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Level Three.

General Timebreaking.

Timebreaking definition: The simultaneous viewing of ‘then’ and ‘now’.

If Level Two has been properly done then Level Three will be easy. It’s just a romp around your past; learning your skills and applying them. However, if you’ve skidded off Level Two and hope to find salvation in Level Three then I have some bad news for you. Either nothing will happen, or all the things you hoped to avoid will come back and haunt you at Level Three. And, what is more, you’ll be stuck with them from here on out. You’ve either ‘cooled’ this compulsive games condition you are in with your past at Level Two, or you haven’t. Level Three is no place to be playing this sort of game simply because while you are still playing it you cannot effectively Timebreak, and the exercises will not benefit you. So, if in doubt about whether Level Two is finished then it’s not finished and you must go back and finish it. Then and only then will Level Three help you.

Once Level Two is complete the being is able to comfortably place ‘then’ and ‘now’ objects side by side for comparison purposes. Indeed, it will be found that the comparison has become largely automatic. Once he so places them the comparison occurs almost instantly. This is as it should be. A being cannot view through time; this is an illusion. He can only view across a distance. Everything you view, you view right now. The action of simultaneously viewing ‘then’ and ‘now’ breaks the illusion of time. It literally breaks time - Timebreaking. While the being continues to try and compare the ‘then’ and ‘now’ objects while still considering them in different moments in time he never achieves a full comparison; thus, he never achieves a true evaluation of their relative importance, and the ‘then’ object still retains a residual command power over him. Once Timebroken, the command power of the ‘then’ object is vanished forever. This cannot be done until the illusion of time is broken: the illusion of time is broken once it is done. There’s nothing mystical about this; it’s all good, solid natural law. How can his past influence him if his past is now in the present? Flip... See it?

Commands:

a) Select a past scene. Become simultaneously aware of the scene and present-time around you. Don’t try and Timebreak all of the scene at once. Take it a bit at a time*. Continue to do this until the past scene ‘fades’ - i.e. begins to ‘fall away’ in intensity compared to present-time.

b) Select a new past scene, and repeat a).

Continue until you are willing and able to Timebreak all your known past.

*In reference to timebreaking ‘a bit at a time’: This can upon reading be mistaken to mean, “One moment at a time” as if you are moving through the incident slowly, and you can still do this, however, in a later lecture regarding level three timebreaking, Dennis has this to say:

You should get in there; get some of the emotions in them and timebreak the emotions out. Get some of the sensations in those incidents and timebreak the sensations. Timebreak the postulates. Get in there, get everything in that incident, you know, get the lot.

Remember I said in the write-up, do it on a gradient scale*, take it a bit at a time. Get the important bits out then get the rest of it out.

*A gradient approach is a gradual approach to something going from easiest to hardest, simplest to most complex, in steps called “gradients”. So, one need not take up everything in a scene to be timebroken all at once. One can focus on the postulates, then the emotions, then the sensations, and so on and so forth. I personally try and think of everything possible a scene can contain including blame, shame, regret, my emotions, the emotions of others, my postulates, the postulates of others (if it is obvious what the others are postulating) in addition to what one would normally timebreak like sight, sound, and even touch, taste and smell if applicable. Once the scene fades, I stop ‘going down my list’ and consider it timebroken.

IF you get a sensation all by itself that you don’t know the source of, it can be timebroken. The following comes from a cassette correspondence to a friend of Dennis’ and though he was talking about level four it would still apply if it came up on level three:

“There’s no need to walk around with your body feelings these feelings. You can timebreak them quite… quite comfortably.

You simply would experience the feeling in the body then become simultaneously aware of the feeling and aware of the rest of the universe around you in present time and you would find the feeling would then come up to a peak and then would slowly fade out. It would go through the same cycle as anything else that was being timebroken. So, you could always get rid of these unknown and unwelcome feelings that show up at level 4 by timebreaking the sensation, timebreaking the feeling.”

How do you timebreak a postulate? It's easy! Just take the postulate from the past incident...

...and hold that postulate now, while maintaining your awareness of the present!

This exercise will take many hours - joyful hours! - and you are gaining all the way. The past will first be found to become increasingly intense in perceptics, then to progressively vanish. As the Level nears completion, you’ll be hard put to find new scenes to Timebreak, and will be searching for them. This is quite normal. Run RI as necessary. The exercise is not particularly destructive of importances - compared to Level Two, say - but RI will speed your progress considerably. Every so often you’ll come across a scene that just will not Timebreak. Not to worry. Just roll up your sleeves and drop back to Level Two regarding it and start finding some differences and similarities between the scene and pt. suddenly it will flip out easily. Run a bit of RI at this point. You’ve found a ‘sticker’. There’s something in that scene; more to it than meets the casual gaze. You’ll be picking that one up again later on Level Four or Five. At this stage we are only interested in Timebreaking it.

As you get well into this Level Three don’t be shy about having a good nosy around in these past scenes. They are your past, you know. Spread yourself out and have a good look around. Go take a walk through these scenes. Find a scene with a bus in it; get on the bus and see where it takes you. You’ll be amazed! Each scene is a complete universe at that moment in time. It’s all there - if you care to take a look.

IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS VIDEO YET, AND YOU'RE SCRATCHING YOUR HEAD WONDERING WHAT DENNIS IS TALKING ABOUT IN THIS SECTION, NOW'S A GOOD TIME.

Tch, Tch. I shouldn’t have said this. Let’s be more scientific. Here we go: During this Level, or the subsequent ones, you’ll find yourself occupying a viewpoint exterior to your body in present time; you’ll also find yourself occupying exterior viewpoints to the ones you occupied at the time during the past scenes. All this is quite normal. A being is natively capable of occupying any viewpoint he so desires in any scene, whether ‘then’ or ‘now’. This ability is returning to you. Very soon you’ll be continuously operating your body in present time from a viewpoint exterior to it - simply because it’s more comfortable and natural to do so (And you’ll do this despite the fact that science has conclusively proven that the ‘ego’ is nothing more than a figment of the brain!).

Dennis gave a lecture on this very topic of exploring the past and how the mechanics of it work. IF YOU ARE CURIOUS, you are now in a place in your study where you can visit the lecture page on "The Supermarket Paradox" which has an mp3 of his lecture as well as an illustrated and annotated transcript.

Although the past will progressively vanish during this Level, nothing is being lost except the enforcement to view it; any part of your past that has been Timebroken can easily be brought back into existence once more merely by desiring to view it.

As you complete this Level you will get your first preview of Nirvana. For the first time you will feel free of your past, and no longer feel it pressing around you; the endless ‘chatter’ of the mind will at last be still, and you’ll be able to experience the tranquility of utterly still beingness. Unless you actually recall something, your past will remain in a state of total vanishment. This, again, is as it should be.

However, Nirvana is still a long way off. But you’ve now got your feet a couple of rungs up the ladder, and know which direction the ladder is taking you. Level Four will get you up another couple of rungs, and give you an insight into how you ever managed to get a mind in the first place.

IF YOU HAVE read, practiced, or are familiar with Dianetics then watch this video so you can not only differentiate better between Timebreaking in TROM and Returning in Dianetics, but also for an insight as to how the timebreaking technique agrees with fundamental Dianetics principles. You CAN get the same results as Dianetics auditing but working solo.

These 3 videos are the "Timebreaking Essentials Series" that cover the above theory, with demonstrations of Level Three Timebreaking sessions plus helpful advice based on our experience practicing TROM.

The following chapters are on TROM theory. Dennis covers such subjects as ethics, spiritual freedom, more on postulates, plus insights into the mind, spirit and life. You will also learn of some of the phenomena you'll come across while performing Level Three.

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