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Operating as a professional Scientologist  
 

"Now, we Scientologists very often, some of us, make a slight error. We think Scientology is totally auditing. Scientology is not totally auditing. Scientology is a broad address to life itself.

"I just received a letter from an auditor who says, 'I am not working professionally in Scientology now,' and then goes on to say that she's running an accounting business which is succeeding wonderfully because she's using Scientology in it. And she's handling all her help with this and handling all of her customers with this, and she's getting along beautifully, and she's straightened out her home with this. And it's never occurred to her that she is operating as a professional Scientologist and could simply expand that accounting business of hers to organizational accounting, with Scientology, to a level that she hasn't dreamed of yet.

"She has thought of Scientology as simply auditing—just auditing a preclear to better his health. That's what she's thought of Scientology as. Now that's an awfully narrow look—an awfully narrow look. But there are those of us who do just this and do no further than this. And that is all right too, because in order to run a business with Scientology, or to conduct yourself as a professional business Scientologist, you would have to know auditing and be a very, very good auditor. Because it's essentially the action of bringing people into an awareness of themselves, their surroundings and you."

— L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from The Power of Simplicity lectures

 
 

Willingness and the power of choice
An article by L. Ron Hubbard, from The Power of Simplicity lectures

Now, if everybody was a brute and everybody could get through life by using his two fists, we wouldn't have any civilization. If the government depended completely upon its bayonets to enforce its laws, there would be no government. They are dealing with a random factor. That factor is willingness.

All an industry can take from its employees is the willingness of the employee to serve. And when that gets dulled down, it's gone. And no matter how much force you use, you're not going to get any work done.

This is something the great empires of Earth… I don't know, they're buried someplace. I noticed old, ragged bones showing through the soil every now and then which was some great empire of Earth.

And these great empires of Earth, one after the other, have failed to learn this lesson: Man cannot be controlled by force. Man is controlled only by his own willingness.

It's a fantastic lesson. You'll never get anybody who has the power of hiring Lord-knows-how-many legions convinced that he might have skipped the recruitment in the first place if he wanted a decent state. The legion blunts the willingness.

You can force into position and situation, people, to the degree that they are willing to be forced into position and to cooperate. That willingness is so tremendous that it is only measurable by the will to live itself. That is a tremendous willingness. What it takes to blunt it is fantastic; but the only thing that ever blunts it is force. Force—application of force to an individual to overcome the self-determinism and power of choice of his own mind. When force is used to overcome the power of choice of an individual, we may have the individual moving along a certain pattern afterwards, but the movement will become devious, interestingly random and will then cease. And so do nations run down; so do they get old. …

There is a random factor at all times amongst people, and that random factor is the power of choice of the individual. An individual becomes as well as his power of choice is restored to him.

It's quite an interesting thing to just set out with a process which is determined just to do nothing but restore a person's power of choice. Now, to give you a pat process that would do this would be rather silly. But I can give you a class of processes that would not be silly.

Let's just go on the line of decision. Decision itself is not the topmost bracket of power of choice, because the word "decision" implies that something goes before. He has to decide about something. Therefore this is a very low-level process. Two things must exist, or more, to then demand of the individual a decision amongst them, and so this precludes that we have a primary-cause situation here.

But the power to postulate lies through the power to decide. When an individual cannot decide, it's a certainty he cannot postulate; that's fairly certain.

—L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture MECHANICS

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The Power of Simplicity


"Once upon a time there was a little thetan. And he was a happy little thetan and the world was a simple thing. It was all very, very simple. And then one day somebody told him he was simple. And ever since that time he's been trying to prove that he is not."
—L. Ron Hubbard

A thetan in his native state is utterly simple—and powerful.

But colliding with the seemingly endless and intricate complexities of living in the MEST universe, a being can find himself unable to hold a position, unable to perceive, unable to duplicate or act as well as he knows he truly can.

In this series, Ron covers in detail the factors of simplicity and complexity, relating them to such Scientology® fundamentals as creation, confront, communication, the ARC triangle, the Tone Scale, games, duplication, confusion and the stable datum and the basics of education and learning.

The lectures:

  • Opening Lecture
  • Mimicry
  • Complexity
  • More on Mimicry
  • Mechanics
  • Scale of Reality
  • "CRA" Triangle
  • Cut Comm Lines (In and Out)
  • Games Versus No-Games
  • Learning Rates
  • The Mind
  • Education: Point of Agreement
  • Rest Points and Confusion
  • Coordination of Classes of Processes
  • Windup on Stable Datum and Rest Points
  • Radiation
  • Time Track
  • Creation
  • Simplicity
  • Skull Gazing
  • Simplicity Versus Alter-Isness
  • Aberration and the Sixth Dynamic
  • Training Methods
  • Diagnoses: How To
  • Summary Lecture
  • Farewell Lecture

From the first lecture of this series through to the last, Ron explores and clarifies the basic mechanics upon which life in this universe is based. The fundamental data he gives on confront, simplicities and complexities, creation, the time track and much more, equips one with the wisdom necessary to create desirable changes in the conditions of life and to better operate as an OT, no matter one's case level.

Containing 2 binders, 26 lectures, transcripts and glossary.

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