We present preliminary results for a prequantization procedure that leads in a natural way to the Dirac equation. The starting point is the recently introducedn-symplectic geometry on the bundle of linear framesLM of ann-dimensional manifoldM in which the ℝn-valued soldering 1-formθ onLM plays the role of then-symplectic potential. On a 4-dimensional spacetime manifold we consider the tensorial ℝ4⊗ℝ4valued functionĝ onLM determined by the spacetime metric tensor g as the Hamiltonian for free observers and determine the associated ℝ4-valued Hamiltonian vector field\(\hat X_{\hat g} = \hat X_{\hat g}^i \otimes r_i \), Integration” of theXĝi yields the dynamics of free observers on spacetime, namely parallel transport of linear frames along spacetime geodesies. In order to obtain a vector field on the spin bundleSM which is a lift of\(\hat X_{\hat g} \) and which is induced by a vector field\(\hat X_{\hat g} \) for an appropriate mapping\(\hat g\), it is useful to define a prolongation Open image in new window of some bundleLoM of oriented frames ofM. IfGL+(4, ℝ) denotes the identity component ofGL(4, ℝ), thenGL+(4, ℝ) is the structure group ofLoM and its double cover Open image in new window is the structure group of Open image in new window . We show that the lift\(\tilde \theta \) ofθ onLoM to Open image in new window induces a natural 4-symplectic potential on Open image in new window . If\(\tilde g\) is the lift of g to Open image in new window , then we find the ℝ4-valued Hamiltonian vector field\(X_{\hat g}^i \) on Open image in new window determined by\(\tilde g\) and show that the vector fieldsXgi on Open image in new window are tangent to the subbundleSM. “Integration” of the restriction of theXĝi toSM now yields parallel transport of spin frames and thus tetrads along spacetime geodesies of g. We consider a naive prequantization operator assignment Open image in new window acting on ℂ4-spinors in the standard representation ofSL(2, ℂ). The eigenvalue equation for the system of new Hilbert space operators yields the Dirac equation.