Starting OT VIII
Yea, I started on the OT VIII materials. The attest cycle went something like this.
me: yap, yap, yap, yap. (about hour or so).
ralph: Well, it looks like the NOTs case is pretty well blown out. Just a min. (comes back with
his writeup of OT VIII).
Now I am oversimplyfing to be funny. But that is fairly close. Honestly, I thought I was done
with any hard part of NOTs but really didn't expect to get any agreement on that. Plus I was
kind of stuck. I told you earlier that I was trying to shave off pieces of my own identity, or
pieces that thought they were me. But I had made almost no progress with the idea. But I wouldn't
give it up because I knew I was right. So I went to Ralph to get some sort of break out, maybe
O/W processing, anything to kick me out of my slump.
The little thing I got wrong, the reason I had little success, the tiny unexamined assumption
that kept me from moving forward for the last 5 month or so. I just assummed that "I" was
right here in my head, nowhere else of any great consequence - limited viewpoint problem. Now
it looks so obvious I feel like a half wit.
Anyway, I'm not a big fan of the 10,000 hour theory. I thank god I didn't do it in the church,
they would have insisted that "everyone knows" you can't finish NOTs in a year or so with
marginal technical skills. All told I put in a few hundred hours in '92, '93 then started in
earnest a year ago. Over the last year I would be suprised if I had averaged 8 or 10 hrs a week.
The 10,000 hour idea may be true now looking forward at what needs to be done in the future.
Before I went for my acknowledgement I couldn't find anything worth auditing. I could find
things, just nothing worth my time. After my shift in viewpoint I see a virtually infinite
amount of material to work on. However, I am sure that in time I will enjoy a change in
awarness, and it won't look like so much, again. I am already fishing around a little, looking
for that viewpoint that makes everything look simple and obvious.
If there is anything special about me that makes me a low time NOTs candidate, my guess is
that finishing NOTs aligns with my basic purpose. I'm pretty sure that basic purpose or postulate
is all that a being is anyway. This whole survival, I am a person, I want to be a big thetan
thing is way overrated. It explains why GPM processing is a strictly OT process that was way
out gradient when presented in the '60s. It seems obvious to me that it would be part of an OT
level.
Enough.
ST
P.S. having sort of arrived at the next logical thing to do on my own, I am confident that
Ralph can pull off workable OT levels, LRH was so far out ahead of us, there are enough hints
left lying about, and it is a logical progression from one level to the next.
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Steve Tustin is the first person to complete OT VIII
since our freezone group, fzaoint, began. He was C/Sed to completion of OT VII and for all of
OT VIII by Ralph Hilton our Senior C/S.