PM: The Factors

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

PM stands for Postulate Mechanics. It was referred to earlier as KHTK {Knowing How To Know). One arrives at these PM Factors after aligning Hubbard’s insights contained in Scientology Factors with the Principle of Oneness embodied in the goal of Nirvana of Buddha.

(1) These first five factors outline the beginning with the creation of postulates and beingness.

  1. PM Factor # 1: Before the beginning was the Unknowable and the entire purpose of the Unknowable was to know itself.
  2. PM Factor # 1-1: In the beginning and forever is the ability to postulate and become aware.
  3. PM Factor # 1-2: The postulates attempt to convert the Unknowable into Knowable.
  4. PM Factor #  1-3: And thus there is substance.
  5. PM Factor # 1-4: And thus there is oneness.
  6. PM Factor # 2: The beingness is One.
  7. PM Factor # 3: The being is the viewpoint.
  8. PM Factor # 4: The being is also a dimension point.
  9. PM Factor # 5: The beingness manifests as space.

(2) The next five factors outline the expansion of the being as mind.

  1. PM Factor # 6: The beingness has attention that can roam around, broadened, or focused narrowly.
  2. PM Factor # 7: When gaps are viewed among dimension points, new dimensions are postulated to fill them. Thus there is reasoning.
  3. PM Factor # 8: And thus there is cognition.
  4. PM Factor # 9: And thus there is computation.
  5. PM Factor # 10: And thus there is mind.

(3) The next five factors outline the criterion of ONENESS that guides the growth of beingness.

  1. PM Factor # 11: There are interchanges among viewpoints; and this gives rise to new directions in which to look.
  2. KHTK Factor # 12: All interchanges among viewpoints and dimension points are governed by the criterion of oneness.
  3. PM Factor # 12-1: Any discontinuity, inconsistency or disharmony among viewpoints and dimension points is an anomaly to be resolved.
  4. PM Factor # 13: All viewpoints and dimension points are substantial and they form our reality.  
  5. PM Factor # 14: The viewpoints and dimension points grow in complexity; it takes admiration to consolidate them into simplicity of oneness.
  6. PM Factor # 15: As reality is simplified according to principles, it is reduced to classification based on scales.

(4) The next five factors outline the beingness expressing its free will within the constraint of Oneness.

  1. PM Factor # 16: As forms combine and get more complex, their motion also gets increasingly complex.
  2. PM Factor # 17: The forms appear beautiful or ugly based on the consideration of the viewpoint.
  3. PM Factor # 18: The forms endure because of the fixed considerations of the viewpoint.
  4. PM Factor # 19: Neither the forms nor the viewpoints are imperishable. 
  5. PM Factor # 20: All viewpoints and dimension points are dependent on each other because of the constraint of oneness.

(5) The next five factors outline the creation of the universe and the dynamic oneness of it all.

  1. PM Factor # 21: There is oneness of all postulates, beingness, viewpoints and dimension points as they change, and thus there is time.
  2. PM Factor # 22: And thus there is a universe.
  3. PM Factor # 23: The actual universe is represented by the totality of postulates; and not by any single viewpoint. 
  4. PM Factor # 24: The viewpoint or beingness is not fixed in its postulates or ideas. It can change itself to fit the circumstances.
  5. PM Factor # 25: Death is a switching of physical beingness.

(6) The next five factors outline the violations of the Principle of Oneness and the resolution of resulting anomalies.

  1. PM Factor # 26: In this universe, the anomalies manifest themselves as suffering. 
  2. PM Factor # 27: The cause of life’s suffering is attachment to what one postulates.
  3. PM Factor # 28: Freedom lies in the spotting of anomalies as discontinuities, inconsistencies and disharmonies.
  4. PM Factor # 29: The optimum viewpoint is to see the dynamic oneness of the universe.
  5. PM Factor # 30: The optimum action is to develop on Earth a culture that loves to resolve anomalies.

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Definitions

KHTK / PM
The philosophy of “Knowing How To Know” arising from Subject Clearing. It is now called Postulate Mechanics (PM).

POSTULATE
A postulate is a self-created truth based on which further reasoning occurs.

SUBSTANCE
Substance is anything substantial enough to be sensed by our physical and mental senses.

PRINCIPLE OF ONENESS
Oneness does not imply sameness. Oneness means that all that is known is continuous, consistent and harmonious. This principle of oneness underlies the very concept of the universe. It also underlies the Scientific method. This principle gives us the ideal scene for logic, because its violation gives us anomalies. 

ANOMALY
An anomaly is any violation of the principle of oneness, such as, discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), or disharmony (arbitrary data).

FREE WILL
The free will is expressed through the continually changing universe with nothing ever remaining permanent except for the principle of Oneness.

For detailed definitions, please see KHTK Glossary: Subject Clearing.

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June 27, 2023 – 6:02 AM Categories: KHTK | Post a comment

KHTK Factor # 30

Reference: A Course on the Factors

KHTK Factor # 30: The optimum action is to develop on Earth a culture that loves to resolve anomalies.

One may prescribe and teach all kind of things; but a person pursues only that activity that resolves his gravest concern.

Let us then make it easy for the person to resolve all his concerns.

Let the person develop the skills to spot anomalies in the areas of his concern.

Let us then provide him with the techniques with which to resolve those anomalies.

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Scientology

Compare the above to the following factor in Scientology.

Scientology Factor # 30. And above these things there might be speculation only. And below these things there is the playing of the game. But these things which are written here Man can experience and know. And some may care to teach these things and some may care to use them to assist those in distress and some may desire to employ them to make individuals and organizations more able and so give to Earth a culture of which we can be proud.

In these Factors, Hubbard seem to be addressing the human condition just as Buddha did. But he favors the preserving of one’s “individuality” and ends up disparaging the principle of oneness embodied in the goal of Nirvana of Buddha.

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Logic

This is the last Factor. I must say that Hubbard has derived many insights in the field of human endeavor using the modern scientific approach. His insights once aligned with the Principle of Oneness has great power in resolving much of the sufferings in the world.

I have attempted to do this in my proposed KHTK Factors.

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June 27, 2023 – 5:19 AM Categories: KHTK | Post a comment

KHTK Factor # 29

Reference: A Course on the Factors

KHTK Factor # 29: The optimum viewpoint is to see the dynamic oneness of the universe.

The universe is One. Actually, that is the very meaning of the word “universe.” The resolution lies in seeing the universe as one.

Ultimate freedom is not getting attached to the beingness you have.

You can be anything in this ever changing universe.

You are the “observer” as well as the “observed.”

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Scientology

Compare the above to the following factor in Scientology.

Scientology Factor # 29. In the opinion of the viewpoint, any beingness, any thing, is better than no thing, any effect is better than no effect, any universe better than no universe, any particle better than no particle, but the particle of admiration is best of all.

Why does the universe come about in the first place? What is your relationship with this universe? Scientology has opinions but no answers.

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Logic

The universe has been evolving for billions of years; and in it, life has been evolving for millions of years. Mankind has appeared and it has been evolving for the past 250,000 years. Today, we have various cultures, societies and even individual beingness that are still evolving. There is something unknowable that underpins this whole evolution.

It is the overriding principle of oneness that seems to bring us closer to the knowledge of the Unknowable. 

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June 27, 2023 – 4:23 AM Categories: KHTK | Post a comment

KHTK Factor # 28

Reference: A Course on the Factors

KHTK Factor # 28. Freedom lies in the spotting of anomalies as discontinuities, inconsistencies and disharmonies.

The Unknowable cannot be approximated unless all the postulates, and the reasoning proceeding from postulates, form a single reality to replace that Unknowable. This oneness is best expressed in the continuity, consistency and harmony of the reality. An anomaly would be any discontinuity, inconsistency or disharmony.

We get mired into our suffering and forget that all this suffering is simply an altered form of anomalies. As we start to spot anomalies in our suffering as discontinuities, inconsistencies and disharmonies, our suffering starts to simplify and becomes much easier to handle.

All therapies are just different ways of spotting these anomalies. The most direct way of spotting and resolving anomalies is Subject Clearing.

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Scientology

Compare the above to the following factor in Scientology.

Scientology Factor # 28. The resolution of any problem posed hereby is the establishment of viewpoints and dimension points, the betterment of condition and concourse amongst dimension points, and, thereby, viewpoints, and the remedy of abundance or scarcity in all things, pleasant or ugly, by the rehabilitation of the ability of the viewpoint to assume points of view, and create and uncreate, neglect, start, change and stop dimension points of any kind at the determinism of the viewpoint. Certainty in all three universes must be regained, for certainty, not data, is knowledge.

Scientology starts with the arbitrary assumption that there is a permanent core to beingness. This may be the very first postulate that manifests as beingness. Therefore, there is a permanent attachment to this postulate or beingness, and one cannot let go of it. This attachment is responsible for continued suffering in spite of any resolutions in Scientology.

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Logic

There is no permanence underlying beingness. The only thing to hold on to is the Principle of Oneness, while resolving anomalies.

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June 26, 2023 – 6:39 AM Categories: KHTK | Post a comment

KHTK Factor # 27

Reference: A Course on the Factors

KHTK Factor # 27: The cause of life’s suffering is attachment to what one postulates.

We postulate to know the Unknowable. We can let go of a postulate and just as easily make a different postulate. But we get invested in a postulate when we build a complex structure on top of that postulate and start to believe in it.

The universe is such a complex structure. There have been many cycles of the universe in the past. There will be many cycles of the universe in the future. There is the current cycle of the universe. It is not an illusion. But it is what it is. It is the outcome of one’s postulates. Knowing that is freedom.

For one can then be involved without being attached to it.

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Scientology

Compare the above to the following factor in Scientology.

Scientology Factor # 27. There is beingness, but Man believes there is only becomingness.

When one is simply being, one is not introverted into oneself. Becomingness starts with introversion into oneself.

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Logic

One gets extroverted as one starts to resolve anomalies. The simplification continues until the Unknowable realizes what it is.

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June 26, 2023 – 5:12 AM Categories: KHTK | Post a comment