From pilot@hiddenplace.com Thu Dec 18 14:00:29 1997 Path: szdc!super.zippo.com!lotsanews.com!news.eecs.umich.edu!enews.sgi.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-sea-19.sprintlink.net!news-in-west.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!206.117.249.5!news-wis-88.sprintlink.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.clearing.technology,alt.spiritual.enhancement From: pilot@hiddenplace.com (The Pilot) Subject: Super Scio <6 of 11> SELF CLEARING BOOK Organization: The Pilot's hidden place Lines: 1669 Date: 18 Dec 1997 14:00:29 Message-ID: Reply-To: pilot@hiddenplace.com Distribution: world NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.19.18.32 Xref: szdc alt.clearing.technology:30608 alt.spiritual.enhancement:837 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- SELF CLEARING FILE #6 OF 11 --------------------------------------------- Copyright 1997 All commercial rights are reserved to the author, who currently wishes to remain anonymous and therefore is writing under the pen name of "The Pilot". Individuals may freely copy these files on the internet for their own use and they may be made available on any web server who does not charge for them and who does not alter their contents. --------------------------------------------- SELF CLEARING CHAPTER 24: SUPPRESSION There will be the occasional individual who tries to make your life miserable. If you are in good shape, you simply handle the person and / or the situation that they are creating. Sometimes you can win enemies over or you drive them off or you just hold your own and they drop the matter eventually. But sometimes it happens that a person is overwhelmed by an attacker, whether the attack is overt or covert. In that case your best course is often to retreat and gather your resources in a safe position away from the overwhelming influence. This is not meant to encourage running away, in the long run you will have to face up to things. But sometimes it is the appropriate solution in the short term so that you can catch your breath so to speak. The reasons for attack can be many. There are some people who want to enslave and dominate everybody. And there are some who are stuck in old incidents that make them feel that everybody is an enemy. But mostly it is just vested interests and people who see themselves as being in competition with others in a dog eat dog world. Overt attacks are visible and you probably already have some skill at handling these. But covert attacks are not so obvious. They consist of efforts to dominate and control and invalidate in a subtle manner and are often done with a smile and a knife in the back. Your sharpest indication of this is that when you begin to do better at something, the covert attacker will work to try and bring you down. This person is said to be "suppressive" to you because they are attempting to suppress your advancement and gains in abilities. You will find that such a person works to invalidate you and make less of you, to stop you and undermine your confidence, and to make you feel depressed and disheartened. At the same time, you will often find that they try to keep you under their control and make you dependent on them. Unfortunately, we are in a world of competition and domination. People do sometimes see it as their right to control you and will begin undermining you if they see you moving out from under their thumb. Some parents do this when their children seem to be growing up too fast and becoming too independent. Some bosses or employers do this when it seems that a junior is advancing too fast and may become competitive with them. These are cases where someone may begin acting suppressively towards you even when they do not act that way in general. Sometimes it is simply fear of loosing somebody that they are dependent on. Your best solution is simply to be in good enough shape that they cannot invalidate or hold you back and to have enough skill at things such as communication to handle the situation. Your last resort is to retreat, just as you would from an overt attacker. This leaves behind something that will have to be faced later, but it is better than getting continually trampled into the ground. The intermediate course is to struggle to hold your own, and to work to raise your confront and ability to handle a person who is currently suppressing you. And this chapter has some processes to help you do that. Note that orthodox Scientology currently has a bit of a fanatical attitude on the subject of suppression and "suppressive persons" (SPs). You can ignore this and operate on the practical basis of observing whether or not somebody is actively working to suppress you (hold you down). And remember that many fights come about simply because of wrong data or misunderstood intentions or unjustified prejudices and these things can be dissolved by means of good communication. Everybody occasionally runs into somebody who does not have their best interests at heart, so we'll begin with some general processes that are helpful even if you are not currently having any trouble with somebody who is trying to suppress your progress. 24.1 Stops Stopping somebody is not always done out of bad intentions (there are runaway trains), but it is not uncommon. a) spot a time when somebody stopped you b) spot a time when you stopped somebody else c) spot a time when somebody else stopped another or others d) spot a time when you stopped yourself 24.2 Criticism There is constructive criticism, but it generally includes a great deal of positive encouragement along with the criticism. And much criticism stems from simple upsets which we addressed in an earlier chapter. But sometimes it is ill intentioned. a) spot a time when somebody criticized you b) spot a time when you criticized somebody else c) spot a time when somebody else criticized another or others d) spot a time when you criticized yourself 24.3 Making Nothing A good way to hold somebody down is to make nothing out of all of their efforts. a) spot a time when somebody made nothing of you b) spot a time when you made nothing of somebody else c) spot a time when somebody else made nothing of another or others d) spot a time when you made nothing of yourself 24.4 Spotting Now lets see if anybody is suppressing you. There also might be someone who was very suppressive to you as you were growing up and who is still exerting some influence on you even though they are no longer around. Write down answers to the following questions, putting down multiple answers if it seems appropriate, until you feel that you have answered each question fully. a) Is there anybody around whom you seem to get sick or become sick shortly after seeing them? b) Is there anybody who is continually criticizing you? c) Is there anybody who keeps telling you how bad other people are? d) Is there anybody who is continually stopping you? e) Is there anybody who is continually invalidating you? f) Is there anybody who continually provides false information? g) Is there anybody who makes nothing of your efforts? If the same name cropped up on a number of these lists, then you should run the following processes fitting the person found into the commands. If there is more than one name that came up on 3 or more lists, then run each one in turn on the full set of processes given below. Note that you do not have to make an adjudication at this point as to whether or not the person is really suppressive towards you. The fact of their coming up on a number of the above lists means that there is enough charge present to make it worthwhile to run the processes. One can sometimes get into bad situations or games with people who are otherwise well intentioned. It is valuable to handle any suppression that occurred in any case. 24.5 Help You might consider it odd to consider helping somebody who has been suppressing you, but it really does help blow out the barriers of hatred and raise your confront on the person. The end result is not necessarily that you will now help the person, we are only restoring free choice here, but you certainly should find them easier to confront. a) How could you help ____ b) How could ____ help you c) How could ____ help others d) How could others help ____ 24.6 Problems a) What problem has ___ been to you b) What have you done about that c) What problem have you been to ___ d) What have they done about that e) What problem has ___ been to others f) What have others done about that g) What problem have others been to ___ h) What have they done about that 24.7 Withholds a) What haven't you said to ___ b) What hasn't ___ said to you c) What hasn't ___ said to others 24.8 Overts a) What have you done to ____ b) What has ____ done to you c) What have others done to ____ d) What has ____ done to others 24.9 Invalidation a) How has ____ invalidated you b) How have you invalidated ____ c) How has ____ invalidated others d) How have others invalidated ____ 24.10 Upsets Each of these 3 processes has 6 alternating commands. Run it just like other recall type processes, except that sometimes you might not have anything to recall on the command. 24.10.1 affinity a) is there a time when you rejected their affinity b) is there a time when they rejected your affinity c) is there a time when you insisted that they like you d) is there a time when they insisted that you like them e) is there a time when you did like them f) is there a time when they did like you 24.10.2 communication a) is there a time when you rejected their communication b) is there a time when they rejected your communication c) is there a time when you insisted that they listen to you d) is there a time when they insisted that you listen to them e) is there a time when you were in good communication with them f) is there a time when they were in good communication with you 24.10.3 agreement a) is there a time when you refused to agree with them b) is there a time when they refused to agree with you c) is there a time when you insisted that they agree with you d) is there a time when they insisted that you agree with them e) is there a time when you did agree with them f) is there a time when they did agree with you You can also use the handling for upsets (ARC Breaks) that was given in an earlier chapter. 24.11 Safe a) where would ____ be safe b) where could you put ___ so that you would be safe 24.12 Cause a) What could you confront about ____ b) What action of ____ could you be responsible for c) What about ____ could you be at cause over 24.13 Mockups Mockup or write down imaginary scenes in which you successfully handle ____, working out ways of dealing with whatever difficulties might arise. 24.14 Summary Steps 24.5 to 24.12 above should help you to confront and handle the person so that they are no longer suppressive to your doing better in life. If you still can't handle them and they are seriously pushing you down, then you probably should back off and retreat, moving out from under the suppressive influence, at least until you can build up some more horsepower. But if you do back off in this manner, be very careful not to blame the "suppressive" influence for the condition that you are in. This is deadly because it is handing off control to an external agency that seems to be hostile to you. In actual truth, the cause and effect points are in a constant state of flux and other people can help or hinder you. But these can be shifted by an act of will, and you need to take the causative viewpoint to be able to change things to your liking. If you take the effect viewpoint for the sake of being able to blame somebody else, you tend to trap yourself. It is nice to take the effect viewpoint in a helpful relationship. It is pure masochism to accept the effect viewpoint in a harmful relationship. If you continue to have difficulties with the person or just for the sake of learning more on a second pass through the book, you can also look for earlier lives in which you knew the same being and run some or all of the above processes on that time period. 24.15 A Note on Orthodox Misbehavior Orthodox Scientology has gone through a period of "witch hunts" and declarations of various individuals as "Suppressive Persons". This has been used as a means to blame external sources for things which are wrong. As noted above, this is deadly as it hands responsibility over to the external source. There will be situations where an organization may need to lable somebody as persona non grata and keep them away from the organization because they are liable to burn it down or something like that. This has nothing to do with the fact of individual suppression or the lack thereof. Do not confuse these two things. And do not trust any organization which is continually looking for scapegoats. A sane organization will occasionally find a troublemaker and take some action to handle the situation, but they do not sit around and continually blame the state of the organization on these people. ================= SELF CLEARING CHAPTER 25: JUSTIFICATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITY Here we are going to address various things that are concerned with compulsive action or the avoidance of action. Especially important at this stage is to address the willingness to be responsible. This does not mean being to blame for things. It means being at cause over things. 25.1 Justification process When someone does things that he considers to be wrong, whether intentionally or by mistake, there is a tendency to try and justify these actions both to oneself and others. This not only perpetuates the harm but it also forces the person to hold various ideas fixed in his mind because they are necessary to support these justifications. It distorts his view of the world and interferes with his thinking. It also leads him into undesirable actions which are undertaken to support or prove his justifications. a) What has another done to you b) How did they justify that c) What have you done to another d) How have you justified that e) What has another done to others f) How have they justified that 25.2 Excuses a) What do you use as an excuse b) What do others use as an excuse c) How could you survive without excuses d) How could others survive without excuses 25.3 Improvement a) What are you willing to improve b) What are you willing to have another improve c) What would another be willing to have you improve d) What would another be willing to have others improve 25.4 Responsibility a) What could you be responsible for b) What could another be responsible for c) What would it be all right to be irresponsible about d) What would it be all right for another to be irresponsible about Then also run a) spot a time when you were made to be responsible b) spot a time when you made another be responsible c) spot a time when another made another or others be responsible Then run a) spot the joy of responsibility b) spot the joy of irresponsibility Continue this last process until any feelings of gleeful insanity have dissipated. 25.5 More Responsibility Walk around outside. Spot things for which you would be willing to be responsible. When you feel good about this, then spot things for which you would be willing to share responsibility with others. 25.6 Domination and Survival We have been at each other's throats for a long time out of a mistaken idea that there will be only one victor, only one who will survive, with all the others crushed beneath him. Altruism does exist, but conflict has been the order of the day. Let's take some of the weight off of this. The idea here is simply to confront your actions without justification or regret. And to balance the weight of this, we will alternate it with spotting positive things. 25.6.1 a) How have you dominated others b) Spot a way to enhance others 25.6.2 a) How have you stopped others b) Spot a way to help others expand 25.6.3 a) How have you inhibited others survival b) Spot a way to aid others survival 25.7 Superiority The basic game of this universe is one of superiority and domination. It is not the only possible game, there are much higher level games available, but it is part and parcel of a universe where physics and force dominate over aesthetics and reason. Each of us has something by which we prove that we are superior to others. It will be some basic characteristic that we have worked on to the exclusion of other things, and so you will be good at it. It will be something like being holy or good or strong or intelligent or some similar thing by which you make yourself better than others. Even the enlightened beings who have managed to pull out of this game of domination will have this item, the difference is that they choose not to use it against others. And please note that this is a self-destructive game. Your best characteristic, which you use against others if you choose to play this game, will eventually deteriorate because of the harm that you are doing with it. And so eventually you must abandon it and shift over to something which is not so badly deteriorated. As a result, this item will only stretch back for a limited number of lifetimes. If you go back early enough, you will find some other thing which you once used and have since abandoned. In this special case, therefore, we are only going to consider your current lifetime. DO NOT DO THE REST OF THIS STEP UNLESS YOU ARE A. FEELING GOOD B. DID WELL ON THE EARLIER PROCESSES IN THIS CHAPTER C. FEEL INTERESTED IN AND READY TO FIND THE ANSWER. If the answer to any of the above is NO, then leave this one for a better time or for a second pass through the book. In this step, you will be listing out answers. Write them down in a clear and legible manner. If you start feeling heavy or tired (do not run this when you are already feeling tired), then you have already listed too many answers and will find that the basic answer is already on the list. If you feel irritated or annoyed or charged up, it is an indication that you need to list more answers. Write down answers until you either hit THE ANSWER or you have a comfortable feeling that you have put down enough answers and feel good about it. If you have the answer, then you are done. If not, you look over the list considering each one and putting an X next to any that now seem like they are not the item. At some point while considering the answers, you may suddenly realize which is The Answer, and then you stop. If it comes down to two or more which you can't choose between, then you probably need to add more answers. If at any point, the list seems to be incomplete, then you can add more answers. The list is not expected to be very long. You may realize the correct answer right off the bat. If you are trained in professional Scientology listing techniques, then use those instead. The question is: 25.7.1 In This Lifetime, What Makes You Superior To Others? Once you get it, write the answer again in big bold letters and highlight it in your notebook. Now take the item found and fit it into the following process 25.7.2 This is a simple alternating process. a) How does ___ make you superior b) How could you use it to make yourself right c) How could you use it to make others wrong Once this process cools down, we want to get exactly what it is about others that you are or might be using against them. So lets do another list. 25.7.3 In This Lifetime, What Is It About Them That Makes Them So Wrong? This might or might not get you back to the exact thing that you use to make them wrong. If you felt good about the answer but it seems like it was not quite basic enough, then also do the following list. 25.7.4 In This Lifetime, What Do You Use To Make Others Wrong? By this point, you should have a fairly basic answer such as "They're stupid" or "They're irresponsible". This is sometimes called a "Service Computation" because the being mistakenly thinks that it is of service to him. But that is only a short term apparancy, in actual practice, use of this "Service Computation" on a regular basis will cause the positive ability to deteriorate. Because early Scientology thought of this as a mental picture rather than a concept, it is also sometimes called as Service Facsimile (a facsimile being a picture or copy of something) or Serv Fac for short. We want to erase this negative side. Note that you do not erase the positive ability (intelligence or strength or whatever) but only the negative action of using it against others (making them stupid or weak or whatever). So run the following, fitting the service computation found above into the blank. These are not simple alternating commands. Instead, stay on one command as long as you are getting answers and then shift to the other and get many answers for that one and then shift back to the first command, etc. Note that it is fine if these pickup things from earlier lifetimes since you may have been using this for awhile. Just run whatever wants to come up. 25.7.5 a) Spot ways that ___ would make you right b) Spot ways that ___ would make others wrong 25.7.6 a) Spot ways that ___ would help you escape domination b) Spot ways that ___ would help you to dominate others 25.7.7 a) Spot ways that ___ would aid your survival b) Spot ways that ___ would hinder the survival of others This set of processes should be continued until the obviousness of the service computation falls apart. In other words, when you first lay your hands on it, this thing probably does seem like the absolute reason that people really are wrong. As such, it is a fixed idea that could never really be true all the time (people might be wrong, but never all people always for the exact same reason). If you finish the above 3 processes (25.7.5 to 25.7.7) without that happening, then run these 3 again. Having run the other two will let the first one run deeper, etc. Keep it up until you really do get free of this thing, because it is one of the strongest factors that causes abilities to deteriorate. 25.7.8 Now lets strengthen the positive ability while at the same time pulling out of the destructive game of domination. Go to a crowded place. Spot people and for each one, postulate an improvement of the positive ability identified in 25.7.1 above. 25.7.9 Work to improve this positive ability in others in the course of everyday life instead of using it to make others wrong. Doing this will improve the ability for you as well as for others. ================= SELF CLEARING CHAPTER 26: REPRESSION Sometimes a person has things that they don't want to look at, things that they keep hidden from themselves and are afraid to find out about. We have already approached this from the positive side by running processes to increase one's willingness to look at things. But eventually one also has to address the action of repressing things directly. Here we are not talking about things which you are withholding from others but things which you are trying to hide from yourself. In psychoanalysis this is called repression. One prevents oneself from thinking about things that one thinks are too horrible to contemplate. Early Scientology was at odds with psychoanalysis, so they called this suppression instead of repression, but it is the same action of keeping something buried out of sight and not letting oneself think about it or react to it. Unfortunately, Scientology also used the word suppression to refer to the action of a suppressive person keeping one suppressed and under one's thumb (discussed in an earlier chapter) resulting in some confusion between these things. Also, there seemed to be different degrees of how heavily one worked to keep something buried. At the mild level, one simply keeps something obscured and at the extreme, one works to completely make nothing out of it and treats it as if it had never existed. The avoidance of thinking about, looking at, or confronting something is one of the major factors that we are addressing throughout this book and this would seem to be an appropriate time to examine the underlying theories. In basic Scientology theory, there is the idea that there are 4 states or conditions of existence in which a creation might exist. The first of these is the true or pure form in which the creation is created. This is the object or idea or whatever seen exactly as it really is. This is referred to as the state of AS-ISNESS. Since the creation is fully known and viewed, it may be created or not on a moment to moment basis. There is a strong possibility that the underlying godlike nothingness of which we are a part is balancing the void with an infinity of creation. On that basis, things which are in a state of as-isness may be permitted to vanish because they may be recreated at will, but things which are not in this state must be retained or made to persist to prevent the possibility of their recreation being lost. At the highest levels above all pain and suffering, one would want everything available even if many of those things were not usually desirable. If you are looking at a timespan of trillions of years, you wouldn't let anything, no matter how poor or degraded, disappear from your library because you might want it just once a few billion years down the line. Taking this from another slant, an immortal, infinite, and indestructible godlike being's greatest problem would be boredom. He wouldn't let anything fall out of the realm of possibility and therefore will never let anything, no matter how horrible, disappear unless he can recreate it at will. This may be hard to imagine right now, but you will want all these things later to add spice and variety to a mostly joyful infinity of creation. What is wrong is that you have far too much of this unpleasant stuff running all at once, like trying to eat a dish that is covered with inch thick layers of salt and pepper and spices. Deep down, you will never let yourself wish these spices out of existence because then you would never have salt again. To do that would be crippling yourself at the higher godlike levels. So instead you must go to the work of cleaning up the mess. Which brings us back to the conditions of existence. When something is altered from this state of as-isness, it will persist on a compulsive basis. In other words, as long as you are looking at the alteration, you will keep holding the thing in place. To let go of something, you must see it as it is rather than seeing it in an altered condition. This altered condition is called the state of ALTER-ISNESS. But instead of confronting it and seeing what is really there, which gives one power of choice as to its continued existence, the person will sometimes try to get rid of it by trying to stamp it out of existence. He tries to make it NOT exist by means of force. This is called NOT-ISNESS. In other words, something is there but the being makes a strong postulate that it is not there. This works halfway, because you are strong enough to hide something from yourself so that it appears to be gone, but deep down you wouldn't really let it vanish. As a result, you end up with something that appears to be gone, but is really still there operating out of sight. When applied to the area of your own mind and thoughts, this act of Not-isness is the action of repression. In other words, something is there and you make nothing out of it, strongly deciding that it is not there and never happened. As a result, it continues to persist out of sight and can operate to your detriment. While something is in an alter-ised condition, it is persistent and can trouble you but you are still aware of it. Once you have not-ised it, it is not only persistent and troublesome but it is also out of sight and repressed. The solution in either case is to look at it and bring it into view fully, in which case it returns to a state of as-isness and comes fully back under your control. Then you will permit it to vanish, or you can mock it up again for entertainment if you are so inclined. These 3 conditions of as-isness, alter-isness, and not-isness in regards to one's own thoughts, memories, and feelings becomes fairly evident as one processes oneself. The things that you confront fully cease to trouble you and the things that you repress are eventually discovered and found to have been holding you back while they were in the repressed condition. Because this is so self evident in individual processing, the next logical step is to extend these ideas into the realm of objective reality. But the 3 conditions discussed above are inadequate because another factor has come into play. This factor is the interaction between multiple beings, each of whom may as-is, alter-is, or not-is things that are shared between them. And so we must assign yet another condition, which is called IS-NESS or reality which we can use as a catchall for these more complex interactions. And simply dumping all the group interactions into a single bin called IS-NESS is really an oversimplification, but it will serve for the purposes of this chapter. Although the nature of reality is an extremely interesting topic to pursue as you become more advanced, it is really at the leading edge of research. There is much speculation, theorizing, and sporadic (non-repeatable) phenomena that shows up in this area and you would be wise to get your own house in order first. The processes in this book might indeed lift you into this realm, but full mastery is far beyond sporadic phenomena and this book is only a first step on the road. Therefore our immediate emphasis is to bring things into view that you are hiding from yourself and lay them to rest, so to speak, by restoring confront and awareness. This gives us a simple rule of thumb which is very useful. If a condition is persisting, there is something about it that you are not looking at or confronting. This ties together with the earlier chapter on protest (which also ties into compulsive creation) because the main reason that one not-ises something is because one is protesting its existence. If necessary you can clear up your protests against something as a preliminary step, but by this point you should usually be able to simply look at something and confront it. CAUTION: As Not-isness is removed, the last alter-isness will come into view first. This may be highly distorted from the actual truth. Do not mistakenly assume that it is true and use it for a basis of operation. For example, let us say that a husband gives his wife some flowers. Now let us say that the wife has some earlier bad experiences which lead her to believe that this means that the husband is having an affair. Instead of confronting the area, she twists and alters it out of shape, imagining various scenes of the husband seducing his secretary. Then she carries this too far, the pictures that she is imagining become too dreadful to contemplate, and she represses the whole thing. When this repression is first lifted, her suppressed pictures of the husband's cheating are the first thing that comes into view, and they may seem very real. These in turn have to be confronted before the real truth becomes visible. And confronting them fully may require looking at the earlier bad experience which lead to the trouble in the first place. 26.1 Cleaning Up Bothersome Ideas and Worries Let us say that you are worried that some unpleasant thing might be true or something might have been done to you, but you are not sure and are all confused on the matter. If you confronted this properly, you would either see the truth or would take action to find out or perhaps would not even care, but in any case you would not be bothered and worrying. If you can't achieve this by simply looking and confronting, then there is something interfering with your ability to look at the area and think clearly about it. Sometimes you can simply push through this by using simple tricks to raise your confront. You might, for example, simply mock up some pictures of the thing happening and copy the pictures a few times until they become easy to look at and you can throw them away easily. Many of the things in this book can be used on a one shot basis like this. But sometimes something stronger is needed, and the most likely situation in this case is that you are having so much trouble with it because it is either something that has happened before or that you have done to somebody else. For this you can run the following: a) recall (or imagine) a time when something like this happened to you (or something like this was true). b) recall (or imagine) a time when you did something like this to another (or caused it to happen to another) c) recall (or imagine) a time when another did something like this to another. Note that recalling a time is preferable, but if you can't spot one, then try to approximate one by imagination. Since you might be dealing with something that is heavily suppressed, you may have to pull off layers of half imagined stuff before you can reach a true recall. Alternating the commands lets you poke at it from various angles instead of straining at one point. If there is something that you want to run this on right now, go ahead and do so. This process should be used as needed while running the following steps. 26.2 Avoiding Thinking About Run these alternately. a) what might you avoid thinking about b) what don't you have to avoid thinking about c) what might another avoid thinking about d) what wouldn't another have to avoid thinking about Finish running the process before you go chasing off after things. Something might come into view and come apart completely on the process, or it might only come apart part way. If you reach a point where you feel really good about the process and it seems complete, that is the point to end off. If some hidden thing came into view and the process completed without actually resolving it completely, go ahead and run 26.1 above on it. 26.3 Never Happened Run as in 26.2 above. a) what might you pretend never happened b) what would it be all right to have happened c) what might another pretend never happened d) what would another feel it was all right to have happened. Again, use 26.1 if some unresolved idea remains after running the process. 26.4 Made Nothing Of Run as above. a) what might you have made nothing of b) what wouldn't you need to make nothing of c) what might another have made nothing of d) what wouldn't another need to make nothing of Again, use 26.1 if some unresolved idea remains after running the process. ================= SELF CLEARING CHAPTER 27: KEEPING YOURSELF MOVING By this point you should have mastered quite a few techniques and have a better understanding of how to get through areas of difficulty. As you work through various areas, some of them will come apart at such a deep level that they cease affecting you and others will simply be "cooled down" so that they are easier to handle but still come up in everyday life. Let us take the area of problems for example. At basic, one is creating one's own problems. The reasons and mechanics are quite extensive. This stretches back for umpteen lifetimes over the course of many universes. The general subject of problems could be said to extend all the way down into the deeply buried portions of the "subconscious". If you do a good job in running processes, such as the ones given in an earlier chapter, on the area of problems, you can take them apart and experience considerable relief. The early problems that one had as a godlike superbeing continue to manifest in mundane ways within one's everyday existence. Sometimes when you handle one of these or confront a very basic mechanism in this area, you not only take apart something which is currently troubling you but you also relieve deeply buried charge which is hidden below your current band of accessibility. Sometimes these things can go all the way down to "bedrock" so to speak. This can bring about a major "release point" where the entire topic just falls away and ceases to bother you. For example, one might just stop having problems. This might only be momentary, or it might be extremely stable, lasting for years or even lifetimes. If you have had a major release in an area, and it unstabilizes, it can be rehabilitated by spotting the moment when the release occurred and what happened there. If it is very unstable, then the solution is to run more processes in the area and get to a bigger more stable point of release. If it is extremely stable, then your best bet is to leave it alone and work on other areas where you are less advanced. There are many areas of "charge" and difficulty. As you get these to major points of release, you will find that more and more of the deeply buried things are accessible. Eventually you can reach rock bottom and achieve complete erasure of these sources of trouble, but that is not practical in the early stages. This means that one must deal with the charge that is stirred up by day to day life. But note that this "charge" is the being's own creation. At basic, the being is himself a creative force and he can only trap himself. As you achieve significant points of release, you will find that everything may improve briefly. Your forward progress encourages you to stop creating difficulties for yourself. Your faith in yourself and your self confidence will improve and this in and of itself will make life go better. This holds true as long as you are doing well and making progress. Unfortunately, gains which come as a side effect of doing well will desert you if things go badly. The other gains, which come from actually confronting things and developing skills and taking apart the various abberative mechanisms are earned by your own efforts and will remain with you in both good times and bad. These are the stable gains which cannot be shaken. Think of an undesirable electrical circuit which can be charged up or discharged. When it is discharged, you have greater freedom and power and when it is charged up, it limits you. The stable gains come from removing parts of the circuitry so that they cannot charge up again. The transient gains come from keeping the remaining circuitry discharged. Scientology refers to the state of being "charged up" as being "restimulated" meaning that the various things buried in the hidden reaches of the mind have been stirred up or stimulated again (re-stimulated). The opposite condition, of having things "cooled down" so that one is doing better is referred to as "destimulated". In running a subjective processing command, one is intentionally restimulating the specific thing that the command is aimed at. This is like running a bit of current through the specific circuit that one wishes to lay one's hands upon so that one can dissolve it. But it is desirable to have everything else destimulated so that one can bring maximum horsepower to bear against the specific target that one is aiming at. This allows processes to run much faster and reach deeper. A professional processor will often work to destimulate things first before attempting to run one on major processes. He will cool down the current upsets and problems and so forth before addressing the mechanisms on a general basis. For self processing, a different approach was needed, therefore the early chapters concentrated on processes which work even in the presence of heavy charge and which tend to have a destimulative effect. Simply noticing things that you like or recalling pleasure moments will reduce the current level of restimulation. The further expectation was that everyone would find some chapters that were easy for them and that they could run to significant release points even on a first pass through the book. This would let most people get into a destimulated condition where the confidence and momentum would boost their speed and horsepower to the point where even the areas that they found more difficult could also be handled successfully. But one can bog down occasionally, and life can get in the way. And it can take significant time and work to build up momentum again if one has gotten stopped. The easier course is to keep yourself dusted off and flying along by knocking out restimulative things as they get in your way just like a professional would. If you have been working through the book up to this point, you should have enough techniques under your belt to do this successfully. 27.1 The Rudiments These are called the rudiments (or Ruds for short) because they are very basic. These are the 3 key buttons that give the most trouble if they are ignored. You already know how to handle them. 27.1.1 Is there an ARC Break (upset) Use the process given in 22.3 "Handling an Upset". 27.1.2 Is there a Present Time Problem Use the process given in 15.8 or any other problem process that you are comfortable with, aiming it at the specific problem that is troubling you. 27.1.3 Has a Withhold Been Missed Use the missed withhold handling technique given in 19.7. A professional would generally check these at the beginning of each session. You can check these over right now and handle any that are present. If you don't do any processing for awhile, begin by checking these over. If you are moving along with your processing you don't have to check these each time you sit down to run something because you will know if one of these occurs in life. If it does, simply handle it the next time you have a chance. In general, if your attention is stuck on an upset, problem, or missed withhold, subjective techniques will not usually work well unless they address the thing directly. However, objective techniques will usually work and might even be needed if you are too upset to do the steps involved in handling the rudiment. The very first process in chapter one is especially good for this (which is one of the reasons that it is presented first). If, for example, you have such a terrible ARC Break that you can't even focus on the steps needed to handle it, then look around and spot things in the environment until you pull yourself together enough to attempt handling the break directly. 27.2 Other Rudiments Although the above 3 are the most common buttons that interfere with making progress, other rudiments can be used. You can actually do a "rudiment" to clean up something that just happened in any of the abberative areas that you have learned enough about. That potentially includes a large number of the chapters of this book. Many of them address abberative areas and there is generally some technique which can be adapted to a one shot handling of a specific thing that has gotten in your way. If an area has been run to a stable release point, you will generally be free of troubles in that area and when something does come up you should generally be able to handle it simply on a basis of confront and your knowledge of the area. But if something does become troublesome and stick your attention, go ahead and use a rudiment on it. If something starts coming up frequently after you have run a chapter that addresses that area, then you might need to go back and do more on the chapter. Eventually as you begin handling more and more areas, some of the early release points will unstabilize because you have expanded to a much larger sphere and have made so much of the hidden areas accessible that there is a great deal more available in the area that was previously "released". One might, for example, have become free from problems, but eventually one grows so much that a more deeply buried realm of problems which had been heavily suppressed (repressed) finally comes into view and one is very interested in handling it. Once one has reached that stage, the area can be run again with great benefit. At this point, subjective processes which previously went to a major release and would simply overrun if you tried them again shift back into being useful techniques because there is a whole new area of material for them to run on. Again using the area of problems as an example, one might first run it from a very human one lifetime viewpoint and achieve a considerable release. But eventually so much of your past existence comes into view and your awareness of being an immortal spirit is so much higher that you become very interested in taking another look at problems from that higher viewpoint. Note that if you do achieve a major stable release point in a particular area (this is more likely on the second time through the book), you would leave that area alone until you had very high interest in doing more. Some of the chapters may go to a major release point on the first pass. If that happens, you would skip them on the second time through unless you had expanded so much that the area was again highly interesting to you. And do not invalidate the earlier release point just because you are now ready to go further. 27.3 Some Useful Rudiments Although these are not as critical as the 3 significant rudiments given above, these can get in your way and cleaning them up occasionally is useful, especially when you are trying to get started again after having been bogged down. a) Has anything been protested See chapter 14. b) Have you committed an overt See 19.3 c) Is anything being suppressed (repressed) See 26.1 d) Has there been a false accusation See 23.11 e) Has anything been invalidated See 23.9 f) Has an evaluation been enforced See 23.16 g) Are you withholding anything See 19.6 h) Has something been misunderstood Find out what and clear it up (see chapter 5). 27.4 Wrong Indications This is an area we haven't covered yet but which is extremely useful, especially in correcting things that are wrong. People do make mistakes, especially when they are trying to spot the source of something or fix something. Let's say that you have a car and it starts running poorly. A mechanic examines it and indicates to you that the problem is with the fuel pump. So you have it replaced. But the car continues to run poorly because the real trouble was with the carburetor. This is a wrong indication. Sometimes you don't know until after the fact. You are feeling poorly and you spot or have it indicated to you that X is the source of this. Then you feel worse. This tells you that it was a wrong indication. So you back up, spot the fact that it was wrong, and try again, this time perhaps spotting that Y was the source. This one works and you feel a bit better. As you gain more perception and experience in an area, you become more able to spot a wrong indication immediately without needing to try it. If you knew auto mechanics well, you might have known right away that the fuel pump in the earlier example was a wrong indication and was not the source of the difficulty. You might not know what the right indication would be, but you still know enough to spot a wrong one when it is stated. This is extremely useful in repairing errors in processing. You have some difficulty and you try to spot what went wrong. You take a guess and if it doesn't feel right, you spot that as a wrong indication, back up, and try again. This is extremely useful as a rudiment. "Has there been a wrong indication?". If so, spot what it was. If necessary, spot earlier similar wrong indications or spot times that you gave the same wrong indication to somebody else. You can also run a process in this area. Wrong indications are much easier to spot with hindsight and this will help you focus in on the feelings involved. a) Recall a time that you were given a wrong indication by another. b) Recall a time that you gave a wrong indication to another. c) Recall a time that another gave a wrong indication to another or others d) Recall a time that you gave a wrong indication to yourself. 27.5 Assists If you are sick, injured, in pain, or otherwise not doing well physically, there are processes which may help. These are called assists. Two of the most useful are given in sections 1.3 and 2.3. Another especially good one is to push the pain or sensation into the walls, floor, ceiling, etc. until you can shift it out of the body. There are a large number of assist processes. See chapter 4 of the Super Scio book and also various books from the CofS such as the Volunteer Minister's Handbook and various editions of the books giving introductory, demonstration, and assist processes. 27.6 Errors in Listing Listing processes are those which list for answers to a question while looking for the one specific answer. The only listing processes in this book are in chapter 25. There is more information on this in chapter 4 of the Super Scio book. In general, listing techniques are faster but you can get the same results with a repetitive process. Since it is much easier to do a repetitive process and there is much less chance of getting into trouble, we have avoided the area of listing because it would introduce unnecessary complexity. But people who have had poorly done Scientology processing run on them by another may have existing errors in listing. And some of the advanced areas that you may get into as you work beyond this book may include listing processes. So you should know how to spot and fix a listing error (known as an out list) as part of your bag of tricks. A listing process goes to one and only one answer and that answer is indicated as the answer and it feels right when that is done. If there are multiple answers, or there is uncertainty, or one becomes upset or disturbed, then it is an out list. These answers are called "items" and the indication of a wrong item as the answer is just like any other wrong indication as discussed earlier. But having a wrong item indicated to you by a professional in a listing process generally has much more impact than the usual wrong indications that happen in life because the question often has a lot of charge on it and because you will generally be putting a lot of trust in the professional's judgment. The thing to know if you get professional processing in the future is that if an item is indicated and you don't feel really good about it, you say something immediately. The professionals expect you to do this, because your feeling about the item when it is indicated is one of the most significant factors in judging whether or not the list is correct. Now if you do have an out list, there are two general approaches to handling it. First is to fix the list itself. This is what a professional would do. There are really only 4 major classes of errors. a) The list was continued too long (overlisted). One spots the fact that it has been overlisted (usually it makes one feel heavy and tired). The item will already be on the list. One finds it and spots that it is the item. b) The list is incomplete. There are more answers. One spots that and continues listing. c) The list is invalid. It does not go to a single item. One spots that and indicates it. If the area is still troublesome, you could find some other way to take some charge off of the area (see below). a) The wrong item was indicated. Most important is to spot that it was wrong. Then find the right item, using the other points above as needed. A more detailed discussion is in chapter 4 of Super Scio. Read that if you feel that you might have some out lists left over from professional handling. The other thing that you can do is to take more charge off of the area that was listed. It is easy to spot a basic answer to something if you can get enough charge out of the way. This can be done with repetitive processes. You can make up a general repetitive command for spotting or recalling things in the area and run that rather than trying to do a listing technique to find the answer. The orthodox Church of Scientology likes to use listing techniques to find people who might be suppressing you. This often leads to wrong indications. The cure is to run the repetitive processes given in the chapter on suppression to remove charge from the area. Then spot the various wrong indications. This should cause the area to fall apart and allow you to spot whether anybody really is acting suppressively towards you. Another example is chapter 25, where the area was "softened up" before trying to search for any specific answers. This can be done in any area where you have previously had listing techniques used and which subsequently gave you trouble. Self listing rarely gives the same degree of trouble as professional listing because you do not have an outside source jamming the answer down your throat. But it can be confusing if you don't know what you are doing. Eventually you will want to do a thorough study of listing techniques. Until then, stick with repetitive processes and drills or make a point of softening up an area with them first before doing any solo listing processes. 27.7 Other Trouble Spots Besides the things listed above and the ones discussed under "If you get into trouble" in the beginning sections of this book, there are a few other things which can also get in your way. a) Interiorization/Exteriorization Troubles This does not refer to problems with exterior perception or operation. That is a matter of gradually developing skill and perception and ability and you simply have to put up with the fact that it may take time and effort. But there is the specific problem of interiorizing with some impact or otherwise messing up the energy fields around the body, which might make you feel a bit sick or give you a headache. We will do more to proof you up against this in the later chapter on advanced incident running. But for now, if something like this happens, repeat the first simple drill given in the chapter on exteriorizing. If you take your attention off of the body and simply drill interiorizing and exteriorizing from a nearby mountain (without trying to pull anything out of the body or push anything into it), it can cool down other impacts and energy manifestations that may be occurring and get you feeling better. b) Looking for something that isn't there Due to mistakes or misunderstoods or wrong indications, you might decide that something is there when it isn't. For example, you might feel that there must be an ARC break in some area, but you just can't lay your hands on it, or you try to force something to seem like it was an ARC break but it wasn't. This can get you really confused and tangled up. Of course the area might simply be overcharged or you made some gross mistake in the way you tried to handle it. But looking for something that isn't there (or putting something where there is nothing) is a prime suspect when things get confusing and difficult. You can check these 3 points and see which "feels right". 1 - Are you looking for something that isn't there 2 - Has a mistake been made 3 - Was there simply too much charge in the area Of course point 1 is a mistake and can lead to pulling in too much charge, so you check it first (because the others may seem right too). If it was a mistake, figure out what you did wrong, rereading the appropriate material if necessary, and fix it. If there is too much charge, but you were able to run the process to some degree (in other words, it started running instead of being something too difficult which should be put aside until later), it may be due to one of the other rudiments or errors that we have been discussing, or it might be that it is simply a difficult area and you need to either stick with it and complete the process or use some of the basic techniques (in the early chapters) for building up a bit more horsepower before trying again. c) Communication Communication is so significant that a cut or ignored communication can sometimes stick your attention even if there is not a real ARC break. For this, you can write down the communication, spot who should have received it, and visualize an acknowledgment coming from them. Repeat until you attention comes off of the incomplete communication and you can concentrate on your processing. d) Fixated Attention It is always possible that something else is fixating your attention which doesn't quite fit the various categories of things that have been discussed (problems, upsets, and so on). You can drill putting your attention onto it and taking it off of it. Or you can alternately mock it up and unmock it. Or any other technique which lets you causatively work something back and forth in the area instead of remaining fixated. Or, if you are simply excited about something that is about to happen, go ahead and take a break. 27.8 CORRECTION LISTS Professionals often use correction lists either when somebody gets in trouble or just as a general cleanup. These are lists of possible errors that one checks over to see if anything indicates. If some error is spotted, it is fixed, unless the simple fact of spotting it cleans it up. These generally include the various rudiments and the various kinds of errors that we have been discussing. Some are specifically tailored to specific types of processing and some are general purpose. A general correction list adapted to self processing is included in the appendix. You do it by simply checking over each question and if it seems like there is something to handle, do so. If, for example, it seems like there has been a wrong indication, then use the procedure given earlier in this chapter. Most of the material on handling the various errors is given in this chapter or in the introductory section on "if you get into trouble". Of course if a process was left incomplete, you finish running it. And if a process was overrun (continued too long), you spot the moment when it was complete as discussed in chapter 2. You can look over a correction list in regards to a specific error, or as a general cleanup, or aim it at something earlier that you want to fix up. In some cases you might want to aim the question at the area or time period that is being repaired. For example, if you are trying to straighten out some processing that you were given last year, you would change the question "is there an ARC Break" into "At that time, was there an ARC Break". If you get some clean up from a professional, they may use the correction list in the appendix or other professional correction lists or a hybrid of both. ================= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBNJkoQcsIt3ZgVQbNAQGxXQP+Lf4bv7jL2nmfxc4shZ5yv131m2Pdqa/Y zIWOa7aLhjMiTTTyRnpxR+M6c2QOCw9IedN9iHrSJm8dKmhpbbJ/niXp/bWlJEGI bJF5cnEh9dvbNcotuxaVYO1iQg5Nf49RKo2DylHIVs/Cz/HBe7oMdUiG753JUw1F 5RyzhCAgUL0= =9DUM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----