Let's now take up a much longer process called Route 1, Step 9; R1-9, Grand Tour. The R1-9 Grand Tour is one of the more interesting things to do with an exteriorized individual. It's a very simple process.

We will now take up R1-10. R1-10: Route 1-10, an exteriorization drill or process.

What you do is run Change of Space with enough interesting locales in it to show him that he can chase around a great deal of universe and look at a great many things.

Route 1-10 is not solely confined to Route 1. You will find it also over in Route 2. This step is "Have preclear discover things he wouldn't mind occupying the same space with him." Now, that is the idea behind all havingness. You can only have something when you've got a universe or when you've got some space. And to get an individual over the idea of havingness, it's only necessary to ask him many, many times "What wouldn't you mind occupying your same space now? Give me something else that you wouldn't mind occupying your space." He'll tell you air, water, ideas. Anything he tells you, you don't care; you just want the question answered. "What wouldn't you mind occupying the same space with you?" And again, "What wouldn't you mind occupying the same space? What wouldn't you mind occupying the same space?" Now, this is not a short process. You can keep this process up with an individual for a couple of hours, always with benefit. It can be run on some-body inside or outside. When you run it on somebody who is exteriorized, he's liable to have the devil's own time trying to figure out how he could get some-thing to occupy the same space he's occupying, particularly if he's in good shape. But he's got to manage this. He's got to know what this is all about. Really, he will move around and occupy the same space as other objects for a while, and do all sorts of things. You're not interested too much in what he's doing, you just want to give him the process and get him finally into the idea that things can occupy the same space as a thetan.

You would not do a Grand Tour until you had found out if he considered it was safe to look at some things, you see. So it's in its logical, natural place here.

What you are knocking to pieces is the basic postulate which makes a universe possible, and you are knocking that postulate to pieces. And this is simply this: the basic postulate is — for any universe which has space and energy — "Two things cannot occupy the same space." Alfred Lord Korzybski did not invent this. It was invented about seventy-four trillion years ago for this universe. "Two things cannot occupy the same space." If you will study general semantics, you will discover that they teachthis and it makes madmen out of them. They teach you "Two things cannotoccupy the same space! Those two are not the same cigarette; they are twodifferent cigarettes, if only because they are not occupying the same space."Nah, booey. The space is a postulate. So if you postulate that they can'toccupy the same space, they can't. If you postulate they can, they can. It's just a matter of you making up your mind about it.

The Grand Tour can be short or long, but the minimum that you would do with a Grand Tour would be as follows: Teach him to be near certain planetary bodies and teach him to be in things and out of things — in other words, interiorized and exteriorized at will. In other words, put him across distances and move him in and out of things. Now, that's a Grand Tour using planetary bodies.

So if we have somebody having difficulty with his language, difficulty with the universe around him, who is an avid student of general semantics — which is taught in every university in the land now, by the way ... They teach students that nobody really knows what anybody else is talking about, because every word means something different to everybody else.

The commands could be quite imaginative, but make sure that if your commands are imaginative that they are of a character which can be obeyed. Make sure of that.

Aha, I'm afraid that "coffee" means coffee. Of course, it can have associative reasonings to it. You could have an association with coffee, but you've still said "coffee." "Coffee," the fellow says, "plus my associations with coffee"; the other fellow says, "Coffee, plus my associations with coffee" — you're still talking about coffee.

In all auditing — I'll put this in just as an aside — in all auditing, remember that a communication lag mustn't be interrupted. You ask the person a question; you can ask the same question again without his answering it, just prompting him to answer it, but he's got to answer the question you ask.

The general semanticist is always thinking in terms of associative lines and masses and definitions and reasons why, you see — significance, significance, significance, significance.

Now, that is a little game the auditor plays. And an auditor who forgets this will discover that he asked the question and then doesn't get the answer, asks another question, doesn't get the answer to that, asks another question — all in an effort to help the preclear, you see. You've just stacked up three unfinished cycles of action for this preclear, just like that.

Now, I'm not tramping on general semantics. I'm glad general semantics was around. I studied it for ten minutes once, and under a very, very good teacher, Robert Heinlein. He told me all about general semantics, and I was very happy to learn about general semantics. Several general semanticists since have undertaken my education, and they have quit with horror because they get just up to this point — they are not physicists or they have never studied the physical universe — they get up to this point of they say, "Now, you understand that two things cannot possibly occupy the same space." Oh, I'm afraid that we're at a divergence right at this point. That's the way you make a universe solid. That's how these general semanticists get ridges around. That's why they get tongue-tied and go out of communication. They get this repostulated, repostulated, repostulated — that two things can't occupy the same space — and that makes an energy mass, that makes terminals, that makes all sorts of weird things, see?

Similarly, in giving him a command of execution, you say, "All right, be near the Moon," as one of the first commands of the Grand Tour — "Be near the Moon." And the fellow says, "The Moon? I can't find the Moon."

That gives you a universe. In addition to this fellow having a physical universe, you're asking him to build a universe again around himself, in his mind.

"Well, that's all right. Be near a steeple here in town." Druur! Oh, this is a bad auditor error, see.

Words, to a general semanticist, become lumps of lead. Everything takes on a mass form. It naturally would, because that's how you make mass, isn't it? "Two things cannot occupy the same space," you say. Therefore, by postulate, that terminal is over there and this terminal is here. You have to first say, however, if you're going to get these terminals apart, "Two things can't occupy the same space." You have to say that, see; you have to postulate that. "These two things are apart and they cannot occupy each other's space." This will make them, each one of them, a unit object. We've got two unit objects now, and we've got individuation. See? We say these two things are entirely separate. Each one has a personality. Why? They've got to go on having a personality to the end of time. Why? Because they can't occupy the same space.

Communication lag — all that fellow was giving you was communication lag. You said "Be near the Moon," and he said, "Let's see. Well, I really can't find the Moon. I don't know where the Moon is. Where would the Moon be? I wouldn't dare be up there near the Moon, anyhow," and so forth.

This is a very important thing to know in processing, because your fellow who is sitting there having a lot of difficulty — he is a thetan exteriorized, and he's got big masses of energy around him — there's only one common de-nominator to the things he's convinced of. Of course, he's convinced they're energy, convinced there's space and so forth, naturally, but much more important than that postulate is this basic consideration — this basic consideration: He considers that two things cannot occupy the same space.

That's just what? Communication lag outflow, isn't it? Eventually he will be able to be near the Moon. He'll think it over and he'll regard the sit .. . He's being a little bit scared, see — that's the only reason he's doing this — which means, really, that you didn't run R1-8 long enough to make him feel safe to look at things, you see.

For instance, he does not believe that he and his wife could occupy the same space. She is an individual, he is an individual. Oh, wait a minute. You'd have to be way downstairs in kindergarten not to have gone in some-body else's head and pulled a couple of motor controls, one way or one time or another.

So, we say that you've run R1-8 long enough, then you can do a Grand Tour. Things are safe to look at, which means it's safe to locate — things are safe to locate.

Sure, he as a thetan can occupy somebody else's space, but it's only by postulate that his body and his wife's body cannot occupy the same space; that's what makes them two different individuals. You break that postulate down and Lord knows what's going to happen. Actually, you get freedom, be-cause it's the basic restriction.

All right. The first thing you'd ask him, as you start the Grand Tour, you'd ask him to be near Earth. Well, now he's already on Earth or around here somewhere. "Be near Earth" merely asks him to be cognizant of the fact that he's somewhere in the vicinity of this planet. And then you say, the next line, "Be near the Moon." And that asks him to be somewhere in the vicinity of the Moon.

All aberration is, is restriction. And that is the fundamental common denominator of all restriction: Two things cannot occupy the same space.

Well, of course, he'll try to move to the Moon many times, you know, and sort of get out a canoe, or a small space boat, or something of the sort, and row himself up to the Moon. People get a little bit strange about this. All he has to do is postulate he's near the Moon and he's there. And he can see anything he wants to see when he's there.

All right, how important is this? Why are we stressing it? Is it an important theory? No. I tell you, I have enough theories ... I have a file in here which is called "Old Cuffs," and there is enough theory and speculation and so forth on those — so much so that we decided to start to photostat them on the backs of the wasted pages of the PABs. You know, just have them shoot an "Old Cuff" at random.

You say, "Be near the Moon," and he says, "Okay, I'm near the Moon." And the next thing you would say to him would be "Be near the Sun," and then "Be near the Earth" again.

Boy, is that going to take some of these boys who figure-figure out in the field and throw them for a loop, because some of these things are not sequitur to anything we're doing — you know, they're just suppositions and so forth.

Now, you've taken him from the Earth to the Moon, to the Sun, back to Earth again, haven't you? Now, that's why we mean Grand Tour; we're changing space. We mean him to suddenly appear at a precision spot someplace — not to move to it, but to be at that spot and to look from, simply look, from a location; that's all we're asking him to do.

Theories: nobody will ever have to remedy my havingness in terms of theories. There's no scarcity of them. There are just billions of theories. That's the one thing I'm perfectly willing to agree on — that there could be more theories than there are coyotes. And that's a lot of theories. Any-how...

So we say, "Be near Earth. Be near the Moon. Be near the Sun. Be near Earth." And we could keep on doing this, and would keep on doing this for some time. "Be near the Moon. Be near the Sun. Be near Earth." And you'll find out that he will start doing it much more rapidly than he was doing it before. And so you will have to telegraph it to him much more easily.

When we have this postulate in the bank, a person who firmly believes it, cannot believe that he can exteriorize. Because if he believes two things cannot occupy the same space, then it becomes impossible for him to assume that he is one thing and the body is another thing. Now, do you follow me? So he will have to tell you, if he's sitting in a body, that he is a body. You got that?

You will have to say to him — as you commonly do, although it disobeys one of the primary factors of auditing; it makes him remember the rest of the thing — you say, "Moon. Sun. Earth." It's actually better auditing to say, "Be near the Moon. Be near the Sun. Be near Earth. Be near the Moon. Be near the Sun. Be near Earth." Well, you just chase him around on that circuit. It's really better auditing to tell him that each time, you see. Chase him around the circuit.

See, "Yeah, I'm right here! And two things can't occupy the same space, so I can't be occupying the same space as a body, can I?" That logical? Well, it sounds logical enough to him so he won't exteriorize. And this is also your common denominator of nonexteriorization.

You'll find out that he goes more rapidly. In fact, he will start going so rapidly that vocal commands become arduous for him; he'll have to wait around for all these words to get out.

If you were to take R1-10, as a good process, how would you remedy his interiorization? You just keep asking him this question for hours and hours and hours and hours: "Give me some more things that could occupy the same space you're occupying. Some more things. Some more things. Some more things." And all of a sudden he gets the creepy notion — because it's just a postulate on the track, you see; it's just a consideration like "ice cream is good" or "ice cream is bad"; it's just the same order of magnitude — all of a sudden he gets the sneaky notion that "You know, I'm sitting here occupying the space something else is occupying. But then, of course, I am no mass at all. Well, I am mass, and I don't quite ... But there's something here about this." And the next thing you'll know, he'll be three feet back of his head looking at himself.

Well, what's the first phenomenon that is noticed by the auditor? — that he is moving slowly at first and then that he is moving more rapidly. Well now, there's another phenomenon which is the same phenomenon really. It is that the thetan is in the influence of gravity when you start to run R1-9; to a greater or lesser degree he is influenced by gravity as an awareness of awareness unit. See, he is under the influence of gravity. And as you chase him on this circuit, he finds he can be near these bodies without experiencing their gravity. See, that's a big gain, isn't it? He can be near these bodies without experiencing their gravity.

So as an example of the workability of this particular process, the hold-outs (which is to say, the few who would not exteriorize cleanly) in the Advanced Clinical Course in London are reported to have exteriorized.

So, he will notice as he swings in and gets near the Moon, you see, that he starts to go down to the surface of the Moon. "Be near the Sun," he starts to swu-uuu, see. And he starts to get close to the surface of the Sun. "And you be near Earth," and he starts to swing down on Earth. Well, as you chase him around there, he less and less has a tendency to do that. In other words, he can fix himself much more precisely because he's gotten over the idea that he is interfered with by gravity.

All the holdouts — you know, I think that he had maybe three or four there that were just dead in their heads, right there at the last. He exteriorized this whole unit, by the way. And he got down to R2-22. That was the total processes used — all of R1 and R2-22. That exteriorized everybody in that unit, I think, in the first two weeks of its teaching.

All right. Do you follow me, then — what you're doing and why this Change of Space is that way?

Now, the holdouts, the people who were having difficulty, blew on this one: "Give me something you wouldn't mind occupying your same space. Give me something you wouldn't mind occupying your same space. Give me some-thing else that you wouldn't mind occupying your same space." See? And they finally blew out of their heads.

Well now look, though, remember what I first told you in R1-8 — remember R1-8? I told you that if he was going to be influenced by anything, if he was going to be an effect, remember, he would have to himself be hanging on to some mass, you know? As you chase him around to the Moon, to the Sun, to the Earth, and he is less and less influenced by gravity, you must be taking some mass away from him, huh? Ah, so that is the thing you must remember in running the Grand Tour: remedy his havingness.

It's obvious to an individual who is interiorized that he is his body, be-cause he knows two things cannot occupy the same space. That's the first thing you want to learn about that.

"Put up eight anchor points and pull them in on yourself. Put up eight anchor points and pull them in on yourself. Put up eight anchor points and pull them in on yourself." Ah, he feels better!

The other thing is, that the only reason the universe can stand out here and the terminals can interchange or anything else, is because the postulate is woven thoroughly into this universe and everyone is convinced of it, indeed — that two things can't occupy the same space.

But this new energy that he mocked up is not now under the influence of gravity. So he can chase around to these various places and he can be fluid as can be. He can have his pockets full of old tin cans and other things which he's mocked up and it doesn't bother him. You see? You've freed him of gravity, even though you have given him some mass — but gravity is merely a consideration.

Now, if it were just a theory, as I told you before, the devil with it. It's not a theory. It happens to have been something which was worked out on a theoretical basis along with eighty-nine other theories that sounded just as logical. But this one happened to work, and on research auditing demonstrated its workability. And in the hands of auditors ever since this was re-leased, this has been a very workable technique and has been responsible for many case recoveries — particularly recovery of the ability to be.

All right. Let's get to the next point which is really destructive in the Grand Tour, really destructive of havingness. You have him find a rock and have him be inside that rock, and then have him be outside of it, and then be inside of it, and then be outside of it, and then be inside of it. By the way, a thetan drilled this way ceases to be afraid of being trapped, do you see this? All a trap is, is being inside something, interiorized. All right. And as long as he's afraid of being trapped, he will get into things, see, and stick.

An individual can't be anything very cleanly if he believes he can't occupy the same space as something.

All right. So you say, "Be inside the rock. Be outside the rock. Be inside the rock. Be outside the rock. Be inside the rock. Be outside the rock." And along about that moment, you will notice that his havingness is shot. So you'll say, "Put up eight anchor points and pull them in. Put up eight anchor points and pull them in. Put up eight anchor points and pull them in. Put up eight anchor points and pull them in. Put up eight anchor points and pull them in. Be inside the rock. Outside the rock. Inside the rock. Outside the rock. Inside the rock." This is about the speed of auditing, by the way, because if you're dealing with somebody exteriorized, there's no reason to put on the brakes. As soon as he executes or gives you any signification that he's executed, you give him the next auditing command. That is one of the hardest things that it takes an auditor to learn — is the fact that somebody exteriorized is fast! All right.

Look, a thetan doesn't have any mass; he doesn't have any wavelength; he doesn't have any position unless he says he has. Well, if this is the case, and if he believed two things can't occupy the same space, then the only thing that he could do to be something, you see, would be in the same space as that something and consider himself absolutely nothing — without quality, personality or anything else.

So, "Be inside the rock. Outside the rock. Inside the rock. Outside the rock. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Inside the rock. Outside the rock. Inside the rock. Outside the rock. Inside the rock. Outside the rock. Okay. Center of Earth." Now, why did you take a rock? Well, that's just gradient scale, because you're working up to the center of Earth.

So he would be something fixedly, wouldn't he? Boy, would he be obsessed. Once he was in this thing, whatever it was, being it — whether a bed-post or a president; whatever he was — he would certainly be that thing.

All right. So you want him to be "Center of Earth. Outside Earth. Inside Earth. Outside Earth. Inside Earth. Outside Earth. Inside Earth. Outside Earth. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Inside the Moon. Outside the Moon. Inside the Moon. Outside the Moon. Inside the Moon. Outside of the Moon. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Inside the Sun. Outside the Sun. Inside the Sun. Outside the Sun. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Inside Earth. Outside Earth. Inside Earth. Outside Earth. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in. Eight anchor points and pull them in." That is about your speed of auditing, by the way.

Wouldn't he have an identity, though! He would be a symbol. The definition of a symbol is mass, meaning and mobility. Therefore, he would not be an orientation point. You have to be an orientation point in order to perceive. Just follow that through quickly and you'll see my point.

Okay. Well, what's happened to this boy about this time, though? If you didn't tell him to remedy his havingness, he would have just gone zuum-zuum-zuum. You're ripping to pieces every facsimile and engram that he is privately, secretly holding on to that tells him he can be trapped. You're just tearing them up at a mad rate. So let's give him havingness to make it up. It is the havingness which is the thing, not the significance of the havingness.

All right, if this individual believes two things can't occupy the same space, and he is being something, then he won't be able to be anything else.

When you finish up this drill ... It doesn't matter how long you take at it. Actually, a Grand Tour can be conducted in about a half an hour, total. But when you have finished this up you will have somebody who is no longer worried about gravity, who is no longer worried about being trapped and who is no longer worried about such things as the atomic blasts of the Sun.

You hang a medal on him and tell him he's a hero, and he's it. You say to him, with some holy water, "Your name is John Jones," and, boy, he's it. See, he couldn't be "Bill Smith" suddenly.

Now, there are many odds and ends that you throw in on a Grand Tour: "Find a Sun plume." The fellow says, "Yeah."

And yet his whole survival depends upon his ability to assume a number of identities! His survival depends upon his versatility, not his fixed beingness. His survival depends upon, not his ability to just call himself by different names, but to be different attributes, because a man has to adjust the environment to him. And if he's going to adjust the environment to him he will have to be able to occupy certain parts of the environment and change them, hm?

"Can you hear it?"

Otherwise, he will stand there as a fixed mass, being adjusted all the time by the environment.

"Yeah." See, there's no air around the Sun but an electronic field can carry sound. One of the reasons a thetan is more afraid of sound than anything else is because it is, in the early part of the track, associated not with air, but by an electronic blast. The electronic blast itself was carrying sound.

A rock is adjusted by the environment: The wind blows across it, erodes it; the rain washes on it; the birds chip pieces out of it; the earthquakes break it in half and the lightning pushes it into dust. That's adjusting to the environment.

So you say, "Find a plume and slide down on it to the face of the Sun. Find a plume and slide down to the face of the Sun." You're, in other words, coaxing him to move. Now you teach him to move.

Now, an individual who has the idea that two things can't occupy the same space, of course, the second he finds himself in a trap, is the trap — and you never saw a trap get out of a trap, did you? A thetan can get out of a trap, but a trap doesn't get out of a trap.

You could have him find Mars. "Be outside of Mars and move down on the surface." But he's immediately going to discover the force field of Mars. I'm sorry that this has to be so. It's not science fiction. He will always discover the force field of Mars. There's something wrong with Mars.

So he believes that he can't be things at will and independently, and change his beingness or grant beingness or receive beingness if he believes that two things cannot occupy the same space.

And you say, "Move down to the surface of Mars." He doesn't like that. "Be on the surface of Mars."

R1-10 is, then, an important process, is it not?

"Okay"

Don't forget that process. Some day you'll be up against it — you'll be up against it with some preclear. He won't exteriorize; he won't do something. Hammer and pound, hammer and pound: "What things wouldn't you mind occupying your space? Some more things you wouldn't mind occupying your space." Don't think you'll do it in five minutes, though. You won't. It will take a lot longer than that. It's a long process, not a short one. And when he's exteriorized, you ask him the same thing, and all of a sudden as a thetan he'll suddenly realize, "Hey! You know, I really can be something." Ah, this will be a wonderful sensation to him. Important process.

"Be outside of Mars. On the surface of Mars. Outside of Mars. Be on the surface of Mars. Outside of Mars. Now, move down to surface of Mars."

Okay.

Nyaa-nya-yann-nya-nya-ruu-ruu. He doesn't like that a bit. "Well, all right. I made it. Hey, what do you know. Uh-hu! Hey, there's something around here."

"Well, move out to the outer atmosphere of Mars. Move down to the surface of Mars." He finally gets so he can move through force fields.

Every once in a while you'll discover some boy who is standing there looking at a huge ultraviolet ball, or a big pyramid, such as you see on the dollar bill in all it . . . Actually, it's almost the exact emblem of the dollar bill. That's the Gates of Mars. That's a between-life area. He'll run into this and tell you all about it. Well, now don't you be surprised; it's simply the Gates of Mars — the call-back area. Just run Change of Space.

Now, the rest of this is Change of Space. Now, there's a whole list in the printed edition of the Auditor's Handbook that tells you all the places you change space.

How do you run somebody on Change of Space? It is something like Spotting Spots, but is the thetan's way of spotting spots. "Now, be in the childhood home. Be here. Be in the childhood home. Be here. Be in the child-hood home."

"Now be in this room" is better parlance. "Be in the childhood home. Be in this room. Childhood home. Be in this room. Childhood home. Be in this room." Back and forth, back and forth. Havingness rips to shreds, facsimiles fly off in all directions. You say, "Mock up eight anchor points and pull them in. Mock up eight childhood homes and pull them in. Eight more childhood homes and pull them." (It doesn't matter what you ask him to mock up.)

"Okay, now be at your entrance point to the MEST universe." That's a swindle, by the way. He was already in the MEST universe and then somebody got ahold of him and told him he's now in the MEST universe. He'll find this out.

Change of Space: If he's doing Change of Space very, very slowly it means that he's very short on havingness, so you just remedy havingness harder. If he gets real slow on Change of Space, remedy his havingness harder. That's the general law that goes back of this.

Now, you see what a Grand Tour is? A Grand Tour is essentially just chasing him around known parts of this universe. It could be extended; you could chase him all over the physical universe. You could have him be in the center of galaxies — anything you want — as long as you remember to remedy his havingness, to be in a certain spot, be in a certain spot, be in a certain spot, be in a certain spot (each time naming a different spot), and be inside of something and be outside of something.

One of the common practices in the Grand Tour is asking him to be in-side a black star — outside it, inside it, outside it, inside it. And ooh boy, does that rip him to pieces, because there are black stars up there which are so heavy and so dense that electrons can't escape from them, so they appear to be black but they are a seething electronic mass immediately on their surfaces.

That is a Grand Tour. It teaches a person not to be afraid of distance, so on. It is something which is run in stabilizing, and is a standard step and a necessary step in the stabilizing of a preclear.

Okay.