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Reference: A Course on the Factors

KHTK Factor # 30: The optimum action is to develop on Earth a culture that loves to resolve anomalies.

One may prescribe and teach all kind of things; but a person pursues only that activity that resolves his gravest concern.

Let us then make it easy for the person to resolve all his concerns.

Let the person develop the skills to spot anomalies in the areas of his concern.

Let us then provide him with the techniques with which to resolve those anomalies.

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Scientology

Compare the above to the following factor in Scientology.

Scientology Factor # 30. And above these things there might be speculation only. And below these things there is the playing of the game. But these things which are written here Man can experience and know. And some may care to teach these things and some may care to use them to assist those in distress and some may desire to employ them to make individuals and organizations more able and so give to Earth a culture of which we can be proud.

In these Factors, Hubbard seem to be addressing the human condition just as Buddha did. But he favors the preserving of one’s “individuality” and ends up disparaging the principle of oneness embodied in the goal of Nirvana of Buddha.

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Logic

This is the last Factor. I must say that Hubbard has derived many insights in the field of human endeavor using the modern scientific approach. His insights once aligned with the Principle of Oneness has great power in resolving much of the sufferings in the world.

I have attempted to do this in my proposed KHTK Factors.

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Reference: A Course on the Factors

KHTK Factor # 28. Freedom lies in the spotting of anomalies as discontinuities, inconsistencies and disharmonies.

The Unknowable cannot be approximated unless all the postulates, and the reasoning proceeding from postulates, form a single reality to replace that Unknowable. This oneness is best expressed in the continuity, consistency and harmony of the reality. An anomaly would be any discontinuity, inconsistency or disharmony.

We get mired into our suffering and forget that all this suffering is simply an altered form of anomalies. As we start to spot anomalies in our suffering as discontinuities, inconsistencies and disharmonies, our suffering starts to simplify and becomes much easier to handle.

All therapies are just different ways of spotting these anomalies. The most direct way of spotting and resolving anomalies is Subject Clearing.

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Scientology

Compare the above to the following factor in Scientology.

Scientology Factor # 28. The resolution of any problem posed hereby is the establishment of viewpoints and dimension points, the betterment of condition and concourse amongst dimension points, and, thereby, viewpoints, and the remedy of abundance or scarcity in all things, pleasant or ugly, by the rehabilitation of the ability of the viewpoint to assume points of view, and create and uncreate, neglect, start, change and stop dimension points of any kind at the determinism of the viewpoint. Certainty in all three universes must be regained, for certainty, not data, is knowledge.

Scientology starts with the arbitrary assumption that there is a permanent core to beingness. This may be the very first postulate that manifests as beingness. Therefore, there is a permanent attachment to this postulate or beingness, and one cannot let go of it. This attachment is responsible for continued suffering in spite of any resolutions in Scientology.

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Logic

There is no permanence underlying beingness. The only thing to hold on to is the Principle of Oneness, while resolving anomalies.

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Reference: A Course on the Factors

KHTK Factor # 26: In this universe, the anomalies manifest themselves as suffering. 

There is no permanent self that suffers. Therefore, the suffering actually exist in what is being viewed in this universe. This view consists of thoughts, emotions, sensations and feelings. As the view is resolved, so are the thoughts, emotions and effort in them.

These are the anomalies that make up the life of humans. The anomalies appear as pleasure and pain. They give rise to unreality, conflicts and all the aberrations that we see around us. It is what Buddha called birth, aging, sickness, death, sorrow and defilements.

When you look closely, the thinking, sensations, affinity, reality and communication—all reduce to  what is being viewed. The key to life is fully experiencing and understanding what is there. It is the resolution of these anomalies in our mind that leads us to experience the nirvana of Buddhism. Therein lies the ultimate truth, awareness and bliss.

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Scientology

Compare the above to the following factor in Scientology.

Scientology Factor # 26. The manifestations of pleasure and pain, of thought, emotion and effort, of thinking, of sensation, of affinity, reality, communication, of behaviour and being are thus derived and the riddles of our universe are apparently contained and answered herein.

All these things are manifestations. In other words, all these things are dimension points that are being viewed.

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Logic

We tend to identify ourselves with what we are viewing.

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