Continue on Level Five with the ‘To know’ package while it continues to produce change. Never - repeat, never - leave this package for a junior package while it is still producing change. You may never have to leave it, and it will take you all the way. It is the only package that can do this.
If running the ‘To know’ package on Level Five never produces any change, then one of the following is happening:
1) You aren’t running it properly. Check your instructions.
2) Levels 1,2,3 or 4 are not properly run. Go through them all once more from the beginning and complete. Then return to Level Five.
The basic package, when correctly run as per Level Five by a being who is ready and properly prepared to run it (Levels 1,2,3 and 4 run until no more change) will always produce some change. It is usually considerable. There is no exception to this rule. If the being is in this universe, and is ready for Level Five, then Level Five run on the ‘To know’ package will always produce change when first addressed. The reason for this is because no matter what goals the person is functioning on in life these goals must contain some conviction component associated with them. Conviction is enforced knowingness, and so the ‘To know’ package will mop up this charge.
The primary error on Level Five is to abandon the ‘To know’ package because it has never produced any change, and go ransacking amongst junior packages like a shopper looking for bargains at a sale. None of the junior packages will aid you in the slightest until you can make the basic package run for you. The fault is not in the significance of the basic package, it lies in the fact that either you are not yet up to doing Level Five, or you are not running it properly. Get the basic package running. Stay with it as long as it continues to produce change. Only when the basic package is running are junior packages runnable. To do Level Five any other way is the royal road to making a cot case* out of yourself. You are already playing with dynamite, so don’t push your luck too far.
*Cot case: Someone in a hospital restricted to their bed.
If the ‘To know’ package ceases to produce change after having produced change, then select another life goal that interests you. Interest is always the keynote that determines the selection of a junior package. It takes precedence over all other types of assessment. If a goal is of no interest to you then don’t waste time addressing it, for it will not help you. Later you may become intensely interested in this goal. Then is the time to address it.
Preference should be given early on to the tested list of junior life goals given earlier. It’s a very comprehensive list, and one or other of these are usually of considerable interest to most beings. This list also has the advantage of having been tested and proven out as life goals. There is really no need to ever look outside this list, but you are, of course, entirely free to do so.
However, the following rule must be observed:
Always look up the meaning of a goal in a good dictionary before addressing that goal. The reason for this is obvious. If you have an offbeat understanding of the meaning of the word you can very easily turn a good life goal package into an intensely destructive non-life goal package. For example, if you believe that ‘To control’ means to hit over the head with a hammer then you should order your coffin and have it ready before you address the ‘To control’ package. The meanings of the list of junior life goals gives in the Theory Section are as per the Oxford English Dictionary. They are only life goals when defined as such.
Next, formulate your junior goal into a package. I have given you the complementary and opposition goals for the tested list, and they are correct. When doing it for other goals take great care. First, thoroughly ensure that the goal is a life goal. Does it in any way oppose the goal ‘To be known’? If it does it’s a non-life goal and cannot be used. The rule here is, when in doubt don’t play with the goal as a therapeutic tool. It’s far better to be safe than sorry, for we have no shortage of tested life goals for you to address. Many goals at first glance appear to be life goals, but further examination reveals them to be non-life goals. Check the opposite (not the opposition) of the goal. Is that a life goal? If it is, then the goal you have in mind is very probably a non-life goal. But the basic test is always: Does the proposed goal in any way oppose life’s basic urge in the universe: To be; To Exist; To be Known? Does it prevent others from being, from expressing themselves? Does it help others? Does it enhance others? If it passes all of this test it is probably a life goal, and is usable. But you still won’t be certain until you’ve tested it.
Next, is the proposed goal within one of the tested goals listed? Or is it a synonym for one of these goals? For example, ‘To possess’ is a life goal, but it’s a synonym for ‘To own’. Use the ‘To own’ package, which has been tested. For example, ‘To grow’. This is a life goal, but it is a system of creating. Run the ‘To create’ package. For example, ‘To survive’. This is a life goal, but it’s an expression of ‘To be known’. Run the basic package.
Having selected your junior goal, formulate it into a package. Ensure that the complementary legs are indeed complementary, and that the opposing legs are exact oppositions. To complement means to complete. Thus, a complementary goal completes or fulfills, its twin. It’s always an exact fulfillment; never approximate. If the fulfillment is not exact you are cross-packaging, and the package will never erase. Check it out thoroughly with a good dictionary before proceeding - unless you like to spend six months grinding away at an unerasable package. Cross-packaging is very dull, particularly when it can be so easily avoided before you start (Cross-packaging may be good business for psychoanalysts, but it’s a curse for anyone who wants to get anywhere).
The rule of thumb about the opposite (not the opposition) of a non-life goal being a life goal is not invariable, and will sometimes let you down. Some goals and their generally accepted opposites will both be found to be non-life goals. This is true of the whole class of goals which arbitrarily compartmentalize things – that is to say, goals which divide life into arbitrary classes. For example, ‘To be within’ and ‘To be without’; ‘To be for’ and ‘To be against’. These classes are not natural classes, and only stem from games play. Thus, both the goal and its opposite are restrictive upon life, and are opposed to the full expression of the ‘To be known’ leg of the basic package. The compulsive games player is always trying to convince you that you must either be for him or against him. This is not a complete statement of the choices, or options, that are available to you, for you can also be both for him and against him, or neither for him nor against him. The fact that he cannot grasp this reasoning is only indicative of his compulsion to play games, and in no way limits your full freedom of choice in the matter. Thus, all goals which arbitrarily compartmentalize life are non-life goals. There are many of them, and when searching for junior packages it’s very easy to inadvertently fall afoul of* this class of goal. But you’ll know all about it as soon as you try and run the package: you find yourself on a very slippery slope that leads to the graveyard.
* Fall afoul of: to get into trouble because of not obeying or following (the law, a rule, etc.) “After leaving home he fell afoul of the law.”
I want to add here that in a later lecture, Dennis explains that goals such as ‘to win’ that only exist in the context of games play are not to be used either. I also saw someone post on the TROM forum once, “Can I run the package of ‘to want’?” which would not work, being that desire comes before the postulate, and is not the postulate itself. I highly recommend listening to the later lecture about formulating goals packages on this level before venturing out into the unknown territory of formulating any goals package not listed in this book, and that you know your TROM cold, all of it, lest you risk baking your brain like you would trying to run anything like either of the packages I just mentioned. All the suggested goals packages listed here will keep you quite busy enough before you start experimenting, which may never even be necessary. You’ve been advised. -The Editor
Having formulated your life goal package, you run the package exactly as you would run the ‘To know’ package. And I mean exactly. No variations whatsoever are allowable - not by me, but by the fundamental nature of this universe. And that means all the extras, like RI as indicated. Everything you know about running the basic package also applies to the running of junior packages. You take the whole technology, en bloc*, and apply it to the junior package. Junior packages won’t come apart if addressed in any other manner. I know, because I’ve tested all possible variations, and the only way junior packages come apart is when addressed in the same manner as the basic package. You enter the package at the same point, and you leave it at the same point as you do the basic package. That’s it.
* En bloc is a French term that means in a lump or block, as a body or whole, or all together.
One of the following will occur:
a) The package is nulling*. Good. Keep on with it and shoot for erasure. Never leave a package which is nulling, and therefore producing change.
*In this case, it is progressing towards a ‘null’ state of no change, and is producing changes as you head towards that state.
b) The package erases. The effect here is the complete vanishment of the package. All the conflict (charge) between the legs of the package vanishes. The package is now strictly ho-hum. Get off it. Don’t over-run it hunting around for charge that is no longer there. That is just being dull. Leave it at the point of erasure. When they erase you always know it. There’s never any doubt. It’s gone. You can wave that one goodbye forever. You couldn’t even put the charge back into the package if you tried. Go back to the basic package.
c) The nulled package stops producing change without erasing. Good. Get off it and go back to the basic package. There’s no more benefit to be gained by you at this time by further address to the package. Don’t worry, it will come out in the wash. You’ve done all you can do at this stage with that package. The chances are that it will now erase of its own accord while you are addressing the basic package. Never grind away at a non-erasing package.
d) The package suddenly collapses upon the realization that it’s really within the basic package. Good. Get off it. It’s now a ‘dead’ package. Go back to the basic package. All the residual charge on this junior package has now transferred to the basic package, where it truly belongs. Never play with collapsed packages. It’s a complete waste of time.
e) The package doesn’t null. It just grinds on forever, never producing any change, never doing anything at all. You are cross-packaged. Check your package legs. Get out your dictionary. If you can’t spot the cross-packaging, and therefore cannot make the package null, then get off it and return to the basic package. Never waste time with crossed-up packages. Your whole mind is a vast crossed-up package - which is why you are holding it in suspension trying to figure it out. Crossed-up packages can never erase; they just sit there forever all crossed-up. Go and give the package to a psychoanalyst; they love them, and spend their whole lives playing with them.
f) The package is slowly killing you; the birds are no longer singing in the trees; life seems to get more and more solid and desperate; your space starts to cave in on you; you see brawny men in little white jackets observing you furtively* from around corners; your body feels as if it’s about ready to step into a coffin - if you had the energy to go and find one. No, it’s not a vitamin deficiency that ails you. You have found yourself a non-life package. Get off it now. Get back onto the basic package and start repairing the ravages.
*Furtively: In a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention; secretively: "I furtively glanced over at my father to see his reaction" · "customers slipped furtively in"
Don’t feel embarrassed about it, for it happens to the best of us who walk this path. The only good thing about running a non-life goals package is that it instills a healthy caution about goals packages in general, and you rarely make the same mistake twice. If it weren’t so intensely non-therapeutic, I’d recommend it as an integral part of any being’s education in this subject.
g) The package is very heavy, and knocks you about badly as you work with it. Yet the package is slowly nulling. You’ve found yourself a hot package. If at all possible, stay with it until no more change, then return to the basic package. But if you do have to abandon it because it’s too heavy, you must be prepared to return to it one day and null it. You’ll never be entirely free of it until you do so. It will stick in your craw* as a failure until you finally lick it.
*Craw: the crop (a part of an animal’s throat) of a bird or insect.
There’s never any difficulty in differentiating between a heavy package and a non-life package. The non-life package is insidiously destructive; its bad effects are slow and progressive, never startlingly painful. The heavy package will hit you - bang! - as soon as you address it. Your whole mind can light up like a pinball machine, with energy flying all over the place. You can feel like a twig in a storm. It’s strictly whee!!... Yet as soon as you return to the basic package the fireworks are rapidly mopped up, and all is quiet once more.
We can see, then, that whatever the outcome of working with a junior package, the next step is always to return to the basic package and re-null it. Why? Because any address to a junior package changes the breadth of your understanding of the subject of knowing, and thus permits more charge to be nulled from the basic packages.
The basic package also has this quality: It has the power to straighten out any difficulties you encounter with junior packages. It is the only goals package that possesses this quality. Remember this, for it may save your life one day. It saved mine in the early days of researching junior packages, when I fell afoul of a non-life package. This is one of the reasons why you have to null the ‘To know’ package before addressing junior packages. Until the basic package has been nulled, and you realize its potential, you are adrift in a vast sea of significances called life.
The ‘To know’ package is always your life raft: something you can return to and get things straightened out once more. It will never fail you.
One certain way to come a nasty cropper on the subject of goals packages is to ignore the basic package completely, and start wandering around the junior packages, a nibble here, a bite there. Such a dilettante* attitude would show a profound ignorance of the nature of the mind in general, and of the basic law of this universe in particular. And the person could easily pay for it with their life or their sanity. When we are addressing goals packages, we are addressing the very stuff of which the mind is composed; the very building blocks of sanity itself. To treat them with less than the respect they deserve is to only court the disaster that will inevitably follow.
*Dilettante: a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge: "a wealthy literary dilettante"
Any person reading this who, without addressing Levels 1,2,3 and 4, and thoroughly nulling them, proceeded to compose and address junior packages at Level 5, is best advised to do so while sitting in a padded cell wearing a straight-jacket. For that is precisely where he belongs, and where he will most certainly stay. I mean it. We are not playing patty cake here at Level Five - and particularly Level Five of the junior packages. The whole subject is booby-trapped, and full of yawning* chasms for the unwary. Until you get that basic package running for you, and you won’t until Levels 1,2,3 and 4 have been properly nulled, I can assure you that you are a lamb going to the slaughter when you start playing with junior packages at Level Five. Yet once you have that basic package running for you, and you have nulled it as far as you possibly can, you can pick your way through the minefield of the junior packages with relative impunity, for you always have the basic package to fall back on and straighten things out once more for you. Oh, you’ll get your feathers singed and your fur ruffled more than once en route. That is inevitable. But you’ll get there. Which is something you’ll never do without the basic package running for you. I trust you get the message. I kid thee not. And there’s nothing in it for me to be less than totally honest with you.
*Yawning: (of an opening or space) very large and wide: "the yawning entrance of the cave" · "my headlights picked out what seemed to be a yawning chasm in the middle of the bridge" · "the yawning gap between rich and poor"
The only reason we ever run a junior package is to permit the basic package to be once more run gainfully. Dispel any ideas you may have that there are any hidden secrets of life deeply buried amongst the junior packages, only awaiting your arrival with the key to unlock them. There’s nothing in any of them which isn’t also in the basic package. But you don’t believe this. So, you’ll have to address junior packages in order to find out that it is so. If you knew this, the basic package would never go null on you, and you would never have to run a junior package. These junior significances only got into life as the result of games play. Later they became importances in their own right. To some they have become all of life. Once this stage is reached the junior significance has to be addressed in its own right before the person can again realize that it always was a part of the basic package all along.
After addressing a junior package your next step is always to return to the basic package. And there you stay as long as the basic package continues to produce change. If it once again goes null, then select another junior package that interests you and repeat the procedure I’ve indicated. Then, whatever the outcome, back you go to the basic package once more.
There’s no need to knock yourself about unnecessarily trying to null hot junior packages. There are no medals being given out for bravery in the face of the opposition legs of a goals package. If it’s a mite too hot to handle right now, then leave it and return to the basic package. Just note that junior package down for future reference, that is all. Then, one day when you are feeling really chirpy*, you can nip in and erase or collapse that troublesome junior package once and for all.
*Chirpy: cheerful and lively: "she looked positively chirpy"
As you progress along the route as given you will find yourself more and more working with the basic package, until eventually the merest sniff at a junior package is sufficient to erase or collapse it. After this you have to stay on the ‘To know’ package - simply because it’s the only package that does anything for you. As this is the basic package, this is exactly how it should be. If anyone had asked you what the basic package was at the time you came into this universe, you would have thought him a little bit mad to be asking such a ridiculously simple question. It’s obviously ‘To know’. Why, the basic law of this universe clearly states that...
The subject of junior packages is complete in therapy when, and only when, the being is utterly certain that any purpose in life is a method of achieving one or other of the legs of the basic package. This is not merely an intellectual certainty - something which I tell you, and you believe because my reasoning seems sound. It is something you must discover for yourself. The only way to discover this is to run junior packages. Then you will know it is true. Then, and only then, will you be free of the junior packages. When the job is done, you’ll know that the ‘To know’ package is basic. Until the job is done, you’ll still have lingering doubts in the matter, and these doubts will halt your progress right there. The junior packages have an entrapping influence in their own right, quite independently of any games you may play with them - simply because they are junior packages, and not basic. The only way out of the entrapping influence of the junior packages is through them. You came in this way, and you go out in the reverse way that you came in. Then you will see them for what they are - methods of knowing, not-knowing, making known and making not-known. They are methods, or systems, of knowing, brought into existence by reason of games play within the legs of the basic package. Once free of them you’ll never need to address them again in therapy. From that point onwards you’ll only work with the basic package, for there is nothing else left with which you can work.
Undoubtedly, for many beings the erasure or collapsing of the junior packages will be the most difficult part of Level Five. It’s entirely a matter of how much you have convinced yourself and others that there is more to life in this universe than the subject of knowing. There isn’t, and so you will have to take these lies apart. The doing so is all the strife you will encounter on the subject of junior packages in therapy. But once this has been done the rest is easy. All the booby traps and minefields are on this subject of junior packages. Once free of them, the rest is good roads and good weather.
Junior Goals on level 5 are run in the same format as the ‘to know’ goals package.
