Perhaps, but somebody appears to have truly f#ck#d up the delivery system.
Mark A. Baker
Not at all. The "delivery system" is a perfectly operating mechanism that faithfully MIRRORS who and what you are, down to your every last detailed need & desire.
I read somewhere once the idea that YOUR world mirrors EXACTLY who YOU are. In other words, what YOU see and experience EXACTLY reflects who and what YOU ARE. In other terms, the world you see and experience, AS YOU see and experience it, EMANATES entirely from YOU.
This can also be thought of in terms of Einstein's theory of relativity applied to consciousness. You, as the observer, ENTIRELY DETERMINE your experiences of all-that-is, simply by "looking in a certain way". At a very deep level, one can't actually participate with any reality without affecting it on a raw perception level. The universe, world, and life any person sees and experiences is
heavily conditioned by the "state" of the observer. In very real terms, the state of the observer DETERMINES how and what you experience as life for you. The observer greatly influences WHAT is observed. The two are inextricably connected - sort of like Yin and Yang.
In Einstein's theory, the observer didn't "create" the raw stuff of the universe, and there is no need to consider that you or I did either (other than due to some personal philosophical bias), BUT the location and motion of the observer VERY MUCH DETERMINE EXACTLY WHAT IS SEEN & EXPERIENCED. And, every observer sees and experiences a different "slice of the pie". All are "right", as determined by the STATE OF THE OBSERVER. The truth is the "whole pie", but no unique observer can or will EVER grasp the "whole pie". The "truth" is the totality of all viewpoints taken over all space and time. As I have said before, I have the suspicion (not a belief) that what I just described is "God's" way of experiencing His/Her/It's creation, through the near-infinite isolated limited viewpoints known as you and I.
But you DO have "free will", and your real freedom lies in your ability to chose from WHERE you want to LOOK (psychologically). Because, as you change your package of considerations/agreements/opinions/beliefs, so do you thus change, in exact accordance, YOUR perception and experience of the universe. THAT is the theoretical basis of all magickal activities, visualization and afffirmation techniques. I think that it involves a notion that could use some serious looking into.
Simply, just as it is totally and unequivocally true from a raw Physics view of Einstein, that when you change the state of the observer you also VERY MUCH change the perception and experience of reality, so also, in
psychological and spiritual terms, when you change the state of the observer - YOU - you also entirely and unequivocally change your perception and experience of the universe. You never actually change the raw stuff of the universe, but you DO very much alter how you see and experience it. The possibilities are endless! Unless of course, you choose to think and believe otherwise. There is no absolute anything when it comes to a viewpoint - it is all relative. To get beyond the relative one must abandon ALL viewpoints and all participation with "out there". Some meditations and occult drills are designed to do that. It is cool, for a change anyway - slipping back into eternity every once in awhile can be wonderfully therepeutic.
But, below THAT, it is entirely "relative", based on WHO YOU ARE, and HOW YOU VIEW. "You" are a unique bundle of considerations, agreements, experiences, and opinions, all affected by natural ability and physical sense limitations, and AS THAT, as this unique "observer", you EXTRACT OUT OF INFINITY a specific and unique set of perceptions and experiences based entirely on WHO and WHAT YOU ARE.
I will say it one more time and burn it into your brain:
"You" are a unique bundle of considerations, agreements, experiences, and opinions, all affected by natural ability and physical sense limitations, and AS THAT, as this unique "observer", you EXTRACT OUT OF INFINITY a specific and unique set of perceptions and experiences based entirely on WHO and WHAT YOU ARE.
You have YOUR life because YOU are YOU! If you want to "change your life", first change yourself! Many people try to change conditions by only focusing on the details of the environment "out there". All of that shit from Hubbard about "controlling the environment" and "expanding ones sphere of responsibility and cause". That approach is wrong. Very wrong. It is in fact ass-backwards. YOU are the "problem", and NOT the "world".
Strangely, just like Hubbard said, within the above context, you ARE entirely responsible for what you see and experience.
What you see and what you experience has FAR MORE to do with YOU than with any inherent "truth out there in the Universe". Just like with Einstein, there is no "experience" possible for any aspect of the universe until a VIEWPOINT chooses to LOOK for a very
unique, specific and LIMITED position. Please grasp THAT point. There is NO EXPERIENCE possible without the (arbitrary) viewpoint. And, once any viewpoint appears, it GREATLY conditions, limits and even
determines WHAT is experienced. You and I each always ONLY experience a tiny part of the big picture.
But, you CAN learn and understand about THAT. Sadly, few teach THAT. And, THAT does enable a grander and far bigger picture than any limited philosophy, ideology, religion or set of beliefs. A person who truly grasps THAT naturally becomes quite a bit more humble, and naturally comes to respect and appreciate all others in this
intricate web of seemingly isolated experiences.
The "position" of the observer can be "psychological", "intellectual", and based on many more things such as considerations, fixed ideas, beliefs, and agreements. And, yes also, based on the IMAGINATION - which really throws a wrench into everything because YOU, as a creative being, able to "create by fiat", can affect what and how you see by IMAGINATION too. There are MANY factors in this thing known as "experience of reality". FAR MORE than Hubbard delineated in his
kindergarten system of philosophy.
I hope that expands upon the idea Mark. The delivery system is
perfect. The world will
always mirror exactly who and what YOU are. It can be no other way, at least not at this current stage of personal evolution as a human being on planet Earth (but on that I am only guessing).
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The central core that holds the subject together is:
We are spiritual beings mired in meat bodies.
Through communication and taking responsibility we can free ourselves from this mire and regain our true spiritual natures, if we go about it in the right way.
And that is all there is to it. Any subject which has these as core principles can validly be regarded as a form of Scientology. Hubbard opened the door a chink. Unfortunately he threw some curves into the mix and so the CofS failed in its intended purpose. However, others have picked up the ball and taken the subject to greater heights.
It is a very big assumption indeed that we are "spiritual beings mired in meat bodies". I would say that people who think and consider that to be true actually CREATE their own trap to then be "mired in". Cripes, be VERY careful what you accept as true, agree with and believe! It will always affect you.
I have recently taken to allowing a different set of considerations about all of this. I do this from time to time, living on my little mountain in the woods, and I experiment by adopting new and different systems of considerations - it is interesting to see what happens. And things DO happen.
Anyway, here it is:
1. There is no spiritual/MEST division or distinction EXCEPT as YOU choose to imagine. I currently walk out and see "all-that-is" as an integrated whole. I decided that there is "no place to try to get to" other than as I consider and choose to exist by my own imagination. So, I am entirely at peace, right wherever I find myself, and I actually EXPERIENCE the world around me as an organic combination of the spiritual with MEST. IT is all the SAME stuff (unless you choose to see it differently). So, I no longer entertain the DUMB notion that I am a "spirit trapped in a MEST body".
2. There is no interaction with any aspect of life without "adding to it". I have done extensive drills where I slowly remove each and every consideration from some experience. I get to a point where I am there with only random undefined raw energy. It loses all form and meaning, because it is entirely myself who ADDS that to the mix. YOU create and add form and meaning through your MIND.
So, I realized that as long as I choose to stay and be here, that I have to ADD something to make it have "meaning" and "reality" for me. There are a very great many possibilities for HOW and WHAT you choose to ADD to the mix. But, you will always ADD something. Most people are entirely unaware of any of that. They don't grasp that one is actually FREE to add differently. Of course, things like Scientology severely limit and define WHAT you "add to the mix". That leads me to the next part.
3. You ADD to the mix through your imagination. You use your inherent natural capability to CREATE. So, I add as much love, appreciation, admiration and understanding as possible every step along the way. I CREATE those things in my life with others. We all create and add something, but it is largely unconscious to us and on automatic.
Metaphorically speaking, the same creative impulse that imagined the entire Universe into existance also runs through YOUR veins, albeit to a lesser degree. So, don't ignore that YOU can also create beautiful and wonderful things, effects, relationships, art, etc. You are going to create something no matter what, just by going along with your own life flow as determined by your own unique life factors - so instead, make a conscious choice in the matter. Hubbard was onto something when he stated in "
The Joy of Creating" issue, that it might be a good idea to "splurge on it" (splurge on creating). It IS a good idea. A very good idea. But, please, do so far removed from the framework of organized KSW-RTC versions of Scientology.
Doing the above three things renders you a very different person indeed!
You can free yourself from just about anything by "changing your mind". See my previous write up on the relativity of viewpoints. Scientology fails miserably at "changing postulates". And it is ONLY by
effectively changing postulates that you can truly change your personal experience of some aspect of reality. The world seems to change, but really, it is only YOU who changes. That is where Ghandi was coming from when he stated:
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Scientology, and many other philosophies, while pretending to "free" you actually just immerse you DEEPER into some aspect of limited viewpoint, because they concentrate on the BARRIERS. Hubbard didn't "start" anything. The "truth" has been there as long as the universe, and what I have just described in the last two posts may possibly say it better than all the effusive megalomaniacal rantings of Hubbard.
So what! Hubbard provided a path and "bridge". He wrote lots of books and spoke thousands of words in lectures. But, the path and "bridge" don't lead anywhere useful or valuable (outside the imagination of a FEW very isolated souls).
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