“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.
Chapter 15: INTERFERENCE. DIFFRACTION AND POLARIZATION
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KEY WORD LIST
Phase, In Phase, Out of Phase, Interference, Constructive Interference, Destructive Interference, Interference versus Diffraction, Huygens’ Wavelets, Double Slit, Michelson Interferometer, Thin Film Interference, Non-Reflecting Coating, Wedge, Newton’s Rings, Diffraction, Single Slit, Single Hole, Diffraction Grating, Polarization Of Light, Absorption (Dichroism), Reflection, Birefringence, Scattering.
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GLOSSARY
For details on the following concepts, please consult Chapter 15.
PHASE Phase is the fraction of a period that a point completes after last passing through the reference, or zero, position. Phase is the ratio of elapsed time t to the period T, or t/T—and is equal to the ratio of the phase angle to the angle of the complete cycle, 360°, or 2π radians.
IN PHASE When comparing the phases of two or more periodic motions, such as waves, the motions are said to be in phase when corresponding points reach maximum or minimum displacements simultaneously. The actual displacement is given at any time by the sum of these two displacements, using the principle of superposition.
The two waves are in phase not only if they take the same time to reach the new point, but also if one of them takes exactly one period longer than the other (or any integral multiple of the period longer).
OUT OF PHASE If the crest of one and the trough of the other pass at the same time, the phase angles differ by 180°, or π radians, and the waves are said to be out of phase.
Here the time delay is of half a period, ∆t= T/2, or any half integral multiple of T, ∆t = (m+ ½)T, between the two waves. The two waves are said to be “180° out of phase”, or “out of phase by π (radians)” or simply “out of phase.”
INTERFERENCE Interference is the net effect of the combination of two or more waves moving on intersecting or coincident paths. The effect is that of the addition of the amplitudes of the individual waves at each point affected by more than one wave.
CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE If two of the components are of the same frequency and phase, the wave amplitudes are reinforced, producing constructive interference.
∆t = mT or ∆l = mλ → constructive interference with m integer
DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE If the two waves are out of phase by 1/2 period (i.e., one is minimum when the other is maximum), the result is destructive interference, producing complete annulment if they are of equal amplitude.
∆t = (m +½) T or ∆l = (m +½) λ → destructive interference with m integer
INTERFERENCE VERSUS DIFFRACTION If we have more than two waves then we must add together all the waves to get the resultant wave. This will clearly result in a more complicated calculation in practice, although the underlying principle is still the same. Typically, when we consider waves traveling through openings in different barriers arriving at a common point, we use the term interference to characterize the results of their addition. This often involves the addition of a relatively small number of waves. If we add together waves coming from different parts of a single aperture and arriving at a common point, we usually refer to the effect as diffraction, and the addition can involve, in principle, large numbers of waves. Nonetheless, the basic principle for diffraction is the same as for interference.
HUYGEN’S WAVELETS The Huygens–Fresnel principle states that every point on a wavefront is itself the source of spherical wavelets, and the secondary wavelets emanating from different points mutually interfere. The sum of these spherical wavelets forms a new wavefront.
DOUBLE SLIT The double slit is an example of interference. From the geometry, the following result can be derived mathematically.
We can now determine the angles at which we have destructive and constructive interference by equating this difference in path length to the appropriate multiples of λ. The angle at which the first maximum occurs depends on λ/d. When λ/d is small, then sin θ is small, as is θ. If the ratio is not too small, one can see these interference effects. For wavelengths that are very short compared to the geometric dimensions of slits and apertures, there is little ability of the light to bend and there will be neither diffraction nor interference that is detectable. To see fringes, one needs this ratio to be much less than 1, but still not minuscule. One could use the double slit to measure the wavelength of some unknown radiation by measuring the angle at which interference occurs. In practice, one gets greater experimental accuracy if one uses a diffraction grating that contains thousands of slits rather than just two slits.
MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER Here, light from a source, S, gets split and travels two different paths to reach the detector as shown. The criterion for constructive interference remains that the difference in path length, 2∆D, equals an integral multiple of the wavelength.
As we change the distance to one of the mirrors, the detector will alternately record a large intensity and zero intensity as the interferometer changes from constructive to destructive interference and back again. This can be used to measure very small distances accurately.
THIN FILM INTERFERENCE The bright colors seen in an oil slick floating on water or in a sunlit soap bubble are caused by interference. The brightest colors are those that interfere constructively. This interference is between light reflected from different surfaces of a thin film; thus, the effect is known as thin film interference.
NON-REFLECTING COATING One can coat a surface with a specific thickness of film to produce destructive interference for a particular wavelength. In that case there will be no reflection from the surface at that wavelength. This is then called a non-reflecting coating.
WEDGE A wedgeconsistsof two smooth glass plates that make a very small angle with each other. The air between the plates forms a “thin film” whose thickness increases as we move away from the corner. For the wavelength of the incident light there will be a point along the bottom plate where the thickness of the film is just right to give constructive interference. The result is a series of “fringes,” or alternating bright and dark fringes along the glass plate.
If the glass is not exactly smooth, the bright fringes will be somewhat distorted. The wavy line traces out points where the distance between the top and bottom plates is constant. This can be used to measure the smoothness of a plate. If the lines are distorted, one knows where one has to remove a small amount of glass and can grind the glass there to achieve better smoothness. Since these fringes are sensitive to distances of fractions of a wavelength, this can assure smoothness to that order of distance.
NEWTON’S RINGS When a sector of a glass sphere is placed on a smooth glass plane, there is an air film between the lower surface of the sector and the plane. The height of this film increases as one moves out from the center. Points of equal height form circles around the center. Therefore, circular fringes appear because of the wedge principle above.
The circles seen are called Newton’s rings. This technique is used as standard procedure to test and adjust the smoothness and symmetry of spherical glass surfaces.
DIFFRACTION Diffraction is the process by which a beam of light or other system of waves is spread out as a result of passing through a narrow aperture or across an edge, typically accompanied by interference between the wave forms produced.
SINGLE SLIT For a single slit we get the following mathematical relationship.
w sin θ = mλ, m = 1, 2, 3 . . . (destructive interference)
The intensities at these maxima decrease as θ increases. The intensity at the center is far greater than the intensity at any of the secondary maxima. Additionally, the central maximum is wider than any of the other maxima, and it has a width of
δcent = 2Lλ/w
The secondary fringes have width half as wide.
δ = Lλ/w
The angle of diffraction (the angle for the first minimum) increases with λ/w. The wave spreads out into a central bright fringe between (this angle). As w gets smaller, approaching λ, the central bright fringe gets bigger, and the light spreads out more widely. We therefore see that one cannot consider the light as moving in a straight line if there are apertures comparable to the wavelength of the light.
SINGLE HOLE For a small circular aperture, the light would bend into a larger circle, with the angle of diffraction increasing as the diameter, D, of the hole decreases. The result is a bright central circular area (called the Airy disk), in which most of the energy of the light is concentrated, with secondary rings at larger angles containing smaller amounts of light energy. A small object viewed through a circular aperture expands into a larger circle, with the angle for the edge of the Airy disk given by:
sin θ = 1.22(λ/D)
As (λ/D) becomes larger, the image size increases. If we view two neighboring tiny objects through the hole, we can no longer “resolve” them from each other. Thus, diffraction imposes a limit on our ability to resolve closely spaced objects as through telescope. For the best resolution, we must have large aperture D and/or small wavelength λ. In order to increase our resolving power we must use waves of shorter wavelength, such as ultraviolet light or X-rays, or “electron waves.” Furthermore, this is one of the reasons that telescopes are built with the largest practical diameter objective lens or mirror.
DIFFRACTION GRATING When there are very many, closely spaced slits on a plate, we call the arrangement a “diffraction grating.” Gratings can easily have 10,000 lines per cm, giving a spacing of d = 10-6 m. The angles at which we get multiple slit maxima (the angle through which the light is “diffracted”), is given by:
d sin θ = mλ
The angle at which maxima occur clearly depends on the wavelength, and for multi-frequency light, for each value of m, there will be a spectrum of colors, from blue to red, as the angle θ increases. We can use this multiple slit arrangement to measure wavelengths very accurately, and to separate out different wavelengths in the source of light.
POLARIZATION OF LIGHT The electric field lies in the plane perpendicular to the direction of motion. We call the direction of the electric field in this plane the direction of “polarization”. Most light that is produced by sources such as incandescent bulbs is unpolarized, meaning the electric field has no preferred direction. The simplest, and most common, case of polarization is one in which the electric field always points along one direction. This case is called linearly polarized light, or plane polarized light.
ABSORPTION (DICHROISM) Dichroism is the property of some crystals and solutions of absorbing one of two plane-polarized components of transmitted light more strongly than the other. An example of such a material is a sheet of “polaroid”, which produces light polarized in one linear direction.
REFLECTION Brewster’s angle is an angle of incidence at which light with a particular polarization is perfectly transmitted through a transparent dielectric surface, with no reflection. When unpolarized light is incident at this angle, the light that is reflected from the surface is therefore perfectly polarized.
BIREFRINGENCE Birefringence is the phenomenon exhibited by certain materials in which an incident ray of light is split into two rays, called an ordinary ray and an extraordinary ray, which are plane-polarized in mutually orthogonal planes, or circular-polarized in opposite directions (left and right).
SCATTERING Scattering offers another means of producing polarized light. In fact, the light from the sun scattered by the atmosphere (the light we see during the day if we don’t look at the sun), will be polarized, and we can selectively remove that light by using a polarizer that does not transmit that polarization.
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.
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.
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:
