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Integrity and Honesty
* Do you feel you've withdrawn from parts of your life?
* Do the dishonest things you've done in your life still haunt you?
* Why do you walk away from people you once loved?
For the solutions and answers to these situations, buy and read this booklet.
L. Ron Hubbard
There are only two tests of a life well lived L. Ron Hubbard once remarked: Did one do as one intended? And were people glad one lived? In testament to the first stands the full body of his life’s work, including some 12,000 writings and 3,000 tape-recorded lectures of Dianetics and Scientology. In evidence of the second are the hundreds of millions of individuals whose lives have been demonstrably bettered because he lived. They are the more than 28 million students now reading superlatively owing to L. Ron Hubbard’s educational discoveries; they are the millions of men and women freed from substance abuse through L. Ron Hubbard’s breakthroughs in drug rehabilitation; they are the near 100 million who have been touched by his nonreligious moral code: and they are the many millions more who hold his work to be the spiritual cornerstone of their lives.
Although best known for Dianetics and Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard cannot be so simply categorized. If nothing else, his life was too varied, his influence too broad. There are tribesmen in Southern Africa, for example, who know nothing of Dianetics and Scientology, but they know L. Ron Hubbard the educator. Likewise, there are factory workers in Albania who know him only for his administrative discoveries; children in China who know him only as the author of their moral code, and readers in dozens of languages who know him only for his novels. So, no, L. Ron Hubbard is not an easy man to categorize and certainly does not fit popular misconceptions of “religious founder” as an aloof and contemplative figure. Yet the more one comes to know this man and his achievements, the more one comes to realize he was precisely the sort of person to have brought us Scientology, the only major religion to have been founded in the twentieth century.
What Scientology offers is likewise what one would expect of a man such as L. Ron Hubbard. For not only does it provide a fully unique approach to our most fundamental questions—Who are we? From where did we come and what is our destiny? But it further provides an equally unique technology for greater spiritual awareness. So how would we expect to characterize the founder of such a religion? Clearly, he would have to be larger than life, attracted to people, liked by people, dynamic, charismatic and immensely capable in a dozen fields—all exactly L. Ron Hubbard.
The fact is, if Mr. Hubbard had stopped after only one of his many accomplishments he would still be celebrated today. For example, with 46 million works of fiction in circulation, including such monumental bestsellers as Battlefield Earth, Fear and the Mission Earth series, Mr. Hubbard is unquestionably one of the most acclaimed and widely read authors of all time. His novels have earned some of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, and he has very genuinely been described as “one of the most prolific and influential writers of the twentieth century.”
His earlier accomplishments are similarly impressive. As a barnstorming aviator through the 1930s he was known as “Flash” and broke local records for sustained glider flight. As a leader of expeditions, he is credited with conducting the first complete Puerto Rican mineralogical survey under United States protectorship and his navigational annotations still influence the maritime guides for British Columbia. His experimentation with early radio direction finding further became the basis for the Long Range Navigational system (Loran). And, as a lifelong photographer, his works have been displayed in galleries on two continents, with the definitive body of his photographs in traveling and permanent exhibits still drawing tens of thousands every year.
Among other avenues of research, Mr. Hubbard developed and codified an administrative technology that is utilized by more than 200,000 organizations worldwide, including multinational corporations, charitable bodies, political parties, schools, youth clubs and every imaginable small business. Likewise Mr. Hubbard’s internationally acclaimed educational methods are utilized by more than a hundred thousand educators, while his equally acclaimed drug rehabilitation program has proven at least five times more effective than similarly aimed programs.
Yet, however impressive these figures, no measure of L. Ron Hubbard is complete without some appreciation of what became his life’s work: Dianetics and Scientology. The world’s most effective force for positive change, the Church of Scientology represents spiritual freedom for millions of people the world over. They come from every walk of life, every culture and every strata of society. Moreover, when one is speaking of L. Ron Hubbard’s discoveries relating to the human mind and spirit, one is ultimately speaking of the philosophic foundation of all he accomplished: better education, crime-free cities, drug-free campuses, stable and ethical organizations and cultural revitalization through the arts—all this and more is made possible because of the breakthroughs in Dianetics and Scientology.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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I have to thank this book for getting me out of trouble,
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This review is from: Integrity and Honesty (Paperback)
I read this book when I was a teenager. Although I had always been very well-balanced in my life, I was going through a bad period of my teen-years. Until a few months before, I had been always successful in school, had a pretty good relationship with my parents, and had good friends. Then it changed. Why, I found out reading this book. With very simple words, this book explains the concepts of ethics and morality, subjects often named, but deeply understood only by a few. I was "hanging out" with people who were absolutely the opposite of what I was and wanted to be: they smoked pot; didn't care about their education and therefore often disregarded their studies and school; didn't care of the efforts of their parents to give them what they needed, and talked bad about their parents all the time; didn't care about love, only about sex, which seemed to be considered just like a hobby, with nothing behind it. When I realized all this, I was amazed at how I had been influenced to think like them. Luckily for me, this book helped me understand that it was more important for me to understand and act, rather than feel guilty, so I did just that. I went out of that group, and decided what I wanted to do with my life. I was able to talk to my parents again and they helped me get things organized again in my life to reach my goals. Soon I was doing well in school again and I was happy with myself, and I didn't have any trouble finding new friends whom I could share my goals and objectives with. Later on, I used the data in this book many times to help people handle similar situations, as well as solve conflicts in my group of friends and in my class. I grew up, found a job that I liked, a man that I loved, and now I have a family, and I continue to apply the data I learned in this book. Everyone needs this data. I am very happy I read it and that I know this data to teach to my daughter. It's a vital tool for parents, teachers, but also for younger people.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simple yet brilliant look at the subject,
By Jane James "homeschoolmum" (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Integrity and Honesty (Paperback)
This book presents the concepts of ethics and morality at a level that just about anyone can understand. The concepts are defined, and instead of feeling guilty for one's transgressions, there is a very simple, yet incredibly effective, way to address these things. The result is a feeling of relief.People are basically good. When we make mistakes and hurt ourselves or others, we feel guilty. Until now, there has been no easy resolution to these feelings of guilt. I recommend it for EVERYONE, but I want to state that it is very effective with preteens and teenagers, too. I know many families with teens that are doing great in life, and this technology has been indispensible to these families. Since reading this information, my 9 year old son has become very honest. If he does something he shouldn't, rather than keep a secret about it, he'll come to me, which is a MUCH better solution than hiding one's transgressions.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant and Simple!,
By steve (Missouri) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Integrity and Honesty (Paperback)
What impact something as simple as trusting yourself has on your life. Thanks, Mr Hubbard, for making it so easy. Now I can trust others too!
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