Reference: A History of Man
Reference: CHAPTER TEN
Comments on CHAPTER TEN
The Transfer
The Transfer is actually the attention of a person getting fixated on the body. The transfer out is freeing of that attention.
Thetan is not a thing that has physical location. But the person has a viewpoint that can assume different locations to view from. The thetan is the intelligent self-aware programming, which is the upper end of the genetic DNA programming.
A person can have a fixation on the body, and, at the same time, have a viewpoint that is looking at the body from a distance. A fixation has to do with the state of the mind.
As a person’s attention get increasingly fixated on the body, he thinking becomes increasingly stimulus-response.
Prior to fixation on the body, there is fixation on oneself.
Even with fixation on the body, a person can still control his environment. But, over time, this control becomes less and less, until he can’t even control the body.
Thetan is “self-awareness programming” that can become aware of the facsimiles as such. But entities being “artificial intelligence programming” may find themselves identified with facsimiles. As a person resolves facsimiles along with entities, he starts to establish his self-identity more clearly.
The problem with the E-meter is that you cannot eliminate all of its reactions in auditing. Therefore, Hubbard is assigning the unsuitable E-meter reactions to the entities. Hubbard’s incredible and elaborate theories exist only to justify the use of E-meter.
Hubbard’s seems to be having a lot of difficulties in auditing, because lot of auditing hours are getting wasted, and the efficiency of auditing is quite low. He is trying to resolve them by coming up with arbitrary theories.
Hubbard is having difficulty differentiating between the thetan and the entities. Better auditing takes place when one directly addresses the fixations using The Discipline of Subject Clearing instead of the E-meter.
The kind of auditing recommended by Hubbard, simply serves to fix the attention on the body and on the thetan. So, the person does not free himself from fixation. This is a self-defeating approach. If you take the subject clearing approach of handling the fixation directly, it keeps your attention free.
Major problem in Scientology is fixation on the thetan and not just on the body. This auditing technique is unworkable. Unfortunately, this auditing approach is still part of the OT levels. More than 70 years have passed since this book was written, and we still do not have clearing occurring on a large scale.
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Definitions
ENTITY
An entity is programming, which exhibits some artificial intelligence. Therefore, an entity may be referred to as “artificial intelligence programming.”
PROGRAMMING
A program consists of coded instructions. The closer this instructions are to the machine language, the more simply but powerfully the program can be written.
When the instructions are very simple and straightforward, without any feedback, then the program responds in a set way. This is the kind of program that tells you the time in different countries. This compares to very simple stimulus-response type programming.
A sophisticated program may provide you with varied reactions depending of different inputs. This is more like the programming you may find in a cell. You may be surprised at the sophistication of programming in a cell.
Now, when you introduce feedback in the program, it is like introducing some awareness. The more feedback you incorporate at different stages of the program, the more aware you make the software. This too can be taken to a high level of sophistication.
But the self-awareness we see in a software displaying artificial intelligence is due to a very different kind of programming. This kind of programming allows the software to update itself based on the feedback. Thus, the software can grow in complexity as it gets more and more feedback. This is pretty similar to humans learning and becoming more experienced. But AI is nowhere close to the sophistication we find with human learning and intelligence.
Based on this model we can see the Genetic Entity and Thetan having different levels of programming. Genetic entity operates on feedback and it is very sophisticated, but it has limited capacity to update itself. On the other hand, Thetan is programmed for self-awareness. It can easily update itself based on experience. The Genetic Entity + Thetan, actually represent a whole gradient awareness and self-awareness types of programming and not just a two-step programming.
THETAN
The thetan is upper end programming that is intelligent and self-aware. It may be referred to as “self-awareness programming.” It is an extension of the genetic DNA programming. Thetan is not a thing that has physical location. But the thetan aspect of the person has a viewpoint that can assume different locations to view from.
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