Theta is reason. A reason is the thought behind whatever it is the reason for. Everything that exists is or has an underlying thought or reason. “In the beginning and forever is the decision and the decision is TO BE.” LRH
Existence was preceded by a decision, which is a type of thought. Or we could say that the reason for existence was the decision. Therefore one can validly state that reason is the driving force or dynamic principle of existence.
Life = Theta = Static = Thought = Dynamic
THE DYNAMIC PRINCIPLE OF EXISTENCE IS REASON
It is not survival, as many things exist but don’t survive. But everything that exists has a cause and a reason why it is thus and not otherwise.
M = E = ST Matter is basically energy Energy is made of spacetime. That’s it? No! Mind = Mathematical Energy which creates spacetime Copyright © MGT International Foundation, 2021
Analytical mathematical reasoning (dianoia).
Discursive thinking, proceeding by reasoning or argument rather than intuition.
LOGIC 21R: MATHEMATICS ARE REASON
Mathematics are the basic epistemological and ontological concepts (postulates, considerations, thoughts) underlying the very structure and functions of the universe or all that is. The most basic and simple concept of all is zero or nothing. Nothing requires nothing to exist. This zero was erroneously considered ‘static’ by Hubbard. There is no such thing as a static nothing, such cannot exist and is the idea of absolute non-existence of which we cannot say anything at all. True mathematics therefore could be defined as the study of the dynamic zero. X + (–) Y = 0
Hubbard referred frequently to the principle that function monitors structure. I think now that it is more precise to say that mathematics monitors both function and structure.
In other words mathematics is the study of numbers, relationships, structures, functions, symmetries, dimensions and frequencies, encompassing zero and infinity and what lies in between.
Some of these basic concepts are: existence, reason (cause), mind, monad, thought, order (sequence), energy, motion, frequency, symmetry, space, time.
ref. book: Critique of Pure Scientology
Consciousness and awareness are two different things; just as perception is not the same as consciousness. Consciousness is also often confused with sentience. Sentience is the capacity to be aware of feelings and sensations. Sentience and awareness we share with the animal world, consciousness is not available to animals as it requires sort of a ‘double take’, a ‘thought about thought’ modus and may even require language to develop and exchange concepts.
In Scientology consciousness is adequately described in the concepts of the thetan, the analytical mind and awareness of awareness unit. Awareness is mostly perceptual experience, it exists in many forms such as sense perceptions, the experience of art, in meditation and Buddhist mindfulness. Percepts depend on the concepts of space and time, as without those one cannot hear or see. Consciousness requires concepts and thought about concepts, even hierarchies of concepts, it’s meta-awareness. It’s also referred to as apperception, in more scientific or philosophical circles.
Hubbard in Scientology, often fails to distinguish between these two concepts and defines consciousness as awareness and awareness as perception:
CONSCIOUSNESS,
1. awareness of now. (DTOT, p.24)
2. consciousness is awareness. Awareness itself is perception. (2ACC-8B, 5311CM24)
AWARENESS
1. the ability to perceive the existence of (HCOB 4 January 1973)
2. awareness itself is perception (2ACC-8B 5311CM24)
ref. Dianetics and Scientology TECHNICAL DICTIONARY
THETA IS REASON
REASON IS MATHEMATICS
LIFE IS BASICALLY MATHEMATICS
That is basically what I am trying to say in my book ‘Critique of Pure Scientology’. Hubbard was so close but missed this final step in the puzzle which is that mathematics is underlying the considerations and postulates. Mathematics determines what is considerable.
ref. Phoenix Lectures
ARC-1: Affinity, Reality and Communication= Experience
ARC is what we have in common with animals, we can experience things love, agree and observe, we can communicate with things and thus experience them. ARC has to do with the phenomenal world.
ARC-2: Actuality plus Reasoning and Concepts = Understanding
Actuality, not ‘scientological reality’ is accessible through reason and leads to concepts which all together leads to understanding. Understanding goes deeper than surface reality, or appearances it goes into why things are what they are. ARC has to do with the noumenal world of ideas and theta (reason, mathematics) itself.
To understand something it is not enough to merely perceive it, although noting the existence of that something, ought to be part of it. Something can be an idea or an object, in other words mental or physical. Let’s consider the case of objects first.
To fully understand something you have to know what it is and also where, when, how and why it is. The latter amounts to grasping the reason for its existence. What it is, is a matter of identification and definition. It amounts to correct categorization. Where and when is a matter of locating it in spacetime.
One could see an object and practically immediately state with some certainty that this is a radio. You have perceived it and could place it in a category of things already understood to some degree. To some degree, is stated advisedly as one could categorize the object correctly without understanding how it actually works which would be part of full understanding. Thus we have degrees of understanding. Full understanding would embrace all the constituents listed in the second paragraph above.
Concepts and percepts
There are concepts and percepts (sense messages). We can’t have percepts without concepts, we can’t have percepts without communication, we can’t have communication without space. Something like ‘honesty’ is a concept, not a percept. You can try as much as you like but can’t really see ‘honesty’. If we could our world would have looked differently. Without the concept of space, there would be no percepts. Thus concepts are senior. Percepts have a mechanical communication aspect and concepts do not.
Concepts can exist independent of observation, whereas percepts are the direct result of observation. So we might say that there are two types of understanding, a priori understanding and a posteriori understanding.
Understanding ideas
In the case of ideas the matter is simple. The only requisite to understanding ideas is to be able to define them and relate them to other ideas. One might say as Hubbard did that the degree of understanding depends on how much relationship one can give it to other ideas. {EVALUATION OF DATA, a datum is as understood as it can be related to other data. (SOS Gloss)}
ARC and experience
Experience is defined (Merriam Webster) as the act or process of directly perceiving events or reality.
When you experience something you are at the effect end of a communication. You duplicate whatever was steered in your direction. Experiencing life and things involve ARC. Hubbard defined communication as the operation, the action by which one experiences emotion and by which one agrees. In another context he defined it as the interchange of perceptions through the material universe between organisms. Experience thus can be considered, the duplication of that which emanated from the source point, but it is more than that. The experience also implies that you have an attitude or a feeling about that what’s been duplicated. Also the fact that you may agree or disagree with it plays a role. So here we have it A+R+C=Experiential Understanding one could say. Not necessarily conceptual understanding, quod erat demonstrandum. ARC does not always equal understanding.