From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 7 - August 1992 Answer to Letter To Elly Poortenaar From Otto.J.Roos, Holland Concerning your queries in IVy 6 [page 20] I hope the enclosed notes [see next page] concerning the Org Board may be of assistance to your grasp of the Factors. Before its original publication LRH mentioned the coming Org Board and what it entailed on several occasions. These talks made it so clear to me that all the Policy I had studied over the years suddenly fell into place. The Org Board also represents the ideal scene of terminals and lines when handling particles, using energy in space through time; i.e. the process of -doing,- from which the word -Factor- is derived. If you also study Webster's for the -full- meaning of the words "light" and "shine" (which contains the dichotomy "light/shadow", i.e. the arising of awareness via -differentiation- of particles perceived), the appearance of the word "light" (and thus "darkness") may become clearer. Concerning your second question, about the research behind the OT2 platens, it is not fully clear to me what exactly you want to know. The initial OT2 research was done by LRH from approx. mid 1965 [started at Saint Hill, Ed.], which work was accompanied and continued by a few Class VII (in those days the highest classed) research auditors. John McMaster, then Qual Sec SHUK, was the first in SH itself. I, then Qual Case Officer SH, was involved in this work from its start and continued it, as the only Class VII there, under LRH direct in Las Palmas during the early beginning of the Sea Org. It was very tough work as, without our knowing it, we (including LRH) ran it back to front as it came up. I ran all of OT2 three times from the top down before we had it right, after which I ran all of it twice right way too. Some of the platens stemmed from the Goals research days of the 60's some of them were developed, reviewed, then re-reviewed, etc., as research went along. Some of the platens, like e.g. the Treasure GPM, came from direct research in the physical universe. The exact composition of this last example was tested via an OT Mission LRH sent me on with a pc and another person. We scouted for treasure in Western Ireland, E-meter testing location and platen on this pc who had been found to be hung up in that location and incident, and who gave some of the contents of the platens when being made to reconfront the old location. Not all platens were arrived at in this drastic manner, but this may give you an idea as to the sources of the contents of this fabulous level. I hope this helps you find the answers you want. All the best, Otto J. Roos, Holland (last part of Ottos letter:) Org Board Plus Factors DIVISION 7 - EXECUTIVE DIVISION Awareness Characteristics: Source Existence Conditions Before the beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect. In the beginning and forever is the decision and the decision is -To be-. DIVISION 1 - COMMUNICATIONS Awareness Characteristics: Recognition Communication Perception The first action of beingness is to assume a viewpont. The second action of beingness is to extend from the viewpoint, points to view, which are dimension points. Thus there is space created, for the definition of space is: viewpoints of dimension. DIVISION 2 - DISSEMINATION Awareness Characteristics: Orientation Understanding Enlightement And the purpose of a dimension point is space and a point of view. The action of a dimension point is reaching and withdrawing. And from the viewpoint to the dimension points there are connection and interchange. Thus new dimension points are made. Thus there is communication. And thus there is light. DIVISION 3 - TREASURY Awareness Characteristics: Energy Adjustment Body And thus there is energy. And thus there is life. But there are other viewpoints, and these viewpoints outthrust points to view. And there comes about an interchange amongst viewpoints; but the interchange is never otherwise than in terms of exchanging dimension points. DIVISION 4 - TECHNICAL Awareness Characteristics: Prediction Activity Production The dimension points can be moved by the viewpoint, for the viewpoint, in addition to creative ability and consideration, possesses volition and potential independence of action, and the viewpoint, viewing dimension points, can change in relation to its own or other dimension points or viewpoints. Thus come about all the fundamentals there are to motion. The dimension points are, each and every one, whether large or small, solid. And they are solid solely because the viewpoints say they are solid. Many dimension points combine into larger gases, fluids or solids. Thus there is matter. But the most valued point is admiration, and admiration is so strong its absence alone permits persistence. DIVISION 5 - QUALIFICATIONS Awareness Characteristics: Result Correction Ability The dimension point can be different from other dimension points, and thus can possess an individual quality. And many dimension points can possess a similar quality, and others can possess a similar quality unto themselves. Thus comes about the quality of classes of matter. The viewpont can combine dimension points into forms, and the forms can be simple or complex, and can be at different distances from the viewpoints, and so there can be combinations of form. And the forms are capable of motion, and the viewpoints are capable of motion, and so there can be motion of forms. And the opinion of the viewpoint regulates the considerations of the forms, their stillness or their motion, and these considerations consist of assignment of beauty or ugliness to the forms, and these considerations alone are art. DIVISION 6 - DISTRIBUTION Awareness Characteristics: Purposes Clearing Realization It is the opinion of the viewpoints that some of these forms should endure. Thus there is survival. And the viewpoint can never perish; but the form can perish. And the many viewpoints, interacting, become dependent upon one another's forms and do not choose to distinguish completely the ownership of dimension points, and so comes about a dependency upon the dimension points, and upon the other viewpoints. From this comes a consistency of viewpoints of the interaction of dimension points, and this, regulated, is -Time-. And there are universes. ********** From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 8 - September 1992 PS to the Poortenaar Letter (IVy 7) By Otto J Roos, Holland An awareness of other important technical data concerning the handling of a certain type of stuck cases arose as a result of this OT2 mission. The pc concerned was found to be so hung up in (stuck in) a -physical location- that her solo OT2 auditing had come to a grinding halt, the platens "didn't seem to work" and she could not be made to progress by any of the procedures at our disposal at that time. The data discovered during the Ireland mission was one of the factors which eventually contributed to the development of the procedure known as "dating/locating", which was originally tested by LRH on Flag. Handling the occlusion of the exact time of an occurence usually deactivates the incident. With the case in question a space shift was also needed. (-All- the auditing technical reasons why this was so are now known but this was not the case back then). The word "shift" is used here to indicate a successful result of causing a -differentiation- to occur between Now/Then & Here/There. Attention Units, hitherto stuck elsewhen and elsewhere, are freed and -shifted- to present time and current space (environment, subject, etc.). The -fixation- of the pc's attention on the past -location- prevented her OT2 from progressing and any other auditing from taking place. The space shift successfully handled the situation and was one of the items which led to the eventual Flag development of date/locate techniques which, especially for Clears and above, and in the running of the L's, became indispensable and fully handled the difficulties described.