 December 9th, unless I've lost track of a few dates, f1rst hour of 
 the afternoon lecture. We have today quite a little bit of coverage to do, 
 because today we're going to tie in several points now that we have covered 
 ARC and Be, Have and Do, and all these cycles. And today we're going to tie 
 these into a first, a "What's wrong with this universe," and second, a 
 working package for an auditor. 
 
 Now, as you well know, there.. there.. there might possibly be 
 something wrong uh.. with the MEST universe. There might be something wrong 
 with it. It's an incredible thing that uh.. anything could be built on a
 hundred and eighty degree reverse vector. Never give a win without giving a 
 lose. Never let anybody get ahead unless they're backwards. 
 
 Uh.. I don't know if you have heard a tape on game processing. I will
 cover game processing before I get out of here, try to at least. But uh.. how
 do you set up a game? How do you set up a game that will just go on forever?
 
 Well, you say it's one kind of a game and uh.. lying right underneath
 that kind of a game you have an entirely different game going on. Now that's
 set up this way. You very often find your preclear is suddenly turning up and
 he's complaining that every time he goes into a between-lives area or 
 something of this character, or what he calls that, he is saying that he's..
 he.. he's being promised that if he just goes back one more time, why, the 
 next time, why, he'll practically be ruler of the universe, and all that sort
 of thing. And uh.. this time he has to accomplish so-and-so and so-and-so. 
 And they give him a very specific goal. And then what do you know. They booby
 trap it. They give him a very specific goal and then give him an aberration 
 that makes it impossible to accomplish that goal. 
 
 Actually, who's they? They are uh.. people remarkably like thee and 
 me, but uh.. either just a little further down or a little further up on the
 tone scale, what you call a player, an assistant player. And the game divides
 down into players, assistant players, pieces, and broken pieces. These are 
 actually the component parts of a very wide game. But you can actually take 
 an E-meter, take any preclear - they don't know anything about past lives or
 between-lives or anything of the sort - you put them on the E-meter and you 
 say, "All right, do you have any basic goals?" 
 
 And the fellow says, "Oh, I don't know," the E-meter goes bang!
 
 And you say, "Well, now uh.. at the beginning of this life did you
 have a certain job to do?" 
 
 "Well, I.. I kinda.. kinda felt like it, but uh.. uh.. I've.. I've
 often had the idea," and the E-meter's going bang! bang!
 
 And you say, "Did anybody tell you before you were born that you
 should do so-and-so and so-and-so?" And the E-meter will go off its pins. 
 
 All right, you start tracing this down and you find out that all his
 life this individual has been trying to accomplish this thing, trying to
 accomplish it; but he can't accomplish it because he has an aberration that..
 now you can just trace it right there. What is the thing he has which does 
 not permit him to accomplish this goal? 
 
 Of course this works out mechanically. You find out that an 
 absolute's unobtainable here; therefore if you had an absolute right, you 
 would get the end of the universe. It just works out that way. 
 
 An absolute right would be a right on all eight dynamics, and if all
 
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 eight dynamics were right, you would pass instantly into a static, and the 
 universe would not be here anymore. And if you had an absolute wrong then all
 eight dynamics would be wrong and you would have the death of everything in
 the whole universe to have an absolute wrong. 
 
 So, it just works out mechanically, not paranoiacally, that uh.. the
 individual who is given a basic goal in any between-lives area is also given
 much more abundantly the reasons he has to lose. And you will trace for any
 lifetime or for spirals or for the whole track, these various efforts to get
 something done. The pc definitely has the idea that he is an integral part of
 a large goal, that something is really trying to be done in this universe. 
 And the most appalling, and upsetting thing in this universe is the fact that
 he has never at any time on the track been able to accomplish wholly one 
 goal. Because every goal he has ever been given has a big lose tacked to it.
 You cannot win without losing; that's this universe. 
 
 Now let's take a look at that and find out if the universe at large
 is more or less rigged on this basis, and in the meanwhile I invite you to do
 a little experimentation on the E-meter with those principles. 
 
 Uh.. it's.. it's.. it's just horrible, I mean this couldn't happen to
 somebody. I mean he's given the basic goal: at this time he ought to get 
 something done and they.. all kinds of specious statements have been made and
 this time he's decided... You're awfully.. looking awfully gloomy. Don't tell
 me that I'm hitting.. hitting home with this. 
 
 Well, his.. his whole modus operandi keeps getting jammed and he 
 can't quite figure out why this is. Well, he'll jam it himself. You watch 
 this odd phenomenon of a fellow going around right straight toward a goal and
 he's just evidently succeeding beautifully on this goal and then the next 
 thing you know, bong! He's wrecked his car or he's.. he's thrown something in
 there. There's something weird has entered in suddenly that kept him from 
 reaching that tall cliff. 
 
 Well now, this is a very simple thing. That is: no win without a 
 lose. Of course, if any piece won, that piece would be a player, and here on
 Earth we on.. by and large, don't even have pieces, and out in the slave 
 strata of the outer.. of outer space you don't have pieces, you have broken
 pieces. And a fellow gets up to being a piece again and uh.. he.. he wants to
 go right into action unless you've pulled the trip on this goal. 
 
 It's a.. it's a phony, this goal is. In the first place, nobody has
 any use whatsoever for this universe. There is no show to be gotten on the 
 road by the MEST universe. That is the horrible thing about the MEST 
 universe, is that there isn't even a secret about it. The big secret about 
 the MEST universe is that there is no secret. 
 
 You will notice the modus operandi of mystery in this universe. You
 see, it doesn't happen to be a pattern for all universes, fortunately, but
 the modus operandi of mystery is simply to hide nothing. 
 
 Lord Dunseny tells one of the most wonderful stories about a 
 monastery which was scheduled to fall one day, and this monastery was up on a
 high hill and there was a rumor and a legend had gone forward for many 
 centuries that on a certain day the monastery would fall. And uh.. the day 
 came, and one of the peasants in the valley walked up to the monastery and 
 walked in the front gate. He was quite astonished to find no guards on duty
 because the guards were back in a corner of a courtyard weeping because that
 day the monastery was scheduled to fall. 
 
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 And so he walked on through to an inner chamber and he was not 
 stopped because all of the guards there were weeping 'cause the monastery was
 scheduled to fall that day, and he walked on into an inner sanctum and an
 inner sanctum sanctorum sanctorum plus, and uh.. finally came down unguarded 
 corridors to the largest central room of this entire place where the mystery 
 of all mysteries of all mysteries was kept, and here behind, at the far side 
 of the room.. obviously, the mystery was behind these huge black curtains, 
 and he walked over and he looked at the curtains and he thought, "Well, it's 
 a very adventurous thing to do," but the monastery was scheduled to fall that
 day, so he adventured to do it. And he reached up and he pulled the curtains 
 down and there was nothing there. And the monastery fell that day. 
 
 That is any mystery there is in the MEST universe. Of course, it 
 fell, it didn't have a mystery. And that's true of any mystery. The boys who 
 sit down and beat their knuckle bones and drums.. oh, be.. beg your pardon, 
 they don't do that in this culture. Let's see, what do they do in this 
 culture? Oh, yes, they.. they uh.. flick a phallic symbol over the audience. 
 Yeah, now just a minute, I'll get it. I.. I get these ethnologies mixed up. 
 Uh.. they uh.. yeah, they have these gourd - no, it's beads, beads, beads, 
 they count beads in this place. Anyway, uh.. they.. they had uh.. all of 
 these things of that character. 
 
 Now there is a tremendous facade, with tremendous proof and yet the 
 biggest business of the Middle Ages was manufacturing authentic religious 
 relics. All you had to do was hide their history and they immediately became 
 authentic. 
 
 Now just look at this, look at this. The monastery fell that day 
 because the mystery is no mystery. And, of course, when its mystery was gone,
 the monastery was gone, all right. You lift the curtain on the MEST universe 
 and you find nothing there. It's just empty. 
 
 They.. they tell you, "All right, now what you're supposed to do, is 
 you just go down to that galaxy, that solar system, or let's do something or 
 other, and let's get everything all set because actually the real truth of 
 the matter is that uh.. this culture's growing fairly old and we need a new 
 culture and we ought to do something with that." And you go down into this 
 system and you find everybody rushing this way and rushing that way and 
 trying to get something done, and just the second a man finds his hands upon 
 the bushel basket full of gold, just the moment the person is about to drive 
 in the last spike of the imposing city, just at the instant when he has 
 success within his grasp, just as Dumas ended his.. after twenty years, the 
 marshal's baton of France is being extended to the hero of the story, and as 
 he reaches for it saying it was about time he got it, a cannon ball takes off
 his head. 
 
 There's no win. Now this is.. this is actually part of the postulates
 of the NEST universe. Don't.. don't.. don't look at it in reverse. Don't look
 at it and say, "The energy behaves that way. That's why these other things 
 behave that way." No, the energy behaves that way because of postulates. You 
 see, the postulates are senior to, in any case, the behavior of any 
 particular field of action. The postulate is the senior thing in the pc 
 although the pc is made out of energy. 
 
 Now how does the energy behave in the HEST universe? Well, I want to
 show you that the mystery was no mystery. We have two kinds of energy in the
 MEST universe. There's have energy and have not energy. 
 
 MY! Some of you look awfully grim about this. I don't.. I don't 
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 that there are goals amongst the universes, there are universes. It so 
 happens that there are universes where uh.. love and other things can 
 flourish and where a person can sit down on a pink cloud for twenty or thirty
 thousand years, and just sit there and nobody will come along and say, "Hey,
 uh.. now uh.. we'd like you to volunteer." 
 
 And the fellow says, "I don't want to volunteer," and uh.. so then..
 then there's this.. he hears this little hissing sound, ssssssssss, and he 
 says uh... 
 
 They say, "All right, now that you've volunteered, you know you've 
 volunteered, don't you?" 
 
 And he'll say, "Yes, I agreed, yeah, I volunteer," on his way, there
 he goes. 
 
 That's a very odd thing but you'll get any pc that you want to put up
 there will say, "I volunteered, yes, I agreed to this." 
 
 And you just ask him three times, no more, no less, don't infer 
 anything, not even by a tone of voice, and just say, "Are you sure now that 
 you volunteered of your own free will?" He will look kind of odd for a 
 moment. And you say, "Well, now we're just asking you factually just to make
 sure we get it straight. Was it of your own free will that you volunteered? 
 Was there any.. there was no persuasion of any kind used?" And the E-meter 
 suddenly goes neeeeooooow. 
 
 The body that's held in pawn, the goals which are extended to him, 
 these big volunteer projects, started out something in this fashion. There 
 was a big building. He was curious, he was very curious, and he.. he wanted 
 to know what was in the big building. It was very fancy.
 
 Maybe this fellow had a.. had a.. job, maybe he was already doing 
 something. And he was going around through the civilization. He was already 
 in use and uh.. he saw this big building and he thought uh.. he'd heard some
 mystery had taken place in there so he goes in to take a look. It's wide
 open, it's very easy to walk into, and what does he find? 
 
 He finds this enormous stone hanging suspended in the middle of a 
 room. This is an incident called the Emanator, by the way. And this thing is,
 by the way, the source of the mohammedan Lode Stone that they have hanging 
 down there that uh.. when uh.. Mohammed decided to be a good uh.. small town
 booster in uh.. Kansas Middle East or something of the sort.. by the way, the
 only reason he mocked that thing up is the trade wasn't good in his home
 town. That's right. You can read the life of Mohammed. And he's got a black 
 one and it's sort of hung between the ceiling and the floor and, I don't know
 it.. maybe it's called a casbah or.. or.. or something. Any.. anyway that 
 thing is a mock-up of the Emanator. The Emanator is bright, not black. 
 
 And so your volunteer, who is just on a sightseeing trip, goes in and
 this thing is standing in the middle of the room, and it's going wong, wang,
 wang, wang, wong, and he says, "Isn't that pretty?" It sure is. And then he 
 says, "Neeeooow ponk." Well I tell you, they cart him from there and they 
 take him in and they do a transposition of beingness. 
 
 Transposition could be the technical term for.. and is a very, very 
 technical term and a very authoritative word, and I want you to take 
 particular note of it because I just made it up. Uh.. the transposition would
 be that act of taking a person who is here and under influence, like hypnosis
 or something of this sort, persuading him to be somewhere else and then 
 
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 monitoring him somewhere else by addressing the body which is kept in a state
 of trance or drugs here. 
 
 You will find the lostness of your preclear normally stems from these
 transpositions, and why he can't remember his past track, past this life, is
 partially because he doesn't have anything from that period and the other is
 that he's lost his space, and if he's having trouble with space you'll find
 these transpositions.
 
 Little girl, she's sitting on the curb, she's playing uh.. with a..
 jacks or something of the sort, and this will be in the year, oh, a couple 
 trillion years ago, and she's sitting on this big, beautiful city and here's
 a very, very nice-looking hussar uh.. who rides up and says uh.. officer, and
 he said, uh.. "How are you?" and.. and gives her some candy. Well, after she
 passes out, uh.. why, he takes her across the saddle bow and takes her into
 the.. into the big castle and there she is placed in a room remarkably like
 those that are in use right at this moment. Uh.. there's a shining grate or
 something of this sort and it keeps her in a state of trance. 
 
 Well, they take her, persuade her that she is a prostitute or 
 something like that, or they get a prostitute and they bring her in there 
 too. And they swap those bodies and then they will send this little girl off
 to all of a sudden occupy or take over the body of some political uh.. some
 queen or something of the sort someplace or another, and make a prostitute of
 her so that she will disgrace the king and the government will fall. And this
 is politics par excellence MEST universe. 
 
 Uh.. isn't this wild? Incredibly wild. I haven't seen this done here
 on earth uh.. to any great extent at all. As a matter of fact, I haven't seen
 it done here on earth as such. I've done it, but I haven't seen it done. 
 
 Now when I started finding this on the E-meter, I decided that it's
 something we ought to look into. And so I.. I got ahold of a.. of a.. of a..
 well, he was in terrible shape anyway, and uh.. uh.. he.. he.. he'd never 
 liked Dianetics. Ah.. and uh.. I don't know, he's probably all right right 
 now, he's probably happy. Ah.. we had an awful lot of trouble with the body
 though. Uh.. and uh.. he went afterwards down to Fairhope, Alabama, and he 
 hasn't been doing too well, but one of these days we'll give him his soul 
 back. That's all a joke, by the way. 
 
 Uh.. anyway, just experimented - this is a number of years ago - just
 experimented this way, can you send a person zip zip zip. Well, I didn't know
 the mechanics exactly of what they did in this universe with this thing, you
 know. Could you send a person zip to here and there to there? Was this just
 astral walking? Or was it actually.. did we produce a result? Well, it's all
 right to sit around and theorize and say, "Well, astral walking is this and
 something or other is that." As a matter of fact, astral walking is the
 palest shade of anything like this. Just the palest of shades. And uh.. this
 uh.. do.. can we actually make this person influence somebody at a distance?
 
 And by working on it, really working on it, putting him into a very
 deep trance, narcosynthesis uh.. which is used every day on people. And.. 
 very, very, very funny, I mean nobody ought to fool around with a human mind
 that doesn't know his hat from his horse, uh.. nobody. 
 
 That's right, uh.. because psychiatry does this unwittingly all the
 time. They throw a guy under narcosynthesis and they say, "Be back on the 
 battlefield now, all right you're on the battlefield. Well, you were 
 unconscious at that moment so we won't pay any attention to that, now let's
 go through," and so on. And the guy comes home and he walks around like a 
 zombie and they wonder what's wrong with him. 
 
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You go ahead and you get one of these fellows and you have to collect
 him off this battlefield. They actually sent him over to the battlefield and
 the guy's been sitting over there on Green Beach One for three years looking
 at the waves come in, saying, "I wonder where the battle was?" 
 
Yeah, yeah, wonderful, isn't it? All right, uh.. so I sent this..
 this.. this - three guys as a matter of fact - I sent several of them, but 
 I.. I hate to break down and tell you about that. Uh.. none of them liked 
 Dianetics so it's all right uh.. and uh.. one of them was, well, that's all 
 right.
 
Ah.. anyway, could we take a homo sapiens and just simply tell him he
 was somebody else and make him orient and regulate and monitor the activities
 of the person we told him he was? Yes, to this extent, to tell this guy,
 drugged, to go over and get ahold of Bill and be Bill and have Bill get into
 the car and drive straight up to the front door.
 
You give it 15 minutes and you look outside and there's Bill. So just
 as Bill is going to get out of the car and before you have any slightest
 chance of doing anything else here just take this fellow and bat him around a
 little bit and wake him up and say, "You are still Bill, now drive down to 
 the City Hall and apply for a marriage license. Now you are driving down, now
 apply for this marriage licence. Now go on down there. Now go on, walk up," 
 and so on. 
 
All of a sudden this fellow Bill calls you up and he says, "You 
 know," he said, "I'm beginning to worry about my mind. You know that 
 yesterday I applied for a marriage licence and I don't even know any girls."
 This was in Hollywood, and of course no Bill in Hollywood would be interested
 in girls. 
 
So you want to know: Can it work - does it work? Does it exist? Is it
 phenomena? Boy, is it!
 
Your preclear has been.. been shuttled. Many of your preclears that 
 are really lost have been shuttled from hither to thither to whither until 
 they finally don't know what.. if they've got any space. One ament they.. 
 they're.. they're sightseeing, they're on.. they've just gotten off a ship 
 or.. or something of the sort, and they're walking along and there's this 
 big, beautiful building and it says Free Excursions: See the.. the panoramic
 or something, and.. and they walk in and that's.. their ship is still sitting
 out on some airport some place. The baggage is still in some waiting room, 
 the wife and kiddies are still wondering - hardly, because this is probably 
 millions of years ago -- they're still wondering whatever happened to him. 
 And, of course, it's just too horrible a fact for him to face that all of a 
 sudden, he could cease to be here and suddenly materialize there as somebody
 else. You wonder what happened to his space - it's scrambled all over the 
 place.
 
Now I.. I could give you.. give you a rundown on this and maybe..
 maybe I will. But it's.. it's just too fantastic for words. That's just too 
 fantastic so, of course, nobody would believe it, and that again is the main
 stock-in-trade of the MEST universe. 
 
You notice that everybody triggers on a "I can't believe it." You
 notice that.. that's some of the nicest mechanisms there is. The reason why 
 Scientology can't actually take the guts of nuclear physics, extend them; 
 we're more usefully in the direction of chain fission, low-order chain 
 fission than the boys are out at Los Alamo. We could take that, we could ship
 it to Russia, we could ship it to Germany, we could do anything we wanted to.
 
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 I could go down here and take an electronic laboratory and build a 
 gimickgahoojit that would bop bop gamma rays like mad and we'd just have the
 most fun. Nobody would pay a bit of attention to what was going on. Why? That
 is the main mechanism of the NEST universe. Does it immediately agree with a
 person's immediate surroundings? Well, if it doesn't, it doesn't exist. 
 Oh-ho, nobody is really permitted to imagine out beyond the surroundings in 
 which he finds himself. That's one of these agree mechanisms. 
 
 You do something that is completely out of agreement.. supposing, 
 supposing we went down and.. the doggonedest things could happen, you know. 
 Ah.. you could suddenly take over the Empire State Building in New York City
 and uh.. if you had it on the proper deeds and so forth and.. and everything
 was all set up, why, you'd have the Empire State Building as long as you'd 
 gone through the agreement of the environment. The whole society is wilde 
 open, it's just like it's Swiss cheese, it's very solid compared to this.. 
 this society. It just lies here; it's as porous as a sponge and nobody eats 
 it up. Somebody ought to wonder why. 
 
 There's two reasons why, is MEST has no real value, and the other 
 reason why is.. is because there are a lot of people making awfully sure
 right now this place doesn't get eaten up. 
 
 Now I ask you to.. to qualify all that I'm telling you and realize 
 that it's far too incredible, far too incredible to oh.. actually be. But 
 don't get an E-meter and start asking questions. You start to collect your 
 preclear in space, you start to sum up his space, where did he suddenly cease
 to exist and where is he still trying to hold on, and you will get a state of
 mind which says.. which has no fluidity. It.. it says.. it says, "Now look, 
 it's happened to me once too often. I was here and then all of a sudden, bow,
 I was someplace else and.. and I.. I'm sure I'm here," and your preclear is 
 hanging on to any anchor point the MEST universe cares to give him. He knows
 he's here. 
 
 Your preclear as you're processing him on mock-ups will occasionally
 open his eye and look around the room just to make sure he's here. And he's..
 he's.. where's here? Well, any here is better than no here, so he at least 
 knows he has a location, that he hasn't suddenly gone zook and appeared on 
 Arcturus as a street sweeper. 
 
 Oh, it's fantastic enough uh.. when you come to think about this, 
 that uh.. that something like this could go on and never get detected even 
 vaguely. Well, fortunately, it's very easy to solve. It is tremendously easy
 to solve once you know spacation. Because you can just solve it by mocking up
 anchor points and that sort of thing and the fellow is ill.. you'll wonder 
 why this makes a fellow feel so much better. Actually he's.. most of your 
 people have been transported and supertransported too wildly for his own
 credibility, much too wildly. 
 
 Now, at the same time, just because that condition of affairs can 
 exist - and it can only exist because it is unknown, that is, it's a mystery,
 it's hidden - just because that strange state of nonsensical things can exist
 uh.. disconnected uh.. uh.. the fellow loses when he thinks he's winning and
 he wins when he loses and all this is hidden back of the lines, is because of
 two things. 
 
 That is, one, the preclear himself never got oriented the instant he
 stepped into the universe. He was disoriented at that moment because it was 
 strange space and he is at the present time gripping with terrible tenacity 
 to any orientation to which he can credit a reality - any one. So one of the
 reasons why mock-up creative processing works is because it, for the first 
 
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 time, starts to treat the only anchor points he ever had or he ever will 
 have.
 
 He.. he doesn't have any other anchor points than his own anchor 
 points, but somebody could come along with trickery and drugs and persuasion
 and shift him from one place to another just grandly and beautifully and here
 you have, then, your preclear losing space and appearing in one space and in
 another space. 
 
 This material becomes deadly when your psychotic is faced with it -
 just deadly. Oh, it's just grim. The poor guy has com.. he has adequate 
 reason to be completely fruitcake, anybody has, and somewhere along the track
 he's taken refuge in the fact that he was no longer responsible so somebody
 could stop punishing him. 
 
 And you see when a guy can't die, he can be punished and punished and
 punished and punished and punished, so his final answer to inability to die
 is to say, "I'm not responsible and I can't be responsible," and the.. the 
 substitute in the thetan for death is insanity. And that, of course, came 
 about and the person chose the substitute of insanity before he chose uh.. to
 have a body and have it die. 
 
 You know, it's a very good thing to have a body because we have an 
 agreement here.. here and that is to say when you kill the body the fellow is
 legally dead. You can only go so far with punishment. You can't keep going 
 after that point. 
 
 Now these incredibilities add up to a squirrel cage, and when a
 fellow starts looking at the unknowness of it, he'll suddenly stop knowing 
 himself. 
 
 What is knowingness composed of? It's composed of having anchor
 points and being able to handle and combine energy. That's all known.. 
 knowingness consists of really. It's.. if you can do that then you have the
 capability of knowing, which is to say, computing anything that has to do 
 with a universe. Now if you can do those things, you see, the data which we
 have here.. look, all of the data we have is MEST universe data. There's 
 datum after datum after datum and they're all MEST universe data just as 
 though they were important. 
 
 It doesn't really matter a tinker's doggone where this preclear has
 been transported to from one place to another; it does not matter a bit how
 much MEST universe space he has lost. It doesn't matter how many identities
 have been taken away from him, really, in this universe; that is of no 
 consequence. Rut a psycho, all of a sudden, is faced with some terrible
 problem in this life and he starts to look for the answer and he starts to 
 look, God help him, in his facsimiles, and the second he starts to look for
 the answer to some all-pervasive problem about knowingness, the wrong place
 to look is facsimiles because the energy in them is rigged backwards. It is
 zong, 180 degree wrong. So uh.. the fellow starts looking through this and of
 course he knows less and he knows less and he knows less. What is he finding
 out from these? He's finding out past identities, but these identities were
 not his identity. 
 
 His identity is solely and only his own beingness high on the tone
 scale, that identity which he assigns to himself is his individualism; that's
 his individualism. Uh.. he is actually has to be robbed of his individualism
 to become John Jones, which is an identity. 
 
 So uh.. that's all the identity the fellow's ever going to have and
 
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 he just hasn't made up his mind to it. Uh.. but he still thinks that it was 
 more important to have been assigned an identity; you get preclears coming 
 around and saying, uh.. "I was uh.. Noah," or.. or.. or something of this 
 sort, "and I have these terrible crimes upon my back, yap yap." It will.. so
 what, so what?
 
 You'll find, by the way, another manifestation is preclears will
 shift identities and borrow facsimiles like mad. There's what they call the 
 Christ game and that game has been played and played and played and played -
 honest to Pete, these cards are just so thin. They've been laid down amongst
 the coffee cups and so forth of a whole universe. 
 
 You'll find out thousands of years before the year one A.D. Earth, 
 you will have facsimiles and dolls made up like Christ. Fac One a million 
 years ago is occasionally rigged with Christ and the Devil and an angel. It's
 a fascinating thing, it's an old game. 
 
 Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. Well, one of the 
 reasons he was.. he swept in so suddenly uh.. and.. and he would go forward 
 so hard is he had a good assist back of him in terms of an implant. 
 
 All right. Now he.. you'll find preclears, and this is a little 
 problem that will come up with you. You'll find preclears all of a sudden are
 Christ. You will actually find a preclear will go all the way through with a
 crown of thorns and every other darn thing. Just look for an overt act 
 against Christ, and it solves itself. 
 
 What they've done is picked up an implant phrase and done a mock-up
 on it. They can do it.. they can do this. They pick up some kind of an 
 implant or some kind of a terrible upset or a conviction of some sort or
 another, and then they'll go ahead and, my lord, they'll carry that cross 
 clear up to the top of Golgotha and get themselves nailed on it, and uh.. 
 very few of them go to the point of getting the.. the uh.. gall bladder 
 stuffed in their mouth or something like that - little Christian niceties - 
 uh.. but uh.. they.. they.. they will be just about as good as this as they 
 know about Christ. They'll add no new data to the situation. 
 
 This is an overt act against religion, and the person has been made 
 guilty in terms of some religious cult, and so on and the only reason that 
 could ever happen to him is because at some time or another he has deserted a
 group which was a high ethical group and after that he can become prey to 
 other things. 
 
 Man's degradation always stems from his first desertion or breakage 
 of, really, the Code of Honor. He breaks the Code of Honor and after that he
 starts downhill and he gets worse, and worse, and worse, and worse, because 
 his trust in himself is worse and therefore he can't trust what his own space
 is or his own energy is or anything else. 
 
 So this is a completely wild picture when you look at Man's location
 in the MEST universe and what he has or has not been through. The picture is
 just incredibly wild. And you start to search through facsimiles to set this
 picture to rights, all you're going to find is the track of agreements which
 lead him to finally agree to be what he is right now. Now you'll be able to 
 map that, but as far as his identities being shifted in space, being shifted
 in time, all of these things - of no importance. The dickens with it. 
 
 And you.. if your poor.. if your poor psycho can only realize this, 
 brother, it doesn't amount to two whoops and a collar button what you've
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 Golgotha, oh, that.. that's really vicious. You go down an.. an insane asylum
 corridor and you see these religious implants are just leaping, it's 
 something in the order - it's at least one out of three inmates in any asylun
 are spinning on religion. Why? God occupies all space. That's all you have to
 convince a guy and he's dead. That's right, that's all God's space and any
 space which you occupy will be God's. Oh, brother, just look at that as an 
 operation. The guy can't throw out any anchor points of his own without
 getting God into that space. And he'll spin like a.. like a spinning mouse if
 he finally gets this down the line. 
 
 And you look down these things and you find these guys are trying to
 depend upon or trust upon the other thing that they're worried about, God 
 help them, is they have found out how perishable a commodity ARC is in this
 universe, how perishable; they have had an ARC break with the rest of the 
 race.
 
 Now this actually violates the individual's own reality. It actually
 violates any way he would set up a universe if left to his own devices. He 
 would set this thing up on a high-level ARC and try to keep it there, but he
 has been tricked here into believing that certain things comprise ARC and 
 he.. he'll - all of a sudden you t.. start tracing back a preclear's life -
 where are his major ARC breaks? And he all of a sudden realizes that this 
 human being's no good and that human being's done him in and that human
 being's no good, and that he can't help some other human being, and this sort
 of a progress has been setting in on him just.. just year in and year out and
 he has never found this out. 
 
 A human being finds it almost impossible to do these two things - 
 one, be a driven slave under the whip of energies and necessities and spaces
 which are not his own, and to be at the same time a real being. lie finds it
 almost impossible to cross the MEST universe with faith, hope, charity, love,
 friendship and so on. It's dog eat pig.
 
 Look at.. look at the way.. look at the way the food system's rigged.
 If anything is silly, it's rigging a food system so that every time a being
 eats, something has had to die. Isn't that wonderful? Every time a being 
 eats, something has had to die even if he's eating celery. The cells that go
 to make up that celery are live cells, that's livingness. Here is theta has
 got this weird endless chain. 
 
 Go out and look at the sea sometime if you want to see how bad off 
 theta can be. Take.. take a big spotlight down in tropical waters and shine
 it into the water alongside the thing and then.. then just.. just watch. You
 don't have to do anything, just turn on the spotlight and the little fish 
 will come up to see what's happening to the.. in all this light, because they
 figure light=algae, that sort of thing and uh.. they're eating the algae, and
 the next thing you know there's a flurry and a flash and there's another big
 fish in there and he leaves a lot of maimed little ones and then he comes 
 back and eats two or three of those, and then there's a big flash from the 
 bigger fish that's suddenly cut in half by a barracuda and there's a big 
 flash because this time there's blood in the water and you see a big 
 barracuda come in there and then you see the slow lazy turns of a shark and
 Mr. Shark will come in there. Mr. Shark looks.. looks awfully religious, he..
 he.. he.. he is.. he's.. he's very nice. 
 
 You know he has lids on his eyes and he can blink at you particularly
 when he's dying, the most touching blink you ever saw. And uh.. so Mr. Shark
 comes in there and starts to mop the joint up and then maybe a couple of 
 sharks will get in a fight and then the shark that gets wounded gets eaten up
 by the rest of the sharks present, and if you've ever seen a bloody swirling
 
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 turmoil that will really turn you just a little bit gaggy and cold, just do
 that trick sometime in tropical waters.
 
 Now that's.. that's.. this universe then throws some sort of a.. of a
 vile curtain across things. It's.. it's an interesting thing, one of the 
 commonest incident you'll find in pcs is somebody telling them what they 
 really face in the MEST universe and making sure that the guy knows how bad
 it is. Just.. just.. just pounding it to them, and then just breaking them 
 down and showing them how degraded he is and so on. 
 
 They get a fellow.. you see, if a fellow didn't consent to become 
 degraded one of the fine days he could just suddenly throw out his chest and
 there would be a sort of a flash and a tinkle of glass and a faraway cry of
 the inventor of this place as he fell through all of his own space. 
 
 I think he should fall through all of his own space endlessly myself,
 I think we should have endless space, a sort of a circle with leading type 
 gravity. Because look at that, every.. every sensation, then, every sensation
 is based upon some debasing thing. This is not native to theta, theta can be
 pushed in that direction. Because bad and good are practically without 
 classification, but it can be pushed in that direction and it can be trapped
 in that direction and it can be made a slave to do this sort of thing, but 
 God help us. The fellow who has had these ARC breaks, ARC breaks, ARC breaks,
 down the length of his life, what he's doing is making the basic error of 
 supposing he's on his home ground. 
 
 He is underestimating the amount of power and force that is driving
 or that the.. his friends think are driving them. He's faced, then, with 
 people who are not able to act out of their own election but people who are
 caught enmeshed and enmired in a world where something has to die before 
 anything can live. 
 
 Now it's.. you're undoing then a very strange picture. You're undoing
 a very strange, complex and upsetting picture. 
 
 You find.. you think your preclear's liked some of it, he'll try to
 hold on to something because he's liked some of it and you process him for a
 little while and all of a sudden - boom. He finds out that wasn't the case,
 that he had himself kidded one way or another about that. 
 
 And uh.. he.. you find out that.. he tells you probably that he won a
 prize and then we found out the award of the prize was getting up on top of a
 chute and going down the chute and getting all the emotions installed one 
 after the other, and he gets to the bottom completely degraded. The emotional
 shoot, it's just an incident. And so they had a big contest to find who the
 smartest thetan was in this area and at the end of this contest the thetan 
 that had won the prize got to go down this chute. And of course that finished
 him. 
 
 You'll find that comparative operation in Formosa, the little Nippo
 did 50 years ago or so, more than that, a grab of a little island called 
 Formosa. Formosa up to that time was inhabited by the Chinese and had uh.. 
 its mountains were full of head hunters and uh.. hut it had a lot of 
 randomity and uh.. people were quite sick on it. And the Nippo, however, has
 taken great care that no Formosan has ever risen to any stature that would 
 permit those people to govern themselves, and uh.. the way he has done it is
 by awarding prizes to learn the Japanese language and by carefully making a
 drug addict out of any potential leader that rises amongst the people. He 
 carefully makes a drug addict out of him. 
 
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 That is just typical of NEST universe control. You'll find out that 
 those people who best approximate the modus operandi of the MEST universe in
 methods of control are the most successful in the MEST universe.
 
 Well, this is a complete reversal to the purposes and actual uh.. 
 hopes of.. of a thetan; he.. he.. he knows this.. this is just.. just 
 haywire. Ah.. what? Evil is rewarded, uh.. only evil is rewarded with 
 success, you mean you have to follow along with these trickeries and 
 twistings and turnings and upsets one way or the other in order to.. in order
 to bring about anything like success you have to be a dirty double dealing 
 dog? uh.. uh-huh. But remember what the fellow who is successful wins, he 
 wins MEST. And that, of course, is the trick within the trick within the
 trick within the trick. 
 
 After a fellow has completely won the MEST universe, what does he 
 have? He has, God help him, the MEST universe. But these tricks as they twist
 back and forth follow no good pattern of logic. Your thetan believes 
 earnestly, it is very touching, this.. this effect, he will believe 
 consistently and continually and earnestly down to the bitterest day of his 
 death that he has actually been trying to act somewhere within the framework
 of decency to the allowable uppermost limit. I don't care whether he's Pretty
 Boy Floyd or Mussolini or anyone of the sort. He thinks he had to do what he
 did when he did it in order to accomplish a goal of a wider level than... you
 know, he.. he.. he doesn't think in terms really of evil goals. 
 
 He's.. he sort of gets this way and he gets that way and he gets his
 values assigned some other way and he gets these things crossed up. And he 
 tries to figure out this riddle. And maybe he hasn't got a very good think 
 tank to figure it with. 
 
 And uh.. the next thing you know, why, uh.. he's finding himself
 doing the damnedest things. 
 
 Well, to a limited degree he is successful. But all such successes 
 are disposed of and any kind of success is disposed of. The reward of the 
 most successful writer in the whole universe is a loss of his ability to
 write. The final reward of it. 
 
 The reward of the greatest conqueror that ever rode with sword or 
 tank or rocket wagon across the stars or across the steppes or any place else
 was not just six feet of earth. It was infamy, utter debased infamy. It 
 didn't matter what he started out to do. He wound up doing about 180 degrees
 different. 
 
 So remember this when you look at your preclear. You're looking at a
 puzzle that every time an individual started to go in one direction to meet a
 goal, the game was so rigged that he wound up with a.. just exactly the 
 opposite polarity of goal. 
 
 That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one
 of the fundamentals of this universe. That to which he devotes energy, he
 finally has. How do you work this out? 
 
 Matter is condensed energy. So therefore, if you keep pouring out
 energy on something you will eventually have it. I mean, it's just as simple
 as that. It's just horribly simple. 
 
 Now we'll get a group that is, you see, we.. we're actually in a very
 strange situation. That's why I can speak up well in advance of your own
 experience on this line is I.. I know what you'll find. 
 
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You might sit there; an auditor would say, "My God! Gee, this sure 1s
 wild. Boy, how wild can this get." Believe me, it can get a lot wilder than
 I'm talking. 
 
And.. and you've.. you've got somebody that every time he had a goal, 
 every time he postulated a goal, he postulated simultaneously his failure in 
 the goal and didn't know it. Every time he had a goal. We could bust that
 cycle. We can break it to smithereens. 
 
But get that. He wanted to do this and this. And he'll find himself 
 finally having accomplished that and that. He will find it now has an 
 opposite meaning. 
 
Let's take the cops. You wonder why police forces periodically 
 collapse. Why, you'll have to have the heads of the detectives changed and 
 the.. the Chief of Police changed, and all the rest of the.. the.. the people
 in the City Hall changed one way or the other. They're fighting crime, and 
 they were putting energy on crime. And they're putting energy on crime and 
 they're putting more energy on crime. And what do they finally have? They
 have crime. Now, that's true and could work out this way, you see. 
 
If they started putting energy on honesty and put more energy on
 honesty and.. they'd finally have honesty. But they would just have to forget
 about crime. 
 
You see, a criminal goes down and he busts into a store window, and 
 then.. then they.. this happens a few times. And the City Council has to pass
 a law saying, uh.. oh, this.. this is common throughout the universe, had
 passed a law that after a certain hour nobody could be on the street, 
 something like that. You.. you're not going to.. you're.. you're part of that
 town and you're not going to break into any shop windows. And yet what do you
 find happening? That during certain hours of the day you find yourself 
 restricted in the space in which you were permitted to move. Why? Because
 some stupid uh.. yap out of some reform school or something of this sort has 
 busted into stores too often. And you are penalized. That is law at work in 
 the universe. Penalties, penalties, penalties. 
 
You don't have to commit the crime to be subjected to the law. Your 
 group, any member of the group, the foulest member of the group gets the most
 attention under law. Your newspaper headlines for instance are given to the 
 foulest murderer. They're not given to the most honest citizen. There could 
 be some citizen who, by his good works and winning ways and a few other 
 things, had really improved the hell out of the town and he is just made an 
 announcement that he's just improved the devil out of this town. 
 
And so you look around and they said, "Yes, sir, there's.. there's 92 
 acres of park fixed up and the kids have got a playground and.. and this will
 cut down juvenile delinquency and everything else," and.. and uh.. sure he.. 
 he'll.. he'll get some kind of a mention back alongside the obituaries or
 maybe when he's dead why they'll run it as part of the funeral notices and it
 will be the last line. Of course, much bigger right above it will be the name
 of the funeral parlor where he's buried. 
 
But uh.. this is typical, and so we get what is known as a dwindling
 spiral. And the dwindling spiral is based upon that principle - that on which
 one expends energy one has. 
 
Now because you can break this cycle and because there is such a
 thing as auditing, it is quite safe for an auditor to audit. It's quite safe
 for an auditor to audit because he can rehabilitate himself. He can knock
 
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 this stuff out and particularly now with creative processing. The theory of 
 validation processing arose in 1951. It was based on this, I.. I concocted it
 because I saw that the more you validated something, why, the stronger it
 got, as a basic theory. So let's see what we validate and start working out 
 on validation processing and sure enough it works. 
 
 But energy is such that every time you try to go toward a plus or
 good thing the guy's bank will flip into a minus and, boy, if you've never 
 examined this you've got a treat in store. In the E-meters' uh.. boxes Volney
 has a.. a.. history of that in the back of the E-meter manual he's sending 
 out. Uh.. pleasure moments, they're running a pleasure moment with an 
 E-meter. 
 
 You say, "Let's get a time you were eating a steak dinner." And the
 preclear starts to eat a steak dinner and all of a sudden there's a big drop
 on the E-meter. And you say, "What you dropping for on the E-meter?" 
 
 And the fellow says, "Well, I dunno.. I'm just.. I'm running this
 incident but I.. I'm really not enjoying this steak." And you say, "Well,
 what's the matter?" 
 
 "Well, it reminds me of my poor husband."
 
 And.. very interesting, you can't have any pleasure, you see. Uh.. 
 the goal is pleasure so you have pain. The goal is pain, you'll have pleasure
 - goes in opposites. So every time you try to run a pleasure moment, any time
 you try to run a pleasure moment on a pc you're going to get something or
 other, and then when you've run enough painful moments he's going to 
 extrovert and he'll flip up the line, but that's not breaking the cycle. 
 
 The way you break the cycle is to really get what you validate. Put 
 energy on what you want, therefore an auditor really hasn't got a heck of a 
 lot of business monkeying around too much with psychos and neurotics and.. 
 and ills and ailments - why should he? 
 
 This is probably a new thought to you, some of you, you've got 
 yourself plotted out you're going to help people. Good, good, nothing wrong 
 with that, except this. This is something like turning a., a uh.. 12 cylinder
 Hispano Suisa uh.. loose in order to run between the kitchen and the living 
 room. 
 
 Now that's just one of these minor, minor affairs. You see, once 
 you've broken the cycle and you can make the able more able, let's apply it 
 to you first and let's make that ability more able than that has ever been 
 able to be able in this universe and let's.. let's just fix it up so that
 short-circuits the action of the universe against you. 
 
 You'll win, you'll win because you're no longer playing ball with the
 plus-minus set-up of the MEST universe. Oh, we.. we've got a nice big win for
 you. Why, I.. I wouldn't uh.. we got a nice big win for you, here it is, here
 it is, now you've got it? Well, what do you know? You've lost. I mean that's 
 typical. I wouldn't be a bit surprised one of these fine days to see all 
 sorts of.. of.. of.. sharps and beautiful women and cargoes of gold, and 
 diamonds and pearls being flown.. flown in here just like mad with ferry 
 services and.. and governments of the world trying to buy you off. The 
 natural impulse is to halt an operation which will break the cycle called
 MEST universe. 
 
 Oh, man, the guys who are being the most victimized by it are trying 
 the hardest to keep it ticking, keep it ticking. All you've got to do is just
 
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 step off that line. Just step off that endless belt, and just.. just skip its
 idea of every time you win you've got to lose and every time you lose there's
 some win connected with it and it's all parity and that sort of thing. You 
 can actually turn around just off of that use of creative processing and the
 rehabilitation of your own universe and your own capabilities. You can turn
 around and you can make this universe do anything you want it to do. It will
 do anything you want it to do, if you want it to do anything. 
 
 Now we wonder.. we wonder about this - can you really reverse the 
 vectors on the MEST universe? You sure can. You sure can, but don't think 
 you're going to do it without a screaming, smoking flash because there.. it's
 not a mild one. 8ut you see you're playing the MEST universe's game. All this
 is too incredible. No.. nobody believes it. What do you know. 
 
 Supposing you, as a group, suddenly decided to wipe out crime in the
 United States. Supposing you just decided to do that. Now you devoted your 
 attention to crime and so forth, well, you know the MEST universe's rules of
 opposites. You'd know you'd have to put your attention on honesty in order to
 wipe out crime. So you'd take all the criminals and you would make sure that
 they made sure that they set an example of honesty so everybody would be 
 honest. 
 
 That sounds strange but that's what you would do. It would be a very
 successful program. Uh.. you would just put the police, you would put the 
 police in cages so to speak. And you would.. you would set the criminals up
 so that uh.. the criminals up so that the criminals were very sure that uh,.
 they weren't fighting crime, they were just making sure that everybody was 
 being honest.
 
 You could form an organization with.. not even with Scientology, but
 just something like Alcoholics Anonymous uh.. which would uh.. make every 
 criminal responsible for one more criminal or something of that sort, just 
 treat it as a disease and it would work out right there without any 
 processing. You could end crime. You could end it utterly. And uh.. you can
 win is what I'm trying to tell you, because you start tracking back with your
 preclear through he was here and he was there and he was shifted someplace 
 else and his identity was so-and-so and he owned - the hell he did, the MEST
 universe never let go of anything yet. 
 
 After a fellow has built something out of the MEST universe, it still
 belongs to the MEST universe. He's maybe got a label on it but that's an 
 identification. It just says it's MEST. And so he goes on with this endless
 chain and he gets nothing when he finally finishes; there is no reward.
 
 And as a net result we have, when we look this picture over there, 
 we.. we see that an individual in order to win has to get off the treadmill
 of the win-lose built-in little gimickgahoojit in the MEST universe. He.. he
 has to get off of that treadmill because it is pure deception. And when I 
 tell you about some preclear being.. being flipped from this body into that
 body and elsewhere and this being done and that being done and he getting 
 'tween lives and he's given goals and he's given missions, he's supposed to
 do this and he makes products, all that sort of thing - every one of those is
 a trick and a trap. You'll have what you devote energy to, but remember that
 it's your own energy you're devoting to it and it doesn't necessarily belong
 to the NEST universe at all. 
 
 When you devote your own energy to it, you're going to have something
 worth having, but when you insist on having that energy handed to you by the
 NEST universe, you'll wind up with trash - every time. So what I'm trying to
 stress here is the confusion that's the MEST universe is not even uh.. 
 
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 important anymore to address even vaguely. All you have to do is rehabilitate
 the individual's ability to handle his own and make his own space and energy.
 And only then can he or you be sure what is happening. 
 
 In a moment, next hour, I will cover.. I will cover these 
 contradictory flows to show you how the MEST universe flows are set up and 
 what's wrong with them. 
 Now let's take a break. 
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