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Introduction: Very few people can really explain how the transition from one body to another takes place. Some can talk about near-death experiences, but very few can say exactly what steps they went through, or the spirals of existence. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Notes from a lecture by L. Ron Hubbard given on the 3 December 1952 Let's take a look then at the microcosm [Universe in miniature; a little world; Man thought of as a miniature representation of the universe.] called "Man" as a cycle of action. He starts in with conception and goes through into birth, into childhood, into man and then here's an old man and then he's dead. That is what he believes his cycle of action is. He continues through this cycle and was for a long time content to believe that he ceased to exist when the end of the cycle was reached. Peculiar to this cycle of action is the relative contentment with which it has been accepted. There must be very heavy agreement on this otherwise nobody would ever stand for it. There is such a thing as transmigration [The passing of a soul at death into another body; from to move "migrate" across "trans".], as well as a reincarnation [The rebirth of the soul in a new body; a complex Hindu theory of rebirth.] principle, although neither of these things, you understand, are transmigration as such, or reincarnation as such. All that is is the continuous living by a being who continues to take different forms. He's never a different being, but he has to tell himself he's a different being. He tells himself he's no longer the being he was, and that that's gone and dead, in order to be the being which he is at the time. Now let's take what is known as a spiral. A spiral is simply a term of lives, a term of existences or a single existence which bear an intimate relation, one to the other. You can, for example, go back into a preclear's past and find an overall spiral of him being in a body. He picked up a body some time or another, was in and out of bodies for a while and then all of a sudden we get a long spiral, life after life after life, of being in bodies. The universe could be said to be, although this term "year" is very deceptive, 75 trillion years old. The spiral at first was at least 100 million years old. A fellow entered the MEST universe and he went 100 million years until he could finally conceive he was dead. Then he conceived that he was resurrected again by some necromancy [magic] and he thought himself a new being and went on his next spiral for maybe 50 or 60 million years. Then he felt himself "dead" and was resurrected again and went on for maybe 25 million years. The spiral gets shorter each time. The current spiral for most people here is 34,000 years. You'll find some preclears who are about 3,000 years on their current spiral. You will very rarely find one who is any longer than that. When you do, you find somebody who isn't tracking with the culture. There we have, then, spirals. Those spirals come down on the order of 100 million years, then maybe 50 million and so on until they're down here right now to this microscopic spiral point which is this current spiral. And Man is part of that microscopic point in one lifetime. L. Ron Hubbard Dear Friends, Very few people can really explain how the transition from one body to another takes place. Some can talk about near-death experiences, but very few can say exactly what steps they went through from their last to their first breath in their new body. Could they see and hear everything? Did they hang around for 53 years before making the decision to adopt a new body and did a few more years pass then? Maybe they were looking at the Great Wall of China or maybe they continued to worry about their last life for a few centuries; it doesn't matter. Or they may be thinking, "Why didn't anyone tell me this? What am I going to do now?" Occasionally, a child can say with precision who he was during his last life, but I have never heard of all the things he experienced in between. Somehow he forgets. The book "Straight Wire, a workbook" gives answers about this subject. Spiritual existence can be praised, but for the time being, the body is the stable data for a thetan. A significant part of the population cannot imagine a life in the hereafter. From what I read in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, it talks about staying conscious. A thetan is helped to remain conscious after death so that he does not drift into delusion and confusion. In Scientology terminology, this is also called dope-off. [The phenomenon of a person getting tired, sleepy, foggy (as though doped.] or anaten. [Abbreviation of analytical attenuation meaning diminution or weakening of the analytical awareness of an individual for a brief or extensive period of time.] Here are some of Ron's stable facts from the Scientology 8-80 book: "The thetan enters sometime in early infancy. This may be before, during, or following birth. He comes in a state of personal unknowingness, desiring to have an identity which he considers that he has not without a body." "…" "The thetan is usually either blind or very dim sighted at first. He gradually regains his ability to perceive as he comes up the tone scale. He passes a band of dub-in [Dub-in: any unknowingly created mental picture that appears to have been a record of the physical universe but is in fact only an altered copy of the time track.] above zero and below 2.0. He attains clear, brilliant sight higher on the scale." You have to be there and perceive. Or just confront and stay awake. One of the first things you learn in Scientology is to be there and perceive, which is also called TR 0, or confrontation. And ultimately, training and auditing contribute to and improve this ability to be there and perceive. And certainly TRs, training and auditing bring one up on the Tone scale. The TR 0 is an exercise that should be done regularly! There are always wins in Scientology, but from experience I can confirm that TR 0 very often gives the biggest wins. And you take them with you – forever. Happy Holiday Season! Max Hauri

Introduction: The cradle of Western civilization, Greek philosophy, favored the acceptance of past lives. Let's work on our civilization, even if it takes more than a few years. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Jataka – Birth Stories – Advance! 26 "I know with certainty where I was and who I was in the last 80 trillion years. The small details of it like what I ate for breakfast two trillion years ago are liable to go astray here and there, but other­wise it’s no mystery to me." – L. Ron Hubbard "I remembered many previous existences, namely one birth, two…, three…, four…, five…, ten…, twenty…, fifty…, hundred births, etc…. There I was, had that name, belonged to that family, that was my caste, that my livelihood, I have experienced such happiness and sorrow, that was my end; deceased I came again into existence there: there I was, had that name…" – Gautama Buddha That cradle of Western civilization, Greek philosophy, looked with favor on the acceptance of past lives Pythagoras, the great Greek philosopher and mathematician, vividly re­membered various past lives, for example, the time he fought in the Trojan War and he could still re­cognize in a contemporary temple a shield used in that war. Past lives were also known to various early Christian groups. This traditional belief of Man was then banned by the Second Church Council of Constantinople in A.D. 553 decreeing that "Whoso­ever shall support the mythical doctrine of the pre-existence of the soul and the subsequent wonder­ful [In the sense of strange or astonishing] opinion of its return let him be anathema." [damned cursed.] Thus, forcibly, the myth of "one lifetime only" entered the mainstream of western culture with, ultimately, unfortunate results. Later this one-lifetime-only idea was fertile ground for the rise of soul-denying 19th century materialism. Happily, in the East the traditional belief in former existences remained unbroken. The greatest example of this traditional spiritual knowledge from the East is the Jataka, a unique Buddhist work. Jataka is a Pali word (the language of Buddha) meaning birth story (from roots literally meaning "belonging to, connected with what has happened.") So pervasive and popular was the Buddhist use of this word that it came exclusively to mean the story of any previous birth of the Buddha or the name of a book in the Pali Canon, [the earliest scriptures of Buddhism] containing 550 such accounts. Thus the Jataka is the popularized history of Buddha’s past lives. Orga­nized shortly after his death by his im­mediate disciples, the Jataka is a basic book of Buddhism. Unknown to many, the Jataka is also a basic book of world culture. It had an enormous influence through­out the non-Buddhist Old World and especially in the West. Shorter collections of the original stories began to appear in Sanskrit in the first century A.D. These stories then spread into Central Asia where they were translated into Persian and through the subsequent centuries the Jataka was retranslated into Arabic and Hebrew, and then into Latin and Greek and all the modern languages of Europe. In other words, in times gone by it was something of a bestseller! One of these editions of the Jataka gave, in its introduction, the biography of Buddha. Reaching the Middle East along the trade routes it was trans­lated by St. John of Damascus in the 8th century into Greek under the title of Barlaam and Josaphat. It was then translated into Latin and various other European languages including Icelandic. The story became so popular and its hero, that is, the Buddha, was so admired that he was canonized as a Christian saint. Thus the original inspiration of the Christian gospel of love, Gautama Buddha, be­came a Christian saint! He is St. Jehosaphat and his day of worship is the 27th of November. By the way, Buddha was deified by the Hindus as an avatar (god in human form) of the Hindu god of survival, Vishnu. Gautama Buddha was a popular guy! The Jataka is also the basis of the famous Aesop’s Fables. These were ac­tually compiled in the 14th century at Constantinople by a monk named Planudes who drew largely for his stories upon the Jataka material. The Jataka itself presents a magnifi­cent series of 547 lives attributed to the Buddha. If we count an average of 50 years per lifetime it would cover a period of some 27,350 years. This re­presented Buddha’s cycle as a Bodhisatta (definition follows below) prior to his becoming a Buddha. Bodhi means enlightenment. Satta means being. Thus a Bodhisatta is a being who is destined or aspires to achieve the highest state of enlighten­ment or Buddhahood. These lifetimes were thus depicted as leading up to the final life of the cycle when Siddhartha Gautama [the Buddha’s given and family name] through his own self-effort achieved the long-sought state of bodhi and be­came a Buddha. Buddha is of course not a name but a state of existence. At the same time it became the title of its most famous exponent. The Bodhisatta, in one of his previous births, was a leader of a group of monkeys who lived on the banks of the Ganges river. Nearby there was a mango tree, and the monkeys used to eat its delicious fruit. Learning of this, a local king sent his men to guard it, and they accordingly surrounded it. In order to save the lives of his trapped fellow creatures, the Bodhi­satta prepared a bamboo bridge which turned out to be a little short. To overcome this difficulty he tied his own body to the bridge, thus enabling the monkeys to escape in safety. The king was greatly moved by the heroics of the Great Monkey and paid homage to him. The above illustration is done in the ancient style and depicts the entire incident in one drawing. Gautama Buddha’s message was that life was basically suffering. Death, loss and rebirth were seemingly inevitable. The alternative was to strive to realize one’s own spiritual beingness and, through enlightenment on supreme truths, escape the wheel of rebirth. He preached that by following a certain path a being could achieve his own Buddhahood in one lifetime. This message of hope, although sel­dom attainable and never stable, re­vitalized the highest spiritual aspira­tions of those who came in contact with it. It is not surprising that it dominated subsequent Eastern thought And like the Jataka, the philosophy of Buddhism also stretched westward where it motivated the spiritual quest of Christianity. Returning to the Jataka, we find it presents the theme of a great bene­factor of Man whose personal influence was felt through succeeding eras. In the story No. 50 Buddha states "This is not the first time Brethren that the Buddha has acted for the world’s good; he acted in like manner in bygone times as well." Each story opens with a preface or a "story of the present" which relates the particular circumstances in the Buddha’s life which prompted him to describe such and such past life and thus shed light on the present time circumstances. And always at the end of the story the Buddha reveals who he was and the parts those around him played in the same lifetime. For ex­ample the conclusion of story 176 states: "The Master, after this discourse was at an end, identified the Birth: ‘In those days Ananda was the king, and the wise councillor was I myself!’" The range of lifetimes represented the entire panorama of human and animal existence. Wise man, king, mer­chant, robber, monkey, deer, bird, even a bright flash of light, a child, etc. were among the past life identities ascribed to the Buddha. But through­out most of these stories the wise and benevolent beingness of Buddha shines out. Quite a few of these stories are directly attributed to Buddha from his own sermons and discourses. Others were obviously added by his immediate disciples out of their veneration for the Master. The birth stories are not chrono­logical nor do they exceed in content the culture and locale of ancient India. They were evidently used to popularize the Buddhist ethics and aspirations as well as the heroic figure of the founder of the religion. These stories are rich in humour, in­spiring and very alive. They make mar­velous fables and tales. In one of Buddha's earlier lives, he was a king. Here we see him lying discouraged, preaching to his people about the transience of earthly glory. In its concept of past lives, nothing exceeds the Jataka until the appear­ance – 2,500 years later – of L. Ron Hubbard’s trilogy of books, Mission Into Time, Have You Lived Before This Life? and History of Man which give the first full and accurate account of the whole track as well as the verifi­cation of past life recall. In bygone times only exceptional individuals had an ability to recall past lives. Such extraordinary ability was considered the mark of a fully de­veloped spiritual awareness. Now through Dianetics and Scientology anyone can be freed from that prison more confining than any bars or walls: the myth of one life only. Through Ron’s work this worst-of-all amnesias has been resolved technically. The above trilogy, coupled with the materials of the Advanced Courses at long last reveal Man’s most profound mystery: the actual content and charac­ter of the whole track. Buddha and his disciples would greatly welcome this technical break­through. Man’s Scientologically re­leased ability to recall previous exist­ences is a vital part of the advance across the Bridge to Total Freedom. L. Ron Hubbard has arrived to give us the key to the past as well as the future. JATAKA No. 84 The Birth Stories vary in length from one to several pages. No. 84 is a short one. The preface states that a child asked his father who was a Treasurer what were the Paths leading to spiritual welfare. The father was at a loss to answer this question. Bringing gifts of perfume, flowers and oils as an exchange, he went with his son to the Buddha for guidance. The father repeated his young son’s question and the Master answered: "Lay-brother," said the Master, "this selfsame question was asked me by this very child in former tunes, and I answered it for him. He knew the answer in bygone days, but now he has forgotten because of change of birth." Then, at the father’s request, he told this story of the past. "Once on a time when Brahmadatta [name of a king] was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was a very wealthy Treasurer; and he had a son who, when only seven years old, manifested great intelligence and anxiety for his spiritual welfare. One day the child came to his father to ask what were the Paths leading to spiritual welfare. And his father answered him by repeating this stanza: Seek Health, the supreme good; be virtuous; Hearken to elders; from the scriptures learn; Conform to Truth; and burst Attachment’s bonds. – For chiefly these six Paths to Welfare lead. In this wise did the Bodhisatta answer his son’s question as to the Paths that lead to spiritual welfare; and the boy from that time forward followed those six rules. After a life spent in charity and other good works, the Bodhisatta passed away to fare thereafter according to his deserts." His lesson ended, the Master identified the Birth by saving, "This child was also the child of those days, and I myself the Lord Treasurer." Dear friends, Our civilization is based more on philosophy and even religion than on our modern science. It's almost like the famous quote "Money isn't everything, but without money, everything is worthless." In other words, if people can't humanly handle technological advances, what good are they? I assert that it is precisely because we do not pay enough attention to philosophy and religion these days that we have once again found ourselves in a situation where a wrongly directed missile can drive the human world to extinction. I am so optimistic that the worst case scenario will not happen, but we live with a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads constantly. And so it makes sense to address this. It is not a matter of hiding in a monastery and praying in silence, but of living and practicing a modern and contemporary philosophy and religion. This is precisely why Scientology was developed. The text below begins with the paragraph: "That cradle of Western civilization, Greek philosophy, looked with favor on the acceptance of past lives Pythagoras, the great Greek philosopher and mathematician, vividly re­membered various past lives, for example, the time he fought in the Trojan War and he could still re­cognize in a contemporary temple a shield used in that war." Let's work at our civilization even if it takes more than a few years. Much love, Max Hauri

Introduction: Together we are strong – Scientology is a group activity. Read also the truly appropriate article by Ron about teamwork. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Excerpt from HCOB 28 May 1969 Dianetics and Results Dianetic Counseling Groups The best auditing results are obtained from teamwork. Even a group of auditors, trying to make lots of money, usually try to do nothing but audit. It is not that they have case failures. It is that they fail to wear the essential hats. A Review Auditor has to be a trained Scientologist. Lack of one means a roughed-up pc has to be sent to the nearest org. But there is no reason one cannot work as part of a group, even if the others are only part-timers. The best solution to all this is to form a Dianetic Counseling Group and get the essential posts on the org board held. Then the advances and gains the group makes will be advances that are stable. This group would of course have to have liaison with a competent Medical Doctor or Clinic. In the United States especially, the Counselors would have to be ministers. A Dianetic auditor would be able to audit all day even if the whole group only worked evenings. Let’s face it. The auditor auditing alone will have case failures. He won’t have time to pick them up. He won’t be able to get them to Qual. After a while he will have losses and some failed cases that muddy up his neighborhood just as other professions get. Psychiatry and psychology failed as single practitioners not only because they had no real tech but because they tried to work alone. This turned them toward governments which then used them only to control populations and there went whatever tech they might have developed. The single practitioner theory in Dianetics failed badly as an early Dianetics practice. Auditors that made it only attached themselves to the rich. Others became drifters. The answer, we have found out long since, is the group. The full hats, organization and activities and how they interrelate are available to Dianetic Counseling Groups. It is a wide area of interesting development all by itself. We had to know org basics to make orgs. A Dianetic Counseling Group can be enfranchised and made regular and helped. It will tend to stabilize any practice area. And it will minimize case failures. The official position of orgs is that they cannot take responsibility for the results obtained by single practitioners. Auditing is a team activity. Even if one were a medical doctor or a psychiatrist or psychologist, it would be best to have on hand or on call the rest of the team or at least a Dianetic Counseling Group even if one were not an integral part of it. The purpose of auditing is healthy sane people. The largest percentage are very grateful and very happy. And then there are the few who, through misconducted lives, are quite a handful to say the least. Realism requires that auditing be a group action. As such a group can also teach a course, it is not difficult to recruit able people to help. I recall in particular two pathetic cases of singlism. One was a psychoanalyst who learned how to be an auditor and had to stop using Dianetics as it cleaned up all his practice and he had so much trouble finding “patients”. The other was an auditor who found himself with the whole of a war vessel’s crew as pcs and no help in sight. In either case forming a Dianetic Counseling Group, getting them checked out on their “hats” and doing their duties even part-time would have solved all. One stick won’t burn. One auditor cannot in truth live and work alone. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends Here Daniela's feedback on what we have achieved regarding the declaration of protection in Munich. It is another step towards freedom. As a refresher, I have also attached the March newsletter to the email. Together we are strong – Scientology is a group activity. See also the truly appropriate article by Ron, above or attached. Much love Max Hauri Dear Friends, We would like to report that the ruling against the city of Munich regarding the use of the Scientology Declaration of Protection is now being implemented. See the attachment. Our lawyer has – thanks to your support – taken care of this and has published the relevant judgment on Internet in such a way that it can be easily found by people who are in a similar situation and are looking for help. For example, the judgment is available on one of the largest legal platforms Beck-online. This means that the judgment reached can also be used in other areas where this discriminatory form of "explanation" is required. Again, here is the judgment in short form; those who wish to read it in full can find it on the Internet at: VG Munich (30th chamber), judgment of 28.12.2022, AZ M 30 K 19.2699. "The defendant (City of Munich) is ordered to cease and desist from making grants for the promotion of parent-child initiatives in family self-help, which are designed as voluntary benefits, dependent on the submission of and compliance with a declaration of protection, by which the operator of the facility undertakes to immediately exclude persons from the further performance of the funded task, who during the funding period as free Scientologists or members of the "Free Zone" apply, teach or otherwise disseminate the technologies of L. Ron Hubbard or Scientological techniques and methods." I think we have come a good step further in the direction of self-assertion. Many thanks to all who have contributed to this. Best regards. Daniela Mikorey

Introduction: I dare to say that going to school and learning things hardly improves intelligence. Surely, one can talk cleverly or simply join in the conversation. But unfortunately, I've seen too many educated people talking garbage and doing stupid things… Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Public Attacks Legal Point – Policy Letter 23. Nov. 1967-II Here what Ron says: The practice of Scientology is today a very routine action. It consists of drills which: 1. Better one's ability to communicate, 2. Gives one the intelligence to handle his problems, 3. Makes one able to be a social being without committing antisocial acts, 4. Brings one to abandon explanations of his failures and to get on with being successful, 5. Handles all one's reactiveness and. 6. Clears one. These drills are quite unfrightening. If psychology had them it would use them and be a great success. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends, I dare to say that going to school and learning things hardly improves intelligence. Surely, one can talk cleverly or simply join in the conversation. But unfortunately, I've seen too many educated people talking garbage and doing stupid things that I can easily defend my claim. I also dare to say that TRs, that is our communication exercises, and auditing, and here I include the so-called Objective Process or CCHs, increase intelligence. [CCHs: Communication, Control, Havingness. Objective Processes that use Communication, Control, and Havingness to enhance just that and make someone more capable, more active, and more high-toned]. Ron says "reality is proportional to the charge removed." This is a very important statement and a basis on which to build. Let me give an example of how charge prevents one from seeing reality: A child can be so panicked by a horsefly that he jumps to his death. Or have you ever tried to explain something to someone sitting in a grief charge? Audit the secondary first and then you can talk to him. Intelligence is improved by taking away charge, not by filling someone with data. A thetan cannot think with this data until he has been cleared of the garbage, i.e., misemotions, upsets, misdeeds, problems, pain, unconsciousness, fixed ideas, etc. Much love, Max Hauri

Introduction: Ron has mentioned Buddhism over and over and also sees it as a forerunner of Scientology. Ron even published the Buddhist article "Matters Judical" as an HCO Policy Letter. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below Article from Advance! 23 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 BC.), 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. 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. What did the Buddha say? Did he say as some claim that Man is not a spirit but merely a bundle of associated phenomena? This would make him at best an agnostic and belittle Buddhism's historic identity as a religion. Did he say that? Is it possible to weave a thread through the last 2,500 years of divergencies to the truth of the matter? At the heart of the problem is the fact that Buddha himself did not write anything down. All great Indian classics were originally aural works handed down through successive generations. So it was with Buddhism. The Buddha laid great emphasis on his disciples duplicating his work through recitation and mnemonic [ helping or meant to help, the memory; of memory ] skills. Immediately after his passing away, a great First Council of his chief disciples met and agreed upon the recitation of the rules of the order and the basic sermons of the Buddha. Within the next several hundred years three additional councils were necessary to sort out and agree upon the Buddha's message. Finally, in the 1st century B.C. one sect of the 18 major sects wrote down their rendition and bequeathed it to future generations in the form of the famous Pali Canons. [ Canon – a collection of written works. Pali – the language Buddha spoke.] That is the record we have – a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. So what did the Buddha really say? Let us look at the Buddha's life which stands as the supreme example of his own word, for unlike some philosophers the Buddha did as he said do. The Buddha was born in Lumbini in the Northeast corner of India in what is now Nepal. Under the majestic rise of the Himalayan peaks he grew up as a rich young prince, Siddhartha Gautama. At the age of 29 he suddenly realized his destiny and left behind his material opulence to seek greater spiritual riches. He sat at the laps of the greatest Hindu teachers. He outdid ascetics in secluded forests. Finally at the end of six years of intense search he resolved to sit down beneath a fig tree and not stir until he had achieved enlightenment. On that fateful night Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha and sparked off a civilizing movement that profoundly influenced world history. Afterwards, others came and asked Siddhartha Gautama, now Buddha, "Are you a man, god or heavenly being?". He answered he was none of these. "I am awakened" was the reply. He was Buddha. For the root budh denotes both to wake up and to know. Buddha then means the "Enlightened One" or the "Awakened One." Thus we see, first of all, that Buddha is not really a name but rather a higher state of existence. Now if the Buddha had merely said he had uniquely achieved this state he might have been worshipped as a god but he wouldn't have founded Buddhism. Instead Buddha said anyone could follow him to reach this same state, now, in one lifetime. Another name for this state was Bodhi (enlightenment) from the same root as Buddha. So we are getting closer to the heart of the Buddha's message. But before we look closer at what Bodhi was let us look at the basic principles of Buddha's philosophy which made it so revolutionary. First of all he said that an idea was only as valuable as it worked to help Man resolve unhappiness. "I teach but one thing: suffering and the termination of suffering." Secondly, he said his philosophy was only as true as one could experience it and find it true. "Do not go by what is handed down nor on the authority of your traditional teachings. When you know of yourselves: 'These teachings when followed out and put in practice lead to loss and suffering' – then reject them." Thirdly, Buddha rejected the tradition wherein wisdom was the monopoly of a priest class in an ivory tower. "I have preached the truth without making any distinction between exoteric [ not limited to a select few or inner circle; broadly understandable ] and esoteric [ secret, intended for or understood by only a chosen few or inner circle ] doctrine; for in respect of the truths, Ananda, [ Chief Aide of Buddha ] the Tathagata [ another name for Buddha meaning the "Thus-Come." ] has no such thing as the closed fist of a teacher who keeps some things back." With this statement Buddha opened the book of knowledge to all, regardless of creed, color, caste or class and thus founded the first international religion. So let's look at this again. The Buddha said life inevitably involved suffering and loss as long as a being was tied to the treadmill of death and rebirth. But what bound a being to this mortal coil? Only his own self-created attachment to his body and the illusory craving for Mest! So what was really real? The ultimate beingness of the individual. So what was Buddha's basic message? What did he point to? What was Bodhi really? Buddha pointed to the ultimate freedom of the spirit beyond the restrictions of corporal existence! Only a Buddha, he said, could be ("know he is") a real individual because only a Buddha is free of an "ego-personality" composed of "elements that pass away," the components of the physical manifestations of Man which, being part of the physical universe, do not partake of the true nature of reality, the being himself. So what is the basic experience Buddha spoke of? On that night under the fig tree, the Buddha-to-be exteriorized from his body and realized who and what he was: a spirit freed of the flesh and of dependence upon matter. This was the central experience which he sought to help others reach. The message of this experience, although seldom obtainable and never stable, permeated thousands of miles in all directions from Northeast India, revitalizing Man's greatest hopes for spiritual freedom. But Man cannot live on hope and inspiration alone. Therein lies the failure of Buddhism. Buddha never developed a technology adequate to the building of a Bridge across the chasm to the "other side." And due to the twists and distortions later introduced into the subject by others (such as Buddha said Man is not a spirit), the subject itself became, paradoxically, a trap for the unenlightened. But Buddha said his work was not complete. He predicted that a successor would arise some 2,500 years later in the West to complete his work. This prediction has now been fulfilled. The goals of total spiritual freedom, envisioned by Buddha, are now totally obtainable through Dianetics and Scientology. Through the work of L. Ron Hubbard, the technology, symbolized by The Bridge , now exists to not only achieve the traditional goals of Man but to exceed them beyond Man's wildest dreams. After 2,500 years a new golden era has, at last, begun for Man. L. Ron Hubbard on Buddhism "Actually, Siddhartha Gautama was exteriorizing people and banging them out of their heads left and right. Anybody who exteriorizes is a Buddha. Our technology on this is better, which is quite startling in itself. [Exteriorization: The state in which the thetan, the individual himself, is outside his body. When this is achieved, the person attains a certainty that he is himself and not the body]. The trouble he had with his work was how to stably exteriorize, or continue somebody in an exterior condition. He did not know how to do this. The work of Siddhartha Gautama, although looked upon as ethereal, produced a sufficiency of wisdom on this planet to bring civilization to three quarters of Asia. Probably the shreds of Buddhism, coming into the Middle East with the silk and spice merchants who after the contact of Alexander in about 333 B.C. found out there was a Europe, sparked a religious revival and a considerable amount of messianic activity in the Middle East. The spirituality of man is the basis of religion and is the one thing that all religions have in common. They have different creators, different gods, different altars of worship, but in one thing they hold a common truth and that is that man is a spiritual being. Only in Buddhism was this ever proven. The aim and goal of Buddhism was just to knock off the thing about having to pick up another body and another identity all the time and mess it up. It didn't have the aim and goal that a fellow ought to be able to operate. To that degree we have enormously exceeded any limits ever put in this direction before." L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends In our society led by Homo sapiens, I see a lot of declarations of bankruptcy. It is so beyond my values that sometimes I wonder if I should even mention at all. Here is another one. In a nutshell, it's about equipping a robot with artificial intelligence in such a way that you can talk to it like a friend. Surely this technology will be linked with that of "love dolls" and ready is the perfect wife. And children will be ordered in the laboratory... Here is a German and English link on the subject: https://pressefreiheit.rtde.website/international/149173-erica-lernt-lachen-forscher-bringen/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/15/scientists-teach-robot-laugh-right-time-research Relationships and Life Nobody says that relationships, whether in partnership or in other areas of life, are always easy. But if we don't work on it and develop, then what? In the Corona period, the importance of relationships and closeness, face-to-face conversations and a hug was confirmed to me a thousand times and can hardly be overstated. Scientology is the technology of how we can connect and keep connecting. It is a huge field and there is much to learn and it is worthwhile. Buddhism Ron has mentioned Buddhism over and over and also sees it as a forerunner of Scientology. Ron even published the Buddhist article "Matters Judical" as an HCO Policy Letter. In the magazine Advance! various articles about Buddhism, and also in connection with Scientology, were published in 1974. In the next newsletter I will publish them again. Here is the first article. Much love, Max

Introduction: Gautama Buddha in actual fact went to Tibet and de­veloped what is called Lamaism, a further extension of Buddhism, in an effort to produce a methodology to reach the basis of the mind and permit an individual to be spiritually free. – L. Ron Hubbard Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Originally published in the magazine Advance! 24, 1974 Lamaism means literally the practice, system, or doctrine of the Lamas. Lama means the "Superior One." It is a term reserved for an ecclesiastic of high rank in Tibetan Buddhism but by courtesy is extended to any Gelong (an ordained Tibetan monk). But what is Lamaism? When did it start? By whom? What are some of its most interesting points? The year is 747 A.D. It's spring. An important event occurred which a young Tibetan nobleman might have described, thusly: "The smoke rose vertically. This was the first thing I noticed. Then I realized I no longer felt the eternal wind. It had stopped – as if it too waited with bated breath for the arrival of Padma Sambhava, who is to bring its new knowledge and perhaps wisdom. "The townsmen seemed to go about their business with muted voices though it's doubtful they foretold the Guru's arrival. Even the dogs stopped barking. A silence grew manifest – as if to leave a space for the hearing of the new Insight. "Thus I waited. "Then like the sun breaking over the white mountain citadels which have preserved us for so long – sudden­ly the blessed one and his disciples appeared on the inward plateau. The King and his wives were there to wel­come them. "Our histories will later record for the world that this new Teacher, known on earth as Padma Sambhava, was the founder of the Dharma in the land of the Snowy Ranges. The Dharma, Dharma meaning knowledge; the truth that Buddha revealed and which we can discover in our own hearts and minds." In fact, according to Tibetan writings Gautama Buddha took rebirth as Padma Sambhava with the express purpose of "preaching the Esoteric Dharma" which in modern terms we could describe as the most "far out" doctrines and practices of Buddhism. Let's go back a few years. The back­ground of Tibetan Buddhism is called Tantrayana, "Vehicle of the Tantra texts", an occult form of Buddhism which began to arise in India in the second century A.D. and which by the sixth century found its way onto the curriculum of the great Buddhist universities of India. Padma Sambhava was a renowned professor at the University of Nalanda, the most famous Indian Buddhist uni­versity. According to the biography of Padma the good king Thi-Srong-Detsan wanted to splendidly introduce Budd­hism in Tibet and inquired as to the most famous teacher and came up with Padma's name. He invited him, and Padma accepted. After his arrival Padma built the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery at Samye, translated scores of Sanskrit Buddhist materials into Tibetan, es­tablished the higher religion of Budd­hism in Tibet and founded an order of monks. He also authored various works which we will examine later. Padma became a great cultural hero of Tibet. A biography of him written by an immediate disciple attributes various OT powers to him and is al­ready legendary. As a 20th century Tibetan Lama states: "Padma Sam­bhava… was the first great teacher of the Doctrine of the Enlightened One to the people of Tibet… he lifted them socially from crude bar­barism to unsurpassed religious insight… all sects of Tibetan Buddhists re­vere him. The Precious Guru cannot but be regarded as being one of the chief Culture Heroes and Enlighteners of our common humanity." One of the interesting things about Padma is that he hid copies of various works and translations in caves and caches throughout Tibet: "in order (as his biography states) that there might be preserved for future generations the original uncorrupted teachings… All that he taught was recorded and hidden. Even the teachings of the Lord Buddha in their purity he hid, so that the non-Buddhists might not interpolate them [ interpolate: to alter or enlarge (a book, passage, etc.) by putting in new materials, especially without authorization or deceptively ]. No one save the Tertons (a taker-out of hidden texts) would have the power to discover and bring forth the secreted writings." According to the biography Padma, appointed Tertons to be reborn at various times with the express office of uncovering and revealing the sacred works. According to the Nyingma School of Tibet, sacred texts have been found by Tertons through the cen­turies in 49 different places in Tibet. So Padma Sambhava was a fasci­nating character! So let's have a look at some of the materials which bear his name. Lamaism as characterized at its inception by Padma is above all concerned with the mind and exteriorization. Of all of the words of the Buddha it is an ex­tension in particular of the following: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the wagon. "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." In interpreting the Tibetan materials we are to examine, it should be re­membered that we are examining these with a light so powerful that it dispels the shadows that have plagued previous Western interpreters even when they thought they understood them. That light is, of course, Scientology, the ultimate development of the study of knowledge, the mind and spirit. It would not be easy to approach these early Tibetan Buddhist materials, most of which are enfolded in a symbolic language, without knowing the parts of man as revealed in Scientology. In fact, as fascinating as these materials are, one must resist a temptation to read more insight into them than there actually is. So hoist your mental sails and let's make for the milestone of Lamaism, a book on "Self-liberation" by Padma Sambhava. It has the following intro­duction: "Herein follows the Art of Know­ing the Mind, the Seeing of Reality, called Self-liberation, from 'The Pro­found Doctrine of Self-liberation by Meditation upon the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities." Basically this could be summed up as: There's an absolute which is senior to and not part of the physical universe. This Absolute is Ultimate Truth – and you're it bud! Liberation is the pro­cess of really realizing this point. The basic trap is to sink into and believe the illusion that the physical universe is king. On the contrary, says Padma, "Mind [by which he means uncon­ditioned beingness] when uninhibited conceives all that comes into exist­ence." Sorrow and unhappiness basically stem from not knowing oneself. Rea­lizing the essence one already is is "the foundation of all the joys." What it takes to achieve self-liberation is (1) the teaching, (2) under­standing it, (3) applying it, and (4) rea­lizing the fruit of the teaching. A point of confusion in the trans­lations is that the same term, "mind" is used to embrace both the finite mind of thoughts and concepts and the Mind, which is the self-existing absolute, one's own essence. "By controlling and understanding" the finite mind, one can reach the Mind in its true state. This "mind" is "naked, immaculate; not made of anything, being of the Voidness; clear, vacuous, without du­ality, transparent; timeless, uncompounded, unimpeded, colorless; … transcendent over creation. Scientologists would recognize this as Axiom One of the Scientology Ax­ioms which far more accurately states the case: " Life Is Basically A Static . Definition: a Life Static has no mass, no motion, no wavelength, no location in space or in time. It has the ability to postulate and to perceive." In the closing paragraphs of this book Padma Sambhava states: "Al­though taught during this present epoch, the text… was hidden away amidst a cache of precious things. May this Book be read by those blessed devotees of the future." Thank you, Padma. Another work attributed to Padma is possibly one of the five most fasci­nating pre-Scientology works: the Bardo Thodol. Hold onto your hat – we're going to take a trip through death! The Bardo Thodol! Known to the West as the "Tibetan Book of the Dead," through the splendid edition of W. Y. Evans-Wentz. Bardo is the state intervening be­tween death and rebirth. Literally the title could mean, "Liberation by Hear­ing on the After-death Plane." This is a technical not a philosophic manual. As the introduction states, this is "The Great Doctrine of Liberation by Hearing, which Confers Spiritual Freedom on Devotees of Ordinary Intelligence." As was discussed in Issue 23 of Advance! the real intent of Buddhism, not previously known to the West, was exteriorization. This manual is a further development of this subject. It contains this key point: except possibly for the highest adepts, Man could not stably exteriorize with Buddhist technology. In other words, it was a failed technology. Padma spotted the key point that at death natural exteriorization occurs. His ef­fort was to take advantage of this point by convincing the being that he could remain stably in this state and thus obtain "liberation." He also recognized that a being was easier to work with in an exteriorized state as, unencumbered by a body, he is far more able and receptive. Various paranormal capabilities were acknow­ledged. For example, at one point the disembodied being is thusly addressed: "O Nobly-born, that art actually en­dowed with the power of miraculous action…a power come to thee naturally… thou art able in a moment to traverse the four continents… or canst instantaneously arrive in what­ever place you wishest." One could say in our terms that the Bardo Thodol is an attempt to achieve a spiritually free being, able to exist without reference to a body or MEST, by overcoming the almost inevitable compulsion of the being to sink back into a body due to his past overts (evil Karma). Textually the manual consists of in­structions to the officiating priest coupled with the passages he is to read to the exteriorized thetan from just before the point of death to a period some 49 days later when he picks up another body if such be the case. Of course it was vital to know whether the subject was really dying or not. For this another treatise ex­isted listing all the death symptoms. By the way, an interesting point is that in Tibetan funeral rites the body is cremated or otherwise completely disposed of so that the thetan can not compulsively hang around it – which would impede the liberation attempts. When the person died he was di­rected to leave through the natural opening in his skull. The first moment of exteriorization, symbolized by a radiant Clear Light, was considered the key point because if the person could hold on to the full realization of his basic self "his liberation will be certain." According to this manual he will be most certain of his own being-ness when he first blows out of his head. After the first point of exterioriza­tion, the being enters the Intermediate or Between-lives area. It is made clear to him as he goes through this period what condition he is in and what his chances of liberation are. Day by day there is a reading and instructions by the priest to the being to help him confront his condition and escape the wheel of rebirth. The Intermediate area is no joy ride. Per the text the being is beset with terrifying and often gruesome visions and hallucinations which do not, however, have objective existence but are "reflections of (his) own conscious­ness." If he can't confront them he'll become overwhelmed and hasten his rebirth. The manual urges the person to realize these apparitions are only his own mental dramatizations. By confronting them and the truth of his own beingness as well then "thou wilt obtain Buddhahood." The manual stresses that each mo­ment he doesn't seize his opportunity for liberation, that chance becomes more remote as he spins in toward re­birth. During the Intermediate state the newly-deceased is also advised in the interest of liberation to (1) let-go of his worldly possessions so he is no longer attached to them; and (2) to keep his thoughts purified by, for ex­ample, not getting angry even if he sees his relatives misperforming his funeral rites! Eventually, according to the Bardo Thodol, the being (if he hasn't achieved liberation) arrives at the point in time where through his compulsions for a body he is being drawn rapidly toward rebirth. As the person nears the rebirth stage the manual states he will "see visions of males and females in union" and he is cautioned to "withhold … from going between them." Final ef­forts are made to get the being to sub­limate his need for a body. If that fails the officiating priest, through con­tinuing to read the Bardo Thodol, assists the person to choose the most optimum birth possible. It is particu­larly stressed that he should pick up a body in a land where religion flourishes so he can resume his path to emanci­pation. The author urges in the Bardo Thodol that the text be read "in the midst of vast congregations. Dissemi­nate it" so that beings will already be familiar with it when it is read at death. As the text states: "Whatever the religious practices of any one may have been – whether extensive or limited – during the moments of death various misleading illusions occur; and hence this Thödol is indispensable. To those who have meditated much, the real Truth dawneth as soon as the body and consciousness-principle part. The acquiring of experience, while living is important: they who have [then] re­cognized [the true nature of] their own being, and thus have had some experience, obtain great power during the Bardo of the Moments of Death, when the Clear Light dawneth." There are instructions in the Bardo Thodol at various levels and appeals. For instance, at one point the author states: "(Instructions to the Officiant): If it be an illiterate boor who knoweth not how to meditate then say this: 'O nobly-born, if thou knowest not how to meditate'" and the priest would then go on to read the Bardo Thodol instruction at this point. In the final conclusion of the manual it answers the question why these aural instructions might be effective: "There is no flesh and blood body to depend upon, but a mental body, which is (easily) affected. At whatever distance one may be wandering in the Bardo, one heareth and cometh, for one possesseth the slender sense of super­normal perception and foreknowledge; and, recollecting and apprehending in­stantaneously, the mind is capable of being changed (or influenced). There­fore is it (i.e. the Teaching) of great use here." Of course, the critical flaw of the above proceedings is that the person helping didn't know when he had ob­tained a product or not so he just carried straight on through. The whole manual was read. I imagine if a guy "did make it," say on the sixth day, that it caused a heck of an overrun when the priest just carried on. And that would be the greatest criticism one could make of this marvelous work. There were no statistics of results, no success stories. A workable procedure, by definition, must contain demon­strable results. And without real statis­tics the Bardo Thodol couldn't help but become a sterile ritual. The Buddhism that Padma Sambhava brought to Tibet had several other interesting technical features. These were various "aids" to medita­tion and the sought-for achievement of desired spiritual states. These aids were the mantras, yudras and mandalas as defined below. Mantras were syllables or sentences, usually without meaningful contents, which a guru imparted in secret initia­tion to his disciple. For example, om ma-ni pad-me hum was a famous man­tra designed to invoke a certain type of spiritual power. These mantras were based upon the concept of there being certain vibrations associated with spirit­ual beings and with spiritual and phy­sical forces and that these factors can be invoked by uttering the mantra. Unless, of course, the mantras were properly intoned they were considered useless. A second tool of Lamaism was the mudra or patterned gestures or pos­tures of the hands and fingers. The idea was that certain postures could lead to certain salutory psychic states. They were also said to direct in a certain manner the magnetic or electrical cur­rents of the body. The third tool was called the mandala, often depicted in Tibetan art. The mandala can be considered a spirit­ual map on an artistic and symbolic level, and was used as an aid to medi­tation. After Padma's time the religious history of Tibet, while colorful, main­tained the basic heritage that Padma conferred. His eventual spiritual suc­cessors, the Dalai and Panchen Lamas, were personages of a later period. The invasion in 1950 of Chinese Communist forces marked the end of Tibet's claim on world history, a claim that was never other than spiritual. It burst the bubble that behind the Hima­layan wall rested a mystery of sur­passing spiritual power. The shell was there but not the power, for truth to be the Truth must promote survival on all dynamics, and falling before soldiers driven by an atheistic ideology is hardly good survival. But the ancient Lamas did not fail. By 1950 Tibet was simply no longer the focus of their heritage. It had passed on to the future. And by 1950 through the work of L. Ron Hubbard that future had al­ready arrived. Through Dianetics and Scientology the problems and inhibi­tions to exteriorization and spiritual states outside the body have been fully solved. And there's no need to wait for death or abandon the game of life! Thus, the Bardo Thodol and Lamaism failed; failed because the real barrier to exteriorization and freedom was not known to the early pioneers of Lamaism – the reactive mind. Not only that but any "release" from the body game or physical uni­verse which might have been attained by Lamaism would only have been tem­porary as the vicious nature of the reactive mind would have shortly caused a relapse. Man would have to wait another 724 years until L. Ron Hubbard's release of Dianetics, Scientology and the Ad­vanced Courses before the real nature of the mind – and the technology to handle it fully – would be known. The advent of Lamaism occurred exactly at the halfway point between Buddha's death(483 B.C.) and A.D. 24 [ AD: After Dianetics, the publishing of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health ] of our era. Padma Sambhava and those who contributed to Lamaism and kept alive, on the high wind-swept Tibetan plateau, Man's age-old hope of spiritual free­dom would welcome in Scientology the incredible solution to their failures and aspirations. After endless eons of wandering through existence in a winless direc­tion, at last through Scientology and the Advanced Courses the wheel of re­birth is now our trophy and we can join the new wonderful game of triumphant life. Dear Friends, Here is a very interesting writing, which describes the Lamaism in Tibet and gives an insight into the Bardo Thodol. "Bardo Thodol" in English: "Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State" and is also called the "Tibetan Book of the Dead". Here two sections from it: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the wagon. "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." "The Intermediate area is no joy ride. Per the text the being is beset with terrifying and often gruesome visions and hallucinations which do not, however, have objective existence but are "reflections of (his) own conscious­ness." If he can't confront them he'll become overwhelmed and hasten his rebirth. The manual urges the person to realize these apparitions are only his own mental dramatizations. By confronting them and the truth of his own beingness as well then "thou wilt obtain Buddhahood." Much love, Max Hauri

Introduction: This beautiful article, applicable to executives as well as employees, parents and anyone else who has to deal with a third person will enlighten you on the missing ingredient in any business that is struggling to move forward. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Ethics Presence HCO PL 4 October 1968 Publication II The reason an executive can get compliance is because he has Ethics presence. If you haven't got it, you won't. When you issue orders you are using power and force. If you are also right in what you get compliance with and your programmes are clear, correct and beneficial – boy do you win. But it is not the rightness of a programme that gets compliance. It is Ethics Presence. Rightness does not get compliance because there are always counter intentions in the way. If you go on the assumption that one and all want things to go right you are going to make a dog's breakfast out of it. There are only a few with a good forward look and who are relatively unaberrated [ not irrational ]. Men will keep the accounts straight only because you can muster bayonets to enforce that they do. Ethics presence is an X quality made up partly of symbology, partly of force, some "now we're supposed to's" and endurance. One of the reasons the press now print what we say is that we have endured the biggest shellackings anybody could muster up. We've gained Ethics presence publicly by it. Endurance asserts the truth of unkillability. We're still here, can't be unmocked [ make disappear ]. This drives the Suppressive Person wild. Because of the Sea Org [ Scientology Organization that was on the high seas from 1967-75 ] we appear to have unlimited reach and in some mysterious way, unlimited resources. The ability to appear and disappear mysteriously is a part of Ethics presence. As an Executive you get compliance because you have Ethics presence and persistence and can get mad. The way you continue to have Ethics presence is to be maximally right in your actions, decisions and dictates. Because if you're wrong the other fellow gets wrapped around a pole for complying. And the pain of that starts to outweigh your own Ethics presence. So, when you issue orders you are using force and power. You can, however, get in such a frame of mind you cease to use the softer arts as well. Against non-compliance you add ferocity with the aim of continuing your comm line. Wrath is effective but used in moderation and only in moments of urgency. Man has been invalidated to such an extent that he starts to do himself in – that's the secret of aberration [ irrationality ]. He denies himself, then mocks up [ mentally put there ] pictures to do himself in with. If you continue to invalidate and chop people, they will start to do themselves in even harder – so if you continue to use heavy ethics on someone, you play right into the hands of his bank. Self-invalidation is merely the accumulation of invalidation of oneself by others. The point being, that you better temper the lightning with sunshine occasionally. If you use heavy ethics on weak beings, they are being invalidated from altitude . You can't build up competent people by invalidating them. Without in any way softening your approach, you should know that real force is dependent upon ARC [ Affinity, Reality, Communication ] and the major threat is the interruption thereof. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends, 10 years ago, as today, we moved from Wabern (Bern) to Grenchen. This was simply a logical next step in our journey. Our voyage began long before, including the exit from the church and the turmoil of the time, and also with the big question "What to do? Where to go?" The thing that brought us further, the most important quality was and is perseverance. Just keep going, never lose sight of the goal and keep going. Just that. I think the photo I took last Tuesday along the river Doubs communicates perseverance. "Persistence is the ability to exert continuance of effort toward survival goals." (Part of Dianetics Axiom 19) Above and attached the article "Ethical Presence", which fits quite well with Perseverance. A quite great article, which gives a deep insight. Much love, Max Hauri

Introduction: Find out what Scientology really is and why we are so enthusiastic about it. You don't have to be a member of a group to use it. Who doesn't want to be happier, smarter and healthier? Who doesn't want to reap its benefits? The books and exercises are available to you for free on this website. Edited from the writings of L. Ron Hubbard – Certainty VI-2 Scientology is Man's brightest hope in personal and public life. The first science of the mind, it has won through much opposition to its present level of prestige. Scientology is man's hope in a machine-atomic age. The term Scientology is taken from scio , which means knowing in the fullest meaning of the word, and logos , to study. Scientology, used by the trained or relatively untrained person, improves the intelligence, ability, behavior, skill and appearance of people. It is employed by an auditor (a Scientology practitioner) upon individuals, or with small or large groups of people. The auditor makes these people (at their choice) do various exercises, and these exercises bring about changes for the better in intelligence, behaviour, general competence, and selfdeterminism. The employment of these exercises is called processing. The best use of Scientology is through processing and education in Scientology (or training). It is interesting that people only need to study Scientology to have some rise in their own intelligence, behavior, and competence. The study itself is therapeutic, by actual testing. The Ron's Orgs are in possession of numerous case histories and individual files. No other subject on earth except physics and chemistry has had such gruelling testing. Scientology is used by some of the largest business organizations on Earth. It is valid. It has been tested. Scientology embraces the entire field of knowledge and includes as part of this the human mind, which is a computer of and vessel for knowledge. The essence of Scientology is its practicality: its application is broad and its results are uniformly predictable. In the field of the human mind it is best used to "make the able more able" rather than to "treat" the psychotic or neurotic or psychosomatically ill. But its application to the latter, when done by competent and properly trained Scientologists, forms the only thoroughly validated psycho-therapy known to man today. In the first book, Dianetics: The modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard, techniques were present which would place in view, and then vanquish, any mental manifestation known in the field of insanity and aberration. Some seventy per cent, of man's ills may be remedied at a cost of time and money lower than any other similar effort and with a higher effectiveness. The handling of psychosis, neurosis and psychosomatic illness does not, however, happen to be the goal of the Scientologist. As long as the accent is upon ability, malfunctions will vanish. The goal of the Scientologist is in the direction of ability. If he increases the general ability of the individual in any and all fields then, of course, any mis-ability such as those represented by psychosis, neurosis, and psychosomatic illness will vanish. Scientology conflicts nowhere with the truth, and will be found to agree with known facts in whatever field it overlaps. It does not conflict with any religious truths. On the contrary, it has something to offer everyone, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Mohammedan, Agnostic and Atheist. It does not try to change the beliefs, doctrine, or creed of the individual's church; on the contrary, it brings the individual to a point of better understanding of them, whatever they may be. It will help him to understand mankind on earth and help him to find that happiness in life which is much talked about but rarely found. Just to give more understanding to those around him could be said to be sufficient mission for a well-trained Scientologist, for by doing this he would certainly increase their ability. By increasing that ability, he would be able to increase their life. How would you go about doing something about it? Well, if you depend for a long time upon others to do something about it, or depend on force, you will fail. The only one who can put more life, more understanding, more tolerance, and more capability into the environment is you yourself, just be being in a state of higher understanding. Without even being active in the field of auditing, just by being more capable, you can resolve for those around you many of their problems and difficulties. We are not interested here in getting you to accept what we say without question. We ask you to question it. We ask you please to look at the physical universe around you – to look at people and at your own mind and to understand thereby that what we are talking about happens to be actual and true. We are not giving you new things. We are giving you old things. By understanding these old things which we have rediscovered, you become free. The accent is on ability. L. Ron Hubbard

Introduction: Attached is the article "An Essay on Management". In it, Ron talks about the goal creator and other important things like goals and groups and management and how Dianetics can help. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. The Dianetic Auditor's Bulletin – Volume 2, No. 2 – August, 1951 – By L. Ron Hubbard A knowledge of Group Dianetics should include a knowledge of management, its problems and optimum performances. In Group Dianetics, the best organization can be seen to be one wherein all individual members of the group are versed in all the problems and skills in the group, specializing in their own contributions but cognizant of the other specialties which go to make up group life. It is an old and possibly true tenet of business – at least where business has been successful – that management is a specialty. Certainly it is true that ruling, as Group Dianetics concerns itself with government, is a specialized art and craft not less technical than the running of complex machinery, and certainly, until Dianetics, more complex. Management is a specialty With our present technology about groups, it is possible to accomplish with certainty many things which before came out of guesses when they emerged at all. Management in the past has been as uncodified in its techniques as psychiatry, and management, without reservation, has almost always been a complete failure. Men were prone to measure the excellence of management in how many dollars a company accumulated or how much territory a country acquired. These are, at best, crude rules of thumb. Until there was another and better measure, they had to serve. To understand that these are not good measures of the excellence of management one has only to review the history of farms, companies and nations to discover that few have had any long duration and almost all of them have had considerable trouble. Management has failed if only because the "art" of managing as practiced in the past required too much hard labor on the part of the manager. Until one has considered the definitions of wealth and expanded territory and has taken a proper view on what these things really comprise, one is not likely to be able to appreciate very much about management, its problems or its goals. Hershey, a brilliant manager with a brilliant managing staff, yet failed dismally as a manager because he neglected the primary wealth of his company – his people and their own pride and independence. His reign of a company ceased with his people – well-paid engineers and laborers, well housed, well clothed – shooting at him with remarkably live ammunition. The brilliant management of Germany which came within an inch of restoring to her all her conquests of former years yet laid Germany in ruins. Reach the purposes Before one can judge management one has to consider the goals of an enterprise and discover how nearly a certain management of a certain enterprise was able to attain those goals. And if the goal of the company is said to have been wealth, then one had better have an understanding of wealth itself, and if the goal is said to have been territory, then one had better consider what, exactly, is the ownership of territory. Goals and their proper definition are important because they are inherent in the definition of management itself. Management could be said to be the planning of means to attain goals and their assignation for execution to staff and the proper coordination of activities within the group to attain maximal efficiency with minimal effort to attain determined goals. Read more… L. Ron Hubbard Dear Friends, "Shock your parents – read a book!" What a great advertising slogan! Often we associate Scientology almost solely with Clearing and auditing, but if you listen closely to Ron, the training is the most important part. Training does not work without auditing and auditing presupposes training. If one trains as an auditor, one must sooner or later receive auditing. One does not go without the other. That is why books are the gateway to Scientology. If one is not willing to read and train, one will not succeed. Without work, there is no reward. In Scientology and Dianetics, books are THE advertisement. Ron is our best disseminator. Scientology or Dianetics is not easy to explain. There are many reasons. One of the reasons why it is difficult, is that we often and unintentionally enter into judgment, even belittlement, and even unintentionally prove the other wrong. "Why me? My wife needs it more than I do!" or such thoughts can easily get in the way. A statement like "everything is explained in this book" gets around this problem. A book is more neutral anyway, because it is a book and not a person "to attack". And if it is not read, it has not done any harm. Goal maker We can see many things in Ron, from the Founder to the Commodore to the Course Supervisor to the Senior C/S Class XII and many more. But in reality, he is the creator of the purpose, he postulated and dreamed the purpose. He is the source of the purpose. It is a very important hat that lasts beyond death. It is not my hat, nor is it your hat. It is very important that we put this hat on Ron's head and make sure it is and remains his. We must not compete with him for this hat, because it is dangerous! He is the source. This is a huge topic and I could write a lot about it. It is important to understand that we must help Ron wear his hat by making his books known. We invest a lot of time and energy in getting Ron's books printed and available to the public to buy them. We also make them available online for free. We offer the books at a great price. Ron explains it much better than any of us. And he doesn't prove anyone wrong. As I wrote it, the work of printing the books is done; I would be happy if you could from time to time give, offer or sell a book to someone; sell it or offer it, both are possible. Reading aloud is also a possibility. The book Evolution of a Science was written by Ron at the time, as a promotional item for the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and if you offer it to someone, we would be happy to give it to you for free. We have many in stock. We don’t print the English books, but you will find them on our website in PDF in the section books. Much love, Max Hauri