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By The Pilot
This document attempts to confront various
things which are wrong with Scientology. It is not idle natter or an
unjustified viscous attack. I believe in the stated goals of the subject and
wish to see them achieved. To some degree, the subject has become its own
worst enemy and this needs to be handled so that forward progress can be made.
It would be wrong of me to simply shoot without offering something positive as
well. For this reason, I ask that anyone making this document available to
others should also include the remaining, more positively oriented, documents
in this series.
WHAT IS:
That Hubbard was a self educated intuitive genius capable of great leaps of
inductive logic.
WHAT ISN'T:
The supposedly thorough research. It did not happen that way. LRH assumed that
if something worked once, it would work again. He wanted to learn what he
could from it and then go on to something else. Once the early Dianetic boom
petered out, he was generally only teaching small classes of 10 to 20 advanced
students and they jumped from one process to the next like jackrabbits. The
techniques of one month were old in the next. The collection and codification
of this material was left to others. Later, when there were thousands of
practitioners, there was no room left for criticism of his words. He accepted
little feedback from the field. In later days, backwards rundowns would be in
use for years before any hint of failure filtered back up to the top.
WHAT IS: Scientology™ is a study of the mind and spirit.
WHAT ISN'T: Scientology™ has not really earned its claims of being a science. It might best
be described as an "alchemy" sitting on the border between
superstition and real understanding. Scientology™ works often but not always.
The discrepancies are forced to fit by "Making it go right" and the
failures are blamed on "out-Ethics" and hidden under the carpet
least they blacken the reputation of the subject and thereby deny freedom to
all mankind. This is a fanatical rather than a scientific approach.
WHAT IS:
A science is the work of many individuals, each working independently.
Hopefully there would be a free interchange of ideas but progress can occur
even when this is absent. For example, Edison and Tesla were notorious enemies
and yet the electricity in our homes depends heavily on both of their
discoveries (Edison for the lights and motors and Tesla for the generators and
transmission system).
Progress does not come from committees. Ideas, inventions, techniques, and
discoveries do indeed originate from singular and individual sources. I have
been on software design committees that achieved less than any of the
individual members could have done alone. But this does not mean that
everything comes from one single source.
WHAT ISN'T:
A complete science has never been originated exclusively by a single
individual. In attempting to deny any possibility of other researchers,
Hubbard has barred the road more thoroughly than any of the closed minds who
reject the very existence of a spirit.
WHAT IS:
The original foundations of Dianetics™ was in regression therapy. Ron made
improvements, but the majority of the valuable enhancements came out in later
years and are the valid product of years of running engrams on people.
WHAT ISN'T:
The research line of regression therapy was never followed up properly by the
professionals in psychotherapy. The problem was that regression therapy will
quickly open up past lives. This made it obviously false to anyone who had the
average scientist's anti-religious bias. In modern times, this prejudice has
faded and you will find some psychotherapists practicing regression therapy,
and it is almost always referred to as past life regression because that is
what it inevitably leads to.
I doubt that Ron knew about this "bug" in regression therapy when he
was writing DMSMH (Dianetics the Modern Science of Mental Health). He
certainly doesn't mention it in the book and in his early lectures and taped
demonstrations (1950), he forces the PCs (Preclears) into prenatal incidents
as a solution to the inability to find basic incidents in the current
lifetime. These prenatal incidents almost never show up in modern Dianetics™
and can safely be discounted as trivial and unimportant in most cases. This
puts the entire Dianetics™ book in a bad light as far as any claims to
producing real results or having been researched thoroughly.
Actually it was probably a lucky break for us (except for those who hate the
subject) that he didn't do extensive research before he wrote the popular book
and found himself committed to a supposedly invalidated technique. He opened
his eyes, accepted the past lives, and ran with it.
WHAT IS:
Many of the ideas and techniques in Scientology™ stem from earlier sources. Ron
would say this quite freely in the early days. The Dianetic breakthrough into
past lives (which strips away all the usual BS about everybody having been
Cleopatra that comes up in many mystical circles) provided an organizing point
(a stable datum) around which all the existing data in metaphysics and
philosophy could be aligned. Scientology™ was originally a system for
separating the wheat from the chaff (see the 1952 lecture "Scientology:
Milestone One").
Ron pulled together stuff out of everything from General Semantics and Magic
to Krishnamurti and the Tibetan materials. He distilled out the essence of
what he saw as true, discarded the old superstitions that were mingled in, and
pulled it together into what he considered to be a cohesive whole. Even as
late as 1955 he talked about himself as being the great organizer rather than
an originator.
From magic and Crowley he deduces that the one thing they were doing that
worked was to practice clearly visualizing the effect of a spell before trying
to cast it so as to avoid the spell going wrong and backfiring. Ron realized
that when these spells work, it was this visualization and "The
Will" which created the success rather than the mumbo-jumbo rituals. He
distills this down to the mockup processing which is the mainstay of the
Philadelphia Doctorate Course and he refines Crowly's idea of "Will"
into a much more clearly defined concept of "Intention".
Early in this century, self hypnosis and auto-suggestion were in vogue and
according to the unauthorized biographies, Ron jumped on the bandwagon with
his "affirmations". This makes total sense because if you drop out
the hypnosis (which Ron turned his back on fairly early) and evolve the
concept into its highest imaginable form, you find yourself with the Scientology™ concept of making postulates. And that's quite a step above
positive thinking (which also evolved out of auto-suggestion).
You'll find the "Yoga of the psychic heat" (see Evan's "Tibetan
Yoga and Secret Doctrines") in a vastly improved form among the Route 1
drills in Creation of Human Ability and you'll find that the "Meditation
on a Breathing Object" is the forerunner of TR0. But the improvements
made are vast and show real brilliance. He got very good at this over the
years.
WHAT ISN'T:
The subject of Scientology™ did not spring out of thin air. Hubbard didn't come
from some advanced Galactic Civilization to teach us poor yokels. This is a
weird idea that has gained popularity on the dumb rumor line within the
subject. Of course he jokingly says that he's not from this planet, but
neither is anybody else according to Scientology™ theory. He certainly never
says that the subject came from off planet. In fact he says the exact
opposite.
The subject evolved. It must continue to evolve.
WHAT IS:
The Mind's Protection. If you read or talk about something, or even if you
engage in consciousness raising techniques or processes, it is nearly
impossible to do any lasting harm. If an idea is too dangerous to the person's
current mental state, he will tune it out, misunderstand it, or simply
consider it to be ridiculous. "They have ears that hear not" is
basically a protective mechanism, and it works. LRH was a strong proponent of
this idea.
WHAT ISN'T:
The mind's protection does not work in the presence of duress or high pressure
techniques. Brainwashing, hypnotism, and even the implants (electronic
implantation of hypnotic commands as done in advanced space traveling cultures
found in past life incidents) described in the Scientology™ literature
illustrate this quite clearly.
Sea Org training techniques intentionally bypassed the mind's protection and
made robots. Consider, for example, the early FEBC (Flag Executive Briefing
Course) students studying with poor food and sleep in a dangerous environment
(Ethics etc.) under heavy time and peer pressure with literal minded
instructors and occasional bouts of physical duress ("run around the deck
10 times"). Listening to the course tapes in a reasonable environment,
you might actually learn something from them. But most of the original
students came back crazy as loons and acted like dramatizing psychotics.
Most auditing is light enough in its methods that the mind's protection
concept is effective and keeps you from doing any long term damage. The rule
against evaluating for the PreClear and telling him what to think rules out
many of the potentially dangerous pressures that could be brought to bear. But
there are exceptions. The most notable is listing techniques where the PC
gives answers to a listing question (such as "What do you use to make
others wrong") in an effort to find "The Real Answer". When the
PC finds the correct answer, the auditor gives it back to him indicating that
it is the correct answer. The technique is very powerful and can produce
fantastic results. But the auditor can make a mistake and jam a wrong answer
down the PCs throat. The questions are generally so hot and the answers of
such importance that this puts significant pressure on the PC and the mind's
protection idea ceases to work. Goofing this up can make the PC worse. There
was an HCOB (Hubbard Communication Office Bulletin) to this effect at one time
but it dived out of sight and is not in the Tech Volumes.
WHAT IS:
The lower level grades of release can produce marvelous results. The grades 0
to 4 address communication, problems, overts, upsets, and fixed ideas. This
was probably the cleanest and most thorough research done in the subject.
WHAT ISN'T:
These grades were not well planned out and designed. Instead, they evolved on
a hit or miss basis. They began as a hodge-podge of processes that handled
things that Hubbard kept running into while trying to research the areas that
he was really interested in. Eventually he packaged these up into the grades
in 1965. But there were errors and mistaken assumptions and it wasn't until
the 1970s that these were knocked around into a really workable form. Much of
the compilation and even the process commands were put together by others and
apparently not even reviewed by Ron because years later he was shocked at one
of the processes being used (a particular grade 4 technique) and issued a
bulletin saying that it was a dumb idea.
WHAT IS:
These grades do work (unless grossly misapplied) to produce a state of release
on the topic addressed so that the person not only feels better about the
specific thing handled but also becomes free of the accumulated weight of the
entire topic. For example, problems are handled until the mass of past
problems that he is still carrying around suddenly falls away and leaves him
much relieved.
WHAT ISN'T:
The grade releases are known to be unstable. What was handled generally
remains handled, but the extra effect of being free on the entire subject
(e.g. can make problems vanish at will etc.) is a temporary condition. The
area is not actually erased, it is only "keyed-out". If it later
"keys-in" again, more processing is needed to rehabilitate the
release.
WHAT IS:
Ron believed that the "reactive mind" underlied the grades of
release and that when it was erased by going clear, the underlying source of
these grades would be gone and they would be automatically erased as a
consequence.
WHAT ISN'T:
This is obviously incorrect. All auditing sessions begin with handling any
problems, upsets, etc. that have newly arisen. This is done even on Clears and
OTs. You can see the effect of a grade release in that the PC doesn't come up
with new problems for awhile after a problems release etc., but they certainly
come up with them eventually even if the person is Clear or on the upper OT
levels.
WHAT IS:
The latest effort to explain why a clear has problems is to blame it on OT III
or NOTs.
WHAT ISN'T:
Again this is a mistake, and a bad one. The person is the source of their own
problems. There is nothing on the upper levels which shows them to be a
primary source and there is plenty of material on the grades themselves which
logically speaking could be viewed as a primary source for aberration. The
person does become free of problems by running Grade I and he does not do so
by running OT III.
WHAT IS:
The theory of the grades is stand alone and does not include anything which
requires the prior existence of engrams, implants, entities, or anything else.
The grades contain factors which could be operative on a god-like thetan who
was incapable of being hurt whereas things such as implants and engrams
require that the being has already sunk low enough to be kicked around. The
idea of an upset god wildly committing overts is quite common and probably
rests on real buried memories.
WHAT ISN'T:
We've got it backwards. The grades are the ultimate OT levels. They are what
was really wrong in the first place. Nobody in Scientology™ has ever erased the
basic material on these grades. Total cause over communications would include
the ability to acknowledge a speeding bullet and have it vanish.
WHAT IS:
All that other stuff on the upper levels is there to be audited out. But it's
minor stuff. A mere distraction which is in the way of getting to the basics
on the grades.
WHAT ISN'T:
It is not practical to try and erase the grades at lower levels. People are
nowhere near being able to reach the original problems, overts, etc. which
they had when they were early god-like beings and which caused them to
postulate their own downfall. They can't even visualize the multi-dimensional
realities that had to be present early on. They are fixated on an Earth-like
three dimensional existence and you can only expect so much of them. So the
right approach would be to get a release on the grades (the basic
aberrations), then fool around with all the other stuff to get it out of the
way and raise the guy's awareness, and then get back to the grade materials
and really erase them in the basic area of his past existence.
WHAT IS:
There is a state of Clear. It might be described as regaining control over
painful mental pictures. Even the psychiatrists recognize that a person can
get flashbacks of a violent incident. It is attained either by gradually
accustoming the PC to recalling painful incidents (as in Dianetics) or by
repetitive spotting of commands implanted with heavy force eons ago (as is
done on the Clearing Course) until the person can confront the force in mental
pictures without being bothered by it.
WHAT ISN'T:
The wild ideas and sales talk about the state of clear in Scientology™ is
mainly advertising and wishful thinking. The description of a Clear in the Dianetics™ book is an impossible condition since it assumes perfect recall etc.
in one lifetime without any spiritual awareness or knowledge of earlier lives.
It was never possible. If you extend the definition out into the realm of Scientology™ and expect full recall across the whole course of a being's
existence, then we are talking about an ultimate super OT condition that Scientology™ is nowhere near achieving at this time, but which might be the
ultimate target that we are working towards.
WHAT IS:
There is a CofS policy to the effect that invalidating the state of clear is a
suppressive act.
WHAT ISN'T:
The shortcomings of the definition of clear are not generally talked about
among Scientologists and nobody dares say anything to mitigate unrestrained
sales hype on the subject because that might well get them kicked out. People
who have gone clear know what they did and didn't get from it but keep their
mouths shut because it really is a wonderful state despite its limitations.
The unfortunate side effect is that many who do achieve the state then look at
the definition and invalidate themselves because they don't match up to what
the book says. And so they have an entire auditing rundown (the CCRD - Clear
Certainty Rundown) to cure the harm done by this wrong information.
WHAT IS:
The clear cognition is the awareness that the individual is mocking up his own
bank (reactive mind) and pictures.
WHAT ISN'T:
Knowing this in the abstract is not the same as being aware of and in control
of it. The cognition is not confidential and is mentioned often on Ron's
Tapes. It is generally helpful for someone who is not clear to know it because
it encourages them to take control over their reactive mind. It was common
knowledge among most Scientologists in the 1960s. When they started letting
people attest to Dianetic Clear, there was a technical bulletin saying not to
push people into falsely attesting to the state by feeding them the Clear cog.
This is commonly (but not always) misinterpreted to mean that the cog is
confidential and so the cog has ceased to be common knowledge among lower
level Scientology™ public.
WHAT IS:
The Church's polices on confidentiality of upper level materials are quite
drastic. Lose a piece of confidential paper and you may be disbarred from
upper levels for life. Breath a word of it in casual conversation, even with
others who have done the level, or forget to lock a briefcase, and you may be
doing a substantial amends project.
WHAT ISN'T:
The policy isn't successful except to harass their loyal members and generate
a big mystery. Back in the 1950s, Ron used to talk jokingly about the cults
which kept big hidden secrets in their inner sanctums so as to keep the bucks
flowing. Just check out the introduction to Dianetics™ 55 ("Secrets,
Secrets, Secrets) for a sample of this. As far as keeping anything out of the
hands of their enemies, the confidentiality seems to have caused a publishing
boom in unauthorized copies.
WHAT IS:
In the early days, when Ron was digging up material on implants, issuing OT
drills, and even coming up with early versions of the NOTs techniques
(1952-1953), some of the students asked if this stuff should be confidential
and he said that it must not be made confidential and hidden because then it
will fall into the wrong hands and be used against people who are unaware of
it. He said that the only safety was to shout this stuff from the rooftops and
publish it broadly. The only real danger is in keeping it secret.
WHAT ISN'T:
The horrible danger of seeing the confidential materials without proper
preparation. It just doesn't happen that way. The mind's protection is at
maximum when somebody is safely reading something on their own. You can
sometimes get somebody sick by jamming this stuff down their throats, but
that's true of force feeding any Scientology™ process or, for that matter, the
techniques of other practices as well.
WHAT IS:
The idea that entities are the source of bank, aberrations, and somatics is
currently believed in the upper levels of the Church. Ron certainly ranted and
raved enough about it in the Class VIII Course lectures and he theorized it as
the source of somatics.
WHAT ISN'T:
This is totally contrary to all basic Scientology™ theory. The whole reason
that auditing works is that the person himself is generating all of his own
ills.
WHAT IS:
There is a benefit to running NOTs. The BTs (body thetans - entities) get in
the way. They are a bit like a boat anchor that makes it difficult to build up
any horsepower. They will amplify your pains and aberrations. But they are
never the source. They are not worth bothering about while you have things to
handle which are closer to home (such as problems, upsets, etc.) but
eventually they need to be knocked out of the way. Blaming stuff on these guys
is the exact reason that the org has trouble if a PC finds out about them at
lower levels. It's a license to blame somebody else for your overts and
problems and that has always been known (at least in Scientology) to be a sure
way to get worse.
WHAT ISN'T:
Most of the BTs are not independent beings. That is simply a mistaken idea. We
all put pieces of ourselves on each other. Joe puts a bit of himself on Bill
to keep Bill in line. Parents will instinctively shove a bit of themselves
into their kids to keep tabs on them. The child would find these as "BT"s.
The big mass implants were to make us do this compulsively and unconsciously
so as to keep each other obedient and human. The implants didn't reduce the
population at all.
WHAT IS:
The Solo Nots technique is simple and useful. Everybody should know that you
ask "What are you"/"Who are you" if an entity of some sort
does pop up, and to encourage them to answer "Me" until they do so
and stop fooling around with mocking themselves up as demons or whatever. This
stuff does show up on rare occasions at lower levels, and the org leaves you
stumbling around in the dark when an easy trick would handle it.
WHAT ISN'T:
The idea of handling court cases by fooling around with the opponent's BTs at
a distance was ridiculous. Maybe it would have worked if entities really were
the source of all aberration, but they're only a minor factor. The auditors
would have been better off visiting enemies in their sleep and trying to give
them nightmares. But Ron used to joke about his students doing that to him, he
just though it was funny and not very effective.
As a little aside, there is also an old Tibetan technique for handling demons.
This is from the Book of the Dead. If a demon shows up to scare you, you mock
yourself up as an even bigger and more horrible demon and scare him right
back. If you really get in trouble with an entity of some sort haunting you,
this does work as a last resort. Its not very nice so don't use it without
just cause.
WHAT IS:
The idea that if the specific details of implants were not kept confidential,
they would be used in advertising etc. This was being spread about as one of
the reasons for confidentiality.
WHAT ISN'T:
It's just not an important point. Madison avenue has already found all the
hottest buttons on people. They would laugh at using Scientology's stuff for
this. If you find some really early implants, you will often find Gorillas,
Tigers, Bears, Planes, Trains, Automobiles, etc. These are the hottest
buttons. That's why this universe is so solid. Its all around us. Madison Ave.
might not know about implants, but they sure do know about the key buttons and
they push them with great vigor. By this time, we have become so thick skinned
that we just shrug this stuff off with hardly a quiver.
By the way, the hotter TV commercials are good ways to spot implanted buttons.
The advertisers do all the surveys for you and then you just notice what item
had to have been implanted for the commercials to work. For example, "To
be everybody" is not very hot as a sales button but "To be just like
everyone else" is pretty good and is a popular underlying button in
advertisements. Guess which one has the bigger kick on an E-meter. Of course
the opposite was also implanted (implants often use positive/negative pairs)
so that "To be different" is also a hot sales button and implant
item.
WHAT IS:
XENU (or XEMU) is a bad guy mentioned in the confidential literature. He's a
villain comparable to Hitler except that he had a higher level of technology
to kick people around with.
WHAT ISN'T:
Scientologists who have done OT III don't have any particular flinch at this
guy. Its not like you're talking about Satan or some evil god who can reach
out and get you. He was just a bad guy. The flinch that you see when the
"dreaded" name comes up is not fear of Xemu. It is fear of Ethics. I
would not be surprised if you saw an OT turn green at the mention of him. But
it's visions of being put on thousands of hours of amends projects or being
permanently barred from upper levels that is scaring him.
WHAT IS:
Ron was all excited about writing and filming a popular movie about Xemu. It
showed him (Xemu) shipping all the malcontents and minorities to Earth and
then bombing the volcanoes and ended with the brave fight of the loyal
officers to bring Xemu to justice. It centered around a particular loyal
officer and (for a sexy heroine) a movie starlet who find out about the plot
but are too late to stop it. But they lead the revolution that overthrows Xemu.
Of course there is no mention of BTs or past lives. The story is presented as
a record left for future civilizations on Earth so they can know what happened
when the dinosaurs died out. It is found by archeologists or something like
that and shown to the president of the US who promptly has it destroyed.
WHAT ISN'T:
This movie, which was called "Revolt in the Stars", apparently isn't
going to be made. There was an unsuccessful attempt to film it in the late 70s
and a second try (which I think never got past the financing stage) in the
early 80s. The screenplay circulated quite widely, being given out to anyone
who they were trying to talk into taking a share in the financing. In the late
80s the SO got scared about this film (I can hardly imagine why) and started
trying to gather up all the copies and jumping on anyone who had ever had
their hands on the screenplay.
Maybe their attitude will change eventually. It wasn't a bad screenplay.
Nowhere near as good as "Total Recall" but better than "The
Black Hole". Maybe with all the ARS publicity (the alt.relegion.Scientology™
newsgroup on the internet) it would do better if it
was retitled "XENU, The Movie". I think LRH would have liked that.
WHAT IS:
There are all sorts of parody's of Xemu and various OT levels floating around
on the net.
WHAT ISN'T:
I can't see the harm in this. Not only is it funny, but it helps you get
exterior to the whole mess. By placing such fantastic importance on a few
incidents and making them confidential, and furthermore loading them all with
tons of sales hype, we have actually created a great deal of mental charge on
this stuff and given it more power than it has. A few jokes can blow off this
artificially built up charge and get the whole thing in perspective.
I particularly liked the parody of Incident One where a Ford Mustang comes out
and turns right, then left, followed by the sounds of Snap, Crackle, and Pop,
and then the being is overwhelmed by waves of soggy Rice Crispies.
WHAT IS:
There is a Scientology™ policy against jokers and degraders issued around 1969
or 70. It basically makes it a suppressive act to make fun of the subject.
WHAT ISN'T:
This is not a good policy. Humor is more than just entertainment. The ability
to laugh at ourselves is a mechanism for social change. It is one of the few
ways to relieve charge outside of auditing. It even works on groups, and
relieving group charge has always been one of our biggest problems in
Scientology.
WHAT IS:
There used to be many jokes within the organization. We enjoyed laughing at
ourselves. How many OTs does it take to change a light bulb? Seven. One to
hold the light bulb and six to turn the universe around it. One of our layout
artists once made up an ad about how the R6 course enlarged breasts, complete
with before and after pictures. She pasted this into a ladies magazine in a
vary professional manner and we used to hand it to unsuspecting students and
staff members and tell them to look at the exciting new ad from St. Hill (the
advanced training center in England).
One time we drew up an org board (Scientology™ organization chart) for a Scientology™ whorehouse. The examiner would check that the "session"
went OK. There would be success stories, etc. We figured that it would be
light years beyond the competition. There were slogans like "The Golden
Age of Standard Screwing".
WHAT ISN'T:
This kind of stuff is now forbidden. That, all by itself, I consider to be a
key characteristic of a suppressive group.
WHAT IS:
There are "group engrams" discussed in the early tech. Ron saw that
groups did have many of the characteristics of individuals and could be bent
out of shape by external impacts (or for that matter by committing overts
etc.).
WHAT ISN'T:
All attempts at group engram running failed. Ron finally concluded that it
couldn't be done with the existing technology. He never got back to this topic
and its still an area that is in desperate need of research. As a stopgap
measure, he offered the idea of writing honest histories as the best way of
blowing group charge. At one time he considered this to be of tremendous
importance in keeping a group sane and true to its original goals. Now,
unfortunately, the real stories of what happened are hidden and buried under a
tidal wave of PR.
WHAT IS:
To publish or even say anything publicly about Scientology, a Scientologist
must first get "Issue Authority". This doesn't apply to talking to
friends, which is dissemination, but it does apply to anything which reaches
the public at large. This was the way it was in the sixties and seventies.
They might call it something else now. One guy I know was all excited about Scientology™ and planned to give a little speech about it as part of a
presentation he was doing at a computer conference and was stopped by the GO
(this was late 1970s). Someone like Travolta would have to rehearse and clear
exactly what he was going to say about the subject before making any statement
on TV. But sometimes if they trust the guy's judgment (and maybe put him
through some training) they will give someone a blanket OK to say things
publicly, but even then the ethics officer will be looking over his shoulder
to be sure that no out-ethics occurs, and anything that puts the subject in a
bad light is considered to be out-ethics.
WHAT ISN'T:
There isn't a lot of real communication from Scientologists on the internet.
Of course they will let an innocent beginner blabber about how wonderful it
all is and there are real professionals hatted up to handle the internet, but
anyone else better be careful what they say or they'll end up in Ethics. You
might still have a gutsy OT who takes his chances, but it would be rare. Also,
since there is NOTS material on the internet, anyone who has not already
started NOTS would be risking terrible amends projects or disbarment by
reading ARS.
WHAT IS:
The book "What is Scientology" and the other stuff that has been put
up at the church's website obviously has issue authority. Therefore any member
will be allowed to freely copy and spread this stuff around. I'm talking now
about internal Church policies rather than copyright laws.
WHAT ISN'T:
They can't normally say anything else. Even quoting an innocuous line from a
technical bulletin might get one in deep trouble. Getting issue authority used
to take many months and endless hassles and arguments. It puts a big stop on
the communications. Their horrible spam (flooding the newsgroup with messages
to drown out the opposition and break the communication line) might actually
have been interesting and of use to some people if they had dumped megabytes
of real material (maybe tape transcripts) onto the internet. There are about
3000 hours of taped lectures and most of them have been transcribed. They
could have gone on for weeks without ever repeating themselves. Instead, they
couldn't say anything worthwhile and had to keep repeating quotes from that
shallow book which isn't even by Ron and is hardly more than a collection of
sales hype.
WHAT IS:
Some of LRH's most famous lines were "When In Doubt, Communicate"
and "Communication is the Universal Solvent".
WHAT ISN'T:
Current policy apparently frowns on applying this. But as is often the case,
Ron's early statement was correct and the later policy is self-destructive.
They have been trying to stop communications on the internet and it has been
rebounding against them badly.
But they are not all stupid, and some of them know the early tech. I believe
that there has been an internal push for many months now to give at least a
few trustworthy OTs a blanket OK to really talk on the internet. The terrible
failure of the existing effort to handle the net by spamming (which lead to
all sorts of "horrible" consequences such as the Xenu message
headers etc.) has probably caused enough of an upheaval internally that this
OK may have been issued.
I believe that this is the status of "Clear Baby" who has shown up
on the internet lately. I don't know for sure, but she does seem to be
communicating rather freely without looking out for the Ethics officer. People
like this will probably communicate honestly as long as you don't push them
too hard on delicate issues or try to pull the Church's withholds. They might
not even know anything about Flag Orders or the Church's internal operations.
If OSA was smart, they gave this OK to devoted public rather than SO staff and
are trusting to the person's love of the subject rather than trying to control
the communication.
(Update: Clear Baby's identity was exposed and she now seems to be headed for
the Freezone).
Needless to say, I don't have any such OK. If you said the kind of stuff
within the Church that I've been saying here, you'd be in Ethics the next day.
That would happen even if you only said it in a confessional, nothing to say
of blabbing it all over the internet.
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To some degree, the subject has become its own
worst enemy and this needs to be handled so that forward progress can be made
Later, when there were thousands of
practitioners, there was no room left for criticism of his words.
The discrepancies are forced to fit by "Making it go right" and the
failures are blamed on "out-Ethics"
Edison and Tesla were notorious enemies
and yet the electricity in our homes depends heavily on both of their
discoveries
A complete science has never been originated exclusively by a single
individual.
These prenatal incidents almost never show up in modern
Dianetics™
and can safely be discounted as trivial and unimportant in most cases.
Scientology™ was originally a system for
separating the wheat from the chaff (in philosophy etc)
LRH refines Crowley's idea of "Will"
into a much more clearly defined concept of "Intention".
The Scientology™ concept of making postulates is quite a step above
positive thinking (which also evolved out of auto-suggestion).
You'll find the "Yoga of the psychic heat" in a vastly improved form among the Route 1
drills
he jokingly says that he's not from this planet, but
neither is anybody else according to Scientology™ theory
If an idea is too dangerous to the person's
current mental state, he will tune it out
The mind's protection does not work in the presence of duress or high pressure
techniques.
Sea Org training techniques intentionally bypassed the mind's protection and
made robots
The grades evolved on
a hit or miss basis. They began as a hodge-podge of processes that handled
things that Hubbard kept running into
These grades do work to produce a state of release
on the topic addressed
Ron believed that the "reactive mind" underlied the grades of
release and that when it was erased by going clear, the underlying source of
these grades would be gone
This is obviously incorrect.
The latest effort to explain why a clear has problems is to blame it on OT III
or NOTs.
The
person does become free of problems by running Grade I and he does not do so
by running OT III.
The theory of the grades is stand alone and does not include anything like existence of engrams, implants,
entities etc
The grades are the ultimate OT levels. They are what
was really wrong in the first place.
the
right approach would be to get a release on the grades (the basic
aberrations), then fool around with all the other stuff to get it out of the
way, and then get back to the grade materials
and really erase them in the basic area
There is a state of Clear
The wild ideas and sales talk about the state of clear in Scientology™ is
mainly advertising and wishful thinking. The description of a Clear in the Dianetics™ book is an impossible
People
who have gone clear know what they did and didn't get from it but keep their
mouths shut because it really is a wonderful state despite its limitations.
There was a technical bulletin saying not to
push people into falsely attesting to Clear by feeding them the Clear cog.
This is misinterpreted to mean that the cog is
confidential
The confidentiality policy isn't successful except to harass loyal members
with and generate
a big mystery
He said that the only safety was to shout this stuff from the rooftops and
publish it broadly. The only real danger is in keeping it secret.
The whole reason
that auditing works is that the person himself is generating all of his own
ills.
They will amplify your pains and aberrations. But they are
never the source.
Most of the BTs are not independent beings. That is simply a mistaken idea.
Nots stuff does show up on rare occasions at lower levels, and the org leaves you
stumbling around in the dark when an easy trick would handle it.
Madison avenue has already found all the
hottest buttons on people. They would laugh at using Scientology's stuff for
this.
TV commercials are good ways to spot implanted
buttons
He was just a bad guy. The flinch that you see when the
"dreaded" name comes up is not fear of Xemu. It is fear of Ethics.
Ron was all excited about writing and filming a popular movie about Xemu.
In the late
80s the SO got scared and started to gather up all copies and jumping on anyone who had ever had
their hands on the screenplay.
By placing such importance on an
incident and making it confidential, and then loading it with
tons of sales hype, we have created a great deal of mental charge
it is a suppressive act to make fun of the subject.
Humor is one of the few
ways to relieve charge outside of auditing.
This kind of stuff (humor,
jokes) is now forbidden. That I consider to be a
key characteristic of a suppressive group.
he offered the idea of writing honest histories as the best way of
blowing group charge. At one time he considered this to be of tremendous
importance in keeping a group sane and true to its original goals.
To publish or even say anything publicly about Scientology, a Scientologist
must first get "Issue Authority".
Getting issue authority used
to take many months and endless hassles and arguments. It puts a big stop on
the communications
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