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Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

When you have a computer program, you can run it with different inputs and get different results. An individual is a “human program” running with certain “set of postulates”. Another individual is the same program running with a different “set of postulates”. If there are 8 billion people currently on Earth, then the same “human program” is running with 8 billion different “set of postulates”.

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Individuality

What makes an individual different from another individual is the “set of postulates” the “human program” is running on. There are also “animal programs,” “plant programs,” and “mineral programs.”

When you are talking about past lives of a person, you are saying that the human program was running in the past with exactly the same set of postulates as it is running on today. The individual is, therefore, defined by the “set of postulates” the human program is running on. Postulates go very deep. They define the goals and very basic characteristics of the individual. If these postulates change then the individual also changes. He is then a different individual.

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The Self

When Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita refers to himself as unborn and imperishable, he is referring to something without individuality that is the basis of all individualities. It is that, which generates the individual set of postulates and energizes it.

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The Individual

The individual is a “human program” running on a “set of postulates.”

A person in an insane asylum is as much an individual as a normal person in the society. They are different only in terms of the “postulates” they are operating on. Each individual is essentially a “system of postulates.” A person has a right to his sanity. A person is as sane as his postulates are consistent with the postulates underlying this universe according to the Principle of Oneness.

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Body & Past Lives

We measure lives in terms of the life lived by the body. The body is organized according to the blueprint carried by the “human program.” This blueprint is forwarded from one life to the next. From the viewpoint of this blueprint there are past lives when it was manifested as a body.

Such bodies, in different lives, have similarities and differences, just like, in one life, there are similarities and differences in the body from childhood to youth to adulthood and old age. It is those similarities that are thought of as characterizing the individual.

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The Mental Matrix

The “human program” and the blueprints it carries can be thought of as the mental matrix (see Subject Clearing the Mind). The mental matrix has several layers. The deepest layer is, obviously, the layer of the postulates. It has the greatest durability.

The next layer is the blueprint according to which the body is formed, and its various functions occur. These functions include how the various parts of the body operate and coordinate with each other. This layer contains the evolutionary history of the body also.

The next layer forms the higher functions known as consciousness and thinking. These functions have to be continuous, consistent and harmonious with the earlier layers of the postulates and the blueprint. However, in this layer, facsimiles are formed that influence the individual’s thinking and behavior most directly. The influence is adverse to the degree these facsimiles are not assimilated in the mental matrix. In other words, the facsimiles that are in violation of the Principle of Oneness, affect the individual most severely.

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Past Karma

Karma is made of facsimiles that needs to be assimilated with rest of the mental matrix. Usually they exists on the top layer of thinking, but they can go deeper into the layer of blueprint and the layer of postulates. These karmas come forward from one life to the next as part of the mental matrix.

When a person recognizes certain facsimiles from the past as intimate to him, he thinks that those impressions were produced by him. Hence he surmises that he has lived before. 

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Summary

A body goes through a certain cycle. Some karma (facsimiles) go through a larger cycle. The blueprint goes through a still larger cycle. The individual “set of postulates” goes through the largest cycle. And the ultimate Self (ability to postulate and to become aware) appears to be eternal in comparison.

The key point here is that the individual is a SET OF POSTULATES, which forms the basis of the mental matrix of a person. The confusion of past lives may be resolved when the person understands which layer of the mental matrix, or the facsimile, he is identifying himself with.

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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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