Two Types of Case (7ACC 540712)
Series: 7th Advanced Clinical Course (7ACC)
Date: 12 July 1954
Speaker: L. Ron Hubbard
Okay. Let's talk now about two types of case – two types of case. You might think there's just one type of case, but this is not true. A person who thinks there's just one type of case is enmeshed in his own.
The two types of case in which we're interested are these: the person who can exteriorize easily and the person who can't. We're interested in those two types of case. It's the only two types we're interested in today.
We're not interested in the degree of, any more than we're interested in the degree of when they go three feet back of their heads. If we were interested in that, we'd find there was far more fascinating data in that (the ease with which people step three feet in back of their heads), there's far more data and things to be learned in that than there is in how resistive is he to stepping three feet back of his head.
Now, we're actually talking then from the top to the bottom of the whole case span – ease of exteriorization. And we're just cutting this in half on this command: "Be three feet back of your head" – the guy is not, he belongs to Route 2, second category, or if he is, he belongs to Route 1, first category. This is all we're interested in.
First category: that's fine, he's three feet back of his head, we go on from there or he isn't three feet back of his head, well we go on elsewhere.
Now, there's a secondary manifestation of this. The person who isn't going to step three feet back of the head is badly enmeshed in energy and this is going to demonstrate itself on a slow uptake on ARC Straightwire. So we're going to ask somebody, "You remember something really real" and what he's really telling us is, "I will not be three feet back of my head" or "I will be three feet back of my head." See? He's got a comm. lag, he isn't going to be; no comm lag, he is going to be.
So, we don't have to give him a failure today. You very often process somebody and ask him, "Be three feet back of his head" several times and he'll finally make up his mind that he can't be. And after that, he's a little more difficult to process. So instead of giving him this failure, let's be covert about it and let's use the primary sign of it: how badly enmeshed in energy is he? All right, this is going to manifest itself by a communication lag on ARC Straightwire. So therefore, we'll make that test and save ourselves a little grief on that. So, you could say, "Did he have a communication lag then on ARC Straightwire or didn't he?" All right.
If he had a communication lag, he belongs to class 2; if he didn't have a noticeable communication lag, he belongs to class 1. So, we can adjudicate at that point.
Now, it is true – this is true – that very often somebody will have a noticeable communication lag on ARC Straightwire who yet would be capable of getting a foot or two back of his head and then maybe staying there, maybe not, but he could sneak out and maybe snap back in. But this is the case that processing itself will better whether they're outside or inside.
You see, let's get over the idea that a continuous processing inside the body sticks somebody harder. This is not necessarily true, unless that processing is simply kicking into being tremendous masses of energy and is mauling around energy.
Today we're not trying to use processes which maul around energy. We're trying to put the thetan in immediate control of the body. And we're trying to string a straight wire from cause to effect with the thetan at cause and the body at effect. And if you do this, then, without chewing up a whole lot of energy, why, it just happens quite rapidly that this person would exteriorize even more easily whether you ask them to be three feet back of their head or not.
Well, the processes which you're using on Route 2 are designed to make a person command and control his body. And he will leave his body to the degree that he can control his body. Therefore, if he knows he's in command of his body, he will leave it much more easily. So, all your processes are going in the direction of making an individual tolerate that viewpoint which is exerting control over the environment whether that environment includes a body or otherwise – we don't care.
Now, these two Routes, then, are simply exteriorization, degree of and they are no more complex than that. And we discover that some people, when you say, "Be three feet back of your head," exteriorize as practically Operating Thetans, and others exteriorize, well as – the hospital ceiling and the Union Station floor and the furniture is the furniture of life before last. But they're there and that's about all you are really interested in is that they're there. You just process them from there, regardless: "Whatever you are looking at."
Now, that's why you say, "Whatever you are looking at." You say, "Whatever you're looking at." Be very, very clear about that. He is three feet back of his head, you say "Now what are you looking at?" And he says something or so on. "Well, whatever you're looking at, duplicate it." "And duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it and take all the duplicates and pull them together and eat them up or anything you care to." You can remedy his havingness with these duplicates.
Now, you would make a mistake if this person seemed to be pretty badly enmeshed with energy. You would make a mistake by failing to run the step called R1-5 sufficiently long.
You see, you could make that mistake very easily. You could say, "Well, we're just going to process according to rote here and we're just going to have him duplicate it about twenty times. And then, we'll have him get a nothingness and duplicate that about twenty times," Oh, no, you don't. No, no, no, no.
What happens to somebody who tries to find a nothing who is awfully short on havingness?
Now, I gave you a demonstration of that the other day. Did you notice that demonstration? Well, I did that with malice aforethought.
The point here, whatever the preclear happens to be looking at is something which he conceives to be safe to perceive. Whether or not it is a mass of black energy or whether or not it's a facsimile, he must conceive that this is safe to see.
Well, so you haven't strained him at all, have you? You said, "Well, if that's so safe to see, duplicate it." And you're taking something there that he can see and you're saying, "Duplicate it." And now you're going to directly remedy duplication. And you can use that, then, to directly remedy havingness.
And if he is kind of uncertain and upset, well, make sure that you just have him go on duplicating this because you're going to remedy his havingness.
And you can practically establish how far he's going to be out of his body or into it at the end of ten minutes processing by the amount of havingness which you remedy on that thetan. If there's any question about it at all, you can directly monitor how well off he's going to be by the amount of havingness which you have him create. You can directly monitor it.
In other words, you can process him in such a way – I tried to show you that the other day – monitor that in such a way that you have him look at enough nothings. In other words, no havingness, reduce havingness, reduce havingness, and he'll just get closer and closer and closer to the body, and closer and closer and closer and bing! In he'll go.
But if we had him duplicate and duplicate and duplicate and duplicate and duplicate and then, for variation, duplicate some more. And all we varied in the technique was, after he came off of a comm lag on whatever he was looking at, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it, duplicate it and then finally – he seemed to be doing it very easily, you'd say, "Push them all together now and pull them in on yourself." "Well, that's fine. Now, what are you looking at?"
"Oh, so-and-so,"
"Well, all right. Duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it." In other words, you could just keep on running this step if there was any question about the person's havingness. You just could keep on running that step, just on and on and on and on and on, until the person could exteriorize out there about five miles. What is this? You mean, the tolerance of the preclear from himself to the body has a relationship with the amount of havingness of the thetan? Oh, boy, you said it! It not only has a relationship, that is it
Why is he so close to the body? Well, why is he in the body? He has a scarcity of havingness for which the body makes up.
And therefore as his appetite – his havingness – is remedied, he therefore could be more and more relaxed about going off and leaving that body, naturally. Well, that's just one manifestation.
So, with his havingness in beautiful condition, he could be billions of light-years away with complete reality. But if his havingness is in bad condition, he might be able to exteriorize a foot and a half, but at five feet would begin to be anxious and demonstrate a considerable anxiety.
His own havingness is insufficient to permit him to tolerate any distance to havingness.
Now, how about these people who snap terminals? What is snapping terminals in the first place? A terminal, of course, is an electrode. You have them in electric motors.
You're feeling perfectly happy and cheerful and you're not bothering anybody; you're minding your own business and all of a sudden, bong! Somebody is standing up with his nose almost pushed into your nose saying entheta, entheta, entheta, entheta, entheta, entheta, you know. I mean, he's saying, "It's all bad over there, it's all bad over there, it's all bad over there, it's all …" What's happened here?
Somebody snapped terminals on you, that's what's happened. In other words, this person looked at you as mass and couldn't tolerate this much distance between himself as mass and you as mass. Well, this person that snaps the terminal, would be no more able to exteriorize – he'd just have an awful time on exteriorization. Why? Anxiety about havingness, that's all.
You watch these people snapping terminals on you. As a matter of fact, police officers have this very, very badly. I'm not joking now. I mean, they do have this very, very badly – the havingness of a person who has to get into the control energy line, whose havingness acceptance level is criminal. Kind of peculiar, isn't it? And they love to snap terminals on you. No police officer ever takes down your license plate, you know, and sends you a letter saying, "Next time don't drive so fast." Or he doesn't give you a ticket through the mails after he's noticed this or anything of the sort. No, he's got to close terminals on you. He's got to get right up there and get his foot on your running board (which is difficult today when cars don't have any running boards) and he's got to look you in the face real tight.
Matter of fact, I had an awful laugh at a fellow one time. He had to snap the keys out of the car, having made me sit sideways from the keys and so forth. He was a real peculiar cop. And then he phoned up and found out I was a special officer of the Los Angeles Police. He came back and gave me my keys, he was upset. He'd snapped terminals on something that wasn't acceptable to him – fellow officer. He thought it was a good, juicy criminal and you can eat those up, you see.
You get – these people will snap terminals on what they consider acceptable to them because that's havingness.
Now, let's stop looking at all of this big picture out here of the deep significance of the human psyche, you know. And let's stop looking at it on the basis of "It's all so counter-intricately involved that if anybody couldn't make more something out of it so they wouldn't know less, why, they would be foolish." Oh, you didn't follow that. Neither do you follow pieces of the human mind the way it's laid out, ordinarily.
Let's take this thetan – any thetan – and discover that he has a certain appetite for mass. And that appetite for mass might be represented by a person, people, bodies, or it might be fulfilled by cattle bodies or it might be fulfilled by plates of soup or a dirty house or a ramshackle car or something or the other. But in the final essence, all we are looking at is the acceptability to the thetan of mass. And he wants less desirable mass to the degree that he himself doesn't believe he can have mass.
If he had real good mass, it'd be taken away from him. So, he has real bad mass and hopes the boys will leave him alone – other thetans will leave him alone. Because after all, the mass he owns, it isn't so desirable. And he's liable to go around all the time and have this mass demonstrate that it's not desirable. It says, 'Tm sick, I'm tired, I can't get anything done, I have no social attributes, I'm a banker" – anything he could do to drive off other people off that mass while he's holding on to it. And the harder he's trying to drive them off by all these malmanifestations, he is holding on tighter himself and we get him very tightly and steeply interiorized, you know. Now, this is a question of mass. "How long can I keep it?" We don't care now whether we're talking about bodies or strawberry shortcake or clouds. A thetan will hold on to any one of these items. Every once in a while, you will find a thetan interiorized into a cloud and you'll say, "Well, this is a terrible thing, I mean, this poor thetan. He's been in this cloud all this time."
Poor thetan? Well, he'll tell you that was an awful cloud. Why does he tell you it was an awful cloud? That's so you won't take it away from him.
Any mass is better than no mass, however you want to figure it and cut it. Any mass is better than no mass. Just because a body is mobile, because it can talk, because it can be educated, because this and that can happen to it is no reason it's not mass. A body is something which can help a thetan to acquire mass. But the less mass he can acquire, why, the worse off he is. He has to have bad mass, he has to have a condition of affairs that will make it very difficult for anybody to take anything away from him. You show me somebody who is half an inch thick with coal dust wearing rags, driving a 1924 Breakdownmobile and living on a pittance, and I'll show you somebody that's stuck so tight in his head you'd have to get one of these apple corers to get him out.
Actually, that's what psychiatry has been doing; they haven't let the general public in on it. But they use those augers and bits to try to exteriorize people. Anyhow, this is real curious. He's so stuck. Now, how can he be so stuck? This is interesting, isn't it? How can he be so stuck? If he's this anxious about getting unstuck from this mass, how could he himself be stuck?
Well, let's just take a blunt look at it. He can't be. That's impossible. But he's just got to have all this real up close to him, you see, if he doesn't have all this mass. Now, if we looked around at the boarding houses and rooming houses of the world, we would discover in the more ratty ones, somebody holding down a room which is completely stacked with old rags, newspapers – junk, junk, junk, junk – clear on up to the ceiling. Everything filthy dirty. You'll find this person talking and acting in such a way as to repel other people and so on. What's this all about?
Well, they're holding on to this mass. And you'll find out they won't leave that room any oftener than they have to. They'll stick right close to that room.
Well, they can walk out of that room, can't they? Well, what would happen if a sanitation squad came along? Oh! They'd take all those newspapers and those dirty sheets and so forth. You might give this fellow a nice, big, spacious room – nice, big, spacious room, you know, and everything clean in it and so forth and the guy would get sick.
How sick would he get? He'd get just as sick as though you kept running nothing on a preclear, see? I don't compare these two people, but there's the same manifestation. He's just holding on to mass so, therefore, he has to interiorize into it.
And I suppose when they really get anxious about Earth, they go down to the center of Earth. I imagine there are a lot of thetans stuck at the center of Earth right now, not because they have to be but just because – look at all that mass – they've got to hang on to it.
In fact, I think that the whole invention of hell was to keep people from going down to the center of Earth and owning the whole thing, because that obviously was the last acceptable piece of mass to the Calvinists and so forth.
Now, hell, by the way, originally was merely the burning of Rome and that was accomplished in Nero's time by some criminals. Anyway. I know, I've read the police records. It wasn't Christians, anyhow. Wasn't that the Christians didn't want to do it. Yeah, it was a very interesting interrogation. I have to tell you about that sometime. Anyhow…
We get into the problem of havingness and we get into the problem of protection. And we get bad condition or repulsiveness as a mechanism of protection. Of what? Of havingness.
All right. What's this got to do with this thetan and why am I talking to all this degree about this poor thetan we've just exteriorized? Well, boy, you just better keep on duplicating things until you are quite well aware of the fact that this individual can go considerably distant with some reality. You'll find out this individual has an anxiety on things being taken away from him. And he can get up on the roof. And the whole town looks very real from the roof and he can see the chimney and he can see everything and it's just
swell, but don't ask him to go a half a mile away. The second you've asked him to go a half a mile away, oh, no, it's awfully unreal. See, anything he can really have is now a half a mile from him and that's just a little bit too far. He's liable to counter on this by interiorizing. Snap! And then say, "Well, you see, the reason I really had to interiorize uh … was because … uh … well… uh … the line snapped." Oh, they did, did they? It's a question of, look at all this mass.
Now, of course, anything which is alive has this same anxiety. And so we get a GE being hungry for mass. And of course, if a thetan is putting out any energy or has any mass, he'll snap in on a GE. Snap! So, we get the GE looking and acting like a trap. But I'm afraid the thetan is all too willing to be trapped because it means mass. He's got mass. All right.
In view of the fact, then, that our main consideration here is mass (havingness), and in view of the fact you will find things just as badly jammed in present time as the person doesn't have havingness – see, he will pick up his havingness in terms of facsimiles. He'll pull all his facsimiles into present time and pull them around him real tight just for lack of mass.
Therefore, our immediate problem when we exteriorize somebody may very well be a problem in mass. He didn't have any real noticeable lag in ARC Straightwire, he was three feet back of his head in a hurry and he appears to be all right but his perception isn't good. Oh, oh. He must be holding on to facsimiles.
Well, if his perception isn't good, he's probably holding on to facsimiles. What's this all about? Well, it must have to do with mass, right there. And the first, foremost and easiest way to remedy mass – I'll repeat that again – the first, foremost and easiest way to remedy mass – I'll repeat it again – the first, foremost and easiest way to remedy mass is duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, push them all together, pull them in. Duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, push them all together and pull them in. Duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, more and more and more and more and more and push them – " What are you looking at now?" "Okay. Duplicate it and duplicate it some more and some more and some more and some more and some more and some more and some more," "What are you looking at now?" "Well, duplicate that." And so on.
Proper auditing commands for that are very, very simple. It's simply, "What are you looking at?" "Okay. Get another one just like it." "And another one." "You making another one just like it? Now, you got that?" "Another one just like it." "And another one, just like that first one." "And another one." "All right, now duplicate it again." "Now duplicate it again, and again." "Now, you know what I mean with duplicate it. I mean, get one just like it." "And again and again." "Okay, now you say they're fading? Well, that's all right. Push them all together and pull them in on yourself." "Okay. You got that?" We had a little difficulty with that.
"Well, what are you looking at now?" "Good. Get another one just like it. Make one just like it. And duplicate it again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again." "All right. Push all those together and pull them in on yourself." "Now, did you do that all right?" He did that more easily.
"All right. What are you looking at now?" "Okay. Duplicate it." "And again and again and again and again and again." And you know what you'll find as you do this? You'll find the person will just go further and further and further from his body. He'll go right on out far away from his body.
Well, what if this was the only technique you had? Okay. You'd be in wonderful shape if that was the only technique you had. Here's how you would use it as the only one. [chuckling] Use it this way: you have the fellow sitting in the chair and you'd say, "What are you looking at?"
And he said, "I'm looking at you."
And you say, "Well, get a duplicate of me." "And another one and another one and another one and another one and another one and another one and another one."
And the fellow says, "Well, I can't get them that fast."
Well you say, "Weil, all right. Get them as fast as you can, now. Tell me when you've got this next one." "Get another duplicate of me and another duplicate of me. And another one and another one and another one and another one." "All right. Now, push all those duplicates together and pull them in on your head." "Now what you looking at?"
"Well, I'm looking at the window."
"All right. Get another one just like it." "And another one and another one and another one and another one. And then duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it. And push them all together and pull them in on your head." "Now what are you looking at?"
"Looking at the curtain."
"Okay. Duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it." And you know what would happen? I hate to tell you this, with all the sweat and strain that you've had with duplication on a lot of preclears, but about 75 percent of your preclears would simply duplicate themselves right out of their heads and duplicate themselves to three feet back of their heads and duplicate themselves to ten feet back of their heads just on this single command of "Whatever you're looking at, duplicate it and pull it in on you"
It's interesting, isn't it? Well, you say, "What'd happen to those fellows where it's all black?" Well, I don't know. Why don't you have them duplicate it being all black.
The technique says, "Whatever you're looking at." Well, so the fellow is looking at blackness. See if he can't duplicate that. As a matter of fact, I've had a lot of occluded preclears finally successfully duplicate blackness. I just worked with them until they could.
Well, if you only had that technique, it'd solve an awful lot of cases for you. "But wait a minute," you say, "a thetan is a nothingness and a perfect communication requests a duplication at effect-point of what came from cause-point. So, therefore, a nothingness would be far more fruitful, wouldn't it?" Well, you see, it's not necessarily true that a thetan is only a nothingness.
A thetan is something which can have something or nothing. And whereas a thetan with no mass communicates best to a no-mass area, a thetan who has mass communicates best to a mass area. And a thetan, obviously, if he can have anything, it would be mass. That's real obvious isn't it, I mean, if he can get stuck in a body he obviously has the mass of a body, doesn't he? There's nothing else going to be more alive around that body than he is. So we would have this as an "only one" procedure. Now let's get this very, very clear in our minds. We don't leave R1-5, part one: "Whatever the preclear happens to be looking at (do not direct his attention to anything) have him duplicate it one at a time, many many times." Second part of that is: "Then have him locate a nothingness and duplicate it many many times."
Whoa, you better not bother with that nothingness unless you're very, very sure that this person has got a pretty good grip on havingness.
Now, when you show him the nothingness, he'll start burning up havingness and so you can go down the rest of these steps here and chew up a lot of this havingness you just remedied, and you'll find out that you have to come right back here and remedy his havingness with duplicates again. He starts to get queasy, something of that sort – "What are you looking at now? Oh, you just snapped back in; it's all black. Okay. Duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it and duplicate it and pull it in on yourself." And you'll find him back out again.
The only reason he's ever in is an anxiety about mass. The thing that gets him out is remedy of that anxiety. Okay.
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