The phenomena of exteriorization
An
article by L. Ron Hubbard, from
The Rehabilitation of the Human Spirit
lectures
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 variuos ways people got exteriorized.
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 conditionsthe various conditions you encounter.
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 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.
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?
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.
The answer to this is the validation of MEST barriers and the invalidation of the thetan's own barriers.
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.
And the other part of the problem is, he is frightened of MEST. He's rather frightened of it.
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 verytoo close to the wavelength of that wall, and thehe'll stick.
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 justyou see what's happening there. I mean, he'she has something you might call a theta body.
Well, it's very silly for him to have this. It's not something he sends aroundhe'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.
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, 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 he will get out in one of these (quote) "theta bodies" (unquote), and lay his handyou know, theta body hand, it operates just like a MEST body handand 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 freenever 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.
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.
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 aon the end of his arm, you see, in lieu of a hand, which is almost a handthere's just three, four, five, stringers, all of which are in very strong vibration.
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?
Of course, they have a sort of 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 electronicthis sounds like something out of a nightmare, I knowand long electronic claws. And, I asked this character a few questions, one way or the otherI mean, I exteriorized him just that way, you see, exteriorized him in his bodyand 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!
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.
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.
This fellow, by the way, was quite afraid of demons. And he'd mocked hishe 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.
- L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture EXTERIORIZATION
from The Rehabilitation
of the Human Spirit lectures
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