The source of River Ganges
Reference: Grade 5: Power Processes
The word SOURCE comes from Latin surgere to spring up or forth. It has the following definitions.
- Anything or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- The beginning or place of origin of a stream or river.
- A book, statement, person, etc., supplying information.
- The person or business making interest or dividend payments.
- A manufacturer or supplier.
In Scientology SOURCE is defined as,
- “That from which something comes or develops; place of origin; cause.”
Scientology stresses heavily on source as a cause-point. Thus, the source of a river is not just the point where it bubbles out of the ground, but it would be traced back to the melting snow, to the cause of that snow, and so on.
Scientology defines the ultimate cause-point to be THETAN (individuality). This is a concept similar to the concept of God, only difference is that there are as many thetans as there are individuals.
Hubbard is looking at two types of cases here:
- A person who believes that nothing ever causes anything.
According to Hubbard, the person is denying the existence of cause.
. - A person who admits to being cause of everything.
The person is denying all other causes by claiming himself to be the cause.
Hubbard designed this Power Process to overcome that denial. Hubbard believed that by able to recognize oneself as the source, or the ‘cause-point’ a person would become able to resolve his problems. The process asks a person repeatedly to answer the following questions:
- Tell me a source.
- Tell me about it.
- Tell me a no-source.
- Tell me about it.
A person is operating on certain postulates. The postulates are the source of his consciousness and individuality.
A postulate is a foundational assumption taken as true, from which everything else is derived.
From this reality, the following process is recommended:
- Look for a postulate you are operating on.
- Take a good look at it.
- Look for something derived from that postulate.
- Take a good look at it.
An identity is something motionless, relative to which considerations are in motion. The key to solving problems is recognizing the underlying postulates.
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