Ron Hubbard

What Is Scientology?
$22.95
This book is an encyclopedia of sorts. It explains why Scientology is a religion, why some oppose it and why most support it.

The workability of the drug treatment programs run through Narconon, the Criminon courses that inmates take (I have seen their successes, they would mail them to me and I would see that they were doing great with the material); the literacy programs and so on.

It's really too bad that the general public do not know what Scientology is. There are some who let South Park or Time Magazine teach them what Scientology is. The intelligent person will not base his or her opinions on a cartoon or a second-rate news rag. They'll find out for themselves.

The Dianetics and Scientology websites have recently been cleaned up and have a lot of video content. Do check it out.

Auditing is a counselling technique that is not based on hypnosis or other psychotherapy. It's very effective.

When you know something works you use it and you apply it.

See their websites for the videos: [...] and [...].

If Amazon wipes those, then here is something else:

Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Documentary DVD with Booklet
How To Use Dianetics
AN INTRODUCTION TO SCIENTOLOGY: FILMED INTERVIEW WITH L. RON HUBBARD

And this is the newest product now on Amazon:

This Is Scientology

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
$29.95
Things should be prefaced with a couple of meta-comments...

1. The book and the movie are very different works. The movie should never be mentioned again...

2. I'm definitely not a Scientologist! The book has a number of places where it's pretty clear that it's presenting Sci-ish material; certainly the discussion of he "evil Catrists" that made the Psychlos what they are would count as such.

It's "pretty bad," but entertaining funny space opera.

From start to end, the good guys are over-the-top heroic, and bad guys over-the-top bad. The good guys are extra clever when they most need to be, and the bad guys live down to much the same.

It feels like 1950s-style space opera, which actually seems to be something that Hubbard was somewhat good at.

There's speculation out there as to who actually wrote it; I tend to think it's one author, quite possibly Hubbard. There seems a consistent wit throughout. Contrast this with the 10 volume Mission Earth series; that one had enormous variations (at least in the volumes I saw) so as to make claims of ghostwriting seem quite credible.

The good guys are bigger than big, as are the baddies... It is certainly filled with the same "disease" we see in later day Star Trek, namely that everyone lives up to their stereotypes, whether they be Chinese (that make food that people love, complete with the hungry-15-minutes-later joke), Scottish (with intergalactically-potent penny-pinching abilities), or Selachee bankers that are a running shark joke.

I like to imagine that this was Hubbard's "swan song," something entertaining produced in his latter years.

Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health (English)
$20.00
This book is worthless without the platinum coated E-Meter (TM).
I bought this book and paid $2300 to buy an E-meter to measure my engrams and Thetan levels.
By reading this book and implementing the methods therein and using E-Meter regularly my Thetan level dropped considerably. (Take that, Mayo clinic! )
I am already OT II now. Looking forward to OT III.
Please do not buy the copper coated E-Meters($1000). They are not that good at removing body Thetans. Only Platinum coated ones will do.
Only with the help of Platinum coated E-Meter(TM) you can audit yourself and get rid of those pesky Thetans.

Clear Body Clear Mind (English)
$14.95
This book is ridiculous. If it were printed in a normal sized font and all the extra spaces were removed, it'd probably be about 20 pages long. It's formatted like a children's book. Its "advice" ranges from obvious to frightening, including the suggestion that people sit in a hot sauna for HOURS each day.