1969

SCIENTOLOGY — Taken from the Latin word SCIO — knowing in the fullest sense of the word, and the Greek word LOGOS — to study.

Definition. It is not easy to give a short definition of any philosophy or body of religious thought without the risk of ridicule or misunderstanding by the prejudiced or the prejudging.
Scientology is an applied religious philosophy of life and a body of knowledge concerning man and his relationship to the Universe and to his fellows. Scientology holds that man is inherently a spiritual and immortal being, and is basically good.

(a)	Better one's ability to communicate.
(b)	Give one the ability to handle problems.
(c)	Enable one to be a social being without committing anti-social acts.
(d)	Enable one to confront past failures in order to get on with being successful.
(e)	Enable one to act as a being rather than react as a body.
(f)	Clear one of unwanted mental mass, free one from the lies of the physical universe and free the individual to be at cause over mental matter, energy, space and time.

Background of Scientology
In 1950 L. Ron Hubbard wrote a book called ‘Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health’. The book contained the result of Hubbard's investigations into the human mind, and the techniques he had evolved. Dianetics was the route from aberrated or normal to a capable human being. At the time ‘Dianetics’ was published, Hubbard had no idea that it would become a best seller and he made various commitments for writing and plans to do an exploration. The book went instantly to the top of the best sellers list and stayed there. The book caused a tremendous furore. Dianetic groups sprang up all over the world, and many people used the techniques on their friends with startling good results. There was no organization and no standard of technical application. Many of the so-called wild claims concerning Dianetics at that time were never made by Hubbard, for example the phrase ‘any two people can read the book and do this’. This was actually said by a doctor in the introduction to the book.
The statement which compares the discovery of Dianetics in the 20th Century to the discovery of the wheel in prehistoric times could rightly be attributed to Walter Winchell the American columnist. It is interesting to note that such things as pre-natal experience and the possibility of a variable I.Q. which were scoffed at in 1950 have since become partially or completely accepted.
The theory of Dianetics was a workable but limited theory. The basic discovery of Dianetics was the exact anatomy of the human mind and the aberrative power of mental image pictures of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness and real or imagined threat to survival. These Hubbard called Engrams. The procedures were developed for erasing engrams and out of those procedures Hubbard made the discovery that addressing the mind alone was a limited procedure, as there was more to an individual than a mind and a body. Thus came Scientology, which addressed that by which the mind is animated. Scientology deals with the Being. In Scientology it is called the Thetan. It is the person himself, not his body or his name or his mind, it is that which is aware of being aware. That which IS the individual. Hubbard developed the technology for the recovery of the Being as a spiritual Being and that does not mean the body.
The evidence contained in the given submissions by millions of people from all walks of life clearly indicates that Scientology has a contribution to make. Anyone has the right to criticize it or to call it absurd. Its phenomenal growth over the past few years indicates its workability, and it is purely because of the workability of Scientology that it is attacked, so viciously and so hard. Scientology is not in competition with any other religious body. Its creeds and codes have been made very public.

Code of REFORM
On August 1st 1968 Scientology organizations in the UK began mailing a Code of Reform Questionnaire. One million questionnaires were sent out containing 4 questions as follows:
(1)  What reforms if any would you like effected in what you may have heard of or know of Scientology Organizations or policies?
(2)  What changes in conduct or what conduct would you suggest to Scientologists?
(3)  What services would you like Scientology to perform in the community?
(4)  How could Scientology better fit in with the aims and purposes of your area of interest?
The response by the general public was intelligent and constructive. Some reforms have been implemented already.

Policy Changes by Scientology Organizations
1968
Cancellation of disconnection as a relief to those suffering from familial suppression.
Cancellation of security checking as a form of confession.
Cancellation of condition known as fair game.
Prohibition of any confessional materials being written down or otherwise recorded.

PARLIAMENTARY ACCUSATIONS AGAINST SCIENTOLOGY
(1) That they practise medicine or psychology without qualification. 7th Feb. 1966 Scientology reply. The physically sick are sent to the doctor or healing practitioner of their choice. The mentally ill are advised to rest and avoid violent treatment. Scientologists are not permitted to accept these and other individuals for training.
(2) 6th March 1967. That Scientology divides families and caused the mental collapse of Karen Henslow. The facts of the Henslow case were provided by Mrs Henslow. No one consulted with the Scientologists for their story, which follows:
In December 1965 Karen Henslow, 29 years old, met Murray Youdell, a Scientology student at a dance. They formed an attachment, and Karen, who had not had a job for three years, due to her previous mental illness and treatment (in excess of 8 years), managed to obtain and hold a job as a helper in a cafe. In January 1966 Murray, who now wanted to marry Karen, brought her to St. Hill to try and obtain a job for her. She was interviewed, treated kindly, but refused due to her mental background. In April she applied again and was again refused. Meanwhile, in contradiction of policy Youdell gave Karen Scientology processing and she re-applied for work. The Staff Interview Officer was new on post, and did not check her background and she was employed on a casual basis as a messenger from 31st May 1966 to 23rd June 1966, when the bungle was discovered and her employment was terminated. During this time she was given training, but this also was discontinued as soon as the discovery was made. Youdell admitted his foolishness in ever breaking policy. It is interesting to note that Karen insisted that Youdell had helped her even after she was re-admitted to Greylingwell.
As late as 2nd September Mrs Henslow was writing thank-you letters to Youdell, and not without cause: the girl had held a job and found someone who was in love with her and wanted to marry her.
Karen claims that she was given ECT without her consent while in Greylingwell.
There are inconsistencies in this case (in view of the publicity given). Karen was committed to a mental institution about 8 years before hearing of Scientology.
There is a peculiarity concerning Mrs Henslow's behaviour during this affair. It may be that she sold the story to the Daily Mail after some delay, who dropped her when they found Mrs Henslow had been an active Communist for years and stood for the Horsham Council as Communist candidate.
(3) 25th July 1968. Charge 1. Alienates members of families from each other. 2. Attributes squalid motives to all that oppose it. 3. Is potentially harmful to its adherents. 4. It is socially harmful. 5. Its authoritarian principles and practice are a potential menace. 6. Its methods can be a serious danger to health. 7. There is evidence that children are being indoctrinated.
Items 2 and 7 can be considered true if taken in context. A Scientologist would state ‘a person who actively seeks to destroy Scientology has squalid motives. Of course, anyone may criticize. In the one million Code of Reform Questionnaires recently mailed criticism was specifically requested. The result was much more constructive than those obtained from our political masters.
‘Of course Scientologists educate their children in their religious philosophy. There are children's courses attended by children with parents’ signed consent’.
Here is an example of the effect of Scientology on a 7-year-old.

This child was badly affected by his connection with Scientology. He was refused entry to his prep school on the grounds of his parents’ connection with Scientology and in the light of the Minister's statement.

Points of Accusations made against Scientology and Scientologists in Parliament by the Minister of Health — March 6th 1967 and July 25th 1968.
Scientology is a religion.
The Document of Registration of Scientology is dated 19th May 1954. It says: ‘To establish a religious fellowship and association for the research into the spirit and human soul, and the use and dissemination of its findings.’ The Ceremonies of the Church of Scientology were first published in 1959. Scientology accomplishes the age long goal of religion: the freeing of the spirit, releasing for the individual his full potentialities. In 1954 L. R. Hubbard made the following assertion concerning the existence of a Supreme Being. Hardly the statement of a Godless man ...
‘.... One might postulate two more realities. The first is that of the Supreme Being. No culture in the history of the world, save the thoroughly depraved and expiring ones, has failed to affirm the existence of a Supreme Being. It is an empirical observation that men without a strong and lasting faith in a Supreme Being are less capable, less ethical, and less valuable to themselves and society. A government wishing to deprave its people to the point where they will accept the most perfidious and rotten acts abolishes first the concept of God; and in the wake of that destroys the family, with free love; the intellectual, with police-enforced idiocies; and so reduces a whole population to an estate somewhat below that of dogs. A man without an abiding faith is, by observation alone, more of a thing than a man. Modern science, producing weapons for the annihilation of men, women and children in wholesale lots, has solidly run itself aground on the reef of Godlessness. Modern science has gone so far as to advocate the rise of man from mud and clay alone; has denied to him even a semblance of a soul; and so has not only solved none of the problems of the humanities, but has aided and abetted Godless totalitarian governments which seek nothing less than the engulfment and enslavement of all men and the extinguishment of every spark of decency in the breast of every human being. These two tracks which have led away from the affirmation of the existence of a Supreme Being — modern science and totalitarianism — are bringing Man in a machine-like state of being where the ideal has become a lump of muscle, greasy with sweat, or a grimy mechanic serving a howling monster of steel. The arts, the humanities, and the decencies are fallen away from, until they are like tiny stars shining across a great, black void. The abandonment of the admission of a Supreme Being as a reality, intimate to the life of man, makes prostitution the ideal conduct of a woman; perfidy and betrayal the highest ethic level attainable by a man; and obliteration by treachery, bomb, and gun the highest goal attainable by a culture. Thus, there is no great argument about the reality of a Supreme Being, since one sees, in the failure to countenance that reality, a slimy and loathsome trail, downward into the most vicious depths.’

(2) The Anderson Enquiry in Melbourne
The authority which Kenneth Robinson has quoted for action against Scientology is the Melbourne Enquiry, 1963-64. Mr Robinson has lent his authority and the authority of the Ministry of Health to the Melbourne Enquiry. He has chosen to ignore the findings of the Royal Commission on Tribunals of Enquiry under the Chairmanship of the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Salmon, which reported to Parliament, November 1966.
The Royal Commission was appointed to review the working of the Tribunals of Enquiry (Evidence) Act 1921. This is what it had to say:
(1) On Royal Commissions — ‘In modern times Royal Commissions have not been used to carry out enquiries into the facts of a particular case. We consider that it does not afford any practicable alternative to the procedure under the Act of 1921.’ Yet, Kevin Anderson was such a Commission, or its equivalent in Victoria.
(2) An enquiry of the type carried out by Lord Denning into the Profumo case. This was a one-man tribunal. ‘We recommend that no Government in the future should ever in any circumstances set up a tribunal of the type adopted in the Profumo case ...’ Kevin Anderson was a one-man tribunal.
(3) ‘The question arises, how is it possible to ensure that allegations against witnesses and the substance of any evidence against them will be made known to them so as to give them an adequate opportunity of preparing their case. We believe that the answer to this question lies mainly in less haste.’
On Monday 9th September ’64, Counsel for the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International was constrained to make this statement to the Board: ‘I feel gravely concerned about the attempt being made to pressurize my clients and to pressurize me to finalize this enquiry quick smart, leaving me only four weeks, or a short period to produce a great deal of evidence which cannot be properly produced under a very great period of time ... I am concerned that attempts should be made to put political expediency in front of justice.’
(4) ‘(A witness) should be supplied with a document setting out the allegations against him and the substance of the evidence in support of those allegations.’
In the Anderson Enquiry, no such courtesy was possible, because there were no allegations against individual witnesses. It was their religion that was on trial.
(5) ‘There may be cases in which the tribunal will consider that there is a real danger of witnesses being intimidated or influenced, or of a witness making improper use of the information supplied to him.’
On page 4727 of the Enquiry transcript, the following exchange takes place.
Anderson (witness): ‘There was Doug Moon's comment round at the Playboy one evening when I said that I would be willing to appear as a witness for Scientology.’ Just (counsel): ‘What was that comment?’
Anderson: ‘It was something like, “Oh God, we'll have to dig up some dirt about you”.’
A witness at the Enquiry later testified in a sworn affidavit: ‘On the subject of intimidation, I can honestly say there were several cases ...’
(6) ‘It is a great hardship that a witness should be left to face what in a long enquiry is sometimes a crippling bill of costs.’
The Anderson Enquiry was possibly the longest enquiry that has ever been held. The costs of the HASI were borne entirely by themselves.
On 25th September ’64, Solicitors for L. Ron Hubbard wrote to the Attorney-General of Victoria: ‘Our client . . . desires to come to Melbourne to be heard and cross-examined. He lives in England. He feels that since the Government has ordered this Enquiry that his expenses should be paid’.
And this was the reply (8th Oct. ’64): ‘must inform you that it is not the policy of the Govt. to meet the costs of witnesses who wish to attend and give evidence on their own behalf before Royal Commissions or Boards of Enquiry, and consequently if Mr Hubbard decided to travel to Melbourne, he must do so at his own expense.’
On the 9th Oct. ’64, Counsel for Scientology stated to the Board: ‘... the very nature of this Enquiry would make it desirable that Mr Hubbard should be represented and that the demands of natural justice require that he should not be — and that no person should be — put in the position of being bankrupted by this Enquiry.’
To which Kevin Anderson replied that he would only make further representations to the Chief Secretary if Mr Just (Counsel to the Board) were to press him to do so, and that he would feel it his duty to recommend that L. Ron Hubbard's expenses should not be paid.
(7) ‘The power to set up a tribunal under the Act of 1921 can be exercised only on a resolution of both Houses of Parliament that it is expedient that a tribunal be established for enquiry into a “definite matter” described in the resolution as of urgent public importance. We consider that this power to set up a tribunal should not be extended.’
The Board of Enquiry into Scientology was appointed by Order in Council. Far from specifying a “definite matter”, the Enquiry was merely to enquire into, report on and make recommendations concerning Scientology as known, carried on, applied and practised in Victoria...’
(8) ‘In our view, the Act (of 1921) should be amended so that the Chairman of any tribunal set up under the Act shall be a person holding high judicial office.’ Kevin Anderson held no judicial office. He was a Q.C. He has never become a Judge.
(9) ‘In view of the inquisitional nature of the proceedings of the tribunal, the terms of reference require careful consideration and should be drawn as precisely as possible.’
The terms of reference of the Anderson Enquiry were so wide that they are stated in the very terms themselves to be a ‘generality’.
There were certain matters which did not even engage the attention of the Royal Commission, for example, the possibility that a tribunal might give its finding before the Enquiry was over. Yet Kevin Anderson stated his findings 60 days before the Enquiry ended.
The irregularity of the Anderson Enquiry has been proved. The Anderson Report is at odds with the transcript of the Enquiry. The legality of the entire proceedings is in question.

In view of the publicity given to the Anderson Report, Dr T. McMullen's remarks are of interest.

Report of a Lecture at Sydney University on 23rd October 1968 by Dr T. McMullen Lecturer, Department of Psychology.
Title of the Lecture: ‘THE EVILS OF SCIENTOLOGY?’
Dr T. McMullen gave a brief outline of the theories of Dianetics and Scientology as per the Anderson Report in order to ‘give the flavour of Scientology beliefs’. He said the main purpose of the lecture was to point out some of the shortcomings of this report, and after considerable research he had established the following:
(1)  Scientologists are accused of being swindlers. This is not so. They are sincere and dedicated people, and for the sake of their beliefs often even executives receive below the basic wage and have to take outside part-time jobs to achieve bare minimum survival. Hubbard is a sincere and dedicated man.
(2)  The accusations that Scientologists are using blackmail is quite false, since throughout the whole Victorian Enquiry there had been no evidence of this.
(3)  The lack of objectivity in the report gives the very definite impression that Anderson condemned Scientology from the start of the Enquiry.
(4)  Why attack Scientology if Hubbard is mad? If he is, he will not need much rope to hang himself.
(5)  Anderson's introduction to the report asks you to accept his opinion before reading the facts.
(6)  All through the report there is great evidence of Anderson's personal bigotry.
(7)  It is evident that Anderson personally considers discussion of sex matters to be wrong. His abnormal repulsion at the mention of sexual theories and aspects of Scientology, and his comments are quite irrelevant and demonstrate his very narrowest kind of Victorian morality.
(8)  The question of Scientology techniques causing mental illness was discussed at a purely anecdotal level, and no attempt was made to set up any proper scientific investigation or questioning. McMullen mentioned here the two stories given at the Enquiry as evidence of this, and pointed out that there was no real evidence that Scientology had caused the mental upsets, only the carefully led opinions of psychiatric, medical and psychological ‘experts’. He then said that ‘of course we all know that a psychiatrist would be incapable of constructing a proper scientific framework for questioning any theory’. No proper framework for scientific questioning was allowed at the Enquiry.
(9)  Anderson made a gross error in reporting Scientology theories out of context. The Scientologists claim that the theories are true and claim workability as a criterion for their truth. Anderson does not realise that most advanced orthodox sciences put forward theories of relative truth within a given framework. He erred in singling out the more ridiculous of Scientology theories and questioning them without reference to the framework within which the Scientologists claim them to be true.
McMullen, on summing up, said that on the whole he thought it was a bad report. He then took up the main reasons for banning Scientology and invalidated them as follows:
(a)To get rid of a belief one must ignore it. Banning achieves the opposite effect.
(b)If Scientology exploits people, then so does most commerce, finance, advertising, press media and nearly all religions or humanitarian organizations in some way — generally under a veil of respectability and authority. Therefore if Scientology was banned for exploiting people then these would have to be banned also.
(c)Scientology is absurd in McMullen's opinion, but if examined scientifically so is every religion. If absurdity is a condition for banning, then any religion could be banned. As an example he cited the Christian theory of God and the birth, death and ascension of Christ in scientific terms and made it appear very ridiculous.
(d)Scientology is accused of healing people and therefore claimed to be dangerous. He then quoted a considerable list of unorthodox or officially unrecognised healing theories and beliefs, and pointed out that as almost anything which sets itself up as a therapy will heal a certain percentage of people, then if Scientology was banned for healing all these others would have to go too, at great loss to medical progress and general health.
(e)Assuming that Scientology does or can cause mental upset, so also can psychoanalysis, psychiatry, clinical psychology and all religions etc. If Scientology is banned on this point, then all the others will have to be banned too, and we will finish up with no mental health programme.
(f)Scientology may be irrational, but man is irrational and one cannot produce rationality by legislation.

BACKGROUND OF OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION
Prior to the statement by the then Minister of Health, Kenneth Robinson, in the House of Commons on July 25th, in fact from as early as March 1968, Scotland Yard were conducting investigations into Scientology organizations in the UK. The enquiries continued until the time of writing, but no evidence of any activity of any kind has been found of any activity by any Scientologist in connection with Scientology organization which is outside any law of the land.
Since as early as March 1968 the telex, telephones and mail of Scientology organizations have been under surveillance by Home Office warrant. The personal mail and telephones of the residences of various British Scientologists have also been under surveillance. It would not be improper for the Home Secretary to give some explanation of this action, and if this intensive, highly professional and expensive investigation has yielded any evidence usually looked for in such cases. It would be proper for the Home Secretary to explain the basis for this action or to indicate what suspicion of treason, or subversion or conspiracy against the Crown. Alternatively, if there is any suspicion of murder, drug running, rape or blackmail which has been uncovered, this should be presented. No information of this kind was available from the oft-quoted Anderson Report, Melbourne, Victoria.
If no evidence has been found it would not be improper for the surveillance to be ended.

HUBBARD — Lafayette Ronald
Hubbard has been the target of Political and Press attack at various times all over the world, consistently for 18 years. The effort would seem to be an attempt to discredit the man's work by smearing his reputation. The effect of this has been to set a standard or style for Press treatment of Hubbard and his work. It is a fact that Scientology has grown enormously over the 18 years, and Hubbard by factual record a man of action who served his country in time of war, and by any standard his war record is a good one. It is rarely referred to in the Press and when mentioned it is often belittled.
Hubbard's education both formal and informal was extensive. His contribution in relating Eastern religious philosophy to modern Western physical sciences will be judged in the last analysis by the product of his work.
Hubbard is a researcher in an old cultural tradition. He has done his research without outside finance and has taken responsibility for his technology.
No amount of newspaper exposes have ever exposed one crime of any sort by the man.
The fact that his right of entry into the UK and Rhodesia has been withdrawn has never been explained or justified by the authorities concerned. The most popular effort to discredit Hubbard are the ‘Visits to Heaven and Venus,’ much loved by the tabloid press.
Hubbard has researched the genetic and experiential track of man as an immortal being. He recorded what he found. It would be easy to make a tabloid press article out of Aldous Huxley's ‘Doors of Perception’ or Paul Williams’ ‘Belief in a future life’ or Sir David Brewster's ‘More worlds than One’ or Sir Edward Tylor, or Edison or Sir Thomas Lodge, Gustav Stronberg or Raynor C. Johnson's ‘Imprisoned Splendour’ or William James's ‘On Human Immortality’.
Hubbard has refused to compromise or tone down what he has found and he has recorded what he found. Others have inspected and found his technology to be workable and useful.
The accusation is that Hubbard's work cuts right across current psychiatric practice. This charge is true to the degree that some sections of that profession seem to believe they are the sole saviours of mankind; and to the degree Hubbard deplores brutal ill treatment and assault and slaughter which is carried out by the few in the name of research. Also Hubbard has sought a reform to outlaw the practice of outdated methods of treatment like lobotomy, which result in lessened ability and eventual death. (See Dr McDonald Tow's Oxford Medical Publication ‘Personality changes following Prefrontal Leucotomy’.)

DATA SHEET ON LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD
Born 13th March 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, USA.
Parents: Fedora May Waterbury, Harry Ross Hubbard, both US Citizens.
Father: a US Naval Officer.
Grandfather on mother's side: wealthy Western cattleman.
L. R. Hubbard inherited his fortune and family interests in America, Southern Africa, etc. Hubbard was a man of considerable means completely independent of Scientology.

EDUCATION
L. R. Hubbard attended Swaveley Prep. School, Manassas, Virginia, and Woodward Prep. School, Washington DC, USA and Columbia College, George Washington University, Washington DC in 1932.
Attended Princeton University post-graduate.

CAREER
Led Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition 1933.
Led West Indies Minerals Survey Expedition in 1934.
Wrote for various US magazines.
Worked in Hollywood under motion picture contracts Columbia Pictures 1935.
Many ‘screen credits’ on major stars and pictures.
Led Alaskan Radio Experimental Expedition for US Government in 1940.
Commissioned US Naval Reserve early 1941.
Served in South Pacific.
Served as a captain of corvettes 1941.
Commodore of corvette squadrons 1943.
Amphibious forces 1944-45.
Office of Provost Marshall Korea 1945.
Served in all five theatres of World War II.
21 medals and palms.
Commission in navy — resigned in 1950 after four years on inactive list.
No longer in Navy or on call. No draft liability as drawing full disability compensation.
Hollywood director and writer 1946 on.
Wrote several ‘best selling’ books on applied philosophy 1950. Organized the Hubbard Foundation to handle public interests. Became director and trustee of several international humanitarian organizations.

Additional Information
Scientology was banned in Victoria, Australia in 1965. In 1968 at least two Scientology churches are openly operating in Victoria. There have been two police raids but at the time of writing no arrests or prosecution in Victoria. Scientologists are reported to be disappointed that there has been no prosecution.

West Australia
Banned Scientology in October 1968. The Scientologists stayed put and issued the following statement:
‘Australia is now a Police State. The men who railroaded this Bill through had best make peace with themselves and their Maker for they have legislated against the freedom of man to think freely. They seek to make victims or martyrs of law-abiding citizens, but they misjudge us. If we do not stand firm who will be next? McKinnon, Hutchinson, Brand and Court will have to build Concentration Camps and Gas Ovens and import Storm Troopers to further their sick actions. We know the men behind these actions. We know their motives. This is only the beginning for our Church. We shall not budge, we will continue in our religion, we will continue to tell the truth of the spiritual nature of Man and we will never ever give in. Truth endures, Tyrants do not. We will endure. Scientology endures. Let them prove they have any right to take this action — they cannot.’
The Labour Deputy Leader of the Opposition called the Act un-Australian and undemocratic in every respect. He offered to be the first to be prosecuted under the Act. So far no prosecution has taken place.
In New South Wales Parliament in November 1968 the following official statement was made: ‘There is no evidence that Scientology causes harmful effects’.

Recommendations
The evidence, if any, held by the Ministries concerned should be produced.
Any evidence of deleterious effects and social harm of any kind should be then compared very carefully with the results of a searching enquiry into mental practices in this country.


SUBMISSION IN RESPECT OF SCIENTOLOGY by a cross section of highly qualified individuals.
In reply to your request for news about successes which I have had from auditing and from applying Scientology data to life and dentistry, I shall have to make it a summary.
I was introduced to Scientology in 1964 by a friend who invited me to an introductory lecture in London. Up to that time I had spent my time, since graduating from University in 1951, as a general practitioner near London.
At that time I had achieved all I had hoped for when a young graduate — a successful practice, hospital appointment, luxury home, car, etc. etc. — but was far from content. I was burning with unanswered questions about life and restlessly moved from one activity to another — philosophy, golf, religions and various plans to make big changes.
After that first lecture, I remember that I was full of interest, bought six books and from that point haven't looked back. Pieces of the jig-saw puzzle have been fitting together ever since.
A point of interest in view of recent criticisms of Scientology is that in 1953 I studied hypnotism in London and used it for a short time to help the extra nervous patients, being one of the first dental surgeons in England to do so.
I mention this as I have read questions by several psychiatrists in newspapers accusing Scientology of using hypnotic methods. The accusations are false.
Also the Anderson Enquiry of 1964 accused Scientology of using hypnosis, and the enquiry was recently used by the British Minister of Health to justify an attack on Scientology. I find it difficult to understand how a Minister of the British Government could use the findings of a lone solicitor, who in fact investigated a religion of which he had no experience and accused it of being harmful and of using hypnosis of which again he has had no experience.
In fact, Scientology forbids the use of hypnosis specifically. Having completed most of the training and auditing levels in Scientology, I can see that a biased person with a superficial approach could confuse some drills used in Scientology with hypnotism, but in fact Scientology auditing is the complete opposite to hypnosis.
Scientology's purpose for each individual is that he achieves for himself by his own efforts more and more awareness, understanding and ability. This is achieved with the use of communication only.
To me the greatest enemy to the future progress of man is ignorance. Misplaced trust and ignorance have led the world on a violent course of mayhem, war and misery for too long, and it is clear to me now that Scientology points the way out of this trap.
The progress and gains which I have made over the past four years are considerable. One which I have enjoyed, particularly recently, is the fact that I am looking much younger. On four occasions during the past month, friends, who haven't seen me for a year, were in difficulties recognising me at first. One was within six feet of me for five minutes after greeting me and had to hear me talking more before recognising me. He was not helped by the fact that I have not needed to wear glasses for the past 6 months. I had worn them continually for 20 years, starting when I was a University student.
Another gain is that my ability to communicate freely and honestly has improved beyond recognition. I used to go through agony before talking to a group, but am free of this now.
Problems are no longer just off, but just handled so easily now, and my ability to do the right thing at the right time is continually improving. People are so easy to get along with now. My awareness of the needs of others, perception of what they are feeling, and abilities to assess situations correctly and predict developments accurately are improving all the time.
Scientology training is invaluable. It contains such a gold mine of data covering the basic laws of life and living.
As a result I can now act decisively and successfully in situations which I used to run away from or ignore, and now know if, when and how to help others instead of feeling helpless and resorting to being sympathetic and often making matters worse.
It used to bother me when regular patients came in for an examination, after a year's absence, with an unhappy story of a nervous breakdown, a slow recovery, drugs which often didn't help, and a terrible fear of getting worse. It seemed to happen to the most gentle people more, and it is now a very pleasant reality that auditing frees one of such fears, in fact of all fears.
Scientology is basically so simple and effortless. As a religion it is concerned only with truth free of dogma and ritual, and that each individual has a certain path to follow which allows him to find truth for himself in his own time.
Several great philosophers have said ‘Man, know thyself!’ In Scientology today this is happening with certainty — an ever expanding awareness of self as spirit (as if awakening from a long sleep), the regaining of lost abilities such as telepathy, true companions, an inner peace which is impregnable and the cradle of love, and the fun of winning in life. For all this I thank L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. To anyone now who expresses doubt about the integrity of Scientology or its founder, I simply recommend the reading of the Code of Honour, the Codes of the Scientologist and the Auditor and the Creed of the Church of Scientology. As to its validity, all I can say is that the technology of Scientology is precise and scientific and works 100 % for everyone.
C. B. C., B.DSc

My name is D. B. M. F. I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. I have been a successful practising accountant for some years.
I have been a Scientologist since July of 1955, when my principal, to whom I was an articled clerk, was instrumental in introducing me to the subject.
Scientology is an applied religious philosophy designed to make man more aware of himself as a spiritual being and thereby enhancing his intelligence and abilities.
In my long and happy career as a Scientologist, I have found its basic theories and axioms to be realistic and true and very applicable toward the living and bettering of one's life.
My own life has been immeasurably improved by Scientology as have those of countless friends.
Scientology is a science of life and its basic principles or laws are those of life itself. As such its basic axioms are a body of truths and from these has evolved a workable technology which can be applied towards the benefit of any man.
A practising Scientologist, using this very standard technology of Scientology, can uniformly improve the health, intelligence and well-being of any person.
Over the years since 1950, Scientology, as an applied religious philosophy, has been outstandingly successful and hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world can attest to the success and well-being that it has brought to their lives.
With the personal benefits that accrue to an individual comes a far greater love and understanding for one's fellow man and for his well-being.
Thus, Scientology is truly the science which brings man closer to his fellow man and thereby closer to God.
The all-conclusive test used on all my levels of release and on all my training was, “Does it work?” Yes, Scientology works. It is the only applied philosophy I know of that works. Scientology works, because it was developed through the application of the methodology of the exact sciences to the humanities.
Alexander Soroka (Sculptor) Assistant Professor, Head of Sculpture Area, Wayne State University, USA.
I am a Bachelor of Arts, Honour School of Jurisprudence, Oxford, and a member of the Middle Temple, London. I have studied Scientology for several years, and I know it to be an applied religious philosophy intended to make man more aware of himself as a spiritual being. I have seen it to be outstandingly successful. I have observed it help many, many people from all walks of life to accomplish their own goals and to lead a fuller life in the estimation of themselves and their families and friends. It is my religion.
Charles Brett Boyd Parselle

I am in a special and unique position with regard to this Petition, since I am well qualified both as a Scientologist and a Medical Practitioner.
I am a trained Auditor and have been auditing people for nearly 2 years and have been in Scientology since 1961. I have myself been audited.
I qualified as a Doctor in 1951, and have been in practice as a general practitioner since that time.
There is therefore no one better qualified than I am in New Zealand, to make submissions to you with regard to those facts of this Petition which have to do with the field of Medicine.
Scientology is the Science of Knowing how to Know, and through its application a person finds out the truth about himself. It has nothing to do with medicine, which is the science and art of healing bodies. I practise both, so I know.
Scientology is a practical religious philosophy — its skills are there to be used so that man may become free. The skills of medicine are used to repair bodies, and to supplement the body's own defence against disease.
Scientology is not used to cure illness or disease. There is a firm rule in the Scientology Organization which lays down that if an applicant for processing is found to be ill he must be advised to visit his Doctor. This rule is followed.
I tell you these things because they are true, and you need to know them.
Uninformed people, or people informed only by the Press, have many misunderstandings about Scientology, and I am glad of this opportunity to correct this one. It is in no sense a medical Science. It is a practical religious philosophy.
The second misunderstanding I wish to correct concerns the charge in this Petition that Scientology techniques are ‘socially harmful’. They are not. I have never seen anyone damaged by them in any way. They lead a person out of danger toward freedom.
Were these techniques dangerous, I, who have had a normal amount of auditing over the years, would be in a sorry state today. I am not. Compared to my life in 1961, I am now happier, more confident, more able, better at my work, less easily upset, better able to communicate to people and to understand them; have rid myself of habits I disliked and have a real and wonderful marriage and family which was previously drifting into ruin.
Scientology is not dangerous. It helps.
The third subject; I am in a unique position to tell you about hypnotism. Speaking as a Doctor, I can tell you with total certainty that Scientology techniques are not hypnotic. If they were, I would not be a Scientologist. I dislike hypnotism, since its results are unpredictable, and since it introduces suggestions into a person's mind of which he is unaware. I regard that as a criminal act.
Statements have been made that all Scientology processes are hypnotic. There are several of these processes which consist of no more than an ordinary conversation, with the Auditor guiding the ‘preclear’ toward whatever part of the subject is producing the desired result. The other processes used are termed ‘repetitive’ — it is with this word that misunderstandings have arisen.
It is a word used also in hypnotism and there is a different meaning in its use. By repetitive the hypnotist means that he uses the same phrase over and over to increase the suggestibility of his subject — it is a suggestion, not a question, something like ‘You are feeling tired, you are feeling tired, your lids are becoming heavy, you are feeling tired’.
In Scientology a suggestion is never used, and by repetitive the Auditor means that the same questions are used several times. The Auditor asks his preclear a question which can have many answers — like ‘What fruit do you like?’ The preclear answers the question. The Auditor acknowledges this answer, and asks him the next question — the same words as the first time. The preclear looks for another answer. And so on. This works to make the preclear more aware because he is looking for things about himself that he did not previously know. When he finds them, he knows more about himself.
Whereas with hypnotism, the subject at the end knows less about himself — after all he's been asleep most of the time.
It is therefore a lie, founded either on misunderstanding or on vicious intent, to say that Scientology techniques are hypnotic.
I can state to you, as a Doctor in good standing in your community, that they are not. They are the opposite.
I will add that Brainwashing is an even more degraded form of hypnotism.
To suggest that we use such foul practices as these is a gross and indecent libel on me and on my friends. The idea is so disgusting to me that I can only answer it by saying that it is a lie.
Practices such as hypnosis and electric shock therapy, which are aimed at altering a person's mind without his awareness of what is happening, belong to the subject of psychiatry, which has different aims from the aims of Scientology, and with which Scientology has no connection whatsoever.
These are my submissions to you. They are made honestly, and I guarantee their truth with my professional reputation.
Dr Sir J- F- H- MB, B.Chur(Cantab).

I am a medical practitioner. I qualified in 1928 and practised for about eight years in England before joining the Colonial Medical Service. In that service I practised for a further eight years in Nigeria until my retirement on marriage.
I first heard of Scientology two years ago, and after reading a book about it my husband and I decided to have some auditing. This auditing convinced me that the claims put forward by Scientology are true, and that it really does work. I found I wanted to study the subject more thoroughly, to understand the principles on which auditing depended, and also to be able to audit other people.
Since then I have spent a total of sixteen weeks of intensive study at the Academies, had more auditing myself, and audited other people. I am increasingly aware of the extraordinary importance of this body of knowledge to the well-being of the human race, primarily through its effect on the mind secondarily on the body.
I have never been employed by a Scientological organization.
Looking at Scientology from the point of view of a doctor, I can see that difficulties do exist.
Medical training is concerned with organic disease, classified in text-books, understood and handled with efficiency — nowadays even up to the point of the supply of new vital organs to replace damaged ones. About 25 per cent of the cases coming to a GP's surgery belong to this class of diagnosed organic disease. Doctors feel very strongly their responsibility for the handling of these patients and are jealous of anything which they feel may keep them from their care. The remaining seventy-odd per cent of cases are far less satisfactory from the point of view of the GP. They provide him with many headaches, and problems of chronic ill health.
I am willing for any or all of this submission to be published.
Lady H. A., MB, BS, London

I am an Honours Graduate of one of the largest University Chemistry Departments in the country, and after gaining my Diploma in Education at Cambridge University I taught Chemistry and General Science for five years in Public and State Grammar Schools, before becoming a St. Hill staff member.
I first came into contact with Scientology through a friend — a qualified electronics engineer. I soon began to train and receive auditing — most of my fellow students were professional people too, including dentists, doctors, nurses and engineers.
From the start, I appreciated the precision of the approach to both training and auditing. An Auditor is a highly trained specialist and an unfailing high standard is required of him.
The gains I have made in Scientology have been many. My ability to communicate has increased enormously with a resultant improvement in my teaching ability. I learned to control my classes with understanding, so that the children's interest remained high and their examination results good. The data on Study evolved by L. Ron Hubbard also proved invaluable.
My appreciation of other beings is now immense — I feel I truly love mankind and that with Scientology I have the tools to make man free. I have become happy in life, contented, affluent and able — now I want others to have the same joys.
Hazel Cheminais, BScHons

Dr John L. Moffat, MA, PhD, Professor of Languages, Christchurch, New Zealand.
New ideas are always resisted at first. They often triumph in the long run. Scientology is being weighed in the balance right now. Before the baby is thrown out with the bathwater, something might be said about Scientology's contribution to education.
Strictly speaking, there is nothing particularly new about Scientology. Most of its principal tenets could be found, I believe, in the Bible. Indeed, a team of authors has just recently published a book entitled ‘Scientology and the Bible’, giving parallel statements from the works of L. Ron Hubbard on the left and quotations from Scripture on the right.
The books of Mr Hubbard, the founder of Scientology are readily available. They make excellent reading. They are full of bright ideas, ideas which anyone could put into practice and test out for himself.

Acknowledgement
One of his largest works, ‘Science of Survival’ (1951) opens with an acknowledgement to Anaxagoras, Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Lucretius, Roger Bacon, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and a dozen or more modern philosophers and psychologists. Mr Hubbard makes no secret of his indebtedness to previous thinkers. In this sense there is nothing very new in his work.
Wherein then lies its novelty? Well, it is a sort of synthesis of previous thoughts. It is, in particular, a synthesis of insights from Buddhism and Christianity on the one hand, with notions derived from modern Western physics. The philosophy of the East has been available to the West for little more than a century and a half. It was first propagated by Friedrich Schlegel and Arthur Schopenhauer. The thinking behind modern physics is still a closed book to most laymen. Little wonder, then, that a combination of the two should strike many average citizens as gibberish.
There are, nevertheless, in the works of Mr Hubbard, many ideas which might be very fruitfully applied in education. His theory of communication, for example, is excellent, and could find an application in any classroom any day of the week. Indeed in the submissions made in Victoria, a teacher testified to outstanding successes with backward children obtained through the application of Mr Hubbard's theories to teaching.

Theory of Life
Mr Hubbard's theory of life as a gate with barriers balancing freedoms is a concept which might be usefully applied to school discipline. Teenagers rebelling against what they consider to be unnecessary rules might be made to see that without rules at all, life would be in fact less interesting and less exciting. (Small children know this instinctively and invent their own rules spontaneously when playing together.)
The tone scale which features so largely in ‘Science of Survival’ is full of significance for teachers. Nothing could be more valuable than to be able to distinguish the various symptoms and reactions typical of pupils at various points on the scale. The handling of aggressive children, nervous children, apathetic children could be much more intelligent if a teacher (or parent) knew something about Mr Hubbard's work.

Food for Thought
The famous ARC triangle furnishes much food for thought. All teachers are familiar with the pupil who cannot learn for lack of affinity with his teacher. In families where there is no natural affinity between parents and children, there is loss of communication, and finally mental disturbance. Where there is no communication and no affinity at all between a child and a parent, it not infrequently happens that the child becomes schizophrenic and may have to enter an asylum. Loss of reality follows upon loss of affinity and loss of communication. The connections between these three items are admirably understood and expounded by the founder of Scientology.
It would be a pity if New Zealanders deprived themselves of this understanding because a couple of teenagers have run away from home. Since the dawn of history, teenagers have occasionally run away from home. Tens of thousands of them must have done so, long before Scientology was even thought of. Indeed, in my experience, much more to be pitied are the teenagers who have never left home at all. One will commonly find them still there, ten, twenty and thirty years later, overgrown children pathetically tied to their mother's apron strings, frustrated in their development and incapable of marriage.

New Techniques
In 1954, Mr Hubbard wrote ‘The Creation of Human Ability’. This must surely, by any standards, rank as one of the greatest educational books of all time. A whole host of new techniques fills its pages. In my own copy I filled the last blank six pages with page references to the scores of previous insights that enthralled me as I read it through.
The man in the street may pardonably be put off by the jargon. But every new science and philosophy has its jargon. William Barclay has published a couple of volumes on ‘New Testament Words’, explaining terms used in the New Testament with a special meaning. Mr Hubbard takes the same liberty with English words which the authors of the Gospels took with Greek. He is not the first to pour new wine into old bottles.
Whether the ‘auditing’ courses sold by the Scientology organization are worth the money I cannot say. But no serious student of education, anxious to apply new ideas for the benefit of his pupils, can any longer afford to neglect L. Ron Hubbard's books.

A VIEWPOINT OF SCIENTOLOGY by Sir Chandos Hoskyns-Abrahall, CMG
I started my adult life in the first World War which was certainly a very peculiar introduction to the civilisation of the 20th century. One thing stood out clearly. Pretty well everybody believed in the Tightness of the cause for which they were fighting and the utter wrongness of the other side. To kill or be killed is an expensive way of settling an argument and not a very satisfactory one. Add to this the fact that the cream of the population of the nations involved was the least likely to survive, and one is almost forced into the belief that man is either mad or bad or the stupidest of created things.
This is where Scientology comes in. Two years’ study of it and its techniques had proved to me that man is in fact born good and that his birthright can be restored to him not, I repeat not, by others but by himself.
That which makes a man behave in the way he does, at enmity with himself, his brother, neighbour, and the world at large can be eradicated, by himself by no will other than his own.
Why, then, is it that there is all this outcry against Scientology? I read that it is ‘socially harmful’, that it is an escape from reality by nit-wits. Where do all these ideas come from and why? Evidence in support of these accusations never sees the light of day and probably never will, for the good reason that the evidence does not exist. These accusations are the creation of malice and nothing else. I am prepared to believe that a marriage in process of breaking up may be finally dissolved through the agency of Scientology and, very likely, a good thing, too. But many more marriages have been saved by the same means and for the increased happiness of how many thousands or tens of thousands is Scientology directly responsible?
Fortunately, the object of these Smear Campaigns defeats itself. These unbridled attacks create public interest, an interest which cannot fail to develop into a sure recruiting ground for Scientology.
Anyone who is a seeker after truth will have no difficulty in finding the truth of Scientology. I have never been employed by a Scientology organization but have nevertheless made a close study of it during the last two years.
Sir Chandos Hoskyns-Abrahall, CMG

I left engineering to find out more on the subject of Scientology which had stood me in such good stead in my engineering career. I found primarily that it works. If I regretted anything, it might be that I didn't study Scientology before I studied engineering.
Scientology is applicable to any sphere of activity, from housewife to business tycoon, from policeman to artiste. It brings help, understanding, enlightenment and success wherever it is applied, not by looking for anything vastly new or startlingly different, but by pointing up the basics of what is already around us in everyday life. The rest follows! Scientology is not to be confused with any other philosophy. There have been many throughout the ages and none have uniformly helped man upward and outwards without fail — wars have continued, people have been betrayed. Scientology is not to be confused with these — it works.
Permission granted to publish. Ivor Norris Ivor Norris, BSC Mech. Eng.


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F.R.C.S. M.A. First Class M.B. B.Ch. (Cantab) F.I.C.S. (Fellow International College of Surgeons)
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EMERITUS SURGEON.
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I have investigated the Hubbard system of Scientology and I have never seen any harm come from its use. I have even sent patients to a scientologist for treatment, with satisfactory results.

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