Author: aconwayhubbard
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The Wild Mind – Part IV
Psychology and Religion Scientology 1.0.0 – part 11 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 of,…
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The Wild Mind – Part III
Mysticism Scientology 1.0.0 – part 10 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 9 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 8 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 context so that…
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What Can Possibly Go Wrong?
Scientology 1.0.0 – part 7 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…
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Infinity-Valued Logic
& the Scale of Political Philosophies Scientology 1.0.0 – Part 6 “There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind” – F. Scott FitzgeraldOn the other hand: “Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds” – Remy de Gourmont Traditionally, in Aristotle’s logic, logic other than “two-valued logic” was abnormal.…
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Pan-determinism at Last
Scientology 1.0.0 – part 5 Talking about well-being from a Scientology 1.0.0 perspective, if you really intend to get to the point, is going to eventually end up dealing with the incredibly complex, often misunderstood, subject of pan-determinism. Pan-determinism is one of those things that, if pondered on long enough without the background to do…
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The Eight Dynamics: A Map of the Self
Scientology 1.0.0 – part 4 “I have an existential map. It has ‘You are here’ written all over it.” – Steven Wright In scientology, there is a lot of metaphysics. One of the most thorny problems with discussing metaphysics, though, is the limitation of language. Take the Eight Dynamics for instance. The definition of dynamic…
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Space, Emotion, and Well-Being
Scientology 1.0.0 – part 3 “Space, the final frontier…” These are the immortal opening words of a very popular television series. Of course, they are referring to outer space, but as any fan will tell you, all the best action takes place in that other space, a subjective space created by the characters. In this…
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Scientology 1.0.0 (1952)
Scientology 1.0.0 (1952) – Parts 1 and 2 “One of the main functions of organised religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.” – Carl Jung What do I know about anything? Not a whole lot, depending on your definition, but then again, nobody else does either, and for several very important…
Arthur Ronald Conway Hubbard 