The Factors # 3 to 5 (old)

Please see A Course on Hubbard’s Factors

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Reference: The Factors

Here is a detailed review of Factors # 3 & 4 from the book Scientology 8-8008.

FACTOR # 3: The first action of beingness is to assume a viewpoint.

FACTOR # 4: The second action of beingness is to extend from the viewpoint, points to view, which are dimension points.

FACTOR # 5: Thus there is space created, for the definition of space is: viewpoint of dimension. And the purpose of a dimension point is space and a point of view.

The moment there is beingness, there is motion and emotion. The basis of motion is disturbed space. The basis of emotion is disturbed awareness. Therefore, the basis of beingness is made up of awareness and space. Prior to this moment there was neither space nor awareness.

The basis of beingness is awareness and space.

Awareness is metaphysical that extends through the dimension of abstraction to become space, which is physical. Space is the outer form of awareness. Awareness is the inner essence of space.

The emergence of awareness may be represented by a viewpoint. The viewpoint is made up of awareness itself in the beginning. Later the viewpoint may shrink to become only a part of awareness.

A viewpoint is the frame of awareness from which space is “viewed”.

The emergence of space may be represented by a dimension-point. The dimension point is made up of space itself in the beginning. Later the dimension point may shrink to become only a part of space.

A dimension point is the dimension of space that is “viewed”.

The viewpoint and dimension point are two different functions of beingness. These two aspects of beingness seem to be connected through the dimension of abstraction.

The inherent dimension of beingness is abstraction.

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The moment beingness emerges it is capable of viewing itself. Here the observer and the observed are the same. We may, therefore, restate Factors # 3 to 5 as follows.

FACTOR # 3 (revised): The viewpoint represents the inner essence of beingnesses, which begins as awareness.

FACTOR # 4 (revised): The dimension point represents the outer form of beingness, which begins as space.

FACTOR # 5 (revised): The “spread” of beingness from viewpoint to dimension point is defined as the dimension of abstraction.

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August 4, 2016 – 12:23 PM Categories: Scientology | Post a comment

The Factor # 2 (old)

Please see A Course on Hubbard’s Factors

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Reference: The Factors

Here is a detailed review of Factor # 2 from the book Scientology 8-8008.

FACTOR # 2: In the beginning and forever is the decision and the decision is TO BE.

Per Factor #1, there is nothing before the beginning. Therefore, whatever appears in the beginning is relative, conditioned and impermanent. It is a kinetic condition.

The kinetic may become more or less kinetic. In other words, there is a continuity to it.  The kinetic may become more or less complex in this process; but there is a harmony to it. The progress of kinetic may take place along many different paths; but there is a consistency to it.

Looking backwards at there appears to be increasing chaos. Looking forward there seems to be increasing order. The existence seems to be gradually moving toward some equilibrium. But time appears to be unending either way.

The increasing order may imply that there is predetermined “Free Will”, but this cosmic pendulum may swing past the equilibrium the other way just the same. However, the continuity, harmony and consistency may remain throughout this cycle to make any sense.

The Factor #2 may be revised as follows:

FACTOR # 2 (revised): In the beginning and forever is the beingness characterized by continuity, harmony and consistency.

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August 3, 2016 – 12:04 PM Categories: Scientology | Post a comment

Visualization

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The mind solves the problem by visualizing it. Visualization helps us find the gaps in our understanding. The problem resolves when the visualization is complete without any gaps.

We visualize through free association. We then consciously visualize details that will fill any gaps. The key is consistency with reality. The details must be continuous and harmonious with rest of the visualization in order to fill the gap.

In this exercise we practice spatial visualization. We close our eyes and visualize the environment. Then we visualize ourselves in that environment. We do so from various angles and distances, little bit at a time until the whole visualization is continuous and consistent.

The basic idea is to learn to make the visualization continuous, harmonious and consistent with the actual reality.

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MINDFULNESS APP 3: To learn to visualize with consistency.

1.    Settle down in mindfulness meditation.

In mindfulness meditation, become fully aware of your body and mind.

2.    Visualize the room you are sitting in.

Visualize the eight corners of the room on a gradient (little bit at a time). Do not put out too much effort. Let it happen slowly. Expand your visualization to include all space of the room.

3.    Visualize your body within that room.

Visualize your body from above, below, left, right, behind and front. Visualize it from different angles and distances. Do so until you can smoothly circle around the body.

4.    Expand your viewpoint beyond the body.

We are used to looking out from the frame of reference provided by the body. Expand this frame of reference to the whole room, then to the whole building, the city, the state, the country, and the whole earth, if possible. Do it slowly and at a pace that is comfortable.

5.    Visualize being at some pleasant locations.

Visualize yourself in locations that are pleasant. This could be your childhood home, or the first first school you went to. It could be a location where you felt safe, or some vacation spots.

6.    Visualize being at some unpleasant locations.

The visualization of unpleasant locations is a bit more difficult because there is resistance involved because of unpleasantness of the location. Use mindfulness technique to let the resistance discharge.

7.    Visualize being at some dangerous locations.

Once you have mastered being at unpleasant locations, visualize yourself in locations that are dangerous.  Remember that these are hypothetical visualizations.  The location can be as dangerous as the center of the sun. The whole idea is to be consistent with reality in such visualizations. These visualizations help one discharge irrational feelings, sensation and fears.

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With this exercise a person becomes more objective, at least, in terms of visualization. It doesn’t mean that the person loses his feelings, sensations and emotions in real situations. In fact, he becomes more expressive of his real (rational) feelings and emotions.

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August 3, 2016 – 7:44 AM Categories: Mindfulness | Comments (4)

The Factor # 1 (old)

Please see FACTOR # 1.

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Reference: The Factors

Here is a detailed review of Factor # 1 from the book Scientology 8-8008.

FACTOR # 1: Before the beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect.

A life form can be cause. It can also be effect. Cause and effect show how two life forms are in relationship with each other. Cause and effect are complementary attributes like crest and trough of a wave. Cause cannot exist without effect, or effect without cause.

Cause may appear to exist all by itself if its effect is considered far distant in the future. For example, there was an inspiration that resulted in a finished novel months later. That inspiration could be seen as a cause existing all by itself; but the truth is that the inspiration was accompanied by motivation as its immediate effect. Obviously, there was some perception or experience that led to that inspiration in the first place. Thus, cause-effect is always part of an integrated system. The two related but far apart events that we pick up are just two aspects of this system.

Cause is an outward flow from a life form. Cause is not the life form.  But Factor #1 seems to reify “cause” as a life form. This proposition of Factor #1 is nothing new. It has been expressed in past as “God” that created the world, and which has led to the self-contradictory notion of ‘Uncaused Cause’. This notion goes against any and all experience.

There is no “absolute Cause” that existed before the beginning. Cause and effect are part of a dimension that has always existed.  

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Maybe we can find a better statement for Factor #1. We find the following in the section THE BEINGNESS OF MAN of the book Scientology 8-8008.

“Several new concepts germane to the fields of science and humanities almost independent of its own work have been introduced by Scientology. The first of these is the proper definition of a static. The next is the first actual definition of zero and its differentiation from infinity in terms of mathematics…

“In thought itself at its highest range, we discover the only true static known. In physics a static is represented as a body at rest but it is known in physics that a body at rest is yet an equilibrium of forces and is itself in motion if only on the level of molecular motion. A true static would contain no motion, no time, no space and no wavelength. To this static in Scientology is assigned the mathematical symbol theta. This designation means solely a theoretical static of distinct and precisely defined qualities with certain potentials.

It is a remarkable observation that a body at rest in physics is yet an equilibrium of forces, and that absolute rest would mean absence of force and inertia. The true Static of Hubbard is, therefore, the absence of the very substance meaning no physical source of motion, hence no matter, no energy, no space and no time. But then Hubbard adds an infinite potential of spiritual dimensions underlying “absolute” rest. He essentially replaces the equilibrium of physical force by an infinite “spiritual potential” of Cause.

But, to be absolute, the static of physical reality shall also be the static of metaphysical reality, just like the zero of positive numbers is also the zero of negative numbers. Consistency lies in having the same zero for all numbers, whether positive, negative, rational or irrational. Similarly, consistency lies in having the same static as the reference point for all reality, whether physical, metaphysical, spiritual, abstract, real or imaginary.

The static, then, is zero not only for physical reality, but also for metaphysical and spiritual reality. It would also be zero qualities, zero capabilities and zero potential.

In Scientology 8-8008, section THETA-MEST THEORY, Hubbard states:

“The capabilities of the static are not limited.”

This statement is self-contradictory from the viewpoint of Hinduism and Buddhism. The ancient Vedas, from which Hinduism and Buddhism are derived, visualize the static as Neti-Neti (“not this, not that”). Buddhism puts it in more scientific terms as described in The Quest for Certainty.

This fundamental inconsistency in the philosophy of Scientology is the idea of an absolute Cause (static with infinite potential) that follows the western idea of God.

Factor #1 may therefore be revised as follows:

FACTOR # 1 (revised): Before the beginning there was nothing because nothing is unchanging, everlasting, or absolute, not even Self, Soul, Ātman or Thetan.

Cause and effect are parts of existence just like anything else.

July 29, 2016 – 9:25 AM Categories: Scientology | Comments (8)

The Beingness of Man

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Reference: A Critique of Scientology Philosophy

This essay is a commentary on the contents of the section THE BEINGNESS OF MAN from the book Scientology 8-8008. Hubbard’s words are quoted in bold italics.

“Any study of knowledge could not but be intimately connected with the beingness of Man and the earliest axioms of Scientology began to predict and the later developments eventually discovered the highest level data so far obtained on the identity and capability of life… The basic goal of Man which embraces all his activities is apparently survival. Survival might be defined as an impulse to persist through time, in space, as matter and energy.”

Man is part of the universe. Therefore, when it comes to axioms, it is logical to start from the broad reality of the universe.

The universe is simply there. Man is the most evolved aspect of the universe. Therefore, the survival of Man depends on its harmony with the universe.

This universe is a universe of change. Nothing in this universe survives forever. The forms perish, and so do the viewpoints. There is no aspect of Man that survives forever. The only thing that may survive forever is the universe from which Man may evolve again and again.

The study of knowledge is intinately connected with the beingness of Man, but that must acknowledge the context of the overall universe.

It is a weak philosophy that puts the survival of Man in conflict with the survival of the universe from which Man has evolved. This is the case with Scientology.

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“The impulse to survival is found to contain eight sub-impulses. These are, first, the urge to survive as self; second, the urge to survive through sex in the procreation of children; third, the impulse to survive as a group; fourth, the impulse to survive as mankind itself; fifth, the urge to survive as animal life; sixth, the impulse to survive as the material universe of matter, energy, space and time; seventh, the impulse to survive as a spirit; and eighth, the impulse to survive as what may be called Supreme Being.

These categories are helpful, but Scientology references them from self. Instead, they should be referenced from the universe.

The Eighth Dynamic is the universe, which presents the complete spectrum of reality. The seventh dynamic is the spiritual aspect of reality, which is a spectrum of awareness. The sixth dynamic is the physical aspect of reality, which is a spectrum of motion. The Fifth dynamic is life, which is association of awareness and motion. The Fourth dynamic is mankind, which is the most evolved state of life. The Third Dynamic relates to the races, cultures and political groups within mankind. The Second Dynamic relates to the continuation of mankind through reproduction and rearing of children. The First Dynamic is the individual, which is the problem-solving unit of mankind.

The categories known as dynamics make more sense when referenced from universe rather than from self.

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“The above sub-impulses are called dynamics; combined, they form the overall urge towards survival, but each one of itself plays its important role, both in the individual and in the wider sphere named as a part of each impulse. Thus we see the inter-dependency of the individual with the family, with the group, with the species, with life-forms, with the material universe itself, with spirits, and with God; and we see the dependency of each one of these entities upon the individual as a part of it.”

The survival of the overall universe is assured, and so are the dynamics. There should not be any anxiety about survival. These dynamics help us understand the harmony within the universe. Maximum harmony among all dynamics shall represent maximum survival.

When we look from the viewpoint of second dynamic, it is inclusive of first dynamic. We are able to see more clearly what first dynamics are like through their interactions in second dynamic. The viewpoint on second dynamic is broader than the viewpoint on first dynamic.

Similarly, when we look from the viewpoint of third dynamic, it is inclusive of second and first dynamics. We are able to see more clearly what second dynamics are like through their interactions in third dynamic. The viewpoint on third dynamic is broader than the viewpoints on first and second dynamics.

And so it goes. The higher is the dynamic one is operating on, the broader is the viewpoint. The beingness of Man expands to all eight dynamics. A person operating on eighth dynamic has the most objective and sane viewpoint.

The beingness of Man is best understood from the objective viewpoint of the universe.

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July 24, 2016 – 10:56 AM Categories: Scientology | Comments (2)