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Reference: Scientology OT Levels

OT I focuses on broadening the viewpoint. A person on OT I examines his considerations about individuals and crowds. Considerations about individuals start from their bodies, on how they carry themselves, and, finally, on the significance of humanity. OT I allows a person to have a new perspective on himself.

OT I helps a person remove fixation on his own body, on other bodies, and on the physical universe itself. One may say that it is the ultimate INT/EXT Rundown. The worst method of having an identity is fixing attention on oneself. Unfortunately, Hubbard did that by promising OT abilities.

Some earlier views on OT I are available at The Mystery of OT Levels.

Hubbard relies entirely on E-meter feedback in running OT levels. However, the OT levels run much faster and more accurately when a person relies upon his intuition, with strict adherence to The Laws of Looking.

OT I

The OT Level I is about the direct understanding of one’s beingness. The OT I drills have to do with

1. Counting bodies
2. Noticing the sex (male or female) of those bodies.
3. Noticing the size (small or large) of those bodies.
4. Noticing the attribute of an individual, or a crowd.
5. Differentiating oneself from others.
6. Noticing the degree to which one can have (tolerate) others around oneself.
7. Noticing the body part in others that one doesn’t like having in one’s body.
8. Spotting things in others that are not wrong with them.
9. Noticing people walking toward you or walking away from you.
10. Noticing how people stick to the ground (get the sense of gravity).
11. Spotting important things about people (these would be one’s own considerations).
12. Noticing places where there are no people.
13. Noticing places where there are people.

OT I focuses on noticing various attributes in others and oneself, and seeing differences and similarities.

This drill makes a person look at others and oneself more objectively. This may free up fixed considerations about oneself. Nothing more mysterious need to be read into OT I. Here are OT I instructions in Hubbard’s handwriting that have been in the public domain for some time.

LRH Instructions on OT I

New OT I

On New OT I, one simply looks at all those people on whom one’s attention seems to be stuck for one reason or another. This is very easy to address with the LOOKING approach without the e-meter.

One starts with the person on whom one’s attention seems to be stuck the most. One looks at all the thoughts, feelings and incidents related to this person as they come up. One lets one’s mind unwind in relation to this person without being judgmental, and without resisting anything. One continues until no thoughts are suppressed with respect to that person, and one restores complete integrity in his view of that person.

Then one repeats the same procedure one by one with respect to other people who seem to be occupying one’s attention. This is continued until one’s attention is freed up. This will complete new OT I.

New OT I Instructions

In Subject Clearing approach you do the following.

1. Put down all the terminals that come to your mind on a list.
2. Rearrange those terminal on the list in the order they are relevant to you.
   • The most relevant terminal will appear at the top of the list.
3. Apply these subsequent instructions to the most relevant terminal.
   1. Handle the upsets that terminal had with you.
      • You look from the viewpoint of that terminal
      • Recognize the nature of that upset objectively.
      • Was that a break in
        • Affinity
        • Reality
        • Communication, or
        • Understanding
      • Did that break had to do with
        • Curiosity
        • Denial
        • Enforcement
        • Inhibition
        • Absence
        • Refusal
      • The moment you recognize the nature of the upset it should disappear.
      • Handle all possible upsets that terminal had with you.
   2. Next handle the problems that terminal had with you.
      • You look from the viewpoint of that terminal
      • Contemplate on that problem and recognize opposing postulates.
      • Make sure you have no mystery left about any aspects of the problem.
      • Handle all possible problems that terminal had with you.
   3. Next handle things that terminal withheld from you.
      • You look from the viewpoint of that terminal.
      • A withhold is a lack of admission to overt actions committed out of misjudgment.
      • Get details of the withhold in terms of What, When, All, and Who should have known about it.
      • Handle all possible withholds that terminal had regarding you.
4. Go back to step 3, and handle the next terminal on the list with steps 4 to 6.
5. You end off when there is a big relief.

It is amazing to look at one’s father or mother as being pure awareness at some level. The machinery of identity is separate from the pure awareness. You can also see what an identity might be struggling with.

Misconceptions about Beingness

The most fundamental misconception is expressed through the question, “Who am I?” A beingness is essentially AWARENESS, and it does not have any SUBSTANCE. A beingness may be understood as awareness of unique forms of substance. Here substance means thought, energy and matter. Since “awareness of substance” means “consciousness”, we may say,

A BEINGNESS = A FORM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

A person becomes aberrated (flawed) to the degree he (as awareness) becomes identified with forms of substance. He starts to think that he himself is a certain form of substance. He thus acquires an identity.

Misconceptions about OT I

Hubbard gives the impression that one is walking on egg shells when doing the OT Levels. That may be the case when one is using an E-meter that works well with heavy engrams, but not so well with subtle operations.

OT levels work very smoothly when a person relies upon his intuition, with strict adherence to The Laws of Looking. There is no reason to have the feeling of walking on egg shells.

Only when a person relies on mechanical reads of an E-meter, where it is not always cut and dry what the meter is reacting to, that errors are routinely made. No amount of walking on egg shells will prevent that.

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