UNDERSTANDING(1,2) AND LOGIC 10

While developing scientology, Hubbard isolated many key factors, and formed them into concise concepts and exercises.

In IVy 3, p.5, I asked "How did he do it? What habits of thought and approach lay in back of his enormous output of discoveries and techniques?"

I now realize that the answer is partly revealed in the Logics. In IVy  20, p.xx, we've examined the importance of Logic 8. Now let's look at:

Logic 10: The value of a datum is established by the amount of alignment (relationship) ii imparts to other data.

For example, Ron selected confront(3) as a key datum or concept with which to align other data, and drilled it in TR-0(4) to improve our ability to calmly help another face up to their difficulties.

Comparable drills

There are other fields with comparable drills, such as a police academy or medical school. In each, an ability to confront is primary. The police cadet must be ready, willing, and able to face violence without flinching; and the medical student must remain composed while repairing sometimes gory injuries.

Reports from others:

Others can aid our understanding of confront. E.g., Wilhelm Reich(5) reports what can happen when encouraged to simply be there. He observes that:

"The patients come .. full of problems .. these problems are directly visible in .. the emotional expression of their bodies.
   If one lets the patient talk at random, one will find that the talking leads away from the problems, that it obscures them in one way or another.
   One has to ask the patient not to talk for a while .. as soon as the patient ceases to talk, the bodily expression of emotion becomes clearly manifest.
   While the patient, during his talking, seemed to smile in a friendly manner, now, in silence, the smile turns into an empty grin the mask-like character of which will soon become obvious even to the patient.
   While the patient, talking, seemed to talk about his life with restrained seriousness, now, in silence, an expression of, say, repressed anger will appear in chin and neck." p.361-2.

Here, Reich recognizes the talk as a non-confront. By asking the person not to talk, Reich behaves like a TR-0 coach. He then goes in a different direction. But reports like these can broaden our view of this key concept.
 

1 Understanding is composed of affinity,reality, and communication. It's an action. I.e., an attraction to a given reality (set of agreements) leads to a communication and involvement with it.

2 Also, the result of aligning phenomena (data) with a key datum. For example, Pasteur's discovery of microbes aligned a large variety of data as did Hubbard's engram.

3  Confront n.: An action of being able to face. The ability to be there comfortably and perceive. Confront itself is a result and an end product. It itself isn't a doingness, it's an ability. v.  to face without flinching or avoiding.

4 TR-0: A training routine developed by LRH to enable one person to comfortably confront another person, while helping him to become more self- and pan-determined.

5 Reich, William, Character Analysis, Farrar Straus & Giroux, NY l970