This is an attempt to cover the basic philosophy very briefly. Please also refer to some basic definitions on spirituality.
Hubbard’s research is best comprehensible if one takes the viewpoint that life is basically a game.
A game consists of “freedoms”, “barriers” and “purposes” . (LRH)
A person playing a game is involved in it to a greater or lesser degree. He loses control over the game the more it becomes compulsive for him. He gets involved with interferences from others, agreements and non-agreements, with creation and destruction, he gets entangled in games not of his own, and in the end he winds up rather being a piece or a broken piece than a player.
One of the most important targets of Hubbard was the rehabilitation of the individual as “Player” and the rehabilitation of his “Spirit of Play”.
In 1952 on a lecture series in Philadelphia, Hubbard said that
- there is a caste-system of games:
- There is the “Maker of Games”: He has no rules and he runs by no rules.
- Then there are “Players of Games”: Rules are known and obeyed.
- There are “Assistant Players” who merely obey the players.
- Then there are “Pieces”: They obey the rules dictated by the players. However, they don’t know the rules.
- And then there are “Broken Pieces”: They don’t even know they are in a game and that there is a game at all.
Hubbard continues (quote):
- How to make a piece…
- First, deny there is a game.
- Second, hide the rules from them.
- Third, give them all penalties and no wins.
- Fourth, remove all goals.
- Enforce their playing.
- Inhibit their enjoying.
- Make them look like but forbid their being players - look like God but can’t be God.
- To make a piece continue to be a piece, permit it to associate only with pieces and deny the existence of players. “Never let the pieces find out that there are players.” (Philadelphia, 1952)
Bill Robertson was Hubbard’s deputy. He left the organization in 1982 and promoted the free movement outside.
About the current situation on earth he says:
“Imagine a cell. Six walls. A cell, no door, no window. A being inside that cell. However the cell is 20 feet across and 20 feet high and 20 feet wide. But the being, his diameter is only 19 feet. His awareness is only 19 feet. Does he see the walls? No! Now, if you are suppressive what you do is you give the guy in the middle some drugs and you give him some ‘bumpf’ on the TV and you make him think he is a one lifetimer and his awareness finally goes down to 18 feet. And when it goes down to 18 feet you move the walls in to 19 feet.
Am I tracking with you? Have you ever experienced this? On this planet? And finally when you get him down to about this size (size of a fist) the walls are about this size (stretched out arms) and everyone is nuts and really compartmented and conforming nicely all over the whole planet - one lifetime bodies and they got this whole planet. And if anybody jumps out of the line, anybody non-conforms - well, we got the methods of lobotomy, shock treatment, implanting, Siberia - whatever you want baby, it’s there.
That is the mechanism by which this planet is being controlled right now, and the thing they fear most is people who can only see the walls. But they even fear something else more because the person who can only see the walls is still a piece in the game. And it can be controlled as a piece by cutting his family relation, by cutting his economic security, whatever you have to do, you can try and get his awareness back down to where he can’t see the walls anymore. Right. Yes! Ok.
But the thing they fear the most is a guy that sees the walls and goes right through them. Because right outside the walls is freedom. And there is no fear. But not only that - the guy has now graduated from a piece to a player. And when he is a player he can handle other players who are playing the negative game.” … etc.
In the development of Dianetics and later Scientology, Hubbard found out that there must be a life unit which on the one hand is involved in “life” and a “universe”, but on the other hand is also capable of “creating a universe” . This life unit can be separated from the universe and it is able to exist without any universe.
He named it a “Static” and defined it as something which has no motion, no wavelength, no position in time and space, so to say a pure “Potential”.
In the Scientology Axioms and Factors he develops a whole system, a whole series of statements about the involvement of this Static in a game. His early lectures of the fifties about Scientology as a Philosophy and Science, the Philadelphia Doctorate Course (PDC), the Hubbard College Lectures (HCL), to name only a few, cover life as a game.
By entering a game a person, being or spirit, subjects himself to an “action cycle” of starting, changing and stopping .
By entering an action cycle a person is subjected to so-called conditions in the game which simply show how much he is winning or losing.
The more a person is able to carry through such an action cycle or action cycles in general he is “operating”. He is self-determined then.
The more he is unable to carry out action cycles the more he is “other-determined”.
This “other determinism” can be, for instance, the sickness of his own body which prohibits what he wants to do. It can be difficulties with the job, down to not knowing who he is at all. And it can also be some kind of force which deliberately is keeping him on a level of “piece”.
The “bridge”, as Hubbard calls the technical application of what he found, has the purpose to pick a person up at a certain level and rehabilitate and also increase his abilities and his awareness.
If you want to get an understanding of what it is all about you have to differentiate in:
- The Philosophy,
- it’s technical application (auditing, the bridge, etc.),
- Hubbard’s own opinion,
- and its current management.
Conceptual understanding is of importance here. Not everything Hubbard said is of equal value. He had his own opinion and he, too, has his right to his own opinion.
In a lecture in Philadelphia he said in 1952:
“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.” Now, that’s one subject. And then there’s “Hubbard’s opinion of this subject.” And boy, I got some wild opinions. You oughta 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, it’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 doesn’t have anything really to do with Scientology. But the subject itself is actually a lot cleaner than a wolf’s tooth. I’ve examined a lot of wolve’s teeth and I’ve found out that they’re not too clean. And this subject is very clean though.” (Philadelphia Doctorate Course, 1952)
Also, about religion he said (freely quoted):
A religion is something else than a religious philosophy. Totally different. Religion is the thing which is given to people as a pack about which they shouldn’t think with reason… it is used to control people. Honestly. (HCL 27, 1952)
Interesting, isn’t it?
By differentiating a little bit, one can get the true intention of what Hubbard tried to accomplish with Scientology. He didn’t want to make new slaves or create another instrument of controlling people. He wanted to help mankind… to help man getting out of his spiritual stone age. And his research and discoveries were intended for everyone, not just for an organized religion.
He knew that “Scientology will decline, and become useless to man, on the day when it becomes the master of thinking. Don’t think it won’t do that. It has every capability in it of doing that.”
Quote:
“There is only one thing that could happen to Scientology, and that is to say that it would be buried. The remedy would be buried. If it ever went out of sight, this world’s done. All you’ve got to do is invalidate it and put it out of sight and hide it, and it’ll come up in the wrong place doing the wrong thing, and mankind will find itself a slave”.
…”So anybody that knows the remedy of this subject, anybody that knows these techniques, is himself actually under a certain responsibility - that’s to make sure that he doesn’t remain a sole proprietor. That’s all it takes, just don’t remain a sole proprietor. Don’t ever think that a monopoly of this subject is a safe thing to have. It’s not safe. It’s not safe for man; it’s not safe for this universe”.
“This universe has long been looking for new ways to make slaves. Well, we’ve got some new ways to make slaves here. Let’s see that none are made”.
…”Did you ever read poor old George Orwell’s uh.. 1984? Yes, yes, that’s wonderful. That would be, could be, the palest imagined shadow of what a world would be like under the rule of the secret use of Scientology with no remedy in existence. Well it’s all right in this offhand age to just brush things aside and say, “Well, it’s of no importance, no importance, really, and.. let’s not be dramatic the way people are being about the atom bomb.” Actually the atom bomb isn’t as serious as this subject. It’s just a physical weapon. And, it’s all right to be very offhand, and very cheerful and so on, and - like the little boy whistling in the dark says, “No ghosts or boogymen exist.” - Well, this boogyman does exist”.
“It’s a very simple remedy. And that’s just make sure that the remedy is passed along. That’s all. Don’t hoard it. Don’t hold it. And if you ever do use any black Dianetics, use it on the guy who pulled Scientology out of sight and made it so it wasn’t available. Because he’s the boy who would be electing himself “the new order”. We don’t need any more new orders ….” (Philadelphia Doctorate Course, 1952)
Hubbard knew how this planet is being controlled. And he knew that the “remedy” is only save in the hands of mankind, not in the hands of an organization.