Dianetics 55! 1955 Chapter 16

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Chapter 16: Exteriorization

The auditor will be confronted with a great many problems in exteriorization once he has exteriorized his preclear. The things not to do and to do are as follows:

1. Do not require the awareness of awareness unit to again put its attention on the body.
2. Do not make the person prove that he is exteriorized.
3. Do not make the newly exteriorized person discover, find things, read the future, or do other nonsensical tricks.
4. Maintain the Auditor’s Code more severely than before.
5. Continue the process on which the preclear exteriorized.

If the auditor knows these things he will not get the preclear and himself into trouble. The auditing command „Be three feet back of your head“ sometimes gets the auditor into more trouble than he is equipped to handle. The preclear may do a compulsive exteriorization, „do a bunk,“ and drop his body limp in the chair and give from that body no sign that he is hearing any of the auditing commands given by the auditor. One such case was pleaded with for half an hour by an auditor along the lines that the preclear should remember her husband, should think of her children, should come back and live for the sake of her friends, and found no response from the preclear. Finally the auditor said, „Think of your poor auditor,“ at which moment the preclear promptly returned.

A limited „compulsive exteriorization“ is the preclear going out of the body and getting plastered against the ceiling, or falling in terror upward into the sky (an inverting of gravity). This manifestation is equally upsetting.

If a preclear has been given the command „Be three feet back of your head“ and if he „does a bunk,“ or if he „falls out of his body upward,“ all the auditor has to do is to get into a two-way communication with the preclear. Actually, he should have, as an auditor, an excellent command of the Chart of Human Evaluation and „Science of Survival.“ He would not then tell a preclear below 2.0 on the Tone Scale to „Be three feet back of your head,“ for when they do, at these lower levels of the Tone Scale, it is on a compulsive or obsessive level, and all the preclear can think of is to try and get away.

Another remedy, if this untoward and strange occurrence happens, is to ask the preclear to „Reach from your position to your body,“ „Withdraw from the body,“ „Reach for the body,“ „Withdraw from the body“ or „Decide to run away and run away,“ several times. Remember, such things as this occur only when the auditor has not placed his preclear on the Tone Scale before he began to audit him.

The way to get away from these entirely is to audit the Six Basic Processes on the preclear, and then audit either or both of the „One- Shot Clear“ processes of Remedying Communication and Time Processing until the preclear exteriorizes and then simply go right on auditing the process which exteriorized the preclear. Remember that a preclear exteriorized is simply an awareness of awareness unit which has been taken out of a trap, and the awareness of awareness unit had not changed any from the basic individual, but now recognizes itself to be out of the trap and is quite happy about it.

A very funny manifestation occurs on some very low-toned preclears when they talk about exteriorization. They say, „I’m over there.“ This, of course, is impossible. An individual is always here. It is here where you are. Lord knows what this individual who says „I’m over there“ has exteriorized – a circuit, a mock-up, some such thing. He himself definitely is not. Another manifestation we have is „buttered all over the universe.“ A preclear who is buttered all over the universe is one who does not know where he is and if we ask him many, many times, over and over and over, each time making him get a spot with certainty, „Can you find a spot where you are not?“ we will gradually narrow down his area. What has actually happened in such a case is that the preclear has used remote viewpoints, and has left remote viewpoints located all over everywhere to such a degree that the preclear thinks he is any place rather than where he is.

The main thing one has to know about exteriorization is that it takes place. If one uses the Six Basic Processes, remembers the Auditor’s Code, and the two „One-Shot Clear“ processes, he is then quite safe on exteriorization, for it will occur when it occurs, and the thing to do after it occurs is to do the same process one was doing when it did occur. Of course, one should acknowledge the fact of the preclear’s mentioning it and one should certainly permit the preclear to discuss it, but one should continue with the process which exteriorized him, unless, of course, one is very well trained in exteriorization exercises.

As exteriorization drilling, as an activity, is most germane to the realm of Scientology, further knowledge of it and about it is written up in „The Creation of Human Ability.“ Here are given the Route 1 steps which should be run after an exteriorization takes place.

The creation of a Clear undertaken in 1950 actually was this manifestation of exteriorization happening at some random moment and not being adequately cared for after it occurred. Nobody remarked upon the fact that he was a distance from the body because most of the people who were thus exteriorized had very good visio on their own banks but very poor visio on the immediate environment. A little more exteriorization work and any one of these clears would have suddenly found himself out in the room looking at the room directly without the aid of his eyes.

We wanted Clears in 1950. Ww all want Clears. We now have the way to make them, the way to make them stable, and the way to make anybody you process far more able.

The by-word on this is not to address specific errors or difficulties, but to validate abilities and process immediately towards the acquisition of further and higher abilities. We are not in there to pay attention to all of the bad things in the world, since these are composed only of the imaginings of the individual. Let us increase the ability of the individual to create, to be, to perceive, and increase his ability to associate all along the dynamics. If we could do this it would be a far, far better world.