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.ce DIRECTIONS OF CLEARING

.ce FAF - 7
.ce 31 March 90

.ce Copyright (C) Flemming A. Funch
.ce Redistribution rights granted for non commercial purposes


     There are two possible directions of the flow of clearing.  They
could be termed Negative and Positive, or Subjective and Objective.

     First of all a person wants clearing for certain reasons.  He wants
to get rid of disabilities and he wants to regain abilities.  He wants
to move in the direction of greater awareness, knowledge, ability,
freedom, etc towards absolute truth.  He might express his goals in
terms of abilities or disabilities, that doesn't really matter - it is a
gradient scale.

     The person might have specific things he wants handled, or he might
follow a generalized map of subjects.

     Whatever the subject is that is being worked on it can be addressed
in two different ways.


     Negative

     We can address REASONS for having disabilities or for not having
abilities.  At a practical level of truth we will try to locate and view
something that blocks that area.  We will try to find out exactly WHAT
it is to a point of as-ising it.  By doing that we GET RID OF the block.
It gets BLOWN, i.e. either disappeared for good or removed from the area
it is blocking.

     There is ultimately only ONE reason for all case and that is the
Static that is Postulating.  Any other "reason" is a workable relative
truth on a certain level.  It will produce as-isness on that relative
level.  That is what makes a gradual road of clearing possible.

     A person who has a pain in a tooth might handle it by getting it
pulled out.  That is an example of negative clearing, finding the cause
of the matter and removing it.  It is a workable truth at a very low
level.  It might be a higher truth to find out that he has an engram
that is causing the pain and erasing it, if he is ready to do that.  And
an even better reason could be that he has postulated to have a bad
tooth, and by finding that he can blow it.

     All case is additives to absolute truth.  Negative Clearing handles
these by duplicating them exactly whereby they are vanished.  That is
the direct approach to handling aberration.

     However, Negative Clearing has some apparent drawbacks.  It is
looking for a REASON for something and removing it.  So, it is
INTROVERTED in that one has to look inside one's space for a reason.  It
is SUBJECTIVE for that same reason.  One looses something by getting rid
of the reason, one's HAVINGNESS DROPS by doing that.  That havingness
must somehow be remedied, hopefully by an expansion of ability and
awareness.

     Purification RD, Overts, Grade 3 and 4 main processes, Dianetics,
Operation Levels 2,3,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16, and GPM running are all
negative clearing.


     Positive

     In stead of looking for things we can remove, we can exercise the
positive abilities we want.  Get in command of the area we are
interested in, get to be cause over it.

     This is the direct approach to increased abilities.  Just working
on the specific ability until one is totally flexible and at cause over
it.

     Positive Clearing has two different sub-effects.  First, by
exercising one's control over a subject through all possible variations
one is likely to duplicate any aberration on the subject and as-is it
along the way.  Secondly, one can create abilities one never had before,
totally new possibilities.

     Objectives, most of the grade processes, OL 1, old 5,6,7, and any
kind of creative processing is positive.

     Positive Clearing could be called OBJECTIVE in that one is looking
outwards, one is EXTROVERTED.  One is increasing one's havingness.

     The direction of lookingness is relative to where one considers
oneself being located.  Objectives are extroverting to someone
associated with a body, but they would be introverting to someone
exterior to the physical universe who considers it part of his case,
because they would encourage agreement with the case.

     Positive processing is limited in that it is done from a certain
relative point of awareness.  One's imagination powers are limited by
one's existing aberration.  One can't really extrovert oneself all the
way out of something one doesn't know what is.


     The truth of the matter is that both the positive and negative
approach is imperfect and limited.  Each one done for too long will
produce a stuck flow.  Negative processing will eventually get one into
agreement with the aberration, Positive processing will eventually get
one to ignore one's aberrations and be even more the effect of them.

     The solution is a balance between the two.  One is the remedy of
the other.  They will both have to be taken to their fullest extent
gradually, interspersed with the reverse flow.

     The principle of two opposites, two directions, two flows, two
terminals, dichotomies, etc is extremely basic.  The reason for most
case is one's intentional or unintentional failure to see things from
two points at the same time.  A basic action and agreement in entering
the games was to assume ONE viewpoint.  Anything that requires two or
more viewpoints to resolve will then persist.  Reversely, gradually
acquiring the ability to see things from any number of viewpoints will
resolve any case.  One of the last things to go would be the agreement
to the two-terminal principle.  Until then balance must always be taken
into consideration.

POSITIVE                          NEGATIVE

Exercising cause                  Removing Effect
Adding abilities                  Removing Disabilities
Extroverting                      Introverting
Inventing reasons                 Finding the reasons
Making up lies and truths         Looking for lies and truths
Addressing the Being              Addressing what he is NOT being
What one knows                    What one doesn't know
Increasing havingness             Decreasing Havingness
Going towards disagreement        Going towards agreement

     The desirable qualities are addressed by the positive approach.
However the reasons for not having them are only found with the negative
approach.  We need both.

     On any subject both sides of the coin must be dealt with.  If we
key somebody out on life (grades) we've better follow it up before too
long with finding some reasons for the aberration (Engram running).  If
we remove somebody's reactive mind we've better give them the ability to
make a new one (was done on one of the earlier OL1 versions), otherwise
they could still be the effect of it.  If we remove BTs from someone's
space (OL 3) we've better give them the ability to occupy more space by
themselves (old OL 5-7).  If we take someone out of the physical
universe
(OL 9-16) we've better increase his ability to make his own (Creative
Processing).  And having keyed someone out of the universe we've better
find out why he got stuck in it in the first place (above OL 16).

     The current grade chart is overall not very evenly balanced.  The
lower part up to Clear is fine if both grades and engrams are run.
After Clear the person might not know how or why he is Clear or what it
really was he got rid of.  A positive step like the old OL 1 might be in
order here.  After OL 2-3 a lot of negative stuff has been run out.
Some outgoing processes like old OL 5-7 would be a good idea.  OL 8-16
is an even greater stretch of negative processing.  Despite great gains
on these levels the person is likely to go more into agreement with that
type of case and since he looses a lot of "havingness" he is likely to
remedy it in unusual ways.  Creative processing steps could probably be
interjected after 8, 13 and 16 with excellent results.

     The road can only be travelled all the way with a balance of flows.

     Flemming