Scientology bibliography

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.

• Dianetics: The Original Thesis (1948)

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 Health (May 1950)

Regarded as "Book One" by Scientologists, this book set forth Mr. Hubbard's principles about the "Reactive Mind" and the "dynamic principle of existence".

• Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science (April 1950)

Reprints the original Astounding Science Fiction article from (May 1950) that introduced Dianetics 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 Survival (June 1951)

In this book, Hubbard introduced concepts that were later to become key elements of Scientology: the thetan, the tone scale, and past lives. It contains a description of how theta 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 scale 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 incidents 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 Radiation (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 Life (1960)

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 Hubbard, post-1988 editions were credited to L. Ron Hubbard. [1]

• The Way to Happiness (1981)

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 Mind (1990)

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."

See also

• L. Ron Hubbard bibliography
• Scientology filmography

External links

• Scientology.org: Materials & Services: Books
• Lronhubbard.org: Scientology Books and Materials
• Scientology Bibliography