Scientology bibliography
Encyclopedia
This is an incomplete bibliography of Scientology
and Scientology-related books produced within the Church of Scientology
and its related organizations.
All entries are by L. Ron Hubbard
or "Based on the Works of L. Ron Hubbard" books unless otherwise noted.
Scientology
Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices created by science fiction and fantasy author L. Ron Hubbard , starting in 1952, as a successor to his earlier self-help system, Dianetics...
and Scientology-related books produced within the Church of Scientology
Church of Scientology
The Church of Scientology is an organization devoted to the practice and the promotion of the Scientology belief system. The Church of Scientology International is the Church of Scientology's parent organization, and is responsible for the overall ecclesiastical management, dissemination and...
and its related organizations.
All entries are by L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard , better known as L. Ron Hubbard , was an American pulp fiction author and religious leader who founded the Church of Scientology...
or "Based on the Works of L. Ron Hubbard" books unless otherwise noted.
- Dianetics: The Original Thesis (1948)
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- Originally circulated in manuscript form to a few friends, it was soon copied and passed hand-to-hand until it literally circled the globe. With thousands of letter requesting more information, Mr. Hubbard concluded the only way to answer all inquires was with a book. That book was Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Included in this book: The Primary Axioms of Dianetics--axioms upon which the entire subject is built, the discovery of the Dynamic Principle of Existence that drives all life forms--SURVIVE!, The Four Dynamics by which life is compartmented and which determine one's survival, The discovery and anatomy of the Reactive Mind, Engrams, the single source of all irrational behavior, The powerful command in every engram which prevented their discovery and handling before Dianetics, The Analytical Mind, its function and operation, The first description of the state of Clear, its attributes and potentials and the Laws of Returning--containing the explanation of both how and why auditing works.
- Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental HealthDianetics: The Modern Science of Mental HealthDianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is a book by L. Ron Hubbard which sets out self-improvement techniques he developed, called Dianetics. The book is also one of the canonical texts of Scientology. It is colloquially referred to as Book One...
(May 1950)
- Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
- Regarded as "Book One" by Scientologists, this book set forth Mr. Hubbard's principles about the "Reactive MindReactive mindThe reactive mind is a concept in the Dianetics and Scientology systems of L. Ron Hubbard, referring to that portion of the human mind that is unconscious and stimulus-response, which Hubbard blamed for most mental and physical ailments...
" and the "dynamic principle of existence".- Dianetics: The Evolution of a ScienceDianetics: The Evolution of a ScienceDianetics: The Evolution of a Science by L. Ron Hubbard is the original article published in Astounding Science Fiction published to immediately precede the release of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health that introduced Dianetics...
(April 1950)
- Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science
- Reprints the original Astounding Science Fiction article from (May 1950) that introduced DianeticsDianeticsDianetics is a set of ideas and practices regarding the metaphysical relationship between the mind and body that was invented by the science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard and is practiced by followers of Scientology...
prior to Book One. This book contains the only account of How the optimum computing machine - the mind - works, How Mr. Hubbard discovered Basic Personality, How the Dynamic Principle of Existence--SURVIVE!--was first isolated, How wrong answers enter into the mind and are held down, giving further wrong answers, How there seem to be "Demons" of the mind, How the engram was discovered and How Dianetics techniques were developed.- Science of SurvivalScience of SurvivalScience of Survival is a book published in 1951 by L. Ron Hubbard, extending his earlier writings on Dianetics. Its original subtitle was "simplified, faster dianetic techniques", although more recent editions have the subtitle "Prediction of human behavior"...
(June 1951)
- Science of Survival
- In this book, Hubbard introduced concepts that were later to become key elements of Scientology: the thetanThetanIn Scientology, the concept of thetan is similar to the concept of spirit or soul found in other belief systems. The term is derived from the Greek letter theta, which in Scientology represents "the source of life, or life itself." In Scientology it is believed that it is the Thetan, not the...
, the tone scaleTone scaleIn Scientology, the tone scale or emotional tone scale is a characterization of human behavior. It is based on the idea that some people appear to be more lively and alive than other people. Author L. Ron Hubbard spelled the idea out saying, "just draw a horizontal line on the page...
, and past livesPast Lives- Music :* Past Lives , a live album by Black Sabbath* Past Lives , an American post-punk band* Past Lives - The Best of the RCA Years, a compilation by the British musical group Level 42....
. It contains a description of how thetaThetaTheta is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth...
interacts with the physical universe of matter, energy, space and time — MEST. The book is written around a Chart of Human Evaluation, providing a complete description of the tone scaleTone scaleIn Scientology, the tone scale or emotional tone scale is a characterization of human behavior. It is based on the idea that some people appear to be more lively and alive than other people. Author L. Ron Hubbard spelled the idea out saying, "just draw a horizontal line on the page...
and the components of emotion — the triangle of Affinity, Reality and Communication and how these components work together (ARC).- Self Analysis (August 1951)
- Included in this book: The laws of survival and abundance, The most embracive description of consciousness, Our efforts for immortality and its relationship to matter, energy, space and time, Essays describing a broad array of discoveries including time, remembering, forgetting, imagination, valences and special auditing lists for each. This book also includes self-processing lists that provide the most powerful of auditing and which can be done anywhere and at any time.
- Advance Procedure and Axioms (November 1951)
- Handbook For Preclears (December 1951)
- A History of Man (July 1952)
- Also known as History of Man, Scientology: A History of Man and its original title What to Audit, this book gives Hubbard's instructions to Scientology auditors on how to recognize Space opera incidentsIncident (Scientology)L. Ron Hubbard used the term Incident in a specific context for auditing in Scientology and Dianetics: the description of space opera events in our Universe's distant past, involving alien interventions in our past lives...
when auditing preclears on the whole track. Among these incidents are buried memories of reincarnated past lives as clams, sloths, and cavemen.- Scientology 8-80 (November 1952
- Scientology 8-8008 (December 1952)
- The Creation of Human Ability (July 1954)
- Dianetics 55! (December 1954)
- Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought
- Problems of Work (October 1956)
- All About RadiationAll About RadiationAll About Radiation is one of the books by L. Ron Hubbard that form the canonical texts of Scientology. Its first printing was from HASI by way of the Speedwell Printing Company, Kent, England, 1957. Later editions were published by the Church of Scientology's in-house publisher Bridge Publications...
(1957)
- Written by L. Ron Hubbard, Gene Denk, and Farley R. Spink. Some editions list Hubbard as sole author. Some editions refer to Hubbard as a nuclear physicist on the cover.
- Have You Lived Before This LifeHave You Lived Before This LifeHave You Lived Before This Life is a non-fiction book published by L. Ron Hubbard in 1960. It is one of the canonical texts of Scientology....
(1960)
- Have You Lived Before This Life
- A collection of "forty-one actual case histories" of reincarnation and past-life experiences, gleaned from auditing with an e-meter at the Church of Scientology's "Fifth London Advanced Clinical Course" held in October-November 1958.
- The Book of E-Meter Drills (1965)
- Written by Mary Sue HubbardMary Sue HubbardMary Sue Hubbard was the third wife of L. Ron Hubbard, from 1952 to his death in 1986, and was a leading figure in Scientology for much of her life...
, post-1988 editions were credited to L. Ron Hubbard. http://www.algonet.se/~tourtel/interests/hubbard_story_of_mary_sue.html- The Way to HappinessThe Way to HappinessThe Way to Happiness is a 1980 booklet written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard listing 21 moral precepts, and distributed by The Way to Happiness Foundation International, a Scientology-related non-profit organization founded in 1984....
(1981)
- The Way to Happiness
- In this book, Hubbard wrote a set of guidelines by which one can achieve what is described by Scientology as true happiness.
- Clear Body, Clear MindClear Body, Clear MindClear Body, Clear Mind is a book published in 1990 by the Church of Scientology's publishing house Bridge Publications. It is credited to L. Ron Hubbard who died four years earlier, and is largely a compilation of material he wrote in the 1960s. It is one of the canonical texts of Scientology and...
(1990)
- Clear Body, Clear Mind
- Also known as Purification. Compiled from earlier bulletins.
- Scientology: Fundamentals of Thought (2007)
- Written by L. Ron Hubbard, with dubbed as “The Basic Book of the Theory and Practice of Scientology for Beginners."
- Originally circulated in manuscript form to a few friends, it was soon copied and passed hand-to-hand until it literally circled the globe. With thousands of letter requesting more information, Mr. Hubbard concluded the only way to answer all inquires was with a book. That book was Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. Included in this book: The Primary Axioms of Dianetics--axioms upon which the entire subject is built, the discovery of the Dynamic Principle of Existence that drives all life forms--SURVIVE!, The Four Dynamics by which life is compartmented and which determine one's survival, The discovery and anatomy of the Reactive Mind, Engrams, the single source of all irrational behavior, The powerful command in every engram which prevented their discovery and handling before Dianetics, The Analytical Mind, its function and operation, The first description of the state of Clear, its attributes and potentials and the Laws of Returning--containing the explanation of both how and why auditing works.