The place called Xtul, or sometimes Punta Xtul, is near Sisal on the coast of Yucatan. As the Processean ‘holy land’ it was the setting, in late 1966, for the practical experience and determining of the basics of the theology that continued to evolve until the end of The Process in 1974. After that fateful year, while there were some Processean writings created by Robert De Grimston, there was little that was new actually added. He tried to write at that late point not for an elite, but for a circle of less insightful people, few of whom had been through Processean methods of therapy.

At the other extreme were the seven Dialogues he produced in Xtul. They were considered a bit obscure even when I was introduced to them in 1972. The concepts are tightly wrought, and dependent on pre-existing assumptions and experiences. I’ve chosen Dialogue Two to reproduce here because it’s fairly short, and also because it seems to have the least jargon in it of the seven. But I feel it gives something of the flavour of Processean gnosticism, and the post-Scientological world from which it derived.

The technique used here was what we called subliminal communication: the questioning of a concept, person or other form of being (concepts had beingness, and could be questioned). The questor put himself or herself into a calm, centred, receptive frame of mind, posed the questions, and allowed the answers to come.

1. Is there more than one universe?

Yes. On various levels there are many universes, but they are only part of the One True Universe, which exists on all levels. That is to say, there are many Gods, but only One True God who embodies all of them.

2. Is each God, then, a universe?

Or an aspect of a universe. Jehovah for example is the Knowledge of the Physical Universe.

3. Does physicality exist apart from human physicality?

Yes. The type of physicality humans know and understand is only a small aspect of physicality. There are thirteen physical senses. Human beings only possess five of them, the most elementary five.

4. Isn’t telepathy, then a sixth sense?

No. It’s the common denominator of all sense perception, physical and otherwise. It is not itself a sense, it is a prerequisite of all consciousness.

5.What else about consciousness?

Differentiate between conscious thought and conscious awareness. Conscious thought stems from the machinations of unconsciousness. It is the grinding wheel of conflict within itself. Conscious awareness is the free flow of knowledge and experience that passes through the core of the being. Conscious thought is a closed circuit of give and take, WITHIN the existence of the being. Conscious awareness is an open circuit that is open to power and information from without and feeds back validation in order to receive more power and information.

6. Is there any validity in unconsciousness?

Only in its pure state, which is total integration with GOD. So long as it is filled with conflicting forces it has no validity. Recognise it and detach from it.

7. Can there be conscious integration with GOD?

No. But there can be conscious INCLUSION, and that is all that is required. Integration is non-existence. We exist so long as GOD chooses that we exist. OUR choice is consciously to include or exclude GOD in our existence. Including GOD we are at one WITH GOD; integrated, we ARE GOD.

8. What about unconsciousness in this respect?

Unconsciousness is the knowledge of good and evil, and the state of personal responsibility that beings are free to choose in order to exclude GOD. If there were no active unconsciousness, beings could not exclude GOD, because there would be nothing with which to replace GOD.

The cycle is as follows:

1) Pure unconsciousness which is integration with GOD and therefore a state of non-existence. *

2.) The creation by GOD of a separate consciousness that contains Him, is aware of Him and relates everything to Him.

3) The being’s choice of unconsciousness as an area of individual activity, isolated from GOD, using the energy originally given by GOD, to create a static game, by halving the energy, inverting one half and setting it against the other.

4) The use of consciousness as the battleground for these two opposing halves. **

Robert’s notes:

* It is interesting to note that this state, which in terms of GOD is the highest possible state in which a being can be- or rather not be, is what Scientology regards as the LOWEST possible state that a being can be in. Hardly surprising.

** The creation of conscious thought; the use of the intellect to think rationally (so called) as opposed to feeling and to knowing intuitively, which is the nature of conscious awareness.