Who is right? Hubbard or Nietzsche? In Scientology the dynamic principle of existence is ‘survive’. In Nietzschean philosophy the dynamic principle of existence is the ‘will to power’.
There is a definite ambiguity in Scientology on this subject. The ethics conditions describe survival as ‘normal operation’ whereas the actual aim is the condition of power, which is the equivalent of Nietzsche’s position. Who is right?
Let’s take up the first and the second:
1. Before the beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the cause was the creation of effect.
2. In the beginning and forever is the decision and the decision is TO BE.
From this we can see that the first effect that was created, was the beginning. We also see that a Cause existed to effect this beginning. The second factor provides a non sequitur. ‘TO BE’ means to exist but existence was already in existence at the time of the creation of the first effect. Furthermore it was a decision, which implies that the decision might have turned out NOT TO BE.
If there is a decision, a decision maker must exist. This anonymous decision maker, theoretically could have decided NOT TO BE as the creation of an effect according to Factor 1. This would have to be the case in order for it to then change its mind and decide TO BE. The problem with this explanation is however that the decision TO BE is forever.
Exercise for scientologists: Find the author’s misunderstood!
Hubbard must have had a hard time with his static, first (1951) it was a fixed idea to be audited out, later that year it had evolved to the basic of life and thought in the axioms. A year or so later, at the time of Technique 8-80, it was made more mobile and became ‘statronics’. I will explain…
There is no liveliness, no motion, no energy and no electronics in the static by definition, thus he was stuck in an untenable position. The way out was to pronounce that thought was a kind of “energy” which was not part of the physical universe and thus the ‘statronics’ or the electronics of human thought was born. So we finally got analytical thought with a wavelength of 0.0000000000000000000000002 cm.
This supreme wisdom of static motion I have baptized statronics, to honor the oxymoron of THETA the static as motion.
“Thought is the subject matter of Scientology. It is considered as a kind of “energy” which is NOT PART of the physical universe. It controls energy, but it has no wave length. It uses matter, but it has no mass. It is found in space, but it has no position. It records time, but it is not subject to time. The Greek word (and letter), THETA, is used as a symbol for thought as an ‘energy’”. Scientology 8-80, p. 3.
From a lofty viewpoint what really motivates us can be described as follows:
If we compare life to a game of chess, we might have the following scenario. There is a static board which is the spacetime Cartesian grid and there are invisible static rules. Then there are players usually two and sixteen white pieces and sixteen black pieces. The two players are clusters of invisible thetans or souls. There is a cluster called white and one called black. These thetans are mathematical functions*, which is to say they have thought energy of a limitless potential. Each of the thetans operates one of the pieces, coordinated by the thetan in charge of the respective cluster. Part of that mathematical thought energy, in the lower frequencies, they share and that makes the board and the pieces solid. The pieces are the energy particles and configurations they play with.
The purpose of the game is for all participants to reach gnosis and to continue to play until every aspect and combinations in and of the game have been completely understood, which is the apotheosis. They learn to become God, by overcoming Satan, in the form of the opponent’s king, every time, in each iteration of the game, eventually being able to re-program the game itself.
*There is no difference between mathematics and thinking. Mathematics is merely another term for precise thinking.” ARC and the Tone scale, 4 November 1950
The state of OT:
Knowing and willing cause over thought, life, matter, energy, space and time, subjective and objective. If this is not monotheism it will be the everlasting war of OTs to establish who is the supreme Cause.
It is not well advertised in scientology, but according to Hubbard the operating thetan can also create other thetans. The latter ability is the exact equivalent of the Abrahamic God. The one who created all Christian, Jewish and muslim souls.
See also the book “Critique of Pure Scientology” available from Amazon.
“What is, is, as it is considered to be.” LRH, Phoenix Lectures.
Considerations are personal, or subjective, which makes scientology a subjectivism. That is like Einstein’s relativity, you consider yourself at rest and see the other moving and the other simultaneously considers she is at rest and you are moving. There is no objective universe in such conceptions.
You could also join the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics and with Niels Bohr, consider that you have to look, before you can be sure the moon is there. If you are not looking the moon is not there, let alone a man on the moon. All this summarizes the end of objective reality.
Unfortunately Hubbard also says that “truth by definition–is what is” [Class VIII, No. 4]. This is even worse as now we have also subjective truth and truth relativism.
In other cases such as the ultra rich elite vs. the divided populace it may nevertheless apply. The former employ the old ‘divide et impera’ whilst hiding behind other obvious fighting parties and thus would constitute a more or less hidden third party.
In other words we start from nothing and this is followed by the creation of something immediately followed by its destruction. One could say that this is what happens at every successive moment of now, where the selected future possibility is actualized and the past creation is discarded. Quantum mechanics tells us that the moment of creation is the moment the wave function collapses. Right there a new wave function with its full potential in superposition is formed and subsequently collapsed into the next reality all taking place now.
Thus we have here all the elements of existence, namely creation, change – from nothing to something to nothing, to something and so on. And that gives the appearance of a continuum. The something to nothing is the destruction that follows the creation. This process is nothing more than BECOMING which goes from NOTHING TO BEING TO NOTHING TO BEING.
Therefore AS-IS-NESS = ALTER-ISNESS = IS-NESS = NOT-IS-NESS.