He should make up his own mind
about the mental phenomena he is studying. Do they exist? There are two
ways to answer this to his own satisfaction: find them in a preclear or
find them in himself. These are fundamentals, and every auditor should
undertake to discover them himself, thus raising Dianetics above an
authoritarian category. It is not sufficient that a supervisor stand
before him and declare their existence. Each and every auditor must
determine for himself whether or not the statement is true.
(1975, Dianetics Today,
Chapter 2, How to study Dianetics)
If you will just stay with me on this line, up to the first milestone in Scientology, and bring yourself up to a high level of ability
and apply yourself to that, you will be free - free from me and from Scientology too!
(1952,
520303 HCL 1 - Scientology - Milestone One,
New R&D - Volume 9, p. 456)
Now, I’m not asking you to look at this
subject through my eyes. There are two subjects here that I’m going to
be talking to you about, just two; and one is "Scientology, a precise
science of universes and beings therein or beings who make
universes." That’s one subject. And then there’s "Hubbard’s
opinion of this subject." And boy, I’ve got some wild opinions. You
ought to hear them sometime.
But that’s a different thing. That’s a different thing, and you can
tell very easily when I swing over into my opinion. When I start talking
about some field of healing or when I start to talk about this or that,
that’s obviously a big slant and merely is my selection of randomity.
Take it as amusing or evaluate by it or throw it away or anything. It hasn’t
anything really to do with Scientology. But the subject itself is actually
a lot cleaner than a wolf’s tooth. (1952, PDC 1)
Scientology is an education of REASON... Auditing
is a practice of understanding, judgement and application. It is not a
practice of locating and repairing a bunch of leads. It isn't teaching
some soldier the gun parts, it leaves him with the initiative to handle
weapons. A big difference there. (1961,
The E-Meter, Lecture: 6105C19)
I may sit up in the ivory towers of thought and
pound on a somewhat less than ivory typewriter, and dream beautiful
dreams.
But the actuality is that when the dream has been dreamed, it has to fit
somewhere into the framework of humanity before it is any good to anybody.
So therefore, it isn't enough to dream a beautiful dream or write an
enthusiastic sentence. We have to have people to know those things, to add
to them, and with their own skill and sincerity and learning to back them
up, act with them, and bring about with them a reality. That's what is
necessary. (1955, How good you can get, Lecture: 5510C15, LPLS-3)
For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been
engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material
universe, and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many
highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty,
through many strata of life, many person vicissitudes, into the teeth of
vested interests, across the rim of hell and into the very arms of heaven.
Many before me have made their way across these
tumultuous oceans of data, where every drop of water appears to be any
other drop of water, and yet where one must find THE drop. Almost
everything I have studied and observed has been evaluated otherwise
somewhere, at some time, in relation to this or that.
Who is to say whether Man will benefit at all from this knowledge hardly
won? You are the only one who can say. Observation, application,
experience and test, will tell you if the trek has been made and the
answer found. This is the track of knowing how to know. Travel it and see.
(Jun 1953, Journal of Scientology)
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