From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 6 - May 1992
 
Classic Comment
By Terry E, Scott, England

Diversification

Some of you will be familiar with the science-fiction television show 
"Star Trek". Its creator, Gene Roddenberry, put some philosophical 
elements into the show, assigning some of them to "the Vulcans" (a 
friendly race of aliens).

A key part of Vulcan philosophy includes "IDIC", the first letters of 
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. IDIC was the Vulcans' key 
to tolerance between civilisations, which might live in harmony not 
merely despite differences but because of them.

Well...in our Independent (Free Zone) Movement, writers  in various 
publications are diversifying into areas such as channelling (known to 
some as spiritualism), clairvoyance, Christianity, and much else.

All very interesting. I have some curiosity about the true origins of 
Christianity, occasionally amaze myself with a telepathic -zap!-, am 
well versed in astrology, and take a passing interest in the 
mathematics of the Great Pyramid. But I keep them separate from the 
Tech.

Should such things appear in Free Scientology magazines? In my 
opinion, an underlying unity - such as the Tech - is essential if 
there are to be benefits from the diversities.

I am not proposing to limit freedom of ideas or investigation. Far 
from it. I advocate interest in speculative areas - even whacky ones 
might bring results some day.

But diversity without discipline might broaden the contents of 
Independent publications so much that the Tech might take a back seat. 
If that were to happen, at least some Free Zone journals could become 
like certain New Age periodicals: woolly.

One of my interests is astrology, and my studies into it have 
benefited from knowledge of the Tech. Yet would it be right to launch 
this knowledge in, say, IVy?

Would an infinite diversity of infinite combinations improve our tech 
or make it unrecognisable and useless? Probably if we keep the Tech as 
the tool and the focal point, we can be clear on the other subjects 
and make them useful periphery parts of our knowledge.