Preserving the Authenticity of my Religion

I personally have quite a bit of respect for all great religions of the world.  I think that by and large, their founders and original proponents were quite enlightened, and had some fairly star-high goals for man – both in terms of morality and enhancing mankind’s ability to interact with one another, as well as [...]

Why it’s important to be high on the Tone Scale

In having a look through Science of Survival (arguably one of my favourites of all of the Dianetics & Scientology Basics), it hit me again how utterly important it is for one, as an individual, to be high on the tone scale. Now, first off, if you’re reading this and don’t know what the Tone [...]

Single-Valued Logic – The Will of God?

There is another pretty nifty scale and schematic in the Scientology 0-8 book, this one that goes over the Evolution of Logic (it’s on page 152). Mr. Hubbard diagrams the 4 various kinds of logic there are — which are: 1. Single-valued logic 2. Two-valued logic 3. Three-valued logic 4. Infinity-valued logic Single-valued logic is [...]

Dianetic Axiom 142: Self Determinism

I read another one in my Scientology 0-8 book, this one again bearing notation, from the Dianetic Axioms: “Axiom 142:  An organism is as healthy and sane as it is self-determined.” – LRH This one axiom alone basically explains the foundation of the whole technology of dealing with suppressive persons and why one gets ill [...]

Definitions of Dianetics and Scientology

This follows my last post on Scientology, further from the same chapter in Scientology 0-8 (part of the Scientology Basics Books) — something I thought bore repeating from the book. LRH defines the difference between Scientology and Dianetics, and what the subjects actually are and do in the following: “Dianetics is defined as, DIA (Greek) [...]

Is Scientology a Religion? What makes it religious?

Right now, I’m in the midst of reading what are known as The Basics – they’re the basic books of Scientology that comprise the essence of the religion. It’s a bit of a revelation, even for someone like me who’s been in Scientology for 20 years, to read these basic books and find out what [...]