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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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We have five physical senses — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Beyond these, there is a sixth sense: thought. The job of thought is to make sense of everything the physical senses bring in.
When something new arrives through the senses and we have no ready explanation for it, the mind proposes a best guess — a postulate. As more sensations keep arriving, the mind slowly builds up a picture of the world. We call this complete picture the “universe” — one unified, harmonious, consistent whole.
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The universe can be sensed and known. From this simple observation, three fundamental postulates follow:
1. Substantiality — “It’s real!”
The universe can be seen, heard, touched, and felt. That means it has substance — it is actually there. In ancient Sanskrit, this is called Sat (meaning “being” or “existence”).
2. Awareness — “It knows itself!”
The universe doesn’t just exist — it is aware. Think about it: you are part of the universe, and you are aware of yourself! In Sanskrit, this is called Chit (meaning “consciousness”).
3. Oneness — “It all fits together!”
Everything in the universe fits together like a giant puzzle. There are no loose pieces. In Sanskrit, this is called Ananda (often translated as “bliss” — the joy of everything being in harmony).
Together, these three are known as Sat-Chit-Ananda (Substantiality-Awareness-Oneness).
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Substance comes in three forms, each with a different degree of “thickness” (density, firmness, viscosity or depth):
| Type | How thick/solid? | How we sense it |
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| Matter | Most solid — has mass | You can see and touch it |
| Energy | Less solid — no mass | You feel it as movement or waves (like light or sound) |
| Thought | Least solid | You feel it mentally — as fixed ideas or open, free ones |
A cool example for thought: hate and bigotry feel very heavy and stuck, while love and tolerance feel light and free. Thoughts have a kind of “thickness” too!
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Awareness begins with raw sensation. It deepens in stages:
Sensation → Perception → Conception → Knowledge
Each step takes what came before and blends it into something bigger and clearer.
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Oneness is what happens when sensations, perceptions, ideas, and knowledge all fit together seamlessly. It shows up as harmony, consistency, and continuity. When the observer and the observed are in complete accord, bliss, beauty, rationality, and health naturally arise. Oneness is the universe’s ultimate aim.
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Postulate Mechanics rests on the foundational postulate: Substantiality-Awareness-Oneness. Everything we observe about the universe flows from this single starting point.
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Have you ever wondered what everything around you is made of? Not just rocks and water, but also sunlight, and even your own thoughts? It turns out the universe is made of three big things:
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Matter is all the stuff you can touch and hold — like a rock, a chair, or a glass of water. It has a set shape and it stays put unless something moves it. That’s called inertia — it’s like how a heavy backpack doesn’t just fly off your desk on its own.
If you break matter into smaller and smaller pieces, you eventually get to something called an atom. Atoms are so tiny you can’t see them, but everything solid around you is made of them. If you break an atom apart even further, it stops acting like regular matter.
Matter can be solid (like ice), liquid (like water), or gas (like steam), depending on how hot or cold it is.
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Energy is the opposite of matter. Where matter stays still, energy is always moving. It spreads out as waves and has very little resistance to movement.
Energy exists in both the physical world (like light and heat) and the mental world. Different types of energy with different frequencies stay separate from each other, but energies of the same frequency blend together easily.
The smallest unit of energy is called a quantum — the tiniest possible “packet” of energy involved in any interaction.
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This one might surprise you — thoughts are a kind of substance too! You can’t touch a thought, but you can sense it in your mind. It begins as a basic postulate (a foundational assumption or decision) and develops into bigger ideas, theories, and conclusions as you think things through.
Thoughts have their own kind of “space” and “time” — like how a really big idea can feel like it fills up your whole mind, or how you can get stuck on a thought and just can’t let it go. More complex mental phenomena like emotion and effort grow from thought as well.
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Conventional science recognizes matter as substance and grudgingly acknowledges energy. It ignores thought entirely. Postulate Mechanics takes a broader view: matter, energy, and thought are all equally real forms of substance, and a complete understanding of the universe — including the human being — requires all three.
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All substance — whether matter, energy, or thought — shares five basic properties. These properties only exist where substance exists. They cannot exist without substance.
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Space is how much room things takes up.
The key point: space is never truly “empty.” What we call empty space just means no matter is there. Energy or thought can still fill it. True nothingness — with no substance at all — does not exist.
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Time is how long things last.
The key point: time only makes sense when something is there to have a duration. Without substance, time has no meaning.
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Inertia means things don’t like to change when they are settled in a routine. It maintains that natural routine.
Think of a spinning top: it stays in a position because it is “centered.” Inertia only shows up as a force when you try to disturb a settled position. A billiard ball sitting still shows no inertial force — push it, and the resistance you feel is inertia.
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Motion is how freely a substance moves on its own.
Inertia and motion are connected: inertia is what keeps something moving at its natural speed. The constant speed of light, for example, is maintained by its (very small but real) inertia.
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Gravity does for a system of bodies what inertia does for a single body — it maintains the natural, balanced motion of the whole group.
Think of it as inertia operating at the scale of an entire solar system.
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| Topic | Standard Science | Postulate Mechanics |
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| Space & Time | Independent backdrop for events | Properties of substance itself |
| Inertia | Resistance to changes in motion | Centeredness that also sets intrinsic motion |
| Inertia & Motion | No direct relationship | Inertia maintains natural motion |
| Gravity | A force between masses (still mysterious) | The inertia of a whole system of bodies |
The core difference: science treats space and time as the stage on which things happen. Postulate Mechanics treats them as qualities of the things themselves — just like color or temperature. Remove the substance, and space, time, inertia, motion, and gravity all vanish with it.
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Modern science is built on a few core assumptions:
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Postulate Mechanics starts from a different set of ideas:
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From the Postulate Mechanics point of view, science has several blind spots:
The core disagreement between science and Postulate Mechanics comes down to this: science treats space, time, and motion as the stage on which matter acts, while Postulate Mechanics sees them as properties that belong to substance itself — inseparable from it.
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The Big Idea
Life is not a mystery added on top of matter. It grows naturally out of motion — motion that becomes more and more organized and controlled.
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Think of nature as a ladder, where each rung has more organization than the one below it:
Light — Light moves at a constant speed. It has no variation, no flexibility. It is as simple as motion gets.
Atoms — Electrons orbit a nucleus. The motion is more varied than light. Things can change and respond. There is a tiny hint of something “lively.”
Molecules — In an organic molecule (made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen), electrons are shared across many atoms. The motion is even richer — more ways to move, more ways to interact.
Viruses — A virus is a highly organized arrangement of molecules. It has so many interlocking moving parts that it behaves almost like a tiny robot running its own program.
Living cells — One step beyond the virus, and you have a true living organism.
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A living organism is matter that has become extraordinarily well-organized. It:
Life is not some external force plugged into matter. Motion and inertia are already built into substance. Life is simply what emerges when that built-in motion reaches a high enough level of organization and control.
There is no separate “spirit” needed to explain it.
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So here’s the journey from simple to alive:
| Step | Example | What’s special about its motion |
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| 1 | Light | Constant, never changes |
| 2 | Atom | Electrons move and can vary |
| 3 | Molecule | Many atoms dancing together |
| 4 | Virus | Incredibly complex, almost robotic |
| 5 | Living Cell | Fully self-controlling — it’s alive! |
Life is organized motion, nothing more and nothing less. But “nothing more” is still breathtaking in its complexity.
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Before we can understand life, we need to understand chemistry. Life is built on chemical reactions.
The simplest living things are viruses and cells. They follow instructions written in their genetic material — the biological “code” that tells them what to do.
That code is stored in molecules called DNA and RNA. Scientists can now build these molecules in a lab — but lab-made versions tend to have more errors. This is likely because the lab environment is different from the natural environment where these molecules originally formed.
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When atoms bond together, they form molecules. Each new molecule can have properties that its individual atoms did not have on their own — but the atoms themselves do not disappear or change; their cores stay intact. Only the outer electron regions merge and interact.
One key point: the environment matters. Even if two reactions produce chemically identical results, there are subtle differences depending on where and how the reaction took place. A lab is not the same as nature, and those differences show up.
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Early Earth had no life, but it had energy — ultraviolet light, lightning, volcanic heat. These drove reactions between simple inorganic compounds, producing the first organic (carbon-based) molecules. Some of these molecules also arrived from space on meteorites and comets.
Over time, small molecules joined together into larger ones. A major turning point was the appearance of RNA — a molecule that could both store information and help drive chemical reactions on its own.
Eventually, some of these self-copying molecules became enclosed inside a membrane, forming a contained system. That was the beginning of the cell — with its own energy supply, protein-building machinery, and chemical regulation.
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DNA (and RNA in some viruses) is the molecule that carries all the hereditary information of a living thing. It controls how an organism grows, develops, and functions. DNA is shaped like a twisted ladder (a double helix) and is made of repeating units called nucleotides.
“Hereditary” simply means what is passed from parents to offspring — traits like eye color, but also, importantly, the impressions left by trauma or unprocessed experiences. These can be impressed upon genes and carried forward through generations until they are resolved.
Scientists can now synthesize DNA in a lab from scratch. But as with other synthetic genetic material, error rates increase as the molecule gets longer and more complex.
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Every living organism, no matter how simple or complex, shares these basic features:
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The core insight of Postulate Mechanics is that the environment is never separate from the organism. This is true at every level — from a simple chemical reaction to the most complex living being.
The environment is not just physical matter and energy. It also includes thought. Interactions happen at all three levels — matter, energy, and thought — and none of these can be ignored or treated as isolated from the others.
The main idea is that life didn’t appear by magic — it grew step by step from simple chemistry, shaped by the environment at every stage.
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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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