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A postulate is a foundational assumption taken as true, from which everything else is derived.
Abbreviation: PS = Postulate
PS 16: Substance may be divided into thought, energy and matter.
PS 17: The substantially of substance is denoted by its inertia.
PS 18: The inertia increases from thought to energy to matter.
PS 19: The characteristic of motion decreases as inertia increases.
PS 20: Absolute rest may correspond to infinite inertia.
PS 21: Infinite rate of change may correspond to no inertia.
PS 22: Change in inertia is matched exactly by change in motion.
PS 23: Space describes the extents of substance.
PS 24: Time describes the duration of substance.
PS 25: Space and time are properties of substance.
PS 26: Empty space is space empty of matter only.
PS 27: Eternity is for a dynamic universe only.
PS 28: The dynamic universe is defined by its oneness.
PS 29: The oneness of the universe is described by harmony, consistency and continuity.
PS 30: The universe is converting chaos into order.
A postulate is a foundational assumption taken as true, from which everything else is derived.
Abbreviation: PS = Postulate
PS 1: There is Unknowable.
PS 2: There is an inherent impulse to know.
PS 3: That impulse generates postulates.
PS 4: A postulate converts unknowable into knowable.
PS 5: The postulate is made up of thought.
PS 6: Thought is a substance like matter.
PS 7: Substance is anything substantial enough to be sensed.
PS 8: Awareness is the ability to sense the substance.
PS 9: Awareness and substance are two different dimensions.
PS 10: Consciousness is the awareness of substance.
PS 11: Identity is awareness identifying itself as substance.
PS 12: In identity, substance is seen as the source of awareness.
PS 13: Thought may be seen as the source of awareness (e.g. God)
PS 14: Matter may be seen as the source of awareness (e.g. Body)
PS 15: Consciousness of substance is missing in identification.
The truth of being is pure awareness. There can be awareness of anything. Consciousness comes about as things are identified and meaning is given to them. But that consciousness is dynamic. It is either changing or subject to change at deeper and deeper levels. This happens so that overall harmony may be maintained.
When identifications start to become fixed, consciousness, at some level, also becomes fixed. Harmony either starts to be violated or becomes subject to violation since consciousness cannot realign to bring about overall harmony. With violations of harmony come anomalies.
When anomalies become too many, with too many fixations, a restructuring of beingness may occur. This restructuring can appear in the form of an NDE or as a nervous breakdown. A constructive restructuring brings harmony back.
An NDE usually brings up visions. Such visions are symbolic representations of the shift that is taking place. They are similar to dreams, but much more vivid and seemingly real.
An NDE provides a person with a new postulate (stable point) that restrains his confusions and helps him manage his life better. A postulate is a foundational assumption taken as true, from which everything else is derived. A readjustment of consciousness may follow as confusions get sorted out with the reasoning, which follows the new postulate.
This is my understanding. Understanding of others may differ.
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The Dianetics Axioms (Summary)
The Scientology Axioms (Summary)
ANOMALY
An anomaly is a violation of oneness. Its presence in an area is indicated by disharmony, inconsistency or discontinuity. The anomaly appears as arbitrary, contradictory, or missing data. You follow such data by looking closely at the area in which they appear. You may then find more anomalies. As you trace those areas with most anomalies, you may suddenly discover the reason why all those anomalies exist.
ASSIMILATION
To assimilate is to “make similar.” An example of assimilation occurs when you pour water having different temperatures in the same container. The cold water in the mixture gains heat and the hot water loses heat such that the water in that container, after some time, arrives at an equilibrium temperature. In the mind, the equilibrium may be defined as oneness (harmony, consistency and continuity). When a person spots an anomaly and looks at it more closely, all ideas and emotions in that anomaly tend to assimilate and arrive at oneness. When sensations are assimilated they provide clearer perceptions. When perceptions are assimilated they provide clearer conceptions. When conceptions are assimilated they provide clearer knowledge. When knowledge is assimilated it results in knowingness of wisdom.
AWARENESS
Awareness of something separates the awareness from the thing that it becomes aware of. Awareness give that something a meaning and that generates consciousness. That consciousness is separate from awareness because it is made up of a generated meaning. This makes awareness the essence of “self” that is looking, noticing and generating consciousness without identifying with it.
BEINGNESS
Beingness is the individual essence of a life organism. It is the whole genetic evolution that presents itself as a system of body-mind-spirit.
CONSCIOUSNESS
To be conscious is “to know together.” Consciousness is being aware of something. It depends on the fineness and sophistication of assimilation. All sensations, perceptions, conceptions, knowledge and wisdom contribute to consciousness.
FREE WILL
Free will is the ability to make choices that make sense. It shows up as the capacity to direct your own life — what is called self-determinism. You can choose and decide freely, but your choices do not exist in isolation. Every decision you make is part of a larger web of beliefs, assumptions, and values that you already hold. For a new choice to actually work, it has to fit coherently within that existing web.
IDENTIFICATION
Identification occurs when awareness is unable to separate itself from that it became aware of. Now it has not only become that, but is also unaware of this happening.
IDENTITY
The self acquires an identity when identification of sensations occurs. The self cannot differentiate itself from the identity. A self can have many identities and not be aware of them. It just acts out according to the identity that gets activated in a situation. Such identities dissolve as assimilation occurs and knowingness comes about.
KNOWLEDGE
We sense the universe and then we assimilate those sensations to know about the universe. This knowledge is as true as it is harmonious, consistent and continuous with no anomalies. Knowledge thus obtained is applied to improve the conditions in life.
ONENESS
Oneness comes about as substance (matter, energy, thought) is assimilated in awareness. With assimilation comes about harmony. With increasing harmony comes about consistency. And, with increasing consistency comes about continuity. We see this in order emerging from chaos.
Oneness lies in the harmony of relations, consistency of realities, and continuity of dimensions. Oneness underlies the very concept of the Universe. It is the key to Scientific Method, and to the measure of truth. Oneness is not a monotone canvas; but it is a beautiful painting full of colors and forms that are harmonious, consistent and continuous.
POSTULATE
A postulate is a foundational assumption taken as true, from which everything else is derived. Concepts like “Self” and “God” are postulates. When there is a sense of “Unknowable,” it is given meaning by a postulate. All scientific theories, philosophic rumination and religious faiths have come about this way.
UNIVERSE
The word UNIVERSE literally means “combined into one.” It is looked upon as a single whole because it is postulated to be a harmonious entity. The universe is substantial enough to be sensed. Therefore, it has substance, which is postulated to be matter, energy and thought. As this substance is assimilated, there comes about perception, conception and knowledge. This makes the universe knowable. But the universe is only as real as it is assimilated.
UNKNOWABLE
The unknowable is beyond consideration, because the moment you consider it, it becomes knowable as that consideration. It is like Kant’s “thing-in-itself” that is beyond sensory experience. It may be compared to the Nirākār Brahman of the Vedas that has no attributes. We try to know the unknowable by assigning it a symbol and/or an attribute, such as, the omniscient God; but we end up knowing only that symbol and/or attribute. The unknowable remains unknowable. The idea of unknowable serves only as a reference against which knowable may be contrasted.
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Reference: The Scientology Axioms
This paper presents Scientology Axioms 51 – 58 and the corresponding versions per POSTULATE MECHANICS (PM).
SCN AXIOM 51: Postulates and live communication not being MEST and being senior to MEST can accomplish change in MEST without bringing about a persistence of MEST. Thus auditing can occur.
PM AXIOM 51: Looking, being in the dimension of pure awareness, can dissolve identifications with thought, energy and matter (i.e. with minds and bodies). Thus resolution of anomalies can occur.
SCN AXIOM 52: MEST persists and solidifies to the degree that it is not granted life.
PM AXIOM 52: Considerations about substance persist and solidify to the degree that they are not granted life.
SCN AXIOM 53: A stable datum is necessary to the alignment of data.
PM AXIOM 53: A stable datum is necessary to the alignment of data.
SCN AXIOM 54: A tolerance of confusion and an agreed–upon stable datum on which to align the data in a confusion are at once necessary for a sane reaction on the eight dynamics. This defines sanity.
PM AXIOM 54: A tolerance of confusion and an agreed–upon stable datum on which to align the data in a confusion are at once necessary for a sane reaction in all aspects of life.
SCN AXIOM 55: The cycle of action is a consideration. Create, survive, destroy, the cycle of action accepted by the genetic entity, is only a consideration which can be changed by the thetan making a new consideration or different action cycles.
PM AXIOM 55: The cycle of action is the consideration of create, survive destroy, which must be consistent with the postulates.
SCN AXIOM 56: Theta brings order to chaos.
COROLLARY: Chaos brings disorder to theta.
PM AXIOM 56: The primary impulse of this universe is to bring order.
SCN AXIOM 57: Order manifests when communication, control and havingness are available to theta.
DEFINITIONS:
Communication: the interchange of ideas across space.
Control: positive postulating, which is intention, and the execution thereof.
Havingness: that which permits the experience of mass and pressure.
PM AXIOM 57: Order manifests in the form of harmony, consistency and continuity.
SCN AXIOM 58: Intelligence and judgment are measured by the ability to evaluate relative importances.
COROLLARY: The ability to evaluate importances and unimportances is the highest faculty of logic.
COROLLARY: Identification is a monotone assignment of importance.
COROLLARY: Identification is the inability to evaluate differences in time, location, form, composition or importance.
Ability to evaluate relative importances require the ability to recognize differences, similarities and identities and then aligning the data to ensure continuity, harmony and consistency. This is intelligence and judgment respectively.
PM AXIOM 58: Intelligence and judgment are measured by the ability to establish order.