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The Creation Myth

November 2, 2016 – 8:33 AM
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The main topic of mindfulness discussion in the sixth class on Mindfulness Course is THE CREATION MYTH.

  1. Creation myths address questions deeply meaningful to the society that shares them, revealing their centralworldview and the framework for the self-identity of the culture and individual in a universal context.

  2. In these creation myths, deities represent natural forces and phenomena; symbolic narratives describe them; and ritualistic appeasements try to control them.

  3. Today, we have scientifically precise language available to accurately describe the natural forces and phenomena. We know that workable methods to control these phenomena come from consistency among observations and the precise abstraction provided by the language.

  4. So, we are going to look at the traditional stories in their symbolic form and see what their modern abstract version is going to be like when everything is made consistent with observations.

  5. A well-known example of creation myth is the one found in the Bible. This and many other creation myths fall in the category of creatio ex nihilo. Reference: Creatio ex nihilo

  6. The classical tradition had been “creation out of chaos”. This tradition first came under question in Hellenistic philosophy on a priori grounds. Ex nihilo, meaning “creation out of nothing” seems to be a second-century theological development.

  7. Direct observations seem to support the classical tradition of “creation out of chaos”. There is no “absolute nothing”. There is only “relative nothing”. God is the concept of divine order, balance and harmony.

  8. The ancient creation hymn of Rig Veda seems to suggest “creation out of chaos”. Reference: The Creation Hymn of Rig Veda

  9. We may define CREATION as follows:
    SUBJECTIVE DEFINITION: Creation is “something out of nothing.”
    OBJECTIVE DEFINITION: Creation is a CHANGE from chaos to order.

  10. This universe is essentially a UNIVERSE OF CHANGE.


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The Ultimate Reference Point, Active Agent & Goal

September 26, 2016 – 8:18 AM

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Reference: A Critique of Scientology Philosophy

Hubbard’s Approach in Scientology

STATIC: Zero physically but infinite metaphysically
>>> Static has peculiar and particular properties
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THETA: It is the metaphysical portion of Static (LIFE STATIC)
>>> THETA = a part of STATIC
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SURVIVAL: The goal of THETA is survival.
>>> THETA produces MEST (matter, energy, space, time)

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Mindfulness Approach in Buddhism

STATIC: Zero both physically and metaphysically
>>> All properties converge to the static 
>>> Static has no properties
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DELTA: It is the CHANGE away from Static (DISTURBANCE)
>>> We may say, THETA = STATIC + DELTA
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EVOLUTION: The goal of DELTA is evolution
>>> DELTA evolves into MEST (matter, energy, space, time)

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In Vedic Hinduism, STATIC is Shiva, and DELTA is Shakti, and THETA may be Shakti dancing on the body of Shiva. It seems that Shakti and Shiva are confused with each other in Hinduism.

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Dianetics Axioms 16 – 30

September 14, 2016 – 6:07 AM
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Reference: The Dianetics Axioms

L. Ron Hubbard found that man is obeying very definite laws and rules which could be set forward in axioms. The very first and most fundamental of these is: The dynamic principle of existence is survive. That is the basic axiom of Dianetics.

The original Dianetic axioms are referenced below in black.

In color are corresponding axioms as seen through Postulate Mechanics (PM).

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Executive Summary 2025

The higher life organisms are supported by lower ones. Together they bring changes in the environment and to themselves toward greater oneness. This requires a harmonious rate of interaction.

The basic purpose of reason is to resolve violations of oneness in perception and understanding. These violations are anomalies, such as, discontinuities, inconsistencies, and disharmonies. The mind is the command post of the organism. It is concerned wholly with the resolution of anomalies.

The reason fails when it is fixated on (identified with) some aspect of the universe and fails to recognize anomalies. Rightness is made up of efforts that lead towards oneness.

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Axioms 16-30

DN AXIOM 16: The basic food of any organism consists of light and chemicals.

Organisms can exist only as higher levels of complexities because lower levels of converters exist.
THETA evolves organisms from lower to higher forms and supports them by the existence of lower converter forms.

PM AXIOM 16: The lowest level organisms evolves from light and chemicals. They form a food chain to sustain higher level organisms.

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DN AXIOM 17: THETA, via LAMBDA, effects an evolution of MEST.

In this we have the waste products of organisms on the one hand as those very complex chemicals which bacteria make and, on the other hand, we have the physical face of the Earth being changed by animals and men, such changes as grass holding mountains from eroding or roots causing boulders to break, buildings being built and rivers being dammed. There is obviously an evolution in MEST in progress under the incursion of THETA.

PM AXIOM 17: Life organisms effect an evolution of its environment on a large scale.

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DN AXIOM 18: LAMBDA, even within a species, varies in its endowment of THETA.

THETA is the vector resulting from the assimilation of all inherent motion. Theta is a variable where an organism’s inherent motion is concerned.

PM AXIOM 18: Life organisms, even within a species, vary in their inherent motion and capabilities.

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DN AXIOM 19: The effort of LAMBDA is toward survival. The goal of LAMBDA is survival. The penalty of failure to advance toward that goal is to succumb.

DEFINITION: Persistence is the ability to exert continuance of effort toward survival goals.

This is a universe of change. A form appears, survives for some time, and then disappears. No form survives forever. Therefore, the natural goal in this universe is evolution. As forms evolve they survive better.

PM AXIOM 19: The effort of life organism is to achieve survival goals to evolve. It succumbs when it fails to do so. 

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DN AXIOM 20: LAMBDA creates, conserves, maintains, requires, destroys, changes, occupies, groups and disperses MEST.

LAMBDA survives by animating and mobilizing or destroying matter and energy in space and time.

PM AXIOM 20: The life organism evolves by interacting with its environment in various ways.

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DN AXIOM 21: LAMBDA is dependent upon optimum motion. Motion which is too swift and motion which is too slow are equally contra survival.

Life organism must maintain a harmonious rate of interaction with their environment. When this rate is too swift or too slow it works against their survival.

PM AXIOM 21: The survival of life organism depends upon a harmonious rate of motion.

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DN AXIOM 22: THETA and thought are similar orders of static.

THETA is the static viewpoint. Thought comes about when postulates occur to explain what is there.

PM AXIOM 22: THETA is the static viewpoint. Thought is the basic substance of what is viewed.

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DN AXIOM 23: All thought is concerned with motion.

What is there is sensed as something dynamic. Thought begins as postulates to provide perception to that dynamic sensation.

PM AXIOM 23: All thought is concerned with perceiving what is there.

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DN AXIOM 24: The establishment of an optimum motion is a basic goal of reason.

DEFINITION: LAMBDA is a chemical heat engine existing in space and time motivated by the life static and directed by thought.

Thought is the basic fabric that dynamically constructs point by point what is there to be perceived. It brings about consistency of perception. This is the basic goal of reason. This fabric of thought hardens into radiation and matter and give structure to the life organism.

PM AXIOM 24: The basic goal of reason is to establish maximum continuity, consistency and harmony.

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DN AXIOM 25: The basic purpose of reason is the calculation or estimation of effort.

Thought recognizes where oneness is violated. It then postulates and assimilates all the postulates to bring about oneness of perception. This is how reason functions.

PM AXIOM 25: The basic purpose of reason is to resolve violations of oneness by postulating and assimilating all postulates.

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DN AXIOM 26: Thought is accomplished by THETA FACSIMILES of physical universe, entities or actions.

Life organisms maintain a mental matrix in which all sensations received by the organism are assimilated. Thoughts are generated when perceptions cannot be assimilated due to anomalies (discontinuities, inconsistencies, and disharmonies). The goal of these thoughts is accomplished when the anomalies are resolved.

PM AXIOM 26: Thought is accomplished when the anomalies (discontinuities, inconsistencies, and disharmonies) observed by the organism are resolved.

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DN AXIOM 27: THETA is satisfied only with harmonious action or optimum motion and rejects or destroys action or motion above or below its tolerance band.

PM AXIOM 27: Evolution in this universe requires eliminating all extremely slow or sudden shifts in motion and establishing harmonious action.

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DN AXIOM 28: The mind is concerned wholly with the estimation of effort.

DEFINITION: Mind is the THETA command post of any organism or organisms.

The reason is applied through the mental matrix of the life organism, which is concerned wholly with the resolution of anomalies. Therefore, the mental matrix may be regarded as the command post of the life organism.

PM AXIOM 28: The mind is the command post of the organism, which is concerned wholly with the resolution of anomalies.

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DN AXIOM 29: The basic errors of reason are failure to differentiate amongst matter, energy, space and time.

PM AXIOM 29: The reason fails when it is fixated on (identified with) some aspect of the universe and fails to recognize anomalies.

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DN AXIOM 30: Rightness is proper calculation of effort.

PM AXIOM 30: Rightness is increase in alignment of motion.

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THE THETA-MEST THEORY

June 8, 2016 – 5:48 AM

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Reference:

Scientology 8-8008

A New Slant on Theta-MEST Theory

THETA & MEST

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The Theta-MEST theory forms the core of the philosophy of Scientology. It parallels the concept of Shakti-Shiva in Hinduism. Whereas Shakti and Shiva are looked upon as two sides of the same coin, Scientology looks at Theta and MEST as two different systems that are independent of each other.

Here is an understanding of the Theta-MEST Theory after subject clearing.

Hubbard is correct in recognizing that there is a spectrum of motion, one end of which is STATIC (Theta) and the other end is KINETIC (MEST). He is also correct in saying that STATIC and KINETIC are theoretical in the sense that they are not absolute. This is a great advance on the philosophy of Semitic religions.

At physical level the spectrum of motion starts with undisturbed space. When space is disturbed it produces a ripple of interchanging electromagnetic fields. Thus, we have an electromagnetic spectrum of increasing frequency. At upper end of this spectrum, frequency collapses into mass.

The essense of UNDISTURBED SPACE is the STATIC. Of course, matter is not part of the STATIC because matter is produced by a collapse of extreme disturbance in space.

The STATIC is pure awareness. Therefore, the Scientology Static has no motion; no width, length, breadth, depth; not held in suspension by equilibrium of forces; does not have mass; and does not contain wavelengths.

This Scientology static has no situation in time or space simply because it is the undisturbed space with the essence of awareness. Thus, static is not something discrete. It would be an error to consider it so.

Hubbard’s first error is to assign individuality to the Static. Static is a phenomenon that has “properties”. It is not an individual that has “capabilities”. The static when disturbed becomes kinetic. It is not a “static” interacting with a “kinetic”.

Outer form and inner essence go hand in hand. There cannot be an outer form without inner essence. There must be an outer form to any inner essence. The outer form is represented by “physical”; the inner essence is represented by “spiritual”. One can’t think of spirit without some form even if that form is abstract. And however abstract a form may be there is always a spirit to it.

The disturbance in space proceeds within space in the form of electromagnetic ripples. Similarly, we may postulate that the disturbance in awareness proceeds within pure awareness in the form of ripples of consciousness. We may regard the electromagnetic field as the outer form of consciousness field. We may postulate a “consciousness spectrum” similar to the electromagnetic spectrum. This characterizes consciousness as something dynamic with an inner frequency

It is only at the upper end of the electromagnetic spectrum that a continuous wave collapses into discrete mass as we see in the structure of an atom. It seems that continuous consciousness at high frequency collapses into a discrete identity. This identity is called “thetan” in Scientology.

We may summarize the above as follows:

  • Undisturbed space is the outer form of Static.

  • The space is disturbed with the introduction of time. Static awareness is disturbed with the introduction of desire (per the Vedas). We may say that time is the outer form of desire.

  • Disturbance in space spreads out as electromagnetic ripples within space. Disturbance in awareness spreads out as consciousness ripples within awareness. This is the manifestation of energy. Electromagnetism is the physical energy. Consciousness is the spiritual energy. We may say that electromagnetism is the outer form of consciousness.

  • Mass and matter come about with the condensation of electromagnetic energy. Individuality and identity come about with the condensation of consciousness energy. We may say that mass and matter are the outer forms of individuality and identity respectively.

  • Matter – Energy – Space – Time (MEST) are simply the outer form of Identity – Consciousness – Awareness – Desire (ICAD).

Thus, THETA-MEST Theory may be referenced more accurately as ICAD-MEST Theory.

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Guided Meditation

May 9, 2016 – 5:07 AM
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A Guide helps the student resolve his doubts and perplexities through mindfulness meditation. The Guide’s main role is ensuring that the principles of mindfulness are fully applied.

The Guide helps the student narrow his doubts and perplexities down to an effective item that the student then meditates on.  The Guide uses total objectivity and compassion in guiding the student.

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Mindfulness Meditation 3: Mindfulness meditation with expert guidance.

  1. He listens compassionately to the student’s doubts and perplexities.

  2. He tries to understand the reason underlying the student’s doubts and perplexities.

  3. The Guide is totally non-judgmental and does not analyze any data given by the student.

  4. Only when he does not understand student’s “reasoning” that he questions the student.

  5. The student then meditates on the question asked by the Guide and provides an answer.

  6. This Q&A continues until the student comes up with something that simply makes no sense.

  7. This is the item, which the Guide assigns to the student to meditate upon until it resolves.

  8. The student meditates on that item using the mindfulness principles of no resistance, no suppression and no interference while letting the mind unwind on its own.

  9. When the student runs into any trouble, the Guide helps him enlarge the context of meditation in various ways.

  10. The Guide answers the student’s questions in a way to help the student arrive at his own realizations.

  11. The Guide assists the student with total objectivity and compassion.

The cycle continues until the student’s item resolves.

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