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Project: A Course on Hubbard’s Factors

This paper presents Factor # 23 from the book SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 by L. RON HUBBARD. The contents are from the original publication of this book by The Church of Scientology (1952).

The paragraphs of the original material (in black) are accompanied by brief comments (in color) based on the present understanding.  Feedback on these comments is appreciated.

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FACTOR # 23. The universes, then, are three in number: the universe created by one viewpoint, the universe created by every other viewpoint, the universe created by the mutual action of viewpoints which is agreed to be upheld—the physical universe.

The universe viewed from the universal viewpoint is unique. All subjective viewpoints naturally converge to the universal viewpoint as anomalies (discontinuity, disharmony and inconsistency) are resolved. The objective universe results naturally from the clarity of the universal viewpoint. It has nothing to do with agreement.

Agreement has to do with different viewpoints looking at something the same way. Here, the viewpoints remain different except for some aspect that they are agreeing upon.  It is usually some opinion. It doesn’t necessarily mean clarity of observation. An example of this is the agreement that the earth is flat or that the earth is at the center of the universe.

KHTK FACTOR # 23: The physical and spiritual universes are the result of agreements among subjective opinions. On the other hand, the clarity of observations converges on an objective universe standing alone.

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Agreement occurs only in terms of opinions held by the subjective viewpoints. Hubbard views the physical universe to be the result of agreement. That may just be the opinions about the universe that are being agreed upon such as given in the examples above. We may not know what the “physical universe” really is.

In fact, there may not be a physical universe independent of the spiritual universe, or a spiritual universe independent of the physical universe. There may just be a unique objective universe.

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Project: A Course on Hubbard’s Factors

This paper presents Factor # 21 from the book SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 by L. RON HUBBARD. The contents are from the original publication of this book by The Church of Scientology (1952).

The paragraphs of the original material (in black) are accompanied by brief comments (in color) based on the present understanding.  Feedback on these comments is appreciated.

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FACTOR # 21. From this comes a consistency of viewpoint of the interaction of dimension points and this, regulated, is TIME.

From the universal viewpoint time marches on at a steady pace in the form of evolution. If there is no evolution, there is no progress in time. There may just be a fixed form of automation.

From subjective human viewpoints, as ideas get set through agreements, time acquires such a fixed characteristic

Time is fluid to the degree ideas and considerations are changing and evolving.

KHTK FACTOR # 21: TIME is regulated by continuous evolution. When a set of agreements regulates the viewpoints, time acquires a fixed characteristic.

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Time has many flavors. The objective time flows with actual evolution. The physical time simply clocks the physical animation. Each individual has his own sense of time depending on his conditioning or lack of it.

The more a viewpoint is fixed with ideas, prejudices and beliefs, the more difficult it is for it to progress in TIME.

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Project: A Course on Hubbard’s Factors

This paper presents Factor # 19 from the book SCIENTOLOGY 8-8008 by L. RON HUBBARD. The contents are from the original publication of this book by The Church of Scientology (1952).

The paragraphs of the original material (in black) are accompanied by brief comments (in color) based on the present understanding.  Feedback on these comments is appreciated.

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FACTOR # 19. And the viewpoint can never perish; but the form can perish.

The narrow and subjective viewpoints are looking through filters of fixed ideas, prejudices and beliefs. By getting rid of these fixed ideas, prejudices and beliefs, these viewpoints can progress to be the universal viewpoint. Thus, a viewpoint can change and finally become objective.

For viewpoint to exist, there must be dimension points and their combination of forms. Like the viewpoint, these dimension points and their forms also change.

As long as there is a viewpoint, there has to be some dimension point and form. No viewpoint can exist without points to view.

KHTK FACTOR # 19: Neither the viewpoint, nor the dimension points with their forms, perish completely. But they change over a very wide range from universally objective to completely subjective.

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“Subjectivity – objectivity” is a scale that extends to infinity in either direction. All viewpoints are somewhere on this scale. These viewpoints converge in the direction of objectivity and diverge in the direction of subjectivity.

The universal viewpoint is totally objective.

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