Great post, Hatshepsut. Lots to unpack.
According to Hubbard, body thetans and clusters (of body thetans) get hung up because of their various misconceptions about time, space, and identity. This NOTs indoc material might help to clarify Hubbard's basic theories, which of course apply to all thetans, embodied or not:
Misconceptions of identity, time, place, form and event hang a thetan up. The only reason why a cluster hangs together is such misconception.
A thetan can have a misconception of time, by having a wrong date for an incident. Or he can conceive that a past picture is “now”. Or he can have two incidents switched in time, and think the earlier incident is later, and think the later incident is earlier. Such a misconception of time hangs it up and prevents a blow. And you can get a blow by straightening out the time misconception.
A misconception of place occurs when a thetan thinks something happened in location A, when it happened in location B. You can get a misconception of both time and place. E.g. a cluster gets a recent heavy restimulation. They think the incident was the restim, they made a picture of the restim and think that’s where it occurred originally - think the cluster was formed at the time and place of the restimulation. So they have both the time and place in error. This misconception of both time and place confuses them and hangs the cluster up.
Misconception of identity. Thetan X thinks he was implanted in “Woof” (place) - but actually he’s copying the picture of somebody who was implanted in “Woof”. He hangs up on the misconception of identity (thinks he’s the other thetan), and misconception of event (thinks he was implanted when he wasn’t).
The whole reason why a cluster stays one, is misconception of identity, time, place, form and event - which is why Date/Locate works. The cluster is hanging in a time and space disorientation.
That’s what louses a BT up, some sort of misconception of time, space, form and event or beingness. That ties them up and they are hard to untangle and blow.
They can switch all over the place with identity: he thinks he’s thetan “A”, but he’s really thetan “B” mocking up “A”, and that will cause a stress - that’s probably the anatomy of stress.
HCOB 22 September 1978 NED for OTs Series 5 Misconceptions
Hubbard's Theta-MEST theory is also relevant:
Definition: MEST
THETA-MEST THEORY, 1. a theory generated by myself in the fall of 1950 as an effort to explain (just a theory) the phenomena of an analyzer working in one direction and a reactive mind working in quite another, the reactive mind being interesting, and the analyzer being interested. (5410CM06) 2 . the idea is that life is a no-substance thing, up against a physical universe which is a substance thing. Here is nothingness up against a somethingness interacting where the nothingness or the no-substance thing is actually giving orders to and handling the all substance thing, the physical universe. (UPC 3 5406CM——) 3 . the idea that there was a universe and that there was thought—theta without wave-length, without mass, without time, without position in space: this was life. And that was impinged upon something else called the physical universe, which was a mechanical entity which did things in a peculiar way, and these two things together, theta-mest interacting, gave us life forms. (PXL, p. 140)
Hubbard, L. R., (1975) Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary. Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California Publications Organization.
More about Hubbard's theory from
Science of Survival (1951):
The Basic Principles of Processing
In practice, in Dianetics, the auditor is doing a very simple thing. He is recovering theta which has become confused with MEST by reason of physical pain and emotional shock. He is by dianetic processing converting entheta to theta. A fundamental axiom of Dianetics is that life is formed by theta compounding with MEST to make a living organism. Life is theta plus MEST.
Another axiom is that theta conquers MEST by first becoming enturbulated with it and then withdrawing, possessed of some of the laws of MEST, and returning over the MEST for an orderly conquest.
Another axiom is that theta, in its conquest of MEST, has followed the cycle of contact, growth, decay, and death, repeated over and over, theta each time using the data gained during the cycle to better adapt the organism for the further conquest of MEST.
Theta is thought, an energy of its own universe analogous to energy in the physical universe but only occasionally paralleling electro-magnetic-gravitic laws.
The three primary components of theta are affinity, reality and communication.
Theta has the strange power of animating and directing MEST and bringing it into an orderly, mobile, and self-perpetuating unit known to us as a life organism.
Dianetics is that branch of Scientology that covers mental anatomy.
Theta and MEST in a disorderly collision bring about enturbulation in both the theta and the MEST which actually changes or reverses the polarity of the theta and the MEST. This reversed polarity permits the rejection of theta by enMEST and of MEST by entheta, so that
death can ensue and a new organism can be begun.
Theta acting upon MEST with affinity, communication, and reality takes on an aspect known as reasoning or understanding. All mathematics can be derived from ARC acting upon MEST.
Hubbard, L. R. (1951). Science of Survival.
Incidentally, a bit more on "Universe B": In addition to the lower half of Hubbard's tone scale, (Body Death at 0.0 down to Total Failure at -40.0), the lower ethics conditions ("Non-Existence," "Liability," "Doubt," "Enemy," "Treason," and "Confusion") correspond as well.
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