Bilateral Course (5)

Truth Detection

Note: when a client tells a conscious lie, whilst holding an image of the truth in his mind, particularly when conscious lying is not his style, the Bilateral Meter may also read to the Right, because it is responding to the true idea, rather than the verbal statement. In this case the reading is slightly latent, whereas a reading on personal truth is usually instant.

When the Bilateral Meter is set at the correct sensitivity, relative truth will cause a large fall to the Right, and falsity a large fall to the Left. In this particular application, i.e. truth-detection, the readings observed are generally 3-4 times the size of readings that indicate changes in cognitive style. Furthermore, large readings, either to the Left or Right will frequently be accompanied by a balance change, when these readings have their origin in unconscious emotional complexes.

Almost all clients will have a particular meter characteristic, comprising rapid small falls, either to the Left or to the Right, which reflects the client's underlying cognitive style. With practice, the skilled therapist can learn to discriminate the reads arising from statements of truth and falsity, which cause large changes in hemispheric balance. Note: a particular client's meter characteristic does not change much over long periods unless a change of identity has occurred, such that significant changes have occurred to the client's cognitive style also.

In contrast, an example of a cognitive reading would be finding the date and location of an event or incident. The needle will give a small reading to the Left when asking for a date or time, and a small reading to the Right when asking for a location. Of course, the reads would be larger if the event was traumatic. Likewise, performing a mental calculation would cause a small reading to the Left, and recalling the appearance of one's front door would cause a small reading to the Right. Cognitive reads may be defined as small falls, and they are seldom confused with the much larger falls that occur in when handling charged case.

When the GSR Meter gives a reading, the Bilateral Meter will respond by the needle going to the Left or the Right. If the Bilateral Meter reads to the Left, it is probable that the subject is introspecting into a mocked-up or created universe; he is adding false data. When the Meter reads to the Right, the subject is introspecting into a memory of experience or learned information. A movement of the needle to the Left would have a high correlation with a lie, and a movement to the Right with what is perceived as truth at that time, but not the objective truth which would not cause a read, since no conflict would be involved.

The Bilateral Meter acts as a truth-detector, because the right hemisphere cannot tell a lie about empirical reality or a deeply held belief. When a lie is told about empirical reality, a deeply held belief, or when mis-remembering occurs, the needle of the Bilateral Meter will go to the Left. In contrast, when a subject contacts his real feelings on the matter, the needle will go to the right - indicating the areas of heavy emotion and effort that are so easily bypassed in previous methods of analysis. Finally, when reality is perceived at an objective level, the needle will 'float' in a detached manner, denoting freed communication or synchronization between the hemispheres.

The Bilateral Meter will not usually float however, when the subject tells a personalized truth rather than objective truth, because in telling his truth, either he is expressing a viewpoint which is on the right track but obscures part of the objective truth, or he is expressing a viewpoint grounded in faith. In both of these cases, the needle goes to the right, because the client is being as truthful as he can, but there is more to it; the 'truth' may be emotionally based, but it has not been understood, accepted and integrated with the left-brain view. In short, the meter is reading to the right because there is a conflict in the right hemisphere between relative (subjective) truth and objective truth. The 'more to it' is obscured, or the personal truth may be an article of faith that obscures the objective reality behind it, and this is why the meter is reading.

If a statement is sufficiently close to the objective reality, because it contains time, place, duration, and mode of transport, etc. it will not contain sufficient false data to send the meter needle to the Left, and it will not obscure reality by deletion and send the meter needle to the Right. It could be said that the Bilateral Meter reads to the Right when one is knowingly or unknowingly being economical with the truth.

If I were a Christian and I stated: 'I believe that Jesus is the son of God', the needle would probably read to the Right. Subjectively, I would experience this statement as true, so it could be described as my truth, a personalized truth. It is not grounded in objective reality, but it will be associated with emotion. The objective reality behind this statement may be discovered by questioning 'Is there more to it?', 'Is something being suppressed?', 'Has something been enforced upon you?'. This will remove the barrier to full perception - the associated emotions. Then, when a statement is made about the objective reality behind the article of faith, the meter will float or the background characteristic of the needle will be uninfluenced, if this statement is complete and does not have more to it.

With a technique such as Traumatic Incident Reduction, when the therapist contacts an incident, the GSR Meter will read, and the Bilateral Meter will usually read to the Left - a distorted view of the incident is usually in place. The client may be describing the incident from the viewpoint of one of the other participants, or he may be mis-assigning blame and responsibility. After several passes through the incident, the Bilateral Meter will start to read to the Right because the client is much closer to the truth of the incident. Finally when the incident is resolved, both Meters will float.

It could be summarized that the Bilateral Meter will read to the left when the client is knowingly or unknowingly giving false or irrelevant data; and it will read to the right when the client is knowingly or unknowingly being economical with the truth - either he is not telling all the truth, or there are occlusions and barriers that hinder him from fully facing up to and consciously perceiving the objective truth. Part of the client though, does know the whole truth. Eventually, through guidance from the Bilateral Meter, this knowingness of the unified self can come to light through the intuitive faculty of the right hemisphere.

Case is accessible for resolution if it falls within the current awareness, responsibility and confront of the individual. This will vary for different areas of the case and the aim of therapy is to raise these factors in the areas being addressed. If the GSR meter is responding on a topic, then it is emotionally charged and accessible - with guidance the person will be able to expand his viewpoint and increase awareness, responsibility and confront of the reality of the situation or experiences being addressed. The Bilateral Meter can be used for additional guidance in this process:

When the meter responds to the left, this means there is an alteration of the reality occurring in the mental processes of the subject. This may be a defense of rightness, a manipulation, a lie, a rationalization to avoid facing the reality. The subject must be guided to look in a different direction, to think laterally, away from fixed ideas - this will cause the activation of right brain processes, i.e. contact with more objective perception and feelings. A simple stimulation in that direction would be: "But...?"

When the meter responds to the right, this means there is a suppression of the emotional force connected with the reality, an effort to make nothing of it. The subject must be guided to look deeper, to confront and fully experience the feelings. A simple stimulation in that direction would be: "And...?" This may involve re-living traumatic experiences, and similar connected experiences if necessary, until the reality can be fully accepted. Or it may involve getting in touch with the feelings that underlie held beliefs, or decisions made at times of stress. Then these ideas can be looked at in a clear light, which is possible with the newly established left-right brain communication.

If a client is asked to tell a story or to imagine something, the Bilateral Meter will read to the Left and the reading will be larger to the degree that his imagination is fictional rather than factual (based on past experience). E.g. asking a client to arbitrarily imagine he is on the planet Venus in 2000 BC would give a large reading to the Left.

In running a past life incident the GSR Meter may behave in the normal way, but the Bilateral may only read to the Left and not move over to the right with repeated running - indicating that the incident is mocked-up. Eventually, after several passes through the incident, the GSR Meter may float; if the incident was false, however, the Bilateral will not. By finding a cause to his present problem, the client is able to rationalize his situation, and so he accepts that which is imaginary rather than real.

In traditional analysis using just the GSR a floating needle indicates the end of a procedure, so there would be no further investigation. In this situation, by asking for a 'by-passed this lifetime later similar incident' usually a very early childhood incident comes into view. The Bilateral Meter will tend to read to the Right when re-viewing the incident, and after several passes through the incident there will be a release, and both meters will float. This does not invalidate the validity of past lives and past life incidents - many such incidents do run to an EP on the Bilateral Meter - but it does indicate that many past life incidents are implanted or mocked-up, and it further indicates that many early childhood incidents - the fundamental case - are completely bypassed with traditional techniques.

What occurs is that the past-life incident is less charged than the later this-life one - the client is in a different body - so it is easier to access and confront than the early childhood incident later on the same chain. The later incident is actually charging-up the earlier one, so that when the infancy incident has been experienced fully (for the first time it can become a normal long-term memory), the past-life incident discharges and does not need to be run.

Similarly the Bilateral Meter may indicate to the Left when both dating and locating, or occasionally the Bilateral readings will be reversed. This anomaly is not detected by the GSR Meter. Once the date and location have been found, although the date and location are probably mocked-up or implanted, the GSR Meter will float, but the Bilateral Meter will not. When this occurs, the date and location will often be 'off the wall'. Again, further investigations using the Bilateral Meter have frequently detected a very early this life-time incident. When this incident has been dated and located correctly, a full EP occurs.

When using only a GSR Meter, it is probable that occasionally the analyst has unwittingly dated and located an imaginary incident;and is likely to discover this mistake during the session. The real truth, if it comes up at all, will only come up when a repair list has to be used because of the by-passed charge. Although repair lists are used as a form of indication, they are often applied a long time after the error has occurred. With the Bilateral Meter, however, it is possible, in most cases if not all, to give an immediate indication, so this type of by-passed charge does not have an opportunity to build up.

Whether the needle moves to the Left or the Right, a subject will feel he has told the truth, unless he has knowingly told a lie. If asked, the subject would assert in many cases that he had told the truth, and from his viewpoint he has. There is, however, a resolution to this paradox. Subjectively, the subject will feel he has told the truth - but either he has told more than the truth and the needle has gone to the Left; or alternatively the truth is clouded by emotion and the needle goes to the Right. Either way, an altered version of the truth is the consequence.

The way a client sees things, his belief structure or frame of reference, is essentially a constellation of considerations. Considerations that are not sufficient to describe objective reality cause the needle to read to the Right, and considerations which are false cause the needle to read to the Left.

Advanced Bilateral Analysis

The GSR Meter may read on an imagined dream world as well as the objectively known world, and it does not discriminate adequately between an installed (by conditioning), borrowed (another's) or altered (falsified) information and real experience. Furthermore, above a certain level of case the GSR Meter will frequently read on a client's analytical considerations and fixed ideas, and this could be a further source of misinformation. These limitations can be overcome, when the Bilateral Meter is used in conjunction with the GSR Meter.

The GSR Meter registers emotional charge and effort, when a particular idea or memory is addressed by the therapist, whether the idea or memory is grounded in reality or not. However, the GSR Meter does not discriminate whether the information is imagined or real. The Bilateral Meter undercuts this dichotomy, because it can differentiate between left-brain rationalization (and other defense mechanisms) and the integrity of right-brain experience. Real pictures either have an existence or have had an existence in the objective universe; however, they may be repressed if they confront the individual too frankly with the reality of his situation.

Frequently something will read on the Bilateral Meter, but not on the GSR Meter, unless extensive Bypassed Charge Clearing is applied. Therefore the Bilateral Meter responds to a much deeper level of case: the very core of conflict, areas so deeply repressed that they don't read on the GSR Meter. The GSR Meter has does not read because it measures arousal of the whole brain, and as the lower-brain arousal is repressed, this balances the raised arousal of the cortex indicated by the Bilateral Meter. This adds an important further dimension, because a question or command can only truly be classified as uncharged if it reacts on neither meter.

Clearing Bypassed Charge on an item that reads on the Bilateral Meter (usually to the right) will cause a read to transfer to the GSR Meter, at which point it is no longer repressed but merely suppressed, and accessible to the pre-conscious mind. This is certainly of great value in lower level analysis, and for finding a case entry point, since what appears to be just a tick on the GSR Meter may prove to be the most highly charged item of all. Such an item will read clearly on the Bilateral Meter, and if the read is to the right, it should be followed up. Right-reading items should not be actually run, however, until they have been got to read on the GSR Meter as well, otherwise the protective mechanisms of the mind may be bypassed and the client overwhelmed.

In initial counselling, left-reading items on the Bilateral Meter are usually ignored, as these are essentially ego-defenses: 'red herrings' that lead away from the truth. The left-read may, however, be an entry to addressing survival computations and other patterns of distorted thinking with advanced clients, such as students on The Insight Project.

When something doesn't read at all on either meter, it is either uncharged, or it is so deeply repressed that for all practical purposes it is inaccessible, at the current stage of handling the case. When further layers of charge have been removed, new items will surface from the unconscious, until clearing is sufficiently progressed that the client can blow remaining charge by inspection, as it is reactivated by life. He is then ready for advanced solo work.

A further phenomenon may occur, in which the GSR reads but the Bilateral Meter does not. This is the result of reactivation of charge in the lower-brain (automatic circuits) which is not repressed but causes the cortex to be put out of action as a defense against this unconfrontable material. A correct Indication of data or the nature of the material may cause this escape from repression. This corresponds to 'Imprinted' material: resulting from primal trauma or the fundamental cultural conditioning or installed programming of the human being. On The Insight Project this is handled by indicating that the material is Imprinted, with sufficient emphasis - backed by realization and insight - that the reactive mental mechanisms can be re-aligned based on this new understanding.

The following Exploration questions can be used to explore the Bilateral needle reactions. Left reads mean that the real answer is not being given but is being defended against - the client needs to look in a different direction, the one he's avoiding; right reads indicate that there is more to the answer that is not being given - the client needs to look deeper, there's more to it; no reads indicate that the answer is as true and reality-based as the person is aware of at this time, with his current level of responsibility and confront.

Explorations

To the client:
These are questions about you: your values, your beliefs and your life. Love, money, sex, integrity, generosity, pride and death are all here. To respond to these questions, you will need to examine and interpret your past, project yourself into hypothetical situations, face difficult dilemmas and make painful choices. There are no correct or incorrect answers to these questions, only honest or dishonest ones. Let yourself be swept up in these situations, so that you care about the choices you make. Don't simply answer yes or no - probe and explain your responses and pursue interesting tangents - give your imagination full rein.

Practitioner Note:
The client's distorted thinking in his responses should be challenged appropriately. Left reads indicate a distortion or fabrication of the truth. Right reads indicate that the core - feeling, emotional - Self is speaking (maybe from a deeply-held belief), but the answer is still not the whole objective truth (which would 'float' on the Bilateral Meter) that the client actually knows.

Ask a question up to four times, until the truth emerges. If the truth has not emerged after four repetitions, however, mark the question''unresolved' and proceed to the next question. After some other questions have been asked, return to the earlier unresolved question and ask it again, for up to four times. Continue through all the questions in this cyclic manner.

 
1. What could you do today?

2. For what in your life do you feel most grateful?

3. Do you have any specific long-term goal?

How do you plan on reaching it?
In what way will reaching this goal make your life more satisfying?

4. If you could choose the manner of your death, what would it be?

How do your feelings about death influence the way you lead your life?

5. Which people do you hate?

Why ?

6. What is your most treasured memory?

7. What would constitute a 'perfect' evening for you?

8. Do you think men or women have it easier in our culture?

Have you ever wished you were of the opposite sex?

9. If you were to die right now, what would you most regret not having told someone?

Why haven't you told them yet?

10. In what way does a person inspire you?

11. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained one ability or quality, what would it be?

12. Is there anything so important that you would sacrifice your very soul for it?

13. What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?

Is there anything that you hope to do that is even better?

14. What was your most enjoyable dream?

Your worst nightmare?

15. Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex?

To someone in your family?
If so, how did you deal with it?

16. Given the choice of anyone in the world, who would you want as your lover?

17. When you tell a story, how do you exaggerate or embellish it?

Why?

18. In what way do you feel in control of the course of your life?

19. For what reason did you last yell at someone?

20. Do you have any considerations about eating meat?

21. Would you feel ill at ease going alone to the cinema?

What about going on holiday by yourself?

22. In what way would you like to be famous?

23. How would you like to be remembered after you die?

What would you like said at your funeral?
Whom would you like to speak?

24. How much would it bother you to have an ugly, stupid or crippled child?

25. How would you play in a game against someone much less talented than you?

Would it matter who was watching?

26. Is there something you've dreamed of doing for a very long time?

Why haven't you done it?

27. What are your most compulsive habits?

Do you regularly struggle to break any of these habits?

28. What from your childhood has proven most valuable?

Most difficult to overcome?

29. What could make life not worth living?

30. If you were unconcerned about what others would think, what might you do?

31. Would you like to wake up in another person's body tomorrow?

32. How do you feel about God?

37. Who is the most important person in your life?

What could you do to improve the relationship?
Will you do it?

38. What would you change about the way that you were raised?

In what ways would you treat your children differently?

39. What things do you do, which you don't want to do?

Why?

40. If you found yourself on a nudist beach, how would you feel?

How much do you like your body?

41. What is too serious to be joked about?

42. Do you have a favourite sexual fantasy?

Would you like to have it fulfilled?

43. What do you value most in a relationship?

44. If there was a public execution on television, how would you feel?

45. What things are too personal to discuss with others?

46. How would you feel about becoming paralysed?

47. When was the last time you stole something?

Why haven't you stolen anything since then?

48. Is there anything anyone could have told you that would have made your first sexual experience better?

49. What do you like best about your life?

What do you like least?

50. How do you feel about someone more successful than you?

51. What things do you do, to favourably impress other people?

52. Do you think it is bad to break a promise?

What does it take for you to trust someone?

53. What would you never willingly sacrifice?

54. How much impact do you have on the people you meet?

Has someone you met significantly influenced your life?

55. In what way would you like to have more physical contact?

Could you initiate it?

56. What has been your biggest disappointment in life?

Your biggest success?

57. How do you rate your physical attractiveness?

Your intelligence?
Your personality?

58. Are there any drugs you would enjoy trying given a legal opportunity to do so?

What appeals to you about such drugs?

59. If you could determine the dream you will have tonight, what would it be?

60. Given the chance, is there a time you would return to?

61. What would you like to be doing five years from now?

What do you think you will be doing five years from now?

62. What is the most embarrassing thing you can imagine?

What bothers you about looking silly in front of strangers?

63 Have you ever wanted to kill someone, or wished someone dead?

Could you look into the person's eyes and stab the person to death?

64. Do you find anything disturbing about immortality?

What age seems ideal to you?

65. How much do you expect from someone who loves you?

What would make you feel betrayed?

66. Do you feel you have enough time?

If not, what would give you that feeling?

67. What kind of people do you like to spend time with?

What do such people bring out in you that others do not?

Running Incidents

Heightened vulnerability to imprinting, then, occurs at times when survival is going badly or other needs are not being met. The needs and the intentions that the experience caused to be unfulfilled are then frustrated. This energetic reach of the individual becomes "charge" which is held with the experience, because the action-cycle (start-continue-complete) has been suspended. The negative emotional content and the frustration of this memory then becomes uncomfortable to view, stirring up further pain. The feelings and decisions contained in it are possibly threatening to the person's stability and present purposes. Primal trauma is immediately repressed; particularly with the undeveloped child's brain, the experience cannot be integrated. But secondary trauma may also be suppressed and become inaccessible - part of the "subconscious" contents of the mind. The charge on the incident becomes a defensive warning to the mind, not to examine that area - it is too painful.

Because the action-cycle was not concluded at the original time, the incident cannot be filed away in a time-slot (accessible long term memory) but instead it "hangs" in the present time, waiting for a possible end-point - in a kind of "limbo file" between short-term and long-term memory (technically, this is unfiled experience that is retained in the limbic system of the brain). The original intention has not been un-made, and very likely that original intention is also obscured by intentions or decisions made later in the incident. For example, a little boy who picked up some sweets at the supermarket may have been swiped around the head by his mother and scolded. Bewildered and crying, the child may then have concluded that he must have previously done something wrong, otherwise the mother would not have restricted his natural desire for sweets. Not knowing what he had done wrong, the child decides, "I'm bad, so I don't deserve what I want".

Because they are contrary to the original intention, these secondary considerations are not classified with the incident as "unviewable" and so they become imprints for future actions. They become the person's fixed ideas and beliefs, as the charge in the incident underlines their importance or necessity. Along with the unviewable memory, it too hangs around in present time, ready to reappear automatically at any moment as self-talk, in response to any new stimulus that resembles, even in a vague way, the original circumstances in which the decision was made. The misconception brings with it accompanying negative emotion and sometimes the actual pains of the original incident, which may cause psychosomatic illness if the re-stimulation is chronic. Similarly, communications that were not able to be made at the time remain as incomplete cycles, such as the child wanting to ask, "What have I done wrong, Mummy?" causing further uncertainty in the mind.

When one such incident has occurred, later re-stimulations of it add more charge which further obscures the basic incident, accompanied by additional decisions or "postulates" based on the previous misconception. A sequence of incidents may build up over the years, either as re-stimulations of the original trauma or new traumatic incidents connected by the common theme or circumstance. Usually the most recent incident in a sequence is still viewable and in the process of psychoanalysis to reduce the imprint, this is addressed first.

An alternative to psychoanalysis of past incidents is rational emotive therapy: the recognition of the dramatization of past decisions in the present time, affecting emotions and thus behavior.

The GSR Meter, when used on its own to assist in examining traumatic experiences, has certain shortcomings. The client may be running imaginary material because the GSR Meter, when used alone, cannot discriminate between the imaginary and the real. By continuing to validate left-brained material, such as intellectualisations or dubbed-in evaluated scenarios, the client may well become more left-brain dominant. Consequently he will be further dissociated from the truth of the matter which has been suppressed in the right hemisphere. Ironically, the 'spiritual awareness' that the client is normally aiming for is dependent upon full integration with the right-brain intuitive faculty.

The Bilateral Meter acts as a truth-detector, because the right hemisphere cannot tell a lie about experienced reality or a deeply held belief. When a lie is told, or when mis-remembering occurs, the needle will go to the left. In contrast, when a subject contacts his real feelings on the matter, the needle will go to the right, indicating the areas of heavy emotion and effort that are so easily bypassed in previous methods of analysis. Finally, when reality is perceived directly, and has been accepted and integrated, the Bilateral Meter will float in the manner of a GSR Meter.

Although the right hemisphere cannot lie, significant data may be omitted. To cite a simple example of how this works, I could say: 'I went to Denmark'. This would be true in a nominal sense but significant data has been omitted - there is more to it. A statement such as the above may cause the Bilateral Meter to read to the right. If I were to say: 'I went to Denmark by train on the 16th January 1993 and spent 10 days in that country; I was excited about going but felt anxious about the lectures I would be giving', the meter would probably float, as the statement is sufficiently close to the objective reality - it contains the actual time, place, duration, and mode of transport, as well as the feelings involved. It does not contain false data, which would send the meter needle to the left, and it does not obscure reality by deletion and send the meter needle to the right. If it read again to the right, there would be more to it - perhaps further suppressed feelings about the motivations of the trip.

If an origination caused the Bilateral Meter to read to the left, some distorted thinking would be going on. Often a rationalization may seem a satisfactory solution from the client's viewpoint, and it may float on the GSR Meter. However for a true release to occur, the client's defensive resistance would need to give way to the willingness to confront the suppressed material in the right hemisphere, before the topic would be clear and floating on both the GSR Meter and the Bilateral Meter. This corresponds to hemispheric synchronisation - integrated and unhindered communication between the left and right hemispheres - and removal of internal conflict.

It could be summarised that the Bilateral Meter will read to the left when the client is knowingly or unknowingly giving false or irrelevant data. Alternatively, it will read to the right when the client is knowingly or unknowingly being economical with the truth - either he is not telling all the truth, or there are occlusions and barriers that hinder him from consciously perceiving the truth. Part of the client though, does know the whole truth. Eventually, through guidance from the Bilateral Meter, this knowingness of the Being can come to light through the intuitive faculty of the right hemisphere.

When an incident is reactivated by the therapist the GSR Meter will read but may then rise, and the Bilateral Meter will initially read to the left, due to non-confront and defenses coming into play. During the first few passes through an incident most of the material communicated by the client may be described as a 'conditional' expression of reality as he sees it. He may be describing the incident from the viewpoint of one of the other participants, or he may be mis-assigning responsibility. After several passes through the incident, the Bilateral Meter will start to read to the right, because the client is more willing and able to face the force and emotion of the experience and is therefore much closer to the truth of the incident. Finally when the incident is fully viewed, both meters will return to balanced readings and 'float' with Periodic Needles.

If in running a past-life incident the GSR Meter behaves in the normal way but the Bilateral Meter will only read to the left, this indicates that the incident is being imagined. Eventually, after several passes through the incident there may be a release, with the GSR Meter floating. Often, however, the Bilateral Meter will not float and remains on the left - the client has had a pseudo-release combined with pseudo-insights. By finding a cause to his present problem, whether that cause be imaginary rather than real, the client is able to rationalize his situation, thus gaining a measure of temporary release, which is indicated by a P/N on the GSR. In this case it is best to ignore such a result and continue with the procedure. Eventually the Bilateral Meter will start to read on the right, thus indicating the presence of hidden charge. Usually a bypassed 'later similar incident' comes into view. The Bilateral Meter will read to the right when re-viewing the incident, and after several passes through the incident there will be a release, and both meters will float.

Often clients will find it easier to confront past-life experiences, or will mock-up past lives, rather than confront the painful experiences of infancy and early childhood, and this is exposed by the Bilateral Meter. This does not invalidate the possibility of past life experience, but it does indicate that past life incidents that occur in session, before early childhood incidents are completely handled, may be unreal. When the early childhood 'later similar' incident has been handled, and there is still not a resolution, then it would be realistic to ask for an earlier similar incident. A past-life incident may then come into view, and if it reads to the right on the Bilateral Meter it is probably an actual experience.

Further discrimination can be obtained with the use of Indicator Technique - an advanced technique of the The Insight Project course - combined with the Bilateral analysis, both in sessions with clients and in solo sessions with the Bilateral Meter. Using the Bilateral solo necessitates putting the electrodes down when it is necessary to make notes with the writing hand. An answer to this would be using the speech recognition programs recently available for PCs, to make session notes.

The Bilateral Meter can be used to differentiate between truth and falsehood, e.g. the evaluation of the beliefs surrounding a fixed identity. Therefore this device can be used to analyze the belief structures surrounding an identity and de-power those that are based on untruth. Once the belief structure is de-powered the identity is no longer fixed. It can be absorbed into the true Beingness, or mocked-up at will, rather in the manner of an actor entering a play at the beginning and leaving it at the end.

Reality Testing

The technique can be applied to the answers to any reading question, e.g. the Exploration questions above, or any of the case handlings contained in these materials. It is an advanced technique because it demands a certain degree of awareness and stability from the subject, who should certainly be operating in the main above the need for self-esteem (by being right) and looking for self-realization.

When the Bilateral reads to the Left (with an accompanying GSR read) on an answer, you can respond with: 'OK, that was to the left' or 'False' or 'Look in a different direction'. You can further nudge with: 'Mistaken?', 'Misattributed ?', 'Created?' (or 'Rationalization?', 'Safe Solution', 'Dub-in?' etc.) or 'Less to it?'

If there is no accompanying GSR read this a heavily defended area so take the charge off the topic by asking the Bypassed Charge Checklist questions.

When the Bilateral reads to the Right (with an accompanying GSR read) on an answer, you can respond with: 'That was to the Right' or 'More to it?' or 'Yes and ...?' or 'Something you're not looking at?' or 'Remind you of something?'

If there is no accompanying GSR read this is a heavily suppressed area so use take the charge off the topic by asking the Bypassed Charge Checklist questions..

The format of Reality Testing is illustrated by the following Flowchart: