Scientology 0-8 1952 Chapter 13

Chapter 13

There are certain emotional concepts which are very effective and should be used.

One holds one of these concepts and agrees and disagrees with it. He holds the concept and gets the flow on it by agreeing and disagreeing on the concept to subjects to keep them gray or white.

The concept of beauty is run by holding the idea of a beautiful state of affairs and then agreeing and disagreeing (to keep gray or white) on the locks and flows which turn up.

Similarly, one handles the following concepts:

Ugliness
Beautiful sadness
Degradation
No-sympathy
Sympathy
Propitiation
Making amends
Guilt
Hiding
Exhibitionism
Beautiful cruelty
The beautiful sadness of losing
The beautiful sadness of any dichotomy The beauty of winning
The beauty of any dichotomy
The desire of any dichotomy
The inhibition of any dichotomy

One runs things as close to thought as possible and as far from effort.

One runs things in brackets.

The word “bracket” is taken from the artillery, meaning to enclose within a salvo of fire.

A bracket is run as follows:

First, one gets the concept as happening to the preclear.

Then, one gets the concept of the preclear making it happen (or thinking or saying it) to another.

Then one gets the concept as being directed by another at others.

Then, one uses all these on the other side of the dichotomy.

A bracket on “Beauty of being an individual” would be as follows:

“Get how beautiful it is for you to be an individual. “

When he has run this for awhile, keeping it gray or white by agreeing or disagreeing with the flows, “Get how beautiful it is for others to be an individual”. He runs this until he isn’t very interested, changing its flows by agreeing or disagreeing, and then:

“Get how beautiful people think it is for others to be individuals”. Again he holds the concept and runs the agreement and disagreement to get flows.

Now:

“Get how ugly it is to be an individual.” He holds this concept and gets the flows as they come, agreement and disagreement.

“Get how ugly it is for another to be an individual.”

“Get how ugly people think it is for people to be individuals. “

This is a full bracket. It can be done with any dichotomy. The standard bracket, the one you will use most, is based on beauty and ugliness with agree and disagree as the flow concepts and with the other dichotomies as the varied thought.

If your preclear can get no concept on beauty, have him run the tone scale on it as follows, having him agree and disagree to get a flow:

Apathy about beauty (motionless) Grief about beauty
Fear of beauty
Resentment of beauty
Anger at beauty
Antagonism toward beauty
Boredom about beauty
Conservatism about beauty
Enthusiasm about beauty
Exhilaration about beauty

Run this scale wherever he can get it and then continue to run it on the others until he has at last become able to get the feeling of beauty. He will get being taught what is beautiful or trying to understand beauty and many other concepts.

Your preclear may run into a heavy electronic incident. These are covered fully in What to Audit. If he does, you can run it by getting him to “turn it white” and “keep it white”. If he can’t, get him into lighter material.