PROFESSIONAL SCIENTOLOGIST

Introduction: The viewpoint of a professional is that the end result of your observation is simplicity, not complexity. The end result is simplicity. A thing is what it is. What's complicated is the world's unwillingness to face anything.

Our world is complex, and it is becoming more complex every day.

The simpler the solution, the more usable it is.

Below is a short article by Ron on this subject, and attached is a letter by Ron about «Complexity and Confronting» from the 18 September 1967.

Handling anything begins best with confronting.

Much love,

Max Hauri

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Professional Scientologist

Excerpt form the lecture Beingness and Communication, given on the 6 April 1959 by L. Ron Hubbard

If I were asked for a very sharp, fast definition of what I meant by "professional Scientologist," I would say, "One who sees clearly." Just as easy as that – one who sees clearly. But of course, if you're going to see clearly, you have to know the woof and warp and the composition of what you are looking at. And that is life and the mind and the various dynamics. And that, you might say, is the technology at which we are looking. We can see these things, we can understand these things.

The most incomprehensible man in the world can be gazed at by you with complete understanding. The most incomprehensible, complicated, interlocked, contradictory, upsetting individual in the world can be looked at by you with complete understanding and without any real adverse emotion or reaction on your part.

It was a great discovery when it was discovered that all you had to know about some-thing that was totally incomprehensible was that it was totally incomprehensible. You understand? That's all you had to know! Up to that time, people were having a wild time with psychotics.

Now, you may or may not in your future life have a great deal to do with psychotics. They're hardly worth bothering with. I'm saying that very dispassionately. I'm saying it quite factually. When you have so many able people around, why, why worry about the smaller percentage of crazy ones, you know?

But people get fixed on this subject of psychosis, they get fixed on observations of it. They make great tables and descriptions and they assign huge Latin titles to various manifestations of psychosis, just as though they understood it. Ah, but there's only one thing to know about psychosis. That is it is incomprehensibility rampant. You see, that's all there is to know about it. I mean, there isn't anything comprehensible about psychosis. That's why it's psychosis. It's as goofily simple as that.

And so most of the lessons you learn in this subject of viewpoint – the viewpoint of a professional – is that the end result of your observation is simplicity, not complexity. The end result is simplicity. A thing is what it is.

A fellow who cannot communicate is a fellow who cannot communicate. Why worry about why? If you want to do something about this fellow who cannot communicate, then you should get him to communicate.

Now, there are certain parts and rules of communication. That's technology. These things are not necessarily complicated. But what's complicated is the world's unwillingness to face anything. The world, the world is – at the present time doesn't much want to look at much of anything, so they do a sort of a dub-in; [Dub-in: Any unknowingly created mental picture that appears to have been a record of the physical universe but is in fact only an altered copy of the time track.] and that dub-in we call complication.

One of these days, this will come forward to you with a great shock. Now it is something that you look at. Maybe you've had some experience along the line, maybe you haven't – that's beside the point. But someday you'll come along and you'll say, "My goodness that simplicity was simple, wasn't it?"

L. Ron Hubbard