PM Chapter 3: Substance of the Universe

Reference: Postulate Mechanics (PM)

The universe is substantial and it has substance, because substance is anything substantial enough to be sensed. The substance of universe may be categorized as follows

  1. Matter (characterized by mass of the object)
  2. Energy (characterized by frequency of motion)
  3. Thought (characterized by fixation of consideration)

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Matter

Matter is associated with structure and stability. It is characterized by large inherent inertia, and a relatively small amount of motion. Because of its structure, matter can be broken down into smaller particles. The smallest particle of matter is called an atom. As we break down the atom, matter starts to lose its characteristics.

The characteristics of space, time, motion, inertia and gravity for matter are quite familiar to us. These characteristics are quite stable in the physical dimension. Matter can exist in the states of solid, liquid, and gas depending on factors like temperature and pressure.

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Energy

Energy is associated with processes and activity.  It is the opposite of matter in that it is characterized by large inherent motion, and a very small amount of inertia. It exists in both mental and physical dimensions. Distinct frequencies of energy tend to maintain their separateness, but energy of the same frequency merges freely.

Energy is a substance that spreads out in wave form. It also has the characteristics of space, time, motion, etc., except that their forms are very dynamic. Energy has “particles” only in form of quanta. A quantum represents the minimum amount of energy involved in a reaction.

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Thought

Thought is sensed mentally and not physically. It is that dimension of substance in which postulates appear. Thought develops from postulate into ideas, theory, and conclusions through the process of reasoning.

Thought has all the characteristics of space, time, motion, etc., but these characteristics appear very differently in the mental dimension, such as, expansiveness, fixation, and expressiveness of ideas. Down the line we have more complex mental phenomena, such as, emotion and effort.

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Postulate Mechanics

Postulate Mechanics recognizes matter, energy and thought as substance. Science treats only matter as substance; it barely recognizes energy as substance, and doesn’t consider thought as substance at all.

A human body can be observed to consist of matter, energy and thought as substance. 

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PM Chapter 2: Sensing the Universe

Reference: Postulate Mechanics (PM)

The five traditional physical senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. The sixth ‘thought sense’ assimilates the sensation from these physical senses.

  1. If there is no prior knowledge, the thought sense advances a postulate to assimilate the sensation. 
  2. As the physical sensations continue to arrive, the thought sense starts to formulate a “theory of universe.”
  3. The word “universe” implies the assimilation of all sensations into oneness of harmony, consistency and continuity.

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The Postulates

The universe can be sensed and known; therefore, the first postulate is: SUBSTANTIALITY. This is the ‘sat’ part of the Vedic description of the ultimate reality as “sat-chit-ananda.” This means the universe has substance.

The universe can actually sense and know; therefore, the second postulate is: AWARENESS. This is the ‘chit’ part of the Vedic description of the ultimate reality as “sat-chit-ananda.” This means the universe is aware of itself.

The universe is the oneness of all sensations; therefore, the third postulate is: ONENESS. This is the ‘ananda’ part of the Vedic description of the ultimate reality as “sat-chit-ananda.” This means that universe has the wonderful power of assimilation.

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The Theory

The substance of the universe may be divided into the categories: (1) Matter, (2) Energy, and (3) Thought. Each category has a different degree of substantiality, which may be referred to as “thickness.” It is visible as density, firmness, viscosity, etc.

Matter has the most thickness called “mass.” Energy is considered to have no mass, but it still has some thickness, which is sensed as motion and measured as “frequency.” Thought has thickness, which is sensed mentally as “fixation,” the opposite of which is “freedom.” For example, bigotry and hate has much more thickness than tolerance and love. 

Awareness starts with sensations. Awareness increases as sensations assimilate into perceptions; perceptions assimilate into conceptions; and conceptions assimilate into knowledge. Different areas of the universe have different degree of awareness.

Oneness arises from assimilation of sensations, perceptions, conceptions and knowledge. It appears as harmony, consistency and continuity. The observer (subject) and the observed (object)  are in complete harmony. Bliss, rationality. beauty, health, etc., arise from oneness. The ultimate goal of the universe is attaining oneness.

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Postulate Mechanics

Postulate Mechanics identifies “Substantiality-Awareness-Oneness” to be the fundamental postulate underlying this universe. The reality of the universe follows from this postulate.

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PM Chapter 1: Introduction

Reference: Postulate Mechanics (PM)

Postulate Mechanics is an effort to understand the fundamentals of this universe. Its basic postulates are:

  1. The fundamental impulse is to know.
  2. Effort to know starts with a postulate.
  3. Knowledge comes from assimilation of sensations.

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Unknowable and Knowable

There is a fundamental impulse to know. That means we have an internal awareness of when we know things and when we don’t. When we don’t know things, we postulate them and formulate a theory. Such a theory must have the characteristic of oneness, that is, the characteristic of being consistent throughout.

When there are no postulates and no theory, we have the situation described in The Creation Hymn of Rig Veda.

Whence this creation has arisen
– perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not –
the One who looks down on it,
in the highest heaven, only He knows
or perhaps He does not know.

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Postulate and Theory

Effort to know starts with a postulate. A postulate is a basic assumption, taken as true, which is then used to derive the rest of the theory. For example. To understand relativity, Einstein postulated that the speed of light is a universal constant. He used this postulate to derive his theory of relativity. 

The purpose of generating a theory is to explain and organize what we observe, to unify many separate facts into a coherent model, and to guide prediction, research, and action. 

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Sensations and Knowledge

Our knowledge is essentially our “theory of the universe.” This knowledge proceeds from deciphering of our sensations.  For all practical purposes we are starting out from the postulate of “sensation.”

We perceive all kinds of sensations. We assimilate those sensations into perceptions. We assimilate those perceptions into conceptions. We assimilate those conceptions into a body of knowledge.

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Postulate Mechanics

The purpose of Postulate Mechanics is to assimilate the knowledge that we now have. In Postulate Mechanics we are restoring the consistency of oneness to all knowledge.

For “matter” we have Classical mechanics. For “energy” we have Quantum Mechanics. For “thought” we now have Postulate Mechanics.

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Dianetics Axioms 61 – 75

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Reference: The Dianetics Axioms

L. Ron Hubbard found that man is obeying very definite laws and rules which could be set forward in axioms. The very first and most fundamental of these is: The dynamic principle of existence is survive. That is the basic axiom of Dianetics.

The original Dianetic axioms are referenced below in black.

In color are corresponding axioms as seen through Postulate Mechanics.

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Executive Summary 2025

The primary goal of life organisms is to accelerate the evolution of the universe. The process of evolution consists of continual resolution of anomalies.

The universe impinges on the organism as sensations. When assimilated into the matrix structure of the mind, these sensations appear as perceptions. A lack of assimilation distorts perception and generates anomalies.

The degree of lack of assimilation is referred to as RANDOMITY. It constitutes a departure from Oneness. Randomity manifests as too little or too much motion as opposed to optimum motion. Zero randomity is necessary to learning. There should be just the right effort to resolve the counter-effort.

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Axioms 61-75

DN = Dianetics
PM = Postulate Mechanics
THETA = Life Static
PHI or MEST = The Physical Universe
LAMBDA = Living organism or organisms
RANDOMITY = departure from optimum motion

DN AXIOM 61: An organism is rejected by THETA to the degree that it fails in its goals.

DN AXIOM 62: Higher organisms can exist only in the degree that they are supported by the lower organisms.

DN AXIOM 63: The usefulness of an organism is determined by the alignment of its efforts toward survival.

DN AXIOM 64: The mind perceives and stores all data of the environment and aligns or fails to align these according to the time they were perceived.
DEFINITION: A conclusion is the THETA FACSIMILES of a group of combined data.
DEFINITION: A datum is a THETA FACSIMILE of physical action.

DN AXIOM 65: The process of thought is the perception of the present and the comparison of it to the perceptions and conclusions of the past in order to direct action in the immediate or distant future.
COROLLARY: The attempt of thought is to perceive realities of the past and present in order to predict or postulate realities of the future.

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PM AXIOM 61: An organism becomes redundant to the degree it fails to resolve anomalies.

PM AXIOM 62: Higher organisms can exist only to the degree they are supported by lower organisms.

PM AXIOM 63: The usefulness of an organism is determined by the alignment of its efforts toward resolving anomalies.

PM AXIOM 64: The mind assimilates sensations received from the environment by converting them into perceptions, conceptions and knowledge.

PM AXIOM 65: The process of thought is to assimilate the incoming sensations with one’s experience, so that correct conclusions and actions follow automatically.

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DN AXIOM 66: The process by which life effects its conquest of the material universe consists in the conversion of the potential effort of matter and energy in space and through time to effect with it the conversion of further matter and energy in space and through time.

DN AXIOM 67: THETA contains its own THETA UNIVERSE effort which translates into MEST effort.

DN AXIOM 68: The single arbitrary in any organism is time.

DN AXIOM 69: Physical universe perceptions and efforts are received by an organism as force waves, convert by facsimile into THETA and are thus stored.
DEFINITION: Randomity is the misalignment through the internal or external efforts by other forms of life or the material universe of the efforts of an organism, and is imposed on the physical organism by counter-efforts in the environment.

DN AXIOM 70: Any cycle of any life organism is from static to motion to static.

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PM AXIOM 66: The universe evolves by continual assimilation of substance through resolution of anomalies.

PM AXIOM 67: The effort first manifest as thought, and then translates into physical effort.

PM AXIOM 68: An arbitrary consideration is the basis of any disharmony.

PM AXIOM 69: The sensations are assimilated into perceptions and stored as memory, which over time is assimilated into experience as knowledge.
DEFINITION: Randomity is the misalignment of effort and counter-efforts in the environment to be assimilated.

PM AXIOM 70: The cycle of any life organism is from birth to life to death.
NOTE: There is evolution of the dynamics because of the life of the organism.

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DN AXIOM 71: The cycle of randomity is from static, through optimum, through randomity sufficiently repetitious or similar to constitute another static.

DN AXIOM 72: There are two subdivisions to randomity: data randomity and force randomity.

DN AXIOM 73: The three degrees of randomity consist of minus randomity, optimum randomity and plus randomity.
DEFINITION: Randomity is a component factor and necessary part of motion, if motion is to continue.

DN AXIOM 74: Optimum randomity is necessary to learning.

DN AXIOM 75: The important factors in any area of randomity are effort and counter-effort.
(Note: As distinguished from near perceptions of effort.)

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PM AXIOM 71: The cycle of randomity is from harmony to disturbance to a higher level of harmony.

PM AXIOM 72: There can be randomity at the level of thought, and also at the level of action.

PM AXIOM 73: Randomity can be too little (minus) or too much (plus) compared to some optimum randomity.
DEFINITION: Optimum randomity is necessary for motion to continue.

PM AXIOM 74: Optimum randomity is necessary to learning.

PM AXIOM 75: The important factors in any area of randomity are effort and counter-effort.

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Dianetics Axioms 46 – 60

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Reference: The Dianetics Axioms

L. Ron Hubbard found that man is obeying very definite laws and rules which could be set forward in axioms. The very first and most fundamental of these is: The dynamic principle of existence is survive. That is the basic axiom of Dianetics.

The original Dianetic axioms are referenced below in black.

In color are corresponding axioms as seen through Postulate Mechanics.

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Executive Summary 2025

As viruses and cells aggregate they evolve into higher life organisms and acquire greater abilities. “Life” is the coordinated motion of complex configurations of substance. The center of such coordination of motion develops into a mind.

The mind confuses present circumstances with past experiences that did not get assimilated. This presents anomalies. The purpose of the mind becomes the resolution of anomalies by assimilating sensations from the past in the present. Failure to do so can lead to the extinction of the life organism.

An organism evolves by resolving anomalies on various dynamics. It makes effort to resolve anomalies by the support of pro-survival factors present. Such pro-survival factors include the ecosystems formed by life organisms.

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Axioms 46-60

DN = Dianetics
PM = Postulate Mechanics
THETA = Life Static
PHI or MEST = The Physical Universe
LAMBDA = Living organism or organisms

DN AXIOM 46: Colonial aggregations of viruses and cells can be imbued with more THETA than they inherently contained.
Life energy joins any group, whether a group of organisms or group of cells composing an organism. Here we have personal entity, individuation, etc.

DN AXIOM 47: Effort can be accomplished by LAMBDA only through the coordination of its parts toward goals.

DN AXIOM 48: An organism is equipped to be governed and controlled by a mind.

DN AXIOM 49: The purpose of the mind is to pose and resolve problems relating to survival and to direct the effort of the organism according to these solutions.

DN AXIOM 50: All problems are posed and resolved through estimations of effort.

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PM AXIOM 46: Colonial aggregations of viruses and cells acquire more complex self-animation and abilities.

PM AXIOM 47: Life organisms coordinate the motion of their parts towards the accomplishment of their goals.

PM AXIOM 48: An organism evolves a mind to govern and control its activities.

PM AXIOM 49: The purpose of the mind is to perceive and resolve anomalies and direct the actions of the organism accordingly.

PM AXIOM 50: All anomalies are resolved by looking at them more closely and removing arbitrary insertions.

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DN AXIOM 51: The mind can confuse position in space with position in time. (Counter-efforts producing action phrases.)

DN AXIOM 52: An organism proceeding toward survival is directed by the mind of that organism in the accomplishment of survival effort.

DN AXIOM 53: An organism proceeding toward succumb is directed by the mind of that organism in the accomplishment of death.

DN AXIOM 54: Survival of an organism is accomplished by the overcoming of efforts opposing its survival.
(Note: Corollary for other dynamics.)

DN AXIOM 55: Survival effort for an organism includes the dynamic thrust by that organism for the survival of itself, its procreation, its group, its subspecies, its species, all life organisms, material universe, the life static and, possibly, a Supreme Being.
(Note: List of dynamics.)

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PM AXIOM 51: The mind can confuse present circumstances with past unassimilated experiences.

PM AXIOM 52: An organism that is able to resolve such anomalies continues.

PM AXIOM 53: An organism that is unable to resolve anomalies declines and dies.

PM AXIOM 54: An organism evolves by resolving anomalies on various dynamics.

PM AXIOM 55: These dynamics are the organism itself, its procreation, its group, its subspecies, its species, all life organisms, material universe, and the harmony of it all.

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DN AXIOM 56: The cycle of an organism, a group of organisms or a species is inception, growth, re-creation, decay and death.

DN AXIOM 57: The effort of an organism is directed toward the control of the environment for all the dynamics.

DN AXIOM 58: Control of an environment is accomplished by the support of pro-survival factors along any dynamic.

DN AXIOM 59: Any type of higher organism is accomplished by the evolution of viruses and cells into forms capable of better efforts to control or live in an environment.

DN AXIOM 60: The usefulness of an organism is determined by its ability to control the environment or to support organisms which control the environment.

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PM AXIOM 56: All dynamics in the universe go through the cycle of inception, growth, re-creation, decay and death.

PM AXIOM 57: The effort of an organism is directed toward the resolution of anomalies on all the dynamics.

PM AXIOM 58: Resolution of anomalies along any dynamic is accomplished by operating in harmony with the elements involved.

PM AXIOM 59: Any type of higher organism is accomplished by the evolution of viruses and cells into forms capable of resolving the anomalies more efficiently.

PM AXIOM 60: The usefulness of an organism is determined by its ability to resolve anomalies or to support organisms which resolve the anomalies.

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NOTES:

  1. The reference point of DN is survival. The reference point of PM is resolution of anomalies.

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