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The Data Series (Scientology)

July 10, 2022 – 8:27 AM

Reference: Subject: Logic

I have admired three valuable contributions of Scientology the most. These are
(1) The Phoenix Lectures,
(2) The Study technology, and
(3) The Data Series (see below).

I was trained on the Data Series Course supervised by L. Ron Hubbard’s wife, Mary Sue Hubbard on Flagship Apollo in 1973. Later I word cleared and crammed Flag executives on these materials. In this document, I shall list the original Data Series Policy Letters along with a brief summary.

NOTE: DS = Data Series; DS 1 = Data Series1

0. Overview: The Logic of Data Series

  1. Data Series 1: The Anatomy of Thought
    1. DS 1 Summary
  2. Data Series 2: Logic
    1. DS 2 Summary
    2. 2-1 Further Illogics
  3. Data Series 3: Breakthroughs
    1. DS 3 Summary
  4. Data Series 4: Data and Situation Analyzing 
    1. DS 4 Summary
  5. Data Series 5: Information Collection
    1. DS 5 Summary
  6. Data Series 6: Data Systems 
    1. DS 6 Summary
  7. Data Series 7: Familiarity
    1. DS 7 Summary
  8. Data Series 8: Sanity
    1. DS 8 Summary
  9. Data Series 9: Errors
    1. DS 9 Summary
  10. Data Series 10: The Missing Scene
    1. DS 10 Summary
  11. Data Series 11: The Situation
    1. DS 11 Summary
  12. Data Series 12: How to Find and Establish an Ideal Scene
    1. DS 12 Summary
  13. Data Series 13: Irrationality
    1. DS 13 Summary
  14. Data Series 14: Working and Managing
    1. DS 14 Summary
  15. Data Series 15: Wrong Target
    1. DS 15 Summary
  16. Data Series 16: Investigatory Procedure 
    1. DS 16 Summary
  17. Data Series 17: Narrowing the Target 
    1. DS 17 Summary
  18. Data Series 18: Summary of Out-Points 
    1. DS 18 Summary
  19. Data Series 19: The Real Why
    1. DS 19 Summary
  20. Data Series 20: More Outpoints
    1. DS 20 Summary
  21. Data Series 21: Data Series Auditing
  22. Data Series 22: The Why is God
    1. DS 22 Summary
  23. Data Series 23: Proper Format and Correct Action
    1. DS 23 Summary
  24. Data Series 24: Handling—Policy, Plans, Programs, Projects and Orders Defined 
    1. DS 24 Summary
  25. Data Series 25: Learning to Use Data Analysis 
    1. DS 25 Summary
  26. Data Series 26: Length of Time to Evaluate
  27. Data Series 27: Supplementary Evaluations
  28. Data Series 28: Checking Evals
    1. 28-1 Checking Evals Addition
    2. 28-2 Multiple Sit Eval Format
  29. Data Series 29: Outpoints, More
  30. Data Series 30: Situation Finding
  31. Data Series 31: Final Targets
    1. 31-1 Addition-Final Target Attachment
  32. Data Series 32: Target Troubles
  33. Data Series 33: Evaluation, Criticism of
  34. Data Series 34: Situation Correction
  35. Data Series 35: Eval Correction
  36. Data Series 36: Envisioning the Ideal Scene 
  37. Data Series 37: Whys Open the Door
  38. Data Series 38: Pluspoint List
  39. Data Series 39: Who-Where Finding 
  40. Data Series 40: The Ideal Org 
  41. Data Series 41: Evaluation
  42. Data Series 42: Date Coincidence
  43. Data Series 43: Evaluations and Programs
    1. 43-1. Evaluation Success
  44. Data Series 44: Super Evaluation
  45. Data Series 45: Examining Resources
  46. Data Series 46: The Ideal Ideal Scene
  47. Data Series 47: Cancellation
  48. Data Series 48: Data Series PLs, Use of
  49. Data Series 49: Execution of Evaluations
  50. Data Series 50: Out of Sequence
  51. Data Series 51: Perpetuating an Order
  52. Data Series 52: Facts
  53. Data Series 53: Outnesses
  54. Data Series 54: Evaluation

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The Definition of PTSness

April 9, 2022 – 11:45 AM

Reference: Subject: Scientology Fundamentals

We shall look at the definitions of POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE (PTS) and SUPPRESSIVE PERSON (SP) carefully from the Technical Dictionary. Apparently, an SP is the cause of suppression, and a PTS is the effect of suppression. We shall start by looking at the definition of SUPPRESS.

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SUPPRESS, to squash, to sit on, to make smaller, to refuse to let reach, to make uncertain about his reaching, to render or lessen in any way possible by any means possible, to the harm of the individual and for the fancied protection of a suppressor. 

According to this definition we are looking at any activity that does not allow a person to be himself or herself. Instead, such an activity tries to destroy the beingness of the person. 

POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE, 1. a person or preclear who “rollercoasters,” i.e., gets better, then worse. This occurs only when his connection to a suppressive person or group is unhandled and he must, in order to make his gains from Scn permanent, receive processing intended to handle such.

In order for the results from Scientology processing to last, any threat to a person’s beingness must be handled as a priority.

POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE, 2. somebody who is connected with an SP who is invalidating him, his beingness, his processing, his life.

To handle the threat to one’s beingness, one must first identify the source of such threat. Such source is always a living entity. In Scientology, that source is called the SP (suppressive person).

POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE, 3. means the case is going to go up and fall down. He’s a trouble source because he’s going to get upset. He’s a trouble source because he’s going to make trouble. And he’s trouble for the auditor and he’s trouble for us and he’s trouble for himself. 

A person whose beingness is under threat is not going to retain any benefits from auditing until that threat is handled. Until then he is gong to be trouble to Scientology organization that is auditing him.

POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE, 4. it means someone connected to a person or group opposed to Scn. It is a technical thing. It results in illness and roller-coaster and is the cause of illness and roller-coaster. 

From Scientology perspective, the SP is opposed to the person getting better, and by extension, the SP is also opposed to Scientology activity that is trying to stabilize the person.

PTS, 1. means potential trouble source which itself means a person connected to a suppressive person. All sick persons are PTS. All pcs who roller-coaster (regularly lose gains) are PTS. Suppressive persons are themselves PTS to themselves.  

A PTS person is identifiable by his inability to hold on to his gains in auditing, because his beingness is constantly being invalidated by an SP.

PTS, 2. is the manifestation of a postulate—counter-postulate. 

The PTS person wants to be himself, but the SP is not allowing that.

PTS, 3. environmental menace that keeps something continuously keyed in. This can be a constant recurring somatic, a continual, recurring pressure or a mass. The menace in the environment is not imaginary in such extreme cases. 

To the PTS person the threat to his beingness appears as a diffused environmental menace because he is unable to identify the source of it. 

PTS TYPE A, a person intimately connected with persons (such as marital or familial ties) of known antagonism to mental or spiritual treatment or Scn. 

The source of threat that a PTS feels could be right there, but the PTS is blind to it. He may not be able to associate the threat to its source because he is in some relationship with it, and he can’t let go.

PTS TYPE ONE, the SP on the case is right in present time, actively suppressing the person. Type one is normally handled by an ethics officer in the course of a hearing.

When the SP on the case is right in present time, the handling is to get the PTS to recognize this fact.

PTS TYPE TWO, type two is harder to handle than type one, for the apparent suppressive person in present time is only a restimulator for the actual suppressive. The pc who isn’t sure, won’t disconnect, or still roller-coasters, or who doesn’t brighten up, can’t name any SP at all is a type two. 

But what appears to be an SP in present time, may only be a reminder of the real SP. So, it may require a search and discovery of the real SP.

PTS TYPE THREE, the type three PTS is mostly in institutions or would be. On this case the type two’s apparent SP is spread all over the world and is often more than all the people there are—for the person sometimes has ghosts about him or demons and they are just more apparent SPs but imaginary as beings as well. 

The PTS person may start seeing SPs everywhere. Such a person is so terrified that he or she is unable to function in life and may have to be institutionalized. 

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON, 1. he’s solving a present time problem which hasn’t in actual fact existed for the last many trillenia in most cases, and yet he is taking the actions in present time which solve that problem. The guy’s totally stuck in present time, that is the whole anatomy of psychosis. 

The SP is threatening the beingness of others around him in an effort to solve some imaginary problem. He is psychotic in this sense. He is stuck in some engram.

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON, 2. a person who rewards only down statistics and never rewards an up statistic. He goofs up or vilifies any effort to help anybody and particularly knifes with violence anything calculated to make human beings more powerful or intelligent. A suppressive automatically and immediately will curve any betterment activity into something evil or bad.

The SP is not logical in his thinking. He harbors great fear against anybody getting better than him.

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON, 3. a person who doesn’t get case gain because of continuing overts.

An SP does not get better because he is continually engaged in committing harmful acts.

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON, 4. the person is in a mad, howling situation of some yesteryear and is “handling it” by committing overt acts today. I say condition of yesteryear but this case thinks it’s today. 

An SP is living with an engram completely controlling his mind.

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON, 5 . an SP is a no-confront case because, not being in his own valence he has no viewpoint from which to erase anything. That is all an SP is.

An SP is simply acting out some valence in his engram.

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON, 6. those who are destructively antisocial. 

In an SP, the thinking is completely mechanical, so no social activity flows from it.

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON, 7. a person with certain behavior characteristics and who suppresses other people in his vicinity and those other people when he suppresses them become PTS or potential trouble sources.  

An SP is threatening the beingness of others around him as part of acting out some past engram. Those whose beingness is threatened cannot hold on to their gains in auditing and become troublesome to those who are trying to help them.

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON, 8. is one that actively seeks to suppress or damage Scn or a Scientologist by suppressive acts.

An SP then starts to threaten those who are trying to help, such as, Scientology and Scientologists.

SUPPRESSIVE PERSON, 9. a person who has had a counter – postulate to the pc you are handling.

An SP is at the other end of the troublesome preclear you are trying to handle.

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Anomalies

DEFINITION: An anomaly is any violation of the integrity of reality, such 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 is discovered, one becomes aware of the underlying impression. This awareness produces a realization that resolves the anomaly.

The Scientology Organizations have declared many people on their lines, and on their staff, as SPs because they were difficult to manage. The number of such instances is so large that it points to a weakness in the application of Scientology itself. This requires a clear statement of PTSness.

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Resolution

With subject clearing, the state of PTSness appears to be as follows:

PTSness occurs when a person feels threatened about his or her beingness. This may also extend to a person who is feeling threatened about an aberrated beingness.The latter would be the condition of SPness. So, the conditions of PTSness and SPness are closely tied together and should be carefully assessed for proper handling.

Subject Clearing shall be immensely useful in handling this condition in either of its form of PTSness or SPness.

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The Definition of EXTERIORIZATION

April 8, 2022 – 5:59 PM

Reference: Subject: Scientology Fundamentals

Scientology provides the following definitions associated with EXTERIORIZATION.

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Scientology Technical Dictionary

“IDENTIFICATION, 1. the inability to evaluate differences in time, location, form, composition, or importance.”
“IDENTIFICATION, 2. identification is a monotone assignment of importance.”
“IDENTIFICATION, 3. the lowest level of reasoning is complete inability to differentiate, which is to say, identification.” 
“IDENTIFICATION, 4. Duplicating in one space continually, is in itself identification.”

Scientology identifies Static with theta and theta with thetan. It lacks a clear differentiation among these three concepts. Subject Clearing differentiates these three concepts as Unknowable, Self (ability to postulate), and Being (the postulate of individuality), respectively.

“INTERIORIZATION, 1. interiorization means going into it too fixedly, and becoming part of it too fixedly. It doesn’t mean just going into your head.”
“INTERIORIZATION, 2. if the havingness of the preclear is low, he is apt to close in tight to the body because this gives him more havingness and if the preclear fears that the body is going to go out of control he will also move in closer to the body. Thus we get interiorization as no more complicated than fear of loss of control and drops in havingness.”

Interiorization means that the attention of the person has become narrowly fixated on the body because the body provides him with an obvious sense of individuality that gets attention from others.

“EXTERIOR, the fellow would just move out, away from the body and be aware of himself as independent of a body but still able to control and handle the body.”

A person feels exterior to the body when he is able to visualize it in totality. Similarly, when he can observe his thoughts he feels exterior to them. But to the degree he cannot observe himself as a being he feels interiorized.

“EXTERIORIZATION, 1. the state of the thetan, the individual himself, being outside his body. When this is done, the person achieves a certainty that he is himself and not his body.”
“EXTERIORIZATION, 2. the phenomenon of being in a position in space dependent on only one’s consideration, able to view from that space, bodies and the room, as it is.” 
“EXTERIORIZATION, 3 . the act of moving out of the body with or without full perception.” 

Exteriorization is a state where a person is feeling exterior to his body. He may or may not be able to visualize his body, but his attention is no longer fixated on his body as if the body alone determines his beingness. He realizes that he is much more than the body and that his individuality is also determined by his viewpoint.

There are dreamlike “out of body” experiences, which accompany the shocking realization that one is more than one’s body. But that does not mean that one can literally be separate from one’s body. Scientology makes the error of interpreting such a feeling in a literal sense.

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Subject Clearing

A person feels exterior to anything when he is able to visualize it in totality. This may happen when a person has a vivid “out of body” experience. The person suddenly realizes that he is more than just a body. Until then he had been identifying himself with his body because his body has gotten the most attention from others, and his sense of individuality has built up on this attention.

The vividness of “out of body” experience springs from complete assimilation of related sensations in the mental matrix. This applies to sensation from the sense organs that assimilate routinely in mental matrix to create present time perceptions. It also applies to a facsimile coming forward on the genetic line and assimilating in the mental matrix for the first time appearing as a vivid “past life” memory. You can also create a vivid visualization of being out in space if all the related sensations happens to assimilate completely in the mental matrix.

A person can thus visualize being completely separate from the body. But this does not mean that he is literally without a body. He may even visualize being completely separate from this universe, but that doesn’t mean he is no longer connected with the universe. The ultimate exteriorization occurs when the person realizes that his sense of individuality is just his postulate. But that doesn’t take away his individuality.

Scientology looks at the “out of body” experiences and makes the error of interpreting it literally to mean that the “thetan” can separate himself from the body and survive body death.

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The Mathematical Factors

April 2, 2022 – 2:35 PM

These Factors are taken from page 123 of the book CRITIQUE OF PURE SCIENTOLOGY by Caspar Gerardus Marinus de Rijk. They are accompanied by my comments in color.

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The Mathematical Factors 2.0

(Rev. 25 October 2021)

1. Before the beginning and forever there is nothing.

2. And the entire secret is that nothing did not, not exist.

3. Nothing existed.

4. And the nothing was called zero, an ontological zero.

“Ontological zero” is the same concept as Hubbard’s Theta, because theta is zero in terms of MEST. The baseline is: THETA EXISTS WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END.

5. Zero is another view of infinity
If there is nothing, everything is possible.

Zero and infinity are the concepts in MEST dimension. This factor means that Theta can manifest in all possible ways. The postulate is: THETA HAS INFINITE POTENTIAL.

6. It is immaterial and exists beyond space-time.
Thus had no beginning and no end, thus eternal.

Being immaterial and existing beyond space-time simply means that THETA DOES NOT SHARE ITS CHARACTERISTICS WITH MEST.

7. It was dimensionless (a mathematical point)
Just like Descartes said: mind has no extension.

THETA HAS A DIMENSION; BUT IT IS NOT THE SAME AS MEST DIMENSION.

8. Zero is the domain of the mind.

MIND LIES IN THE THETA DIMENSION.

9. In the nothing are the numbers equating to zero.
(-∞ – 0) + (0 – ∞) = 0

THE WHOLE DIMENSION OF THETA IS ZERO IN TERMS OF MEST.

10. All mathematical equations balance to zero.

I am not quite sure what this means in the ontological sense. It could imply that there is conversion between Theta and MEST; and that the net conversion is zero. Or, it could mean that the products of various interactions within Theta dimension are all zero in terms of the MEST dimension.

11. Zero is the singularity as nothing existed before the Big Bang.
The singularity=roughly equivalent to static in scientology.

The implication here is that Theta existed first and MEST proceeded from it at the moment of Big Bang. In my opinion, both THETA and MEST have existed as the dimensions of the universe without beginning or end.

12. Implicit in the singular zero is an infinity of zeroes.
There is no reason why there would not be an infinity of zeroes, if one zero already implies infinity, it follows that zero must contain an infinity of zeroes. The zeroes=monads or thetans in Scientology.

The consideration here is that there are infinity of potentials in the dimension of Theta, called thetans. Each thetan has infinite potential of its own. In my opinion, every entity in this universe has Theta and MEST dimensions. The Theta dimension represents the beingness of the entity. The MEST dimension represents the body of the entity. The beingness has evolved in humans to have abilities that are yet to be fully explored.

13. Zero is an existential plenitude of infinite potentials.

In other words, human beingness has infinite potential. In my opinion, we have to explore the human potential and find out what it is.

14. The physical universe stems from these mathematical points but have ® > 0.
A mathematical point is a circle with radius ® zero, between zero and infinity we find the physical world.

The implication seems to be that Theta produces MEST. In my opinion, Theta and MEST are the two dimensions of the universe. Neither dimension produces the other dimension.

15. The ground state or native state of the singularity is unconscious an infinite potential for knowledge.

I am not sure what the word “unconscious” is doing there. The implication seems to be that all knowledge exists potentially in Theta. In my opinion, all knowledge exists in the dimension of Theta whether it is potential or actual.

16. And this goes for each of the zeroes which are all alive and sentient.

Here zero seems to be limited to human beingness (thetan) only. No other beingness is included.

17. The zeroes evolve from sentience to intelligence and self-consciousness.

The potential of theta manifests itself as thetan evolves.

18. The evolution goes from full potential to full actualization.

This potential manifests to its full extent.

19. Information consists of numbers and/or waves or energy

This is a comment on information. To me, anything that you can perceive is information.

20. The mind (zero domain) processes information (sinusoidal waves, or higher dimensional vortices) (numbers) to then experience that information as feelings, sensations, perceptions, adventures etc. in space-time.

The mind, a manifestation of theta, experiences this information as feelings, sensations, perceptions, adventures etc. 

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The Definition of Theta-MEST Theory (old)

March 29, 2022 – 5:11 PM

Please see Postulate Mechanics: Dianetics Theory

Theta-MEST Theory is central to Scientology. Scientology provides the following definitions for Theta-MEST Theory.

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Scientology Technical Dictionary

“THETA-MEST THEORY, 1. a theory generated by myself in the fall of 1950 as an effort to explain (just a theory) the phenomena of an analyzer working in one direction and a reactive mind working in quite another, the reactive mind being interesting, and the analyzer being interested.“

The analytical mind (analyzer) and the reactive mind are part of the same spectrum. The analyzer gradually becomes reactive as its ability to differentiate reduces. There is no firm line dividing the analyzer from the reactive mind.

“THETA-MEST THEORY, 2. the idea is that life is a no-substance thing, up against a physical universe which is a substance thing. Here is nothingness up against a somethingness interacting where the nothingness or the no-substance thing is actually giving orders to and handling the all substance thing, the physical universe.” 

Here Theta is Unknowable (no substance), that is continually postulating MEST, which, having substance, is knowable. 

“THETA-MEST THEORY, 3. the idea that there was a universe and that there was thought—theta without wave-length, without mass, without time, without position in space: this was life. And that was impinged upon something else called the physical universe, which was a mechanical entity which did things in a peculiar way, and these two things together, theta-mest interacting, gave us life forms.“

Here Theta is being regarded as life; MEST is being regarded as a mechanical entity. But “mechanical” means natural principles that apply to matter. This excludes natural principles that apply to energy and thought. In fact, MEST is the whole spectrum to which natural principles apply, and that is the whole universe of thought, energy and matter. Theta is the Unknowable that postulates and energizes the universe.

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Subject Clearing

There is an unbridgeable division between the Knowable and the Unknowable. See The Definition of STATIC. MEST is properly the designation for the “Knowable universe.” See The Definition of MEST. Therefore, THETA is properly the designation for the Unknowable. See The Definition of THETA.

A natural division exists between the Knowable universe and the Unknowable. But Hubbard makes an arbitrary division between the physical universe and thought, which are different aspects of the knowable universe. This is a basic anomaly in Scientology.

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