BetterTROM.com - LEVEL 5 JUNIOR UNIVERSES PT 2

At first on level 5c there is nearly always a tendency for the being to bite off more than he can chew, so to speak. However, after a few tears and self-recriminations*, you rapidly come to grips with your true strength if you follow the above procedure. My best advice to anyone starting Level 5c is to err on the side of cautiousness in the selection of your first junior universe. If you reckon you can handle all of Snoozer the cat, then set out to erase his whiskers. Its quicker in the long run.

* Self-recrimination: The act of accusing or blaming oneself.

There is only one other factor to mention. This is the subject of over-running the point of erasure. Here the being misses the point of erasure and goes on trying to erase a junior universe that is already erased. Clearly, you can never erase a junior universe that has already erased. But you can go on trying forever! I mean it. Don’t fall into this trap, for its very dull. When a junior universe erases you always feel it go. Suddenly - flip! - it’s gone. The whole universe has vanished from your mind. Once it’s happened to you, you’ll recognize it. It’s a unique experience (It gives the lie to those who say that once an ‘impression’ is made in the mind it is there forever. They only say that because they haven’t got the faintest idea how to go about erasing things). The point of erasure is the precise moment to leave that junior universe. Don’t waste time trying to find out where it’s gone to. It’s gone. Its erased. It no longer exists in your mind. It’s a good idea to run RI at the moment of erasure - to fill the vacuum created by the vanishment of the mass.

If you suspect that you’ve over-run, then do the following.

1) Ask yourself, has this universe erased? Am I over-running?

2) Run RI.

3) Repeat 1) and 2) until you are certain one way or the other.

You can never discover over-run by continuing to try and erase the package. That’s the wrong way to go about it. The correct way is steps 1), 2), 3) above.

This data about over-run is general to all your therapy on these exercises, but it’s mainly applicable to Level Five where erasure commonly occurs. The above three steps will pick up over-run, if it occurs, at any level of your therapy. The phenomena of over-run are always repaired by 1) Discovering that over-run has occurred. 2) Running RI. These two things are sufficient and necessary to do the job. All else is superfluous*.

*Superfluous: unnecessary, especially through being more than enough: "the purchaser should avoid asking for superfluous information"

Is it possible to avoid over-run completely? Yes. There’s no need for it to ever happen. The entire secret of avoiding over-run is to run sufficient RI at all times during your therapy. Then you won’t miss the point of erasure, and you won’t over-run. It’s awfully simple. Over-run only occurs in a state of depleted RI. Only then is it possible to miss the point of erasure, and go sailing on trying to do the impossible - trying to erase that which is already erased.

Whatever the outcome of addressing a junior universe, the next step is always to return to the general basic package (thee “to know” goals package) and re-null it. You may never have to leave it again and it will run straight on out to erasure.

As with Level 5b, the general basic package has the power to straighten out any difficulties you may get into while erasing junior universes. Learn to use it if and when you feel yourself being backed up into a corner while trying to erase junior universes. You can bail out at any time, and repair the ravages with the basic general package.

Junior goals packages, both life and non-life, are junior universes, and are therefore erasable at Level 5c. One merely converts the verb of the package into a noun, then formulates the limited basic package just like for any other junior universe. However, non-life goals are within life goal packages, so the fastest way to erase them is to address and erase the life goals. It’s an error at Level 5c to spend a lot of time on non-life goals - simply because the time is better spent erasing the junior life goals. One junior life goal may contain a thousand non-life goals within its package. Erase that and you’ve erased all of its non-life goals too. I trust you get the message. An example is the goal ‘To eat’. The noun form of the verb to eat is eating. Thus, eating becomes the subject matter of this junior universe. Erase this junior universe and you’ve erased all the non-life goals with the ‘To eat’ package. These include such things as vomiting, poison, and a host of others. Work with the life goals at Level 5c and you get there fastest.

*Editor’s note: though you are heavily warned not to run non-life goals at Level 5b, it is safe to run them at level 5c, as you are actually running the ‘to know’ package with the non-life goal as the subject matter. For example, running a non-life goal like “to hate” at level 5b would be dangerous, as you are running “must hate, must not hate, must be hated and must not be hated” whereas on level 5c you can run “must know hatred, must not-know hatred, hatred must be known, hatred must not be known”. There is a big difference, as with the latter you are actually running a version of the “to know” package, and the “to know” package being the most basic of all, it is quite safe to do so. ONLY ever use the “to know” package at 5c. If you add a subject to a goals package like ‘to feel’, and, for example, you run “to feel love” at best it just won’t erase. And if you try running “to feel hate” you are courting disaster.

“To know” is the only goals package that can bring about erasure when adding a subject to the goals package.

The junior universes of junior goals contain very little mass, or substance, in themselves (All the mass is in the junior goals package at Level 5b), and are entirely concepts. Therefore, you will find that you will need to run a lot of RI to erase them successfully. They should not be attempted early on. You do much better early on addressing junior universes that contain visible mass. For example, Snoozer the cat is a thing of substance; he is not just an idea, or concept.

Of course, before a junior goal can be addressed at Level 5c, its package must be collapsed or erased at Level 5b. To attempt to address it at Level 5c while the junior goals package is still alive in its own right is merely to court failure. The junior universe will just never erase. Level 5c is not a substitute for Level 5b. Nevertheless, the final erasure of any junior goals package or concept from the mind is achievable at Level 5c. Indeed, it’s not until Level 5c is reached that such a total erasure can even be contemplated. When we address a goals package at Level 5b we are erasing or collapsing the goal as a method of achieving the legs of the basic package. At Level 5c we are erasing the subject matter of the goal as something that can be known, not-known, etc. There is a difference. For example, a person may have a compulsion to eat. Only after this compulsion has been resolved is it possible to erase the whole subject of eating from the mind, and to return to the being his full freedom of choice in the matter.

We only address junior universes in order to permit the general form of the basic package to be run gainfully. Indeed, the whole purpose of Levels 5b and 5c is to achieve this state of affairs. Levels 5b and 5c are only to permit Level 5a to run - to permit the general basic package to run to erasure. 5b and 5c are only means to this end. Neither of them is an end in itself. You came into this universe on the general basic package, and you can only go out of this universe on that same package. All else are methods of getting the job done.

Before going on to give you a list of junior universes, I’d like to mention a specific application of this technology at level Five. Mankind has always been bothered by the subject of sex. It’s essentially a bodily function for the purpose of reproducing the body which, as everyone knows, does not live forever. People also eat and breathe. Yet people are generally more bothered with this subject of sex than they are with the subjects of eating and breathing. Why? Whole libraries of books have been written on this subject. Freud based a whole psychotherapy upon it. Yet all have seemingly missed the obvious fact - a fact which only becomes clear when the subject of sex is addressed in the light of logic, and what we know about games.

To illustrate this matter, I’d like to tell you a story.

Back in the Middle Ages there was once a very small and isolated town in Spain. The town was a complete kingdom and had little contact with the outside world. One morning the King, who was always clean-shaven and immaculately dressed, got fed up with seeing the men of the town walking around wearing scruffy beards. So, he promptly issued an edict, which was pinned up in the town square. The edict stated: ‘Henceforth, all the men of this town, on pain of death, will be clean-shaven. All those, and only those who don’t shave themselves will be shaved by the town barber.’ That afternoon the town barber read the edict - and promptly went insane. Why? Because he couldn’t obey the edict. If he shaved himself, he would be being shaved by the town barber, and the edict stated that only those who don’t shave themselves will be shaved by the town barber. And if he didn’t shave himself, he would have to be shaved by the town barber - himself. So, he went insane. Fortunately, the story has a happy ending, for the King, upon hearing what had happened to the town barber, issued a special royal dispensation permitting him to both shave himself and be shaved by the town barber. The barber immediately regained his sanity, returned to his - by now - overflowing barbershop, and resumed his occupation.

Those of you who are familiar with the subject of logical paradoxes will recognize the famous paradox of The Barber of Seville in the above. But what has this got to do with why mankind is endlessly bothered by the subject of sex? Everything.

If the human body were hermaphrodite,* man would have no sexual problems. His body would merely reproduce itself from time to time, and that would be an end to it. But the human body is not hermaphrodite. It comes in two genders: male and female. Thus, there are two junior universes called masculinity and femininity. And that is where the fun and games - and the problems - start. The spiritual being, upon assuming a body, is placed in an either/or situation: he can either be male, or be female. He is like the unfortunate barber in the story. He cannot easily be both male and female. The full freedom of choice between male and female is one or other of the following classes: 1) Both male and female; 2) Male but not female 3) Female but not male; 4) Neither male nor female. This exhausts all the possibilities. But the gender of his body tends to fix him in either class 2) or class 3). Classes 1) and 4) are not readily available to him. While as a male, he cannot easily understand a female; while as a female, she cannot easily understand a male. Logically speaking, the classes of male and female in humans are disjunctive**: it’s an either/or situation. And this is the root cause of mankind’s sexual difficulties.

*A hermaphrodite is an organism with both male and female genitalia. I omitted Dennis’ explanation of ‘bi-sexual’ which he put in parentheses because even though there is a definition of bisexual that is synonymous with this word, I do not want the reader to mistake what Dennis is talking about to mean one’s romantic preferences, as in people who are attracted to members of both sexes. This is not my agenda against bisexuality, I just recognize that’s not where Dennis is going with this.

** lacking connection: "the novel's disjunctive detail"

As a male, he soon starts to get opposed to females, and vice-versa. Very soon his is in a terrible state on the subject, for the two genders are not intrinsically in opposition to each other. You end up with a classic case of cross-packaging. We find the male desperately asserting his masculinity, while heavily suppressing any feminine characteristics in his personality, and vice-versa for the female. The whole subject soon takes on the quality of a nightmare, and becomes one big unsolvable problem. And it stays this way until the being regains his full freedom of choice to occupy, at will, any one of the four classes available to him on the subject. The barber in the story only became sane when he could both shave himself and be shaved by the barber. Spiritual beings running bodies with two genders only become sane on the subject when their full freedom of choice regarding the four possible classes are restored to them.

And that, in a nutshell, is the cause of mankind’s sexual difficulties. His body gender restricts his freedom of choice in the matter, until even his very sanity can become lost. There’s nothing else involved. You cannot only be a male and not a female, or a female and not a male, and be sane on the subject of sex. There is also the class of being both a male and a female, and the class of being neither a male nor a female. These classes, being resisted, must sooner or later catch up with you and overwhelm you. Sanity lies in the direction of being able to occupy any one of the four classes at will. Only in this way can the compulsive games condition that sex becomes be resolved.

The full resolution of sexual difficulties cannot be attained until Level Five is reached. Levels 1 to 4 can bring relief, but never full erasure. The steps for a full resolution at level Five are:

1) The erasing or collapsing of the ‘To sex’ goals package at Level 5b.

2) The erasure of the junior universes of ‘masculinity’ and ‘femininity’ at Level 5c. The achievement of this step may, or may not, involve the erasure of the junior universes of male bodies and female bodies, and of sex as a sensation.

Thousands of books have been written on the subject of sex. I thought it might be useful to fill a page telling you how the subject can be erased once and for all as a specific application of our Level Five technology.

Sex is a classic example of a compulsive games condition. The compulsive games player is always trying to convince you that you must either be for him or against him. In sex, this becomes being either a male or a female, with one opposed to the other. Yet they are not opposed - as any person who has been in love with a member of the opposite sex can tell you. There are many examples of this restricted freedom of choice that comes about by reason of games play to be found in life, but none of them match sex for the sheer hell that can result when that game really begins to charge up. Our insane asylums are full of its victims. And this is how you take it apart. Once resolved, you are only left with the sexual desires of your body. These are quite placid, and satisfying them is no more onerous* than satisfying its needs on the subject of food and drink. When you do so your body purrs like a great big pussy cat. The body, regardless of its gender, has desires on the subject of sexing and being sexed. This may come as a surprise to those who have yet to erase the ‘To sex’ package, but it’s well known in Freudian psychoanalytic theory. They just never had an effective means of resolving the compulsive games condition. That is all. While the subject of sex is highly charged the being enforces his own peculiar games compulsions upon his body. This, in extreme cases, can lead to its demise. The body is always much healthier when its lord and master is no longer in a compulsive games condition on the subject of sex.

*Onerous is an adjective that means involving, imposing, or constituting a burden, laborious or oppressive, or having legal obligations that outweigh the advantages.

Any list of junior universes is, of course, a list of every class of things and ideas to be found in the universe. Such a list is only useful if compiled in a rough sequence of increasing difficulty of erasure. Even allowing for the differences between beings on this planet at this time, the following list will be found useful.

Mothers. Fathers. Relations. Friends. Associates. Clothes. Food. Excreta. Body parts. Male bodies. Female bodies. Baby bodies. Pets. Animals. Birds. Fish. Insects. Bacteria. Plants. Robot bodies. Machines. Valuable masses. Important masses. Large masses. Energy sources. Energy. Gases. Emotions. Sensations. Time. Space. Games. Death. Spirits. Gods. Life.

The junior universes of the main life goals are:

Knowing. Creating. Loving. Admiring. Enhancing. Helping. Feeling. Controlling. Owning. Having. Eating. Sex (plus Masculinity and Femininity).

Some common non-life goal junior universes that may need address are:

Degradation. Blame. Destruction. Drugging.

There are a number of general life concepts that also may need address. They include:

Freedom. Honor. Courage. Beauty. Truth. etc.

Again, I would remind you that junior universes are only selected on the basis of interest. Interest takes precedence over all other methods of selection. If a junior universe interests you at Level 5c then it is erasable by you - eventually. However, you may first have to erase junior universes within that universe.

Take things steadily on Level 5c. Far better a series of easy erasures than to grind away at a junior universe that is too heavy for you right now. Always return to the general basic package after addressing a junior universe, regardless of the outcome. One day you will return to the general basic package and it will run out to erasure. The job is then done.

Those who read this work and, resisting the temptation to sit around and talk about it forever, actually do the exercises and discover that they work just as described, may care to mention the fact to others including their children. Then if we so desire, and if we work at it, we will be able to create a civilization on this planet of which we can be truly proud. The choice is ours.

Dennis H. Stephens

Mosman. NSW. Aust

Sept. 1979

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