Observation & Sickness

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Reference: Scientology versus KHTK

When one’s attention goes to an area again and again, one needs to observe that area carefully for oddities and logical inconsistencies. In case of sickness, the oddity is the sick condition of of the body-mind-spirit system. There are not many options other than  to observe and resolve the sickness.

The body is a chemical engine. The mind is an electrical system within the body that directs the functions of the body. The spirit seems to be an electromagnetic field that coördinates the communication among various parts of the body and mind. For example, it manages the movement of charged hormone particles and white blood cells to the parts where they are needed. It is this field that seems to leave the body at death.

The body needs to be healthy to support the mind and the spirit. A balanced, nutritious diet is necessary to keep the body, mind and spirit functioning at best levels. Sickness comes about when lack of proper diet weakens the body. It’s immune system is then unable to protect from hostile microorganisms outside or inside the body.

No personal improvement can come about when a person is starving or sick.

Medical drugs may become necessary to support body’s immune system to fight the infection and sickness. But when the emergency is over, one must focus on building the body and its immune system. The drugs are then discontinued.

At times sickness may affect the mind and not the body. The body appears healthy and functioning properly, but the person starts to behave erratically. The reason could be stress in the environment that affects the body chemistry supporting the electrical activity of the mind.

Sickness may affect not only the body, but also the mind.

When the mental sickness continues and deepens, drugs may become necessary to correct the chemical imbalance affecting the mind. We use such drugs as an emergency measure only. They are gradually replaced by proper nutrition and diet to correct the chemical imbalance. In addition, we use mental exercises to improve the person’s ability to handle stress.

Drugs are necessary as an emergency measure to handle physical and mental sickness.

Scientology is against psychiatry. It vehemently opposes any use of psychiatric drugs. This fanatic stance has led to many tragedies among the followers of Scientology. The correct policy is to use drugs to control the acute mental condition, and build the body chemistry with proper nutrition and mental exercises. As soon as the mental sickness is under control, we drop the drugs.

It is true that there is fixation on drugs in the society to an unhealthy degree. Drugs have become a quick solution for symptoms and discomfort. Drugs are even being used to overcome boredom. One may say that life itself has come to be regarded as a disease. However, in the general course of life, a well maintained body chemistry is adequate to keep up the physical, mental and spiritual health of the person.

We must use proper education to eliminate social dependency on drugs, and place more attention on improving the physical and mental health in the society.

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September 30, 2015 – 8:47 AM Categories: Mindfulness | Comments (3)

From Confusion to Clarity

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Reference: Scientology versus KHTK

The whole idea underlying personal improvement is to remove confusion and bring about a clarity that helps one resolve problems in life. Any valid technique of personal improvement must improve clarity in observation and ability to resolve problems.

Personal improvement means greater clarity in observation and increased ability to resolve problems.

The primary techniques for personal improvement have been meditation, psychoanalysis, psychiatry and, more recently, the auditing in Scientology.

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MINDFULNESS

In meditation, the earliest and most powerful technique is mindfulness. Mindfulness directly improves one’s ability to see and resolve problems. The basic approach in mindfulness is:

Observe things as they are, without assuming anything.

Buddha taught this technique 2600 years ago. It has been very successful all through these years. But, today, most people do not practice mindfulness, when they need it the most.

It seems that most people are in a great hurry to resolve their problems, and they are looking for short cuts. They are basically introverted into their problems, but that very introversion is preventing them from resolving problems. We need to resolve “introversion” before we can practice mindfulness.

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INTROVERSION

The primary introversion relates to the problems with the body. Body is important because it supports the mind and the higher intellectual functions.

There is physical sickness, but there are also the physical needs of shelter, food, and sex. These needs, when thwarted, introvert a person. The need for shelter and food are very basic. We have mostly resolved these needs, but wars and terrorism aggravate them. The need for sex serves as an escape from the harsh realities of life, just like drugs do.

A different kind of introversion comes about when one loses touch with reality. This happens when the sense channels get overloaded. Here restoration of mental sense requires restoration of the physical senses first. This is the level of mental sickness.

And then there is introversion into self. This expresses itself in egoistic thinking and selfish behavior. This is the level of spiritual sickness.

It seems that introversion and sickness needs to be addressed in the following order.

  • Sickness of physical body
  • Sickness of physical senses.
  • Sickness of mental sense
  • Sickness of self

Scientology does not address the last point very well. In fact, Hubbard was quite introverted on the subject of self, and Scientology carries forth that aberration.

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CONFUSION TO CLARITY

Recovery from confusion and progress towards clarity starts as one begins to feel physically well and gets in touch with the physical reality. It is only then that the problems with the mind and spirit are fully addressed.

Hopefully, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis will do more to recover a person’s sense of reality by addressing sickness of physical senses, as it is their weak point.

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September 20, 2015 – 3:34 PM Categories: Uncategorized | Post a comment

The Nature of Phenomenon

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Reference: Atoms, Points and Souls

  1. Spiritual awareness and physical space are two aspects of the same reality. These two aspects came about simultaneously.

  2. Consciousness arose with disturbance in awareness, just like electromagnetism arose with disturbance in space.

  3. Consciousness may be called fabric of awareness (self-awareness), just like electromagnetism may be called the fabric of space.

It is an error to think that spiritual and physical phenomena are independent of each other, and to speculate on which came first, or which produced the other.

Addition #1

The electromagnetic disturbance, which is spread over the electromagnetic spectrum, generates complex fablic of space. Parallelling this, the consciousness (disturbance in awareness), which is spread over a similar spectrum, generates complex fabric of awareness.

“Awareness-Space” and “Consciousness-Electromagnetism” is the same reality just spread over the Abstraction scale.

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September 18, 2015 – 7:06 AM Categories: Science | Comments (14)

Mindfulness N2: Mental sickness and Basic Care

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The first step in addressing mental sickness is to go ahead as in Mindfulness N3: Physical sickness and Basic Care. A person who is mentally sick is terribly confused. He is unable to process the input from his physical senses. So he no longer has the stabilizing support of the physical reality. The problem is with the electrical system of the body, which then leads to mental instability. If the mental instability is acute then one must administer psychotropic drugs to bring it under control.

Mental sickness arises when the person loses touch with the physical reality.

The priority is to restore the person’s mental contact with the physical universe. We help him exercise his physical senses while also repairing the underlying body chemistry. We start with the sense of touch because this is the most intimate contact. We help the person go around touching things to get the feel of the physical universe. We do this daily until the person has started to recognize things around him.

We then exercise his senses of seeing and hearing. These two senses complement each other. Seeing is very precise but one cannot see around the corners. Hearing is not so precise but one can hear the sound from a source around the corner. So we help the person go around and look at near and distant objects. We then ask him to hear different sounds and spot where a sound is coming from.

We exercise the senses of touch, seeing and hearing to restore the person’s contact with the physical universe.

When the physical senses are not working properly, the person cannot also see what is in his mind. So he cannot resolve his mental difficulties. This is  limitation of the psychoanalytic approach. Psychoanalysis has never been able to help a person improve his ability to see and resolve problems. It ends up telling the person what to think about his mental condition.

Not until a person’s mental contact with the physical reality is fully restored, can psychoanalysis, or any other mental therapy, produce lasting results.

Essay on “spiritual sickness” takes up advanced difficulties with the mind. Basic exercises to address “spiritual sickness” are covered in Scientology versus KHTK (Part 3) – The Basic Approach.

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MINDFULNESS N2: Mental Sickness and Basic Care

  1. Implement all steps of Mindfulness N3: Physical sickness and Basic Care.

  2. Get the person medically examined by a qualified doctor who can diagnose and treat the mental part of the sickness.

  3. Administer necessary psychotropic drug to bring acute mental instability under control.

  4. Help the person go around and touch things in his environment. Do this daily until he starts to recognize those objects consistently without stress.

  5. Help the person go around and look at near and distant objects in his environment. Do this until he starts to recognize those objects consistently without stress.

  6. Have the person listen to the sounds in his environment, and help him find the source of those sounds. Do this until he starts to recognize the source consistently without stress. NOTE: You may produce the sound for this exercise.

  7. We have resolved the basic mental sickness when the person is in good mental contact with the physical reality and no longer needs the support from drugs.

  8. Proceed with the instructions for “spiritual sickness” to resolve other difficulties with the mind (see the summary above).

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September 16, 2015 – 8:27 PM Categories: Mindfulness | Comments (2)

Clarity of Observation

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Reference: Scientology versus KHTK

Mental clarity comes from clarity of observation. Clarity of observation comes from  removal of filters.

The filters are biases, prejudices, fixed ideas, blind faith, etc. 

A filter is what one is observing through, so it is hard to even know the existence of a filter unless following some oddity leads you to it.Therefore, clarity of observation depends upon spotting oddities and resolving them. One’s personal improvement also depends on it.

Oddities or logical inconsistencies are things that do not make sense. Many logical inconsistencies are hard to spot. The only way one can spot them is by pulling strings on lesser logical inconsistencies.

One should never explain away the slightest bit of oddity. Instead, one should always investigate it. 

Here is an example of an oddity. By definition the universe is a superset of all existence. It includes everything. That means there is nothing else observing the universe except for the universe itself. The observer and the observed are part of the same system. Therefore, the idea that the observer and the observed are entirely two different systems is an oddity.

It is the universe observing itself. It is never otherwise.

If the “observer” is shrunk to a small part of the universe, such as, a human body, then it can separate itself from another part of the universe. It can then assume that it is different from what it is observing. But both “observer” and “observed” are part of this universe. The fundamental basis of both is the same.

The “observer” and the “observed” seem to be separate only when we narrow down the viewpoint.

In Scientology, one starts from the viewpoint of a human being. So, it assumes that the observer is separate from what it is observing. The idea of observer is then reduced to a “self” or “thetan”. Scientology then assumes that the “thetan” creates all that it is observing.

With the idea of “thetan”, an introversion comes about  that makes everything appear subjective.

KHTK, like science, is characterized by a universal viewpoint. Scientology is characterized by a human-centric viewpoint.

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September 7, 2015 – 11:19 AM Categories: Mindfulness | Comments (1)