Reference: Scientology OT Levels
According to Postulate Mechanics:
- DIANETICS handles Engrams, Secondaries and Locks.
- SCIENTOLOGY handles Misjudgments and their consequences on the Grades.
- OT LEVELS handle the underlying Postulates and Misconceptions.
- The OT Level I handles Beingness in general.
- The OT Level II handles GPMs starting from the earliest.
A GPM is a complexity arising from misconceptions. It is addressed by running a list of items that are designed to bring misconceptions to light. Here are Hubbard’s instructions for OT II:
“There are 10 complete whole track tables. But only 1 of each kind of GPM in each table. This is a complete “Run” (1 of each kind). The sets belong to different entities. One finds the earliest set and runs it with care to stay in that set. Then one finds the next earliest set and so on for 10 sets. Just as in running the CC GPMs. The Electrical is the earliest in the run.
“The CC Supervisor must recompile (?) the table on the above, 1 of each type in that order, Electrical, the first to be run. When all ten runs have been run, the pc has completed the Sect II Course unless I add another series to it.”
The GPMs are arranged on a Whole Track Table from the earliest to the latest.
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Whole Track Table
The Whole Track Table is as follows:
The Electrical GPM
The Tocky GPM
The Big Being GPM
The House GPM
The Psycho GPM
The Banky GPM
OT II Incidents
The Basic-Basic GPM
The Basic GPM
The Command GPM
The Lower LP GPM
The LP GPM
The Body GPM
The Lower BANK
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The Subject Clearing Approach
These GPMs are run using Subject Clearing approach. The E-meter is not used. Instead, one contemplates on the items using The 12 Aspects of Mindfulness. When a confusion arises on an item, one looks at it more closely until the underlying misconception is spotted and resolved.
The genesis of GPM lies in awareness. Awareness begins with sensations. Once sensation are received, they acquire meaning through postulates. So the GPMs have to do with sensations and POSTULATES.
The postulates must be consistent among themselves to make sense. When we look at consistency very closely it appears continuous. And, in a large context, that consistency appears harmonious. So, for the GPM to come about there must be violations of continuity, consistency and harmony.
This is covered under the following basics of Subject Clearing:
According to Subject Clearing, GPMs are about clearing up the basic concepts and underlying postulates collectively and individually, such that there are no anomalies about them in one’s understanding.
Therefore, in order to resolve the GPMs, one must be able to spot anomalies. Most likely, one would have to run the set of the GPMs in the Whole Track Table several times, because the resolution of anomalies in the first run will make it possible to spot and resolve more anomalies in the second run, and so on. One runs the items in the given sequence of the GPM.
The earliest GPM is the Electrical GPM. One should now contemplate on each item of this GPM by opening one’s mind and letting the thoughts arise by themselves. As one finds something that does not make sense, one would also find an anomaly. As one looks at that anomaly more closely, it would produce a realization and resolve.
If nothing comes up on an item, one moves quickly to the next item. With this Subject Clearing approach one should be able to move through these GPMs at a good clip.
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Comments
The concept of GPM as a problematic mental construct was one of my first loves in Scientology auditing and it has remained so through the years.
Great! I would like to know more about it.
Thanks for putting all this together! I’m an independent Scientologist, and never belonged to the Church of Scientology. I took up the practice via the Free Zone movement. I tried to complete the OT levels using the E-meter but I made no real progress. I think you’re quite right about the limitations of the E-meter, especially at the OT levels. Since I found your website, and the Subject Clearing method, I’m getting much better results. I’m still working through OT II but I can already tell it’s bearing more fruit than when I tried it with an E-meter. Thanks!
Wonderful feedback. Thank you.
brenainngriffudd..you are now running OT II without a meter. Curious, how do you know when to end off on a line?
Pat Krenik, c/s thetagal@gmail.com
Curious, how do you know when to end off on a line when using an E-meter?
As I remember you flatten the read by going over that line again and again. In other words you are contemplating on that line until something falls into place.
In my experience, one knows it internally when something has fallen into place, without the assistance of the E-meter. Actually, it is more precise without the E-meter because the E-meter could be reacting on other background noise and that could distract or misdirect.
The whole purpose of going over a line is to contemplate over it and sort out any considerations about it. If you cannot do it without an E-meter then there is something very wrong. You have become dependent on the E-meter and auditing mechanically.
Hello, Pat. That is a good question. Vinaire has pretty much answered it in his reply. You eventually develop an internal sense about it. For example, I’ve actually been able to feel the charge slowly but steadily dissipate as I run the lines again and again. A sense of clarity begins to emerge, and things just start to “click” in an intuitive way. That’s probably the best way that I can explain the feeling of that internal sense. Hope that helps to answer your question.
It does, and very well done.
I should add that the Subject Clearing Discipline is a more natural substitute for the E-meter. The E-meter is used by the auditor, but the Subject Clearing Discipline is used by the person being audited; and that is more important.
You get a good sense of charge dissipating and clarity emerging when clearing up words and concepts. You do not require and E-meter to tell you that.
How do you run GPMs, and who says Hubbard got them right in the first place?
Hubbard is simply listing items that may be charged on a case. Not all these items may be charged for you. But it is possible that some of the items are charged.
To run a GPM, you contemplate on its items one at a time in the given sequence. At this level the charge appears as confusion (lack of clarity) or as some tension. Your aim is to remove confusion, restore clarity and resolve any tension.
Deep contemplation will reveal to you whether you fully understand each word in that item. This may take some time in the beginning only. Later many of the same words repeat. This may remind you of Method 1 of Word Clearing. You clear up each word conceptually from its origin and the various meanings and usages.
Further deep contemplation will reveal to you if you understand the item itself in relation to your experience. You will know right away if there is some charge (confusion or tension) present. If none then you move to the next item. But if there is some charge you focus and follow up on it until it is resolved.
During the first run you may go through the items pretty fast picking up and resolving the obvious charge. During the subsequent runs you look more closely and clean up the remaining charge.
This is the whole process. You do not need an E-meter to run this process. You do not want to be dependent on a MEST device. You simply trust your guts. Wonderful gains are available if this process is done exactly as laid out above.
More details are provided under each GPM on how to run it.