Category Archives: Subject Clearing

The Level of OT VIII

July 18, 2023 – 4:58 AM

Reference: Scientology OT Levels

Executive Summary 2025

The Level of OT VIII brings about the direct realization of Oneness (continuity, consistency and harmony) of knowledge. Knowledge includes the subject of beingness.

L. Ron Hubbard claimed his philosophy to have basis in the Vedas and Buddhism, but, unfortunately, he looked at self as something permanent and individualistic. With his idea of “eternal thetan,” Hubbard established permanent boundaries around “self” making it permanently individualistic. But the ancient religions of Vedas and Buddhism see self as impermanent, changing, and without boundaries.

Hubbard claimed thetan to be the source of life. That is where Hubbard’s philosophy deviates from the ancient knowledge of Vedas and Buddhism.

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Knowledge & Hubbard

The very concept of Scientology is “Knowing How to Know”. From OT TR0 to the level of OT VIII, meditation and contemplation is systemized as the process of auditing for the purpose of knowing. The OT Levels are supposed to directly handle the misconceptions on the subjects of BEINGNESS and KNOWLEDGE.

Hubbard postulates an eternal thetan as the source of life; but according to the Vedic Hymn of Creation there is no identifiable source of life. The ultimate source of life is Unknowable. Please see:

The Creation Hymn of Rig Veda

Buddhism presents the doctrine of no soul. Please see:

The Doctrine of No-Soul: Anatta

Hubbard does refer to the Hymn of Creation from Vedas, and also to Buddhism, but he differs from them on the very fundamentals of beingness and the source of life. He admits that in the following writing.

Identity versus Individuality

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Comment on Hubbard

Some people tend to dismiss Hubbard completely; but I don’t. In spite of the holes that exist in his research, Hubbard accomplished a lot. He provided a framework that is quite solid, but he committed two fundamental errors.

  1. The source of the universe are postulates. Hubbard assumed the source of these postulates to be the agreement among eternal thetans. But he didn’t realize that “eternal thetan” is also a postulate. So, the true source of postulates is unknowable as correctly stated in The Creation Hymn of Rig Veda.
  2. Hubbard summarized the subject of logic brilliantly in The logic of Data Series; but he omitted to state the IDEAL SCENE OF LOGIC. This ideal scene is ONENESS as has been hinted since ancient times, and which has been anthropomorphized into the idea of “One God” or “Supreme being” or “Great All” in religions.

This ideal scene of ONENESS appears in the Scientific Method as CONSISTENCY. At atomic level, this consistency appears as CONTINUITY. At cosmic level, the same consistency takes the form of HARMONY. So, we have

ONENESS = CONTINUITY, CONSISTENCY and HARMONY

Once we account for these two fundamental errors in Hubbard’s work we can see that Hubbard produced the biggest advance in the subject of mind since Freud’s psychoanalysis.

In my view, Hubbard’s work cannot be dismissed lightly. His two great contributions are:

  1. DIRECTED MEDITATION that basically makes one look at anomalies more closely. This is the best way to describe the process of auditing.
  2. THE GRADE CHART that make one look at broad anomalies first and then increasingly specific anomalies on a gradient.

These contributions are weakened by the two fundamental errors described above. However, these two errors are taken care of in Postulate Mechanics, one may now proceed with this understanding on OT VIII.

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The OT VIII

The true tech of OT VIII is The logic of Data Series as modified by the concept of Oneness. The violations of oneness appear as anomalies. The anomalies are defined as discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), and disharmony (arbitrary data).

A person on OT VIII is well on his way to resolve anomalies among the fundamentals of the various systems of knowledge, such as, the different religions, philosophies and sciences. A person evolves to higher states by resolving anomalies.

On OT VIII one continues to resolve anomalies for oneself on the subjects of Beingness and Knowledge.

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Subject Clearing

The vehicle for OT VIII is Subject Clearing, which is an extension of the Study Tech and Data Series. Subject Clearing is the fastest approach to understand a subject. It rapidly handles the fixed ideas and false data weaved throughout all systems of knowledge including Scientology. It is truly knowing how to know. Please see the introduction here.

The Book of Subject Clearing

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Grassroots Scientology

The level of OT VIII comes at the tail end of Scientology Grade Chart, but it is like coming a full circle. One can now start studying Scientology along with other subjects of comparable magnitude, such as, Physics, Hinduism and Buddhism using the subject clearing approach. This will help clear up the fixed ideas present in the subject of Scientology itself.

One can then go through the Grade Chart of Scientology using the subject clearing approach. Here one uses mindfulness in place of a mechanical device (E-meter). We may refer to it as Grassroots Scientology. It can be applied rapidly to oneself by a Scientologist, or a person new to Scientology alike, with great benefits. Please see,

Grassroots Scientology

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The Definition of AWARENESS

July 17, 2023 – 6:49 AM

Reference: Subject: Scientology Fundamentals

Scientology provides the following definitions for AWARENESS.

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Scientology Technical Dictionary

“AWARENESS 1. the ability to perceive the existence of.” 

If you have the ability to postulate, then you simultaneous must have the ability to perceive what you postulate. This latter ability is awareness.

“AWARENESS 2. awareness itself is perception.” 

A postulate manifests as something knowable. Anything knowable has to be accompanied by the ability to know; otherwise, there is no knowable. The ability to know is awareness, which includes perception.

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Subject Clearing

Awareness is a concept about knowing, perceiving and being cognizant of phenomena and events. Awareness exists because there are postulates. The abilities to postulate and to become aware go hand in hand.  

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The Definition of INCIDENT TWO

July 13, 2023 – 7:37 AM

Please refer to Subject Clearing OT III

Reference: Subject: Scientology Fundamentals

This incident is akin to the description of “the fall of Man” in Abrahamic Religions.

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Incident Two

The sequences in Incident II may be described briefly as follows. 

H-BOMB DROPPED ON VOLCANO
EXPLOSION
TERRIFIC WINDS
THETAN CARRIED OVER PEAK
ELECTRONIC RIBBON CAME UP
HE STUCK TO IT
IT WAS THEN PULLED DOWN AND HE WAS (AS PART OF A GROUP) IMPLANTED WITH R6
PICTURE OF PILOT SAYING HE IS MOCKING IT UP

Hubbard presents Incident II as something that occurred 75,000,000 years ago. It plays out like a science fiction story, “The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet, 178 billion on average) by mass implanting.”

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“Calculated to Kill”

Hubbard says about the Incident II,

“The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it… One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The “freewheel” (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.”

The information about Incident II isn’t going to make you sick or kill you. You can read about it all you want; BUT DON’T START TO SOLVE THIS IMPLANT BY STRAIGHT MEMORY.

Things can go dangerously awry when you anxiously dig into your mind for answers. It can definitely send you to an insane asylum if not kill you. Therefore, do not ransack deep into your psyche in an effort to fix yourself. Please follow the The Discipline of Subject Clearing.

It takes a measured approach to handle the anomalies embedded deep in the psyche.

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The Confidentiality of OT Levels

Hubbard declared the OT Levels to be confidential because he knew they needed a lot more work. His research had started to go deep into the psyche with the application of Listing and Nulling (L&N). Any slight error could have fatal repercussions. His upper level research no longer used the simple “straight memory,” and it required much greater skill on part of the auditors.

The reason for keeping the upper level materials confidential was to have much greater supervision, until their application was made safe.

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Mental Sickness

The reason mental sickness is increasing in USA and the world over is because we do not really have solutions other than chewing over our memories and taking medication. The solution doesn’t lie either in the methods of psychology or in the medication of psychiatry. These are at best temporary holding actions. They do not bring about any cure.

In modern times we are facing a global epidemic of mental sickness; and there is a great need for effective solutions beyond psychology and psychiatry. Many esoteric practices have provided effective solutions in the past, but they require much greater supervision for the reasons given above. OT levels fall in that category. 

We need to examine such solutions and make them safer for application.

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Therapy on OT Levels

Most therapy at this level of psyche involves the handling of deeply embedded misconceptions. Hubbard describes the handling as follows:

“One’s body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body. One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing. You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small. Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error. Good luck.”

Hubbard refers to these anomalies as “body thetans.” They are akin to beings because they are complex in their structure, similar to the coding underlying artificial intelligence. They can communicate with you and respond to your questions. According to Hubbard, all beings have a permanent individuality, and this individuality needs to be freed up; for he says elsewhere, 

“Before the beginning of time, thetans existed, separate from one another (thetans were not created; they have existed for all time and indeed precede the creation of time).”

He says further,

“With the creation of energy and matter, thetans have gradually become trapped. The principal method of entrapment is through ‘implanting’, where the thetan is hypnotized and given positive suggestions which limit its powers.”

Hubbard codes the basic concepts to do with BEINGNESS as follows:

STATIC, THETA, MEST, THETA-MEST THEORY, POSTULATE, THETAN, EXTERIORIZATION, OPERATING THETAN, BODY THETAN, and INCIDENT ONE.

Hubbard’s definitions are available in Scientology Technical Dictionary and in OT materials. The process of subject clearing when applied to these concepts provides greater clarity. The clarified concepts are available at the following link.

Subject: Scientology Fundamentals

Any therapy on OT Levels starts with bringing clarity to the concepts listed above.

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Therapy based on Incident Two

The last line of the description of Incident Two says.

PICTURE OF PILOT SAYING HE IS MOCKING IT UP

The pilot is most probably the euphemism for the Unknowable. And the idea of “mocking it up” is same as postulating. This requires the understanding of the following definitions:

UNKNOWABLE
Neither the cause nor the beginning of this universe is knowable. There is Inscrutable Power that keeps this universe running eternally; but, neither religion nor science has any clue to it. We make postulates to know the Unknowable, but we end up knowing the postulates only. We find that no matter how much we know, there is always something more to know. So, there is an unbridgeable division between the Unknowable and the Knowable.

POSTULATE
A postulate is is a self-created truth that gives form to the unknowable, and attempts to make it knowable. Based on postulates further reasoning is done. To be valid postulates and reasoning must adhere to the principle of oneness.

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).

From these definitions we understand that

Beingness, individuality and identity are the result of postulates. Any therapy involves the resolution of anomalies to do with these concepts. The ideal scene is the principle of oneness.

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Handling of Implants

The Incident II is all about implanting.

IMPLANT
To implant is to put or fix firmly. It refers to a thought planted forcefully deep into the psyche of a person, which is not in harmony and generates anomalies. These implants are deep misconceptions.

Hubbard says, 

“The pictures contain God, the Devil, angels, space opera, theaters, helicopters, a constant spinning, a spinning dancer, trains and various scenes very like modern England. You name it, it’s in this implant we call in its entirety ‘R6’.”

Apparently, a lot of force is connected with this implanting. This indicates that when an anomaly deep in the psyche is resolved, it brings about a sudden release of energy, akin to an explosion. However, such anomalies cannot be resolved by simple recalls. They require a more sophisticated approach, such as, subject clearing on the subject of beingness.

SUBJECT CLEARING
Subject Clearing is listing the key concepts in a subject and then arranging them in a logical sequence. Then you start filling the holes in that sequence by finding the missing concepts. You focus on the earlier and earlier parts of that sequence, till you arrive at the original postulates. The key to Subject Clearing is the PRINCIPLE OF ONENESS.

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Summary

Anything known is postulated into existence. Thetans are known to be individuals. So their individuality must have been postulated into existence. The source of postulates is Unknowable. 

What is postulated as individuality are goals and behavior characteristics. This forms the beingness of thetan, which is energized by theta (Unknowable).

Scientology seeks to return the thetan’s power by stripping away implants and using drills to heighten extrasensory perception and ability.

It is necessary to strip away implants (deep misconceptions) before any drills to heighten extrasensory perception and ability can be effective.

The tested and safe method of handling misconceptions is Subject Clearing.

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The Definition of INCIDENT ONE

July 11, 2023 – 8:32 AM

Please refer to Subject Clearing OT III

Reference: Subject: Scientology Fundamentals

The incident one is akin to the beginning of the universe as portrayed in the Abrahamic religions. It presents the imagery of a chariot pulled by Cherubs.

A cherub is one of the unearthly beings who directly attend to God, according to Abrahamic religions. The numerous depictions of cherubim assign to them many different roles, such as protecting the entrance of the Garden of Eden.

According to Hubbard, this is the very first incident that applies to all universes. When this incident is run on OT III, it appears to the pre-OT as follows:

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Incident One

Occurs at start of track (4 quadrillion years ago).

LOUD SNAP
WAVES OF LIGHT
CHARIOT COMES OUT, TURNS RIGHT AND LEFT
CHERUB COMES OUT
BLOWS HORN, COMES CLOSE
SHATTERING SERIES OF SNAPS
CHERUB FADES BACK (RETREATS)
BLACKNESS DUMPED ON THETAN

This is probably the imagery of God and the universe emerging together. It may be referred to as the “Big Bang” of religion.

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Definition

It is an interesting code to decipher. We have from The KHTK Factors:

KHTK Factor # 1: Before the beginning was the Unknowable and the entire purpose of the Unknowable was to know itself.

KHTK Factor # 1-1: In the beginning and forever is the ability to postulate and become aware.

According to the KHTK factors, here we have something knowable emerging from the Unknowable. The Incident One must be the code for the occurrence of the very first postulate. 

The whole universe exists as a seed in this incident. All possible beingness is emerging from this incident. This means, theta (ability to postulate) as well as the thetan (definite goals and behavior characteristics) are emerging here.

When this incident is erased, the thetan is erased also. Only the Unknowable is left. This may be the meaning of “blackness dumped on thetan.”

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Vedic Hymn of Creation

The Incident One may be compared to the following:

The Creation Hymn of Rig Veda

The differences here indicate how the Eastern approach to knowledge differs from the Western approach.

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The Definition of MEST

July 5, 2023 – 10:59 AM

Reference: Subject: Scientology Fundamentals

Scientology provides the following definitions for MEST.

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Scientology Technical Dictionary

“MEST, 1. a coined word, meaning matter, energy, space and time, the physical universe. All physical phenomena may be considered as energy operating in space and time. The movement of matter or energy in time is the measure of space. All things are mest except theta.” 

In Scientology, MEST refers to physical substance, physical space and physical time. In short, by MEST, Scientology refers to the material or physical universe that operates mechanically. Scientology differentiates MEST from Theta (thought substance).

“MEST, 2. the symbol for the physical universe in use hereafter is mest, from the first letters of the words matter, energy, space and time, or the Greek letter phi (ø).” 

See above.

“MEST, 3. simply a composite of energies and particles and spaces which are agreed upon and which are looked at.”

MEST is the outcome of postulates.

“MEST, 4. a solid object, and the space and energy and so forth which comprise such solid objects.”

In Scientology, MEST is identified with the solidity of matter.

“MEST, 5. any or all arrangements of energy, of whatever kind, whether in fluid or object form, in space or spaces.”

Thought is also a type of energy, but it is not included in MEST.

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Subject Clearing

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.”

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