I too have written a couple of books based on ‘my’ epiphonies, but published them as ‘giveaways’ because I believe that to be the course ‘directed’ by the said ‘epiphonies’.

Hope that makes sense.

Good luck.

Pete.

http://triumphantevents.co.uk/blog/2006/09/the-10-universal-laws-1.php

I agree with the need to trim things down. Nowadays we get too caught up in trying to ‘prove’ everything we come across, instead of simply looking for a self-evident truth. This is the challenge for most authors today: their entire book is taken up with proving their thesis. Under the burden of proof, we’re unable to extricate ourselves from detail so that we can look at the bigger picture.

While I suspect that summarising a philosophy into a single word or phrase does that philosophy an injustice, I would replace ’survive’ with ‘conscious creation’. ‘Survive’ is a reactionary word, and I believe we are all potential Gods, or Creators. We have allowed ourselves to be influenced (by various forces and factors) and in so doing have created the reality we’re currently experiencing. With a change of focus we can consciously create a new reality.

Where my theory differs from others, is the requirement for a Group Consciousness. Many individuals (including Hubbard) have learned the skill of creating their own reality - this is a phenomenal achievement. The next phase in man’s evolution is to realise that individually we are simply a small part of a meta jigsaw puzzle: include and transcend.

If you’re interested in delving deeper, contact me by email and I’ll send a presentation I’ve just completed.

When I read what you had written, it was just that it reminded me of what I had earlier read. Actually, it was in connection with a book prior to Dianetics, called Excaibur:

[from http://www.religionfacts.com/scientology/history.htm ]

In 1938, Hubbard discovered what he believed to be the common denominator of existence, which was: SURVIVE. In a philosophic work entitled “Excalibur,” Hubbard wrote:

I suddenly realized that survival was the pin on which you could hang the rest of this with adequate and ample proof. It’s a very simple problem. Idiotically simple! That’s why it never got solved. Nobody has ever looked at anything being that simple to do that much. So what do we find as the simplicities of solution? The simplicities of solution lie in this: that life, all life, is trying to survive. And life is composed of two things: the material universe and an X-factor. And this X-factor is something that can evidently organize, and mobilize the material universe.

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[from: http://www.xenu.net/archive/oca/burks.html ]

As I remember “Excalibur”, it started - in the introduction only - with a king who got all his wise men together and told them to prepare and bring to him all the wisdom of the world contained in 500 books. In the course of time, they succeeded, and the king was very pleased and said so. Then he told them to go away and cut down these 500 books into 100 books. It took them a bit longer this time, but they did it and came back and insisted all the wisdom of the world was contained in these 100 books. He said, “Now, do it over again, and bring it to me in one book.”

This was quite a trick, but they did it, and came back some years later and they had, indeed, reduced all the wisdom of the world into one book.

Then he really gave them an assignment. He said, “Now go away and bring to me all the wisdom of the world in one word.”

What was the one word? I don ‘t know how many times we argued, Ron and I, to discover what this one word was. It may have been the creative fiat, it might have just been the word “Be”, it might have been the word “Survive”. I don’t think we ever settled it. But the book “Excalibur” from there on had to do with survival.

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Sounds interesting what you are working on.

My concern with all previous solutions is that they stem from a single individual who has a particular mindset, or paradigm - this is how cults have formed in the past.

My theory starts with the premise that all of collective humanity is God/Source (or whatever you want to call it) and that each individual possesses only a part of the solution. Only when we denounce separatism, which in itself is a significant challenge, can we start defining a solution. In essence, every human on planet earth needs to bring their piece of the jigsaw puzzle to the table. Until then, we will chase from solution to solution, never reaching a meaningful outcome.

Dianetics (and every other methodology/thought process/religion/mindset) are not THE solution, they are a part, albeit an important part, of the total solution we really need. Only when every competing belief system comes together with the dogmatic elements of their philosophies removed, will we reach a solution.

“Any current challenge facing us in the 21st Century should be explainable within one simple paradigm.

“I believe I’ve now found a way to explain anything which fits into any of the following categories…”

This sounds very similar to the background story about how Hubbard ended up writing Dianetics

Bright inquiring minds are an oasis in an otherwise dry desert of knowledge on this planet and I appreciate your contribution on the WWW.

And that is the real priceless gold!