CHAPTER 2 - THE LIFE FORCE
THETA, THE LIFE FORCE
Standing there at the center
of the three universes is that datum, the capability of theta. Theta is
not a nothingness. It just happens to be an exterior thing to this universe
so you couldn't talk about it in this universe's terms. But as far as this
universe's terms are concerned, we can define it, and that is just a little
bit of a triumph, to tell you the truth.
Now I won't say how many
other capabilities theta has, but in this universe or in the universe which
you create, we know it has these capabilities. The Qs are a fortress. This
is really good.
There is no reason under the sun why a fellow can't exist in many places simultaneously. But there's scarcity of space, and he thinks he occupies space, so there has to be a scarcity of him. He can't multiply himself all this time because if he did, he's be in terrible straits.
THETA AND MEST
The top level of abstraction
is interest. Regarding thought impinging on the MEST universe, the first
border of impingement is Interest - Desire. This whole sphere of interest
and activity called the MEST universe started out as a game. But don't
think the MEST universe is the only game there is. The MEST universe, however,
would have you believe this is the only game there is anyplace in the whole
of anything. That's not true. Games are going on with all kinds of rules,
terrific interest levels and so forth.
For example, what is the
progress of the self-concept of size? How come is there a deterioration
of size? What happens to a thetan in this universe in terms of space? How
big is a thetan? Well, he's as big as he can put anchor points out there.
And he's as little as he gets then driven in.
MEST is plus-negative and in confusion and chaos. The biggest maybe there is, is MEST. In Science of Survival you can read the basic theory of Theta-MEST. En-MEST would be MEST which has been organized but has been all loused up afterwards, like an old, dilapidated car. A person can get so concentrated and down tone scale on enMEST, which is below 2 on the tone scale, that he will make enMEST out of every MEST he's got. There's some weird attraction between entheta and theta. They seem to come together with a dull thump. Every time you put out a theta line, for some cock-eyed reason, below-two will attack it madly.
We now have a better explanation
of what we were talking about with theta-MEST. If you scramble up and drive
in somebody's anchor points, you get enMEST and entheta. Entheta has to
do with the corruption and mess-up of somebody's space.
How do you create entheta,
and what is entheta? Entheta is driven-in anchor points, saying, "You can't
occupy that space."
THE THETAN
The study of Dianetics is
a study of Homo sapiens in his behavior manifestation. The moment you take
Homo sapiens apart you'll find out that he is a four-way composite; he
comes in four chunks; he falls rapidly into four pieces. Remark: These
are thetan, mind, body and entities. The mind will be presented in another
chapter.
So, of those pieces, we
took the preclear to continue with.Taking the preclear, you find yourself
addressing something which seems to be, and seems to him or herself to
be, an energy production unit which exists almost as a non-dimensional
point in space. And this energy production unit, which we call the thetan,
is quite separable from the body. This is the easiest part that we have
to do, is how to take these pieces apart.
We say a thetan's zero. That means no space, no havingness in that, so there's no time and there's no wavelength. There's the ability to think and make a postulate, which is very interesting. A thetan doesn't have to be a complete zero. He can be packing quite a bit of residual electricity which he lets off at one time or another. The thetan is not an energy unit, he's not a ball of fire or a sun or something like that. He's something there that exists at zero space that can accumulate electricity and make electricity and change it in time and space. That's what he can handle. But just because he can handle it does not mean that he is it. Saying that a thetan must be an electrical unit and must be located in space, has the same logic as a lorry driver must be made out of tin, because a lorry is made out of iron. Those things which are made out of energy and exist in space are only partially capable of handling energy.
THE POTENTIAL OF THE THETAN
A thetan is not a finite quantity. There's enough of him to be stuck in every incident of the track and yet there can be enough of him in present time. In order to operate freely, he's got to have a scarcity of space cured and a scarcity of self cured. A thetan has training and skill which he's afraid to touch. So they've gotten automatic. Instantaneous learning and application: you observe, pervade, know, apply, act...
The brilliance of a case
is dependent upon some factor that isn't well isolated at all. It is above
the levels of wave length. Thetans vary from one to another in potentiality
of creating space and energy in it. There's a variation in intelligence,
a real difference of horsepower, which comes from theta itself But you
won't find, as far as I know at this time, in Homo sapiens, a thetan of
sufficiently low horsepower to remain incapable of being collected and
being made into a theta clear. The guy has to be awfully bright to be here
at all in no matter what kind of a condition. Physical infirmity of the
individual is no index of his power or ability (or lack of). The solidity
of ridges is no index either. Because what's postulating there, the thetan,
is not using energy. The energy is getting in the road of it. And it's
not using space.
The thetan can exist and
believe himself to exist in this universe. And he can believe himself to
exist as a point of energy which emanates and handles energy on a lower
scale; and he can believe himself to exist even on lower planes - he can
believe that he's a Homo sapiens. The thetan can also be in this universe
a point in space which is not using energy but which is existing by command
only - that's a higher level. The gradient scale of the guy who is able
to step out and knows he's a thetan goes down to the level where the guy
not only doesn't know he's a thetan, but he doesn't even know he's got
a body.
A theta clear is higher
in tone and knows more and has more abilities than any spirit that will
wander into Madam Zog-Zog, the clairvoyant's, academy.
THETANS WITHOUT BODY
Out in the rest of the universe,
lots of its locales, there is no mystery on the fact that everybody's a
thetan. There's a mystery on this level: thetans get into bodies. They
don't know that. Or they know it sporadically and the information disappears
again. So they know that people think by making postulates; they know that
thetans produce energy. That data however is not graduated down to and
doesn't merge with what they'd have to know ordinarily to do anything about
a Homo sapiens or actually a thetan that's bad off. In those same areas
the idea of "processing" is a very simple and elementary idea. You give
him a shock. Thetan isn't acting right, well you just knock him around
till he does act right. Having trouble with energy, give him some more
energy, or control him harder - it's all on a dwindling spiral basis. They
don't know the reverse therapy. Because it didn't exist, evidently.
If there are bodiless thetans
who are still active to any degree on this planet, they would be active
in a capacity and area such as Spirit of the Wood, he would BE the wood.
You can divide the time track
roughly into three sections. The earliest portion of it is thetan versus
thetan, the middle portion of it thetan versus bodies and the latter portion
of it is, of course, bodies versus bodies. (Remark: Scientology is trying
to back preclears up from condition III to condition II or I.)
You'll find preclears in
a state of mind of, "Well, I have to understand it." However, many an auditor
has had a great shock by taking this complete stranger to Scientology and
saying, "All right, now, be two feet back of your head," and then listen
to a long dissertation on the subject of Scientology. "This is the way
it's done and this is the way it's here and these are the kinds of things
that happen to me and so on and so on," you see? Auditor sits there with
his jaws open. Somewhere on the timetrack, somebody's operated a school
- a fellow actually ran a college way back on the track that taught thetans
how to operate. A preclear of an auditor in England - he was no more sprung
as a thetan exterior without any education on this subject, than he started
to inform his auditor as to the proper methods and modes of teaching and
training a thetan to move properly around in the MEST universe - just like
that: curriculum. 70 trillion years ago thetans would get up against these
huge gaseous masses, which were later to become planets, and they'd be
afraid to touch them. They'd wait for them to solidify. And they might
wait a million years. And this fellow took pity on this so he opened a
school.
You can read "What to Audit"
(History of Man) if you want a disentanglement regarding the human mind,
the universe, aesthetics, space opera, past lives, other planets. Whether
that's true or not, whether the material in it is exact or not is beside
the point. That material is there not to tell a story, but to help an auditor
solve a case. And it's told from that viewpoint and from that viewpoint
it's accurate. It is also, by the way, probably to a large degree true.
Earth really isn't being
played for. There is a crew that would like to think it's playing for Earth,
but they're pinned down. There's a covert infiltration, a monitoring action
that takes place here on Earth from a between-lives area, and you pick
it up in preclears every once in a while. But it isn't really getting some
place because the people who are doing that are too degraded on team play
to stand up against the team that's playing the other game.
There isn't any game going
on here. Unless it's a game called "Rehabilitation", or it's a game called
"Exit Depot" - which it could be - the game of Scientology, on a planetary
scale.
IMPLANTS
Remark: An implant is an electronic means of overwhelming a thetan, resulting in the installation of fixed ideas, contra-survival to the thetan.
1. Between-Lives Implants
In between-lives implants,
they didn't know how to erase engrams, so they present pictures spinning
toward you, and then spinning away from you. You'd see these scenes in
front of you, and then they'd go away and recede. And you'd say automatically,
"Why, those things are all erased." and have the impression that all your
memory was being erased.
There's waves there, flows
hit him when he's in that position. He is swept into this place with flows.
He is pinned down with flows, He's gone away from there with flows. He's
shot back there with flows.
He's in the between-lives
area and this stuff under his nose is going clickety, clickety, clickety,
and all of a sudden the whole thing goes "Whirr" and he sits over to the
right or to the left of it, and he says, "What do you know? My life disappeared."
And then he conceives his life to be wiped out and he's a new being.The
guy claims he can't remember anything about his past life and you strain
and sweat over this thing. Do mock-ups of little spinning wheels and tie
pictures on'em. He's liable to get a horrible feeling in his head and suddenly
remember the good old space academy.
It'll spark up a person's
memory, just snap, if you run one of these things.
2. Religious Implants
Another manifestation is
preclears will shift identities and borrow facsimiles like mad. Fac One
a million years ago is occasionally rigged with Christ and the Devil and
an angel. A fascinating thing, it's an old game. Here on Earth there was
undoubtedly a Christ. Well, one of the reasons he swept in so suddenly
and would go forward so hard is he had a good assist back of him in terms
of an implant.
You will find preclears
all of a sudden are Christ. A preclear will go all the way through with
a crown of thorns and every other darn thing. What they've done is picked
up an implant phrase and done a mock-up on it. Just look for an overt act
against Christ, and it solves itself. This is an overt act against religion,
and the person has been made guilty in terms of some religious cult, and
the only reason that could ever happen to him is because at some time or
another he has deserted a group which was a highly ethical group and after
that he can become prey to other things.
At least one out of three inmates in any asylum are spinning on religion. Why? God occupies all space. That's all you have to convince a guy and he is dead. It's all God's space and any space which you occupy will be God's. Just look at that as an operation. The guy can't throw out any anchor points of his own without getting God into that space. And he'll spin like a spinning mouse if he finally gets this down the line.
THE GENETIC ENTITY
The thetan doesn't belong
in Homo sapiens. A little bit earlier on the track, Homo sapiens is Homo
something-else. And that difference would be, bodywise, he would be this
something else without a thetan. Because evidently, a thetan is not necessary
even vaguely to his anatomy.
As we look back down the
trach at the GE (Genetic Entity, the life force unit that runs the body),
we find out that he was getting along just fine. He was keeping the heart
beating, he was keeping the lungs going - breathing, even while asleep,
he had a carbon-oxygen engine, and he figured he was an engineer at the
controls of a train or something of the sort. It's an engine built out
of ridges - the ridges are of his creation. It's a composite of facsimiles
which have solidified into what we call cells and the human anatomy. The
GE is actually of the same order of being as a thetan. But the GE is excessively
monomanic on one subject - survive on this MEST level. The GE himself has
come up the track, and he has picked up other GEs and so on and it's come
on, and this composite is what you'd have. I can't tell you exactly how
this GE gets himself into such an accuracy in building a carbon-oxygen
machine. Or whether the GE is just a decayed thetan or another breed of
cat. Or if there is such a thing as a thetan native to the MEST universe.
I know you're not. No preclear I ever processed was native to the MEST
universe - not one. But it's very possible that the GE and its ilk are.
I don't know. Don't have to know either. Otherwise we would have taken
large steps to find out.
The GE has himself some standard
and permanent set of anchor points. And he's got himself or other entities
or beings or thetans like him, posted around at various places. The whole
body is built out of sequences of ridges and very nice patterns. The GE
happens to be using MEST universe energy, and he's just glueing it together
a little bit, he's in a process of using counter-efforts, and refining
those, and so on.
The animation of this body,
and the GE proper, may or may not follow the protoplasmic line. As far
as I've been able to see, he skips. You've got a protoplasm line; you've
got bodies being made, and there's a being that takes care of this body
and that being isn't the thetan. That's all you have to know, because from
there on you're processing the thetan. You do not want to process the GE.
You'll find a lot of thetans
think it's awful important, they come in there in propitiation. They get
outside the body and then they think, "Oh, that poor GE!" and they've got
to rush back in. That's nonsense. This body was made to be threatened with
death three times a day. There's nothing like being threatened with death
to bring somebody up to present time.
When your preclear was suddenly convinced that he had to take a rest, he was convinced simultaneously that he was not free to use this body as he chose. And your disability of the body begins from there. You want to get rid of being an effect of the body, just use hell out of it! There is no reason the body shouldn't "be thoroughly abused" straight down the track. Because in order to come up tone scale, the individual will find himself doing that. If he just is brought up tone scale, he'll find himself doing it. And if he just does it, he comes up tone scale faster.
GETTING A BODY
The thetan is on a much wider
cycle than the GE; he's on a cycle of spirals. He treats each one as though
he's a separate identity in that spiral.
Your job is to free the
thetan. Now one of these days I'll get back on the GE line again, as a
line of investigation, and maybe figure how to bring a GE up so he's real
smart. And do it easily, but it's a secondary job.
The thetan was at first
a somewhat willing prisoner, then an unwilling prisoner, and then an unknowing
prisoner, in what we now call Homo sapiens. Don't omit the fact that a
body is an anchor point. People get very interested in this big particle,
which is a composite of small particles, called a body.
Thetans use various methods
in dressing up a body so it'll work. This accounts for the different postures
and actions which you find from person to person. They're rigged differently.
Example: a dancer vs. a watchmaker.
What brought the thetan down
here? A valuable energy known as sensation. The underlying and hold-onto
energy is the energy of sensation. If you're going to run some kind of
energy in the preclear, for golly sakes run the energy of sensation, the
energy which comprises sensation, and you will find some sensational material.
Because, in trying to pick up this energy, he overreaches and he holds
on to all sorts of other energy. The thetan has to be interested. The aesthetic
band goes very rapidly down into sensation. An individual who has no capacity
for an emotional experience is unable to appreciate art. You go around
aghast sometimes at the emotional outbursts which you see on the part of
some people who had merely beheld a piece of art work. During a concert
or something like that people might experience pleasure far above that
of sexual intercourse - there's sensation.
Freud tried to work it out
on the basis that people felt guilty because of the sensation. You run
the sensation and you get the most fantastic, magnetic quality to the energy
contained in that. That's what holds the thetan in the body. He came here
for sensation, and he got it. And after a while, he couldn't go away any
more, because of the postulates he made, body by body he is consistently
and continually running. First, he is unable to obtain much sensation from
this body except maybe the sensation of action. Right after a child becomes
aware of sexual sensations and so forth, we get such a marked change in
a being - the postulates key in.
The thetan is parasitic
to
Homo sapiens. Fortunately, he's a very high powered potential, and he can
very easily move out of this category because he's not happy in it. Homo
something-else, back on the track someplace, started to be taken over by
thetans, relatively degraded. They'd get ahold of a body, and they'd start
running this body. A thetan can put out a pretty good electrical impact,
and his commonest activity when he's going to punish something like a body
is to nip it. He slaps it on either side of its motor control panels and
the thing goes into contortions and epileptic form seizures and it's very
uncomfortable. But when a thetan is careless in this, he gets the backlash
of the energy. The before-body-line thetan will put a tractor wave out
and put it over on any Homo sapiens that comes near him and will give it
the thought, "Go away from here." He's sitting back, way back somewhere.
But now he's in energy contact, he throws a beam in there and the Homo
sapiens stumbles or gets hurts or gets sexually excited, and the thetan
finds out at that moment that there's a terrific and surprising amount
of power contained in that body. So he'll fool around with bodies, more
or less on this connection.
After a while, he has a
tendency to come in a little bit closer. Why? He's putting a high-level
wave out, and he's getting back consistently a low wave, very MESTy. A
body is really booby-trapped. The human body is the best theta trap there
is. Any time he moves up or down within a few inches of the back of the
thing, if there's any disturbance at all in the body, so there's any current
flowing in this body, it's going to catch the thetan, push him into the
vacuum and stick him, just like that, and there he will be. This thetan
finally winds up inside the head in a very dim state.
To repeat it once more,
as it is a very key mechanism. The thetan is out in position 1 ( way behind
the body), and he has a tractor beam on the head, initially this length
The tractor beam contracts when energized. Now get that very well. The
thetan's in control of the tractor beam, he's feeling perfectly grand about
everything, and life is going along just dandy; he's got this body that's
walking around, and he's got a tractor beam on it. All of a sudden the
body energizes his tractor beam. This body gets a surge of pain and we
get then, out of that pain, a surge of energy which goes up here in this
direction, energizes the tractor beam and it brings your thetan down this
course and has him hit hard against the back of the head and then goes
forward on this course into the head in a state of unconsciousness, having
been pulled in by the head. Obviously the head did it to him.
This is one of the commonest
visios a preclear has: it's a head sitting in front of him someplace. He's
still trying to stop that head from coming in. He has a feeling like everything
will fall in on him, and he had put a tractor beam on it, therefore he
doesn't dare use any energy because he is punished for using energy.
FREEDOM FROM BODIES
The thetan feels very propitiative
towards the body because he stole it. Of course there isn't any such thing
as stealing anything in the MEST universe. If he suddenly said to this
body, "Act, jump, work, be," the body'd all of a suddent start to purr,
get very happy, and very sane, and go to work. There's only one way to
treat it. And that's on the Be, Do and Have level. Just direct command,
with no explanation.
What's wrong with the preclear
- and this is particularly pertinent to psychosomatics - he has consistently
and continually tried not to have the pain of something, has tried to stop
a motion, has tried to stop an action; he is on a single flow. And, as
we know, a single flow or a single effort will lock What he has tried to
do is back up from it; he has tried to retreat from it. And his consistency
of retreat has established a one-way flow which, of course, has stuck and
has latched him up in a situation where he cannot get rid of his condition.
He's holding on to it desperately. There is no substitute for a rehabilitation
of space, to return to an individual a rehabilitation of his beingness.
Loss is loss of space as
its most important loss point. A preclear can afford to lose anything he
has as long as he does not lose as well his ability to create.
Unless you rehabilitate his
primary desire in the MEST universe (rather free him from the pertinent
enforcement), he will stay in immediate and intimate contact with bodies
And that point is sensation, need for. Your pc is going to find such a
need to hang around bodies and such a disgust of himself because he is
hanging around bodies continually and is dependent upon them, that he'll
fluctuate up and down the scale, back and forth. And he becomes unstable
emotionally, because he on one hand knows he shouldn't be associating with
such company, and on the other hand he has to. Flow Balancing (Gita - Give
& Take Processing) is part of this answer.
But there's a little extra
one in there. It's not one of the steps, because it is an education. It's
a return to what he once could do and prepares him to do that again. It
demonstrates to him that he as a thetan can contact directly from the environment
much better any sensation that environment might possibly deliver to a
body. At that moment he is willing to give up the idea of the body. And
that is done by rehabilitating his own ability to perceive. He thinks he
has to do it through the body and he's so accustomed to this that you have
to demonstrate to him the possibility of perceiving directly in the environment,
and to capture, experience and create sensations.
You get him upscale to a
point where he can feel that wall. And he can feel that wall much better
with his own contact with the wall than he can with the fingers of a body.
Without a body, he can see anything that he can see with a body and be
as certain that he is seeing it.
CELLULAR LIFE
The cells themselves have
a life. You got 10 to the 21st binary digits of neurons, and every one
of them's got a time track. Every one of them is essentially a thetan.
Whether he was ever a big thetan or not, we're not arguing. We don't care
one way or the other This is just what we're talking about: empirical proof.
Can you as a thetan cure up an aching tooth by running back its time track
and clearing out its engrams? There's nothing to it. Grain of sand hit
it once. Yeah. Yeah. Doesn't hurt anymore. Can you find a time track there
in each case? Sure. Can you use the theory of anchor points, and, pushing
in and pulling out their anchor points, cell by cell, cure up a chronic
somatic? You bet you can. And you'll find out that every one of those cells
has such a horrible disgust for what he's doing, if you start to tamper
with him any. A cell in the intestine - you see, the one thing above all
others that he was worried about was what passes through the intestine.
What you're afraid of in this universe, because of reverse flows, one becomes.
Horrible, isn't it?
Possibly, in auditing, you're
interrupting the career of a thetan who is on his way toward becoming an
entity or a body part. I don't care whether it takes him eighty billion
years or one lifetime. However, the evidence is in favor of you being a
somewhat bigger, larger, better endowed breed of cat than entities or neurons
or some other smaller variety of cell.
OTHER ENTITIES
The preclear's body starts
to handle him low on the tone scale, and his body can reach out and keep
him in. And there's thetans all over the place inside that body that say,
"Isn't he a nice pet?" As a thetan pets and pampers the body, the cells
begin to feel sorry for themselves and their own tracks begin to kick in,
cell by cell by cell, and the first thing you know, wooo, he's in terrible
shape.
Entities are ridges on which
facsimiles are planted. Each one of those things (referring to a drawing
shown in a lecture) can be a thinking entity. It thinks it's alive. It
can think as a being as long as energy is fed to it. Therefore, if you
"pay attention" to it, it will think and act. You start talking to an entity
and, of course, it talks back. With what energy? Yours. People in a person's
environment energize his entities very often.
Some medium, in auditing,
talked about these things as entities. He had't realized that they're thetans
that have really gone to pieces in a big way.
Their capability to produce
illusion is pretty good.
Some consider themselves
good, and they're so sold on religion - you show them black mass symbols,
upside-down crosses, daggers through the Bible, just throw that illusion
up in front of them good and strong, and they get out of there.
And the bad ones, you show
them a crucifix, a Bible, the proper religious symbols, ..., and they see
a bright spot of light, which is you, and they say, "Oh, the voice of God!"
and they explode, or something. It's fascinating.
Preclears will also have
the idea that en-thetans are creeping and crawling up on them. They can
be very convinced about this. The truth of the matter is, no matter how
dark it is, there's nothing can touch you. Unless you sit down and carefully
determine that something's going to. If you carefully make up your mind
that something is going to happen to you, you can undoubtedly fix it up
so it will.
HANDLING ENTITIES
If we treat the preclear
as a thetan who is running a hell of a lot of thetans, we can solve the
roughest case there is. We can bring a person up scale or level, and we
don't have to have any fancy explanation for circuits, or for automaticity.
These are very simple. This guy's gotten so accustomed as a thetan to having
things done for him that all he says is, "Give me a dog," and another thetan
there that is in a sort of a stupid state of obedience, this other thetan
mocks up a dog for him by building a dog. That could explain automaticity.
We're not interested in the absolute proof of this, we're just interested
in what orients the auditor so he can work a mind. And this is a good orientation
point. Explains automaticity and it also explains this: That preclear who
won't make other people work won't make himself work, won't make cells
work, and, what do you know, the body gets all out of line.
A thetan has enough horsepower
that when he thinks at a body, the thought goes echoing through a large
number of cells. If we accept this as a workability, we all of a sudden
get a better understanding of Technique 80. You put a communication line
through to that body part which is affected. You could do better if you
said you get those cells in line.
The entities will have the
damnedest facsimiles on them, and they'll apparently be stuck on the time
track someplace. Each one different from every other one. That's because
of the various ridges on which facsimiles are planted. And that's all an
entity is.
You can blow an entity to
pieces any time you want. Every once in a while you get the strangest spooky
notion that there's other thetans. And every once in a while in a preclear
you'll get some very, very decadent thetan out of him. You take a look
and he'll say, "You know, that's a funny thing. There's a glow that's of
a very low order on a ridge and I can't handle that ridge. I don't seem
to be able to do anything with that ridge." You say, "Is there anything
else on it?" "Yeah." "Well, now detach that thing. Well, you got that thing
detached there? Well, now detach the whole ridge and throw it away."
These entities, they're
all psychotic, by the way. Well, maybe these things were thetans once,
maybe they were installed, and maybe there's lots of things. We just accept
this fact: It's a mind with its anchor points driven in. It tells you immediately
that it's a mind that has to be controlled one way or the other by the
preclear. And if he doesn't control it, it starts to control him.
Don't explain anything to
them. You have to talk in terms of postulates. The body is best commanded,
or a ship is best commanded, or anything else is best commanded from an
altitude which is timeless, spaceless, energyless. One-way communication
line for the thetan to the body in other words is a desirable state of
affairs. And that's what you're trying to consolidate and finish off in
Step One of Standard Operating Procedure.
THE DEAD
On the Tone Scale, is there
any level lower than body death? Yes, there's the levels of "I am not",
"I am a body and I am less than me", down to -8.0. He's already conceded
that HE doesn't exist, that he is a body. That's at 0.0 on the tone scale,
that's "being a body". And then we go below that and he says, "I'm not
even able to be a body. I'm so much lower than this that I'm not even a
good body. I have to own a body. Or I have to control a body, or I'm very
excited about a body, or I have to hide. I even have to hide the body."
There's a scale of lowering
levels of "I am" which start at the top here, about 40.0, then "I am something"
- and you could say down about 20.0, "I am a member of the team and I am
doing so and so." And then below that you could say, "I am and I run a
body." And then it gets down to zero, "I am a body. I am a body named Jones."
On the minus scale, the guy even isn't able to be a Jones when he gets
below this level. These are the thetans you find hanging around the morgue
who have been there for a number of years because they haven't got any
place to go and they couldn't even be a body. They don't even know they're
there, it's amusing or heartbreaking, whichever way you want to look at
it.
You put a communication
line to one of these characters, he sort of looks at the line, he's already
in apathy, and you say, "Hey, what are you doing?" and he says, "I guess
something's disturbing me." That's about as alive as he is.
Often a thetan cannot make
up his mind whether or not that body's dead or not. He knows it's been
sick, but he's groggy and he's obviously still alive if the smell of formaldehyde
is so strong - it can get pretty overbearing, really. Someday, go down
to the cemetery and fish out a thetan or two and you'll feel real good.
You've done your boy scout trick and the loved one then ceases to be troubled
with seepage.
There are also very degraded
thetans trapped in former plague burial spots, or on old battlefields.
But you go down a country cemetery, where they sort of wrap them in a blanket
and dump them in on their heads, and say, "God be with you, rest in peace,"
that's really very calm. No thetans left around there.
Is there any relationship
between processing a preclear when his body's in pretty good condition,
and doing something for a thetan whose body has just died? Or who has just
got to have a body? There's a gradient scale. The highest level of truth
which he thought he could attain was, "I am a body." He's got a low-level
actuality, a low-level decision, postulate or agreement, or whatever you
want to call it, and he's got a body. And that has not been broken when
he went exterior.
But if he's just died, he's
just lost that low-level beingness. His level of truth is just gone. He
has no certainty. He hasn't a single datum of which he's now certain. He
knows he's dead, somebody's been telling him he should go to heaven, somebody
else has been telling him for sure he ought to go to hell, and he's known
all the time that he's got to go to Station 862 and report in. He's in
a complete state of confusion.
How do you solve this terrible
confusion? Well, there's still another level of certainty much lower than
the certainty "I am a body" that could actually be contacted. You'll have
to figure out what it was.
On the other hand, a new
thetan suddenly grabbing a body, or something of the sort, which was left
and abandoned, could make it emote, couldn't he?
All of a sudden - crash!
you didn't have a body anymore. And you could go to the hospital if you
wanted to, and pick up this kid that was going to die anyway, and he wasn't
in bad shape, and there's another thetan there, in a kind of a stupid state
of mind, so you tell him, "Oh, go on back to Mars, another implant won't
hurt you."
Then you obviously are Johnny
Jones, except you're really Mary Stevens..
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