Although this term has been virtually usurped by what I would call the "traditional" spiritual approaches,
it is still the best phrase to describe any technology that is based on the idea that spiritual forces have
a potent, if not primary, causative role in life.

The "traditional" approaches often mention a spiritual "world" that exists separately from the physical
world we all live in. They tend to emphasize the personal benefits of developing one's own ability to
communicate with this world.

The research I have studied suggests a different view. For all practical purposes, the basic unit of life
today is the individual spiritual being. We experience these beings all the time - they are nothing more
than you, and me.

That we cannot normally see or touch these beings has helped keep this research out of the realm of
the material technologies for eons. However, this research indicates that spiritual beings are the true
source of all material objects and life forms. The beings came first, the idea of a game we now call "life"
came next, and the physical creation of it came after that, and in fact continues in small ways to this day.

Every situation, bad or good, that you have ever gotten yourself into can ultimately be traced to the
results of your own thoughts. Of course, beings have been sharing this game called life for a very long
time. And so their individual causations are intertwined - and not at all easy to separate - like a tangled
ball of yarn. Yet the basic mechanism is obvious in simple tasks like opening a bottle and drinking from
it. The point of this page is that this discovery is actually useful. It can be used to improve conditions
in life by using technologies that are based on it. Even the more esoteric "traditional" practices have
occasional amazing results. For me, this is because they are tapping into this same basic truths.

The technologies that have been given the most attention by the founder of Scientology are those
needed to achieve his aims - an increase in individual ability. The primary technology employed is
called "auditing". Read Dianetics (the 2007 edition) to find out why he called it that. Professionals
in auditing are called "auditors". Therefore, the technologies used the most in Scientology have to
do with auditing, the training of auditors, the administration of organizations that train auditors and
deliver auditing, the management of these organizations, and their protection and preservation.
It also, by the way, includes subjects like how to properly translate a book written in English to
another language, the basics of art and performance, the hiring and handling of personnel, and
other subjects involved in creating and managing an organization. The details of those technologies
are in the materials of Scientology. It would be of little benefit for me to try to describe them further.
You can study them using books and lectures that are available to the public (published by Bridge
Publications and New Era Publications). The proper place to train on any of these is a licensed
Scientology organization.

There are, however, secular uses for these technologies. That is briefly covered in the next page.

(last revision 29 April 2009)