GODS CHURCH: TECHTALK #23; HOW AND WHY THE UNIVERSAL CLEARING PROCESS WORKS The Universal Clearing Process [UCP] is an extremely simple and very powerful emotional-mental-spiritual CLEARING process that can be done by almost anyone, with little training or experience. "Clearing" could be pragmatically defined as raising awareness and ability. UCP [also known as "Personality Integration"] is so deceptively simple that people often dismiss it out of hand because they incorrectly think something must be complex to be powerful and effective. In fact, just the opposite is true. The more complex a methodology or process is, the more limited and narrow it becomes, the less utility it has, and the faster you need to throw it away and find another process that still has "bite" or effectiveness to it. AS-IS-NESS [the seeing of something exactly AS it IS, in itself, without any additions, filters, alterations or denials] is the basic curative process. Every discharge or trauma reduction process is merely a way of getting the Seeker to "as-is" something. In this sense, there is only one basic theraputic process. The more the process you are using limits what the Seeker can look at, the more limited your process, and the faster you must find a new one. UCP appears to be the basic meta-process or underlying foundation of ALL workable therapy or self-improvement. I am well aware that's a HUGE claim. TRY UCP AND SEE! THE CIRCLE OF NOW UCP is a process that starts in present time, circles repeatedly around the present, and winds up in a new present time. It brings up into consciousness what is actually [although unconsciously or unknowingly] already there in present time, examines it thoroughly, and either dissolves it into nothingness, replaces it, or puts it back where it truly belongs. UCP can be represented by a very simple circular diagram with PRESENT in the middle, FUTURE ahead, the PAST behind, and COMPARE actions to the right and left sides: 1] FUTURE 4] COMPARE 0] PRESENT 2] COMPARE TO PAST TIME TO FUTURE 3] PAST The process starts in the middle with Step 0. Then it goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3 . . . around the outer ring until it winds up in the middle at 0 again. Here are the UCP commands, what they do, and how they work: INSTANT UCP INSTRUCTIONS: STEP# QUESTION OR COMMAND ====== ====================== 0] WHERE ARE YOU NOW? [Describe PRESENT scene to satisfaction.] 1] WHERE MIGHT YOU BE? [Describe FUTURE scene to satisfaction.] 2] COMPARE THAT TO WHERE YOU ARE NOW. [Describe Similaries and Differences to satisfaction] 3] WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? [Describe PAST scene to satisfaction.] 4] COMPARE THAT TO WHERE YOU ARE NOW. [Describe Similaries and Differences to satisfaction] IT'S AS EASY AS A, B, C: A] START WITH STEP 0 B] REPEAT STEPS 1-4 TO "KNOW" C] END WITH DISCUSSION AND AGREEMENT DETAILED EXPLANATION OF PROCESS STEPS 0] WHERE ARE YOU NOW? [Describe PRESENT scene to satisfaction.] I just ask "Where are you now?" If a new Seeker, I explain that this is their opportunity to look at their entire life and scene and examine anything important about it. We are not listing anything or looking for whys or causes or solutions or anything like that. It's just a Look, See and Say about where they are now. "Where" is interpreted in the most general way. I often used to say "Tell me about your universe," but it seems more logical and consistent to go with the past/present/future model, and it works just fine either way. It's the same question as "What's happening with you?," "Tell me all about it!," or any of a number of other words which all mean essentially the same thing. After the Seeker gets the hang of UCP, they don't care what you say because they know what they are going to do. It's what the Seeker does that is important, not what the Witness says. You could say "Talk!" A new Seeker may well talk for two hours about his entire life. A Seeker who already had a session this morning will probably give me a minute or two about what he has noticed since his last session. I don't care. He talks until he feels he has looked at "where he is now" and defined or described it to his satisfaction. This orients him to present time and gives a starting or reference point in the session for him to compare other scenes to. This in itself will make his universe more understandable to him. This gets the session started. 1] WHERE MIGHT YOU BE? [Describe FUTURE scene to satisfaction.] This is the POTENTIAL, FUTURE, IMAGINE, MOCK-UP, CREATIVE side of the process. It is not a tightly worded or narrowly construed question. You could probably run it just fine as "What might happen?," "Imagine Something," or anything similar. The words are not critical as long as you understand what you are doing. I merely want him to create or notice some possible or impossible future. It does not have to make sense or be possible or relate to anything else. I just want him to fish something out of his universe and look at it. Whatever the Seeker thinks of is fine and dandy. Anything he can imagine is a proper answer. It could be a state of mind, an emotional state, a mental attitude, a spot on the highway, a physical position, a computation, a social position, a role he plays, etc.. It can be 10,000 years in the future, impossible by definition, in his wildest dreams, in another dimension, in a parallel or non-parallel universe . . . whatever. An unwritten Star Trek adventure is fine! It can be the same fantasy he's looked at 20 times already. Great! I don't care. Anything will do! His attention is on it . . . so that's the "right" item. I don't even care if it is really from the future or not. I often have the Seeker tell me a place he "might be," and in the process of describing or comparing it . . . he realizes it is actually an incident from his past. Fine! He snuck up on a REGRESSION by putting it in the future to make it more confrontable! Of course, that is also a possible future place, as he might be there again some day. You might notice this selection method is very similar to Freudian or Jungian "free association," except that they didn't know what to do with what they found. I had a session recently in which "Where I Might Be" was the dream I had this morning . . . and analyzing the dream by comparing it to where I was now was profound, and took me all the way up to "know" in a huge area of my universe that was making me very frantic. Notice that this same dream might also have come up on the past leg of "Where I Was this morning." Often it seems random whether something comes up on the Future or Past command. Who Cares? As long as it comes up, it's there, so you look at it! This future leg of the process helps the Seeker discover his future, or lack thereof. It allows him to create new future, and to change his mind and revise it. It lets him separate his goals, fantasies and possiblities from the actuality of his present time, and see how his future, or lack thereof, is actually created by him in the now. This is simple and easy to run because you are not trying to figure out what the Seeker should put his attention on, and when he should take it off. You don't have to find, assess or analyze all kinds of mysterious stuff in the dusty far corners of his mind to pick a minute obscure topic or "item." You just gently coach him to look at whatever he wants to. Since that is all that is needed, anything additional would be an unnecessary complexity and distract the Seeker from his important work. The less the coach / therapist / Witness does, and the less attention the client / Seeker has on him, the better the session works. If the Seeker is so absorbed in his universe he forgets the Witness is there . . . Wonderful! This description of "where he might be" could be 2 words . . . or 20 minutes. I don't really care, as long as the Seeker describes it to his satisfaction. When he is ready, we go on. 2] COMPARE THAT TO WHERE YOU ARE NOW. [Describe Similaries and Differences to satisfaction] This step has the Seeker compare the selected "something" with "present time." I don't use the word "place," because I don't want to define what he will be comparing. I don't know if it will be an attitude, a computation, a physical location, an activity, an emotion, a state of mind, a beingness, an identity, or whatever . . . and I don't care. Whatever he gave me on Step 1, I just want him to compare that to "where he is now" . . . which may still be what he described Step 0 . . . but quite likely has changed considerably since then. By "COMPARE," I am asking for SIMILARITIES and DIFFERENCES, but I only ask for them specifically if I am grooving in a new Seeker who is not used to UCP and is still feeling his way into it, or who may be reluctant or inhibited in talking. Otherwise "compare" is fine. This step could be two sentences, or it could take two hours as he looks back and forth between the two scenes over and over again, seeing more and more clearly, and describing things in more and more detail and texture . . . until he he loses interest in this. In order to compare the two elements, the Seeker essentially has to view both pictures, incidents, viewpoints or whatever at the same time. This in itself is extraordinarly beneficial to him. Most people's awareness is much like a television set displaying a station selected by a remote control . . . in someone else's hands. They are totally hypnotized by whatever program, picture, valence, identity, advertisement, idea, etc. is currently displayed on the screen. They identify with that picture as "them." When the picture flips to a different channel, it's still "them," as far as they are concerned . . . and they have no awareness that it's actually a different channel and program. They can only duplicate or comprehend one viewpoint at a time, and it's totally beyond their awareness that they were spouting a totally different party line just a short while ago. The constant discipline of comparing builds the ability to view two viewpoints, pictures, etc., at the same time. This forces them out of the picture they have been in, and gets them to adopt the viewpoint of the being who is looking at the pictures. This differentiates them from the pictures they have been dramatizing, and are now viewing. If their attention is on only one item, they can interiorize into it and be it. When they confront two pictures at once, it is very clear that they are neither one, but are the viewer of pictures. This is an enormously important spiritual capacity to develop. It builds enormous self-awareness of the Seeker as the creator of his own universe, and greatly enhances his ability to knowingly create himself and his future. This simple ability is far beyond the realm of most "Ostensibly Together" or "Spiritually Progressed" invididuals, who are actually thoroughly interiorized into a hysterically compulsive identity they are strenuously dramatizing. While doing UCP, you will see all kind of mental phenomena, known variously in different disciplies as circuits, valences, disorders, engrams, implants, dramatizations, attitudes, compulsions, identities, incidents, computations, etc., turn on with a vengeance . . . and turn off again with no fancy process commands, no chains of earlier similar incidents, no long tricky assessments of what is wrong or what to do, no complex risky listing actions, and no Seeker attention on the Witness or the Process. It's smooth, easy, and incredibly effective. Just let them describe similarities and differences as long as they have interest. It might be a few words. It might be many minutes of analysis and cognitions. You don't have to worry about "flattening" it or getting "all the charge off." If the Seeker has has more charge on it, his attention will go back to it, and he can simply look at it again on the next merry [or not so] go-round. You don't have to "control his attention" and tell him when to think about what, and when to stop thinking about it. You just easily and naturally follow his lead. When he is satisfied he has seen what he wants to . . . we move on. 3] WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? [Describe PAST scene to satisfaction.] This step of the process simply has the Seeker select something already existing that his attention is on. It is not critically worded. You could probably run it as "Remember something" or "What happened?". This just asks for anything from his past. He simply selects something for examination from what has already happened, and is therefore PAST, and he is relatively the EFFECT of. It could be an exact specific incident lasting 1/10 of a second, a lingering thought he had 85,000 years ago as he lay dying, a room he used to live in, or a broad general scene that went on for trillions of years. I don't care. This leg of the process is the RUNNING OUT, AS-ISNESS, or DISCHARGE side of prior events. It includes as subsets all of the narrowly defined discharge processes that many "well-trained" therapists know hundreds of. It handles and heals what has happened to the Seeker as effect. It leads naturally in the rotation to the other side of the process. 4] COMPARE THAT TO WHERE YOU ARE NOW. [Describe Similaries and Differences to satisfaction] This is the exact same compare question as in the first leg of the process, and operates similarly, but compares the present with the past, fixed, effect aspect of the Seeker's universe, rather than the future, imagine, cause, create aspect. The constant motion back and forth between the legs of the process keeps him from getting stuck in the past and dramatizing himself as hallucinatory total victim, and from getting stuck in fantasies of the future and dramatizing himself as hallucinatory total victor, or vice versi. In addition, of course, the comparing of the past to the present separates them. It creates awareness of similarities and differences . . . the basic definition of sanity. It pulls the past out of the present, and lets it go to where it should be . . . back into the past. It separates the Seeker more and more from the past into a clearer and more sharply defined present time. The constant comparing to "where he is now" keeps bringing him into present time. The entire process works as a "Havingness" process, giving him an entire universe to have. Those are the process commands. This is the overall session pattern: A] START THE SESSION WITH STEP 0 This identifies the present situation or scene, serves as a locational orientation, and starts the process working. B] REPEAT STEPS 1-4 TO "KNOW" You are not looking for a sudden "cognition." You want to cycle through Steps 1-4 over and over again until the Seeker comes up to "know" in the area of the session. He will not even know what area or topic the session is about until the end. On the way there, he will definitely be at "not know" and lower about the entire session, both what it is about and how it will resolve. If the Seeker thinks he knows what the session is about at the beginning, that is simply hallucination. Don't fight with it. Just let it happen. The Seeker simply has to work through his hallucinations. You do *not* assess for or pick a topic and then "run" a session "on" that topic or "item". That will *not* work. There will be some theme, topic or area that the entire session is about, but you will not even know what that is until it emerges at the end of session, when the Seeker comes "full circle" to his first concerns and gets up to "know". C] END WITH DISCUSSION AND AGREEMENT When the Seeker gets up to know, it will be apparent to both of you. He will know what the session was all about. It will be clear to both of you that the entire session was about this one issue, even if it seems like a random rancid stew of unrelated nonsense along the way. At this time, he will usually give you an indication that he feels he is done with the session. This is the appropriate time for discussion about how the session went, what his emotional tone is, how the process is running, questions and answers, observations about life in general, or whatever comes up. Often, the Seeker will ask the Witness what he thinks about something. The natural thing to do is . . . answer! This is the "havingness" phase. Having focussed his attention intensively on his own universe for the core of the session, the Seeker will typically broaden his attention to the exterior universes and seek other viewpoints to view. This phase might be two sentences, or twenty minutes of new stuff popping in to see. When you both agree you are done . . . you are done. UCP is not a one-session do-once process. You use it over and over again for many many sessions. No one has ever "flattened" it yet. As long as you use it, you will continue to raise your emotional tone level and your awareness. As the Seeker becomes more familiar with the process and what he does in his universe to make it happen, he will become less and less dependant on commands from the Witness, and will start to run on auto-pilot. This is an excellent sign and should be encouraged by the Witness . . . shutting up and doing nothing. UCP SUMMARY UCP addresses ANY aspect of PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE. It performs the AS-IS or DISCHARGE function of therapy, as well as the CREATIVE, MOCK-UP role of self-discovery. It addresses WHATEVER the Seeker has stuck attention on, and handles it until the Seeker has NO attention on it. Well . . . I think that just about covers it! :-) You now have a powerful tool to help yourself and your family, friends, and anyone else you wish well. Forget about your figure-figure . . . and get to work! PLEASE DO UCP! O --- ) \ Konchok Penday Technical Writer, Gods Church This article was written especially for the Free Spirit Journal and is based on Techtalk articles #7 and #22, which are online at: http://net-prophet.net/godshome/godshome.htm For complete information on UCP, go there. "Get Your Ducks in a Row @ net-prophet.net !" __________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html