Any Scientologist who was around during the 1970s will fondly remember the old HQS Course.

It cost $75, took forever to do and cost orgs and missions the earth to deliver. It was the all-time loss leader, and if organizations had been allowed to deliver no other services they would have gone broke in no time.

But there was great wisdom in that HQS Course and great results: nearly everyone who did it became a Scientologist and considered themselves firmly on the Bridge and went on to other auditing and training services. That course made Scientologists by the thousands and had far fewer drop outs than the Div 6 TRs Course that usually preceded it.

In the 1980s, the course was revised in its entirety based on no evaluation and no review of the tremendous results of the 1970s course. The new course contained much less co-auditing, cost many times more and was not piloted to any extent, certainly not enough to determine how it would affect the lineup of Div 6 services for people newly interested in Scientology. In that regard the new HQS Course was a disaster.

As the RTRC compiler of that 1987 pile of crap* I am helping to right that wrong now with a new--well, actually old--HQS Course for use in the Independent field. The successful 1970s HQS was compiled by perhaps the most successful, visionary Div 6 Scientologist of all besides LRH himself, his daughter, Diana. For years, Diana was Commodore’s Staff over Div 6 and developed several big think strategies for the field. She compiled the HQS Course in 1972 and this is the basis of the course we are making available again today. The 1972 course contained a survey of Scientology basics and included training on TRs and lots of co-auditing on Objective Processes as well as Self Analysis Lists which made brand new Scientologists into experienced co-auditors. All this has been resurrected on this new course. Her 1972 course had a section at the end that oriented the student to Scientology organizations and we have broadened that in this new version to orient the student to life as a Scientologist.

The basic principles presented on the course and the incredible co-auditing that a student gives and receives, definitely enable anyone to make up his or her mind about Scientology. If a person only did this course and no other, they would know for certain either a) that Scientology is something that is beneficial in their life or else b) that it isn’t, and can move on knowing they had invested enough of their effort and time to have made an honest assessment.

From my experience, though, nearly everybody concludes the former.

Best of luck to everyone who downloads and avails themselves of the new Independent Hubbard Qualified Scientologist Course.

Click here to download Dan's new IHQS Checksheet.

Dan Koon
John Aaron Williams

*Note: While Dan compiled the 1987 version of Diana’s original course from the 1970s, what actually happened was this: David Miscavige (who else?) “knew best” and decided the original HQS Course took too long. So, Miscavige ordered the old course be replaced and the dirty work fell to Dan. — Thoughtful