James
14th January 2020, 22:00
The Old Testament has the Ten Commandments, ancient Egypt had the 42 Laws of Ma’at, and Scientology has but one principle tenet - SURVIVE.
L. Ron Hubbard says of survival:
No behavior or activity has been found to exist without this principle. It is not new that life is surviving. It is new that life has as its entire dynamic urge only survival.” In fact, survival is the first law of Dianetics, this pervasive principle of existence.
Long before Hubbard wrote Dianetics, he wrote a far lesser-known text referred to as Excalibur. Few individuals have ever read a transcript of Excalibur, but from what’s known, it was the early stew of its successor.
Few passages of this book have leaked, but one of which reads as follows:
If all the wisdom of the world could be compressed into a single line, certainly it would do all these things and more. There is one line, conjured up out of a morass of facts and made available as an integrated unit to explain such things. This line is the philosophy of philosophy, thereby carrying the entire subject back into the simple and humble truth. All life is directed by one command and one command only—survive!
Prior to writing Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer. He still holds the Guinness World Record for most published works by one author. However, Hubbard’s career path took a turn in the late 1930’s. In April of 1938, while undergoing a routine dental procedure, Hubbard had a reaction to the drugs used, triggering a near death experience. From this experience, he penned a work he called Excalibur, which Hubbard cites as the early version of Dianetics. Even as a braggart, Hubbard’s letters at the time to his wife Margaret and his associate Arthur Burks seemed to suggest he came back with something far greater than anything he’d done previously. His language was more direct than ever before, and he had little interest in his old writing.
Near death experiences are widely known to disrupt even the most hardened skeptics’ paradigm of the world, life, and sometimes even death. Hubbard seems to have experienced such a shift, and like many other experiencers of similar events, he returned with something - an idea out of time and place.
Having studied Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard in great detail, I look at his writing of Excalibur as the “timer start” moment of what was to come of his life. The tone of his work changes. He seeks responsibility over casualty. His interests shift more seismically than before, and most importantly, his center of self moves from cheesy space odysseys to complicated analyses of mental processes and outputs.
Again, having studied Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard, I’ve often asked myself the obvious question - “why Ron?” It’s apparent to even the laziest researchers to come to a fair and just conclusion that L. Ron Hubbard has a self-aggrandizing nature. He embellishes past events, fancies his strengths, and advances himself to where there is a stage and an audience.
But this last point answered my question, and triggered yet another - “why is it that the most boisterous among us tend to have the most impressive revelations?”
It’s an honest question, and although it’s not the case that meek individuals cannot have profound, otherworldly experiences, it’s just a noting that the folks who can tell a story often receive a story to tell - and who can tell a better story than the man who’s on course to publish more books than anyone is modern history?
Just as a yogi who envisions good health and longevity often achieves it by virtue of the law of attraction, so do the bold seekers of spiritual knowledge often attain whimsical bits of this unfathomable knowledge from beyond that their peers fail to capture.
L. Ron Hubbard, although a deeply flawed vessel, carried something to the world that was unseen up until that point, and how fitting, that now, just as the mythical sword Excalibur remained lodged in stone, the Excalibur L. Ron Hubbard brought the world in the form of Dianetics and auditing remains lodged behind a firewall of misinformation, conceit, and selective editing.
L. Ron Hubbard says of survival:
No behavior or activity has been found to exist without this principle. It is not new that life is surviving. It is new that life has as its entire dynamic urge only survival.” In fact, survival is the first law of Dianetics, this pervasive principle of existence.
Long before Hubbard wrote Dianetics, he wrote a far lesser-known text referred to as Excalibur. Few individuals have ever read a transcript of Excalibur, but from what’s known, it was the early stew of its successor.
Few passages of this book have leaked, but one of which reads as follows:
If all the wisdom of the world could be compressed into a single line, certainly it would do all these things and more. There is one line, conjured up out of a morass of facts and made available as an integrated unit to explain such things. This line is the philosophy of philosophy, thereby carrying the entire subject back into the simple and humble truth. All life is directed by one command and one command only—survive!
Prior to writing Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer. He still holds the Guinness World Record for most published works by one author. However, Hubbard’s career path took a turn in the late 1930’s. In April of 1938, while undergoing a routine dental procedure, Hubbard had a reaction to the drugs used, triggering a near death experience. From this experience, he penned a work he called Excalibur, which Hubbard cites as the early version of Dianetics. Even as a braggart, Hubbard’s letters at the time to his wife Margaret and his associate Arthur Burks seemed to suggest he came back with something far greater than anything he’d done previously. His language was more direct than ever before, and he had little interest in his old writing.
Near death experiences are widely known to disrupt even the most hardened skeptics’ paradigm of the world, life, and sometimes even death. Hubbard seems to have experienced such a shift, and like many other experiencers of similar events, he returned with something - an idea out of time and place.
Having studied Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard in great detail, I look at his writing of Excalibur as the “timer start” moment of what was to come of his life. The tone of his work changes. He seeks responsibility over casualty. His interests shift more seismically than before, and most importantly, his center of self moves from cheesy space odysseys to complicated analyses of mental processes and outputs.
Again, having studied Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard, I’ve often asked myself the obvious question - “why Ron?” It’s apparent to even the laziest researchers to come to a fair and just conclusion that L. Ron Hubbard has a self-aggrandizing nature. He embellishes past events, fancies his strengths, and advances himself to where there is a stage and an audience.
But this last point answered my question, and triggered yet another - “why is it that the most boisterous among us tend to have the most impressive revelations?”
It’s an honest question, and although it’s not the case that meek individuals cannot have profound, otherworldly experiences, it’s just a noting that the folks who can tell a story often receive a story to tell - and who can tell a better story than the man who’s on course to publish more books than anyone is modern history?
Just as a yogi who envisions good health and longevity often achieves it by virtue of the law of attraction, so do the bold seekers of spiritual knowledge often attain whimsical bits of this unfathomable knowledge from beyond that their peers fail to capture.
L. Ron Hubbard, although a deeply flawed vessel, carried something to the world that was unseen up until that point, and how fitting, that now, just as the mythical sword Excalibur remained lodged in stone, the Excalibur L. Ron Hubbard brought the world in the form of Dianetics and auditing remains lodged behind a firewall of misinformation, conceit, and selective editing.