First of all: yes, the Daily Source is less “daily” as it is “as often as I can”, which tends to be about 5.5 days out of 7.  Sorry. :(

Second of all: Homo Novis, Scientology’s ubermensch.  From A History of Man ($25, Bridge Publications):

This Homo Novis is limited in his self-determinism by all the economic and social restrictions of an aberrated society. He is not free of food, clothing or shelter. He dies when you get him too cold, he perishes when the oxygen content drops too low. He is living in a tolerance band which keeps him cramped to the face of one second-rate planet in a tenth-rate system, prey to all the ill will that blows. Is this being free or self-determined ? Maybe he is good enough to overlord his fellows into a security for himself never before possible. But that is his only real route towards security. He must fight and command for his three squares, he must use police protection in order to keep himself free of bullet holes and bumper marks. Compared to a Homo Sapiens, Homo Novis is very high and godlike. Compared to a truly self-determined being, Homo Novis is an ant ready to die under anybody’s mis-step.

So by reading Dianetics and reaching the state of Clear, you become a separate species from Homo Sapiens.  Completely incapable of escaping injury any more than a Homo Sapien, a Homo Novis is nonetheless better - “very high and godlike” - than an ordinary human.  In practice, no difference; but in the minds of an powerful authoritarian regime, the implications are very, very dangerous.

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