What goal does every living thing
have in common?
Survival.
You are trying to achieve
the highest level of survival possible
for as long as possible.
As one looks out across the confusion
which is life to most people,
you will find that life can actually
be subdivided into 8 parts,
or 8 urges toward survival.
In Scientology,
these are called "the Dynamics."
The First Dynamic is SELF.
This is the effort to survive as an individual,
to be an individual.
It includes one's own body
and one's own mind.
It is the effort to attain
the highest level of survival
for the longest possible time, for self.
The Second Dynamic is CREATIVITY.
This Dynamic contains the family unit
and the rearing of children, as well as anything
that can be categorized as a family activity.
Creativity is making things for the future
and the Second Dynamic
includes any creativity.
The Third Dynamic is GROUP SURVIVAL.
This is the urge to survive through
a group of individuals or as a group.
The Fourth Dynamic is SPECIES.
This is the urge toward survival
through all mankind and as all mankind.
The Fifth Dynamic is LIFE FORMS.
This is the urge to survive as life forms
and with the help of all life forms.
It is the effort to survive
for any and every form of  life.
It is the interest in life as such.
The Sixth Dynamic is
the PHYSICAL UNIVERSE or MEST.
MEST stands for Matter,
Energy,
Space and Time
which are the component parts
of the physical universe.
It is the urge to survive of the physical universe
and with the help of the physical universe
and each one of its component parts.
The Seventh Dynamic
is the SPIRITUAL DYNAMIC,
the urge to survive as spiritual beings,
or the urge for life itself to survive.
The Eighth Dynamic is
the urge toward existence as INFINITY.
The Eighth Dynamic is commonly supposed
to be a Supreme Being or Creator.
Correctly defined as infinity,
it actually embraces the allness of all.
It is represented here
by the symbol for infinity.
The Dynamics could best be represented
as a series of concentric circles
wherein the First Dynamic
would be the center
and each new Dynamic
would be successively a circle outside it.
The basic characteristic of the individual
includes his ability to expand
into the other Dynamics,
but only when the Seventh Dynamic
-- the Spiritual Dynamic --
is reached in its entirety,
will one discover the true Eighth Dynamic --
the Creator.
A person is at his best and is happiest
when he is surviving well
in every area of his life.
Scientology is for use
and has workable technology for you
to increase your survival
across all Dynamics.
