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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