Reference: The Book of Scientology
The Dichotomies
Please see the original section at the link above.
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Summary
To erase facsimiles fully, one needs to erase underlying identifications. So, there is a limit to which facsimiles may be reduced. When that limit is reached, one needs to focus on identifications.
Hubbard says, “The main goal of the auditor, is the rehabilitation of the preclear’s ability to produce energy… AC [alternate current] is created by the static holding first one, then the other, of a dichotomy of two differences of potential.” Hubbard uses the analogy of electricity to describe the auditing process to address identifications. Hubbard’s description of this process in the original materials is quite dramatic. Apparently, it was part of his research, and it is not used in Scientology today.
However, the underlying idea is to restore differentiation where identification exists in the mind of the person. This is done by the use of the following dichotomies.
- Survive – Succumb
- Affinity – No affinity
- Communication – No communication
- Agree – Disagree
- Start – Stop
- Be – Be not
- Know – Know not
- Cause – Effect
- Change – No change
- Win – Lose
- I am – I am not
- Faith – Distrust
- Imagine – Truth
- Believe – Not believe
- Always – Never
- Future – Past
- Everyone – Nobody
- Owns all – Owns nothing
- Responsible – Not responsible
- Right – Wrong
- Stay – Escape
- Beauty – Ugliness
- Reason – Emotion
- Emotion – Effort
- Effort – Apathy
- Acceptance – Rejection
- Sane – Insane
- No sympathy – Sympathy
- Sympathy – Propitiation
- And the state of Static, a motionlessness sometimes necessary to run.
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Comments
The following is the subject clearing version of this process. It handles identification by addressing dichotomies. This version is easily understandable and harmless to apply.
The person focuses on the positive aspect of the dichotomy with a feeling of agreement. For example, he feels, “There should be survival.” Later he focuses on the negative aspect of the dichotomy with a feeling of disagreement. For example, he feels, “There should not be succumb.” In either case he observes any tension that arises with these feelings. These tensions may bring up situations that point to anomalies of missing data, contradictory data, or arbitrary data. The person resolves such anomalies by looking at them more closely.
The person keeps going back and forth between the two feelings associated with the dichotomy until no tension remains. He can now clearly differentiate between survive and succumb parts of the dichotomy.
He moves to the next dichotomy and repeats the procedure.
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