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THE REAL TOP LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE

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“The first is what we’re going to call the Q list. There’s nothing in mathematics even vaguely approaching this: “Q” MEANS THE TOP LEVEL FROM WHICH WE ARE NOW WORKING – THE TOP LEVEL FROM WHICH WE’RE NOW WORKING; THE HIGHEST ECHELON FROM WHICH ALL OTHER THINGS ARE DERIVED. KNOWLEDGE IS A PYRAMID, AND KNOWLEDGE AS A PYRAMID GETS ITSELF A COMMON DENOMINATOR WHICH EVALUATES ALL OTHER DATA BELOW IT.

“And the Q from which we’re operating now evaluates all the data in the material universe. “Q1. THE COMMON DENOMINATOR OF ALL LIFE IMPULSES IS SELF-DETERMINISM. “ LRH, INTRODUCTION: THE Q LIST AND BEGINNING OF LOGICS,10 November 1952.

The problem with all this is that life and self-determinism do not apply to the physical material universe. The other problem is that not all life is self-determining, plants and animals are run by instinct rather than self determination, which requires a self and self-consciousness.

New Q

The top Q, the actual common denominator of all existence, which evaluates all data, is mathematics.

TIME

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Is time needed to have motion or change? Not according to axiom 11 as the moment of creation coincides with the moment of destruction, which involves a drastic change from creation to destruction but outside of space and time.

(a)AS-IS-NESS is the condition of immediate creation without persistence, and is the condition of existence which exists at the moment of creation and the moment of destruction, and is different from other considerations in that it does not contain survival.

WHY ARC DOES NOT EQUATE TO UNDERSTANDING

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“Understand: To have a clear and true idea or conception, or full and exact knowledge, of something. In general it may be said that understand refers to the result of a mental process or processes (a clear and exact idea or notion, or full knowledge).”

HCO BULLETIN OF 7 SEPTEMBER 1974 SUPERLITERACY AND THE CLEARED WORD

First of all note that the definition of ARC or Communication does not include any thought process.

ARC (loosely defined) is a transfer of an impulse or particle – with some attendant affinity and reality (agreement) – from one point in space to another which produces whatever experience corresponds to that impact.

It will always be a particular experience. In order to become an understanding it would have to be generalized or given a position in a larger more universal context or it will never add up to understanding. Concepts which are key to understanding, imply universals and thought processes.

In other words understanding will need reason, logic and thought (mathematics) to manifest.

The above gives rise to two different triads:

Affinity+Reality (agreement)+Communication = EXPERIENCE

Reason+Logic+Thought (Mathematics) = UNDERSTANDING

This must be corrected in scientology, if it is to last at all. Hubbard was too much married to empiricism which is shown by the above. One can also see that in his writing on ‘Logics’ as was pointed out about a year ago in the book ‘Critique of Pure Scientology’.

MATHEMATICS, EITHER OR

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If mathematics is a creation of the mind or of the thetan, it could be changed by the thetan. However never has a thetan changed any mathematics. On the contrary we thetans discover mathematics. This means that mathematics precedes the thetan or is the thetan. Take your pick…

I choose the latter, for if mathematics preceded the thetan, then mathematics would have produced thetans. If thetans exist outside of spacetime and are eternal and necessary then mathematics exists in them or is native to them. Thus know thyself, would eventually reveal mathematics.

LRH was close to understanding this, he said in a lecture on ARC and the Tonescale: “There is no difference between mathematics and thinking. Mathematics is merely another term for precise thinking.”  He also identified Theta as the arche, the fundamental substance of the universe. Theta is reason and it speaks the language of mathematics.

Scale of Knowledge

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Knowledge exists in very different formats:

  • Knowledge based on feelings
  • Knowledge based on intuitions
  • Knowledge based on experience
  • Knowledge based on observations
  • Knowledge based on reason

The first is about emotions, hopes and fears, expressed through faith and religion.

The second level is also mythos, mystical intuitions such as gained through meditation.

The third level is the type of knowledge gained by explorers of the time track.

The fourth is what is gained by experiments and precise observation such as by scientists.

The fifth and highest level is reached by thinkers and philosophers analyzing the rational world and is expressed as logic and mathematics, in other words reason. This comprises the only true knowledge which is eternal and necessary.

LRH 2.0 IRRATIONALITY

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Lafayette states that a static is an energy production and conversion unit capable of manifesting electromagnetic phenomena without physical characteristics.

He is obviously ignoring the fact that a static is defined as having no motion, no energy, no wavelength. There are however no electromagnetic phenomena without wavelength. This is doubly contradictory.

He could save the day by using the term ‘theta motor’ instead of static as I have suggested earlier. https://xscn.mgtconcepts.com/?p=667  If it wasn’t for the crappy formulation there might even be some truth in what he is saying.

CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT A PRIVATE AFFAIR

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There is a minimum requirement for a mind to develop consciousness, in the sense of reflective consciousness. Consciousness initially requires a minimum of two minds in communication in order to get going, like at least a mother and child. If this communication requisite is dropped, like in the case of a human who grew up on a desert island and had never been in contact with other humans, consciousness would not appear. In other words consciousness, just as the etymology of the word suggests, is a multi mind phenomenon. Just as communication is at least a dual mind phenomenon, which can be expanded to multiple minds and so it is with the development of consciousness, which needs socializing.

Consciousness and communication are twin phenomena. We can further state that consequently consciousness is also a socio-cultural phenomenon. Supporting this view is the fact that a private language is impossible something which was already pointed out by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

This incidentally also forbids the existence of a conscious monotheistic God before the creation of other viewpoints or souls.

Consciousness Etymology: Latin conscire, from com- “together” or + scire “to know”. “Knowing together”