The dynamic principle of existence is; survive!

No behavior or activity has been found to exist without this principle. It is not new that life is surviving. It is new that life has as its entire dynamic urge only survival. Survival is divided into four dynamics. Survival can be understood to lie in any one of the dynamics and by faulty logic can be explained in terms of any one dynamic. A man can be said to survive for self alone and by this all behavior can be formulated. He can be said to survive  for sex alone and by sex alone all behavior can be formulated. He can be said to survive for the group only or for Mankind only and in either of these the entire endeavor and behavior of the individual can be equated and explained. These are four equations of survival, each one apparently true. However, the entire problem of the purpose of Man cannot be resolved unless one admits all four dynamics in each individual. So equated, the behavior of the individual can be estimated with precision.  These dynamics then embrace the activity of one or many men.

DYNAMIC ONE: The urge of the individual to reach the highest potential of survival in terms of self and his immediate symbiotes.

DYNAMIC TWO: The urge of the individual to reach the highest potential of survival in terms of sex, the act and the creation of children and their rearing.

DYNAMIC THREE: The urge of the individual to reach the highest potential of survival in terms of the group, whether civil, political, or racial, and the symbiotes of that group.

DYNAMIC FOUR: The urge of the individual to reach the highest potential of survival in terms of Mankind and the symbiotes of Mankind. Thus motivated, the individual or a society seeks survival and no human activity of any kind has other basis:  experiment, investigation and long testing demonstrated that the unaberrated individual, the clear, was motivated in his actions and decisions by all the above dynamics and not one alone. The clear, the goal of dianetic therapy, can be created from psychotic, neurotic, deranged, criminal or normal people if they have organically sound nervous systems.  He demonstrates the basic nature of Mankind and that basic nature has been found uniformly and invariably to be good. That is now an established scientific fact, not an opinion. 

The clear has attained a stable state on a very high plane. He is persistent and vigorous and pursues life with enthusiasm and satisfaction. He is motivated by the four dynamics as above. He has attained the full power and use of hitherto hidden abilities. The inhibition of one or more dynamics in an individual causes an aberrated condition, tends toward mental derangement and psycho-somatic illness and causes the individual to make irrational conclusions and act, still in an effort to survive, in destructive ways. Dianetic technique deletes, without drugs, hypnotism, surgery, shock or other artificial means, the blocks from these various dynamics. The removal of these blocks permits the free flow of the various dynamics and, of course, results in a heightened persistency in life and a much higher intelligence.

The precision of dianetics makes it possible to impede or release these dynamics at will with invariable results.The hidden source of all inorganic mental disturbance and psycho-somatic illness was one of the discoveries of dianetics. This source had been unknown and unsuspected, though vigorously sought, for thousands of years.  That the discovered source is the source requires less laboratory proof than would have been necessary to have proven the correctness of

William Harvey’s discovery of the circulation of the blood. The proof does not depend upon a laboratory test with complicated apparatus but can be made in any group of men by any intelligent individual. The source of aberration has been found to be a hitherto unsuspected sub-mind which, complete with its own recordings, underlies what man understands to be his “conscious” mind.

The concept of the unconscious mind is replaced in dianetics by the discovery that the “unconscious” mind is the only mind which is always conscious.  In dianetics this sub-mind is called the reactive mind. A holdover from an earlier step in Man’s evolution, the reactive mind possesses vigor and command power on a cellular level. It does not “remember”; it records and uses the recordings only to produce action. It does not “think”; it selects recordings and impinges them upon the “conscious” mind and the body without the knowledge or consent of the individual. The only information the individual has of such action is his occasional perception that he is not acting rationally about one thing or another and cannot understand why. There is no Censor. The reactive mind operates exclusively on physical pain and painful emotion. It is not capable of differentiative thought but acts on the stimulus-response basis.  This is the principle on whi ch  the   anima l  mind  func t ions . It does not receive its recordings as memory orexperience but only as forces to be reactivated. It receives its recordings as cellular engrams when the “conscious” mind is “unconscious.”

Explaining Health Care reform: What are Health insurance Exchanges?

A number of recent health care reform plans call for the creation of a health insurance “exchange,“ a new entity intended to create a more organized and competitive market for health insurance by offering a choice of plans, establishing common rules regarding the offering and pricing of insurance, and providing information to help consumers better understand the options available to them.

An exchange is part of the plan aiming for universal coverage currently being implemented in Massachusetts (where it is called the “Connector“). It was also featured in proposals from the major Democratic candidates for President (including President Obama), in the Healthy Americans Act sponsored by Senators Ron Wyden and Bob Bennett (where they are called Health Help Agencies), and in a white paper released by Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus. In all of these plans, the exchange is a key element in providing coverage to the currently uninsured and in facilitating changes to the insurance market, particularly for those who buy insurance on their own. Some proposals allow employers or employees to purchase coverage through the exchange as well.

This brief explains the purpose and function of exchanges, how they would relate to greater regulation of the insurance market, and some of the key questions likely to be addressed by any health reform proposal that calls for the creation of exchanges. purpose and function of an Exchange In the context of a health reform plan aiming for a substantial expansion in the number of people insured and universal access to affordable coverage, there are a number of functions envisioned for exchanges, including:

1.  offering consumers a choice of health plans and focusing competition on price. Exchanges offer enrollees a choice of private health insurance plans, and some proposals also envision including a public, Medicarelike plan. Covered services and cost sharing (i.e., deductibles, coinsurance or copayments, and out-ofpocket limits) would be organized or standardized in ways that make comparisons across plans easier for consumers. The aim is to focus competition among plans on the price of coverage and minimize the tendency for plans to vary benefits in order to attract healthier than average enrollees.

2.  providing information to consumers. In conjunction with offering a choice of health plans, an exchange is intended to provide consumers with transparent information about plan provisions such as premium costs and covered benefits, as well as a plan’s performance in encouraging wellness, managing chronic illnesses, and improving consumer satisfaction. The exchange could also serve a customer assistance function—typical for large employers—to assist consumers who encounter billing or access problems with their plans.

3.  Creating an administrative mechanism for enrollment. For people who obtain private insurance coverage  through work, the employer typically facilitates enrollment in a plan and the payment of the premium. This is especially true in larger businesses. An exchange could serve a similar function for people without access  to that kind of assistance, including people buying insurance on their own or who work for small businesses. The exchange could also be used to determine eligibility for and administer income-related subsidies. Alternatively, these functions could be handled by a government agency or through the tax system.

4.  moving towards portability of coverage. Coverage through an exchange can be de-linked from employment,  helping to make health insurance more portable for people moving from job to job. However, since  employment-based coverage would still exist under some proposals, insurance may not truly be fully portable. Exchanges also could coordinate enrollment shifts between Medicaid and subsidized private coverage for people with very low and potentially changing income