A few of the definitions of words used in spiritual science are so inadequate that I see the need to correct and/or add to them.
Attitude.
The stable data and service facsimile(s) used at an emotional tone
by a terminal (identity at a single viewpoint in space). The most powerful
sevfac in the attitude is related to the actual GPM goal and its oppterm.
Consideration.
(noun) 1. A tone on the spiritual tones scale. 2. A consideration is
the exact isness, the result of a second postulate which obtains the persistence
of the first postulate. In normal usage in society a consideration is merely
an opinion. In spiritual terms however the act of consideration is that
of alter-is by 2nd postulate.
Copy.
A copy differs from a duplicate in that a copy is not owned but instead
belongs to another, whereas a duplicate is created by oneself.
Decision.
The only action taken by theta. In the highest ranges decisions are
made about beingness, below that decisions are made about spaces and the
contents of those spaces. That latter sort of decision is commonly known
as a "postulate" (see Ogger's brilliant description below).
Duplication.
Duplication occurring through communication in a universe consists
of two or more locations becoming one another, which temporarily dissolves
their distance and separation, which in turn is another way of saying that
the universe between them has vanished.
Entity.
The Co$ tech dictionary definition of an entity is a joke. They quote
LRH remarking during the PDC lectures that an entity merely thinks it's
alive, and thinks it's a being as long as energy is fed to it. Not quite
right. Entities do not require energy to be fed to them, though they will
come more alive when given attention. They are nothing unusual. The truth
is that there is theta in everything, even a dead chunk of granite. Ken
Ogger's understanding of entities is far superior to what LRH allowed printed
on the subject, see his writeups in "Super Scio." Normally an entity encountered
in processing is an aware, split off piece of theta which has become separated
from either a thetan, a copy made by another entity, or a piece separated
from a higher level of being than a thetan. This piece of theta is attached
to some mind, and possesses fixed mental plane anchor points which usual
leave it stuck somewhere on a time track. A "body thetan" in a PC's space
is usually either a piece of the PC or more commonly a piece split away
from someone else.The size and power of entities range from near thetans
(effectively a remote viewpoint of one somewhere) down to as little as
a single thought/intention/purpose placed into a ball of energy. I prefer
to call these latter "thought forms", after the traditional occult term.
A specialized type of entity used in magick is a "thing", which is an entity
surrounded by a heavily energized astral body of its own. Entities are
created by "decision" made in the Causal band of the tone scale, which
creates a division or split half of which is at Individuality or Coexistence,
and the other half at Being Entities or Spiritual Death (see tone scale
at GD24.html).
Induction.
Observing many effects, and looking back in time for their common cause
(at or above Considerations on the tone scale) and knowing it clearly.
Working backwards to recover the exact isness.
MEST
Matter, Energy, Space and Time, i.e. the physical universe.
Misownership.
"Misownership is a misconception of authorship in that one being thinks
his creation was made by another or that another's is attributable to himself."
(Ralph Hilton)
Other-consciousness.
The ultimate individuation. Creating another individual places one's
previous self within that individual at this tone.
Pan-determinism.
Godlike power as wielded through total control and responsibility.
As those latter two are Effort band activities, this idea is below ARC
and is sub-death.
Pan-existence
It can be defined as BEING others. The LRH idea of a broad sweep of
control is not true pan-determinism. True pan-determinism is high ARC being
all terminals in a game. This is the term LRH should have used instead
of pan-determinism. And if you are something, of course you can control
it.
Postulate.
"A postulate is simply a projected decision or mockup. I say projected
because a key factor is the space permeated by the decision. If a decision
about Paris permeates the space of New York, it can only affect the relationship
of New York to Paris and will not act on Paris directly. Even a postulate
which permeates the space it is intended to affect is not all encompassing
because there will be things outside of the target location which also
affect the target. And so we have a relative degree of action which is
monitored by the space encompassed by the postulate." (Ken Ogger, "Super
Scio")
A Postulate is:
1. a decision which creates a space and its contents, which
2. then appears after the fact to have been projected INTO a space
by the viewpoint in space being used as a game terminal (called a thetan)
by the individual who is actually "outside" of space/time, which
3. in turn ends up appearing to be a mere thought which occurred at
the location of the viewpoint/thetan.
A thought is sort of far removed from what's really happening, which is the act of creation. All "postulates" are decisions bringing something into or out of existence. Most people are below awareness of the higher levels of themselves and do not perceive any of this which occurs above the thought.
#1 above is at tone 100 on the tone scale (Filbert's expanded)
#2 is the after the fact existence viewed between tones 40 to 16 approximately
#3 is the apparency as viewed from the emotion and effort areas of
the scale between tones 8 to -8.
Primal pair.
Primal means underlying the span of existence and noticably senior
to a section of the tone scale. Pair equals dichotomy. So a primal pair
is a dichotomy which creates a portion of reality and visibly relates to
a portion of the tone scale. A dichotomy is not in and of itself aberrative
until a person decides to pursue half of it as a goal and reject the other
half. That pursuit of half a dichotomy, half a primal pair creates a primal
goal.
Primal goal.
An example of a primal goal is Hubbard's "SURVIVE". It is half of the
primal pair SURVIVE vs SUCCUMB, which governs the effort band of the tone
scale. Normally the positive half of a primal pair is pursued, while the
negative half is rejected. This flip flops in people occasionally (due
to the principle that a flow in one direction too long will tend to back
up, stop, then reverse) as a temporary condition usually regarded as madness
and criminality.
Reality.
1. Theta reality is duplication of other POVs, which is a return to
affinity, i.e. a sharing of the same space. Theta reality is a type of
as-isness, a first column action. 2. MEST reality is agreement, a third
column not-isness.
Resistance.
Resistance is not-isness, and therefore lies at Effort and MEST. An
excellent vignette on the subject from Amos Jessup: The
Anatomy of Resistance.
Service facsimile.
A service fac can be viewed mechanically as a valence one is NOT being.
Sure, the view is correct in that the person is being a valence; but the
service fac action is the rejection of an opposing valence, or to say it
better, an EXCLUDED valence. This originates in a mental image picture
(facsimile), and is used to make self right and excluded other wrong. The
hidden truth is that the person is still being both sides of the conflict,
with one enforced and the other denied.
It's not who you are being. It's who you are refusing to be that makes the service fac.
Theta.
That which is aware taken as a whole.
Thetan.
A part of theta occupying a location in space from which it views,
i.e. a viewpoint (see below). Often called a spirit or ghost.
Thought.
A mechanical definition of thinkingness (think-think, figure-figure)
would be:
1. That thought which occurs as an effort to sort, arrange, classify,
identify, and differentiate ideas which the being has attached to small
bits of mental mass. The key word here is "effort."
A definition of high scale thought (above emotingness) would be:
2. Being, knowing and looking directly without using any energies of
the Emotion, Effort and Mystery bands of the tone scale.
Effort level thought will show up on an e-meter as minor needle action as the masses of the thoughts appear, move around and vanish. High scale thought produces a floating needle.
Viewpoint.
1. a set of stable data, including the operating service fac of the
terminal (identity), held by a person at any specific emotional tone.
2. the physical universe location in three dimensions from which a person views the universe.