SCN 8-8008: Related Experiences

Reference: The Book of Scientology

Related Experiences

Please see the original section at the link above.

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Summary

In this section, Hubbard provides a table of relationships for the use of auditors. Each row provides three items that are closely related to each other. The three columns of the table are assigned three different positions on the tone scale. These items are supposed to be addressed to any subject.

In my opinion, the three items of each row, provide a cycle of action; and this cycle of action applies to each position on the tone scale. For example,“Start-Change-Stop” is a cycle of action. If there is a change, then it must be preceded by a start, and it must be followed by a stop. All three items are present at the top, middle and bottom of the tone scale. The cycle as a whole condenses as it descends the tone scale.

In the trio “Space-Energy-Time” energy refers to substance. This substance can also be thought and matter. Substance has extents (space), and duration (time). Therefore, Substance (energy), space and time shall appear simultaneously at each position on the tone scale. However, the substance condenses as it descends the tone scale, and so does space and time.

“Beingness-Doingness-Havingness” also manifest together and have matching characteristics corresponding to the position on the tone scale.

In the trio “Positive-Current-Negative”, a current is said to flow from positive to negative. These three elements shall occur together.

In the trio “Creation-Alteration-Destruction,” the three elements present just another view of the cycle of action. Same explanation applies to “Conception-Living-Death.”

“Differentiation-Association-Identification” are the characteristics of awareness with respect to the forms of substance. These characteristics also condense down the tone scale.

Hubbard states that ARC and Dynamics apply to each column or for any one of the above statements of experience. However, he does not explain it further.

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Comments

This section by Hubbard is very sketchy. Hopefully, more details are provided in subsequent sections.

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May 17, 2019 – 8:08 PM Categories: Scientology | Post a comment

Einstein 1920 (XVII) Minkowski’s Four-Dimensional Space

Reference: Einstein’s 1920 Book

Section XVII (Part 1)
Minkowski’s Four-Dimensional Space

Please see Section XVII at the link above.

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Summary

The world in which we live is a four-dimensional continuum. It is composed of individual events, each of which is described by four numbers, namely, three space co-ordinates x, y, z and a time co-ordinate t.In classical mechanics, t is considered to be independent and absolute; but in the theory of relativity, t is not independent of x, y, and z.

Pure “space-distance” of two events with respect to K results in “time-distance” of the same events with respect to K’. Therefore, space and time are related on a larger scale, though this is not so apparent in the material domain. Minkowski made this very clear by presenting the time coordinate as “√(-1) ct“ so that the time co-ordinate plays exactly the same rôle as the three space coordinates.

Minkowski’s idea made the mathematical foundation of the general theory of relativity possible.

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Final Comments

The four dimensions are length (x), width (y), height (z) and time (t). The dimensions are like scales and x, y, z, and t, called co-ordinates, represent specific values on those scales. These dimensions are attributes of substance. For example, the three space coordinates x, y, and z represent “a location in the space occupied by substance”; and the time coordinate t represents “the duration of substance at that location.”

The important point is that these dimensions do not exist in the absence of substance. A point  in a space occupied by substance is not dimensionless. It has four dimensions, and the fourth dimension represented by t is the inertia (rigidity or flexibility), associated with that point. Minkowski’s contribution made it possible to model this property of inertia, or consistency, mathematically.

Time (duration) is the inertial dimension. This inertia is very large throughout the material domain, and the changes in it are imperceptible; so the matter is very rigid. But this inertia is negligible throughout the energy domain, and it is hardly perceptible; so the energy is very flexible.

The four dimensions together represent the continuum of substance. There is no empty space; thus, we have matter floating in energy. There is no clear separation at the boundary between matter and its surrounding energy.

The consistency decreases from matter to energy. As a result, the flexibility increases, which manifests itself as motion. So, there is a natural relationship between consistency (inertia) and motion (velocity). This is the meaning of the contribution of Minkowski to four-dimensional space.

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May 17, 2019 – 7:47 PM Categories: Einstein | Post a comment

SCN 8-8008: Cycle of Action

Reference: The Book of Scientology

Cycle of Action

Please see the original section at the link above.

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Summary

A cycle is a series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order. For a person, this is a cycle of havingness, when it has to do with a series of conclusions, understandings or accomplishments. But havingness does not necessarily imply fixation as it happens with identification. As long as a person does not identify himself with his conclusion, understanding or accomplishment then he is not controlled by the cycle associated with the MEST universe.

Therefore, having possessions does not necessarily subject a person to time; though the possessions themselves, being MEST objects, are subject to time. The cycle of MEST object may be stated as: creation, growth, conservation, decay and death or destruction. A cycle may be defined in terms of the motion of an object as: start, change, stop; or in terms of experience as: creation, alteration and destruction.

Past, present and future are connected to a person through his identification with body, self, family, society, postulates, goals, etc. The body goes through the stages of creation, growth, conservation, decay and death. This determines a life cycle. He may be connected with a past life cycle through his identification with the facsimiles that are carried forward from one life cycle to the next.

Hubbard talks about a person having lived through “spirals.” These spirals also go through the stages of creation, growth, conservation, decay and death. Hubbard claims that the present spirals are about 40,000 years long. Such “spirals” may be due to the person identifying himself with a postulate or a goal. 

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Comments


The conclusions, understanding, accomplishments, possessions, objects etc., go through cycles. Therefore, they are subject to time. When a person becomes attached to these MEST objects, he conceives himself also to be subject to time. From this identification springs a person’s fixation on self.

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May 17, 2019 – 12:43 PM Categories: Scientology | Post a comment

SCN 8-8008: Assist Processing

Reference: The Book of Scientology

Assist Processing

Please see the original section at the link above.

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Summary

When a person is injured in an accident, a facsimile of that incident is impressed on the person’s mind. The facsimile is held in suspension because the sensations from the injury are not easy to assimilate. Hubbard’s solution is to put attention of the person on the incident  and have him go through it repeatedly as if it was happening to him just that moment. This will assimilate the sensations to some extent and the pain will subside. The person is then asked to visualize that incident occurring at different places and times under different circumstances and even reversing its sequence. The whole effort is to lessen the person’s fixation on the incident.

Assist consists of applying the above procedure to a recent injury. The experience is fresh in a person’s mind, and so it is easier to process. It speeds up a person’s recovery from his injury.

When the person visualizes or mocks-up the incident or an injured part, he should put it next to another mock-up when there was no such injury. It brings the injury into focus and discharges the trauma. The mock-up should be controllable by the person. If the person cannot control his mock-up, then he should simply discard it and put up a new mock-up that he can control.

Hubbard says, “Using effort to control one’s mockups is of little avail; one simply creates them. Where mock-ups are absent, one will appear if the individual will simply keep putting the thought forward that it will appear. If he puts forward the thought often enough and long enough, he will get such a mock-up.”

The person may become ill or in pain while following this procedure. The remedy for this is simply to continue with the procedure until the illness or feeling has abated. This procedure makes a person look at an injury, or a worry, or a doubt, for what it is. It is continued only for as long as it is necessary.

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Comments

The facsimile is made of sensations that did not get broken up and assimilated within the matrix of existing experience. The entire handling of a facsimile is to break it up and loosen its content so they can be assimilated and perceived.

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May 16, 2019 – 9:07 AM Categories: Scientology | Post a comment

SCN 8-8008: Facsimiles

Reference: The Book of Scientology

Facsimiles

Please see the original section at the link above.

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Summary

Hubbard says, “The best description of facsimiles is to be found in Electro psychometric Auditing. A facsimile is an energy picture which can be reviewed again.”

More accurately, a facsimile is a thought phenomenon that can be triggered again. I have modified Hubbard’s definition because a differentiation must be made between thought and energy. Thought is not the same type of substance as energy. A loose identification between thought and energy can create confusion. Besides, a person is not aware of the facsimile, while he is under its influence. Auditing reduces the facsimile into a memory, and only then the person becomes aware of it.

A facsimile is a mental impression of some experience. It affects a person’s thinking, and makes him react emotionally. The reaction may express itself physically with adverse consequences. The person is not aware that he is reacting. He thinks that he is acting on his own volition, but he is puzzled by it.

A heavy facsimile may be created by a traumatic experience like a car accident. A light facsimile may simply consist of an innocent misunderstanding. A facsimile can be anywhere on the spectrum from heavy to light, depending on the experience.

When a person puts his attention on the facsimile consciously, there is still a reaction but it is subdued. When the person re-experiences the facsimile several times with full awareness, the facsimile rapidly reduces in its intensity. With conscious attention, the facsimile may ultimately disappear. The person then fully realizes what the underlying experience was. When that facsimile is cleared up, the person is no longer triggered by its subject, and he can deal with that area thoughtfully.

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Comments

In auditing one asks questions to locate a facsimile related to a specific condition. When the facsimile comes up it generates the known reaction. One then traces the details of that facsimile using the same reaction, until the person becomes fully aware of it, at which point the reaction disappears. One follows the same procedure with an E-meter using the reaction of the needle. The accuracy lies in tracing the same needle reaction.

A needle reaction on an E-meter is easy to trace when it is large and unique. Difficulty arises when the needle reaction is small and not very distinguishable from the background noise of other reactions. It is then easy to jumps from one reaction to a similar reaction related to a different facsimile. The auditing then gets bogged down. 

In Scientology, a person is usually audited by an auditor, who uses an E-meter to trace the reaction. This works well on the beginning Dianetic auditing where the facsimiles are heavy and the meter reads are large. But when the person has improved and is now running Scientology processes, the facsimiles are much lighter and the meter reads are small. The chances of auditing getting bogged down increase greatly. 

Therefore, on Grade auditing and above, the subject clearing approach works much better and faster. It does not require an E-meter.

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May 15, 2019 – 9:37 PM Categories: Scientology | Post a comment