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'''Series:''' 3rd Advanced Clinical Course (3ACC)

'''Date:''' 7 January 1954

'''Speaker:''' L. Ron Hubbard

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A lecture given by L. Ron Hubbard on the 7 January 1954

Okay. This morning we're going to cover the entire subject of communication and then we're never going to look at it again. So open up your ears and let's roll.

The subject of communication consists of these parts: (1) the communication line and (2) the two terminals. It is intimately connected with Cause and Effect and when you put Distance into Cause and Effect, you get communication – inevitably. It has this peculiarity: it is a complete duplication if it is a perfect communication. A perfect communication is a perfect duplication. Therefore, an individual is caught between doing a complete duplication of what is communicating to him, and being different. And therein lies the entire anxiety of a thetan. There isn't any more or less than that.

Simply that a perfect communication is a duplication and the thetan doesn't want to duplicate this exactly when he's an Effect. And as a result, he tries to be different, which winds up in his being unable to duplicate, he thinks.

Unwillingness to duplicate a communication is unwillingness to duplicate. An unwillingness to duplicate, then, makes it necessary to change position in space. In order to keep from duplicating, one has to change position in space if he's being duplicated to.

Otherwise, he's got to hold the incoming communication rigidly, in some fashion, and not be part of it or one is a complete chameleon and simply turns into everything that comes his way.

Now, let's examine communication. Draw you a two-dimensional graph of the subject of communication. Let's put a line down and at one end of this line let's put C and that stands for Cause and at the other end of this line let's put E and that stands for Effect. Now, at the C end of the line, let us put also A – capital A. And at the E end of the line let us put a capital B. Therefore, we have a line, A-B, one end of which is Cause and the other end of which is Effect. Now, right below that let's draw another line and the end of that line, which is B on the first line, let's call it A. And then let's put C there with that A.

Now your line goes back over, just parallel to the other line, and where we had an A on the first line, we now have a B on the second line. And we also mark that capital E. This is very easy to disentangle. It's simply two lines and the right-hand side of the lines – of both lines – have AC, BE and the left-hand side have EB, AC.

That's very simple, isn't it? Now we've got a two-way communication channel. But there is no reason whatsoever why a communication line has to be in two directions, but you have a graph there of a conversation.

Fellow says "Hello." He's Cause. That's at point A. That's what's known as a despatch-point – or a source-point, that's much better. And he says "Hello." And the fellow over here at B says "Uh-huh." Well now, that's E and that's the receipt-point.

So let's get this real clean here. These are actually – source-point, receipt-point – exact terms that we're going to use for some time, I mean, getting something different than just a descriptive term.

All right. The fellow who says "Uh-huh," of course, has started in at his end of a line and now he's Cause. And it goes back to the other fellow, who is now Effect of "Uh-huh." The first fellow was the Effect of "Hello" and the second fellow is Effect of "Uh-huh,"

Why does it work both ways in this particular case? Well, merely because you're interested and you have heard a lot about conversation. Well, conversation, I want to make very clear to you, is a two-way communication channel. It's actually two communication systems. A communication system is only this: A communication system is only that first line, A to B, which the A end is Cause and the B end is Effect.

All right. Now, let's put a click in at New York City – no, let's put a click in, in Rome and the communication line is going to Milan, so we get a click at Milan. Now, we might use the same piece of copper wire to put a click in at Milan and get another click at Rome, but it hasn't anything to do with a communication system. It means we're using the same wire twice or we're using a duplicate system.

Therefore, for our purposes, a fellow shooting another fellow is, in essence, communicating with him. See, that's – for our purposes that's just perfectly valid. The Sun shining upon you is, for our purposes – and by the way, perfectly factually – communicating with him.

Now, we have ARC. A stands for affinity, R stands for reality and C stands for communication. ARC, when combined together, give a gradient scale which made up the Chart of Human Evaluation. Now ARC, interwoven in this fashion, give a degree of understanding, what we know as understanding.

All mathematics can be worked out from ARC, by the way. It's very, very interesting, but it's just right there pat, perfect.

But let's take a look at poor old ARC. Now, ARC is very good. A fellow can't live on the Third Dynamic worth a nickel without some ARC. And yet, at the same time, the most complete ARC there is – the most complete there is, is one dot – complete identification.

Now, let's just look at that. Now, that's a little point of horror. When you realize that some day, a little shiver of horror is going to go through you.

The task of the thetan is to interpose some distance on a communication line. And as long as he can keep some distance on a communication line – you know, not too much distance and not too little distance – he's all right.

But when he becomes unable to impose space between two terminals – which is to say, two terminals, point A, point B – when he becomes unable to impose some space or is unable to limit the space between A and B (you see, either condition), AB goes zing and gets infinitely long or infinite distance or they go smash and collapse together.

Well, when he's unable to control this distance, he goes down, on the one hand, toward a complete identification when there's no distance in there and, on the other hand, why, he goes up toward an infinite difference, which isn't good either, because then he can't communicate with anything and so he gets entirely lost. So when his inabilities become great, he either gets entirely lost, which you call a dispersal case, or the two terminals collapse and he gets entirely identified, which is your valence case. See?

All right. Now, what else is this communication line good for? Well believe me, it's good to solve every case you run into – just that little graph, A and B. Because also, this thing is an electric motor. Essentially, an electric motor has two electrodes (yeah, two terminals in it) and one of them communicates with the other and then that one communicates back again. And as they go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, mechanically having distance imposed upon them, actually, they generate an electrical current.

So the fellow who's having trouble with communications is also having trouble with terminals, so his havingness is all shot. And a fellow who can't exteriorize is having terminal trouble, one kind and another.

Now, you understand that one fellow can be having trouble with one peanut-whistle worth of stray energy and the other fellow begins to have trouble with a hundred thousand volts of stray energy. But it doesn't matter, then, what your force of the individual is or power or anything of the sort. Just because he can't get out of his head has nothing to do with his power potential. As a matter of fact, in this universe it works quite the reverse. The fellow who fights, he gets himself into a smashed-down condition pretty easily.

All right. What's this all about? Actually, I've told you practically all there is to know about communication. There really isn't anything else to know about communication.

Well, let's look at valences and let's look at terminals a little bit. Let's find out that the star Sirius, shining upon us, then, is conveying to us a message called "Sirius." See? The star Sirius, shining upon us, conveys that message.

Now, in order to receive it utterly, we actually – some portion of our beingness must duplicate Sirius, must do an exact direction-reversal duplication. You see that? An exact direction-reversal duplication. You know, these people who have direction reversals – right is left and left is right? Well, they've been communicated with a little too seriously, no pun intended.

Do you see how that would be? Because point B is always a mirror image of point A. This is so much so that, actually, if you were to turn the dot and dash around and inspect them, you would find out that they were arriving backwards on a telegraph line, but because they are occupying different intervals of time, you don't notice this.

You send a dot, it's a dot. It doesn't matter whether it was backwards or frontwards. When you send a dash, it's a dash. It still doesn't matter whether it's backwards or frontwards, because you've entered in your time element. But if we sent an instantaneous impulse down this telegraph line, why, the electronic picture is in reverse that arrives at the other end.

And so it is with somebody standing up facing a group. He says to this group, "All right. Now, your left hand" and, of course, that's his right hand. And so he has to reverse his directions in order to give directions to the group, see, because he's communicating with them. So his image, actually, is arriving in reverse.

Now, it not only arrives in reverse, but it arrives upside down. Oh, why would it arrive upside down? That was a very mysterious thing. And yet the thetan has an awful lot of trouble with images arriving upside down and, quite often, when he comes out of his head, will smash against the ceiling. He's got his gravity in reverse. See, just because it arrives reverse in a horizontal plane, then doesn't mean that this law gets excused in the vertical plane. It actually doesn't. He's just right side up, he happens to be, that's all.

Now, you follow? When you look this over, the best way to look this over – I've lost you a little bit there – but the best way to look this over is to demonstrate that the image reverses itself at its receipt-point. And you're so accustomed to thinking of this reversal as occurring only in the horizontal plane, because you live on Earth where everything is parallel that way, that you don't realize the degree of flexibility. Now, what you're actually communicating with, with an individual – his head and his feet, you see, and your head and feet – happen to be in the same vertical plane, whereas your right and left side are not in the – you see, they are reversed.

Now, we've had to get some cards and we'll show you how this works out, but it's terribly unimportant. What is important is the fact that you find most of your preclears have a direction reversal. They'll stammer for a minute. They'll start to go to the right before they go to the left.

And this is so marked that if you were to put a sensitive electronic meter on a steering wheel, you'd demonstrate there that every – you'd show clearly that every driver, when he starts to turn left, does a tiny little flick impulse to go to the right before he turns left. In other words, his training is a little bit deeper, it's a little bit stimulus-response.

This is very peculiar. You watch a company of soldiers and so forth and they have been drilled, one way or the other. Well, of course this driver, as a child, was taught in a schoolroom, so anything he's taught he tends to get backwards. I hate to hang that on you as a necessity, it isn't a necessity. It is merely a symptom of how deeply stimulus-response the GE has become. Has very little to do, actually, with the state of beingness of the thetan.

But the fellow's body is in a motor rapport with all other bodies.

GE is in a motor rapport and the GE gets it backwards. Now, the thetan doesn't get it backwards, but the thetan has got to smash through all these stimulus-response mechanisms in order to get an action. Therefore, a thetan, just purely and clearly directing out of whole cloth an untrained puppet – if the puppet is in good condition and if the thetan is looking and he's quite alert and he isn't depending on any automaticities, can make an almost instantaneous reaction on the part of the puppet. But the more stimulus-response we enter into the puppet, why, the less instantaneous reaction there is. And so we get communication lag. And communication lag is that degree to which the thetan is depending upon the automaticity of the body. And that is communication lag.

Now, while your boy is interiorized, you start to give him SOP 8-C and you find out he slows way down. Now, if you exteriorize him, you'll find out that this condition is not quite so bad and then goes away quite rapidly. And the first thing you know, boy, you can check him through the darnedest things and you just get pang, pang, pang, pang, pang, there's nothing to it.

See what's happening there? While he's interiorized, be is getting upscale and therefore more and more instantaneous and he simply starts plowing through old tangled networks and making direct connections. And as soon as he starts to do this, he starts to knock out the stimulus-response system he has to control the body, like mad. As a consequence, his reaction time gets faster and faster and faster on SOP 8-C.

Now, it'd be fun if here at the "Psychological Foundation of Yesteryear," where this Unit is being held – it would be quite a bit of fun if we had some of the equipment which was here once – the stimulus-response equipment. What we could do is put somebody on one of these stimulus-response machines and find out how long it would take him to press a button after he saw a light flash and then give him some 8-C and show you how long it would take him to press the button after the light flashed.

And it would be quite astonishing to you to see communication in action because, in essence, that's communication. The light communicates to the thetan and the thetan then directs that the button be pushed, he pushes the button. I don't care if he's in a body or if he's in a puppet or in a doll or anything else, that's all that's going to push that button for you. And so we'd have the interesting condition of the light communicating to the thetan and the thetan communicating to the button. And so we've got a two-way channel, which is the first thing we drew there.

All right. How fast is that two-way channel? It's as fast as it isn't automatic. Direct, that's a direct ratio. It's as fast as it isn't automatic, inverse ratio. The more automaticity that enters into a communication line, the slower the line is.

Now, in Western Union telegraph operation, you get more and more relays entering into the line. And apparently, your system, as it becomes more and more automatic, becomes faster and that is not the case. If you were to examine the actual length of time it took for the message to go through this automatic machinery, you would find out that it was exceeding, longer and longer and longer, a straight wire problem.

You know, if we just had a click going in at one end of the wire and a click coming out at the other end of the wire, it would be quite fast. But as we put in relays and things to receive it and things to bap and unbap and things to connect and unconnect and dials to go and all that sort of thing, the more stuff that goes into that line, the longer it's going to take that electronic impulse to come down.

Well, that's purely mechanical. But that's what MEST does. MEST puts time into a communication line. There isn't any communication-line time in a thetan. A thetan does not consider communication-line time. He is instantaneous. And the more MEST, then, that we enter into or the more circuits or the more wire – you see, it takes an actual finite time for an electrical impulse to travel a foot of electrical wire. It takes time for it to do so. And that time itself is communication lag. And time when applied to communications gets very interesting.

A star blows up out here a few light-years away and a million years later, why, we see the star blow up. Oh boy. Now, a thetan, with no dependency upon MEST and no great agreement with MEST at all, would have seen the star blow up the instant it blew up. And so, we get these strange things that are unaccounted for, back down the track, where the fellow knows something is going to happen. Well, the funny part of it is, it's all an instantaneous problem, anyway. And so the thetan can receive messages before they are sent, MEST-wise. See, it's instantaneous.

Now, that shouldn't exceed your understanding very far at all. If a thetan is always in unit time – he's always in unit time, whether the year is 1,000 or the year is 2,000 and all you're getting there is a shift of particles – and if MEST itself and the co-motion of these particles is itself time, then you see, if there's no co-motion of particles, there's no time for the thetan. It's very simple.

So naturally, what happened to you in the year 2,000 – you get this? I mean, what happened, happened to you in the year 2,000, happened to you, that's all. It will happen to you. What happened to you will happen to you because it is happening to you, because it hasn't happened to you yet, because it's happened to you already. I mean, your tenses just don't make sense. You just throw tense in the English language, just throw it out the window because it doesn't make any sense to anybody.

So therefore, you start running past and future as blocks out of a thetan and, of course, his reaction time starts up and his communication time starts up like mad and as you enter MEST in, he becomes more and more anxious about the past and future.

You see, he becomes more and more anxious about the past, more and more anxious about the future, because he thinks that he has to wait for the particles to move before he can have. His havingness then depends entirely upon the motion of the particles around him. But of course, a thetan can mock-up something which can endure a billion years or endure a split instant, it just doesn't matter which, he would have it. [sigh in audience] You see that? Conway, over here, gives a long, heartfelt sigh over this, [laughter]

Well therefore, a mock-up, not made out of MEST energy and not perceived in MEST space, is itself either timeless or a split instant of time. It just doesn't matter which you said it, you can actually find the mock-ups which you made eight billion years ago (quote) "sitting right around you" (unquote). Because here, then, we get the problem of distance. If we're not using MEST space, if we've tailored up our own universe, why, it doesn't have this identical time lag, because you haven't set it up on the same co-motion of particles.

But of course, at this point we go adrift and we go off into theory and we go off into an awful lot of things and we're not interested in that. The point is, that an engram can stay in suspension, which is the only point I'm trying to make. Because it hasn't happened and now will happen, an engram is happening. See, that operation that you're in, you're still in the operation. I just wanted to encourage you this morning, make you feel better.

It hasn't stopped happening, just because MEST said it did. But you dive over from this operation – you wanted this operation not to happen anymore, so you say, "Well, I'm an old pal of MEST. Yes sir, this physical universe. Yeah, the particles have moved on. Ha." They have not.

Now, as far as the actual operating chair and the motion of the fellow doing the operation and all of this sort of thing and the position of your MEST body, yeah, this is all composed of MEST particles. You understand that? So the particles have changed pattern. But all you're interested in is the thought aspect of this. And if you're interested in the thought aspect of this operation, it is happening, see? Because as far as you're concerned, why, it's happening, that's all. It never will be otherwise. It always is happening.

So you decide that's the best thing in the world for you to do, then, is to get lots of distance between you and that operation and that's why fellows start running. He was unwilling to do a duplication at that point, so when he makes MEST his ally, he no longer wants to be at that point. All this will come very clear, but a little bit later on in this course, I want you to listen to this tape again and you will wonder, "What the hell was I confused about? That was simple!"

One of the things – the misapprehension under which you're laboring is that theta has a position. Theta makes positions and can view from any position. And you're just as much a thousand feet back of your head as you are in your head, any day of the week. I mean, there is no difference between this. Therefore, when you say somebody is in – his head, this gets very silly. You know, a fellow says, "This is very silly." He's in his head. Well, he's also a thousand feet back of his head.

It all comes down to "What is he looking at?" see? He's not looking at anything a thousand feet back of his head, he's looking at things in his head. In other words, he has geographically located his viewpoint. All that takes is merely a conviction that he's in his head. That's all it requires.

Now, you can get the equal conviction – and again, if we had some of the equipment around here, such as blackjacks and PDH equipment that's used in the science of psychology, it would be very easy for us to demonstrate this clearly. You simply hit somebody over the head hard enough, you know, and he knows he's there. He's received that impact. In other words, he notices a fast change of MEST and he decides that he can feel this and he's decided an awful lot of things.

Well, he would be more convinced he was in his head if he were hit in the head, wouldn't he? Well, if we were to dope him up a little bit so that he were a bit drugged up and he were, let us say, in a state of high recipiency, we were to take him and put him in one corner of the room and then we were to take a basketball and we were to take a blackjack and we were to start hitting this basketball in the other corner of the room, you see? He's sitting in one corner, the basketball is in the other corner and we were to start hitting this basketball – and, let's concentrate, just looking at the basketball, you see, and swearing and damning this fellow by name as we hit the basketball – he would get into the basketball. Because he's in the basketball in the first place as well as in his head, because there's no size involved here.

See, it gets – a very, very interesting problem. But he can make up his own universe and say its size is so-and-so and so-and-so and then he becomes very comfortable. His mock-ups are far better, his running concepts far better, in space which he himself makes, than space which he has borrowed from the MEST universe.

Now, you'll tell one boy (I'm sorry to have to throw this point in, because – on space – because one or two of you are liable to be confused about it a little bit later on). But one fellow puts up in this room – he puts up eight balls in this room and they're oriented against the corners of this room, you see? And they're oriented perfectly and he thinks he's made some space. No, he hasn't. He's put up eight balls in this way. In order to make some space, he has to make the postulate that he's making some space and then he puts it up without any regard to MEST universe units and he has made his own space.

Now, in the latter space, it's very easy for him to make mock-ups and in the earlier, it's not easy for him to make mock-ups. He might as well have forgotten to put up the eight balls, just because he just put up eight balls in a room.

Well, where did he put them up? Well, he put them up at the front of the room and they're in such and such a relationship to the corner. In other words, he oriented his anchor points against MEST. He let MEST tell him where to put his anchor points.

Therefore, people who put anchor points around the body and orient the anchor points by the body don't make space. Even though they're still in their body, if they'd simply close their eyes and merely put up eight anchor points from where they are viewing them, they will have made their own space.

You see, it's totally a matter – totally a matter of orientation from self and the orientation of self is simply that viewpoint which one happens to be using. There is nothing more simple than for a fellow to duplicate himself anyplace in the universe, because he isn't anyplace in the universe, because he is everyplace in the universe.

Any one of you immediately answers up to the definition that has been given the anthropomorphic self titled "God," any one of you, because you're everywhere, omniscient and omnipresent and omnibus and everything, [laughter] Mmmm.

Well, that doesn't mean that you're infinitely large. It doesn't mean you're as big as the MEST universe. It doesn't mean you're as small as the MEST universe. You see what we're boxing with and what makes all this a – you can make these terrifically incomprehensible remarks – is because all language is oriented against MEST. Language is defined by MEST. So the second we start talking about these things with MEST language, it becomes balderdash.

You can say, "Well I guess I will have eaten lunch a couple of hours from now, last year" and it makes just as much sense as anything else you would say in MEST language, because the element of time is entered by the co-action, the co-motion, of particles. And you're not a particle and thought isn't a particle, beingness isn't a particle and time is an idea of where the particles are located.

You want to know why this fellow gets into a screaming fit and the guilt comes over him overpoweringly about something he did someplace or another? Well gee whiz, to all intents and purposes, he's doing it that moment. It isn't that he has a picture of it which he's running out – he can make a picture of it and then run out the picture of it – it's whether or not he's afraid of it.

And the running of an engrain was much less the problem of smoothing out energy than it was the problem of demonstrating to an individual that he could experience something again safely. It reconfirms to him, continuously, that he can survive anything. And as a result, he then changes his attitude toward existence and he thinks he doesn't have to carry that somatic anymore and he doesn't have to do this and he doesn't have to do that.

So your therapy in Dianetics was simply aimed towards showing an individual that he could do it again and it wasn't necessary for him to brace himself all the time for fear it would happen again. He was all the time saying, "It mustn't happen again. It mustn't happen again." And over on this side, on pleasure moments, "It must happen again. It must happen again." And of course, he couldn't make either one stick. And in this confused state, you could run out engrams.

The actual picture you ran out, however, he made at the instant you ran it out. It was made by an automatic machine. There isn't a person present has an engram if you want to call an engram a piece of MEST. You know, let's call this disk here an engram, see, because it's a mass of energy and so forth. Well, it would drift along in time – now I've changed its position, you see? Something that you could change the position of and so on and so forth.

All right. Let's go a little bit further now. You don't have this engram, if this is an engram, see, it isn't a mass of energy which you would have in your pocket and which would then get out and rub across your face, in some fashion or another, and destroy.

What you would have to do with this (quote) "package of engrams" (unquote) or an engram, you'd have to have an automatic machine that built it all the time and rebuilt it all the time. And in the absence of such an automatic machine that kept building it all the time, you wouldn't have one. Can you see that? If you've got a pretty mock-up from the year 1860, you've got a pretty mock-up from the year 1860, that's all. You got it then because you knew you had it. You'd have it again here because you knew you'd have it again. You follow this closely? You just know you have it, so you have it.

But you'd have to, actually, to have substance to it, you'd have to rebuild it again. Now, it so happens that a thetan can do this. He can build it again.

Now, he can go further than this, he can go further than this. He can actually build a piece of MEST and, by nailing it into the relation of these particles, have it age and do everything else that these particles do. As long as he makes it in relationship to and in complete agreement with MEST universe particles, it'll go along as a piece of the MEST universe.

So, are you making a mock-up in your own universe or are you making a mock-up in the MEST universe? If you're making a mock-up in the MEST universe, it'll age and deteriorate and nail down and so forth. And you put it down on the corner of the street down here a block away and it's right there, it's on the concrete and there it sits and so forth.

Well, you'll come back a thousand years from now and the concrete might have gone away, but that mock-up will have aged only to the degree that the energy which you actually hung up there, in connection with MEST energy, would have aged. Do you see that there's a difference here?

Now, I'm not talking in contradictions. I'm not talking in contradictions for several reasons. Nobody else agreed very much to your mock-ups. Therefore, you have no responsibility towards somebody else with regard to your mock-ups. You can do very much what you please with them. And when somebody says they can see them, then you get a little bit upset, see, because that limits your ability to do what you please with them. If enough people stood around and agreed they could see them, it would materialize, theoretically.

But all this, why? Because you are going from a standpoint of knowingness. You know you communicate. You know there is a distance. You know there is a particle. You know there is a mock-up. You know there is your own universe. You know these things and that thing.

And all we have to establish to wind a guy upscale again is just to discover his pattern of agreement. And if we discovered his pattern of agreement, we've also discovered his patterns of communication and his feelings of affinity all the way up the line. Because we have to (quote) "backtrack" over the agreement in order to undo the problem, merely because he has a vested interest in life.

No matter how bad off he thinks he is, he still has a vested agreement which he wants to keep agreed with, to some degree. So you have to be able to chip this off for him – you know, kind of break it up at the edges a little bit and straighten it out and restore to him enough fluidity so that he can reestablish his agreements, without at the same time wiping out his vested interest in the MEST universe. You see that? And so we're up against a problem of havingness.

We could process a preclear, theoretically, by simply making him change his mind and we would put him back in the same state he was in in the year zero. See, he could change his mind. Well, the only reason he won't change his mind is because he feels he has a vested interest.

It's very remarkable. Some fellow starts to commit suicide and he bangs himself up, one way or the other, and by golly, almost uniformly, he's on the verge of death but he's recovering just slightly, you know? And he's going to die anyway, but boy, the MEST universe turns on real bright and he turns on real bright and, boy, does he want to live. Wheel You've never seen the surge toward life that an individual gets when he really knows he's going to die. It all gets so pretty.

It's rather pathetic. You can go down to the emergency wards of hospitals in big cities and watch people brought in who have committed suicide and you'll find the same story, guy after guy after guy after guy. His vested interest is very great. Suicide didn't solve it, as far as he was concerned, but he thought it would.

Suicide is occasioned by the fact that people think they only live once. You know, they think they can destroy themselves and they've fought this destroying themselves till they closed terminals with it. And then they think they're going to wipe themselves out utterly. In such a way, death becomes very convincing to an individual and he forgets his past and he forgets that he's lived before and all that sort of thing, merely because he's lost all of his vested interest suddenly, you know?

Well, everybody in the MEST universe, everybody in this agreed-upon plane, has agreed, at this particular time, that when a fellow is dead he no longer owns his possessions. See, in wills – you can only go so far in writing a will to dictate what's going to happen to your possessions. The law limits it quite sharply. Freakish wills are very easy to undo. You simply say, "The man has exceeded his rights." What's his rights? His rights is to handle and control his property after death. He doesn't have that right. And so we've agreed on this in all different directions.

Now, I haven't gotten you too far adrift, because you will begin to realize, as you sit there after a while, that we're talking about knowingness and that we can go on and talk the longest chain of this and that and comparisons in this and that direction that you could possibly think of. I mean, we just go on and on and on and on and on with this stuff. I mean, we could talk for a year, two years, three years of strange comparisons and idiosyncrasies and oddities and tenses and so on and we would get noplace. Because we're talking about something which doesn't have anything more than knowing that it has. If it knows it has, it has. If it knows it doesn't have, it doesn't have. If it knows something exists, it does exist.

But everyone here has a tremendous responsibility toward everyone else and so we've all agreed mutually upon this and upon that and so forth, so we take these things apart very gently. Thus when we don't run things by brackets, we don't run out former agreements. And when we leave the bracket alone and forget to run things in brackets, why, the fellow's case hangs up. Why? Because we've hung him up with his agreements with the past and with the people around him as to what he owns and what he doesn't own and, of course, he doesn't change very much. See this?

Well now, if you consider time and the thetan, you'll find out that there's a tremendous communication lag in MEST. We've agreed that there is. A sun explodes, a million years later we see it. Okay? The Sun up here explodes and it could take an hour or two – I've forgotten how long it is. Is it three hours or it's – something like that?

Male voice: Eight minutes.

No, what is it, eight minutes? Yeah, eight minutes.

Male voice: That's right.

That's right. I keep forgetting what system I'm in. Anyway . , .

This Sun up here is quite close, but it'd still take quite a little while for us to find out. It would take a finite time.

All right. Now, let's see what happens to a thetan who wants to avert an accident at a distance. The reason why you don't believe in distance anymore is because you can't avert an accident at a distance. You've already agreed the MEST universe is here and the distances are so much and that it takes particles so much time in order to travel from this spot to that. And then you see that a fellow you know, who is a couple of dozen light-years away, is about to fall in a well. You see this using photons – or you know, I mean, let's just dream up some real space opera here. And you've got a televise screen in front of you. You know, it's a televisio and you see that another ship of the fleet is about to crash or something of the sort and your brother is on that ship.

And boy, right away you say, "To hell with this." And you simply appear or materialize in that area and put enough beams on that ship to cushion its fall. Now, that would be all very well – you actually have in your power to do that. You can change particles and suddenly shift agreements like mad. But you'd be too late. By the time you put a beam on the ship, it would have crashed. And so it would look to you that by putting a beam on the ship, it had crashed. It would look to you like you were assisting an accident.

Well, do you know what sound does? Sound travels at eleven hundred feet per second. The bullet of a modern rifle reaches you a long time before the report of the gun. Eleven hundred feet per second – bullet of a modern rifle travels at least twenty-eight hundred feet per second (that's a military rifle). And so it'd take a long time for the report to reach you. The bullet got there in a hurry! And then after you're shot and you're already falling, why, you hear the gun go. See, two different communication speeds. Communication: communication by sound, communication by bullet. Well, you actually had no communication, speed between your standing there, ready to be shot and there's no communication lag between the moment the trigger is pulled, thoughtwise, and your standing there, thoughtwise.

Now, if your level of knowingness was very good, you would know when the trigger was going to be pulled. You see, there's no difference between those two things, thoughtwise. You could actually be over there and be back of the gun faster than the bullet could travel from the gun to you.

Now, the funny part of it is, is you could know when the trigger was being pulled and duck. And then it would take a while for the particle to get to you and you wouldn't be there anymore. And there you'd bide and therefore you get the unkillable soldier. lie knows which direction what's going.

Communication lag. There is a present time in the MEST universe. It's going to baffle some of you, so prick up your ears. We're not talking past tenses and future tenses now. There is a present time. If you stopped all particles throughout this universe in the same instant and then inspected all of them, you would find every single one of them was in the present time that you stopped them in. Do you see that? If you stopped all the

particles in the universe and then inspected them, you'd find out where they all were at this instant that you stopped them.

Now, let's stop them at present time instant. And therefore, it's present time all over the universe at the same unit instant. So you just stop all particles and you'd look at them and there's present time.

All right. A person gets confused about present time simply because of this: A star explodes and a million years later he sees it, He isn't stopping all particles or he isn't looking at all particles simultaneously. He's looking at the particles and the communication lag because it's going to take the particles from the exploding sun that long to reach him. You see this? The particles are going to take time to get to him.

Well now, if he depends upon MEST for all of his communications, he isn't going to know about the exploding sun until the million or two years have gone by that it took the light to reach him. But, if his level of knowingness is great enough so that he can be anywhere in the universe he wants to be in the same instant, then it is the greatest of ease. He knows that a sun explodes at the moment it explodes. And so, again, we get communication time lag.

The causes of communication time lag, then, consist of time itself, the length of time or the distances it takes particles to travel through MEST. The more an individual agrees with MEST – which is to say, the more he depends upon MEST, the greater time lag he himself has and the less ability he has to know. Therefore, agreement with MEST is very poor. Once you've depended on MEST to bring you all your messages and you've depended on it to do everything, why, it gets very bad.

Now, there's a test of this. You can do this with a preclear – great ease. You can have him mock-up this room as this room and then mock-up this room as this room and mock-up this room as this room and mock-up this room as this room and mock-up this room as this room and keep that up for several hours on just a duplication of this room at the

instant that the room is in, you know? And never letting vary a factor about the room and insist that he duplicates this room exactly and so forth.

And we'd find out that the therapy hit an interesting peak. It would go up and he would get interested in it from a standpoint of duplication and then, after a little while, it would begin to fall off. And then, all of a sudden, you'd find him pretty flat.

Why? You'd forced him to agree with MEST. Now let's make him duplicate this room and then duplicate this room with calico walls and then duplicate this room a little bit bigger and then duplicate it a little bit smaller.

Now make him duplicate it a little bit bigger than his own concept of this room and a little bit smaller than the concept he had of this room. And then duplicate this room in the year 1770 and then duplicate this room this way and duplicate it that way. And that is to say, you'd make him set up the room and then get a duplicate of it.

Make him set up the room with calico walls and then make him get a duplicate of this room with calico walls. You keep on doing this and the next thing you know, his perception is going way up. Why? Because you're breaking him away from agreeing with MEST and it is agreement with MEST which gave him the communication lag and gave him the idea he could only be in one place at one time.

How does a thetan duplicate himself? You know, every one of you has the potentiality of granting beingness to another point of space, which is you, and then knowing in that point of space. Every one of you has this. And this, in essence, would be the duplication of your own personality.

Now, you could do this well enough so that other point of space, while you stood right where you were – it would merely be a scarcity of your attention that inhibited you from doing this – you could stand right here in this room and duplicate yourself in a point of space over at the Westward Ho and while you were still here, fully knowing, you could be in the Westward Ho, fully knowing.

See, therefore, sending somebody around in Change of Space is not sending a unit dot of something to here or there but is making a person know he is over another pattern of particles.

Now, we get the shifting of location is in itself communication. So you let (quote) "MEST" communicate to you continuously. Well, that makes you have to duplicate MEST in order to receive the communication of the MEST. And if an individual thinks there is danger in duplicating this communication, in being this communication, if he resists it, why, he eventually plows in and obsessively becomes it. See, begins to obsessively communicate with MEST so that he sees a picture on the wall and he'll have a flat feeling on his face, a very flat feeling. It's the picture on the wall.

And you want to know what these strange GE somatics are, they're quite often merely in the field of mesmerism. The GE is mesmerized by MEST. He's hit it too often and he's no longer able to maintain his own identity well enough, so he just duplicates MEST obsessively. He doesn't like it, he fights it. And MEST is not something he wants anything to do with.

And as a consequence, the funny feeling he's got on his face is the picture on the wall or the chalky feeling in a rock or something. Somebody who's kind of bad off can be walking along the street or something and then feel a little bit bad and then they'll attribute it to the past or something they ate or something of the sort, where as a matter of fact, it was a rotten fish hanging up someplace. They just duplicated it.

And it's quite amusing to you, as an auditor, that when you are auditing somatics or ill health, you have many choices of eradication of a somatic. First, is to eradicate, of course, obsessive duplication on the part of the body. That's first and that's done in several ways. But the next one is just in auditing – you see somebody in a service station, he doesn't feel very good – he hasn't been well lately and so forth – and you have immediately another choice. What's he duplicating around this service station? That's his immediate environment. Well, how do you solve this? You just tell him. to look at it, that's all. You make him look at it. And as soon as he really starts looking at it, he is duplicating by consent. And as soon as he duplicates by consent, he isn't duplicating by fighting. So by duplicating by consent, he then stops obsessively duplicating and merely starts to consciously duplicate. In other words, you've cut out the automaticity of excessive duplication. And here we get automaticity of communication.

An obsessive duplication would be an automaticity. It would be something without his consent, something that would go on operating hour after hour, day after day. He'd be doing this all the time.

Now, let's get it over to a point where we're getting him to consent to be the point B on a communication line. See, we're getting him to consent to be the receipt-point. And we make him intentionally become the receipt-point.

And we have done just what I said yesterday. We've said, all right now look, whenever a preclear has something strange happen, make him do it again and the item will fall under his control. And the second it goes under his control, he, of course, is no longer plagued with this automaticity because he put it there in the first place, so you make him take it over again. You make him knock out the separateness of it and the forgetter mechanism in it by making him do it.

So if this man is obsessively duplicating, then let's run this sort of a task on him. Let's just simply, without going into anything that looks to him like necromancy, like "All right. Now make your body stand there like a gas pump," would be, so on.

"All right. Now make it stand there like a water bucket. Now make the inside of it feel like a water bucket, see? Now make it feel like an air hose" and so on. And we could do this till, all of a sudden, he found one that was very nerve-racking to him and then we just make him be that by choice, one way or the other, and all of a sudden that automaticity would key-out and he'd feel good. But that's an extreme thing, you see? That would look too much like necromancy to him. He wasn't particularly indoctrinated into this. He'd think that you were playing tricks on him or something. So you would tell him, actually, though, "Just look around now."

And he starts looking around. Of course he is now, with his consent, being receipt-point. You ask him to actually look at the service pump. You ask him to look at the air hose. You ask him to look at the water bucket, you ask him to look at that. And you just keep asking him, to what does he attribute his cause? Or anything that will put his attention – you know, the cause of his trouble.

"Is there anything around here you don't like?" is a good way to go about it. And make him look at this and "Well, what is there about the gas pump you don't like, exactly?"

"Oh, ummm-mmm…" He'd never noticed before it has handles. "Uh, no, I don't suppose." Well, in order to look at something, he has to duplicate it with his consent and so it will key-out his automaticity. And before he's looked around very long, why, the automaticity of obsessive duplication of some object which he despises in the vicinity, ceases. See, you got the present time problem solved.

Now, automaticity can be keyed-out by making a person be cause – this automaticity of perception – make the person be cause or at the Cause, or A point of the line. Well now, the way you do that is "All right. Get a mock-up of a gas pump." This is all of Creative Processing, see? And the other one is "Be the receipt-point. Be perfectly at ease about receiving something."

Well now, you'll find many people have fought against being the receipt-point and have obsessively put themself into a situation of being cause. In order to keep from being a receipt-point, the fellow says, "I'm going to be cause. I'm going to be cause. One way or the other on something or other and I'm going to be cause and I'm going to be cause [pounding] and therefore I don't have to be a receipt-point!"

Well of course, a communication line has two ends. And this fellow will nail himself down in his head like he had spikes in it, because he is at the cause-point and he won't go around to the receipt-point. And if he won't go around to the receipt-point, then every automatic machine he has which duplicates goes into completely random action and becomes his enemy. Every automatic machine he has, then, becomes his randomity and, boy, the weirdest, strangest, most horrible things happen.

Why, of course, everything is inexplicable because any automatic machine that he has at point B – not at point B, but any automatic machine he has which duplicates in any way as a receipt-point, of course goes into full operation as his randomity. So just exactly 50 percent of his basic communication setup goes into action against him. He'll only be cause-point, he'll only be cause-point, he'll only be cause-point. All right.

Now, what do we do with this fellow? Well, we just make him look around. If we just do that – "Just identify what in the environment is your exact trouble," you know. All we're doing is making him duplicate with his choice, with his consent. We're taking at least sight over.

Now, it's a little harder to take sound over because you don't get sounds, random sounds, occurring at the request of the auditor, but you do get random sights occurring at the request of the auditor, pretty much. I mean, sights of objects and so forth.

So sound is a little harder to process and for that reason most auditors leave it alone and leave the case hung up on it. They'll leave a case hung up on sound or they'll try to run backtrack, in other words, to get sound.

"Well, let's see. Let's get the time you were listening to the symphony." "Now be the symphony."

Of course, the only way a guy can ever listen to a symphony is to be the symphony. The only way you can ever receive any communication is to be that thing which is communicating to you. That's duplication.

Now, we've got automaticity and randomity and communication all tied up here together. And we've got duplication, which is much more important, tied up here together.

The inability of a preclear to remain in one place is tied up here too. He's got to chase off to some new place all the time and he can't stay in one place. He can't duplicate, in other words.

And this is very interesting, but it's a little bit more than interesting – it's the stuff you are dealing with: duplication, communication, automaticity and randomity, cause and effect, and beingness and then space – viewpoint of dimension and you've got it.

Now, when an individual obsessively has to duplicate something, his space, of course, goes down to nothing and he has as much space as he's perfectly willing and easy-duplicate. You see, he can just duplicate all over the place with great ease. And as far as retaining his individuality, he can do this. As a matter of fact, the better he can duplicate, the more individual he can become, you see, by that, because duplication depends upon an ease of mind. He can set himself up an individuality or have this individuality and do most anything he wants to it, as long as he isn't obsessively closing terminals with the rest of the universe.

Now, what's closed terminal? Closed terminal is when B snaps against A and B and A coincide. And that is identification and this is obsessive duplication. Identification and obsessive duplication are the same thing.

The terminals snap together – no space. When we say an individual has no space, we are saying, immediately, his communication lines are absent. That is to say, all of his A points coincide with his B points. We are saying as well the C, or Cause, and the Effect are closed together too.

So that an individual has overt-motivator upset, see, he thinks he will suffer from everything which he causes, because his B and A have collapsed. So therefore, what is cause is effect is cause is effect is cause is effect, you see? He is the victim, he is himself.

He'll just flip back and forth between these two things like a shuttlecock. And this, of course, depends upon how much he fights duplication.

And if he fights duplication hard enough, he'll get so he duplicates anything and that if he were to stick a pin in anything, he would feel the pin in himself. He would go into an obsessed motor rapport with everything and there he'd be. And the way he gets into that is refusing to duplicate.

Now, what happens to this on the Second Dynamic? His sexual ability declines. What happens on the Third Dynamic? Well, he gets buttered all over the universe on the Third Dynamic. You see, obsessively doesn't want to be a group, so he just becomes obsessively any part of a group.

And what happens on the Fourth Dynamic? Well, he closes terminals with Man, in the first place, and then he becomes Man.

What happens on the Fifth Dynamic? He would become any animal he happened to see or he would run away from any animal he happened to see. A guy disperses and condenses and disperses and condenses. In other words, the line gets unbearably long and then they get collapsed and then they get unbearably long again and then it gets collapsed, except the condition worsens.

What's this got to do with havingness and terminals? It has everything to do with it. An individual cannot exteriorize unless he can put some space between two terminals. Namely, the terminal he's going to occupy at the moment and the terminal the body is occupying. If an individual is fighting the body, why, he snaps into its head.

All right. So we get the fellow who's going to do a bunk. He's going to shove off for Arcturus. We say to him, "All right. Now be two feet back of your head" and, by golly, he's two light-years away and still going!

Well, that's one of these lines that is lengthening, see? That's just an obsessive lengthening between these two. Well, that'll be immediately succeeded by an obsessive collapse of the two lines and he won't be able to get out of his head. So the next time you tell him to get out, he's not going to be able to budge. In other words, he can't handle space between terminals. That's all that's wrong with him – entire diagnosis.

Why? He has set it up automatically for something else to handle a space between terminals. He isn't handling it, something else is. So you just make him handle space between two terminals. You make him put space between two terminals for a while and he'd be able to step out of his head.

I mean by this, you have an ashtray here and a package of cigarettes here, you see. And we say, "All right. Now put a foot of space between those two terminals." "Now put no space between them." "Now put a foot of space and do it intentionally every time." "Now put a yard of space between them." "Now put them right close up together." "Now put an exact inch."

And each time make him do it right down to the last tiny notch of accuracy, you see? Make him even get a ruler and measure it off and so on. And we just keep putting more space and less space and so forth.

And then have him put random spaces between the two terminals. Make him make the package of cigarettes skid that way and go that way and say how much space is there. "Now I'm going to put random space between them. Now I'm going to take Lucky space out of them" or something of the sort "and the random space… Well, they didn't quite go together, you know?" We do exercises of that character and that itself will simply exteriorize a fellow.

Now, what are we talking about when we're talking about all this? We're talking about essentially livingness. Don't lose sight of that. We're not talking about a flock of mechanics. But what are the mechanics of livingness, the most intimate mechanics of livingness which we have and out of which we can get the best results in processing and so snap people up the line and put them in good condition, make them free, make them cheerful, make them good companions and good groups? How can we do this? We use processes, then, which remedy, enhance, better or utilize the conditions which I have just outlined to you.

Now, you actually have in your hands at this moment all the component parts that we have to have to process people, just in the lectures I have given you right up from when we started this course, right up till now. And this is what, the third, fourth day? All right. That's all the material we need. I've given it to you. You've had it.

Now, you don't think that this is very much material – you think this is far too much material. The only thing about it is this: these are precision data. That graph I just gave you there on communication is a precise graph. I mean, we're not just giving you an illustration of what communication is. So you just get your sights completely off of "Well, he's giving us examples," when I'm giving you a law or a definition. You just get your sights off of that and you get that over on the fact of it is a rigid law. It does operate that way.

And you erect thinkingness on the top of that law and, boy, you'll be an auditor. And in addition to that, you can instruct people in the slightest and strangest or the most roundabout ways and they will ask you the most confounding questions about what you're doing – you've got the basic law. How does it apply to that? Why, zing! There's the answer, there's nothing to that. You see that?

So if you get yourself a very, very good grounding in just the material we've had right up to this point, you're set, because I'm not going to introduce another single cockeyed new thing on you. We're just going to know these things better and better and better and better.

In processing, our problem is imposing space or taking space out from between two terminals. Havingness itself is a problem of terminals. The guy gets into this condition where he believes point A and point B each has mass, you know, and then the mass discharges and makes an automatic communication system which gives him energy.

And that is a motor. It's an automatic communication system between terminal A and terminal B. And it's just an automatic interchange. And after he sets this up automatically, after that you exteriorize him, he feels degraded. Why? He depends on something else to generate the energy for him, to generate the communications for him and so he himself can't generate anything. He can't be cause, so he can't generate energy. So when you get him out of his head, you've made him part from that thing which has most fed him energy. He's used energy from two masses. Well, he's actually creating the mass energy that he's using.

Now we get into the subject of time, we get into the subject of havingness. People get along to the point where every instant, as it goes by, robs them of that instant. Every sight they see is robbed – they lose it in the next instant. And they get to a point where they don't think they'll get a new sight and nothing else will appear, And so they've lost the whole universe and so they can't perceive, so they lose their space.

Well, what's this? This is simply a matter of there is the individual and there's the motion of the particle and there is he, trying to communicate with these particles, but he conceives them to be going by someplace. He thinks he's moving. The main trouble is he thinks he's a particle and he's shifting around and being reflected on by these things as they flick on by. Therefore, he's losing his havingness all the time.

What's havingness got to do with this? Havingness is merely the matter of the manufacture of the particles he sees. He's making all this stuff and he's making it at the speed of light, which is to say, he's mocking and unmocking the universe at the speed of light. That's how fast he's mocking-up things and unmocking them.

And when he is no longer able to mock-up and unmock and mock-up and unmock and mock-up and unmock at that speed, he doesn't see things. So he doesn't know. Your level of knowingness is tremendously high. All you really have to do is know that everything is all right and you'd be all right.

I'm not going to introduce new material. I'm just showing you with that havingness, just so that you, later on, when I bring it up and bring up degradation because of loss of masses, won't suddenly think that this exceeds communication and exceeds everything we've been talking about. It's all part of the same package. All right. And just so that I can say with great honesty that you've had it.

Now, your task before you is not really a terribly difficult task, actually. The assimilation and application of die principles which I have given you right up to this time, the alignment of them and matching them up to what you know and seeing that they work, that's all that remains for us in this Unit.

Okay.

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