17 May 97
This one fell in my lap while mulling over power processing theory and stirring in various ideas about belief systems that have occasionally been around in the field.
This is a power process both in the sense that it can restore great horsepower and in the sense that it needs to be handled like power process 6.
One of the basic concepts of power was that the core abberations float in time and are still here now in the present and can be spotted by asking a question addressed to present time. But their actual source is far in the past, so you follow up with a question aimed at the past to remove basic charge on the area.
Unfortunately, we have been saddled with the mistaken idea that all of the core abberations disappear with the attainment of the state of clear. But that has to be a mistake. Anything dealing with engrams or implants must be far from basic because an unabberated being would not be subject to abberation by means of force.
The following aims at a core abberation which goes all the way back.
a) What do you believe
b) What have you done about that
It seems deceptively simple. Almost like you would get trivial answers. Let me assure you that if you are up to running it at all, it cracks the heavens open.
This one really needs class 7 TRs if your going to run it on somebody else. As far as I can tell, its an order of magnitude hotter than anything in grade 5/5A power.
This might give you things like:
"What do you believe?" "I believe that god is good." "What have you done about that?" "I burn down churches".
This is where a beginner might flub. You don't query this. You don't fall off the chair in amazement. And you use a gentle acknowlegement because the PC may be cycling very very far down the track and you musn't pull his attention up to PT.
What, you don't think you'll get an answer like the above? How about the Spanish Inquisition? The PC thinks God is good, decides that the churches are sullying God's reputation, and starts accidentally knocking over the candels every time he goes to mass. But you can't bother the PC and distract him trying to find out all these details. You are probably nowhere near basic on this one.
Don't worry about whether his beliefs are right or wrong. If they are beliefs instead of certainties (he really knows), then there is some unknown or unconfronted aspect and therefore he will mess up sooner or later and mock up something undesirable. And he will persist in his mockup because he refuses to invalidate his belief.
These beliefs can go all the way back to the earliest universes and even back to the jewel of knowlege.
He has things that he is continuously creating because he has faith but he doesn't really know. So he doesn't dare let go of the creations.
This could be the process which resolves the 8th dynamic.
To run this solo, you would find a deepset belief that you have and which you feel is very basic and goes far back in your existance and then you would run "what have you done about that" repetatively until you had a major cognition.
When I tried this, I picked my deep belief that "The Truth Shall Set You Free". I still believe in this and think that it is correct. The point of the process was not to lose the belief (but one would hope to lose any beliefs that really were incorrect) but simply to clean it up, so to speak.
When I ran the second command on this belief, my first answers were "I studied everything like crazy", "I joined the CofS", and similar stuff. Then something very deep came to the surface. My answer was "I hold onto mass (both mental and physical) in the hopes of learning something from it". In other words, I would hold onto some black mass just because there was some faint chance that there would be a truth burried in it. This action made me into a pack rat, both physically and spiritually. And when I realized how foolish this was, a great deal of mental weight fell away.
Now this could be run again and again on different deeply held beliefs. The "done" might include overts but certainly shouldn't be limited to only looking for overts.
And maybe this one could pull the plug on fanaticism. Ron once said (a bit disparagingly) that "the fanatics will always be with us". I might suggest that the smarter course would be to audit out the fanaticism before they sink the entire subject with their sick dramitizations.
Best,
The Pilot