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Reference: ARC – Affinity, Reality and Communication

This model was referred to at the above link as follows.

At the core of beingness is the desire to know. This desire triggers awareness. This awareness seems to flow like a current through the circuits of the mind. These circuits are composed of filters. The filters are composed of agreements that take the form of beliefs, biases, prejudices, fixed ideas, speculations, etc. They filter the reality the same way that colored glass filters light. The filters may be compared to the components in an electrical circuit that provide resistance to the flow of current.

Perception changes as awareness passes through the filters in the circuits of the mind. This perception may be tapped like “voltage” at any point in the circuit, and it would provide the “reality” at that point.

As “resistance” offered by filters in the circuit decreases, the “current” in terms of the flow of awareness increases. This increase in “current” may be viewed as increase in the capability to communicate.

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Here is a bird’s eye view of it.

1. The circuit is the universe.

2. The battery is the desire to know.

3. The current in the circuit is awareness.

4. The amount of the current flowing is the affinity.

5. The resistances in the circuit are the filters (beliefs, fixed ideas, etc).

6. The voltage at any point provides the reality at that point.

7. The voltage drop between any two points is a measure of filters.

8. Any two points in the circuit act as “terminals” in communication.

9. They “become one” when filters between them are removed.

10. The ultimate terminals are the two terminals of the battery.

11. One terminal is perceiving the other terminal through the filters of the circuit (universe).

12. As filters reduce, the affinity increases and reality improves.

13. Ultimately, a short circuit occurs as the filters vanish.

14. The desire to know is satisfied as the two terminals become one.

15. There is no longer any awareness, affinity, reality, or communication.

16. For these factors are no longer relevant.

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My introduction to Scientology was the best experience. I have documented it in My Introduction to America. I cherish that experience even when I have found Scientology to be an obsessively controlling money-hungry cult. The extraordinary experience started after being introduced to TR0, a confronting exercise, of Scientology.

The literal meaning of CONFRONT is “to be face to face with; be in front of.” But this meaning has the connotation of hostility, defiance and opposition. The followers of Scientology do “confront” that way in a forceful manner when they don’t like something, but that is not what TR0 is about. TR0 is more like practicing mindfulness.

This data is paraphrased from a book by L. Kin.

Hubbard assigned “confronting” the sense of “not flinching, keeping cool.” He described confronting as “the ability to be there comfortably and perceive,” in the sense of calmly holding one’s position without reaching or withdrawing, and seeing something as it is. He called it a state of being, not of doing. Doing followed from it later.

Consequently, “good confront” is the one and only prerequisite for seeing what is there. A man in panic won’t see any more what’s right in front of his nose. He does not “duplicate.” By duplication Hubbard meant seeing things as they are.

“Seeing things as they are” is the essence of mindfulness as taught by Buddha. To accomplish this the TR0 instructions were “to be there without flinching or avoiding, and do nothing else.” The understanding given was that discomforts will run out by themselves if you simply be there. There were no other instructions. To me this meant practicing mindfulness. That was the start of a wonderful adventure for me. That adventure still continues.

Here is a compilation of my understanding and what I did on TR0 in 1969 that just blew me away.

EXERCISE: Being There

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L Kin outlines the following “Scale of Confronting” developed by Hubbard.

Dub-in
Blackness
Being elsewhere
Ability to confront
Willingness to experience and participate
Being and knowing at will

A person may start out finding life to be difficult and hard to understand. He is assuming and speculating about life instead of directly looking and experiencing it. He does not see what is actually there.

As he starts to confront he may go through a period of confusion (blackness, nervousness, lack of concentration). This happens because he is now questioning all those beliefs that he had taken for granted.

As he starts to practice mindfulness, his willingness to experience and participate in life increases. His minds become clear of complexities. He can now learn quickly by spotting inconsistencies and resolving them as he faces them. He develops a refreshing view of life.

Though Scientology as a movement has gone off the rails at this point in time; but a person can move still up this scale of confronting by practicing mindfulness as described on this blog.

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Hubbard derived three brilliant maxims from his idea of confront:

1. The degree of complexity is proportional to the degree of non-confront.
2. The degree of simplicity is proportional to the degree of confront.
3. The basis of aberration is a non-confront.”

I have followed these maxims to this day to simplify my life and what I know. Actually, this blog is designed around these maxims, with the understanding that confronting is mindfulness.

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Reference: KHTK Postulates for Metaphysics – Part 4

The theistic viewpoint germinates from viewing one as a self separate from others and imagining God on the same basis. The theistic view is, therefore, a self-centered view.

The view of self starts from fixation on the body. It comes from a condensation of the universal view. Instead of looking at the universe as a single, vast entity or body, one’s viewpoint condenses by first separating mankind from all other forms of life, and then separating mankind into groups, and then separating groups into individuals.

The idea of self comes from this fixation on individuality. It is then projected back into the idea of divinity as God.

This is the theistic viewpoint. It is self-centered.

To me the theistic viewpoint is an aberration. It views God as a being.

The atheistic viewpoint does not deny God. It only objects to viewing God as a being.

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