Reviews written by Alael

The research that LRH reported in 8-80 triumphantly confirms that a thetan is the source of energy as well as space and time. This was a step toward his demonstration over the next year that a thetan has much higher abilities that creating MEST. This book introduces two...

Excellent first book, entertaining, and it introduces the most important concepts in a logical sequence.

I had three actions of this type after originating that I was Clear. The first (and best) was a simple rehab of the state. Then the DCSI was released. This session became a sticky situation of the auditor fishing for a certain cognition and me wondering which...

Having previously trained on Standard Dianetics, I can appreciate how NED is streamlined from earlier forms of R3R, how it runs deeper, handles the pc's dianetics case as what the thetan is doing to the body, and gets results faster. I had some NED auditing years after...

These ten lectures relate more to Scientology 8-8008 and the PDC lectures than to 8-80, which was concerned with theta as it controls and creates MEST. Beyond survival, which is contingent on time and having, there is being. The definition of self-determinism has been refined to include creation, conservation,...

The two suburban libraries that I visit each have about six LRH books (2007 editions) on their shelves, next to Buddhism in the religion category. The choice seems random: Fundamentals of Thought, Evolution of a Science, Self Analysis are fine but what do raw public make of Intro to Scientology...

Yes, this is a brilliant lecture series. LRH focuses on teaching one technique in its entirety, introducing the vital importance of decision while discusssing such things as wavelengths and ARC which link to the following lecture series. Technique 80 includes going out on each dynamic; beginning with being...

This was written by L. Ron Hubbard and Richard deMille in 1953, and might be seen as a starting point for LRH's thoughts on organization. One chapter is "Why organizations act psychotic". The need for clear communication lines, separate from command lines and other activities is emphasised. The...

This book amazed many readers who hadn't previously seen hard evidence of wholetrack and space opera. But what grabbed my attention was the similarities of societies billions of years ago and light-years away: similar animals, buildings, vehicles, and beings mostly in human-shaped bodies like on Earth today. It's...

In one of the Philadelphia Doctorate Lectures, L.Ron Hubbard explains that the way to accumulate a lot of MEST wealth is to specialise in stopping things. This follows from the cycle of action, which starts with Being at 40.00 and ends up with Having at 0.0 So stopping...

I did this in the early 70s, we did TRS 0 to 4 and some Upper Level Indoctrination TRs too. Two weeks of evening classes; there were a couple of uni students, some old-time Scientologists getting back on lines, a housewife and a businessman. We had a great...

This is a companion volume to Advanced Procedure and Axioms covering the same 15 acts of processing that would take a case to the highest level available in December 1951, but this time from the inside viewpoint of a preclear. It was LRH's second self-processing book, intended as a cheaply-printed...

This book appeared a month before Handbook for Preclears, and its advanced procedure covers the same ground as that self-processing book but considering a case from the outside, from the viewpoint of an auditor. Here are L. Ron Hubbard's research advances from the time he spent in Wichita during 1951,...

Essential reading for all, and especially if you want to follow LRH's research line from the beginning. The writing is very lucid. I recommend reading the 2007 edition first, as it restores several of LRH's original chapters that had been omitted from all earlier editions. Chapter 14...

I had Life Repair as my first auditing action in Scientology. At that time I had so much attention on unknown past incidents in this lifetime - and much earlier - that I was failing to connect with ... well, just about everything. If you've ever seen 'Edward...

The simplified study courses designed for kids or for students new to Scientology do cover the essentials. But this course is study tech presented by LRH just as he developed it. In the lectures (mostly taken from the SHSBC) he candidly explains his thoughts on study and the...