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no more items. All the items must be in the form of nouns. So for
example, a Grade Six list might look like this:
Girlness / Ungirlness
Smartness / Stupidness
Fatness / Thinness
Lateness / Earliness
Kindness / Meanness, etc.
It is widely believed that this level is dangerous, as you are
dealing with the very core of the mind. It is, like the core of a
nuclear reactor, "hot stuff." Hubbard stresses the danger of this level
of auditing when he states in a bulletin, "Running a GPM badly can be
quite deadly." (7)
The preclear is finished with this level "when he knows he is no
longer dramatizing." The cost of this and the next level will be several
thousand dollars.
The listing process on the Solo Course may go on for hundreds of
hours, as the person maps out the phrases that he believes are contained
in his reactive mind. The Scientologist on this level has by now a
seriously endangered sense of reality. An example of this is a drill
done on this level called TR 8-Q, a drill for Solo Auditor training.
In this drill the person is seated in a chair facing another chair
on which an ashtray is placed. The drill is to train him or her to
deliver thought into an object. He asks several questions of the
ashtray, first verbally, then nonverbally, and then verbally but with
nonverbal intention. The questions asked of the ashtray are:
"Are you an ashtray?"
"Are you made of glass?"
"Are you sitting there?"
"Are you a comer?" (asked of each comer of the ashtray) (8)
The voyage into unreality continues on the final course of the lower
levels of Scientology, the Clearing Course. Attaining the level of Clear
is a goal of every Scientologist, because, once Clear, he or she will be
ready for the mysterious and exciting advanced levels of Scientology,
called the OT levels (for "Operating Thetan"). On these levels the
person will supposedly regain his long-lost powers of telepathy,
telekinesis, etc., as well as the ability to travel at will outside his
body, known in Scientology as "exteriorization."
On the Clearing Course, Hubbard gives the exact pattern of the core
of the Reactive mind. It is:
Part A - The "7s"
Part B - The Basic End Words
Part C - The Confusion GPM
Part D - The Objects -- hollow
Part E - The Objects -- solid
Each set of these Parts A through E is called a "run," and there are
ten runs to be completed in order to fully erase the reactive mind.
The preclear, seated at a table and hooked up to the E-meter, takes
a series of prewritten
lists by Hubbard and reads each item on the list to himself, watching
the E-meter for "reads" (movement of the needle on the dial of the
E-meter) as each item is read. He will continue each item until there
are no more reactions on the E-meter.
Every so often he is given the instruction to "Spot the thetan," or
"Spot the light," at which time he must look out in front of himself and
"spot" a light in his "space."
Examples of the lists given in the "7's" are:
To be nobody - to be everybody
To be me - to be you
To be myself - to be others
To be an animal - to be animals
To be a body - to be bodies
To be matter - to be space
To be a spirit - to be spirits
To be a god - to be gods; then
To do nothing - to do everything
To do much - to do little
To do it all - to do not any
To do ambitiously - to do slightingly
To have nothing - to have everything
To have much - to have little
To have all - to have none
To have hugely - to have poorly
To stay everywhere - to stay nowhere
To stay here - to stay there
To stay near - to stay far
To stay up - to stay down
Why this particular procedure is called the "7s" is not known. In
the next part of the Clearing process, the person is given another list
of words by Hubbard which he must read off to himself while watching the
E-meter for "reads." There are twenty-one items on this list:
The Now
The Past
The Future
The Time
The Space
The Motion
The Energy
The Masses
The Self
The Others
Life
Existence
Conditions
Effects
Pictures
Mind
Histories
Reaction
The Goal
Chaos
Universe
To do Part C of the Clearing process, the person will add the
prefaces "Creating to destroy..." and "Destroying to create..." to each
of the twenty-one items of Part B. Again the person will audit himself
on these new items with the E-meter.
In the fourth and fifth parts of the Clearing process, the person is
given pictures of a series of objects, which include triangles, circles,
squares, ellipses, tetrahedrons, boxes, cubes, eggs, prisms, etc. The
person must visualize these objects either coming at him or moving away
from him in space while he marks down the reactions on the E-meter.
The person must first visualize one of each of the given objects in
front of him, then two objects to each side of his face, then three
objects
to his front and sides, and then four objects on each side and front and
back.
It is a testament to the efficacy of the hypnotic conditioning and
mind control in Scientology that thousands of Scientologists have spent