Reference: The Book of Scientology
Matter
Please see the original section at the link above.
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Summary
The following observation of Hubbard is simply brilliant:
“Matter is a condensation of energy. The more energy condenses, the less space it occupies and the greater its endurance becomes. A flow of energy has a brief duration. Flows of energy meeting and causing ridges obtain greater solidity and longer duration.
“The solidification of matter is found to be itself duration or time. Energy becomes matter if condensed. Matter becomes energy if dispersed.”
In processing, the freer-flowing and more instantaneous forms of substance, which is energy, are labelled “action”; and, and the more solid and enduring forms of substance, which is matter, are labelled “having.” In order to “have” something, proper effort in terms of “action” is required.
The “action” and “having” requires postulation of thought from a point of awareness, or viewpoint. The thought then leads to action and having.
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Comments
It is a great insight of Hubbard to see matter as a condensation of energy, and how this condensation also condenses the space and time, which represent the dimension and duration of energy and matter. The ridges caused by energy are the beginning of matter.
Hubbard sees space as independent of substance, but this is not so. Thought has thought-space, energy has energy-space and matter has matter-space. Matter is not floating in a void. Matter is floating in energy-space; and energy is floating in thought-space.
The human viewpoint is limited in its ability to see things as they are, and so it makes errors.
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