THE CREATION OF TROM

The following lecture, "The Creation of TROM", by its title alone may appear to be a beginner-level introductory lecture. Whatever Dennis' original intent was for putting this one out, it is by no means beginner-level or layman-friendly at all.

The two main issues are 1) Dennis makes a reference to GPMs, what Hubbard theorized to be the "Goals Problems Mass", which is the idea of two opposing intentions or identities that form a "mass" in one's mind.  Only someone who has studied Scientology would know about that, and even then, not every Scientologist knows what it is. 2) Dennis will make a reference to the 'legs' of the goals packages being an analytical construct. You need to know your TROM to understand that one, which makes the fact that some editions of The Resolution of Mind a Games Manual include this lecture as an introductory chapter one of the most knuckle-headed ideas ever in the history of publishing TROM materials.

If you want a more in-depth look at what a GPM is and how Dennis came up with a better theory, I recommend this video on our YouTube channel and you can also listen to the lecture on The Unstacking Procedure and even then, these two items are recommended for those who have, at the very least read and understand the manual.

If you've navigated to this page with the intent of learning basic TROM, and have yet to read the manual, please go to our home page for a proper introduction to the subject. 

Anyone who has ever given serious consideration to mankind's social problems, finally comes to the conclusion that their resolution ultimately depends on the resolution of the problems of the human mind.
But the resolution of the problem doesn't just consist of developing the necessary technology to resolve the human psyche, that is only a part of the solution. The major part of the solution is the application of such a technology. It's quite useless developing a technology which resolves the problems of the human psyche if
this technology can only be applied by a highly skilled and highly trained technologist. Simply because it
would mean this technology would only be available to those people who had sufficient money to afford the services to these highly trained personnel, this simply does not resolve the problem, because it would leave virtually the vast majority of humanity in exactly the same state as they are in today and so there would be
no resolution of mankind’s problems. The resolution therefore can only come about in two ways, first of all
the technology to do the job must be applicable on either a co-audit basis, where people can pair up and
apply the technology to each other free of charge and so resolve their own psyche, and so regain a state of optimum sanity, or the second option is the technology to resolve the human psyche must be able to be applied on a do-it-yourself basis. 

You  see,  the  third  option  of  it  been  applied  by  a  highly  trained  technician,  highly  trained
psychotherapist simply is not a valid option. Back in 1950 when Ron Hubbard wrote "Dianetics,
the Modern Science of Mental Health", he offered a co-audit route. There were in fact only two
factors that prevented this route from being achieved: one was the variability of difficulty of
cases; and two was the variability of the ability of auditors. As early as 1951, long before I took
professional training, I met a number of auditors and realised they were not all equal in skill. And
I met a number of preclears and realised they were not all equal difficulty. Now I was aware of
this problem, back in 1951. Ron Hubbard was equally aware of this problem, he had no solution
to the problem, I had no solution to the problem, we were determined the only route we could
go down was that of professional training route, either that or abandon the subject. 

Natural Auditors 

The simple truth of the matter was (that) good, natural auditors armed with the technology of Book
One,  facing  an  easily-running  preclear,  could  achieve  incredible  results,  but  poor  auditors
confronting difficult cases got absolutely nowhere. Professional training was the optimum way
to go at the time. 

In 1953 and 1954, we HASI London auditors used to burn the midnight oil talking about clearing
the planet on a co-audit basis, but it seemed a hopeless dream. I used to raise the idea of a do-it-
yourself technology, but the mechanics of Dianetics and of the mind seemed to rule that out. 

There are such things as engrams (mental image pictures of pain and unconsciousness of past
events),  which  can  be  restimulated,  cutting  the  analytical  mind  out  of  circuit,  producing
aberrated behaviour. 

A preclear, in the presence of these highly charged incidents, will experience a shut-down of his
analytical mind. He could not then handle the incidents himself, therefore must have a separate
therapist - as a guide. That made a lot of sense in the early Fifties. 

Yet the simple truth remained. If we were to get a cleared planet, it would be achieved only by
either co-auditing or on a do-it-yourself basis. We professionals knew it, and anyone who thinks
about it, plainly knows it as well - it cannot be done on a pay basis. 

Years later, I resurrected the problem on a very quiet, peaceful summer's evening. I was on a
Sydney Harbor ferry going from down-town Sydney to the suburb where I lived, and my mind was
particularly clear that evening in the beautiful surroundings. Suddenly, I thought: "What exactly
are the factors involved here?" 

Questioning Everything 

This  meant  questioning  Ron's  analysis  of  the  problem.  He  had  concluded  that  a  separate
therapist was vital, and the evidence had seemed to say that he was right. I had to question this.
When I got home, I went to my study, took out a sheet of paper and wrote down exactly what I
thought was the function of an auditor in session. 

I wrote down on another sheet of paper exactly what the preclear does and what is his function
in the session. Then I said to myself: "Well, if it is going to be a do-it-yourself therapy, the
preclear is going to have to run both the auditor's role and the preclear's role simultaneously -
but how can this be done when the person is dealing with his/her reactive bank, which is going to
cut out the analytical mind?" 

I put that to one side with a question mark, and asked: "What is restimulation?" It is an incident
from the past moving into the present, affecting the analytical mind even to the point of cutting
out that mind completely. 

Then I recalled what I regard as one of Ron's great discoveries: "If you can get the preclear to do
consciously that which his mind does automatically, he will regain control of that function of his
psyche." 

So, maybe the problem would crack if the person, on a do-it-yourself basis, were to take things
out of his past and bring them into the present and put them back out into the past again, and
bring them into the present… to learn how to do consciously, what his reactive mind does
automatically, to start to take over the automaticity. 

Then and there, I knew I'd cracked it. That had been the missing datum. The analytical part of the
psyche can duplicate exactly what the reactive mind can do. The analytical faculty has at its
disposal the creative faculty of the whole spiritual being, and can simulate, create, bring about,
mock-up, and do exactly what the reactive part of the mind is doing. 

Evidently, the analytical part of the mind has decided not to do this, but it can learn (or relearn)
how to do so. The next day, I got to work on the technique. It was not long before I spotted
precisely what needed to be done, and this became the first step of the do-it-yourself procedure
that is now called TROM, The Resolution of the Mind. 

I started to apply this to myself, tested it, and found that it did not need any modification. It was
right. And it did the trick! 

Taking Over of Mind's Automaticity 

I learned to take over the automaticity of my own reactive bank. Finally, there was nothing the
bank could throw at me that I could not handle, for I could do consciously what it was doing. The
bank could restimulate engrams? Me too! It had no power over me any more. This was proved by
the E-Meter needle, which was just sitting there idly. I could think anywhere all over my past.
Nothing moved. I had broken the automaticity! 

That was the first step. The second step followed immediately from Step One, and was a direct
extension of the abilities regained at Step One. These techniques are written up in TROM. I ran
Step  Two  absolutely  flat  and  achieved  much  more  case  gain  -  serenity,  enormous  mental
calmness. I can become completely and utterly calm at a moment's notice. 

At this point, I abandoned the use of the meter, because my own sense of what was happening in
my mind was equal to what the E-Meter could tell me. I would know before the meter gave it's
read, look at it, realise what the read was, spot it, and the read would go off the meter. 

Life is more perceptive than any mechanical device! Quickly, I realised that, if I were to tell
people about this technology, I had to find out if they could use it. Was there a case level below
which a person should not work solo? Yes. I rapidly devised an auditing command by which a
person determines whether he/she is above or below this level, which has become the new Level
One. The original first level became Level Two, and the old second level became Level Three.

Stability In TROM 

Level One, one finds out if the person is sufficiently mentally stable to run do-it-yourself. How
stable does a person have to be? It is not very high. Remember the old CCH Levels? 

If a person needs the old CCHs to be run, then those should be run on him by an auditor before
he solos on Level Two. From my experience as an auditor, from that of other auditors and by
what Ron said on the subject, only a very tiny proportion (about 5%) of humanity need running
on the CCHs before doing subjective processes. 

That doesn't say that the 95% are easy cases, and the world is full of tough cases that do not
need the CCHs. Interestingly, once such a CCH case has completed the CCHs, then does Level
One of TROM, he will find that he is above that level, will of course pass the Test, and can now go
on to Level Two and say good-bye to the separate therapist. So 95% of the human race can
quickly start straight in at Level Two, after testing and passing on Level One. 

Well, I soon found myself sitting at the top of Level Three, wondering where to go, and the only
subject that was interesting me was that of purposes, goals, raw postulates. In the early 1960s I
had done the Saint Hill Briefing Course. I reviewed everything I had learnt on that, but none of it
helped. Back on my own again, I learned how to handle postulates in conflict - and found out that
Ron had never learnt how to do it. 

There was a certain fundamental truth in that area that he had not spotted. My own techniques
for resolving postulates in conflict is - "Handle correct goals packages". I found what the true
goals packages look like and how to take them apart. You will find this, and it is in Levels Four
and Five of TROM. 

The research on goals and so forth took me about a year to iron out and turned out to be a lot
more complex than I had thought it would be, especially Level Five. I understood why Ron had
failed in 1960. His efforts were valiant. He was almost doomed to fail. The actual legs, the actual
postulates of the true GPMs aren't in the reactive bank. They're in the analytical mind. 

If you search in the bank, you will do it all wrong. It is an analytical construct, so they're in the
analytical mind. All that is in the bank is a mishmash of wrong opposers. The lies. The truth is in
the analytical mind. So the mistake Ron made on the subject of goals was to look into a mass of
lies, in the bank, for the truth. That is why the search went on forever, and why he nearly killed
himself in the 1960s. 

Spotting the Truth 

It was a mistake he was almost doomed to make. I nearly made it, till it was darned near killing
me too. I started off afresh and spotted where the truth was, then got Levels Four and Five. 

Level Four is really just an introduction to Five, sort of cleaning the charge off the major goals in
this lifetime. 

A kind of lock scanning, you might say, to take off some of the surface charge before getting
down to the nitty-gritty. The postulates themselves are handled on Level Five. When I was about
halfway through this level, an old Scientology chum showed me the materials of all of Ron's
Upper Levels, as far as the top of OT 7 or OT 8. 

I took a rest from my own auditing to check through every one of these Levels. OT 1, fine. OT 2,
interesting but flat. I put myself back on the meter for this but the only needle movement was
overrun reads. I was trying to make a process work that was flat. OT 3, I couldn't make it work, it
was all flat. 

And so on each level: ran it, floating needle to start with. If I started to run the process the
needle would tighten. Overrun? Yes. Needle frees up. Float. Trying to run a flat process - overrun.
Eventually - OT 7. Then back from OT 1 to OT 7 again. All flat. 

That really shook me rigid. Because here I was just halfway through my own upper-level tech and
the best that Ron knew was flat already on my case! Later, I came across Levels above OT7, and
each of those was flat too. 

Getting Started 

The biggest difficulty a person will have with TROM is to get started, for the average person has
fought themselves to a standstill playing games with the mind and has been overwhelmed by the
reactive bank. 

A person might let a separate therapist tamper with it, but not do so himself. The cure for this is
Levels Two and Three of TROM, done solo. Is there a Level Six? No. Level Five is the works. 

You'll love TROM. When you read it, you'll sit around with your friends and the urge will be to sit
and talk about TROM forever, and talk and talk and never do it! So, just… DO IT! 

Now we can really achieve the goals Ron set in 1950, and we can Clear the planet, for it can be
done on a do-it-yourself basis. The technology can be applied by anyone, regardless of the
amount of money or income he/she has. 

Well, that is about all on the Creation of TROM, and I wish you luck with it.