Advanced Levels (AL's)
Alternative Route and
Auditing after Clear
There are a number of Advanced Levels that can be audited after Clear. Many of them can be done Solo. Some of them are audited in a normal session set-up. The Advanced Levels after Clear are also called Operating Thetan band.
Operating Thetan has been defined different ways. A real Operating Thetan has no Reactive Bank whatsoever and is cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought and is completely free. He does not depend on his body to execute things.
Here is the description given by Scientology.org that is a promotional website:
"Operating Thetan is a spiritual state of beingness above Clear. Thetan refers to the spiritual being, and operating means here “able to operate without dependency on things.” An Operating Thetan is able to control matter, energy, space and time rather than being controlled by these things. As a result, an Operating Thetan is able to be at cause over life.
"There are numerous auditing steps called Operating Thetan levels. People on these levels are progressing to the spiritual state of full Operating Thetan and becoming more and more Cause along the way.
How would you describe the state of Operating Thetan?
"The goal of Operating Thetan is to overcome the travails of existence and regain the certainty and abilities of one’s native spiritual beingness. At this level one knows that he is separate and apart from such material things as physical form or the physical universe.
"Operating Thetan is a state of spiritual awareness in which an individual is able to control himself and his environment. An Operating Thetan is someone who knows that he knows and can create positive and pro-survival effects on all of his dynamics. He has been fully refamiliarized with his capabilities as a thetan and can willingly and knowingly be at cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time.
"As a being becomes more and more an Operating Thetan, he becomes more powerful, stable and responsible as a spiritual being."
There are eight Advanced Levels available at this time. We will briefly
list and describe them here. The description may not satisfy your
curiosity completely; the chapter is meant as an orientation only. Also, R.
Hubbard designated most of these Levels as "Confidential" and we will
respect that. Besides that, it is beyond the scope of "The Road to
Clear". Our goal with this section on Solo-auditing is to cover the basic
auditing skills a Solo-auditor has to have. Having learned these skills he has
done his 'Level Zero of Solo-auditing'. The student can now relatively easily
audit Solo when he has found a competent Solo C/S to work with. The Solo C/S
will check the student's Solo-auditing skills, probably have him do some more
drilling and study, and then give him the exact materials of the next action,
one Advanced Level at the time, for the student to audit Solo.
Here is the list. Each Level is marked "Solo" if it is an action that is done Solo. It is marked "Audited" if it is done in a normal session set-up, and "Study" if it is study only.
Clear Intensive - Audited
When a person has received some Engram Running or Engram Clearing the person may
feel he or she went Clear. The State of Clear has to be verified by a competent
auditor and C/S doing this action. The outcome can be that the person did go
Clear and should go onto Preparation auditing for the Advanced Levels (see
below). If it is found the person did not go Clear the pc would
continue receiving Engram Clearing until the person goes Clear or that Grade is
complete. If the person did not go Clear when complete on Engram Clearing
he or she would follow 'the alternative route'
described later in this chapter. The Clear Intensive may have to be done as a
check several times to determine pc's state of case before going on.
Sunshine Rundown - Solo
This is a very short level. It is done right after the Clear Intensive. The pc
does not need any Solo-auditor training to do it. Its aim is to reorient the
being to his environment and the physical universe and extrovert him after going
Clear.
Advanced Level One - Solo
The Solo-auditor has learned to Solo-audit, using a Meter and all that goes
with it. On AL-1 the new Clear gets the first experiences handling his or her
own case as a Pre-OT.
Ability gained from AL-1 is: "A fresh, causative Operating Thetan viewpoint
on the MEST Universe and other beings".
Advanced Level Two - Solo
Here the student starts to handle GPMs
from his Time Track. Ability gained from
completing AL-2 is: "Ability to confront the whole track".
Advanced Level Three - Solo
Auditing "The wall of fire". It addresses a disastrous incident that
happened 75 million years ago and affected all beings in this part of the
universe and has a major effect on everyone to this day. Handling other life-entities than self plays an important role. These
entities were briefly described in "The
State of Clear".
Ability gained from AL-3 is: "Return to Self-determinism. Freedom from
overwhelm."
Advanced Level Four - Audited
This is the so-called Drug RD for Operating Thetans. It takes a deeper look at
the effects of drugs on a case, going way back in time. It handles charge now
available to be audited out.
Ability gained from AL-4 is: "Eradication of the last effects of drugs on
the being."
Advanced Level Five - Audited
AL-5 consists of a series of rundowns that mainly address entities effects
on the body and thought process of the student. The Level addresses any body
problems, somatics, etc. that didn't get completely handled in Engram Clearing
due to the individual going Clear or for other reasons outlined in "The
State of Clear".
Advanced Level Six - Study
Level 6 is a training level which teaches the student advanced Solo-auditing
that is then done as Level 7.
Advanced Level Seven - Solo
Level 7 is using in Solo-auditing what one learned on Level 6. This is a long
level, usually hundreds of hours of Solo-auditing.
Ability gained from AL-7 is: "Cause over life."
Advanced Level Eight - Solo
This Solo-level is relatively short. Apparently
there are several versions in use.
R. Hubbard's original statement of Ability gained was: "Handles the
primary reason for amnesia on the Whole Track."
Alternative Route
For pc's who completed Engram Clearing but did not go Clear there is an
alternative route to Clear. Most of it is Solo-audited.
Power Processes - Audited
These are audited actions; originally called Grade 5 and 5A.
Ability gained from these Grades is: "Ability to hold power".
Routine R6EW - Solo
This is also called Grade 6. The student starts to handle locks of GPMs
as they affect him in his daily life.
Ability gained from this Solo-level is: "Freedom from dramatization."
Clearing Course
This is also called Grade 7. If the student did not go Clear on Engram Clearing
Power Processes, Grade 6 and 7 will take him there.
Ability gained from this Solo-level is: "The State of Clear; a Being who
no longer has his own Reactive Mind."
Non-interference Zone
Doing AL-1 to AL-3 should be planned and done as one continued action. It is
important the PC is fully set up before starting on AL-1. Only auditing on the
Levels AL-1, AL-2 and AL-3 and using the appropriate correction lists for these
levels are allowed. To make the PC fully ready for these Levels and
capable of good gains routine case problems have to be out of the way. That is
what the "Preparation for Advanced Levels" auditing program is for.
Preparation for Advanced Levels
The C/S will pay close attention to that all the Grades 0-5 and all major
troubles the pc may have in life are fully handled before starting him or her on
the Advanced Levels. A tailor-made program called "Preparation for Advanced
Levels" is done before Solo-auditing is undertaken. This is a auditing
program based on Repair
Program and Advance
Program. It is designed by the C/S to handle that pc's case difficulties
still persisting and done by a qualified auditor.
When finishing AL-3, and before going onto the next Level, the Solo C/S will make sure the student is set up for that Level. This is no different from going from one of the lower Grades to the next. The basic principles were covered in the C/S Mini Hat under Repair, Set-up and Repair Program.
Ability Gained: The statements of Ability Gained is according to R. Hubbard's original statements when the Levels were first released. That is what is used on the Grade Chart as well. Pre-OTs may have different experiences and subjective realities.
Goals-Problems-Mass (GPM): Persistent masses, ridges and problems in the PCs Bank with a certain anatomy. We find Goals and beingnesses that have engaged the PC on the PCs Time-track. You will find Goals and beingnesses in Pairs of items in direct opposition to each other. This created a super-problem and ridge. A GPM could be described as a series of "eternal conflicts" the PC is prone to dramatize in present time.
Set up: getting an F/N showing and VGIs before starting any Major Action. It means just that - an F/N and VGIs before starting any Major Action. Such may require a repair action and rudiments as well.
Repair: patching up past auditing or recent life errors. This is done by prepared lists or completing the Chain or correcting lists or even 2-way comm or Prep-checks on auditors, sessions, etc.
Program: any series of actions designed by a C/S to bring about definite results in a pc. A program usually includes several sessions.
Repair Program: Also called a "Progress Program" in the C/S Series. It has been found that case gain which has not been earlier achieved can be consolidated by a Repair Program. It can take many sessions to complete. It can usually be done by a Class I or above as long as it is C/Sed by a fully competent C/S. It is the answer to a pc who had "Quickie Grades" and didn't actually reach full abilities in earlier auditing. It is followed by an Advance Program which is explained below.
A pc that isn't doing well in auditing usually needs to have a FES done on his folder. The FES will show the things that needs to be addressed. On this basis the C/S writes the Repair Program. The pc gets audited on this program step by step. At some point the pc will have no more attention on earlier auditing and will have his immediate complaints in life (out-rud situations) handled as well. He will be ready to continue on his Grades.Repair Program EP: The EP of a Repair Program is stated in C/S Series 3 as "the pc feeling great and feeling he can get case gain". A good, clever Repair Program produces what badly programmed cases would consider total recovery. It is a good idea to have the pc attest to "I have had definite gains from the recent sessions and feel great." Or with a hearty "Yes" to "Does processing really work for you."
You may wonder, how could that much gain come from just repair? Well, Repair is almost always being done on a pc who was overwhelmed by life or auditing in the first place.
It does not say every correction list or every repair action ever devised has to be run on the pc. (CS Ser. 3)Advance Program: This is also called a "Return Program" in the C/S Series. It gets the pc really up to where he should be by completing earlier Grades and actions that are found to be "out". Each Grade is completed to an honest EP and attested. Then the next Grade is completed and attested. This was especially used in the early 1970s as a catch up. Pc's were previously only audited on one process per Grade. But it is still valid where pc's haven't fully made earlier Grades.
Advance Program EP: Each earlier Grade run taken to full EP, Grade by Grade. Action by Action. Each Grade now fully in is attested before the pc continues on the Advance Program with the next Grade or Action.
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