Mr. Hubbard's Writings

Why does International Management make such efforts to ensure that Mr. Hubbard’s books and other non-fiction writing are published exactly as he intended?

It is to preserve his legacy of religious technology for this and future generations.

In the early 1950s, when Mr. Hubbard’s basic books were first published, there was no Sea Organization and no management structure. The books were produced by publishing companies whose staff were not Scientologists.

Although the subject has been covered in various briefings and events over the years, not all may know the extensive efforts that International Management has undertaken to ensure that Mr. Hubbard’s books and issues are made available exactly as he intended: reviewing all materials against original manuscripts, releasing them in their on-source final form.

Some years ago, International Management began a search to collect up original writings and materials by Mr. Hubbard from every corner of the globe. Sea Org Missions were sent to hundreds of locations in 19 different countries, including every church where he had ever been. They looked in every desk, closet, box, file cabinet, attic, basement and garage.

Scientologists who had been in Scientology since the early days were asked to check for any original materials they might have.

More than 40,000 hours were devoted to this project, and the results were astounding. Original materials were found in all sorts of unlikely places – a space under a staircase, sealed for years, a panel in a ceiling above a desk that concealed an attic where hundreds of handwritten materials written by Mr. Hubbard and dozens of original master tapes were found. In the Founding Church in Washington DC, his original typed manuscript for the book 8-8008 was found on a shelf amongst other papers in his office. Mr. Hubbard actually talks about this manuscript in the first tape of the Philadelphia Doctorate Course lectures – how the pages were hurriedly typed in London and rushed over to Philadelphia for students at the opening lecture.

These Sea Org Missions found hundreds of original handwritten materials and dozens of original master tapes containing Mr. Hubbard’s lectures, including 50 original lectures that had never been available before. These materials filled dozens of filing cabinets.

And it was with these materials in hand that International Management began a program to verify every issue and book written by Mr. Hubbard against the original manuscripts.

International Management also began a full review of the huge volume of his lectures to verify all the transcripts, including those not known about before and those that had never been fully transcribed.

The review included early taped lectures given by Mr. Hubbard that were entirely inaudible in places. There were very few tape recorders in those days and the sound scriber that was used to record the early lectures was actually a dictating machine.

In some cases, the recordings were so bad it seemed almost hopeless they could ever be deciphered. But using special record players and modern computer technology, Mr. Hubbard’s voice was extracted and made audible.

The entire aim and purpose of the above has been to make all his technology available for this and future generations, fully on-source and complete in every aspect. And Scientologists today are benefiting from everything that was done.

In compiling and making these materials available, International Management is in fact applying KSW 1, in which Mr. Hubbard wrote:

“Our technology has not been discovered by a group. True, if the group had not supported me in many ways, I could not have discovered it either. But it remains that if in its formative stages it was not discovered by a group, then group efforts, one can safely assume, will not add to it or successfully alter it in the future. I can only say this now that it is done. There remains, of course, group tabulation or coordination of what has been done, which will be valuable – only so long as it does not seek to alter basic principles and successful applications.”¹

Was the line up of tapes for the Student Hat course changed since Mr. Hubbard’s time?

No. It has been claimed that three 1956 lectures by Mr. Hubbard on the subject of education are not included in the Student Hat Course.

These lectures are all available. They are:

EDUCATION POINT OF AGREEMENT (13 Oct 1956)
(issued as part of the "Power of Simplicity" lectures)
EDUCATION (25 October 1956)
(issued in the series "How to Present Scientology to the World")
METHODS OF EDUCATION (25 October 1956)
(issued in the series "How to Present Scientology to the World")

They are not part of the Student Hat Course, though.

The Student Hat Course contains 9 lectures.

In the summer of 1964, Mr. Hubbard gave a series of lectures on the St. Hill Special Briefing Course announcing a new technology related to study that he had just developed. These are the lectures Mr. Hubbard describes in HCO B 27 April 1971, EDUCATION, DEFINITION OF as "the 7 Study Tapes." These lectures are:

STUDYING: INTRODUCTION (18 June 1964)
STUDYING: DATA ASSIMILATION (9 July 1964)
A SUMMARY OF STUDY (4 August 1964)
STUDY: GRADIENTS AND NOMENCLATURE (6 August 1964)
STUDY: EVALUATION OF INFORMATION (11 August 1964)
STUDY AND EDUCATION (13 August 1964)
A REVIEW OF STUDY (22 September 1964)

Mr. Hubbard revisited the subject of study in another St. Hill Special Briefing Course lecture in 1966. This lecture is called:

STUDY AND INTENTION (18 August 1966).

The ninth lecture that was made part of the Student Hat Course because of the vital data it contains, is a Saint Hill Special Briefing Course Lecture called:

TRAINING AND DUPLICATION (24 January 1962).

These are the nine lectures by Mr. Hubbard that are included on the Student Hat Course.

When he reissued the Student Hat Course as part of the Tech Correction Roundup of January 1977, he included only the above nine lectures, and these have remained part of the course since then.

The three 1956 lectures on education contain valuable information and are available as part of the packages of lectures noted above.

¹HCO PL 7 February 1965, Keeping Scientology Working.