Reference: The Book of Scientology
I Am-I Am Not
Please see the original section at the link above.
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Summary
Hubbard says, “The only true identity is ‘myself.’ It is not a name, it is not a designation.” People confuse themselves with orders, titles, ranks, praise and enduring fame. These are just fixed identifications. Such fixations have their liabilities. When a person assigns the concept of infinite mind to a God and swears allegiance to it, he denies his own responsibility for anything. He becomes a nothing.
To Hubbard, mankind does not depend upon or share a portion of the infinite mind. Each person is potentially an infinite mind in his own right. There can be multiplicity of infinite minds. Each infinite mind can produce an infinity of space. Infinite mind is individualistic. Thus, there can be many gods. This is how Hubbard defines individualism.
Hubbard says, “There is a psychosis which has as its manifestation the illusion that one is God and the ruler of the universe.” A person in this frame of mind mistakenly believes that the MEST universe represents the power of God, and he has that power. To him, the MEST universe is the only reality. He has forgotten that he can create his own reality. When a person identifies himself with his body and name, he is confusing identity with his own sense of beingness.
Hubbard says, “Individuality is really not possible in the presence of sharply defined identity.” But then he gives individuality a sharply defined boundary in terms of its ability to postulate, or what it postulates. Anyway, the change in Hubbard’s thinking at this stage was to use creative processing and postulate processing rather than the processing of MEST universe facsimiles.
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Comments
The mathematical truth is that it is possible to divide an infinity into multiple infinities; or, to combine multiple infinities into an infinity. But, to Hubbard, the multiple infinities of individualism cannot be combined into a single infinite individuality. There is something in Hubbard’s theory that keeps the individualities unalterably separate or fixed.
In truth, “Myself” is not something fixed, because any fixation limits a person’s perception. He cannot look past his fixations. But the infinite mind is not fixated even by the boundaries of individuality. If there is any individuality it is only for the moment. It may be looked upon as “concentrated attention.” There are no eternally permanent individualities. An individuality also goes through the cycle of creation, continuation and dissolution like any MEST object.
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