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All my life, I wanted to clear up my confusions. There was so much I did not understand, and that troubled me. I had studied physical sciences, but quantum mechanics was always beyond my grasp. Life felt complex and overwhelming, and I often wondered if I would ever truly make sense of it.
When I retired in 2012, I finally had the time to look for answers. I decided to research the connection between physics and metaphysics — starting with the things that had puzzled me since childhood. I went back to the basics of mathematics, physics, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Scientology.
One practice that proved especially useful was word clearing — the habit of carefully understanding the definitions of words before moving on. I had used this in the Math Club I ran at the Safety Harbor Library from 1995 to 2010, and later through a blog I started in 2010, where I published The Book of Mathematics.
In 2015, I began working with high school dropouts preparing for their GED exams at a facility in New Port Richie, Florida. These young adults had real-life experience that I could only imagine, yet their basic gaps in learning held them back. Word clearing was supposed to help, but they were too overwhelmed to dig back and find where things had gone wrong.
Then something shifted. I organized a set of lectures that started from the very beginning — the most basic ideas in math — and built up step by step. I used an abacus. I showed them that all numbers are written using just ten digits, just as all English words are built from 26 letters. Their faces lit up. Questions started flowing. That is when Subject Clearing was born.
The lesson was clear: every subject has an inner logic. Understanding depends on a smooth, step-by-step path from simple to complex, with no gaps left behind. That is the only reliable way to learn anything.
As that insight sank in, a bold question arose: could the universe itself be treated as a subject? It seemed far-fetched, but no more so than searching for a bridge between physics and metaphysics. And I had the time. So I kept going — until I found the key I had been looking for: the correct definition of the word “substance.” That became the starting point for this book on Postulate Mechanics.
This book may only scratch the surface of what there is to understand. But more than its contents, I hope it points you toward Subject Clearing as a method. It has helped me grasp ideas that once seemed unreachable. I feel fortunate to have lived in an age when the knowledge of great minds is freely available to anyone who looks.
I hope this methodology serves you just as well.
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At the heart of everything is a simple impulse: the desire to know. We always sense, somewhere inside us, the difference between understanding something and not understanding it. When we don’t understand something, we make our best guess and build a theory around it. A good theory has one essential quality — it is consistent all the way through, with no contradictions.
When there is no theory at all, no guesses, no explanations — that is the state described in the ancient Rig Veda creation hymn:
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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Every theory begins with a postulate — a starting assumption accepted as true, from which everything else follows. Einstein, for example, assumed that the speed of light is always the same everywhere. From that single assumption, he built the entire theory of relativity.
The purpose of any theory is to explain what we observe, bring separate facts together into one coherent picture, and help us predict and explore further.
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Our knowledge is, at its core, our personal theory of the universe. It begins with sensation — what we feel, hear, see, touch, taste.
From raw sensations, we form perceptions (recognizing patterns). From perceptions, we form concepts (abstract ideas). From concepts, we build knowledge. Each step is a process of assimilation — taking in something new and fitting it into a larger picture.
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Postulate Mechanics is an attempt to bring all of our knowledge into one unified, consistent framework.
Just as physics seeks a unified theory of the physical world, Postulate Mechanics seeks a unified theory of how we know — and through that, a unified theory of everything.
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Reference: Postulate Mechanics
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Reference: Postulate Mechanics
Your mind is always trying to make sense of the world. Think of it like a giant puzzle. When all the pieces fit together perfectly, everything feels clear and you understand what’s going on. That “perfect fit” is called oneness — it means everything lines up, nothing clashes, and there are no confusing gaps.
When puzzle pieces don’t fit, something feels off. Maybe two pieces look like they belong but they don’t quite connect. That’s what this chapter calls an anomaly — a place where things don’t make sense yet.
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Your mind isn’t just your brain. Your brain is like the computer hardware, and your mind is like the software running on it. The mind stores everything you’ve ever learned — like a giant notebook full of notes, pictures, and memories. At the center of that notebook are your most important ideas, called postulates (say it: POS-choo-lits). These are your core beliefs about how things work.
The coolest thing about the human mind? It can spot its own mistakes and try to fix them. That’s something even the fanciest computer has trouble doing.
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Logic is the tool your mind uses to make sense of things. Its whole job is to take messy, confusing information and turn it into something clear and organized.
Here’s a good way to picture it: Imagine you have two glasses of water — one ice cold, one boiling hot. If you pour them both into one big pitcher, after a while they mix and reach the same comfortable temperature. That’s called equilibrium. Logic does the same thing with ideas — it mixes them together until they all “fit” at the same level of understanding.
When your senses take in information and it all fits together clearly, you get a better perception(like seeing something more clearly). When perceptions fit together, you get a better concept (a bigger idea). When concepts fit together, you get knowledge. And when all your knowledge fits together perfectly, you get something called wisdom.
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An anomaly is just a fancy word for “something that doesn’t fit.” There are three kinds:
When you notice one of these, it’s like a little alarm bell saying “look more closely here!”
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Here’s the surprising secret: you fix confusion by looking, not by thinking harder.
Thinking just helps you figure out where to look. Once you look carefully enough at the right place, understanding just arrives — like a lightbulb turning on.
It works like this:
One important step: make sure you know what words actually mean. If you have the wrong definition for a word, it’s like having the wrong map. You’ll get lost before you even start.
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A postulate is like a rule you believe is true about how the world works. Good postulates are really useful — they explain things you already know, they help you predict things you haven’t seen yet, and they don’t require you to make up things that don’t exist.
Science is basically a big collection of postulates that all fit together and have been checked against the real world.
One warning: if you start with a bad assumption (a careless guess that isn’t really true), it messes up everything built on top of it — like building a house on a wobbly foundation. One bad assumption tends to invite more bad assumptions, and soon everything gets confusing.
The big takeaway: Your mind is always trying to make everything fit together into one clear, harmonious picture. When something doesn’t fit, that’s your cue to look more carefully — not panic, not guess wildly, just look. The answer is usually right there, waiting to be found.
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Reference: Postulate Mechanics
Life
Life is what we see when things move and grow in smart and orderly ways. A rock just sits there, but a plant grows toward the sun, and an animal can run around. This special kind of changing and moving is what we call life. A living thing is made of tiny parts that work together in a very clever way, and it can even make more of itself, like parents having children.
Evolution
Over a very, very long time, life has changed and become more complex. It started with things that were not alive, like minerals, and then tiny living cells appeared. These cells turned into simple living things, then into plants, then animals, and finally humans. As life changes, bodies become more complicated, and what they can do becomes more advanced.
Genetic entity
Think of the “genetic entity” like the body’s built‑in instruction book. It tells the body how to grow, what color eyes to have, and how to keep the heart beating. This “book” is written in the DNA inside your cells and is passed along from parents to children. It is very smart, but it cannot easily rewrite its own instructions once they are there.
Life organism
A living thing, like a person or an animal, is called a life organism. It has a body made of substance, like flesh and bone, that we can see and touch. The things this body can do, like thinking, remembering, and feeling, are what we call the mind. The power that makes all this movement and activity possible is sometimes called the spirit. Humans are one kind of life organism, and in this view they are at the top of the long chain of evolution.
Self‑animation
Living things can move and act on their own. Even tiny things like viruses and cells can change and move by themselves. Very small changes inside them can cause big movements on the outside. Because the needed changes are so tiny, this chapter says they can be guided by thoughts, as if there is a connection between thinking and moving in the body. This is called a thought‑motion connection for living things.
Beingness
“Beingness” is like your special “you‑ness” as a living thing. It is all the changes and growth through time that have built your body, mind, and spirit into one whole system. Your beingness is the way your whole life shows up right now.
Death
Death and birth are normal parts of how life changes over time. When something dies, the body stops working completely, and its body, mind, and spirit system breaks apart. The feeling of “I am me” goes away first, and the other senses fade soon after. The DNA instructions can continue through children, but in this view there is no never‑ending soul that lives on as a separate person forever.
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Self
The “self” here means something very deep: it is like the core of everything that exists. It is made of three ideas: there is real “stuff” (substance), there is awareness, and there is a tendency toward being one and connected. The self is pure awareness that notices what is real and works to fix confusion so things fit together better.
Identity
The self gets an identity when it starts to connect certain feelings and experiences with “this is me”. After that, the self cannot easily tell itself apart from that identity. A person can have many identities—like “student,” “friend,” “child,” or “player”—and might not realize when one or another is in charge. These identities can fade away as the person understands more and all the different experiences fit together more clearly.
Individuality
Individuality is the feeling that you are unique and not exactly like anyone else. Both the deep self and the identities it takes on can feel individual. So being an individual and having identities can go together; they do not cancel each other out.
Ego
The ego is what happens when someone turns inward too much and focuses mainly on “me, me, me”. The more a person is stuck inside this tight feeling of “just me,” the more they may think and act in ways that do not make sense or are unfair. When this self‑focus gets very rigid and stuck, it can even become mentally unhealthy or “insane” in this view.
Individual
An individual is a human being who feels like there is one main “center” inside that guides their thoughts and actions. This person also feels separate from others and believes they are a unique being.
Viewpoint
A viewpoint is like the “camera angle” from which a person looks at the world and at themselves. It is closely tied to individuality, because your viewpoint includes where you feel you are in space and what you think about yourself. A viewpoint can get stuck, like always seeing yourself as “the victim” or “the boss,” but you can also loosen it and choose to see things differently.
Self‑determination
Self‑determination is the ability to decide things for yourself without being pushed around by others. It means you make choices based on your own viewpoint and understanding, not just because someone else tells you to.
Free will
Free will is your power to choose and decide on your own. In this chapter, free will means you can make your own “postulates,” or decisions and ideas, but they still have to follow the rules of how the universe works. It does not mean you can just snap your fingers and ignore all natural laws or do absolutely anything you want without limits.
Spirit
The word “spirit” first meant things like breath or wind. It is the idea of a force that brings life, energy, and strength to living things. Spirit can mean the part of a person that includes their mind, feelings, and will, which is not the same as the physical body. People also use “spirit” to talk about non‑physical beings like ghosts, gods, or fairies.
Soul
The “soul” is another word for the invisible part that seems to give life to a person. Some philosophers use it to mean the mind, and many religions say the soul is the part that can live on after the body dies and go to heaven or hell. In this chapter, the soul is described as an idea people use to talk about this non‑physical life part, but earlier it also said there is no eternal soul that stays as the same “I” forever.
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Reference: Postulate Mechanics
A postulate (say it like “POSS-choo-late”) is the main idea or belief hiding behind a situation. Think of it like the seed of a plant — everything you see growing above the ground started from that one tiny seed underground.
When something confusing happens — a fight, a problem, or a puzzling event — the most helpful thing you can do is ask: “What’s the main belief that started all this?” That main belief is the postulate.
Here’s an example. Imagine two countries are fighting. If you dig deep enough, you might find that one country is simply scared for its own safety. That fear — that one core belief — is the postulate. Once you find it, the whole messy situation suddenly makes a lot more sense.
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Here’s a tricky question: where does a postulate come from in the first place?
Honestly? Nobody knows for sure. It’s kind of like asking, “Where did the universe come from?” Even if you say “God made it,” that just leads to another question: “Well, where did God come from?”
The important thing is: don’t get stuck trying to figure out the source. Just focus on finding the postulate in front of you. That’s where the real work happens.
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Once you find the main postulate, the next step is to look for anomalies (say it: “ah-NOM-ah-leez”). An anomaly is something that feels off — like a puzzle piece that doesn’t quite fit.
You know you’ve found an anomaly when something feels:
Anomalies are clues. When you follow the clues, just like a detective, you eventually find the real reason things got messed up. And once you understand that, you’ll know exactly what to do to make things right again.
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Exercise 1 — Objects:
Exercise 2 — Situations:
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When something confusing happens, don’t panic and don’t get lost in all the little details. Instead:
It’s like being a detective of ideas.
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