Honoring L. Ron Hubbard

March 21, 2012 By gsdouglas Leave a Comment
It is traditional in the Church of Scientology to celebrate Ron’s birthday by doing all you can to advance yourself spiritually and disseminate Scientology to others, help in the community–all the things LRH was trying to accomplish to help people regain their native abilities, improve conditions in their lives and thrive.

Here is one of my favorite articles, laying out his own viewpoint on what is important in life:

The only tests of a life well lived are: Did he do what he intended? And were people glad he lived?People have often desired me to write an autobiography and while I would be perfectly willing to do so had I the time, I consider such a work, as I do myself, quite unimportant. 

I have led an adventurous life and it would possibly be entertaining to read, but I doubt such a work would shed any background light on my researches and would not clarify my intentions or why I developed Dianetics and Scientology.

My motives have not been fame. I tried to give Dianetics, the entire work, to the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association in 1949 and the AMA only said “Why should you?” and the APA said “If it is important we will hear of it.”

I tried to avoid, until July 1950, saying I had personally done the research but then owned to it when I saw that unowned, it could be lost in its original form.

My motives have not included amassing great wealth. The royalties of the first book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, were given to the first Foundation. So it is not wealth.

Power has not been my motive. I only held office in organizations to insist upon correct usage of the work, and this having been achieved sometime since, I resigned all directorships and retained only an honorary post.

Further, one cannot have more power than he himself already has as a being; so power by reason of position I consider pointless and a waste of time.

My motives are so hard to understand because they largely omit me from the equation. And self-centered men are not likely to understand such a thing since they know they would not forgo fame, wealth or power and so conceive that another would not.


Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.~~L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Scientology religion

 

Grahame is a Scientologist living in sunny Florida with his wife.  He has a strong interest in religion and the commonalities between all religions.  He has been a Scientologists for over 30 years and especially likes to make Scientology accessible and understandable to others.

 

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L. Ron Hubbard: Toward a more Moral, Decent, Happier Life

February 23, 2012 By scientologyb Leave a Comment
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The Way to Happiness is a nonrelgious common sense moral code anyone my use to live a better and happier life.  These public service announcements were inspired by the precepts of this book.

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Raising the Standards of Happiness

November 8, 2011 By rdahlquist Leave a Comment

In listening to a lecture from The First International Congress of Dianeticists and Scientologists, delivered in October 1953 in Philadelphia, I was struck by the following statement by L.  Ron Hubbard.

“A Scientologist would be a social catalyst dedicated to the mission of raising the standards of happiness of Man and bringing him to recognize his brotherhood with the universe.”

I found this very interesting, as it is clear that the kind of work the Church and individual Scientologists are doing through the Volunteer Ministers campaign and various Church humanitarian initiatives in human rights, character education and drug prevention and education are part and parcel of what he was talking about nearly 60 years ago.

As to what those standards of happiness would be, he going on to express that a bit later in the same lecture.

“You get into motion, you get into action.  You can remember times when you were a kid, when life just looked too dogoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone.  So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.  And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone?  You’ll start living it.”

One way the Church is reaching out to accomplish this purpose is through free online courses in basic Scientology tools and through the release of a new DVD called Scientology Handbook—Tools for Life. The films from the DVD are also online at the Scientology website.

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What is happiness?

October 13, 2011 By rdahlquist Leave a Comment

by Nick Broadhurst

Honestly, what is this thing called happiness? It is obviously linked to our survival. In our natural state we might be happy. Happiness seems to preside in the absence of pain. Pain is the warning of loss and too much pain brings about death. The pain signal shows the organism is in the proximity of a destructive force or object and to ignore the pain would bring about death.

It does not matter if it is a burn or a broken arm, the signals are the same. When a lot of pain is accumulated the organism will go unconscious. As pain accumulates death is impending.

Pain is stored in the mind as memories and unless discharged they accumulate. This accumulation of memory of pain brings about unhappiness. With the accumulated memory of pain the mind will bring about psychosomatic illnesses.Arthritis, dermatitis, rheumatism and a thousand others are psychosomatic illnesses brought about my the accumulation of painful memories. The body is capable of restoring itself, but when there is an excessive accumulation of pain in the memory of the organism, the organism will drive itself towards death.

These discoveries were made by L. Ron Hubbard and are now Scientologyconcepts. They make sense, and there is more on this subject in his book,Scientology: A New Slant on Life

Now, back to the theory. Arthritis is apparently the accumulation of memories of earlier injuries, such as an injured knee, when younger, acting on the organism to bring back the pain. If a person was able to ask the person with the psychosomatic illness, all about the earlier times when he had the original injuries, go through them in great detail, and even get the psychosomatic person to re-live those memories with someone who could listen, as a Scientologist would, then the bearer of the psychosomatic illness would improve to a marked degree. With these painful memories discharged, a bodycan begin its healing process. However, this is not about the body, but rather what the mind is doing to the body that we are concerned with.

A person who has lost his or her vitality is being dragged down also these painful memories. He or she can be brought back up the scale to being more alive, and being happier. It is the accumulated memories of pain that push down happiness. It is loss and defeat that brings about mental pain. With these discharged, a person will bounce back again to being happy. This is a law of life. It is just a matter of how much pain has been accumulated in life that determines where a person is on the scale.

One could even say that consciousness itself depends on being rid of these painful memories. It is not hard to do. Ione can get a book on subject and read it for a start.

Good luck.

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