METHODS OF RESEARCH-METHODS OF RESEARCH 

THE THETAN AS AN ENERGY UNIT 

A lecture given 6 November 5952 

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.]