I have always wondered if scientists and mathematicians have deep feelings the way artists do. As far as I am concerned I associate objectivity with science and mathematics, and subjectivity with art. I have always been one to be fascinated by science and math. I have been rather matter-of-fact toward the subjectivity that art dispalys.
Am I missing out on feelings?
Recently, I had an opportunity to examine the following poem while in discussion with a student.
The student got it right away as was obvious from the deep feelings that the poem aroused in her, but I am still searching for the feelings that I may be missing. What I get out of this poem is this:
Fiery passion as demonstrated by a person consumed with lust and greed is as destructive as the coldness and lack of compassion demonstrated by a person consumed with hate.
“That sounds right.” I would say. And then I’ll get busy with the problem at hand.
I know I shall never be a great actor, or a musician, or a painter. But I do feel great passion for helping others solve their problems. For me, each person is an interesting puzzle to solve.
INDIVIDUAL: When we say the individual we are talking about something as precise as an apple. We are not talking about a collection of behavior patterns which we all learned about in the study of rats. We are talking about something that is finite. We are talking about somebody. The somethingness that you are and the capabilities you can be and this is what we are talking about. We are not talking about the color of your hair or the length of your feet. We are talking about you.
INDIVIDUATION: A separation from knowingness.
In Scientology, you are an individual with self-determinism, but to individuate is bad. It is assumed that the ideal knowingness is contained in the words of Hubbard that comprise the subject of Scientology. Per “KSW1” (Keeping Scientology Working series 1) one must not deviate from this knowingness.
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From Star Trek:
“The Borg are a collection of species that have been turned into cybernetic organisms functioning as drones of the Collective, or the hive.” ~ Borg (Star Trek)
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SCIENTOLOGY holds:
You are individuals. However, you are not allowed to individuate from the collective of the Church of Scientology. You are to be assimilated.
Individuality is not something different from identity.
Individuality is an aspect of identity.
Anything that creates a unit
Is part of the identity of that unit.
If thetan is an awareness of awareness unit,
Then it is a bundled up awareness.
That bundled up awareness is an identity.
Thetan itself is an identity.
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In the book Scientology 8-8008, Hubbard wrote:
Identity versus Individuality
The most common confusion on the part of a preclear is between himself as an identified object and his beingness. One’s beingness depends upon the amount of space which he can create or command, not upon his identification or any label. Identity as we know it in the MEST universe is much the same as identification, which is the lowest form of thought. When one is an object and is himself an effect, he believes that his ability to be cause is dependent upon his having a specific and finite identity. This is an aberration; as his beingness increases his individuality increases, and he quickly rises above the level of necessity for identity for he is himself self-sufficient with his own identity.
The first question a preclear undergoing theta clearing asks himself is quite often: “How will I establish my identity if I have no body?” There are many remedies for this. The worst method of having an identity is having a body. As his individuality increases and his beingness expands—these two being almost synonymous—he is less and less concerned with this problem; that he is concerned with the problem tells the auditor where he is on the tone-scale.
One of the control mechanisms which has been used on thetans is that when they rise in potential they are led to believe themselves one with the universe. This is distinctly untrue. Thetans are individuals. They do not as they rise up the scale, merge with other individualities. They have the power of becoming anything they wish while still retaining their own individuality. They are first and foremost themselves. There is evidently no Nirvana. It is the feeling that one will merge and lose his own individuality that restrains the thetan from attempting to remedy his lot. His merging with the rest of the universe would be his becoming matter. This is the ultimate in cohesiveness and the ultimate in affinity, and is at the lowest point of the tone-scale. One declines into a brotherhood with the universe. When he goes up scale, he becomes more and more an individual capable of creating and maintaining his own universe. In this wise (leading people to believe they had no individuality above that of MEST) the MEST universe cut out all competition.
Hubbard threw a curve by describing individuality as something good and identity as something bad. He derided the goal of Nirvana in Buddhism. Nirvana is to extinguish self or individuality.
Being a fundamental datum of Scientology, this worship of individuality puts up a filter that distorts the subject of Scientology. Even though, Scientology contains some brilliant new technology to address the subject of mind, it ends up producing “scientologists who are assimilated into the world view of Hubbard“ as its valuable final product:
Iqbal Bano, the subcontinent’s beloved ghazal singer, born in India and trained in the Dilli Gharana by the legendary Ustad Chand Khan, . In the hearts of all who knew and loved her music is the memory of that day: when, in protest against the jailing of the subcontinent’s foremost left poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz by Pakistan’s dictator General Zia-ul Haq, she sang Faiz’s immortal song “Hum Dekhenge” (We shall witness) at a Lahore stadium full of 50,000 people, wearing a black sari in defiance of Zia’s ban on the sari. As her liquid voice reached the crescendo — declaring “Certainly we, too, shall witness that day … When these high mountains/Of tyranny and oppression turn to fluff and evaporate/And we oppressed/Beneath our feet will this earth shiver, shake and beat/And heads of rulers will be struck/With crackling lightening and thunder roars/When crowns will be flung in the air — and thrones will be overturned …,” people joined with slogans of “Inquilab Zindabad” (Long live revolution!)
Hum dekhenge Lazim hai ke hum bhi dekhenge Woh din ke jis ka waada hai Jo loh-e-azl pe likha hai Hum dekhenge
Jab zulm-o-sitam ke koh-e-garaan Rui ki tarah ud jayenge Hum mehkumoon ke paun tale Yeh dharti dhad dhad dhadkagi Aur ehl-e-hukum ke sar upar Jab bijli kad kad kadkegi Hum dekhenge
Jab arz-e-khuda ke Kabe se Sab but uthwaye jayenge Hum ahl-e-safa mardood-e-haram Masnad pe bithaye jayenge Sab taaj uchale jayenge Sab takht giraye jayenga Bas naam rahega Allah ka Jo ghayab bhi hai hazir bhi Jo nazir bhi hai manzar bhi Uthega nalhaq ka naara Jomain bhi hoon aur tum bhi ho Aur raaj karegi khalq-e-khuda Jo main bhi hoon aur tum bhi ho Hum dekhenge Lazim hai ke hum bhi dekhenge Hum dekhenge
