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Reference: KHTK Mindfulness

The visible time-track of a human life starts from birth and moves forward through childhood, adolescence, youth, adulthood, old age and death.

When one is searching for the cause of some unwanted condition, one starts to look earlier and earlier on the time-track. Freud looked for reasons in early childhood. Hubbard looked for reasons in birth and also in the earlier pre-natal period in Dianetics. Today, scientists are looking for reasons in the Genetic Code.

Hubbard also went looking for reasons farther back in past lives in Scientology. He projected the time track backwards to trillions of years. Was he really discovering incidents in the life of a single individual that far back?

Bible does not believe in past lives. It believes in a sort of storage system identified as purgatory, heaven or hell for the spiritual elements of a person (soul). Hubbard changed the definition of soul from “spiritual elements of a person” to the “person” himself. He insisted that the soul is a single permanent unit which is the person (thetan), and this thetan moves from body to body.

The original eastern idea of reincarnation is very different. Just like there is the disintegration of body into molecules and reintegration of molecules into a new body. Similarly, there is disintegration of self into “spiritual elements” and reintegration of “spiritual elements” into a new self. Buddha never looked at self as a single permanent unit. Buddha talked about non-human reincarnations as well.

But Hubbard assumed that if a memory came from an earlier life, then it meant that the whole person (thetan) came from an earlier life. This supported Hubbard’s idea of a linear time track. But this idea has never worked in Dianetics, where the “basic-basic” was never found. This idea of a linear time track has only served to produce delusional states in Scientology.

The truth is that mind is a matrix of definitions and logics. The logics connect the definitions in multiple dimensions. Such connections are far from being linear.

An incident has many parts, and these parts have many definitions. These definitions are indexed with definitions in parts of other incidents. This situation is far from linear. Therefore, it is an error to treat an incident from one’s experience as an independent unit as assumed in the “earlier similar” methodology of Dianetics and Scientology.

The linear methodology of Dianetics and Scientology is therefore very limited. To address the multi-dimensional matrix structure of the mind one needs to apply the un-stacking methodology of mindfulness.

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Little girl with her doll sitting in the ruins of her bombed home

London 1940

Reference: Mindfulness 7: Experience fully

In this exercise one contemplates over one’s loss. This is not easy. Therefore, before you attempt this exercise, make sure you have completed the twelve exercises for mindfulness.

Loss is something very close to heart. The emotions are usually very intense and they get suppressed. Such emotions may reemerge during this exercise. It can be very unsettling.

When intense emotions come up, courageously dive into the very center of them and experience them without resisting. Make sure you do this exercise in your privacy. There should be no interruptions when you are deeply absorbed in the exercise.

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Exercise

Purpose: To contemplate over a loss with mindfulness.

1. Look at an instance when you lost somebody you loved, or some other loss.

2. Contemplate over that loss with mindfulness.

3. As feelings and emotions come up address them one at a time as follows:

   (a) Spot the location of the emotion in, on, or near the body, if possible.

   (b) Dive into the very center of that emotion. Experience it fully without avoiding, resisting or suppressing it. 

   (c) Look at the location of the emotion with mindfulness, and notice if there are any messages or flows coming to you from there. 

   (d) Let that location know that the messages or flows have arrived. CAUTION:   No approval, disapproval, make-wrong or anything else. Just  give a courteous indication that the message was received.

   (d) Take as much time as you need to stay with the feeling or emotion until it starts to discharge.

4. Once all emotions connected to a loss are discharged, review the loss with  mindfulness until nothing is suppressed and you can be with it comfortably.

5. You may now take up another loss and repeat this exercise.

6. Wrap up the session with the exercise Mindfulness 12: Let it be effortless

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Further references: KHTK Mindfulness

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Reference: Rightness

The intention to harm is morally so unacceptable that when not fully confronted it gets buried deep in the psyche. It then causes anxiety and unhappiness.

Some of the forms of this intention are as follows:

(1)    SELFISHNESS.  One thinks of the satisfaction of one’s own desires without caring of the effects it creates on others in its wake.

(2)    EXPLOITATION. Any action that exploits others for personal gains has the intention to harm underlying it.

(3)    SEXUAL DESIRES. This is a special instance of the above when it leads to actions that cause suffering to the object of one’s affection.

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Exercise

Purpose: To fully understand and release the “intentions to harm.”

1. Read the introduction to this exercise. Make a list of “intentions to harm” as they appear in your mind without effort. These do not have to be your intentions.

2. Add to this list, intentions that you have encountered in your life. These do not have to be just your intentions.

3. Contemplate on the following question letting the mind associate freely.

   Meditation Question: “HOW DOES [an item from the above list] APPEAR TO MAKE SENSE?”

4. See if there is some response that appears on its own. Please note that the response may not be an exact answer to this question.

5. No matter what the response is, take time to inspect and experience it fully without resistance.

6. Let the mind associate freely whatever follows, until the attention frees up enough to look around.

7. Ask this question again per step 3, and follow it up per steps 4, 5, and 6.

8. Keep on asking the question as long as responses are appearing in the mind. In other words, let the mind un-stack itself naturally on this subject of “intention to harm.”

9. When there is no more response, take up the next item on the list with the question in step 3.

10. Continue this procedure with subsequent items on the list until some persistent thought, emotion or impulse has just left. NOTE: This may not always occur.

11. Continue this procedure until you can BE THERE comfortably with a deep understanding of “intention to harm” on a first-hand experiential basis.

12. Follow up with the exercise per Mindfulness 12: Let it be effortless, and let the mind complete the review of this session as necessary.

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Further references: KHTK Mindfulness

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