This is the third hour afternoon lecture. It's December the 18th. 
 
 The.. uh.. graph which you see up here is a graph demonstrating 
 present time, and uh.. third part of the graph we have here, and all it is is
 just uh.. the.. the amount of energy a person uses to think. That would be 
 the lowest level on this picture: the amount of energy a person uses to 
 think. 
 
 Of course, A PERSON DOES NOT USE ENERGY WITH WHICH TO THINK! That is 
 the essence of nonsense. Because if a person uses energy to think, a person
 could only think then with facsimiles. And how can he only think with 
 facsimiles? 
 
 Well, because if he uses energy to think, all he's doing is introdu- 
 cing automaticity. He throws out a little energy beam and that restimulates
 something or other and then that tells him what to think, and that's the way
 he gets into this. He starts trusting his uh.. facsimiles and experience 
 rather than trusting his ability to be. 
 
 So, he's up there on a gradient scale, and we see well into the
 future there, no energy, no 'E'. There isn't any energy there used to think,
 a person postulates, a person decides. 
 
 Decision. There is no higher decision than.. than.. than just saying
 so. You.. you say so and it's going to be true, so therefore you say so. 
 
 Now, there are a lot of little sneaking tricks a person plays on 
 himself. He says, "Well, that wouldn't be any fun if you just said it was the
 case, and then it turned out to be the case; there wouldn't be anything to 
 expect, you see, and therefore I wouldn't get any..." 
 
 Oh, what a.. what a trick. That.. that is just a trick, by the way, 
 it isn't the case. When a person gets up to a point where he's.. starts to 
 think with no energy, boy things really start to get smooth, and he starts to
 enjoy things in a calm, beautiful way and he can introduce all kinds of 
 randomity, his interest level gets very high; his interest level's very high,
 he doesn't have much liability for anything. 
 
 But then he falls into these various tricks. He has an experience, 
 and this experience quote teaches him unquote something. And in being taught
 something, he is in a state whereby he will then use the experience instead
 of acting, and so he goes down tone scale and he starts using a light 
 deposit.. I mean, a light amount of energy to think. He wants it to flick 
 over to that old facsimile over there that he's got, and that'll flick back
 in a certain way, and then that will square him up in some other way, and he
 gets it all worked out, whereby he will now be prevented from leaving a 
 situation in one condition when it should be in another condition, and he's
 figured out some kind of a method to use force on himself in order to be sure
 that he complies with the rules. And he made.. probably made these rules to
 that extent and he's complying with his own rules, or somebody else than 
 himself, and they're not very savage rules. 
 
 Then he'd drift downscale which is back toward present time, and uh.. 
 he'd use more and more energy with which to think. That is to say, he'd use
 facsimiles more and more. Instead of using just little locks and things like
 that to think with, now, why he uses a little heavier brand of facsimiles. 
 
 Life has not been good to him. Life hasn't been good to him, indeed! 
 How could life be anything to him? He is life! 
 
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 So, he's starting to reverse, And when he gets into present time - 
 'course, present time is a consistent and continuously existing equation 
 which this is the solution of the interdependency balance of all dynamics as
 represented at this instant for your future look at things. 
 
 Of course, present time itself becomes something one needs. He has to
 have the solution of all eight dynamics at any moment in order to get himself
 a higher level. See? I mean, he's already said, "Look. The eight dynamics are
 not myself. I couldn't be eight dynamics. I need to be informed by eight 
 other dynamics of some sort or another as to the existing state. Now, the 
 first dynamic informs me very easily by pouring my own facsimiles in on me, 
 and the second dynamic informs me with equal ease, by demonstrating to me the
 existence of this sensation. And the third dynamic tells me this, because 
 uh.. here are all these people, and uh.. I em in agreement with them, and 
 they're in agreement with me." And so on, we go on up the line. 
 
 Now, here are all these eight dynamics then, and this is present 
 time, MEST universe. Any given instant of interrelationship of, is present 
 time. 
 
 Solution. The solution is represented in a solid, more or less, 
 mathematical form. 
 
 It's as though you had an enormous electronic computer which had an 
 enormous number of data being fed to it, almost at random, continually, and 
 it was bringing out what the balance was at this instant. And that balance is
 in your hands at any instant. That's the balance of havingness. And the more
 worried you are about that balance of havingness, the closer you are to it. 
 And some people will get a thirst for it to be TERRIBLY REAL!! And they get 
 this thirst for it to be REAL! That means: "My God! I sure have to inspect 
 that solution. All the time. I just have to keep my feet right on that 
 solution." 
 
 You'll get somebody, the poet, he is going up the street, his body is
 starving, he's in terrible condition financially uh.. any other condition you
 can think up is liable to be visited on him at any moment, and what is he 
 doing? 
 
 He is going up the street composing a poem that has to do with 
 something he saw down the street. And the world comes along and they look at
 him and they say, "Look at that fellow. He's in rags. He.. he's this way. 
 He's that way uh.. something or other." 
 
 He, by the way, is less perishable than the much solider citizenry. 
 
 A song can racket down the ages. It doesn't corrode. It doesn't have
 to be polished, maintained, oiled, shelved or put in a vault. It happens that
 a song is far more powerful than any blaster ever invented. 
 
 I wanted to write a story one time about a fellow, an alleged son of
 Genghis Khan, wbo took a.. took a town with a song when the Khan had failed.
 
 The only thing you really remember about the great conquerors is a 
 song somebody wrote about them. The thought was the poet's. 
 
 And the solid citizen says, "Now look. We sweep you away. It's so 
 easy. We throw you in the Bastille. We do this. We do that. We do something 
 or other with this MEST of yours. You see! You see! Now, we can do this to 
 
 you. And we can do that to you. You see! You see!" And he just doesn't see at
 all. 
 
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 Voltaire writes a very polite letter to the people who threw him in 
 the Bastille for a year because he had been waiting, and working and having 
 an awful time trying to find the time in order to write one of his better 
 works, and he discovered in jail the calm and peace necessary to devote this
 time, so he wrote them. And he was probably quite sincere about it; it didn't
 worry him. They couldn't do anything much to his MEST that put him in any 
 very permanent state of disrepair. And he was in a condition of mind where he
 didn't use very much energy to think. 
 
 And a fellow does quote good thinking or quote good solutions about 
 to the rate that he doesn't use any energy in the line. Just about in that 
 ratio. 
 
 The best solution is simply a postulate. What is a better solution on
 the whole problem of light than to be able to say, "Let there be light." And
 there's light. No real reason why there had to be light, by the way. That 
 would make a solution necessary. 
 
 Why people ask about "Why?" all the time, and demand that we have a 
 reason for everything is a very simple thing, you see. They've got to have a
 reason because they've got to have the solution because the penalty is so 
 great and there is present time, and they're holding grimly onto present 
 time. 
 
 Well, as they drift back to present time they're all right. They're 
 at least standing around saying, "What's a solution? What's a solution? 
 What's a solution? What's a solution? What's a solution? I don't see it very
 well. I wish I could see it better. I wish I could see it much better, but I
 can't see it very much better. But if I could just see it a little bit 
 better..." 
 
 Or, "I am really bored with it, I - uh.. 'course I need the solution
 all the time, but I don't quite know what to do with it. Let's see, how 
 solid's the lamp post? How solid's the sidewalk? How solid are the walls? How
 solid are the...? Am I going to eat tonight? Well, yes, I am going to eat 
 tonight. I eat tonight. I'll have to eat uh.. I'll get to eat that. To eat, 
 that's present time. That will keep me going in that.. in the.. that.. that 
 is right." 
 
 Havingness. Havingness. Havingness. Havingness. Not-havingness. 
 Not-havingness. Agree-agree, disagree, want, not-want, not-need, need.. 
 wirrrrrwwww. It all goes on the monitor of how much he needs, isn't it? 
 
 I told a producer one time that my leisure time was worth 
 seven-hundred dollars a week, and he fainted. He almost literally did faint.
 Any salary drawn would have to be in excess of that, because that was the 
 price of leisure. He couldn't figure this out. Maybe you can't, but it makes
 good sense to me. It makes very good sense to me. 
 
 There's no use working at all, I figured, on a job that one didn't 
 have much of his heart in. It was better to have nothing to do. Up to 
 seven-hundred dollars a week, and that was the level of havingness which 
 would make it interesting! 
 
 Now, you can actually plot pay that way. You can simply ask yourself,
 "All right. Let's see now, I wonder what uh.. how long.. this.. I'm.. I'm 
 interested in this preclear. Therefore, I'll do this preclear for nothing." 
 Or, "I'm interested in having a few things." Or, "I'm interested in buying a
 few things so I won't have to have some other things as solutions. And 
 
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 therefore I'll have this preclear for three hours and I don't want the 
 preclear for three hours, so therefore I'll have to bring it up to a level 
 which makes it interesting to me to have the preclear for three hours." 
 
 Don't omit that. Don't ever consign yourself to a drudgery. Because,
 when the interest isn't there, it's just drudgery. There isn't any reason why
 you have to do anything. Brim it out. 
 
 Now, the energy used to think by the psychotic is of course no 
 personally manufactured energy at all. It's just glue of energy once used. 
 And he's just got it all pulled in on him like mad, and of course he obeys 
 only the commands in it, only the commands in it, only the commands in it, 
 only the commands in it, only the commands in it. 
 
 It says, "Not do." It says, "Do." He does, he does not. That's all 
 there is to it. Energy potentials. 
 
 Now, let's look at that, then, and lets find out that uh.. you're 
 going up toward no-energy to think, when you're going up to postulates. When
 you are going up to Postulate Processing, when you say "Postulate 
 Processing", you're processing somebody toward future. 
 
 Well, you.. of course, you don't think in the future. If you're in 
 relationship to the solution, which is present time, you say, "Now, let's 
 see. Uh.. let me think uh.. I don't know whether my car will be outside or 
 not, or whether or not I can possibly drive or not drive in some other 
 direction, but if I go down to some other direction and do something or 
 other, then so on. But if I itd that, why..." That's just stream of 
 consciousness, for a lack of energy to think. 
 
 "Tonight I shall dine at the uh.. Russian Pentagon Building," or 
 something. You just say that. You see, make a postulate. 
 
 Now, if you're hot enough on this line, it will come true inevitably,
 because ten minutes before you eat, you'll make it; it will appear. You get 
 the idea? There.. therefore you go up on Postulate Processing and making your
 own universe, you're completely independent of present time solution - 
 present time solution. 
 
 Don't.. let anybody kid you, that your interest in existence is 
 dependent upon the present time solution, because it's not. 
 
 Most of the things a person is clinging to in the present time
 solution are not important, because the present time solution has a habit of
 being very, very badly upset and erronified. 
 
 You see. The Russians are about to attack you at any minute. The 
 United States is about to attack you at any minute. Um.. the amount of bank 
 banditry in uh.. Little Keokuk uh.. on the 2nd of January has averaged out to
 the figure of .7623. You're don't.. don't even have any money in the bank. 
 What are you interested in a bank account for? Eight robbers were shot today
 on Rop-Rop Avenue. So what! You weren't on Rop-Rop Avenue! 
 
 But you take that in as assessment of the situation: are we going to
 have more robbers or less robbers? it looks like we're going to have more 
 robbers, but the cops said there'd be less robbers, therefore the cops were..
 1t was a good thing the cops were there. 
 
 Oh, is it? In other words, present time solution! Present time 
 solution! 
 
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 What are you interested in? Well, about the level when a person has 
 sunk to the point where they're only interested in the present time 
 solutions, they're not interested, they're frantic. They're getting to a 
 point where interest is being displaced by fear of penalty, and this all 
 comes about because they use energy with which to think! And that's.. that's 
 all there is to it. 
 
 And if you were to process this, just.. just process this on a pc 
 it'd straighten him out and he'd feel quite a bit better. 
 
 Most pc's have energy deposits around with which their energy to 
 think is deposited. And where is that? Is that in the future? No, that's not 
 in the future. There isn't any energy in the future. Is that in the past? No, 
 that's not in the past. There isn't any energy in the past. 
 
 Well, where is it, then? Well, I will tell you where it is then. It
 is in present time. And it has a little sign on it and it says, "This is the
 future." 
 
 Now, the person who can't get it is resisting the future. He's trying 
 to pull out of the future and he's got a reverse vector going. He's more 
 concentrated upon not having the future than he is upon having the future. 
 And if you want him to get to this deposit, simply ask him.. ask him uh.. 
 "Let's.. let's try not to have the future. Let's try to avoid seeing this 
 deposit," and so forth. And you'll get him back and forth. 
 
 Now you can always trick your mind.. your energy levels in this wise. 
 You can always trick them very satisfactorily by saying, "All right. Now, 
 let's try not to make it green." 
 
 You've been trying to make this green, trying to make this green. 
 It's impossible for you to make the green. 
 
 You say, "Try not to make it green in order to make it green." 
 
 You say, "All right. We'll try not to make it green." It's green - 
 bang! 
 
 "All right. Let's try not to see it. You wanna see it. You know you 
 wanna see it, so you just say, "Try not to see it," and bong! It'll turn up. 
 
 Because that's the not-have and the have. You can do those both ways. 
 You can just say, "All right. We won't uh.. we'll pretend not to do that. 
 Okay, that's good. We've got it now." And we can go right on. And it's a 
 method of handling things. 
 
 But that only goes a very short distance before the person just
 simply discards it as a crutch. But if you were to ask somebody, "Let's take
 a look at your future." 
 
 The fellow will say, "What do you mean?" 
 
 "Well, do you have a little.. anything around there when you think of 
 the future, you.. you see this, or change this or try to make it green or 
 black or white or something of the sort. Do you see anything like it? Do you 
 have anything like it?" 
 
 "No. No." 
 
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 "Well, let's try to avoid having any future. Just get the thought of
 avoiding any future. Now, what do you see?" 
 
 "Well, what do you know," he says. "There is one. Yah. Yah. Yah."
 Well, he's trying not to have anything there in the future. There are things
 which he'd hate to have happen and he is trying to avoid them happening. 
 
 And of course, a person who is way, way, way up tone scale wouldn't
 have any such deposit at all. But he wouldn't be in a body, either. 
 
 So the mechanism in it is that anybody who can be influenced by the 
 flows is a give, at which time you would say, "Try to avoid the deposit which
 is the future. Try to avoid the deposit which is the present in thought 
 energy. Try to avoid the deposit which is the past in terms of thought 
 energy." And they'll light up like Christmas trees. 
 
 And a person who is a TAKE, at "Let's have it". Whatever part of the
 cycle they're on, let's just have the.. let's ha.. just have the future,
 let's not have +he future, and you've got it. 
 
 And what do you do with this? Well, then you turn it green, you turn 
 it pink and you turn it yellow, and you.. anything he can do just keep him 
 handling it as energy in present time which has future labels on it, and the
 thing'll blow up. All of a sudden he will experience an enormous feeling of
 relief. 
 
 Why? Is this energy the future? No, it's not the future. It is a 
 deposit that is labelled 'future' and the deposit exists in present time. 
 
 Is this energy the present that he's looking at? No, it's not. It
 happens to be just a deposit which he calls 'present time' and is in present
 time. 
 
 And is this energy the past? Yep. It's facsimiles being carted along 
 because he is existing in a dependent state upon his facsimiles. 'Cause he 
 knows he has to have experience. He goes down to get a job so that he could 
 feed the body. 
 
 He has to put the body at a desk so that the body can then be paid, 
 and then the body can eat, so that it could be put at a desk, of course. And
 uh.. nice and circular ambition, you see? So, he goes through this whole 
 situation and when he gets through with it, he knows very well that he has a
 body, and uh.. he's very definitely dependent on flows, isn't he? 
 
 Well, the.. the dependence.. his dependency upon flows is.. is.. his 
 utter dependency on experience is a dependency on flows. 
 
 The fellow who says, "Well, let's see. Experience is very important, 
 terribly important," ought to modify it this way: "Experience is terribly 
 important to people in a body who are thinking in terms of flows. Then good 
 experience becomes extremely important, because when they put out energy in 
 the direction of their flows, then good experience will come back in and they
 will do the right thing. And we have a good puppet and an excellent 
 marionette, and this is therefore what we want." 
 
 So, the fellow who gets this job to put the body at a desk so the 
 body can be paid, so that the body can eat, so that he could put it at the 
 desk, so that it could be paid, so that he can eat - is always asked this 
 question: "How much experience do you have? Is it good experience or bad 
 
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 experience? Or is it some other kind of experience? Well, experience - 
 experience..." 
 
 They don't realize that at.. somewhere in the career of everybody, you
 get a reversing vector. You get this fellow with wonderful references, just
 rave notices -- he leaves with the boss's wife and all the dough in the cash
 drawer. 
 
 If this fellow has been exceptionally good, and exceptionally honest,
 that is the best reason in the world to believe that sooner or later this guy
 is going to be the foulest crook that ever lived! 
 
 And it's.. it's not monitored, then, by experience. What they're 
 searching for in all these factors is just this one thing, is: how much 
 energy is this person using with which to think? Now if you can establish how
 much energy he uses to think, you'll establish how important it is for him to
 have experience. Because if he doesn't use any energy to think at all, it's
 not even vaguely important for him to have experience, but boy, would he be
 valuable in ar. airplane plant. 
 
 He has no experience whatsoever. He goes around to the airplane 
 plant, and he says, "Hey uh..." Uh.. you say.. why, the.. that boy could 
 draw down much more than any president of any corporation in the United 
 States in terms of MEST, but the trouble is, nobody'd ever be able to pay him
 unless he was interested. The only pay would be interest. 
 
 He would go around. Why? Because after the plant had manufactured the
 airplane and had it all beautifully manufactured and everything else, they 
 wanted to know whether or not this plane would fly, this fellow could simply
 take a look at the airplane and say, "Yeah, it'll fly." "No, that one won't
 fly." "Uh, that one's got something wrong with its motor. It's the lower side
 of its motor won't function. Uh.. there were two mechanics had a fight out on
 the right wing tip, and there is a strut cracked out there or a strut will 
 crack out there, and you had better replace that." You would practically have
 uncrackable airplanes. Why? 
 
 Well, he could just simply pervade through the airplane and he'd sort
 of feel around in the airplane, and.. and.. and he'd know what the future of
 the airplane was. And if it didn't have a good future, if your fellow was 
 really good, why, if it didn't have a good future at all, he would merely 
 say, "You will have a good future now, airplane." It sounds crazy. But you're
 actually moving out from simply causation in the future to causing future. 
 
 And you still have a ghost of this in witch's curses and earth still
 remembers these things. No matter how dimly they might be, they s.. they 
 still recall 'em. Curses and damnations and good gifts and, "You may now have
 three wishes," the fairy says. Sure, he can give away three wishes, any fairy
 can give away three wishes. So could you. But I'd think before you give away
 three wishes, I think you'd better be able to give yourself three wishes, and
 I think that would be a good thing, and it isn't necessary for you to sit 
 down and wish hard. It isn't how hard one wishes that counts, as they teach a
 child. It's how lightly one wishes, and how interested he is in having that
 for which he wished. So, you see what our three wishes would amount to in 
 terms of.. in terms of postulates. 
 
 Well, look at no-energy up there on the track and you'll find this 
 fellow'd be very light-hearted and very serene and he could be quite intense
 if he were interested - if he were interested. 
 
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 But you can be as intense with an upper band as you can a lower band
 wave. You can use very light energy to accomplish ENORMOUS things. It's only
 with a very heavy energy that you can't accomplish a doggone thing. 
 
 Just.. just try and accomplish anything by telling somebody what to
 do, forcefully. You do that often enough and customarily enough, and you
 eventually won't get anything done. 
 
 Be a much happier thing to be at the stage of the tone scale, where
 you simply knew they would do it. 
 
 Did you ever go around and say to somebody, "Well, we know that
 you'll do that," and so on, and just leave them stuck with that? You've
 actually laid a postulate on top of 'em. 
 
 Well, a little bit higher than that is, you just KNOW all of a 
 sudden. You just have a conviction in energy terms. You just know the 
 waitress is going to walk to the other side of the dining room. She does. 
 
 You kind of know here and know there and you know this and you know
 that, and nothing happens. 
 
 You can't get down and pitch with flows very long before you come 
 down below that level again. Energy flows are very dangerous to use. Even 
 communication flows basically trap you in and you have to bail yourself out.
 
 I'm always having to sit down and run out.. and pull myself uptrack
 one way or the other. But, of course, I've never used any energy with which
 to think. And the only reason I'm telling you about this, I'm telling you 
 about this is almost.. it's all extrapolated, but it's almost a new 
 discovery, although I've been kidding about it for two-and-a-half years. 
 
 I just put a few attention units down in the GE to find out if the GE
 could think, and I found the GE thinking. He was thinking. I thought that was
 wonderful. I thought it was so cute. 
 
 But if any of this stuff had to be THOUGHT about lengthily and so 
 forth, nothing would have happened. The only place where it had to be thought
 about is: compare it. You compare one flow to another flow, you'd have to 
 kind of mock up a couple of flows and hook them together, and uh.. you think
 about this, and think about that. That's what's known as 'inductive thought'.
 Hut you're not operating, and you can't operate in order to investigate 
 something; you can't operate from the basis of postulating to make it so, 
 'cause then you can't investigate it. You see how silly that would be. That..
 that's just gruesome. How could you investigate anything if you were 
 postulating all the time? 
 
 In other words, it'd be impossible to find out anything by carrying
 on investigation which is car.. occasionally called 'scientific'. See? 
 
 You postulate what the conclusion will be. You'll find scientists, by
 the way, are hipped on this. They've still have got an aberration on the 
 subject. They're afraid to think what the conclusion will be for fear the 
 conclusion will be that, and they will then be swayed by the conclusion. And
 here these fellows with one-sixteenth of one grasshopper-power brain cell 
 left with which to postulate.. t.. they could make a postulate at a ping pong
 ball and the ping pong ball would stay right there. It wouldn't go any place.
 And yet these fellows are very careful not to make a conclusion before they
 finish their experiment. They're getting away from a fear which has now 
 
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 become impossible. 
 
 There's nothing wrong whatsoever with saying, "Well, the way this 
 thing is going to work out is this way," and then mixing up the MEST universe 
 ingredients this way and that way and finding out it works some other way. 
 
 You say, "Well, it didn't work that way." 
 
 "All right. We'll postulate that this is going to work this way, and
 then we're going to mix all these things up together and they'll work some 
 other way." 
 
 And you would say, "Ah, to hell with that." 
 
 Uh.. that would be sensible, because sooner or later you would come
 either to an apathy about the whole thing and skip it, or you'd find 
 something which, when mixed up that way would accomplish the result which you 
 postulated. Well, you've given cause to the MEST universe, that's what would 
 happen. 
 
 All right, now let's look at the preclear in terms of energy and he
 has decided he is an effect of everything. And I was thinking about this 
 Egyptian cult that.. white was cause and black was effect. And if you were 
 half black and half white, you were all right because then you were half 
 cause and half effect and you were the effect of your own cause if you were 
 that, and if you looked at the future and found the future black, the future 
 would be an effect. But, if you looked at the future and found the future 
 white, then the future would be cause. But, that was better to have the 
 future cause than to have the future effect. So, what you tried to get was 
 look and see a WHITE FUTURE. How do you like that one? You had to look and 
 see a white future. And if you saw a black future that was bad, and you 
 should abandon that course of action immediately, if you saw a black future. 
 
 What the devil are they monitoring? Well, the funny part of it is, it
 has a workability. They've just aligned all the facsimiles which gave the 
 experience of badness, up, and then hooked 'em up to a circuit which has a 
 flashboard on it, and that flashboard says 'Black!' That means, "These 
 thoughts are passing through bad experience, don't monkey with it." And a 
 white flashboard which simply says, "These thoughts are passing through good 
 experience and so the chances of them taking place are very good." 
 
 It's not very reliable, because it depends on an automaticity of 
 flashboards. But if you want to do intuitive or instantaneous thinking with 
 flows, that's the way they're rigged. You see the future is black, or you see 
 the future is white, recognize, for the love of Pete, in yourself or your 
 preclear, if you're not seeing the future and you still know you are affected 
 by flows, you're just trying to avoid that sight or perception in some 
 fashion. 
 
 All right, let's look this over then, and we've.. possibly this is 
 one of the ingredients of occlusion. They made implants in people about this 
 at one time or another, by the way. And uh.. you just turn.. you don't run an 
 implant, you just turn the future white, and you turn the future black, and 
 you turn the future purple and then you put some red crosses on it, and then 
 you turn Saturday green. And then you turn these other things this way, and 
 then shift them this way and that way, and then put the future behind your 
 head. And let's see if you can find the present - what the sum of energy is 
 of the deposit called the present. And that isn't out here, that's just right 
 in front of your face, practically, or maybe it's your body. Uh.. anyway, you 
 
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 turn the present white, and then turn it green, and then turn it purple and
 turn it yellow. And you'd probably be able to park it some place or another
 by finding another present and postulating it there. Who knows? 
 
 And uh.. the.. the past, as I say again, would be a very heavy 
 deposit, because that's all composed of facsimiles. 
  
 BUT there is a little light deposit that says, "We've got to think 
 about the past," and that's the.. the deposit accumulated of having to think 
 hard about the past. And you turn it red, and you turn it green, and you turn
 it blue and you turn it purple. And you try to avoid seeing it, and you avoid
 seeing it, and you turn it orange and,. and you put it under the left foot. 
 
 'Cause what is it? It's your own energy which you're holding onto, by
 which you're trying to estimate change of havingness in the future. 
 
 A person who tries to estimate change of havingness.. rate of change
 of havingness in the future, by comparing it to the past is gonna fall flat
 every time. 
 
 That is why law is such an interesting profession. Because law 
 depends almost wholly upon precedent, rather than justice or chancery, 
 anything. Precedent, precedent, precedent, precedent. The past is good. The 
 past is good. The past is good. The past is good. The past is good. 
 
 And, of course, it moves with incredible slowness. It has enormous 
 heavy massive tomes and buildings and courts, and.. and there're the guys 
 that practice it uh.. in terms of police and that sort of thing, they get 
 heavy and everything is slow, and they have to stop motion, and hold it and 
 so forth. 
 
 Naturally, because they're running on the principle: the precedent, 
 the precedent, the precedent, the precedent, the precedent, the precedent. 
 And that means the past is the measure by which we measure the future. 
 
 You cannot take the laws of Holland in the year 1213 and pick them up
 and apply 'em against Holland in 1952. It cannot be done! And you can't take 
 the laws of 1928 in the United States, and apply them to the United States in
 1952. Different year. 
 
 I know this comes as a shock and surprise to many of the governmental
 agencies, but it's not 1928. 
 
 Now, being down the time track is simply trying hard.. down the time 
 track is trying hard to agree with the past so that the present will go all 
 right. If you agree with past experience then the present will go all right. 
 And of course that's a completely dippy one and brings about insanity, and 
 everybody does it. 
 
 Let's agree with experience and have nothing to do with the 
 postulate. 
 
 Well, I talk quite a bit about this because it's possibly for you an
 analysis of what Postulate Processing is. It's trying to get far enough 
 uptone, which is to say use and be influenced by energy so slightly, and be
 in control of it so s.. forcefully and so heavily, and be able to go up so 
 high above any necessity to need it, that one simply says, "Let there be 
 light." That's your theoretical level. 
 
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 So, you have a process in this in asking the preclear to find these 
 levels and turn them red, blue, green and wink. You'll find out you'll solve
 a lot of his troubles when you do that. 'Cause all he's really interested in
 is: "What is going to happen to me?" 
 
 And you see, what was going to happen to him in 1913, as adjudicated
 by what happened to him in 1912, is not good experience to measure what 
 happened to him in 1952, and even the experience what happened to him in 1832
 has no bearing, really, on what happens to him in 1952. And yet we'll find 
 him making it so. You'll find him adding this up. 
 
 "Let's see, in 1832 we had a cylinder of this size and it was used 
 for a hay mow. Now, automobiles have cylinders. And therefore I can't fix an
 automobile engine. And the reason for this was, is my father back there in 
 the 19th century didn't like this thing he used in the hay mow. He couldn't
 handle it and once it fell on the calf. And I liked the calf, so therefore 
 automobiles are no good." A=A=A=A would be a past time engram kicking in 
 because of the geometric similarity of form, and that's all there is to that.
 
 Well, I've actually just beat this thing to death as far as that's 
 concerned. I could give you an awful lot of.. of examples of processing one 
 way or the other.. and I probably should. 
 
 There's the Positive and Negative approach to processing; there's 
 trying not to have the engram, and trying to have the engram. There are four
 flows really. And there's trying not to have the engram, and trying to have 
 the engram. And there's trying to restrain oneself from not having the 
 engram, and trying to restrain oneself from having the engram. In both of 
 which cases, one is trying to have the engram, trying not to have the engram.
 Four flows. A halt on trying to have clear on over to a halt on trying not to
 have, to trying not to have. it's a gradient scale itself. 
 
 Now uh.. let's see here, would uh.. well, let's.. let's.. let's find
 out, let's.. l.. 1.. l.. let's sit down. I am not going to give you anything
 very rough - nothing very rough. You.. you can.. you can estimate now what 
 your havingness is in terms of the future because of this process in terms of
 the present. 
 
 PC: (Chuckles). 
 
 LRH: Now, what.. what.. how is this going to alter your havingness in
 the future? It won't. 
 PC: I don't think so. 
 LRH: That's right. That is what I figured. No change. 
 
 Okay, now let's look in front of your face there for a moment and 
 let's see if you can see anything even vaguely resembling energy as a 
 deposit. 
 PC: It's blackness. Plain blackness. 
 LRH: There's a lot of blackness there, huh? 
 PC: Um-hum. 
 LRH: Uh.. it's easy to get that? 
 
 (rest snipped due to boring demo auditing)