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FREEZONE BIBLE ASSOCIATION TECH POST

THE ROUTE TO INFINITY TAPES (TECH 80 LECTURES) 1/13

Our purpose is to promote religious freedom and the Scientology
Religion by spreading the Scientology Tech across the internet.

The Cof$ abusively suppresses the practice and use of
Scientology Tech by FreeZone Scientologists.  It misuses the
copyright laws as part of its suppression of religious freedom.

The writings of LRH form our Old Testament just as the writings
of Judiasm form the Old Testament of Christianity.

We might not be good and obedient Scientologists according
to the definitions of the Cof$ whom we are in protest against.

But the Christians are not good and obedient Jews and yet
are allowed to have their old testament regardless of any
Jewish opinion.

We ask for the same rights, namely to practice our religion
as we see fit and to have access to our holy scriptures
without fear of the Cof$ copyright terrorists.

We ask for others to help in our fight.  Even if you do
not believe in Scientology or the Scientology Tech, we hope
that you do believe in religious freedom and will choose
to aid us for that reason.

Thank You,

The FZ Bible Association

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1/13   19 MAY 52 Beingness
2/13   19 MAY 52 Outline of Technique 80 (1)
3/13   19 MAY 52 Outline of Technique 80 (2)
4/13   19 MAY 52 Wavelengths of ARC (1)
5/13   19 MAY 52 Wavelengths of ARC (2)
6/13   20 MAY 52 Decision (1)
7/13   20 MAY 52 Decision (2)
8/13   20 MAY 52 Decision: Cause and Effect
9/13   21 MAY 52 Therapy Section of 80: Part I (1)
10/13  21 MAY 52 Therapy Section of 80: Part I (2)
11/13  21 MAY 52 Therapy Section of 80: Part II (1)
12/13  21 MAY 52 Therapy Section of 80: Part II (2) & Appendix
13/13  About the Author, Glossary, Bibliography

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THE ROUTE TO INFINITY

THE TECH 80 LECTURES OF 1952

(in this case we have included everything provided by the
CofS along with the transcripts including the editor's
introduction, glossary, bibliography, etc. - FZ.B.A.)


TO THE READER:

Scientology religious philosophy contains pastoral
counseling procedures intended to assist an individual to
gain greater knowledge of self. The mission of the Church
of Scientology is a simple one: to help the individual
achieve greater self-confidence and personal integrity,
thereby enabling him to really trust and respect himself
and his fellow man. The attainment of the benefits and
goals of Scientology philosophy requires each individual's
dedicated participation, as only through his own efforts
can he achieve these.

This publication is based on the religious literature and
works of the Scientology Founder, L. Ron Hubbard. It is
presented to the reader as part of the record of his
personal research into life, and the application of same by
others, and should be construed only as a written report of
such research and not as a statement of claims made by the
Church or the Founder.

Scientology philosophy and its forerunner, Dianetics
technology, as practiced by the Church, address only the
"Thetan" (Spirit). Although the Church, as are all
churches, is free to engage in spiritual healing, it does
not, as its primary goal is increased spiritual awareness
for all. For this reason, the Church does not wish to
accept individuals who desire treatment of physical or
mental illness but prefers to refer these to qualified
specialists of other organizations who deal in these
matters.

The Hubbard Electrometer is a religious artifact used in
the Church confessional. It in itself does nothing, and is
used by ministers only, to assist parishioners in locating
areas of spiritual distress or travail.

We hope the study of these lectures is only the first stage
of a personal voyage of discovery into this new and vital
world religion.
                              
Church of Scientology International


THE ROUTE TO INFINITY

Transcripts and Glossary


Technique 80 Lectures by

L. RON HUBBARD

CONTENTS

Introduction............................. xi (line 158)

19 MAY 52 Beingness......................  1 (line 213)

19 MAY 52 Outline of Technique 80........  9 (line 723)

19 MAY 52 Wavelengths of ARC............. 23 (line 1717)

20 MAY 52 Decision....................... 35 (line 2632)

20 MAY 52 Decision: Cause and Effect..... 49 (line 3623)

21 MAY 52 Therapy Section of 80: Part I . 59 (line 4263)

21 MAY 52 Therapy Section of 80: Part II  73 (line 5394)

Appendix ................................ 87 (line 6500)

About the Author ....................... 103 (line 6734)

Glossary ............................... 107 (line 6870)

Bibliography ........................... 110 (line 7042)

   (ends at line 7395)

Important Note:

In studying these lectures, be very certain you never go
past a word you do not fully understand.The only reason a
person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to
learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was
not understood.The confusion or inability to grasp or learn
comes AFTER a word that the person did not have defined and
understood. Have you ever had the experience of coming to
the end of a page and realizing you didn't know what you
had read? Well, somewhere earlier on that page you went
past a word that you had no definition for or an incorrect
definition for. Here's an example. "It was found that when
the crepuscule arrived the children were quieter and when
it was not present, they were much livelier." You see what
happens. You think you don't understand the whole idea, but
the inability to understand came entirely from the one word
you could not define, crepuscule, which means twilight or
darkness. It may not only be the new and unusual words that
you will have to look up. Some commonly used words can
often be misdefined and so cause confusion. This datum
about not going past an undefined word is the most
important fact in the whole subject of study. Every subject
you have taken up and abandoned had its words which you
failed to get defined. Therefore, in studying these
lectures be very, very certain you never go past a word you
do not fully understand. If the material becomes confusing
or you can't seem to grasp it, there will be a word just
earlier that you have not understood. Don't go any further,
but go back to BEFORE you got into trouble, find the
misunderstood word and get it defined.


Definitions

Words with hard-to-find definitions have been defined in
the glossary included in this publication. Words sometimes
have several meanings. The definitions in this glossary
only give the meaning that the word has as it is used in
context. This glossary is not meant as a substitute for a
dictionary. The Dianetics and Scientology Technical
Dictionary and the Modern Management Technology Defined
dictionary are both invaluable tools for the student. They
are available from your nearest Scientology church or
mission, or direct from the publisher.

Student Use of Transcripts

The tape transcripts in this publication serve a vital
purpose for students. With a written text of the tape in
hand, students can follow the tape rapidly and spot their
misunderstoods. Such transcripts do not supplant the tapes,
as how the words were said and how preclears in auditing
demonstrations actually responded are quite important.

L. Ron Hubbard

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Introduction

What are the capabilities of a theta being? Just how
powerful is a being who cannot die, who natively is not
even a part of the physical universe? What forces, in the
span of the whole track, could be responsible for bringing
that vital being down to such a state that he would think
he was a body?

These questions were answered by L. Ron Hubbard.

In May 1952, having just recently moved to Phoenix from
Wichita, Kansas, Ron began establishing a strong position.
He was building the first Scientology community on a plot
of land just east of Phoenix on the edge of the desert.
This community would be the center of Scientology
activities for many years. He was looking to the future and
building the nucleus of what would soon become the Hubbard
Association of Scientologists, the first international
organization.

In early May, Ron invited auditors to Phoenix for a special
course on the first of a pair of techniques he was
finalizing research on.

Technique 80 was released in a three-day series of lectures
beginning on 19 May 1952. Ron spoke during these lectures
of his whole-track research, newly discovered principles
and the means for freeing a thetan.

In three open-air lectures, given two hours nightly in the
orange groves on the land east of Phoenix, he taught the
attending auditors the theory and practice of a highly
advanced procedure for freeing a being from his time track
- Technique 80.

The material Ron covered in these lectures is designed to
remove the barriers a person has put up, keeping himself
from arriving at sane, prosurvival decisions. The first
evening's lectures, "Beingness," "Outline of Technique 80"
and "Wavelengths of ARC," form the basis of an article well
known to Scientologists, "Dynamics and the Tone Scale."
This article, first published in 1952 as a summary of the
lectures in Professional Course Booklet 29, was reissued as
an HCO Policy letter on 23 October 1981.

In these lectures, Ron bridges the gap between the ideal
and the current scene, including exact data to help you
create your future the way you want it. Prepare yourself
for an expansion of causative beingness across all of your
dynamics. Technique 80 is your route to infinity.


=====================

BEINGNESS

A lecture given on 19 May 1952

(original title "ARC Triangle In Relation To Infinity,
Beingness Along The Dynamics", T80-1A.  This is much 
shorter than the others in the series.  It might simply
be a shorter lecture or there might be omitted material.
If anyone has the original reels, they should check this 
against them)

I would like very much tonight to tell you about some
various techniques, and I am sorry that I am not going to
be able to tell you about the technique in which I am sure
most of you are most interested; that's 88.

The reason I'm not going to tell you about 88 is 88
requires a lot longer buildup than three days. It actually
is much simpler. It's a brand-new method of running, but it
requires an enormous amount of preparatory survey -
reorientation.

So instead of that, as preparatory to 88, I'm giving you a
technique - Technique 80 - which, by the way, you will be
able to use on the general public.

You can't use Technique 88 very much on people. You try to
persuade them as to what you're doing, and one of them is
liable to say to you that you have to be a mathematician in
order to run it. This isn't true. It just happens to be a
little bit out of their common run of understanding of the
MEST universe.

And furthermore, when you talk about Technique 88 it makes
people feel just a little bit strange, and they're afraid
to stamp on something or something like that, because
they're afraid their foot will go through. It makes the
whole universe look sort of like a thin piece of Czech
glass and makes you feel like a very small child playing
with it.

Because the truth of the matter is, actually, with 88,
theoretically - just theoretically, fortunately - you could
go far enough with Technique 88 not to just have the
preclear go poof! but to have the room go poof! And this is
hard on rooms and so on.

I don't think anybody actually will apply 88 to the point
where this solar system will go poof! like that and so
forth, because I'm asking everybody a favor that I run on
88. I say, "Now you have to do me one favor." And, of
course, when they all get through-they don't know this yet;
I won't tell them what the favor is - it's leave the solar
system! Well, they're committed to this one favor, so
you're safe. Anyway. . . Actually, that's not the favor I'm
going to ask them, but...

Now, what I am going to talk to you about is Technique 80,
which is actually preparatory to 88.

Technique 80 can be used very widely, and it is very close
to the ultimate in ARC - affinity, reality and
communication. So in these three lectures I am going to
develop affinity, reality and communication for you as far
as I can so that you can use it and use it very, very well.
And I will give you with that, this technique. This
technique has to do with a progress up the dynamics to a
point where you are, theoretically, in contact at
considerable distance and can be almost anything. And when
I say be almost anything, I mean you could be an icebox or
a Cadillac or anything while you're still being yourself.
Sounds fantastic, doesn't it?

But it's very, very fascinating that you are highly
individualized and you will never be more than yourself,
but your self and your individuality can get up to the high
point of your own recognition not only of a brotherhood
with the whole universe but a sort of a recognition of
yourself as the universe.

This is very dangerous for people if they are low on the
tone scale, to get the idea that they're the whole
universe. I've been around in institutions occasionally and
run into fellows who thought they were God, and other
things. And they weren't well, because they tried to reach
it by the reverse route. And they backed down tone scale to
get there, and the only place a fellow gets when he goes
down tone scale to get there is dead.

Well, in this series I'm going to tell you how to get UP
tone scale to get there and still retain your potentiality
of action.

The most important factors involved in thought or the
material universe are the subdivisions of thought itself.
And these subdivisions are affinity, reality and
communication. There are three parts of thought; there are
three parts of life; there are three parts of living. And
it makes a very interesting triangle. And we don't have a
blackboard here. Do we have a blackboard? So you'll just
have to paint this in the air.

Oh, it's black behind me, so it's very easy, you see, to
just paint this in the air. [See diagram one in the
Appendix.]

Imagine a circle, a circle up here. You talk about a
symbol; this is a timeless symbol. And by the way, although
Dianetics has never existed before on the time track
evidently, this symbol has existed there. And that symbol
must come from practically the beginning of all time. And
this is a circle and inside the circle is a triangle, and
inside the triangle at the top is the figure infinity and
at the bottom is a zero.

You should remark that symbol fairly well. The big circle
could stand for the universe, perfection, completion or the
continuation of time after the end of time. In other words,
time ends and begins at the same point.

Now, here you have the triangle. And at the top of this
triangle we have affinity, over at this corner of the
triangle we have reality and over at this corner of the
triangle we have communication. And then we have the
infinity mark up at the top, and at the bottom of the
triangle we have a zero.

You all remember Shakespeare's quotation "To be or not to
be, that is the question." The infinity is beingness or "to
be." The zero is "not to be." And zero and infinity, so far
as the thought and the universe are concerned, are the same
thing.

Thought is all or thought is nothing. A facsimile or an
independent thought could exist on the head of the pin.

Now, the problem is, here, that a thought can exist on the
head of a pin. Let's say all the thought that went into the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, so far as shape and size is
concerned, as thought is concerned (thought itself, not
words written on a page), you could put it all on the head
of a pin. In other words, it's just symbolizing for you a
zero. Or you could take the thought, just this one small
thought "cat" (you think "cat"), and that thought could be
as big as this universe or all the island galaxies. You
see, it just doesn't matter, then. It's that big or it's
that tiny; all that thought can be that tiny or that little
thought can be that big. These are interchangeable.
 
Now, we talk in Advanced Procedure and Axioms about the
state of beingness, the prime thought - the prime thought.
That prime thought is "to be." And that prime thought is
infinity, because when a person decided to be everything he
could be, he is of course deciding to be infinity. That is
the most he could decide to be. So there he is, clear up,
the top of the tone scale - infinity. That is ultimate
beingness. But what does that mean? That means that he
would be not only himself but could be or would be
everything. That's an ultimate in beingness.

Now, at the bottom you could have a prime thought of
not-beingness. Well, how not-being can a person not-be?
Well, that's zero. And so you have the two decisions, the
two possible decisions in the business of living: infinity
or zero.

Fortunately, most of us exist somewhere on a gradient
scale. That is to say, from 0.0 up we decide on just a
little more and a little more and a little more beingness,
until at last we have decided to be quite a bit - at least
ourselves. And then up we go a little higher and a little
higher along all the dynamics. And when we have gone out on
all the dynamics and have at least developed the capability
of being all the dynamics, we have arrived at ultimate
beingness. But of course, you get to the beingness of
infinity, it could just as well be zero, because when you
are that high on the tone scale, you could simply
re-decide. So it would be one or the other.

Gradient scale of beingness. Now perhaps you understand a
little bit better what is meant, then, by this zero and
infinity. And perhaps you understand a little bit more what
is meant by "to be." This is quite important. Just to say
"to be" is to utter only a verb.                        
  
We are not addicted to uttering undefinables if we can
possibly avoid it. So let us examine what we call the
dynamics in this business of beingness. There are eight
dynamics. Dynamic one, as far as beingness is concerned,
would be to be oneself.

Now, you understand that you have in all existing volumes
before this date the eight dynamics described in terms of
survival. I'll give you that difference in a moment with
what I'm telling you now.

There's the beingness of one, and that's a great deal
different than the survival of one. There's the beingness
of one, of yourself.

And then there's the beingness of the second dynamic, the
beingness in the sphere of creation, children, future, or
(and get this one) illusions. That's the second dynamic.
Illusions comes in there. And Frank Lloyd Wright down here
building a town is just creating an illusion by that
definition, you see? That's what I mean by an illusion.
Constructive line comes on the second dynamic.

Now we take the third, the beingness of a group. Around
here, the people who are here have begun to experience, to
a very large measure, this beingness of a group. A group
becomes its own life, and each one becomes the life of the
group. But anyone could detach himself from the life of the
group and you'd still have a life of the group. Even if all
the members of a group disappeared, there would still be a
record of an existing group. It's very interesting; it's
almost mystic, but it becomes very unmystic when you
experience it. It becomes as solid as this platform.

Now there's the fourth: that is the beingness as a species
- one single species. And I won't say man with this new
definition of the dynamics. I don't mean just man. I mean
the species to which one belongs. Fortunately, many can
expect to get out of the rut of being a Homo sapiens. I say
that brutally, because Homo sapiens today isn't doing too
well. I'd hate to think of a dynamic being devoted wholly
to Homo sapiens as he acts.

Five would be all life.

Six would be the MEST universe - the material universe. But
remember, in each case it's the beingness of it.

And seven is the beingness of all thought, any thought.

And, of course, the eighth dynamic is merely an infinity
turned on its side; eight turned on its side gives you an
infinity. And so you have, there, "beingness of all." And
most creeds and so forth, when they say "beingness of all,"
they codify this and they say God, and then they put God up
in armor or something, put him on a pedestal and reduce him
down to a very finite affair. They're very quick to depart
from that infinity. So let's not confuse a religious symbol
for an infinity of the eighth dynamic, because the infinity
of the eighth dynamic simply means, in our terminology
here, the "beingness of all." It has no other codification.
It doesn't say that all is good, bad or indifferent; it
just says it's all. You say an infinity - infinity of
beingness.

Well, now, there are the eight dynamics.

Now let's take up this factor: Low on the tone scale, at
about 4.0 on the tone scale, we have survival - in its
crude definition we have survival. Now we go up the tone
scale to about 8.0, and we get into the realms of beingness
with identity. And then we go up the tone scale again and
we hit about 32.0, something like that, and we're starting
to get into the beingness along all the dynamics. And
actually, you can plot this tone scale by starting in at
the bottom with one, and as you go up the tone scale, plot
the rest of the dynamics in: one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, and eight is 40. These things will
occur, more or less, in that staggered fashion up the tone
scale. [See diagram two in the Appendix.]

But when we talk about survival normally, we mean survival
of a body, we mean the survival of one lifetime, we mean
the survival of a very finite, specific thing, and we only
mean that it must continue to exist at any cost through a
span of time. Well, that's sort of silly, because you
actually control, command and create time. So as you go up
the tone scale, you're not asking for anything to survive
against a span of time. You want something to be, and to be
does not include time; survival includes time.

Now, you notice as you come down the tone scale, you get
into more and more and more and more time - more and more
and more time till you get down to 0.0. And that's all time
- is in any instant, in death. You take the death of a
body, or apathy, just above that level: An instant of it
can be an eternity. It can be an eternity.

You'll find the engrams that people are dragging along the
track with them are engrams which have that eternal factor
of apathy in them. Here is one instant of not-beingness so
low that that not-beingness becomes, in itself, a survival
along all time. A person can get an apathy engram a
trillion years ago and still have that moment in existence
today. I'm talking now about the span of all lives. It's
very simple to see.

But up here at the top of the tone scale you have the
reverse. You can put a complete universe or the span of all
lives into an instant at the top. What you're doing is
reversing it, so that as you go up the tone scale you
become more and more and more capable of action per given
instant.

Of how much action are you capable in one second? Well, at
the bottom, you're capable in that one second of complete
motionlessness, and at the top, you could live a whole
lifetime, theoretically, both sides. In other words, you go
up the tone scale, you get more and more and more and more
time, actually, because you get up the line to where you
are time and then you're controlling time and then you
create time.

Now, if you see somebody who is flying around like mad, and
he just seems to get all sorts of things done, he never
complains about the fact that he hasn't any time; sometimes
he looks around rather puzzled and wonders why somebody
else isn't moving as fast as he is. And he just keeps
getting these things done - brrrrrr! And comes four o'clock
in the afternoon and he figures he's loafed all day.

And there's somebody else: They get up and they walk around
and they work real hard, and they got one envelope
addressed at supper time! And yet they think they've been
moving all that time. They think they have; they have a
concept of it.

Now, just a little bit higher than that, the person senses
his inability to control time or realizes time is whipping
him, and so he starts in with this kind of thing: "But I
have no time to do anything." And he'll sit around for
hours and tell you how he hasn't any time to do anything.
"Why, I couldn't even start it - I mean, I wouldn't have
any time to do it if I did start it." And so on, "There's
no use to do it anyway, because - I mean, you couldn't
hardly get it finished; there's just no time." That's at
1.5, by the way. 1.5s are wonderful at this. They will
explain to you for hours how they haven't five minutes.
Usually they haven't got five minutes to themselves, they
have to do so much for others. (You never notice them doing
this, but they tell you.)

So anyway, as you go on up the scale, you have more and
more time. Now, isn't that peculiar? It simply means that
at the bottom of the scale your capability of handling MEST
has dropped to the point where all that happens in your
interaction is that MEST handles you.

And if you ever see somebody laid out on a bier (b-i-e-r) -
if you ever see anybody laid out that way - you will know
instantly that they have inherited all of the universe
wrong way to. That is to say, they are now in possession of
the whole thing - dead. Actually, they have completed what
could be called a cycle, but it'd be a mistake to do so,
because what's really happened is the whole universe
suddenly inherited them.

They are owned now. How much owning can there be? Well, the
ownest owningness that you can do, as far as owning is
concerned and so forth, would be at that level of 0.0.
That's what makes MEST so attractive; MEST is dead. Even
though it has joints in it and moves and wheels turn and
belts spin and so forth, that thing is still a dead thing.
You know that very well.

Female voice: MEST?

Yeah. M-E-S-T.

Female voice: What's that?

Oh, I beg your pardon. That's such a coined word in
Dianetics; I beg your pardon. M-E-S-T: It means matter,
energy, space and time.

Female voice: Oh, okay

M-E-S-T. It's the first letters of it. An old engineering
trick of taking the first letters of something and getting
some things that sound like "ENIACs" or... The most
wonderful words are being coined these days in engineering.

Now, here then is this gradient scale of beingness:
not-beingness is dead; beingness is full life. And those
are the two ends.

So we take this symbol; we take this symbol of the circle,
the triangle and the infinity and the zero, and we can
behold, in that, something which would symbolize all you
need to know about anything, anywhere, to accomplish
anything that you want to accomplish. Of course, it needs a
couple of billion words of explanation, but it's been there
for an awful long time and it's a very good symbol to
remember.

The circle: The universe and the continuum of time; the
beginning is the end of all.

The triangle: That means thought. And the three corners of
the triangle are affinity, reality and communication. And
they're the three component parts of thought (I'll explain
to you why); ARC, they make up thought.

And there's the fact that you mustn't overlook, is this
triangle of thought is imposed upon and becomes the circle
of the MEST universe. The triangle is one end, the high end
of the tone scale-all thought. And the circle is the bottom
of the tone scale and it says all MEST - the universe, the
circle, circular time, so on. And there is thought impinged
upon the universe.

And that combination, then - the circle and the triangle -
is exemplified by infinity (the allness of everything). And
that is how much you could be: you could be both the circle
and the triangle, or at the bottom, zero, which means that
you could actually be neither, nothing, and that's
not-beingness.

Actually, all a person would have to do theoretically is
simply decide to be. I stressed that in November and a lot
of the boys really strained at it. I said there's no reason
you had to go back on the track and erase engrams. Why
don't you just suddenly say "I'm going to BE"? Of course,
if you felt this violently enough, you'd of course
disappear and swell up and be the whole universe. But it's
unhealthy, because the fellow decides this and he decides
at the same time that he probably can't be this, and he
decides that this can't be because it isn't, and so forth.
And so instead of going up the tone scale like a WAC
Corporal (that's a rocket, by the way), he goes down the
tone scale and out the bottom, because he gets the
sensation of running head-on into MEST.

But there you have the triangle of thought on the circle of
the material universe, and the decision: the circle, the
triangle, the decision.

Actually, that's all you need to know. You should take that
and you should figure and you should say to yourself "Gee,
that's true!" and say, "Zip!" There's only one trouble with
saying "Zip!" Too many other people trying to say "Zip!" at
the same time, originally on the time track, made a sort of
a collision. And some of the people who were zipping this
way ran into some of the people who were zapping that way,
and it became a little bit confused on who was zipping and
who was zapping and some of them became MEST. And becoming
MEST is a very bad thing to do.

Homo sapiens is just a hair above MEST, just a hairline
above it. Pretty grim. He's running on the first dynamic;
he makes a complete practice out of going around and saying
"I'm not, I'm not, I'm not being. I'm not being. Yes, I'm
not," so on. "Well, I'm not so good at that, but uh. . ."
and "What is your opinion?" and, "Do you approve of me?"
and "Do I have a license to survive from you?" and so on.
And he just is going around all the time making up this
business at zero. And somebody who comes along and says to
him all of a sudden “I am” (something or other). They say,
"Oh, he's opinionated, he is. Ha-ha. Huh! Huh! Invalidate
him! Nullify him! Kill him!" because he's liable to upset
this zero. And this zero is so easily upset that-do you
know that Homo sapiens can only survive about sixty-nine
years? Imagine, sixty-nine trips around the sun, that's all
he can survive. It's hardly worth paying a nickel for.
Well, it's a ride you get, sixty-nine round trips. 

And then what do they do with him? They take him and his
education and everything else and they bury him. I don't
know why they bury him. They don't even make a practical
use out of his body! It's very remarkable. The only ones
that profit by the body is the florist.

Although I did hear about a battlefield one time in France
where ten thousand men - knights and yeomen and so forth -
had been killed, and it'd been nice and green ever since
and the wheat grew well there, so it does have some
advantage.

But what I'm getting at is he's trembling right on that
zero; he's making a cult out of not-beingness. And any time
you do that, watch out, because the fellow's just
wshhh-wshhh!

Now, the state of beingness up here would be a very
interesting one to reach, particularly if you could reach
it with such full determinism that you could be any part of
it at will - any part of it - of the gradient scale between
zero and infinity. If you could be any part of anything at
will and really be that part of that thing at will, on any
dynamic, you would be attaining toward the potentiality of
zero to infinity at your own decision, in other words. You
could say, "The third dynamic. Well, I'm not going to be
the third dynamic right now, I'm going to be the fourth."
And you could make up your power of decision on the line.
Or you could simply go up tone scale and say, "I'm
infinity." Be an interesting experiment.

How do you get there? What do you have to do to get there?
We have this symbol of the circle, the triangle, infinity
and zero. It actually tells you all you need to know with a
few dozen more lines and a lot of explanation. How do you
get, then, up toward infinity? And how can you monitor and
modulate your own existence and your own conduct in such a
way as to be anything you want to be?

Tell you how low this society at this time is: The biggest
ambition of everybody seems to be "I want to be myself."
The poor guys, they haven't even gotten to the first
dynamic.

Okay. Let's take a break.

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