Pilot'sPost Z26 -- Old and New OT-levels – story of
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Pilot'sPost Z26
Old and New OT-levels – story of
From Post 68 – November 1999
The old OT levels came out during the second half of the 1960s. I did them in the late 70s just before they were replaced with the new OT levels.
There were a number of different early OT Is, but the version I did was the one with a series of "objective" type solo OT drills done outside. This was the one in use throughout the 1970s and into the early 80s. It was really a high powered variation of the basic spotting techniques (see
Self Clearing chapter 1) as applied to bodies. I have not seen anything explaining the theory behind it (if there is such a write up, it is confidential) but it seems obvious that one is basically spotting bodies until one exteriorizes. It was replaced at some time in the 80s and I don't know what the new version is, but I assume that it is some short light action meant to give the person confidence and get him exterior before tackling more difficult levels.
OT 2 has remained fairly constant. It is a huge collection of implant platens to be flattened. These mostly appear to have been researched in 1966, sometimes using earlier material found in the 1964 era.
Of course you know of OT 3 and I have talked about it at length. The idea was to blow off the entities. Originally it was aimed at handling incident 2, that being seen as the primary source, but gradually it shifted over to cumulative cluster handling, which considers that incident 2 is simply an example of a cluster forming incident.
Since this did not seem to handle all of a person's remaining case after clear, an assumption (which I believe to be incorrect) was made that more handling of entities was needed and eventually OT 3X was introduced to do more running of OT 3 after beefing up the pc's intention with OT 7. Since that didn't do the trick either, NOTS was eventually developed to address this area yet again, but I'm getting ahead of the story.
The assumption seems to be that one handles entities and then one's case is gone and one can go on to do OT drills. Completion of entity handling was OT 3 on the early bridge, OT 3X on the bridge of the 1970s, and NOTS OT 7 on the modern bridge. But of course they continue to ignore the person's own case and so now they are busy rerunning all the OT 7 completions on the Golden Age NOTs retread.
Old OT 4 as done in the 70s was a sort of clearing course retread, with emphasis on mocking up items etc. so that one could not be implanted again.
Old OT 5 and 6 were a collection of real OT drills, basically an improved modernized version of
CofHA Route 1 type stuff.
Old OT 7 was basically a souped up version of TR 8 to drill intention.
Old OT 4 to 7 were great levels producing lots of TA action (at least for me) and big gains in proportion to the very short amount of time needed to do them. The real outpoint was that these were "quickie" levels in the sense that there are hundreds more processes like these in the 50s materials and this kind of stuff can be run for thousands of hours instead of a dozen hours. And of course the OTs case remained unhandled.
So they put those aside and made a new OT 4 through 7 which is basically a replacement for OT 3X. The new idea was that it was drug case which was keeping people from handling entities well, so OT 4 is the OT drug rundown, and then they did audited NOTS as OT 5 on the assumption that people were not soloing well enough to do a proper job. Then OT 6 is training on Solo Nots and OT 7 is running Solo Nots.
The NOTS tech is actually a better approach to entity handling than OT 3, but they still do OT 3 first even though it is the more difficult method.
As I have said many times, entities are not the basic why on one's case, but Ron is right in that they do hold one back and the level is worth doing. But all they do is amplify your own aberrations, they are not source. So you still need to get your case handled once they are out of the way. You can run the grades really deep after OT 7 with fantastic gains.
The biggest mistake was to assume that going clear undercut the grades, and it does not. The clear state drains the force from the bank, but it does not handle the aberrated postulates that the person made in the area of the grades which caused him to form a bank in the first place.
So there has been this chronic difficulty with people who were clear or OT 7 still having PTPs, Overts, and ARC Breaks, and the big mistake is to keep chasing after entities as the reason.
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[Ant note], I did my first OT I shortly after going "clear" in May '67. I had gone through the Clearing Course material about four times, and I was disappointed to find OT I was to go through them again! In 69 I did the OT I The Pilot speaks of here. I actually started OT III at Easter '68, and finally came off it (meaning off OT IIIX) when NOTs came out in '69, having also done old OT VII (to get on to OT IIIX, and OT IV when I attested, with no exam or other check, to OT III - later my OT III was revoked and reissued when NOTs came out). That meant I experienced OT III on and of for over 11 years, and it changed, but I have no record of the changes. There was also something the Pilot does not mention, which was after going clear on the Clearing Course one did the Sunshine Rundown (introduced I think in the late 70's), which was objective processes. The sunshine rundown would possibly have been forgotten when it became possible to go clear on grade or other processing, and jump straight into OT I (and if you wanted, even without auditor training, take the Saint Hill Briefing Course).
In a way, the Pilot is a bit "old-fashioned". His account above was written in 1999. In 2005 an article of Per Ethier's was published concerning OT levels, and you can see this at
http://articles.ivymag.org/pdfs.html. Go to IVy 72, page 11 onwards.
It would be interesting if others can fill in blanks not covered here.
AntEd.
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