BetterTROM.com - LEVEL 5 JUNIOR UNIVERSES PT 1

LEVEL FIVE RUNNING OF JUNIOR UNIVERSES

Clearly, the time has come for us to subdivide Level Five.

5a. The nulling of the ‘To Know’ package.

One only leaves this step if the basic package ceases to produce change. It may never cease to produce change; in which case one stays on 5a until the basic package erases. This will be true for a percentage of beings who do these exercises.

5b. The erasure or collapsing of junior packages.

The whole purpose here is to address junior packages with a view to collapsing or erasing them. There is no other purpose. While junior packages are ‘alive’ in their own right the basic package may be inhibited from erasing. This step is complete when all junior packages have either been collapsed or erased. (The non-life packages, being within the life packages, will also collapse or erase.) When this has been accomplished the basic package may now run to erasure. If it again goes null and ceases to produce change before erasure occurs it can only mean that the being is trapped within some junior universe that is inhibiting the erasure of the basic package. Therefore, step 5c is indicated.

5c. The erasure of junior universes.

A junior universe is a universe that is totally within the physical universe.

All junior universes are co-extensive* with the physical universe.

All junior universes are within the ‘To know’ basic goals package.

*Co-extensive: equal or coincident in space, time, or scope. Having the same spatial or temporal scope or boundaries.

Examples of junior universes are cats, kings and coal heavers. Any class of identities or objects are within the class of junior universes. All junior goals packages, whether life or non-life, are within the class of junior universes.

It is necessary to clearly grasp at the outset that any junior universe is co-extensive with the physical universe. The physical universe can be divided into any concept (object) and its absence. Thus, the sum of the class of cats and the class of non-cats is co-extensive with the physical universe. The physical universe does not consist of cats, non-cats, and sundry* other things. It only consists of cats and non-cats. A being playing games with cats can be bothered by cats or be bothered by the absence of cats (the presence of non-cats).

*Sundry: of various kinds; several: “lemon rind and sundry herbs"

While we consider the class of a junior universe to be co-extensive with the physical universe it is possible to erase (vanish) its influence upon the being and return to the being his full freedom of choice regarding the junior universe. While not so considered it is not possible to erase junior universes. For example, cats are a part of the physical universe, but the class of cats and non-cats is co-extensive with the physical universe. As we cannot erase cats from the mind without also addressing and erasing the subject of non-cats from the mind, we are bound to address the whole junior universe of cats - which is co-extensive with the physical universe. Re-read this until you fully grasp it, for it is vital to an understanding of what we are doing at step 5c.

It is not practical to address the subject of junior universes until the subject of junior goals packages has been resolved (step 5b.). This is because the address to junior universes triggers junior goals packages which, while alive in their own right, inhibit the action of the basic package. An example will clarify this. A possible junior universe is that of ‘a controller’. Clearly, a controller controls. While the ‘To control’ package is still not erased or collapsed, the junior universe of ‘a controller’ will not be amenable* to an address by the ‘To know’ package. The first step is to collapse or erase the ‘To control’ package. Then, and only then, can the junior universe of ‘a controller’ be successfully erased by the basic package. The junior universe of a ‘controller’ cannot be cleanly erased by use of the ‘To control’ package, for the ‘To control’ package is itself a junior package, and is totally within the basic package. A junior universe may utilize many junior goals; until these have been either collapsed or erased at step 5b, the junior universe is clearly not amenable to an address by the basic package. **

*Amenable: (of a thing) capable of being acted upon in a particular way; susceptible to: "the patients had cardiac failure not amenable to medical treatment"

**Level 5c utilizes the basic package to bring about erasure of the junior universe. For example, if the junior universe is ‘cats’ then it would be run: must know cats, must not know cats, cats must be known, cats must not be known.

To address junior universes while junior goals packages are still alive in their own right is therefore futile. The being rapidly drowns in a sea of unresolved junior goals packages, and gets nowhere. However, once this matter of junior goals packages has been resolved the junior universes will be found to erase cleanly when addressed as a part of the basic package. You will recall my injunction* in the earlier Practical Section regarding the putting up (creation) of specific effects at Level Five (now Level 5a). I was aware then that there was something inhibiting the indiscriminate use of the basic package regarding specific effects, but hadn’t clearly isolated the factors involved. The inhibiting factor was junior goals packages. This has now been overcome at step 5b, so at step 5c we are free to use the basic package as broadly or narrowly as we desire.

*Injunction: an authoritative warning or order.

The being becomes trapped in junior universes as the result of games play. It’s exactly the same mechanism that entraps him in the physical universe itself. When we examine the basic package regarding an effect, we see it goes from the knowing creation of the effect down to the enforced knowing of that effect. Just how much can a being be forced to know an effect? He can become the effect. This is not the being consciously deciding to be something, but being forced to be that thing against his choice.

For example, one can injudiciously play games with bodies until one is forced to be a body and has totally lost one’s freedom of choice to not be a body. This is also true of inanimate objects, and other life forms. Many a compulsive fisherman end up with a remarkable physical resemblance to his quarry and is found to be totally within the universe of a fish - complete with the open and closing mouth.

For example, one can injudiciously play games with bodies until one is forced to be a body, and has totally lost one’s freedom of choice to not be a body. This is also true of inanimate objects, and other life forms. Many a compulsive fisherman ends up with a remarkable physical resemblance to his quarry, and is found to be totally within the universe of a fish - complete with the open and closing mouth.

The being, by reason of compulsive games play, ends up unknowingly trapped within the masses and spaces with which he plays. He is now totally within a junior universe which itself is totally within the physical universe. And, as entrapment proceeds, this process continues forever. The being, now trapped within a junior universe, plays games in that universe, and in turn eventually becomes trapped in junior universes within the junior universe. The fisherman first becomes a fish then becomes a dead fish (Dead fish are within the universe of fish).

Thus, individuation progresses, and the being becomes progressively more compartmentalized. Is there no limit? No. One either plays games in this universe while cognizant of one’s basic spiritual nature and the basic law of the universe, or one becomes more and more trapped within the universe. The easiest way to become trapped in any game is to try and play it in ignorance of the rules, and of one’s basic nature as a player of games. It is futile to blame the universe for trapping one, for that will only trap you within it further. One became trapped by one’s own ignorance. Recognize that and you can get out of the trap.

Once trapped within a junior universe the being takes on the characteristics of that universe - its behavior, and so on - and finds it next to impossible to recognize that he is in such a universe, or to reason outside the values and parameters* of that universe. For example, being in the universe of a material object one would find it next to impossible to conceive of life as being of a spiritual nature. He would only see it as being within the confines of the object in which he is trapped, while remaining ignorant (unaware) of the fact that he is trapped within the object. It would be futile to discuss spiritual matters with such a being, for he is no longer capable of grasping the subject under discussion. However, he would be able to converse intelligently on such subjects as impacts, having pieces chipped off one, etc., for these are all very real things in the junior universe of the object in which he resides.

*Parameter: a limit or boundary that defines the scope of a particular process or activity: "they set the parameters of the debate"

We can see, then, that entrapment in a junior universe can very easily prevent the basic package from erasing. Indeed, once the subject of junior goals packages has been resolved, it is the only thing that can prevent the erasure of the general ‘To know’ package, and the regaining of full freedom of choice regarding the physical universe and its parts. Thus, step 5c is the last step, and any future improvements can only be in the selection and mode of address to this subject of junior universes. However, we have an enormous latitude within which to act at level 5c, and any future improvements to the procedure can only be marginal.

The subject of valences, used in the earlier Practical Section, is totally within the subject of junior universes. (See glossary for definition of the term ‘valence’).

A junior universe is addressed by the addition of a noun representing that junior universe to each of the legs of the basic package. This limits the basic package to the junior universe in question. It changes the basic package from a general tool addressed to the whole of life and the physical universe, to a precision tool for the erasure of a junior universe. For example, the addition of the word cats to the basic package permits the package to be limited to the universe of all cats.

This limited goals package is erased in the usual manner. In the case of cats, it would be erased from the level of Forced to know cats up to the level of Cats Forcing to know*.
*I am going to go out on a limb here and say this is someone’s mistake, either Dennis’ or the one who typed this up for him. It makes more sense to write it, “Forcing to know cats”. You are going to construct the chart, according to the logic mentioned previously, with "Forcing to know cats" and when running, mocking up an overwhelm of forcing to know cats, not some cats forcing to know.

The basic package in its limited form is addressed exactly as it is in its general form. No changes in the mode of address are permitted. Junior universes do not erase if you change the mode of address to the package. This rule is the same as the rule about addressing junior goals packages.

In this universe the particular is always within the general. For example, a particular cat named Snoozer is a junior universe within the junior universe of all cats. Within the junior universe of Snoozer the cat we find the junior universes of Snoozer’s fur, Snoozer’s paws etc. If a being is in a compulsive games condition with Snoozer’s paws, then by an application of Level 5c he can free himself from this junior universe. However, such a being would find it extremely difficult to erase the whole junior universe of Snoozer from his mind. For such a being to attempt to erase from their mind the class of all cats would be clearly impossible at their current level of ability. They would just be walking themselves into a failure. The correct route for them would be to first erase the universe of Snoozer’s paws, then to erase the whole universe of Snoozer, and only then to embark upon the erasure of the whole class of cats.

So, the general rule governing the erasure of junior universes is:

If a junior universe is difficult to erase, then select a junior universe within that universe to erase first.

There is nothing else involved at the level of 5c. All other possible facets have been resolved in the earlier steps. If the junior universe is not erasing readily then it’s too heavy for you right now. So get off it, and work with something you can erase. Don’t waste time hunting round for the reasons why of it. I’ve just given you the reason why - it’s too heavy for you right now.

Junior universes, like junior goals packages, are selected on the basis of interest. No other assessment is required or indicated. If the junior universe interests you it’s erasable - eventually. However, you may have to get inside it first. In other words, it’s possible to be interested in a junior universe that turns out to be a fair bit tougher to erase than you currently believe. Of course, you won’t find this out until you try.

Therefore, the following procedure is recommended:

1) Select your junior universe.

2) Formulate your goals package.

3) Run the goals package.

If the junior universe erases, fine. Get off it at the point of erasure, return to the general basic package and re-null that once more. Then, if the general basic package once more goes null (produces no more change) before running to erasure, select a new junior universe. *

4) If the junior universe doesn’t easily erase, then leave it. Never grind away on a non-erasing package. Thoroughly run RI. Then return to the general basic package and re-null that.

5) Select a junior universe that is within the one you just failed with.

6) Do steps 2) and 3) on this universe.

7) If it doesn’t erase readily, do step 4) on it.

8) If it erases readily complete step 3), then return to the one you failed with earlier.

Continue this procedure until you have succeeded in erasing the universe you set out to erase in the first instance. Once you select a junior universe you are going to erase it - eventually. Never leave a universe in failure. The moral is to pick easy ones at the outset! A quick and easy erasure is what you have your sights set on every time. That way you get there fastest. Nothing succeeds better than success. There are no medals being offered for bravery in the face of a tough junior universe.

*Remember that “nulling” and “erasing” both mean a similar thing. When you null, the charge is reduced (to the point there is no more change during the exercise you are running) and erasure means the charge is gone (charge being the upset and/or importance of the item).

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