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As soon as you allow for past lives, you open up the question of what happens in between each lifetime.
This could be called the between lives area.
In the Tibetan book of the dead, they call this "The Bardo". A literal translation of the Tibetan title would be something like "A Roadmap of the Between Lives Area".
In 1952, during the first brief period where Dianetics was used to run whole track engrams, there were attempts made to run PCs through this period. The immediate and obvious discovery was that some sort of an implant was being used on the PC in between lifetimes. This would explain the forgetfulness and loss of identity.
But this area is impossibly difficult to research. First of all, there is generally heavy charge on the immediately preceding death. And there is a tremendous loss of havingness, which all by itself could make one feel unreal and disoriented (just look at people wandering around in a daze after their house has burned down, for example).
Furthermore, in dying, the person often feels that he has lost the game and wants to forget the whole thing, so that he can start fresh.
If you mix a heavy implant into this mess, then its not surprising that its all a complete blank.
When an incident has too much charge on it, you get all sorts of dub-in and unreliable information when you first try to run it. If the incident can be flattened by repetitive passes through it, then you can get past this and find out what happened. But if the incident is too late on a long chain, it wouldn't flatten, and instead will start pulling in charge and pictures from earlier similar occurrences.
The between lives is extremely heavily charged, is very late on a long chain of earlier similar occurrences, has implanted commands which give one wrong dates and times, tell one to forget, and otherwise mess one up, and furthermore the implanting uses heavy force on the spirit (whatever energies and masses that he's got left after dropping the body).
I do not have an adequate roadmap for this area. And I don't think that anybody has the complete picture (although I will be happy if somebody can prove me wrong). What we do have are various pieces of the incident, which might be right or at least half-right.
The area is so over-charged that it doesn't tend to show up in lower level Dianetic auditing (you tend to skip over things that are out of reach and too deeply buried). The only time I got a PC into any of this stuff was one time when I was running somebody through birth and asked for an earlier beginning and they found themselves flying through a long tunnel and coming down to earth and into the body. And its hard to say if the incident was real or dub-in even though it cooled down and key-ed out once we got that part of it.
Deaths, on the other hand, show up quite easily in Dianetics and it is quite common to run an incident of dying and then floating up above the body. But its rare to get any further.
I occasionally tried scanning through the incident of dying in my previous lifetime, and moving into my current body. Both of these seem to be fairly real and easy to reach, and at first it was hard to even be sure that anything happened in between. It just seemed to me that I might have drifted around a bit, etc. But I could always get a long fall on the E-meter needle on going through a between lives implant at that time, and the date of it reacted very heavily.
This was not, by the way, the day I was born. It was right after I died in my previous lifetime, and my current body was already 4 years old. I have always had a remembrance of a moment when I was 4 when I suddenly "woke up" and became myself and wondered what I was doing here and looked around with a sort of strange remembrance of the things that had happened in the previous year and yet knew that I was seeing everything for the first time.
As I kept digging out vague bits and pieces of my previous lifetime, I eventually found that I ended up sick and senile in a nursing home. While I was there, I would dream of having a new life and being a little child again. And in those dreams, I saw the first few years of my current lifetime in this body. The two lifetimes overlapped by about 4 years and I was sort of drifting between the two bodies during that time period, and everything was sort of vague and unreal.
In retrospect, I think that at some level, I had the postulate to avoid the between lives by already being connected to a new body before I was willing to let go and die in the old one (it was very sick, but I wouldn't let go because of fear). But this didn't work. When the old body died, I was dragged into the between lives sequence and bashed around before I snapped into the new body.
Eventually I managed to run some sections out of the between lives incident, but I'm sure that I don't have more than the smallest part. I also have a lot of vague ideas, and there are various clues to be found in other materials. But everything here is highly speculative.
According to the Tibetan materials, you have a little time floating above the body with clear perceptions before stuff starts happening to you. They see this as the moment when you can make it out of the whole trap if you fully confront everything. But failing in that, they say that various beams will push and pull at you. They advise you to resist these and go the opposite way, because these beams will lead you to your fate and your karma.
I think if you do go along with one of these beams that pulls at you, you will find yourself rushing through the tunnel that is so often described in near death experiences here in the Western world.
After this, the Tibetans say that the 7 "helpful" spirits or entities will show up. But different versions of the book of the dead describe these differently, and some have completely different mythologies. In the western tradition, you are met by old friends and family as you reach the light at the end of the tunnel. And in the old Christian tradition, you see angels and pearly gates.
I suspect that these are all picking up vague recollections of the same thing. And I would point out that the most powerful implants (such as the penalty universes) always begin with a nice section to suck you in before they get rough.
In the Tibetan book of the dead, after the nice entities are done with you, the nasty ones get their turn, and this includes being judged (and they advise you to reject the judgment). Since this judgment idea also shows up in Christianity, I would imagine that the implant has some sort of a scene of being judged and condemned (or maybe they really have somebody "judge you").
After that, it gets rough. The Tibetans advise ignoring it all and refusing to be scared into a body or pushed into one (pushed into the womb) because that will be the life where your karma is waiting for you, and you'd rather avoid it and continue on with religious studies instead, hoping to achieve enlightenment and becoming free before your fate catches up with you. They say that eventually all these attacks will die down and then you can take your time and look around for a good life to be born into, one where you will be born with some money (so you can pay for lessons) and in a place where you can continue your studies.
Ron's first attempt to research this in 1952 came up with the person going to Mars, seeing the eye in the pyramid, and getting a short (15 minutes) implant where a wheel full of pictures are show to be flying away from him and he is told to forget.
Nothing further was done on this until 1963 when he found a different sequence, taking place in a valley on Venus, where the person passed alongside of a telepathically sensitive screen that showed him his own pictures, misdated and otherwise messed up, and laid in various stuff. See the tape called "Between Lives Implants". He describes the shift to Venus as being a sort of sudden jump where the sun changes size (suddenly being much larger).
In "The Path of the Masters" (written in the 1930s by a Jesuit who studied in India), when they do their astral walking, they see between lives administrative centers on all of the planets (and a city of a thousand lights above the entire affair). They consider that these are all on the astral rather than the physical plane. They don't think that these places are harmful. But they do run into troublesome entities while floating around there, but they say that if you tell these entities that you are a traveler who is serving a higher power, they will back off and leave you alone. In modern times, Paul Twitchel took this path of the masters and mixed in a bit of Scientology and a bit of his own stuff and came up with Eckankar. His list of astral places to visit pretty much matches Ron's list of old implant stations in this area.
There is also a rumor of a late remark by Ron that there are implant stations on all of the planets.
Putting this all together, I would say that you are shifted from planet to planet and receive a short implant sequence at each one. At this point, I can't say if these are physical in a 4th dimension (sideways of the reality we know) or on an "astral" plane (and maybe these both mean the same thing), but they are certainly not in our physical framework. But I do think that you are jumped around from place to place and some funny stuff happens to you. Its even possible that you are only being shown pictures of going to different planets and that it all takes place in one location.
On this basis, the stuff that Ron came up with on between lives implants on Mars and Venus might both be part of the full picture, and there might be a lot more.
We might also find a partial basis for astrology in this mess, not so much on one's current horoscope but on the exact character of the implant one received, with some variation being introduced as the planets shift through the 12 signs of the zodiac. Letting the stars determine the course of your life might well be part of the implant.
It does seem like you rush through a tunnel at the beginning, and again at the end when you're shoved down into a new body.
I did manage to map out a bit of this, as follows:
The relative order of the segments is Mars, then Jupiter, then Venus, and then the Moon. There are other segments besides these.
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THE BETWEEN LIVES SEGMENT ON JUPITER:
a) First you are above the planet falling into the great red spot (the eye of Jupiter).
b) There is heavy pressure and velocity. The sky is bright red. Then a white oval appears (energy) and expands and you fall into it. Then energy waves begin tearing and pushing at you from various directions. There is the impression of a grid overhead with pylons and rods.
c) Then you become stuck between two poles which both pull at you and a rotating disk slices through you repeatedly until you stop pulling back together again. it slices you into either 8 or 16 (?) fragments.
d) Then your fragments are tossed into the soul storm in the middle of the red spot. You are within each fragment and there is the feeling that you have lost yourself.
e) Then you (in each fragment) are buffeted around, and there are thousands of souls whirling around with you. You seem to be in a murky sort of cloud, the colors of the cloud shift around sometimes being green or muddy looking or red or orange etc. but the colors always look dirty and faded. There are also endless pictures and symbols, generally from the penalty universes, which fly around and explode at random.
f) Your 16 fragments have a vague correspondence to the 16 dynamics. An implant is run on each of the 16 simultaneously. The first item, in each of the 16, is "To Be Curious About ...", but a different end word is filled in the blank for each one.
The 16 different implant endwords (one in each of your fragments) are as follows:
1. Sleep
2. Sex
3. Orders
4. Rules (laws)
5. Bodies (or "having a body")
6. Energy
7. Entities
8. Death
9. Pain
10. Pictures
11. Sensation
12. Mass
13. Emotion
14. The Past
15. Unconsciousness
16. Time
The same platen of items is used for each of these. The items seem to be whispered in your ear by a soft female voice as you are buffeted around. Each of your 16 fragments receives this at the same time, each one getting the same item but with a different endword from the list above. (its possible that somebody who had been a woman would hear a soft male voice instead?).
The item platen is as follows:
1. TO BE CURIOUS ABOUT ....
2. TO DESIRE ....
3. TO NEED ....
4. TO CRAVE ....
5. TO BE HIT BY ....
6. TO BE HURT BY ....
7. TO BE AFRAID OF ....
8. TO RESIST ....
9. TO REJECT ....
10. TO HIDE FROM ....
11. TO BE OVERWHELMED BY ....
12. TO BECOME ....
g) After this, your fragments (and those of other people) are all drawn together at the emitter which is a radiating globe mounted at the top of a great green pylon which extends up into the center of the storm. It is the only calm area (sort of like the eye of a hurricane) and you fall into it. You feel tearing radiation which makes you unconscious.
I think that at this point you are beamed off to Saturn.
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THE BETWEEN LIVES SEGMENT ON THE MOON
I don't have too much on this one. I had trouble running it originally because I didn't have the "point to the being you divided from" process, which might make this easy to handle.
This is a very slow and quiet one.
There are, I believe, 8 gates or archways in a circle around an empty plane of lunar dust. You and 7 other people, in your old (previous lifetime) bodies (but its just a mockup, no spacesuits or trouble breathing or anything) walk out from the gates and approach the center (there may be a series of poles there?).
Each of you is divided 8 ways and the pieces are recombined to make 8 new individuals (a piece of you and 7 others in each of the 8 new people).
There are 8 positions, a central one and 7 entity locations. The 8 pieces that you are fragmented into each go into a different position, so that on one of the new people, you are the center, on another you are the right side entity, etc.
In theory this causes you to become somebody else because you are now a different mixture of entities than in the previous life. But its only partially true. Your main theta line is the center line through these recombinations.
You can, to some degree, remember the last lifetime for each of these 7 major entities that you were combined with, but it is a shadow compared to your true last lifetime (where you were also the center).
This continual shuffling is peculiar to the prison planet mechanics and is how they implement the idea of "dead forever" because you are in theory continually ending as a being and becoming somebody new. There is also the idea that this is prison rehabilitation, because you are made to get along with a varying mixture of other beings by being packaged up with them.
But the whole thing doesn't work very well. Only secondary characteristics shift around, and you get a bit of help or hindrance depending on whether these lesser pieces align or conflict with your own goals and abilities. But your core personality carries forward on the center line and the current actual GPM pattern remains intact etc. One of the foolish reasons that you hold onto various aberrations (and especially your own GPM goals and items) from lifetime to lifetime is a mistaken idea that you need to do this to ensure that you will remain yourself despite this attempt to reshuffle thetans between lives.
I will offer an odd speculation that might illustrate this. A bit more than a decade after Mozart's death (he might have hung around disembodied for awhile), four famous composers were all born within a year of each other (Chopin, List, Mendellsohn, and Schumann). Perhaps they all received fragments of Mozart. As for the core personality, Mendellsohn is the most likely candidate. He was born rich (almost unheard-of among great composers and probably an attempt to solve his previous financial problems), he starts off (age 11) picking up where Mozart left off, reaches his peak at age 17 and then decays, and he dies (without warning or reason, of nothing more than a cold) at the same age as Mozart did. Of course I am just guessing at this.
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THE BETWEEN LIVES SEGMENT ON MERCURY
I don't know much about this one, but it seems to include setting up a lesson or lessons that you are going to learn in your next life.
Needless to say, these lessons pretend to be helpful and try to get you to pull in bad stuff by twisting around your own good ethical nature.
For example, you might be talked into postulating that you will become disabled in your next life so that you can learn compassion. Or you might postulate being tortured by the enemy in a war so that you can learn courage and fortitude.
In truth you learn nothing from these things and it just messes you up further.
The end result is that either you degrade yourself further, or that you say "the hell with ethics" because it has been turned against you, and that is an even worse degradation.
In the long run, these lessons will totally destroy a being's ethical sense.
For now, the only solution is to hold onto your own ethical sense and ignore everything reality does to teach you differently.
Real ethics is doing something because YOU believe its the right thing to do. It has nothing to do with obeying rules or moral codes (and often results in breaking them). It has nothing to do with doing things that others think are good. And most important, it has absolutely nothing to do with learning lessons.
Where real ethics fails (and it often does), it is not because of the person's lack of goodness or because he didn't learn some lesson. It fails because the higher dynamics are screwed up. Ethics is the lowest of the "theta" dynamics (things you do to survive as a being rather than to survive as a body). If you are totally blocked and misguided on higher dynamics such as aesthetics, constructive effort, and reason, then your ethical actions may be aimed at wrong targets. This doesn't mean that you should abandon ethics (that is just sinking further into the morass), it means that you should expand out into a wider zone of creation.
Never cut back your abilities or decide to learn your lesson because you have failed or made mistakes. Instead, vow to do better next time, raise your abilities and awareness so that you can do better, and expand into a broader sphere.
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OTHER THINGS BETWEEN LIVES
There are other sections which I have not mapped out thoroughly but I've spotted bits and pieces.
In one section, you go through various trick scenes like the following:
You see a stream and rocks in a garden with a fountain at the center. You are drawn to the fountain and you're told that it is the fountain of youth and you will live forever if you drink of it. So you drink, and as you do so, you realize that it brings about youth by making you forget everything so that you can forget aging. It is really the waters of "Leath" / forgetfulness. And you agree to forget everything so that you can be young again.
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As mentioned above, lessons imposed on you by others are never actually helpful and are often harmful. But there is another possibility which is that you are trying to teach a lesson to yourself.
You will find that you have left a bit of yourself up at a higher level, exterior to this and all of the later universes. I don't want to call this an oversoul or a higher self because the terms are often misused to represent some higher guiding spirit. Here I am talking about you yourself operating from a higher level viewpoint that is exterior to the local game conditions.
I have not been able to get much on this higher level viewpoint. For me, it is still generally outside of the band of self awareness, and therefore is not truly conscious or thinking in the fullest sense although it is aware and thinking in the mechanical sense (like a computer program that can think and manifest awareness but which is not self-aware or capable of arbitrary decisions).
I have had a few experiences where I seemed to wake up briefly and very foggily in this higher viewpoint, and I could remember a continual process of figuring and handling things without any conscious awareness. The perceptions and awareness were very strange and it seemed to me that I was busy thinking many things in parallel, but none of them were conscious trains of thought.
This higher viewpoint may be a bit of yourself that you left behind to lead you back out of the trap.
If you get the idea of looking at things from a viewpoint where you really don't care either way about any kind of survival on any of the dynamics, and your only interest is in guiding yourself out of the trap (which includes guiding yourself to full maturity as a being and to cause over creation), then you will have the viewpoint of this higher level. And it will be your viewpoint, not mine or anybody else's. Because we are not identical at that level. This is your optimum viewpoint, and it reflects you as a basic individual.
This higher viewpoint teaches you lessons, but it is lessons that you yourself want to learn. But you might not want these lessons in your current physical viewpoint. You have to shift to the view of a being who is aware of living a succession of lifetimes and who doesn't consider pain or death to be a big deal.
If the lesson seems reasonable from this multi-lifetime viewpoint, then it probably is your lesson for yourself. If, however, it seems like a push to get you to agree to some moral code or agreed upon standard of behavior, then you are probably dealing with an implanted lesson. The very fact that there are implanted lessons tends to indicate that there is a natural lesson mechanism that they are trying to abberate and use against you.
For implanted lessons, you run out the implant, or do mockups of the lesson until you can throw it away.
For your own lessons to yourself, you first need to spot exactly what the lesson is and acknowledge it. Then try to have the cognition that the lesson is pushing for. Once you have the cognition, the lesson has no further purpose and you will stop mocking it up for yourself.
From the higher viewpoint, you don't care if you have to die a few times to learn an important concept that you will need to get out of this trap.
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There may be an earlier series of implant universes that are similar to the penalty universes. This earlier set uses a body type that seem to be "cloud forms" rather than physical bodies. The goals are something like "To Eternalize" and "To Individuate". There are a number of possibilities mentioned in the penalty universe master list (especially the goal "To Grow" which has a cloud style GE body and a non-standard pattern of items).
The penalty universes follow the tone scale in their pattern of decaying items, and I believe that they are the source of the tone scale as we know it. This tone scale is a pattern of decay, beginning from a high point and sliding downwards. By its very nature it assumes the prior existence of things which can decay.
The earlier series has a different scale. I have put it together as best I can, based primarily on a) running the goal "To Grow", b) meter assessment, and c) deductive logic based on observation. I cannot guarantee that it is correct. The main characteristic of this scale is that it builds up before it sinks. This type of pattern, rather than a pure decay, would be necessary in truly early implants that could not assume the prior existence of a complex environment.
If there are earlier and more basic versions of the penalty universes, then this also might not be the earliest. It does not quite start from total nothingness. It seems to assume that there are other beings and there is already the possibility of a game, and it seems that one's desire for games was used as the hook that suckered you into the implant. Therefore, I will call this the games tone scale. Note that the penalty universes and the ordinary tone scale use aesthetics and action as the hook which keeps you attached to the incident. That is far lower than a desire for games, but it hints that there might be more basic things that drive directly off of a desire for creation (which is senior to games).
The scale is as follows:
Anticipation
Curiosity
Interest
Desire
Fascination
Excitement
Experience
Enjoyment
Achievement
Expansion
Overextension
Overcomplexity
Confusion
Gone on too long (over-run/tired)
Must continue
Enforcement
Solidity (Mass)
Inhibit
Can't Stop
Struggle
Protection
Failed Protect
Punish
Own
Desperation
Dispersal
Failure
Overwhelm
Blame
Shame
Regret
Unreality
Waste
Substitute
Degradation
disinterest
Abandonment
Failed to Leave
Protest
Frantic
Unknownness
Unknowing Fixidity
In other words, the implant universe "To Grow" had the item "To Grow is To Anticipate" up near the top and the item "To Grow is To Be Fixated" down near the bottom. And goals like "To Energize", "To Eternalize", and "To Individuate" all react strongly on these items.
This whole area is very much in need of further research.
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11. HOME UNIVERSE VALENCE GAME: TERMINALS
June 1996
These work like rock/paper/scissors, each beats the next in a circular pattern.
There are probably missing pairs.
The one you are now is the one you crushed. The one before it is the one you played in the game.
Which item you're sitting on affects how fast you move through specific goals in the GPM pattern of the current universe (example, the scientist will rush through goals like "to be beautiful" and linger on goals like "to be intelligent").
Usually the game was played with the actual valences covertly hidden and only revealed at the moment of impact.
The game was played on the original earth.
THE KING -> THE WORKER -> THE CRIMINAL -> THE NOBEL --
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THE SLAVE -> THE SOLDIER -> THE BUREAUCRAT -> THE TEACHER
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THE PRIEST -> THE SURGEON -> THE BUSINESSMAN -> THE REVOLUTIONARY
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THE GIRL -> THE SCIENTIST ->
( THE MINISTER -> THE ASSASSIN ? )
-----> (full circle back to THE KING)
(maybe THE SPY, THE PROPHET, THE GENERAL, THE EMPRESS, THE JESTER (FOOL), THE MECHANIC (TECHNICIAN), THE POLICEMAN, THE WITCH, THE HUNTER )
This is all highly speculative
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17 Dec. 1992
The theory given here is so incredible that even I have to look at it with some doubt and reservation. If true, the implications are immense. But it reads like the wildest science fiction, far beyond the easily accepted space opera style material that we are used to encountering. As a PC, I have no doubts about the incidents described here. They ran with great reality and good meter behavior, showing large reads on dating, blowdowns on running, and going to proper EPs. As an auditor, I run whatever is there to run without any Q & As about the PCs data. But as a researcher, I have to allow for the possibility that the incidents contained a high degree of dub-in and that the conclusions are incorrect. Eventually I may find that these are simply twisted up and misdated incidents which occurred long ago. But it would be wrong to withhold potentially vital information even though it might be wrong data. So here it is. Just take it with a grain of salt and don't jam it down anybody's throat.
Before going into the theory, I would like to provide a bit more clarification on how one can be mislead by session data. Many years ago, I was running a PC on Dianetics and he started running an incident of being grabbed by invaders and implanted. The incident had a heavy somatic of suffocating. The date was "last night". My first thought was that we either had a wrong date or serious dub-in. But I did not jump down the PC's throat and correct the date. That would have been quite a mistake because the date was correct. The PC's data turned out to be correct too and the incident ran well, everything going by the book. If we hadn't taken one last pass through, I might have been left either doubting the PC's data or having wild ideas about saucer people sneaking into peoples homes and implanting them late at night. As it turned out, the PC was having a very real dream about being implanted while his cat was sitting on his face delivering a very real suffocating somatic along with a purring rumble that seemed like some sort of implant vibration. The moral is to always take the PC's data no matter how wild and illogical it seems, but don't jump to wild conclusions based on insufficient information.
1. POCKET UNIVERSES
We have been assuming all along that we are in the main framework of the current physical universe. We see a galaxy full of stars around us and assume that it is there and we are a part of it. And that galaxy is definitely one of the group of galaxies that makeup the current physical universe. It has a pretty distinctive look, quite different from the magic universe. Space opera incidents of running around in this galaxy are quite easy to find on PCs.
But there are other things besides the large scale, full fledged, agreed upon universes. Besides the independent little universes used for implanting or story telling or whatever, it is also possible for the big universes to have little side pockets. These pocket universes are not quite independent. They connect to the main universe and mostly share its laws. But the laws can be different and the space-time is a bit sideways of the main universe. It is possible to manipulate the space and time in these little side universes without having to manipulate the huge agreed upon universe.
The Home universe matrix was nothing more than a simple agreed upon space that provided a reference point from which endless little pocket universes could be set up. These pocket universes were the individual home universes of the thetans involved.
Pocket universes were still quite common even as late as the symbols universe. It was not unusual to walk sideways into a painting on the wall and find yourself in another three dimensional space which could be considered to be a pocket universe of the large agreed upon symbols universe.
Pocket universes have become very rare. But is it still possible for a group of OTs to get together and push a space- time framework sideways of the normal space-time and create a pocket universe. Although pockets are often small, they can also be so big that one could easily contain this solar system. It would also be possible to surround one with a pre-recorded image of the galaxy, or even to relay a real view of the current galaxy into it. You could toss all sorts of undesirables and convicts into such a construction.
Would it make any difference if we're in a pocket universe instead of the main framework of the physical universe? Unfortunately, it does. If we are in a space-time pocket, it becomes possible for the people controlling the prison machinery to manipulate space-time in a manner that would be inconceivable if applied to the full sized physical universe. The very structure of space-time in this local might be designed expressly for the purpose of using earth as a prison. And everybody is sitting on a single planet so that it becomes possible to deliver implants to the entire population of the "pocket universe" if necessary.
2. HEAVEN AND HELL
I didn't used to believe in the existence of heaven and hell. I figured that these were simply pictures used to lure or chase people into the between lives implants. Running track, these things never showed up in space opera or anywhere else in the physical universe before earth. These kinds of mockups did show up in places like the magic universe, but that is quite a different mockup from this one.
However, running the items of the PT Actual GPM opened up some recall on just about every lifetime I spent here on earth and also pulled up a few time periods spent in one of the heavens or hells or in the purgatory-like between lives admin area. So there does seem to be something to this, and it seems to be a local phenomena that only applies to recent earth track.
The heavens and hells seem to be used according to the Buddhist theories rather than in the absolute manner preached by Christianity.
If one leads an exceedingly good life, such as sacrificing oneself for others, one might be given a sort of vacation in one of the heavens. My one experience with this was that it was very nice but mostly a scam. I only actually experienced a few weeks at the beginning and at the end of my stay plus an implant in between that told me I had a good time for a couple hundred years. The mockups just take too much work to make it cost effective for them to deliver more than a taste of heaven.
As to hell, they count on you punishing yourself through the overt motivator sequence. But where that fails because the overts aren't real to you, they adjust your reality with a stay in hell.
Unfortunately, their judgment of good and evil are based on arbitraries. Things such as violating physical universe laws are considered evil. If there is anything behind the current religious superstitions, then the between lives boys probably sentenced Christ to hell for his working of miracles. And he probably tore the place up and lead a whole bunch of people out of there as described in Dante.
After a stay in hell (which is generally very brief), you are usually set to work in between lives admin to make amends. There you spends decades of tedium pushing papers around or whatever to keep the between lives machinery working.
If you're viciously harmful in a good cause, you generally get sent to hell as a demon to torture others instead of as a victim. You're supposed to get disgusted with yourself and flatten any harmful desires while not actually being punished because you did something good.
The god of this pocket universe is basically a prison warden. He and his staff are also convicts, but they are evil people who did great service to the empire and are being reward (by getting to play god) while being kept in exile because the empire doesn't want them around. Note that the existence of a sour local god neither proves nor invalidates the existence of a supreme being. The theta flow that some holy men connect with is certainly not a manifestation of this petty local tyrant.
According to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, there are many heavens and hells of varying appearance and qualities, some being higher or lower than others. They consider that most of the heavens are mere pleasure places where one cannot gain any true spiritual advancement. Buddha considered the entire cycle, including going to heaven and hell etc., to be a trap.
The between lives area including the heavens and hells seems to be sideways of our physical plane. See the various other materials where I have discussed 4 dimensional mockups. In the local area, if you exteriorize and go sideways in a 4th direction without moving in the normal 3 dimensions, you will find various mockups of heaven & hell etc. The various "invader" installations, implant machinery, etc. is all there in this odd direction. This is why you can exteriorize and find bases on Mars or orbital stations around Venus that are not visible in our telescopes. You have shifted sideways slightly in a 4th dimension.
A 4 dimensional structure is only to be expected since this is a prison area. Perception and most mockups were narrowed down to 3 dimensions sometime before home universe. But 4 dimensional spaces can still be handled (with great difficulty) and are used for things such as building prisons and implanting precisely because they are difficult to perceive and figure out.
The pocket universe seems to extend out to a distance of 1.3 light years. At this distance, there are 12 "zodiac masses" which are the generating stations that manipulate the 4D space time. I call them zodiac masses because they correspond to the 12 signs of the zodiac and may be used as part of the between lives implant to lay in a bit of an astrological pattern. Out beyond this distance is normal space/time. Out there the universe has a 4D thickness, but all the layers are identical. Here, in the prison, they have pried apart the edges and used them for the fake heavens and hells and also to provide storage areas which are capable of holding copies of the Earth reality so that they can store the mockup for re-use as needed.
3. THE IMPOSSIBLE INCIDENTS
I'd had a bunch of odd ball ideas lying around for quite awhile, feelings that I'd died in a nuclear war in the 1960s, feelings that I'd been in Scientology before, etc. All seemingly absurd and were shrugged off as some sort of dubin.
One day I decided to set aside logic and see if I could find and run a 1960s nuclear war incident. I figured that I'd get something which would eventually turn out to be a much older incident after I'd run through it a few times and taken some charge off. Instead I got the following:
In 1963, Richard M. Nixon was president, having beaten Kennedy by a narrow margin in 1960. He had badly mishandled the Cuban missile crisis and things had grown worse to the point where a nuclear war was eminent. I was in school when they herded us down to the basement, this was around 9:15 AM. They told us that we had launched a nuclear first strike at 8:32 AM. The public had not been warned until the Soviet counter-strike was launched for fear of giving early warning to the enemy. The sonic and visio on this were quite real (the assistant headmaster saying to us "Gentlemen, we are at war" etc.). At 9:26AM, the ceiling smashed down on us as a nuclear blast destroyed the city.
Normally when you die, you come out in an "astral body". But the heavy radiation tore this energy body as well as the physical one and I had the feeling of dying as a spirit as well as dying as a body. I remember trying to rise up through the firestorm as my fields and substance shredded and I died the double death.
And then there was nothing. Just blackness.
And then I seemed to be waking up in some higher space. It was dark and I had no perceptions. But I felt a pressure trying to push me back and put me back to sleep. But I resisted.
And then there seemed to be lights circling around me in the distance. And they seemed to be singing, but there was no sound, only intention. This impression of singing was probably a subjective impression of being hit with a strong energy wave that was implanting an intention. And the intention was for me to go back to earth.
Then I found myself above the Earth looking down, and I could see the explosions down on the surface. And gradually I came to be aware of millions of other beings up in orbit along with me, all of them watching the destruction of the world. And more and more joined us as the dying continued. And there was a sadness, not at mere death, but at the end of everything. We were all of us ripe for any implant or orders which would do something about the situation.
And then the circling lights were there again, orbiting around all of us and around the Earth as well. And this time they were singing "Go Back to 1957".
And it was February and it had just snowed. My child's body was standing ontop of a snow mound and I felt irresistibly drawn to it. And I forgot everything of the future and picked up my experience and memories as they had been in 1957, and lived on from there.
And this time Kennedy beat Nixon by a narrow margin and everything was different.
I've been back over this incident quite a few times and I can't find anything wrong with it except for the sheer impossibility of it ever having happened.
So I tried to look for other things like this, and began to try to meter asses years ago and Earth calendar dates as separate things that did not have to add up properly. And I found many occurrences of 1957 at varying numbers of years ago. And I found many occurrences of the 20th century here on Earth and even some times when we carried a bit into the 21st century before it all fell apart for one reason or another.
The earliest 20th century incident that I could find seemed to be in 1961 on Easter Sunday when Tesla's power grid went live and the atmosphere burned.
And strangely enough, one's case and incidents and aberrations and even GPM items all seem to shift back when time is reset. You lose aberrations that you picked up later and you regain aberrations that you mastered through will power or education. The only exception being that if something were really thoroughly run out, you only get back a shadow of it that seems to have little power but you still try to put it there and don't remember getting rid of it. But these shadows of aberrations that had been run in earlier cycles seem to fall away extremely easily.
We went through many cycles of the 20th century before Scientology was ever dreamed of. They can't let us get much later because our technology gets too far advanced, and they can't push us too far back because they have added too many new prisoners and earlier centuries can't support a high enough population level. So they have repeated this time period too many times. And that may be causing us to wake up.
When Scientology was researched the first time, it was a slow orderly progression building up from Dianetics. Techniques that showed up in 1952 this time around were the final processes discovered in the 1980s and 1990s during the first pass through the subject. These were the things that had most recently been studied when we found ourselves suddenly back in 1952 and so they sort of showed up immediately even though no one remembered the years of research that had gone into them.
And in a later major pass through the subject, the advanced org was out on Long Island and things went fairly smoothly because nobody considered us a threat. The endless troubles that we have seen this time around did not occur then, and many of us worked on the research.
In the year 1987 of that earlier cycle, with Ron and many others all alive and well who are now dead or declared suppressive, we attempted a prison break.
I'm not sure if we used some drug or trance or simply had gone very very far with OT drills, but I remember lying down and having a coach whispering in my ear and a thousand of us all left our bodies simultaneously and stormed the heavenly plane. And we fought a strange battle of mockups against angels and demons and won because our confront was better. And as we held victory in our grasp, the sun went nova and time was reset and we were back in 1952 again.
And ever since that time, they've made sure that we were always at each others throats and busy declaring each other suppressive and making the subject into a mess and a scam and we never again had a clean sweep forward like we did that one time when we were unopposed.
Now that I've dumped all this in your laps, I'd better advise you that I'm quite willing to find out that this is all just some strange dub-in. Perhaps I just have an overly active imagination. I certainly would not bet that the above is correct. But lets keep it in mind, just in case.
If true, this would explain deja vu as being a real recollection of the future (meaning an earlier pass through the same time period).
It also would mean that you'd better date incidents on Earth in terms of years ago and not make any fuss if the answers are a bit strange. Also be prepared for earlier similar occurrences of the same incident at the same date.
There is also the possibility that so called "Natural Clears" actually did the clearing course in earlier occurrences of these years on Earth.
There is something you can do which would be quite harmless if this is just a stupid theory but which could be extremely helpful if it turns out that time is being reset and repeated on us. Pick a few key points earlier in your life when you first saw something that had some great significance for you, and postulate very firmly that when you see it again or relive the experience again, you will remember this earlier time around.
Interestingly enough, this idea of reliving your current lifetime has been around for quite some time. Usually the idea is stated as reliving it to the point of perfection rather than the prison theory which I have presented here. A recent popularization was the movie "Groundhog day". The earlier source on this comes from Bennet the mathematician who was a disciple of Gurdief in the early part of this century.
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After fooling around with this business of time being reset and living the same lifetime multiple times, I began to doubt my vague recollection of past lives.
I had run endless incidents, and some had been very productive of case gain, but that did not guarantee the accuracy of the data. Also, if you include Nots in the picture, you have to allow for picking up and running other's incidents as well as your own.
By this point I had mapped out my current actual GPM and had dated the last few dozen lifetimes here on Earth and had a vague idea of who I was etc. But this also had some oddball stuff and loose ends.
What I felt was that the past life recall should be like remembering having breakfast last week, and it was far from that. And I realized that I was using the certainty of the impacts that occurred in heavy incidents to dig up snatches of past life data. If I did that for my current lifetime, I would have a few recollections of things like being in the hospital once and no real idea of who I was or what I was doing.
So I began to work with light everyday incidents and pleasure moments. I tried to spot things like what kind of breakfast would I have had or what would I have done for entertainment etc. And at the same time, I searched for things that would validate my recall and convince me that I was not just imagining this stuff lock stock and barrel.
And finally I did come up with some things that convinced me that I was remembering real data. Of course this was only subjective proof and there is no way to show that I didn't look things up in the history books first and then make up some lifetimes that fit in. But the following stories should at least be a bit interesting and maybe they will help you when you reach the point where you need to undertake a similar search and validation for your own past life recall (and please realize that you need to build up a great deal of recall before you should even consider trying to validate any of it, its just too vague and only half correct in the early stages of processing).
Back around 1994 I was sitting in a coffee shop having breakfast and considering how I might have sat around in similar circumstances in earlier lives. And I thought of Constantinople.
I was already pretty sure of being at the fall of Constantinople, and I had run an incident of standing on the walls and feeling great sadness as the enemy overwhelmed the defenses. But now I found a lighter and clearer recall of sitting in a tavern overlooking the harbor and having some kind of sausage for breakfast. And I frequented that place regularly and it seemed that I would sit there in the mornings sketching out things that had to do with defending the city.
And I remember drawing a plan for reinforcing a sort of elevator, which was a huge wooden platform lifted by chains and pulleys. This was used to raise catapults up to the top of the walls. But in my sketch I was modifying it so that it could be used for cannons. With that I knew that I was dubbing stuff in because Constantinople had fallen in 1453 and I was sure that gunpowder had not yet been invented.
But I decided not to worry about it and to keep running through that time period on the basis that the dub-in would gradually lift as I took more charge off. And it seemed that there was a lot of charge there to be confronted. It seemed to me that I had been some sort of leader or strategist planning the defense of the city, but somebody else had shown up and replaced me as commander and they had betrayed the city and caused it to fall. My certainty in the incident was that we could have held the city if it hadn't been for that. It seemed to me that the city had been impregnable and that a traitor had opened the gates.
And then I tried to get the name I had then. I'm almost hopeless on last names, but first names are fairly easy to remember. But then it seemed to me that my first name was Paul, and that didn't seem at all appropriate for somebody living in Constantinople.
The whole recollection was still pretty vague, but the Italian sounding name and the cannons seemed to be unshakable on repeated scanning through the time period. Eventually I decided to let the matter drop and look things up in the history books.
I was shocked when I read the Brittanica's account. Giustiniani (or Julian or Justin) had arrived just before the battle and taken over the city's defenses. Paul (or Paolo) Bocchiardo and his brothers had therefore been demoted from managing the main defenses (and the main gate) and were placed in charge of holding the next weakest of the gates. Julian then left a gate (actually a small sally port) open and a few Turks stormed in before the Bocciardos could get it closed again. When this handful of Turks showed up behind the walls, Julian announced that the city was lost and that he was badly wounded, and lead his troops from the walls and sailed off while the city fell. And Constantinople did indeed have cannons but they weren't used in the battle because Julian convinced the Emperor that they would shake down the city walls (which were a hundred foot thick) if they were mounted on the walls and fired.
As to the Italian names, both Julian and the Bocciardos were from Genoa and each had raised troops and brought them to defend the city. My impression is that the Bocciardos had a rich shipping business between the two cities and that the family maintained a residence in Constantinople as well as in Genoa.
And another impression I had on reading about this was that I would have followed Julian after the battle and killed him.
Eventually I found much more detailed accounts. When the Turks stormed the position abandoned by Julian and swept into the city, the Bocciardos maintained their position and held their section of the wall until nightfall. They successfully evacuated their men and got their ships out of the harbor and then sneaked out themselves under cover of darkness. Now the accounts get interesting. Paul was officially reported as having died while the Bocciardos were escaping the city, but there are accounts of people talking with him afterwards. The historians hypothesis that there was some confusion as to which brother was which. I would suggest however that if you were going to hunt down and kill another citizen of Genoa, you might want to issue a false report of your own death.
Then there is the matter of Julian's wound which he used as an excuse to explain why he was leaving the walls (the Emperor mustered what few troops he could and bravely held the main gate while Julian made good his escape, the Emperor of course perished with his men). All but one account consider that Julian's wound was a fake or a minor scratch that was self inflicted. But one historian considers that it must have been a real wound because there is a record that Julian died at Chios on the day following the battle. Although the cause of Julian's death is not recorded, it would obviously be related to the battle, either being due to a real wound, or, more likely in my opinion, being due to an angry man extracting vengeance from a horrible traitor. I seem to recall catching up with him in a tavern.
One might well ask why the city was betrayed. Julian was rich and certainly didn't need any kind of payoff. Another interesting point is that the Pope sent a fleet from Venice to help the city but it managed to dawdle around and avoided arriving until after the city had fallen.
And the politics are very interesting. Until the fall, Constantinople had the greatest library of ancient documents in the world. It was primarily a city of scholars and traders with a small but highly educated population (three quarters of the city within the walls was uninhabited and the parks etc. had been turned into farming land - the population was under a hundred thousand when it had been over a million in early times). They had original versions of biblical books etc. which were quite different from the versions that had been heavily edited by Rome, and they were considered religious heretics and dangerous to the church. They had all sorts of wild and non-standard ideas that were a mixture of early (pre-Roman) Christianity combined with Greek philosophy. This included things like trying to tap cosmic energy, etc. When the head of the church in Constantinople made peace with the Pope, his own priests rebelled and continued the conflict.
My own feeling is that Julian was asked to betray the city to eliminate a dangerous source of heresy. This fits in well with the Venetian navy rushing to the rescue (to create good public opinion) while never quite making it to the city (they had plenty of time and zig zagged around at sea for months). This was the time period when the Catholic church was sinking into its darkest era, with the Popes being concerned mainly with money and power. Within a generation, the church would hit rock bottom under control of the Borgia Popes and it would be a century before the church was cleaned up and reformed.
As to the Turks, the previous sultan had been friendly to Constantinople and the city was generally useful to them as a neutral intermediary between the Catholic and Islamic worlds. A hothead had just come into power and was making his name with a holy war. But the cause was not popular and the siege was running out of steam. A final attack was called for before abandoning the whole thing as a bad job. That's when the city was betrayed. Without that, the city would have made it into the modern era. Of course we have Istanbul instead, and perhaps there is not much difference. Except for one thing. All the books were burned. It was comparable to the loss of the library at Alexandria.
For example, the Hermetica of Hermes Trimagistus (a metaphysical reference work which is popular among mystics) was compiled from earlier materials during the 1100s in Constantinople. Both the compilation and the earlier documents were destroyed when the city fell. The currently available editions are incomplete reconstructions from other sources that had had access to the library at Constantinople before it was burned.
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The other lifetime I found where the history books provided some validation was during the American Civil War.
Although I abhor slavery and prejudice, I always felt a strange sympathy for the Confederate armies. This was hard for me to understand because I had pretty much swallowed the popular view that the war was fought over slavery. Even though I had seen the occasional mention of the fact that it was really fought over state's rights, this seemed to me to be a minor side issue when I was in school and the teacher's did not really bring the point home or offset the heavy federal propaganda which was originally used to justify an unnecessary and bloodthirsty war and which still remains a part of our culture to this day.
The truth of the matter is that popular opinion in Virginia and North Carolina and the upper half of the south had already turned against slavery. These states actually voted to remain in the union after the deep south succeeded. And they did so knowing that with Georgia and the rest of the gulf states gone, the heavy anti-slavery majority in congress under Lincoln would ensure that slavery would be eliminated within a few years as did happen in Maryland and Delaware.
Of course the slave holding land barons were resisting this, but the bulk of the population in the cities had already turned against slavery. Most ordinary people had no vested interest to blind them to the horrors of it, and even the rich businessmen were beginning to see that you can't run an industrial economy with slave labor and that you need a free population as a market for your goods. And there was dissension among the ranks of the landed gentry. General Lee for example, had freed his slaves before the war and was sympathetic enough to the abolitionists to be offered the command of the US Army by President Lincoln.
As to the deep south, they went into an immediate economic collapse as soon as they succeeded. With a heavy trade embargo, Lincoln could have brought them to their knees, and the morally torn states of Virginia and North Carolina would have debated and protested and waffled back and forth. It would have taken time, but it might even have been accomplished before 1865. With only vested interests and a morally repugnant practice to encourage resistance, the gulf states could not have resisted the pressure. They had no real industrial base and could not go it alone in a modern economy. The true industrial base of the confederacy was in Virginia and North Carolina and they were sticking with the Union.
But Lincoln was probably worried about the 1864 election, which might disrupt a potentially successful embargo. He couldn't count on winning it if the union was still divided, and he probably worried about a compromiser being elected. And he must have foolishly thought that a quick military strike could end the whole thing and leave him as the great president who had both ended slavery and beaten the rebels into line. I'm sure he never imagined that we would still be at war by the fall of 1864 or he never would have risked it. The faintest shift of events at Gettysburg gives Lee a successful strike at one of the big northeastern cities and that almost guarantees Lincoln's defeat in the election which comes in the following year. And that almost certainly gives us a worst case result which is a permanent division bathed in blood, hatred, and periodic wars with slavery perpetuated for an ungodly length of time.
And so Lincoln makes the stupid and horrifying mistake of launching an all out war and calling for troops. And when he tries to draft the citizens of Virginia and North Carolina, they promptly rebel. And Maryland would have revolted as well except that Lincoln had the Governor and his staff arrested for treason. And there were even draft riots and barricades thrown up in the streets of New York City.
Of course at this point Virginia and North Carolina should have practiced civil disobedience and covert non-compliance and a Vietnam style protest rather than going into open rebellion. It is doubtful that Lincoln could have set himself up as a dictator (which is what the Virginian's were really fighting against) and a hated president can be ousted at the next election. Even here a sane course could have reduced the horror and the evil consequences. But events had proceeded past the point where people would listen to reason.
The true price we paid was to be shackled under a strong central government (instead of a loose amalgamation of states) and to see a century of unjust prejudice perpetuated by hatred and vengeance. For it is the engramic impact and the continual reminder in terms of dead and maimed relatives and unscrupulous carpetbaggers that ensured that the racial prejudices would be cast in concrete instead of fading over the course of a few generations. We might have had true civil rights by the turn of the century (and certainly by the time of the suffragettes) if Mr. Lincoln had restrained himself from launching the blood bath.
Of course I didn't think all of this initially. I used to think that Lincoln was a great man. My change in attitude came first of all from running incidents, and then from following it up with a great deal of reading about the time period. I believe that all of the above is historically correct.
Before my recall opened up on this time period, I only had a few odd loose ends. First was an actual GPM item for that lifetime which did not fit properly in terms of dating the birth. I was certain that I had left the previous body in 1853 and the dates I was getting for this late 1800s lifetime were obviously incorrect and overlapping the previous life. Although I seemed to have some sort of reaction on confederate generals and the civil war, I was sure that I could not have been in it because I would have been a child in 1860. There was also my odd fascination with American railroads, which seemed to have no basis in any past life experience. I knew I was European in both the preceding and following lifetimes (the next one starts in 1893) and it seemed unlikely to me that I would have had anything to do with America.
But, despite believing wars to be part of the trap and a grave mistake, I have always found military strategy to be interesting in a game playing sense. And there is a proposition, both by Ron, and by other intelligent writers such as Gordon Dickinson, etc. that a small group operating as individuals can take on a large army. There is also the additional point that the American Revolution was primarily won by frontier style fighting opposing orderly regimentation.
So one day I wondered why the confederates hadn't simply all run around in the woods as individuals and shot apart the invading union troops in a guerrilla warfare like action. And then I had the wild idea that I had tried it. And then the memory came back to me.
What I recalled was that I was some sort of junior officer with perhaps a company of men under me. Things were disorganized and there were few trained officers at the lower ranks. So I had my group to train as I saw fit, and I had heard stories about revolutionaries bushwhacking the British. So that's how I trained my men. I didn't believe in drilling them as if they were on parade. Instead we went into the woods and ran around in mock combat, hiding and sniping and trying to stay in touch with each other while we did so.
And finally we marched off to battle. I couldn't remember which one, but logically it seemed to me that it had to have been Bull Run because I knew that one was a confused mess that happened at the beginning of the war.
On the battlefield, while most of the regiments were marching around in orderly lines, we were crawling and diving around through the bushes. Of course what happened is that we got confused about our position and lost contact with the rest of the Confederate troops. About an hour later, we were crawling around in some tall grass near a rise and I sent one of our men to go peak over the top. He waved me over frantically. When I peered over the edge, there was a wide creek and what seemed like thousands of Union troops lined up along our side of it. And on the far side, upon a tree covered slope, were the southern forces.
We tried to back away quietly, but one of the Union troupers looked up and began shouting. I was freaked out. There were less than a hundred of us and what seemed like ten thousand union soldiers were about to turn around and come charging up at us. So I did the only thing which I thought might save our lives. We had to pretend to be a large Confederate force which had outflanked the Union. I spread the men out and had them yelling like they were company commanders. We had one flag, and I had them poke it up once and then yelled at them to keep the flags down until we're ready to attack. We fired one volley with every gun we had (including firing pistols which were out of range) and then yelled loudly to cease fire and wait for the main attack.
Surprisingly enough, it worked. We created such a fuss that the Union did think they were being outflanked and turned their artillery on us. But the cannons were at the far end of the union line and we were right on top of their people. So they began blowing their own troops to hell because of their poor aim. And then the Confederates across the creek, greatly outnumbered, charged and the union line broke and ran from the field.
After running this, I tried to get more about that lifetime. It seemed to me that I would have been disgusted with fighting after that first battle. I was sure that I was from North Carolina and would have gone back there as soon as possible. But it seemed to me that I would then have been in the local defenses and gotten sucked back in when the Union landed invasion forces on the North Carolina coast. And then maybe I would have ended up back in Lee's army and perhaps even ended up as a general because I was known as a hero from that first battle.
All I could get of my name was that I was called Bill. And I knew that I had died in Europe in 1853, so I must have picked up a grown body there at that time. And it seemed to me that there might have been a 17 year old southerner studying architecture in Europe when he took deathly ill and went into a coma. And maybe that thetan left and I picked up the body then. And I could remember designing a stone arch bridge for one of the southern railroads (maybe the Richmond and Danville?) in the late 1850s when I returned home, suffering a bit of amnesia after my sickness (I seemed to know the language and engineering but was uncertain as to people's names etc.). My father was a civil engineer and we lived in a small city along the coast. We had no slaves and I had little understanding of the reality of it. And after I designed that bridge, I was sent to the construction site. And I was horrified by how they treated the slave labor that was used to build it. I remember having a fight with the foreman and getting beaten up by him.
In that lifetime I certainly wouldn't have fought to defend slavery. But I would fight to keep my homeland from being invaded. And I would fight to overthrow a dictator or a government that tried to draft me and was ordering me to attack neighboring cities that were in the state next door.
The attitudes I had in the incident when war first broke out surprised me when I first discovered that I had felt that way. Now that I have read a good bit more, they make a lot more sense.
It was at this point that I decided to dig into the history books and see what I could find. And I found him. General William Lewis of North Carolina. He was 17 in 1853, worked for the railroads before the war, and became a civil engineer after the war, living until 1893. The books don't say much, only about a paragraph, but he was the hero of Big Bethel, the first battle in Virginia, with a few thousand men on each side. And the Union artillery shelled their own troops and the Confederates only lost a few men while the Union ranks were decimated. I had gotten the name of the battle wrong, but the details were right, and I certainly had never even hear of the battle before, it only gets about a paragraph in the biggest reference works. And after that he had mustered out until the battle of Cape Fear where he is part of the coastal defenses. And then he becomes a Corneal and joins the regular army again, eventually begin promoted to General before the end of the war.
As for military strategy, it seems to me that I decided that the idea of loose individual forces was unworkable despite winning the battle and went back to the ordered regimentation that was the usual military style in the civil war. According to the history books, the battle of Bull Run also had a lot of disorganized running around which was handled by Stonewall Jackson forming his men up into a "stone wall" which formed an organized position around which the other troops could rally. These organized lines of men became the keynote of military operation at that time. With hindsight, however, it would seem to me that the ideal strategy would use both with the solid formations providing strength and orientation while the light individualized units drove the enemy PTS.
This concept might work well in many fields of endeavor. Having both highly organized groups and totally independent individuals all working towards the same long range goal should result in the maximum horsepower possible. What ruins this are the implants which place freedom and organization into opposition so that the organized units try to force the individuals into line and the individuals tend to fight the organization to retain their independence.
The long range solution would be to run out the implants. In the short term, the group members and the free beings should work on mutual tolerance and those who are aware enough to understand this should encourage the others to move in the right direction. The right action when these two types come in contact is to rehabilitate the shared goals rather than attempting to control or unmock each other.
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