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Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Three, Chapter 9, “Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy Part I” from DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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Mechanisms and Aspects of Therapy Part I

KEY WORDS: Reduction, Erasure, Somatic strip, Boil-off, Lock

Note: These sections provide quick summaries. If you need details, please consult the section in the book.

THE CASE ENTRANCE

In Dianetics the goal is basic-basic, which is the earliest moment of pain and “unconsciousness.” You right away try for basic-basic and then for prenatal area. Reduce as many prenatal facsimile as you can. Then look for later painful emotion facsimile, instant of loss, failure, and discharge it. Lacking any success, start in repeater technique. Let the somatic strip travel. You may or may not get a discharge, keep searching, keep observing. Try the most likely phrases. Use your knowledge of bouncers, holders, groupers, misdirectors and denyers. If you get a discharge ask the somatic strip to go back for the prenatal it was sitting on. You alternate between early physical pain and later painful emotion facsimiles. Whenever you encounter a non-optimum thought or feeling, see if it could be traced back to a facsimile. 

In the subject clearing approach the goal is to exteriorize the attention from being introverted into the self. You start by clearing the subject of self. Handle facsimiles as they come up. If that gets tiring, alternate the subject of Self with an entirely different subject, such as, sports or literature, that extroverts your attention.

STUCK IN PRESENT TIME

When no repeater phrase works and you seem to be “stuck in present time,” then restudy the mechanism of returning. Practice returning to a moment a few hours ago, then a few days ago, then a few months and finally several years. When you are returned, start using repeater technique with  words like “feel” and “forget.” Make a guess what must be troubling you or occluding your recalls and again use these guesses as repeater. Should this still fail, then find some light locks, incidents which contain minimal pain, and run those. There is one motto which applies to all therapy, “If you keep asking for it, you’ll get it.”

In subject clearing start clearing up words and concepts in the subject of self. Study the relationships among these concepts by making examples that are really real to you. As you make examples from your personal experience you might run into facsimiles. To handle such facsimiles, you contemplate over the experience using the discipline of subject clearing.

BASIC-BASIC

Basis-basic contains the first moment when the analyzer was turned off. When this moment is gained, subsequent engrams are much more easily reduced. Dianetics assumes such a moment to occur weeks before mother’s first missed period. In practice, try to get the earliest moment of pain or discomfort you can reach every session. If you can reach nothing early, seek to discharge a late emotional facsimile.

In subject clearing try to clear up the earliest concept from available materials on which the whole subject is based.

THE REDUCTION AND THE ERASURE

To reduce means to take all the charge or pain out of an incident. A reduced incident will never be as aberrative as it was before. To “erase” means to recount it until it has vanished entirely. If a facsimile is early enough and no material exists earlier which will suspend it, that the facsimile will “erase.” In other words, it gets assimilated in the mental matrix.

In subject clearing, words and concepts may lead to other words and concepts. Finally a word or concept at the bottom of the chain will fully clear up. Then you come back up the chain clearing rest of the words and concepts.

HANDLING THE SOMATIC STRIP

When the mind is working well, the “somatic strip” can be commanded to go to any part of the time track day by day, hour by hour. It will pick up the somatic first, usually, and then pick up the content. As the somatic strip moves physical sensations turn on and off. If the somatic strip does not respond according to command, then a bouncer, a holder, a misdirector, or a grouper has been restimulated and should be discharged. 

“Somatic strip” are attention units that are detached and can look at the experiences objectively. 

PRESENT TIME

It happens now and then that after returning, the strip does not get back to present time because it has struck holders en route. Repeater technique with holders will generally free the strip and get it to present time.

In Subject Clearing approach simply contemplate under the discipline of subject clearing. This will help you return to the present time.

THE FLASH ANSWER

The flash answer is the first thing which comes into a person’s head when a question is asked him. Much valuable data can be recovered by clever use of the flash answer. If there is no answer at all, it means that the answer is occluded and there is some kind of a cover-up.

DREAMS

Dreams are puns on words and situations in the facsimiles. They are not much used in dianetics. 

VALENCE SHIFT

A person assumes a valence when he dramatizes a personality (from a facsimile) that is not himself. He says and does rather much what the person in the winning valence did in that facsimile. When running a trauma, the person may first run it in valences that did not suffer pain as it makes it easier to go through the trauma. This can flush out phrases that can then be used to run out the trauma in his own valence.

TYPE OF CHAINS

A chain means a series of incidents of similar types. The chains one can most easily contact are the least charged. The most aberrative chains will usually be the hardest to reach because they contain the most active data. 

DIANETIC DON’TS

Many of these don’ts are common sense and doesn’t explicitly apply when you are using the subject clearing approach. Just don’t get angry or upset with yourself. Don’t get frightened when there are reactions. They will soon run out. Don’t expect anything; let things happen as they may. Stick to the procedure. Handle any anomaly as far as you can, don’t leave it in the middle.

TYPES OF SOMATICS

There are two kinds of somatics, those which properly belong to the person and those which belong to some other person in the facsimile.

“UNCONSCIOUSNESS”

“Unconsciousness” has two special manifestations: the yawn and the “boil-off.” Yawns are an indicator of approaching awareness. “Boil off” is a condition of being groggy and floundering around. One appears as if drugged. Five or ten minutes of “boil-off” are not uncommon. A period when the person was almost dead is coming up to the surface.

LOCKS

A lock is a moment of mental discomfort containing no physical pain and no great loss. It can be recalled easily and reduced. But there are just too many of them. The key-in of a painful facsimile is the primary lock. All locks discharge automatically the moment the painful facsimile holding them is erased.

THE JUNIOR CASE

If father was named George and the patient is called George, beware of trouble. A Junior case is seldom easy.

RESTIMULATING THE ENGRAM

“Ask often enough and you will receive,” is always true when working the facsimiles. Simply by returning into an area enough times facsimiles will appear. If it is not there today, it will be there tomorrow. But if it is not there tomorrow, it will be there the day after and so forth. Emotional discharges are most certainly located by asking for them time after time, returning over the part of the track where the charge is expected to lie. What repeater technique will fail to do can be done by returning, session after session, to a portion of your life. Sooner or later it will come into view.

OCCLUDED LIFE PERIODS AND PEOPLE

Whole areas of the time track and persons will be found occluded. They come to view after a few facsimiles have been lifted in basic or the area has been developed as above.

ANIMOSITY TOWARD PARENTS

As a person gets better he will go through a phase of anger. It is a natural by-product of therapy and it cannot be avoided. When he is released or cleared, he feels no animosity whatever toward his parents or others who had caused his aberrations. 

PROPITIATION

Propitiation is a state wherein the person, in deep fear of another, offers expensive presents and soft words, turns the other cheek, offers himself as a doormat and generally makes a fool out of himself. It is an apathy effort to hold away a dangerous “source” of pain. This is an indicator of sympathy facsimile not yet suspected or tapped.

LOVE

Love can be compulsive, dictated by nothing more reasonable than aberration. Here is a meeting of minds — but the minds are on the lowest computational level possessed by man. Driven together by compulsion, men and women mate who will find in that mating nothing but sorrow and reduction of their hopes. Where there are children, divorce does not answer, clearing does. And with clearing comes a fresh new page of life on which happiness can be written.

THE ERASURE

Once you get the basic-basic things start to erase rather than reduce. You erase all the early painful facsimiles, always the earliest you can find, and you keep discharging painful emotion facsimiles in the later periods after birth and later in life. You erase as much as you can find in the early part of the case, then you release all the emotion you can find later in the case and then you come back and find early material. Not until you have worked out every moment of physical pain and discharged all the moments of painful emotion will the case be cleared. A cleared person is no longer interested in facsimiles.

THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CASE

The best remedy for such a case is to get help from somebody who knows both the language used in the prenatal area and the present tongue. Another remedy is to take a dictionary and figure out the bouncers et al. from the dictionary.

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Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Three, Chapter 7, “Emotion and the Life Force” from DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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Emotion and the Life Force

KEY WORDS: Painful emotion, Pro-survival engram, Ally, Sympathy, Ally computation

One of the largest roles in therapy is played by Emotion. If we treat emotion as bound up life force and if we follow these general precepts to release it, we shall obtain a very large gain in any person. To free these life force units is the primary task of therapy, to relieve pain from the facsimiles is the secondary task.

Hubbard theorizes that the release of painful emotion, as the release of life force, is of primary importance.

When the facsimile gets restimulated, it captures certain units of life force. When enthusiasm or impetus aligns the purpose of the individual toward a true survival goal he recaptures some of these units. But as life progresses more and more life force units out of an individual’s supply are captured and held in the “infected” part of the mental matrix.

A person is subject to a spiral of dwindling life force through the course of his life due to his facsimiles.

However, a facsimile can seemingly “assist” a person by gathering up the available life force and channeling it along basic purpose lines, making a high level of concentration of life force. The person then have a high drive and is successful to a point. Such a facsimile is pro-survival; but if the person overextends himself and fails, the facsimile turns against him. In a way he has disobeyed the command of the facsimile and having disobeyed, suffers pain. 

A person may be boosted by a surge of life force due to a pro-survival facsimile, but, ultimately, it makes the person suffer. 

The person is reluctant to let go of the pro-survival facsimile because he feels that it assists him even when it is not always aligned with his basic purpose. Here is an example of the computation based on such a facsimile, “I had some one taking care of me when I was ill. I need some one to take care of me. I must be ill.” Here is the basic pattern of the facsimile which will contain the chronic psycho-somatic illness in any patient.

A pro-survival facsimile containing sympathy insists that the individual be ill in order to survive.

In Dianetics, an ally is a person from whom sympathy came when the person was ill or injured. If the ally came to the person’s defense or his words and/or actions were aligned with the individual’s survival, the facsimile gives that ally the status of always being right. The ally computation is that one must be in the vicinity of such allies and be sick or generally disabled to feel safe.

Discharge of ally computations from a person’s facsimiles restores the most life force to the person.

The loss of the ally may be the trigger which will start chain fission. Hence, discharging these frozen units is a vital and important part of therapy and the condition of the case will improve in direct ratio to the number of these units so discharged. 

1. Start with scouting the prenatal area for facsimiles. Take whatever is presented and take the charge out of it.
2. Scout your later life for whomever you may have depended upon (ally). 
3. Find out when you lost an ally by death, departure or reversal of stand, and discharge the sorrow of loss out of those moments.
4. Always go as early as possible for the basic-basic. But go to later life to free up painful emotion due to loss of an ally.
5. If an incident does not reduce then go earlier similar.
6. Facsimile starts to become emotionless in tone means there is another ally computation. 
7. Reduce everything you contact as a priority.
8. Any hold-up, any unwillingness, stems from ally computation.
9. Address the problem of demon circuits by releasing charges of sorrow.
10. Consider that loss by death, departure or reversal of stand by an ally is identical with a death of some part of you.

Later painful emotion facsimiles occlude the earlier unconsciousness and pain facsimiles.

The loss of an ally or pseudo-ally need contain no other physical pain or “unconsciousness” than the loss itself occasions. This is serious enough. It makes a facsimile. Any occlusion of a person means that he or she had a vast and unrevealed significance in a patient’s life which should be explained. Start late to get painful emotion and work back early. Start early to get physical pain facsimiles and work toward late

Occlusion is very likely related to allies and ally computation.

One of the various aspects of returning is that it encounters areas where the person is “outside” his body. It is exteriorization (having a detached view) because of emotion or physical pain. Painful emotion puts the compartments and demon-circuits into the mind, and that the physical pain holds the aberration in place. Rationalization about action or conduct or conditions is of no use beyond occasional aid in locating facsimiles. It should be clear that no amount of explanation or hand-patting or evaluation is going to advance the erasure of the facsimiles themselves.

This entire operation is mechanical. It has nothing to do with justified thought or shame or reasons. 

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Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Three, Chapter 5, “Returning, the File Clerk, and the Time Track” from DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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Returning, the File Clerk, and the Time Track

KEY WORDS: Returning, File Clerk, Time Track, Charge, Recounting

Usually, anyone can be “sent back” wide awake to an experience of the past. If asked to return to your favorite breakfast, you may have to be coaxed a bit, but suddenly you might find yourself sitting at a table eating your favorite breakfast. This is not memory in the way one “remembers something.” It is returning. It provides a very precise, specific bit of information by reproducing a past perception. Regression is an artificial use of the natural process of returning.

Returning reproduces past perceptions in the mental matrix in precise details.

We have the concept of spectrum, which provides gradations of something in wider and wider scope or range. For example, we have the spectrum of dynamics one to eight through which the scope of survival is expressed. Similarly, we have a spectrum of memory. First there is remembering; then returning; and then reliving of some period of life. 

Returning is much more precise than ordinary remembering.

Returning is employed through a mechanism of the mind, which we may call the file clerk. It hands out the datum asked for, but it is, often, literal in nature. There appears to be a time track because the file clerk can retrieve data precisely by the index of time. The data is made available instantaneously, or it may take minutes or days depending on some aberration blocking it.

In the absence of aberrations, the past information may be retrieved instantaneously with precision.

To retrieve information relating to unassimilated impressions, you simply ask the file clerk to go back to it. The file clerk works best when your attention is extroverted and there is no anxiety. As you maintain a contemplative mode, you may suddenly find yourself in possession of the requested information. You then go over the information enough times to take the charge (tension) out of it. 

You take charge out of the information relating to unassimilated impressions by going over it enough times.

Like the hypnotic suggestions, these unassimilated impressions affect your thinking. As you become increasingly aware of these impressions by taking the charge out, you get rid of their hypnotic effects. It is expedient to work on areas as early in your life as possible. 

Aberration reduces as you take charge out of the retrieved information.

The effort is to get into the basic area, contact early engrams, erase the basic-basic engram by recounting the information and then progress upwards, erasing engrams. Engrams vanish when they are assimilated with rest of the experience.

Clearing is the assimilation of engrams or facsimiles.

In short, you assume the contemplative mode and return to a period of your life along your time track. The file clerk may hand things out by phrases, by somatics, by time. You recount and re-experience the given incidents. Whatever the file clerk hands out ordinarily will reduce on recounting. This is the entire routine of dianetic therapy.

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