Level Two.

Purpose:  To find the past.  To exercise the being in evaluating the past to the present.

Now I’ll be brutally honest with you.  If you need this level running badly it’s going to hurt.  It all depends upon how severe the compulsive games condition is between you and your mind.  If you’re rather chummy with your mind the exercise will be a breeze, and you’ll enjoy it as well as deriving benefit from it.  However, if you are a mass of so-called repressions and inhibitions you are in for a hot time of it. You’ll probably be absolutely sure that you are going to die before you’ve got your teeth a couple of inches into this Level.  There’s nothing like Level Two to separate the men from the boys.  Crack this one, and the rest is easy. However, the Level must be done, for there’s no other way to get a being to be able to Timebreak.

Use RI liberally.  Don’t be a martyr - run RI when the going gets rough; you’ve nothing to gain by suffering any more than you have to.  This Level is designed to crack the compulsive games condition you are currently in with your own mind.  It does it with ruthless efficiency - to the full extent you are currently capable of achieving.  But I’ll tell you this:  once you come out the other end, you’ll have lost all fear of your own mind.  You’ll know with absolute certainty that there’s nothing it can do to you that you can’t handle.  You’re over the biggest hump.  The being who has successfully completed Level Two has said goodbye to separate therapists:  he now knows he can do what must be done alone.  If this technology ever becomes lost to mankind it will only be because some faint hearts could not confront the horrors of Level Two, and so will change it all into something pleasant - and useless.  Never miss it:  Level Two is the only barrier that sits between mankind and the attaining of Nirvana.  He cannot face Level Two, and so he goes to a separate therapist to help him through it - never realizing that by so doing he has negated his own responsibility in the matter, and so doomed himself to failure.  He must do this step alone, or he’ll never be able to cock a snook* at his own mind; there is no other choice.

*Cock a snook: openly show contempt or a lack of respect for someone or something: "The title was a deliberate attempt to cock a snook at the establishment" · "he spent a lifetime cocking a snook at the art world"
-place one's hand so that the thumb touches one's nose and the fingers are spread out, in order to express contempt.

Level Two will be a baptism of fire for many of you. So be it.  Press on.  I’ve known the successful completion of this Level to cure chronic alcoholism in a being all by itself, so the results are well worth attaining.  Remember: you’ve lived through the original of whatever your mind has to throw up at you, so you can live through the recall of it. The last thing you do before you expire is - run RI.  Then you won’t expire.  Get it?  Then you continue on with the exercise.  Get it?

Commands:

a)   Select a non-significant past scene.*

   (Masochists can select a significant one.)

b)   Select an object from this scene.

c)   Find an object in present-time (one you can see with your eyes) that is different from the past object.

d)   How is it different?

   Repeat c) and d) (Its permissible to use the same pt object over and over again if you wish) until no more change; then:

e)   Find an object in present-time (pt), one you can see with your eyes, that is similar to the object in the past scene.

f)    How is it similar?

   Repeat e) and f) until no more change, then repeat c) and d).  Continue until both c) and d), and e) and f) produce no more change.

g)   Select a new past object, either from the same past scene or a different one.

   Repeat c) and d), then e) and f) with this new past object until no more change.

*The question of what a ‘scene’ is has come up in my coaching others in doing TROM, with one question being, “Is a scene just a moment or is it an event that can last a minute, hour, etc.?”  While Dennis does use the word ‘scene’ for the instructions on levels 2 and 3 timebreaking in the original manual, in a later lecture he does use ‘incident’ referring to level 3.  An incident by definition is an event, and a scene is where the event took place.  At level two since you are just timebreaking objects, this difference in meaning is inconsequential.  Just keep in mind later on in level 3 even though you see the word ‘scene’ again you would want to timebreak the entire incident. 

Continue the exercise, using more and more significant past objects, until no more change occurs with any past object you care to select.  Now do the exercise with past persons.  Select them one at a time, and complete the exercise with each person.  Continue until no more change occurs with any past person you care to select.

 As you do this exercise, and the compulsive games condition between you and your mind begins to break down, you’ll find that it becomes progressively easier to place the ‘then’ and ‘now’ objects side by side for comparison purposes, until you are quite easily able to view both the ‘then’ and ‘now’ objects simultaneously.  You are learning to Timebreak.  By the time the exercise has gone null you’ll be an expert Timebreaker.  Don’t rush the exercises; nothing is to be gained by so doing.  Once started on a past object or person you should persist with the object or person.  To change around all the time will not make it easier for you; you are just prolonging the agony - and the exercise.  Run the changes out as you go, that is always the fastest way.

  Remember: you are running out a compulsive games condition between you and your own past.  The exercise continues to produce changes as long as this compulsive games condition is highly charged; as the compulsive games condition quietens down, so the exercise ceases to produce change.  You end up feeling quite different about your past - quite friendly towards it - as well as being a competent Timebreaker, and so ready for Level Three.

In TROM Level Two you select an object from a past scene then view it next to an object in your current surroundings that is different from it, then continue to note differences until the process produces no more reactions. Then you view that same object from that same scene next to an object that is similar and note similarities until you get no reaction from it. You then switch back and forth between those two processes until you can run through one process of noting differences, and one process of noting similarities (two in a row) without any reactions.

BetterTROM.com recommends that if you have not yet started on your exercises, do so now. The main activity of TROM is doing the exercises, not learning the theory. TROM Level Two will keep you plenty busy for plenty long enough to study everything else at your own pace.

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