6108C22 SHSpec-43 PTPs -- Unknownnesses [Details on goals running] Normally a PC is ARC breaky because he is being audited over undetected PTP's, which he will not-is in order to get auditing. The auditor should suspect it, for instance, when auditing an executive. It is problems alone which give you this terrific timelessness. They show up as a sticky meter, an unchanging graph, slow reaction time, not moving around much in life. Problems stick and float forward in time, and the guy is stuck in a past moment. Another useful definition of "problem" is "unknown". A problem is an accumulation of not-knowingnesses and a consideration of the person as to the value of the not-knownnesses. Remember that the thetan is stuck to his bank, valences, etc., by mystery. Mystery is the glue of life. If you want freedom, you must restore knowledge; if you want slavery, establish ignorance. Create not-knows. So a common denominator of all problems is an unknown. A problem cannot exist in the absence of unknowingness. As the dianetic axiom puts it, "Randomity can be caused by a missing datum." [Axiom 105: An unknown datum can produce data of plus or minus randomity. Axiom 107: Data of plus or minus randomity depends for its confusion on former plus or minus randomity or absent data.] Man's difficulties were getting more and more involved because of the missing data: a technology about Man, based on the fundamental missing datum, "What is Man's nature?" or "What is Man trying to do?" When the PC runs, "Describe the problem," he may well be giving lots of aspects of the basic unknown problem. If you run unknownness on the subject of problems, you cut through to this central problem rapidly. A thetan is a mystery sandwich. Two way comm is an inquiry of the PC as to what is going on and an invitation for him to look at it. It should be limited to such questions as, "How are you doing? What's worrying you? What is that all about?" Processes aren't two way comm. No process is involved in two way comm except 2wc. If you start a process, be sure you flatten it. This datum has never varied; it applies to running unknownness of problems. It's OK to handle a PTP by asking what unknown is connected with it. This runs PTP's fast. Use any version of the odd-numbered postulates: not-know, forget, doubted, pretended. Don't use 2wc to handle problems. You don't have to be repetitive; get all versions of not-know off of it. [More details on running of PTP's] Routine 1A consists of everything you can think of in terms of problems processes. It gives a total ability to confront problems without being upset by the unknownness of them. Man doesn't like having to confront the unknowns of life. It's hard to do, because there is nothing there to confront. We're back to processing loss when you process unknowns, since a loss is a not-know. So someone with lots of problems experiences a sense of loss. What is so maddening about a loss is that you don't know what is happening with the thing lost. The PC will misassign causes of loss, too. Because some terminal is gone and there is lots of unknownness on it, the guy will go to the bottom of the Prehav scale and pretend some knowingness and pretend cause. The two are closely associated. It makes someone who is a real inventor feel strange when he gets down to the Inventor's Club and the others "know all about it" and "invented it two years earlier". Someone in that state can't duplicate; if they were asked, "What did you invent?", they'd answer with some irrelevance, so that's a good rebuttal. Pretended knowingness and pretended cause are blood brothers and continually come up together. This is at the bottom of the not-know scale because it is a substitute know. The way you handle it is not direct. You go at it by way of problems. The guy has had so many problems, he has begun to substitute false solutions. Those are the pretended knowingnesses you see on the case. So you don't process the pretended knowingnesses. You process the problems, and the PC will fly. You enter at the level of reality of what a problem is, and the false solutions and pretended cause fade out. Flattening Routine 1A means getting the guy comfortable confronting unknowns. Then he won't be obsessively escaping from them and no longer experiencing a lot of anxiety about them. [ Cf. Alan Watts' The Wisdom of Insecurity] Jealousy is basically an inability to confront the unknown. The sickness one experiences with it is not because of betrayal. It is just another aspect of the unknown of faithful/unfaithful, or "something they know that I don't," etc. Why does a case suddenly dive into the middle of the bank and refuse to come out? The guy is unable to not ask why. There's an unknown in the incident. The guy gets some glimmer of the unknown, and he dives into it. He cannot confront an unknown and becomes hectic at the idea that an unknown exists. The oddity is that all knowingnesses are invented knowingnesses. With sn inability to confront the unknown, you eventually get an inability to confront the known. Then this goes down to an inability to confront at all, so any little tiny incident of the day becomes a problem he dwells on. So don't judge by the apparent size of the problem whether he will be stuck on it. If he can't confront the unknown at all, he will be totally glued into all his unknowns all along the track. You could run, "What unknown about an auditing session could you confront / would you rather not confront?" You will solve anybody's difficulties with auditing. You could run it on an old timer who doesn't much like auditing anymore or on someone who is having trouble learning to audit, etc. One old timer would get every PC's somatic -- because it's a mystery! He instantly snaps terminals with these unknowns. This process would blow him out. It is a very workable, specific process. It could be used for anyone who has left off doing some formerly successful activity, or someone who is having trouble learning something, e.g. a language. "What is unknown about a German?" would handle problems with the German language. The treatment of a condition is an attempt to alter a valence without addressing the valence, and this just doesn't work. So some process addressed directly at the condition, unless it aimed at solids, like engrams, won't do it. Address the valence; find whose condition it is; handle the terminal [Cf., again XDN "wants handled" rundown]. Long lists of goals won't be that useful, but long lists of valences could be. Out of this, you could get a process for PTP's of long duration: "W/W would have (condition)? What isn't known about that person? What might you have done to him? What might you have withheld from him?" You would strip off valences and get off problems and O/W at the same time. If you run lots of not-know, you've got to remedy havingness because the whole bank is coming unglued.