Powerful Mindfulness Exercise 1

Reference: TR0 with Mindfulness

This is a powerful exercise that promotes mindfulness if practiced with the following purpose:

“To be there comfortably with your thoughts.”

You don’t try to avoid your thoughts or suppress them. You just be there with your thoughts without avoiding them.

Here the other person (coach) is acting as a pc (preclear). A preclear is a person who is working to get rid of all mental obstructions. In this exercise, both people are working to get rid of their mental obstructions.

This exercise may be done quite gainfully with thoughts that you are sensitive to, or with ideas that make you feel uncomfortable. You simply look at those thoughts and ideas more closely until you gain greater clarity.

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July 25, 2025 – 10:59 AM Categories: Subject Clearing | Post a comment

Behaviorism (Psychology)

In Psychology, Behaviorism is a systematic approach to understand the behavior of humans and other animals. A tenet of behavioral research is that a large part of behavior is learned. This leads to a “treatment” that brings about behavior modification through the use of conditioning. The theory has been influential in education, therapy, and animal training, while also being critiqued for ignoring inner cognitive and emotional processes.

Here is a Q&A on basic tenets of Behaviorism:

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Behaviorism

QUESTION: What are the basic tenets of Behaviorism?

ANSWER: (By Perplexity AI)

The basic tenets of Behaviorism are as follows:

  • Observable Behavior as the Focus: Behaviorism posits that psychology should study only observable and measurable behaviors, not internal mental states such as thoughts or emotions. This allows for more objective, scientific study.
  • Learning Through Conditioning: All behaviors are learned through interactions with the environment via conditioning.
    • Classical Conditioning: This involves learning by association, where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus, resulting in a learned response (e.g., Pavlov’s dog salivating at the sound of a bell).
    • Operant Conditioning: Behaviors are shaped by their consequences. Behaviors followed by positive reinforcement (rewards) are likely to be repeated, while those followed by punishment are less likely to recur.
  • Role of Reinforcement and Punishment: Behavior is shaped and maintained through reinforcements (positive or negative) and can be weakened or extinguished by punishment or lack of reinforcement.
  • Environmental Determinism: The environment, not biological traits or internal processes, is seen as the chief determinant of behavior. Essentially, people (and animals) are products of their surroundings and experiences.
  • Reductionism: Complex behaviors can be broken down into simple stimulus–response (S-R) units.
  • Scientific Approach: Behavior should be studied using controlled, systematic experiments on both humans and animals. The laws that govern learning are assumed to apply across all species.
  • Emphasis on Present Behavior and Environment: Behaviorists focus on current observable behaviors and immediate environmental factors rather than past experiences or unconscious motives.

These principles form the foundation of behaviorism, a theory credited to key figures such as John B. Watson, Ivan Pavlov, and B.F. Skinner. The theory has been influential in education, therapy, and animal training, while also being critiqued for ignoring inner cognitive and emotional processes.

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Conditioning

Behaviorism is based on Experimental Psychology. It is considered to be “scientific” when one can observe a direct, mechanical response to a stimulus. That may be true for matter; but it is not true for life.

The scientific method is based on observing CONSISTENCY of experimental results with what is there in the broad universe. Our observations of the universe show that the behavior of MATTER is a mechanical reaction and, therefore, quite simple to predict. In comparison, the behavior of QUANTUM PARTICLES AND RADIATION is complex; and it takes higher mathematics (based on statistical mechanics) to predict with some certainty. Finally, when it comes to LIFE AND THOUGHT, the behavior is so complex that it cannot be predicted, even when you use higher mathematics, or the “symbolic” logic of computers.

Where life is concerned, the results of any experiment must be consistent with how live logic would function under those experimental conditions; and not like some matter-like simple reaction.

The premise of Behaviorism that “a direct, mechanical response to a stimulus is scientific” is completely false when applied to life. Operating on this false premise has been quite harmful, specially in the field of education. But the psychologists who are stuck in their matter-centric viewpoint remain quite oblivious. Such psychologists are quite aberrated and harmful in their fixed ideas and close-mindedness.

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July 21, 2025 – 1:28 PM Categories: Psychology | Comments (2)

SC: Buddhism

Reference: Postulate Mechanics

The following definitions are an effort to understand the fundamentals of Buddhism using the approach of Subject Clearing (SC).

To find a word simply use search (CTRL-F). For original definitions in this subject please consult What the Buddha Taught, or other texts available on Buddhism. If you feel that some basic term should be included here, then please let me know.

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BUDDHISM
Almost all religions are built on faith—rather ‘blind’ faith it would seem. But in Buddhism emphasis is laid on ‘seeing’, knowing, understanding, and not on faith, or belief. Buddha puts emphasis on self-reliance but he warns against complete dependence on a particular system including Buddhism. Violence in any form, under any pretext whatsoever, is absolutely against the teaching of the Buddha.

THERAVADA
Theravada, which means “the way of the elders,” is one of the two main schools of Buddhism. Its adherents consider Theravada to be the most authoritative branch because they believe their teachings come directly from the historical Buddha.

MAHAYANA
Mahayana, which means “great vehicle,” is one of the two major traditions of Buddhism, now practiced in a variety of forms especially in China, Tibet, Japan, and Korea. The tradition emerged around the 1st century AD and is typically concerned with altruistically oriented spiritual practice as embodied in the ideal of the bodhisattva.

VAJRAYANA
Vajrayana Buddhism, also known as Tantric Buddhism or Esoteric Buddhism, is a branch of Buddhism that emphasizes accelerated paths to enlightenment through esoteric practices and rituals. It’s often considered a more advanced and transformative path within the broader Mahayana tradition. It incorporates tantric techniques and rituals, such as mantras (sacred sounds), mudras (hand gestures), mandalas (spiritual diagrams), and deity visualization, to transform ordinary experiences into paths toward enlightenment.

HINAYANA
Hinayana, which means “lesser vehicle,” is a pejorative name given by the followers of Mahayana Buddhism to the more conservative schools of early Buddhism. 

THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
All the Four Noble Truths are found within ourselves. This also means that there is no external power that produces the arising and the cessation of aberration (dukkha). The Four Noble Truths are as follows:

  1. Aberration (Dukkha)
  2. The arising or origin of aberration (Samudaya)
  3. The cessation of aberration (Nirodha)
  4. The way leading to the cessation of aberration (Magga)

THE FIRST NOBLE TRUTH (Dukkha)
The First Noble Truth is aberration (dukkha), the nature of life, its suffering, its sorrows and joys, its imperfection and unsatisfactoriness, its impermanence and insubstantiality. With regard to this, our function is to understand the five aggregates as a fact, clearly and completely (parinneyya). These five aggregates are:

  1. Aggregate of Matter (Rupakkhandha)
  2. Aggregate of Sensations (Vedanakkhandha)
  3. Aggregate of Perceptions (Sannakkhandha).
  4. Aggregate of Mental Formations (Samkharakkhandha)
  5. Aggregate of Consciousness (Vinnanakkhandha)

AGGREGATE OF MATTER
In this term ‘Aggregate of Matter’ are included the traditional Four Great Elements (cattari mahabhutani), namely, solidity, fluidity, heat and motion. It also includes sense-organs of six kinds, i.e., the faculties of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind, and their corresponding objects in the external world, i.e., visible form, sound, odor, taste, tangible things and mind-objects (dharmayatana) of thoughts, ideas or conceptions. ; and one mental sense-organ, i.e., the faculty mind, and its corresponding  Thus, the material form or body-mind system, and all physical and mental phenomena, both internal and external, is included in the Aggregate of Matter. 

AGGREGATE OF SENSATIONS
In this group are included all our sensation, pleasant or unpleasant or neutral, experienced through the contact of physical and mental organs with the external world. They are of six kinds: the sensations experienced through the contact of the eye with visible forms, ear with sounds, nose with odour, tongue with taste, body with tangible objects, and mind (which is the sixth faculty in Buddhist Philosophy) with mind-objects or thoughts or ideas. All our physical and mental sensations are included in this group.

AGGREGATE OF PERCEPTIONS
Like sensations, perceptions also are of six kinds, in relation to six internal faculties and the corresponding six external objects. Like sensations, they are produced through the contact of our six faculties with the external world. It is the perception that recognize objects whether physical or mental. NOTE: This recognition comes from sensations acquiring meaning through postulates and previous experience to turn into perceptions.

AGGREGATE OF MENTAL FORMATIONS
In this group are included all volitional activities both good and bad. What is generally known as karma (or kamma) comes under this group. Volition is ‘mental construction, mental activity. Its function is to direct the mind in the sphere of good, bad or neutral activities.’ Just like sensations and perceptions, volition is of six kinds, connected with the six internal faculties and the corresponding six objects (both physical and mental) in the external world. Sensations and perceptions are not volitional actions. They do not produce karmic effects. It is the only volitional actions- such as attention, will, determination, confidence, concentration, wisdom, energy, desire, repugnance or hate, ignorance, conceit, idea of self, etc.—that can produce karmic effects. There are 52 such mental activities which constitute the Aggregate of Mental Formation.

AGGREGATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Consciousness is a reaction or response which has one of the six faculties (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind) as its basis, and one of the six corresponding external phenomena (visible form, sound, odour, taste, tangible things and mind-objects, i.e., an idea or thought) as its object. For instance, visual consciousness has the eye as its basis and a visible form as its object. Mental consciousness has the mind as its basis and a mental object, i.e., an idea or thought as its object. So consciousness is connected with other faculties. Thus, like sensation, perception and volition, consciousness also is of six kinds, in relation to six internal faculties and corresponding six external objects.

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THE SECOND NOBLE TRUTH (Tanha)
The Second Noble Truth is the Origin of Dukkha, which is desire, ‘thirst’, accompanied by all other passions, defilements and impurities (tanha). This craving fuels aberration and prevents liberation from the cycle of samsara. Buddhism identifies three main types of craving: 

  1. Craving for sensual pleasure: Desire for enjoyable sensations and experiences. 
  2. Craving for existence: The desire to be, to continue, to exist, often linked to a sense of self. 
  3. Craving for non-existence: The desire to be free from suffering, to cease to be, or to escape pain. 

A mere understanding of this fact is not sufficient. Here our function is to discard it, to eliminate, to destroy and eradicate it (pahatabba). 

SAMSARA
Samsara refers to the beginningless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, characterized by suffering and unsatisfactoriness. It’s a continuous process of transmigration, driven by karma (actions and their consequences) and ignorance. Samsara is not just a concept of repeated lives, but also a description of the repetitive patterns of our daily experiences, where we often find ourselves stuck in negative cycles of emotion and behavior. Traditional Buddhist cosmology depicts Samsara as a wheel with six psychological states of being: hell, fixations, animals, humans, jealous gods, and heavenly beings. 

SELF
Tanha has at its centre the false idea of self arising out of ignorance. A self is nothing but a combination of physical and mental forces or energies. All economic, political and social problems are rooted in this selfish ‘thirst’. It is the will, or volition of self. NOTE: The beingness has a sense of its coordination from a single control point. This single control point comes from oneness of postulates. It represents the sense of self. It is represented by “I” (being). Problem arises when this oneness of postulates is disturbed resulting in a desire (tanha) that is irrational.

KARMA
Karma is the principle of cause and effect, where intentional actions, thoughts, and words create corresponding consequences. It’s not a system of rewards and punishments, but rather a natural law like gravity, where positive actions lead to positive outcomes, and negative actions lead to negative outcomes. Karma means only ‘volitional action’, not all action. karma never means its effect; its effect is known as the ‘fruit’ or the ‘result’ of karma. The essential effect of karma is its continuation. An Arahant, though he acts, does not accumulate karma, because he is free from the inflexibility of self. Ultimately, Buddhist practice aims to break free from the cycle of karma and rebirth.

VOLITION
Volition is part of the mental formation called self. Therefore, it is same as karma. When self is rigidly directing the actions, the effects of a volitional action will continue to manifest themselves.

REBIRTH
Rebirth is the continuation of mental formation from a form in this moment to another form in the next moment. The so-called being is a mental formation. When the form of physical body is no longer functioning, the being takes on another form. A man who dies here and reborn elsewhere is neither the same person, nor another. It is the continuity of the same series. The last thought-moment of this life conditions the first thought-moment in the so-called next life.

ILLUSION
Illusion continues as long as things are not seen as they are. This continuation of illusion is the continuation of aberration (tanha, ‘thirst’ or mental formation).

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THE THIRD NOBLE TRUTH
The Third Noble Truth is the cessation of aberration, Nirvana, the Absolute Truth, the Ultimate Reality. Here our function is to realize it (sacchikatabba). 

NIRVANA
Nirvana is the ‘extinction of Thirst’. It is the ‘cessation of becoming’. Nirvana is no annihilation of self, because there is no self to annihilate. If at all, it is the annihilation of the illusion, of the false idea of self. Nirvana can be attained in this life. A person who has attained Nirvana knows that any sensation he experiences is impermanent, that it does not bind him. He knows that all those sensations will be pacified with the dissolution of the body, just as the flame of a lamp goes out when oil and wick give out. Buddha says: ‘O bhikkhus, I say that the destruction of defilement and impurities is (meant) for a person who knows and who sees, and not for a person who does not know and does not see.’ To see things as they are without illusion or ignorance is the extinction of craving ‘thirst’ and the cessation of aberration, which is Nirvana. There is nothing more after Nirvana. This is the Ultimate.

ABSOLUTE TRUTH
The Absolute Truth is that there is nothing absolute in the world, that everything is relative, conditioned and impermanent, and that there is no unchanging, everlasting, absolute substance like Self, Soul, or Ātman within or without. There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. In other words there is no thinker behind the thought. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found. 

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THE FOURTH NOBLE TRUTH
The Fourth Noble Truth is the Path leading to the realization of Nirvana. A mere knowledge of the Path, however complete, will not do. In this case, our function is to follow it and keep to it (bhavetabba).

THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH

  1. Right Understanding (Samma ditthi),
  2. Right Thought (Samma sankappa),
  3. Right Speech (Samma vaca),
  4. Right Action (Samma kammanta),
  5. Right Livelihood (Samma ajiva),
  6. Right Effort (Samma vayama),
  7. Right Mindfulness (Samma sati),
  8. Right Concentration (Samma samadhi). 

These eight factors are to be developed more or less simultaneously, as far as possible according to the capacity of each individual. They are all linked together and each helps the cultivation of the others. It is a way of life to be followed, practiced and developed by each individual. It is self-discipline in body, word and mind, self-development and self-purification. It has nothing to do with belief, prayer, worship or ceremony. In that sense, it has nothing which may popularly be called ‘religious’. It is a Path leading to the realization of Ultimate Reality, to complete freedom, happiness and peace through moral, spiritual and intellectual perfection.

THE THREE DISCIPLINES
For a man to be perfect there are two qualities that he should develop equally: compassion (karuna) on one side, and wisdom (panna) on the other. Here compassion represents love, charity, kindness, tolerance and such noble qualities on the emotional side, or qualities of the heart, while wisdom would stand for the intellectual side or the qualities of the mind. For this a man must develop the following three disciplines.

(a) Ethical Conduct (Silo)
(b) Mental Discipline (Samadhi)
(c) Wisdom (Panna)

ETHICAL CONDUCT
In Ethical Conduct (Sila), based on love and compassion, are included three factors of the Noble Eightfold Path: namely, Right Speech, Right Action and Right Livelihood. It should be realized that the Buddhist ethical and moral conduct aims at promoting a happy and harmonious life both for the individual and for society. This moral conduct is considered as the indispensable foundation for all higher spiritual attainments. No spiritual development is possible without this moral basis.

RIGHT SPEECH
Right speech means abstention (1) from telling lies, (2) from backbiting and slander and talk that may bring about hatred, enmity, disunity and disharmony among individuals or groups of people, (3) from harsh, rude, impolite, malicious and abusive language, and (4) from idle, useless and foolish babble and gossip. When one abstains from these forms of wrong and harmful speech one naturally has to speak the truth, has to use words that are friendly and benevolent, pleasant and gentle, meaningful and useful. One should not speak carelessly: speech should be at the right time and place. If one cannot say something useful, one should keep ‘noble silence’.

RIGHT ACTION
Right Action aims at promoting moral, honorable and peaceful conduct. It admonishes us that we should abstain from destroying life, from stealing, from dishonest dealings, from illegitimate sexual intercourse, and that we should also help others to lead a peaceful and honorable life in the right way.

RIGHT LIVELIHOOD
Right Livelihood means that one should abstain from making one’s living through a profession that brings harm to others, such as trading in arms and lethal weapons, intoxicating drinks, poisons, killing animals, cheating, etc., and should live by a profession which is honorable, blameless and innocent of harm to others. One can clearly see here that Buddhism is strongly opposed to any kind of war, when it lays down that trade in arms and lethal weapons is an evil and unjust means of livelihood. However, Buddhism is not against having a strong defense.

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MENTAL DISCIPLINE
Mental Discipline includes three other factors of the Eightfold Path: namely, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness (or Attentiveness) and Right Concentration. Thus the mind is trained and disciplined and developed.

RIGHT EFFORT
Right Effort is the energetic will (1) to prevent evil and unwholesome states of mind from arising, and (2) to get rid of such evil and unwholesome states that have already arisen within a man, and also (3) to produce, to cause to arise, good and wholesome states of mind not yet arisen, and (4) to develop and bring to perfection the good and wholesome states of mind already present in man.

RIGHT MINDFULNESS
Right Mindfulness(or Attentiveness) is to be diligently aware, mindful and attentive with regard to (1) the activities of the body (kaya), (2) sensations or feelings (vedana), (3) the activities of the mind (citta) and (4) ideas, thoughts, conception and things (dhamma). The practice of concentration on breathing (anapanasati) is one of the well-known exercise, connected with the body, for mental development. There are several other ways of developing attentiveness in relation to the body—as modes of meditation. With regard to sensations and feelings, one should be clearly aware of all forms of feelings and sensations, pleasant, unpleasant and neutral, of how they appear and disappear within oneself. Concerning the activities of mind, one should be aware whether one’s mind is lustful or not, given to hatred or not, deluded or not, distracted or concentrated, etc. In this way one should be aware of all movements of mind, how they arise and disappear. As regards ideas, thoughts, conceptions and things, one should know their nature, how they appear and disappear, how they are developed, how they are suppressed, and destroyed, and so on.

RIGHT CONCENTRATION
Right Concentration leads to the four stages of Dhyana, generally called trance or meditative contemplation. In the first stage of Dhyana, passionate desires and certain unwholesome thoughts like sensuous lust, ill-will, languor, worry, restlessness, and skeptical doubt are discarded, and feeling of joy and happiness are maintained, along with certain mental activities. In the second stage, all intellectual activities are suppressed, tranquility and ‘one-pointedness’ of mind developed, and the feelings of joy and happiness are still retained. In the third stage, the feeling of joy, which is an active sensation, also disappears, while the disposition of happiness still remains in addition to mindful equanimity. In the fourth stage of Dhyana, all sensations, even of happiness and unhappiness, of joy and sorrow, disappear, only pure equanimity and awareness remaining.

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WISDOM
The remaining two factors, namely Right Thought and Right Understanding go to constitute Wisdom.

RIGHT THOUGHT
Right Thought denotes the thoughts of selfless renunciation or detachment, thoughts of love and thoughts of non-violence, which are extended to all beings. It is very interesting and important to note here that thoughts of selfless detachment, love and non-violence are grouped on the side of wisdom. This clearly shows that true wisdom is endowed with these noble qualities, and that all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and violence are the result of a lack of wisdom—in all spheres of life whether individual, social, or political.

RIGHT UNDERSTANDING
Right Understanding is the understanding of things as they are, and it is the Four Noble Truths that explain things as they really are. Right Understanding therefore is ultimately reduced to the understanding of the Four Noble Truths. This understanding is the highest wisdom which sees the Ultimate Reality. According to Buddhism there are two sorts of understanding: What we generally call understanding is knowledge, an accumulated memory, an intellectual grasping of a subject according to certain given data. This is called ‘knowing accordingly’ (anubodha). It is not very deep. Real deep understanding is called ‘penetration’ (pativedha), seeing a thing in its true nature, without name and label. This penetration is possible only when the mind is free from all impurities and is fully developed through meditation.

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ARAHANT
A Fully-Enlightened One. An Arahant is a person who has liberated himself from all defilements and impurities such as desire, hatred, ill-will, ignorance, pride, conceit, etc. He has attained the fourth or the highest and ultimate stage in the realization of Nirvana, and is full of wisdom, compassion and such pure and noble qualities. 

NIRVANAHOOD
He who has realized the Truth, Nirvana, is the happiest being in the world. He is free from all ‘complexes’ and obsessions, the worries and troubles that torment others. His mental health is perfect. He does not repent the past, nor does he brood over the future. He lives fully in the present. Therefore he appreciates and enjoys things in the purest sense without self-projections. He is joyful, exultant, enjoying the pure life, his faculties pleased, free from anxiety, serene and peaceful. As he is free from selfish desire, hatred, ignorance, conceit, pride, and all such ‘defilements’, he is pure and gentle, full of universal love, compassion, kindness, sympathy, understanding and tolerance. His service to others is of the purest, for he has no thought of self. He gains nothing, accumulates nothing, not even anything spiritual, because he is free from the illusion of Self, and the ‘thirst’ for becoming.

BUDDHIST CEREMONIES
In Buddhist countries there are simple and beautiful customs and ceremonies on religious occasions. They have little to do with the real Path. But they have their value in satisfying certain religious emotions and the needs of those who are less advanced, and helping them gradually along the Path.

BUDDHIST MEDITATION
Buddhist meditation, ‘Vipassana’, does not mean escape from the daily activities of life; assuming a particular posture, like a statue in some cave or cell in a monastery, in some remote place cut off from society; and musing on, or being absorbed in, some kind of mystic or mysterious thought or trance. Vipassana aims at cleansing the mind of impurities and disturbances, such as lustful desires, hatred, ill-will, etc., and cultivating such qualities as awareness, the analytical faculty, confidence, etc., leading finally to the attainment of highest wisdom which sees the nature of things as they are. It is an analytical method based on mindfulness, awareness, vigilance, and observation.

Vipassana deals with four main areas: (1) the body, (2) feelings and sensations, (3) the mind, and (4) various moral and intellectual subjects. One of the most well-known, popular and practical examples of ‘meditation’ connected with the body is called ‘The Mindfulness or Awareness of in-and-out breathing’. It is for this ‘meditation’ only that a particular and definite posture is prescribed in the text. For other forms of ‘meditation’ you may sit, stand, walk, or lie down, as you like.

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July 14, 2025 – 6:30 PM Categories: Subject Clearing | Post a comment

PM: The Life

Reference: Postulate Mechanics

The following key words and definitions act as stable data that help understand the basics of life. The key words appearing in earlier chapters (words in square brackets) are not defined again. For all key words, please see PM: Glossary.

NOTE: “PM” is the abbreviation for Postulate Mechanics. The content of this subject is open to further refinement and update as long as they comply with the postulate of ONENESS.

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EVOLUTION
Evolution of life occurs from inanimate to animate, minerals to cells, unicellular to multicellular, and from plants to animals to humans. The form becomes more complex as it evolves, and the inherent motion becomes more sophisticated.

MAN
Man is a life organism at the top of the evolutionary chain. A life organism has a form made of substance, which displays inherent motion. The form made of substance is seen as a body. The complex capabilities expressed through the body are seen as the workings of a mind. And, the inherent motion, which makes these capabilities possible, is seen as the spirit.

BEINGNESS
Beingness is the essence of whole person. It is the whole genetic programming that consists of Thetan and Genetic Entity.

THETAN
Thetan is a term borrowed from Scientology that describes the mind and its functions. It is the upper end of the programming carried forward over the genetic line, the lower end of which is Genetic Entity that describes the body and its functions. Thetan (Mind) and Genetic Entity (body) are integrated as one single system of beingness. Thetan is not something that can be detached from the body as believed in Scientology. That detachment occurs only in the form of attention no longer being fixated on the body. Thetan is also not something immortal as believed in Scientology. That sense of immortality applies only to the property of universal awareness.

GENETIC ENTITY
Genetic Entity is a term borrowed from Scientology. It is a programming that keeps the blueprint of the body. It is carried forward over the genetic line. It is hard-wired into the body through DNA molecules. It develops the body and monitors all its functions. It is very sophisticated, but it has limited capacity to update itself.

SPIRIT
Spirit lies at the upper end of the spectrum of self. At the bottom end of this spectrum lies the ego. Spirit represents a self that is completely integrated and contains no anomalies. All aspects of the spirit are totally assimilated. 

SPIRITUALITY
Spirituality deals with the matters of life. It means becoming aware of the situations in life and resolving them. 

SELF
The beingness has a sense of its coordination from a single control point. This is the self, the “I”, or the being. The self exists simply to assimilate all that the beingness is interacting with, such as, sensations, perceptions, memories, experiences, knowledge and wisdom.  

IDENTITY
The self acquires an identity when it identifies itself with something external to it. The self cannot differentiate itself from the identity. It simply thinks that it is that identity. A self can have many layers of identities and not be aware of it. It just acts out according to the identity that gets activated in a situation. Thus, an identified self is limited in its awareness.

INDIVIDUALITY
The self has a sense of individuality in that it considers itself to be unique. An identified self can also claim individuality. Therefore, individuality and identity are not exclusive of each other.

EGO
The ego is the awareness of oneself. It is the sense of “I”. The negative aspects of Ego are manifested when self gets fixated on its individuality.

SOUL
The SOUL refers to the animating, non-physical essence of life. In philosophy, this term has been used to refer to the mind. In religion, it is theorized to be that eternal aspect of the person, which separates from the body upon death, and goes to heaven or hell.

VIEWPOINT

Viewpoint is the frame of reference the beingness is using to view from. It is closely tied with individuality. The viewpoint determines a person’s reality, which includes the sense of his location in space, and what he thinks of himself. The viewpoint can become fixed, but a person can always unfix and change it. 

SELF-DETERMINATION
Self-determination is a person’s ability to determine something without outside influence, and based entirely on his viewpoint.

FREE WILL
A person’s free will is his ability to make decisions voluntarily. In other words, he can postulate, but subject to the laws of Postulate Mechanics. Free will does not mean that the person can arbitrarily do anything he wants. If he does then there are unwanted consequences.

SELF-ANIMATION
Self animation is inherent to a living form, such as, virus, cells and higher organisms. Since extremely small changes in consistency may produce significantly large and visible changes in motion, life can manage self-animation by controlling the consistency of its parts. The required changes in consistency are so small that they can easily be controlled by thought. Therefore, a thought-motion interface may be postulated for living organisms.

DEATH
Death is the total and permanent cessation of all vital functions of the life organism. Death and birth are natural events that are necessary for the evolution of life. When death occurs, the whole spirit-mind-body system disintegrates together as one. The “I” is the configuration of body, mind and spirit. This configuration is lost upon death. Therefore, the “I” does not pass through death, only knowledge and karma does. Knowledge is the assimilated content of the mind. It gets stored in the society, humanity and the universe. It is accessed through meditation. Karma is the unassimilated content of the mind. It passes from one life to the next as DNA “programming” that is waiting to be fully assimilated.

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July 3, 2025 – 5:06 AM Categories: Postulate Mechanics | Post a comment

SC: Scientology

Reference: Postulate Mechanics


The following definitions are an effort to understand the fundamentals of Dianetics and Scientology using the approach of Subject Clearing (SC). Dianetics developed into Scientology; therefore, Scientology is now inclusive of Dianetics. Scientology claims the ancient Vedas and Buddhism to be its ancestors.

To find a word simply use search (CTRL-F). For original definitions in this subject please consult Scientology Technical Dictionary. If you feel that some basic term should be included here, then please let me know.

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Scientology

SCIENTOLOGY
Scientology derives from Latin and Greek roots meaning “knowing” and “study,” and is defined as “the study of knowing how to know.” Its doctrines center on spiritual self-understanding and methods for achieving mental and spiritual freedom.

KNOW
Ordinarily, to know is to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty. But, more precisely, to know is to have certainty that there are no holes in the information presented, all the data that is available is consistent, and all that is knowable is in harmony. If there is any discontinuity, inconsistency or disharmony then one knows that there are anomalies to be sorted out. Much of human inquiry—science, philosophy, education—aims to deepen, challenge, and expand what we know.

POSTULATE
The purpose of a postulate is to give meaning to a simple or complex sensation. In Scientology, postulate is a self-created truth, which is simply a consideration generated by self. Thus, a typical postulate is, generally, associated with the idea of self. Here self is the sense of “I”, which itself is a postulate. This tells us that the actual source of a postulate is unknowable. 

STATIC
In Scientology, Static is a motionless AGENT that generates and controls all motion. Static claims to be unknowable having no mass, no wavelength, no time and actually without position; but then it is identified as a knowable Cause-point that can create and destroy mass and energy, and which can locate itself in space and time. Thus, the Static is both unknowable and knowable. This presents an anomaly of contradiction.

This anomaly is resolved when we see Static to be a postulate underlying the philosophy of Scientology. This postulate is substantial, and its substance may be identified as thought. So, Static is not without substance. Mathematically, static is the motionless reference point from which all motion can be assessed, just like zero is the reference point from which all numbers can be assessed. Static makes sense only when considered relative to kinetic (motion). However, Static is being considered as the absolute source of all motion. This presents another anomaly. 

Therefore, Static is neither unknowable nor absolute. Static is a knowable postulate that is a part of the knowable universe. Beyond the knowable universe is the Unknowable. The postulate of Static can be examined for its consistency with other postulates for the knowable universe in Scientology philosophy.

LIFE STATIC
The Life Static is another postulate in Scientology, which is consistent with the postulate of Static. Life is viewed in Scientology as a quality and an ability with no quantitative factor. But both quality and quantity are knowable; and these are aspects of the knowable universe. A Life Static represents the most basic ability associated with life, which is the ability to postulate and to perceive. It animates the body. 

THETA
In Scientology, theta is used as a symbol for Life Static. It is considered to be the absolute source of life and its motion. The idea of theta being absolute presents an anomaly. Scientifically, all motion of life is inherent to a life organism. At most, theta would represents the assimilated vector of complex motions of the life organism. 

MEST
In Scientology, MEST represents the physical universe that is created by theta, and which is mechanical in nature. The symbol MEST is created from the first letters of Matter, Energy, Space and Time, which are concepts defined in Physics. The physical universe is thus limited to the same scope that the subject of Physics is limited to. Thought is not viewed as an integral part of the physical universe, instead it is considered to be a part of theta. This lack of integration of thought and MEST is an anomaly that goes against the reality of the oneness of the universe.

THETA-MEST THEORY
In Scientology, theta is considered to be something having no-substance; but which creates the substance called MEST, and infuses it with life. Theta is separate and independent of MEST. Theta is thought. Thought is actually a substance because it is substantial enough to be sensed. This presents an anomaly because thought is not considered to be a substance yet it is sensed all the time. The Theta-MEST theory simply wraps up in scientific garb the religious idea that God has created the world, and God is separate from the world. The postulate that THETA and MEST are inherently separate, and not integrated, presents an anomaly.

THETAN
Scientology uses the term THETAN for a person, with the connotation that the person is a “spiritual being”, who is inherently independent of the physical body. It parallels the idea of “soul” in Abrahamic religions that exists apart from the body. However, the notion of PERSON comes from the role one plays in life. It is the “center” that controls the thoughts and the body. Scientifically, this would be the resultant vector of the inherent motions of an organism.  It would not exist without the organism. It would be a part of the scientific model of the mind. The idea in Scientology that the control center of all thoughts and the body can exist by itself independent of the body presents an anomaly.

EXTERIORIZATION
Exteriorization is a feeling of being separate from the body, which is commonly known as “out of body experience.” Scientology believes in this phenomena literally as the thetan separating from the body. This is an anomaly because the thetan is not a thing. Thetan is a postulate. But exteriorization is a phenomenon that is considered significant in Scientology because it distances a person from his aberrations. It makes sense when we look at exteriorization as the attention becoming free from its fixation on the body, which the person was not aware of.

MIND
In Scientology, mind is described as the THETA command post of a life organism. The mind is concerned wholly with the estimation of effort to solve the problems of survival. It does its thinking by combining the perceptions of the immediate environment with facsimiles of the past. The mind is inherently analytical like a “computer”, but “bugs” in its circuits introduce reactions. The analytical mind is the one which is alert and aware and the reactive mind simply reacts without analysis. An optimally functioning mind focuses on the assimilation of sensations, perceptions, and knowledge. Reactions will occur only in situations where assimilation is lacking and fixation is present. Therefore, the fixation of the mind on survival may be seen as an anomaly.

SURVIVAL
Survival is to endure or live through some difficult, adverse or unusual circumstance. If a person is fixated on the survival of himself then that would be an aberration, because the beingness (self) is changing from moment to moment. Beingness is not something fixed. A person survives naturally as he focuses on resolving anomalies of life. 

ABERRATION
Aberration means departure from sound thinking. It leads to lapse of judgment. Hallucination, delusion, illusion, eccentricity, and abnormality are all aberrations. Aberration in behavior would be any conduct not supported by reason. Mental problems, such as, psychoses, neuroses, compulsions and repressions of all kinds and classifications are aberrations. A physical illness of any kind would be aberration of the body. In Scientology, the source of aberration is considered to be trauma and overwhelm suffered by a person that leaves its impression of the mind. Such traumatic experiences are recorded as facsimiles and they act as the “bugs” in the “computing” function of the mind. They then generate all the aberrations. To resolve these aberrations Scientology employs the process of auditing. An auditing process helps a person become aware of the “basic” of the chain of experiences that is responsible for the aberration.

FACSIMILE
Scientology describes a facsimile as that section of thought which has a physical universe impression on it. Such facsimiles are responsible for the aberrations in a person. A facsimile consists of the picture, sound, smell and all other perceptions, effort, emotion, conclusions and speculations along with a time tag. It is unknowingly created and becomes part of the time track as a recording. It is not dependent upon an organism for its continued existence. The facsimiles are hidden from a person until he recalls and reviews them through the process of auditing. Upon a thorough review the facsimile loses its hold on the  thinking and behavior of the person. The Scientology theory assumes that the sensations that make up the facsimile, acquire their meaning when they are recorded in the mind, while they remain  unknown to theta. This is an anomaly because it is theta (thought) that assigns meanings to the physical sensations received from the MEST universe. 

AUDITING
Auditing is the application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. It involves the action of asking a person a question, and getting him to look at that area of life more closely to obtain clarity on it. The prime target are the facsimiles that a person has, but which are not very visible. One looks for these facsimiles by following precise symptoms or sensations through a chain of incidents. At the end of such a chain is the basic incident simply referred to as the “basic.” When the person becomes aware of the “basic” all the charge buried in that chain of incidents disappears. The person has a realization about his life and he obtains greater clarity. The whole idea in Scientology is to help a person handle all his facsimiles so he can live a life without aberrations.

BASIC
Any facsimile  can be traced, ultimately, to some fundamental postulate. In Scientology, it is believed that such facsimiles existing as a chain of “earlier similars” back to some “basic” in the past. When that basic is reached, the facsimile is erased forever. One may get lucky in this regard; but the reality is often much different. The facsimile is usually complex enough to have many different chains of “earlier similars”, one for each sensation. Each “earlier similar” in a chain may then be complex enough in its turn to have many more chains. In short, what may appear to be a linear chain from a distance may actually be a complex network of “earlier similars” extending back to many “basics,” all of whom may have to be taken care of to erase the original facsimile.

ERASURE
In Dianetics auditing, the assimilation of traumatic experience is called erasure. It is accomplished by focusing on the time period of the incident and recounting the incident from beginning to end over and over again, picking up all the uncomfortable sensations and perceptions present just as though the incident were happening at that moment. The incident does not always erase fully with the mechanical action of recounting alone because complete erasure requires resolution of anomalies. Therefore, other auditing questions and processes are used to direct the attention to different aspects of the incident and its general context to spot and resolve anomalies. Dianetics lacks a systematic procedure to handle anomalies.

OBJECTIVE PROCESSING
To audit the mind a person needs free attention that he can control. The purpose of Objective processes is to free enough attention so a person can look at his mind objectively. These processes involve putting attention on objects in the current environment and observing them closely. This includes observation of body and its motions. The person uses all his physical and mental senses to do so. Anyone can be brought more into present time with objective processes.

GRADES PROCESSING
The Scientology Grades focus on the suppositional reality of a person. The suppositional reality is made up of assumptions, justifications, beliefs, fixed ideas, etc. It exists because of the person is identifying himself with the universe. These grades are audited in a certain order. Different technologies are used to audit different grades. Once the suppositional reality is cleared, the facsimiles can be audited to complete erasure.

OT PROCESSING
OT processing handles facsimiles to complete erasure. OT processes do so by auditing every sensation to its basic (see BASIC) and recovering the underlying postulate. This OT processing also has several levels. These levels are audited in a certain order. Each OT level has its own technology. 

BODY THETAN (BT)
In Scientology, the concept of Body thetan is used on OT Levels. It is described as a degraded thetan that attaches itself to a person’s body and interferes with the control and running of his body. It is associated with thoughts that are running by themselves and are out of control. To spot a BT a person must spot the source of such automatic and independent actions going on within him. He does that by questioning whatever appears to be out of place in his mental space. Scientology associates many esoteric ideas with the BTs; but the idea of BT makes sense only in the context of auditing each sensation by following its chain to its basic until it is erased. 

MEMORY
In Scientology, facsimiles reduce to memories when their charge is erased. Memory is considered to be the data stored in the standard memory banks, which is potentially recallable by “I.” Scientology does not differentiate between a facsimile and a memory; but a memory is not a literal recording like the facsimile. Each time a memory is recalled it is reconstructed from elementary data stored in standard banks, by activating the time stamps. Not being a fixed recording, a memory adjusts itself to different points of view.

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