This is November the twenty-sixth, Thanksgiving afternoon lecture. The subject today: The methods of exteriorization.

This is November the 26th, first morning lecture, Thanksgiving. This morning I'm going to talk to you about two things with which auditors are very indifferently acquainted. One of the reasons why they're indifferently acquainted with them is because about the only time I ever mention them is in what you might call a bull session, or in answering questions. And the only time I ever address this subject is when I'm auditing. And I think it's about time I said something about it, and I may or may not ever mention it again.

I could give you a lot of material on this subject. In fact, we could probably talk for a couple of hundred hours just on various ways people got exteriorized.

It's electronic structure — talking about electronic structure. The reason why I don't mention it, is talking about it is sort of like standing here giving you an hour's lecture on the fact that there's a chandelier in the room. See? And I just keep overlooking the thing, because obviously we have chandeliers. And it is borne home to me repeatedly, time after time after time after time, that nobody's looking at these chandeliers in terms of electronic structure. Nobody ever notices it. Now, how they manage not to notice it is what I ought to be talking about, not its existence. But I'll give you both what it is, and the remedy for the pc who cannot address the subject comfortably. All right.

The essential method of exteriorization, the method which you must have and use if you expect success in exteriorizing somebody, is to know the elements of what you are exteriorizing, and predict its behavior under certain conditions — the various conditions you encounter.

We have, in electronic structure, something which is senior to what has been called anatomy. And let me be very blunt about this: The auditor is not interested in human anatomy; he's not interested in psychosomatic illness. I just say this over and over and over. Please don't get so interested in it. Because if you get interested in it, then you start to process toward it and you're processing, you might say, the center of something, where you should be processing both ends.

Now, if you know of what it is capable, you will then know very well how to get it out of one place and into another place. This is a simplicity, true, but it's something that you might overlook. If you know how a thetan operates, behaves, of what he is capable, you then will be able to use these capabilities in order to exteriorize him.

You understand? You're processing the superillusion of all illusions — anatomy — if you start to process psychosomatics and so on. Senior to everything which can be classified as medical anatomy — senior to this — is electronic structure. You're not very interested, really, in what it is that makes the body get so solid or unsolid or have a medulla oblongata or how many strings are there on a tibia. (The tibia is a leg bone, it's not a musical instrument.) (audience laughter)

You are all too prone to suppose that because a thetan finds himself in the middle of a body, he then does not have the same characteristics as he would have far from a body.

The point here is that this entire universe, entire universe, is a system of anchor points. And amongst and between these anchor points, there is a fill-in. These anchor points are of one wavelength. You'd call this, for the thetan, a "bridge wavelength." And between these points, there's this stuff that you call atomic and molecular substance.

This is brought about with some justification. For a thetan when trying to operate in the middle of the body, is operating straight up against his own ridges very often, and in operating against those, finds it very difficult to exteriorize. Do you see that?

Now, if you're simply interested in atomic and molecular substance, you ought to just crack a physics textbook. If you're interested in atomic and molecular substance in terms of bodies, I refer you to a book on anatomy: chap by the name of Gray wrote one once which is quite embracive. But that is embracive within electronic structure only. And to understand how a body functions in terms of anatomy is quite a trick, since it doesn't function in terms of anatomy.

Every time he tries to do something, he activates something which he has already deposited in the body, and he now becomes the effect of what he has caused. And thus you stir up too many ridges inside the body, and the thetan is apparently less capable than before.

Now, that's a very, very wonderful thing. How — another thing that's wonderful about it is how people can go on studying dead tissue to discover the behavior of live tissue. This again is just something else. It doesn't work. They don't learn anything. There are all kinds of weird ideas turn up, and chemical companies and drug companies make billions of dollars, and maybe it's worthwhile just from that standpoint — they make so much money out of it.

The answer to this is the validation of mest barriers and the invalidation of the thetan's own barriers.

But when you as an auditor start to get interested in atoms, molecules, in the form of anatomy which is malformed to the point of a psychosomatic illness, why, you've got real trouble on your hands! You're in the wrong bin, doing the wrong thing. I don't care how many pleas are laid in your lap, I don't care how many checks are put in your bank account, you're just going to beat yourself to pieces if you consistently and continually audit at a psychosomatic illness or audit at a pair of glasses or audit at a ruined leg or something like that, you see — or audit at diabetes or cancer or anything. You're in the wrong bin, you're in the wrong field.

A thetan can put out beams and exert pressure against them. He can string ribbons around anywhere. He does not have to be the point from which beams and ribbons emanate. He does not have to be the source-point. Now, for instance, it's just as easy for a thetan to put a beam running from somewhere outside . . . Now try this, try this: put a beam running from somewhere outside the room down to that corner of the room. See? Now make it disappear, now. You see that?

You want to do something about these things that's practical and accepted and so forth, go over into the field of medicine and bungle there. But don't think you're going to produce results in terms of Scientology and the human energy unit, which is — can be called a "thetan" or a "soul" or a "Q factor" or a "causation point" or a "you" or any — I don't care what you call it or what name you put to it. You're not dealing with that the second that you're dealing with something as utterly, stupidly sordid as this stuff called atoms, molecules. And when you start to deal in atoms and molecules formed up as medical anatomy, when you start dealing with that, you're almost down the chute.

All right, now we'll take somebody who is interiorized: He's in. And he's having a lot of trouble getting out, and he has bad eyes, and he has a lot of things.

And it's like trying to fix a huge tractor with a little pair of electrical pliers or something. You know? That's the only tool you're going to use, and this is all we're going to address. And then the only things we're going to have anything to do with on the tractor, of course, are just those things which this little tiny tool which you've selected, which it touches — which would probably be the tips of the ignition wires or something of the sort. And if the back wheel is off the tractor, you'd be in about the same boat in trying to fix it with these little tiny pliers and the ignition wires. I mean, you just can't get further from fact. I couldn't impress this on you enough. You just couldn't get further from doing anything. You might as well go down to the corner and loaf because practically nothing is going to happen.

There is this thing called "energy hunger," and a solution is possible in the lines of energy hunger.

In the first place, the only — if you go to deal with therapy, if we must introduce such a word, the only therapeutic agent in this universe or any other, is the human soul, the beingness, the thetan, the spirit, the individual, the causation point — well, whatever phrase you want, but it's that thing that is the therapeutic agent. To then relegate it to being a therapeutic agent, when its highest role is creativeness ... You see, let's just fall all the way downstairs, let's get completely degraded now.

But you can take somebody who has never been outside of his head, and you can ask him to mock up ribbons which go from a point back of his head to spots in his body. He'd get those ribbons. Now, you keep that up for a while, and you will blow a whole lot of ridges and so on, and still a whole lot of the commotion which is going on, which makes it impossible for him to be back of himself.

Something else: It, in direct address, actually can create a structure, and put a structure back where it belongs, with great directness. So there's no sense in doing something terrifically indirect and so forth, like trying to fix up somebody's toenail which insists on ingrowing. You might as well — well, why don't you put a new foot on the guy? I mean, it's more simple.

But this, remember, like any use of beams, is apt to restimulate existing deposits of energy which are more or less on the same wavelength. That's why I specify gold beams and so on, just to get off of the usual black-light wavelengths that a thetan who is unable to get out easily is generally embedded — he's in black energy, you see. So you put some gold energy or some blue energy or some pink energy or a red energy, and use colored energy.

This universe has sold everybody on the idea of this tremendous scarcity. You see, scarcity, scarcity, scarcity, scarcity; so you look at a body and they say, "Oh, dear, this is the only body I'll ever have and so on, and what can we do to repair it?" Repair it, hell — throw it away. See, it's just senseless when you think in terms like that.

Well, his inability to exteriorize is made difficult by the fact that he has too largely validated those barriers in which he finds himself enmeshed. He's too greatly validated his own thought processes, his thinkingness processes as he conceives them, his own facsimiles and other material, and he is in contact with these.

Well now, how do you throw a body away? Well, there's a gradient scale of throwing a body away. Well, you could start in that gradient scale by saying, "Throw away the bad portions of it." Well, the best way — how do you throw away a mock-up? You unmock it. And how do you put a good mock-up in its place? You mock one up. So if you follow that cycle whenever you're dealing with bodies, you're on pretty firm ground. But again, you're not really doing what you should be doing.

And the other part of the problem is, he is frightened of mest. He's rather frightened of it.

Electronic structure is that structure of anchor points which demark the space in which the illusion of atoms, molecules and functioning structure will occur. Electronic structure is a piece of space which demarks the limits of a functioning illusion. A functioning illusion is what is commonly called the body. And to run this into medicine, by the way, is as odd as to run it into dressmaking. You know, you'd have to know anatomy to make dresses. That's right, if you don't know that people have hips, you're going to get in trouble there every time.

Once in a while, you will exteriorize a thetan and he will try to steady himself by putting a beam on the wall, and the wall will eat up the beam. The beam, you see, is very — too close to the wavelength of that wall, and the — he'll stick.

Now, if you'd get over closer to the idea that you're making dresses or something of the sort, rather than into a field of medicine — or that you're being a tailor, you know, and you stand back with an artist's eye and say, "Well, let's see, I think the right arm is just a little short. Hm, yes" — you're in much better shape, you know, than saying, "Well now, let's see, what malady is this that causes the arm to be short? Now, let's look into the deep significance of this and after we've looked very carefully, we will do something as far removed from it as possible. And after we've found the source and cause of the illness, then we will cure that. And we will just leave it to God or luck that something will happen to the arm after the arm is cured of this deep significance we've discovered." You see that? You see — how far can you miss a boat? Well, you can be on the other side of the continent a couple of years after its sailing. And that's about what one does when he looks for the deep significance of an illness, you see, of a piece of mest. See, it's real gorgeous.

And sometimes you'll exteriorize somebody, and you'll exteriorize him as a body, you know, and then you don't exteriorize him from the body he exteriorized in. We just — you see what's happening there. I mean, he's — he has something you might call a theta body.

I don't know how to actually impress this on you — it's continuously very clear to me and I continuously come a cropper in trying to explain it to people.

Well, it's very silly for him to have this. It's not something he sends around — he's in it. But he can exteriorize out of that one. It's built out of a slightly less heavy effort, on a different anchor point system, than the MEST body.

People, for instance, say, "Well, there is an illness known as cancer which eats up the body." You can say, "Yeah. Yeah. Sure. I'll agree with you. There's an agreed-upon condition known as cancer which occurs and which destroys a body. And, by the way, what are you doing for lunch?" You know? I mean, it's just about this same level of importance.

Now, he can exteriorize out of that exactly as he exteriorizes out of a mest body, because he is essentially just a source-point for energy. And if he locates himself as a point, he is very small. Very small, if he locates himself as a point.

Well now, the wrong way to go about this, you see — and we'll take the subject of cancer. If we've got to go into medicine, what do we do? We go into the subject of cancer, and we've got to go into medicine. And now we've got to go deeper and deeper, and now we go into the causation of cancer, which may or may not be a cell gone wild and it may or may not be an embryonic effort or it may or may not be — what's that name — something protoblast or something of the sort. You can get more wonderful names, see, of causation.

Well now, in trying to agree with the body, he'll eventually mock himself up as a body. This is not true. He's a small spot of light, you might say.

And then we can all think very hard, and we could put up big pictures of this structure so everybody gets it, you see, and we could say how horrible it is, and go around and get a couple of nickels on the drum in order to form a big society or something of the sort, to put up more pictures to give more people cancer and — this is the wrong way to go about it.

And he will get out in one of these (quote) "theta bodies" (unquote), and lay his hand — you know, theta body hand, it operates just like a mest body hand — and he'll lay his hand on the wall or on the back of a chair or into the upholstery or something of this sort, and he will go right on in, see? It'll grab hold of him. And boy, he doesn't want anything to do with that. Oh, no! He'll try to pull free — never occurs to him to just drop the hand which is caught and mock up a new hand. This doesn't occur to him. And he becomes very frightened and will dive back in.

You as an auditor subscribe to this and you say, "Well, let's see. Cancer, cancer, what can I do for cancer?" You can't do a darn thing for cancer — you're not in medicine. You just can't do a darn thing for cancer. Not a thing. Skip it. And when I say we have a cure for cancer or we don't have a cure for cancer, we're talking in the wrong dichotomy. See? We're just — it's off the subject.

Now, this is a different manifestation than is ordinarily encountered, because thetans that are doing this are — they're not later on the scale, they're earlier on the scale. I mean by that, they're not old antiques — they're thetans who are still almost capable of creating a body, see, without any further activity.

Now, is there an ugly illusion possible or is there a nice illusion possible? Well, of course, anybody can have any kind of an illusion he wants. Somebody wants cancer? Okay, they got cancer. Fine. Of course, it's kind of a dumb pony that can only get one kind of an illusion to attract some attention, see. Oh, that's dramatic stuff, there's no doubt about it. If you handle it like a playwright or drama, you'll understand what's happening. And you might even be mean enough to go into the field of electronic structure and "unhappen" it!

They're just using a MEST body because it's more accepted. But if they were to have thought hard about it a few years earlier, even in this lifetime, and if they had known some of the mechanics involved and they hadn't hidden everything from themselves too, they could have mocked up a body which was visible.

Now, what do you do about anatomy and structure and looks and aesthetics and all that sort of thing? Well, decide what you want, and have it! I mean, let's not go into — "Let's see, what is wrong with it? Now validate what is wrong with it. Now how do we repair what is wrong with it? And after we've repaired what is wrong with it, just sort of leave it up to God or Morris Fishbein or the national medical health society or somebody to make sure then that after the illness is cured, that something else happens.

In other words, this thetan really hasn't gone to pieces — whether he's old or young, that's not pertinent — it's just he hasn't gone to pieces completely yet. And he has an enormous strength of control, and you're really fighting his strength of control more than anything else.

And the funny part of it is that anybody who has treated disease, treated malformations, treated anything of this character — anyone who has treated these things, has, in the last analysis, sort of stopped where he should have begun and said, "From here on out, God will have to take a hand in it. The ultimate repair will have to be done by the body." Penicillin works, when it works, only because the body cleans up the bacteria. Penicillin doesn't do a thing to it. Isn't that interesting? Even a biochemist knows that. It's the recovery power of the body which knocks out disease.

Well, he could make a body which is visible, and when he — he's in competition, very strong competition with the mest universe. The mest universe — he sees this body, he can make one just as good. He tries to, and so on; he mocks one up that's just as good as that, and — as far as he's concerned. But these are rare. This is a rare instance more than otherwise.

Well, what puts back pattern? What puts back function? Well, we just sort of just all leave that up to Morris Fishbein or something. I mean, I don't know — it's something like fixing trucks by shooting the tires off of them! It's a pool of error and inexplicable complication which probably makes a lot of fellows a lot of interest, that an auditor has no business in. See, just no business in.

Generally, the theta body that they exteriorize in are simply a mass of effort ridges which have accumulated on the mest body, which they can't get rid of, so they drag along with them, which is a different thing. That's other energy they're dragging with them.

Somebody comes to you and somebody says, "Well, this person has cancer." And if you are so thoroughly in agreement with the society that you immediately jump up and assume a role which you shouldn't have, and say, "All right, I'm going to cure some cancer," you've just sold yourself down the river. What do you know, your own techniques won't work. Huh! — not worth a nickel. It isn't belief at all, you've got a beautiful tool kit and you're going to use all of the micrometer calipers and so forth for hammers. You're just in the wrong — wrong department.

Well, one of these that could almost make his own body will exteriorize with some sort of a hand or something of the sort, which has long electronic beams on it, all of which are vibrating, and he has, you might say, an electrical metabolism which would fascinate an engineer. Just fascinate him. Because he's an electronic machine. He's rigged up so that his energy performs certain exact functions. And you generally have four or five stringers on a — on the end of his arm, you see, in lieu of a hand, which is almost a hand — there's just three, four, five, stringers, all of which are in very strong vibration.

Somebody tells you, "Now this person has cancer. What can you do for them?" This person has cancer. The person you treat is incapable — actually incapable of deteriorating very much, except as he changes his mind. The person you're — you treat steps two feet back of his head or three feet back of his head and is very, very easily in various portions of the area, and very easily creates things. That's who you (quote) "treat" (unquote). You don't treat this person with cancer.

This is a tough boy. This is a tough boy. You very often have trouble exteriorizing him. Because he's real rough. He's real tough. What he's used that hand for, in possibly relatively recent times, is the simple act of decapitation. Just one backward flip of the hand and a mest body's head would come off, that's all, see?

What would you tell somebody like that? You say, "Well, if he — if I straightened him up, why, he might be able to do something about the cancer.

His problem is somewhat different. He's afraid that if he relaxes control over the mest body for a moment, that it will cave in; because he's probably practically holding it together with main strength and awkwardness. You know, he's probably had a lot of things happen to him. He's sort of got this thing patched up. And he's using his body to hold it together. Quite the reverse.

Who knows?" See? And you just go right ahead with the job of Theta Clearing. After a while you say to this fellow, "By the way, you want to do something about the cancer? And, if you want to ..." and so on. You keep mentioning, "Do you want to do something about it now? Well, go ahead and do it. I don't care what you do. I mean, it's my office, don't leave any dead bodies around in it." (laughter) But you just — just get that fixation of attention off of the horribleness of illness and all of the rest of that.

He's got this thing propped up and he knows it. And he's afraid he won't be able to control it if he steps away from it. It'll either go completely out of control or cave in, because he already knows it hasn't got good sense.

Did you ever see an artist out there with a big canvas and so forth and he's busy painting, and he all of a sudden starts worrying about how he's going to repair what he's painted. Well, that picture just never gets painted, that's all. He just never gets a picture. I've known artists like this up in Greenwich Village. They were normally failed — completely failed. They were clear down in the Village — they were really artists, you know?

But his problems are the same as anybody else's problems. He's too enmeshed in his own energy, and in addition to that, he gets too solid a contact on mest. His terminals are too close to mest. They're too solid, in other words. They're right on that wavelength.

And these boys, one time, had accidentally dropped some paint on a canvas — it spilled off the palette or something, you know, and it got on the canvas. And then they kind of repaired that and scraped it off and redid it and repaired it and fixed it up and repaired it. And there's nobody — even in the Village, you wouldn't find people who agreed they had a picture.

It isn't that he's drifted down in combating the wavelength forever, he just mocks up on that level with great ease, and he's got a real body. He'd be visible, to some slight degree, even to mest eyes. They're — scare people stiff if they happen to turn around and see one of these boys, because they're real rough-looking characters, there's no doubt about it.

You want a picture. You want a being. And the point you should make, is just to boost somebody right on up the scale till he can have a picture — till he can paint one, not patch one. And anytime you stop at "patch," you're in trouble.

Of course, they have a sort of a humor about their roughness. I ran into one, one time, that had a beautiful tail. This solid black, sort of furry, with a beautiful tail, and a cat's face, and long electronic — this sounds like something out of a nightmare, I know — and long electronic claws. And, I asked this character a few questions, one way or the other — I mean, I exteriorized him just that way, you see, exteriorized him in his body — and I asked him to knock a piece of paper off the desk, and he simply reached over and he knocked the piece of paper all right, but he also charred it!

Now, you probably think I'm saying a lot of things and they — probably going through with various interpretations, but we're kind of outside the field of MEST language here — nobody's ever talked about this sort of thing before. He's talked about the electronic structure of illusion and that's what the electronic structure is. And you can have almost any kind of an illusion you want within the confines of this frame.

And, he reached around a moment later and took hold of the sofa and stuck to it. He couldn't get his hand free instantly, startled him, and he did an immediate flip back into the body. But he was quite visible to mest eyes.

You got a frame, and there's a blank piece of canvas as far as you're concerned. And there's anything in that blank piece of canvas you want to put there. But you have to adjust the frame once in a while. You know, it's pretty hard to make a picture where the frames are — you know, you've got a five-inch right-side frame and a five-inch left-side frame, and there's only a quarter of an inch of canvas between the two. It's a little bit difficult to get a picture in that; the frame sort of overweighs it or something of the sort.

It was like a dark shadow standing in the room. If you can imagine a shadow, a quite plain shadow, standing upright in the room with a quite bright set of streamers coming out of its hands, you'd have this. This is very, very strange.

Well, if you're going to have a picture, you sort of have to adjust this piece of space. And electronic structure is the electronic anchor points, the points which demark space; and by their adjustment, you can form a frame in which you can place any illusion, even a body, if you've got to have a body. See? It's kind of handy to have a body around in this society because people look at the body and say, "He's human." (Heh! Damn fools!) And they're very handy. It communicates along a certain linguistic pattern. It's the easy thing to do — the easy thing to do. It'd be a little more startling to — you'd have a hard time with zookeepers and things like that if you went around as a lion wearing pants or something of the sort — there's no reason why you couldn't.

This fellow, by the way, was quite afraid of demons. And he'd mocked his — he had mocked himself up this way because for many centuries he had fought demons. And of course he went in and mocked up, then, the winning valence: the demons.

If during these six weeks, if I could just somehow or other pry loose your imaginations — pang! I would have done practically everything I could do for you. The poor, poor man, he gets into these terrifically bogged spots like US, 1953 — gets into these bogged spots and everybody, from the time he's the tiniest little child, they say, "Oh, you're just imagining it all, that's your imagination. Oh, isn't that something . . ." You know, pang, pang, pang! That's all he's got! I mean, let's disenfranchise him completely. That's all he's got. He hasn't anything else. He never will have anything else. The world is as bright to him as he can create a reality. And the function of imagination is the creation of a reality.

That was a very, very interesting case, because it took me a couple more hours to persuade him, and drill him in letting go beams — mocking up and letting go beams, mocking up and letting go beams — before he'd have anything else to do with mest.

Education, for instance, takes imagination and forms it into reason. By disciplining the imagination, people can even make geometry come true. Modern school systems, by the way, teach geometry and have it in their textbooks as "the way people think." Isn't that glorious! I mean, they've got geometry, the Aristotelian syllogism, as logic. My God, Aristotelian syllogism hasn't been declared logic even in the worst scientific circles since about 1500, and now it's finally gotten into the American high school. In the geometry textbooks being published today it says that in so many words: "this is the way people think." This is the way Aristotle thought people thought. But gee, he thought a lot of things. Natural history is an invention of Aristotle. And he thought a lot of things. Oh, he corrupted more people! But, boy, he sure never imagined a thing. He had an Aristotelian syllogism: A = B and B = C, so therefore, A equals — get those equal signs — A = C. Oh, no! Never did, never will.

The way you would do that today, is you would just have him overtly start changing the emotional context of everything around him, changing its color, and then seeing through it further barriers, further barriers and further barriers in six directions until he got nothing, and then sit there and know until he had mest so thoroughly invalidated that he didn't give a damn about it. And then you'd turn him around and have him put black spheres, black spheres, little — each one a little further out from the last one he was in, and look through the last one to the new one until he had blackness thoroughly invalidated. And then you'd have him do a few mock-ups and put some emotion in them, and his level of contempt would come up to a point where he would, with great ease, do whatever he thought he could do.

One boy who carried the torch against this was so hot about it that his banner was on high practically all the years of his life. And he had the symbol "null-A." And that was Mr. Korzybski. "Null-A." His plaintive cry against the universe was: "Why, in the name of God, did anybody ever invent a syllogism!" You want to know your general semantics and so forth, why, you just take it from Aristotle — and then shoot him, and you've got it. Because that's identification: One thing which isn't that thing is that thing. All right.

This person doesn't control well, by the way, from an auditing standpoint. That isn't any reason why people are like that, who are just hard to control. But he's too well aware, actually, of what he's doing — he'll get way ahead of you very quickly.

Crush a man's imagination, you've crushed the man. Because out of his imagination is born his dreams. That's all he's composed of. He looks so solid, he's so convincing, but the biggest convincingness and the greatest solidity he'll ever have is that which he puts there. And if this is to be cursed, and if the idea that a man can impose with his will a new reality, on a piece of space of his own creation — if that's bad, why, we're all done. We really are, right that moment that that becomes completely bad. Because that's all you can do. It's practically the swan song of a thetan: that he cannot imagine anymore.

You're not liable to run into very many like that, though. There's no particular reason that you won't, it's just that there aren't very many here on Earth that are exactly in that condition.

Let's take a look, then, at this thing called structure. And if we're interested in a body, we see that the body must perforce exist in a framework of space. It so happens that a body is so agreed upon that it is a set unit. It's a set unit of space. And when the limitations of that unit are themselves deranged or disturbed, the space itself distorts, which causes an immediate distortion of the illusion within that framework.

Then there's the thetan you'll run into occasionally who has never heard of a between-lives area. He didn't know he was supposed to go back anyplace. He doesn't know people can't get out of their heads. He doesn't know there's any difficulty about any of this. The second you say, "Be three feet back of your head," his knowingness turns on with a blast. He knows he's there, and he knows what he's doing.

Now, when I say framework, I mean point one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And I'm talking about a three-dimensional frame. And a body has a three-dimensional frame. And it knows it has an arm because it has an electronic framework which demarks an arm. The entire control function of the arm is run by, through, and because of the electronic structure of the arm. How complex is this structure? Well, honest, arithmetic is too complicated to describe it. It's that simple.

And he becomes a little bit difficult to handle, simply because he's confused because you're confused as an auditor. You'll want him to do all these various things by gradient scales and things like that, and he doesn't need any gradient scales to do these things. He can do these things, and he doesn't see any point in all this.

Now, the reason it's overlooked by auditors is because auditors seldom can see them at first glance. Their vision or perception, exteriorized, is pretty poor. Real poor. You get most Step Is, when they step out, why, they think their own vision is just a little bit brighter or a little bit worse than their MEST vision. Ah, there's no comparison. I mean, it's like what's the fleck of gold — iron pyrites and actual gold color, and the difference between.

Of course, he doesn't realize that he's heading for the river. One of these days, why, he'll have ahold of a body, and bing! the GE setup and so forth, and bap! between-lives and here he goes, and pang! he gets a wipeout, and he doesn't have those abilities anymore.

Now, when you see that people are accustomed, and have tuned down their perception to this point, it's no wonder that they don't immediately get smote in the face and see electronic structure.

Well, they're pretty darn scarce. Another scarce variety. Most of them is a thetan who has been back and forth — most of the preclears you get, thetan's been back and forth between the between-lives area. By the way, that one I just told you about, he's pretty newly arrived on Earth.

For instance, I stand here with mest eyes, I see a whole flock of bodies. Some good-looking, some poised, all of them better-looking than they were a while ago — bodies. That's because this body — with this body I have agreed to perceive people. But I have to tune myself around, exteriorized — outside — which is where I do most of my looking. Somebody asked me, last night, he said: "Now take a look with your body's eyes." Gee, I had to get out a polishing rag and all kinds of things and polish them up and so forth. It's — they practically don't see at all, you know. And you go through a lot of motions with your eyes and you go through a lot of this, and you track them with a couple of viewpoints — just to make sure that they're pointed in the right direction and so forth — and it's just very interesting structure.

Male voice: The last one?

But exteriorized, you have to tune your vision around a little bit, if your perception is real good, to find a body. What you'll see is the electronic structure. You just see it — bing! And particularly if people have been presenting themselves to you who say consistently that they're in remarkably poor condition. So you just tune up to what is important about them, which is their — the anchor points which compose that framework of the body, which permits the body to exist.

Yeah, the last one. He's pretty newly arrived.

The anchor points: This framework is composed of a number of gold sparks or little tiny balls or large gold balls, which themselves, if they are in an excellently well-arranged pattern, and if they are in the pattern which creates the illusion — you know, they're in that piece of framework which will create the proper illusion of the body — then the body's in good shape. And if they are out of line or if they are disturbed or shattered or gone, then the body is distorted at those points where they are distorted.

And anyway, the routine one that you run into has been through the between-lives area. And when this person is a Step I, it is simply because he hasn't got the between-lives incidents keyed in.

Now, it's this bad — you can move one of these things, with great ease, a couple of inches, and the fellow has a new joint. I mean, it's that bad. Actually, I've seen this happen two or three times now: I've seen people get almost sick at a leg bending at the wrong joint. You know, no joint there, it's bending or something. If you want to produce a magical fakirism, you know, that's a good trick — just move the anchor points around. But normally, what happens if you don't move the anchor points right and in proper alignment, this sort of a thing occurs: the arm simply distorts or hurts.

There's no reason they should key in if you get him well exteriorized without handling any energy, beyond mest. You can handle this stuff, but I mean, not handling his own energy. If you step him back of his head and then keep him away from his body and drill him and get his perception up and specialize in all these lines, this boy's all right.

Now, let's take the other side of it. Let's look at it from a direction which you're accustomed to look at something, and that is, a wrist is sprained. Well, you'd treat a sprained wrist — that's looking at it from the psychosomatic side. Now, we can treat a sprained wrist and we can do all sorts of things to it. There's an electronic pattern holding the sprain in place. Well, the subpattern is the facsimile of the sprain itself. Back in Dianetics we used to do a lot of this: we erase the sprain and so on. But there's a much faster way of doing it in Scientology: you simply put the anchor point back. There goes the sprain (snap). Very curious.

But he's always on the verge of getting the between-lives area or something else keyed in on him. So you just drill like mad so that he can look and survive. You just drill, drill, drill, percept, percepts, percepts — be here, be there, be someplace else, perception, perception.

Now, if you don't see the anchor points which enclose the space of that wrist, if you don't even look at them, if you paid no attention to them at all, and you went on massaging the wrist, you could actually — a guy would go on there for weeks and weeks, maybe years, with a wrist in bad shape, or weak, or poor condition. Why? Because the space in which the wrist exists is distorted and, of course, no — nothing but a distorted illusion can then be in that pattern.

Once in a while you'll move one up toward Mars. And, sorry I have to keep talking about this type of material because I know that it's upsetting and it's heard on these tapes particularly. But you get one up toward Mars and you take a look at it, and he says, "That's a funny place. It looks like it's pulsating, or there's something there, or something of the sort." He'll look at it and say, "You know, think I'll go down and take . . ."

So, let's look at the structure we want to look at as gold points arranged in certain patterns around the body. Now, where are they? We don't pay any attention to what they're doing to the body, particularly. If you look at a body and see that something is wrong with it, or if you look at somebody who's having a bad time exteriorizing — same deal — what you want to pay attention to is the electronic structure of the space, which is this body. See? Electronic structure of a space.

And you say, "All right. Now be up near the moon," and so on. Because he actually — you could bail him right straight back out of it, but there's no reason messing him up so that you have to bail him out with auditing. You get him tough enough so that he can look more penetratively at things and know better. He wouldn't be here if he knew all there was to know. Okay?

And this wouldn't merit any consideration if it merely did something for psychosomatic ills. But in view of the fact that it does quite a lot for exteriorizing people, I want to stress it. Might never talk about this again, but you certainly had better know what you're doing with this because you're going to be — you'll very often just practically beat your brains out, thetawise, trying to figure out what's wrong with this preclear. And the answer, if he's pinned down or if his body is in malformed condition or he's in consistent pain with collapsed terminals and can't handle the body well, the answer is in this sentence: He has body-space anchor points, one or more, disarranged. And the remedy is, return to him the ability to perceive and rearrange the anchor points of the body.

Then there's the type who has been through the between-lives area and is occluding; and through effort has a sort of an effort fringe around the body, and feels pretty solid, and is up against large packs of energy and so forth. He doesn't have any hands. When he exteriorized, he just exteriorizes. He doesn't go into a frenzy if he happens to put his hand on some mest.

Now, where are these things located? They — a lot of Theta Clears say kind of sadly, once in a while, "You know," they say, "the — you know, a physical body's anchor points used to be out there a couple of hundred yards." Or some of them will tell you they used to be out there a quarter of a mile, or something like that. Big, you know. Big space. They aren't anymore; they're pretty close in. They're in terms of yards ordinarily. And up to the right and up to the left and varying anywheres from twenty feet to twenty yards out, there will be a big golden ball, and there'll be a lot of little smaller patterns of points out there. Because the structure's not entirely inside the body, any more than it's entirely outside the body. So these are the wing points. Well now, the body has other of those wing points similar to that, but that's about the furthest out that it has, at first inspection anyway, and as far as you want.

The reason that first one, you see, goes into a frenzy about putting his hand on some mest or something of the sort is he's — first impulse is just to shove the mest over, you know, and he finds he didn't do that. And he just mired down a little bit more in it, and he suddenly tells himself he hasn't got as much soup as he used to have. And this scares him a little bit, because he's already losing in the competition with the mest universe. All right.

Now, a thetan — you can make him mock up an anchor point up there and push it around and it just goes — just sort of goes around, you know; he pushes it around and it stays there, and it goes around someplace else. Well, a very funny thing about the GE anchor points — the body's anchor points — you give one of them a push, and after you've pushed it, it'll wander back into place; it'll come back into place. It doesn't disappear, it just — out it goes, back it'll float, up it'll float. And you can push it in on the body, you can pull it in toward the body, and almost anything's liable to happen emotionally to the body, you see. It's — you're changing its space. And it can get frantic, and it can get calm, and it can do various things with its anchor point patterns to utterly alter the emotional pattern of the body. All right.

But out of all these processes and all these cases, you use the same techniques. You don't have to have anything very special. You just — don't be startled if you run into one of those varieties.

Where are the rest of these? Now, we've often talked about "control centers," haven't we? Well, these control centers are anchor points of this same nature. All through the body and all around the body, anyplace there is a nerve connection, you will find adjacent to this nerve connection, that which demarks its space and keeps it created: the anchor point.

And there are other varieties, too. I ran into a little girl one day and I exteriorized her, and she said, "Oh thank you. I've been so worried. I've been so worried." She said, "I — I've — I've been here for about two years" — ten-year-old girl. And she said, "I — I ran along to help this little girl up and I couldn't get out again."

Now, that means you would find a big one in the heel of the hand; you'd find them in each finger — several; and you would find one in the wrist, you would find one in the funny bone, you would find one inside the crook of the elbow, you would find one in the shoulder, you would find one each side of the back of the neck, you would find them all down the spine. (When somebody manipulating a spine has produced any effect at all, he's actually succeeded in pushing one of these anchor points back, not a vertebra.) And you'll find them inside the head and you'll find them around the eyes.

The little girl was still unconscious. Interesting series of incidents. And this thetan that I exteriorized was just — "A body? Be in a body? Control or manage one?" Well, you did if you couldn't do anything else with it, but that was a very silly thing to do, or that was a funny thing to be, you see. I mean, just one of those things. And she went back to Ireland. That was the end of that. And left me with the task of reviving the little girl who was still knocked out, which I promptly did.

And very often, some preclear will complain of a burning sensation or something in his body; and you can do a lot for that without producing any particular relief on his part until you bring him into an ability to perceive where the anchor point is. And he perceives where it is and you say, "Now shove it back into place," and he does, and it sort of goes "click," and after that, why, gee — all of a sudden he's got brighter vision as a body, you see, or he has a relief of a chronic flow which was going on in an area, or there is actual — a distortion of feature which is remedied.

It's no wonder people in the old days, not knowing too much about all of this stuff, got all spooky about spooks and things like that, because good live spooks can be very upsetting. This is very, very peculiar.

The handling of these things is elementary. How anybody can miss seeing them, I don't know. It's something like — I feel like a fool talking to you about it, you see, because I think I'm talking to you about the fact that there's a wall up here in the front of the room. I feel I just spent lots of time telling you there — in the front of the room there's this wall, see, and that makes the space in which the room — part of the space in which the room exists; and back there is another wall, and over there is another wall, and over here is a wall with the windows, and amongst these you've got some space, that gives you a room, you know? And then I go all over it again and I say, "Well, there's a front wall up here. Now, do you see? Now I want you to be — very carefully perceive this front wall." I don't know how people miss these things. It's something like walking up to a searchlight which is turned on full right in your teeth, and not seeing it. It's just too bright, I guess, or something. Of course, you don't quite want to see these things — they make you look like a Tinkertoy set — no rods.

Then there's — quite often you find somebody who's picked up a five- or six-year-old child. Didn't do — go through an Assumption. You know, picked up the kid (snap), there he goes.

But the reason I'm talking about it is because I picked up a pc last night who has a bad arm and who, unwisely, as far as auditor's concerned, continues to be processed to remedy the condition of this arm. Now, this is a silly thing to do. That's a real silly thing to do.

What difference does this make in running a case? It doesn't make any difference. It merely makes some randomity for you and something of interest. And when something like that happens, don't be particularly amazed.

You see why it's a silly thing to do? What should happen to this boy is, he should just be pushed right on upstairs as a thetan, you know? Until he's real bright and real perceptive and real alert and so forth. And it's interfering with his self-determinism not to: he might want another kind of body entirely. You know, he might want to change the space points around until he looks entirely different.

Now, in all the time I've been processing, exteriorizing people, I've never had anybody zap me. Had a lot of people threaten to and so forth, but I've never had anybody zap me. I don't know that this would ever happen, one way or the other. I know I have not really zapped or nipped anybody, but once in a while, dropped a beam across a couple of anchor points they had, which sure short-circuited them for a minute. But that's about the worst I ever did, and only then usually for amusement, not for antagonism.

And last night I picked him up and I found out that nobody'd polished up his perception to a point where he could perceive his own anchor points. This was very peculiar. I mean, this is something like coming up to the scene of the accident and finding out nobody has put a tourniquet on somebody. I mean, it's just about that level of Theta Clearing, if we've got to compare it to medicine. See, I mean, this was — this was real, real weird omission. And it was finally carried home to me that the auditor was not aware of this.

It's a very funny thing, you know, you start doing these things out of antagonism and it sticks you. The mood with which you play a game is not anger, as anybody knows who's been part of a team on any playing field. The — it just is not compatible with the game, and your teammates have a tendency to sneer, and you have a tendency to bog down.

And I thought a little bit further, and I said, "It's not possible that auditors aren't aware of this because I haven't called it to their attention." And I finally had to come to that conclusion because I've only mentioned it occasionally. And a lot of Theta Clears and I, when we gabfest about this and that, hardly ever fail to mention something about anchor points, because you're talking then about a basic unit of beingness, which is space. And it's just something you talk about like lunch or ... And here all of a sudden — this auditor obviously had never — never polished this up.

Well, with all of this, what you're exteriorizing still boils down to this point: You have a being who, easily or uneasily, with ease or great difficulty, is going to be left in a state by your intention and activities whereby he does not have to be in a body to control one, and where he can resist the various inroads which life and time make upon him. Where he doesn't have to flip back through a between-lives area and go through this ritual and that ritual in order to get along. And that's what you're trying to do.

Well, gee, to straighten up this fellow's limb — if he had to straighten up his limb, he had two routes. One was just simply polish up the guy's perception and after a while the fellow would say, "Well, you know, I'm tired of having that arm. Flick. Flick. Pinch. Pinch. Square. Square. And bing, bing. And, I don't know, I think I'll remake the body too. Pinch. Bing. Shift. Bang." And that's the way, because thetans know how to do this when they get up along the line. All right.

And the problems you encounter are these:

The anchor point in his elbow was way out, the anchor points in his hand, the crushed hand, were utterly out of align, they were all at sixes and eights, and the anchor point in the wrist was out. And he hasn't been worked enough on just perception — just perception, not anchor points or any specialized kind of perception — to perceive the fact that the reason the arm remains in that condition is because the big anchor point at the end of the wrist bone (in the heel of the hand you might say, almost in that area), boy, it's smashed. It's just splintered. Boom. Well, that's all that's important about that (quote) "injury" — if we've got to talk about an injury.

One: He is very frightened of mest; can't control it, it more or less controls him.

I feel it's an imposition to talk about injuries. I'm no medico. I'm no sawbones. Hell, I've done my time in Siberia, everything else, but I've never gotten to the point where I had to saw on people to — for a living. Gee, if you're going to saw on people, eat them. Now, that's practical. It's like turkey. (audience laughter) In many societies, it's so regarded. There's one planet not too far from here, by the way, where they have a market where you go and have a good time, something like that, you buy five or six girls and take them home and eat them. I hate to bring in these crude realities! (audience laughter) Ah, well! And, of course, that's just about as silly as I feel in talking about these darn electronic structures.

Two: He is utterly bogged down in his own machinery, more or less so.

The only way that — the only way to know about an electronic structure is to look at one. And the only way to look at one is to get one's perception up. And if you consistently overlook them, why, you just aren't perceiving, that's all. It isn't that you have to "have a second sight" or "fill something in" or "guess it's there" or something of the sort — you don't guess that my body's standing up here, do you? It's that real, you see it and that's that. I mean an anchor point's an anchor point, and a GE's electronic structure is there. It looks like a flock of little sparks and balls and arrangements and so on. It's not very complex. It's very interesting, if you want to pry into it.

Three: He is enmeshed in energy of his own creation which at the same time is coincident with the energy of the mest body.

Well, let me give you, very swiftly, a remedy for an inability to perceive and arrange them. And you must understand that the fact that they are badly out of line is quite often the reason why somebody doesn't get out of his head easily. And quite often, it's possible for you to fix this up before he exteriorizes. You know, he fixes it up. You get him into a state of perception where he fixes it up and then he's three feet back of his head, boom! I mean, this is the easiest method of clearing I know. It's just — the fact that it falls down once in a while — the fellow just can't do it, so on, makes it necessary for us to have these other techniques. But if you're going to do it the fast way, you just say, "Oh, you see that anchor point in your right temple? Anchor point in your left temple? All right. Well, now, get them into position."

Four: Who probably has one or more body anchor points out of place, thus creating flows which make it difficult to exteriorize him.

And the fellow says, "Where — what — they out of position?" You know, and kind of in the center of his head, he goes krrr, pushes with one and it goes, click! And then pushes the other one, and it clicks into place — held in its proper framework, you know, in relationship to the other anchor points in the vicinity. Because it has a position; because they're in a position which is there because it has a position and everything is interrelated, one point to another. And it goes, click, and all of a sudden he doesn't have any flows or occlusion anymore and you can say, "Be three feet back of your head," and he is. That's all. I mean, that'd be very, very nice, but a lot of people can't do this, they get all fogged up, and you say, "Well, look at those anchor points in your temple and cure some of that temple flow that's going on there."

And five: Who is running more on other-determinism than he is on self-determinism, and is so given too much randomity.

And the fellow says, "What temples?"

And six: Who has resisted things to the point where he has become them.

Well, you're kind of stumped. And you say, "In the body, of course."

The solutions to these problems are just those solutions which are outlined in 8-C. But as far as pushing somebody out of his head is concerned, or getting him out of his head, this is of the essence very early in processing.

And he says, "What body?"

You understand that. There's no reason to keep stirring up the soup just because he's in it. You'll get him out of the soup simply by getting him out of the soup. Like that old Indian tribe that has all these terrifically wise maxims: "The way to cross the lake is to cross the lake. The way to eat duck is to eat duck." So on and so on and so on.

And you say, "Well, the one you aren't in."

The way to process a preclear is to remove him from his head or remove the head from him. See, one — you got two choices there. And the processes you use to do this roughly boil down to being able to be at another point than within the body; being able to push himself to another point than in the body; being able to vanish the body and other things so thoroughly that he is no longer in them; and being able to vanish energy deposits of his own with such ease that he's no longer confronted by them, and so is again not in them; or jettisoning everything he is trying to hold on to by remaining in the body, or demonstrate to him that he can control bodies without being in them. And any one of those, will exteriorize a preclear. Any one of them.

And he starts describing a body on the planet Zukiter or something. Mm! No, no, that — this case requires other treatment, obviously.

Now, there's one out of all these that I haven't mentioned very much before, and that is the control of the body from outside. Being able to control a body while away from it. You can do this by teaching him to control a mock-up at a distance from him. Control a mock-up in motion at a distance from him. And he has a tendency, then, to relax his control on the body.

So let's go about this the simple way first and know why we have this spacation in brackets — making space in brackets.

But how complicated do you have to get to exteriorize somebody? It's only really just as complicated as you make it as an auditor; really not much more complicated than that.

Now, a fellow makes space in brackets and puts space around the body — if he's in a body, you see, he makes space in brackets. That is to say, he gets — he puts eight anchor points around himself, you see, and then he makes them disappear. And then he gets the idea of somebody else putting eight anchor points around himself and making them disappear. And then somebody putting eight anchor points around somebody else and making them disappear. And then somebody putting eight anchor points around him, as a body, if he's still interiorized — around him as a thetan if he's still exteriorized, if he's exte­riorized already — and eight anchor points around him, and making them disappear. And himself putting eight anchor points around somebody else and making them disappear. And somebody putting eight anchor points out for somebody else, but around him. And somebody putting eight anchor points out around somebody else, but for somebody else. You understand that? That bracket was handed out to you yesterday. That's a bracket of six. All right.

For instance, I had a fellow do this one time. I generally can size up a case and take a look at it and fool around with it for a while, and — fifteen, twenty minutes, something like that — and unless the case is just a champion case, well, why then it takes maybe quite a little processing, maybe several hours to do it successfully, maybe fifteen hours or something like that to fish him out. That'd really be a championship case. Fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, something on that order; that is routine time on a difficult case to exteriorize the way I operate with them.

We do that how long? We do that till the fellow can get gold anchor points. And we just keep this up till he gets good gold anchor points, until these things are nice and bright. Of course, flows will fly around and so forth, and then we start him putting anchor points around the house and around the building and around the basement and around the room. And the next thing you know, boy, he can get nice big gold anchor points. It doesn't take him very long to do this.

For instance, I took twenty people one time, and threw all but one out of their heads, I think, in three hours. Just routine people. They weren't easy cases, either.

Now, if he's not exteriorized yet, why, we say — there's a lot of ways to do this: you can just look at him, but if that's too complicated, go and get an E-Meter or one of these probe meters and start passing it around or ask him questions until you've located where he has a chronic ridge. And then start — have him start mocking up anchor points and making them disappear on either side of the body where he has this ridge.

Later on, it was very interesting that auditors processing these people who were already exteriorized couldn't get anyplace much with the cases. And this was very, very weird to me. And I couldn't understand why this was taking place; till I found out that they were seeking simply an agreement with their own state, which was also very unfinished. And they sought this agreement with their own state, and nobody improved anybody else's state.

For instance, let's say he's got a ridge across his nose. He always talks about this ridge across his nose. Well, just have him mock up anchor points in its vicinity and make them disappear. Mock up anchor points in the vicinity and make them disappear. And mock up anchor points in the vicinity and make them disappear. Mock up anchor points in the vicinity and make them disappear. And all of a sudden he says, "What am I mocking up anchor points for? There is one there."

And they were all more or less stuck on this button: They were unwilling to give freedom to others. And you'll find that's a very, very upsetting button. See, you want to be free yourself, well, you have to free others. It isn't that you have to bring everybody up in agreement uniformly, you can shove off and go to the other end of nowhere as far as that's concerned. But if you keep on associating with people, why, you occasionally have your qualms about setting them free, believe me.

And you say, "There's one there? All right. Well, mock up some more anchor points and make them disappear. And mock up some more anchor points."

And it's something that can be touched in a case every once in a while. But it shows up on Step III: Brackets of space. Putting brackets of space around people. That will show up right away. So it's a button which runs out practically, and doesn't have to worry you. What you need as a technique is "brackets of space." And you do that because you want him to see the body's anchor points and his own anchor points and find other anchor points and increase his perception. So it pays dividends in all direction — as a concept it runs out. And you don't see it — there's a lot of hidden things happen — a lot of side effects would take place which we don't talk about. There isn't any reason to talk about them. They're just more significance, you see? All right.

"There's a real bright one there," he says. "In fact, there's two. And they're not mine." (Meaning they belong to the body.) "And you know," he says, "one of them's in a different position than the other one."

What's our problem with this fellow that seems very recalcitrant and so forth? Well, it quite often will be a problem which is as easily solved as this: I was going to tell you about this one case, that, oh boy, everybody had — they'd just given up on this case. "The case was — championship case, this guy — there was nothing to be done about this case." Just — oh, "He was mean, he was stubborn, it was because he didn't want to, it's because he wouldn't get any more sympathy, it's because he actually depended upon his state to get the sympathy of women and so he wouldn't get any more sexual sensation if he got cleared." And everybody had an explanation for this. They had leaped deep into the significance and hadn't bailed themselves out. When as a matter of fact, all the case was worried about was whether or not he could control the body from outside. He was sure that he couldn't.

And you say, "Well, why don't you just kind of move them forward, and just move them over so they'll be in the proper position with relationship to each other."

He was just certain that he couldn't. And so he didn't dare move out of it. He was a fellow who had lived rather dangerously, and so had had a lot of problems of sudden body control in emergency. And he wasn't going on deposits of energy or any other mechanical reason, he just didn't believe that he could control a body from outside.

He does. They go click. The flows stop, the ridge stops and everything that's pinning him in his head stops. So he exteriorizes. You just say, "Be two feet back of your head."

Yet he didn't state that belief to himself. It was just something he lived with all the time, like the little girl who had a migraine headache for the first five years of her life and somebody took it away and she was very surprised. And the shock was almost too much for her to be without that headache, because she — you see, that was not normal to be without a headache.

The single difference between a person who exteriorizes easily, you might say — in terms of structure, if we must be in structure — we can talk a lot about a lot of reasons, but the single difference between a person who exteriorizes easily and one who doesn't exteriorize easily is that the person who exteriorizes easily has the majority of his electronic structure intact, and a person who doesn't exteriorize easily has some portion of his electronic structure disarranged or damaged. The repair of it is the manufacture and adjustment of these anchor points.

Well, that was the way this was with him — it was an unexamined concept. And he was exteriorized in this fashion: "We will now run the button 'I cannot control my body while I'm outside of it. I can control my body while I am outside of it. I cannot control my body from behind it. I can control my body from behind it.' Be three feet back of your head. Okay." That was a real tough problem.

Now, I could draw you a beautiful three-dimensional map, undoubtedly, that would show you where every one of these things is, but it's something like drawing you a map to show you what a clock looks like, you know? I could draw you all kinds of pictures to show you this clock, and I could say, "Now this is — figure up here is twelve, and this figure down here is six and these other figures are here, and they're there, and the hands go around this way." And I could keep showing you these pictures of a clock. But it'd be much smarter, if you didn't know about a clock, to just simply get a clock and say, "This is a clock."

Now, you'll feel silly more times than once when you finally fling somebody out of his head or fling his head out of him. But you understand there's only — I mean, it just happens with great ease, and you say, "I wonder why I was toying with it all this time, why I just didn't do it."

So that's the best way to do, for you, is to say: "Now, this is a clock. Any one of you have got a clock. Any one of you has one of these structural patterns. The thing to do is to brighten up your perception on anchor points, brighten up your perception in general — thousand ways to do it — and just brighten up your perception in general, one after the other, exercise after exercise, until these things become clearly visible to you."

I've seen a case, by the way, rehearsed on Self Analysis and other processing and — that was acknowledged to be a very difficult case. And I've seen the case going on week after week, getting this type of processing and getting light processes, and everybody being very nice and kind of snide about it, and — a difficult case. Until one day — I just keep wondering when this was going to happen — some auditor would get bright enough to say, "Now, why don't you be three feet back of your head?"

Well, it doesn't matter whether you're "in your head" (unquote) or not. It doesn't matter whether you actually start out with any visio at all. You just do these exercises till you can see these points, and then you adjust the anchor points and out you go, bang!

The fellow for the past month, any day of the past month, could have been three feet back of his head, but nobody ever asked him to, you see?

This is of the essence; this is simplicity itself. But it's with great surprise that I watch an auditor who's had quite a little training, who's been exteriorized and so forth, fishing around endlessly with some preclear. I come in and I take a look at the preclear, and the preclear's got an anchor point out of line.

So I always start a session that way. Just in case some other auditor has flubbed the dub, or just in case I have a Step I — there's no reason to work hard at it. And I'll even do it on extreme cases. I had an eighty-two-year-old woman one time on the couch, and she had no more than sat down, and she knew nothing about Scientology, and I said to her, "Now, be three feet back of your head," and she says, "Okay."

Well, what's wrong with this preclear? Well, part of his electronic structure is in a state of dispersal: ridges have set in between two anchor points, or some­thing of the sort. Actually the ridge is made possible by, if you please, the displacement of the anchor point. The anchor point isn't displaced because the ridge is there. Now you adjust the anchor point and put it in position, and the ridge has no further ability to stay there — bing, it's gone. You see, this is elementary.

I caught my breath slightly. And — because she didn't appear to be a body build that would have done it at all, and I kept wondering if she was going to make my — the break of, "My thetan is over there," or something of the sort. She didn't. She sailed right on along the line just as easy as pie. She went all the places I asked her to go to, and she gulped a couple of times thetawise, but she kept on going. And we blew up all kinds of things and patched up all kinds of things and so forth, and I don't think the session took forty-five minutes, and she walked out of there an entirely new woman. We rearranged all the anchor points and rearranged the space of the body, and — oh, did all kinds of odds and ends. Forty-five minutes, just brrrrrrrrrrrrr, see?

Now, I look at some preclear being pushed around and beaten around and the auditor sweating and groaning and straining and so forth. And the audi­tor trying to run out the sinusitis or something, thinking, well, if he cures the psychosomatic illness — if the auditor becomes a doctor, then he'll make a Theta Clear. That's what the auditor's saying; that's the proposition he's running on. If he becomes a doctor, and turns into the field of medicine or turns into the field of psychiatry or psychology or something, he will make a Theta Clear. No, sir! He'll make a Theta Clear as a Scientologist, and that's the only way he'll make a Theta Clear. And he just might as well stick with it and stop validating all these reasons why the pc has attention ... You see why it defeats itself?

And so one is always ready to be — quite willing to be gratified by finding out that, at the first moment of the session, you can exteriorize somebody. Or reversely, that you can banish their own universe and them from where they are setting — you know, where they're sitting — and then have them be someplace else, and then have them put their body back there. You know, that works too.

The pc offers you this twisted ear, which aches all the time. Well, what's he using it for? And you validate the mechanism which makes him win — he thinks. But to win that way, he's going to lose.

You know, you just get the guy in practice at unmocking his head and then have him in practice on unmocking all the blackness or odds and ends of energy deposits around him. And then just first unmock one ear and then the other ear, and then this ridge and then that ridge, and have him duplicate some ridges and then unmock them. You know, duplicate — duplicate and unmock, duplicate and unmock, duplicate and unmock, duplicate and unmock. And you got his right ear gone well, he's certain of that. Now he gets his left ear gone well and he's certain of that; and then he's got his nose gone, the top of his head gone, and finally, you've got his head gone. Well, don't bother with the rest of the body. He's liable to bog on making something else leave. You at least got his head gone.

So if you start treating a psychosomatic illness, you are giving attention, on a sort of a spineless stimulus-response basis, to that machine which is producing something with which it can attract attention. And the fellow's been doing this for so long he doesn't want that kind of attention anymore, and yet the machine keeps on doing it. And you're right up against that type of automaticity. The second you begin to walk into the field of medicine, psychiatry, psychology — any specialized field which is organized to remedy and address illnesses and that sort of thing, you're violating your own basic tenets of operation to the degree that you won't get the job done.

Now you say, "Be over in the corner of the room." You see, you've got his head gone and all the ridges gone. Remember, it takes both — both, see. And you tell him, "Be over in the corner of the room. Okay. Now put your head back on the body." So he does — (snap) he's out.

Now, because this young boy shows up with a withered arm — the auditors on it did a pretty good job, by the way, but because he shows up with a withered arm, these auditors get all in a flurry and a flussy about this withered arm. And they start doing things with and treating the withered arm. They did this to a point where, because I noticed it and that many days after being processed it should have been in good shape — and because I noticed this, I had to, some degree, validate it by making him make it disappear a few times. And then I went right to work on perceptions. Anchor points, anchor points, perception of anchor points — bring his perception up. Didn't take very long to bring his perception up to a point where I asked him to look at his right arm and find them. Then I brought his perception up a little higher, "Now look at the right arm and see if you can find some anchor points. Now bring your perception up a little higher. Now look at the right arm."

Now, there's various variations like that. I expect an auditor to be kind of bright about this sort of thing. There's this case: this case, you say, "Be three feet back of your head," and the case says, "Mm-hm," and you go right ahead with your drills, and you just go right on and do everything you're supposed to do and so forth. And then you say, "This is the end of the session," a half an hour or forty-five minutes or an hour later, and if you were insensitive, you didn't recognize there was something a little bit wrong. There's just a feeling about the case that this was kind of haywire somehow.

Oh, he finally saw them. Now he's — finally is looking at them.

Why, if you didn't — if you were kind of insensitive about all that, why, you didn't see that, and an hour later, why, the person says, "You know, well, I just still don't see quite what you're doing; everybody can do that."

"All right. Now, get a look at the pattern of them in the right arm. Now fix them up that way in the left arm."

Well, you can launch into a large explanation if you want to, about Scientology and so on. That is not what is required at that moment. This case doesn't know anything more for having been worked this length of time — believe me, there's something wrong.

And he jockeyed back and forth and he finally found one.

What's the remedy? You just go through Orienting Straightwire, Step I. Because this case has worked all the processes you gave it with viewpoints. You get it? They didn't go to the moon, they sent a viewpoint to the moon. This case is just a little bit scared of looking. See, that's the only thing wrong with them. And so they use viewpoints.

He completely overlooked though — and because it was late I didn't go on with it; I've got to grab him yet — his perception isn't up high enough, that's all. He completely overlooked the most obvious, glaring thing.

Now, if you waste viewpoints, and have him make and unmake and waste and throw away and create and destroy and duplicate viewpoints all over the place — just tell them next time, "Now you be three feet back of your head. Okay. Now are you in your feet?"

Is that light in the chandelier there? I mean, is it obvious to you that there's a light in the chandelier? Well, it's this obvious to anybody who wants to look, that the main anchor point at the termination of the wrist bones, in that point of space, is smashed to smithereens. It looks like a small atom bomb that's gone off and half-done the job. And that's what's wrong with his arm.

And they say, "No."

Well, this would have been remedied if the persons involved had simply gone on with Scientology. You see that? If they'd just gone on with Scientology, which is the rehabilitation of a thetan. Hasn't anything to do with rehabilitating some product of a thetan. Just rehabilitating the thetan until he can create and cause to persist and cause to desist and get rid of those things which fall below an optimum solution for survival. And you do anything else than that, you're just interfering with him.

"Are you in your knees?"

I quite commonly process some preclear whose relatives or friends tell me consistently about the preclear's health. They keep talking to me about the preclear's health. Just how non sequitur can we get! True enough, the preclear's health will interfere with the speed of processing, but the second that you pay attention to it or validate that state of health, you've slowed your case down remarkably. Just stay right straight there with Theta Clearing and make a good thetan. Every time you start a case, just make a good thetan.

"No."

Now, he keeps complaining about the body: why, you're not getting his anchor points up and getting his perceptions up so he can see anchor points, you're getting his perceptions up so he can operate. And you get them up so high, he'll start looking at the body without your even calling attention to it.

"Your hips?"

Now, you can do this kind of work by exteriorizing somebody and then just tell him to fix up the body. But, by golly, in about 25 or 30 percent of the cases you do that to, he'll look at the body — he was all right up to that moment; the second you asked him to look at the body, his perceptic level was so small he couldn't perceive this for the first time from the outside, it was such a shock, such a surprise to him, that it caved him in and he went right back into the body. And the next auditor that got him had a job on his hands! You get the idea?

"No."

This idea of asking somebody to look at a body after he's outside is dynamite! And you sure better know what you're doing. Well, as an auditor, you better be very clear about that preclear. I don't ask anybody to look at his body until I see the guy's in awfully good condition. He might not be in good condition for a heck of a long time.

"Shoulders?"

But sometimes I will ask him to be the space of his body and be the space behind his body and be the space in front of his body and be the space of his body and be the space of the room and be the space of the body and be the space behind the body. What are we doing there? All we're trying to do is get the guy some space. We're just getting him to take a long breath, one way or the other, and we're exercising a thetan. See, we're getting his attention off of that body — so we can work with him. Not because we want anything to do with a body. Bodies are sometimes pretty, they're sometimes aesthetic, they are sometimes carrion, but they're never important. Never! And when a Scientologist forgets that primary principle, he's forgotten all he knows.

"No."

When you address and suborn Theta Clearing to the repair of a unit organism, why, you're just using some tiny, tiny, tiny little scrap of what you can do and saying that little tiny, tiny scrap is all. Because Scientology was never, never designed, and isn't at this moment designed to repair psychosomatic illnesses or remedy bodies or fix up aberration. It was designed entirely to make good Operating Thetans who could create and cause to persist and cause to desist and get rid of what they pleased. And that's its entire goal. And the second that you've got that fixed firmly in mind and that is the goal, and the second your processing itself heads toward that goal — why, boy, will you be a roaring success as an auditor! And until that time — uhh! No. So let's just change the postulate on this.

"Hands?"

The body can give trouble on exteriorization because you're trying to take the thetan out of a piece of warped space, if you please. And you can pick up his perception while he's interiorized to a point where you can readjust the anchor points that are holding him in the body. And I don't know how far you could go with this, but you can go a heck of a long ways. And the way you would do this would be simply to run brackets of space around him until his perception was real good, and he could see them real good, and then you get him to look around himself and adjust these anchor points. And that's all there is to it.

"No."

Okay?

"Head?"

"Hmm — no."

"Okay. Now, you're sure you're not in your head?"

"Yeah, I'm sure."

"All right. Now let's mock up a whole flock of viewpoints and throw them away. Let's mock up a lot more viewpoints and throw them away. Let's mock up a lot more viewpoints and throw them away. All right. Let's put a viewpoint down in front of the Walt Whitman Hotel. Take a look at the Walt Whitman Hotel with that viewpoint."

And they say, "Uh-huh."

"Now blow it up, and be in front of the Walt Whitman Hotel and take a look."

"Okay." And back they come.

You say, "All right, now be back of your body again."

Now, what's the difference between being in front of the Walt Whitman Hotel and having a viewpoint? Well, you can't see as well with a viewpoint, they'll tell you. But you needn't be excited about any of this because they're not excited. What they did — they did all their drills and exercises by using and throwing around viewpoints. And they did it quite well, but they're — using a viewpoint does not give one the reality of being there, for the excellent reason is, he's not there.

And so he has a foggy notion. He is (quote) "uncertainly exteriorized."

There is no two ways about it. If the guy's out, he's out. If he's in, he's in. If he's out and thinks he's still in, or if he's in and still thinks he's out, or is uncertain about either state, he's doing what lookingness he has and what reachingness he has — he's doing that with auxiliary viewpoints.

They're little things that look like four-bit pieces — little gold viewpoints. They're what people wear over their eyes like monocles, and what people try to buy down at the dime store and call "glasses." Only you can't buy a viewpoint, you can only make them.

Now, there's the uncertain case. Now, I don't care whether that case is occluded or precluded; it just doesn't matter. That case is using viewpoints.

Now, every once in a while somebody will say to you — and boy, if you don't sharpen up your ears and fan for this one, you just ought to — well, ought to go dump yourself for a good bath in the Delaware River or something and refresh yourself, to wake up. (I can't think of any nastier place to swim.) Anyway . . . Because this one, if it ever passes you by, you ought to be shot — just that. Because sometimes it's the only real clue you'll get as to a case. You just wonder, "What the hell is wrong with this case? I seem to be able to process this case like mad and nothing seems to happen. Case never has anything happen. What am I going to do about this case?" And you — instead of blowing your brains out, why didn't you discard them as useless, and just know where you are. You just didn't listen to this case, or you didn't look. Of course, if you're real sharp and real hot and well cleared, you just look and you know what the case is doing because you can see it.

But if you're just auditing blind, so to speak — tin-cupping around — the only clue you'll get to this case is location, reference to.

You say, "All right, now are you back of your body?"

"Yes, yes," and so on, and you go on and on. And then the case will refer to "there," you see. And they will say, "I'm over there."

Mm-hm. Now you got it. Now you got it. This case is exteriorizing some sort of an astral body. It's exteriorizing a mock-up. And is quite normally doing it automatically. And such people will often go into wild arguments with you as an auditor, of mysticism versus Scientology or something. There isn't any mysticism versus Scientology. Mysticism was a lot of information the boys were collecting and using that was definitely on the route to discovering Scientology. But believe me, it was on the route. Scientology didn't go back there. If we were using mysticism today, you'd be a bunch of sick, dazed cookies; I mean it. Because I'm probably one of the best mystics in the United States, and I know what I'm talking about. Take it from the horse's mouth — neigh, neigh!

But remember this: that the person has an automatic piece of machinery which exteriorizes and handles for him what he has been calling, and what he would call, and what is proper parlance for, an astral body.

They do astral walking with these things. And every once in a while somebody's going to come along and say, "Exteriorization? We've been doing it for years." See?

And you're going to try to explain to this person, "No, no, that isn't what I mean, quite. Yes, I mean being away from your body."

And they say, "Well, that's right, being away from your body." And you're evidently in perfect agreement and completely confused.

They have, by hypnotism and by self-direction and other means, a set-up machine — a mechanism — which dispatches something of them, complete with viewpoints, to a remote situation.

Well now, if you know you're here in this room, you have the same level of certainty, when you're even vaguely certain, on being exteriorized. See? I mean, if you're in Grand Central Station, you're in Grand Central Station. You didn't send your hat to Grand Central Station. You get the difference here?

And this person is going to give you a bad time as a preclear. Going to give you a bad time. Because every once in a while they'll slip. Even when they're being tremendously cooperative, see, they'll skid. Because every time you audit them, you set this machinery into operation.

You say, "Be back of your body," and they very comfortably are back of their body. On what drill, see? On a mystic drill: astral walking, seeing at a distance, talking at a distance. Actually, this — these practices have never amounted to very much in the Western world. They've never really gotten savage about this. But if you — they — these people are real good at this (other planets and in the East), they're real good at this. They can talk at a very remote spot.

And this is what you get today where that — the rather lop-eared comic sits up there with the dummy on his lap, doing (quote) "ventriloquism" (unquote). See, I mean that's not ventriloquism. Ventriloquism is talking someplace else. That's real ventriloquism.

Now, that's the mockery end of the Tone Scale. They got it down close to mest, and they have a dummy. He wouldn't have had a dummy, he would have sent a mock-up dummy someplace that would be talking. That would be ventriloquism. But raising those — not raising those powers, but being that able to do this has long since ceased to exist, actually, on this planet, except in some very remote spots where they're not even vaguely interested in demonstrating anything to anybody.

You can do this. I was — showed somebody how to do this one time when he was — he was, himself, by that time well exteriorized and so forth, and we'd had a lot of arguments about astral walking and so forth, during sessions. Not because I wanted to argue with him about astral walking, but we'd had difficulty with this early in the processing, you see? He'd say, "Yes, I'm back there."

"Grrrrrrrrr!" You'd say, "Now" — you didn't say that, you see, you didn't growl — you said, "Now, you ..." Very carefully, you said, "All right. Now, you see where you are back there? You got that? Now be in that spot."

And eventually, by just exteriorization, just standard techniques, he would be well exteriorized. But this was standing in the road because it was a trained pattern.

You know, they — sometimes a guy will hypnotize himself and send himself at some vast distance away and come back with this vast piece of information. It's just putting remote viewpoints, remote hearing points and remote talking points, was the way it used to be very early on the track, and a lot of people still got these machines hanging around. It's developed to an automaticity. When he said, "Boo," he was then in the general's headquarters, you see? When he said, "Boo," he could then put these things at general's headquarters. Of course, a fellow who was doing that actually had lost his nerve slightly, because why didn't he go there? See? It's just as easy for him to be there.

Well, he'd lost his nerve to the extent that he probably had to safeguard the body which he was near. So he was already sold on this body he was near, if he was doing this trick. But actually, it's — very early on the track you'll find thetans doing this uniformly and just fooling the devil out of each other, which makes life as a thetan kind of interesting.

A little bit too much randomity: All of a sudden this horrible face appears before you and says, "Boo," and you blast it, and the author of that face, of course, was mocking it up from half a light-year away. You didn't blast him. That's very random. And this machinery, where this has happened to somebody and so on, is sometimes quite thoroughly installed.

But this is the one — you won't have any trouble with this case — if a person can make his body astral walk, you can certainly tell him to be there too. And — sometimes such a case, however, has been used himself — sent from one place to another, early on the track. You know, somebody grabbed him, and grabbed him as a body, and then made him go someplace else, and held his body in pawn. And he's just been shifted around from one corner to the other of the universe, so you say to him all of a sudden, "Be three feet back of your head" — you're just the goon squad on Planet X, see? You're just the boys from Mars, as far as he's concerned. He isn't going to go a foot. To hell with you. This has happened to him too often. You'd have to slug him to make him go. He volun­teered the 195th thousandth time and that was the last one, and he doesn't volunteer anymore.

That's sometimes his trouble, is — the trouble is a small lack of confidence. However, you show him that you're working all right, or you don't mean to gobble him up. He'll get out of his body cautiously and then wait for you to grab it, you see, or wait for you to suddenly zap him and send him off to some other mission or someplace, then he'll gradually relax. And you'll note this case. It's this case that exteriorizes very tensely and rather watchfully where you're concerned. Watches his auditor very closely. Well, he's just afraid you're going to send him off someplace or grab his body.

And then that just is remedied by continuing good conduct on your part — you don't do him in or change his mind or give him impossible things to do, and he's all right, he's happy about it. And he finally develops enough potential so he isn't worried about such a thing anymore. All right.

This person who is "over there" is actually a relatively easy case — if you've got anything like ears or vision. They'll say this in many ways. They'll say, "Do you want — do you want me to look at — at the lamp up here now?" They'll gesture toward themselves.

You just catch that clue. It may be the only clue you've got. The other one, of course, is the person is not getting certain and not getting better fast.

Now, actually, theoretically you could just keep astral walking them, you might say, and they will eventually exteriorize, if you just kept drilling them. Theoretically. But I'd give it a fifty hours or something, because you might just start running on the machine, you see, and just work more and more with a machine.

Now, another thing is, is you occasionally run into putting emotion into walls and putting light into things and so forth, also as automatic machinery which you as an auditor just start handling. The pre-c isn't doing it. He's having a rough time. He knows he's doing it, but he's not doing it.

The way to remedy that is to have him put something into something that he's absolutely certain that he himself put there; and then have him put some­thing else into something. And if you still run into trouble, put him on that old E-Meter and just run the gamut of emotions. Just call them off one right after the other, and you'll find one that he doesn't care for. And you have him put that in things. And he'll know he'll have to do that, see. He could put the routine emotions in machine-fashion, but that one that's tough — well, he — you wouldn't possibly realize that he wasn't doing that easily until it was almost too late.

Well now, the methods of exteriorization must, whatever they are, remedy a preclear's entrapment in his own energy deposits. That must remedy that. So if you validate his own barriers — his own energy as barriers — you'll just make it harder and harder for him to exteriorize. Unless you're putting those barriers far enough away from him so that they constitute his making anchor points as in Self Analysis. You see him putting them out there and putting them around in various places.

So if you validate his own ridges and barriers too much, too often, he'll — he's liable to get bogged, that's all. He conceives what he has put up as indestructible. And when you ask him to feel of his body, he doesn't feel mest flesh, he merely feels his own equivalent of it.

Now, that's unmistakable, by the way; a man knows whether he's handling a nose or a ridge. And he's liable to tell you he feels his nose when he feels much more strongly his own deposits of energy pouring around somewhere in his head.

Well, it's not for you to go and clean up all these energy deposits in the head, because you're inside a thinking machine and the more stuff — more energy you have him throw out, you see — the more energy you have him throw out, the more energy will cave in on him.

What you do is have him use this material as a barrier. And, as I showed you, using black barriers or white barriers or pink barriers or blue barriers, you have him put up barriers of his own energy in succeeding waves going out from him, each time looking through the last one to the next one. And you just finally get him to the point where he can look straight through his own energy.

That's the simplest drill possible. That's his own universe, you see. And then you turn around and get him into good contact and then out of contact with mest by the other drill, which is look to the wall — to the right, and then the one to the left, and up and down and back and so on, just looking through succeeding walls and finding nothing and then sitting there and knowing; and then finally just finding nothing in all directions and sitting there and knowing, which is an advanced form of the same thing.

And he knows he's looking at nothingness as far as mest is concerned.

And then you make sure you check him over as far as his own universe is concerned — he knows he's not running into ridges of his own universe.

Where a man's own universe is actually thicker and heavier than the mest universe, he's in very heavy competition with the mest universe. And where he doesn't have any at all of his own, he doesn't feel to be in competition with it particularly. This is neither bad nor good either way, it's just a changed condition.

So you have to solve those two factors. Now, there's another factor that's bound to creep in, is freedom for others. And as long as he wants others not to be free, he will continue to set an example by not freeing — being free himself. And this is solved by space brackets.

And as I was talking to you about a little earlier, in the earlier lecture, when you've solved some of these things, when you've gotten brackets of space around him, when you've managed to clean up some anchor points, when you've gotten him to get some anchor points and made them disappear in an orderly fashion and so forth, why, you'll probably find out that there is an anchor point reason, within the body itself, for the mechanical inability to exteriorize. See that?

There's some misarrangement of anchor points which set up consistent, continuous flow, which makes him feel that he has to hold on or hold something apart; he has a feeling something is going to go wrong in the body if he deserts it. This is the case that he can't get outside of it and control it, not because it isn't controllable so much as the fact that it'd fall in, collapse, or fly into a million pieces or go into a lot of random motion.

We had a case like that — the early morning. Somebody — second we started to put up black barriers, why, some random motion — threatened random motion set up. And — this would have escaped you, probably — we handled it as an automaticity. We handled the body going into random motion as an automaticity. We wouldn't have achieved, but it would have been the same thing, if we'd said, "I can control my body from outside; I can't control my body from outside," see? We'd have had the same end result, but we probably wouldn't have gotten there just with a concept.

The person who can't be exteriorized doesn't exist. They just — I'm sure of this, you see. I've exteriorized people in Spanish, French, English, American, various — oh yes, I didn't use the language, but it was done in African, five times.

I've even exteriorized an Arab police official. Now, this is the ne plus ultra. Because they're at 1.5, and they're beefy, and they look — they're just nothing but solid glass — black glass ridges, in a hot country, with all their prenatals in complete restimulation. And if you can slip one of these boys out of his head, you can do anything. Because it's just like asking somebody . . . He has to know all this is solid, you see — if he doesn't know it's solid, he isn't there. Now you ask him to make it unsolid so that he can slide out of it or something, and you got a picnic on your hands. And yet exteriorized him. Using what techniques? The ones I'm teaching you. I haven't used anything else but this type of exteriorization for a long time.

Now, it gets fancier. It gets fancier. It gets more codified. It gets better understood what the results are. The drills necessary, the communication of it becomes better understood. But the actual operation of exteriorization is just the same operation as before: It's using the native abilities of the thetan to have the thetan be someplace else than amongst his body and own energy deposits so much so that he's continually hit by flows and aberrations.

You get him out away from it, clear him up and make him strong and tough, and he can handle any reactive mind. And that's all there is to the problem. You get the body away from him, or him away from the body, and he can operate. He doesn't belong in a body because he's not very able in a body.

Now, your problem as an auditor is not a foggy one. There isn't anything odd about it. It's actually — this is just this act of exteriorization I'm talking about, you understand. I'm not talking about making an Operating Thetan, it's just this one little act.

It's actually only one part of a great deal you can do. But you're starting in at the tough end, and then going toward the easy end. And if we just had the person cleared before we stepped him out of his head, you see, it would be very easy. But that would be a reverse process. And that's not a possible process. We find him in his worst state, and we have to ask him to do the most incredible thing we will have to ask him to do, which is be away from all these ridges and universes and involvements. See, we're just real tough.

Now, quite often I'll look at somebody and realize that he won't exteriorize easily, and realizing this, I don't ask him. I merely run the operation that will lead immediately toward his exteriorization. I see, for instance, that his eyes and so forth, demonstrate consistent and considerable flows and so on, and realize it'd be very improbable for this individual to be three feet back of his head. But what do you know? I've made a couple of mistakes that way. I've actually stirred a case up that I shouldn't have stirred up at all.

Now, I — afterwards I did it experimentally. I took a case that should have exteriorized easily, and then stirred the case all up by running wasting machineries and Step IVs, see — a lot of stuff Step IV, and a lot of stuff on Step V — and got the case so it couldn't exteriorize. Nailed him. And then, of course, slid him out of his head by sliding the head off him.

So it can be done. You can make a mistake that way. The way to err is to wait too long to ask him to get out of his head.

Now, there is one that never stirs him up, and that's Orienting Straightwire. "Where aren't you thinking? Where aren't you? Where aren't other people thinking? Where aren't they? Where aren't you?" And that never stirs him up — just makes him look. And any technique which makes him look is better off.

Now, I sometimes get somebody down to about a III or something like that, I have to ask them to put a beam out. But boy, I make sure I drill this person like mad. If I can find somebody — find the front of his forehead, and give it a push and be outside, then I drill him like mad immediately on perception and get him up Tone Scale quick. Because if he slides back in, he's liable to stick and require a rougher going-over to exteriorize him next time. Because this boy is using too much energy too often.

And that's about all, actually, besides experience, that you need to know about methods of exteriorization.