Personification of MEST

MEST stands for Matter, Energy, Space, and Time. It can be likened to mud or solids or non-awareness. As one moves up in spirituality, Scientology style, one moves further and further from MEST, or rather, from the effects of MEST. One becomes able to shape and control MEST by will power alone. But Hubbard's sorry Negro is so far down the ladder of spirituality that he personifies MEST. The insult does not end there. Picture some guy taking his hat off his head, holding it in front of his face, and talking to it. He actually thinks that the hat can give him attention, as Hubbard explains in The Fundamentals of Thought:

The yellow and brown believe for the most part (and it is all a matter of consideration) that rocks, trees, walls etc. can give them attention.

In the middle of a Technique 80 lecture ("Route to Infinity" tapes), in Part I of the Therapy Section, delivered on 21 May 1952, Hubbard presents an anecdote to illustrate the concept of MEST:

"The Scientology religion is based exclusively upon L. Ron Hubbard's research, writings and recorded lectures —
all of which constitute the Scriptures of the religion"

As far as the sixth dynamic  is concerned, our concepts of MEST (matter, energy, space and time) do not allow us to recognize what a good, solid overt act against MEST can be.

We build cars that are guaranteed to last upwards to two years. We build houses - well, they'll be all right in fifteen. Oddly enough, we build skyscrapers — fine, proud, sweeping skyscrapers — and they're designed on the engineering blueprints to last twenty-five years.

We're really temporary. Maybe you didn't know that.

What fools them is the Flatiron Building is still there and so is the Woolworth Building. They were built to last a little bit longer. But the Chrysler Building — in another fifteen years, watch out. Somebody will have to go in there with skyhooks and pick that thing up, because it's not — you know, the marble facing on it is about that thick. They got a real thin saw and made real thin slabs, and they glued them on it. Great stuff.

Well, this temporariness permits a deterioration of MEST. Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular, down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there—a hat. They talk to them, you know? "What'sa mattuh wi' you, hat?" [audience laughter] They imbue them with personality. Well, you don't do that very much anymore, because as you go down tone scale  you don't do this. Because, actually, all that MEST is, really — you might consider it in the same range and the same band as solid thought. But it's, by aesthetics and other things, molded up by man into being what it is.

And an overt act  against MEST: you're going to find that people will treat their MEST very, very badly — very often treat their MEST very, very badly. Car: Well, they go on driving it and driving it and driving it. It knocks and it spits and it snarls and sniffs and jumps, and they just go on driving it, although they really know that if they don't get a little thing fixed on that car that the next thing you know the car is going to start getting a pyramid of things happening to it.