Objective processes can extrovert the person's attention and greatly ease any discomfort. Past incidents drop out of the present and no longer impinge on the person.

This is a very important factor in mental and spiritual sanity and ability.

A person who has been on drugs often becomes disassociated from the world around him or even his physical self, as evidenced by the neglect many drug takers show for their hygiene, dress, health, job, friends and family.

The reason is that, among other things, drugs dull a person's communication. This is most directly observed in the action of painkillers which shut off the person's feeling of pain, but it occurs with the use of other drugs as well. Emotions are suppressed with drug use, and perceptions become altered or shut off.

A person often becomes less aware of things and people around him and so becomes less considerate and responsible, less active, less capable and less bright. He factually becomes less conscious of what is happening in the present. One does not have to have been a heavy narcotics addict to experience a lessening of alertness, fogginess or other effects as a result of drug use.

Drugs do something else too: They stick a person's attention at points in his past. Mental image pictures restimulated from the reactive mind appear in the visions of hallucinations a person sees while on certain drugs. Attention often becomes stuck in these pictures after the drug has worn off, with the cumulative effect of the person not feeling "with it" or cognizant of his present-time environment.

This can be dangerous to the person himself and to others, as seen in the number of drug-related automobile accidents that occur, to say nothing of less serious accidents or goofs that happen because a person is unaware of what is going on around him. Drug use makes a person less alert mentally, can harm memory and has a host of other effects on attitudes and behavior - all residual consequences of the drugs, which persist indefinitely unless processed.

The reason drugs are so harmful spiritually is that they can badly scramble the energy contained in the mind, disorienting and confusing the person. His awareness often diminishes and his capabilities of dealing with the energies and masses of reality are dramatically lessened. A person affected by drugs is thus less able to control the things in his environment and, despite whatever subjective feelings he may have to the contrary, he becomes less powerful and less able.

While on drugs, the pictures in one's reactive mind can violently turn on, overwhelming the being and making him afraid to confront anything in the reactive mind thereafter. As a result, the person is stopped dead from any mental or spiritual gain.

Through the different auditing processes and drills of the Drug Rundown, a person is first brought to new awarenesses of his environment and the world around him. This has the effect of unsticking him from points in his past and brings him more into present time.

This is a very important factor in mental and spiritual ability. The more a person can exist in the present without his attention stuck in past incidents, the better able he is to deal with his life. He feels brighter, has increased perception, is better able to control himself and the things in his environment, and becomes more able to deal with others.

Objective Processing Procedure

This procedure helps a person to look or place his attention outward from himself. Objective refers to outward things, not the thoughts or feelings of the individual. Objective Processes deal with the real and observable. They call for the person to spot or find something exterior to himself in order to carry out the procedures.

Another technique I use is to focus (concentrate) on your breath which calms down mental agitation, create the space between thoughts and stop the interaction between the right and left sides of the brain.

As you close your eyes and breathe a little deeper than you normally would, in your mind sound the word "so" on the inbreath and "hum" on the outbreath. This is the natural sound and rhythm of the breath.

After several breaths visualise a shaft of white light entering your head at the back of the crown. See it exiting at the bridge of the nose between the eyes, so that the shaft of white light is at 45 degrees angle through the center of your head.

Continue breathing, sounding the "so hum" and holding the shaft of white light within your brain until a perfect stillness envelops you.

Finish with silently repeating this command, "I command perfectly balanced integration of body, mind and spirit, to be joyous and enthusiastic about life, and I command that I open to allow this joy throughout the day."

Drug Rundown

Drug use, even medicinal or recreational usage, tends to foster a severe disassociation from reality. (Witness the severely unreal vein through so much of what characterized psychedelic art.) The user is also routinely out of communication or out of touch, and otherwise all but dysfunctional. Then, too, and with some emphasis, Ron speaks of the user as not wholly “tracking” with the real time events and not perceiving what others perceive; for having sought escape from a seemingly unbearable present, he finds himself fixed in an illusory past. The matter is acute; it explains the very real parallels between usage and insanity, and so becomes the first point of address through the Drug Rundown. That is, through what is termed Objective Processing, the former user is reoriented to the present and relieved of obsessive fixation on drug-related memory. The Objective Process, however, does not address the underlying cause of fixation, which is to say we have not yet addressed the actual impact of drugs upon the human mind. Drug rundown consists of the auditing processes and actions necessary to free an individual from the damaging mental and spiritual effects of drugs.

To recap from Clear Body, Clear Mind: quite in addition to what drugs wreak in purely physical terms, the user retains a consecutive record of all drug experience in the form of mental image pictures. These pictures are literally three-dimensional recordings of perceptual experience, including emotions, speculations and conclusions. Although frequently beyond volitional control, the recording of the drug experience contains actual energy or mental charge, and may exert considerable influence upon intellectual capacity, behavior and bodily functions. Moreover—and this is unique to the drug case—the user retains mental image pictures of hallucinatory experience—some of it quite gruesome and impacting upon the thinking in ways that are both insidious and horrifying.

which has the individual address
the experiences that he had while he was taking drugs.

then, handles the mental and spiritual aspect of usage.
It first addresses experiences while taking drugs with
precise procedures, alleviating fixations from
those experiences. By discovering and examining
the source of these sensations, the harmful mental energy is discharged.

addresses the underlying impetus for usage and the unpleasant physical, emotional and mental sensations linked to it. In other words, the
final step of the rundown addresses what was wrong before drugs became the solution or “cure.” If the underlying cause of usage is not resolved, the need or compulsion remains.

KevinOwen@rehabnz.co.nz