CHAPTER 3 - SPACE
SPAÇATION
1. The Subject of Space
Spaçation is a wonderful word. I made it up all by myself. You won't find it in any dictionaries. It means a process having to do with the rehabilitation of the creation of space. It also would have a second meaning. And that meaning would be, "creation of space". In English we don't have a word which means "creation of space", but you keep making this space called MEST universe all the time. It would also have another meaning. It would mean, "the subject of space". We call the process "Spaçation" and spaçation would be the subject of space. This is above the subject of energy.
Spaçation is the subject
of the creation, handling of, or concept of space.
The physicist has no definition
for space. He operates in space all the time but he doesn't have a definition
for it. He says, "space," and everybody knows what he means, only he doesn't
know what he means. If you merely have three things, each one defined in
terms in terms of the other two, and without any further definition, don't
think you have something defined. That's definition by association. "Space
is something that is determined by time and energy, and energy is something
determined by space and time, and time is something determined by energy
and space."
2. The Definition of Space
Space is a viewpoint of dimension.
That's a good definition. Thought it up myself and recommend it to you
very thoroughly. You are the viewpoint, and from that viewpoint you envision
space and so you mark out the space and there you are, and that is space.
You say space is down that-a-way, there's a point and there's a distance
between yourself and that point. There's a dimension between yourself and
that point.
Is space an actuality? No,
it's not an actuality. It's just a viewpoint of dimension. Therefore many
things can exist concurrently with many other things in the same space.
When your preclear really gets good, he can put ten-ton trucks into match
boxes like mad.
Space is a viewpoint of
dimension and that's all it is. Is there any space? No, there isn't any
space. Well, why do you see space? You've got to see space, because if
you're going to have objects, you've got to have some space to have'em
in.
Well, if it isn't there,
it can be very easily aberrated, if everybody's under a force draft that
it exists. The only way you can keep away from anybody or have any identification
of yourself and an identification of somebody else, is put some space between.
ANCHOR POINTS AND MOTION
1. Anchor Points
The way you know you're there
is you've got an anchor point up there in that corner of that room, up
here, corner, up here, you look at those two anchor points - you're located
with relationship to those two anchor points. So there you are. Anchor
points are necessary to have motion. The preclear who has lost his anchor
points has lost his motion, or rather his ability to move, like old people
do.
Anchor point and interest
are not the same thing. But they have been confused by the thetan. His
earliest decided upon anchor points are really postulates. You don't have
to have any anchor points at all, that's the whole joke. You get into space,
the second that you believe there's space then you think there has to be
anchor points, and the second that you get anchor points, you get relative
size.
2. Origin Points
He can clearly be an origin
point as long as he has a good solid assignment to anchor points. Your
preclear needs anchor points to find himself oriented. The only way he
could really be sure of anchor points is to mock them up.
You can have three kinds
of points in space. There is an origin point, unknown but understood. You've
not located that origin point, you just say all this space somehow or other
comes from an origin point. (Remark: In the sense of somebody made the
physical universe space.) This is the big point of origin down here, O.
This is mythical.
There's origin point one
and that could also be called origin point "I". That is the viewpoint of
dimension, and that is the definition of space: Viewpoint of dimension,
of the individual. And he looks around and he can assume viewpoints. The
handiest way to do this is, of course, to simply mock up anchor points,
mock up dimensions.
So you've got OM-1, and
then you've got anchor points O-1, O-2, O-3 and O-4, so that you can get
motion for OM-1. Nothing will move unless you do that.
An anchor point is that point which origin "I" assigns so that he can have dimension and motion. He has either assigned it, or just agreed upon it, agreed that he will assign it to these understood things. It says: "This is a room. A room has eight corners, therefore there are eight anchor points to a room. Every time you go in a room now you know this, there will be eight anchor points and you will accept immediately the anchor points which everybody around accepts as this room's anchor points. Is that understood? That's good. Now we've made you dependent."
3. Orientation
Orientation is the principle
of being able to have an origin point in motion. All you got to do is feed
somebody some hashish, and boy, do his anchor points go by the boards.
He becomes sufficiently non compos mentis to be unable to control the anchor
points of any area or postulate origin points of view. He gets distorted
shapes of things. He lies down on the bed and the bed is 18 miles high.
It is 87 miles to the door, the corridor is one inch long. He gets this
kind of upset because it throws him out of "orientation".
It's also very upsetting
to a preclear to find himself sailing through walls for the first time.
Well, he'd postulated that you couldn't move in that area.
When a person goes down
the tone scale, that is going down from a concept of being able to locate
or orientate himself in space and originate space, down to being a chunk
of something that's been located. In other words, the tone scale goes from
theta to MEST.
An individual conceives
himself to be as free, as knowing, as much cause as he can locate himself
in space or create space. He's so as long as he can do that. Somebody is
out in the country and he gets lost, well, he's not terribly lost, he can
look at the vegetation and he can look at the road and he can look at things
and he says, "Look, somebody with three-dimensional space on the brain
built all this, I'm still here ... somewhere. I just have lost the difference
between my immediate new anchor points and the anchor points to which I'm
accustomed and I do not know the dimension from here to the point of origin
from which I normally operate. I don't know that distance." And so he says
he's lost, but actually just to that degree produces the most fantastic
results on an individual, there is a hysteria that befalls individuals
who are lost.
Young people feel lost in
the military service, where they are issued arms and uniforms, own nothing,
and are moved around by exterior determinism. The MEST universe is doing
this to the preclear. I've been talking about the army, but the actual
fact of the matter is I've been talking about inhabitants of the MEST universe.
In they come, MEST universe says, "Now look, there's a bunch of natural
laws and a bunch of agreements. And these are the anchor points and they
are the only anchor points you can have and you locate yourself in the
middle of these anchor points.
4. Motion
If only he were the origin
point of dimension, he would never be in motion himself. He would be pinned
in one place and that would be the end of that; but by letting other things
take the responsibility for being origin points he can shift himself around
in any confined area which he himself has uniformly postulated.
Individuals who move the
least have the fewest clear anchor points. The ability of an individual
to tolerate speed depends completely upon his ability to hold anchor points.
Which depends only upon his belief in this ability, as anchor points come
down to being postulates.
On a train, somebody walks
down the aisle. Another passenger knows somebody's walking down the aisle
of the train because he holds the forward end of the car as one anchor
point and the after end of the car another anchor point, and the individual
who is in motion, has a shifting dimension from one to the other of these
two things. But let's look out the window. And there we see the countryside
flying by like mad. Actually the countryside is flying by with relationship
to the two anchor points, the forward and the back end of the car. Those
are what's motionless and the countryside is flying by, of course. Now
if you say every telegraph pole there is an anchor point, and those anchor
points are shifting (being substituted by new ones), then you can conceive
that the train is in motion. You can even sit in the train then and feel
the train rushing forward and the countryside sitting still. It's quite
a trick, but you can do that with great ease.
The sensation of speed in
a vehicle has nothing to do with miles per hour except in relationship
to exterior anchor points which the driver isn't perceiving. A very fast
car has small wheels built close to the track. He's got an up-and-down
vibration and sideways and so forth. A car with great big wheels and a
big powerful motor, and it rides awfully easy - that's really a slow car.
Railroads became so despairing about people believing trains didn't move
fast that in most of those very fast trains, back in the parlor car they
have a speedometer.
You are in motion in space
and time. You're quite aware of that. But unless you compare that immediately
and exactly to understandable experience, these three things aren't worth
much to you.
Origin "I" is a viewpoint
from which one can perceive anchor points, and these anchor points actually
assign dimension or boundary to space. Whenever there is motion, one holds
the anchor point and perceives the motion. He holds and perceives the anchor
point and then sees something changing without those anchor points moving.
Here's his anchor points.
Anything which he ordinarily orients his scenery by would be his anchor
points; without those anchor points he wouldn't have any motion. If he
had to use OM-1 (the primary origin) here all the time for his origin point
only and his dimensional point only, he couldn't get any motion himself.
MEST UNIVERSE SPACE
MEST, I'm using our old word as to mean object, a solid object, and the space and enery and so forth which comprise such solid objects, the energy flows itself, and the space therein - I'm using just that term physical universe MEST. This place (the MEST universe) is rigged to enforce itself upon you. You can't have any of your own particles. And if you start using any, you're going to get in trouble. And you get the same kind of a state of mind that you'd get as a teenager in the army, on the part of most people. No responsibility, there's nobody taking responsibility for this universe at all.
This universe doesn't want anything to do with the energy you would add to it. Here is all of this energy and you don't create any of this energy; so the second you start going into agreement with the MEST universe, energy comes down, down, down as far as you are concerned. An individual for whom everything is done has no energy left to do do anything.
He didn't agree on this universe's
space to the degree that you'd think he should agree. It wasn't a self-determined
selection on his part, because he didn't help create it, and it was already
there. He agreed on a totally different level, the hypnotic level. He agreed
there was space there. He also consistenly agreed it was not his. And then
he's agreed not to have energy of his own, but to use the energy provided
in order to create anything there. And you wonder why he goes down scale,
why he gets worse and worse.
If a bunch of you started
disagreeing with the fact that the space of the MEST universe existed,
it'd probably collapse. It'd cease to exist as space. Yes, it would actually
cease to exist.
THE ORIGIN OF THE MEST UNIVERSE
There's an origin for MEST
universe space, but you didn't agree to be that origin, because if you
had agreed to be that origin, it would be you alone who would be there,
manufacturing that space, and therefore responsible for everything in it.
And you would not find that very desirable because it would be impossible
for you to engage in any football games, or randomity.
The only space there is
as far as he's concerned is the space which he is manufacturing every instant
from viewpoint one. But he's manufacturing from viewpoint one a backtrack
back to origin point and he's keeping this track manufactured all the time
very arduously in order to have viewpoint one.
It's a sort of diffident thing. You don't say, "I'm origin for the MEST universe." Just think of this as the thought to yourself right now: "I'm at the origin point of the whole MEST universe." Sometimes people get pale when they think of that. What he does instead, he says, "Origin, I don't know anything about that, wherever the origin is. But I sort of look at what is there in terms of origin. I sort of look at this from a viewpoint here that's a secondary viewpoint and somebody must have given it to me.
THE VIEWPOINT OF THE MEST UNIVERSE
You can be at the viewpoint
of dimension yourself. You can mock up one, put one out here. You can be
at it yourself, or you can be operating in a hidden viewpoint of dimension.
That is to say, there's a viewpoint of dimension over here someplace and
you can actually operate without knowing exactly where it is. You just
know you've got some space. You are at the viewpoint of the space of the
MEST universe. But you're kidding yourself you're someplace else. Now,
that's the trick of the MEST universe.
The body is a false viewpoint
of dimension from which the thetan is operating, an extended viewpoint
of dimension. If the MEST universe has given you the point of origin which
you now use, you have abandoned your ability to be a viewpoint of dimension.
So you don't think you can create space.
THE REHABILITATION OF SPACE
Operating from Q-1, that
says creation of space, time, energy, matter, location in this, you see,
if a man can't locate himself, it says he's not theta. He's MEST because
MEST is what can't locate itself.
What is the origin point
the preclear's been using all of his life? He's using one origin point
or another all the way along the line, from his earliest childhood. His
origin point has been dependent upon anchor points A-1, A-2 and A-3. He's
using an anchor point from somewhere in this lifetime, somewhere on his
track. They will be static, cherished visios. It's such a thing as the
fireplug which stood outside his house when he was a little boy. The other
anchor point might be a small hill he used to be able to see outside his
window.
A preclear who is sort of
scattered and dispersed, doesn't quite know where he is, and he's not oriented.
You ask him to move out and be in a new space, why, his body isn't in any
space, much less the thetan. He isn't in any space that he can recognize,
as a body, and he's just abandoned the whole thing anyhow. So let's find
his origin points for him. Let's relocate him and reorient him in space.
DRIVING IN ANCHOR POINTS
How do people control people?
They get their anchor points out by telling them some good news. And then
when they get'em good and far out they give'em some bad news. And the motto
is, "Drive in their anchor points."
After a while, every time
they have been driven off from a space - in any way - they've gone in near
hysterics. Or anytime anybody's tried to pin them down into a space. Like
being put in jail. Because that's really getting lost, that's too much
stress of imposition of anchor point. And they can't stand it. They just
go to pieces on it.
If a huge bus is making
you very small, as a matter of fact it's driving in an anchor point. -If
an explosion occurs somewhere in the vicinity of the preclear, he gets
the feeling that his anchor points are going way out there again. But his
attention is brought down here to the center of the explosion. So he has
the feeling that his anchor points have closed in. So his dragging attention
to the center of the body makes the body itself solid and makes him locate
himself in one small area which is the area of the body, and that's just
because it's impact against the body. But you can take anchor points and
put them out all the way around and all those incidents will blow.
Regarding the loss of anchor
points, he'd get the funniest sensation. "Someday I won't be able to walk
to this corner." And in that whole subject lies nostalgia.
OBJECTS
What the devil's the difference
between putting out some anchor points and putting out a few billion dimension
points simultaneously to make this wall? There isn't any difference. You
put out enough dimension points and you put them out in great big thick
sheets and you stipple it in solidly enough and you believe positively
enough that it's there and, boy! It's there! And that's about the long
and short of how you put together reality. You stipple it in all the time.
Arduous work, isn't it?
The importance of the object
as an anchor point denotes a fairly low action in perception and experience.
Instead of just putting out anchor points, the fellow looks for an object
to be his anchor point.
One of the most confusing
anchor points there is, then, is a body, because it's in motion and it's
an object. This almost drives a baby batty. He looks for Mama, and Mama
is on her way, this way and off and there again and then someplace else.
A child doesn't have anchor points in the corners of the room, because
he doesn't feel free enough to pervade this room and experience it. So
Mama disappears for the afternoon - the afternoon then is completely lost.
The confusion between bodies
and anchor points is at the root of a pc's inability to have enough space
to exteriorize into. His lack of space, which is to say, his lack of anchor
points, and his tremendous havingness with regard to objects, stick him.
AUTOMATIC SPACE
You want it all to be automatic, and you want sensation like mad. So you just skip the step of a postulation of space, and then you skip the step of a postulation of motion, and then you skip the step of postulation of placing energy (including emotion) there to emanate back at you again, all because you want the sensation to affect you. You want all this to make an effect out of you, because you want sensation from it, so you just skip these steps and you're all set. Except you wind up aberrated and homo sapiens.
SPACE AND BEINGNESS
We compare space to beingness.
As a person increases in space, he increases in beingness. This is observable
in a preclear and it's extrapolatable to other things. Space is beingness.
If you think you're short on space you will automatically become short
on beingness. A person is as free in space, and has as much space really,
as he is willing to BE anything in that space.
What isn't he willing to
be? That much space is denied to him. And when you get a person into the
horrible situation where he doesn't want to be anything else but himself,
you've got an aberrated boy right there. How much space has he got? He's
got as much space as the body occupies.
Before beingness there must
be a convincedness about beingness. One thing that he can't do is he can't
unconvince himself once he's convinced. And that would be one of the rougher
aberrations. In view of the fact that space is beingness, you have to be
able to handle space before the preclear can BE anything. You've got to
convince every preclear he's not dead, by giving him more space. To do
that, you'd better be able to give him more beingness.
BEINGNESS AND HAVINGNESS
Before there is space for
a high-level thetan, he does have a truth, and that truth is, "I AM". An
individual's concept of his space regulates his concept of density. And
his concept of density would be his degree of aberration or his degree
of freedom. The denser, the thicker your preclear is, the less space he
has.
Beingness is impossible
without space, and loss of space makes matter.
As he goes down the line
it becomes, "I am something", then "I am the something" and the "I am"
becomes less and the "something" becomes greater, until at last he winds
up in the conviction that the "something" is all the "I am" there is.
In Homo sapiens, the thetan
doesn't have space, therefore he has no beingness. The body occupies the
space where the thetan should be, so of course the thetan has no beingness.
It's the body that has beingness, not the thetan.
Havingness becomes more
and more important, down to the level of the psychotic, who will give away
anything, or will take and hold on to everything - objects and words and
everything else. His interest is terribly aberrated. And his belief in
pain is very aberrated, and if you get somebody who is very psychotic,
they've either abandoned the body to a point where anything could happen
to it, or the tiniest little scratch is regarded by them as destruction
beyond destruction.
As long as there's still
a "something" that you can contact and communicate with, you can still
start him back up the line toward "I am". But you have to take off to restore
"I am" or his high level of truth by restoring it on the gradient scale
of the "something" and more and more "I am". As he goes back up the line,
he gets more and more "I am". The highest level truth that you could attain
with an individual would be the springboard from which you started out
to reach the highest level that you possibly could attain for this universe,
which is "I am", with no need to be "something".
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