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Source of Life Energy Found Published by the Hubbard Association of Scientologists, Inc., Phoenix, Ariozna Issue 3-G SOURCE OF LIFE ENERGY FOUND Scientology enters third echelon far ahead of schedule; revival of dead or near-dead may become possible A new high level of knowledge has been attained in the field of Scien­ tology by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder and organizer of the science. The source of life energy in a human being has been discovered, described, and its energy manifestations formulated. Further specific fast techniques have been tested and released which directly process this energy source. and have found the preclear immediately Those who have long been with the new immersed in sorrow, and vice versa. science may recall that in 1950 and 1951, The energy source is also the awareness Dr. Hubbard occasionally stated in his of awareness unit of the being and is con­ lectures that some day he would be able sidered by himself to be himself. He is to shift and conduit the actual energy of no other than this energy awareness unit, life at will. The remark, seemingly made yet it has a distinct and basic personality in jest, has proven to be a harbinger of much more sharply individuated than his good fortune for the aberrated and ill personality in a state of unknowingness, amongst men. which is to say aware only via the body perceptics. The top of the third echelon of Scien­ tology thus has been attained considerably No mysticism or ghost story, well quali­ ahead of schedule. fied and competent engineers in addition to Dr. Hubbard have measured this flow The energy of life has been discovered since his discoveries and have observed to be not a different thing from impulses it in its isolated state and have themselves, such as electrons and protons but has been by the techniques now available, experi­ found to be, Dr. Hubbard says, the upper enced their own beingness for the first band of the same wave source which pro­ f i r s t b SCn Placing his signature time on earth. on the first Eachelor duces in the physical universe the energies of Scientology certificate is serious earlier measured by James, Clark, Max­ Some dim concept of this energy force well, deForest, Marconi, and Edison. was contained in the riddles advanced by business for L. Ron Hubbard, posed religionists, and man long has suspected Many answers to the riddle of human here in the study of his home near his identity and beingness to be independ­ beingness already had been isolated and Phoenix. First to receive the degree ent of and detachable from a human body. made into useful technology. The remain­ was Alphia Hart, who became an ing answers, according to Dr. Hubbard, The direct simplicity of these techniques H. D. A. early in 1952. came in a swift torrent, the reward for and the manifestation is startling in the having asked the right questions. extreme. In from two to 25 hours, depend­ Interest in qualifying for this de­ ing on the original state of the being, a The location of the energy source in a gree has reached a high peak in the rehabilitation has been effected by com­ human being is found to be interior in field. M ore th an 1,400 of th e V alida­ petent auditors of the full energy potential many cases, exterior in some, but in no tion blanks have been sent out to of this beingness. Identification and re­ case dependent in any way for its energy H.D.A.’s throughout the world, with covery of the energy potential permits an upon the carbon-oxygen motor of the requests for them coming in from individual to heal his own and other bodies human body. England, Greece, Egypt, and Canada by direct electronic flow. —as well as most States. The energy from the source is created, It is extremely doubtful if these dis­ according to Dr. Hubbard, by differences New impetus was given last week coveries will remain long unaccepted in of potential in facsimiles which are them­ by the announcement that “book audi­ the medical and psychiatric world or in selves of electronic composition and which tors”—those who practice from knowl­ the world of electronics in which Dr. Hub­ discharge from positive to negative and edge gained by studying books and bard and his co-workers principally have back in an AC flow of very high frequency. lectux-e tapes, but have graduated from studied. no professional school—can attain the This energy has been measured and its This energy can be conduited from body degree by submitting notaried evi­ flow direction established. Auditors have to body and is so strong that when it is dence of physiological improvement in seen this manifestation at times when they ten cases. have sought to run pleasure on preclears (T urn to Page 3, C olum n 2) Page 2 journal of SCIENTOLOGY SCIENTOLOGY some like us, and yet . Journal of the Hubbard Association Scienotes: of Scientologists, Inc. you can't please everybody! 1405 N orth C entral Phoenix, Arizona “ . • After perusing- its interesting- and in­ tologists and see that you folks are getting on Editorial Director: ALPHIA HART formative pages, I came to the conclusion that in spite of various dugpas working busily at their you had done a wonderful job of editing as well appointed tasks . I suppose everyone in this as promoting; a job worthy of being spread about field is being bombarded with all sorts of litera­ Published Twice Monthly in professional circles. ture from all sorts of sources as we are. To me, “There is a great trend within the medical in a way, this is a very healthy sign, as it Ten cents per single copy profession, by practitioners who heretofore and shows that self-determinism is actually being $2.50 per year now are operating in the dark, to bypass cases put to work. Some of the stuff, of course, is because they are of an unconquerable nature to lousy, but there is also some interesting ma­ C opyright, 1952, by th e H ubbard A ssociation of them, limited as they are to chemistry and sur­ terial popping up occasionally ...” Burke Bel­ Scientologists g e ry . knap, Fort Meyers, Fla. “They look upon psychotherapy as a possible ” ... Before I started (processing) I suc­ cure which they are not equipped nor qualified ceeded in doing what no auditor had been able to handle. There is more than one eyebrow raised to do for me. I obtained perfect sight. Now I can echelons of Scientology when Dianetics or Scientology is mentioned, but either see clearly or not see clearly, at will . these eyebrows are mostly of a questioning After 10 hours of processing (not on sight, since nature after they hear some of the things that that was no longer necessary) I decided there Dianetics has accomplished in the hands of was nothing I could not do myself and stopped Scientology, as it relates to an in­ ‘neophytes’ . the sessions there ...” Leone Muller, Hudson dividual's self-determinism, may be con­ “I hope you boys stop changing your names Heights, N. J. a bit so this can get on a sure footing for a start sidered on three echelons. in what I trust will be a permanent organiza­ “ . and in view of the fact that your litera­ tion. In my feeble estimation, however, Scien­ ture is becoming annoying regular mail—I re­ The first echelon would be getting in tology is a bit pedantic and finally adds the quest that I be removed ...” Richard Schwartz, ‘ology’ which many of us detest ...” A r th u r San Francisco. touch with MEST, finding out that the Lussier, East Hartford, Conn. “Was very much impressed with your new physical universe is there, that it can be “ . Until you get that lazy 8 off its back magazine . It actually said things I didn’t and make it stand on its own feet like the rest know (about Dianetics). Not that I claim to sensed and experienced, that it is pleasant of the dynamics, the keystone will be missing know everything, but that most such publica­ (at least, in part), that it appears the same from Scientology. You may not believe there’s tions don’t say anything new. Just somebody’s a God, and there may not be a God, but if your brainstorm interpretations and musings, some to nearly everyone and so, presumably, is science is going to ride ‘maybes’—yet tell the ‘philosophy,’ and an interview with a ‘clear’— public we’ve got to eliminate ‘maybes’ from our who STRICTLY never says anything the in­ actually as it appears and is not false or lives if we’re to cure ourselves of aberrations— terviewer and reader doesn’t already know ...” you, like your public, will remain in troubled Harry B. Moore, New Orleans, La. delusionary. This would be establishing waters . In other words, you’re electing that ‘Lazy 8’ as counter-effort, and you know what “My wife and me don’t like SCIENTOLOGY communication with MEST. happens when you do that. Or do you read your . and my kid wants to be one of them audi­ own books?” T. N., Phoenix, Ariz. tors . please stop sending me that stuff be­ The second echelon would be restoring fore you bust up my whole plowing schedule “I like the first issue of SCIENTOLOGY very . ” W. L. McD., Texas. all self-determinism with respect to MEST m u c h ...” Fred S. Boyd, Jr., Denver, Colo.
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