CHAPTER 11 - MOCK-UPS AND EXTERIORIZATION
REALITY AND ACTUALITY
The differentiation between
the actual and the real is made in this series of lectures very closely.
We're dealing with the actual and not dealing with the real. What's the
real? The real is the MEST universe. What's the actual? The actual is you.
You know you exist. That's the most actual thing there is.
People are lost on the time
track because they don't have any space.
The mock-ups that he puts
in his own space appear and disappear with such ease, compared with the
mock-ups he puts out in the MEST universe space. Is this space actually
his own space? If he has done this sufficiently and if he has done it well
enough, he actually has parted company with MEST universe space. It is
his own space. There's a certainty of dimension which is not coincident
with MEST universe dimensions. And therefore the MEST universe could not
override that space.
When you've taken your space
from the MEST universe, you have difficulty with energy because you can't
put mock-ups in space which isn't yours. If you can't put mock-ups in it,
that means you can't put energy in it.
A fellow thinks he's still
operating his home universe, he gets Start, and he'll get things three-dimensional.
And then you say, "All right, change it," and it'll be not quite so three-dimensional.
And then, "Stop," and it goes flat. Everytime he proceeds to stop it, he
find it's sticking on his nose practically. It just flies in and hits him.
That's because Stop at 0.0 has no space, and Start at 40.0 does have space.
Differentiation is simply the distance between the particles.
When you devote your own
energy to it, you're going to have something worth having, but when you
insist on having that energy handed to you by the MEST universe, you'll
wind up with trash - every time. The confusion that's the MEST universe
is not important anymore to address. Rehabilitate the individual's ability
to handle his own and make his own space and energy. And only then can
he or you be sure of what's happening.
THE MEST UNIVERSE AS ILLUSION
Is the MEST universe an illusion?
Yeah, that's an interesting question.
An illusion is something
somebody made himself. And let's call a delusion something somebody else
made. A delusion could also be something the preclear has made that he
has then said somebody else made it. Everybody kind of understands that
word "illusion" to mean something that doesn't exist, and when you say
something has no existence, you mean something cannot be experienced. And
I show you immediately that you can experience an illusion; that illusion
exists. So existence can be an illusion, can't it? Here it is. It can exist
because it can be experienced. You have to have something that can be experienced
before somebody can agree upon it.
We merely mean by illusion
the technical definition, that which one makes which can be experienced.
By reality we mean that which is made and which is commonly experienced
by agreement. And delusion is that which somebody else makes and tries
to push off on us as an arbitrary necessary experience.
Is the MEST universe an illusion?
Next test.
A guy's got to be able to
perceive an illusion before he can perceive the MEST universe very well,
without using the body's eyes and other perceptic channels. That's one
of the things that led into creative processing. You see the thing is an
illusion. You improve the guy's ability to create illusion and he all of
a sudden begins to look at the MEST universe, and he sees it better. We
find out that the ability to perceive an illusion determines the ability
to perceive the MEST universe. This person becomes more and more capable
of producing illusions and perceiving their character, depth, size and
their emotional tone. And as his ability increases in the production of
illusion, his ability to perceive the MEST universe increases uniformly
with it. What do you know! You have to be able to see an illusion before
you are able to see MEST.
We're practicing this with
the preclear with mock-ups. We have him reach out, put a mock-up out there.
"Feel the cheerfulness coming
from that mock-up."
"Feel the intensity of light
coming from that mock-up."
He knows, he puts it over
there and he gets it back again.
What you want him to be
able to contact are things which are strong, exciting, interesting and
complex sensations.
Is the MEST universe an illusion?
Well, the handling of illusions
solves the confounded universe and solves the problems which are contained
therein. Finally you'll get him so good at creating his own things, that
he can uncreate MEST objects in his area.
He can always uncreate MEST
to the degree that he can create mock-ups - that's for himself. And if
he can create mock-ups that are visible to others and solid to others,
he can uncreate MEST that is observably uncreated for others. Uncreation
of MEST is a process right along with creation of mock-ups. You call it
'unmocking' because MEST is just a mock-up. He's in a body - if he could
unmock the body, he could move out of it.
Some time you might ask a
preclear, "Did you ever run into something with a car?"
The fellow says, "Yeah,
yeah."
You say, "Now, let's take
that visio you have of that stopped up.."
He'll say, "Yeah, well,
I do have a visio of it."
And now you say, "What is
the visio of it?"
"It's just an instant before
the crash."
He's still got this picture
of the brick wall, the tree, the other car and so on. How do you finish
up that picture? You don't find this picture washes up very easily. Give
him a mock-up of the same tree and let him finally do with it what he was
trying to do. And at the instant you succeed in that, he no longer has
that picture. He stopped time evidently. Just an instant before the crash
he tried to pick up the tree and put it a block down the road so he couldn't
hit it. There was an object there and changing the place of this object
in space was his intention. His inability to do it tells him that he hasn't
changed the object in space so he still sits there and he's got a facsimile
of it. And he still looks at it as not having been changed in space and
he looks at it as a big failure.
Just drill him. Let him
do what he was trying to do which was to pick up the tree, the car, the
brick wall and he knows he can do this in his own universe. And that's
all he's interested in rehabilitating, is his ability to do it in his own
universe.
Your own manufacture of
mock-ups and so forth is actually in contest with the MEST universe. The
MEST universe says, "Look how big and strong and real I am, and how weak
and puny you are. My reality is brighter than any actuality you can make."
This doesn't happen to be true. The reality of the MEST universe is poorer
than an actuality which a preclear can gain in his own universe.
But he shouldn't let a body
hanging around some train, or so.
THOUGHTS IN OBJECTS
A piece of matter is actually
thought, effort and emotion all at one and the same time. When you pick
up matter sometime you can feel what it has to think. Of course, it doesn't
have any think in it at all, except it's a sort of a solidified thought.
It just has that appeal value to it. For instance, this ashtray has a prettied
up thought in it. It doesn't say 'ashtray'; it is saying 'pretty piece
of pottery'. And whoever made it and so on, this is the thought that went
into it: 'a pretty piece of pottery'. And it has an emotion, that's very
strange, it has an emotion something like agony. Don't go nutty on this,
but you ought to ask a piece of matter sometime, "What thought is in you?
What effort are you capable of? What emotion do you express?" It'll sometimes
be very startling to you what a clear-cut certainty of answer is sitting
there under your gaze. Remark: Sometimes such an object could command a
low-toned person to do something, like a knife telling someone to commit
a murder. Which is also something a picture on a screen (which in itself
is an object or a via) could do. Ancient weapons even have engravings on
them, encouraging the owner to use them.
It's very amazing to pick
up a small cannonball of some sort or another that's lying on a battlefield;
it's still thinking the same thought, if you can call that thinking. There
it is, more or less made with it. Why? Its present time is Always - always
at the bottom of the scale. Remark: You could go about "reading" the thoughts
contained in objects of unknown cultures, or of forgotten civilizations,
or even kitchen or clothing utensils no longer in use. This is one of the
reasons why ancient ruins are sometimes awe-inspiring. Technique 80 (The
Route to Infinity) has more to say about this aspect and was a venture
in this direction.
MOCK-UPS
1. Definition
A mock-up is something that
exists in present time and sits someplace. It is not in the past. It's
right here. It is made by the preclear, or nearly so. You put energy in
mock-ups - a very light type of energy. It doesn't bear much resemblance
to force. The mock-up is more real than actuality as some people here are
finding out. Certainty that he created it himself, whatever it is, tests
the mock-up.
You can do a much better
job than this universe, by the way. Another trick of this universe is,
the test of reality is solidity, anything nebulous isn't real. However,
the only real thing there is, is an idea. Nebulous? It doesn't exist in
space and it doesn't have any energy connected to it. There isn't any aberration
or upset so powerful that he couldn't possibly mock up anything about it.
There's always a gradient scale that he can attempt.
When you're doing mock-ups,
you're not converting energy. You're putting energy into a new field, handling
it in a new way, and the facsimiles actually come loose, detach and blow,
and that is that. It has been demonstrated that the level of operation
of a case is uniformly as good as it can mock up.
2. Properties
Very often a person who has
had a great deal of experience with people who hallucinate will be instinctively
afraid of getting a controlled mock-up. Hallucination is an uncontrolled,
unwelcome, come-and-go-without-being-asked thing, and a mock-up is a heavily
controlled thing. A mock-up occupies space of the preclear's creation.
There is a mechanism in the mind which will see little imaginary pictures.
And they go by flickety-flickety-flick. It's usually a circuit. It's controlled
to some degree, but that's not a mock-up.
A mock-up is out in front.
A mock-up has distance from the preclear. a mock-up has substance. And
when you get good on them they have body. Drill your preclear about reaching
over and feeling the body of the mock-up every once in a while - the thickness
of it.
A mock-up must be persistent.
A person ought to be able to take a mock-up and put it out in front of
them and have it stay that way until they say otherwise, and not have it
do all sorts of weird things.
You can actually have his
mock-ups go out - poom. He can't get anything. See, blank, black, nothing.
Well, the reason I'm mentioning this is I don't want you to shoot the preclear
at that stage or shoot yourself because you've done a bad job of processing.
That's to be expected.
Remark: If a person gets
mock-ups with lots of automatic random change, these mock-ups will turn
off at some point. The person then has to fall back to simple things like
controlling a mocked up spot, and build up gradually the complexity of
the mock-ups, but they will now be much better under control.
The automaticity is sometimes
very bright and very steady, and the difference between automaticity and
no automaticity is simply that he knows he put it there. High scale he
knows he put it there, and in heavy, deep, low tone scale automaticity
he doesn't know where the devil it came from or who it belongs to. That's
the essential difference.
A mock-up is a thing. It
isn't something thought up as a concept. Some cases haven't even asked
themselves, "Have I got an object?" No, if it isn't located in space and
time, they haven't got an object. Ask this question, "Where is the mock-up?
Where did you put it? What are you doing with it?" When you tell them to
do something, then find out if they did it.
3. Drilling
Whatever you tried to do
with ARC in the past, you can do with a mock-up, knowing something about
their energy characteristics and behaviors. Remember that you don't mock
up an anchor point - don't make that mistake. You put an anchor point out.
An anchor point is real. It has actuality.
Let's take a gradient scale
of color of mock-ups. It would merely mean brightness of color. And it
would run from none (no color) to brilliant. The fellow has possibly black
and white, or gray and not-so-gray. You get him to contrast one and then
contrast the other one.
Now there's quite another
thing about mock-ups, is he able to handle the mock-up after it is created?
This again is an index of the state of the case, but not anywhere near
as good an index as certainty.
That first little trouble
you run into with a pc, in Creative Processing? He can't move it around.
This surprises him a great deal.
In processing to restore
self-determinism you make your strongest and only effort the attainment
of the goals and capabilities of theta, as stated in Q1.
This is very pertinent with
mock-ups. When you say to the preclear, "All right. Move that mock-up further
away from you," and he starts to shove on the mock-up, it comes back toward
him. If you just say, "All right. Now we want the mock-up to move further
away from you, give it a little pull." And what do you know, it'll sail
right out away from him, because his postulates are all mixed up in reverse.
When he does one thing it does something else. Sad. Very sad. Very remediable.
One of the most beneficial
things you could do with such a preclear is to bring one point under control.
Get the preclear to mock
up something and make it disobey a natural law. Let's make them mock up
a billiard ball and fall and hit the ceiling. He has a bad time trying
to make the billiard ball fall upwards in the exact degree that he's aberrated.
MOCK-UPS AND AUTOMATICITY
Getting upscale a little
bit, you look over automaticity and you will find it in the creation of
illusion. People start creating illusions, and instead of creating the
illusion they put it on an automatic circuit. Homo sapiens is very good
at rigging up these automatic circuits so that he won't have to pay attention
or think about it. And that is the entrance point into automaticity. The
person is perfectly powerful, sane, able, all-pervasive and capable of
enormous goals up to the first moment that he says, "I'll rig it up so
it's automatic." The first instant that he says that, he has said at the
same time, "I am insufficiently powerful to concentrate on more than one
point at once."
The fellow has a terrific
desire not to be responsible for what he himself creates. And that reflects
itself in creative processing in a randomity in the objects created. You
will see automaticity in action in a created thing, as a few extra bounces.
Then he tells himself, "Well, I wanted it to do that." And he will kid
himself along for a long time excusing these inabilities by saying that
was part of his intention and he will actually have himself fooled that
this is the case. Remark: an instance of justified thought.
Sometimes there is automaticity
to such an extent that a person's mock-ups go out, apparently, before he
starts to get mock-ups. In other words, they can get pictures, they can
get lots of pictures but the pictures aren't much under control and they
aren't of what they called for and a lot of other things. They are not
mocking up. All they're doing is looking at a big circuit that feeds them
pictures.
Where do those buttons come
from that your people have got on the clothes they are wearing in those
mock-ups? That's automaticity. You mock up this dog. Where does his hair
come from? Where does his barker come from, if he barks, "Woof-woof!"
Did you make him a throat?
You've made an automatic picture of a dog that was behaving because you
have automatic circuits which have trained you to mock up in such a way
that a dog looks and acts like that. And so you just mock up the MEST universe
equivalent and you've taken the MEST universe for your automaticity.
You've got to be able to
build a "wumperjump". And you've got have practically all the automaticity
out of the bank to get a good wumperjump. And you want to know what a wumperjump
is - well, build one. It's a totally original idea. It has nothing to do
with the MEST universe at all, it isn't just a scrambled MEST universe
- he doesn't bark with his tail or pant with his ears. He would be an operating,
functional beast of some sort, who you probably had a purpose for. There's
no reason why somebody has to use the MEST universe for a pattern.
MOCK-UPS AND FACSIMILES
A mock-up will often lock
up when it strikes too close to a MEST universe actuality. If you're having
lots of trouble with some mock-up sometime, it might not be your preclear's
ability at all: it's just you've insisted on mocking up his mother when
you should have been mocking up something that had a pumpkin for a head.
The reason he couldn't handle this mock-up is, every time he tries, he
begins to think it's his own facsimile. And then he doesn't know whether
he is trying to change the facsimile of mother or a mock-up.
Remark: "Mother" is a significance
arbitrarily assigned to some mock-up, and the preclear has to be indoctrined
regarding this.
Just make sure that he turns
the thing enough colors and adds enough idiocies or enough changes until
he's completely sure that it's his own creation, and not a real universe
facsimile.
If he's worried about his
facsimiles being in present time, tell him to mock up a facsimile and put
it in yesterday. All he has to do is say, "I know it's in yesterday," and
the thing disappears. Yesterday is "I recollect that I had, and now I don't
necessarily not have, but I probably don't have now."
Work any way you can to
get him to make things disappear in space. Another method of getting things
to disappear in space is to put out anchor points and put an object in
the midst of them and then you collapse the anchor points. And that stuff
will disappear - there's no space for it to sit in. When a fellow's really
free, he can create space and make space open up and close down around
these things, including formerly aberrative terminals.
There isn't any reason why
he shouldn't be running the nearest facsimile to him five miles in front
of him. This is the trick on space. You've got to drill your preclear into
realizing he's got lots of space and that he can create lots more.
EXTERIORIZATION
1. Introduction
The Hindu has a terrifically workable lot of data lurking in the midst of a terrific lot of very treacherous data. You get a mystic, a fakir or a yogi low level sitting on a bed of spikes to discipline the body and telling himself, "I am training myself not to have and by this I shall ascend and rise to the highest of controls and nirvanas." And there he sits with a body. He's playing tricks on himself. There he sits with something that has to want continually, and he says at the same time: "I will only be happy if I do not have and therefore I must deny everything." And so he gets where? He gets on a maybe. And it can be said that it's from that datum that the very confusing quality of Indian practices arise.
We could take a Homo sapiens and just simply tell him under hypnosis he was somebody else and make him orient and regulate and monitor the activities of another person we told him he was. Remark: this is similar to the goals of Remote Viewing, or other espionage applications.
2. The State of Thetan Exterior
You find your preclear can't get out of a body because he considers that the body needs him too much, but you can really transfer the awareness of the thetan all around inside the body. And then you could transfer that awareness outside the body slightly. You get the fellow by drill, drill, drill, finally to start thinking of himself as a beingness that can be any place.
When he gets outside, he
loses his present time anchor points, and he doesn't know where the devil
he is. Don't get him shifting things around in relationship to his body,
because he's not in his body. Don't get him shifting and relating things
before and behind him, because he probably doesn't quite know which is
ahead and behind him, and you get a thetan looking both ways simultaneously,
he's capable of seeing at three hundred and sixty degrees spherical vision.
He mixes up his dimensions
and crosses them, until he's got space under control. The second he lost
his body, he lost his orientation point and there went his havingness.
So his time went shot on him. He has an insecurity on his havingness now
because he suddenly realized he's not that body. That body owns things,
he doesn't.
When you get out as a thetan,
you're travelling on a high frequency wave. The first thing your preclear
may do is slam into the ceiling. And then he realizes suddenly that he
does not have mass, and he goes on through the ceiling. Sometimes he has
to fish around for a little while to find the wall of the ceiling in order
to come back through it and use it as an anchor point. He has to practically
repostulate it in order to get back into the body.
How thoroughly is a thetan
out of the body? You can get a near absolute just on this alone: do they
have any sensation left in the body when they're no longer in it? And if
they haven't got any sensation left in that body when they're out of it,
believe me, they're out of it. Including fear of sensation. And that's
why we say the test is to kick'em in the shins and see if they snap back
in. Crude test, effective though. They can best manage this body if they
can handle this body without any sensation in the body. Because that means
they have to handle the body by postulate alone and so won't get trapped
into using energy any more around the body.
This thetan will be attached
to and still haunting the interior of this body to the degree that he thinks
he has to survive. If he has any slightest feeling about "having to survive",
he'll keep one foot on home plate. He feels he's got to survive as a thetan?
Nonsense! How could he possibly survive as a thetan? Survival means continued
duration in one state or another. And if he has an idea that he has to
do something to continue his duration or beingness, he's not out of the
body.
A preclear works best out
of his head. A person working outside the body is mainly shifting postulates,
and is not much influenced by energies, objects, ridges and that sort of
thing.
3. Abilities
A guy backs out the back of his head and thinks for the next two, three years and then moves back in again. They've been gone for a fingersnap and worked out very complicated problems.
You can feel through a bed. You can put a beam down through a featherbed and feel around, but it doesn't feel good.
Sometimes it scares them to death: They get out of their body, they say, "I couldn't do anything like this," and they come over and see this box of matches, and they say, "I wonder if I could ... WAAAUUGH!" And the guy will dive right back inside there. He had agreed so thoroughly - he disagreed too fast, too quick, and he's done for a while. A preclear has to be in awfully good shape before you start putting him in contest with this.
He can actually get out of his body and kick this machine, the E-Meter, around, much to the dismay of an auditor. But he really has to be out of his body to do it.
Deal in certainties. Give some exterior preclear who can't talk adequately a switch on a little light lamp or a flashlight or something so that they can say "blink" and "blink-blink", or fix it up so they nod "yes and no", or some system like that.
4. Exterior - What For?
The theta clear is in a state where his memory does not immediately confirm to him any duration of beingness as a thetan. He sees himself as an identity with the body, but the thetan moves out and leaves the personality in the body. Outside his head he thinks he's a mechanical object, or a spark. He has no appreciation of himself just directly as himself. He hasn't any concept of the fact that he IS joy; he is a higher level of aesthetic than a body could ever be. And he can, in his own interest, take a larger and more effective role in the affairs of being alive - I won't say "human affairs" - than a body could ever do.
It is important, "What is a thetan going to be? What is a thetan going to do? What is a thetan going to have?" A fellow can go out and change his future all over the place. It just depends on how much he wants to stay in contact with the existing eight dynamics of the MEST universe, that he will monitor and reduce his ability to change the future, or how much credence he wishes to give to other individuals that he refrains from changing the future.
THE FILECLERK'S GUIDE TO THE PDC
CHAPTER 11