From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 18 - August 1994
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Epilogue
from The Pied Pipers of Heaven(1)
by L.Kin, currently Earth
One of the dangers connected with writing books is that people may
start believing what one says.
Anything written may lead to quoting the author, and that to agreeing
with him - and agreeing with him to underestimating one's own
experiences.
Out of this, superstition is born, after the tune: 'Not what I
say is true, but what he says'. Because he is bigger, better,
holier or cleverer than me. So he must be right.
Why? Because he wrote a book. But that's all he did, after all, didn't
he? And perhaps that's the only difference between you and him,
really.
He splattered his viewpoint all over the place, you didn't. So what?
Truth in this book
Nothing in this book is true 'for everybody'. It's the truth
some people found for themselves at a specific time. As there are
common denominators between what they found, one is inclined to take
this as 'the truth'. Fair enough - but perhaps
one ought to call it, more cautiously, a 'passing agreement on
what was and what is'. A possibility.
Example: Was there a World War II? 'Yes', you might say. Well,
how do you know? Did you actually experience it? And if you did,
how do you know others had comparable experiences elsewhere? 'But
they told me!', is the answer. 'And it's documented in films,
photographs and many books.' So? All you are saying is that you
are in agreement with a certain source of information. What is
true about World War II is what you agree is true. It's a truth you
have arrived at by selecting information according to logic,
plausibility
and within a mental framework you feel comfortable with.
Perhaps everything in this book is an invention, an example of how
the combined madness of a number of people as inspired by their chief
madman, L.Ron Hubbard, can result in a few hundred printed pages.
Perhaps you were introduced to an artificially created universe that's
continued to be created by Hubbard's followers.
But why would they do such a thing?
Wallowing in the mysteries of the whole track, elevating Xenu to a
mythological being is no solution to anything, except perhaps that
it serves to balance out one's inferiority complex (because now one
knows a 'secret').
Yardstick for auditing
There is only one yardstick to judge auditing by:
does it make a person more able to enhance the survival of himself
and his fellow men and women? If not, it's pure theta cosmetics to
smooth out the wrinkles in one's halo; it's a mind trip, something
to get high on, a substitute for living life and exposing oneself
to the judgement society brings down on one.
Whatever is said here about Xenu, Yatrus and the developmental stages
of the universe might be conveniently used by someone to 'explain'
why he cannot cope in life, as a good reason to be inefficient, a
victim, a pain in the neck.
So let it be said loud and clear: nothing in this book is 'important'.
What is important is assisting one's own survival and at
the same time that of one's fellows, it's creating effects
that can be had by others with oneself being able to tolerate any
effect, it's finding solutions that do not backfire and therefore
won't ever nail one down to one's past.
Some solo-auditor may have a swollen chest because he just knocked
a handful of Marcabians off their ship; his next door neighbour,
in the same time span, may have been tending the cabbages in his
garden.
Who is 'righter'? Who is more ethical? Perhaps
this gardener didn't need to do any solo-auditing, because he never
made the sort of mistakes this auditor made and so doesn't have to
clean anything up. Perhaps he is a gardening missionaire with
particular
attention to cabbages, straight from the M-ship, and has no Earth
case yet that would need straightening out. Perhaps he is an
enlightened
being from outside the physical universe who only arrived two weeks
ago with the intention of setting an example of simplicity and
serenity
and 'borrowed' that gardener's body. Who is to know?
The hardest discipline is distinguishing between
one's own thoughts and creations and another's, if this entire
universe
is anything to go by. So don't take anything on trust.
Everything in this book is true with relation to the frame of mind
of the people who found these data. And it's true for anyone who can
relate to that frame of mind. So it's relatively true.
For anyone else, it's nonsense.
If this book contained any absolute truth and the reader were able
to see it as it is, the world (including this book) would crumble
away around him and dissolve into nothingness.
(1)This extract from volume 3
of L.Kin's Scientology ... series is included by special permission
of ScienTerra Publishers. We asked for a small snippet for our readers
and at first their editor said 'The book is well built in terms
of gradients: therefore early chapters may appear boring to some (and
misrepresent the book) while later chapters may be out of context
or too rough on some (and so misrepresent the book as well)'.
Ed.