Okay.

Want to talk to you now about Route 1 — Route 1 of Intensive Procedure, Auditor's Handbook, 1954, printed edition. This material also appears in the early mimeographed edition.

Let's take, here, R1-5. R1-5: Route 1, Step 5. Now, you understand that there are many things we could do after we've told somebody to "Be three feet back of your head." The remainder of Route 1 consists solely of things which have been found to be quite beneficial. See, it's good safe things to do which improve a person's visio, and so on.

We have these basic processes, which are six processes and one piece of knowingness, which you're studying (which you have studied), but an auditor who did not know anything about exteriorization would know nothing about clearing. Let's get that point awfully clear about Clears. There's been an awful lot of talk about Clears. There has been much more talk than there has been study, and there's been very little doingness about the whole thing.

Now, this astonishing thing occasionally happens: Some auditor says, "Be three feet back of your head," and he goes on processing the fellow one way or another, and the fellow will be processed for hours and hours and hours with no improvement — you know, his vision doesn't improve, his stability, his certainty does not improve. So it's quite necessary to know what are the things that do improve him, and then use those things.

Rather typically, people who find fault with Dianetics believe it is a speculative subject. They think it's psychology. Well, they're cross-eyed on other things too, no doubt. Dianetics is not a speculative subject. It was laid down very sharply in 1950, in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, and the amount of change which has actually occurred in it has been the change of how we handled the problems which appeared in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

Well, the things you use, of course, are the remainder of Route 1. These are put in this order for handy use on the part of an auditor, rather than arbitrary use. But there are many things, as I say, that you mustn't do. Don't send him to look for things; don't start challenging him about whether he's there or not; don't start making him look at the body immediately, before you've stabilized him. '

You'll find a Clear described in Chapter Two of Book One of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. It is accurately described, but it happens to be a thetan exterior. It is the awareness of awareness unit cleared of the body, and that is what Clear means.

Now, it would be a mistake to tell somebody "Be three feet back of your head. Okay, now do you see any black spots in the body or anything that needs healing in the body?" See, that's a mistake; that's an auditing error — bad one! You get away with it once in a while, but the bulk of the time you won't. Don't direct his attention. And that's what R1-5 tells you. It says "Don't direct his attention." Now, we look this over and it says "R1-5: Whatever the preclear happens to be looking at (do not direct his attention to anything), have him copy it one at a time, many, many times. Then have him locate a nothingness and copy it many, many times." It used to be written: "Duplicate these things many, many times." That is not proper usage. "Duplicate" was used for a long time in the same way that you use "facsimile" you know, and "copy." See? A duplicate — it means 'just the same as" something or other.

Now, as long as one did not have sharp, definite methods of exteriorizing somebody, one could not make Clears. The magic formula for making a Clear is Route 1, Step 4: "Be three feet back of your head." Some 30, 50 percent of the people that you address, somewhere in that range, will be discovered to exteriorize fairly stably just as you pick them up off the street, one after the other.

And all of a sudden, perfect duplication showed up. I got the idea of perfect duplication, and so we kind of eased off using this word duplicate. So you will see it used in this sense every once in a while. And when it's used all by itself — "duplicate" used all by itself — it simply means "copy." When it says

Do you know what you're doing when you say "Be three feet back of your head" and the fellow is stably three feet back of his head? He knows he's not a body; he knows he's out there. You know what you've done at that moment? You have made a Clear — a Dianetic Clear.

"perfect duplicate," it means copy it in its own space, with its own particles, in its own time. It'll disappear if you do that.

Now, let's not quibble and fiddle-faddle and let a bunch of medical doctors and psychologists — who strain themselves up through the drainpipe, and get into this science and on our comm lines — disabuse you of anything else than what you've done.

So, say to somebody, "Be three feet back of your head." Next thing, say to him something like this: "What do you see? You know, what do you see?" And he says, "Umm, I don't know. I ... There's a bunch of blackness, so forth. A bunch of blackness . . ." You say, "All right. Make a copy of it. Copy it again. Copy it again. Copy it again." Now, to keep him from getting the whole universe all filled up full of copies, after you've told him a few of these and so forth, tell him to pull them in on himself or throw them away — one or the other. Usually, "pull them in on yourself" is the safe thing to say. But have him do something with them — you know, throw them away or pull them in. You say then, "Now, what are you looking at?"

I don't care if you don't like Scientology or you like it; or you are really in favor of Dianetics; or you hate Dianetics, you like Scientology. Actually, these words both describe the same science.

"Just black." And you say, "Well, copy it. Make another copy of it. Make another copy of it. Make another copy of it. Another copy of it. Another copy of it. All right, pull all those in."

And the difference between the two is Dianetics covers dynamics one to four, Scientology covers the dynamics one to eight. That's the only difference between the two subjects. Scientology is more adequately described straight in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, page 401, Plan C. And so we notice that in Book One we only describe four dynamics throughout the book. There are only four dynamics used in that book. That's because Dianetics is the first four dynamics. Scientology is all eight dynamics.

"Okay," he says.

Scientology is an effort to study and understand life from its highest possible causation, origin, destination. It's a bigger study. Dianetics is a mental therapy. Scientology, necessarily, taking in the remaining four dynamics, has to be of course a religion. You see, because the world of man considers that those last two dynamics belong exclusively in the field of religion — dynamic seven, spirit; dynamic eight, infinity or God. And so, of course, you move out of a mental therapy straight into the field of religion. This is about as mechanical as stacking kids' blocks up. How anybody would have any trouble understanding this, I'm hard put to know.

Now you say, "Now, what are you looking at?" And he says, "Oh, there's shooting stars, and there's all kinds of things happening around here." And you say, "Well, copy it." You know? And "Do it again. And copy it again. And copy it again. And copy it again. And copy it again. Now, pull them all together and pull them in. Now, what are you looking at?" "I don't know. I see a wall over there."

But how do you make a Dianetic Clear? Well, on dynamics one to four — not fooling around with the seventh dynamic — you'd have to make him disappear as a body. So a Clear is a relative term as long as you process engrams — very relative.

"Good. Copy it. Again. Again. Again. And again. Now pull all of your copies together and pull them in." Get the idea?

And it comes into the computing-machine definition of clear. And what is the computing-machine definition of clear? You've read, possibly, or should read, Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science. And it discusses the fact that in big computers you sometimes get a piece of solder or something across the connections and a five, or something like that, is held down. So you put on the computer one times five, and you get the answer twenty-five. That's because a five is multiplying every time you want a total in the machine.

And you say, "Now, what are you looking at?" And he'll say, "You know, I got the funny idea that I see some hair right in front of my face." And what do you say at that moment? You say, "Copy it. Do it again. And again. And again. And again. And again." By copying it you actually give it stability; you give it continuance by copying it. If you made perfect duplicates of everything he saw, it would go away. And one of the reasons he won't look at things is because they're going to vanish if he looks at them. He knows that by experience. So you make him copy them, and after a while he becomes confident, so that he can look at things.

Well, now by the time you saw that piece of solder away, you then put on the machine one times five, and you get the proper answer, five. Now, that would be clearing the machine. Also, an adding machine, you pull down the lever and it takes all the computations — former computations — out of the machine and lets it start fresh, you get an absolute clear. Now, you could correct the machine so it would give you answers within its problems already existing. See, that's one way you could get a clear, but that's a very relative clear. Or you could simply reach up there and pull that handle down — crash! — and clear the whole machine. See?

Now, what if he said, "I see you." You said, "Be three feet back of your head." And you say, "What are you looking at?" And he says, "I don't know. I see you." You say, "All right, make a copy. And another one. And another one. An-other copy. Another copy. Another copy. Another copy. Another copy. Push them all together. Pull them in. Good. Now, what do you see?"

Well, Dianetics essayed to get relative Clears by the processing of engrams and taking out the held-down fives. Scientology reaches up and takes the big handle and pulls it down, crash. And the way you pull that handle down crash! to get a total clear of the machine is simply say to an individual, "Be three feet back of your head." And with 30 to 50 percent of the people, that is the button.

"I don't know. I see the ceiling, I guess it is."

Now, we were talking about a button as early as June of 1950 — the magic button — and that is the magic button. That is the button. That's the one-shot Clear — boom! "Be three feet back of your head." Bang! Now, an awful lot of children do this with great ease, and they stabilize with complete perception, certainty and so forth. About 50 percent of the adults that you run into, one way or the other, will stabilize as a Clear simply with "Be three feet back of your head." The reason we have all these other routes, and the reason we have the remainder of Route 1, is in order to take care of the remaining section of the human race or the animal kingdom which cannot instantly exteriorize. Follow that?

"Well, is it kind of fuzzy?"b

Now, if you read over Chapter Two of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, you'll find out that what it describes, if taken in an absolute sense, would certainly simply be an awareness of awareness unit having nothing to do with a body and not being in a body. He would have sonic, visio at will; he could listen to his engrams or he could listen to the environment; or he could see his engrams or see the environment. Actually, a thetan exterior, fairly stable, can take engrams and shuffle them the way you flip through a deck of cards. There's nothing to this. It's not even hard.

"Yeah, oh, awful fuzzy."

As far as creative imagination is concerned, yes, he can do that, and he can also make mock-ups of all kinds — all kinds of mock-ups. He can do many astonishing things. One of the most astonishing things that a thetan exterior (awareness of awareness unit exteriorized) can do — one of the most astonishing things that this person can do — is heal at a distance. And he has no trouble doing that. That's one of the easier things. Of course, it really doesn't restore much self-determinism in the person he's healing, but that's beside the point. The person is at least well, if somewhat enslaved. But he can heal at a distance.

"Well, that's fine. Copy it, fuzziness and all. Make a copy. Again. Again. Again. Again. Again. Another copy. Another copy. Push them all together. Pull them in." That's what you do with that part of that step.

We won't say, by the way, that former efforts at faith healing done here and there throughout the world were simply efforts to enslave people. And we're not inferring that from there on, all the people who contacted that particular segment of knowledge became enslaved. You notice that healing at a distance, and with a magic wand, and without any idea of pan-determinism or self-determinism is destructive. Well, he can do all of these things.

Now, there's the other part of it. Remember that we're dealing in a communication formula with somethingness and nothingness. So the other part of R1-5 is a more vital part to the improvement of his perception. People are always going towards somethingness, and they're never going toward nothingness. But to get a perfect duplicate of himself it would be necessary for a thetan to look at nothingness. A perfect duplicate of a thetan would be nothingness. So this awareness of awareness unit would best look at a nothingness. So after we've had him copy things around for a little while .. .

Furthermore, he can be any place in the universe with total perception, know where he is and occupy or motivate any kind of a body. In other words, people talked about my exaggerations when they talked about the Dianetic Clear. And I really had a very good time as the years went on, listening to this sort of thing, because it was very hard to keep from breaking out in hysterical laughter in their faces. Why, if I had put down what a Clear really can do, it would have been an amazing thing. Nobody would have swallowed it anywhere. Nobody! Because he can be anyplace he wants to be simply by thinking he is there and looking from the point where he has arrived. He could be behind anybody's head, and by handling their motor control units, make them move, walk, turn, do what he wants to. This is a curious thing, isn't it? So here we have a greatly enhanced idea of a Clear in Scientology.

How long would you do this, by the way? It doesn't matter. The only way you can err is not do it long enough. Have you got that? You can err by not doing it long enough. You can't err by doing it too long. So you could do it fifteen minutes, fine — twenty minutes, half an hour. But not two minutes, not once. You know, not two commands, like that. Do it for a little while till he gets nice and comfortable doing this, and he says yeah, he's feeling cocky, you know.

All right. So much for the lecture and the propaganda on this. I want to give you something about this process. Is there any way you have to say this? Do you have to say it, "Be three feet back of your head," or do you have to say it "Be three feet back of your head," or something of the sort? No, it is said in total knowledge of two-way communication.

And now you say, "Now, can you find a nothingness anywhere around you there?" Well, normally it's a great triumph for a thetan to have made nothing out of something, so he has always kept what he considers a nothingness around, sort of tucked there in close, you know, to admire the fact that every once in a while he did make nothing of something at one time or an-other. And you say, "Do you find a nothingness?" The auditing command after you've done this "copy it," you know, is "Find a nothingness somewhere around you there?"

You've got to know your two-way communication, you see. You've got to be in communication with the person. And you have to remember to do it in a place that is quiet and where the person is not going to be immediately hit by your voice, falling chairs, starting trucks or something of this sort, because he gets out of his head and — boom! — he's all of a sudden startled.

"Yes," he says. "Yeah, yeah. Oh, sure."

The most sudden thing that can be done to a man has happened to him. That is the most startling thing that can be done to a man: 'Be three feet back of your head," and there he is. He's very startled. And a wave of sound, an impulse of sound, or upset or a lot of chatter from the auditor, right at that point, will interiorize him again. He will duck in, in order to protect himself — as though he had to protect himself against anything.

"All right," you say, "copy it. Copy it again. Copy it again. Copy it again. Again. Again. Again." Now, you can tell him to do what he wants to do with those nothingnesses. You say, "Just do with them what you want to do."

So this is really the secret, you might say, of secrets. And this is the one-shot Clear: "Be three feet back of your head." And the secret in using it is simply this: Let's make very sure that the environment is quiet and that the auditor doesn't go on magpieing at the preclear endlessly, and then that the auditor, having done so, does not undertake any stunts. Let's get that very clearly — he doesn't do any stunts now.

"Okay," he says.

Of course, if the auditor is trained in a speculative piece of nonsense — medicine, psychiatry, something of this sort ... I'm not tough on these boys. I'm not near tough enough! They actually don't believe in the pure-and-golden thread of Scientology even vaguely, except as termites are sometimes found in the vicinity of some beautiful building. I'm not painting up Scientology as being a beautiful structure — simply because it is — but there's about the same thing.

And you say, "All right, now find another nothingness. Find another one. Have you got it now? All right, copy it. Copy it. Copy it again. Copy it again. Copy it again. Copy it again." Now, because he's never looked at nothing, he will get an astonishing shift of vision quite often while doing this process. And this will startle him. It will also amuse and interest him very much because it's right up his alley. He's making a good duplicate at the other end of that communication line — a duplicate of himself. And he's been trying to do this for years, and the world kept forcing him into making something, and he was always trying to make nothing to some degree.

It's not speculative. We're not putting somebody three feet back of his head, as an auditor, to find out what he will do, or to find out if he's going to jump through hoops, or if he glows or suddenly possesses a halo. And we're not going to turn ultraviolet lights on him to see if we can show him up and actually prove he's there. And we're not interested in whether or not he's there even vaguely. If he says he's there, he's there, and that is the total test.

All right. You have him do that, oh, ten minutes, something like this. You know? And gee, he's feeling pretty good now. That's fine.

Now, let me level with you very strongly. Black Fives, sometimes processing people, conclude that they're simply psychotic because they say they're out of their heads. Because the Black Five knows he can't get out of his head. See, so anybody that exteriorizes, he says they're crazy. So he'll do something and spin them if he can and get them back inside.

And we would then go, as soon as he could do that adequately ... You understand, communication lag doesn't cease to be a principle, Scientology and Dianetics do not cease to be a principle, simply because we've got some-body three feet back of his head. The Auditor's Code still holds, everything still holds. See? Two-way communication holds.

One of the ways to do this is tell them to look at their body. Just tell this guy to look at his body. See? "Be three feet back of your head. Now look at your body." Boy, is that bad auditing. He'll say, "That black thing . . ." See, he hasn't any real notion of what his body does look like. He might be in the middle of an ogre. Most people think they are. And he'll look at his body, and boom, he'll go in, he'll become uncertain, and so forth.

You'll find out the biggest communication change you get in anybody will be "Be three feet back of your head" when he is, because he starts to communicate very rapidly with you. And he isn't going through all of these body bypasses and so forth. He just starts talking straight at you.

We could go and hide things around the room the way some people do, you know, and ask him to go and find them. That's cute. Typical of a psychologist. But the guy will miss a couple of times because his visio isn't straight yet, you see, or something. It invalidates him, and he'll go back into his head; he'll reinteriorize. And then he'll be hard to fish out.

All right. We go, then, to R2-6, but we wouldn't even vaguely go to R2-6 if we had any doubt whatsoever about his ability to copy what he was looking at, would we? Now, why — just exactly why — when running Route 1-5, do we make him mock up something and pull it in immediately after he exteriorizes? Just why do we do that?

So this process has some very definite, rigid laws that go along with it: Don't do it as a joke, an experiment; do it in a quiet place; do it as processing, and do it just that way: "Be three feet back of your head." Now, there are many other processes which have been tried in this — many others. Actually, we found there was a command, which is the most startling news that I ever received from outside sources up to that time. There was a command which made a person do this, bing! And that was "Try not to be three feet back of your head." It's not good processing, but it did demonstrate there was a magic command.

Get what's happened to this person's havingness by reason of being three feet back of his head — and havingness is actually the only reason why some people do not exteriorize quickly. Because they do exteriorize. You'll say to somebody, "Be three feet back of your head." You don't think he was there; he really doesn't think he's there either. He went out and in so fast that he didn't know he was out. His degradation without the havingness of his body is such as to be total oblivion — so he knows nothing while he's outside of his body, so that he doesn't know he was out. Well, that's the mechanism. Follow me? He knows he was in.

Working on it further, I managed to get together a command: "Be three feet back of your head," just that way — boom! — and found out that I was hitting about 50 percent of the human race. This is the one-shot Clear, just a few little words. And it is done by an auditor in full knowledge of auditing.

So by saying "Be three feet back of your head" you've cost this fellow the mass of his body, didn't you? When they don't exteriorize — or say they don't — they have either stuck in entirely or they've flipped out and come in again, all because of mass. So, we've made him lose this amount of mass, haven't we? He's lost whatever it is — a girl, 110 pounds; a guy, 520 pounds. Whatever it is. We've said, "Be three feet back of your head," which means "leave that tonnage in front of you." And so you'd better figure out some way to remedy his havingness.

And it is not done as an experiment, it is done as processing.

How do you remedy his havingness? Route 1, Step 5: "What are you looking at?"

What can you do thereafter? The sky is the limit. One of the first things you should read to find out what you could do thereafter would be Chapter Two, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

"I'm looking at some blackness."

Okay.

"All right, you're looking at some blackness. Copy it. Copy it. Copy it. Copy it. Copy it. Pull it all together. Pull it in." See? Remedy his havingness.

His knowingness level, his alertness, will immediately rise, won't it? This is curious, but it does.

Now, you'll find some people only able to get a foot back of their heads. You know, "Be three feet back of your head." What are you saying "three feet" for? Well, three feet is as good as anything else. Three yards might be better. There are others ways of exteriorizing people, such as "Be in a place where you would like to be." "Be in a place where it is familiar." There's a lot of these. None of them are as good as "Be three feet back of your head." They're spotty. "Be three feet back of your head" tells you immediately whether he could or couldn't. It gives you immediately a test of his ability to exteriorize. Being three feet back of his head is still in the zone of interest of the body; still in the zone of interest, still in the zone of mass. He's still subjected to the various pulls from the body, and so on. Well, you don't want him any closer than that.

By this time I probably know a hundred ways of exteriorization — none of them as good as "Be three feet back of your head." Because once you get them out trickily — you know, you're very tricky and you're very smart and you slide them out of their heads very carefully — they slide back in just as trickily and smartly. Doesn't do to be clever. You get somebody up to a point where he can exteriorize, and then exteriorize him. That's the way you go about it. And you don't be roundabout about it.

All right. We said, "Be three feet back of your head," we remedied some mass. There he was, his mass remedied, and he will go further out from the body. Now, you'll find a lot of people can only get a foot in back of their head, you see. That's because they've sort of got lines on the body. The mass of the body is too attractive to them. Until you remedy their havingness they can't be any further from their body.

The way you remedy the havingness is remedy it for the thetan. You're not remedying it for the body now. And you say, "What are you looking at?" And he says, "The wall." And you say, "Copy it. Copy it. Copy it. Copy it. Copy it. Copy it. Again. Again. Again. Now, pull all those in." Do you care where he puts those copies? No, you just leave it up to him. You don't tell him where. You don't say, "Put them in a cube around you," and get all complicated. You just have him "Copy. Copy. Copy. Copy. Copy. Pull them all in." And you'll find out he's able to be eighteen inches back of his head. Only he won't notice it. He'll finally tell you, see, and get real smart about this. He'll finally notice this after a while — that the body is now ten feet away. That's merely because you were permitting him to create, and add to himself, mass.

Now, remember that duplicating a nothingness is tearing this mass to pieces. So if you had somebody go outside, as long as you were remedying mass, and keep on going and getting further and further from his body, as long as you remedied mass, and then, when you duplicated — that is to say, copied — nothingness many, many times, you found out he was coming in to-ward his body again, don't you go anyplace but R1-5! You stay with it! By doing what? Just go back to the beginning of R1-5, because you haven't solved the process. It is, after all, a process. This is not a series of processes which are done consecutively, necessarily. See? It is a process, and you haven't finished the process.

The process is concluded when he can be any distance he wants to be from the body without being pulled back in by the body. And that is done by permitting him to copy nothingness and copy masses and pull masses in on himself. Follow me?

So R1-5 is that thing which solves, for the preclear as a thetan, the loss of the mass of the body. And that is why it is right next, there, to R1-4: "Be three feet back of your head." Now let's get into problems of mass, right away, by having him copy. This also raises his perception and makes him far more capable of seeing, perceiving and doing other things. It also shows to him that he can create, and demonstrates to him that the difference now exists while he's outside of his body.

Okay.