6305C23 SHSpec-268 State of OT

There isn't a government on earth that has the right to "permit" our
survival as an organization.

[Cognition: The only reason you have a present time problem is that you
don't have enough time.]

The Helatrobus implants -- you can call them the "heaven" implants -- had
a big effect on thetans, with their cold energy, or frozen energy. The
Helatrobus government had gold crosses on their aircraft. No one could find
out who "they" were. They couldn't find out who was behind and actually doing
the implanting. The implants were based on cold energy with significance
placed in it. The implants tended to talk. The Helatrobites had figured out
something that looked to everyone else like a natural phenomenon: the
Magellanic (radioactive) clouds, with which they surrounded planetary
systems.

The stars in a galaxy tend to be collected towards the center of the
galactic wheel. When you look at the Milky Way, you are looking towards the
center of this galaxy. In the opposite direction, you see other galaxies. We
are awfully far out from the center of this galaxy. Our sun is a "rim star".
Galaxies are condensations of radioactive clouds into suns and planets.
Planets sometimes shatter, to become a belt of asteroids. Suns range from
"dead" suns, to red, yellow, white, and blue suns, as they get hotter and
brighter. Bodies could exist that are suited for conditions on other
planets.

Some science fiction writers have very good memories but have fallen
victim to the implants that reverse time, such that the past equals the
future. The "boogie man" is a standard mechanism for keeping people from
going places and looking at things, confronting. For instance, the
Phoenicians spread sea-monster rumors to prevent competition with England in
the tin trade. Scare stories about terrible beings are quite standard. They
are used to keep people out of things that others want to keep hidden. Most
planets run by animal forms have classifiable types of forms, similar from
system to system, depending on the environment. Someone built for
Jupiter-type conditions would look, perhaps, Eskimo-ish.

You could become very disheartened and caved in about this universe and
see it as a trap, until you recognize that the thetan is helped all the time
by MEST. It gives him location, consecutive scenery, and persistent structure
of matter. This universe has solved a lot of problems for the thetan. When
he gets too far down on the tone scale, therefore, he gets on a stuck one-way
help flow, with respect to the physical universe. The thetan doesn't help the
universe. You could run him on, "How could you help the physical universe?",
and he would feel better about it.

Degraded beings come to the conclusion, because of the above situation,
that the trouble with this universe is that it has free beings in it. They
feel that the universe is too good for free beings, so every now and then,
someone decides to make it evil. If a thetan is that degraded, what he sees
as wrong with the physical universe is that it has free beings in it, so he
tries to make them unfree.

The origin of the physical universe in the first place is probably a
collision of home universes. The problem of why everybody stays in a single
present time was one of the more fantastic problems. The "why" is a response
to a vibration. There is one underlying vibration that the universe, your
bank, and you are vibrating at. The only variation in that vibration relates
to the progression of time. Therefore, you can move someone on the time
track. One overwhelmed others with vibration, a very minute vibration the
size of the vibration of a light particle.

The time track is formed by an involuntary intention. In studying the
power of an operating thetan, LRH has had pauses in thinking, although
intellectually such power is conceivable. Recently, LRH has been exploring
the actual potentialities of an OT. The problem of an OT may be analogous to
the problem that one encounters if one tries to pick up the cellophane wrapper
from a pack of cigarettes, without denting it at all. You could only do this if you could estimate or measure the exact force necessary to pick it up without denting it. This is probably the basic problem of an OT, and it may give him his time track.

The power of a thetan is such that if he were to pick up a steel cylinder
capable of resisting a pressure of several thousand pounds per square inch, it
would be like you with the cellophane wrapper. The problem is -- how to touch
something without crushing it. The thetan is "being careful" in handling
MEST. He seeks another method of handling. He feels that he is quite
destructive. People who have lost their OT abilities and strength will try,
and did try on the time track, to convince free thetans that they were
dangerous. People who haven't that level of action would believe that a free
thetan was destructive and would trap him with the idea by causing him to use
a new trick: doing things by intention, instead of directly. We have always
thought of intention as primary, but it is secondary. The postulate, and
action through postulates, is secondary to action through energy. You should
be able to do both, but it is more natural for a thetan to just pick something
up, than to pick it up by an intention or postulate that it be up. It is a
great downgrade. Intention is unnatural. It would be natural to just move
things. However, this is hard to do if the thetan is afraid that he will
destroy the thing in the process. Instead, he develops the safer method of
operation by intention alone. He can do this, but it enforces a great
restraint on him. It is like putting yourself on a terrific withhold of
self.

The thetan trains intention to become involuntary. It is not imaginary.
It is like involuntary nerves or muscles that work automatically. MEST is
fragile. Recently, in New York or Melbourne, when they started running the
goal "to forget" in a co-audit, the E-meter got fused. The PC melted the
lines. Some involuntary intention was triggered in him, and "Zap!"

Unless you understand this as too great power, within the ethical limits
of the individual, you won't understand the problems of an OT. A thetan is
stronger than the fragility with which he is surrounded, and he compensates by
reducing his power. This was the wrong solution. He developed an automatic
action. E.g. the phone rings. He doesn't touch it. It springs into the
air, and he talks. The postulate does things without his having to intend
them. There is "no difference between an involuntary intention to act and an
involuntary intention to duplicate and an involuntary intention to create, and
that's where the time track comes from." This is an hypothesis to account for
the time track.

Then someone gives the thetan things for the automatic machinery to mock
up which would be bad for the thetan. Or someone jams the machinery and makes
the thetan fight his own automatic intention. The next thing you know, he has
a messed-up time track. He goes solid. He picks up a meat body. The
withhold begins with the steel cellophane.

A rational solution would have been not to make everything so damned
fragile. Withholding all the time has all sorts of ill effects, including
putting engrams on your track.

These matters have a lot to do with scientology organizations. Seeing
the character of an OT, we see that these matters could be upsetting in
various directions. We have some responsibilities to start things out right,
if we are going to make OT's.

Early on, conceiving that free thetans were very dangerous and should be
shot down, people like the Helatrobites started laying in implants and
weakening people, working with great industry. Before these implants, planets were suddenly surrounded with radioactive cloud masses from the center of the galaxy. Waves of black and grey clouds would sweep over the planet, engulfing it in radioactivity. The dark horse nebula in Orion is one huge radioactive cloud like this. This could go on for a million years. Universes have lines of force -- vectors, like spokes -- which were used by the Helatrobus group, to move Magellanic clouds. They just set them loose. No one found out that it was being done by someone. It was all explained as a natural phenomenon. Because of these theories, no one thought to look for anyone doing it.

At least a hundred years after a system had been engulfed, Helatrobus
would send capturing troops in ships with little orange-colored electronic
bombs that would talk. Speech was frozen into electronic capsules. The
clouds would talk, "Hark! Hark! Look out!", etc. It sounded like a fun
house. Its unbelievability made detection of its origin all but impossible.
It confused the thetans all to Hell. For some reason, the symbol of airplanes
goes through this. This symbol goes earlier, to implants at 80 trillion years
ago, where aircraft symbolized needing a machine to get you off a planet.

So for some years, after years of radioactivity, the clouds were there
with speech in them, containing contradictory commands, like "come here --
can't come", "go -- mustn't go". It was doubletalk. The Helatrobites put
traction beams on thetans. Eventually, after many incidents of resisting it,
the thetan got sucked up into small capsules via bubbles and thence into
spaceships. "All of this assaulted his credulity. He couldn't understand
what was going on." This had never happened before.

Then, in one to six months, the Helatrobites would get him into an
"implant area, fix him on a post, wobbled him around, ran him through an
implant of goals on a little mono-wheel pole trap with the effigy of a body on
it." He had no body at that time. Eventually he would get home. Then he
would get picked up again and put through more series of implants. Probably
the Helatrobites Knew who had been implanted already, because we find implants
in pairs of two and four, never three or one. Once this started, the planet
would be in turmoil and revolt, and things got very insane. The heaven
implants, then, were preceded by tremendous periods of unrest, with
radioactive clouds, orange bombs, warfare, wild anarchy, etc. It was chaos --
rather like twentieth century earth. It was Hitler-like stuff. It got more
and more crazy and out of control. They were very worried thetans.

Before the clouds came, there would be occasional theta-trapping, etc.,
but things were generally pretty peaceful. It was only when the free thetans
were threatened that they became restive and ungovernable. Free thetans in
themselves are easy to put up with. In PI, radioactive fallout is a key
restimulator of this whole scene. But how does a partly-freed thetan feel,
when he sees the old situation seeming to repeat itself, with all the symbols
from the track? It makes him mad at fallout, government, wars, etc.

Earth is in for a period of chaos, which scientology can render less
extreme than it would otherwise be. But we can't entirely eliminate the
chaos, since some earlier chaos will be restimulated. But the planet is
doomed if we don't operate. LRH's attention is, therefore, on organizational
concerns. How do we move through such a period? The scientology organization
is set up to handle this period of chaos.

As long as thetans have rage in their hearts about the situation, their
power is curtailed. This is a safety factor. If we just let chaos happen, we
will slow our forward progress. Sooner or later, there will be the rest of
the galaxy to deal with. Earth has already blasted off into meat-body space
opera, which may not be appreciated by someone out there. Earth people get
hysterical when they think that there is an invasion from space, so it
represents a real threat, not something people think is unreal or impossible.
Orson Wells' radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds resulted, in Ecuador, in
the radio station that broadcast it being torn down by enraged Ecuadorians.
They knew about space opera, even though they didn't have science fiction to
educate them.

With things as they are, several factors confront us. If we handle
things as they are, we may be able to have things as we would like to have
them.