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Hello everyone. Forgive me if you find this post too long. I felt inspired
to communicate.
Dennis' basic senior stable datum is the universe is life and postulates. I
take it to mean the rest is phenomena resulting from interaction of life
that holds postulates.
Historically, if you start with Freud's attempts in the late 1800's to
apply logic to resolving the mind - which he called psychoanalysis - you
can see that he came close and I don't think he realized how close he came
and he probably still had his own case to resolve ...
Freud was able to observe and note that "To Sex" was a goal that was
affecting many of his clients' judgement. Dennis' senior stable datum is
that the universe is life and postulates/goals and that is why I'm pointing
out Freud's discovery, and as I said, Freud could not take it any further
than that. For example, I'm surprised he did not start examining his work
with his clients for other common goals. I think he got swamped by the high
abberativeness of sex'ing in his society and in fact could not face up to
the depth of degradation surrounding that goal set. Besides, he had
somewhat workable techs and a steady stream of clients who were only
demanding to be better humans in their society.
However, Freud did want to analytically find "THE GOAL" that drives mankind
to the heights and to the depths, and he took the goal set that was most
important to the majority of his clients. Couldn't fail, right?
Then comes Hubbard in the 1950's who at the very least is a persistent
researcher and compiler and promoter of psychotherapies, and who likewise
went looking for THE GOAL that drives mankind. He went a notch of two
higher than "To Sex" and stated in Dianetics that mankind's driving goal is
"To Survive". A few years later he went looking for a more primal goal and
if he found it he did not announce it or I am not aware of it. I am aware
he had a lot of attention on the goal "To Help".
Fifteen years later or thereabouts Dennis decided to pick up where Ron left
off with his aspirations to clear the minds of humans by finding the primal
goal set that would resolve all cases. In other words, was there a being
outside the universe that formulated this universe for its own purpose ...
and by what postulates did it do that?
In the tradition of Zen masters Dennis formulated a simple and mostly solo
path to nirvana consisting of two basic practices: one a "positive"
practice and the other a "negative" practice, both of which are worked
together until the mind is vanished. In Pali language "nibbana" means
"extinction" [of the mind]. As with any practice these two processes become
easier, more fun and more certain as one persists through the initial
discomforts and flubs in following instructions.
More crucially, Dennis addressed an even higher goal set - "To Know and To
Be Known" and its negatives, and wrote out a scale of lesser goals leading
up to this higher goal which includes Freud's "to sex" and Hubbard's found
goals. Dennis left a diagram with instructions on how to correctly
apposition all possible combinations of interactive goals that could exist
within the mind that holds this universal reality. What more could I ask
for?
Pete is expanding on "The Art of War" which is a great complementary
exercise to what one discovers through doing the practices of TROM.
Likewise, personally, I find that with the progress I make in practicing
TROM I better grok (i.e., understand) the "Tao Te Ching". Tao and Trom
share the same goal - to be inducements and pointers and instructors to
vanishment of the mind through a thorough objective and subjective
understanding of our seeming closest companion - our mind.
Which reminds me of the movie, "Revolver".
The only problem I see now is that people who are all "To Know" will
collect and read and archive, and perhaps eruditely discuss Trom without
much application, and people who are all "To Be Known" will be too busy
deciding what effects to create in order to be known by the to-know people.
The mostly "To Not Know" people will make themselves known so that they can
loudly and soundly reject Trom without any recourse to reason ("I tried it
and it did not work for me!!!", and other derogatory or picky
generalities). The mostly "To Not be Known" people -- they are still a
mystery to me. How can anyone save themselves?!
For myself I do see some vanishment of lifelong blocks to logical thinking
and good judgement and complementary postulates. It took a decision to see
my covert game strategies that had been seeded in early life, and I decided
to take a good long look at my interactions with my young parents. I find
most of my whacky decisions almost always boil down to particular aesthetic
fixations... the desire for aesthetic sensation.
The two simple practices of TROM are more fun and smoother than they were
when I first started. My resolve is still weak and I am easily thrown off
my routine practice by some present-time problem. Hubbard called it being
"out-rudiments" or "PTS" (a potential trouble source); I've had over 60
years to do impulsively what seemed right at the time, and the more covert
game strategies one has piled up or decisions that have led to a
complicated and busy life I would imagine the more difficult it is to be
consistent with this practice. I do make note that Dennis did work a job
for many years and finally was able to settle in and decently organize his
life with others around the working out of TROM while resolving his own
mental structure, so I'm not going to be too hard on myself, and I keep
picking up where I left off. It can only get better at this point.
"Complicated minds require drastic measures" ... Tao Te Ching ...
Colleen
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