Bibliography of Scientology

This bibliography of Scientology includes Scientology and Dianetics-related books, periodicals and other issues authored by L. Ron Hubbard and those produced by the Church of Scientology and its related organizations. Books bearing L. Ron Hubbard's name are considered texts of Scientology's canon.

"The amount of material on Dianetics and Scientology is extensive, to say the least. This material is composed of books by L. Ron Hubbard (including basic books on Dianetics and Scientology philosophy and technology, technical bulletins, a technical dictionary, and bulletins on Hubbard's management technology); compilations of his works; taped lectures; auditor training materials (books, tapes, films, and portfolios); course packages; booklets; a large number of magazines and annuals; and video recordings of the major annual events."

After Hubbard's death in 1986, all publications bearing his name are copyrighted L. Ron Hubbard Library, and books compiled by the Church of Scientology and published after his death are indicated as "Based on the Works of L. Ron Hubbard".

Books

 * Advanced Procedure and Axioms (November 1951)
 * This is a Dianetics book which introduces such subjects as the Dianetic Axioms—all of the axioms on which the theory of Dianetics is structured; the Dianetic Logics, a system of thought and analysis based on infinite-valued logic and through which any situation may be evaluated. This book also introduces such concepts as "Self-Determinism", "Absolute Responsibility", and the "Service Facsimile"—a mechanism by which the individual seeks to make themselves right and others wrong by suffering from some inability, illness, etc. ISBN 9781403144140


 * All About Radiation (1957)
 * Out of print. An early edition was titled All about radiation : man's inhumanity to man. Variously labelled over the years as being authored by L. Ron Hubbard; by "a nuclear physicist and a medical doctor" (c. 1967); by Hubbard, Gene Denk, and Farley R. Spink (1989); and other versions included a Richard Farley. ISBN 9780884044468


 * Art (1991)
 * Art was originally a technical bulletin on the theory of art, Hubbard's attempt at codification of an aesthetic theory. Hubbard's approach focuses on the overlap between communication and art. The three axioms of art that he proposed in the book was that first, "too much originality throws the audience into unfamiliarity and therefore disagreement". Second that "technique should not rise above the level of workability for the purpose of communication". Third, "perfection cannot be attained at the expense of communication". ISBN 9780884044833


 * Assists Processing Handbook


 * The Book of Case Remedies


 * The Book of E-Meter Drills (1965)
 * Earlier editions with credit to Mary Sue Hubbard. ISBN 9781573180320


 * Brain-Washing Manual (1955)
 * Published by the Church of Scientology in 1955 without an author. Alleged by Hubbard's son to have been dictated by L. Ron Hubbard and typed up.


 * Child Dianetics


 * Clear Body, Clear Mind (1990)
 * Also known as Purification and Clear Body, Clear Mind: The Effective Purification Program. Compiled from earlier Hubbard bulletins. Suggests harmful chemicals lodge in the fatty tissues of the body and affect the mind. Describes how these can be removed through a sauna and vitamin regimen. This book is a basic text for the Church of Scientology's Purification Rundown.


 * The Creation of Human Ability (July 1954)
 * This book contains all of the processes derived from previous data and the newly introduced objective processes—which deal in directly perceiving and affecting objective, present-time reality both with the person either interior or exterior to his body. Theologian Marco Frenschkowski comments that the book was created as a reference guide for auditors, to address the practical necessity of orienting them to a "more technical, less philosophical side of Scientology." It was compiled by Hubbard's office and starts with a bible quotation from the gospel of Luke, one of the longest biblical quotations in the founder's writings. The quotation considers Scientology as similar to early Christian missions, because of the common sense of urgency and experience of being in a mission.


 * Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science
 * Published in article form in Astounding Science Fiction (May 1950), and republished later as a book, it contains the only account of how the optimum computing machine—the mind—works, how Hubbard discovered "basic personality", how the dynamic principle of existence—survive—was first isolated, how wrong answers enter into the mind, how there seem to be demons of the mind, how the concept of the engram was discovered, and how Dianetics techniques were developed.


 * Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
 * First published in May 1950 and referred to as "Book One" by Scientologists, this book describes Hubbard's ideas about the "reactive mind", the time track, and his therapy technique for getting rid of psychosomatic illness. Abbreviated as DMSMH.


 * Dianetics: The Original Thesis
 * First published in 1951 under the name Dianetics: The Original Thesis, and retitled in 1983 as The Dynamics of Life. According to the forward of the 2007 version of the book, the editors write that this book had originally been circulated in manuscript form to a few friends, copied and passed hand-to-hand. It generated a large inflow of correspondence filled with questions, prompting Hubbard to write Dianetics: The Modern Science to Mental Health.


 * Dianetics 55! (December 1954)
 * This book deals with a very large range of processes all centering around the subject of the individual's communications with his environment. It is the 1955 answer to Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.


 * E-Meter Essentials


 * Excalibur (1938)
 * Unpublished, but oft-mentioned by Hubbard.


 * Group Auditor's Handbook


 * Handbook For Preclears (December 1951)
 * This Dianetics book shares much of the theory of Advanced Procedure and Axioms and is dedicated to self-processing.


 * Have You Lived Before This Life (1958)
 * No longer published. A collection of "forty-one actual case histories" of 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.


 * How to Live though an Executive (1953)


 * Hymn of Asia: An Eastern Poem (1974)
 * Hubbard speculates whether he might be Maitreya, the future Buddha spoken of in Buddhist literature.


 * Introducing the E-Meter


 * Introduction to Scientology Ethics (1968)
 * Written by Hubbard. (See also Scientology ethics and justice.)


 * Introductory and Demonstration Processes Handbook


 * Knowingness


 * L. Ron Hubbard Series
 * 16 books covering Hubbard's hagiography.


 * Mission Into Time (1973)
 * Relates Hubbard's travels in the Mediterranean in 1968 to check his "recall" of incidents occurring several thousand years ago. The book is edited from a lecture and formerly published as A Test of Whole Track Recall. "It is a report on missions sent out to Sardinia, Sicily and Carthage to see if specific evidence could be found to substantiate L. Ron Hubbard's recall of incidents in his own past, centuries ago."


 * Notes on the Lectures of L. Ron Hubbard


 * The Organization Executive Course and Management Series (12 volumes)


 * The Problems of Work (1956)


 * Purification: An Illustrated Answer to Drugs


 * Research and Discovery Series


 * Science of Survival (June 1951)
 * In this book, Hubbard introduced concepts that were later to become key elements of Scientology: theta, the tone scale, and the possibility of past lives. It contains a description of how theta interacts with the physical universe of matter, energy, space and time—termed MEST. The book is written around a Chart of Human Evaluation, providing a complete description of the tone scale and the components of emotion—the triangle of Affinity, Reality and Communication and how these components work together (ARC).


 * Scientology: A History of Man (July 1952)
 * Also known as History of Man and its original title What to Audit, this book Hubbard gives ample general case data and rudimentary instructions on how to audit the "Whole Track" (all of the incidents lived by the individual—known as the thetan) and certain common incidents found in all genetic entities (the theta entity apart from the individual himself, which has been found to play a key role in the evolution and development of the body). Among the genetic entity case stories are some of single-celled organisms, clams, sloths and neanderthals. On the thetan's whole track are incidents loosely called "space opera," including "implants," which are strong engrams deliberately inflicted on the victim for political purposes.
 * One of Hubbard's first documented writings on the process of "theta clearing" was in the book, where Hubbard states, "Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoelace. It has nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charlatanism, monkeyism or eosophy. Done, the thetan can do anything a stage magician can do in the way of moving objects around." (p.59)


 * Scientology: A New Slant on Life (1976)
 * Compiled from works by Hubbard, it contains such Scientology articles as "Is It Possible to Be Happy?", "Two Rules for Happy Living", "Personal Integrity", and "'The Anti-Social Personality." "A New Slant On Life is a highly practical handbook for the reader seeking to understand himself or herself, and discover his or her own answers."


 * Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought (1956)
 * This book contains all basic Dianetics and Scientology principles and processes developed to the individual and their life as a game. A basic concept in the book is that life is a game no matter what, and that the basic variable is the degree to which the individual knows what games they are playing and the degree to which they can knowingly come up with new ones.


 * The Scientology Handbook (1994)
 * The Scientology Handbook is an 871-page handbook published by the Church of Scientology. Although Hubbard is listed as the sole author, it is described as having been "compiled by the LRH Book Compilation Staff of the Church of Scientology International".


 * Scientology 0–8: The Book of Basics


 * Scientology 8-80 (November 1952)
 * This book contains the basic laws by which the thetan is able to create energy and therefore influence the environment around him. It also therefore includes newly developed processing related to energy production and stuck or uncontrolled energy over which the thetan is not taking responsibility.


 * Scientology 8-8008 (December 1952)
 * This is one of the most important books in Scientology. The number 8-8008 is a symbolism for the reduction of the MEST universe to zero and expansion of one's own universe to infinity. This book deals in the subject of postulates, considerations and the way in which the individual perceives and therefore creates the physical universe and also his own universe. Processing here deals with the complete rehabilitation of one's own universe so that one can cause an effect on the shared physical universe.


 * Self Analysis (August 1951)
 * Included in this book are the laws of survival and abundance, the most embracive description of consciousness, humanity's 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.


 * The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology (18 volumes)


 * Understanding


 * Understanding the E-Meter


 * The Way to Happiness (1981)
 * In this book, Hubbard wrote a set of relatively loose, common-sense guidelines to achieving happiness.

Periodicals
These are some of the periodical magazines that the Church of Scientology has published.


 * Ability — Magazine of Class V orgs. Class V orgs deliver Scientology services up to the level of Clear.
 * Advance! — Magazine of Advanced Organizations including Advanced Org Los Angeles (AOLA) and others. AOs deliver the OT Levels to Scientologists.
 * Auditor — Magazine of "Saint Hill" sized orgs including American Saint Hill Organization (ASHO) and AOSHUK. Saint Hill orgs deliver the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course to students.
 * Cause — Magazine of International Hubbard Ecclesiastical League of Pastors (IHELP). IHELP licenses individual Scientologists to audit others outside of the Church of Scientology.
 * Celebrity — Magazine of Celebrity Centres
 * Centre — Magazine of Scientology Missions International
 * Certainty — Magazine for the British Isles
 * Freedom — Magazine published by Church of Scientology International for general distribution to any public person (non-scientologists). The tagline is "Investigative reporting in the public interest". The original tagline was "The Independent Journal Published by the Church of Scientology". Characterized as propaganda.
 * High Winds — Quarterly magazine of the Sea Org
 * Impact — Magazine of the International Association of Scientologists
 * Inroads — Magazine of the Association for Better Living and Education
 * International Scientology News — Magazine published by Church of Scientology International for distribution to Scientologists.
 * Reality — Magazine of the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles
 * Source — Magazine of the Flag Land Base including Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization and Flag's Advanced Org.
 * Theta — Magazine of the Church of Scientology of New York
 * Prosperity — Magazine of World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE). The tagline is "The Source Line for Business".
 * Winning! — News journal of the Office of Special Affairs

Other issues

 * Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin (HCOB) - Authored by Hubbard. Used to communicate procedures for auditing or training activities (the "tech"). Printed with red ink on white paper.
 * Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter (HCO PL) - Authored by Hubbard. Used to communicate orders, directions or policy for Scientology administrative and management purposes. Printed with green ink on white paper. Abbreviated HCO PL or HCO Pol Ltr.
 * Flag Order (FO) - Policy for the Sea Org. Authored by Hubbard or senior Sea Org executives.
 * L. Ron Hubbard Executive Directive (LRH ED) - Previously called SEC EDs. Authored by Hubbard. For projects, programs, orders and directions. Printed with blue ink on white paper.
 * Scientology Policy Directive (SPD) - Printed with green ink on green paper. Issued by the Church of Scientology, not by Hubbard.