METHODS OF RESEARCH  - THE THETAN AS AN ENERGY UNIT 



A lecture given 6 November 1952 



I would like to talk to you on this paper, "Standard Operating 

Procedure for Theta Clearing" [See this issue in the Appendix of 

this volume.] This is the first of Standard Operating Procedures. 

Possibly there will be others, but they will all be referred to 

with a modification if they come out. I don't see at the moment 

much modification in view. Therefore, it's perfectly safe to make 

a talk here on Standard Operating Procedure for Theta Clearing. 



Now, a great deal of the data in this will be found in 

Scientology 8-80, when that is available to you here. It is 

available right this minute, by the way, from the States. It's a 

very spectacular little volume. It has... on the cover of it, it 

has "Life = EI/-R x -f." That's all it's got on the cover. 



And anyway, a terrific amount of this material is in there, such 

as subzero Tone Scale, transfer of energy between facsimiles and 

a lot of this and that. 



Well now, the origination of Standard Operating Procedure of 

Theta Clearing has been done since -- oh, a long time ago -- 

1932, actually. 



And the first study on this subject was electronics. Electronics 

of the human mind -- were there any? With the knowledge available 

at that time, anything that was known about the electronics of 

the human mind at that time could be summed up in one very 

eloquent word: bunk. There was a lot of hocus-pocus and presto 

chango and nonsense. 



And yet even at that time the psychiatrists were rushing in where 

intelligent beings would fear to tread and were busily giving 

people electric shocks and all sorts of things. There is nothing 

more wonderful about the MEST universe than the ability of some 

within it, and some who created it, to use everything for the 

wrong purpose so that ital wind up wronger. This universe, a few 

million years from now, will probably be a solid lump of lead or 

something of the sort, because it's tailor-made not to have 

anything run right in it. 



So in 1932, to look at the rather baffling picture of the human 

mind and what was known about the human mind and to find out that 

people actually dared, without knowing anything about it, to 

avidly use electronics on it was actually more than could be 

borne. 



I started to work on it. I just started to work it over and try 

to find out what -- colloquially -- cooked. And you know, I 

started in thinking that somebody knew something about it. I 

really did. I thought something was known -- not about 

electronics, but about the human mind. 



You see, I could easily find what was known about electronics. It 

was very easy to find that. James Clerk Maxwell, Newton -- there 

was a character kicking around in those days by the name of 

Einstein; a fellow by the name of Planck hadn't gotten very busy 

yet. But Lorentz and FitzGerald had already done their evil worst 

with c. The work that everybody thinks Einstein did was done by 

Lorentz, FitzGerald, you see? And the work which Einstein did, 

nobody's been able to figure out, but it's, "He did it." And it's 

very wonderful. It's resulting, everybody says, in an atomic 

bomb, except that the person whose work the atomic bomb came from 

was named Planck. 



The information about electronics was there, but it was just 

about as scrambled when it applies to this sort of thing as the 

people to whom it's credited. We find the most fascinating things 

about that. 



For instance, you had a young chap over here that did the basic 

work that made the electronic bomb, or the thingamabob bomb -- 

it's hardly an atomic bomb. He explored the orbits and so forth. 

He has a comet named after him. A pretty interesting guy. 



If I remember rightly, one fellow -- The most brilliant work that 

was done in this field was done by some fellow -- I don't think 

he was twenty-one. And the British government in its "Oh, we 

won't give a damn about that. That might be important or somebody 

might consider it important" sent him down to Gallipoli and he 

died on the beach there in the barbed wire with a gut full of 

bayonets, with his work one-third done. 



So, anyway, the interesting part of this history was that nobody 

seemed to have gotten organized about it. You had boundless 

theories. And the second you went into the human mind, you would 

have a feeling that somebody knew something about the human mind. 

You'd just have this feeling, because so many people spoke of it 

with such terrific authority. You know, they made up in sound 

volume what they lacked in information. 



And I was particularly amazed, in 1947, to finally find, at last 

and long length, that psychoanalysis not only did not work but 

made patients worse. 



Now, that's how dumb I have been on this. I actually believed, in 

1932 -because I studied Freud; I studied this under the tutelage 

of one of his more brilliant pupils, a Commander Thompson. 

Commander Thompson was sent there by the US Navy to study with 

Freud for a long period of time and to come back and do something 

with psychoanalysis with the US Navy. He was practically the 

first and only authority in the United States. There's hardly 

anybody else in the United States did more than maybe get a curt 

thank-you letter from Sigmund Freud. And they have taken these 

very curt thank-you letters and have established their complete 

and full reputation since. That and a Viennese accent. 



You see, in the United States, it's a little bit different than 

here. You cannot possibly succeed in the field of the mind if you 

were to call it the field of the mind or anything like that -- 

you have to have an accent, and the phonier the better. You can 

get these accents; it's easy to pick up the accent. As a matter 

of fact, it takes longer to pick up the accent than it does the 

information you use. But once the accent has been picked up, why, 

you could be a howling success there. It's very wonderful. 



Well, anyway, not wandering off the subject a bit, imagine my 

embarrassment -- because I'd gone on till 1947 supposing there 

was such a thing as a psychotherapy. Well, I had my off-brand of 

this sort of thing which was mixed up with hypnotism and sort of 

based upon the endocrine reflex... the endocrine alarm-reaction 

system of the body, and so on. There was... I had a therapy 

worked out. And I just hadn't paid very much attention to 

Commander Thompson, I'm afraid, because what I thought was 

psychoanalysis is suddenly discovered by me in 1947 to be a wild, 

wild distance from psychoanalysis. 



I was proceeding logically in one fashion or another and I -- as 

far as sexual activity is concerned and that sort of thing, this 

was just wonderful. I mean, Thompson had come back and had said 

so often that Freud really meant social, "the social part of 

man," when he was saying "sexual part of man" that I just skipped 

over all that. And an awful big joke on me: I had never turned 

around and found, when he said "libido theory," exactly what he 

meant. He meant libido theory. He didn't mean the birds and bees 

or anything. He didn't mean anything off-track. He meant sex! 

I've read his papers on it. And I read another interesting paper 

by that gentleman, by the way, that would fascinate you and you 

want to read it some time. 



By the way, if you want to pass a psychiatric examination, just 

get all of Freud's papers and memorize the dates and the titles 

and then go before the American College of Psychiatry and you can 

become a psychiatrist. You don't have to know what's in them. 

There isn't anything in them anyway. 



But this process is entirely different from what you'd think it 

was -entirely different. You wouldn't really have any conception 

-- knowing what you do now and doing and working with the tools 

you're working with now, you wouldn't realize that you haven't 

just moved next door. You've moved over this range of mountains, 

off of this planet, into that galaxy and over into another 

universe. 



I'm laying this down with a heavy ax in case anybody ever asks 

you to do a translation of Dianetics into terms that a 

psychoanalyst can understand. 



Don't ever try it, because they're not related subjects. One is 

logical and it works, and the other has to do with sex and it's 

lots of fun. 



Now, that's bitter. But he fooled me. In that particular regard, 

I don't like to be fooled. 



In some line of work of research -- in engineering, you read a 

paper and it says that Henry Blitzen has connected two electrodes 

with a 220-volt current running there and has found out that this 

flow registered so-and-so on a voltmeter. If you want to go and 

get a voltmeter and set up these conditions, you'll find out, 

sure enough, it registers so-and-so, thereby showing the 

resistance of wire as such and such or something. It'll do it 

every time. You can go around to every laboratory in the world 

where any electricity is available and rig up this equipment, and 

the voltmeter keeps on reading that same reading. 



Well, when you speak of a meter, you speak as close to accuracy 

as science has been able to come. Einstein's possible claim to 

fame will someday be these words: "All an observer has a right to 

do is read the meter and report its exact result -- report its 

reading." That's what an observer should do. He should not 

interpret the meter at any time. And as long as a science hews to 

that line, you have reliable information. And if a science can't 

do that, don't bother to laugh up your sleeve, guffaw out loud. 

Because it's not a science, it is not logical, it is not 

organized and it has nothing to do with reality, but is 

somebody's happy little jim-dandy, screwball delusion. 



Beware a law which is stated at some length and then of which it 

is suddenly said, "But of course, there are these exceptions." 

Just skip it. The second you see that thing and it said, "These 

exceptions append to this law," throw it in the nearest ashcan 

and turn around yourself and find out what the law in the subject 

really is. Don't expect to find it in a textbook; you should be 

able to figure it out. 



And if somebody had told me a little more loudly in 1932, "You 

have a perfect right to figure out these things yourself," we 

would have been a lot further ahead. Because that's the one thing 

the MEST universe tells you not to do: Don't ever figure it out. 

It's very verboten. And it's a very, very good thing. Even in the 

great, honored realms of science they'll tell you, "Well, of 

course, we know -- heh. Of course, privately, we don't know what 

the hell we do know. But you... You never will know, but you are 

permitted to worship... you are permitted to worship before this 

great sacred cow." That's actually a primary method. 



Now, every once in a while you will find a professor who sparkles 

like a diamond and he will rage and tear around and say, "Well, 

damn it, figure it out!" Now, there's one such at MIT. He is the 

exception rather than the rule. 



They call him "Ninety-nine Percent" Johnson. He said, "If you can 

ask the question of the universe properly, it is already ninety-

nine percent answered." Now, I'm giving you here, really, little 

guide rules for research. These rules work. There's only one 

thing you want to know from anybody: What is the law and what 

does the meter read? And does the meter often read otherwise? And 

the second he says, "Well, it's kind of like this, but ve, o'er 

in Vienna -- ve have made a great study of this, and ve have 

special meters that read the same all the time. They are painted 

meters; they have painted needles on them. And ve have found that 

the great, the great successes in the field of psychoanalysis 

stem from the fact that these meters always read success. Now, if 

you vant to reduce it to science, oh, ve are scientists." So is 

the garbage man a scientist. He goes around picking up odds and 

ends and throwing them into a truck, too, without any order. No 

order, no discipline. 



Adler, Jung... Think of it. Think of these guys. Think of this 

guy Jung. 



He obviously had some brains -- obviously did. And what does he 

run into? 



He runs into past lives. Crush! And now he figures out the great 

esoterics of past lives. (Now, we'll all cross ourselves here!) 

And the next thing you know, we're all studying Druidism, and 

that's all the past life there is and that's everything that... 

He must have been stuck on the track, being dumped in or out of 

some burned bole of some tree or something. Or maybe when he was 

young he was a blue baby. There's some purpose for this, but 

that's Jung. 



"And Jung has done great vork -- don't mistake it." He has put a 

lot of printers and engravers -- given them a lot of employment. 

And right now he keeps a lot of library shelves from being empty. 

But it's just fantastic. It's fantastic! They could get ahold of 

a datum... 



Breuer sat down and found out that if a woman talked long enough 

her psychosis went kaboom! He found this out. He saw it happen. 



So instead of just keeping people talking long enough, Freud gets 

in there and pitches, and he says, "It's all sex." He didn't even 

evaluate what they were talking about. If he'd just taken a 

continuous tape record and noted the exact moment in each case 

and just let enough people talk long enough, he would have found 

out there was a constant. He would have found out that they got 

well, more or less, around the certain points. And if you wanted 

to treat this with a scientific method, you actually could have 

taken endless tapes and made dictation notes on them and had them 

clicking through a time machine as to what they were talking 

about and when they got well. 



In other words, you kept a record, which is the first scientific 

rule: Keep a record! Now, you can keep the record in your head if 

you know what you're doing, but keep a record. 



Now, once in a while somebody says to me, "You don't keep a 

record of what you're doing." The hell I don't! I keep a record -

- this is actually a record. 



You would... just wouldn't believe me if I told you there was 

practically no thought or research behind this. But there isn't. 

There isn't any thought or research, as you think of it, of 

taking endless notes, notes, notes and then trying to find these 

and compare. That is not the way I do research. We found some of 

the basic fundamentals, and you know practically every word or 

thought along the track of figuring out an equation. 



And all it is, is a long mathematical equation. It has all 

arrived there by deduction and extrapolation from certain basic 

facts which were found to be true. And all this is, is a 

straight, direct breakdown of the Axioms. 



Now, you'd hardly believe that, but that's... that happens to be 

true. 



This is a breakdown of the Axioms. If you recombine the Axioms 

and look them over, you'll find out that it breaks down to this -

- it has to be that. It just has to be that, that's all. You look 

over the Axioms. These Axioms are true, and they were sweeping 

ahead and showing up things. And all the Axioms were, were the 

constant data which had been turned out from the primary 

principle "Survive," and the mind as a computing machine which 

tries to resolve problems relating to survival. How simple. 



But actually what we're doing here is a form of mathematics. It's 

a form of mathematics. Now, every once in a while, just for the 

hell of it, I put these things into practice in the material 

universe. They always work. They don't work because I say they 

work. 



What's the difference? What's the difference, then, between this 

investigation which we're doing, on which we're engaged, and past 

investigations? 



What's the essential difference? 



Well, it was one: the assumption that the problem could be 

solved. Now, boy, that is an arbitrary assumption. There is no 

reason to believe the problem can be solved. But we throw in the 

one arbitrary which was thrown in on the track ahead of survival. 

There's an arbitrary sitting there, and that arbitrary says the 

problem can be solved -- the problem of the human mind can be 

solved. Now, that should tell you a lot. You throw an arbitrary 

ahead of a law in order to get a law. That's called heuristic 

thinking. 



You postulate something and see if it works. And you... if it 

doesn't work you postulate something else. 



Get the psychosis of somebody, though, who postulates that all 

cats are green and then can't unpostulate it. Is he in sad shape! 

He's in terrible condition if he does that. He said, "The basis 

of all things are Druidism, are Druidism, are Druidism" -- 

millions of words on the subject -- "are Druidism, are Druidism." 

He just got caught in the groove in his own record and he 

couldn't unpostulate the postulate, that's all. 



Now, let's look at that as a mechanical proposition, a therapy 

that we know about -- postulate. This person wasn't thinking; 

this person was continuing onward from a postulate which he could 

not undo! Having made the postulate, he was stuck with it! So if 

you ever do investigation or observation, for God's sakes, 

remember that. Never stick yourself with a postulate and then 

have a feeling like you have to make the postulate good just 

because you made it. For heaven's sakes, have enough humility 

once in a while to say, "What do you know, I was wrong!" But 

they're natural laws. Let's divorce this thing from Hubbard's 

ideas or opinions. You know, when I tell you that everything that 

has been done on this exact line is written down and is known to 

you, I speak to you the truth. 



The only missing data there would be -- the things I had thought 

of and threw away. I didn't even bother to keep notebooks on 

them. And somebody says, "That's a gap, then, in the research 

line." The heck it is! The heck it is. You can take these and get 

about eighty-five billion times more data than I threw away! And 

I didn't throw away any valuable data. The stuff was junk! I did 

an experiment one time -- "the great god Throgmagog." I invented 

him one morning. I said, "By golly, I bet you he's got some 

therapeutic use. I wonder what this conscious mind is? What is 

this conscious mind?" So I said, "Let's see, you ought to be able 

to hypnotize somebody..." Used an awful lot of hypnotism in early 

research. God bless Charcot; that's all I got to say. 



And God bless Anton Mesmer. 



All right. These boys I was working with here and there were 

usually very good hypnotic subjects. Once in a while I'd pick up 

an awfully bad hypnotic subject just to find out what made him 

tick, why he was so terrible as an hypnotic subject, because 

hypnotism was a wild variable. 



In science, in good investigation, look for the wild variable. 

Look for that thing which is wild, which isn't acting right, 

which acts this way, this way and that way, that way. And there 

is where your use comes in of the natural law which has a 

thousand exceptions. 



You say, "Boy, you mean somebody knows a datum which doesn't 

operate right? And there are exceptions to it? Well, gee, that 

thing is probably the clue to the biggest, doggonedest puzzle! We 

can even go and look and find out what that puzzle is!" There 

must be a puzzle there if you've got an erratic behavior. And if 

we can't break it down on what we know about the mind, we 

probably have opened the chapter of a whole new... a whole new 

study any time that happens. So remember this about wild 

variables. 



Well, anyway, I invented this great god Throgmagog for one single 

and solitary purpose: to find out if the conscious mind could be 

removed from the individual and be made to think and give orders 

to the individual thereafter. 



Did that in 1947. Nineteen forty-seven, the first few months, I'd 

actually gone and gotten the actual books of psychoanalysis of 

Jung, Adler and the rest of the boys, and I'd given them a good 

hard run. I burned the midnight oil on these things -- burned it 

hard -- because I was doing a review of what I thought they were 

doing. And I found out that I had steered a course over the hills 

and far away. I found out that Breuer's knowledge of hypnotism 

was very elementary, that I'd thrown an awful lot of data onto 

the track which had been picked up elsewhere and then said, 

"Well, that belongs too, then." And that is not the case. So it 

became almost anything but the case. 



All right. Breuer's work indicated, however, people could be 

hypnotized and it had some connection with psychotherapy. That's 

an important datum. 



If he'd stuck with that -- be famous forever. 



All right. Here we had the ability to put a person out and do 

something about his mind. What can we do about his mind? So I 

invent the great god Throgmagog, I say, "All right," to this 

fellow, "you are now the great god Throgmagog, and you will now 

step two feet to the right of yourself and you will thereafter do 

thinking and computing and give you all the advice which you need 

on the subject. Five, four, three, two, one, snap! Wake up." The 

great god Throgmagog. And the guy would go around for days doing 

brilliant things, the like of which you never heard of. Just 

brilliant things. It's something like doing long division of 

fifteen numbers divided into twenty-one hundred numbers, or 

something like that, with right answers -- calculating machine 

problems, and all that sort of thing. How would he do these 

things? 



He would turn around and he would say, "The problem is so-and-so 

and soand-so. The answer is so-and-so and so-and-so." The great 

god Throgmagog. 



My idea was that somehow or other you could remove the mind from 

the influence of the reactive mind, which I'd already spotted. 

And if you could do this, you would have an unlimited, 

unaberrated self. 



And what was I doing? It takes five years to find out what I was 

doing! Otherwise, that's just another experiment. That's one of 

the fastest ways to Theta Clear I know. Except don't tell the guy 

he's also inside. Tell him to get out and stay out, and to 

monitor this thing from a distance, and you got a Theta Clear. 

And it gives you a whole new method of Theta Clearing right 

there. 



Svengali. You're talking about hypnotism and so on -- boom him 

out. Put him under deep trance and knock him out of his head if 

you can't do anything else. Shoot him full of narcosynthesis and 

kick him out. Possibly you could do a thousand things like this, 

but our later results tell us one thing else: he must get out in 

a highly self-determined state or he'll cave in. And the great 

god Throgmagog always caved in, in almost exactly two weeks. The 

self-determinism punch would last... its highest level would be 

reached in three days, then would lower and would be gone in a 

few weeks. Interesting, isn't it? Five years ago -- the great god 

Throgmagog. 



But investigation is something you do by proceeding from 

something which gave results and to which you can find no 

exceptions. And let me give you the other little clue to this is, 

look for exceptions -- to hell with the proofs! You can prove 

anything. But find exceptions to what you've just thought of. 



Take objection to what you've just done. Believe it utterly while 

you're doing it, and then turn around and reject it completely 

and say there are exceptions to this thing. 



Do you know how long the word survival was under investigation 

for exceptions? It was under investigation for exceptions for 

five years. For five years I refused to believe that survival had 

any basis to man. And I kept trying to find something that 

wouldn't equate into the word survival. And I couldn't find 

anything for five years, and that's a long time to look. 



Now, that should tell you a great deal about auditing. 



Now, in the process of auditing, what you are doing is using a 

series of discoveries which were found by extrapolation, logical 

extrapolation. They were not found by amassing enormous amounts 

of data, Inductive logic was the basis of this research, and the 

invention of a mathematics of logic which is not dissimilar to 

symbolic logic made it possible to add up facts, associate facts. 



But first one had to know that mathematics was a theoretical 

thing and that to apply it to the real universe you had to 

recognize it as a theoretical thing and be perfectly willing to 

associate similarities, even though vague, rather than x's are 

always x's and c's are always c's. 



Now, you as an auditor start in on a case, you're using a whole 

lot of these laws. You're using a lot of them. They're there; 

they're there for you to investigate. There are two reasons why 

they might not be there for you: is, one, you are stuck on one of 

your own postulates; another, that you are indoctrinated to such 

depth that you couldn't escape it; another is that you have some 

sort of a fear or mores or something of the sort which you 

mustn't overthrow; and another one would be they're not true, 

that would be the other one. 



So the way to investigate them, evidently, would be in this wise: 

it would be to take those first few conditions there and apply 

them and find out if there's some reason -- if this thing doesn't 

seem to be working for you -- why you don't want it to work. 

That's always a good thing to ask yourself. 



Now, what would be your arbitrary with every preclear? Because 

when we look at a preclear, we are looking at the whole universe 

of Scientology. 



What arbitrary do we have to postulate the moment we look at a 

preclear? 



We follow the same course, actually, as the investigation itself. 

We have to postulate his case can be resolved. And, by George, 

you'd better postulate it. 



The next one is, is "Do I want to resolve his case?" And if you 

don't want to resolve his case, don't! But don't say to yourself, 

"I ought to be able to want to resolve his case." You won't 

travel on it. Just ask yoursel This would scare into view this 

fact: "Heck no. I think that women ought to be aberrated," or 

"Heck no, I think men really ought to be (something or other)," 

or "I think old men ought to be under the thumb. They're 

dangerous." If you fail to ask yourself -- fail to make such a 

postulate or find out why you can't make such a postulate about a 

case -- you'll do the darnedest things sometimes, quite to your 

own surprise, your own amazement. 



Why, every time you start to audit this preclear you keep 

changing your mind and giving him the wrong signals. You're 

operating on a postulate. Your postulates are only as valuable as 

you value them or as they are workable. 



So in auditing we're following very much the same course as was 

followed in research. A very strange fact, but the research line 

of this is quite consistent and hews the line very closely, and 

the manifestations which you find are rather standard. 



Now, the higher common denominator we have reached today actually 

is so easy to generalize with that you can apply it to 

practically any case you meet with great ease. 



Let's start out with the first one. This fellow could be called -

- incorrectly, on a little lower echelon -- an energy unit 

located inside his head. 



That's pretty correct, pretty correct. You'll find occasionally, 

though, a preclear is big enough and relatively unaberrated, and 

he's a big thetan. He thinks of himself as being a big guy. And 

when he steps out he's a big guy. 



He's not just that big. He's maybe much bigger than his body. 



Fantastic. If you found somebody who was in pretty good shape, 

that would be his concept of himself. After you've worked for a 

little while, your concept of yourself ought to get bigger, and 

you ought to feel yourself as pretty big. 



All right. We know that. Now let's define that unit just a little 

better. 



Let's define the unit in terms of capabilities rather than in 

terms of MESTuniverse dimensions. This unit is capable of 

locating in space and time, matter and energy; converting, 

conserving, altering in many ways, starting and stopping matter 

and energy in space and time, and -- what do you know -- is also 

capable of inventing space and time, and is probably capable of 

inventing so many more things than space and time that space and 

time look like a little schoolboy's game. 



Don't underestimate what this thing can do because along that 

line lies the advance in processing, is what can we find that 

everybody can do? What could we find? 



Could he postulate, for instance...? Let's just take postulate 

and the proposition: Could you have your preclear suddenly say to 

himself, "I am in the year booz-wooz. And the year booz-wooz 

contains a signboard, and that's all." And he could all of a 

sudden... It'd be some trick like this, so don't inhibit yourself 

in the tricks. Don't inhibit yourself, because the thing you're 

working with is completely uninhibited, which has been inhibited 

by becoming to believe it ought to be inhibited! Wonderful trick, 

you see? 



Now, if you could discover something that this thing could do 

that was in advance or different than space and time, which 

native ability -- native ability, infinity ability -- which 

ability had never been inhibited, you'd have an instantaneous 

Theta Clear. 



You see how that could work? I mean, if you could find something 

that was beyond space, time, matter and energy, which he could do 

that he could transfer over to, why, it would be with the 

greatest of ease that he could suddenly handle all this. 



A thousand routes are open -- a thousand, thousand, thousand 

routes are open to you to a faster process than Standard 

Operating Procedure for Theta Clearing. 



But this is a basic route. We know this works. We know this 

works. This even works on rough cases if you work with them for a 

while. 



Now, we know a lot of the reasons and a lot of the bugs you have 

to get out of the case in order to make this work. But just 

because I tell you, "This is Standard Operating Procedure" and 

just because as a good auditor you ought to know this thing 

colder than any turkey ever got, this isn't all the therapy there 

is. Because with this we have discovered a strange fact: It can 

locate matter and energy in space and time. It can also locate, 

invent, change, convert, conserve and upset time and space 

itself, and then locate matter and energy in it. Oh, boy! Sky's 

the limit. If this confounded thing can do that, it isn't even 

vaguely limited by the MEST universe -- not even vaguely limited 

by the MEST universe nor by its own universes nor by the concept 

of universes. Lord knows what it can do! And probably nobody has 

ever realized that himself. But the least that it can do is be so 

completely original, theoretically, that what it was original 

about would bear no relationship to the MEST universe. 



An artist starts out with this capability and spins in quick, 

because everybody is at great pains to tell him at every turn 

that he can't think of anything original, it's all been thought 

of before. This is the swan song and the end of every career as 

an artist: "It's all been thought of before." The hell it has! I 

have written stories that hadn't been thought of before, but I 

never published them. And the reason why is they would have to 

have been thought of -- to be a publishable, acceptable 

communication line, they have to contain elements which have been 

thought of before. But you're trying to communicate with the 

story, and that's something else. So let's not get stuck on this 

and get all identified on this basis. So you see how simple that 

is? 



Yes, I have written stories which are completely original and 

utterly unintelligible to anybody else -- completely 

unintelligible, no communication at all. They weren't even 

written. They were really original. And of course then you say, 

"What were they?" Right away I would have to translate them into 

terms which were common-denominator terms. The second I did that 

I would have to change the story so that it had been thought of 

before, so that the person to whom you're communicating could 

receive it in the language. And the fact that they're told in 

language says all these words have been thought of before. 



So you see, what a far cry it is from the fact of originality to 

communicating what you think. 



Now, let's look at the basic condition of our thetan and let's 

follow, very rapidly here, right straight through what he 

probably does. He's sitting there and he's part of (quote) "the 

main body of theta," and for some reason or other he starts 

setting up his own universe. We're not quite sure why. Maybe 

there is no reason. Maybe he just sets up his own universe. Maybe 

he got set up and then he set up his own universe. Lord knows 

what. And the universe which he set up was set up with an 

unlimited -- no arbitraries, except those which he imposed upon 

it himself and wellknew that he imposed upon it. So he set up 

this universe. 



And now let's get differences of universes. One preclear has set 

up a universe that doesn't have any time in it. He just set it up 

with a big space and it hasn't got any time in it. So it's got no 

motion and no energy in it. 



Perfectly legitimate. Just because matter here is in motion is no 

reason why you've got to have only matter which is in motion. The 

only reason we have matter here that's in motion is because it's 

the easiest way to make matter. 



That's something like, well, the reason guys work is it's the 

harder way of doing something easy. One of those things; no sense 

to it. 



All right. Now, let's say this other universe, it's a complete 

universe except maybe it didn't have any green in it. That was 

its sole lacking factor. 



All right. Let's take another preclear, and we'll find out that 

his basic universe didn't have any pain in it. He never saw any 

necessity to put any pain in it because he didn't have any force 

in it. There was no force in this universe, but there was motion. 

But there wasn't any force. But one obtained motion simply by 

changing forms. And he didn't see any reason to have any 

substance to the forms. And if he had no reason to have any 

substance to the forms, he had no reason to have any force, so 

there was naturally no pain. 



And he depended, let us say, upon the people he peopled his 

universe with, if he peopled them at all -- that's a specialized 

idea, you see -- if he peopled this universe with a lot of 

people, why, he probably kept them interested in life simply with 

a lot of high-band ideas. Didn't have anything to do with pain. 



He'd set down a moral code and he'd say... that said so-and-so 

and soand-so, and it said, "People that do not dance are 

immoral." That was all there was to it. And then people would 

come around and ask him, "What's immoral?" And he'd say, "Oooh!" 

That was all there was to it. Universe ran like a top. Nothing 

wrong with this universe. 



All right. There's hardly anybody set up a universe with this 

damn thing called sound. Let me tell you something about sound. 

Sound is only necessary because it's a 360-degree perceptic. And 

it's a good warning of danger. So it automatically takes a 

universe with a lot of danger in it to be a universe that has to 

contain sound. Now, you follow that, don't you? It has to be a 

dangerous universe or sound would have no value. 



All right. We take a universe with no sound in it -- very 

interesting; how would you communicate? Well, all right, let's 

communicate with light beams. 



Let's don't just interchange ideas or flows or something of the 

sort; let's have communication in that universe, only let's have 

light beams and people imagine a screen and imagine the light on 

the screen and the light plays back and forth across the screen 

and that communicates ideas. But, gee, do you know what that 

means? That means the people of that universe would have to have 

the power of creating energy! Oh, and to a craven, cowardly, sort 

of a stupid -- not even a craven, cowardly fellow, but just a 

dull, stupid kind of a fellow, like the kind of a fellow that'd 

create the MEST universe -- that would be unthinkable! Because 

that's probably his highest trick. 



Now, you've known some magician who would have some trick. He's a 

parlor magician and he has a deck of cards, and they are very, 

very greasy, old, thumbed cards. And he comes in and he says, 

"Take a card." And you take a card and you look at it carefully 

and he says, "You got it?" And you say, "Yup." Now, he cuts the 

deck very carefully, looks at that card and he says, "Now put it 

back on the pile." You put it back on the pile, and he puts this 

other on top of it. "Now," he says, "I'll tell you what card you 

took." And he finally brings it out and he says, "There!" Now, if 

you were to... you yourself had a little skill in this and... 

Gee. 



Boy, would he be upset if you took that deck of cards and did a 

pass with them and said, "Well, have a card." He takes a card, 

you do a pass, put it back on the pile, and you flip them over 

and say, "There's your card." Or let him shuffle them, or 

anything. He'd say it couldn't be done -- obviously it couldn't 

be done. He'd be a pretty dumb magician, truth be told. He 

probably would not have a capability of appreciating a higher 

level of magic if he thought this trick of one card was so damn 

valuable. 



Well, that's kind of like the MEST universe. The guy who thought 

this one up, thought this one up this wise: "Let's see, I can't 

think up anything but this one thing -- that's force. Force. I've 

got a pretty good idea that there are other universes around, and 

if this force suddenly goes through my time and I keep changing 

the time of the force, it'll pick up all these other universes 

and blow these good ideas into this universe, because every time 

this force connects with any universe, of course it'll explode it 

or something." He'd think of this one trick, this one stupid 

trick that anybody could think of, you see. Force. That's the 

easy one. That's the easiest idea to think of. 



Now, it could be that it's just sort of the common denominator of 

universes when they collided. Maybe everybody had his own 

universe and it all collided. 



But you know where it left you? If you had a universe and you 

were sitting there -- it might have been a universe without 

color; it was usually a universe without sound -- sometimes it 

was. You had various things about this universe. 



And all of a sudden, one day, you were sitting there in your own 

universe and it went kapow! Gee, it'd startle you. And it would 

probably contain sound and electrical explosion. 



And that's the common denominator of fear: force wave with sound. 

If you want to scare anybody, use a force wave with sound and 

you've got it. 



People are very troubled about sound -- much more troubled than 

they are about light. That tells them they couldn't handle sound. 

So maybe they held on to this and they decided they'd study what 

this blast was. And they might be holding on to it ever since. 

They might be trying to protect their own universe from the 

blast. The last fleeting moment of "It was all theirs," and they 

never got the moment of transition. And then they thought the 

blast had changed their universe around; they were in another 

universe. 



You see where that mix-up would come on the track, the kind of a 

mix-up it'd be? Possibly you will find this as one of the most 

aberrative factors in your preclear. I don't know. But we play 

around with home universe in the preclears and so forth. 



The evolution of beingness is at this moment a bit of a mystery. 

When we know more about the evolution of beingness, we will have 

easier cases. 



So, when it all boils down to the history of the track, we could 

be a little more romantic and involved about it and say here was 

a fellow and he had a... he was going around and he had these 

little illusions and he was building up a universe with these 

illusions and he was perfectly happy, cheerful about the thing. 

And one day he decided to show these illusions to another fellow 

he ran into, sort of time and space coincidence. And he ran into 

this other fellow and he said, "What do you know, there's another 

being around here," and he showed him one of these illusions. And 

the other fellow said, "That's nothing. Look at this." And so 

they sat down and had a nice contest. 



They decided who could build the nicest something or other, and 

you had a dichotomy starting to work. 



And they built this and they built that, and finally one of them 

got kind of upset with the other one and invented an illusion 

which blew up the other guy's illusions. Could be, you see. 



There's an illusion band on the track that you almost drive a 

preclear mad processing, because it's "Die yesterday." Fellow 

blows up your illusions, so you say, "You're dead yesterday," and 

he's dead yesterday, and therefore your illusions are right 

there. That'd be kind of scrambled, wouldn't it? Fellow would 

have a tendency to agree on something else. 



All right. However that may be, whatever this illusion is, if the 

MEST universe is an inevitable average of all universes, which it 

might well be, it nevertheless moved in on your preclear's 

universe. And possibly the track starts with a motivator and not 

a DED. Maybe he's still holding on to it. And maybe that's your 

occasional very occluded case. Your occasional very occluded case 

might be holding on to the explosion which blew up his own 

universe. It's a cinch he's holding on to some explosion, because 

he won't let go. 



Now, why don't you run this on such an occluded case just as an 

experiment: "I'll study it. I'll look it over. I'll study it. I 

won't study it; I will study it; I won't study it," and find out 

what you got. Just take a gunshot at it. And my bet is that 

you'll give him some nasty somatics. Because, you see, he had to 

start out with the premise "I didn't know," because here you find 

him not knowing. And you have to have him stuck in some kind of 

an incident where he doesn't know, because he doesn't know. 



Here's this fellow who has done the astonishing trick of 

forgetting how to create time and space. Well, that is silly. 

There is nothing sillier. Would you think... Here were all the 

thetans who could create time and space, and all of a sudden 

here's a thetan that can't create time and space anymore. 



That is something like... just as astonishing as here's a little 

five-yearold boy and he's always liked ice cream, and one day he 

forgets there is such a thing as ice cream. You go up to him and 

you say, "Would you like an ice cream cone, Johnny?" And he says, 

"What's that?" And you say, "Well, just like the ice cream cone I 

gave you yesterday!" You'd say, "Gee, the poor kid! What's the 

matter with this guy?" Well, that's about the suddenness and the 

stupidity level of change of a thetan who can create time and 

space, and all of a sudden all he can do is hang on to a body and 

obey orders and think of something once in a while. 



Pathetic when you come to think about it. But it really isn't 

pathetic at all. What are you doing falling for all this stuff 

about pain? What do you want pain for? It's not even useful. It's 

not useful to you, it's not useful to anybody else. If you want 

to have destruction, why put in pain? Because it's a strange 

thing that pain would be 1.8 -- evidently not 1.81 or 1.82 or 

1.73 on the Tone Scale; it's 1.8. And it is composed of hotness, 

coldness and an electrical current. See, that's the anatomy and 

location of pain, and it is caused by an excess of randomity 

which is at a certain wave level. Pain isn't a helter-skelter 

hit-or-miss, just an impact. Pain is a very, very precise thing. 



It's, oh, fascinating -- a very precise thing. 1.8 on the Tone 

Scale. And it's caused by just so much. Because, you see, if you 

give the guy just a little bit more randomity than that, he 

doesn't feel pain -- he's gone right now. He's just gone. 



And that's another thing, is how does your preclear ever get the 

idea that he can be gone? How can you have a goneness out of a 

unit which can do time and space and energy and matter, and all 

sorts of things? How do you get a goneness? How can he be gone? 

There isn't any place to which he could "went." Or how can he be 

unconscious? He's capable of inventing consciousness. 



What's he doing going unconscious? Well, all the answers to these 

questions are right there in -- possibly in agreement: If you'll 

feel pain, I'll feel pain. 



Only I never agreed with anybody to feel pain. 



Now, he deals with and experiences best illusions of his own. 

That's his highest level of knowingness. Next best, he 

experiences reality, and next best to that experiences delusion. 

That's your gradient scale of knowingness. If they ever added up, 

they would be "know illusion," and then junior to that would be 

"know MEST, and junior to that would be "know delusion." You 

could probably get a lot of ideas out of delusion, but it's 

unimportant. 



Now, all these things are, to some tiny or vague degree here in 

the MEST universe, energy. And they locate and are in time and 

space. But I won't say whose time and space. A delusion is 

somebody pushing his illusion into your time and space -- if you 

want to define it that way. 



All right. Enough discussion on this. We have, then, a plot of a 

track which will pretty well work out on an E-Meter with your 

preclear. And if you want to look over the track and the E-Meter 

and the preclear, you'll find out that he has some kind of a 

history like I just described to you -- home universe, he calls 

it. 



There's separation from theta, you get a bop -- home universe -- 

or you get a little rise and everything was very fine. And then 

all of a sudden, there was the MEST universe -- the home universe 

was gone. And you'll get him thinking, "Oh, my, my. I wonder if I 

-- I wish I... wish I knew what the secret of the MEST universe 

was." There isn't any secret to the MEST universe: that was its 

secret. The secret of the MEST universe is you can create a ms' 

universe any time you want to. But if you held on to and tried to 

grab hold of and stop the encroachment of the MEST universe, not 

just change your wavelength -- if it happened in your time-space 

suddenly enough -- you're here. And if you let it go on by and to 

hell with it and just shifted over in another time span, you've 

got your own universe someplace else and you're not here. The 

essence, the very essence of simplicity. 



Those are two classifications: there's them that's here and them 

that's not here. And them that's not here we're not going to 

worry about, because the funny part of them that's not here, 

they're probably having a perfectly happy time someplace else in 

time, space, and maybe a time-space unit which runs diagonally 

across this room, by the way. I mean, you see, it has no bearing 

-- time relationships, space relationships. 



There is no space or time beyond the space or time necessary to 

hold the energy which you create. But if you have the ener ----. 

You get the idea. 



What's so baffling about it, and the only thing that's really 

baffling about it, is you can create the whole kit and caboodle 

out of your thin... out of thin nothing. You can create the whole 

thing -- there you are, there is no secret. That would be the 

hardest thing that you could ever convince anybody, but that's a 

typical MEST universe fact. 



There's no secret. What's the secret of the MEST universe? That 

there's no secret, of course! That would be right there in the 

groove with the ms' universe, that would be the MEST universe's 

best trick. It makes the obvious and hides it, because it's a 

crude, relatively unworkable, solid, rather onerous sort of a 

dopehead's dream, who wasn't too bright. 



And if it's the inevitable average, brother, I don't think much 

of some of the other universes that collided to make this one. 

Because it's dopey, this one. It's not a bright universe. 



Its total value-evaluation is force. It's all down on the force 

band. And that's silly! Because something that's on the force 

band won't work! The one thing that won't work is force! Under no 

circumstances has force ever worked! An idea any day of the week 

can lick the pants off of force. 



All these great, flaming suns, all these huge, inimitable 

expanses, all these tremendously, tremendously cold and 

inhospitable spaces, all these dead planets and dead stars, could 

be reduced to a pile of utter nothingness of rubble by an idea. 



You don't believe it? Well, you don't believe it. And the only 

thing I can ask you to do is make a clinical experiment on it. 

Try it. Try it in a small, little sphere -- a little sphere of 

action. Take somebody you know who believes in tremendous force 

and think of the insignificant idea which would defeat him 

utterly. 



You actually have to be able and willing to handle force. But how 

do you handle force? With force? No! You can't handle force with 

force because that gives you ridges and more force. You see how 

that is? You can't handle force with force. It isn't that force 

begets force, or he who dies by the sword lives by the Bible, or 

anything. I mean, whatever it is... I'm not scrambling that up on 

purpose, really. That was just a slip of the Testament! Here's... 

And, by the way, it is, to a large extent, a book of force, which 

is where it falls down. And the only time religion has ever 

fallen down was when it believed it had a god of force. A god of 

force can always be licked. 



You can take the mightiest cyclotrons in the world that exist 

today, and if you just get the proper idea they will become dust. 

Force has to be handled, maybe, by force, but the actual fact is 

that an idea alone can vanquish force. 



If you just had .if you had a command and control over space and 

time the way you should have, you could simply pshew! onto 

another time track any force that ever came near you. 



Now, let's put this very practically -- very practically: The cat 

Tom is eating the little mouse... about to eat the little mouse 

Jerry in the comic cartoon. And Tom is sitting there and he's 

about to stuff Jerry into his mouth when all of a sudden -- Jerry 

is sitting on his hand -- and Jerry looks in this palm and then, 

and he won't let Tom see what's in his hand. The big, stupid cat 

says, "What you got?" And Jerry says, "Pshew!" and is gone. 



Yeah, what you got? It doesn't take any idea at all... The only 

reason why you ever have trouble -- if you ever do have trouble -

- defeating force is because you just don't think of the idea, 

and usually because you overreach with your idea. You haven't any 

concept of how simple the idea has to be! You want to get 

complicated because you know it's lots of force, so you think you 

want to have lots of idea. 



This is not order of magnitude; they don't follow the same order 

of magnitude. Actually, they go quite in reverse. They go quite 

in reverse: is the more force there is, the less idea it takes to 

handle that force. Because an idea is awful powerful. And you can 

get an idea so powerful that it'll just shoot above, around and 

over and through this mass and this force, and it just never hits 

it. 



So remember that in processing a preclear. Your idea can be way, 

way, way too good to defeat this thing which is practically... 

which is nothing to handle this force. All you are trying to get 

him to do is handle force, create and destroy force, which 

includes create and destroy matter, energy, space and time. 



Well, now, if you try to use these big, complex ideas, and you 

erect these treadmills, and then you have to have the weathercock 

so the weather is in the northwest section, and then you've got 

to have this and you've got to have that, and you do this and you 

do that, and something or other, and then you make long lists of 

this, and then you have him running around the living room, and 

then we'll put up a wire cage around him while he's processing so 

none of his force escapes or something, so no other force can hit 

him and... 



Thha. All you had to say with him is just, "Step a foot back of 

your head." That was all the idea it took. 



All of a sudden he gets a new idea. You want to know what 

happens? He doesn't change in location in time and space. He just 

gets a new idea and he's the idea! He has that capability. You're 

not transferring a thing. And that's the first mistake you can 

make, is thinking that you are transferring and handling a thing. 

You're not. It's not an object made out of force and matter. 



You're handling something which is so much more powerful than the 

atom bomb and so much more changeable than a woman's mind that 

there's just no comparison. You're handling this thing of 

terrific capability and it handles so easy. And all you're asking 

it to do is to do the easiest thing there is to do -- that's 

handle force. 



Now, if you don't believe force is easy to handle, you say... 

Think of it this way: You've got to space the force in terms of 

time. If you try to handle a force in too short a space of time 

by a force, it'll really finish you. 



Here's a guy with a rifle. All right. He walks up, he's going to 

shoot you with a rifle. Well, you've waited until he's walked up 

to you. And what are you doing with a body, anyhow? Well, the 

thing to do as he walks up to you with a rifle -- all you have to 

do is whisper in his ear, "The breech will explode." He won't 

pull the trigger. He gets the sudden idea the breech is going to 

explode. 



What are you doing with a body, anyhow? You get a body, you see, 

and you have a good time with this body, and you say, "Well, it 

takes a body to handle force." Yes, it takes a body to stop 

force. That's perfectly true, and it's a lousy idea. It's a 

terrible idea, actually. Why aren't you in the kind of a state 

that all you have to do is mock up a body which everybody can see 

and know is there? That's all. 



And somebody comes up with force and they say, "We're going to 

destroy your body!" That's shorthand for "We're going to arrest 

you," or "We're going to hit you," or "We're going to use force 

on you," "We're going to take time and space away from you; going 

to impose time and space on you," something of the sort like 

this. 



And they reach out and they say, "Come along with..." There's 

nothing there. 



You can stand there and say, "What's the matter wit' ya, bud?" 

Because that's really the first and only mistake you ever made on 

the time track is you tried to stop force with force. And the 

second you tried to stop force with force, it left you in a 

condition of being handled by force from there on. And right now 

you think it takes force to handle force. There isn't any reason 

why you couldn't wish that up in the air instead of having to 

toss it up in the air. Just wish it up in the air and have it 

hang there. There isn't any reason why you can't do this. 



But don't tell me that you're going to do this while you're still 

in a body, you still have to have a body, you still have to have 

for yourself this rare and fantastic privilege of being... Well, 

they permitted you to feed a body and work a body and earn a 

living for the body, and so on, on the theory' that you have to 

have a body. 



All right. Let's take the theory "You have to have a body," and 

what comes out of it instantly? "All right. I'll have a body." It 

doesn't have to be a force body, though. 



Your thirst for making things automatic, of setting up ridges 

that would operate ridges so you wouldn't have to concentrate on 

them at all or give them new ideas all the time, brought you into 

a condition of a reliance upon the body. 



You say, "The body can handle force. I can't handle force." 

That's the same statement. When you say, "Joe will always dig the 

ditch and Bill will always fill out the forms," you're saying at 

the same time, whether you realize it or not, "I need to have the 

ditch dug by a force body, and the force body which I'll use to 

do this is Joe. And the forms that'll be filled out will be done 

by... they have to be filled out by a force body." Why don't you 

just dream up the form, huh? You dream up a filled-up form. 

Somebody asks you to make out a form. What the hell would you be 

doing making out forms if you didn't have a body? It would just 

be a body that'd -- you know, ration books, petrol books, this 

book, that book; you wouldn't need those. 



All right. Let's take money: Now, there isn't any reason why you 

can't think up a ten-pound note and hand it to the fellow and 

have it go on into circulation for the next ten years. There's no 

reason why you can't do this. 



What do you want a money for, huh? You say, "It's nice to have." 

That means ms' is nice to have. Great! You've confessed right at 

that moment you can't invent MEST. You've said, "I can't create 

MEST. I have to acquire it or steal it. I have to go through this 

legal tender proposition in order to acquire some other MEST 

somebody else has got." Interesting, isn't it? 



When you get into the field of force, we get into the field of 

complete inability -- just utter, degrading inability. And that's 

something that you've got to cure with your preclear. What's all 

this inability? 



I had a fellow one time, invented the term abstricts. I was 

talking to him for three days, a year or two ago, about "The only 

thing that you have ever been granted is an inhibition. The only 

present which has ever been made to you is an inhibition -- the 

ability not to do something. That's the only thing anybody ever 

gave you, is the ability not to do. Nobody ever gave you the 

ability to do." The ability not to do. Because notice, most of 

the time when somebody gives you the ability to do, they have to 

tell you, you can't do it first; then they proceed to teach you. 



All right. The ability not to do becomes very interesting. And he 

formed it up and he began to listen to people when they talked. 

And they said, "You can't do this and you can't do that." Nearly 

everything they said to him out in this human society was "You 

can't do it. You mustn't do it. There is a barrier there. There's 

a barrier here." And he'd listen to this. 



And that's a good drill for you, by the way. Open up your ears 

for the next day or so and just listen to Homo sapiens talking, 

and you'll find out that he's telling you "There's a barrier in 

time. There's a barrier in space. 



You can't move here. You can't move there. You can't do this. You 

can't do that." He's a walking mass of "can't," because that's 

all he was ever given was "can't." Because nobody could give him 

"can." He could! He could already, you see? Horrible joke, isn't 

it? 



Well, this young fellow invented the word abstrict, and that 

meant "restrictions..." -- oh, "the abstraction of restriction." 

An abstraction of restriction was a method of creating space and 

time. And you're right, you see? 



I mean, that's very correct. And if you create space and time you 

have this condition. All right. Abstricts. 



You listen to Homo sapiens the next day or so. He's saying, "You 

can't do this, and I can't do that, and you can't do this, and we 

can't do that, and this is impossible, and that is unobtainable, 

and this cannot be reached," and that's all he talks about. If he 

ever says "can," he says, "Well, we can do it if we are allowed." 

He always adds in that he has to be permitted. This fellow got 

this concept, by the way... And if you don't think this is a 

powerful concept, listen to what happened to him. 



He was in love with a girl. He went over, he taught her the 

principle. 



She'd not been happy with her husband and she had a little baby. 

He went over and taught this to this girl, and they turned around 

and they told the husband to go fly a kite. And they went up the 

pole, so to speak, both of them. 



And you say, "Well, nothing good could have come of this. Nothing 

good could have come of it." But he promptly got a job for about 

twelve hundred dollars a month as a mathematician. He'd never 

quite been able to make the grade before. And he got a job with 

one of the big aviation companies because he solved two of the 

most imponderable imponderables in the field of aviation, one 

after the other, and took it down one morning and threw it on the 

desk of the works manager and said, "There is a solution to this, 

there is a solution to that. And I want a job because I keep 

turning things out like this all the time." And they gave him a 

job. And he got the kind of a job so he never has to report to 

work. 



That's an abstrict. And it is very powerful. 



If you want to send your preclear up the pole fast, you just 

convince him that there is no limit and there is no barrier. Now, 

he's liable not... You see, if you've got the knowledge of what 

limits and barriers there have been and then you get this other 

concept, you're perfectly safe. You just move on out of it. But 

if you get this concept that there are no barriers, and you all 

of a sudden vaguely understand the concept or something clicks on 

the subject and you have no understanding of it, there's no 

track, you don't know the composition of the MEST universe or an 

illusion or anything else, you just simply soar -- boom! And then 

six months later, people are picking up the pieces. 



Fascinating the limitations, limitations. 



For instance, Kipling's great poem "If" tells you what to do, and 

every line of it is an inhibition. It infers that this isn't 

natural. It infers that this is just horrendous, this is 

magniloquent. If you were this way that would be terrific, and 

usually you can't quite obtain that, but there it is and this is 

the big goal. And he makes this big hurrah, hurrah, crunch! I 

like his poetry a lot, but he does this hurrah on this "If." And 

I notice that the lousiest poem he ever did, really, was "If" 

because it says, "Look, look-a-here, if you could do all these 

things, if you could do all these things," and so on, and he 

paints this little tiny molehill, see? Here's this little tiny 

molehill, and he says, "Boy, if you could climb that, you'd 

really be a man, my son." And the guy said, "God, I must be low. 

Gee, look where I must be, if to climb this molehill makes me up 

high." You get the idea? That's the sort of backwards computation 

you run into consistently. 



Now, all of these things -- all of these things are actually the 

gilt around Standard Operating Procedure. What's an engram? Boom 

with force. What's it do? It makes the guy meet it with force. 

How do you solve it? You stop the guy from meeting it with force. 

It's awful simple, isn't it? 



And force is energy, space and time. So there are eighty ways you 

could go about solving it. And one of the ways you can go about 

solving it is just keep removing him from him as a body until 

he's outside of his own force zone. And of course he'll get well 

in an awful hurry. All you have to do is get him outside of his 

own force zone and then he can sit there and figure this out. 

Because what chance has he got to figure it out if he keeps 

getting hit by forces all around him and through him and in him 

and everything else? He doesn't have much of a chance. 



Now, if he'd just go sit quietly on a pink cloud someplace -- 

invent a pink cloud in some other time strata and sit quietly on 

it for a little while -- he would be able to dope out from what 

he knows here the rest of it. He'd be able to rehabilitate his 

ability to do this and his ability to do that, and so forth. 



That would be a very ideal way to go about it: just have a very 

full education on it, and then get booted out and put into fairly 

good shape somehow or other, and then dream yourself up a pink 

cloud and sit on it. And that would be -- let the MEST universe 

go to hell for a little while. And you'd turn up with the answers 

that you needed to make yourself able to operate in the ms' 

universe. 



Now, you wonder why anybody would operate in the MEST universe. 

Well, I'll tell you why they'll operate in the MEST universe: 

it's randomity. You read in the Axioms and you find randomity. 

That's right. The MEST universe is a mighty big target. If you 

could eat up the ms' universe, depopulate it and square it 

around, you'd always be able to sit down, take the facsimile of 

having done something to the MEST universe and give it to 

somebody you invented to play football with. It's randomity, 

action. 



Unfortunate -- most people don't think there's enough value in 

randomity to do anything for the sake of randomity, but they're 

low Tone Scale. You get... Almost anybody will do something for 

the sake of randomity when you get them up the Tone Scale a 

little bit. It should have a project and a goal and an end and 

square it around. 



So you just take off a nice big project someplace or other and 

say, "I think I will..." It doesn't matter what you say. You can 

get interested in it and everything else. You don't have to say, 

"I think I will destroy the MEST universe." You could also say, 

"I think I will build this big universe that has nothing but 

force in it and see how well it gets along, and then one day I'll 

cashier the whole works. And I think I'll take off two months of 

my spacetime for the project. And let's see, how long is two 

months of my space-time? 



Well, that will be a hundred billion years of the universe time 

which I'm going to create." It's all satisfactory. That's 

perfectly satisfactory reasoning. And go ahead and do it. 



Or you could say right here on Earth, "I think I'll clean up all 

the vinegar works in England. The trouble with vinegar works is 

they need cleaning up." And that's just what you do. Then you 

decide you'll get a little society together and you clean up 

vinegar works. 



The whole trouble is that when people do this they don't realize 

that they are dealing with a very elementary principle: that is, 

it's just randomity. 



They want action, they want motion, so they have to have a stage 

and scene for motion. Anything serves as motion, just anything. 

You could postulate some kind of a motion that is going forward 

and create the motion, and then do something about it. 



And how often do you find somebody doing something about that? 

You'll find people running all over the place, particularly in 

politics, inventing the most astonishing and horrible atrocities, 

just so they can do something about them. And I wouldn't put it 

past some of these people in politics to do these astonishing and 

horrible atrocities and get them finished up just so they can go 

in and do something about it. 



As a matter of fact, Japan used to do that. The Japanese used to 

create the incident so they could create the war. Did it 

constantly. They would go out -- they'd send a couple of secret-

service boys out and have a couple of their own troops shot and 

then have the government where the troops were, apologizing. And 

if the government didn't apologize, then they could go in with 

troops. But they'd really kill the troops -- anything to create 

randomity. 



Now, Standard Operating Procedure for Theta Clearing, here, is 

selfexplanatory. The only things that I would call your attention 

to with regard to it is that if you ask the preclear to "be" 

rather than "move," you probably will get further. That just 

skidded by in the dictation of this. And it's something that 

should be punched up. If you have a copy there you're going to 

use, make a notation on it. Should be "Ask the preclear to be a 

foot back of his head." And then, "If he is..." But the only 

reason why you've got directional areas there -- the only reason 

you've got directions -- is just so that he gets something to be 

in relation toward. He wants to be in relationship to something 

like dimension and time. 



Now, when it comes to this negative step, it doesn't have the 

workability which it might have, but will occasionally work. 



When you speak of orientation, by the time you've got to Step 

III, it is "move," because you've got somebody so bogged down by 

force he will use force, and it'd be a very high level to have 

him use force in time and space. That wouldn't be true of a Step 

I, so we have a further differentiation on a Step I. 



Let's look over here at Step IV, Ridge Running. I'll make you a 

bet: I don't believe any of you have used Ridge Running worth a 

nickel. Why not? 



I'll bet you two or three of the cases that you're having trouble 

with that I have heard of vaguely, here and there, will resolve 

by Ridge Running. You haven't used it. 



Female voice: I said it yesterday. I would like to meet the IV 

because I've never met one. 



Oh, have you met a V? 



Female voice: Yes. 



Have you processed a V? 



Female voice: Yes. 



And he won't do a IV. 



Female voice: Well, he does a I now. 



Well, what'd you do, hit V and then go DED-DEDEX and then boom? 



Female voice: Tried IV. Did I, II, III, IV in a normal manner 

before I arrived at V. 



And he didn't do IV? 



Female voice: And he didn't do IV. 



You haven't met a IV, huh? Well, I've met two or three IVs that I 

don't think would have solved easily on anything else. These guys 

had to know something was happening before it could even vaguely 

happen. 



Now, here we have orientation in the theta universe... pardon me, 

in the ad.sr universe. Shorthanding what I'm saying here -- 

orientation in the theta universe. And I'd like to add to this, 

why don't you orient him in his own universe, huh? How about 

thinking about that? That occur to you? 



Female voice: No. 



All the way down the line when it says "orientation," remember 

that it can mean "orient him in the ms' universe" or "orient him 

in his own universe." And they'd be two different processes. 

You'd have him invent some time and then some space and then 

orient himself in it. And the possibility is that this would be a 

superior technique to orienting him in the MEST universe. I 

haven't tried it. I just look it over and I say, "Well, there's a 

technique sitting there -- orient him in his own universe." You 

might have him going right back to his own universe. Because, you 

see, his universe isn't located in space in relationship to MEST 

space; it's just elsewhere in that it is not here. Because here 

means this space, it does not mean a time difference. 



All right. You might do a lot by just asking a fellow to describe 

to you what kind of a universe he had up to the time it blew up, 

or whether it blew up. What happened to it? You might say, "What 

kind of a universe was it?" And just keep... He keeps describing 

what kind of a universe it was, and, "Orient yourself this way" 

and, "Orient yourself that way in it," and, "Describe it some 

more," and that might be the fastest technique which we have. 



As I say, I haven't tested it. 



You're liable to find all sorts of weird things. You're liable to 

find some preclear of yours that can't get color, had never heard 

of color till he hit the MEST universe, and he hasn't seen it 

since. I mean, it's just a concept that he never got as his own 

idea. It wasn't part of his home universe or anything like it. 

And you might recover to him all of his skills just by doing 

that. Interesting thought. 



Now, with regard to the general material which is here, we have 

an organization, really, which you have been using for some 

little time. You might give me a comment. You might give me a 

comment. Have you found this working with your preclears? 



Audience: Yes. Yes. It does work. 



Yes, it's working. 



Male voice: It does, yes. 



Where have you found it falling down? Has it fallen down 

anyplace? 



Male voice: Yes, the only place I find that it's got any, any 

falling-down is in the fact that the preclears themselves, in 

lack of confidence in what you're doing with them. 



Got a lack of confidence in you? 



Male voice: A lack of confidence in the particular thing that is 

being done. 



Female voice: They are very MEST bound, you know? "Theta Clearing 

-what's it mean?" Well, you know. "Am I liable to be able to have 

nine thousand pounds a year and a large-sized car and two wives 

if I want to, as a Theta Clears Wouldn't it be much better to be 

a MEST Clear?" That sort of... 



Male voice: You use mock-up, you see, and the person says, "Hm, 

that's fine. But I'm not sure that this will make me well! Are 

you sure?" Okay, I have an answer for that. Audit outside of your 

body. Now, that's the best remedy I know for that, offhand, is 

audit outside of your body and make the sound and auditing 

commands emanate from out of your body, and don't have a body at 

all while you're auditing. Oh, I think you'd get results. 



Male voice: The auditor has to do that, now? 



Well, I'm... You asked me; you've made the statement. That's 

very, very fatal, by the way, to pose me a problem. I most always 

have a solution, because there aren't very many serious problems 

in the MEST universe. It's kind of a silly universe. It's a 

universe everybody's been working so hard to solve because it 

didn't have anything to solve in it. 



All right. What business have you got sitting there in a body 

auditing anybody anyhow? Let's be tough about this. Come on, 

what's the idea? What's the idea? 



Female voice: Even if you don't, the preclear still identifies 

you with your body. 



Oh, it's not important. This is not important. This is not 

important. If you had... your sound of your voice was rolling out 

a thing, and he identified you... I tell you, once upon a time we 

did do this: We made a picture of an angel and made it talk to a 

psychotic. The psychotic was so upset about people that I said, 

"Well, let's audit him without a person!" How simple. We did. He 

got well. He got well very fast. 



So this is a big thought, you see. I mean, you could say, "Now, 

you'd really be much better off without a body. Look at me." The 

fellow says, "Where?" And you say, "Well, right here." And put a 

doll there or something, you see? And make the doll's jaw move or 

something, so he feels like the talk is coming from there. 



And you say, "Now, pick up the doll and see if there are any 

wires connected to it. Now look in the back of the doll and see 

if there's any radio connections with it. That's right. Now put 

me back down on the desk here. 



That's right. Put me down in the little doll's chair. That's 

fine. That's fine. 



All right. Now how about you being a foot back of your head?" Of 

course, you could say at the same time, and just as fast as that, 

"Every night before you go to bed, hereafter, you will say your 

prayers and you will remember -- remember to say your prayers to 

Bill Spinbin, HDA, and remember that he is God." You'd do that 

too. And you... if you went at this wide a disagreement with the 

ms' universe, that's obviously what you are, that's all. 



Well, I've given you a solution to overcome this objection. I 

don't see why you don't find it a satisfactory solution. Here I'm 

sitting here talking to you without a body. 



[Please note: This lecture ends abruptly as did the original 

master recording.]