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Introduction: We know a lot about what happens between birth and death, but what do we really know about what happens between death and birth? L. Ron Hubbard has given us the tools to learn more and stop being afraid and not knowing what death is. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Phenomena of Death An excerpt from the lecture "Death" given by L. Ron Hubbard the 30. July 1957 It has only been in Scientology that the mechanics of death have been thoroughly understood. Hitherto, the whole subject of death has been one of the more mysterious subjects to man. We are actually the first people that do know a great deal about death. It is one of the larger successes of Scientology. In the first place, man is composed of a body, a mind and what we refer to as a thetan – the Scientology word for the spirit, the individual being himself who handles and lives in the body. A very effective way to demonstrate this is by saying to a person, “Look at your body. Have you got a body there?” Then tell him, “Get a mental picture of a cat.” He will get a picture of a cat. That picture is a mental image picture and is part of the mind. The mind is composed of pictures that inter-associate, act and carry perceptions. While the person is looking at this actual picture ask him, “What’s looking at it?” Nobody ever asked this question before! It is quite an innocent question, but this particular phrasing and this particular demonstration of the parts of man were unknown before Scientology. This procedure gives a person a considerable subjective reality on the idea that he himself is a being that is independent of a mind or a body. There is an actual separateness there. Man thought he had a human spirit. That is totally incorrect. Man is a human spirit which is enwrapped more or less in a mind which is in a body. That is Homo sapiens. He is a spirit and his usual residence is in his head. He looks at his mental image pictures and his body carries him around. What happens to man when he dies? Basically, all that happens is that a separation occurs between the thetan and the body. The thetan, however, takes with him old tin cans, rattling chains, bric-a-brac and other energy phenomena that he feels he cannot do without and stashes this in the next body that he picks up. In this lazy time of manufactured items and gadgetry he does not build a new body. He picks up a body that is produced according to a certain blueprint that has been carried through from the earliest times of life on this planet until now. There is such a thing as a cycle of action: create-survive-destroy. At the shoulder of the curve an individual is mostly interested in surviving. Early on the curve he is interested in creating. And at the end of the curve, he is interested in the disposition of the remains. This cycle of action occurs whether you are speaking of a building, a tree or anything else. When we apply this cycle of action to the parts of man, we get a death of the body, a partial death of the mind and a condition of forgetting on the part of the spiritual being which is in itself a type of death. The first thing one should learn about death is that it is not anything of which to be very frightened. If you are frightened of losing your pocketbook, if you are frightened of losing your memory, if you are frightened of losing your girl or your boyfriend, if you are frightened of losing your body – well that is how frightened you ought to be of dying, because it is all the same order of magnitude. We strike the first observable phenomenon in death when we find out that the mind, in spite of mechanisms which seek to decay it and wipe it out, does maintain and preserve mental image pictures of earlier existences. And with proper technology and an understanding of this one can be again possessed of the mental image pictures of earlier existences in order to understand what was going on. But unless remembrance is restored to the being, the mental image pictures usually just continue to be pictures. Without that remembrance, sending somebody into a past life and having him look at a mental image picture would be similar to sending him to the art gallery. He would not connect himself with that picture. The restoration of memory is therefore of great interest, since all that is really wrong with a person is that things have happened to him which he knows all about, but won’t let himself in on. The restoration of memory is done as a matter of course in almost any Dianetics or Scientology processing. It is impossible today to process somebody well and expertly without having them sooner or later get recall with reality on a past existence. Past lives can be easily invalidated because, without processing, it is difficult to remember them. An individual’s own will has a great deal to do with this. One should not look for outside sources as to why his memory is shut off. Just as he must grant permission to be trapped, so must he grant permission to be made to remember. He is more or less convinced that a memory, remembering back past this subject called death, would cause him to re-experience the pain he already feels has been too much for him. Thus he is very reluctant to face up again to this mechanism, and in facing death almost always goes into a degree of amnesia. Now, it is all very well to take a scientific attitude towards death, but after all it does carry with it a little shock and upset. Until you have been dead a few times you wouldn’t understand how upsetting it can be! We are actually indebted for a considerable amount of our material on this subject to the odd fact that I have been officially dead twice in this lifetime. I died in an operation one time back in the 1930s, and went outside above the street, felt sorry for myself and decided they couldn’t do this to me. The body’s heart had stopped beating, and I went back and grabbed the body through the mechanisms in the head that stimulate its heartbeats. I just took hold of them and snapped the body back to life. The only reason I mention this is because it happens to so many people and they never mention it. They die and come back to life again. Then somebody invalidates them, and they never say anything about it again. Ordinarily when a person dies, he backs out of his body thinking of his responsibilities, knowing who he is, where he has been and what he has been doing. If he is in any kind of condition at all this is what occurs. He backs out at the moment of death with full memory. Something kills a person’s body – an automobile, too many court suits, an overdose of widely advertised sleep-producing agents. The moment he conceives it to be no longer functional in any way, he backs out. Usually a total occlusion does not occur at this point. It is not true that a thetan gets some distance from the body and then doesn’t care about it anymore or forgets all about it. In support of this, incidents have been recorded of times when a thetan backed out of his head and was as mad as the dickens and just kicked the stuffings out of the fellow who had killed him. This made the whole theory of spirits very unpopular. People tried to forget this, so that when they ran around killing people they would get no immediate kickback. Some people would want to forget about it, thinking that in this way they could commit a crime without having to suffer for it. Man has capitalized on the phenomena surrounding death enormously. Look around in any neighbourhood – you will find that if there is any building which is well kept, it is normally an undertaking parlor. Why is it easy to capitalize on death? Because when people think of death they think of loss and grab something. This explains the behavior of relatives after one of their family has died. Everybody gets in there and tears apart all of the person’s clothes and they fight with each other over the possessions. They are still alive, but they have experienced a loss of havingness and they pore over this particular person’s effects. They are really to some degree trying to get the person back. They think if they can grab enough possessions, they will get the person back. It actually is not quite as greedy as it looks, it is just obsessive. I have seen relatives, for instance, pick up some of the weirdest things. I once saw an old lady just screaming over the fact that someone wouldn’t let her have a fellow’s meerschaum pipe. I pointed out to her that she didn’t smoke a meerschaum pipe, and she looked at me sort of dazedly and came out of it and said, “So I don’t,” and handed it to somebody else. It was a token, a symbol of the person who had just left. The exact behavior at death could vary from person to person. A person who had to “have” tremendously would get just so far from a body and be liable to say, “I don’t care, I don’t want to live anyway, I was very unhappy during that whole life and I’m awfully glad I don’t care.” Somebody else is just as liable to not even think about it. But that person was so little alive, when he was alive, that his aliveness after he has died is also negligible. With a person who is fairly strong and capable there is an interesting reaction to body death: “I’ll show them they can’t put me out of the game.” It makes him mad and upsets him, and he does a dive halfway across the country, sees a maternity hospital and grabs a baby body. The exteriorization which occurs at death is very fascinating because the person is totally cognizant of it. He knows who he is; he usually has pretty good perception; he knows where his friends are. Pointing out as a fantastic spiritual phenomenon the occurrence of somebody appearing to a friend after he had died several thousand miles away, is something like being very surprised because a waitress came to the table in a restaurant. People also sometimes wake up during the night and realize that somebody has died a death of violence. This is usually because of the amount of confusion which is thrown into a being when his body is killed. If a person is killed with sudden violence and is very surprised about it, he can be sufficiently upset and unphilosophical about the whole thing that he is liable to go around and see his next of kin and the rest of his friends in an awful frenzied hurry, trying to reassure himself that he hasn’t gone to purgatory or someplace. He has suffered a loss of mass. If you had an automobile sitting out on the street and you went out totally expecting to find the automobile there and it was gone, you would be upset. That is just about the frame of mind a thetan is usually in when he finds his body dead. His main thought is to grasp another body. This he could do by finding a young child that he could bring back to life. But the ordinary entrance of a thetan into a new body is sometime around what we call the assumption, and the assumption occurs within a few minutes after birth in most cases. The baby is born and then a thetan picks up the baby body. How do thetans behave when they suddenly haven’t got a body? They behave like people. They will hang around people. They will see a woman who is pregnant and follow her down the street. Or they will hang around the entrance to an accident ward and find some body that is all banged up and the being that had that body has taken off or is about to. He may even pick up this body and pretend to be somebody’s husband. Thetans do all sorts of odd things. When a new body is picked up, if a new body is picked up at all, is not standardized beyond saying it usually occurs (unless the thetan got another idea) two or three minutes after the delivery of a child from the mother. A thetan usually picks it up about the time the baby takes its first gasp. Would the body go on living without a thetan picking it up? That is beside the point. It is a case of how fast the thetan can pick one up before somebody else gets it. There is a certain anxiety connected with this. Thetans often say very interesting prayers at the moment they pick up a body. They dedicate themselves to its continued growing and to the family and go through all kinds of odd rituals, all because they are so happy to get a new body. But the odd part of it is, they don’t shut their memory off until they pick another body up. The shut-off of memory actually occurs with the pickup of the new body. Death is in itself a technical subject. You can, with considerable confidence, reassure some husband whose wife has just died that she got out all right and she is going someplace to take up a new body. If you got there while that person could still communicate with you, in the last moments, you would find that the person usually has something spotted, something planned. The person doesn’t just back out ordinarily and forget all about it. He backs out of it with full identity and hangs around for quite a while. The being is usually there for the funeral, certainly. He will very often hang around his possessions to see that they are not abused, and he can be given upsets if his wishes aren’t carried out with regard to certain things. It used to happen that thetans would punish people for not carrying out their wishes after death. People then said this was superstition, and science was against superstition. Well, it is quite interesting that in finding out what is science and what is superstition, we have found that a being is capable of almost anything providing it is within his ability to execute. Losing your pocketbook, some treasured possession or your body are all alike. But because of the mechanism of forgetting, a great mystery is made of this. And that is death, phenomena of. L. Ron Hubbard Dear friends, There are many things we do not understand; and if I can confirm anything, it is that the more we know, the more we realize how little we know. By nature, we are primarily concerned with what surrounds us: our fellow human beings and the physical universe, which we also call MEST (Matter, Energy, Space and Time). So we know a lot about what happens between birth and death, but what do we really know about what happens between death and birth? Here is an appropriate quote from the article below: "It's all well and good to have a scientific attitude toward death, but it is still associated with a certain amount of shock and upset. Until you've been dead yourself a few times, you don't understand how scary it can be!" I think that sums it up! And since our bodies are a very transient species in our galaxy, with an average life expectancy of 80-85 years maximum, we can totally train for it. This may sound very cynical, but the reason I can write this is because L. Ron Hubbard has given us the tools to learn more and stop being afraid and not knowing what death is. I have seen first-hand how many Clears and OTs have achieved just that. For: "The first thing to learn about death is that it is not something to be afraid of. If you're afraid of losing your wallet, afraid of losing your memory, afraid of losing your girlfriend or boyfriend, afraid of losing your body – well, that's the fear you should have of dying, because it's all of the same order." Whatever your opinion on the topic is, this is an extremely interesting article to read, with some interesting answers. I am at your disposal for any question. Much love, Max Hauri

Introduction: This is an ambitious article, but it contains very important and fundamental information about how to improve one's skills. Read Max Hauri's introduction to this article, below. Excerpt from The classification Chart and Auditing – 26 July 1966 What every auditor should know: Auditing means to listen and compute and it also means to get a result on a preclear, that is someone who is not yet Clear. Successful attainment of Scientology results requires auditing that is done in a technical and professional manner which has not departed from standard procedure. A Scientologist is trying to make people better and that's a new idea in the whole field of the human mind. Our situation doesn't compare to therapies and other things, such as torture and imprisonment, which have passed for mental therapy down through the ages. The goals of Scientology predate all ideas of "therapy" and are found first in religion and philosophy as long as 10,000 years ago. Clearing someone is erasing his reactive mind. All the misery Man has is contained in the reactive mind. We are not concerned with social behaviour. Auditing is not social criticism. Psychotherapies are involved in social criticism. Psychiatrists exist for the "good of the society". Legislatures are interested in the "sick" and "insane". We are not. We work in a very much older field. We know how a preclear behaves. We know how human beings work but we don't care much about that. Good or bad behaviour is all by definition. If you kill a man it is good or bad by definition. If you kill him in war or by sentencing him in court that's good. But if you kill him just one inch outside the type of the Statute that's bad. There is a morass of social behaviour you can get interested in if you want, but don't mix it up with auditing. There is a certain road out. Scientology is the way, it is the road out. It is the road away from reactivity, away from aberration, away from identifying everything with everything else. It increases a person's abilities, it increases his general performance and existence to a fantastic degree that can be precisely measured and experienced. And that road out has certain little milestones you have to pass to get out and we call these the Grades of Release. There are certain points a person has to pass on the way to Clear and these points are definite abilities regained. These Grades are not composed of single points, although for public convenience we sometimes list them as simply: 0 – Communication I – Problems II – Overts and Withholds III – ARC Breaks IV – Service Facsimiles V – Whole Track VI – R6-EW, which is unburdening the reactive mind, and VII – Clearing, the materials necessary to totally erase the reactive mind. It is not possible to attain the upper Grades, ignoring the lower Grades. Definitions:  Reactive Mind: The thinking not under the control of the person. Aberration, aberrated: departure from rational thought or behaviour. Unreasonable. Overt: harmful or contra-survival act. Withhold: undisclosed contra-survival act. ARC Break: breaks in Affinity, Reality and/or Communication. Service Facsimile: a fixed idea a person uses to make himself right and others wrong. Whole Track: a moment to moment record of a person's existence in this universe.) R6-EW: Routine 6 End Words. An according procedure. Key in: The reactive mind returns. The only other thing which bars this road is not following standard technology. Standard technology is contained in Hubbard Communications Office Bulletins. Modern technology is not contained in any of the books of Dianetics and Scientology. My research suffers in repute only because anything found and noted was recorded, not hidden for fear it would be unpopular. Truth is Truth, not a popularity contest. However, because we developed something later we did not lose the standard technology of something earlier. The main bug-bear of the person studying Scientology (and the bug-bear was his, not mine) was that he conceived every time he read something new that that wiped out the old. And this was brought about because he did not understand the old when he had read it and he did not realize it integrated with the new which had just been issued. There are very few things that have been wiped out, but the idea of overrun and when a process is flat does require correction. What this is all about is command of a thing called the mind. You should understand what man is all about and know that there isn't anything that's going to help an aberrated1 being but processing. So you had better know that processing is a very narrow little track bounded above and below and on both sides by a complete mass of improper things that can be done. (It would be impossible to list the number of wrong things that can be done in auditing.) This track, called standard technology, is very narrow and it is very easy to stray off its edges and one of the ways is to forget to handle preclears when auditing them. By not handling them is meant: to ignore the fact that your preclear has a present time problem, or an affinity, reality or communication break, or is sitting in overts, and not handle these because they happen to be above the Grade you are running the preclear on. You can always run an advanced process on a preclear as a rudiment, as something to straighten out the preclear. But the day you sit down to audit that person and do not detect or note that he has a present time problem is the day you will have a loss. That person is not about to get up those Grades on the Gradation Chart. Now why is this Chart so accurate and how did I find it? The Gradation Chart is made up only of those things which you cannot audit in the face of and that is the genus of the chart and that's the real reason I found the Grades, and I isolated them just as crudely as that. I said okay, there are certain things that, if you don't pay attention to them, prevent all progress in auditing. Therefore they must be the keys to aberration. And that is how we got the Gradation Chart. In all those years of experience, and there have been a lot of them, only these factors have presented themselves. Factors that, each one separately, much less in combination, can totally prevent case gain unless given attention. These are the super barriers to the track. These are the girders across the bridge that have fallen down sideways. What are these things? The things a person cannot audit up against are present time problems, affinity, reality and communication breaks, overts and withholds and service facsimiles. The things you cannot audit in the presence of, without handling, are the Grades on the Gradation Chart. So, of course, if they are the things which stop any preclear's progress they must be the things which desperately require releasing. I knew that when they were audited on a grand scale we would get a release. It had to be that way because these things were the powerful points in the human mind that debarred all further progress on a case. All a preclear has to be is worried about his wife and he cannot answer the auditing command and cannot concentrate on anything. The fellow guilty of recent overts cannot even talk to you. With these present you are not going to make any progress, not one scrap. You will not run into much trouble (because the processes today run like hot butter) but it's that very little bit of trouble you must take an interest in. Release is a gross product. It is a very hopeful product, but the thing that booby-trapped the whole research of the mind is that one could produce a temporary state of Clear. So one can make something that looks like something it isn't. It was a booby-trap in 1950. It was also a booby-trap in 523 B.C. on this same subject and this same line of research. A thetan-exterior (a being who knows he is a spirit with a body and not just a body) produced all the symptoms of total sanity. It would last two minutes, two days, two years, but it didn't last. And in 523 B.C. it was called Bodhi. Only one thing is certain about a Release and that is that he will key in. Release as we are doing it now has this benefit though; accompanying it has been the experience of overcoming it, and that experience stands the person in good stead because it has improved his ability to confront. Now it goes a bit further than that – a bit of erasure occurs. Modern auditing is sufficiently good that a bit of erasure goes along with it. So he is more apt to be stable as Release on these Grades than he was stable as a "Clear" 1950 book style. Also, he does not key in (get back) all the mass of that level when he does key in, he simply is now up to the point where the next level to be run keys in. A Release who keys in does not return to the state he was in before that processing. In the 1950's we never knew what Grade of Release we were making a "Clear" at. Today we approach Release on a gradient and we know what kind of Release we are making. I got the idea finally that if we were going to have something that was a near absolute in the way of Clear then we were going to have to have a near totality of erasure of reactivity, and for three years I worked very hard at it. And now we have it. This does not make something less of Release. Making a Release is very, very worthwhile and the Grades of Release are essential steps on the road to Clear. Release is on a plotted line; it raises a person's confront and gets him to handle things which have been ruining his life and would ruin anybody's life. Anything that would stop auditing would ruin somebody's life because auditing is pretty powerful stuff. But Clear is not just " backing out of it". Clear is total erasure of the reactive mind and is a stable state, only nobody has done it before since the beginning of the universe so far as anyone could know. So there are only certain things which will prevent success in auditing. There is only this little handful of things as shown on the Gradation Chart that can get in your road as an auditor. Those things you cannot neglect or ignore, regardless of the Grade of Release the individual has attained, are: communication factors, present time problems, overts, ARC breaks, service facsimiles – or that he is on the wrong part of the track. Of these, the first four are the most important. You neglect those and you are not going to audit. If it bars auditing it will bar living. There isn't anything else that could happen to people that could bar the road out. However, there are interim release points on the Gradation chart you are probably neglecting. At Level 0 there are also valence processes. At Level I we have the CCHs and there are also locational processes. At Level II there are ARC processes and Case Remedies fit in at Level II as well. You can go release on a lot of those remedies. At Level III there is Auditing by List, overts-justifications, solutions to physical problems and dating on a meter, in addition to R-3-H assessments. At Level IV there are also rising scale processes, effort processing release and cause and effect processing. The processes you are doing now and the last HCO Bulletins you have are perfectly all right to use, but there are a lot of other things that can be done on these Grades to release people. I am not telling you to use them but they do exist. The point is that you are very rich today in having processes which on a broad general basis handle these conditions and make Releases with some thoroughness. Any failure you are having is because you are ignoring the Grade definitions used as rudiments. How long do you run an ARC break assessment on Level 0? You run it until you have handled the ARC break that was barring your road to auditing. You don't now try and make an ARC break release. Auditing is done in a highly standard way. It is a very narrow track. It is not a wide track on both sides of the road. It is highly beneficial, and has definite goals, aims and gains and when it is barred you'll find the only things barring it are the things I've mentioned. Your own personality added to the technology and moving on up through does the rest of the job. If you want a good auditor at Grade VI and Grade VII then become one. You, a being, are also part of the line-up and I count on that and count on your cooperation as a thetan in pushing it through on a standard line – straight on through to Clear for everybody. L. Ron Hubbard Dear Friends, This is an ambitious article, but it contains very important and fundamental information about how to improve one's skills. The important thing is to understand what life is made of: Communication: There is no need to say more. Problems: Problems are an important part of life! People love problems. Don't try to take a problem away from someone or to solve it! Give someone a solution and they just won't accept it! He wants to solve it! It's his problem. His copyright! So problems are important. Action: Life is about doing and taking action. Actions that go wrong or are destructive, whether intentionally or not, are called overts and not talking about them, that is, holding back, is called withholds. Changes: Changes can be upsetting to people, annoying and upsetting to someone. It can be difficult to accept changes. We don't make changes out of fear of offending or upsetting someone either. But change is not the only cause for upsets; there are many reasons. In Scientology, we specify it and call it ARC break – also because it is a solution approach for the auditor: a break or collapse of affinity (affection), reality (agreement) and communication. As we are always confronted with these factors, the result is all kinds of failures or non-communications, we get stuck in problems, we do things we would have been better off not doing in retrospect, we blame ourselves, or we have ARC breaks, etc. etc. In Scientology, we call the above things "rudiments", that is, things that must first be put in order before we can audit. These are: ARC Break, Present Time Problem and Withholds. If one is so stuck in any of the above, it should be addressed at the beginning of the session. These rudiments can also get in the way of life and should be dealt with in auditing. Everything else will now be explained by L. Ron Hubbard. It is helpful to understand that he is speaking to auditors-to-be. Enjoy reading! Much love, Max Hauri

Introduction: in this article, you can learn what is actually considered criminality and exchange, and thus determine at a glance what is going on in life. Extract from the HCO PL 4. April 1972 – Ethics – Download extract or in full Unless we want to go on living in a far nowhere some of the facts of scenes have to be confronted. An inability to confront evil leads people into disregarding it or discounting it or not seeing it at all. Reversely, there can be a type of person who, like an old-time preacher, sees nothing but evil in everything and, possibly looking into his own heart for a model, believes all men are evil. Man, however (as you can read in HCO B 28 Nov 70, C/S Series 22, "Psychosis"), is basically good. When going upon some evil course he attempts to restrain himself and caves himself in. [A mental, sometimes physical collapse, in which a person can no longer be a cause and is quite an effect.] The Chart of Human Evaluation in Science of Survival was right enough. And such people also can be found by the Oxford Capacity Analysis where the graph is low and well below a center line on the right. This sort of thing can be handled of course by auditing but the EstO does not depend on that to handle his staff's problems. Criminal actions proceed from such people unless checked by more duress from without not to do an evil act than they themselves have pressure from within to do it. Criminality is in most instances restrained by just such an imbalance of pressures. If you have no ethics presence in an org, then criminality shows its head. Such people lie rather than be made to confront. They false report – they even use "PR" which means Public Relations to cover up – and in our slang talk "PR" [Public Relations] means putting up a lot of false reports to serve as a smoke screen for idleness or bad actions. Unless you get Ethics in, you will never get Technology in. If you can't get Technology in you won't get Administration in. So the lack of Ethics permits the criminal impulse to go unchecked. Yes, it could be handled with Technology. But to get money you have to have Administration in. Unless there is Ethics and ways to get it in, no matter how distasteful it may seem, you will never get Technology and Administration in. Of course there is always the element of possible injustice. But this is provided against. (See HCO PL 24 Feb 72, Injustice.) When Ethics is being applied by criminal hands (as happens in some governments) it can get pretty grim. But even then Ethics serves as a restraint to just outright slaughter. Omitting to handle criminality can make one as guilty of the resulting crimes as if one committed them! So criminality as a factor has to be handled. It is standardly handled by the basic Ethics P/Ls and the Ethics Officer system. Exchange The unhatted unproducing staff member, who is not really a criminal or psychotic, can be made to go criminal. This joins him to the Criminal ranks. The Ethics system also applies to him. However there is something an EstO can do about it that is truly EstO Technology. This lies in the field of Exchange. If you recall your Product Clearing, you will see that exchange is something for something. Criminal exchange is nothing from the criminal for something from another. Whether theft or threat or fraud is used, the criminal think is to get something without putting out anything. That is obvious. A staff member can be coaxed into this kind of thinking by permitting him to receive without his contributing. This unlocks, by the way, an age-old riddle of the philosophers as to "what is right or wrong". Honesty is the road to Sanity. You can prove that and do prove it every time you make somebody well by "pulling his withholds". The insane are just one seething mass of overt acts [An act of deliberately damaging omission that brings the least benefit to the fewest number of dynamics or the most harm to the most number of dynamics.] and withholds. And they are very physically sick people. When you let somebody be dishonest you are setting him up to become physically ill and unhappy. Traditional Sea Org Ethics labeled Non-Compliance as Liability and a False Report as Doubt. And it's true enough. When you let a person give nothing for something you are factually encouraging crime. Don't be surprised that welfare districts are full of robbery and murder. People there give nothing for something. When exchange is out the whole social balance goes out. Every full scholarship ever given by an org wound up in a messy scene. When you hire a professional pc who just sits around making do-less motions while people audit him and contribute to him do not be surprised if he gets sicker and sicker. He is contributing nothing in return and winds up in overwhelm! Similarly if you actively prevented someone from contributing in return you could also make him ARC Broken [ARC break: It's a decrease in affinity, reality and communication, which is why we call it an ARC break. It's a sudden ARC going down.] and sick. It is Exchange which maintains the inflow and outflow that gives a person space around him and keeps the bank off of him. There are numbers of ways these flows of Exchange can be unbalanced. It does not go same out as comes in. Equal amounts are no factor. Who can measure good will or friendship? Who can actually calculate the value of saving a being from death in each lifetime? Who can measure the reward of pride in doing a job well or praise? For all these things are of different values to different people. In the material world the person whose Exchange Factor is out may think he "makes money". Only a government or a counterfeiter "makes money". One has to produce something to Exchange for money. Right there the Exchange Factor is out. If he gives nothing in return for what he gets the money does not belong to him. In product clearing many people it was found that some considered their food, clothing, bed and allowance were not theirs because they produced. They were theirs "just by being there". This funny "logic" covered up the fact that these people produced little or nothing on post. Yet they were the first to howl when not getting expensive (to the org) auditing or courses or Technology! Thus such a person, not hatted or made to produce, will get ill. It is interesting that when a person becomes productive his morale improves. Reversely it should be rather plain to you that a person who doesn't produce becomes mentally or physically ill. For his exchange factor is out. So when you reward a downstat you not only deprive upstats, you also cave the downstat in! I don't think Welfare States have anything else in mind! The riots of the ancient city of Rome were caused by these factors. There they gave away corn and games to a populace that eventually became so savage it could only enjoy torture and gruesome death in the arena! A lot of this exchange imbalance comes from child psychology where the child is not contributing anything and is not permitted to contribute. It is this which first overwhelms him with feelings of obligation to his parents and then bursts out as total revolt in his teens. Children who are permitted to contribute (not as a cute thing to do but actually) make non-contributing children of the same age look like raving maniacs! It is the cruel sadism of modern times to destroy the next generation this way. Don't think it isn't intended. I have examined the OCAs of parents who do it! So if a person is brought up this life with the exchange all awry, the EstO has his hands full sometimes! He is dealing with trained-in criminality! – L. Ron Hubbard

Introduction: "To attain supreme enlightenment one must be able to know spontaneously one’s own self-nature which is neither created nor can be annihilated." Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. ​The Way of Knowing – Advance! 25 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 B.C.), 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. In fact, so pervasive was his work that later historians may well regard the 2.500 year period from 550 B.C. to 1950 as essen­tially a Buddhist era of civilization. By 1950 this era had gone bankrupt and the world lay direc­tionless, poised on the brink of a new age of barbarism. It was into this hiatus [Gap space that needs to be filled] that Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health was published by L Ron Hubbard, thus be­ginning a new era of world civili­zation based on Scientology. ​ The Splintering of Buddhism 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 (See Advance! 23 for an analysis of original Buddhism). Yet the inspiration of Buddha’s teach­ing continued to move men to express in their civilizations their highest hopes. Amongst these hundreds of ap­proaches to Buddhism can be seen major highlights each of which form an important chapter in man’s spiritual history. These highlights are expressed in the chart with this article and are summarized below. Theravada Buddhism means the Teaching of the Elders and is based upon earliest extant Buddhist canon [Any recognized set of sacred books]. This fabulous collection of Buddha’s teachings was passed down verbally from his immediate disciples, and finally transcribed 400 years later in the first century B.C. At that time (first century B.C.) new Buddhist texts began to be written which elaborated on or interpreted one or the other of Buddha’s teachings. These developments came to be known as Mahayana Buddhism (meaning the Great Vehicle), a “public relations” title originated by Mahayamsts to con­trast their own approach with that of the Theravadans which they called the Hinayana (Little Vehicle). From the roots of Mahayana Bud­dhism developed two other important schools Lamaism (see Advance! 24, “The Mystery of Lamaism”) and Ch’an Buddhism in China, or its Japanese equivalent – Zen Buddhism. Zen Buddhism Zen Buddhism is of particular in­terest as it caused, for various reasons, somewhat of a sensation in the West in the first half of the 20th century. For this reason some looked upon Zen as a recent development, but on the contrary it was known as Ch’an in 7th century China. In fact, Zen is the Japanese way of saying Ch’an And Ch’an is the Chinese way of saying Dhyana, an Indian word of great antiquity meaning “knowingness”. The transmitter of what became Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism was an almost legendary figure named Bodhi Dharma (meaning „One who is awakened into total truth“) who arrived in China from India in about AD 520. Bodhi Dharma in Western eyes is sometimes seen as the founder of Ch’an or Zen Buddhism. This would be in­correct. He only saw himself as a trans­mitter, the 28th successor of Gautama Buddha himself. The distinctive approach of Ch’an Buddhism is attributed to Bodhi Dharma. When asked for the authority of his interpretation, Bodhi Dharma cited the following “sermon” by Buddha. One day, it is said instead of dis­coursing on the Teaching, Buddha raised a lotus flower above his head All his disciples were puzzled save one who, by his slight smile indicated he got the point, prompting Buddha to designate him as his secret successor. The flower sermon and Bodhi Dharma’s quatrain sum up the dis­tinctive approach of Ch’an/Zen: “A special transmission outside the Scriptures, No dependence upon words and letters, Direct pointing to the soul of man, Seeing into one’s own nature.” In actual fact, Ch’an or Zen Bud­dhism is Indian Buddhism seen through the eyes of Taoism, the great Chinese philosophical development. The intuitive approach, the de-emphasis of scriptures, is all charac­teristically Taoist “The way that can be spoken of is not the Way.” The opening line of the Tao Teh King “The Book of The Way and Its Power” (See Advance! 18 for the article “The Meaning of The Way”, an analysis of Taoism)] Instead of the scriptures, the Ch’an Buddhist turned to the example of Buddha’s act of achieving enlightenment under the fig tree near Gaya in Northeast India. It is this experience that Ch’an (Zen) seeks to emulate and thus attain enlightenment or Bodhi in the same direct way Buddha did. The central experience of Ch’an-Zen Buddhism is of course the central experience of original Buddhism the experience of one’s own spiritual na­ture as different from the flesh or the physical universe. ​“To attain supreme enlightenment one must be able to know spontaneously one’s own self-nature which is neither created nor can be annihilated.” For example, Hui-Neng, the most renowned Ch’an master (638-713), states, “To attain supreme enlightenment one must be able to know spon­taneously one’s own self nature which is neither created nor can it be anni­hilated.” The Japanese word for enlighten­ment is “Satori.” Unfortunately, to some degree the simplicity of this basic goal became burdened by various sig­nificances and interpretations. For ex­ample the Zen-student was later told that he would realize that he was every­thing “You are me, I am you, I am that automobile, etc.” Thus is a con­dition known as being “buttered all over the universe.” There is a much higher level “har­monic” of this condition where a being can be anything or everything at will whilst retaining his own beingness that Hui-neng speaks of. Regardless of misinterpretations it was the upper level condition that the original masters envisioned. Now, of course, not everyone had the Buddha’s ability to reach Buddhahood or Bodhi. In fact, at the height of Ch’an Buddhism under Hui-neng we find the following postscript (by an immediate disciple) to his celebrated autobio­graphy: “For thirty-seven years he preached to the benefit of all sentient beings. Forty-three of his disciples reached Bodhi, while those who attained a measure of enlightenment and thereby got out of the rut of the ordinary life were too many to be numbered.” Later Ch’an Buddhism attempted to develop various methods to improve this result, but since Hui-neng’s tune no statistics have been released! Ch’an-Zen tech can be summed up in three words – Zazen, Koan, Mondo. Actually, Ch’an Zen technology never went beyond what Scientologists would recognize as a rudimentary form of Training Drill Zero [Training Drill Zero (TR 0): A beginning Scientologist drill wherein two students gain the ability to be there comfortably and confront] which in its highly developed form is a beginning drill of Scientology. Although seldom achieved, or achieved after arduous and long work, “being there” was the highest level of recognizable technical expertise in Ch’an Zen. This could describe the goal of Zazen, a Zen meditation exer­cise. The Kung-an (Chinese) – or Koan (Japanese) was a conundrum designed to overcome excessive attempts to solve things with thinkingness instead of being there. For example, the Koan “What is the sound of one hand clap­ping” can not be answered by thinking about it at all. It was an attempt instead to provoke a new insight by the Ch’an-Zen student. As Alan Watts, a famous Western Zen interpreter states, “when the dis­ciple is brought to an intellectual and emotional impasse (contemplating the Koan) it (the Koan) bridges the gap between second-hand conceptual con­tact with reality and first-hand ex­perience.” The other key Buddhist “technol­ogy” was called mondo, an inchoate [in an early stage incomplete undeveloped] form of Training Drill Zero Bullbait [Training Drill 0 Bullbait: (TR 0 Bullbait). A step beyond TR 0 The term Bullbait derives from the action of baiting a bull which then reacts. In TR 0 Bullbait a student gains the ability to be there comfortably and confront despite any distractions by another student.] where the master would attempt to “throw” or distract the student through sudden unexpected actions, physical violence, nonsensical replies, etc. Thus, the Ch’an-Zen “ideal” figure was an enlightened individual who could “be,” who could fully appreciate “now” (i.e. present time) and who, like the Judo specialist couldn’t be thrown or overwhelmed by life. Ch’an was introduced lock, stock and barrel into Japan as Zen in the 11th or 12th century where it became a way of life Japanese culture became “Zen-Buddhafied”. The Japanese tea drinking custom was not simply a social ritual but a religious act deliberately created by Zenists. This and Japanese gardening, flower arranging, architecture,art, poetry and even the martial arts were considered expressions of Zen en­lightenment in daily life. For example Zen archery was a very highly evolved procedure where­by the archer sought to train himself to be fully aware of all the actions in­volved – and, at the exact climatic point of the release of the arrow, to achieve a spiritual release. Ch’an Buddhism began to wane in China after the great age of Chinese Buddhism in the 10th century. And now its export to Japan, Zen, is also dying coincident with the westerniza­tion of Japan. ​ The Secret? So here we are nearly at the end of this article and you ask, “But what was the secret of the flower sermon?!” There wasn’t one. Ch’an and Zen were an effort to by­pass the almost overwhelming number of Buddhist scriptures that had accumu­lated by the 5th century and get back to what its adherents considered basic Buddhism. In the silence of the “flower ser­mon” was couched, for them, the answer Beingness is senior to “thinking about”. Direct experience is senior to second-hand knowledge. But Buddha said this – and far more – and held nothing back from what he knew despite the fact that what he said was imperfectly trans­mitted and altered. ​ Summary Ch’an or Zen Buddhism were mile­stones on Man’s spiritual track which inspired an unparalleled expression of Chinese-Japanese culture and art. The ancient Ch’an-Zen masters failed to achieve the results they desired be­cause of an insufficiency of technology with which to handle the mind and create human ability. This chasm (lack of technology) has been the barrier to all of man’s past freedom efforts. Now at last with Scientology, its Founder, L. Ron Hubbard, has thrown a bridge across the chasm so the ancient goals of spiritual freedom can be universally achieved. Scientology linguistically is the Western word for Zen-Ch’an-Dhyana. Thus an unbroken tradition existed in the East which has been brought to a point of total success in the West in the second half of the 20th century. L. Ron Hubbard Dear Friends, Here is the article "The way to knowing", originally published in Advance! 25. Here are two important excerpts: "To attain supreme enlightenment one must be able to know spontaneously one’s own self-nature which is neither created nor can be annihilated." "Direct experience is senior to second-hand knowledge." I wish you an excellent reading. Much love, Max Hauri

Introduction: "A man is as well off as his goals and dreams are intact. If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future. 30 March 1954" – L. Ron Hubbard, 30 March 1954 Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below Advance! 27 The startling conclusion to the Advance! series on Buddhism With Advance! Issues 23 and 24 you have been following a series of articles which trace the development of Buddhism. In Issue 23 you learned how one man, Siddhartha Gautama, sought to rise above his own destiny and realize the true spiritual nature of man. He became the Buddha, one who is awakened or enlightened. He developed a philosophy which said that life is basically suffering but that there is a way to escape the endless wheel of death and rebirth by becoming a Buddha oneself. Although Buddha failed because he lacked the means to fully achieve his aims, his work was so pervasive and so impressive that it became the dominant civilizing influence for the subsequent 2,500 years of Man's history. In Issue 24 we saw how Buddha himself eventually went to Tibet (in a later lifetime) to begin Lamaism (Tibetan Buddhism) in an attempt to develop exteriorization techniques and further extend his studies of the mind. His name in that 8th century life was Padma Sambhava. The most important works attributed to Padma Sambhava were the great book of "Self Liberation" and the "Tibetan Book of the Dead", a technical manual designed to free an individual from the wheel of rebirth. With this current issue we have now arrived at the climax of Advance!'s series on Buddhism. You see, 2,500 years ago a stunning prophecy was made which throws a fascinating new light on Man's spiritual track. Read on! A 2,500 YEAR OLD PROPHECY Can an ancient promise made 2,500 years ago which predicts that a great spiritual leader will come to bring total freedom to man, come true? Man has usually looked to his past for his golden ages. He has primarily, therefore, dwelled in nostalgia rather than hope. The future all too patently [obviously] has represented merely a rolling forward of today's unsolved problems which promised to get worse before they got better. The most hopeful points in man's history have accompanied upsurges or revivals in religious philosophy; such milestones as Zoroastrianism, [See Advance! 20. Zoroastrianism founded by Zoroaster (Greek form of the old Persian name Zarathustra) was the most important religion of ancient Persia.] Christianity and Buddhism, and others. Most of these movements predicted the end of the history of mundane existence and the commencement of heavenly existence – which then didn't occur! In Christianity, for example, the date for the second coming of Christ at the end of the world has been frequently moved forward. The early Christians expected it in their lifetimes. Recently the Jehovah's Witnesses regularly gathered to await the end of the world. So predominant has the idea of waiting been in Christian history that Franz Kafka, the German writer, once cynically wrote that Christ would arrive not on the Day of Judgement, or the next day but the day afterwards! This eschatological [Having to do with end things, such as death, resurrection, judgement, immortality.] view of history has had bizarre twists, such as in Hegel's work, the "great" German philosopher (1770-1830), who felt that his own work was the final chapter in the book of truth and marked the end of history. Marx in turn conceived that history would end with a final decisive battle between "workers" and capitalists, after which would follow a timeless workers' paradise – thus perverting the Christian idea of Armageddon [The place where the last, decisive battle between the forces of good and evil will be fought before the Day of Judgement and subsequent everlasting heaven.] which itself comes from the earlier Zoroastrian concept of judgement and the end of the world. Thus, Man has been so often disappointed and betrayed with promised saviors and paradises that he is a bit like a wounded water buffalo that tries to gore anyone who reaches to help it. Out of the whole panorama of such predictions and prophecies only one did not rely on supernatural agencies or foresee the divine end of the world. This is the legend of a successor originated by none other than Gautama Buddha. Buddha did not consider that his own work was complete. He realized that he lacked adequate technology to achieve the full goals of spiritual freedom. He predicted that such a technology of the mind and spirit would be developed in the West by a successor some 2,500 years later. As the Buddha stated to Ananda (Buddha's principal aide) who asked him, "Who shall teach us when thou art gone?" "And the Blessed One replied "I am not the first Buddha who came upon earth, nor shall I be the last I came to teach you the truth, and I have founded on earth the kingdom of truth. Gautama Siddhartha will die, but Buddha will live, for Buddha is the truth, and the truth can not die. He who believes in the truth and lives it, is my disciple, and I shall teach him. The truth will be propagated and the kingdom of truth will increase for about five hundred years. Then for a while the clouds of error will darken the light, and in due time another Buddha will arise, and he will reveal to you the self-same eternal truth which I have taught you." Ananda said "How shall we know him?" The Blessed One said 'The Buddha that will come after me will be known as Metteyya, which means 'he whose name is kindness. [From 'The Book of the Great Decease' in the Pali Canons, the earliest Buddhist scriptures Pali is the language Gautama Buddha spoke.] Metteyya comes from the Pali word metta meaning love. Correctly translated into spoken English Metteyya means 'he whose name is kindness' or 'friend'. Thus 'the one who is to come' shall be recognisable, according to Buddha, as a great friend of Mankind. He will be Metteyya (friend). In another statement Buddha predicts that Metteyya 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." This Buddhist idea of a second Buddha filtered westward into the Middle East where, according to one authority, it was expressed in the later Christian idea of the second coming of Christ. In Buddhist lands Metteyya became a great favorite. Various cults devoted to him arose. In art and sculpture he was often depicted as a standing figure in contrast to Buddha who was usually shown as sitting. He became a frequent theme in Buddhist literature. For example, the "Anagata Vamsa", an 8 th century Indian poem on Metteyya puts into Gautama Buddha's mouth such lines as "I am now the perfect Buddha; "And there will be Metteyya too "Before this same auspicious aeon "Runs to the end of its years." A predominant part of the legend is that Metteyya will appear when the world is imperilled, religion has dangerously declined and a new dark age is threatening to cloud the planet. Ancient Tibetan scriptures confirm that this new spiritual leader shall appear in the West and that he will have red or golden hair: "When he shall be seen in the West, seated in the Western fashion, his hair like flames about his noble head, discoursing, then shall the inhabitants of the Three Worlds [Three worlds of Tibetan scriptures. Body: the physical world pertaining to the body and its operation and life. Speech: the 'world' of communication between entities and things. Mind: One's own world, the world of one's own creation.] rejoice, knowing that the emancipation of all sentient beings is imminent. Then it shall be called the age of the blessed because it will become commonplace to achieve Emancipation in one life-time." Gandhi, a Hindu, was perhaps invoking Metteyya when he wrote the following: "Asia has a message for the whole world, if it will only live up to it. There is the imprint of Buddhistic influence on the whole of Asia, which includes India, China, Japan, Burma Ceylon and the Malay States. For Asia to be not for Asia but the whole world, it has to re-learn the message of the Buddha and deliver it to the whole world." Paul Goddard, a noted western interpreter of Buddhism also recognized that traditional Buddhism was not adequate for the modern world He puts the dire need for a better technology in his own terms: "American and European Buddhists, before they can commonly attain Enlightenment and Buddhahood, will need their own method for practicing the Eighth Stage of the Noble Path, [The final step on the 8-part procedure Gautama Buddha developed for reaching Buddhahood.] but such a Right Method can not be formulated until the Buddha that is taking form within our own minds, comes 'When He comes, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.' 'Even so come, Lord Maitreya!'" [Maitreya is the Sanskrit form of the Pali word Metteyya, sometimes spelled Metteya] In 1955 Buddhists worldwide celebrated the 2,500 year anniversary of the Buddhist era. These celebrations coincided with the earliest date predicted for the arrival of Metteyya which works out, more or less, to 1950. The cover of this issue [not available] of Advance! vividly expresses this prediction. It shows Metteyya standing at the end of a 2,500 year Bridge. Buddha can be seen at the other end. Metteyya's right hand is upraised in the Abhayamudra gesture. Mudra means 'gesture' Abhaya means 'free from fear or danger, fearless.' As a gesture it conveys the granting of protection and blessing. It therefore represents a postulate for a safe space in which beings can attain total spiritual freedom. For two and a half millennia the East lovingly kept alive the hope of Metteyya – thus helping to create a future in which he could arrive and be accepted. Dear friends Another year has come to an end and now we have all the opportunities to hope and dream of a better sky without too many dark clouds! We create the future, we are the cause and we can be much more cause than we ever thought. Our potential is far from being exhausted. Here is the actual New Year writing: A 2,500 YEAR OLD PROPHECY, taken from the magazine Advance! 27, 1974. I do not have to add much to it, it speaks for itself and everyone can make his own thoughts about it. As written above, whatever happens, we can and should always be optimistic. We can now better see what is going on. There is more and more truth popping up, and it is good even if it is uncomfortable. Let's create and live our goals and dreams. This is a good postulate for next year! "A man is as well off as his goals and dreams are intact. If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future. 30 March 1954" – L. Ron Hubbard, 30 March 1954 Happy New Year! Max Hauri and the Ron's Org Grenchen: Erica, Melinda, Verena, Dirk, Jean and all who help us to put the Ron's Org there, every day.

Introduction: Very few people can really explain how the transition from one body to another takes place. Some can talk about near-death experiences, but very few can say exactly what steps they went through, or the spirals of existence. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Notes from a lecture by L. Ron Hubbard given on the 3 December 1952 Let's take a look then at the microcosm [Universe in miniature; a little world; Man thought of as a miniature representation of the universe.] called "Man" as a cycle of action. He starts in with conception and goes through into birth, into childhood, into man and then here's an old man and then he's dead. That is what he believes his cycle of action is. He continues through this cycle and was for a long time content to believe that he ceased to exist when the end of the cycle was reached. Peculiar to this cycle of action is the relative contentment with which it has been accepted. There must be very heavy agreement on this otherwise nobody would ever stand for it. There is such a thing as transmigration [The passing of a soul at death into another body; from to move "migrate" across "trans".], as well as a reincarnation [The rebirth of the soul in a new body; a complex Hindu theory of rebirth.] principle, although neither of these things, you understand, are transmigration as such, or reincarnation as such. All that is is the continuous living by a being who continues to take different forms. He's never a different being, but he has to tell himself he's a different being. He tells himself he's no longer the being he was, and that that's gone and dead, in order to be the being which he is at the time. Now let's take what is known as a spiral. A spiral is simply a term of lives, a term of existences or a single existence which bear an intimate relation, one to the other. You can, for example, go back into a preclear's past and find an overall spiral of him being in a body. He picked up a body some time or another, was in and out of bodies for a while and then all of a sudden we get a long spiral, life after life after life, of being in bodies. The universe could be said to be, although this term "year" is very deceptive, 75 trillion years old. The spiral at first was at least 100 million years old. A fellow entered the MEST universe and he went 100 million years until he could finally conceive he was dead. Then he conceived that he was resurrected again by some necromancy [magic] and he thought himself a new being and went on his next spiral for maybe 50 or 60 million years. Then he felt himself "dead" and was resurrected again and went on for maybe 25 million years. The spiral gets shorter each time. The current spiral for most people here is 34,000 years. You'll find some preclears who are about 3,000 years on their current spiral. You will very rarely find one who is any longer than that. When you do, you find somebody who isn't tracking with the culture. There we have, then, spirals. Those spirals come down on the order of 100 million years, then maybe 50 million and so on until they're down here right now to this microscopic spiral point which is this current spiral. And Man is part of that microscopic point in one lifetime. L. Ron Hubbard Dear Friends, Very few people can really explain how the transition from one body to another takes place. Some can talk about near-death experiences, but very few can say exactly what steps they went through from their last to their first breath in their new body. Could they see and hear everything? Did they hang around for 53 years before making the decision to adopt a new body and did a few more years pass then? Maybe they were looking at the Great Wall of China or maybe they continued to worry about their last life for a few centuries; it doesn't matter. Or they may be thinking, "Why didn't anyone tell me this? What am I going to do now?" Occasionally, a child can say with precision who he was during his last life, but I have never heard of all the things he experienced in between. Somehow he forgets. The book "Straight Wire, a workbook" gives answers about this subject. Spiritual existence can be praised, but for the time being, the body is the stable data for a thetan. A significant part of the population cannot imagine a life in the hereafter. From what I read in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, it talks about staying conscious. A thetan is helped to remain conscious after death so that he does not drift into delusion and confusion. In Scientology terminology, this is also called dope-off. [The phenomenon of a person getting tired, sleepy, foggy (as though doped.] or anaten. [Abbreviation of analytical attenuation meaning diminution or weakening of the analytical awareness of an individual for a brief or extensive period of time.] Here are some of Ron's stable facts from the Scientology 8-80 book: "The thetan enters sometime in early infancy. This may be before, during, or following birth. He comes in a state of personal unknowingness, desiring to have an identity which he considers that he has not without a body." "…" "The thetan is usually either blind or very dim sighted at first. He gradually regains his ability to perceive as he comes up the tone scale. He passes a band of dub-in [Dub-in: any unknowingly created mental picture that appears to have been a record of the physical universe but is in fact only an altered copy of the time track.] above zero and below 2.0. He attains clear, brilliant sight higher on the scale." You have to be there and perceive. Or just confront and stay awake. One of the first things you learn in Scientology is to be there and perceive, which is also called TR 0, or confrontation. And ultimately, training and auditing contribute to and improve this ability to be there and perceive. And certainly TRs, training and auditing bring one up on the Tone scale. The TR 0 is an exercise that should be done regularly! There are always wins in Scientology, but from experience I can confirm that TR 0 very often gives the biggest wins. And you take them with you – forever. Happy Holiday Season! Max Hauri

Introduction: The cradle of Western civilization, Greek philosophy, favored the acceptance of past lives. Let's work on our civilization, even if it takes more than a few years. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. Jataka – Birth Stories – Advance! 26 "I know with certainty where I was and who I was in the last 80 trillion years. The small details of it like what I ate for breakfast two trillion years ago are liable to go astray here and there, but other­wise it’s no mystery to me." – L. Ron Hubbard "I remembered many previous existences, namely one birth, two…, three…, four…, five…, ten…, twenty…, fifty…, hundred births, etc…. There I was, had that name, belonged to that family, that was my caste, that my livelihood, I have experienced such happiness and sorrow, that was my end; deceased I came again into existence there: there I was, had that name…" – Gautama Buddha That cradle of Western civilization, Greek philosophy, looked with favor on the acceptance of past lives Pythagoras, the great Greek philosopher and mathematician, vividly re­membered various past lives, for example, the time he fought in the Trojan War and he could still re­cognize in a contemporary temple a shield used in that war. Past lives were also known to various early Christian groups. This traditional belief of Man was then banned by the Second Church Council of Constantinople in A.D. 553 decreeing that "Whoso­ever shall support the mythical doctrine of the pre-existence of the soul and the subsequent wonder­ful [In the sense of strange or astonishing] opinion of its return let him be anathema." [damned cursed.] Thus, forcibly, the myth of "one lifetime only" entered the mainstream of western culture with, ultimately, unfortunate results. Later this one-lifetime-only idea was fertile ground for the rise of soul-denying 19th century materialism. Happily, in the East the traditional belief in former existences remained unbroken. The greatest example of this traditional spiritual knowledge from the East is the Jataka, a unique Buddhist work. Jataka is a Pali word (the language of Buddha) meaning birth story (from roots literally meaning "belonging to, connected with what has happened.") So pervasive and popular was the Buddhist use of this word that it came exclusively to mean the story of any previous birth of the Buddha or the name of a book in the Pali Canon, [the earliest scriptures of Buddhism] containing 550 such accounts. Thus the Jataka is the popularized history of Buddha’s past lives. Orga­nized shortly after his death by his im­mediate disciples, the Jataka is a basic book of Buddhism. Unknown to many, the Jataka is also a basic book of world culture. It had an enormous influence through­out the non-Buddhist Old World and especially in the West. Shorter collections of the original stories began to appear in Sanskrit in the first century A.D. These stories then spread into Central Asia where they were translated into Persian and through the subsequent centuries the Jataka was retranslated into Arabic and Hebrew, and then into Latin and Greek and all the modern languages of Europe. In other words, in times gone by it was something of a bestseller! One of these editions of the Jataka gave, in its introduction, the biography of Buddha. Reaching the Middle East along the trade routes it was trans­lated by St. John of Damascus in the 8th century into Greek under the title of Barlaam and Josaphat. It was then translated into Latin and various other European languages including Icelandic. The story became so popular and its hero, that is, the Buddha, was so admired that he was canonized as a Christian saint. Thus the original inspiration of the Christian gospel of love, Gautama Buddha, be­came a Christian saint! He is St. Jehosaphat and his day of worship is the 27th of November. By the way, Buddha was deified by the Hindus as an avatar (god in human form) of the Hindu god of survival, Vishnu. Gautama Buddha was a popular guy! The Jataka is also the basis of the famous Aesop’s Fables. These were ac­tually compiled in the 14th century at Constantinople by a monk named Planudes who drew largely for his stories upon the Jataka material. The Jataka itself presents a magnifi­cent series of 547 lives attributed to the Buddha. If we count an average of 50 years per lifetime it would cover a period of some 27,350 years. This re­presented Buddha’s cycle as a Bodhisatta (definition follows below) prior to his becoming a Buddha. Bodhi means enlightenment. Satta means being. Thus a Bodhisatta is a being who is destined or aspires to achieve the highest state of enlighten­ment or Buddhahood. These lifetimes were thus depicted as leading up to the final life of the cycle when Siddhartha Gautama [the Buddha’s given and family name] through his own self-effort achieved the long-sought state of bodhi and be­came a Buddha. Buddha is of course not a name but a state of existence. At the same time it became the title of its most famous exponent. The Bodhisatta, in one of his previous births, was a leader of a group of monkeys who lived on the banks of the Ganges river. Nearby there was a mango tree, and the monkeys used to eat its delicious fruit. Learning of this, a local king sent his men to guard it, and they accordingly surrounded it. In order to save the lives of his trapped fellow creatures, the Bodhi­satta prepared a bamboo bridge which turned out to be a little short. To overcome this difficulty he tied his own body to the bridge, thus enabling the monkeys to escape in safety. The king was greatly moved by the heroics of the Great Monkey and paid homage to him. The above illustration is done in the ancient style and depicts the entire incident in one drawing. Gautama Buddha’s message was that life was basically suffering. Death, loss and rebirth were seemingly inevitable. The alternative was to strive to realize one’s own spiritual beingness and, through enlightenment on supreme truths, escape the wheel of rebirth. He preached that by following a certain path a being could achieve his own Buddhahood in one lifetime. This message of hope, although sel­dom attainable and never stable, re­vitalized the highest spiritual aspira­tions of those who came in contact with it. It is not surprising that it dominated subsequent Eastern thought And like the Jataka, the philosophy of Buddhism also stretched westward where it motivated the spiritual quest of Christianity. Returning to the Jataka, we find it presents the theme of a great bene­factor of Man whose personal influence was felt through succeeding eras. In the story No. 50 Buddha states "This is not the first time Brethren that the Buddha has acted for the world’s good; he acted in like manner in bygone times as well." Each story opens with a preface or a "story of the present" which relates the particular circumstances in the Buddha’s life which prompted him to describe such and such past life and thus shed light on the present time circumstances. And always at the end of the story the Buddha reveals who he was and the parts those around him played in the same lifetime. For ex­ample the conclusion of story 176 states: "The Master, after this discourse was at an end, identified the Birth: ‘In those days Ananda was the king, and the wise councillor was I myself!’" The range of lifetimes represented the entire panorama of human and animal existence. Wise man, king, mer­chant, robber, monkey, deer, bird, even a bright flash of light, a child, etc. were among the past life identities ascribed to the Buddha. But through­out most of these stories the wise and benevolent beingness of Buddha shines out. Quite a few of these stories are directly attributed to Buddha from his own sermons and discourses. Others were obviously added by his immediate disciples out of their veneration for the Master. The birth stories are not chrono­logical nor do they exceed in content the culture and locale of ancient India. They were evidently used to popularize the Buddhist ethics and aspirations as well as the heroic figure of the founder of the religion. These stories are rich in humour, in­spiring and very alive. They make mar­velous fables and tales. In one of Buddha's earlier lives, he was a king. Here we see him lying discouraged, preaching to his people about the transience of earthly glory. In its concept of past lives, nothing exceeds the Jataka until the appear­ance – 2,500 years later – of L. Ron Hubbard’s trilogy of books, Mission Into Time, Have You Lived Before This Life? and History of Man which give the first full and accurate account of the whole track as well as the verifi­cation of past life recall. In bygone times only exceptional individuals had an ability to recall past lives. Such extraordinary ability was considered the mark of a fully de­veloped spiritual awareness. Now through Dianetics and Scientology anyone can be freed from that prison more confining than any bars or walls: the myth of one life only. Through Ron’s work this worst-of-all amnesias has been resolved technically. The above trilogy, coupled with the materials of the Advanced Courses at long last reveal Man’s most profound mystery: the actual content and charac­ter of the whole track. Buddha and his disciples would greatly welcome this technical break­through. Man’s Scientologically re­leased ability to recall previous exist­ences is a vital part of the advance across the Bridge to Total Freedom. L. Ron Hubbard has arrived to give us the key to the past as well as the future. JATAKA No. 84 The Birth Stories vary in length from one to several pages. No. 84 is a short one. The preface states that a child asked his father who was a Treasurer what were the Paths leading to spiritual welfare. The father was at a loss to answer this question. Bringing gifts of perfume, flowers and oils as an exchange, he went with his son to the Buddha for guidance. The father repeated his young son’s question and the Master answered: "Lay-brother," said the Master, "this selfsame question was asked me by this very child in former tunes, and I answered it for him. He knew the answer in bygone days, but now he has forgotten because of change of birth." Then, at the father’s request, he told this story of the past. "Once on a time when Brahmadatta [name of a king] was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta was a very wealthy Treasurer; and he had a son who, when only seven years old, manifested great intelligence and anxiety for his spiritual welfare. One day the child came to his father to ask what were the Paths leading to spiritual welfare. And his father answered him by repeating this stanza: Seek Health, the supreme good; be virtuous; Hearken to elders; from the scriptures learn; Conform to Truth; and burst Attachment’s bonds. – For chiefly these six Paths to Welfare lead. In this wise did the Bodhisatta answer his son’s question as to the Paths that lead to spiritual welfare; and the boy from that time forward followed those six rules. After a life spent in charity and other good works, the Bodhisatta passed away to fare thereafter according to his deserts." His lesson ended, the Master identified the Birth by saving, "This child was also the child of those days, and I myself the Lord Treasurer." Dear friends, Our civilization is based more on philosophy and even religion than on our modern science. It's almost like the famous quote "Money isn't everything, but without money, everything is worthless." In other words, if people can't humanly handle technological advances, what good are they? I assert that it is precisely because we do not pay enough attention to philosophy and religion these days that we have once again found ourselves in a situation where a wrongly directed missile can drive the human world to extinction. I am so optimistic that the worst case scenario will not happen, but we live with a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads constantly. And so it makes sense to address this. It is not a matter of hiding in a monastery and praying in silence, but of living and practicing a modern and contemporary philosophy and religion. This is precisely why Scientology was developed. The text below begins with the paragraph: "That cradle of Western civilization, Greek philosophy, looked with favor on the acceptance of past lives Pythagoras, the great Greek philosopher and mathematician, vividly re­membered various past lives, for example, the time he fought in the Trojan War and he could still re­cognize in a contemporary temple a shield used in that war." Let's work at our civilization even if it takes more than a few years. Much love, Max Hauri

Introduction: Attached is the article "An Essay on Management". In it, Ron talks about the goal creator and other important things like goals and groups and management and how Dianetics can help. Read Max Hauri's introduction letter to this article below. The Dianetic Auditor's Bulletin – Volume 2, No. 2 – August, 1951 – By L. Ron Hubbard A knowledge of Group Dianetics should include a knowledge of management, its problems and optimum performances. In Group Dianetics, the best organization can be seen to be one wherein all individual members of the group are versed in all the problems and skills in the group, specializing in their own contributions but cognizant of the other specialties which go to make up group life. It is an old and possibly true tenet of business – at least where business has been successful – that management is a specialty. Certainly it is true that ruling, as Group Dianetics concerns itself with government, is a specialized art and craft not less technical than the running of complex machinery, and certainly, until Dianetics, more complex. Management is a specialty With our present technology about groups, it is possible to accomplish with certainty many things which before came out of guesses when they emerged at all. Management in the past has been as uncodified in its techniques as psychiatry, and management, without reservation, has almost always been a complete failure. Men were prone to measure the excellence of management in how many dollars a company accumulated or how much territory a country acquired. These are, at best, crude rules of thumb. Until there was another and better measure, they had to serve. To understand that these are not good measures of the excellence of management one has only to review the history of farms, companies and nations to discover that few have had any long duration and almost all of them have had considerable trouble. Management has failed if only because the "art" of managing as practiced in the past required too much hard labor on the part of the manager. Until one has considered the definitions of wealth and expanded territory and has taken a proper view on what these things really comprise, one is not likely to be able to appreciate very much about management, its problems or its goals. Hershey, a brilliant manager with a brilliant managing staff, yet failed dismally as a manager because he neglected the primary wealth of his company – his people and their own pride and independence. His reign of a company ceased with his people – well-paid engineers and laborers, well housed, well clothed – shooting at him with remarkably live ammunition. The brilliant management of Germany which came within an inch of restoring to her all her conquests of former years yet laid Germany in ruins. Reach the purposes Before one can judge management one has to consider the goals of an enterprise and discover how nearly a certain management of a certain enterprise was able to attain those goals. And if the goal of the company is said to have been wealth, then one had better have an understanding of wealth itself, and if the goal is said to have been territory, then one had better consider what, exactly, is the ownership of territory. Goals and their proper definition are important because they are inherent in the definition of management itself. Management could be said to be the planning of means to attain goals and their assignation for execution to staff and the proper coordination of activities within the group to attain maximal efficiency with minimal effort to attain determined goals. Read more… L. Ron Hubbard Dear Friends, "Shock your parents – read a book!" What a great advertising slogan! Often we associate Scientology almost solely with Clearing and auditing, but if you listen closely to Ron, the training is the most important part. Training does not work without auditing and auditing presupposes training. If one trains as an auditor, one must sooner or later receive auditing. One does not go without the other. That is why books are the gateway to Scientology. If one is not willing to read and train, one will not succeed. Without work, there is no reward. In Scientology and Dianetics, books are THE advertisement. Ron is our best disseminator. Scientology or Dianetics is not easy to explain. There are many reasons. One of the reasons why it is difficult, is that we often and unintentionally enter into judgment, even belittlement, and even unintentionally prove the other wrong. "Why me? My wife needs it more than I do!" or such thoughts can easily get in the way. A statement like "everything is explained in this book" gets around this problem. A book is more neutral anyway, because it is a book and not a person "to attack". And if it is not read, it has not done any harm. Goal maker We can see many things in Ron, from the Founder to the Commodore to the Course Supervisor to the Senior C/S Class XII and many more. But in reality, he is the creator of the purpose, he postulated and dreamed the purpose. He is the source of the purpose. It is a very important hat that lasts beyond death. It is not my hat, nor is it your hat. It is very important that we put this hat on Ron's head and make sure it is and remains his. We must not compete with him for this hat, because it is dangerous! He is the source. This is a huge topic and I could write a lot about it. It is important to understand that we must help Ron wear his hat by making his books known. We invest a lot of time and energy in getting Ron's books printed and available to the public to buy them. We also make them available online for free. We offer the books at a great price. Ron explains it much better than any of us. And he doesn't prove anyone wrong. As I wrote it, the work of printing the books is done; I would be happy if you could from time to time give, offer or sell a book to someone; sell it or offer it, both are possible. Reading aloud is also a possibility. The book Evolution of a Science was written by Ron at the time, as a promotional item for the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and if you offer it to someone, we would be happy to give it to you for free. We have many in stock. We don’t print the English books, but you will find them on our website in PDF in the section books. Much love, Max Hauri