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- Self-determination, Determined by others, Pandeterminism
Introduction: One can only be self-determined when one can observe the actual situation before one: otherwise a being is delusion-determined or other-determined. – Fundamentals of Thought. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Here's an excerpt from the book “Introduction to Scientology” or “Journey to Yourself” by Richard DeMille also known as D. Folgere. He was a close companion of L. Ron Hubbard in the early ‘50s and wrote for Ron the book “How to Live, Though an Executive”. A great book, by the way. Self-Determinism is the essence of Scientology. It is the one principle without which no part of Scientology may be used or understood. It is the idea which leads to all others and without which no others may be reached. It is the fundamental principle of being. What Self-Determinism Is Not Perhaps we should say something about what self-determinism is not. Again, we avoid misunderstandings by clearing away previous conceptions before discussing present conceptions. Self-Determinism is not selfishness. Self-Determinism is not selflessness. Self-Determinism is not arrogance, pride, willfulness, stubbornness, bigotry, zealotry, egomania, or fascism. One Must Be Self-Determined in Order to Understand Self-Determinism Self-Determinism is a principle which can be understood in direct proportion to the degree to which it is experienced. A man who has signed ninety-nine percent of his self-determinism over to his environment can read about self-determinism until he is black in the face, but he will understand only one percent of the thing he is reading about. The student is asked, again, not to be in too big a hurry to understand what is meant by self-determinism. All of Scientology is a study of self-determinism. Self-determinism is a principle which must be used, not merely talked about. One does not become self-determined by hanging a sign on one's body which says “Self-determined!” any more than the government can make everyone rich by printing lots and lots of money. This kind of “wealth” and this kind of “self-determinism” are only a mirage. Self-determinism is on a gradient scale. The higher one goes on that scale, the more one manifests creativity, perceptivity and sanity. Such high-scale behavior can be recognized easily only by high-scale beings. Low-scale beings almost inevitably fail and refuse to recognize high-scale behavior. This may sound, at first, like the rankest snobbism, but the student will discover for himself – and, therefore, is not even asked to take the word of the present writer for the fact – that those who live on the bottom of the sea cannot fully consider the life of the birds. Fortunately, if the fish take a strong enough interest in considering their own lives, they may rise to the top of the water and grow wings. This is known as processing. Attributes of Self-Determinism Some of the attitudes of self-determinism, as stated in the Hubbard Chart of Attitudes and elsewhere (pages 30, 38, 50), are listed here. The self-determined individual: Survive is right, is responsible, wins, controls objects, perceives the minds of others, is Truth, is Faith (Trust), knows, causes, is free, creates, changes and uncreates Space, creates, changes and uncreates Time, creates, changes and uncreates Energy, is a source of Motion, creates,changes and uncreates Illusions. Attributes of Other-Determinism The other-determined individual succumbs, is – wrong, loses, blames the environment, is controlled by objects, is isolated from other beings, hallucinates, distrusts, does not know, is an effect, is restrained, is lost in space, has no time, is powerless before energy and motion, and is flooded with delusions. The Normal Human Being The normal human being is somewhere between the extremes of self-determinism and other-determinism. The normal human being does not knowingly create much space, time, or motion; but neither is he wholly lost in space, bound by time, or powerless before motion. He is not truth; but neither does he hallucinate entirely. He has an agreement with others upon the reality of some things, and he can depend upon that reality, so long as the others do not turn against him. This means, of course, that he is “sane” in exact ratio to his conformity to society. The normal human being is not so unfortunate as he might be, but he could be considerably better off than he is. “One can only be self-determined when one can observe the actual situation before one: otherwise a being is delusion-determined or other-determined.” HCOB 6. Nov. 1964 – Styles of Auditing A sobering statement. When you read, listen to, or watch any kind of media, can you really be self-determined? It's something on the order of magnitude of “the more I know, the more I know that I don't know”. (Aristotle) This statement is also deeply revealing with regard to our forms of state and government. Are we not being led to believe that we are self-determined? How often have we been told that we are the sovereign? Other-, self and pan-determinism are words that we “understand”, they are self-explanatory. But are they really? What does “pan-determined” or “pan-determining” mean? Here from the definition of it: “Full responsibility for both sides of a game.” – “We see the aberrated version of pan-determinism in the willingness to control everyone else in order to make oneself look good or important.” “A state in which we determine both our own actions and the actions of others. For example, a chess player is pan-determined when he plays on both sides of the board.” Pan-determined, Pan-determinism. Much love, Max Hauri
- Psychopaths
Introduction: Don't these psychopaths just reincarnate over and over again? Yes, they do. Psychopaths are reborn as psychopaths. Parents of psychopaths say in unison that he or she was a difficult child from birth. The good news is that only about 2-3% of the population are psychopaths (maybe this is not good news), but the other 97-98% are not psychopaths. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Dianetics: its Relationship to Scientology – Auditor 25 – 1. April 1967 Scientology today is producing Clears in greater and greater numbers. Its expansion is accelerating as standard technology delivers what Scientology promises in each Scientology organization throughout the world. Scientology is the route from human being to total freedom or total being- ness. Dianetics was the route from aberrated or normal to capable human being. This step had never before been achieved in man's history. Oddly, the step from human being to spirit has been achieved, if rarely, in Buddhism, other spiritual practices, even Christianity, but was not generally credited. Scientology really achieves it and for the first time with total stability, no relapse and invariably one for one. Nevertheless, man had an inkling of the goals of Scientology even though he considered them almost beyond God. But man had no inkling whatever of Dianetics. None. This was the bolt from the blue. Man was hacking and sawing and shocking and injecting and teaching and moralizing and counselling and hanging and jailing men with enthusiasm, without any idea at all of what caused man to behave as he did or what made him sick or well. The answer was and still is Dianetics. In 1950, I wrote a book, published May 9th, called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. I was even contracting at the time to do some stories and novels and was quietly minding my business. Then the book hit. Nobody ever expected this to be a bestseller, but it went instantly and immediately to the top of the bestseller list and stayed there and stayed there. The book caused a tremendous furor. Dianetics groups sprang up all over the country. People would read the book, then start auditing their friends with startlingly good results. But there wasn't an adequate organization to hold the line, to maintain standards of technical application. I found out that someone was busily telling people that auditing was an art – that there was nothing scientific about it! The time had come to establish positively and completely my responsibility for all of Dianetics. It was very reluctantly that I took over this responsibility because I knew that all hell was going to break loose and boy, did it! The West, you know, is a scientific barbarism. It is not really a civilization – not yet – but it is very scientific. Actually, the society is very unbalanced at this time, to the degree that it possesses scientific power without the gentler graces. It has power without humanity and to that extent is not a civilization. Do you know that at this time they couldn't whip up a single technology to make somebody who is crying laugh – or make someone who is laughing cry? They are attempting to alter human behavior with a strong arm. "If you don't change and act better, I am going to hit you on the head with a sledgehammer." That is the approach of this civilization. When you start laying the truth on the line, it is liable to blow off a bit of confusion. All you have got to do is put in a stable datum, and the confusion starts to blow off. The early days of Dianetics were the early beginnings of Scientology. It was the same story, a stable datum going in and confusion blowing off. What happened then wasn't all that terrible. We got through because of one thing, I finally wore my hat, In July of that year, in spite of the turbulence and everything, I wore my hat – of being me. Nobody has ever been able to throw me off that line since. Saying, "Yes. I'm the fellow who wrote that book. Yes, I am the fellow who leads this group," regardless of the dead cats, alarm clocks and the bricks – that took some doing. It was simply a stable datum going into a very, very aberrated world. My whole idea throughout this entire time was to go on and do my researches, finish it up and deliver – deliver the goods, in spite of every interruption. I devoted my time exclusively to research and I paid no attention at all to the brickbats and the dead cats. The basic discovery of Dianetics was the exact anatomy of the human mind. The aberrative power of engrams was discovered. (An engram is a mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness, and a real or imagined threat to survival.) Procedures were developed for erasing them. The amount of benefit to be gained from running half a dozen engrams exceeded anything that man had ever been able to do for anybody in the history of the human race. But there was a question of time. It would take more than 75 years to get in enough Dianetic auditing to erase all the engrams on a person's time track. I had to short-circuit this. I had to bring this right to basics. The discovery of what it was that the mind was coating was the discovery of Scientology. It was coating a thetan. A thetan is the person himself – not his body or his name, the physical universe, his mind, or anything else; that which is aware of being aware; the identity which is the individual. The thetan is most familiar to one and all as you. The truth of the matter is, we aren't just an idea, in a book, disturbing nothing on a shelf, not even reading itself. Bringing individuals, live human beings, up to a point of recognition of their own beingness – that is a live action. That's totally live as an action. It's much easier to face a concept or an idea, than it is to face a living, breathing entity. And from 1954 forward, when it became vivid and obvious that we were engaged upon the resolution of the human spirit, we were living, breathing entities. Up to that time we could be a very nice excitement that people could leave alone or not leave alone. We didn't have to be very serious about it. But a lot of people were being very serious about it. No matter how it was stated, a lot of people were being serious about it. We were then a living, breathing thing. We weren't just an idea. And the point is, we were not, at any time along the line, anything else. We weren't a philosophy going through the society. We were Beings. And when we first started up the line it was the enturbulation of countless ages which began to blow away. It was pretty tough. We didn't have weapons at that particular time. We had a lot of technology, more than man ever dreamed of at that time, but that wasn't very much. And we had started to make a hole, you might say, in the collective and conglomerate aberration of mankind. Remember that it was a livingness making that hole. We were live beings. It wasn't the principle that was making the hole; it was us, applying it. We moved up into the teeth of every aberration in the society almost simultaneously at one fell swoop, and the confusion that blew off was so fantastic that it took fifteen years just to stabilize our position organizationally so that we could stand and resist the brickbats that came our way. Now that is an evolutionary step which is vital to the growth of any organization, and we are through it. We won. A great many unexplained things existed 17 years ago. Well, they've all been solved in Scientology. The road out is the road you have, in Scientology, up through the Grades. It took all the knowledge of Dianetic auditing. It took all the material. It took all the odd observations. It took all these years of work to carve that very thin, and now rather ordinary-looking path that works fast, up through the Grades. But we have the gigantic problem amongst us that Scientology works too fast in an auditor's hands. Scientology processes are too rapid to produce the whole of auditing phenomena for the trainee auditor and so he doesn't get used to handling it. Therefore, how can he ever learn to audit? He can't, running Scientology, as he'll never get enough practice. You, as a Supervisor or new student, need a process which doesn't produce an instantaneous result. Dianetics has the virtue we never would have called one in 1950. It is slow. You can audit a pc for a long, long time. And you can get auditing practice. Dianetic auditing was very useful with which to learn the fundamentals about the mind and that's what I want you to use it for. There's value to this Dianetic auditing. There's greater value in this auditing than man ever before had. This solves the problems that Sigmund Freud was trying to solve. It solves them with spectacularity. And compared to Scientology – it's nothing. In Scientology, you have the technology of total recovery of a Being, and that doesn't mean a body. Never lose sight of the fact that the salvage of the body is secondary to the salvage of the being. Dianetics, you see, is small game. The order of magnitude between Dianetics and Scientology is hardly comparable. It's like shooting rabbits but you're after water buffalo. It's not even that order of magnitude. It's like digging a ditch by going out and counting the number of grains of sand that lie on top of where it should be. When it was vivid and obvious that we were engaged on the resolution of the human spirit, the address of the surface manifestations of the mind became quite secondary. But we have a use for Dianetics right now and it is a very positive use. It is great training. And that's what I want you to use it for. Just learn more about the anatomy of the mind through Dianetic Auditor training. L. Ron Hubbard Founder Dear Friends, The gap that has opened up worries me. On the one hand, we have ultra-modern technologies, the progress is tremendous, and that's putting it mildly. Simply admirable. On the other hand, people are bashing each other's heads in the old manner. The evil intentions of those who organize these wars are simply insane. Psychopathy in its purest form. Difficult to outperform. Needless to say, the combination of these two points is atrocious. Ron was and still is ahead of his time. This quote from the article I am sending today sums it up: "The West, you know, is a scientific barbarism. It is not really a civilization – not yet – but it is very scientific." Is there any hope at all? Don't these psychopaths just reincarnate over and over again? Yes, they do. That's the bad news. Psychopaths are reborn as psychopaths. Children are not "blank pages", they are not white and they are not innocent, neither the good ones nor the bad ones. Parents of psychopaths say in unison that he or she was a difficult child from birth. The good news is that only about 2-3% of the population are psychopaths (maybe this is not good news), but the other 97-98% are not psychopaths. And the nice thing about so many children is that they come into the world with good intentions. There are apparently children who can remember past lives, but my observation is that apparently very rarely does a child talk about it. Probably that's a good thing. But what really pleases me to see is that children bring their abilities with them. The ones they have. Certain thetans start their lives from a much higher springboard than these little creatures are given credit for. They can also bring a very high ethical standard. The person always brings her case with, good or bad. Can Dianetics or Scientology "cure" a psychopath? Unfortunately, no. We cannot and even Robert D. Hare, criminal psychologist says that this chapter is not yet written. But as they say in English "it takes two for tango", and if a large part of the 97% decide not to be victims, we will have made it and then we will also find and create ways and means to help these really poor devils. Either way, auditing is the solution. Dianetics is the beginning, anyone can learn it and even more, receive it. This is our daily work. We have gems in our hands. For those who can be audited, all is possible. Ron writes it so beautifully in the article "Dianetics, its relationship to Scientology". Much love Max Hauri
- Magic: A lost subject?
Introduction: You have been educated that magic, as an entire subject, is a lot of nonsense. But that's telling you your postulates don't work. That your intention is not senior to chemical reactions. Thus, you've been carefully educated to invalidate your own willpower and ability to postulate. Magic: a lost subject? Advance! 29, 10. February 1975 So magic is apparently a lost art. But is it? Stubbornly despite the black propaganda against magic there are still magicians amongst us who wield their wizard rods and refuse to disappear. Anachronisms from a forgotten world. These are the water or mineral diviners modernly known as dowsers. The term dowser comes from an ancient Anglo-Saxon word meaning to push down. It refers to the tendency of a hand-held implement such as a forked stick to dip when held by a competent dowser over water or some other deposit. Weird, huh? It's supernatural. A remnant of magic in a scientific age that had nearly brought the world to a new barbaric orgy of destruction and chaos. Certainly the roots of dowsing reach far back into the dim traditions of magic. The traditional divining rod is a forked hazelstick or twig. Hazelwood is high on the list of woods with magical associations, formerly used as an ingredient in various charms and folk cures. The forked stick is also rich with magical associations. The dowser's "wizard rod" is related magically to the fairy wand, the medieval witch's broomstick and other instruments of magical power. Besides a forked stick, other instruments have been used for a similar purpose such as a pendulum which begins to swing when over the sought-for site and a long metal rod or wire with a right angle bend at one end. But the point is these magicians are not just prowling the hills of Wales in Arthur's time but they are here amongst us now. And science has here and there begrudgingly acknowledged that they work. Several eminent geologists have been dowser-magicians. Professor Barrett, a distinguished investigator of the prestigious Society for Psychical Research writes in The Times January 21, 1905, "Making a liberal allowance for failures of which I have not heard, I have no hesitation in saying that where fissure water exists and the discovery of underground water for a domestic supply is a matter of the utmost difficulty, the chances of success with a good dowser far exceed mere lucky hits, or the success obtained by the most skillful observer, even with full knowledge of the local geology." Yet although the existence of these modern magicians with their wizard rods are acknowledged, no one can figure out how it works, including the dowsers themselves. Simply saying it's magical doesn't go anywhere either because what is magic? The most learned 20th century encyclopedia admits to a lack of definition of magic. So, until magic is explained it's no explanation. Many elaborate theories have been originated to explain the power of dowsers. According to Cornish tradition the divining or dowsing rod is guided to lodes by the pixies, the guardians of the treasures of the earth. Some recent 20th century theories are not much more plausible. For example, one gentleman was so anxious to prove that such phenomena had a physical explanation that he proposed that it was accounted for by "mechanical vibration, set up by the friction of moving water, acting upon the sensitive ventral [stomach] diaphragm of certain exceptionally delicately framed persons." Hmmmm. Other more honest commentators on this scene admit that the source of the dowser's power is a mystery. In particular, one writer feels it is a form of ESP and that the question of dowsing would be solved when the field of ESP is better researched because that field is a mystery also. Hey, let's begin to get some insight on this. What is the source of a dowser's success where obtained? It has been easily shown that there is no physical interrelationship between a piece of wood or a string-held ball (pendulum) and such varying substances as water, coal or even buried treasures. In other words it's the fact of these implements being held by certain masters of the art which apparently make them useful - to the dowser. A fairy wand without a fairy is of course just an inert stick. In fact, some dowsers claim they can see what they are looking for underground and don't need a rod. Does that give you a clue? Let's look further. Advance! reader and Scientologist, Chuck Lewis, is a master oil dowser. At the request of the Advance! he writes the following: "In the United States, the ability to find mineral deposits by the method of "dowsing" (using the so-called divining rod or pendulum) has for years been very much downgraded and neglected by the majority of people in the scientific community. While a few persons have begrudgingly admitted that someone down the line could find water with the use of a "witching-stick" (a forked branch freshly cut from either a peach, willow, hazelnut, or some other specie of tree) the idea that other valuable minerals such as gold, silver or oil could be located with a similar method is not an agreed-upon reality to the majority of people in this country. In most European countries, the art of dowsing is accepted as a workable and proven method of mineral exploration, and has the status of a true science. "According to some writers on this subject, including the authors of the book Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, Shelia Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, the art of radiesthesia, (meaning sensitivity to radiations to find water and minerals) has been in practice for at least seven thousand years. Bas reliefs from early Egypt portray water diviners equipped with dowsing rods and even headgear with antennas. Kings of ancient China, like King Yu (2200 B.C.) are pictured carrying dowsing rods. Early woodcuts depict miners of Medieval Germany using dowsing rods to locate ore bodies. In Vietnam, engineers from the First and Third U.S. Marine Divisions used dowsing rods to successfully locate enemy tunnels, booby-traps, and unexploded mortar shells. "Using a more sophisticated rod than a peach twig, I am able to locate and define oil and gas structures. This I have done many times, not only in my home state of Texas, renowned for its many prolific oil fields, but in many other areas of the U.S. including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania. "The rod I use for dowsing is a ten and a half inch section of steel coil spring three-quarters of an inch in diameter with a two and a half inch plug of high-carbon steel inserted into the top, and the spring itself fitted into a wooden handle at the base. "In searching for oil or gas areas this rod is held in the right hand. (It will not work for me if held in the left hand!). In my left hand I hold a small vial of crude oil. I can work on foot or in a car. As I approach a hydro carboniferous zone I sense a slight tug on the dowsing rod, quite similar to a nibble on a fishing line, and the rod commences to bob up and down in the direction of the oil. The rod continues the bobbing motion until I reach the point where I am immediately over the oil structure when the rod starts spinning in a clock wise direction. Conversely, whenever I am over a zone carrying natural gas the rod will rotate counter-clockwise. As long as I am directly over the oil or gas-bearing area, the rod will continue to rotate – sometimes so violently and rapidly that the spring will work itself out of the handle and fly out of my hand. "By my own agreement and computations, I can determine the approximate depth to the oil formation as well as the thickness of the oil or gas-bearing strata. "At one time I was a member of the British Society of Dowsers, and I have been exposed to many theories as to what force exactly makes the 'doodlebug', as it is laughingly referred to in the oil patch, work. "Soviet scientists, including Dr. A. A. Ogilvy, Chairman of the Geology Department of Moscow State University, call dowsing by a new, demystified name. The Biophysical Effects Method' or B.P.E. for short. "According to Dr. S. Tromp, a Dutch geologist researching for UNESCO, a dowser can chart an artificial magnetic field as tiny as 0.001 gauss units in a room, and that there is a body's reaction to water and minerals in the earth that can be clearly registered with an electrocardiograph. Other European scientists have noted that a dowser's body is actually reacting, recording a higher blood pressure and pulse rate while over a mineralized zone. "While many theories have been put forth as to what actually makes the rod work, I am convinced that Theta plays the largest role. I can locate distant oil and gas areas working from a map, which puts it squarely in the realm of Theta ability." Thank you Chuck. So there you have it folks - theta ability, the ability of a thetan as senior to the physical universe cause and effect. But you say, "what about magic? That's where we came in with this article." Yeah, what about magic? Can the whole subject be characterized as primitive folly? Well, since the most authoritative encyclopedia won't provide a definition, we will. First of all let's differentiate magic from stage conjuring or legerdemain which is an entertainment based upon skillful deception and tricks. The word magic comes from an ancient Persian word with a root meaning might, to be able. So! At this point we have the privilege of quoting from the works of L. Ron Hubbard for a full clarification of exactly what magic is. "A magician postulates what his goal will be before he starts to accomplish what he is doing. The old magician was the great-great-great-grand father of your modern stage magician. But your stage magician doesn't usually know the old magician ever existed. The stage magician has a hat, a wand and bric-a-brac of various sorts. But he usually doesn't know where they came from. These are, in fact, pieces of ritual out of the 8th, 9th, 10th centuries. "Each one of them means something terribly specific and the most awesome ritual in the world is associated with their use. The magician was very ritualistic and he would very carefully postulate what effect he was trying to achieve before he would be cause for that effect. That's the first thing he'd do. He'd ask, 'What am I trying to do?' Then he would make a statement of what he was trying to do. And having made a statement of what he was trying to do, he would just then initiate the steps necessary to accomplish it. "If one did not do this, one would inevitably fall into this trap: he would become the effect of his own cause, because what he had eventually accomplished would seem surprising to him and desirable as an effect upon him. "So he carefully stayed out of that rat race, and he had nothing further to do with it. Any time that he achieved any effect, he would say, 'You see? I achieved that effect.' He was still cause to that effect." So magic has got to do with ritualistically postulating effects into being. In fact, you may wish to define it as the art or practice of ritualistically postulating effects into being. Now we know why modern materialists scoff at magic. To them the only force that exists is physical universe force and the only changes that occur are brought about by physical causes. Supernatural in their world system becomes a bad word. You have been educated that magic, as an entire subject, is a lot of nonsense. But that's telling you your postulates don't work. That your intention is not senior to chemical reactions. Thus, you've been carefully educated to invalidate your own willpower and ability to postulate. So you see, with the definition of magic we are right back into the realm of theta ability. L. Ron Hubbard has revealed the ultimate statement about a thetan's abilities in the first two axioms of Scientology: "Axiom 1: Life is basically a static. Definition: A Life Static has no mass, no motion, no wave- length, no location in space or in time. It has the ability to postulate and to perceive. "Axiom 2: The static is capable of considerations, postulates and opinions." Now, what about ESP? (We mentioned earlier in this article that one authority thought the resolution of the mystery of dowsing would only be solved when ESP was understood.) Extra Sensory Perception? You guessed it – any actual abilities ever described under the heading of ESP are simply theta abilities which fall under Axiom One and Two. Through the works of L. Ron Hubbard all the mysteries have been solved! Man has long searched for an understanding of himself and his own abilities. He has long been interested and involved himself in various fascinating solutions in an attempt to recover his power of postulate and intention. Recently in the last few centuries Western materialism has attempted to squash that interest and put a slave philosophy that all is mud in its place. Through Scientology the earlier tradition that Man's potential is senior to the physical universe has been revived and clarified. Through Scientology Man can answer for himself the ultimate riddles of existence. At last through the technology of Dianetics and Scientology each of us can recover his full native power to postulate and perceive. He can create for himself the position of being a triumphant winner in the game of life instead of a slave participant. Certainly, any on-the-ball, 10th century magician would come up to us today and shake our hands.
- Vision of the Future
Introduction : It is time to step out of the Western dimension into the Eastern to find out more about one of the key figures of Man’s spiritual history – and future! Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below "A Vision of the Future" from the magazine Advance! 30 In Advance! 25 you were introduced to the story of Metteyya. You learned that Gautama Buddha (563-483 B.C.) developed a philosophy about suffering and its resolution through the attainment of a spiritual state known as Bodhi (Enlightenment). Buddha’s work brought Man a higher level of personal integrity, self-respect and mutual trust. It placed great emphasis on the values of Love and Peace and itself set the precedent for Christ’s later Message of Love to the world. One of the most remarkable facts about Buddha is that he recognized his own work was incomplete. He predicted it would be completed some time in the future by a successor whom he called Metteyya. No figure in Man’s history has been more intensely awaited for a longer time than Metteyya. As Metteyya is a legacy of hope from the East we should understand better how the East understood him. It is time to step out of the Western dimension into the Eastern to find out more about one of the key figures of Man’s spiritual history – and future! First of all,Metteyya was conceived of by Gautama Buddha as a second Buddha, the Buddha-to-come. In other words here we have the legend of the Second Coming predating the Middle East interpretation of it by some hundreds of years. But what is a Buddha and how was a Buddha variously conceived? The word Buddha comes from a very ancient Sanskrit root Budh meaning both "to wake up" and "to know". Thus Buddha is a term for someone who has woken up and reached enlightenment on his own spiritual identity and the basic truth of this universe! All Buddhists believe that anyone has the inherent potential of reaching enlightenment – if he rouse himself and dedicate himself to the goal. Because this goal was so seldom achievable through Buddha’s work, he and others to follow looked to the future when Metteyya would make this goal universally possible. Gautama Buddha was not considered to have been the first Buddha to appear. The Indian Buddhist of some 2,500 years ago did not share the narrow view of time which the West inherited from the Old Testament Genesis account. The world did not start yesterday for the Indian Buddhist or a mere 6,000 years ago. Rather, he conceived of a past track measured in millions of world ages. According to him these vast periods had peaks when Buddhas of unrecorded ages appeared to help the world revert to a higher destiny. Hitherto, the greatest of these beings in the earth span was Gautama Buddha (about 563-483 B.C.). But even he would be exceeded by his successor, Metteyya. For hundreds of years after Buddha the concept of Buddha remained simply one of a man who made it by his own bootstraps and taught others the way. Then in the first century B.C. Buddhists began to develop new concepts of what a Buddha was and hence new concepts concerning Metteyya. These views along with others distinguished this school from what had been taught earlier. They called themselves "Maha-yana”(The Great Vehicle) in contrast to "Hinayana" (Small or Lesser Vehicle), the earlier beliefs. Subsequently Mahayana Buddhism exploded into North Eastern Asia and by number of adherents became the most popular form of Buddhism. By the first century of our era, Mahayana Buddhism had developed a three-tier level of reality in their definition of Buddha in such books as the Saddharmapundarikasutra(usually translated as "Lotus of the Good Law” but actually it means "Lotus of the Law of Basic Truth"). They called this doctrine trikayawhich unfortunately poorly translates into English as "the three-body doctrine." Actually kaya(body) is a misnomer as it’s not a doctrine about bodies at all but about spiritual states. The highest level of reality or spiritual state was a state called Dharma-kaya, or Body of Truth. This translates as Ultimate or Basic Truth. Basic Truth is not considered here as an abstract concept but rather as an All-Source, a spiritual absolute. Below the level of Dharmakaya we find a level of transcendental [Also transcendent; above and independent of the physical universe; going beyond ordinary limits; excelling; superior; extraordinary. In this article transcendent and transcendental are used interchangeably.] beings who are freed of the fetters of the body and the physical universe. This type of beingness or state was called Sambhogakaya (Body of Bliss). This level of existence is conceived of being made up of Transcendent Buddhas who cannot be perceived by the gross senses but who can be spiritually experienced. For example, it could be said that one who feels Christ is near him, with him or guiding him in life is experiencing a transcendent reality from this level. Some intellectuals in ancient India thought that these Transcendental Buddhas were not real entities but personal mockups of the beholder. In any case, this doctrine conceives of a higher spiritual plane superior to and not dependent upon the physical universe. Further down scale from the Sambhogakaya but infinitely high compared to man’s state was the Earthly Buddha. This level was called Nirmanakaya(from Nirmanameaning "Manifest Beings"). These blood and flesh Buddhas were sometimes seen as the protégés or even projections of the Transcendent Buddhas into the world. The function of the Earthly Buddhas is to make known Dharma, The Truth, in the world and thus help other beings fulfill themselves. Metteyya would be such a Buddha. Sixth century Ch’an Buddhism (later exported from China as Zen Buddhism in the 12th century) carried this doctrine another step further. Ch’an Buddhists considered that every being partakes of these three "bodies." Everyone is Nirmanakaya insofar as he owns a body. He becomes Sambhogakaya when he achieves enlightenment and release from worldly fetters. Finally he is also Dharmakaya inasmuch as his true beingness is ultimately unlimited and identifiable as Basic Truth. We have looked in detail at the Trikaya doctrine as it was a central doctrine of the Mahayana form of Buddhism and their elaboration of Metteyya’s nature. The Wheel of the Teaching, Mahayana Form. (From a Tibetan woodcut) The eight spokes symbolize Buddha’s eightfold way for reaching enlightenment. The symbol in the hub was adapted from the Chinese symbol yin and yang representing, actually, the basic polarity of the universe. In Buddhist use it represents the interrelatedness of the two basic facts of life: suffering and its resolution, enlightenment. Note that this symbol forms an "S” at the wheel’s hub! Every Earthly Buddha was connected with his own Transcendent Buddha. Names for these entities were supplied. For example, above Gautama Buddha was the Transcendent Buddha Amitabha. The Transcendent Buddha of Metteyya was called Amoghasiddhi.Beyond all these levels of beingness stood Dharmakaya, the spiritual absolute. Below the Earthly Buddhas there was another spiritual grade called Bodhisattva. Certain outstanding Bodhisattvas served Earthly Buddhas as their aides. Bodhisattva comes from two words: bodhi – enlightenment, and sattva – being. A Bodhisattva is a being who is earnestly striving for enlightenment (bodhi) or who, having already attained it, refuses to release himself from corporal existence until all beings have been helped on the road to enlightenment. Anyone in Mahayana Buddhism who sought enlightenment for himself and also took vows to help others make it was a Bodhisattva. The single great virtue which motivated Bodhisattvas as well as Earthly Buddhas – and the virtue from which all other virtues stemmed – was considered to be compassion. A Bodhisattva or Buddha deeply cared for the fate of other beings. Unfortunately, compassion as a word has humanoid connotations of pity and grief. A better statement can be found in Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought by L. Ron Hubbard: "The ability to assume or to grant (give, allow) beingness is probably the highest of human virtues. It is even more important to be able to permit (allow) other people to have beingness than to be able oneself to assume it." And in other quotes from his collected works we find: "I believe that to command is to serve and only gives one the right to serve." And "… a being is only as valuable as he can serve others." These statements brilliantly define the direction of the Bodhisattva or Earthly Buddha and would readily be agreed upon by the great Buddhist teachers of the past. Mahayana Buddhism Mahayana Buddhism developed another doctrinal system which explains Metteyya in a slightly different way than the above. This is called the doctrine of the Transcendental Bodhisattva. So don’t get the two confused as they are not entirely consistent. In this doctrinal system it was conceived that there are ten stages of existence above man to which a Bodhisattva could aspire and ascend. These levels are described as ten perfections: The Bodhisattva is joyful as he dedicates his life to helping other beings. He perfects his self-discipline. He is able to confront adversities and persevere through them in his efforts to help others. He is able to perceive and cast off false ideas. He learns to meditate – which in the East does not necessarily mean sitting on one’s seat thinking like Rodin’s Thinker. Rather it means to focus one’s attention with awareness. He obtains wisdom and is able to perceive the causes of suffering. He cognites on basic truth and realizes that compared to it the world of physical appearances is but a passing parade. This is the stage on which the Bodhisattva reaches his enlightenment. But if he ceased to function in this world he would be betraying the trust of beings who count on him to help them toward "the higher life." Thus although he is freed of MEST compulsions he stays on in this world to fulfill his vows. At this stage the being leaves the need of a body and becomes a Transcendent Bodhisattva. He is able to operate as a being without ties to a body and assume any form at will. On this stage the Bodhisattva can uplift people just by being in their vicinity through his own goodness. He continues to devote himself to his goal of uplifting all beings. This is the last stage of Bodhisattva. Here he obtains knowingness without limit. He is but one step below total Buddhaship. His radiance as a being is wonderful. Metteyya was looked upon in this system as a Bodhisattva of the tenth stage of perfection, just one step short of Buddhaship. He was conceived of as existing in a higher plane of reality (identified as "Tusita heaven”) preparing for his role as the future Buddha. Throughout Mahayana history Metteyya, as befits the Buddha-to-be, ranked as the highest Transcendent Bodhisattva, a popular figure in Buddhist art and sculpture. Also as the Buddha-to-be Metteyya was actually worshipped by some Mahayana cults. On yet another level, the figure of Hotei, the great paunch-bellied laughing god of Japan is historically derived from the Indian Metteyya through the Chinese god Mi-Lo-Fu. Appropriately enough, Hotei, although through the years he has lost his religious significance, is today the "God" of Luck in Japan. Yes, Metteyya would be good luck for the world! Despite any doctrinal complexities and interpretations, the entire story of Metteyya is based upon Gautama’s predictions in the Pali Canon (earliest Buddhist scriptures). For example in the discourse on "War, Wickedness and Wealth", Buddha is found to predict the following: "At that period, brethren, there will arise in the world an Exalted One named Metteyya, Arahant. [Variation of Arhat, one who has attained spiritual perfection.] Fully Awakened, abounding in wisdom and goodness, happy, with knowledge of the worlds, unsurpassed as a guide to mortals willing to be led, a teacher for gods and men, an Exalted One, a Buddha, even as I am now. He, by himself, will thoroughly know and see, as it were face to face, this universe, with its worlds of the spirits, its Brahmas, [Plural of Brahma, from Hindu terminology, a term signifying the personified creative aspect of a spiritual absolute] and its Maras, [Plural of Mara, literally death; the personification of evil] and its world of recluses and Brahmins, [Members of the Indian priest caste] of princes and peoples, even as I now, by myself, thoroughly know and see them. The truth, lovely in its origin, lovely in its progress, lovely in its consummation, will he proclaim, both in the spirit and in the letter, the higher life will he make known, in all its fullness and in all its purity, even as I do now. He will be accompanied by a congregation of some thousands of brethren, even as I am now accompanied by a congregation of some hundreds of brethren." Note that in Buddha’s vision Metteyya would be no armchair philosopher but he would know and experience the worlds of both the spiritual and physical universes as Gautama had. He would be a man, son, warrior, husband, and Buddha just as Gautama was. It should be interposed here that Gautama Buddha himself did not regard himself as a god or claim he received guidance from supernatural agencies. Nor is there any evidence he regarded Metteyya in any other light than he regarded himself. In another prediction Buddha states that this Metteyya would come when Buddhism itself has failed on this planet and the clouds of error darken the world. According to the legend Metteyya would have red or golden hair and he would arise in the West at a time of world crisis. Thus the following negative signs would indicate the time is nigh (near) for Metteyya’s arrival. Buddhism in Tibet, China and other lands will be eclipsed by a new materialist philosophy. Religion itself will downtrend on a world wide basis. False technology about the mind will come to the fore. New vastly destructive weapons will be unleashed on populations. We will enter into a "Crisis Era" which threatens Man’s future. Positive Signs By what positive signswill we know of Metteyya’s arrival? Religion and the spiritual studies will be revitalized. A humanitarian technology through which individuals can regain personal integrity, self-respect and well-being will become evident. A vital new religious movement will come to the world’s attention from the West. The achievement of high spiritual states will become increasingly common. According to the ancient tradition these four points would point to the advent of Metteyya. It was predicted that Metteyya’s arrival would mark the beginning of a new Golden Age for Man. But what kind of a Golden Age? Just another enforced and arbitrary Utopia like Karl Marx’s dream of a Workers’ Paradise? No. Metteyya’s Golden Age would be based upon the following: 1. Respect for self and others. 2. Real trust of self and one’s fellows. 3. Becoming more oneself. 4. Personal integrity. 5. Personal well-being. Now that would be a Golden Age worth working for and looking forward to! Dear Friends, Here's the article "A Vision of the Future" from the magazine Advance! 26 or even 30. [Advance! 26 and 30 are mostly identical.] I won't write much about it, except that we should sometimes try to see things from a higher point of view. Much love, Max Hauri
- Suppression and Pain
Introduction: Pain or any unpleasant feeling can be managed by reversing the flow. The article Suppression and pain explains it all! Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. An article taken from the lecture 2 September 1962 The Healing Effect of Preparatory Auditing We made a mistake in the old days. We thought it was "control," because "control" on this planet means more or less "suppress." The basic result of bad control, of course, is suppress. A little kid keeps spilling his dinner down his chest and you suppress his spilling his dinner down his chest by whupping him. See, I mean, that's "standard child upbringing". Of course, the psychologists have had another one. They've given up, so they say, "Well, you let the child spill the dinner down his chest." You see? That's known as permitting the child to "abreact his hostilities." It's a mouthful, it doesn't work on the child either. But the main thing I'm trying to bring up here is that people, when they are hurt, don't want to be hurt. I know this sounds like one of these horrible simplicities, like "the way to cross the river," you see, "is to cross the river," and "the way to fly an airplane is fly an airplane." The individual has a simple, singular, obsessed method of not hurting. And he knows nothing about the mind. His method of not hurting is to suppress it. I wouldn't say you should make a general test on this, but you take a cigarette butt and grind it out in somebody's palm (you start to, you see) and they will immediately grab their hand to stop the pain. I wouldn't make that test if I were you. The point I'm making here is the actual first impulse action when the message known as pain starts creeping its insidious way toward the thetan is for him to say, "No!" Now, when an individual is in pain, agony, and so forth, he is trying to stop it from hurting. Now, there's a gradient of it known as "careful of." I was checking things over, and it's a gradient on Suppress. In other words, "If I just keep myself sufficiently 'carefulled' – in other words, 'suppressed,' why, I'll be all right." Now, the individual in handling pain or mental problems, puts it away. He says it doesn't exist. This is an interesting way of handling life. You could imagine somebody living out in the jungle and an elephant comes up to the door, and starts kicking the door down and this fellow has studied Kismet [fate, destiny] or some such philosophy and he knows the right way to handle things. He just says, "All materialism isn't." "That elephant ain't." And after they've taken a spatula and scraped this fellow off the floor, he still doesn't learn that this philosophy is not the best philosophy. Well, it's probably the worst philosophy anybody could possibly have, because it makes unavailable everything and makes everything hurt like the mischief. But then, we have another maxim in Scientology: That which is not admired tends to persist. So, it's probably the least admirable philosophy [to suppress] that man has developed. So, of course, everybody uses it. This button [suppress] is in common to all. "Well, I'll just forget it. The best way to handle that, I'll just forget him. There is no reason for me to sit here sadly and mope, I will just forget him. Boohoo-hoo," you see? Bing! – and then nothing, nothing, nothing. See? She's got it made. It's the perfect way of becoming miserable. If you want to have your whole past kick your head off, forget it. That's the best possible way. Now, this is, by the way, residual in hypnotism. The hypnotist uses this, and of course we don't use any hypnotism in Dianetics or Scientology. But knowledge is knowledge, and the hypnotist knows this very well. He knows how to put a compulsion in on somebody. He tells it to him and then makes him forget it. And then after that, it goes off like an automatic button. So if you want to put a person on total automatic so that he can be restimulated at any time by anything, all you have to do is make him suppress. All right. So this individual is in an automobile accident. Now, if he didn't suppress things, a little while after the accident, this memory of pain would run out, and it'd just flow away. He'd heal up. We've proven this many times. He'd just heal up in short order. This is because the suppression is off of it. That is the main thing that has happened there – the suppression is gone, that's all. In other words, this individual would get well if he didn't suppress. He has an accident. During the accident he suppresses everything that's happening, suppresses all the pain that's happening in the accident. And doing so, he, of course, arrests time on the time track – he stops time. He suppresses time as well as anything else, and that, may I call to your attention, is part of the physical universe: matter, energy, space and time. Well, if he's going to suppress matter and energy and other things, he's also going to suppress time. So, he "stops himself on the time track" and he stops himself right in the accident. A very notable thing happened up here in Washington one day. A United States Senator had many times been shipped out to the Walter Reed Hospital with heart trouble – heart trouble, heart trouble, heart trouble, and here was his heart trouble. I was sitting up in his office one day and I said, "Now, Senator, when did this heart trouble start?" "Well," he says, "it must have been back there in that automobile accident." He'd had an automobile accident, there were two girls in the car and he didn't want anybody to know about it. Anyway, I sat there and ran it out. This old Senator was sitting there and he was gripping the steering wheel and he was trying to keep himself from coming on it, and he was trying to hold the girls back, "mentally" he said. It didn't last long; I don't think I ran it for more than about forty minutes. And he actually didn't pay too much attention to it, but he had sort of added up the running of the engram as "telling me all about it very graphically so that I would understand all of it." And that was the end of his heart trouble. His heart trouble wasn't heart trouble; it was an automobile accident. Well, what is that? That is just the effort not to let somebody else get hurt, you see, suppress pain for them, suppress pain for himself, prevent the accident, stop himself in time, and he'd been stopped right there at the moment of the accident. L. Ron Hubbard Dear Friends, Early on in Scientology, I realized that one could deal with pain or any other unpleasant feeling by reversing the flow. In other words, instead of condemning pain, one has to accept it and even love it. Ultimately, this is what we do in auditing, but we can also apply it to life. About auditing: it is not something you get once and then it is over. The gains are stable, yes; but life goes on, the range and comfort zone widen and the dynamics increase, the game expands so there is always something to look at. And then, there is the theme of the countless skills that exist. It is also possible to constantly nurture them with the auditing. It is also important to have the competence to audit, which is just great and gives an insight and understanding of life and people, that can't be gotten without the practical application of auditing. There are sometimes contradictory ideas on this subject: on the one hand, we want to finish auditing as quickly as possible, and on the other hand, we should audit a lot. The answer is simple: even if you have been audited, you can still get more. Both the auditor and the preclear win. Industrialization, information technology and now AI (Artificial Intelligence) are giving us more and more free time, creating a huge void just waiting to be filled. There are infinite possibilities for filling it. More and more, I'm seeing that these activities are focused on material gain or the "consumption" of data, i.e. on a kind of pseudo-knowledge, sometimes also called "useless knowledge". This separates someone from life, more than it connects them to it. A frightening example is that apparently, an increasing percentage of young people don't answer a phone call they don't know where it is coming from. Sports clubs are disappearing in favor of fitness centers, where people simply pay a membership fee instead of contributing to the club to create it, something the ARC is also associated with. To make a long story short, we have a third valuable dynamic activity: auditing. We should use it more. We should do more co-auditing. We should audit more friends and acquaintances. We have countless HCOBs and conferences in which Ron has given us thousands of processes. We should use them. We don't do it enough. Ron was a big fan of co-auditing! To complete the circle, we can remove the pain and audit it. You acquire skills as a preclear and as an auditor. There is a good reason why Scientology is the game of games. Let's play it, we have the opportunity. Much love, Max Hauri
- Wisdom, Freedom and Exteriorization
Introduction: To have the unshakeable certainty of being a spiritual being is a great freedom, perhaps even the greatest there is. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Excerpt from the Lecture "Releases and Clears" given on the 16. August 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard There have been three principal points in Man's spiritual history: 1. the idea that wisdom leads to freedom; 2. the development of exteriorization; and 3. the culmination of Man's search for spiritual truth and freedom: Scientology. These points are brilliantly explained in the following article by Ron, perhaps the most basic revelation of Man's spiritual past ever made. Exteriorization: The state in which the thetan, the individual himself, is outside his body. When this state is reached, the person acquires the certainty that he is himself and not his body. Ten thousand years ago along the line of philosophic research there was a chap called Dharma, a now legendary monk. It's from Dharma that you get the tradition which most philosophers follow which is that if you became wise you would become free. Anybody around is grooved in to that basic philosophy. That is part of the woof and warp of the entire culture. That's been going on for 10,000 years on this planet. Started by Dharma. Now that work has been totally assimilated. That one can exteriorize and that exteriorization brings about freedom, is the premise of Gautama Siddhartha Buddha, and that's only 2,500 years ago. They've got 7,500 years yet to go before they assimilate that into the culture the way the philosophy of Dharma has been. People still don't know about exteriorization 2,500 years after the most popular and most numerous religion on the planet, Buddhism. These were new thoughts particularly for this very backward and barbaric planet. If you don't think things were barbarous you should have had something to do (and maybe you did) with India of 10,000 years ago. There was no slightest vestige of civilization. To get a point across that if you became wise you somehow became a bit superior, that was a hard one to do. That was a terrific advance. It's almost like trying to teach animals or something, if you can't even talk their language. So that was a big jump. And eventually, practically everybody on the planet agreed with that. We have now some fantastic percentage of the taxation of this planet (that's what's left over from military appropriations) devoted to education. Thus there's this terrific demand for education or self-improvement. You might not look at it first because it seems so banal, so commonplace to you. But the fact that Man at this time is actually willing to invest time, effort and money in the subject of making people wiser so as to make them freer is a great testimony to this fellow Dharma. Took him 10,000 years to get one point across. That was almost the totality of it. He knew that you could become a free individual. In other words, there was a freedom which was attainable. But no technology at all. Now 7,500 years after that Gautama Siddhartha Buddha discovered exteriorization. Following the pattern of Dharma, he thought you exteriorized by becoming wise. Now that religion has gone into the majority of the areas of Asia and did itself really civilize three-quarters of Asia. There wasn't much information but he introduced several ideas along with it. And one was, that you should be civilized, be polite etc. That was a shocker; nobody ever heard of that before. Very novel ideas. Man has not yet accepted the idea that he should be polite but he's getting there. In some areas of the world they have overdone it a bit. So as they cut each other's livers out they say. "I withhold my foul breath from your face!" So this action of exteriorization was not in actual fact doable to any great degree. The Lamaists came along afterwards and tried to develop some sort of a technology and an explanation for all this. What Buddha didn't cook up they thought they could. Of course they were moving into a zone where there was plenty to be found out. But the big strike had been made by Buddha which is that somebody can exteriorize. Now of course we are then gainers to the degree that there is some longevity to the idea of the soul. A lot of people accept this. Where it goes, what it does, what it consists of, they haven't a clue. But that there is something called a soul which goes someplace has actually dominated Greek, Roman thought for a very long period of time now. It's about 2,000 years or something like that. It also dominates various portions of Africa and the Middle East under another prophet's name and so on. But it is the same channel of thought that there is such a thing called a soul. Socrates is the primary forwarder of the idea in our present philosophic history. He was holding forth for the existence of a personal being, or as we would say, thetan. The religious bigots of his time disagreed with this so that they slipped him the hemlock. He went ahead and drank the hemlock just to make them good and guilty. Now I'm just giving you a scouted background history. The most that was ever achieved by any of these subjects was a type of release. And since the beginning of the universe, so far as we know, there has never been anything but a release. There has never been a Clear. There has never been a Cleared anything. Therefore these were all forms of release. Dharma is release by wisdom, and Buddhism is release by exteriorization. You have in actual fact, then, the total background history. It's those things which are there to understand in the light of what we're doing today. There are no more complexities then left to understand about these. I would be accused by any scholar of these works of considerable oversimplification but I could answer from the very interesting height of saying, "Yes, it took twenty years to make a bodhi (thetan exterior) but we can make one in about twenty seconds – and at a far higher percentage." It is so easy to do it is totally neglected. We don't even do it as a special action. We, in actual sober fact, let it happen. That it almost immediately unhappens does not, then, qualify it as a stable release. It isn't a good lasting state. As a matter of fact, after you've popped somebody out of his head two or three times he becomes very anxious, thinks you're going to cost him his body and begins to tell you he isn't. The psychiatrist looks on exteriorization with the greatest of askance because he occasionally in institutions finds, as an inverse or an inverted exteriorization, a fellow who cannot get into his body and is going frantic. Therefore he thinks anything in connection with exteriorization is insanity. But then, of course, he's branding three-quarters of Asia insane. This state of thetan exterior can occur at almost any time. Anybody processing anybody sooner or later is going to get a thetan exterior on his hands. After you've made one of these fellows, you will find out that within the hour, three days, a week he will have tangled up with more reality than he is prepared to confront in his somewhat tremulous uncleared state. He's just a release and he's been asked to walk in this big broad world barefooted and he's still got the anxiety and problem of holding onto his body. He doesn't know quite what to do about this. He's afraid he'll forget his body. On the past track it's happened to him before many times. In fact, it happens to him every time he dies and is associated in his mind with death. He's also had unfortunate experiences when he could do it at will somewhere way back on the track: leaving his body in the inn to pop off and do something and then coming back and finding out they'd buried the body. So it has very sour connotations with it because he is not competent to cope with the state at all. He's way in advance of himself, he's in actual fact on a harmonic of OT. An OT could care for it but he can't care for it when he is, for example, a Dianetic release. I'm not making nothing out of Buddha. This was a remarkable advance. It must have been remarkable indeed if Socrates copied it – after which it became traditional in Western culture. By the way, there are, here and there, some primitive races who believe Man has a soul; it's a piece of truth that isn't easily camouflaged. But for it to actually be worked on or admitted something could be done about it was quite new. Buddha, when he exteriorized people and brought about exteriorization, brought it about through wisdom so the fellow had some kind of philosophy at least to back him up. Now the road of philosophy has been very very difficult and it has taken a long time for a basic philosophic idea to manifest itself in the society in which it has been expressed. What's particularly notable about Buddhism is that it was such clear-cut truth that Buddha advanced, that it spread like wildfire within his lifetime. And in the few succeeding lifetimes, a very short period of time, he had almost about three-quarters of Asia right there. Buddhists had moved from a state of "man is meat" through to "he is a spiritual being" and they had manifestations of this and a rather powerful leader. Now this is and can be considered only a sort of a state of release through wisdom, because they didn't have any command to tell anybody to back out of his head. The fellow would simply become wise and when he became wise enough he would exteriorize, they hoped. They had a lot of failures along this line. It's very difficult to do this because it's booby-trapped by the bank. Now in one fell swoop with no pause for breath, we have capitalized upon the idea that a man who is improved becomes free. We have brought about a twenty-year effort to exteriorize down to a point where it can be done in about twenty seconds. We have found what prevented the efforts of Dharma from being perfect, we have found the totality of what barriered Buddhism. Here we are in a society which in actual fact is only bolstered in its culture by Dharma and Buddha with the problem wrapped up. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends, Having the unshakeable certainty of being a spiritual being is a great freedom, perhaps even the greatest there is. For some, it is an escape, a state we often try to reach with drugs and also medication; for others, it is a modus operandi, i.e. the way we live – in Scientology, we have the means to achieve it step by step. Much love, Max
- Handling Energy and Force
Introduction: A person has to be very strong before he can be ethical and completely merciful of his own free will. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. An excerpt from the lecture ARC, Force, Be-Do-Have given 8 December 1952 by L. Ron Hubbard Why "Bridge"? In HANDLING ENERGY AND FORCE, L. Ron Hubbard makes the most beautiful and moving statement ever made concerning the condition of a being in this universe. In this article you will learn the secret of achieving freedom in this universe, a secret which was not known before Ron discovered it. Ron also answers the questions: "What abyss or chasm is the Bridge to Total Freedom really spanning?"; "What is the trap and how do I get out?" Read on! When we talk about this universe we're talking about energy. The only way an individual can be held into this universe is by a conviction that he cannot handle energy – because this universe is composed only of energy which operates in a thing called MEST universe space. If you cannot handle energy in its fullest extent, don't think you can be free of this universe or any other one. Force begets force and he who lives by the sword will die by one, but the funny thing is you have to be able to have enough force to use an unlimited quantity of force before you can pass over into a higher band of ethics. One cannot retreat and cower back from force under any pretext whatsoever and still have a beingness above the level of this universe. It is possibly not a comfortable thought to think of being hit in the face in the MEST body with a 100,000 kilowatt lightning bolt, but I assure you that is a small amount of juice compared to what you as a thetan can take. Theta-wise, you ought to be able to pick your teeth with a million kilowatt lightning bolt! If you have ever seen the sympathy and fear of the very weak compared to the mercy of the very strong, you'll see the mockery of bottom scale trying to echo the top of the scale. A person has to be very strong before he can be ethical and completely merciful of his own free will. At the bottom of the scale a person has been forced to be and everything affects him. He is the effect of this and that. Of course, he's still carrying along with him some of his capability. There's still theta there at the bottom of the scale, but not much. He has, you might say, "crossed over the span of force successfully." But bluntly, nobody ever crawled out of this universe through the bottom of the hole. Nobody ever got out that way. That's a grave. The only way out is through. You have to be able to conquer the full use and control of any factor of the first dynamic and having conquered that, the full use and control of the factors of the second dynamic, and the third and so forth. You have to be willing and capable and in full control of those dynamics before you are free of them. Otherwise always lingering in the back of your mind, no matter how esoteric you may think your ambitions may be, is something you can't do, which is always a disability. The capability of a thetan is, of course, not simply force. But it is interesting to note that every saint on the calendar is represented as having a big, bright aura. What do you think that aura was representing? It was representing raw energy! Whether those boys could wield energy or not I don't know, but they certainly represented them that way and have continued to do so ever since. Here's another interesting point about force. If you want to be able to heal somebody at a distance, you have to have the capability of charring them into charcoal at a distance. The ability to produce force is the ability to make a strong postulate. And the ability to make a strong postulate alone is capable of controlling the health and beingness of others. Force is, of course, the shabbiest shadow of what can be done. But unless you can make a postulate strong enough to handle force, it is highly unlikely that you can make a postulate strong enough to pervade all through the beingnesses which you would like to help. This is a force universe. Don't ever make a mistake about that. If it was the only universe there was, god help all of us! This universe is built on trickery and on force. Every single item that you see in a store is condensed energy, existing in space. Every single brick that you see out on the street is a condensation of energy. Any action you see on the part of a MEST object is some manifestation of force at work in this universe. Don't think for a moment that a low scale action in this universe will be greeted by anything but force. You can protest, reason, agree, grovel, beg – it doesn't matter. Force is there heavily and solidly to greet the best of intentions to help. This universe does not care anything for brightness, for aesthetics. You could go out and make the prettiest planet that ever existed in this whole universe, solely by your hard work, application and genius, and the force that is this universe could simply roll it up and blow it away without the least tremor. The strong man who uses force as his sole criteria of existence is nothing but a brute. Nevertheless, the strong man who is able to make something in this universe must be able to protect it, because this universe doesn't care. That the universe doesn't care is what breaks the heart of Man. He looks around and no matter what he does for anybody, no matter how much he tries to help or anything else, in this universe with MEST force on the loose and relatively uncontrolled it makes no difference whatsoever. It is that remorselessness, that crushing capability without discernment as to a finer quality that breaks him at last. He thinks in this universe there ought to be such things as love and goodness and that these things ought to repay. You find somebody working himself to the bone trying to be good and straight. But what do you find around him? Pitfalls waiting for his tiniest error – and he will go crashing down. And who will push him? The people he helped the most. It's a 'great' universe! The universe is so debased and degraded, really, that the better capabilities of theta and beingness almost can't exist in this universe. They are here in the flimsiest possible form. Let's take aesthetics. What does this universe care for an aesthetic? You go out and look at the beautiful sunset. Expecting an aesthetic sensation from this universe? Have you any idea what composes that beautiful sunset? It is dust hanging in the air from some old volcanic explosion where the earth convulsed and vomited and shot rock and ash into the air. The sun itself is of such a violent temperature that it is shooting radioactive sheets of fire out 240,000 miles which, if you even vaguely approached it and got a tiniest burn, you would thereafter rot. That's beauty in this universe. Someone goes out and looks at a butterfly flying around through the grass and says, "Isn't that pretty!" Did you ever follow the fate of a butterfly? It's an interesting game, but it doesn't have any room in it for the beingness called Man. Here you have an unlimited universe of force, debased force and the solidified results of force. Man and thetans in their small way try to add into it the ingredient of love, of beauty, of appreciation, of fair play – but nothing happens, really; just more force. So don't go moaning and moping around and saying there is no goal for this universe and "nobody appreciates what I'm doing." The truth of the matter is this universe is too strong, forceful and powerful from a standpoint of MEST force to permit it to happen. The only thing which you see out here in this universe that is worth seeing is what you and people like you have put into it to perceive back. If you have ever counted the number of beautiful cities which have gone by the board here on this earth and which are no more, the hopes with which they were built and the ardors and depths of their fall and the plight and agony of their final days, you would no longer sit around and worry about "let's make this a good universe." That's how you got trapped into it in the first place. You've got lots of universes and you can make one of your own. Theta's greatest potentialities happen to be the ability to agree, which makes for groups; the ability to have an affinity, to love and appreciate and to feel sensation (another form of affinity); and the ability to communicate. Thus, it is theta handling MEST in a peculiar way that gives us A (Affinity), R (Reality) and C (Communication). So don't let someone tell you that at any moment all he has to do is simply rise to the high and beautiful plane of pure thought without anything ever having any effect on him again in the line of energy! He's got to be able to handle energy, otherwise energy can command him. That's the trick of this universe. Either you command the energy or it commands you. It's a universe of space and energy and if you want to command it, you've got to be able to command space and energy. Thus energy stands as the sinister barrier between aberrated thought and being free to do anything you please with thought. Now this is an easy barrier to cross as long as you actually cross it. The mystics talked about the abyss. What is the abyss? What are you trying to bridge? The abyss is the abyss of force and the Bridge must lead across it. We are bridging the necessity of energy! You're not going to cross this bridge by saying, "I don't want anything to do with energy. I'm going to deny myself a body and sensation. I'm going to not use this and I'm not going to do that. I'm going to back off from this whole thing!" The fact of the case is that although you do not have to necessarily partake of action or really even engage in action, you've certainly got to be willing to handle action. One has to be perfectly willing to use energy in any department. It's not necessary that he does so, but he's got to be willing to. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends, This is indeed a very powerful article. Unfortunately, our society is working in the opposite direction. Here is a quote from it: "A person has to be very strong before he can be ethical and completely merciful of his own free will." Ron is really right about that. Greatness comes from real strength. Criminals and mafia bosses – or even banksters – are not themselves and show only reactive strength. A text you should read several times! Much love. Max Hauri
- The Way of Knowing
Introduction: "To attain supreme enlightenment one must be able to know spontaneously one’s own self-nature which is neither created nor can be annihilated." Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. The Way of Knowing – Advance! 25 All Up And Down his track on this planet, Man has been searching for the answers to his own existence. These answers have taken on an almost bewildering variety of expressions. Advance! believes it is important for you to know this back-history of former freedom efforts. After all, Man’s spiritual history is the most basic history of this planet. Man’s search for himself has been the mainspring of all progress, despite what materialists claim. But as they feel man is animal then they can only speak for the animal kingdom, not for us. So be it. Thus, Advance! feels you should be familiar with the whole track historic background of the Advanced Courses. When one sees the millions of answers that man has selected as his destiny, one appreciates even more the incredible achievement of L. Ron Hubbard in selecting the one straight path, out of an infinity of errors, which leads to the accomplishment of the ultimate spiritual goals. This path is more than a path: it is a shining wide bridge to total freedom across the chasm of oblivion and despair. Man has had no real bridge before. The greatest earlier freedom effort was begun by Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 B.C.), the Buddha. His work, known as the religion of Buddhism, was man’s first broadly successful civilizing mission. It was decisive not only to Asia, but also to the West. For example, the Christian message of love and the Renaissance scientific methodology can be historically traced to the work of Siddhartha Buddha. In fact, so pervasive was his work that later historians may well regard the 2.500 year period from 550 B.C. to 1950 as essentially a Buddhist era of civilization. By 1950 this era had gone bankrupt and the world lay directionless, poised on the brink of a new age of barbarism. It was into this hiatus [Gap space that needs to be filled] that Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health was published by L Ron Hubbard, thus beginning a new era of world civilization based on Scientology. The Splintering of Buddhism As powerful as the Buddhist tradition was it failed to guarantee its own integrity and thus sowed the internal seeds of its own decay. Within 200 years after the death of Buddha a firefight had already arisen amongst his spiritual heirs as to what he really meant. Literally hundreds of sects and schools of Buddhism subsequently arose, each espousing in its own eyes essential Buddhism. Within this kaleidoscope of religious interpretation the original lessons of Buddha became obscured and lost to a considerable degree (See Advance! 23 for an analysis of original Buddhism). Yet the inspiration of Buddha’s teaching continued to move men to express in their civilizations their highest hopes. Amongst these hundreds of approaches to Buddhism can be seen major highlights each of which form an important chapter in man’s spiritual history. These highlights are expressed in the chart with this article and are summarized below. Theravada Buddhism means the Teaching of the Elders and is based upon earliest extant Buddhist canon [Any recognized set of sacred books]. This fabulous collection of Buddha’s teachings was passed down verbally from his immediate disciples, and finally transcribed 400 years later in the first century B.C. At that time (first century B.C.) new Buddhist texts began to be written which elaborated on or interpreted one or the other of Buddha’s teachings. These developments came to be known as Mahayana Buddhism (meaning the Great Vehicle), a “public relations” title originated by Mahayamsts to contrast their own approach with that of the Theravadans which they called the Hinayana (Little Vehicle). From the roots of Mahayana Buddhism developed two other important schools Lamaism (see Advance! 24, “The Mystery of Lamaism”) and Ch’an Buddhism in China, or its Japanese equivalent – Zen Buddhism. Zen Buddhism Zen Buddhism is of particular interest as it caused, for various reasons, somewhat of a sensation in the West in the first half of the 20th century. For this reason some looked upon Zen as a recent development, but on the contrary it was known as Ch’an in 7th century China. In fact, Zen is the Japanese way of saying Ch’an And Ch’an is the Chinese way of saying Dhyana, an Indian word of great antiquity meaning “knowingness”. The transmitter of what became Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism was an almost legendary figure named Bodhi Dharma (meaning „One who is awakened into total truth“) who arrived in China from India in about AD 520. Bodhi Dharma in Western eyes is sometimes seen as the founder of Ch’an or Zen Buddhism. This would be incorrect. He only saw himself as a transmitter, the 28th successor of Gautama Buddha himself. The distinctive approach of Ch’an Buddhism is attributed to Bodhi Dharma. When asked for the authority of his interpretation, Bodhi Dharma cited the following “sermon” by Buddha. One day, it is said instead of discoursing on the Teaching, Buddha raised a lotus flower above his head All his disciples were puzzled save one who, by his slight smile indicated he got the point, prompting Buddha to designate him as his secret successor. The flower sermon and Bodhi Dharma’s quatrain sum up the distinctive approach of Ch’an/Zen: “A special transmission outside the Scriptures, No dependence upon words and letters, Direct pointing to the soul of man, Seeing into one’s own nature.” In actual fact, Ch’an or Zen Buddhism is Indian Buddhism seen through the eyes of Taoism, the great Chinese philosophical development. The intuitive approach, the de-emphasis of scriptures, is all characteristically Taoist “The way that can be spoken of is not the Way.” The opening line of the Tao Teh King “The Book of The Way and Its Power” (See Advance! 18 for the article “The Meaning of The Way”, an analysis of Taoism)] Instead of the scriptures, the Ch’an Buddhist turned to the example of Buddha’s act of achieving enlightenment under the fig tree near Gaya in Northeast India. It is this experience that Ch’an (Zen) seeks to emulate and thus attain enlightenment or Bodhi in the same direct way Buddha did. The central experience of Ch’an-Zen Buddhism is of course the central experience of original Buddhism the experience of one’s own spiritual nature as different from the flesh or the physical universe. “To attain supreme enlightenment one must be able to know spontaneously one’s own self-nature which is neither created nor can be annihilated.” For example, Hui-Neng, the most renowned Ch’an master (638-713), states, “To attain supreme enlightenment one must be able to know spontaneously one’s own self nature which is neither created nor can it be annihilated.” The Japanese word for enlightenment is “Satori.” Unfortunately, to some degree the simplicity of this basic goal became burdened by various significances and interpretations. For example the Zen-student was later told that he would realize that he was everything “You are me, I am you, I am that automobile, etc.” Thus is a condition known as being “buttered all over the universe.” There is a much higher level “harmonic” of this condition where a being can be anything or everything at will whilst retaining his own beingness that Hui-neng speaks of. Regardless of misinterpretations it was the upper level condition that the original masters envisioned. Now, of course, not everyone had the Buddha’s ability to reach Buddhahood or Bodhi. In fact, at the height of Ch’an Buddhism under Hui-neng we find the following postscript (by an immediate disciple) to his celebrated autobiography: “For thirty-seven years he preached to the benefit of all sentient beings. Forty-three of his disciples reached Bodhi, while those who attained a measure of enlightenment and thereby got out of the rut of the ordinary life were too many to be numbered.” Later Ch’an Buddhism attempted to develop various methods to improve this result, but since Hui-neng’s tune no statistics have been released! Ch’an-Zen tech can be summed up in three words – Zazen, Koan, Mondo. Actually, Ch’an Zen technology never went beyond what Scientologists would recognize as a rudimentary form of Training Drill Zero [Training Drill Zero (TR 0): A beginning Scientologist drill wherein two students gain the ability to be there comfortably and confront] which in its highly developed form is a beginning drill of Scientology. Although seldom achieved, or achieved after arduous and long work, “being there” was the highest level of recognizable technical expertise in Ch’an Zen. This could describe the goal of Zazen, a Zen meditation exercise. The Kung-an (Chinese) – or Koan (Japanese) was a conundrum designed to overcome excessive attempts to solve things with thinkingness instead of being there. For example, the Koan “What is the sound of one hand clapping” can not be answered by thinking about it at all. It was an attempt instead to provoke a new insight by the Ch’an-Zen student. As Alan Watts, a famous Western Zen interpreter states, “when the disciple is brought to an intellectual and emotional impasse (contemplating the Koan) it (the Koan) bridges the gap between second-hand conceptual contact with reality and first-hand experience.” The other key Buddhist “technology” was called mondo, an inchoate [in an early stage incomplete undeveloped] form of Training Drill Zero Bullbait [Training Drill 0 Bullbait: (TR 0 Bullbait). A step beyond TR 0 The term Bullbait derives from the action of baiting a bull which then reacts. In TR 0 Bullbait a student gains the ability to be there comfortably and confront despite any distractions by another student.] where the master would attempt to “throw” or distract the student through sudden unexpected actions, physical violence, nonsensical replies, etc. Thus, the Ch’an-Zen “ideal” figure was an enlightened individual who could “be,” who could fully appreciate “now” (i.e. present time) and who, like the Judo specialist couldn’t be thrown or overwhelmed by life. Ch’an was introduced lock, stock and barrel into Japan as Zen in the 11th or 12th century where it became a way of life Japanese culture became “Zen-Buddhafied”. The Japanese tea drinking custom was not simply a social ritual but a religious act deliberately created by Zenists. This and Japanese gardening, flower arranging, architecture,art, poetry and even the martial arts were considered expressions of Zen enlightenment in daily life. For example Zen archery was a very highly evolved procedure whereby the archer sought to train himself to be fully aware of all the actions involved – and, at the exact climatic point of the release of the arrow, to achieve a spiritual release. Ch’an Buddhism began to wane in China after the great age of Chinese Buddhism in the 10th century. And now its export to Japan, Zen, is also dying coincident with the westernization of Japan. The Secret? So here we are nearly at the end of this article and you ask, “But what was the secret of the flower sermon?!” There wasn’t one. Ch’an and Zen were an effort to bypass the almost overwhelming number of Buddhist scriptures that had accumulated by the 5th century and get back to what its adherents considered basic Buddhism. In the silence of the “flower sermon” was couched, for them, the answer Beingness is senior to “thinking about”. Direct experience is senior to second-hand knowledge. But Buddha said this – and far more – and held nothing back from what he knew despite the fact that what he said was imperfectly transmitted and altered. Summary Ch’an or Zen Buddhism were milestones on Man’s spiritual track which inspired an unparalleled expression of Chinese-Japanese culture and art. The ancient Ch’an-Zen masters failed to achieve the results they desired because of an insufficiency of technology with which to handle the mind and create human ability. This chasm (lack of technology) has been the barrier to all of man’s past freedom efforts. Now at last with Scientology, its Founder, L. Ron Hubbard, has thrown a bridge across the chasm so the ancient goals of spiritual freedom can be universally achieved. Scientology linguistically is the Western word for Zen-Ch’an-Dhyana. Thus an unbroken tradition existed in the East which has been brought to a point of total success in the West in the second half of the 20th century. L. Ron Hubbard Dear Friends, Here is the article "The way to knowing", originally published in Advance! 25. Here are two important excerpts: "To attain supreme enlightenment one must be able to know spontaneously one’s own self-nature which is neither created nor can be annihilated." "Direct experience is senior to second-hand knowledge." I wish you an excellent reading. Much love, Max Hauri
- The Phenomena of Death
Introduction: We know a lot about what happens between birth and death, but what do we really know about what happens between death and birth? L. Ron Hubbard has given us the tools to learn more and stop being afraid and not knowing what death is. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Phenomena of Death An excerpt from the lecture "Death" given by L. Ron Hubbard the 30. July 1957 It has only been in Scientology that the mechanics of death have been thoroughly understood. Hitherto, the whole subject of death has been one of the more mysterious subjects to man. We are actually the first people that do know a great deal about death. It is one of the larger successes of Scientology. In the first place, man is composed of a body, a mind and what we refer to as a thetan – the Scientology word for the spirit, the individual being himself who handles and lives in the body. A very effective way to demonstrate this is by saying to a person, “Look at your body. Have you got a body there?” Then tell him, “Get a mental picture of a cat.” He will get a picture of a cat. That picture is a mental image picture and is part of the mind. The mind is composed of pictures that inter-associate, act and carry perceptions. While the person is looking at this actual picture ask him, “What’s looking at it?” Nobody ever asked this question before! It is quite an innocent question, but this particular phrasing and this particular demonstration of the parts of man were unknown before Scientology. This procedure gives a person a considerable subjective reality on the idea that he himself is a being that is independent of a mind or a body. There is an actual separateness there. Man thought he had a human spirit. That is totally incorrect. Man is a human spirit which is enwrapped more or less in a mind which is in a body. That is Homo sapiens. He is a spirit and his usual residence is in his head. He looks at his mental image pictures and his body carries him around. What happens to man when he dies? Basically, all that happens is that a separation occurs between the thetan and the body. The thetan, however, takes with him old tin cans, rattling chains, bric-a-brac and other energy phenomena that he feels he cannot do without and stashes this in the next body that he picks up. In this lazy time of manufactured items and gadgetry he does not build a new body. He picks up a body that is produced according to a certain blueprint that has been carried through from the earliest times of life on this planet until now. There is such a thing as a cycle of action: create-survive-destroy. At the shoulder of the curve an individual is mostly interested in surviving. Early on the curve he is interested in creating. And at the end of the curve, he is interested in the disposition of the remains. This cycle of action occurs whether you are speaking of a building, a tree or anything else. When we apply this cycle of action to the parts of man, we get a death of the body, a partial death of the mind and a condition of forgetting on the part of the spiritual being which is in itself a type of death. The first thing one should learn about death is that it is not anything of which to be very frightened. If you are frightened of losing your pocketbook, if you are frightened of losing your memory, if you are frightened of losing your girl or your boyfriend, if you are frightened of losing your body – well that is how frightened you ought to be of dying, because it is all the same order of magnitude. We strike the first observable phenomenon in death when we find out that the mind, in spite of mechanisms which seek to decay it and wipe it out, does maintain and preserve mental image pictures of earlier existences. And with proper technology and an understanding of this one can be again possessed of the mental image pictures of earlier existences in order to understand what was going on. But unless remembrance is restored to the being, the mental image pictures usually just continue to be pictures. Without that remembrance, sending somebody into a past life and having him look at a mental image picture would be similar to sending him to the art gallery. He would not connect himself with that picture. The restoration of memory is therefore of great interest, since all that is really wrong with a person is that things have happened to him which he knows all about, but won’t let himself in on. The restoration of memory is done as a matter of course in almost any Dianetics or Scientology processing. It is impossible today to process somebody well and expertly without having them sooner or later get recall with reality on a past existence. Past lives can be easily invalidated because, without processing, it is difficult to remember them. An individual’s own will has a great deal to do with this. One should not look for outside sources as to why his memory is shut off. Just as he must grant permission to be trapped, so must he grant permission to be made to remember. He is more or less convinced that a memory, remembering back past this subject called death, would cause him to re-experience the pain he already feels has been too much for him. Thus he is very reluctant to face up again to this mechanism, and in facing death almost always goes into a degree of amnesia. Now, it is all very well to take a scientific attitude towards death, but after all it does carry with it a little shock and upset. Until you have been dead a few times you wouldn’t understand how upsetting it can be! We are actually indebted for a considerable amount of our material on this subject to the odd fact that I have been officially dead twice in this lifetime. I died in an operation one time back in the 1930s, and went outside above the street, felt sorry for myself and decided they couldn’t do this to me. The body’s heart had stopped beating, and I went back and grabbed the body through the mechanisms in the head that stimulate its heartbeats. I just took hold of them and snapped the body back to life. The only reason I mention this is because it happens to so many people and they never mention it. They die and come back to life again. Then somebody invalidates them, and they never say anything about it again. Ordinarily when a person dies, he backs out of his body thinking of his responsibilities, knowing who he is, where he has been and what he has been doing. If he is in any kind of condition at all this is what occurs. He backs out at the moment of death with full memory. Something kills a person’s body – an automobile, too many court suits, an overdose of widely advertised sleep-producing agents. The moment he conceives it to be no longer functional in any way, he backs out. Usually a total occlusion does not occur at this point. It is not true that a thetan gets some distance from the body and then doesn’t care about it anymore or forgets all about it. In support of this, incidents have been recorded of times when a thetan backed out of his head and was as mad as the dickens and just kicked the stuffings out of the fellow who had killed him. This made the whole theory of spirits very unpopular. People tried to forget this, so that when they ran around killing people they would get no immediate kickback. Some people would want to forget about it, thinking that in this way they could commit a crime without having to suffer for it. Man has capitalized on the phenomena surrounding death enormously. Look around in any neighbourhood – you will find that if there is any building which is well kept, it is normally an undertaking parlor. Why is it easy to capitalize on death? Because when people think of death they think of loss and grab something. This explains the behavior of relatives after one of their family has died. Everybody gets in there and tears apart all of the person’s clothes and they fight with each other over the possessions. They are still alive, but they have experienced a loss of havingness and they pore over this particular person’s effects. They are really to some degree trying to get the person back. They think if they can grab enough possessions, they will get the person back. It actually is not quite as greedy as it looks, it is just obsessive. I have seen relatives, for instance, pick up some of the weirdest things. I once saw an old lady just screaming over the fact that someone wouldn’t let her have a fellow’s meerschaum pipe. I pointed out to her that she didn’t smoke a meerschaum pipe, and she looked at me sort of dazedly and came out of it and said, “So I don’t,” and handed it to somebody else. It was a token, a symbol of the person who had just left. The exact behavior at death could vary from person to person. A person who had to “have” tremendously would get just so far from a body and be liable to say, “I don’t care, I don’t want to live anyway, I was very unhappy during that whole life and I’m awfully glad I don’t care.” Somebody else is just as liable to not even think about it. But that person was so little alive, when he was alive, that his aliveness after he has died is also negligible. With a person who is fairly strong and capable there is an interesting reaction to body death: “I’ll show them they can’t put me out of the game.” It makes him mad and upsets him, and he does a dive halfway across the country, sees a maternity hospital and grabs a baby body. The exteriorization which occurs at death is very fascinating because the person is totally cognizant of it. He knows who he is; he usually has pretty good perception; he knows where his friends are. Pointing out as a fantastic spiritual phenomenon the occurrence of somebody appearing to a friend after he had died several thousand miles away, is something like being very surprised because a waitress came to the table in a restaurant. People also sometimes wake up during the night and realize that somebody has died a death of violence. This is usually because of the amount of confusion which is thrown into a being when his body is killed. If a person is killed with sudden violence and is very surprised about it, he can be sufficiently upset and unphilosophical about the whole thing that he is liable to go around and see his next of kin and the rest of his friends in an awful frenzied hurry, trying to reassure himself that he hasn’t gone to purgatory or someplace. He has suffered a loss of mass. If you had an automobile sitting out on the street and you went out totally expecting to find the automobile there and it was gone, you would be upset. That is just about the frame of mind a thetan is usually in when he finds his body dead. His main thought is to grasp another body. This he could do by finding a young child that he could bring back to life. But the ordinary entrance of a thetan into a new body is sometime around what we call the assumption, and the assumption occurs within a few minutes after birth in most cases. The baby is born and then a thetan picks up the baby body. How do thetans behave when they suddenly haven’t got a body? They behave like people. They will hang around people. They will see a woman who is pregnant and follow her down the street. Or they will hang around the entrance to an accident ward and find some body that is all banged up and the being that had that body has taken off or is about to. He may even pick up this body and pretend to be somebody’s husband. Thetans do all sorts of odd things. When a new body is picked up, if a new body is picked up at all, is not standardized beyond saying it usually occurs (unless the thetan got another idea) two or three minutes after the delivery of a child from the mother. A thetan usually picks it up about the time the baby takes its first gasp. Would the body go on living without a thetan picking it up? That is beside the point. It is a case of how fast the thetan can pick one up before somebody else gets it. There is a certain anxiety connected with this. Thetans often say very interesting prayers at the moment they pick up a body. They dedicate themselves to its continued growing and to the family and go through all kinds of odd rituals, all because they are so happy to get a new body. But the odd part of it is, they don’t shut their memory off until they pick another body up. The shut-off of memory actually occurs with the pickup of the new body. Death is in itself a technical subject. You can, with considerable confidence, reassure some husband whose wife has just died that she got out all right and she is going someplace to take up a new body. If you got there while that person could still communicate with you, in the last moments, you would find that the person usually has something spotted, something planned. The person doesn’t just back out ordinarily and forget all about it. He backs out of it with full identity and hangs around for quite a while. The being is usually there for the funeral, certainly. He will very often hang around his possessions to see that they are not abused, and he can be given upsets if his wishes aren’t carried out with regard to certain things. It used to happen that thetans would punish people for not carrying out their wishes after death. People then said this was superstition, and science was against superstition. Well, it is quite interesting that in finding out what is science and what is superstition, we have found that a being is capable of almost anything providing it is within his ability to execute. Losing your pocketbook, some treasured possession or your body are all alike. But because of the mechanism of forgetting, a great mystery is made of this. And that is death, phenomena of. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends, There are many things we do not understand; and if I can confirm anything, it is that the more we know, the more we realize how little we know. By nature, we are primarily concerned with what surrounds us: our fellow human beings and the physical universe, which we also call MEST (Matter, Energy, Space and Time). So we know a lot about what happens between birth and death, but what do we really know about what happens between death and birth? Here is an appropriate quote from the article below: "It's all well and good to have a scientific attitude toward death, but it is still associated with a certain amount of shock and upset. Until you've been dead yourself a few times, you don't understand how scary it can be!" I think that sums it up! And since our bodies are a very transient species in our galaxy, with an average life expectancy of 80-85 years maximum, we can totally train for it. This may sound very cynical, but the reason I can write this is because L. Ron Hubbard has given us the tools to learn more and stop being afraid and not knowing what death is. I have seen first-hand how many Clears and OTs have achieved just that. For: "The first thing to learn about death is that it is not something to be afraid of. If you're afraid of losing your wallet, afraid of losing your memory, afraid of losing your girlfriend or boyfriend, afraid of losing your body – well, that's the fear you should have of dying, because it's all of the same order." Whatever your opinion on the topic is, this is an extremely interesting article to read, with some interesting answers. I am at your disposal for any question. Much love, Max Hauri
- Criminality
Introduction: in this article, you can learn what is actually considered criminality and exchange, and thus determine at a glance what is going on in life. Extract from the HCO PL 4. April 1972 – Ethics – Download extract or in full Unless we want to go on living in a far nowhere some of the facts of scenes have to be confronted. An inability to confront evil leads people into disregarding it or discounting it or not seeing it at all. Reversely, there can be a type of person who, like an old-time preacher, sees nothing but evil in everything and, possibly looking into his own heart for a model, believes all men are evil. Man, however (as you can read in HCO B 28 Nov 70, C/S Series 22, "Psychosis"), is basically good. When going upon some evil course he attempts to restrain himself and caves himself in. [A mental, sometimes physical collapse, in which a person can no longer be a cause and is quite an effect.] The Chart of Human Evaluation in Science of Survival was right enough. And such people also can be found by the Oxford Capacity Analysis where the graph is low and well below a center line on the right. This sort of thing can be handled of course by auditing but the EstO does not depend on that to handle his staff's problems. Criminal actions proceed from such people unless checked by more duress from without not to do an evil act than they themselves have pressure from within to do it. Criminality is in most instances restrained by just such an imbalance of pressures. If you have no ethics presence in an org, then criminality shows its head. Such people lie rather than be made to confront. They false report – they even use "PR" which means Public Relations to cover up – and in our slang talk "PR" [Public Relations] means putting up a lot of false reports to serve as a smoke screen for idleness or bad actions. Unless you get Ethics in, you will never get Technology in. If you can't get Technology in you won't get Administration in. So the lack of Ethics permits the criminal impulse to go unchecked. Yes, it could be handled with Technology. But to get money you have to have Administration in. Unless there is Ethics and ways to get it in, no matter how distasteful it may seem, you will never get Technology and Administration in. Of course there is always the element of possible injustice. But this is provided against. (See HCO PL 24 Feb 72, Injustice.) When Ethics is being applied by criminal hands (as happens in some governments) it can get pretty grim. But even then Ethics serves as a restraint to just outright slaughter. Omitting to handle criminality can make one as guilty of the resulting crimes as if one committed them! So criminality as a factor has to be handled. It is standardly handled by the basic Ethics P/Ls and the Ethics Officer system. Exchange The unhatted unproducing staff member, who is not really a criminal or psychotic, can be made to go criminal. This joins him to the Criminal ranks. The Ethics system also applies to him. However there is something an EstO can do about it that is truly EstO Technology. This lies in the field of Exchange. If you recall your Product Clearing, you will see that exchange is something for something. Criminal exchange is nothing from the criminal for something from another. Whether theft or threat or fraud is used, the criminal think is to get something without putting out anything. That is obvious. A staff member can be coaxed into this kind of thinking by permitting him to receive without his contributing. This unlocks, by the way, an age-old riddle of the philosophers as to "what is right or wrong". Honesty is the road to Sanity. You can prove that and do prove it every time you make somebody well by "pulling his withholds". The insane are just one seething mass of overt acts [An act of deliberately damaging omission that brings the least benefit to the fewest number of dynamics or the most harm to the most number of dynamics.] and withholds. And they are very physically sick people. When you let somebody be dishonest you are setting him up to become physically ill and unhappy. Traditional Sea Org Ethics labeled Non-Compliance as Liability and a False Report as Doubt. And it's true enough. When you let a person give nothing for something you are factually encouraging crime. Don't be surprised that welfare districts are full of robbery and murder. People there give nothing for something. When exchange is out the whole social balance goes out. Every full scholarship ever given by an org wound up in a messy scene. When you hire a professional pc who just sits around making do-less motions while people audit him and contribute to him do not be surprised if he gets sicker and sicker. He is contributing nothing in return and winds up in overwhelm! Similarly if you actively prevented someone from contributing in return you could also make him ARC Broken [ARC break: It's a decrease in affinity, reality and communication, which is why we call it an ARC break. It's a sudden ARC going down.] and sick. It is Exchange which maintains the inflow and outflow that gives a person space around him and keeps the bank off of him. There are numbers of ways these flows of Exchange can be unbalanced. It does not go same out as comes in. Equal amounts are no factor. Who can measure good will or friendship? Who can actually calculate the value of saving a being from death in each lifetime? Who can measure the reward of pride in doing a job well or praise? For all these things are of different values to different people. In the material world the person whose Exchange Factor is out may think he "makes money". Only a government or a counterfeiter "makes money". One has to produce something to Exchange for money. Right there the Exchange Factor is out. If he gives nothing in return for what he gets the money does not belong to him. In product clearing many people it was found that some considered their food, clothing, bed and allowance were not theirs because they produced. They were theirs "just by being there". This funny "logic" covered up the fact that these people produced little or nothing on post. Yet they were the first to howl when not getting expensive (to the org) auditing or courses or Technology! Thus such a person, not hatted or made to produce, will get ill. It is interesting that when a person becomes productive his morale improves. Reversely it should be rather plain to you that a person who doesn't produce becomes mentally or physically ill. For his exchange factor is out. So when you reward a downstat you not only deprive upstats, you also cave the downstat in! I don't think Welfare States have anything else in mind! The riots of the ancient city of Rome were caused by these factors. There they gave away corn and games to a populace that eventually became so savage it could only enjoy torture and gruesome death in the arena! A lot of this exchange imbalance comes from child psychology where the child is not contributing anything and is not permitted to contribute. It is this which first overwhelms him with feelings of obligation to his parents and then bursts out as total revolt in his teens. Children who are permitted to contribute (not as a cute thing to do but actually) make non-contributing children of the same age look like raving maniacs! It is the cruel sadism of modern times to destroy the next generation this way. Don't think it isn't intended. I have examined the OCAs of parents who do it! So if a person is brought up this life with the exchange all awry, the EstO has his hands full sometimes! He is dealing with trained-in criminality! – L. Ron Hubbard
- What every auditor should know
Introduction: This is an ambitious article, but it contains very important and fundamental information about how to improve one's skills. Read Max Hauri's introduction to this article, below. Excerpt from The classification Chart and Auditing – 26 July 1966 What every auditor should know: Auditing means to listen and compute and it also means to get a result on a preclear, that is someone who is not yet Clear. Successful attainment of Scientology results requires auditing that is done in a technical and professional manner which has not departed from standard procedure. A Scientologist is trying to make people better and that's a new idea in the whole field of the human mind. Our situation doesn't compare to therapies and other things, such as torture and imprisonment, which have passed for mental therapy down through the ages. The goals of Scientology predate all ideas of "therapy" and are found first in religion and philosophy as long as 10,000 years ago. Clearing someone is erasing his reactive mind. All the misery Man has is contained in the reactive mind. We are not concerned with social behaviour. Auditing is not social criticism. Psychotherapies are involved in social criticism. Psychiatrists exist for the "good of the society". Legislatures are interested in the "sick" and "insane". We are not. We work in a very much older field. We know how a preclear behaves. We know how human beings work but we don't care much about that. Good or bad behaviour is all by definition. If you kill a man it is good or bad by definition. If you kill him in war or by sentencing him in court that's good. But if you kill him just one inch outside the type of the Statute that's bad. There is a morass of social behaviour you can get interested in if you want, but don't mix it up with auditing. There is a certain road out. Scientology is the way, it is the road out. It is the road away from reactivity, away from aberration, away from identifying everything with everything else. It increases a person's abilities, it increases his general performance and existence to a fantastic degree that can be precisely measured and experienced. And that road out has certain little milestones you have to pass to get out and we call these the Grades of Release. There are certain points a person has to pass on the way to Clear and these points are definite abilities regained. These Grades are not composed of single points, although for public convenience we sometimes list them as simply: 0 – Communication I – Problems II – Overts and Withholds III – ARC Breaks IV – Service Facsimiles V – Whole Track VI – R6-EW, which is unburdening the reactive mind, and VII – Clearing, the materials necessary to totally erase the reactive mind. It is not possible to attain the upper Grades, ignoring the lower Grades. Definitions: Reactive Mind: The thinking not under the control of the person. Aberration, aberrated: departure from rational thought or behaviour. Unreasonable. Overt: harmful or contra-survival act. Withhold: undisclosed contra-survival act. ARC Break: breaks in Affinity, Reality and/or Communication. Service Facsimile: a fixed idea a person uses to make himself right and others wrong. Whole Track: a moment to moment record of a person's existence in this universe.) R6-EW: Routine 6 End Words. An according procedure. Key in: The reactive mind returns. The only other thing which bars this road is not following standard technology. Standard technology is contained in Hubbard Communications Office Bulletins. Modern technology is not contained in any of the books of Dianetics and Scientology. My research suffers in repute only because anything found and noted was recorded, not hidden for fear it would be unpopular. Truth is Truth, not a popularity contest. However, because we developed something later we did not lose the standard technology of something earlier. The main bug-bear of the person studying Scientology (and the bug-bear was his, not mine) was that he conceived every time he read something new that that wiped out the old. And this was brought about because he did not understand the old when he had read it and he did not realize it integrated with the new which had just been issued. There are very few things that have been wiped out, but the idea of overrun and when a process is flat does require correction. What this is all about is command of a thing called the mind. You should understand what man is all about and know that there isn't anything that's going to help an aberrated1 being but processing. So you had better know that processing is a very narrow little track bounded above and below and on both sides by a complete mass of improper things that can be done. (It would be impossible to list the number of wrong things that can be done in auditing.) This track, called standard technology, is very narrow and it is very easy to stray off its edges and one of the ways is to forget to handle preclears when auditing them. By not handling them is meant: to ignore the fact that your preclear has a present time problem, or an affinity, reality or communication break, or is sitting in overts, and not handle these because they happen to be above the Grade you are running the preclear on. You can always run an advanced process on a preclear as a rudiment, as something to straighten out the preclear. But the day you sit down to audit that person and do not detect or note that he has a present time problem is the day you will have a loss. That person is not about to get up those Grades on the Gradation Chart. Now why is this Chart so accurate and how did I find it? The Gradation Chart is made up only of those things which you cannot audit in the face of and that is the genus of the chart and that's the real reason I found the Grades, and I isolated them just as crudely as that. I said okay, there are certain things that, if you don't pay attention to them, prevent all progress in auditing. Therefore they must be the keys to aberration. And that is how we got the Gradation Chart. In all those years of experience, and there have been a lot of them, only these factors have presented themselves. Factors that, each one separately, much less in combination, can totally prevent case gain unless given attention. These are the super barriers to the track. These are the girders across the bridge that have fallen down sideways. What are these things? The things a person cannot audit up against are present time problems, affinity, reality and communication breaks, overts and withholds and service facsimiles. The things you cannot audit in the presence of, without handling, are the Grades on the Gradation Chart. So, of course, if they are the things which stop any preclear's progress they must be the things which desperately require releasing. I knew that when they were audited on a grand scale we would get a release. It had to be that way because these things were the powerful points in the human mind that debarred all further progress on a case. All a preclear has to be is worried about his wife and he cannot answer the auditing command and cannot concentrate on anything. The fellow guilty of recent overts cannot even talk to you. With these present you are not going to make any progress, not one scrap. You will not run into much trouble (because the processes today run like hot butter) but it's that very little bit of trouble you must take an interest in. Release is a gross product. It is a very hopeful product, but the thing that booby-trapped the whole research of the mind is that one could produce a temporary state of Clear. So one can make something that looks like something it isn't. It was a booby-trap in 1950. It was also a booby-trap in 523 B.C. on this same subject and this same line of research. A thetan-exterior (a being who knows he is a spirit with a body and not just a body) produced all the symptoms of total sanity. It would last two minutes, two days, two years, but it didn't last. And in 523 B.C. it was called Bodhi. Only one thing is certain about a Release and that is that he will key in. Release as we are doing it now has this benefit though; accompanying it has been the experience of overcoming it, and that experience stands the person in good stead because it has improved his ability to confront. Now it goes a bit further than that – a bit of erasure occurs. Modern auditing is sufficiently good that a bit of erasure goes along with it. So he is more apt to be stable as Release on these Grades than he was stable as a "Clear" 1950 book style. Also, he does not key in (get back) all the mass of that level when he does key in, he simply is now up to the point where the next level to be run keys in. A Release who keys in does not return to the state he was in before that processing. In the 1950's we never knew what Grade of Release we were making a "Clear" at. Today we approach Release on a gradient and we know what kind of Release we are making. I got the idea finally that if we were going to have something that was a near absolute in the way of Clear then we were going to have to have a near totality of erasure of reactivity, and for three years I worked very hard at it. And now we have it. This does not make something less of Release. Making a Release is very, very worthwhile and the Grades of Release are essential steps on the road to Clear. Release is on a plotted line; it raises a person's confront and gets him to handle things which have been ruining his life and would ruin anybody's life. Anything that would stop auditing would ruin somebody's life because auditing is pretty powerful stuff. But Clear is not just " backing out of it". Clear is total erasure of the reactive mind and is a stable state, only nobody has done it before since the beginning of the universe so far as anyone could know. So there are only certain things which will prevent success in auditing. There is only this little handful of things as shown on the Gradation Chart that can get in your road as an auditor. Those things you cannot neglect or ignore, regardless of the Grade of Release the individual has attained, are: communication factors, present time problems, overts, ARC breaks, service facsimiles – or that he is on the wrong part of the track. Of these, the first four are the most important. You neglect those and you are not going to audit. If it bars auditing it will bar living. There isn't anything else that could happen to people that could bar the road out. However, there are interim release points on the Gradation chart you are probably neglecting. At Level 0 there are also valence processes. At Level I we have the CCHs and there are also locational processes. At Level II there are ARC processes and Case Remedies fit in at Level II as well. You can go release on a lot of those remedies. At Level III there is Auditing by List, overts-justifications, solutions to physical problems and dating on a meter, in addition to R-3-H assessments. At Level IV there are also rising scale processes, effort processing release and cause and effect processing. The processes you are doing now and the last HCO Bulletins you have are perfectly all right to use, but there are a lot of other things that can be done on these Grades to release people. I am not telling you to use them but they do exist. The point is that you are very rich today in having processes which on a broad general basis handle these conditions and make Releases with some thoroughness. Any failure you are having is because you are ignoring the Grade definitions used as rudiments. How long do you run an ARC break assessment on Level 0? You run it until you have handled the ARC break that was barring your road to auditing. You don't now try and make an ARC break release. Auditing is done in a highly standard way. It is a very narrow track. It is not a wide track on both sides of the road. It is highly beneficial, and has definite goals, aims and gains and when it is barred you'll find the only things barring it are the things I've mentioned. Your own personality added to the technology and moving on up through does the rest of the job. If you want a good auditor at Grade VI and Grade VII then become one. You, a being, are also part of the line-up and I count on that and count on your cooperation as a thetan in pushing it through on a standard line – straight on through to Clear for everybody. L. Ron Hubbard Dear Friends, This is an ambitious article, but it contains very important and fundamental information about how to improve one's skills. The important thing is to understand what life is made of: Communication: There is no need to say more. Problems: Problems are an important part of life! People love problems. Don't try to take a problem away from someone or to solve it! Give someone a solution and they just won't accept it! He wants to solve it! It's his problem. His copyright! So problems are important. Action: Life is about doing and taking action. Actions that go wrong or are destructive, whether intentionally or not, are called overts and not talking about them, that is, holding back, is called withholds. Changes: Changes can be upsetting to people, annoying and upsetting to someone. It can be difficult to accept changes. We don't make changes out of fear of offending or upsetting someone either. But change is not the only cause for upsets; there are many reasons. In Scientology, we specify it and call it ARC break – also because it is a solution approach for the auditor: a break or collapse of affinity (affection), reality (agreement) and communication. As we are always confronted with these factors, the result is all kinds of failures or non-communications, we get stuck in problems, we do things we would have been better off not doing in retrospect, we blame ourselves, or we have ARC breaks, etc. etc. In Scientology, we call the above things "rudiments", that is, things that must first be put in order before we can audit. These are: ARC Break, Present Time Problem and Withholds. If one is so stuck in any of the above, it should be addressed at the beginning of the session. These rudiments can also get in the way of life and should be dealt with in auditing. Everything else will now be explained by L. Ron Hubbard. It is helpful to understand that he is speaking to auditors-to-be. Enjoy reading! Much love, Max Hauri
- A 2,500 Year old Prophecy
Introduction: "A man is as well off as his goals and dreams are intact. If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future. 30 March 1954" – L. Ron Hubbard, 30 March 1954 Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below Advance! 27 The startling conclusion to the Advance! series on Buddhism With Advance! Issues 23 and 24 you have been following a series of articles which trace the development of Buddhism. In Issue 23 you learned how one man, Siddhartha Gautama, sought to rise above his own destiny and realize the true spiritual nature of man. He became the Buddha, one who is awakened or enlightened. He developed a philosophy which said that life is basically suffering but that there is a way to escape the endless wheel of death and rebirth by becoming a Buddha oneself. Although Buddha failed because he lacked the means to fully achieve his aims, his work was so pervasive and so impressive that it became the dominant civilizing influence for the subsequent 2,500 years of Man's history. In Issue 24 we saw how Buddha himself eventually went to Tibet (in a later lifetime) to begin Lamaism (Tibetan Buddhism) in an attempt to develop exteriorization techniques and further extend his studies of the mind. His name in that 8th century life was Padma Sambhava. The most important works attributed to Padma Sambhava were the great book of "Self Liberation" and the "Tibetan Book of the Dead", a technical manual designed to free an individual from the wheel of rebirth. With this current issue we have now arrived at the climax of Advance!'s series on Buddhism. You see, 2,500 years ago a stunning prophecy was made which throws a fascinating new light on Man's spiritual track. Read on! A 2,500 YEAR OLD PROPHECY Can an ancient promise made 2,500 years ago which predicts that a great spiritual leader will come to bring total freedom to man, come true? Man has usually looked to his past for his golden ages. He has primarily, therefore, dwelled in nostalgia rather than hope. The future all too patently [obviously] has represented merely a rolling forward of today's unsolved problems which promised to get worse before they got better. The most hopeful points in man's history have accompanied upsurges or revivals in religious philosophy; such milestones as Zoroastrianism, [See Advance! 20. Zoroastrianism founded by Zoroaster (Greek form of the old Persian name Zarathustra) was the most important religion of ancient Persia.] Christianity and Buddhism, and others. Most of these movements predicted the end of the history of mundane existence and the commencement of heavenly existence – which then didn't occur! In Christianity, for example, the date for the second coming of Christ at the end of the world has been frequently moved forward. The early Christians expected it in their lifetimes. Recently the Jehovah's Witnesses regularly gathered to await the end of the world. So predominant has the idea of waiting been in Christian history that Franz Kafka, the German writer, once cynically wrote that Christ would arrive not on the Day of Judgement, or the next day but the day afterwards! This eschatological [Having to do with end things, such as death, resurrection, judgement, immortality.] view of history has had bizarre twists, such as in Hegel's work, the "great" German philosopher (1770-1830), who felt that his own work was the final chapter in the book of truth and marked the end of history. Marx in turn conceived that history would end with a final decisive battle between "workers" and capitalists, after which would follow a timeless workers' paradise – thus perverting the Christian idea of Armageddon [The place where the last, decisive battle between the forces of good and evil will be fought before the Day of Judgement and subsequent everlasting heaven.] which itself comes from the earlier Zoroastrian concept of judgement and the end of the world. Thus, Man has been so often disappointed and betrayed with promised saviors and paradises that he is a bit like a wounded water buffalo that tries to gore anyone who reaches to help it. Out of the whole panorama of such predictions and prophecies only one did not rely on supernatural agencies or foresee the divine end of the world. This is the legend of a successor originated by none other than Gautama Buddha. Buddha did not consider that his own work was complete. He realized that he lacked adequate technology to achieve the full goals of spiritual freedom. He predicted that such a technology of the mind and spirit would be developed in the West by a successor some 2,500 years later. As the Buddha stated to Ananda (Buddha's principal aide) who asked him, "Who shall teach us when thou art gone?" "And the Blessed One replied "I am not the first Buddha who came upon earth, nor shall I be the last I came to teach you the truth, and I have founded on earth the kingdom of truth. Gautama Siddhartha will die, but Buddha will live, for Buddha is the truth, and the truth can not die. He who believes in the truth and lives it, is my disciple, and I shall teach him. The truth will be propagated and the kingdom of truth will increase for about five hundred years. Then for a while the clouds of error will darken the light, and in due time another Buddha will arise, and he will reveal to you the self-same eternal truth which I have taught you." Ananda said "How shall we know him?" The Blessed One said 'The Buddha that will come after me will be known as Metteyya, which means 'he whose name is kindness. [From 'The Book of the Great Decease' in the Pali Canons, the earliest Buddhist scriptures Pali is the language Gautama Buddha spoke.] Metteyya comes from the Pali word metta meaning love. Correctly translated into spoken English Metteyya means 'he whose name is kindness' or 'friend'. Thus 'the one who is to come' shall be recognisable, according to Buddha, as a great friend of Mankind. He will be Metteyya (friend). In another statement Buddha predicts that Metteyya will be "accompanied by a congregation of some thousands of brethren, even as I am now accompanied by a congregation of some hundreds of brethren." This Buddhist idea of a second Buddha filtered westward into the Middle East where, according to one authority, it was expressed in the later Christian idea of the second coming of Christ. In Buddhist lands Metteyya became a great favorite. Various cults devoted to him arose. In art and sculpture he was often depicted as a standing figure in contrast to Buddha who was usually shown as sitting. He became a frequent theme in Buddhist literature. For example, the "Anagata Vamsa", an 8 th century Indian poem on Metteyya puts into Gautama Buddha's mouth such lines as "I am now the perfect Buddha; "And there will be Metteyya too "Before this same auspicious aeon "Runs to the end of its years." A predominant part of the legend is that Metteyya will appear when the world is imperilled, religion has dangerously declined and a new dark age is threatening to cloud the planet. Ancient Tibetan scriptures confirm that this new spiritual leader shall appear in the West and that he will have red or golden hair: "When he shall be seen in the West, seated in the Western fashion, his hair like flames about his noble head, discoursing, then shall the inhabitants of the Three Worlds [Three worlds of Tibetan scriptures. Body: the physical world pertaining to the body and its operation and life. Speech: the 'world' of communication between entities and things. Mind: One's own world, the world of one's own creation.] rejoice, knowing that the emancipation of all sentient beings is imminent. Then it shall be called the age of the blessed because it will become commonplace to achieve Emancipation in one life-time." Gandhi, a Hindu, was perhaps invoking Metteyya when he wrote the following: "Asia has a message for the whole world, if it will only live up to it. There is the imprint of Buddhistic influence on the whole of Asia, which includes India, China, Japan, Burma Ceylon and the Malay States. For Asia to be not for Asia but the whole world, it has to re-learn the message of the Buddha and deliver it to the whole world." Paul Goddard, a noted western interpreter of Buddhism also recognized that traditional Buddhism was not adequate for the modern world He puts the dire need for a better technology in his own terms: "American and European Buddhists, before they can commonly attain Enlightenment and Buddhahood, will need their own method for practicing the Eighth Stage of the Noble Path, [The final step on the 8-part procedure Gautama Buddha developed for reaching Buddhahood.] but such a Right Method can not be formulated until the Buddha that is taking form within our own minds, comes 'When He comes, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.' 'Even so come, Lord Maitreya!'" [Maitreya is the Sanskrit form of the Pali word Metteyya, sometimes spelled Metteya] In 1955 Buddhists worldwide celebrated the 2,500 year anniversary of the Buddhist era. These celebrations coincided with the earliest date predicted for the arrival of Metteyya which works out, more or less, to 1950. The cover of this issue [not available] of Advance! vividly expresses this prediction. It shows Metteyya standing at the end of a 2,500 year Bridge. Buddha can be seen at the other end. Metteyya's right hand is upraised in the Abhayamudra gesture. Mudra means 'gesture' Abhaya means 'free from fear or danger, fearless.' As a gesture it conveys the granting of protection and blessing. It therefore represents a postulate for a safe space in which beings can attain total spiritual freedom. For two and a half millennia the East lovingly kept alive the hope of Metteyya – thus helping to create a future in which he could arrive and be accepted. Dear friends Another year has come to an end and now we have all the opportunities to hope and dream of a better sky without too many dark clouds! We create the future, we are the cause and we can be much more cause than we ever thought. Our potential is far from being exhausted. Here is the actual New Year writing: A 2,500 YEAR OLD PROPHECY, taken from the magazine Advance! 27, 1974. I do not have to add much to it, it speaks for itself and everyone can make his own thoughts about it. As written above, whatever happens, we can and should always be optimistic. We can now better see what is going on. There is more and more truth popping up, and it is good even if it is uncomfortable. Let's create and live our goals and dreams. This is a good postulate for next year! "A man is as well off as his goals and dreams are intact. If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future. 30 March 1954" – L. Ron Hubbard, 30 March 1954 Happy New Year! Max Hauri and the Ron's Org Grenchen: Erica, Melinda, Verena, Dirk, Jean and all who help us to put the Ron's Org there, every day.