SCN 8-8008: Perception

Reference: The Book of Scientology

Perception

Please see the original section at the link above.

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Summary

Hubbard says, “The entire subject of perception is the subject of energy.” Actually, perception comes about when the sensations break up and get assimilated into the mental matrix of experience of the person. If the sensations are too condensed to be broken up, as in the case of a trauma, then there is no perception. There is only pain and mystery. The perception begins to diminish as the person goes down the tone scale, because his sensations are more condensed. 

Hubbard says, “The rehabilitation of perception is essentially the rehabilitation of force.” The rehabilitation of perception comes from breaking up of sensations so they can be assimilated. It may be said that the sensations are made up of force. The person puts his attention on these sensations lightly and moves it around until the sensations start to loosen and break up into elements that can be assimilated. Hubbard calls it creative processing when the person makes postulates to make sense out of these sensations.

Hubbard uses the phrase, “the rehabilitation of the preclear’s ability to handle energy.” The person is faced with the blackness of condensed sensations. He is using postulation to loosen these sensations. This is more or less a process of trial and error. One is trying to find the right postulate that would dissolve the blackness. The principle of oneness applies. This is creative processing.

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Comments

The principle of oneness, as described earlier, is the continuity, consistency and harmony of all reality. This principle helps a person identify spots of blackness as discontinuities, inconsistencies and disharmonies. These spots of blackness are also called anomalies.

This principle of oneness is essential to handling blackness through creative postulation.

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May 29, 2019 – 7:38 AM Categories: Scientology | Post a comment

SCN 8-8008: Black and White

Reference: The Book of Scientology

Black and White

Please see the original section at the link above.

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Summary

Hubbard says, “Black and white are the two extreme manifestations of perception on the part of the preclear… Seeing whiteness or color, the thetan is able to discern and differentiate between objects, actions and spatial dimensions… Blackness is the unknown, for it may contain energy or it may be empty or may be black energy.”

From what is written in the Comments section below, the whiteness or color shall represent the assimilation of the sensations, which would result in perception. The greater is the assimilation, the better would be the perception. 

When there is blackness, either there is nothing to be sensed, or the sensation is so dense, that it cannot be broken up and assimilated. The dense sensation shall be felt as heaviness with delusions and no perception. A person may develop the ability to differentiate between “absence of sensation,” “dense sensation with delusions,” and “actual perception” by working with some drills.

A black spot turns into white when postulates are discovered that bring about a oneness of understanding. For example, Einstein discovered the postulate of the speed of light being a universal constant. That brought about the awareness of energy and matter being different forms of substance.

The concept of “own determinism” runs as white because the person feels he is fully aware. The concept of “other determinism” runs as black because the awareness is not fully there.

A ridge is a combination of awareness (white) and non-awareness (black). For example, in a situation, a person is usually aware of his viewpoint, and not aware of the viewpoint of others. By making an effort to look at the situation from the viewpoint of others, a situation is resolved much more easily.

On the E-meter, a stuck needle is characteristic of a black field. When the black field is sensed, usually as pain or somatic, it is indicated by the flick of the needle.

The black field is felt as a mystery. By placing blackness in different contexts, in terms of environments, yesterday and tomorrow, one may discover the postulate that would resolve that mystery. 

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Comments

The universe is sensed through the sense organs. These sensations break up and get assimilated into the mental matrix of experience of the person. This assimilation produces the perception of what was sensed. This is whiteness.

When the sensations are very dense, as from a trauma, they are difficult to break up and assimilate. Therefore, a person is usually unaware of the details of his traumatic experiences. This is blackness.

Blackness may also exist when there is nothing to sense.

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May 28, 2019 – 7:05 PM Categories: Scientology | Post a comment

SCN 8-8008: Patterns of Energy

Reference: The Book of Scientology

Patterns of Energy

Please see the original section at the link above.

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Summary

Energy is the postulated substance that is given forms by additional postulates. These forms are essentially a pattern of postulates. Hubbard classifies these patterns under different names.

There is push (pressor) and pull (tractor). The two together stabilize one another. There is outflow (explosion) and inflow (implosion). Such dispersals are also in balance. These are flows that can be violent or non-violent.

Basically, there is continuity, consistency and harmony of oneness among postulates and substance; but when this oneness is violated then anomalies of discontinuity, inconsistency and disharmony come about. These anomalies may be looked upon as ridges.

Ridges are generated by flows operating against each other in conflict. There are pressor ridges, tractor ridges, and pressor-tractor ridges. Two explosions operating against each other may form a ridge. Ridges have longer duration.

Hubbard says, “A ridge is a solid body of energy caused by various flows and dispersals which has a duration longer than the duration of flow. Any piece of matter could be considered to be a ridge in its last stage. Ridges, however, exist in suspension around a person and are the foundation upon which facsimiles are built.” In other words, the stable data held by a person can be ridges.

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Comments

The substance is “one” (continuous, consistent and harmonious). This property of oneness is maintained as the substance acquires patterns. Ideally, these patterns must be in balance with each other. Any imbalance creates ridges. The imbalance adjusts itself under processing.

The self may be considered to be a pattern of energy and so does God.

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May 28, 2019 – 4:09 PM Categories: Scientology | Post a comment

Einstein 1920 (XXV) Gaussian Co-ordinates

Reference: Einstein’s 1920 Book

Section XXV (Part 2)
Gaussian Co-ordinates

Please see Section XXV at the link above.

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Summary

Gauss invented a method for the mathematical treatment of continua in general, in which “size-relations” (“distances” between neighbouring points) are defined. To every point of a continuum are assigned as many numbers (Gaussian co-ordinates) as the continuum has dimensions. This is done in such a way, that only one meaning can be attached to the assignment, and that numbers (Gaussian co-ordinates) which differ by an indefinitely small amount are assigned to adjacent points.

The Gaussian co-ordinate system is a logical generalization of the Cartesian co-ordinate system. It is also applicable to non-Euclidean continua, but only when, with respect to the defined “size” or “distance,” small parts of the continuum under consideration behave more nearly like a Euclidean system, the smaller the part of the continuum under our notice.

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Final Comments

Mathematics serves as a tool to arrive at better understanding of what is being observed. It has its own postulates and very fine logic.

Mathematics helps derive relationships among variables. Calculations from such relationships are then verified against actual experiments and experience. The correctness of verification then validates the application of such mathematics to that situation. Any conclusions must not violate the sense of continuity, consistency and harmony.

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May 28, 2019 – 3:22 PM Categories: Einstein | Post a comment

Einstein 1920 (XXIV) Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Continuum

Reference: Einstein’s 1920 Book

Section XXIV (Part 2)
Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Continuum

Please see Section XXIV at the link above.

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Summary

A surface is continuous. It can be divided into square units. The property of flatness of the surface is quite special. It supports straight lines. This property underlies the Cartesian co-ordinate system. This is the Euclidean continuum.

A non-flat surface shall still form a continuum, but it would not support straight-line units of the same size throughout. It would no longer be a Euclidean continuum and it would not support the Cartesian co-ordinates directly. So we shall use a more flexible co-ordinate system that would comply with the inertial requirements of the gravitational field.

The Euclidean geometry and the Cartesian system represents a totally rigid medium with no flexibility. A gravitational field requires non-Euclidean geometry and a co-ordinate system that can take into account some flexibility in the medium. The mathematics, which takes this flexibility into account is the method of Riemann of treating multi-dimensional, non-Euclidean continua based on the principles outlined by Gauss.

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Final Comments

The Euclidean geometry is basically considering the surface of a sphere of infinite radius. Such a surface appears flat and it supports straight lines. These are boundary conditions that represent a substance of total flexibility. Within this boundary is substance that varies in the flexibility of its structure, such that the farthest point from the boundary is totally rigid.

The Euclidean geometry arbitrarily assumes a substance of totally rigid structure at the boundary and within that boundary throughout. The non-Euclidean geometry introduces the required flexibility, and the methods of Riemann accounts for the variations in that flexibility.

This flexibility represents the variations in the inertia of matter or, more generally, the variations in the consistency of substance filling the space-time.

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May 28, 2019 – 1:20 PM Categories: Einstein | Post a comment