Scientology 0-8 1952 Chapter 18
Chapter 18
The summary technique of the running of the thetan is very simple and quick. The thetan is in apathy; therefore, like a child who will no longer ask for that which will not be given him, he negates as his fastest response.
The entire technique consists of getting the thetan out of the body immediately, unburdening some of the sympathy for the body, and by running brackets, using the sub-zero tone scale, bringing him up to complete self-determinism at which time he can handle the body with great ease.
As far as psychosomatic illnesses are concerned— derangement’s of the body, malformations, malfunctions— the thetan can care for these with great ease once he has been brought up the tone scale. He will care for them automatically and put the body into excellent condition.
That most thetans, the moment they find themselves out of the body, desire to have nothing further to do with it, is an aberrated condition, just as it is an aberrated condition for a thetan to be fixed on having nothing to do with anything but bodies. One runs each point of the sub-zero scale as a dichotomy, which is to say, punishment-no punishment, owning-not owning, controlling-not controlling, being-not being. He runs these as concepts. He runs them most opportunely with the thetan outside the body, for the thetan then is not enturbulated by all the facsimiles and ridges which he finds in his vicinity.
The technique is as follows:
The preclear is asked to be or not be a short distance behind his head. From this position, he is then asked to feel a very little bit of sympathy for the body. (Feeling too much may make the preclear feel as though his head were being torn off.) The person is then asked to scan out the small action of moving out of the body and into the body, and scan it out while out of the body. The next steps are repetitions of these, but it will be found that the dichotomies and the beautiful sadness of each dichotomy must be run to bring the thetan up into a state of knowingness.
The thetan about half the time will respond to a negative command where he will not respond to a positive command.
Occasionally a person must be audited by running facsimiles before he can be placed in a situation where he can leave the body, but in most cases, this will not be necessary. It, however, is necessary on occasion for the auditor to run facsimiles. And in any event, he should know all he can discover about facsimiles, manifestations of the body, entities, and other matters contained in the body of Scientology, or otherwise he will find phenomena which he will, possibly, misconstrue.
The facsimiles in the body are fastened onto ridges. These ridges generally appear black to the thetan. They will turn white if the individual is asked to find out what the ridge is saying and then the individual is asked to own it, or remove it, and the ridge or black spot will turn white and disappear, often with a considerable somatic. These ridges are discovered in the vicinity of the motor controls, or may be all through the body.
During the process of getting the thetan out of the body (and remember, this is getting the preclear out of his body) the thetan is not, repeat not something else or somebody else but is the preclear; and if the preclear doesn’t know that this is himself out of his body and that he is out of his body, he will have to be run on sub-zero tone scale concepts until he can at last accomplish, under an auditor’s direction, departure from the body. During processing it is a good practice to have the thetan repair any nerve lines, or other matters which he finds to be antipathetic to him in the body.
The rehabilitation of the thetan is up through the sub-zero range where beautiful sadness and degradation are the two concepts used, into the band of the plus scale where beauty and ugliness are used as the feeling.
The feeling differs from the concept and one can have a feeling and a concept at the same time.
An individual who cannot get out of his body immediately can look around inside his head and find the black spots and turn them white much in the same fashion.
The technique is simple, but it is most simple to an individual who has a thorough command of the entire subject. The rehabilitation of the thetan consists of his being able to sever communications with the body at will, and consists of making it possible for the thetan not to have a collapsed tractor every time the body is hurt, plus snapping him into the body.
Protection of the body, need of the body, the body getting credit, the feeling that one must have identification, the beautiful sadness of bodies dying—are the various concepts which are used in this process.
When the thetan is securely out of the body, he can look around him and find any area of enturbulation, and do whatever he pleases about it. He can find vibrations and do what he likes with those.
The sight of a thetan is very bad—as would be the sight of anything below the level of death—for the MEST body, and the memory of the thetan for himself is extremely poor. These gradually rehabilitate until the thetan can perceive and recall as himself. His rehabilitation consists mainly of changing his own postulate, rather than running facsimiles.
Wherever possible, avoid running any emotion or effort with the thetan beyond sympathy and those indicated above. These are low scale manifestations and will fall away.
It is possible for the thetan to pick up whole packages of facsimiles and throw them away at will.
The test of this technique is that in from two to twenty-five hours of processing, an individual can expect to be far above the level of MEST clear.
The true knowingness and the true beingness of homo sapiens is his life source. In almost all persons to be processed, it will be discovered that this life source is in very poor condition.
If any difficulties are discovered in utilizing this process, it is recommended that one contact an Associate School of the Hubbard Association of Scientologists.
Care should be utilized in picking up the areas inside the body which have built-up energy on them. This energy is actually the thetan’s own energy. It is in ridges. It has individualities because the ridges, being covered with facsimiles, seem to be able to think, and when they are pulled away too rapidly, terrible somatics can result. Some somatics can be expected to result.
A theta clear is one who can get in and out of his body at will. A cleared theta clear is one who has full recall of everything and full ability as a thetan.
head and find the black spots and turn them white much in the same fashion.
This fact was established by Evans W. Farber, Fellow of Scientology.
E-therapists and others experimenting with internal awareness occasionally fell accidentally into this manifestation.