Dianetics 55! 1955 Chapter 14
Chapter 14: The One-shot Clear
The goal of the „One-Shot Clear“ has been with us since the earliest days of Dianetics. By „One-shot Clear“ we meant one phrase or one action given once, or repeated, which would bring into being the Clear as described in „Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health,“ Chapter II.
It should be understood by this time that the Clear described in „Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health,“ Chapter II, is actually the thetan exterior of Scientology. The way to clear somebody is to get him out of the influence of his reactive bank and his analytical machinery. When a person is so cleared, his level of knowingness is sufficient to overcome the need of machinery, and the need of stimulus-response mechanisms as contained in his reactive mind.
Long since we have had a „One-Shot Clear“ for 50 per cent of the human race. All we say to the individual is, „Be three feet back of your head.“ If he is, he orients himself, he knows that he is not his body, he knows he does not have to be up against his reactive mind, he has been gotten out of the trap. Of course, there are many other things which you could do to further increase his ability and orient him in this position, but this is not immediately in our province in Dianetics. When an individual is so exteriorized he also can look over the body and patch up pinched nerves, black areas, rearrange the anchor points which create and hold the space of the body, and so repair a body quite excellently. However, it is not the purpose of exteriorization simply to get a person to square away the machine known as the body.
“Be three feet back of your head“ is a strange and interesting combination of words. Evidently this simple combination has not been known before by Man. It is notable that one does not say, „Move three feet back of your head,“ since an awareness of awareness unit does not move, it appears and disappears from locations.
If one uses this „One-Shot Clear“ technique, he should be advised that he must not ask or expect of the newly exteriorized person a number of strange or impossible things. He must not ask him to go chasing around finding things. He must not ask him to prove that he is exteriorized. The individual says so – that’s the end of it. In Scientology, of course, on Route 1, as contained in „The Creation of Human Ability,“ we go on to improve the ability of this exteriorized awareness of awareness unit up to a point we call „Operating Thetan.“ We do this by running many drills and exercises which improve his perception. However, the process of Answers, or even the Six Basic Processes could be run on the individual after he is exteriorized and his exteriorization will markedly increase, and he will get into even better condition as an exteriorized person. If you were to say „Be three feet back of your head“ to somebody, and he was, the next thing to do would be to go into Elementary Straightwire and then into Opening Procedure of 8-C, then Opening Procedure by Duplication, then Remedy of Havingness, then Spotting Spots in Space, and then Answers, or, as the last chapter gives forth, „Remedy of Communication.“ If you did these things just as given in this book you would have something like a stable Clear. You would pay no attention to the fact that he was Clear. As a matter of fact, if you were to run any of these Six Basic processes long enough, and certainly if you were to run answers for any length of time after you have run these Six Basic Processes, you would have somebody exteriorized. It is a peculiar thing that there is no argument about exteriorization. Any argument which has been in existence was born out of the psychiatrist’s observation of „compulsive exteriorization“ by an individual who so detested his body that he stayed outside of it. Psychiatrists have been known to give people electric shocks and other „treatments“ to get them to get back inside their bodies. This level of punishment, trying to get a person to accept something under duress, does not work. But then, nothing in psychiatry ever worked, except bank accounts. This „compulsive exteriorization“ is a manifestation which we call in Scientology „doing a bunk,“ in other words, „running away.“ You will occasionally encounter this, but you will not encounter it if you run the six Basic Processes before you go in for exteriorization.
There is, astonishingly enough, a „One-Command Clear“ for the remaining 50 per cent, even if it has to be repeated many times. I have been developing and testing this for some time, and have kept it back on the shelf against a time when we had enough competent auditors to use the process intelligently.
This is a „One-Shot Clear“ technique in that one uses one command and so achieves clearing, and after clearing to the stage of exteriorization has been accomplished, one simply goes on using the same type of command. It is a highly effective process, a very violent process. Theoretically it should work on any level of case. In actual practice psychotic, neurotic cases, or people badly out of communication receive it with considerable difficulty and it is not recommended for them, but it would work on them if it could be communicated to them. (On such people use Opening Procedure of 8-C, only.)
The basis for this process is the observation that the MEST universe is a game. One can have a game and know it. He can be in a game and not know it. The difference is his determinism.
Games require space and havingness. A game requires other players. Games also require skill and knowingness that they are games.
Havingness is the need to have terminals and things to play for and on.
When a game is done the player keeps around tokens. These are hopes the game will start again. When that hope is dead the token, the terminal, is hidden. And it becomes an automaticity – a game going on below the level of knowingness. Truthfully, one never stops playing any game once started. He plays old games in secret – even from himself – while playing or not playing new ones. The only real game one can have is in present time. All others are in the past. Anxiety for a game takes one into the past.
The command is, „Invent a game“ and when the preclear has, again, „Invent a game.“ Then: „Mock up somebody else inventing a game.“
Having established the fact that an auditing session is in progress, and established some slight communication with the preclear, the auditor says, „Invent a game.“ When the communication lag on this is flat the auditor then uses the command, „Mock up somebody else inventing a game.“ This is the only phrase he utters, but he of course engages in two-way communication with the preclear when the preclear has something to say to him. An auditor has to be a good auditor in order to use this process. Just because it is a simple „one-command“ process is no reason why it will work for an auditor who is not cognizant of the Auditor’s Code, cognizant of a two-way communication and has some experience in more basic levels of processing.
We use this process as a remedy for the scarcity of games and we use it in full awareness of the processes involved in two-way communication.
It is a murderous process and requires five or ten hours in rough cases to bring about an understanding of existence.
This is not necessarily a recommended process. It is a workable process, it does function, it is fast, but remember that it has the frailty of the ability of the auditor himself. It has the frailty of failing when a two-way communication is not maintained with the preclear, it will fail if the preclear in volunteering information finds no attention from the auditor, it will fall if the auditor does not acknowledge the fact that the preclear has done this. But, if these things are considered, it will work.
This process can be abused by the preclear. He can wander from it. He can sit there in the auditing chair doing other things, but we depend upon the skill of the auditor to see that the preclear is not doing other things, and that he is actually doing the process.
The preclear will „pick his bank clean“ rather than invent, he will have doubts that he is inventing. But we persevere – and we win.