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Introduction: Ethics are distinct from morals. Ethics are the factors of survival as they reasonably and currently apply to the problem. Honesty, derivable, is the highest level of survival. Potential of survival can also be measured, in other words, in terms of the amount of truth discovered and applied to given problems and situations. Morals have only to do with habits and customs and are to a large degree reactive, not reasonable. Diagnosis and Repair of Groups January 1951 Group repair is actually a study of the tone scale and mental equipment of the leader of a group. A group is no more ethical than its system of ethics. Ethics are a direct measure of a position on the tone scale. A system for measuring the ethic of any individual or group could be devised from tests measuring the communication, affinity and reality factors of the individual. Likewise a system of measuring the ethic of a group could be devised from a study of its communication, affinity and reality factors. Theta is as pure as it has truth in it. The amount of Theta in a pure state in an individual or group measures the life potential and energy of the group. We study, in Theta, not only reason and ideals, but also the dynamic – the energy and longevity – of survival. Thus when we say "amount of Theta" we could also say "amount of reason" and "abundance of energy expended toward survival." Ethics are distinct from morals. Ethics are the factors of survival as they reasonably and currently apply to the problem. Honesty, derivable, is the highest level of survival. Potential of survival can also be measured, in other words, in terms of the amount of truth discovered and applied to given problems and situations. Morals have only to do with habits and customs and are to a large degree reactive, not reasonable. On the tone scale it can be seen that survival potential drops lower and lower as communication, affinity and reality drop lower and lower. Death is no affinity, no communication, no reality and no survival. As one spots a group or an individual on the tone scale he can spot exact and precise reactions of ARC for that individual. Around two, as for communications, the individual will censor communications. Around two he has overt hostility for his affinity. Around two he has challenge, interruption for his agreement. Lower, around 1. 5, he deals with perversion of communications, hatred for his affinity and utter disagreement for his agreement (reality). Around 1.0 he has cut-off for communications, covert hostility for his affinity and contradiction for his agreement. As an individual is upon the tone scale so will he inevitably handle ARC. As a group exists on a tone scale, so will it inevitably handle ARC. Below 2.0, whatever his expressed intentions, the individual works as Entheta and enmest and as the tone sinks to 1.0 will actually kill himself and other individuals or groups. He talks of death and emergencies. He advises powerful remedies for "potential death" situations. And although he may seem to work hard to "remedy" the situations he postulates, he will yet produce only reduced survival or death for himself, his associates or his group. He may seem to be working with the highest effectiveness, he may believe he is doing his very best and yet the end product of his endeavor will be reduced survival or death. Napoleon used to choose his generals on the basis of all their qualifications and one final factor, "Is he lucky ?" We are possibly looking at the anatomy of luck when we look at an individual's position on the tone scale. Theta will attract MEST to it. And what do we mean by luck except an x factor by which an individual or group obtains MEST with minimal effort. An investigation, not yet made, might demonstrate that even in gambling a man's luckiness could be forecast by his psychometry. As the accident prone collects accidents, so does the 2.0 and below individual collect bad luck. Those things with which he associates break or become involved as to ownership. His friends seem to melt away. "Life goes against him." A group, situated below 2.0 on the tone scale, has vast trouble with its possessions and property. It seems to alienate other groups. It is not lucky or prosperous. Actually, in both cases, the suicide spiral has been entered and the actions of the life cycle tend to require that the individual or the group commit suicide. Entheta, once in action, contages its turbulence into other Theta and organized MEST and when enough can be generated death can take place and another cycle can be begun, a new individual, a new group. The death of an individual or the death of an enterprise or nation follows this spiral toward suicide. The way stations are the points of action on the ARC survival tone scale. Look at the points of action for affinity on the tone scale, or for reality or for communication, and you can see how much inclined toward death for the individual or the group will be the actions of that individual or group. Reversing the viewpoint, by spotting the position of the individual on the tone scale or by spotting the position of the group by what he or it does with ARC, one can see the survival potential of the group in terms of energy and longevity. Thus, we could see, for instance, that an administrator favored secrecy in his dealings, that he practiced cruelty on individuals of a group but masked the cruelty under "necessity," that he altered or suppressed every plan submitted to him – one could spot him on the tone scale at about 1.1. One could see immediately that the organization would be inclined toward death and that it would fail. Actually, the very measures he may so convincingly postulate to answer up to "emergencies" will bring failure and disaster. The effect upon a group of any individual of that group depends upon the altitude the individual holds with the group. A person holding a command post with a group may have as much or more weight on the group than the combined members of the group unless a system is devised which gives more stature to the individual members themselves. A group, then, alert to bring about the highest level of survival for the group, to conquer for it the maximum amount of MEST, should be alert to the position on the tone scale of the leaders of that group. The group itself can deduce the position of a leader on the tone scale by the way he handles ARC. The highest quality leader who would bring the most to the group would handle ARC in a nearly pure state. He would work toward open and clean communication lines. He would attempt to effect the greatest affinity amongst the group and with the group. He would act only with the highest level of agreement with the group. And he would pay the strictest attention to the ethics of the group. As we have both terror and fear at the same point on the tone scale, we can see that there is a difference of intensity for any point on that scale. This is like the question of pitch and volume in music. The point on the scale would compare to pitch. The volume of the note would compare to the amount of Theta energy or Entheta energy present at that point. Thus, a group must also be alert for the energy of an administrator – in other words, his dynamic potential in terms of volume. A group could have a very high Theta leader who was high in tone scale point only but who had no volume of energy to offer. Searching for energy volume a group may often mistake MEST force for Theta power in a man. True a man who can become very energetically high Theta can, during moments of turbulence, become large volume enTheta, but his volume will only direct at Entheta, not Theta. There is another characteristic of personality, like "quality" in music, which has to do with the caliber or workability of the reasoning of the leader. High Theta and high volume of energy and high quality of reason combine into excellent leadership. That group which values its survival as a group at all would do well to learn group-necessity-value and how to express it. The group can bring all pressure toward any leader or sub-leader to effect the highest ARC possible. Then each member of the group can perform his duties in the most efficient and prideful manner possible. And each group member should act to maintain high ARC in the internal organization. This can raise group tone to a point where group tone raises individual tone and the climbing survival level complements itself interactively. A volume of energy at a high tone level, once attained, operates with a kind of velocity. Given so much impetus it thereafter maintains itself and begins to gather more volume and higher tone as an automatic action. Like the ram jet which, at the speed of sound has attained almost perpetual motion and constant speed, so can a group, by artificially attaining necessity level, begin an automatic, self-supporting rise in the group volume and tone. This point is very high but is worth striving for since an individual in such a group soars up the tone scale as a direct result. L. Ron Hubbard Founder

Introduction: Announcement! The Ron's Org construction is set to continue! A place to study life, receive auditing, train as an auditor and progress on the Bridge. Two references from L. Ron Hubbard to use, to apply: Quarters Policy regarding historical from the 23. September 1970 , mentioned in the text below. Fixed public consumption of a product from the 24. July 1967 . This in particular is a good guideline for the future! Announcement Around 2004 or 2005, we realized that we needed more space for the Ron's Org to expand. So, Erica began diligently searching for houses and building lands where we could establish our new Ron's Org. When making such a decision, there are many factors to consider, and numerous mistakes can be made. While I won't go into detail – though it would be worthwhile to write it down as a hat – instinctively, we made all the right choices, as evidenced by our success. Very recently, I found a reference from Ron on this subject. Erica and I looked at each other and nodded. "Very Well Done," we said to each other. The Policy Letter "Quarters Policy regarding historical", 23.09.1970 is attached. In 2007, we bought a land in Grenchen, almost 2500 m². As many of you know, it is extremely close to the station, from where you can catch an express train to Zurich and Lausanne. While you might walk kilometers in an airport, here you can count the steps. We are close to the highway and roughly in the middle of the three Swiss international airports. In other words, we are very easy to reach. In Grenchen, it is easy to find affordable apartments, so we don't have problems finding accommodation for students, PCs, and pre-OTs. Shopping malls and reasonably priced restaurants are very nearby. In 2013, the first part of our intended construction was completed, and we moved in. Until today, the size of the real estate matched the size of Ron's Org, but now we are occasionally a bit too crowded. This is a good indicator that we need more space. The next step is to build the originally planned Ron's Org, which will be around 600 m². This is what we have now decided to do. Here, you can see how it will look in the end: The Haus Nord is complete. On the ground floor, there is the Ron's Org, which also includes a large basement. Those who have visited it, will know what I'm referring to. The building also features the mandatory Swiss bunker, where I store many books and tapes in at least three languages, with some materials in additional languages. Adjacent to House North will be an underground car park. It will be quite spacious, which is necessary because we are in the middle of the city. On the right side of the drawing, you can see the future Ron's Org on the ground floor. Above it, there are additional apartments – two sets of three. We may divide some of these apartments in half to create more units. http://map.search.ch/grechen-mazzinistrasse?b=high Although we are not in a bad financial position, the entire construction project is of course a challenge, and we will certainly need help. If you have any ways to assist us, please let me know. In the next few weeks and months, we will be busy planning Ron's Org and other spaces. Then, the building permit will be submitted, and eventually, the excavators will start, and off we go. I will definitely keep you updated. Fingers crossed! Much love, Max Hauri

The Ron's Org is happy to present many articles from the work of L. Ron Hubbard. These articles will help you understand life better and do more with it. Sometimes understanding takes some effort, but it is rewarded by the fact that you can apply it. New data or knowledge allows you to see things differently and therefore live better. If you are curious about what is behind the categories, here is a brief overview that will help you choose the one you prefer. Individuality: We are all different and yet we have one thing in common: our mind. It works the same way for everyone. Family: Family, love and children are the pillars of our societies. Understanding them and being able to improve them is the wish of all human beings. Group: We are all part of a group governed by the same natural laws. It is possible to learn and apply them. Society: Today's society is very diversified. It has problems all over the world and it is possible to understand them, no matter where you come from. Life: Life is within us and around us. Everyone has the right to respect for their own kind. Discover, learn these rights and make life better for everyone! Exact sciences: Science is there to help Man to evolve and not to destroy him in the name of vested interests. Make your own opinion. Buddhism: Buddhism is a religion without a god, but with a guideline to follow to access higher levels of consciousness; accessible with Scientology. Dianetics: It opens the doors to the universe of the mind and what can be done to make trauma disappear and the true self emerge. Scientology: Every religion or culture has a piece of truth. Scientology combines these truths into a technology for the betterment of all. Technology: Every action, science and work has a well-defined technology for achieving a valuable result acceptable to all. Increase your knowledge, apply it, and enjoy the result. Please feel free to contact us with any additional questions. Your happiness is important to us! Ron's Org Grenchen – Switzerland +41 32 513 72 20

Introduction: The one thing that for sure gets a government or ruling body nowhere is violence. The difference between sanity and insanity is destructiveness. Insanity has to do with motive, not competence. The article below was written during the period when Ron was developing the Ls, i.e. Class X-XII.   Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Violence Policy Letter 16. July 1971 The one thing that for sure gets a government or ruling body nowhere is violence. Covert violence in the name of "intelligence" is about the dumbest trick of all time. I concluded a long time ago that man can't be trusted with "justice." Yet the only restraint of wrongdoing one can impose is use of force. And that is only true until one establishes sanity. The difference between sanity and insanity is destructiveness. Insanity has to do with motive, not competence. If you wonder about your own sanity just ask yourself "Am I destructive?" That is the full answer. Feeling spinny is not being insane. It's just an inability to locate one's position in relation to one's surroundings. Thus violence practiced for its own sake is just insanity. Sure makes some of these governments look odd. The world needs to be given the answer to sanity before it blows itself apart altogether. That's why I'm anxious to get things going smoothly so I can gain the six weeks or two months needed to write it. You'd help by making sure you're hatted and doing your job well. I appreciate the work of those who are making things go right. L. Ron Hubbard Founder Dear Friends, We just came back from a successful training camp. We had a good time, worked a lot and were able to go swimming in the sea once a day. It really felt like a New Civilization. The next camp will be in Moscow or its surrounding area, from April 11 to April 26, 2025 . We will have something to celebrate: this will be the fiftieth Russian training camp ! Not counting OT Missions and Les Verrieres (our training camps in Switzerland). In all these years we have trained many people on all kinds of tech and admin courses. We can proudly say that we have reached a very high standard; there is a lot of auditing and training of auditors, case supervisors, technical and administrative staff in each camp. In Spring 2025, we will arrive a week earlier because we will be training some auditors to become Class XII case supervisors. These auditors have audited many hours of Ls over the last 13 years and are professional Class XII auditors. It is only logical that they now become Class XII case supervisors. Much love. Max Hauri

Introduction: How did Ron gain his knowledge? How did he experience the culture in the Far East? Did he consider himself to be American or Asian? What did he learn there?Scientology didn't arise spontaneously. It was very well backed up by an enormous amount of information. Download the English audio from L. Ron Hubbard lecture here : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LlMQTC1PxK_qOfatv3v1f8qbDkngv5CP?usp=sharing Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Who was L. Ron Hubbard – A kind of autobiography Bridge Between Scientology and Civilization Excerpt from the lecture given on the 20 of July 1954, Bridge between Scientology and Civilization . Scientology didn't arise spontaneously. It was very well backed up by an enormous amount of information. When I was quite young, I had the opportunity of looking over Eastern cultures and barbaric cultures and I had a great many friends who were very, very interested in the field of the soul, the mind – friends of all colors, shapes, sizes, creeds and professions. The main thing which came home to me when I was very young, in Asia and various places, was that although these people apparently knew something, I could not conceive that they were using it. Here was the Western idea of rendering a punch and getting in there and getting something done and must arrive and so forth, up against the timelessness of the East. How one man could simply sit still and think, or not think, for a half a century – and I have seen some men who have done this in the East – was incomprehensible to me. The thing to do was to act. That was my philosophy. As much material as might have leaked into my ears, we had considerable of it utterly rejected. If these people were so bright, if these people were so intelligent, why didn't they have better sewer systems? The philosophy of a progressive land grown up on the philosophy that if you could hit hard enough, suddenly enough, you ate – up against the philosophy of a land where if you sat long enough and could endure enough, sooner or later, something would walk by and maybe you could eat and that was all right. Now, as we look over these two philosophies, we see that a young American indoctrinated into speed, action, dash, certainly couldn't put up very much with meditation. So it looked to me, when I was very young, that they were taking the long way at it, if they were going at anything at all. I was not too sure of this. And even today I am not too sure of this because I have seen people get into the figure-figure-figure category and be utterly incapable of progressing beyond that point. They simply start chewing up data. And then they maul it around and they think it around and they figure and they figure and they figure. Yet, at the same time, in Asia, I saw a great many and have seen a great many things which you would call miracles. And I could not put these things from my mind. I have seen such things as eight matches floating in a bowl of water being made to drill by an individual who simply looked at them. He actually looked at these eight matches floating in a bowl and would rack them up, just by looking at them, so that they made an orderly line, one line; and then make them all turn sideways so that they looked like a picket fence; and then make them form something that looked like a star – intriguing, to say the least. A parlor trick, fakirism, yet it was very impressive. L. Ron Hubbard How did Ron gain his knowledge? How did he experience the culture in the Far East? Did he consider himself to be American or Asian? What did he learn there? What did he like about the American way of thinking and philosophy and what did he like or dislike about the Far East? What can these Far Eastern masters do? What can Ron do? What did he study at university and how studious and good was he? What was he really interested in? What did he want to understand? What did he think of the American education system? What did he say about it, himself? He built on the knowledge that every cell has its own thinking and life, and was able to recognize that cells “pass on” experiences to the next generations and that cells could overshoot the mark with these earlier experiences. If you have gone all the way in Scientology and, above all, have done the training, you realize the scope of this insight and how Dianetics and also Scientology are based on it. Apparently Ron recognized the complexity of the human body early on and was able to prove that the protein cells in the brain could never reach the storage capacity required for the daily mental activities of humans. He also speaks of the prophecy that someone will appear in the West who will continue the work of Siddharta Gautama Buddha and make it possible to free people from the cycle of birth and death in a single lifetime – and describes how he interprets this prophecy. The fundamentals for Dianetics and Scientology were already in place in 1954. Definitely a lecture you should listen to or read. I hope you will enjoy it. Much love. Max Hauri

Introduction: I realized that there are two different types of help and thought that a word should be invented for the help at the lower end of the scale. I quickly realized that there was a word for it: Sympathy. Also included is the brochure “ Attack on the Preclear ”, simply brilliant. It's a must-read. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Sympathy vs Help Extract from the Handbook for Preclears Probably you could kill a man with sympathy. It has been done. There are three levels of healing: the first is to do something efficient about the condition, the next, if the first can't be done, is to make the patient com­fortable, the third, if he can't be made comfortable, is to give him sympathy. That is in accordance with old medical practice. However, sympathy is a terrible thing but is considered to be a very valuable thing. The survival value of sympathy is this: When an individual is hurt or immobilized, he cannot fend for himself, get himself good, defend himself. If he is to survive he must count upon another or others to care for him. His bid for such care is the enlistment of the sympathy of others. This is practical. The cheerful good-fellowship of the weak, crippled or ill is part of this mechanism. If men weren't sympathetic, none of us would be alive. The non-survival value of sympathy is this: An indi­vidual fails in some activity or effort to help. He then considers himself incapable of surviving by himself. Even though he isn't sick actually he makes a bid for sympathy. When a person, not actually ill or immobi­lized by injury, is making a bid for sympathy, he considers that he has failed so badly that he cannot by himself continue on in life. His self-confidence is under­mined. He is not able to handle himself well. Counter-emotion and counter-thought have garbled his facsi­miles. He feels he has to have sympathy to get along. And he displays an illness or disability to gain sym­pathy. This is mechanical and is not to be disparaged: the person is actually in need of help. And almost every human being is prone to this error. Almost every one will make a bid for sympathy by holding out some old facsimile. A psychosomatic illness is at once an explana­tion of failure and a bid for sympathy. That does not make the sympathy, when received, less sweet. And it does not make the ill any less painful. One is peculiarly liable to sympathy bids around his parents and family. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends, Today in session I had an interesting cognition. I realized that there are two different types of help and thought that a word should be invented for the help low on the scale. I quickly realized that there is a word for it: Sympathy. Now sympathy is not always a bad thing. But I think you have to know the scale from sympathy up to help. There is actually a kind of scale for this. See above for an excerpt from the Handbook for Preclears. Also attached is the brochure “Attack on the Preclear”, simply brilliant. You have to read it. You can buy the Handbook for Preclears in our bookshop in German and French. We published it a few years ago. The book also includes the valuable Table of Attitudes. Highly recommended. Price Fr. 25.– plus postage. I also have five antique copies of the English book . By the way, this planet needs help, not sympathy. Your help. Much love. Max Hauri

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

Introduction: Humanity is experiencing a quantum leap in these years. Unlike the gradual improvements of the past millennia, we are being catapulted into a higher orbit. A real Golden Age has begun and cannot be stopped. Read Max Hauri's letter just below. Grades to Golden Age " The Road to Truth " – A lecture given by L. Ron Hubbard the 1st November 1962. In the link at the bottom, you will find the lecture “The Road to Truth” transcript and audio, as well as the references mentioned in the letter. Dear Friend, Since the last camp, I've been trying to write about the grades – what is the minimum number of processes needed, what is too little, and what is too much? However, I realize now that this approach is wrong. One of my reliable data points is that Ron disappeared at the end of 1972, and the last lecture I have from him is dated August 6, 1972. I am certain it's his voice on the tape. Therefore, it's clear that anything from around early 1973 onward is not from Ron. There is so much more I could write about this, and much has already been said. It's overwhelming, and I don't want to burden you with all the details. In a nutshell, at first, end 1972, "new" bulletins were released, but in reality, they were reissues of earlier bulletins and quotes from tapes. Summaries, clarifications, new rundowns, etc., were written. Around 1974, a new project was initiated to sort out what was L. Ron Hubbard and what was not. All non-L. Ron Hubbard issues although approved by Ron were downgraded to second class, canceled entirely, or rewritten "anew by L. Ron Hubbard." Important information disappeared, making way for "new technology." By 1978, this new tech release line was so well established that auditing was effectively canceled by bulletins. You don't believe me? Back then, I suffered from it! Even today, we still have to fix pre-OTs because they had little to no auditing when they started the OT Levels. I bet my life that we lost tens of thousands of PCs and pre-OTs from 1978 and later simply because they didn't receive enough auditing, if any at all. Additionally, auditing was literally forbidden or made impossible due to astronomically high prices. Starting in 1976, the prices for all services rose 5% every month. Around 1978, book prices increased by 10% each month! I can't recall exactly when it ended, probably 1987. Policies were introduced that prohibited auditing your family with what you learned on the course. I will never forget the tears of a mother I saw as Qualification Secretary back in 1981 when she was denied the ability to audit her family. My view of the future is that we must give thetans a game to improve themselves. Humanity is experiencing a quantum leap in these years. Unlike the gradual improvements of the past millennia, we are being catapulted into a higher orbit. The megalomaniacs, psychopaths, and other criminals are concealing this because they are cashing in on all the profits and embezzling them. But this will come to an end. A real Golden Age (NdT: Look for a general, non-scientological definition) has begun and cannot be stopped. The result will be that we will only need to work a few hours a week to survive. But work is part of life. Nothing destroys morale more than doing nothing. Passivity is fatal for a thetan. Passivity is a fundamental cause of mental illness and disease. All those First Dynamics Improvement Activities are not a real substitute for work because they don't truly include Help. Work (unfortunately not always) inherently includes Help. Work is an exchange with society. But work is increasingly being minimized. Auditing is a highly valuable activity as it improves ARC (Affinity, Reality, Communication) and KRC (Knowledge, Responsibility, Control). Auditing is Help. Auditing is a high-quality game. It expands a thetan into Flow 1, 2, 3, and 0. Auditing expands a thetan into the dynamics, into the Org Board (Awareness Levels), and into the Tone Scale. Today, we can't even begin to imagine how glorious life will become as a result. And this is achieved with lots of auditing, and certainly also with training – inevitably. Recall processes increase your knowingness and abilities to play the game called life. A Recall Process is usually run through many commands to its End Phenomena. A substantial book on Recall Processes is " Straightwire – A Manual " by L. Ron Hubbard. I've made an interesting observation: A preclear with no game has almost no answers to auditing commands. A PC with a big game has many answers, and better cognitions are possible. The goal of Scientology is not a static state, to relax, or to recover, but to play big games. A big player needs a safe place where he can increase his abilities and gain knowledge. He needs processes and an auditor to help him reevaluate what he was and is doing in the game without being evaluated or invalidated. Auditing commands are structured to help a being look at the game from a new viewpoint, often culminating in a cognition and release (gaining a healthy distance from it). In other words, limiting auditing and the number of processes, or even forbidding it or making it impossible, is not only foolish but suppressive. Our Class VIII and XII Auditors know from experience that an L-preclear wants all the processes or rundowns from the Ls, even after reaching and attesting to the End Phenomena of an L. ( L: A set of powerful auditing actions done after the grades and often after other higher levels are done. ) They want more auditing. They are literally asking for more auditing. There is no policy, bulletin, or law preventing a preclear or an OT from being audited, even after completing the Bridge . There are ten volumes of Technical Bulletins, also called Red Volumes, and many lectures, which are a gold mine of never-done processes. Also, take a look at the book "Creation of Human Ability" – it is full of processes. On the Class VIII Course, Ron explicitly says Recall Processes are unlimited. And they are indeed unlimited. We must fulfill Ron's postulate that lots of co-auditing should take place. Don't forget, an auditor has big wins themselves. The cycle is to audit and train a person, send them back into the world, and let them play the game. Then let them return for more auditing and training. And so on. Instead of creating new rules or policies, let's go back to basics. Do what Ron says. Follow the unaltered and unrevised HCO PLs and HCOBs. Those here are our stable data: HCO PL 17 June 1970 (unrevised) TECHNICAL DEGRADES HCOB 17 June 1970 VARIOUS 0-IV GRADE PROCESSES HCOB 20 February 1970 FLOATING NEEDLES AND END PHENOMENA THE BRIDGE from 1974 Certainly, the process sheets used by Ron's Org today are fully valid. In June 1970, Ron clearly outlined what he considered correct. In fact, all the processes are documented on the Bridge. There are several pillars to the success of Ron's Orgs. One of those pillars is auditing in big amounts and always coming back to auditing and more auditing. To audit extensively, even on the risk to overrun is not dangerous. To not audit is disastrous. Ron says the grades are the basis for auditing. Attesting to a grade does not mean there is nothing left to audit. Auditing continues after the grades. If the grades are not done or not truly done, it is the end of case gain. A thetan can be very able. Everyone can be very able. Auditing and training are the keys. We have the tech, and we will have the time. We have unbelievable tools. Let's apply them. Much love. Max Hauri In the link below you will find the lecture “The Road to Truth”, transcript and audio, as well as the references mentioned above in the letter. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZOETcJVIf8uzhnDmfwQcTOYv3fGgsGsl?usp=sharing

Introduction: Ron handed us the tech, we have it, and we have it in full. It's up to us to put it into practice. We, the Ron's Orgs, will make sure we use all the tech properly. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. You as an Auditor From L. Ron Hubbard – 1968 Scientology can and does change human behavior for the better. Anybody who wants to help his fellow man can become an auditor. (An auditor is a person trained and qualified in applying Scientology processes to others for their better­ment.) An auditor is essentially a technician. Existing techniques are tools. Any tool requires intelligent handling and a deftness in application. To use any tool, whether it be a stone axe or a Geiger counter, a person must acquire confidence in that tool and confidence in his ability to use that tool. An auditor is most successful when he has achieved an inexorable self-confidence in himself, in his tools, in his attitude toward the preclear and in the results he means and determines to achieve. (Preclear: A person who, through Scientology processing, is finding out more about himself and life.) When you, as an auditor, accomplish your mission with a single preclear, you increase your confidence and your general ability, you increase your capabil­ity and what you can do for the universe at large and you win. Sometime between the first moment you decide to be an auditor and your first major success, you have question marks. You have lots of question marks. But you have to start somewhere. Even a trapeze artist had to start somewhere. Now for anybody who wants to be an auditor, the thing for him to do is start – and just face bluntly the fact that he's going to make mistakes, and maybe fall flat on his face and then all of a sudden he's going to be auditing with the greatest of ease. As an auditor you can do something about life. You can confront it and have a much wider, broader view of life and people than any person, regardless of their state of case, who is not an auditor. Today, the mysteries of life are not, with Scientology, mysterious. We're using the technology for which man, even in his cruelty and blindness, searched for eons. And we must get it out and use it. What we have got to face up to now is the fact that our expansion will be an accelerating expansion. So it's my responsibility to make the best auditors I can make. The people who come to Saint Hill for the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course are trained very well. I am proud of the way the training is being done. Saint Hill graduates go out as the world's best auditors which was exactly the way I planned it some years ago. I started the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course to make good auditors into better auditors, who could go out and make good auditors. It's been successful in the extreme here at Saint Hill. Saint Hill Graduates go out and take over Acad­emies in their organizations and the Academies have improved. Then the people who started coming to Saint Hill could audit better. A good auditor is one who knows Scientology and its techniques and who audits with all basics in. That's the primary thing we stress here at Saint Hill. We have learned a tremendous amount about auditing. Today, we have the technical materials. We are making our way, all the way. Now we must not stop. It is time man grew up. That is what we have in mind. You know we are a potent force on Earth. Indeed the only force that is doing something about it. We weren't effectively prevented from attaining our knowledge – the hard part of the journey. Now we can not be prevented from applying it. We can take the individ­ual and raise him. Thus we can raise the whole. So there is a mission for you as an auditor.   L. Ron Hubbard Founder – 1968 Above is a text from Ron about becoming an auditor. My prediction is that auditing will be the most important and valuable job of the future for many years to come. More on this in a future newsletter from me. Ron handed us the tech, we have it, and we have it in full. It's up to us to put it into practice.We, the Ron's Orgs, will make sure we use all the tech properly. In October, about 15 students, PreOTs and Tech Terminals from Switzerland and Germany will fly to the next training camp in Turkey! I am delighted that we will be so well represented.If you would like to come with us – you can still register. Just send me an e-mail. The prerequisite is that you are registered with a Ron's Org as a student or PC or PreOT. Much love. Max Hauri

Introduction: A great article about how our society works. And yes, more auditing is needed, it is the key to a high level civilization. Auditing civilizes. Enjoy reading it. Much love, Max Hauri Scientology and the Group Certainty Vol. 15, Nr. 6, 1st of June 1968 Scientology has the answer to mankind's deepest problem – how to live happily with his fellow man, how to take responsibility for the survival of the group. All groups begin with an individual. All great cathedrals began their build­ing by the placement of a single stone and the building unit of a great society is the individual. The social ills of man are chiefly a composite of his personal difficulties. The combined dishonesties of individuals add to the formidable total of aberrated groups and mankind as a whole. In evolutionary terms, man has developed and evolved through various stages and in this development, changes have been regulated by survival. He evolved several methods of survival, of getting along. The group is one method, for man achieved better results in the group or pack. If man were not basically good and the laws of tooth and claw and self- preservation prevailed there would be no one on Earth at this time. The theory that the group consists of individuals working for self-preservation is thus not true. The more analytical the beast, the more cooperative the group. Today, we have arrived at a very special plateau of knowledge. We know without shadow of doubt the way to enable man to live happily and responsibly within the group, both of his own immediate circle and the wider area of his nation and race. We are winning across the world because we have kept the vision bright and we know how groups function. A group consists of communication points, which are people who have at least some things upon which they are in agreement. Over long periods, they have worked out answers. A fact of civilization is that it contains agreed-upon customs, mores, grades and standards of conduct, certain things which are agreed-upon as normal. It doesn't matter much whether they are normal or abnormal, good or bad. Does it assist the general survival? This is the only test of such customs and standards. Any time any large group or organization in this universe has adopted policies which are anti-survival for the individual as well as for the group itself, that group has gone to dust. It has not survived well because its customs were not good for the survival of the race. A civilization breaks down on this basis, that the means of communication are no longer taught in that society. Its customs, its policies, this sort of thing, are not taught, so the people inside that society can't work together and have no cooperation. Where there is no cooperation, the people don't know the customs on which they are operating. The net result of that is decay, decline and vanish­ment of the group. Scientology, as a group, is composed of people who want to get more able in life and live a better life. If we expect ourselves to get along in the world, or expect there to be a world in which to get along, why, we haven't really any choice but to go on and use our information. If we don't exhibit our science as a group, and show a good example, what can we achieve? If you are a practitioner, you try to help people. If you have technology, you use it for the survival of the group. If you have knowledge and so forth, you should use it to assist others. These are the traditions which have built the great civilizations of this planet and the great civilizations of this universe are all operated in those traditions. Those are customs, they have proven to be survival characteristics. Scientology methodology is a skilled know-how applied to the whole group from the individual through all levels to the wide field of society. The skill applicable to the individual is applicable to the group also. When you have two people communicating more freely through Scientology processing, who were not communicating well earlier, it frees the communication lines, and there will be better communication throughout the group via the individual's family into the wider group of his business and political life. Individuals receiving processing and training find their lives improving beyond measure because, with their personal problems handled, they are able to better the conditions of their partners and families, and wider groups, which widen out into the nation and races of the planet. All things start with the individual. Without that there is no group activity. This is true whether one runs a family or a business, a nation or a world. A sane group is an expression of communication by those who could, each one, stand alone. A group cannot run with other than able individuals. And we are the experts on human ability. L. Ron Hubbard Founder

Introduction: A great article on training and self-determinism. Really good! A must read or listen to. https://www.ronsorg.space/blog . Much love Max Hauri Wisdom and ignorance – training and self-determinism Taken from the lecture " Training of Auditors " given on the 16 July 1954 by L. Ron Hubbard You will discover that is difficult to train new people. By training a new person you are training him up against his livingness. You are, to some degree, training him up against a set of realities which he holds which might or might not be true. You are training him on the common denominator of considerations on the track which brought him to the point where he is. Obviously then the training will restimulate him. All you have to do is teach somebody very thoroughly about ARC and the various parts of communication and the considerations which go into making up that communication and you will discover that he gets restimulated. He might be a very bright boy and you could easily go out and show him how to drive a "Satmobile" or you could show him how to knit or do almost anything. Or how to be a general (being a private is more complicated). You could probably teach him any one of these things rather easily. And you will discover that his ability to learn to some degree slows down the second you begin to train him in Scientology. Why? It's the incoming comm lag. As you teach him, you start to bust up his case. ["Incoming comm lag" refers to all kinds of restimulations that arise in the student's mind. The intention of the teacher or the study materials must pass through these restimulations to reach the thetan.] If you were to think of teaching in terms of evaluation, you might yourself, after a while, begin to conceive yourself to be guilty of an overt act against the student. You are obviously constantly evaluating for him, aren't you? Obviously. No, you're not. You're pointing out to him the woof and warp of life. And if you didn't point this out to him, he would never get anywhere near it. His comm lag itself would shy him off of it. Wisdom and Ignorance Here's the difference between wisdom and ignorance: Any wisdom, from whatever source, would be better than ignorance on the same subject. Any wisdom is better than ignorance, whether it's other-determined, self-determined – it doesn't matter. But where it comes to instruction, any wisdom is better than ignorance on that subject. So, you've chosen only the lesser harmful thing. You could train in an entirely different way. You could train in this wise: you could just process the person till he discovered all these answers. That would be possible if you cared to invest some fifty or a hundred hours on a person every time you were going to train him, you could then bring him up to a realization of these various points. Culture The communication of the information is the more difficult part, however. An individual can know  all about the subject of life and livingness and yet have great difficulty putting it into language. Easily the biggest stunt, you might say, in the formation of Scientology, is the adequate codification of the information so that it could be relayed, so that the information becomes a Third Dynamic subject. The amount of harm which you will accomplish by "evaluating for" your student is negligible today because you have processes adequate to the instruction. It's negligible. Simply training somebody will have a tendency to bring him up in tone. In darkness, any shining star possessing some constancy is better than no star at all. So evaluation is a word which harshly may be assigned to your instruction of a student, but how else would he get there? And quite, quite strangely, if you would care to investigate savage cultures (of which I've investigated a few) you would discover that it is ignorance itself, it is a lack of wisdom in that community itself which brings about terror, injustice, maltreatment, decay and deteriorization. Wisdom afloat in a culture makes the culture. The very definition, culture, could be summated by the amount of technology, knowingness, wisdom, in existence in that culture. What you call today Western culture is a combination of knowingnesses which summate into a higher, more decent form of life than can be achieved in other areas where that wisdom does not exist. However much harm might come about to a society through becoming mechanized by finally mechanizing itself up to a point of where it blows itself to pieces – however much harm might come about because of that – any part of that harm could be nullified by a sufficient, broad spread of wisdom. In other words, it is only the fact that the atom bomb is arriving in mystery, in a civilization which still bows down to superstition. [In 1954 when this lecture was given, people were still in shock and awe over the devastating effects from the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The lack of information about what an atom bomb is and what it does, led to much superstition.] It is a very superstitious culture, this Western world  – very.  It believes in invisible gods, visitations, mumbo jumbo. And an atom bomb arriving in that unstable a condition in the society, of course, can produce an enormous amount of harm because the humanities have been outstripped and overbalanced by a technology appertaining only to the physical universe and leaving out of its computation, the mind, life, beingness. Never worry for a moment how much you evaluate for somebody if it's in the line of what life is all about. And you're simply talking to him about the generalities of wisdom itself. Don't discount this. You can't hurt him. Harmful evaluation The way you can  hurt somebody is to evaluate specifically: "The trouble with you is …" And that is what we mean by harmful evaluation. It almost must  be preceded by, "The trouble with you is …" And so we find the main difficulty with evaluation, in general, is the fact that it validates somebody's difficulties. Wisdom is not the difficulty. The difficulty is the unknowingness. Now, if you were to talk to somebody and teach him in this wise, "I am talking to you because the trouble with you is you are so stupid, you see, because you don't know these things, because you've never run across these things, because you haven't got two brain cells to knock together. That's why I've got to talk to you this way." If you trained anyone in that sort of an atmosphere, you would not be training anyone. The only reason you can relay the information to him at all is because it has deeply subjective experience behind it. You can relay the information of Scientology to him as well as he has experienced it on the whole track and no better – not a bit better. And so you are perhaps spotting up for him and telling him on an other-determinism that there are many unknown things on the track. The funny part of it is that all he has to do is look around in life and recognize these facts and large chunks of bank blow  on it, just like that. You notice that a preclear can get well because you, the auditor, are indicating the process. Well, you don't conceive that to be evaluation. Well, don't ever conceive training in Scientology to be evaluation for the preclear. Have I made my point on that? Processing I can tell you clearly that it's almost impossible to very widely train anybody in Scientology without, at the same time, doing two other things: getting that person to do  some processing and getting some processing for that person. And if you can't get him to do these two things, why, you're sort of talking to the wind. His realities on what you are talking about are grouped in with many, many other realities. He's been told so often by a teacher or a writer that there's this, there's that, there's something or other, that he no longer has any great differentiation. It is the processing which he does and the processing which he receives, which gives him the differentiative factor from other data and information which he has imbibed, which isolates the information for him. Now, you can give him a barrage of information, a tremendous quantity of data and afterwards you would find, if you examined him carefully, that it had gone into and mixed up with Christian Science, it had mixed up with Rosicrucianism, it had mixed up with something he read one time that Schopenhauer wrote and Thus Spake Zarathustra – if he'd ever heard of that – and the subject of creative art and mechanical drawing. And it had kind of all mixed up and it was as though you put him in a washing machine and turned the paddles up to high speed. Now, you could just pour the information at him and just by sheer voice, enforce upon him, "Space is a viewpoint of dimension. Now if you ever answer that otherwise – space really is a viewpoint of dimension, and space is a viewpoint of dimension – and if you don't agree with me and think otherwise, why, I'm afraid we're going to have to flunk you or penalize you in some way." This individual has not been trained, because he has not been given a differentiative factor. He has not differentiated this. Space is space is space when you first start training him. And then he starts seeing, as he is processed, that as he looks, so he has space. He begins to conceive this as a thetan. As he looks, so he has space. Up to that time space was just a chunk of stuff to him. And he had no great use for it and he couldn't do anything for it. All of a sudden he begins to tie it in with other difficulties, and he begins to see what space is, how it is formed, and he realizes quite clearly, "Yes, space is a viewpoint of dimension. It is a viewpoint of dimension." He has as much space as he can perceive. And really, he has as much space as he can know. But he gets this subjectively and he gets some subjective reality upon it and even though the subjective reality which he receives upon it is slight, it has still differentiated the datum for him. Self-determinism On the field of instruction, you're certainly interfering with somebody's self-determinism. Don't think for a moment that you aren't. This person obviously was very self-determined to go along with the public school system and the Republican Party. All of a sudden you're telling him all sorts of things that aren't held to be true in the public school system or the Republican Party, which, if they held them to be true, would no longer be the public school system and the Republican Party. You're just crushing into him like mad. Self-determinism? Why, you're destroying his self-determinism, obviously. Or was there any there to destroy? Or I mean, how much was present? That's the question. Now, if you want to restore his self-determinism, you've certainly got to interrupt it someplace. What self-determinism is this? I think this is what Schopenhauer meant when he said, "will." He said, "Stubbornness is the will taking the place of the intellect," which is nice and bright. But at the same time, doesn't this rather define "will" as meant by Schopenhauer? Will. One time somebody came tearing in from some squirrel layout [Kind of an off beat Scientology event] and they'd heard the first hour of a tape I had made on the subject of self-determinism, and he had decided that he was going to be self-determined, and he was self-determined and this was self-determinism. And he defined it to somebody in this wise: (this is self-determinism) "You see that – that (one of the kids' toys lying there), now, you see that – that toy lying there? Now, if you wanted it, that would be you exerting your self-determinism – go over and pick it up. But if I wanted it, why, I would go over and pick it up." And the person said, "Well, but what if I picked it up while you wanted it?" He said, "Well, then, I could really exert my self-determinism and I could kill you if you touched it and therefore, it would have been a self-determined action." This seemed a bit confused to me, but this is generally what's rather well-understood as self-determinism, is the exertion of unlimited will. And any time you exert an unlimited will, you violate the remaining dynamics, don't you? Here, if you went around and killed off all life in all directions in an effort to communicate with a nothingness, it doesn't look to me like you would wind up completely free. This doesn't add up as a possibility. So therefore, what your student, if you caught him raw and he was having a bad time, would define as self-determinism would be the liberty he could use in exertion of will. How much will is he permitted to exert? Your psycho comes up through that band, goes into a rage, he wants to get into the rumpus room and tear everything up. He believes all other-determinisms are contrary to his own. Well, now that's a very limited viewpoint right there, isn't it? "All other-determinism are contrary to my own." That's a definition of "paranoia." Well, Man's complete freedom happens to lie, unfortunately for such thinking, in his recognition of his brotherhood with the entire universe. And in his failure to recognize this, he will fail. Now, somebody goes down into apathy – there is always a mockery band on the bottom of the scale – somebody goes down into apathy and he says, "Well, I won't hurt anything. Everything can walk over me. I don't mean any harm to anything." And you start processing this fellow and he comes up out of apathy and he'll rampage around for a while until he discovers something vaguely resembling a First Dynamic. And then he can go on up to a Third Dynamic. Freedom of viewpoint Self-determinism was a concept of very early days of Scientology and the late days of Dianetics. We have exceeded the concept – exceeded it very markedly. And in the place of self-determinism, we get freedom of viewpoint. Instead of self-determinism, we now have freedom of viewpoint. You see how these two things would merge, one with another, and how freedom of viewpoint is a tremendously higher concept than self-determinism? Because freedom of viewpoint would mean it's perfectly all right for you to argue with yourself any day you want to, if you'll just remember you're arguing with yourself. You can even forget that if you'll remember it again. Here you have yourself at source-point and yourself at receipt-point. And when an individual is really doing well, he doesn't care whether he's at source-point or receipt-point or how much distance is in between them or how close they are together or whether they're completely identified – it's perfectly all right with him. He can be relaxed about it. Not because he's in apathy and has to be relaxed about it, but because he can be relaxed about it, that's why. One person that's monitored by is you. It's monitored by at least you. And so it isn't free within its own line, it'd be free under you, this beingness, which is being monitored from source-point alone. Your body, right this moment, is only free under your rule. But within that limitation, it has some freedom. And this is beingness. So, in training, in training don't ever worry about interrupting somebody's self-determinism. You have to be, to some degree, a policeman in all training. You have to know where to cut the line. You have to know where to indulge freedom and where to impose a barrier. And until you have achieved an agreement on the part of your students as to the workability, the simplicity of the technologies which you're trying to relay, you will find you have to bar many doors. Don't forget to open them up again after they have a reality on what you're trying to teach. In training, the self-determinism which you're trying to bring forward is the actual self-determinism of the person – not an imposed social determinism which is, as far as we can see, "will" taking the place of the intellect. L. Ron Hubbard

Introduction: Here is a Technical Advice Letter, "Truth and Reality Case Progress Levels I-IV". What Ron said on March 17, 1964 is very, very relevant. Training Camp: For those who are interested, please contact me. Ron's Org Grenchen Info Channel: More information on: https://t.me/+T87-hfEiQX00NGE8 Essential information is always in German, French and English; just scroll. Note: The newsletter including quoted bulletins or other issues can always be read or downloaded on the blog in German, French or English. German: https://www.ronsorg.ch/blog French: https://www.ronsorg.fr/blog English : https://www.ronsorg.space/blog Truth and Reality Case progress at Levels I-IV ( Quotes from L. Ron Hubbard's lecture of March 17, 1964 ) Truth is what exists. A pc must gain realities on the truth of situations in order to have case gain. Too much truth shown or given a pc at once will cause unreality. There must be a gradient of gaining reality on truth. The Levels of Scientology are such a gradient. ____________________ Knowing the truth of any situation supports self-confidence, certainty. ____________________ Reality is the ability to assimilate Truth. This assimilation depends upon Cause-Distance-Effect (Communication) and a balanced frame of mind (Affinity). Thus, a truth must be given someone, a pc, with ARC (Understanding). Otherwise, it will spin the person. Too much truth is unassimilatable but recognizable truth. The person sees it but can't have it. ____________________ Hit with too much truth an individual will degrade. He has seen something that he knows he cannot reach or win. Thus a pc must be presented with acceptable truths that he can reach and win on a gradient of more and more reality. This gradient exists in the processing and training levels of Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard