Dianetics vs. Scientology, L Ron Hubbard
Updated 3/15/2015
Dianetics as a methodology and theory: 190
Scientology, the church, teachings: 130
Scientology, the church, as organization: 100
Tag Archives: the spiritual capacity of persistence
Abundance Or Scarcity? Choose… Updated
This article is from 2014…
Often anything can kick you into the horizontal plane . I got kicked into it… the horizontal plane, and now I am working my way off… it is not that easy. I can’t even connect to muscle test… the horizontal plane is sticky. It wants you, all of you. It eats your life for breakfast.
Let me explain: Humanity (you!) lives on the horizontal plane at this stage of evolution. It is both the starting point and the end state…
On the horizontal plane everything is about comparison. More, better, different…
The good old days…
I want what they have, because I don’t have it… and I want it.
Mastery: From aimless, directionless life to meaningful and fulfilling life
Summary: In our hurry to be hip, to know more, to get some semblance of control over our lives we have lost what gives life meaning and texture, the context that is timeless and true: the pursuit of mastery. We have now whole generations of flunkies…
In the olden days people had the following choices in life:
become a master of some trade
become a master of some knowledge
become a flunky
The energy of persistence, of insistence: will it make you successful?
In one of the posts from last week I asked people to put in the comment box the three characteristics they are most proud of having.
One of them, persistent shows up repeatedly. Yet, the people that are persistent are not successful, not by a long shot. Why? After all it seems like a desirable characteristic, doesn’t it?
I’ll show it through falling asleep and maybe other examples, haven’t decided yet.
Imagine the scenario, night after night you have a difficult time falling asleep, or maybe going back to sleep after you woke up in the middle of the night.
Night after night you have the same thing: you are tired in the day, need coffee to keep you going, and in spite of the deadly tiredness, you have a hard time falling asleep.
Distinctions: your access to the mysteries of the universe
Distinctions: your access to the mysteries of the universe
Distinctions are like a hole punched into a yet solid wall. When you look through the hole, you see stuff that you could not see before. You may have seen it from the side, you may have seen it from above, from below, but that certain angle gives you a view that goes deep into the mysteries of the Universe.
Every major discovery, every major “invention” started from a distinction. The distinction may have come from a book, from someone else, but the looking, the going deep came from the person.
Lots of discoveries you learned in science classes came through distinctions from The Zohar.
The Zohar is a book documenting a group of friends of Simeon bar Yochai conversing about life, how it all works.
It is the end result of an oral tradition.
People in olden days saw more than we do. Definitely.
There have been a few generations of humanity before ours, and if there remained an orally inclined person who was aware, like Noah, then we have glimpses of knowledge that belonged to the generation before ours.
What is the Self? Part 4: Validation/Invalidation
Validation/invalidation
How many times has it happened that you were looking to others to know what you feel? To know what to think? To know how to react?
The laugh-track machines are used exactly for that reason: people who have no sense of self, they will take cue, and laugh when the machine laughs.
Because we never really got present to who we are, what we hold true, what is important to us, because we were indoctrinated early on to think, feel, hold true, and say yes to what other people wanted us to, and because the reward was attention, food, hugs, atta’ girl, or nice gifts, we lost and dug under our natural likes and dislikes, our natural aspirations, our real feelings.
We toed the line of “me-too’s” and mimicked, parroted, and tried to feel what they felt.
Soul Correction: Speak Your Mind
Updated: Soul Correction: Speak Your Mind aka reveal your secret agenda
Update 6/30/2021: upon reflecting on all the #25, that is the numerology number for this soul correction, I am finding that the most dominant aspect is: self hate… and that is what is, maybe, underneath the lying, pretending, making airs, etc.
…Update on 2/15/2014: I had an interesting conversation with a friend, where we were looking for politicians with this soul correction. And as we were working on finding them, I had an insight: the fundamental issue of this soul correction is DUPLICITY.
The inside and the outside are disconnected.
How Is Procrastination Helpful to You? Really Helpful! I am not Kidding! UPDATED
Procrastination is not an issue, it’s a symptom
As you may know, I am leading a twice a week course, called Daily Connection. There is no set curriculum: the goal is to peel away the not-you. The not-self. The false self. Just like Michelangelo chipped away what’s not David…
There are two approaches to coaching people to be their best:
to call them infinite being, beautiful, loving, blah blah blah. It’s holding your face to the light. I am not attracted to that.
The methodology of Kabbalah and Landmark and maybe even Dianetics: find the not self, identify it, and transform it. Not change it, but transform it.
A cancer cell changed is still a cancer cell. A cancer cell transformed is a normal cell with a specific function in the body.