LRH Tapes

2005-05-21T14:50:00.000-07:00

One of the many technologies Hubbard developed over his lifetime is study tech. It has helped millions to improve their ability to learn including Tom Cruise. In fact, the impact of study technology cannot be underestimated in our society. Check out some of the impacts it has had:

http://www.effective-education.org/pg008.html
http://www.able.org/pages/aps.php

2004-05-30T09:28:00.000-07:00

In the early 1950's L. Ron Hubbard recorded a lecture called "Games". Very interesting and provocative lecture. In the late 1960's a pop psycologist named Eric Berne wrote a popular book called The Games People Play, which got great attention in the ever changing world of pop psychology for a couple of years. It is fascinating to listen to Ron's lecture after reading Berne's book. In short, nothing Berne wrote was original; how close his examples are to the examples in Ron's lecture are amazing. It is of note that Berne's concept of man did not truly stretch beyond the idea that one's dramatizations in life are all games. The idea that one could rise to a level of awareness and self determinism and rise above the playing of unknowing games, or how this idea could be accomplished seemed in actuality to elude Berne. Berne's book was actually a knockoff of Thomas Harris' book, I'm OK, You're OK. Again, a book that closely copied a small portion of Ron's theory of games put forth about 15 years earlier. The fact that neither of these men ever developed any technology of value and soon went the way of most psychological fads, highlights the fact that they never pursued their research to the point that they understood the basics of life and the mind, and, in fact, simply plagiarized a very small slice of the work of someone who never ceased his research until he had uncovered all the secrets and worked out the exact methodologies to free man, namely, L. Ron Hubbard. The CD of the lecture, Games, is available at any Church or Mission of the Church of Scientology, and it makes for a truly fascinating listen.

2004-04-22T18:24:00.000-07:00

In December of 1952 L. Ron Hubbard delivered a series of lectures called the Philadelphia Doctrate Course lectures. They were quite extensive-about 60 lectures-and, in fact, he completed the series with 16 additional lectures in London in January of 1953.
In one of these lectures (tape 35, the DEI Scale) Ron addressed himself to the subject of responsibility, asking what made him so special that he was able to figure out the solutions to the problems man has suffered with forever. He made a very simple point; he was willing to be responsible. Not only that, but the job he was doing was every man's job, not just his.

Now, fit that into our current level of social thought, where we are constantly encouraged to look at how we have been done wrong, victimized, are effect of everything (and, if we are lucky we can make a load of dough with a lawsuit against the bad people who did us in, or vote in a government who will pay us for our inabilities).
The simple truth of life is that if a person would be free, he must be responsible, willing to be cause, willing to accept that he had his own part in whatever happens to him, and be willing to use his strength, force, etc. to make things happen. Moreover, his thinking must encompass all of life, not just his own personal interests, and he must compute on the basis of the greatest good for the greatest number. Put this level of computation together with the willingness to be responsible and you get someone who will actually change conditions around him for the better. A much better way of going about life than looking for scapegoats.

2004-04-04T16:05:00.000-07:00

In a taped lecture called The Road to Truth, L. Ron Hubbard said "All I am trying to do is get you to look." This strikes me as a deceptively powerful truth. What I observe is that quite often people don't observe at all; rather they have a fixed set of ideas with which they confront life. When something comes their way, they already have an evaluation of it, which they picked up from someone else or some other time, and they use that evaluation as a substitute for observation. We have all heard someone say "I don't like Thai food" or some such thing, only to find they have never tried it. This operating basis leaves one blocked off from experience and knowledge in many cases and also, whether the person is aware of it or not, their ability to observe life is often hindered by someone else's evaluations. Mama didn't like men, so Suzie knows all men are bad. Obviously, not a smart way to go through life. Aside from the fact that it is an insane generality, Suzie is operating on Mama's conclusions about life based on who knows what; Suzie is not observing for herself and making her own conclusions. It is true that this takes some courage, but making an attempt to LOOK at things for oneself, and then, make up one's own mind about them is the route toward true personal knowledge and integrity.

2004-03-19T22:06:00.000-08:00

I have incredible respect for philosopher L. Ron Hubbard's huge body of taped lectures. I realized some time ago it could be a life's work for someone to pull them apart to get the full meaning of each one. I will make here my contribution to what is already an enormous subject -- the full meaning and effect of the LRH Tapes.