From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 6 - May 1992
 
Going Toward Cause
by Bob Ross, USA.

It seems to me that auditing a person toward freedom can be discussed 
as though the body was a car. We can drive around in our cars and get 
in and out of them. Different people have different cars. We don't 
feel it necessary to know how to take a car apart and put it together 
in order to get in a car and drive it and get out again. 

But, that is the approach scientology processing has been taking. As I 
see it, there is an infinitude of complexities which can be explored 
about the physical universe. Some common one's that most people will 
agree don't need to be studied in order to go clear are such things as 
chemistry, physics, astrophysics, astronomy, cooking, tailoring and so 
on. We don't need to become an expert in every field of human 
endeavor. Nor it seems to me do we need to become expert in implant 
GPMs real GPMs, OT3, NOTs, Captain Bill's advanced procedures, and 
other things. 

It may be helpful or not to learn about these things and become expert 
in them, and run off the charge which they consist of. But, to me, we 
can also look at this as though we were in a play. An actor can assume 
a role and after the performance shuck that role. Next night or 
matinee he or she gets back in that role again, or someone else plays 
it. This is done without changing that role noticeably. 

Exteriorizing Versus Changing Abilities

Similarly we as beings should be able to leave our roles on earth for 
shorter or longer periods of time or even permanently at our own 
choice, whether anyone else takes them on or not. There is no 
necessity to modify our roles in order to depart from them or to get 
back to them. We have different bodies just as our cars are different. 
We can have a black Toyota or a Green Cadillac. Likewise we can have 
bodies of various racial and ethnic backgrounds in various conditions. 
Our car can have a missing cylinder or our body can have a broken leg. 
These things do not affect our ability to get in and out of our car or 
body.

The desire to change the condition of the body and mind is a whole 
other subject from the desire or struggle for Freedom. A great deal of 
processing has to do with changing our role and our ability to play 
that role in society, -not- in becoming free of our body or our role.

As I see it, for thousands upon thousands of years there have been 
people who have become free of their bodies (what we call 
exteriorization) often with miraculous abilities, while still having 
the body in whatever shape it is in. They know they are not their 
bodies, so it really doesn't matter to them that their bodies are less 
than perfect. In fact, it might make other people less jealous of 
their abilities if they wear weak scrawny or crippled bodies rather 
than physically perfect bodies as well as being magicians. Though the 
bible mentions ages of 900 years.

Achieving Exteriorization

Some form of solo auditing, which we can call meditation, assisted or 
not by an e-meter is needed to become free of the body. Why only solo? 
Because, one has to recognize oneself as cause. And to be under the 
control of an auditor with that auditor being cause of the session 
conflicts with this. How can one possibly practice at being cause 
while being effect. Well, a good auditor grants beingness and permits 
the pc to be cause more and more in the session. But at some point or 
another the preclear has to take off on his own just as a child leaves 
his parents.

That point, in my opinion, is the point at which the preclear 
recognizes self as not the body. Up to that point an auditor is 
necessary, beyond that point any auditor becomes less and less 
necessary and eventually become limiting to the preclear. Maiken Borre 
has told me that she has found many preclears bogged down from doing 
Route Two auditing, which includes the entire bridge, and needed to be 
run on Route One, after which they flew as preclears. Some preclears 
start at this point. Others, I think, hit this when they need an Int 
R/D and should get Route One as soon as the Int has been completed.

In my opinion, processing in general is helpful to free up a person 
from his case but becomes less and less helpful, until at some point 
it becomes useless and even adds to the case, as pcs create or misown 
bank in order to run it. 

This can be looked at as a kind of overrun. All one has to do to 
correct this condition, as with any overrun is to find the point at 
which being audited became unnecessary and then indicate that all 
auditing past that point was unnecessary.

This is similar, basically, to the idea which Ron spoke of long years 
ago, that the track is endless and that there is no future in just 
running more and more engrams. One has to go a different direction.

The parallel I see here is that many people are researching more and 
more ways in which this MEST universe is put together. There is more 
and more complexity being discovered. This data is useful for the 
individual who happens to be trapped in that complexity so that 
knowledge of that particular complexity is that person's road out.

Not everyone had the R6 experience. Not everyone had the OT2 and OT3 
experience. Not everyone went through the same implants. The answer 
is, audit the case in front of you toward cause. Run what needs to be 
run, not what someone else benefited from. Check things, spend a 
little time, but don't waste time.

To my way of thinking, the road out for most -people is by greater and 
greater simplicity. Greater complexity, like running more and more 
engrams can be a trap.