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I have been doing that on different issues for years, and I can't say
I have had success.
David
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David, Pete, anyone concerned,
most of the misunderstandings and questions about postulates do easily
resolve when you just look thoroughly at a couple of definitions.
Below you find the most important ones regarding the subject of
postulates, already brought into meaningful sequence:
[POSTULATE, n. 1. a self-created truth would be simply the consideration
generated by self. Well, we just borrow the word which is in seldom use in
the
English language, we call that postulate. And we mean by postulate,
selfcreated
truth. He posts something. He puts something up and that’s what a
postulate is. (HPC A6-4, 5608C--) 2. a postulate is, of course, that thing
which is a directed desire or order, or inhibition, or enforcement, on the
part
of the individual in the form of an idea. (2ACC 23A, 5312CM14) 3 . that
self determined thought which starts, stops or changes past, present or
future
efforts.
(APIA, p. 33) 4 . is actually a prediction. (5112CM30B)—v. 1 . in Scn the
word
postulate means to cause a thinkingness or consideration. It is a specially
applied word and is defined as causative thinkingness. (FOT, p. 71) 2 . to
conclude, decide or resolve a problem or to set a pattern for the future
or to
nullify a pattern of the past. (HFP, p. 155) 3 . to generate or “think” a
concept. A postulate infers conditions and actions rather than just plain
thinks. It has a dynamic connotation. (SH Spec 84, 6612C13)]
There are a couple of flavors of postulates:
[OPPOSITE POSTULATE, an individual who has made a postulate on a subject
experiences "failure" when he has to make an opposite postulate later. The
opposite postulate has the effect of a negative postulate. The opposite
postulate is distinguished from a negative postulate because it depends
upon
effort which a negative postulate does not necessarily have to do. (AP&A,
P.
34)]
(The above may be of special interest for those people who are concerned
with TROM.)
[NEGATIVE POSTULATE, the postulate not to be. It cancels past postulates
and it also cancels, in greater or lesser degree, the entire individual.
(AP&A,
p. 34)]
[PAST POSTULATES, decisions or conclusions the preclear has made in the
past
and to which he is still subjected in the present. Past postulates are
uniformly
invalid since they cannot resolve present environment. (NFP Gloss)]
This is not a definition per se, but an applicable notion:
"The universe consists of life and postulates" - DHS
Now, we are legitimate to substitute "life" with "theta".
They are not precisely synonymous but never the less we can get
some sense out of: "The Universe consists of Theta and postulates."
Actually it answers a question, you David, recently posed.
It was the question regarding what a Thetan can do, what his
abilities are.
The list of a Thetan's abilities is rather short. It contains
one item only:
A Thetan postulates
Well, does not look too impressive. But look again. This single
item covers it all.
Now see the Scale Of Reality:
[SCALE OF REALITY, 1. the reality scale refers to the individual’s hold on
reality and his agreement with others on what reality is. (NOTL, p. 103) 2
. at
the bottom there is nothing, above that there is a communication line, the
line
becomes more solid, then above that terminals begin to materialize lightly
and
the line becomes less solid, then above that you have the terminals and you
don’t have any lines, and above that the terminals are there mostly by
agreement, above that there is agreement, and above agreement there is
consideration, individual consideration, and above that there is postulate.
That is the Scale of Reality. (PAB 154)]
Actually you better look at the scale upside-down.
I give it again below.
At the scales top you come close to "static". The lower you go
along the scale the more solid it gets.
You see we start from:
Postulate,
Individual Consideration,
Consideration,
Agreement,
Terminals, ... the different flavors (solidities) of Communication ...
As soon as you get a grasp on the above you will realize that
it is somehow misleading or inaccurate - to say the least - to
suggest the possibility of "as-ising" a postulate. As well one could
then as-is a Thetan. A funny idea. Please do not worry, no Thetan is
in danger to be annihilated by another Thetan, or in the course of
processing through as-ising. That would make an interesting paradox.
Simply because no one who would have regained such an ability would
ever care about any Thetan or processing at all.
As well a postulate will not produce any read on a meter. Except
this one here: "This meter's needle is going to move!"
Those PC's who are already in good shape would rather move the
whole universe around the needle's pivot point instead ;-)
What makes the meter read is the effects which our postulates
create. In other words the postulate's manifestations in terms of
particles, movement, energies, masses (condensed energy), feelings,
emotions, images, charges, screens, symbols, ... you name it.
One can place a postulate into a solid - e.g. a wall. You may
or may not be able to "as-is" that wall. The postulate still remains.
Any postulate - consideration - thought (in that sequence) ever
brought forth by theta always was and always will be.
(Quiz-question: Which often used Bible-quotes says the same
in other words?)
Why is it then, that we are that much concerned with postulates in
any clearing technique which deserves to be called such?
What we have a problem with, is not the postulates itself but rather
that we can not make our postulates 'stick' - at least not in a
predictable and desirable manner.
Through the eons we came down we had put much attention and cleverness
into the activity of building enormously complex postulate structures
with tons of lies, false ownerships (valences, co-creation),
complicated mechanisms of forgettingness, blackness, dub-ins,
automaticities, machinery of all kinds, aso.
The sole purpose of processing is to reestablish some order in that
chaos. In order to entangle the postulate structures you have to
go about it in a logical manner. You put aside a lot of rubbish first
until you can see through the complex fabric.
Why do we not just postulate ourself into a perfectly unaberated, healthy,
able state? Presumably because we did not want it that way. Would be too
easy. No fun in the game. It would constitute the same paradox
which was already mentioned further above in this text.
Therefore it does you no good if you use effort or be inpatient or
operate on false assumptions right form the beginning. False expectations
(e.g. Hidden Standards) will rather slow you down. Effort will only
add to the solidity of ones reactive mind.
[CLEARING, 1 . a gradient process of finding places where attention is
fixed and
restoring the ability of the pc to place and remove attention under his own
determinism. (HCOB 28 Feb 59) 2 . what is clearing but regaining awareness
that one is himself, and regaining confidence. (HCOB 1 Feb 58)]
(Emphasis on "gradient" in def.1)
Confidence in what?
In the only thing a Thetan can do :-)
Robin
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