Hi Nick, Just the person i wanted to hear from.

Yea, I started on the OT8 materials. The attest cycle went something like this.

me: yap, yap, yap, yap. (about hour or so).

ralph: Well, it looks like the NOTs case is pretty well blown out. Just a min. (comes back with his writeup of OT8).

Now I am oversimplyfing to be funny. But that is fairly close. Honestly, I thought I was done with any hard part of NOTs but really didn't expect to get any agreement on that. Plus I was kind of stuck. I told you earlier that I was trying to shave off pieces of my own identity, or pieces that thought they were me. But I had made almost no progress with the idea. But I wouldn't give it up because I knew I was right. So I went to Ralph to get some sort of break out, maybe O/W processing, anything to kick me out of my slump.

The little thing I got wrong, the reason I had little success, the tiny unexamined assumption that kept me from moving forward for the last 5 month or so. I just assummed that "I" was right here in my head, nowhere else of any great consequence - limited viewpoint problem. Now it looks so obvious I feel like a half wit.

Anyway, I'm not a big fan of the 10,000 hour theory. I thank god I didn't do it in the church, they would have insisted that "everyone knows" you can't finish NOTs in a year or so with marginal technical skills. All told I put in a few hundred hours in '92, '93 then started in earnest a year ago. Over the last year I would be suprised if I had averaged 8 or 10 hrs a week.

The 10,000 hour idea may be true now looking forward at what needs to be done in the future. Before I went for my acknowledgement I couldn't find anything worth auditing. I could find things, just nothing worth my time. After my shift in viewpoint I see a virtually infinite amount of material to work on. However, I am sure that in time I will enjoy a change in awarness, and it won't look like so much, again. I am already fishing around a little, looking for that viewpoint that makes everything look simple and obvious.

If there is anything special about me that makes me a low time NOTs candidate, my guess is that finishing NOTs aligns with my basic purpose. I'm pretty sure that basic purpose or postulate is all that a being is anyway. This whole survival, I am a person, I want to be a big thetan thing is way overrated. It explains why GPM processing is a strictley OT process that was way out gradient when presented in the '60s. It seems obvious to me that it would be part of an OT level.

Enough.

Hope you don't mind, but I think I'll cc the ot-l list.

I'm suprised you found my success story, I just finished it up yesterday. for the rest it is under About Author / Semmering Trip on http://www.st83.org

ST

I guess I won't put this on the list. I was just reading Ralphs posts and it contradicts him to some degree on the training requirments, for 7 anyway, god knows i'm no technical genius.

Also, having sort of arrived at the next logical thing to do on my own, I am confident that Ralph can pull off workable OT levels, LRH was so far out ahead of us, there are enough hints left lying about, and it is a logical progression from one level  to the next.

Oh, what the hell, there are at least 2 people out there that need inspiring.