Processing is the application of a procedure to bring about an improvement in a person’s condition. In Subject Clearing, the processes have been obtained from the study of Vedic Hinduism, Buddhism, Psychoanalysis and Scientology.
In Subject Clearing, you can always go back to a previously applied process and run it again.
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Process
Grade 0 processes focus on improving the ability to COMMUNICATE. This is a fundamental ability that one needs to look and recognize what is there.
Grade 0 is a level of Scientology that consists of a large number of processes. Processes consist of auditing questions. In order to run these processes you need to know the following concepts.
AUDITING QUESTION
The auditing question provides the line of thinking to concentrate on. You notice anomalies in that line of thinking. An anomaly would be something not understood, or having a doubt, perplexity or confusion about. You resolve anomalies by looking more closely at them.
END PHENOMENON
End Phenomena (EP) of a process means that the process has led you to a big realization with a sudden release of tension; or, there has been a gradual increase in awareness with no more answers coming up. Above all, you see no more anomalies in that line of thinking and you feel quite relaxed and comfortable about it.
REPETITIVE TO EP
When the process says, “Repetitive to EP,” it means that you should remain engaged with the auditing question until you reach the end phenomenon.
FLOWS
The same process can be run in different flows: (1) Self to another, (2) Another to self, (3) Others to others, (4) Self to others, (5) Others to self, (6) Another to others, (7) Others to another, and (8) another to another. Not all flows may be present.
ALTERNATIVELY TO EP
This is a process consisting of two auditing questions. You focus on one question and get an answer, then you focus on the other question and get an answer. You repeat this alternatively until you reach the end phenomenon.
BRACKET
This is a process consisting of several auditing questions that are run in a sequence. You repeat this sequence of auditing questions until you reach the end phenomenon.
COMMUNICATION
When one is communicating, one is listening or observing to duplicate what is there. The effort is to recognize exactly what is there so one can determine the presence of possible anomalies. The purpose of communication is to bring the is-ness closer to being continuous, consistent and harmonious.
SELF-ANALYSIS LISTS
See 1951: Self Analysis (Processing Section).
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In Subject Clearing you run these processes on yourself using the discipline provided by The 12 Aspects to of Mindfulness. You do not use an E-meter as in Scientology.
You can certainly have another person ask you the auditing question repetitively to assist you, but you are still guided by The Discipline of Subject Clearing.
Before you start a process make sure that you clearly understand the auditing question. All you are required to do is to confront the line of thought required by the process without flinching or withdrawing.
Make sure you are well fed and well rested before you run the process. The duration of each session should be, at least, 20 minutes, and as long as it is comfortable. End the session at a point where you are not engaged mentally in sorting out something in line of the process. The process may then be continued in the subsequent sessions until the end phenomenon is attained.
Keep in mind that some processes may take some time until the EP is reached, others may run very fast and attain EP quickly, and some may feel as if nothing is there to run. You may go through these processes several times. Some processes may have nothing to run the first time, but may come up with things to run on a subsequent round.
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ARC STRAIGHTWIRE PROCESSES
Please see ARC Straight wire Processes.
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GRADE 0 PROCESSES
Please see Grade 0 Processes.
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Comments
Self Analysis provides the easiest gradient of Dianetics application. It uses the Straightwire Approach. The following Subject Clearing exercise uses a list from Self Analysis.
I shall recommend all Self-Analysis Lists to be run by oneself under the discipline of Subject Clearing for quite some time before any other Dianetics auditing is attempted.
I remember running these lists in 1970 on a fellow MIT student in the dorm. It was a lot of fun with some great result.
Two people can support each other by running these Self Analysis lists of questions together. They should take as much time as needed on each question. This should be a lot of fun.
Read the chapter called PROCESSING SECTION of the Self Analysis book.
Click to access self-analysis.pdf
Hubbard repeatedly says, “The material universe is composed of matter, energy, space and time. Life can then be considered to be engaged upon the conquest of matter, energy, space and time, including other life forms, organisms and persons.”
I believe that life is an intimate part of the configuration of matter, energy, space and time. If life is conquering anything at all, it is conquering itself. There is no contest between life and MEST. The actual contest is between knowing and remaining ignorant.
I have been running Grade 0 processes on myself quite successfully. It is amazing to realize that an average person can do so anywhere with the subject clearing approach. It just requires some patience and practice. Who knows oneself better than anybody else! That is the super advantage you have.
You do not have to know anything about the E-meter. That is prop and dependency anyway, and you want to avoid it. You just go by your gut feeling. It may take some trial and error, but with practice and success, you get better and better. Grade zero processes are much easier to do than the Dianetics of DMSMH, or the Straight Memory of SOS. But the knowledge of DMSMH and SOS puts nicely in perspective what you are doing on Grade 0.
The great shift from Dianetic approach to Straight Memory approach occurred with the publication of Science of Survival in 1951. The first application of Straight Memory was Self Analysis later in 1951. All the Grade processes develop from the Straight Memory approach.
Grade 0 uses Straight Memory to improve communication with one’s mind and others. It is very important to understand what memory is. Hubbard is incorrect in saying that every living moment is precisely recorded in the mind to the last second, and it is recoverable. This erroneous datum has given loss to almost everybody in recalling.
Under the Matrix Model of the mind, the goal is to assimilate all perception. Once assimilated there is no “recording” of perception left. Only unassimilated sensations remain as “precise” records and they are mostly unavailable. These are engrams, secondaries and locks. These “records” are waiting to be assimilated.
Once assimilated, the “memory recall” consists of reconstructed data from the assimilated matrix. When one has the same breakfast day after day, one has a general impression of it. So when recalling a breakfast on a certain day of the year, and the time of the day, is reconstructed from this assimilated impression.
When bits and pieces of “precise memory” are encountered, there remains something unassimilated about that recording.
With Straight Memory, one is basically looking at the remaining bits and pieces of unassimilated sensations and assimilating them on a gradient. Grade 0 is the simplest gradient of this process. One needn’t take a loss if one cannot recall precisely. Much of the recall will consist of reconstruction of memory from assimilated impressions. There will be occlusions only where holes exist in these assimilated impressions. These holes will show up as anomalies. The resolution of these anomalies will lead to recordings of unassimilated sensations. Assimilation of such recordings is always accompanied by realization.
With this knowledge, one can go through the Grade processes very, very fast without the feeling that one is missing something. One may also go through these grade processes again and again with subject clearing approach in a relaxed fashion, if one has the feeling of missing something.
Your comments are so appreciated Vinay. I’m so glad someone did what you’ve done.
Scientology/Hubbard’s questions ought be taken as a thought experiment at best, I think. Doing it privately, and not let others have paperwork on your answers, so no one invades into the privacy of your thoughts.
Scientology is kind of a thought invasive prison system, with Scientology recording all your private thoughts/answers.
No need. One really truly can do the thought experimenting all to oneself. “Keep one’s own counsel” principle, LOL.
Thankyou so much for your profound getting into the weeds of the Hubbard soul memories alleviation questions.
Arguing over whether the Hubbard soul memories delving questions is beneficial to a person is always subjective, some will see and receive benefit, others will not.
But you Vinay do really are so excellent in delving into the nuts and bolts of the Hubbard Scientology soul memories alleviating questions, so thankyou for laying this out!
The thoughts appear in auditing on the road to realization. The realization is the TRUTH. Upon reaching this TRUTH the earlier thoughts disappear. Those “earlier thoughts” were distortions anyway. They do not contain the truth. There is no need for recording those thoughts.
Keeping notes of all that preclear says in an auditing session, appears to be a holdover from psychoanalysis. Trying to analyze the content of what the preclear says is like analyzing untruth. The preclear does not see the truth, and that is why he or she is being audited.
I think the auditor records meter reads along with what the pc is saying, to figure out later where the charge lies in a person’s case. But this does not work out in practice where the charge differential is not very high.
I can see some use of the E-meter in Dianetics where one encounters large charge differentials. But such charge differentials do not exist in Grades auditing where the charge is being resolved on a gentle gradient.
You can just ask the pc where the charge lies and he or she can tell this to you more accurately than the E-meter would.
Hubbard used the E-meter to make his subject appear “scientific”; but that is just a facade. Scientology is not organized along any scientific lines. Now we are using Subject Clearing to put some science in Scientology.
So much appreciated Vinay!
For introducing Hubbard’s questions (commands) used in Scientology in their more constraining procedures, just taking the Hubbard questions (commands) and letting a reader just “run” the questions freely as the reader wishes, or with the rules you mention which I myself would NOT limit myself as to “running” these questions—me I’d let a person just skim over the Hubbard questions as they wish, or go deeper, to just go over the questions to see what interests the reader.
But your method for doing the questions, no paperwork, no Emeter, to me, is a huge improvement.
I don’t find the Hubbard gradation of questions today of value, but laying out these questions as you do, Vinay, is a huge excellent introduction to the Hubbard questions, and thus a huge step I think is discussing the Hubbard Scientology long long volumes of questions which Hubbard laid out in his gradation of how he thought these questions should be asked to stir up a person’s memories.
I essentially think of Scientology as a huge layout of questions in their various gradations of question groupings, with their overall goal of alleviation one’s supposedy negative soul memories.
The Hubbard soul memories alleviation questions in the way you lay them out, I think is the least intrusive and least backlash causing, in that official Scientology keeps massive paperwork records of the questions and answers the person gives to the questions which is highly invasive and negative to the person in the long run, due to the official Scientology penalties that a person will suffer if Scientology chooses to use their paperwork recordings of the person’s answers.
Best for anyone to just do all the Hubbard questions privately, as you lay out.
Or to me, better for someone to just go through any of the thousands and thousands of the Hubbard questions, to see what the gist of the Hubbard Scientology subject aims at in one’s soul memories to supposedly alleviate one’s debilitating soul memories.
So excellent job Vinay for listing the questions, that is so welcome for the public to find the questions and read them.
ALSO, very important to anyone who reads this comment, to this point, the 1991 edition of the large hard backed “red volumes” which one can search for and find free on the internet, the “Subject Volume 3” and the “Subject Volume 4” list out the “modern” 1991 edition of the Hubbard questions.
So a person could follow your “self analysis” rules if they study your writings sufficiently Vinay, and then use the hard back volumes which one can purchase on the internet ,or one can find the Subject Vol 3 and 4 on the internet, download them, and then do the questions oneself.
That would be doing a self analysis type of version of Scientology upon oneself.
Would I do it, no. I’d skip it all and I today just advise persons to instead get into Buddhism, and skip the whole Hubbard “case” address.
Scientology questions to me are supposedly alleviating one’s soul memories, via the questions and answering of the Hubbard questions.
Skip it all, just get into Buddhism I advise.
Chuck Beatty
ex Sea Org Scientologist 1975 to 2003 (I was a paperpusher idiot in the Scientology nasty cult, don’t recommend official Scientology on anyone, it’s dreadful)
Thank you, Chuck. I believe in the Mindfulness meditation of Buddha to be the right basis for running all these Scientology processes. Any process can be run in any order any number of times with the Subject Clearing approach.
At this moment I am refining the Subject Clearing approach for running these processes. It is a work in progress.
Meditation or auditing amounts to closely looking at a subject, a concept, etc., until it is fully understood. Understanding takes care of all the charge. Closer looking means looking at any and all associations that come up without resisting them and until they no longer trigger you.
It important to understand when to end a simple Scientology, or any other process, such as, the following:
“Remember something.” Repetitive to EP.
Here EP means “end phenomenon” in Scientology, which is indicated by a floating needle (F/N) on an E-meter. You can get many F/Ns on this process, some small and others that are wider.
Looking at the basics, this process is allowing you to look at the activity of remembering more closely. You are using this faculty naturally all the time when you make mental computations. This process simply makes you more aware that you are doing so.
At this point, you may not remember everything about your past experiences, but you may become aware that there are memories and you can access them when the need arises by creating right conditions.
So, on this general process, you simply recall all those memories that come up naturally, and then end the process. There are many other processes that create the right conditions to help you bring up more specific memories.
And you don’t really need an E-meter to tell you when to end this general process.
You never push a process beyond what it is designed to accomplish. Here is another general process:
“Recall a time.” Repetitive to EP.
This process may bring up some additional memories compared to the previous one. But, this is also a general process. So, you simply recall all those memories that come up naturally, and then end the process.
Don’t worry about the E-meter. It is an aberration to have your attention fixed on the E-meter. That happens because of unskilled auditing by another. When you are doing this process by yourself, you will know naturally when to end the process.
There are three modes of thinking: (a) Straight Memory, (b) Free Association, and (c) Figure Figure.
The “straight memory” occurs when a person is engaged in deep contemplation or meditation. The mind is simply concentrated on a line of thought. All distracting thoughts are pushed aside.
The “free-association” occurs when a person is simply being there and confronting. The mind then unwinds itself in the background through free-association.
The “figure figure” is the most common mode of thinking where a person is going around in circles and not reaching any conclusion. It is the default mode in people who are anxious.
In meditation, one is using “free association” mostly and then may get into “straight memory” as deeper subjects come up.
In Scientology processing, one is basically using straight memory even with simple areas. Free association is used on TR0 exercise.
In Subject Clearing, a person has enough understanding to run all Scientology processes by himself without the aid of an E-meter.
Interestingly, most memory is accessed in the background, out of one’s attention. The accuracy of a person’s memory is indicated by his rationality in thinking and behavior. So, if a person is quite rational, we can safely assume that his memory is pretty good.
The better is the assimilation of mental matrix, the better is memory and mental health.