.ll 72
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.ce ((Editor's comments in double parenthesis - Homer))

.ce DYNAMIC EIGHT
.ce .. and why Beings Stick Together

.ce FAF - 8
.ce 20 April 1990

.ce Copyright (C) Flemming A. Funch
.ce Redistribution rights granted for non commercial purposes


     The reason for the widespread aberration of being stuck to other
Beings is surprisingly found in the 8th Dynamic.

     That is a controversial subject, because there is not wide
agreement on what the 8th Dynamic is or what the highest state of being
is.  The confusion is usually between these possibilities:

     A. Theta Beings were created by some other agency, a Superior
Being.  The highest state is to be answerable to this bigger Being and
to be fully the way one was created.

     B. Theta Beings were completely separate individualities with total
potentialities that somehow got mixed up.  The highest state is to get
back to being total individual and total cause as an individual.

     C. Originally there was Theta.  Theta differentiated into Theta
Beings.  The highest state is knowingness and cause over all source
points and possibilities.

     It becomes a little more clear when one realizes that A is
Other-determinism, B is Self- determinism, and C is Pan-determinism.
The limit on A is whatever someone else decides, the limit on B is ones
own cause - one isn't cause over others, the limit on C is the totality
of possibilities.

     C is closest to the truth of the matter.  However, there is general
confusion on the matter and most people mix it up with A. B is a
workable thesis, but only to a certain point.

     A is disproven by the fact that Clearing works.  Nothing seems to
indicate anything but that the individual is cause and is the Creator.

     B might at the first glance seem the most pleasant.  However, a
little bit of logic proves it to be impossible.  If the individual is at
his highest point total cause as an individual his total knowingness and
awareness is what he creates himself.  He could only interact with other
Beings if he creates that truth first and he postulates the precise
interaction taking place.  And the other Beings would have to do the
exact same thing.  But, there is no way they can interact without making
the same postulate at the same time.  Which they can't because they
aren't communicating before they do that.  It is a Catch22.  If
self-determined cause was the highest possible state, then interaction
would be impossible and life and games wouldn't exist.  This doesn't
change the fact that the individual can be full self-determined cause -
there is just a higher state than that.

     The only possible explanation to interaction between Beings is that
you are cause over them and they are cause over you.  You are all Beings
of the same nature.  There are principles and agreements that go beyond
full self-determined creation.  You are fully capable of knowing and
causing the actions of both "you" and "others".  Because you ARE the
Supreme Being.  You are not created, you are not a minor piece of
something bigger - you are infinity of cause and possibilities.

     Note that it doesn't mean "We are all the same", "I don't exist",
"I am part of someone else", "God will call me home" or anything like
that.  It rather means that you ARE everything and everyone and
everywhere and you are really the one in charge - and there is no way
you can loose the real you, unless you forget this.

     Now, the trap is that it is very easy to INVERT this or to apply it
on the WRONG LEVEL.

     Because your viewpoint, your game and so forth were created by
yourself on a high level and you now operate on a lower level - you
might think that you were created by a higher level Being.

     Because Beings on a high level are all Theta, they can be fooled on
a lower level into thinking they are all the same.

     Because a Being on a high level is "everywhere" he can on a low
level be fooled into thinking that he is in the same location as someone
else.

     Because a Being on a high level can take anybody's viewpoint he can
on a low level be fooled into thinking another's viewpoint is his.

     Because on a high level you can coincide with anything, anybody,
and anywhere you might agree on a low level to be stuck to anything,
anybody, anywhere.  But it is really just an aberrated lower harmonic.

    ((Ron said that all aberration is ENFORCED Basic Truth.  That
means that anything that is wrong with the thetan is being stuck
in a state similar or identical to Basic Truth but against his
own will and on another determinism, not wanting to be there
and being unable to get out.))

     The most effective aberrations and the hardest ones to handle are
the ones that are the closest the truth.  The trick to aberration is
that it is truth with an insidious twist.  The higher the truth is and
the more subtle the alter-is is, the harder it will hit.

     The biggest reason for Beings sticking together is their insistence
on self-determinism and their not-is of pan-determinism: fixed
beingnesses and the inability to see things from several sides at the
same time.

     From a certain point going up the Clearing Levels one would have to
address pan-determinism or one doesn't get any further.  The order of
handling is Other-determinism, Self-determinism, Pan-determinism.

     ((This coincides exactly with Ross's contention that
Other-Determinism is LOWER than Self Determinism on the scale of
Responsibility, rather than Higher as is printed in the Church HCOB
repeated in Scientology 8-80, The Book of Scales.))

     However, watch out that other-determinism isn't mistaken for
pan-determinism.  The pan-determined levels don't really mean that you
now should only handle others, that is a common misunderstood.  You are
clearing yourself even more, just on a higher level.

     Trying to finish the Road with just other-determinism or
self-determinism is a futile effort.  Only by taking responsibility for
any viewpoint and creation and by shedding all fixed conditions is it
possible to get through.

     The good news is that infinity is on the other side.

     Flemming