What Is The Anatomy Of Thought? - A Book Review Of Scientology: The Fundamentals Of Thought, By L. R

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A tree is green, living, alive. It grows and bends in the wind. It is not alive. It is cut up and used as firewood and burned. What is the difference? Life. What is that? You are born, you live, and you die. We take it for granted. What really is this cycle? Why do we do that?

In his book, Scientology: The Fundamentals of thought, L. Ron Hubbard goes over what the life force is. He explains what is life. He explains what life is trying to accomplish.

You may have been taught that the mind, spirit and life are very difficult things to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.

Here Scientology is presented as a definitive answer as to what life is, what is the meaning of life, which is something philosophers had been searching for, for tens of thousands of years

He explains that Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.

Scientology means simply a study of knowledge. That knowledge is about life, what is life, how it works. Life is you. Scientology also appears ...
... to place emphasis on common sense, and getting the confusion of belief separated out from observable fact.

In Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought there are several basic concepts that can help a person be less confused about life. This review will concentrate on only one of these concepts, and let you, the reader, judge the books from it, yourself.

Chapter seven is titled: The Parts of Man. Here is what L. Ron Hubbard states each person is:

The individual man is divisible into three parts.

The first is the spirit, called in Scientology the THETAN.

The second of these parts is the MIND.

The third of these parts in the BODY.

L. Ron hubbard further states that the greatest discovery of Scientology, and its most forceful contribution to the knowledge of Mankind, has been the isolation, description and handling of the human spirit. Accomplished in July 1952 in Phoenix, Arizona, I established along scientific lines rather than mere belief) that: The thing which is the person, the personality, is separable from the body and the mind at will and without causing bodily death or mental derangement.

The spirit, or THETAN as described in Scientology, has no mass, no wavelength, no energy and not time or location in space. Mr. Hubbard says, The spirit, then, is not a thing, it is a creator of things.

Mr. Hubbard further writes, the usual residence of the thetan is in the skull or near the body. He then outlines the four conditions the thetan can be in and that the thetan is subject to deterioration and that by using Scientology processing, one can can reverse that deterioration. One of the many goals of Scientology is to exteriorize the individual, as this allows him to be happier and more capable, and in a better condition.

The MIND is written as being a communication and control system between the thetan and the environment. “A thetan establishes various systems of control so that he can continue to operate a body and, through the body, operate things in the physical universe as well as other bodies.” The book explains about the mental image pictures of the physical universe and that these pictures are used within the mind

L. Ron Hubbard found that there were in fact three minds, not just one. The minds are:

The ANALYTICAL MIND

The REACTIVE MIND

The SOMATIC MIND

The ANALYTICAL MIND combines perceptions of the immediate environment, of the past (via pictures) and estimations of the future, into conclusions which are based upon the realities of situations. When you are fresh, awake and alert, this mind should guide you to correct decisions.

The REACTIVE MIND is a stimulus-response mechanism. It is ruggedly built and never stops operating. The pictures are of a very low order. The reactive mind operates blow the level of consciousness. It is the literal stimulus-response mind. This mind is the subject of Dianetics entirely. It is this mind which records phrases spoken to an anaesthetised person that later affect him. During a time of unconsciousness the reactive mind registers stimuli which are later played back to the person when he is awake, impelling that person to perform irrational acts towards later similar stimuli. Here are hidden fears, anxieties, depressions, anger, hidden sources of irrational behaviour. Here is the source of mental illness.

The SOMATIC MIND is an even heavier type mind, since it contains no 'thinkingness' and contains only 'actingness'. Mr. Hubbard found, that the impulses placed against the body by the thetan, through various mental machinery, arrive at the voluntary, involuntary and glandular levels. These have set methods of analysis for any given situation and so respond directly to commands given. This mind is subject to the higher minds. It brings on “psychosomatic” illnesses. Herein lie glandular problems, muscle problems, and bizarre pains in the body for which there is no physical illness. Here also are physical illnesses, manifesting, having been created by the higher minds through the somatic mind.

The BODY is the third part of man. This is best studied in anatomy books. Per the author, in Scientology the body is seen as purely structural.

These three parts of Man †the thetan, the mind and the body †are each one different studies, but they influence each other markedly and continually. Of the three, the senior entity is the thetan. For without the thetan, there would be no mind or animation of the body. While without a body or a mind, there is still animation and life in the thetan.

The thetan is the person. You are YOU in a body.

Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought also includes certain laws that govern life, as well as basic Scientology processes that unlock the life force that is you. They are all written in an easy-to-understand manner.

This book is definitely worth reading, if only to gain a fuller understanding of the parts of man.

The book costs $25 in large soft cover in Australia, plus postage. For anyone trying to gain a basic understanding of Scientology for the first time, this is the book to read. The mass media by contrast print myths. But ostensibly here is the story from the author himself, the man who started it, L. Ron Hubbard. One can order the book from any of the Churches of Scientology, or its publisher, Bridge Publications. One can also click onto the site below and order online, delivered to anywhere in Australia.

For anyone wanting a basic understanding of Scientology, first hand, this must be the first book to read.
About Author:
Nick Broadhurst is the Executive Director of the Church of Scientology of Canberra. Scientology Canberra He has been in Scientology for 20 years and has read over 20,000 pages, and listened to over 300 taped lectures on the subject. Scientology: The Fundamentals Of Thought , Scientology books