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Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

This Key Word List is prepared for the subject of Dianetics, which was researched and published by L. Ron Hubbard in 1950. The effort here is to show that you can apply the techniques of Dianetics to yourself with the help of Subject Clearing, without an auditor or e-meter.

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READING MATERIALS

DISCIPLINE:  Discipline of Subject Clearing

TEXT (by  L. Ron Hubbard): 

1. DIANETICS: The Original Thesis
2. DIANETICS: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

When reading the text by L. Ron Hubbard, please use his Technical Dictionary to look up words belonging to Scientology technical vocabulary, such as, engrams, secondaries, locks, etc.

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KEY WORD LIST

1. DIANETICS (Survival, Dynamic, Intelligence)
2. ABERRATION (Demons, Psychosomatic illness)
3. SELF (Individuality, Monitor, Immortality)
4. MIND (Analytical Mind, Reactive Mind, Somatic Mind)
5. CLEAR (Self-determinism, Dynamics)
6. ANALYTICAL MIND (Memory, Thinking)
7. REACTIVE MIND (Unconsciousness, Hypnotism, Engram, Facsimile)
8. SOMATIC MIND (Sentient, Training pattern)
9. AUDITING (Auditor, Preclear, E-meter, Auditor’s Code)
10. ENGRAM (Shock, Charge, Key-in, Contra-survival. Pro-survival)
11. RESTIMULATION (Restimulator, Anaten, Sympathy, Painful emotion)
12. DRAMATIZATION (Black Panther Mechanism, Justification, Valence)
13. DIAGNOSIS (Tone Scale, Birth, AA, Prenatals)
14. ENGRAM CHAIN (Time Track, Earlier similar, Lock, Basic)
15. REVERIE (Returning, Recounting, File Clerk) 
16. RETURNING (Bouncer, Holder, Denyer, Grouper, Misdirector)
17. RECOUNTING (Identity thought, Engramic phrases. Time-shift) 
18. ENGRAMIC PHRASES (Repeater Technique, Ally computation)
19. FACSIMILE (Sag, Reduction, Erasure)
20. BASIC PERSONALITY
21. BASIC PURPOSE (Anomaly, Assimilation, Subject clearing)
22. Subject: Human Condition
23. Running Dianetics with Subject Clearing

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GLOSSARY

Please refer to

1. KHTK Glossary
2. Technical Dictionary

Additional data specific to this subject is as follows.

DIANETICS
Broad concept: “through mind.” Definition: “a subject that addresses psychosomatic causes of illnesses and aberrations afflicting the human self.” Hubbard: “Dianetics consists of discovering the aberration in the individual, finding the physically painful experience which corresponds to it and placing the data therein contained at the disposal of the analytical mind.” In Dianetics therapy, impressions from the periods of unconsciousness (facsimiles) were found to exist in the mind. Hubbard’s Dianetics theory offers these facsimiles as the source of all psychosomatic illnesses and aberrations.

This theory was published in 1950 in the book: DIANETICS: The Modern Science of Mental Health. The actual discovery of Dianetics is that the mind is capable of recording the details of events, such as, severe injury, delirium, or surgical anesthesia, while the person appears to be unconscious. Such recordings are called “facsimiles.” They normally stay below the level of consciousness, but can be retrieved back into consciousness with some effort.

The existence of facsimiles has been known as “samskāra” since Buddha’s time (500 BC). Buddha’s approach to handle samskāra is “mindfulness meditation.” Dianetics, however, handles facsimiles through an “earlier similar incident” using “repeater technique.” A person, however, can’t apply this technique to himself because the mind tends to go “unconscious” as it approaches the facsimile. An “auditor” had to be trained to apply this technique to the person.

The “repeater technique” is quite difficult to apply as it requires great observation and skill. Misapplication  of “repeater technique” affects the mind adversely. Hubbard subsequently came up with a more gradient auditing approach under the subject of Scientology. This approach was presented as a series of auditing steps called Scientology Grade Chart. At the final stages of OT Levels the person audits himself, much like in meditation.

These OT Levels have remained open ended since Hubbard passed away in 1986. The results have not been as spectacular and broad as were hoped. A summary and criticism of these OT Levels is presented at Scientology OT Levels. Even at OT Levels, where a person is auditing himself, the auditing procedure is fraught with errors. The insertion of an auditing approach with E-meter has presented its own set of new difficulties. It makes a broader application very expensive and practically unfeasible. 

DIANETICS, CRITICISM OF
This Dianetic procedure needs to be examined closely if its application does not produce results in the hands of others. Apparently, the author of this thesis is able to produce results where others run into difficulty. In my observation, many difficulties arise because of the violation of the gradient in approaching the engram.

According to the laws of returning, the analytical awareness starts to shut down as one approaches the engram, and the thinking increasingly dramatizes the content of the engram. The person is not aware of this change but the auditor is. The auditor is then required to navigate the auditee through it skillfully.

According to the thesis, the auditor’s dynamic assists the auditee’s dynamic in overcoming the effects of the laws of returning. But in practice, the auditor takes over the awareness of the auditee instead of assisting it. Even the use of E-meter brings awareness to the auditor only. The auditee is simply being told what to do, and he is never in command of himself while approaching the engram. He mechanically obeys either the engram or the auditor.

Only the auditee can handle his aberrations. The auditor can only support, encourage and guide him but he can’t approach and assimilate the engram for the auditee. The only solution is for the auditee to remain in control of his awareness while approaching the engram and assimilating its content. This requires the auditee to overcome the effects of the law of returning. Can he approach and assimilate the contents of the engram without returning?

It is important to remember that Hubbard was an expert hypnotist and he thought in terms of returning. So, he may not have even considered the possibility of neutralizing the engram without returning.

In hypnotism, the hypnotist installs a hypnotic command. That command can be neutralized by recalling the moment that command was installed. Hypnotist can easily do it because he knows when he installed that command. But the situation is very different in life. One suspects that there is a painful incident, which installed an engram in the mind but nothing is known about it. Engram is not like a simple hypnotic command. It has many tentacles reaching into many logic circuits of the mental matrix. Its relationship with the mind is much more complex compared to that of a simple hypnotic command.

The dianetic approach is to attack the source of pain (the engram). It tries to push through the pain to locate and re-experience the engram. It neglects the very many and much finer relationships that need to be straightened out in the process of neutralizing the engram. Thus it violates the principle of gradient. The more the gradient is violated, the more forceful is the reaction of the engram. The laws of returning are simply the result of violating the gradient. There are no such laws in play when the engram is approached on a gradient.

The mindfulness approach allows the engram to unwind itself through free association on its own natural gradient. The auditee simply focuses on the aberration that is bothering him. He examines that aberration in detail. He lets all data that comes up associate non-judgmentally in the context of that aberration. He watches objectively the reactions and even strong emotions that come up. He lets all such reactions run out as they may. He doesn’t interfere even when the awareness seems to attenuate as in falling asleep. These are contents of the engramic node getting released to the mental matrix.

It does not matter what the auditee has done or what has been done to him. He does not guess or search for the contents of the engram. If a phrase is running around in his head he simply focuses on it. He experiences whatever comes up without resisting. He may be supported, encouraged and guided by a mindfulness auditor. But it is the auditee’s dynamic that lies behind this free association. Using the gradient of free association any engram can be reached safely and easily.

The Dianetic thesis seems to blame any lack of success on incompetent auditing. It is noted that a proper thesis would be effective and easy to apply at the same time. Hopefully, the mindfulness auditing approach shall be able to overcome the difficulties that have plagued the dianetic procedure.

The out-gradient in dianetic procedure ends up in the auditor taking over the awareness of the auditee instead of assisting it. This seems to have become ingrained so much so that the auditee is expected to submit to the dictates of the organization delivering auditing. This organization is presently the “Church of Scientology”, which closely monitors all its parishioners and expects them to comply mindlessly with its “code of ethics”. It keeps them in line through a system of reward and punishment. Anyone who rebels against the control of the Church is declared a “potential trouble source” or a “suppressive person”.

Fortunately, with mindfulness approach one can audit oneself to great improvement. He can then help others get started with their auditing. Only this way can a grass roots movement be started which is up to meeting the demands of the society.

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Reference: The Book of Subject Clearing

Words and symbols form our basic understanding. When there is confusion in the study materials, the first thing to do is to isolate the area of confusion. Then locate the paragraph which is confusing. Then locate the sentence in that paragraph which doesn’t make sense. Then find the first word in that sentence that seem to generate confusion, and clear up its meaning. Here you have to be careful because the confusion may arise from a simple word, such as, “on”, “of”, or “in” because they can be used in different meanings.

In short, clear up the meaning of words in the area of confusion. It may be just one word or many. But the moment you find a misunderstood word, the confusion lessens and your mood brightens. Keep repeating the above procedure. You will be surprised how fast the confusion clears up.

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New and Familiar Words

Many a time we run into new words, but we guess their meaning from the context and carry on. Later when we start to have trouble, we may not connect it to this new word that we didn’t look up.

Many words appear familiar to us because we have come across them many times. But we always guessed their meanings and never looked them up. So, it is always safe to look up the meaning of a word when there is the slightest doubt. This will help you avoid a lot of headache later.

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Broad Concept

Before you look up the definitions, make sure you know the broad concept of the word. You may find the broad concept listed under ‘history’, ‘origin’, or ‘etymology’ in a dictionary. The following broad concepts for some words are taken from “Dictionary of Word Origins” by John Ayto.

The word STUDY comes from a Latin word meaning “eagerness, intense application”.

The word MATHEMATICS comes from a Greek word meaning “something learned”.

The word ARITHMETIC comes from Greek, ARITHMOS number + TECHNE skill, which means “number skill”.

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Many Definitions

A word, especially a simple one, usually has more than one definition. You may check all the definitions in a good dictionary, and find the one that makes most sense in the given context. If there are more than one definition that seem to fit, then you must understand the difference between them and choose the right definition.

To choose the right definition, visualize each definition. You may sketch the concept as a diagram on paper, or demonstrate it dynamically with bits and pieces of things. You may even use clay to model the concept. In case of animals, trees, flowers, etc., you may consult images on search engines on Internet like Google images. For abstract concepts, such as, “love,” make real examples from your experience to understand the differences, It is always helpful to use the word in a few sentences to get further clarity on a definition. 

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Words in Definitions

If a word in the definition itself is not quite clear, then look it up in a dictionary as described above. This may sometime get you in a chain of words. List the words as you look them up, and cross them out as they are cleared up. It is okay to look up the same word many times because each time you look it up you may pick up a new dimension to its meaning.

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The Right Definition

The right definition is the one that lessens the confusion. As there may be more than one word that needs clearing up, keep repeating this procedure until the confusion in the study materials is gone.

When all the words in the area of confusion are understood, but some confusion still remains, then look for anomalies. See Resolving Anomalies.

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