Author: aconwayhubbard
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The Wild Mind – Part IX
Philosophy continued & concluded Scientology 1.0.0 – part 15 “History is Philosophy teaching by example.” —Thucydides Man has been very good at a great many things, especially at figuring out how reality actually works (at least so far). This is philosophy. When things haven’t worked well, philosophy has been abandoned and replaced by other sorts […]
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The Wild Mind – Part VIII
Philosophy continued Scientology 1.0.0 – part 14 With all the mysteries and unknowns about the physical world prior to the 20th century, there simply weren’t the tools available by which a person or group could successfully enslave all of mankind. If your little part of the world went to war or suffered an oppressive leader, […]
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The Wild Mind – part VII
Philosophy Scientology 1.0.0 – part 13 “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.” — Sir Francis Bacon Okay, so to continue with the ladder of untamed thinking, there are so far: awe, art, early religion, magic, myth, mysticism, psychology, and religion. Next rung: philosophy. Again, the disclaimer: I’m no academic and this will not be […]
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The Wild Mind – Part VI
Religion continued (3/3) Scientology 1.0.0 – Part 12 Organised Religion and nature In the millennia before the Enlightenment, the world was mostly thought of the way it seemed to the senses: the world was flat, the sky was a dome, mountains “rose” (as one walked towards them), the sun “moved” by rising and setting, the […]
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The Wild Mind – Part V
Religion continued (2/3) Scientology 1.0.0 – Part 11 As mentioned previously, I became aware of an anti-religious narrative in the late 1960s and 70s. What was also happening was another narrative, a kind of leitmotif if you will, that had us all living in pretty terrible times. I mean, there were problems on the planet, […]
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The Wild Mind – Part IV
Psychology and Religion (1/3) Scientology 1.0.0 – Part 10 Psychology – Who’s who Actually, I just sort of shoehorned this into the list of the kinds of mentation that I think had to be a part of man’s development as he moved on into his civilisation phase. The study proper of human behaviour starts, sort […]
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The Wild Mind – Part III
Mysticism Scientology 1.0.0 – Part 9 Now here’s the subject that plays the biggest role of all in Scientology 1.0.0. First, for additional colour, some personal background: In the mid to late 1970s, after eight years of travel at sea, my parents moved, with their small administrative staff, to a place called La Quinta (Spanish […]
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The Wild Mind – Part II
Magic and Myth Scientology 1.0.0 – Part 8 In the previous article, I made a list of some of the kinds of thinking and experience that are almost certainly required if anything as bizarrely complex and impressive as modern civilisation is to exist. Whatever they may actually be, these ideas occur and enfold, like steps […]
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The Wild Mind – Part I
Awe, Art and Early Religion Scientology 1.0.0 – Part – 7 ————————————————————————————————– Awe Art Early Religion Magic Myth Mysticism Psychology Religion Philosophy Alchemy Occultism Science That’s a possible sequence of things I think are inextricably linked. ————————————————————————————————– This and the following several articles are my humble attempt at putting the Church of Scientology in some […]
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What Can Possibly Go Wrong?
Scientology 1.0.0 – part 6 Infinite games vs. finite games Essentially, when discussing philosophy, or ethics, or religion too, what one is talking about is how to play infinite games as different from finite games, and when one form is optimum, and when it isn’t. I’d guess this is at the root of knowing how […]
Arthur Ronald Conway Hubbard 