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This KHTK process may help a person handle feelings of deep-seated regret. Look at each question below per the 12 Steps of Mindfulness. If the mind brings up something then look at it more closely. If nothing comes up then skip that question.

A) Do you have a regret about having done (or not done) something?
B) What situation were you trying to resolve at that moment?
C) Is there something that is difficult to look at?
D) How would you resolve that situation now?

This process may be done while sitting on a chair with back straight, or while walking at a comfortable pace. The eyes may be open or closed.

I did this process while walking on a treadmill with eyes closed. It seems that walking provides additional energy that helps execute this process faster. I successfully handled several items that I had regrets about. I no longer have anything suppressed in relation to those items. I understand the situations I was trying to resolve. I now have a much better understanding of myself.

This process may be done again later even when nothing came up on the first few attempts.

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The above process is derived from the following ‘Power Process #1’ of Scientology:

a) What overt have you committed?
b) What problem were you trying to solve?
c) What haven’t you said?
d) What problem were you trying to solve?

The Scientology process requires an auditor and an e-meter. The KHTK process, on the other hand, can be done by oneself under the discipline provided by the 12 Steps of Mindfulness.

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The word EXISTENCE comes from Latin Latin ex(s)istere,  to  appear or emerge. It has the following definitions.

1. The state or fact of existing; being.
2. Continuance in being or life; life: a struggle for existence.
3. Mode of existing: They were working for a better existence.
4. All that exists: Existence shows a universal order.
5. Something that exists; entity; being.

In Scientology, EXISTENCE is defined as,

1. “An existing state or fact of being; life; living; continuance of being; and occurrence; specific manifestation.”
2. “Apparency, reality, livingness.”

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Existence is generally thought of in terms of physical manifestations (matter, energy, space and time). But there are mental manifestation also, such as, thoughts, ideas, assumptions, expectations, suppositions, conjectures, speculations, emotions, feelings, sensations, etc. These may be grouped under the word CONSIDERATION.

These are mental objects. They can be perceived. Anything that can be perceived is part of existence.

Existence is made up of matter, energy, space, time and considerations.

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In this Scientology Power Processes, one contemplates upon the following two questions:

1. What is?
2. What isn’t?

It is interesting to note that both ‘what-is’ and ‘what-isn’t’ are considerations. All considerations exist in the present moment. They simply have the labels ‘past’, ‘present’, ‘future’, ‘there’ or ‘not there’ attached to them.

The earlier power process on “source” prepared a person to observe logical associations among considerations. There is a logical association between something and its source; but that does not mean that all things must necessarily have a source. If that were the case then we would end up with an endless chain. It is quite possible that something may not have a source, reason or cause.

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The current process allows a person to observe that there may be something, or simply nothing. Thus, it is possible that there is no answer to a question, or no source to a manifestation.

Normally, when a person expects something to be there, he puts it there. This is how “dub-in” comes about. The person is asked a question. Nothing comes up in his mind. But he feels that he must give an answer. So he puts something there. This is “dub-in.”

If the mind does not bring up something in response to a question, then it is safe to say that there is no response. If the mind cannot see source of a manifestation then it is safe to say that there is no source.

The contemplation per this process gives a person the opportunity to reexamine the associations among one’s considerations to determine if they are logical or simply dub-ins. Any pretense, which a person may be engaged in, clears up with this process.

When something is dubbed-in, it exists and it influences one’s life.

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Reference: Looking at Hallucinations

Here are some of my thoughts on the OT Levels of Scientology. Hubbard says on the original OT I,

“It is not the intention of this section to exteriorize anyone but if it happens don’t worry about or fool around with the fact.”

He is trying to inject some mystery here.

But the OT I drills have to do with

(1) Counting bodies
(2) Noticng the sex (male or female) of those bodies.
(3) Noticing the size (small or large) of those bodies.
(4) Noticing the attribute in terms of there being an individual, or a crowd.
(5) Differentiating oneself from others.
(6) Noticing the degree to which one can have (tolerate) others around oneself.
(7) Noticing the body part in others that one doesn’t like having in one’s body.
(8) Spotting things in others that are not wrong with them.
(9) Noticing people walking toward you or walking away from you.
(10) Noticing how people stick to the ground (get the sense of gravity).
(11) Spotting important things about people (these would be one’s own considerations).
(12) Noticing places where there are no people.
(13) Noticing places where there are people.

Basically, this is LOOKING and recognizing what is there. The principles of mindfulness should apply here.

OT I focuses on perceiving the attributes of bodies in different ways  and then looking at oneself with respect to those attributes.

This drill may make a person look at oneself more objectively. This may free up the fixed considerations that one is a body. And one may get a new perspective on oneself, where one took oneself for granted before.

Nothing more mysterious need to be read into the OT I Level.

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Mystery

So why would Hubbard say,

“It is not the intention of this section to exteriorize anyone but if it happens don’t worry about or fool around with the fact.”

There is considerable mystery and expectations built around the word “exteriorization” in Scientology. It would have been better not to bring this word up if it was not part of OT I. But, I suppose, it was intended by Hubbard to present these OT Levels as something mysterious.

Are OT Levels really mysterious? Or, do they simply reflect Hubbard’s own uncertainty about the process of exteriorization?

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Exteriorization

First of all, is there anything mysterious about exteriorization? The Tech Dictionary of Scientology says,

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. 

Now, what is this thing that would just move out, away from the body? Well, it’s the being. But what is a being? According to the Tech Dictionary,

BEING: a viewpoint; he is as much a being as he is able to assume viewpoints.

But is there somebody assuming this viewpoint? Yes, it is the THETAN. According to the Tech Dictionary,

THETAN: the mathematic symbol used in Scn to indicate the source of life and life itself… the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location… the individual who lives in the body… not a thing, but the creator of things… that which is aware of being aware… energy space production unit… you before you mocked yourself up… a static…

It appears that “being” is a state or a condition. It is not something material. Detachment from body is getting unstuck from the consideration that one is a body. 

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Uncertainty

But it seems that Hubbard was not sure if exteriorization is material or immaterial.

Any mystery attached to “exteriorization” would come from not understanding this phenomenon. And any misunderstanding of “exteriorization” can inadvertently create complications with a person trying to interpret his experiences on OT I.

Hubbard says on OT I,

“A great many phenomena (strange things) can happen while doing these drills if they are done honestly.”

This definitely injects trepidation and expectation in the OT process. It thus colors and corrupts one’s ability to simply look.

A person’s experience on OT Levels will be messed up to the degree these levels are made mysterious.

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Mindfulness

The ability to simply look was presented by Hubbard as OBNOSIS. From Tech Dictionary:

OBNOSIS: observing the obvious. 

This is the same concept, which Buddha referred to as Mindfulness.

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

Unfortunately, Hubbard did not explore or emphasize the concept of OBNOSIS much, which, as MINDFULNESS, is central to Buddhism.

Here are the core 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.

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