Please see Postulate Mechanics.
In perceiving and reasoning, the data at every step must make sense. And that means all data should be ONE according to the principle of Oneness.
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Definition of REASONING
Reasoning applies to thought in any situation. It is the natural process of putting the data of that situation together in such order that it is continuous, consistent and harmonious.
The ideal scene of the situation one is looking at, is the elements of that scene arranged according to the principle of Oneness. Any discontinuity, inconsistency, or disharmony will appear as an anomaly. The disharmony (arbitrary data) will be the first thing to come to notice. A closer look will reveal inconsistencies (contradictory data). And, a still closer look will reveal discontinuities (missing data).
As one follows these anomalies, they all converge to the basic anomaly that is the ultimate ‘why’ for the existence of the situation. The whole process of reasoning is to understand why a situation exists in the first place.
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Misconceptions
1. It is a misconception to think that you already know why a situation exists and then approach with that assumption to handle the situation. If the why of the situation was already known, the situation should have been handled long ago.
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Reference: Course on Subject Clearing
Facsimiles or samskara’s corrupt one’s perception and the ability to reason. The remedy has been mindfulness since ancient times.
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Definition of MINDFULNESS
Mindfulness is a concept that was originally put forth by Buddha 2600 years ago. Buddha emphasized on seeing things as they are. He encouraged his disciples to question anything they were perplexed about regardless of how sacrosanct the subject was.
Mindfulness is basically the effort to separate perceptions from the corrupting influence of facsimiles. The facsimiles tend to corrupt perceptions by causing hallucinations which the person ends up justifying. Such justifications compromise the ability of the person to reason correctly.
By practicing mindfulness, the person is able to spot the justifications. He closely observes the environment and notices things that do not make sense. He then observes those things more closely. The person repeats this cycle until he is able to recognize the underlying facsimile and assimilates it fully.
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Misconceptions
1. In mindfulness there is no magic involved other than looking at a scene more and more closely until all its aspects start to make sense. The person uses mindfulness exercises to develop his own judgement about how long to keep looking and in what direction. He learns to appreciate the subtle fluctuations in his understanding at any point in time. He knows when there are no more anomalies in an area.
2. Scientology auditing supposedly accomplishes the same thing, by selectively putting a person’s attention on different aspects of life. The drawback in Scientology approach is that the person’s understanding, and his sense of clarity, is continually judged by an auditor through his use of an e-meter. This continually undermines the person’s own judgement. He may be required to keep on going with a process, even after the process has accomplished its purpose.
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See The Engram.
Reference: Subject Clearing Mind
When sensations do not get decomposed and assimilated, they remain as unassimilated impressions, or facsimiles.
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Definition of FACSIMILE
A facsimile is a raw sensation, which has not yet been decomposed and assimilated. A person is unaware of the contents of a facsimile because these have not been given meaning by the mental matrix. This is the case with sensations from traumas that are too compact to be decomposed.
Such facsimiles may said to be recordings because when they are examined closely they start to decompose and give a literal impression, which is inconsistent with the present context. This is different from memories because memories appear when one recalls them consciously knowing their context. Memories do not exist as recordings in the mind; they are recombinations of existing matrix elements by their known time characteristics.
The ‘past life memories’ are actually very old facsimiles decomposing for the first time. They are startling because their time characteristics do not fit with the present. A person then recalls them again and again to make sense out of them. Such old facsimiles are said to be carried forward on the genetic line from one beingness to another with a different body. Just because they are common to two beingness, does not necessarily make them the same beingness, but one may think that way.
The facsimiles behind ‘past life memories’ were known in Buddha’s time as ’samskara’. They were said to determine the deep-seated tendencies of a person that he could not control. These ’samskara’ depended on a person’s past ‘karma.’
Partially assimilated facsimiles, when activated, tend to aberrate one’s perceptions and the reasoning resulting from them.
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Misconceptions
1. It is a misconception to think that the ‘past life memories’ are a person’s own memories from a past life. They are actually unassimilated impressions that a past beingness gathered and have been passed on to a present beingness to be resolved through assimilation. They are also known as past ‘karmas’ of a person. They are basically facsimiles that needs to be decomposed and assimilated.
2. In Scientology, the facsimiles are categorized as Engrams, Secondaries and Locks that are connected in ‘chains’ on a time track. However, a chain of engrams, secondaries and locks is just a single facsimile.
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Please see Postulate Mechanics.
The assimilation of sensation brings about perception. Lack of assimilation causes a corruption of perception, or simply no perception but with discomfort, anxiety and some imagination.
Definition of PERCEPTION
Perception is the instant interpretation by the mind of what is sensed by the sense organs. The elements of such sensations collect in the mental matrix and may be used again.
These elements may be recombined and recalled, in which case they are perceived as MEMORY.
These elements may be combined knowingly and creatively for some purpose, in which case they are perceived as IMAGINATION.
These elements may combine themselves in unexpected ways in response to stimuli, in which case they are perceived as HALLUCINATION.
We normally perceive what is there mixed with some memory, imagination and hallucination.
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Misconceptions
In the absence of the concepts of perceptual elements and mental matrix, many phenomena related to the mind are difficult to understand. For example, personal anomalies are perceived when one becomes aware of discontinuities, inconsistencies and disharmonies among the elements of the mental matrix.
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Reference: Subject Clearing Mind
The data which the mind operates on, first appears as sensations.
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Definition of SENSATION
Sensations are produced when the universe impinges on the beingness. Sensation implies a beginning of implicit awareness, which then leads to explicit perception.
There are implicit mental sensations that result from the detection of the substance of thought, such as, feelings and emotions. Then there are explicit physical sensations that result from the detection of the substance of energy and matter, such as, touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell.
The implicit and explicit senses may combine into more complex sensations, such as that of gravity, orientation in space, body position, heat, cold, electrical, magnetic, hunger, satisfaction, pain, and pleasure.
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Misconceptions
There may be confusion between implicit sensations and explicit perceptions. These will be listed here as they are encountered.
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