Reference: Book I: Postulate Mechanics (Text Book)
The purpose of OT VI is: Familiarization as a Thetan Exterior with the Physical Universe. Thetan exterior is defined in Scientology as a being who knows he is a spirit with a body and not just a body.
NOTE: The sub-steps below are comments.
STEP 1.1: BE THREE FEET BACK OF YOUR HEAD
- The purpose of this step is to break unconscious identification with the body.
- In essence a person is pure awareness and his attention need not be fixated in his head.
- He can control his attention to visualize from anywhere he likes. All artists can do that routinely.
STEP 1.2: Whatever you are looking at, copy it a dozen times, dispose them etc.
- The purpose of this step is to look at a picture as a picture, and have no other significance.
STEP 1.3: Find two back corners of the room and hold onto them for two minutes.
STEP 1.4: Find two locations or positions on Earth and hold onto them for two minutes
STEP 1.5: Find some places where you are not. (Repeat)
STEP 1.6: Spot three spots in your body and Spot three spots in the room. (Repeat)
- These steps help stabilize one’s attention when it is dispersed.
STEP 1.7: Be in the following places: The room, the sky, the moon, the sun.
- This step makes attention less fixated or dispersed, and more free and under control.
STEP 2.1: Mock up your own body until you slip out of it.
- Again, the purpose of this step is to break unconscious identification with the body.
STEP 2.2: Locate an animal. Postulate it moving from one spot to another. Observe it doing this.
STEP 2.3: Find a walking man — postulate his walking faster. Repeat this with 20 people.
STEP 2.4: Find a walking person — postulate that he will stop, then continue walking. Do this 20 times.
- This is like playing a game of chance.
STEP 2.5: Find a person in a distant land. notice the time of day. Notice the terrain. Notice the general environment. Smell the air. Locate a thought that is his. Locate a thought that is yours. Continue until flat.
- This is basically visualizing something arbitrarily. It may be some past experience or impression.
STEP 2.6: Notice differences between you and your body.
- Again, the purpose of this step is to break unconscious identification with the body.
STEP 3.1: Create feelings in your body of: calmness, sexual desire, pain, serenity, hunger, and admiration.
- This is kind of trial and error.
STEP 4.1: Create emotions in your body of: anger, boredom, grief, cheerfulness and serenity — in that order.
- This is also a kind of trial and error.
STEP 4.2: Exteriorized visit a friend who lives in another state. Greet him and flow affinity to him. Ask him to communicate to you by letter.
- This is primarily a visualization.
- This is also a kind of trial and error.
Scientology process requires a Major Cognition or ability regained on all these steps. This is arbitrary. A person may have achieved the purpose of a step already. This process also asks for things to be done as trial and error.
New Version
The above version of OT VI was later replaced by NOTs or NED for OTs. Fully expanded, this process is called New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans. It shall be issued as another post.
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MY TWO MILLION OF CENTS (Part 2 of many)
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The great confussion derived from the difficulty to DO NOT IDENTIFY WITH THE BODY.
A thetan IS NOT a body NOR A POINT OF VIEW.
To BE somewhere one identifies with SEEING that space, therefore one gets identified with BEING A POINT OF VIEW EXTERIOR TO THE BODY.
… which is a false identfication.
The same happens with TO KNOW. One believe one needs to BE in a space to get to know about it, hence one holds a POINT OF VIEW (as depicted in this article’s image) as “a way to perceive” something.
These two mechanisms leads to a missidentification with the point of view.
Yes, exterior is freer than interior and fixed, but that is just a partial experience of what trully is comprehending one self and what trully is a thetan.
Beyond seeing from a free point of view located at any point in any MEST space, there is CLARIOVOYANCE or purely ABSTRACT KNOWING withouth a need TO LOOK nor TO BE AT.
I guess this is what LRH meant with KNOWINGNESS.
No mechanics involved.
However, as far it is from common humanoid experience, he needed to put more emphasis on practical degrees towards that revelation and experience.
As Jeffrey (an engineer and guru from MindValley) explains.
You are not inside your body… your body is inside you… because in order to PERCEIVE you must somehow be “in touch” to that what you perceive, hence, we can only perceive to the extent of SPACE to where we ARE CAUSE AND EFFECT (some sort of interaction must be in place, at least some photons are arriving and some attention units are being spread to the objects inside that space).
This would be the natural experience of a pure thetan. Not having to do with SPACES nor MEST SPACE at all.
However, this is a high-level of abstraction which can be re-aquired by pure will and exercise of KNOWING without the need to BE THERE TO OBSERVE.
Ha!
On STEP 1.6.
It is worth noting that in order to have a 3D space, one only needs 4 points. Not 3, but 4.
It is common to confuse a triangle with space, but that is because in order to see a triangle one has to be outside the plane of those 3 points, hence, ONE CAN SEE A TRIANGLE ONLY FROM A 4th POINT, which is FROM WHERE WE SEE, which is our “POINT OF VIEW”.
This 4 points is what creates the space.
Using only 3 points + 1 own’s POINT OF VIEW, leads to an unawareness of self-identifying with our own POINT OF VIEW.
Which despite of being usefull for many things, it is a limitation.
IT IS BETTER TO “SPOT 4 POINT IN THE SHAPE OF A TRIANGULAR PYRAMIDE”. This is in fact a piece of space. Then one is creating space but not being inside of it but connected to it.
This exercise leads to more benefits that spoting only 3 points.
More on this in me previous comment in this same article.
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NOTE: I must confess that if one holds 3 points in the body at the same time 3 point in the room, then one is actually connecting two spaces and somehow BEING LOCATED outside of them, hence this would help and ease to untangle from the mind, which might be the whole purpose of the exercise 1.6.