38.3 About Orthodox Scientology
Hubbard did a bit of work on the fragmentation theory back in the early 1950s, but he did not have the “point to” process given in the first section above. So he concentrated more on the other side of the phenomena, handling entities and idle spirits that were stuck to one. But neither of these research lines went very far at that time and were dropped in favor of perusing things that were giving better results.
In the mid 1960s he came back to this area, but he concentrated exclusively on the phenomena of being infested by spirits, which he then labeled as “body thetans” (thetans which were stuck on one’s body) or BTs. Lacking a balanced view (only considering others stuck on you and not looking at the bits of theta that you put on others to control them), he began to consider these to be independent beings who were unconscious.
As a result, the entire matter was blown out of proportion, and upper level Scientology began to concentrate on this phenomena.
Since the theory had a wrong twist to it and it tended to put people on the wrong side of the equation (being affected by spirits instead of running one’s causative actions in this area), it gave people trouble, sometimes got them sick (which mostly comes from blaming your ills on somebody or something else), and didn’t sound quite right to a lot of people. Therefore the material was made confidential both to keep people from getting sick by playing around with this and to avoid any unfavorable publicity or criticism that the theory might raise.
These problems were due to flaws in the theory rather than any real danger in finding out about these things.
A heavy incident of mass implanting was researched and used for this processing since it was a source for some of these entities or “body thetans”. But this incident was very late on a chain of similar incidents (which makes it hard to run) and the entire area was inadequately researched.
This incident, which was labeled incident 2, was actually a chris-cross implanting of each of us into the others to have each of us put fragments of ourselves into other people to keep them obedient and human.
And you can indeed find fragments of other people jammed into your space to keep you in a human condition. But the more significant factor is that you yourself have your own fragments which you have jammed into other people to keep them human.
These things could not even affect you unless you yourself were also doing this to other people. But the orthodox level known as OT section 3 concentrated exclusively on handling what was being done to you. In the final analysis, the combination of running only one side of this phenomena combined with specializing in a single incident that was too late on the chain made the level extremely difficult to run and gave people a lot of trouble. The only thing that let them succeed at all was having a small piece of the aforementioned incident 1 which was used as an undercut to keep people from getting too snarled up in incident 2.
The simple solution is to spot how you are doing this to others, and to use the “point to” process given above to handle this. As you cease to hold other people back, they will stop holding you as well.
But it is better to start with lighter material and build up your horsepower rather than to fool around with a heavy incident that is late on a long chain. Note that incident 2 is obviously very late in the game because people were already very humanoid prior to the incident.
When you are ready to run this kind of incident directly, I would suggest that you go for earlier ones. The main reason for bringing up incident 2 at this point is that the materials on it are all over the internet and a big deal is being made out of it.
Eventually orthodox Scientology (Ron Hubbard assisted by David Mayo) took another look at the area and came up with a better, more general technique for handling body thetans. Although the one sided approach was not corrected, the new process (actually based on some of the earlier work in 1952) was a radical improvement over the OT 3 techniques and is adaptable to a gradient approach where you handle what is easiest to find first.
This was referred to as New Era Dianetics for OTs or NOTS for short. Complete course packs are available on the internet.
Unfortunately, they did not choose to replace the whole mess with a simple gradient use of the NOTS technique. Instead, they choose to retain OT3 as a first step followed by an elaborate series of NOTS rundowns professionally delivered. And they continued to mistakenly blame a great deal of things on these idle spirits and specialized in handling them to the exclusion of other more important areas.
These NOTS rundowns are useful and you will probably want to look into them and do them eventually. But they are not ideal for an initial approach, especially on a self clearing basis.
Instead, the ideal approach is to work things lightly and balance the two sides by handling your infesting other people as well as others infesting you.
Now lets take a simple look at the basic Nots technique because it is useful in this area.