What are Scientology assists?
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Scientology an assist is an action undertaken to help a person confront
physical difficulties. If a child has fallen and hurt himself, an assist can help
him overcome the trauma. If a person has a toothache or has had a tooth pulled,
an assist can help relieve the pain. When people are ill, assists can ease the
discomfort and speed recovery. Even broken bones respond to assists. These and
many other conditions can be improved by application of procedures classified
under this heading of “Assists.”
An assist, then, can be described as a Scientology process which is
done to alleviate a present time discomfort. A process is an exact
series of directions or sequence of actions taken to accomplish a desired
result. There are many processes contained in the materials of
Scientology, but assists make up a class of processes in themselves.
All Scientology processes address and handle a wide range of conditions
affecting the spirit, the being himself.
The spirit in Scientology is called the thetan, by which is
meant the person himself – not his body or his name, the physical
universe, his mind or anything else – it is that which is aware of being
aware; the identity which is the individual. The term thetan
was coined to eliminate any possible confusion with older, invalid
concepts. It comes from the Greek letter theta which the Greeks
used to represent thought or perhaps spirit, to which an
n is added to make a noun in the modern style used to create words
in engineering.
Probably the greatest discovery of Scientology and its most forceful contribution
to the knowledge of mankind has been the isolation, description and handling of
the human spirit. In Scientology it can be demonstrated that that thing which
is the person, the personality, is separable from the body and the mind at will
and without causing bodily death or mental derangement.

In ages past there has been considerable controversy concerning the
human spirit or soul, and various attempts to control man have been
effective in view of his almost complete ignorance of his own identity. As
you know that you are where you are at this moment, so you would know if
you, a spirit, were detached from your mind and body. Man had not
discovered this before because, lacking the technologies of Scientology,
he had very little reality upon his detachment from his mind and body;
therefore, he conceived himself to be at least in part a mind and a body.
The entire cult of communism was based upon the fact that one lives only
one life, that there is no hereafter and that the individual has no
religious significance. Man at large has been close to this state for at
least the last century. The state is of a very low order, excluding as it
does all self-recognition.
The thetan (spirit) is described in Scientology as having no mass, no
wavelength, no energy and no time or location in space except by
consideration or postulate. (A postulate, simply put, is a decision that
something will happen.)
The spirit, then, is not a thing. It is the creator of
things.
By spiritual means, but means which are as precise as mathematics, a
host of bad conditions of life may be remedied in Scientology. Illness and
malfunction can be divided into two general classes. First, those
resulting from the operation of the spirit directly upon the communication
networks of life or the body and, second, those occasioned by the
disruption of structure through purely physical causes.
The term psychosomatic means the mind making the body ill or
illnesses which have been created physically within the body by
derangement of the mind. Psycho refers to mind and somatic
refers to body.
Unhappiness, inability to heal and psychosomatic illnesses (which
include some 70 percent of the illnesses of man) are best handled by
immediate address of the thetan. Illnesses caused by recognizable bacteria
and injury in accident are best treated by physical means. These fall
distinctly into the field of medicine and are not the province of
Scientology, even though accidents and illness and bacterial infection are
predetermined in almost all cases by spiritual malfunction and unrest. And
conditions in accidents are definitely prolonged by any spiritual
malfunction.
Thus we have the field of medicine addressing the immediate injury,
such surgical matters as birth and acute infection, and such things as
bruises and scrapes resulting from accidents, as well as the
administration of drugs and antibiotics to prevent the demise of the
patient in a crisis. This is the role of medicine.
Where tendency to disease or injury exists, or where disease or injury
is being prolonged, or where unhappiness and worry causes mental or
physical upset, we are dealing in the realm of Scientology. For such
things are best healed, or best prevented, or best remedied by immediate
and direct recourse to the thetan and its action on the body.
The only truly therapeutic agent in this universe is the spirit. In
Scientology this has been demonstrated with more thoroughness and exists
with more certainty than the physical sciences or mathematics. A
Scientologist can help make an individual well and happy simply by
addressing the human spirit.
The assists can be found in The Scientology Handbook. Click
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