From: Roland To: CLEAR-L@lightlink.com Subject: Account of Exteriorisation with Full Perception Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:09:32 +0100 This is a repost of my account of exteriorisation with full perception. By Roland Rashleigh-Berry. This is the story about my experience in Scientology known as "Exteriorisation with Full Perception". What this means is leaving your body and having normal perception such as sight and sound available to you. This happens when you are fully awake being "audited" usually and happens in the same room as your body in nearly all cases. Essentially you ~see~ your body from the outside. This experience is fairly common for people receiving Scientology processing. From talking to people about 40% of people experience it at some time and usually early on in their auditing. It happens most frequently with "objective" processing which is to do with orientating a person in the "objective" universe. (You go around touching walls and holding them still and finding parts of your body etc.). In my case is happened during auditing with an E-meter during the process called "ARC Straightwire". If anyone comes across this they are free to copy and web the page as well as connect my name with the page. This conflicts with my business interests (I have pages on the Internet devoted to a shareware product of mine) however what I will write here is the truth and that truth ought to be broadly known to people. I will present my story next and at the end will include some analysis of the experience. I was being audited in one of the auditing rooms at St. Hill Castle in southern England about June 1994. The process was "ARC Straightwire". It was the evening about 8 p.m. I was becoming rather bored with the auditing which did not seem to be getting me anywhere. It seemed to be an almost endless series of questions, an experience to endure rather than to benefit from. I looked through the window. The sky was darkening with clouds. It looked as though there would be a thunder storm shortly. I returned my attention to the auditor who seemed to be more disinterested in my auditing than I was. The auditing command was "Recall Prevented Sex". I had exhausted all the examples some time ago and so was just repeating them. The auditor continued with the command though even though I could think of nothing. This means that he was getting a persistent read on the E-meter. This can mean that there was something I was refusing to reveal that bothered me about this. Alternatively it could mean that there was something underlying this topic that was inaccessible to my conscious mind. Anyway, the same question was repeated with my repeating the same examples. I was bored. It was then that my previous thoughts regarding a thunder-storm seemed to be fulfilled in a most spectacular way. The single ceiling light in the auditing room flared up to an incredible brilliance. I would say it seemed to be about ten times brighter than normal. I was very surprised the bulb did not blow. I thought a lightning bolt must have struck the local power station. I turned to the auditor and said "Did you see that?". I got no reaction but then auditors are trained not to react to things like that. I was surprised though that he did not at least acknowledge my comment. It seemed as though he had not seen it which to me seemed impossible. The light had reduced in intensity but was to me at least four times as bright as normal. I was still very concerned about it. I asked him "What=92s wrong with the electricity in here?". Again I got absolutely no response. An instant later I experienced what I thought was a landslide. The whole room slipped forward by about two feet leaving me behind. It was a bit like the feeling you have when you are in a fast lift (elevator) going downwards though extremely more so. The room had slipped forwards leaving me behind. I was absolutely shocked. I could see the room from outside my body. I was about the height of the top of my head but about two to three feet behind and slightly to the left of my left shoulder. I wanted to be where my body was. I did not understand what was going on. I was about to ask the auditor to help me but realised I had no mouth with which to speak. No sound came out. I then thought that I could probably still use the mouth of my body. I found I could. I said to him "I can still use my body=92s mouth. I=92ve slipped two feet forwards. Could you push me back two feet back in my direction?" (I know this is self-contradictory). The auditor had at last worked out what was happening. He said "In the last auditing command, did you exteriorise?". Then, and only then, could I make any sense of what had happened to me. I was exterior! I started taking a more leisurely look round. The light now seemed duller han usual rather than brighter. I could see fairly clearly and the 3-D seemed more pronounced than normal (I have a defective left eye which effectively destroys my 3-D vision with normal sight). I looked at the back of my head. It did not seem like it was me any more. I was going to ask the auditor "who=92s that other person in the room?" but then I remembered it was my own body. I remember thinking to myself "How am I seeing? If I have no physical eyes then I have no lenses to focus the light. Am I actually projecting the world from my own mind?". I then started feeling sorry for myself and for other people. I was thinking "Is this what we are? Invisible spirits too weak to act on their own and now we are trapped in bodies to suffer the experiences of pain and death". I looked at the back of my head again. I wondered if my body were a living thing that was once a spirit. I felt sympathy for my body. At that instant I shot towards the head of the body, not of my own volition, and into it like a bullet. I was back in my body. I was feeling exhausted. The auditor, who I had been ignoring for the last half minute, ended the session without further ado as is standard procedure when an exteriorisation occurs. Though I was tired I began feeling elated. I thought "That was it, exteriorisation with full perception. It=92s happened to me". When I got up to leave the auditing room I discovered that my balance had been severely effected. I could hardly manage to walk. Going down the corridor I was repeatedly bumping into the walls. I had to put my hands out to steady myself. The auditor takes you to another room where another person checks you out on n E-meter. It is called "exams". In the outside room I sort of overshot and went crashing in to a table. I sort of fell into the exam room and caused a small surprise. I was happy. When I went back to the place I was staying at my balance was still affected. I walked there which was in retrospect rather stupid since the road outside was an unlit narrow country road and I could not walk in a straight line. However I wanted time to absorb what had happened to me. Walking back I felt I was surrounded by invisible humming machines. I was tired but I had the feeling I would not sleep well. When I got back it was as I expected. I could not sleep well and must have got only two hours sleep all night. My thinking was confused. Next morning my balance had thankfully returned to normal. That is the end of my story. I will keep a copy and update it if I remember any more. I think I have it all down though. My memory is very good. Now follows some thoughts on this experience. Exteriorisation happens to about 40% of people who receive Scientology auditing and it tends to happen early on in auditing. It is little wonder that thereafter the person becomes a supporter of Scientology. "If this is what happens early on then think of what there is to come" is a common thought. The problem is that the experience is non-repeatable (well certainly I cannot do it and I know of nobody who can do this at will). As for better things to come this is unfortunately just wishful thinking. It is perfectly obvious to me that L. Ron Hubbard went off the rails in the early =9160s. He created a group of followers around him who believed every word he uttered must be true. He also created an absurd system called "ethics" (which was nothing of the sort) that accused those of not getting good results from auditing as having crimes against him and Scientology. In so doing he robbed himself of all negative feedback from his research and he became the victim of his own fantasies. His later "research" led him to believe in such nonsense as Lord Xenu who 75 million years ago turned the populations of planets into "body thetans" which now infest our bodies and need to be telepathically audited out. The "upper levels" of Scientology are largely concerned with this. To my thinking we should return to this phenomenon of "exteriorisation" and forget the rest of Hubbard=92s material. It is a field that requires a great deal of further research. Even if this experience is not repeatable then at least it should be further understood. I am no longer a member of the Church of Scientology. I am now opposed to its very existence. Their "Bridge to Total Freedom" which they sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars is the Bridge to nowhere but financial ruin. That Hubbard went mad in the =9160s and degenerated further, both in his research and his relationships with other people, during his remaining years is obvious to those who care to read into the subject (see the book "Bare-Faced Messiah" on the Internet). However, at an early stage, I believe his intentions were good. The phenomenon of exteriorisation is to me the most significant spiritual and scientific achievement of the last thousand years. I believe that this phenomenon, if researched enough, will be the jumping-off point for the spiritual evolution of mankind in the next millennium. Roland Rashleigh-Berry, 26th December 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Homer Wilson Smith The Paths of Lovers Art Matrix - Lightlink (607) 277-0959 KC2ITF Cross Internet Access, Ithaca NY homer@lightlink.com In the Line of Duty http://www.lightlink.com --960500912-347368880-1217993782=:8219-- Tue Aug 5 23:36:22 EDT 2008