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The power of decision...  
 

"The power of decision is actually the power of sanity.

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"If you just mercilessly search out of your life, in the actions and the common actions of your life, all of the maybes on a decision level, and if you suddenly assert your decisions where you have withheld decisions, I can guarantee you that your life will smooth out pretty well. If you do that in a big office, for instance, where there's a big staff, it may very well be that by asserting your decisions they fire you straight out the door. That's where you belong, then. You're a lot better off outside that door. If this environment has smothered your power of decision, you don't belong in it. Most of the indecision which you will meet in life is strictly based around choice of environment and the ability to exert decision in that environment." —L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
From the lecture Decision delivered on 20 May 1952. This lecture can be found in Research and Discovery Volume 10.

 

   
 
 

The "magic" of listening to LRH lectures

"Over six years, I have listened to tapes nearly every day. I listened all summer long while at my cottage with our children, every summer, and through all times, good and bad. I have bought, along with my husband, nearly every set of tapes available and listened to them all.

"I can say from experience that listening to tapes invokes a universe of magic which can be found nowhere else. It creates a spiritual certainty that can be acquired by no other means.

"In The Solution to Entrapment, I discovered the cure for a very annoying, life-long, painful skin condition and I am free of it still. It was considered incurable.

"The OT Doctorate Course prevented our financial ruin and walked me day by day through a hellish mine field of tax suppression.

"The Game of Life tapes gave me my mission and my future. At times, in my first years of tape listening, when my life seemed ruined and I could not cope, I would have to recover on the bed from the body somatics that would blow off from hearing the data.

"In fact, the hugest win I ever had in all of Scientology was listening to a tape. In my first Scientology course—The Student Hat—18 years ago, I could hardly sit for more than an hour. I suffered from severe back pain. One day, trying to get through a tape about suppressive education, there was an explosion, a spark and an electrical snap. All the pain left my body. I looked around to see the reaction of the other students and everyone was studying quietly. I was amazed to discover that the explosion had only happened in my universe. It was at that moment that I knew Scientology worked.

"Tape listening and dedicated application made me a child with my children; it dispelled the gloom of earth and gave me miracle after miracle to decorate my life." —K.J.

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Research and Discovery Volume 10"To be or not to be: that is the question." by L. Ron Hubbard

"I would like to talk to you about decision.

"Decision is, you will discover, one of the fundamental points of indecision, and one of the fundamental reasons why people are sane or insane. Decision.

"You see, decision is a short way of saying choice. And choice, of course, is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision.

"Automatically, you will discover—automatically, in any case—that the one thing that is holding up beingness is indecision, a maybe.

Beingness
"Automatically, you will discover--automatically, in any case--that the one thing that his holding up beingness is indecision, a maybe."

"In any engram that presents itself to be run—in any engram that presents itself to be run—there is a maybe: two choices which are relatively balanced, and their even balancing makes an irresolution.

"Now, there's a great deal to do with time in decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have an indecision, there is an unclarity about time. If you are trying to decide anything and having a difficulty in trying to decide that thing, the root of its trouble is time. Not even necessarily data; it's time. There's a time hangup there somewhere. And if you look for that back of the data, usually the data becomes needless.

"Decision: The basic decision that life makes, that theta makes, is 'to be or not to be.' Shakespeare's famous line: 'To be or not to be: that is the question.' Hamlet was in very, very bad condition that day. He was hung up on the squarest maybe that anyone can be hung up on.

"If you see someone facing a new job, a choice of whether or not he's going to continue with his old job or take a new job, you may think that he is resisting change or a lot of other things, and so on. He's not anything. I mean, he is hung up until he decides one way or the other on a beingness situation. So that any beingness situation where you had a 'to be or not to be' on a case becomes itself the most aberrative situation.

"Running an engram is really, basically, only necessary until the preclear has reached, of his own volition and evaluation, the decision he didn't make. He's found the maybe in his life. He's found that maybe. And having found the maybe, it is clearly enough in view so that he can resolve it or evaluate its importance, and the rest of the engram will blow. It'll disappear—become completely unaberrative.

"Postulates are important only because postulates are the root material of decision. That is to say, you have the decision and you make the postulate to resolve the decision. 'To be or not to be' is action or inaction, existence or no existence."

—L. Ron Hubbard

From the lecture Decision delivered on 20 May 1952. This lecture can be found in Research and Discovery Volume 10.

 


Here is the story behind one of the greatest breakthroughs of Scientology.

"So, if you're going to play the game at all, play it as a game and play it well. Realize fully that if you go into action, you'll go into trouble and go ahead and play the game. And don't worry about whether you're crazy or the environment is crazy, be perfectly willing to be crazy. In other words, be perfectly willing to be crazy as far as the environment is concerned. And that way you'll get something done." —L. Ron Hubbard, from The Game of Life lectures

One of the greatest breakthroughs of Scientology is the discovery of what life really is—a game. And by understanding that game, one becomes cause in life.

In May of 1956, L. Ron Hubbard began an ambitious project—to set down in writing a concise yet comprehensive survey of this game called life. His immediate purpose was to provide a textbook on the basics of Scientology which could be translated into non-English tongues. His ultimate goal, as expressed in the introduction to this book, was "the factual creation, within any political reference, of a civilization on Earth for the first time."

His work culminated in the landmark book Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, a manual of the basic principles and discoveries—"the things of Scientology." Written, literally, for everyone, the book was translated into thirteen languages shortly after its first publication. And just as Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health had become Book One of Dianetics six years before, Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought soon became known as the Book One of Scientology.

That summer found Ron researching and writing in London where, prior to leaving for Washington, he lectured to Scientologists attending the Hubbard Professional Course on these same fundamentals—not just what they are, but why they are—their origin, anatomy and underlying principles.

Throughout the month, LRH laid out his discoveries of the true anatomy of life itself—games. These lectures explain games theory, those conditions created and experienced by the thetan in his contest with others and the physical universe. Encompassed in and explained by games theory are a multitude of basic phenomena: what knowledge is; why thetans love games; how a thetan becomes allergic to control; unwanted valences and psychosomatics; how a being acquires computations; and why a being is stuck in a body, a universe or a time track.

Here are principles which describe the laws of life itself: the Auditor's Code, the first 10 Axioms of Scientology, control, the cycle of action, the Tone Scale and Know to Mystery Scale, valences, facsimiles, electronic phenomena of the mind—and most relevant to all, the urgent need to know the tech and use it in life.

With the deeper understanding of the subject and greater ability to apply it obtained from these lectures, any Scientologist will know how to not only stay in the game of life but win, no matter the odds.

Life is a game.

And this series of lectures can be considered the rule book.

Click here for more information on The Game of Life lectures.

 

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The power of decision...
The "magic" of listening to LRH™ lectures
"To be or not to be: that is the question." by L. Ron Hubbard
Here is the
story behind one of the greatest breakthroughs of Scientology.
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Fill out the international Scientology census

We are rapidly expanding around the world and to better service you on your progress up The Bridge®, an international census is being done to update our records. This was included in the most recent edition of International Scientology News (Issue 23). You can do this fast and easy on-line by clicking here.  


Breakthroughs into the realm of exteriorization, postulates and a thetan's ability to predict and cause the future.

Science of Survival

In this series, LRH™ talks directly to you, the thetan, revealing his breakthroughs into the realm of exteriorization, postulates and a thetan's ability to predict and cause the future.

He begins the series with one proviso: "Be surprised at nothing." For what was about to be revealed resembled nothing man had ever known before — the most advanced upper level material regarding postulates and exteriorization ever released.

Delivered in 1953 in Camden, New Jersey, the Second American Advanced Clinical Course lectures directly followed the first ACC (Exteriorization and the Phenomena of Space) where LRH expanded on the research and application of auditing techniques to exteriorize and free the spirit.

Find out the following in this series:

  • At what point is a thetan trapped in this universe?
  • What's the one thing wrong about a postulate?
  • What's the single difference between a person who exteriorizes easily and a person who doesn't?
  • How much abundance does any being have?
  • Why can't a thetan be a piece of energy?
  • What alone will set a thetan free?
  • What is the best way to know the future?
  • What is the basic source of distrust?
  • How can one be taught to control a body while away from it?
  • Why does a thetan believe he is the "only one?"
  • What is the "Frankenstein Effect?"
  • What is probably the only high-level crime there is?
  • How much can one predict the future?
  • Why is a thetan in a body?
  • Who is holding the MEST universe apart?
  • What are the three universes?

Included in this series is 5 binders, 67 lectures, complete with transcripts and glossary. Previously available for $2250.00 retail, right now the price has been lowered to $1340.00—over 40% off!

Order your set online or call us at (800) 722-1733.

 

 


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