There are two more things I would like to cover on this. One of them is the E-Meter behavior while you’re running this flow line and the other one is the — just general patter.

I want to talk to you about energy flows and the various behaviors of energy as they apply to thought. This subject is a vital one. It is a subject that is very necessary, not only for the auditor to know but to some degree for the pc to know too. Because if the preclear does not know what these things are, he can’t tell the auditor what they are, and the auditor might not recognize them.

Now, the E-Meter behavior is very simple. You can put a pc on an E-Meter and you don’t have to ask him how long ago the incident is or what the characteristic of the incident is. Most people, when you suddenly give them the idea — you suddenly say to them, “This incident took place a long time ago,” and so forth — they don’t know enough about it yet, they have not seen the distance at which these flow points will flow. They haven’t seen a lot of things about them and you’d have to explain things to them. And I’ll also tell you about — if they’re in the mess of these force lines, they’re down the line to an invalidation level. They have the devil invalidated out oft them; they couldn’t possibly think of one of these things as being true. They just couldn’t think of it being true because they’re too flatly invalidated.

Now, the first category is simple energy as we know it here on Earth in 1952. That is very simple energy. It flows, it stops. It is paralleled by all the laws of motion, but it’s very simple. An automobile goes down the road traveling at sixty miles an hour — that is a flow. It hits a stone wall — that’s a ridge. And the point where it stops or is halted in its flow makes a ridge. It’s very simple.

What is invalidation? Invalidation is force applied. You apply enough force to anybody and you’ve invalidated him. How invalidated can he get? Dead. And if a pc is suddenly made to believe, or you’re trying to make them believe that something has happened to them or that this incident happened to them a long time ago, or you’re trying to make them believe what the incident really, actually is, as it will eventually bear out — if he’s been at it for a while, he looks at these things, he’ll get a few of them up into the perceptic level; he’ll work them up that high. He’ll also find out that there’s sensory perception many feet from the body, which is very peculiar indeed. He’ll find out a heck of a lot of things that all of a sudden don’t account for along other lines. But he hasn’t, at the stage you are running him, run into any of these phenomena. Now, there’s no reason why you have to advise him that it’s anything. He’ll get curious after a while why something is tearing the top of his head off. All you’ve got to give is just a routine patter. You’re running incidents which are from 0.0 down to about minus 3.0.

If these were thought units — that automobile consisted of thought units, that is, energy units which you put out — in order to undo this crash you would have to put new energy into the old facsimile (the old picture of that automobile going down the road). You’d just put new energy into it and you’d get this automobile running down the road. And you’ll find out that there’s a residual boost in that automobile as it goes down the road. And you put your attention up here on where you first see the automobile, and the next thing you know, it’s clear down there and it’s hit the brick wall. Well, you followed it through once, except the motion of the automobile is so fast, furious, that you cannot halt its action.

Okay, he can’t perceive in that level; there’s no perception in that level beyond this point: he can perceive an energy flow at that level, and he can barely perceive that. And it will seem when he starts to perceive it that it’s imaginary, and it will start to behave for him on an imaginary basis, and then all of a sudden when the somatics start turning on will get terribly real, but will immediately afterwards go into the line of disbelief. Why? Because the force is too great, and if force is very great it makes him not believe; it throws him down scale on distrust. He has to invalidate what is happening to him to save his own life, actually, he feels, and so forth. In other words, it’s a mechanical manifestation you’re facing.

Now, you put your attention up here on where you first saw the automobile come around the curve — you’ve just imparted your attention units to this automobile, and without you doing anything more about it, that automobile is going to run the whole course down and hit the brick wall, bang! And you’ll find your attention units are down here, because what is the action down here? The action down here is sudden stop or ridge.

So don’t, as an auditor, try to sell anybody the idea of an electronic incident. You just tell him what to do. That’s simple. Just tell him what to do, and what to do this way and what to do that way and what to do the other way and so on. And just “What’s happening now?” “Do you have any hollow spots?” “Are there any ridges?” “Are there any points ready to pop out in front of you?” Just keep this patter up, asking him these questions. And have him slap his attention out on these points and let them flow back, and have him flow out against these points and so on — all just terribly routine.

So you put your attention units up here again (we’re getting rid of this facsimile of this automobile), put your attention units on the moment it came around the curve — you put your attention units on that, and they go whshht! and they’re stuck down here. In fact, they will go that course and stick on the crash against the wall so fast that your preclear is not aware of the fact that he has hit anything more than the crash.

He’ll tell you! I don’t care if you’ve got this guy — if somebody is down from the title and trust building or just picked up at random. You start saying, “Do this, do that, do this, do that, do this,” and you start giving him the routine which will run one of these Fac Ones or something of the sort, see, which is a heavy electronic incident. And he’ll say, “What’s this?” All of a sudden he’ll say, “Here’s a man with a — with a hood on and black glasses looking at me, turning a machine at me! That never happened to me!”

Now, that’s very important for you to remember, because the crash is his body, so he gets his attention stuck on his body. He throws his attention out here a yard, two yards, twenty yards, and he sees a facsimile of an automobile going down and hitting the stone wall — bang! Let’s say he sees that same thing. And his attention goes from — actually, he caught it the moment it came around the curve — but his attention went so fast down this line that all he thought he got was the crash. So he keeps trying to take this crash apart, and he just can’t take the crash apart. It’s tough, it’s sticky. All those energy units are jammed up in the crash.

And you say, “Well, beside the point. Go on and let him turn the machine.”He’ll say, “Ow!” In other words, he’ll get rather upset with the amount of somatic.

Now, unless you know this characteristic and this behavior of thought units running over a speed facsimile, a flow, your auditing has been devoted to taking apart ridges. And that can be done. Don’t mistake me; actually, you can do this.

But he’ll get these manifestations; he’ll get these incidents, one right after the other. You just start him on any setup that you know of. Or even if you don’t know a single setup, just on flows, and he’ll turn up with these incidents. It’s very wonderful. It’s very surprising to him. Now, the way you do this — there’s this manifestation: there’s black and white. That low on the Tone Scale, of course, there isn’t any perception, there isn’t any color, there isn’t anything like that. But there is a perception of black and white. So what do you do? When he is flowing out, let him flow out as long as he can flow out along a white path — a white path. Because the white path will eventually turn black on him. If he can flow out along any line, you say, “How does the flow line look to you?” “How does that flow line look ?”

But what happens to any incident when you don’t pick it up at the beginning? If you don’t pick an incident up at the beginning, you’re trying to run the locks of motion on the first motion. You have to get up the first motion, don’t you?

And he’ll say, “Dark.”

Well, that’s the first thing you have to do, then, is to get up the first part of this crash. And that’s the first moment that automobile showed up. So you pick up the units there — pssht! bang!Now, you know that your pc’s attention is back here on this ridge. And you also know that he’ll keep his-attention on that ridge because it’s so painful (at least I have heard that it was painful to run automobiles into stone walls at sixty miles an hour). And his attention gets fixed there, and he wants to examine this and find out if the driver’s part of the machinery or something. And so he starts — so on. His attention is just all wound up in that one point. You as the auditor have to remind him to pick his attention up out of that crash and send it back down there where the automobile first came in sight. The second that he puts it down there, it goes pssht! and he’s right back here again, right on the ridge.

Well, that’s not a flow line. You shouldn’t be running that flow line; you should be running an earlier flow in or another flow in.

And you do that throw his attention out, back in; out, back in; out, back in; out. And all of a sudden all he can find is the automobile coming around the curve. He can’t find this ridge back here; he can’t find anything but the automobile coming around the curve. There he is, stuck. Why? There’s a reverse flow. It’s another facsimile is messed up with that first facsimile so that if you were standing there watching this automobile come around the curve and come down here and hit the ridge, crash — it was a cinch there was probably another automobile that started out from the vicinity of this crash and went up and around the curve. Didn’t crash — there is another motion there, and it’s the opposite motion. And you’ve just run him until his motion hung up — it balanced.

A white flow is a moving flow, and a black area is a stopped flow. And a black area is stopped because there’s a white flow around there somewhere ready to run. So you — all of a sudden, you ask him — well, you say, “Look behind you. Now, how far can you see behind you? Do you find anything back there at all?”

So what do you do now? You get an outgoing motion, you get a motion out toward the curve — a motion from the pc to the curve — out, out, out, out, out.

And he says, “Yeah, there’s a little black spot.”

All of a sudden, that motion that he’s. . . He’s got this car which is traveling out toward that curve — he’s traced it, his attention units go out, and all of a sudden he’ll notice that the other car, as it comes around the curve, is ready to move again. And it’ll come in — whshht! and hit the ridge again. And the funny part of it is, is he backflows his attention and puts it back up to the curve: it was another track, another incident; it’s another automobile. But the two facsimiles hanging together hang each other up. There doesn’t even have to be a crash on this one outgoing, but the two hang each other up and unless you run that other automobile, one automobile is going to get stuck out there.

You say, “Look behind the black spot. Look behind the black spot.” “Yeah,” he says, “there’s a white spot.”

So you run this — the automobile that goes out to the curve — you run it until the other one will run in. Well, the funny part of it is, is it releases the units that he was resisting that incoming automobile with. In other words, he’s spreading his attention out there, out there, out there. What he’s actually cleaning up is any resistance he felt for the automobile coming in. He cleans that up, and as he’s sweeping that outgoing automobile to that curve (usually the earlier incident; he goes out, he sweeps that) this ridge lessens, lessens, lessens.

“Look at the white spot again. Look at the white spot again.” And he says, “It keeps moving in at me.”

What happens every time he picks up that automobile way out there at the curve that comes in toward the ridge? Wham! It comes in, the ridge gets less, the ridge gets less. The ridge is blowing, really, as a lock — the crash — because you’re picking up the first part of the incident. And by tracing it back out again, you’re picking up all the resistive units, all the units that kept that automobile from coming around the curve. He didn’t want that automobile to come around the curve and hit the brick wall. When you sweep another source out that direction, it picks up all the resistance, and the funny part of it is that it turns on the somatic again. In other words, it turns on some more of the ridge.

And you say, “Well, look at it again. Look at it again.” You know that it’s moving in on his body and you say, “Tell me when it stops moving, when it doesn’t move anymore.”

And the whole ridge vanishes by sweeping in from a source to a ridge and then an earlier flow out to the source again. And you just sweep those two flows — bang, bang, bang — back and forth, maybe several times on the one going out, several times on the one coming in, several times on the one going out, several times the one coming in. The boy is getting somatics the like of which you never heard of And he’ll keep saying, “But the pain is in my neck!”

“Okay.” He says, “It isn’t moving.”

You say, “All right, pick up the automobile there that’s going out.”

“All right. Flow out in that general direction. Flow toward it.” “How do you mean?” he’ll say.

He’ll say, “Ouch! Why does it hurt my neck?”Well, the reason it hurts his neck is as he sweeps his attention out, his attention units are going out on this old track; that old track was used by him to resist the later, incoming automobile to the crash, see? He picked up the old facsimile of resistance and he put it against the automobile which was coming in.

“Well, just,” you say, “just push energy back at this thing, in that direction.” He’ll say, “I can’t.”

And you’ve just got to take those two facsimiles apart and (snap) the ridge goes, the crash goes, it all cleans up. There’s not even an ambuIance or a spot of blood left there when you’re through.

“Well,” you say, “push energy somewhere in its vicinity. Push energy anywhere in its vicinity. Now, are you pushing?”

Now, that’s — sounds maybe awfully simple, but it is — it’s that simple. It breaks down to that, because a dispersal . . . Now, you’ve got a flow, [marking on blackboard] a dispersal, a ridge over here, and it doesn’t much matter, then, when you’re running a facsimile — here’s your source — it doesn’t much matter whether this source is going like this (which is a dispersal) or whether it’s just going in like on that line. The only part of it that hit your pc was that line that’s coming in toward him. So this can be a source point or it can be a dispersal. In other words, it can be an explosion or a ray, like a flashlight headed at him. It doesn’t matter which one it is.

“Yes.”

Here’s your pc over here [marking on blackboard] — that could be a flashlight or it could be a bomb bursting; it could be any of these things, don’t you see, and you’d get the same flow in at him and you’d get the same ridge. When it hits him it makes a ridge — just as simple as that. So it doesn’t matter whether that’s a burst or a flow. All you’ve got here is . . . just this incoming.

“Now, what color is the path there?” “White.”

Now, it’s very, very, very interesting that if you have — anybody you’ve got, any pc you’ve got — and you just tell them to search around in their environment 360 degrees at varying distances until they can find a point that collapses on them, that they can always find one.

“Well, push energy along that white path. Go on, push some more energy on that white path. Push some more energy on the white path.” See, you’re getting the outgoing line, the outgoing line. All of a sudden he can’t push any more energy on that line, or you notice that he’s not getting any somatic or anything, so you say, “Put your attention back on a point back there in back of you again. Put attention on that point again. Put it. . .” That point is ready to move again, don’t you see?

Your incidents are out there waiting. They’re a complete hedge around any individual: 360 degrees. That’s why he can’t extend in his environment the way he should in order to control and command that environment, because every time he puts his attention out to any distance from him, it hits him.

The black and white of it is very plain and seems to be very chronic with lots of people. There isn’t any accounting for it beyond the fact that electronic units, as they flow, would make a glow. And this would leave an attention pattern. Very fascinating, but it’s very simple. And you can very, very readily make this thing very complicated for yourselves. Vera complicated.

One of these old point sources will let go, and does he ever run it out? No, he doesn’t. He isn’t even aware it’s there, because when his attention goes out and touches it, it collapses on him so quick that all he felt was a slight little twinge on his body and he never puts his attention back out on it again. He keeps his attention on his body. His attention stays, then, on his body and he doesn’t look back to that point.

One: You don’t really have to know — you don’t really have to know the identity of the incidents, because they will invariably show up.

Now, I gave you the illustration with the automobile, that he had an outgoing force to stop it, but what did he use for the pattern of his outgoing force? He used an earlier outgoing force of his own. He used this earlier force. So when this point source started to hit him, he said, “I have put attention units out on that line before. I know that I can.”And he picked up this old facsimile and laid it there for a pattern to shoot units out on. And he held the thing in suspense by putting this old facsimile in there, and that was a maybe.

You run any one of these incidents long enough and you get it up the Tone Scale high enough and it will start to show up into the perceptic range. And then the fellow will look around and he’ll say, “An eight-footed elephant.” And of course you know this is hallucination, because all the psychiatrists say it’s hallucination. And so you don’t let him run it anymore; you let him go to the hospital because the somatic is hung up and he’s sick. Now, that doesn’t seem logical; that sounds more psychiatric, doesn’t it? No, run it out, whatever it is he shows up.

He wouldn’t have interrupted it or stopped it or even been a ridge on it, by the way, practically, if he’d never had a pattern go out that way. If he had no pattern going out that way at all, he couldn’t have stopped it at all and so he wouldn’t have arrested it, so he wouldn’t have hung it up, so it’d never become a maybe, so he would never be able to restimulate it in present time and wouldn’t have it now. But he had this old facsimile and here’s this old facsimile ready to pour the units out on.

Now, if you know the incidents — if you know the incidents, you can simply direct his attention on the pattern of an incident. And he’ll get the incident and he’ll run it. You don’t have to tell him when it occurred or anything else. The energy is going to flow in that pattern, it’s going to do those things, and you know that, so you as an auditor can direct his attention particularly along this line. But remember that this is slightly forcing, slightly directive, and you don’t have to be that hard on your pc. So you can actually just make him go through the routine of finding points that emanate at him and areas toward which he can emanate.

And so you hit the point source, in it comes; hit the point source, in it comes; hit the point source, it sticks. You say, “Find another outflow. Find an outflowing point from you toward it or in some direction around. Or find it in some other part of the sphere — any outflowing source that you can find. Where does your attention start to leave you?”And he’ll search around and he will find, then, a point where — in him or with him — that suddenly goes out and hits out there someplace. Make him run that. And it’ll go out and hit, out and hit. And just make him put his attention on himself and his attention units will ride right on out. The old facsimile restimulates and his attention units slide right on out. No volition on his own part at all — they’ll just leave. All right.

Now, he all of a sudden says, “Well, it’s coming in on me now from about a sixty-degree arc in front and I get this line; there’s a rod or something out there. And every time I put my attention on it, it comes right back at me and it’s making my neck sore!”

By the way, this is nearsightedness and farsightedness. The nearsighted fellow, you see, is one who has looked out there and found a point source and it’s collapsed on his eyes. And the farsighted fellow is the fellow who, every time he gets into something, has his attention units travel out on this old outgo. And the one will fix the image before the picture should be fixed there, and the one will fix it behind. So you get nearsightedness and farsighted — very interesting manifestation. If you want to take off glasses off people, this is really the one to work.

And you say, “Well, put your attention on it again.”

All right. Just keep this up. Just keep it up with the fellow. All of a sudden he says, “This — well, this point source,”he’ll say, “I didn’t — it just doesn’t — it isn’t there anymore.”

Well, all of a sudden he says, “That’s — it’s stuck out there. It’s stuck out there.”

You say, “Fine.”That’s all right with you; you’ve erased it.

And you say, “All right. Now, can you find, maybe just a little bit earlier, there was a flow out on that direction?”

Now, he says, “This other one out there, it still sticks; it still sticks.”Well, you find another outgoing source toward it.

And he’ll find a fifty- or seventy- or thirty-degree arc where he flowed energy out and it’s the matching flow. So you flow this energy out. You make him flow it out, and it’ll flow out on a white pattern. And all of a sudden you make him look at the rod again, and the rod’s all (snap) ready to cut his neck off again. What it is, is a flow emanation point and it will be way out there from his body.

You know, then, this simple law, that if one is out there and sticking, that should come in or would come in, there is one here that is ready to flow out — one in the pc ready to flow out. If this thing that he’s got flowing out is sticking on him, you know there’s one ready to flow in. It’s just the reverses — the reverses of motion. This is the anatomy of a maybe.

Now, a mistake which you can make as an auditor, and which you would very possibly make, lies in making him look too close to his body and making him stay in on the body or making him stay in within a yard of the body — because the somatics and the sensory perceptions and so forth, when they’re in that close, the guy is pretty bad off on the incidents. So get him out there.

Now, that is with plain, ordinary, everyday energy. What actually happens is something very, very interesting. Here’s an old facsimile, an old mock-up, and it’s got characteristics which bring it into present time. It’s been restimulated a little bit by the environment and it flies into present time and it’s there almost unseen and unfelt. So [marking on blackboard] here is the pc. And here, out here, is this old facsimile. And this old facsimile has been hung up in present time because there’s another facsimile. And these two interlock and he can’t get rid of one without getting rid of the other one, and he can’t get rid of both of them at the same time. Because he can’t get rid of both of them at the same time, they hang up and there they are, and he’s got them from there on out.

You could make a mistake, in other words. You want these earlier incidents, and the earlier it was, the wider it could go. If you can get an incident which is sixteen miles, that’s fine. That’s swell, because that means that’s a very early incident. His horsepower has become less and less and less and less and less and less and less until he got into this life, and then his horsepower became less and less and less and less and less and less and less until he was Homo sapiens, and then he got less and less and less and less and less until he got normal and he couldn’t move a pin. He couldn’t throw an electric current out enough to register on anything but a very sensitive E-Meter. Now, that guy is really in bad shape. I mean, he’s done. That’s why he’s here on Earth. Okay.

So, here’s your picture. Here’s your pc, and sitting out in front of him or behind him or above him, below him, are hundreds of these things, many of them locks on top of the others. And so he looks out here, and — after this is slightly hung up — and here’s the point. This is a picture of an explosion, [marking on blackboard] and part of the explosion hit him. So he’ll hit his attention on that point, and his attention will come right back against his body. And it’ll come back against his body and this one will kind of shift over and lock up a little bit more with that.

Here’s your behavior of an E-Meter on your flows. Your E-Meter starts climbing, climbing, climbing, climbing; it’s going on up, up, up, up, up. As long as an E-Meter is going up that way, you are in a dispersal. There is a dispersal, within or without this guy, which is ready to run. There’s a dispersal there. The E-Meter is moving, as you face it, to your left. It’s going up, and it gradually goes up, up, up, up, up — he is in a dispersal. And if you want to get the incident he’s in, you make him nail a source point around there someplace. If it’s a retractor beam, it will be a compression point. But it’s an escape. He isn’t trying to escape the incident; he’s just in a dispersal. There is energy coming toward him. There is energy flowing.

So he’s got to find the matching source that goes out toward that other facsimile in order to unbalance it. So he runs part of this one and part of that one. What happens is, the second that his attention units hit those facsimiles — even if he’s just looking around enjoying the day — the second his attention unit hit that facsimile, at that exact distance, he’s either going to outflow or it’s going to flow in toward him, one way or the other. He can’t help it. And he won’t even know that it’s happening.

Now, when you get this thing going down, down, down, down, down, he’s hitting ridges — more and more solid ridges increasing his density. So when you get the sag down, you’ve got ridges; when you get the climb up, you’ve got dispersals.

He’ll know that he had a little twinge or that he itched someplace suddenly. Or he’ll know that an eye hurt a little bit or that he got a headache or that he just didn’t feel too well. And he’s got a lot of explanations for it, but this is what happened: His attention unit went onto his body here, he hit a nettle, and right in the vicinity of where the nettle hit, he’s got a facsimile that’s ready to outflow. So the more he regards that nettle, the more he hangs up this facsimile and so the nettle gets worse and worse and worse, only it isn’t the nettle that’s getting any worse. So you get outflow, you get inflow, and what happens? You unbalance the forces which are holding these two facsimiles in present time, and there they go. They’re gone. You just have to unbalance them and they’ll leave.

What do you run with this guy? Very simple. You get a dispersal out, and as long as he is getting a climbing needle, that dispersal can be run. That’s dispersal out from him; you’re getting a flow out from him. Your needle keeps climbing. You say, aFlow out. All right, more flow outs Needle keeps climbing. “Flow out.” Your needle keeps climbing. “Flow out.” And you keep watching that needle, and all of a sudden the needle will slow down and stick. All right. Now you say, “All right, crush in on that. Pull in on it. See if it comes in. Put your attention out there and let it come m.

Now, that’s simple energy flows and how to run it.

So all right, he puts his attention on it, and what do you get now? The first thing you’ll get will be a sag. And then you’ll get a dispersal. And then your needle will start up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, and it’ll flow in as long as that needle climbs. And you know whenever he gets a somatic — he gets a somatic because the needle twitches. Every time he gets a somatic, the needle will twitch — little halt in its upflow. Well, that’s a pain going through him.

Now, you’ll find that this condition exists: Don’t think that all facsimiles and all explosions and sources were exterior, any more than they were all interior. If you’ve been running them, usually you just try to run them interior because your attention gets fixed up on these ridges. You see, when a source runs, it hits a ridge, eventually, when it hits your body — [marking on blackboard] from the source to the ridge.

You don’t even have to ask a pc whether it hurts, whether it’s going out or going in or still flowing. You can sit there and look at an E-Meter, and it goes up, up, up, up, up. Whichever way you’ve got his attention flowing or dispersing, or whatever you’re following, that’s fine; it’s still moving. After a little while it’s going to stop, and when it stops, you know you’ve got to get the reverse. And you get the reverse, and you get the reverse, and the second you get the reverse it’ll start flowing again. In other words, auditing by the E-Meter on energy flows is a sequence of letting the needle go up and sticking it, and then reversing the flow so it will go up again and sticking it and so on, letting it search.

All right. Now, let’s say here’s your individual — your theta body, your individual — and right here [tapping on blackboard] there’s a facsimile of a burst. Now, here’s a source point and it’s going to go in all directions. And when you put your attention up here, you’re trying to drive in against a force which just won’t collapse. This thing is hung in suspension by another facsimile. And here is a sphere or some such shape, and you’ve got a facsimile there which is also balancing it. And there’s going to be no pain, no action and no relief until a balance takes place.

Now, you just follow that and in addition to that, you know whether or not your pc is in a situation where he’s getting pain because you get the flicks — flicks on the needle. The needle will dive just a little bit every time he gets a shock pain.

But the individual knows there’s a hollow spot there, and he tries to go in toward it and he can’t go in toward it. Why can’t he go in toward it? He’s gone in toward it up to the point when it had to run out — in other words, he’s run just enough of this thing to make it hang up as a hollow sphere in his body. And it’s really going to be hung up, because what’s ready to happen now? What’s ready to happen is this source point is ready to fly out. It is ready to flow out. And it’ll flow -out for a little while and then again he can push in toward it, and he can push in toward it and push in toward it and push in toward it, and then it’ll hang up. Then he’s got to put his attention on the center of it and it’ll flow out and flow out and flow out, and then it’ll hang up and then he’ll put his attention pushing down against it, pushing down, and all of a sudden it’s gone.

You’ll notice, auditing these incidents, that they obtain rather large tone rises. This is the reason: you’re exhausting an incident and when it’s exhausted, it’s exhausted, and you’ve got a higher tone for the pc.

Now, the trick here is not to crowd the pc’s attention into that sphere, but just have him lay it in the center of the sphere. Have him get there by no route. He just lays it in the center of the sphere. This is easy to do. You say, “Locate the center of that sphere.”Well, he starts locating the center of the sphere and up to this time he’s been dramatizing this other facsimile, see? He’s been — push! push! He can’t push in toward the center of the sphere, so he’s having a hard time.

But you could, theoretically, let one go up for quite a little while without auditing it — your meter will just keep on going up. But it will go up, up, up and it’ll stick. Well, that’s not bad. You’ve run out at least that much up-go. But it’s liable to stick at a little higher level on the Tone Scale than the person would assume. The second that you start to get the reverse flow, your meter reading will take a dive and you will go up, then, from a lower basic, and he will stabilize lower than he read.

Well, you just say, “Well, find the center of the sphere.”The second you find the center of that sphere it’s going to explode. The attention units are going to come out. And by the way, sometimes it’s a very gentle flow. Sometimes there isn’t any more pain in it than you get in a normal operation without anesthetic. (audience laughter) But you sometimes have to be very persuasive after you’ve exploded a couple of these things, because the pc gets cagey. He doesn’t want to do this. So it’s a good thing to have him on an E-Meter. And I’ll tell you how to run these things on an E-Meter.

Now, if your pc says, “I — it makes me feel afraid,” you know there’s a dispersal area to be run. Just as simple as that. Or there’s a hollow spot, there’s a dispersal area, there’s a source coming at him — he says fear. Fear means dispersal, that’s all. And you run a dispersal. Just because you get a dispersal does not mean fear. Fear is a special manifestation — is dispersal. You will also get a dispersal manifestation on enthusiasm.

Now, there is the case of your flow point. Now, there can also be this kind of a condition inside the body where there is a source point. Here’s a source point and here’s — the flow is all up in one direction; it isn’t a burst. Well, you run that just like you run these others. Put your attention on the source point and it’ll flow up, flow up, flow up enough. When it halts you’ve got to find something flowing down against the source point, flowing down toward it. You run that and run that and run that, and that’ll hang up. And then run it from the center and run that and that out, and all of a sudden, why, your somatic is gone.

All right. So that’s the behavior of the E-Meter while auditing. Beware getting the thing stuck. But if a needle is stuck, it simply means that the fellow has flowed out or flowed in too long in one direction and to get it unstuck, he may have to force himself to flow the opposite direction the first time or two, and then all of a sudden your needle comes free. There is nothing easier than freeing a needle. This is simplicity itself.

Now, don’t forget, when you’re doing this sort of thing, that any of these conditions can exist then: exterior, interior. And when you get exterior and interior, remember, when you say exterior you could mean “just about exterior.”It could be over here within two inches of the guy’s chin. That could be an exterior source point which at one time or other, back in the dim, distant past, with a terrific blast, blew his head off. But he’s got it nicely balanced there and it’s hung up at that point, because he’s never put his attention on this spot except maybe when he gets something on his vest: when he’s eating he gets soup on his vest, and when he looks down here at his vest- it makes him very annoyed. This thing, of course, will explode if his attention goes across it. But it’ll only explode a few times, and then you’ve got to find the matching run on it.

Now, these are the manifestations of energy behavior and how to audit. It requires experience on the part of a pc before he begins to have any confidence in it. He’ll have confidence, first, in the fact . . . He’ll say to himself, your auditor, generally, in training — say to himself first, UWell, by golly, there probably are these energy-flow units because I can find them so easily and it does such strange things to pcs, and it’s very good to do because it turns on somatics and turns them off. And therefore I will audit them without knowing what they are or anything of the sort.” And he’ll go on on this basis for a while, until one day, on himself or a pc, stuff will show up which all of a sudden just won’t work in this life. It just won’t work.

All right. Remember, then, that these source points can be exterior, very close to the pc. And remember this, that your pc is not a body, a LEST body which has a head, arms and so on. These somatics can be found out to within about an arm’s length of him — that is to say, within about a yard of him, in a sphere all the way around him, or an ellipsoid. He can run somatics a yard in back of his head like a breeze.

No energy heard of on Earth behaves in that fashion. That’s the first thing that strikes you. And the next thing that strikes you is that the somatics are out there too far, and that you can’t have facsimiles registering out in this kind of a situation. And a lot of things will begin to look a little bit peculiar and you try to tie them down to this kind of an incident in this life and that kind of an incident in this life.

And by the way, he’s liable to get the first tactile he ever got by feeling something several feet from him. That shouldn’t be at all peculiar. It doesn’t mean that that is simply where he was when the other facsimile hit. That means that his theta body has that much dimension. Because I made a test of both of these things and I found out that it wasn’t just a mislocation; it’s actually there. Why? Because you get a guy up the Tone Scale a little bit and he can feel something a yard from him if he concentrates on it. He can feel the icebox; he can feel a bowl of fruit; he can feel the knives and forks when he starts getting up the line.

If you want to drive yourself crazy or drive your pc crazy, try to tie these incidents down to this life. Because it’s almost a guarantee that your pc will start to spin.

Of course, previously when he tried to do this, he put his attention out there and the environment collapsed on him. Most people are walking around and the safety of their environment ends about one inch from their eyes. And most people don’t have a safety of environment the length of their nose. Most people’s noses are dead, motionless; that’s because they don’t dare extend their attention out that far from their bodies. If they did, they’d get ruined. So their attention goes to back of the nostrils, behind the nostrils.

“Who could have done this to me?” he’ll start asking. Well, the point is, nobody did it to him. The second he finds this out he gets comfortable again.

Once in a while they do this and they get sinusitis or something. They extend their attention just that much — and that’s very inadvertent, they shouldn’t have done that — and they get sinusitis because they turn on some old somatic. Nothing easier to cure than sinusitis.

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Now, these are ordinary attention-unit flows — ordinary flows, ordinary conditions. And the rules are simply that everyone is surrounded with points that are ready to collapse on him and contains points which are ready to flow out — he’s got outflows ready to go or inflows ready to go — and that there are ridges out there and there are ridges on his body.

. . . you can run a pc on motivators, motivators, motivators, motivators, motivators, on and on and on until you’ve got him stuck in every engram. You see, what are you doingI You take an engram and you’d run this needle as long as it’d climb and then it would stick and then you’d go on to another engram.

Now, you just keep that in mind. You start examining somebody’s eyes that are bad and you ask them if there are any ridges on these eyes; you ask them if there are any hollow spots. And it’ll be a great shock to him to find out that his whole eye cavity is hollow. There isn’t any feeling there; there’s no eye there. You just ask him to find the point that energy might be coming from, and he’ll feel around for a moment there, sort of sensorily — he’ll feel around and all of a sudden he’ll hit a point over here, maybe by the bridge of his nose, and he’ll go, “Ow! What did you make me do that for?”

If you just ran what happened to the pc, what happened to the pc, what happened to the pc, you can get away with it if it’s this lifetime. But don’t try to get away with it on an electronic incident, because he’ll stick. And he’ll stick, and you’ve never seen a needle quite as rigid as a needle will stick on these incidents. It really sticks. And there it is. And you say, “Well, run something else that happened to you now. Run something else that happened to you. Something else.” And he’ll start down scale — down, down, down, down, down. You’ve put him into an artificial — what we call a DEDEX: deserved act explained — and you’ve put him into an artificial one.

“Well, what happened? What happened? Where did it come from?”Dirty trick, see? You made him put his attention back there again.

And he’s really got all the motivators run out of anything he ever did, so there’s no explanation now for what he did and he’s in a terrible state of mind: he gets soft in the head. Somebody comes along and says, “Boo” to him, he thinks he’s been insulted.

“Well, it came from right there . . . Ow!”

In other words, why do you deserve criticism? Why do you deserve to be criticized? He says, “My mother was mean to me,” or something of this sort.

Now, if you want to equalize a person’s eyes, if you want to equalize their sight and straighten their sight out and so forth, you can actually have them look out here and in the back of their heads and around in the vicinity of their heads, just close to home — you don’t have to go far out from their bodies — and find little hollow spots and little ridges.

“Well, did you listen to what she said?”

And how do you run a ridge? You got a ridge? Well, the energy is piling up on the ridge from both sides, usually. Maybe there’s an explosion ahead of the ridge and behind the ridge, and it’s piling up on the ridge. And you make him run that and then you make him run some flow going back out, and they’ll find these little tiny ones down along the optic nerve. And they’ll find their attention units are piled up against the back of the optic nerve. And you just work with this: “Where do you find a hollow spots Where is there a ridge? Where is it going to flow there? Put your attention here, there.”And they’ll get some lovely, sharp somatics.

“Oh yes, she was very mean to me; she said a lot of mean things.”

Now, you take two pencils or something like that, and you move them toward the fellow — make two dots on a card which are about eyewidth apart and cover that card up. Hold it in front of your pc’s eyes and cover the card up, and then suddenly uncover it and say, “Now, you’re supposed to put these two dots one over the other.”And you suddenly uncover this thing, and he has an awful time, and he manages to get them together. And you say, “Which one moved in?”Well, he won’t have noticed that. So you cover them up again and you say, “Now, make them move together when I uncover them.”You uncover those two dots and he’ll find out it’s the left one moving in. The left one moving in? That means the right one is rigid. So you’ve got a rigidity or a holder there in the right eye. So you merely work with hollow spots and so on, right around close in to the eye, until you’ve got that right eye so it will move in and the left eye so it will move in, equally. You ball ance their two eyes like this. You can make vision just do wild variations with this.

“Why? Well, why did you deserve to be criticized? What did you do to her?”

Now I’m going to tell you something a little more complicated. This only sounds complicated because a person not schooled in electronics — and actually, most of the boys who are in electronics in the United States and other countries here on Earth today, they wouldn’t know how to build one of these things if you stood them up against the wall and shot them (in other words, gave them Russian employment’) — they wouldn’t be able to design one of these things, because it’s a question of very tricky electronics.

“Oh, I never did anything to her.”

You have to establish a beam of electrons and then foreshorten the beam in order to get a retractor wave. You have to hang together a solid flow, so to speak, and then make the solid flow collapse in order to get a retractor wave. And this is what I’m going to tell you now, is the behavior of a retractor wave in running pcs. Now, you have to be able to run retractor waves even though this society today knows they are very possible but can’t build one. They’re too much in the dark ages. I mean, this country is really pretty kindergarteny on electronics. And they can’t build one of these things, but you’ll find it in pcs. And if you don’t know what it is, your poor pc is just going to just suffer, that’s all.

Nuts. But you get these electronic incidents . . . Oh, you’ll go back and you’ll find as a little boy he took a broomstick or something of the sort, and beat her over the head while she was lying in a hammock, or he threw a snowball at her, or she fell on the ice and he figured it was his fault and . . . Oh, there’s a big overt act back there, but little mild stuff this lifetime.

Because evidently this is all the tiredness there can be on a case — is caused by this type of somatic. Your types of somatics which just won’t give up are this kind of a somatic. The chronic somatics that you have run into and haven’t been able to run out easily are this type of somatic — and the reason why you haven’t been able to run them out.

When you run an electronic incident and you take a motivator out, you take a. . . This guy, let’s say, has one of these Fac One type incidents, and you run the whole incident, and somehow or other, because he’s fairly high in tone, by the grace of God you’re able to audit this whole incident out of him complete. You’re just asking for it now, to this point, you see? You just wait, because he’s going to pick up another one like Fac One almost right away — just right away. Something else that happened to him.

Now, knowing the data which I’m about to give you, it is very simple for you to run out a chronic somatic. This is really not very rough.

Now, maybe he’s still got enough resiliency and you can audit all of that one out. And now much more rapidly, he’s going to pick up a third one. So you audit this one out of him and you get it about three-quarters through, but it won’t erase, or it won’t reduce or some thing of the sort. But by this time he’s got five more he’s going to give you. And you just get a description of these five and now he’s got ten, now he’s got fifty, now he’s got thousands. He’s gone over into second facsimiles; he’s borrowed them out of his entity banks. He’s done all sorts of weird and terrible things but he keeps bringing these things in, bringing these things in, in, in, in — more and more and more.

A retractor beam, or a retractor loop, is a beam which goes out here from the source. . . [marking on blackboard] You don’t have to know anything about electronics. You don’t have to be able to do one of these things, or make one, you just have to be able to run one. Because you as a theta being can make one, that’s the big joke: the electronics can’t, but you can. We can’t mock one up, in other words, with condensers and ohms and so forth, and voltages, but a human being can do this.

And he says, “Look what happened to me, look what happened to me, look what . . .” What’s happened to you? You’ve just parked around him overt act, overt act, overt act, overt act, overt act. And each one of those things is saying to him, “You’re a bad boy.” And every time you audit one of these things out, you say, “You didn’t have any reason to do that.” So there you go.

Now, here is a source and here is a target. Now, an ordinary flow wave, if you fired something from the source over here to hit the target, it would just flow out here and hit the target, wouldn’t it? Well, a retractor beam doesn’t do that. A retractor beam flows out here, hits the target and then drags the target in. If the target resists, the retractor beam will just pull them to pieces. In other words, it’d be like having a lasso on somebody and reeling it in.

Actually, you can get a guy unbalanced the reverse: You can run overt act, overt act, overt act, overt act, overt act, and he’s done all these overt acts and he’s ready to have. . . Well, he’s getting in bad shape there. Why? He’s getting ripe for an overt act. Oh, he just gets meaner and meaner and meaner and meaner and meaner!

A retractor beam is used somewhat on the order that you bulldog a calf or rope a steer, or something of the sort. It’s to grab hold of something and hold it and pull it in. That’s one of its uses. And the other use is to nail you into a body — it’s a police action, that nail-you-into- the-body deal. It’s very good too, because it’s possible then to identify people and so forth.

You keep running these overt acts out and you’re leaving unexplained motivators there. I mean, he’s got motivators he’s never used. You’re giving him this tremendous supply of motivators. And, “Look at all these things that happened to me. I can do anything I want to anybody.” And he goes out and he bawls out his boss and he bawls out this guy and that guy and then he sees people come into the parking intersection, he’s liable to bump their bumpers and so forth. And he’s talking around mean, ornery — schrourlggh — he gets sarcastic.

I don’t know how cops would ever get paid. I mean, you got to have an aberrated and criminal society so that you can have cops. That’s obvious, isn’t it? And if they’re aberrated and so forth, if you took their aberrations away and took these things away, they’d lose all their criminality, and then they’d — suddenly wouldn’t have any bodies anymore you could identify them with, and that would be awful. You see, that.would be an unsolvable problem because cops wouldn’t be able to earn their money. And that’s the paramount thing. Well, you ask a cop; he’ll tell you that. (audience laughter)

Boy, you’re wondering, “Is this what it’s like bringing somebody up the Tone Scale?” No, no, that’s what it’s like by taking out all the overt acts a fellow has done and leave the motivators in place: he just gets meaner and meaner.

So your retractor beam here is actually a stream of fishhooks, so to speak; you could envision it as that. And it’s shot at somebody, but the action it gets is not the action of impact: it’s shot at somebody and pulls on them.

If you take the motivators out he gets more and more pathetic, more and more pathetic, more and more pathetic, you see? He’s got to have more and more motivators. And when you take the overt acts out, he gets meaner and meaner, and meaner and meaner, and meaner and meaner. He gets ornerier. He becomes capable of more overt acts.

Now, you could actually have a retractor beam [marking on blackboard] that did this, and this is what you specialize in. Here’s your target, it goes around back of the target and pulls the target in from two loops, two retractor beams fastened around the back of somebody’s head. You’ll find these on the track — you’ll find them most prevalent in overt acts, that the theta being goes along and suddenly sees somebody and pulls them over. He’ll just reach out, just whap, bap! Just throw out a beam and contract it. That’s all there is to it, and it pulls it in.

So, you’ve got to have a balance there. And fortunately, cases won’t audit unless you behave — on the balance line. You bring a fellow up the Tone Scale, and the way you get him up the Tone Scale is not auditing out exclusively overt acts, not auditing out exclusively motivators, but auditing out one and the other, one and the other. And actually, in most cases you will find it necessary to run half of a motivator and then half of an overt, and then the other half of the motivator and the other half of the overt. I mean, you’ll have to balance it that sharply — back and forth, back and forth.

You actually are trying to do what you could once do when you want a dog to come to you or something. You ever stand out there and have Johnny or a dog or something that you wanted them to come in, and you say, “Come here, come here,”and you get the sensation of trying to pull them in? Well, you haven’t got the horsepower you had once, or they would certainly come to you — appetite over tin cup. You can practice on animals, by the way — get a few of these things up and you’ll see animals will become very strangely obedient: they’ll walk towards you.

That’s why you ought to keep a map of what you’re doing on the case, because you’ll find that you’ll have to leave certain incidents. They stick.

Now, that’s a retractor beam. Now, you have to know about this because in this nip, which is described in What to Audit (the nip, where you slap people on both sides), is actually a retractor-type beam. You hit him and he implodes, not explodes. And that’s what I’ve got to give you now.

The reason an incident will not reduce is a very simple reason: the obverse of it is now in restim and ready to be run. If it were a motivator, it’s ready to have the overt act run. If it’s an overt act, it’s now ready to have the motivator run, and it sticks and won’t reduce until its use has been accounted for, and then it will reduce. It’s totally mechanical, it’s two facsimiles locking up together.

There’s implosion. [marking on blackboard] Now, here would be an explosion, bang, out here from the center, see? Bang! But here would be an implosion: everything’s collapsing in toward the center. Boy, you’d better know these things exist, because you’ll find some of those hollows in people are implosions. In other words, they’re trying to drag the whole person into the point source and the person is resisting. They’re trying to drag the person down and in. And that’s how this theta body gets stuck on a body. This thing is dragging in. There’s terrific force has been applied in a facsimile, which causes, any time you notice it, a grab in. This retractor beam, by the way — if a theta body explodes or something of the sort, it uses it to grab hold of any portion of itself to pull itself back in, you see, because it does not have some strange membrane material or something of the sort. All it has is beams and it pulls itself together and uses this retractor beam.

Now, I’ll give you something more on this. Going to ask the ques tion, why do you have facsimiles? If they’re this much trouble, why do you have them? In the first place, they’re an awful lot of trouble. A lot of bad things happen to facsimiles. Did you know facsimiles could blow up? Well, they sure can. The death shock of an individual pours an awful lot of his energy, suddenly. This death shock is quite well known, been measured many times — it’s real voltage and amperage. Fellow really blows up in a fine blast of glory when he dies suddenly. What do you suppose that does to his time track? All of a sudden, any facsimile he has sitting around there within bursting range is fed an enormous supercharge of attention units.

So this is an implosion. [marking on blackboard] And here you have a wall of energy. What would happen if that [tapping on blackboard] were a sheet of magnesium and somebody suddenly touched a match to it or something like that? It would explode! It would go bang! Fly apart. These two faces would fly out in these directions. But what would happen if it were a material that implodes? Here it is, and somebody touches a match to it, and these two sheets collapse! They fly in together, see, thereby leaving a vacuum here and here on the outside of it. And anything, any attention unit, that comes near an implosion is dragged into the implosion. And once it’s dragged into the implosion it can’t get off of the implosion, because every attention unit thereafter that’s poured at it just hangs up in it.

And of course if you feed a facsimile a little bit of attention units, it’ll flow. Well, what happens when you feed it a lot of attention unit? It bursts. This doesn’t mean that it blows up his whole bank and wipes out his memory completely, but pretty near. And this is one of the things that accounts for forgetfulness after death.

So, if a cop were to take you and stand you up against a sheet of something that was imploding, you’d have a facsimile that stuck you there forevermore. Because you try to run it as a common flow, and it won’t run as a common flow. And you try to back off from the thing and you can’t back off from it. You can’t do anything about it. It’s because you had never envisioned this business about an implosion. And the somatics, frankly, won’t run unless you know about this implosion deal. Second you know about this, the somatics will run like mad.

You get the same forgetfulness after an operation. Person has a certain amount of forgetfulness if there’s operative shock. An operative shock is a shock to the person sufficient to blow up a few facsimiles. Doctors see this — they see people dying under their hands every day in the hospital with operative shock. They very often call it postoperative shock and they call it during-operative shock, or they call it operative shock. It’s due to doctors whittling on people. And the shock itself is one thing, and the blowup of the facsimile just compounds the felony, and it makes a fellow just forget.

What happens here, then, with — let’s take a sphere. Here’s one of these hollow spots. And you find this individual is resisting the hollow spot; he isn’t trying to push into the hollow spot, he’s trying to keep from going into it. That is an implosion. If he relaxed, all of his attention units would flow toward the center of that hollow spot. He would practically collapse and become this dot in the center of that hollow spot. So he has to brace himself to keep from going into this hollow spot.

A fellow can come out of an operation — you know, a fellow can come out of the operation with absolutely nothing wrong with him after wards. He’s had a bad shock and everything but he just feels fine. He probably blew up the facsimile that was in restimulation. So operations are a good thing. Of course, it’s a little heroic to cut a fellow’s esophagus and toenails and ears and everything else off just to get a facsimile to blow up. We can do that more easily in Dianetics than with a knife. But it is a method of crude surgeries.

How do you run it? Well, it’s relatively simple. You just ask him to put his attention on the middle of the hollow spot, and the second that he does this, he’ll feel himself sag toward it. Now you put his attention on trying to keep from going into a hollow spot, all around the edges of it, and he’ll run some more of it out. And then put his attention in the middle of the hollow spot, and he starts to collapse in on it again — that’ll collapse just so far and hold up; get outside of it to keep from going in, inside of it to keep from going out. In other words, you run it exactly opposite to an explosion that makes a hollow spot. And you can readily find what these are, and a hollow spot doesn’t give you any real trouble. This wall is what gives you trouble, these waves is what gives you trouble [marking on blackboard] — these straight beams. Because it’s sometimes hard to get it through your pc’s head what’s happening here.

Well, the blowup of the facsimile would occasion you no difficulty if you had never blanketed a being. But you’ll find this anxiety stomach located squarely on an incident like this: An individual settles over a theta being, or a human being — who happens to be a thetan too, you know — and it settles over this person and blankets them, telling them what to do, monitor them, all fixed up for the motor controls and so forth. And somebody shoots this person, or this person falls off a horse or a cliff or a flying saucer or something and before an unblanketing can occur, that person who is being blanketed dies.

Why do men stay on Earth? Have you ever had a pc that gave you the idea that he was held down and was going to take root and grow? Have you ever had the idea that you’re sort of anchored in one spot? Did you ever feel heavy? Did you ever get up in the morning and feel tired? You get out of bed, you’re feeling all right, but the second you stand up you feel kind of tired. All you’re doing is kicking in one of these darn retractor somatics.

The most remarkable circumstance occurs, because you get the death shock and the blowup of facsimiles. So, your person explodes, you feel him explode out, and they grab in. The second they feel themselves start to fly apart, the last action they have is to grab in. The blanketing being starts to fly apart and grabs in. But by this time there’s facsimiles flying through the air like mad, and it makes the most interesting incident. It gives this terrific anxiety stomach. A guy just feels sick in the area, and he can’t get in there to do anything about it. See, it’s a hollow ridge, and he’s trying to force himself into the hollow center and he can’t get in there. So he’s trying to force his way in on this stomach, this anxiety stomach, and he can’t get in there and you find the center of it, and you keep finding the center of it.

Here’s your pc. [marking on blackboard] Here’s one of these things where — here was a beam. Here’s a floor. Here’s a beam here, and the beam goes up and lies like that. In other words, the direction of collapse of this beam is straight back here toward the source. Then there’s one on this side of him over here, toward the source, so that he’s nailed down. They held him in one place. He has a mask, something that goes around here, and he has one that goes around here. And this gives people the funniest ideas. It gives them the idea of a mask or something out in front of their face. Why? Because this thing is pulling and they’re retreating from it at the same time, and they can’t get this sensation. How could there be anything there? There’s nothing in front of them — there is no somatic can be found in front of them — there’s nothing, really, in back of them driving them forward. They have the sensation of trying to go forward but having to back up, but not being able to do either, which is a beautiful collapse.

Well, that’s one way to run it out and you can just do this for a while, and he’ll get kind of apathetic and you say, “Well, run it feeling apathetic,” and so on, and he’ll get kind of a ridge all up and down. And “Well, run that. Run you going in. Run it blowing out. Run it blowing out and you pulling in,” and so on — back and forth, back and forth, and it’ll eventually run down.

Here he is, and right along here — and you notice I’ve drawn the edges of this retractor beam out beyond the body — they’re out beyond the body, because this area in here, between the far edge of the tractor beam and the body, is a hollow area. Now, what he’s got to do in order to get out of this retractor beam, this setup . . . Oh, you can just take pcs at random, describe this to them and ask them to go through this little exercise, and they’ll feel, “Oh, my God, I’m worn out,”because what you want is you want them to get this sensation of avoiding the thing that is dragging them back. Now, the way they avoid it is to lift themselves forward off of it slightly. They’re out of contact with it, and they lift themselves forward slightly, but it’s pulling them back anyway.

But he’ll tell you some very interesting things such as “There’s facsimiles . . .” [gap] . . . and if you don’t watch him carefully, he’ll start to run those. Only they’re not his. They’re blowup facsimiles. They’re only partial facsimiles. You don’t get anyplace auditing them.

In other words, they’re holding themselves out of contact with the actual beam, so it never runs. It never runs out, until you suddenly point this out to them and you give them the sensation. . . Now you say, “Now get the sensation of holding yourself forward from the thing that pulls you back.”And they’ll play with it for a little while, and they’ll all of a sudden — ”Get the thing that’s pulling you back.”

Now here’s your blanket with its explosion. And maybe a person has blanketed and had explode under him as many as fifty or a hundred people. And every one of them has left a potential hollow, every one of them leaves a course of apathy, and every one of them leaves a ridge in his body. This is one of the sources of the dividing line which goes right straight down through the body. The other source is one of these retractor plates I told you about. They just simply put the plate down the middle of the individual, and he’s avoiding touching it on both sides simultaneously. But it is pulling him into it; that splits him in half

“Yeah.”

Now when he gets one of these blanketings — all of a sudden this being blows up; he closes in on the being, blows up; he closes in on the being, you know? And he does this, and the final result is a ridge. And if he’s closed on the being exactly center, he gets a ridge right straight down through the center of his body. If he’s a little off side, he gets a ridge over here. And here’s where you get these banks, these fragmentary banks. That and by the borrowing — taking facsimiles from people. That’s covered in What to Audit.

“Now feel avoiding that thing. Feel it like a band going around you, and feel your avoidance of it, you lifting off of it in front, so that you won’t touch it,”and the thing will start to run out.

But this blowup is a very interesting one and is vital to know. Oddly enough, it’s not just a curiosity, because if there’s anything more agonizing to a criminal than an anxiety stomach, I have never seen it. Most of your psychotics will suddenly turn psychotic on an anxiety stomach because they just can’t stand it. It’s just too much for them. They can’t get into it, they can’t get near it, they try to force their way into the area, they’re out of communication with the center spot. And this horrible feeling of frenzy is in there, and it’s pain, it’s apathy, it’s everything all mixed up at one, and, in addition to that, there’s all kinds of strange pictures or things or sensations or something around there that they can’t account for.

Now, this will run out just so far, and then some kind of an overt line will show up. Or some line will show up where they actually threw a beam down at the floor. They themselves did this sometime or another. They threw an explosion or a retractor beam, or anything; it’s just the outgoing motion. You just ask them, “Can you locate the outgoing motion, now, from that?”and they say yes they can, and you get them to run it, whatever it is.

In other words, it’s a real loony bin piece. And the anatomy of it is simply the blowup of the theta being; his facsimiles blow out, the covering being suddenly grabs in, wham! And, of course, when he grabs in — he’s just grabbing in instinctively against the explosion — he gets himself plastered all up inside with these facsimiles that are blowing up. He actually has an impression of the facsimiles that are part of the blowup. And your preclear will start to run one every once in a while when you’re running this other.

But this other sensation of holding themselves up from what is pulling them down to the floor, forwards and then backwards — holding themselves forward from what is pulling them back — will let them rock back and forth and finally contact that dead area. And the second they contact that dead area, this terrible tiredness turns on and you just keep running it until you run that out. It’s a relatively simple somatic.

This incident is very easy to run, awful easy to run the instant you know what it is. It can be run mechanically with — well, not very good results, but you can take the anxiety out of it by just running the hollow spot in the center and the blowout, and then you closing in and then it blowing out, and you closing in and so on — just alternate. And you can gradually run the thing out. Of course, it’s an overt act. But if you know what the incident is, it really runs fast. Because you’ll pick up the rest of the sequence because the thing has visio right before it; it has this after it, but it’s a holdup on the time track.

Now, this other one of why can’t you get rid of the facsimiles of people that you know you detest? But the facsimiles are occluded, and they did all these things to you and there they are, and you can’t get rid of them and it won’t deintensify, and this is just horrible and you are very upset about it. You’re holding on to them every time you hit them. You grabbed ahold of them with your theta beingness; you grabbed ahold of them with a retractor beam. You tried to implode them. You wanted them to collapse as far as a theta body was concerned and a lot of other interesting manifestations, and you stuck this beam up there and held them in. So you haven’t got just a beam which ordinarily goes in just swat, like a direct beam. You’ve got one which went in and hit them, and then they collapsed and they pulled you in on top of them. Or you had that sensation.

There’s your anxiety stomach, there’s your nervous stomach, there is a person’s feeling of anxiety. “Where do you feel anxiety?” And most everybody will tell you, “Well, I get anxious about the future, I feel it here.” They feel it in their midriff So, of course, guys who are trying to hold themselves together and are exploding are anxious. And what they’ve gotten is the counteremotion of this other being. And you just run that as a counter-emotion and an explosion, run it right straight through, and, boy, you can knock these things out in minutes.

If you get a pc to run that sensation — reaches out with some kind of beingness and slaps people on either side of the head, and then the energy area between the slap suddenly collapses and holds him on it — if you get that, you will get the apathy kickback that we talk about. That is a retractor beam. He’s used a retractor beam, and actually, you as — the thetan can use a retractor beam on it. In other words, that slap contains a drag-back of a somatic.

That’s not a rough auditing job. These retractor-wave pin-downs, they’re a rough auditing job. But these exploding facsimiles, they’re just nothing. They’re just no trick to run. You know that datum, you run it — bang! That’s all there is to it.

And the way you locate it — how do you locate it? It’s trying to collapse and you’re trying to get off of it. Something is trying to collapse and you’re trying to get off of it. And you just run it there. And you run it in the various very specific ways: You run it first, your attention units backing up from it. They’re running in toward it, but you won’t let them hit it. It’s dragging in your attention units — this wall, this sheet, this object, is dragging your attention units right straight in at it, but you won’t let your attention units hit it. So you’re curving the attention units back from it. And you can get this idea of your attention units being sucked in against something, but you at the same time holding off from it.

And that is very tough, because that’s about all the police have to go on. Because they can restimulate that with their later incidents. Later implant incidents are all lying on top of that. When you get somebody running a Fac One, get somebody running this kind of an incident or that kind of an incident which is a control incident, and he starts to pick up this anxiety stomach, it’s lying right straight on top of his overt act of blanketing somebody who blows up. And you go back and run that earlier incident. Nothing easier to run out, and there’s no more relief that I know of that can be produced that compares to the relief of a person who has an anxiety stomach. Oh, the relief is just fantastic to them. All right.

And by the way, that is the most beautiful holder there is, because it’s a holder without contact and so you don’t know there’s any facsimile there. You haven’t contacted it. You’re holding back from it and there it is, and there your attention units are, so you’ve got an empty space. [marking on blackboard] Here’s the wall that is holding — your attention units are coming in towards this wall, only they’re trying madly to back off. Now, some of them are hitting — those you can locate and run out easily. But some aren’t hitting. You’re pulling back hard enough to keep these attention units from hitting that wall. And as a net result, you get a complete swing here, and there’s an empty space in between the thing that’s holding you pinned to it.

Why do you have facsimiles? You’ve borrowed them. You blanket people and get plastered up with them. You have a lot of facsimiles that aren’t yours. That is to say, they’re borrowed from people or they’re photographed or they’re taken right straight out of other theta beings, just outright stolen. We call it borrowing. It’s just outright theft of facsimiles. You can run one of these incidents . . .

And that is the case here, on the chest and on the back. It’s actually as if there was a wall here which was holding you to it, but you wouldn’t touch it. And that wall is anchored back here. So you’re not going to move backwards or forwards, it says. And the second you move backwards and forwards a little bit energetically, it will key in and you get tired.

Why does one of these guys, an inventor or something like that, almost go goofy on the subject of somebody stealing one of his ideas? It’s got this sensation on it of his facsimiles being taken away from him. You run that incident and he doesn’t go goofy on it anymore. All right.

Now, these things are arranged in various ways. There are retractor beams all over the place. But always hold something suspect like that. And run that exercise I was talking to you about, about just holding yourself up from being pulled back, and holding yourself back from being pulled forward. Just try those two — you will find it fast enough.

This is very interesting. Change the facsimiles. If a theta being can suddenly take facsimiles from another theta being, well, this doesn’t look to me like facsimiles were very important to their actual operation of life. They must be sort of kept as souvenirs or something; and that happens to be the truth of it.

Now, on some somatics, particularly the somatics that are pulling the theta body on the MEST body, they’re all of that retractor-beam character. They’ve got you glued. And you say, “I wonder why I can’t walk off from this MEST body? I know I can. It just seems right to me I can, but I can’t do it.”Well, of course, every time you try, why, a bunch of these retractor beams will cut in — snip, bap — and if you don’t know that they run reverse to energy flows . . .

The blueprint facsimile carried by the genetic line — the construct tion of the body — is quite vital to the construction of a body. And that’s an interesting bit of bric-a-brac and curiosa — the construction of a body. Biology and so forth is very interested in those facsimiles. Those facsimiles are utilized in body construction, evidently.

You see, it’s perfectly illogical. Up here someplace is a point source, and you know the source comes from there, but you insist on going toward it. Naturally, anything that comes from a source like that should knock you back from it. That’s behavior. This thing ought to come up and hit you and go on through, and it doesn’t. It comes up and you’re holding off from touching it, you feel, and it’s actually going right back to it, so that the force which you feel is back toward the source. This is the darnedest thing.

Well, what’s all this about facsimiles? Why do you have facsimiles?

Evidently weapons have been used on this degree. And here’s this fellow — he gets shot, he should fall forward. Well, he does fall back a little bit, and then this thing holds him up and brings him on upright. And your pc will keep trying to fall down after having been shot, and he can’t fall down. And finally you say, “Well, go in toward the wave that’s coming at you. All right, get the sensation of trying to avoid going in toward the wave,”and he’ll suddenly get that and the thing will run right on out. What it is, is a collapsing beam.

Any time you assign cause to anybody you make yourself effect, isn’t that right? Well, supposing you blame somebody for anything, you’re making them cause and yourself effect. Well, supposing you reprimand them for having done something to him, you’ve also elected them cause and elected yourself effect. In other words, almost any situation you can think of will — when kept in a facsimile — willdemonstrate that you are an effect. A facsimile is a mechanism which makes you an effect, an effect, an effect. Just like entertainment: you always become an effect in entertainment, but much worse in a facsimile.

These things could exist in several ways, by the way. One of the ways is simply to ionize the air — ionize the air in such a way as to collapse molecules. If you could collapse molecules in such a fashion, you’d make a vacuum and you’d get a terrific pull on an individual. Do you see how that would be? There’d be a vacuum all the way down the course of this beam, but it’d be a repetitive vacuum. So anything that came in to fill up the gap would be pulled on again. That could be occasioned if you could go so far as to collapse molecules of this and that, because it would leave none where there should be some, and it would force anything in their vicinity into it.

All that you could have from a facsimile, really — not so much knowledge, because you get that knowledge instinctively — is, you get effect. It makes you an effect; therefore, they must have something to do with a control mechanism. Sure enough, early on the track there is an incident where they give you an obsession to have facsimiles; the obsession for facsimiles. It has very many lines, but “You have to have facsimiles and you have to learn.” This thing looks like a couple of Venetian blinds put on a person before or behind — the doggonedest corrugated somatic you ever saw in your life. College educations by the ton blow off of the thing and so forth.

The exact composition of this thing electronically can stand an awful lot of study. It would be very unfortunate for Earth again to have this reinvented, but it probably will be in a short time.

There’s this horrible sensation of “You’ve got to learn.” And poor little kids that go to school, and somebody says, “A, B. C.” They say, “Oh, my God,” and that first one . . . Up to that moment they might have been a happy, healthy little kid, but after that they’re sunk. That one goes into resting So — it looks like a couple of Venetian blinds crushing the fellow in and so forth, and it’s a big compulsion to have facsimiles. And every time you taught anybody anything lies as a lock on it. Any time you tried to get anybody to see anything and remember having seen it, lies as a lock on it. And it’s got lots of locks. Making somebody see something is an overt act. Okay. That compares for facsimiles. Knowledge can be interchanged without facsimiles, but facsimiles crop in. But why do you have them?

I’ve mentioned an incident known as the Tumbler. Here you have a cylinder. (This has many parts to it, this Tumbler, and I’ll let somebody else find out for themselves.) Here’s a black cylinder. If you just dumped a being down this cylinder so he’d spin over and over, and if you had an emanating point down here [marking on blackboard] and you had an emanating area up here, boy, he’d be plastered all over at varying ranges with somatics, wouldn’t he? So that any time he looked out in a certain direction, one would collapse on him. Any time he fixed his attention at certain distances from his body, things would collapse on him.

Well, supposing these were retractor somatics. He’d never get out of that incident, because he’d never run these things as a flow. Supposing one of these was a retractor and one of these was just a straight flow line. So all over him he’d have straight flow points and all over him he’d have straight retractor points. And what would happen to him?

This incident is called the Tumbler, but it could also be called the no-time incident. And anytime you’ve ever had a pc who was complaining about the fact that he didn’t have any time or he couldn’t spot things in time or he didn’t have things on the time track and so forth, has got one of these Tumblers. Because he falls, and the sensation of falling and spinning is at the same time being hit from every quarter by one of these things, and it’s fantastic.

The test of this is — this thing is nearly always in restimulation to some degree or other, but if you get a pc to simply look out there anywhere between five and thirty-five feet, forty feet, something like this, look all around in this, you’ll find that little porthole. There will be a porthole there, of some sort or other. And he’ll see it move and stop. And it will carve through some kind of an arc like that. And it’ll leave sort of a white path. He’ll watch that thing move. He’ll say, “That was funny,” and he’ll also get this horrible pain across the side of his head. And boy, it’s a rough pain too, one of those retractor pains. So this thing will move. All right.

Now, what you want him to do — if it’s the retractor porthole, you want him to inflow along that white track; you want him to inflow all along that track until that white is no longer white. And then all of a sudden he’ll be looking out there again trying to inflow and he’ll see this thing go this way. Well, that’s really a spooks one.

A guy who never had a motion in all of his auditing — gets nothing but still pictures and all the rest of it and so forth — when he spots this one, he’ll see it move. That’s because it’s the one he’s stuck in; it’s the only one on the track capable of really seeing motion in it, is that incident.

If it’s the propulsion end of it that he suddenly caught sight of — it leaves a white track — he’s got to pour out against it. So any time he sees one of these things and it moves — it’ll leave some kind of a track before it stops again — you make him flow out against that pattern. If that doesn’t work, make him pull in against that line. One or the other of them is going to work, and the second it works, this thing will move again. And he’ll be looking around all over the place trying to find it, too, by the way. It’ll escape him; it’ll jump over things.

Takes a lot of auditing, that one, but . . . It’s glue! It takes all the time there is and puts it into one fell swoop. Finally he’ll start to get sensations of falling.

Did you ever try to run a preclear through falling? They fell off a roof, and you can get them two feet down in midair, and you can get them four feet down. You can just — oh, just with the most terrible work — get them down the line. Well, you’re working straight against the Tumbler, and if you ran the Tumbler you’d get them to fall. So you have to get them to run this in order to get them to fall, and they’ll tumble through space as they come down and be plastered all over.

Sometimes this little tiny one has happened once in a while in Dianetics. A guy’s track has been in pretty good shape — he’s had visio, sonic and so forth — and somebody has said, “Look at a point,” or somebody has said, “Run back down the track now to . . .” And all of a sudden the whole track went thump! — and that was the end of his sonic and visio and everything. Once in a while this has happened. Of course, I will point out that life would have done it to him in the next year or two anyway, and he’s at least got some way to solve it. Because he was just on the verge of the Tumbler, and it made him take his first couple of rotations. This thing goes into restim quick and usually follows. . . It’s awfully hard to do it in auditing, unless a person has had enormous emotional shocks just before. But it’s emotional shocks and things like that, because it’s quite emotional to be spinning this way and that way and so on.

Now, there’s another one that may even have a blower in it, and this one may even have a blower in it. Evidently this incident has variation. So I’ll just leave you with that one — that much of it.

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The invalidation on a pure force level makes a person feel that he is nothing. Degradation brings him down from rather high heights, on a force level, to nothing; he has been unable to overcome any force or any action taken against him and as a consequence, he considers himself to be practically zero. So now here he is in this life, he’s going along, and somebody approximates just a faint shadow of this degradation curve. It just happens rapidly that he’s hit by a situation, and all of a sudden he just goes zing! He goes into one of these force incidents heavy, heavy incident.

Now, you try to audit out the shock and you possibly will get no place auditing it out. You’ll say, “What on earth! This fellow, he lost his wife, and he’s been in this terrible shock state, and we can’t do anything for him. And we try to audit that and it just won’t audit.” Well, these things are such sleepers, and they wait so waitingly and so patiently that when they’re triggered they don’t untrigger, unless you run them for themselves.

In other words, the disproportion of force which can come in on an individual for the small amount of act against him, is responsible for incidents of this character coming in, that move in on him and then he can’t do anything about it. Do you get the idea?

Actually, you can trigger one of these incidents just by looking out there ten feet. But you can run them out now, so it’s all right. You look out there ten feet and find a spot, and all of a sudden the spot hits you and you have a pain in the eyes. The pain in the eyes won’t go away. You keep examining it; you know that the pain is in the eyes because you can feel it in the eyes.

Well, auditing — if you’ll just look out there a few more times, your headache will be gone. By the way, knowing about that, you shouldn’t have any more headaches; headaches should be an impossibility to you. Sinus, too. Any one of these types of injuries.

So, if they’re waiting just that little bit, you can see why a fellow, when he gets a sudden pitch, then he starts to look around him in this weakened emotional state (he’s holding off nothing; he’ll outflow and inflow every place that’s going to jam) and all of a sudden zzzrm bong! — he’s got an electronic incident.

Therefore, when you’re trying to solve one of these cases of a sudden drop, if the person — you know, he’s pretty sane but he’s just gone downhill and so on — look for one of these. Look for one of these on the E-Meter. Or, simply start him on this inflow-outflow deal. And he’ll get into some very interesting setups and they’ll certainly change his mood.

Or you can suddenly run concepts on him. Make him run the concept of somebody being out there, of holding on to somebody who’s failing, and he’ll say, “What?” “Well, yeah. Just get the concept of holding on to somebody that’s failing.”

“Well, I can’t get that.”

“Well, hold on to the concept of somebody who won’t.” “Oh, I can get that. Do you know that feels funny? Yeah.”

“All right. Now you get the concept that you won’t.” You don’t even know what he’s “won’ting.” But you just swap this back and forth — you’ll be running a lot off the case, just like that. But remember that any moment one of these darn things can trigger.

So, if you could run this incident out, or the incident which is similar to this, because these have large variations... There’s one which is a blow incident, where the guy has an electronic force screen which is rising up in the air and is just tossing him. See, he’s being tossed in an electronic screen. You can get magnets, for instance, and things like that, to float in electronic fields. Well, if you take a field that’s reversing its polarity continually, why, you could toss a guy around very easily in it.

And ran into one of these where the fellow was just floating, that’s all. And he’d suddenly spin over on his side, and start to rotate this way, like one of these ping-pong balls floating in one of these vacuum-cleaner advertisements. Now, that makes an interesting somatic, because, you see, he’s coming into this area and it’s hitting him from all sides and all over.

A lot of this stuff to be run. Fortunately, it’s not very hard to run, if you know how — and I’ve told you how. It’s not very hard. But remember that this stuff is what triggers — this stuff: nips, blanketings with explosions with that anxiety-stomach business, so on. Incidents of that character are what trigger. It isn’t his having his nose blown too hard by his older brother when he was two. It isn’t because Mama was sworn at by the doctor. It isn’t anything mild.

You can take a human being or a theta being and you can bounce them around like a rubber ball. I have seen men beaten up in the war to an extent that I know what a human being can stand before he cracks. And they can stand almost anything, just from a straight beat-up, shot- up, knocked-out, half-drowned — my gosh, and they still live and they still come through it and they’re still sane afterwards. No, it isn’t that kind of an incident that makes them.

But you get these babies — because it’s right on their thought wavelengths, it’s right on their ability lines, it’s right in there ready at any moment to ball them all up, take all their facsimiles, hold them in one place, with a retractor beam crush the whole time track so that it sits standing as a black line in front of their eyes. That sort of thing can louse them up — to use a colloquialism — for the good reason that it would kill a MEST body. If any one of these incidents were done to a MEST body, the MEST body would finish right there. It’s very, very unlikely that in running one of these incidents, you’ll kill a MEST body.

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