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Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

When you are following the path of self-improvement, you are basically handling charge on your case.

You handle charge on your case either in big chunks or just let it bleed away slowly.

In meditation you bleed the charge away, but it is a very slow process because you are spreading your attention in a very general way. You are either concentrating on the divine, or on a mantra. Or, you are following a breathing technique to free your attention from fixation.

To bleed the charge away more rapidly, you need a method to selectively guide your attention. 

Selectively guiding the attention was first introduced in Buddhism.

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Buddhism

Buddhism made a big advance on the technique of meditation. In the Kalama Sutta, Buddha says,

Yes, Kalamas, it is proper that you have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in a matter which is doubtful.  Now, look you Kalamas, do not be led by reports, or tradition, or hearsay. Be not led by the authority of religious texts, nor by mere logic or inference, nor by considering appearances, nor by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, nor by the idea: ‘this is our teacher’. But, O Kalamas, when, you know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome (akusala), and wrong, and bad, then give them up… And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome (kusala) and good, then accept them and follow them.’

Today, this advice of Buddha is expressed in the The Discipline of Subject Clearing.

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Dianetics & Scientology

The subjects of Dianetics and Scientology suddenly burst on the scene in the 1950s. Their founder, L. Ron Hubbard, claimed the foundations of these subjects to be the Vedas of the Hindus, and Buddhism.

The subject of Dianetics did seem to handle charge in big chunks by selectively focusing the attention on somatics (bodily pains and sensations). This is where the idea of engram came from. See Hubbard’s original research first published in 1948: The Original Thesis.

The problem with Dianetics was that after you handled the charge in a few big chunks (engrams), the person was no longer able to access any more charge. Hubbard was then forced into the Scientology approach of bleeding the charge away from the case slowly. This resulted in the various Grades of Scientology. See Running Scientology Processes.

When I came across Scientology in 1969, Hubbard had gone back to researching Dianetics again. He issued it in a streamlined fashion as Hubbard Standard Dianetics Course (HSDC). I was run on the HSDC process and I was able to handle a few big chunks of charge in my first forty hours of auditing (see My Introduction to America). But after that I ran many hundreds of hours on Dianetics with no results. I knew there was more to handle on my case but I was getting nowhere. I felt like I could no longer be audited.

What saved me at that time was Word Clearing. I then realized that Word Clearing was an excellent way of bleeding the charge away from a case. Word Clearing combined with Hubbard’s Data Evaluation Tech, ultimately, led to the Subject Clearing approach.

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Subject Clearing

The Principle of Oneness based on the Vedas and Buddha’s approach, was, unfortunately, rejected by Hubbard (see Identity vs Individuality). This is a very basic principle. Subject Clearing reintroduces the Principle of Oneness and then builds up on Hubbard’s technology of Word Clearing and Data Evaluation.

Subject Clearing, thus, advances the concept of ANOMALY (see Introduction to Subject Clearing). It focuses selectively on anomalies to bleed away the charge rapidly. In this process large chunks of charge (engrams) may seem to come off, but that is not the focus in Subject Clearing.

Subject Clearing does not use the Scientology device of E-meter. Instead it uses the understanding of how to handle the Auditing Question.

With Subject Clearing approach, you can run the whole bridge of Scientology quite rapidly by yourself. You may even run the exercises provided by other spiritual paths.

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Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

Subject Clearing should start with an understanding of one’s Beingness in terms of Spirit and Mind. Then it should proceed to the understanding of the Body.

The factors underlying the spirit are taken up in The KHTK Factors.

The subject of Beingness is taken up in Subject Clearing Beingness.

The subject of Mind is taken up in Subject Clearing the Mind.

But to really know who you are, you have to discover the postulates that are part of your beingness. These postulates are hidden behind the unassimilated impressions (facsimiles, misconceptions, and mis-postulates) in your mental matrix. You may access these impressions only by tracing back the anomalies from your unwanted conditions. Anomalies may be isolated from things that do not make sense.

To do so you ask yourself specific questions. Such questions are called “auditing questions.”

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Auditing Question

An auditing question exists to help you trace anomalies back to the impressions in the mental matrix. An anomaly may belong to some unwanted condition. It is something that does not make sense. It could be data that is missing, contradictory or just arbitrary.

It is easy to look up the meaning of a word that you do not understand; or, to read up on a subject that you haven’t fully grasped. But when it comes to unwanted conditions, the answers to your questions lie within your mind. So you ask yourself the auditing question.

When you ask yourself a question, your mind does respond.

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Response to Question

When you ask yourself a question, such as, “What did I eat for breakfast yesterday?” sometimes you get a clear answer immediately, and you feel satisfied with that answer. Your attention then goes to something else. 

At other times, no answer comes up, and you know that there is no answer because you had missed your breakfast. Again your attention goes to something else. 

But sometimes, you get a vague answer, because there is uncertainty. Your attention stays on the question, and you continue to contemplate on the question. As you do so, data pertaining to the answer continues to dribble through. You may get more than one answer to the question. All that data may point to some deeper answer.

You continue to contemplate on the question until no more data is coming through. You will know when that happens because your attention frees up. You may now review and consolidate all the data. When you feel satisfied you have gotten all possible data in answer to that question, your attention naturally goes to something else.

Therefore, when you ask yourself a question, you either get a clear answer, or no answer at all, or a spectrum of answers that may lead to a deeper answer. The most important part is when you know the question is answered, and it is time to move on to something else.

You may check this out with this simple process: Visualization Exercise.

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Recall

The Visualization Exercise brings into focus the memory, which matches the question asked. When there is no actual memory, the mind may simply appear as blank, or it may create something imaginary based on projections. But you will know when that happens.

Sometimes, the mind converts a light facsimile into perceptions. This surprises you because it is an actual “memory” that just became available to you for the first time.

When you feel you have answered the auditing question, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have recalled all the answers from your past. It only means that you have recalled all the answers that are available. For now, it is ok to move on to the next question of the process, or to something else. 

Recall of the past becomes better over time as you assimilate more and more of your facsimiles. This is the reason why you may get more out of a process, when you go through it once again in the future. Complete recall of the past is possible only when all your impressions are assimilated.

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Concentration

It seems, that recall is a function of concentration of attention. Some people have better concentration than others; consequently, their recall is better.

You may attain deeper concentration of attention through the practice of mindfulness exercises of Buddha. It is said that Buddha could recall even his genetic memory.

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Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

The postulates that constitute the being, arrange themselves into a “matrix” type structure. In this “matrix” the postulates are associated with each other such that they are continuous, consistent and harmonious per the principle of Oneness.

This matrix structure makes us aware of the reality that surrounds us. It interprets the incoming sensations and gradually builds up a mental matrix, which contains all the experience of a person. The associations within the mental matrix help us visualize and resolve the situations that we encounter. This is what we call the Mind.

The mind operates as follows.

1. The external reality enters the mind through the sense organs.
2. The sense organs convert the external reality into sensations.
3. The sensations then proceed to the mind’s matrix structure.
4. The matrix structure assimilates and converts the sensations into perceptions.

The is happening throughout our life at every moment that we are alive.

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Assimilation

The mind must assimilate the sensations to convert them into perceptions. This process is postulated to occur as follows.

1. The sensations break down into “perceptual elements” to be assimilated in the mental matrix.
2. The assimilation sets up associations among the perceptual elements so they are continuous, consistent and harmonious as much as possible.
3. The assimilation eliminates duplicate perceptual elements for efficient storage. 
4. These associations then allow the mind to perceive what was received by the sense organs.

Traumatic sensations do not easily break down into perceptual elements. So, they are not assimilated and perceived. They remain as “unassimilated impressions.”

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Memory, Imagination & Consciousness

The perceptual elements, upon assimilation, are identified by their characteristics and the time when they were received. The whole mental matrix forms the EXPERIENCE of the person.

MEMORIES are reconstructed by associating the perceptual elements in the matrix by their TIME STAMPS as and when needed during mental computations. Memories are not stored as “recordings” because that will result in a lot of duplicate storage.

IMAGINATION is generated from the creative associations among the perceptual elements in the matrix. There may be gaps among the associations, but they are bridged over by rational projections. Over time, these rational projections are replaced by actual experience. 

CONSCIOUSNESS depends on the fineness of the perceptual elements. The finer are the perceptual elements the clearer is the perception and deeper is the understanding. These perceptual elements are much finer in humans compared to the animals.

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Unassimilated Impressions (Facsimiles)

Traumatic sensations do not break down easily into perceptual elements after entering the mind. They embed themselves into the mental matrix as UNASSIMILATED IMPRESSIONS. These unassimilated impressions act as “recordings” that insert themselves in the thinking circuits when activated. They lead to conclusions, the reasoning of which cannot be traced back because the content of these impressions is not known.

These unassimilated impressions have been called SAMSKARA in Hinduism, and SANKHARA in Buddhism. More recently, these unassimilated impressions have been called FACSIMILES in Scientology by Hubbard, because they appear as recordings. The content of these samskara, sankhara, or facsimiles cannot be properly perceived because they are not assimilated with the rest of mental matrix. 

These facsimiles are felt as raw sensations of PAIN and ANXIETY. Their effect is to distort the mental matrix. Such distortions show up as anomalies in thinking, in the otherwise smooth operation of the mind.

The effect of facsimiles appears in the person in the form of sickness, aberrated behavior and unwanted conditions.

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Past Life Memories

The facsimiles are carried forward from one generation to the next as part of the DNA programming. It takes them three to four generations to assimilate by themselves.

When they start to assimilate, they appear as “past life memories.”

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Comparison to Earlier Models

The above may be called THE MATRIX MODEL OF THE MIND.

The assimilated mental matrix, which provides rational thinking, may be compared to the CONSCIOUS mind of Freud, and the ANALYTICAL mind of Hubbard. 

The unassimilated impressions (facsimiles), collectively, which distort the operation of the mind, may be compared to the SUBCONSCIOUS mind of Freud, and the REACTIVE mind of Hubbard. 

Here are some ideas associated with the mind

1. The idea of self-awareness and self-determinism applies only to the assimilated portion of the mind.
2. Memories are reconstructed upon demand from perceptual elements in the assimilated mental matrix.
3. The unassimilated impressions are like recordings, or FACSIMILES.
4. Memories do not exist as recordings, or facsimiles.
5. At the core of unassimilated impressions, or facsimiles, are aberrated postulates and misconceptions.
6. Aberrated thinking and behavior are the outcome of the facsimiles.
7. The idea of time track applies only to the content of the facsimiles.

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Summary 

The above describes the MATRIX MODEL OF THE MIND, which was developed through subject clearing. 

The facsimiles generate anomalies in the operation of the mind itself. These are the target of Subject Clearing. The subject clearing is the tool that resolves anomalies.

The assimilation of facsimiles improves a person’s ability to think clearly and perceive things in the environment without distortions. This assimilation of facsimiles also helps repair the body.

With a fully assimilated mind one can then resolve the deeper and larger problems of the universe.

This then helps Man accomplish rapidly the prime purpose of the universe: TO EVOLVE.

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