Introduction to Subject Clearing (Old-3)

Please see The Book of Subject Clearing

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SUBJECT CLEARING

It is obvious that we all have doubts, perplexities and confusions about things. Underlying these confusions are misunderstandings in communication and errors in thinking. We are not always able to trace our doubts and confusions back to such misunderstandings and errors, and fix them. So, we end up covering the failures to grasp by assumptions and speculations. This only makes life more complicated.

These failures exist not only in our use of language in communication, but also in our use of logic in thinking. The development of Subject Clearing now provides a tool, which anybody can use to handle their doubts, perplexities and confusions quite simply and easily. 

Subject Clearing proposes a MATRIX MODEL of the mind that replaces the earlier models, such as, the “subconscious mind” of Freud, or the “reactive mind” of Hubbard. This model, for the first time, provides a structure that supports the function of the mind. Furthermore, the concept of ANOMALY, as defined in Subject Clearing, provides a direct approach to resolving doubts, perplexities and confusions.

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THE MATRIX MODEL

Normally, the mind perceives the environment, assesses the conditions, and directs the body to perform activity to resolve any situations and improve conditions. The mind also monitors the various flows within body to maintain it in good condition. The mind continually operates to remove any doubts, perplexities and confusions within itself, so it can operate with clarity.

The body-mind-spirit is actually a single system of life. The body, mind and spirit are best described as the three dimensions of this LIFE SYSTEM. This system operates on thought-electro-mechanical laws. The sense organs embedded in this system receive the sensations from the environment in the form of touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell. These sensations are then processed to accomplish the long-term purpose of the system of EVOLVING.

These SENSATIONS break down into smaller elements, which we may refer to as PERCEPTUAL ELEMENTS. These perceptual elements form a network of associations among themselves, which we may refer to as the MENTAL MATRIX. Each perceptual elements forms a NODE of this matrix. The external environment is PERCEIVED only when this mental matrix is well assimilated. ASSIMILATION means that there is continuity, consistency and harmony among all associations within the matrix.

The sensations enter the life system on a continuous basis. Upon entering, the sensations break down into perceptual elements. All perceptual elements are identified by their characteristics and a time stamp of when they were received. These elements get assimilated in the mental matrix, such that the associations with existing elements are established, and any duplicates are merged together.

The perceptual elements associated with time stamps are perceived as MEMORIES. They may be associated in a different order to form IMAGINATION. There may be gaps among the  associations, but they are bridged over by rational projections. 

Over time, the rational projections are replaced by associations created by new perceptual elements as they are received; and the multi-dimensional associations of the mental matrix come to reflect the external “universe” with increasing precision. The finer are the perceptual elements, the better is this precision. We know this reflection of the external “universe” in the mental matrix as the CONSCIOUSNESS of the mind.

But there are traumatic sensations that do not break down into perceptual elements after they enter. They embed themselves into the mental matrix as UNASSIMILATED NODES. The content of such nodes cannot be properly perceived because they are not assimilated with other nodes. The unassimilated nodes are “perceived” only as raw sensations of PAIN and ANXIETY. Their effect is to distort the mental matrix. Such distortions show up as anomalies in the thinking process of the mind.

According to this model, the assimilated portions of the mental matrix, which provide rational thinking, may be called the CONSCIOUS or ANALYTICAL mind; and the unassimilated portions, which produce unthinking reactions, may be called the SUBCONSCIOUS or REACTIVE mind.

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ANOMALY

The dictionary defines “anomaly” as something irregular, odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc. It is an incongruity or inconsistency. In Subject Clearing, ANOMALY is defined more precisely as follows:

An anomaly is any violation of the integrity of reality, such as, discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), or disharmony (arbitrary data).

An anomaly flags the presence of an impression on the mind that is not fully assimilated. The unassimilated impression usually takes the form of pain, anxiety or a fixed idea. It is usually covered up by a justification or an assumption. When one spots the assumption and tracks it down, the impression assimilates, and the anomaly resolves. 

The anomalies that we perceive in the “external world” are actually anomalies in how the external world is perceived. They are anomalies in the reflection of the “external world” in the mental matrix. The resolution of such anomalies involves replacing the existing projections within the matrix by obtaining actual experience. The Future of Education outlines how concepts may be organized from the earliest to the latest to locate and resolve anomalies of the “external world.”

The anomalies that we sense in our thinking are actually the distortions in the mental matrix due to the unassimilated impressions These are anomalies in the structure of the mental matrix itself. The resolution of such anomalies depends on the assimilation of the unassimilated impressions. This is the domain of meditation in ancient Yoga, the psychoanalysis in psychology, and the auditing in Scientology. The anomalies in the structure of matrix (internal anomalies) make it difficult for the person to think rationally and resolve the anomalies in perception (external anomalies). 

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SUMMARY

Subject Clearing helps one resolve both “external” and “internal” anomalies as described above. This, then, improves one’s ability to think clearly and perceive things in the “external world” just as they are without distortions.

Having this ability, one can resolve deeper and larger problems easily, and navigate one’s way successfully through life.

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August 11, 2022 – 10:03 AM Categories: Subject Clearing | Post a comment

DS 25 Summary

Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 25—LEARNING TO USE DATA ANALYSIS

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LEARNING TO USE DATA ANALYSIS

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The first section lists the barriers to being able to use Data Analysis and how to handle them.

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THE BEGINNER

When one begins to apply Data Analysis he is often still trying to grasp the data about Data Analysis rather than the out-points in the Data. Just become more familiar with the Data Series.

To know the Ideal Scene one has only to work out the correct products for it. If these aren’t getting out, then there is a departure. By handling one is simply trying to get the scene to get out its products. Unless one proceeds from product back to Establishment, one can’t analyze much of anything.

There is always a product for any scene. A product is something on can HAVE. It is a completed thing that has Exchange value within or outside the activity. If there were no product, there could not really be an Ideal Scene.

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STANDARD ACTION

A beginner can juggle around and go badly adrift if he doesn’t follow the pattern:

  1. Work out exactly what the (person, unit, activity) should be producing.
  2. Work out the Ideal Scene.
  3. Investigate the existing scene.
  4. Follow outpoints back from Ideal to existing.
  5. Locate the real WHY that will move the existing toward Ideal.
  6. Look over existing resources. 7. 
  7. Get a Bright Idea of how to handle.
  8. Handle or recommend handling so that it stays handled.

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THINKING

One has to be able to think with outpoints. A crude way of saying this is “learn to think like an idiot”. One could also add “without abandoning any ability to think like a genius”.

An Evaluator who listens to people on the scene and takes their WHYs runs a grave risk. If these were the Whys then things would be better. 

A far safer way is to talk only insofar as finding what the product is concerned and investigating. Get the big peak period of production (now or in the past). Compare it to the existing scene just before. 

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VETERAN 

A veteran evaluator can toss off evaluations in an hour or two, mainly based on how long it takes him to dig up data. A big tough situation may require days and days. 

Man gets dedicated to his own pet theories very easily. A true scientist doesn’t fixate on one idea. He keeps looking until he finds it, not until his pet theory is proven. That’s the test of an evaluator. 

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STATISTICS 

One always runs by statistics where these are valid. Statistics must reflect actual desired PRODUCT. If they do not they are not valid. If they do they give an idea of Ideal Scene. 

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August 6, 2022 – 9:05 PM Categories: Scientology | Post a comment

DS 24 Summary

Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 24—HANDLING

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POLICY, PLANS, PROGRAMS PROJECTS AND ORDERS DEFINED

The words “Policy”, “Plans”, “Programs”, “Projects” and “Orders” are often used interchangeably one for the other, incorrectly. To handle any confusions on the words and substance of “Policy”, “Plans”, “Programs”, “Projects” and “Orders” the following DEFINITIONS are laid down for use in Data Series. 

POLICY = the rules of the game, the facts of life, the discovered truths and the invariable procedures. 

PLANS = the general bright idea one has to remedy the WHY found and get things up to the Ideal Scene or improve even that.

PROGRAM = the sequence of major actions needed to do the Plan.  

PROJECT = the sequence of steps necessary to carry out one step in a Program.

ORDERS = some Program steps are so simple that they are themselves an order or an order can simply be a roughly written project. 

POLICY is what brings the evaluation into existence in the first place. SITUATION is the departure from or improvement of the Ideal Scene expressed in policy. DATA is the observations leading to INVESTIGATIONS. STATISTICS is the independent continuing survey of production or lack of it. WHY is the real reason found by the investigation. IDEAL SCENE is the state of affairs envisioned by policy or the improvement of even that. Finally, HANDLING consists of plan, program, projects and orders.

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ROUND-UP

This section provides the details of how one may track the handling until it is fully done.

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DEBUGGING

The word “bugged” is slang for snarled up or halted. DEBUG is to get the snarls or stops out of it. This itself requires an evaluation. The evaluation may be done at a glance or it may take a full formal Evaluation by form. 

When “debugging” one usually finds the persons assigned the target already have a “WHY” and it is usually a false Why for if it was the right one the program step would get done. A Project, often written, comes out of this DEBUG EVALUATION. It could be that the original WHY was wrong and a new program is needed.

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HANDLING SUMMARY 

You can find out all the SITUATIONS and WHYS in the world but if there isn’t a PLAN and PROGRAM and if these are not DONE fully, then nothing beneficial will happen. 

THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR CORRECTLY DONE DATA ANALYSIS. 
THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT GETTING CORRECT PROGRAMS DONE. 

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August 5, 2022 – 5:55 PM Categories: Scientology | Post a comment

Intersection of Science & Mysticism

This is a wonderful discussion on the intersection of science and mysticism. It is little over an hour long. The following are some brief notes from this talk.

We know the world only the way it’s projected in the firmament of our minds. In yoga there are 16 dimensions of mind that are combined into 4 sections. 

(1) Buddhi (Intellect)… logical realm of what is happening in our minds… explores by dissection… but you never grasp the intrinsic nature of life by dissection… 

(2) Ahankara (Identity)… Your intellect is always a slave of your identity… nationality can be an identity… Your intellect is always protecting this identity and working around this identity… if intellect is the knife then identity is the hand that hoilds that knife…

(3) Manas… an entire body… a huge silo of memory… every cell in the body carries enormous memory to a point of origin of life on this planet and beyond… intellect runs on this memory… memory flows through the identity…

(4) Chitta (pure intelligence, unsullied by memory)… if you look at everything without any preconceived notions you’ll realize the source of creation… Yoga says, “If you touch this dimension of inteligence, the Divine becomes your slave.” If you touch this intelligence everything that you wish to know is yours…

These aspects of the mind are not entirely located in the head, it is right across the system.

Science has done incredible things… there is no question about that… But at the same time, the limitation of science is–we are trying to touch a dimension which is beyond physical nature, with a physical stick…

In the yogic way of seeing things, we just see life as a dance of time and energy… When somebody passes away, we simply say, “His time is over.”… The art of putting this time and energy together so that both of them dance together well, is a successful life… Time is not a factor by itself, time is a consequence of cyclical movements in the physical reality… physicality is essentially cyclical… The moment you are identified with physical nature, time is a big factor… Once you distance yourself from your physiological process, time is not a factor.

David Eagleman: What is the ‘you’ that can be separated from the physical?

Either your body and mind, you can conduct it consciously or it has become compulsive. That’s all that is happening. Whether you call it physical ailment or mental ailment, all that’s happened is…  your fundamental faculties of existence on this planet is your body and your mind… you have simply lost charge of them… If your body and your brain took instructions from you would you create depression, would you create illness?… you would create the highest level of pleasantness for you, isn’t it?… (NOTE: ‘I’ or ‘you’ seems to be the harmonizing factor that establishes proper order)…

The ‘I’ could be identifying with a part of the body, such as the brain, or with the whole body. The ‘I’ could be identifying with a part of the mind, such as, memory or a certain personality, or with the functions of the mind… Everybody is a piece of life… the kind of personality, ideas, likes and dislike that we have acquired is the result of a social process that has happened to us… the fundamental principle is whatever you have gathered may be yours but it is not you…

Human intellect and human intelligence has broken out of a certain bond, which was there for every other creature, that they could function like an automated machine through certain instinctual process. What has happened with a human being with the process of evolution is that he has broken out of that instinctual process and there is an intelligence that has to function consciously. But functioning consciously means that every moment of life is an exploration… There is possibility of exploring dimensions, which are not yet within you. So if this has to happen, the most important thing is to be able to sit here not identified with anything… Just to be the way creation intended you to be… simply to be able to view your life just as a piece of life. If one does this, then you will see perception will explode in ways that they have not imagined possible…

Identity is required for survival process, to manage day-to-day situations, but it is not an exploratory process, because the intention of science is to know. Technology is a fallout. Unfortunately, in this world, nobody would fund science if it did not spin technology, because human intelligence wants to know. It need not be useful… 

The basis of science and mysticism is to continuously sustain that sense of wanting to know… Science is trying to achieve everything through physical means… But physical is like the peel of the fruit, the peel is useful only as a protective layer to the fruit… so the body is very important… Tomorrow morning when that something inside is gone, nobody is interested in this body anymore… the peel is meaningless without the fruit… Science has produced comfort and convenience, but will it lead to well-being? It seems we’re in much more comfort but we are not in much more joyful states within ourselves… 

The complexity of what is happening is beyond the physical mechanics… the physical brain is the most fantastic gadget on the planet… but there is an intelligence within us, which can create a brain… Everything that you call as physical creation has substance of some kind (earth)… and all of it is in movement (air)… all of it subscribes to some temperature (fire)… and in everything there is cohesiveness (water)… and all of it is held together by something like aether (akash). If you have grasp of these five things then everything becomes accessible.

The most fundamental aspect of yoga is the cleansing of the elements so that you can feel them separately in your own system… if you take charge of these elements then you take charge of life… every subatomic particle is in communication with rest of the cosmos… you just have to become alive or receptive to it… the life making design is the same in an amoeba or in you… 

Science has moved from an explorative process to an exploitive process—how to use an atom, bacteria, elephant, whale, even a human being. This is where it is going… you may get to know how to use everything but still life will not get any better.

When you speak any language it must make logical sense. Logic is the product of our intellect. Without it we cannot speak. We cannot talk about what is beyond logic. There is subjective reality and there is objective reality. Subjective reality is not just thoughts and emotions. These five senses are tuned for our survival. If survival is what we are seeking, sense organs are fine. But once you are looking at life as an exploration, and you want to know life, five senses are no good. They are not sufficient faculties to know. 

But knowing everything by intellect, we will know surface of everything but never the real source of everything. The only doorway to our experience is this human mechanism. You don’t know the world any other way. You only know the way its is happening within you. By interfering with a physical process, the whole perception could change. The world has not changed but perception has changed. That dimension of life is only useful for survival. It doesn’t matter how well you survive, still it is not good enough. Survival is not going to fulfill a human being because that’s not the direction in which life wants to go. There is another aspect to the human being besides these five senses. Everything concerned with our survival is in-built. This is millions of years of memory. Anything beyond survival, if we have to have in our lives, a certain striving is needed. Striving for inward perception is something, unfortunately, that’s been banished in modern societies because we are on a thrill of technology. As technology becomes better and better, human beings will become more and more frustrated. It will only entertain us intellectually big time but that is limited. Technology is simply an enhancement of what we can do. We have not created one machine or gadget to do something that we ourselves cannot do in a rudimentary way. You are only enhancing your five senses.

All the rabbis, sages, imams etc. of all different traditions have one thing in common—they all believe something that they don’t know. The main reason why every human being is not a natural seeker is they have not realized the immensity of “I do not know.” Only then knowing becomes a possibility and a reality. Everything that you do not know, if you just believe, you’ve destroyed the possibility of knowing altogether. But belief is something that builds confidence into a human being, but confidence without clarity is very disastrous.

Essentially, believing something means you are not sincere enough to admit that you do not know. We all have to come to this much—“What I know I know, what I do not know, I do not know.” This is a fantastic way to be. An “I do not know” person cannot fight with anybody, that’s the biggest thing.

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August 3, 2022 – 7:26 PM Categories: Sadhguru | Post a comment

Sadhguru’s Life & Wisdom

Enlightenment Day 2021 | Sadhguru | Arundhati Subramaniam |Book Launch

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Sadhguru in conversation Arundhathi Subramaniam @ Mystic Kalinga Festival, Kalinga Lit Fest

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Sadhguru in Conversation with Sabyasachi Mukherjee – The beauty in design

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Sadhguru with Arundhathi—On knowledge and philosophy

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