Reference: The Book of Scientology
Postulate Processing
Please see the original section at the link above.
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Summary
Postulate processing is that processing which addresses the postulates, evaluations and conclusions of a person at the level of self-determined thought.
Hubbard says, “Actually energy is produced by the thetan simply by postulating that it will be in existence.” A thetan represents beingness of the person. It may appear to be the source of a postulate, but the thetan itself is a postulate. So the actual source of the postulate is unknowable, and the thetan itself is a part of the postulate that appears. The self-determination boils down to full awareness of the postulate.
Hubbard says, “This condition has been misused by most thetans.” This means that many postulates have violated the constraint of oneness (continuity, consistency and harmony). When that happens we have an anomaly, and aberrations follow. These aberrations are erroneously assigned to the thetan, instead of recognizing them as violations of oneness, and focusing on resolving those violations.
Hubbard says, “The thetan… has set up the postulate that every time he makes a postulate a reverse postulate will occur which he will not know about.” The truth is that a postulate is made to know the Unknowable; and one knows with certainty only when the postulate fulfills the constraint of oneness. The actual dichotomy is “Unknowable-knowable.” But Hubbard shifts this dichotomy to “Know-know not” as if one knows and then decides to know not. That is an arbitrary reversal and an aberration.
Hubbard says, “It is not true that postulates have to be located all through the facsimiles and worn out by repetition.” A facsimile exists only because there is an anomaly (discontinuity, inconsistency or disharmony). Going through the facsimile again and again may not resolve the anomaly, because its resolution may require awareness in a larger context than the facsimile provides. That larger context may be obtained by using the principle of oneness.
Hubbard says, “The most aberrative things in that facsimile are what the preclear himself decided.” This means that the evaluations and conclusion are made without reevaluating beingness. Here we have a fixation on beingness. This may violate the principle of oneness. As this fixation continues the evaluations and conclusions become increasingly unwieldy.
Hubbard says, “When doing creative processing and moving objects and energy in created space and time, the preclear is doing this by making postulates.” Hubbard doesn’t recognize that space and time are by-products of substance (thought, radiation and matter). The postulate of beingness, which is taken for granted, provides the background of space and time. The subsequent postulates for motion of radiation and objects then provide additional space and time. It is not clear how one postulates space and time directly as Hubbard assumes.
Hubbard says, “Moving time, as in any other postulate is knowingness not viewingness.” Unfortunately, under the guise of knowingness, anything can be assumed, without having to explain it. Hubbard ignores the scientific method that operates on the principle of oneness, and allows postulates to be made arbitrarily without knowable constraints in his theory.
Hubbard says, “The entire subject of postulates is the subject of certainty and self-belief.” This is where self-hypnotism comes in under the guise of knowingness. This is the key to understanding where Scientology has gone wrong. Once the principle of oneness is applied as a constraint in making postulates, a person can run postulate processing with certainty, and aberrations are handled rapidly.
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Comments
What is missing in Hubbard’s theory is the first natural law that applies to thought. This law is the principle of ONENESS. This principle acts as the overall constraint to what can be postulated. When no rules or laws are applied, aberrations enter into one’s perception and thinking.
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