Exteriorization and the
creation of energy
An
article by L. Ron Hubbard, from
the First International Congress of Dianeticists
& Scientologists lectures
You know, every once
in a while somebody will walk down the street,
and he will need a hat. And he'll see that
there's a hat sale, and he will have an
excess ten dollars in his pocket. And he'll
look at the hats, and there's a hat there
he likes very much, and he looks at the
hat, and then walks down the street without
buying the hat. Why?
Well, he knows his insufficiency of supply
is so great that he can't have a hat. This
is stimulus-response; it is not rational.
There's no reasonableness to this. He has
the money in his pocket; he has the time
to go in and buy the hat; he needs the hat;
there is the hat he wants; and he doesn't
buy the hat, because he can't have a hat.
Why can't he have a hat?
Now, you could go over and talk with somebody
on this line and try to argue him into realizing
that he doesn't have an insufficiency of
supply, and he will still have an insufficiency
of supply. You can reason, talk, cajole,
bribe, do anything you want to this reactive
mind, in an effort to lead it into a reasonable
activity and adjudication of its environment,
and it will still go on being a normal human
being.
You can, however, reduce its motion. Its
motion reduces, but doesn't increase. The
reason the motion of the reactive mind doesn't
actually increase in terms of controlled
motion, which is to say, increase in terms
of better procurement of energy, is because
it isn't manufacturing any energy. It is
borrowing energy from elsewhere and using
it.
Now, it starts barrowing this energy from
the beingness of the person himself, which
iswe call thetanagain,
a mathematical symbol.
And the reactive mind has an insufficiency
of supply, and the thetan, the being of
the personthat's you, by the way.
People who go around talking about "My
thetan thinks
" You're just listening
to some more of this reactive mind, because
a person doesn't have another thetan; he's
it. When he says "I" and what
he means by "I," and everything
he means by "I" is him, and that's
the thetan. And the thetan gets a lot more
things added to him that are not necessarily
him but he's appropriated them too, and
Freud called it "alter ego," because
it was a nice term. Well, in the same way
we use thetan as a nice term. And
a thetan there, it may be still perfectly
competent to usecreate and useenergy.
But the reactive mind, with which this being
is still connected, is energy-hungry, terrifically
hungry for energy. And so every time the
being puts out a little erg of energy, the
reactive mindthe thing the analytical
mind is runningthe reactive mind soaks
up from the actual reasonability of the
person, slurp, what little bit of
energy the reasonableness of the person
puts out, because of an energy starvation.
Do you see that?
A person could be very, very competent
in creating and directing energy. And every
time he creates a little energy, it sort
of disappears and he doesn't quite know
where it goes, and before this he never
knew where it went. Now, you ask this person
to exteriorize; that is to say, you ask
this person to be at a little distance from
the body. This will come to a lot of people
as a shock when you do this to preclears.
You justin off the streetsyou
just say, "Be three feet back of your
head now."
The fellow says, "All right, II
am. Nowhey!" Big shock. He finds
out just in that moment there that he doesn't
happen to be an integral part of this MEST
thing.
Now, when he's three feet back of his head,
he has some little chance of putting out
a couple of ergs of energy without getting
them soaked up, as long as he doesn't have
his attention immediately upon the body.
But if you could put him out there several
miles, he could then safely generate some
energy, because it wouldn't immediately
be taken away from him by the reactive bank.
Now, the reason the reactive bank can take
it away from him is because a large portion
of the reactive bank is his own. This is
just old stuff that he picked up like goats
chew up tin cans, and he just sort of picked
this up here and that up there, and he's
got this old favored facsimile that he swiped
someplace, and he's just got junk, junk,
junk, junk all around. And it didn't mean
anything and it didn't do anything to him
till one day he got into confluence with
the body. And when he got connected with
the body he put this stuff into the body
too, like you put things into trunks in
the attic. And now it matches his wavelength
and he can control the body better and this
works out just fine; only he isn't just
quite sure how it's working out, but it
works out. But every time he thinks he's
matching the wavelength of what he put in
there. And all of his controls of the body
and everything he's ever taught the body
is matching up with his wavelength.
And so every time he thinks, the body picks
up an energy which is creates and it starts
to act as a sponge on a starvation of energy.
And as a result, when he makes a facsimile,
the facsimile itself is pulled in, just
like it was water going into a sponge. And
when the thetan puts out a little beam of
energy, pam, that goes into the body.
Now, I'm not talking about anything strange
or esoteric. Because all of these things
have been strange and esoteric, one has
a feeling that maybe they still are. But
if you just take pc after pc and you say,
"Be three feet back of your head."
"Now be eight miles back of your head."
"Now, that's fine, now put out a beam
of energy." "Now walk across the
ceiling." "Now findchange
something." And then, "Now come
back and pick up the body and throw it over
on the couch." And he does and
Every once in a while you get a preclear
that does it just like that. He doesn't
know anything about what you're doing. You
have to assume if it keeps happening, person
after person, that it must be an objective
phenomenon, instead of an objectionable
one.
- L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the First
International Congress of Dianeticists &
Scientologists lectures

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