This is December the 12th, first afternoon lecture.

This is the 3rd hour, December the 12th, afternoon lectures. Going to cover in this hour, a little bit different than I’ve been covering ‘as we go along the line here, I’m going to cover Standard Operating Procedure Issue III. And Standard Operating Procedure of Scientology was originated the end of September in England, in 1952. And that was Issue I. Now that came out in the magazine SCIENTOLOGY issued from Phoenix, reprinted. That is… been changed to this degree: It has been shifted to take out of it anything except postulate processing, and creative processing. And spacation. And it has those three processes as its basic, plus exercising the thetan perceptics.

I think that we had better cover Standard Operating Procedure this afternoon. But I’m going to give you Game Procedure first. In this first hour or some fraction thereof, I’m going to give you game processing. And the reason why I’m going to give you game processing, just above this level, is because there is a spirit of play – a spirit of play which has to be recovered for your preclear.

The process is essentially very simple. This process makes a theta clear. Extended and continued it makes a Cleared Theta Clear. Now it has this as a strangeness: You can use the various steps of this process, one after the other, and get a thetan exterior. That is, the guy is outside and knows it. He isn’t astral-walking, he isn’t in himself saying „I’m over there“ and all this; he’s outside and he knows it. He says, „Do you think I am?“ or… or something of this sort, he’s not.

And unless you understand this… The guy’s got no goal when he steps out of his head. He has no goal. He doesn’t think there’s anyplace else to go.

I mean, this is… we’re dealing with Aristotelian logic. Yay and nay, without a maybe. Of course he’s going to be astonished, that as his knowingness increases his outside-ness increases. And as his knowingness is low, his inside-ness is high. And he’ll say, „Yes, I’m outside,“ and he knows it. Well, he’ll know it more and more, of course. But he knows he’s outside. He’ll get up to a point… he’ll get up to a point where he’ll wonder if he ever was in that damn thing. That’s a fact.

And one of the reasons why you’ll see a theta clear hang up as exteriorized and stable outside, but no higher up the line, is that he doesn’t find there’s any reason to do anything. There’s no goal. He says, „Well, so what? Well, it would mean I’d disassociate myself from all of my friends if I went on and did all of these things. So the best thing for me to do is just kind of stay out here and just be a little freaky.“ Nothing to do and no place to go.

Now what degree does he know it? The degree to which he will tell you, „Yes, I know I’m outside.“ And what degree is that? Whatever he desires to call that degree of knowingness. This is very simple, you see, but it’s very… very crude, really. For instance, there are people here who are so dispersed they don’t know where the hell they are. They’re… they’re way out, maybe! They make… might be dispersed all over the place. And think therefore they’re outside.

He doesn’t realize that there is a sensation above any physical or mental sensation he has ever felt, and that is, called the spirit of play. And that is more absorbing, more engrossing and headier than any other kind of activity he can do.

You see, they… they… they’re just not anyplace. This would be their negative space. Negative space. That… that negative space would… space not only doesn’t exist but it’s elsewhere. Always elsewhere.

It is the first and foremost ingredient which causes a thetan to come into this universe or start to build his own. That’s the highest level you’ve got.

Now you’ll pick these people up on the track, and uh… you… you’ll get them picked up, and uh… collected. They’re stuck here and stuck there and stuck someplace else, and dispersed there, and things have moved into their space someplace else, and when you first start to process ‘em, you’ll find him someplace else, and he might say, „Oh, I just love it! I just… just love it here, and I just wouldn’t leave this under any circumstances,“ but after twenty minutes of processing they say, „My God, I’m glad to be out of that place!“ That’s a fact.

Now you’d think that was very strange, wouldn’t you, that we’d have as the highest level something a kid attains easily, and which we don’t pay any attention to his having attained. And yet all of you remember about the vividness of play. You don’t remember it very well, though, or you’d never have deserted it.

This MEST universe vector business. They’ve been forced to like it somehow or another. You’re liable to find your preclear anyplace, you’re liable to find him standing around a carnival, which happens to be using one of his old skulls. I ran that one time. Fellow was waiting around in an animated skull. He… it was his skull, and so on, and the carnival was using it, to make its jaws flap. Carnival was using it there, and… and it had a red light in it, and its mouth was opening and closing, at the entrance of a tunnel of love. Now you’d talk to this boy about love, he’d just scream. You want to know about how simple an aberration can be, if you talked to him about tunnels, he’d go mad.

Now what a child feels as vividness of play is so minor and is so beset by the hectic environment in which he has to dwell that there’s hardly any comparison between the most vivid and interesting and exhilarating instant of a child’s life and what is simply the commonest feeling of being alive high on the tone scale.

What’d this have to do, you must say – he must be lost in a tunnel. No, he had a skull that was nailed up to a post outside the tunnel of love with a red light in it. All right. Or he’s guarding an area someplace; he’s been set to guarding an area. Or someplace down the track he may have been set to guarding somebody’s wife. So he proceeds to guard his own. Yet he’s down the track someplace guarding somebody else’s wife, or somebody else’s slave, or something, somewhere.

You would call… you would call a child’s headiest, most exciting moment of play uh… below the sensation known as ‘being alive’, high on the tone scale. See, Spirit of Play is the only way we can translate it here.

And he’ll answer for it if anything happens; it’s really been impressed on him – electronically and every other way. Boy, he’s… he’s… he sure is hell on guarding women! Or she has been set to guarding or watching or spying upon somebody, and she’s got this one confused with her husband, and uh… she’s all upset about that too. You free ‘em up on the track. I’m trying to show you that just freeing a person up on the track, as we’ve known for a long time, is terrifically beneficial.

Now there’s an aberration, really then, if you might call it that. An enforcement and a necessity above just havingness – that’s time – that’s above time. There is something above Time. And that is this: There must be a game. And that is on Desire, and that is your highest level Desire there is. There must be a game.

The dispersed case is stuck on the track, in lots of places. His aberration directly derives from all the places he’s stuck on the track. Those are the most aberrative things. And his stuck-ness on the track is represented by, one, a theta bop of some narrowness, which means a body, and a theta bop of some considerable width, which means an area. Such as ‘Home Universe’. He’s still stuck in his home universe. Okay. So as you go down Standard Operating Procedure, you have Case One, he’s pretty well collected in present time, as far as space is concerned. Therefore he moves right out.

Now this DEI I’ve been talking to you about – Desire, Enforce, and Inhibit – can exist way up, and not quite so high up, and then not quite so high up. And then start DEI all over again.

From there on down he’s less and less collected, but just the operation in Steps Two… Case Two, Case Three, Case Four, the operation alone of making him step outside may collect him. Case Five, no, no. He can’t be collected. He can’t be collected simply by stepping outside. He’s elsewhere, and he’s elsewhere too solidly.

Now Case… that’s all a matter of space. Now, Case Six and Case Seven likewise are very dispersed. Only Case Six and Case Seven are really well- collected at some other place on the track, not here. You know, they say, „He isn’t all there“? Boy, is that apt! „It’s enough to drive me out of my head.“ How apt.

The sequence of the whole is similar to the sequence of any part of the whole.

So let’s look over this from a standpoint of high practicality, just the standpoint of space. And we find out that space regulates the steps in this standard operating procedure.

Now here is the whole from 40 to 20. Now, we’ll fix this here with a bracket. And we’ll have here, Desire, Enforce and Inhibit. Now that’s all… all very well, but that’s… that’s the cycle of the whole.

Now let’s look at it from the standpoint of energy. And the standpoint of energy… we find as we go down the line, the person is more and more solid as an object. You would expect this is his space, is less and less well-organized, and he has less and less free space until he finally runs into negative space, at about… that is, he’s out, and here, and there. And we get down, in energy we find it’s more and more thick, more and more thick, more and more condensed. So that he is surrounded. A One, in homo sapiens, normally has fairly dense energy around him. But he can move through it and it doesn’t bother him too much. A Two has more condensed energy in his immediate vicinity, has less space. A Three has even denser energy, a Four much denser, and a Five, oh brother! You couldn’t get this fellow out with a hacksaw, until you do some processing, get him collected, and get him some space, and let him handle space and a few things like that.

Now let’s look at this again and find the cycle of part small ‘a’ to part small ‘b’. And, what do we find? We find Desire, Enforce and Inhibit. See, here’s your little tiny part. Now you have uh… it’s on the same scale, you’ve got another small part and that might be down here and that would be from point. small ‘c’ to point small ‘e’. And maybe it’s Enforce, Inhibit, Desire. Enforce – same sequence. You can take this sequence any place here, then, and it could start out Inhibit and then go into Desire and Enforce.

A Six, „What engram?“ They’re all stacked in one place. The characteristic of… the characteristic of energy as we go down the line, is a stuck needle.

What is the difference between area marked ‘1’ and area marked ‘2’ on this tone scale? We’ve got small cycles running in big cycles. And a big cycle is composed of sequences of small cycles which are identical to it, see? We are examining now the cycle 40.0 to 20.0 and we find out that that is the grand cycle. And the grand cycle is composed of what? Sequences of itself in smaller portions.

Now the thetan can, to some degree, disperse and give space to the GE. Surprising. But the presence of a powerful thetan in the vicinity of a badly aberrated and badly packed up GE can give space to that GE. Just his presence is sufficient to stretch the amount of space around the GE. But we can have a condition like this. The steps being modified by the solidity of the GE. The GE is terribly solid, and we put him on an E-Meter, put the preclear on the E-Meter, and the guy steps out of his head rather easily, and he is practically on the bottom of the tone scale. And the needle registers stuck.

So we go up here to the top and we find out it’s Desire, Enforce, Inhibit and then re… it’s Desire, Enforce, Inhibit; Desire, Enforce, Inhibit; Desire, Enforce, Inhibit. We take a section of that cycle at any time, any small section of a cycle, you might find a cycle of action in this case, ending and beginning. You can take that section of it. See how that is?

How fascinating. It merely means that that E-Meter measures first the GE and then the thetan. So you’ve got a GE who is stuck. Not the thetan. But when you get down to Five and Six, the person doesn’t step out of his head, he’s low on the tone scale, and he does not demonstrate any real activity of needle. You’ve got a thetan who is not collected – get how complex this can be, now – a thetan who is not collected, who has heavy energy deposits, very solid, around him too, who is in a GE, which has very solid ridges, and which is pretty badly dispersed itself.

The part in this case is similar to the whole. If the part is similar to the whole, then you will find that from 4.0 to 2.0 you have a Desire- Enforce-Inhibit. DEI then fits on a small cycle, you see? Uh… enthusiasm would be making somebody desire, and uh… Conservatism would uh… would be something on the or… order of uh… rather inhibiting a desire. And just below that level somewhere there would be a desire. And then it would go into the enforcement of Antagonism.

Now you don’t necessarily get a stupid case when you do this. The brilliance of this case is dependent upon the… a little funny factor, that uh… isn’t well isolated at all. It is above the levels of wave length. And, you can imagine this, thetans vary from thetan to thetan in potentiality of creating space and energy in it. There’s a real honest-to-goodness variation in intelligence, then, which comes from, you might say, theta itself. There’s a real difference of horsepower that comes from theta itself. But as you ‘look around you, you will not find any thetan of sufficiently low horsepower, as far as I know at this time, to remain unable to be… incapable of being collected and being made into a theta clear.

It tells you that this… this… this is just a way of plotting.

The guy has to be awfully bright to be here at all in no matter what kind of a condition. And the physical infirmity of the individual is no index of the power or ability of that individual. The solidity of ridges is no index either. Because what’s postulating there is not using energy. The energy’s getting in the road of it. And it’s not using space. So it’s distribution of space.

Now you’ve got… anger is a hold, really. It can be an inhibition. People are afraid people will get mad, so therefore it can be an inhibition. It’s also an enforcement. So it’s translatable according to Its direction and intention, see? It’s translatable according to its direction and intention.

But let’s take the real spinners, and we find an exception to that. The real spinner was described once to me to me by Richard DeMille, who wrote those course books. That’s Richard DeMille, Cecil B.’s boy. An awful good kid, Richard. He probably knows… way up on this subject, he’s probably one of the best, quote, authorities on Scientology there is. ‘Cause I’m not an authority on it. Uh… I couldn’t be by definition.

All right now we take then – this is made up of little tiny cycles and this line, this cycle here – this bracket – is the DEI grand cycle, and it is composed of what? It is a gradient scale of small cycles which are the same as itself. And, just to think better about it, it’s not only the same as itself, you could put on the grand scale here, DEI grand cycle, you could put chunks of any other cycle and just fit them in on the thing.

And uh… he explained one time, he says, „You know,“ he said, „what psychotics look like to me?“ He says, „You… you… you take a uh… psycho, and you turn him loose, and he’s going in this straight line, and a little tiny impulse hits him from one side, and it moves him over from going on the straight line, and he moves off in this new direction as modified by that impulse. And he walks off in that direction. And then the next time, some other impulse hits him and shoves him over into some other direction, and starts him on a new course, exterior impulse, and he moves right on over and follows in that direction.“ Of course, he’s obeying the laws of particles. See? Now, and he gets hit from another quarter, and he moves off in this new direction, got this erratic zig-zag.

And this way you can get the most fascinating complexity of interactions. Let’s take the emotional scale and put it in here in little sections. Fit your emotional scale where it belongs on the grand cycle, and it’ll spot emotions which don’t have names. And yet you know they exist. Such a thing… such a thing as uh… uh… Beautiful Brutality – you know there’s such a thing as Beautiful Brutality. That would be somewhere along the emotion of Brutality and uh… with the aesthetic perception band. And that’s what you would get out of that.

Now you get a person who’s not, and he starts on a course. And a particle hits him, and he might stagger a little bit on it, and he keeps right on on the same course. And another particle hits him to shove him off in some other direction, and he might stagger a little bit in that direction, he stays right on the same course. And the only thing that happens to him, he slows down.

So you could… you could dub in any part of another cycle into any part of this cycle. And you can just keep interchanging cycles, or interchanging sections of cycles. This doesn’t need to upset you. You’ve got a grand cycle and those grand cycles, and you work with those alone – you’ll come along all right. You don’t have to iner… but if you want to understand human behavior, interplay and so forth, completely, you better realize that right up here at 40.0 almost – there’s a DEI. There’s an Inhibition setting in way up.

Really, that’s the essential difference between the psychotic and the sane person. The psychotic obeys the law of particles; the sane person obeys the law of free aligning action. He aligns action, continues to align action.

I’m jarring you a little bit. Some of you look like you’ve been backed up against the wall and kinda like you’re being brutalized. But that’s because you have yourself all beautifully set up in a gorgeous static called a cycle of action. And you didn’t allow any fluidity in this cycle of action. You said this cycle of action always goes from 40 to 20, in spite of the fact that your experience with preclears tells you there’s a complete cycle of action between 4.0 and 2.0, from sanity to insanity. And from 2.0 to 0.0, which is relatively sane and strictly fruitcake. Little gradient scales.

And is not a particle. Your psychotic also looks and feels like an object. He has no responsibility; he is handled, he doesn’t do the handling.

Why? This thing is made up of what? When you say Desire, Enforce, Inhibit, what are you saying? You’re saying Flow, Dispersal, Ridge. Now you could look at that in several ways. You can say… you could say your ridge… your ridge is desirable and enforcement of it would be the flow and the inhibition of it would be blowing it up.

So we have these complexities, with regard to these steps of this case, and therefore we find that a psychotic quite often will simply step right out of his head. You wall through a sanitarium, it’s about the same percentage of people in the sanitarium can step outside of their head as the people on the street. And uh… mad as hatters.

Let’s take… let’s take those three things on an automobile. Here’s an automobile. It’s desirable because it’s a chunk. So we get a flow to obtain the desirability – and somebody blows it up before it can be obtained. That’s one way of looking at it. That… that is in terms of objects. And we’ve got these ridge, flows and dispersals.

So there’s something there, there’s the essential capability of persistence in alignment, not capability of reasoning, is the difference between sanity and psychosis. So don’t expect just because this person is mad as a hatter and is treating everything like objects that he can’t step out of his head. Don’t make the essential mistake of saying then that there are cases outside the action and perimeter of Standard Operating Procedure Issue III. There aren’t.

All right, now let’s look at that… let’s look at this again. As we come up here, we find now Desire has to do with space, RELATIVE space. So, your object is big there at the top. Your object’s got lots of space in it. And that space itself is Desire. And Flow is change of state. And Dispersal is dispersing the existing thing.

And what do you do with a psychotic? Well, if you can get his attention at all, you give him Standard Operating Procedure Issue III. You just go right on down, you’ll find out that he can’t do anything else by the time you get down to Step Six, you get ARC Straight wire as another process in addition to those I named first at the beginning of this lecture. But you’re already operating outside a perimeter of uh… contact. So that’s really just establishing accessibility.

Now I could start up at the top. You could figure this whole… whole schema of things.

And a better process, that is ABC Straightwire in terms of mock-ups. Let’s put a little man out there, and let’s see if we can hear him talk. So we say ARC Straight wire, throw it in under creative processing. All right. ARC Straightwire’ll solve it, though.

Oh, by the way, there’s a cute way of figuring this. I MUST tell you about this: Somebody’s going to figure this out. After the other evening I… I gave you this talk about… about rarefaction-condensation of electronic waves? People are ready to blow their brains out over that until they realize one thing about it. It’s: Space is just full – MEST universe is just jammed and crammed with minute particles. If you don’t believe it, there sit’s the sun. Once upon a time there was an explosion there at the center, and your sun made a whole bunch of rarefaction- condensation ridges and then something brought it to a fast halt. And it left particles at exactly the harmonic distances from the sun that you now find planetary rings. Those rings evidently solidified and you have a planetary system, solar system size. It’s a very easy thing to explain.

So, here we have this process applying to no matter how many preclears you’ve got, or what they’re doing or anything else. If you’re going toward theta clearing, this is the process you use. If you’re going to fix up a chronic somatic you may attempt to resolve it by simply using mock-ups, without even essaying toward theta clearing.

And furthermore, there is a harmonic in distance. You’ve got an intensity of that sort. And what happens? The sun keeps putting this out. It’s got a certain harmonic wave length. And it keeps putting into this band, ridges. It puts into the band of Earth, ridges and more ridges and more ridges and more ridges. How does it do that? Photons hit the Earth, they hit Earth. And every time they hit Earth, they splash.

But if you want my candid opinion, l believe that theta clearing an individual by Standard Operating Procedure is a much much faster method of knocking out chronic somatics. That is an opinion. Because I found out occasionally if you start to fool around with somebody with too much processing before you theta clear him, he’s liable to bust a ridge or – something of the sort that makes it less possible to theta clear him. Once in a while this happens.

You’ve got then, Earth going around the sun and photons coming out of the sun and hitting Earth. And therefore on the orbit of Earth you have a continuous impact of particles. And as you get this continuous impact of particles, the Earth stays more or less in that orbit and all these particles being in balance with the solar system and native to the solar system, you of course, get Earth going around and not only being hit by all this, but what dust remains will gradually be collected by the Earth as it sweeps around in its orbit.

Furthermore, he’s subject to every ridge the GE’s got. And as long as he’s subject to those ridges he’s gonna start responding like homo sapiens to everything. The fastest process I know is Standard Operating Procedure Issue III, for anything. Good for man and beast.

See, Earth’s sort of a big vacuum cleaner. These photons… photons are actually particles. They’re not mythical objects. They’re… they’re particles. And uh… that was a great shock to the boys when they realized that a cyclotron – that an electron had mass – awful shock when the… they first realized this.

You’d be surprised sometime when you’re a good thetan, how many beasts you could walk up to and tell them step out of their heads and they’d do it. Thetans get all fouled up, by the way. One day they’re very fond of cats or something of the sort, and one fine day why they’re… see a little… they’re a thetan you see, and they’re kind of maundering around in a sub-zero state of unknowingness, and they get the impression of this cat, very big, they feel this cat is over there, and they’re outside of a body at the time, and they’re wandering around, and just drifting, and they… they say, „That poor little cat seems to be in pain“ and they put a tractor wave on the cat and they go ‘Slurp!’ – and they’re a cat. And they say „Meow!“

All right, so these mass things – it would be like… what happened if a whole bunch of airplanes were flying out of the sun and hitting Earth? And then Earth kept going around and around the orbit, and these scattered, crashed airplanes were staying more or less in the orbit. Earth would gradually sweep them all up, wouldn’t it? If they didn’t stay on Earth initially.

All right. We uh… girl was run in Wichita one time, they couldn’t do anything for her, and couldn’t do anything for her, and all of a sudden they found a past life as a lion. Well that’d be all right, but there is no past life of a lion on the GE track. And we were running GE’s at that time. And then when the rest of it came out, it became even worse… she had eaten her keeper! And I never heard of anybody two million years ago, a lion in the forest primeval would have a keeper. Until we discover it was in the Chicago zoo! Became very bad. They ran the incident, she became sane; that’s all that seemed to be wrong with her. She went away very happy and cheerful about everything.

Same way with the photon. Photon comes out of the sun, just like that airplane, hits Earth and then either escapes from the gravity of Earth and is picked up later as a fragment; and Earth is on a harmonic point for photons. And for sun energy.

Now… now we’ve got some kind of an idea of what had happened there, she’d probably had been hanging around the zoo. And uh… she ate a keeper. Checkup of the newspaper records demonstrated that at that time a keeper had been eaten by a lion at the Chicago zoo. Anyway, we’ll go on… Don’t buy any of these wild piece of science fiction here.

All right, so you’ve got bands building up. Earth could not help but get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And the sun could not help, as it loses its photons, getting smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller. And so it is: The sun is getting less and less space, more and more dense.

You can just murder the police, if you want to. You can go down to those lie detector operators and really fix their clocks for them! You could say, „Did you ever ask any of these criminals that you’re putting on this lie detector if they ever have lived before this life?“

How dense can it get? It can get so dense that it can no longer… it is no longer possible for an electron to escape from the surface of the sun. Gravity of the sun is sufficient to overcome the impulse of the electron to leave. And the impulse of the electron to leave requires an impulse, you see. So as that impulse slows and as electrons leave slower and slower and there are less and less of this type of fissionable material to react on the sun, you get this strange phenomenon of a dark star, which isn’t dark at all. It’s a terrible thing, a dark star. The electrons go out from it and then turn around and fall back on it again.

And they’d say, „Of course not.“

And of course, the thing doesn’t shine. It couldn’t possibly shine, because any photon that gets into it, doesn’t get out of it. And any photon that’s in it trying to get out of it, can’t escape from it. So you no longer have a sun shining.

You say, „Well, you’ve got one right there, you mind if I ask him?“ You say, „Did you ever live before?“ Off the tape go the needles! You say, „Did you ever commit a crime last life? What are you accused of in this life… bank robbery? Oh, well did you ever rob a bank in some past life? When? What bank? Where?“ Oh, Chicago 1932, or… or New York City uh… 1912, or something of the sort, or Boston, 1904. And you tell the guy, you say, „Well all right, what’s the names of the other guys? Let’s spell them out… that were in the robbery,“ and you just beat the information out of him by selection of letters, you know. And alphabets, and so on. Make your police detector guy send a wire to Boston. There was a bank robbed at that time. They caught the other guys later, too.

That is the way suns go out. Their electrons find it impossible to emit beyond this gravity point and are pulled back in, so the sun doesn’t shine.

Okay. Before you do Standard Operating Procedure Issue III you set up your E-Meter, and you do creative and destructive, very destructive, assessment. Just do an assessment. Now I’m working on symbolism of language, a table. Be ready one of these days. If you don’t have the table just break it down by dynamics. Somebody wrote me the other day that dynamics had been installed in several incidents. What’s he think any kind of an implant… any kind of an implant would do to a guy, huh? But install… let’s say it was a group implant. Well, how… how on earth do you suppose the guy would ever, under any circumstances not have the third dynamic accentuated, if he’s being told by hypnotists to be loyal to a group? They weren’t installed one way or the other.

But as long as the sun is shining and as long as any sun shines, as long as the Milky Way shines, the number of photons per cubic centimeter in space – if you were really to do a job of counting – would be beyond an individual’s ready power to add up on a modern calculating machine.

Okay. You can read all about this here if you want; we’ve got all of these various definitions. And I’m going to go over these definitions in another lecture. We’re only interested here in operating procedure itself. And we find out that Step One, positive exteriorization, reads as follows: „Step One, positive exteriorization. Ask the preclear to step a foot back of his head. If he does, ask him to go back further, then up, then down, practicing placement in space and time. Then one asks pc if there are any items in the body he would like to repair and proceeds to let the preclear repair them according to the preclear’s own ideas of how he should do it.

There are just lots of them out there, and they’re flowing like mad in all directions. Arcturus’ photons are flowing through that space; the Milky Way is composed of suns bigger than, most of them, sun 12, which is our sun here. And the fact is that all these stars are flying photons off in all directions, and these photons, actually, because they are not measurable, not being an electron mass – it’s just like swimming. I mean, it’s not empty space.

„Then educate the preclear by asking him to create and destroy his own illusions, into finally getting a certainty of illusion, and from this certainty perceiving the real universe with all perceptics. Note: The realest universe is of course one’s own illusory universe, and should be completely rehabilitated before one attempts to perceive or handle or worry about the MEST universe.“ It says ‘complete’ in that, that is a typing error. It should he ‘rehabilitated’. It’s more important to rehabilitate that, one’s own ability to create a universe and destroy it – it’s more important to do that than it is to ask him to perceive MEST universe waves.

It isn’t even vaguely empty space. If it were empty space you wouldn’t have any sunlight at this minute. You see how bright that sunlight is out there? Well, that’s photons. It looks bright because the photons are hitting air particles and they’re making the air particles shine. Or they’re hitting fog particles and they’re making the fog particles shine. And if you don’t think that’s lots of photons…

„Rehabilitated sonic, vista and so forth, the MEST universe, are very clear and very certain. Clear perception in early stages does not attest to being outside. The only test is whether the preclear knows he’s outside, and failing the first line of this step go to Step Two.“

Well now, we’re clear out here in the one, two, three – third planetary ring from the sun, and yet the sun is putting out enough photons to make this air do this trick.

All right, let’s take a comment on that. That… that’s a very simple step. You say, „All right, now BE a couple of feet back of your head.“ Fellow says, „Who, me?“ And you say, „Yeah. Let’s just pretend that you’re inside your head and let’s he a couple of feet back of the head.“ Well I don’t know what percentage, about… probably about fifty percent of your cases suddenly say, „Okay, I’m there.“ Just like that. It won’t even seem strange to him.

Now you wonder about radio waves getting to the sun, or radio waves getting across space. „Well, radio waves couldn’t get across empty space.“ But they haven’t got any in this universe. There isn’t any empty space.

The awareness is such a high turnup of fact and actuality, that it causes no comment from the preclear. He just knows this is true. He kinda thinks he knows it all the time. And of course he did. Now you just put him on through drills.

Now there’s your rarefaction-condensation at work. You want to go out and test this with Geiger counters or something easy, do it. It’s very simple to do. You couldn’t exhaust, for instance, out of a bell jar, all the photons – you could exhaust all the air, but not all the photons.

If he doesn’t step out, if he says, „What? Oh uh… out back of ny head? Uh… why, um… umrr, uh… I… what are you talking about? Uh… uh… no, I uh… you mean step… step back of my head, or be back of my…? I’m sorry, I uh… Well I guess I can…“ You go to Step Two. He says, „Yep, I’m there,“ you’ve got Step One, and you just carry on.

So the boys really got fouled up on air. They’d fire a pistol in an empty jar and say, „See! You can’t hear it. But light shines through it. So if light shines through it, the light is waving on linear waves and there’s some kind of a spooky wave called a linear wave and we don’t know anything about it but we can kid everybody that we do. It doesn’t work in formulas and it’s unpredictable, and we don’t know what these statics storms are and they couldn’t possibly be dispersal areas moving across Earth.“ And so you get a foul-up.

Now the drill here is quite important. You know a lot of this drill, it’s just creative processing, I noticed here we’ve evidently got a line left out in this copy. „Change postulates.“ Doesn’t it ask him to change postulates here? Nope. That’s evidently been left right square out of this copy. So let’s make sure that we add to this copy, and you make sure that you know, Change Postulates. Give him rising scale postulate changes, and shift his postulates, and change his mind around, after he’s outside. Because actually that’s the only process there is. Convincing him through action that he can make postulates and make things happen by postulates. If you haven’t got that yet, you… it’s all you’re trying to do with mock-ups, is make him make new postulates, say, „Yeah, I can do that.“

Now what’s all this got to do with our subject at hand here? Simply means that this is the doggonedest, crammed, jammed-up space imaginable.

Course if he says, „I can do that“ he can do it. That’s that! I mean you finally… he finally finds out how high and tall this gets, and how absolute it is, and he gets very interested, and wow. He’ll go through periods of being very careful not to make postulates, too. He’s afraid if he says the Empire State Building will fall down, it’ll fall. No it won’t, not for quite a while.

Now if you were to deal, then, with totally empty space you’d at least have space. You’d at LEAST have space. And that space is desirable. Right now you’d say, „Gosh, I wish I could fix up some totally empty, unassociated space that had nothing to do with the MEST universe. I sure wish I could – my own space.“

All right? So get Postulate Processing in there in Step Two. And now failing the first line of this step go to Step Two. By orientation. Older issues of this said ‘negative exteriorization’. That’s still a process. Evans Farber played around with that. You’ll find it in Issue I, Issue… I mean uh… yeah, Issue I, if you want to look it over. Negative exteriorization. It’s also covered in 8-80. And it’s the only one given in 8-80.

All right, that means that space is desirable.

See, the one I was using before that had as its emphasis… on responsibility. Now you can get all the process you want out of responsibility. If you’ve really got to specialize in a process, there are a lot of them, and you know that you can specialize in this process. You can specialize in Cause and Effect. You can specialize if you want to in Have and Have not. You can specialize, if you want to, in Responsibility, Irresponsibility. Aesthetics and Responsibility. You can do this, very easily, and if you use responsibility you’ll blow him out of his head. Have and Have not won’t blow him out of his head, but for some reason or other responsibility does. ‘Cause it’s mainly his responsibility for his environment and his body, and that sort of thing, that keeps him there.

Now something will happen about that to a gradient that is almost indescribably faint. The second you’ve got that space, there’s a slight enforcement to have it. You enforce it on yourself. You say, „All right now… now uh… now I want this space. Now I’m putting out these anchor points, now keep those anchor points right there.“ That’s enforce. „And uh… now I’ve got to put force on those anchor points. And look, those anchor points show a tendency to move out or move in. Let’s stop their motion. Heh-heh.“ In other words, inhibit.

All right, Negative Exteriorization was a very simple affair; it simply says, „Try not to be a foot behind your head“. And the guy’d bang into it. Well, that’s the opposite vector, MEST universe, this guy is very very heavily influenced by flows who can do this, and quite often will do it. But a preclear occasionally also gets mad, and quite in addition to it, I haven’t found auditors being able to make it work.

And that would all be practically in the same thought breath, the same instant of thought. You would say, „I want this space. I have to put out the anchor points to enforce its existence and I’m going to inhibit the motion of the anchor points.“ And you’ve talked about a little tiny cycle of action that would take place clear up here between uh… ‘F’ and ‘G’. And between ‘F’ and ‘G’ here is a complete DEI.

Uh… this is one – I can make it work, I haven’t any trouble. Evidently Farber can make it work. But practically every auditor I’ve trained sooner or later come around to me and said, „Ron, you know, I can’t get anybody to work on that negative exteriorization.“

Now that’s true of any of your cycles of action. How vast a pattern do you want to work on? Or how vast a game do you want to play?

Well, there’s… as I said, there’s several kinds of processes then. One of those processes is simply a process that I can use. Well, boy, I… I can make anybody well with practically anything. I could probably even take psychoanalysis now and make it work. I mean, let’s get impossible! How would you make it work? Oh, you’d… I don’t know. You’d say so-and-so and so-and-so, and you’d look at the guy real hard and emanate from a couple of different directions, and plow down a few ridges and say, „Well, you feel guilty about that? Well, that’s fine, now tell me all about that.“ And while he’s talking, why pull a few more ridges off of him, monkey around… I don’t know what you’d do.

Now there are fellows that go down to the old men’s club and they sit over the chessboards and they play a good fast game of chess. If you were to give them adequate sized pieces, they would just squirrel. The way to play chess is to play it with live players… play it with good live players and uh… play it on a board of some size – oh, 200 feet by 200 feet – something like that. That’s good aesthetic chess. He can sit up above that and he can play chess.

Then there’s a process that uh… two or three guys can use, and with which they’ll occasionally do results, and then there’s a process two or three guys can use and produce results rather uniformly. Then there’s a process that you can use, and other people can use, and you know what you can… how to communicate it, and you can talk about it and other people can use it and they can get results, and these results are very uniform and that’s a very desirable process.

But a guy has to sort of reduce down in mass so he doesn’t have as much space-mass ratio. And they get these little tiny boards, and so on.

That’s a process you want. You don’t want these other processes. First Book had a lot of that, „several can do it but a lot couldn’t“. I had a lot of that.

Did you ever play chess on a miniature pegboard? Well, if you will plot the games played on a miniature pegboard and if you could plot the games played on a big board, you’d find out they’d be different games. There’s a little more bravery and dash on the bigger board. And a guy gets pretty conservative on those little tiny pegboards. That’s just relative size.

So a negative exteriorization, still a process, works on opposite vectors. I’m sorry that… that uh… it didn’t go further than it went. Orientation is a more able process. By the way, negative exteriorization wasn’t just a lost effort; let’s not get that idea about this thing. It showed that there was an awful fast method. You didn’t process flows on Responsibility and so forth, and blow the guy out. It was a sudden approach. You just walked up to the guy and you said, „Try not to he two feet back of your head“ and poof! In some of these cases he was. And it demonstrated that it could be done. And as such it was a very valuable process, because it all of a sudden pointed up, gee whiz, there’s a snappy one. And out of that, why you can just work to make the process snappy.

All right, then, the magnitude of the game – we move right into it – depends upon the space-mass ratios involved. If you’ve got very, very little mass for lots and lots and lots of space, you’re going to play a game that is very airy and of very quick duration – very fast duration. I mean, it’s just Zing! Swish! Swoosh! – fast game. All kinds of space and very little playingness.

So by orientation, ask the preclear, still inside, to locate the inside of his forehead. And ask him to put a pressor beam against and push himself out the back of his head. Supplement by this asking him to reach out through the back of his head and grab the wall with a pulling beam, and pull himself out. Ask him to steady himself outside and then by means of beams, to raise and lower himself while outside, and to move to various parts of the room while still outside.

Or, because that’s such a fast game, hardly any game at all. Or it could be an infinitely slow game, because, my God! Once you’ve got that much space your viewpoint, as far as time is concerned, is just all haywire. You’ve got all this space and practically no mass in it. And that would require… that would require a lot of airy, wide playing.

„Use creative processing and by orientation as a thetan placing himself as a thetan in spaces and time he can become sure of his whereabouts.“ Create spaces and times, in other words, in which to place himself. „Have him find and cast off old lines which have their terminals fixed to him.“ You’re going to have a rough time with this boy, because he’s going to be nailed down, if you have to get him out by force. You got… you got lines on him, and very often lines up to the sky, and old communication lines that have been on other people and they’re snapped back at him and oh brother! is he a tangled mass of energy!

Probably if you were playing a game like that and it had speeches in it, or something like that, there would probably be all kinds of things to do in order to try to balance off this small particle mass. Nobody would be trying to do anything fast. They’d be trying desperately to do everything slowly. And the slowness with which they would operate would just be like flashing lightning. Lightning bolt flashes, the game has begun and ended.

„Have him find these lines wherever they are, and attach them to radiators and water taps and get the energy to drain out of them. Two will ordinarily have enough lines to cause him to snap back in the head when he releases beams. Failing this, go to Step Three.“ In other words that’s… it’s just the thing. Here’s a guy in a box, and there’s no back to the box. There’s a man in a box and you see him there in a box, and you come along and you say, „Well, why don’t you get out of the box?“ and he says, „I can’t.“ And you say, „Well how about putting your hands against the front of the box, and give it a shove.“ And of course he shoves himself right on out of the box. That’s all there would be to that.

Uh… the… the uh… for instance, a speech of proposal of a game with all that space and with that very little mass would probably be very lengthy, it would have lots of ideas in it, it would be terribly complex. It would probably have an awful lot of grave courtesy in it. All backed up by a terrific spirit of play, see? And it would probably, this ornate, long, involved speech and probably each move would be accompanied by sweeping flourishes and uh… there would probably… they’d try to have to put together rituals to take the place of mass – no matter there, you see, to amount to anything, so the fellow says, „Well now, let’s see.“ The ritual by which we lose a particle. Of course, the value of a particle in all that vastness of space becomes great.

When he gets outside he’s outside. There isn’t anything esoteric about it. There’s one more thing about Step One I’ve got to mention, that’s a very simple thing. It concerns itself… it’s better to say „BE two feet bach of your head“ than „MOVE two feet back of your head.“ A Step Two, you say „MOVE out“, he pushes himself around, he uses effort. And then you work on him so he can think himself to places. Think himself in one part of the room, and think himself to another part of the room, then think himself elsewhere, and he’ll pop there. Very fast travel.

This is to demonstrate, if you ever go into the heart of Africa or someplace and find a white man… Or did you ever go out in the desert anyplace and find somebody who’s been living there for a long time, and he hasn’t seen very many people. And you show up, you get treated like a prince – terrific ceremony and great courtesy, and he’s so really, genuinely glad to see you. You see, you’re valuable – you’re precious to him. I mean, he’s very happy to see you. You’d think it would be the opposite. He’s out there because he hates things, and so forth. That isn’t the case.

Get him out of his use of beams to propel himself around, as fast as you can. That’s done by rehabilitating his use of beams. Make him so good at using beams that he doesn’t need beams. Not just discouraging him from using beams. That’s the Hindu method. „Bring him down tone scale, make MEST out of him.“ Okay.

You can go rattling around the world, hit the sparse places, because the welcome mat in them is always out and you are valuable, your opinions are valuable, your news is valuable. All this is value. So you get terrific value per particle.

Step Three, Space Processing. This is Spacation. Spacation is, „…in the MEST universe has forced upon the thetan its spacial dimensions and directions the thetan is likely to become a point which is being subjected to all counter-efforts and emotions of his environment, for his entire concept of space is being determined by the MEST universe.“ And of course he can agree with the MEST universe to… down to a point where he agrees with the MEST universe till he can’t see it anymore; you realize that, don’t you? A guy’s got to be able to perceive an illusion before he can perceive the MEST universe very well. That’s one of the things that led into creative processing. You see uh… the thing is an illusion.

Now let’s crush it down to about half, and you have the space and the particles balancing in value, space at the top, at the beginning of the game is completely without value. There’s so much of it, and value is established by scarcity. So there’s all this space, so you’ve got all kinds of space. Nobody would dream up a top scale game for fighting for an area of space.

Test: You improve the guy’s ability to create illusion and he all of a sudden begins to look at the MEST universe, and he sees IT better. You’d say, „Well this is just force at work.“ Uh-uh! No. You keep on improving his perception, you keep on improving his own illusions, and perceptions, just… just by creating illusions. The first thing you know he goes and looks straight through the MEST universe, and he says, „What MEST universe?“ Isn’t that fascinating? So we’ve got an illusion as being the key to these illusions. So, all these things we’ve been studying about Spacation are usable then, in Step Three.

You get a bunch of boys together, you know, a lot of minds and so forth. And they… they oh… „How about – let’s have this game and we’ll have this boundary line.“ They say, „What?“ „A boundary line – you have half of this space.“ „Half of what space?“

„Have the thetan still inside find his feet in the opposite direction where the MEST body is located by the MEST universe.“ It’s quite a little process, by the way. You haven’t heard anything about this yet. Unless you’ve read this. Why don’t you try that, right now?

„Well, half of all that area. And we’ll take the other half of that area, and then we’ll defend these two areas.“

Student: „Say it again.“

The guy will say, „You must be nuts! There couldn’t be a game like that.“

Where are your feet located, with relationship to where your body is? Now let’s locate them straight back of your head. Now let’s locate them straight above your head. Now let’s locate ‘em way off to the right – way off! Now let’s locate your feet way off to the left. Now let’s locate your feet back where your feet are. That’s a real silly one, isn’t it? Anybody snap any ridges doing that? Nobody got any ridges snapped?

And you’d say, „Yeah, you could play a game like that. You divide this space in half, and you defend…“

Well, if you just throw a preclear’s feet around, or throw his body around, and put his body right side up and upside down and so forth, all connected to his head, you can finally put his head down in his stomach. Then put his head down where his feet are, and he’ll be sitting there looking at the top of his head.

„You must be nuts! You couldn’t possibly do that. Uh… this… what’s the point? What… what’s… what’d be the point in this game?“

Let’s try that again, Let’s put your feet straight out back of you, and upside down. Make ‘em point that way, back of you. Let’s locate them. Now, wiggle your toes out there. You got that? Wiggle your toes real good. Now, put your feet apart and put them back together again, out back of your head. Now put your feet back where your feet are. Now let’s locate your stomach, in space, with relationship to where you are. Now let’s take your body, and putting the head where the stomach was, stretch it out horizontally, so your feet are way out in back of you. Put your head down there where your stomach is… now turn it blue… now turn it green. Now take a look at the back of your head… take a good look at the back of your head. Now turn your whole body upside down, so that your feet are up in the air and your head is about where it is. Now turn it what is laughingly called right side up. Anybody flip out, and find themselves looking at the back of their head, that they hadn’t done this before? Hmm? Hmm? Did you?

And you say, „Well, to take your space, and you try to take our space.“

Student: Yes.

Uh-uh. You’d never get it through anybody’s head at that level, or through your own head at that level. You’d just look at all this space and you’d say, „Winning space, that’s nothing.“

LRH: Okay, there’s one. Anybody else, find himself looking at the back of his head when he’d never seen it before? Well, that’s a very, very fast operation. I hardly gave you any of this technique at all, see? And we got somebody who did!

Now, all right. Right there at that level you’d say, „All right, now you see this small particle? That’s one electron. That is the wienie in this game. That’s what we’re all going to be after.“ That’s a Hollywood term, by the way. In the old movies with – they always had a treasure or something of the sort. And uh… this big treasure uh… that everybody was after, if everybody in the movie was after the girl, or if everybody in the movie uh… was after a position, or what anybody in the movie was after, old Hollywood writer slang was that was a ‘wienie’. And by the way, you take the wienie out of a picture or a story and it just goes right straight out of the game classification and ceases to be a story. Inelegant term, but quite expressive.

Student: At least I think I did.

All right, one particle. And you say, „Now look, your whole team is after this particle and our whole team is after this particle.“

Well sure! A guy doing this will say, „I think I did.“ It takes a lot of drill. Now you just keep that up, see. Now you put the guy’s head back where it belongs and you give him some other kind of a head, then you put his feet some other direction, and then you keep locating him in space, and locate the body in various orientations in space, you see? And you use the feet as anchor points, make the feet widen… and then finally able to control the body. Let’s put the body out horizontally, way back, and then move the feet out, and move them in again, and then move them in walking motions.

And they’d say, „Gee, that’s a good game. Oh boy! Yeah, let’s go! Now how do we do this?“

Guy’ll finally say, „I… you know, I can handle this body…“ if you keep drilling this… „I can handle this body from any position.“ Is the mission it calls, „If I can handle it from any location, I can probably handle it from outside. So it’s safe for me to move out!“ That’s all. And it’s just drill, drill, drill, drill, and you just keep that up. And find out if he springs. Work him like that, maybe a little longer than I worked you.

„We’ll make it so this one particle is unchangeable, it’s unalterable -so no matter who gets it, he couldn’t stash it behind him or something of this sort. That one particle can’t be altered. Ha-ha.“ So therefore it can’t be destroyed so that it can be won. Because if it could be destroyed, then at the moment the other side was going to win, why they wouldn’t have any… any… any game. So it’s got to be an indestructable particle.

If you… you’re going to get that technique, you’re going to get it quick. Because that’s one of the techniques that you would use in Orientation and Spacation. –

So, here we’ve got all this space and this indestructible particle. All right, now let’s sit around here and see who can think of the biggest idea or the smallest idea, and the one who has the best one – we’ll put the judges over there – and the one who has the best one wins the particle. Wouldn’t be any action to amount to anything, you see. There’s just too much space. Action – what… what’s the idea of floating around in all this space? On, no! You don’t mean we… we’re supposed to MOVE in this stuff? There’s just too much space.

All right. „Have him create difference in his body, and reverse the various limbs and positions according to his viewpoint. Each one in disagreement with the MEST universe. Particularly as appertains to gravity and other influences.“ Stop him agreeing with the body, in other words. „This sets up an ability to disagree with the MEST universe in terms of space. Have him locate his eyes in the back of his head and the soles of his feet and in other places. Have him assume other bodies, each time changing them slightly and putting them away. Then have him gather himself into his normal MEST universe spacial area, and go to Step One.“

Well, let’s go down scale from that and at 20-20 we find out that space and particles are equally valuable. And that the space… to make the particles in the space equally valuable, boy, do you have to have a vastitude. You have to have a vastitude of particles and a vastitude of space, really, to start making this game interesting and really get action.

Go through all this drill, see? What you’re doing also is testing. He’s testing, way out this way and way out that way. Is it safe to be in that space? You see, he doesn’t really know. He’s just got to take the MEST universe’s word for it.

But you get these and you get terrific action. Fast motion – now that game could be played brutally, which is heavy wave, or aesthetically, which would mean very tiny wave. And it could exist brutally or aesthetically at around 20.0. Either way – brutally or aesthetically.

Voice: It may be interesting, I… just while you’re talking there, I just turned my head around on op… I turned my body around, and my head this way and put you back there, and all of a sudden I didn’t know which way was front! Just for an instant. LRH: Hmm-hmm. Voice: I was aware I didn’t know which way to look. LRH: Hmm-hem. Very interesting! You… you get a guy, you see, he’s… he’s…

And very often you will get the aesthetic team versus the brutal team. And they set that up today in their little miniature games called wrestling. You’ve got the brute and you’ve got the hero. And your hero is usually very pretty, and your brute is very crude, and so on. So this… you just play dichotomies when you get to the middle of the scale.

Voice: Sweating!

You have the top of the wave band at the center of the scale, aesthetic wave at scale center, versus brutality at scale middle.

LRH: You see, he’s… he’s so used to using this body for orientation that if you take it away from him he feels he won’t be oriented in any circumstance whatsoever. And he’s got a dependency on the body for orientation. Now, space processing has added to it… you go to do more space processing, you just do anchor point processing. Either in this step, or just in generally handling your preclear. I’ve done a lot of spacation. Anchor point processing. –

Well, let’s got down scale and look at this game called ‘being a human being’. And we find out that there’s damn little space and terrific numbers of particles and that the game is rendered utterly haywire by this factor: In order to get any kind of scarcity, people are so used to the idea that space has no value; they still think they’re top scale, you see, space has no value. So particles must be valuable – and good Christ! They’ve got bodies made out of billions to the billionth power of particles. And they’ve got all of this terrific space – I don’t know how many particles there are in the body. If you just start talking about a particle… a particle, and you make that particle an electron, God knows how many electrons a person’s got in his body. I don’t think even the smart boys could calculate it up.

This isn’t a complete list of what you do in spacation. This is just what you do in springing a thetan. If he has the enormous stress on the body as his sole and only anchor point, your chances of getting him out aren’t good. Until you’ve collected him.

Now you’ve got all these particles, these electrons, here on Earth, in Earth, in… you’ve got mass, objects, objects, objects and that’s cheap. Rrrrrr! You have to work and work and work. And we have to invest an idea in an object to make it good. We have to invest a lot of time and craftsmanship to make it good, in order to increase its havingness. And to increase its havingness more and more and more we finally get to – a wienie.

Now you can run things on the track, you can run mock-ups, you can do this in many ways. But if he’s got an absolute certainty that he needs that body in order to find himself, oh boy! So you just handle that body, and manhandle it, and mishandle it, and put the wrong scenes in front of it and the right scenes in front of it, and put it upside down and right-side-to, and put the limbs in the wrong places, and reverse everything and make the body do things that it couldn’t possibly do, just like he did there… what say uh… turns the body the other way and facing his head… put it in back… and oh boy, all of a sudden the guy gets, „Where the hell am I?“ Let him get that shock a few times. Till he can stand it. And he’ll move out!

Guys have to own lots of particles. Space is still of no value. That’s really aberrated, because. boy! it’s so, they’re… we’re so short on space. Do you know of a single place here on Earth where you can go a thousand miles an hour – except right here at this spot on the surface where you are at this moment, going a thousand miles an hour – do you know anyplace on Earth where you could turn loose and go a thousand miles an hour? That’s on the Earth’s surface. Well, you sure don’t. The uh… various things… the… out there on the deserts and down at Daytona Beach and that sort of thing, and your sea… waves make it impossible to really step up to any speed like that. And you just don’t have ‘length’ to really travel fast.

He’ll say, „What am I doing in this thing? I don’t need this thing! I needed it for orientation. Well I can still keep an eye on it, and be elsewhere.“

As far as your upper atmosphere’s concerned, the stuff is jammed. Boy, this is really packed in. Air – 15 pounds per square inch. And if you don’t think there are a lot of particles of air, you’re crazy. They talk about the wall of sound. Every once in a while some plane goes 650 miles an hour, or whatever it is, and he suddenly slows down and goes through this ‘sound barrier’ – crash! Everybody’s windows go „Boo-oo-oom!“ miles away.

All right. Next one is Step Four, Ridge Running. Now that’s only in here because it’s a good process, as itself. Haven’t had very many people use it very successfully. But I’ve had enough people use it successfully, so that it’s still there. When done this way, Ridge Running works, on some cases. Fascinating, too! Case is terribly occluded, and you all of a sudden give him these little white flows. I’m not going to go in and tell you how to do Ridge Running at this time.

So, not a lot of motion involved in this game. Down here they can play chess and think it’s a game. Now the game has therefore gotten very serious, mostly because it doesn’t have any point. They… you… you can’t actually… you… you’ve got to work and work and work and work and work. In a depression they have to burn oranges with kerosene and pour milk in the rivers in order to starve the kids in order to make milk and oranges scarce.

Show ‘em a little white flow, and… that’s a command flow, a not-command flow, and all of a sudden the guy comes to the realization he’s not only outside, looking at his body, but he’s in realization that, „My God, I can handle this thing.“ That’s all he’s trying to learn. That’s all you’re trying to teach him, when you want him… to get him outside. He can handle that body without putting lines on it, without doing anything to it and without snapping back into it every time it’s hurting.

And what do you know? There is no such thing as scarcity. There is such a superabundance that men have to sit down and work overnight to try to dress something up to make it valuable. There is no scarcity. There is such a superabundance of particles that this Earth could feed at this moment over a hundred times its present population with modern equipment – photosynthesis.

You’re telling him he’s more powerful and he’s better able to control it outside than inside. He’s inside because he can’t control it or anything else unless he’s inside. You’re going to fix him up so he can control anything he wants to, particularly the body from outside without any lines, flows or anything. That’s theta clear. He’s… person’s just stable outside the body, and he’s handling it.

A photon… they thought the algae converted 28 percent of sunlight. The boys were going around thinking this, and they thought this and they’d never made a test, so they just went on thinking this. There was a doctor by the name of Warburg. Hitler – clever old fellow, Hitler. Oh, he was a smart boy, he was. He was just as clever as hell. Uh… he wrecked more games in less space of time and provided less games than any man I’ve ever heard of.

All right, Black and White Control Processing. Now you’ve seen some examples of that. That is just straight, „Put up a spot“. The guy’s eyes open or shut. And have him see it. Move it. Change it from black to white, white to black, enlarge it, contract it, move it around in circles, let it persist, turn it on, turn it off, put it behind him, put it below him, and so on. To the tiniest gradient scale that you can get him to do this, and then increase it. You use the lowest level that you can get him to do, and know he’s doing, and then you get him increasing this and you just go right on increasing it, from there on.

And yet he was apparently trying to go in the direction of games, whereas actually he was uh… merely a despoiler of games. He set up games which would wreck. And that was the only goal at the end of each game that was set up – wreckage. I mean, his own wreckage too. I mean, he set this up very carefully. Terrific inventive power and productive power of the German people, and what’s he do? He uses it to try to knock apart everybody else’s game in the world, instead of playing a game. He would not permit it, that anybody could play ball with Hitler – nobody. He had wrecked all the games – boom-crash! „Und herring und garbage. Ach!“ Boy, he was a great boy.

And it gives him orientation and control over his mock-ups. His mock-ups get better and better and better and better and all of a sudden he’s got completely control over his mock-ups. But that is the lowest gradient scale and that is Step Five. And that determines Step Five.

Anyway, a guy like Hitler comes along and he takes all the aesthetic value, everything else that he can possible mass together, and all he does is crash games.

Step Five will first tell you, „I see everything totally black. I can’t get any mock-up, I can’t get any pictures, I just vaguely imagine something, when I do get something it flitters by so fast I can’t tell what it is.“ Well the answer to that is, „Put up a spot“ and get him to control the spot. So the result is that he can’t control or see or use mock-up processing – you think. And you’ve got Black and White Control Processing moved out to be something else or someplace else.

Well, it’s not. It’s the lowest step of gradient scale mock-ups and it’s right on the gradient scale of mock-ups. And the only reason we call attention to it is, is for some cockeyed reason – I have explained this a lot of times, ever since I first picked it up, and by golly, I still get questions on it! So we just made a… a process out of it and said, „It is a process.“ Well, it’s really not a process; it’s the lowest gradient scale action of perception of mock-ups. A tiny black spot.

Hitler chased out Warburg. And War… Dr. Warburg, 1933, ‘34, went to the University of Maryland, where he has since conducted tests on photosynthesis vats. And the algae converts something like 88 percent of the sunlight that hits it, not 28. And this gives you a green yield per vat acre of 500 tons of food per annum; the highest yield we have today on an acre of ground is alfalfa at 5 tons an acre per annum. And the usual yield is about 2 tons per acre per annum of the very arable land. Isn’t that fascinating?

The guy says, „I imagine things, but I don’t see them.“ No, no. Black and White Control Processing. „Control that spot. Turn it white. Turn it black. Move it up. Move it down. Move it to the left. Move it to the right.“ What do you know! The guy’s tone will come way up on an E-Meter as he realizes all of a sudden, „My God, I can actually control a spot of light!“ You’d be surprised. And there’s your very occluded case.

And al… and algae eats minerals and we have all kinds of those. Minerals and water and you’ve got lots of water, don’t let anybody kid you you haven’t got lots of water. There are methods of refining sunlight – I mean refining sea water – to such a degree that you could have all the fresh water you wanted.

All right. What else do you do for this case? Well, it stresses the necessity to give him an E-Meter assessment. You find out a lot about this Step Five. He comes all the way down through Ridge Running, no good. So we’ll have to talk about Step Five very carefully, all by itself. Well he’s the guy that can’t see, can’t feel, can’t hear. He might be quite bright, he might be quite worthwhile, quite powerful. But no mock-ups. He’s in agreement with the MEST universe like mad! That’s the trouble with him. Very often your engineer will walk himself into being a Step Five, in the exercise of his profession, because he has to agree so much.

For instance, even in California. The governor there… the governor there, of course, keeping up the law of scarcity doesn’t make it possible, offered a prize of a million dollars to anybody who could invent a process which would turn sea water cheaply into fresh water. Who’s he kidding? Himself or the public, or who? Because it can be done with considerable ease. He’s got nothing but solid deserts back of him – the damnedest, biggest desert you ever saw in your life – huge, natural filter plants, HUGE. And uh… the… the… the… all he needs is pumping systems. It doesn’t cost very much to pump water around. You could filter salt out of salt water and put fresh lakes back of Los Angeles until hell wouldn’t have it.

All right, Step Six, says ARC Straight Wire. Well, you can get him into ARC with mock-ups if you can get mock-ups. Or you can get control processing a little bit, but actually you’d get this… some guy to remember something that’s really real to him, he’ll pop up the tone scale. „Can you get something that’s really real to you?“

Only trouble is it would spoil the scarcity. Everybody’s very well aware of it here on Earth that we must have a scarcity of particles in order to increase wantingness. And they’ve increased it and it’s gotten out of gear to a point where there can be no real game for the majority of people here… they’re not even aware of the fact they’re in a game until they’re pretty solidly processed. They’ll come up the level and they’ll… all of a sudden they’ll get back their spirit of play. They’re practically dead because scarcity is space, really, but space has no value. And scarcity… enforced scarcity of particles when there is such an abundance of particles and an abundance of potential food production that you couldn’t keep up with it.

And he’s below any level of reality that he thinks he could reach, and Step Seven is Present Time Body Orientation. „Where’s your body?“ Person who needs a Step Seven of course is insane. That’s an insane condition. „Where’s the light switch?“

Now as far as birth control is concerned, you say, „Well, yes, birth control, we’ll just overreach this food supply.“ Oh no it wouldn’t.

„What’s the realest thing in this real room, to you, eh? What’s the realest thing in this room?“

Uh… the auditors who have discovered this to date have asked me not to mention it, but theta clearing provides uh… pregnancy termination uh… at will. We mustn’t mention this because, God help us all, there goes the moral code. Penicillin took out the disease level and uh… now if a person… a girl can take a couple of beams of energy, just move out back of her head and take a couple of beams of energy and terminate a pregnancy…

„The light switch“.

Now it didn’t… nothing… nothing wild or forceful or upsetting or anything like that. Just make sure that the tube opens. That’s very simple. There’re uh… there’re muscles, and so forth, and that sort of thing, and pregnancies that were as much as three months advanced, and that sort of thing, have been terminated this way. In how long? 24 hours. With what kind of a set-up? None. What kind of repercussions? None. Isn’t this fascinating?

Finally find him so he could locate the auditor. Maybe he can’t locate the auditor. Can he locate his big toe? All of a sudden he says, „My God,“ he says, „Yes.“ All of a sudden he feels kind of sane. „I can locate my big toe. There it is! Aha!“ Big line charge. The guy was crazy a few minutes before and now he’s tippily sane. He’ll go off again and on again, Finnegan. But he can locate his body.

So you’ve got something like birth control sitting right there in theta clearing. A lot of experimentation could be done with something like this, in order to get it all down fine. But the three auditors who have had anything to do with it have discovered that it was just deadly: One-two-three.

Well there’s the gradient scale of the guy who is able to step out and knows he’s a thetan to the gradient scale of the guy who doesn’t only… not know he’s a thetan, but he doesn’t even know he’s got a body.

Well, if you’ve got… if you’ve got birth control under control, if you have food in plenty – gosh! It looks to me like the game could get very interesting and very easy here on Earth. Yes, it could. Because look at… look at what people are mainly concerned of. Uh… it’s all right for us in this country; we’ve got plenty of food, but uh… gee! They’ve got an abundance of babies as the goal of the society of India and China. Oh, no! It’s just… just… you just don’t…

Okay, and that is a brief rundown then, and the over-all rundown on Standard Operating Procedure Issue III. Now we have to cover these steps in a much fuller sense. Each step at a time, particularly Steps Four, and Steps Five. And of course Steps Six and Seven. And Steps Four and Five, because they’re the steps that have been the bafflers. The rest of them are easy.

Puerto Rico with one of the heaviliest populated areas in the world is playing a game down there now of having 18 children per family. Oh, it’s just grim! Well, you provide a superfluity of human beings like this, they get so cheap that there’s no role for them in any game.

And then we’ve got to cover, specifically, the exact drills you put a thetan through. We’re not dealing, fortunately, with an inexact science which depends upon my opinion or my idea. Next guy that says this, „your… according to your ideas…“ I’m gonna to pop! I mean, just out of hand! And my MEST body has been covert and mean and ornery, and vicious and under my control and trying to kick back at me and it hasn’t been able to, or anything of the sort, and and… the next time I uh… I’m just going to let it go! So if you see somebody fly off the stage madly, you’ll know what happened! Hubbard just took the control point off. Be my MEST body’s fault!

And do you know that nowhere here on Earth do they have a Games Umpire, nowhere here on Earth do they have a Games Supervisor, nowhere on… here on Earth do they have an Office of Maker of Games, Substation Earth – noplace. There’s nobody going around thinking about games – nobody. So what do we do about something like this? Why you can just upset this old applecart left and right, by studying what is basically a game.

Okay. We uh… should know Standard Operating Procedure, Issue III, by heart. By heart. You should know it. You should always use it, and when you process a case, process it by that procedure, and don’t get innovative. Because this process saves you time, and makes theta clears, and I hope that’s what you’re trying to do.

Now in the first place, everybody… there’s another right that other people might contest, is: Anybody has a right to play in a game, some game. That’s right. Now people who are playing a game have a right to exclude people from playing a game, but they do not have a right to set it up so that those people can’t play in another game.

Okay. Thank you very much, I’ll see you tomorrow.

So there’s a lot of rights of games. And when you’ve… when you have examined and expanded rights of games, you have overreached and much more than restored and outlined the rights of man – much more. Because it adds something else. All the rights of man do is give a man a right to be bored. If they gave him the… gave him the outermost freedom of action, all these ‘freedom froms’, it would wind up with its final goal as the right to be bored, because there’s nothing with which to gain… engage his interest. Nobody’s taking any responsibility for engaging anybody’s interest except a handful of artists and a few entrepreneurs here on Earth. They… they’re just of no… they’re… they’re given every single kind of roadblock.

It’s from these people alone, really, that interest in existence stems. Oh, they’ve just set this game up so haywire that the game is just completely out of control and the whole game MEST universe is going about in the same direction. The game was set up with a 180 degree wrong vector and, of course, as it comes out along the line it drifts further and further over on to the wrong side for the individuals involved in the game. And that’s no good.

So, at the start of it, however, the feeling that there must be a game would be your highest echelon of compulsion. There isn’t any reason why you have the feeling there must be a game, but if you’re here, you’ve gone through that strata, and you still have that feeling there must be a game. And I’m not telling you to get rid of that feeling; I’m telling you to rehabilitate the spirit of play. And then you can look over the upper strata and find out if you want to get rid of the other one.

But you’re not going to get rid of the other one until you’ve rehabilitated the spirit of play. You’ve got to go up through this cycle of action you see on the board here, up through the area I’ve marked ‘1’ there, at least the ‘AB’ strata, before you could even know the sensation Spirit of Play. It doesn’t take too long to get to that stage, but it is gotten and attained by drilling in emotion… putting emotion on things and taking it off again. And not forgetting exhilaration and way above that, Spirit of Play… Spirit of Play.

Now somebody who gets up to 40.0 and hits serenity – nobody ever put serenity at 40.0 – it is ABOVE 40.0 and it’s ABOVE ‘there must be a game’. And a guy who can get it up to feeling serenity without feeling ‘There must be a game’ has simply gotten… it’s just one of these things has happened; he’s gotten on the subway at 42nd and Broadway and has arrived in the Bronx without travelling on the subway. He just… it just… in this agreement pattern, and in the pattern of backtracking out of this universe and rehabilitation, it just can’t happen. You couldn’t hit REAL serenity without having gone through the most hectic, compulsive aspects of Spirit of Play – unless you’ve known Spirit of Play in its heaviest sense, there could be no serenity for you, because Spirit of Play would still lie there as a basic underlying compulsion.

And you talk about Serenity, you better know what you’re talking about, because there isn’t anybody in this room has ever felt it, I’m sure of that – not… maybe, for 74 trillion years anyway.

Serenity – oh, brother! You can… Serenity. You… you get next to somebody who’s really serene, you feel like you’ve, on a hot summer day, walked into a beautifully cool lake of water. You just feel like „Uhh-huhh!“

But there’s HIGH, FREE feelings in these upper scale emotions in the games. Boy! This feeling about 22.0 – it’s… you’ve got… you’ve got a flock of teammates and there’s a… all this thing is running this way and that. I mean, everybody’s so dead serious. Oh, they… they… they are serious too, to a point of brutality, if they are playing on the brutal side of this thing. You talk about playing for keeps! Because there isn’t very much to lose, you see? I mean a guy can’t be hurt bad. A guy who can be hurt as bad as homo sapiens couldn’t play such a game. They really play for keeps.

We’ve got this Team A, they’re the Whites, and Team B, they’re the Blacks in this game. And they consider themselves teams, they’ve got divided sides and this and that. And boy, the code of ethics that goes for a team- mate is tougher and bigger than anything you ever had when knighthood was in flower.

When we picked up the chivalric condition of knighthood and its vows – was probably picked up back on the track from some team or some degraded uh… bit of team ethic. And uh… yes, that’s superlative. And, oh, a guy would do anything on a team basis. He’ll get himself killed to save a teammate, and that’s all. Teammate’s in danger and he can prevent that danger from occurring, he’ll get himself killed. And that’s just expected.

That isn’t heroic. Down here on Earth a guy goes out and gets himself knocked off to save the company, or something of this sort, Christ, they give him medals and they string it all over the place and he’s in all the war savings bonds ads and… and uh… the government…

By the way, this government never commercializes bravery. I don’t want you to get that idea. This government has not cheapened every medal and honor it could offer. This government would not cheapen anything. This government’s a pure, upstanding, noble group, and it has no ulterior motive in being… a politician in the government, there is none of those. Nobody ever gets any graft or anything like that.

You know the country’s in apathy on crooked government right now? They even let the Republicans in.

Well, anyhow, here’s team play. And… and you talk about playing for keeps: They’re playing for this particle, or they’re playing for this planet or something of this sort. It isn’t covert play. You see, Earth really isn’t being played for. There is a crew that would like to think it’s playing for Earth, but they’re pinned down. They’re pinned down like a soldier with 88 millimeter shells passing over his head at the rate of one per millisecond. And there’s… there’s… they… there’s a covert infiltration, and you pick it up in preclears every once in a while, monitoring action that takes place here on Earth from a between-lives area. And you’d think this was very powerful and it’s REALLY getting some place – naw. Because it isn’t a game. Because the people who are doing that are too degraded on team play to stand up against the team that’s playing the other game. There isn’t any game going on here. Unless it’s a game called ‘rehabilitation’, or it’s a game called ‘exit depot’. Now uh… – which it could be.

All right, now here we have, then, this whole… this whole sphere of interest and activity called the MEST universe which started out as a game. But don’t think the MEST universe is the only game there is. This would be something like saying, „There is only the Rose Bowl.“ They think of this in California and I’m sure they’re convinced of it. Every five Californians that you picked up with and met, you would ask, „Is there any other stadium in the world?“

He’d say, „No. The Californians invented stadiums and they invented football. And they built the Rose Bowl and now that they have built the Rose Bowl, this is the only bowl in this world, besides being the biggest bowl in the world.“

Now California is second only to Texas in the naivity about its uh… environs, and so forth. That’s not the case. The… the games played in the Rose Bowl are not the only football games or ball games played in the world. I don’t want you to get the idea there are just because you talked to a Californian.

But that’s kind of like the MEST universe. The MEST universe would have you believe this is the only game there is anyplace in the whole of anything. That’s not true! Not even vaguely true. Games are going on with all kinds of rules, terrific interest levels and so forth.

All right, I’m going to read off for you this paper just so we’ve got it on the tape. How many minutes we got? – five minutes. That’s plenty.

„The aberration above time is ‘there must be a game’. Now there’s a postulate up there, ‘there must be a game’ and there’s an interest level and therefore it enters into a flow. And ‘there must be a game’ and ‘there must not be a game’. So you have the Un-maker of Games quite as important as the Maker of Games.“

Now we get „The rules of games are as follows: Limitations on self and others, obedience to rules, unconsciousness of rules to add reality“ – we pretend the rules are real. „ARC with others to play. Pain as a penalty which will be obeyed“ – you have to have a penalty that will be obeyed. Otherwise, nobody will stick with the rules. „Agreement to rules and penalties is necessary to continue a game.“ And boy, are they! „Deterioration of a game until no game“ – cycle of action shows you the whole game is an object with no action. You know, the… the… the wienie finally becomes everything there is, and there is no action even to get the wienie.

„Work is admission of inability to play“ – if you have to work, you can’t play, obvious. They really yap about that here. „A game of complexity and levels“ – the Tone Scale is such a game. It’s just a map of MEST universe games.

„Peculiarity or liability of a maker of game, people attempting to play the game of Maker of Games“ – it’s a game itself. Your big capitalista or commissar will do that. „The game called Maker of Games results in No Game. And the game called Unmaking Games results in a game. 8008.“

„There’s a game called freedom,“ which is what you’re playing right at this minute. „And Games contain trickery and misdirection to win“ – your 180 degree vector of Have and Agree.

„The prize of winning is making a new game“ – what do you know? „Or permitting a new game to be made or making it possible for a new game to be played.“ Those are all prizes, and that’s all the prizes there are. „The necessity“ – oh, of course, there’s these gimmicks, these wienies and so forth. But everybody just knows that they’re spurious as hell.

Uh… „The necessity to have a new game coded before one ends the old game.“ Otherwise, everyone becomes a maker of games with no game.

Now, „The value of pieces. Ownership of pieces may be also the ownership of players. And the difference between players and pieces, and the difficulty of pieces becoming players“ – boy, when a piece becomes a player, there’s really a hell of an upset in the game; it’ll just blow. Oh, the quarterback walks out of the football game and all of a sudden starts to run the whole football game, and nobody can tell him „No.“ That football game’s dead.

Now… so you’ve got to hide the rules from the pieces, otherwise this is going to happen.

„Now the caste system of game consist of this: The Maker of Games, he has no rules, he runs by no rules. The player of the games, rules known but he obeys them. And the assistant players merely obey the players. And the pieces obey rules as dictated by players, but they don’t know the rules.“ And then, what do you know. There’s broken pieces, and they aren’t even in the game, but they’re still in the game. And they’re in a terrible maybe: „Am I in the game or am I not in the game?“

Now, „How to make a piece. This is how to make’ a piece: First, deny there is a game. Second, hide the rules from them. Three, give them all penalties and no wins. Four, remove all goals“ – all goals. „Enforce them… their playing. Inhibit their enjoying. Make them look like but forbid their being like players“ – look like God but uh… you can’t be God.

„To make a piece continue to be a piece, permit it to associate only with pieces and deny the existence of players.“ Never let the pieces find out that there are players.

Now out of these you’re going to get games. Now here’s a process that has to do with the making of games, and all this process adds up to, is you just address to those factors which I just gave you, oh, run and change postulates and any creative process that you can think of and shift postulates around, you get a whole process.

But remember, that up at the top of it there is a big postulate, „There must be a game.“ Therefore if you want to regain the Spirit of Play, people have got to unmake postulates they’ve made all along, saying, „There mustn’t be a game. There mustn’t be a game. It can’t be a game. Don’t play with me. I mustn’t be played with. Life is serious. This isn’t a game. We’re playing for keeps. I’ll never get out of this,“ and so forth. In other words, the postulates which they’ve made to convince themselves that these are the rules and the only rules that can be played, and these that I’ve just read off to you.

I’m going to have this typed and you can figure it out more or less as you want to. I could, of course, give you even further rundown on this, if you wanted me to, but it takes… takes a little while to do so. It’s actually the backbone of what we are doing. But let’s take a break.