The Logic of Data Series

Reference: Data Series

[This is a very abbreviated partial summary. To get full understanding, please study the Data Series. Note: DS 2 = Data Series number 2.]

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In Data Series, Hubbard starts out by sketching an Ideal Scene for Logic. He says, 

By establishing the ways in which things become illogical, one can then establish what is logic.  (DS 2)

Hubbard then looks at the ways that things become illogical, and lists them as follows:

  1. Omit a fact.
  2. Change sequence of events.
  3. Drop out time.
  4. Add a falsehood.
  5. Alter importance.  (DS 2)

He then establishes logic as follows:

  1. All relevant facts must be known.
  2. Events must be in actual sequence.
  3. Time must be properly noted.
  4. The data must be factual, which is to say true or valid.
  5. Relative importances amongst the data must be recognized by comparing the facts with what one is seeking to accomplish or solve. (DS 2)

These are the conditions that must be present in the scene of the activity that one is examining. These conditions are part of the Ideal Scene. Any departures from the Ideal Scene are outpoints. Hubbard says, 

Using these conditions, we can analyze the data we have. But, the quality of the data analysis depends on one knowing the ideal organization and purpose on which the activity is based. This means one has to know what its activities are supposed to be from a rational or logical viewpoint. (DS 4)

When one decides to examine an activity for outpoints, one must first work out its IDEAL SCENE. But such ideal scene need not be long and complex. Hubbard says, 

The entire concept of an ideal scene for any activity is really a clean statement of its PURPOSE.  (DS 12)

But working out such a clean statement of PURPOSE and the Ideal Scene may not always be easy. A person’s fixed ideas can prevent him or her from working out a sane Ideal Scene. Hubbard cautions

The “idée fixe” is the bug in sanity. Whenever an observer himself has fixed ideas he tends to look at them, not at the information. Prejudiced people are suffering mainly from an “idée fixe.” The strange part of it is that the “idée fixe” they think they have isn’t the one they do have.  (DS 8)

A person with fixed ideas confuses outpoints in his own thinking with outpoints in an activity. This is a grave error. Hubbard points out.

Errors are usually a comparison to one’s personal ideals. Outpoints compare to the ideal for that particular scene.  (DS 9)

Therefore, Hubbard emphasizes again and again,

The purpose of the activity must be part of the ideal one has for that activity. The fact that something is actually operating and solvent can outweigh the untested advantages of changing it.  (DS 8)

Hubbard cautions against opinions creeping into the Ideal Scene, 

The moment that one goes into any dependence on opinion, he goes into quicksand and will see too late the fatal flaw in restoring anything. (DS 12)

According to Hubbard, statistics are the key to the awareness of the ideal and existing scenes.

Statistics are the only sound measure of any production or any job or any activity… Just as the purpose from which the ideal scene is taken must be correct, so must the statistic be all the more thoughtfully correct. (DS 12)

Hubbard provides a test for the correct Ideal Scene:

The correctly stated ideal scene will have a production statistic. (DS 13)

Hubbard provides an excellent example of working out the correct Ideal Scene and Statistics in Data Series 13. This example must be carefully studied. Once the Ideal Scene has been worked out with great care, one can start to examine the existing scene for the actual situation.

A situation is a major departure from the ideal scene. (DS 11)

One immediately starts to see outpoints (illogical departures from the ideal scene) in the existing scene. One should carefully differentiate between outpoints and errors.

It will be found that outpoints are really few unless the activity is very irrational. Simple errors on the other hand can be found in legions in any scene. (DS 9)

If your existing scene is very broad, you may have to narrow it down first. You do this by assigning the outpoints to areas of the existing scene. Then you look more closely at the area having the most outpoints. 

We obtain an analysis of the situation by analyzing all the data we have and assigning the outpoint data to the areas or parts. The area having the most outpoints is the target for correction. (DS 4)

After narrowing the existing scene as necessary, one now looks for the situation.  

A situation analysis only indicates the area that has to be closely inspected and handled. (DS 5)

The Ideal Scene may have to be refined for the narrowed down existing scene. This will make one see the relevant outpoints. One starts by listing these outpoints (not errors) as they come up in his awareness. This is pretty much like the Listing and Nulling procedure in Scientology. The moment you find the situation, all other outpoints will start to make more sense. One will now have the situation.

This means a wide and significant or dangerous or potentially damaging CIRCUMSTANCE or STATE OF AFFAIRS which means that the IDEAL SCENE has been departed from and doesn’t fully exist in that area. (DS 11)

The next step is to find out the “change” that brought about the situation. This may require pulling strings further on outpoints.

In order to resolve a situation fully one has to get the real reason WHY a departure from the Ideal Scene occurred. “Change” is the root of departures. One has to isolate THE change in order to obtain full recovery. (DS 12)

Once the WHY is found, one embarks on the handling of the situation.

Just as you proceed to the MOST MAJOR SITUATION—go big, when it comes to handling it usually occurs that reverse is true—go small! (DS 11)

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Comments

Hubbard says, “By establishing the ways in which things become illogical, one can then establish what is logic.”

This is a circular statement, which omits the ideal scene for logic. The ideal scene for logic may be stated as ONENESS, which leads to the anomalies of discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), and disharmony (arbitrary data).

The outpoints of Data Series may be related to anomalies as follows:

  1. Omit a fact (discontinuity)
  2. Change sequence of events (inconsistency)
  3. Drop out time (discontinuity)
  4. Add a falsehood (inconsistency and disharmony
  5. Alter importance  (disharmony)

The outpoint of “Add a falsehood” can only be spotted as an inconsistency. You will need additional data to show the falsehood.

It is very important to work out the correct ideal scene. Hubbard cautions against fixed ideas corrupting the ideal scene. However, Hubbard had the fixed idea of “oneness is destructive of individuality.” Therefore, he did not believe in the overall ideal scene of ONENESS for logic.

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Comments: The Target of Auditing

Reference: A History of Man
Reference: CHAPTER TWO

Comments on CHAPTER TWO
The Target of Auditing

Chapter 2 looks at several targets that present themselves in a case. The target for auditing are essentially the anomalies that make up the case. Such anomalies can be subject cleared by oneself using The Discipline of Subject Clearing. One applies one’s theta—the ability to postulate and to become aware—to resolve them. These anomalies fall under four major categories as follows.

(1) CELLULAR INJURY: A cellular injury comes about when there is an accident, burn, or an incident which has just occurred. The somatics are very sharp. Individual cells are generated from DNA programming, which may contain a record of prior injuries. You audit out the earliest injury to the cell.

(2) GENETIC ENTITY:  The genetic entity represents all the cellular experience on the genetic line through the DNA programming. It serves as the blueprint for the body. It has the manifestation of a single identity located at the center of the body in the stomach. There may be anomalies in the programming to be resolved. You audit them with subject clearing.

(3) INJECTED ENTITIES: The injected entities have the characteristics of AI (artificial intelligence). They take on personalities formed out of the person’s thoughts. They are associated with geographical areas in the body. These areas relate to major nerve centers in the body. In auditing out these entities a person must apply the discipline of subject clearing very strictly.

(4) THETA BEING: The theta being is the “I”, it is WHO the person is. The being is modified by these various entities, but that confusion is cleared up with auditing. It is the being who is auditing his beingness. The anomalies exist mainly as fixed considerations. It is not the body, but a fixation on the body, which is a major anomaly. The body itself is an integral part of the being and must be cared for by handling anomalies in it.

All this other phenomenon that appears after the theta being is put to sleep, as in hypnotism, does not contribute to auditing. Auditing is the process that increases the awareness of the theta being.

Hubbard thinks erroneously that having a body is an anomaly. That is not true. The actual anomaly is having a fixation on the body. Hubbard was confused on the subject of exteriorization. See The Definition of EXTERIORIZATION.

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DEFINITIONS

GENETIC ENTITY
Genetic entity is the DNA programming, which represents all the cellular experience on the genetic line. It serves as the blueprint for the body. It has the manifestation of a single identity located at the center of the body in the stomach.

INJECTED ENTITY
Injected entities have the characteristics of AI (artificial intelligence). They take on personalities formed out of the person’s thoughts. They are associated with geographical areas in the body. These areas are related to major nerve centers. In auditing out these entities a person must apply the discipline of subject clearing very strictly.

SOMATIC
By somatic is meant a pain or ache sensation and also misemotion or even unconsciousness; awareness, pleasant or unpleasant, of a body.

THETA
Theta is the “ability to postulate and to become aware.” It represents the ultimate beingness. 

THETA BEING
This is who the person thinks he is. Theta being seems to represent the analytical ability of the mind, which does not exist in animals. The unassimilated impressions associated with the “I” are the most important target. Out of the resolution of these anomalies will come a better understanding of who one really is.

For other Scientology words, please see: Technical Dictionary
For regular English words, please see: https://www.dictionary.com/ 

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Comments: The Route to Clear

Reference: A History of Man
Reference: CHAPTER ONE

Comments on CHAPTER ONE
The Route to Clear

This chapter asserts that the problem of HOW to audit the mind has been resolved. So, it is time to focus on WHAT to audit with the assistance of an E-meter.

It is common sense that one should start with whatever is bothering a person the most. But Hubbard had theorized in Dianetics that much more could be accomplished by auditing the earliest engram on the case. The person had a time-track, which extended back from the present life to the genetic line, and even earlier to the “whole track.”

Hubbard believed that the “whole track” incidents were the earliest; and auditing them was the fastest route to clearing the person. His goal was to produce a Clear. His theory was that earlier incidents held later incidents in place. Therefore, he assumed that there must be a FAC 1 or “basic-basic” on the time-track that was keeping a person’s whole case in place. Such a “basic-basic” had to exist way back at the beginning of the “whole track.” Hubbard believed that everybody possessed a “whole track” and a “basic-basic.” To him, the fastest route to Clear was to find the “basic-basic” of a person as soon as possible, and erase it. The E-meter was “just the right tool for it.”

This was in 1952. Hubbard tried hard but he could never find the “basic-basic” on a case. Seventy years have passed since the E-meter first came into use. The E-meter has been improved even after Hubbard passed away in 1986. Still, the E-meter has never been able to detect a “basic-basic.”

Today, we know that any case has few engrams only, and once they are detected and erased, it is very difficult to find more engrams. But plenty of anomalies (see the definition of anomaly below) can be found on a case. The person makes progress by eliminating such anomalies. Actually, Buddha emphasized the handling of anomalies in his Kalama Sutta. Hubbard also tried to handle these anomalies under the guise of “body thetans” on OT Levels.

The Mind: The Tool for Resolving Anomalies explains the structure of the analytical and reactive minds in more detail. It explains what happens after the first few engrams on the case are erased, and why it becomes difficult to find more engrams. The fact is: as a person goes up the Grade Chart his awareness increases. The person’s gut feeling becomes more effective than the E-meter. The engram actually appears as a number of anomalies instead of as a picture.

There is no FAC 1 or BASIC-BASIC. An engram actually appears as a “set of anomalies” as awareness increases.

The “whole track” incidents may serve the same function as myths in religion, in the sense that they may provide archetypes useful in detecting anomalies.

The best approach is to start a case with an actual anomaly in the present time that is bothering the person, and trace it back to more basic anomalies and, ultimately, to the gap in the person’s awareness.

Such gap is hidden underneath some projection or assumption. As a person becomes aware of such projections or assumptions in his thinking, realization occur that fill those gaps in awareness.

There seem to exist no single point, such as a basic-basic, to which the whole case converges. Instead, the case consists of gaps in awareness covered by projections or assumptions.

As these gaps are filled, a more basic layer of gaps is, then, discovered. And, so it goes.

A person becomes Clear, when the few engrams on his case are erased and his awareness comes up to a point that he can spot anomalies in his environment and in his own thinking. The technology of handling such anomalies is Subject Clearing, which benefits from the Data Series of L. Ron Hubbard.

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DEFINITIONS

ANOMALY
Origin: “irregular.” An anomaly is any violation of the integrity of reality, such as, discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), or disharmony (arbitrary data).

BASIC-BASIC
Any similar circumstance repetitive through a person’s whole track has a first time it occurred and that first time that it occurred we call basic-basic. [Note: A cycle simply keeps repeating. It may not have a beginning or end.]

CLEAR
The Clear has no engrams which can be restimulated to throw out the correctness of computation by entering hidden and false data in it. [Note: The state of clear comes about when all unassimilated impressions from present and the past are broken down into perceptual elements and assimilated in the mental matrix.]

FAC 1
Facsimile One; the one basic engram on top of which all this life engrams are mere locks. [Note: This has to be something very general; it cannot be a specific incident.]

For other Scientology words, please see: Technical Dictionary
For regular English words, please see: https://www.dictionary.com/ 

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Comments: Theory Asserted as Factual

Reference: A History of Man
Reference: FOREWORD

Comments on FOREWORD
Theory Asserted as Factual

The HISTORY OF MAN contains a theory of Hubbard, which he developed with the help of the E-meter. See E-Meter and OT Auditing.

In this foreword, Hubbard is making a big deal out of the idea of whole track because it is something new to the Western civilization. But the whole track has been known in ancient India as SAMSKARAS (latent impressions that manifest as tendencies) that get passed down from one life time to the next. This has been known in India since Buddha’s time, or maybe even earlier.

So, the whole track is not really the issue. The issue is Hubbard’s theory of the whole track.

Miraculous results are achieved when samskaras (latent impressions) are resolved through meditation. Of course, abilities are recovered too when such impressions are assimilated in the mental matrix. This has happened routinely in India. Nobody cares about the content of such impressions, because it is not relevant to the process of meditation. In the book, HISTORY OF MAN, however, Hubbard has come up with a theory about the content of such impressions, because it, apparently, helps the process of auditing.

Hubbard theory relates to the contents of the whole track.

Hubbard says,

“By adding up and checking probabilities on scores of persons, the character, extent and content of the whole track was mapped. Once the E-meter gave reliable data, the main problem became the estimation of intentions, of sources, of the reasons behind the reasons…”

When the e-meter’s needle reacts on a question it doesn’t necessarily means that the answer to the question be interpreted as YES or NO. It simply means that there is a charge on how the question is being interpreted by the mind. In other words, the mind is confronted with an anomaly.

THE E-METER DOES NOT VALIDATE A QUESTION OR ITS IMPLIED CONTENT.

The E-meter was used by Hubbard to date the “incident” on the time-track. For example, Hubbard would come up with a number like “3,296,843,125 years ago.” But the E-meter is not reacting to that particular number in the person’s mind. It, however, is reacting to some anomaly that we know nothing about. The number may serve to put the attention of the person on the anomaly. This does not mean that the datum “3,296,843,125 years ago” can unquestionably be admitted as factual.

Hubbard has the past track data described in the book HISTORY OF MAN with E-meter’s help; but the literalness of all that data is suspect. For example, when you ask a person about his identity in a past life, he may get a picture of being the Buddha. But that is merely a dream-like picture, which may represent some feeling, tendency, or desire.

THE E-METER DOES NOT PROVIDE ANY CONTENT IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION.

Unfortunately, Hubbard used the E-meter to validate his own theory for the whole track’s content. He formulated questions based on his theory. Then, if the meter reacted to the question, he assumed the implication from that question to be correct. Thus he “verified” his theory from E-meter reactions.

Hubbard’s theory about the contents of the whole track, thus, became factual data to him.

Many of Hubbard’s followers have taken Hubbard’s SCI-FI type assertions about the whole track as factual. This seems to have led them, in many cases, down a rabbit hole.

The contents of the whole track in Scientology is simply a dreamlike visualization of various mental tendencies, and nothing more.

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DEFINITIONS

E-METER
Electropsychometer; An electronic instrument for measuring mental state and change of state in individuals, as an aid to precision and speed in auditing. [Note: The E-meter actually measures change in body resistance in reaction to momentary thought.]

WHOLE TRACK
The whole track is the moment to moment record of a person’s existence in this universe in picture and impression form. [Note: The whole track is made of impressions on the mind that are not necessarily continuous.]

For other Scientology words, please see: Technical Dictionary
For regular English words, please see: https://www.dictionary.com/ 

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Inequality Problem

The above is a very instructive problem and solution.

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