KHTK Factor # 18: The human viewpoint sees suffering and survival among these forms, and it endeavors to resolve it through prayer, meditation, art, and science.
The human effort is to make life better by resolving suffering. Prayer is the longing for freedom from suffering. Meditation is an effort to let go of existing conditioning. Art is the search for new viewpoints that go beyond the mundane human existence. Science uses a more systematic approach to covert vision into reality. Here we have the evolution of human thought.
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Scientology
Compare the above to the following factor in Scientology.
Scientology Factor # 18. It is the opinion of the viewpoints that some of these forms should endure. Thus there is survival.
Any opinion must have a purpose underlying it. The purpose to simply create an effect is without substance. It is empty and hollow.
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Logic
Logic must have the purpose to resolve anomalies; and not just to have opinions to create effect.
KHTK Factor # 17: A person’s universe is made up of what he has thought—good or bad. It is all one reality. But a person sees only what he considers, and not the totality of that reality.
Buddha said, “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.” Whatever good or bad is happening to us is based on our thoughts. You cannot say that all that is good is the result of your thoughts, and all that is bad is the result of some other person’s thought.
Reality is out there. We are trying to approximate that reality with our postulates and reasoning. We are as close to that reality as we are integrated in our thoughts. When we assign our thoughts to somebody else, we lose that integration, because we think we are no longer responsible for those thoughts. That is the source of all that is bad.
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Scientology
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Scientology Factor # 17. And the opinion of the viewpoint regulates the consideration of the forms, their stillness or their motion, and these considerations consist of assignment of beauty or ugliness to the forms and these considerations alone are art.
According to Hubbard, one is creating his own universe through his considerations. He says, “One’s own universe is amenable to instantaneous creation and destruction, by himself and without argument.” This is not so. A person is bound by his own postulates that determine his individuality. He can create and destroy only within the bounds of those postulates. All his opinions that regulate the considerations of forms are limited by the postulates that determine his individuality.
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Logic
The logic of an individual is constrained by the illusion of his individuality.
KHTK Factor # 16: The postulates and the reasoning proceeding from them, become increasingly complex as they are used to fill gaps in knowledge. Thus come about complexity of forms and their motion.
In the beginning there is Unknowable, which is sensed in a way that cannot be described; therefore, postulates are made to describe it. Reasoning proceeds from these postulates for better descriptions: but there still are aspects that cannot be described. So further postulates are made.
This cycle keeps repeating, and the description of the Unknowable becomes increasingly complex. It starts to take more substantial shape, which then gradually turn into more solid forms.
Thus comes about the universe.
The universe of galaxies, stars and solar systems is relatively simple. It starts to become complex as self-animation enters the scene. As this self-animated life learns to reproduce itself and evolve, the various forms and their motions become increasingly complex.
Finally, we end up with a very complex universe with capable forms and intelligent motion in it.
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Scientology
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Scientology Factor # 16. The viewpoint can combine dimension points into forms and the forms can be simple or complex and can be at different distances from the viewpoints and so there can be combinations of form. And the forms are capable of motion and the viewpoints are capable of motion and so there can be motion of forms.
It appears that the dimension points and viewpoints are two different designations for the same things.
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Logic
Here we have a logical view of evolution that is a bit more detailed.
“The term ‘physics’ is derived from this Greek word [physis] and meant…, originally, the endeavour of seeing the essential nature of all things… The Milesians… saw no distinction between animate and inanimate, spirit and matter. In fact, they did not even have a word for matter, since they saw all forms of existence as manifestations of the ‘physis’, endowed with life and spirituality…
“Heraclitus [c. 535 – c. 475] believed in a world of perpetual change, of eternal ‘Becoming’. For him, all static Being was based on deception and his universal principle was fire, a symbol for the continuous flow and change of all things. Heraclitus taught that all changes in the world arise from the dynamic and cyclic interplay of opposites and he saw any pair of opposites as a unity. This unity, which contains and transcends all opposing forces, he called the Logos.
“The split of this unity began with the Eleatic school, which assumed a Divine Principle standing above all gods and men. This principle was first identified with the unity of the universe, but was later seen as an intelligent and personal God who stands above the world and directs it. Thus began a trend of thought which led, ultimately, to the separation of spirit and matter and to a dualism which became characteristic of Western philosophy.
“A drastic step in this direction was taken by Parmenides of Elea [c. 515/540 -c. 450] who was in strong opposition to Heraclitus. He called his basic principle the Being and held that it was unique and invariable. He considered change to be impossible and regarded the changes we seem to perceive in the world as mere illusions of the senses. The concept of an indestructible substance as the subject of varying properties grew out of this philosophy and became one of the fundamental concepts of Western thought.
“In the fifth century B.C., the Greek philosophers tried to overcome the sharp contrast between the views of Parmenides and Heraclitus. In order to reconcile the idea of unchangeable Being (of Parmenides) with that of eternal Becoming (of Heraclitus), they assumed that the Being is manifest in certain invariable substances, the mixture and separation of which gives rise to the changes in the world.”
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Parallel to Buddha’s principle of anatta in the East, is Heraclitus’ theory of perpetual change in the West. This happened just about the same time. A departure from this view was championed by Parmenides, who came up with the principle of Being. This principle was first identified with the unity of the universe, but was later seen as an intelligent and personal God who stands above the world and directs it. This departure came about from the logic to have a stable reference point for the perpetual change.
But for Buddha, underlying the principle of anatta was the principle of “oneness of reality” from the Vedas. In other words, there is no permanent substance but all that impermanence has “oneness,” in the sense that it is continuous, consistent and harmonious. Any random change from this “oneness” is an aberration. That aberration, ultimately, settles itself out.
So we have the stable reference point of “oneness of reality” in the East. But the stable reference point in the West became an “intelligent and personal God.”
KHTK Factor # 15: There are many postulates; and there are differences and similarities among those postulates and the reasoning that proceeds from them. Thus comes about the concept of classification.
The initial “dimension points” are the postulates one makes to understand the unknown sensations. This is how knowledge comes about.
As this knowledge evolves, the reasoning spreads out in all different directions. Patterns of similarities emerge among such reasoning and knowledge.
Such similarities may be arranged in classes and further broken down into sub-classes for analysis and understanding.
This gives us the concept of classification.
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Scientology
Compare the above to the following factor in Scientology.
Scientology Factor # 15. The dimension point can be different from other dimension points and thus can possess an individual quality. And many dimension points can possess a similar quality, and others can possess a similar quality unto themselves. Thus comes about the quality of classes of matter.
Here we are basically talking about the emergence of a system of classification based on similarities and differences.
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Logic
The concept of classification is vital to logical analysis.
