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Subject Clearing Process 13 (Source)

October 29, 2023 – 5:48 AM

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

Processing is the application of a sequence of steps to bring about an improvement in a person’s condition. In Subject Clearing, the processes are obtained from the study of Hinduism, Buddhism and Scientology.

In Subject Clearing, you can always go back to an earlier process and run it again.

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Process #13

The 13th process in Subject Clearing is to explore the concept of SOURCE. 

This process makes one look at logical relationships. It may bring to light a postulate or an arbitrary assumption from which a chain of reasoning started. Or, it may make one aware of instances of circular logic, where the starting point of reasoning circles back to itself as a conclusion of the same chain of reasoning. 

In this process a person contemplates on the following.

  1. Tell me a source.
  2. Tell me about it.
  3. Tell me a no source.
  4. Tell me about it.

This process is discussed more fully here. Make sure you study and understand it: “SOURCE” – A Scientology Power Process.

Contemplate per the above commands until you are fully satisfied with your understanding of SOURCE. If you come across an anomaly handle it with Subject Clearing Process 6 (Viewpoint).

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Subject Clearing Auditing

October 23, 2023 – 8:50 AM

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

Processing is the application of a procedure to bring about an improvement in a person’s condition. In Subject Clearing, the processes have been obtained from the study of Vedic Hinduism, Buddhism, Psychoanalysis and Scientology.

In Subject Clearing, you can always go back to a previously applied process and run it again.

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Process

This Subject Clearing process explores the concept of auditing. 

Look up these words in the sequence given below.
AUDITING, RETURNING, STRAIGHTWIRE, MOCK UP, CONCEPT, LISTING, AUDITING BY RETURNING, AUDITING BY STRAIGHTWIRE, AUDITING BY MOCK UP, AUDITING BY CONCEPT, AUDITING BY LISTING, PRINCIPLE OF ONENESS, ANOMALY, FACSIMILE, SOMATIC, ATTENTION, CONFRONT, CHARGE, ARC, AUDITING QUESTION, END PHENOMENON, REPETITIVE TO EP, FLOWS, ALTERNATIVELY TO EP, BRACKET, COMMUNICATION, SELF-ANALYSIS LISTS.

You may look up their definitions from Regular or Scientology dictionary. The subject cleared definitions for these concepts are provided below.

Contemplate on these concepts until you are fully satisfied with your understanding. If you come across an anomaly handle it with Subject Clearing Process 6 (Viewpoint).

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AUDITING
Auditing of the mind involves accessing the unassimilated content of the mind and assimilating it in the mental matrix. This action may be compared to handling bugs in a computer program. In Dianetics and Scientology various processes are used to accomplish auditing. In Subject Clearing, the approach is to spot anomalies and resolve them by looking at them more closely.

RETURNING
Returning is the technique in which a person mentally goes back and re-experience an incident. His mental capacity reduces to that in the incident. In other words, in returning, a person’s attention is totally absorbed in the unassimilated impression.

STRAIGHTWIRE
In straightwire, or straight memory, a person is not returning to some past event. Instead he stays in the present time and confronts the sensations that are present. To confront is to face without flinching or withdrawing. As he confronts the sensations they start to assimilate and resolve into perceptions of past events and considerations.

MOCK UP
When a person is mocking up, he is putting together something mentally. He is making a postulate and giving it a form by reorganizing the perceptual elements in the mental matrix. The mock-up then exists in space and time. All scientific theories, such as, the atomic theory, have been mocked up this way.

CONCEPT
A concept is a general notion or idea. It is that which is retained after something has been perceived. Concepts form the basis of mock-ups. For example, one may have the concept of an atom as a very small particle.

LISTING
The person lists a number of items in response to a “Who” or “What” question. He than arranges those items in some logical order that appeals to him. This then helps him select the most appealing item in response to the question. It also provides him with an order in which to deal with those items. See The Listing Process.

AUDITING BY RETURNING
This was the technique used in Dianetics. The auditor commands the attention units of a person to return to an incident that needs to be assimilated. The person searches for the incident in his past. When all his attention units are in the past he becomes part of the incident when found, and he cannot evaluate and assimilate the incident without auditor’s assistance. This required a lot of skill on the part of the auditor.

AUDITING BY STRAIGHTWIRE
This is the technique used in Scientology. The person’s attention remains in present time. The auditor provides the auditing question and keep’s the person focused on it till it is fully answered. The person looks at the answers that come up and gives them to the auditor. The straightwire can be done by the person himself with some discipline without the auditor.

AUDITING BY MOCK UP
This technique is also used in Scientology, especially with children. One cannot perceive the contents of a facsimile because it is not assimilated. But one can mock up something to see if it matches the facsimile in its effects. This may take some trial and error but it helps resolve the facsimile.

AUDITING BY CONCEPT
A person commonly is able to obtain a concept much more easily than he can obtain a specific memory.In this technique, a person holds a concept in his mind, and scans his experience to see what anomalies come up, and then resolves them by looking at them more closely. One may also run an emotional concept this way, such as, not liking dogs. The person may also look at how a concept changes as one moves up some scale, such as, the Know to Mystery scale or the Tone Scale. 

AUDITING BY LISTING
This technique is used on higher grades of Scientology. The person lists a number of items in response to a “Who” or “What” question. He then arranges those items in a logical order that appeals to him. This then helps him select the most appealing item in response to the question. After handling that item, he may rearrange the remaining items in a new list to select and handle the item that is most appealing now. One does this until the original question is fully addressed.

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).

FACSIMILE
When a sensation is difficult to break down, it remains as a copy (facsimile) of what was sensed. It does not get assimilated into the mental matrix; and therefore, its contents are not available to perception. But it gets activated being embedded in the mental matrix, and acts as an unknown influencer of computations. Such computations, and actions based on them, cannot be corrected without discovering and assimilating the facsimile. 

SOMATIC
A somatic is an anomaly that is traced in Dianetics. It is essentially a pleasant or unpleasant awareness of the body. It includes pains, aches, dizziness, physical discomfort, and even unconsciousness.

ATTENTION
Attention is directed awareness. It goes to whatever needs to be resolved. At first, it gets fixated on resolving the situation, but, upon failing, it becomes unfixed and sweeping at random.

CONFRONT
To face without flinching or avoiding.

CHARGE
Charge refers to the degree of confusion, tension, or conflict in a person’s case. It manifests as the lower emotions of anger, fear, grief or apathy on the tone scale. A heavily charged case means a case with a heavy burden of unassimilated losses. 

ARC
ARC stands for affinity, reality and communication. Affinity is the degree of familiarity one feels toward something. Reality is the degree of perception of that thing. Communication is the degree of being in touch with that thing. Together, these three factors represent Understanding.

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Meditation & Dianetics

October 22, 2023 – 5:04 AM

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

The ancient meditation is about focusing on one’s breath to get rid of all distractions, and then resolving anomalies in whatever came up in one’s consciousness. The resolution occurred when a person concentrated his attention on the anomaly and discovered its content.

What Dianetics added to meditation was, to select body somatic to look at instead of any anomaly. This led to discovering past painful incidents including some samskars (genetic painful incidents) and their content.

But not all body somatic are due to singular, well-defined incidents. Some may take a gradient approach to resolve many anomalies before the body somatic could be resolved. Here is my criticism of Dianetics (the precursor of Scientology).

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Dianetics, Criticism of

Apparently, the author of Dianetic thesis (Hubbard) is able to produce results where others run into difficulty. Therefore, the Dianetic procedure needs to be examined more closely. In my observation, many difficulties arise because of the violation of the gradient in approaching the engram.

According to the laws of returning, the analytical awareness starts to shut down as one approaches the engram, and the thinking increasingly dramatizes the content of the engram. The person is not aware of this change but the auditor is. The auditor is then required to navigate the preclear through it skillfully.

According to the thesis, the auditor’s dynamic assists the preclear’s dynamic in overcoming the effects of the laws of returning. But in practice, the auditor takes over the awareness of the preclear instead of assisting it. Even the use of E-meter brings awareness to the auditor only. The preclear is simply being told what to do, and he is never in command of himself while approaching the engram. He mechanically obeys either the engram or the auditor.

Only the preclear can handle his aberrations. The auditor can only support, encourage and guide him but he can’t approach and assimilate the engram for the preclear. The only solution is for the preclear to remain in control of his awareness while approaching the engram and assimilating its content. This requires the preclear to overcome the effects of the law of returning. 

It is important to remember that Hubbard was an expert hypnotist and he thought in terms of returning. So, he may not have even considered the possibility of neutralizing the engram without returning.

In hypnotism, the hypnotist installs a hypnotic command. That command can be neutralized by recalling the moment that command was installed. Hypnotist can easily do it because he knows when he installed that command. But the situation is very different in life. One suspects that there is a painful incident, which installed an engram in the mind but nothing is known about this incident. Engram is not like a simple hypnotic command. It has many tentacles reaching into many logic circuits of the mental matrix. Its relationship with the mind is much more complex compared to that of a simple hypnotic command.

The dianetic approach is to attack the source of pain (the engram). It tries to push through the pain to locate and re-experience the engram. It neglects the very many and much finer relationships that need to be straightened out in the process of neutralizing the engram. Thus it violates the principle of gradient. The more the gradient is violated, the more forceful is the reaction of the engram. The laws of returning are simply the result of violating the gradient. There are no such laws in play when the engram is approached on a gradient, as in subject clearing.

The subject clearing approach allows the engram to unwind itself through free association on its own natural gradient. The preclear simply focuses on the aberration that is bothering him. He examines that aberration in detail. He lets the mind associate non-judgmentally all the data that comes up in the context of that aberration. He objectively watches the reactions and even the strong emotions that come up. He lets all such reactions run out as they may. He doesn’t interfere even when the awareness seems to attenuate as in falling asleep. These are contents of the engram getting released to the mental matrix.

It does not matter what the preclear has done or what has been done to him. He does not guess or search for the contents of the engram. If a phrase is running around in his head he simply focuses on it. He experiences whatever comes up without resisting. He may be supported, encouraged and guided by a subject clearing auditor. But it is the preclear’s dynamic that lies behind this free association. Using the gradient of free association any engram can be reached safely and easily.

The Dianetic thesis seems to blame any lack of success on incompetent auditing. It is noted that a proper thesis would be effective and easy to apply at the same time. Hopefully, the subject clearing approach shall be able to overcome the difficulties that have plagued the dianetic procedure.

The out-gradient in dianetic procedure ends up in the auditor taking over the awareness of the preclear instead of assisting it. 

NOTE: Even the Scientology Grades and OT Levels suffer from the same problem. At OT Levels, the auditor is replaced by the E-meter. The E-meter and “Hubbard’s rigid theory and instructions” take over the awareness of the preOT instead of assisting it.

This seems to have become ingrained so much so that the preclear is expected to submit to the dictates of the organization delivering auditing. This organization is presently the “Church of Scientology”, which closely monitors all its parishioners and expects them to comply mindlessly with its “code of ethics”. It keeps them in line through a system of reward and punishment. Anyone who rebels against the control of the Church is declared a “potential trouble source” or a “suppressive person”.

Fortunately, with subject clearing approach one can audit oneself to great improvement. He can then help others get started with their auditing. Only this way can a grass roots movement be started which is up to meeting the demands of the society for relief from aberration.

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Subject Clearing Scientology

October 20, 2023 – 2:49 PM

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

Processing is the application of a procedure to bring about an improvement in a person’s condition. In Subject Clearing, the processes have been obtained from the study of Vedic Hinduism, Buddhism, Psychoanalysis and Scientology.

In Subject Clearing, you can always go back to a previously applied process and run it again.

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Process

This Subject Clearing process explores some Scientology concepts. 

Look up these words in the sequence given below.
STATIC, THETA, MEST, THETA-MEST THEORY, POSTULATE, AWARENESS, THETAN, EXTERIORIZATION, OPERATING THETAN.

You may look up their definitions from Scientology dictionary. You may study these concepts from Scientology materials. The subject cleared definitions for these concepts are provided below.

Contemplate on these concepts until you are fully satisfied with your understanding. If you come across an anomaly handle it with Subject Clearing Process 6 (Viewpoint).

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STATIC
The subject clearing reveals that “Static” is a definite postulate of Hubbard on which the subject of Scientology rests. “Static” has no material or physical attributes, but it definitely has certain thought attributes. The anomaly is that Hubbard is setting up “Static” as an absolute, but it is a postulate with known attributes. This makes “Static” something knowable relative to the Unknowable, and not an absolute. See The Definition of STATIC.

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THETA
Hubbard uses Theta as a mathematical symbol for the Static. In Scientology, Static, or Theta, is actually being used as a symbol for the ideal attributes of mankind. From Subject Clearing point of view, Theta is the Unknowable. The ability to postulate and become aware is an attribute that may be given to the Unknowable, because it does not become knowable until it is manifested as postulates. The postulated ideal characteristics for mankind are definitely in the realm of knowable. See The Definition of THETA.

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MEST
Anything manifested is knowable. Anything knowable has some substance. Thought, Energy and Matter are all knowable. They all have substance. Thought appears as pure space, energy has “energy space,” and matter has “material space.” From thought to energy to matter we have increasing condensation of substance. Time provides a measure of that condensation.

MEST is  an acronym formed from the initial letters matter, energy, space and time. MEST, therefore, represents the whole spectrum of substance from thought to energy to matter, that has the characteristics of space and time. Substance does not exclude thought.

Scientology makes the error of limiting the designation of “MEST” to the physical universe of energy and matter. But MEST equally describes the thought universe. In short, MEST is properly the designation for the “Knowable universe.” See The Definition of MEST.

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THETA-MEST THEORY
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. See The Definition of Theta-MEST Theory.

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POSTULATE
A postulate explains a whole lot of observed phenomena. Therefore, there has to be a set of postulates that explains the knowable universe. Such a set of postulates must be continuous, consistent and harmonious to be able to explain all phenomena and what may be beyond and as yet unknowable. The property of continuity, consistency and harmony makes up the Principle of Oneness. This principle is ignored in Scientology. See The Definition of POSTULATE.

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AWARENESS
Awareness accompanies any manifestation. With awareness there is knowingness. Manifestation occurs as there are postulates followed by considerations. The abilities to postulate and to become aware go together. These abilities form the concept of Self that pervades everything but has no individuality. This concept does not exist in Scientology. See The Definition of AWARENESS.

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THETAN
Thetan is essentially the postulate of individual beingness, which is energized by theta. This individuality is defined by definite goals and behavior characteristics. The programming of the thetan consists of the blueprint that produces the body and the mind. Body is generated by the lower end of this programming, whereas, the conscious mind is formed by the upper end of the programming. The immortality of thetan is limited to theta only because the individuality is perishable. In short, the thetan is a sophisticated system where the theta part makes the thetan aware of being aware and enables it to observe and postulate and resolve anomalies. 

Scientology fails to differentiate between theta (unknowable with the ability to postulate) and the actual postulates that comprise the individual beingness. Therefore, it identifies theta with the individuality and considers individuality to be immortal. This identification generates much disharmony as it ignores the Principle of Oneness. See The Definition of THETAN.

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EXTERIORIZATION
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 happen 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 to 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. See The Definition of EXTERIORIZATION.

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OPERATING THETAN
A person is an operating thetan when he no longer has any unassimilated impressions (facsimiles). His postulates and considerations are totally aligned with the natural laws governing thought, energy and matter. He, therefore, operates without any effort. He has resolved the anomalies to do with beingness. He is now resolving anomalies that exist in rest of the universe. He is able to pervade the whole universe and operate as one with the universe.

An operating thetan operates unrestricted by any considerations to do with the body. This is erroneously interpreted in Scientology to mean that an operating thetan can operate without a body. This is misinterpreted as an operating thetan being immortal. Unfortunately, this has become the goal in Scientology to achieve the immortality of one’s individuality. See The Definition of OPERATING THETAN.

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Thetan: An Ego Trap

October 9, 2023 – 1:24 PM
Ego, Painting by Lika Makaridze | Artmajeur

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

Individuality is something natural. There is nothing wrong with individuality. But there is everything wrong with fixation on individuality because such a fixation is opposed to the Oneness of reality.

So long as a person is fixated on individuality he can never be at peace.

So long as majority of people are fixated on their individualities there can never be peace in a society, country, or the world.

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Scientology

Scientology is the latest religion that may have peaked now, but it was expanding quite rapidly at one time. Its draw was that it could rapidly free a person from past impressions in his mind that were limiting his potential. It promised to restore a person to his full potential.

Scientology consists of many interesting processes that help free a person from unwanted conditions, and improve his confidence in managing his life. But in doing so it also traps the person in getting more fixated on his individuality.

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The Thetan

Some of these traps that we find in Scientology are based on ideas that have existed prominently in the Western Culture. 

One such idea is that of a world, which is basically material, is created by God, who is entirely spiritual. This idea gives superiority to the spiritual domain over the material domain. Scientology incorporates this idea into a THETA-MEST Theory. In this theory, MEST represents the physical universe, and THETA represents all the capabilities of the spirit. MEST is considered to be produced by THETA.

In humans, THETA appears as the “individuality” called THETAN, and MEST appears as the physical body. A person is actually the THETAN, who can be separated from his physical body. The person, as THETAN, can act independently of the physical body, and does not really need the physical body to operate. The achievement of this state of OPERATING THETAN is the goal of all Scientology processing.

The THETAN is immortal; therefore, a person, as an OPERATING THETAN, can operate as the same individual forever.

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Why is Thetan a Trap?

A person enters Scientology through its introductory services. Immediately, he is taught that he is an immortal thetan, and not his body. He can, through auditing, separate himself from the body, and live in that state for ever. Since he does not need the body to operate in this universe, he can regard it as disposable. The person starts to see THETAN as the sum total of his individuality. Now he has become a Scientologist.

The feeling of being immortal greatly boosts a person’s ego. He is now ready to build up on that ego with confidence.

The ego is his current sense of individuality. In Scientology, he has a free pass to build up on that ego. In fact, Scientology helps him do just that.

The simple truth is that the thetan is not immortal, and that the person cannot operate in this universe without a body. A Scientologist is trapped in the lie of an immortal thetan. He ends up justifying to himself how he is an immortal and indestructible thetan.

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Subject Clearing Thetan

Thetan is the mathematical symbol assigned to individuality. The individuality is formed out of postulates. It can change as the postulates change. Therefore, an individuality can die and another individuality can emerge in its place. Thetan is not immortal since the individuality is not immortal.

When a person is trying to improve, he is working with his considerations. These considerations have their basis in the postulates that are part of his makeup. As he starts to clear up the anomalies in his consideration, he is led straight back to his postulates. These postulates are very fundamental to him. The criterion of Oneness really becomes important at this point.

The postulates that are part of his makeup, must be continuous, consistent and harmonious according to the Principle of Oneness. He has to trust his guts to discover the anomalies among these postulates and resolve them. He cannot blithely go by the E-meter reads without understanding what is going on.

Any process that an individual allows to be run on himself, he must do so with full awareness of what is stated here.

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