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Introduction: Don't these psychopaths just reincarnate over and over again? Yes, they do. Psychopaths are reborn as psychopaths. Parents of psychopaths say in unison that he or she was a difficult child from birth. The good news is that only about 2-3% of the population are psychopaths (maybe this is not good news), but the other 97-98% are not psychopaths. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Dianetics: its Relationship to Scientology – Auditor 25 – 1. April 1967 Scientology today is producing Clears in greater and greater numbers. Its expansion is accelerating as standard technology delivers what Scientology promises in each Scientology organization throughout the world. Scientology is the route from human being to total freedom or total being- ness. Dianetics was the route from aberrated or normal to capable human being. This step had never before been achieved in man's history. Oddly, the step from human being to spirit has been achieved, if rarely, in Buddhism, other spiritual practices, even Christianity, but was not generally credited. Scientology really achieves it and for the first time with total stability, no relapse and invariably one for one. Nevertheless, man had an inkling of the goals of Scientology even though he considered them almost beyond God. But man had no inkling whatever of Dianetics. None. This was the bolt from the blue. Man was hacking and sawing and shocking and injecting and teaching and moralizing and counselling and hanging and jailing men with enthusiasm, without any idea at all of what caused man to behave as he did or what made him sick or well. The answer was and still is Dianetics. In 1950, I wrote a book, published May 9th, called Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. I was even contracting at the time to do some stories and novels and was quietly minding my business. Then the book hit. Nobody ever expected this to be a bestseller, but it went instantly and immediately to the top of the bestseller list and stayed there and stayed there. The book caused a tremendous furor. Dianetics groups sprang up all over the country. People would read the book, then start auditing their friends with startlingly good results. But there wasn't an adequate organization to hold the line, to maintain standards of technical application. I found out that someone was busily telling people that auditing was an art – that there was nothing scientific about it! The time had come to establish positively and completely my responsibility for all of Dianetics. It was very reluctantly that I took over this responsibility because I knew that all hell was going to break loose and boy, did it! The West, you know, is a scientific barbarism. It is not really a civilization – not yet – but it is very scientific. Actually, the society is very unbalanced at this time, to the degree that it possesses scientific power without the gentler graces. It has power without humanity and to that extent is not a civilization. Do you know that at this time they couldn't whip up a single technology to make somebody who is crying laugh – or make someone who is laughing cry? They are attempting to alter human behavior with a strong arm. "If you don't change and act better, I am going to hit you on the head with a sledgehammer." That is the approach of this civilization. When you start laying the truth on the line, it is liable to blow off a bit of confusion. All you have got to do is put in a stable datum, and the confusion starts to blow off. The early days of Dianetics were the early beginnings of Scientology. It was the same story, a stable datum going in and confusion blowing off. What happened then wasn't all that terrible. We got through because of one thing, I finally wore my hat, In July of that year, in spite of the turbulence and everything, I wore my hat – of being me. Nobody has ever been able to throw me off that line since. Saying, "Yes. I'm the fellow who wrote that book. Yes, I am the fellow who leads this group," regardless of the dead cats, alarm clocks and the bricks – that took some doing. It was simply a stable datum going into a very, very aberrated world. My whole idea throughout this entire time was to go on and do my researches, finish it up and deliver – deliver the goods, in spite of every interruption. I devoted my time exclusively to research and I paid no attention at all to the brickbats and the dead cats. The basic discovery of Dianetics was the exact anatomy of the human mind. The aberrative power of engrams was discovered. (An engram is a mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness, and a real or imagined threat to survival.) Procedures were developed for erasing them. The amount of benefit to be gained from running half a dozen engrams exceeded anything that man had ever been able to do for anybody in the history of the human race. But there was a question of time. It would take more than 75 years to get in enough Dianetic auditing to erase all the engrams on a person's time track. I had to short-circuit this. I had to bring this right to basics. The discovery of what it was that the mind was coating was the discovery of Scientology. It was coating a thetan. A thetan is the person himself – not his body or his name, the physical universe, his mind, or anything else; that which is aware of being aware; the identity which is the individual. The thetan is most familiar to one and all as you. The truth of the matter is, we aren't just an idea, in a book, disturbing nothing on a shelf, not even reading itself. Bringing individuals, live human beings, up to a point of recognition of their own beingness – that is a live action. That's totally live as an action. It's much easier to face a concept or an idea, than it is to face a living, breathing entity. And from 1954 forward, when it became vivid and obvious that we were engaged upon the resolution of the human spirit, we were living, breathing entities. Up to that time we could be a very nice excitement that people could leave alone or not leave alone. We didn't have to be very serious about it. But a lot of people were being very serious about it. No matter how it was stated, a lot of people were being serious about it. We were then a living, breathing thing. We weren't just an idea. And the point is, we were not, at any time along the line, anything else. We weren't a philosophy going through the society. We were Beings. And when we first started up the line it was the enturbulation of countless ages which began to blow away. It was pretty tough. We didn't have weapons at that particular time. We had a lot of technology, more than man ever dreamed of at that time, but that wasn't very much. And we had started to make a hole, you might say, in the collective and conglomerate aberration of mankind. Remember that it was a livingness making that hole. We were live beings. It wasn't the principle that was making the hole; it was us, applying it. We moved up into the teeth of every aberration in the society almost simultaneously at one fell swoop, and the confusion that blew off was so fantastic that it took fifteen years just to stabilize our position organizationally so that we could stand and resist the brickbats that came our way. Now that is an evolutionary step which is vital to the growth of any organization, and we are through it. We won. A great many unexplained things existed 17 years ago. Well, they've all been solved in Scientology. The road out is the road you have, in Scientology, up through the Grades. It took all the knowledge of Dianetic auditing. It took all the material. It took all the odd observations. It took all these years of work to carve that very thin, and now rather ordinary-looking path that works fast, up through the Grades. But we have the gigantic problem amongst us that Scientology works too fast in an auditor's hands. Scientology processes are too rapid to produce the whole of auditing phenomena for the trainee auditor and so he doesn't get used to handling it. Therefore, how can he ever learn to audit? He can't, running Scientology, as he'll never get enough practice. You, as a Supervisor or new student, need a process which doesn't produce an instantaneous result. Dianetics has the virtue we never would have called one in 1950. It is slow. You can audit a pc for a long, long time. And you can get auditing practice. Dianetic auditing was very useful with which to learn the fundamentals about the mind and that's what I want you to use it for. There's value to this Dianetic auditing. There's greater value in this auditing than man ever before had. This solves the problems that Sigmund Freud was trying to solve. It solves them with spectacularity. And compared to Scientology – it's nothing. In Scientology, you have the technology of total recovery of a Being, and that doesn't mean a body. Never lose sight of the fact that the salvage of the body is secondary to the salvage of the being. Dianetics, you see, is small game. The order of magnitude between Dianetics and Scientology is hardly comparable. It's like shooting rabbits but you're after water buffalo. It's not even that order of magnitude. It's like digging a ditch by going out and counting the number of grains of sand that lie on top of where it should be. When it was vivid and obvious that we were engaged on the resolution of the human spirit, the address of the surface manifestations of the mind became quite secondary. But we have a use for Dianetics right now and it is a very positive use. It is great training. And that's what I want you to use it for. Just learn more about the anatomy of the mind through Dianetic Auditor training. L. Ron Hubbard Founder Dear Friends, The gap that has opened up worries me. On the one hand, we have ultra-modern technologies, the progress is tremendous, and that's putting it mildly. Simply admirable. On the other hand, people are bashing each other's heads in the old manner. The evil intentions of those who organize these wars are simply insane. Psychopathy in its purest form. Difficult to outperform. Needless to say, the combination of these two points is atrocious. Ron was and still is ahead of his time. This quote from the article I am sending today sums it up: "The West, you know, is a scientific barbarism. It is not really a civilization – not yet – but it is very scientific." Is there any hope at all? Don't these psychopaths just reincarnate over and over again? Yes, they do. That's the bad news. Psychopaths are reborn as psychopaths. Children are not "blank pages", they are not white and they are not innocent, neither the good ones nor the bad ones. Parents of psychopaths say in unison that he or she was a difficult child from birth. The good news is that only about 2-3% of the population are psychopaths (maybe this is not good news), but the other 97-98% are not psychopaths. And the nice thing about so many children is that they come into the world with good intentions. There are apparently children who can remember past lives, but my observation is that apparently very rarely does a child talk about it. Probably that's a good thing. But what really pleases me to see is that children bring their abilities with them. The ones they have. Certain thetans start their lives from a much higher springboard than these little creatures are given credit for. They can also bring a very high ethical standard. The person always brings her case with, good or bad. Can Dianetics or Scientology "cure" a psychopath? Unfortunately, no. We cannot and even Robert D. Hare, criminal psychologist says that this chapter is not yet written. But as they say in English "it takes two for tango", and if a large part of the 97% decide not to be victims, we will have made it and then we will also find and create ways and means to help these really poor devils. Either way, auditing is the solution. Dianetics is the beginning, anyone can learn it and even more, receive it. This is our daily work. We have gems in our hands. For those who can be audited, all is possible. Ron writes it so beautifully in the article "Dianetics, its relationship to Scientology". Much love Max Hauri

Introduction: You have been educated that magic, as an entire subject, is a lot of nonsense. But that's telling you your postulates don't work. That your intention is not senior to chemical reactions. Thus, you've been carefully educated to invalidate your own willpower and ability to postulate. Magic: a lost subject? Advance! 29, 10. February 1975 So magic is apparently a lost art. But is it? Stubbornly despite the black propaganda against magic there are still magicians amongst us who wield their wizard rods and refuse to disappear. Anachronisms from a forgotten world. These are the water or mineral diviners modernly known as dowsers. The term dowser comes from an ancient Anglo-Saxon word meaning to push down. It refers to the tendency of a hand-held implement such as a forked stick to dip when held by a competent dowser over water or some other deposit. Weird, huh? It's supernatural. A remnant of magic in a scientific age that had nearly brought the world to a new barbaric orgy of destruction and chaos. Certainly the roots of dowsing reach far back into the dim traditions of magic. The traditional divining rod is a forked hazelstick or twig. Hazelwood is high on the list of woods with magical associations, formerly used as an ingredient in various charms and folk cures. The forked stick is also rich with magical associations. The dowser's "wizard rod" is related magically to the fairy wand, the medieval witch's broomstick and other instruments of magical power. Besides a forked stick, other instruments have been used for a similar purpose such as a pendulum which begins to swing when over the sought-for site and a long metal rod or wire with a right angle bend at one end. But the point is these magicians are not just prowling the hills of Wales in Arthur's time but they are here amongst us now. And science has here and there begrudgingly acknowledged that they work. Several eminent geologists have been dowser-magicians. Professor Barrett, a distinguished investigator of the prestigious Society for Psychical Research writes in The Times January 21, 1905, "Making a liberal allowance for failures of which I have not heard, I have no hesitation in saying that where fissure water exists and the discovery of underground water for a domestic supply is a matter of the utmost difficulty, the chances of success with a good dowser far exceed mere lucky hits, or the success obtained by the most skillful observer, even with full knowledge of the local geology." Yet although the existence of these modern magicians with their wizard rods are acknowledged, no one can figure out how it works, including the dowsers themselves. Simply saying it's magical doesn't go anywhere either because what is magic? The most learned 20th century encyclopedia admits to a lack of definition of magic. So, until magic is explained it's no explanation. Many elaborate theories have been originated to explain the power of dowsers. According to Cornish tradition the divining or dowsing rod is guided to lodes by the pixies, the guardians of the treasures of the earth. Some recent 20th century theories are not much more plausible. For example, one gentleman was so anxious to prove that such phenomena had a physical explanation that he proposed that it was accounted for by "mechanical vibration, set up by the friction of moving water, acting upon the sensitive ventral [stomach] diaphragm of certain exceptionally delicately framed persons." Hmmmm. Other more honest commentators on this scene admit that the source of the dowser's power is a mystery. In particular, one writer feels it is a form of ESP and that the question of dowsing would be solved when the field of ESP is better researched because that field is a mystery also. Hey, let's begin to get some insight on this. What is the source of a dowser's success where obtained? It has been easily shown that there is no physical interrelationship between a piece of wood or a string-held ball (pendulum) and such varying substances as water, coal or even buried treasures. In other words it's the fact of these implements being held by certain masters of the art which apparently make them useful - to the dowser. A fairy wand without a fairy is of course just an inert stick. In fact, some dowsers claim they can see what they are looking for underground and don't need a rod. Does that give you a clue? Let's look further. Advance! reader and Scientologist, Chuck Lewis, is a master oil dowser. At the request of the Advance! he writes the following: "In the United States, the ability to find mineral deposits by the method of "dowsing" (using the so-called divining rod or pendulum) has for years been very much downgraded and neglected by the majority of people in the scientific community. While a few persons have begrudgingly admitted that someone down the line could find water with the use of a "witching-stick" (a forked branch freshly cut from either a peach, willow, hazelnut, or some other specie of tree) the idea that other valuable minerals such as gold, silver or oil could be located with a similar method is not an agreed-upon reality to the majority of people in this country. In most European countries, the art of dowsing is accepted as a workable and proven method of mineral exploration, and has the status of a true science. "According to some writers on this subject, including the authors of the book Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, Shelia Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, the art of radiesthesia, (meaning sensitivity to radiations to find water and minerals) has been in practice for at least seven thousand years. Bas reliefs from early Egypt portray water diviners equipped with dowsing rods and even headgear with antennas. Kings of ancient China, like King Yu (2200 B.C.) are pictured carrying dowsing rods. Early woodcuts depict miners of Medieval Germany using dowsing rods to locate ore bodies. In Vietnam, engineers from the First and Third U.S. Marine Divisions used dowsing rods to successfully locate enemy tunnels, booby-traps, and unexploded mortar shells. "Using a more sophisticated rod than a peach twig, I am able to locate and define oil and gas structures. This I have done many times, not only in my home state of Texas, renowned for its many prolific oil fields, but in many other areas of the U.S. including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania. "The rod I use for dowsing is a ten and a half inch section of steel coil spring three-quarters of an inch in diameter with a two and a half inch plug of high-carbon steel inserted into the top, and the spring itself fitted into a wooden handle at the base. "In searching for oil or gas areas this rod is held in the right hand. (It will not work for me if held in the left hand!). In my left hand I hold a small vial of crude oil. I can work on foot or in a car. As I approach a hydro carboniferous zone I sense a slight tug on the dowsing rod, quite similar to a nibble on a fishing line, and the rod commences to bob up and down in the direction of the oil. The rod continues the bobbing motion until I reach the point where I am immediately over the oil structure when the rod starts spinning in a clock wise direction. Conversely, whenever I am over a zone carrying natural gas the rod will rotate counter-clockwise. As long as I am directly over the oil or gas-bearing area, the rod will continue to rotate – sometimes so violently and rapidly that the spring will work itself out of the handle and fly out of my hand. "By my own agreement and computations, I can determine the approximate depth to the oil formation as well as the thickness of the oil or gas-bearing strata. "At one time I was a member of the British Society of Dowsers, and I have been exposed to many theories as to what force exactly makes the 'doodlebug', as it is laughingly referred to in the oil patch, work. "Soviet scientists, including Dr. A. A. Ogilvy, Chairman of the Geology Department of Moscow State University, call dowsing by a new, demystified name. The Biophysical Effects Method' or B.P.E. for short. "According to Dr. S. Tromp, a Dutch geologist researching for UNESCO, a dowser can chart an artificial magnetic field as tiny as 0.001 gauss units in a room, and that there is a body's reaction to water and minerals in the earth that can be clearly registered with an electrocardiograph. Other European scientists have noted that a dowser's body is actually reacting, recording a higher blood pressure and pulse rate while over a mineralized zone. "While many theories have been put forth as to what actually makes the rod work, I am convinced that Theta plays the largest role. I can locate distant oil and gas areas working from a map, which puts it squarely in the realm of Theta ability." Thank you Chuck. So there you have it folks - theta ability, the ability of a thetan as senior to the physical universe cause and effect. But you say, "what about magic? That's where we came in with this article." Yeah, what about magic? Can the whole subject be characterized as primitive folly? Well, since the most authoritative encyclopedia won't provide a definition, we will. First of all let's differentiate magic from stage conjuring or legerdemain which is an entertainment based upon skillful deception and tricks. The word magic comes from an ancient Persian word with a root meaning might, to be able. So! At this point we have the privilege of quoting from the works of L. Ron Hubbard for a full clarification of exactly what magic is. "A magician postulates what his goal will be before he starts to accomplish what he is doing. The old magician was the great-great-great-grand father of your modern stage magician. But your stage magician doesn't usually know the old magician ever existed. The stage magician has a hat, a wand and bric-a-brac of various sorts. But he usually doesn't know where they came from. These are, in fact, pieces of ritual out of the 8th, 9th, 10th centuries. "Each one of them means something terribly specific and the most awesome ritual in the world is associated with their use. The magician was very ritualistic and he would very carefully postulate what effect he was trying to achieve before he would be cause for that effect. That's the first thing he'd do. He'd ask, 'What am I trying to do?' Then he would make a statement of what he was trying to do. And having made a statement of what he was trying to do, he would just then initiate the steps necessary to accomplish it. "If one did not do this, one would inevitably fall into this trap: he would become the effect of his own cause, because what he had eventually accomplished would seem surprising to him and desirable as an effect upon him. "So he carefully stayed out of that rat race, and he had nothing further to do with it. Any time that he achieved any effect, he would say, 'You see? I achieved that effect.' He was still cause to that effect." So magic has got to do with ritualistically postulating effects into being. In fact, you may wish to define it as the art or practice of ritualistically postulating effects into being. Now we know why modern materialists scoff at magic. To them the only force that exists is physical universe force and the only changes that occur are brought about by physical causes. Supernatural in their world system becomes a bad word. You have been educated that magic, as an entire subject, is a lot of nonsense. But that's telling you your postulates don't work. That your intention is not senior to chemical reactions. Thus, you've been carefully educated to invalidate your own willpower and ability to postulate. So you see, with the definition of magic we are right back into the realm of theta ability. L. Ron Hubbard has revealed the ultimate statement about a thetan's abilities in the first two axioms of Scientology: "Axiom 1: Life is basically a static. Definition: A Life Static has no mass, no motion, no wave- length, no location in space or in time. It has the ability to postulate and to perceive. "Axiom 2: The static is capable of considerations, postulates and opinions." Now, what about ESP? (We mentioned earlier in this article that one authority thought the resolution of the mystery of dowsing would only be solved when ESP was understood.) Extra Sensory Perception? You guessed it – any actual abilities ever described under the heading of ESP are simply theta abilities which fall under Axiom One and Two. Through the works of L. Ron Hubbard all the mysteries have been solved! Man has long searched for an understanding of himself and his own abilities. He has long been interested and involved himself in various fascinating solutions in an attempt to recover his power of postulate and intention. Recently in the last few centuries Western materialism has attempted to squash that interest and put a slave philosophy that all is mud in its place. Through Scientology the earlier tradition that Man's potential is senior to the physical universe has been revived and clarified. Through Scientology Man can answer for himself the ultimate riddles of existence. At last through the technology of Dianetics and Scientology each of us can recover his full native power to postulate and perceive. He can create for himself the position of being a triumphant winner in the game of life instead of a slave participant. Certainly, any on-the-ball, 10th century magician would come up to us today and shake our hands.

Introduction: Together we are strong – Scientology is a group activity. Read also the truly appropriate article by Ron about teamwork. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Excerpt from HCOB 28 May 1969 Dianetics and Results Dianetic Counseling Groups The best auditing results are obtained from teamwork. Even a group of auditors, trying to make lots of money, usually try to do nothing but audit. It is not that they have case failures. It is that they fail to wear the essential hats. A Review Auditor has to be a trained Scientologist. Lack of one means a roughed-up pc has to be sent to the nearest org. But there is no reason one cannot work as part of a group, even if the others are only part-timers. The best solution to all this is to form a Dianetic Counseling Group and get the essential posts on the org board held. Then the advances and gains the group makes will be advances that are stable. This group would of course have to have liaison with a competent Medical Doctor or Clinic. In the United States especially, the Counselors would have to be ministers. A Dianetic auditor would be able to audit all day even if the whole group only worked evenings. Let’s face it. The auditor auditing alone will have case failures. He won’t have time to pick them up. He won’t be able to get them to Qual. After a while he will have losses and some failed cases that muddy up his neighborhood just as other professions get. Psychiatry and psychology failed as single practitioners not only because they had no real tech but because they tried to work alone. This turned them toward governments which then used them only to control populations and there went whatever tech they might have developed. The single practitioner theory in Dianetics failed badly as an early Dianetics practice. Auditors that made it only attached themselves to the rich. Others became drifters. The answer, we have found out long since, is the group. The full hats, organization and activities and how they interrelate are available to Dianetic Counseling Groups. It is a wide area of interesting development all by itself. We had to know org basics to make orgs. A Dianetic Counseling Group can be enfranchised and made regular and helped. It will tend to stabilize any practice area. And it will minimize case failures. The official position of orgs is that they cannot take responsibility for the results obtained by single practitioners. Auditing is a team activity. Even if one were a medical doctor or a psychiatrist or psychologist, it would be best to have on hand or on call the rest of the team or at least a Dianetic Counseling Group even if one were not an integral part of it. The purpose of auditing is healthy sane people. The largest percentage are very grateful and very happy. And then there are the few who, through misconducted lives, are quite a handful to say the least. Realism requires that auditing be a group action. As such a group can also teach a course, it is not difficult to recruit able people to help. I recall in particular two pathetic cases of singlism. One was a psychoanalyst who learned how to be an auditor and had to stop using Dianetics as it cleaned up all his practice and he had so much trouble finding “patients”. The other was an auditor who found himself with the whole of a war vessel’s crew as pcs and no help in sight. In either case forming a Dianetic Counseling Group, getting them checked out on their “hats” and doing their duties even part-time would have solved all. One stick won’t burn. One auditor cannot in truth live and work alone. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends Here Daniela's feedback on what we have achieved regarding the declaration of protection in Munich. It is another step towards freedom. As a refresher, I have also attached the March newsletter to the email. Together we are strong – Scientology is a group activity. See also the truly appropriate article by Ron, above or attached. Much love Max Hauri Dear Friends, We would like to report that the ruling against the city of Munich regarding the use of the Scientology Declaration of Protection is now being implemented. See the attachment. Our lawyer has – thanks to your support – taken care of this and has published the relevant judgment on Internet in such a way that it can be easily found by people who are in a similar situation and are looking for help. For example, the judgment is available on one of the largest legal platforms Beck-online. This means that the judgment reached can also be used in other areas where this discriminatory form of "explanation" is required. Again, here is the judgment in short form; those who wish to read it in full can find it on the Internet at: VG Munich (30th chamber), judgment of 28.12.2022, AZ M 30 K 19.2699. "The defendant (City of Munich) is ordered to cease and desist from making grants for the promotion of parent-child initiatives in family self-help, which are designed as voluntary benefits, dependent on the submission of and compliance with a declaration of protection, by which the operator of the facility undertakes to immediately exclude persons from the further performance of the funded task, who during the funding period as free Scientologists or members of the "Free Zone" apply, teach or otherwise disseminate the technologies of L. Ron Hubbard or Scientological techniques and methods." I think we have come a good step further in the direction of self-assertion. Many thanks to all who have contributed to this. Best regards. Daniela Mikorey

Introduction: I dare to say that going to school and learning things hardly improves intelligence. Surely, one can talk cleverly or simply join in the conversation. But unfortunately, I've seen too many educated people talking garbage and doing stupid things… Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Public Attacks Legal Point – Policy Letter 23. Nov. 1967-II Here what Ron says: The practice of Scientology is today a very routine action. It consists of drills which: 1. Better one's ability to communicate, 2. Gives one the intelligence to handle his problems, 3. Makes one able to be a social being without committing antisocial acts, 4. Brings one to abandon explanations of his failures and to get on with being successful, 5. Handles all one's reactiveness and. 6. Clears one. These drills are quite unfrightening. If psychology had them it would use them and be a great success. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends, I dare to say that going to school and learning things hardly improves intelligence. Surely, one can talk cleverly or simply join in the conversation. But unfortunately, I've seen too many educated people talking garbage and doing stupid things that I can easily defend my claim. I also dare to say that TRs, that is our communication exercises, and auditing, and here I include the so-called Objective Process or CCHs, increase intelligence. [CCHs: Communication, Control, Havingness. Objective Processes that use Communication, Control, and Havingness to enhance just that and make someone more capable, more active, and more high-toned]. Ron says "reality is proportional to the charge removed." This is a very important statement and a basis on which to build. Let me give an example of how charge prevents one from seeing reality: A child can be so panicked by a horsefly that he jumps to his death. Or have you ever tried to explain something to someone sitting in a grief charge? Audit the secondary first and then you can talk to him. Intelligence is improved by taking away charge, not by filling someone with data. A thetan cannot think with this data until he has been cleared of the garbage, i.e., misemotions, upsets, misdeeds, problems, pain, unconsciousness, fixed ideas, etc. Much love, Max Hauri

Introduction : It is time to step out of the Western dimension into the Eastern to find out more about one of the key figures of Man’s spiritual history – and future! Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below "A Vision of the Future" from the magazine Advance! 30 In Advance! 25 you were introduced to the story of Metteyya. You learned that Gautama Buddha (563-483 B.C.) developed a philosophy about suffer­ing and its resolution through the at­tainment of a spiritual state known as Bodhi (Enlightenment). Buddha’s work brought Man a higher level of personal integrity, self-respect and mutual trust. It placed great em­phasis on the values of Love and Peace and itself set the precedent for Christ’s later Message of Love to the world. One of the most remarkable facts about Buddha is that he recognized his own work was incomplete. He pre­dicted it would be completed some time in the future by a successor whom he called Metteyya. No figure in Man’s history has been more intensely awaited for a longer time than Metteyya. As Metteyya is a legacy of hope from the East we should understand better how the East understood him. It is time to step out of the Western dimension into the Eastern to find out more about one of the key figures of Man’s spiritual history – and future! First of all,Metteyya was con­ceived of by Gautama Buddha as a second Buddha, the Buddha-to-come. In other words here we have the legend of the Second Coming predating the Middle East interpretation of it by some hundreds of years. But what is a Buddha and how was a Buddha variously conceived? The word Buddha comes from a very ancient Sanskrit root Budh meaning both "to wake up" and "to know". Thus Buddha is a term for someone who has woken up and reached enlight­enment on his own spiritual identity and the basic truth of this universe! All Buddhists believe that anyone has the inherent potential of reaching en­lightenment – if he rouse himself and dedicate himself to the goal. Because this goal was so seldom achievable through Buddha’s work, he and others to follow looked to the future when Metteyya would make this goal universally possible. Gautama Buddha was not considered to have been the first Buddha to appear. The Indian Buddhist of some 2,500 years ago did not share the narrow view of time which the West inherited from the Old Testament Genesis ac­count. The world did not start yester­day for the Indian Buddhist or a mere 6,000 years ago. Rather, he conceived of a past track measured in millions of world ages. According to him these vast periods had peaks when Buddhas of unrecorded ages appeared to help the world revert to a higher destiny. Hitherto, the greatest of these beings in the earth span was Gautama Buddha (about 563-483 B.C.). But even he would be exceeded by his successor, Metteyya. For hundreds of years after Buddha the concept of Buddha remained simply one of a man who made it by his own bootstraps and taught others the way. Then in the first century B.C. Bud­dhists began to develop new concepts of what a Buddha was and hence new concepts concerning Metteyya. These views along with others distinguished this school from what had been taught earlier. They called themselves "Maha-yana”(The Great Vehicle) in contrast to "Hinayana" (Small or Lesser Ve­hicle), the earlier beliefs. Subsequently Mahayana Buddhism exploded into North Eastern Asia and by number of adherents became the most popular form of Buddhism. By the first century of our era, Mahayana Buddhism had developed a three-tier level of reality in their defi­nition of Buddha in such books as the Saddharmapundarikasutra(usually translated as "Lotus of the Good Law” but actually it means "Lotus of the Law of Basic Truth"). They called this doctrine trikayawhich unfortunately poorly translates into English as "the three-body doc­trine." Actually kaya(body) is a mis­nomer as it’s not a doctrine about bodies at all but about spiritual states. The highest level of reality or spiri­tual state was a state called Dharma-kaya, or Body of Truth. This translates as Ultimate or Basic Truth. Basic Truth is not considered here as an abstract concept but rather as an All-Source, a spiritual absolute. Below the level of Dharmakaya we find a level of transcendental [Also transcendent; above and independent of the physical universe; going beyond ordinary limits; excelling; superior; extraordinary. In this article transcendent and transcendental are used interchangeably.] beings who are freed of the fetters of the body and the physical universe. This type of beingness or state was called Sambhogakaya (Body of Bliss). This level of existence is conceived of being made up of Transcendent Buddhas who can­not be perceived by the gross senses but who can be spiritually experienced. For example, it could be said that one who feels Christ is near him, with him or guiding him in life is experiencing a transcendent reality from this level. Some intellectuals in ancient India thought that these Transcendental Bud­dhas were not real entities but personal mockups of the beholder. In any case, this doctrine conceives of a higher spiritual plane superior to and not dependent upon the physical universe. Further down scale from the Sambhogakaya but infinitely high com­pared to man’s state was the Earthly Buddha. This level was called Nirmanakaya(from Nirmanameaning "Manifest Be­ings"). These blood and flesh Buddhas were sometimes seen as the protégés or even projections of the Transcendent Buddhas into the world. The function of the Earthly Buddhas is to make known Dharma, The Truth, in the world and thus help other beings ful­fill themselves. Metteyya would be such a Buddha. Sixth century Ch’an Buddhism (later exported from China as Zen Buddhism in the 12th century) carried this doc­trine another step further. Ch’an Bud­dhists considered that every being par­takes of these three "bodies." Every­one is Nirmanakaya insofar as he owns a body. He becomes Sambhogakaya when he achieves enlightenment and release from worldly fetters. Finally he is also Dharmakaya inasmuch as his true beingness is ultimately un­limited and identifiable as Basic Truth. We have looked in detail at the Trikaya doctrine as it was a central doctrine of the Mahayana form of Buddhism and their elaboration of Metteyya’s nature. The Wheel of the Teaching, Mahayana Form. (From a Tibetan woodcut) The eight spokes symbolize Buddha’s eight­fold way for reaching enlightenment. The symbol in the hub was adapted from the Chinese symbol yin and yang representing, actually, the basic polarity of the universe. In Buddhist use it represents the interrelatedness of the two basic facts of life: suffering and its resolution, enlightenment. Note that this symbol forms an "S” at the wheel’s hub! Every Earthly Buddha was connected with his own Transcendent Buddha. Names for these entities were supplied. For example, above Gautama Buddha was the Transcendent Buddha Amitabha. The Transcendent Buddha of Metteyya was called Amoghasiddhi.Beyond all these levels of beingness stood Dharmakaya, the spiritual abso­lute. Below the Earthly Buddhas there was another spiritual grade called Bodhisattva. Certain outstanding Bodhisattvas served Earthly Buddhas as their aides. Bodhisattva comes from two words: bodhi – enlightenment, and sattva – being. A Bodhisattva is a being who is earnestly striving for enlightenment (bodhi) or who, having already attained it, refuses to release himself from cor­poral existence until all beings have been helped on the road to enlighten­ment. Anyone in Mahayana Buddhism who sought enlightenment for himself and also took vows to help others make it was a Bodhisattva. The single great virtue which moti­vated Bodhisattvas as well as Earthly Buddhas – and the virtue from which all other virtues stemmed – was con­sidered to be compassion. A Bodhi­sattva or Buddha deeply cared for the fate of other beings. Unfortunately, compassion as a word has humanoid connotations of pity and grief. A better statement can be found in Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought by L. Ron Hubbard: "The ability to assume or to grant (give, allow) beingness is probably the highest of human virtues. It is even more im­portant to be able to permit (allow) other people to have beingness than to be able oneself to assume it." And in other quotes from his collected works we find: "I believe that to command is to serve and only gives one the right to serve." And "… a being is only as valuable as he can serve others." These statements brilliantly define the direc­tion of the Bodhisattva or Earthly Buddha and would readily be agreed upon by the great Buddhist teachers of the past. Mahayana Buddhism Mahayana Buddhism developed another doctrinal system which ex­plains Metteyya in a slightly different way than the above. This is called the doctrine of the Transcendental Bodhisattva. So don’t get the two confused as they are not entirely consistent. In this doctrinal system it was con­ceived that there are ten stages of existence above man to which a Bodhisattva could aspire and ascend. These levels are described as ten perfections: The Bodhisattva is joyful as he dedi­cates his life to helping other beings. He perfects his self-discipline. He is able to confront adversities and persevere through them in his ef­forts to help others. He is able to perceive and cast off false ideas. He learns to meditate – which in the East does not necessarily mean sitting on one’s seat thinking like Rodin’s Thinker. Rather it means to focus one’s attention with awareness. He obtains wisdom and is able to perceive the causes of suffering. He cognites on basic truth and realizes that compared to it the world of phy­sical appearances is but a passing parade. This is the stage on which the Bodhi­sattva reaches his enlightenment. But if he ceased to function in this world he would be betraying the trust of beings who count on him to help them toward "the higher life." Thus although he is freed of MEST compulsions he stays on in this world to fulfill his vows. At this stage the being leaves the need of a body and becomes a Tran­scendent Bodhisattva. He is able to operate as a being without ties to a body and assume any form at will. On this stage the Bodhisattva can uplift people just by being in their vicinity through his own goodness. He continues to devote himself to his goal of uplifting all beings. This is the last stage of Bodhi­sattva. Here he obtains knowingness without limit. He is but one step below total Buddhaship. His radiance as a being is wonderful. Metteyya was looked upon in this system as a Bodhisattva of the tenth stage of perfection, just one step short of Buddhaship. He was conceived of as existing in a higher plane of reality (identified as "Tusita heaven”) pre­paring for his role as the future Buddha. Throughout Mahayana history Met­teyya, as befits the Buddha-to-be, ranked as the highest Transcendent Bodhisattva, a popular figure in Bud­dhist art and sculpture. Also as the Buddha-to-be Metteyya was actually worshipped by some Maha­yana cults. On yet another level, the figure of Hotei, the great paunch-bellied laughing god of Japan is historically derived from the Indian Metteyya through the Chinese god Mi-Lo-Fu. Appropriately enough, Hotei, although through the years he has lost his religious signifi­cance, is today the "God" of Luck in Japan. Yes, Metteyya would be good luck for the world! Despite any doctrinal complexities and interpretations, the entire story of Metteyya is based upon Gautama’s pre­dictions in the Pali Canon (earliest Buddhist scriptures). For example in the discourse on "War, Wickedness and Wealth", Buddha is found to predict the following: "At that period, brethren, there will arise in the world an Exalted One named Metteyya, Arahant. [Variation of Arhat, one who has attained spiritual perfection.] Fully Awakened, abounding in wisdom and goodness, happy, with knowledge of the worlds, unsurpassed as a guide to mortals willing to be led, a teacher for gods and men, an Exalted One, a Buddha, even as I am now. He, by him­self, will thoroughly know and see, as it were face to face, this universe, with its worlds of the spirits, its Brahmas, [Plural of Brahma, from Hindu terminology, a term signifying the personified creative aspect of a spiritual absolute] and its Maras, [Plural of Mara, literally death; the personification of evil] and its world of re­cluses and Brahmins, [Members of the Indian priest caste] of princes and peoples, even as I now, by myself, thoroughly know and see them. The truth, lovely in its origin, lovely in its progress, lovely in its consummation, will he proclaim, both in the spirit and in the letter, the higher life will he make known, in all its fullness and in all its purity, even as I do now. He will be accompanied by a congregation of some thousands of brethren, even as I am now accompanied by a congrega­tion of some hundreds of brethren." Note that in Buddha’s vision Met­teyya would be no armchair philoso­pher but he would know and experi­ence the worlds of both the spiritual and physical universes as Gautama had. He would be a man, son, warrior, hus­band, and Buddha just as Gautama was. It should be interposed here that Gautama Buddha himself did not re­gard himself as a god or claim he re­ceived guidance from supernatural agen­cies. Nor is there any evidence he re­garded Metteyya in any other light than he regarded himself. In another prediction Buddha states that this Metteyya would come when Buddhism itself has failed on this planet and the clouds of error darken the world. According to the legend Metteyya would have red or golden hair and he would arise in the West at a time of world crisis. Thus the following negative signs would indicate the time is nigh (near) for Metteyya’s arrival. Buddhism in Tibet, China and other lands will be eclipsed by a new material­ist philosophy. Religion itself will downtrend on a world wide basis. False technology about the mind will come to the fore. New vastly destructive weapons will be unleashed on populations. We will enter into a "Crisis Era" which threatens Man’s future. Positive Signs By what positive signswill we know of Metteyya’s arrival? Religion and the spiritual studies will be revitalized. A humanitarian technology through which individuals can regain personal integrity, self-respect and well-being will become evident. A vital new religious movement will come to the world’s attention from the West. The achievement of high spiritual states will become increasingly com­mon. According to the ancient tradition these four points would point to the advent of Metteyya. It was predicted that Metteyya’s ar­rival would mark the beginning of a new Golden Age for Man. But what kind of a Golden Age? Just another enforced and arbitrary Utopia like Karl Marx’s dream of a Workers’ Para­dise? No. Metteyya’s Golden Age would be based upon the following: 1. Respect for self and others. 2. Real trust of self and one’s fellows. 3. Becoming more oneself. 4. Personal integrity. 5. Personal well-being. Now that would be a Golden Age worth working for and looking forward to! Dear Friends, Here's the article "A Vision of the Future" from the magazine Advance! 26 or even 30. [Advance! 26 and 30 are mostly identical.] I won't write much about it, except that we should sometimes try to see things from a higher point of view. Much love, Max Hauri

Introduction: Pain or any unpleasant feeling can be managed by reversing the flow. The article Suppression and pain explains it all! Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. An article taken from the lecture 2 September 1962 The Healing Effect of Preparatory Auditing We made a mistake in the old days. We thought it was "control," because "control" on this planet means more or less "suppress." The basic result of bad control, of course, is suppress. A little kid keeps spilling his dinner down his chest and you suppress his spilling his dinner down his chest by whupping him. See, I mean, that's "standard child upbringing". Of course, the psychologists have had another one. They've given up, so they say, "Well, you let the child spill the dinner down his chest." You see? That's known as permitting the child to "abreact his hostilities." It's a mouthful, it doesn't work on the child either. But the main thing I'm trying to bring up here is that people, when they are hurt, don't want to be hurt. I know this sounds like one of these horrible simplicities, like "the way to cross the river," you see, "is to cross the river," and "the way to fly an airplane is fly an airplane." The individual has a simple, singular, obsessed method of not hurting. And he knows nothing about the mind. His method of not hurting is to suppress it. I wouldn't say you should make a general test on this, but you take a cigarette butt and grind it out in somebody's palm (you start to, you see) and they will immediately grab their hand to stop the pain. I wouldn't make that test if I were you. The point I'm making here is the actual first impulse action when the message known as pain starts creeping its insidious way toward the thetan is for him to say, "No!" Now, when an individual is in pain, agony, and so forth, he is trying to stop it from hurting. Now, there's a gradient of it known as "careful of." I was checking things over, and it's a gradient on Suppress. In other words, "If I just keep myself sufficiently 'carefulled' – in other words, 'suppressed,' why, I'll be all right." Now, the individual in handling pain or mental problems, puts it away. He says it doesn't exist. This is an interesting way of handling life. You could imagine somebody living out in the jungle and an elephant comes up to the door, and starts kicking the door down and this fellow has studied Kismet [fate, destiny] or some such philosophy and he knows the right way to handle things. He just says, "All materialism isn't." "That elephant ain't." And after they've taken a spatula and scraped this fellow off the floor, he still doesn't learn that this philosophy is not the best philosophy. Well, it's probably the worst philosophy anybody could possibly have, because it makes unavailable everything and makes everything hurt like the mischief. But then, we have another maxim in Scientology: That which is not admired tends to persist. So, it's probably the least admirable philosophy [to suppress] that man has developed. So, of course, everybody uses it. This button [suppress] is in common to all. "Well, I'll just forget it. The best way to handle that, I'll just forget him. There is no reason for me to sit here sadly and mope, I will just forget him. Boohoo-hoo," you see? Bing! – and then nothing, nothing, nothing. See? She's got it made. It's the perfect way of becoming miserable. If you want to have your whole past kick your head off, forget it. That's the best possible way. Now, this is, by the way, residual in hypnotism. The hypnotist uses this, and of course we don't use any hypnotism in Dianetics or Scientology. But knowledge is knowledge, and the hypnotist knows this very well. He knows how to put a compulsion in on somebody. He tells it to him and then makes him forget it. And then after that, it goes off like an automatic button. So if you want to put a person on total automatic so that he can be restimulated at any time by anything, all you have to do is make him suppress. All right. So this individual is in an automobile accident. Now, if he didn't suppress things, a little while after the accident, this memory of pain would run out, and it'd just flow away. He'd heal up. We've proven this many times. He'd just heal up in short order. This is because the suppression is off of it. That is the main thing that has happened there – the suppression is gone, that's all. In other words, this individual would get well if he didn't suppress. He has an accident. During the accident he suppresses everything that's happening, suppresses all the pain that's happening in the accident. And doing so, he, of course, arrests time on the time track – he stops time. He suppresses time as well as anything else, and that, may I call to your attention, is part of the physical universe: matter, energy, space and time. Well, if he's going to suppress matter and energy and other things, he's also going to suppress time. So, he "stops himself on the time track" and he stops himself right in the accident. A very notable thing happened up here in Washington one day. A United States Senator had many times been shipped out to the Walter Reed Hospital with heart trouble – heart trouble, heart trouble, heart trouble, and here was his heart trouble. I was sitting up in his office one day and I said, "Now, Senator, when did this heart trouble start?" "Well," he says, "it must have been back there in that automobile accident." He'd had an automobile accident, there were two girls in the car and he didn't want anybody to know about it. Anyway, I sat there and ran it out. This old Senator was sitting there and he was gripping the steering wheel and he was trying to keep himself from coming on it, and he was trying to hold the girls back, "mentally" he said. It didn't last long; I don't think I ran it for more than about forty minutes. And he actually didn't pay too much attention to it, but he had sort of added up the running of the engram as "telling me all about it very graphically so that I would understand all of it." And that was the end of his heart trouble. His heart trouble wasn't heart trouble; it was an automobile accident. Well, what is that? That is just the effort not to let somebody else get hurt, you see, suppress pain for them, suppress pain for himself, prevent the accident, stop himself in time, and he'd been stopped right there at the moment of the accident. L. Ron Hubbard Dear Friends, Early on in Scientology, I realized that one could deal with pain or any other unpleasant feeling by reversing the flow. In other words, instead of condemning pain, one has to accept it and even love it. Ultimately, this is what we do in auditing, but we can also apply it to life. About auditing: it is not something you get once and then it is over. The gains are stable, yes; but life goes on, the range and comfort zone widen and the dynamics increase, the game expands so there is always something to look at. And then, there is the theme of the countless skills that exist. It is also possible to constantly nurture them with the auditing. It is also important to have the competence to audit, which is just great and gives an insight and understanding of life and people, that can't be gotten without the practical application of auditing. There are sometimes contradictory ideas on this subject: on the one hand, we want to finish auditing as quickly as possible, and on the other hand, we should audit a lot. The answer is simple: even if you have been audited, you can still get more. Both the auditor and the preclear win. Industrialization, information technology and now AI (Artificial Intelligence) are giving us more and more free time, creating a huge void just waiting to be filled. There are infinite possibilities for filling it. More and more, I'm seeing that these activities are focused on material gain or the "consumption" of data, i.e. on a kind of pseudo-knowledge, sometimes also called "useless knowledge". This separates someone from life, more than it connects them to it. A frightening example is that apparently, an increasing percentage of young people don't answer a phone call they don't know where it is coming from. Sports clubs are disappearing in favor of fitness centers, where people simply pay a membership fee instead of contributing to the club to create it, something the ARC is also associated with. To make a long story short, we have a third valuable dynamic activity: auditing. We should use it more. We should do more co-auditing. We should audit more friends and acquaintances. We have countless HCOBs and conferences in which Ron has given us thousands of processes. We should use them. We don't do it enough. Ron was a big fan of co-auditing! To complete the circle, we can remove the pain and audit it. You acquire skills as a preclear and as an auditor. There is a good reason why Scientology is the game of games. Let's play it, we have the opportunity. Much love, Max Hauri

Introduction: To have the unshakeable certainty of being a spiritual being is a great freedom, perhaps even the greatest there is. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Excerpt from the Lecture "Releases and Clears" given on the 16. August 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard There have been three principal points in Man's spiritual history: 1. the idea that wisdom leads to freedom; 2. the development of exteriorization; and 3. the culmination of Man's search for spiritual truth and freedom: Scientology. These points are brilliantly explained in the following article by Ron, perhaps the most basic revelation of Man's spiritual past ever made. Exteriorization: The state in which the thetan, the individual himself, is outside his body. When this state is reached, the person acquires the certainty that he is himself and not his body. Ten thousand years ago along the line of philosophic research there was a chap called Dharma, a now legendary monk. It's from Dharma that you get the tradition which most philosophers follow which is that if you became wise you would become free. Anybody around is grooved in to that basic philosophy. That is part of the woof and warp of the entire culture. That's been going on for 10,000 years on this planet. Started by Dharma. Now that work has been totally assimilated. That one can exteriorize and that exteriorization brings about freedom, is the premise of Gautama Siddhartha Buddha, and that's only 2,500 years ago. They've got 7,500 years yet to go before they assimilate that into the culture the way the philosophy of Dharma has been. People still don't know about exteriorization 2,500 years after the most popular and most numerous religion on the planet, Buddhism. These were new thoughts particularly for this very backward and barbaric planet. If you don't think things were barbarous you should have had something to do (and maybe you did) with India of 10,000 years ago. There was no slightest vestige of civilization. To get a point across that if you became wise you somehow became a bit superior, that was a hard one to do. That was a terrific advance. It's almost like trying to teach animals or something, if you can't even talk their language. So that was a big jump. And eventually, practically everybody on the planet agreed with that. We have now some fantastic percentage of the taxation of this planet (that's what's left over from military appropriations) devoted to education. Thus there's this terrific demand for education or self-improvement. You might not look at it first because it seems so banal, so commonplace to you. But the fact that Man at this time is actually willing to invest time, effort and money in the subject of making people wiser so as to make them freer is a great testimony to this fellow Dharma. Took him 10,000 years to get one point across. That was almost the totality of it. He knew that you could become a free individual. In other words, there was a freedom which was attainable. But no technology at all. Now 7,500 years after that Gautama Siddhartha Buddha discovered exteriorization. Following the pattern of Dharma, he thought you exteriorized by becoming wise. Now that religion has gone into the majority of the areas of Asia and did itself really civilize three-quarters of Asia. There wasn't much information but he introduced several ideas along with it. And one was, that you should be civilized, be polite etc. That was a shocker; nobody ever heard of that before. Very novel ideas. Man has not yet accepted the idea that he should be polite but he's getting there. In some areas of the world they have overdone it a bit. So as they cut each other's livers out they say. "I withhold my foul breath from your face!" So this action of exteriorization was not in actual fact doable to any great degree. The Lamaists came along afterwards and tried to develop some sort of a technology and an explanation for all this. What Buddha didn't cook up they thought they could. Of course they were moving into a zone where there was plenty to be found out. But the big strike had been made by Buddha which is that somebody can exteriorize. Now of course we are then gainers to the degree that there is some longevity to the idea of the soul. A lot of people accept this. Where it goes, what it does, what it consists of, they haven't a clue. But that there is something called a soul which goes someplace has actually dominated Greek, Roman thought for a very long period of time now. It's about 2,000 years or something like that. It also dominates various portions of Africa and the Middle East under another prophet's name and so on. But it is the same channel of thought that there is such a thing called a soul. Socrates is the primary forwarder of the idea in our present philosophic history. He was holding forth for the existence of a personal being, or as we would say, thetan. The religious bigots of his time disagreed with this so that they slipped him the hemlock. He went ahead and drank the hemlock just to make them good and guilty. Now I'm just giving you a scouted background history. The most that was ever achieved by any of these subjects was a type of release. And since the beginning of the universe, so far as we know, there has never been anything but a release. There has never been a Clear. There has never been a Cleared anything. Therefore these were all forms of release. Dharma is release by wisdom, and Buddhism is release by exteriorization. You have in actual fact, then, the total background history. It's those things which are there to understand in the light of what we're doing today. There are no more complexities then left to understand about these. I would be accused by any scholar of these works of considerable oversimplification but I could answer from the very interesting height of saying, "Yes, it took twenty years to make a bodhi (thetan exterior) but we can make one in about twenty seconds – and at a far higher percentage." It is so easy to do it is totally neglected. We don't even do it as a special action. We, in actual sober fact, let it happen. That it almost immediately unhappens does not, then, qualify it as a stable release. It isn't a good lasting state. As a matter of fact, after you've popped somebody out of his head two or three times he becomes very anxious, thinks you're going to cost him his body and begins to tell you he isn't. The psychiatrist looks on exteriorization with the greatest of askance because he occasionally in institutions finds, as an inverse or an inverted exteriorization, a fellow who cannot get into his body and is going frantic. Therefore he thinks anything in connection with exteriorization is insanity. But then, of course, he's branding three-quarters of Asia insane. This state of thetan exterior can occur at almost any time. Anybody processing anybody sooner or later is going to get a thetan exterior on his hands. After you've made one of these fellows, you will find out that within the hour, three days, a week he will have tangled up with more reality than he is prepared to confront in his somewhat tremulous uncleared state. He's just a release and he's been asked to walk in this big broad world barefooted and he's still got the anxiety and problem of holding onto his body. He doesn't know quite what to do about this. He's afraid he'll forget his body. On the past track it's happened to him before many times. In fact, it happens to him every time he dies and is associated in his mind with death. He's also had unfortunate experiences when he could do it at will somewhere way back on the track: leaving his body in the inn to pop off and do something and then coming back and finding out they'd buried the body. So it has very sour connotations with it because he is not competent to cope with the state at all. He's way in advance of himself, he's in actual fact on a harmonic of OT. An OT could care for it but he can't care for it when he is, for example, a Dianetic release. I'm not making nothing out of Buddha. This was a remarkable advance. It must have been remarkable indeed if Socrates copied it – after which it became traditional in Western culture. By the way, there are, here and there, some primitive races who believe Man has a soul; it's a piece of truth that isn't easily camouflaged. But for it to actually be worked on or admitted something could be done about it was quite new. Buddha, when he exteriorized people and brought about exteriorization, brought it about through wisdom so the fellow had some kind of philosophy at least to back him up. Now the road of philosophy has been very very difficult and it has taken a long time for a basic philosophic idea to manifest itself in the society in which it has been expressed. What's particularly notable about Buddhism is that it was such clear-cut truth that Buddha advanced, that it spread like wildfire within his lifetime. And in the few succeeding lifetimes, a very short period of time, he had almost about three-quarters of Asia right there. Buddhists had moved from a state of "man is meat" through to "he is a spiritual being" and they had manifestations of this and a rather powerful leader. Now this is and can be considered only a sort of a state of release through wisdom, because they didn't have any command to tell anybody to back out of his head. The fellow would simply become wise and when he became wise enough he would exteriorize, they hoped. They had a lot of failures along this line. It's very difficult to do this because it's booby-trapped by the bank. Now in one fell swoop with no pause for breath, we have capitalized upon the idea that a man who is improved becomes free. We have brought about a twenty-year effort to exteriorize down to a point where it can be done in about twenty seconds. We have found what prevented the efforts of Dharma from being perfect, we have found the totality of what barriered Buddhism. Here we are in a society which in actual fact is only bolstered in its culture by Dharma and Buddha with the problem wrapped up. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends, Having the unshakeable certainty of being a spiritual being is a great freedom, perhaps even the greatest there is. For some, it is an escape, a state we often try to reach with drugs and also medication; for others, it is a modus operandi, i.e. the way we live – in Scientology, we have the means to achieve it step by step. Much love, Max

Introduction: A person has to be very strong before he can be ethical and completely merciful of his own free will. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. An excerpt from the lecture ARC, Force, Be-Do-Have given 8 December 1952 by L. Ron Hubbard Why "Bridge"? In HANDLING ENERGY AND FORCE, L. Ron Hubbard makes the most beautiful and moving statement ever made concerning the condition of a being in this universe. In this article you will learn the secret of achieving freedom in this universe, a secret which was not known before Ron discovered it. Ron also answers the questions: "What abyss or chasm is the Bridge to Total Freedom really spanning?"; "What is the trap and how do I get out?" Read on! When we talk about this universe we're talking about energy. The only way an individual can be held into this universe is by a conviction that he cannot handle energy – because this universe is composed only of energy which operates in a thing called MEST universe space. If you cannot handle energy in its fullest extent, don't think you can be free of this universe or any other one. Force begets force and he who lives by the sword will die by one, but the funny thing is you have to be able to have enough force to use an unlimited quantity of force before you can pass over into a higher band of ethics. One cannot retreat and cower back from force under any pretext whatsoever and still have a beingness above the level of this universe. It is possibly not a comfortable thought to think of being hit in the face in the MEST body with a 100,000 kilowatt lightning bolt, but I assure you that is a small amount of juice compared to what you as a thetan can take. Theta-wise, you ought to be able to pick your teeth with a million kilowatt lightning bolt! If you have ever seen the sympathy and fear of the very weak compared to the mercy of the very strong, you'll see the mockery of bottom scale trying to echo the top of the scale. A person has to be very strong before he can be ethical and completely merciful of his own free will. At the bottom of the scale a person has been forced to be and everything affects him. He is the effect of this and that. Of course, he's still carrying along with him some of his capability. There's still theta there at the bottom of the scale, but not much. He has, you might say, "crossed over the span of force successfully." But bluntly, nobody ever crawled out of this universe through the bottom of the hole. Nobody ever got out that way. That's a grave. The only way out is through. You have to be able to conquer the full use and control of any factor of the first dynamic and having conquered that, the full use and control of the factors of the second dynamic, and the third and so forth. You have to be willing and capable and in full control of those dynamics before you are free of them. Otherwise always lingering in the back of your mind, no matter how esoteric you may think your ambitions may be, is something you can't do, which is always a disability. The capability of a thetan is, of course, not simply force. But it is interesting to note that every saint on the calendar is represented as having a big, bright aura. What do you think that aura was representing? It was representing raw energy! Whether those boys could wield energy or not I don't know, but they certainly represented them that way and have continued to do so ever since. Here's another interesting point about force. If you want to be able to heal somebody at a distance, you have to have the capability of charring them into charcoal at a distance. The ability to produce force is the ability to make a strong postulate. And the ability to make a strong postulate alone is capable of controlling the health and beingness of others. Force is, of course, the shabbiest shadow of what can be done. But unless you can make a postulate strong enough to handle force, it is highly unlikely that you can make a postulate strong enough to pervade all through the beingnesses which you would like to help. This is a force universe. Don't ever make a mistake about that. If it was the only universe there was, god help all of us! This universe is built on trickery and on force. Every single item that you see in a store is condensed energy, existing in space. Every single brick that you see out on the street is a condensation of energy. Any action you see on the part of a MEST object is some manifestation of force at work in this universe. Don't think for a moment that a low scale action in this universe will be greeted by anything but force. You can protest, reason, agree, grovel, beg – it doesn't matter. Force is there heavily and solidly to greet the best of intentions to help. This universe does not care anything for brightness, for aesthetics. You could go out and make the prettiest planet that ever existed in this whole universe, solely by your hard work, application and genius, and the force that is this universe could simply roll it up and blow it away without the least tremor. The strong man who uses force as his sole criteria of existence is nothing but a brute. Nevertheless, the strong man who is able to make something in this universe must be able to protect it, because this universe doesn't care. That the universe doesn't care is what breaks the heart of Man. He looks around and no matter what he does for anybody, no matter how much he tries to help or anything else, in this universe with MEST force on the loose and relatively uncontrolled it makes no difference whatsoever. It is that remorselessness, that crushing capability without discernment as to a finer quality that breaks him at last. He thinks in this universe there ought to be such things as love and goodness and that these things ought to repay. You find somebody working himself to the bone trying to be good and straight. But what do you find around him? Pitfalls waiting for his tiniest error – and he will go crashing down. And who will push him? The people he helped the most. It's a 'great' universe! The universe is so debased and degraded, really, that the better capabilities of theta and beingness almost can't exist in this universe. They are here in the flimsiest possible form. Let's take aesthetics. What does this universe care for an aesthetic? You go out and look at the beautiful sunset. Expecting an aesthetic sensation from this universe? Have you any idea what composes that beautiful sunset? It is dust hanging in the air from some old volcanic explosion where the earth convulsed and vomited and shot rock and ash into the air. The sun itself is of such a violent temperature that it is shooting radioactive sheets of fire out 240,000 miles which, if you even vaguely approached it and got a tiniest burn, you would thereafter rot. That's beauty in this universe. Someone goes out and looks at a butterfly flying around through the grass and says, "Isn't that pretty!" Did you ever follow the fate of a butterfly? It's an interesting game, but it doesn't have any room in it for the beingness called Man. Here you have an unlimited universe of force, debased force and the solidified results of force. Man and thetans in their small way try to add into it the ingredient of love, of beauty, of appreciation, of fair play – but nothing happens, really; just more force. So don't go moaning and moping around and saying there is no goal for this universe and "nobody appreciates what I'm doing." The truth of the matter is this universe is too strong, forceful and powerful from a standpoint of MEST force to permit it to happen. The only thing which you see out here in this universe that is worth seeing is what you and people like you have put into it to perceive back. If you have ever counted the number of beautiful cities which have gone by the board here on this earth and which are no more, the hopes with which they were built and the ardors and depths of their fall and the plight and agony of their final days, you would no longer sit around and worry about "let's make this a good universe." That's how you got trapped into it in the first place. You've got lots of universes and you can make one of your own. Theta's greatest potentialities happen to be the ability to agree, which makes for groups; the ability to have an affinity, to love and appreciate and to feel sensation (another form of affinity); and the ability to communicate. Thus, it is theta handling MEST in a peculiar way that gives us A (Affinity), R (Reality) and C (Communication). So don't let someone tell you that at any moment all he has to do is simply rise to the high and beautiful plane of pure thought without anything ever having any effect on him again in the line of energy! He's got to be able to handle energy, otherwise energy can command him. That's the trick of this universe. Either you command the energy or it commands you. It's a universe of space and energy and if you want to command it, you've got to be able to command space and energy. Thus energy stands as the sinister barrier between aberrated thought and being free to do anything you please with thought. Now this is an easy barrier to cross as long as you actually cross it. The mystics talked about the abyss. What is the abyss? What are you trying to bridge? The abyss is the abyss of force and the Bridge must lead across it. We are bridging the necessity of energy! You're not going to cross this bridge by saying, "I don't want anything to do with energy. I'm going to deny myself a body and sensation. I'm going to not use this and I'm not going to do that. I'm going to back off from this whole thing!" The fact of the case is that although you do not have to necessarily partake of action or really even engage in action, you've certainly got to be willing to handle action. One has to be perfectly willing to use energy in any department. It's not necessary that he does so, but he's got to be willing to. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends, This is indeed a very powerful article. Unfortunately, our society is working in the opposite direction. Here is a quote from it: "A person has to be very strong before he can be ethical and completely merciful of his own free will." Ron is really right about that. Greatness comes from real strength. Criminals and mafia bosses – or even banksters – are not themselves and show only reactive strength. A text you should read several times! Much love. Max Hauri

Introduction: Gautama Buddha in actual fact went to Tibet and de­veloped what is called Lamaism, a further extension of Buddhism, in an effort to produce a methodology to reach the basis of the mind and permit an individual to be spiritually free. – L. Ron Hubbard Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Originally published in the magazine Advance! 24, 1974 Lamaism means literally the practice, system, or doctrine of the Lamas. Lama means the "Superior One." It is a term reserved for an ecclesiastic of high rank in Tibetan Buddhism but by courtesy is extended to any Gelong (an ordained Tibetan monk). But what is Lamaism? When did it start? By whom? What are some of its most interesting points? The year is 747 A.D. It's spring. An important event occurred which a young Tibetan nobleman might have described, thusly: "The smoke rose vertically. This was the first thing I noticed. Then I realized I no longer felt the eternal wind. It had stopped – as if it too waited with bated breath for the arrival of Padma Sambhava, who is to bring its new knowledge and perhaps wisdom. "The townsmen seemed to go about their business with muted voices though it's doubtful they foretold the Guru's arrival. Even the dogs stopped barking. A silence grew manifest – as if to leave a space for the hearing of the new Insight. "Thus I waited. "Then like the sun breaking over the white mountain citadels which have preserved us for so long – sudden­ly the blessed one and his disciples appeared on the inward plateau. The King and his wives were there to wel­come them. "Our histories will later record for the world that this new Teacher, known on earth as Padma Sambhava, was the founder of the Dharma in the land of the Snowy Ranges. The Dharma, Dharma meaning knowledge; the truth that Buddha revealed and which we can discover in our own hearts and minds." In fact, according to Tibetan writings Gautama Buddha took rebirth as Padma Sambhava with the express purpose of "preaching the Esoteric Dharma" which in modern terms we could describe as the most "far out" doctrines and practices of Buddhism. Let's go back a few years. The back­ground of Tibetan Buddhism is called Tantrayana, "Vehicle of the Tantra texts", an occult form of Buddhism which began to arise in India in the second century A.D. and which by the sixth century found its way onto the curriculum of the great Buddhist universities of India. Padma Sambhava was a renowned professor at the University of Nalanda, the most famous Indian Buddhist uni­versity. According to the biography of Padma the good king Thi-Srong-Detsan wanted to splendidly introduce Budd­hism in Tibet and inquired as to the most famous teacher and came up with Padma's name. He invited him, and Padma accepted. After his arrival Padma built the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery at Samye, translated scores of Sanskrit Buddhist materials into Tibetan, es­tablished the higher religion of Budd­hism in Tibet and founded an order of monks. He also authored various works which we will examine later. Padma became a great cultural hero of Tibet. A biography of him written by an immediate disciple attributes various OT powers to him and is al­ready legendary. As a 20th century Tibetan Lama states: "Padma Sam­bhava… was the first great teacher of the Doctrine of the Enlightened One to the people of Tibet… he lifted them socially from crude bar­barism to unsurpassed religious insight… all sects of Tibetan Buddhists re­vere him. The Precious Guru cannot but be regarded as being one of the chief Culture Heroes and Enlighteners of our common humanity." One of the interesting things about Padma is that he hid copies of various works and translations in caves and caches throughout Tibet: "in order (as his biography states) that there might be preserved for future generations the original uncorrupted teachings… All that he taught was recorded and hidden. Even the teachings of the Lord Buddha in their purity he hid, so that the non-Buddhists might not interpolate them [interpolate: to alter or enlarge (a book, passage, etc.) by putting in new materials, especially without authorization or deceptively]. No one save the Tertons (a taker-out of hidden texts) would have the power to discover and bring forth the secreted writings." According to the biography Padma, appointed Tertons to be reborn at various times with the express office of uncovering and revealing the sacred works. According to the Nyingma School of Tibet, sacred texts have been found by Tertons through the cen­turies in 49 different places in Tibet. So Padma Sambhava was a fasci­nating character! So let's have a look at some of the materials which bear his name. Lamaism as characterized at its inception by Padma is above all concerned with the mind and exteriorization. Of all of the words of the Buddha it is an ex­tension in particular of the following: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the wagon. "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." In interpreting the Tibetan materials we are to examine, it should be re­membered that we are examining these with a light so powerful that it dispels the shadows that have plagued previous Western interpreters even when they thought they understood them. That light is, of course, Scientology, the ultimate development of the study of knowledge, the mind and spirit. It would not be easy to approach these early Tibetan Buddhist materials, most of which are enfolded in a symbolic language, without knowing the parts of man as revealed in Scientology. In fact, as fascinating as these materials are, one must resist a temptation to read more insight into them than there actually is. So hoist your mental sails and let's make for the milestone of Lamaism, a book on "Self-liberation" by Padma Sambhava. It has the following intro­duction: "Herein follows the Art of Know­ing the Mind, the Seeing of Reality, called Self-liberation, from 'The Pro­found Doctrine of Self-liberation by Meditation upon the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities." Basically this could be summed up as: There's an absolute which is senior to and not part of the physical universe. This Absolute is Ultimate Truth – and you're it bud! Liberation is the pro­cess of really realizing this point. The basic trap is to sink into and believe the illusion that the physical universe is king. On the contrary, says Padma, "Mind [by which he means uncon­ditioned beingness] when uninhibited conceives all that comes into exist­ence." Sorrow and unhappiness basically stem from not knowing oneself. Rea­lizing the essence one already is is "the foundation of all the joys." What it takes to achieve self-liberation is (1) the teaching, (2) under­standing it, (3) applying it, and (4) rea­lizing the fruit of the teaching. A point of confusion in the trans­lations is that the same term, "mind" is used to embrace both the finite mind of thoughts and concepts and the Mind, which is the self-existing absolute, one's own essence. "By controlling and understanding" the finite mind, one can reach the Mind in its true state. This "mind" is "naked, immaculate; not made of anything, being of the Voidness; clear, vacuous, without du­ality, transparent; timeless, uncompounded, unimpeded, colorless; … transcendent over creation. Scientologists would recognize this as Axiom One of the Scientology Ax­ioms which far more accurately states the case: "Life Is Basically A Static. Definition: a Life Static has no mass, no motion, no wavelength, no location in space or in time. It has the ability to postulate and to perceive." In the closing paragraphs of this book Padma Sambhava states: "Al­though taught during this present epoch, the text… was hidden away amidst a cache of precious things. May this Book be read by those blessed devotees of the future." Thank you, Padma. Another work attributed to Padma is possibly one of the five most fasci­nating pre-Scientology works: the Bardo Thodol. Hold onto your hat – we're going to take a trip through death! The Bardo Thodol! Known to the West as the "Tibetan Book of the Dead," through the splendid edition of W. Y. Evans-Wentz. Bardo is the state intervening be­tween death and rebirth. Literally the title could mean, "Liberation by Hear­ing on the After-death Plane." This is a technical not a philosophic manual. As the introduction states, this is "The Great Doctrine of Liberation by Hearing, which Confers Spiritual Freedom on Devotees of Ordinary Intelligence." As was discussed in Issue 23 of Advance! the real intent of Buddhism, not previously known to the West, was exteriorization. This manual is a further development of this subject. It contains this key point: except possibly for the highest adepts, Man could not stably exteriorize with Buddhist technology. In other words, it was a failed technology. Padma spotted the key point that at death natural exteriorization occurs. His ef­fort was to take advantage of this point by convincing the being that he could remain stably in this state and thus obtain "liberation." He also recognized that a being was easier to work with in an exteriorized state as, unencumbered by a body, he is far more able and receptive. Various paranormal capabilities were acknow­ledged. For example, at one point the disembodied being is thusly addressed: "O Nobly-born, that art actually en­dowed with the power of miraculous action…a power come to thee naturally… thou art able in a moment to traverse the four continents… or canst instantaneously arrive in what­ever place you wishest." One could say in our terms that the Bardo Thodol is an attempt to achieve a spiritually free being, able to exist without reference to a body or MEST, by overcoming the almost inevitable compulsion of the being to sink back into a body due to his past overts (evil Karma). Textually the manual consists of in­structions to the officiating priest coupled with the passages he is to read to the exteriorized thetan from just before the point of death to a period some 49 days later when he picks up another body if such be the case. Of course it was vital to know whether the subject was really dying or not. For this another treatise ex­isted listing all the death symptoms. By the way, an interesting point is that in Tibetan funeral rites the body is cremated or otherwise completely disposed of so that the thetan can not compulsively hang around it – which would impede the liberation attempts. When the person died he was di­rected to leave through the natural opening in his skull. The first moment of exteriorization, symbolized by a radiant Clear Light, was considered the key point because if the person could hold on to the full realization of his basic self "his liberation will be certain." According to this manual he will be most certain of his own being-ness when he first blows out of his head. After the first point of exterioriza­tion, the being enters the Intermediate or Between-lives area. It is made clear to him as he goes through this period what condition he is in and what his chances of liberation are. Day by day there is a reading and instructions by the priest to the being to help him confront his condition and escape the wheel of rebirth. The Intermediate area is no joy ride. Per the text the being is beset with terrifying and often gruesome visions and hallucinations which do not, however, have objective existence but are "reflections of (his) own conscious­ness." If he can't confront them he'll become overwhelmed and hasten his rebirth. The manual urges the person to realize these apparitions are only his own mental dramatizations. By confronting them and the truth of his own beingness as well then "thou wilt obtain Buddhahood." The manual stresses that each mo­ment he doesn't seize his opportunity for liberation, that chance becomes more remote as he spins in toward re­birth. During the Intermediate state the newly-deceased is also advised in the interest of liberation to (1) let-go of his worldly possessions so he is no longer attached to them; and (2) to keep his thoughts purified by, for ex­ample, not getting angry even if he sees his relatives misperforming his funeral rites! Eventually, according to the Bardo Thodol, the being (if he hasn't achieved liberation) arrives at the point in time where through his compulsions for a body he is being drawn rapidly toward rebirth. As the person nears the rebirth stage the manual states he will "see visions of males and females in union" and he is cautioned to "withhold … from going between them." Final ef­forts are made to get the being to sub­limate his need for a body. If that fails the officiating priest, through con­tinuing to read the Bardo Thodol, assists the person to choose the most optimum birth possible. It is particu­larly stressed that he should pick up a body in a land where religion flourishes so he can resume his path to emanci­pation. The author urges in the Bardo Thodol that the text be read "in the midst of vast congregations. Dissemi­nate it" so that beings will already be familiar with it when it is read at death. As the text states: "Whatever the religious practices of any one may have been – whether extensive or limited – during the moments of death various misleading illusions occur; and hence this Thödol is indispensable. To those who have meditated much, the real Truth dawneth as soon as the body and consciousness-principle part. The acquiring of experience, while living is important: they who have [then] re­cognized [the true nature of] their own being, and thus have had some experience, obtain great power during the Bardo of the Moments of Death, when the Clear Light dawneth." There are instructions in the Bardo Thodol at various levels and appeals. For instance, at one point the author states: "(Instructions to the Officiant): If it be an illiterate boor who knoweth not how to meditate then say this: 'O nobly-born, if thou knowest not how to meditate'" and the priest would then go on to read the Bardo Thodol instruction at this point. In the final conclusion of the manual it answers the question why these aural instructions might be effective: "There is no flesh and blood body to depend upon, but a mental body, which is (easily) affected. At whatever distance one may be wandering in the Bardo, one heareth and cometh, for one possesseth the slender sense of super­normal perception and foreknowledge; and, recollecting and apprehending in­stantaneously, the mind is capable of being changed (or influenced). There­fore is it (i.e. the Teaching) of great use here." Of course, the critical flaw of the above proceedings is that the person helping didn't know when he had ob­tained a product or not so he just carried straight on through. The whole manual was read. I imagine if a guy "did make it," say on the sixth day, that it caused a heck of an overrun when the priest just carried on. And that would be the greatest criticism one could make of this marvelous work. There were no statistics of results, no success stories. A workable procedure, by definition, must contain demon­strable results. And without real statis­tics the Bardo Thodol couldn't help but become a sterile ritual. The Buddhism that Padma Sambhava brought to Tibet had several other interesting technical features. These were various "aids" to medita­tion and the sought-for achievement of desired spiritual states. These aids were the mantras, yudras and mandalas as defined below. Mantras were syllables or sentences, usually without meaningful contents, which a guru imparted in secret initia­tion to his disciple. For example, om ma-ni pad-me hum was a famous man­tra designed to invoke a certain type of spiritual power. These mantras were based upon the concept of there being certain vibrations associated with spirit­ual beings and with spiritual and phy­sical forces and that these factors can be invoked by uttering the mantra. Unless, of course, the mantras were properly intoned they were considered useless. A second tool of Lamaism was the mudra or patterned gestures or pos­tures of the hands and fingers. The idea was that certain postures could lead to certain salutory psychic states. They were also said to direct in a certain manner the magnetic or electrical cur­rents of the body. The third tool was called the mandala, often depicted in Tibetan art. The mandala can be considered a spirit­ual map on an artistic and symbolic level, and was used as an aid to medi­tation. After Padma's time the religious history of Tibet, while colorful, main­tained the basic heritage that Padma conferred. His eventual spiritual suc­cessors, the Dalai and Panchen Lamas, were personages of a later period. The invasion in 1950 of Chinese Communist forces marked the end of Tibet's claim on world history, a claim that was never other than spiritual. It burst the bubble that behind the Hima­layan wall rested a mystery of sur­passing spiritual power. The shell was there but not the power, for truth to be the Truth must promote survival on all dynamics, and falling before soldiers driven by an atheistic ideology is hardly good survival. But the ancient Lamas did not fail. By 1950 Tibet was simply no longer the focus of their heritage. It had passed on to the future. And by 1950 through the work of L. Ron Hubbard that future had al­ready arrived. Through Dianetics and Scientology the problems and inhibi­tions to exteriorization and spiritual states outside the body have been fully solved. And there's no need to wait for death or abandon the game of life! Thus, the Bardo Thodol and Lamaism failed; failed because the real barrier to exteriorization and freedom was not known to the early pioneers of Lamaism – the reactive mind. Not only that but any "release" from the body game or physical uni­verse which might have been attained by Lamaism would only have been tem­porary as the vicious nature of the reactive mind would have shortly caused a relapse. Man would have to wait another 724 years until L. Ron Hubbard's release of Dianetics, Scientology and the Ad­vanced Courses before the real nature of the mind – and the technology to handle it fully – would be known. The advent of Lamaism occurred exactly at the halfway point between Buddha's death(483 B.C.) and A.D. 24 [AD: After Dianetics, the publishing of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health] of our era. Padma Sambhava and those who contributed to Lamaism and kept alive, on the high wind-swept Tibetan plateau, Man's age-old hope of spiritual free­dom would welcome in Scientology the incredible solution to their failures and aspirations. After endless eons of wandering through existence in a winless direc­tion, at last through Scientology and the Advanced Courses the wheel of re­birth is now our trophy and we can join the new wonderful game of triumphant life. Dear Friends, Here is a very interesting writing, which describes the Lamaism in Tibet and gives an insight into the Bardo Thodol. "Bardo Thodol" in English: "Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State" and is also called the "Tibetan Book of the Dead". Here two sections from it: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the wagon. "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." "The Intermediate area is no joy ride. Per the text the being is beset with terrifying and often gruesome visions and hallucinations which do not, however, have objective existence but are "reflections of (his) own conscious­ness." If he can't confront them he'll become overwhelmed and hasten his rebirth. The manual urges the person to realize these apparitions are only his own mental dramatizations. By confronting them and the truth of his own beingness as well then "thou wilt obtain Buddhahood." Much love, Max Hauri

Introduction: Ron has mentioned Buddhism over and over and also sees it as a forerunner of Scientology. Ron even published the Buddhist article "Matters Judical" as an HCO Policy Letter. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below Article from Advance! 23 All up and down his track on this planet Man has been searching for the answers to his own existence. These answers have taken on an almost bewildering variety of expressions. Advance! believes it is important for you to know this back-history of former freedom efforts After all, Man's spiritual history is the most basic history of this planet Man's search for himself has been the mainspring of all progress, despite what materialists claim. But as they feel man is animal then they can only speak for the animal kingdom, not for us. So be it. Thus, Advance! feels you should be familiar with the whole track historic background of the Advanced Courses. When one sees the millions of answers that man has selected as his destiny, one appreciates even more the incredible achievement of L. Ron Hubbard in selecting the one straight path, out of an infinity of errors, which leads to the accomplishment of the ultimate spiritual goals This path is more than a path it is a shining wide bridge to total freedom across the chasm of oblivion and despair. Man has had no real bridge before. The greatest earlier freedom effort was begun by Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 BC.), the Buddha. His work, known as the religion of Buddhism, was man's first broadly successful civilizing mission. It was decisive not only to Asia, but also to the West. For example, the Christian message of love and the Renaissance scientific methodology can be historically traced to the work of Siddhartha Buddha. As powerful as the Buddhist tradition was, it failed to guarantee its own integrity and thus sowed the internal seeds of its own decay. Within 200 years after the death of Buddha a firefight had already arisen amongst his spiritual heirs as to what he really meant. Literally hundreds of sects and schools of Buddhism subsequently arose, each espousing in its own eyes essential Buddhism. Within this kaleidoscope of religious interpretation, the original lessons of Buddha became obscured and lost to a considerable degree. What did the Buddha say? Did he say as some claim that Man is not a spirit but merely a bundle of associated phenomena? This would make him at best an agnostic and belittle Buddhism's historic identity as a religion. Did he say that? Is it possible to weave a thread through the last 2,500 years of divergencies to the truth of the matter? At the heart of the problem is the fact that Buddha himself did not write anything down. All great Indian classics were originally aural works handed down through successive generations. So it was with Buddhism. The Buddha laid great emphasis on his disciples duplicating his work through recitation and mnemonic [helping or meant to help, the memory; of memory] skills. Immediately after his passing away, a great First Council of his chief disciples met and agreed upon the recitation of the rules of the order and the basic sermons of the Buddha. Within the next several hundred years three additional councils were necessary to sort out and agree upon the Buddha's message. Finally, in the 1st century B.C. one sect of the 18 major sects wrote down their rendition and bequeathed it to future generations in the form of the famous Pali Canons. [Canon – a collection of written works. Pali – the language Buddha spoke.] That is the record we have – a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. So what did the Buddha really say? Let us look at the Buddha's life which stands as the supreme example of his own word, for unlike some philosophers the Buddha did as he said do. The Buddha was born in Lumbini in the Northeast corner of India in what is now Nepal. Under the majestic rise of the Himalayan peaks he grew up as a rich young prince, Siddhartha Gautama. At the age of 29 he suddenly realized his destiny and left behind his material opulence to seek greater spiritual riches. He sat at the laps of the greatest Hindu teachers. He outdid ascetics in secluded forests. Finally at the end of six years of intense search he resolved to sit down beneath a fig tree and not stir until he had achieved enlightenment. On that fateful night Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha and sparked off a civilizing movement that profoundly influenced world history. Afterwards, others came and asked Siddhartha Gautama, now Buddha, "Are you a man, god or heavenly being?". He answered he was none of these. "I am awakened" was the reply. He was Buddha. For the root budh denotes both to wake up and to know. Buddha then means the "Enlightened One" or the "Awakened One." Thus we see, first of all, that Buddha is not really a name but rather a higher state of existence. Now if the Buddha had merely said he had uniquely achieved this state he might have been worshipped as a god but he wouldn't have founded Buddhism. Instead Buddha said anyone could follow him to reach this same state, now, in one lifetime. Another name for this state was Bodhi (enlightenment) from the same root as Buddha. So we are getting closer to the heart of the Buddha's message. But before we look closer at what Bodhi was let us look at the basic principles of Buddha's philosophy which made it so revolutionary. First of all he said that an idea was only as valuable as it worked to help Man resolve unhappiness. "I teach but one thing: suffering and the termination of suffering." Secondly, he said his philosophy was only as true as one could experience it and find it true. "Do not go by what is handed down nor on the authority of your traditional teachings. When you know of yourselves: 'These teachings when followed out and put in practice lead to loss and suffering' – then reject them." Thirdly, Buddha rejected the tradition wherein wisdom was the monopoly of a priest class in an ivory tower. "I have preached the truth without making any distinction between exoteric [not limited to a select few or inner circle; broadly understandable] and esoteric [secret, intended for or understood by only a chosen few or inner circle] doctrine; for in respect of the truths, Ananda, [Chief Aide of Buddha] the Tathagata [another name for Buddha meaning the "Thus-Come."] has no such thing as the closed fist of a teacher who keeps some things back." With this statement Buddha opened the book of knowledge to all, regardless of creed, color, caste or class and thus founded the first international religion. So let's look at this again. The Buddha said life inevitably involved suffering and loss as long as a being was tied to the treadmill of death and rebirth. But what bound a being to this mortal coil? Only his own self-created attachment to his body and the illusory craving for Mest! So what was really real? The ultimate beingness of the individual. So what was Buddha's basic message? What did he point to? What was Bodhi really? Buddha pointed to the ultimate freedom of the spirit beyond the restrictions of corporal existence! Only a Buddha, he said, could be ("know he is") a real individual because only a Buddha is free of an "ego-personality" composed of "elements that pass away," the components of the physical manifestations of Man which, being part of the physical universe, do not partake of the true nature of reality, the being himself. So what is the basic experience Buddha spoke of? On that night under the fig tree, the Buddha-to-be exteriorized from his body and realized who and what he was: a spirit freed of the flesh and of dependence upon matter. This was the central experience which he sought to help others reach. The message of this experience, although seldom obtainable and never stable, permeated thousands of miles in all directions from Northeast India, revitalizing Man's greatest hopes for spiritual freedom. But Man cannot live on hope and inspiration alone. Therein lies the failure of Buddhism. Buddha never developed a technology adequate to the building of a Bridge across the chasm to the "other side." And due to the twists and distortions later introduced into the subject by others (such as Buddha said Man is not a spirit), the subject itself became, paradoxically, a trap for the unenlightened. But Buddha said his work was not complete. He predicted that a successor would arise some 2,500 years later in the West to complete his work. This prediction has now been fulfilled. The goals of total spiritual freedom, envisioned by Buddha, are now totally obtainable through Dianetics and Scientology. Through the work of L. Ron Hubbard, the technology, symbolized by The Bridge, now exists to not only achieve the traditional goals of Man but to exceed them beyond Man's wildest dreams. After 2,500 years a new golden era has, at last, begun for Man. L. Ron Hubbard on Buddhism "Actually, Siddhartha Gautama was exteriorizing people and banging them out of their heads left and right. Anybody who exteriorizes is a Buddha. Our technology on this is better, which is quite startling in itself. [Exteriorization: The state in which the thetan, the individual himself, is outside his body. When this is achieved, the person attains a certainty that he is himself and not the body]. The trouble he had with his work was how to stably exteriorize, or continue somebody in an exterior condition. He did not know how to do this. The work of Siddhartha Gautama, although looked upon as ethereal, produced a sufficiency of wisdom on this planet to bring civilization to three quarters of Asia. Probably the shreds of Buddhism, coming into the Middle East with the silk and spice merchants who after the contact of Alexander in about 333 B.C. found out there was a Europe, sparked a religious revival and a considerable amount of messianic activity in the Middle East. The spirituality of man is the basis of religion and is the one thing that all religions have in common. They have different creators, different gods, different altars of worship, but in one thing they hold a common truth and that is that man is a spiritual being. Only in Buddhism was this ever proven. The aim and goal of Buddhism was just to knock off the thing about having to pick up another body and another identity all the time and mess it up. It didn't have the aim and goal that a fellow ought to be able to operate. To that degree we have enormously exceeded any limits ever put in this direction before." L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends In our society led by Homo sapiens, I see a lot of declarations of bankruptcy. It is so beyond my values that sometimes I wonder if I should even mention at all. Here is another one. In a nutshell, it's about equipping a robot with artificial intelligence in such a way that you can talk to it like a friend. Surely this technology will be linked with that of "love dolls" and ready is the perfect wife. And children will be ordered in the laboratory... Here is a German and English link on the subject: https://pressefreiheit.rtde.website/international/149173-erica-lernt-lachen-forscher-bringen/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/15/scientists-teach-robot-laugh-right-time-research Relationships and Life Nobody says that relationships, whether in partnership or in other areas of life, are always easy. But if we don't work on it and develop, then what? In the Corona period, the importance of relationships and closeness, face-to-face conversations and a hug was confirmed to me a thousand times and can hardly be overstated. Scientology is the technology of how we can connect and keep connecting. It is a huge field and there is much to learn and it is worthwhile. Buddhism Ron has mentioned Buddhism over and over and also sees it as a forerunner of Scientology. Ron even published the Buddhist article "Matters Judical" as an HCO Policy Letter. In the magazine Advance! various articles about Buddhism, and also in connection with Scientology, were published in 1974. In the next newsletter I will publish them again. Here is the first article. Much love, Max

Introduction: Find out what Scientology really is and why we are so enthusiastic about it. You don't have to be a member of a group to use it. Who doesn't want to be happier, smarter and healthier? Who doesn't want to reap its benefits? The books and exercises are available to you for free on this website. Edited from the writings of L. Ron Hubbard – Certainty VI-2 Scientology is Man's brightest hope in personal and public life. The first science of the mind, it has won through much opposition to its present level of prestige. Scientology is man's hope in a machine-atomic age. The term Scientology is taken from scio, which means knowing in the fullest meaning of the word, and logos, to study. Scientology, used by the trained or relatively untrained person, improves the intelligence, ability, behavior, skill and appearance of people. It is employed by an auditor (a Scientology practitioner) upon individuals, or with small or large groups of people. The auditor makes these people (at their choice) do various exercises, and these exercises bring about changes for the better in intelligence, behaviour, general competence, and selfdeterminism. The employment of these exercises is called processing. The best use of Scientology is through processing and education in Scientology (or training). It is interesting that people only need to study Scientology to have some rise in their own intelligence, behavior, and competence. The study itself is therapeutic, by actual testing. The Ron's Orgs are in possession of numerous case histories and individual files. No other subject on earth except physics and chemistry has had such gruelling testing. Scientology is used by some of the largest business organizations on Earth. It is valid. It has been tested. Scientology embraces the entire field of knowledge and includes as part of this the human mind, which is a computer of and vessel for knowledge. The essence of Scientology is its practicality: its application is broad and its results are uniformly predictable. In the field of the human mind it is best used to "make the able more able" rather than to "treat" the psychotic or neurotic or psychosomatically ill. But its application to the latter, when done by competent and properly trained Scientologists, forms the only thoroughly validated psycho-therapy known to man today. In the first book, Dianetics: The modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard, techniques were present which would place in view, and then vanquish, any mental manifestation known in the field of insanity and aberration. Some seventy per cent, of man's ills may be remedied at a cost of time and money lower than any other similar effort and with a higher effectiveness. The handling of psychosis, neurosis and psychosomatic illness does not, however, happen to be the goal of the Scientologist. As long as the accent is upon ability, malfunctions will vanish. The goal of the Scientologist is in the direction of ability. If he increases the general ability of the individual in any and all fields then, of course, any mis-ability such as those represented by psychosis, neurosis, and psychosomatic illness will vanish. Scientology conflicts nowhere with the truth, and will be found to agree with known facts in whatever field it overlaps. It does not conflict with any religious truths. On the contrary, it has something to offer everyone, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Mohammedan, Agnostic and Atheist. It does not try to change the beliefs, doctrine, or creed of the individual's church; on the contrary, it brings the individual to a point of better understanding of them, whatever they may be. It will help him to understand mankind on earth and help him to find that happiness in life which is much talked about but rarely found. Just to give more understanding to those around him could be said to be sufficient mission for a well-trained Scientologist, for by doing this he would certainly increase their ability. By increasing that ability, he would be able to increase their life. How would you go about doing something about it? Well, if you depend for a long time upon others to do something about it, or depend on force, you will fail. The only one who can put more life, more understanding, more tolerance, and more capability into the environment is you yourself, just be being in a state of higher understanding. Without even being active in the field of auditing, just by being more capable, you can resolve for those around you many of their problems and difficulties. We are not interested here in getting you to accept what we say without question. We ask you to question it. We ask you please to look at the physical universe around you – to look at people and at your own mind and to understand thereby that what we are talking about happens to be actual and true. We are not giving you new things. We are giving you old things. By understanding these old things which we have rediscovered, you become free. The accent is on ability. L. Ron Hubbard

Introduction: This beautiful article, applicable to executives as well as employees, parents and anyone else who has to deal with a third person will enlighten you on the missing ingredient in any business that is struggling to move forward. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Ethics Presence HCO PL 4 October 1968 Publication II The reason an executive can get compliance is because he has Ethics presence. If you haven't got it, you won't. When you issue orders you are using power and force. If you are also right in what you get compliance with and your programmes are clear, correct and beneficial – boy do you win. But it is not the rightness of a programme that gets compliance. It is Ethics Presence. Rightness does not get compliance because there are always counter intentions in the way. If you go on the assumption that one and all want things to go right you are going to make a dog's breakfast out of it. There are only a few with a good forward look and who are relatively unaberrated [not irrational]. Men will keep the accounts straight only because you can muster bayonets to enforce that they do. Ethics presence is an X quality made up partly of symbology, partly of force, some "now we're supposed to's" and endurance. One of the reasons the press now print what we say is that we have endured the biggest shellackings anybody could muster up. We've gained Ethics presence publicly by it. Endurance asserts the truth of unkillability. We're still here, can't be unmocked [make disappear]. This drives the Suppressive Person wild. Because of the Sea Org [Scientology Organization that was on the high seas from 1967-75] we appear to have unlimited reach and in some mysterious way, unlimited resources. The ability to appear and disappear mysteriously is a part of Ethics presence. As an Executive you get compliance because you have Ethics presence and persistence and can get mad. The way you continue to have Ethics presence is to be maximally right in your actions, decisions and dictates. Because if you're wrong the other fellow gets wrapped around a pole for complying. And the pain of that starts to outweigh your own Ethics presence. So, when you issue orders you are using force and power. You can, however, get in such a frame of mind you cease to use the softer arts as well. Against non-compliance you add ferocity with the aim of continuing your comm line. Wrath is effective but used in moderation and only in moments of urgency. Man has been invalidated to such an extent that he starts to do himself in – that's the secret of aberration [irrationality]. He denies himself, then mocks up [mentally put there] pictures to do himself in with. If you continue to invalidate and chop people, they will start to do themselves in even harder – so if you continue to use heavy ethics on someone, you play right into the hands of his bank. Self-invalidation is merely the accumulation of invalidation of oneself by others. The point being, that you better temper the lightning with sunshine occasionally. If you use heavy ethics on weak beings, they are being invalidated from altitude. You can't build up competent people by invalidating them. Without in any way softening your approach, you should know that real force is dependent upon ARC [Affinity, Reality, Communication] and the major threat is the interruption thereof. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends, 10 years ago, as today, we moved from Wabern (Bern) to Grenchen. This was simply a logical next step in our journey. Our voyage began long before, including the exit from the church and the turmoil of the time, and also with the big question "What to do? Where to go?" The thing that brought us further, the most important quality was and is perseverance. Just keep going, never lose sight of the goal and keep going. Just that. I think the photo I took last Tuesday along the river Doubs communicates perseverance. "Persistence is the ability to exert continuance of effort toward survival goals." (Part of Dianetics Axiom 19) Above and attached the article "Ethical Presence", which fits quite well with Perseverance. A quite great article, which gives a deep insight. Much love, Max Hauri