This is the third hour of the afternoon class, December the 17th. 
 
 We've just had a demonstration of Lifting. Uh.. I want to point out 
 that I made too big a step there once. And point out that I did a couple of
 steps without mock-ups between them. And if you were watching there and 
 observing it, you found out that you.. that we were getting him just a 
 little bit less action - did you notice that, by the way? I said.. suddenly
 made you pick up four fingers without first making you pick up three 
 fingers. 
 Now what did you feel about that? 
 Pc: Just seemed to be solid like. 
 
 LRH: That seemed to be a little bit solid. Yeah. We'd gone up to 
 three, you see, four. As it was we just put a little more time on that than
 should have been. We jumped too big a step. And, of course, that we covered
 immediately and we were shortly back in the running chain. We just went back
 and picked up the three step, did the three step very thoroughly and then 
 came on to the four step. And the four steps then... 
 How'd they feel the second time? 
 Pc: It felt lighter. 
 LRH: It felt lighter, you see. 
 
 Another thing is, what did you feel about doing mock-ups in between? 
 Did you keep wanting to get the show on the road? Or what about the 
 mock-ups? What was your reaction? 
 Pc: Oh, it was good. 
 LRH: Hmm? 
 Pc: It relaxed me. 
 
 LRH: Yeah. That's right, that's right. Because he's in there 
 pitching and agreeing with the real universe, instead of the actual 
 universe, and so he takes a look at the actual universe and uh.. throws 
 himself some mock-ups there and all of a sudden he says, "Well, not so bad,"
 and uh.. you got release from tension. 
 
 So, actually your preclear will benefit if you did two or three 
 mock-ups between every single step. But there is no reason why you should 
 have to do this, to any great extreme. There's nothing compulsive about 
 this. 
 
 But it just so happens that if you're making him agree with the real 
 universe, why uh.. it just goes faster if you'll throw some mock-ups in 
 there. He feels a little bit relaxed and he feels a little bit happier about
 the thing. 
 
 So, this process would've continued from four fingers, of course to 
 the hand; and then both hands and then would have continued up to the 
 elbows. And the arms, and then we would have wiggled with one foot in one 
 direction and then wiggled with the other foot in the other direction, and 
 then pushed the feet together and then pulled the feet apart and uh.. then 
 made one toe tap - just lifted the toe and let it fall a few times. And then
 
 -150- 

 we would have hooked a line on and possibly made him pull his foot off the
 platform edge - anything like that so it would just drop a little bit. And
 uh.. then we would have finally picked it up at the knee and let it swing 
 back - I mean, pick it up so it bent at the knee, you see? And then.. you're
 starting to look at me fascinated. What's the matter? Does that sound hard?
 
 Pc: No. I was getting the idea of how it works. 
 
 LRH: Well, there's nothing hard about it. I mean, as long as you 
 follow the road, it's.. it becomes just ridiculously easy. 
 
 Now just exactly where the end of this is, I won't tell you at this
 time. I'll tell you, find out exactly what happens when you've finally got a
 guy so he can boost his body around. 
 
 Nibs said one of these days he's going to go down the street with 
 his hands together in front of him like this, see. And go down the street 
 about six feet off the sidewalk at about 15 or 20 miles an hour - hands 
 pressed very reverently before his chin, his feet straight together and a 
 very reverent expression on his face, and scooting down the street like mad.
 
 Now any time this power.. this power action that you're getting 
 there seems to fail - I won't say you can't do that, you know, I'm trying to
 encourage you in this line. Any time this power action seems to be slacking
 off, or something of this sort, you've just done that fact: You've just 
 agreed too long with the real universe, so you sit down... 
 
 It isn't that you draw power, you see, out of the uh.. mock-ups or
 anything strange or peculiar like that. It's just that concentration on the
 real universe gets a fellow back below a certain point into flows. And he 
 gets back to obedience of flows because he's finding flows useful. And he 
 gets back - he wants to use them, therefore he gets rather obedient to them.
 
 And he gets up above a break point, however, and above this point he
 doesn't give a damn. But you have to get him just so high before it really
 has no further effect upon him. 
 
 I was going to make a little note there. I was talking to you about
 a wheel. Sort of an "all roads lead to Rome" thing - all roads lead to Rome.
 And it's very pertinent when it comes to lifting or turning on perception.
 
 These things, as you well realize, depend upon force. And force is
 random effort; and effort is directed force. Now you understand, of course,
 while I was working this.. this preclear, that we were using beams. We were
 still using flows. When I told you, "Get above the break point," that's a 
 very specific point. It's the point where he simply gets way out away from
 something and he says, "Jump," and it of course promptly jumps. He doesn't
 use a beam, but he makes it jump with a postulate, instead of taking the 
 intermediate step of throwing beams on it. You see that? It's but easy. And
 you drill him up along that line until at last they can make a finger lift.
 You wouldn't go over and throw a beam on the finger or anything else. You'd
 just say, "Lift," and it lifts. It's fascinating patterns. 
 
 So, all roads lead to Rome here. And Rome in this case is force. Now
 force is interpreted by many people to mean rough, mean, ornery, misused 
 material. So, that however.. force is merely energy with some direction. And
 effort is very closely monitored force, that's all. 
 
 -151- 

 And I don't care whether you're pushing a paintbrush over a canvas
 or anything of the sort, because there's a great deal of force there. And
 you get somebody who is very shy of force, because he gets an aberration
 because people have used too much force on him, and he has used too much
 force on others, and what do you get? You get a fellow who won't use force
 to push a paintbrush over a piece of canvas. 
 
 Too much protest, then, along this line is.. becomes aberrative. It
 inhibits an individual's willingness to handle energy. When an individual is
 unable to handle energy, is unwilling to handle energy - same thing, 
 unwilling, unable - unwilling to handle energy, the next thing that comes
 about is he becomes an effect of energy. The use of force is idiocy; it's
 just pure idiocy to accomplish everything across the boards. But if you're
 going to handle a material object you are actually handling solid energy. A
 material object is solid energy. It is made of energy; it is therefore 
 composed of force vectors. And you're unwilling to handle force, and you're
 unwilling to handle energy, you will become shy of handling.. just 
 automatically become shy of handling material objects - acquiring them, 
 getting rid of them, placing them around or anything of the sort. 
 
 And, oddly enough, an individual's perceptions turn off to the 
 degree that he's unwilling to handle energy. Now isn't that cute? See, 
 there's even energy in mock-ups. You put energy in mock-ups - a very light
 type of energy. It doesn't bear much resemblance to force. 
 
 So the breakpoint, of course, is up above the level of the use of
 force. No state really can survive from the moment that it begins to employ
 broadly and without much direction, force. The use of force as the sole 
 method of accomplishment of an end, ends in death. Because it brings about a
 dependence upon force, but at the same time there doesn't seem to be, at
 this time - and when there is.. when there is, we'll find it, if there ever
 is - a shortcut on force. The road out is the road through. 
 
 When you're below that level, unwilling to handle force, you could
 become subjected to force. And as you come up the line you will find it 
 easier to handle things in terms of energy. And handling things in terms of
 energy then brings you about 19 times up the tone scale. This is the fastest
 way I know to increase tone, you see. Increase perception. You notice...
 How were you feeling there about halfway? All right? 
 Pc: Yeah. 
 LRH: Yeah. All right. 
 Pc: I noticed quite a difference. 
 
 LRH: You keep bringing a guy up the tone scale, bringing him up the
 tone scale. Sometimes in his.. you'll notice his tone change. He'll start to
 demonstrate some new strata on the tone scale and so forth. Just feed him
 some mock-ups on it if he looks kind of angry or something of the sort. So
 you say, "Oh, good. Let's make him do something destructive. Let's make him
 hold on to something, let go - in a mock-up." And that shifts his tone 
 again. He could be jammed somewhere on the tone scale in the use of force.
 
 All right uh.. we don't have to do that - I mean, it'll work out 
 automatically. 
 
 -152- 
 

 So.. so unfortunately force is the barrier, the sinister barrier.
 And the trick is to get up above the level where you accomplish things 
 without the use of force or what we commonly call 'energy' or 'flows'. And
 in order to get to that point where you can handle things made out of energy
 without handling, then, with your manufactured energy, you of course are 
 above the breakpoint. And that's the point.. well above that point is the 
 Operating Thetan. He hangs up as long as he depends on flows. 
 
 So we see this thing called force here. Let's see how many things go
 through force; and here we have the first and foremost that interests us: 
 irresponsibility, is first manifested by an abandonment of force. "I am to
 blame" is an abandonment of force. It means, "I used force for the wrong 
 thing and therefore I'm to blame. And I'm bad cause and we don't want to be
 bad cause so we're gonna abandon that," and the next thing you know the 
 fellow's very irresponsible. 
 
 'Cause what's responsibility, when it comes down to that? It's 
 willingness to own or act of use or be - and lower on the tone scale all 
 those things have to go through the band called 'force'. That you could also
 call 'Effort band' of the tone scale. A person gets below that effort band,
 no matter.. they can still think and still act and so forth, but they are 
 not willing to handle material objects and they become irresponsible for 
 'em, things around them start to become rather enMESTy. 
 
 And so we go through force and we get responsibility. And over here
 an individual who is having a serious time with causation, and is responding
 to any kind of a flow. You see, these fellows have got everything packed in
 - Step Four - the kind we're trying to resolve with Step Four? They're.. 
 they're just so subject to flows that what they get they can't get rid of;
 what they have gotten rid of, they can't get. They're obeying flows, and so
 they're in effect. 
 
 And we have this up here through force, and out of force, and we get
 cause. Cause, responsibility, actually are not on a parity; cause is, if 
 anything, higher than responsibility. I'm just drawing this in any old way
 here. 
 
 Now because knowledge and data is contained on energy and is as 
 forceful on an individua1 as the individual is unwilling to face facsimiles,
 then data becomes composed of force. Facsimiles, pictures, pictures of 
 force. If he can't handle force, he can't handle the pictures. If he can't
 handle the pictures, he can't handle data. And if he can't handle data, he
 gets into that state known as 'unknowing'. And there's nothing worser than
 the 'unknown', if you've postulated there's something you ought to know and
 you can't - and it's contained in a facsimile, that is to say, a memory of
 some sort. so you get 'I know not' here and that goes where? That goes right
 straight into force. And coming out of force, gets what? 
 Voice: "I know." 
 LRH: I know. Interesting, isn't it? 
 
 Now, of course, an individual becomes as individual as he is high on
 the tone scale. And he is as individual as he can act by his own self- 
 determinism; and he is only as individual as he can act by his own self- 
 determinism. But if he can be made into an effect, if he can be made into an
 object, if he can be solidified somehow or other in space and given a label,
 he is identified. And being identified, of course, he becomes an object. And
 an object is an individual, and that of course is the state called 'I am 
 not' and 'I am not' led through force comes up here to, of course, 'I am'.
 
 -153- 

 Very simple... 
 
 Now because every MEST object is interested in identification and is 
 not Interested in differentiation every one of these objects - why of course --
 you get the ability to be everyone is on the upper side of this wheel; and 
 being in sort of everybody's valence is on the bottom side of the wheel. So 
 we get the fact he's really nobody. The best identified person, the most 
 amental person is a nobody. Really, that's true. 
 
 So we get that 'nobody-everybody'. 
 
 Now let's look around on the tone scale again and what other ones do 
 we find? We find down at the bottom of the scale 'Succumb' and that comes up 
 through and becomes of course 'Survive'. Now how does that do that? Well, 
 that's because when an object is interested in survival, it is not aware of 
 the fact it is immortal. And if it is not aware of the fact it's immortal, 
 it is because it obeys what? Force. And if it obeys force or obeys force 
 laws it naturally can be made to succumb. By what? Force. And so force has 
 this corrosive effect upon the individuality which brings it down at last 
 into the individual identity, so-called. And it finally corrodes in and you 
 get that. 
 
 Now from this you could assume that force had something to do with 
 time, couldn't you? And of course that's true. Force does have a lot to do 
 with time and.. and has also - force as they overlook most often, has a lot 
 to do with space and when you have force and space, or energy and space, you 
 get an object and naturally you have Have, which comes up here on the tone 
 scale. We've got Nave coming up here now and Have comes up along the line, 
 and of course force is energy and it goes up through energy and comes up 
 here to what naturally would be... all through force again. 
 
 Now an object can't perceive. It can have perceptions engraved on 
 it, but it can't 'look', and so we get, down at the bottom here, of course, 
 'No Perception' and up at the top we get 'All Perception' - just to that 
 degree. 
 
 So we get thinking here being done in terms of energy where the 
 force level is. Down here we get it done in terms of 'for you'. And midway 
 between those two points it is done in terms of looking at old facsimiles. 
 Just above energy at force here, we have the thing operating on a more or 
 less of a postulate basis sort of thing, and we get memory. 
 
 So up here above force, of course, is the gradient scale of 
 facsimiles, and here is remembering more or less by flows or pervasion by 
 flows. And up here he is just simply.. good memory. 
 
 And this again goes through what? Over here - up here. That's a 
 wheel. 
 
 There are a lot of other things on that wheel, but the main thing 
 that's on that wheel is what I will draw now which is this big curve over 
 here on the right side, and this big curve is Cycle of Action. It starts up 
 here with Be, goes through energy and ends with an object, or starts with 
 Stop.. starts up there and ends with Stop, has Change in the middle so force 
 brings about change. When force is employed it always brings about change of 
 one sort or another, which inevitably ends in a static. 
 
 There actually is a picture of your wheel that has to do with all 
 the things, more or less, that we have been talking about as we went through 
 this whole course - this picture. 
 


 Now, there are two ways those arrows can fly. I instinctively put
 them in that direction. You can take these same factors and put 'em in the
 other direction. When you put 'em in the other direction you get the MEST
 universe. When you put 'em in this direction you get freedom. 
 
 Those things which people instinctively resist, really, will 
 eventually wind them up being an object - an identity. And fighting force or
 using force as a sole means is no good. But because that road leads through
 force, leads through energy, you make sure that your natural instinct to
 avoid it does not persuade you as a precler to inhibit the efforts of your
 auditor just out of the chatter to rationalize about force. He's not trying
 to make you into a single force object or something that uses only force.
 There isn't any ethic on a force level. It's almost shot. 
 
 And as an auditor, boy, DON'T YOU EVER LET YOUR OWN WILLINGNESS TO
 AVOID FORCE INHIBIT YOUR RESTORING TO AN INDIVIDUAL HIS RIGHT TO BE FREE.
 There is the picture, and the stable point that we're gonna mark up here
 with a great big 'S' is in this area. On that big 'S' is an Operating 
 Thetan; and there you've got it. 
 
 Now, someday somebody's going to pick up a wheel like that and 
 they're going to say, "This was a mystic symbol which was used" - they find
 this old universe floating around and you just explode a few pieces of it or
 something of this sort, and uh.. it's still got pieces floating around in
 little chunks of space that sort of drift around. And you'll.. probably 
 somebody is still trying to argue with somebody else that we ought to go
 back and remove these navigational menaces, in case anybody started thinking
 in terms of 'You use force in order to create objects, which you then rule,
 and the best way to do it is to create objects out of live, living, thinking
 beings'. And anybody starts on that line, why, he is in bad shape. But 
 somebody will be explaining why somebody might get going again on this 
 thing. 
 
 On anything, when you see the vector go down anywhere on these 
 wheels, when you see that vector go down - rocks and shoals. On this lower
 portion, from force down, when you see that vector turn around, you're going
 to wind up with Succumb, Effect, Irresponsibility, Have Not, I Am Not, I
 Know Not. When you turn the vector around and start to use force on the 
 preclear, he winds up at Succumb, I Am Not and so forth. Of course, it's a
 little bit different using force on him than simply using a postulate on
 him. You say, "All right, let's go through this and let's be still about
 this whole thing. All right, let's take it easy now." You're not using 
 force; you're appealing to his reason. He knows you're not going to take a
 gun to him. 
 
 But at first he's only quivering because he's afraid you will take a
 gun to him - so much force has been employed against him. 
 
 And the road out there is the road through energy. And I marked 
 'force' up here, not because we ought to call it force, but simply to point
 up that a force is a railroad tie across the track, and one which must be
 removed from the track of the preclear, because it's a dividing line. 
 
 Now, somebody else could look at that graph, by the way, and he 
 could say, "Now you see, what you do is you're all those lower things and to
 get better you start using force. And if you use force that brings you up
 into a beautiful state of 'I am' and 'Be' and all that, and therefore the
 hest way to do this is to use force on everybody and accomplish it all by
 force." Heil Hitler! 
 
 -155- 

 
 And then, as I said in the book, I heard a rumor lately that Adolf 
 Hitler was dead. 
 
 Because the ruse - you've got to.. you've got to be able to handle 
 it and willing to handle it, and willing to buck through it and willing to 
 employ it and find out what it will do. And this is a major point: How do 
 you get a preclear to handle something that falls in the 'can't' category on 
 the machine? You make mock-ups of it and he can handle it. You can use.. 
 actually make mock-ups of force till you can handle it. 
 
 But control and handling of anything which is the thing which bars 
 the road, is the modus operandi out. It isn't, at this moment at least, a 
 rocket ride over all of the obstacles. You pick 'em up and you throw 'em off 
 the track. Only you don't - but the preclear does. You just tell him to, and 
 he'll make it. 
 
 Fear of force will keep him depressed. Actually, when a person is
 able to throw his body around, his fear of force lessens very markedly, and
 his fear lessens very markedly. Let us ask him, just off-hand. 
 
 ((to pc)) "You feel any attitude shift?" You don't have to. Do you 
 feel any attitude shift? I mean, as a result of this.. of this lifting we 
 were doing? 
 
 Pc: I don't recognize any... 
 
 LRH: You don't feel an attitude shift. Did it make you feel any 
 better about anything? 
 Pc: Yeah. 
 LRH: Did it give you any hope? 
 
 Pc: Yeah, it uh.. it showed me that I'd been out for quite a little 
 wh1le and didn't realize it. 
 LRH: Yeah? 
 Pc: Yeah. 
 LRH: How do you mean that? 
 
 Pc: Well, one summer while we were processing, the first thing we 
 used to do is put each other against a wall and then run a.. you know run 
 through the.. through that, when you get there that "What to Audit" - it 
 said that the best place was outside, so we decided to do that. So uh.. 
 after a while uh.. at first I used to walk wrapped all around the body and 
 then after I'd been processed a little more I decided I didn't have to wrap 
 around the body, just be around it. 
 
 LRH: Umm-hmm. 
 
 Pc: Um-hmm. And then it slipped, you know. I didn't realize it. And 
 now suddenly it a11 came back. 
 
 Umm-hmm. How would you feel if you could pick your body up by the 
 scruff of the neck, about a foot in the air? 
 
(rest is snipped - boring demo auditing)