Reference: The Dianetics Axioms
L. Ron Hubbard found that man is obeying very definite laws and rules which could be set forward in axioms. The very first and most fundamental of these is: The dynamic principle of existence is survive. That is the basic axiom of Dianetics.
The original Dianetic axioms are referenced below in black.
In color are corresponding axioms as seen through Postulate Mechanics (PM).
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Executive Summary 2025
Every thought is preceded by unknowable sensation. Thought is used to give meaning to sensations and make all those meanings consistent with each other. This is called assimilation of sensations into perceptions.
Assimilation produces optimum motion. Loss of optimum motion appears as pain. All effort of the organism is directed toward converting randomity of motion into optimum motion. The control center of the organism represents optimized motion.
When the control center is overwhelmed by randomity, it becomes unconscious. Randomity that overcomes the control center may appear as an alternative personality. The organism is unaware of such alternative personality.
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Axioms 121-135
DN AXIOM 121: Every thought has been preceded by physical action.
Thought arises whenever there is something not known. It arises as the basic mechanism that generates knowingness. For example, when a number of observations exist, and the relationships among those observations are not clear, then one postulates a theory to explain those relationships. A postulate is an original thought.
What is not known is sensed as a confusion. The appropriate thought converts the sensation of confusion into perception.
PM AXIOM 121: Every thought has been preceded by an unknowable sensation.
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DN AXIOM 122: The mind does with thought as it has done with entities in the physical universe.
Giving appropriate meaning to the unknown sensation amounts to assimilating that sensation. It the sensation is complex and condensed it may have to be unbundled before it can be properly assimilated. Assimilation requires that the thoughts or meanings assigned to sensations are consistent. The mind essentially assimilates the sensations in this way using thoughts.
PM AXIOM 122: The mind uses thought to assimilate the sensations received.
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DN AXIOM 123: All effort concerned with pain is concerned with loss.
Organisms hold pain and engrams to them as a latent effort to prevent loss of some portion of the organism. All loss is a loss of motion.
An engram is a complex cluster of sensations that needs to be assimilated. The high intensity of those sensations is felt as pain. There is effort by managing thought to assimilate such pain of the engram. The lack of assimilation means that optimum motion is missing. The effort is, therefore, to establish optimum motion. The attempt to reestablish optimum motion may appear as handling a loss.
PM AXIOM 123: All effort concerned with pain is concerned with loss of optimum motion.
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DN AXIOM 124: The amount of counter-effort the organism can overcome is proportional to the THETA endowment of the organism, modified by the physique of that organism.
The THETA endowment of the organism is the the aligned motion that exists within it. The greater is its aligned motion the more easily it can overcome the misalignments of the counter-efforts. This also requires alignment of the physique of the organism.
PM AXIOM 124: The amount of counter-effort the organism can overcome is proportional to its state of assimilation.
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DN AXIOM 125: Excessive counter-effort to the effort of a life organism produces unconsciousness.
COROLLARY: Unconsciousness gives the suppression of an organism’s control center by counter-effort.
DEFINITION: The control center of the organism can be defined as the contact point between THETA and the physical universe and is that center which is aware of being aware and which has charge of and responsibility for the organism along all its dynamics.
Excessive counter-effort can overwhelm the effort of the organism. There is simply too much misalignment for the organism to overcome. When that misalignment overpowers the organism unconsciousness results. Unconsciousness is the drowning of perception, which occurs as the organism becomes misaligned, and its control center is suppressed. The control center is the alignment of the mental matrix that determines the awareness of the organism.
PM AXIOM 125: Excessive counter-effort to the effort of a life organism produces unconsciousness.
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DN AXIOM 126: Perceptions are always received in the control center of an organism whether the control center is in control of the organism at the time or not.
This is an explanation for the assumption of valences.
The mental matrix assimilates the incoming sensations to produce perception and awareness for the organism. A condition of alignment of mental and physical circuits exists. When the sensations of excessive counter-efforts cannot be assimilated, they form their own pockets within the mental matrix, and develop their own separate interface with the body circuits. These pockets, when activated, serve as alternate personality that bypasses organism’s awareness. This is called a valence in Scientology. It has very limited reasoning ability. Its “perceptions” are not available to the organism.
PM AXIOM 126: Unassimilated sensations may appear as an alternate personality with a limited control center.
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DN AXIOM 127: All perceptions reaching the organism’s sense channels are recorded and stored by THETA FACSIMILE.
DEFINITION: Perception is the process of recording data from the physical universe and storing it as a THETA FACSIMILE.
DEFINITION: Recall is the process of regaining perceptions.
The sense channels receive sensations and not perceptions. Only when these sensations are assimilated do perceptions come about. Those sensations that do not get assimilated get embedded in the mental matrix as a recording, which Hubbard calls Theta facsimiles. These facsimiles cannot be perceived. Perceptions exist as matrix elements and not as recordings. Recall is the process of reconstructing perceptions based on the time stamp of matrix elements.
PM AXIOM 127: Sensations get assimilated as elements of mental matrix, which then combine to provide perceptions. Only unassimilated sensations appear as recordings.
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DN AXIOM 128: Any organism can recall everything which it has perceived.
The purpose of recall is to make better sense out of what is being perceived in the present to evaluate the immediate future. Ultimately, it has to do with assimilation of experience.
PM AXIOM 128: Any organism can assimilate everything that it has sensed, and then recall it.
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DN AXIOM 129: An organism displaced by plus or minus randomity is thereafter remote from the perception recording center.
Increased remoteness brings about occlusions of perceptions. One can perceive things in present time and then, because they are being recorded after they passed THETA perception of the awareness unit, they are recorded but cannot be recalled.
Sensations containing plus and minus randomity are difficult to assimilate. They do not get converted into perceptions. The organism is not aware of them. They are considered to be “occluded.” The unassimilated sensations are embedded waiting to be assimilated. The unassimilated sensations cannot be recalled as perceptions. It may appear that the organism is displaced by the randomity and has become remote.
PM AXIOM 129: Unassimilated sensations cannot be perceived or recalled because they are yet to be converted into perceptions.
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DN AXIOM 130: THETA FACSIMILES of counter-effort are all that interpose between the control center and its recalls.
PM AXIOM 130: Lack of assimilation is all that interposes between the control center and its recalls.
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DN AXIOM 131: Any counter-effort received into a control center is always accompanied by all perceptics.
The force of impact which gives the pc an engram is a counter-effort. Counter-efforts are received as sensations. The sensations are then converted into perceptions upon assimilation.
PM AXIOM 131: Any counter-effort is received into a control center as a complete package of sensations.
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DN AXIOM 132: The random counter-efforts to an organism and the intermingled perceptions in the randomity can re-exert that force upon an organism when restimulated.
DEFINITION: Restimulation is the reactivation of a past counter-effort by appearance in the organism’s environment of a similarity toward the content of the past randomity area.
The engram containing the sensations of random counter-efforts becomes embedded in the mental matrix waiting to be assimilated. Similar sensation when received in the present can reactivate the embedded engram making its sensations impinge on the organism. This mechanism is called restimulation.
PM AXIOM 132: Unassimilated sensations can re-exert their force upon an organism when activated by the receipt of similar sensations.
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DN AXIOM 133: Self-determinism alone brings about the mechanism of restimulation.
Self-determinism is the inherent drive to bring about maximal continuity, consistency and harmony of Oneness among all content of the mental matrix. This drive is manifested in the effort to assimilate. Restimulation is the activation of unassimilated sensations. The activation occurs because of the inherent drive to assimilate.
PM AXIOM 133: The inherent drive of self-determinism to assimilate brings about the mechanism of restimulation.
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DN AXIOM 134: A reactivated area of the past randomity impinges the effort and the perceptions upon the organism.
The randomity of past counter-effort exists within the organism as unassimilated sensations. When such sensations are reactivated by the receipt of similar sensations, they impinge upon the organism in the form of those counter-efforts and perceptions of the past.
PM AXIOM 134: A reactivated area of the past randomity influences the effort and the perceptions of the organism.
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DN AXIOM 135: Activation of a randomity area is accomplished first by the perceptions, then by the pain, finally by the effort.
The randomity area is activated first by the perceptions, then by the pain, and finally by the effort encountered by the organism.
PM AXIOM 135: Activation of a randomity area is accomplished first by the perceptions, then by the pain, finally by the effort.
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