From taped lecture 6305C16 5/16/63 SHSBC #293 The Time Track

And we've used other methods to approach this problem of the time track. Amongst those other methods were exteriorization. "Try not to be three feet back of your head." I don't know how many taxi drivers went out of their heads and their cabs climbed the curb in New York when they pulled that gag over the air, you know? That was pulled over the air and was done quite successfully. "Try not to be three feet back of your head"-over the radio. And it's all very well and the odd part of it is, the thetan is free. You'll have some fantastic experiences, but you can get a synthetic state-a temporary, momentary state of a thetan which approximates his actual state if he didn't have a bank-by exteriorization. I've exteriorized people-they've lost their stammer, their lumbosis, everything else. The only person I had trouble with when I exteriorized him, it didn't cure his cough. And then we found out he was coughing. Didn't have any chest to cough with, but there he was out there, fifty, sixty feet from the body, coughing.

But that state doesn't last-doesn't last, because the individual is in a state of low morale at the time you do it. And even though you get him away from the bank, you've just taken somebody away from the central control office and made him leave all of his files behind and he sort of thinks that those files can be straightened out and he definitely knows that he must have them in order to know anything and he goes along just so far and then he'll jump or get scared or something will happen, he'll snap back into his head.

You can do this to an individual two or three times and then he won't come out anymore. He's very suspicious about it. Everybody, however, can be made to exteriorize. But you've exteriorized them out of the bank to a marked degree, but of course the bank follows them. You can exteriorize somebody out of a body and then exteriorize him out of his bank. See, just tell him to be three feet back of the mass that he's associated with. "Be three feet back of your head. All right, you've got a black mass there? Oh, all right, that's fine. Be three feet back of the black mass."

The individual gets a foretaste of what it is like not to be pushed in on all sides by these black masses and things, see? But it's a momentary foretaste, because he'll take his attention off what he thinks he should hold his attention on, he'll collapse back into the bank, the bank collapses back into the body and now, he says he doesn't want that experience again. Actually what it does is restimulate dying. This is more or less what he does at death. But he takes the bank with him at death. Now, the only possessions a thetan has consist of this bank. He really doesn't own anything else at a moment of death on this planet due to the laws of inheritance and other mechanisms. Various times on the track a thetan has tried very hard to straighten this up-when you died, you didn't lose everything, see? And it has been more often true on the track that you didn't lose everything than it has been that you did. But-so a thetan is actually conditioned into this and he considers it a considerable deprivation. So he very-makes very sure he keeps that bank very close to him, because it's the only possession he knows he can hold onto. Yet it's in terrible state and he doesn't want it in that kind of state. It's really no use to him, but he hopes it will be of use to him, and he couldn't get away from it anyhow.

Well, the approach of exteriorization is frankly a failure. You can do remarkable things exteriorizing people, but it is a failure. You better know something about exteriorization; it'll always help out an old buddy who's just been knocked down by a freight train or something of the sort, and there he lays gasping his last. Well, tell him to be three feet back of his head, you know, and go on his way.