I had an uncle who was a thirty - third degree Mason and Scottish rite, and other odd things, and Dianetics and Scientology were never quite right with him, but he finally figured out that we were trying to do exactly what they were trying to do in the Scottish rite, and after that he’s figured out it’s all right. You couldn’t now disabuse him of the fact that we’d do everything that is done in the Scottish rite. We don’t. But that is his channel of understanding. And he’d have to be … [Read more...] about Lecture: Future Org Trends (1) (1962)
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Lecture: E-Meter Talk And Demo (May 7, 1961)
So we’ve got this thing made. And it’s essentially a very simple regimen. It fortunately, perhaps, for us is one which requires technical perfection. That’s fortunately for us! Because it means no screwball outfit . . but imagine some outfit like the Grand Temple of Ishtar or the Brothers of the Snake, or something, suddenly being able to pick up our technology, if it were terribly, terribly simple, and use it to plow everybody in on Earth. This was one of the points that maybe you weren’t … [Read more...] about Lecture: E-Meter Talk And Demo (May 7, 1961)
Newsletter: The Golden Dawn: An Invitation to Freedom (1954)
The Golden Dawn Official Publication of the Church of Scientology A non-profit corporation incorporated in Arizona, New Jersey and California. Copyright, 1954 by the Church of Scientology Price 10 ¢ per copy [1. From page 2.] Issued by the authority of the Board of Trustees. Editorial office 806 North Third Street, Phoenix, Arizona. The use of materials and techniques of Scientology, the name Scientology, and the right to use the publications of Scientology by the Church of Scientology … [Read more...] about Newsletter: The Golden Dawn: An Invitation to Freedom (1954)
Lecture: Self-Determinism On The Dynamics (1951)
Every few preclears, you are going to get hold of one who has monkeyed around with spiritualism, mysticism, yoga, Hinduism and all the rest of it, right down the line. And self-confidence in handling the seventh dynamic depends on not having tampered with it. That is a fact. Look at the gorgeous louse-up that this dynamic can occasion. Let us take an individual who takes up Rosicrucianism when he is fifteen years of age. He is sent a little folder and it tells him that he should sit in a dark … [Read more...] about Lecture: Self-Determinism On The Dynamics (1951)
Lecture: The Purpose of Human Evaluation (2) (1951)
I went into the field of writing. You know, my father said, "You go to engineering school," and I said, "No, I want to write." And I went to engineering school, so professionally I wrote—I got even with him—in an effort to support these researches, because I kept right on researching. My wife would tear her hair out by the handfuls when she would get bills for books—bill for $150 A Discourse on the Mystical and Spiritual Principles of the Magi.[1. The book Hubbard mentioned may be this one, … [Read more...] about Lecture: The Purpose of Human Evaluation (2) (1951)
Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (6) (1950)
Absolutism is a fine road to stagnation and I do not think Spencer meant to be so entirely absolute about his Knowable and Unknowable. SURVIVE! is the demarcation point between those things which can be experienced by the senses (our old friends Hume and Locke) and those things which cannot necessarily be known through the senses, but which possibly may be known, but which one does not necessarily need to solve the problem. Among those things which one did not necessarily need to know (the … [Read more...] about Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (6) (1950)