The Dianetic Axioms

THE AXIOMS OF DIANETICS AND SCIENTOLOGY

Axiom 28

The mind is concerned wholly with the estimation of effort.

DEFINITION: Mind is the THETA command post of any organism or organisms.

Axiom 29

The basic errors of reason are failure to differentiate amongst matter, energy, space and time.

Axiom 30

Rightness is proper calculation of effort.

Axiom 31

Wrongness is always miscalculation of effort.

Axiom 32

THETA can exert itself directly or extensionally.

THETA can direct physical application of the organism to the environment or, through the mind, can first calculate the action or extend, as in language, ideas.

Axiom 33

Conclusions are directed toward the inhibition, maintenance or accelerations of efforts.

Axiom 34

The common denominator of all life organisms is motion.