For the love of GOD!
Hubbard could never have given us the view he did without being exterior at some point. David Mayo talked of Hubbard's session data with limited information, I don't know if Hubbard was in recovery, what the circumstances were, there is such limited information about this, but I can tell you this, anyone on this list who graduated an HQS course had to have attested to the last auditing cycle on CCH's which was going exterior.
How could Hubbard have issued this as an EP, such a simple little action, if he had not gone exterior himself and told others how to?
I was exterior before I ever came into Scientology, from a heroin overdose.
Fully outside of my body. I don't need David Mayo to tell me about exteriorization or imply Hubbards issue with it while on a obvious medical handleing in the desert.
HQS Course "exteriorization," on CCHs, only became inevitable when people were told they *would* be exterior doing that action. Most of the time it was pretty limp "exteriorization," and probably, in the average "Org," simply a state of self-convincing or wishful thinking, for most.
That said, IMO, "exteriorization," in some form, is probably as natural a state as wakefulness or sleep. It just happens, like the tide going in and out. Except that most don't remember it, as it occurs mostly, and briefly, during sleep, and it doesn't necessarily involve perception of the physical universe.
Hubbard sold "exteriorization" as a vague state of mind ("Oh, I feel exterior!"), and also as a dramatic out-of-body experience with vivid awareness of the physical universe. He didn't sell exteriorization with awareness of other planes of existence. No, he sold what every 10 year old wants: To be able to be invisible and to fly around, and in the physical universe.
And who wouldn't want to do that? What great fun!
Having (apart from Scientology) experienced - vividly, and knowingly, on at least one occasion - being outside the body, and experiencing, with delight,
such things as the tops of trees, with the sunlight illuminating the greenness of the leaves and radiating off the flat black slanting roofs of the houses - I have some subjective awareness of such a state.
But an isolated experience is not the same as "able to be exterior with full perception at will."
That's what Hubbard sold to people, and told people he had. There were many tip offs that it wasn't so.
For example, Hubbard's exasperated response to being asked - during the time that Ingo Swann was doing his remote viewing (around 1973) - why he didn't do remote viewing also? Why use the Guardians Office to spy on people with phone taps, lock picking, telescopic lenses, etc., when one could just exteriorize and look directly?
A little bit of his response (or reaction) to the question shows up in the confidential issue, 'Intelligence, Its Role', and it is an obvious question: why didn't Hubbard use his psychic abilities in "data gathering"?
Probably because, while Hubbard knew of such experiences, he could not achieve the state of "exteriorization with full perception."
