Excalibur — What is in a Name? by Antony A Phillips, Denmark The name Excalibur stems from English legends. However it has been rather popular in Scientology circles, used frequently enough in different context to cause confusion.
Briefly, the following are the occurences I know of.
Ron wrote a book called Excalibur. Read more about it in the Tech Dictionary.
Geofrey Filbert wrote a book called Excalibur Revisited, in about 1976.
In about 1984 a free Scientology auditors association was running in Denmark called “Excalibur”.
There are three OT levels named Excalibur on the bridge as performed by Ron’s Org and developed by Bill Robertson.
And the latest one I have heard of is the Excalibur Foundation, in Holland. The leader of that group says in a letter to me “There seems to be confusion between our name and Bill Robertsons Excalibur level. These two things have nothing to do with each other, as you can see and read.” He sent the following article:
Why “Excalibur”? What is the “Excalibur” Foundation?
The Excalibur Foundation consists of a group of people who apply the philosophy of L. Ron Hubbard in the broadest sense, in other words: Life in all its facets.
Excalibur is the name of the sword of the legendary King Arthur. According to the legend the country where the story took place did not have a legal king during Arthur’s youth. Arthur was shicidbearer for his nephew and during a tournament he forgets to bring with him his nephhews sword. Desperately Arthur is looking for a sword and finally he finds one. It is straight on end in a stone, but he pulls it out and brings it to his nephew. The sword has this inscription: “The one, who pulls me out of the stone, is the legal king of this country”. Everybody is speechless because before this event hundreds of guys, bigger and stronger than Arthur, had tried to pull the sword out of the stone, always without result. After this Arthur is king and during his government there is peace and prosperity in the country.
The reason why the Foundation has chosen this name is this: The only legal king in your country is you. In other words, you are the only one who can pull the sword out of the stone. Only you can overcome your problems, conquer your demons, and make your dreams come true. You can expect from the Foundation all help and assistance, but the real work has to be done by yourself and the final result depends on your efforts. The only reason that you on a certain day will not be there with the sword in your hand — master of your own life — is that you did not pull the sword out of the stone, did not claim your own legal leadership, something that nobody can do for you.
“.....your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.”
L.Ron Hubbard What is “Excalibur” Foundation doing? The target of the foundation is by giving courses and, if wanted, processes, give people the opportunity to grow themselves into healthy and happy people who want to contribute to the betterment of the quality of life. As to the study-possibilities, there are different couises which one can do to reach understanding as large as possible concerning certain questions about life, for example: “Where do I come from, what am I doing here, why aren’t we able in this world to live in peace with fellowman, why can we only use such a small part of our potential life force “?