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Book Description
L. Ron Hubbard supplied the first and only technology of how to study. He discovered the laws on which learning is based and developed workable methods for anyone to apply. He called this subject "Study Technology". This technology provides an understanding of the basics of learning and supplies exact ways to overcome all the pitfalls one can encounter during study. Study technology is not speed-reading or memory tricks. These have not been proven to raise one's ability to comprehend what was studied or to raise literacy. Study Technology shows how one studies in order to comprehend a subject so one can apply it. ... Read more

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Excellent, and most worthwile data
Imangine reading a book, and forgetting what you had just read?
Or trying to "get" what the author was saying, or falling asleep after reading a book. This happens all to often. It's observable it all schools, and in most everyone, reading almost anything.
I grew up knowing this technology, and recently starting fully using it in my everyday life.
I used it to get to new heights, in playing chess. I always wanted to be a good chess player, but felt frustrated by the many books, and what-not out there, that seemed over my head, or too confusing.Finding the right chess book, led me to owning almost 300 books! and still not getting better.
I recently went back, and used this study tech, on a piticular tough chess book, and to my amazement, I learned something! and still remember it to this day. Now i'm ready to get through the whole book, and get to new heights in chess.
With this data by Mr Hubbard, anyone can learn what ever they set out to!

Basics of study
Unlike the "how to study" course I took my first semester in college, this book actually covers basics of learning that EVERYONE runs into, whether they are an engineer, or writer, or artist.

It breaks down basic barriers to learning and explains clearly how to overcome each one.

This is not dry theory - it's practical application that the student APPLIES. I have gotten SO much out of this material already!

OMG!
I got this lil pamphlet thing from this yellow tent in my city.

Guess what: I CAN FIALY UNDERSTAND PHYISICS! Although my teachers and family dis the guy who wrote this book, the book kicks ass all the same. The idea of clearing words up while studying is SOOOOO GOD DAM TRUE! Just try it out! There is no psychobabble about brains and nerve pulses, just 3 study steps. You really can conquer any subject by applying the oh-so-simple techniques outlined.

The reason I never liked physics and got 'bored' or 'wooden' was through no pictures in the school text book. I now draw a diagram for every concept in all my lessons and clear up EVERY word I don't understand in English class.

I really really recommend you get dis book.

Clarifies study enormously!
I wish I had been given this book before I started college - it would have made my studies much easier.

This book covers the basic technology of successful study.

Did you ever get to the bottom of a page and realize you don't know what you just read?

Have you ever gotten headaches or stomaches while studying?

Have you ever felt frustrated by study materials?

Did you ever just want to throw a textbook away and quit the class?

I, like probably most everybody, have experienced all these things. This little book explains what EXACTLY happens to cause these different phenomenon. Not only does it explain the cause, but it gives very simple - VERY simple - ways to handle them!

I use these study techniques with my children. My 12-year-old just read the whole set of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and is now reading "Runaway Jury" - not something most 12-year-old kids can do. He's been reading high school science books for a few years now, and he uses these techniques himself in his study.

This study technology makes it possible for anyone able to read to be able to read anything. Legal documents, scientific texts, whatever -- if you use the techniques as laid out in this book, you can learn anything. ... Read more

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Over 150 illustrations show basic Scientology principles and how it increases spiritual freedom, ability, intelligence, knowledge of self, and gives answers to questions like "Why are we here?" "What is life?" and "How can we understand it?" ... Read more

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Great introduction to Scientology
The title might make this sound like a children's book, but it's not. It's a great introduction to the basics of Scientology - the illustrations help with understanding some of the concepts.

This book explains the difference between the spirit, mind, and body. It explains communication, the cycle of action, and basics in understanding people and improving relationships.

I recommend this to anyone who would like an introduction to the subject. ... Read more

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Every culture from every age relied upon a moral code to point the way to a happy and prosperous life, to deter one from the path of destruction and degradation. But what road can one follow in the midst of this decaying culture? It's called The Way to Happiness-21 precepts based wholly on common sense. It is a non-religious moral code being used the world over to restore traditional values. ... Read more

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Remedial
The book reminded me somewhat of early grade school primers on basic hygiene and social manners. It also included a section on avoiding drugs. Written at a remedial level, it might be beneficial to someone who never went to school, Sunday School, or learned basic hygiene habits that most take for granted.

Common sense and a paraphrasing of the ten commandments.
If you carry anything away from this book, let it be this:

"The way to happiness does not include murdering your friends, your family, or yourself being murdered."

Ya don't say, Ron!

Here's some other tidbits:

"Don't do anything illegal." (Like infiltrate the IRS and destroy documents? `Operation Snow White')

"Sex is a big step on the way to happiness and joy." (I knew there was something missing in my life!)

"Love and help children." (Hear that all you pro-choice gals?)

"The road to happiness is a high road when it includes industriousness and tangible production." (Okay. Wait minute, huh? Has Ron been reading Smith's Wealth of Nations or something?)

"The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are." (Oh forget it already, I'm not even going to try to make sense of this one.)

Drive Safely!,

Patriarch.

Based on Common Sense
First published in 1981, its purpose is to arrest the current moral decline in society and restore integrity and trust to Man.

Written by L. Ron Hubbard, the booklet fills the moral vacuum of an increasingly materialistic society. This code of conduct contains 21 basic principles that guide one to a better quality of life. Entirely nonreligious, it can be followed by anyone, of any race, color or creed and works to restore the bonds that unite humankind.

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health

For myself, I've gotten a clearer, firmer foundation on which to deal with others in my life.No road rage, no lack of patience, etc.This book has been used to rehabilitate criminals and street gangs.Check it out.I had not realized this book was in a new hardcover edition.

Deep and concise work on the fundamental aspects of happiness
"The Way to Happiness," by L. Ron Hubbard, is a deep, yet concise work on the fundamental aspects one needs to follow in order to be happy.It is a moral code of sorts and following the guidelines presented in the book, one knows where the edges of the road to happiness are so one does not get off course.Although the book is short and easy to read, do not let that fool you into thinking there is nothing to learn here.Everything in the book does make sense on first reading and is completely within the bounds of common sense, but a close examination of the book is sure to turn up many deep insights into life.

This is one to read and re-read.I enjoyed reading it years ago, and when I re-read it recently, I still gained some insights and needed the reminder of some things that I should be doing but am not.The first few pages of the book states you can use this book by presenting it to others to increase your own survival, which does make sense.After all, how can one be happy if one is connected with those who are not?

"The Way to Happiness" will not take you too long to read and the messages in it are powerful.I found some of the passages so memorable that I went back later and quoted them in one of my essays.I would highly recommend this book for everyone.

Philosophic code for the ages
Ethics was one of the 5 principal concerns of ancient philosophy. Finally, in The Way to Happiness, we have the answers to the perennial questions the ancients first raised: "How do I lead an ethical life?" and, just as importantly, "How do I influence others to lead an ethical life?" None of us live in isolation. How do we solve the problem of people affecting our lives adversely? The solution I've found is to give them this book. For my part, I am a far better person from having read and applied the lessons here. I now have a standard not only for my own conduct but for the conduct of others as well.

The precepts and explanations in this book may seem simple but they are THE ideas which are most important in inter-personal relationships.All in all, there are 21 precepts, each one contributing, if applied, to leading a happier life. Precept 21, "Flourish and Prosper" answers, for example, the question, "How do we survive in face of anti-social actions from another?" The answer given is devastatingly effective.

One of the lessons I've learned from TWTH is that happiness in large measure depends on how well we treat others. This could be called the "law of reciprocity:" If we treat others well we tend to be treated well in return.We all have felt depressed or sad at some time. We've also had loved ones who have gone into a funk and wanted to help them. This book will definitely make a difference on both counts.

Over the course of human history there have been countless recipes and prescriptions for human conduct. It's quite a trick to find THE precepts that count, the key 21 shells on a beach of thousands of incidental shells and then organize these precepts in a way that they make sense and can be used. That's exactly what the book's author, philosopher and ethicist, L. Ron Hubbard, has done. The last major codification of conduct was the 10 commandments 2500 years ago. This book fills the void for a modern rationale, a void that has left our civilization reeling in lawlessness, immorality and unhappiness.

Street drugs and psychiatric nostrums such as Prozac and Paxil aren't the answer. They just muddy up and derail the quest for happiness. In my own experience, this book provides an honest and practical answer to the age-old question: "Is happiness possible?" ... Read more

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Part 3 of the L. Kin series. As the title suggests, "The Pied Pipers" exposes various "false gods" in traditional religions and modern-day esoterics. In particular it deals with carefully guarded SECRETS of the scientology cult. Despite his often astounding revelations the author keeps a constructive view. He reduces the complexity of today's spiritual endeavours to their common denominators and proposes a cohesive theory on consciousness and the mind, explaining phenomena like spirits, angels, ESP and supernormal abilities. Shamanism, meditation, alternative medicine and natural science are compared in terms of their practical applicability to the resolution of global health problems and environmental difficulties.Integrated with that, one finds topics such as the UFO phenomenon,global conspiracies and genetic engineering. Although the book presents rather unusual viewpoints occasionally borderlining on science-fiction, it nevertheless looks very soberly at the political, cultural and ecological situation of Earth at this time, points out reasons and draws conclusions which aren't always comfortable. Yet it does present solutions. So despite being occasionally shocking, it's a positive book. ... Read more

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2007, Hardback with Dust Jacket, 523 Numbered Pages ... Read more

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Hardcover with dustjacket. A Scientology Publication. ... Read more

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A Glimpse of the Big Picture!
The first line of the Foreword to Scientology: A History of Man reads: "This is a cold-blooded factual account of your last sixty trillion years." How in the world could anybody claim to give such a factualaccount?

I am not a scientologist, but I've read enough of Hubbard's workto know that he had an extraordinary approach to gaining knowledge--anapproach that appears to be quite unique in man's modern history. I feelthat the people who ridicule Hubbard for his rather amazing statementsabout mankind's history fail to appreciate Hubbard's uniqueapproach.

Hubbard noticed early in his researches (before beginning hiswork on man's history) that man is vulnerable to a unique type of injury:Whenever he is forced into a state of pain or trauma, he has a mechanism(which Hubbard calls the "reactive mind") that takes over thetask of protecting the organism from further injury. It's an old safetymeasure that is part of the makeup of most living things. But it has nocapacity to reason and instinctively associates all sensations that itencounters during one of these periods of injury into a big"mass". When some similar set sensations is encountered later,the reactive mind is restimulated to re-experience aspects of the originalinjury. When the reactive mind is restimulated (Hubbard calls this the"keying in of the engram"), it literally takes over the operationof the body (you've seen people fly into a crazy rage -- that would be adramatic example of the reactive mind taking over).

Much of Hubbard'swork, especially in the beginning, was to free people up from theseengrams, using a technology that he developed ("auditing") thatallows the cognitive mind to become aware of these engrams (engrams havetheir power because we are totally unconscious of them). Every detail abouteach injury that has caused an engram is stored in complete detail in thereactive mind, and can be directly accessed with the propertechnique.

Hubbard began to find that human beings have engrams whoseorigin pre-dates their birth. He also found that even when someone is freeof all his engrams originating deep into ancient history, there are stillcertain types of limitations that man, as a fundamental pure spirit, hashad imposed upon him.

It was in Hubbard's effort to free up man's spirit,working individually with many hundreds of men and women with a variety oftechnologies, that he was led to his discoveries about the ANCIENT historyof man. This work is not the work of a historian or a novelist. It is thework of a humanitarian whose investigations into the human spirit led himto uncover unchartered territory. These are not speculations of a crazy manbut a road map pieced together gradually over many years, resulting fromendless probing into the consciousness of clients, always with the aim tofree up imposed limitations on the spirit.

It is perfectly possible thatsome of the details of Hubbard's account of man's history are wrong. Whatmakes his account compelling is that he derived it from thousands of hoursof interviews in which this material was consciously recollected byclients. Is that any less reliable than our more familiar way of learningabout man's history even as far back as 3000 years -- where we rely on bitsand pieces of rumors and relics in order to piece together a story aboutour past?

Hubbard's investigations, particularly as seen in this book,are truly worth studying. The book is fascinating to read, and when youkeep in mind where it all comes from, it is all the more fascinating. Ourhistory as a race may well be far more intriguing than the best sciencefiction.

Scientology:A history of man
I read it three times in one week!A great book which not only reveals spiritual origins and truths but as an added bonus gives new insight into the phenomenon of alien visitation and the purpose of these visitors.L.Ron Hubbard was not afraid to write down his discoveries for allthe worldto read.The book also provides the reader with a better understanding ofthe "internal spiritual energy" that flows through the humanbody.This book is a must for anyone who seeks to understand the natureand capabilities of the human spirit.

Gaining Perspective
I love this very special book!It helps me put many things in life and my life in perspective.I hope my experience as a Scientology practitioner who has advanced to a high spiritual state and helped many others do the same, can influence a few to read this concise volume. It's not abeginner's book but only for those few who wish to see beyond what iscurrently being fed to them. It's a book I'm only able to recommendinfrequently at this time to the rare person who displays advanced opennessregarding his/her spirituality.

Spiritual growth potential!
If you ever wondered about past lives and reincarnation, but were not content with the events of the last few thousand years and want a look at a much longer time scale, then this is it. While current reincarnationtheories usually only refer to spiritual growth (because the only ones thatcan tell their stories were those that grew), the content of his book tellswhat happened and shows that on this much larger scale that there had beenmore decay than growth. It points out types of events which caused thatdecay, and thus points back upwards to a true resolution towards spiritualgrowth for mankind.

When reading this book, I ran across a paragraph thatspecifically applied to me -- something had happened to me that was verysimilar to what was in the book. It was amazing. Only a few other times hassomething I read caused so much self betterment in so little time.

Discoveries from the investigation of past lives.
A fascinating book covering the findings from the early work of Mr. Hubbard into past lives and the history of the spiritual beings on this planet.

Hubbard pulls no punches about what he found.He doesn't try to be "acceptable" he merely states what he found.

What are the true capabilities of a spirit (i.e., you)?

What is the relationship between a being and a body?

How did we come to be in the less than perfect state we are now in?

These and many other questions are answered in this fascinating book ... Read more

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The Cult of Greed -- Exposed by a Former Member
Perhaps, reader, you are one of those who have been bombarded with a TV and billboard campaign promoting the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron Hubbard. Dianetics contains information that will bring freedom and self-fulfilment, say the ads. What the ads don't tell you is that Dianetics, a "fringe" therapy that first appeared in book form in 1950, is really a "hook" to pull people into the Church of Scientology, a powerful hydra-headed international organization that extracts money and services from its members through its control of their minds and pocketbooks. Scientology (the collective term for the teachings, techniques and network of church corporations created by the late L. Ron Hubbard) sells "mental processing" that bears little resemblance to the book Dianetics. However, Scientology, for reasons my own book makes clear, uses Dianetics to lure "raw meat" (non-Scientologists) into its thought-control machine.

The words "Dianetics" and "Scientology" are built on Greek and Latin roots and sound "scientific" and innocuous. Dianetics and Scientology are not sciences, and they are anything but innocuous. Deceptive use of the name "Dianetics" is typical of Scientology's operations. The organization has much to hide. Scientology and its other "fronts" such as Dianetics speak of freedom. But what kind of "freedom"? I am one of those who spoke out about Scientology. Agents devised a way to enter my home and photograph my papers. A piano concert I booked to play at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City was canceled at the last moment by a man identifying himself as "Robert Kaufman." My publisher was destroyed in Great Britain by a massive campaign of theft, forgery and poison pen letters.

Scientology tried to steal my freedom of thought and speech, both when I was a member and after. That has only made me want to speak out all the more. In doing so, I have your freedom in mind also. You are about to enjoy a true science fiction adventure in "another world here on earth." Entertainment, yes. But I also wish to share with you -- perhaps with an intensity you haven't known for a while -- the preciousness, the blessedness, of our right to think and speak as we choose.

Your freedom. My freedom. Our freedom. ... Read more

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s your life like a roller coaster ride? Up one day and down the next? You can gain control! Spot what - and who - is causing things to go wrong in your life. Youll be able to identify the people who are really your true friends. Find out who to trust before its too late. This course delivers proven, successful methods that you can use to succeed despite oppression. ... Read more

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The first volume' "Scientology - More than a Cult?“, gave a summary of the development of this controversial movement and of the philosophical concepts of its founder, L.Ron Hubbard. It is now being rounded off with this "Handbook for Use" which tells you what it all looks like when put into practice. For the first time ever, the majority of techniques used in scientology are being presented, critically commented upon and simply explained with regard to application.Addressing his readers with a script like this, means that the free-thinking publisher does not shy off from dealing with taboo-ridden subjects. By freeing the philosophy and methodology of Hubbard from their superfluous dead weight and making them accessible to the general public, he challenges the monopoly the Church of Scientology purports to have on Hubbard's work. This is in the hope that the techniques discussed here, will, for the first time in their history, be able to be put to an unprejudiced test so that an impartial judgement can be made by ordinary people, i.e. those not indoctrinated by the Church of Scientology or its detractors. ... Read more

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this book seems to align with one of my favortie TV shows as a youth
The book is unique to say the least and the theology is not really any stranger than many other New Age religions. Easy to read and clearly laid out. However, I could not help thinking of my favorite show as a youth "Star Trek" and felt this theology aligned with it very well. ... Read more