Exteriorization from Masses (cont.) (3ACC 540108)
Series: 3rd Advanced Clinical Course (3ACC)
Date: 8 January 1954
Speaker: L. Ron Hubbard
A lecture given by L. Ron Hubbard on the 8 January 1954
Well, the cultural level of the society is good, because there have been a lot of good entrepreneurs, and this is newly – just a very short time ago was a pioneer society. But here's this boy, in other words, he can't exteriorize from the family. See, he can't move out of that mass when he wants to. Because it's sort of automatically set up with the GE that the child exteriorizes in the early teens. He can't move out of that mass and he goes enforcedly into the next mass and, of course, because of the DEI cycle, why, he begins to think he desires it. You know, he thinks he wants to stay around and he thinks he wants to be in school or something of the sort.
Then all of a sudden, he's made all of these friends, you see, and he's had all these massive stadiums and football buildings and other athletic activities and he's even been in a class or two and, suddenly, he leaves his gang, he leaves the mass of buildings, he leaves the alma mater. He sits around and wonders what the hell has happened to him.
You see, he couldn't leave his family when he was supposed to and follow the cycle and he couldn't leave school early and he finally gets to the point of where he's got to make the best of it and then he decides that he more or less wants it. This is enforced havingness, you see? And then, all of a sudden, arbitrary time factor comes along and boots him out of this whole mass of masonry and the family and everything else. And they say, "Now, you're educated. You're grown up now. Now be on your way" – after years and years and years of educating him to believe that he's a boy. There's no truth involved in this. You can tell a five-year-old child he's grown up and he'll start acting like a grown-up. You think he's worse off because of this? No, he's not.
So we exteriorize him suddenly, then, from family, masonry, everything, we tell him he's got to go out and have a job, all of his friends are gone, all of a sudden, the guy goes blah. He doesn't know what's happened to him. Here he is. And that's a problem in terminals. It's the only reason I brought it up, see? He is a small terminal and he separates from this big massive terminal and his self-respect goes.
Well now, a person only starts accumulating mass when it's forced upon him. He only starts desiring mass when it's forced upon him, actually. He'd just as soon make mock-ups and make things and throw them away. Oh, he'd go on doing this on and on and on, be perfectly happy with it. He doesn't wear out. It's when he makes something and it's smashed back at him, then he thinks he wants it. Why? Because he can't get rid of it, so he adjusts his mind to having it.
Well, you look down the life of a preclear – now we're talking in assessment – and you look down the life of the preclear and find out what heavy masses he has lost. And we'll find out that those are the moments of degradation.
I well remember a preclear I processed who had been a pilot in the war. One of these fairly heavy, big night fighters, you know, they're very massive, they're, you might say, almost a pursuit plane, but there's a terrific amount of mass connected with one of these things. And boy, that guy had been disenfranchised of that piece of machinery and mass and his squadron and the US Army Air Forces and the works, all in the space of a couple of seconds. A Messerschmitt practically shot him out of the sky and he bailed out instantly on a "don't-knowingness" – you know, he didn't quite know how he got out of that plane. And he landed and found himself in an enemy hospital and they took good care of him. And ever since, he'd felt degraded and upset.
Now, we can go into the values of overt act-motivator sequence. Well, he probably shot down somebody just before he was shot down. We could get it at that, you see, and you could figure it out that way and get some resolution on the case and he'd feel better. Or we could run it on he just didn't know how he got out of the airplane. We could run that and we could fix it so he didn't care whether he knew how he got out of the airplane or not or we could actually run the engram and get him out of the airplane. Well, there would be that one, there would be that mass.
Now, we could run his childhood about times when he was chastised about breaking window glasses or something and we could probably get some more rather obtuse significance and so forth out of that. In other words, we could run this in numerous ways and we can get some alleviation on the case so the fellow could still mote. We could solve some family problems. We could solve almost anything and get an improvement on the case.
But what is the most basic thing wrong with the case? The most basic thing wrong would be that this individual has been educated by having mass enforced upon him. He's been made to believe that he wanted mass and that he depended upon mass for his power. Now, that's happened somewhere on the track. And the next point is, is where did he lose the biggest bunch of mass, the quickest? Because that would be a sudden exteriorization and the suddenness of it would take the most away from him. See?
Now, loss of mass is proportional to the time in which it is lost. Now, you can lose a little tiny bit of mass awfully fast, you know, and it will assume the proportions of having lost a big mass slowly. We won't go into the deep significance of this, but you could add this up, actually, and it's just a problem in losses of spaces. How fast can you lose spaces?
Well, all of our preclears with whom we have any trouble have, one, been sold on the idea that they had to have. Things have been pushed back at them enough so that they feel they have to have. Now, that to some degree, that's solved by solving the automaticity of it. You know, fixing himself up so he'll want things. "I want to want things" is the automaticity. He solves this.
Well, the other point that we can make with relationship to this, is a very simple one right along with that and that is, is where did he lose his most mass? Where did most mass disappear? Now, that would be solved by any technique which exteriorized him from mass and got him over the idea that exteriorization from mass was degrading. And I ran the sample technique on you yesterday.
Now, you can make a person exteriorize from anything. You can do it by Creative Processing. You can exteriorize him and push him back into things. Let's exteriorize him from the family and push him back in. Exteriorize him, push him back in.
Now, how do you do this? You mock-up a dot of light – remember he's not a body, he's a dot of light, if anything – and you exteriorize this from any mass he's been connected with on any dynamic. And you run the cycle so as to put him in charge of this, because it's all added up to an automaticity. In such a way, you could exteriorize him just loosely and limitedly from his past.
If a person has his past thrown up at him often enough, he will begin to believe, after a while, that he wants his past. And then after that, why, he'll try to hold on to his past and he'll invent various means, such as the manufacture of facsimiles, in order to have his past.
All right. So you could just loosely have him put a mass out there and say, "This is the past." "All right." Now have a dot of light come out of it." "Now have the dot of light feel degraded." "Now push the dot of light back in on it again or push the mass at the dot of light until it engulfs it."
Now, any kind of a process would work. You'd say, "Put out your past out there." "Now exteriorize yourself out of it as a dot of light." "Now have somebody come along and push your past around you." "Now exteriorize you from your past." "Now have somebody push the past around you." "Now exteriorize from your past and have somebody push your past around you again."
And boy, you would get the most – you will get the most interestingly degraded feelings on the part of the preclear. You'll get contempt and degradation and lack of self-respect and everything.
Now, you can take your childhood home, exteriorize him from the childhood home, then have somebody push the childhood home around him again. Or you can just have him pushed back into the childhood home. Any kind of a combination of separating terminals, in other words, solves this. And you just do it in terms of mock-up and you'll rehabilitate the person's belief in his ability to actually get away from a mass and stay away from it.
Now, there are very, very low-level techniques on this. You make the individual (these are long techniques), you make the individual take his body out of something and then have him decide that he needs it and get back into it – like a room, a car, a theater, anything. You could run this, really, still in the body, dramatizing it. Make him dramatize it until the automaticity is keyed-out. But you'd only do this on somebody who couldn't even vaguely get the elementary engram of exteriorization of a dot of light. The fellow can't get a dot of light. Well, that case is pretty bad off if he can't get a little dot of light of one kind or another. Well, you see how that would work? Hm?
Okay. And any point of degradation in an individual's life had – it was attended with the loss of mass. One of the many solutions to this problem is to have him get the idea of the mass and then have him stick himself out of it. And then have the mass shoved back around him again. And then have him out of it again. And then have it shoved around him and so forth. Or have him out of it and back into it. Then you could key-out the basic automaticities.
Of course, this follows that one of the most basic and intimate things that he's had shoved back at him an awful lot of times has been a body. And as a consequence, why, he can't exteriorize easily. The basic reason for this is that he feels that he has to have. If he has to have, why, he thinks havingness will bring him happiness. And just because the words sound alike is no reason there's any truth in it.
You want your preclear to be able to develop energy and to create. His total power, his ability to hold his automatic machinery in place, his ability to pick up comm speed, his ability to do any of these things that you want him to do depends basically upon his ability to create – to create energy. If he can create space and create energy, why, he can do all sorts of things. He can do anything, if he can do these two things.
Now, remember while you're running this, that he's also been fixed in mass. And this lops over into granting of beingness. Every time he's granted beingness to something, he's actually fixed some of his own beingness in a piece of mass. He's personalized a doll, he's personalized possessions and so forth. He has interiorized and fixed something and it gets to be a stuck flow. He wants an ID in something.
So therefore, the creation of symbols, continuous creation of symbols, the granting of beingness to symbols and so forth, will eventually wind up where the individual feels that he wants symbols, has to have them and, therefore, he can't exteriorize from them.
Have somebody mock-up the English language some time and have it pushed up and down the road. You know, move if around as a total postulate – the English language. Have him move it around with bulldozers and trucks and then have him slop it around with a feather. Then you get a total adequate process. It'll key-out all those symbols. Have him move the body around and so forth is another process. But this exteriorization and interiorization is very good.
Now, let's take it on the dynamics. The First Dynamic, that's rather easy. Have him exteriorize from a body. Second Dynamic, that isn't quite so easy But a very well-indicated process: you have him exteriorize from members of his own and opposite sex.
Now, let's take up very unique little problems on this. Let's take up a problem of a man and a woman. Let's take up the problem of a man and a woman. Now, here's a man. The injection of semen into the woman brings him into a position of granting beingness continually or putting life and so forth into the body of the woman. All right. We run this as an exteriorization from the body of the woman. You know, exteriorize him from the body of the women – his marital partners and sexual partners. Or an exteriorization from masses of semen. We get a considerable change of case. That's all, you just nail this down. Now, it would solve such things as masturbation and so forth.
Now, what is the score with a woman on this? Well, it's essentially the same problem, so we have to do this in brackets. And if you always exteriorize somebody – you know, have him run this little dot of light coming out of things, in brackets, why, we'll just gunshot the whole works on the thing. Have her exteriorize men from her, have her exteriorize herself from men and go right around.
Now, the problem of mass is just the problem of mass. And we realize that a body is a body, because everybody fiendishly is trying to suppress it from exuding anything.
Now, the problem with a body and the reason it is a body is it can't get rid of anything. It's not permitted to. Nearly every fluid or mass which a body tries to get rid of, one way or the other, is disdained by all other bodies.
And now let's take excreta as a mass problem. Here is an individual who has gotten rid of a tremendous amount of mass. Let's just take the gradual mass of excreta which has been put out by a body over a lifetime and, whether we like it or not, we find out that he has been granting beingness in that direction. And to be fair and to clear up a body situation, we would have to exteriorize him from excreta.
Now, we'd have to exteriorize him, too, from tears, from nasal mucous, from ear wax, from vomit. I am sorry that going over the list of things which a body puts out is all forbidden, because it's very bad for a body for all these things to be suppressed. The inhibition of the body getting rid of these things – it has to get rid of it in hiding, you have to get rid of these things privately, so forth. Anything that a body puts out is not supposed to be put out in the society. And that is why Man, as a mammal, only lives a part of his design span.
You know a mammal lives six times the length of maturity up to the time he comes up to puberty. He lives six times how long it takes him to come to puberty. And it's very remarkable that Man lags on this. His age is considerably less than this.
So Man, as a whole, suppresses everything which the body puts out. He's trying to keep the body from shining or trying to get rid of something or trying to get rid of things and so a body gets into a deplorable state of affairs. And if you find this a delicate subject or something that's very delicate that you have to process with a preclear or something you have to pat-a-cake around with, why, that's just a dramatization of what the society is trying to do to kill bodies. And there's no reason why we should pull a light hand on this just because the custom is that one doesn't mention such things.
Well, I tell you, let's put it this way: here's this fellow got an arrow shaft in him and if it's left there, it's going to work just a little bit deeper. And yet, we're living in a society that doesn't mention arrow shafts. And so, we sit alongside the sick man and sing him psalms or something, merely because we can't mention the fact that there's an arrow shaft right next to his heart and don't dare pull it out. Don't dare pull it out, because it's not moral to. Honest, it makes just as much sense as never addressing any of the body output. It's just as sensible.
You could have a moral, or something immoral or moral, anyway you want. You could have it immoral, for instance, to look at the top of stovepipes. And have people run great shame because they happened to see the top of a stovepipe, you know, and just feel terribly abased and be practically kicked out of the society.
But this feeling of degradation is the individual granting beingness continually and being forced to interiorize into, continually, masses which the body can't get rid of. So he begins to feel pretty limp after a while. He can't exteriorize, he isn't his own power anymore. So, the body becomes a sort of a trap for a thetan.
Now, I gave you an example of how you did this the other day, you just do it in brackets. You tell this preclear, "Al! right. Get the idea of some semen." "Now get you exteriorizing, a dot of light coming from the semen and feeling very degraded." See? "And then cheering up and…" Or, "having the mass pushed at you again and then exteriorizing" and "having the mass pushed at you" and "exteriorizing" and "having the mass pushed at you and exteriorizing" and "having the mass pushed at you." He'll run straight on through to a point where he'll finally change his mind and he'll see what the score is. And he'll all of a sudden say, "What the hell, I can exteriorize from that." And he'll be three feet back of his head with considerable certainty. Problem in masses.
Now, you can go back down his life and you find out that he'll have to be exteriorized from the past and he'll have to be exteriorized from the future and he'll have to be exteriorized from the childhood home and the state of Texas and any place else you can think of. And the damnedest thing will turn up: his past lives are bound up in this. His sudden exteriorizations from a body in the past, his sudden disenfranchisements of all of his possessions, have wiped him out on his memory. And so they've wiped out a large part of his knowingness,
And it is high time that you stopped thinking of a past life as an adventurous idea and as not valuable in therapy. If a fellow has had a thousand lives and he can only remember a fragment of this one, the thousandth, his knowingness, unfortunately, is cut down by the factor of one thousand. And our business is not to believe or disbelieve or do something, we're supposed to be working with a certain set of tools and carrying along with these problems, up to a point where we can do something very valuable with it.
Now, it is an unnatural and damn near psychotic state for a thetan not to be able to remember to a pinpoint exactly what he was doing in the year 1751, July 2nd, at 2:32 in the afternoon. Now, you run enough Straightwire on somebody and the next thing you know, you're straightwiring back into "Remember something real."
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You've got enough grief charges sitting on the case to keep you working, by running secondaries, till the end of time. What you want to do is just exteriorize him from tears or something of the sort. Get masses of tears and exteriorize him from them and so forth and here we go.
But the immediate goal here is to get him out of this body he's sitting in right here. So, that's the one you really specialize on with this process. And you run this till he's so sick of the idea of staying in one or getting out of one that – "Oh, to hell with it," see? I mean, just "Oh no! No more, please." And you run it again. Now do it in brackets. And the only thing this technique will hold up on is the fact that it isn't done in brackets and it isn't done long enough. And I'm sorry it isn't a shorter technique than it is, it's a long technique,
Now, these occluded cases, if you'll exteriorize them from the Black Horse Nebula, in Orion (it's a mass of black particles in the sky), if you'll exteriorize them from night and exteriorize them from dark rooms and exteriorize them from pots of printer's ink and from books, why, their visios will turn on. And this process is simply known as Exteriorization by Mock-ups.
You say a person can't get mock-ups, well, you'll have to handle that automaticity. You know, two kinds of automatic machines: one unmocks, the other mocks. A mock-up machine, an unmocker. A mocker and an unmocker. Those are the two kinds of machinery.
And you start running enough unmockers out of somebody… Well now, he's got machinery that runs to all of the corners of a bracket. His machinery normally applies to all parts of the brackets. And you don't really shuck a machine off until you've run a bracket on the machine. You know, you get somebody else getting rid of the machine and doing what's supposed to be done.
This fellow has a machine that unmocks bodies. All right. You have him busy installing one in himself and then somebody else installing one in himself and then somebody else installing one in somebody else and then somebody installing one in him and him installing one in somebody else. And you just run that bracket around and it won't hang up.
The reason for that is, is a very simple reason too. It's because you're putting the universe there all the time, if you don't run a bracket, you're not putting the other people. It's a very unnatural condition for you to be merely concerned with yourself. That's very unnatural. Mostly because if you can see somebody else, you have to mock him up.
Okay? You got a good grip on this subject now of terminals and losses of? If you'll try to evaluate life from that formula, all of a sudden, a terrific number of your own problems and why you don't feel quite up to snuff and why you feel degraded and all that – these things will just snap into line, just pang, pang, pang. You say, "Well, I'd never realized why, when I lost my husband (or I lost my wife or I lost my father or something like that), I just never could figure out why it was so violent" or something. Well, here was a big mass and you lost it. And when you lost it, you had granted it beingness.
In order to lose something that is upsetting to you, you have to have granted it beingness in the first place. That's the best thing a thetan does. You shouldn't check granting of beingness on any thetan, he grants beingness to everything. If left to his own devices, he would be going around with that old pepper shaker that they used to have there in the Woodman of Oz, you know? And saltshaker or something – they'd shake it on a scarecrow or shake it on something else and it would immediately come to life. Oh, a thetan does this all the time, he'll even go down to a point where he grants beingness to a pack of cigarettes. Then he figures that nothing is his and he didn't create anything unless he granted beingness to it. That's a real big confusion.
The truth of the matter is, he's "granting beingness to" all the time, but how much? He's always on a gradient scale of beingness. Those things he considers "They're mine! They're really mine" when he first runs into this, why, it's because he's granted all this beingness to a couple of objects or something.
You'll find out somebody will be real unhappy with some new possession sometimes. Well, it's a matter of his granting beingness or being unwilling to grant beingness to it or he's waiting for somebody else to grant beingness to it. You start running a person, exteriorize him from his various possessions and you'll run into the most interesting stuff.
You see he can be duplicated unlimitedly, so you're not really exteriorizing anything false from this object. You are actually exteriorizing a piece of him. See, it isn't a mocked-up dot of light – you'll think it is, but it isn't. You're really exteriorizing him and there's where Creative Processing crosses with what we call reality. Right on that point. You start exteriorizing him, for instance, from all the bathrooms he's ever been in. That's an interesting process. It'll do more to straighten out the body habits and conditions and so on and, boy, by golly, all of a sudden he'll begin to feel much better and so on.
Now, another thing is, you exteriorize him and have him let go. You know, exteriorize him from all the furniture he's had – some particular patch of furniture or something like that – exteriorize him and then have him let go of it. All of a sudden, there'll be crackles and pops that look tike an electric storm going on. It's really an electric storm. It isn't any mock-up. It's an automaticity, sure, and you could handle it as an automaticity and sometimes you have to. The case stops proceeding, why, just, "What automaticity has just occurred?"
"Well none occurred today, but when you were processing me three days ago, there was this large ball of energy came passing by my head and I've thought about it several times since."
The case hasn't made any progress for three days, see? So, he just never mentioned this, you just didn't pick it up, you didn't nag him enough. So you have him get a ball of energy whiz by his head a few times and all of a sudden his case is advancing again.
Okay. Do you dig this? Hm?
All right. Well, let's work with it.
Now, SOP 8-C (special Congress edition) is, in essence, a piece of work for public H consumption. No auditor is worth his salt who needs a rote procedure. If he can't process directly from fundamentals, he ought to quit. That rote procedure is there to show you how it's done and it's there to help you prevent yourself from diving to produce some kind of a maximum effect all the time until you really get over the humps.
You'll find out that quite a little bit of running of this will actually (well, I don't know, not too much running of it), will break a fellow out of quite a few neurotic impulses, to say nothing of psychotic impulses.
Take this Opening Procedure, by the way. if you were to take Opening Procedure and follow it with the next-to-the-last list of Self Analysis for a little while, you'd start getting someplace. And if then you decided there was still something wrong with the guy's certainty or the girl's certainty, why, you have them kick a few walls, you know? In other words, you'd use light techniques and you'd go on.
But your latitude gets wider, the more you know of fundamentals. The time for your latitude not to be wide is when you are not entirely cognizant of fundamentals. You understand that? The time when you get a hundred down the line on such a quiz as I gave you yesterday, is time for you to get all sorts of – very inventive. That's because you'll know the basic fundamentals. Now, up to that time, let's stay pretty close to home as far as
these techniques are concerned. Because these techniques are built on the fundamentals and until you see how they are built on the fundamentals, why, you better use them.
Now, Opening Procedure has tremendous number of variation. I was showing somebody the other day – he probably thought I was doing that just to louse up his preclear, but the main thing I was doing was just showing him there were some variations, he could vary all over the shop with making somebody go places and do things. There are lots of things he could do. You can even try to exteriorize somebody. As a matter of fact, all due respect to the fact, in spite of the fact the preclear is listening right now, what we did come up with – we came up with a tremendous piece of uncertainty there. We really got it out that this was real uncertain. See, that they just didn't have much certainty on anything. That right?
And such an uncertainty would immediately go back to probably there's some kind of a present time, weird, some kind of a problem kicking around on this case. And we have to sit back and think for a moment – look.
Yeah, but there is a problem on any such case, that must be some kind of a weird problem and some kind of a light process on something or other might solve it very easily. Now, it might be such a problem as – the first thing I ever look at is a guy's name. That's the first thing I look at. Yeah. And I find that normally this is used by pushing the postulate around, you know? Just put the name up there and all variations and nicknames and maiden names and so forth and just shove them all around and shove them around and shove them around, until they desensitize. Well, sometimes they're not just going to, that's all, they're sticky, they're very hard. So you have him exteriorize himself from the commodity which he's named after. You get the idea? You can turn around and run that on him sometimes and get a tremendous result.
Let's say a certain person's name was Rock and… [laughter]
Female voice: Are you being personal?
No! No. You'd mock-up a rock and exteriorize the person from a rock for a while. Yeah. Or let's say the person's name was Hayes. Well, gee, Hay, Hays, Haze. Let's see. It's what the preclear makes out of it, not what you make out of it. He'll make the damnedest things out of his name, by the way, oh, he's got deep significance on it. And it might escape you entirely, that he had to be exteriorized from horses. You see, if his name was Hay and he kept getting eaten, he's obviously in a horse. He'll figure this out all by himself.
Now, they go much further afield. There are people whose names tell them they have to win, they have to excel. People whose names tell them they have to lose, people whose names tell them they can't start, that they can't stop, all kinds of things like that. People whose names tell them they have to be letter-perfect.
Oh, I guess that's about all I can tell you at the moment. I've cut into your first auditing period again, but not very much. So, I would go ahead then, using Opening Procedure and using Step la, but with allowable procedures. Now, in personal auditing sessions, we'll just open them up a little bit wider, allowable procedures: next-to-the-last list of Self Analysis, Six Steps to Better Beingness and Exteriorization from Commodity, with the emphasis on exteriorization.
Now, we're not behind schedule, we're ahead of schedule, but we'd better get exteriorization down pat. Now, you get your preclear outside and then you tell him to look at a body – if you get him outside and tell him he has to find something specifically, you get him outside and start chasing him around the universe and finding fault with him or racking him around, remember you're handling somebody who has been disgraced because he's been exteriorized. And he's very, very susceptible to invalidation. So when you get a preclear nicely exteriorized by the means of Exteriorization by Mock-up, you turn around and you run Step la. That's what you do. The second you get somebody exteriorized, Step la.
You can even do it just as crudely as, "All right. Be three feet back of your head." "Now, give me three places where you're not." "Three places where you're not thinking," so forth. But let's stay in the material there in Step la. And that will save us from having to patch up some cases.
Now, I'll tell you what happened to one girl. She was very, very shaky Step III. Somebody got her outside and then they started saying – she had two auditors and I don't know why they ganged up on her, but they obviously did. They started telling her to go get a book here and to go over and touch this and that and she couldn't see these things in the room. Her time span was all messed up. She didn't know whether she was – she was certain she was out, but she wasn't quite certain where she was exactly in the room. And yet, they were asking her to go find objects and then asking her to look at the body. You could ask a preclear to look at mock-ups of his body, but don't ask him to look at his body.
You take this little kid, see, I mean this three-year-old kid and you finally coax him into walking outside. It's the first time he's ever been out of the house under his own power. And then you turn on him and you say, "Well, now go turn on the hose and water the front lawn." And you say this to him and you expect him to do it. And he starts to wander off and play at something or something of the sort. And you say, "No, no, no, no! You go-now-let's-let's-go find that hose and turn it on the front lawn." He doesn't even know the word!
The first thing you know, he's going to be pretty baffled, just to what you're up to. Well, that's what a preclear does. He's in a delicate frame of mind when he exteriorizes, poor fellow. I'd be in a delicate frame of mind if I interiorized, believe me. The way this mock-up has been kicking around here and no rest and on the flat run,
All right. Let's do this: let's take ten and then audit – just take ten and then audit twice as fast so as to make up for the lost periods this period is getting. But okay, let's take those ten minutes.
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