 I uh.. understand you want to hear some more about these games. That 
 right? Okay. I'll just give you then a breakdown on the list, which I gave 
 you at the end of the last hour, and explain this thing just a little bit 
 further, so that you'll have a good grasp of what we're doing here. 
 
 You see, the first thing that should be sorted out on any operation 
 is the intention or the goal. This was a practice of the ancient magician. He
 would become an effect if he had not stated what he was trying to cause. If 
 he'd just cause, cause, cause, at random, without ever analysing what he was
 trying to DO, he was doing at random and heading toward chaos. 
 
 The difference between thought and matter is that thought aligns in 
 its highest echelon, and matter is chaos. Now, the chaos of matter is quite 
 in addition a chaos which came about from thought hitting the particles too 
 often and misaligning them. So let's.. let's look this thing over, from this
 standpoint: To have a goal in processing, and a stated intention in 
 processing is itself tremendously important in processing. And it's very very
 important for the auditor doing the processing to know what he is trying to 
 do and for what he is aiming. He doesn't have to make a terribly full 
 statement of this, but he had better have something so that he can make a 
 full round statement of his overall, unlimited goal. 
 
 I don't care if he is.. if.. if he.. it's an indifferent goal, or a 
 not terribly desirable goal, or this is the effect toward which he is 
 heading. He wants to achieve this effect. Now oddly enough uh.. you can run 
 this in a circle if you want to. You can say, "I am trying to cause this 
 result. I am trying to get the preclear up to a point where he can be cause."
 Well now, that's all right. Rut it's kind of nebulous. It's part of the 
 ingredients of the intention, but it wouldn't be all of the intention. Uh.. 
 were you ever part of a group that just went on acting and acting and acting
 and acting, and never got down to saying what they were trying to do? 
 
 Now if you get into any group, political, social, anything like that,
 it doesn't matter, and you find out there's a terrible lot of random motion 
 going on -- there's nothing happening, but there's an awful lot of motion, but
 nothing happening, you've sat down in a piece of MEST. You haven't sat down 
 in theta; you're sitting in a MEST. Random vectors. 
 
 The difference between a piece of chaotic matter and thought is that 
 the chaotic matter is without goals beyond those goals which somebody else 
 impresses upon it. An orange is a living thing. It knows what it's trying to
 do. It has been persuaded that it should produce itself so that it will be 
 eaten. And it has found this actually is a good way to plant orange seeds, 
 and get them well fertilized so it'll grow, make itself quite edible. But 
 it's trying to produce new oranges. It has a goal. Very well aligned. 
 
 And one of the things in which you're in awe, in the process of life 
 creation, is not so much the complexity of steps and alkaloids and chemicals
 used in life creation. But there's that goal. That single, clear, starry 
 goal. And it is simply the goal of "produce another thing like myself, and 
 lots of 'em!" And what you look at there, you.. you're not looking at MEST, 
 or the process of complexity, but boy, there isn't another goal that compares
 to that, to direct beeline intention. And so a fellow, the human race has 
 sort of bowed down to that, and they sort of take a look around them and see
 this enormous obsession going on. This.. this.. this fixity on a goal of 
 reproduction of self. And they say life is a wonderful and mysterious 
 process. It is so wonderful and so mysterious, that you when you get upscale
 and so forth will be able to embue something with life. 
 
 That's really not what life is doing at all. It's just using an 
 
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 existing impulse. It's not making new lives. It's setting up these channel 
 lines. And.. so that things can travel down them. It's sort of like a 
 road-building crew. 
 
 But get the interest people get in a well-aligned and fixed goal. Now
 if you just have the preclear there, and you nebulously say, "I'm going to 
 make this person well" and then.. then you don't even bother to define what 
 'well' is, and you don't know what.. what is 'well'? Well you don't have much
 of a goal for your preclear. So you could merely state, and always should 
 state, what you are trying to do for the preclear. Not leave it understood, 
 or half thought-out, or say, "That was part of a lecture sometime and I'm 
 sure that somebody else knows about it but I don't." You're being an effect 
 when you're saying that, and you're not going to cause, not worth a nickel. 
 
 To cause things one must be cause, and the primary requisite of cause
 is a statement of intention and goal. Primary requisite to be cause, is a 
 clear statement of what you're trying to do. And only when you clearly state
 it can you avoid being yourself an eventual effect. "What am I trying to do?"
 If you can't answer that, you'll foul up. 
 
 Well, let's put it to this limited degree. A preclear comes in, sits 
 down, says, "I uh.. so-and-so and so-and-so... I want uh.. so-and-so.. and 
 I've always had this bum lock of hair and I want it to be trained flat." 
 That's his goal. Who was it that had a goal, he got this, oh.. tremendous 
 amount of processing on something just so he could grow a couple of hairs, or
 something like that. Or we ask this preclear, theta cleared, and everything 
 else, and what was this preclear trying to do? Well, this preclear was trying
 to uh.. make it so she wouldn't mind it if her husband scolded her. I mean, 
 merely.. really limp! But that's better than not having any goal! Most 
 preclears come in, they say, "Well, I..." - they're not happy, and so on. "I
 want to be happy." Oh, boy! That's nice and nebulous too. Beautiful. 
 
 So let's have action goals, huh? For our preclears. All right, one 
 preclear comes in and he sits down and you see this preclear is loused up 
 like a fire drill and he doesn't know how loused up he is, and he says, "I 
 want to fix it up so ties fit me better." You don't care what he says! The 
 second you accept his goal for him, you are an effect of him. The hell with 
 what he wants! Oh, that's strange! The guy's in a very aberrated condition. 
 And he isn't going to want what he says he wants after an hour's processing.
 He isn't in any state to make any goal, or any decision about a goal. He 
 really isn't! 
 
 You take a look at him, and say, "Now, let's see..." You don't have 
 to tell him. Make a statement. Write it down. Keep.. keep one of these 
 ten-cent store ledgers, like I'm always threatening to do when people steal.
 I'll keep a few cases in.. in a ledger and nake a few notes and the next 
 thing I know I look around and I say, "Where's my ledger?" Uh-uh! There's 
 more of those things parked around the country! People looking for some magic
 secret or something, I.. what do they find in it? They find, "Effort 
 Processing. Lecture so-and-so..." so on. Just routine processes. Routine as 
 the devil! 
 
 All right. Every once in a while they find some experimental data, 
 like we.. we uh.. worked with this preclear on action goals. We had him go 
 down to the dime store, and uh.. buy uh.. fifty sets of glasses. And then 
 come back and break them in a number of different ways. Something like that,
 to see if this improved their vision any. Just.. but what's the cause? So you
 have this little ledger book, and you write down, "Jones, Mrs." And you put 
 at the top, age, rank, serial number? Nuh-uh! You don't show this case book 
 to Mrs Jones. The dickens with what she thinks about it. After you've talked
 
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 to her for a couple of moments, you put down the hour she reported in; 
 that'll be of value to you later on. Tells you how much time you spent on 
 her, in case you want to add up your ledgers. It's quite important. Tell her
 how long you've processed her. Also you can have that in the book, so that's
 quite important too. 
 
 But uh.. how long s.. length or.. or amount of havingness of Mrs. 
 Jones, this could be a list of. That's really what you're marking down. Uh..
 now, Mrs Jones doesn't have you, you understand. That's.. that's the way to 
 be a terrible bad auditor. How're you going to have any effect upon a 
 preclear, if you're asking the preclear all the time for a license to 
 survive? You don't get many preclears either, by the way. They.. they sort of
 notice this. You can give them sympathy, but you can only.. their.. your 
 sympathy's only valuable if you give it from an altitude. And the only way 
 you gain altitude is simply to be cause. And you're cause by locating them in
 time and space. You tell them when they're supposed to be there and when they
 leave. 
 
 Make a practice sometime of telling 'em to leave. You ought to drill 
 yourself on it. "All right, you leave now." And by the way, if I were.. if I
 were really.. had the thumbs down around here on processing good and solid, 
 you could get little assignments like that. But I've had to be on deck to 
 straighten them back and forth. 
 
 I gave a fellow an assignment one time, "Now, I'm giving you five 
 hours of effort processing," and uh.. so forth, and his trouble was a 
 tremendous uh.. physical infirmity which demonstrated enormous embarrassment.
 I gave him the assignment of making everybody he met, or knew, demonstrate 
 that infirmity. Tough assignment! He knew he couldn't do it. He knew he 
 couldn't. So what do you know! A week later, he'd gone around and put it into
 action. Instead of being embarrassed himself, he had managed to make 
 everybody embarrassed that he knew. This guy was a cock of the walk. He was 
 in most wonderful condition! In just gorgeous condition! 
 
 For instance uh.. he knew that he would never have the right to talk 
 to a woman. Much less embarrass a woman! So I made him go around and 
 selectively embarrass women. By remarks to them. Not.. not bad remarks, you 
 understand. But just tell them something or other and.. that would make them
 nervous. Just a little bit. That guy came back and he was feeling benign 
 toward the feminine part of the race, patting them all on the head, and they
 enjoyed him a great deal like that; he was fun. He had been able to command 
 these objects. 
 
 All right, when you're trying to command objects, be 
 cause. And always be cause, and everything else but cause, and when you put
 down that 'Mrs, Jones, 2:15', why, you also put down after you've talked to
 her for a short time what goal you intend to achieve with Mrs. Jones. 
 
 And then she says, "Well, I can only spend a certain amount of time.
 I can only spend a certain amount of time," she says, "on this and I only
 have five hours that I can be processed," and so forth. 
 
 It's always a good thing to tell them in no uncertain terms uh.. "You
 have as many hours as you need. And if you only need three, you only need
 three." 
 
 And so we have a condition resulting here of a preclear who is going
 to get well. Not a preclear who's going to come in and burn up some time and
 pay you a fee and go out again and monkey around. 
 
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 Let's get down to some of the niceties of how you handle people. I 
 may not follow my own rules, but I sure know the rules! And to a large degree
 when I am extremely successful with somebody or other, I have followed the 
 rules - I look back over it. 
 
 He says, "I only have enough time, I'm going home... Here is.. I've
 got a hundred guineas," or, "I've got five hundred bucks," or.. or whatever
 it is, and, "I want so many hours of processing for this," and so forth. 
 
 You say, "Well, the processing fee happens to be 250 dollars an hour,
 and you have as many hours of processing as you need, and if you only need a
 half an hour, that's all you're going to get." 
 
 And they say, "The man must know what he's talking about! He must be
 able to do things!" 
 
 You think that's offensive language - no, no! Don't bother to be 
 offensive about it. But it is better to be offensive, that way, real mean 
 offensive that way. 
 
 "I don't care whether you've come over here or not; it's nothing to 
 me whatsoever whether or not you come over here to get processed. That's.. 
 that's.. all you can possibly pay me is money. And that isn't worth a damn, 
 and you know it, and you probably aren't worth saving anyhow!" 
 
 You could go to that limit, and it would be better, and you would get 
 more preclears, and you would do more for the preclears, than if they came 
 over and you said, "Well, yes, that's right," and, "We'll see if we can do 
 that..." and, "That's right..." and everything is all very calm, and uh.. and
 uh.. so on. And uh.. "Well, if that's what you want, why, we'll give it to 
 you." 
 
 No, no, no. Don't be so damned agreeable. 'Cause that's inflow. Be 
 disagreeable; that's outflow, and they'll want you! Say, "Yes, you come over 
 here at 2:15, you be over here at 2:15, and we'll give you enough hours.. as 
 many hours of processing as we can." 
 
 They say, "Well, I only have two hours, and I want to spend it..." 
 and so on. 
 
 Uh.. "Well, I'm sorry. I can't say how long you'll be. You'll maybe 
 only be here an hour, and maybe I might keep you six. Who cares?" 
 
 Give them no margin of placing themselves in time. Because you are 
 much better off in control of the preclear than the preclear is in control of
 himself during the period of processing him. And the way you do that is place
 him in space and time. And never let him get the idea he's placing himself in
 space and time. 
 
 Once in a while suddenly call the guy up and say, "Drop over here at 
 eight o'clock before you go to work." Rattle him on the subject, if you're 
 having trouble with a preclear. And you'll find out he'll respond better to 
 processing! This is how you build altitude. 
 
 But under the name 'Mrs. Jones' you put down the goal. "This
 squirrely old dare ought to be fixed up so that she could possibly live with
 her husband." And you just work, right straight toward that goal. 
 
 And she says, "...and my lumbago, and my arth.. arthipedics, are uh.. 
 are all sparthlicated..." 
 
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 You don't care. That.. if that has to do with her getting along with 
 her husband, and that's what you've decided she'd better do, that's what's 
 going to happen to her! And what do you know! You've decided what's going to 
 happen to her, she'll never gonna.. he.. she won't affect you. She can sit 
 there and rattle off aberrations and exude glee of insanity and.. and feed 
 out engrams that would ordinarily be terribly restimulative, and.. and all 
 that sort of thing, and that won't have any effect on you at all. You know 
 what you're doing with her. It doesn't matter how limited your goals is, or 
 how extended your goal is, just go ahead and do it. Don't even be practical 
 about it. And don't mind changing it. 
 
 The next day she comes in, you've changed your mind. Don't shift the 
 goal! But know that YOU changed YOUR mind, on receipt of more data. You've 
 decided she ought to be able to live with her son. That she'd probably be 
 happier doing so. 
 
 Now that sounds very funny, making peoples self-determined by 
 dominating them and controlling them. That's telling you you'd better be 
 responsible for your preclear, and you couldn't be responsible for this 
 preclear at all unless you were willing to control and dominate him during 
 the session. See? If you aren't willing to do that, you.. you're not willing 
 to handle the force of a preclear. 'Cause we're not trying to handle that 
 preclear for bad cause. You're not trying to be bad cause. 
 
 But maybe you are bad cause. Maybe you move her out of her body and 
 she does a bunk and they bury her. Well you know that you did your best along 
 the line. You know what you were trying to do. And you know what you were 
 trying to accomplish. Things like this can happen. Probably never will 
 happen, but they could happen. Be willing to take the consequence of it. If 
 you are, if you go around propitiating, and say, "Give me a license to 
 survive," to everybody you meet; every time a preclear walks in you say, 
 "Have you got your license to.. the license you've got for me? Oh, please, 
 sign me a license to survive," and you won't make 'em well. Steel yourself 
 up. Just on the basis of being cause. And most of being cause is stating the 
 goal. 
 
 You're willing to state a goal on something. 
 
 Now to give you here a goal, we're going to make a theta clear. A 
 person who is going to be stable outside of his body, and who does not have 
 to come hack in because the body is injured. That is a highly specific, but 
 very broad goal. That's what you're trying to make. There is no 'why' you are 
 making a theta clear, you see. You know that in the process of doing this an 
 awful lot of a guy's upsets and viewpoints and educational malfunctions and 
 all kinds of things will spring. Matter of fact you can sometimes take 
 somebody and move him out two feet back of his head, takes a look at himself, 
 drill him a little bit, orient him in space. You don't even stabilize him 
 outside of the body. He comes back in like mad. He wouldn't hardly know the 
 guy from the beginning to the end of the session. He's so much better, he's 
 so much more alert, and so forth. That's just the theta exterior. 
 
 All right, you make a good theta clear, you could kick him in the 
 shins, or an automobile could run over that body, or anything could happen to
 that body, he would stand there and be outside, not trapped. What you're 
 doing is making a thetan trap-proof, as a body is concerned. And pea.. I love
 these.. these short-gap no-synapsis characters that go around saying, "A 
 theta clear is uh.. just a theta clear, and that's nothing, why, anybody 
 could be that, or do that uh.. because uh.. the astral walkers have been uh..
 been skidding around on their feet uh.. for a lonq time on this subject, and
 everybody knows that they're theta clears, and anybody can..." Oh, piddle! It
 isn't even vaguely connected! 
 
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 You've got the individual EXISTS, and IS without a body, and no 
 dependence on one, beyond his contact and communication lines, as long as he 
 wants to stay in contact with the bodies. But the body doesn't command him, 
 he commands it. That's a terrific goal, right there! You've got a human 
 being, made into a new kind of human being. It's a body being monitored by a 
 trap-proof thetan. And that makes quite a guy! Quite a guy. There's a big 
 difference between that guy and homo sapiens. An enormous guy! This goal is 
 so far beyond the goals of the first Book that I don't think you could 
 measure 'em with light wave.. meters.. light-year meters. It's just.. be.. 
 way beyond anything. Because the bird's immortal! 
 
 Maybe you hadn't.. probably.. many of you taken even that into 
 consideration. That you've just made a god! What is the definition of a god? 
 It's an immortal. Since time immemorial in this language, the gods are 
 immortal. The immortals are gods. This guy can be.. body can be bashed in, so 
 forth, all he's got to do is pick up another one. Knowingly, full knowingly. 
 
 You've given him his identity, his own identification inside himself 
 as much as he needs it, and his own state of beingness and stepped him 
 sideways off the track, completely, of having to flick back through 
 between-lives areas, and be this effect of God knows what-all. The body got 
 killed, it'd be a sad thing because he would not be able to collect his 
 social security as himself. That'd be real tough, wouldn't it? So don't.. 
 don't sell this goal short. You've just made an immortal. So that.. that's a 
 good enough goal! All by itself. 
 
 Well, if you make your intention of a person.. you say we're going to 
 make a theta clear out of a person, that's what you intend to do with that 
 person. Just by definition. But if you don't intend to do that much, let's do 
 something short of that. Let's still state what it is. "I'm going to fix up 
 her left hind leg. Work till her left hind leg is fixed up and then drop it. 
 That's the end of that." 
 
 Or if you were to put down you're going to make a cleared theta clear 
 out of somebody, oh no! How can you state you are going to do something of 
 which you do not know the scope and dimensions? With an individual you're 
 going to say, "I am going to research the business of being a cleared theta 
 clear, with this pc, and find out some sere about it." Well, that'd be all 
 right. Rut, "I'm going to make a cleared theta clear out of somebody," you 
 might as well write down, "I am going to make a Thee-X-Epsilon" with no idea 
 of what a Thee-X-Epsilon could possibly be. It is not a goal. Because it has 
 no scope or meaning. 
 
 What can a thetan do? Now, we'll say cleared theta clear. You 
 couldn't put down such a goal. Because that's the postulated outer line 
 unattainable absolute. Probably anything we understand it to be is probably 
 attainable already, but what is the outermost limit of it, Lord knows! 
 Haven't got any idea and you haven't either. You won't have for a long time! 
 
 But what.. what do we get then, when we look at this? We say, "This
 is.. we've got a theta clear, and we're going to do something more. We're
 going to process him some more." So you put down as your goal, "I am going to
 process him some more." Sure, you can go process him some more. You can just
 process him and process him, and.. to do what? "Well, I don't know, make a
 better thetan out of him, or..." 
 
 No, you could say, "I'll process him some more to get rid of' these
 'can'ts' I found on the E-meter as follows..." All right, you got those 
 'can'ts' out, end of track! Otherwise you don't get any.. any end cycles on
 anything. You just keep going on forever, and your whole life gets dragged
 out to an interminable piece of endurance. 
 
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 So when you say, "I'm going to..." here, you've got a.. got a cleared 
 thetan, "Now what's my next goal for him?" You could put down what the next 
 goal is: "I'm going to fix it up so he can lift his body." See, you make a 
 statement, to yourself. I don't care if you write it down. Make the statement 
 to yourself at a clear moment. "What am I going to do for Doaks, now that 
 he's a cleared thetan? I'm going to fix him up so he can lift his body." And 
 that's a specific drill, and you fix him up so he can lift his body. 
 
 Then maybe the next time.. next time you process him, a few weeks 
 later, you give him a few hours of processing, and he gets a what? You're 
 going to get him up to a point where he can lift up a taxi cab. Now, a taxi 
 cab would be an entirely different project than lifting his body, but they're 
 consecutive on the same line. You get the idea? Specific statement of goals. 
 
 Now let's look at the overall in.. statement of why we are doing this. 
 Why? Well, the reason why we're doing this would and should be codified 
 before we could adhese, or cohese, as an operating group to the extent we 
 would like to be one. Because that would be what the group goal is. What are 
 we trying to do? 
 
 Well, the group goal to a large degree depends upon the group. I 
 don't happen to be uh.. either inclined to or in a position to tell you what 
 the group goal should be. But I can sure give you the data so you can work it 
 out. And if you all put your heads together and decide that's what you're 
 trying to do, all of a sudden a lot of spirit and spark could come in on 
 this. 
 
 I told a preclear one time.. he said, "Well, I can't understand why 
 I've got to originate all this energy." 
 
 And I said, "Hey, did you ever stop and think of this one thing? You 
 could probably attract waiters in restaurants much more easily simply by 
 reaching over and taking them sharply by the ear, or the shoulder, and 
 turning them around and pulling them forcefully into the table." 
 
 He said, "I could?" 
 
 And he worked and he worked and he worked and he worked and he 
 worked. And he came back to see me one day, and he says, "What do you know!" 
 he said, "I not only dragged one clear across the restaurant, but I also 
 dragged the head waiter over to the table, and I made them stand there, and 
 then I convinced them that I hadn't done it. And that they were mistaken, 
 that I didn't want anything, and I wouldn't let them go away!" 
 
 I told another preclear, "Do you realize that you could reach over
 with a couple of energy beams like this and make any girl smile at you, you
 wanted to smile?" 
 
 He said, "You could? No!" 
 
 So he worked, and worked, worked. Force, see? Energy, energy. Had a 
 big goal. Force, force, work, work work work work work, work. 
 
 And he finally goes out and pssww! "Yes! What do you know!" he says. 
 "It's an awful artificial smile, though. You can make any girl smile at you," 
 he says, "It makes thea feel so silly. They walk down the street and they 
 look at you and they wonder why they're smiling at you!" 
 
 So, I said, "Well, you know, if it makes them feel silly, all you've 
 got to do is put those same two things on their actor controls, and say, 
 'Feel pleasant toward me.'" 
 
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 He says, "You couldn't do that!" 
 I said, "Well, try it! Try it!" 
 "Feel pleasant toward me. I don't.. don't..." 
 
 I said, "Try to get back up the line, how pleasant it is to touch 
 them. Skip that. Just 'Feel pleasant toward me.'" 
 
 And he says, "You know, they do. They exude an awful lot of 
 enthusiasm in my direction all of a sudden." 
 
 He's been going around this all.. for some time. He hasn't got any 
 goal of his own. You just have to keep giving him these little piece goals,
 and so forth, and uh.. figure out things that'd be interesting to do, that he
 all of a sudden says, "You know, that's awful interesting!" And he'll find
 out his process will just skim forward. Just take a terrific rush! You've
 given him a goal. 
 
 Now a group goal is a very necessary thing if your group is going to 
 get interested and go forward. A person's cause is motivated by future. 
 Motivation's in the future. It's, 'What I want'. 'What do we want'. That's
 cause. And if it's interesting it sort of pulls us forward to it. You're 
 making the cause be motivated by something you want to have. And so when you
 postulate the goal for Mrs. Jones, make it something you want to have. 
 Something that'd be interesting to you. 
 
 I don't care what you do to mrs Jones. I don't care if you drop her 
 off the top of the wall.. Woolworth State Building. That's your preclear.
 'Course, if you drop too many of them, why then as a group we have to take a
 stand. Not to punish you, but to placate the police! And somebody'd have to
 drill up on how you pick the locks on cells or something in order to get your
 body back out, because there you are, trying to whisper in all your fellow
 auditors' ears, "Hey! The body's down in the clink!" And, "I.. I'm so 
 rattled, I.. I can't zap any of these cops!" 
 
 So, what's your.. what's your goal level as a group? Well now, it 
 frames around this pretty well, truth be told. There's games to make and 
 games to unmake. And there's one thing to play a game, and all games have
 umpires, and it's quite another thing to be an umpire to a game,.and it's
 quite another thing to unmake games. You say that sounds like a very 
 destructive goal. Oh no it's not! 'Cause what you do when you unmake a game
 is you get the players together, and you say, "Hey, what kind of a game would
 you like to play now?" You haven't busted their game up willy-nilly; they
 were perfectly willing at the time you unmade the game for it to be unmade.
 Actually you could play the game of unmaking games. 
 
 Or you could play the game of umpiring a game. As a group, do you 
 realize you could set up umpires to the group called HEST universe? It's very
 strange, isn't it? It sounds, it just sounds so flamboyant that you probably
 don't think it's completely attainable. But this is an easier one. You could
 actually set yourself up so that you just simply say, "Well, we're the.. the
 umpire squad, and uh.. we decided this Earth-Venus-Mars triangular game 
 here.. gotta know more.. something more about this, so that it could be 
 played a little more equitably and so on, and with a little more interest.
 And uh.. let's find out what rules you're playing by so that we can enforce
 them." 
 
 Or there's the game called U.S. and Russia. And you simply set up a 
 nice, conservative quiet 22.0 tone scale association, that simply starts 
 
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 monitoring the situation between the U.S. and Russia. And you say, "Well it's
 all very well for you boys to have conferences, and uh.. that's all very 
 well, but uh.. unfortunately you.. not.. don't realize it completely, but 
 you've got to have an umpire present. And you've got to have more 
 conferences, and these conferences have got to be wide open to the people of
 both places." 
 And they'd say, "Well, why? What do you mean?" 
 "Well," you'd say, "It's like this." 
 
 And then.. then Stalin and a couple of other generals, and things'd 
 be finding themselves meeting in a small swamp in the middle of Korea. Yeah!
 I mean that literally! Pick 'em up by the nape of the neck and slam them into
 the middle of Korea. And you say, "Okay, boys. Now we said there's going to
 be umpires in this game!" All right, it doesn't appear immediately attainable
 to you. So it's not within your framework of workability. But it'll get there
 soon enough. And if it gets there and you want to do such a thing, go ahead!
 
 Or, you can suddenly turn this way: You can just walk around and pick
 up teams, or set-ups, who'd gone all to pieces. Or they've dwindled down to
 nothing, where you have no game. Do you realize the cruelest thing that can
 happen is for a game to deteriorate to a no-game state? Where there isn't any
 game possible, and everybody's stuck in it? And they've forgotten their 
 rules, and they don't know anything about it, and so on. You could as a small
 association simply go around... (I'm going to petition to the city of 
 Philadelphia to take the wheels off their street cars, and use some gravity
 bolts or something. Every wheel on those street cars is flat as the 
 motorman's head!) 
 
 Anyway uh.. you've got a makingness of games inherent in ending 
 games. You have a responsibility for doing something about broken pieces, 
 pieces and players, if you decide to end games. Well, you could suddenly put
 your heads together and say, "What do you know! What we're going to do here
 is we'll set up and just for practice monitor a few of the games going on on
 Earth and find out if their games are going according to our Hoyle. Whose 
 Hoyle? Our Hoyle. Well, we'd have to have Hoyle. We'd have to write Hoyle on
 the subject of games, or Sudrow on the subject of games, or something of the
 sort. 
 
 And uh.. you decide that uh.. this or that was happening, or people 
 weren't interested in this game, this game could be pepped up and become more
 interested. So you've just become game catalysts. You should pick up... (You
 see? I ran regret on that streetcar and it backed up all that distance!) Uh..
 there is a goal, which is an attainable goal. If you were to take, in the 
 United States, and set yourself up as game umpires, that's just what it'd 
 amount to. Is.. is the game called business and industry, is the game called
 militarism vs. politicianism, are these games running so that they're 
 interesting? Sole consideration! Is the game interesting? No! Well, let's 
 take and adjust a few factors that make it possible for the game to be 
 interesting. 
 
 Okay. Now. The limitation in the rules of games, the limitations on 
 self and others, is necessary for there to be an interplay. There's got to be
 a limitation. There's got to be some frame of reference. That limitation can
 only be as light as an ethical understanding. We're going to operate within
 ethics. And the reason why there has to be a limitation is not terribly 
 obvious to you now, but it's obvious to you from the theory which you have 
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 And that theory is simply this: Our whole activity tends to make an 
 individual completely independent of any limitation. That's right. You can 
 get so much bigger than anything you are, and so disconnected from anything 
 you're in contact with, and so completely careless of the fact that this is 
 what's happening. If.. you can go straight on out, and one person is capable
 of himself being a universe, hence you could do the whole thing yourself. 
 You're that big. But the second that you are that big, you would be imposing
 limitations on yourself, in order to scale down to a size which made you able
 to play against yourself. And then you'd impose limitations on the two sides
 of yourself. And you've gone into the same spiral of limitation. 
 
 You see, limitation is necessary to that degree because there is no 
 limitation, basically, and the limitation itself is an idea of limitation. 
 And when you have an unlimited thing, in order to produce any action or 
 randomity you've got to limit it to some degree. See, it's not fair. Any one
 of you people could go ahead and rule the whole confounded shooting match all
 by yourself. So you'd make up a team, and say these are the limitations in 
 which we're operating and they're so-and-so and so-and-so, and such and such,
 and change it around as you will. Do you follow me? 
 
 Old Alistair Crowley had some interesting things to say about this. 
 He wrote a book of the law. He was a mad old boy! I mean, he.. you'd.. you'd
 be surprised though, that Crowley, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Aristotle, all 
 the boys, practically, along the line, except the real screwballs like Kant 
 (He was insane! That's why people bought him) - they all talked about the 
 same thing. And actually you can find all these ideas we're talking about, 
 someplace in the writings of practically any philosopher who ever thought 
 things over. He couldn't fail to fall headlong across the most salient facts
 in the case. He never organized them or was able to evaluate or use them. But
 he had 'em. 
 
 Schopenhauer, THE WILL AND IDEA. Try attempted breakdowns of this and
 that. You read this fellow now and "By God," you'll say, "this guy really 
 made sense." Don't.. don't forget, you're talking from an aligned viewpoint 
 of knowingness. And you can make anything make sense now. You could even make
 Congress make sense! 
 
 Now, if you're going to have rules, if you're going to have a game, 
 you've got to have rules. And if you've got rules, they must be obeyed. An..
 a rule which is not obeyed, or is obeyed just some of the time, or is so bad
 that it can't be obeyed all of the time, it shouldn't be there at all! And a
 game which has no rules has no game. It's chaos. No alignment. Nobody to 
 agree on anything or.. so on. After you'd won something you'd never want it,
 you see; there couldn't be a goal in it. So it has to be some sort of an 
 agreement. 
 
 It's only when the agreements become compulsions on individuals that 
 the game gets very upsetting. And a piece then degenerates into a broken 
 piece, and it.. nothing is making any sense to him. He knows it's no fun. He
 isn't a participant, really, he's just kind of used. And nobody really wants
 him or needs him. One of the things your broken piece asks continually, he 
 asks to be needed. He wants to be wanted. He gets way down scale, and he hits
 that bad. That's sub-zero on the tone scale. Imagine having to be needed! 
 
 And uh.. so your obedience to the rules of course makes it, the rule,
 possible. But if they were bad rules they couldn't be obeyed. What's a good 
 rule? It's a rule which aligns action, and permits compliance. That's all. It
 uh.. you can't have a rule that doesn't permit compliance, although we've got
 a lot of 'em on the statute books. There are a heck of a lot of rules you 
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 to beat your wife with a stick one inch in diameter. Just try and find a 
 stick that's exactly one inch in diameter! Furthermore you've got to have a 
 wife to obey that rule. Furthermore a rule that doesn't apply to all hands 
 isn't much of a rule. Then you've got a specialized caste system going which 
 is too complex. 
 
 Now unconsciousness of rules to add reality. And after you've got the
 rules, if they're real good rules you can duck 'er,",. You say, "Well, everybody
 obeys these author,statically." 
 
 "Oh, you're here in this area? Itchy, of course, in this area we do 
 so-and-so and so-and-so. Naturally! Nobody'd think of doing anything else." 
 
 "Well," the fellow says, "you mean you got a law about this thing or 
 something?" 
 
 "Yes," they say, "natural law, yeah. God gave it to us." 
 
 They just left the conference yesterday where they formulated it. "God 
 gave it to us." That's it. 
 
 Now you've got to have ARC with others to play, and reverse ARC with 
 others to play. There's got to be another team. And you have to have 
 teammates. But you could go up to a level where your need for ARC didn't 
 exist at all. But you're making a game now. 
 
 Now pain is penalty which will be obeyed. You've got to have the 
 rules obeyed. How do you enforce the rules? You put an automatic enforcement 
 around that everybody desires to use. The second everybody desires to use the 
 enforcement, they will obey it too. They obey it to set an example. Pain is 
 the enforcer in this universe. But don't think that's the only one. It could 
 be: You disobey the rules.. you disobey the rules, you are immediately 
 surrounded by smoke. And the smoke continues till you're able to obey the 
 rule. Just like that. I mean, you'd have no pain to bother with, but it'd 
 certainly be annoying! 
 
 Now, agreement to rules and penalties is necessary to continue a 
 game. Fellow has to agree to a game before he can participate in it. And the 
 reason why things have gone bad here on Earth, and in the MEST universe at 
 large is simply that.. that people didn't agree to this game. They thought --
 they did. This game started out in a very strange way. And uh.. of course 
 went off its rockers sooner or later. 
 
 It started out in an effort to never be unmade. Its goal was
 eternity. Its dream was forever. Can't have anything. The guy that made it up
 didn't know anything about the necessity to have rules to have a game. 
 
 Deterioration of game until no game is inevitability in any game. All 
 games came to an end. This game tried to set up for an eternity. Like he'd 
 yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, 'Eternal, eternal', boy, every time you turn around 
 in this universe you see 'Eternity', 'forever', 'infinity of time'. They 
 don't exist. 
 
 All right, when a guy is unable to play, it's because he has never 
 agreed to play the game, and somebody's lied to him and said it isn't a game. 
 And how you do that? You convince a guy he has to work by creating a 
 scarcity. And then d.. making his existence, his continued existence, 
 dependent upon it. And that's work! 
 
 Now, the game of complexity and levels - of course you've got to have 
 
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 complexity in a game, otherwise it becomes monotonous. Okay, we'll run that 
 on down the line. 
 
 Now, necessity to have a new game coded, before one ends the old 
 game, otherwise everyone else becomes a maker of games with no game. Every 
 guy's trying to make his own game. And you just get a general wild scramble.
 Well, you start ending a game, you kill something without putting something
 in its place. And the darn thing won't die. Not worth a nickel. It just won't
 die. What exists has a persistency in its existence. If you've ever tried to
 knock a group off you would recognize how unwilling that group is to die. 
 
 I swear to Pete you could take every member of a military company and
 stand them up against the wall and shoot 'em down, and you'd still have a 
 military company! Proof: The massacre of the Seventh Cavalry. We've still got
 a Seventh Cavalry! How could you have a Seventh Cavalry? The Seventh Cavalry
 was massacred by the Sioux Indians, at the.. Little Big Horn, in 1876. Still
 got one! Persistence of existence. 
 
 Well the way you do that, you have to get a more interesting game, 
 before you end an old game. Now you want to know why your preclear stays 
 around his body, and hangs around and doesn't do anything and doesn't go 
 anyplace? Two things happen. He hasn't found, one, that his mock-ups are more
 interesting than reality, laughingly called. And the other thing he hasn't 
 found is communication in the state which he is in with others. So he feels 
 there couldn't be any ARC and he's liable to cut himself off completely. 
 These things then have to re.. be rehabilitated. See? 
 
 And he'll go on, and he'll hold himself kind of static because he 
 doesn't see any.. any upper goal. He doesn't see himself going anyplace. 
 Therefore it really.. really is of considerable interest that he sees that he
 can go someplace. Well if he's just going to the stage of theta clear, that's
 fine; let him go to the state of theta clear. That's pretty good. He can 
 still operate as a mortal, and be immortal. And boy, that's sure having your
 cake and eating it too! 
 
 So, we have then uh.. as far as the group is concerned, quite a wide 
 variety of choices. What does a group do which has in its hands the 
 capability of making games? Ending games? Umpiring games? You found the 
 rules, you see? I mean, here you sit, you've got a good group, and what do 
 you do? Well if you want this to be a group, you want to cohese, you kind of
 have to get together and put your heads together and get some kind of 
 agreement on what you're doing. And then - and only then - can the group be 
 cause. If you just idly spin, this way and that, and not think about it any
 further than that, the group will not become cause over any large area, but 
 is apt to become an effect of a lot of things. So even though it's a poor 
 goal, it's better than none. 
 
 And you can put that down as a beautiful maxim, that sounds like one 
 of these horrible truisms, but boy it'll fish you out of more holes than you
 could possibly imagine you could get yourself into. A poor goal is better 
 than none. You'll find yourself very often squirreling around, and spinning 
 around, and you won't know which way you're going or which end is up, because
 you've decided all the goals you could put your eyes on were too vague or too
 poor, or too unwanted to try to attain. And that itself is a bad aberration,
 and it shows a misdirection on your own part, and a misestimation on your own
 part, and a lack of understanding on your own part of what you're doing. 
 
 There is no goal vast enough to absorb your total capabilities. 
 Because your total capabilities are so vast that they make goals. You are, 
 yourself, cause. So how on earth can you set it up so cause can have anything
 else but cause? Unless you come downscale a little bit. 
 
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 A goal, any kind of a goal, is better than none. You say, "What am I
 going to do?" Oh, worry about it. You.. you squirrel on it and squirrel on 
 it: "What am I going to do? Oh, how am I going to handle myself? What are 
 going to be my goals?" and so forth. 
 
 Set one up! Any damn thing! Say, "I'm going to become..." or "I'm 
 going to be..." or "I'm going to have..." And goals set up in the capacities
 of Be, Do and Have. And the start of a goal is beingness, and the end of the
 goal is havingness, in this universe. But you don't have to set them up like
 that. 
 
 You can set yourself up a cycle of action in any direction you want 
 to. Supposing you are.. you just don't know what to be. Well, just think 
 about it for a while, and think about it, and then think about the strangest
 thing you could be, or something like that. And all of a sudden you'll say,
 "Say, you know what? I'll bet I could be the doggonedest minister of a 
 Baptist church you ever heard of!" Well, silly, but it's better than just sit
 around and mope! It'd be silly for you, 'cause it'd be a relatively insincere
 goal. Or would it? 
 
 Uh.. they.. they have a formula on how you become the minister of the
 Baptist church. And I'm afraid that you've gotten just a little bit above the
 standard formulas. One of the ways you do it is go around and find the 
 Deacons, is to have them elect you. Sounds strange, but that's all. Another
 way you can do it is pick up some poor divinity student who's better off dead
 anyhow, he's practically dying, hang him up, and make him up.. patch him up a
 little bit, and parade him on down like a doll and put him on the pulpit. 
 It'd be interesting. You could run him part-time. 
 
 You know, a guy came in one day who had a lot of.. had.. oh, he'd 
 just been ennuied, just so bored with existence, all of his existence. Very
 conservative and so on. I saw him a few days later, and this guy looked like
 he was a.. he looks like a.. a quarterhorse, or a.. or a short-distance 
 runner. Panting, big bright terrific look in his eye and so forth, and he 
 was... I said, "What's happened to you? 
 
 He said, "Well, there wasn't anything worth doing, so I made up 
 something to be worth doing." 
 "All right, well what was that?" 
 "I won't tell you what it is, because..." It's very amusing! 
 
 And he'd thought up that one and then thought he could do something
 else simultaneously, so he was working on each one part-time. And boy, 
 keeping those two straight was nore than he could possibly keep track of, and
 he was really going all out. He was going to bring about the confederation of
 two completely impossible opposite polarities. And merge them. And he was 
 proceeding to do so. And then one of these days you'll see a very strange 
 circumstance happen in some department or other. You'll see a lot of 'em 
 happening. 
 
 Now you call this interfering with peoples lives. Piffle! What lives?
 Now you'll find out there's a certain number of people that go for broke. And
 there's a s.. lot of then say, "Oh, boy! Gee! These beautiful, beautiful 
 slave chains! Gee! Oh, now nice! Nice, nice, big chains around my neck and my
 ankles," and so forth. 
 
 The hardest thing for any liberator to face is the fact that a large
 percentage of the people he was trying to free wanted desperately to be 
 
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 slaves. And it's broken the heart of every liberator to date. To date! Hardly
 any exception. A man'd have to be awfully stupid not to see that. Rut he 
 would be pretty dull if he didn't see this too: Sure, sure, but. the guys he
 didn't liberate were worth liberating. 
 
 Why.. why try to get these allnesses? That's typical MEST universe. 
 "We have to do it a hundred percent -- I used to fall into those traps too. 
 Uh.. "We have to do it all, we have to do it a hundred percent." 
 
 The Christian goes about it in the opposite direction. He says, "The
 one that goes away from the flock and we had to bring back was worth all the
 rest." Flow he's just obeying the laws of flows, don't you see? The guy walks
 away, so he's got to be had back. That's not clever! Uh.. as an insane thing.
 But sure! 
 
 Uh.. another fellow'd take a refuge in this.. if he sees this happen,
 all of a sudden says, "Well, maybe fate decided it. Maybe it was all for the
 best, and maybe fate decided it." 
 
 Your fate! There is no other fate but thou! That's true! And so you 
 say, "I'm going to free all and every..." No you're not! Unless you were 
 willing to become all and every, and then be yourself free. That's the way to
 do it. Why bother? No random1ty! 
 
 So pick up what you can get as freedom, and then if the other thing 
 is too much in the road still, it's still got all them thar slaves in it, and
 those fellows that are saying, "Oh, boy, gimme.. gimme that MEST, gimme those
 chains. Let me haul on the bottom of this tombstone so I get it good and 
 heavy so I'll never be able to crawl again out from under it." Let 'em stay 
 there! The hell with them! That's their hard luck! And the other thing is.. 
 the other thing is, there's the guys that go for broke and the slave who 
 wants his chains. You can always use a slave. Gives randomity. They never do
 anything for you, they always pull you down. Gives you randomity. 
 
 You know, in every Roman triumph they had a slave drifting along, 
 trotting along back of the.. the.. the great victor's chariot. He came home 
 in triumph, he'd just conquered the Basques, or the Lion's Club, or something
 of the sort, and they always had somebody, a slave, standing there telling 
 him he was just mortal after all. He was just mortal after all. You can't
 control everything. That's right. In every one of those triumphs they had 
 that guy behind the victor. 
 
 Well, that's fine, that's fine, uh.. that's what a slave does, 
 essentially. He's saying, "Look! You can't make god out of everybody. You 
 can't do it. I'm proving it. Look at me!" Uh.. and he gives you randomity as
 a result. So why worry about those things? Why worry about those things? It 
 is a game. It is not serious! 
 
 But what is serious is unmaking a game and NOT HAVING a game. That's 
 kind of serious. Unless you are just willing to go clear on up, shoot the 
 works, straight or, up to the top, into the beautiful serenity, and just be 
 above beingness there. Straight or, through. 
 
 There night he spheres and areas on theta that you could then move 
 across into that would be different than game areas. If they are, I do not 
 know about then. And I know many areas in which theta's operating, and 
 whether they know it or not they're operating on the laws of games. One way 
 or the other they're operating within these laws which I've read to you. And
 they don't know these exist, which is the beautiful joke on the whole work. 
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 don't know the rules of games. So you could set yourself up to be an inter- 
 universal empire.. umpire team. You could. And get away with it. 
 
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 But what do you want to do? If you have these rules of games, you can 
 tell yourself that there are all kinds of things to do. But the first thing 
 you've got to do is because a good, solid theta clear. 
 Let's take a break. 
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