The reason for this post is to clarify why the two are not the same and to correct an earlier false impression we gave that they were. It is written in particular for those who are familiar with Scientology vocabulary.

Imagination Processing–as used in MGT for Consciousness procedures–is similar to but not the same as the Creative Processing initiated by Hubbard in the early fifties. At the time when the book Scientology 8-8008 was written, creative processing was used as a universal process. Consider this from the Tech Dictionary:

POSTULATE PROCESSING

1. that processing which addresses the postulates, evaluations and conclusions of the preclear at the level of self-determined thought, yet postulate processing has some value when addressed to stimulus-response ideas. Postulate processing is the primary and highest method of processing a thetan. With creative processing, it constitutes Scn 8-8008. (Scn 8-8008, p. 37)
2. the process or any process which permits an individual to change his postulates. (PDC 37)

Hubbard, it can be seen from the above clearly differentiated postulate processing from creative processing. Postulate processing 1951 was done with straight wire (Recall). The preclear would say for example that he never liked other people. The auditor would say: ”When did you decide not to like other people” and follows it up with further recall to an EP.

Creative processing was really creating mental images purely, without reference to the past, as illustrated by an LRH advice in PAB 72 where he warned that …”In mocking up … the auditor should use all the skills of creative processing and ensure that the preclear is actually mocking up and is not dragging in old facsimiles from the bank and restimulating … incidents.”

Step 6 of the 1957 Clear Procedure consisted entirely of Creative Processing.

“Imagination can then create without reference to pre-existing states, and is not necessarily dependent upon experience or data and does not necessarily combine these for its products. Imagination could be classified as the ability to create or forecast a future or to create, change or destroy a present or past.” LRH, Scn 8-8008 pg 7/8

Note that the wording in the above paragraph is “not necessarily”. This is of some importance in what follows. This is the background to understanding of what we are now doing with Imagination Processing. The following completes the picture.

A few years later it was found that Creative Processing resulted in beefing up the bank in some cases. This was called the Step Six Phenomenon (of Scientology Clear Procedure). Thereafter Creative Processing was virtually dropped from the toolbox forever.

There is one more Scientology procedure that has some relevance here and that is Concept Processing.

“Concept running is easily done. The preclear “gets the idea” of knowing or not being and holds it, whilst looking at his time track. The concept runs out, or the somatic it brings on runs out, and the concept itself is run. It is not addressed at individual incidents but at hundreds.” LRH, Scn 8-80

Now in order to get to the point of the comparison let us consult the common definitions of the word ‘Imagine’ as per McMillan Dictionary:

1. to form a picture of something or someone in your mind
2. to have an idea of what something is like or what it might be like
3. used for showing that you are surprised by something or cannot believe it
4. to have an idea that something exists or is happening, when in fact it does not exist or is not happening

At the MGT Institute for Consciousness we have been using a type of processing, which we call Universal Imagination Processing. This is a new approach based on the earlier Creative Processing, Postulate Processing and Concept Processing trio.

The word Imagine is used in its general dictionary definition as given above. For that and other reasons it was not demanding strict “mockups” (pure fantasy mental creations) as was the case with the abandoned creative processing.  What was found was that running considerations, postulates and/or concepts with Imagination processing did in effect the same as the above trio but without any unwanted side effects.

The imagination would ‘gently’ stir up the actual underlying charge from incidents without having to run individual incidents. In this manner it functioned similarly to concept processing. Starting out from a charged consideration it would then clear up all ‘attachments’ in a rather smooth way, similar to postulate processing but without having to ask for the time and place–these would show up anyway if it mattered at all. And last but not least the beauty and power of the original creative processing becomes evident in the magnificent results and that without the need to demand specific mock ups.

“Scientology 8-8008” meant the attainment of infinity by the reduction of the MEST universe’s apparent infinity to zero and the increase of the zero of one’s own universe to an infinity of one’s own universe. This road–LRH said in the fifties–is attained by postulate processing and creative processing.

That road is wide open again in Universal Imagination Processing!