Introduction: Expansion and OT: Here is a copy of The Auditor Special Edition, November 1974. The article reprinted below, "What it means to be a Scientologist," originally appeared in The Auditor 36, 1968.
Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below
What it means to be a Scientologist
The gateway into Scientology is the desire to achieve a gain by the use of Scientology. The desired gain would be the achievement of having a philosophy of life that can apply to life. Scientology is an applied philosophy.
Now you, a Scientologist, think of yourself undoubtedly as being something new under the sun but this is not true. If you carefully look over Greek philosophers, the basic customs and belief of man over a long period of time – I am now talking in terms of tens of thousands of years, as far back as you can reach – you will find out that we are echoing, in Scientology, his hopes and his aspirations. We are echoing the things for which he has fought, the things which he has tried to attain in life. We are in the best tradition of man's philosophy on the subject of man. Just because the data has been summated and pulled into sharp importances which evaluate and which then do more for man than philosophy had done before, does not divorce us from this very long track at least 2,500 consecutive years from the earliest records we have on thinkingness. The early philosopher was trying to shake apart some of the basic data of the universe and understand it. He was trying to hang things together. We actually are working in direct succession, very direct succession, from somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 to 3,000 years of what's considered formal philosophy. We don't vary anything off of this line at all. But there has been a variation within the last century.
An educated man, a few centuries ago was expected to know a great deal about human behavior and livingness, but something happened between then and now. Take an educated man of today and you'll find him with no command of basic philosophy. No feeling of humanity or understanding of his human race. Quite informative.
In the last century there was a tremendous departure from formal philosophy. Psychology has always been the study of the mind or spirit. "Psyche" is Greek for spirit. But modern psychology has nothing to do with the mind or the spirit. Or with man's soul or anything. It's simply some kind of a dissertation on brain cells or brain function and demonstrates conclusively that all thought comes from mass and that man is an animal and that's that. And these words of great wisdom have complete variance from anything that had been said in all the centuries preceding. They were uttered by a chap by the name of Wundt in Leipzig, Germany, in 1879. He's the only authority for modern psychology as taught in universities and he has no bearing whatsoever on anything else man has ever thought on the subject of his own livingness and beingness.
Now you realize that, today, the bulk of the human race is walking around with the belief that there is something wrong somewhere, but they don't quite know what it is. The hideous thing is that people at large are not aware of a very interesting thing – that anything at all can be done about anybody.
They are not aware that anything can be done about anybody. The cop who gives you a ticket takes it in his normal stride that this is just the way it is. The hospital attendants who pick the remains out of the drunken driving wreck, the very best thought in various professions that should have to do with this, are all agreed that there is nothing you can do about it.
Now someplace along the line, some group had to take over the responsibility of turning the tide of this course of thought. That's Scientology. Improvement is the common denominator of all our ideas. We have know-how. Scientology, for the first time in man's history, can predictably raise intelligence, increase ability, bring about a return of the ability to play a game and permits man to escape from the dwindling spiral of his own disabilities. Life can be put back into the devitalized. One can take the so-called "normal" person and send his state of being up to levels of brilliance and success not possible before. And it can be done with Scientology.
One of the great truths of Scientology is that increased awareness is the only factor which offers any road out. That is an awfully simple truth, but you'll find out that people don't know that. They think that less awareness is the road out – and that is the road down into the basement.
There are those who believe in hypnotism, fixed loyalties of one kind or another, and the idea that nobody can do anything with his mind anyhow. They believe that man is an animal, that he thinks with his brain. They believe and teach people, because they know these teachings are destructive, and all thought emanates from force only and that man has no soul and he has no mind.
There is a battle which is going on in the world at this time and that should be understood. There is no good in the world that is not fought by some. The holiest saint, the purest knight, the most orderly group alike have been subjected to attacks since man's beginning. And Scientology is no exception. The turbulence of the society around us is fantastic. There is no just civil law left, really. It is that lawless and disorderly condition in the society about us which makes it hard for us to work.
We live in a civilization where some madmen can sit in a government chair telling everybody how bad it all is over there and so forth, then all of a sudden get 30 million people killed, as one fellow named Hitler did. This is an interesting civilization and that is because people don't know who they are, or what they are, or where they are going or what they are doing.
What happens to Scientology and Scientologists in a world of this character? Well, our basic attitude toward the world at large will have to be more and more an auditor's attitude if we are going to accomplish survival. (Auditor: A listener, or one who listens carefully to what people have to say. An auditor is a person trained and qualified in applying Scientology processes to others for their betterment.) It might be said that we are starting from nearly nowhere and trying to go somewhere. However, we have the tools to do this.
We have the whole world to handle now. We happen to be living in a house full of people, a house called Earth, and it's all full of people. If they consistently drop out of communication, and if their labors cease to afford produce and assistance to their neighbors, is there any hope that anybody will be able to put them back into communication or back to work again? Is there any hope that this will take place?
Yes, there is a hope. We are rich in knowing how to exactly handle such circumstances or conditions. Nobody knew before. That is factually true here on Earth. You will find yourself being more and more an auditor as time goes on.
I think of an auditor as a person with enough guts to do something about it. This quality is rare and this quality is courageous in the extreme.
It is my opinion and knowledge that auditors are amongst the upper tenth of the upper twentieth of intelligent human beings. Their will to do, their motives, their ability to grasp and to use is superior to that of any other profession.
This is a pretty daffy planet in a rather strenuous universe. When you start to introduce order into anything, disorder shows up and blows off. Therefore, efforts to bring order in the society or any part of it will be productive of disorder for a while. The more free people we have, the better we can control the confusion of an area. A group is as capable as it contains capable individual members. The more people who are trained, the more successful we will be.
We're not now in this for play. Our personal futures depend on keeping going and making no major errors. It isn't a question of – "Is there something else?" There isn't. Nobody can be half in and half out of Scientology. Scientologists are Scientologists no matter what they do for a living. The prize is regaining self and going free. If we're going to make this, we have to work at it personally, and as a group and work well. Therefore every Scientologist should understand his own technology, codes and procedures.
And use them. That's the main lesson. We are the only group on Earth that does have a workable solution. It's time we realized it and used it, every one of us. We must set a high example of teamwork and dedication if we are to bring it off.
Scientology can and does change human behavior for the better. It puts the individual under the control of himself – where he belongs. It is a science of life and it works. It handles the basic rules of life and it brings order into chaos. So let's grow up to our own technology and take responsibility for it. And do our jobs as Scientologists to the world.
My purpose is to bring a barbarism out of the mud it thinks conceived it and to form, here on Earth, a civilization based on human understanding, not violence.
That's a big purpose. A broad field. A star-high goal.
But I think it's your purpose too.
Founder
Expansion and OT
Also, take a look at the pictures. The academy was buzzing with activity. I studied in classrooms like those.
Just look at the tremendous momentum Ron had built up back then. Through auditing training, such as the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, Class VIII, Class XII, and all the new admin data from 1970 and 71, as well as administrative training: Data Series, ESTO Series, Personnel Series, Org Series, Executive Series, etc., the Scientology movement gained incredible momentum. Read all the names listed. Simply unbelievable!
Journal The Auditor 1968 WW
Journal The Auditor 1974 Special Edition
Success stories from the Ron's Org Grenchen are regularly published; it's worth checking this page regularly: https://www.ronsorg.space/successes
We get what we focus our energy on!
Below you will find a success story taken from the Auditor 1974.
Much love,
Max Hauri
Success Story from a Graduate of the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course: Unlimited Ability
Gayle still finds time to paint now and then!
Gayle Zison, now a Class VI Auditor and OT VII (she went the training route to Clear) was an art teacher in Pennsylvania before Scientology. Today she's a professional auditor, doing her internship at ASHO.
"When I was in 3rd grade I have a vision you might say," she says. "I was sitting there, bored out of my mind, and suddenly I saw this picture of me sitting at a table doing something extremely important. I thought that must be college. But when I got to college, it never occurred. So I finally gave up and became an art teacher after graduation.
"But I wasn't happy – letting things happen to me, being the effect of life. At work, rather than get into communication with other people, I just figured 'this is how it has to be. Things are just naturally bad, there's not much I can do about it.' "
Then she met a Scientologist who gave her L. Ron Hubbard's "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" to read. "I knew something was there I basically agreed with," she says, "So I started the Hubbard Apprentice Scientologist Course." [The so-called Communication Course.]
She was audited on Life Repair by a Class VIII. "Then one day, I said 'I've got to know what's happening on the other side of that meter!' And decided I wanted to be at the point myself and get trained."
"To top off the story, I was in New York doing my Academy levels and CRASH there was that picture I saw in 3rd grade. This is it!"
Gayle finished Class IV but knew there was still more to know, so she came to ASHO for the Briefing Course.
"The SHSBC filled in all the missing pieces for me. I went from feeling life is really a mystery to knowing what it's all about. Since doing the Briefing Course I haven't actually come into a situation that I haven't been able to handle. I've gone from knowing things are not going to go right to knowing things of course are going to go right!"
"We are playing in the physical universe, and it does have laws,"- she explains. "If you don't know the laws you're going to have trouble playing the game."
Gayle has changed remarkably as an artist too.
"I got rid of the artist's fixed idea that I would 'run out' – one day I'd sit down in front of a blank piece of paper and there just wouldn't be anything there anymore! Now I can sit down anywhere, anytime and knock out something I'm totally pleased with. In the last 3 months I've done about 60 paintings just in my spare time. I cognited on art as a communication, and started selling my work and getting it out to other people. I never did that before – after all, I only had just so many I was ever going to be able to make! There's no limit on my ability to create now."
"This was such a Win that for 3 days I was thinking, 'well, now that my ability to create is unleashed I should just paint all the time and forget about being an auditor.' Then I realized my abilities would never be limited again – any stop would be what I put there. So I have no compulsion to paint. I looked at what's on the planet now and evaluated the importances of what I could do. On the Briefing Course I saw exactly what Ron is trying to do. Now I'm taking responsibility for his intention and continuing on that purpose to Clear the planet." And she is too – after her internship she'll be going back to Scientology mainline [Websters: being part of an established group] as an Auditor, to audit many more people up to greater freedom and ability.
"Ron says training is 50% of the gains of Scientology," she notes. "But that's 50% on the first dynamic, and training goes across all the other dynamics also. I've had incredible gains, and far, far more than 50% have been from training." – Gayle Zison
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