RADICAL NEW THINKING ON THE DYNAMICS
If you read Ken Ogger (The Pilot) and Geoffrey Filbert (Excalibur) you will find that both of them named 8 additional dynamics as upper harmonics of the 8 dynamics.
But I think that it runs from source (the roots, the static, the Tao) as a tree.
From the moment the first one or two viewpoints popped up out of the emptiness of the Tao, there came into interplay:
1. CREATE
2. EXPERIENCE
'Create' is mainly 'yang' and 'Experience' mainly 'yin', but note that each of the components has both, where one or the other predominates (just as bodies are sexed one way, with characteristics and hormones of the opposite sex incorporated in a lesser quantity).
CREATE soon branched into another set of Create-Experience:
BEINGNESS-AESTHETICS
(-yang-) - (-yin-)
BEINGNESS:
CREATE - EXPERIENCE
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8th Dyn - 1st Dyn
AESTHETICS:
CREATE - EXPERIENCE
------------ * ------------
7th Dyn - 2nd Dyn
EXPERIENCE divided into:
GAMES-EXCHANGE
(-yang-) - (-yin-)
GAMES:
CREATE - EXPERIENCE
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6th Dyn - 3rd Dyn
EXCHANGE:
CREATE - EXPERIENCE
------------ * ------------
5th Dyn - 4th Dyn
The 2 became 4, became 8 - probably well before there was any language to describe them or name them.
And thus, the 8 dynamics were born.
(Of all the above, only the 6th-3rd pair do not make a fairly obvious macrocosm-microcosm dichotomy.)
One can sometimes go further into dividing:
The 1st dynamic can be divided into:
(the Self) - (Body and Possessions)
The 2nd:
(Sex/Partner) - (Family)
etc.
Graphically, the 8 dynamics are portrayed as concentric circles.
But when the dynamics connect with one another, their primary connections might be seen as folding into a vortex or magnetic field that flows through a core (picture an apple - the energy flows that shape it, flow around in a circular shape and through the core).
The inner core of the dynamics of life are the link between the 4th and 5th and their essence is EXCHANGE.
Species exchange with one another, to accomplish survival. Here occurs assistance and cooperation as a native state, and the yang energy of the next layer, competition (GAME), is secondary to the predominant basis of cooperation here.
"Life is a game" then, is basically false. The game rests on the willingness of all beings to create and exchange in a complex but balanced, interdependency of beingnesses.
This makes HELP the core Purpose of 8-dynamic life and the very core of the Bridge to life expansion and freedom.
The 3rd and the 6th may link up as aspects of GAMES - as both players (teams) and field. (Here is where the second stage of auditing addresses problems, overts and withholds and ARC breaks.)
The 2nd dynamic may link with the 7th to form CREATE, of both futures and aesthetics. (Here is where spiritual ability is regained while removing the liabilities of earlier mistakes as 'bad' creation.)
And finally, the 8th links with the 1st, as aspects of finite and infinite BEINGNESS. You assume an identity and go "into the core of the apple" to play the game of life. You as your 8th dynamic however, are like the space outside of the apple.
When the game has gone on too long unrepaired (as a Goal-Problem-Mass existence), a new one is formed. (Auditing these packages of lifetimes is said to be the final route to fully operational spiritual being, where failed existences and their goals no longer constrain the full enjoyment of living and creating.)
Note that in this global model of the dynamics, both the very core:
EXCHANGE OF LIFE
And the outer infinite:
THE EMPTY VESSEL - THE TAO
Are primarily Yin (EXPERIENCE). (So the Grrls rule!)
While the 'boys' put on the CREATE show.
But all of that is in interplay in every one of us, and throughout our dynamics.
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Did such concepts ever show up in the development of Scientology?
Yes, they did briefly. Note that during the Philadelphia Doctorate Course, LRH introduces the concept of higher harmonics of the dynamics, as "Ethics" and "Aesthetics."
Purists are going to insist I have this wrong, because Aesthetics is mentioned first in that talk. However, this was an off-the-cuff lecture, and if you think about it:
AESTHETICS is a higher harmonic of the creative 2nd dynamic and per 8-80, close to the wavelength of a thetan (7th dynamic).
ETHICS is both personal (1st dynamic) and "the greatest good" (8th dynamic = all dynamics).
And if you look at it, unaberrated BEINGNESS goes along with perfect ETHICS.
I leave you with LRH's Two Rules for Happy Living as perhaps the most basic rule of ethics in all of existence. And as a strong argument for the case that CREATE (Cause) and EXPERIENCE are the two basic poles from which all the power of beings is generated:
"1. Be able to experience anything.
"2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily
"Your reaction to these tells you how far you have yet to go.
"And if you achieve these two golden rules, you would be one of the most happy and successful people in this universe, for who could rule you with evil?" - LRH - A New Slant on Life
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Scott Gordon
WATCHFUL NAVIGATOR
(Flying with The Pilot)