doesn't like that too much. He's going to feel himself suddenly start to go out at a mad rate and he's going to say: "No!" He won't let that effect happen again unless you simply go around the roulette wheel again. And he gets to thinking about something else, all of a sudden he finds himself caving in on himself and he doesn't like that either.

You say, "Well, all right. Turn your back to the desk and be in one corner of the desk and the back..." Because remember something: If you operate this motion technique which I'm giving you now, exclusively with the preclear facing the places he's doing this, he'll get all the energy in restimulation around his face without getting anything out of restimulation behind his back, and you're liable to blow him through the front of his face. So, have him be from one place to another place, to another place, to another place, to another place, looking at them from behind his back, see. Let's have him have his back to the desk.

Now, we've got to have an expand-out and a cave-in.

Just remember that you could shift him around in position and you will shift around the amount of beams he's throwing around, and you'll also shift around his chances of exteriorization, because he'd rather blow out the back than the front any day.

There are four directions of motion: one is outgoing, the second is inhibiting outgoing, the next one is incoming and the next one is - from outside - inhibiting incoming. Your exterior source incomes and inhibits incomes, and the source of the other vector line of motion is outgoing and inhibiting outgoing. There are two other factors: let go and grasp; in other words, start and stop. But let go and grasp for a thetan is more explanatory. But these four vectors of motion are sufficient to upset the stops because none of your stops are exactly balanced stops. They can always be imbalanced. The only complete stop would be complete absolute zero, which is a theoretical unobtainable. The complete hold would be a complete all-MEST, you might say, which is again unobtainable. So these things upset.

All right. You could say, "All right, now let's get the idea of a spot in one corner of the room. Now a spot in the other corner of the room, behind your back," you see? "A spot in one corner of the room. Now the same spot behind in the other corner of the room. Now that spot in the far corner of the room. Now that spot behind your back. Now have that spot be down at the baseboard. Now the other baseboard behind your back." See? Corner to corner to corner to corner to corner to corner to corner to corner to corner. One corner of the desk, the other corner of the desk, the center of the desk. Two inches above the desk, down on the desk again.

Now, the subjective process which takes care of this is this with its one added attraction.

You can drill in the spot. Well, he'll be very happy with this. He'll get to a point where it doesn't bother him any; he doesn't have to be there.

Another thing I hope you can notice from this is the omission of a step. Now, we ran it lopsided. Now I want you to run it not lopsided. I want you to get somebody else sending these explosions in on the guy and not sending them in on the guy; and the guy throwing explosions out and not throwing them out; and the guy throwing black explosions out and not throwing them out; and other people throwing black explosions in and not throwing them in; and other people putting nothing in and not putting nothing in. The first concept that turns up on that is "Not wanting to be critical." This person throwing nothing in and not throwing nothing in - to the 360-degree sphere, you understand - and so we go round and round on all these concepts and you have quite a process.

So, you say, "Well, how about trying to be the spot? Get the view the spot would have. Now, let's be in one corner of the room. Now be in the other corner of the room. One corner of the room. The other corner of the room. One corner of the room. The other corner of the room. Now, go back to the ..." You can't talk as fast as you should drill him.

Now, we get other people doing this to other people. Why? The only reason why is because the pc has often got in the road of bombardments in which he had no part. He's gotten in the road of interchanges. As a little child - as a little child he's often gotten between a couple of parents that were bombarding each other madly. And he wasn't a participant, but he wanted peace and calm around there and so he got participated - never very successfully. He didn't have enough sense just to get out of his head and bap them both and have a real calm around there.

"Now, be on top of the Walt Whitman Hotel. Be on top of this office building. Be on top of the Walt Whitman Hotel. Be on top of this office building."

Now, aiding and abetting this is the desire for sensation. As long as a thetan can't mock up sensation that he can - that's really a very satisfying sensation - why, he's apt to acquire it from the exterior environment. As soon as he starts acquiring it from the exterior environment to any great degree, as soon as he starts wanting low-level feeling instead of high-level looking, why, he's going to deal with these low-toned MEST emotions - sex and that sort of thing. Actually, there's more kick in high-level looking than there is in low-level feeling, any day.

And he says, "Wait a minute. Whoa! You're - the - I'm all confused."

But the thetan can get sensation and it's more or less worked out on the playing fields. And he goes a certain distance on the playing field then realizes that some son of a bitch is playing for keeps around here. He never realized that. I give you that colloquialism just because that's just about the way he thinks of it when it first occurs to him - "Some son of a bitch is playing for keeps." And that means he'll have to do something about it! And of course, there's the trap edge. He just goes right on off - wham! Revenge! Because he has only one mechanism that solves this that I know about. I mean, he - pardon me - he's got two mechanisms to solve it: one is just look, and his other mechanism is admiration.

"Well, all right, let's do it as slowly as you can."

If he could just go on admiring this universe, it'd just fall to pieces. It'd become old and dilapidated and secondhand in no time. But people keep people from admiring things. One of the damnedest things to run into anywhere, anywhere, from anybody, is "You must not like and you must not communicate with because..." Of course there not being any reasons, these "becauses are about the same as punish: ‘You mustn't communicate with...’” They are evil!" Which all adds up to "You mustn't like them. They're bad." Mustn't communicate with, mustn't like - same thing.

"Well now," he'll say, "let's see now, I'm on top of the Walt Whitman Hotel and the office building is in that direction. Oh, yes! Now, if I move over in that direction - good, I got it now - now I can lay the city out the way it ought to look." He isn't looking at a thing, you see.

So if you can just stop people from liking other people, interpersonal relationships would go to hell. Why? Not because we have any postulates sitting up above it. It's just because it inhibits the thetan from throwing out admiration. And his own admiration will actually melt down the waves and facsimiles which are made of MEST.

But don't let that worry you, because that's just a symptom of slow speed. He'll eventually come from the place of having to be - having to locate Mars so that he can go to it. He has to know before he can go, you see9

Now, this is quite important, what I'm telling you. The idea of this little being, you might say, or little dot in the middle of a continuous implosion, as long as it's on a planet, is the problem you're having to solve. Because he's in that - middle of that continuous implosion with insufficient admiration to do anything about it. And so it'll cut down his motion, cut down his motion, cut down his motion, cut down his motion. And the next thing you know, he's gotten awfully human. And although you had him up to a Theta Clear, and so on, "Well, being a human being isn't so bad after all."

He'll get up to - you say Mars - Mars! You tell him to be on Mars, he's on Mars, that's all. You tell him to be in the sun - sun! See, he doesn't look before he goes, he knows where these are. In the first place, he can pervade in so many directions that he isn't doing this faster than light; he just knows, you see?

And you say, "How are you, Joe?"

And that's what an auditor has a hard time trying to figure out - just how the hell this guy can possibly jump from here to there and so forth. And you say, "All right, be in any car in the city that has the license plate 122X."

And he says, "Oh, I don't know."

"Yeah."

That's being human.

Now, the public out here loves to think that's - would be very mysterious how he could do that, you see, but it's not mysterious. What's mysterious is how they want to think it's mysterious.

If you want to accelerate anything as a thetan, just simply go around and admiringly zap somebody.

So, you've got an alternate technique, and one is an objective action-motion technique, and the other is a motion-subjective technique. And the other one - the subjective one is - basically, what you're trying to do is get him to expand and contract spheres with force. And you can do it slowly if you want to: "Take this sphere and bring it out and bring it in again and bring it out and bring it in. Now inhibit it from going out. Now have somebody else inhibit it from coming in." And you could do this. You're just processing flows.

Now, we get a situation, then, where people get theta cleared or unaberrated and they'll stay that way and then they'll drift back into this speed. And this speed, of course, is trying to compare itself to MEST speed, and MEST speed is the final analysis of it. And I want you to look at the fast rate of speed at which this desk is moving at the moment. Now, that's about the speed the MEST universe wants you to go.

Your trick is, while working with implosions and explosions and nothingness, to get them all over the place in large masses and in quantity - quantity. Work on quantity rather than perfection - lots of them.

And to a lot of people that's very satisfactory. You go around - you go out to California, for instance, and you'll find people, all over the place, all over California - anywhere from about two hundred miles south of San Francisco (that's where it starts) down to the Mexican border - and you'll find in this band enormous quantities of people who have finally gotten the idea that the best thing to be is about as - in the same fast motion as this desk.

Now, I had people the other day on Perimeter Processing that we were doing here, running one at a time. No, no, no. Run five million at a time if you can, but not one. Run six run eight, run ten: "Let's put ten under you, ten above you, ten in front of you, ten in back of you." Fine. That's real good.

Now, you move into this area and you've got a little bit of get-up left in you - you came out of some northern clime or something - and you get down into that climate and the next thing you know, you think, "Well, gee, being that desk isn't so bad." So you start to sit down and be a desk. Well, the end of it is - it isn't that it's fatal to a thetan. Nothing is fatal to a thetan completely (because somebody, sooner or later, is going to blow the universe up), but it certainly, certainly isn't productive of a happy state of interest in beingness. And yet that's what everybody wants to do in this country. They want to take a nice long vacation every summer. They want to take a nice, long rest after they've retired. And the idea is to get in everybody's anchor points - excuse me, get in some cash and put it in a bank so it can be saved, see, and then having gotten it in the bank so it can be saved, then to expend it from sixty-four onwards, see, so they don't have to work.

You're actually drilling him, as a thetan, putting mock-ups out in space. And this is the basic trouble there is with mock-ups: they explode and they implode. They explode when he doesn't want them to and they implode when he doesn't want them to. Well, if you can make him do a location of his mockups in space simultaneously with making mock-ups implode and explode, you're doing about all the subjective processing that can be done. It's about all of it that can be done.

This whole idea of "don't have to work" is the same as "don't push away the MEST vectors which are coming in from 360 degrees." And "don't have to work" means to be satisfied to let the patterns which MEST makes exist on every hand untroubled and undisturbed. In view of the fact these are sometimes interesting, but not always interesting (these patterns), this becomes idiotic - the idea of not working.

And if you were making him move from one corner of the universe to the other corner of the universe - either move a spot from one corner of the universe and then be the spot, you see, you have jumped the exact bridge from subjective to objective processing. That's a very narrow little footbridge and it's right there and it's in plain sight. You see, explosions-implosions, moving them around.

The beautiful sadness of labor. We had somebody here moving these desks up (if you had a chance to look at that boy). Poor kid! He'd do a little bit of work - he'd do a half an hour's work and he had to be thanked for it for a half an hour or he just couldn't live. It was finishing him. He's just spinning in on this beautiful sadness - that was all he was running - the beautiful sadness of having to work. Now, if you talked to him about retirement, he'd really eat this up like mad. And what do you know! Actually, his entire future beingness and health and everything else simply depends upon his being able to heave more desks up more stairs. If he'd just square around and say, "Well, we'll throw lots of desks up lots of stairs and lots of desks down lots of stairs," what's he doing? He's putting out great, big heavy anchor points and doing it successfully. That's not going to cave him in. Sitting still, however, and accepting it all - "Narr, narr. No-no, no-no!"

He'll eventually get so that when he puts up an explosion he puts it across the street on that window ledge. He doesn't put it up in some kind of a mock-up of his own because he's got to get to the point where he always would put them up in - right here in this universe, before he can finally start putting them up in real good space of his own. You have to go through, because people will put them in their own space on an inverted dynamic, and you want them to put them in space on a noninverted dynamic - on its own dynamic. Now, we got that?

Now, medical doctors - and I have nothing but praise for medical doctors, they've stood in there so long. Imagine men actually dealing in the field of healing without knowing anything about it. Isn't that fascinating? What courage, what courage. These poor guys - now they've been helped out by the biochemists. They've got penicillin and so forth. And some of them were very skillful in minor surgery. They do sew up a good this or that or tie a good bandage. These boys were not bad in that department. But as far as healing was concerned, their whole idea was slow motion. Slow motion down.

Well, what's the process we're going to run now? We're going to run an extroversion-introversion process which I've already informed you is an excellent process and which you've already seen is an excellent process in Six Steps to Better Beingness, which is only a variation of extroversion-introversion processing.

This guy is a businessman. He's been up on the street. He's been making lots of money and he's just work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work. And he gets into the doctor's hands and the doctor says, "Now, what you need is a long rest." Yeoooow! Kiss him goodbye because the next thing he'll have is ulcers. The next thing he'll have is endocrine ills. How did he get to a point where he would go to a doctor in the first place? He had somebody around him saying, "My goodness, Mr. Jones, you certainly work hard."

Six Steps to Better Beingness, if you will notice further, is a static - stopped process. It works stops out of the case, therefore it's ideally adapted to Homo sap.

Now, it's just about as logical to use that tone of voice with regard to work as "My goodness, that's an awfully big dinner. My, you have a fine house, don't you." Get the idea? I mean, they've simply added that emotional tone to putting out effort. They're afraid of drifting back into the effort band and so they try to remain below it in the emotional band of sympathy or something. It's just a method of slowing everybody down. It's like police action. This person who's so sympathetic about how hard you have to work. Oh, shoot him, shoot him.

We're giving you, now, a motion process which is subjectively getting explosions and implosions and nothingness. That's - really, you can throw anything else into that you want - preferably in brackets, the bracket of five. You know what the bracket of five is now: that's doing it to yourself, somebody else doing it to themselves, and other people doing it to other people, and you doing it to another person or other people, and other people doing it to you. That's a bracket of five. Okay.

Now, this guy, Mr. Jones, was doing fine till he ran into such a computation. And he got this around in his environment a lot. And he finally went to the doctor and the doctor compounded it. And the doctor finally couldn't do anything for him except give him all this advice and sympathy on how hard he was working. So he had to turn around and go to the church. The doctor finally advised him he'd better go to church. So he turned around and went to church. And after he'd been in church for a while, why, he was still pretty tired. And the parson wasn't getting quite enough - wasn't getting quite enough donation out of him, so he kept saying to him about, "Had he thought about his soul?" In other words they've just got it all arranged. It'll go automatically on an inverted 1 to an inverted 8. It'll go automatically if left undisturbed. But this society can catalyze it. They can speed it up. They can run a fellow from a 1 to an 8 in a couple of years. They got it on an assembly-line basis. And one is "the beautiful sadness of having to work," and the other one is "turn to religion," and the other one has, "have you ever thought of God?" And here we go! I mean, those are the extremes.

And doing that in terms of locating masses of explosions and implosions in various places - behind, above, in front, below, to the sides - you will find that the perceptic change on the part of your preclear working this process is greater than any you've observed before. And it will be as good as you are willing to keep up with the speed with which he's operating, and lead him just a hair. And that you must now develop as an artificial act.

Now, possibly - possibly he got into psychoanalysis before he went to see the doctor, but they would've told him "It's sex." Would have told this, "Lady," for instance, "the thing for you to do is to go out and have several clandestine affairs." That's their standard advice. Young girl, something like that, "the thing for you to do is have some sexual relationships." (Preferably with the doctor, of course.) But ...

Now, an actor can learn to be a murdered man without being murdered and without immediately walking off the stage with the wound he has just received gaping in his throat with a somatic. Therefore, you can learn to be an auditor and assume a certain level of speed which doesn't make you walk off the stage at that speed level. You see? You can assume a roll as an auditor which you recognize as artificial and which does not thereafter enforce upon you the speed of the preclear.

Oh, you think I'm joking. But the manual that came out for the guidance of psychiatrists, written by Frieda, what the heck is her name? Oh, the great Viennese psychiatrist. She's changed her name two or three times. She keeps getting married. She's an old gal. She's very handy with psychotics. Boy, she's real hot with the psychotics. She uses the lame process of just imitating the psychotic. Anything the psychotic does, she does. She's a very brave old gal.

The only reason you get mixed up with the preclear and his aberrations is because you buy his speed, heart and soul. You'll do a better job if you don't buy his speed. So, your first job should be to pick up the speed of the preclear. And so we see that in Six Steps to Better Beingness an extroverted-introverted process which is motionless. And what I've given you now is an extroversion-introversion process which is all action, and therefore will get up to motion and get up to force with fair rapidity. And this is the process I would like you to run.

But she wrote - I'm very fond of her, although she has occasionally, in Dianetics - one day, she turned around to a medical doctor who was there and she said - she said to him, "Please, please, please, doctor, tell me there's no such thing as a prenatal!" The doctor couldn't tell her any such thing, of course.

Okay. That's the end of this except for the assignments for the weekend.

Well, anyway, she wrote this manual of directions for psychiatrists and the stress of it is "You really shouldn't sleep with your patients. If you - if you have to, why, try to - if you have to have this kind of recreation - try to get it outside the office, if possible." Fantastic, fantastic book and manual of instructions for psychiatrists. That's their standard manual.

Anyway. So they'd catch him going all the way down. Well, of course, the kid is caught at home on the first dynamic: "You mustn't be so conceited. You mustn't think of yourself all the time. You must share everything you have. You mustn't talk yourself up. You mustn't brag," and so on. A little bit later they're telling the boy, "You mustn't fight," and the girl, "You mustn't throw yourself around like a tomboy." And so they - it's arranged. There's a chute there in the society. The society has catalyzed it. Well, that isn't saying that a person can't stay in relationship to the society. It's just saying simply that this society is all rigged.

Now, the society itself, as an organism, can keep on going if it pours through enough cells and bleeds them dry. Well, I don't see that the society's so valuable that everybody has to be treated as a cell. And I don't see that we have to spin in every thetan, particularly.

Now, getting straight back to this. Everybody will - which is all I was trying to point out - is everybody will dramatize this doggone universe from this entering wedge: Don't put out energy. See that? If you get them to a point where they won't put out energy but will accept MEST energy and make facsimiles of it and then use the facsimiles, you've got the entering edge. And the entering edge is "Accept light with which to perceive." "Use exterior light sources with which to perceive; don't use radar."

I was driving through fog this morning. It was very, very heavy fog. I was clipping along at a pretty good rate of speed. What I was doing actually was radaring the road. Solid metal objects would show up anywheres to two or three hundred feet in advance of the car, and so forth. And I was going to take my foot off the throttle and then fifteen, twenty feet away they would suddenly come in sight. All right. There is no - that isn't a trick. You look on something like that as supernatural, sort of. I - well, I mean the society, not you.

One day I docked a ship in a fog in Boston Harbor - with all the races they have along that - without seeing the dock. And this was very easy to do.

There's an old navy story that goes on like this about courses and speeds from the Virgin Islands and so forth. And they finally get up to the - they finally get up to, oh, the eighteenth or twentieth change of course and speed and so forth. The skipper, all the time, is down in his bunk. And he comes up on deck and issues an order and goes down below without even looking at the course. And he finally comes up on deck after they've been at sea out for about three days, everybody completely lost, including the navigator. And he says, "All engines stop." Black night, can't see a thing, fog. "All engines stop." And they stop all engines. And he said, "All engines back one. All engines back one." He said, "Port engine ahead one. Port engine stop." Leans over the rail and he says, "Is this the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Pier Two?" Voice comes back up. "Okay. Give us a line."

That's it. This, you see - this, you see, would look terribly mysterious to people and yet that's the way you ought to be looking. You should have no more dependence on that stuff coming in the window to see this room. It is just idiotic, it's idiotic. It's like: "Well, what you need in order to drive a car is a Mack truck, too." I mean, it's one of those statements. And when you get up the line you'll recognize this more and more. You're unwilling to feel at a distance because you've been trained to believe that it's so bad - these things that surround you. You just don't want to touch these things, and so on, because they're bad. Bad? What the hell can happen to you? Nothing! Nothing! Absolutely nothing! All right.

What I'm talking about then is that your inverted dynamics are from this exact point: the first acceptance of energy from the MEST universe which, of course, is what? The first acceptance of the MEST universe's anchor points as your anchor points exclusively. And from there on it's a rolly coaster. It might take you 74 trillion MEST universe years to run the whole doggone thing. But it's still just one of those things.

Now, that's the first entrance point. The processes to embrace this have to do with resolving implosions, one way or the other, subjectively, one way or the other, which includes just getting up to motion subjectively, and objectively getting up to motion and then getting space and constructing space. These are the processes.

We'll talk about these a little more in a moment when we've got a second hour of lecture this morning.

Let's take a break.