A Midwest Journal

I write this as a storm passes overhead, an apt metaphor.

Scientology is a storm that tries men (and women)’s souls.

As you probably know by now, I judge my own truths through the oldest philosophy I’ve been able to find – Huna.

And anyone who’s followed Huna will tell you that there is no one school, no one teacher. But they do agree on basic principles and traditions. Just not how they are interpreted. All the Kahuna’s I’ve found (the ones who publish to the Western world) leave that  up to the individual.

My other comparative is Levenson. His followers are similar in that regard. Levenson found a series of truths which eventually restored his own personal Freedom and a real “peace that passed all understanding.”

And it’s that singular peace – which I’ve had my own moments of satori – that lead me to leave Scientology.

I left – even though I had worked internally to correct and improve the organization for decades – because the organization became flawed from top to bottom. It no longer upheld the basic tenets of Hubbard’s teachings to be sacrosanct.

Now I left nearly a decade ago, and have worked to stay on amicable terms with the individuals in it. I have no need to take any further services, but have no quarrel with anyone still within the organization itself.  I still value every single day I invested in that subject, and I spend a long 20-plus years at it. Dedicated.

So I’m no witness to what Rathbun, Rinder, and others are saying about the current “management crimes”.

I also wish no one ill who chooses to follow Scientology within or outside that organization.

For anyone resolutely within it, Scientology does work. For those of us outside it – not so much. For it’s a very narrow set of parameters which have to be kept in order to keep working.

After I departed L. A. and my long career helping others, I set out to see what it was I needed to know in order to verify Scientology itself. I left with a rental truck full of heavy books and tape transcripts and a couple of their emeters. One of the first things I did was to get an Internet access that would give me all the data I needed. I also had to get a job and work in the real world. For all those years on Scientology staff, I had no pension, no benefits, no savings.

That combination of real-world work and Internet access became a crucible where all Hubbard wrote was tested.

Unfortunately, it failed that test.

I found that a) Hubbard was very human. b) the corporate structure was flawed in its basic set up. c) that there exists in humankind a very wide propensity to be scammed, duped, and deluded.

But as well, d) it is possible for anyone and everyone to seek and achieve their own enlightenment.

So I don’t hold that being an “Independent Scientologist” will work. Simply because it is very difficult to maintain those tight parameters so that the practice can be done. It was the corporate structure which maintained those thin, high walls which could not be crossed. And that corporation still tries to do so, today.

Those who leave Scientology-the-corporation are those who went out on the Internet and found out for themselves what the real world consists of. Or at least a very different version than the one they had been told all this time. But in comparing notes with each other, these public Scientologists are finding that they all had the same deep-rooted suspicions. (Leaving staff – a much more tightly-controlled scene – has always been where a person runs into a series of situations which radically departed from basic deeply-held personal beliefs. Both can’t be true. And they give up the one which has the weakest proof.)

Management, for years, has told staff and public a very polished version of their “truth”. And, with these high-level defections recently, the man behind the curtain has been exposed as the humbug he has always been. That man is both Miscavidge and Hubbard.

I will not rain on anyone else’s parade, however. People are free to think as they will. Believe as they will. And people have ego’s which get in their way from time to time. So you won’t find me dissing someone’s personal beliefs. That being said, I don’t expect that I won’t have to defend my own by those who are hyper-critical and ghost-ridden about their own.

What you see I write here is my own continuing resolution of the world around me, and my memories of it.

Because I know for myself how you can get all the self-esteem you want without having to tear someone else down to get it. I know that the peace of mind you have is due to the peace of mind you help others find.

So tolerance and forgiveness play a huge part in my own ideas and beliefs.

I only hope to share these with others who have encountered Scientology to any and all degrees.

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This other datum rings true, at least for me: Scientology creates its own enemies. In its policies is that one line, that the organizations are not subject to external pressures as much as internal ones. If the current management feels haunted, then it might seek to find what actions it has taken to bring that “motivator” on itself… Humility is the heart of Review, it is said.

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Visiting with some friends tonight, and at one point I was told, “It’s easier said than done…” To which I responded with the above.

Because, in using the release technique, you really learn that all the Happiness, Joy, and Peace you could ever want is already “inside” you. Everything you want to “manifest” or “demonstrate” is already contained in that same space.  You only have to “let it out”. Lester Levenson covered this in a Larry Crane tape excerpt I posted here.

All life is just a series of “whats” that you manifest or demonstrate.

Money, particularly in the way my friends are working at it, is just a “what” you are trying to help others demonstrate in their own lives.

You are planting a seed in their garden so they can raise it.

But the “whats” are not really what you are going after. Metaphysically, you aren’t “going after” anything – you are just letting what is already there show up.

Because the only “what” you don’t have in your life is due to your own internal conversation about it. The ideas you think, the limits you’ve agreed to – these are the points which keep those “whats” at bay, invisible, in the world of the “not-quite-there-yet”.

When you attend these seminars, there is a result they are going for: by the end of these, you are pumped up emotionally so that you feel it’s OK to simply let these things you’ve always wanted to start showing up. As you get better and better at letting things out, they start appearing in your life.

These people who are “giving back” are just helping others get to the awareness they already have – that “you can do this”.

Now, to be sure – and this is no criticism – there is some training involved in this. But as you really look this over, training is again just a way to get you to let the native knowledge you already have “out”. Basically, and each of us has this integrally, you are really an omniscient and omnipotent being.

That concept is something we’ve been told not to accept, that it’s a sacrilege, etc. Etc. But look it over from a Huna viewpoint: “We are all connected. There are no limits.” So you already have access to every single bit of knowledge you could ever ask for. This is Haanel in his Master Key System, Napoleon Hill in his “sixth sense”. And Earl Nightingale in his “Strangest Secret” quoted Jesus the Christ, “Seek and you will find, Ask and it will be given, Knock and it will open for you.”

If you are looking for money, riches, property – any sort of stuff – you only have to accept that it’s already here. And it then shows up.

Of course some people get this backward – and they fall in love with the concept of money or the power that it can bring. But if you get this twisted, as scammers do, you will have a hard time either getting it or holding onto it. Simply because you are connecting other ideas with money as limits on your own demonstration of it. And your life gets really miserable – a tangled web because you are deceiving yourself. This is where another Bible quote goes: “The Love of Money is the Root of all Evil.”  Because you are still looking for an outside “what” to make you happy.

You are already capable of being as happy as you could ever want. Because inside, somewhere, you only have to let it out.

Too easy.

But miracles are effortless, too.

It is said, often, that “you become what you think about.” And Nightingale started out his famous gold recording by quoting Albert Schweitzer, “The problem is that people simply don’t think.” And about the time this recording was being made, Lester Levenson was working out that the problem was even deeper – people think too much. But you have to get up to the point that you can simply let all this thinking and all these mental mechanisms go. And even have them stay. The point is that once you get to the point where your own Freedom is more important and more valuable than anything and everything in the World, you can then have anything and everything in the world show up for you.

Now you can always say that some mechanism or other is “why” you now have this abundance in your life. A great stock deal, investing in real estate, selling rights to a bestseller book or product – all these are just excuses.

Simply, you can get to the point where you don’t “have to have” anything. So you then can have everything. Needs, Musts, Should’ve’s – all these are just simple internal limits to your own Self.

Let the Self go. And you find you can have it stay – as well as the rest of this Universe which you created.

Money?  That’s an easy one. It isn’t there because you think it isn’t. Quit all that thinking and just simply be.

And then you can play the game of watching stuff show up all around you.  Health, Wealth, Happiness, Peace of Mind, Relationships – all just small parts of the abundance that already lies “within” you.

Just let it all “out.”

And become the Master you already are.

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