5707C15 18ACC-1 What is Scientology

     Scientology is aimed at a total know.  Since no other "know" is total, it
is hard to describe scientology, since there is no other datum of comparable
magnitude.  Only one other organization of knowledge on earth has had a
similar goal: Buddhism.  It squirreled when it went into Tibet as Lamaism.
But there was no faith in Buddhism.  It was analytical.  The best refuge to
take, when asked what scientology is, would be a refuge into
incomprehensibility, by saying that it is epistemology.  Buddhism and
scientology both try to select out the importances of life and fill Man's void
of knowledge with accurate observation.  Buddha could be called the first
scientist.  "Authority has nothing to do with knowledge.  Those things I tell
you are true, are not true because I tell you they are true.  And if anything
I tell you, or have ever told you, is discovered to differ from the individual
observation, be it a good observation, then it isn't true."

     We have certain positive procedures.  As valuable as they are, if they
incline us to lock at them, not at what they help us to look at; if they lead
us to believe that they are a thing, not a means to doing another thing, we
will be in the same blind condition as present-day religions and social
sciences, and we will have to rediscover our blindness on the way up.
Wherever we develop an area of special knowledge, such as TR's and processes,
we must understand that they are a means to an end, not an end in themselves.
Someone who forgot what TR's were could, in theory, do them all beautifully
but be unable to use them in session, because he had forgotten what they were
for: to create the proper communication atmosphere for the session.

     There is an enormous wonderland below blindness.  This keeps people from
seeing their blindness.  Using Alice in Wonderland in TR's is a joke based on
this imagined knowledge.  The wonderland is the dispersal that results from
the individual's reaction to being kicked in the teeth when he looks at
something.  He won't look again.  Eventually he decides not to look at
anything.  But if he catches sight of something, he will go on a via and look
at something else instead.  This is how the wonderland of the social sciences
was created.  Someone couldn't confront Man, so he turned around and created a
myth about Man.  He must have been blind never to have noticed exteriorization
or to have recorded the existence of the phenomenon somewhere.  A thetan has
the ability to create form, to create universes.  When the ability dims out,
when he is not doing it very intelligently, he begins to see things in the
universe that he doesn't want to look at.  Then he disperses and combines his
ability to create and to not-is.  The universe he then builds is below the
level of the universe he is in.  You have to bring him up North for him to
discover that he is in a trap.