This is what L. Ron Hubbard wrote in the introduction to Fundamentals of Thought — the last scientology book he published. (The cover of the first edition identifies him as L. Ron Hubbard, C.E., Ph. D – both self appointed credentials)
He wrote this, but because of the claims about his “science” and himself, Hubbard attributed this as an “Editors Note.” But make no mistake, these words were written by L. Ron Hubbard. And they form the introduction to his ultimate summation of the subject of scientology in book form. Though this has been edited to be more palatable and defensible in the “Basic Books” edition, this is what L. Ron Hubbard thought was appropriate to introduce new people to himself and scientology. He stated the purpose of this book was to be translated into all languages to serve as the first book of scientology for new people. He included alternate words in parentheses for terms he thought might be difficult to translate as he wanted to ensure his “science” was properly understood and nothing was “lost in translation.”
I have included only certain parts of the introduction, noting deletions with ellipses.
I also highlighted in red the passages I thought most noteworthy.
CHAPTER ONE
THE VITAL STATISTICS OF SCIENTOLOGY
What is Scientology?
Scientology is that branch of psychology which treats of (embraces) human ability. It is an extension of DIANETICS which is in itself an extension of old-time faculty-psychology of 400 years ago. …
Scientology is actually a new but very basic psychology in the most exact meaning of the word. It can and does change behavior and intelligence, and it can and does assist people to study life….
Scientology, used by the trained and untrained person, improves the health, intelligence, ability, behavior, skill and appearance of people.
It is a precise and exact science, designed for an age of exact sciences.
It is employed by an AUDITOR (a Scientology practitioner) upon individuals or small or large groups of people in their presence. The Auditor makes these people, at their choice, do various exercises, and these exercises (processes) bring about changes for the better in intelligence, behavior and general competence. It is employed as well by persons in business and government to solve problems and to establish better organization.
It is also employed by the average person to bring better order into life.
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Is Scientology Valid?
Tens of thousands of case histories (reports on persons who have been processed, individual records) all sworn to (attested before public officials), are in the possession of the organizations of Scientology. No other subject on earth except physics and chemistry has had such gruelling testing (proofs, exact findings). Scientology in the hands of an expert (Auditor) can restore man’s ability to handle any and all of his problems. Scientology is used by some of the largest companies (business organizations) on Earth. It is valid. It has been tested. It is the only thoroughly tested system of improving human relations, intelligence and character, and is the only one which does.
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What Special Use Does Scientology Have?
Scientology does things for people where nothing has been done before. It restores people’s ability to handle conditions which were once considered hopeless. It increases their intelligence. It changes their competence and betters their behavior. In addition to these it brings them a better understanding of life.
Who Invented Scientology?
Scientology was discovered (found), not invented (created). It was organized by L. Ron Hubbard, an American, who has many degrees and is very skilled by reason of study. Hubbard was trained in nuclear physics at George Washington University in Washington, D. C., before he started his studies about the mind. This explains the mathematical precision of Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard has been given many honors for his work in the field of the mind. He has been assisted by one of the largest organizations, numerically speaking, in the field of the mind on Earth today, the organizations of Dianetics and Scientology.
EDITOR’S NOTE
Wow.
What amazing chutzpah.
Nobody ever accused L. Ron Hubbard of selling himself or his “science” short!
Happy 4th of July to everyone who calls the US home. Enjoy the day and remember the freedoms guaranteed by the Founding Fathers, the most important of which ensures you and everyone else has the right to express your views freely. Unless of course you are part of a group that frowns on free expression…. but even that is set forth in the Bill of Rights. Who would want it any other way?
Just pulled into aruba and our ship docked right beside the Freewinds!
Hold onto your passport!
Happy Independence Day every one. When you encounter a Veteran or one on Active Duty. Thank them for their service
“I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Thomas Jefferson
Happy Fourth of July to all. Enjoy the freedom our forefathers fought for and bequeathed to us.
Happy 4th of July everybody!
Glad you could make use of my scan of the booklet. 🙂
Reading this I am not surprised at all that many scientologists (as the actual leaders) are always lying when they gave “facts” during the annual congress…. they just follow the example of their master LRH : ” Tens of thousands of case histories (reports on persons who have been processed, individual records) all sworn to (attested before public officials), are in the possession of the organizations of Scientology. No other subject on earth except physics and chemistry has had such gruelling testing (proofs, exact findings).” I am sure it is just the pure reality and the truth because LRH wrote it …he was C.E., Ph. D, trained in nuclear physics at George Washington University …. after all… a perfect SP…
“The plural of anecdote is not data.”
Every scientist knows that the easiest person to fool is yourself. AT BEST, a testimonial can point to new things to investigate.
Happy Independence Day everyone. That’s true in more than one sense for many of the readers here. I suppose the first thing that struck me when I read todays post was just how many lies lrh could cram into a few paragraphs. Damn! Many people have expressed here and in other blogs I subscribe to that this man was a genius, yet the meaning of the word science seems to have totally escaped him. Also apparently he was mathematically challenged. He insisted that tens of thousands of people had gone before officials to swear that scientology made them better looking! Well it sure as heck didn’t help him any. This punchy old guy with bad teeth wasn’t on track to win “Sexiest Man Alive.” Hey most of us are just regular looking and probably carrying a few extra pounds, but jeez, I haven’t noticed scientologists are any more attractive than your average man/woman on the street. I can also tell you I’m one of the most intelligent people I know. Yeah, a guy down the street who used to work for the government told me so. I could go on I suppose but unlike lrh’s parents mine taught me manners, so good bye, good luck, and don’t blow your fingers off with an m-80.
Mike, this article is published with stunningly good timing, as I was just sitting here researching what Hubbard had to say about Scientology as a whole and how he positioned it with exact sciences. The earlier editions are great for some of his more bombastic claims and you’ve highlighted exactly what I needed, so thank you! The way the Church has sanitized so much of the material could really be a study in and of itself, as I understand there is so much that has been taken out or changed from the original lectures and books.
Chris or anyone do you know if they pulled Rons Journal 68 out of the bookstore?
What a lying bastard! If only for these knowingly filthy lies, Hubbard should burn in hell. He changed my life to such an extent that I still have a 37 year old valley running through the middle of my soul.
I remember reading these specific sentences quoted here thinking to myself how fantastic it is that a scientifically oriented ‘wiseman’ finally worked out the why & how of existence… Yeah, I know.
Well, in fact I was searching precisely for that so I guess it was my bad then.
We can only guess at how many likeminded people such as me were phucked over by this consummate lying arsehole.
The fact that he was stark raving mad should not let him off the hook.
Quackery, I am really sorry for your bad experiences. Mine were similar. But we are responsible for our own decisions. I am not saying this to blame you or anything. I am only trying to empower you so that you can let go of it. It is not worth it, believe me.
Sorry that happen as we watched exactly why we don’t want it in Clearwater flat .how many more are we walking by
Happy Independence Day!
Scientology: The only “science” that claims anecdotal evidence as “research” and testimony (sworn or otherwise) as proof of its efficacy, and claims peer revewal by It’s own organizations as having been thoroughly tested.
It’s mind-boggling, that’s for sure.
Congrats on your first official Independence Day as a US citizen Mike. Happy 4th of July to all! Let freedom from tyranny, oppression, and slavery ring!!
Happy 4th of July Everyone!! I recently re-watched TC’s interview with Matt Lauer about psychiatry…and being more educated about Scientology….I was rolling my eyes as he constantly repeated how he knows the history of psychiatry and Matt doesn’t….blah blah blah….and his adamant refusal that anyone can be helped by anti-depression meds….blah blah. Considering he learned everything from a pathological liar…he knows nada…zip…zero….Swallowed the bait…..hook, line, and sinker. Sad.
Anyway…..I am working today….so will someone please toss back a margarita for me? No salt..and on the rocks?
Mike….you are awesome!!!!! Keep Going!!!!!
Yours…. OverTheBridgeTPA
Happy 4th of July, Mike and to everyone here. Mike, where did you get this book? I’ve never seen it and I imagine it is out of print. How did you lay your hands on it? I was amazed at the claims he made there which no one questioned him on. And he asserts that this is good science and true and etc. Einstein never had to assert that his theory of relativity was sound. He just put it out there and let the other scientists test it and try to disprove it etc. He didn’t have to assert how right he is, which LRH did in this early book you found.
This was in every version of the book until the latest edition I think.
But this book is obviously old cuz of the cover. Did you find it in a used book store or something?
No, its just the image of the cover from the internet
Here Mike; this is another one for you where his “title” of being a “nuclear physicist” is again advertised :
http://www.truelrh.com/5705_AAR/home_AAR.html
And here is a useful webpage for images and information in the old editions of LRH’s books :
http://www.truelrh.com/index.html#AAR
Interesting. A nuclear physicist (not) and a medical doctor. Who is Medicus pray tell?
I guess “Medicus” is still a little mystery, haha. But here, take a look :
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/essays/radiation.html
Thanks for this Thetaclear. Sometimes I marvel at how long Hubbard had me roped in. A charlatan in the truest sense of the word.
Welcome to the team, shipmate! 😉 He fooled me for 25 years, and that’s just in one lifetime, haha.
Great link to web site, Thetaclear. It is a good place to find each book original and then it compares it to the later DM version so all the alterations can be seen.
http://www.truelrh.com/index.html#AAR
Thanks Cindy. Yes, it is indeed. The individual who did the research, found out that many of the so called “grammatical errors” that DM alleged the books were “plagued” with, were not actual ones, and in the case where some errors did existed, it didn’t amount to anything that would cause anyone to misinterpret the text(s) in question. They were minor stuff.
He also found out that those “grammatical errors” were mostly sentences or paragraphs that could represent “bad PR” for the CofS, you know, because of LRH’s well known big mouth. Things like that; people and organizations/institutions he mentioned (his own wife, for example,Volney Mathison, the actual creator of the E-meter, etc) that are now in disgrace with the church. General speaking, things that crazy DM considered “bad” PR, like specific quotes against government agencies and/or individuals.
The above is true, but I have also heard – though I can’t exactly confirm this (Perhaps Mike knows more about it) – that the copyrights of the older editions were about to expire and he needed those “new” modifications to create new copyrighed materials. Most of LRH’s materials including the upper levels, were already in possession of the Indie field (the Freezone, Scientolipedia, Matrix Files Scientology, etc). He needed a way to “distance” himself and LRH from those “squirrels”, and making all those modifications alleging that the older stuff were never really “On Source”, makes EVERYTHING before the GAT 1 and 2 as “SQUIRREL” materials, not 100% LRH. So anyone making allegations the Scn can also be found and practiced outside of the Church’s control, would be immediately “dead agented” by claiming, “The materials in the field are “squirrel” tech, and isn’t Scn at all.
IMHO, I think that the above factor was a stronger motivation than income. But that’s just my opinion, and nothing more. The other information about those alleged “grammatical errors” that were mostly non-existent, is however, factual and not an opinion.
Very good analysis my friend. Here’s my take on Scientology: If you “know” the tech it will infect you.
You can find many of the older editions at eBay, Cindy. Open the following link. Notice how in the 3rd edition of the “Dianetics 55” book, the same C.E. and Ph.D LRH’s alleged professional designations are included in the front cover of the book :
http://www.ebay.com/cln/marcyjks/l-ron-hubbard/155911981016
There once was a little booklet called Scientology and the Bible. Would be interesting to dig that up.
You can download that book from here, Oliver :
http://www.matrixfiles.com/Scientology%20Materials/Books/
Thanks again Thetaclear. Scientology and the Bible could more appropriately be called A Study in Balderdash.
“Thanks again Thetaclear. Scientology and the Bible could more appropriately be called A Study in Balderdash.”
You are most welcome, Oliver!
Yes indeed! “A Study in Balderdash” it is! 🙂
Scientology has been all about “Positioning” since its beginnings, either “similar to” (“similar” to physics or to any exact “science”, to Buddhism, religion in general, etc) or “against – or different – to” (against psychiatry, psychology, and “VERY” different than ANY over philosophies or healing methods).
It would seem that some “smart” executives attempted to position Scn with Christianity, but of course, LRH disagreed with it.
Actually the closest thing that Scn could be positioned against (like to what is Scn similar to, I mean), is “Back Magic”, meaning “methods of insidiously creating unhealthy and pathetic submission, obedience, and addiction to something allegedly greater than Self/Life, which is known and controlled by one or more individuals. Then hundreds, thousands, or even millions of minds are controlled by a very small group, or even by one individual (Hitler, for example)”. That’s what Scn REALLY is. It has never been anything else even since the first book.
True dat Thetaclear. We been done bamboozled by the flimflam man. Once woken up from the Scientology trance, one will never to be suckered in again.
Yes indeed, Oliver; we will never be, 🙂
WTF!
When I read today’s blog (I know that book or a version of it anyway), I nearly stopped breathing. I really don’t know what to say. In this instance I will look no further than my wife, her immediate family and myself. If I ever find an improvement based upon doing Scientology I’ll let you know… but don’t hold your breath.
Individually at the beginning we all had some “wins” from auditing and marveled at the initial scope of “life understood” as matters like matter, energy, time and space had definitions, we believed life and it’s dealings was finally understandable. Auditing was the bees knees. The future looked rosy with a Bridge to cross and all will be well. We were all firmly set on the narrow path to Freedom as spiritual beings – yeee haww!!!
In actuality, we all became financially destitute, more than once, lost careers, business opportunities evaporated and it took an awful long time for the truth about organised Scientology to sink in. Disconnection ripped through relationships and if we spoke about anything concerning life beyond, “& how are the kids,” it’s like walking on broken glass. Old age is its own trip and experience… if anything Scientology has made it an even far worse hardship. I really feel for those staff and SO members aging in that organisation.
Those are huge generalities of lies Hubbard wrote way back then that remain embellished and polished up by a status only system of Bridge hopefuls being suckered to wallow in them.
I spent considerable time studying this subject and applying it within that organisation. All I guess I can really say is, if Hubbard and his organisation were even half honest with themselves, it would be a completely different thing. As it is it’s the closet thing to a religious Mafia I can think of, no, that’s not correct. The Mafia is far saner and honest with itself.
Wasn’t it Hubbard that said something like, don’t lie in PR?
Self aggrandizement by a charlatan and a conman, nothing more.
(I think I channeled the great sceptic, The Amazing James Randi. I love that guy and wish I could hear more about his comments on LRH. Did anyone ever see that you tube video where he talks about the pulp science fiction writers’ club, and how its members didn’t think too highly of LRH?)
I believe that’s the one were Randi says: “Hubbard was an evil man and wilfully so.”
And hoping it was also a happy day for all my Canadian friends. My lady, born in England, was raised from 5 years old in Canada…and you folks did her proud.
Happy 4th of July everyone! Happy 4th Mike!
Long live freedom of speech! Long live freedom of essembly! Long live freedom to practice religion anyway we choose!
And long live our rights to stand up against tyranny, those who crush dissent and enslave the minds of men with treats of violence and black ops Hubbard insanity.
Going Clear, Aftermath and the people involved in these projects are under attack.
My conclusion:
The tyrants are scared shitless. The attack of Mike Leah and all folks related is evidence of them winning. The ASC is expanding and winning. Being attacked is a sign of success.
We just would have never guessed that it was Marty to play the role of Benedict Arnold.
Betrayal and treachery are some of the worst of human traits.
So blessed to live in the free world. Tyrants beware, we are free people.
I completely agree, this latest round of intensified hate/smear tactics in the run-up to season two of Leah and Mike’s Cult Dismantlers docu-series only serves to evidences lil davey’s extreme fear, anxiety and utter paranoia that the only folks in $cn who matter – the high-caste cult whales and celebs – will become disaffected and may even *gulp* turn on the tiny tyrant at long last and do with him what standard PTS/SP tech requires – which is identify him for what he so obviously is, then work hard to topple this Super SP from power, so that $cn can *cough* thrive once more!
“We just would have never guessed that it was Marty to play the role of Benedict Arnold.”
Actually, while I didn’t exactly predict this exact scenario, I’m not at all surprised to see Mutty turned by the cult once more. Sometimes, you can take take the sociopath out of the cult, but you can’t take the cult out of the sociopath.
Dave and Tom,
Isn’t The Joker proof beyond a reasonable doubt that REAL SPs DO exist?
“old-time faculty-psychology of 400 years ago. …” In 1452, many things of note happened, but none them ‘psychological’ in nature.
Lron of Hubris was not present in any form and his ‘degrees’ were self confirmed. He was not a Civil Engineer, not a phd in anything (unless that means ‘post hole digger’) and his definition of science is not the same as real scientists use.
Happy Canada Day and 4th of July to all, and to all a good cookout. I’ll bring the beer…
You’re a tad mistaken, Zemooo; PHD doesn’t mean ‘post-hole digger.’ It stands for ‘pile it high and deep’ and I don’t know anyone who ever piled it higher and deeper than Hubbard.
Happy Fourth if you’re an American.
Enjoy the July 4th with family, friends, neighbors……be kind to everyone, even strangers who may need a smile to brighten their day!
Umm…himmm….in a few word…..”Scientology For Beginners”?????? Geeez…. HOLY CRAPOLA!!!!
Seems more likely that the book should be entitled:
“SCIENTOLOGY FOR DUMMIES”………………….
I was one of those dummies once. Thankfully I did the “Walk Away Rundown”.
You don’t know what freedom is, until you lose it.
Lol, was ‘exteriorization from the organization’ the EP of the Walk Away Rundown?
Oh, I see you’re aquinted with the “Walk Away Rundown!” And when I walked away, I went exterior…way, WAY exterior. I was floating!
Janis did a great song on that freedom theme.
Personally, I did the WTF rundown.
Off topic but I thought about you this weekend OSD. I was in Santa Barbara I took a surfing lesson and actually got up a couple of times, I didn’t stay on the board for very long but it was fun while it lasted.
Even more chutzpah: he often wrote fiction and non-fiction under a pseudonym. Whe he wrote a non-fiction piece he would create a footnote, and the footnote would say something like: “this phenomenon was first noted by physicist L. Ron Hubbard in his monumental study of blah, blah, blah.” I think I read about this in Jon Atak’s book, “Let’s Sell Them a Piece of Blue Sky.”
A very happy and safe 4th of July to all here as well as Mike and his family! It’s good to live in this country!
I wonder what staff & SO folks are doing today? Certainly not celebrating our freedoms!
When Clubbard released FOT he could get away with those claims as doing research on him was very difficult. He truly displayed his narcissism in editors note.
Thanks Mike for reminding us what Source is all about.
Ron was “the BLACK HOLE of spiritualism”,
All of Hubbard’s forays into medical science, geology, the early history of the universe, etc. are not just wrong, but provably false. There is a difference between areas where the knowledge is somewhat inexact but the scientific community agrees on the best explanation and areas where we have solid confirmation about what’s going on.
Hubbard was wrong *repeatedly* on the latter. For example, the purification rundown is utterly unrelated to the biochemistry of addiction, which in many cases is very well understood. Drug excretion / storage is very well understood for most psychoactive substances, and the procedures in the purification rundown both have little effect on drug excretion and would likely have no beneficial effect even if they did. Vitamins are about the only benefit, as some addicts tend to have poor nutrition due to their lifestyle.
CalMag is bizarre. It’s like drinking antacids – it may cause an upset stomach or diarrhea, and it some cases can cause severe health issues from the excess of magnesium and calcium in circulation. The idea of using it as a general tonic is pure snake oil.
In the post-war era of the late 40’s and early 50’s, Behaviorism was the dominant school of psychology, with its overarching premise that the human mind was “black box” which was impenetrable to scientific inquiry, therefore only objectively manifest behavior should be the primary focus of the field.
In a sense, you could sum up Elron’s Dianetics theory as a speculative attempt to provide us with a glimpse of what was in that the “black box” of the human mind at a time that he had very few mainstream academics or experimental scientists to contend with.
With the introduction of $cn, Elron’s fundamental hypotheses there follow the standard Cartesian Dualism philosophical framework which holds that thought, along with every other aspect of phenomenal consciousness is made up of non-physical substance (i.e., “res cogitans”, which are ontologically distinct from the physical objects which have actual spatial extension (i.e., res extensa) and 3D volume within the physical universe.
In the intervening seven decades or so since Elron’s “pulled from out his ass” confabulatory alt cosmology was invented, the neurosciences have provided the most extensive, well-documented and irrefutable proof that our conscious minds DO have physical extension in the infinitely complex interconnected pathways of the brain, making thought a valid subject of scientific inquiry.
Elron never got the memo (or chose to completely ignore it) there. Instead, he attempted to create some sort of empirically unsupported alt science of the mind, or maha-science, which at this very late date is easily identifiable as its very own branch of pseudo-science, in which those who are still in thrall to Elron continue to fervently believe, despite massive evidence that brain not only enables mind, but that it is necessary for all of the many aspects of conscious experience, such as sensory perception, movement, attention, emotion, memory encoding/recall, dreaming and on and on…without its operation, we are no more.
Now that the verdict’s in, it’s very clear that any claim that Elron made for $cn as being a scientifically validated model of the mind is completely without support and should be abandoned, based on what it’s been proven to be, which is nothing but pseudo-science!
Harpoona Frittata, 100% agreed, and written so well.
There was evidence in the 1950s of the strong linkage between the mind and brain. The whole phenomenon of sedatives and stimulants, for one, shows that the conscious mind can be affected by physical stimulus. The famous case of Phineas Gage, who survived severe brain damage but with severe personality changes, was documented decades ago. The lobotomy and similar practices showed the strong linkage between the brain’s integrity and the state of personality.
Hubbard clearly ranted about bad psychiatric practices, but that never got through to him. He had his ideas, and anyone who disagreed was wrong. Who needs to study the literature when you are a superhuman doing technological therapy and exorcism?
Naturally, I do not believe the mind is solely a direct product of the brain myself. The complexity involved is extreme. Hubbard’s view is one of the least likely explanations I can imagine.
I am sorry that so many people have been bamboozled by the false “religiom”
“Religion.”
The great news is, nobody is taking their bait anymore. It’s slowly dying.
Not so slowly any longer.
I stand corrected! You’re right, thegman! It’s failing quickly!
Happy Independence Day! (for some, independence from the prison of Hubbard & his cult “religion”)
By undisputed evidence Hubbard was psychopath and pathological liar who craved power over men and vast wealth. He was willing to commit heinous felonies on the innocent to achieve his aims. ALL of his SIGNIFICANT claims about his “therapy” are lies.
And he was a poo poo head…
Happy 4th to all.
Hubbard’s own mental progression, if you read all of his books, writings, in sequence, you’d see the full picture, but who has the time and really, it’d be a job to do a few times through, so that when you read the first writings from when he started writing as a kid, you then see WHAT of his early ideas he clung to the final bitter months of his life battling the final body-thetan that Sarge built the souped up Emeter to blast Hubbard’s body to death and hopefully dislodge that troublesome body-thetan.
Really, always, Hubbard has to be taken for his own words, and these Scientology Fundamentals of Thought mid 1950s words seen in the whole long train of his mental offerings, would be the way to see it all.
And then add on all of the excellent responses from the ex followers and outsiders, for the duration of his life.
It’s a massive job, and does he deserve that intense of scrutiny of all his ideas, well I can imagine it being done, but it’s super human to attempt the full detailed review.
I’d say in history, the people who have tried absorb ALL of Hubbard’s output, and grade it all, are the names on the authors of the books that deserve be read too.
IT’s a lot of reading tackling this Scientology Hubbard subject, and so easy to dismiss Hubbard, and in the end, I think only the most time leisure and fast reading and well read already smart persons who will not be your normal average citizen, to take in ALL of the whole reading that needs to be done to lay to rest all of Hubbard’s offerings.
Hubbard speaking for himself, though, the only parts of Scientology Fundamentals of Thought deserving in my mind my attention, are the claims in the Parts of Man chapter.
The thetan most optimum condition of being outside but still controlling the body, I presumed when I first read that chapter, that this was almost a major goal of Scientology, and something that then the “science” of Hubbard’s therapy-quackery was to lead to this dramatically relevant soul status of the deepest part of what we each are, a soul, a thetan, and we ought with Scientology pseudo-therapy attain this soul status being ourselves outside and running controlling our body, a sort of permanent out-of-the-body soul status in relation to our body and thus in sort of this permanently attained soul status, the optimum one.
“OT” status.
And then the Hubbard principles and quack therapy procedures alluded to in this intro book, would “scientifically” lead a person to this pure soul status.
That’d be the best I could do in letting Hubbard make his biggest most alluring claim, for Fundamentals of Thought.
I watched you answering questions on a YouTube post. Enjoyed it. I still think you are one of the original giraffes, sticking your neck out, helping people get out and safe. Thanks for that. Happy 4th ?
Happy 4th of July.
Got a few questions:
A) What happened to the Scientology TV station? (Tony Ortega published something on this some weeks ago) Why didn’t they air on June 30?
B) Did anyone see David Miscavige in person in LA? (TO reported that he wasn’t at INT for 4 years… )
C) Who was the INT in charge for the last 4 years?
Does anyone know?
Happy Independence Day, Mike. Many wishes of sustained happiness and good health for you and yours!
Oh Scientology is an EXACT SCIENCE – very precise…
A Science of Fraud, Deceit, CON, Manipulation and LIES!
+1! Outstanding post! The Church of Massive Lies.
Extremely refined bullshit.
What complete and utter bollocks!
totally agree. In the end, Scientology from Hubbard is just that. quackery pseudo-therapy/exorcism that is supposed to lead to some spiritual purity status including out-of-the-body soul astronaut flying about, at will, and of course no one attains this unattainable soul status. IT’s like trying to make Santa Claus’ powers a goal, and of course no one can fly around with a sleigh of toys and deliver them to the whole world of deserving children. Adults have to help. Dupes have to help Hubbard keep the Scientology nuttery alive.
Good morning Mike just enjoy your 4th of July with your beautiful family, you deserve it!!! Yay HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!!
“He has been assisted by one of the largest organizations, numerically speaking, in the field of the mind on Earth today, the organizations of Dianetics and Scientology.”
So he has been assisted by Dianetics and Scientology to invent and expand Dianetics and Scientology? Or this organizations already existed and he was a stranger that was embraced by D &S, because he was Genius? And who say D&S are the largest organization in the field of the mind today? Who is the authority that claims that? A university, a renowned news organization, a psychology association? Who? Am lost by all this claims.
I think it’s pretty amazing what LRH was able to pull off – the fake credentials, the faked feats of heroism and miracles in healing.
Who would have been the first person to call him out on his fake credentials and personae? Any body here know?
It may be someone like Jack Parsons.
Happy 4th Mary. Great seeing you last month.
Same to you Cooper. Isn’t life grand now 🙂
Happy Independence Day.
Happy 4th, Coop!
Happy 4th Mary.
I think the US Navy was the first to “call him out” by taking away the command of his ship for bombing an imaginary submarine off the coast of California.
And shelling a Mexican island.
Maybe he was just a shitty shot?
I’d say it was Robert Heinlein but he was questioning Dianetics. When Ron was writing Dianetics, Campbell actually was learning how to audit and was auditing others as well as himself. Campbell and Heinlein wrote many letters to each other, this was pre-dianetics release. The letters follow this sort of sequence, Campbell would write a 2-3 page letter explaining dianetics, Heinlein would reply with a paragraph or so asking Campbell hard questions. This went on for a year and finally Campbell tells Heinlein Hubbard got it all wrong, Heinlein replied I’m glad I did the wait & see approach before getting involved.
The letters are copyrighted and can be purchased for a few bucks, one registers on the site, pays, and about 15 minutes later receives the letters in pdf format via email.
http://heinleinarchives.net/upload/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=893
I think the earliest critics (critical thinkers) would be Heinlein, Dr Winter, and then Hayakawa
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/hayakawa.htm
“I have long felt that there are dangers to the writer as well as to the reader in pulp fiction. It did not occur to me until I read Dianetics to try to analyze the special dangers entailed in the profession of science-fiction writing. The art consists in concealing from the reader, for novelistic purposes, the distinctions between established scientific facts, almost-established scientific hypotheses, scientific conjectures, and imaginative extrapolations far beyond what has even been conjectured. The danger of this technique lies in the fact that, if the writer of science-fiction writes too much of it too fast and too glibly and is not endowed from the beginning with a high degree of semantic self-insight (consciousness of abstracting), he may eventually succeed in concealing the distinction between his facts and his imaginings from himself. In other words, the space-ships and the men of Mars and the atomic disintegrator pistols acquire so vivid a verbal existence that they may begin to have, in the writer’s evaluations, ‘actual’ existence. Like Willy Loman in The Death of a Salesman, he may eventually fall for his own, pitch.”
The late Sam Hayakawa was chairman of the English department at San Francisco State College (now University) in the 1950s-60s, and man, could he write literary criticism!
I read this book in 1970 and eventually became a believer of these lies, which cost me 40 years of servitude for my whole adult life. If I had an internet to check LRH’s “facts”, I would never have gone so deep and all the way up the Bridge in Scientology. This book was the cheese on the mouse trap that LRH gave us and people need to know it may cost you your life if you don’t check the “facts” on the internet. Truth is, it is very, very hard to accept or even suspect these ARE lies because we naturally think that no one could be possibly be lying THAT MUCH, so we conclude that his claims might be true, which sucks you into the organization for further investigation to find out if it is true or not. He fed us mystery sandwiches in a bait and switch game his whole life to gain money and power over others. Once you understand that, you will not get trapped in Scientology.
Happy 4th Mike and thanks for keeping this information portal open to all of us who read and/or contribute.
“This book was the cheese on the mouse trap…..” IN particular, for me, the key cheese was the four statuses of the “thetan” (us as the soul that we are which Scientology quackery was to lead us to first hand experiencing our pure out-of-the-body soulness)
that was my “cheese” I so wished were true. False cheese!
Robert,
I had to admit though, that in his conversations with Sarge (which are immortalized and so important to read and listen to Sarge’s interview with Lawrence Wright in both the book and movie DVD “Going Clear…”) are Hubbard’s ideas of the soul which he retained to the bitter end of his life.
He totally bought his own cheese, but then he did admit all his cheese quackery was a failure though, but he still obviously believed in himself as an “OT” because of his stating he planned to go circle the star as rehab therapy for a thetan.
He still retained that cheese goal himself.
The movement today so needs to read the final pages of Lawrence Wright’s book, and hear the DVD interview Wright did with Sarge.
I haven’t yet read the book but I did see Going Clear and the irony was not lost on me that Hubbard spent most of his life persecuting all forms of psychiatry because they practice electroshock therapy (well that and they dismissed his “science” rightfully so) and then at the end he wanted to be electrocuted himself….I was like WHAT???
I haven’t looked it up lately, but a while ago I read that when they DO still practice electroshock it’s a much milder form and only to induce a seizure because it’s been proven that having a seizure can, for lack of a better word “reset” the brain. And I personally know this to be true because although I’ve never had electroshock therapy, I did have a freak, out-of-nowhere seisure years ago and afterwards my depression was gone. Just gone.
Amazing. You could just about get away with making almost any claim sixty years ago, the more outrageous the better. Who’s going to think someone is going to be that full of shit?
Very few, nowadays. Scientology has a very toxic reputation. This is why we refer to them as Idle Morgues. Idle, because no one is going in. Morgues, because this is where you die spiritually.
I’m not sure how much better we’ve gotten at sorting out false claims, or Snopes.com could shut down. Just the other day I read that a certain well-known political blogger (or conspiracy theorist) who has had our president on his radio show in the past as an enthusiastic guest, recently claimed that the CIA is raising slave children in a colony on Mars, or something like that. Who can prove that he’s wrong?
In Hubbard’s day, however, it was simply much, much easier to lie about your personal credentials, lie about a lot of things that could now be checked easily on the Internet or public databases. I just found out that the surname my late father and I always thought to be ancestral was actually adopted by his father as a young man in 1907—it seems he got in trouble with the law, needed to get out of the country fast, so he traveled to a distant city and enlisted in the Marine Corps under a false name, which is now my name, because he kept the name for life and no doubt died thinking he had taken the secret to the grave. (Thanks to a fanatical amateur genealogist who contacted me out of the blue, I just learned the truth).
No fingerprint records, no social security numbers, no income tax records (no income taxes), no ID cards or driver’s licenses, and Google not even a dream about the distant future: only your own say-so as to who you were and where you came from and what you had done back there. Fertile ground for fantasizing fraudsters like LRH!
Those who would evaluate and “criticize” must first have something better to offer.
Today it occurred to to me, after several years of mulling over the subject of ethics, and the difference between right and wrong, looking at admin scales, goals, purposes, ideal scenes, reading Aristotle’s excellent works on Ethics … that the answers were right in front of my nose, like most answers are. The most obvious, really.
When it comes to what is wrong, look at private property. This is a foundation of many things, things like democracies, republics, capital, ships, crops, food, wealth. Even the hard core criminal insists on private property rights, to the point where even looking at him for more than a passing glance is considered a violation of his space.
When it comes to right, that involves having something of value. And that may be space occupied, it may be a good feeling, it may be a home to live in, a field to plant, an industry to manufacture with, it may be spaces to offer others in the form of jobs and training, and it may be wages. What is more valuable than understanding?
And what in the spectrum of things is the most difficult understanding to gain if not the causes of the varied behaviors of all men? An understanding of that, Hubbard showed, requires a precise definition of what “man” actually is, and a precise and comprehensive definition of his basic abilities.
Then of course, there are those who see that man very often violates the private properties of others, and does wrong. There are those who would try to repair damages, alleviate poor conditions, repair malfunctions. That requires understanding of how to do that. And there is no more valuable understanding to offer than an understanding of life.
L. Ron Hubbard offered such understanding. Can anyone here do better?
“Those who would evaluate and “criticize” must first have something better to offer. ” – From a Brain “On scientology”
What an completely insane thought. I am opposed to clubbing to death baby seals but have no better fur to offer.
“…..better to offer……”
Adult education, I’ve found overwhelmingly BETTER.
Start with “School of LIfe” excellent short 5-10 minute summary brilliant talks about the great ideas of life, and compare 10 of these School of LIfe talks to any of the Hubbard “stable data”.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4eWNQNAVRwTGkM-CuVIujJqLT3NCHHYZ
Nickname, the burden of proof is on the one who makes the assertion. To prove something is false does not require that the one who offers the proof also offer a better explanation. Maybe it works that way in the schoolyard but not in real life.
Real scientists are willing, even eager, to hear valid criticism. Once a theory has been proposed, the task is to either replicate the findings of the proposer, which adds validity to his argument, or fails to replicate, which weakens or disproves the argument.
When Einstein proposed general relativity lots of scientists thought it was a foolish fantasy. Study up on it, the theory is really hard to wrap your wits around. But Einstein did not just write up his theory, and include a long essay about how he was right and everybody else was wrong like Hubbard did. He predicted actual observations that could be done during a total eclipse of the sun. These observations were done and matched his predictions.
The “predictions” of Hubbard are intentionally made to be impossible to replicate. He falls into the trap of confirmation bias and so do his followers. Just because somebody had a win doing something Hubbard says to do does not prove that Hubbard was right. Maybe there is some value in the underlying therapeutic methods that Hubbard copied. But remember that some of them were abandoned because they tended to create a dependence on the practitioner.
Brilliant answer, Bruce. Kudos!
Bruce, it’s very clear that those who are still in the “pro-Tech” camp have some very fundamental misunderstandings about how the scientific method works and concerning its essential value in helping us to sort fact from fancy.
You’ve done an excellent job in refuting the theoretical premises of Elron’s e-meter theory, which he initially attempted to validate via standard empirical research methods, but very quickly abandoned when the results of those independently conducted studies did not support his “researches,” such as they were.
It’s not the obligation of those who are skeptical of his claims to go beyond refuting them in order to build some kind of alternative theory of why, for example, the e-meter needle’s movement can occur in uniquely identifiable patterns of responsivity. That’s the task of those who continue to believe that $cn auditing has some worthwhile practical effects which should be brought under empirical scrutiny and validated.
For all their talk of $cn auditing’s claimed efficacy, there’s not one single individual who can objectively demonstrate the super power abilities that everyone who attests to having completed Oatee and Clear auditing levels SHOULD be able to do. So please, any of you “pro-tech” folks, show me a m*******g clear or Oatee, then we’ll talk!
Or, if you can’t, but somehow still believe in the Holy Word of Elron, then why not get busy and learn what the scientific method is and use it to bring $cn’s “Land Before Time” pseudo-science approach into present time…if you don’t, then it’s a dead bang certainty that no one else will!
Harpoona, Bruce and yourself make crystal clear just how transparent Hubbard’s flim-lammery is. The best Scientologists and Scientology auditors can do is report. anecdotal evidence Both groups crow about “life changing wins” for themselves or their clients. Perhaps. But there is no body of data to specifically show what has been changed, and to what degree, and if changes were indeed made, how permanent they are. For almost seventy years Hubbard’s processes were to bring the positive life force (theta) into societies, and change them for the better. Where, and to what degrees has that occurred? Seems to me this old planet and the species that struggle to survive on it are being screwed over six ways from Sunday in ever increasing ways, with Scientology about as effect in mitigating that as a fly’s fart being heard in the Grand Canyon.
The golden rule alone will build you a better life than Hubbard’s confused patchwork of philosophy, spiritualism and pseudoscience. And it won’t cost you all your money and your family.
And then you would become destitute. This cult has NO redeeming value. Zip. Zero. Nada. It’s nothing but a money making machine.
Nickname: yes, I think there’s something better on offer. Try these:
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
“Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
One more, apologies for the paraphrase from Corinthians: “….faith hope and love, but the greatest of these is love…if I don’t have love, I have nothing.”
These should keep you busy for awhile.
Frabjus reply, Bix. And if you don’t have love of yourself – not simply ego, you cannot truly love another. It all starts at “home” and grows outwards.
Hoping you’re ALL enjoying the day, citizens of everywhere. But special thanks to Mike who continually makes this blog possible.
Nickname what a load of shit.
Nickname,
Better get your ethics in & sec-check your data-perhaps a Truth Rundown is in order…the horrific results of the “human understanding” that ElRon “offers” speaks for itself in tortured souls, disconnected families, and spirits still enslaved at Co$ temples of greed.
Enjoy this, a classic song of what Indepedence Day really means:
https://youtu.be/pkDQ4uslrzg
Nickname says, “Those who would evaluate and ‘criticize’ must first have something better to offer.”
Here’s something better: LRH was a fraud and a charlatan.
Yeah, I do. They’re called psych drugs. I think everyone should be on the right combination for each individual person. Used correctly, they’re certain to bring down levels of violence, create an environment of understanding and empathy, and eliminate the expressions of mental illness that have plagued mankind since the beginning.
They work for me, so therefore they’ll work for everyone. That’s the same level of synecdoche that you bring to Scientology, Nickname, so it’s perfectly valid for me to use it too.
I thought maybe I was the only one who has found drugs to give me way more than Scientology ever did. Certainly if self medication was good for LRH it would be okay for his followers. Unless he wanted to control them and extract lots of money. Then drugs would be really bad. Especially LSD. We know how he hated that one.
Espi, it is a good rum mixed drink that does it for me. While sitting in the pool preferably. 🙂
Private property rights are the foundation of ethics. You have physical private property, intellectual property, and you have yourself and the space and energy and understanding that you yourself create. If individuals kept this in mind, they would not give up their property so easily.
In a way, it’s a rephrasing of what Hubbard said to the effect that the fundamental overt is making another want MEST (matter-energy-space-time). That’s verbal data, which is a no-no, but I don’t have the reference at hand, so my approximation is my statement of it, not represented to be the original.
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The only serious attempt at anything not already included in Scientology is either serious or sarcastic – I can’t read which – a link to a website that includes Focault and Marx. I’m wondering if it also includes Mein Kampf. Socialists are today;s primary invaders onto private property – in fact their whole ting is about abolishing private property (followed by abolishing all independent thought that does not agree with or submit to their already amply proven dead-wrong assertions).
Proving a negative gets into complications – I ran into it many months ago, looked it up months ago. But offering something better is not the same at all as proving a negative. If you do have something better, then it really isn’t even necessary to begin to disprove a competitor.
Hubbard didn’t “copy” anything any more than Einstein “copied” Newton. Any of a bewildering myriad of sciences build on what preceded them. Hubbard gave credit to a lot of philosophers and men of religion, as well as to Sigmund Freud. He credited Korzybski, and that guy asserted than man was a piece of biology and nothing more, very much a one-lifetime-then-nothing guy. But apparently his work on semantics caught Hubbard’s attention.
The Golden Rule is present in Scn., and there’s the well-known piece “What Is Greatness” which mentions love as perhaps the greatest secret of all.
A huge confusion here and on other Scn-bashing pages is the failure to differentiate between the church up to 1976, and the church after Miscavige staged what amounted to a coup. An even bigger confusion ifs failing to differentiate between Scientology and the Church of Scientology. Smishing them both together is something like saying that the guy who invented refrigeration is responsible for the viability of mass slaughter of herd animals.
Here is a post to frame for posterity. It is a reflection of a mind on scientology. The long term damage is self evident.
Oh, you are such a bad boy, Wynski, 🙂
“Socialists are today;s primary invaders onto private property”
Nu-uh, the Marcabians are by a loooong shot 😉
My God;how can you be so naive, Nickname!
I can understand that many of us here kept on practicing Scn as Indies when we came out, including Rinder, Rathbun, and many other high ranking ex SOs. But most of woke up to this DELUSIONAL dream of the workability or the so called “good” parts of the “Tech”, and about the alleged “grandiosity” and “infallibility” of LRH. You got so nerve to attempt to compare LRH with Einstein or Newton.
Do me a favor would you. In fact, I am publicly challenging you to first read Jon Atack’s “Let’s Sell These People a Piece of the Blue Sky”, and then come and sensibly debate about anything that you feel that Jon got wrong. But debate with FACTs and not with a bunch of mumbo jumbo misunderstanding and misinterpretation of Aristotle’s concept of Ethics. Attempt to dead agent Jon Atack’s assertions with FACTs that can be verified. Then, only then you will be worthy of being listened to.
Gee, you’ve been repeating this EXACT thing – almost verbatim – since 3 years ago!!!! Can you do yourself a favor and EVOLVE from Scn already? I don’t know if you realize this, but you even sound child-like.
Oh well, Thetaclear, I suspect we will have to help these die-hard Hubbard followers the same way you do someone with an addiction. Just as you can keep returning to the bottle or some other form of self-medication in hopes that it will work this time, some keep returning to Scientology like a dog returns to his vomit (Proverbs 26:11).
It is too bad that Vance Woodward had to recall his book “Addicted to Scientology”. It really makes a lot of sense as an explanation. Scientology does act as a “drug-free high”. I remember feeling like something really dramatically incredible had happened after my sessions. Tears, laughter, earth-shaking revelations, self-discovery, awe-inspiring new vistas of understanding.
But try as I might I can’t remember any actual change that lasted longer than three days. I didn’t lose my shyness around girls or my tendency to mumble or fondness for sweets. No discernable decrease in response time. No ability to make an ashtray rise in the air either.
My intelligence soared to the maximum, I always aced the test in the time allotted. Something to do with repeating the exact same test over and over until I had all the answers memorized.
I also aced the “Leadership Test”, the famous test invented by Hubbard himself to find suitable executive talent. With questions like “If you had to operate a new piece of equipment, would you try to guess how to do it or would you read and follow the instructions?” All you have to do to pass the “Leadership Test” is pretend you are the most brown-nosing toady that ever existed.
Pretend you revere Hubbard like a deity, dote on his every word, and you can easily pass the “Leadership” test.
That doesn’t mean I got any lasting good out of Scientology. The best day was the one I left it for good. Like what they say about beating your head against the wall – it feels so good when you stop.
It is tough love time for our clinically attached Hubbard followers.
Thanks Bruce. Nickname, please take these words to heart.
Oliver, perhaps Nickname need to take the following quote from LRH and compare it to the KNOWN and VERIFIED FACTS :
“Blinded with injured optic nerves, and lame with physical injuries to hip and back, at the end of World War II, I faced an almost non-existent future. My Service record states: ‘This officer has no neurotic or psychotic tendencies of any kind whatsoever’,but it also states, ‘Permanently disabled physically.’ And so there came a further blow – I was abandoned by family and friends as a supposedly hopeless cripple and a probable burden upon them for the rest of my days. I yet worked my way back to fitness and strength in less than two years, using only what I knew about Man and his relationship to the universe. I had no one to help me; what I had to know I had to find out. And it’s quite a trick studying when you cannot see. I became used to being told it was all impossible, that there was no way, no hope. Yet I came to see again and walk again.” (“My Philosophy” by LRH)
Just that one little quote when compared to the KNOWN and VERIFIED records which anyone can get, is more than enough to establish LRH as a liar, and Dianetics as a hoax as disseminated in DMSMH.
With only ONE event like the above, I would dismiss the work of ANYONE regardless if we could find some “truthful” parts in his work. I would rather start from scratch than to navigate a labyrinth of booby-traps to filter truth from falsity. I think, IMHO, than anyone who understand science and critical thinking, would decide exactly the same as I.
You’re so right.
🙂
“Oh well, Thetaclear, I suspect we will have to help these die-hard Hubbard followers the same way you do someone with an addiction. Just as you can keep returning to the bottle or some other form of self-medication in hopes that it will work this time, some keep returning to Scientology like a dog returns to his vomit (Proverbs 26:11).”
Yes Bruce; it is an incredible phenomena, though a very sad one. They just can’t let go.
“It is too bad that Vance Woodward had to recall his book ‘Addicted to Scientology’. It really makes a lot of sense as an explanation. Scientology does act as a ‘drug-free high’.
It actually makes a LOT of sense, Bruce! That’s what I’ve felt that Scn was, but I hadn’t given much thought to that idea. I hadn’t developed an analysis about it. Interesting book indeed! I tried in vain to find a copy online after I read your mention of it, but as you said, it seems to have been recalled. I did found however, an interesting link about it when Tony Ortega mentioned it back in 2012 :
http://tonyortega.org/2012/12/06/vance-woodwards-book-addicted-to-scientology-is-an-amazing-high/
And here is an image :
https://covers.openlibrary.org/w/id/7254117-L.jpg
“I remember feeling like something really dramatically incredible had happened after my sessions. Tears, laughter, earth-shaking revelations, self-discovery, awe-inspiring new vistas of understanding.”
“But try as I might I can’t remember any actual change that lasted longer than three days.”
Same with me. I ALWAYS rollercoastered. The only thing that I seldom rollercoastered about was the training part like TRs and other basics of auditing like the comm cycle, the Auditor’s Code, ARC as a concept, O/Ws as it relates to diminished reach and withdrawal from areas and people, etc. Those things I did found to be quite helpful in my daily life. I still do, though I no longer have a “KSW attitude” about it, you know. I just use it as I see fit with the modifications that I deem necessary. But processing wise? Wow, I was like one of those Bush Gardens’ rollercoasters, haha.
“I didn’t lose my shyness around girls or my tendency to mumble or fondness for sweets. No discernable decrease in response time. No ability to make an ashtray rise in the air either.”
I see. My wins mostly came from handling O/Ws and Ethics. I wanted to achieve a level of love and compassion for others that I didn’t have. I made some progress on that, but also had many, many relapses which ended up in a low self-esteem, feeling that I didn’t have much value as a human being. Basically feeling as a dog, haha. 🙂
“My intelligence soared to the maximum, I always aced the test in the time allotted. Something to do with repeating the exact same test over and over until I had all the answers memorized.”
Yeah, one learn how to beat the test, finally, 🙂
“I also aced the ‘Leadership Test’, the famous test invented by Hubbard himself to find suitable executive talent. With questions like ‘If you had to operate a new piece of equipment, would you try to guess how to do it or would you read and follow the instructions?’ All you have to do to pass the ‘Leadership Test’ is pretend you are the most brown-nosing toady that ever existed.”
Haha, that was good strategy!
“Pretend you revere Hubbard like a deity, dote on his every word, and you can easily pass the ‘Leadership’ test.”
Yeah, the more one revered and admired LRH, the more others validated our existence.
“That doesn’t mean I got any lasting good out of Scientology. The best day was the one I left it for good. Like what they say about beating your head against the wall – it feels so good when you stop.”
I perfectly understand you Bruce, because it was the same way for me. The day that I FINALLY decided to let go of Scn, I felt the biggest release of my whole life. It happened right here at this blog right after I watched the “not official” LRH interview called, “The Shrinking World of L. Ronald Hubbard” :
https://youtu.be/ZJOqxLvcQW8
Upon watching that video I was finally able to see LRH for what he REALLY was. I was able to see this magnificent “OT” being all nervous, insecure, insincere, malicious, secretive, degraded, delusional, etc, etc.Before that video, I was still giving him the benefit of the doubt – a damn weakness of mine with people, yout know. I don’t know if it is a blessing of a curse – I was quite aware of his misguided and destructive policies, but I still thought that the “Tech” itself (as in “Auditing tech”, HCOBs) was workable enough, though incapable of bringing about the advertised results. But after that video, it was as if a big huge back mass that was sitting in front of my eyes blinding me from truth, had suddenly vanished. Then everything became cristal clear. He was just a VERY sick man and nothing more.
Then I began a long search for REAL answers and studied and applied many, many methods of healing and psychotherapy – many of them very ancient – Eastern philosophies from an historical perspective, and Critical Thinking, and put it all together in a coherent whole. Then I began to REALLY win on life instead of losing. I am still a beginning student, but the road is very exciting and full of great adventures.
Thanks for sharing your experiences and Viewpoints with me, Bruce.
Thanks, Mike, have a happy 4th!
Happy 4th Mike.
Oh and wouldn’t the items in red highlight now be considered Fake News?
Happy 4th of July! Canada celebrated yesterday, but it is distinctly different from the US’s independence day. Our is a union or Dominion day not a separation day, so to speak!
“Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada) is the national day of Canada. A federal statutory holiday, it celebrates the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the Constitution Act, 1867 (then called the British North America Act, 1867), which united the three separate colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into a single Dominion within the British Empire called Canada.[1][2][3] Originally called Dominion Day (French: Le Jour de la Confédération), the holiday was renamed in 1982, the year the Canada Act was passed. Canada Day celebrations take place throughout the country, as well as in various locations around the world, attended by Canadians living abroad”