Reference: Course on Subject Clearing
Subject Clearing should start with an understanding of one’s Beingness in terms of Spirit and Mind. Then it should proceed to the understanding of the Body.
The factors underlying the spirit are taken up in The KHTK Factors.
The subject of Beingness is taken up in Subject Clearing Beingness.
The subject of Mind is taken up in Subject Clearing the Mind.
But to really know who you are, you have to discover the postulates that are part of your beingness. These postulates are hidden behind the unassimilated impressions (facsimiles, misconceptions, and mis-postulates) in your mental matrix. You may access these impressions only by tracing back the anomalies from your unwanted conditions. Anomalies may be isolated from things that do not make sense.
To do so you ask yourself specific questions. Such questions are called “auditing questions.”
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Auditing Question
An auditing question exists to help you trace anomalies back to the impressions in the mental matrix. An anomaly may belong to some unwanted condition. It is something that does not make sense. It could be data that is missing, contradictory or just arbitrary.
It is easy to look up the meaning of a word that you do not understand; or, to read up on a subject that you haven’t fully grasped. But when it comes to unwanted conditions, the answers to your questions lie within your mind. So you ask yourself the auditing question.
When you ask yourself a question, your mind does respond.
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Response to Question
When you ask yourself a question, such as, “What did I eat for breakfast yesterday?” sometimes you get a clear answer immediately, and you feel satisfied with that answer. Your attention then goes to something else.
At other times, no answer comes up, and you know that there is no answer because you had missed your breakfast. Again your attention goes to something else.
But sometimes, you get a vague answer, because there is uncertainty. Your attention stays on the question, and you continue to contemplate on the question. As you do so, data pertaining to the answer continues to dribble through. You may get more than one answer to the question. All that data may point to some deeper answer.
You continue to contemplate on the question until no more data is coming through. You will know when that happens because your attention frees up. You may now review and consolidate all the data. When you feel satisfied you have gotten all possible data in answer to that question, your attention naturally goes to something else.
Therefore, when you ask yourself a question, you either get a clear answer, or no answer at all, or a spectrum of answers that may lead to a deeper answer. The most important part is when you know the question is answered, and it is time to move on to something else.
You may check this out with this simple process: Visualization Exercise.
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Recall
The Visualization Exercise brings into focus the memory, which matches the question asked. When there is no actual memory, the mind may simply appear as blank, or it may create something imaginary based on projections. But you will know when that happens.
Sometimes, the mind converts a light facsimile into perceptions. This surprises you because it is an actual “memory” that just became available to you for the first time.
When you feel you have answered the auditing question, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have recalled all the answers from your past. It only means that you have recalled all the answers that are available. For now, it is ok to move on to the next question of the process, or to something else.
Recall of the past becomes better over time as you assimilate more and more of your facsimiles. This is the reason why you may get more out of a process, when you go through it once again in the future. Complete recall of the past is possible only when all your impressions are assimilated.
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Concentration
It seems, that recall is a function of concentration of attention. Some people have better concentration than others; consequently, their recall is better.
You may attain deeper concentration of attention through the practice of mindfulness exercises of Buddha. It is said that Buddha could recall even his genetic memory.
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Comments
I wonder how to interpret what you wrote: It is said that Buddha could recall all his past lives. From what I’ve read on your blog I thought that Bouddhism and yourself were rejecting the idea of any continuation of an identity once the body dies.
You are right. The confusion arises with use of the phrase “past lives” instead of “past memories or impressions.” Past impressions are passed on to us from our ancestors through the DNA mechanism. The DNA contains the blueprint of our body. It also contains the whole past evolutionary track. This explains Buddha’s memory of “his past lives” as various animals.
It is true that identity and individuality do not continue beyond one life time, but the evolutionary impressions that are well-assimilated in the DNA programming do continue forward.
So this means that a ‘ghost’ is impossible? There have been so many stories during so many times in so many civilisations about ghosts that I find hard to believe that all those stories are false?
Another way to look at this would be, “what would it mean if ghosts were real? And assuming it is real, how could such a thing be explained?”
Ghosts could be the impressions left at certain locations. We have to learn more about impressions. They are like dramatizing of some incident either in the mind or out there in a real location.
You also know that your perception depends on the assimilation of external reality in your mental matrix. The mental matrix is based on your postulates. Please see
Subject Clearing the Mind
I have yet to clear the subject of ‘ghosts’ fully. 🙂
I get your viewpoint. I think the subject of impressions is one of the most important. Should be looked at from a clean slate.
Thanks. You are right. I shall be looking at the subject of impressions.
OK. Here is how I see it.
THE INDIVIDUAL & PAST LIVES
When you have a computer program, you can run it with different inputs and get different results. An individual is a “human program” running with certain “set of postulates”. Another individual is the same program running with a different “set of postulates”. If there are 8 billion people currently on Earth, then the same “human program” is running with 8 billion different “set of postulates”.
What makes an individual different from another individual is the “set of postulates” the “human program” is running on. There are also “animal programs,” “plant programs,” and “mineral programs.”
When you are talking about past lives, you are saying that the human program was running in the past with exactly the same set of postulates as it is running on today. The individual is, therefore, defined by the “set of postulates” the human program is running on. Postulates go very deep. They define the goals and very basic characteristics of the individual. If these postulates change then the individual also changes. He is then a different individual.
When Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita refers to himself as unborn and imperishable, he is referring to the “human program,” or to a more basic “universal program,” and not to the “set of postulates” because the “set of postulates” is perishable.
The “human program” running on a “set of postulates” produces impressions that are extremely perishable. When a person recognizes certain impressions from the past as intimate to him he thinks that those impressions were produced by him. Hence he surmises that he has lived before.
A body goes through a certain cycle. Some impressions go through a larger cycle. The individual “set of postulates” goes through a still larger cycle. And the “ability to postulate and to become aware” appears to be eternal in comparison.
The key point here is that the individual is a SET OF POSTULATES. That is the basis of the mental matrix of a person.
I agree 100% with what you’ve written. But this doesn’t yet rule out the « ghosts ». How do you define or describe the « universal program » you refer to? And how permanent is this?
A “universal program” shall be based on postulates that apply to everything in this universe. I have tried to outline it here.
The KHTK Factors
As far as the ghosts go, they fall under the category of “impressions.” Such impressions are like short video clips playing themselves out at certain locations. There may be more to ghosts but I have to research it.