New Weird
“I maintain that cosmic religious
feeling is the strongest and noblest
incitement to scientific research.”
Albert Einstein(The World As I See It – from:religion and science)
Since the Higgs particle was ‘seen’ yesterday and we can sort of ‘see’ ourselves a little better especially after having traced ‘itself’ back to the big bang and through the evolutionary path: today we can confidently say that we might carry with us some baggage from the past that we might not need. Evolution will probably continue in the mind and the body as a tool for communication and hence the mind might need some MOT in 2012 to put it in order for the next century. Scientology is here to help make that correction by looking at the mind. There are thinkers who have come and gone who have showed us the way by being an example but not many have created a schedule to follow like what Scientology has done. Tom Cruise (my friend not (yet)) is in the news today to be separated from his wife because of the way their child, Suri is to be brought up. I think Scientology is getting too much of a bad deal for promoting a good thing because people cannot see what they are offering. That is precisely what they are offering to those who cannot ‘see’: the ability to ‘see’ better, totally, further – past their own eyelids. To remove the ‘reactive mind’ as they call it, that comes in the way of the ‘analytical mind’. The ‘reactive mind’ reacts to the trauma of one’s life and comes in the way of happiness. To get rid of the ‘reactive mind’ is not to brainwash one to forget, but rather not to emotionally react to it. The trauma is still in memory but now is used in a ‘clear’ state of mind to understand the trauma so one is not immobilised by its emotion. This is a well understood fact by some thinkers in the past who have come to it through their own observation and saw it for the Truth that it is. So Scientology is following some of the tried and tested methods of the lone ascetic seeker just that with them they created a manual for you to follow.
There is a lot that comes with this and the process that they have prepared for initiates involves facing the self, upfront. You face your obstacles and dissolve them. That is the way to silence the reactive mind. I suppose there are many ways to do this, but the Scientologist have deviced a process that they will take initiates through to see the obstacles. They call it ‘Auditing’. It involves the initiate holding the terminals of a electronic meter (which measures body resistance) and the tutor in dialogue with the initiate. Increase in body resistance will inform the tutor that the topic needs to be further discussed so it can be dealt with. They need to know what you are thinking and they use the e-meter (electronic meter) to see where the obstacles are located. This is you allowing your inner secrets to come up to the surface so the ones that ‘block’ the path to fulfillment is dissolved. Now this is interesting.
Hubbard said: “The E-meter is never wrong. It sees all, knows all.”
Can i just digress off for a moment here and show you some research that might be relevant to the e-meter. Your external sensors observe and when it gets to the mind it is manipulated. The link below from the nature magazine shows how: ………humans can use thinking to alter perception of competing visual images…… “The environment offers some reality,” ……..”but your own brain can shape it and override it with its internal deliberations.” This experiment below showed how the mind made choices and create sysnthesis.
What they did was this: Volunteers, yes like humans, not rats, whose brains were wired up to a computer were showed two images superimposed on each other. Each was half faded out. The subjects were then told to think of one of the images and enhance it while watching the computer. Then they watched how the subjects could enhance the target image to the point of complete visibility and entirely eliminate the distracting image using their minds.
This “…..demonstrates how our brains, which are constantly bombarded with images, noise and smells, can, through conscious thought, select what stimuli to notice and what to ignore”
“They propose that activity in these neurons reflect the choices the brain is making about what sensory information it will consider further and what information it will neglect.”
Now this is important: “But feedback on the computer screens was vital. When this ‘brain-machine interface’ wasn’t provided, their success rates plummeted below one third.” So you can see how important the interaction that initiates have with the e-meter in Scientology is important. It allows them to almost see how they are thinking (in this case to observing the electrical resistance of their reaction to questions asked of their experiences). It also shows us how there is a kind of synthesis in the mind to ‘become’. The art establishment expects this of the artist. Personality types ‘becoming’ and likes and dislikes are synthesis in the brain – giving up one for the other. “Becoming” might seem like a natural phenomenon but it takes the working of ‘itself’ off the center and towards the corner. Something to think about here.
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101027/full/news.2010.568.html (there is a video to watch)
So there is nothing anonymous about Scientology’s auditing methods as Hubbard has said the e-meter is never wrong. Auditing files on initiates are always in safe keeping. Some of the truths obtained about the initiates using the e-meter is literally like knowing what he is thinking and such information we know today is privy only to the initiate.
The ‘mystics’ will probably recognise the path. But the mystics and the initiates are a different entity. The mystics come to it themselves. Their souls are primed and ready for the process and come to it naturally like for Buddha, through silent ‘meditation’. What Scientology is saying is that they can take any initiate and first prime his mind for him to see his ‘reactive mind’ and hence allow him to see better. They do it regardless and so it is a case of: i love you if you do or if I don’t. No good or bad to Scientology because it knows the world will be a better place for it if it is done. But keep in mind here that this is a well prepared modern method of enquiry into the experience of a person. This is the path of the modern ascetic and anybody can apply. The operative manual is ready to use. Everybody has access to it.
Other thinkers have looked into this too in the past. The description of them is different: such as the use of the concept of the ‘reactive mind’ as to the ‘psychological mind’ and the diminishing of emotion to the ‘reactive mind’ by observing the trauma. Following the trauma to the end, rather than end it prematurely and not understanding it is to only repeat it again. ‘Choiceless observation’: to observe the trauma without making a choice in the process – working from the centre. The reason for this is to understand how the trauma plays itself out. When you understand it fully the danger of the trauma repeating itself is diminished. Scientology understanding this fact in ‘itself’ then devices a program to help one to confront these obstacles and to reach a state of ‘clear’. They take one who has the urge to want to understand himself/herself and shows you how your mind works. One can also come to it by oneself: ‘Truth is a pathless land’ or you can come to it through Scientology. You either go it alone in silence or Scientology can take you by your hand and guide you. Your choice: your either walk the circle in suffering with a beginning and an end repeating itself in perpetuity or you break the circle and enter a state of ‘clear’.
There are of-course pros and cons. The state of ‘clear’ and enlightenment is the target. The cons is that the methods of ‘auditing’ can be adapted and misused to gain inner truths to be later used for shenanigans. Its ironic that running parallel to all the good that Scientology does, outside its organisation has evolved its opposite to manipulate and cause chaos rather than do good. And with todays wireless technology you do not have to leave your home to be remotely audited. But i am sure Scientology will get to its opposites in time – for some serious auditing.
With every new idea there is a counter idea that is ready to germinate. What you put out will always have its consequences. There is no such thing as a ‘good’ idea because off it is also a good ‘bad’ idea to be made by the same creative mind. Creativity just spins and ideas are chucked out including its opposites and each creates its own system so to say. All the systems are interconnecting circles but function separately. The opposite is created as a consequence. If Scientology can audit so some outside the organisation would say, we can audit too, because Scientology has showed me how to do it: this auditing has nothing to to do with the betterment of the spirit but rather the opposite. The opposite to Scientology, then takes the original idea from the source and makes it ‘better’: it says it wants auditing but it wants control too. Hence they create subliminal messaging. They would have got some idea of this from advertising but lets use technology rather than just posters. Same thing. So now it has full control over the masses. That’s one circle. Scientology is the source circle from ‘auditing’ to ‘clear’. The opposite is a kind of ‘auditing’ to control. Then there is the real auditing every year, and a kind of control. The banks and your home is a kind of control. Then there is the one big idea of the mind, the structure of society and all the above that followed is a kind of control: I guess you can say it was this big idea that started everything.
Some really good implications here for the arts too: you can, this and that, all you want about making art. You make it from where you are at…… Scientology has showed us there could be a physical gradation from ‘preclear’ to ‘clear’ in the mind of the artist. “It is like being a priest or a monk” in the mind. Where you at is where the work is and it all adds up to :
‘The World As I See It’ by Albert Einstein.
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man… I am satisfied with the mystery of life’s eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence — as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.”
In all this chaos some sort of evolutionary process in the mind is at play for the future.
http://www.scientology.org/what-is-dianetics/basic-principles-of-scientology/dianetics-understanding-the-mind.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2171741/Tom-Cruise-believed-telekinetic-telepathic-powers-according-Scientologists.html (In cruise control – Tom Cruise. Call me.)
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