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OT IV Processing

Reference: Book I: Postulate Mechanics (Text Book)

Original OT IV

In whole of Scientology auditing, the effort is to handle the identification with the body. On original OT IV, once again, the effort was to exteriorize the thetan from the body. Therefore, on this level, one repairs and rehabilitates all the levels of Grade Chart he has been audited on so far, including OT III. The end phenomenon of OT IV is “Certainty of Self as a Being.”

Comment

A lot of time is spent on this level correcting errors from past auditing. This is an anomaly that points to some basic error in the postulates underlying auditing. The thetan is considered to be “not the body” and all the effort in auditing is directing toward attaining the experience of being outside the body permanently. 

The fact is that thetan is “thought” that is integrated with “energy” and “matter” of the body. The person is an integrated system of spirit, mind and body. The thetan and body are separate in concept only. In reality, the problem is the identification of “I am this body,” which manifests as fixation of attention on the body.

A person attains the certainty that he is not the body quite early in Scientology; but his auditing continues because “he is not outside the body permanently.” The Scientology auditing tries to increase the ability of thetan as an individual separate from the body. There is a fixation on individuality.

All aberration consists of fixation. Once attention is freed from the body, the effort should be to free attention from being fixated on thetan as an individuality. Beyond thetan, there is the harmony of theta. Scientology auditing does not address individuality as the ultimate level of identification with the universe.


OT IV SOLO

OT IV Solo is designed to “proof up a being” against any possibility of being reimplanted in the future. It consists of exercise to mock up various goals and the resulting problems and masses, and then unlock them. This is done again and again. There are other similar exercises. In short, a person on this level, is mocking and unmocking his reactive mind. There are exercises to recognize matter, energy, space and time, the source of motion, and the past track. Finally, the person exercises looking and spotting things.

Comment

The effort to exercise awareness is fine, but it is related to the individuality, which needs to be gotten rid of.


New OT IV

The New OT IV addresses the effect of drugs on a person using the new approach of BTs (body thetans). BTs are the source of independent mock ups, and their mock ups are affected by drugs.

The person sweats out toxins from the body through Purification RD (sauna) assisted by Guk (Vitamin B1 and Niacin).

The effect of drugs is then handled by the Drug RD. The person locates BTs as locations in, on and around the body identifying them by pressure and numbness. Charge is found by assessing somatics from drugs on these BTs. Instead of running engrams, charge is simply indicated.  BTs are blown by bringing Inc II and Inc I to their attention.

Comment

This level restores the awareness of the person somewhat; but it does not handle the identification, which the person thinks to be his “individuality.” That is where the problem lies.


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Introduction to Mind

Reference: Book III

There are no external and internal worlds. There is only awareness surrounded by a thought universe and a physical universe.

You are like the awareness at the center of the universe that is made of layers of thought, energy and matter. 

As awareness, you have no internal structure. You simply notice the thought, energy and matter surrounding you, and your natural impulse is to bring order to their chaos.

There never was a Garden of Eden. It has always existed only in your dreams. 

There never was a fall of Man. Man has always been evolving, slowly but surely, with ups and downs.

The question is not “Who or what am I?” The question is, “Who or what am I identifying with?” “Am I living someone else’s life?” “Am I thinking like somebody else?” 

It is an identification with someone or something that is usually the problem.

There is nothing wrong with being; but there is everything wrong with thinking that, in some manner, you are permanent or eternal. As awareness you are always changing and evolving. Of course, when you are not aware you do not know that, because there is nothing to be aware of.

Even when everything is changing, the dynamic goal is to have harmony in thought, energy and matter—in postulates, emotions and effort. That is the North star. That is where the bliss of existence is found.

When harmony does not exist there are anomalies. This is where mind enters the picture.

The purpose of mind is to resolve anomalies.

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OT V Processing

Reference: Book I: Postulate Mechanics (Text Book)

The purpose of original OT V was to become “Cause Over MEST, and Gain Freedom from Fixated Introversion into MEST.” Here is the full Rundown.


Step 1

A) Fly Ruds if needed.

B) Pre OT is to lie down in a comfortable popsition with eyes shut.

  1. Spot a spot in the room
  2. Spot a spot in your body

    Alternate command 1 and 2 until process is flat (Cognition, VGIs, No more change), then
  3. Spot two spots in your body
  4. Spot two spots outside

    Alternate until flat, then
  5. Spot a spot outside
  6. Spot a spot on the sun

    (Notice the difference between). Alternate until flat, then
  7. Spot two spots outside
  8. Spot two spots on the sun

    (Notice what happens). Alternate until flat.
    You may exteriorize or be exterior during these drills but don’t have to.

C) With your eyes still shut in a comfortable position indoors do the following commands and write down any major cognitions.

  1. Spot an object in the room
  2. Spot an object outside
  3. Locate a moving object
  4. Locate a spot in your body
  5. Spot a motion
  6. Locate a space
  7. Spot a Being

Continue the above steps in sequence until major cognition with very good indicators, or until exteriorization occurs.


Step 2

Pre OT is to lie down in a comfortable position with eyes shut.

A) Create an illusion ( condition, energy or object )

B) Then

  1. Conserve it
  2. Protect it
  3. Control it
  4. Hide it
  5. Change it
  6. Age it
  7. Make it go backwards on a cycle of action
  8. Perceive it with all perceptions
  9. Shift it in time at will
  10. Rearrange it
  11. Duplicate it
  12. Turn it upside down 
  13. Turn it on its’ side
  14. Make it obey MEST laws at will
  15. Be it
  16. Not be it
  17. Destroy it
  18. Mock it up and un-mock it at will

C) Repeat steps (A) and (B) to a major cognition.


Step 3

(done outside)

  1. Put your attention on an object that is ahead of you – like a parked car, lamp post, etc and walk towards it, noticing the distance between you and it. Continue to do this until cognition.
  2. Pick out an object ahead of you and wrap an energy beam around it and yourself and pull yourself toward the object by shortening the beam. Notice what happens.
  3. Locate an object, draw energy from it into you. Repeat at least ten times. Note any cognitions.
  4. Locate an object as above and walk toward it. Notice what is holding you to it.
  5. Locate a cloud and notice the space between you and it.
  6. Notice your body.
  7. Walk and notice the change in viewpoint.
  8. Notice the motion of the earth and your relationship to it.
  9. Notice something about 10 people.

Repeat the above steps to a major cognition.


Notes

The above Rundown may be summarized to the following 3 steps:

  1. Exteriorize attention by spotting spots on visualization of body and environment.
  2. Generate an illusion in one’s mind and manipulate it in different ways.
  3. Observe the actual environment around you in different ways while moving in it.


New OT V

The above rundown was replaced by New OT V.

Here the person is set up for NOTs Auditing.

He then continues on OT VI with OT VI Processing (NOTs).


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OT VI Processing (NOTs)

Reference: Book I: Postulate Mechanics (Text Book)

Old OT VI was replaced by NOTs. NOTs stands for NED for OTs. Fully expanded, it refers to the process called NEW ERA DIANETICS FOR OPERATING THETANS. It is not something that a person will just grasp. It requires familiarity with Scientology. Many scientologists don’t understand it either. I am trying to translate Scientology into simpler understanding.


My understanding after studying NOTs  

  1. Hubbard provides no understanding of BTs and Clusters except through E-meter reactions. 
  2. Actually, a BT is something taken for granted by the person, such as, an identification, dub-in, belief, or misconception.
  3. E-meter reactions are highly questionable at very high sensitivities (as in NOTs) as to what they mean.
  4. Actually, a person has a much better feel (than an E-meter) of his own internal responses on NOTs.
  5. On NOTs, you are supposed to get rid of identifications, dub-ins, beliefs, and misconceptions, instead of some basic-basic.
  6. A person can be just aware; but he gets very complex as he identifies with his body, other valences, entities and things.
  7. An identification is a mock up. You cannot audit it by going earlier similar. You may only discover it by close inspection.
  8. Some of these identifications can be deeply buried but you trace them by following anomalies.
  9. A person assumes a valence (identity) because it promises better survival in future after a failure. 
  10. A person’s troubles are only of the valence he’s in. You can’t make a valence well. But you make the person well by removing valences.
  11. In NOTs you ignore pictures, and deal only in concepts.
  12. A misconception is primarily blown by inspection (looking more closely).
  13. Inspection breaks down complexity into simpler elements, and then blows them. 
  14. You look at how you entered into a fixed condition, or how you became fixated on something.
  15. As the first step clean up your assumptions about yourself.
  16. Ultimately, there is only awareness. Any beingness results from identification. 
  17. Beingness resulting from identification can lead to conditions, such as, confusion and unconsciousness.
  18. Certain identifications may be inherited through the genetic line.
  19. Identification may be traced back to effort to stop something followed by some shocking experience.
  20. Fixed identifications are stuck in time and place.

NOTs Definitions

  1. The original definitions can be seen here:  NED for OT Glossary
  2. A BT is basically a deep rooted identification, dub-in, belief, or misconception.
  3. A CLUSTER is a complex combining of many BTs into what feels as a mass.
  4. A MUTUAL INCIDENT is what combines BTs into a cluster.
  5. A CUMULATIVE CLUSTER is an accumulation of clusters of BTs.
  6. COMPOSITE (MASS) is the complex clusters of BTs manifesting as heavy somatic.
  7. LAYERED CLUSTER is BTs combined into layers.
  8. A SHELL BT the misconception built into the viewpoint.
  9. A DORMANT BT is a deeply buried misconception.
  10. (COPY) The same misconception may appear at different places.
  11. CROSS-COPYING: misconceptions may interact and multiply. 
  12. The basic MISCONCEPTION are of identity, time, place, form and event.
  13. A MISOWNERSHIP is a confusion about what belongs to what (dub-in). 
  14. A MISIDENTIFICATION is a confusion about who is who. 
  15. A REVIV is bringing back to life. It is an event that is being lived again and again.
  16. BTs (misconceptions) are to be treated very calmly and objectively.
  17. One applies the 12 steps of mindfulness telepathically.
  18. A very important factor is the mind’s sensitivity to anomalies.
  19. The anomalies alert a person to dub-ins in what he is viewing.
  20. A dub-in is different from actual “exterior perception” in the broad context of universe.

NOTs Procedure

  1. A BT is basically an identification with things—objects, body, body parts, mind, beings, postulates, ideas.
  2. Ask the BT, “What are you?” Acknowledge. Then ask, “Who are you?” It will usually cognite “I’m me”, and blow. 
  3. If they repeat what they just said ask, “What were you before you became that?”, they say “me” and blow.
  4. Most of the time you don’t have to do anything though, just look – and they blow.
  5. Blowing BTs and clusters by this Valence Technique is almost the basic rundown.

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OT VI Processing

Reference: Book I: Postulate Mechanics (Text Book)

The purpose of OT VI is: Familiarization as a Thetan Exterior with the Physical Universe. Thetan exterior is defined in Scientology as a being who knows he is a spirit with a body and not just a body. 

NOTE: The sub-steps below are comments.

STEP 1.1: BE THREE FEET BACK OF YOUR HEAD

  1. The purpose of this step is to break unconscious identification with the body.
  2. In essence a person is pure awareness and his attention need not be fixated in his head.
  3. He can control his attention to visualize from anywhere he likes. All artists can do that routinely.

STEP 1.2: Whatever you are looking at, copy it a dozen times, dispose them etc.

  1. The purpose of this step is to look at a picture as a picture, and have no other significance.

STEP 1.3: Find two back corners of the room and hold onto them for two minutes.

STEP 1.4: Find two locations or positions on Earth and hold onto them for two minutes

STEP 1.5: Find some places where you are not. (Repeat) 

STEP 1.6: Spot three spots in your body and Spot three spots in the room. (Repeat) 

  1. These steps help stabilize one’s attention when it is dispersed.

STEP 1.7: Be in the following places: The room, the sky, the moon, the sun.

  1. This step makes attention less fixated or dispersed, and more free and under control.

STEP 2.1: Mock up your own body until you slip out of it.

  1. Again, the purpose of this step is to break unconscious identification with the body.

STEP 2.2: Locate an animal. Postulate it moving from one spot to another. Observe it doing this. 

STEP 2.3: Find a walking man — postulate his walking faster. Repeat this with 20 people.

STEP 2.4: Find a walking person — postulate that he will stop, then continue walking. Do this 20 times.

  1. This is like playing a game of chance.

STEP 2.5: Find a person in a distant land. notice the time of day. Notice the terrain. Notice the general environment. Smell the air. Locate a thought that is his. Locate a thought that is yours. Continue until flat.

  1. This is basically visualizing something arbitrarily. It may be some past experience or impression.

STEP 2.6: Notice differences between you and your body.

  1. Again, the purpose of this step is to break unconscious identification with the body.

STEP 3.1: Create feelings in your body of: calmness, sexual desire, pain, serenity, hunger, and admiration.

  1. This is kind of trial and error.

STEP 4.1: Create emotions in your body of: anger, boredom, grief, cheerfulness and serenity — in that order.

  1. This is also a kind of trial and error.

STEP 4.2: Exteriorized visit a friend who lives in another state. Greet him and flow affinity to him. Ask him to communicate to you by letter.

  1. This is primarily a visualization.
  2. This is also a kind of trial and error.

Scientology process requires a Major Cognition or ability regained on all these steps. This is arbitrary. A person may have achieved the purpose of a step already. This process also asks for things to be done as trial and error.


New Version

The above version of OT VI was later replaced by NOTs or NED for OTs. Fully expanded, this process is called New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans.

Please see OT VI Processing (NOTs).

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