" .. the spiritual progress comes through analysis of current and past life experiences which resolve past karma most directly." etc.

(S.S. Subramuniya swami, Dancing with Shiva, Himalayan Academy: India * USA, 1997, p. 575).

Comment The above by a Hindu scholar : while I would not pretend my opinion as "authoritative", it seems to me that the brief statements may have been one of the fairest reports Hubbard had ever got — by another not a follower.

While 'karma' was not one of his terms*, the principle of "as you sow you shall reap" (also seen in other works) seem expressions largely equivalent.

    * karma, deed, what has been done. With some relative certainty one observes, it was not one of the technical terms. I have not ever seen it being mentioned by Hubbard in his writings ; although one would expect his having it mentioned somewhere.
    What has been done by one, and, what has been done to one ought to be noticed as a fundamental distinction. Either 'side' of the question has been given a thorough treatment by Hubbard ; on this I for one would not comment any further (may no "verbal data" multiply), beyond urging the reader to find out the original work by Ron Hubbard — and not anything 'based on' it, or any statements by some anonymous "editors" or the like which, often presented as "official", do contain the wildest distortions in them.

The 'bare karma' so-called (I have seen this somewhere) seems to have been a misconception ; something on the order "every time you have stepped onto your brother's toe your own toe shall be stepped on by somebody". A principle which seems to be working in actual operations would rather be something on the order : every time you have solved a large chunk of 'bad karma' (aberration, in other words) every connected details do also solve.

The 'analysis of current and past life experiences' (called auditing) has been something altogether new in the 19-20th centuries (so far as I for one know, anyhow). The connections (ties) with some parts of the most ancient Hindu traditions could yet seem to be practically direct.

It is only the "foliage" (A. Crowley), the "torturous expressions" (Wang Yang-ming), the 'mistaking verbal distinctions for natural divisions' (J. Bentham), the 'elementalistic' splitting (Count Korzybski) that occasion this "house divided against itself", which the present-day Mankind arguably is.

Please mark well : none of those mentioned here are "the same thing". The various statements on the human record can resolve, by people who can read (not a 'philosopher', usually). Those are not "the same thing", nevertheless, they can be understood as equivalent, some of them, sometimes ; that does not mean they are "the same thing".

In other words, a statement saying something about 'karma' is not a statement saying something about the 'whole track', and the like and so on.

Should any such statements be distorted, our problems only multiply. The vilest things are being done presently, with the entire Man's tradition — by some madmen for the sake of some "Judas' shekel".

Outside opposition to Hubbard's work (often by the largely un-sane psychiatrists) is being presently aggravated by internal infiltration ; falsified (altered) texts have been placed on the market.

"The job is not easy", nay, it has been made even more difficult than ever (during the life-time of Hubbard himself).

WPT. Aug 08