3RD ACC 44 OF 28 JAN 54 "EXTERIORIZATION: COURAGE AND SERENITY" 1/2

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3RD ACC 44 OF 28 JAN 54 "EXTERIORIZATION: COURAGE AND SERENITY" 1/2

Transcript of taped lecture by L. Ron Hubbard
Third ACC lecture 44  -  5401CM28
January 28, 1954

EXTERIORIZATION: COURAGE AND SERENITY


Is it the 29th? - could be.  Alright, January the 28th, 1954.

Your understanding of this subject should have materially
increased. Let's take a preclear and take a look at him,
communication wise, and what do we find, what do we find. 
We find a whole bunch of ridges and masses of energy which
lack a proper form but which are composed of communication
segments. I don't care if there's eight billion million
yards of communication line or which direction it travels,
it's composed of segments and segments always go from C to
E. You can take any Western Union Telegraph line, you can
take any telephone line, you can take anything you want
that's a communication line and cut a section out of it
and you'll find out that it has a C and it has an E unless
it's a two-way conversation line at which time the Cs and
Es will reverse, but you still have the same graph. 

So, let's take a look at what this preclear's been trying
to do. It started out as a Thetan to be cause, got into a
body and became an effect, therefore, his early lines are
all causative, his later lines are all effect. The curve 
of the universe is from create to destroy. That parallels
communication line from cause to effect, with create there
in the same position as cause, and destroy in the same
position as effect, with effect in the same position as 
destroy, and with cause in the same position as create. In
the middle of the communication line you have the
persistence of the message. 

Alright! Let's take a look then and find out this
tremendous bundle of connecting links and so forth,
communication lines were originally of very simple purpose
- and that was simply cause to create an effect. 
Significance?  Yeah, cause to create an effect. Very
significant - cause to create an effect, no further. Not
to create an effect because of, or into, or on the other
side of, or to invert the noodle paddles of. No, no, no
significance here at all, it's just cause to create an
effect. Then we got a classification good and bad, and
this classification, to some degree, was monitored by this:
Control consists, consists of the ability to Start,
Change and Stop, Start, Change and Stop at the effect
point. So, communication was essentially duplication. A 
fellow started and changed and stopped at the cause point
in order to get the effect at the effect point of
starting, changing and stopping. 

Military people are always going around and saying,
(intentionally garbled nonsense).... No, pardon me, that's 
stated incorrectly. It's hard to be wrong on this one, "He 
who would, he who would learn to command must first learn to
obey", that's what they always say. In other words you
got to be both ends of the communication line. If they
said, "He who would learn to command had first better
learn to obey himself", why it would make good sense
because most of the people you find commanding, can't obey
themselves and they expect everybody else to obey them but
they can't obey themselves, but they don't put anything
there to duplicate so you can't duplicate it. So, if you
try to duplicate it, why you can't and it's just a mess
(chuckle)- in the army. 

Anyway, we cause to effect, so therefore we find
duplication and communication both in the same bin. Well,
communication, when it travels as a particle, of course
meets resistance of one kind or another and the
duplications are not as perfect as they mightbe, therefore
you get a jam on this line. There's always a jam on a
comm line. I don't care how slight it is, there must be
.. there's some error, some friction, some inability to
make a complete duplication and so you get imperfection in
the communication line - cause to effect. The effort to
get the communication through brings about an, an
obsession to control at E. You see, because the thing is 
impeded, why then they try to control it at E. See, who
cares up to that moment, they find out then that there's a
resistance in the line, so they'd better overcome the
resistance one way or the other. Well this is control. 
The definition of control is: overcoming the resistance
of. That's a definition of control. 

Okay! It's alright if there were just one line involved
here. If you just had a Thetan connected to a body, for
instance, and when the Thetan said jump, the body jumped,
but that isn't what happens. The Thetan says jump, he's at
a finite point, he isn't buttered all over the bank, he's
at a finite point, and he says jump and it runs a little
distance and says, "can't jump". He plows through that
somehow or another and it goes to another one and says,
"jumping is like horses", and then it goes through another
comm jump and it says, "one can't be a horse", and then it
goes through another comm jump, parallel to that you still
got the original message with some sense in it, and you'll
say, "jumping is ungentlemanly, so therefore horses are
not gentlemen". It goes through another one and it goes
round and round and curls through the bank one way or the
other and it keeps hitting these resistances because, -
essentially what? You're controlling your body through a
consecutive series of energy deposits which were laid
there every time you did not complete a cycle of control. 
When a cycle of control is not completed, an energy deposit
had a tendency to be left in suspension. 

The Thetan, quite normally, puts in these things
consecutive with the mest universe time element. Most
people's commands are going into the bank at the 
assumption, there's command. First effort to control. It
runs through the bank, unlike conception, straight on up
through the various multiple incidents of existence, each
one of them filtering and altering the communication 
somewhat and finally arrives in some sort of a state of
control. It becomes very interesting when you regard the
engram and when you regard valences. The command which
the individual, who is now let us say twenty years of age,
puts into the bank as a Thetan, is put into the bank, if
he's not in good shape ordinarily, is put into the bank at
the assumption point. You see? In other words, the
command, the command starts in at assumption and filters
all the way through the comm lines, each time being
monitored by the experience of the individual as
represented by those times when his control of the body was
balked. 

These communication lines go in and out to the degree that
they're restimulated. We get a tremendously mechanical
picture here, so mechanical that it could be drawn with
electrical symbols. Here you have these facsimiles and
these communication lines that the Thetan is using are
going on through all the facsimiles which are in
restimulation. When it hits a facsimile where poppa won,
the communication goes over and is monitored by 
winningness poppa. When it was a bannister that won, the
communication goes through the bannister. It goes through
poppa, the bannister, any ... his tonsillectomy, any
incident which is in suspense. 

You see, it's a restimulation and you mock up this
communication line and you'll see that it is travelling in
the most peculiar paths and going through the most
peculiar command deposits and when it comes out at the
other end, lord knows what's going to happen. 

Well, the Thetan gets apathetic about this after a while
and he just sort of pulls it in and wonders what's going
to come out. He says so and so and so and so and the body
has to be very closely watched because something else is 
liable to happen. He starts to say cat and the body says,
"de-de-du cat", - tries to say dog. And so, he's just a 
police force and he pours his commands in through the bank 
and then he jumps to the effect point to see that they're 
carried out, cured. It's the most balled up communication 
system you ever wanted to see. 

Now there is an old technique in one of the earlier SOPs
called ridge running. This is an interesting technique to
examine, not so therapeutic, but it's examination is
terrific. They say, you get the preclear to say walk, tell
the body to walk, and you have him observe very closely
what the body is doing.  If there's any little line that
turns white, that's what you want to know, you want him to
look and see if there's a little line there that turns
white, simply. 

Well, you normally will find one, and it runs for a moment
or two, or sometimes a minute, - white, while he's pouring
the command walk at the body, and then all of a sudden it
goes black. And he says, "what happened to that?"  So,
you say, " well, alright, - now have the body sort of say
to you, can't walk", and be alert for what's going on, and
all of a sudden he says, "You know", he says, "there's
another line coming white, only it's travelling in the
opposite direction". 

So, it travels white for a little while, then it goes
black. Now you say, "feed the body the command, "walk"
again", and this time the line is shorter but there's a
new line goes white, and it runs white for a little while,
and then you say to him ... it turns black, and then you
say to him, "now what command goes back against that?". 
He'll think for a moment, and he'll say, "it's gotta
jump". "Alright" you say, "alright the body's flowing back
at you with the statement, - you gotta jump". "Alright",
he says, "it goes white again", and that runs out and goes
black and then we run the command "walk" at the body
again and it goes through for a little while and turns
black. 

Now we gotta find the next abutment through which this
command has to filter.  In other words, the command "walk"
goes through ridge after ridge, after ridge, after ridge,
after ridge, after ridge and each one is an objection. 
Each one is a resistance to walking. So a Thetan very well
might say to a body "walk", and then, "well I don't know
if there's much reason to walk, let's take the car". He
didn't have any intentions of this but this is the final
conclusion he feels he must have arrived at. Well, what
made him arrive at this conclusion? Well, a lot of data -
no, a lot of ridges because all of those objections sum up
to can't walk. 

You can take a cripple and run this technique and very
often produce a fantastic change in his case because every
time the individual walked and it was a mis-command, that
is to say, he said "walk" and the body walked and ran into
a brick wall. He said "walk" and the body walked and fell
down. Every time the individual gave it a command which
came out badly, you got something on the line which
impeded the command. 

So the communication system, in this case, is a very
complex affair which is only complex the way it looks. 
You mean... you could ... you see, you could draw this
tremendously complex communication system - wires in all
directions, objections in all directions, thinking
machines set up, and monitor posts, and somatics, and
enforcements, and boy, you could just draw this up in all 
directions. It's just the most complex thing you ever
wanted to look at, but what it all boiled down to is C to
E. Now, he's trying to get a command from C to E, and any
part of that line, as I was saying there, you could take C
to E, it's just that one command, "now walk" and it runs
white. Well, it's working as long as it's running white
there, you see. Now, however, when we get to E, the E has
received the command alright, "walk", but it restimulates 
at E, instead of a duplication of the command to get
through the relay system, it hits something that it can't
go through and so we get the reaction, can't walk. Now
that's, that's the first mess up on the line and we have
the E point backfiring on the command line. So, we're
getting a communication which has become a conversation. 

Now, if you've ever had anything to do with a company of
men or a maid and you have tried to order these people, or
this person, to do something, you quite often found that
it degenerated, instead of a easy operation, which you were
trying to do, it degenerated into a conversation. What
you're doing is hitting a ridge in another person, "Well,
I don't quite understand why", "Well I really can't do
that". Shoot these "can't" people in an organization. 
Just take 'em out and stand them up in front a firing
squad, and go out and get something done, because what
they are is practically solid backflash. See, their bank
is so solidly backlashing that every time you, or they, try
to put a command into the bank, it's just a backfire. 
That's all! Just the impulse of a command going in causes
and motivates their behavior. 

But what's their behavior? They say "walk" - "Well, let's
all go dancing".  They tell themselves, "Walk down to the
corner" and this immediately comes up as, "Well, I guess
I'll have a coke". This ... anything ... no sequitur. But
yet, there is a sequitur situation; it's going through
multiple experiences and being redefined at each
experience ridge. Now, the individual never got into
trouble about this until he thought he had to resist
something in order to command it. He immediately
degenerated into energy. The moment he got into energy to
command something, there he went. See? He got into the 
energy flows and then he could get backfired at. As soon
as he started saying "walk" and then paid some attention
to why it wasn't walking instead of just walking it, and
as soon as he decided that it should behave in a certain 
fashion without his doing any more about it, he's tried to
set up some sort of an automatic motivation machinery, or
an automatic operation machinery, or an automatic moving
machine, see,to which he can say, "walk" and then it walks.
Well, of course, this works for a very short time and
then this automaticity start to break down and get into
this silly communication set up that you see in a bank. 
Now I don't care how complex this bank is, it breaks down
to this essential: That C to E must be a clean channel -
at least somewhere. But the whole bank is composed of Cs
to Es. 

Now, how much can you, how much can you by-pass? You never
heard somebody trying to train somebody who has already
been trained on the subject. You'll have a picnic. Let's
take a yeoman. He comes off the U.S.S. Missouri, I think
they got her off the mud banks; the yeoman has just come
off the Missouri and he has just joined the destroyer and
the destroyer has a great deal different type paper work. 
The yeoman probably handled the Captain's finger nail
parings, report of, the ... on the Missouri, and all of a
sudden he has to handle muster rolls and all sorts of
things. Well, the first thing he'll tell the fellow that
he's ..., his officer, his pay officer on the destroyer
is, "They didn't do it that way on the Missouri". The Navy
is ... The Navy, if it ever loses a ship, it's lost on
that motto,  As, "we didn't do it that way in the bureau,
we didn't do it that way on the Texas, we didn't do it
that way"...rrrrrrrrrr..., you see. 

They don't have a sufficiently simple communication system
so that it duplicates easily, and as a result, why there,
every time you give somebody an order, "well they didn't
do it that way on the Chester". The fellow's got a three
inch gun, the same three inch gun as he handled on
something else, and it's a small gun, and you'd be
surprised how many ways there are to handle one piece of
equipment about that gun. So the whole navy gets to be a
sort of a backfire organization. 

The peace time navy, you come in and you snap a command at
somebody and he's very snappy about snapping at you but he
doesn't go any place. He stands there and all of a sudden
we've got this dammed ridge situation going into an 
effect. It's really nothing simple. I don't know how
organizations of that type ever manage to control a ship. 
They just thaw. But, finally a Commanding Officer will
have that crew in line enough so that the majority of the
crew is going, in some variation of C to E, and eventually,
why, people coming aboard have to fall in line. Well,
where we have .... oh, also, very often the entire routine
of the ship gets altered just because somebody new 
reported aboard. 

Well, what, what you've got there, is essentially the
communication set up of the preclear. He makes a
postulate. Lord knows what happens to it. It sails down
through all these ridges, hits these automaticities which
were set up to do things automatically and here it goes
and it winds down through the lines and it becomes really
final. Well, what's it winding through? I call this to 
your attention again. It's winding through facsimiles and
engrams. The motto of all facsimiles and engrams is: 
that you go into them ... white, you might say, and come
out dense. It goes from a sort of a no density situation
to a total density situation. If you ask somebody to get
the idea of starting something, he's liable to get a three
dimensional visio and you give him the idea of finishing
something, he's liable to get a two dimensional visio. 

Well, this is anatomy, of a sort, and this anatomy is
easily plotted and it works over into the electronic
structure of the body. And the electronic structure of
the body is a system of anchor points which are located
around, and the Thetan puts impulses in the vicinity of
these anchor points and moves the anchor points and these
move what you see when you look at a body. It's a very
simple system. Anchor points are gold balls. They get
black and the individual eventually can't see them at all.
They get out of place, and then you ask the fellow to
exteriorize and he's trying to exteriorize out of warped 
space. Space isn't right - he's, he's all mixed up. Why? 
Because he's all dug in on these ridges and automaticities. 

Well, there are solvents that will start through this line
and go through this line and wind up at the other end
having plowed the line out. Auditing itself, done on this
ridge running basis will plow the line out. Not a very 
good process because it's tremendously limited but done the
way that it was written up, and the SOP there, it will
occasionally exteriorize somebody who was rather tough to
exteriorize. 

Well, all you're doing there is trying to get the fellow to
get a straight communication. You see that? He's got the
bank set up automatically to a point where every time he
puts out a little energy, or any time he stirs up some
energy, or any time he makes a postulate, it kicks
something in and then this something runs up against a
ridge. So, you say to the fellow, "Be three feet back of
your head". He just waits to be three feet back of his
head.  "Well, be three feet back of ... (muttering) ...", 
he's never gonna arrive three feet back of his head unless
you want to take it from this angle. Let's hypnotize him.
Let's make him a Thetan into a total automaticity. Let's
give him narco-synthesis and knock him out cold so that
he's total effect and then let's move him around at will. 
The only trouble with that is, you might exteriorize him
and make him sick, and the moment he wakes up he'll 
interiorize again, and he's just a little worse off than he
was before.  That's all that's wrong with that system.

Well, it adds up to the fact, that you occasionally with a
preclear, have to start plowing these lines out, one way
or the other and your auditing deals with various
certainties, and there's two philosophies here you can
choose from. One is, let's plow through the lines and the
other one is, let's get him to completely neglect the
lines. Two philosophies, let's plow through the line and
let's get him to neglect the lines. One of them is
handling energy, so therefore, it is a junior technique,
although it's quite effective. 8C, or, "three places
where you are not", "three people you are not" has a very 
interesting effect upon the individual and making him, to a
large degree, drop the lines, but this is not the
direction the preclear normally goes. 

The direction he goes is through the lines, so he keeps
expecting something to happen, something to happen,
something to happen. He sits there and he waits for
something to boot him out, a pressor beam to unfold or
anything to happen. Well you can build up, when you, to
some degree neglected the lines, you can build up his
postulates to a point where he just all of a sudden says, 
"what do you know, I have to do it". When he realizes that
he has to do it to be any place, why the guy's in pretty
good shape. Right there, he's in pretty good shape. And,
the other one is, let's push him up to the point where when
he starts hitting these deposits of energy, why he finds
he can go through the lines simply because he's plowed
down an awful lot of the ridges. 

Now there is a solvent. It's called courage. It plows
through these lines because it's the resistance sort of an
idea. It's always courage against something. So as
your... if your preclear runs courage, he will hit at, and 
come close to, this: He will start plowing through the
engrams of the bank through which his communication lines
are going, so he will go into two states, tend to rather,
go into two states, and one of these is fear and the other
is pain. Of course it goes into pain and it comes out
there as fear.  You get a dispersal effect because his
courage is to keep him from being afraid. 

So you get a second manifestation when you start doing
this, of control. Now, let's get back to what I was
saying first - what's this control? Alright, this control
is a interesting thing but control requites a continuous,
in such a crazy cat arrangement of a communication system,
requires a continual suppression of error. So, your
preclear is as bad off, as he's trying to suppress error
and you run courage for a little while and you'll start to
turn up, with him, the uncontrolled motions which he's
trying to suppress. 

Well, now here's good auditing. The preclear's feels like
he's going to fly apart. You just keep putting it into
the bank, not theoretically, you can just go on putting...
having him mock up courage and put it into the bank and 
he'll come out at the other end, but he may feel like he's
just about to fly apart at the hinges. 

Well, the reason why is, you have entered the line and here
you go through the communication lines and you've
restimulated fear and, of course, this is gone hand in
glove with inability to control and an awful lot of
mis-directed actions have been restimulated which he has
always been trying to suppress.  Well, one of the ways to
do it is to get him to mock up crazy motions. When he
feels he's about to fly apart, get him to mock up crazy
motions. Get his body flopping all over the place and you
know, mock up the body flopping all over the place, and
lying flat on it's back and popping over on to it's face 
and flipping all over, uncontrolled.

There are other unmanageable conditions such as a body
which will not move no matter how many postulates you
throw at it which is, of course, an apathy ridge. That's
catatonic schizophrenia, but the manifestation shows right
up on the ridge. Well you can run this courage just so
far and then we'll run into, possibly, some sort of
suppressed crazy motions or errors of one kind or another.
Physical motion, you understand! Control merely consists
of Start, Change, and Stop and he can't Start, Change and
Stop this thing at will. He said be calm and it flopped
all over the place.


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