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Reference: Postulate Mechanics (PM)
The five traditional physical senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. The sixth ‘thought sense’ assimilates the sensation from these physical senses.
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The universe can be sensed and known; therefore, the first postulate is: SUBSTANTIALITY. This is the ‘sat’ part of the Vedic description of the ultimate reality as “sat-chit-ananda.” This means the universe has substance.
The universe can actually sense and know; therefore, the second postulate is: AWARENESS. This is the ‘chit’ part of the Vedic description of the ultimate reality as “sat-chit-ananda.” This means the universe is aware of itself.
The universe is the oneness of all sensations; therefore, the third postulate is: ONENESS. This is the ‘ananda’ part of the Vedic description of the ultimate reality as “sat-chit-ananda.” This means that universe has the wonderful power of assimilation.
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The substance of the universe may be divided into the categories: (1) Matter, (2) Energy, and (3) Thought. Each category has a different degree of substantiality, which may be referred to as “thickness.” It is visible as density, firmness, viscosity, etc.
Matter has the most thickness called “mass.” Energy is considered to have no mass, but it still has some thickness, which is sensed as motion and measured as “frequency.” Thought has thickness, which is sensed mentally as “fixation,” the opposite of which is “freedom.” For example, bigotry and hate has much more thickness than tolerance and love.
Awareness starts with sensations. Awareness increases as sensations assimilate into perceptions; perceptions assimilate into conceptions; and conceptions assimilate into knowledge. Different areas of the universe have different degree of awareness.
Oneness arises from assimilation of sensations, perceptions, conceptions and knowledge. It appears as harmony, consistency and continuity. The observer (subject) and the observed (object) are in complete harmony. Bliss, rationality. beauty, health, etc., arise from oneness. The ultimate goal of the universe is attaining oneness.
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Postulate Mechanics identifies “Substantiality-Awareness-Oneness” to be the fundamental postulate underlying this universe. The reality of the universe follows from this postulate.
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Reference: Postulate Mechanics (PM)
Postulate Mechanics is an effort to understand the fundamentals of this universe. Its basic postulates are:
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There is a fundamental impulse to know. That means we have an internal awareness of when we know things and when we don’t. When we don’t know things, we postulate them and formulate a theory. Such a theory must have the characteristic of oneness, that is, the characteristic of being consistent throughout.
When there are no postulates and no theory, we have the situation described in The Creation Hymn of Rig Veda.
Whence this creation has arisen
– perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not –
the One who looks down on it,
in the highest heaven, only He knows
or perhaps He does not know.
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Effort to know starts with a postulate. A postulate is a basic assumption, taken as true, which is then used to derive the rest of the theory. For example. To understand relativity, Einstein postulated that the speed of light is a universal constant. He used this postulate to derive his theory of relativity.
The purpose of generating a theory is to explain and organize what we observe, to unify many separate facts into a coherent model, and to guide prediction, research, and action.
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Our knowledge is essentially our “theory of the universe.” This knowledge proceeds from deciphering of our sensations. For all practical purposes we are starting out from the postulate of “sensation.”
We perceive all kinds of sensations. We assimilate those sensations into perceptions. We assimilate those perceptions into conceptions. We assimilate those conceptions into a body of knowledge.
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The purpose of Postulate Mechanics is to assimilate the knowledge that we now have. In Postulate Mechanics we are restoring the consistency of oneness to all knowledge.
For “matter” we have Classical mechanics. For “energy” we have Quantum Mechanics. For “thought” we now have Postulate Mechanics.
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Reference: Postulate Mechanics (PM)
It is the harmony of interactions that characterize all life. This harmony extends itself through reason.
The lowest level organisms are formed out of interactions between light and chemicals. As organisms continue to interact, they evolve to higher levels of complexities. Life organisms have individuality in that they vary from each other even within a species.
The life organisms also bring changes to their environment on a large scale. In this we have the waste products of organisms on the one hand as those very complex chemicals which bacteria make and, on the other hand, we have the physical face of the Earth being changed by animals and men, such changes as grass holding mountains from eroding or roots causing boulders to break, buildings being built and rivers being dammed.
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Harmony manifests as optimum motion that is consistent and continuous throughout. Life organisms are formed out of harmonious interactions. This harmony is essential for organisms to evolve to higher levels of complexities. Even when individual life organisms are physically separate, they are connected through harmony of motion.
Harmony starts at the level of postulates (thought) and continues through action (energy) and form (matter). Any failure in harmony propels a life organism toward succumb. The life organism creates, conserves, maintains, requires, destroys, changes, occupies, groups and disperses things. But such interactions occur harmoniously for organisms and their environment to survive optimally.
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At the level of thought harmony appears as reason. Thought forms a dynamic matrix type structure upon assimilation. At the core of this matrix are postulates. Mental matrix assimilates all that is experienced making all motion optimum and all action harmonious. This is done by resolving anomalies. Anomalies consist of arbitrary, contradictory or missing factors that are interfering with harmony.
The mental matrix is the mind that is concerned wholly with resolving anomalies. The basic errors of reason are failure to recognize and resolve anomalies. Rightness is the harmony, consistency and continuity among all factors in a situation.
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PM AXIOM 16: The lowest level organisms are formed out of interactions between light and chemicals.
NOTE: Interactions occur because substance of different kinds have different motion and inertia. As organisms continue to interact, they evolve to higher levels of complexities. There comes about a chain of organisms that support each other in their survival.
PM AXIOM 17: The life organisms also bring changes to their environment on a large scale.
NOTE: In this we have the waste products of organisms on the one hand as those very complex chemicals which bacteria make and, on the other hand, we have the physical face of the Earth being changed by animals and men, such changes as grass holding mountains from eroding or roots causing boulders to break, buildings being built and rivers being dammed.
PM AXIOM 18: Life organisms have individuality in that they vary from each other even within a species.
PM AXIOM 19: All life survives together in harmony. Any failure in harmony propels a life organism toward succumb.
NOTE: The ability to maintain harmony in all interactions is persistence of the highest order.
PM AXIOM 20: The life organism creates, conserves, maintains, requires, destroys, changes, occupies, groups and disperses things.
NOTE: The interaction always maintains harmony leading to a better understanding of what is there.
PM AXIOM 21: Harmony manifests as optimum motion. Motion which is too swift and motion which is too slow are equally disharmonious.
PM AXIOM 22: Optimum motion is first established at the level of thought, it then filters through energy and matter.
PM AXIOM 23: All thought is concerned with making motion optimum.
PM AXIOM 24: The establishment of an optimum motion is a basic goal of reason.
PM AXIOM 25: The basic purpose of reason is to spot and eliminate anomalies.
NOTE: Anomalies are arbitrary, contradictory or missing factors that are preventing harmony.
PM AXIOM 26: Thought forms a dynamic matrix type structure upon assimilation. At the core of this matrix are postulates.
PM AXIOM 27: Mental matrix assimilates all that is experienced making all motion optimum and all action harmonious. This is done by resolving anomalies.
PM AXIOM 28: The mind is concerned wholly with resolving anomalies.
NOTE: Mind is the mental matrix that maintains the harmony of the organism.
PM AXIOM 29: The basic errors of reason are failure to isolate and resolve anomalies.
PM AXIOM 30: Rightness is the harmony, consistency and continuity among all factors in a situation.
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The higher life organisms are supported by lower ones. Together they bring changes in the environment toward greater oneness. This requires a harmonious rate of interaction.
The basic purpose of reason is to resolve violations of oneness in perception and understanding. These violations are anomalies, such as, discontinuities, inconsistencies, and disharmonies. The mind is the command post of the organism. It is concerned wholly with the resolution of anomalies.
The reason fails when it is fixated on (identified with) some aspect of the universe and fails to recognize anomalies. Rightness is made up of efforts that lead towards oneness.
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Reference: Postulate Mechanics (PM)
A life organism is a highly complex structure with inherent self-animation. It follows both physical and metaphysical laws of nature. The life organism maintains harmony all around. It assimilates the substance and sensations of the universe within itself. It then expresses the nature of the universe through itself. In this way, the life organism becomes an intermediate step in the understanding of the universe.
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The life organism is made of matter, energy and thought. It occupies space and persists in time. The body is made of matter, the energy travels through the nerves, and the thought appears in the pattern of energy and the motion of matter. Thought is regulated by the programming stored in the DNA molecule.
The life organism is self-animated. Its motion is closely tied to its structure. As the structure of life organism becomes more sophisticated, so does its motion. Thought is part of that structure. A mere change in thought affects the movement of the organism. Thought is very sensitive and it responds to the slightest change in the configuration of the body and the environment.
Thus, the life organism has awareness. It is aware of its own harmony and has an inherent sense of oneness. The moment that harmony is disturbed, or the sense of oneness is violated, it becomes aware that there is something it does not understand. The life organism then makes an effort to understand it.
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The life organism senses what is there, and reacts to it. It harmonizes that reaction using its inherent sense of oneness. From that harmony comes an understanding of that which it is sensing.
The process of harmonizing requires postulation. It is like solving a puzzles by trial and error. The life organism makes a postulate to see if this is what it is sensing. If it is not then it makes another postulate. This process continues until, suddenly, everything falls into place. There comes about a harmony. A sense of oneness is achieved. An advance is made in the understanding of the universe.
Thus, by solving anomalies one at a time, and coming up with the right postulates, an understanding of the universe is constructed. That understanding is used by the life organism over time to enhance its own form and motion. Thus, the sensations are assimilated into the life organism. And the organism evolves.
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PM AXIOM 1: The basis of life is awareness.
PM AXIOM 2: The awareness and sensations arise simultaneously.
NOTE: Sensations are what the awareness senses and becomes aware of. Both awareness and sensations are postulates,
PM AXIOM 3: The purpose of awareness is to assimilate sensations.
NOTE: To assimilate is to bring about harmony, consistency and continuity in all that is sensed.
PM AXIOM 4: The assimilation starts with the postulate of substance that has intrinsic motion and inertia.
NOTE: Substance has the forms of matter, energy and thought. Its motion and inertia balance each other.
PM AXIOM 5: The primary characteristics of substance are extents (space) and duration (time).
NOTE: A substance has its own space and time. Its background may consist of space and time of much less condensed substance. An example would be a fish in water.
PM AXIOM 6: Substance of different kinds combines to generate life organisms of complex forms and motion.
PM AXIOM 7: The awareness is engaged in the assimilation of all sensations with all their complexity.
PM AXIOM 8: Assimilation involves resolution of anomalies resulting in the laws of nature.
NOTE: Anomalies are instances of disharmony, inconsistency and discontinuity.
PM AXIOM 9: The assimilation brings about order into chaos with the laws of nature.
PM AXIOM 10: Awareness increases the capacity to assimilate sensation through the formation of life organisms.
PM AXIOM 11: A life organism is a highly complex structure with inherent self-animation.
PM AXIOM 12: A life organism follows the laws of nature, both physical and metaphysical.
PM AXIOM 13: The activity of life organism speeds up the assimilation of sensations.
PM AXIOM 14: The universe and the life in it must maintain harmony all around.
PM AXIOM 15: The life organism is an intermediate step in the understanding of the universe.
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The understanding of the universe arises from the assimilation of sensations. Underlying this universe is a spectrum of substance that has inherent motion and inertia. The substance has the characteristics of space and time.
Substance of different kinds combines to generate life organisms of increasingly complex forms and motion. The life organisms are engaged in assimilating sensations to understand the universe. Thus come about the laws of nature.
The form and activity of life organisms, which follow the laws of nature, accelerates the understanding of the universe. There is an overall harmony and a sense of oneness to this understanding.
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Reference: The Dianetics Axioms
L. Ron Hubbard found that man is obeying very definite laws and rules which could be set forward in axioms. The very first and most fundamental of these is: The dynamic principle of existence is survive. That is the basic axiom of Dianetics.
The original Dianetic axioms are referenced below in black.
In color are corresponding axioms as seen through Postulate Mechanics (PM).
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The primary goal of life organisms is to accelerate the evolution of the universe. The process of evolution consists of continual resolution of anomalies.
The universe impinges on the organism as sensations. When assimilated into the matrix structure of the mind, these sensations appear as perceptions. A lack of assimilation distorts perception and generates anomalies.
The degree of lack of assimilation is referred to as RANDOMITY. It constitutes a departure from Oneness. Randomity manifests as too little or too much motion as opposed to optimum motion. Zero randomity is necessary to learning. There should be just the right effort to resolve the counter-effort.
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THETA = Life Static
PHI or MEST = The Physical Universe
LAMBDA = Living organism or organisms
DN AXIOM 61: An organism is rejected by THETA to the degree that it fails in its goals.
DN AXIOM 62: Higher organisms can exist only in the degree that they are supported by the lower organisms.
DN AXIOM 63: The usefulness of an organism is determined by the alignment of its efforts toward survival.
DN AXIOM 64: The mind perceives and stores all data of the environment and aligns or fails to align these according to the time they were perceived.
DEFINITION: A conclusion is the THETA FACSIMILES of a group of combined data.
DEFINITION: A datum is a THETA FACSIMILE of physical action.
DN AXIOM 65: The process of thought is the perception of the present and the comparison of it to the perceptions and conclusions of the past in order to direct action in the immediate or distant future.
COROLLARY: The attempt of thought is to perceive realities of the past and present in order to predict or postulate realities of the future.
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PM AXIOM 61: An organism becomes redundant to the degree it fails to resolve anomalies.
PM AXIOM 62: Higher organisms can exist only to the degree they are supported by lower organisms.
PM AXIOM 63: The usefulness of an organism is determined by the alignment of its efforts toward resolving anomalies.
PM AXIOM 64: The mind assimilates sensations received from the environment by converting them into perceptions, memory and knowledge.
PM AXIOM 65: The process of thought is to assimilate the incoming sensations with one’s experience, so that correct conclusions and actions follow automatically.
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DN AXIOM 66: The process by which life effects its conquest of the material universe consists in the conversion of the potential effort of matter and energy in space and through time to effect with it the conversion of further matter and energy in space and through time.
DN AXIOM 67: THETA contains its own THETA UNIVERSE effort which translates into MEST effort.
DN AXIOM 68: The single arbitrary in any organism is time.
DN AXIOM 69: Physical universe perceptions and efforts are received by an organism as force waves, convert by facsimile into THETA and are thus stored.
DEFINITION: Randomity is the misalignment through the internal or external efforts by other forms of life or the material universe of the efforts of an organism, and is imposed on the physical organism by counter-efforts in the environment.
DN AXIOM 70: Any cycle of any life organism is from static to motion to static.
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PM AXIOM 66: The process by which the universe evolves consists of continual resolution of anomalies, which increasingly assimilates more substance.
PM AXIOM 67: The effort first manifest as thought, and then translates into physical effort.
PM AXIOM 68: The single arbitrary in any organism is disharmony.
PM AXIOM 69: The sensations are assimilated into perceptions and stored as memory, which over time is assimilated into experience as knowledge.
DEFINITION: Randomity is the lack of assimilation of sensations, perceptions, memory, and experience, which is visible in the efforts of the organism.
PM AXIOM 70: The cycle of any life organism is from birth to life to death.
NOTE: There is evolution of the dynamics because of the life of the organism.
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DN AXIOM 71: The cycle of randomity is from static, through optimum, through randomity sufficiently repetitious or similar to constitute another static.
DN AXIOM 72: There are two subdivisions to randomity: data randomity and force randomity.
DN AXIOM 73: The three degrees of randomity consist of minus randomity, optimum randomity and plus randomity.
DEFINITION: Randomity is a component factor and necessary part of motion, if motion is to continue.
DN AXIOM 74: Optimum randomity is necessary to learning.
DN AXIOM 75: The important factors in any area of randomity are effort and counter-effort.
(Note: As distinguished from near perceptions of effort.)
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PM AXIOM 71: The cycle of randomity is from oneness to disturbance to a higher level of oneness.
PM AXIOM 72: There is randomity at the level of thought as well as at the level of action.
PM AXIOM 73: Randomity manifests as too little, optimum, and too much motion.
PM AXIOM 74: Optimum randomity is oneness of assimilation, which is necessary to learning.
PM AXIOM 75: The important factor is just the right effort to resolve the counter-effort.
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