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SCIENTOLOGY
8-8008
by
L. Ron Hubbard
CONTENTS
FOREWORD....................................................................
...................3
THE FACTORS
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.......5
THE BEINGNESS OF
MAN....................................................................7
THETA-MEST THEORY
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AFFINITY, COMMUNICATION AND REALITY
..........................................15
DIFFERENTIATION, ASSOCIATION AND IDENTIFICATION.........................27
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE 8
.................................................64
CERTAINTY PROCESSING
...................................................................69
SIX LEVELS OF PROCESSING -- ISSUE
5.................................................75
THE REMEDY OF
HAVINGNESS............................................................79
FOREWORD
The work contained in this book is the result of 25 years' investigation of
electronics as
they apply to knowledge and human thinking by L. Ron Hubbard.
In his youth, Hubbard had the good fortune to know Commander Thompson (M),
U.S.N., who had studied with Sigmund Freud in Vienna. Stimulated by Freud's
investigatory
spirit and by the encouragement of the late Commander Thompson, and
equipped with
considerable personal experience in the Orient with phenomena not generally
known in the
Western World, Hubbard bent the exactitudes of Occidental engineering to
the investigation
and practical application of such data to the human mind.
His studies of the subject were extremely broad and varied. They included
such things
as expeditions to investigate the ethnology of twelve widely-separated
primitive cultures, an
intensive survey of the endocrine system, the study of early writers and
philosophers on the
subject of mankind and epistemology, also the direct study of his forte,
nuclear physics, as it
might be found to apply to the human intellect.
In addition to Sigmund Freud and Commander Thompson, he has credited the
following persons as source material:
Anaxagoras Thomas Jefferson
Aristotle Jesus of Nazareth
Roger Bacon Count Alfred Korzybski
Buddha James Clerk Maxwell
Charcot Mohammed
Confucius Lao Tze
Rene Descartes Van Leeuwenhoek
Will Durant Lucretius
Euclid Isaac Newton
Michael Faraday Thomas Paine
William James Plato
Socrates The Vedic Hymns
Herbert Spencer Voltaire
L. Ron Hubbard's work has excited interest and comment throughout the
world, and
its more elementary forms are today taught in at least two leading
universities. Some of his
earlier discoveries have become accepted fact by the medical profession and
his methodology is
now in use in several institutions.
Some think of his work as the only significant enlargement of the field of
the mind
since Freud's papers in the late 19th century; others think of it as the
Western world's first
workable organization of Eastern philosophy. It has been called by two of
the leading writers
in America: "The most significant advance of mankind in the 20th century."
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Many lay writers have sensationalized these developments in the extreme,
and others
have levelled against this work the bitterest of condemnations: whether bad
or good, no
development in the field of the mind for many centuries has excited as much
interest.
L. Ron Hubbard is himself a man of considerable energy and of extremely
wide
interests. He has written fiction under many of his pen-names; and, indeed,
financed and
supported his own investigations (which have cost in the hundreds of
thousands of dollars)
with his own pen. His interests do not lie in the field of practice but in
the field of continued
investigation.
Probably no philosopher of modern times has had the popularity and appeal
of
Hubbard or such startling successes within his own lifetime. And mankind
has had no better
friend.
THE EDITOR
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THE FACTORS
(Summation of the considerations and examinations of the human spirit and
the material
universe completed between A.D. 1923 and 1953.)
1. Before the beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was
the creation
of effect.
2. In the beginning and forever is the decision and the decision is TO BE.
3. The first action of beingness is to assume a viewpoint.
4. The second action of beingness is to extend from the viewpoint, points
to view, which
are dimension points.
5. Thus there is space created, for the definition of space is: viewpoint
of dimension. And
the purpose of a dimension point is space and a point of view.
6. The action of a dimension point is reaching and withdrawing.
7. And from the viewpoint to the dimension points there are connection and
interchange.
Thus new dimension points are made. Thus there is communication.
8. And thus there is light.
9. And thus there is energy.
10. And thus there is life.
11. But there are other viewpoints and these viewpoints outthrust points to
view. And there
comes about an interchange amongst viewpoints; but the interchange is never
otherwise
than in terms of exchanging dimension points.
12. The dimension point can be moved by the viewpoint, for the viewpoint,
in addition to
creative ability and consideration, possesses volition and potential
independence of
action; and the viewpoint, viewing dimension points, can change in relation
to its own
or other dimension points or viewpoints. Thus comes about all the
fundamentals there
are to motion.
13. The dimension points are each and every one, whether large or small,
solid. And they
are solid solely because the viewpoints say they are solid.
14. Many dimension points combine into larger gases, fluids or solids. Thus
there is
matter. But the most valued point is admiration, and admiration is so
strong its absence
alone permits persistence.
15. The dimension point can be different from other dimension points and
thus can possess
an individual quality. And many dimension points can possess a similar
quality, and
others can possess a similar quality unto themselves. Thus comes about the
quality of
classes of matter.
16. The viewpoint can combine dimension points into forms and the forms can
be simple or
complex and can be at different distances from the viewpoints and so there
can be
combinations of form. And the forms are capable of motion and the
viewpoints are
capable of motion and so there can be motion of forms.
17. And the opinion of the viewpoint regulates the consideration of the
forms, their stillness
or their motion, and these considerations consist of assignment of beauty
or ugliness to
the forms and these considerations alone are art.
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18. It is the opinion of the viewpoints that some of these forms should
endure. Thus there
is survival.
19. And the viewpoint can never perish; but the form can perish.
20. And the many viewpoints, interacting, become dependent upon one
another's forms
and do not choose to distinguish completely the ownership of dimension
points and so
comes about a dependency upon the dimension points and upon the other
viewpoints.
21. From this comes a consistency of viewpoint of the interaction of
dimension points and
this, regulated, is TIME.
22. And there are universes.
23. The universes, then, are three in number: the universe created by one
viewpoint, the
universe created by every other viewpoint, the universe created by the
mutual action of
viewpoints which is agreed to be upheld -- the physical universe.
24. And the viewpoints are never seen. And the viewpoints consider more and
more that
the dimension points are valuable. And the viewpoints try to become the
anchor points
and forget that they can create more points and space and forms. Thus comes
about
scarcity. And the dimension points can perish and so the viewpoints assume
that they,
too, can perish.
25. Thus comes about death.
26. The manifestations of pleasure and pain, of thought, emotion and
effort, of thinking, of
sensation, of affinity, reality, communication, of behavior and being are
thus derived
and the riddles of our universe are apparently contained and answered
herein.
27. There is beingness, but Man believes there is only becomingness.
28. The resolution of any problem posed hereby is the establishment of
viewpoints and
dimension points, the betterment of condition and concourse amongst
dimension
points, and, thereby, viewpoints, and the remedy of abundance or scarcity
in all things,
pleasant or ugly, by the rehabilitation of the ability of the viewpoint to
assume points of
view, and create and uncreate, neglect, start, change and stop dimension
points of any
kind at the determinism of the viewpoint. Certainty in all three universes
must be
regained, for certainty, not data, is knowledge.
29. In the opinion of the viewpoint, any beingness, any thing, is better
than no thing, any
effect is better than no effect, any universe better than no universe, any
particle better
than no particle, but the particle of admiration is best of all.
30. And above these things there might be speculation only.
And below these things there is the playing of the game.
But these things which are written here Man can experience and know. And
some may care to
teach these things and some may care to use them to assist those in
distress and some
may desire to employ them to make individuals and organizations more able
and so give
to Earth a culture of which we can be proud.
Humbly tendered as a gift to Man by
L. Ron Hubbard,
April 23, 1953.
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THE BEINGNESS OF MAN
Any study of knowledge could not but be intimately connected with the
beingness of
Man and the earliest axioms of Scientology began to predict and the later
developments
eventually discovered the highest level data so far obtained on the
identity and capability of life.
The well-beingness and, indeed, the continued survival of mankind depend
upon an
exact knowledge of his own capabilities; and thus, more particularly, of
his own relationship to
knowledge itself.
The basic goal of Man which embraces all his activities is apparently
survival. Survival
might be defined as an impulse to persist through time, in space, as matter
and energy.
The impulse to survival is found to contain eight sub-impulses. These are,
first, the
urge to survive as self; second, the urge to survive through sex in the
procreation of children;
third, the impulse to survive as a group; fourth, the impulse to survive as
mankind itself; fifth,
the urge to survive as animal life; sixth, the impulse to survive as the
material universe of
matter, energy, space and time; seventh, the impulse to survive as a
spirit; and eighth, the
impulse to survive as what may be called Supreme Being.
The above sub-impulses are called dynamics; combined, they form the overall
urge
towards survival, but each one of itself plays its important role, both in
the individual and in
the wider sphere named as a part of each impulse. Thus we see the
interdependency of the
individual with the family, with the group, with the species, with life-
forms, with the material
universe itself, with spirits, and with God; and we see the dependency of
each one of these
entities upon the individual as a part of it.
The human mind might be conceived to be the recorder, computer and solver
of
problems relating to survival.
Scientology introduces new and more workable ways of thinking about things.
It has
found that an absolute is unobtainable; neither zero nor infinity are as
themselves discoverable
in a real universe but, as absolutes, may be posed as symbols for an
abstraction which could be
supposed to exist but which does not exist in fact. Therefore, there would
be no absolute good
and no absolute evil. A thing to be "good" would depend on the viewpoint of
the observer, and
the same condition would exist for "bad."
Several new concepts germane to the fields of science and humanities almost
independent of its own work have been introduced by Scientology. The first
of these is the
proper definition of a static. The next is the first actual definition of
zero and its differentiation
from infinity in terms of mathematics. Another is the basic definition of
space which hitherto
was omitted from the field of physics except in terms of time and energy.
An optimum solution to any problem would be that solution which brought the
greatest
benefits to the greatest number of dynamics. The poorest solution would be
that solution which
brought the fewest benefits to the least number of dynamics. And here a
benefit would be
defined as that which would enhance survival. Activities which brought
minimal survival to a
lesser number of dynamics and damaged the survival of a greater number of
dynamics could
not be considered rational activities.
While there could be no absolute right or absolute wrong, a right action
would depend
upon its assisting the survival of the dynamics immediately concerned; a
wrong action would
impede the survival of the dynamics concerned.
Thought is subdivisible into data. A datum would be anything of which one
could
become aware, whether the thing existed or whether he created it.
Creativeness could be found to exceed existence itself; by observation and
definition it
is discoverable that thought does not necessarily have to be preceded by
data, but can create
data. Imagination can then create without reference to pre-existing states,
and is not necessarily
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dependent upon experience or data and does not necessarily combine these
for its products.
Imagination could be classified as the ability to create or forecast a
future or to create, change or
destroy a present or past.
Cause is motivated by the future.
Scientology as it applies to life is seen as a study in statics and
kinetics, which is to say
a study of the interplay between no motion and all motion, or less motion
and more motion.
In thought itself at its highest range, we discover the only true static
known. In physics
a static is represented as a body at rest but it is known in physics that a
body at rest is yet an
equilibrium of forces and is itself in motion if only on the level of
molecular motion. A true
static would contain no motion, no time, no space and no wavelength. To
this static in
Scientology is assigned the mathematical symbol theta. This designation
means solely a
theoretical static of distinct and precisely defined qualities with certain
potentials.
The all-motion or more-motion kinetic is termed MEST. This word represents
the
material universe, or any universe. It is combined from the first letters
of the four words:
matter, energy, space and time.
The interplay between theta and mest results in activities known as life,
and causes the
animation of living life forms. In the absence of an interplay, the life
form is dead.
The beingness of Man, by which is meant homo sapiens, derives its impulse
toward
thought and action from theta and takes its material form in mest.
Man, homo sapiens, is a composite being of four distinct and divisible
actualities: these
parts are termed the thetan, the memory banks, the genetic entity and the
body.
The thetan, which will be described later in greater detail, has the
impulse of theta itself
and can exist in matter, energy, space and time, but derives its impulse
from the potential of
theta itself and has certain definite goals and behavior characteristics of
its own.
The standard memory banks and the reactive memory banks compose the memory
banks of homo sapiens. These, in the analogy of an electronic computer, are
the file system.
The standard banks can be said to contain data of which Man is easily and
analytically aware
and the reactive banks are those which contain stimulus-response, in other
words experience
the action of which is below the level of his awareness. The content of the
reactive banks was
received during moments of lessened awareness such as the unconsciousness
of early life in
times of weariness, severe pain or heavy emotional stress, such data
operating automatically
thereafter to command the person without his consent. The standard memory
banks are those in
which experience is stored for use in the estimation of the effort
necessary for survival and are
concerned with analytical thought. There is an additional storage of memory
itself in a purer
form than in these banks, but this memory is contained in the capabilities
of the thetan.
The genetic entity is that beingness not dissimilar to the thetan which has
carried
forward and developed the body from its earliest moments along the
evolutionary line on earth
and which through experience, necessity and natural selection, has employed
the counter-efforts
of the environment to fashion an organism of the type best fitted for
survival, limited
only by the abilities of the genetic entity. The goal of the genetic entity
is survival on a much
grosser plane of materiality.
The body itself is a carbon-oxygen engine which runs at a temperature of
98.6 Deg. F.
on low combustion fuel, generally derived from other life forms. The body
is directly
monitored by the genetic entity in activities such as respiration, heart-
beat and endocrine
secretions; but these activities may be modified by the thetan.
The human mind could be said to be the primary activity of the thetan with
his own
memory and ability plus the analytical standard memory banks, modified by
the reactive
memory banks of the genetic entity, and limited by the mechanical abilities
and adaptabilities in
action of the body itself.
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These four parts of homo sapiens are detachable one from the other.
The personality and beingness which actually is the individual and is aware
of being
aware and is ordinarily and normally the "person" and who the individual
thinks he is, is the
thetan; and this awareness can continue, is clarified and is not
interrupted by a detachment from
the body which is accomplished by standard processing.
The thetan is immortal and is possessed of capabilities well in excess of
those hitherto
predicted for Man and the detachment accomplishes in the sober practice of
science the
realization of goals envisioned but questionably, if ever, obtained in
spiritualism, mysticism
and allied fields.
The anatomy of the beingness of Man is one of the lesser studies of
Scientology where
the beingness relates only to homo sapiens, for the detachment of the
thetan by standard
operating procedure is in common practice a simplicity, and it is therefore
unrewarding to
explore to much greater depths the remaining combination of the standard
and reactive banks,
the genetic entity and the body, since the last three are a specialized
combination. Nevertheless
the development of the technology necessary to bring about a complete state
of beingness of
that which a man actually is found to be, has provided considerable data
and technology in the
field of memory recordings, the peculiarities of energy behavior around and
about the body,
the history of the evolutionary line, the identity of the genetic entity
and much of the
construction of the body itself, as well as the construction of the real
universe. The bulk of the
data which concerns homo sapiens, other than the beingness of the thetan,
has been covered
adequately earlier and elsewhere.
In earlier efforts to better his state of beingness, Man has considered
homo sapiens as
an inseparable unit which was either alive or dead. Further, Man has
thought it necessary,
when he thought about it at all, to address and reduce the inroads of the
past before the
individual could assume any high level of beingness in the present.
In Dianetics it was found that the mind was sub divisible into two parts,
the first was
the analytical mind which did the actual thinking and computing for the
individual but which, in
the present civilized state of Man, was almost submerged.
The second was the reactive mind. The reactive mind was considered to be a
stimulus-response
mechanism which derived and acted upon the data of experience without
thought. The
content of the reactive mind was found to be the accumulated bad
experiences of the organism
not only in its current lifetime, but in the other lifetimes which it
apparently had led in order to
accomplish the task of evolution and to arrive at its present state of
structural beingness. The
reactive mind was the blueprint but it was also the stimulus-response
dictator of action. The
formula which described the reactive mind was that everything is identified
with everything.
Dianetics accomplished a great deal in the elevation of beingness by
reducing the most
violent incidents in the reactive mind by a process known as the erasure of
engrams.
An engram was a period of momentary or long pain and unconsciousness such
as
would occur in an injury, operation or illness. Such incidents could be
reduced simply by
"returning" the individual to the moment of the accident and then going
over the accident step
by step, perceptic by perceptic, as though it was happening again. After
this had been done
several times, the accident was found to have no more command value upon
the individual.
The reduction of the command value of the reactive mind was found to be
necessary to
a proper resolution of aberration. Understand that the reduction of the
command value of the
reactive mind was the goal, not merely the reduction of the reactive mind.
When one is
addressing the problems of an individual or group of men, the reduction of
the command value
of the reactive mind is still the goal where Scientology is used as a
process to eradicate
aberration.
But two other methods are available for reducing this command value.
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The first of these lies in the removal of the analytical mind from
proximity to the
reactive mind and the increase then of the potential of the analytical mind
until it can command
and handle any reactive mind with ease.
The second is simply the rehabilitation of the analytical mind by
permitting it to use its
creative ability in the construction of a universe of its own.
It was found that there was no purpose in reducing incidents out of the
reactive mind
beyond the point where the analytical mind could step apart from the
reactive mind, and then
command it. Dianetics is a science which addresses itself directly to the
reactive mind to reduce
the command value of that reactive mind. Scientology is an embracive
subject, much wider in
application. It has as its goal the beingness that can exist without an
energy or matter, which is
to say, without time, whether homo sapiens or not. Dianetics was an
evolutionary step, a tool
which had use in arriving at a higher level of knowledge; its use, however,
produced slower
results and much lower goals.
Further, Dianetic processes were limited in that they could not be applied
more than a
few hundred hours without the reactive mind assuming a very high command
level over the
analytical mind due to the fact that the reactive mind was being validated
continually in the
process, whereas the better process was to validate the analytical mind.
Medicine and psychology, as practiced today, have absorbed and are using
many of the
principles of Dianetics without caring to be aware of the later
developments in the field of the
mind as represented here. Thus, the society absorbs and very often
misunderstands
knowledge.
The beingness of Man is essentially the beingness of theta itself acting in
the mest and
other universes in the accomplishment of the goals of theta and under the
determination of a
specific individual and particular personality for each being.
Scientology is the science of knowing how to know.
Scientology is the science of knowing sciences. It seeks to embrace the
sciences and
humanities as a clarification of knowledge itself.
One studies to know a science. His study is without avail when he does not
know the
science of study.
One lives and learns of life but life is not comprehensible to him, no
matter how much
he lives, unless he knows the science of life itself.
One studies the humanities. If he does not know how to study the humanities
he often
fails.
The physicist and the fission bomb expert know physics but not the
humanities. They
do not conceive the relationship and thus physics itself fails.
Into all these things -- biology, physics, psychology and life itself --
the skills of
Scientology can bring order and simplification.
One lives better with Scientology since life, understood and controlled,
becomes
liveable.
A civilization could fare better with Scientology since that would not be
pock-marked
with unknowns and rendered null with chaos.
The only richness there is is understanding. That is all that Scientology
has to give.
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THETA-MEST THEORY
Scientology is essentially a study of statics and kinetics. If anything, it
is more exact
than what are called the physical sciences, for it is dealing with a
theoretical static and a
theoretical kinetic which are at the opposite ends of a spectrum of all
motion.
One of the most valuable contributions of Scientology to knowledge is the
definition of
a true static. A static has no motion; it has no width, length, breadth,
depth; it is not held in
suspension by an equilibrium of forces; it does not have mass; it does not
contain wavelengths;
it has no situation in time or space. Formerly a static was defined only as
a motionless object
which definition is not adequate, since an object -- or a state of rest for
an object -- is attained
only by an equilibrium of forces and all objects have in themselves, if
only on a molecular
level, motion, and exist in space which is itself an integral portion of
motion. Hence we see we
are dealing with a higher level static.
The capabilities of the static are not limited.
The static interacts with the kinetic which is considered to be the
ultimate of motion.
In Scientology, the static is represented by the mathematical symbol theta;
the kinetic is
called MEST.
Theta can be the property or beingness of any individual and is, for our
purposes,
considered to be individualistic for each individual.
MEST stands for matter, energy, space and time, and is a composite of the
first letter of
each. The word MEST appearing all by itself denotes the physical universe.
MEST with a
designation word after it designates another's universe.
The original of the Theta-MEST theory may be found in Science of Survival
1951.
After the concept of the true static was reached, problems of processing
began to solve much
more rapidly, and the main proof of the Theta-MEST theory is its
workability and the fact that
it predicted an enormous amount of phenomena which, when looked for, were
found to exist
and which, when applied, resolved cases rapidly.
It is now considered that the origin of MEST lies with theta itself, and
that MEST, as
we know the physical universe, is a product of theta.
The physicist has adequately demonstrated that matter seems to be composed
of energy
which has become condensed in certain patterns. It can also be demonstrated
adequately in
Scientology that energy seems to be produced by and to emanate from theta.
Thus it could be
considered that theta producing energy, condenses the space in which the
energy is contained,
which then becomes matter. This theory of condensation is borne out by an
examination of a
state of aberration of many preclears who have been found to have descended
down the tone-scale
to the degree that their own space was contracted and who were found to be
surrounded
by ridges and who are thus "solid" to the degree that they are aberrated.
Further, they can be
found to be an effect in the ratio that they are so solidified. Further, a
psychotic treats words
and other symbols, including his own thoughts, as though they were objects.
Time
It is stated in the 1951 axioms that time could be considered to be the
single arbitrary,
and might thus be the single source of human aberration. A further
investigation and inspection
of time has demonstrated it to be the action of energy in space, and it has
been found that the
duration of an object roughly approximates its solidity.
Time could be considered to be a manifestation in space which is varied by
objects. An
object could be considered to be any unit manifestation of energy including
matter.
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It can be readily established that an individual loses his self-determinism
in the ratio that
he possesses objects and utilizes force.
Time could be considered to be an abstract term assigned to the behavior of
objects. It
can be found to be regulatable by postulates.
The desire, enforcement and inhibition in the possession, giving and
receiving of
objects can be found to establish a time-track.
Time in the field of behavior and experience becomes having. Having and Not
Having
form between themselves the interchanges which become survival.
If the auditor processes having, giving and receiving, energy and items, he
will
discover that he is processing time directly and has processed into a
higher level the time sense
and reaction of the preclear.
The primary manifestation of this is found in criminality, where the
individual is unable
to conceive the investment of energy to attain an object. He will not
"work." The criminal in
particular wishes to collapse and render without time, desiring and having;
whereas this may be
possible in one's own universe, it is not possible in the MEST universe.
The MEST universe is
so planned as to make work necessary in order to have, thus establishing a
gradient scale of
having. The criminal has not made the distinction between his own universe
which he possibly
once had and where he could attain things instantaneously, and the MEST
universe. He thus
has no "respect for property". The identification of his own universe with
the MEST universe
is so marked as to be in itself a highly aberrated identification, thus
rendering his conduct
destructive to himself and causing him to fail.
Space
Space is creatable by a thetan. He may also conserve, alter and destroy
space.
Space is the first condition necessary to action. The second condition
necessary is
energy. The third condition is possession or not possession.
For the purposes of processing, and possibly for many other purposes, space
can be
considered to be the equivalent in experience of beingness. One is as alive
as he has space and
as he can alter and occupy that space.
The workable definition of space is "viewpoint of dimension": there is no
space without
viewpoint, there is no space without points to view. This definition of
space remedies a very
great lack in the field of physics, which defines space simply as that
thing in which energy
acts. Physics has defined space as change of motion or in terms of time and
energy. Time has
been defined in terms of space and energy; energy has been defined in terms
of space and time
only. These definitions, thus interdependent, made a circle out of which
there was no exit
unless one had a better definition for one of those items: time, space or
energy. In such a way
was the science of physics limited.
Space is the viewpoint of dimension. The position of the viewpoint can
change, the
position of the dimension points can change. A dimension point is any point
in a space or at the
boundaries of space. As a specialized case those points which demark the
outermost
boundaries of the space or its corners are called in Scientology anchor
points. An anchor point
is a specialized kind of dimension point. Any energy has as its basic
particle a dimension point.
The dimension point can be of different kinds and substances. It can
combine in various ways,
it can take on forms, become objects. It can flow as energy. A particle of
admiration or a
particle of force are alike dimension points. Dimension points, by
shifting, can give the
viewpoint the illusion of motion. The viewpoint, by shifting, can give the
dimension points the
illusion of motion. Motion is the manifestation of change of viewpoint of
dimension points.
Viewpoints are not visible, but viewpoints can have dimension points which
are
themselves visible. The basic hidden influence is then a viewpoint, A
material of the universe
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cannot exist in any universe without something in which to exist. The
something in which it
exists is space, and this is made by the attitude of a viewpoint which
demarks an area with
anchor points.
Rather than existing on theory in common with other principles of
Scientology this
manifestation of created space can be experienced by an individual, who
discovers that space
can be made coincidentally with any other space. Space then, is not an
arbitrary and absolute
but it is creatable or uncreatable by a viewpoint.
Any being is a viewpoint, he is as much a being as he is able to assume
viewpoints.
Thus in any society we would inevitably have a statement of the infinity of
viewpoint such as
"God is everywhere." Beings instinctively assign the most beingness to that
thing which would
be everywhere and when Man desires to assign an unlimited power or command
to anything he
says that it is everywhere. Energy
The basic unit of energy is the dimension point. A specialized kind of
dimension point
is the anchor point which demarks space, but this is again the basic unit
of energy. Dimension
points are created, controlled or uncreated by the thetan.
The qualities of energy are three in number: the first is its existing
characteristics; the
second is its wavelength; the third is its direction of flow or absence of
direction of flow.
The characteristics can be divided into three classes in their turn. These
are flows,
dispersals and ridges. The flow is a transfer of energy from one point to
another, and the
energy in a flow can have any type of wave from the simplest sine-wave to
the most complex
noise-wave. Flowingness is simply the characteristic of transferringness. A
dispersal is a series
of outflows from a common point. A dispersal is, primarily, a number of
flows extending from
a common center. The best example of a dispersal is an explosion. There is
such a thing as an
in-dispersal. This would be where the flows are all travelling toward a
common center. One
might call this an implosion. Outflow and inflow from a common center are
classified alike
under the word "dispersal" for handy classification. The third type of
energy characteristic is
the ridge. A ridge is essentially suspended energy in space. It comes about
by flows, dispersals
or ridges impinging against one another with a sufficient solidity to cause
an enduring state of
energy. A dispersal from the right and a dispersal from the left colliding
in space with sufficient
volume create a ridge which then exists after the flow itself has ceased.
The duration of ridges
is quite long.
Wavelength is the relative distance from node to node in any flow of
energy. In the
MEST universe, wavelength is commonly measured by centimeters or meters.
The higher the
frequency the shorter the wavelength is considered to be on the gradient
scale of wavelengths.
The lower the frequency the longer the wavelength is considered to be on a
gradient scale.
Radio, sound, light and other manifestations, each has its place on the
gradient scale of
wavelengths. Wavelength has no bearing upon wave characteristic, but
applies to the flow or
potential flow. A ridge has potential flow which, when released, may be
supposed to have a
wavelength. The various perceptions of the body and the thetan, each one is
established by a
position on the gradient scale of wavelengths. They are each one an energy
flow.
Direction of flow, relative to the thetan, is of primary interest in energy
study. There
would be outflow and inflow. There could be outflow and inflow for a source
point exterior to
the thetan and caused by that source point, and there could be outflow and
inflow by the thetan
himself.
Matter
Matter is a condensation of energy. The more energy condenses, the less
space it
occupies and the greater its endurance becomes. A flow of energy has a
brief duration. Flows
of energy meeting and causing ridges obtain greater solidity and longer
duration.
The solidification of matter is found to be itself duration or time. Energy
becomes
matter if condensed. Matter becomes energy if dispersed.
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The manifestations of energy are essentially at long length the
manifestations of matter;
one cannot consider matter without also considering energy.
In processing, no differentiation is made between matter and energy beyond
labelling
the freer-flowing and more instantaneous forms "action" and the more solid
and enduring
forms "having."
In order to have matter, one must have space, must have had energy, and
must have.
In order to have space, it is necessary to have a viewpoint and the
potential in the
viewpoint of creating anchor points. Thus, in order to view matter, much
less control or create
it, it is necessary to have a viewpoint.
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AFFINITY, COMMUNICATION AND REALITY
In human experience, which is probably an experience senior to and creative
of such a
thing as the material universe, space, energy and matter become beingness,
doingness and
havingness.
Beingness is space regardless of energy and matter; doingness requires both
space and
matter; and havingness requires space and energy.
We have a gradient scale from space to matter which starts at the arbitrary
number of
40.0 for our purposes and goes down to 0.0 for the purposes of homo sapiens
and to -8.0 for
the purposes of estimating a thetan. This gradient scale is called the tone
scale.
Space is found to be a broad characteristic from top to bottom of the scale
and
necessary to each part of it, but it is discovered that one has less and
less space the more the
scale is descended. If one were to attain zero space for himself, he would
attain, even as a
thetan, zero. That the body has space and the thetan apparently, to
himself, does not have
space, is responsible mainly for the feeling of not-beingness on the part
of the thetan which
causes him to forget his own identity.
On this tone-scale, we have a theoretical point of no energy at 40.0, and a
point where
energy begins to be solid around 0.0; well below this level we have matter
formed of the type
known in the material universe. Thus one can see that this tone-scale is a
gradient scale of
energy, and that the energy is free toward the top of the scale and becomes
less free and more
fixed as one descends the scale.
A very important triangle in Scientology is the triangle called ARC. This
stands for
Affinity, Reality and Communication. It was used for some time before its
relation to energy
was understood.
Affinity is wave characteristic and is the range of human emotions. Human
emotions
manifest themselves in energy flows, dispersals and ridges. As the emotions
drop down from
high on the scale to low on the scale, they are found to follow a cycle of
dispersals, flows and
ridges. Each dispersal has a harmonic on the scale, each flow has a
harmonic and each ridge
has a harmonic. Looking up the scale from zero one finds death as a ridge
and, in human
emotion, an apathy. Apathy reaches up some extent from death but at this
end the harmonics
are very close together and there are two unnamed human emotions
immediately above apathy.
One of them, next above apathy, is a flow; immediately above that there is
a fearlike dispersal.
The next named emotion above apathy is grief. Grief is a ridge and is
occasioned by loss.
Immediately above grief there is a flow. The next named emotion, however,
is the next level,
the dispersal called fear which is a drawing away. There is a flow
immediately above this called
covert hostility. Above covert hostility is anger which is a solid ridge.
Between anger at 1.5
and antagonism at 2.0 there is a dispersal -- unnamed but visible in
behavior. At 2.0 we have
the flow outgoing called antagonism. Above this at 2.5 there is an idle
dispersal known as
boredom. Above boredom at 3.0 is a ridge called conservatism. At 4.0 we
have another flow
called enthusiasm. Each one of these points is a harmonic of a lower point.
The characteristic
of energy whether a flow, dispersal or ridge, expresses itself in human
emotion in terms of
affinity. Affinity is the cohesiveness of human relationships, and can be
acceptance or rejection
of such relationships. Affinity as here used is a degree of emotion. Its
equivalent in the MEST
universe is the cohesion and adhesion or revulsion from matter and energy
itself as found in
positive and negative currents, and in forms of matter.
Communication is an interchange of energy from one beingness to another; in
the thetan
and in homo sapiens communication is known as perception. It is not solely
talk, which is a
symbolized form of communication which sums ideas which are themselves
either a product of
the tone-scale or are above the tone-scale as the case may be. Sight, of
course, is at the
wavelength of light. Sound is recorded as hearing. Tactile and smell are
low-level wave types
of the particle variety. And all other perceptions can be found on this
gradient scale of
wavelengths, modified by the wave characteristic in terms of type, whether
sine or more
complex. The auditor must realize that communication is essentially
directed or received energy
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and is inhibited by the willingness or unwillingness of the preclear to
take responsibility for
energy or forms of energy. Where responsibility is low, perception is low.
Reality is established by wave direction or lack of motion.
As one ascends the tone scale from 0.0 he finds the realities are strongest
at the points
of flow and are weakest at the points where there are ridges on the scale.
The reality of apathy, grief and anger is very poor, but in the immediate
vicinity of
these there are more intense realities. Reality is established by agreement
or disagreement or no
opinion. Agreement is an inflow to the individual; disagreement is outflow
from the individual;
no opinion can be established by the proximity of the individual to the
center of a dispersal or
by a ridge.
Because of its wealth of energy and energy forms, the thetan finds himself
ordinarily
outdone in energy emanation by the Mest universe. Thus he is the target of
an almost
continuous inflow which causes him to have a consistent and continual
agreement with the
MEST universe. He seldom disagrees with the MEST universe, and the best
processing one
can do is to break this agreement and turn it into an opposite flow, for
only in this wise can a
preclear's ability to handle energy and be responsible for it be re-
established. If you ask a
preclear to get the concept of agreeing, he will find himself experiencing
an inflow upon
himself.
Hypnotism is performed by causing a subject to receive a continuous
rhythmic or
monotonous flow from the operator. After this flow has continued the
subject will accept any
reality which the operator cares to deliver unto him. It is in this case,
evidently, with the MEST
universe, and the solidity of the MEST universe is completely dependent
upon one's
acceptance of it in terms of agreement.
Reality in essence is agreement or disagreement. When one speaks of
reality, he speaks
in terms of the MEST universe. The MEST universe, according to any
computation one cares
to make upon it, is found to consist of a high-level agreement amongst us.
Those who disagree
with the MEST universe are punished by the MEST universe.
From the standpoint of the MEST universe, the greatest reality would be had
by matter
itself and this seems to be its evident goal toward the thetan, to make him
into solid energy.
The reality on one's own universe is poor because he is in a comatose state
of agreement with
the MEST universe. It is found on processing, however, that a preclear is
in poor condition in
direct ratio that he has accepted and agrees and complies with the MEST
universe, and is in
good and active condition in direct ratio to the degree he can break this
flow of agreement and
establish his own flows and thus create his own universe. One's
appreciation of the MEST
universe is almost uniformly the energy which one himself places upon the
MEST universe, in
other words his illusions. When he loses his hopes and dreams (his
illusions), it is because he
has lost his ability to emanate energy back at the MEST universe and is
dependent upon the
energy the MEST universe thrusts at him.
ARC thus form a tone-scale. This tone-scale at any level finds a
comparative state in
affinity, in the reality and the communication abilities of the preclear.
Thus, by testing the
preclear and discovering his chronic emotion, his chronic state of
agreement or disagreement,
and his ability to communicate or not communicate, one establishes a level
on this tone-scale.
ARC form a triangle the corners of which are all at a single level. Thus if
one wishes to
create an increase of tone for the preclear -- and one must do that to
increase his self-determinism
-- he will find that he cannot raise the emotional state of the preclear
without also
addressing the reality and communication of the preclear. He cannot raise
the reality of the
preclear without addressing his affinity and communication problems. He
cannot raise
communication with the preclear without addressing his reality and affinity
problems. The
worst mistake an auditor can make is to undervalue this triangle in
processing. A more or less
complete tone-scale can be found in Science of Survival, and Book I of that
volume is devoted
entirely to an evaluation of the tone-scale and people.
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There are two positions on the tone-scale for the preclear when he is still
a homo
sapiens. The composite known as homo sapiens is considered to be dead at
0.0 and can rise on
the tone-scale to slightly above 4.0. Thus homo sapiens has this as his
range. The thetan,
however, who, in homo sapiens, is below the level of awareness of self in
terms of space and
energy, has a wider range; and, as the thetan is basically the preclear and
the beingness and
identity of the preclear in actuality, this second range is even more
important. This second
range goes from -- 8.0 to 40.0 on the tone-scale. The optimum position for
the thetan is
considered to be 20.0 which is the point of optimum action. A homo sapiens
as such could not
attain this level of the tone-scale because of his physical limitations.
Identity Versus Individuality
The most common confusion on the part of a preclear is between himself as
an
identified object and his beingness. One's beingness depends upon the
amount of space which
he can create or command, not upon his identification or any label.
Identity as we know it in
the MEST universe is much the same as identification, which is the lowest
form of thought.
When one is an object and is himself an effect, he believes that his
ability to be cause is
dependent upon his having a specific and finite identity. This is an
aberration; as his beingness
increases his individuality increases, and he quickly rises above the level
of necessity for
identity for he is himself self-sufficient with his own identity.
The first question a preclear undergoing theta clearing asks himself is
quite often: "How
will I establish my identity if I have no body?" There are many remedies
for this. The worst
method of having an identity is having a body. As his individuality
increases and his beingness
expands -- these two being almost synonymous -- he is less and less
concerned with this
problem; that he is concerned with the problem tells the auditor where he
is on the tone-scale.
One of the control mechanisms which has been used on thetans is that when
they rise in
potential they are led to believe themselves one with the universe. This is
distinctly untrue.
Thetans are individuals. They do not as they rise up the scale, merge with
other individualities.
They have the power of becoming anything they wish while still retaining
their own
individuality. They are first and foremost themselves. There is evidently
no Nirvana. It is the
feeling that one will merge and lose his own individuality that restrains
the thetan from
attempting to remedy his lot. His merging with the rest of the universe
would be his becoming
matter. This is the ultimate in cohesiveness and the ultimate in affinity,
and is at the lowest
point of the tone-scale. One declines into a brotherhood with the universe.
When he goes up
scale, he becomes more and more an individual capable of creating and
maintaining his own
universe. In this wise (leading people to believe they had no individuality
above that of MEST)
the MEST universe cut out all competition.
Beingness
Space is not necessary to the beingness of a thetan when the thetan is
above the tone
level of 40.0 and can create space at will. He creates space to have
specific beingness. At 40.0
space and beingness can be considered to be interchangeable. Beingness can
exist without any
energy or matter, which is to say, without time.
However, in this universe, in order to achieve a state of beingness, which
is more to
our point here, it is necessary to have a viewpoint from which dimension
points can be created
or controlled. One has as much viewpoint as he has space in which to view
in relationship to
other viewpoints having space in which to view, thus one has a condition of
relative beingness.
Doingness
Action requires space and energy manifestations, and the definition of
action could be
doingness directed toward havingness. In order to accomplish action, a
preclear must be able to
handle energy.
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Doingness with energy and objects as found in the MEST universe is very far
from the
only method of producing existence. This is a specialized form of behavior
and may exist in
any universe but is very peculiar to the MEST universe.
Havingness
Time is an abstract manifestation which has no existence beyond the idea of
time
occasioned by objects, where an object may be either energy or matter. Time
can be defined as
change in space, but where one attempts to define motion as change in
space, the definition
lacks usefulness since one does not define what is changing in space; there
must be something
there to change in space in order to have the illusion of time.
As was earlier discovered in Scientology, the single arbitrary is time.
This is because
time did not exist as such but stemmed from havingness. When Man
experiences "time," he is
experiencing havingness or not-havingness.
Time is summed up as "had," "have," and "will have." Goals in the MEST
universe are
summed uniformly under the heading of "will have." One engages in action in
order to have.
This is one of the most important points of processing. The individual has
made a
postulate to have and has then gained something he did not want at every
single point on the
time track where you find him stuck. He desired to have a castle. He may
have been engaging
in an action which would gain for him a castle and was stopped and killed
by an explosion
which destroyed a wall before him. The explosion caught him with a
postulate that he would
have and gave him something he did not want. Struggling with the facsimile
afterwards, the
auditor will find that the incident began with the postulate to have and is
now in a state of
indecision since the explosion is unwanted.
Bluntly, any and all aberrative incidents to be discovered in a preclear
are a reversal of
havingness where the preclear did not want something and had to have it or
wanted something
and could not have it or wanted something and got something else.
The entire problem of the future is the problem of goals. The entire
problem of goals is
the problem of possession. The entire problem of possession is the problem
of time.
Time is impossible without possession of objects.
Thus is resolved one of the weightier problems of the human mind. The
auditor may
find it difficult to encompass this principle, since time may continue to
exist for him as an
entity, an unknown and hovering thing. If he will use the principle that
the past is had or did
not have, that the present is has or does not have and that the future is
will have or will not
have, and that past, present and future are divided and established
entirely by desire,
enforcement and inhibition of havingness, he will find his preclear
recovering swiftly.
Universes
A universe is defined as a "whole system of created things." There could
be, and are,
many universes, and there could be many kinds of universes: we are for our
purposes here
interested in two particular universes. The first of these is the Mest
universe, that agreed upon
reality of matter, energy, space and time which we use as anchor points and
through which we
communicate. The other is our personal universe which is no less a matter
of energy and space.
These two universes are entirely distinct and it could be said that the
principal confusion
and aberration of the individual stems from his having confused one for the
other. Where these
two universes have crossed, in the mind of the individual, we find a
confusion of control and
ownership for the reason that the two universes do not behave alike.
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Whereas each one of these universes was apparently founded on the same
modus
operandi as any other universe, which is to say, the creation of space by
putting out anchor
points, the formation of forms by combinations of dimension points, the
Mest universe and
one's own universe do not behave similarly for him.
One's own universe is amenable to instantaneous creation and destruction,
by himself
and without argument. He can create space and bring it into a "permanent
status." He can create
and combine forms in that space and cause those forms to go into motion and
he can make that
motion continuously automatic or he can regulate it sporadically or he can
regulate it totally,
and all by postulate. One's envisionment of one's own universe is intensely
clear. The reality
of one's own universe is sharper and brighter, if anything, than his
reality on the Mest
universe. We call one's attitude towards his own universe "actuality," and
his attitude towards
the Mest universe, since it is based upon agreement, "reality."
Unless an individual is at a very high operating level, he conceives it
necessary to use
physical force and to apply MEST universe forces to MEST universe forces in
order to get
action, motion and new forms. His activity in the MEST universe is an
activity of handling
energy and his ability to exist in the Mest universe is conditional upon
his ability to use force.
The MEST universe is essentially a force universe, a fact which is,
incidentally, antipathetic to
most thetans. One's ability to handle the MEST universe is conditional upon
his not abdicating
from his right to use force, right to give orders, his right to punish, his
right to administer
personal justice, and so forth. We are presented in the MEST universe with
a crude and brutal
scene wherein gigantic forces are in pressure against gigantic forces and
where the end of all
seems but destruction. Paradoxically, in the MEST universe, destruction of
form only is
possible, since by the law of the conservation of energy, the destruction
of actual material
objects is impossible, only conversion being attainable.
In the MEST universe ethics seem to be a liability, honesty is all but
impossible save
when armed with force of vast magnitude. Only the strong can afford to be
ethical, and yet the
use of strength begets but the use of strength. In the MEST universe we are
confronted with
paradoxes upon paradoxes where behavior is concerned, for behavior in the
MEST universe is
regulated by stimulus-response and not by analytical thought or reason. The
MEST universe
demands of us complete and utter obedience and agreement on the penalty of
extermination, yet
when one has agreed entirely with the MEST universe he finds himself unable
to perceive it
with clarity.
In one's own universe, on the other hand, honesty, ethics, happiness, good
behavior,
justice, all become possible.
It is one of the operations of the MEST universe that it is a jealous
universe and those
who are thoroughly imbued with the principles of the MEST universe have
even as their best
efforts the goal of eradicating one's own universe. A control operation
begins early in the life
of almost every man, whereby his imagination is condemned. His own universe
is not
imaginary, but it may be said to be so and if his imagination is condemned,
then he loses his
ability to garnish the hardness and brutality of the MEST universe with
hopes and dreams.
When he loses this he becomes a slave of the MEST universe, and as a slave
he perishes. His
road to immortality lies, then, in another direction than in the complete
subservient agreement
with the MEST universe and the handling and conversion of its forces. This
is a matter which
has been subjected continuously to test and it is intensely surprising to
people to discover that
the rehabilitation of their creative ability, their own space, their own
images, rehabilitates as
well their ability to confront the MEST universe with a strong and ethical
face.
Creative processing, especially where it divorces all thought from thought
of the MEST
universe and follows out along a line of the rehabilitation of one's own
universe without
attention to the MEST universe, is one level of processing which produces
magnificent results
and which is a standby in any case, no matter how difficult.
On the other hand, the rehabilitation of the MEST universe itself, in the
concept of the
individual, accomplishes a very great deal in processing, and could be said
to compare with the
rehabilitation of one's own universe; but the rehabilitation of one's
ability to perceive the
MEST universe is dependent upon his ability to perceive present time and
the rehabilitation of
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that ability. Dwelling upon the MEST universe past or its future is
fruitless, thinking about the
MEST universe, attempting to predict the MEST universe, planning to
reorganize and handle
the MEST universe, all defeat one's ability to handle the MEST universe.
When he simply
begins to perceive the MEST universe in present time and to examine that
which he sees, with
the idea that he can be what he sees, he loses all fear of the MEST
universe.
There is a differentiation process in one's own universe, a differentiation
process
exclusively for the MEST universe and a differentiation process which pulls
apart one's own
universe and the MEST universe.
The first of these processes simply goes about reconstructing one's own
universe with
no attention to the MEST universe. The second causes the individual to
contact the MEST
universe present time and to observe that present time continuously. The
third differentiates
between the MEST universe and one's own universe and consists of "mocking-
up" one's own
universe duplicate of every MEST universe object he can perceive, and then
actually comparing
these one against the other.
Creating space and mocking-up items in it is the rehabilitation of one's
own universe
and is a primary process.
Differentiating between two similar objects in the MEST universe such as
two books,
two chairs, two spaces, with one's MEST eyesight, accomplishes much in
being able to face
and handle the MEST universe.
The mocking-up of MEST universe duplicates, which is to say constructing a
universe
parallel to the MEST universe, is the mechanism by which facsimiles
(following) are made and
this process brings under control the mechanisms which make facsimiles.
The original definition of Scientology 8-8008 was the attainment of
infinity by the
reduction of the apparent infinity and power of the MEST universe to a zero
for himself, and
the increase of the apparent zero of one's own universe to an infinity for
oneself. This is an
ideal and theoretical process, it is not necessarily attainable in
actuality or reality but it very well
may be. It can be seen that infinity stood upright makes the number eight:
thus, Scientology 8-
8008 is not just another number, but serves to fix into the mind of the
individual a route by
which he can rehabilitate himself, his abilities, his ethics and his goals.
Terminals
At every turn in the examination of the MEST universe we discover that it
is a two-terminal
universe. In the manufacture of electricity it is necessary to have two
terminals. In
order to have an opinion evaluated, it is necessary to have an opinion
against which the first
can be evaluated. A datum can be understood in the MEST universe only when
it is compared
to a datum of comparable magnitude. This is two terminals operating in
terms of thought. Two
MEST universe terminals which are similar, placed side by side will
discharge to some degree
against each other. This is observable in gravity as well as in
electricity.
A primary difference between the MEST universe and one's own universe is
that one's
own universe is not a two-terminal universe necessarily. One can mock up in
one's own
universe two terminals which will discharge against each other, but he can
also at will mock up
two terminals which are identical which will not discharge against each
other.
There are a number of processes which could include double terminals. One
terminal
made to face another terminal (in terms of mock-up) can be discharged one
against the other in
such a way as to relieve aberration connected with things similar to the
terminal thus mocked
up. However, these two terminals do not furnish a double terminal of a
communication line. A
communication line is more important than a communication point. Thus, if
one wished to
discharge anything, he would desire to discharge the communication line.
The MEST universe
is intensely dependent upon communication lines rather than communication
terminals. One
takes two pairs of such terminals then, and standing them in relationship
to each other,
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discovers that he has now four terminals but these four terminals furnish
only two lines. These
two lines will discharge one against the other.
This, as a limited process, should not be continued very long. It is of
greatest interest in
rendering assistance after an accident where it is only necessary to mock
up the accident twice,
or indeed, to mock up something similar to an injured limb, to have the
pain and discomfort
and aberration discharged. Should one burn one's fingers, it is necessary
only to mock up his
fingers twice side by side and then twice again, making four mock ups with
two
communication lines, to have the pain in the finger subside. The mock-ups
discharge at the
same time as one's injured finger re-experiences the incident. This
manifestation is the
manifestation of the MEST universe, it is not a manifestation of one's own
universe and if
practiced over a long period of time is essentially an agreement with the
MEST universe, a
thing which should be avoided; thus it is a limited process.
A terminal is, in essence, any point of no form or any form or dimension
from which
energy can flow or by which energy can be received. A viewpoint then, is a
sort of terminal,
but a terminal must have a particle in order to do automatic interchanges
and one finds that a
viewpoint can be affected by the MEST universe only when the viewpoint has
identified itself
with some MEST universe article, such as a body. The rehabilitation of the
viewpoint's ability
to be, or not be, at will is essential in order that a viewpoint be self-
determined about what is
affecting him and what is not affecting him. This depends, of course then,
upon what a
viewpoint identifies himself with and depends upon the ability of the
viewpoint to unidentify
himself rapidly.
Terminals are anywhere in the MEST universe and can be manufactured, of
course, in
one's own universe. The difference is that any bit of solid, even on the
level of an electron in
the MEST universe, is, willy-nilly, a terminal; it is affected in certain
ways, whether it likes it
or not. Any particle in any object or any flow of energy is in itself a
terminal. A terminal can be
affected by any other terminal or can affect, to some degree, other
terminals.
This cross-relationship of terminals in the MEST universe is MEST universe
communication. In one's own universe a flow is not necessary for the
production of energy or
potentials.
It is one of the sources of aberration that the scarcity of things in the
MEST universe
causes one to own only one of things; this is aberrative, since that one
can gather into itself
charges which are not discharged since there is nothing immediately similar
to it. If one owned
two of everything he had and if these two things were nearly identical, he
would find that his
worry and concern about these objects was greatly decreased. A child, for
instance, should
have two dolls alike, not simply one doll. The reason for this is that two
terminals will
discharge, one against the other. The thetan is capable of mocking himself
up to be exactly like
everything he sees. As a matter of fact, whatever a thetan can see, he can
be. Thus, the thetan
makes himself into a terminal for everything he sees whenever there is an
absence of a
duplicate. Thus the thetan is in the danger of having everything in the
MEST universe
discharging against him the moment he alters his relationship to the MEST
universe, This fixes
him in the belief that he cannot alter his relationship to the MEST
universe. Actually he is rather
rapidly disabused of this conception by processing. It is rather
interesting to "double-terminal"
in mock-up form the childhood toys of an individual. He will find there is
an enormous amount
of charge simply in the fact that these toys were made out of MEST. The
favorite doll has a
gravitic influence upon him.
Completely aside from the terminals one finds in an electric motor and
which produce
so much current by reason of being separated by the base of the motor, the
subject of terminals
goes into behavior and explains in a great measure behavior on a stimulus-
response basis in the
MEST universe. Indeed, it could be said that the MEST universe came into
being by one
terminal demanding attention from another terminal and these two terminals
thereafter facing
each other continuing a discharge one to the other. With very aberrated
people, one cannot long
discuss things with them without getting the manifestation of terminals,
for the very aberrated
fix on a terminal easily.
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It could be said that the MEST universe is the average of agreement amongst
viewpoints and that the laws of the MEST universe, no matter how physical,
are the result of
this agreement; and, indeed, this definition suffices for those conditions
which are supposed to
be "reality." The MEST universe is very real, but any hypnotist can
instruct a hypnotized
subject into the construction of a universe which has tactile, sight, sound
and any other
manifestation possessed by the MEST universe, and who is to say then, that
the hypnotized
subject is not perceiving a universe? For one's own perception of the MEST
universe consists
of his placing an object in proximity to or against another object, and
both of these objects are
found to be objects of the MEST universe. This is overlooked by individuals
when they, for
instance, strike a desk with their fist. It is the favorite declaration of
the materialist (that
individual who is in a frantic state of insistence upon the existence of
the MEST universe) that
"this is real." The effects he is creating are being created by a hand that
is made out of MEST
on an object which is MEST. The individual has overlooked the fact that the
hand with which
he is doing the pounding is itself MEST and that his knowledge of that hand
is actually no
more than his perception of it. This is a problem in two terminals.
Behavior of Universes
It could be said, then, that the difference between the microcosm (one's
own universe)
and the macrocosm (the MEST universe) is the difference between commanding
it and agreeing
about it. One's own universe is what he would construct for a universe
without the opposition
or the confusion of other viewpoints. The MEST universe is that upon which
one agrees in
order to continue in association with other viewpoints. This may very well
be the sole
difference between these two universes.
This is exemplified by one's behavior-attitude in his own universe as
compared with
his behavior-attitude in the MEST universe. In one's own universe, the
individual expansively
plans and devises (once he is fairly confident of it) along the lines of
beauty and happiness. In
the MEST universe, even when one has been rehabilitated to some degree,
one's attitude still
must consist of a certain amount of watchfulness and co-operation.
One's universe is an unthwarted sway, the MEST universe is a compromise.
When one
has compromised too long and too often, when he has been betrayed and
ridiculed and is no
longer able to create what he believes to be desirable, he descends down to
lower levels and in
those levels, he is still more compelled to face the MEST universe, and as
such, loses much
more of his ability to handle the MEST universe. When an individual's
ability to create his own
universe is rehabilitated it will be found, strangely enough, that his
ability to handle the MEST
universe has been rehabilitated. In fact, this is the most secure route as
represented in 8-8008
as a road.
By actual experiment it can be demonstrated that one's ability to mock-up a
universe of
his own and the resulting improvement of his perceptions to that universe
bring about an ability
to perceive the MEST universe. Indeed, it might be inferred as something
like a proof that the
MEST universe in itself is an illusion based upon agreement in view of the
fact that the
rehabilitation of the ability to view illusion rehabilitates the ability to
view the MEST universe.
Thought Emotion and Effort
Thought is the highest level attainable. It is of two varieties; one is
clear thought
established by will which is from 10.0 up on the tone-scale, to well above
40.0; the other is
thought established by counter-efforts as in homo sapiens and governed
entirely on a stimulus-response
basis. The first could be called self-determined thought; the second could
be called
reactive thought.
Self-determined thought expresses itself as will and consists of the making
of
postulates based on evaluations and conclusions. Will does not exist in
time when it is at this
level. Homo sapiens' will, as Schopenhauer once remarked, is stubbornness
taking the place
of the intellect. Will-power in homo sapiens is most ordinarily demon-
circuit power. Free from
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the body and its ridges which themselves contain stimulus-response thought,
the thetan can
change his postulates by making new evaluations and conclusions, and can
express his will
directly. It is very difficult for a thetan inside the head and confronted
by the stimulus-response
ridges of the body, to do other than obey these stimulus-response flows in
agreement with the
MEST universe.
Ideas are invariably and inevitably senior to force and action, if those
ideas stem from
self-determined thought. Ideas born out of stimulus-response thought bear
at times an almost
indistinguishable similarity to self-determined ideas, but are occasioned
by associative logic. In
homo sapiens, it is quite common for the person to believe himself
incapable of originality.
This is because the MEST universe will brook no competitor. Operating on a
highly self-determined
plane, originality is a simple thing to attain. What is called will-power,
then, could
have two manifestations: the first would be actual self-determined thought;
the second would
be a result of an enforced or inhibited thought. When homo sapiens attempts
to exercise his
will-power, he normally brings into flow the ridges around the body and is
nullified by them
and is pressed into aberrated behavior.
Ideas, when in the form of self-determined thought, exist above the level
of 40.0 on the
tone-scale and extend down into the action band.
Ideas of the stimulus-response variety are occasioned by experience as held
and
contained in facsimiles and are actually dictated to homo sapiens by
circuits.
Postulate processing is that processing which addresses the postulates,
evaluations and
conclusions of the preclear at the level of self-determined thought, yet
postulate processing has
some value when addressed to stimulus-response ideas. Postulate processing
is the primary
and highest method of processing a thetan. With creative processing, it
constitutes Scientology
8-8008.
Emotion, as known to homo sapiens, extends from slightly above 4.0 down to
0.0,
and depends upon the wave characteristic.
Effort is an even lower level manifestation than emotion.
Matter would be the lower effort band.
Facsimiles
The best description of facsimiles is to be found in Electropsychometric
Auditing. A
facsimile is an energy picture which can be reviewed again.
Facsimiles can disperse or flow when addressed by new energy, either
exterior to the
thetan or from the thetan. Thus the environment can set a facsimile into
action or the thetan can
set it into action. Homo sapiens is most normally controlled by directing
energy at his
facsimiles and setting them into action so as to cause him to dramatize
facsimiles and training
patterns.
Facsimiles are normally found to be fixed in large number upon ridges.
A facsimile contains more than fifty easily identified perceptions. It also
contains
emotion and thought.
There are many methods of processing facsimiles.
Assist Processing
An "assist" is the processing given to a recently injured human being or
thetan in order
to relieve the stress of live energy which is holding the injury in
suspension. The direct
running-out of the energy contained in the recent facsimile is done by
continually running
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through the incident as though it were just that moment happening to the
preclear and
recovering from it all his desire to have it and to not have it. And when
this has been done to an
extent where the energy is desensitized and the injury less painful, the
preclear is led to handle
it as energy, placing it in different places and times and reversing it and
doing other things with
it.
The assist is very important, as it can cause an injury to resolve or a
person to recover
in a fraction of the time which would otherwise be required and, in many
cases, it may save the
life of the individual and has done so many times in the past. The auditor
must know facsimile
processing primarily to run an assist and in order to know more about the
anatomy of the
human mind.
As noted earlier under Terminals, an assist can be rendered by mocking-up
the injured
part or the scene of injury as two terminals and holding or recreating
these mock-ups until the
injury abates. While doing this it will be noted particularly that the mock-
ups are at first
uncontrollable in most cases and then become much more easily controlled.
The uncontrollable
factor of the mock-ups is answered by this; whenever a pair of mock-ups or
a single mock-up
misbehaves, which is to say, acts without the specific command of the
person getting the
mock-up, the person doing the mock-up should simply abandon the pair or
single mock-up and
put into its place again one which is doing what he wants it to do; in
other words, a disobedient
mock-up or pair of mock-ups is either put away or moved to the right or
left or forced into
control, and in its place the individual simply puts a mock-up which is
obedient to his control.
An auditor should be careful on this point, for an individual getting mock-
ups will strain and
worry and eventually discover, he thinks, that it is impossible for him to
control his mock-ups.
Using effort to control one's mock-ups is of little avail; one simply
creates them. Where
mock-ups are absent, one will appear if the individual will simply keep
putting the thought
forward that it will appear. If he puts forward the thought often enough
and long enough, he
will get such a mock-up. Where he can get only one of a pair of mock-ups,
if he will keep
putting the second one in it will eventually appear. What one is facing in
double terminalling
here is so much charge on a single subject that the charge dissipates the
mock-up before the
mock-up can be adequately perceived. No matter how briefly, when an
individual has said a
mock-up will be there a mock-up has appeared; that it has disappeared
promptly does not mean
that he cannot put a second mock-up there. Particular attention should be
given to this in assists
because an assist is essentially dealing with an injured member or a scene
which contains pain.
In double-terminalling assists it will be found that the preclear becomes
ill or in pain in
spite of how innocent he may feel it is to hold two terminals out in front
of him. The remedy
for this is simply to hold the two terminals (or replace them if they
disappear or misbehave)
until the illness or feeling has abated.
One can handle worries in this fashion. One simply puts up one worry and
then
duplicates it facing itself out in front of him and the thought discharges
against the thought until
the worry and the emotion connected with the worry disappear. Thought,
emotion, and effort
can be dissipated by double-terminalling in this fashion. It is again
remarked that this is a
limited technique and should not be continued endlessly as an end in
itself. Thirty or forty
hours of double-terminalling is much more than enough. The route pointed
out by Scientology
8-8008 is a better route than double-terminalling. Double-terminalling is
relegated to the level
of assist and changing one's state of mind. Double-terminalling doubt
against doubt
undermines and gets at the bottom of every circuit; thus, it, as a
technique, should not be
entirely neglected.
Cycle of Action
A cycle of action is dependent for its magnitude upon a cycle of
havingness. Because it
is a cycle of havingness and beingness and doingness, it is generally
viewed as a cycle of time,
but, as we have seen, time is an abstract term to describe havingness.
The beginning and ending of a cycle depends upon the state of havingness. A
cycle
starts with not-havingness, continues through increased havingness,
continues then in changed
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havingness and ends with no-havingness. These conditions of havingness
bring about an
illusion of time. Where a person does not possess anything, he does not
conceive himself to
have any time. Thus earlier parts of the track are lost to an individual
since he has no time in
them, for he has no possession in them.
The most basic description of this should be in terms of havingness, but
the cycle can
also be stated more abstractly in terms as follows: creation, growth,
conservation, decay and
death or destruction. This would be the cycle of any object; it would also
be the cycle of action
as it pertained to an object in the MEST universe.
A cycle of action is not necessarily fixed for all universes.
It is common to the MEST universe. There is no reason why in some universe
the cycle
should not run from decayed havingness into growth, but in the MEST
universe it never does,
except through the point of not-havingness, death or destruction.
A cycle of action can also be stated in another way, and this in terms of
energy action.
Motion is characterized by only three conditions, and all motion is part of
the gradient scale of
these three conditions. These conditions are: start, change and stop. This
compares to creation,
alteration and destruction in terms of experience.
In the "last 76 trillion years" the preclear has lived through "spirals."
These spirals were
at first very long and then shortened each time until the present spiral
for most is about 40,000
years as compared with the initial spiral of 100 million years. Thus one
can also plot the
magnitude of havingness of the individual for each one of these spirals. A
spiral is not unlike a
life. A life is lived in a cycle of action. A past life is generally
obscured because one does not
have the body of that life and conceives himself to have now another
identity and is not
connected to the last life by a havingness. He is, however, definitely
connected to his last lives
by the facsimiles of those lives which he now ignores.
Past havingness, present havingness and future havingness mark past
beingness,
present beingness and future beingness and also past action, present action
and future action.
The past, present and future are established by havingness, but havingness,
doingness and
beingness alike should be processed as intimately connected in this cycle
of action.
The condition of the body itself and its position on the cycle of action as
applied to the
current life establishes to a large degree the preclear's attitude toward
processing. He will react
toward processing much in the manner dictated by the condition of the body
and its position on
the cycle. The body goes through the stages of creation, growth,
conservation, decay and
death.
A person in his middle years desires no change and may be difficult to
process for that
reason, since the auditor is seeking to attain change. A person in the
later cycle area will run
only succumb material and will actually make an effort to succumb through
processing. His
incidents are commonly those of grief and loss since these are the
manifestations of havingness
in decay. He has no hopes of having before him and all of his havingness
ordinarily no longer
with him from the past.
The thetan going on the wider cycle of the spiral is discovered early on
the spiral to be
in a high state of creativeness, a little later to be intent upon a growth
of havingness, a little later
attempting to change to avoid conserving, a little later to be conserving,
and then to be intent
only on decay and dying, and finally upon death itself. The auditor should
differentiate very
sharply between the cycle of the spiral as applying to the thetan and the
cycle of a lifetime. He
may find a very young person who is yet on the later part of a spiral. The
body of the young
person is still in the state of growth and apparently the person's life
should be hopeful of much
having. Yet the behavior of the person in general is directed almost
uniformly towards
succumbing. When the thetan is exteriorized from the body, he is found to
be listless and
certain of the approaching end. He believes that he will be finished
entirely at the end of this
spiral. He is not normally aware of the fact that he will have another
spiral after this; or, if he
is, he thinks it will be a shorter spiral -- which it will be; but this can
be remedied by postulate
processing.
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Related Experiences
There is a table of relationships which the auditor must have. These are
divided into
three general columns. Any one of the columns may be addressed first, but
all three columns
must be addressed on any subject. The vertical levels of the columns can be
considered to be
terms which are synonymous.
40.0 20.0 0.0
Start Change Stop
Space Energy Time
Beingness Doingness Havingness
Positive Current Negative
Creation Alteration Destruction
Conception Living Death
Differentiation Association Identification
ARC applies to each column or for any one of the above statements of
experience.
All eight dynamics apply to each column and thus to any of the above
statements of
experience.
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DIFFERENTIATION, ASSOCIATION AND IDENTIFICATION
A special condition of start, change and stop manifests itself in the very
woof and warp
of the MEST universe and can be plotted on the tone-scale.
Differentiation is at the top of the tone-scale and is a condition of the
highest level of
sanity and individuality. Association or similarity is a condition which
exists from the upper to
the very low range of the scale. And identification is at the bottom of the
scale.
The condition of the preclear can be established readily by his ability to
associate. He
can, however, associate much too well. Association is the essence of logic.
Logic is the
gradient scale of relating facts one to another. As logic reaches the lower
part of the scale, this
relationship becomes finer and finer until at last identification is
reached and thought could be
expressed in terms of A = A = A = A.
An excellent rendition of this -- although one not related workably to
experience and
which did not have with it a truly workable therapy -- is to be found in
general semantics in the
book Science and Sanity by Alfred Korzybski. Insanity is the inability to
associate or
differentiate properly. Experience itself becomes ungovernable at the
lowest depth of identity.
The more fixed the identity of the person may be, the less the experience
of which he is
capable. Fame has at its end a completely fixed identification which is
timeless, but which
unfortunately is matter and which equally unfortunately, is inaction.
The widest possible differentiation exists at the moment of creation. At
this moment,
one is committed to a cycle of action which, as it continues, is less and
less governable by
himself and is more and more governed by his environment. As his degree of
havingness
increases, he is increasingly governed by what he has had and what he has,
and this determines
what he will have which, of course, is less freedom, less individuality and
more havingness.
Association expresses itself in the preclear in terms of the way he thinks.
When he
reaches a low level of association, he supposes himself to be thinking
connectedly, but is
actually thinking in a completely disassociated fashion, for he identifies
facts with other facts
which should not be identified. The actions of a man about to die or in
extreme fear are not
sane. Identification brings as its manifestation a solidity to all things
including thought. The
auditor who processes a preclear very low on the tone-scale who is neurotic
or psychotic will
readily discover that thoughts are objects to this preclear and that time
itself is a matter of
enormous concern to the preclear in many cases. Thoughts and incidents and
symbols are
objects. This is commonly seen in the society in the matter of over-concern
about words. A
person who has sunk low enough on the tone-scale so that words have become
objects and
must be handled as such, and exist without any real relationship to ideas,
will stop a flow of
ideas by an outrage of his word sense which, if he is low on the tone-
scale, is easily outraged.
Differentiation, association and identification belong, rightly, on the
tone-scale, and can
be processed as part of the scale above. But they are a close gauge of
thought itself and of
ideas. An adequate tone-scale can be drawn for any individual using only
the above three
words.
The auditor will very often find an individual who is intensely logical and
quite brilliant
who is yet very difficult to process. This person has agreed with the MEST
universe to such a
degree that his association has assumed the proportions of near-solidity;
the facsimiles and
ridges of this individual have become much too solid and are consequently
quite difficult to
process. This condition of solidity may refer only to the body of the
preclear which itself is
old, and it may be found that the thetan -- the preclear himself -- is
quite vital and capable of
wide differentiation, but that this differentiation is being grossly
limited by the ridges and
facsimiles which surround the body. Such bodies have a heavy appearance. It
requires an
enormously powerful thetan to handle them in spite of the solidity of the
ridges surrounding the
body.
Mathematics could be said to be the abstract art of symbolizing
associations.
Mathematics pretends to deal in equalities but equalities themselves do not
exist in the MEST
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universe, and can exist only conceptually in any universe. Mathematics are
a general method of
bringing to the fore associations which might not be perceived readily
without their use. The
human mind is a servo-mechanism to all mathematics. Mathematics can
abstractly form by their
mechanics coincidences and differences outside the field of experience in
any universe and are
enormously useful. They can best be used when considered to be a shorthand
of experience
and in the light that they can symbolize what is beyond actuality. The
essence of mathematics
lies in differentiation, association, identification, which is to say,
equalities must not be viewed
as fixed in the real universe. Absolutes are unobtainable in experience but
may be symbolized
by mathematics.
Logic
Logic is a gradient scale of association of facts of greater or lesser
similarity made to
resolve some problem of the past, present or future, but mainly to resolve
and predict the
future. Logic is the combination of factors into an answer. The mission of
the analytical mind
when it thinks, is to observe and predict by the observation of results.
Easily the best way to
do this is to be the objects one is observing: thus, one can know their
condition completely.
However, if one is not sufficiently up the scale to be these objects it is
necessary to assume
what they are. This assumption of what they are, the postulating of a
symbol to represent the
objects and the combination of these symbols when evaluated against past
experience or
"known law," bring about logic.
The genesis of logic may be said to be an interchange of two viewpoints,
via other
dimension points by which one of the viewpoints holds the attention (one of
the most valuable
commodities in the universe) of the other viewpoint by being "logical"
about why that
viewpoint should continue to look. The basis of logic is "it is bad over
there" or "there is a
hidden influence which you cannot estimate but which we will try to
estimate," "therefore, you
should continue to look towards me." At its best, logic is rationalism, for
all logic is based
upon the somewhat idiotic circumstance that a being that is immortal is
trying to survive.
Survival is a condition susceptible to non-survival. If one is "surviving,"
one is at the same
moment admitting that one can cease to survive, otherwise one would never
strive to survive.
An immortal being striving to survive presents immediately a paradox. An
immortal being must
be persuaded that he can not survive or that he is not or might become not,
before he would
pay any attention to logic. By logic, he can then estimate the future.
Probably the only reason
he would want to estimate the MEST universe, aside from amusement, is to
keep alive in it, or
to maintain something in a state of life in it.
Logic and survival are intimate, but it must be remembered that if one is
worried about
his own survival and is striving for his own survival, he is striving for
the survival of an
immortal being. Bodies are transient, but bodies are an illusion. One could
bring himself up the
tone-scale to a point where he could create an imperishable body with ease.
It is interesting that those people who are the most logical are those
people who in
processing have to know before they are. When they are sent somewhere, they
want to know
what is there before they get there. There would be no point in going there
if they knew, and if
everyone knew what was there before they went there. Yet they will attempt
to predict what is
going to happen there and what is there by knowing. This knowingness is in
terms of data and
should not be confused with knowingness in terms of actual beingness.
Logic is the use of data to produce knowingness; as such it is very junior
to knowing
something by being it.
If you were to double-terminal an individual who is customarily very
logical, his body
facing his body in terms of mock-up and each of the terminals being very
logical, a surprising
violence of interchange would take place. This is because logic is mainly
aberration. The work
which lies before you is a discussion of beingness and is the track of
agreement which became
evidently the MEST universe. Therefore this work appears to be logical but
it appears also to
be the central thread of logic.
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Apparently, these conclusions were reached by logic; they were not, they
were reached
by observation and by induction. That when tested they proved themselves in
terms of
behavior demonstrates not that they are logical, but that they are, at
least to a large extent, a
discussion of beingness. Scientific logic and mathematical logic have the
frailty of trying to
find out what is there before one goes there. One cannot ever be, if he has
to know a datum
about the beingness first. If one is afraid to be, one will become, of
course, logical. This is no
effort to be abusive upon the subject of logic or mathematics, it is only
necessary at this point
to indicate a certain difference between what lies before you and a logical
arrangement of
assumption.
Patterns of Energy
Energy forms into many patterns. The geometry of this formation would make
an
intensely interesting study. The patterns, however, are formed by
postulates and have no other
existence.
The patterns of energy are viewed by the thetan in terms of pressors,
tractors,
explosions, implosions, pressor ridges, tractor ridges, pressor-tractor
ridges, and balls and
sheets.
The pressor is a beam which can be put out by a thetan which acts as a
stick and with
which one can thrust oneself away or thrust things away. The pressor beam
can be lengthened
and, in lengthening, pushes away.
A tractor beam is put out by a thetan in order to pull things toward him.
The tractor
beam is an energy flow which the thetan shortens. If one placed a
flashlight beam upon a wall
and then, by manipulating the beam, brought the wall closer to him by it,
he would have the
action of a tractor beam. Tractor beams are used to extract perceptions
from a body by a thetan.
Pressor beams are used to direct action. Tractors and pressors commonly
exist together, with
the tractor as a loop outside the pressor. The two together stabilize one
another.
An explosion is an outflow of energy usually violent but not necessarily
so, from a
more or less common source point.
An implosion could be likened to the collapse of a field of energy such as
a sphere
toward a common center point, making an inflow. It can happen with the same
violence as an
explosion, but does not necessarily do so.
A pressor ridge would be that ridge formed by two or more pressor beams
operating
against each other in conflict.
A tractor ridge would be that ridge formed by two tractor beams in conflict
operating
against each other.
A pressor-tractor ridge would be a combination of pressor-tractor flows in
sufficient
collisions as to form a solidification of energy.
A ridge is a solid body of energy caused by various flows and dispersals
which has a
duration longer than the duration of flow. Any piece of matter could be
considered to be a ridge
in its last stage. Ridges, however, exist in suspension around a person and
are the foundation
upon which facsimiles are built.
Two explosions operating against each other may form a ridge.
Two implosions operating away from each other may form a ridge. An
explosion and
an implosion operating together -- or many explosions and implosions
operating together --
may form a ridge.
These manifestations of energy are used in handling energy, either in
processing or in
action.
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Black and White
Black and white are the two extreme manifestations of perception on the
part of the
preclear.
The thetan perceives best his own energy, but when he perceives energy he
desires to
perceive it in white or in color. Color is a breakdown of whiteness. Seeing
whiteness or color,
the thetan is able to discern and differentiate between objects, actions
and spatial dimensions.
Energy can also manifest itself as blackness. A space containing black
energy would be
black, but a black space may be a space existing only without energy in it.
This point of
identification is quite aberrative, and drills to permit the thetan to
handle blackness are
mandatory in processing. If one remembers one's fear of blackness when a
child, and that evil
is represented as blackness, one will see the necessity for doing this.
Blackness is the
unknown, for it may contain energy or it may be empty or may be black
energy.
Black energy flows are common on the tone-scale of wavelengths. There is,
for
instance, what is known as the black band of sound.
Some thetans will not perceive anything at all because they conceive
themselves to be
surrounded by blackness and are not sure whether the blackness has
substance or is simply
empty, and they have a timidity to discover which. Such a case is resolved
by making the case
drill with blackness until blackness can be turned on and off and located
in time and space.
Although this is briefly mentioned, it is a point of the largest
importance.
Black and white running and black and white aesthetic running were old
processes
which are not necessarily vital today to processing. However, white energy
runs easily, and
where the preclear has a black spot of energy somewhere on an organ or
somewhere in the
environment of the body, the auditor asks him to turn it white in order to
let it flow away. It
may not flow away if it is black, either because it does not belong to the
preclear (in which case
he would see it as black) or because it is simply a spot of space with
which he is not familiar.
By turning it white he is able to handle it for he now knows it to be
filled with his own energy.
One can run own determinism, other determinism, as concepts. In this case
the preclear
runs the one as long as he gets an area white and then runs the other to
continue its whiteness.
In such a way all the energy in the area is drained away.
The most common manifestation of a ridge is to have one side of a ridge
white and the
other side black. This is because the preclear conceives one side of it to
have on it his own
energy and the other side to have on it energy belonging to another. By
running the concept
that it is his own and then running the concept that it is another's, one
runs both sides of a
ridge, if he is running ridges.
Although live energy is generally conceived to be white, it can also be
black. In running
a preclear with an E-meter, it will be discovered as long as a flow is
white and as long as a
flow is running, that the needle will gradually rise. When a point of
blackness appears in the
field, the needle will halt and either will not rise again or will flick as
the preclear gets a
somatic. This flick is characteristic of the somatic. The stuck needle is
characteristic of a black
field. The auditor can sit watching a needle and be able to tell the
preclear whenever the preclear
has had a black area appear in the field. It is notable that somatics only
occur in the presence of
a black patch. This means that the unknown characteristic of the blackness
is something the
preclear has been holding away from him so as not to have it or that black
wave energy is that
energy used to impress pain. The latter case is the more probable although
a great deal of work
must be done upon this to establish beyond doubt the manifestation of
blackness.
A preclear who cannot see color in his facsimiles, cannot see it because he
is unable to
use energy with which to perceive. He will see things in terms of blackness
or whiteness.
He may be able to get black and white or he may be able to get only
blackness. In the
latter case he finds blackness in some way profitable and desirable; and
running the concept of
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havingness, will have and have had blackness, and using drills in handling
blackness --
moving it from space to space in the environment and moving it into
yesterday and tomorrow --
will bring about control of blackness on the part of the preclear.
Perception
The entire subject of perception is the subject of energy. As the preclear
goes down the
tone-scale, he is less capable of differentiation and is thus less and less
capable of handling
energy and is more and more subject to energy, until at last he will not
emanate or handle
energy. Even in the higher ranges of this descent his perception begins to
diminish.
The rehabilitation of perception is essentially the rehabilitation of
force. Force is
rehabilitated by rehabilitating the control of energy. This is done by ARC
processing and in
many other ways. The chief way in which this is done is by establishing the
preclear's ability,
by creative processing, to handle blackness.
An entire science called perceptics can easily be constructed and is
mentioned in the
original thesis (1948).
The rehabilitation of sight in the blind, hearing in the deaf, the ability
to speak,
anaesthesia of the body or body areas or the genital organs, depends upon
the rehabilitation of
the preclear's ability to handle energy. Creative processing, with
particular attention to handling
blackness, is essential in this process.
Force
In the axioms, force is defined as random effort. Effort is defined as
directed force.
Force is essentially measured effort. It is quite common for individuals to
be so
protesting at what the MEST universe is doing that they abandon any and all
force and, if asked
to reassume force or use it, suppose that one is asking them to condone and
assume
punishment and destruction since these in the MEST universe are done with
heavy quantities of
force. There is, however, a gradient scale of force, for any energy
manifestation may be called
force. Even matter contains force.
For the purposes of processing, in order to avoid upsetting the preclear,
who usually
has very bad connotations with the word force, the auditor stresses instead
the "handling of
energy."
The use of energy would encompass any activity having to do with energy or
matter.
Responsibility
The responsibility level of the preclear depends upon his willingness or
unwillingness
to handle energy. That preclear who is protesting against energy in any
direction is abandoning
responsibility in greater or lesser degree.
One obtains randomity (see Axioms) by abandoning responsibility in some
sphere. He
will then find himself in conflict in that sphere.
The gradient scale of responsibility is as follows: at 40.0 responsibility
manifests itself
as will and can be so pervasive that there is no randomity. This would be
full responsibility.
At 4.0 responsibility would manifest itself in terms of action where
roughly half one's
environment or space had been selected for randomity and for which one
would take no
responsibility. At 20.0 responsibility would be 50 per cent of the total
energy existing.
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At 4.0 we find homo sapiens in his narrow environment disagreeing by using
the
emotion of enthusiasm with an existing state of affairs and directing
energy toward the righting
of that state of affairs. Even so, responsibility is low at this level.
At 2.0 blame enters the tone-scale as a major factor. This is the level of
the tone-scale
where fault is envisioned for the first time. Above this level there is
sufficient breadth of
understanding to see that interdependencies and randomities can exist
without fault and blame.
At 2.0, with the emotion of antagonism, an individual is assigning blame
for lack of
responsibility rather than trying to enforce responsibility.
At 1.5 blaming is almost the sole activity of the individual, and, while
taking no real
responsibility himself, yet he blames all on his environment and does so
with violence.
At 1.1 one pretends to take some responsibility in order to demonstrate
that others are at
fault but one has no real responsibility.
At 0.9 or around the level of fear, one does not think in terms of
responsibility but is
willing to accept all blame in an effort to escape all punishment.
At 0.75, grief, the individual blames himself, and accepts the fault for
what has
occurred.
At 0.375, apathy, there is no question of either blame or responsibility.
At this level
one has become MEST.
On the tone-scale in Science of Survival one will find what might be
expected to happen
to materiel and communication and persons in the vicinity of those below
2.0 on the tone-scale.
This stems normally from responsibility, or rather, its lack.
The keynote of responsibility is the willingness to handle energy. The
rehabilitation of
the thetan in the handling of energy brings about a rise in responsibility.
If a person is low on
the tone-scale and still exhibits responsibility, then his energy activity
initially must be
enormous for any segment of responsibility to exist low on the scale.
The processing of responsibility is one of the most vital processes. If one
processes
responsibility itself, he can expect sooner or later a theta clear. He
would process it by
brackets.
There is a condition known as the "glee of insanity." This is essentially a
specialized
case of irresponsibility. A thetan who cannot be killed and yet can be
punished, has only one
answer to those punishing him, and that is to demonstrate to them that he
is no longer capable
of force or action and is no longer responsible. He therefore states that
he is insane, and acts
insane and demonstrates that he cannot possibly harm them as he lacks any
further rationality.
This is the root and basis of insanity. Insanity is the only escape
possible besides death.
Death has the value of convincing others that one can no longer be punished
or feel. As
long as one has a body, which can die, there is a limit to the amount he
can be hurt. When there
is no body, and there is no limit to the amount he can be hurt, his only
answer is this plea of
complete irresponsibility which is the "glee of insanity." This is found as
an actual energy
manifestation in the vicinity of sanitoria and can be felt as an emanation
from the insane.
If the preclear is unable to conceive of "being happy about being insane"
(which he
usually cannot), get him to get the feeling of anticipation for a vacation.
This is irresponsibility
in one sense and in actuality, when deepened, becomes the "glee of
insanity."
Happiness is the overcoming of not insurmountable obstacles toward the
known goal
of havingness. Stepping away from this track, feeling that one's work is
too hard, these are
forsakings of responsibility. A common method employed by low-toned people
to reduce the
power and ability of an individual and so place him under control is to
convince him that he is
tired and overworked. If they can so convince him, they can then get him to
take a vacation. An
examination of an individual who has been subjected to this will show that
he was happiest
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when he was working and that before he "needed a vacation" many people
worked on him to
convince him that he should not work so hard, and thus turned what was
actually play to him
into work. Society almost demands that a man consider whatever he is doing
as work and
demands that he consider work as an unhappy thing. In looking around the
society at those
who gain easily, one finds only people who take a great deal of joy in
working and who never
think in terms of a vacation.
To run the bracket on responsibility, one would run the desire on the part
of the
preclear to be responsible, his desire not to be responsible, times when he
has been forced to
be responsible, times when he has been forced not to be responsible, times
when he has been
restrained from being responsible, times when he has been restrained from
being not-responsible,
times when he has been sympathized with because of his responsibilities and
then
all this as a bracket, the preclear doing it to others and others doing it
to others. This run round
and round as brackets produces marked results.
The joy of responsibility and the joy of irresponsibility should also be
run in terms of
brackets.
This becomes most effective when run in terms of responsibilities of
having, the
irresponsibilities of having, the responsibilities and irresponsibilities
of having had, and of will
have.
Before this has been run very long on some individuals, the glee of
insanity will
manifest itself and it must be very thoroughly run out. It is often a
hectic, uncontrolled
laughter. This should not be confused with line-charge laughter to which it
is a cousin; a
preclear who starts laughing over the serious things of his past is
breaking locks, and can be
made to laugh in this fashion for many hours if the chain reaction is
started. The laughter which
accompanies the "glee of insanity" has no mirth in it whatever.
Peculiar to this is what might be called the attitude of MEST. MEST is not
responsible
for anything. That preclear who has as his goal complete irresponsibility
has also as his goal
being complete MEST.
MEST has no space of its own, it causes no action except when acted upon,
and it
owns nothing but is itself owned.
Slaves are made by giving them freedom from responsibility.
The thetan high on the scale can make space or own space, has wide choices
of action,
and can create, change or destroy anything he wishes.
The Chart of Attitudes
In order to do rising-scale processing (as covered later), the auditor
should know very
well his Chart of Attitudes and the reasons underlying each column.
Survives Right Fully responsible Owns All
Dead Wrong No responsibility Owns nothing
Everyone Always Motion source Truth
Nobody Never Stopped Hallucination
Faith I know Cause I am
Distrust I know not Full effect I am not
Win Start Difference Being
Lose Stop Identification Had
This chart on the upper line in each of the above represents from 27.0 to
40.0. The
lower line under each one represents 0.0.
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Each one of these is a gradient scale with many intermediate points. In
rising-scale
running, one seeks the attitude of the preclear nearest to the lowest end
of this scale and asks
him to do a rising-scale to see how high he can change his postulate toward
the upper end of
the scale.
The last line is, of course, a repeat without the intermediate position of
the earlier
interdependencies of experience.
Survival
One of the first principles in the MEST universe, and that principle which,
when
discovered. resolved the problems of the mind, is the lowest common
denominator of all
MEST universe existence; the goal of life in the MEST universe is survival
and only survival.
Survival equates behavior in homo sapiens or in any life form. It also
covers the wide
field of ethics. The principle of survival was never intended to embrace
theta itself for this has,
of course, immortality and does not even necessarily move in MEST time.
Survival is nothing if not dependent upon havingness, action and beingness.
It is most
ordinarily viewed as the attempt in a life form to persist in a state of
existence as long as
possible.
Right -- Wrong
Rightness is conceived to be survival. Any action which assists survival
along the
maximal number of dynamics is considered to be a right action. Any action
which is destructive
along the maximal number of dynamics is considered to be wrong.
Theoretically, how right
can one be? Immortal! How wrong can one be? Dead!
After a certain point on the tone-scale is reached by the preclear, he will
tend
instinctively to seek out and do right actions, but ordinarily homo sapiens
is thoroughly
engrossed in being wrong. Social politeness, with its violation of the Code
of Honor, is quite
non-survival. It might also be said, How wrong can one be? Human!
The accident prone and no-responsibility case in general is so intent on
being wrong
that he is incapable of conceiving right.
All jurisprudence is built upon the principle that sanity is the ability to
differentiate right
from wrong. Jurisprudence does not, however, give a definition of either
rightness or
wrongness. Thus, for the first time with this principle, rules of evidence
and other matters in
law can be established with some accuracy.
Absolute rightness, like absolute wrongness, is unobtainable. Rightness and
wrongness are alike relative states.
Responsibility
(See text above.)
Ownership
In view of the fact that time can be conceived to be havingness and in view
of the fact
that time itself is one of the most puzzling concepts which homo sapiens
has ever sought to
master, the whole question of ownership is subject to grave error,
particularly on the part of
homo sapiens.
Discussions in the above text demonstrate that individuality depends upon
high-tone
level and freedom, whereas identity, as such, would be at a complete level
of reduction, a
condition analogous to MEST.
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It has long been recognized that "a rich man may as well try to get into
Heaven as a
camel through the eye of a needle." The auditor will suddenly discover this
truth when he tries
to process many rich and successful men. These have carried ownership to
such an extent that
they are themselves thoroughly encased in energy which is solidifying into
MEST itself.
Instead of having things, they themselves are had by things. Their freedom
in motion is
enormously reduced, although they have tricked themselves into believing
that possession will
increase that freedom.
The auditor will find his preclear upset nowhere on the tone-scale as he
will on the
subject of ownership. A childhood, for instance, is intensely upset by the
subject of ownership
since the child is given to understand that he owns certain things and is
then commanded in
every action he takes with those items. A child cannot have possession,
free and clear, of
anything in the average family. He is given shoes and is told to take care
of them and is
punished if he does not take care of them although he apparently owns them.
He is given toys
and is harassed whenever he abuses them. He finally becomes convinced that
he owns nothing
and yet he is in a state of anxiety about owning things. Therefore he will
try to possess many
things and will completely overestimate or underestimate the value of what
he has. The auditing
of childhood ownership is a fruitful field for the auditor.
That preclear who is upset on the subject of time, even faintly, is, and
has been,
enormously upset on the subject of ownership, since havingness and its
manifestations are
themselves the MEST universe trick of giving us an illusion of time.
Everyone -- Nobody
(See material above on Identity versus Individuality.)
It may be confusing to the preclear that being everybody can be conceived
at both ends
of the tone-scale. The difference is that at the bottom end of the scale,
the preclear is making the
mistake of considering the "somebodies" around him as MEST. He can be their
MEST
identities. At the top of the scale, while still retaining his own
identity, he can be anyone's
identity but this is on a theta level and is disassociated from MEST. That
preclear who goes
around believing he is other people is usually at the bottom end of the
tone scale and has
confused his own body with the bodies he sees because he does not have a
proper view of his
own body and so can easily mistake it for the bodies of others.
When an individual is low on the tone-scale, he easily does a life
continuum for others
because he himself is so encased in MEST and so poorly recognizes his own
identity that he
can conceive himself to be anyone without knowing what he has done.
The question of valences and life continuums is difficult to resolve in
direct ratio that
the preclear conceives himself to be MEST.
MEST, lacking the ability to create space and to produce directive action
is, of course,
nobody. When a man is convinced he is a nobody he has been convinced at the
same time that
he is MEST.
Always -- Never
We have already seen that objects give us the illusion of time. The ability
to create
objects is interchangeable with the ability to have an actual forever.
There would be an illusory forever which would be dependent upon the
duration of an
object and its apparent solidity. One might also say that the MEST universe
seeks to own one
by pretending that immortality is something difficult to buy and is only
purchased by achieving
an identity or being an object. The ultimate in this is, of course, being a
part of the MEST
universe. One might say jocularly that every planet in the MEST universe
was once one or
more people. A considerable reaction can be got from a preclear by making
him conceive a
feeling of devotion toward the "older" gods who were here and who built
this universe and
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who have left it to him. Deeply religious feelings are very often based
upon this idea. Some
astonishing reactions can occur in a preclear when running this concept.
The real way to be assured of a great deal of time is to be able, of
course, to create time,
and this would be to a thetan the true concept of always. Time is created,
at least in this
universe, by creating energy and objects, and by being able to make the
universe agree with
oneself, not by having the universe continually making one agree with it.
Motion Source -- Stopped
The ability to cause motion is dependent, whether the individual realizes
it or not, upon
the ability to conceive space. Creation of space is the first requisite for
the creation of motion.
When one can no longer create space and cannot conceive any space to be his
own, he
can be considered to be stopped.
That individual who is tremendously concerned with being stopped is losing
his ability
to create space. When he is no longer able to create space, he is himself
MEST.
Somebody once said that it was a poor man who was not king in some corner.
One
might add to this that one is not only poor but he does not exist when he
cannot create a corner.
One could obtain a very amusing viewpoint of this by watching the conduct
of a dog who,
theta-motivated like every life form, is bravest in his own front yard; and
even a mastiff
proceeds with some caution when in the front yard of a Pekinese. This is a
case of ownership
of space and, in some slight degree, the ability to create a space to own.
One processes this by moving mock-ups into an auto created space.
Truth -- Hallucination
The highest one can attain to truth is to attain to his own illusions. The
lowest one can
descend from truth is a complete acceptance of MEST universe reality, for
this below a certain
level becomes scrambled and brings on the condition known as hallucination.
Hallucination is
not self-generated; it comes about only when a person is an effect to such
an extent that he is
almost dead.
What is commonly believed to be truth is agreement upon natural law. This
would be
the truth of the MEST universe which would be the lowest common denominator
of agreement
upon any one subject. Where the MEST universe is concerned, acceptance of
such truths is
dangerous.
In Scientology one is studying the lowest common denominators of agreement
which
bring about an acceptance of the MEST universe and prohibit the creation of
one's own
universe, which latter ability alone makes possible perception of the MEST
universe which is
itself an agreed-upon illusion.
Truth in Scientology is the study of the lowest common denominator of
agreement,
plus the establishment of the true ability of the thetan. The true ability
of the thetan is a truth
much higher than the truth of the MEST universe itself and, if it has ever
before been known,
the difficulties of communicating it have been such as to inhibit its
promulgation.
It can be seen there is truth above what passes for "truth" in the MEST
universe.
Scientific truths gained from deductive observations of behavior of the
MEST universe are
themselves manifestations of agreements on the part of beings -- thetans --
who are capable of
much wider creation and agreement than that represented in the MEST
universe.
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We have answered in Scientology a good portion of "what is truth?"
Faith -- Distrust
There is no more over-rated quality in existence than faith.
The subject who, under the hands of a hypnotist operator, conceives an
enormous
agreement with the hypnotist, is experiencing faith as it is commonly
understood. In this state
the subject can perceive anything which the hypnotist may direct.
In order to understand faith, one must be able to differentiate between
faith-in and faith.
The difference between these two conditions is a direction of flow which
earlier we found to be
reality itself. Faith-in is an inflow of agreement and the placing of one's
beingness and
doingness under the control of another, and is, in other words, the
sacrifice of one's universe.
This is the basic mechanism wherein, all along the whole track, thetans
have been recruited in
some cause or mystery, and have surrendered to this their own identity and
ability. A little of
this goes a very long distance. It is in essence the basic trick of
hypnotism and by it one can
convert and reduce the abilities of a subject for any purpose.
Faith-in is an inflow and brings about the acceptance of reality other than
one's own.
Faith itself would be without flow where one was in a full state of
beingness and, with this
condition, one could occasion faith itself to occur within his own
universe, or could occasion
people to have faith in him.
The auditor will find one of the more aberrative phases of the preclear in
his failure to
obtain from others faith in himself, and his acquiescence to their demands
on any dynamic that
he have faith in them.
Because it is entirely true that a being lacking in faith is low in tone,
the fact can be
traded upon with great ease.
Distrust is not the lowest end of the scale, but begins to set in as a
neurotic or psychotic
condition at about 1.5. Actually faith interchanges with distrust in
gradient levels all the way
down the tone-scale and they alternate one with the other as one goes
deeper and deeper into
the MEST universe. The lowest level of this scale is not distrust but
complete faith-in, which is
the condition held by MEST which is supine to any sculptor.
This column might also be called the column of belief -- disbelief or the
column of
reality -- unreality. The auditor can expect the preclear as he rises up
the tone-scale to pass
through the various shades of distrust and the various shades of faith.
This is often quite
upsetting to the preclear for he cannot conceive himself to be rising in
tone.
It is very noteworthy that a preclear, when low in tone at the beginning,
will pass
inevitably through various strata of revulsion for the MEST universe and
then for his own
universe. The revulsion he can conceive for the MEST universe objects and
for being in the
MEST universe can become unthinkably distressing to him. When this
condition has occurred,
the auditor can be reassured by the fact that the preclear is rising in
scale but has hit upon one
of the levels of this column, and that a higher level and a more
comfortable one immediately
succeeds as processing is continued. This is simply a problem of reversing
directions of flow.
If the auditor is running flows he will find that an inflow is shortly
succeeded by an out-flow
and this out-flow is shortly succeeded by another in-flow. These are in
essence agreements and
disagreements alternating one after the other and each one is slightly
higher on the tone-scale
than the last.
I Know -- I Know Not
Epistemology has long been the senior study of philosophy; Scientology is
itself the
science of knowing how to know.
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The study of knowledge is in essence, in the MEST universe, a study of
data. Data in
the MEST universe are usually recorded in facsimiles. Thus one can go in
two directions
toward knowledge. The first is knowing what one is, and the second is
knowing what has
happened to one in the MEST universe and searching for identity in the MEST
universe.
There is no more tragic track than the sordid ransacking of facsimiles to
discover
TRUTH for all one discovers is what is true for the MEST universe. This
wandering and
endless trail is bleak with the bones of lost beingness. Earlier explorers
have, almost without
exception, destroyed themselves in this search for TRUTH in the MEST
universe, for all they
discovered was further and further agreement and more and more facsimiles
and all they
achieved as individuals were the traps and snake-pits of implants on the
whole track.
To stand at last near the heights of discovered beingness has withered the
sadness of
standing on other men's bitter and, until now, probably unrewarded search.
It was necessary
to ransack the facsimiles, which are themselves one's sole inheritance for
travail in the MEST
universe, to discover the common denominators of facsimiles and to discover
that they were
only facsimiles, how they were created and how experience was impressed
upon the
individual. One might well have the feeling of having narrowly escaped a
terrible tragedy when
he views the thinness on which he stood to view this brink of oblivion, for
it was obviously
never intended that anyone should recover from participation or even
spectatorship in or of the
game called MEST universe. Dante's inscription above the portals of Hell
might very well be
written best on the gates of entrance into this universe.
The common denominator of all difficulty an individual has in the MEST
universe may
be summed up under the heading "facsimiles." Originally, in his own
universe, he used the
mechanism of energy creation to make objects. In the MEST universe this
ability reduces to the
use of energy solely for the recording of data about the MEST universe so
that one can agree
with that data. And in this process lies death, not only as a body
periodically but as a thetan.
What has commonly been mistaken for knowledge has been the MEST universe
track
of seeking agreement with the MEST universe by discovering all possible
data about what one
should do in order to agree with the MEST universe. The more data one
achieved, the more
facsimiles he had; the more facsimiles he had, the more MEST he was. It was
necessary to win
through this trap in order to recognize, isolate and evaluate the common
denominators of
facsimiles, and to discover that self-created energy has been utilized to
enforce agreement upon
oneself so as to enslave one's beingness and lead it to its final
destruction.
No adventure in the MEST universe can exceed the adventure of making
orderly
anatomy from the chaos of commingled matter, energy and space which
comprise the planets,
galaxies and island universes of this Black Beyond which awaited to devour
the universe self-constructed
of any thetan or group of thetans. The slaying of a roaring beast of fire
held in it, in
olden times, less action and danger.
These lines are not written from any self-congratulatory motive, for fame
is a rock. But
by these lines the auditor may be impressed by the actuality of what he
handles, and so that he
can appreciate his own gallantry in fronting an adversary of such
insentient brutality.
The road to knowledge led through the anatomy of the space and energy
masses called
the MEST universe. The data did not lie in the MEST universe. The
ransacking of facsimiles
for data about one's identity, about one's "past history" in the MEST
universe, should be
tolerated by the auditor only insofar as it gives him materials for
creative processing. He should
never directly begin the direct processing of facsimiles, whether engrams
or secondaries, save
only in the case of an assist. He needs only to know so much of a
preclear's beingness on the
whole track to know what to mock up for the preclear's running.
The difficulty the preclear is having is not so much the content of various
facsimiles
but, on this high echelon of Scientology on which we are now operating, the
fact that he has
facsimiles. The path of better techniques is the path toward permitting the
preclear to step away
from all his facsimiles.
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The track to knowledge, then, has two directions. It is possible at this
time to take the
better path. The essence of true knowledge is the essence of existing so
that one can create
beingnesses and data to know. All other data are junior to this.
A control operation of some magnitude was once perpetrated in the late 18th
century. It
was stated with great authority that anything worth knowing would always be
beyond the
bounds of human experience. This sought, knowingly or unknowingly, further
to block the
search for beingness. It should never be considered by anyone or under any
circumstances that
anything which can affect him could be beyond his ability to know the full
nature of what he is
experiencing. If any lesson is contained in Scientology, it is the lesson
that the gates to all
knowingness are open.
One should have the knowledge of the composition of the MEST universe as a
fox
might have use for the knowledge of a trap. It is cruelty to make a theta
clear without at the
same time educating him so as to permit him to avoid those pitfalls which
brought him where
he is found -- in a MEST body on a planet named Earth (Solar System, Galaxy
13, MEST
Universe).
Top-scale knowing would be top-scale ability to create beingness. The
identity assigned
to one by others and the data contained in facsimiles are knowingness not
worth having.
Cause -- Full Effect
Above the level of all else on the Chart of Attitudes is Cause. Causation
is the highest
attainment which can be envisaged by the thetan, but this is not
necessarily the highest possible
attainment, and much higher levels may be envisionable by the thetan when
he has attained
high on the level of causation.
To be Full Cause, one would have to be able to cause space and many other
manifestations. Everyone, to a greater or lesser degree, attempts to be
cause until he is at last
the full effect. The fullest effect in this universe is to be MEST itself.
One of the principles of causation is outlined in the cycle of action, but
it is not
necessarily true that one can only cause a cycle of this pattern or that
one must cause cycles at
all, for it is excellent processing to mock-up with reverse cycles going
from death back to
creation with objects which one has mocked up.
It is one of the "facts" of objects that space and energy must have been
caused before
the object could exist in the MEST universe. Thus any object has prior
cause. For this reason
when anyone in the MEST universe begins to study in order to resolve some
of the riddles of
the MEST universe, he falls into the trap of supposing all cause to be
prior and time itself to
exist. This would make one the later effect of everything he caused. In
other words, if he made
a postulate, he would then immediately afterwards become the effect of that
postulate. Causes
motivated by "future" desire, enforcement and inhibition of havingness, do
not lie in the past
but only in the condition of havingness in this universe which states that
any object must have
had a "prior" cause.
The preclear has become aberrated by the process of making an effect out of
him and
taking from him the ability to be cause by convincing him that it is better
to be an effect.
Freud had one of the major aberrations in view when he declared his libido
theory in
1894 and decided therein that sex was the only aberration. It is certainly
a major one in homo
sapiens, for in sex one desires to be the cause of little or nothing and
desires to be the effect of
pleasurable sensation.
Anything in the MEST universe which one desires, he desires because it will
have a
pleasant effect on him. Thus he is searching for sensation caused exterior
to himself which will
make on him an effect. How much of an effect can he become? MEST! The snare
of
pleasurable sensation leads one to accept energy other than one's own.
Desire for this energy
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or objects then puts one in the condition of being an effect. When one is
surrounded by as
many powerful possible energy sources as one finds in the MEST universe, he
cannot but
become a low level cause.
When a preclear is at a level on the tone-scale where he is concerned with
bad and good
(above 8.0 both these are seen broadly enough to understand that they are
viewpoints) he is
very concerned if he thinks that he is or could be bad cause and is
desirous of being what he
considers good cause. He judges these things by moral codes and so bends
his conduct as to
make bad cause antipathetic to himself and others. Thus he gives away
responsibility for bad
cause and in that very action becomes the effect of bad cause. When he has
found himself to be
what he considers bad cause, he ceases to "trust" himself and begins to
blame himself and then
others.
All angels have two faces. They are commonly represented in mythology as
having a
black and white face. To be complete cause, theoretically, a person would
have to be willing to
be bad cause and good cause. Only in this wise, in the MEST universe, could
he escape the
liability of becoming the effect of bad cause.
The criminal who has elected himself bad cause through having found it
impossible to
trust himself (and a criminal career always begins at the moment when the
criminal-to-be loses
his self-respect; a career of prostitution cannot begin until self-respect
is lost; and self-respect is
only lost when one considers himself to be bad cause) can only escape
becoming an effect by
fighting all good cause. The reformation or reclamation of the criminal
does not depend upon
punishment, which only seeks to make him more MEST than he is, nor yet upon
good cause,
which he must fight, but upon the reestablishment of the criminal's self-
respect; for only after
this is he capable of being good cause.
An entire process evolves around "what would you cause on (each one of the
dynamics)?" An assessment of the preclear with a meter should seek to
establish where the
preclear feels he would be bad cause, for it is on this point that he will
be found to have lost his
self-respect and where it will be discovered why he cannot trust himself.
Self-trust, self-respect
and the ability to be cause are conditions in the same order of magnitude
and can be
interchangeably approached.
I Am -- I Am Not
On the Chart of Attitudes which accompanies the Handbook for Preclears, it
will be
found at 22.0 "I am myself." The only true identity is "myself." It is not
a name, it is not a
designation. Orders, titles, ranks, praise and enduring fame alike do not
bring about the
condition "I am" or an actual identity; they bring about instead an
identification, with all the
liabilities of identification. The finality of identification is 0.0 or
lower on the tone-scale.
The concept of infinite mind is not new, but it has always been assigned to
another
beingness than self. The preclear will be found to be intensely aberrated
who has sworn
allegiance to some infinite beingness and has then agreed that all space
belonged to that
beingness, and that the rights of creation and energy belonged to that
beingness and did not
belong to self. This is a handy and, to the very badly aberrated,
acceptable method of denying
any responsibility for anything. It is also the shortest route toward I AM
NOT. Infinite mind is
individualistic. All mankind does not depend upon or share a portion of the
infinite mind. On
the contrary, the highest individualism attainable is the individualism of
the infinite mind. It
was beyond the power and grasp of the intellect applying itself to the
field of philosophy, to
conceive a multiplicity of infinite minds, and these commentators had
agreed sufficiently with
the MEST universe to conceive that the only space was the MEST universe
space and they
could not understand that this was an illusion, and that the existence of
space does not depend
upon existing space. Just as there can be an "infinity" of ideas, so can
there be an "infinity" of
"infinities" of space. Two beings theoretically, each with an infinite
mind, and each capable of
the production of an infinity of space, could yet co-produce sufficient
space to communicate
with each other. This may be difficult to conceive until one has attained a
level of the tone-scale
sufficient for an expansive viewing of his potentialities, at which moment
it becomes simplicity
itself.
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There is a psychosis which has as its manifestation the illusion that one
is God and the
ruler of the universe. This psychosis comes about from the effort of an
individual who is well
below complete agreement with the MEST universe, to shift into the valence
of what he has
already accepted to be the creator of the universe. Instead of being
himself, he has become
unable even to be a MEST body in a sane condition, has conceived God to be
MEST, and has
then shifted into the valence of God. God, in this case, will be found to
be conceived to be a
MEST object. As an aside to this, below the level of complete agreement
that the MEST
universe is the only reality, begins the state which could be described by
the statement, "I
agree, I am still agreeing, and yet you are still punishing me." The
unfortunate fact about the
MEST universe is that it is MEST and is designed to punish and cares
nothing about agreement
with it beyond the point that one agrees with it, and has no spirit of fair
play whereby
punishment ceases when one has acknowledged the winner. Recognition of this
brings on
insanity in an effort to further back away from responsibility and further
escape from
punishment. In the MEST universe, this escape from punishment is, of
course, impossible.
Thus there is a level below 0.0 for any immortal being.
One of the first confusions on the part of the preclear which the auditor
will encounter
is the fact that the preclear considers himself to be in the state of I AM
when he has a body and
a name. This is high-tone compared to the sub-zero state in which the
thetan quite often finds
himself, but it is very far from optimum. Here the preclear is confusing
identity with his own
sense of beingness. His sense of beingness does not depend upon and,
indeed, is confused by
a MEST identity such as a name assigned to him and a body with which he can
be recognized.
To a large degree the society of Earth requires, as part of its structure,
names and the
means to identify. The state finds itself very satisfied whenever it
increases its ability to readily
identify its citizenry, and will resort to almost any pretext to collect
the fingerprints and dossier
of one and all.
Identity is such a liability and is so thoroughly MEST that individuality
is really not
possible in the presence of sharply defined identity. Reaching down into
the sub-zero tone-scale,
the thetan finds it expedient not only to mask his beingness, but to hide
his identity with
great thoroughness even from himself. This passion for non-identity is the
spasm of clinging to
the last shreds of individuality which would otherwise be lost. Thetans
from some of the corps
operating in space have thoroughly agreed to be amongst themselves
completely black, the
better to hide in the blackness of space. This blackness is found in the
occluded case in many
instances.
The commonest plea on the part of the preclear is "Who am I?" He feels that
if he could
only answer this, he would be happy. He then ransacks his facsimiles for
all of his past
identities on his many spirals and as these amount to hundreds of millions,
he finds no
surcease. He succeeds only in damaging himself with the many injuries
contained in facsimiles
through which he is searching. He is identifying to the point where he is
searching not for the
state of I AM but for WHAT HAVE I BEEN LABELLED? The attainment of the
state of I AM
depends upon one's ability to again be able to create space, energy and
objects in and for his
own universe, by himself or in co-operation with other thetans, and the
rehabilitation of the
many additional abilities of the thetan for the creation of energy is but
one of a very large
number. Thus the state of I AM is reached through creative processing and
postulate
processing rather than the processing of MEST universe facsimiles or
endless searching with
an E-meter to discover what one has been.
There are gods above all other gods. Anything which has wide acceptance and
has been
successful, wherever suns shine and planets swing, is based upon some
fundamental truth.
There is no argument here against the existence of a Supreme Being or any
devaluation
intended. It is that amongst gods, there are many false gods elected to
power and position for
the benefit and use of those who would control and make into the basest
slaves the most
sublime beings. As an ancient Greek said, when one has examined the
descriptions of God
written by men, he finds in that Being at best a thirst for self-
aggrandizement and adulation
which would be disgusting in any man. Man has sought to make his God a god
of mud
because the Early Greek and even more distant peoples, made idols in the
form of men by
which they thought to entrap the beingness of some local divinity who
troubled them; more
modern man has fallen into the error of making God into the body of a homo
sapiens and
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posting him somewhere on high with a craving for vengeance and a pettiness
in punishment
matched only by the degradation of homo sapiens himself.
There are gods above all other gods, and gods beyond the gods of universes,
but it
were better, far better, to be a raving madman in his cell than to be a
thing with the ego,
cruelty, and jealous lust that base religions have set up to make men
grovel down.
Win -- Lose
It is noteworthy that as the preclear ascends the tone-scale, his desire to
win increases.
Those low on the tone-scale, even when they think they are trying to win,
will almost
uniformly set up their problems and solutions so that they will lose.
Homo sapiens has little converse with true competence. There is an
astonishing level of
winningness above 4.0 where competence becomes a joy like poetry.
Regret of competence ensues when one has employed competence to injure
another
being drastically. The duellist begins with joy in competence of sword-
handling and before
long, because of the counter-emotion he receives from his practice of the
art, conceives disgust
for competence. In a later life, he will carry this into everything he
does, so fearing that he will
employ competence to injure that he dares not practice competence in the
smallest things; and
by failing to practice competence, so introduces losingness, to the injury
of himself and others.
A man who instinctively recoils from competence and perfection, at the
wheel of a car, will
sometimes cause an accident rather than avoid one if competence of a high
order is required in
the avoidance.
To win one must wish to win; when one no longer desires to win, one no
longer
desires to live. (Note -- The remaining three columns of the chart of
attitudes are covered
broadly in the earlier text.)
The Emotional Scale and Sub-Zero Tone-Scale
The emotional scale has been covered often and exhaustively elsewhere. As
has been
discussed in this text, it is dependent upon that characteristic of energy
known as affinity which
itself is established by flows, dispersals and ridges.
Below zero on the tone-scale is applicable only to a thetan.
It has been quite commonly observed that there are two positions for any
individual on
the tone-scale. This occurs because there is a position for the composite
of the thetan plus his
MEST body operating in a state of unknowingness that he is not a MEST body,
and behaving
according to social patterns, which give him some semblance of sanity. The
other position on
the tone-scale is the position of the thetan himself, and it is necessary
for us to demonstrate a
negative scale in order to find the thetan at all.
For the thetan you will find the scale as follows:
40.0 Serenity of beingness
8.0 Exhilaration
4.0 Enthusiasm
3.0 Conservatism
2.5 Boredom
2.0 Antagonism
1.8 Pain
1.5 Anger
1.2 No-sympathy
1.0 Fear
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0.9 Sympathy
0.8 Propitiation
0.5 Grief
0.375 Making amends
0.05 Apathy
0.0 Being a body
-0.2 Being other bodies
-1.0 Punishing other bodies
-1.3 Responsibility as blame
-1.5 Controlling bodies
-2.2 Protecting bodies
-3.0 Owning bodies
-3.5 Approval from bodies
-4.0 Needing bodies
-8.0 Hiding
This sub-zero tone-scale shows that the thetan is several bands below
knowingness as a
body, and so he will be found in the majority of cases. In our homo sapiens
he will be
discovered to be below zero on the tone-scale. The zero-to-four plus tone-
scale was formulated
on, and referred to, bodies and the activity of thetans with bodies. In
order, then, to discover
the state of mind of the thetan, one must examine the sub-zero scale. He
has some trained
patterns as a body which make it possible for him to know and to be. As
himself, he has lost
all beingness, all pride, all memories and all self-determined ability, but
yet has an automatic
response-mechanism in himself which continues furnishing his energy.
EACH ONE OF THE ABOVE POINTS ON THE SCALE IS RUN AS POSITIVE
AND NEGATIVE. Example: The beautiful sadness of needing bodies. The
beautiful sadness
of NOT needing bodies. The beauty of being responsible for bodies, the
beauty of NOT being
responsible for bodies. Each one is run as itself and then as the reverse
with the addition of
NOT.
The sub-zero to 40.0 scale is the range of the thetan. A thetan is lower
than body death,
since it survives body death. It is in a state of knowingness below 0.375
only when it is
identifying itself as a body and IS, to its own thinking, the body. The
BODY-PLUS-THETAN
scale is from 0.0 to 4.0, and the position on this scale is established by
the social environment
and education of the composite being and is a stimulus-response scale. The
preclear is initially
above this 0.375 on the BODY-PLUS-THETAN range. Then, on auditing, he
commonly
drops from the FALSE TONE of the BODY-PLUS-THETAN scale and into the true
tone of
the thetan.
This is actually the only self-determined tone present -- the actual tone
of the thetan.
From this sub-zero he quickly rises up scale through the entire range as a
thetan and generally
settles at 20.0 and in command of the body and situations. The course of
auditing then takes
the preclear, quite automatically, down from the FALSE TONE of the BODY-
PLUS-THETAN
scale to the actual tone of the thetan. Then the tone of the thetan rises
back up the scale level by
level.
It is not uncommon to find the preclear (who IS the thetan) quite raving
mad under the
false "veneer" of social and educational stimulus-response training and to
discover that the
preclear, while behaving quite normally in the BODY-PLUS-THETAN state,
becomes
irrational in the course of auditing. BUT DESPITE THIS, the preclear is
actually being far
more sane and rational than ever before and the moment he discovers himself
as himself, as
THE source of energy and personality and beingness of a body, he becomes
physically and
mentally better. Thus the auditor must not be dismayed at the course of
tone, but should simply
persevere until he has the thetan up into rational range. A raving mad
thetan is far more sane
than a normal human being. But then, as you audit, observe it for yourself.
The Dichotomies
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While the auditor can do much solely by reducing facsimiles, he soon will
find that his
preclears are not always able to erase facsimiles easily. He will find
occasionally that he often
has a difficult time when a particularly heavy facsimile is in
restimulation and, do what he will,
the auditor may find his preclear's tone remains unchanged and that the
preclear's attitudes
have not evolved to a better high.
We now come to "The Governor" mentioned in a lecture in the autumn of 1951.
The
speed of a preclear is the speed of his production of energy.
The most important step in establishing a preclear's self-determinism, the
main goal of
the auditor, is the rehabilitation of the preclear's ability to produce
energy.
A being is, apparently, an energy production source. How does he produce
live energy
without mechanical means, cellular activity, or food?
The basic principle of energy production by a being has been copied in
electronics. It is
very simple. A difference of potential of two areas can establish an energy
flow of themselves.
Carbon batteries, electric generators, and other producers of electrical
flows act on the principle
that a difference of energy potential in two or more areas can cause an
electrical impulse to flow
between or amongst them.
The preclear is static and kinetic, meaning he is no-motion and motion.
These,
interplaying, produce electrical flow.
A preclear as a static can hold two or more energy flows of different
wavelengths in
proximity and between them obtain a flow.
A preclear can hold a difference of flow between two waves and a static so
long (and
arduously) that the effect of a discharging condenser can be obtained. This
can "explode" a
facsimile.
The preclear flows electrical currents of command at the body. These hit
pre-established
ridges (areas of dense waves) and cause the body to perceive or act. The
preclear takes
perception from the body with tractor beams. He holds the body still or
braces himself against
it by wrapping a tractor (pulling) beam around it while he places a pressor
(pushing) beam at
his back to command himself into action. (You can almost break a preclear's
spine by asking
him to contract his own tractor around his body and yet withhold the
pressor against his spine.)
All an auditor really needs to know about this is the elementary method of
using a
difference of potential. That creates energy.
The only thing wrong with a preclear with an aged MEST body is that he has
too many
facsimiles of his tractors and pressors handling his own MEST body and the
rickety state of the
body feeds back "slowness" so that he thinks his energy is low -- and until
worked with some
method such as this, facsimiles do not reduce.
Any difference of potential played one against the other creates energy.
Aesthetic waves
against a static produce energy. Aesthetic waves against analytical waves
produce energy.
Analytical waves against emotional waves produce energy. Emotional waves
against effort
waves produce energy. Effort against matter produces energy.
The last is the method used on Earth in generating electrical current for
power. The
others are equally valid and produce even higher flows. This is a gradient
scale of beingness,
from the zero-infinity of theta to the solidity of matter.
The differences of potential most useful are easy to run.
This is, actually, alternating current running. There can be DC running or
chain fission
running but these are very experimental at this writing.
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AC is created by the static holding first one, then the other, of a
dichotomy of two
differences of potential. A flow is run in one direction with one of the
pair, then in the other
direction with the other. The dichotomies are:
1. Survive 12. Faith
Succumb Distrust
2. Affinity 13. Imagine
No affinity Truth
3. Communication 14. Believe
No communication Not believe
4. Agree 15. Always
Disagree Never
5. Start 16. Future
Stop Past
6. Be 17. Everyone
Be not Nobody
7. Know 18. Owns all
Know not Owns nothing
8. Cause 19. Responsible
Effect Not responsible
9. Change 20. Right
No change Wrong
10. Win 21. Stay
Lose Escape
11. I am 22. Beauty
I am not Ugliness
23. Reason 27. Sane
Emotion Insane
24. Emotion 28. No sympathy
Effort Sympathy
25. Effort 29. Sympathy
Apathy Propitiation
And the state of Static,
26. Acceptance a motionlessness
Rejection sometimes necessary to run.
How are these used?
One asks the preclear to flow agreement, then disagreement. He flows a
feeling, a
thought (NEVER the phrase!) of "agreement" out or in, in the direction he
chooses relative to
himself. He lets this flow until it turns smoky grey or white, then black.
Then he changes the
direction of flow and gets the thought or feeling of "disagreement". He
runs this until it turns
grey or white, then black. When this has turned black or dark, he again
runs "agreement" in its
direction until he gets grey or white, then again black. Now he reverses
the flow and flows the
thought "disagreement" until he gets grey or white, then blackness. And so
on and on.
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It will be noted that at first it may take some little time for a flow to
run from black
through white to black. As the preclear continues to run, after minutes or
many hours, he
begins to run faster, then faster and faster, until at last he can keep a
flow blazing and
crackling.
A method of aberrating beings was to give them white and black energy
sources in their
vicinity. These show up on a very low tone occluded case as blazing white
and shining white.
That is an electronic incident, not his own energy flow. These run blazing
white in one
direction for minutes or hours before they go black. They then run the
other way, blazing
white, almost as long.
WHEN BLACK PREDOMINATES IN SUCH INCIDENT WHAT HE "HAS TO DO"
TO GET THE INCIDENT ALL WHITE.
As the preclear runs, he finds the speed of the change of flow changes,
more and more
rapidly until it runs like a vibration. This vibration, theoretically, can
increase to a strong
current which becomes so great it is well to ground your preclear by using
an E-meter or letting
him hold a wire in each hand which is connected to a bare water pipe or
radiator. Otherwise,
his MEST body may be damaged by the flow.
Run a dichotomy only against its mate. Run in alternating directions until
the flow turns
black.
Don't run a black "flow." It doesn't flow or run out.
Methods a Running
There are many methods of running facsimiles and of handling ridges and
flows. These
have been covered in other publications; all of them have validity and can
advance cases.
In the present publication there are only two processes which are stressed
and these
processes are superior to others published prior to December 1st, 1952. A
great many tests
have established the fact that two processes, both of them simple, produce
far better results
than any of the others.
The title "Scientology 8-8008" means the attainment of infinity by the
reduction of the
MEST universe's apparent infinity to zero and the increase of the zero of
one's own universe to
an infinity of one's own universe. This road is attained by postulate
processing and creative
processing.
To run any incident or use any process it is necessary for the auditor to
have a very
sound idea of what he is doing, and to this end it is recommended that he
know and be able to
use the following:
Processing
The Code
The Theta Entity
The Entities
Running Engrams
Running Secondaries
Running Locks
Concepts and Feelings
Running Ridges (Circuits)
Running Live Flow
Freeing the Thetan by Concept and Feeling
Freeing the Thetan by Present and Future
Randomity
Freeing by Dichotomies
Freeing by Tone Scale
Freeing the Thetan by Orientation
Freeing the Thetan by Positioning and Exhaustion of Flows
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Postulate Processing
Actually energy is produced by the thetan simply by postulating that it
will be in
existence. What he says will be so, becomes so for him; if he becomes
extremely powerful, it
becomes so for others. This condition has been misused by most thetans who,
often in the
past, have been afraid of making postulates that will come true. They
believe that if they say a
thing will happen, it will then happen -- to such an extent that they now
revulse against stating
anything will happen.
Another aberrative condition with regard to postulates is that for the sake
of randomity,
the thetan at some time or another has set up the postulate that every time
he makes a postulate a
reverse postulate will occur which he will not know about, in such a way
that he can "play
chess with himself" without spoiling the game by knowing what his left hand
is doing when
his right makes the move.
It is not true that postulates have to be located all through the
facsimiles and worn out
by repetition. It is just as easy to make new postulates; but first one
must recover from the
depths to which his postulates have taken him. The most dangerous
postulates are those
postulates where one decided to agree with something which would become
aberrative.
You can see by examining any facsimile in the preclear related to an
accident that the
most aberrative things in that facsimile are what the preclear himself
decided.
Postulates are accompanied by evaluations and conclusions. It is often
possible to
"loosen" a postulate by discovering to the preclear why he made it, or what
data he was using
at the time.
As a preclear becomes very aberrated and believes himself to be more and
more MEST,
his postulates become as unwieldy to use as actual objects, and he finds
them as difficult to
change as objects.
When doing creative processing and moving objects and energy in created
space and
time, the preclear is doing this by making postulates. It comes as a shock
to some preclears that
they are handling time by shifting space. One handles time by simply saying
that he had a thing
and now he does not have it, or that he will have or will view a thing in
the future. One does
not shift time by shifting space, nor does one continue to look at
something he has put into the
past. He says it is in the past and so it becomes in the past.
When the thetan is unable to handle postulates about time, the auditor
should ask him
about some MEST universe incident such as breakfast, and then enquire how
he remembered
that he had breakfast, and if he will have something to eat on the morrow,
and then how he
knows he will have something to eat on the morrow. He does not look at his
breakfast to find
out if he had breakfast, he knows that he ate breakfast; and he does not go
into tomorrow to
find out if he will probably eat on the morrow, he knows -- or, at least,
believes it possible --
that he will eat on the morrow. Moving time, as in any other postulate, is
knowingness not
viewingness. An object goes into the past in the same space as it was in,
in the present; and in
the future may be in the same space as it was in in the past. The space
does not change the
condition of havingness changes, and one estimates this by some degree of
knowingness.
The entire subject of postulates is the subject of certainty and self-
belief. That preclear
who has a low self-belief finds it difficult first, to make a postulate
which he will believe and
second, to undo one he has made. Creative processing and postulate
processing alike remedy
this.
Rising-scale processing is another way of doing postulate processing. One
takes any
point or column of the Chart of Attitudes as given in this text, which the
preclear can reach, and
asks the preclear then to shift his postulate upwards toward a higher
level.
In order to do this the auditor says, "Now, on the subject of rightness and
wrongness,
how wrong do you think you generally are?" The preclear tells him. The
auditor says, "How
high can you shift this attitude toward believing yourself right?" The
preclear shifts the attitude
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as high as he can. The auditor takes this as the next level from which he
will work upward until
he attains as nearly as possible a postulate which will "hold" to the
effect that the preclear
believes himself right. Rising-scale processing should not be confused with
the processing of
flows. One can process all these columns in terms of flows. Rising-scale
processing is simply
a method of shifting postulates upward toward optimum from where the
preclear believes he is
on the chart. Rising-scale processing is essentially a process directed
toward increasing belief
in self by using all the "buttons" on the Chart of Attitudes.
The preclear is generally found to be quite uncertain about his postulates.
He does not
know whether or not what he says will take effect or, if he says it and if
it takes effect, if it will
not rebound upon him. He becomes afraid to make postulates for fear he will
make some
postulate destructive to himself or others and may even discover himself
making postulates to
convince himself he should be ill.
One has to tell oneself what to be before one is. Recovery of this ability
is the essence
of processing a thetan.
Postulate processing is a very vital process to apply to the thetan: when
he is
exteriorized, he can change his postulates rapidly. If he finds himself
thinking slowly and
doing other things which are not optimum when he is outside, One can better
his situation and
condition by asking him to change postulates.
Creative Processing
Standard Operating Procedure for theta clearing is the backbone of
processing in
Scientology. It is easily followed but the auditor should have an excellent
command of all types
of processing in order to use it more successfully.
SOP is most easily done and most successfully by an auditor who is a theta
clear.
Auditors who are not theta clear seldom understand it, and a low-toned
uncleared auditor who
cannot himself leave his body very often acts to pin a preclear inside his
body. It is noteworthy
that many auditors have been unable to obtain successes with theta clearing
before they
themselves have been cleared, but immediately after the auditor was
cleared, he was successful
with each successive case without exception. The fear of some thetans from
various causes of
leaving the body causes the auditor -- who is the thetan -- to make other
thetans stay in bodies,
and it is actually quite dangerous to be audited by auditors who are not
theta clears. The
process is not dangerous; uncleared auditors are.
Standard Operating Procedure, Issue 3
This process is done in steps. The auditor with EVERY preclear makes no
other
judgment than to begin with Step I and, failing to accomplish that
immediately, to go to Step II;
if he fails to accomplish this immediately, he goes to Step III; and so on.
When he is able to
accomplish a step he labels the case as that step number, i.e., a III. He
then begins working
with that step. After a few hours' work, he again starts at the top with
the preclear with Step I
and progresses on through. Eventually the preclear becomes a Step I.
STEP I -- POSITIVE EXTERIORIZING: Ask the preclear to be a foot back of his
head. If he does, make him go back further, then up, then down, practising
placement in space
and time. Then one asks him to see if there are any items in the body he
would like to repair
and proceeds to let the preclear repair them according to the preclear's
own ideas as to how he
should do it. Then educate the preclear by making him create and destroy
his own illusions into
finally getting a certainty of illusion and from this a certainty of
perceiving the real universe
with all perceptions. (Note. The most real universe is, of course, one's
own illusory universe
and should be completely rehabilitated before one attempts to perceive or
handle or worry about
the MEST universe. Rehabilitated, sonic, visio, etc. of the MEST universe
are very clear and
very certain. Clear perception in early stages is not a test of being
outside. The only test is
whether the preclear KNOWS he is outside.) Failing the first line of this
step, go to Step II.
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STEP II -- BY ORIENTATION: Ask the preclear, still inside, to locate the
inside of his
forehead. Ask him to put a pressor beam against it and push himself out the
back of his head.
Supplement this by asking him to reach out through the back of his head and
grab the wall with
a pulling beam and pull himself out. Ask him to steady himself outside and
then, by means of
beams, to raise and lower himself while outside and to move to various
parts of the room while
still outside. Use creative processing. By orientation as a thetan, placing
himself as a thetan in
time and space, he becomes sure of his whereabouts. Have him find and cast
off old lines
which have their terminals fixed to him. Have him find those lines wherever
they are and attach
them to radiators and water taps as the energy will drain out of him. (The
II ordinarily has
enough lines to cause him to snap back in the head when he releases beams.)
Failing this, go to
Step III.
STEP III -- SPACE PROCESSING: In that the MEST universe has forced upon the
thetan its spatial dimensions and directions, the thetan is likely to
become a point which is
being subjected to all the counter-efforts and counter-emotions of his
environment, for his
entire concept of space is being determined by the MEST universe. Have the
thetan, still inside,
find his feet in the opposite direction from where the MEST body is located
by the MEST
universe. Have him turn the feet around. Have him create differences in his
body and reverse
various limbs and positions according to his viewpoint, each one in
disagreement with the
MEST universe, particularly as appertaining to gravity and other
influences. This sets up an
ability to disagree with the MEST universe in terms of space. Have him
locate his eyes in the
back of his head, on the soles of his feet and in other places. Have him
assume other bodies,
each time changing them slightly, and putting them away. Then have him
gather himself into
his normal MEST universe spatial areas and go to Step I.
STEP IV -- RIDGE RUNNING: Ask the preclear to give himself a command to
walk.
Let him locate the white flow line which results inside his head. When this
line goes dark, have
him locate the tiny ridge inside the skull that stopped it. Have him run
the flow from this barrier
(these barriers, are tiny ridges and each has a thought with it such as
"Can't walk" or "Too
bored to walk") back toward the spot where he told himself to walk. It will
run white for a
moment, then go black. Have him give himself the command to walk again and
"watch" this
flow line. It may run through two or three tiny barriers and then stop.
Again have him run the
"objection" to walking. Have him watch this "objection" flow until it goes
black. Then have
him give himself the command to walk again and so on and so on. He will
wind up at some
outside point. Now have him give himself the command "Listen" and have him
run this and its
back flows on "black and white" until he is exterior on the subject of
listen. Then use the
command "Talk" similarly. Then the command "Nod," then the command "Move,"
etc. Give
"Look" last for it may "blind" his perception of black and white. He may
each time get out to a
distance in another quarter. If he can do all this, start with Step I
again. Failing this step, failing
to "see" black and white energy manifestations, go to Step V.
STEP V -- BLACK AND WHITE CONTROL PROCESSING: Give the preclear a
complete E-meter assessment, using the principles of what he would create
or destroy or would
not create and would not destroy. Use this data to make mock-ups. Then have
the preclear
create and perceive black spots and then white spots, black crosses and
white crosses, and
move these here and there through the room or through his own space. Turn
them on and off,
interchange them, put them in yesterday, put them in tomorrow, make them
get larger, make
them get smaller; each time doing as much as the preclear can do. Each time
one asks him to
perceive one of his own created illusions in terms of black and white spots
or crosses, one
attempts to coax him into successful control of it. Audit very persuasively
and lightly. This
preclear ordinarily is frightened of blackness because it either can
contain dangerous things or
contains nothing, and he cannot differentiate which. Thus he cannot control
blackness and, in
being unable to control blackness, flounders in it. He also has a more
basic computation: that
blackness is the only safe thing in which to hide and, therefore, blackness
is a thing to have.
Further, blackness "takes" things for him. This preclear may be afraid of
the police, may
believe himself to have a hideous body, thetawise, and has many other
reasons why he cannot
exteriorize. Drills on creating and perceiving black and white should be
continued until he can
handle each easily. The trouble with this preclear and preclears lower than
this is that they have
agreed too heavily with the MEST universe and must be very cautious in
confronting it, since
in that direction they conceive to lie a much more complete defeat even
than that from which
they are now suffering. Audit him also very heavily on Creative Processing.
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Then go through steps again. If the preclear is immediately perceived to
have little or no
reality on ANY incident, go to Step VI.
STEP VI -- ARC STRAIGHT WIRE: Drill, by direct questioning, on locks until
the
preclear can remember something really "real" to him, something which he
"really loved,"
something with which he was in communication. Then drill him on creating
illusions until he is
certain he has created one which really isn't real, which he is certain HE
put the emotion and
perceptions into. Then go through steps again. Failing Step VI after a
quick test, go to Step
VII.
STEP VII -- PRESENT TIME BODY ORIENTATION: Have preclear locate a part of
his body and recognize it as such. Have him locate furniture, fixtures,
auditor in room. Have
him locate the town and country he is in. Get him to find something in
present time which is
really real to him, with which he can communicate. Work on this until he
can do this. Then go
to Step VI. Then go to Step I.
General Processing
Anything which rehabilitates the self-determinism of a preclear, whether
education,
change of environment, running facsimiles, theta clearing or the creation
of one's own
universe, is valid processing. Any one of these will raise the tone of the
preclear markedly. At
the end of 80,000 hours of investigation of beingness in the MEST universe,
I have concluded
that those processes which make it possible for the preclear to disagree
with the MEST
universe also make it possible for him to handle the MEST universe, or to
create his own or be
part of a group which creates a universe, as the case may be.
Scientology 8-8008 is remarkable for its ability to better the beingness
and action
potentials of the individual. It is, sadly enough, the only technique which
I have seen produce
excellent and fast results in the hands of trained auditors. Mainly the
reason is that homo
sapiens has and will continue to use, any technique delivered into his
hands for the control and
enslavement of others, for homo sapiens is frightened. Even when an auditor
was competent
with earlier techniques, it would often occur that his preclear would
return into his past
environment and would relapse.
This occurred because others had a vested interest in the preclear's
continuation in a
state of aberration; and others would lose no moment in starting again to
crush this preclear
down the tone-scale to a point where they conceived he was more easily
controlled. Mest is the
most easily controlled item in the MEST universe, and the closer a human
being could be
pressed toward MEST, the easier, it was thought, to control him.
That his value and ethical sense deteriorated in direct ratio to the degree
he was
depressed down the tone-scale, was overlooked by the homo sapiens who had a
passion for
slavery.
The primary benefit of Scientology 8-8008 is that it works so swiftly even
when
indifferently used that the persons in the environment of the preclear are
over-reached rapidly
by the preclear and find themselves subject to his control when they act to
continue his
aberration.
Further the auditor is seldom aware of the height his preclear attains
until the preclear
has attained it. Processing has always worked in the hands of a competent
auditor; and it were
better for any technique, no matter how dangerous, to be known to Man if it
could benefit at
least a few, for homo sapiens has no psycho-therapy. In Dianetics he had
his first thoroughly
validated psychotherapy and Dianetics worked and still works uniformly in
the hands of those
skilled in its application.
In Scientology in general, and in theta clearing in particular, the upper
limits of homo
sapiens as such have been transcended and it would not be good semantics to
call a theta clear a
homo sapiens or even, exactly speaking, a person, for he is a thetan with a
body he uses for
purposes of action and communication, and his viewpoint is quite altered.
His general health is
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more or less directly under his control, but there is no goal for the body
as a final goal in
Scientology, for the body is a tool. The genetic entity which built the
human body really
wanted to be served.
The complexities and ridges which he developed speak of a craving for
energy and self-service
which could only be the basest aberration, and, true enough, the genetic
entity is
aberrated almost beyond belief, as any thetan discovers when he seeks to
clear the genetic
entity.
The body is quite alive and self-motivated without the thetan, as the
thetan soon
discovers; but it is so used to taking orders from successive lines of
thetans which themselves
some day would probably become part of this complex system of ridges, that
its "mental
activities" are quite stupid. The thetan who has lived in this association
and has believed
himself to be the body is early quite appalled at the character of the
genetic entity who is
cowardly, a thing of stimulus-response, without further will or goals than
to grow a body, and
obsessed entirely with the idea of growing one.
The thetan can repair the body quite easily if he so chooses, but quite
often sees it as a
pointless activity; for one's personality is not even faintly dependent
upon the body but is only
debased by association with one. When one has learned to control a body
from a distance, he is
usually content to let it get along as best it can, for the reduction of
all counter-efforts of the
genetic entity would be a reduction of the entire body. The genetic entity
has his whole track
and has had his own travails. In other parts of space, not too incredibly,
"dolls" are used by
thetans -- things which can be animated easily by theta energy and which
are disposable and
which do not have the uncomfortable circumstance of being themselves any
more alive than
any other MEST.
The MEST universe itself has a considerable cravingness in it. It is
composed of energy
which was emanated in order to have, and the energy still contains as its
basic characteristic
Have and Not Have, and is itself, when contacted, found to possess a
craving which does not
make the MEST alive but which speaks of that which made the MEST. This
cravingness is an
essential part of all matter. Certain metals contain the desire to be had
much more than others,
and certain other metals contain the craving not to be had. This is one way
of looking at
positive and negative reactions.
The body's being composed of such energy makes it feel as though it is
holding on to
the thetan. Nothing is really holding on to the thetan since he has no
substance which can be
held. Even the genetic entity does not hold on to the thetan, but probably
considers him some
sort of far off commanding god -- if he thinks of the thetan at all.
Space has its own demanding quality and insists on its dimensions being
accepted by
anything in the universe, for it was erected and is erected on a command
basis in the MEST
universe.
Processing must resolve this havingness on the part of matter, and the
commandingness on the part of space. To confront these directly is, for
most preclears, an
impossibility, for it only drives them further into an apathy of agreement
with MEST. The
preclear has long contested with the MEST universe and has continually
sought to create his
own universe only to find the MEST universe declaring itself stronger each
time and
compressing the illusion to nothing.
The war cry of the MEST universe is: "Must have gotten it somewhere," and
"It must
have gone somewhere." It will not tolerate the vaguest possibility that one
created himself or
could destroy anything himself. The whole sub-zero scale is a manifestation
of one's efforts to
combat this demandingness on the part of the MEST universe. Hiding,
protecting, owning, are
all mechanisms to answer the question, "Where did you get it?" "What did
you do with it?" The
MEST universe, in this light, is essentially a police universe, for it
operates upon force and
intolerance and demands with pain that its laws be accepted. In that its
laws are based solely
upon agreement, it is only necessary to discover how one can disagree with
them to abolish
what has been called "natural law" for oneself. Upon the abolishment of
this agreement
depends the health, progress and advancement of the thetan.
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This universe is a major expanding trap of finite dimensions and rather
idiotic
simplicity. If one were to leave the MEST universe, one would solely create
space of his own
and maintain enough knowledge of what could happen with regard to the MEST
universe to
defeat its encroachment and its salesmen. No universe, however cunningly
constructed, is
entirely proof against this expanding trap. The MEST universe is a game
which has gone on
too long and of which even the players are tired. Earth could be considered
to be at this time an
egress terminal.
It is noteworthy that one must not accept or know any of these conditions
to have these
processes work. They act very swiftly and uniformly on any homo sapiens and
upon other
beings. A considerable number of the principles which have been discovered
in Scientology
exist above the MEST universe. The MEST universe itself might be considered
to be the
"inevitable average" of illusion once it starts in a certain direction. We
have in natural law as
applied to the MEST universe the sum of agreement upon illusion. Tracing
the principles of
Scientology as they apply specifically to the MEST universe, is the tracing
of the agreements
which brought about the MEST universe. The axioms of 1951 are, in the main,
a tracing of this
agreement.
The inevitability and "diabolical accuracy" of these predictions of human
behavior
depend upon their being held in common by Man, which they are. They extend
as well to other
beings below the level of player in this universe and have applied to many
sets of players,
while much of the data which has been recovered in this investigation
seems, to the narrow
scope of homo sapiens, quite wild, the wildness depends on the absence of
investigation in the
past and can be compared only to the stupidity which remained ignorant of
them; for these
matters were an unseen and insidious causation underlying the grief of
Earth, at best a pawn in
a minor game in a minor galaxy.
The Anatomy of Space
Before energy can exist in this universe, space must exist. His inability
to create space
is one of the most aberrative characteristics of the thetan whom we find in
a MEST body. He
has become reduced to a point even in his own concept, and perhaps even
less than a point for
he has no space of his own but must depend upon bodies and other conditions
to believe that
he has space.
It is of the utmost importance for the auditor to understand space. Space
can be
considered to be a viewpoint of dimensions. It does not matter how many
dimensions there are
or what conditions are set up for these dimensions: the resulting condition
is known as
"space." There are only three dimensions in space in the MEST universe.
Throughout all of its
galaxies it has only length, breadth and depth. Space warps and other
things of equal interest
can exist in one's own universe, but they do not exist as such, evidently,
in the MEST
universe.
The assignation of dimension is the essence of space, but even before
dimension can be
assigned, one must have viewpoint. If one is assigning dimension from his
viewpoint, he is
cause; if dimension is being assigned to his viewpoint, he is effect. He is
cause or effect to the
degree that he can assign dimension and call it space.
The preclear has a viewpoint and is the center of that viewpoint. Splitting
his attention
often finds him occupying several viewpoints. He is capable of assuming
many. Where he is
aware of being aware is, however, his central viewpoint; and, although this
may be
communicated with or interlocked to some other viewpoint which he could
call his own -- even
on some other planet or here on earth -- he is yet as himself the center of
assignation of
dimension where he is and as he is.
In many preclears this becomes so blurred that he does not know whether he
is in or
out of the body. Here even the center of viewpoint has been overridden by
MEST assignation
of dimension.
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An essential in agreement with any illusion is the acceptance of the
dimensions it
assigns or that one may assign to it, Space is no more complicated than
this, but when a
preclear has been overridden by enforced assignation of dimension to an
enormous degree, his
own viewpoint may be found to be scattered or dispersed. It is this
condition which finds the
preclear unable to tell whether he is in or out of his body; when this
condition exists he is in the
state of being incapable of confronting the MEST universe, even to the
point of asserting the
ownership of a center of viewpoint.
The solution of this problem is simple, in principle, although it may
require many hours
of auditing. Where the preclear has a certainty of center of viewpoint he
exteriorizes
immediately and can become a theta clear in a very few hours; when he has
been compressed
by counter-efforts and emotions into an acceptance of MEST dimension to the
point where he
cannot even be certain of a center of viewpoint, it is necessary to recover
this center of
viewpoint in order to recover a point from which space can be assigned and,
even more
importantly to the auditor, where the preclear can be exteriorized easily
and in a knowing
condition.
One of the first "tricks" in auditing is to get the preclear to look from
the center of his
head at his environment and the room. He very often sees it clearly and as
it is and does, by
this, adjust his vision to see through his ridges. Even an occluded case
can sometimes do this,
and can then be exteriorized rapidly. The next "trick" is to find some
segment of the
environment which the preclear can see and ask him what is in the areas
where he can see
nothing or does not wish to see. He will say this or that may be in these
areas. The auditor then
has him create those things or change those things and shift those things
which he is afraid may
be in those areas until he is no longer interested, at which time he can
envision the actual
surroundings. By continuing this "trick" of rehabilitation of potential
occupation of space (for a
preclear will not occupy space which he considers dangerous), the preclear
may be found to
exteriorize suddenly and sometimes with violence. In such a case he
believes himself to be
occupying yet another space, hiding perhaps in the darkness of deep MEST
space, as well as in
a body. Routine orientation and creative processing remedies this.
By making the preclear alter the body he is occupying, making mock-ups
which he
superimposes and changes around in disagreement with the MEST universe --
upside down
and right side up -- he becomes better able to have a viewpoint from which
he can create space
or from which he can at least handle MEST universe space.
The preclear who does not exteriorize readily is not sure he is here at all
and, indeed, he
may be co-occupying other areas. A study of the preclear with the E-meter,
locating him in
other spaces and bringing him into the space where he is being audited, can
best be done with
creative processing, not by running facsimiles, for these only make him
disperse even further.
This preclear often has difficulties with time and has space confused with
time. Time is not
handled by moving space; time is handled simply by having and not having.
The MEST
universe insists that anything that disappears must have gone somewhere;
thus the preclear is
saddled with the belief that he must create space to put things in whenever
time changes.
Having the preclear conceive time change in the space which he occupies by
refusing to let him
go on looking at it in yesterday or to see it in tomorrow, but simply
making him know that it is
now in yesterday and the space is the same, does much to rehabilitate his
orientation.
Drills in which space is assigned are highly beneficial to any preclear,
and particularly
so to those preclears who do not exteriorize readily or who cannot easily
find themselves when
they are out of their body. Simply have the preclear disagree with
dimensions round him and
see them with purposeful, creative distortion and he will at length
focalize his viewpoint so that
he can handle space and know that he is the center. A being can be
knowingly in many places
but being scattered into many places unknowingly is the worst of
conditions.
Creation and Destruction
Self-determinism seeks as its goal the attainment of the goal of theta
itself.
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Theta has the capability of locating matter and energy in time and space
and of creating
time and space.
Any action requires space and time, for space and time are necessary to
motion.
Motion can be defined as change of location in space, and any change of
location
requires time.
Thus we have an interacting triangle, one corner of which could be labelled
space,
another corner time, and the third energy. Matter is not included in the
triangle because matter
is apparently cohesion and adhesion of energy.
The cycle of a universe could be said to be the cycle of creation, growth,
conservation,
decay and destruction. This is the cycle of an entire universe or any part
of that universe; it is
also the cycle of life forms.
This would compare to the three actions of energy which are Start, Change
and Stop,
where creation is Start, growth is enforced Change, conservation and decay
are inhibited
Change and destruction is Stop.
The two extremes of the cycle -- creation and destruction or, in the terms
of motion,
Start and Stop -- are interdependent and are consecutive.
There could be no creation without destruction; as one must eradicate the
tenement
before building the apartment house, so, in the material universe, must
destruction and creation
be intermingled. A good action could be said to be one which accomplished
the maximal
construction with minimal destruction; a bad action could be said to be one
which accomplished
the minimal construction with maximal destruction.
That which is started and cannot be stopped and that which is stopped
without being
permitted to run a course, are alike actions bordering upon the psychotic.
Unreasonableness
itself is defined by persistence in one or the other of these courses of
starting something which
cannot be stopped (as in the case of an A-bomb) or of stopping something
before it has reached
a beneficial stage.
Unlimited creation without any destruction would be insane; unlimited
destruction
without any creation would be similarly insane.
In actuality, insanity can be grouped and classified, detected and remedied
by a study of
creation and destruction.
An individual will not be responsible for that on which he will not use
force. The
definition of responsibility is entirely within this boundary. That person
will not be responsible
in that sphere where he cannot tolerate force, and if one discovers in an
individual where he
will not use force, he will find where that individual will also refuse to
be responsible.
An assessment of a case can be done by use of the accompanying graph. We
see here
creation with an arrow pointing straight downward and find there the word
insane, and, under
this, we list the dynamics. Wherever along any of these dynamics the
individual cannot
conceive himself to be able to create, on that level he will be found
aberrated to the degree that
he does not believe himself able to create. This might be thought to
introduce an imponderable
but such is not the case, for the individual is most aberrated on the first
dynamic and, rightly or
wrongly, conceives that he could not create himself. This goes to the
extent, in homo sapiens,
of believing that one cannot create a body and, rightly or wrongly, one is
then most aberrated
on the subject of his body.
Potentially, because of the character of theta itself, an individual in an
absolute and
possibly unattainable state, should be able to create a universe. Certainly
it is true that every
man is his own universe and possesses within himself all the capabilities
of a universe.
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To the extreme right of the graph we have the word destroy and an arrow
pointing
downwards toward insanity and, beneath this, the list of the dynamics. That
individual who
can only destroy along any of these dynamics and cannot or will not create
could be said to be
aberrated on that dynamic. He is aberrated to the degree that he would
destroy that dynamic.
CREATE GROW CONSERVE DECAY DESTROY
START CHANGE STOP
DIFFERENTIATE ASSOCIATE IDENTIFY
BE DO HAVE
SPACE ENERGY MATTER
40.0 20.0 0.0
If only this If only this If only this
insane on still sane on insane on
subject subject subject
Dynamic 1 Dynamic 1 Dynamic 1
Dynamic 2 Dynamic 2 Dynamic 2
Dynamic 3 Dynamic 3 Dynamic 3
Dynamic 4 Dynamic 4 Dynamic 4
Dynamic 5 Dynamic 5 Dynamic 5
Dynamic 6 Dynamic 6 Dynamic 6
Dynamic 7 Dynamic 7 Dynamic 7
Dynamic 8 Dynamic 8 Dynamic 8
Looking again at the column of creation, one finds the individual aberrated
anywhere
along the dynamics in that column where the individual will only create and
will not destroy.
In the destruction column, one finds the individual aberrated on any
dynamic in that
column where he will not destroy.
In the middle ground of the graph, we find that a balance of creation and
destruction is
sanity, and in the dynamics below it we find the individual sane wherever
he will create and
destroy.
Use of this graph and these principles enable the auditor to assess
hitherto hidden
compulsions and obsessions on the part of the preclear. This is an auditing
graph. If one looks
at it another way than that of an auditor, he finds there laid out what has
been occasionally
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posed as a philosophy of existence. Friedrich Nietzsche, in his book "Thus
Spake
Zarathustra," presents as a desirable code of conduct unlimited willingness
to destroy.
Philosophically the graph has little or no workability. In order to survive
in any universe,
conduct must be regulated by a sense of ethics. Ethics are possible on a
reasonable level only
when the individual is high on the tone-scale. In the absence of such
height, ethics are
supplanted by morals, which can be defined as an arbitrary code of conduct
not necessarily
related to reason. Should one attempt to regulate his conduct on the basis
of unlimited creation
or destruction, he would find it necessary to act entirely without judgment
to put his
philosophy into effect. It is noteworthy that the late Nazi regime can
serve as a clinical test of
the workability of a scheme of things wherein unlimited creation and
destruction are held as an
ideal. I heard a rumor lately that Adolf Hitler was dead.
Be, Have and Do
The physicist has long been on a carousel with regard to the component
parts of the
material universe.
He has had to define time in terms of space and energy, space in terms of
time and
energy, and energy in terms of time and space, and matter as a combination
of all three. When
three factors exist at such an altitude in a science, there can be no
further clarification unless the
material can be related to experience of an equal magnitude.
The current definition in Scientology has this liability: if self-
determinism is the
location of matter and energy in time and space, and the creation, change
and destruction of
time and space, then there is no comparable data by which to evaluate this
level. The physicist
has found the interrelationship of time, space and energy to be invaluable
and has, indeed,
produced a civilization from this interrelationship. Just as, with our
definition of self-determinism,
it is possible to de-aberrate an individual and increase his potentialities
in a way
never before suspected possible, and with a speed which exceeds all past
estimates even in the
science of Scientology.
Because we are now working from a higher understanding than time, space and
energy, it is possible to compare these to experience in such a way as to
broaden their use and
modify their force or increase it. Control of time, space and energy comes
now well within our
capabilities.
Space, time and energy in experience become Be, Have and Do, the component
parts of
experience itself.
Space could be said to be BE. One can be in a space without change and
without time;
one can also be, without action.
The essence of time is apparently possession. When possession ceases, the
record of
time ceases. Without possession change cannot be observed; in the presence
of possession
change can be observed. Thus it is deduced that time and possession are
interdependent.
The past could be subdivided into Had, Should Have Had, Did Not Have, and
Got,
Should Have Gotten, Did Not Get, and Gave, Should Have Given, Did Not Give.
The present could be subdivided into Have, Should Have, Do Not Have, and
Giving,
Should Be Giving, Not Giving, and Receiving, Should Be Receiving, Not
Receiving.
The future is subdivisible into Will Have, Should Have, Will Not Have, and
Getting,
Will Be Getting, Will Not Be Getting, and Will Receive, Will Not Receive.
In each of the above, past, present and future, the word would apply for
any individual
or any part of the dynamics to all the other dynamics.
The way one knows there was a past is by knowing the conditions of the
past. The
most revelatory of these is the facsimile which was taken in the past.
However, without any
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important possession in the present stemming forward from the past, the
past becomes
unimportant; or, because possession ceased, the past is obliterated. The
single matter of the
body of a past life not being in the present life invalidates the existence
of the past life to the
individual who then does not -- or does not care to -- remember it. Yet the
facsimiles can be
nevertheless effective upon him.
Similarly the individual does not conceive to any extent time, past the
death of his
body, since he will have no body.
Energy, whether in the field of thought, emotion or effort, can be summed
into DO. It
requires beingness and havingness in order to achieve doingness. Here we
have the static of
space acting against the kinetic of possession to produce action in the
field of thought, emotion
or effort, the various categories of doingness.
Should one care to test this as a process on a preclear, he will find that
the missing
portions of the preclear's past have to do with loss of something. Loss
itself is the single most
aberrative factor in living. It has long been known in this science that
the release of a grief
charge was an important single improvement in the preclear. Grief is
entirely and only
concerned with loss or threatened loss. Pain itself can be defined in terms
of loss, for pain is
the threat which tells one that loss of mobility or a portion of the body
or the environment is
imminent. Man has pain so thoroughly identified with loss that in some
languages the words
are synonymous.
Loss is always identified with HAVE, for if one doesn't have, one cannot
lose.
The Hindu sought to depart into his Nirvana by refusing to have anything to
do with
having. He sought thus to promote himself into Being. He saw that so long
as he retained a
grasp on a body in any degree he was Having, and thus was pressed into
Doing.
Having and Being are often identified to the degree that many people
attempt
exclusively to Be only by Having. The capitalist judges his own beingness
solely by the degree
of possession, not even vaguely by the degree of action he is able to
execute.
Possessions absorb and enforce time; only without possessions would one be
able to
regulate time at will. This is a singular attribute of the cleared theta
clear, and to him possession
of MEST is extremely unimportant.
One can make up for a lack of Having by Doing, and by Doing accomplishes
Having
and thus regulates time.
Having enhances either Being or Doing, as is sometimes severely recognized
by one
who would like to take a vacation or a trip to foreign lands.
Doing can enhance either Being or Having: a balanced Doing slants in both
directions,
but if one does without Having, his Being increases, as is well known by
anyone who insists
on doing favors without recompense, and without gain.
There is an optimum speed of Doing. If one travels less than that speed he
has little
Being and Having; if one travels greater than that speed, he has to abandon
both Being and
Having. This is applicable especially to the MEST universe. The case of a
race driver is in
point. He must assume a contempt for Being and Having in order to achieve
the speeds he
does.
When change is too rapid both Beingness and Havingness suffer. When change
is too
slow both Beingness and Havingness suffer. For Change is essentially the
redirection of
energy.
In the assessment of a preclear one can easily trace, by use of the
triangle, Be, Have
and Do, and by placing this over a second triangle with space at the point
of Be, time at the
point of Have and energy at the point of Do, where the preclear is
overbalanced and why the
preclear cannot handle time or why he is trying to occupy too much space
without being able to
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fill it, or why his life is complicated with too much havingness and has
reduced his beingness
to nought.
In the MEST universe as well as in a constructed universe, these three
factors should be
balanced for orderly progress.
Creative Processing
The whole of the data covered in this volume is utilized in creative
processing. When
one has mastered the component parts of the mind and the interrelationships
of space, energy,
items and experience, he will find creative processing surprisingly easy to
apply and productive
of very swift results. The goal of this process is the rehabilitation of as
much of the thetan's
capability as possible to permit him to utilize or be free of bodies as he
chooses and, even in
lesser magnitude, to rid the preclear of psycho-somatics, eradicate
compulsions, obsessions
and inhibitions, to raise his reaction time and intelligence level. This
process does whatever has
been previously intended by earlier processes -- utilizing a knowledge of
these in order to
assess the state of the preclear, and in order to parallel this difficulty
with creation, change and
destruction of mock-ups.
Gradient scales are vitally necessary in the application of creative
processing. The term
"gradient scale" can apply to anything, and means a scale of condition
graduated from zero to
infinity. Absolutes are considered to be unobtainable. Depending on the
direction the scale is
graduated, there could be an infinity of wrongness and an infinity of
rightness. Thus the
gradient scale of rightness would run from the theoretical but unobtainable
zero of rightness,
up to the theoretical infinity of rightness. A gradient scale of wrongness
would run from a zero
of wrongness to an infinity of wrongness. The word "gradient" is meant to
define lessening or
increasing degrees of condition. The difference between one point on a
graduated scale and
another point could be as different or as wide as the entire range of the
scale itself, or it could
be so tiny as to need the most minute discernment for its establishment.
The gradient scale of
the creation of a being could be -- but in creative processing generally is
not -- concerned with
time. In creative processing, the gradient scale, as it would refer to the
creation of a person,
could be, first, the envisionment of an area where the person might have
been or might be; then
the envisionment of an area the person commonly frequented; at last, the
creation of a footprint
the person had made, and then perhaps some article of apparel or a
possession such as a
handkerchief. The creative steps would then continue until more and more of
a person was
established, and at last the entire person would have been created.
Likewise in the destruction
of a person, the gradient scale could, but generally would not, begin with
blowing him up or
making him grow old. If the auditor finds the preclear diffident about
destroying an illusion of
some person, the environment can first be diminished slightly; then perhaps
the person's
shadow might be shortened, and so on until the entire person could be
destroyed. The essence
of gradient scale work is to do as much creation, change or destruction in
terms of illusion as
the preclear can accomplish with confidence, and to go from successful step
to greater step
until an entire success in destruction, alteration or creation (or their
companion states of
experience, such as start, change and stop) is accomplished.
The mind works easily if led through successive successes into a complete
confidence.
The mind can be confused and set back enormously by demanding that it do
too much too fast.
The same "too much" can be accomplished by requesting of the mind that it
do small portions
of the task; this does not mean that processing should go slowly or that
illusions which are
easy to create, change or destroy should have much time spent on them. It
does mean that as
soon as an auditor has established a disability on the part of the preclear
in creating illusions of
certain places, persons, conditions, things, colors or any other thing in
this or any other
universe, he approaches the subject gradually by gradient scale and by
accomplishing repeated
successes with the preclear of greater and greater magnitude, finally
achieving a complete
banishment of the disability.
The reason a preclear cannot alter a postulate, or change or start or stop,
lies in the
influence upon him of his agreements and experiences in the MEST and other
universes.
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To run out these agreements and experiences as such would be, in part, to
agree with
them over again. The mind is actually quite free to alter postulates and
change its own
condition, if permitted to do so at a speed that it finds comfortable. The
mind will not take wide
divergences which seem to it to tend toward its own diminishment or
destruction. It was by a
gradient scale of agreement that he came at last to accept and very nearly
succumb to the MEST
universe itself. The build-up of illusion was so slow and insidious that
only the closest
assessment would reveal to the preclear and the auditor how far these tiny
steps of agreement
led at last.
The motto of the MEST universe could be said to be: "Thou shalt have no
force nor
illusion, nor thine own space, nor self-made energy or thing, for all
illusion is mine and with
that thou shalt agree. If thou art, I shall not be." By a series of minute
agreements, the preclear
has at last given up all his own belief in his ability to make a universe,
or even to create and
maintain minor illusions. He does not know or even suspect that he is
capable of producing
illusions sufficiently strong to be observable by others, and if he thought
this were true, he
would attribute it to some mysterious thing and, so short and final are the
punishments of the
MEST universe, he would tend to shy away from this; but upon his ability to
create illusion
depends the very existence of all his hopes and dreams and any beauty he
will ever see or feel.
In truth, all sensation which he believes to come from these masses of
illusory energy
known as the MEST universe, are first implanted through agreement upon what
he is to
perceive and then perceived again by himself, with the step hidden that he
has extended his
own sensation to be felt and perceived by himself. He is fully convinced
that the MEST
universe itself has sensation which it can deliver to him, whereas all the
MEST universe has is
an enforced agreement which though of no substance, yet by a gradient scale
came to be an
illusion which seems very masterful to a preclear.
To prove the reality and solidity of the MEST universe, the preclear could
pound his
fist upon a desk and demonstrate that his fist bed met something. He is
making again the error
of implanting sensation and not knowing he has implanted it, for the fist
which he pounds on
the desk is a MEST universe fist consisting of MEST universe energy, which
is itself a MEST
universe agreement, and it is meeting a desk which is MEST universe; he is
only demonstrating
that when the MEST universe is perceived to impact upon the MEST universe,
one can then
implant a realistic impact and perceive it for his own wonderful
edification. Reality, then, is a
delusion because it is one's own illusion which has been disowned by one
and is then received
by one as being another thing.
Only by shedding all responsibility for one's own energy can one fall into
this covert
trap. If one is unwilling to be responsible for energy, he is capable of
using energy and then
not perceiving that he uses it. One who blames others continually can be
discovered to effect
most of the things for which he is blaming other people. In such a way, an
individual with the
"very best MEST universe, Mark 10,000 ears" takes no responsibility for
having implanted the
sensation of sound in order to receive the sensation of sound. A preclear
as he comes up the
tone-scale more and more often catches himself doing this, and even though
he does not know
the principles involved (for no preclear has to be educated in Scientology
to receive benefit
from it), he recognizes that even in the case of a loud crash, his
continuation of association
from his environment permits him to perceive with others that a crash has
taken place of objects
which he with others continuously recreates solidly, and that he must
actually cause for his
own perception the sound of the crash. In that the beingness of an
individual is actually
extended for miles in all directions around him, if not much further, any
idea or thought or past
thought (as there is no past) is part of his beingness, and so he must
continually strive to be
"faithful to his agreements with the MEST universe."
To undo this state of affairs it is only necessary to rehabilitate the
awareness of the
preclear that he himself is capable of creating illusions. As he
rehabilitates this faculty, the
preclear, without any coaching or evaluation on the part of the auditor,
begins to recognize that
his viewpoint is expanding and that he is becoming all-pervasive, but that
he can collect his
awareness at any point, and that the "brutal reality" all around him is
continuously
manufactured by himself out of agreements and association with other
viewpoints.
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So long as he is fixed in a condition where he is in agreement with all
spaces and
viewpoints, he sees and feels automatically with all other such viewpoints.
He is above the
level of energy, if one can use the term, on the same wavelength with all
other beingness, a
condition which does not permit differentiation. As he rehabilitates his
abilities in independent
creation, he can change this "wavelength" at will, and can go into or out
of agreement with all
other points of beingness.
The matter of perceiving, then, becomes entirely a matter of self-choice.
It is, for
instance, quite startling of a preclear to discover that as soon as he is
free of the ridges of the
body (which is to say, when he has discovered he can change his viewpoint)
that he is already
partly out of agreement with other viewpoints, and that the MEST universe
becomes slightly
jumbled. He is apt to be very anxious about this, for it is in conflict
with the agreements to
which he is subject. He immediately may struggle very hard to regain a
state of affairs whereby
he can view the MEST universe as everyone else views it.
Indeed, the auditor must continually be on guard to prevent the preclear
from attempting
to reassume these agreements. A badly-trained auditor can always be
identified by the fact that
he shares the preclear's anxiety that the preclear view the environment as
the environment
"should be." The reason why a non-cleared auditor does not do well with
these processes is
that he is very anxious for the preclear to continue agreement with all
others and to perceive the
surroundings as exactly when exteriorized as he did when he was looking
through MEST eyes
and perceptions (which is to say, when the preclear was at his exact,
agreed-upon point of
viewpoint).
The ability to perceive the MEST universe is the ability to agree. The
preclear's
accuracy of perception of the MEST universe is of no consequence. An
auditor can act to
permit or even encourage a preclear to try to see, feel and hear the MEST
universe when
exteriorized long before the preclear is prepared to do so with equanimity.
The auditor when
doing this, is dramatizing his own urge to agree with viewpoints and
perceive. A preclear who
exteriorizes readily may find with a shock that he is not perceiving the
MEST universe as he
commonly supposes it should be perceived and quickly go back into his body
to reassure
himself that he is "keeping his contract of agreement."
If the auditor demands that the preclear perceive the environment when
exteriorized,
then the auditor will discover that the preclear will drop in tone and
that, when he has gone into
his body once more, a great deal of patient auditing is necessary to regain
the preclear's
confidence in himself. The preclear exteriorizing may find himself in all
sorts of space and time
cross-ups, for he has insufficient command of space and energy to
independently sort out
viewpoints when unassisted by the orientation of the MEST body itself,
which is, of course, in
debased and degraded agreement of a very set nature.
There are two "shuns." These are invalidation and evaluation.
The auditor must eschew them vigorously. The major invalidation which could
be
practiced in using Scientology 8-8008 would be a demand that the preclear
see the environment
as it is seen through MEST perception or to criticize him for not being
able to do so. The
majority of the preclear's perceptions may be correct but some percentage
of his perception is
going to be enough "off wavelength" with other agreement viewpoints to
cause him to perceive
strangely.
After a very large amount of auditing, when the preclear has regained his
ability to
create with considerable solidity his own illusions, it will be found that
the preclear can at will
perceive the MEST universe and can do so with accuracy. He can further,
without the aid of a
body, move objects and do a thousand other "interesting tricks" which could
very well be
viewed with considerable awe, for they have not been seen on earth in
recorded history but
have lived in legend.
Using Standard Operating Procedure, Issue 3, as given in this volume, the
auditor yet
takes a very thorough assessment of his preclear with an E-Meter. He
discovers, in accordance
with information in this book, what the preclear is unable to start,
change, stop; create, alter,
destroy; be, do or have; differentiate, associate or identify; on each and
every one of the eight
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dynamics and their component parts. The auditor makes a complete list. This
is the Can't list.
Exteriorized, if possible, or interiorized as in the later numbered cases,
the preclear is then
made to "mock-up" illusions about each one of these Can'ts and to change
the size, character
and position of the illusion or any part thereof in space, shift it in time
simply by knowing it
has been shifted by him, until at last the preclear is able to handle the
whole object of the Can't
with complete facility.
Can'ts may be an inability to destroy women or snakes or specific persons,
or create
machinery, or write legibly. The preclear is requested to accomplish by
illusions the smallest
gradient of the Can't with which he can successfully start; and, under
auditor direction, by
moving this small portion of the whole here and there in space, tipping it
this way and that and
making it, in particular, disobey "natural laws" in the MEST universe, the
preclear is led to an
ability to create, change or destroy the Can't.
The Can't is also the Must. Can't is an inhibition; Must is an enforcement.
What must
the preclear do and what must be done to him? By whom? By creative
processing and gradient
scales, he achieves mock-ups until each one of these musts becomes a "Can
if I want to, but
don't have to."
There are also the Desires. These are the cravings for sensation or
possession or
identification which brought the preclear into and made him continue
agreements. Behind every
case the Desires are paramount and of greater importance than the Can'ts.
Why does he desire
bodies? Why is his second dynamic aberrated? Why does he feel he cannot be
free? Can he
differentiate between his own actual wantingness and the wantingness of
MEST itself which is
trying to have him? The desires are resolved by creative processing wherein
the preclear does
mock-ups of the necessary acts which he desires or the necessary behaviors
which brought him
into agreement until he can at last laugh at them.
In that creative processing does not take long in terms of time, the
assessment list can
afford to be very broad and to cover every possible phase through the
system of the dynamics
and the cycles of action.
This is a list of things the preclear must be able to do with an illusion:
Create the condition, energy or object
Conserve it
Protect it
Control it
Hide it
Change it
Age it
Make it go backwards on a cycle of action
Perceive it with all perceptions
Shift it at will in time
Rearrange it
Duplicate it
Turn it upside down or on the side at will
Make it disobey MEST laws
Be it
Not be it
Destroy it.
In order to accomplish these things, if the whole of any condition cannot
be fulfilled by
gradient scale some tiny portion of the condition must be fulfilled.
When a small condition has been fulfilled, the condition is then enlarged
until the whole
condition can be fulfilled.
That preclear who cannot get even a shadow of an illusion so that he can
perceive it in
any manner must be coaxed to see white spots, black spots, of his own
creation, and to change
those in space and time, enlarge and contract them, until he has a certain
command and control
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of black and white. This must be done with such a preclear without regard
to the number of
hours it takes or the patience of the drill. It can be done with the eyes
open or closed,
whichever the preclear finds best.
When the preclear is discovered to be trying to prevent a motion or
condition, the
auditor should magnify that very condition with new mock-ups related to it,
i.e., if objects
keep rushing in on the preclear, mock up objects rushing in until the
action is enormously
magnified but under the preclear's complete control. If the preclear cannot
start something,
make him stop it. If he cannot reverse a direction, make him change the
nature of the object
which he is trying to reverse enough times to permit him to reverse the
original disability. If the
preclear cannot create something, have him create anything even vaguely
associated with it, and
by association at last have him mock up the actual thing.
The essence of creative processing is moving objects in space when they
have been
mocked up. They are moved near and far, to the right, left, behind the
preclear, below his feet,
above his head and in front of him. He must know that he has changed the
location of the
object. If he cannot make a large change, have him do a small change of
location. If he cannot
do a small change of location, have him alter the object by turning it
different colors, or by
enlarging or contracting it, or by pushing it away or bringing it near him,
until he can make it
move sideways. In failing to do this, have him do a change with some allied
object.
The essence of creative processing is a continuation of success. Be careful
not to give
the preclear things which make him fail. Do not let his failures mount up.
Estimate the preclear
and pay attention to what he is doing; find out from him continually the
condition of his
illusions, if you yourself as an auditor cannot see them. Putting objects
into yesterday or
tomorrow or well into the future or into the past is vitally necessary to
processing.
Control of the illusion is the essence of commands. The preclear must be
able to create,
grow, conserve, decay and destroy; start, change and stop; be, do and have;
differentiate,
associate and identify; handle in space, with energy and in time, any
object, actual or mythical,
in all the eight dynamics, and with high preference given to anything which
disobeys "natural
laws" of the MEST universe.
That auditor with a high order of imagination who is himself clear, finds
mock-ups
very easy to "think up" and request of the preclear, but it is not
necessary to have such an
imagination, as a routine assessment will discover immediately that the
most ordinary things
fall into the Can't, Must and Desire brackets in the preclear's life.
The preclear will be discovered on the first dynamic, quite ordinarily, not
to be able to
create, change or destroy, especially destroy, his own body or bodies in
which he thinks he is
encased within his own body (old time-track bodies such as a Fifth Invader
Force body). He
will be found to be incapable in many directions with facsimiles,
communication lines and
other matters on the first dynamic alone. On the second dynamic, many
incapabilities will come
to view, and so on along all the dynamics. On the fifth dynamic, he will
quite ordinarily be
found incapable of handling snakes, spiders, vicious fish, bacteria, wild
animals and domestic
pets. On the seventh dynamic he will be discovered unable to handle other
thetans, even in the
most elementary fashion of bringing two dots of light into proximity and
then separating them
(an exercise which blows head ridges in many preclears quite explosively).
On the eighth
dynamic his limitations quite ordinarily become too obvious for comment,
but on each and
every dynamic he must be able to do or fulfil any of the above cycles or
conditions.
Standard Operating Procedure tells how to exteriorize a thetan. Creative
processing,
rising-scale postulate changing, postulate processing, are then necessary
to bring him toward a
state of a cleared theta clear. The state of theta clear simply demands
that the preclear remains
outside his body when the body itself is hurt, and the state is adequate to
prevent his being
trapped again by a body except in unusual circumstances. There is no
guarantee of long
continuance in the condition. The state of cleared theta clear is, however,
another thing, for it
means a person who is able to create his own universe; or, living in the
MEST universe, is able
to create illusions perceivable by others at will, to handle MEST universe
objects without
mechanical means and to have and feel no need of bodies or even the MEST
universe to keep
himself and his friends interested in existence.
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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE 8
The basic technology of this operating procedure is to be found in The
Factors,
Scientology 8-8008 and at the Professional School.
In using this operating procedure, the auditor should give every heed to
the
AUDITOR'S CODE. Further, he should audit the preclear in the presence of a
third person or
another auditor.
This operating procedure is best done by an auditor who has been thoroughly
trained in
all processes involving the reduction of the past and its incidents; the
untrained auditor may
encounter manifestations with which only a professional auditor would be
familiar.
This operating procedure retains the most workable methods of preceding
procedures
and, in itself, emphasizes POSITIVE GAIN and the present and future rather
than negative
gain of eradication of the past.
The thetan, exteriorized and rehabilitated, can handle and remedy by direct
address of
his own energy to the body and the removal of old energy deposits, all body
malfunctions or
mental aberrations attacked by older processes. The goal of this procedure
is not the
rehabilitation of the body but of the thetan. Rehabilitation of a body
incidentally ensues.
The goal of this procedure is OPERATING THETAN, a higher goal than earlier
procedures.
The auditor tests the preclear for each step from Step I on until he finds
a step the
preclear can do. The auditor then completes this step and then the next
higher step until the
thetan is exteriorized. With the thetan exteriorized, the auditor now
completes all seven steps
regardless of the step performed before exteriorization. He may complete
all these steps and all
parts of these steps rapidly. But they must be done to obtain a theta clear
and they must be done
thoroughly to obtain an OPERATING THETAN.
The techniques involved herein were developed by L. Ron Hubbard and after
testing by
him, were tested by other auditors on a wide variety of cases. It is
doubtful if any earlier
process of any kind in any age has been as thoroughly validated as this
operating procedure.
However, it works only when used as stated. Disorganized fragments of this
material, given
other names and emphasis, may be found to be harmful. Irresponsible and
untrained use of this
procedure is not authorized. Capricious or quasi-religious exteriorization
of the thetan for other
purposes than the restoration of his ability and self-determinism should be
resisted by any
being. The goal of this process is freedom for the individual to the
betterment of the many.
STEP I -- Ask preclear to be three feet behind his head. If stable there,
have him be in
various pleasant places until any feeling of scarcity of viewpoints is
resolved; then have him be
in several undesirable places, then several pleasant places; then have him
be in a slightly
dangerous place, then in more and more dangerous places until he can sit in
the center of the
sun. Be sure to observe gradient scale of ugliness and dangerousness of
places. Do not let
preclear fail. Then do remaining steps with preclear exteriorized.
STEP II -- Have preclear mock up own body. If he does this easily and
clearly, have
him mock up own body until he slips out of it. When he is exteriorized and
knows it
thoroughly (the conditions of all exteriorization) do Step I. If his mock-
up was not clear, go to
Step III immediately.
STEP III -- SPACATION: Have preclear close his eyes and find upper corners
of the
room. Have him sit there, not thinking, refusing to think of anything,
interested only in the
corners until he is completely exteriorized without strain. Then do a
spacation (constructing
own space with eight anchor points and holding it stable without effort)
and go to Step I. If
preclear was unable to locate corners of the room easily with his eyes
closed, go to Step IV.
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STEP IV -- EXPANDED GITA: (This is an extension of "Give and Take"
processing.)
Test preclear to see if he can get a mock-up he can see, no matter how
vague. Then have him
WASTE, ACCEPT UNDER DURESS, DESIRE and finally be able to TAKE OR LEAVE
ALONE each of the items listed below. He does this with mock-ups or ideas.
He must do the
sequence of WASTE, etc., in the order given here for each item. He wastes
it by having it at
remote distances in places where it will do no good, being used or done or
observed by
something which cannot appreciate it; when he is able to waste it in vast
quantities the auditor
then has him accept it in mock-up form until he no longer is antagonistic
to having to accept it
even when it is unpleasant and great force is applied to make him take it;
then, again with
mock-ups, he must be able to bring himself to desire it even in its worst
form; then, by mock-ups
of it in its most desirable form he must come to be able to leave it
entirely alone or take it in
its worst form without caring. EXPANDED GITA remedies contra-survival
abundance and
scarcity. It will be found that before one can accept a very scarce (to
him) thing, he has to give
it away. A person with a milk allergy must be able to give away, in mock-
up, enormous
quantities of milk, wasting it, before he can accept any himself. The items
in this list are
compounded from several years of isolating what factors were more important
to minds than
others; the list lacks very few of the very important items if any;
additions to or subtractions
from this list should not be attempted. Viewpoint, work and pain should be
heavily and often
stressed and given priority.
WASTE, HAVE FORCED UPON, DESIRE, BE ABLE TO GIVE OR TAKE, IN
THAT ORDER, EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: (Order of items here is random).
VIEWPOINT, WORK, PAIN, BEAUTY, MOTION, ENGRAMS, UGLINESS, LOGIC,
PICTURES, CONFINEMENT, MONEY, PARENTS, BLACKNESS, POLICE, LIGHT,
EXPLOSIONS, BODIES, DEGRADATION, MALE BODIES, FEMALE BODIES, BABIES,
CHILDREN MALE, CHILDREN FEMALE, STRANGE AND PECULIAR BODIES, DEAD
BODIES, AFFINITY (LOVE), AGREEMENT, BEAUTIFUL BODIES, PEOPLE,
ATTENTION, ADMIRATION, FORCE, ENERGY, LIGHTNING, UNCONSCIOUSNESS,
PROBLEMS, ANTAGONISM, REVERENCE, FEAR, OBJECTS, TIME, EATING
HUMAN BODIES, SOUND, GRIEF, BEAUTIFUL SADNESS, HIDDEN INFLUENCES,
HIDDEN COMMUNICATIONS, DOUBTS, FACES, DIMENSION POINTS, ANGER,
APATHY, IDEAS, ENTHUSIASM, DISAGREEMENT, HATE, SEX, REWARD, EATING
PARENTS, EATEN BY MOTHER, EATEN BY FATHER, EATING MEN, EATEN BY
MEN, EATING WOMEN, EATEN BY WOMEN, START, BROKEN
COMMUNICATIONS, WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS, STILLNESS, EXHAUSTION,
WOMEN STOPPING MOTION, MEN STOPPING MOTION, CHANGING MOTION
WOMEN, CHANGING MOTION MEN, CHANGING MOTION BABIES, CHANGING
MOTION CHILDREN, STARTING MOTION MEN, STARTING MOTION WOMEN,
STARTING MOTION CHILDREN, STARTING MOTION OBJECTS, STARTING
MOTION SELF, OMENS, WICKEDNESS, FORGIVENESS, PLAY, GAMES, SOUND,
MACHINERY, TOUCH, TRAFFIC, STOLEN GOODS, STOLEN PICTURES, HOMES,
BLASPHEMY, CAVES, MEDICINE, GLASS, MIRRORS, PRIDE, MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS, DIRTY WORDS, SPACE, WILD ANIMALS, PETS, BIRDS, AIR,
WATER, FOOD, MILK, GARBAGE, GASES, EXCRETA, ROOMS, BEDS,
PUNISHMENT, BOREDOM, CONFUSION, SOLDIERS, EXECUTIONERS, DOCTORS,
JUDGES, PSYCHIATRISTS, ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR, DRUGS, MASTURBATION,
REWARDS, HEAT, COLD, FORBIDDEN THINGS, GOD, THE DEVIL, SPIRITS,
BACTERIA, GLORY, DEPENDENCE, RESPONSIBILITY, WRONGNESS,
RIGHTNESS, INSANITY, SANITY, FAITH, CHRIST, DEATH, RANK, POVERTY,
MAPS, IRRESPONSIBILITY, GREETINGS, FAREWELLS, CREDIT, LONELINESS,
JEWELS, TEETH, GENITALIA, COMPLICATIONS, HELP, PRETENCE, TRUTH, LIES,
ASSURANCE, CONTEMPT, PREDICTABILITY, UNPREDICTABILITY, VACUUMS,
WHITE CLOUDS, BLACK CLOUDS, UNATTAINABLES, HIDDEN THINGS, WORRY,
REVENGE, TEXTBOOKS, KISSES, THE PAST, THE FUTURE, THE PRESENT,
ARMS, STOMACHS, BOWELS, MOUTHS, CIGARETTES, SMOKE, URINE, VOMIT,
CONVULSIONS, SALIVA, FLOWERS, SEMEN, BLACKBOARDS, FIREWORKS,
TOYS, VEHICLES, DOLLS, AUDIENCES, DOORS, WALLS, WEAPONS, BLOOD,
AMBITIONS, ILLUSIONS, BETRAYAL, RIDICULE, HOPE, HAPPINESS, MOTHERS,
FATHERS, GRANDPARENTS, SUNS, PLANETS, MOONS, SENSATION, LOOKING,
INCIDENTS, WAITING, SILENCE, TALKING, KNOWING, NOT KNOWING,
DOUBTS, FAC ONE, REMEMBERING, FORGETTING, AUDITING, MINDS, FAME,
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POWER, ACCIDENTS, ILLNESSES, APPROVAL, TIREDNESS, FACES, ACTING,
DRAMA, COSTUMES, SLEEP, HOLDING THINGS APART, HOLDING THINGS
TOGETHER, DESTROYING THINGS, SENDING THINGS AWAY, MAKING THINGS
GO FAST, MAKING THINGS APPEAR, MAKING THINGS VANISH, CONVICTIONS,
STABILITY, CHANGING PEOPLE, SILENT MEN, SILENT WOMEN, SILENT
CHILDREN, SYMBOLS OF WEAKNESS, SYMBOLS OF FORCE, DISABILITIES,
EDUCATION, LANGUAGES, BESTIALITY, HOMOSEXUALITY, INVISIBLE BODIES,
INVISIBLE ACTS, INVISIBLE SCENES, ACCEPTING THINGS BACK, GAMES,
RULES, PLAYERS, RESTIMULATION, SEXUAL RESTIMULATION, SPACE
REDUCTION, SIZE REDUCTION, ENTERTAINMENT, CHEERFULNESS, FREEDOM
FOR OTHERS TO TALK, ACT, FEEL PAIN, BE SAD, THETANS, PERSONALITIES,
CRUELTY, ORGANIZATIONS.
WARNING: SHOULD YOUR PRECLEAR BECOME UNSTABLE OR UPSET
DOING THIS PROCESS TAKE HIM TO STEP VI, THEN RETURN TO THIS LIST.
COMMENT: The mind is sufficiently complicated that it can be expected to
have
computations on almost all the above. Thus there is no single clearing
button and search for it
is at the dictate of a circuit, the mechanism of circuits being to search
for something hidden.
Thus your preclear may begin to compute and philosophize and seek to find
the "button" that
will release all this. All this releases all the buttons so tell him to
relax and go on with the
process every time he starts to compute.
NOTE: Running the above will bring to the surface without further attention
the
"computation on the case" and the service facsimile. Do not audit these.
Run Expanded Gita.
STEP V -- PRESENT TIME DIFFERENTIATION. EXTERIORIZATION OF
SCENERY. Have preclear, with his body's eyes, study and see the difference
between similar
real objects such as the two legs of a chair, the spaces between the back,
two cigarettes, two
trees, two girls. He must see and study the objects, it is not enough to
remember objects. The
definition of a CASE V is "no mock-ups, only blackness." Have him continue
this process
until he is alert. Use liberally and often.
Then exteriorize by having the preclear close his eyes and move actual
places on Earth
under him, preferably places he has not been. Have him bring these up to
him, find two similar
things in the scene and observe the difference between them. Move him over
oceans and cities
until he is certain that he is exteriorized.
Then, preferably while exteriorized, have him do STEP I.
This case has to know before he can be. His viewpoint is in the past. Give
him present
time viewpoints until he is a STEP I by the methods given for STEP V.
(COMMENT: PRESENT TIME DIFFERENTIATION is a very good general technique
and resolves chronic somatics and improves tone.)
STEP VI -- A-R-C STRAIGHT WIRE using next to last list of SELF ANALYSIS IN
SCIENTOLOGY which asks preclear to recall something really real to him,
etc. Then use the
lists in SELF ANALYSIS. This level is the neurotic level. It is identified
by the preclear having
mock-ups which will not persist or which won't go away. Use also PRESENT
TIME
DIFFERENTIATION. Then go to STEP IV. At any drop in tone, return case to
STEP VI.
STEP VII -- PSYCHOTIC CASES.* Whether in or out of body, the psychotic
looks to
be in such desperate straits that people often err in thinking desperate
measures are necessary.
Use the lightest possible methods. Give case space and freedom where
possible. Have
Psychotic IMITATE (not mock up) various things. Have him do PRESENT TIME
DIFFERENTIATION. Get him to tell the difference between things by actual
touch. Have him
locate, differentiate and touch things that are really real to him (real
objects or items). If
inaccessible mimic him with own body whatever he does until he comes into
communication.
Have him locate corners of the room and hold them without thinking. As soon
as his
communication is up, go to STEP VI but be very sure he changes any mock-up
around until he
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knows it is a mock-up, that it exists and that he himself made it. Do not
run engrams. He is
psychotic because viewpoints in present time are so scarce that he has gone
into the past for
viewpoints which at least he knew existed. By PRESENT TIME DIFFERENTIATION,
by
tactile on objects, return his idea of an abundance of viewpoint in present
time. If he has been
given electric shock, do not process it or any other brutality. Work him
for very brief periods
for his attention span is short. Always work psychotics with another person
or a companion
present.
NOTE: ALL STEPS FOR ALL CASES. IF IN DOUBT AS TO CONDITION OF
CASE, TEST WITH STEP VI.
NOTE: An Operating Thetan must also be able to manufacture particles of
admiration
and force in abundance.
STEP I -- The Operating Thetan must be able to manufacture and experience
to his
complete satisfaction all sensations including pain in mock-up form and all
energies such as
admiration and force. It will be found that some STEP I cases will not be
able to manufacture
admiration particles.
STEP II -- Be very careful not to make a lower step preclear, while still
in a body,
mock up his own body too long. Any mock-up will appear if it is simply put
there often
enough and long enough -- providing the preclear doesn't spin in the
process. The long term
manufacture of mock-ups of one's own body and of admiration may not produce
quite the
results expected -- communication lines which should remain shut may open
with bad results.
These lines that are shut appear like hard, black cords to the preclear.
There are two types of techniques in general: POSITIVE GAIN and NEGATIVE
GAIN
as defined in the above text. POSITIVE CAN BE ADMINISTERED IN UNLIMITED
AMOUNTS WITHOUT HARM. Negative gain techniques such as the reduction of
engrams
and locks double-terminalling, black and white, are often limited in the
length of time they can
be given: after a few hundred hours of early type auditing the case could
be found to slump.
Thus we have in POSITIVE GAIN the unlimited technique which improves the
analytical
mind; in NEGATIVE GAIN we have a limited (in terms of the time it can be
audited)
technique. In SOP 8 the following steps and processes may be audited
without limit: STEP I,
STEP III, STEP V, STEP VI, STEP VII.
The following steps are limited and should not be audited many hours
without changing
to another type (unlimited for a while, after which the following steps
could be resumed):
STEP II, STEP IV.
THE FOLLOWING STEPS CAN BE USED ON GROUPS: Step III, Step V, part 1
and part 2, Step VI, Step VII.
The following is a list of effective procedures as of April 28th, 1953. If
a procedure is
labelled (U) it is unlimited and could be audited thousands of hours and
only improve a case: if
labelled (L) it is limited and must be handled with discretion and
alternated with an unlimited
technique: if it is labelled (S) it is seldom used: if labelled (A) it is
used in assists.
Engram Running, Book One (L) (A)
* Grief and Other Secondaries (L) (A)
Lock Scanning (L) (A)
Emotional Curves (L) (S)
Service Facsimile Chain as Engrams (L) (S)
Effort Processing (L) (A)
ARC Straight Wire, Science of Survival (A)
Negative Exteriorization (L)
Ridge Running (L)
* Ded-Dedex (L) (S) (Current lifetime used for fast releases)
Motivator-Overt (L) (S)
Matched Terminals in Mock-ups (L) (S)
Double Terminals in Mock-ups (L) (A)
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* Positive Exteriorization (Step I SOP 8) (U)
* Own Body Mock-up (Step II SOP 8) (L)
* Spacation (Step III SOP 8 and General Usage) (U)
* Expanded Gita (Step IV SOP 8) (L)
* Present Time Differentiation (Step V SOP 8) (U)
* Exteriorization by Scenery (Step V SOP 8) (U)
* Self Analysis in Scientology and British S.A. in Dianetics (same volume)
(Step VI SOP 8) (U)
* Imitation of Things (Step VII SOP 8) (U)
* Creative Processing (as in Scientology 8-8008) (U)
The symbol (*) before a process above means it is recommended.
ADDITIONAL NOTE ON EXPANDED GITA: The governing rule here is that the
preclear craves exactly what he has and must waste whatever he doesn't
have. It is better, in
the opinion of a thetan, to have anything no matter how "bad" rather than
have nothing. He
craves those things which are scarce but he can't even have those things
which are scarcest. In
order to have what he cannot have he first must be able to waste it (in
mock-up) in quantity. An
abbreviated form of this process would involve, over and over, wasting,
accepting under
duress, the following items in turn:
TRY FIRST: HEALTHY BODIES, STRONG BODIES, GOOD PERCEPTION,
GOOD RECALL, VIEWPOINTS, PAIN, WORK, FREEDOM FOR OTHERS TO HAVE
VIEWPOINTS.
The preclear cannot be free himself until he has freed others. This does
not work out in
the MEST universe but it works out in mock-ups.
CIRCUITS GO INTO ACTION ON MANY OF THESE PROCESSES: DON'T
PERMIT YOUR PRECLEAR TO THINK, DON'T BE INTERESTED IN WHAT HE
THINKS, FAILURE TO FOLLOW THIS RULE WILL CAUSE THE PROCESS TO FAIL.
COMPARISON OF MEST OBJECTS TO MOCK-UPS RESOLVES WHY
THETANS MAKE FACSIMILES AND DISCLOSES TO THE PRECLEAR THE
MECHANISM, THIS IS A GOOD PROCESS AND CAN BE DONE AT STEP IV AS AN
ADDITIONAL PART OF IV. HAVE PRECLEAR MAKE A MOCK-UP THE SAME AS A
MEST OBJECT AND PUT THE MOCK-UP ALONGSIDE OF THE MEST OBJECT AND
THEN COMPARE THEM. THE MOCK-UPS WILL GRADUALLY IMPROVE, THEN KEY
OUT THE MECHANISM THAT MAKES FACSIMILES.
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CERTAINTY PROCESSING
SOP-8 Appendix No. 2
The anatomy of maybe consists of uncertainties and is resolved by the
processing of
certainties. It is not resolved by the processing of uncertainties.
An uncertainty is held in suspense solely because the preclear is holding
on so hard to
certainties. The basic thing he is holding on to is "I have a solution," "I
have no solution." One
of these is positive, the other is negative. A complete positive and a
complete negative are alike
a certainty. The basic certainty is "There is something," "There is
nothing." A person can be
certain there is something, he can be certain there is nothing.
"There is something," "There is nothing" resolves chronic somatics in this
order. One
gets the preclear to have the center of the somatic say "There is something
here," "There is
nothing here." Then he gets the center of the somatic to say "There is
nothing there," "There is
something there." Then the auditor has the preclear toward the somatic say
"There is something
there," "There is nothing there." And then he gets the preclear to say
about himself "There is
something here." "There is nothing here." This is a very fast resolution of
chronic somatics;
quite ordinarily three or four minutes of this will resolve an acute state
and fifteen or twenty
minutes of it will resolve a chronic state.
This matter of certainties goes further. It has been determined by my
investigations that
the reason behind what is happening is the desire of a cause to bring about
an effect.
Something is better than nothing, anything is better than nothing. Any
circuit, any effect, any
anything, is better than nothing. If you will match terminals in brackets
"There is nothing," you
will find that a lot of your preclears become very ill. This should be
turned around into "There
is something."
The way one does Matched Terminals is to have the preclear facing the
preclear or his
father facing his father; in other words, two of each of anything, one
facing the other. These
two things will discharge one into the other, thus running off the
difficulty. By bracket we
mean, of course, running this with the preclear putting them up as himself
to himself as though
they were put up by somebody else, the somebody else facing the somebody
else, and the
matched terminal again put up by others facing others.
The clue to all this is positive and negative in terms of certainties. The
positive plus the
negative in conflict make an uncertainty. A great number of combinations of
things can be run.
Here's a list of the combinations: --
The button behind sex is "I can begin life anew," "I cannot begin life
anew," "I can
make life persist," "I cannot make life persist," "I can stop life," "I
cannot stop life, can change
life," "I cannot change life," "I can start life", "I cannot start life."
A very effective process,
"Something wrong .., "
"Nothing wrong ... " with "you, me, they, my mind, communications, various
allies."
A very basic resolution of the lack of space of an individual is to locate
those people
and those objects which you've been using as anchor points such as father,
mother and so
forth and putting them into matched terminal brackets with this: -- "There
is father," "There is
no father," "There is grandfather," "There is no grandfather." In the
compulsive line this can be
changed to "There must be no father," "There must be a father." One takes
all the allies of an
individual and runs them in this fashion.
The basic law underneath this is that a person becomes the effect of
anything upon
which he has had to depend. This would tell you immediately that the sixth
dynamic, the
MEST universe, is the largest dependency of the individual. This can be run
out, but then any
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dynamic can be run out in this fashion. "There is myself," "There is no
self," and so on up the
dynamics. "(Any dynamic) is preventing me from communicating," "(Any
dynamic) is not
preventing me from communicating" is intensely effective. Any such
technique can be varied
by applying the sub-zero scale as found earlier in this book.
One runs any certainty out because he knows that for this certainly there
is an opposite
negative certainty and that between these lies a maybe, and that the maybe
is suspense in time.
The basic operation of the reactive mind is to solve problems. It is based
on uncertainties about
observation. Thus one runs out certainties of observation. The most general
shotgun technique
would have to do with "There is sex," "There is no sex," "There is force,"
"There is no force."
This could be run, of course, in terms of matched terminal brackets or even
as concepts, but
one must not neglect to run the overt act phenomenon which is to say
getting somebody else
getting the concept.
The processing out of certainties would then embrace "I have a solution,"
"There is no
solution." These two opposite ends would take care of any individual who
was hung on the
track with some solution, for that solution had its opposite. People who
have studied medicine
begin by being certain that medicine works and end by being certain that
medicine doesn't
work. They begin by studying psychology on a supposition that it is the
solution, and finish up
that it is not the solution. This also happens to superficial students of
Dianetics and
Scientology, thus one should also run "Dianetics is a solution," "Dianetics
is not the solution,"
This would also get one off the maybe on the subject.
We are essentially processing communications systems. The entire process of
auditing
is concentrated upon withdrawing communications from the preclear as
predicated on the basis
of the body and the preclear cannot handle communications. Thus "The
preclear can handle
communication," "The preclear cannot handle communications" is a shotgun
technique which
resolves maybes about his communications.
An intensely interesting aspect of Certainty Processing is that it shows up
intimately
where the preclear is aberrated. Here is the overall basic technique. One
runs "There is...,"
"There is not..." the following: Communication, talk, letters, love,
agreement, sex, pain,
work, bodies, minds, curiosity, control, enforcement, compulsion,
inhibition, food, money,
people. ability, beauty, ugliness, presents and both the top and bottom of
the Chart of
Attitudes, positive and negative in each one.
Basic in all this is the urge of the preclear to produce an effect, so one
can run "I can
produce an effect upon mama," "I cannot produce an effect upon mama," and
so forth for all
allies and one will resolve the fixations of attention on the part of the
preclear. Thus fixations of
attention are resolved by Certainty Processing, processing out the
production of effect.
One can occasionally, if he so desires, process the direct center of the
maybe, which is
to say doubt itself, in terms of Matched Terminals. This, however, is risky
for it throws the
preclear into a general state of doubt.
The key to any such processing is the recovery of viewpoints. "I can have
grandfather's viewpoint," "I cannot have grandfather's viewpoint," and so
on, particularly
with sexual partners, will prove intensely interesting on a case. "There
are viewpoints," "There
are no viewpoints," "I have a viewpoint," "I don't have a viewpoint,"
"Blank has a
viewpoint," "Blank has no viewpoint," resolves problems.
One should also realize that when one is processing facsimiles, he is
processing at once
energy, sensation and aesthetics. The facsimile is a picture. The preclear
is being affected by
pictures mainly, and so "There are no pictures," "There are pictures,"
forwards the case toward
handling pictures; which is to say facsimiles.
A person tends to ally himself with somebody whom he considers capable of
producing
greater effects than himself, so "I, she, he, it can create greater
effects," "I, she, he, it can
create no effect," is quite effective.
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When one is processing, he is trying to withdraw communications. Reach and
Withdraw are the two fundamentals in the action of theta. Must Reach and
Cannot Reach, Must
Withdraw and Cannot Withdraw are compulsions which, when run in
combination, produce
the manifestation of insanity in a preclear.
"I can reach," "I can't reach," "I can withdraw," "I can't withdraw," open
up into the
fact that remembering and forgetting are dependent upon the ability to
reach and withdraw. You
will find that a preclear will respond to "You must" or "You can," "You
must not," "You
cannot," "There is," "There is not," forgetting and remembering.
The only reason a person is hanging on to a body or facsimile is because he
has lost his
belief in his ability to create. The rehabilitation of this ability to
create is resolved -- for
instance, in a person who has had an ambition to write with "I can write,"
"I cannot write" --
and so forth. The loss of this creative ability made the person hang on to
what he had. The fact
that a preclear has forgotten how to or no longer can himself generate
force makes him hold on
to stores of force. These are very often mistaken by the auditor for
facsimiles. The preclear
doesn't care for the facsimile, he simply cares for the force contained in
the facsimile because
he knows he doesn't have any force any more.
It should be kept in mind that reaching and withdrawing are intensely
productive of
reaction in a preclear. But that preclear who does not respond to reaching
and withdrawing and
certainty thereon, is hung up in a very special condition: he is trying to
prevent something
from happening, he is trying to maintain control. If he prevents something
from happening, he
also prevents auditing from happening. He has lost allies, he has had
accidents, and he is hung
up at all those points on the track where he feels he should have prevented
something from
happening. This is resolved by running "I must prevent it from happening,"
"I cannot prevent
it from happening." "I must retain control," "I must lose all control."
Blackness is the desire to be an effect and the inability to be cause.
"I can create grandfather (or ally)," "I cannot create grandfather (or
ally)," solves
scarcity of allies. "I want to be aware," "I want no awareness," is a
technique which is basic in
attitudes. Run this as others, in matched terminal brackets or in Expanded
GITA.
Certainty there is a past, certainty there is no past; certainty there is a
future, certainty
there is no future; certainty it means something else, certainty it does
not mean anything else;
certainty there is space, certainty there is no space; certainty there is
energy. certainty there is
no energy; certainty there are objects, certainty there are no objects.
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GLOSSARY
THETAN: This term designates the beingness of the individual, the awareness
of
awareness unit, that quantity and identity which IS the preclear. One does
not speak of "my
thetan" any more than he would speak of "my me." Persons referring to the
thetan in such a
way as to make the thetan a third party to the body and the person are not
only incorrect, they
betoken by this a bad state of aberration.
AUDITOR: The person who "audits," who computes and listens, a practitioner
of
Dianetics and Scientology. SOP Theta Clearing is best done by an auditor
who has been theta
cleared. A Step V commonly acts to force the preclear to stay in his body
even while pretending
to free the preclear from his body.
LOCATION: The thetan is an energy unit which is commonly located in the
center of
the skull. A thetan who cannot leave the current body very often believes
himself to be holding
on only to the current body. and yet in actuality is holding on to a
facsimile of an earlier body.
The thetan also believes himself to be the size of some earlier body. A
thetan from the Fifth
Invader Force believes himself to be a very strange insect-like creature
with unthinkably
horrible hands. He believes himself to be occupying such a body, but is in
actuality simply a
unit capable of producing space, time, energy and matter.
SELF-DETERMINISM: Self-determinism is a relative state of ability to
determine
location in time and space, and to create and destroy space, time, energy
and matter. If one can
locate his facsimiles and ridges in time and space, if one is able to place
persons and objects in
the past, present and future in time and space, he can be considered to
have high self-determinism.
If one's facsimiles place him in time and space, if people can easily place
one in
time and space in the past, present or future, one's self-determinism is
low. Willingness and
unwillingness to locate things in time and space are the key relative
states of sanity.
ILLUSION: Any idea, space, energy, object or time concept which one creates
himself.
REALITY: That agreement upon illusion which became the MEST universe.
DELUSION: Things not of one's own creation or of the MEST universe which
locate
one in time and space.
CERTAINTY: One is certain on a plus or minus basis and can be equally
certain on
either. One can be certain a thing is NOT real or he can be certain that it
IS real. There are three
sides to this. One is certain that a thing is his own illusion: this is the
highest level. One is
certain that a thing is a MEST universe reality (illusion). One can be
certain that a thing is a
delusion. Any certainty is a knowingness. Knowingness is sanity. Thus we
have three routes
of certainty by which to approach knowingness.
KNOWINGNESS: Knowingness depends upon certainty.
ABERRATION: Aberration depends upon uncertainty.
THETA PERCEPTION: That which one perceives by radiating toward an object
and
from the reflection perceiving various characteristics of the object such
as size, odor, tactile,
sound, color, etc. Certainty of perception is increased by drilling in
certainties as above. Theta
perception is dependent upon willingness to handle energy and to create
space, energy and
objects. In view of the fact that the MEST universe can be established
easily to be an illusion,
one must have an ability to perceive illusions before one can clearly
perceive the MEST
universe. The thetan who cannot perceive the MEST universe easily will also
be found to be
incapable of handling and orienting other kinds of illusions with
certainty. Theta perception is
also a direct index to responsibility, for responsibility is the
willingness to handle force.
MEST PERCEPTION: Recordings the thetan takes from the organs of perception
of the
human body as a short cut to perception (lazy perception). The body records
actual wave
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emanations from the MEST universe, the thetan uses these recordings.
Considerably more data
should be collected on this subject.
ORIENTATION: Determination of location in space and time and determination
of
energy quantity present. This applies to past, present, future.
RIDGES: "Solid" accumulations of energy which are suspended in space and
time.
Ridges can be handled variously. They can also explode.
FACSIMILES: Energy reproductions of things in various universes. They are
fixed to
ridges.
END OF TERMINAL: A communication line to anything has the preclear at one
end
and something at the other end. When the end of terminal is vacated, flow
dams and the
preclear must fix the vacated end to his own body. This is the mechanics
behind the loss which
brings about grief. ARC lines can be mocked-up and handled in the routine
of creative
processing, which processes will resolve end of terminal difficulties.
These terminals are quite
visible to the thetan who sees them either wound around the body or
extending to other bodies
or reaching a considerable distance into space. The thetan can actually
yank on these terminals,
even those which go into space, and free the other end whether he perceives
it or not, and so
recover and dispose of such lines.
ASTRAL BODIES: Somebody's delusion. Astral bodies are usually mock-ups
which
the mystic then tries to believe real. He sees the astral body as something
else and then seeks to
inhabit it in the most common practices of "astral walking." Anyone who
confuses astral
bodies with thetans is apt to have difficulty with theta clearing for the
two things are not the
same order of similarity. The exteriorization of a thetan, when actually
accomplished, is so
complete and thorough and is attended by so many other phenomena, that
anyone who has
made an effort to relate these two things is quite certain to recant after
he has been theta cleared.
The most note worthy difference is that the thetan does not have a body.
Production of illusion
to which he then sought to assign MEST reality is probably the underlying
factor which makes
mysticism so aberrative. Data from India, even that found in the deepest
"mysteries" of India,
is knowingly or unknowingly "booby-trapped" so that while it contains,
though unevaluated
and isolated, many essential truths, it contains as well directions which
are certain to send the
experimenter even more deeply into the unwanted state of becoming MEST.
Until recently. the
nearest one could come to studying the actuality of existence was through
the field of
mysticism and its value should not be discounted, but its effect is to
deliver an entirely opposite
result to any experimenter luckless enough to hope to reach cause by
becoming an effect as
required in mysticism. Seeing and feeling "non-existences" is frightening
and harmful only
when one seeks to believe them to be existences. Only when he knows he has
created them,
can he obtain a certainty upon them. One can create hallucination for
himself only by insisting
that what he has created was otherwise created -- in short, refusing to
accept responsibility for
his own created illusions.
ELECTRONICS: Lower and cruder manifestations of the same order of actuality
as
thought.
TERMINALS: In facsimiles, ridges and electric motors, terminals operate and
current
flows only when they are fixed in time and space. Alternating current
becomes possible only
because of an overlooked item, the base of the motor, which is fixed in
time and space and
which keeps the terminals apart by fixing them in time and space.
THE HUMAN SOUL: The preclear.
MYSTICISM: Many right ideas but the wrong way to go about it.
FREEDOM: Ability to create and position energy or matter in time and space.
SLAVERY: Being positioned in another's time and space.
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THE HUMAN BODY: A carbon-oxygen engine built of complex electronic ridges
around the genetic entity which animates it.
THE HUMAN MIND: The thetan plus the standard banks.
STIMULUS-RESPONSE: The environment of the thetan activating ridges to make
them activate the body.
THE REACTIVE MIND: The ridge automatic response system.
THE SOMATIC MIND: The genetic entity plus the brain system of the body.
SCIENTOLOGY: The science of knowing how to know.
KNOWING HOW TO KNOW: Being the thetan, clear of the body and its ridges and
able to handle illusion, matter, energy, space and time.
THETA CLEAR: A being who is reasonably stable outside the body and does not
come
back into the body simply because the body is hurt. No other condition
necessary.
CLEARED THETA CLEAR: A thetan who is completely rehabilitated and can do
everything a thetan should do, such as move MEST and control others from a
distance, or
create his own universe.
A THETAN EXTERIOR: A thetan who is clear of the body and knows it but is
not yet
stable outside.
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SIX LEVELS OF PROCESSING -- ISSUE 5
November, 1955
NOTE: Issue Five of the Six Levels of Processing is not the final issue of
this operating
procedure and is subject to change, especially in the matter of command
wording. However,
the processes here reproduced have been evolved into a workable state and
have been run with
success with the commands given. Issue 5 of SLP is released at this time
because it is better
material, not because it is the final form of SLP.
With SLP is introduced a method of auditing and a new auditing atmosphere
which
articulates the attitudes best calculated to maintain continuing stable
gains in a case. The
auditing atmosphere is A-R-C with gain marked by continuing rises in A-R-C.
With SLP a
somatic or boil-off means reduced A-R-C and are indications of auditing
breaks in A-R-C.
With SLP comes the COMMUNICATION BRIDGE, restarting sessions, maintenance
of high
Reality, and liberal use of processing outside an auditing room.
All assist type processes are outside SLP except for the present time
problem.
The emphasis of SLP is on bettering the preclear's reality and power of
choice.
Level One
RUDIMENTS
These must be established at the beginning of every session. They must be
re-established
each time the preclear tends to go out of session:
(a) Find the auditor
(b) Find the preclear
(c) Find the session environment
(d) Establish that a session is in progress
(e) Accept any communication the preclear originates
(f) Acknowledge every command execution by the preclear
(g) Agree upon the process and the command form before using and do not
confuse it
(h) Use two-way communication liberally
(i) Follow the Auditor's Code
(j) Deal with the present time problem which may be present at the
beginning or arise
during or recur during a session
(k) Use a Communication Bridge at every process or area change
(l) Establish goals by two-way communication and the command "Assign an
intention to _______" (auditor indicating object)
(m) Run opening procedure of 8-C as given in The Creation of Human Ability
until the
preclear is certainly obeying the auditing commands and is under control.
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Level Two
LOCATIONAL AND NOT-KNOW PROCESSES
Run in populated places, ambulant.
(a) Energy Sources:
Have preclear spot acceptable energy sources. Do not permit him to spot
statics unless
he is ready for it. Run until preclear can empower terminals. Commands:
"Spot an acceptable
energy source."
(b) Spotting Objects:
Have preclear spot objects in a place with ample space and objects.
Commands: "Spot
an object." (c) Spotting people:
Have preclear spot people in populated places. Command: "Spot a person."
(d) Separateness from Objects:
Have preclear spot objects he is separate from, then objects separate from
him.
Commands: "Locate an object from which you are separate." "Locate an object
which is
separate from you."
(e) Separateness from People:
Have preclear spot people he is separate from, then have him spot people
separate from
him. Commands: "Locate a person from whom you are separate." "Locate a
person who is
separate from you." (f) Waterloo Station:
Have preclear spot people about whom he can Not-Know something and then
have him
spot people he is willing to have Not-Know things about him. (Auditor
selects persons.)
Commands: "Tell me something you wouldn't mind not-knowing about that
person." "Tell me
something you wouldn't mind that person not-knowing about you.
Level Three
DECISIONAL PROCESSING
Run in quiet places or auditing rooms.
(a) Think a Placed Thought:
The object is to train the preclear to think thoughts exterior to his head
and thetan bank
to obviate the "cave-in phenomena of Axiom 51." Commands: (auditor
indicating object or
position) "Think a thought in (on) that _______ " Alternate command: "Do
you see that
(object)? Think a thought in (on) it. Did the thought appear where it is?"
(b) Choice Rehabilitation:
Using the ability acquired in Level Three (a) have the preclear make
choices between
two objects indicated by auditor. Command: "From (indicated point) make a
choice between
(indicated positions or objects)."
(c) Directed Decision Rehabilitation:
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Using the ability acquired in (a) and (b) exercise the preclear on
decisions. Command:
"Putting the decision on (in) that (indicated object) make a decision about
it." (d) Permissive
Decision Rehabilitation:
Using the abilities acquired in (a), (b) and (c) turn preclear loose on
decisions.
Decisions must be outside head and bank. Command: "Decide something."
Level Four
OPENING PROCEDURE BY DUPLICATION (Not-Know Version)
Done in an auditing room with a book and a bottle.
Commands:
"Do you see that book?"
"Walk over to it."
"Pick it up."
"Not-know something about its color."
"Not-know something about its temperature."
"Not-know something about its weight."
"Put it in exactly the same place."
"Do you see that bottle?"
"Walk over to it."
"Pick it up."
"Not know something about its color."
"Not know something about its temperature."
"Not know something about its weight."
"Put it in exactly the same place."
"Do you see that book?"
Level Five
REMEDY OF COMMUNICATION SCARCITY
The object of this step is to restore abundance on any and all
communication
possibilities. Done in an auditing room.
(a) Create confusion:
Commands: "Mock up a confusion." Alternate command: "What confusion could
you
create?"
(b) Creating Terminals:
The preclear may have to be coached into mocking up unknown confused black
terminals and thus into good terminal mock ups. Commands: "Mock up a
communication
terminal." "Mock up another communication terminal."
(c) What wouldn't you mind communicating with:
Duplicate the auditing command exactly. Don't red-herring (go chasing after
facsimiles). Command: "What wouldn't you mind communicating with?"
(d) Creating family terminals:
Have preclear mock up until he has abundance of any and all persons he has
ever used
as anchor points. Commands: "Mock up your (father, wife, mother, husband).
"Mock him
(her) up again."
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Level Six
REMEDY OF HAVINGNESS AND SPOTTING SPOTS IN SPACE
Route One
An exteriorized step done as given in the Creation of Human Ability.
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GAMES PROCESSING
The goal of Scientology is the rehabilitation of the game. The auditor can
make a game
better or make it possible for the preclear to play a game. The preclear is
being audited because
he is no longer able to take part in the game.
Life is a game consisting of freedom and restrictions. Play is
communication.
Communication requires freedom and terminals. Life units as-is with
thought. To think there
must be something to as-is. To grant life there must be something to grant
life to. A preclear
will become as free as he is reassured of the existence of barriers at that
level. When a preclear
is not assured of (does not have reality on) barriers at a level he will
not rise to that level. A
thetan will carry to extremes making something and making nothing. Auditing
is that process
of bringing a balance between freedom and barriers.
A game depends upon a restoration of freedom of choice on making something
and
making nothing. One can become obsessed with making nothing. He can become
obsessed
with making something. Both of these activities and the rehabilitation of
the freedom of choice
bring about a gain in case. There can be too many or too few universes, but
when an individual
is stuck in a universe it is because he does not have enough universes.
Therefore it is necessary to remedy his havingness of bodies. Remedying his
havingness of bodies will clear away universes in which he is stuck by
letting him have
freedom of entrance into universes.
Auditing is a game of exteriorization versus havingness. There is never too
much of
anything if the preclear is bothered by it. He may say there is not enough
of it but he usually
says there is something bad about it. When he says there is something bad
about it he means
there is not enough of it. The preclear loses his power to postulate into
existence and to
unpostulate out of existence energy masses, spaces and forms.
Life is a game.
Games are composed of freedom, problems, and havingness, awareness and
interest.
Each of these elements contains "mood of game" (the tone scale), penalties,
and the
cycle of action.
Auditing improves the level of game of the preclear.
Auditing is not a game between auditor and preclear on an opposing basis
but on a team
basis. The auditor, and eventually the preclear, are engaged upon a game,
themselves versus
the opponents to survival in life.
The preclear is usually close to a no-game condition. This is reached by a
preponderance of win (no-game) or a preponderance of lose (no-game). A
frozen mood of
game or no-mood is reached by assuming that interest can exist on only one
emotional level
(whereas interest can exist on any emotional tone level) or by misusing the
mood of one game
in others concurrently played.
A game is any state of beingness wherein exist awareness, problems,
havingness and
freedom (separateness) each in some degree. A game is rehabilitated or a no-
game-condition
eradicated in processing by handling the elements of games and their
subdivision, with reality,
with the intention of bettering the game ability of the preclear.
IF YOU, THE INDIVIDUAL KNEW THE TRUTH AND YOU WERE PROCESSED
TOWARDS THE TRUTH, YOU WOULD BE FREE. ONLY LIES DEGRADE YOU. THIS
IS THE LESSON OF SCIENTOLOGY.
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THE REMEDY OF HAVINGNESS
There is a great deal of upper-echelon theory connected with the Remedy of
Havingness as a process, for here we are dealing with energy and the
reasons and operations
of a thetan in regard to it.
Just why a thetan should get himself so completely snarled up in energy
might be an
entire mystery to anyone who did not realize that a thetan has to cut down
his knowingness and
his total presence in order to have a game. The awareness of awareness unit
builds space to cut
down knowingness. Space makes it necessary, then, to look at something in
order to know
about it. The next thing a thetan does to cut down his knowingness is to
create energy and to
pass it to other thetans and to bring in the energy of other thetans so as
to get a duration and a
time-span. If the thetan is successful and obtains a game in this wise, he
continues on with this
modus operandi of having a game, and when he does not have a game he simply
cuts his
knowingness down once more. Of course, he reaches a point eventually where
he does not get
a game simply by cutting down his knowingness, and eventually assumes a
fairly fixed,
stupid, aspect. He is below the level of having games, but because he has
cut down his
knowingness he does not know, now, that he is below the level of having
games and thinks
that all that is necessary to get another game is to further cut down his
knowingness. He is by
this time obsessively dramatizing the lowering of knowingness.
When one speaks of knowingness, one should realize that one is speaking of
an
embracive thing. Everything on the Know to Mystery Scale is simply a
greater condensation or
reduction of Knowingness. At first one simply knows. Then he makes some
space and some
energy, and so now he has knowingness in terms of looking.
By changing the position of the particles of energy thus created, and by
exchanging
particles with others, extant or self-created, the thetan cuts down his
knowingness further, and
gets time, and so gets emotion and sensation. When these become solid, he
has effort particles
and masses. Now, he could cut down his knowingness further by refusing to
use emotion and
effort, but by thinking about them, thus introducing new vias into his line
of knowingness.
And, when he no longer knows entirely by thinking, he ceases to create
knowingness and
begins to eat, and from eating he drops into the ready-made sensation of
sex instead of
knowing what happens in the future. And from here he drops down into
postulated mystery as
something one cannot possibly know about. In other words, one gets a
continued reduction of
knowingness in order to have games.
The greatest chess player in the world has no game, since he can predict
that he will
win and predict everything that opponents will do, so he will simply
demonstrate how to play
chess. Sooner or later, he will announce that he is "burned out" or has
lost his knack for
playing chess, and will go off into some other field where he can have a
game. The field he
will choose will be a less wisdom-demanding field than playing chess. A
boxer, such as some
of the very great ones of the past, will reduce his timing, which is to say
his knowingness of
arrival, to a point where he can at least put on a good exhibition, and
from this they will further
reduce their knowingness, and then not noticing how far they have gone, get
themselves
thoroughly and consistently beaten. There will be a period, however, when
they are fairly
evenly matched against their opponents.
To understand this with any thoroughness, one would have to recognize the
intention
back of all communication. Creation, Survival, and Destruction is
knowingness. When
somebody talks to you his intention is to continue in a parity where he can
have an interchange
of communication, which is to say a game. He takes knowingness from you,
and gives
knowingness to you, with one form of communication or another. Two soldiers
fighting and
shooting at each other are using a bullet to make the other man know. What
is there to know in
this situation? That one is dead, of course, and for the victor, that one
has won.
It is dangerous, alike, to a thetan, to have too many wins or too many
losses. Give him
too many wins, and he will correct in the direction of reducing his
knowingness as represented
by his dexterity, his prediction, his activity. Give him too many losses
and he will seek another
game, even to the point where he will die and pick up another body. Because
the decision is on
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the basis of knowingness, the decision is always downward. One does not
decide upward
toward greater knowingness, actually, unless one has the full and complete
intention of
winning in a new game. If one discovers that there are no wins or losses
either to be found in
this new game, even to the point of forgetting all of his knowledge
concerning it, one will
reduce one's own knowingness in order to ensure a game.
As there is not a infinity of games in progress, one is apt, as he comes
down seventy-four
trillion years of track, to play out the available games and to put them in
the category of "it
must not happen again". One then becomes bored. One is only bored when
there is no game
possible, from his viewpoint. Actually, all he has to do is become
enthusiastic about the game
on his own consideration and he will begin to know more about it again.
A thetan considers that some form or mass is necessary in order to have a
game. He
gets into the belief that he cannot create new masses, and so he begins to
hold on to old
masses, and here, whether he is exteriorized or in a body, we find him
holding on hard to old
facsimiles, old significances, old decisions, rather than take on new
decisions.
The Remedy of Havingness directly addresses the problems of giving the
thetan
something 'to play with'. When he discovers that he can have new masses, he
will begin to let
go of old masses. It is an easily observed phenomenon while having a
preclear Remedy
Havingness, that old engrams go into restimulation, go into restimulation
and run out, that they
show up in front of his face and suddenly explode or disappear. The Remedy
of Havingness
actively does run out engrams.
This process is used from boredom up to conservatism for its best results.
This process is done by asking the preclear to mock up something and pull
it in, or
mock up something and throw it away. When a thetan is exteriorized, if you
want to see him
get very unhappy, make him change space until he begins to lose all the
energy he is holding
on to, and then fail to remedy his havingness. The thetan will become
convinced that he is only
a thought, and is therefore, by his standards unable to have a game. Tell
him to mock up eight
anchor points in the form of the corners of a cube around him and pull them
in upon himself.
Ask him to do it several more times, and he immediately brightens up and
becomes very
happy. Why is this? You have reassured him that he can have a game.
The cutting down of knowingness and the Remedy of Havingness have opposite
vectors. The Remedy of Havingness will knock out old energy masses the
thetan is holding on
to, or that the body is holding on to, which tell the thetan he is stupid.
The supplanting of these
by new energy masses which do not have the postulate of cut-down
knowingness in them of
course makes the thetan brighter.
When you find a theory detached from a process and not demonstrating itself
in a
process there must be something wrong with the theory. Similarly, if what I
say here about
condensed knowingness being all other things, and the cut-down of
knowingness, were not
demonstrated in the process of Remedy of Havingness, then we would have to
get ourselves a
new theory. However, this is demonstrated very definitely. For those people
who cannot
remedy havingness wherever they are on the tone scale can be brought to a
point where they
will remedy havingness simply by asking them what they wouldn't mind
knowing. The
consideration of what they are willing to know then begins to rise.
If you only could see a "black five" operate you would see that his
barriers are all
erected toward knowing something. Of course he is very afraid of being told
something bad,
and so doesn't want to be told anything at all, and when the auditor gives
him a command he
never receives the command as given, but does something else. He has a
block up against
knowingness to such a degree that he will eventually permit himself to be
pressed into complete
inactive stupidity. What are those black screens for? Basically to keep him
from knowing.
Knowing what? Then one will have to look closely at the definition of a
datum. A datum is an
invention which has become agreed upon and so solidified. In other words, a
datum is to some
degree a solidity, even if it is merely a symbol. To get into this state it
has to be agreed upon.
When it is thoroughly agreed upon it becomes, then, a truth. It is not at
all a truth. It is an
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invention. What made it sure or what made it real was the fact that it was
agreed upon. This
opens the doors further to other processes.
In order to get the preclear in good condition we would have to put him
into some kind
of a condition so that he could create. The first thing he is liable to be
able to create in auditing
is a lie. The word lie is simply invention with a bad connotation. Society
gives invention that
connotation because of its anxiety to have a game and to agree, and so be
able to communicate
with one another.
Thus society frowns upon the invention of facts, yet the preclear's sanity
and continued
happiness absolutely depend upon his ability to create new facts. The
technique which
remedies this is included in "The Creation of Sanity", number R2-29: "Start
lying". One can
vary this auditing command with "Tell me some lies about your past", and
then keep the
preclear at it long enough so that the preclear is able to come out of the
complete blur which
will follow on the heels of his taking over the function of and running of
his memory
machines. The invention of data is a step immediately toward the remedy of
havingness.
Simply asking the preclear what he wouldn't mind knowing, what he wouldn't
mind having
other people knowing about him will bring him into a condition where he can
mock up and
remedy havingness.
The Remedy of Havingness is the companion process to Spotting Spots, which
will be
taken up in the next PAB. The Remedy of Havingness, simply as a process by
itself, if worked
up to by getting the preclear willing to know things, and willing for other
people to know
things, and run thoroughly so that whole avalanches of masses can pour into
him or pour out
of him, will actually run out an entire engram bank, and thus is an
extremely valuable process.
It has been reported by several auditors that exteriorization was
accomplished on
preclears by making them remedy havingness and do nothing else for eight or
ten hours.
The auditing commands for the Remedy of Havingness are: "Mock up
something",
"Pull it in", until the preclear is doing this easily. Then, "Mock up
something", "Throw it
away", until the preclear can do this easily. The significance of the
object may be added by the
auditor with "Pull in an ideal body", or some such thing, but the actual
fact is that the actual
significance does nothing for the preclear. It is the mass which counts.
The auditor can have
the preclear pull things in two at a time, six at a time. He can have the
preclear mock up
something, copy it a dozen times, one time after another, then pull in the
whole mass, but the
real reason he is doing this with the preclear should never drop from
sight. The auditor is
remedying havingness in order to give the preclear enough mass to permit
him to discard old
masses which he is holding on to and doesn't know anything about.
Remedy of Havingness -- The Process "When in doubt, remedy Havingness."
This is a motto which can well be followed by an auditor doing any process
on the
preclear.
But, if there is a process which one should do with any other process, then
that process
would be understood thoroughly, for if done incorrectly it would be likely
to produce
confusion into all the other processes of Dianetics and Scientology.
Therefore, in the first place, let us examine with rigor the name of this
process. It is
REMEDY OF HAVINGNESS. By "remedy" one means the correction of any aberrated
condition. By "havingness" one means mass or objects. The process could
also be called
"Remedy of Unhavingness." It could also be called "Remedy of
Acceptingness." It could also
be called "Remedy of Rejectingness."
To those people who are deficient in Havingness, the process is liable to
mean that the
auditor should increase the Havingness of the preclear. Such an auditor
with the
misunderstanding would have the preclear put up large masses and push them
into his body or
himself. The auditor would neglect having the preclear throw away objects
and masses.
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If the auditor misunderstood the process and simply assumed that it had
something to
do with Havingness, and if his own Havingness were too great, he would be
likely to
specialize on all preclears by having the preclear throw things away.
Actually, the auditor should have the preclear push things into himself and
his body and
throw things away from himself and his body until the preclear can do both
with equal ease.
When this has been accomplished the preclear's Havingness has been
"remedied".
What, then, does a Remedy of Havingness mean? It means the remedy of a
preclear's
native ability to acquire things at will and reject them at will. Amongst
the Havingnesses which
would require remedy, would be an obsessive inflow of money, sexual
objects, troubles,
somatics, and difficulties in general. Whenever one of these appeared in
the preclear's
environment it would have a tendency to inflow on the preclear. The reverse
difficulty would
be an obsessive outflow, whereby the preclear threw away or wasted anything
which he had,
such as money, clothes, cars, or living quarters. When the process "Remedy
of Havingness"
has been done thoroughly and completely, the preclear should be able to
reject or accept, at his
own discretion, anything in his environment as well as anything in the
engram bank.
The earliest use of this process is to be found in GITA which is to say
"Give and Take
Processing," one of the early SOP's, which became an SOP-8 "Expanded GITA."
In Issue 16-
G of the Journal of Scientology we have a long list of key items. The
preclear was asked to
waste, accept, and desire these items at will. This was the Desire-
Enforcement-Inhibit Scale, or
DEI Scale. This process is the immediate ancestor of the Remedy of
Havingness. Indeed, one
could do far worse than to take the DEI Expanded GITA list as given in
Issue 16-G, and in the
form of mock-ups use it as such upon the preclear, or more modernly employ
it directly on the
Remedy of Havingness on these objects.
If one were to employ such a list in the Remedy of Havingness, one would,
of course,
have to employ gradient scales. The use of the gradient scale has never
been discarded, and the
concept and principle of doing things by gradient scales is inherent in
auditing itself, for one
starts with a process which the preclear can do, and gives him some wins,
and on a gradual
scale gives him larger and larger wins until he is cleared. Similarly, in
remedying Havingness,
the preclear must be started at the lowest end of the scale and advanced on
up to the higher ends
of the scale. Quantity is one of the methods of doing this. At first one
can ask a preclear to
mock up one of an item and shove it into his body or throw it away, and
then go, finally, when
he is doing that well, to two items, three, four, five, six, all the same,
but a greater quantity of
the item. An even lower gradient on this scale would be to simply get the
idea that something
was there, and to progress on forward with the idea into the actual mass.
An expert auditor
working with this from the idea on through to the object would discover
that he had no
preclears who could not mock up.
He would have the preclear get the idea out in front of him of a ball, and
get the idea of
the ball being thrown away; get the idea of a ball up in front of him and
get the idea of a ball
coming in. He would then, when the preclear could do this excellently, move
forward into the
actual mock-up of a ball. The mock-up would get better and better as the
process progressed,
until at last the preclear could mock up and throw away or push into his
body, at will a ball. He
would be able to see this ball, even feel its texture and its weight.
Now, exteriorization by Remedy of Havingness is a newer process than the
old
Remedy of Havingness. It is accomplished by having the preclear SHOVE or
PUSH things
into his body. One no longer has the preclear PULL things into his body.
Simply by having the
preclear mock up things and shove them into his body, mock them up and
throw them away,
mock things up and shove them into his body, mock things up and throw them
away, a
preclear, who has already been run on the earlier steps of the six basic
processes, will, at this
stage exteriorize quite neatly after as little as fifteen or twenty minutes
of the process. If he does
not, then the earlier processes have been skimped and the preclear was
really not ready for a
full, forthright remedy of Havingness.
Even when doing Route 1, the preclear is told to push things into himself.
This will
rather take his flitter away for a moment, for he is there being one
viewpoint, and in order to
push something into himself, he has to be a second viewpoint. In view of
the fact that a thetan
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gets into trouble by being only one viewpoint, this remedies the viewpoint
scarcity of the
thetan, and he pushes himself up into two viewpoints with great rapidity.
Thus we are doing
duplication of the thetan at the same time that we are remedying
Havingness, so one even has
the thetan shove things into himself, rather than pull things into himself.
In short, one never has anyone pull things into his body any more. One has
people
push things into the body. One has, for instance, the preclear mock up a
planet, and push it
into the body; mock up a planet and throw it away; mock up a planet and
push it into his body;
and then one says, "Where are you pushing it from?" The preclear says: "Out
here in front of
the body." The auditor simply goes on doing the process, and very shortly
the preclear will, if
the earlier steps have been done well -- the Six Basic Processes below
Remedy of Havingness
-- exteriorize neatly and will be ready for Route 1.
One would omit, in such an instance, running Spotting Spots as such, for
Change of
Space Processing and Communication Processing has a great deal to do with
spotting spots
already.
If you were to do Remedy of Havingness forthrightly and all-out, and you
were to
accept this as the only process we had, we would work with its cousin
process R2-63 as given
in "The Creation of Human Ability," "Accept -- Reject." One would ask the
preclear for things
he could accept, one after the other until the communication lag was flat,
and then would ask
the preclear for things he could accept, one after the other until the
communication lag was flat,
and then would ask the preclear for things he could reject, one after the
other until the
communication lag was flat on that. One would then move into the Expanded
GITA list and
would have the preclear mock up and shove into his body (if interiorized)
or into himself (if
exteriorized) the various items on the Expanded GITA list as given in Issue
16-G of the Journal
of Scientology. This would be a long process, and not entirely successful
on all counts, but
would nevertheless be a very effective and efficient process from the
standpoint of gain. One
would certainly get the preclear over a very large number of aberrations
and would do a great
deal for him. However, this is not the advised way of handling this
process, for the process
itself is not an end-all. Aberrations can be handled much more easily by
Communication
Processing.
The exact use and commands of Remedy of Havingness in ordinary and routine
auditing is simple and effective. One has been asking a preclear a great
many questions which
"as-ised" large masses of energy. One, in handling Change of Space or
interiorization and
Exteriorization into objects while the preclear is exteriorized, has been
"burning up" large
masses of energy. Any time the preclear begins to feel dopey or "boil off"
he has either run too
long on a flow in one direction, in which case reverse the flow, or he has
simply reduced his
havingness down to a point where he feels tired or sleepy. Without waiting
for this
manifestation to occur the good auditor simply in the course of Straight
Wire or Description
Processing, or many other processes, such as those contained in Route One,
remedies
Havingness. Having achieved something like a momentarily flat communication
lag on a
process, the auditor says to the preclear: "Mock up a mass out in front of
you." When the
preclear has done this, the auditor says: "Shove it into your body." When
the preclear has done
so, the auditor says: "Mock up another mass out in front of you." And when
the preclear has
done so, the auditor says: "Throw it away." That, as given, is for
preclears who are
interiorized. It is simply repeated over and over. The mass is not
specified. It can be almost
anything, and in fact it does not matter much what type of significance the
mass has. Any mass
is better than no mass, according to the thetan.
If the preclear is exteriorized, the auditor already starts him on the
Remedy of
Havingness in the Route One step where the preclear is asked to copy what
he is looking at
(R1-5). When one is doing R1-5 one must be very careful to obey the
gradient scale principle
behind Remedy of Havingness. One would not make the preclear make twenty
copies and then
push all of them into himself or the body. One would make the preclear make
two or three
copies and push them in, one at a time, until the preclear could remedy his
Havingness with
ease.
The auditor would then have the preclear mock up a mass and "Shove it into
yourself."
And then: "Mock up a mass and throw it away," and do this back and forth
until the preclear
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could do this easily and well, at which time the auditor would tell the
preclear: "Mock up two
masses and shove them into yourself," and then, "Mock up two masses and
throw them
away," until finally the auditor has the preclear mock up eight masses as
though they were the
corners of a cube around the preclear, and "Shove them into yourself," and
then "Mock up
eight masses and throw them away."
One must remember that in spite of the fact that he cannot duplicate mass
actually as
himself, having no space or mass, natively, the motto of the thetan is
"anything is better than
nothing." When you tear up a lot of facsimiles for a thetan and throw them
away, he becomes
very unhappy unless you have him reconstruct those facsimiles or remedy the
mass according
to what he has lost. When you are having a thetan go into and out of MEST
universe masses, a
certain amount of energy is burned up, and after a thetan has been run for
a short time on this
step (R1-9 in the "Creation of Human Ability"), one must be particularly
careful to remedy his
Havingness with eight masses shoved into himself and eight masses thrown
away, several
times. A thetan who has been run a great deal without Remedy of Havingness
comes to what is
to him a horrible thought: "I am just a concept", and he will sag in tone.
He does not come to
this state as long as Havingness is consistently remedied.
It may be, as one looks at Scientology, that one has come to the opinion,
watching
Remedy of Havingness work, that all there is to anything is the Remedy of
Havingness, that it
is all based on the Remedy of Havingness. If one has a preclear shove
enough Havingness into
his body he will exteriorize in most cases. If one remedies enough
Havingness while the thetan
is chasing around the universe, as in the Grand Tour, the thetan will
discover and as-is a great
many communication lines which otherwise might be very detrimental.
However, it is not true
that Havingness is the entire key to the Human mind. Havingness is the
"gimmick" or
"weenie" for which the game is played, and having something is very much
like winning.
Above Havingness there is Doingness, and above Doingness there is
Beingness, and
above Beingness there is Communicatingness, and above Communicatingness
there is
Knowingness, and above Knowingness there is Postulatingness. We see, thus,
that we have a
long way to go above Havingness in order to get to the top activity of a
thetan, which is
making postulates or unmaking them.
One could, of course, rationalize each and every action of the thetan with
regard to
Havingness. One could even extend Havingness to space, although it normally
refers to
objects. One could do all manner of interesting things with Havingness. One
could get as
specific and as significant as one likes, or as unsignificant as one likes
and still find Remedy of
Havingness working, but we do not have here, in Remedy of Havingness, the
total clue, total
key. But we do have a process and an item which must not be overlooked in
auditing.
In the Six Basic Processes, the Remedy of Havingness comes after the
Opening
Procedure by Duplication as a process, itself, but remember that Remedy of
Havingness is
done and can be done at any time during any other process as long as the
preclear is even
vaguely in communication with the auditor. It does not matter how vague the
mass is that the
preclear is using to remedy his Havingness. Here is a place where certainty
is not necessary.
An unreal, vague, or flimsy mass, if this is all the preclear can get, will
still remedy his
havingness.
A case comes to mind out of the Advanced Clinical Course, where a student
was
unwilling, after his second day, to continue his studies. He did not
believe that he could stand
the "hammer and pound", as he put it, of the terrifically intense schedule.
I took him into my
office, asked him what he was doing in life, and he replied to me that he
was a machinist.
Also, it seemed to turn out that he had something to do with a ship which
had sunk under him,
although his recollection of this was very unclear. I asked him what kind
of a machine he had
customarily run, and he told me. Then I had him mock up this machine, and
remedied his
Havingness with it. Then I had him mock up the ship and remedied his
Havingness with that,
just as given above. I did this for about fifteen minutes, and enough
change occurred in his
case to entirely return his confidence in his ability to stand up to the
course and to audit. Yet the
mockups he was getting were so thin that he could barely vaguely discern
them at all.
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Mockups get unreal because the thetan is Not-Ising existence. He is trying
to destroy
masses by saying that they do not exist, that they are not real. He is so
bent upon this system
of destruction that he is making everything unreal or black. One of the
cures for this is End of
Cycle Processing run in the following fashion:
One has the preclear mock himself up dead (no matter how unreal the mockup
is). Then
have the mockup waste away to bone, and have the bones waste away to dust,
and then have
the preclear shove the dust into himself, or alternately, throw it away.
One once more has the
preclear mock himself up dead, have the mockup waste away to bone, have the
bones waste
away to dust, and then have the preclear remedy his Havingness with the
dust. One continues
this for two or three hours with the preclear if one really wishes the case
to make a change.
Where a preclear is getting no reality on mockups or blackness he is most
commonly stuck in
that Para-Scientological thing, that thing horribly abhorred by
psychologists who have become
Dianeticists, or by people who are just plain scared, a past death. If you
wanted to convince
somebody that past deaths exist, you would run End of Cycle Processing on
them. This is a
cousin process to the Remedy of Havingness. One could go a very long
distance with this
process and have the preclear mock up his mother dead, have her waste away
to bones, and
remedy Havingness with the dust, or do this with the dust, or do this with
the father or
brothers, or grandparents, with a considerable change in the case.
This End of Cycle Processing, by the way, is a very fine process. It has
been with us
about a year and it has been successful whenever used. It has a tendency to
fall into disuse
because it has not, until now, had an exact place on the Six Basic
Processes. But End of Cycle
is actually an additional process to the Remedy of Havingness and is an
effective way of
remedying Havingness. Do you remember in the old days the Dianetics "Corpse
Case," who
would lie upon the couch with his arms crossed neatly all ready for a lily,
and would always
audit in this fashion? The solution to this corpse case is End of Cycle
Processing, as given
here. The preclear is so fixed in a death that he is trying to make
everything unreal, and the
only real thing, to him, would be the unreality of death.
The Importance of Havingness
A careful study of staff auditors' reports reveals that the only advances
worthy of the
name of Scientology occur when the auditor repairs or remedies havingness
on the preclear.
Without the repair and remedy of havingness no real gains become apparent.
A preclear will
not progress when his havingness is impaired.
What are the symptoms of loss of havingness? Running any as-ising
techniques the
preclear may become anaten, slightly nervous, agitated, want a cigarette,
or seem to break out
of the session in some fashion. In either case, he is "down on havingness".
In other words he
has burned up, used up, or as-ised, too much of his physical body energy in
the auditing itself.
In view of the fact that every subjective technique puts a sort of hole in
the middle of the
electronic mass surrounding a preclear, parts of that mass then begin to
cave in on the preclear.
Thus running an as-ising technique on a preclear beyond the ability of the
preclear to sustain
the consequent loss of havingness will bring on in the preclear many new
engrams which he
did not have before. A technique which as-ises energy, if used without a
repair or remedy of
havingness, will bring about a worsening of the case of a preclear.
Now exactly what is happening is very simple. A preclear starts to go
anaten and the
auditor keeps on running the process. He hasn't realised that he ought to
interrupt a process at
any time if the preclear demonstrates a loss of havingness. Anaten is such
a demonstration of
loss of havingness. All right, another example: the preclear becomes
agitated or upset; he
reaches for a cigarette; he begins to twitch; his foot begins to wobble; he
begins to talk
excitedly; he begins to cough while being audited. All of these things
demonstrate a loss of
havingness. These same conditions by the way, can result from the preclear
believing that the
auditor has broken the auditor's code in some fashion or has overcome his
power of choice.
Both a repair and remedy of havingness are immediately indicated on the
observation of anaten
or agitation on the part of the preclear. In addition the auditor should
carefully go over the
session itself to find out, if anywhere, the preclear believed his power of
choice was being
overcome, or if the preclear believed the auditor's code had been broken.
You understand that
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the auditor didn't necessarily have to overcome the preclear's power of
choice or break the
auditor's code in order that the preclear should believe that this had
happened. However, this
could be overlooked entirely if the auditor had been careful enough to
repair or remedy the
havingness of the preclear.
The slightest drop of alertness on the part of the preclear, or the
slightest agitation or
somatic, should immediately indicate to the auditor that havingness has
dropped and must be
immediately repaired or remedied. A great deal of time can be spent on the
subject of repair and
remedy of havingness, and it is time spent with great benefit. It is better
to "waste" time spent
repairing and remedying havingness than to blunder on through. Now there is
another thing I
have noticed with regard to this. Auditors are running these days toward
cognition. Very well,
if they expect a preclear to cognite they should not expect him to pull in
a bank upon himself. If
an auditor runs a very obvious process which should bring the preclear
toward cognition, runs
it several auditing commands and then stops and repairs and remedies the
preclear's
havingness, and then after that asks him the same auditing question two
more times, he will
discover that he has blown a cognition into view. In other words you could
remedy the
havingness of a preclear while his mind was on one particular subject and
bring a cognition
into existence.
This becomes particularly important today, since a few months ago I
discovered that
you could remedy the havingness of anybody, and I mean just that!! You can
remedy
anybody's havingness and you can turn on mockups on anybody. In view of the
fact that the
preclear who has a black field can be caused to mock up blacknesses or
invisibilities and shove
them into his body brings us into an era of being able to make anybody turn
on mockups. By
getting the preclear to postulate that the mocked up blackness is bad for
the body, will cause
that blackness to snap into the body. By getting the preclear to postulate
that the invisible mass
he has mocked up is bad for the body it will snap into the body. Of course,
after this has been
done a few times, the consideration of the preclear will change. Then
perhaps the blackness or
invisibility will only snap in when the preclear postulates that it is good
for the body. He may
also have a residue left. It is very important to get rid of these repair
and remedy of havingness
residues. By various postulates such as that the residue is a threat to the
body: it is good for the
body; it is bad for the body, the residue too will snap in.
Let's differentiate at once here the difference between a repair of
havingness and a
remedy of havingness. We used to call repair of havingness "giving him some
havingness". It
needs a better technical term. Therefore let us call this "Repair of
Havingness". It means having
the preclear mock up anything he can mock up, and in any way it can be done
get him to shove
(never pull) that mock up into the body, and by similar means to get rid of
the residue which
went along with the mockup. That is a repair of havingness. It is a one-way
flow; it is an
inflow.
Now a remedy of havingness is getting him to mock up and shove into the
body
enough masses to bring him to a point where he can eventually throw one
away. In other
words repair or havingness is simply having him mock up things and have him
shove them
into the body and a remedy of havingness is having him mock up and shove in
and throw away
the same type of mock up. Remedy of havingness is always a superior
operation to a repair of
havingness. Repair of havingness is a very crude stopgap, but can be used
any time. However,
a preclear who is working well, and on whom havingness can be remedied,
should, at all
times, have his havingness remedied, not repaired. In other words any type
of mock up should
be both shoved into the body and mocked up and thrown away. This should be
done in
considerable quantity until the preclear is quite relaxed about that
particular type of mock up.
One does this, remember, every time the attention of the preclear drops, or
he becomes
agitated.
There is one other little point connected with this which is quite
important, and that is
auditors very often audit a preclear into an area of time when the preclear
exteriorized. This, on
a preclear who does not exteriorize easily, brings on a considerable grief
and sadness. The way
to get rid of this is, of course, to remedy the preclear's havingness or
only repair it, and to ask
the preclear to recall times when he was not exteriorized. This will bring
up at once times when
he did exteriorize and where fear of exteriorization was built up
considerably.
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I have noticed another special condition regarding this exteriorization
phenomena which
is quite important. A preclear will occasionally repair and remedy
havingness up to a point
where the body disappears for him. He doesn't quite know where to put the
mass he has
mocked up since he cannot find the body. This is particularly true of
preclears who have a very
low threshold on havingness. An auditor would be stupid indeed to simply
plow along beyond
that point where the preclear has already said that he couldn't find any
body to push any
havingness into. The moment the preclear does that the auditor should
suspect that the preclear
has gotten into an exteriorization type incident. It is not, however,
necessary that he
immediately flounder around and try to find this incident as recommended in
the paragraphs
just above. He can also repair and remedy havingness in this fashion, and
it is very important
to know this. Although it is disastrous for a preclear to be asked "What
could your body have,"
since he will simply strip the bank of various old facsimiles, it is a
very, very good repair of
havingness to ask a preclear "What is there around this room (area) which
your body could
have," and then have him pick out specific objects in the environment which
he says the body
could have. If he does this he will come up the gradient scale of
havingness, and his
havingness will be repaired immediately or directly on the Sixth Dynamic. A
preclear who
cannot get mock ups and where the auditor has either been too clumsy to get
the preclear's
mock ups turned on, or it really was impossible, more or less, the
preclear's havingness can be
repaired by having him do this process. So this is a very, very important
process, and one that
ought to go down in red letters.
This whole subject of repair and remedy of havingness and its effect upon
auditing, and
the fact that it has not been stressed at all in training, being up there
at level six in the old Basic
Processes, brings us to SLP Issue 8. The entirety of level one in SLP 8
will be devoted to the
repair and remedy of havingness.
In SLP Issue 7 we have a great many phenomena associated with the remedy of
the
body's havingness. The reason for their position is to bring about an
adjustment of the
condition of the body before one goes on to other and more complicated ways
of processing.
Now, in Issue 8, all of these various things will be retained, but they
will be paralleled with a
complete remedy of havingness and that particular level of SLP will be gone
over. In actual
experience it is better to remedy the havingness of a preclear, no matter
where he is on the tone
scale, and no matter by what process, than to run any significant process.
Further, if a preclear
cannot at least repair his havingness, to run Waterloo Station is to invite
disaster because in this
particular process of level 2 he is liable to get himself into a "down
havingness" situation and
of course will not be able to not-know anything. He may be chewing up too
much energy or
trying to not-know. Thus we would have the failures which have occasionally
occurred in
Waterloo Station. They were simply havingness failures, not a failure of
Waterloo Station.
Further there has been a new command suggested for Waterloo Station: "What
would you be
willing to not-know about that person?" This seems to be a better command,
at least for the
British Isles.
We also take care of the vacuums and separatenesses and everything else
with repair or
remedy of havingness and running it in with certain other things, such as
problems, etc. When
we discover by two-way communication a weak universe, we could then ask the
individual
preclear "Invent a problem that person (weak universe) could be to you."
Then, watching him
very carefully, and repairing his havingness on the subject of that
person's possessions, get a
very rapid separation of universes. I have noticed that the weak universe
came about when the
person elected by the preclear to be a weak universe first began to put
mest anchor points
around the preclear. In other words, valuable presents. I am as pleased as
can be to get a finger
on this point and I know well that if east, west, north and south, would
begin to repair and
remedy havingness, and stop specializing in significances, without repair
or remedy of
havingness, we are going to start shooting people up to the top of these
Scientometric graphs.
We can't help it. Let me call your attention specifically to the old
phenomena of the emotional
scale and the engram. We find out that when one engram was keyed in it
fixed the emotional
tone of the individual. Then we had him run this and as he converted the
engram to usable
havingness, we found that his tone rose. We discover on these Scientometric
charts that the
"unhappy" section does not move if we don't change the mass of the
preclear.
Sacrifices
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The latest news from the research front has to do with the fact that the GE
demands and
requires and has to have, evidently, sacrifices. The GE does not run on an
overt act-motivator
sequence, which makes one suspect he is not a thetan. A GE runs exclusively
on being
sacrificed to. If you have the preclear mock up sacrifices to the GE, you
will find these become
very readily assimilated. On a lower level the body accepts motivators; as
soon as it is through
this motivator band, it accepts sacrifices and finally comes up to a point
where it will accept live
bodies. When one considers that eating is entirely a matter of absorbing
death, one sees this
death hunger in processing by running Sacrifices. A person who has had bad
legs should have
a sacrifice of legs run on him and so forth. This is astonishing material.
It is almost
unbelievable that the GE will not be sacrificed to anything, but will only
be sacrificed to, and
this phenomenon that the GE is thereby demanding death tells us at once
that the Atomic Bomb
will be used and that there are people in the world who will actually crave
this sacrifice of cities
and even nations. Aside from being a fantastically workable process, more
of which anon, this
matter of sacrifices tells us at once a great deal about the future. There
will be no moral restraint
where the Atomic Bomb is concerned. For about the highest level in some
areas of the world
is, to case, "operating GE." This tells us, too, why soldiers will go to
war. This explains a
great deal of conduct. The GE evidently operates on the postulate that as
long as anything else
is alive it can't live. However, it is becoming more and more doubtful that
there is any more
life in the body than the thetan puts there, and that the body is a single
machine operating on
some implanted postulate contained in the energy masses which are activated
by the thetan
somewhat on the order of the old "pole" theta trap. Many of these
considerations can be
changed around rather easily. Nothing changes them quite so fast as these
sacrifice processes.
In mocking up sacrifices the auditor should use all the skills of creative
processing and ensure
that the preclear is actually mocking up and is not dragging in old
facsimiles from the bank and
restimulating genetic line incidents. This can be obviated by having the
persons in the mock
ups dressed in modern clothing; mocking up the incident as happening
tomorrow; altering the
mock up in some manner, such as turning the face green or something of this
nature. Any
reasonable way in which you can ensure that you are dealing with mock ups
and not past track
facsimiles.
This gives auditors another tool with which to handle chronic somatics.
There is another process which has a great deal of workability with chronic
somatics. I
know that some months ago and earlier than that it seemed rather fatal to
us to continue to fixate
the preclear's attention on the chronic somatic. But that is not a problem
with us right now. It
ceased to be a problem the moment I invented an auditing command exactly as
follows: "Invent
a problem that (leg. arm, nose, eye, body) could be to you." Running this
command, which is
in itself a sort of remedy of havingness, and repairing and remedying the
havingness of the
preclear as we go, we will discover that practically any and all phenomena
associated with the
service facsimile will come away and clear up and the limb, nose or eye
will get well. This can
be used as a word of warning: ONLY ON ACTUAL TERMINALS. Never use this
command,
and I mean NEVER, on actual conditions. Never ask him to invent problems
lameness could
be to him. Never ask him what problem blindness could be to him. Lameness
and blindness
are conditions. We want to know what problems legs or eyes can be to him,
since legs and
eyes are terminals. In running this command we reduce havingness too
rapidly whenever we
are stressing conditions. Therefore we run it only on terminals. In running
it use only
terminals. Handled in this way we do have the answer as of this moment, to
chronic somatics.
With these processes in SLP and the adequate repair and remedy of
havingness we can push
our preclears right up through the top.
L. RON HUBBARD
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