I want to talk to you tonight about a very strange subject--a very, very strange subject: Scientology, its organizations. Now, this is a strange subject: Scientology organizations. There comes a time in any activity when you have to look forward to the shape of things to come and what they will be. Now, let us envision this as an activity. We do nothing cohesive, everybody just goes his own way, we have no central control of any kind, and people just wander out and process people and so … [Read more...] about Lecture: Future Org Trends (2) (1962)
Gautama Siddhartha
Lecture: Question and Answer Period: Goals Search (1961)
Of course, you get these ideas about what a Clear should be and they’re actually based on what you have been told a Clear should be. And that basing is back at five, four, three B.C. Gautama Siddhartha rewritten. And naturally, the way you would pin down a whole race would be to take them out of motion so that they made the ideal, a person who was in no motion of any kind whatsoever. That was the ideal. And now if somebody was going to feel good and be able and so on, you naturally would have to … [Read more...] about Lecture: Question and Answer Period: Goals Search (1961)
Lecture: Story of Dianetics and Scientology (1) (1958)
I'd like to tell you today, here at this first lecture, I'd like to tell you something of the story of Dianetics and Scientology. Some things I've never confided to anyone before. Would you like to hear that? Audience: Yes. Well, the start of this story is probably a long, long time ago. And those who don't believe in past lives will not be offended, because we won't go that far back. We'll just take this lifetime. The story actually starts back when I was about twelve years old and … [Read more...] about Lecture: Story of Dianetics and Scientology (1) (1958)