From DIANETICS : The Original Thesis by L. Ron Hubbard, (1948) 1951

Drive is defined as the dynamic thrust through time toward the attainment of the goal. Survive is considered to be the lowest common denominator of all energy efforts and all forms. It can then be sub-divided specifically into several drive lines as applicable to each form or species. The unaberrated self contains eight main drives which are held in common with man.

The dynamics are : One, self, Two, sex ; Three, group ; Four, mankind ; Five, life ; Six, the physical universe ; Seven, thought ; Eight, universal thought or infinity.

An entire philosophy can be built around each one of these dynamics which will account for all the actions of an individual. . . . The aberrated conditions of a society tend to vary the stress on these dynamics, making first one and then another the keynote of the society.

In an unaberrated individual or society, the validity of all eight would be recognized.

Each one of the eight dynamics breaks further into purposes which are specific and complex. Purposes and other factors entangle these dynamics, and varying situations and observational power of the individual may conflict one of these dynamics against another within the individual himself. This is a basic complex factor of unaberrated personality.

1. THE DYNAMIC OF SELF consists of the dynamic thrust to survive as an individual, to obtain pleasure as an individual, and to avoid pain. It covers the general field of food, clothing and shelter, personal ambition, and general individual purposes.

2. THE DYNAMIC OF SEX embraces the procreation of progeny, the care of that progeny, and the securing for that progeny of better survival conditions and abilities in the future.

3. THE DYNAMIC OF GROUP embraces the various units of the species, such as the association, the military company, the people in the surrounding countryside, the nation and the race. It is characterized by activity on the part of the individual to obtain and maintain the survival of the group of which he is a part.

4. THE MANKIND DYNAMIC embraces the survival of the species.

5. THE DYNAMIC OF LIFE is the urge of the individual to survive for life and for life to survive for itself.

6. THE PHYSICAL UIVERSE DYNAMIC is the drive of the individual to enhance the survival of all matter, energy, time and space.

7. THE THOUGHT DYNAMIC concerns the urge of the individual to survive as thought.

8. THE DYNAMIC OF UNIVERSAL THOUGHT is the urge to survive for the Creator.

Los Angeles : The American Saint Hill Organization, 1951, 1967, 1970
Revised and Reprinted March, 1974, pages 29 �E32.

From SCIENTOLOGY The Fundamentals of Thought, L. Ron Hubbard,

As one looks out across the confusion which is life or existence to most people, one can discover eight main divisions . . .

There could be said to be eight urges (drives, impulses) in life. These we call dynamics. These are motives or motivations. We call them the eight dynamics.

There is no thought or statement here that any one of these eight dynamics is more important than the others. While they are categories of the broad game of life, they are not necessarily equal to each other. It will be found among individuals that each person stresses one of the dynamics more than the others, or may stress a combination of dynamics as more important then other combinations.

The purpose in setting forth this division is to increase an understanding of life by placing it in compartments. Having subdivided existence in this fashion, each compartment can be inspected as itself and by itself in its relationship to the other compartments of life. . . . To promote . . . orderliness it is necessary to assume for our purpose these eight arbitrary compartments of life.

The first dynamic is the urge toward existence as one�s self. Here we have the individuality expressed fully. This can be called the self dynamic.

The second dynamic is the urge toward existence as a sexual activity. This dynamic actually has two divisions. Second dynamic (a) is the sexual act itself and the second dynamic (b) is the family unit, including the rearing of children. This can be called the sex dynamic.

The third dynamic is the urge toward existence in groups of individuals. Any group or part of an entire class could be considered to be a part of the third dynamic. The school, the society, the town, the nation, are each part of the third dynamic, and each one is a third dynamic. This can be called the group dynamic.

The fourth dynamic is the urge toward existence as mankind. Whereas the white race would be considered a third dynamic, all the races would be considered the fourth dynamic. This can be called the mankind dynamic.

The fifth dynamic is the urge toward existence of the animal kingdom. . . .

The sixth dynamic is the urge toward existence as the physical universe. . . .

The seventh dynamic is the urge toward existence as or of spirits. Anything spiritual, with or without identity, would come under the heading of the seventh dynamic. This can be called the spiritual dynamic

The eight dynamic is the urge toward existence as infinity. This is also identified as the Supreme Being. It is carefully observed here that the science of Scientology does not intrude into the dynamic of the Supreme Being. . . .

Scientologists usually call these by number.

The earlier science, Dianetics, included dynamics one to four. Scientology embraces dynamics one through seven as known territory, scientifically demonstrated and classified.

The difficulty of stating the exact definitions of the dynamics is entirely verbal. Originally the dynamics read �the urge toward survival as ——.�EAs the science developed it became apparent that survival was only an apparency and only one facet of existence. . . .

A further manifestation of these dynamics is that they 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 idea of space adjoining enters into these dynamics.

The basic characteristic of the individual includes his ability to so expand into the other dynamics, but when the seventh dynamic is reached in its entirety one will only then discover the true eighth dynamic.

As an example of use of these dynamics, one discovers that a baby at birth is not perceptive beyond the first dynamic, but as the child grows and its interests extend it can be seen to embrace other dynamics. . . .

Los Angeles : Bridge ; Copenhagen : New Era, 1988, pages 39 - 42.

From DIANETICS 55 !, L. Ron Hubbard, 1954

An entirely new concept in Dianetics and Scientology is that of pan-determinism.

In Book One [Dianetics] we talked about self-determinism. . . . Some effort in Book One was made to move self-determinism out into the remaining dynamics.

Pan-determinism is a word which describes determinism all along the dynamics. . . .

We have to remember here that the dynamics involved in Dianetics are the first four. The dynamics involved in Scientology are the last four of the total set of eight. The eight dynamics are as follows.

Dynamic one is the urge toward survival as self.

Dynamic two is the urge toward survival through sex or children, and embraces both the sexual act and the care and raising of children.

Dynamic three is the urge toward survival through the group and as the group.

Dynamic four is the urge toward survival through all mankind and as all mankind.

Dynamic five is the urge toward survival through life forms such as animals, birds, insects, fish and vegetation, and is the urge to survive as these.

Dynamic six is the urge toward survival through the physical universe and has as its components matter, energy, space and time, from which we derive the word MEST

Dynamic seven is the urge toward survival through spirit . . .

Dynamic eight is the urge toward survival through the Supreme Being or, more exactly, infinity. . . .

The urge toward survival through self, sex, children, groups and mankind is the proper province of Dianetics.

Now let us examine this concept of pan-determinism. Pan-determinism would be the willingness to determine or control self and dynamics other than self, up to the eight listed above. Like self-determinism, pan-determinism is self-elected or self-determined, in that one does it knowingly and directly . . .

Los Angeles : Bridge ; Copenhagen : New Era, 1989, pages 145-6.

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