Reference: The Book of Scientology
Certainty Processing
[SOP-8 Appendix No. 2]
Please see the original section at the link above.
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Summary
One may resolve an uncertainty by looking for possible certainties nearby. Usually, there are two certainties: ether there is a resolution to the dilemma, or there is none. When we focus on the center of a somatic with these two certainties, we move toward a resolution of the uncertainty. This may also resolve the somatic in some cases.
In a dynamic system, when a change occurs at a location, more changes occur around that location such that the constraint of oneness is satisfied. If surrounding changes are suppressed we get anomalies. This fact is explained in Scientology as “cause-effect.” A resolution comes from fully recognizing all the changes.
A terminal is any mass used in a fixed position in any communications system. Matching terminals is putting two terminals next to each other and comparing them. Comparing the mock up of a terminal to another mock up of itself, makes one look at that terminal more closely from different viewpoints. This helps one recognize what is truly there and thus helps handle the difficulty.
There are always a positive and a negative certainty. When the two are in conflict there is uncertainty. By looking at the opposite certainties of a condition you can assess that condition more accurately. Hubbard provides examples of how this principle may be applied in auditing.
Hubbard says, “The basic law underneath this is that a person becomes the effect of anything upon which he has had to depend.” More accurately, a person becomes aberrated when he is fixated. Fixation comes from dependence without understanding the underlying laws. The physical universe is a dependency to the degree you do not understand its natural laws. By understanding those laws you can make them cooperate with you. This is very evident from the scientific progress made so far. The whole point of certainty processing is to bring about that understanding of the natural laws of thought.
The opposite certainties have a gradient of certainties between them like the values on a scale whose ends represent zero and infinity. By looking at opposite certainties more closely one slowly moves toward recognizing what is actually there. In doing so one also recognizes the fixed sense of “self” or the fixed viewpoint one has.
People are hung up on their fixations because they see them as certainties. But there is always an opposite certainty. It helps to look at both opposites more closely to get the sense of one’s fixation and the actual reality that lies beyond it.
Thus one can handle one’s hang up on communication. Actually, you can handle your hang up on any subject or item by processing “There is […item…],” “There is not […item…].” Certainty processing can also help recover viewpoints. Everybody has viewpoints, you have a viewpoint, relatives have viewpoints, sexual partners have viewpoints. “[…..] has a viewpoint,” “[…..] has no viewpoint.”
Facsimiles are sensations that represent a very condensed event. When that sensation is decomposed it comes forth as a complex narration in picture form. To handle facsimile more easily, one may run, “There are pictures,” “There are no pictures.” Hubbard provides many examples of how certainty processing may be run. Read them from the original materials.
Hubbard says, “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.” Actually, it all boils down to the ability to postulate. He cannot postulate to undo a phenomenon, because in order to do that he must understand that phenomenon first.
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Comments
At this point in the development of Scientology, Hubbard is looking at different ways of flushing out anomalies on a case. Once a person becomes aware of an anomaly, he can then resolve it. Certainty processing is one of those ways.
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