The role which an explosion plays in Scientology processing is as spectacular as the explosion itself.

To experience the impact of an atomic bomb, it is not necessary to know the mechanics of nuclear fission. Just so, a preclear need not know the Scientology mechanics of the explosion and its role in experience to benefit from the process. An auditor, however, should understand the mechanics underlying explosions in order to use the process to its fullest extent.

Есть одно из главных правил (оно приводится в Книге Один), которое гласит, что психотик озабочен прошлым, невротик едва способен поспевать за настоящим, а душевно здоровые люди (как мы в шутку называли в 1950 году хомо сапиенсов) смотрят в будущее.

That thing which most closely approximates life itself in the material universe is the explosion. It changes things in space; it disorganizes MEST; it puts out particles from an apparent viewpoint; it alters compounds; and it has closely following its beginning a mirror effect, which is to say, that if one could stop an explosion in its flight, he would find that its center was sufficiently smooth to act as a mirror. It is, then, extremely simple for theta to identify itself with an explosion; and theta has done this to such an extent that science itself, at least at this writing, subscribes widely to the theory that life originates solely from the interactivity of chemical compounds. It could be said that the explosion itself is the basis for this mis-identification.

Можно провести это разделение более чётко, если понять, что невротик едва способен конфронтировать настоящее, в то время как действительно душевно здоровые люди полностью его конфронтируют и очень мало заботятся о будущем, поскольку управляют настоящим достаточно компетентно, чтобы позволить будущему позаботиться о себе самому. Вглядываться как в прошлое, так и в крайне отдалённое будущее - это попытки избежать настоящего времени, попытки смотреть куда угодно, только не на что-то.

The cycle of action of life in the MEST universe is the cycle of action of an explosion. In the first book on Dianetics you will find repeated the ancient Vedic formula that things are born, grow, decay and die. I have expanded this to include the end action. First there is nothing; then there is a something; the something increases, then decreases; and again there is nothing. Thus you have a complete basic cycle of action.

Вам наверняка знакомы люди, которые, когда их о чём-то спрашиваешь, в ответ говорят совершенно о другом. Когда у них интересуешься погодой, они в ответ говорят о метеорологах. Неспособность смотреть на что-то проявляется в первую очередь в том, что человек думает, прежде чем посмотреть. Затем он всё больше и больше избегает того, на что он действительно должен смотреть, пока оно не скрывается полностью за неразберихой сложностей, которая сравнима с госаппаратом. Таков механизм постгипнотического внушения, как он изложен в Книге Один.

There is a process known as Cycle of Action Processing wherein the preclear with creative mock-ups completes the cycles which he has begun and which he has not ended. It will be found that the preclear is trying to complete cycles of action begun often at some long forgotten time, and this accounts for some of the goals which he is rationally or irrationally attempting.

Здесь мы, по сути, видим страх людей перед взрывающимися вещами. Абсолютно каждая серьёзная травма, которая оставила преклира зависшим на траке времени, в своё время показалась ему взрывом - и в ней действительно мог содержаться электрический разряд. Вам будут попадаться преклиры с болью в животе, которые смогут отследить её до того момента, когда возникло ощущение, что в животе что-то взорвалось. После этого они будут пытаться не позволить взрыву произойти ещё раз и будут избегать смотреть на него. Прохождение циклов взрывов, как изложено в БПО 12, разрешает это состояние. В результате человек вновь может смотреть на вещи прямо и без страха. Люди, которые носят очки, и, вообще говоря, слепые не могут смотреть на что-то прямо. Им приходится либо избегать смотреть на что-то, либо не смотреть на это вообще.

The basic cycle of action of life itself in this universe is the cycle of action of an explosion. While this is not true of all universes, it applies very firmly to the MEST universe. Life has attempted since its inception to approximate things in this universe so as to effect a conquest of the MEST universe. That thing in the universe most like life is the explosion, and life, therefore, in this universe follows the cycle of the explosion. This will become adequately apparent in processing and upon further examination.

Избегание реальности - это просто избегание настоящего времени. Тэту можно рассмотреть как своего рода неподвижный сканер. Она не двигается. МЭСТ- вселенная изменяется, в ней происходят различные взаимодействия; продукты и формы, созданные, организованные или упорядоченные тэтой, изменяются, и это изменение само по себе есть время, Время главным образом зависит от создания нового пространства в МЭСТ-вселенной. Рискнём предположить, что новое пространство создаётся в МЭСТ-вселенной со скоростью 1/с*с: символ в физике для обозначения скорости света в вакууме (в пространстве, в котором совершенно нет материи), равной приблизительно 300 000 км/с., то есть каждое новое движение частицы - это создание нового пространства. Происходит вот что: кажется, что частица передвигается в пространстве, а само пространство неподвижно. Пространство исчезает со скоростью 1/с, и новое пространство создаётся с той же скоростью. Это создаёт видимость движения частиц. Парни, изучающие ядерную физику, обнаружат это через пару сотен лет, но не будет никакого вреда, если я намекну об этом сейчас. Это не должно особенно волновать одитора, однако может прояснить ему, почему кажется, что в самой тэте происходят изменения. Если сама тэта, как кажется, изменяется, помните, что это видно лишь благодаря изменению частиц. Тэта не движется. Она является подлинной статикой.

An explosion begins with nothing, grows, recedes and at its end there is again nothing. Here we have the desire-enforcement-inhibition cycle and here, indeed, we have the pattern of all the cycles mentioned in the doctorate lectures and the book Scientology 8-8008.

Индивидуум, который не желает смотреть на МЭСТ-вселенную, должен смотреть мимо неё: либо вперёд, в будущее, либо назад, в прошлое. Вот одна из причин этого: всё начинается с того, что ему не хватает действия в настоящем времени. Затем жажда действия перерастает в неспособность иметь действие и он решает, что всё должно оставаться неизменным, и стремится предотвратить действие. Это применимо и к боли. Люди, которые в какой-то степени не в настоящем времени, испытывают кошмарный ужас перед болью. А те, кто действительно не в настоящем времени, - например, психотики - испытывают к ней неописуемое отвращение. Человек, полностью находящийся в настоящем времени, не очень-то беспокоится о боли и даже мог бы создать немного, чтобы получить хаотичность. Хотя люди ругают садистов, нужно заметить, что садист редко позволяет какой-либо боли случиться лично с ним самим.

It should be remarked that an explosion here is meant to include all varieties of impact including implosions and impacts themselves.

Избегание работы - один из лучших показателей упадка личности. У аберрированных людей есть два общих знаменателя. Первый - ужас перед работой, а второй - ужас перед болью. Люди, которые лишь слегка не в настоящем времени (то есть те, кто считаются душевно здоровыми), уже начали извиняться за работу: они работают ради вознаграждения и больше не считают, что само по себе приложение усилий и осуществление чего-то - уже достаточная награда. Вот с чего начинается вся система благодарности и восхищения как необходимой оплаты за затраченную энергию. Если родители требовали от человека благодарности, то часто этот преклир оказывается серьёзно аберрированным и чувствует, что никогда не сможет отплатить родителям за ту громадную услугу, которую они ему оказали, работая ради него. На самом деле они и не нуждаются в плате. Ведь, откровенно говоря, если сама работа по его воспитанию не стала для них достаточной наградой, то отплатить им вообще невозможно. Другими словами, они не могут принять плату.

Cellular life runs on a motor basis and very tiny explosions provide the heat necessary to run the cellular motors. In other words, life has used the explosion as the pattern of the motors which it builds both in the body and in engines such as those used in vehicles. Thus we have the interesting fact that an inability on the part of the individual to tolerate explosions or their symbols, such as noise, is reflected in a repression of the actual operation of the carbon-oxygen low-heat engine which the human body is.

Если рассматривать человека, который действительно душевно здоров и находится в настоящем времени, то снижение уровня его душевного здоровья можно заметить по тому, что интерес к настоящему времени начинает превращаться во всепоглощающий интерес к будущему. При дальнейшем снижении этого уровня человек начинает строить множество планов на будущее, чтобы избежать того плохого, что может случиться. И наконец он сторонится будущего из-за болезненных инцидентов, начинает с содроганием и слабо держаться за настоящее время, а затем начинает избегать как будущего, так и настоящего и перемещается в прошлое.

The overall life cycle of an individual in one lifetime approximates the explosion very closely. There is an apparent nothing; then there is something, and the something brightly expands up to its limit of expansion; then darkens, recedes and vanishes. Here we have pre-conception, birth, youth and, at the end of youth, the darkening period which continues on until death, at which time nothing is again present.

Последнее и будет психозом - и действительно, и Саентологии именно такова его дефиниция.

It should be closely noted that an explosion follows this cycle. There is nothing; then there is a point of intense light which, expanding, becomes larger but less brilliant; and at the limit of expansion, ceases to be bright, turns dark and dwindles. The particles which make up the explosion, even in its moments of intense brightness, turn black after the recession point is entered. You as an auditor should be intensely interested in this, for this is occlusion. The preclear is fixed in an engram — of what age we care not — where he is confronting the dark particles which have been formerly bright. Just as one is not hurt ordinarily by the immediate glare and blast of an explosion so one is not hurt by the energy of youth. But this receding, as in the case of an explosion, seems to leave one in the midst of the particles which have been crushed against him by the blast and which particles are painful. In any effort to run the blackness which surrounds a thoroughly occluded preclear, both the E-Meter and the preclear remark the pain which attends any shifting of that blackness. Similarly an individual who had been caught in an explosive blast would be caked with dark particles which, when disturbed, would give him intense pain.

Чтобы помочь человеку, который сильно обеспокоен будущим, есть чрезвычайно действенное средство - «Процессинг создания» в вилках: пусть преклир много раз и в больших количествах мокапит (как описано в БПО 8) что-то ужасное, происходящее с ним, с другими, и то, как другие делают что-то ужасное с другими, - всё в будущем времени. Вы обнаружите, к чему этот человек изначально стремился в будущем; затем вы обнаружите, что дела его пошли на спад. Пусть он затем мокапит ужасные вещи, которые сделали бы его цель невозможной и недостижимой. Если вы проводите процессинг станочнику, пусть он мокапит, как его увольняют, как он получает увечья, работая на станке, как от него уходит жена и забирает детей, поскольку он всего лишь станочник, как другие на заводе объявляют ему бойкот, как он делает ужасные ошибки, ведущие к гибели его коллег, как с другими людьми происходят подобные же вещи и как другие люди делают так, чтобы с другими людьми случалось что-то подобное в будущем.

The explosion is apparently a very definite basis in all engrams and, for our purposes here, can be considered to be basic-basic. And it could be remarked with this PAB that basic-basic for all cases has been discovered and is being delivered into your hands to be run.

Человек держится за события в прошлом, основываясь на постулате о том, что они не должны произойти в будущем. Это приклеивает его к прошлому. К этому, по сути, сводится весь смысл образования и опыта. Человеку пытаются внушить достаточный страх перед будущим, чтобы он стал предусмотрительным. Это, конечно, удерживает его на траке.

How does one run basic-basic? The process is intensely effective but is extremely simple and is even apt to be slightly monotonous. Thus the running of basic- basic is accompanied by inserting this process as a between-step in each of the Six Steps to Self-Auditing. One would run Step I of SSSA; would then run the cycle of the explosion as given here; would then run Step II of SSSA; would then run the cycle of explosion as given here; would then run Step III of SSSA; and so on. At each address to the problem of running the explosion, about five minutes would be devoted to auditing it, before one went on to the next step of SSSA. He would do that step of SSSA and would then devote another five minutes to the running of the cycle of the explosion. By doing this he would maintain the interest of the preclear and would markedly advance the case. There is no reason why the cycle of the explosion cannot be self-audited by one trained in Scientology.

Высшая степень неудачи - это, конечно, смерть, и одитора удивит то, как рьяно преклир будет мокапить свою собственную смерть, смерть ныне живущих членов его семьи и как быстро это проявит заряды горя относительно людей, которые уже умерли. Но нужно не просто просить преклира мокапить себя мёртвым. Пусть он смокапит несколько вариантов смерти, а затем, конечно, пусть смокапит, что его кладут в гроб, что он застрял в теле, не способен выбраться оттуда - и на протяжении нескончаемых веков лежит в разлагающемся или забальзамированном трупе, так никогда и не выходя из него. Между прочим, произведения Эдгара Аллана По - замечательный источник для подобных мокапов.

The cycle of the explosion is audited in brackets. This is to say that one has the preclear run the cycle as happening to himself several times, then run it as though someone else were running it and run the cycle that way several times, and then run the cycle for others confronting others. There is a mirror effect running the cycle of the explosion which gives some therapeutic value to having the bracket repeated as though the preclear were sitting about twenty yards in front of himself and doing it there, which is to say the preclear would be far in front of himself, putting it up for himself, having others put it up for others, and then others putting it up for himself; and then the preclear, where he is, would put it up for himself, would have another put it up for himself, and have others put the cycle up for themselves.

Этот метод процессинга будущего можно сочетать с ШШСО.

What exactly is the cycle of the explosion? One gets the preclear to get nothingness, then a growing expansive whiteness, then turn the whiteness black, have the black dwindle and get nothingness again. You will readily see the similarity of this to Black-and-White Processing and, indeed, this is the furthest extension of Black-and White Processing, but is many times more effective and useful.

Бездеятельность и нерешительность в настоящем времени происходят от боязни последствий в будущем. Когда преклира заставят смокапить эти последствия в большом количестве, он сможет более комфортно находиться лицом к лицу с настоящим временем.

In a case which has a direction reversal (confuses left and right) one should run the cycle backwards, having the preclear get first nothingness then blackness, then whiteness, then nothingness. This runs out regret.

When a case has a weak heart or is chronically ill, one should be careful to run this cycle lightly and on such things as the chronic somatic only, or on words coming from the preclear’s mouth (in brackets), getting the words absent, then black, then white, then absent. At any event, be careful of a case that is very ill. On such a case perhaps SSSA or SOP 8 (omitting Step IV) would be best.

This cycle, forward or backwards, used in brackets, betters chronic somatics well enough to prevent their return — an important gain, for chronic somatics sometimes return when audited with older techniques.

In PAB No. 8 you saw that masses of mock-ups could be run in brackets, and that the most important of these were changes in space. The explosion is the most forceful change in space. Thus from the high echelon mechanic of theta’s purpose in changing things in space, one can go immediately into the first pattern theta uses in the MEST universe, which is the explosion, and he can run this in brackets.

Remember to do the cycle of the explosion exactly as given. Nothingness, then growing whiteness, then the whiteness turning black, the black receding and nothingness again. It does not matter how poorly the preclear runs this. It does not matter if his nearest approach to whiteness is simply the idea that something might be white if he could see it.

The cycle is run without effort, which is to say one does not permit the preclear to strain and use effort while running the cycle of the explosion.

One can expect an occasional electrical discharge, but if the cycle of the explosion is run in brackets and in masses, this discharge will be minimal. It should be remembered that you are not trying to run out basic-basic, you are trying to feed an enormous hunger. In other words, you are trying to feed enough explosions into the bank to satiate the scarcity of explosions.

Any and all thinkingness, reasoningness, moralness and ethicalness is derived from the cycle of the explosion. This becomes immediately apparent for, while running the cycle of the explosion on circuit cases, it will be found that they tend to philosophize considerably. This should be ignored. But, for the interest of the auditor, it should be noted that all moralness and ethicalness are directed towards minimization of the wild uses of explosions. Things are right or wrong connected with explosions depending upon whether or not the explosion favors or disfavors oneself or one’s group.

Certainty is knowledge. Knowledge is basically an impact. After a sharp impact, it will be found that a person believes himself to be possessed of knowledge. When this is coupled with anaesthesia — which is to say, when a patient is anaesthetized and given a sharp and terrible explosion such as that occasioned by the stab of a surgical knife or the yank at a tooth — he will awake from the operation in the confusion of something nothingness and be certain that there is knowledge for him to discover.

After the brightness of an explosive blast, people wonder about the significance of the blast. The most uninformative thing there is is darkness. Darkness is greatly intensified in its blackness after a bright explosion has appeared. Thus, all the times one has looked into darkness and wondered whether or not something was there are, so to speak, collected together into this great wonder about the significance. The blackness is a concern about “What is the significance of it?” As an investigatory process but not for the purposes of therapeutic processing, one can have an occluded preclear simply run in brackets “What is the significance of it?” and he will find the preclear quite taken with the process, for the preclear is trying to do just this: he is trying to discover the significance of the blackness.

This simplicity brings upon us a very grim jest. Soldiers, after an explosive war, are deeply concerned with the significance of it all. Men, after operations or bad accidents, are quite often concerned with the significance of things. But, much more important than this, the entire field of learning is today dramatizing the significance of blackness.

The jest is terrible, when one realizes how he has been betrayed by education. Print is in black, the page is white. In order to read, one has to put forth an effort to suppress the whiteness of the page. This keys in gradually the suppression of the brightness of an explosion, a thing which is automatic, and which is succeeded by darkness. The black letters apparently contain knowledge — and actually often do — but they lead the poor student deeper and deeper into “What is the significance?” And the more he studies, the less he knows, until he is left at length in a complete mystery of darkness. You can run this just to see how it is, not for therapeutic value, and find that Effort Processing on reading will bring out letters on pages. One lets the blackness come through, one suppresses the whiteness of the page. Further, in that the scholar is seeking more knowledge, and in that the knowledge is written in blackness, the scholar is led to suppress the whiteness of the page consistently until he is suppressing all whitenesses. This makes him suppress the whiteness on the cycle of an explosion and thus moves him on the time track past the peak of youth long before his time. The continuous suppression of whiteness retards the metabolism of the body and reduces energy. Educators uniformly dramatize the cycle of the explosion, of course, for their field is thought, and the first thought consists of energy particles not of concepts. Thus the processing of concepts on an occluded case does not resolve occlusion. Processes which utilize and multiply energy are far superior to and infinitely more effective than processes which look for postulates or concepts.

And, mentioning education brings one to the most terrible thing which can happen to the thetan. This is to have a guarantee of no explosions. Once the thetan cannot have, either by manufacture or acquirement, explosions or facsimiles of explosions, he is finished. Prison is so terrible merely because it denies the thetan explosions. The interim after death is terrible to the thetan because it is without explosions. Education as done on the public school system guarantees long periods in cubicles which contain no explosions; and education free from the printed page for long years in cube space is easily the most destructive and effective method of destroying the vitality of a race and the initiative and energy of those who should be its leaders and is, to say the least, rather typical of the MEST universe.

This is the seventh of the series on self-auditing the auditor’s own case. These steps, of course, apply equally to the auditing of preclears. Our task at the moment, however, is to bring about as high a state of case as we can in all of our auditors. Not long ago an auditor in an area where many early auditors had practiced told me that the certificate was degraded in that area. This is not surprising if these auditors have not followed through with processes and have not given their own cases attention; but it is surprising that the auditor who wrote me has not taken over the responsibility of remedying this situation, for this auditor is quite well trained in Scientology. It would be extremely simple to discover the HDAs and HCAs in one’s own area and bring them together for the purposes of mutual betterment and use on them Short 8, Six Steps to Self-Auditing on a group level and, on those cases which are particularly occluded, cycles of explosions with SSSA. This would at once establish a better reality on the part of any auditor who has slipped away and would give him some of the benefit for which he hoped when he studied Dianetics. In fact, I cannot conceive a man being interested in Dianetics and Scientology and knowing these techniques and knowing as well that in his area there are people who have not utilized their training and yet who would not gather these people together — with a blackjack if necessary — and see that they receive group auditing. If one does not like to have himself compared unfavorably with an inexpert auditor who is yet practicing, then the thing to do is to bring up the case level of the inexpert auditor and to give him at least the rote procedure to use on preclears of SSSA.

Auditors have been quite confused here and there in the past because they got their techniques and news of new techniques by rumor and because they did not possess the insight to see that all of this work is of a piece and that the goals we are now attempting are simply higher goals than those we first attempted and yet, though higher, more easily attained. But it would be very difficult for an auditor to fail to understand all the uses involved in Six Steps to Better Beingness (PAB No. 7) and to use these steps with success. He would only have to know this much and he would have well cases. There is no slightest excuse today for an auditor not to get rapid results with Scientology. Because I continue to put out techniques is no reason that old techniques do not work. These new techniques are developed and codified out of experience in auditing by myself. They do the work faster. I am even getting complaints from auditors that some of these processes work so rapidly that after a one or two-hour session the preclears are so well they never come back for a second session. I cannot see how this would be hard on an auditor’s pocketbook unless the auditor had not applied the techniques to himself and was unable to go out and dig up preclears. There are today on earth in excess of two billion human beings. In that active auditors number about a thousand, this would seem to give one auditor a fairly good- sized practice. I myself doubt that I could audit more than two or three million people a year and still keep up with my hobbies. So I feel very sorry about these techniques working so fast and ruining people’s practices. (The auditor who wrote me the above should receive all this as humor, not criticism.)