Dianetics 55! 1955 Chapter 11
Chapter 11: Pan-determinism
An entirely new concept in Dianetics and Scientology is that of Pan-Determinism.
In Book One we talked about Self-Determinism. Self-Determinism meant, in essence, control by the awareness of awareness unit of that which it conceived to be its identity. Some effort was made in Book One to move Self-Determinism out into the remaining Dynamics.
Pan-Determinism is a word which describes determinism all along the Dynamics. Actually, Self-Determinism attempted to do this, and our earlier idea of Self-Determinism was a sort of Pan-Determinism.
We have to remember here that the Dynamics involved in Dianetics are the first four. The Dynamics involved in Scientology are the last four of the total set of eight. The Eight Dynamics are as follows:
DYNAMIC ONE is the urge towards survival of self.
DYNAMIC TWO is the urge towards survival through sex, or children, and embraces both the sexual act and the care and raising of children.
DYNAMIC THREE is the urge towards survival through the group and as the group.
DYNAMIC FOUR is the urge towards survival through all mankind and as all mankind.
DYNAMIC FIVE is the urge towards survival through life forms such as animals, birds, insects, fish and vegetation, and is the urge to survive as these.
DYNAMIC SIX is the urge towards survival as the physical universe and has as its components Matter, Energy, Space and Time, from which we derive the word MEST.
DYNAMIC SEVEN is the urge towards survival through Spirit and would include the manifestations or the totality of awareness of awareness units, thetans, demons, ghosts, spirits, goblins, and so forth.
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DYNAMIC EIGHT is the urge towards survival through a Supreme Being, or more exactly, Infinity. It is called Dynamic Eight because it is Infinity turned up on its side.
The urge towards survival through self, sex, children, groups and mankind is the proper province of Dianetics.
Now let us examine the concept of Pan-Determinism. Pan- Determinism would be the willingness to determine or control self and dynamics, other than self, up to the eight listed above. Like Self- Determinism, Pan-Determinism is self-elected or self- determined, in that one does it knowingly and directly, not from obsession, compulsion or inhibition. An undetermined individual, of course, does not exist, but an other-determined individual definitely can exist. Where we have Self-Determinism, and we interpret Self-Determinism as determinism on the First Dynamic, we have only willingness to control self and no willingness to control anything beyond self. If this is the case, in Self- Determinism we have as other-determinism sex, children, groups, mankind, and going on into Scientology, animal life, vegetation, the physical universe, spirits, and God – or whatever else might compose Infinity. In view of the fact that Self-Determinism was interpreted in this fashion it left an individual in the state of mind of being willing to be determined on all other Dynamics and by all ether Dynamics except his own personal dynamic. In view of the fact that all auditing is the Third Dynamic, and in view of the fact that a personal dynamic cannot exist, and that an individual as we see him, a man, is actually a composite and is not a First Dynamic but a Third Dynamic, we see we are in difficulty with this definition of Self-Determinism and continued use of Self-Determinism. It is necessary, then, to investigate further and to assign more precision to this concept of willingness to control.
When we say control we do not mean the „control case“ where control is obsessive or other-determined, or where the individual is controlling things out of compulsion or fear. We simply mean willingness to start, stop and change. The anatomy of control is just that – starting, stopping and changing things. Now it is not necessary for a person to start, stop and change things just to demonstrate that he can control them. He must, however, to be healthy and capable, be able to start, stop and change things.
Here we come immediately to what we mean by ability. It would be the ability to start, change and stop things, and if we have an ability to start, stop and change things, we of course must have a willingness to start, stop and change things. Those people who are unwillingly behaving in some direction so as to start, stop and change things are very sick people, and in this last category we discover the bulk of the human race at this writing.
The basic difference between aberration and sanity, between inability and ability, between illness and health, is the knowingness of causation by self opposed to unknown causation by others or other things. An individual who knows he is doing it far more capable than one who is doing it but supposes something else is doing it. Psychosis is itself simply an inversion of determinism. A psychotic is entirely other- determined, a sane man is in good measure Self-Determined. Pan- Determinism would mean a willingness to start, change and stop on any and all dynamics. That is its primary definition. A further definition, also a precision definition, is: the willingness to start, change and stop two or more forces, whether or not opposed, and this could be interpreted as two or more individuals, two or more groups, two or more planets, two or more life-species, two or more universes, two or more spirits, whether or not opposed. This means that one would not necessarily fight, he would not necessarily choose sides.
This is in total controversy to some of the most cherished beliefs of Man, but may I point out to you quickly that Man is not an entirely sane person, and thus some of his beliefs must be somewhat aberrated. There is such a thing as courage, but there is not such a thing as sanity totally opposed.
People who are afraid of control are liable to be afraid of Pan- Determinism but if they will see this as a willingness to start, change and stop any Dynamic they will see that a person must be assuming the responsibility for any of the Dynamics. A conqueror, in his onslaught against society, is fighting other-determinism. He is starting, changing and stopping things because of an unwillingness to associate with or support other races or customs than his own. Therefore, what he is doing can be interpreted as „bad.“
In support of this we get all of the earlier religious teachings, but these have been grossly misinterpreted. These have been interpreted to mean that a person should not fight in any way, or defend anything, or have anything, or own anything. This is not true. A person who is willing to be other identities besides himself, other individualities besides himself, does not necessarily harm these other individualities. Indeed, we cannot make the complete distinction of other than himself, since we are saying in this that he clings to something he calls self and supports and defends it without being willing to identify himself with others.
One of the most maddening debaters is one who moves at will between the viewpoints of himself and those who have elected him as an enemy.
There is an important scale down from Pan-Determinism. It does not lead along a dwindling Dynamic path, but it could, of course. One could simply see as Pan-Determinism dwindling the falling off of one Dynamic after another until one is down to First Dynamic, but that is not a particularly workable picture and an auditor does not use it.
The Scale down from Pan-Determinism is: Pan-Determinism, Fighting, Must and Must Not Happen Again, Repair and Association. These are actually processes. At the bottom we find an unwillingness to associate with anything. Just above this is an unwillingness to repair anything, but a willingness to associate somewhat. Above this is a willingness to associate and to repair somewhat, but no willingness to let certain things happen again. Above this is a willingness to fight things, and above this is Pan-Determinism. These are arranged in this fashion because this is the ladder a preclear climbs if he is run on a certain type of process. This is something like the old Emotional Scale, which went: Apathy, Grief, Fear, Anger, Antagonism, Boredom, Conservatism, and Enthusiasm, only in this case it is a scale of behavior manifestations. Where an individual who is unwilling to associate with various things is certainly a long way from being Pan-Determined and definitely is not even Self-Determined, he has to come up a ways before he is willing to repair anything, but in this frame of mind he can repair quite generally but is unwilling or unable to create or destroy. An oddity here is that a person who is unwilling to associate is only able to destroy, and a person has to be very far up the scale before he can create. In fact, he has to be up around Pan-Determinism to adequately create. Above this level of repair we find an individual frozen in many incidents which he is preventing from occurring once more and is holding the facsimiles or engrams of these incidents so that he will have a model and so know what mustn’t occur; and above this level we discover an individual fighting and being willing to fight almost anything; and above this level we discover an individual willing or able to be almost anything and so may be at peace with things and does not have to fight things. An individual at the Pan-Determinism level can create. An individual at Association, as I have said, can only destroy. An individual at Repair or Must and Must Not Happen Again is making a very, very heavy effort – and I do mean Effort – to survive.
Let us take for our example of Pan-Determinism the Second Dynamic. Here we find such a thorough effort to have other- determinism that Freud picked this out as the only aberrative factor. It is not the only aberrative factor, but in view of the fact that it is a desired inflow it can be considered with many other things to have some aberrative value. Let us look at it in terms of Self-Determinism and Pan-Determinism. Here we have an individual believing himself to be a man, who believes that his only sexual pleasure can be derived from remaining very solidly a man and having sexual relationships with a woman, and being very sure that he is not the woman. On the other hand, we find a woman determined to be herself and experience as herself, and to experience a sexual inflow from a man. In the case of the man, as in the case of the woman, we have an unwillingness to be the other sex. This is considered natural but do you know that when this is entirely true, when we have complete determinism to be self and not to be to any slightest degree the other person, there is no sexual pleasure interchange of any kind whatsoever? We get the condition known as Satyrism and Nymphomania. We get a tremendous anxiety to have a sexual flow.
Probably the only reason you can see the universe at all is because you are still willing to be some part of it. Probably the only reason you can talk to people is because you can be the other person you are talking to. Probably the only reason you can really let people talk to you is because you are willing to let the other person be you, somewhat, and he is willing to let you be him to some degree. In view of the fact that space itself is a mock-up, is a state of mind, it can be seen that individuality depends to some degree upon the law that no two things must occupy the same space. When we get this law in action we have a universe. Until this law goes into action there is no universe, and one would be hard put to differentiate entirely. Two things can occupy the same space to the degree that you are willing to believe they can. It is a very easy thing to talk to an audience if you are perfectly willing to be an audience. It is a very difficult thing to talk to an audience if you are unwilling to be an audience. Similarly, it is very difficult to be an audience if you are unwilling to be on the stage. One could conceive that a person who had a considerable amount of stage- fright would be incapable of enjoying a performance of actors. And so it is. We discover the person who is in the audience and has, himself, considerable stage-fright, writhing and feeling embarrassed for every actor who makes the slightest slip on the stage. In other words, we find this person compulsively being on the stage although he is in the audience.
Things of this nature have led more than one philosopher to assume that we were all from the same mould, or that we were all the same thing. This is a very moot question. Processing demonstrates rather adequately that we are all really individuals and that we are not the same individual, and indeed, people who believe we are all the same individual have a very rough time of it. But evidently we could all be the same individual, at least if we were entirely sane.
The physical universe is a sort of hypnotic trance where the individual believes himself to be capable of viewing from various points. The illusion is rendered very excellent by the fact that other individuals believe that they are viewing the same things from the same points as they occupy. We are all, as awareness of awareness units, basically different. We are not the same „pool of Life,“ and we are all evidently differently endowed, no matter what the Communist Party would like to believe.
One of the most significant differences from man to man is the degree to which he is willing to be Pan-Determined. The man who has to forcefully control everything in his vicinity, including his family, is not being Self-Determined, usually, much less Pan-Determined. He is not being his family. If he were being his family, he would understand why they are doing what they are doing and he would not feel that there was any danger or menace in their going on executing the motions or emanating the emotions which they do. But, anchored down as one person, rather obsessed with the damage that can be done to him or those around him, an individual is apt to launch himself upon a course of heavy, solid, super-control of others. Now let’s take the person who is Self-Determined and Pan-Determined in the same situation, and we discover that he would have enough understanding in the vicinity of his family and others’ families, and with this understanding would be willing to be and experience as the remainder of the family, and he would find out that he actually could control the family with considerable ease. The oddity of it is that force can control down into entheta– to enturbulation– but that a Pan-Determinism controls upward into greater happiness and understanding since there is more ARC present. You have seen individuals around whom a great deal of peace and quiet obtained. Such individuals quite commonly hold into sanity and cheerfulness many others in their environment who are not basically stable or Self-Determined at all. The individual who is doing this is not doing it out of obsession, he is doing it simply by knowing and being. He understands what people are talking about because he is perfectly willing to be these people. When he falls away from understanding what they are talking about he has also fallen away from being willing to be them. The willingness to understand, the willingness to be are, for our purposes, synonymous.
Now how does this Pan-Determinism tie into communication?
We have seen that difficulties arise on the cycle of communication and on the two-way cycle of communication where origins of communication, answers and acknowledgements were scarce. It must be, then, that the individual becoming aberrated through communication, must have conceived the necessity of another determinism. In other words, one has to fall away from Pan- Determinism to get into any of the traps of communication at all.
It is a very fortunate thing for us that Pan-Determinism exists, otherwise there would be absolutely no way whatsoever out of this maze of mis-communication that a person gets into. The only way out of it would be to have other people come around and do enough talking and go to enough movies, and seek out another Self- Determinism which could communicate and make it communicate until one were sane. However, it doesn’t have to be worked out in an unlimited sense in this way. The oddity is that it works out in „mock- up.“ Further, it works out best in mock-up, for in mock-up we introduce the idea of Pan- Determinism.
When we ask somebody to get the idea that somebody else is present, who is not, and then have him make this person give him answers, we discover after a while that some major aberrations have blown out of our preclear. In the first part the preclear is actually remedying the scarcity of answers – or, if these were being processed, originals or acknowledgements – and is so disentangling communication lines. The sense of what he would mock the person up as saying would have nothing to do with it. The communication could be almost pure gibberish as long as it was an answer. This would straighten out the bank to a very marked degree. The other factor which enters into this is Pan-Determinism. We are making the individual actually mock up somebody else and make somebody else say something. In other words, we are making our preclear take over the control, the start, change and stop of another communication medium. And with further test and experiment we discover that we can do this for all the Dynamics, and when we have done this for all the Dynamics we have brought our preclear up to a point where he is willing to monitor communications on all the Dynamics. And when he is willing to do this, and get origins, answers, and acknowledgements along all the Dynamics, we find that we have a very serene person who can do the most remarkable things. Anything you have read concerning the potential abilities of the Clear, and a lot more, comes true when we follow this course. So it is a very fortunate thing for us that Pan- Determinism exists. Otherwise there would be no processing anybody.
Remember, when you are explaining this to people, that it is willingness to control on any and all Dynamics, and that it is not an obsessive or compulsive control to own, protect, or hide on any Dynamic. All the ills of Earth come from an obsession to own, control, protect and hide on other Dynamics than Self. The true enlightenment of this world has come from Willingness to be along any of the Dynamics.
One of the things which gives truth to Pan-Determinism is the savageness with which the aberrated attempt to drive an individual away from anything resembling Pan-Determinism. This is simply an obsessive action on the part of people to climb up to Pan-Determinism by force. Pan-Determinism cannot be climbed by force. The ladder to that height is not made of pikes and spears, spankings and police forces. It is made of Understanding, Affinity, Reality and Communication.