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A Human Tendency

A human tendency is to see the negative in things, people and situations. When hearing someone talk or reading something, what will often occur is that one will see a wrongness or outness* in it.

When this becomes unhealthy is when only the negative is registered whilst receiving a communication from someone or when looking at some situation in life. This is what cynicism is, or what a negative outlook on life consists of.

The tendency to see negativity or outnesses can be a fast track to a compulsion of seeking them out, and only seeing them everywhere one looks! It becomes an automatic process, and leads to unhappy fixed considerations like “life is pointless”, “the world is corrupt”, “everyone is full of it” etc. This breeds hate and an absence of love.

It’s the path to unhappiness.

The danger is that by only perceiving negativity and outnesses, the feedback from oneself outwards into the world will only be negativity and outnesses.

So what’s the optimum solution, or process one can use?

I feel that the only way to be truly happy is to see things from a pan-determined point of view. This means looking at something like a communication from more than one angle or viewpoint. Example: perhaps you read an article you strongly disagree with and decide to write to the author telling them how they are all wrong, etc. And perhaps they are wrong. But from who’s point of view?!

Figure out what their point of view is and you’ll see they aren’t really “all wrong/bad/stupid”, just different. By using this way of looking at life, you’ll experience a higher level of understanding and compassion for others, and yourself. This is also a path to happiness and ultimately wisdom about the game of life in which one exists, and plays.

*outnesses: conditions of something being wrong or incorrect.

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Steps to Having Scientology and a Better Life

There are a lot of scientology materials to study and this might create confusion in a beginner about how to go about the study and use of the subject. With this potential confusion I’m going to suggest a general path one might like to use.

Firstly, one can use the relevant parts of scientology to resolve ones major life issues and gain a stability in ones life. These are emergency situations and problems that one has on one’s mind the most.

This often involves getting some auditing like dianetics or scientology life repair, studying PTS/SP tech, or doing a communication/TRs course. Scientology assists are also very good for spiritually healing the body in times of pain and discomfort.

Secondly, one can gain a good grasp of the fundamentals of scientology teachings. This doesn’t take forever and once this stage is complete one is really on the path to a better existence, in many ways.

All the basic scientology teachings should be studied, from the philosophical writings of how life happened and is – the factors and the axioms -, the ethical considerations and formulas, the ARC triangle and the many scientology scales….to the communication formula, dianetic principles, and a good grasp of the goals and purposes of scientology in it’s practical, personal and spiritual senses.

Good books for these are Scientology 0-8: The Book of The Basics, The Fundamentals of Thought, A New Slant on Life, Scientology 8-8008, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and Dianetics Today.

Thirdly, one can follow ones interest line in scientology teachings and take up a formal study of it to really gain a complete understanding of the material. Often one would consult ones goals and purposes in life, and align this to the area of study undertaken. A prerequisite to this is to learn and apply study technology in order to be able to gain a full grasp of scientology teachings.

Bad study habits can obstruct gaining an understanding of the material one is learning. For example, skim reading isn’t a very appropriate approach to studying and achieving understanding.

I hope this post has been useful to the beginner in planning a general path to improving one’s life with scientology.

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The Work Was Free…

I will not always be here on guard.
The stars twinkle in the Milky Way
And the wind sighs for songs
Across the empty fields of a planet
A Galaxy away.

You won’t always be here.
But before you go,
Whisper this to your sons
And their sons —
“The work was free.
Keep it so. ”

L. RON HUBBARD

William Orbit – L’Inverno

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Listening to LRH Lectures and Other Stuff I’m Doing

It’s been a very interesting and productive week for me. My work is going well at the moment, the weather is great, I’ve seen a couple of really good films (wall-e and the dark knight) both of which were excellent, wall-e in particular- wow! And I’ve been listening to lots of LRH lectures, namely the Game of Life series (1956) and have found them stimulating, enlightening, funny and overall some of the best lectures of LRH I’ve heard.

LRH was obviously in good form around about this time, and delivers lots of material about games. Scientology games theory is the idea that life is basically a game which consists of freedoms, barriers and purposes. A simple idea, but one I’ve always resonated with since the first time I found out about it when I read The Fundamentals of Thought…

By the way if you haven’t read The Fundamentals of Thought then you should as it gives a very good overview of Scientology philosophy.

As well as listening to LRH lectures (I’ve just started the Games Congress), I’m also reading a little of L. Kin’s book Scientology: More Than A Cult? This is a very good book and is split into two sections. The first section gives an account of the history and purpose of Scientology, the second section describes the tech.

L. Kin is a very good writer and tries to explain Scientology in language non-scientologists can fully understand. He is one of my favorite freezone scientology authors actually.

Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to.

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Scientology and Spiritual Technology Convention

It’s been a while since I last posted so thought I would quickly write about a lovely video of a freezone scientology convention that took place in May. It was hosted at MGT Concepts in Biere, Germany. You can see the video here. Judging by the video it looked like great fun and really theta.

The MGT Concepts website is fascinating actually, and well worth spending an hour or so reading if you’re into spiritual technology and scientology.

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Scientology Film

In 2006 a film was made for Channel 4 (a UK television channel) that explores Scientology as a way of finding God. The protagonist was Hardeep Singh Kohli, a comedian and TV presenter in the UK.

The original idea for the film was to do Scientology through the Church of Scientology, but they didn’t want be involved…

…so it was made in the freezone instead, with the Ron’s Orgs.

I like this documentary because it shows how Scientology really is, away from the madness of the church. It gives a good account of some basic Scientology through the experiences of Singh Kohli. That being said, with something an experiential as Scientology it’s impossible to know what it’s like without trying it.

Towards the end is some actual auditing, which is something I haven’t seen before in a video about Scientology.

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Get The Message, Not The Messenger

I just read John Lennon’s last ever interview and found something in particular that he said quite interesting:

“But nobody’s perfect, etc., etc. Whether it’s Janov or Erhardt or Maharishi or a Beatle. That doesn’t take away from their message. It’s like learning how to swim. The swimming is fine. But forget about the teacher. If the Beatles had a message, it was that. With the Beatles, the records are the point, not the Beatles as individuals. You don’t need the package, just as you don’t need the Christian package or the Marxist package to get the message. People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I’m not. I’m a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message.”

I think this viewpoint relates to Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard. Scientology is not Hubbardism. LRH even said many times to not mix up his opinions with Scientology:

“Now, I’m not asking you to look at this subject through my eyes. There are two subjects here that I’m going to be talking to you about, just two, and one is Scientology, a precise science of universes and beings therein or beings who make universes. That’s one subject.

And then there’s Hubbard’s opinion of this subject and, boy, I got some wild opinions! You oughta hear them sometime. But that’s a different thing and you can tell very easily when I swing over into my opinion, when I start talking about some field of healing or when I start to talk about this or that, it’s obviously a big slant and merely is my selection of randomity.

Take it as amusing or evaluate by it or throw it away or anything. It doesn’t have anything really to do with Scientology.” LRH

- Scientology – How to Understand and Study It

The reason I bring this up is that some people seem to think that because LRH said and wrote some wild stuff it means that Scientology is a wacky subject. In fact, I have even seen some people in the Church of Scientology mistake what is clearly LRH’s opinion with actual Scientology!

As a Scientologist I don’t worship L. Ron Hubbard, and I know he made mistakes as a person and as a leader of an organization. The people in the church too often dramatize LRH’s mistakes and fanatically worship his opinions, yet forget (or never even learn) what Scientology is. They certainly rarely practice Scientology, although they hijack the name.

LRH had his opinions, but they aren’t Scientology…

“I stand here and I’m telling you two varieties of data. One of those varieties of data is the actual scientific datum, which has been dug up out of this universe and out of all universes.

That’s the specific datum and its application to the beings in this MEST universe. That data you can be darn sure of. Next is my opinions. Hell’s bells! I reward myself for my labors by having opinions.

Just separate out those two things. Separate out that Scientology is one thing, Hubbard is another. The point I’m making is there’s a lot of viewpoints that I have that you might not have at all. If I have a lot of axes to grind, they’re very obvious axes. Extremely obvious.

They actually don’t influence this data at all.

What I give you as fact, is fact. What I give you as opinion, you’re welcome to it or not as the case may be. But I’m not asking you to agree with me. For god’s sake, don’t do that. Just go look.” LRH

- Rising Scale Processing

So next time you hear that Scientology is all about aliens, or that Scientology is anti-psychiatry, realize that this simply isn’t the case. These were some of LRH’s opinions and considerations – Hubbardisms. Scientology is the Axioms, The Factors, The Logics, The Q’s, The Auditors Code, the Communication Cycle, the ARC triangle, the KRC triangle, the processes, the ethics conditions…

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Is Modern Life a Scam?

Around about the same time that I got into Scientology I was also reading a Zen Buddhism book by Alan Watts called “The Way of Zen”. And a great mental shift occurred from my study. I realized that I was at that time NOT living very much in the moment, and as a result I was not having as fulfilling a time as in other periods of my life when I was more in “present time”…

So what causes one to no longer live in the moment? Or in present time?

Well, the answer is that one is for some reason stuck in the past and/or is projecting into the future, on a compulsive basis. And the reasons for this are; past goals, past traumas, past unresolved problems, future goals, future pleasures, future solutions, to name a few…

It’s often said a picture is worth a thousand words, and I feel that this video animation visually depicting the wisdom of Alan Watts explains very accurately, and in a very entertaining way, exactly how and why people get, what I would describe as brainwashed, into a very unfulfilled life from an early age and throughout their lives…

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The CIA and Scientology – The Remote Viewing Connection

In the early 1970’s the Central Intelligence Agency sponsored the remote viewing experiments at Stanford Research Institute to investigate it’s potential use in clandestine warfare. Ingo Swann was the main remote viewer used in these experiments and the development of remote viewing, and was an experienced Scientologist who at the time had reached the highest levels of auditing available in the Church of Scientology.

It was actually Hal Puthoff, along with Russell Targ who co-founded the Remote Viewing experiments. Puthoff was also a high level Scientologist, Russell Targ was not.

Remote Viewing is considered an extra sensory perceptive ability, where a person can be trained to look at any place without using their human eyes. The CIA wanted to train people to be able to do it so that they could spy on the enemy. As you can imagine, having operatives who could perform remote viewing intelligence would put CIA in a very strong position to find out sensitive information.

In an interview for Coast to Coast AM, Swann talks about remote viewing and his experiences during the experiments and development of the discipline. Here is the first part (of 12):

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How to Use Scientology…

I wanted to write something that provides value to anyone thinking of studying scientology, or who has recently begun learning any subject.

The advice is actually cryptically suggested in the title of my post ‘How to Use Scientology”. The idea is that if you’re going to study the subject – study it to USE, not for reasons that aren’t to do with USING.

LRH commented on how the VALUE of knowledge to a person is directly related to how one uses that knowledge. (see LRH study materials.) Many people evidently have ulterior motives to studying a subject, perhaps for reasons of status, “Look, I have a degree!”…

…And those types of people often don’t fully understand the subject they studied because they don’t ever use it in their life. This devalues the subject they studied.

So, here comes my advice to you. If you’re going to study Scientology (or ANY subject), study it for a purpose related to using it or doing something. Whenever you come across a datum in Scientology, try and work out how you can use it to improve your life.

For instance, read up on ARC (Affinity, Reality and Communication) and create examples on how to use it in your life. Then actually use it. Observe and evaluate whether use of that particular concept has helped you or been useful to you.

But if you don’t study scientology for use, but only as a piece of theory to file away somewhere, then you might as well not bother with it, IMO.

The big question to ask yourself when studying a subject or choosing a subject to study is “How am I going to use this subject?”.

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