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dennis.l.erlich wrote: | | OT2 is a verbatim rundown of an implant that happened around | the same time as Incident Two, 76 million years ago. It is | erased by repeater technique in a solo session. The person | silently calls out the line and notes the reaction on the meter. | When an item ceases reading, indicating fully discharged, the | chump goes to the next item until the whole implant is erased. | By then the chump is toadly spun and ready for the exorcisms | in OT 3...7. |Which is a pretty good thumbnail sketch of what follows. If you want a more detailed picture of wht the course is like then another former Scientologist,
emerald@alpha.c2.org wrote: : : You run OT 2 as a solo auditor. This means that you are alone in an : auditing room---typically, your motel room in a city that has an : Advanced Organization. You are seated at a desk, with an e-meter : in front of you. In your left hand you hold a pair of solo cans : [two small tin cans stuck over a plastic tube, attached to the e-meter : by an electrical cord]. You also use your left hand to adjust the : ''tone arm'' on your e-meter. Your right hand holds a pen, which you use : to record the item you are working on, and the e-meter responses : you are getting, on foolscap worksheets. : : Your OT 2 materials are placed beside the worksheets. Because these : materials are supposed to be highly-charged, describing the core of the : reactive mind, you as a pre-OT are only allowed to expose one line at a : time. A heavy sheet of paper is placed over the materials, and you slide : it down far enough to expose the first line. : ''To build a postulatingness machine'', you call out [reading from the : materials]. The e-meter needle falls heavily, and you adjust the tone- : arm, writing ''LFBD'' on your worksheets. You continue to call this item, : recording each meter read you get, until the item is ''flat'' i.e there is : no more meter response. Then you move the sheet of paper down to expose : the next line, and begin to read that out. And so on. : You have probably taken time off from work to travel to an AO in Los : Angeles or East Grinstead for OT 2; so you will put in ten to twelve hours : a day at this activity, in order to complete it as quickly as possible. :The official O.T.2 RunDown consists of ten ''wholetrack tables''. Each of these identically comprising the twentyone GPMs listed below and taking perhaps 1 or 2 days to run out---so 10 or 20 days solid work for the whole RunDown---and each set applies to a different ''entity''; presumably a reference to Body Thetans, although that concept is not explictly intoduced until OT3.
These objects are based on ''goals'', that is obsessive drives put in us to thwart our true purposes: each goal leads to ''problems'' and thus, apparently, to mental ''mass'' [or so Hubbard's jargon runs], hence Goal-Problem-Masses. Each of the goals within a GPM was implanted into us as simple senations, plus mental concepts ---or as words in the contemporary language---which can be set down as a simple formula in English or whatever current language. It is dealt with simply by speaking or considering the phrase repeatedly, until the E-Meter shows it no longer affects us.
The names of the 21 GPMs are:
(A) ELECTRICAL (B) TOCKY (C) BIG-BEING (D) HOUSE // (E) PSYCHO (F) BANKY (G) FORE-RUNNER
(H) Arrow (I) DoubleRod (J) Woman (K) WhiteBlack Spere // (L) Hot/Cold (M) Laughter/Calm (N) DanceMob
(O) BASIC_BASIC (P) BASIC (Q) COMMAND (R) LOWER-L.P // (S) L.P. (T) BODY (U) LOWER BANK.
The description of the GPMs is as follows:
(B) TOCKY. This GPM similarly consists of a word, then the impression of a ''sun'' -- a bright light? -- swinging across left to right. The items go from ''(1) Create [sun swing], (2) Create no [sun swing]......'' through ''...(23) Forget [sun swing], (24) Forget no [sun swing]''. Again, the items are run by speaking/imaging the material repeatedly until the E-Meter shows a flat response, and again we are talking half to one hour even if it could be done rapidly.
(C) BIG BEING. various dates in trillions of years are given for this on the time-track. One is to imagine an EXPLOSION, then the appearance of a Huge Being in [the] sky . The run-items consist of twentyfive pairs from '' 1. (a) You Must Survive (b) You mustn't survive...'' through ''25. (a) All Can Survive (b) All Can't Survive'' , and imagine a second EXPLOSION at the end. Again, this is clearly going to take one or two hours. Time for a lunchbreak in day one? --and this is only the third of 21 GPMs, in the first of 10 sets.
(D) THE HOUSE. An internal room of a house may appear in contacting this GPM, which dates from between 40 and 37 trillion [=million x million] years ago. My copy lacks the run-items for this GPM, and the whole text of (E) PSYCHO GPM and (F) BANKY GPM and (G) FORE-RUNNER GPM, but just imagine four to eight hours more total tedium [per each of the ten sets], and you won't go far wrong.
emerald@alpha.c2.org wrote: : : From time to time, you will put your worksheets in a file folder, and head : off to the AO to get your session C/Sed (have a Case Supervisor review it). : You don't actually see the C/S--though you might *hear* the C/S-- : you just hand your folder in and get it back with written comments, like : ''Well done, continue.'' You will actually get meter reads while doing your : auditing, and spend quite a bit of time ''flattening'' each item. I suspect : that you could audit out the local telephone directory with much the same : results, if Hubbard said to. :Yes, that's about my impression, too. I wonder if anyone, before they have invested much money or commitment into $cientology, would really want to pay thousands of pounds for such mind-croggling tedium, or believe it could really be the path to an enlightment that would give them control over matter, energy, space, and time. I have seen few more impenetrable documents, not even the notorious E-911 emergency telephone system administration document: it is very hard to make sense of what is meant or what procedure is being described, without help from those who have undergone it. There is substance and complexity here, certainly, but does it achieve anything? One feels it would be like munching through great piles of cork tablemats, in the conviction they must provide nourishment if one only munches through the whole pile because Ron says they do---but in the end, of course, they don't.
Hmm, fascinating : some people pay thousands of pounds to be put through the full and unabridged version of this tosh. Consider this a free sample--- if you think the real thing will be good for you, prices can be confirmed from your nearest $cientology Org. Just ask for ''Operating Thetan II''. Standard disclaimers apply that this review article cannot, and is not meant to, convey the full procedure, which you would have to get from Scn at their prices.
emerald@alpha.c2.org wrote: : : Probably the most disconcerting part of OT 2 is that, having already gone : ''clear'', you are now being asked to run out more of the reactive mind. : Hubbard explains that ''you went clear on the first dynamic (self), now you : have to clear other dynamics.'' What he means becomes apparent on OT 3, : when ''body thetans'' are introduced. Presumably on OT 2 you are not : auditing yourself, you are auditing your body thetans. Or so Hubbard : seems to suggest. :
(O) BASIC-BASIC GPMs. This is described as a collection of five GPMs which have an identical pattern; the EXPLOSIONs involved are to be envisioned where the spirit/thetan dwells, i.e. at the centre of the head. A standard caution is given that the English wording is carefully tested to be that which reads on the E-Meter as closest to original concepts or words used, and this must be carefully re-done to translate into a new modern tongue. The BasicBasic occupies just under eighty handwritten pages in the orginal course-pack, which has been rewritten to show the repeating pattern. For each endword, there are twenntysix items as follows:
'' EXPLOSION
01. Stop a beginning <word> to invent an end <word>
.................
EXPLOSION
26. Invent a beginning <word> to stop an ended <word> ''
Each of the twentysix item-types are run until flat with the word (1) self,
then again with (2) mind..... through to (26) amnesia. That's 678 items
altogether, or an 11 hour day if they take a minute each; by this stage,
one would assume the thing is read out a couple of times and flat within
perhaps ten seconds, making this part a two hour task. One might surmise
what is really being learned is to go flat/unfeeling or into trance,
by practice at doing so to arbitrary text.'' ...................... 5. You cannot create ever again ''and another SMASH!. This middle part is to be run twice in succession. Then the main part is re-run backwards, that is from item of type 26 using word 26, down to an item of type 01 using word 01. I am not sure why this is described as a collection of five identical GPMs: perhaps it means that the whole GPM shown, 4 hours forwards in the morning and 4 hours backwards in the afternoon even at speed, is to be run on five successive days.
(P) BASIC GPM. This GPM occasionally refuses to ''read'' on the meter at first, but will run OK if you persist in trying. It comes from 150 trillion years ago but, despite the name, there are yet more GPMs preceding it. It contains a mere 2x70 items listed like this:
'' 01. You must construct a pinball macine
You must not construct a pinball machine
.....................
70. You must forget a pinball machine
You must not forget a pinball machine. ''
Actually the original says ''picture machine'', but ''pinball machine''
would be as rational a choice. What is a picture machine, anyway --
some sort of television -- and what are these goals urging us to do??
We get an irrestible urge to pop down the electronic component shop
with our soldering iron to construct a TV, do we, then an equally
strong impulse not to do it after all? Then a whole series of impulses
to do, or not do, things with the homemade TV we decided
not to build after all. Then we get the commendable impulse to
forget the whole damn thing but, whoops, no, we get a contrary
inpulse to remember it after all. Ah, I see : it all makes sense now!(Q) ONE-COMMAND G.P.M This begins with an additional item, ''stay'', to be repeated several times. There are twenty numbered sections of four lines each which urge us to search for treasure, then not to, then a contrary verb, then not to do that either. It closes with an additional item ''go away'', also repeated. Actually, that's just what I'd be inclined to do by this stage in the proceedings. You pay perhaps ten thousand pounds, and take weeks off the wellpaid job you presumably need to support your cult habit at those prices, to travel to an exciting Advanced Org in Los Angeles or Saint Hill and.... they give you a folder of papers to chant this rubbish over endlessly in a stuffy motel room. Can you say ''utter muggins''? probably not by this stage of commitment to $cientology.
(R) LOWER-LP GPM. This is another ''multiplier'' GPM. The course pack provided a card with a slot, onto which you write the item-types, and you place below it a sheet of foolscap on which you write the current word below the slot each time. You can get two lots on one side, and another two lots on the back of the same sheet; E-Meter readings are noted on a second sheet. The slotted card runs like this:
'' +--SLOT--+
18. Those who desite to create | | pictures
....................................................
01. To create | | pictures
+--SLOT--+ ''
and the list of words is like this:'' 10. Ruinous 20. Mystifying ....................................... 01. Nice 11. Valuable ''Start by writing the first word, from the bottom of the lefthand column, into the slot for the first item, and run it until flat; then the same word for the second item; and so forth. Then repeat the whole procedure for the nest word, and so forth---360 items in all.
emerald@alpha.c2.org writes:
: In trying to understand this, I wrote:
: |
: | There are ten complete "sets" to be done, at probably around 2 or 3
: | day's ''work'' each --- say around an hour to run out each of the
: | twentyone GPMs, in order, which make up a set. Most of the GPMs
: | consist of 20 to 30 Run Items, which one runs to flatness in order.
: |
:
: Right. Except I recall it took longer to get through the GPMs; some
: have a lot of items. For example, the BB GPM is 26 x 26 doubled...
: In theory there are ten sets, but in practice you go through the GPMs
: as many times as it takes. In my case, I didn't even get through one
: complete set, and I suspect this is quite common.
: |
: | I am used to the idea of [dianetic] auditing being rather like
: | that Eliza psychiatrist program, A: what's worrying you
: | PC: I'm worried about dogs A: why are you worrried about dogs....
: | But is this case what one runs is not something the PC has come up with
: | but set phrases read from the materials in succession.
: |
:
: Correct. For Scientologists nowadays, this is the first time where they
: are told very specifically what they will find in auditing. You have
: probably read people on a.r.s saying that the OT levels "evaluate" for
: the pre-clear (or pre-OT). One of the basic rules of auditing is that
: the auditor is not supposed to evaluate for the PC.
:
This tendency is not really new, though, because ElRon moves ambitiously
from auditing real current incidents to fanciful ones from the womb
and beyond into the whole ''past lives'' concept. Precisely because he's
said so much about non-eval, these weirder incidents are HINTED
by restimulation until the PreClear [presumably having read the same
books] volunteers the right stuff. But GPMs like this, where the PC
is bltantly told formulas to run, appear in the clearing course before this:
some later OT rundowns are precisely revision of the clearing course GPMs.
(S) L.P. and (T) BODY and (U) LOWER BANK
are not present in my copy, but just imagine more of the same tedium
and you get the idea. When you have completed all twentyone GPMs
-- seven shorter verbal GPMs, seven image GPMs, seven longer verbal GPMs --
then you have completed the first of ten sets in the whole rundown.
Best of luck with it!
emerald@alpha.c2.org wrote: : : After days, weeks or months of auditing on OT 2, you will find that : nothing reads anymore, and you will go to the AO to attest. After being : checked on the e-meter, you will be routed to write a "success story", : sign waivers, and get signed up for your next auditing level. You will : receive a large certificate, suitable for framing. If you are "routing : out" to return home, you will have to get a number of people in the org to : initial your routing out form, and you will be put through a short e-meter : security check. :So, to sum up, OT2 deals with ten identical sets or tables applying to different entities [presumably later revealed as BTs], each of which contains the identical twentyone GPMs I have outlined above. You cannot carry out the procedure properly -- even were it to be effective -- without the whole of the text, and the skills in applying it, and the preceding courses. The purpose of this essay is only to give a precise flavour of what the course would be like. If this inclines you to try it, apply to your nearest CoS Org for details!
Dave<XEMU>, march 1996