LRH lecture 3 March 1952 HCL-1 Scientology Milestone One

"Now, you know that any one of you will shine up on that machine as having at least three personalities - any one of you. You're aware of this; you're definitely aware of it. Your recalls contain many instances whereby you went out one day and you were going to do something, and then a little voice sort-of said to you, "Well, I don't think you ought to do that." And you went a little bit further and another voice said to you, "Well, I'd just fail anyway." And then you all of a sudden got the idea of failure and you sort of got quivery in the stomach - anxious about what would happen to you if you did this. You can remember sitting around and saying, "Should I?" "No, you shouldn't." "Oh, I think I ought to."

These are personalities arguing with personalities - just that. Each one is as separate and distinct as a whole human being."

"In Book One we had what was known as demon circuits. Well, these really are circuits, but they can be demonstrated to be - in an uncleared, unadjusted situation - to be personalities, very distinct personalities with distinct characteristics."

 

LRH lecture 16 April 1952 HCL-21 Anatomy of the Theta Body

“Nobody knew how to turn these things around until we knew something about thought, emotion, effort. Now all of a sudden we take apart the composite theta body - which is you - into its component theta bodies, and we take these apart as regard to the experience, and we find the potentiality of which a central theta line is capable. And this is not slight; this is tremendous.

We're back at the potentiality as it was, plus the knowledge of how to take it apart if it gets any other way than how it was.”

“They are not well glued, in other words, and at the first signals of awareness, things start to happen.”

“But if you can introduce the awareness of each part of the composite which is you, you get total awareness and you also lose a lot of parts; this is not bad.”

“I have found this a very fascinating line of research. You might realize that much of this research has been kept under a lid.

The Tone Scale of Dianetics, which was drawn in December and January 1950-51, had a bar up at the top of it that said "1,000 - capabilities unknown," or "capabilities unexplored."

I was actually into this line of research with both feet at the time, but we had to build a bridge. Now, that bridge was simply learning the mechanics of thought, emotion and effort. How does the theta body affect the physical universe? How does the physical universe affect the theta body?”

“A human being, what we're calling today homo sapiens, is a composite of about seven theta lines - about seven. And these theta lines are each one a theta body in it's own right. And some of these seven are slightly composite; that is to say, they may consist of two or three, but they call them central theta lines. Now these are theta bodies. They come together, from their first level, into a greater and greater degree of complexity simply by adding new lines or adding new bodies. And this is no more and no less complicated than simply taking the digit two, which is evidently the basic unit, and then we add two more or we add three and then we add two more on top of that.

There are usually three specific incidents on the track which are additive incidents - call them in slang, “joiners.” And these lines come together then. First, they suddenly appear as two - there are two theta bodies which become a composite of one theta body.

Now, I'm not talking now in terms of all the incidents there are. You see, each one of these has had an experience before it joins up as this first composite, and we'll call this first composite a personality, something of the sort.

Now, here you have, then, the basic unit of two. Back of that these two have broken away from the main body of theta, two or three minor incidents have occurred, and we get down to this basic unit of two. That's joiner one.

Usually one faces forward and one faces back. They are put together face to face. Now, these are outside of any universe that we know about; they begin outside of any universe that we know about. And they have the potentialities of goals. And each one probably has a slightly different goal than the other one, so that you get a good balance between the two. They have agreed on what their goals are, and they've also agreed that their goals are different - some slight degree.

We come down the line a little bit further and we get joiner one, which is the first possibility of a body and this is another universe than the MEST universe again, usually. And I am now describing an average line, a line which you might find varying considerably from preclear to preclear. But your added three permit the first two to have a body. And this body, possibly, has many descriptions - you can get it variously described - but it doesn't have perceptions, really, as we know perceptions, because you still have theta body awareness of immortality and continuance and perceiving.

Now, on the entrance into the MEST universe, there is an additional addition. Now, this talk I’m giving you is not a talk describing the various incidents. I’m just showing you here, as additive factors, these lines are coming together, and each time you have more composite for a body. Now, that’s what’s important, because these things are making a body or they’re entering bodies and so on.

Then you get what we call the genetic line. Now, this genetic line, which produces your present body, actually is a continuance through the MEST universe here on Earth. And you didn't join this line as the composite theta body line "you" until - well, varying terms of years ago, maybe two, three or ten thousand years ago. But this genetic line has its own theta body, and as the Greeks said, the mind was in the stomach. It carried what you might call a theta body line in the stomach. That was its center of awareness. And when it was joined, it was joined in the head by the other lines. And, in short, you had a genetic line coming along and being joined by an already composite line.

Now, the composite line had what you might call a “stomach theta body,” or a “stomach soul.” And this stomach soul and the genetic line soul are overlaid in the middle of the body. And their conflicts, upsets and so forth are many. And there is your anxiety stomach, your general fear reaction. And the theta body composite that comes in on the theta body line - not the genetic line, we'll call this other a genetic theta line just for a better use - this composite-line stomach soul is quite often, if not almost always, psychotic. That stomach soul is psychotic. It has been through just once too many and a little bit too much. And it's interesting that you can take this particular theta body and bring it up to present time and knock out an anxiety stomach very easily, or even let this entity go away.

Now, this is more or less an average number of standard lines that make up the composite which is referred to as homo sapiens. It's interesting - and extremely interesting - that none of these lines need any of the other of these lines to be a complete entity, but they are joined together. They are under compulsion and they are under duress, because they have been used, they have been abused and they have been united for other purposes than those in the best interest of self-determinism. Self-determinism has been led, however, all down the line, to slightly aid and abet and help out this composite state.”

“Now, here you have, then - here you have unnecessary additives all the way down the line. And these additives, however, have taken over anatomical positions - precise, you might say, a geographic positions in the human body. There's one on the right side and there's one on the left side of the central soul; there's one behind the central soul. And there's one in the solar plexus area. And then the next two are outboard of the first two I've mentioned, so that you have the two outboard souls. Then the next one is the stomach soul with the two side inboard souls. (So your right side would have two souls, your left side has two souls.) And then you have the central soul forward and the central soul back. And in addition to all these, there is the theta body of the genetic line, which is evidently resident somewhere in the middle of the body.

Now, the theta body of the genetic line could, of course, swell up and take entire command of the body, and so could any other theta line we have. Any one of them could take over almost or complete control of the body, or can take over a sectional control of the body. A little bit of it or a lot of it; any one of them has this potentiality.

And what are we looking at now? We're looking at theta bodies in their essence. A theta body then, is nothing more and nothing less than the personality that you talk to every day. And it has no difference whatsoever between itself, in an aberrated state, and a human being, at any given moment. Because at any given moment, a human being is actually running on one theta body.

Of course, that one theta body can be modified by having to look through another theta body in order to express itself, and there's complications of this character, but I want to drive this home very thoroughly, is there's nothing strange about a theta body. You walk with them, you talk with them, you are them. And the reason I'm calling them theta bodies is to give you a very good differentiation. Because a human being, homo sapiens, as he exists today in a normal state, is a composite of these bodies. But he is manifesting, usually, only one of these personalities.”

“Now, here then, you have other modifications, and you have these others - one by one, down the line at one time or another - have been almost in entire control of the body. And the bulk of them, but not the first two, are psychotic. The bulk of the theta bodies, which are different than those first two, are, in this society, mad as hatters. You ask them to come up to present time and you get snapped at and snarled at.

Any one of them forms the foundation of what we called earlier in Dianetics, “demon circuitry.”

The demon circuitry sits as individual obsessions in the theta body. And these theta bodies, being low-toned and in a somewhat hypnotic and neurotic (at least) state, will copy and mimic other human beings which they observe or feel in their environment. And they will hold these imitations, and they will hold on to the aberrations which they observe. And they are very confused, normally; they are extremely confused. They do not know there are any other theta bodies present, and they are just as willing to hurt a body as to help it. A person's right hand is always cutting him. Well, it's either the inboard right-hand soul or the outboard right-hand soul is sort of cross about the whole thing. And you as the auditor, start to address this soul, and you get the most interesting responses.

What is this soul's regard toward this body? Very often you'll get something very foggy: "What body?" Sometimes you'll get "Well I got to kill him," and so on. But here you're getting a response different than the early responses on circuitry.

Now, you know, in the old days I tried to keep people from examining this. I might as well confess now. The demon circuits themselves could be cleared by picking up incidents. But the theta bodies themselves were very, very tricky to handle, and one had to find out several things about them. And one of the things that one had to find out about them is, are they all following the same rule of order? Do they all respond to the same mechanics? Or are there such things as demons, idle spirits, devils, any one of these things, or are they just psychotics or what?

And it turns out after a great deal of research that they're just normal or neurotic or psychotic, and so on, in their effects on a preclear.

The anatomy, then, of a composite theta body which is you, is traceable back down this minimum - minimum as far as I've been able to determine (and my figures are - the number of cases is not as large as I would like to have it) is seven; the minimum is seven.

Now, why do I say minimum? It's because every one of those joiners has put into every one of these theta bodies the compulsion to pick up more theta bodies. And it does so automatically, so that somebody comes along and he commits an overt act - he kills our old friend Bill or something of the sort, and then he says, "Gee, this is too bad, I’ve killed Bill." He's got Bill - he's got the composite Bill - he's got all of Bill. And it actually can get down to a point where the composite you - fortunately, very lightly so - can actually be influenced by thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of theta lines which you've picked up, but which aren't your theta lines. You're just sort of holding them trapped. And they've tried to go back and go where they're supposed to go between lives, and they try to do this and they try to do that. Maybe they're so groggy they don't know enough to do this, and so on. You take somebody who is really sick, and you run out an overt act, if you get a grief charge on it or if you reduce this overt act, you have probably also jettisoned a captured theta body, just like that.”

“Now what happens to these theta lines? What happens to them when they become psychotic or neurotic or normal what happens to them? They simply run down the line with less and less sense, with less and less power, with less and less direction, and so arrive at what the mystic normally referred to - or the spiritualist (correcting myself) referred to as the idle spirit.

The psychotic theta body is what we call “demons” in their varying magnitudes - genies and so forth. If you want to know, then, what an aberrated theta body looks like, just look at an aberrated human being. That's all. Just look at an aberrated human being. And you're looking at an approximation of this.

Now, it has some specific obsessions with which you should be very well familiar, and these obsessions are these:
1. It has to have a body.
2. It has to be - these are plants by the way; they were planted.
There are points on the track where they've agreed to this. But these are mostly implanted into the theta body to get it into order. Has to have a body, and (2) it cannot perceive without looking through a body's perceptic channels. Now get that as important, because it's a blinder. It has to stand behind a pair of optic nerves before it can get a facsimile of the MEST universe, it thinks. It has to stand behind ears before it can hear. It has to stand back of a whole battery of nerve channels in order to feel. And this should explain to you immediately why it is so easy to shut off - recall perceptions are very easily shut off - simply because they lie squarely on top of the theta-line obsessions that won't see, feel or hear or anything.”

“When you have seven preclears on a couch, and any one of those seven may have a half a dozen more, things can get quite complicated. The only way I've been able to thread through this with great accuracy has been with an E-Meter, because they'll generally answer up if put to the question in this fashion.

Now, most of your preclears have an enormous number of potential chronic somatics…”

“Now any one of the entities with which you are dealing - any one of the theta bodies with which you are dealing in a preclear - is capable of producing an almost unlimited number of psychosomatic illnesses.”

“Let's call the theta being - let's say theta being would be the central senior person, the one that your preclear would be if he were entirely cleared up on his way to a Theta Clear and this would be the last entity you would be addressing. That's the top senior entity and the one which will preserve as the preclear. Let's call that a theta being, or his theta being.

Now, let's call the remaining theta bodies, souls. And not call this - you don't like that word? Alright, what do you want for words? Let's call them, then, entities - let's call them entities. Hm? Alright.

You've got a whole series of these now, because these, by the way, have not walked in - these have not walked in unbidden. They are actually - have been gathered up in groups. Some of them are there under compulsion from elsewhere.

Now, let's call the third order - these are the ones that are supposed to be there. This would include the theta being and then six entities - and then the remaining ones, let's call them idle entities, or some such word.

These idle ones, then, are very idle. They are actually theta beings which have run downhill to the point where they're practically out the bottom. They couldn't have a body if - by the way, that's where all these beings go eventually. They just peel off downhill until they suddenly no longer are capable of having bodies, they're so thoroughly stuck on the track. Well, there's these idle beings.”

“Now those come in on the individual - they come in on the individual, but not unbidden. He asked for them. Or one of his entities asked for them, authorizedly or unauthorizedly, out of a compulsion to join up.

Therefore, you have this stack that looks like this. First there's the theta being. Now, it has co-mingled in company, but hasn't co-mingled in identity, with a second being. Now, this other being is pretty senior and probably won't leave.

These two then have added to them these entities, one after the other. And these entities, in turn, have enough compulsion on them to add in even more beings, so that you eventually wind up with a very large number.

Now, an entity, then, is classifiable to the degree that any entity may have an elsewhere body - for a homo sapiens at the present time - any entity may have an elsewhere body. These idle ones generally don't.

The theta being may himself have another body - may have.

There's no reason to be very complex about this. We could actually go through and number them on their positions, and you would know exactly where they are.

The theta being normally faces forward and is in the head and can emanate there into the whole body and can be the whole body. And when your preclear is well, when he is well-disposed, when he is in good condition and so on, it will be this being that he is.

The second one has different goals, but is sort of a partner to the first one, and it normally considers itself to be facing back in the head. There is where it's most easily reached. And it, too, could pervade the whole body without any very bad consequences, although the goals of this being, this entity, are not as high or as good as the theta being's goals.

All right, your next being would be the right inside. And the next being, the left inside. These are entities now; right inside, left inside, and stomach.

And now you have two more entities added. Now, I don't know whether this happened in every case, but these last entities seem to have been added after Earth. They were added here on Earth, somehow or other. I haven't that story very clear yet.

And there is another entity which is the somatic entity, which is continued all the way along the track as the body. And is actually responsible for having developed the body and has on its file all of the genetic-line data like the Boohoo, the Helper, and so forth; that's its data bank.

Now each one of these, at one time or another in a preclear's many existences, has been in charge. Not for any other reason than that the theta being has gone to sleep or has failed or has been pushed out of a position of command. And so most people have one or another of these beings taking over this way and that. It’s very interesting.

Some of these entities are or have been theta beings, and as such are accompanied by their own sub-order. But you find them all in the same location - all in the same location so don't be surprised.

This is why I say it takes an E-Meter to keep track of all these, because any one of them - and this is a rule of the road on this - any one of these can take over and invest the entire body, can operate solely with its own data bank and can create a somatic anywhere in the body.

The geographical locale is only where you will find them more or less native. But they can actually take that area and extend from that area and become the whole being, or extend from that area and suddenly control a part of the body which is quite distant from their seat of command.

Now, let no one be confused about the theory of epicenters. The theory of epicenters is quite valid. It is a trace, a tracking of how the body evolved. And all of these epicenters have data banks, but they are all under the command of the somatic entity. And the somatic entity has, as it came along, been formed and added to structurally. So the control centers or the epicenters of the body are merely the points of the body from which the mechanisms and limbs of the body are handled. And they came into existence very smoothly by counter-efforts being applied to that point. That's structure - that's physical structure.

Now, get this picture: Here is a big control panel. Every button on this big control panel could be called an epicenter - might say an embryonic brain, a nerve center, a command post, something. And here are all these buttons. And you push one of these buttons and certain lights go on and certain motions take place.

A doctor takes his hammer - his little rubber hammer - and taps somebody on the knee cap, and the leg flies out. And he says, "Well, your central nervous system is in good condition." In other words, he's saying that epicenter's connected, because he can come along and by the application of mechanical motion create a structural response.

Now that's what an epicenter is - it's just a push button. It's built-in structure and it has neurons, synapses and so on; it's just the mechanics of a body.

Now, here's this big switchboard. Who's running it? The theta being is the person who's supposed to be running it, amongst other things.”

“Now, get this about circuits: A circuit is quite real, but a circuit happens to be a being - an entity, or an idle one, mimicking.

And, you know, a preclear goes low enough on the tone scale will get into a physiological rapport or a mental rapport with somebody and will mimic, mimic, mimic. That's hypnotism. And these entities will actually copy other people. They'll copy other people so thoroughly that they'll get their identity confused with those people - thoroughly confused with them, so that you get this kind of a manifestation. You start running this entity back and you find this entity is somebody that the person knew at one time or another, and it isn't at all.”

“…entities have been so hammered and pounded and driven by the compulsive attitude of people who have tried to control us back through history, that what's their first shift? Each one can do valence shifts, by the way; they can be this or be that. They're very good mimics. And so they become people who have tried to control us and their only method of operation that they know or can follow, unless they're brought up to a point where they'll think again, is to force with pain, to force with threat, to force with aberration, a MEST-force operation on the preclear. So when a preclear has a chronic somatic, you know immediately that he has an entity that is trying to force something on to him and that this entity is not the theta being. It tells you that immediately.”

“So you see, this thing has become very simple. A lot of questions that we had in the past can go. What's a circuit? A circuit is a psychotic stuck somewhere on the track who keeps mimicking somebody; mimicking Mama or mimicking Papa or doing a mimic job and so on, but quite psychotic. They have data banks. Every one of them has data banks.”

“And here you get these cases of sudden amnesia. Person is going along as one entity and studies this and studies that and so forth. And suddenly that entity kicks off over on the other track and sticks, and says, "I'm dead." Which he is, elsewhere. Hasn't any recall all of a sudden. Isn't moving on the track. And suddenly another entity takes over and I think if you examined amnesia cases you would suddenly find the preclear working on a data bank that didn't apply to this life. See how that would be.”

“Now, what is a case of homosexuality? You see a lot of these entities are identifiable as men, identifiable as women. Now, you take a young fellow, he's been going along just fine, he's a boy. Perfectly normal as a boy, and all of a sudden at the age of ten, some other boy seduces him or something of the sort, and after that he's a homosexual. What happened? Well, nothing very complicated about it. Regarding him and giving him approval all of a sudden validated a female entity. And this female entity says, "Aha! I've been validated; now I guess I'm boss around here." Moves in, takes over and that's that! How do you cure it? Straighten it out? Audit the old hag. That's easy. Just audit and kick her out.”

“Now, the problem, then, of auditing is just what you know it to be - thought, emotion and effort, with this simplification: you know very well from the behavior of your preclears that you haven't been auditing just one person. They just keep shifting under your hands. Something else - too complex and so on. So you just make sure that you differentiate from entity to entity and try to get them unstuck off the track very neatly and nicely and get the theta being back in power."