SELF-DETERMINED, one can only be self-determined when one can observe the actual situation before one; otherwise a being is delusion-determined or other-determined. (HCOB 6 Nov 64)
SELF-DETERMINISM, 1. the ability to locate in space and time, energy and matter; also the ability to create space and time in which to create and locate energy and matter. (Scn 0-8, p. 25) 2. self-determinism in the field of motion consists of, by own power of choice, permitting the object or body to be still or not to be still; permitting a thing to be changed or not to be changed; permitting a thing to be started or not to be started. (CMSCS, p. 18) 3. self-determinism is that state of being where in the individual can or cannot be controlled by his environment according to his own choice. In that state the individual has self-confidence in his control of the material universe and the organisms within it along every dynamic. He is confident about any and all abilities or talents he may possess. He is confident in his interpersonal relationships. He reasons but does not need to react. (AP&A, p. 53) 4. entirely and solely the imposition of time and space upon energy flows. By imposing time and space upon objects, people, self, events, and individuals, is causation. (Scn 8-80, p. 44) 5. the theta control of the organism. (Scn 0-8, p. 83) 6. full responsibility for self, no responsibility for other side of game. (Scn 0-8, p. 119) 7. means the ability to direct himself. (2 ACC 30A, 5312CM21) 8. the individual can only determine something from his own viewpoint . ( SH Spec 83, 6612C06) 9. a condition of determining the actions of self. It is a first ( self) dynamic action and leaves the remaining seven undetermined or, in actuality, in opposition to the self. Thus if one wants to take on the rest of life in a free-for-all fight, one could be entirely insistent upon total self-determinism. One is Self-determined, then, in any situation in which he is fighting. He is pan-determined in any situation which he is controlling. (FOT, p. 50)10. self-determinism meant, in essence, control by the awareness of awareness unit of that which it conceived to be its identity. (Dn55!, p. 98)
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