Anatomy of the Time Track We have talked before, somewhat carelessly, about the wavelength of thought. It hasn’t got a wavelength. It has no physical-universe wavelength. If there is a theta universe it may have one in the theta universe, but it sure doesn’t have one in this universe.

The very fact that you can go back to an earlier experience — that an earlier experience can contain charge and can be discharged by processing — demonstrates that that experience is in present time even though it is back on the time track. That should interest you if you have never thought of it before.

All the theta there is, is here and now. As you go along in life, you are going along maybe a theta-universe span of time, but certainly not a MEST universe span of time. And a wavelength has to have time and space to exist. The whole definition of wavelength and the whole manifestation and phenomenon of wavelength consists of the emanation of vibrations or particles from a source which move through time and space. Those are waves at a certain wavelength and thought doesn’t have that.

This is the first and foremost reason why the theta-MEST theory had to be advanced — because all the theta there is, is right here.

Now, you just try sometime to go back on the track and move some MEST universe around at the time when something happened to you. You can go back on the track beautifully and reliably, back through ten years, and have good reality, recontact those sequences, discharge incidents and get everything squared around wonderfully. But as you are lying there on the couch smelling the flowers that were growing ten years ago, try to reach out and pick one.

You are not on a time track, you are in a card file system, and that system all exists now. It doesn’t exist then, it exists now. This is a tough one to take, because it says that theta does not have a MEST-universe time track but has only a facsimile of a MEST-universe time track, which doesn’t travel through time at all but appears to do so.

The only way you can reach the time when you were five years of age with good reality and good memory is through theta — not through the MEST universe. The time when you were five is buried, dead and gone. That has passed away forever. The birthday cake has long since been eaten by ants, but you can go back and eat it again in the theta universe. And it is a very funny thing that what happened to you when you were five — the way you got snubbed by that little girl at the party — still has charge on it. It is still happening according to theta. But because you have gone by it on the theta facsimile track, it doesn’t bother you unless you are held up there.

I do not advance any of these theories as being conclusive, actual or even logical. I guarantee nothing. We are all too entirely “MEST-ified” to be anything but mystified by this.

The MEST time track goes coursing along through time — clock hands shift, the sun goes over, the planets turn around, the grass grows and the grass decays. That is the time track in the MEST universe. For every second that goes by in the MEST universe, there is a theta facsimile. The MEST time track is having a facsimile made of it all the time; perception of time is being recorded in theta. Therefore this MEST time track is unobtainable, but when you return on the time track you can come down the theta time track. All theta is in “now,” so you can travel on the time track in “now.”All you have there is the illusion that there was a “then.” Unless you get good reality out of that illusion, though, you don’t get well.

Now, theta is a very peculiar energy, let me assure you. Somebody may try to tell you, “Well, that’s obviously just energy that runs along the nerves, and it’s just like electricity and it travels at ten feet a second just like electricity” — but wait a minute, there is something wrong with that. Electricity doesn’t travel at ten feet a second, but the travel of pain impulses along nerve lines goes at about ten feet a second. That is the nerve course which is a sort of an ion beam arrangement of some sort. I don’t know who measured that, however, so I am not sure how accurate it is.

Here we have a phenomenon which is quite remarkable in the field of thought: It is obviously and demonstrably true that one can go back along the time track in theta. It is demonstrably true that a person cannot go back along the time track in MEST — real time — because he cannot change the past MEST world. But he can change present time thinking by going back over the theta line.

How does theta record in the first place? Take a look at the page in front of you. Theta fabricates or creates or is forced into or has made a facsimile of that page and stores it, makes a facsimile of that space and stores it, makes facsimiles of motion and stores them. They are perceived as happening in the MEST universe along the line of MEST wavelengths.

But then evidently they hit the motor-control circuit and they go over into and translate into theta. On the motor side of the nerve system there is physical-universe energy, and over on the other side there is evidently a theta panel. And this is possibly some kind of a booster or a converter or a translator whereby theta can translate into MEST energy or MEST energy can translate back into theta, but they do not intermingle.

Electricity has no part of theta. No matter how much a psychiatrist insists so, electricity will do nothing but jam up the motor-control system. Not one single bit of that electricity will go over into the field of thought and do one single thing to it except permit the thought to make a theta facsimile of the electrical charge.

If we shoot an electrical arc in the MEST universe, it goes snap! and it is gone. At the moment that happened it would have registered on a voltmeter, wouldn’t it? You could have taken a photograph of it, had the photograph developed and put on the wall; it would still be on that photograph. That is part of the MEST universe.

But suppose that as it snapped somebody’s head was in the middle of it. It is very interesting that if we run this person back down the time track we find the full snap — very real, too. Is he running into the electricity? No, he sure isn’t, because electricity has velocity and retention for just so long and then that piece of electricity is gone. You photographed it, its energy was expended, it was measured on a voltmeter and everything else. But if it hit the fellow and recorded on some theta, you can go back and find the electricity again. But is it the electricity? Don’t make the mistake of believing that it is, because that electricity has long since been expended. And don’t make the mistake of thinking you are doing time travel.

What happened was that the theta made an exact facsimile of that electrical charge and kept the facsimile, charge and all. This is wonderful! We are starting to add up some horsepower here.

Now, a fellow is driving along and runs into another automobile. That is the end of his car. It happened in the MEST universe. Yet this fellow can close his eyes and see the way that car was and see it moving the way it was moving before it had the crash. But if he goes down to the junkyard and looks at it down at the junkyard he will find a crumpled piece of junk. In other words, it has changed in the MEST universe but it is not changed in the theta image.

Let’s not become confused by this, because it is really very simple. It is just that we have identified thinking so thoroughly with the MEST universe because the bulk of our thinking is composed of recording images in the MEST universe. So let us not, then, make the confusion of saying thinking is the MEST universe merely because thinking records the MEST universe. Thinking obviously cannot be the MEST universe because the time is wrong. If it were part of the MEST universe, you would never be able to go back on the time track. That should be a very large clue for you.

A fellow tailors, with his theta, a facsimile of everything around in the MEST universe. He tailors a facsimile of space, a facsimile of time, a facsimile of other organisms, a facsimile of actions, a facsimile of all perceptions. When you go back and see what you have seen, you are not seeing with the MEST universe anymore; you are looking at the facsimile of the MEST universe. So when you go back down the time track, you see the facsimile of the perceptions.

Theta has also made a facsimile of the time track in the MEST universe. The theta time track is a facsimile of actual time. Theta has perceived the passage of time and made a facsimile of it — second by second and hour by hour. So there is a beautiful time track; the images are still all strung out on that time track.

But later on you can produce an illusion with theta by making theta approximate the absence of time, as in an operation. The organism was not conscious and was not recording time properly because it was thrown out of coordination muscularly and every other way, and it is all scrambled up and the impulses are coming from the wrong spots. The coordination central control posts don’t exist anymore. And the theta makes a very good facsimile of the whole confounded, confused mess, just like that.

It could be said that there are possibly several levels of theta, that there are several various sensitivities of theta. There are various things about theta we don’t know. There may be many kinds: There may be the kind that records the material universe, there may be a certain kind that records conclusions and there may be a kind of theta which is simply direction theta, which is directing recorded theta. We don’t know this. But we can say theta and by that embrace all these kinds.

Did you ever get a somatic? That somatic is no longer contained in the MEST universe. If you want a proof of this, go out sometime and chop down a tree, then walk up the road and walk back down the road to the tree again, and that tree will still be over on its side. No matter how far beyond that tree you walk, you will not come to a place in the road where the tree is all back together again. You won’t come to a point where the tree is uninjured. In other words, the tree is injured; it is injured and that is that. Now let’s pass by a tree and hack a little piece out of the bark. A little sap bleeds. Then let us come back a few weeks later and we will find out that it has healed up. There will be no sap bleeding there. Theoretically that tree could go back on the time track — its own time track — and it could run across the time when it was chipped. But I don’t think a tree would do that.

However, you can do that! You bump your shin, so you go back down the time track and run into the time when you bumped your shin. It is a funny thing, but you can reexperience all the pain connected with a bumped shin and your shin will hurt. And if you keep the somatic in restimulation long enough your shin will deteriorate at that point.

You could get someone who had burned his hands and run him back into the somatic of burned hands and latch him up in it good and solidly and then walk off and leave him. He would develop dermatitis of his palms. In other words, there would be a deterioration of fluid flow in a certain area of the skin resulting in the actual deterioration of a human body.

Now, if you ran a person back into a lot of injuries (theoretically you could do this, because it happens to him every day in life anyway) and got him all restimulated and so forth, you would make this person age very fast. As a person goes along in life he gets injured over and over, all the way along the line, and all these injuries start to activate more and more and after a while he starts looking older and he gets more bent and more aged.

Have you ever seen a fellow with a real screaming somatic? Did you ever have rheumatism? These somatics can be rough!

Theta makes a theta facsimile of an injury, records all the pain contained in the injury and deposits it. The fellow goes on living, adding to his theta time track, and then one day the perceptions contained in this injury show up. There is an approximation of it, and because this is a confused spot on the track, the theta evidently will try to knock it out or do something about it or try to work it out. The theta will also envision it as being dangerous and will try to investigate what was dangerous about it to compare it with the outside environment; it makes too good a job of it and the thing gets restimulated. For various reasons it can get restimulated. The full pain is now being exerted on the organism and the person goes around with lumbago and any God’s quantity of things that could be attributed to somatics.

These somatics, in other words, are spotted on the theta track as confused areas which will get compared to and moved up into present time. So, there is a theta past time as well as a theta present time.

That is why you can process people. You are dealing with an energy that has no wavelength. You are dealing with an energy which can be changed. And that is what is wonderful about it: It has no wavelength but it can be changed. The only reason you could possibly change it is that you are working theta with theta. You are working theta with theta, and as long as you work theta with theta you will get along fine. As long as you spot theta on the time track and rearrange it on its own time track and respot it on its own time track, you are going to get results and your people are going to get well. But if you make the mistake of going into the motor side of the switchboard — which is to say, if you produce some manifestations in an organism but don’t try to get it up to its highest levels of consciousness in the theta sphere and if you just keep producing manifestations in this organism — all you get are theta facsimiles of the manifestations produced, spotted in new areas of time.

Therefore you have to come into a case on the side of affinity, reality and communication and keep a case moving from the side of affinity, reality, communication, because what you want is affinity, reality and communication of theta for theta. You can take smooth theta and knock out rough theta with ARC, but you can’t take stuff which is out of the center of confused areas of theta and try to do something with it. The only thing you would do is produce new physiological results; the confused theta would activate against the body.

It is pretty hard to talk about something which is timeless in the MEST universe. I have no doubt that theta must have a time span of its own in the theta universe, but it is alterable when viewed or used from the MEST universe. This is really a wonderful problem.

The point I am trying to make is that pain is not stored in MEST. Pain is not residual in the MEST part of the organism; it is residual in the theta part of the organism. And it is not stored as itself. It is stored as a theta facsimile of itself, and look at the horsepower!

The MEST universe moves in on the theta, the theta makes a facsimile of the MEST universe and there is lots of power in it. And the theta can actually reexert this back against the organism one way or the other.

It should demonstrate to you that if the thought facsimile of a departed energy can exert such power and force against the organism as to create psychosomatic illnesses, migraine headaches and all of these things, you are dealing with a lot of horsepower.

There is a lot more horsepower available in theta than that. That horsepower is only available or visible because it is a facsimile of MEST horsepower. But it wasn’t the MEST that made the theta have that horsepower. The theta still has the potentiality of holding that much pain. And it can still hold that much pain, it can still insulate that much pain and it could do a lot of things with that much pain, or electrical current or car wrecks or anything else.

This theta must be pretty powerful stuff in the full aggregate. I may be drawing a conclusion which is not justified, but I have observed it sufficiently to demonstrate that it is justified — to me at least — that theta has an enormous amount of power over the organism. Because if it can impress the organism with that much pain, it can also impress the organism with that much pleasure — in other words, smooth running.

And theta doesn’t have as its only availability the facsimiles it has made of the MEST universe. It evidently has some independent horsepower. But it can be prevented from acting in its full potential and capacity by enturbulence, by recording too many enturbulences. If you smooth out these recordings in present time — get them all smooth in the theta itself — the organism goes back to battery. Theta is in command, in control of the organism; it can make a healthy or a sick organism, as the case may be. We have mechanical means by which we can straighten it out.

You can measure the wavelengths of MEST, you can measure the radiations of MEST, you can measure the magnetic fields of organisms, you can measure a lot of things. But you are not going to measure any of these things on theta, which doesn’t exist as a wavelength, save only insofar as they activate the magnetism and activity of the physical organism.

These have been a few statements regarding the interesting imponderables with which we are dealing. We are dealing with an energy which has no wavelength in the MEST universe, which has no time in the MEST universe, the recordings of which, evidently, from here back to the last umpteen thousand years, are still on record right here and now. They are compartmented out and separated in some strange fashion, but mostly by facsimiles made of the space and time existing from one to the next.

This is something that you should know something about, though, because somebody is liable to ask you sometime. And you should also realize that, in view of the fact that all theta is in now, probably all you would have to do to straighten yourself out utterly and completely is just say “Well, I guess it will all be straightened out now,” and snap your fingers and immediately become Clear.