Exteriorization - Lecture and Demonstration (cont.) (3ACC 540112)
Series: 3rd Advanced Clinical Course (3ACC)
Date: 12 January 1954
Speaker: L. Ron Hubbard
How’s your perception? Have you had any perception change?
Audience: [various responses] Yeah!
Male voice: The Sun came out. The Sun came out, huh?
Audience: Yeah.
Have you had any perception change?
Audience: [various responses]
Uh-huh. Anybody been left blind or anything?
Audience: [various responses]
All right. Anybody's perception better than it was?
Audience: Ob, yes. Okay.
Why don't you be a thousand miles back of your chair.
Now grant your right to your body to be a thousand miles in front of you.
Now have your body grant the right to you to be a thousand miles in back of it.
Now pick out somebody else to grant you the right to be a thousand miles in back of your body.
And just pick out other people. Same thing.
Now pick out other people in this group to grant you the right to be absolved from all responsibility in case something happens to your body while you're a thousand miles behind it.
All right. Now grant this right to certain other people in the group.
Now grant the right to certain members of the group to be free.
Now get certain members of the group granting you the right to be free.
Now get certain people in the group granting the right to certain other specific people in the group, to be free.
Now have certain people in the group grant you personally, as a thetan, the right to survive.
Now you grant certain people in the group the right to survive, as thetans.
Now have certain thetans in the group specifically granting certain other thetans in the group the right to survive.
Okay. Be a thousand miles behind your body. Grant your body the right to be a thousand miles in front of you.
Now grant other people present the right to be a thousand miles in front of you. Okay. Now, be where you please.
Contact the two back corners of the room and find no corners.
Now put a couple of corners about a thousand miles out and find those.
Okay. Be where you please.
End of session.
Okay, now what's the score here? Anybody exteriorize with a little more certainty? A tiny bit more certainty? Good. Yeah?
Female voice: Aren't they exteriorizing when they get the feeling of being out and then all of a sudden, boom, their body is there? What's that? Does that mean they snap back into the body?
Well, you've hit a line of some sort.
Female voice: Well, ¡snapped in and I felt like I was out and, boom, my whole body was there, boom! Back in.
That's what we call the "yo-yo effect."
Female voice: Yeah. I get what it means.
You get out to a certain distance, then energize some lines and they collapse.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
Body must have a somatic you're triggering.
Female voice: Yeah.
What's the somatic you're triggering?
Female voice: Well, it runs from here right down to the bottom of the spine.
Well, that's fine. Put a gold ribbon from a hundred feet behind you to your body.
Female voice: Okay.
Put another one there.
Female voice: Mm-hm.
Throw it away.
Female voice: Mm-hm.
Put another gold ribbon from a hundred feet behind you to your body.
Female voice: Mm-hm.
Throw it away.
Female voice: Yeah.
Another one. Throw it away.
Female voice: Yeah.
Another one.
Female voice: All right.
Throw it away.
Be five feet behind your chair.
Female voice: Well, I have gold ribbons.
Throw it away.
Female voice: Mm-hm.
Now be five feet behind your chair.
Female voice: I have a feeling of breeziness in back.
You still yo-yoing?
Female voice: No, I didn't snap.
Didn't snap. All right. Let's put another gold ribbon from five feet back of your body to the back of your body and connect it this time. Wrap it around your neck or something.
Female voice: I feel like the body is submerged in a burning fluid of some kind.
Okay.
Now let's wrap another gold ribbon – a very thick one this time, from five feet back of your body to around your neck.
Female voice: Okay.
Now let's put a dot of light at the far end of it.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
Now let's grant beingness to the dot of light at the far end.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
Now let's be at the far end.
Female voice: Hm.
Did you make it?
Female voice: I hear a bone cracking there in the head.
Yeah, all right. Let's be five feet back there.
Female voice: Okay.
Now let's put a burning body, flames and all, out in front of you.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
Throw it away and put another one there.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
Throw it away and put another one there.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
Throw it away and put another one there.
Female voice: Uh-hub.
Throw it away and put another one there.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
Throw it away and put another one there.
Female voice: Mm-hm.
Throw it away and put another one there.
Female voice: Mm-hm.
Throw it away and put another one there.
Female voice: Yeah.
Get it burned to a crisp now.
Female voice: Yeah.
Okay, now let's be five feet back there.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
Now pat the body on the head and say, "Poor
Female voice: Uh-huh.
Okay.
Female voice: Mm-hm.
Be where you please.
Female voice: Thank you.
You bet.
This yo-yo effect is just – there's a constant somatic on the body, you see? And every time somebody goes outside, it requires a little different line setup, he's using lines on the body, you see? And so it energizes the lines and in he comes.
I should say something about that right now. There are two types of lines that are used, one is a pressor line and the other's a tractor line.
Now, a tractor is a condensing or collapsing line. See, a tractor, if energized, would bring two points together. A and B would get closer together if a tractor line were between A and B.
A pressor line, if energized, would put A and B further apart. And a thetan, at this stage of the game, has gotten sloppy about what kind of lines he uses. He just puts on a line and he leaves it up to automaticity to whether it's a tractor beam or a pressor beam.
Now, the dispersal case that does a bunk for Arcturus is energizing a pressor beam which is extending, the moment it's energized.
And a tractor – a fellow who is just sort of automatically putting a tractor beam on the body as he goes out of it or hits a tractor beam, of course, the moment that is energized, he slaps back into the body again. So he's on a collapsed terminal basis. And snap, back he comes. All right.
Now, that's the way you got into the body in the first place – you put a tractor beam on a body and the body felt pain and it energized and in you went. It moved you, you didn't move it. All right.
This becomes an elementary problem, then, in whether A and B are being pushed apart or pulled together. Now, the yo-yo effect is the fellow who goes out and snaps in and goes out and snaps in and goes out and snaps in and goes out and snaps in and after a while, he gets discouraged and just stays in, unless he resolves it or it's resolved for him.
Then the other fellow is the "do a bunk" case. The case that does a bunk simply keeps going, you see. You say, "Be three feet back of your head" and a couple of seconds later, as I say, he's passing Arcturus – he's on his way. Well, he's hit a pressor beam setup rather than a tractor beam setup. And so, instead of slapping back into the body, he just continues on out of it, zoom!
Both of these are the inability of the thetan to position things in space from a stationary point. He can't maintain his own stationariness – other things remain stationary, he doesn't. That's the first problem wrong with it and the other is the simple mechanical problem that either one – whether he does a bunk for Arcturus or slaps back in – betokens a current and chronic somatic which the thetan is holding in abeyance. He's holding both sides of every somatic, by the way.
But he's holding this one off, he's preventing something from happening, you see? And the second he's five feet back of his head or three feet back of his chair or a thousand miles behind himself or something, he's no longer actively engaged in keeping a somatic from occurring. So the somatic occurs at that moment, energizes the beam – you know, a round circuit back to – he energizes the beam and in he goes or out he rushes, whichever way it is. And both of those are the problem of a chronic somatic on the body, the body must at that moment be in pain. Got that?
You just simply solve the chronic somatic to some degree and your boy or your girl is immediately a little more stable. And you go on solving it on that basis and, pretty soon, all gets very smooth indeed. The mechanics of Theta Clearing are quite simple.
All right. As I was talking about before, who got a better exteriorization certainty?
Audience: [various responses]
Good.
And you notice, any one of these exercises is all pounding away at the same thing: we're undoing the automaticity which keeps him nailed down in his head and holds him powerless.
Now, a lot of people have unmocking machinery which unmock them. "I'm not going to be here. I'm not going to be visible." And you don't have to really take much of this into account, but you can spot any of this machinery on an E-Meter. It's fascinating what an E-Meter will do when it is fed, by the preclear himself, automatic machinery which he guesses might be around. But he won't look, at automatic machinery which is completely collapsed upon him.
Now, the individual that's tried to avoid terminal B or terminal E on the communication line – the individual who has tried to avoid this, prevented it from happening, has of course had it collapse upon him, because the only thing that's ever going to keep it away from him is him. So the fellow who is trying to keep it from collapsing upon him is trying to move it away or hold it away.
Well, he can postulate it away, but he can't hold it away. Because energy – the second that you use energy to handle energy, you're into the mass agreement of the MEST universe. Well, you can get into it and get out of it with great ease when you know what you're doing. But the initial stages of the game when the fellow is in the body, dependent upon the body, you ask him to separate the two terminals – one, himself, a thetan with mass, and a body with mass – and he can't impose space upon two terminals, bomm!
Well now, it's a funny thing, but one of the postulates solved when run in a bracket, that does a lot for this, is quite simple – it's, "It's impossible to communicate." Or "All communications are on the same point." Now, both of those assist exteriorization, both of them.
Let's have a guy just mock-up or get the idea of a flock of Western Union messages all on the same spindle and keep adding messages to the spindle. Then have him add a message from New York which is received in San Francisco. And have him compound this by putting New York on the spindle and San Francisco on the spindle. Make him
scramble the geographical locations of Earth. Make him put the Washington Monument on the Empire State Building.
Now, there are many techniques which do this covertly. The best of them are those which don't do it covertly, they simply do it. I'll give you an example of that now.
Pick up San Francisco and stack it on New York.
Now pick up Washington, DC and stack it on New York.
Now stack Chicago on New York.
Now Los Angeles on New York.
Now let's take the whole pile and put them on Reno.
Now let's put that whole pile on Seattle.
Now let's take Alaska and put it on top of the pile.
Now let's take Florida and put it on top of the pile.
Now let's let go of the pile.
Now let's be very orderly and put them all back in their proper positions.
Male voice: They snap back in their proper positions.
Well, that's good. Put them all in the pile again and make them snap back into their proper positions, see.
Now put them all in a pile again and put them back in their proper positions.
A beautiful example of the automaticity of terminals he just brought up: they all snap back to their proper positions. Well, what snapped them? Well, the only guy there is – that's a beautiful motto for you, by the way: the only person sitting there is the preclear. All else is dross and delusion. After he gets to be an Operating Thetan, it becomes rather questionable who is sitting there, but that's all right. Okay?
Female voice: Uh-huh.
Okay. The collapsing terminal effect: "I cannot communicate" is both terminals are on the same unit. Or they are so infinitely wide apart that we couldn't possibly bring them together or stretch a line between them. See, the tractor beam and the pressor beam.
Now, do you know that there are some thetans so far from a body that are running it – I know somebody present is going to categorize himself incorrectly in this category – they are so far from the body, they are so infinitely far from the body, so many billions of light-years from the body that it's almost an incalculable distance, running it. They can't get any closer. They have a funny feeling about it, they don't particularly like it.
They are in the exact reverse condition of the fellow nailed in a body. Now, just as a fellow can be nailed in a body and doesn't know it, so can a fellow be nailed a thousand light-years out there and not know it. But sooner or later, you'll run in to an incident – the fellow will suddenly remember it or something – where he was a long way from the body and he went down to rescue it, something on this order.
In other words, it's just as peculiar to be pried and debarred out of a body as it is to be nailed down in one, and both conditions can exist. Between the two, however, the most frequent one is the fellow who is nailed down in one and that is so much more often the case that you can almost neglect the other condition.
All right. Exteriorization, as a problem, is an interesting problem in automaticities. And the automaticities most intimately concern communication terminals and masses, that's the most fascinating of them.
Now, if you could get somebody to disabuse himself of the need of mass, that alone will solve a lot of exteriorizations. But if you get over the balderdash and the mumbo-jumbo about it, you'll find out the body is a mass. It's a very heavy symbol. And it's just a mass and it's only a problem in masses and it, unfortunately, is both ends of a communication line, it outputs and inputs.
Now, I want to say something about exteriorization. Sometimes you'll have to exteriorize the guy from several actual bodies. He's holding on to old energy masses, he's making these masses all the time, he has automaticities that do this.
And as a matter of fact, you can put a thetan in intimate contact with the masses which are making the other things in the universe, so that he can perceive them too.
For instance, you could put him in contact with the ridge, the floating ridge, which makes fish. This has a practical use, by the way. The fellow eats some bad fish – well, let's unmock the communication lines to that ridge. And if you strike those communication lines off, the bad fish will no longer make him sick. This sounds very peculiar, maybe, but it has its uses.
Well, it goes even further, but I won't stretch your credulity there, you can hit the masses that make mountains. And that's what old Mohammed was trying to stumble around and do. And he'd lost the knack. He was right on the groove, he was in there on the right beat, but it was – the song was just a little old for him and he didn't quite get the notes.
Instead of standing there looking at the mountain saying, "It will now move," he should have gone and found the ridge that perpetually recreates mountains (to which he had agreed and which he had a separate mock-up running for) and simply altered that agreement and mock-up.
But he'd have had to have altered the ridge, in terms of agreement with some other people, in order to have gotten the mountain to move perceptically so that the troops could have seen it too.
But this is a simple and elementary problem in Theta Clearing – getting masses to move.
Now, it's a horrible thought to a thetan, sometime, who is intimately pushing on walls and beating on tables and pounding on his own head and doing other things, that he actually isn't in contact with a body at all. It's really much harder to stay in one than get out of one. I've exteriorized somebody very rarely (this is not a recommended procedure), merely by making him go outside and then have him stay still – set the body walking and have him stay still. And the body will walk away from him. You can do this with a person who has already been Theta Cleared and he gets a heck of a kick out of it. It's an SOP 8-O exercise. But you can – in just exteriorizing people – you can sometimes exteriorize them, just by doing this. You can also make them step back while still in the body and have the body still in front of them – you know, sort of a Mock-up Process.
The most horrible thing you can do to some of the cases that are having trouble – it won't be very efficacious but – is to have them mock-up the body in front of them and then have the mock-up go through certain motions and have them repeat the motions with the body they're in. And have them walk the mock-up in front of them forward and walk the mock-up in front of them backwards, all the time aping its motions with their own body. Oh, they get sick and dizzy and so forth because you've arbitrarily made them set up a perfect communication system, you see? Here are two bodies and one is doing one thing and the other is doing something.
Automaticity and communication, as you can well guess now – now, you tell me, do those things have an intimate connection? Do they? You damn well couldn't have an automatic machine unless you had a communication line to it, could you? So the fellow who's having communication trouble is also having automaticity trouble, isn't he? And where does the trouble lie? Well, Mr. Anthony, it lies right straight on the communication line. The terminals of that line are too close together. The fellow has become his own automatic machine or some damn foolishness, see? You don't have to take this apart very much in terms of anatomy, but you'd better know its basic anatomy, which is to say, he's collapsed terminals with his automatic machinery.
Now, the other fellow who is in horrible condition, who suddenly loses his memory and so forth, has a pressor communication system to his automatic memory machine. Get that pressor beam again. Instead of it throwing him off to Arcturus, it throws the machine off to Arcturus. All of a sudden, his memory is in Arcturus and he has amnesia, but he can't get a communication on that line anymore.
When a person sets up his memory to be automatic, he's in a wonderful condition.
Now, the person who is depending upon the facsimile to tell him what happened – Book One aside – I don't mind being wrong, unlike some people I know. The automaticity of the facsimile appearing when you think the thought is the most chronic eidetic automaticity, that is the eidetic automaticity. And the way you do this – though you can solve this, by the way, you can just sit down and arduously solve it. Like this – there may be faster ways to do it, but this one is very certain, it does solve it. You have the fellow think, for instance, of a letter and then have him put the letter in front of his face, A person who is depending upon eidetic recall; you have him think of a letter and put a letter in front of his face. Then you have him think of an autobus and put an autobus in front of his face. Think of a cat and put a cat in front of his face. Think of a dog and put a dog in front of his face. Think of an orange and put an apple in front of his face. Then get how wrong he is. And then think of the big hotel over here and put a small hotel in front of his face. Get him over having to be so right about the machine. It will make him laugh, it will make him spring it, make him release it.
Anybody doing that, by the way? You just think of something and get the picture. Think of something and get the picture. Think of something and get the picture.
Well, just try this right now:
Think of a cat and get a cat.
Now let go of that.
And think of a dog and get a dog.
Now say, "I am going to get a horse" and get a horse.
Now, did you get a horse by the automatic machine before you could get one there?
Female voice: No, that works.
Second female voice: It seemed a little different when I'm going like that.
Well, the point of it is here, is the preclear is always running slower than his automatic machinery, just as the worker in a society is always running slower than the military or the police.
You see, a person who sets up automatic machinery, inevitably, afterwards, has less power under his own grasp, so of course he's slower.
So you take the young piano player who sets it up at the age of ten – the scales and so forth – by the time he's forty, why, he's got a set-up automaticity on scales, there, which is quite fast. But don't ask him all of a sudden, "How do you run those scales so fast?" Because he'll fly into a rage or go to pieces or won't really be able to run scales or something of the sort.
Actually, at ten or at forty, he should simply have been able to run scales. The fastest you'll ever get is when you're doing it. All right.
Now naturally, that machine is quicker than you are. So let's be quicker than the machine now.
All right, let's think of a cow and get a cow.
Now let go of that and say, "I want to remember a car" and get a cat. Let go of that and say, "I want to remember the sky" and get the Earth.
Female voice: The sky clicked in before I could get the Earth.
Well, just get the Earth there, anyhow. Just ignore the machine. And get how valid you are.
Female voice: Mm-hm.
All right. Now think of an orange and get an orange and get how cute it is of you to do this.
Audience: [various responses]
Now think of a cat and get a cat and think how cute it is of you not to have let go of the orange.
Audience: [laughter]
Now think of a cow and get a cow and think how cute it is of you to have a cat and the orange.
Now look at all you've got there.
Now look straight through it and see the floor.
Remember when I told you to look at the wall up here and see the wall on the other side of it?
Audience: Mm-hm.
Same way with these machines. If you stop your vision on the machine facsimile, of course it's a very valid facsimile. But if you don't stop your vision on it, it isn't. So this time I'm going to ask you to look a foot beyond the picture.
Think of a cat and just look a foot beyond the picture – not at a cat or anything, just look beyond the picture.
All right. Think of a cow.
Think of a horse.
Think of a restaurant.
Think of a hat.
Now, are your pictures as clear as they were?
Audience: Not bad.
They're getting more clear.
Audience: Yeah,
Well, that's fine. Some people go through that hump. All right. Now get a chair and then think of a chair.
Now let go of that. And get a bulletin board and think of a bulletin board.
Now let go of that. And get a table and then think of a table. (This is memory running you.)
All right. Let go of that. And get a car and then think of a car.
Let go of that. And get a house and then think of a house.
Let go of that. And get a person and think of this person.
Let go of that. And get another person and then think of this person.
Let go of that. And get another person and think of this person.
Now think of a person and look straight through the person.
Get another person and look through any picture you get.
Now you get a picture of a person that you think of, much further away from you than your automatic picture is.
Now think of a person.
Let go of that. And think of another person.
Get these pictures further away than the automatic picture.
And you look at your picture – the new picture you just put there, see. Just ignore that other picture.
All right. Let go of that. And get a cat.
And let go of that. And get a car.
Okay. What's happening with these pictures? Well, let's make a test of it.
Think of a bulletin board.
Do you get and then not get a bulletin board?
Audience: Yet. [various responses]
Automatically?
Male voice: I have to put it out there first.
You had to put it there? You didn't get an automatic bulletin board?
Male voice: At first I did and it went out. Oh, and you put one there?
Male voice: Yeah, I put it where I wanted it and looked through it.
Okay. Now, we just want to find out what's happening to eidetic recall here, see.
All right. Now let's get a bulletin board.
Think of a bulletin board, get a bulletin board.
Think of another bulletin board and get a bulletin board.
Just said "another" – think of the "same" bulletin board.
Female voice: All right.
Think of the same bulletin board and put it up there again.
Throw it away. Think of a bulletin board and get a bulletin board and throw it away.
Think of a bulletin board, get a bulletin board and throw it away.
Think of a cat, get a cat, throw it away.
Think of a cat, get the same cat and throw it away.
Think of a cat, get the same cat and throw it away.
Think of a cat, get the same cat and throw it away.
All right. Think of a horse.
Put a picture of a horse there.
Okay, throw that away.
Now think of a stove. What happened?
Female voice: It just doesn't make any sense…
You getting pictures now?
Female voice: I can't see them…
Audience: Yes.
Female voice:… I can't even think of any without seeing it instantaneously.
Are you seeing it very well instantaneously?
Female voice: Yes.
Oh, eidetic recall is working better now?
Audience: Yes.
Well, what do you know! What do you know. It's working better?
Female voice: Yeah.
Otherwise, we're not influencing the machine any.
Female voice: Mm-hm. It is getting better.
It's getting good and fast, huh?
Female voice: Mm-hm. Good and fast and good and clear-3-D.
Getting better, huh?
Female voice: Mm-hm.
All right. Think of a textbook and get a textbook.
Now put another textbook there, shoving the first one out.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
And another textbook there.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
And another one there.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
And another one there, just letting the pieces fall where they may.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
And another one there.
Female voice: Uh-huh.
Now think of a textbook and get another textbook there. Now think of a textbook and get two textbooks.
Throw it away. Think of a textbook, get two textbooks and throw them
Think of a textbook and get two textbooks and throw them away.
Think of a textbook, get two textbooks and throw them away.
Okay. Throw anything away you've got there.
Now think of a hat.
Picture of a hat bounce up at you?
Audience: Uh-huh.
Did you get immediately this picture of this hat?
Audience: [various responses]
Good. What are we doing – building some eidetic recall here in the rest of the people? What's you doing, wakening up the old machine?
Male voice: Yeah.
You very often wake it up and, boy, they kick into a roaring activity before they go on out.
So let's just think of a hat and get a hat.
Female voice: It's slowing down now.
Oh, all right. Just throw that away and think of a hat and get a hat. Throw that away.
Now think of a picture and get a picture.
Female voice: Mm-hm.
Throw that away.
Think of a picture and get a picture.
Audience: Mmm.
Throw it away. Think of a picture and get a picture.
Female voice: Mm-hm.
Okay. Think of a somatic and get a somatic. Throw it away – let go of it.
Now think of a somatic and get a somatic. Let go of it. Think of a somatic and get a somatic.
Audience: [coughing]
Let go of it. Think of a somatic and let go of a somatic.
Audience: [coughing]
All right. Think of a somatic and get a somatic.
Audience: [coughing]
Throw it away. Now, think of an aberration and get an aberration.
Audience: [coughing, yawning]
Let go of it. Think of another aberration and get an aberration.
Audience: [coughing]
Let go of it. Think of an aberration and get an aberration.
Audience: [coughing, yawning]
Throw it away. Think of an aberration and get an aberration.
Audience: [coughing]
And you back there, you think of a cough and get a cough. Throw it away. All right.
Now think of an aberration and get an aberration.
Audience: [coughing]
Throw it away. Now, think of a nice gruesome aberration and get it.
Audience: [coughing]
Throw it away. Think of an illness and get an illness.
Audience: [coughing, yawning]
Throw it away. Think of another illness and get it.
Audience: [coughing]
Throw it away. Think of another one and get it. Throw it away. Think of another illness and get an illness. Throw it away.
Think of an illness and get an illness. Throw it away.
Audience: [coughing]
Think of an illness and get an illness. Throw it away.
Any aftereffects occur from that, this is the process that gets rid of it.
Think of a somatic and get a somatic.
Audience: [yawning]
Throw it away. Think of another person having a somatic and you get it. Throw it away. Think of another person having a somatic and you get it.
Audience: [yawning]
Throw it away. Think of another person having a somatic, you get it.
Audience: [yawning] Throw it away.
Think of a somatic and get a somatic. Throw it away. Okay, think of a picture and get a picture. Throw it away. Think of a picture, get a picture. Throw it away.
Okay, think of a hat and get a hat.
Throw it away. Now think of a hat and get a hat and look through it.
All right. Think of a hat and get a train.
Look through it.
Think of hair and get shoes.
Look through them.
Think of being wrong and be right. Let go of that.
Think of being right and be wrong. Let go of it. Think of everything disappearing. Have it disappear.
Get it back again and think of everything disappearing and have it disappear.
And get it back again.
Think of you being gone.
And be gone.
Get it back again.
Think of you being present and be present.
Think of you being present and be present.
Think of you being in present time and be in present time.
Think of you being in present time and be in present time.
Think of somebody else being in present time and have them be in present time.
Okay. Now, how did you make out?
Now, let's make a test on this eidetic recall again. Just test out your eidetic recall now in the next couple of seconds.
How is it? Worse? Better? Same?
Female voice: I thought of a cat and I got a horse. [ laughter]
It's fouled up?
Female voice; Yeah.
Oh, that's too bad.
Female voice: I've been wrong.
You mean it isn't being accurate anymore?
Female voice: Yeah. Hmm.
Now think of a disaster and get a disaster. Think of being wrong and be wrong.
Now think of being right and be right. Now, think of being right again and be right Okay. Now, check your eidetic recall again. Did it work?
Female voice: I had to put the cat there myself!
Aw, tough! [laughter]
How is yours handling?
Female voice: It shifted. Sometimes it's all right and then it ran away a bit. You know…
All right.
Think of a horse and then jump up in front of you as a horse.
Female voice: The horse jump up in front of you?
You be the picture of the horse that jumps up in front of you now. Got that?
Female voice: Yeah.
All right. Throw that away. You can be yourself again.
All right. Now think of a cat and then be a cat – picture of a cat in front of you.
Now let's be a machine that just deals out pictures and just anxiously sit there and wait for somebody to think of something so you can deal them a picture.
Now just be that machine there, dealing pictures of horses and cats and so forth and get very serious about it. Just deal them up pictures in all directions there – hand out pictures, pictures.
And get how proud this makes you.
And get how mischievous this is of you.
And get how serious all this is.
And hand out some more pictures.
Okay. Be yourself.
Those are various methods used to untrigger automaticity. Now, let's test out eidetic recall again. Test it out. You have to give yourselves a picture now? Or…
Female voice: Mm-hm. It's not automatic anymore.
That's right and that is as it should be.
Female voice: Oh.
Second Female voice: I almost got it.
Third Female voice: I had to build a cat that time.
Good! Good! Sooner or later, just to be colloquial, some of you "cookies" are going to find out that you put mock-ups together sort of with your bare hands.
You don't say "cat" and then get a duplicate of the MEST universe.
You say, "Cat. Let's see now, a cat has ears, ears, uh, whiskers, eyes – forgot his front feet. Yeah, front feet, tail – Mm-hm-mm-hm-mm-hm – very nice cat! That's right, that's a nice cat – beat it!" [laughter] That's the way you make a mock-up,
You remember in the Doctorate tapes, I kept asking, "But where do the pearl buttons come from?" Hm? Remember? Well, chat's the question. And the question is answered – automaticity. But it's answered when you can be the machine.
You can go, yourself, through the operations of the machine and so invalidate it out of existence by paralleling it – duplicate it and run it out. Or you can simply be the machine and perform its actions. See? You just be the machine and do whatever the machine is doing.
Now, I'll show you how to handle these – you people, all too prone to test whether or not a process works by whether or not it kicks in your pain machine. You see that that's a little bit idiotic? You shouldn't have – you know, "It gave me a somatic so therefore I am getting along and my case is improving." Well, sure enough it's a communication change, but it's rather unreasonable.
We're running a process which puts terminals apart and the preclear gets a somatic. Well, this is whether or not his automatic machine for somatics is kicking on and off. See? I mean it's an unreasonable assumption.
Gee, there's an awfully dead silence follows that. What's the matter?
Female voice: We've alt got a pain – I'm sick.
All of you have been doing that, haven't you?
Audience: Yes.
Well, that's why I ran this last hour or so that I've been working on – is just to bring up to a large degree this point of you've got to postulate an effect to have an effect. Postulate any time an effect turns up automatically and if some effect is occurring automatically and continually and so forth, why, it started out originally because the preclear got into some kind of trouble or he couldn't, so on, trust himself. You'll find most preclears aren't operating well because they can't trust themselves.
Well, it's rather interesting that they instinctively single this one out. They say they can't trust other people and so forth, but if you barrel down the line and ask them real close, they'll tell you, well, they can't trust themselves. Well, if they can't trust themselves, they are recognizing the fact that they are setting up their own automatic machinery.
Now, I've tried to show you that. Now, here's a remedy for this automatic pain machine, is, "Now be a machine." And when I say, "Be a machine," I mean be a box of wheels and cogs and, you know, anything that's a machine, you know?
Now be a machine and start dealing out somatics to a body.
Just go about it in a workmanlike, emotionless basis – just deal somatics out to the body at random.
All right. Now be yourself receiving somatics from a machine.
Now be the machine dealing out somatics to the body. (I don't care whether these somatics are actual or just conceptual. I just want to get the point across.)
Now be yourself receiving somatics from the machine.
Now have the machine let go and you let go.
Okay, did you do that?
Well, you realize you depend on pain or somatics to tell you when to let go? And a preclear who can't let go of things, like let go of bodies, is simply depending on his own automaticity to let go and it's pain that tells him to let go and that's his automatic warning signal, that's called an automatic alarm system. So he knows something is happening because he gets an automatic alarm. So you know something is happening in your case because you get an automatic alarm. But what your auditor should know right at that juncture, and he should know very clearly indeed, is a very simple thing: that this preclear is depending upon an automatic alarm system rather than looking at his environment to find out if he's going to get shot.
Now, you say it's unreasonable to suppose that you should be able to see a four thousand, four hundred foot-per-second bullet coming in towards you, in time to move the body. That is unreasonable to suppose that, isn't it? It's even unreasonable to suppose that you will know that when you went around the corner, you would be hit by another car. That's unreasonable to suppose that, isn't it? Well, that's the trouble with it, it's "unreasonable." And the individual who is depending upon reason isn't depending on knowingness. Reason is a covert method of knowing.
All right. Let's get prediction and we find out the individual can predict. But let's just take lookingness and we find out that the individual who can't see a bullet coming in at forty-four hundred feet-per-second, dragging its heels, loafing on the way, hitting air friction the whole time and it's only traveling ten feet and you mean to tell me that this character's reaction time is going to be so slow that he cannot move his body aside a foot or two from the time that bullet leaves the muzzle of the rifle and arrives in the body.
And you're going to tell me that this person is going to be in good shape, huh? Well, he's in horrible condition.
How fast should your reaction time be? Your reaction time should be fast enough to unmaterialize and rematerialize a thousand miles away, instantaneously. You shoot at that, huh, instead of trying to get three feet back of your head and we'll be making some progress around here.
Audience: Oh!
Let's don't move this body aside, let's unmaterialize it and rematerialize it.
For instance, my maid can park a car in a parking lot – a car which never had a scratch on it – and can park it in the parking lot at the theater, (Never had any processing, she wouldn't know what it was all about.) And she can actually park it there, see, and not-know that the car next to her was going to back out and smash in its left-hand rear spat. She would consider it unreasonable of you to assume that she wouldn't know this. Well, it's unreasonable of me not to know that she would take it down there and do that too. But the funny part of it is, I knew she would do that. And the funny part of it is, it doesn't happen to be important if the left-hand rear spat of a car is pushed in, particularly if you've localized it to the spat. And if you'll go out and look at that, you'll find out that the spat is very carefully crushed, but nothing else is crushed. So she's had her accident because she always knew she was going to have an accident, so we had to be right.
Well, out of such intricacies, we only get trouble if we consider that these things are terribly bad that happen. And do you know that if you prevented everything bad from happening across the length and breadth of the United States, you would get absolutely no change. You'd get nothing to prevent, nothing to crusade against, nothing to get mad about, nothing to get upset about and nothing to get interested in.
So the thing has two virtues. But when the virtue slumps over to a point where you depend entirely upon reason and it becomes "an Age of Reason" – which is an entirely covert age – and when it gets over to the point where nobody has enough freedom to have any fun, why then, we'd better balance the books the other way. And that's precisely, really, what we're doing. We'll shove them over to a point where there's a little more action envisioned.
Now, you can actually have a war with individuals who can dematerialize and rematerialize themselves a thousand miles away. Only I'm afraid the general staff would have to be a lot brainier than most general staffs. Eh? You can think of how you would campaign against such a set of troops. I myself would do it with women, [laughter] But boy, it'd be an interesting war.
Well, did you learn anything this morning?
Audience: [various responses]
Female voice: I learned I have a hell of an automatic machinery.
What is it?
Female voice: I've got to start to think that I'm going to think before I think and then I have to think that I have to repair the machine before I can recall what I just "thunk." [laughter]
Well, we have a little motto – we have a motto and it reads as follows: An automatic machinery is better suspected than not known, [laughter]
Okay. Is your case in any better condition?
Audience: Mm-hm.
Good.
Female voice: Definitely.
Good.
Now, when you are processing, you watch for these automaticities, huh? And you know now – I've been giving you the number of ways you undo them.
Now, for instance, Conway over here is fogging around about what she ought to do about this machine.
[to student] Now, what you do about this machine?
Female voice: I would recognize it's a machine and have it to make her do things and her reverse machine do things and build a machine that would do things for her machine again.
Mm-hm, very good.
Female voice: Okay, and know the technique to make me do it.
Okay.
[to student] What would you do about it?
Male voice: Well, make the machine obey< my orders, make it make me obey its orders. Then straightaway make it invisible, hide it, keep it there. Play around…
Okay.
Now, that which you can control you do not have to be afraid of. Isn't that right?
Female voice: Mm-hm.
Control is to start, stop and change. So you have another method of handling automatic machinery besides beingness. You can start one, slow it down, speed it up. For instance, if a person on eidetic recall was having an awful time – you know the things just kept popping up anyhow – and you'd been auditing them for this long time of about ten, fifteen minutes and you weren't getting much change and so forth, why, just have him make them pop up faster, you know? And then make them pop up slower and then, like we did to these machines, you say, "Get an orange." "Now think of an orange and get a picture of an apple." Dzzzt! You changed the machine, you see?
Now, the change itself is start, stop and change. You can duplicate the machine, that's one. Whole field there – duplicate it and be it; start it, stop it, change it; make it operate, make it operate doubly, make three machines operate when only one is supposed to be operating.
You can get an Operating Thetan, by the way, to create three consecutive buildings and be in them, three consecutive places, with three consecutive sets of furniture all,
by the way, in the same space – which is quite a trick, you know? Simply because he just knows that they're all in the same space and the conditions with which he's setting up the situation is that all these three buildings are different buildings in different spaces which occupy the same space and that's why he can differentiate between them so well, because they're all occupying the same space. And they're perfectly reasonable to him, because you see there's nothing quite as reasonable as unreason.
Probably the wisest philosopher that ever wrote was Lewis Carroll, [laughter] Okay, let's have lunch.
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