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I am originally from India. I am settled in United States since 1969. I love mathematics, philosophy and clarity in thinking.

The Mindfulness

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

Facsimiles or samskara’s corrupt one’s perception and the ability to reason. The remedy has been mindfulness since ancient times.

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Definition of MINDFULNESS

Mindfulness is a concept that was originally put forth by Buddha 2600 years ago. Buddha emphasized on seeing things as they are. He encouraged his disciples to question anything they were perplexed about regardless of how sacrosanct the subject was.  

Mindfulness is basically the effort to separate perceptions from the corrupting influence of facsimiles. The facsimiles tend to corrupt perceptions by causing hallucinations which the person ends up justifying. Such justifications compromise the ability of the person to reason correctly.

By practicing mindfulness, the person is able to spot the justifications. He closely observes the environment and notices things that do not make sense. He then observes those things more closely. The person repeats this cycle until he is able to recognize the underlying facsimile and assimilates it fully.

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Misconceptions

1. In mindfulness there is no magic involved other than looking at a scene more and more closely until all its aspects start to make sense. The person uses mindfulness exercises to develop his own judgement about how long to keep looking and in what direction. He learns to appreciate the subtle fluctuations in his understanding at any point in time. He knows when there are no more anomalies in an area.

2. Scientology auditing supposedly accomplishes the same thing, by selectively putting a person’s attention on different aspects of life. The drawback in Scientology approach is that the person’s understanding, and his sense of clarity, is continually judged by an auditor through his use of an e-meter. This continually undermines the person’s own judgement. He may be required to keep on going with a process, even after the process has accomplished its purpose.

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The Facsimile (old)

See The Engram.

Reference: Subject Clearing Mind

When sensations do not get decomposed and assimilated, they remain as unassimilated impressions, or facsimiles.

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Definition of FACSIMILE

A facsimile is a raw sensation, which has not yet been decomposed and assimilated. A person is unaware of the contents of a facsimile because these have not been given meaning by the mental matrix. This is the case with sensations from traumas that are too compact to be decomposed.

Such facsimiles may said to be recordings because when they are examined closely they start to decompose and give a literal impression, which is inconsistent with the present context. This is different from memories because memories appear when one recalls them consciously knowing their context. Memories do not exist as recordings in the mind; they are recombinations of existing matrix elements by their known time characteristics.

The ‘past life memories’ are actually very old facsimiles decomposing for the first time. They are startling because their time characteristics do not fit with the present. A person then recalls them again and again to make sense out of them. Such old facsimiles are said to be carried forward on the genetic line from one beingness to another with a different body. Just because they are common to two beingness, does not necessarily make them the same beingness, but one may think that way.

The facsimiles behind ‘past life memories’ were known in Buddha’s time as  ’samskara’. They were said to determine the deep-seated tendencies of a person that he could not control. These ’samskara’ depended on a person’s past ‘karma.’

Partially assimilated facsimiles, when activated, tend to aberrate one’s perceptions and the reasoning resulting from them.

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Misconceptions

1. It is a misconception to think that the ‘past life memories’ are a person’s own memories from a past life. They are actually unassimilated impressions that a past beingness gathered and have been passed on to a present beingness to be resolved through assimilation. They are also known as past ‘karmas’ of a person. They are basically facsimiles that needs to be decomposed and assimilated.

2. In Scientology, the facsimiles are categorized as Engrams, Secondaries and Locks that are connected in ‘chains’ on a time track. However, a chain of engrams, secondaries and locks is just a single facsimile.

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The Perception (Memory, Imagination, Hallucination)

Please see Postulate Mechanics.

The assimilation of sensation brings about perception. Lack of assimilation causes a corruption of perception, or simply no perception but with discomfort, anxiety and some imagination.

Definition of PERCEPTION

Perception is the instant interpretation by the mind of what is sensed by the sense organs. The elements of such sensations collect in the mental matrix and may be used again. 

These elements may be recombined and recalled, in which case they are perceived as MEMORY. 

These elements may be combined knowingly and creatively for some purpose, in which case they are perceived as IMAGINATION.

These elements may combine themselves in unexpected ways in response to stimuli, in which case they are perceived as HALLUCINATION.

We normally perceive what is there mixed with some memory, imagination and hallucination.

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Misconceptions

In the absence of the concepts of perceptual elements and mental matrix, many phenomena related to the mind are difficult to understand. For example, personal anomalies are perceived when one becomes aware of discontinuities, inconsistencies and disharmonies among the elements of the mental matrix.

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The Sensation

Reference: Subject Clearing Mind

The data which the mind operates on, first appears as sensations.

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Definition of SENSATION

Sensations are produced when the universe impinges on the beingness. Sensation implies a beginning of implicit awareness, which then leads to explicit perception.

There are implicit mental sensations that result from the detection of the substance of thought, such as, feelings and emotions. Then there are explicit physical sensations that result from the detection of the substance of energy and matter, such as, touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell.

The implicit and explicit senses may combine into more complex sensations, such as that of gravity, orientation in space, body position, heat, cold, electrical, magnetic, hunger, satisfaction, pain, and pleasure.

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Misconceptions

There may be confusion between implicit sensations and explicit perceptions. These will be listed here as they are encountered.

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The Mental Matrix

Please see Postulate Mechanics

The Mental Matrix

The core of the Individual is a physical body, which is enveloped in a thinking mind. The current understanding of the mind is based on either the conscious/unconscious model of Freud; or on the analytical/reactive model of Hubbard. But none of these models explain what is happening in the mind.

We apply the mathematical notion of matrix to Beingness. The individual is a matrix of physical elements surrounded by a matrix of mental elements. Physical implies matter and energy; mental implies thought. We call physical matrix the body; and the mental matrix the mind. The mental elements may be referred to as “percels” (perceptual elements) because the mind produces perception by organizing these elements.

When the mind senses, it breaks those sensations into percels, and assimilates them into the mental matrix. The assimilation establishes continuity, consistency and harmony among the percels. The degree of assimilation determines the clarity of the perception generated.

All the information is present in the sensations, but it is not available until complete assimilation takes place. Lack of assimilation occurs when there are Fixations in the mind in the form of lack of differentiation. This affects the clarity of both the perception and the memories.

The fixation, or the lack of differentiation, manifests as aberrations in the functioning of body and mind. The individual, therefore, behaves erratically. Such aberrations are made up of the anomalies of discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), and disharmony (arbitrary data).

It is this fixation that makes the “observer” appear separate from the “observed.” In the absence of fixations the observer and observed simply reduce to an awareness of Oneness. The individual then operates in perfect coordination with other individuals.

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Misconception

It is a misconception that all experiences are available from the mind like perfect recordings. The criterion for truth is the Oneness of what one is aware of.

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More Misconceptions

You may discover more misconceptions on your own, if you contemplate on each sentence of the above definition with mindfulness. Please see:

The 12 Aspects of Mindfulness

Then, you may end up improving upon this definition too.

Good luck!

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