The maxim "what's true for you is true for you" defies logic.
Hubbard never said THAT. People say THAT all of the time, but it is NOT any actual quote. If such a quote actually exists, somebody, please post it.
The actual quote is something like:
What is true for you is what you have OBSERVED.
That comes from the policy,
Personal Integrity.
And, whether you admit it or not, just about every person alive bases what he or she views as "true", at least to more than a little degree, on what he or she has observed (experienced, read, etc).
There is no doubt, that what any person "accepts as true" becomes "truth" for him or her. Of course, that does NOT mean that it "is true". The psychology of "belief" is a fascinating subject, that has a great deal to do with how any person interacts with the "data" of Scientology.
While Hubbard always downplayed this aspect greatly, because he wanted his subject viewed as some "
science of knowing how to know", Scientology DOES function as a typical religion, because it involves a great deal of "faith" and belief - as opposed to actual verifiable facts. Of course, Scientology members often
imagine that they are brutally logical in their understanding and application of Hubbard's "scientific" subject, but in fact, they are RELIGIOUS FOLLOWERS in the same vein as most any other "faith-based religion".
Hubbard makes a GREAT MANY CLAIMS, strewn all throughout the subject materials of Scientology, that often have little or no supporting evidence, and which any Scientology participant MUST "accept on faith" - because there is no other way to accept the information as true. KSW #1 is largely of that nature. KSW #1 is NOT "factual" - it is "gospel".
Scientology DOES function as a religion - but not in the way that any Scientology adherent will ever want to admit. And, not in a way that Hubbard's subject will ever endorse. There is no place in all of the subject data of Scientology where Hubbard comes out and honestly shares with the reader that, in fact, YOU are being groomed into a very strict type of BELIEVER through involvement with Scientology. Hubbard does NOT want to give the slightest clue that Scientology participants are CREATING an immense
imaginative edifice based on Hubbard's many claims, assertions and statements. He wants to create and forward the delusion that you are "knowing with certainty based on careful personal observation". That last, "knowing with certainty based on careful personal observation", is often
very far from the truth of the matter.
The carefully-planned gradient process of Scientology indoctrination tricks people into
imagining that they are "knowing how to know", when in fact, they are being deceived into accepting a very exact set of BELIEFS about all sorts of things - things that for the most part CANNOT be EVER verified by actual honest experience. In other words, all too often Scientologists claim and assert that he or she is "logical", basing ones views on "observations", and "scientific", when actually the opposite is true.
The statement by Hubbard that "one need not believe anything" is PR. It is part of one of MANY LIES that Hubbard tosses out to trick members into starting along the
Bridge to Total Stupidity. Most people will agree that it is a "good thing" to not have to believe in anything when investigating or trying out some new subject, so Hubbard places THAT "fact" there to "grease the works", and thus allows new Scientology participants the opportunity to delude themselves with the notion that "I am a cold calculated logical observer". It is funny really, because one
imagines that he or she "need not believe anything", yet this same person very soon begins accepting all sorts of beliefs about a great many things as a result of studying Scientology.
It is most certainly a good idea to
base what you accept as true on honest and evaluated observations. Sadly, THAT is NOT the way it works in Scientology!
And, once I started to notice THAT discrepancy, that tremendous contradiction, that Scientology did NOT work that way (even though it loudly claimed to), so began my gradual walking away from both the practice (Church) and the subject of Scientology. For me, I did NOT get involved with Scientology to become part of some "fairth-based religion". When I started seeing that THAT was largely what it WAS, well for me, it lost its attraction.