The more an individual believes he has to handle energy with energy, the more he’ll believe he has to communicate through energy. So, if he has to communicate through energy, it’s going to take him a long time to communicate through the energy. Right?

And this is January the 18th, 1954.

Actually, his communication isn’t carried on in this fashion at all. You people sit here every morning and think I talk to you with a voice. Okay, I do talk to you with a voice. I put it on a tape and it’s magnetic and all that sort of thing. Sure, it’s all very mechanical.

The earlier lecture, which was a theoretical lecture on time, is actually necessary to this lecture. Time-time and havingness, time and particles.

Well, I talk to you mostly-I just monitor a sense message. I wouldn’t care much how we were putting this communication across-be utterly unimportant. You just happen to accept this type of communication better.

You can get all fogged up about time if you want to, but about the only barrier that is the apparently untappable barrier is time. But an examination of this theory and practice will unbaffle you with great speed as far as time is concerned.

All right, let’s get in, then, to the formulas involving the processes. The basic process is ‘Two particles you don’t object to having apart. Two particles you don’t object to having together.” Simple one, isn’t it?

Time, the barrier. And, I repeat, you’ve heard this remark often. It is quite important: The MEST universe is a game consisting of barriers. The MEST universe is a game consisting of barriers. When all seems lost, for God sakes, look at that. When all seems lost, that one will bring you out of the wilderness. It’s a game consisting of barriers.

And at first, the individual consents to a certain series of barriers and these become very solid and very real to him and so he plays a game. Then the next thing that happens is he begins to conceive that there are more barriers than there are and he gets up to a situation where he thinks there are “thought barriers.”

That’ll give you a change in tone on the individual. It will give a constant rise on the tone indicator side of a meter, just done that way. You’d have to do it in brackets if you’re going to make sense all the way around. And you have to treat objects and animals and people-objects, animals, people, spaces, just to broaden out the technique.

You know, “I can’t think about certain things because if I think about certain things, I would have to go out beyond that barrier” and, of course, he can’t go beyond that barrier because-he knows he can’t go beyond that barrier because there isn’t any barrier there. But that’s true of the whole universe: there is no barrier there. But the “thought barrier” is down there at the last stage after Effort, you know, that’s why Effort and then Think-why they come together in that order on the scale from Know down to Sex. There’s Effort and then, under that, Thinkingness.

The basic technique though, you see, is “Two particles you don’t object to having apart. Two particles you don’t object to having together.” That’s the basic technique and that technique resolves time and this opens up to us a new type of process, which process immediately is monitored on an E-Meter this way: you look for the fellow on a “stuck.” You look for the “stuck,” you don’t look for the motion of the needle. You don’t look for charge, you look for absence of charge in terms of a stuck needle. In other words, you’re looking for a mass or you’re looking for an absence of a mass. And you get that; usually it’ll show up on a terrifically dispersing meter or a stuck needle. One of these meters that’ll just rise-rise-rise-rise-rise-rise-rise-rise-rise-rise or just stick. Either one of those two tell you what you’re looking for.

Well, all right, the fellow gets here, he sees this wall, he looks at the wall and he says, “That’s a fine wall” and so forth. Well, that’s the barrier he agreed upon and then these others sneaked in on him. And he begins to believe that any action or motion which he undertakes will find, intervening between him and it, a barrier-one of the several types of barriers which there are in the MEST universe.

Soon as you find such a manifestation and the subject of it, you just beat it to death on the two whatever-it-wases, apart and together, in brackets. And you look over there on your tone needle and you’ll see, strangely and mystically, that the tone needle is doing a very constant but very rather rapid rise from stuck or utterly unstable to a constant and steady rise.

And those barriers are very few and they’re very specific and there aren’t any additional barriers to them. The first barrier is space and the second barrier is energy. You know, you could have an area so-space so flickeringly dangerous in terms of energy that an individual would not like to cross it. So that becomes an energy barrier and this, when condensed, becomes an object barrier. An object is a wall, a truck-anything which can stand in the road. And the next barrier out from this is, of course, time. And that is the hardest barrier to define, because it exists so that the playing field will continue and so that the events which have taken place on the playing field will no longer be on the playing field in that form. And so time, as an invention, is quite a barrier.

Now, you could just run this blind on a preclear and you’ll get a tone rise. It’s very strange, single out a process and say, “Well, this process gets a tone rise, this is very rapid and other processes don’t get a tone rise.”

Now, the problem of livingness is an obstacle race with regard to these barriers. It is an obstacle race, really, in the sense of we’ve got to travel from spot A to spot B, but it’s one that must persist through time. So we get an almost indefinable barrier and then say that an individual has to tour through and cross this barrier. Well, there’s no crossing it, of course. You could just sit still in one place and if you maintained yourself in a state of sanity, you would eventually have crossed the time barrier. There’s nothing to this. It does not require travel.

Well, all processes get a tone rise to the degree that they impinge upon that formula that you ve just had. So, Give me three people you’re not.” The fellow immediately has to separate two particles. “Three places you’re not.” He merely—immediately has to check the position of particles.And that’s why you don’t let somebody just rattle off to you, “Oh, yeah, I’m not in those places,” so on. No sir, you’d better make them check the position of those particles. That’s why taking a fixed idea and moving it around-you move it in relationship to exactly placed other particles and so you get a change-why you get a rise on that.

Now, an individual will get confused on this and people have this: they think the future is over to the right, the past is over to the left, present is out in front of them and various combinations of this character. And they think time has direction.

But all those are slow actually, by my experience, compared to this other as a direct process for processing time. Time is “havingness.” Havingness “consists of particles.” Time “consists of particles coming together and pushing apart.” Okay. That’s all there is to it.

Well, this is all very interesting, because time doesn’t have direction. And yet, by getting through time, they think that they should get across an area of space. And so we get a preclear being very upset about staying in one place or maintaining himself stationary or immobile. He feels, then, that he is not keeping up with the game because he is not going across something. So we get a very hectic state and the thing called time, according to one of the Axioms of the Logics and Axioms of 1951, is the single arbitrary that causes aberration. Therefore, any process which handles time is actually of great benefit.

Now, you work at this on a case and you’ll find immediately that he’s stuck in his head 3 to the degree that he has to have particles together. And he does this pressor beam escape to the degree that he’s got to have particles apart.

An individual has to have some clarity on the subject of what is space and what is an object and what is energy, in order to understand what is time. But that you handled all the space on the case would not mean that you had handled all the time on the case. So, our ultimate in processing is to get this time barrier nailed down, so that time becomes a very important thing to processing. The moment that we had a direct process for time, processing itself became a very easy thing.

You’ll find in your background as a preclear and in your preclear’s background that there were people of mixed types, ordinarily, but there were people of such fixed intention as to cause an enormous upset in terms of time.

Now, when we speak of more obstacles, let’s look over the problem of knowledge. And we find out that an individual cuts down his knowingness, at first, by creating space and saying he doesn’t know what’s over there. Space is antipathetic toward knowingness because it requires lookingness in order to know. Before one has space, of course, one simply knows.

For instance, the preclear’s mother may well have been obsessed with the idea of pulling particles apart. It demonstrated itself in terms of having to have people apart. Maybe this woman was suffering from a postpartum psychosis: trying to get the baby away from self, you see? Trying to get two particles apart. And you’ll find out that this preclear’s mother has broken up his marriages, has broken up his friendships, broken up his relationship with his family in all directions and has gone on slumps or propitiations where this person had to get everything together in the family. And then this would immediately be followed by a slow explosion. You see that?

Now, the low-toned case, by the way, can get into a beautiful state of confusion and get down there in thinkingness and start pervading energywise all over the place. And he gets buttered all over the universe and he thinks that he’s in a high state of knowingness.

And then there would be somebody in his family who was completely obsessed with having to bring particles in proximity. Had to pile them up and bring them close together. Couldn’t let any particles get apart.

Well, he’s in a high state of guessingness, but he’s not in a high state of knowingness. This is the mockery side of the Tone Scale.

Now, I told you that if you could just get a preclear to reject some particles, you’ve got a psychotherapy. This is a very usable psychotherapy. Well, it’s only a partial psychotherapy, because you’ll find preclears that you’ll have to get into a state of mind where they can bring a couple together, you see? Particles apart, particles together.

They got that way pretty badly in the East (I mean, by that, India) and it confounds a person very much that their knowledge is so uncoupled to certainty itself. Well now, certainty itself is an upper echelon of-а very high upper echelon of certainty. Certainty and knowledge are the same thing.

So you’ll get this preclear, if you got him exteriorized, finally, would all of a sudden do a bunk for Arcturus. Pressor beam action-particles apart.

Well, this inverts to a point where an individual takes his only certainty in terms of a playing field. And a playing field is of the essence, he thinks, in terms of action, motion and continued interest.

And the other one just can’t seem to get these two particles apart any way you look at it. You just can’t get him out of his head! If he gets out of his head, he’s stone-blind-which is to say, all particles that I have here must stay together, but no particles out there must come in to these particles which I have here, which means no perception. And that’s a problem of perception then. See that?

All right When we have time as an obstacle, we of course don’t have a span. And time only becomes an obstacle because it confounds the individual who is having trouble with space. Individual has trouble with time, he has trouble with space; he has trouble with space, he has trouble with time. That’s because space is conquered by removing one’s self or his viewpoint between A and B. Space is conquered then by travel and time is not conquered by travel.

Now, communication, as I’ve told you over and over and over, is your index of this sort of thing. But what it’s really an index of is how much he’s using energy, how much he’s obsessed about particles. Because a person communicates as well as he doesn’t use particles to communicate, actually. All right.

In science fiction we have “time travel.” That’s terribly interesting and, in spite of any remark I might have made to the contrary earlier by a year or something like that, the past is not attainable, nor is the future itself attainable. But one can know what has been in the past and one can know what has been in the future, mostly because where pure knowingness is concerned, there is neither past nor future. And where the universe is concerned itself, there is only, in terms of time, a changing pattern of particles. And this changing pattern of particles itself brings about an illusion which we know as time and time is an illusion.

We have then as a basic process: “Two particles you don’t object to having apart. Two particles you don’t object to having together.” You can fancy that up: “Give me a particle that you don’t object to having in motion. A particle that you don’t object to having stopped.” And “that you don’t object to” is of course the most feather touch of the process. You’ll be amazed to find many a preclear sitting there for several minutes trying to find two particles.

Now, an individual can predict the position of particles as well as he can know. He can’t predict them any better than that. The problem of competence is, in itself, the problem of confidence. Competence is the ability to predict two particles, their position in relationship to each other-that’s two plus particles, more than two particles, at least two. One particle has no position. I mean, there’s just one particle and there’s no other particle to relate it to, so it has no position.

Now, the significance that shows up on this is that he starts to run out of particles with the rapidity that he is aberrated on the subject where he’s trying to find the particles. In other words, a sudden scarcity of particles starts showing up. On something you want-"Give me two people now that you don’t mind having together.”

Now, the first particle, of course, gets its assigned position just by simply saying it’s there and the second particle gets its position by saying that another particle is next to it.

Well, he’ll give you two and then he’ll give you a couple more and then he starts to run out of people. And then he’ll get two more and then he’s really running out of people now. And, gee, he just can’t think of two other people and finally he tells you, “Well, it’s because I just haven’t known many people.”

People get to believe that the universe, then, has a “prime post unposted”-they think there’s a basic particle to which all other things relate. They get this mixed up with God and we have a Prime Mover Unmoved. But the position of this particle and all other things relative to that particle would be a very orderly way of having a universal time and so forth. It doesn’t work that way, however. Every particle in this universe is in relationship to every other particle in this universe.

And you say, “Well, offhand, how many people do you think you’ve known in the last thirty-five years?”

Now, a thetan can simply step sideways from this type of particles, which you might say MEST universe particles, and create his own particles, create his own timespan and his own universe. And as a consequence, we have a problem in three universes, so we have a problem in three times. But the time in the MEST universe is a very simple thing. It simply depends upon particles moving in relationship to particles, without any particle being the prime particle.

“Oh, um, not too many. Five thousand.”

Individuals, however, believing there is a prime particle, will conjure up one and say, “Well now, this is the particle by which I am relating all other particles.” And an individual can use-for instance, let’s take somebody who lives in a mountainous country and there’s a big, nice mountain up there and it’s sitting up there very, very visible against the sky and it seems to be utterly timeless. And the relationship of people to the mountain would be his concept of time and that would be his concept of position.

So, you carry it out into a bracket. You have to work a very limited bracket on this, of course, because you just get at other people-there are several ways you can work a bracket, but it’s very limited. At least get other people, see? “Get somebody else,” I meant to say.

Now, there sits the mountain-that’s “prime post unposted.” And “Joe is gone” means Joe is gone away from this mountain. “Joe has been gone away from this mountain many motions of Mary,” you see. And that means he’d been gone a long time.

“Now, get somebody else and get two particles this person doesn’t mind having apart, or two people.” See, object... When you keep saying "particle,” why, they just get into the groove. But if you consider a person as a particle or any object as a particle or a wall as a particle, it’s just how big is the particle or how mobile is the particle or a symbol is a particle. “Give me two words you don’t object to having apart.” You wouldn’t think that would stick somebody-it will.

You know, Mary has been going back and forth to an office for two years, but this two years-we’ve gotten into the big trap of a symbol. What it actually is, is Mary has been going back and forth to this office so many times. See, back and forth to this office, all the time we’ve got-and the office is in relationship to this mountain, so her relative motion in relationship to the mountain... See, the office is transient, you can’t depend on that office, but you can depend on that mountain. So, we get Mary going back and forth that many times and Joe being gone that many times Mary has gone back and forth, you see? And so we get, then, what a person refers to and calls “a long time.”

The fellow all of a sudden says, “Oh, I don’t know, I just can’t seem to think of a couple.” Now, there’s your Step VI. This of course, obviously-he doesn’t mind having these two symbols apart: “the cat”. They have to be apart in order to be intelligible. And yet he can’t quite grab this and he’ll finally come up with one eventually, something of the sort.

But this thing called time is, you might say-there are several types of symbols and one of them is, of course, the undefined symbol. It’s a symbol which is a meaningless symbol, and it’s that which throws language for a loop. Language becomes aberrative to the ratio that it has in it undefined symbols, so nobody has defined this thing called “time.” Everybody kind of knows what you mean when you say “time.” And nobody came along and said what time was.

You want to keep hammering and pounding at them about how certain they are about this. Because they’ll tell you quite ordinarily, they’re not certain they want “the” and the “cat” apart. “The” and the “cat” belong together in a sentence. And here, because you’re saying together and apart, you’re solving space rather directly.

A physicist doesn’t know what time it is. If you want to see somebody rocky on his pins on the subject of time, you go talk to a physicist. You talk to a physicist about time and he immediately starts wildly chattering about space. It hasn’t anything to do with time. He starts talking about the speed of something and when it exceeds this constant of c, why, it foreshortens invisibly because of the common denominator of poop. Well, it’s pure balderdash!

All right. Now, there’s a lower process than this which hits the same thing and this process covers communication rather directly and you use this process as a variation. But don’t kid yourself that it’s as valuable as the other one because it’s not. It’s getting more covert. And a particle is as unworkable as it is covert, in direct ratio. Of course, all processes are to some degree covert.

A particle, by the way, gets up above c with great ease. That’s one of the most obvious things, because, you see, if a particle couldn’t move above c and couldn’t move at c-which was Einstein’s latest adventure into Alice in Wonderland’s wonderland—his latest adventure was that, “at the speed c, everything stopped forever.” He’s trying to get things stopped, he’s up there at Princeton and Princeton has got things pretty badly stopped anyhow. They have a lot of gray granite that sits around-it’s architecturally very perfect-but their idea of speed ends with trying to get somebody to class.

You start asking the fellow-in brackets-for knowledge, perceptions, emotions, efforts, which is to say, force and objects, thoughts, symbols, food and sex, which must not depart, arrive or travel, start, change or stop. Now, out of that formula you could make a tremendous amount of stuff. That’s knowledge, perceptions, emotions, efforts, force, which is to say, objects, thoughts, symbols like words, foods and sex, sex partners, children, babies, so forth, which must not depart, arrive, travel or start, change or stop and you run that in brackets. It’s a very effective process. And we’re talking mainly about exteriorization, you know, when we’re talking about this. Even though it’s the most basic process.

When he announced this, he announced one of the most idiotic things which science has been presented for a long time. But he’s a boy, he’s right there, you know, with the atomic wizards and all that sort of thing and they’re-all think this too. And they’ll speculate and talk about this and they get wilder and wilder and more and more symbolical and symbolical until they get lost.

Here’s another one which makes the individual look at reality: “Three things to which you do not have to agree to communicate with or to feel affinity for,” in brackets. “Give me three things you don’t have to agree with right now.” “Three things you don’t have to communicate with.” “Three things you don’t have to feel affinity for,” in brackets.

Look, if 186,000 miles a second brought a particle to a full stop, the sunlight would never reach Earth. It happens to be traveling at 186,000 miles a second, so obviously it can’t move to Earth. And yet this terrific simplicity would just miss the boys entirely. Why? Because they’re wandering, see, into this vast morass of symbols which are undefined.

Now, a little note as we go along there, the Seventh Dynamic is the spooky one. (Isn’t that a nice pun?) They’re all spooked on the Seventh Dynamic. I hate that to be such a horrible pun, but I’m just putting it that way so that it-so kind of nail it down.

A mathematician gets into beautiful condition-he puts down lambda and a half a dozen other symbols and then he defines them for you and if they don’t fit in his equation, he defines them some other way half way through the equation. He’s just as happy as can be to do this.

You say to this fellow, “All right, give me three ghosts that aren’t present.”

Well, you see that, don’t you, that you’d never have sunlight on Earth if light stopped at 186,000 miles a second. As a matter of fact, in space opera, a ship is going slow at five light-years, that’s five times 186,000 miles a second. Otherwise, you’d just be forever between galaxies.

“Nyah!" The fellow says, “Well, almost anybody could-present? Uh, no, you couldn’t tell about ghosts, uh-uh-you-uh-mmm . . .” See, it takes knowingness. It takes knowledge. And that’s about the only purity on that level. You see, a ghost, he’s up there toward knowledge or missingness and no-particleness to a point of where the fellow who, depending on particles to tell him everything. Boy, he really can’t tell anything about this at all, so he says, no, he couldn’t do this.

I’m not now talking and using space opera to controvert the great brains of atomic physics, but it seems like a few tubemen and so forth, up in space, could give them a lot of lessons. Because here is an idiocy that any child can see: that we’d never get any Sun shining on us if Einstein’s theory was correct-which it doesn’t happen to be.

Well, all right, “How about some ghosts of fiction?”

All right. This adds up to this fact that we have a Sun here which has a series of particles moving from it at such velocity and in such abundance that we cannot count them and you could not look at the Sun today and look at the Sun tomorrow and see any difference between the two Suns.

“Oh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s-sure-there’s Banquo’s ghost, he didn’t exist. So he is-well, well, wait a minute now-I don’t know, he might have been a real ghost, you know? Just a minute now. Well, uh . .. Oh, yeah, there’s Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn” (to quote a preclear). “There’s Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and so on, they had a ghost in that Huck Finn. They talk about that ghost. That ghost didn’t exist. They even found out he didn’t exist. So that ghost isn’t present!” [panting]

Now, possibly by some very, very, very intricate system of measurement and with a great deal of equipment and that sort of thing, you could count the number of photons and probably find that it would change from day-to-day and time to time or you could measure sunspots and you would find that these, too, would grow and shrink. But snnspots are kind of funny. For a month, without alteration, I have watched a sunspot traveling around the Sun. The Sun moves very, very slowly, really. It has a period of revolution just like Earth has. And you can watch these sunspots and you can watch them travel across the face of the Sun, but they wouldn’t be very good to tell you what day it was because they themselves are changing at a vast rate of speed on the face of the Sun. In other words, here’s an indeterminate particle.

And we keep beating it around until finally the guy does find some ghosts that aren’t present. Just remember that you are dealing with a ghost who is afraid of ghosts. A spirit who is afraid of spirits, a soul that is desperately afraid of souls and you’ll make more progress in Theta Clearing. That Seventh Dynamic is very important.

7 Well now, let’s take the Sun, however, and find that we have another orb going around the Sun, which is Earth, and this describes a vast orbit around the Sun and therefore we have two particles. And so the other particles are so small and so mixed up that we couldn’t tell by that exactly what time it was, so we have to look at the two particles-Earth and the Sun-in order to get some idea of time. But if you just had these two particles, you would have to add a lot of knowingness to know what time it was, too.

The Sixth is the most important when you’re handling psychosomatics and body ills and that sort of thing. The Sixth is much more important than any of the others. Next to that, of course, is the Seventh. And following in back of that, you get the most aberrated one is perpetuity, because so many people are so low on the Lookingness Scale or the Knowledge Scale that they’re clear down there below food, which is Sex, and they’ll hit into that bracket rather easily. But by the way, don’t beat it too long, because they’ll simply leave that bracket and come up to food. Cute, huh? And then you’ve got to handle food.

See, but you could observe something about Earth. You could observe from any given spot on Earth, a consistent look and you would find that there was a tilt going on. You know, as Earth gets around, it’s on a tilted axis and so the tilt itself would give us the idea that Earth was in motion with relationship to the Sun. And in addition to that, Earth has another motion: it rotates and so the Sun is visible and then not visible.

In other words, after you handle Freud, you would have had to have taken up-what was this character that ate everybody here recently? Oh, I don’t know, he wrote a book How to Live Without Eating.

If you were standing off in space someplace and looking at Earth and looking at the Sun, you’d never know what time it was. See, I mean, it wouldn’t tell you a thing. It takes a much more minute observation from the knowingness angle, that is, the data angle on the surface of the Earth, to use these two items for time. Because you have to be down there on Earth and notice the position of the Sun in relationship to the horizon on Earth in consecutive days in order to see that we were advancing in terms of time. Well, advancing and retarding and that sort of thing.

Female voice: Gayelord Hauser.

All we would notice, really, that the Sun and the horizon were altering position. Let’s take every day the Sun goes across, but that’s uniform, every day the Sun goes across. Okay. Well, is it higher or lower in relationship to the horizon? And that would give you time. So that time requires what? It requires a viewpoint, you’ve got to have a viewpoint in order to see this. If you didn’t have a viewpoint, why, you know, some scientist could come along and say, “Well, you look-a-here, you could get a viewpoint there, you could put a little recorder down on Earth and this recorder would take the angle of the Sun to the horizon and so forth and it would write it down right there what time it was.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gayelord Hauser. I don’t make any pun on his name now. There isn’t any reason to believe that this man’s eatingness had anything to do with housingness. But you would have had to come up through Hauser, and then you would have come up through there, you’d have had to go into Korzybski. And when you got up to Korzybski, you’d have had to go into the field of probably Schopenhauer and electronic machinery and of thinkingness and computers and that sort of thing and just carrying up the Knowledge Scale. And up above that, why, you would have had to have handled bricklaying and furniture moving and that’s much senior to that, you see. And up above that, why, lightning bolts and, finally, we would have gotten into emotions and we’d have had to have handled emotions rather exhaustively and then perceptions, including smell and hearing and so forth. And then we would have gotten up to knowledge. In other words, that would have carried you up the whole span with the preclear.

And you’d say, “Who’d read the recorder?”

But, we say, “Two particles which you don’t object to having apart, together, and in motion-let’s get a sound that you don’t object to having against your eardrum.” And it instantly rearranges a person’s entire concept of what’s happening. He’s liable to throw a fit on you. “Let’s get some sounds.” And he’ll start naming them off very pleasantly and realizing he’s holding them out there about two yards. The only reason sonic is off is just that: he’s trying to hold two particles apart. And you’ll find this individual quite ordinarily who has sound shut-off is either trying to hold two sounds very firmly together or trying to keep two very far apart.

“Oh well, you could have a robot that would read the recorder and so forth.”

Almost anybody in the society who’s been thoroughly trained into not using dirty words, for instance, has had the basic aberration on sound laid in, but that’s actually way down there in symbols. He’s afraid he’ll hear certain words, he’s afraid certain words will be heard and, gee, that’s very bad because he’s got to keep two particles apart, he feels. He’s got to keep a particle away from that eardrum. And if he’s got to keep a particle away from the eardrum and a truck comes by and demonstrates to him that it can put any number of sounds it wants to right up against his eardrum, he starts to get frantic in the presence of noise.

“Who would wind up the robot?”

All right, here’s another process: “Things which you aren’t duplicating” is another method and a higher method than those I’ve given you before. “Things you aren’t duplicating” is a very high level of workability.

“Oh well, of course, you could have these robots turned out...”

All right. Now, we’ll get it from a high level of workability into a bric-a-brac bracket. 7 You want to know what your pc is trying to do. Well, running or auditing, itself, is this: he’s trying to put out a thought to get an effect. And he dramatizes that when he’s being audited. Did you ever see one put out a thought and then wait for the effect to hit him? Put out the thought and wait for the effect to hit him. Well, he knows there’s one thing he can effect and that’s on the First Dynamic, which is to say, his own body. So, he becomes very happy when he finally gets a somatic; he has created an effect with a thought. That’s what he’s dramatizing and that is actually what a thetan has been trying to do all the way up and down the track. He’s been trying to get an effect by putting out a thought.

“Who would build them?”

And when you see him doing that, why, you just run him on this: You say, “All right, now, put out a thought, now get an effect back from it. Put out a thought, now get an effect back from it.” And you’ll practically kick out nine tons of his automatic machinery just by that. Because the effect lands in the ... Pardon me, there’s another law that goes along with this and that is “the effect lands in the zone of the dynamic on which the pc is stuck.” A zone of dynamic.

“What do you mean putting this ‘who’ in here all the time. We hate people!” [laughter] That’s the immediate answer to that. It takes, actually, a viewpoint to measure this thing called time.

If you could conceive of a pc as a spot with a circle around him-that spot being the First Dynamic, the circle around him being the Second Dynamic, with another circle around those, concentric, see, that being the Third Dynamic, and another circle around that being the Fourth Dynamic and another circle around that being the Fifth and another circle around that being the Sixth and another circle around that being the Seventh and another circle around that being the Eighth-you would have a spot with seven circles which would comprise your eight dynamics. And your pc can be mapped this way. The thought which he puts out will land on one of those zone points. He is, in other words, restricted in terms of dynamics.

Now, the funny part of it is that radium does a kind of a cockeyed job of measuring time. It deteriorates at a certain rate of speed. But to have time, who observed its whole mass to get its half mass? Radium doesn’t care what time it is, nobody cares what time it is. The universe would just go run on and on and on and on and on and on and on without anything happening at all with relationship to time if somebody didn’t care what time it was. So, we’re just looking at it in a complete reverse when we say, “Well, matter establishes time.” It doesn’t. You establish time and you know what time it is because you know what time it is and there’s just about-that’s the end of it. And then you prove it to yourself by seeing two particles in position with relationship to each other.

Now, the dynamics press in from Eight on down to One, in that order. So that an individual has a tendency to be-he uses one of these circles as his target and that person who is putting out a thought and then only getting the effect upon his body, of course, is obviously stuck on One. See that? That’s the primary place he would be stuck. He’d be stuck a lot of other places, too.

You should be able to have a time factor sharp enough so that you would be able to look at these two particles, one to the other, and tell what time it was in relationship to some other time. But a time is always in relationship to another time unless you simply know what time it is.

Because unfortunately, although we can’t draw it in MEST space, it starts from that One and it goes inward. And you keep drawing tinier and tinier circles until you get to Eight again and that’s what’s known as an inversion. See that? That single dot, then, has smaller and smaller circles in it where the final inner dot is Eight and then there’s a dot inside of that dot which is one again. And then unfortunately we can’t draw it, but there’s another circle inside that finest dot that went inside there and it comes right on down to Eight once more and so we keep going. See how that would work? That would be a very complex picture.

Knowingness itself is the only thing which can exist without a dichotomy. Certainty can exist without a dichotomy. A person can be certain without being more certain than and less certain than.

But the only thing that graph incidentally demonstrates to you-the only reason the pc looks complex, he finally gets to a point where he can’t put out a thought that hits him, he puts out a thought that hits an inverted 8. You know, he puts out a thought that hits the god on which he is particularly inverted.

So, we have walked out of the universe, because this is a double pole universe-two side universe-plus and minus. And we’ve walked out of the universe the second we enter in knowingness. And so, therefore, using this universe as a stopwatch or something to tell us what time it is all the time is kind of silly. It’s a rather large watch and wouldn’t fit well in your pocket at all.

All right. Now, to one below 2.0-to an individual below 2.0-the only punishment appears to be for communicating. The only reason you can get punished in this universe is for communicating. That’s because the universe is doing an inflow on all sides, and to get along on it, you know, you can reflect what comes in. Just like the Sun, you see, can shine upon a roof, but that roof had better not put out an emanation itself; otherwise, it’ll run into the Sun coming in.

These watches that you carry, of course, are set, wound up, taken care of, all in relationship to the position of Earth and the Sun. Well, the position of Earth and the Sun is so crude-Earth runs twenty minutes ahead and twenty minutes behind in its rotation. It loses a day on the swing. There’s an awful lot of odds and ends of disrelated data entering into time on Earth. Till somebody comes along and tells you very convincingly (he has to use a loud voice to be that convincing) that-he tells you what time it is, because he points to a clock face or a stopwatch. And you can laugh at him because the clock face and the stopwatch is set up on the most jerry-rigged time system you ever heard of.

So, when we get into flows and when we get into communication of various kinds, then-flows and communication are not synonymous, you know, because you can communicate without a flow. But the only punishment to one who is below 2.0 appears to be for communicating. See, he can’t get punished for noncommunication. It just appears this way to him. So below 2.0 his lines are collapsing inward and they collapse quite rapidly.

If you wanted to get some historical idea of what time was all about in terms of watches, it would amuse you very much. If you wanted to look it over, you would be tremendously amused because the number of hours the day has been divided into and how many hours the day hasn’t and has and all the rest of that and how many times this has been done this way and that way, rather shakes one’s faith in that twelve-hour dial. This is a very silly gradient, by the way-to divide a day into twelve hours.

Thus, the genetic entity is on a compelled “don’t let anything go” or inverted “got to let everything go.” “Don’t let anything go,” now inverted,-“got to let everything go.” That’s lower. That’s an abandonment area o£ releases.

There is a galactic time, however, in which this planet sits. It’s a galactic time which Ю is your navigational time for this galaxy and it has two binaries which are unmistakably shaped. That is to say, it’s a double star and this double star flickers around itself in such a way and the second star is so positively unmistakably shaped that-and so is the first one-that the two of them form many particle pictures as they travel around each other. And so this setup then gives you a very good idea-as a matter of fact, you could observe them, you could tell what time it was. It’s the time when the pole of one of them, which ordinarily is the pole, has turned over and is facing the other one and so on. And it’s very precise. They’re standing out there all by themselves, so that nothing is slowing down or fixing up their motion in strange ways. Well, now that would be a pretty good way to tell time and it’s . . . But it still depends on what? On knowing what time it is. See, you have to have some need for time or knowingness about time before anything happens with relationship to time. Otherwise it’s just a playing field.

Now, the thetan agrees to this when he agrees with the GE-sympathy. See that? The thetan agrees not to let anything go and he agrees with the GE or agrees if the GE is on a lower inversion which is an abandonment “let everything go,” why, the thetan has agreed with the GE. All right.

Did you ever go out to a stadium and look at a football field when there was no game, no audience, nothing? There’s just a football field and it’s sitting there with two sets of goal posts. And by golly, you could hold a stopwatch in vain on those goal posts and you’d never get a game going. You could do all sorts of things and you’d never get a game going there until you had players and referees and umpires and pieces and spectators and-oh gosh, all this tremendous thing moves in on the football field, immediately the football field comes alive, it has purpose, has meaning. And so it is with this universe.

The GE has a black interior and a form. Doesn’t he? There is no light gets into the GE’s interior worth a nickel. See? Fatty tissue and so forth, is quite insulative. No light inside there, is there? Also the GE has a form. Well, let’s get a thetan that agrees with him. A thetan who agrees too long with the GE gets a no-communicate and a shape and blackness. And there is your “theta body.”

A person fighting time is the silliest picture, is you can’t fight time. Not only is it shadowboxing, it’s worse than shadowboxing nothing. You can go out and box nothing if you want to or you can step off the bottom step into what you thought was a solid floor and find that there’s another step there. You can do all sorts of things like this, but what you get down to is that time is a symbol and there’s not even a nothing there to fight See, you’ve got this beautiful symbol. But, however, the symbol does have definition. The symbol has the definition of havingness. Well, why does it have that definition? It’s because these particles move in relationship to each other on a very beautifully agreed-upon pattern. And from one end of this universe to the other end of this universe, they are moving at that patterned speed.

Now, I’ll go over that again. That’s just a little system of logic there. It’s important to you as an auditor so you stop worrying about this occlusion. It has many significances, but its most basic significance is simply this: the only punishment appears to be below 2.0 for communicating. See, one is punished only because he communicates. If you were hiding in a shack and you hid very well and you didn’t say anything, why, when they came by looking for you, they of course, would pass on by. But if you said anything as they came by, you would, of course, be located and so you would be punished. A person has to believe in the first place that he’s being punished for something before all this takes place. All right.

It is the most elementary thing you would do to have a constant playing field. You would get all the particles in the field rated in such a way that they would all move. And then you get all the players to agree on that rate of motion and you would have this beautiful picture of knowing how fast they were moving so they were moving that fast. And it’s very constant.

That’s right. A writer goes downhill, by the way, after awhile. He begins to believe that, you know, if he didn’t write, he wouldn’t get criticized and so on. And you’ll find many a failed writer or a person who’d love to write, who starts a story, goes halfway through it and lays it away, who starts a painting, finishes it halfway and then lays it away and so on, is just doing this stunt: he feels that he’s going to be punished for communicating, so he’s not going to communicate. He’ll make a stab at communicating and then he won’t communicate very far. All right.

Now, what’s present time in this universe? Don’t make a mistake on this one, by the way. I’ve said this before. Present time in this universe would be for the total universe in any given instant. There isn’t present time here and a past time someplace else. The individual sees that, but it doesn’t exist. You see, he’s in present time here and because he ate breakfast (as I covered before someplace else), why, he thinks it’s past time there now. Why? Because that’s where he’s having breakfast and he isn’t there having breakfast anymore. Well, there’s a present time for there, too.

The GE is on a compelled “don’t let anything go.” Now, we were covering that earlier with particles, you see. He’s on a compelled “mustn’t let anything go.” And he gets all sorts of weirdities-he can’t cry, he gets constipated, so on, he gets overweight or so on.

There’s this thing called communication time lag. Now, that means that a particle starts out from the Sun and travels for several minutes and gets to Earth. Actually, probably, no particle travels, but that’s beside the point. No particles travel anyhow, there aren’t any particles.

Now, below that level, he gets an enforced, an abandonment and there comes in such things as obsessive tears, diarrhea, an abandonment of weight, terrific thinness and so forth. He gets below that, you see that? All right.

But where we have a communication time lag, if you’re depending on particles to bring you a patterned picture of what happened over that-a-way, you’re always late. You see that? The Sun blows up and then you don’t know about it for several minutes.All right. Let’s say you’re looking at the pattern of particles coming from the Sun and then the Sun blows up. Well now, you look at the pattern of particles of the blow-up. Now, supposing you saw the Sun start to blow up and you had it in your power to reach out and put it back together again and keep it from blowing up. Now, if you were depending on photons and here you were standing on Earth and you saw the Sun suddenly blow up and you reached over there to stop it from blowing up, you know, and pat it all back together again and make a mass out of it, you would think you had failed. You think you wouldn’t have that much power or force. Why? Because obviously you must have catalyzed it or you must have done something desperate there or at least you didn’t do anything to help it.

And the thetan agrees to this when he agrees with the GE. See, a thetan doesn’t have to have it this way at all, but he agrees with the GE and, thereupon, he sort of takes in the burdens of the GE. And it’s an interesting fact that this aberration cuts in at the time when the environment no longer sympathizes with the thetan. He starts to look for sympathy from his own body. And it also happens he starts to look for sensation only from his own body, he also gets this same sympathy computation. See that? All right.

Get the picture of present time in both of those places, see, you’d have to be instantaneously at the Sun and on Earth. And when the Sun starts to blow up, he’d have to be right there and know it was blowing up right there and smash it back together again at that moment if he had it in his power. He couldn’t sit here on Earth and wait for the Sun to blow up.

And the genetic entity has a black interior and a form and the thetan who agrees too long with the GE gets “no-communicate” and a shape and blackness. Okay?

And this, in itself, is an anxiety which people get into. They have had this sort of thing happen to them often enough. Soldiers are always getting into a backwards frame of mind when they’re shot. Of course, if there is enough battle noise and confusion, they can’t distinguish it one from the other. But in a skirmish or something like that, a bullet hits them and then they hear the crack of the rifle. That’s because sound only travels at eleven hundred feet-per-second-they never had any warning. And this universe is a playing field which never gives you any warning.

Now, that’s a lot of bric-a-brac but you’re expected to know it because it adds up, very sensibly, to exactly what you’re trying to do. We’re mainly talking here today about exteriorization.

So, the thetan goes around depending on particles and trying to have a warning. And there is nothing sillier than that because he can’t have a warning from particles, any particle that arrives with a message is talking about something that is in the past. And this is reflected in a psychotic to making him believe that ‘‘all is in the past.” Has to be, of course, because every particle he receives is past. Any message he receives from anywhere in this universe is in the past, if it’s telling about an event.

There is another technique that is surprising for pickup of perception and that is simply-it isn’t a very high level technique, but you can run it for a long time. You can run it a lot longer than you would think possible-is “letting the wall be a wall, granting beingness to the wall as a wall.”

But present time for this universe would be accomplished this way: you’d just have to stop every particle-if you could stop every particle in the universe for a moment, you would have at that moment a complete pattern. Every particle has a present time and that would be present time for the universe. See, it would be-the position of every particle at any given instant would be present time.

Now, please don’t fall across this one, because you will if you’re not careful. If you stopped Earth and Sun at the moment of the explosion-you stopped all the particles and examined them, you would find out that there was a present time for each one of those particles and that it was the same present time. The fact that it is conveying a message from one location to the other has no bearing upon present time. Because a message is always after the cause and the cause is always before the message.

Silly technique, but it’s quite effective because you’ll find most people are running around refusing to grant the right to streets to be streets. And this has got them on a combat basis and they don’t know what they’re combating. And this goes in to some degree with time and it assists in bringing somebody up to present time. It’s a mild technique, it’s ...

Cause-people who are very bad off keep coming around-in a session they drive you mad if you happen to be going into this with somebody who is completely looped off on an inverted 8, which is about as far south as you can get. They keep going into this one: “I know, but... why... why was it all built?” And they just keep going into this, you know-why? Why? Why?

Your basic technique on all this, of course, is two particles that you don’t object to having apart or together, two particles that-you don’t want two particles you want apart, you know, two particles you want together. You don’t go into that too much because that’s examining the track. You just make the person look, is all you’re trying to do.

Well, that’s another beautiful symbol: why? They’re so inverted by communication, you see, the communication is always in the past, so that they believe that cause is in the past. See? Cause, if anyplace, is in the future, it’s not in the past. Cause always precedes effect. If you had a stopwatch going and it hit at zero and you said, “I am now going to move this ashtray. Move-stop” and it now said eight seconds, well, by golly, if you look at the sweep second of the hand, it does look like cause was in the past. You see, because the past is eight seconds back of eight, see, that’s when you said it. Well, that’s just the standard way of looking at time and it’s inverted, that’s inverted.

This other one is a long and involved formula which gives a lot of processing. This business about knowledge, perceptions, emotions, efforts, objects, force, thoughts, words, food and sex; items which must not depart, arrive, travel, start, change or stop.

Look, let’s string out the co-motion of the particles and let’s find out that here we are, saying, “I am going to move this ashtray. Now, I have moved this ashtray.” Why sure, you said cause was in the... Now, we look at it again and we say, “Well, cause was in the past then, wasn’t it?” The hell it is. Let’s take a look at this ashtray. Let’s not look at the statement, let’s look at the ashtray. And we find out, “I am going to move this ashtray” and we move the ashtray, we discover immediately that the intention to move the ashtray was in the future of the motion of the ashtray. See that? It’s in the future of the motion of the ashtray, it has to be.

Now, let’s see;

All right. And let’s run it so it’s backwards now and let’s move the ashtray. Now, I have moved the ashtray. Well, the thing that would straighten it out for you is cause and effect. You’re the effect of the ashtray. The ashtray has moved. Now you look and say, “Ha! The ashtray has moved.”

“Give me three sexual conditions which mustn’t start.”

Whereas, you say, “Now the ashtray is going to move.” And the ashtray moves.

“Let’s get somebody else now and have this person get three sexual conditions which mustn’t start.”

Now, let’s look at it from the viewpoint of the ashtray and discover that the future is controlling the ashtray. Now, this is not too hard to get through your thick skulls, but you better get it through your skulls right now. [laughter]

“Now, let’s get two other people and let’s get one of them getting three conditions-sexual conditions-which the other person mustn’t start.”

You say, “I am going to drink a cup of tea.” So you make a cup of tea and you drink it. What is cause of the cup of tea? It certainly has to be in advance of the cup of tea. Has to be. That it goes before the cup of tea is the use of one of these indefinite symbols. You say, “It goes before the cup of tea.” It doesn’t go before any cup of tea, it’s ahead of the cup of tea.

You’d be surprised at the variety that suddenly begins to appear in the subject called sex. You think it gets very plain and there’s nothing much to it, but more significance can be read into this super, super communication significance. There’s nothing quite as complex as sex. Boy! You just start examining some of the protein acids that go into the sperm, for instance. "Well,” you say, "you mean they got to do all this just to communicate?” And then the growth and so forth. You talk about a covert output! The GE can only duplicate by this very covert via energy communication line.

Let’s drive an automobile down the street and say, “Now I am going to turn the corner. And when we have turned the corner, why, we say, “Well, cause was in the past.” In the past, we caused the turning of an automobile. No, this is the way cause would be in the past: you would turn the automobile around a corner and then say to yourself, “Well, now, I’m going to turn the automobile.” But, which is the effect there, huh? You were being the effect of the automobile if you work it that way. Most drivers drive that way, kind of. They get into more trouble and more accidents. They must lead. They must lead the action.

Now, apropos to this business of “the GE mustn’t put out,” the funny damn part of Ю it is, is the GE is, actually, usually engaged in a tremendous - if the guy is rather bad off particularly-the GE will be engaged in some tremendous covert furnishing of energy.

There is only one way to bull through it if you don’t understand it by this time. There would be only one way to bull through it and that is simply to handle Opening Procedure now on “I am going to,” until all of a sudden time goes flip on you. And you say, “For heaven sakes, a fellow is always riding way up the time track from the events. He is causing a cup of tea to be drunk and he becomes the effect of the tea.” And when you see it that way to, all of a sudden, why, you stop looking for cause in the past. Cause can’t be in the past of the event.

Now, “You get three things that you wouldn’t want to furnish energy to.” And, “Let’s get somebody else now, three things he wouldn’t want to furnish any energy to.” “Now, let’s get two other people and get one of them not wanting to furnish three kinds of energy to the other one” and all of a sudden you’ve just got a hole out there in space! And your GE has got a communication system rigged so as to furnish energy to something’ else somewhere else. And you, incidentally, will look in vain for the person. An awful lot of people will come off of it. But he’s gone back, way back on the “Helper” and oh, way back to - just to hell and gone.

What you’ve got there is the late particle. And you watch that particle travel and so you say, “All right, the particle was in the past, because the time it arrives is in the past.” It’s a past particle, always is. That’s because the Sun blows up and then several minutes later, you get the arrival of a message that the Sun blew up.

He’s furnishing energy to other beings (at least he thinks so) and he’s covert, he’s very covert about this. You’ll run into that as a mystery while you’re running this, so you might as well know about it. It’s a mystery.

You experiment with it and it will be very clear to you. I’m not going into it any further, because we’ve got to talk about a process.

The total mystery of it is, is that he can be punished for communicating, so he isn’t going to put out any energy. And the pc’s energy is being run on a communication line which probably goes three miles past “Ditty-Wah-Ditty.” We don’t quite know where this communication line is going. It may be just pouring out into space, but the GE is thoroughly convinced that he can put a lot of energy out on that line.

Havingness would be masses of particles and objects. (A couple of you are chewing your fingernails.) Havingness is determined by masses of particles. That is to say, it takes masses of particles to make an object, it takes at least four particles to make a piece of space. You can arrange four particles in a tetrahedron so they will make some space. But any way you look at it, in order to have some havingness, in order to possess something, there’s got to be some particles, because this is, by definition, what it means. So that havingness has a lot to do with particles, then, doesn’t it?

This gets keyed-in by parents who don’t want the children to exhibit lots of excess energy. You know, nobody will let them put out any energy. So, we get bypass circuits and so forth and this fellow is exhausted and he can’t accumulate any energy and food doesn’t do him any good. And we find all the energy he’s accumulating is apparently being poured out in space someplace to somebody else, but we’re not interested to who.

And losing something would have to do with the particles no longer being under your-in your sphere or under your control or in your ownership, you might say. You’d lose something.

If you find somebody that the GE is pouring out energy to and the person is satisfied that this was what was happening, why, generally the flow will stop and everything will be happy thereafter. But don’t you be satisfied that that was where it was going. You see, everywhere is nowhere according to the GE. He’s real nuts.

Something you’re trying to acquire would have to do with piling up a whole flock of particles slowly or predicting there are going to be a whole lot of particles there and then putting them under your control and so on. That would be havingness in the future. See that? So that in each way you look at it, you’ve got some particles there you’re accumulating or deteriorating.

All right. Get this and run this in on your pc who is putting out an effect-a thought, Ц you know, he puts out a thought. You get him to run a concept and he expects it to land someplace; he expects to get an effect someplace. And he just runs this and he’ll just dramatize this forever unless you take it up as an automatic machine, which is what it is, he’s got it built in automatically and your auditing is just going down the drain.

Now, in view of the fact that all particles are in motion, at all times, you have the problem, staring you in the face, of things getting more massive or accumulating particles or things losing particles or things being static in the number of particles. But how long will something remain static? Well, sometimes quite a while.

Why? Because he’s just using every concept that you hand him to simply put out a thought and then get an effect. He’s just demonstrating cause and effect, cause and effect, cause and effect, cause and effect.

For instance, I have a ring here, the gold of which is about a thousand years old and the stone, a carbuncle, is probably about thirty-five hundred years old. All right, this is a mass of particles that have stayed that way for an awful long time and Man has a tendency to sort of worship at the shrine of endurance of particles.

Therefore, actually, the best auditing is that which least addresses the “deep significances” covertly. There’s lots of clever auditing that you can do, but it all breaks down to really, two particles apart and two particles together. Not even two particles in motion; that will all come up. You’re not interested in the particles in motion because he isn’t stuck there. And your perception and so forth will come on up on this process. This is an interesting process, isn’t it?

But if we look at this stone very carefully, it has a very small carving of Hercules on it (he is a very old deity) and we look at this and we see that his club-and it’s pretty worn, and it’s remarkable that it’s in this good a state of preservation, but we can barely see this symbol and we can barely see one of his feet. It’s pretty thin, in general. And we look up at it through the light and we find out that where it hasn’t really suffered very much in time, really, an opacity has set into it which shouldn’t be there and so on. In other words, a change has taken place. It took it maybe thirty-five hundred years to do it, but it did.

Well, you have to know something about time before it begins to make sense. Time is a “co-motion of particles” and if he won’t let a couple of particles move and they’re not there anymore, this looks silly doesn’t it?

On the other side of it, here we have a scarab. There’s a little scarab-he’s pretty tough and some mummy had him on a string of beads around his neck back in Tutankhamen’s time or something of the sort and there’s a hole bored through the little scarab here. But here this-again, very old, but it still shows time, time has passed. By what? Its wear.

I imagine you’ll go find some preclear that is trying to keep the Santa Maria from sailing from Cadiz. I’m sure that you’ll find some pc and, certainly, every pc you get will be trying to restrain something from happening. He’s trying to restrain something desperate-like he’s trying to keep a pyramid together and the thing is on another planet that has long since gone to dust. And in addition to that, the planet isn’t even there anymore, and yet, he is devoting an enormous amount of energy to keeping this together. Well, in order to keep it together he has to have a mock-up of it which he is keeping together. Well, of course, that’s just a mock-up.

This gold-time has passed. You can tell very easily by looking at it. In other words, there hasn’t been a “no change” here. And we’re saying, “Isn’t it terrific that this thing could endure this long.” Yes. Yes, it’s just terrific, but it is enduring within our tolerance of what we call endurance. But I’m afraid the workman who made this would be very upset, if he could see it, because it’s nowhere near as nice as it was the day he turned it out. And if he’d turned it out like this on his bench, he’d probably been very upset and he’d probably have thrown it in the trash heap, because it would have been an imperfect carving to him. Of course, if this had been made in Christian times, why, everybody would have been very elated because they could have sold it then as a worn relic if it had been turned out that way. The biggest commerce of Christianity was relics.

And the fact that he believes it still exists or that he can say it exists and he knows he can’t create it anymore produces a strange state of mind. So, you’ll get a date flash on him. You’ll get eighteen million years ago or something like that.

However, this stone does show time’s passage and yet this is one of the harder stones, the carbuncle, and one of the-this scarab shows time’s passage.

Now, the proof of the falsity of dates comes about this way-I’ll give you some demonstration of this right now:

All right. How do we know time passed? Well, some particles are missing, this thing is deteriorating, see, slowly, slowly, slowly.

Now, give me two dates that you don’t want to come together.

Well, all right, let’s take some sodium and drop it in some water-boom! It deteriorated! In other words, we completed an entire cycle of the MEST universe there, from the moment we dug up and refined the sodium to the time we dropped it in the water. But this is a much longer cycle that we’re undertaking. And what makes it a long cycle or a short cycle, in other words, what makes it a time cycle? We drop the sodium in, we don’t have it anymore, do we? It went bang. We’ve got a nice memory of a bang, but the particles of sodium are now scattered all over the place. So our havingness is not in a lump. It doesn’t mean any particles have been destroyed, though, not a one has been destroyed. We’ve gotten a dispersal. Over this cycle, we have a slow dispersal-long time, short time, time. It has to do with the co- (hyphen) motion of particles. And that’s all it has to do with and plus your knowingness that it has been a short time or a long time.

Now, give me two dates that you don’t want to go apart, [pause] You can probably think of some.

And it’s only been a short time or a long time to the degree that you value the time, which is the amount that you would value the particles in their position, one to each other.

Give me two years that you don’t want to get together.

So, we get this deterioration of the sodium, boom! The particles of sodium are now scattered around.

Now, give me two years you don’t want to go apart.

But where is Columbus’s Santa Maria? Where’s that ship? Well, it obviously is 1492. And well, it’s long gone, it’s a long time away and it’s far from us and... Oh, balderdash. Why, one of the molecules of the Santa Maria might be sitting right here in this room. Because with the change and deterioration of all of the particles of that ship, we get them buried in the mud someplace and rivers washing them out to sea and we get the change of tides and the currents of the oceans and the evaporation of water and the kick up and wind of sand. And it works it around and little fish eat them and people eat fish and here we go, you see, these basic particles are still there. They’re still the same particles, they aren’t in the same pattern. The form is no longer there. You see that? No form.

Kind of a boggy process, isn’t it? You can probably get some, huh? Kind of a silly process.

So time is a matter of form. And form itself is a matter of knowingness. And we get back to, then, an individual-and here you better pick up your attention very definitely because this sits back of a process which you’re going to be doing for a long time and we lead right up to that-an individual which won’t let some particles disperse or who won’t let them accumulate must be braced against something else then: particles themselves.

All right. Now, get two particles you don’t want to get together. By “particle” I mean anything, any object, [pause] See if you can find one right away.

He’s erecting a barrier against dispersal and a barrier against accumulation of particles. And his sole objection is that two particles are going apart or that two particles are coming together-two plus, you see, in terms of figures-but that’s his basic objection. His objection is that two particles are going to go apart or that two particles are going to come together. I don’t care if there’s eight billion particles-you see, the basic on that is that there are a couple of particles there. So, his total objection is dispersal or accumulation of particles and this is in terms of motion, too!

All right, now, let’s get a little more factual than this and get right on the groove of the process the way it would be delivered.

A fellow only objects to motion in terms of the fact that particles are getting together or particles are flying apart or particles are liable to fly apart.

Give me two objects now which you don’t mind having apart.

And when an individual is braced against this shift of particles, he, of course, stops time. He can’t help it, because time is basically knowingness. It isn’t that he suddenly and mysteriously bases a couple of figures here, you see, and braces against anything necromantic that goes back into a central time machine that jams its gears. It’s nothing elaborate, it’s just the fact that if I determine that these two ashtrays will not come any closer together, that’s all right, they can sit right there. But now let us suppose that somebody else starts pushing these two ashtrays together and I have to hold these two ashtrays apart in order to keep them apart. I’m making good my basic postulate and that’s all an individual is trying to do.

Now, two objects which you don’t mind having together-you don’t mind being together.

And an individual who gets an anxiety about his postulates-his rightness and wrongness-of course is going to stop time because he continues to try to make good his basic postulates.

Now, get somebody else and have this person get two objects which he doesn’t mind having apart.

Somebody else starts to shove these two ashtrays together and I hold them apart. It’s completely unimportant, even vaguely, it’s completely unimportant that these two ashtrays come together or stay apart. And yet, because I’m holding them apart, somebody pushes them together and because they’re pushing them together, I try to hold them apart. And you’ve got the basics on a game called the MEST universe, right there.

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You’re trying to hold up a certain piece of space, so, just because you’re trying to do that, somebody else tries to push it together and just because they’re trying to push it together, you’re pushing it the other way. And the second that you start to brace yourself against the “accumulation,” which is to say, particles staying together, or the “dispersal,” which is to say, particles going apart-as soon as you brace yourself against this action happening, you to that degree stick yourself on the time track.

And two objects which he doesn’t mind having together.

Now basically all we’re looking for is present time, which is to say, “let be what is.” Let’s let the dead past bury the dead-which is to say, the thoughts and barriers of yesteryear-and go and let’s look and see what is the arrangement of particles which is now taking place and take an interest in that arrangement of particles.

Now, get two people you don’t mind having apart.

If you were to make a clear statement in his level of understanding, a clear statement of his condition, to any preclear, you would make it in that frame of reference, probably not in those same words, but you would make it in that frame of reference.

And two people you don’t mind having together.

And what is wrong with any preclear is the two particles-he’s trying to keep two particles from coming together or two particles from going apart. And any time he’s got himself entirely braced to prevent this, he kept on bracing himself. The particles themselves, God help him, have long since gone down the sewer and blown off the chimney and been wafted away by the rains of yesteryear. But he has a mental barrier now which is erected to brace against these particles. They’re no longer stopped, they aren’t even there. And yet, he’s all set to prevent these particles, which, themselves, are missing.

Now, let’s get somebody else and get two people this person doesn’t mind having apart.

And here, then, is the problem of mental activity. In order to have a game, whether it’s a game of football or a game of business-any kind of a game-we have to control, which is to say, start, stop and change particles. The business of control is the business of starting, stopping and changing.

And two people this person doesn’t object to being together.

Let’s take commerce. The boys in Chicago make a terrific game out of taking the wheat exchange there-these grains of wheat-and they start them and stop them and change them in order to cause starting and stopping and changing of other particles known as dollars. And stomachs don’t even enter into it.

All right. Get two particles that you don’t mind having separated-don’t object to being apart.

If you walked up to one of those fellows on the Chicago Exchange and you said to him, “Do you know that wheat is a foodstuff?” “Yes,” he’d say, “very valuable! People will pay anything for it when they’re starving. How can we make them starve?” He wouldn’t say it in that many words, but it would boil down to it after a while. “How can we make this stuff scarce, so that we can stop it, till its price goes up, so that we can then move it, so that its price will come in on us?” And that’s the game he’s playing.

And two particles you don’t object to having together.

Plus this game: “How can we make somebody else’s wheat get more abundant someplace or another and so cave in the price and so bring less money in on them, while wasting and sacrificing all their wheat? And in that fashion, then, we will have them broke and out of the game as competitors.” And the crocodile smilingly polishes his tail.

And get somebody else and have this person get two particles they don’t mind having apart.

When you talk about hockey and when you talk about a love affair, you’re discussing, at once, time, of course, and the motion of particles.

And they don’t mind having together.

Now, the motion of particles themselves cause emotion. And if you put a beam on the wall and then move away from it real slow, stretching the beam, just moving away real slow in relationship to the movement of the MEST universe particles, you get the emotion of “beautiful sadness.” So a love affair which has dragged out (which is to say, the motion of the particles, so on), it becomes very sad. [laughter]

Now, let’s get a symbol you wouldn’t mind having arrive.

Now, in this way, you get the behavior of these particles. Well, there’s two kinds of particles actually in action. There are the particles which you’ve just kicked together-you know, created up against the MEST universe-which you know are your particular brand of particle-and then the particles which you are probably making called the MEST universe. And that’s a different type of particle. Well, those MEST universe particles follow a law-oh boy, do they follow a law! They’ve had the law laid down. And they move in exact relationship to certain other laws, they obey the influences of other particles and so on. And it’s a very, very tight, well-modulated game, in terms of particles.

And a symbol you wouldn’t mind having depart.

But your particles aren’t modulated by anybody but you-or somebody else. That is to say, another being like you can monitor your particles, some way, sometimes.

Well, and let’s get somebody else and have this person get a symbol he wouldn’t mind having arrive.

Volney was out to see me last night and again, why, his hair was standing on end. I showed him what faith healing was. [laughter] And proved it on his meter. Well anyway... I showed that I could lay energy down in him by touching him-not just by looking at him, that was bad enough-but by touching him, to the degree of lighting his whole cheek up, just by touching his cheek with my fingertip. And he said he’d known something about this and some people could do it and some people couldn’t. And “That’s right,” I said, “Well, that determines whether or not you’re a good healer or not, you see” and so on. All it determines, actually, is your electrical output.

And a symbol he wouldn’t mind having depart, [pause] Which of course was an immediate way of covering these zones. All right.

Now, you can manufacture particles, but you’re not supposed to, so you have to get very covert about this. And your main object in life is “how covert do I have to be to keep on manufacturing particles?” We’ll go into this later.

Now, let’s get the two anchor points of the back of the room.

So we have then-we have then, simply this problem: we’ve got this if we’re running competence, confidence, any one of these things which has any certainty in it. It’s just how many particles'is the individual trying to stop, in how many places which aren’t there anymore? And how many is he trying to pull apart that aren’t there anymore either?

And now let’s get two particles in one corner of the back of the room.

And that’s all you object to in terms of sanity and insanity. And your index of this is how much is the fellow in present time?

And then the two anchor points of the back of the room.

You know, a lot of fellows are sitting around trying to pull future particles apart which aren’t together yet. And that in itself is anxiety.

And then two particles in the other anchor point.

All right. They’re also trying to hold future particles together that aren’t apart yet, they don’t exist yet. They’re trying to predetermine a pattern ahead of the forming pattern. And control, in itself, is this problem-and there’s nothing wrong with control, there’s no game unless you control particles-is you predetermine what their pattern will be and then fit the particles into this pattern. And that’s how you make a postulate stick with relationship to particles.

And two anchor points in the back of the room.

You can handle particles as well as you don’t use energy to handle them. That’s funny, isn’t it? As long as you use knowledge and not energy to handle particles, you can handle particles. As soon as you start using energy to handle other energy, why, of course, you’re just as good as you’ve got masses of energy to handle other energy. And it becomes an elementary problem in physics, but it certainly doesn’t become a problem in control of the mind.

Okay. Let’s look, you might say, straight up and find the ceiling.

Most of your boys who are bogged down, who ride below 4.0 on the Tone Scale, are trying to handle energy with energy and that doesn’t go.

And then look through the ceiling and find the roof.

All right. What’s “being stuck on the time track”? That’s a time when you have tried to hold two or more particles apart or tried to hold two or more particles together. And a fellow is as stuck in the past as he is still trying actively to hold these particles apart or push these particles together.

And look through the roof and find the sky.

And look through the sky and find space, blackness.

But sometimes he gets so bound and determined to handle and hold particles which are no longer there that he hasn’t any concentration on existing present particles. In other words, he can’t have in present time, which is to say, he can’t have time.

And through the blackness and find nothing.

You talk about time, you’re talking about the co- (hyphen) motion of particles. If you’re talking about time, then you’re talking about particles. When you’re talking about particles, you’re talking about havingness, so time is havingness. And when you talk about the present, you are talking about the existing pattern of particles as of this instant. And when you’re talking about the past, you’re talking about the particle pattern as it did exist. And when you talk about the future, you’re talking about the particle pattern as it will exist.

Look straight down and find the floor.

Now, the past, present and future of this room hasn’t anything to do with a change in space, it has only to do with what is going to be the shifting pattern of particles of various kinds in this room which you recognize as change and the rate of change of those particles.

Through the floor and find the Earth.

Through the Earth and find the sky on the other side of the Earth.

And through the sky and find black space.

And through black space and find nothing.

And sit back and know.

And behind you find the wall of the room.

Look through the wall of the room, find the next wall.

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Look through that wall, find the space in the street.

Look straight on out, find the sky behind you.

Find black space.

Look through the black space, find nothing.

Sit back and know.

Straight out in front of you, find the front wall of the room.

Look through the front wall of the room, find the next wall.

Look through the next wall and find the yard.

Straight on out through remaining barriers and find the sky.

Through the sky and find black space.

Through black space and find nothing.

Sit back and know.

And to the right, find the wall of the room.

Look through the wall of the room to the next wall.

Look through that and find the next building.

Look through that and find the next building.

Look through that and find the next building.

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And look through all the rest of them and find the sky.

Look through the sky and find black space.

Look through black space and find nothing.

And sit back and know.

Look to the left and find the wall.

Look through the wall and find the next wall.

Look through that and find another barrier.

Look through that and find the sky.

Look through that and find black space.

And through the black space find nothing.

And sit back and know.

Okay.

Because you are addressing particles, any such process carried along must, in essence, carry with it a lot of Nothingness processes. Don’t concentrate the pc on particles without looking through particles, without finding nothingnesses, without duplicating nothingnesses. A process is as good as it processes from falsehood to truth. And nothingness and the process of nothingness is, of course, processing out toward truth.

The processing of particles is a junior truth, but you have to get your pc out of his entanglement with particles into a concept of nothing, into a recognition of it and then into an ability to create an awareness of what he is creating. As long as you do this, you’ll be successful with pcs and if you don’t do this, you won’t be successful with them. A process is as good as it processes toward truth. And we don’t care much where the truth is, as a matter of sober fact. We do care how workable the processes are, which is to say, how much happiness does it restore to the preclear.

Now, in 1938 I had a definition for happiness which Pve never had any reason to-never had any reason at all to alter it. Happiness is the overcoming of not unknowable obstacles toward a known goal. It isn’t the arrival at the goal, it’s the overcoming of obstacles in the direction of that goal. Your pc is uniformly looking for this thing called happiness-a will-o’-the-wisp. He’s been lied to, to believe that he can sit back and the bluebirds will not necessarily come into his backyard but will come in and sit on his head. And by the time he gets into this complete state of relaxation, he’s not happy. You wonder why he isn’t happy? It’s because you’ve retired him from the game entirely.

The field of medicine has only one mania and that is retire the boy from the game.

It’s berserk on the subject! “Well, what you need, John, is a long rest.”

What you need, John, are some not unknowable obstacles and a goal to attain by having crossed them. And the reason you are sick, John, is because you believe so many obstacles intervene between you and any goal you might put up that you’ll never be able to reach a goal. You see that?

All right. So, the direct processing of obstacles is in itself, to some degree, a validation of obstacles but it can be done with benefit if it is coupled with nothingness. Because the truth of the matter is, is there is no obstacle between you and anything you want to be or do. No obstacle exists except your obstacle. The walls aren’t there unless the walls are put there by you. The stones do not exist in the road unless you have elected a method of travel which balks at stones in the road.

But the funny part of it is that unless you have some stones in the road ... You ever been out on a freeway or an autobahn where you had something as level as a marble floor and you could put your foot down on the throttle and go to the entire top limit of the car and without curves, turns, traffic lights, traffic or anything in your road, have an unlimited distance for advance? And you say, “Why, that first-that would just be wonderful! A car traveling at a hundred and twenty miles an hour or something like that without a curve, without traffic, without lights, why, just think of that, my goodness, couldn’t that thing go! That’s very exhilarating!” The hell it is. Your passengers for the first few minutes will be rather upset about the speed because they haven’t seen landscape pass by that fast before, but will quickly adjust to this, and after that you have solid boredom on your hands. You’d better have a car radio. Just because there’s no change.

All right. Now, let’s take what is basically wrong with your preclear (we’ll go back to what I was talking about much earlier in this Unit) and that is “survival pace.” Your preclear is advancing at a certain survival pace and he can’t change it. If he could change it merely by postulating it, he would be very, very happy indeed. Oh, he’d be very cheerful indeed simply to change it. He’s there to get you to change it. You see that? He’s there to get you to make some kind of an alteration in his survival pace.

There is in essence your problem: you’ve got to change his survival pace. What’s his survival pace depending upon? It is depending upon his tolerance for the departure and arrival of particles. Go back into the earlier lecture, earlier than today, that I made on this subject of time.

Now, let’s take this lively, go-to-hell, good-looking young man and we put him to work in a bank. This boy is very much on the qui vive, he’s-oh, he’s the kind of a fellow who would really get there. And we put him behind a cashier’s window at the bank. People step up there and they slap down their checks. He adds them wp-pang! And he throws their change back at them again and out they go. And his line is very rapidly diminishing there at his cashier’s wicket and he’s making lots of friends there at the wicket and you’d say, “This young man-this young man, without any doubt whatsoever, will succeed in this bank and will someday become president of it.” Don’t believe it for a moment!

He’ll be fired or monitor himself to the speed which that bank can tolerate the arrival and departure of the symbol known as the dollar! The bank has a certain survival pace. They know how long it takes a cashier to add up figures and take care of customers. And the boy who’s in charge of that bank is the fellow who is best in agreement with the banking corporation’s survival pace on the subject of the outgo and income of money-the speed of outgo, the speed of income of the money.

If this fellow were to make too much money for this bank, he would be held-this president-he would be held in enormous question by all kinds of people. You’d find the banking commission coming in and wondering: How come bud? Here in the space of one month with this bank, in a small town, you have made a hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars clear profit! What crookedness are you into?

Well, maybe the fellow did it by turning the whole town into some other kind of a town.- It wouldn’t matter, he’d sure get investigated. And in just such a way, this bank president having been slowed down to that pace will slow down this young cashier. And then this young cashier comes to you two or three years later and instead of dressing in sport clothes anymore, he dresses in a very conservative blue, you see, with a tie that exactly matches and so on. He looks kind of shabby, but-he really is and he looks kind of sad and he doesn’t quite know what’s happened to him, but he knows that he isn’t well-off.

The actual fact of the matter is, professionally, he has been forced into the survival pace of arrival and departure of dollars. And you process him on particles, people, objects and so forth that he doesn’t mind having apart and he doesn’t mind having together, and one of the first things that will start coming off is his banking career because that’s a survival pace which he can’t stand because it’s death itself!

Now, what happens to a bus driver? A bus driver who is on a long bus line and he’s got dispatchers and he’s supposed to pass certain corners at a certain specific instant. Well now, you’ll find some of the boys went into driving that bus much faster and you’ll find some that went in much slower. Some of those bus drivers are being whipped up above their tolerance and some are being pulled down below their tolerance and both of them will have accidents. Why? Because they’ve been upset in a survival pace which they themselves were accustomed to and so they cannot predict particles at this new survival pace. Just as your bank cashier if he didn’t come to you, would have probably lost his job at the bank because he would have started eventually to make mistakes. He couldn’t help but it, because he can’t predict that slowly and this is his main trouble.

Now, the English language forces upon an individual a certain speed, mostly because individuals to whom he is talking can only assimilate at a certain speed. Therefore, a writer can sit down and hit a word pace and eventually the word pace is imposed upon him by his typewriter. And when it’s been imposed upon him thoroughly, he no longer writes creatively because he’s been forced into an inflexible survival pace, which means he’s stuck on the time track every paragraph he’s written for years, because the particles are traveling at the wrong speed. As far as he’s concerned, he runs faster than that. Now, some fellow is forced to write at a great volume of speed for some newspaper, he eventually cracks up.

What is randomity? Randomity is simply the ratio of unpredicted to predicted motion; plus and minus randomity. When you talk about survival pace, you’re getting that randomity which an individual believes he should have-no more. Know this: there’s nothing else than that. It isn’t any more weird than that. How fast should he take the obstacles?

The United States War Department, which specializes in time of war of finding those officers which have pumpkins instead of heads, and they put them in the Pentagon building or some such place and they punish people by sending them to combat duty and so forth and they get rid of people fast. They go mad when they run into an officer somewhere in their ranks that exceeds their survival pace. And the public would be absolutely astonished and gratified, maybe, by this army officer’s activities if it knew them and it actually continues to be, really, if it knows them at all.

You can rationalize any way you want, but the only trouble with Patton was he didn’t know the meaning of going slow. He was paced to cavalry pace and he thought that he would go very fast. Incidentally, he was quite a guy. So the guy lands on a beachhead and he goes so deep in, in all directions-he drives a spearhead so deep in that the Wehrmacht is getting out- Wehrmachted and lines are crumbling in all directions and the poor little quartermasters couldn’t get enough trucks together to send them to Patton. They got awful mad. And the next thing you know the War Department is awful mad at Patton and everybody is mad at Patton and then they start publishing things in the papers about Patton and they try to get him removed and so forth. And they easily would have except they couldn’t find anybody from the War Department that had nerve enough to go that deep into the enemy lines.

Now, whether he was a good officer or a bad officer is completely beside the point. The individual, however, was traveling at an entirely different survival pace.

The marines have a different survival pace than the army. The army consolidates every position. The marines believe that it is necessary to fight a war to knock out all enemy positions. These are two entirely different philosophies which require two different survival paces. More army men get killed trying to dig in when they ought to be attacking and more marines get killed attacking when they ought to be digging in than you can count

And so you try to exercise the army and the Marine Corps, regiment by regiment, side by side, and it never works out. The marines are three-quarters of the way across the battleground, have five regiments of the enemy completely in rout and they look around to their flanks and try to find the army regiments that they came in there with. Well, these boys are still sorting their cartridges out on the beach. So the marines have to cover their own flanks and the next thing you know, why, everything has happened that’s going to happen or the marines have been wiped out. Well, it’s just luckily they never have gotten into quite that second stage and so they condemn and damn the army and they hate to fight with the army because of that. It’s two different survival paces.

Well, the marine is trained in insurgent and guerrilla warfare. You get these differences? He’s trained in not having enough troops and not having enough enemy, really. And he’s just trained in that and so when he starts in on a battle, his idea is “Let’s see, where’s the bandit capital?” and so on.

And the marines, by the way, would have tolerated such an officer as Patton. They wouldn’t have been able to have understood several other varieties of officer that came out of the war.

A young man-there was a fellow by the name of Charlemagne, he called himself. He was a bandit, a caco down in Haiti, and the marines were getting killed and skinned alive and pegged out in the swamps and a lot of bad things were happening. So one night, a sergeant of the marines who was serving as a gendarmerie lieutenant got the idea that he’d better go get Charlemagne. So he and a pal located where Charlemagne was camped that night and went through about seven successive waves of enemy positions, went into the camp where Charlemagne was-he was standing there by the camp fire in a white silk shirt-and Harrington simply up and shot him dead and then walked out. And that was the end of the caco uprising. But the marines were very satisfied with Harrington. This man had no more than barely done his duty.

So we get survival pace. Now, every time you get a person trained at one survival pace or habituated to a survival pace and then shifted violently into some other survival pace, you’re going to get (quote) “mental trouble.” So look for this in a pc. I haven’t just been talking about the marines or the army. Pm talking about-here’s two profession’s survival paces.

Actually, there are a lot of things Patton did wrong. There’s no doubt about that. Look at all the people he did out of jobs-he finished the European War, so on. Look at all the shipyard contracts that he had cancelled. This is bad stuff, we all know that. But when it comes to action, Patton died because his survival pace was too consistently violated. They just stopped him enough to kill him. Do you see that?

There’s another officer that we never hear about his early career, we only hear about his later career: Benedict Arnold. Well, nobody should leave British pay and employ and join a revolutionary force called the American army in the first place. And therefore, we’ve thought of him ever since as a traitor. I’m not quite sure if that’s the historical fact, but he certainly did turn his coat. But every time Benedict Arnold-early in the Revolutionary War-every time Benedict Arnold appeared on a battlefield, he started things moving in an awful rate of speed and the other generals that were appointed around were fantastically agin’ it. And he was court-martialed time after time after time. You’ve never heard of Benedict Arnold without him being in a court-martial.

About what? He was always acquitted. They couldn’t find anything wrong. But the troops wouldn’t attack if Benedict Arnold was in the area-they wouldn’t attack unless he was leading them. We get Morgan’s Riflemen practically throwing down their arms when they heard that Benedict Arnold was not going to be the general at Saratoga. And then when he was, why, they went right in there and pitched. But here’s a difference of action.

So we get in action one kind of a guy as doing something and as soon as the action ceases we get another kind of a guy doing something. Just two survival paces which match what is now happening. See? Now, if everything was war all the time, the world would be filled with such survival paces as people who could carry a battle forward to its fast conclusion.

But these two things when they overlap get into trouble. For instance, all during the battle of Saratoga, I think it was, Gates or one of those boys’ aide was madly riding after Benedict Arnold trying to catch him so as to give him orders to stay in his tent during the battle. And all through the battle this aide was ducking shot and shell trying to get close enough to Benedict Arnold to call him off. And he couldn’t get up with him until the battle was won. At which time they served him papers for court-martial. It’s fantastic.

But here we get the big argument in which Man is engaged. And one of the biggest overall points of randomity is trying to mismatch survival paces. So we get a Ford car and we hep it up to a point where it will beat a 180-horsepower Chrysler. See? Let’s take something of one survival pace and alter it into another survival pace and then we think we’ve done something.

If you could, for instance, exhibit a turtle which could go thirty-five miles an hour, I’m sure that people would be very interested. Because you’ve changed the survival pace. Well, people will be as interested in you as an auditor as you can change the survival pace of a preclear. That’s the long and short of it. There’s no sense in being more theoretical about it. That depends, then, upon time and his life is being garbled up with havingness, which he doesn’t need. He’s always getting fully equipped to play the part and by the time he’s fully equipped he’s forgotten what the part is. There is no sadder thing than that. I’ve never had an audience respond to that particularly because it’s too sad. I’m sure that’s it. They understand it, they just never quite welcome it. It’s just too sad. As a little kid you were the cowboy hero of the moment or the war heroine or something of the sort. You were quite this-you didn’t have any equipment and then you had to have an education and you had to be trained and you had to have equipment and so forth so that you could be this person.

You don’t have to have to be. That is something like saying, space is entirely dependent upon the number of objects in it. It’s not dependent upon the number of objects in it. Doingness, only relatively, is tied down by havingness. Oh, it’s not very much. And the freer an individual is, the less havingness he has to have in order to do. And you’ve just about got the picture.

If you want to understand the (quote) “human personality” (unquote), well, try to understand it in terms of survival pace-how much he has to have before he can do. And understand that havingness itself-that is, masses, owned objects, are themselves imposing new spaces relatively unchangeable on the individual and so havingness reduces doingness. Havingness reduces doingness. It never has any other effect.

The baggage trains of Alexander at length grew so great that he could no longer conquer forward into India. When he first started out, it was very nice to have a sword. But I’m sure that if the guys didn’t have a sword, they would have solved that. Their first mistake was they needed bodies and swords to conquer India. If he’d just exteriorized a few boys and made Operating Thetans out of them, he could have had India. And if he’d done that, he’d have found out he already owned it. And this would have been very sad. So, he would have had to have thrown some obstacles in his path and those obstacles would have been havingness obstacles. And by throwing those in, you had to have more.

Now, the only way that that dwindling spiral works is you have and then you have to have more because you already have and then you have to have because you have to have because you have to have and you get solider and solider and solider. And then after a while you decide-other people and other things decide you have too much so they decide they’d better put you on an abandonment level. So they get you to start abandoning. And then the next thing you know you’re abandoning, abandoning, abandoning, abandoning. So, all of your doingness begins to be occupied with accumulation and dispersal. And there is no further intent and there’s no other goal than just accumulation and dispersal.

If you want to know why a capitalista is one of the roughest people to process you ever walked into, it’s just because he has nothing on his mind but grabbing and holding dollars, which is in complete agreement with the GE, I know no capitalistas who aren’t constipated. That’s not an irrelevant fact. It happens to be true. It’s not just a wisecrack.

All right Processes, then, which give a person mobility in terms of barriers are valuable processes. And processes which tend to fix him amongst barriers have a lesser value. But the normal course of processing is to get a guy out of an inversion (which is to say, an abandonment) and get him to have something so he can then, on his own determinism, unhave it. You see? You’ve got to pattern to some degree his pattern of agreement that is holding him where he is and is depriving him of the freedom which he desires.

So you’ve got to change his survival pace. So you’d better change his ideas about particles, objects, people, energies and spaces. If you change his ideas about those things, you’ve changed his idea about time.

The only plea that a preclear ever makes to you is “When I was young, I had all this ambition. I did this, I did that, yap-yap-yap-yap-yap. Now I am old. And although I have all this money or although I don’t have any money, I can no longer do.”

The girl says to you-this girl with an enormous amount of experience, she says, “I am no longer beautiful. I can no longer attract the boys the way I used to.”

Deliver me from a woman of about fifty who knows all the answers: she is dangerous. She is really dangerous. And as far as adventure is concerned, she begins to compound the compounds if she really starts to get free.

The old guy says, “My goodness, if I had only known while I was in high school, what I know now about women. Oh my!” he says.

Well, I don’t know-high school-that’s a flock of particles that’s back to the right or back to the left or behind him or someplace. These particles have gone right along the time track with him and yet they’re stuck someplace because he’s not looking at them. See, there are all these particles, so he thinks there is, halfway, some sort of a high school which he went to once which is now still there and it has all these female particles still

in it, see? And he gets fixated in this direction and he looks around his environment and he can’t find anything.

Look, there are just as many stupid little girls in this world today as there were in high school. He doesn’t see them anymore.

And then he excuses this and says he’s in bad condition physically, you see? Can’t do the things he used to do. He’s in bad condition physically. His hormone system is shot.

Why?

Just because there’s that many particles held and that many particles held apart and so forth as to determine his exact age. And a man is as old as he’s stuck on the track. And he’s as young as his GE can still communicate.

Now, here’s your thetan. He can’t live without communicating outward. He must create to be. Kny beingness he has that’s real he must create. So, therefore, his keynote is outflow as well as inflow. He must outflow, certainly that, and he’d better inflow some too; opposed to the GE that must not outflow. Mustn’t. Mustn’t communicate. Only can reflect. The Sun can shine upon the face and the face can then reflect an image. The GE isn’t supposed to create a face that goes out into space. Not like a thetan. He can throw a mock-up out there that will keep on going and run into somebody.

All right. What’s our problem here then?

On a person who won’t exteriorize, you have too close an agreement with something that won’t and better not communicate. And the thetan believes then that he is relatively dead because he can’t create. So he doesn’t think he’s there anymore. He thinks the body must be there. He’s dead and that’s all.

So you have something which must communicate to live, coupled up with something which must not communicate to live.

So you get into a problem. But it’s not much of a problem since it tears down into its basic elements of particles being held together and particles apart. And it’s all right in present time to hold all the particles together and hold all the particles apart you want to, as long as you go on and hold particles, not your duplicated images of the particles. Let’s not hold apart and pull together all the duplicated images of those beautiful girls you knew in high school. They are not there!

And so we get into this: if we’re going to play the game called MEST universe, the only place we can play it is in present time. And it’s really a very interesting game. There’s nothing wrong with the game.

Okay. Why don’t you take a break and I will give you a little Group Processing. We’ll move Unit Five auditing period, one up to auditing period five tonight.