 This is the first hour of the afternoon of December the 3rd and this
 afternoon, we are going to start right in; we've been dilly dallying long 
 enough. We've been hanging around and doing nothing about this, and sort of 
 marking our tracks and getting accustomed to things, getting accustomed to 
 our seats. Now let's get to work. 
 
 Uh.. let's start covering this with some rapidity, and uh.. go over 
 the component parts with which we're working. I already announced in Q-1 that
 we have certain words. These words are thetan, self-determinism, theta, 
 space, time, energy, objects and location, which means orientation of some 
 sort. So in order to understand that, we'll just sail right on through here 
 and we'll just take those up one by one. 
 
 What do we mean by a thetan? You'll find a thetan in a strange.. 
 very, very, strange situation. Exceedingly strange. About the strangest 
 condition into which a thetan could get is in the head of a homo sapiens. 
 This is not just being caught with two out and runners on first, second, and 
 third and being caught out. Uh.. it's not that bad, it's much worse than that
 - much much worse. He is.. doesn't belong in homo sapiens. Homo sapiens uh.. 
 a little bit earlier on the track is homo something else. He's homo something
 else, and that difference would be.. he would be this something else minus a 
 thetan. Because evidently, a thetan is not necessary even vaguely to his 
 anatomy. Actually, the thetan doesn't need him and he doesn't need the 
 thetan. The GE has life all beautifully compartmented. The GE's got it all 
 figured out and uh.. so on, GE's been coming down the track a long time. You 
 look back early on the GE track, you find out he had other bodies in other 
 universes, oddly enough, conservation of thetanism, I guess. And the GE 
 starts on the track with an incident which is the hole in space. Uh.. you can
 find that on your preclears, in the GE, and it starts in the hole in space, 
 and it comes right on the evolutionary track right on down through; he's 
 taking the counter-efforts and he's building a body with them. And after a 
 while he gets the darndest most complex thing you ever saw. 
 
 If you start looking at a GE; it's all right for you to think of a 
 GE, by the way, as being uh.. just a spot or an energy point, or something 
 like that the way a thetan might be, but that isn't really the case. The GE 
 has.. has himself something built up which looks like an RCA worldwide 
 communications network system or something of the sort. He's.. he's really 
 got the outposts and the inposts and the onpost uh.. set up here and there 
 and it regulates this and that, and that shorts across through this thing, 
 and so on, and you start monkeying up with this system, and it's almost 
 impossible to touch it. 
 
 This system has been subjected to millions and millions of years of
 very super hard usage. It's never been subjected uh.. to auditing, but uh..
 it's been subjected to some very horrible things. 
 
 Now, as we look back down the track at the GE, we find out that he 
 was getting along just fine. He was keeping the heart beating, he was keeping
 the lungs going, he had a carbon-oxygen engine, and he figured he was an 
 engineer at the controls of a train or something of the sort. It was an 
 engine. It's an engine built out of ridges - the ridges are of his creation. 
 It's a composite of facsimiles which have solidified into what we call cells 
 and the human anatomy. 
 
 This works on little cells, and the little cells run on photons and 
 minerals and uh.. - very very fine system - he's got an awful lot of things, 
 and stuff, and acids and alkaloids that are mixed up together. But each and 
 every one of these things is nothing but matter. It's matter composed of 
 something or other. 
 
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 But it's matter which is animated and given a purpose by the GE. 
 
 The GE is actually of the same order of being as a thetan. If you 
 took a body and started to pry this GE loose and straighten him around, you
 would find out that he is capable of being quite sentient. Actually, he's 
 completely monomanic. An association with him, association with the GE, 
 drives the thetan a bit in that direction. But the GE is excessively uh.. 
 monomanic on one subject - build the ridges, build the body, move the body,
 roll the body, survive, survive - on this MEST level. 
 
 Now you just go down here and find some capitalista. Uh.. some fella 
 - he owns uh.. I don't know - owns a grocery store chain or something of this
 sort. You.. you expect to find a man of leisure, nothing much to do, 
 something like that. You find this poor guy - this is too, too true. I.. I..
 I only put this in as another caution to you, and that is a caution to you as
 an auditor. When you start in on one of these cases, watch out, because boy,
 you'll be in there with your foot planted against that fellow's chest pulling
 those ridges off before he'll really start to let go of anything. He's 
 holding onto the MEST universe, and he's holding onto it so madly, he's 
 pulling it in so tight on him; he's got a grasp on it so hard, that you can't
 dig him out. 
 
 If there was such a thing as the Pearly Gates and the Angel Gabriel - 
 by the way, I saw a mock-up of 'em one day and it was very pretty uh.. the
 uh.. if there was such a thing, you would find that the.. this.. this fellow,
 on the day of judgment, would be unable to leave because the tombstone which
 was built to him was far too heavy for his grave to be opened. So there he
 would be. Be a grim joke, but uh.. the joke would certainly be on his head.
 The GE actually has done this. 
 
 Now you want a little index to the character of the GE; there it is. 
 The GE has done this. He's said, "MEST universe, schlurp, oh boy. Ah, give us
 more MEST, more MEST, more MEST," and he'd pull it in on himself. And he 
 takes these ridges, and he carries 'em through, and he's got this big 
 blueprint and he builds and he rebuilds and.. and so on. But he's holding on
 like mad. 
 
 Now, if you were to free a GE, it's very possible that you would 
 actually have to break down, and take to pieces all these ridges known as the
 human body. You remember a comment in effort processing. In effort 
 processing, it was stated that if you reduced all the counter-efforts of the
 body, the preclear would go poof. Well, that's theoretically true, and that
 is.. would merely be another way of saying the GE, if cleared of a body, 
 would.. would have to be subjected to a process which would actually reduce a
 body. 
 
 Well, how you going to do it? This body is going pokada pokada pokada 
 pokada, you interrupt any of these circuits and schedules to amount to 
 anything - there's no danger of your doing it in auditing. Been subjected to
 very exhaustive tests. 
 
 But the body's going along there and you started to reduce this - 
 what would you reduce first, his leg or his arm? Well, the GE is.. is so 
 thoroughly plastered into, and is animating this body and controlling it, 
 that he'd just have to be pried loose with a jack or.. or an icepick. 
 
 Now in addition to that, there's an additional life in the body that 
 is independent of the GE - an additional life is there. Uh.. but for the sake
 of clarity and clarification, you have this phrase GE, so just let it cover,
 just let it cover that sphere of what animates the life. Actually the 
 
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 GE himself has come up the track, and he has picked up other GEs and so on
 and it's come on, and this composite is what you'd have. 
 
 The cells themselves have a life, and uh.. uh.. you want to know why
 this body is capable of holding a thetan - well, it didn't want one. It 
 didn't need one, and uh.. it's.. the thetan unfortunately found out somewhere
 on the track that you could get a tremendous amount of sensation from the 
 body. He could put a tractor wave out there, communication line into a body,
 and get a tremendous sensation - there was a big emotional bang. 
 
 And this was something for which he wasn't responsible, so therefore
 he could enjoy it. Uh.. it's said that - by preclears who run this first 
 contact with a body - you get uniformly rather the same story, that right 
 before the contact with the body, the thetan is 200 feet tall or something
 like that, he feels that big, he's very expansive, and right after he 
 contacts this body, he goes down in size, he feels very small. All right. 
 
 Uh.. what brought him down there? Tha.. that's uh.. a valuable energy
 known as sensation. In back of all the wantingness, back of all of the 
 various efforts and emotions and reasons and so forth, you find the 
 underlying and hold-onto energy is the energy of sensation. And if you want
 to know what to run in a preclear, if you have to make up your mind that 
 you're going to run some kind of energy in the preclear, for golly sakes run
 the energy of sensation, the energy which comprises sensation, and you will
 find some sensational material. Because, in trying to pick up this energy, he
 overreaches and he holds on to all sorts of other energy. 
 
 Now when we have said the AESTHETIC band, we've also said some of 
 this. Your thetan has to be interested. Your aesthetic band goes very rapidly
 down into sensation. You recognize this - an individual who has no capacity
 for an emotional experience is unable to appreciate art. You go around aghast
 sometimes at the emotional uh.. outbursts which you see on the part of some
 people who had merely beheld a piece of art work. They uh.. uh.. on a very
 MESTy level it is nothing, it is nothing during a.. a concert or something
 like that for people to experience pleasure very far above that of sexual 
 intercourse - now that's a.. there's sensation. 
 
 Now, when he first spotted the fact that people could get off the 
 rails a little bit, uh.. the late Dr. Freud uh.. said, uh.. "Now, we'll grab
 on to this point because this is common to the human race and we'll try to
 make a go out of this across the boards." And he tried to work it out on the
 basis that they felt guilty because of the sensation. Well, that would really
 be putting it down, down, scale. Just run the sensation - that's all. It's
 very simple - it is an elementary problem. You ran the sensation and you get
 the most fantastic, magnetic quality to the energy contained in that. It.. it
 is.. it starts acting like a bigger and better magnet than any they've got in
 steel mills. The fellow WANTS sensation, and that wantingness can be found on
 the preclear, to such a degree, that the communication lines through which he
 pulls that sensation will just sing like a hawser in rip tide. They're just -
 they.. they.. they get this tremendous power. You'll find sheets of this 
 stuff in the preclear. And all of a sudden he'll touch this stuff, and he can
 just feel his whole space, energy.. uh.. area just pull right in on him and
 collapse. 
 
 Now, remember what I've told you, above other things, because that's
 what holds the thetan in the body. He came there for sensation, and he got
 it. And after a while, he couldn't go away any more. And body by body by 
 body, because of the postulates he's made, then body by body, he is 
 consistently and continually running. First, he is unable to obtain much 
 sensation from this body except maybe the sensation of action. And then later
 
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 on - why is it that the age of 12, 13, right after a child becomes aware of
 sexual sensations and so forth, we get such a marked change in a being? You
 go on this E-Meter, you find when people's lives went mad. 
 
 -- 
 
 Well, the postulates keyed in; he started to pick up sensation and 
 the second he did that, he started to pull in ridges on himself, and he 
 started down the same cycle, the thetan started down the same cycle as the 
 GE. He started going right down.. down the line, not intelligently building a
 body any more really than the GE did. The thetan just simply starts in, 
 starts picking up MEST. 
 
 Well, he's got hold of this piece of MEST known as a human body - he
 might as well have hold of a piece of MEST known as a Ford car, he might as 
 well have uh.. hold of anything in the NEST universe. A body just happens to 
 have the ability, because of the work and thirst of the GE and the.. I 
 suppose this'd be very praiseworthy here on Earth.. the industry of the GE, 
 uh.. here is.. here is an organism which is capable of producing sensation 
 independent to the thetan, and so we have the thetan appended to the GE. 
 Actually, he's.. he's right in there tight. 
 
 Now, when we look this over, all of those things are true which can 
 be easily demonstrated. And so let's take a.. a look here and see what 
 substantiates this, what substantiates this. There's several erogenic zones. 
 Don't begin to classify sensation as sex. You see, sensation can be so much 
 -- better than sex, there isn't any.. any.. any comparison on the line. Sex is a
 very low-grade sensation, but it is a common sensation, it's easy to pick up.
 
 Now, it is said of.. it is said of one of the groups of uh.. one of 
 the invader groups: their paymaster is sensation, and that's the only - 
 that's actually practically their motto. If there isn't any sensation in it, 
 don't do it, that's their motto. That's really degraded, oh uh.. that's 
 horrible, the.. these characters have no beingness at all. 
 
 Why? They're asking for their interest in life to be delivered to 
 them by somebody else exterior to them. When they ask for their interest in 
 life to be delivered to them as an irresponsible thing, that they cannot be 
 responsible for the sensations and pleasures of life, they're asking to be an
 effect of the most desirable thing. They want to be an effect, therefore they
 elect the whole environment a cause. The second they elect the whole 
 environment a cause, they go completely to pieces as individualities and 
 merely become identities. You see how that would be. 
 
 Now a fellow is.. we'll cover responsibility very heavily, but when..
 when a fellow won't take responsibility for an energy, he becomes an effect 
 of it. And when an individual, when an individual desires sensation to be 
 delivered to him in neatly marked and tied boxes, he of course is electing 
 something else exterior to his environment his cause. And when you would go 
 so far as to say his paymaster is sensation, his paymaster for everything he 
 does in life is sensation, then the motivation for everything he does in life
 would of course be found to be exterior to the being. Even his reason for 
 being is exterior to him. He works for sensation. And sensation is originated
 not by himself but by somebody else. It's a very debased degraded situation, 
 and actually the individual is not even vaguely happy in that, situation. He..
 he's.. he's.. he's a sort of a slave. If you want to see this in actual 
 operation, go look over uh.. go look over.. uh.. people down in.. in the 
 Salvation Army back room. Now you get down along that level, and find out 
 what happened. And you say - well, this fellow may spin you a fancy yarn, and
 he may tell you the truth. But normally there was some sensation in existence
 and he desired that sensation; the sensation mastered him, and he went by the
 boards. Really that kind of a grim cycle. 
 
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 He knew this girl, he loved her very much, and she was untrue to him
 and that broke his heart. Another way of saying the same thing, you see. He 
 elected this girl sensation and his cause and reason for being, and therefore
 she became the cause of everything, so that when she disappeared out of the 
 environment he couldn't control her, so therefore he couldn't control 
 anything and he was dead. There is in essence degradation. Degradation is a 
 scale, a gradient scale of having elected something else cause, and then 
 having failed to control it, naturally, because it's been elected cause, and
 asking it for a license to survive to such a marked degree, that when it 
 fails to grant a license to survive one is demoted. 
 
 You get that tricky little mechanism as it goes along there. All 
 right, let's look at this GE then, he's really quite a boy; I mean, look 
 how.. look how hard he's been working along this line. But perhaps any sanity
 or activity the GE might have would be attributable to the fact that he's to
 a large degree making the sensation himself. He'd be saner than the thetan, 
 wouldn't he? This'd make a thetan who has come down this line parasitic. And
 so he is. The thetan is parasitic to homo sapiens. Fortunately, fortunately,
 he's a very high powered.. he's a very high powered potential, and he can 
 very easily move out of this category because he's not happy in it. 
 
 Now, homo something else uh.. back on the track someplace, started 
 to get in and be taken over by thetans, relatively degraded in some.. they'd
 failed elsewhere, or in some cases they were just so harassed elsewhere that
 they just would have gone anyplace, or done anything, and they'd hear about 
 this place and they come down here. All right. 
 
 They get ahold of a body, and they'd start running this body. Now, 
 here's the first stage. Here's a body here. Your thetan comes along the line.
 We'll make a very graceful aesthetic body. And uh.. your.. your thetan 
 comes along the line, and he says, "Ah!" he says, "A body!" Now he gets off 
 at some distance from this, and he thinks this and that, and his horsepower's
 great enough at this time, you see, so he can stand way off from a body, and
 he'd say, "Do this, and do that" and the body's affected by it. Hmm! 
 
 Trouble with the bodies here on earth, they're quite pretty. Bodies
 were prettier once, than they are now, by the way. And uh.. the.. this was 
 fine. But that body was capab1e of sensation. Very often the thetan had.. the
 furthest thing from his mind was.. was anything like picking up a secondary 
 second-rate second-hand sensation someplace or other. So uh.. he.. he.. he 
 wouldn't be thinking about this, maybe he was uh.. very happy.. uh.. I 
 heard one last night that is quite.. quite usual on the better run of 
 thetans.. they were guardians of a wood, or something. Yeah - they're.. 
 they're guardian of wood, and they took care of this area and they were just
 fine, and they safeguarded animals in this area. 
 
 Shows you that the GE is pretty special, pretty high-powered when.. 
 uh.. thetans uh.. thetans don't pay too much attention to animal 
 sensations, not until they've had something to do with a GE uh.. monitored 
 by it. All right. 
 
 The thetan perhaps got in trouble with this character, maybe this 
 thetan.. maybe this thetan was a sort of a guardian of the wood, and he was 
 minding his own business, and.. and watching the animals around and so on, 
 and everything's fine. And one day maybe.. maybe one of these homo something
 or others, pre-homo sapienses uh.. dug a pit and caught one of the deer. 
 Mmm-Yerr! The sense of justice of a thetan would be such as to punish. How 
 would he punish this fellow? Well, he'd probably punish this fellow by 
 throwing a good heavy electronic beam at him, ka-bap! And by the way, your 
 preclears very often will experience a very minor electronic shock, enough to
 
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 practically knock their heads off, but a minor shock, uh.. when running 
 something, a ridge or something like that'll explode or give way. It's very
 fascinating. It's an electrical impact, just as thoroughly electrical impact
 as though you.. you had blown up an.. a big static machine or something in 
 front of you. 
 
 Well anyway, a thetan can put out a pretty good electrical impact, 
 and his commonest activity when he's going to punish something like that is
 to nip it. He slaps it on either side of its motor control panels and the 
 thing goes into contortions and epileptic form seizures and a few other 
 things, and it's very uncomfortable. But of course when a thetan does that,
 he gets the back.. backlash of the energy. If he's careless in this, he gets
 the backlash of the energy. All right. 
 
 It isn't too long, if he punishes one or two or three or four of 
 these pre-homo sapiens - the next thing you know he's.. he's sort of uh.. 
 saying to himself uh.. "Let's see, what are we going to - I mean, we've 
 gotta do something about these fellows." And uh.. he thinks that he hasn't 
 got a good.. good connection or something with them. He.. he thinks he isn't
 that powerful any more, he's degenerated a 'little bit, so he actually will
 put a tractor wave out and he'll put this tractor wave over on any homo 
 sapiens that comes near him and will give it the thought, "Go away from 
 here." 
 
 That's fine - but now he's in energy contact and on that line the 
 next thing you know he puts his tractor on a homo sapiens, usually in like 
 this somehow.. somehow or other, couple of beams. Uh.. sitting back, way back
 '3 here somewhere. And uh.. he.. he throws a.. a beam in there and the homo 
 sapiens stumbles or gets hurt or maybe gets excited by something or other, 
 sexually, or something. 
 
 But the thetan finds out at that moment that there's a terrific and
 surprising amount of power contained in that body. So he'll fool around with
 bodies, he will go around for a while then more or less on this connection.
 There are many patterns of energy which pass for pressor - tractor beams and
 so forth. It doesn't matter much what pattern he used, but he.. he.. he's 
 running a body the next thing you know. If you were this thetan's friend, 
 uh.. you would see him, the next time you'd see him you'd say, "Hello Bill."
 He wouldn't look at you. And you'd say, "What on earth's the matter with 
 Bill?" There'd be Bill going down the road monitoring this body and pulling
 levers and so forth and making it walk and so forth, and just all engrossed,
 and you say, "Bill, what's the matter with you? You gone nuts?" And uh.. 
 Bill goes right on down the road running this body. You say, "Gee whiz, what
 the heck is he doing that for? Let's see, where is one of these bodies?" 
 
 Well, for a while he can run it back here, so forth, and then.. what
 could be position one.. and after a while, he has a tendency to come in a 
 little bit closer - why? He's putting a high-level wave out, he's putting a
 high-level wave into the body to monitor it in that direction, and he's 
 getting back consistently a low wave, very MESTy. High wave goes in, input -
 good grade energy. Backlash, MEST: very MESTy. His interchange then is only
 uh.. is really two one-way flows on different qualities, because this body is
 much coarser than the thetan, actually coarser in its line of thinking. The
 thetan has a very high ethic level, he has a very high.. many things that the
 body doesn't have, but the body has a very low, earthy idea of.. of life, 
 and uh.. uh.. sensation and uh.. effort and so on. A thetan doesn't operate
 in that band at all. 
 
 So he's really got two-way flows. 
 
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 Now, it's a funny thing that any time a flow flows too long in one 
 direction, it sticks. This is the elasticity of flows, the limit of 
 elasticity of flows. Any time a flow flows too long in one direction, it will
 stick. You don't believe that, just take a look around you and every place 
 you find a one-way flow unless something is done about it by auditing, you'll
 find stuck flows. I'll give you an example of that: there's a one-way flow - 
 I stand here talking to you. You heard those tapes. You'll hear those tapes 
 again. You'll hear these words again, you're.. you've got a one-way flow 
 going in your ears, it's a one-way flow of sound. And the first thing you 
 know, you'll start building up little ridges, that.. that wave coming 1n will
 get stuck. Now.. that.. that.. it's.. it's bad - people actually develop 
 their ears hurting, and so forth - that's.. that's just a stuck flow. If you 
 could talk with your ears, you'd have a two-way flow and it'd shake itself up
 and shake itself loose automatically. But it doesn't do that. In this flow 
 comes, in.. you talk with your mouth - that's another one-way flow. Voice 
 out, voice out, voice out; ears in, ears in, if you can draw the most.. the..
 the.. the very interesting.. you could draw some very interesting uh.. uh.. 
 patterns of this sort of thing. 
 
 Here.. here for instance, a fellow's ear, and here.. over here is his
 mouth; we get the incoming flow here, starts to do circles, and there's 
 actually ridges built up in the skulls, which are the ridges of energy of 
 sound entrance. And you start to run these flows you will find out that 
 there's the most complex pattern of ridges there you ever wanted to see. 
 Because the fellow talks and out goes the flows out here like that, and part 
 of that flow comes back in and comes into his own ears, and there's a 
 circular flow here which doesn't have anything that backs it up. Nothing 
 shakes this flow, it just goes one-way all the time. 
 
 And what do you finally get? What do you finally get? Ha-ha! Boy this
 shouldn't happen to a horse. Horrible. Here is uh.. just very roughly.. 
 very roughly.. your one-way flow pattern. Here's a mouth, ear. Okay? Uh.. 
 this fellow's talking like this in this direction. pais flow.. sound is coming
 in in this direction, sound comes in from the environment here continually 
 into the ear, goes out here. His tactile sensations and so forth are inflows 
 and uh.. various other things. Now when he.. when he actually is putting 
 out energy toward other people then, he's.. just keeps putting out energy - 
 which direction? Forward, forward. And he gets energy back in from a forward 
 direction; that makes up a complexity we'll cover later because it's a very, 
 very interesting complexity. 
 
 And we get, however, a current. We.. we get a static uh.. pardon 
 me, a no uh.. an un.. unchanging flow.. we get an unchanging flow around 
 this head. By the way, other one-way flows, the photons come into the eye and
 photons keep coming into the eye, and sight for homo sapiens is a one-way 
 flow into the eye. That's a heck of a note, isn't it? In it comes, in it 
 comes, in it comes, in it comes, and people wonder why their eyes go bad; 
 they never look back out those eyes. They really are registering a photon 
 flow in the eyes, in the eyes, in the eyes, one-way flow, and it'll stick. 
 
 Actually uh.. the.. one of the handy ways to repair glasses is 
 simply to sort of shake up the flow of photons which has been going on down 
 that optic nerve since time immemorial. Just shake it up a bit, just vibrate 
 it one way or the other, and get a back-up going on that flow, and you'll 
 actually feel it go ka-ping, ka-ping, ka-ping, and ridges will start blasting
 away and everything starts happening. You can start a terrible commotion on 
 any one of these one-way flows because the flow is going out in this 
 direction consistently uh.. and it's stuck, and it's really.. just gets as 
 solid as that black arrow there. It.. it gets as solid as can be - you've got
 to break it up so it'll back flow. 
 
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 We call this the.. a limit of elasticity of flows. Furthermore, after 
 a flow flows too long in one direction, if it really overflows, it goes on 
 and on and on and on and on; it has no choice but to.. if it can't go on any 
 more, it'll start to back up any time it's energised. It starts to 
 automatically back up after a while. So we've got this flow. It's gone on 
 here for a long time, and after it's gone this way for a long, long time, it 
 starts to backlash on itself. And it reverses the secondary line. It.. it.. 
 it starts to back up and nothing can be done about it at all, the fellow 
 feels. 
 
 Now you just shake any one of these one-way flows areas, there are 
 many of them in the body. I don't have to point them out to you, just check 
 'em over for yourself. How many one-way flows does this body have? Well, it's
 got nothing but one-way flows. 
 
 Now, what's this got to do with a thetan? Why, it's got a lot to do 
 with a thetan, tremendous amount. Let's take a.. let's.. let's take a.. a.. a
 clouds-eye view of homo sap here - give him some hair and give him a nose out
 here, and so forth, and give him some eyelashes, just so you can see where 
 he's looking from - what's this got to do.. here's a one-way flow in 
 operation. Voice out, into the ears, environment into the ears, so forth. And
 the energy level is outflowing this way all the time, so we get the energy 
 starting out that way and then what do we get? Although the energy keeps on 
 going that way, we have what I hate to call but rather have to, an electronic
 vacuum. 
 
 Now if we kept a fire hose - well, as this energy goes out here you 
 see, and even though it keeps on going we're getting.. a very interesting 
 pattern is building up here. When you move any particles in this direction, 
 when you move a particle in that direction and consistently move it in that 
 direction, space, and energy behavior dictates that something has to take 
 place back of the flow. Now if you were to take a.. if you were to take a big
 fire hose and you were to lay it out in a bucket of water you would see that 
 a hole developed back of the flow, as here goes this flow with this.. heh! 
 Illustrated as though this head here is a fire hose. Uh.. here's the flow 
 going out, here's a little photon flow coming in but a fellow is meeting that
 all the time with flows. All right, out goes this.. this line here, one way 
 or the other, and it's moving forward particle flow, all the time particle 
 flow. Now if that were a fire hose you would actually develop a vacuum or a 
 hole in the water back of a hose flow. You take a hose out here and lay it 
 down in the pond or something of the sort and let it flow horizontally, you 
 would find that it was flowing very nicely and the faster it was flowing the 
 deeper a hole appeared back of the nozzle. And it gets deeper and deeper 
 hole. 
 
 In other words, it's pushing stuff out so fast that it's making a 
 nothingness in the water, and something's got to flow into that nothingness, 
 so let's look at this fire hose and let's find out that it tracks around the 
 back of the fire hose in such a way, it tracks around, and the fire hose flow
 itself will in some small part come back and try to fill in that hole in the 
 water. You've got a circular flow, circular flow. That's vacuums and flows. 
 Very important for you to envision that. 
 
 Uh.. now here.. here this goes this way and the spot we marked uh.. 
 "V" back here, we're tending to get a vacuum on the body - action forward, 
 attention forward, push forward, so forth. Where's all that energy coming 
 from? The particles, as they go forward, are leaving a hole in back of the 
 guy, back here, see, where there's a "V" for vacuum. Yes, uh.. we're getting 
 that hole. 
 
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 I 
 
 But these waves, therefore, do not just continue to go on and no 
 other disturbance happen on this side and this side of the body - no sir! The
 flow as it goes out the front part of the body, as we see here on this lower
 graph here, comes back here and keeps filling up "V," and comes back here and
 keeps filling up "V." So we get "V" being filled up consistently and 
 continually, by what? The fellow's own particle flow. And we get a stuck flow
 pattern and it makes homo sapiens look like this. And you start looking at 
 him, you want to know what these banana-things are you will be seeing, and so
 forth, he kicks himself in the back of the head every time he kicks anything
 in front of him. There, in essence really, is the overt act motivator 
 phenomena. Anything you ever said or did has some confused pattern and shadow
 of it behind your head, to say it again to you. 
 
 Let's say you scream "cat" out this way very loudly. "Cat" is going 
 to go in the direction which you said, sure, and there'll be a little energy
 flow will come back here, just as neat as you please, and come back here, and
 it will say "cat." 
 
 Now after you've been at this for a long time, let's take it.. let's 
 take it energy-wise. The fellow puts out to the front of him uh.. resentment,
 resentment, resentment, resentment, resentment, resentment. Why, that's a heck
 of a state of affairs. What happens to him after a while? He feels like 
 there's somebody standing in back of him resenting him, 'cause resentment 
 is.. in a confused form has plastered all over his back. These are the back 
 ridges, and this is the anatomy and source of the back ridge. 
 
 Now he's got "cat" all over his back. Everything he did then is done 
 to him, he knows it; it's true because any time he wants to experience it, he
 can. He.. he.. he knows then that what he does to others will happen to him.
 He.. he knows this. Sure he knows it. Now when.. when you step out of your 
 body, some time when you're processing him, take.. take a look at that back 
 ridge. You'll find it back there, feet thick. 
 
 So, this is quite important from a standpoint of uh.. quite important
 from a standpoint of auditing, isn't it? Well, what's this got to do with 
 homo sapiens coming into the body? Here we'll have.. here he is back here, 
 position one, some type of tractor beam on the head, here he is here, 
 position two, he's a little closer now. Here he is, position three. And what
 happens in position three? Rrrrrr. 
 Class response: He hits the vacuum. 
 LRH: That's right. 
 
 He hits the vacuum.. there's a vacuum in here that says, "You're 
 gonna come in, boy." Not only that, but just an instant before the vacuum  
 there's an actual flow which just machine-guns him right on into the head; he
 moves into an active flow area. 
 
 Now, he gets.. he gets in here and this fellow is facing this way, 
 you're going to get a flow going out like this, like this, like this. You can
 locate these flows. Here.. here are these flows going out here, all because 
 of flows of that character, and they're not mild. They're all around the 
 body. They're out here in all directions. 
 
 This body is really booby-trapped. Human body is the best theta trap 
 there is. And any time he moves up or down that back within a few inches of 
 the back of the thing, if there's any disturbance at all in the body, so 
 there's any current flowing in this body, it's going to catch the thetan, 
 push him into the vacuum and stick him, just like that, and there he will be.
 
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 And he starts to move out of this and what happens? Well, I tell you
 - there's an anatomy called uh.. energy flows we will have to go into a 
 little bit more, but as long as we're on this subject, we will give you just 
 what this is; we'll give you this flow pattern, and that is that uh.. fear 
 is a flow - we'll cover this much better later - but fear is a flow. Now what
 do you think happens to an identity across which a flow is flowing? That's 
 fear, there's the emotion of fear, a fast uncontrolled flow. Now you.. you 
 got that? It's a fast uncontrolled flow. Just take it as.. as such, we will 
 go into it later. We've got here.. this thetan finally winds up here at 4 in 
 a very dim state. Because fear - just take that - is a flow, and he 
 actually.. the GE's center of beingness, more or less, is in the stomach. So 
 this back ridge is discharging from the small of the back across this flow 
 and very often this whole current will set up into motion at a moment of 
 upset, very often flow into motion, and when it does, you get the emotion of 
 fear setting in. You can start this up willy-nilly on a preclear; you can 
 just start this up. You can come around and slap him hard on the back and 
 say, "How are you, Joe" and he'll feel afraid. All you've done is dislodge 
 part of this flow and let it flow across his centers of beingness and he 
 feels afraid. You'll find very often a preclear just hearing about this flow 
 and so forth, will say, "You know, I kind of feel scared." Well sure, he.. 
 he.. he's just started this flow into action a little bit. 
 
 Now you could take any preclear and start to audit him and just make 
 him run this flow, get this flow running. It's.. this.. you don't have to do 
 this to audit, but uh.. you start this flow running, and he'll all of a 
 sudden say, "Hmmraa. That scares me. I don't wanna do that anymore." Or 
 sometimes your preclear's been perfectly all right; at the end of the session
 he comes back to you, and he says, "I'm scared stiff, I don't know what's 
 happening, I'm terrified." 
 
 And therefore I'm giving you a very stiff punch-up on this point 
 about these flows. This thing has happened; this is all that's happened, is 
 this back ridge, which is sometimes plastered here on the back of him feet 
 thick, has suddenly started to discharge forward toward a front ridge. And 
 the back ridge has started to discharge toward a front ridge and it's going 
 across the center of beingness of the individual. And he feels that flow and 
 that flow says to him, "Be afraid," and that's all that's happening. It's 
 just as electronic as turning on and off a light switch. 
 
 You come around and you say, "All right, now let's just feel a little
 more flow, now let's get some sensation into the middle of your back, now 
 let's get some in your stomach, or let's mock up rivers running through you. 
 Let's mock up a river. Now that starts in way behind you and it comes forward
 and it hits you." He does that for a short time and this thing turns right 
 off, and that is fear. 
 
 This fear is the worst there is - this is craven terror, it can get 
 up to that stage. This is the fear that the criminal feels when he's grabbed 
 by the cops. You'll see him some time in a.. in a police station - something 
 like that. They are just in such terror, they're just cringing and begging 
 not to be given ten days in jail. That's terror, and that terror is so bad 
 that a man would love.. he.. he'd just kill himself rather than go on 
 experiencing it, anything not to have that terror. In a very mild state, this
 is called anxiety stomach. He has a quivery stomach, his stomach gets upset 
 on him, and he gets scared in the stomach. That.. that's.. but he'll come 
 around, he'll tell you, "I get anxious - I get worried." He says, "I'll get 
 worried, now I get worried about something, I just don't feel good. I get off
 my feet." And you say, "Do you have.. do you have sensations in your 
 stomach?" "Yeah, uh.. bad sensation in my stomach, now that you mention it - 
 very bad." Well, uh.. remember that in order to get a flow here, you've got 
 
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 have a difference of potential between the back ridge and the front ridge. 
 And if you have a fellow who comes around to you every little while, and he 
 says, "I've got that flow again, it's just horrible, and it's started in 
 again," and so on, and you carefully take off, or take apart, or reduce part 
 of the back ridge, and then he comes around to you again, he says, "I've got 
 that again and I'm all upset, and every time I take off one of these back 
 ridges a new back ridge seems to appear, and I'm just in terrible condition 
 and..." look for the front ridge - that's the other terminal. You've got to 
 get the front ridge off of him. The front ridge is a low potential which is 
 actually snapping new back ridges onto his back; he's picking them out of old
 past lives and everything else. He.. he's just snapping them onto his back 
 and letting them flow, and snapping them onto his back and letting them flow.
 And he continues to get this anxiety stomach and so forth. 
 
 You want to cure this anxiety stomach, you want to cure this terror,
 you want to cure.. cure fear in a.. an individual, this is one of the basic
 mechanisms which takes care of it. 
 
 Now your thetan finally winds up in the middle of the head there. And
 the poor guy has got all of this back ridge back of the head and the back of 
 the neck ready to discharge across him, and he is an energy unit. So every 
 time he starts to move, look at the sad state he's in. Here he is in a big 
 dark area and he's.. let's say here or some place in there like that - he 
 feels he is - and he's got a great big ridge back here: he's got a back ridge
 and it's a heavy ridge, see, it's good and heavy and uh.. it's.. uh.. in 
 there like that. And then over here on the motor controls why you've got a 
 lot more, the motor control ridge, uh.. those.. lot of energy deposits and 
 then around here - around the ears, and inside the ears, there's a lot more 
 from sonic uh.. deposits. And he's up here on top of his head - part of this 
 electronic ridge that has come out here is.. kicks in back into the top of 
 the head, so you quite often have the top of the head heavily cased with a 
 big heavy ridge. And as he gets older and as he gets older and older and 
 older, he's fighting more and more not his own ridges at all, the ridges of 
 the GE. The GE as it.. he goes on in life and keeps wanting and requiring and
 requiring and requiring.. builds these ridges up. Therefore, you can get a 
 thetan easily out of a young body; you get him less easily out of an older 
 body. 
 
 All right, he's got this back ridge here, and he will also have 
 around his eyes here, and around his jaws and cheeks here on the outside, 
 he'll have a front ridge. So here's your.. your thetan. You say, "Move one 
 step back of your head," and you'll see the E-Meter go c-r-e-a-k - nothing 
 happens. What's he done? He's ploughed back here against this back ridge. But
 the horrible part of it is, he conceives himself to be an energy unit. If 
 your thetan is an energy unit, good heavens, look what's happening. Every 
 time the thetan begins to approach, every time he begins to approach one of 
 these ridges, he dislodges part of its energy. And as he dislodges part of 
 that energy, he starts getting a flow right across himself just like that. 
 And this flow says, "You are being dislodged and driven out the front of your
 face," and "I just can't do that," he says, and so what does he do? He mocks 
 up a whole lot of ridges for himself in here to hold on to. He's got his own 
 ridge set up in here, see, there are thetan's ridges, "thetan's ridges." Boy 
 he.. he's got to hold on - because every time that flow starts in forward 
 toward the front of the face he has only one answer to it and that's "Hold 
 on." So he feels himself start to dislodge and he holds on. 
 
 And you say, "All right. Step one foot back of your head, now." Mmm, 
 he's very happy, for the first second he really starts to move back and out, 
 and he hits one of these ridges, he activates one of them with the energy, 
 which he himself is putting out, that ridge goes into action and makes him 
 frightened and so he has no choice but to hold on. 
 
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 The.. the.. actually, the sanity of an individual is very closely 
 gauged by this mechanism. Now, one of the mechanisms that has to do with 
 this, is the period it takes him, how long he will permit himself to flow 
 before he grabs. Now you'll see some.. some preclear, they go, they open a 
 drawer. See, that dislodges a little tiny bit of energy, something like that. 
 And then they say, "That damn drawer," bang bang bang crash crash crash, and 
 then go into apathy. And it only takes them about.. about maybe 15 seconds to 
 go through the whole.. the whole gamut. 
 
 And the next fellow takes it much more methodically. Well, he's just 
 got a little more time, space, to hold on. Actually, it's the same mechanism, 
 the thetan is going down tone scale. Something repulses him in the universe, 
 the next thing you know, he's got a flow going past him; he can act as long 
 as he doesn't think he has to hold on hard, but when he holds on hard it 
 makes him angry. When he gets angry, he'll hold on hard to this ridge, he'll 
 disperse more energy, he'll start to flow faster, he starts to go forward 
 further. This makes him quite afraid, the flow itself is all that makes him 
 afraid, and he loses and goes into apathy on it then. Now, the psychos that 
 you run into have flowed right straight on through their skulls, they.. way 
 out here. They're here, way out in front of the face, way out. They can no 
 longer - they.. they.. they've even had to desert the head. They're not only 
 as bad off as being in the head, but they.. they're way out in front here, 
 w.. I mean. way out. And quite often a person uh.. it's very common that an 
 auditor will start to audit somebody and find them going "ker-flip" out in 
 front of their face. The thing to do is just make them reach around and grad 
 ahold of the back of the hair and pull themselves around to the back of the 
 head, that's all there is to that. 
 
 They have.. people who have right and left direction reversals quite 
 often will slide through in front of their faces. 
 
 Now there's your anatomy of this -- doesn't look very complex; your 
 thetan then, came in on this course here, and he came in on this course and 
 he's getting dislodged on this course. And these ridges set up these big 
 flows around him and these back ridges have a tendency to disperse forward 
 and past him, and that back ridge is all down the back of the body. 
 
 Now you see what happens to him: he gets in there -- this is what we 
 had as step three -- he gets in there and he gets caught up in this flow of a 
 back ridge which he activates and then he slides on through into the middle 
 of the head and he thinks he's stuck there. He's in apathy, he's unconscious, 
 really, at the moment he snaps in; he doesn't know quite where he is or what 
 he's doing. And he orients himself after that and does something about it. 
 
 But then he conceives himself to be the body and goes right on down
 tone scale, thinks he is the body and he is so degraded and lost that that's
 all there is to it. 
 
 Well, it.. should it be of interest to you that uh.. should it be 
 of interest to you that that is a very key mechanism and that there are 
 several other mechanisms and just to have this in one place, I'll just 
 comment on one very briefly here, and this is your mechanism whereby your 
 thetan is out here in position one and he has a tractor beam on the head. All 
 right, here he is with a tractor beam on the head, your tractor beam is in'.. 
 initially this length, first length. And what does a tractor beam do? A 
 tractor beam contracts, it is a method of contracting, strictly Buck Rogers, 
 but I'm afraid it actually exists in the thetan. The tractor beam contracts 
 when energized - a pressor beam which is exerting pressure expands when it's 
 energized. But a tractor beam contracts when it's energized - now get that 
 
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 very well. Here's your be.. your tractor beam - your thetan's in control of 
 the tractor beam, he's feeling perfectly grand about everything, and life is
 going along just dandy; he's got this body that's walking around, and all of
 a sudden - he's got a tractor beam on it. All of a sudden the body energizes
 his tractor beam. This body gets a surge of pain.. pain and we get then, out
 of that pain, a surge of energy and the energy surge goes back up here in 
 this direction, energizes the tractor beam and what does it do - it brings 
 your thetan down this course and has him hit hard against the back of the 
 head and then goes forward on this course into the head in a state of 
 unconsciousness, having been pulled in by the head. Obviously the head did it
 to him. 
 
 And you'll find more thetans, you'll find more preclears - they.. 
 they.. this is one of the commonest vistas you'll find a preclear has; it's a
 head sitting in front of him someplace. He's still trying to stop that head 
 on the same principle as we gave you the other day. All right, he.. he's 
 still trying to stop that head from coming in, and he has a feeling like all
 heads will move in toward him and that everything will fall in on him, and he
 puts a tractor beam on it, therefore he doesn't dare use any energy because 
 he is punished for using energy. 
 
 So there you have your first position, your second position. Now your
 first length of your tractor beam was that long, and the second length of 
 your tractor beam was maybe only that long. So your second length of your 
 tractor beam is only from here to here. Your tractor beam goes collapse, and
 having gone collapse, in it yanks the thetan. So there's two mechanisms which
 get the thetan into the head and why the thetan when he fools around with 
 homo sapiens or pre-homo sapiens became homo sapiens. And they're electronic
 reasons, no more no less than electronic reasons and they're solvable as 
 such. And any time you think there's something more along this line, and so 
 forth, look at the electronic aspects of it first. Look at the back ridge and
 the front ridge, and don't look for the fact that the Great God Suva-suva 
 Yavva-yavva is sitting up in the middle of Yappadoobit uh.. ready to punish 
 him in case he dare move forth from inside his head, because there's all 
 kinds of garbage of that character sitting on those ridges. And every time 
 those.. every time he tries to move out of his head, the ridges disperse, 
 this data goes into restimulation and he's absolutely sure now, although it 
 happened 8 billion years ago, that the Great God Loppa-loppa Yup-yup is about
 to "yop-yap" on him. So there you are as a.. your mechanism of that thetan. 
 Okay, let's take a break. 
 
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