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International Viewpoints #19 November 1997 Reprinted with permission of Antony Phillips
Facsimiles-1 Flemming Funch, USA Facsimiles are at the root of just about any kind of case. The understanding of how they work is very central to the subject of clearing. Now, I realize that most people translate "facsimiles" into meaning "pictures", and they think that when they are Clear they don't have any stuff like that. But, there is a lot more to it than that. A facsimile is basically a mental copy. That is, you keep an internal representation of something that happened externally. That is not just a picture. It can contain all perceptions: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory, and any sub-divisions thereof. Also, it can contain perceptual positions (viewpoints), identities, language, thoughts, mass, energy, space, time, intention, structure, etc. Anything that the external agreed-upon world contains can be copied into a facsimile. The trouble with facsimiles is that they aren't the real thing. We can argue that the physical universe is rather illusory, too, but it is a lot more real than most copies made of it. So, instead of dealing with what is actually there we deal with a copy of what is there. If the physical universe is the territory, then the facsimiles are the map. Maps can be very useful for navigating by and for simplifying things. But, when you start mistaking the map for the territory, and when you look only at the map when you could be exploring the territory, then we are getting into the field of aberration. A facsimile is usually a frozen snapshot taken at some specific point in time. It is then preserved and carried forward through time. It becomes part of the person's mind. A filter of life The facsimile becomes a filter that the person is perceiving life through. Instead of dealing with the environment exactly as it is, it is filtered through facsimiles that will identify what it means and what an appropriate response would be. The underlying thought is that the world is too overwhelming to perceive directly; it is easier to remember the closest similar facsimile and respond according to the contents of that. But, responding to something else than what is there is never going to be as good as being in present time, perceiving and dealing with the actual events. Various degrees of aberration can be observed, but copying is never as effective as the real thing. When it gets to the point of getting a headache when one sees a red car, and things like that, we are obviously talking rather unsane behavior. Semantic Reactions are automatic responses based on facsimiles in one's mind rather than on actual present time events. Copies of situations from other places, other times, and the meanings attached to them form the basis for the biased perception of the current situation, and former viewpoints and responses are replayed out of context. The present time reality is what it is. All you need to know about it is right in from of you. It has no other hidden meaning than exactly what is there to perceive. Using facsimiles as filters to perceive through will add meaning to the scene, but only meaning that is out of context, and that further removes your overall perception from the truth. There are many manifestations of facsimiles: traumatic incidents, somatics, fixed ideas, problems, ARC breaks, implants, GPMs, identities, entities, etc. All are redundant copies of perceptions, viewpoints, thoughts, etc., taken out of context. Essence of clearing Clearing is basically the ongoing process of replacing facsimiles with present time perception, and replacing semantic reactions with dynamic responses. It is basically pulling one's attention units and anchor-points into present time dealing with what is actually there. That doesn't cut away any options if it is done in the correct order. See, time and space are basically illusionary barriers, really they are just camouflaged present time. But, there are several layers of lies involved. In order to have a problem with a facsimile one must create a reality somewhere in space-time, decide that one can't really be there, and therefore take a facsimile of it, limit one's sphere of influence to one's "present time" environment, and then mix it up with the other space-time coordinates. It is a similar mechanism as to how one manages to get out of valence. Clearing a facsimile should not be done as a method of escaping one's responsibility for other times, spaces, viewpoints, etc. It would tend to have adverse effects if done with that intention. Facsimile clearing is done to clear up the misunderstanding that the present environment is some other place. That brings you into present time, as well as into present space, present view-point. From there you can expand your sphere of responsibility of cause to cover more of space-time, more viewpoints, etc. In other words, there is an inversion phenomenon that has been going on. Creating a universe, then deciding one can't be responsible for it, shrinking one's sphere of influence, and then mis-owning alter-ised frozen versions of parts of the universe, and using those to replenish one's havingness. That is a very tricky setup, it forms quite a trap. You can see it in most types of case: causing something, forgetting about it, assigning other authorship to it, identifying with it. It is a clever way of getting things to persist. LRH said that one would be better off without facsimiles, which I think is quite a useful truth, if we define "facsimiles" well enough. Because some people tend to extrapolate it into meaning that you would be better off without anything whatsoever, so that whatever you bump into in your mind is something to get rid of. I wouldn't find that to be very wise. Replacing facsimile havingness The idea in Clearing is to replace the havingness of facsimiles with the havingness of the actual present time reality. It is certainly not to get rid of all havingnesses, it is rather to improve them. We aren't saying either that one shouldn't have anchor points, attention units, circuits, connections, postulates, emotions, etc. The trouble is with, copies used instead of the real thing, not with all the many other interesting things a being can do. If you plan on operating in the physical universe you do need some sort of structure to keep track of what you are doing, which is what we call a mind. The advice here is just not to confuse it with the actual universe if you don't want to. It appears to me that it is wiser to construct a mind out of connections rather than out of facsimiles. If you want the events in one part of space-time to have some kind of bearing on the events in some other part of space-time, or if you just want to note a certain association or similarity --then make a connection between them. It is not necessary to take a complete copy and to drag it around. Connections are not as aberrative as facsimiles. You connect up the real stuff rather than copies of it, and there is no frozen meaning attached to it. Facsimiles and the clearing thereof apply to any case level. What changes is how wide areas of influence we address. Clear could be said to be the turning point where one now has more than 50% power of choice as to one's personal 1D(first dynamic) semantic re-actions, one is more in present time than anywhere else. Similar Clear states can then be accomplished across wider dynamics. Clearing of 2D involves the development of the ability to keep relations to other people in present time without mixing them up with other relations at other times. 3D Clear would be the ability to keep a group activity in present time without confusing it with copies of other group activities. And so forth with the other dynamics. Structure is still necessary to operate the different dynamics and play games and so forth. But, it is not necessary to put any fixed content into the structures. It is more useful to have dynamic structures and to deal with whatever content one runs into in present time. The structures would be called a mind on 1D, various techniques and protocols on 2D, organization and admin on 3D, etc. All of them are better off being dynamic rather than fixed. As mentioned before, there has been a tendency in clearing to either ignore structures, or to try to get rid of them. Structures are sometimes unnecessary, but more often they just need to be cleared of stuck content and maybe adjusted a little bit. Facsimiles generally represent fixed content. You have the answer before you get the question. Facsimiles generally become "held-down-7s" in the calculator, and will make it more difficult to deal with what is there. Getting rid of the calculator is not a good idea, but getting rid of the stuck numbers is. I hope this makes it more clear what it is we are addressing in clearing. 1 Page 51 of Flemming Funchs Technical Essays, volume 2, Essay # 99 15 July 1992. These books can be obtained direct from Flemming, Volume one for $50, Volume Two for $40, or $80 for both volumes. These prices include Airmail postage. The Address is: Creative Transformations, 17216 Saticoy Street #147, Van Nuys, CA 91406 USA, 1D, 2D, 3D etc. DYNAMICS, there could be said to be eight urges (drives, impulses) in life. These we call dynamics. These are motives or motivations. We call them the eight dynamics. The first dynamic -is the urge toward existence as one's self. Here we have individuality expressed fully. This can be called the self dynamic. The second dynamic-is the urge toward existence as a sexual or bisexual activity. This dynamic actually has two divisions. Second dynamic (a) is the sexual act itself and the second dynamic (b) is the family unit, including the rearing of children. This can be called the sex dynamic. The third dynamic-is the urge toward existence in groups of individuals. Any group or part of an entire class could be considered to be a part of the third dynamic. The school, the society, the town, the nation are each part of the third dynamic, and each one is a third dynamic. This can be called the group dynamic. The fourth dynamic-is the urge toward existence as mankind. Whereas the white race would be considered a third dynamic, all the races would be considered the fourth dynamic. This can be called the mankind dynamic. The fifth dynamic-is the urge toward existence of the animal kingdom. This includes all living things whether vegetable or animal. The fish in the sea, the beasts of the field or of the forest, grass, trees, flowers, or anything directly and intimately motivated by life. This could be called the animal dynamic. The sixth dynamic-is the urge toward existence as the physical universe. The physical universe is composed of matter, energy, space and time. In Scientology we take the first letter of each of these words and coin a word, MEST. This can be called the universe dynamic. The seventh dynamic-is the urge toward existence as or of spirits. Anything spiritual, with or without identity, would come under the heading of the seventh dynamic. This can be called the spiritual dynamic. The eighth dynamic-is the urge toward existence as infinity. This is also identified as the Supreme Being. It is carefully observed here that the science of Scientology does not intrude into the dynamic of the Supreme Being. This is called the eighth dynamic because the symbol of infinity oo stood upright makes the numeral "8." This can be called the infinity or God dynamic. (FOT,p p. 36-38) (the Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary) http://www.ivymag.org/IVy.html IVy, the familiar name for "International Viewpoints" is an on Cyber magazine, sent four times a year Internationally to those who subscribe. Here is the place to look if you are interested in using Freezone Clearing and Enhancement Technology to help yourself and others. Here is the place to look if you are interested in scientology technology, used independently (outside the sphere of influence of the Church of Scientology). 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