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Reference: The Book of Scientology

Affinity, Communication and Reality

Please see the original section at the link above.

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Summary

Hubbard relates beingness to space, but beingness starts as the awareness of basic postulates. When the awareness identifies itself with those postulates, we have a beingness that is subject to the laws of MEST. This beingness is actually what Hubbard refers to as “thetan”. Because of this identification, a thetan is not aware of the postulates that have brought him into being. 

Hubbard describes the tone scale as a gradient scale from space to matter. But the tone scale appears to be a scale of thought identification (beingness).  It parallels a scale of energy identification (doingness), and a scale of matter identification (havingness).

The thought identification increases as the tone scale is descended. This results in the condensation of the beingness of the thetan. At the top of this tone scale, the identification with thought is minimal. At the bottom of the tone scale, this identification is total, and the thetan dramatizes his thoughts in a stimulus-response manner without knowing.

Hubbard describes the ARC triangle of Scientology. ARC stands for Affinity, Reality and Communication. Affinity is the range of human emotions that manifest themselves as flows, dispersals and ridges. The emotion expresses itself as energetic action, which, as the scale is descended, condenses into enthusiasm, conservatism, boredom, antagonism, anger, covert hostility, fear, grief, apathy and death. This affinity is displayed in human relationships.

The level of affinity of a person shows up in his communication. Communication is an interchange of thought from one beingness to another. The communication could be joyous and uplifting, or it could be just doom and gloom and quite depressing. If a person’s level of affinity is low, it shows in his communication that tends to put others down.

Reality is established by the person’s ability to perceive. The perception of a person is poor if his level of affinity is low. An angry person has a very poor reality. Hubbard says, “Reality is established by agreement or disagreement or no opinion.” But agreement or disagreement arises because of similarity or difference in realities. No opinion comes from not engaging in comparison.

Hubbard blames the MEST universe for the condition of thetan. The simple fact is that the aberrations of a person are caused by thought identifications. Such identification fixates the person’s attention, much like what happens under hypnotism. To Hubbard, the thetan’s reality on his own universe has become poor, because he is hypnotized by the MEST universe. Hubbard’s approach in processing is, therefore, to disagree with the reality of the MEST universe, instead of understanding the laws of nature better. Hubbard’s approach thus differs from the scientific method of observing and resolving anomalies.

You can understand a person by looking at his chronic emotion, the words coming out of his mouth, and how he deals with others. This is because on the same level, the affinity, communication and reality correspond to each other. A person’s range of tone’s is limited when his attention is fixed on his body. However, that range expands when his attention is no longer fixed on the body.

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Comments

The above summary presents a new interpretation of the concept of thetan. Thetan is the beingness that comes about when awareness is identified with certain postulates. With this identification the beingness becomes subject to the laws of MEST that apply to thought.

Hubbard expresses these laws as the correspondence of affinity, reality and communication, which control the “cause” attribute of the thetan. But if this identification as thetan is not there, then the law that applies is the principle of Oneness. This is the law of continuity, consistency and harmony that applies to all thought, energy and matter, and determines how they behave. Oneness points to the arbitrariness of the idea of the permanence of thetan. 

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Reference: The Book of Scientology

Energy

Please see the original section at the link above.

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Summary

A dimension point is made up of coordinate values of length, width, height and consistency of substance. In case of energy, the consistency is very low compared to matter, and it is measured in terms of wavelength. On the electromagnetic spectrum, the higher the frequency the shorter is the wavelength, and the more viscous is the flow.

The low consistency allows energy to flow. The flow can be laminar or turbulent just like the flow of water in a river. The flow may also develop a fixed pattern. Flowingness is simply the characteristic of transferringness of substance. A series of outflows from a common point is called a dispersal like an explosion. When such flows are traveling toward a common center, it is called an in-dispersal like an implosion. Outflow and inflow from a common centre are classified alike under the word “dispersal” for handy classification. 

A ridge is essentially a fixed pattern in the flow of energy. It looks like a pattern suspended in space. A dispersal from the right and a dispersal from the left colliding in space create a ridge which then exists after the flow itself has ceased. The duration of ridges is quite long. When a flow is resumed through a ridge it would have a wavelength and an intensity.

The memories in the mind are such ridges. They produce perception when attention flows over them. There is also a sense of inflow and outflow of attention from a person’s viewpoint, or point of awareness.

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Comments

The electromagnetic spectrum of energy forms the middle part of the spectrum of substance, which starts with thought and ends in matter.

Wavelength is used as the key parameter of consistency on energy spectrum. Mass is used as the key parameter of consistency for matter; for example, nuclear particles have much greater mass then the electrons. For thought, “emotion” has been used as the parameter for consistency.

Consistency and intensity would be two basic aspects of energy, that go along with the characteristics of flows, dispersals and ridges.

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Reference: The Book of Scientology

Time

Please see the original section at the link above.

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Summary

Hubbard says, “Time could be considered to be the single arbitrary, and might thus be the single source of human aberration.” According to Hubbard, a person is influenced by his past that is recorded on a time-track. The recordings influencing him adversely are the result of “randomity.”  Hubbard defines “randomity” as the misalignment of efforts within an organism caused by internal or external factors, including other forms of life or the material universe. In other words, a person’s aberrations are caused by impressions that have not been assimilated.

According to Hubbard, “time has demonstrated it to be the action of energy in space, and it has been found that the duration of an object roughly approximates its solidity.” In other words, the condensation of energy brings about the solidity of matter, and along with it duration and time. In human terms, the condensation of doingness brings about the solidity of havingness and time.

It is insightful of Hubbard to associate time with duration of substance. As the substance condenses from thought in the direction of matter, its motion reduces and the duration increases. In human dimension this would be equivalent to increase in the fixation of attention. As the fixation becomes more solid, the human behavior becomes increasingly stimulus-response. As the auditor addresses the fixations of a person and helps him resolve them, his sense of time improves and his responses to situations become faster.

Such a fixation is observed in a criminal mind where the process of desiring, investment of energy, and having is short-circuited. The criminal skips the necessity of working to have.

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Comments

MEST is the spectrum of substance that is condensing from thought to energy to matter. Time is the degree of condensation that appears as the duration of substance. As the substance condenses, its duration increases.

In human terms, time is the degree of condensation of attention that appears as fixation. As the attention condenses, its fixation increases. Thus comes about the stimulus-response characteristic of the human aberration and its duration. 

There is nothing wrong with having or possessing objects as long as you do not get obsessively attached to them.

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