In any year thousands of self-betterment groups, good and evil, are formed without comment. Why then did the publication of a book and the forming of a foundation cause such a fantastic reaction, all out of proportion to the importance of such usual acts?
Could it be because no special interest group had this new subject under their control? Could it be because the new subject had in it too much power of truth?
How is it that for sixteen years at this writing, the work, the groups, have continued and multiplied in the face of all opposition including that of governments (whose actions are startling, as who revolted against them)?
I sometimes feel like an old-time explorer, offering a balm to a pygmy mother for her baby’s skin rash and being fearfully hunted by the tribe for “trying to put a spell on them.” Ah well, explorers ran into that, didn’t they?
With this much violence, had there been anything wrong with my past or with my current activities, I long since would have been done away with by the normal processes of law. But no, I remained untouched for all those sixteen years.
It has not been easy to live and work in a hostile atmosphere and yet protect my family and to carry on and keep faith with those who trusted me. I have borne it for the sake of others and for man.
It is interesting that all attempted actions against Scientology have eventually failed and have been proven falsely based in any court of law.
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It doesn’t make sense. And it makes less sense the more you consider it. For neither I nor the subject is an enemy of any of them.
Being easy in my own mind and sincere in the help I offered man and in my interest in him and in being at least one friend in a lonely world, I am not of course going to engage upon an impassioned defense of myself or much less engage in violent attacks upon the rather less than sane people who make such senseless (and nebulous) charges.
Dianetics and Scientology are perfectly plain to anyone who studies and uses them. No matter what adventures I have had, Scientology is not unbelievable.
A six year old boy just last night graduated from a Communications Course and was very happy about it as life looked so much easier to him now. Anyone who studies the technology finds it helps man communicate, solve his problems, become a more social being, makes it unnecessary for him to continue to excuse his failures with more failures and frees him as a spiritual being.
Man and philosophers have been hoping and trying to do these things all down the ages. Why the charges of villainy when it has at last become possible for any person to follow an easy way to freedom and have a saner, happier civilization?
But then one remembers that philosophers have been given hemlock and that others who tried to help man have been slain in fury and one begins to see that it is a dangerous activity.
Only a being with the highest possible sense of adventure and dedication would ever attempt to solve the riddle of man’s being and destiny. The most incredible adventure of all was to advance a solution to that riddle. For the hiding place is strewn with the bones of those who tried in ages past, all far better men than I. So only a chap with nerve enough to walk unarmed amongst savages in far places would ever seek to solve the riddle of existence. That by now is obvious!
To me the only important thing is that I have finished and written my work. Despite all, that I have done.
And man, despite anything he now says or does, may someday be glad that I have lived.
Let that suffice.
It is the only important thing.
I only hope that I have helped.
I have done my job. This no man in truth will ever be able to decry.
How important that job was is for the future, not for me, to decide.
