I want to continue some of this material on Route 1.

We've been going over this material on Route 1 and we have covered a great deal about exteriorization.

Now, everything I've covered with you at this time is Route 1, Step 4 to Route 1, Step 11.

Now we get into a more doubtful area of Route 1 when we get into Route 1-12. I want you to understand clearly that everything from 4 to 11, inclusively, is not simply something that's nice to do, but what you do do. And from Route 1-12 on up to Route 1-15, throughout, are things that are nice to do. See, this is not one of these things that the preclear will absolutely perish if you don't do these things.

Now, Intensive Procedure has a great many steps which you could omit or forget about. But certainly you wouldn't forget about R1-4 to R1-11 — but you could start getting a foggy memory along about R1-12. Because this step is only a minor step which usually takes place in the preclear. But nevertheless, it's a good thing to do with a preclear.

Sometimes you'll get a preclear who, while exteriorized, still is banked-up by facsimiles. He's got facsimileosis. And everything he looks at … You tell him to "Go out and look at that dog," and he'll see a facsimile of a dog, not a real dog, you know. You tell him to go through the stomach of that goat and he doesn't appear a bit alarmed. Whereas, as a matter of fact, the first time you tell somebody to sail through the stomach of a goat, and he's actually exteriorized, he's liable to be quite alarmed with you. That seems to be a fairly strange place to go.

Actually, he's used to being eaten, you know. And being eaten by a goat is quite degrading. And he'll balk somewhat.

So we have this person with facsimileosis. It's merely the fact that this person has not yet gotten into a state where he can create or destroy energy.

Of course, this whole universe is dead set against either creation or destruction. These two things you mustn't do. "Survive" is the motto of this universe. "Creation, destruction" — these definitely are not the mottoes of this universe.

If you want to believe this more thoroughly, just go around and ask a nuclear physicist sometime. Ask him what he thinks of this new idea of yours. And do you know, usually, long before you have any chance to state the idea, he will have told you just this (which is a real funny one): "There isn't anything new; it's all been done before." He's certain of this. This is a big conviction on his part: "It's all been done before." Oh, the devil it has!

Writers who are all written out, fogged down and have finally become editors will tell you that there is no such thing as a new idea.

One of the first things that they teach in some of those decadent places known as "the university," in the creative-writing class they will tell you there are some … I don't know. What is it, eight jokes? No, that's over in public speaking — eight basic jokes and no others.

They'll tell you that there are something like thirty-six dramatic situations and fifty-five associations (or maybe that's Heinz products, or is that fifty-seven?) — something like this — but there's just exactly a finite number of plots.

Well, there was a fellow one time, wrote a book called "Plotto" or "The Plot Jinni" — and he went mad doing it by the way. But it's all possible combinations based upon these thirty-six standard situations. I wonder why he went mad. It doesn't seem to me like you'd go mad doing this.

Well, he had to assume basically that there were just so many plots and then just so many combinations of these plots. And having assumed that, he was dead. That's the way you kill a writer: You tell him there's thirty-six dramatic situations.

Actually there aren't. There aren't any dramatic situations as far as the instructor is concerned. He has lost all sense of drama. The world is dead as far as he's concerned. It's all deduced down to a certain mechanic.

Do you mean to tell me that an individual cannot simply invent a dramatic situation, just whole cloth? Well, you'll have to run a preclear on that basic two-way communication question, "How many problems could you be to yourself? How many problems could you be to yourself?" and all of a sudden, he's getting more and more and more and more and more.

He runs out entirely at first. You know? He just drains the bank of how many problems he could be to himself, and then long comm lags, and then he gets more of them and more of them and more of them. He finally gets up to infinity.

What do you suppose a dramatic situation is, but how many problems you could be to yourself or others?

Well, how many ways can you bend a piece of copper wire? That's how many vias there would be. How many ways, directions, could you bend how many combined kinds of copper wire? That's one of these nebulous questions, isn't it?

Supposing you had an infinity of copper wire, an infinity of sizes of cop-per wire. Now, how many ways could you bend this? — and you'd have the number of problems. Because a problem is always occasioned by via. Any time you bend that line between cause and effect, you have started a problem. Any time you go into a relay system of any kind, you have started into problems.

Now, how many problems could he be to himself — this is basically a dramatic situation, isn't it?

All right. If he believes there's a finite number of dramatic situations, then there are a finite number of reasons to live — just like that. He just doesn't have very many reasons to live. He'd have only thirty-six, wouldn't he?

Well, I'd blow my brains out if I only thought there was thirty-six situations by which I could get into trouble in this universe.

Now, creation and destruction on the level of ideas, of course, is immediately mirrored by creation to destruction on the level of energy. And then creation to destruct on the level of energy is mirrored in terms of solidity — havingness.

What is havingness but too many vias jammed up too tight. That's havingness. You want a picture of havingness, it's too many vias jammed up too tight. And, of course, all havingness is a problem.

You want to know what gives the millionaire ulcers, he just has to be surrounded by that many pieces of mass, and he's got that many vias, immediately.

All right. We take energy — creation to destruction of energy — creation to destruction of matter would be its lowest realm, wouldn't it?

Now, I'll go into this very briefly and tightly here, exactly what this step is. R1-12, by design, is an exteriorized process which would convince the per-son that he could then generate and unmock energy — see, generate and destroy energy.

If he can generate and destroy energy … You see, "How many problems could you be to yourself?" and "How many problems could you be to others?" would generate and destroy dramatic ideas, wouldn't it? That would create and destroy dramatic ideas. Well, we'd have to get into the field of energy.

Your nuclear physicist knows that this universe is here. It will be here forever. There is no destroying any single particle in the entire universe. The conservation of the energy reigns everywhere — particularly in the police department. And he knows you couldn't do this. That's why he's mad. That's why he's actually crazy enough to go out here and set off atom bombs.

He has reached the extremity, the utter extremity, of "We just can't have that much mass there! We've got to do something about it! We've got to make nothing out of it!" You have people run around trying to make nothing out of big masses by saying, "Well, it doesn't amount to much, and it isn't important, and it isn't pretty, and so forth." What's happened is, is they're drawn in toward that mass so far and so deep that it is a matter of great problem to them. See, they're drawn into it. And they're trying to fend off of it by saying, "It's nothing, it's nothing, it's nothing." And if they feel they can't get away from it, they just go on a steady, running-fire of chatter of how it doesn't amount to much — whether that's criticism or trying to talk it down or invalidate it one way or the other.

They only have to invalidate obsessively when they can't unmock it directly. Have we got that?

The way you unmock it directly is by perfect duplication. Duplicate it in its own time, its own space, with its own particles, and believe me, it'll cease to exist.

I almost frightened Sutton out of his wits one day. He was sitting there minding his own business and I all of a sudden said, "Take a look at the atoms over there in that brick. Now put an attention unit along with each atom that you see in that little section there, and have it go back to, and pick up at its inception, and make a perfect duplicate of, that atom. Have each one of these attention points do that." And pshooh! He had an empty space right there where he was looking at, see. Gone!

The only thing that makes this matter stay around is to come through too many courses and routes, you see. And it's finally gotten lost from its original creation point. All you'd have to do is locate its original creation point and unmock it and it would cease to exist right where it is.

You would actually have to unmock it twice if you were going to do a complete job of it, because you'd have to unmock the fact that you'd unmocked it. Otherwise, you'd still have a ghost of it around. Got that?

So, here we have R1-12 as an entire series of processes which create and destroy energy. You could do it directly or otherwise. And when you say R1-12, this process here may not be the best process there is to do this, but it is a process that does this.

It's "Have preclear mock up generators, power plants and suns to give him energy, on that gradient scale, until he's totally convinced that he does not have to receive energy from an outside source." Why does this individual never create energy? Why is he still playing around with facsimiles? Well, he believes he has to have all of his energy from an outside source. He believes he himself cannot create energy, that he has to have it from elsewhere. So, this is just a nice route by which you change his consideration with this set of mock-ups, up to a point where he says, "Why, heck, I can make that energy. I'm making that generator and I'm creating that sun, and so forth, anyhow." The steps of doing this, the patter which will go along with it, is the easiest thing in the world. You simply have him mock up generators. Have him mock up a little tiny generator to give him energy enough to flick his eyelid. You see? And have him mock up something else — straight generators. Or have him mock up food supplies which would supply him with energy in order to flick his eyelid. Anything you want to do, you see, and then mock up enough to blow him up in the air finally — you know, power plants and motors and so on. Just have him go on mocking up things to give him energy.

He will mock them up more or less on a gradient scale, so you could say the auditing command would be "Mock up something that will give you energy in order to act," and "You just mock up something else to give you energy," and "Mock up something else that'll furnish you with energy." And you just keep saying this, and he'll all of a sudden fall wise to the fact that he's mocking it all up. You just run it until he does. And at that moment he will no longer be confounded by all these facsimiles.

This is one of the basic problems he has. One of the basic problems he has anyhow is that he has set up a problem, saying that he himself can't furnish energy to it, somebody else has to. And that's one of his basic problems.

So, Remedy of Problems actually will sometimes turn up that computation. You simply: "How many problems could you be to yourself?" He'll finally say, "Well, I have to have something else mock up all the energy I'm using." And that'll be one of the most basic problems he has.

If R1-12 does not bring about the condition of full release of his ideas and attitudes concerning this, and if it doesn't bring about an alteration of consideration so he knows he can mock up energy for his own use, why, you know then you have run into problems.

So we would just start back on the basis of "How many problems couldyou be to yourself?" or we'd go back to this Remedy of Havingness back here.We would simply step back to R1-11, see: "How many problems couldyou be to yourself in havingness?" or "How many problems can you be in havingness?" Well, how many problems could he be in doingness? How many problems could he be in beingness?

Be, have and do, remember, are the component parts which are opposite space, energy and mass. See: space, be; do, energy; have, mass. Also time — have is time. You don't have any time problems until you have havingness problems — unless it's the problem of not having any time at all, by the way. That's quite a problem: being a complete space, without even a visible anchor point — which is to say, this universe.

So R1-12, auditing command, is simply "Mock up something which will furnish you energy. Mock up something else which will furnish you energy. Mock up something else which will furnish you energy. Mock up something else which will furnish you energy. Mock up something else which will furnish you energy. Mock up something else which will furnish you energy," just on and on and on till he finally falls wise to the fact that he is creating all the energy that's being used by him anyhow. And that is the total step.

Now, R1-12 is, of course, a mock-up process. And you see that as a mock-up process. Therefore, it has some limitation in itself. Actually, a process which'd chase somebody around the universe, such as a Grand Tour, can be senior to a straight mock-up process.

The only reason he is using facsimiles, of course: He's afraid to look directly, so he makes a facsimile of something and then looks at the facsimile. Well, that's silly too. Look, he had to see the object he was making a facsimile of, didn't he? In order to make a facsimile of it, he had to see the object he was making a facsimile of, copy it, then pretend he hadn't seen the object and look at the facsimile. That's vias. They'll get a guy in trouble every time.