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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Executive Summary 2025
The reduction in the sanity of an organism is proportional to the amount of unassimilated sensations that are reactivated in it. It means a decrease in the alignment of its motion. Therefore, any gain of aligned energy, matter or organisms increases the sanity, freedom and longevity of the organism.
The organism is naturally focused on future evolution. Lack of assimilation forces its attention to fixate on the present and past. The control center becoming fixated is the primary source of aberration.
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Axioms 151-165
DN AXIOM 151: Whether an organism has the goal of surviving or succumbing depends upon the amount of plus or minus randomity it has reactivated. (Not residual.)
It is not a matter or surviving or succumbing. It is a matter of being rational or irrational. It all depends on how much misalignment with natural law has been reactivated.
PM AXIOM 151: The reduction in the sanity of an organism is proportional to the amount of unassimilated sensations that are reactivated in it.
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DN AXIOM 152: Survival is accomplished only by motion.
The goal is not survival but evolution, which is attained by alignment with natural laws.
PM AXIOM 152: Evolution is accomplished only by alignment of motion with natural laws.
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DN AXIOM 153: In the physical universe the absence of motion is vanishment.
This universe is both physical and spiritual because its substance has inherent motion that has a tendency towards continuity, consistency, and harmony. There can never be absence of substance or motion. There is only alignment or misalignment with natural laws. Alignment brings order. Misalignment brings chaos. Chaos vanishes as it turns into order.
PM AXIOM 153: There is no universe without motion. Chaos vanishes as it turns into order.
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DN AXIOM 154: Death is the equivalent to life of total lack of life-motivated motion.
At death the organism reduces to simpler substance with simpler inherent motion. It loses the complexity of organization of substance and its complex inherent motion.
PM AXIOM 154: Death is the equivalent of life losing its complex organization and motion.
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DN AXIOM 155: Acquisition of prosurvival matter and energy or organisms in space and time means increased motion.
Acquisition of prosurvival matter and energy means acquisition of additional substance whose inherent motion is aligned with the inherent motion of the life organism.
PM AXIOM 155: Acquisition of additional substance with aligned inherent motion means increased motion for the life organism.
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DN AXIOM 156: Loss of prosurvival matter and energy or organisms in space and time means decreased motion.
PM AXIOM 156: Loss of of substance with aligned inherent motion means decreased motion for the life organism.
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DN AXIOM 157: Acquisition or proximity of matter, energy or organisms which assist the survival of an organism increases the survival potentials of an organism.
PM AXIOM 157: Acquisition or proximity of matter, energy or organisms which better optimize the motion of an organism, increases the longevity of the organism.
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DN AXIOM 158: Acquisition or proximity of matter, energy or organisms which inhibit the survival of an organism decreases its survival potential.
PM AXIOM 158: Acquisition or proximity of matter, energy or organisms which interrupt the optimized motion of an organism, decreases the longevity of the organism.
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DN AXIOM 159: Gain of survival energy, matter or organisms increases the freedom of an organism.
PM AXIOM 159: Gain of aligned energy, matter or organisms increases the freedom of an organism.
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DN AXIOM 160: Receipt or proximity of non-survival energy, matter or time decreases the freedom of motion of an organism.
PM AXIOM 160: Receipt or proximity of misaligned energy, matter or time decreases the freedom of motion of an organism.
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DN AXIOM 161: The control center attempts the halting or lengthening of time, the expansion or contraction of space and the decrease or increase of energy and matter.
This is a primary source of invalidation, and it is also a primary source of aberration.
Assimilation of unaligned perceptions received by the control center also requires adjustments of its own contents during free association. If the control center is unwilling to allow any changes in its contents (experiential matrix) then there are fixations. Any fixation within a control center will be a primary source of aberration.
PM AXIOM 161: The control center becoming fixated is the primary source of aberration.
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DN AXIOM 162: Pain is the balk of effort by counter-effort in great intensity, whether that effort is to remain at rest or in motion.
Pain is the manifestation of misalignment of great intensity. Thus, a lot of pain must underlie those who are in the mental asylum. A lot of pain must underlie those who have lost all hope.
PM AXIOM 162: Pain exists when there is too much randomity of sensations to be assimilated.
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DN AXIOM 163: Perception, including pain, can be exhausted from an area of plus or minus randomity, still leaving the effort and counter-effort of that plus or minus randomity.
Exhaustion of perception and pain means straightening out of all the misalignment.
PM AXIOM 163: Perception, including pain, can be exhausted by assimilating the randomity of all sensations, only the memory remains.
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DN AXIOM 164: The rationality of the mind depends upon an optimum reaction toward time.
DEFINITION: Sanity, the computation of futures.
DEFINITION: Neurotic, the computation of present time only.
DEFINITION: Psychotic, computation only of past situations.
Space and time are aspects of inherent motion. As motion slows down, space contracts, time becomes more enduring, attention withdraws from the future, and rationality becomes compromised.
PM AXIOM 164: As reaction toward time slows, the rationality retreats from future to past unhandled concerns.
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DN AXIOM 165: Survival pertains only to the future.
COROLLARY: Succumb pertains only to the present and past.
The organism is naturally focused on future evolution. As it gets overwhelmed by increasing counter-efforts and lack of assimilation, it gets introverted in handling that from present and past.
PM AXIOM 165: The organism is naturally focused on future evolution. Lack of assimilation forces its attention to present and past.
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