The Discipline of Subject Clearing

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing


Without discipline no worthwhile activity works. Subject clearing has its own discipline that makes it work. That discipline is made up of the following 12 aspects of mindfulness. As you apply this discipline regularly to situations in your life, you will get better over time.

The 12 Aspects of Mindfulness

It is important that you be relaxed and let the mind present data to you. Do not avoid, resist, suppress or deny any thoughts, emotions, and even sensations. Simply be a witness and let the mind associate and unwind on its own.

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Commands

In Subject Clearing, a person is either studying about the subject, or observing it directly. While doing so, he may become aware of some tension or lack of clarity. There are things that do not make sense. He may ask himself:

“What does not make sense here?”

He may look more closely while applying the 12 aspects of mindfulness, and ask himself:

”What kind of anomaly is here?”

More details become available as he looks closely at things he might be identifying himself with. The contradictory data may be quite obvious, but he is aware of missing and arbitrary data also.

He follows whatever does not make sense. He may start out broadly, but he continually narrows it down. He follows different paths till it all starts to make sense.

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June 11, 2021 – 7:37 PM Categories: Subject Clearing | Comments (1)

DIANETICS: Prenatal Experience and Birth

Reference: Hubbard 1950: Dianetics TMSMH

These are some comments on Book Two, Chapter 7, “Prenatal Experience and Birth” from  DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH.

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Prenatal Experience and Birth

KEY WORDS: Unconsciousness, Earlier similar, Birth, Prenatals

It has long been believed that mother influences the child even before it is born. Dianetics have discovered the exact role prenatal experience and birth play in aberration and psycho-somatic ills. 

Underlying aberrations and psycho-somatic ills is unconsciousness. During unconsciousness the mental matrix is dissociated from the normal perceptions. The perceptions recorded during the period of unconsciousness do not get assimilated in the mental matrix, but stay in a holding area. They then cause later aberrations and psycho-somatic ills.

Unconsciousness prevents incoming perceptions from getting assimilated in the mental matrix.

Unconsciousness is caused by major illness, accident or injury. Usually the brain is affected by a lack of blood flow or oxygen. There might be infection, blood clots, swelling or damage to the brain. Levels of impaired consciousness include confusion, disorientation, delirium, lethargy, stupor, and coma. Narco-synthesis is a treatment for psychiatric disturbances that uses narcotics. Narcotics are drugs that cause unconsciousness. 

Unconsciousness is caused by major illness, accident, injury or drugs.

The narcotics depress awareness by dissociating the mental matrix from normal perceptions. Under their influence the aberrative circuits are bypassed and the assimilated portion of the mental matrix may be accessed. Hubbard figured out a way to reach very early incidents using narco-synthesis and could uncover their content. But the patient could not assimilate the contents of those incidents unless they were very early. It seemed that the assimilation of later engrams depended on the assimilation of earlier engrams. 

Perceptions from earlier periods of unconsciousness are easier to assimilate than those from later periods of unconsciousness.

When an engram could not be assimilated, an earlier similar engram was looked for. When birth was accessed and recounted, assimilation took place. That meant that there were real perceptions from birth that existed in the patient. In some cases, when birth could not be assimilated, earlier similar painful incidents were looked for and were found to exist in the prenatal area. We now know that a great deal of recoding takes place in the child when he is in the womb.

Periods of unconsciousness happen as early as during the prenatal period. Birth itself can be such a period.

Dianetics believes that the recordings exists in the cells since cell is the basic building block of life organisms. However, modern studies show that engrams are more likely to exist in the electromagnetic aura within and around the body. The Dianetics reactive bank is the sum total of the unassimilated perceptions that are situated in this aura.

The mental matrix and the reactive bank most likely exists as a field of thought, which is much finer than an electromagnetic field.

The electromagnetic aura is a natural extension of a cell. Dianetics has discovered that impressions exist in this aura as far back as the sperm and zygote. An engram is an impression that contains enough disturbance not to get assimilated in the mental matrix. For practical purposes the mental matrix may be considered to be the electromagnetic aura itself. 

The mental matrix is the seat of awareness. An unassimilated perception represents a point of unconsciousness.

The natural programming in the mind is the result of assimilated perceptions. The unassimilated perceptions of engrams impose another layer of programming that causes aberrations and psychosomatic ills. The engrams parasitically use the circuits of the mental matrix. Therefore, the language contained in prenatal engrams may not cause aberrations and illness until the child has learned the language.

Failed abortion attempts are the most important factor in aberration. 

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June 8, 2021 – 2:04 PM Categories: Dianetics | Post a comment

Meditating on a Key Word

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

As mentioned on STEP 2, when you take up a key word, the first action is to meditate upon it. 

The whole purpose of meditating on a key word is to bring up dormant questions and anomalies, and resolve whatever does not make sense.

Full resolution will depend on how far you are able to assimilate data in your mental matrix.

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Conceptual Understanding

The first step is to make sure you have a conceptual understanding of the key word. So, you look up the origin of that word in a dictionary, or type on Google, “Origin of the word _____” to get the concept underlying that word. For example, the concept underlying the word STUDY is ‘zeal, painstaking application’.

You then look up the definitions of the word in a dictionary, or type on Google, “Meaning of the word _____” to get those definitions. You visualize those definitions one at a time as you read them. Visualize some examples of each definition until you get full conceptual understanding of the key word. Continue meditating on the key word until you have examined its concept from all different angles.

You may use Google Image to help you with visualization, especially of objects, trees, fruits, and animals.

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Word Chain

If you are having difficulty in visualizing a definition, then there may be a word in that definition that you need to look up. As you continue, you may end up with a word chain.

A word chain could be a phenomenon of not having a good understanding of the language. You may simply work your way through the word chain. This will improve your vocabulary in that language. To speed up you may need some understanding of the grammar of that language. Therefore, LANGUAGE and GRAMMAR may themselves become important subjects for you to clear later.

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Key Words

After forming a conceptual understanding continue meditating on the key word from different angles. As you do so you may come up with a question, or an anomaly (a discontinuity, inconsistency or disharmony). You now focus on answering that question, or resolving that anomaly. Your attention may simply move to other key words in that subject. For example, while meditating on the word “education” your attention may shift to the word “discipline”. 

Add these additional key words to your Key Word List in the sequence they come to your attention. Make sure you have a working understanding of these key words, and then continue meditating on the original key word you are on.

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Subject List

The broader is the subject that you are clearing, the more likely it is to come up with key words that should be treated as separate subjects on their own. For example, when you are clearing the subject “human condition” your attention may shift to words like BODY and MIND that could be treated as subjects in themselves. You may then clear these words broadly as to their purpose, and then add them on your list of subjects to clear.

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Line of Inquiry

In meditating over a key word, and its underlying concept, it is important to keep close to your main line of inquiry. Therefore, you may clear other words only to the degree that you are able to continue with your main line of inquiry. But set those words aside for detailed consideration later.

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Questions and Anomalies

As questions and anomalies come up during your meditation, you may find that you need to study some textual material from Wikipedia or a text book. Just make sure that, when studying these materials, you do not go by a word that you do not understand. Just apply your judgment on how far you need to clear up words that are not on your main line of inquiry. But always set aside words you need to follow up later by adding them to your Key Word List, or to the Subject List.

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Key Word List

Make sure that you keep adding and rearranging the key words in your list in the sequence in which the concepts seem to be developing—both forward and backwards. Focus on clearing up those key words first that represent more fundamental concepts. You may find yourself jumping back to more basic key words. This is ok.

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Also see

  1. Mind: The Matrix Model
  2. Word Clearing
  3. Visualization
  4. Self-Learning and Assimilation

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June 5, 2021 – 9:32 AM Categories: Subject Clearing | Comments (3)

Preparing a Key Word List

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

Once you have selected the subject to work on, the next action is to prepare a key word list. 

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Key Word List

You start the key list with the title of the subject. When your subject is Mathematics, start the key word list with the word MATHEMATICS. When your subject is some personal trauma, start the key word list with the word TRAUMA. When your subject is a personal confusion, start the key word list with the word CONFUSION.

If you are familiar with the subject you may already know some key words, and the sequence in which the underlying concepts developed in the subject. For example, you may arrange the key words of ‘Mathematics’ as follows.

Mathematics, counting, number, digit, place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and so on. 

If you are not familiar enough with the subject, or if the subject is too broad, you may make a list of about ten key words, in the order they come to your mind. For example, you may start with key words for ‘Human Condition’ as follows.

Human, condition, human condition, dukkha, misery, shame, blame, regret, greed, self-absorbed

As a person works with such a list, he would simply know what word he wants to look up next. If that word is not on the list, he adds it in the sequence he is actually looking up the words. This way the Key Word list builds up.

I refer to those working on Subject Clearing as Self Learners (SL). Right now I have three SLs, whose Key Word Lists currently appear as follows:

SL #1:  

HUMAN, CONDITION, HUMAN CONDITION, PARENTHOOD, FATHER, EGO, SELF, DUKKHA, GREED, attachment, misery, shame, blame, regret, longing, self-absorbed, love, forgiveness

As you can see the list has changed from what it was originally. The words highlighted on this list have been looked up. They are arranged in the sequence that they were looked up.

SL#2:

HUMAN, CONDITION, HUMAN CONDITION, BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, DEATH, BELONGING, MINDFULNESS, SUPPRESSION, emotion, aberration, health, sex, money, possessions, entertainment, activity, hobbies, food, drink, friends, neighbors, relationships, nationalities, religions, pets, animals, insects, creatures, life, planets, solar system, universe, big bang, family, group, school, village, town, city, country, team (sport), company, organization, church, religion

Some of these words may qualify as new subjects to be handled separately, but they may be left on the list when it is sufficient to know the overall purpose of the subject represented by that word.

SL#3:

TRAUMA, MINDSET, THINKING, CIRCUIT, THOUGHT, DESIRE, mindfulness, material, spiritual, expectancy, hope, happiness, conditioning, beingness, affinity, suppression, guidance

So, in case of a broad subject like ‘Human Condition’, or for ‘personal trauma’ and ‘personal confusion’, the key word list may develop differently for different people. That is just fine. The whole idea is to address the word or concept where the attention sticks. You may start with about 10 words. More words shall get added or dropped as you continue.

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The Next Word

After you have meditated over about 10 words or so, look them over as a group and see if they can be rearranged in some sequence that makes more sense. Some pattern may emerge and that may guide you to the next word that you should take up. Repeat this action whenever you are not sure what word you want to take up next.

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Discovery

Once in a while after you have meditated over a large number of words, you might want to review the whole list and see which concepts are more basic than others. Then rearrange the words according to the sequence in which these concepts seem to have developed. When you do this, you might become aware of concepts missing in that sequence. This might lead to some discovery.

Keep in mind that the more fundamental are the concepts you are looking up, the more fundamental are the discoveries possible.

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Building up the Key Word List

Part of subject clearing is reading about the subject in the Wikipedia, or studying a book related to that subject, or discussing it with a close friend. The whole idea is to gain proper understanding of what is involved in that subject. This may lead to adding new Key Words to the list.

Ultimately, there is going to be a nice long Key Word List on the subject. You may rearrange it in the sequence that the concepts seem to have evolved. You may then store it for future research. You may also share it with a friend who is clearing that subject.

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Also see Key Word Clearing.

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June 4, 2021 – 3:49 PM Categories: Subject Clearing | Comments (12)

The Quantum (old)

I differ in my understanding of QUANTA. It applies to electromagnetic radiation. Einstein looked at quanta as corpuscles in space, and so does current science. But I look at quanta as the consistency (a degree of density, firmness, viscosity, etc.) of radiation. The idea of corpuscles comes from reactions that we see in experiments where radiation is involved.

For example, in a double-slit experiment with electrons we see flashes of light when the electrons hit the screen. We, therefore, think that the electrons are corpuscles. But then we see a light and dark pattern emerging on the screen, which means that the electron flow is actually a wave form that passed through both the slits. This is not possible when we think of electrons as corpuscles.

The best explanation is that electron flow is a flow of thick energy through the double-slit that reacts as points where its wave front impacts the screen. The whole wave seems to get concentrated at the point of impact.

This provides a different picture of the “particles” of Quantum Mechanics.

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Earlier I wrote in Final Comments to Einstein 1938: The Quanta of Light:

In the photoelectric effect, an increase in the intensity of light only increased the number of electrons emitted and not their energy (velocity). This implies an increase in the same type of interactions between light and electrons. Hence, light must also be composed of particles like electrons.

When the wavelength of light was increased, it lowered the energy of the electrons emitted, and not their number. This implies that the energy was supplied by the composition of light particles and not by their kinetic energy. In other words, the inertia (innate force) of light particles converted into the velocity of the electrons. It is like a conversion from “mass” into “energy”.

A constant velocity is an outcome of balanced forces. Inertia is the innate force of the substance that balances the acceleration of the quantum particle. As this balance shifts, so does the velocity. Thus, underlying the exchange of energy there is a balance of forces in terms of momentum.

Einstein refers to these light and electricity particles as “energy quanta”, but, much earlier, Faraday referred to them as lines of force. These lines of force may be viewed as string-like “force quanta”. This view explains the wave properties of light and generates no conflict with its quantum properties.”

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