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Running Scientology Grade 0 with Mindfulness (old)

Grade 0A

Please see ARC Straight wire Processes

At Grade 0 processing level of Scientology one deals with Communication. It removes mental barriers so one may communicate freely with anyone on any subject.

Normally these processes are run on a person by a trained scientology auditor with the help of an instrument called e-meter. But these same processes may be run by a person on himself/herself using the discipline of mindfulness.

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These are the 12 aspects of mindfulness:

  • Observe without expecting anything, or attempting to get an answer.
  • Observe things as they are, without assuming anything.
  • If something is missing do not imagine something else in its place. 
  • If something does not make sense then do not explain it away.
  • Use physical senses as well as mental sense to observe.
  • Let the mind un-stack itself. 
  • Experience fully what is there.  
  • Do not suppress anything.
  • Associate data freely.
  • Do not get hung up on name and form.
  • Contemplate thoughtfully.
  • Let it all be effortless.

One may develop the discipline of mindfulness by doing the exercises provided here:

 

The 12 Aspects of Mindfulness

Scientology Grade 0 processes are then run with the discipline of mindfulness using “un-stacking the mind” per STEP 6 OF MINDFULNESS

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ARC STRAIGHTWIRE PROCESSES

Here is Part 1 of the list of Scientology Grade 0 processes. You may run them by letting the mind un-stack itself. Please note that these processes may run out quite fast. You may go over all of them from beginning to end a second and a third time.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

In KHTK (mindfulness) there should be no effort applied to recalling and remembering. Any such effort would violate the principle of letting the mind un-stack itself. If you recall, or remember, and the material simply appears, then that is fine. But, when no material appears, even when you know it is there, then you also know that something else needs to be un-stacked first. That something may be handled on some other process. So, please, don’t go digging into the mind. If you feel something is there just beyond awareness then simply observe patiently as required by mindfulness. The material will show up eventually.

A communication lag (comm lag) is the time it takes to get response from the mind to a question asked.

A lack of communication lag would mean that the mind is un-stacking properly. One would then run those processes first that produce the least comm lag. That would bring about maximum gain, and it would also help reduce comm lag on later processes.

A person trained on mindfulness can easily observe the communication lag within himself. He can then identify the Grade 0 process that produces minimal comm lag. He would run that process before others.

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At any point you may reset the mind by doing the following exercise.

Mindfulness 12: Let it be effortless

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REMEMBER SOMETHING

“Remember something.”

Please let the details of memory appear without any effort. If the memory does not appear, then something else needs to be un-stacked first. That may happen in some other process. So, please do not go digging for some memory. Just let it be.

A KHTK version of this process could be:

“Look around and spot an existing memory, thought or idea.”

The stress is on “existing”. One should not imagine a memory, thought or idea newly.

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RECALL A TIME

“Recall a time.”

Just notice what comes up. Do not push. If you feel something is there then simply observe patiently as required by mindfulness. The material will show up eventually.

A KHTK version of this process could be:

“Look around and spot an existing desire, expectation or speculation.”

The stress is on “existing”. One should not imagine a desire, expectation or speculation newly.

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COMM RECALL PROCESS

“Recall a Communication.”

A KHTK version of this process could be:

“Look around and spot a communication that has been lingering in your mind.”

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THE ONLY BASIC AFFINITY PROCESS

“What would you like to confront?”

“What would another like to confront?”

“What would others like to confront?”

“What would you like to confront in yourself?”

To confront would be to “observe mindfully.”

Run these questions individually until each is exhausted (no further response). Note whatever comes up.

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EXHAUSTION

“Recall Exhaustion.”

This is physical and mental exhaustion that is accompanied by tiredness.

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PAST AND FUTURE EXPERIENCE

“What part of your life would you be willing to re-experience?”

“What part of the future would you be willing to experience?”

Run these questions alternately to exhaustion (no further response). The responses may uncover incidents that are difficult to confront. Just spot them accurately in time. Take whatever the mind brings up. Do not dig into the mind.

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FORGETTING SIX WAY BRACKET

“Recall (or think of) something you wouldn’t mind…”

  1. Forgetting yourself

  2. Another person forgetting

  3. Forgetting about another

  4. Another forgetting about you

  5. Other people forgetting

  6. Another person forgetting about another person.

These commands are run as a bracket in sequence one after another.

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CAUSE ELEMENTARY STRAIGHTWIRE

“What would it be all right for another to make forgotten?”

“What would it be all right for you to make forgotten?”

“What would it be all right for others to make forgotten?”

“What would it be alright for you to make forgotten about yourself?”

Run these questions individually until each is exhausted (no further response).

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DUPLICATION STRAIGHTWIRE

“What would another permit to have happen again?”

“What would you permit to have happen again?”

“What would others permit to have happen again?”

“What would you permit to have happen to yourself again?”

Run these questions individually until each is exhausted (no further response).

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KNOW TO MYSTERY RECALL PROCESS

“Recall an Unconsciousness”

“Recall Waiting”

“Recall a Mystery”

“Recall Sex”

“Recall Eating” (or a variation “Recall Food”)

“Recall a Symbol”

“Recall Thinking”

“Recall an Effort”

“Recall an Emotion”

“Recall Looking”

“Recall Knowing”

“Recall Not-Knowing”

Run these questions individually until each is exhausted (no further response).

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SELF ANALYSIS

List 1     General Incidents,

To practice recall (75 questions)

List 2     Time Orientation

To aide general sense of time (38 questions)

List 3     Orientation of Senses

Time Sense – To validate the sense of time (19 questions)

Sight – To get better insight into sight (25 questions)

Relative Sizes – To rehabilitate this sense (47 questions)

Sound – To be able to tell the difference (48 questions)

Olfactory – To validate the sense of smell (37 questions)

Taste – To validate the sense of taste (52 questions)

Touch – Pressure, friction, heat or cold, oiliness (66 questions)

Personal Emotion – To free emotions (131 questions)

Organic Sensation – To validate body sensations (40 questions)

Motion Personal – To have this internal awareness (48 questions)

Motion External – To have awareness of movements (44 questions)

Body Position – To have this awareness (20 questions)

List 4     Standard Processing       

To rehabilitate the ability to handle organisms and physical universe (50 questions)

List 5     Assists to Remembering  

To rehabilitate power of choice (35 questions)

List 6     Forgetter Section             

To rehabilitate having to leave things alone (70 questions)

List 7     Survival Factors              

To reevaluate survival nature (104 questions)

List 8     Imagination                     

To postulate future goals (15 questions)

List 9     Valences                          

To recover one’s viewpoint (47 questions)

List 10   Interruptions                    

To recover power to decide (54 questions)    

List 11   Invalidation                     

To spot nullifiers (37 questions)   

List 12   The Elements

To familiarize with environment (31 questions)

Run the above questions from the Scientology Book SELF-ANALYSIS

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ARC STRAIGHTWIRE TRIPLES

“Recall a time that was real to you.”

“Recall a time someone was in good communication with you.”

“Recall a time someone really felt affinity for you.”

“Recall a time another knew he/she understood you.”

These commands are run as a bracket in sequence one after another.

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“Recall a time you were in good communication with someone.”

“Recall a time you really felt affinity for someone”

“Recall a time you knew you understood someone.”

These commands are run as a bracket in sequence one after another.

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“Recall a time that was really real for others.”

“Recall a time another was in communication with others.”

“Recall a time another really felt affinity for others.”

 These commands are run as a bracket in sequence one after another.

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“Recall a time you were really real to yourself.”

“Recall a time you were in good communication with yourself.”

“Recall a time you really felt affinity for yourself.”

“Recall a time you knew you understood yourself.”

 These commands are run as a bracket in sequence one after another.

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HAVINGNESS

“Look around here and find something that is really real to you.”

“Look around here and find something that would be really real to another.”

“Look around here and find something that would be really real to others.”

“Look around here and find something that you could make really real to yourself.”

Run these questions individually until each is exhausted (no further response).

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Mindfulness Discussions

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The purpose of a discussion is to learn by exchanging viewpoints. One uses experience and experimentation to obtain data and then brings it to the table to be discussed.

The participants in a discussion focus on the subject and not on each other. A discussion is not a debate where one is in a contest to win argument against others. There is no need for sophistry. In a discussion there are no opponents. All participants are on the same side. On the other side may just be ignorance. In a discussion each participant’s viewpoint is bound to change and evolve as he/she learns from the data pooled together by all.

Thus, a discussion is a cooperative effort. There is no reason to censor any data in a discussion. The data simply needs to be examined in detail.

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Integrity of Reality

The integrity of reality underlies the very concept of universe. The word UNIVERSE is derived from a Latin root, which means “entire, all, literally, turned into one.” The integrity of reality leads to the universe being continuous, harmonious and consistent.

The scientific method follows this law as best as it can when investigating a phenomenon. 

A violation of the integrity of reality would be an anomaly. This may manifest as discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), or disharmony (arbitrary data). An anomaly flags the presence of a hidden impression on the mind in the form of an assumption. When the assumption, and the underlying impression is discovered it produces a realization that resolves the anomaly.

A discussion seeks to restore the integrity of reality by discovering the anomalies present and resolving them.

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Rules of Discussion

In mindfulness discussion one is guided by mindfulness, as learned through the practice of mindfulness meditation. Here are some specific instructions.

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(1) Do not defend a viewpoint, instead look for some anomaly generated by it.

For example, a person may believe that God is a being who has created this world. He may reject those who think differently. This viewpoint generates an inconsistency. A being has a form, but all forms are created only when the world gets created. So either God must have been created along with the world, or God is not a being. The person may not be aware of this inconsistency caused by his belief, and he may be willing to engage in a mindful discussion.

But when a person refuses to engage in a discussion despite inconsistency, and continues to defend his belief, then he may be using that belief to hide some confusion. He may be afraid that if his belief is shaken, some confusion will overwhelm him. But as he gets exposed to mindfulness, he may be willing to examine his confusions. Mindful discussion could then help resolve that confusion. Everybody wins.

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(2) Focus on the data being presented and not on the person presenting it.

Many people feel so invested in their beliefs that they feel attacked when they are unable to uphold their viewpoint in a discussion. They start commenting on the perceived characteristics of another participant holding a different viewpoint. They may even become accusative, emotional and combative.

Any focus on participants rather than on the subject of discussion causes much distraction. It must be avoided.

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(3) In a disagreement never call the other person wrong, instead provide further clarification regarding your viewpoint.

In any disagreement effort should be made to clarify one’s viewpoint as much as possible. Not doing so, and simply saying that the other person is wrong, does not resolve anything. It only produces distraction.

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(4) Furthermore, in a disagreement, ask for clarification and, when it is provided, consider it with mindfulness.

A person can be so convinced about being right that he would not even ask the other person for further clarification. He would not even listen if the other person offers any clarification. He simply would not engage in a discussion. This kind of behavior also produces much distraction.

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(5) Do not complain that the other person is not answering your question, instead discuss what you are expecting.

When a person is committed to certain expectations, he may not even see an answer when it is given to him. An indication of that is his continual complaint that he is not getting an answer. The solution is for the person to honestly look at the expectations he has committed himself to and compare it to answers he is getting. If he then finds an anomaly, he should bring it to the table for discussion. But as long as that person is justifying his expectations in his mind, no discussion is possible.

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(6) Always focus on anomalies and isolate them as best as you can. Never be discouraged if others are taking time to recognize it.

An anomaly is a discontinuity (missing information), an inconsistency (contradicting information),  or disharmony (arbitrariness of altered importance). It is something that does not make sense. Mindfulness discussion is very successful because it focuses on anomalies only. When an anomaly is difficult to resolve simply look around for more data on that area of discontinuity, inconsistency, or disharmony, and consider it carefully.

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Summary

A disagreement doesn’t mean that what is being disagreed with is untrue. To show untruthfulness of something one needs to point out the anomaly. Then that anomaly needs to be resolved to find the actual element, which makes the observations free of anomalies. That element shall qualify as the truth.

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What is Mindfulness?

Reference: Course on Human Nature

Mindfulness is attentiveness. Mindfulness brings clarity to what one perceives. The basic approach is:

Observe things as they are, with full awareness of one’s assumptions.

When you look at the profile of a stranger sitting far away, you may see only one ear. When asked, “How many ears does this person have?” you may say, “He has two ears.” This is a reasonable answer because Man is born with two ears. The chances are slim but this stranger may have the other ear missing, which you can’t see at that moment.

Most people make such assumptions automatically, because they are reasonable. But some are aware of the assumption, while others are not.

Those who are aware of their assumptions are mindful.

When there are doubts and perplexities, one should look at them closely with mindfulness. In other words, one should consider them non-judgmentally with close attention to possible assumptions. All ideas, beliefs, viewpoints, and feelings related to observed inconsistency, are subject to such critical examination.

No past ideas and learning in the area of doubt and perplexity are sacrosanct (meaning so “sacred” that you cannot question them).

You continue with the critical examination until the factor generating the inconsistency is discovered, and the doubts and perplexities are resolved.

This is mindfulness.

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Glossary

Mindfulness
Mindfulness is observing things as they are, with full awareness of one’s assumptions. No past ideas and learning in the area of doubt and perplexity are sacrosanct (meaning so “sacred” that you cannot question them).

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