Monthly Archives: April 2023

KHTK Factor # 3

April 23, 2023 – 5:12 AM

Reference: The KHTK Factors

KHTK Factor # 3: The being is the viewpoint. 

The beingness has the goal to know the Unknowable; and it acquires certain behavior characteristics, which are quite flexible. We may refer to these characteristics as constituting the viewpoint, which shapes the view of beingness. This is the being.

Each being is a specific viewpoint, which is fluid and not fixed. All beings together form a consistent whole per the principle of oneness.

Any fixation is unnatural. A common fixation shows up as the desire for immortality. This desire keeps the being tied to samsara (the phenomenal world).

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Scientology

Compare the above to the following factor in Scientology.

Scientology Factor # 3. The first action of beingness is to assume a viewpoint.

In Scientology, the beingness is called theta, and the being is called thetan. Viewpoint as a point of awareness from which the thetan (not theta) can perceive.

Scientology believes thetan to be eternal like God.

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Logic

The ideal scene of logic is defined by the principle of oneness. Logics starts with the postulates. All postulates are part of a consistent whole per logic. Beingness and all beings are part of that consistent whole.

PRINCIPLE OF ONENESS
Oneness does not imply sameness. Oneness means that all that is known is continuous, consistent and harmonious. This principle of oneness underlies the very concept of the universe. It also underlies the Scientific method. This principle gives us the ideal scene for logic, because its violation gives us anomalies. 

ANOMALY
An anomaly is any violation of the principle of oneness, such as, discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), or disharmony (arbitrary data).

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KHTK Factor # 1-1

April 21, 2023 – 5:04 PM

Reference: The KHTK Factors

KHTK Factor # 1-1: In the beginning and forever is the ability to postulate and become aware.

One knows by able to postulate and become aware of what one has postulated. To postulate is to put something there as truth, which is to be followed up with reasoning.

Thus there is the ability to postulate and to become aware. In the deepest sense, this ability defines each one of us. This is the ’Self’ of the Vedas (written with the upper case ‘S’). This ability is symbolized as SHAKTI, compared to the Unknowable, which is symbolized as SHIVA.

Thus, SHIVA is attempting to know itself through its SHAKTI.

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Scientology

In Scientology, the ability to postulate and to become aware is not stated explicitly. Instead, it is assumed to be part of the general concept of Cause. See KHTK Factor # 1.

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Logic

In the beginning, there is the Unknowable; and the ability to postulate and to be aware per KHTK.

In Scientology, there is only the general concept of Cause.

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KHTK Factor # 1

April 20, 2023 – 5:31 AM

Reference: The KHTK Factors

KHTK Factor # 1: Before the beginning was the Unknowable and the entire purpose of the Unknowable was to know itself.

We do not know about the cause of the universe, nor do we know about the beginning of the universe. What keeps the universe running eternally, is also unknowable. Neither religion nor science has any clue to it.

It is, therefore, natural to start with the postulate of Unknowable. The ancients have symbolized the Unknowable as BRAHMA or SHIVA. The Unknowable has been described beautifully in The Creation Hymn of Rig Veda.

The Unknowable has also been part of the philosophy of Herbert Spencer. See HERBERT SPENCER: The Unknowable.

In Scientology, the Unknowable is described as a “knowable” STATIC, which is very confusing. See The Definition of STATIC.

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Scientology

Compare the above to the following factor in Scientology.

Scientology Factor # 1. Before the beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect.

Scientology defines the Unknowable as Static; but it also assigns Cause as a property to this Static. A causative Static is the postulate with which the philosophy of Scientology begins. Thus, its philosophy identifies everything with either cause or effect.

In Scientology, even the Unknowable is identified with cause making it knowable.

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Logic

Eastern philosophy starts from a point of Unknowingness; whereas, the Western philosophy starts from a point of Knowingness. This is reflected in the God of Abrahamic religions, and in the Know to Mystery Scale of Scientology.

Nobody can make the claim to Total knowingness. No matter how much we know, there is always more to know. Logically, the background of knowingness is unknowingness. It is not the other way around.

Logic begins with postulates.

Wisdom begins when we know that we don’t really know.

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Comments on the L Rundowns

April 19, 2023 – 9:19 AM

Reference: The L Processes

The above is some interesting data on the L Rundowns as applied in the Church of Scientology.

The Ls are the ultimate processes of Scientology that drill into the mind as fast as possible and resolve some of its aberrations as quickly as possible. Scientology charges you hundreds of thousands of dollars for the three L Rundowns (L10, L11 and L12) referred to above, but the results are not guaranteed within a defined period of time.

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The Philosophy of Auditing

The philosophy of Dianetics and Scientology has always been to drill into the mind as fast as possible and resolve its aberrations as quickly as possible. In other words, the auditing approaches the mind at a very high gradient. This makes the result quick and quite significant in the beginning, but then they peter out. This is because the resistance of the mind builds up just as quickly. Then you look for more powerful rundown to drill deeper into the mind.

This is not optimum because there is an increased possibility of the “walls of the mind” collapsing and resulting in insanity.

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Meditation

Meditation has been practiced since ancient times, and it has been a relatively safe practice. However, the understanding of meditation has been diluted with its mass promotion around the world.

As it is practiced today, meditation has become a very low gradient approach to addressing the mind. The results are few and far in between. Not many people have the patience to practice meditation in their day-to day life.

The optimum approach is somewhere between “meditation” and “auditing.”

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The Universe and the Individual

According to Postulate Mechanics, you can address the aberrations of the mind on a proper gradient when you understand the Basic Postulates and the Postulates of Beingness.

To understand how aberrations come about, look up The Self, The Identification, The Beingness, and The Individual.

The individual is, therefore, that aspect of the universe that is evolving continually by handling anomalies.

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Handling the Mind

All you have to know to handle the mind is the following:

(1) On the surface, the aberrations come from traumatic experiences; but, as you go deeper into the mind, the aberrations arise from identifications that define one’s very make-up.

(2) The identifications lead to misjudgments and misconceptions that appear as corrupted desire, intention or purpose, which are common to many experiences of ordinary life. They group the somatics of many experiences together; so, you cannot really run them as a single incident as in Dianetics.

(3) Such composite “incidents” appear as dream-like symbolizations, similar to those in myths and space opera of science fiction. Scientology attempts to address them on the OT Levels as GPMs.

(4) The GPMs are structured as “unassimilated impressions” in the mental matrix. Such impression are also transmitted to a person through DNA from his ancestors. These impressions are continually modified by the person’s experiences during life—both ordinary and traumatic.

(5) These “unassimilated impressions” can best be resolved by following the trail of Fixations. The trail leads to the Anomalies to be resolved in the proper sequence.

(6) The Postulate Mechanics and The Book of Subject Clearing shall assist you with the know-how to handle these anomalies.

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Physics II: Chapter 3

April 18, 2023 – 5:54 PM

Reference: Beginning Physics II

Chapter 3: COULOMB’S LAW AND ELECTRIC FIELDS

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KEY WORD LIST

Electric Charge, Electric Force, Law Of Conservation Of Charge, Conductors, Ground, Coulomb’s Law, Electric Field, Electric Field Lines, Flux Density, Flux, Flux Density, Gauss’ Law (for Electric Field), Gaussian Surface

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GLOSSARY

For details on the following concepts, please consult Chapter 3.

ELECTRIC CHARGE
Electric charge is created when amber rod is rubbed with fur. By convention, the charge on amber rod is considered positive and that on the fur is considered negative. In ordinary matter, negative charge is carried by electrons, and positive charge is carried by the protons in the nuclei of atoms. Atoms are neutral because the number of electrons surrounding the nucleus equals the number of protons in the nucleus.  A point charge that is static requires a material base to exist on, which is usually an atom or a molecule. The negative charge is the material base with an additional electron. The positive charge is a material base lacking an electron. Charge is measured in units of Coulomb (C). The magnitude of the charge of an electron (e) is 1.602 x 10-19 C.

ELECTRIC FORCE
All charged particles exert a force on each other called the electric force. When one separates the charges one can explore the force between them. It is found that the force is one of attraction between charges of opposite polarity and of repulsion between charges of like polarity. Furthermore, the magnitude of the force decreases as the charges move further apart.

LAW OF CONSERVATION OF CHARGE
This law requires that the total amount of charge remains unchanged. If one starts with uncharged materials the initial charge present is zero. Then the total charge after it has been separated must still add to zero, requiring that there be equal amounts of positive and negative charge present.

CONDUCTORS
In many materials, called conductors, there are some charges, usually electrons in the outer reaches of the atoms, which are free to move in the material. If the conducting material is uncharged, then the electrons are uniformly distributed in the material, with each electron being attracted to a fixed, positively charged nucleus. If other charges are inserted in the conductor, then the free charges move in response to the electrical forces that occur. Since it is the electrons that move, a piece of conductor can be given a negative charge by adding some electrons from elsewhere, or a positive charge by removing some electrons to another location. This charge is found distributed on the surface of the conductor because similar charges repels each and they end up on the surface where the area is maximum to spread out on. The interior of the conductor remains neutral. when a charged conductor is brought close to a neutral conductor, it creates an opposite charge on the surface of the second conductor.

GROUND
The ground is a large uncharged reservoir.

COULOMB’S LAW
Coulomb’s law is the quantitative law which gives the force between two charged particles. It states that the magnitude of the electrostatic force of attraction or repulsion between two point charges is directly proportional to the product of the magnitudes of charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

Here, ke is the Coulomb constant (ke ≈ 8.988 × 109 N⋅m2⋅C−2), q1 and q2 are the assigned magnitudes of the charges, and the scalar r is the distance between the charges.

The direction of the force is along the line joining the charges. If the charges are of the same sign, then the force is one of repulsion, i.e. it is directed away from q1, while if the charges are of opposite sign then the force is one of attraction, i.e. it is directed toward q1. Of course, there will also be a force exerted by q2 on q1, which will have the same magnitude as the force on q2 but will be in the opposite direction.

NOTE: Like the gravitational force, the electric force is also looked upon as “action at a distance.” The formula for the magnitude of the force is identical in form to that for the gravitational force between two masses. On an atomic and molecular scale, gravitational forces are negligible compared to electrical forces and can almost invariably be neglected.

ELECTRIC FIELD
An electric field is the physical field that surrounds electrically charged particles and exerts force on all other charged particles in the field, either attracting or repelling them. It also refers to the physical field for a system of charged particles. The electric field is defined as a vector field that associates to each point in space the electrostatic (Coulomb) force per unit of charge exerted on an infinitesimal positive test charge at rest at that point. The derived SI unit for the electric field is the newton per coulomb (N/C).

Suppose one has an electric field E at a certain position in space. If we now place a charge Q at that point the electric field will exert a force on the charge, given by:

F = QE

ELECTRIC FIELD LINES
A field line is a graphical visual aid for visualizing vector fields. These are lines traced through space in such a way that as the line passes through a point it always aims in the direction of the electric field at that point. One can always determine the direction of the electric field at a point in space by drawing the tangent to the electric field line going through that point. All the lines begin on positive charges and end on negative charges. It cannot happen that lines cross each other since at the point of crossing there would then be two directions for the electric field, which cannot happen.

FLUX (F)
Flux is the number of field lines passing through any given area. The field produced by the charge q has a magnitude of (1/4πε0) q/r2. Equating this to the number of field lines per unit area, we get N/4πr2 = q/4 πε0 r2, or N = q/ε0.

Choosing N, the representative number of field lines drawn from the charge q, to equal q/ε0 is particularly useful because we can now deduce the magnitude of the electric field at any point P at any distance R from the charge in terms of the lines/area at that point. The lines/area at a point P is defined as the number of lines passing through a small “window” centered on the point P and facing perpendicular to the field lines, divided by the small area of the window.

The lines/area (as defined above) when chosen to equal |E|, is called the flux density, and the number of lines passing through any given area is called the flux through that area. Flux is positive when its direction is the same as the area vector.

Note: Thinking in terms of lines/area is a very useful pictorial device for understanding the behavior of the electric field, but ultimately all the results we obtain are expressible directly in terms of the electric field E and do not depend on the artifact of lines that are drawn through space.

Noting that E cos θ is just the component of E parallel to A (area vector), we see that the flux through A is just the component of E along A times the magnitude of A:

Flux = E (cos θ) A

This is an equivalent definition of flux that needs no reference to “field lines per unit area” or other intuitive constructs.

GAUSS’ LAW (ELECTRIC FIELD)
For a closed surface, if the flux is positive then net flux leaves the surface, i.e. more lines leave the surface than enter the surface. If the sum is negative, then on net more lines have entered the surface from outside than leave. The net electric flux through any hypothetical closed surface is equal to 1/ε0 times the net electric charge enclosed within that closed surface.

where E is the total electric field due to all charges in the universe and Qin is the total charge enclosed in the surface. The closed surface is also referred to as Gaussian surface.

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Mathematical Results

See the chapter for problems and their solutions.

(1) The electric field produced by the charge on the ring:

The field at the center of the ring (P1) will be zero. The field at point P2 will be:

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(2) The electric field produced by the charge distributed uniformly on a sphere:

The magnitude of the field outside the sphere is given by E = kQ/r2, where Q is the total charge on the sphere. This is the same field that would be produced by a point charge Q located at the center of the sphere.

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(2) The electric field produced by the charge distributed uniformly on a disk:

The field at point P will be:

When one is close to the disk or “far” from the edge from planar planar charge distribution of any shape (i.e. x << R):

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(3) The electric field produced by the charge distributed uniformly on a rod:

The field at point P will be:

where Q = 2Lλ is the total charge on the rod.

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(4) The electric field produced by two oppositely charged parallel plates, where the distance between them is much smaller than the linear dimension of the charged area:

At point P1, both fields point toward the right, and the total field is therefore,

At point P2, the fields point in opposite directions, and the total field is therefore zero.

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