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Self-determination vs Self-determinism Introduction: Ron NEVER used the word “self-determination”, which also applies to the English word “self-determination”. Thanks to the complete digitization and scanning of all documents, this can be easily proven. Ron used a word that does not actually exist in English: “self-determinism”. Learn the difference between self-determination and self-determinism. This newsletter has different impacts depending on the language. My native language is German, and I discovered a remarkable translation error since Scientology started being translated into German. It’s a type of "false friend." [False friend is a term from interlinguistics that refers to word pairs from different languages that look very similar but have different meanings in their respective languages. For example, the English word "warehouse" sounds like the German "Warenhaus," but it actually means “storage facility” or “wholesale store.”] Ron NEVER used the word "self-determination". Thanks to the complete digitization and scanning of all documents, this can be easily verified. Ron used a word that technically doesn’t exist in English: "Self-Determinism." Note: The adjective in both languages is "self-determined" (selbstbestimmt). Difference between Self-determination vs Self-determinism Self-determination The term Self-Determination is one you would typically look up in a standard dictionary. The word often invites people to invent their own definitions or interpret it in a dramatic way. Here are the definitions from the Wordbook: self-determination, n. 1. direction from within only, without influence or force from without. 2. the deciding by the people of a nation what form of government they shall have, without reference to the wishes of any other nation, especially one to which it has been subject. Definition 1. comes relatively close to the meaning of  self-determinism but does not capture Ron’s definition. Self-determination is often understood in the sense of: "I decide what I do! No one tells me what to do!"—a rather simplistic or even childish interpretation of the term. In reality, Self-determination is more about something granted from the outside, whereas Self-determinism refers to a higher, more desirable state. Self-determinism Axiom 111: Self-determinism consists of maximum affinity, reality, and communication. Axiom 117: The components of Self-determinism are affinity, communication, and reality. You can find further definitions here: http://www.slovary.pro/en.php?search=self-determinism&submit=Search If Self-determinism is defined as "maximum affinity, reality, and communication," it must be high on the scale. In other words, it corresponds to values of 4.0 or higher on the Tone Scale. Here’s a particularly relevant excerpt from the book " Introduction to Scientology " by Richard DeMille, who worked closely with Ron at the time and also authored the book " How to Live Though An Executive ." Attributes of Self-Determinism  Excerpt from Introduction to Scientology by Richard DeMille, in collaboration with L. Ron Hubbard      Some of the attitudes of self-determinism, as stated in the Hubbard Chart of Attitudes and elsewhere, are listed here. The self-determined individual: Survives, is Right, is Responsible, Wins, Controls objects, Perceives the minds of others, is Truth, is Faith (Trust), Knows, Causes, is Free, Creates, changes and uncreates Space, Creates, changes and uncreates Time, Creates, changes and uncreates Energy, is a source of Motion, Creates, changes and uncreates Illusions. or: What Self-Determinism Is Not Perhaps we should say something about what self-determinism is not. Again, we avoid mis­understandings by clearing away previous con­ceptions before discussing present conceptions. Self-Determinism is not selfishness. Self-Determinism is not selflessness. Self-Determinism is not arrogance, pride, willfulness, stubbornness, bigotry, zealotry, ego­mania, or fascism. One must be self-determined in order to understand self-determinism. Self-Determinism is a principle which can be understood in direct proportion to the degree to which it is experienced. A man who has signed ninety-nine-percent of his self-determinism over to his environment can read about self-determinism until he is black in the face, but he will understand only one-per­cent of the thing he is reading about. The student is asked, again, not to be in too big a hurry to understand what is meant by self- determinism. All of Scientology is a study of self-determinism. Self-Determinism is a principle which must be used, not merely talked about. One does not become self-determined by hanging a sign on one's body which says "Self-Determined!" any more than the government can make everyone rich by printing lots and lots of money. This kind of "wealth" and this kind of "self-deter­minism" are only a mirage. Self-Determinism is on a gradient scale. The higher one goes on that scale, the more one man­ifests creativity, perceptivity and sanity. Such high-scale behavior can be recognized easily only by high-scale beings. Low-scale beings al­most inevitably fail and refuse to recognize high-scale behavior. This may sound, at first, like the rankest snobbism, but the student will discover for himself – and, therefore, is not even asked to take the word of the present writer for the fact – that those who live on the bottom of the sea cannot fully consider the life of the birds. Fortunately, if the fish take a strong enough interest in con­sidering their own lives, they may rise to the top of the water and grow wings. This is known as processing. Contradictions of Self-determination Self-determination has evolved in our society into a concept that can be used both to avoid control and to exert control over others. The right to self-determination is often taken to absurd extremes. Without delving into specifics, it seems politically incorrect to even question this right. For a Scientologist, the question may arise: Can one require someone to take a course or undergo auditing? In our society, there are thousands of similar questions – any parent can sing a song about them.  It seems almost absurd to debate whether it is unreasonable to require someone to participate in a course or take auditing, while at the same time we accept paying all taxes to the state, adhering to written and unwritten laws, and, in extreme cases, even going to war to kill other human beings – an action that, under different circumstances, would be punishable by long prison sentences or even the death penalty.  Can auditing other-determine a poor Homo sapiens at all? From my perspective, this is the wrong viewpoint, the wrong flow. The correct flow is this: In this vast shark tank, we are helping an individual regain their true self-determinism!  It’s wonderful to end one year and begin a new one with this cognition! The Hubbard Chart of Attitudes is part of the Handbook for Preclears and can be obtained in the Ron's Org, as well as the book Introduction to Scientology . Much love Max Hauri An Analysis of Self-determinism Excerpt from the book Advanced Procedure and Axioms from L. Ron Hubbard. The goal of the auditor with his preclear is not the release of a psychosomatic, not the improvement of appearance, not greater efficiency or better interpersonal relations. These are incidental. The goal of the auditor with the preclear is the rehabilitation of the preclear's self-determinism. In order to understand this goal, let us examine some data and have a thorough understanding of what self-determinism is. Before Dianetics there were vague pushes in that direction but the state itself lacked definition and definitely had no bridge built to it. Self-determinism is that state of being wherein the individual can or cannot be controlled by his environment according to his own choice. In that state the individual has self-confidence in his control of the material universe and the organisms within it along every dynamic. He is confident about any and all abilities or talents he may possess. He is confident in his interpersonal relationships. He reasons but does not need to react. On the tone scale, we have at the optimum level, I am , at the lowest level, I am not . Between we have, from the optimum level down, varying degrees of I am and I am not . The lower one goes, the more I am not there is and the less I am . Here is the graph of the state of beingness and the state of not beingness. Not beingness is death. This is a range from 20.0 down to 0.0. Full self-determinism along every dynamic is found at 20.0. A complete other-determined individual is at 0.0. A gradient scale lies between. There is a parallel column on the tone scale to the I am , I am not gradient scale. This is the I know , I know not scale. I know is at 20.0. I know not is at 0.0. Between these lie, as one descends , I understand, I am trying to understand, I will not understand, I am afraid to understand, I cannot understand, I know not. Another parallel scale would be, I have trust at 20.0 and I trust nothing at 0.0. As one descends, one reaches less and less trust and more and more distrust until we have death. The mystic for millennia has been talking about faith. He never built a bridge to it. He made a fundamental error in converting faith into have faith . When he said have faith he invited understanding, then confusion of understanding, because one does not understand faith . One is faith. The source, content of and contact with faith is you . The result of this mystic error – and it is a very gross error – was to place individuals so far down the tone scale that "love" and propitiation became bywords and hocus pocus the order of the day. Here is a 1.1 religion. It is afraid to understand because it has to have faith, but it is not faith because faith is not understanding. Hence the general confusion at 1.1. A by-product of this is the fact that individuals who thus have faith are running too slow. You get esp, hypnotism, mixed-up facsimiles with others, martyrdom, physical illness and all manner of unwanted things at this slow speed. It is too close to the static of death at 0.0, and its people are awfully dead, ineffective and irrational. People who are trying to have faith are not faith. Thus they fear (1.1) and propitiate (1.1) and are generally confused. One will not buy unreason at 20.0. They began by knowing faith and then became confused by having faith explained. Because of spectacular successes (rare as rarity), the mystic continued to strive for something he already had because he had no way to get back to where he was. The enormously successful points of being faith in the sea of unsuccessful having faith kept the mystic striving. It is possible now to achieve faith , or regain what one has lost. I am, faith , I know are at 20.0 on up. At 20.0 on the gradient scale they are at optimum unity with MEST (the physical universe) but as they rise from 20.0 they become less and less effective on MEST until top static is reached at 40.0. The scale is a circle. 40.0 and 0.0 are the same, so it is possible to go two ways towards death. One is less well off at 21.0 than he is at 20.0 since the MEST is dwindling away. The austere but spindly and weak mystic who dwells upon abstracts is less able to know . There is an entire scale above 20.0, which matches the scale below 20.0 in undesirability. The organism slows down above 20.0. The static is thoroughly unobtainable with one's body, evidently, for the static at the top in a pure state 40.0 is, for one thing, a -270 degrees C. A person who relaxes to not being in body is at first assailed by counter-efforts and then begins to chill. The various phenomena of mysticism are in the main explained by this scale. When one forsakes individuality on the way up, he, of course, can commingle with thoughts and other individualities. When he slows down below toward 0.0 he is again getting confused in his individuality, shifts valences easily, is hypnotic and is in a generally undesirable condition. Another prime error has been made and is part of our culture, both religious and scientific, and that is the error of single source. At 1.1 single source looks to be the case. Also at 39.0. At neither point, however, is there any clear view. All life forms are not from a single source. The ideas of Nirvana, Valhalla, Adam, the original cell, each is now rather completely disproven. There is a source for every genetic line. By this is meant both a theta (thought static) and MEST form. There are as many sources as there are living organisms, each line distinct and individual. The similarity of form in a species is due to similar environments and age of the class, not single source. A negative proof lies in the finding that health, sanity and effectiveness exist where the greatest self-determinism can be rehabilitated. A positive proof is that, if it were single source, the discovery of the genetic line facsimiles, the blueprint of the body, should permit just one individual to go back and clear the original upsets for the whole human race. It has been tried several times. It affects none but the preclear. His source is the very model of self-determinism. What then are you trying to do with your preclear? You are rehabilitating him from a state of partially I am not to I am , from understand to know , from distrust to trust. If you only concentrated upon distrust in others of him and his distrust of others, his enforced faiths on others and the enforced faith of others on him, and with his trust and distrust on all dynamics, particularly self, and de-sensitized such facsimiles, your preclears would be at around Ten at least. Occluded cases may be only broken trust cases for the preclear cannot trust himself, thus cannot trust his recalls. Run trust-distrust, and enforced and broken "know" and "I am" and "faith" in Act Four. L. Ron Hubbard

Introduction: I'm an optimist, but I can't close my eyes to reality: Prison Planet Earth. Ron puts it very positively, but he is right. Without going into details: It's precisely in the teachings mentioned that we have a huge need to act. Ron's lecture "Auditing Communication Cycles" tells you a lot. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article, below. Prison Planet Earth Excerpt from the lecture: "Auditing Communication Cycles" Saint-Hill Special Briefing Course 320 given by L. Ron Hubbard on August 6, 1963. Every once in a while somebody says, "Well, why don’t you…" something or other, something or other, something or other – that’s the crux of the situation – "Why don’t you change all administrative actions? Why don’t you alter all Central Organizational lines?" "Why don’t you…" so forth. "Why don’t we change everything in the course?" and so on. What they’re dealing with is a problem they actually don’t see the breadth and depth of. And that problem is this: The character of this planet and the population hereon makes it practically impossible to do anything with this planet. Now, I’m not taking off from a failure point. The stress and thought and prevention and cure and this and that which you have to go into on this planet to get anything done and running is absolutely fantastic. Now, you want to ask why this is? Well, we can go into that in a moment. But those of you who have on the backtrack an experience of you just get some guys together and you do something – you see? Well, that’s been a common experience, and you still tend to operate in that zone and sphere of influence. In other words, you said, "Well, it was very easy. We just whistle up Joe, Bill and Pete, and the four of us will go down there and fix up the signboards, and that’ll take care of that," see? And you’re all set, see? But that was yesteryear and elsewhere. And you apply that basic feeling to this planet and you’re in trouble at once. Why? This planet is part of a larger federation – was part of an earlier federation and passed out of its control due to losses in war and other such things. Now, this larger confederacy – this isn’t its right name, but we have often called it and referred to it in the past as the Marcab Confederacy. And it has been wrongly or rightly pointed to as one of the tail stars of the Big Dipper, which is the capital planet of which this planet is. Now, all this sounds very space operaish and that sort of thing, and I’m sorry for it, but I am not one to quibble about the truth. This gets in people’s hair every now and then, and I don’t see any point in lying in order to be acceptable. It just doesn’t seem to be a right way to go about things, particularly in the realm of science. I don’t think a scientist should tell a bunch of scientific (quote, unquote) lies in order to be an acceptable scientist. It doesn’t seem to me to be a sensible proceeding. However, be that as it may, these various planets united into a very vast civilization which has come forward up through the last two hundred thousand years, is formed out of the fragments of earlier civilizations. Now, I can’t tell you accurately, exactly what these blokes are up to or where they’re from, but this isn’t quite germane to this galaxy. That’s the first thing you should know about it; it isn’t quite native to your track. You find a type of mental implanting and that sort of thing going on here in the last couple of hundred thousand years which are not native to your earlier track. Now, this is all very important; it’s very important, because they have a terrible problem. They have the problem of people who are native to this galaxy and aren’t used to this kind of thing, and they have the basic problem of "How do you kill a thetan?" And that’s a terrible problem to men who have very, very guilty consciences and blood on their hands – great problem. Probably the best way to hide your overts is to give somebody amnesia, you see (then they don’t know what you’ve done to them), and then tell them something else has happened. Well, this is a dramatization of a very craven intelligence, and that is what is going on here. Now, the fellow who conforms to that society is in no vast trouble. Perhaps some bloke who has a military record against them, and that sort of thing, might possibly (no matter what he did) find himself unable to satisfactorily conform. But the point is that their ideal is the conformist. Now, these conformists are pretty weird, and the personnel of that particular society is pretty scummy, to say the least. Let’s supposing you were in the last shambling wreckages of a red-light district: you’d have high-toned personnel, compared to the personnel which makes up the other planets I’m talking to you about. High-toned personnel, much higher toned than their average run. They practice cannibalism. The stuff you get on race tracks – once in a while some pc will run into race tracks and race-track drivers – this Roman-circus-type entertainment, don’t you see? All that kind of stuff – that’s all out of this zone and area. We’re still with that planetary system. So, they specialize in the fellow who will conform. Now, he ordinarily is a "worker" who is content to draw wages and not do another single, blessed thing – you know, never really get up, improve his lot, you see, and keep on plugging along somehow, or even slump into indigence. He’s still their choice of personnel. So this leaves, this leaves the brilliant artist, the brilliant engineer, the manager, the genius, the criminal, the pervert, non persona grata. And they sentence these people – the upper class (that is to say, the brighter gent) because they can’t control him and they’re afraid of him, and the lower class because it’s too vicious even for them – and they condemn these people to perpetual amnesia. "Dead forever," they call it – the problem of killing a thetan – and wrap them up in mothballs and ship them down here, and here we are. And that is the population of this planet. All right. Here’s a population, then, of minimal workers, maximal managers, artists, geniuses, criminals and perverts. What you going to make out of this lot, huh? Now, those are the blokes you’re talking to when you say "Add up the left-hand column of the ledger." Well, of course, the artist says he could add it up much more prettily. The guy who actually, in his own right, was a very skilled manager, he says he could devise a much better system – it’s true, too; he probably could. If the bird is a criminal, he’s just sitting there trying to figure out how he can add it up so he can short you. And there’s your zone of operation; there is your response to 8-C in trying to get an organization running. It’s all alter-is, because the basic crime was nonconforming. The basic crime wasn’t being a criminal; the basic crime was not conforming. Well, actually, this group has gone ahead and made up, up until recent times, a totally different civilization than the civilization which planted it here. In the last ten thousand years, they have gone on with a sort of a decadent, kicked-in-the-head civilization that contains automobiles, business suits, fedora hats, telephones, spaceships – quite interesting, but a civilization which looks an almost exact duplicate, but is worse off than the current US civilization. Therefore, you find the current US and Western civilization rather restimulative, because it has moved up to look like the Marcabian civilization. It’s been moving up here rather rapidly. And now we’re at a point, a very high level of restimulation, because the automobile design, the train design, ship design (why, they’ve got ships in those areas, look just like the Queen Mary, you see?), and the fire engines and the stuff you do with men’s clothes particularly – all of these things are the same image. So you’re going into a highly restimulative era, I mean in time a highly restimulative era, but we do not have this people … missing 14.51  because we’ve not had this before. See? We’ve been moving up through strata of civilization, but we hadn’t matched this one. And remember that this society at the present time looks dangerous; it looks very dangerous. One of the highest crimes you could pull in that Marcabian society, probably even today, is income tax; you make one comma wrong and it’s "dead forever." Sounds weird, doesn’t it? So, they got everybody paying income tax – awful restimulative. Probably nothing much wrong with income tax if it were administered as a tax, but it isn’t; it’s administered as a punishment, even on this planet today. Well, it’s one of their prime punishments in the Marcabian civilization. … But here you are; that is the point. Here you are; that is this planet. Every once in a while you get mad at government on this planet, when in actual fact you’re mad at the Marcabian government. And there’s a great deal of confusion. Every once in a while somebody will get awfully furious with an organization, very furious with an organization here on this planet, when they have actually identified the organization with the Marcabian civilization. Now, you start hitting people here with restimulative materials of this particular type, and it restimulates a terrific unreality; it restimulates amnesia. I have to ask you this: How hard do you have to hit somebody to bring about amnesia? Let’s take Joe out here and let’s just see how hard do we have to hit Joe in order to bring about amnesia on his part so he doesn’t know who he is, where he is, or anything else. How hard would we have to hit him? Boy, that’s pretty hard. It’s almost unbelievable force is used to handle a thetan and put him into this kind of condition. I’ve been hit with some awful heavy force in this universe without losing my mind or forgetting who I am, see? So it’s pretty heavy duress. And you restimulate that very easily by telling people things. It gets awful unreal. But you would find, if you gave them the actual dope, that they would be far more in agreement with you than if you gave them just a touch of the dope, do you see? You won’t find the citizens of this planet very far in disagreement with what you’re doing. So, therefore, you’ve got some kind of an explosion going. Well, these guys are not going to blow their own show. See? They’re not going to do anything peculiar about it. They’ve probably got us all sized up, if they know anything about us at all. They probably have some dim idea of what we’re doing, and saying, "Oh, yes. Ho-hum." And give the devil his due: They might even say, "Well, hey, what do you know? Those guys might be producing a type of technology which we ourselves desperately need." Look at that. See, now, they know the problems exist. They couldn’t have had any decent solution, or they wouldn’t have taken the route to solution which they have. They are beings, too; remember that. So when we look at all this: you are (1) organizationally handling people who are revolutionaries. They are nonconformists. Probably the common denominator of this planet is revolution. Probably the one thing you could always start on this planet would be a revolution, because it’s a state of perpetual revolution. Trying to hold any organization together of any kind whatsoever becomes almost impossible, because everybody you’re dealing with is a nonconformist. All right. So far goes the civilization. There are just those few statements on the thing I thought you might find of interest. We’re dealing now with "What is an auditor?" You are handling, therefore, the roughest case that you could find in the universe, because the rehabilitation of the individual demands that you rehabilitate his knowingness. If his knowingness does not increase independently, he himself does not get well. You see, electrical charge on the case is simply a symptom that measures his knowingness. If he’s got too much charge, his knowingness is way down. See, that’s an indirect measure of the amount of knowingness of the individual.  L. Ron Hubbard Dear Friends, 2024 is coming to an end, and a new year is beginning. I am an optimist, but I cannot close my eyes to reality. Changes are on the horizon for the coming year; that is undeniable. There are so many pressing issues and unresolved problems. Let us take a look at Logic 24 : The resolution of the philosophical, scientific and human studies (such as economics, politics, sociology, medicine, criminology, etc.) depends primarily upon the resolution of the problems of the human mind. – L. Ron Hubbard. Ron puts it very positively, but he is right. Without delving into the details, it is clear that we have significant work to do in the areas he mentioned. Whether all the solutions we receive in 2025 will be in your and my best interests remains to be seen. However, one thing is clear: we would be unwise to rely solely on the authorities. It is far more reasonable to improve our own lives and immediate surroundings — to support and strengthen our first, second, and third dynamics. Another important, stable truth for me is this: Every person is capable of producing or creating far more than they need for themselves to live. A simple example from the past is the father who could create enough to support an entire family. At the same time, every family member contributed their share. The idea that one could live entirely on social benefits, universal basic income, or similar "aids" without any personal effort is fundamentally flawed. We all have the ability to contribute and create more than we require for ourselves. This is a basic principle. It is fundamentally wrong to believe that one should not have to contribute anything in order to live. In my opinion, there is a evil intention behind the belief that one can earn money simply by having money. For this very reason, interest was fundamentally forbidden in the three major religions (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism). Unfortunately, these prohibitions were not consistently enforced; instead, they were weakened through loopholes or abolished entirely. The introduction of interest and fiat money — unlimited money printing — has led to wars and will continue to cause conflicts. The real evil intention here is to make money without having to work for it. It is a selfish mindset, focused solely on taking without giving back. The fundamental contract every person has is to create at least as much as they need for themselves. It is precisely these psychopathic capitalists and their imitators who make it difficult for ordinary workers to receive fair exchange for their labor. They have created and perpetuate a system in which they continuously skim the cream off the top while others must work for them. This is the fundamental problem we face on this planet with this particular type of Thetan. Their presence here is certainly no coincidence. Ron has clarified what is happening on this planet for me through numerous lectures, books, bulletins, and policy letters. But I have also learned a great deal through auditing — both directly from the insights gained and indirectly because auditing has removed charge. This has increased my reality, allowing me to see things that were previously hidden or unbearable to acknowledge. For this, I am very grateful, even though one often cannot openly discuss the reality because it seems too unreal to the average person. There is a lecture by Ron with the harmless-sounding title "Auditing Communication Cycles," which an auditor studies early in their career at Level 0. It’s not for the faint of heart! The entire lecture is attached; an excerpt can be found above. For the New Year, I wish for collaboration and initiative to bring new people into Ron's Org, spreading and applying the Tech. This is not Ron's planet, nor is it my planet — it is our planet. Together, we can succeed. Happy New Year! Max, Erica, Melinda, Dirk, Verena, Jean, Sibylle, and Henrietta

Introduction: The word control evokes moments when we were beaten down into apathy or given such conflicting commands to obey that we henceforth shudder away from any mention of the word. But it is really about something else. Max Hauri's letter – in blue – is included in this article. Control and Affinity Control and the Mechanics of "Start-Change-Stop" from L. Ron Hubbard s 18th ACC lecture # 6, dated July 22, 1957 Control There is a scale: Havingness Interest Communication Control Help Overt Withhold … No Effect At the very bottom is No Effect, with some levels omitted here. As we can see, control is very high on the scale – even higher than help! Control thus appears to be something good. Having control over one’s environment and fellow human beings is desirable. A boss or parent must certainly have control; it is part of the game, as well as freedoms. However, I want to address something entirely different. IT and AI will relentlessly pursue the interests of their clients without emotion; affinity will be entirely disregarded. A ruthless "eat or be eaten" policy will be implemented. No one will be there to acknowledge an origination, understand you, or provide validation. You will no longer be able to reach anyone – people will no longer be "necessary." The current use of killer robots between Israel and Gaza only confirms how urgently Scientology is needed. AFFINITY, that is some emotional or felt consideration of proximity, is basically a consideration of distance, but it is that consideration which says that one likes or doesn't like it. In other words, without some liking or disliking, having some things to avoid or to go close to, there would be no game at all. – L. Ron Hubbard For Christmas, I want to share a very important element from Ron to create affinity, and thereby also love. It’s a fantastic principle that we should all understand and apply. L. Ron Hubbard: Therefore Affinity is control. Somebody comes along and says, "Stand up straighter. Got your heels together. Suck in your guts" and he will say, "The guy loves me." If a person had a body then control would be affinity. If he could control something he would like it. An individual who finds out control isn't killing him turns out to like his auditor. That is an establishment of a reality level and the affinity level at that reality level is control. It goes up and not down the scale. An individual cannot adequately control his car and he doesn't like his car. What does he mean by "like"? Does he mean an emotion? No, he means an ability to control it. One wonders why some married couples don't get along although she apparently does everything he says. It is just control going on all the time. One is looking here at where con-trol is affinity. They express their affinity for each other by kicking each other, trying to gain control over each other by fighting. Below that level is love making. One can understand a lot by just looking at what understanding is at the level of mass. It is control, controlling and being controlled. That is understanding. Control does not need to involve ARC to create affinity; it simply needs to be good control. Control is always good – otherwise, it’s not control. To avoid any misunderstandings: dominance, bullying, violence, and the like are not control. Control is starting, changing, and stopping – sometimes involving effort and emotion, which is not unusual, as ease comes with repeated application. We must uphold humanity. We must maintain affinity, love, and emotions for one another, and ensure we have ARC for each other. Merry Christmas Max, Erica, Melinda, Dirk, Verena, Jean, and Sibylle

Introduction: That which a person can confront, he can handle. The first step of handling anything is gaining an ability to face it. –  L. Ron Hubbard A week of Hard TRs has just come to an end. Read some of the results under the article of L. Ron Hubbard. More Confronting Ability 54, Beginning September 1957 That which a person can confront, he can handle. The first step of handling anything is gaining an ability to face it. It could be said that war continues as a threat to Man because Man cannot confront war. The idea of making war so terrible that no one will be able to fight it is the exact reverse of fact – if one wishes to end war. The invention of the longbow, gunpowder, heavy naval cannon, machine guns, liquid fire, and the hydrogen bomb add only more and more certainty that war will continue. As each new element which Man cannot confront is added to elements he has not been able to confront so far, Man engages himself upon a decreasing ability to handle war. We are looking here at the basic anatomy of all problems. Problems start with an inability to confront anything. Whether we apply this to domestic quarrels or to insects, to garbage dumps or Picasso, one can always trace the beginning of any existing problem to an unwillingness to confront. Let us take a domestic scene. The husband or the wife cannot confront the other, cannot confront second dynamic consequences, cannot confront the economic burdens, and so we have domestic strife. The less any of these actually are confronted the more problem they will become. It is a truism that one never solves anything by running away from it. Of course, one might also say that one never solves cannonballs by baring his breast to them. But I assure you that if nobody cared whether cannonballs were fired or not, control of people by threat of cannonballs would cease. Down on skid row where flotsam and jetsam exist to keep the police busy, we could not find one man whose basic difficulties, whose downfall could not be traced at once to an inability to confront. A criminal once came to me whose entire right side was paralyzed. Yet, this man made his living by walking up to people in alleys, striking them and robbing them. Why he struck people he could not connect with his paralyzed side and arm. From his infancy he had been educated not to confront men. The nearest he could come to confronting men was to strike them, and so his criminal career. The more the horribleness of crime is deified by television and public press, the less the society will be able to handle crime. The more formidable is made the juvenile delinquent, the less the society will be able to handle the juvenile delinquent. In education, the more esoteric and difficult a subject is made, the less the student will be able to handle the subject. When a subject is made too formidable by an instructor, the more the student retreats from it. There were, for instance, some early European mental studies which were so complicated and so incomprehensible and which were sown with such lack of understanding of Man that no student could possibly confront them. In Scientology when we have a student who has been educated basically in the idea that the mind is so formidable and so complicated that none could confront it, or perhaps so bestial and degraded that no one would want to, we have a student who cannot learn Scientology. He has confused Scientology with his earlier training, and his difficulty is that he cannot be made to confront the subject of the mind. Man at large today is in this state with regard to the human spirit. For centuries Man was educated to believe in demons, ghouls, and things that went boomp in the night. There was an organization in southern Europe which capitalized upon this terror and made demons and devils so formidable that at length Man could not even face the fact that any of his fellows had souls. And thus we entered an entirely materialistic age. With the background teaching that no one can confront the "invisible," vengeful religions sought to move forward into a foremost place of control. Naturally, it failed to achieve its goal and irreligion became the order of the day, thus opening the door for Communism and other idiocies. Although it might seem true that one cannot confront the invisible, who said that a spirit was always invisible? Rather let us say that it is impossible for Man or anything else to confront the nonexistent and thus when nonexistent gods are invented and are given more roles in the society, we discover Man becomes so degraded that he cannot even confront the spirit in his fellows, much less become moral. Confronting as a subject in itself is intensely interesting. Indeed, there is some evidence that mental image pictures occur only when the individual is unable to confront the circumstances of the picture. When this compounds and Man is unable to confront anything anywhere, he might be considered to have pictures of everything everywhere. This is proven by a rather interesting test made in 1947 by myself when it was discovered that if an individual could be made to "run a lock" of something he had just seen, run another lock on something he had just heard, and run an additional lock on something he had just felt, he would at length be able to handle much more serious pictures in his mind. I discovered, although I did not entirely interpret it at the time, that an individual has no further pictures when he can confront all pictures; thus being able to confront everything he has done, he is no longer troubled with the things he has done. Supporting this, it will be discovered that individuals who progress in an ability to handle pictures eventually have no pictures at all. This we call a Clear. A Clear in an absolute sense would be someone who could confront anything and everything in the past, present and future. Unfortunately for the world of action, it will be discovered that one who can confront everything does not have to handle anything. In support of this is offered that Scientology process, Problems of Comparable Magnitude. In this particular process the individual being processed is asked to select a terminal with which he has had difficulty. In that the definition of a terminal is a "live mass" or something that is capable of causing, receiving or relaying communication, it will be seen that terminals are quite ordinarily people in the problem category of anyone's bank. The person is then asked to invent a problem of comparable magnitude to that person. He is asked to do this many, many times. It will be found midway in the process that he is willing to do something now about the problems he is having with that person. But at the end of the process a new and strange thing is found to occur. The individual no longer feels that he must do something about the problem. Indeed, he can simply confront or regard or view the problem with complete equanimity. Now an almost mystic quality enters this when it is discovered that the problem in the physical universe about which he has been worried often ceases to exist out there. In other words, the handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists. This is strange and miraculous. It is hard to believe that an individual who has a drunken husband could cure that individual of drink simply by processing out the problem of having a drunken husband, and yet this has occurred. I am not saying here that all the problems of the world could be vanquished simply by running Problems of Comparable Magnitude on a few people, but neither am I saying that all the problems of the world could not be handled by Problems of Comparable Magnitude on a few people, and indeed I am at this time undertaking an experiment in this direction on the subject of the atomic bomb. It is an oddity that the longer this experiment is continued, the less responsive these bombs are to test firing. Perhaps it could be said, however, that if there existed one person in the entire universe who could confront all of the universe, the problems of the universe for all would deintensify enormously. Man's difficulties are a compound of his cowardices. To have difficulties in life, all it is necessary to do is to start running away from the business of livingness. After that, problems of unsolvable magnitude are assured. When individuals are restrained from confronting life they accrue a vast ability to have difficulties with it. There are many other things about confronting which are intensely interesting but these we will take up in a later issue. An earlier issue of Ability carried in it a full resume of Training 0, the name of which is Confronting. This drill, done for a great many hours, will be found intensely efficacious in the handling of life. A wife and a husband whose way has not been too smooth would find it extremely interesting in terms of resolution of domestic difficulties to co-audit with this training drill alone, each one running it upon the other for at least 25 hours. This would have to be done, of course, on a turnabout basis of not more than 2 hours on one and then a switch from "coach" to "auditor." To run Confronting in this fashion and with considerable gain, it would be necessary to have some understanding of what a "coach" is and, in one of these co-auditing teams, what an "auditor" is. A much fuller understanding of this will be contained in the Student Manual. The team sits in straightbacked – preferably uncomfortably upright – chairs. The coach and auditor sit facing each other a short distance apart. It is the task of the coach to keep the auditor "on the ball." The "auditor's" feet must be flat on the floor, his hands must be in his lap. His head must be erect and he must not use any system or method but must simply confront. A twitching muscle, a jittering finger alike would be reproached by the coach. The coach has several terms he uses. The first of these is "Start," at which moment the "session" begins. Every time the auditor falls from grace, does not hold his position, slumps, goes anaten (unconscious), twitches, starts his eyes wandering, or in any way demonstrates an incorrect position, the coach says "Flunk" and corrects the difficulty. He then says "Start" again and the session goes on. When the person in the role of "auditor" has been extremely successful over a period of time the coach can say "Win" and then again "Start." When the coach wishes to make some comments or give some advice the coach says "That's it," straightens up this point and then again says "Start." In the coaching itself only these terms are employed: "Start," "Flunk," "Win," "That's it." Anything else the coach does or says is disregarded by the "auditor" unless the coach has said "That's it" and has then advised on a point and then has started again. The coach would be at liberty to do anything he wished, short of physical violence, to make the auditor nervous or upset him. The coach could say anything he wished between a "start" and another command as above, and the auditor would flunk if he paid any attention or did otherwise than simply confronted. Ordinarily all the coach does is make sure that the auditor goes on confronting. However, it should be understood that the drill can be toughened up considerably. The coach can do anything to throw the auditor off the simple business of confronting. If the auditor so much as twitches a smile, looks embarrassed, clears his throat or in any other way falls off from plain and ordinary confronting, it is, of course, always a "flunk." It should be understood that drill sessions are not auditing sessions. In a drill session the entire session is in the hands of the coach, who is only in a vague way the "preclear" of the session. In an auditing session the entire session is in the hands of the auditor. There is a basic rule here. Anything which the "auditor" or "student," as he is called in the drills, is holding tense, is the thing with which he is confronting. If the "auditor's" eyes begin to smart, he is confronting with them. If his stomach begins to protrude and becomes tense he is confronting with his stomach. If his shoulders or even the back of his head become tense, then he is confronting with the shoulders or the back of his head. A coach who becomes very expert in this can spot these things at once and would in this case give a "That's it," straighten the auditor out on it and would then start the session anew. It is interesting that the drill does not consist of confronting with something. The drill consists only of confronting; therefore, confronting with is a "flunk." Various nervous traits can be traced at once to trying to confront with something which insists on running away. A nervous hand, for instance, would be a hand with which the individual is trying to confront something. The forward motion of the nervousness would be the effort to make it confront, the backward motion of it would be its refusal to confront. Of course, the basic error is confronting with the hand. The world is never bright to those who cannot confront it. Everything is a dull gray to a defeated army. The whole trick of somebody telling you "It's all bad over there," is contained in the fact that he is trying to keep you from confronting something and thus make you retreat from life. Eyeglasses, nervous twitches, tensions, all of these things stem from an unwillingness to confront. When that willingness is repaired, these disabilities tend to disappear. Of course, tumultuously married couples may encounter some knock-down and drag-out moments in doing this confronting drill. However, it should be kept in mind that it is the coach in these training drills who is bound by the Instructor's Code and that the only harm that can result would come about if the "auditor" were permitted to "blow" (leave) the session without the coach, even with manhandling, getting the auditor back into the drill. It will be found that these "blows" occur most frequently when the person being coached, in other words the "auditor," is being given too few wins and is being discouraged by the coach. Of course, things he does wrong should be flunked, but it will be found that the way is paved to success with wins; therefore, when he does it well for a period of time, the "auditor" should be told so. Go into this drill expecting explosions and upsets and simply refuse to give up if they occur and you will have it whipped in short order. Go into it expecting that all will be sweetness and light and everyone should be a little gentleman and a little lady and disaster will loom. Neither I nor the management are responsible for cuts, contusions, violent words, or divorces resulting from attempts to run confrontingness drills by husbands and wives on each other. May you never be the same. L. Ron Hubbard Founder We feature a week of Hard TRs from Monday May 5 to Saturday May 10, 2025. Testimonials on the benefits of Hard TRs For me, the Hard TR0 is one of the tools that enable us to move towards this “beingness” and regain a real ability to face life and its aberrations. I see them as a kind of mental martial art, where everyone has to go through their share of mental-physical challenges, but with the promise at the end of the day to get the wins that are really worth the courage to put one's butt on the chair. During this week of TR0, I experienced for the first time in my life a feeling combining both, Power and Peace – inner calm. It's very precious to me and invaluable; I wish everyone to get a taste of it. – Kevin I loved this week of hard TRs. I'm already on my second one and I can feel the progress. I already know I will do more! First of all, to continue my progress, but also because it is a subject, an experience, after which you feel so good, different, but better! – Franck I started Scientology not long ago and hadn't done many long TRs (the maximum 50 minutes). I was very apprehensive. Now I want to do it again; it was a great week. – Cey A great week with a great group! So much new energy! Improved ability to confront. No more falling into sleep and we are there! The world is waking up and I'm waking up with it; what a happiness! – Sébastien I really found the days of Hard TRs very beneficial. The first 2-3 days were a little uncomfortable, as 2 hours is already unusually long. But then it got easier and easier. I found that I was able to communicate with people in an unusual way. My sound level also went up a notch. I'm now a TR0 follower. As for my inner over-excitement, it has disappeared, except for brief moments. – Stefan Sincerely yours, Max Hauri

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

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