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The Electrical GPM

Reference: The Level of OT II
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The Electrical GPM is the first of the set of GPMs, which is run on the Scientology upper level of OT II. That means that it is the earliest GPM on the whole track as far as Hubbard could determine from his research.

LRH Instructions on Electrical GPM

Hubbard says, “It is an oddity as it has an electrical shock as its end word rather than a word. This was to convince a thetan he should think of himself as an electrical being.”

Hubbard defines shock as, “an electrical impact and flow.”

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Subject Clearing Prerequisites

Study and understand the following concepts:

  1. The Unknowable-Knowable
  2. The Postulate
  3. The Reality
  4. The Anomaly

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The Electrical GPM

There are 20 items in Electrical GPM as follows.

  1. Create (shock)
  2. Create no (shock)
  3. Destroy (shock)
  4. Destroy no (shock)
  5. Love (shock)
  6. Love no (shock)
  7. Hate (shock)
  8. Hate no (shock)
  9. Be (shock)
  10. Be no (shock)
  11. Disown (shock)
  12. Disown no (shock)
  13. Use (shock)
  14. Use no (shock)
  15. Condemn (shock)
  16. Condemn no (shock)
  17. Seize (shock)
  18. Seize no (shock)
  19. Escape (shock)
  20. Escape no (shock)

This list apparently refers to the occurrence of the earliest postulate. The sudden manifestation of a postulate may appear as a shock. 

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Running the Electrical GPM

These 20 items of the GPM describe 10 pairs of opposite postulates. One contemplates on the first element, then on the second element, and then both elements of the pair. The pair of opposites help one develop a viewpoint that is exterior to both items of the pair.

Handle the next two items in a similar manner, and so on down the line.

Make sure you follow the The 12 Aspects of Mindfulness as you contemplate and visualize.

On this GPM one is addressing the mechanism of postulating and remaining exterior to what one postulates.

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Definitions

END WORD
End Word is the word used at the end of statement for a goal, which is always a noun. If the statement for a goal is “To know the Unknowable” then the end word is “Unknowable.” 

GOAL
Goal is a postulate stating the aim towards which the effort is directed. For example, a goal would be, “To know the Unknowable.”

SHOCK
The shock is a discontinuity that may be felt as an electrical impact and flow.

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The Level of OT II

Reference: Scientology OT Levels

According to Postulate Mechanics

  1. DIANETICS handles Engrams, Secondaries and Locks.
  2. SCIENTOLOGY handles Misjudgments and their consequences on the Grades. 
  3. OT LEVELS handle the underlying Postulates and Misconceptions.
  4. The OT Level I handles Beingness in general.
  5. 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:

LRH OT II Instructions

“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:

  1. The Unknowable-Knowable
  2. The Postulate
  3. The Reality
  4. The Anomaly

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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Auditing Question

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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Subject Clearing Beingness (old)

Please refer to Subject Clearing Beingness

Philosophically, the ancient Vedas divide the beingness of a person into Self and Being. This division may be defined in modern terms as follows:

SELF
The SELF is the ability to postulate and to become aware. It pervades everything. It is considered to be infinite. It has no individuality.

BEING
The “being” is a package of postulates energized by Self. It consists of postulated goals and behavior characteristics. It carries the detailed blueprint for the body and the mind. The being, therefore, has an individuality, and it is finite with a beginning and an end.

THE PERSON (BEINGNESS)
The person is the BEING that is grounded in SELF. He is most happy and operates optimally when his postulates are not in violation of the principle of Oneness.

POSTULATE
A POSTULATE is a self-created truth that gives form to the unknowable, and attempts to make it knowable. Based on postulates further reasoning follows. To be valid, postulates and reasoning must adhere to the principle of oneness.

SPIRIT
SPIRIT is a loose concept that includes SELF as defined above and the postulates that form the goals and basic characteristics of a person. Spirituality has to do with becoming aware of the situations in life and having the ability to resolve them.

PRINCIPLE OF ONENESS
Oneness does not imply sameness. Oneness means that all that is known is continuous, consistent and harmonious. This PRINCIPLE OF ONENESS underlies the very concept of the universe. It also underlies the Scientific method. This principle gives us the ideal scene for logic, because its violation gives us anomalies.

ANOMALY
An ANOMALY is any violation of the principle of oneness, such as, discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), or disharmony (arbitrary data).

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Anomaly of Beingness

The key anomaly of beingness is its identification with something other than itself. This shows up as “attachment” to that something. This attachment manifests as “fixation of attention” on that something.

The attachment, such as, fixation on the body, or fixation on oneself, muddies up a person’s perception and, therefore, his ability to think.

One solution to this problem is to have a clear idea of one’s goals, and to be devoted to discharging one’s duties according to those goals.

This is the message of The Bhagavad Gita. The goal must not be in violation of the principle of Oneness.

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Subject Clearing

The target of Subject Clearing is resolving the FIXATION OF ATTENTION. 

If a person’s attention is fixed on his body, then he clears up the subject of the body until his attention is no longer fixed on the body. If his attention is fixed on the mind, then he clears up the subject of the mind until his attention is no longer fixed on the mind. 

If his attention is fixed on a number of different things, then he makes a list of those things and rearranges them in the sequence they are taking up his attention. He then handles them one by one through Subject Clearing.

Ideally, the person’s attention should be free. He should be able to place his attention where he wants, and not have it fixed at a place where he does not want.

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Subject Clearing Mind (old)

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

The postulates that constitute the being, arrange themselves into a “matrix” type structure. In this “matrix” the postulates are associated with each other such that they are continuous, consistent and harmonious per the principle of Oneness.

This matrix structure makes us aware of the reality that surrounds us. It interprets the incoming sensations and gradually builds up a mental matrix, which contains all the experience of a person. The associations within the mental matrix help us visualize and resolve the situations that we encounter. This is what we call the Mind.

The mind operates as follows.

  1. The external reality enters the mind through the sense organs.
  2. The sense organs convert the external reality into sensations.
  3. The sensations then proceed to the mind’s matrix structure.
  4. The matrix structure assimilates and converts the sensations into perceptions.

The is happening throughout our life at every moment that we are alive.

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Assimilation

The mind must assimilate the sensations to convert them into perceptions. This process is postulated to occur as follows.

  1. The sensations break down into “perceptual elements” to be assimilated in the mental matrix.
  2. The assimilation sets up associations among the perceptual elements so they are continuous, consistent and harmonious as much as possible.
  3. The assimilation eliminates duplicate perceptual elements for efficient storage. 
  4. These associations then allow the mind to perceive what was received by the sense organs.

Traumatic sensations do not easily break down into perceptual elements. So, they are not assimilated and perceived. They remain as “unassimilated impressions.”

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Memory, Imagination & Consciousness

The perceptual elements, upon assimilation, are identified by their characteristics and the time when they were received. The whole mental matrix forms the EXPERIENCE of the person.

MEMORIES are reconstructed by associating the perceptual elements in the matrix by their TIME STAMPS as and when needed during mental computations. Memories are not stored as “recordings” because that will result in a lot of duplicate storage.

IMAGINATION is generated from the creative associations among the perceptual elements in the matrix. There may be gaps among the associations, but they are bridged over by rational projections. Over time, these rational projections are replaced by actual experience. 

CONSCIOUSNESS depends on the fineness of the perceptual elements. The finer are the perceptual elements the clearer is the perception and deeper is the understanding. These perceptual elements are much finer in humans compared to the animals.

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Unassimilated Impressions (Facsimiles)

Traumatic sensations do not break down easily into perceptual elements after entering the mind. They embed themselves into the mental matrix as UNASSIMILATED IMPRESSIONS. These unassimilated impressions act as “recordings” that insert themselves in the thinking circuits when activated. They lead to conclusions, the reasoning of which cannot be traced back because the content of these impressions is not known.

These unassimilated impressions have been called SAMSKARA in Hinduism, and SANKHARA in Buddhism. More recently, these unassimilated impressions have been called FACSIMILES in Scientology by Hubbard, because they appear as recordings. The content of these samskara, sankhara, or facsimiles cannot be properly perceived because they are not assimilated with the rest of mental matrix. 

These facsimiles are felt as raw sensations of PAIN and ANXIETY. Their effect is to distort the mental matrix. Such distortions show up as anomalies in thinking, in the otherwise smooth operation of the mind.

The effect of facsimiles appears in the person in the form of sickness, aberrated behavior and unwanted conditions.

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Past Life Memories

The facsimiles are carried forward from one generation to the next as part of the DNA programming. It takes them three to four generations to assimilate by themselves.

When they start to assimilate, they appear as “past life memories.”

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Comparison to Earlier Models

The above may be called THE MATRIX MODEL OF THE MIND.

The assimilated mental matrix, which provides rational thinking, may be compared to the CONSCIOUS mind of Freud, and the ANALYTICAL mind of Hubbard. 

The unassimilated impressions (facsimiles), collectively, which distort the operation of the mind, may be compared to the SUBCONSCIOUS mind of Freud, and the REACTIVE mind of Hubbard. 

Here are some ideas associated with the mind

  1. The idea of self-awareness and self-determinism applies only to the assimilated portion of the mind.
  2. Memories are reconstructed upon demand from perceptual elements in the assimilated mental matrix.
  3. The unassimilated impressions are like recordings, or FACSIMILES.
  4. Memories do not exist as recordings, or facsimiles.
  5. At the core of unassimilated impressions, or facsimiles, are aberrated postulates and misconceptions.
  6. Aberrated thinking and behavior are the outcome of the facsimiles.
  7. The idea of time track applies only to the content of the facsimiles.

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Summary 

The above describes the MATRIX MODEL OF THE MIND, which was developed through subject clearing. 

The facsimiles generate anomalies in the operation of the mind itself. These are the target of Subject Clearing. The subject clearing is the tool that resolves anomalies.

The assimilation of facsimiles improves a person’s ability to think clearly and perceive things in the environment without distortions. This assimilation of facsimiles also helps repair the body.

With a fully assimilated mind one can then resolve the deeper and larger problems of the universe.

This then helps Man accomplish rapidly the prime purpose of the universe: TO EVOLVE.

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