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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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Our latest upcoming release, “Freedom Is — (period.)”

I tend to learn from my “dreams”, even when it’s the one we share in living in this Universe.

And last night was a doozy. But what came from it is that when you release on goals in order to achieve them, you are actually helping everyone around you as well. So the bigger the goal, the more you help humankind in general.

Meaning, that if you really have concern for this planet and the people on it, you’ll work on releasing the biggest goals you can dream of. We are all connected, after all.

These four goals (word them as you like):

• World Peace
• Abundance for every single person
• Ecological balance
• Personal Freedom for every single person

Now, I could tell you more about these (and have, in my various blog posts over the years), but the key point is that you need to deal with individuals to get this to work. Never, ever, the government. Because the government (like money) is a fiction, a contrivance and as you release more and more, it becomes obvious that people only use the concept of government to control, to gain approval, and to provide a false sense of security.

The next point it is that you never “fight” anything. That also doesn’t work. You become the thing you are fighting. In order to dissolve a situation, you will need to simply welcome it and release it. Recognize it for what it is and let it go. It will then cease to have any effect on you. If you do need to do something, you’ll get the intuitional inspiration of what to do. Don’t “think” about it – just put it into motion.

As you start working on these broad goals to release, then you’ll see how they interact, as well as other reasons you need to work on all four. Time permitting, I’ll set these each up with the data I have and help you as possible with your own work.

4 studies to learn from

My own background, as I’ve said, came from Scientology – although I don’t use anything I learned there anymore. It was a great introduction to a wide world of philosophers, religious prophets, and spiritual guides, but it’s a limited study.

When I started butting up against the limits of that subject, I started studying the core texts it was derived from. This lead to my “Go Thunk Yourself!” study, which lead me right into New Thought.

New Thought is a very wide umbrella which has incorporated a lot earlier philosophers, as well as the bulk of the really successful self-help books such as “Think and Grow Rich”, “Science of Getting Rich”, and “Master Key System.”

Somewhere along those studies, I stumbled upon Huna. This is the oldest known surviving philosophy on this planet. And interestingly, owes its rebirth in popularity (at least in the Western world) to Max Freedom Long, who gave it it’s name. (Practically, the subject was so immersed in the culture, that it didn’t have a single name before that point, much like water has several names for its various forms.) Long was a New Thought student, but I found that out later.

The third study is Silva Method, after the work Jose Silva did in his life-long study of the human condition and how to improve it. This is very powerful stuff, more powerful than even its practitioners know. But in the last decade, they’ve seen how it’s more broadly applicable than earlier known.

A fourth study is Lester Levenson’s release technique. Also known as the Sedona Method. And there are other variants around – they all work. Larry Crane and Hale Dwoskin, as well as Stephen Seretan – all these have their own individual approaches, but they all trained directly under Levenson and so got the real scoop on how to help anyone achieve their own Freedom and Peace of Mind.

I use all four of these together as the most effective way to quickly resolve personal situations and problems in my life.

Any of them individually would take you right on out to enlightenment if you really, really studied and applied them. All of them can also be toyed with to simply make your life more comfortable.

My own use, with Haanel, Hill, and Wattles providing the theoretical base – is to use the Alpha centering technique of Silva to get into a high personal state in order to use Levenson’s release technique to simply let things go. Huna provides the glue to hold everything together.

And I would tell you these four things:

1. Know we are all connected (7 principles of Huna).
2. Know how the universe works (New Thought authors as listed.)
3. Use Silva techniques to get into a personal high state of certainty.
4. Release with Levenson’s techniques so that you drop the underlying desires which hold everything in place.

Where to get the data

I’ve worked to republish the key New Thought authors at my Go Thunk Yourself Bookstore (Lulu.com).

For Huna, I have Max Freedom Long’s books there and also tell you to visit http://huna.org , where you’ll see all Serge Kahili King’s work. Tad James’ work is also recommended.

While Silva has undergone many transitions since Jose passed on, I’d still recommend getting a copy of his Ultra-Mind CD’s as you can. These I know give you all the data you need to get going. (I’ll find you a good link for this.)

Levenson’s original stuff is most easily found at Larry Crane’s site. I’ve also found some original Levenson recordings on Hale’s, but it’s much harder to locate there.

Practically, all of the above is also released to the Internet in various forms. So if you can afford to spend the time and bandwidth, you can get this all for “free.”

The key point is to get this data, get your self proofed up and doing well, then tackle the bigger issues we all face as part of humankind.

[An interesting note: you'll see in both of these sets that they line up more or less as "tetrads" - which you can find more about on my "Go Thunk Yourself, Again!" blog.]

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It’s obvious that Masters walk this earth. And they don’t particularly care a hoot about being “discovered” or “exposed”. Because they really don’t give a hoot about anything. They do their job easily, effortlessly, and live their life in comfort. Mostly unknown, they don’t seek the spotlight necessarily – since that is a tradeoff and can get in a person’s way in living life.

The key thing is to let your own Freedom shine out from within. You don’t hide a light under a basket, you let it shine.

The usual disclaimer: My ideas on this are just that – discount them immediately and make them your own or reject them.

Today’s lesson goes down this line.

There are some old phrases from the releasing technique which I’ll repeat here. “Be not the Doer, Be the Witness.” “Let go and Let the Universe.”

You have to get your Self out of the way so you can let the Universe within you shine through. You already have all the answers to any problem or situation right within you. All you have to do is let it out. There is no effort in it. Just let go and let the Universe. Let the Universe what? Anything it damned well pleases.

That’s the point. The You gets in the way. There is a way of intuitional living you can adopt (or not – your choice). What this does is connect you with a fountain-well of constant inspirational and motivational. All answers are there, all solutions are there. It’s the Universe just wanting to peek out behind that “solid” facade called Self.

The idea here is that it’s much easier to go through life by letting the Universe guide you.

OK?

Here’s a set of steps from an old tape series called “The Way”:

1. You want the world more than you want freedom. (You have to want freedom more than you want the world.)

2. Take all your joy from within by releasing.

3. Make the decision to go Free and then do it.

If you do make the decision to go Free, you will do it. If you’re not Free, you haven’t made the decision.

Prime thing is making releasing constant.

4. Go directly to the fear of dying and then release it.

Get rid of the bottom motivator and you’re finished.

5. Get everything from here on by releasing – the most practical of the four.

If you’re efforting, your not releasing. “I am not the doer – and letting it happen.” Let go and let God. All actions are effortless if you are releasing. Action doesn’t stop someone from realization, identification with the doer does.

6. Be not the doer.

You’re not the doer. Things happen. You don’t have to do them. Let go and it happens. Letting go and letting God. Just watch it happen.

Releasing wanting to feed the ego.

7. Make your behavior that which a Master would do.

Whatever you do, do it successfully. The more imperfectly we work, the lower down the scale we are. The action required to go free is releasing all the obstruction.

Those will keep you going for now. Tomorrow is another day. See you then.

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