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Scientology, Assumptions, and Creative Processing

This following may be a controversial treatise on the subject of Scientology. It comments on thebasic principles that Hubbard introduced at a time of transition from Dianetics to Scientology.

This time of transition was in 1952 when Hubbard formally introduced the THETA-MEST theoryand Creative Processing at the Philadelphia Doctorate Course. The textbook used for thiscourse was SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008. This is where Hubbard introduced the spiritual dimensionof THETA and the goal of thetan, which was the beginning of Scientology.

The key process which was highlighted in the Philadelphia Doctorate Course was CreativeProcessing. I have reproduced below the original text on Creative Processing, and used it asthe background for my critique of Scientology premise forwarded by Hubbard.

Hubbards text is in black, and my comments are in blue. These comments highlight the

brilliance of Hubbard and also his fixations that undermine Scientology.

NOTE: If a comment does not represent Hubbards ideas accurately then it is open to correctionafter appropriate discussion.

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CREATIVE PROCESSING (a section from the book Scientology 8-8008 by L. Ron Hubbard)

The whole of the data covered in this volume is utilized in creative processing. When one hasmastered the component parts of the mind and the inter-relationships of space, energy, items andexperience, he will find creative processing surprisingly easy to apply and productive of very swiftresults. The goal of this process is the rehabilitation of as much of the thetans capability as

possible to permit him to utilize or be free of bodies as he chooses and, even in lesser magnitude,to rid the preclear of psychosomatics, eradicate compulsions, obsessions and inhibitions, to raisehis reaction time and intelligence level.

In Sciento logy, the preclear is a person who is undergoing sciento logy proc essing to clear sel f of

a l l unwanted condi t ions. The funct ion of processing is to mov e the preclear toward the cleared

state of THETAN that is beyon d matter, energy, space and tim e. A thetan is capable of con trol l ing

every aspect of th e MEST universe. The word MEST is created from the first letters of m atter,

energy, space and time. It refers to the ph ysic al universe.
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After Creative Process ing th e preclear is expected to operate as a thetan with or w ithou t a body.

He would be free of psyc hosom at ics, compuls ions, obsessions, and inh ib i t ions. His react ion t ime

and intel l igence wil l be way above norm al.

These goals are sti l l sold in the Church of Sciento logy , but, after decades of suc h prom ises,

increasing dis i l lus ionment is becom ing vis ib le broadly among the Sciento logy publ ic .

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This process does whatever has been previously intended by earlier processesutilizing aknowledge of these in order to assess the state of the preclear, and in order to parallel thisdifficulty with creation, change and destruction of mock-ups.

In Creat ive Processing, one mocks up (creates in imaginat ion) the unwanted condi t ion in

detai l . Here we get a gl impse of the genius of Hubbard. Mocking up the unwanted condi t ion is an

interest ing w ay of sor t ing i t out in a very in t imate way.

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Gradient scales are vitally necessary in the application of creative processing. The term gradientscale can apply to anything, and means a scale of condition graduated from zero to infinity.Absolutes are considered to be unobtainable. Depending on the direction the scale is graduated,there could be infinity of wrongness and infinity of rightness. Thus the gradient scale of rightnesswould run from the theoretical but unobtainable zero of rightness, up to the theoretical infinity ofrightness. A gradient scale of wrongness would run from a zero of wrongness to infinity ofwrongness. The word gradient is meant to define lessening or increasing degrees of condition.The difference between one point on a graduated scale and another point could be as different oras wide as the entire range of the scale itself, or it could be so tiny as to need the minutestdiscernment for its establishment.

The principle of gradient sc ales, as laid out above by Hubb ard, is insig htful . The idea of applyin g

this principle to understand and diffuse ones unwanted condition is simply brilliant.

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The gradient scale of the creation of a being could bebut in creative processing generally isnotconcerned with time. In creative processing, the gradient scale, as it would refer to thecreation of a person, could be, first, the envisioning of an area where the person might have beenor might be; then the envisioning of an area the person commonly frequented; at last, the creationof a footprint the person had made, and then perhaps some article of apparel or a possessionsuch as a handkerchief. The creative steps would then continue until more and more of a personwas established, and at last the entire person would have been created. Likewise in thedestruction of a person, the gradient scale could, but generally would not, begin with blowing himup or making him grow old. If the auditor finds the preclear diffident about destroying an illusion

of some person, the environment can first be diminished slightly; then perhaps the personsshadow might be shortened, and so on until the entire person could be destroyed. The essence ofgradient scale work is to do as much creation, change or destruction in terms of illusion as thepreclear can accomplish with confidence, and to go from successful step to greater step until anentire success in destruction, alteration or creation (or their companion states of experience, suchas start, change and stop) is accomplished.

The above is a good d escr ip t ion of how gradient scale work is accom pl ished in creat ive

proc essing . Hubbard advis ed that this technique be used to create, alter and destroy th e i l lusion


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of I (the idea that one is this body and the mind), and to reestablish ones awareness as a thetan(the essential spiritual individuality).

Here we find a deep fixation in Hubbards thinking.He could not imagine the destruct ion ofindivid ual i ty. He negated Buddhism by saying, There is evidently no Nirvana. (seeIdenti tyversus Indiv idual i ty)

To Hubbard, the destruction o f individu al i ty leads inevi tably to the state of automaton in the MEST

universe. Hubbard could not c onceive of a state higher than ind iv idual i ty , as Buddha d id. Thus,

the goal of Scientology becam e the attainment of ult im ate individu al i ty as represented by the

concept of thetan.

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The mind works easily if led through successive successes into a complete confidence. The mindcan be confused and set back enormously by demanding that it do too much too fast. The sametoo much can be accomplished by requesting of the mind that it do small portions of the task;this does not mean that processing should go slowly or that illusions which are easy to create,change or destroy should have much time spent on them. It does mean that as soon as an auditor

has established a disability on the part of the preclear in creating illusions of certain places,persons, conditions, things, colors or any other thing in this or any other universe, he approachesthe subject gradually by gradient scale and by accomplishing repeated successes with thepreclear of greater and greater magnitude, finally achieving a complete banishment of thedisability.

Hubbard makes the excellent observat ion that a disabi l ity , or an u nwanted con di t ion, could be

resolved effectively by addressin g it in gradient steps. The person is asked to imagin e (in smal l

s teps) a si tuat ion invo lv ing the unwanted condi t ion. Discomfor t in imagin ing a step then p rovides

a clue as to wh at should b e imagined in greater detai l to sort o ut that area.

The person then foc uses on the area that is hard to im agine. He uses gradient steps u nti l he

succeeds in moc king i t up. Dur ing th is process he may gain ins ight in to the unwanted condi t ion.

As he pro ceeds w i th th is technique he may gain understanding of the m enta l factors contr ibut ing

to the unwanted condi t ion such th at the whole condi t ion blows away.

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The reason a preclear cannot alter a postulate, or change or start or stop, lies in the influenceupon him of his agreements and experiences in the MEST and other universes. To run out theseagreements and experiences as such would be, in part, to agree with them over again. The mind isactually quite free to alter postulates and change its own condition, if permitted to do so at aspeed that it finds comfortable. The mind will not take wide divergences which seem to it to tendtoward its own diminishment or destruction. It was by a gradient scale of agreement that he cameat last to accept and very nearly succumb to the MEST universe itself. The build-up of illusion wasso slow and insidious that only the closest assessment would reveal to the preclear and theauditor how far these tiny steps of agreement led at last.

Hubbard advances an interest ing theory of agreement. Supposedly, agreement is someth ing

accepted witho ut examination . This puts th e person in a state of relative delusion b ecause he has

accepted th ings that are not there. Now i t is un com for tab le for h im to admi t that he is deluded

about cer ta in th ings.

This techniq ue of gradient steps al low s one to examin e what is really there. One may then

discover the mental underpinnings of ones unwanted condition. This discovery cannot be
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disputed because i t is arr ived throug h di rect inspect ion. The person can then deconstruc t the

unwanted condi t ion.

In terest ing ly enough, agreements may also be b ui l t up u sing th is tech nique of gradient steps. One

could make a person believe in some desired reality by molding his existing ideas, biases,f ixa t ions, etc., in gradient steps. But th at wi l l requi re somebody giv ing suggest ions to the person

in gradient steps. Therefore no sug gestion s are al lowed in creative proc essing.

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The motto of the MEST universe could be said to be: Thou shalt have no force nor illusion, northine own space, nor self-made energy or thing, for all illusion is mine and with that thou shaltagree. If thou art, I shall not be. By a series of minute agreements, the preclear has at last givenup all his own belief in his ability to make a universe, or even to create and maintain minorillusions. He does not know or even suspect that he is capable of producing illusions sufficientlystrong to be observable by others, and if he thought this were true, he would attribute it to somemysterious thing and, so short and final are the punishments of the MEST universe, he would tendto shy away from this; but upon his ability to create illusion depends the very existence of all hishopes and dreams and any beauty he will ever see or feel.

Hubbard lo oks at THETA (the essence of indiv idual i ty) and MEST (matter, energy, space and time)

as two vectors d iametrical ly oppo sed to each other. He casts MEST as being inherently inimic al to

THETA. Accord ing to Hubbard, the person was reduced to his pr esent con di t ion by agreeing to

the illusion of MEST in gradient steps. To recover that persons native abilities, the detrimentalinf luence of MEST needs to be nul l i f ied.

To Bu ddha, spi r i tual i ty and phy sica l ity w ere simply tw o d i f ferent aspects of exis tence. One cannot

blame existence for ones condition. It is the lack of mindfulness that brings about unwantedcon dit ion s. Interestingly, creative processin g restores mind fulness. This is what leads to the

resolu t ion of u nwanted con di t ions, and not the THETA-MEST theory o f Hubbard. That theory,

however, acts as a covert sugg est ion running in tandem w i th any processing appl ied in

Sciento logy.

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In truth, all sensation which he believes to come from these masses of illusory energy known asthe MEST universe, are first implanted through agreement upon what he is to perceive and thenperceived again by himself, with the step hidden that he has extended his own sensation to be feltand perceived by himself. He is fully convinced that the MEST universe itself has sensation whichit can deliver to him, whereas all the MEST universe has is an enforced agreement which thoughof no substance, yet by a gradient scale came to be an illusion which seems very masterful to apreclear.

Hubbard declares that THETA (the individu al i ty of thetans) is the sourc e of al l MEST(which is

exis tence) . Sensat ions m ay appear to come from MEST but they actua lly com e from the thetan

(which is th e individual). MEST uses sensations to trap the thetan. Thus, Hubbard seems to b lame

the envi ronment for un wanted condi t ions. He then cla ims that processing shal l improve a

persons ability to handle that environment.

I t is the pr inc ip le of mindf u lness embedded in those processes that helps a person improve his

condi t ion. But Hubbard do es not h igh l ight m indfu lness. Instead he pounds away on a theory,

which implants the sense of I as the ultimate reality. It was mindfulness that ledBuddha beyondI to Nirvana. However, Hubbards goal of achieving assumed superhuman capabilities for I asthetan cuts across that mindfu lness.


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This is a bui l t - in conf l ic t in Sciento logy.

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To prove the reality and solidity of the MEST universe, the preclear could pound his fist upon adesk and demonstrate that his fist had met something. He is making again the error of implanting

sensation and not knowing he has implanted it, for the fist which he pounds on the desk is aMEST universe fist consisting of MEST universe energy, which is itself a MEST universeagreement, and it is meeting a desk which is MEST universe; he is only demonstrating that whenthe MEST universe is perceived to impact upon the MEST universe, one can then implant arealistic impact and perceive it for his own wonderful edification. Reality, then, is a delusionbecause it is ones own illusion which has been disowned by one and is then received by one asbeing another thing. Only by shedding all responsibility for ones own energy can one fall into thiscovert trap. If one is unwilling to be responsible for energy, he is capable of using energy andthen not perceiving that he uses it. One who blames others continually can be discovered to affectmost of the things for which he is blaming other people. In such a way, an individual with thevery best MEST universe, Mark 10,000 ears takes no responsibility for having implanted thesensation of sound in order to receive the sensation of sound.

Hubbard c laims that real i ty is a delusion , because one basically perceives ones disownedi l lus ions. But, accord ing to mindfu lness, real i ty is w hat one perce ives di rect ly . I t does not requi reproof . But delus ion com es from assum ing th ings and assign ing re lat ionships that are not there.

Such assumpt ions requi re proof .

We perceive sol id i ty and sensat ions d i rect ly . These th ings do not have to be proved. But the

claim that solidity and sensations are ones disowned illusions needs to be proved. Is there sucha cause and effect re lat ionship as assum ed by Hub bard?

Cause and effect are associations th at can be perceived directly. When l ightning s tr ikes a forest in

hot dr y summer, and there is a forest fi re, we can make a cause-effect association betw een

l ightn ing and f i re.Can we make a simi lar association b etween the sensations w e perceive, and the

act ions we engage in? Does percept ion depend on th e act ion o f perce iv ing?

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A preclear as he comes up the tone-scale more and more often catches himself doing this, andeven though he does not know the principles involved (for no preclear has to be educated inScientology to receive benefit from it), he recognizes that even in the case of a loud crash, hiscontinuation of association from his environment permits him to perceive with others that a crashhas taken place of objects which he with others continuously recreates solidly, and that he mustactually cause for his own perception the sound of the crash. In that the beingness of anindividual is actually extended for miles in all directions around him, if not much further, any ideaor thought or past thought (as there is no past) is part of his beingness, and so he mustcontinually strive to be faithful to his agreements with the MEST universe.

Evidently there is perception and aw areness. Does that imply that there must be a who that isthe cause of awareness? Can awareness be there without the considerations of who andcause? Can perception and awareness be properties of things like color and size?

In physics, we have the concept of center of mass that mathematically accounts for the mass ofa system of particles. It makes mathematical computations simple. Could who (I, you, he,self and others) be a center for a system of thought particles in a similar way?


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The concepts of I and cause are deeply ingrained in human psyche.They may be usefu l oreven essent ia l to keep ord er in the human socie ty , but when w e look close ly at these concepts in

the manner of creative processing, we do not s ee an absolute or permanent rea l ity .

We have Buddhas observation: What we call a being or an individual, or I, is only acombination of ever-changing physical and mental forces or energies.Thus, being, individual,

or, I, is a convenient name or a label given to the combination of particles of m atter, sensation ,perception , mental form ations and cons cious ness. They are al l imp ermanent, al l constantlychanging. They are not the sam e for two consecut ive mom ents. Here A is n ot equal to A. They are

in a f lux of mo mentary ar is ing and dis appear ing.

I is basically a reference point for body and mind. The significance of individuality as ultimatereality seems to be something assumed. There appears to be a reality beyond the concepts of Iand cause.

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To undo this state of affairs it is only necessary to rehabilitate the awareness of the preclear thathe himself is capable of creating illusions. As he rehabilitates this faculty, the preclear, without

any coaching or evaluation on the part of the auditor, begins to recognize that his viewpoint isexpanding and that he is becoming all-pervasive, but that he can collect his awareness at anypoint, and that the brutal reality all around him is continuously manufactured by himself out ofagreements and association with other viewpoints. So long as he is fixed in a condition where heis in agreement with all spaces and viewpoints, he sees and feels automatically with all other suchviewpoints. He is above the level of energy, if one can use the term, on the same wavelength withall other beingness, a condition which does not permit differentiation.

Hubbard declares that thetan, or the sense of I, is the only true reality, and that everything elseis an illusion created by the I. All MEST (matter, energy, space and time) is part of this illusion.I is in a deathly struggle with the illusion of MEST. Thus Hubbard took a direction completelyopposi te to the teachings of Bud dha, whom he referred to often in his wr i t ings.

Hubbards theory stops a person from looking beyond the concepts of I and cause in creativeprocessing. Creat ive processing w orks because i t makes one perce ive di rect ly what is th ere, and

what is not there. One comes face to face with ones assumptions and recognizes them for whatthey are.

A person is l imi ted by his assum pt ions and f ixed ideas. This seems to be the case wi th Hubbard,

which m akes Sciento logy an ideology and l imi ts i ts succ ess.

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As he rehabilitates his abilities in independent creation, he can change this wavelength at will,and can go into or out of agreement with all other points of beingness. The matter of perceiving,

then, becomes entirely a matter of self-choice. It is, for instance, quite startling to a preclear todiscover that as soon as he is free of the ridges of the body (which is to say, when he hasdiscovered he can change his viewpoint) that he is already partly out of agreement with otherviewpoints, and that the MEST universe becomes slightly jumbled. He is apt to be very anxiousabout this, for it is in conflict with the agreements to which he is subject. He immediately maystruggle very hard to regain a state of affairs whereby he can view the MEST universe as everyoneelse views it.

To Hubbard, i t is the agreement w ith others, whic h keeps the i l lusion of MEST there. Only the

immediate I is real. Al l else is being moc ked up. But th is premis e seems t o be flawed. The idea


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The person m ay provide a l is t of h is unwanted cond i t ions to the audi tor , but i t is easy to

determine wh at is bother ing the person th e most. The audi tor should take up that unw anted

condi t ion f i rs t .

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Cants may be an inability to destroy women or snakes or specific persons, or create machinery,or write legibly. The preclear is requested to accomplish by illusions the smallest gradient of theCant with which he can successfully start; and, under auditor direction, by moving this smallportion of the whole here and there in space, tipping it this way and that and making it, inparticular, disobey natural laws in the MEST universe, the preclear is led to an ability to create,change or destroy the Cant.

The Cant is also the Must. Cant is an inhibition; Must is an enforcement. What must the precleardo and what must be done to him? By whom? By creative processing and gradient scales, heachieves mock-ups until each one of these musts becomes a Can if I want to, but dont have to.

The person star ts wi th mo cking up a si tuat ion invo lv ing an aspect of the unwanted condi t ion. If

that aspect is too much to handle then he mocks up the part that is easy to handle and then

proceeds to mock up the rest in smal l grad ient steps. At each step he moves the mock up aroundin space and tim e and varies it in shape, color, distance, orientation, etc. unti l al l viewpo ints have

been examined.

By im agin ing associa t ions that go against natura l laws, a person gains co nf idence that he can

potential ly imagine or mock up anything, even when he doesnt have to do it. This confidencethen helps him examine his unw anted condi t ion wi th the thorou ghness demanded of g radient

sca les. It then becomes p ossib le to moc k up al l aspects of that unwanted condi t ion and g ain

ins ights in to i t , which may then help resolve i t .

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There are also the Desires. These are the cravings for sensation or possession or identificationwhich brought the preclear into and made him continue agreements. Behind every case theDesires are paramount and of greater importance than the Cants. Why does he desire bodies?Why is his second dynamic aberrated? Why does he feel he cannot be free? Can he differentiatebetween his own actual wantingness and the wantingness of MEST itself which is trying to havehim? The desires are resolved by creative processing wherein the preclear does mock-ups of thenecessary acts which he desires or the necessary behaviours which brought him into agreementuntil he can at last laugh at them.

The desi re is the pressure to know what is there. Assumpt ions are the quick ie method of handl ing

that pressure. I t is th is quick ie handl ing of desi re, which leads to the assum pt ions, such as those

of who and cause. These assumptions then prevent one from accurately perceiving what isthere.

Thus, i t is the desi re that m akes the person, who is n ot m indfu l , assume. These assum pt ions then

trap the person. Mindfu lness helps co ntro l the pressure exerted by d esi re. When a person

contro ls that pressure of desi re using the gradient steps of creat ive processing, he can see th ings

as they are.

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In that creative processing does not take long in terms of time, the assessment list can afford tobe very broad and to cover every possible phase through the system of the dynamics and thecycles of action. This is a list of things the preclear must be able to do with an illusion:

Create the condition, energy or object Conserve it

Protect it Control it Hide it Change it Age it Make it go backwards on a cycle of action Perceive it with all perceptions Shift it at will in time Rearrange it Duplicate it Turn it upside down or on the side at will Make it disobey MEST laws Be it

Not be it Destroy it.

In order to accomplish these things, if the whole of any condition cannot be fulfilled by gradientscale some tiny portion of the condition must be fulfilled. When a small condition has beenfulfilled, the condition is then enlarged until the whole condition can be fulfilled.

In Creat ive Processing, one can star t from any aspect of the un wanted condi t ion and star t

moc king i t up. One is looking for in terna l res is tance to m ocking up . When such an aspect is

d iscovered then one can work on overcoming th e in terna l res is tance by mo cking up that aspect of

the unwanted cond i t ion in gradient steps.

The above assessment may help uncover in terna l res is tance on a broad basis. I f an unwanted

condi t ion is evident, then i t is better to star t wi th w hatever is bother ing the person the mos t.

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That preclear who cannot get even a shadow of an illusion so that he can perceive it in anymanner must be coaxed to see white spots, black spots, of his own creation, and to change thosein space and time, enlarge and contract them, until he has a certain command and control of blackand white. This must be done with such a preclear without regard to the number of hours it takesor the patience of the drill. It can be done with the eyes open or closed, whichever the preclearfinds best.

Yes, the above proc edure may be used.

A p erson can certa in ly perceive an unwanted condi t ion i f he is com pla in ing about i t . He can then

run Creat ive Processing on i t . If a person is n ot even aware of an unwanted con di t ion that he

obv iously has, then one needs to rehabi l i tate the abi l i ty to perceive. Start with wh atever he can

perce ive, such as, mim ick ing, and then expand upon i t wi th Creat ive Processing.

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When the preclear is discovered to be trying to prevent a motion or condition, the auditor shouldmagnify that very condition with new mock-ups related to it, i.e., if objects keep rushing in on thepreclear, mock up objects rushing in until the action is enormously magnified but under thepreclears complete control. If the preclear cannot start something, make him stop it. If he cannotreverse a direction, make him change the nature of the object which he is trying to reverseenough times to permit him to reverse the original disability. If the preclear cannot createsomething, have him create anything even vaguely associated with it, and by association at lasthave him mock up the actual thing.

This is the heart of creative processing . The idea is to discover tho se areas wh ere ment al

res is tance exis ts , and overcom ing that m ental res is tance by m ocking up th at area on a gradient .

The stress is on discover ing those elements that are causing the m enta l res is tance and examin ing

them tho roughly. These would be th ings that are accepted wi thout thorough examinat ion, i .e .

agreed or assumed.

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The essence of creative processing is moving objects in space when they have been mocked up.They are moved near and far, to the right, left, behind the preclear, below his feet, above his head

and in front of him. He must know that he has changed the location of the object. If he cannotmake a large change, have him do a small change of location. If he cannot do a small change oflocation, have him alter the object by turning it different colors, or by enlarging or contracting it,or by pushing it away or bringing it near him, until he can make it move sideways. In failing to dothis, have him do a change with some allied object.

The essence of creative processing is a continuation of success. Be careful not to give thepreclear things which make him fail. Do not let his failures mount up. Estimate the preclear andpay attention to what he is doing; find out from him continually the condition of his illusions, ifyou yourself as an auditor cannot see them. Putting objects into yesterday or tomorrow or wellinto the future or into the past is vitally necessary to processing.

In creat ive processing, the imaginat ion or mo cking up of a di f f icu l ty invo lves the fo l lowing.

1. Mock up an aspect of that condi t ion. Cut i t back i f i t is too much to handle.2. Move it around in space and time unti l al l viewpo ints have been exam ined. 3. Vary it in shape, color, distance, orientation, etc. unti l al l viewpoints have been

examined. 4. Cont inual ly observe what appears inconsis tent or consis tent wi thou t assuming

anyth ing.5. Examine that aspect of c ondi t ion un t i l there is no inconsis tency le f t unexamined.6. Now take up anoth er aspect of the diff icul ty as in Step 1.7. Do th is unt i l the w hole di f f icu l ty is sor ted out, and there is no inconsis tency le f t

unexamined.8. Review the who le di f f icu l ty (unwanted condi t ion) to g ain understanding from i t .

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Control of the illusion is the essence of commands. The preclear must be able to create, grow,conserve, decay and destroy; start, change and stop; be, do and have; differentiate, associate andidentify; handle in space, with energy and in time, any object, actual or mythical, in all the eightdynamics, and with high preference given to anything which disobeys natural laws of the MESTuniverse.


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That auditor with a high order of imagination who is himself clear, finds mock-ups very easy tothink up and request of the preclear, but it is not necessary to have such an imaginatio n, as aroutine assessment will discover immediately that the most ordinary things fall into the Cant,Must and Desire brackets in the preclears life.

The feedback fro m Creative Processing c an be quite interesting. It becom es vital to treat that

feedback with m indfu lness. Please seeTHE 12 ASPECTS OF MINDFULNESS.

Note that the assessment o f the var ious aspects of a di f f icu l ty can be as sim ple as tak ing up the

f i rs t i tem that appears in t he mind as unwanted con di t ion. It usual ly is the i tem th at concerns one

the mos t. It is at the top of the mental stack. Run that i tem throu gh the steps 1 to 5 above, before

assessing the menta l stack for the n ext i tem.

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The preclear will be discovered on the first dynamic, quite ordinarily, not to be able to create,change or destroy, especially destroy, his own body or bodies in which he thinks he is encasedwithin his own body (old time-track bodies such as a Fifth Invader Force body). He will be found tobe incapable in many directions with facsimiles, communication lines and other matters on the

first dynamic alone. On the second dynamic, many incapabilities will come to view, and so onalong all the dynamics. On the fifth dynamic, he will quite ordinarily be found incapable ofhandling snakes, spiders, vicious fish, bacteria, wild animals and domestic pets. On the seventhdynamic he will be discovered unable to handle other thetans, even in the most elementaryfashion of bringing two dots of light into proximity and then separating them (an exercise whichblows head ridges in many preclears quite explosively). On the eighth dynamic his limitationsquite ordinarily become too obvious for comment, but on each and every dynamic he must beable to do or fulfill any of the above cycles or conditions.

Hubbard often adds data which is extraneous to the process, such as, the ment ion of Fi f th Invader

Force body abov e. Such data can be safely ignored. Getting into agreement with extraneous data

wi l l have adverse consequences. One should sim ply un derstand the Creat ive Processing in i ts

pur i ty and fo l low i ts s teps as given above in the comments.

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Standard Operating Procedure tells how to exteriorize a thetan. Creative processing, rising-scalepostulate changing, postulate processing, are then necessary to bring him toward a state of acleared theta clear. The state of theta clear simply demands that the preclear remains outside hisbody when the body itself is hurt, and the state is adequate to prevent his being trapped again bya body except in unusual circumstances. There is no guarantee of long continuance in thecondition. The state of cleared theta clear is, however, another thing, for it means a person who isable to create his own universe; or, living in the MEST universe, is able to create illusionsperceivable by others at will, to handle MEST universe objects without mechanical means and tohave and feel no need of bodies or even the MEST universe to keep himself and his friendsinterested in existence.

Hubbards idea of clearing came from clearing of bugs from a computer (or computerprogramming). He reasoned that when such bugs are removed from a person, he will operate in aperfect m anner. That was h is idea of thetan.

Hubbard d escribes thetan as individ ual i ty that is beyon d matter, energy, space, and time.

However, when i t com es to exter ior izat ion from a body, he treats thetan as a th ing, and not some

abstract concept. This is the basic inconsistency in Hubbards thinking.
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The th ing that traps a person is not the body but h is o wn assum pt ions and f ixat ions. A person is

not a th ing that com es out of th e body at the mom ent of exter ior izat ion. He basical ly comes ou t of

the trap of h is assumpt ion s and f ixat ions.

Hubbard lo oked at univ ersal reali ty (MEST) as a trap and the sourc e of al l unwanted

con dit ion s. His goal became clearing the un iversal real i ty as an i l lusion, and reestabl ishing the

persons own reality in its place.But a person is trapped not by the universa l real i ty , but by th ingsthat he is not mindfu l about.

The truth is that it is not the universal reality that needs to be cleared. It is apersons own assumptions and fixations that need to be cleared.

Hubbard had i t backwards.

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