Reference: The Book of Scientology
General Processing
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Summary
Hubbard says, “Anything which rehabilitates the self-determinism of a preclear… is valid processing.” It seems that processing is valid only when it reduces the fixation of the person, because fixations prevent the person from perceiving and lead to aberrations. Reducing fixation is a better criterion than rehabilitating self-determinism, because “self” in self-determinism can be a fixation.
Hubbard says, “I have concluded that those processes which make it possible for the preclear to disagree with the MEST universe also make it possible for him to handle the MEST universe.” This is Hubbard’s view of creative processing. But, the creative processing seems to resolve a person’s fixations on the MEST universe by helping him discover his misconceptions.
To Hubbard, improvement is increasing the ability of a person to control his environment. It is to improve the person’s ability to postulate and reason instead of addressing his physical disabilities. The body is just a programmed entity that operates on a stimulus-response basis. It is a tool for the person to control. Once the person is more able, he can take care of the body. Hubbard believes that the ability to postulate and reason can be improved independently of the body. He even believes that the person can operate without the body.
Hubbard says, “[MEST] is found to possess a craving which does not make the MEST alive but which speaks of that which made the MEST… The body’s being composed of such energy makes it feel as though it is holding on to the thetan.” Thus, Hubbard postulates a tension that a person must overcome with respect to his body. Hubbard doesn’t look at “body-mind-spirit” as a single system. He separates “body with its reactions” from “spirit with its faculties” as if they are two independent entities..
Hubbard says, “Processing must resolve this havingness on the part of matter, and the commandingness on the part of space.” He postulates MEST to be the product of theta, but can’t understand why MEST is so overwhelming. He protests against the law of conservation of energy and matter; and desperately wants for theta to be able to create and control MEST unconditionally. This is an arbitrary postulate.
Hubbard postulates that the MEST laws are based solely upon agreement of individual beingnesses; and so it should be possible to abolish the natural laws by disagreeing with them. This, again, is an arbitrary postulate.
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Comments
The universe is basically a manifestation of the principle of Oneness from which it derives its cohesiveness and strength. But, Hubbard forcefully rejects oneness as the overall constraint for the sane evolution of the universe. He is unwilling to confront and understand the MEST universe, and rejects it outright.
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