 This is December the 16th, first hour of the afternoon lectures. 
 
 Now in your textbook, Scientology 8-8008, you will not find the 
 complete steps of uh.. Spacation - that is to say Spacation is broken down
 into six very precise steps. It's done like you empty water from a pitcher
 into a glass and back again. It's about that simple. I gave you these 
 yesterday. I'm going to have that mimeographed and probably as you hear this
 as a tape it will be in your hands as a mimeographed item. 
 
 I'll read those, however, just to make sure that they're on the 
 tape. 
 
 One. Spacation. One: Establish an anchor point and hold it, 
 exaggerating the automaticity of it and slowing it down until the point can
 be made to persist easily without attention from the pc - without any 
 effort. 
 
 Two: Establish two-dimensional space, hook it to two big toes and
 elbows of pc, exaggerate and bring under control its automaticities -
 stabilize. 
 
 Step Three: Make two-dimensional planes, solid and unresisting at
 will. Make pc penetrate it or not as he chooses. Make it resist or not
 resist, heavy forces thrown at it. 
 
 Four: It's all right. You've got this. Four: Establish and find 
 empty a large box which also encloses the pc in the couch. Unmock the latter
 two. Inspect it from all sides, stabilize, make' solid or empty at will. 
 
 Five: Locate home universe in center. Bring it under control with 
 exaggeration of size and so forth. Banish it at last. 
 
 Six: Make mock-ups and destroy them in this space. 
 
 And that is the length and breadth of the technique called 
 "Spacation" which is Step Three of the Standard Operating Procedure. 
 
 And that's very simple because that can be remembered in this 
 fashion. 
 
 One: A point. Two: Dimensions. Then, Three: Dimensions. Then you 
 find what's in the center of it. And then you do mock-ups and destroy them
 in that space. Very simple: One, Two, Three-dimensions. 
 
 And the second technique which is not in that book is Flow 
 Balancing, which has a colloquial name "Give and Take Processing." That's 
 going to re.. cover quite a bit of ground here today. In fact, I'm 
 practically going to talk about nothing else all afternoon. 
 
 And the material, then, in your next text, Scientology 8-8008, is 
 not in any way contradicted and matches up these lectures. 
 
 In these lectures you have a lot more of it. The material which is 
 in there very briefly and very staccato as given its proper breadth and 
 evaluation in this lecture series. 
 
 That textbook, actually, is not a textbook which is supposed to be.. 
 just handed to somebody and he reads it. He uh.. the.. the point of the 
 matter is it was not written for that purpose, and although that textbook is
 
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 being translated into German and Spanish and just released, uh.. it's almost
 an overt act. Because it'll make very good sense to you, measured back up 
 against these lectures and a man would practically have to make or unmake or
 re-evaluate the universe backwards and upside-down in order to fit what he
 knows of experience into that book. 
 
 The lectures and other material which has gone before and which 
 you've already studied form a bridge between the experience of man as he 
 walks around and pretends to be active and so forth, and the level at which
 we're operating. 
 
 If you looked at all of the consecutive techniques which have been 
 developed, you would find that they composed a gradient scale, a relatively
 smooth gradient scale with only one or two items out of line on that scale.
 These items are not so much out of line as they are just more heavily 
 evaluated than they should be. One, are words in engrams. That's still more
 important, really, if you're just going to process an engram, than it is to
 process the mechanics because the mechanics of the engram agree with the 
 material universe, and words, at least, are still partly theta. 
 
 And so, we have in our techniques as they reach forward from 1950 
 straight on through now, a bridge which covers the evaluation of the 
 commonest, most ordinary level of experience in any culture on earth here,
 straight on through, step by step. It goes from what ordinarily can be found
 to aberrate people and if alleviated will bring them up into a better state
 of rationality. That is the running of engrams and locks, and grief charges.
 
 And that goes from there into the mechanics of what aberration are 
 and those are introduced, more or less, in SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL. 
 
 And then we go forward to a better appreciation of language as 
 contained, no matter how briefly, in SELF ANALYSIS, 1951, and then go on to
 ADVANCED PROCEDURES AND AXIOMS with the establishment of the goal of 
 self-determinism as the most valuable of these goals; and we go straight on
 from there through 1952, taking the GE, discovering and resolving the 
 problems relating to the GE, discovering that that is NOT the road and 
 finding that one has to process, if he processes the pc, the pc - and who is
 and where is the pc. And we find him. He's very accurately locatable. 
 
 And from those studies and experimental and temporary techniques we
 came right on through to Standard Operating Procedure, Issue One. And from
 there, as more results and more studies have been conducted by myself and as
 I've seen these techniques in the hands of auditors, we come up, straight 
 away, to Standard Operating Procedure Three which, if you'll notice, has, as
 its main deletion, the - from Operating Procedure Issue One - the removal of
 any agreement with the MEST universe. 
 
 We don't... Issue One said DED-DEDEX running for a Step Five. You 
 don't find this in Step Three. And now we go straight on forward to.. Issue
 Five of Standard Operating Procedure and that has simply done this: It has
 taken up the whole problem and in putting it out in Standard Operating 
 Procedure Issue Five, we have included all the steps which are necessary to
 clear a thetan and make an Operating Thetan. 
 
 And actually, it is not just the Step One. Step Two and then we do 
 something else. It is what we do. And no matter where we find him in the 
 case, we process him at that point, get him up to a Case Level One. Then we
 do everything else there is there. 
 
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 Of course, you'll find it unnecessary in the main to do Six and 
 Seven as Steps on most preclears. Rut you would be completely amazed how 
 often you will have to do them to somebody who is apparently quite sane and
 still operating. 
 
 And so, Standard Operating Procedure Issue Five, then, is the direct
 and immediate result of two and a half years of application of various 
 principles, aligned and organized, as they were found to operate in the 
 society and in the hands of auditors. 
 
 And.. but we have this as a package which contains in it the basic
 techniques that you use to head somebody up toward an operating thetan so
 that he can really get there. 
 
 Now the odd part of this is that it misses one big point, but it 
 hits this point in Step Three. It doesn't do one thing. In other words, if
 you had this list and you did just these things you would get an operating
 thetan, except for one thing. You would not have rehabilitated his primary
 desire in the MEST universe, and if you can't rehabilitate that he will be
 unwilling to quit a body and operate, and I'll.. I'll cover that. 
 
 He, in other words, will stay as a stable theta clear, but he will
 stay in immediate and intimate contact with bodies. And he will continue to
 do so until this point is resolved. And in view of the fact that continuous
 action straight up against bodies and this terrible dependency on bodies 
 exists, you'll find that your, quote 'stable' theta clear will have to sit
 down and work himself every few weeks to be stable unless this point is 
 resolved. He will flicker, and uh.. he will get involved. 
 
 Now because you as a thetan are educated into the principles you 
 need to know in order to remain stable, it'd be perfectly legitimate to call
 an educated thetan who had been treated just to a point where he didn't 
 enter the body if the body was hurt, to treat him as a theta clear - stable.
 
 But you.. you just spring somebody and you don't do anything else 
 about it, they're going to be back in their heads. That's why it's cruelty
 to do it, because one point won't have been solved. And that point is 
 sensation, need for. 
 
 And if you haven't got that in beautiful shape, why, uh.. your pc is
 going to find such a need to hang around bodies and such a disgust of 
 himself because he is hanging around bodies continually and is dependent 
 upon them, that he'll fluctuate, up and down the scale, up and down the 
 scale, back and forth. And he becomes unstable, you might say, emotionally.
 Because he on the one hand knows he shouldn't be associating with such 
 company, and on the other hand he has to. And so he's still subject to 
 flows. 
 
 Flow balancing is part of this answer. But a good and adequate 
 understanding of the principles underlying this are the better part of the
 answer and a technique which is not flow balancing at all, but which is in
 addition to all those given and which you've already heard about, must be
 noted as the extra technique to make an operating thetan. There are many 
 other things you can do with a thetan, but let's get this little extra one
 in there. It's not one of the steps. 
 
 The reason it isn't one of the steps is because it is an education.
 It is not really a process. It's a return to what he once could do and 
 prepares him to do that again. And that is, it demonstrates to him that, 
 one, he as a thetan can contact directly from the environment much better
 
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 any sensation that environment might possibly deliver to a body. And if he 
 can contact directly any sensation immediately from the environment - you 
 see, he's not in the body, he's not connected with bodies, he's not using a 
 body in any way and he can still contact from his environment and experience
 any sensation that a body can contact and experience or can be gained from 
 bodies - he of course, at that moment is willing to give up the idea of the 
 body. And until he has realized that, until he knows that, until he's 
 completely assured this in the case, he will not leave a body alone but will
 keep hanging back and hanging around and diving down scale and going back 
 into the head and out of the head and around and around and around and 
 around about the whole thing. 
 
 And that is done by rehabilitating his own ability to perceive. This 
 is not too difficult because the only ability to perceive there is, what do 
 you know? - the thetan has the only ability to perceive. And he's.. thinks 
 he has to do it through the body and he's so accustomed to this and he's so 
 certain of this that what you have to do is demonstrate that the thetan's 
 ability to perceive directly in the environment and to capture and 
 experience, create sensations, must be possible - can be possible to him. 
 
 So this becomes very simple, really. What do we do? You get him up 
 scale to a point where he can feel that wall. And he can feel that wall much
 better with his own contact with the wall than he can with his fingers of a 
 body - as a body. In other words, he can feel the wall straight and he 
 doesn't need any fingers to contact that wall. He can feel the size of, 
 shape of and weight of objects without any interposition of a MEST body's 
 fingers or muscular reflexes. He can see anything that he can see with a 
 body and be as certain that he is seeing it, as with a body. 
 
 But that follows. That is a very.. well, that's very tertiary. It's 
 uh.. it's below secondary. It's secondary, for instance, that he.. be able 
 to contact ordinary things. What you want him to be able to contact are 
 things which are strong, exciting, interesting and complex sensations. And 
 he must know that it's possible for him to, one, contact them in the NEST 
 environment and, two, create them and contact them himself - both without a 
 body. 
 
 Now that sounds like quite a trick. But the reason it sounds like 
 quite a trick is that is a trick. You.. you have to be able to do that. If 
 you could realize how completely the thetan is dependent upon sensation for 
 a conviction in this universe that he yet is alive, you would realize that 
 what you are rehabilitating there is the only reward he has for living - the
 beautiful sights, the beautiful sounds, the beautiful tactiles and, what do 
 you know? A thetan has thousands of perceptions - thousands of different 
 perceptions. I don't think you could get down and list all these 
 perceptions. It would just go on and on and on and on and on. 
 
 And the MEST body can only contact, at the outermost extreme - I 
 added them up one time to a great degree and I got about 55. And that is 
 almost 40 more than are commonly listed in textbooks which have, laughingly,
 dealt with this subject. They haven't dealt with it laughingly; they've 
 dealt with it absurdly. I don't know why they didn't just sit down and 
 categorize the number of things of the environment there were to contact and
 then go and ask somebody if he could sense 'em. I.. they didn't do that. 
 They.. they uh.. made up a theory - never tested it. 
 
 All right, therefore the rehabilitation of sensation is very 
 necessary, because need for, desire for sensation is the only thing which 
 keeps him in the vicinity of a body. And the continued belief confirmed by 
 what is apparently quite real experience, if not actual experience, what's 
 
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 apparently quite real experience that only the body can deliver unto him,
 these sensations. Why, he hasn't got a chance. He.. he doesn't dis.. doesn't
 believe that he could survive, he wouldn't know he was alive or anything of
 the sort. 
 
 As a result when he is a theta clear he has to go up to level of 
 operating thetan, and that consists primarily of the rehabilitation of 
 sensation, perception of. It also depends on two or three other little 
 things that you might miss in passing. 
 
 So before I go Into a much lenghthier dissertation on this, I'm just
 going to mention these things. And I might mention them again and I might
 not. 
 
 But uh.. I'll mention them right there because they're quite 
 important. And that is, your theta clear is in a state where his memory does
 not immediately confirm to him any duration of beingness as a thetan. And so
 he is in a state which does not evaluate himself as a personality. He sees
 himself as an identity with the body; everybody who comes along has given
 the body credit for everything, has given the body a name, has designated
 with relationship to the body so consistently that it really.. it's.. it's..
 this is.. this will be amazing to you but it's something I've run into 
 several times and just ran into again. The thetan moves out and leaves the
 personality in the body. 
 
 And you've got a fellow who is.. thinks.. he's quite convinced he's
 a thetan clear. And for what does he use these skills and talents and this
 freedom? Well, experiment with or.. or to fool around with or see how 
 curious it is. He doesn't use that state as a state of being alive, as a 
 state which has a personality and which has, indeed, the only personality he
 will ever have. 
 
 And so he leaves the personality behind. He thinks he has to be in
 some peculiar frame of mind or that he's sort of an automaton. Now he just
 hasn't come up to the point where he's grasped this. But grasping that 
 simple detail is quite important. 
 
 And you as an auditor can save yourself an enormous amount of 
 rehabilitation of this preclear. Outside his head he's a mechanical object,
 he thinks, or something like this. Or he's a spark. And he re.. kind of 
 regards himself as.. as the body has regarded fire - useful, it uh.. not 
 very uh.. and so on. And as a result he has no evaluation of his own 
 capabilities and much more Important than e.. just evaluation, he has no 
 appreciation of himself just directly as himself. He uh.. doesn't say, "Now
 I have moved out of this body. I can be happy. I can be sad. I can sing, I
 can dance, I can do all of these things." No, no! He says, "The body can be
 happy. The body can be sad. The body can sing. The body can dance. And I can
 sit back and look at it." 
 
 He is sort of like.. like.. that uh.. the apex, the.. the.. the 
 highest peak of all educational goals - a spectator in the stadium. And he
 sort of sits there and he.. he thinks that.. and it really doesn't occur to
 him that the BODY sing and dance! Indeed! The body can't sing and dance 
 unless he handles it like a puppet, but he's set it up on automaticities so
 it will sing and dance. 
 
 Why does the body s1ng and dance? Why does the body express joy or
 anything else? It's because the thetan likes to sing and dance and express
 joy, I mean, this is very simple. 
 
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 So he's done a differentiation sub-zero when he should have done an 
 identification. He should have picked up his own capabilities right with him
 at the moment he moved out. 
 
 You know, you can do a very, very graceful dance between the moon 
 and Venus. There's a lot of space. It's a big ballroom. If you can't make a
 space, the whole MEST universe is full of it. Even, quote, "solid matter,"
 unquote, is about, I would say, a hundred and two percent space. 
 
 Now, where you have a theta clear, then, who has no appreciation of 
 himself, it just doesn't naturally, mechanically follow, you see? I mean, 
 this is just something that occurs to him or doesn't occur to him. Hi.. he 
 goes around and "Yeah, I'm a theta clear." And he looks around at all these 
 bodies, "Haven't they got interesting personalities. That's fine. I.. I'll 
 watch them," and so forth. And he goes around and sometimes he's sort of sad
 and s.. kind of goofy, or something of this sort. He can go around and he 
 can experiment - stick his.. a beam in a electric light switches or 
 something and wonder if it shocks him. 
 
 That's right. He hasn't any concept of the fact that he IS joy; he 
 is a higher level of aesthetic than a body could ever be. And that he can, 
 in his own interest - what do you know? - take a larger and more effective 
 role in the affairs of being alive, I won't say "human affairs," but in the 
 affairs and concerns of being alive than a body could ever do. 
 
 What does he do for randomity in a body? He goes to the office, he 
 goes home. Or if he has money and so on, he would go out on the polo field 
 or the flying field or something of this sort and amuse himself in a plane. 
 And in order to account to himself and.. settle his own accounts that he was
 worth something, what would he do? Why, he'd join the local philanthropy 
 society or the charity or.. he'd make sure that the Boy Scout troop was 
 running all right and so on. 
 
 And when we were young we were quite enthused about helping out 
 groups and helping people out. And then we found out that they could just 
 turn around and slough you, so to speak, that you had to be pretty strong to
 help anybody out. And.. and we kind of thought that was bad, then we thought
 it was good. And then we found out we didn't have any time to do it because 
 we had to work too hard to eat and all these other affairs came into the 
 line. And we.. we found out that really the only thing we could do for them 
 was give them some advice once in a while which they didn't need, and some 
 money which WE needed. And uh.. it.. it was sort of sad. 
 
 But that's what a homo sapiens does for randomity, and this thetan
 as homo sapiens, operating as this level. What? You.. you mean this person
 has no purpose or goal of beingness? 
 
 Here.. here he's capable of stepping outside the economic concerns 
 of the world. Here is he capable by his own actions of becoming partisan in 
 causes much broader than he would ever be able to touch. Man, for instance, 
 gets.. gets enormous randomity out of who's going to be secretary for the 
 local Lion's Club. 
 
 A thetan can participate.. well, he could go out and have a fine 
 time campaigning for some congressman. You would be amazed! He would just 
 sort of appoint himself guardian angel to this or that.. an.. and uh.. this 
 or that cause. Well, what's the difference? I mean, are we suffering from 
 some.. some strange malfunction here? When all of a sudden this homo 
 sapiens, he was Interested in helping and participating and being interested
 and doing all these things, and don't forget this one, collecting MEST. 
 
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 He was interested in all these things. And now.. now all of a sudden 
 as a thetan he moves out and leaves his personality and all his interests 
 and goals in that body, because they were all postulated for the body. And 
 your thetan is too much of a - to be very technical - goofball to recognize 
 that his beingness is himself. All he has to do is suddenly wake up to the 
 fact "What do you know? I'm me!" 
 
 He isn't a piece of energy that just.. just sort of regards himself 
 and says, "Well, it's.. when I was a body I was something or other, and when
 I'm in a body everybody says, 'Hello, Joe.' What do you know? Nobody says 
 anything to me" - mostly because his communication level is poor. 
 
 Why is his communication level poor? He doesn't think anybody will 
 talk to him. There wouldn't be any goal for anybody to talk to him about, in
 the first place. He wouldn't have any conversation on that level. He comes 
 back into the body and he goes around and he looks up some other theta clear
 who is also in his body and commu.. they communicate. It's very silly. 
 
 A theta clear with his memory rehabilitated - and that, by the way,
 is the other point - his memory has to be rehabilitated. He's really a
 walking zombie. He's forgotten everything. 
 
 He doesn't have any more memory than a homo sapiens, and that's 
 practically blank. "What telephone number? What address? Uh.. where did I 
 put my hat?" - some of those big... 
 
 You know, homo sapiens, by the way, doesn't even have to ask those 
 questions. Homo sapiens can simply pervade an area as homo sapiens and be 
 maybe 25 percent of the time right. Then he can't count on it 75 percent of 
 the time so after that he would rather ransack the house for his hat, than 
 suddenly look around his house and then go pick it up and say, "I wonder how
 that hat ever got underneath the kitchen range." But uh.. he can do that. 
 
 Now, therefore we're talking, when we talk about sensation, self- 
 appreciation and the rehabilitation of memory, we're talking about - and by 
 the way, possessions - we're talking about 'will haves'. And a person 
 without 'will have' is quite dead. He.. he's in fact, it.. somebody really 
 ought to bury a 'will have' because he actually becomes odorous. Do you know
 that he dies - a 'will not have', a 'can't have' and so on? 
 
 The guy whose case - a 'will have' case, who is cut off completely 
 and can't ever have any more. A guy who has lost his hopes. You cost 
 somebody about 80 percent of his hopes and you walk around and he even 
 smells bad. He won't even have a body. He's sure of this by this time, you 
 see. That's very interesting. 
 
 So you're up against a case of 'won't have' because he hasn't 
 thought about what's valuable to have. So, you're up against the common 
 denominator of all goals: "What am I going to be? What am I going to do? And
 what am I going to have?" And your thetan has never asked this for himself. 
 He keeps asking it for the body. "What's the body going to have? What's the 
 body going to be? What's the..." What the hell with that body! Tha.. that's 
 not important. 
 
 But it is important what is a thetan going to be? what is a thetan 
 going to do? and what is a thetan going to have? 
 
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 Now it.. it's a very silly thing, but all the literature which is 
 published and which this individual has read is slanted toward the life and
 death of a homo sap. "The hero and the heroine, huh, uh.. they.. they.. they
 get together, you know, and then.. then the villain comes along, and he's in
 a body too, and he has all these sub-villains and they're all in a body too,
 and then they.. they.. the hero and heroine they.. they get in trouble and 
 they have a fight with each other and some misunderstanding and then the 
 hero, somehow or another, gets all fixed up with the villain. And then the 
 hero's and heroine's parents, you see, they're in bodies too. And they have
 names. And they're all - they.. they.. they get married, and this is a happy
 ending." 
 
 Now, there.. what's your thetan's orientation? God help us! The 
 Saturday Evening Post - blow your brain out! They.. they - I mean, the.. the
 Post, the.. the.. the Gazette, the.. bodies, bodies, bodies, bodies. Limited
 sphere of action. Bodies walk to a corner; they don't transfer across half 
 of the planet. They go carefully to the corner to get a package of 
 cigarettes. "Sigh! Well, we got... the cigarettes. Now... we're going home 
 again. Now that we're home... we have to go out... and work... to make some
 money... to buy some more... cigarettes. Now... we'll go to the corner..." 
 Oh, no! 
 
 You know what you're facing? You're.. you're facing an appalling 
 lack of literature. Do you realize homo sap has had built for him by 
 generations and generations of artists, sculptors, musicians - not so much 
 the musicians - and particularly the writers and dramatists, the cultural 
 background of how wonderful it is to be a homo sapiens and how cruel the 
 gods are. "Mary had a little lamb." But it's been going on for thousands of
 years! And every time you got this.. this thetan comes out, what's his 
 orientation? "Little Jack Horner sat in the corner, eating h1s curd and 
 hay." Saturday Evening Post - ugh! Time magazine - ugh! Uh.. the.. the works
 of Thomas Hardy. 
 
 Uh.. the closest.. the closest piece of work to a thetan is Alice in
 Wonderland. And the person who can appreciate Alice in Wonderland at least 
 has some small goal as a theta clear. It's sort of a idiotic goal, but it..
 it's better than none. He can.. he can play this game, only he doesn't have
 to eat the cake, you see? He can play this game of get terribly small and 
 the tables terribly big, and he can mock up white rabbits and caterpillers 
 and Mad Hatters and they'll mad hat, too. He can go through this game. But 
 he's actually uh.. quite accustomed, if he's got that orientation. He'll 
 find himself right in his element. 
 
 That famous German mathematician was not doing anything, if not
 writing straight out of a.. the child's and some few adults' self-knowledge
 of what their real capabilities are. 
 
 So you're walking into a dirth of culture for the thetan. The 
 culture is designed for homo sapiens. 
 
 You'll notice in a movie or in a novel, or even what is called, in 
 the Twentieth Century, a novel, that the writer is doing the same trick, 
 doing it much more crudely. And Hollywood is, and the rest of the studios 
 around are really being even cruder than that. They've gone down to where 
 they play Ivanhoe, and so on, with.. with absolutely none of the subtleties
 of even Ivanhoe. Ivanhoe does have a few, you know. It.. it's.. it's not 
 what you might call the most subtle story in the world, but, it isn't all 
 going around with hairy chests because of the.. of the dame, sort of a 
 thing. But they just lost.. they just lost all this. 
 
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 And they - clear back, and all the way along the line the modern
 writer, the writer of the Middle Ages, right straight on back, all doing the
 same thing. 
 
 The Greek chorus, everybody stands around. And originally the Greek
 chorus, you know, said, "Maaa-maaa-maaa." That is.. was a Greek chorus. I'm
 not exaggerating. That's exactly what a Greek chorus was. And after a while
 they said, "What do you know?! We can wear various masks. We don't have to
 all wear goat masks and go 'maaa-maaa-maaa' on all the holidays, so we'll
 talk after this." And thus was born modern drama. 
 
 I.. I.. I know all about that. I'm an authority on it because I 
 wrote a play one time in college which took a prize of some enormous scope
 or other for the prize winning one-act.. it was a hot Sunday afternoon when
 I wrote the thing. It took almost 20 minutes. 
 
 Anyway uh.. they gave me a book called The Theatre by Cheney and on
 another hot Sunday afternoon I read it. So I'm an authority on the theater.
 I have at least read a book on the subject, which puts me a little bit ahead
 of some of the other boys. I also talked to Haywood Brun once. As a matter
 of fact, he and I were very good friends. 
 
 But.. oh, you.. the.. you.. you don't quite see where I'm heading
 here. Your faces look a little blank. 
 
 The Greek chorus moves on to the stage and turns verbal spotlights
 on the hero, and they might as well all stand there with big signs, "This is
 a hero." And the other part of the chorus stands there with big signs on,
 practically, and they say, "This is the heroine." And then it depends on
 what mask is sitting up there, if it's the mask with a grin, it's comedy,
 which means man decides man's fate; and if the mask is a scowl that.. or sad
 or tears or whatever that other mask is, that.. that means that's a tragedy
 because God decides man's fate. And difference between these two things,
 comedy and tragedy, is whether man decides his fate or gods decide his fate.
 
 Oh, this is great! This is all mapped out - clear back there in 
 Ancient Greece they had a beautiful map drawn of it - and it's all a theta
 trap, all the way along the line. And don't regard it any other way. It's
 just a theta trap. 
 
 If an artist knew what he was selling out, he wouldn't have done 1t.
 But it depends upon the skill of the artist to keep people interested enough
 to walk this treadmill called the MEST universe. 
 
 And from the early Greeks who put their gods into anthropomorphic
 shapes, and from their Greek choruses which pointed out that everyone is
 attracted only by the heroism of a body, or the heroine-ism of a body, 
 either way, the artist with his paint brush, the writer with his typewriter,
 have been selling out: The glories of being a body - it's frailty, it's 
 tragedies, it's comedies. And your thetan has been indoctrinated in this
 (You hadn't thought about this until I mentioned it, had you?) - your 
 thetan's been indoctrinated in this for 74 trillion years. 
 
 So you want to know why he moves out of the body without a 
 personality? He knows nobody's got a personality but a body. Everybody from
 Somerset Maugham back to Euripides said so. And they said so - and this is
 what's criminal with aesthetics. It has never entered anybody's mind to be a
 god. That would not be permitted, anywhere in any literature except somebody
 being insane and completely monomanic and paranoid and all of the nasty 
 words you could heap on it, because the gods are too far above us for us to
 
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 ever contact. And they fly around in the air. Except in the Arabian Nights
 where we find the afreets as gods of a sort - but they're ugly and they're
 mean and they're horrible and they're vicious and they do terrible things to
 man. 
 
 So we couldn't touch the gods of the Greek hierarchy. They're above
 touch. And one would be insane if he thought of himself as one. We could not
 touch the so-called spirits of the early Arabic literature and Persian 
 literature, Hindu literature because they're evil and abandoned and eschewed
 by every man. And we couldn't possibly touch ghosts, could we? From Charles
 Brockton Brown, the first American novelist, who called the attention of the
 literi of Europe to America - the literary people of Europe were quite 
 amazed at the end of the 18th Century to find out there was an American who
 could write. That American was Charles Brockton Brown and he wrote ghost 
 stories. And they are ghost stories of such a nature as to make Edgar Allen
 Poe get kinda pale and green. They're really wild. 
 
 And that was something you mustn't be. The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow -
 the most horrible thing in that was a ghost. Uh.. they make a movie that has
 a ghost in it, and the ghost is either sad and disappointed, or he has to
 haunt someplace. And the ghost is always sad and he doesn't have a body and
 he's always this that he doesn't have a body. And a body is so important and
 so on and so on and so on. 
 
 They boobytrapped the literature. This thing start to sum up as to
 why your thetan is apt to move into a vacum of ideas for himself? Well, 
 they have been writing about bodies as attainable and desirable, and as the
 hero and heroine of the piece, and the gods as untouchable and only the 
 insane ever believe they are anything like gods or spirits. And as the 
 spirits as either evil or utterly lost. 
 
 And this has been said with the finest brushes, with the best words
 and with the most thrilling music and the finest statuary in all this whole
 line called the MEST universe. The best skilled minds of this whole universe
 have devoted themselves exclusively toward keeping people interested in 
 bodies. They've sold you out. 
 
 That's right. You should have about the same level of regard for 
 that sort of an operation as you have for Benedict Arnold. 
 
 The only way anybody could ever be made to do anything in the MEST
 universe at all was to interest him, in some fashion or another that would
 keep him on the treadmill. And even the slave in the presence of some big,
 vague, thin promise of an aesthetic such as a play, such as a circus that he
 might go to, such as being permitted to assist in some pageantry, even a 
 slave would go on living in a body in the hope that he could obtain some 
 aesthetic sensation. And so a collar could be placed upon him. 
 
 He didn't do what was obvious that he should do, which is simply lie
 down and die - just back out of the head and give this thing a stiff push.
 
 Now have you got some idea about goals? The picture has been painted
 that the body has a goal, and to be a ghost or a spirit is a horrible fate.
 And ghosts or spirits, you noticed, are all avoided by everybody. Nobody 
 ever talks to them, nobody's ever nice to them, nobody ever does anything
 for them except scream and run away from 'em. That's.. that's the spirit -
 that's his lot. 
 
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 And if one attempted to be a god, that of course would mean he was 
 insane, you know? So nobody'd have anything to do with him, either. 
 
 Well, even the gods were only happy when sitting in their stone 
 idols, sculpted by some sculptor, bejewelled by some gem-cutter and written
 about by some poet. Only the god who did that was fit company for humans. We
 found big, tough, mean, erratic gods as things that you didn't have much to
 do with - Baal, Moloch - bad, bad business. 
 
 All right, what's lead this to then? Boy, it leads to a problem for 
 you. You're sitting there thinking this is all very interesting, and he's 
 being very rhetorical and that's fine and it's all very pretty and he's 
 stressing that point awfully hard. Of course, that's interesting. It's the 
 first hour of the afternoon and he probably hasn't warmed up yet. 
 
 But you know, you know that moves your thetan back in the body? 
 Unless you can supplement that literature and actually fly into the teeth of
 Michelangelo, Euripides, Praxiteles and all the rest of the boys on the 
 whole track - unless you want to fly into their teeth, you're not going to 
 get anyplace. 
 
 You see, the aesthetic scarcity in this universe has been played 
 upon very heavily, and it's the aesthetic alone, as you've read in 8-80 if 
 you've studied that, which really pins this thing down but gorgeously. And 
 that aesthetic, if it is very strong in one direction, will incline the 
 person in that direction. And if the aesthetic is only in the direction of a
 body, it will incline the individual in a body. 
 
 Fortunately animals are fairly aesthetic. They're nice to look at 
 and they're quite exciting, they're quite interesting. Once in a while they
 have interesting personalities - we're going to get into bodies. And so you,
 every once in a while, found the thetan playing about the highest game that
 was permitted to a thetan as himself. And you can read all you want to about
 that, as it is completely misrepresented and miswritten in Frazer's Golden 
 Bough, The K1ng of the Wood or The God of the Wood. That is a completely 
 reverse interpretation in an effort to be terribly deep and subtle about the
 easiest thing in the world. 
 
 There was this wood, see, and this thetan didn't want anything more 
 to do with those umph! umph! bodies. But there were a lot of wolves and 
 rabbits and deers and other things in this preserve, and once in a while 
 some little kid'd come to this preserve and.. and gather hazelnuts or 
 something of the sort. And this thetan would reach out and he'd pick up all
 these nice trees, that is to say, he'd just spread himself all the way 
 through this wood. He would BE the wood - that was his identity. 
 
 And he became the patron saint, you might say, of the animals and 
 the birds, and the guardian of that place. 
 
 And if you think that some of the hunting accidents you read about 
 were accidents, you're badly mistaken, because that goes on today. There are
 thetans.. if there are thetans who are still active to any great degree on 
 this planet, they would be active in that capacity and area. 
 
 As a matter of fact, I think we have somebody right here. A couple 
 hundred.. few hundred years ago - not.. in very, very recent times, spent 
 about 200 years in an English wood. Just.. just came out of space and said,
 "The dickens with all that! I got ray burns on me enough" he says. And 
 became the patron saint of a British wood. Is that right? 
 
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 So when we got.. we had that. And your thetan could do that. He 
 interested himself in the affairs of animals. And Brer Bear would walk 
 through one day and would find himself incline'. to be just a little bit nosy
 about something that was none of his business and he would get the severest
 cuff that a bear ever received - Bap! "Just another one of them lightning 
 storms! Humph! Humph!" and walk on down the line. 
 
 Now there are tribes in the world which today still carry forward 
 the superstition that there are such things as guardian angels and spirits.
 
 But the civilized world which has agreed thoroughly with the MEST 
 universe and has made enormous progress, is very certain, extremely certain,
 that that is merely superstition and backing them up is the fact that 
 spiritualism itself is about the dizziest thing anyone could get himself 
 into. 
 
 Just go out and sit on a carrousel and speed it up to about, oh, I'd
 say, 80 rpm and that's a real nice straight course compared to following 
 spiritualism as ritualized; because it's ritualized so that if anybody ever
 did contact a spirit, he would just be some spirit that would really try to
 knock him off like mad. It would be some spirit that was kind of trying to
 get a body... 
 
 You.. you know some of these thetans that you move out? I mean, 
 these thetans are in good shape. But it's this idiotic thetan that can't 
 have a body any more. He's done too many overt acts. So if they did contact
 anybody so he would come around, and they say, "Now, tell me - tell me. What
 will be the fate of wab-yab, so on - in case she marries the Duke of 
 Porkpie? Uh.. tell us the future." 
 
 Well, listen: Next time you move a preclear out, you ask him, "Tell
 me the future." And he'll give you all.. he'll give you more future, and 
 more variety of future than you have any use for. Because he has all 
 possible combinations of track at his disposal if he wanted to examine all
 of them. 
 
 But the track of the future is simply the course in history of the
 havingness of the present. And it's what you do and what he does with the
 hav1ngness now which makes a future. 
 
 And so you can shuffle these factors any way you want to. 
 
 The thing to do is to get down and have a paw-wow with this theta
 clear on the subject of "How many havingness would we have to shift to bring
 about this result?" and that is logic, isn't it? 
 
 In other words, would we send the Duke of Porkpie a new hat uh.. 
 with arsenic in the brim? And, let's see, that disposes of that havingness.
 Now that makes - I'm not saying you would - go on such line, but if you were
 trying to decide futures, it would be on very orderly, well-understood 
 lines. Except your latitude to dispose of that future grows as your ability
 to control MEST grows. When I say "control MEST," it's "How much MEST can 
 you control?" 
 
 Well, you can control as much future as you can control MEST. And 
 you can control as much past as you're willing to shatter future. You can 
 control as much past as you're willing to take the responsibility for 
 ruining the present. 
 
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 Yes, you can control all kinds of future, but let's not go down and 
 ask madam Zogey or Zog-Zog or somebody of the sort to conjure up her 
 favourite spirit and ask her what's going to happen, because you can get 
 better dope from your theta clear. He's higher in tone and he knows more, 
 and he has more abilities than any spirit that we'll wander into Madam 
 Zog-Zog's academy. 
 
 You can look around what you want to. I've talked with some of these
 medium thetans, and they're really stupid. You throw them a terrible,
 terrible curve. You.. you just... 
 
 Isn't that a good one? He.. he developed a whole lot of.. he talked
 about these things as entities. He hasn't realized yet thai they're thetans
 that have really gone to pieces in a big way. And they're.. they're so sold
 on religion and that sort of thing that you, in order to.. that they 
 consider themselves good. You show them black mass symbols, upside-down 
 crosses, uh.. daggers through the Bible uh.. and all of these various odds 
 and ends. And you just show 'em one of these things, just throw that 
 illusion up in front of them good and strong. Their capability to produce 
 for instance, even illusion is pretty good. And you just throw that up good
 and strong and they go "Eeeeeaaaaaowwwwww!" - they get out of there. 
 
 And the bad ones, you show them a crucifix, uh.. a Bible, the proper
 religious symbols, make the proper words and signs and that sort of thing, 
 and they all of a sudden look around to see where these are coming from and
 they see a bright spot of light, which is you, and they say "Oh, my God! The
 voice of God!" and zing! Or they explode, or something. It's fascinating! 
 Fascinating! 
 
 You're straight into the practical realm of spiritualism. Now 
 think.. think of it.. think i.. of the amount of future which you want to 
 forecast. You're always shoving around pieces of MEST in the hope that it'll
 change a future. You want to make things easier for yourself. But primarily,
 you'd be much more interested in making things easier for others and 
 squaring things around for others, and so on. 
 
 Well, if you're willing to assume some responsibility on the line,
 you can always shift a little bit of MEST or get.. incline somebody else to
 shift some, and you've changed the future. 
 
 You don't do it by going around and hooking yourself on to the left 
 ear of a fortune teller and letting her interpret what you say. No, you get
 up to speed, and you just do it, that's all. So that the Prince of Monaco or
 something of this sort reports a big robbery of the casino and then finds 
 all the money in his desk. The police.. after he's collected the insurance 
 policy, of course, or something like that. And then, of course, Monaco gets
 up for sale and.. and uh.. and you've got somebody on hand to be bidding the
 highest bid - a very simple business. 
 
 You've got a kingdom established and then you incline a couple of.. 
 a couple of fellows to.. to go around and spread the word, messianically, 
 that uh.. here's a better kind of freedom, or something of this sort. Or.. 
 or there's more women per square inch in this kingdom than any other place.
 Or.. or it's wide open... 
 
 Think of.. think if you did this: If you just went around and forced
 open, in some fashion or another, gently - not disturbing very much - but 
 forced upon an area of the world in which a man did not have to have a 
 passport properly certified, properly visaed. You wouldn't collect 
 criminals. You'd collect a lot of revolutionaries from time to time, but 
 
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 mostly you'd collect people who were just terribly victimized by the 
 incredible stupidity of bureaucracy. You think the State Department of the 
 United States is bad, or.. or that other such stateships and so forth are 
 bad... 
 
 When the war steamrolled the nations of Europe, they shifted the 
 boundaries of everything in all directions. And there are many, many 
 luckless individuals who had no citizenship, actually, in their own land, 
 were transported across the border without moving. And found themselves 
 citizens of something else of which they had no cognizance and which, 
 because of defeat and chaos, never did become capable of issuing them a 
 passport. 
 
 You know that there are men walking earth today furtively, in 
 earth's alleyways. Why, because nobody'll grant them an identity. They.. 
 they.. they aren't French, they aren't German, they aren't Russian anymore.
 
 Some pilot, all of sudden, decides that 14 million slaves are too 
 many, he's in the Russian Air Force - he lands. You'd think that he'd be 
 greeted just with wide open arms by the allies or something of the sort. 
 They greet him all right, and they treat him nice. They, of course, want to
 show him the place and then send him home with some propaganda or something
 of the sort. And he isn't interested in that. He's got some sort of an idea
 he'd like to get out of there and get to be an airlines pilot on some of 
 these fabulous airlines he's heard about that fly oceans, and so forth - big
 ambition. He's not interested in, and there isn't any reason why he should 
 be interested in, monomanically, the Russian Central Government. He's a 
 human being. He is potentially able and free. 
 
 God help him if he ever landed outside that border. The Russian 
 Government'd never issue him an identity. Neither would the French. Or 
 anybody else. And he just wanders around then in rather a fog. 
 
 Now what do you do.. what would you do.. what would happen if you 
 should suddenly establish a hospital area? You know once upon a time there 
 were shrines upon this earth run by thetans who did instantaneous healing? 
 Nobody ever recognized it, right down to this minute, that that's what was 
 happening. There is one down in Ecuador. I've mentioned it several times and
 I've mentioned it cautiously because before we had existing techniques, the
 less said about this sort of things, the better. 
 
 I said there were such things as miracles. There's one place down in
 South America high in the Andes which has the tremendous mountain of 
 crutches - a mouuntain of crutches thrown away there by people who came there
 and worshipped at the shrine and went away whole. What do you think was 
 doing that? Ginger beer? 
 
 Well, let's be practical about these things and.. and.. and get 
 our.. get our sights here into a level of orientation. 
 
 There are goals and abilities to which a thetan can ascend. There 
 are futures worth having, there are havingness worth having, things worth 
 doing and identities worth being. These have not been supported by the 
 artists or writers of the MEST universe. 
 
 But you don't need a thousand poets to pave the way. They're very 
 bad trail blazers and they're very good slaves. 
 
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 But they're your competion. And you've got to give this thetan goals
 and better goals than he could have had as a MEST body, because he won't 
 accept a wicked or.. bad goal. He really won't. He won't be interested in 
 it. 
 
 Well, so it's got to be a pretty good goal. Well, there's lots of 
 goals; and did you ever stop and think what's going to happen to all the 
 thetans who get theta cleared who aren't auditors? Well, somebody had better
 establish a sanctuary. 
 
 And what about all the thetans that have not been able to pick up 
 bodies and who are completely lost and wandering around in a daze? They're
 your brother and your sister, and that's no kidding. That's a fact. And 
 their disability is such, and so on, as to make them uh.. completely beyond
 our reach - unless somebody takes an interest in 'em. 
 
 And there's a level that's completely outside of MEST bodies, 
 working with more important beings, actually, than you'll find in MEST 
 bodies. And you say, "What happened to Napoleon? What happened to Charles of
 Sweden? Where is Hannibal after he crossed the Alps?" Where are these guys?
 You'll find them leaning up against a tombstone someplace wondering where 
 they go next. 
 Well, you can always tell them. I do every once in a while. 
 Okay, let's take a break. 
 (TAPE ENDS) 
 
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