Lors de l'anniversaire de Hubbard (voir témoignage ci-dessous), il n'a été question quasiment que de l'hagiograhie du Hubbard mort depuis 23 ans, et des transformations apportées dans les bâtiments de "l'église immobilière" scientologue.

Il n'a pas été question une seconde du super-building de 35'000 m2 que la scientologie a commencé il y a 13 ans et qu'elle n'a toujours pas achevé... .

Last night I went to the LRH birthday event,when I got home I wrote down as many details as I could remember. During the thing,I was actually having difficulty understanding some of what was being said. Could it be that I'm forgetting Scio. speak? Was it ever meant to be really understood? I noticed for the first time, how fast they tend to speak at those events.It allows one no time to digest the information being given. I wonder..?

I missed the first part of the event but was told later that it showed thousands of Way to Happiness booklets being passed out by the police in Colombia. The staff were later talking amongst themselves about the big impact this would have on that "out ethics"country.

When I arrived the LRH biographer( does anyone know this guy's name) was talking about LRH's management skill and genius. There are also some excerpts from the ol' man himself denigrating all those who had ever been executives in the "Church" and even a few of his assistants and secretaries from the early day who had caused him so much woe and sorrow because of their incompetence . This was not only extremely boring but extremely annoying. The biographer and then the excerpts from LRH go on an on about his military history and his management skills;on and on it goes,it is nauseating. You hear LRH wondering how Boeing can keep an airplane in the air. How can companies survive when they are so ..? Apparently nothing was organized or managed correctly till LRH arrived here on planet earth.

Next comes Little Nap. His voice seemed hoarse; I wonder why ? He starts talking about the "ideal orgs." There were 7 (or was it 9 ?) before and 2 more that just got completed. The Don Pardo voice toggles back and forth with DM's.You who have been to events know what I mean. Over an hour of endless data regarding these buildings. The two new "Ideal Orgs"made were Sweden the other one was Nashville Tennessee(Celebrity Center).

David Caradin was shown playing guitar. Is he a Clam now ?

Guillaume Lesevre introduces the winning orgs--The Birthday Game winners:In the Mission category--Los Felix, Class V Org. category--Tokyo, CLO category--West US.

By the way he was the only Int Exec.there. He looked gaunt and tired.

The Fort Harrison Hotel just got finished being remodeled. I forgot exactly what was said on how many men hours were spent in refurbishing it.Hundreds of thousands or millions. I wonder how much money was spent also ? This was not mentioned. Not mentioned either was the Super Power Building or the Freewinds.

An architect or a real estate agent would have truly enjoyed this event. I found it interesting that very little regarding the stats was mentioned.

You guys remember the "good ol' days" when you'd hear about Flag making millions of dollars and lots of Clears,OTs and Auditors,right ? Not this time, it was basically about the buildings.

Some mathematical equation was thrown in attempting to explain how by having these Ideal Orgs you would eventually have two million members...I just didn't get it but I really was too... I'm at a loss for words here.

I thought I would have a fun time telling you guys how my night went but, to tell the truth, I don't feel all that great right now.I met family and friends there and we hugged and talked and all were really happy that I had attended; it broke my heart.

I was asked on about three different occasions how I liked the event and each time I said "Honestly, I do like events,I never have." I did this with a smile and truly trying not to antagonize these individuals.They seemed to  accept what I said and nothing more was mentioned.It felt so good not to have to lie or pretend,something which becomes so much a part of you when you're in.

But there are always a few hard core FANATICS and I ran into two of these. One wanted me to donate to the building fund. I said no.This person attempted to "handle" me, saying that he did not know what the definition of "no." was. I just looked at him smiled and walked away.He didn't persist.

The other person wanted me to donate to the IAS. I just said,"Not interested,I'm...." I wish I would have had a camera and taken a picture of his face.He persisted for a while but finally gave up. I'm sure I'll have a "KR" in my ethics file tomorrow.

One forgets how many good people there are in the "church" though. How many are giving up their dreams and comfort to be there. Seeing this I get both very angry and sad.

This is a dry,boring report, I know, but like I said before I found nothing to joke or laugh about. It's easy being a critic from afar. When you see the actual human beings involved in that trap,the perspective changes.

Any connection to this "church" causes one to have no sense and no humor.

PS: Oh, I forgot to tell you that DM plans to start refurbishing or buying about 67 or 70,I forget, of these Ideal Orgs all at ones,instead of just one at a time. Maybe this was the big "blow away?"

TP

Le grand patron de la scientologie, David Miscavige, a fait réécrire tous les livres de Ron Hubbard suite à des erreurs de transcription et autres anomalies dont Hubbard n'aurait pas pris conscience ...

C'est évidemment invraisemblable quand on connaît la bête de l'intérieur. Du coup les adeptes vont devoir faire de nouveaux achats, recommencer certains cours et sans doute jeter ce qu'ils avaient...

Cela montre que la scientologie a vraiment de plus un grand besoin d'argent frais, (A-t-elle perdu sa fortune à la bourse ?)

Voici un message qui confirme cette situation:

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Recovery of lost tech event

"Recovery of lost tech" - New books are indeed out.

by COB

Source: http://forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?p=14236#post14236 - July 9, 2007

[Texte intégral]

Greetings to all – this is my first post on this board, so in addition to everything else, hello. I see there is quite a bit of interest on this thread on the new books that have been released, the repercussions thereof, and the various other factors around this “recovery or lost tech”.

I attended the first two MV events at Flag, and below is some data you may find interesting:The second was the “recovery of lost tech event” with the new release.

All the basic books have been re-re-released, this time with a few previously unreleased congresses (to go along with the new versions of AP&A, DN55 and History of Man for example.) The event goes though showing how MANY alterations exist in nearly every book. The only books that were nearly exempt were EOS, DMSMH (was missing a synopsis, otherwise left as is textually.) and TWTH. Otherwise EVERY other book had major, basic, and significant alteration. You will see at the event – pretty staggering. Entire sections written by others, whole chapters missing, chapters mixed together, different versions of the text mashed together in the same paragraph, non LRH footnotes becoming text, etc.

Blame is laid on the transcriptionists. Oh – by the way many of the basic books were NOT actually written by Ron, they were dictated. Hmmm . . . wonder how that datum was never broadly known.

Now, at this point it is interesting to ask:

If the books were not written by LRH directly, why have we been blatantly misled for 50 years?

EVERY ONE, I do really do mean that, “KNEW” they were written by Ron. Except management knew they were not. Interesting.

Rather than label them as TRANSCRIPTS, they were sold as canonical, verified, fully checked, LRH penned, words from Ron himself, in his own blood.

Well, up until yesterday the basics books were 100% standard tech.

Like everything else in Scn, that has changed. Now they are littered with alterations too numerous to describe, though at least reviewed in a 3+ hour straight briefing, book by book.

Okay – now here is the next obvious point:

Where the hell have RTRC and AVC been ?

Possessed of the responsibility to ensure the standardness of Scn, they seemed to have, shall we say, fucked up a bit. ALL the blame is laid on the transcriptionists, proofreaders and typesetters of the 1950s. None accepted by the church since then. Interesting. Even though WE HAD THE MATERIALS THE ENTIRE TIME ! ! ! ! No box of hidden manuscripts was discovered. Nope, it was all there already with the exception of two lectures – even then the Church had them, and just never really verified the materials against them as they pretended to.

As some of you may remember, in the late 1980s and early 1990s ALL the basic books, every one, were republished as being fully on source, VERIFIED AGAINST THE LRH ORIGINALS. I bought them as they were republished during that time. Then in 1991 the new tech vols came out in and 1992(?) the new SHSBC came out. At that Auditors Day event COB said that the tens of thousands of hours had been spent fully verifying the basic books against source originals so that the BC could be re-released. He said that for the first time in history, all of Scn from The Original Thesis to the BC was 100% standard. He was VERY clear on this point.

The 1989 version of the introduction for Dynamic of Life says:

“Recently the original manuscript for this work was located. The text has been meticulously compared to the manuscript to ensure that this edition is a complete rendition of what the author intended for publication.”

Since then RTC has preached again and again how they have ensured everything was 100% standard.

Now COB says that they found the Original manuscript “with LRH’s hand written notes and edits”. Note we already had it apparently in archives. So the Original that was meticulously compared to in 1989 was the wrong original? And who did that? Transcriptionists form 1951? Nope – AVC and RTRC.

Oops.

So for TWENTY YEARS the Church has sold these alter-ised books and claimed they were fully verified.

And now they want Scientologists to buy them all again for $450 for the books only or $3000 for the books and lectures both. And add another $1500 for the new “Book and Lecture” course package (where you do courses on them all.) Total = $4,500 for all the new materials and courses on them.

No credit of course for the ones we already bought before. Even ISE and SOS – both released just a few years ago, nope – you get to buy them again. SOS has over 3,000 punctuation errors it turns out. Do you get a credit for EITHER of the two “new” versions of these books, nope.

Now, consider this:

Ron never noticed:

So when teaching the SHSBC in the mid 60’s and Class VIII course in ’68 and having people study the basic books Ron failed to notice the degree of gross alteration that already existed at the time? And for the next 30 – 35 years, Ron never realized the books were completely riddled with alterations?

Preservation of the tech:

The basic books were etched into stainless steel plates, special archival books, etc. Millions were spent. Of course they were good to go to put them into this permanent form as RTC HAD VERIFIED THEM AS COMPLETELY STANDARD AGAINST THE ORIGINALS.

LRH books to libraries:

Basic books put into libraries around the world. Needs to be redone. Again.

Senseless word-clearing:

Endless thousands of hours of students “clearing their m/u’s” in the alter-ised TRANSCRIPTS – thinking they were written by Ron. Doing this until they “cogged” and came into agreement with the alter-is, or just quietly nodded in “agreement”.

Release of BC in 1992:

Covered above. The whole point was that Scientology was now 100% standard and so it COULD be released again.

Leather bound editions:

Now utterly worthless. Cost thousands.

No credit given for old alter-ised versions

Even though they were sold to you as 100% source verified, sorry. Buy them again.

Org / Mission Book stocks:

Orgs have paid tens of thousand for the altered versions they have. Now they must pay $45,000 for the “new ones”. Wait a minute – they already paid for the overt products and now have to pay again? So every Org has to cough this up? And every mission. And field groups too. Why? And the math: 150 orgs + 300 missions at $45,000 each = over $20 MILLION.

Destruction of old versions:

Flag has made it absolutely clear all old versions are to be pulped or “turned in”. Makes it hard for qual to have one copy of every book, every issue, every tape that has ever been issued though. Nope, they will simply fade away like all other “old” materials – to be replaced only by the “new”. Makes it impossible to really track changes of course. Maybe everyone can bring in their old copies so we can have a nice book burning bon fire, dance around it and laugh about how we want to “beam the son of a bitch that did that to us”? COB meant the transcriptionists when he made that event joke. Maybe that’s not the right target.

Every auditor and Scn has been instructed to turn over their old books to be pulped and buy the new ones.

People were getting ready to throw away books that are not even amongst the ones republished such as Child Dn, Notes on the Lectures, Book of Case Remedies – they were in such ecstatic glee they were ready to throw out everything – WITHOUT INSPECTION. Holy crap!

I assure you – there will not be a copy left in any Org Qual Library in the world to compare with (despite this being called for in policy).

Previously written up reports:

Oh yea – how about all the reports previously written up on mistakes / confusions in the books? Heavens, who would dare? They were pure LRH ! ! ! Of course when ever I wrote anything up I was told “We have verified them against the LRH originals.” I wonder what def. of “we” “verified” and “originals” were being used there. Of course, I just had m/us and was told to simply clear them.

Don’t need a dictionary:

In the event COB makes it clear that one need not study with a dictionary as all the definitions one could need are in the glossary. “The student does not need to look them up in the 8 dictionaries”. You could interpret what he said in two ways I guess, but he did say something very much like “the space in front of the student will be clear as they will only have the book itself.” Completely out tech. One person on the new book course at Flag asked the Sup about this and how it violated standard word clearing – the Flag sup replied “Humm, I’ll have to clarify that.” Oh Jesus, you need to ask?

AND GET THIS: The new glossary states:

“This glossary is not meant to take the place of standard language or Dianetics or Scientology dictionaries, which should be referred to for any words, terms or phrases that do not appear below.”

Yep, so if they appear in the glossary you don’t need to clear them in a dictionary and clear to full conceptual understanding. This is how it is being done at Flag.

Original Thesis Subjugated:

Although COB sated in the event a Scn could start with The Original Thesis – he highly encouraged them to start with DMSMH. At Flag public are highly pressured to do DMSMH first. Also, there is not even a new extension course for The Original Thesis.

Humm.. yet THIS is the book Ron states again and again as THE BOOK to know. The Why TRs film basically states we should memorize it.

Now – just skip it really. It contains background data that “just creates questions better answered by DMSMH.”

(Insert eye roll here... )

Boasting as to speed of delivery:

Based on the figures given in the event for how fast people were getting through the new books, it was figures like:

50 pages in a course slot for SOS

POW in 4 hours

8-80 in 6 hours

Yea, just like the Golden Age of Tech courses are faster than ever, I am sure.

Seriously – these figures are insane – and why boast of them anyway?

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Summary of the new books, their history and new revisions could be stated by the equation:

8-8008

“The attainment of complete impunity by the reduction of one’s own responsibility and the increase of the apparent no responsibility of transcriptionists to infinity”

So, in case you have been wondering what the "word from the inside" is, I hope that satisfies your curiosity.

Hello again to all, and I look forward to participating in this forum more.

Cheers,

Crusty Old Bastard (COB)

La scientologie prétend sans cesse être la religion ayant le plus fort taux d'expansion au monde, avec 8 millions de membres dont 3.5 milllions aux Etats-Unis.

En réalité d'autres décomptes signalent que seuls 55'000 personnes se considèrent scientologues aux USA en 2001, et que la scientologie n'est aucunement une religion qui progresse.

Les chiffres émanent de l'Université de New-York. La méthode de calcul se base sur l'interview téléphonique de 50000 personnes.

Enquête à consulter ici: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/faculty/research_briefs/aris/key_findings.htm

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Internal documents suggest 100,000 active members

Source: http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html#Scientology

Scientology: One often sees Scientology listed in books and newspapers as having over 8 million adherents. Where does this figure come from? It comes from the Church of Scientology, just as most church membership figures come from churches themselves. Our data indicate that they cite this figure because it is the total number of people who have participated in Church of Scientology activities since the inception of the church. But their figure does not include people who have only received services from their drug rehab groups and other non-Church facilities. Narconon's clientele are not counted as Church members unless and until they become Scientologists. As Narconon's mission is drug rehabilitation and not Church recruitment, the percentage of Narconon clients who become Church members is small.

The latest edition of the organization's publication What Is Scientology? lists 373 churches and missions (plus hundreds of "related organizations" which are not directly comparable to congregations) in 129 countries. (Four new countries, for a total of 133, have been opened since the publication of the book, according to a church spokesperson.) According to church officials, this publication states that in 1997 the number of people who participated in Scientology services for the first time was 642,596 internationally and that the circulation of internal Church magazines which are sent to their members was 6,630,000. Hartley Patterson, a critic of Scientology, has speculated that the circulation figure may be based on the total press run for three publications.

Adherents.com has no argument with Scientology statistics, but for the purposes of this list of "Major Religions of the World Ranked by Size," we use a different standard of counting adherents than they have used to arrive at their 8 million figure. (Figures presented here are generally estimates of primary, self-identified religious affiliation.) There are not 8 million people who, if taking a survey, would name Scientology as their religious preference. One might generously estimate up to one million worldwide, but the actual number who would fit this criterion is probably under a half million. Adding up organizationally-reported membership on a state-by-state, country-by-country basis would yield a current membership figure of about 750,000, according to a church critic.

As with all religions, the complete body of adherents represent a spectrum of participation, including fully active members as well as non-attending or disengaged sympathizers.

Realistically, a figure lower than 750,000 seems be more reasonable for this page's listing. Some documents suggest that even the tabulation of 750,000 based on country-by-country/state-by-state organizationally- provided data is quite out of date. Internal documents suggest 100,000 active members -- which would easily yield an estimate of a total of 600,000 or more, including one-time members, lapsed members, and strong supporters.

This might cause some people to think the church's figures are inaccurate, or it might seem like we are being harsh to ignore their figure and estimate such a low one. To put these figures into perspective, compare them to those of other major religions. There is no reason to believe that less than 8 million people have willingly participated in Scientology activities and actively studied at least some of its teachings. Large numbers of people have derived benefit from participation in church activities and church-sponsored programs. But people rarely call themselves Scientologists mainly because their parents don't call themselves Scientologists. Membership in the Church of Scientology does not necessarily preclude membership in another religious organization. A percentage of the claimed members will indeed affirm membership in the organization, while at the same time citing another religion as their primary religious preference.

If one eliminated from the total number of Christians in the world all those who are counted as Christians only because they identify themselves as such in a survey or census, even though they never actually attend Christian services, study Christian literature, or make behavioral changes based on Christian teachings beyond general societal norms, one might obtain a similar downgrade in actual number of effective adherents.

Despite such a "downgrade" from official Church of Scientology estimates, it may be noted that in a recent large-scale independent survey of religious identification (NSRI, Barry Kosmin et al, City University of New York 1990), enough people in the United States named Scientology as religion that it was among the top 10 largest religions in the country, with more members than the Baha'i Faith, Sikhism or Neo-Pagan /Wiccan groups. Independent sources indicate that the strongest communities of Scientologists are in California and the United Kingdom, as well as in Clearwater, Florida (where the main training center is located).

45,000 Scientologists in the U.S

Some people have commented on the fact that this page lists an estimate of 500,000 (previously 750,000) Scientologists worldwide, while the Religion in the U.S. web page refers to 45,000 Scientologists in the U.S. Some people have mistakenly concluded that this means the overwhelming majority of Scientologists live outside the U.S., or that one of the figures is simply "wrong." The two figures are not directly comparable. Simply put, these two figures are from different sources and are based on different methodologies and critera. The U.S. figure of 45,000 comes directly from the Kosmin NSRI survey of 1990. The worldwide figure is as a conglomerate figure, using different criteria (as explained elsewhere on this page), based on official organizational as well as critical sources. The larger figure would include lapsed members, as well as people who are are adherents of Scientology, but also identify with another religious group, and name that group in a survey or census.

Well, a lot less then 10 million, as the church claims. Anoymous has recently come to acquire something called the Horton

Database. It's been used in the past, as a way to look up specific Scientologist names, and see a list of their courses completed, and dates. But the database is much, much more than just that.

Aside from having a listing for every Scientologist as of 2 months ago, there is also a section for WISE, providing contact information for every business involved in it, and their owners. There is a list of 567 people who have been deleted from the database, and their former positions. Many are executives.There is information on every CoS produced publication and magazine, and articles in them. There is information on course prices, using the course ID number. But most of all, there is information on every single person ever declared 'clear'. Their names, adress and phone numbers.

Now, I won't divulge my sources, because this is very valuable info. But rest assured, it is legit.

That said, how many Scientologists ARE there, really ?

98931.

Stat #1: nombre de personnes ayant attesté un des niveaux des Grades 5, 6. et jusqu'à OT1: 10. Cela comprend une douzaine de services différents!

Stat #2: Nombre d'OT (niveaux supérieurs secrets) ayant passé au niveau supérieur, soit OT II, III, IV, V, VIa, VIb, VIc, VII, VIII, SNCC  I & II ainsi que les services qui y "préparent".tels OT Preps ou Elig : 29 (certaines personnes ont fait plusieurs niveaux dans la semaine)

Stat #3: Nombre de gens ayant entamé n'importe quel "service" dans n'importe quelle mission/franchise, organisation, ou organisation supérieures (Sea Org): 161

Stat #3a: Number of Starts on Basic Books and Lectures Courses. (Basic Books and Lectures Starts are to be included under stat #3 as well.): 112

Stat #4: Sommes engrangées pour des rénovations de bâtiments scientologues dans la région: 364'697 dollars

Stat #5: Nombre de staffs recrutés dans les orgs assistées par un "Comité OT":3

Stat #6: Nombre d'heures de bénévolat fournies pour les comités OT: 4127 [commentaire: c'est une région où l'on pense qu'il y a environ 15'000 scientologues... or, on constate que seules 957 personnes, stat n° 8, ont aidé les comités OT de la secte]

Stat #7: nombre de gens arrivant pour un service sur le navire amiral Freewinds: 3

Stat #8: Nombre d'OT ambassadeurs et membres du comité OT cette semaine: 957 - [La scientologie considère qu'un membre est une personne ayant contribué à faire entrer quelqu'un sur le Pont scientologue, ou ayant participé aux autres activités du Comité OT] 957

Stat #9: Nombre de livres vendus au public néophite dans la semaine: 62

[Cette statistique #9 est terriblement mauvaise pour la scientologie car elle représente ses nouveaux clients potentiels ...]

Davantage de statistiques ci-dessous:

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Co$ Internal Stats for entire western USA region

The following is the list of stats covered: it breaks it down by week with a history for the last 20 or so weeks by org, and area. Still trying to get it uploaded. If anyone wants to PM me with an e-mail address, I'll send the file over, otherwise, I'll keep giving it a shot.

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/123-leaks-legal/internal-statistics-west-us-44618

There's data going back to June last year.

Sample. w/e 23rd April 2009:

Stat #1: Number of Clears or NED Case Completions onto their next step to OT. (This is to only include the following steps: Student Hat [or Study Certainty] HQS Course, any TR Course, Solo Course Part One, Solo Certainty Course, Solo Course Part Two, OT Preps [which may include HRD or FPRD as determined by the C/S], OT Eligibility, Power, Power Plus, R6EW, Clearing Course, Sunshine RD and OT I)

10

Stat #2: Number of Pre-OTs onto their next step to OT. (This does not include refreshers or reviews. It only includes starts on OT II, III, IV, V, VIa, VIb, VIc, VII, VIII, SNCC Part I and II as well as OT Preps or Elig for one of these OT Levels.)

29

Stat #3: "Number of all other Bridge Steps started this week at a Mission, Org or SO Org. (This includes preclears onto an auditing action, raw public started on service, Div 6b Service Starts and any training started, ie: PTS/SP Course, Basics Books & Lecture Courses etc.)

161

Stat #3a: Number of Starts on Basic Books and Lectures Courses. (Basic Books and Lectures Starts are to be included under stat #3 as well..)

112

Stat #4: Amount of funds raised for Buildings or Renovations in US$. (Must be invoiced by the org, not pledged amounts.)

$364,697

Stat #5: Number of Staff recruited for Orgs assisted by the OT Committee. (This is counted when the person activates their contract and starts on post.)

3

Stat #6: "Number of Volunteer Hours Spent for the Org working on the OT Ambassador Projects. (These are the projects outlined in OT 5 of the OT Ambassador Program and Attachment.)

4126.75

Stat #7: Number of People arrived to Freewinds Congresses at an Org or to the Ship for Conventions, OT Hatting or OT Debug.

3

Stat #8: "Number of Active OT Ambassadors & OT Committee Members this week.

(Definition: An Active OT Ambassador or Active OT Committee Member is defined as someone who has directly contributed this week toward getting someone onto their next step of The Bridge, or who is on the the OT Committee of the local Org and has contributed to OTC Projects or events this week.)"

957

Stat #9: Number of Books sold to Raw Public. (This could be DMSMH or Self Analysis or any other book sold while doing dissemination activities, stress tests etc.)

62

Stat #10: Number of Events, Seminars and Briefings held. (These are specifically events to move Scientologists up the Bridge, Field Activation Events, Fundraising Events, Div 6 Lectures and workshops. This is the number of actual events. It is not the number of OT Ambassadors or OT Committee Members participating in an event. If an event is put on in which several orgs and OT Ambassadors and OT Committee Members participate, the stat is reported by the I/C of the event.)

41

Stat #11: Number of targets completed on the OT Ambassador Program.

9

Stat #12: Number of Basics Books or Lectures Series completed by OT Committee Members this week.

104

Stat #13: Number of people helped to upgrade their IAS status this week.

5

There's much, much more in the link. Snippets are being posted in the wwp thread and there is a link to a download of the leaked Excel spreadsheet file.

Stat experts, do your stuff.

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Usual alt resources: http://network.marcab.org/

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Source: http://ocmb.xenu.net/ocmb/viewtopic.php?t=30527

"The CSWUS corporation houses six distinct ecclesiastical organizations that includes three churches, each of which ministers religious services at a different level of the religious hierarchy described above; two supervisory organizations and an ecclesiastical support organization. [...] Except for the Church of Scientology of San Diego, all of these church organizations are located in Los Angeles where they share a large complex of buildings and facilities. [...]"

ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology_Western_United_States

So for the last week there were three people who began as scientology staff members for three "orgs." Man, talk about expansion! (sarcasm)

I bet they all got posted as "department directors" or "division secretaries," if not higher on the "org board."

For those never in, lucky you, scientology "orgs" are divided into seven divisions, except for division 6, which is now three divisions - so nine divisions, each with three departments. Running each division is a division secretary and running each department is a director. "Orgs" are staffed from the top down. If a person joins staff in an "org" with say ten or twelve people on staff they will very likely be "posted" to one of the "executive" positions.

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Reading List: http://www.worldcat.org./profiles/Wieber/lists/563909 scientology is a cult. -1 +1 "Then they fight you, then you win." Gandhi

In the newest edition of _Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health_, "Zulu" was replaced by "primitive" and several changes in punctuation have been made. Here are the respective passages from the 1986 (paperback) and 2007 (hardback) editions from my bookshelves:

"The number of engrams in a Zulu would be astonishing. Moved out of his restimulative area and taught English he would escape the penalty of much of his reactive data; but in his native habitat the Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe. It is a safe estimate and one based on better experience than is generally available to those who base conclusions on "modern man" by studying primitive races that primitives are far more aberrated than civilized peoples. Their savageness, their unprogressiveness, their incidence of illness: all stem from their reactive patterns, not from their inherent personalities."

[1986. page 183.] Hubbard, L. Ron. Dianetics:The Modern Science of Mental Health. Los Angeles, CA. Bridge Publications, Inc. 1986.

"The number of engrams in a primitive would be astonishing. Moved out of his restimulative area and taught English, he would escape the penalty of much of his reactive data.  But in his native habitat, the primitive is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe. It is a safe estimate and one based on better experience than is generally available to those who base conclusions on "modern Man" by studying primitive races, that primitives are far more aberrated than civilized peoples. Their savageness, their unprogressiveness, their incidence of illness all stem from their reactive patterns, not from their inherent personalities."

[2007. page 165.] Hubbard, L. Ron. Dianetics:The Modern Science of Mental Health. Los Angeles, CA. Bridge Publications, Inc. 2007.

"The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world — he is probably impossible by any human standard."

"They smell of all the baths they didn't take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here."

Can the Church Deny It ?

Church dogma demands a slavish devotion to its founder L. Ron Hubbard, whose sentiments appear racist to modern sensibilities but were common in white society during most of his life. Racial attitudes have changed greatly over time — in fact, modern anthropological theory denies the existence of "race"   altogether.

Hubbard's prejudices, however, are forever codified in Source, i.e., they are sacred, immutable doctrine. Hence, Scientology is inherently racist, as the following collection of scriptural quotes illustrates.

A basic component of the Church's services is auditing (counseling sessions). Through a progression of special auditing actions for specific purposes, called rundowns  , Scientologists can advance their spiritual condition.

But Hubbard has a Big Auditing Problem with native South Africans, who, along with other "primitives" and children, are in a "retrograded" state.

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The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world — he is probably impossible by any human standard.

– L. Ron Hubbard, PAB No. 119, 1 September 1957, as published in Level 0 PABS (c.1968, The American St. Hill Organization).

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Natives need the help of white men to explain how to care for their possessions, including their land. Hubbard scolds South Africa for not properly attending to native education:

As long as a white foreman is there, they will prevent soil erosion; but the moment that a white foreman turns his back — boo! There goes the whole program.

And you finally get up to the point of where he's [native] supposed to take care of something, a lesson which has never been taught to the native of South Africa.

– L. Ron Hubbard, 15th ACC (Power of Simplicity) lecture "Education: Point of Agreement", 30 Oct 1956.

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Hubbard also finds that the "insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling" and issues a special set of instructions, The Scientific Treatment of the Insane, for South African auditors to address the problem. Note that Hubbard also thinks the Bantu are in need of "rehabilitation", with mental health being only one of the necessary efforts.

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. … it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health…

– L. Ron Hubbard, HCOB April 1960, "The Scientific Treatment of the Insane"

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The South African Rundown, the only Scientology rundown targeted at a specific ethnic group, was developed for "delivery to South Africans—those who reside in South Africa as well as those who have emigrated to other parts of the world". Hubbard apparently feels that they required special processing because they are "untrainable" and "insane".

The Church's auditing tool, the E-meter, requires adjustment in order to accommodate the needle's larger movements because of the intensity of a black South African's undisclosed transgressions ("withholds").

A "black South African's" withholds read not only on the needle [of the E-meter] alone but on the Tone Arm [sensitivity adjustment] as well.

– L. Ron Hubbard, E-Meter Essentials, section I: "Meter Oddities", 1988 (pg. 24)

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Perhaps the unusually strong withholds can be explained by the Bantu's mercenary nature:

Because the one thing — the very, very commercial little culture the Bantu has… the idea of commerce and money and that sort of thing is very deeply ingrained in these people.

– L. Ron Hubbard, SHSBC, "Errors in Time", 18 July 1963

What does Scientology say about the raising of children ?

by Mark Plummer - 8 March 2001

Mark Plummer, former Sea Org executive, left scientology after 14 years

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/affd15b57ad476da

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Well, here it is again for all the thinking people.

CMO ED 411 of 29 AUGUST 1979 says, in part:

"The following are some Consultant [L Ron Hubbard] Advices which are for the Cadet Org and which are to be known and followed by all staff: "3. Make it known to the children that any act of vandalism, theft or out-ethics or any crime committed by a child will be immediately followed by placing that child in the RPF under severe restrictions." (Consultant)" "[I]n Feb. the hepatitis scene happened and we were swarmed over by County and State Health Inspectors. The County Inspector (an ally) found out about the existence of the Fountain [Scientology's child care facility for the children of Sea Organization parents] and said this is not OK and let's quickly work together and handle it. He continually predicted an attack from another agency and was not able to say which one. We found the Annex could be used and was legal with a small amount of renos and started to work. Sure enough, we were raided by 2 Special Agents of the State. But because of our taking full responsibility for our scene and well into having the Annex ready for use, there was nothing they could do to us. I will not go into detail of what they could have done but will indicate that we were suited in 1974 for running illegal child care and this would have been our second offence. First time we got probation and you could imagine what the second offense would have gotten us."

— Stephen LeMarr, Assistant Guardian Cadet [Organization], for the Boards Of Directors of the Churches [sic] Of Scientology, in Cadet Guardian Office ED #4 of 5 May 1979

From Aides Order 203-71 of 28 August 1981:

"Quite a number of children [of Scientology's Sea Org parents] are behind their grade level on studies in the public school system (which is absurd since we have study tech and wogs don't)."

— Larry Price, Sea Org Evaluator, as Approved by the Watchdog Committee, for the Board Of Directors of the Church [sic] Of Scientology of California

From Aides Order 203-71 of 28 August 1981:

"As shown by the Stat[istics] Section the Cadet Org and CEO [Cadet Estates Organization] scene is wildly off the rails and the scene has become very degraded. PAC [Pacific Area Command] SO children instead of becoming valuable personnel assets are in many cases becoming criminals."

— Larry Price, Sea Org Evaluator, as Approved by the Watchdog Committee, for the Board Of Directors of the Church [sic] Of Scientology of California

From Aides Order 203-71 of 28 August 1981:

"It was also found that the C[ommanding] O[fficer] Cadet Org put on by the [19]76 mission, Bob Raffe, was criminal and sadistic to other Cadets [Sea Org children]. He was removed mid [19]77 after he hand- cuffed another Cadet to an electrical outlet and nearly electrocuted him."

— Larry Price, Sea Org Evaluator, as Approved by the Watchdog Committee, for the Board Of Directors of the Church [sic] Of Scientology of California

From Aides Order 203-71 of 28 August 1981:

"The CEO [Cadet Estates Organization] also did not hold the line on keeping the Cadet Org running as a separate unit and in fact contributed to its unmock [disestablishment]. Looking into this it was found that the CEO also had a large number of DBs [degraded beings], criminals and perverts posted in it. Some of these would slap the cadets [children] around and treat them like "kids." There is no evidence of anyone in the CEO taking any responsibility for assisting the Cadet Org execs with hatting [training] or direction to help them keep the org together, but instead assisted in the unmock by bringing cadets [children] into the CEO to work as nannies and assistants to the adults."

— Larry Price, Sea Org Evaluator, as Approved by the Watchdog Committee, for the Board Of Directors of the Church [sic] Of Scientology of California

From Aides Order 203-71 of 28 August 1981:

"...the SO has also continued to neglect their hat [responsibilities] with respect to Cadets as shown by the fact that they have continually put their unwanted or reject staff into the CEO [Cadet Estates Organization] and have done nothing effective to handle the degraded conditions that the Cadet Org and CEO recently fell into."

— Larry Price, Sea Org Evaluator, as Approved by the Watchdog Committee, for the Board Of Directors of the Church [sic] Of Scientology of California

From Aides Order 203-71 of 28 August 1981:

"Also people forget that exact HCO PL [Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter] Ethics has to be kept in especially on children. They have to be hatted [indoctrinated into Scieno-think]. And that many need their own child MAAs [Master at Arms, or Ethics Officers], again hatted. Twice, true Suppressives, though only 5 [years old] in one case and about 6 [years old] in another absolutely ruined not only the other kids but also every effort to put it to rights and one org also! By sheer psychotic covert violence."

— L. Ron Hubbard, as quoted by Larry Price, Sea Org Evaluator, Approved by the Watchdog Committee for the Board Of Directors of the Church [sic] Of Scientology of California

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How Scientology Justifies Locking People Up In Isolation

By Mark Plummer - 18 August 1997

Source: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/203f7e787a195608

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L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, is well-known for his complete disregard for the rights of individuals who, in his words, "are not surviving". His so-called "tone scale" which he touted as a way to gauge the emotional state of individuals, places anyone below 2.0 (antagonism) in a "lower band". Here are excerpts from his 1951 book, Science of Survival, part one, page 157, second paragraph, which clearly illustrate his views regarding "low-toned" individuals:

"The reasonable man quite ordinarily overlooks the fact that people from 2.0 [antagonism] down have no traffic with reason and cannot be reasoned with as one would reason with a 3.0 [conservatism]. There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the tone scale, neither one of which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the tone scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow."

According to Hubbard, individuals in the lower "tone levels" are not succeeding in life, since they are connected to, or have in the past been connected to evil, "suppressive persons" or "SPs" which causes the person to assume the "suppressive" characteristics of their oppressor. Hubbard states that such persons cannot be trusted since they are not sane.

more: http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/ptstype3.html

In Science of Survival, part one, page 131, first and second paragraphs, Hubbard wrote:

"The only answers would seem to be the permanent quarantine of such ['1.1, or covertly hostile, low-toned'] persons from society to avoid the contagion of their insanities and the general turbulence which they bring into any order, thus forcing it lower on the scale, or processing such person until they have attained a level on the tone scale which gives them value. In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the tone scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints."

A "1.1 person" is said by Hubbard (and Scientologists, therefore, since they adhere to Hubbard's philosophy) to be "in covert hostility" emotionally. One "training aid" used by the cult, called the "Tone Scale Illustrated", depicts a person at the "Tone Level" of 1.1 by a drawing of a man smiling, while holding a knife behind his back.

Hubbard wrote that a person becomes an "SP" by being suppressed by another person until he takes on the "valence" (characteristics) of his "suppressor". He states that "SPs" are the cause of all illnesses, and he states that people "making mistakes is evidence that there is a suppressive in the vicinity". The name Hubbard gave for a person who is at adverse effect of a real or imagined suppressive person is "PTS", which stands for "Potential Trouble Source".

In a bulletin dated 24 November 1965, Hubbard wrote about "Suppressive Persons" and the three types of "Poten- tial Trouble Sources" (persons who are sources of trouble due to their connection to 'Suppressive Persons'). In the cult of Scientology, a "Type 3 PTS" includes persons who have become psychotic. Hubbard wrote: "Type Three [PTS] is beyond the facilities of [Scientology] orgs not equipped with hospitals as these are entirely psychotic."

more: http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/ptstype3.html

I find this statement regarding "orgs not equipped with hospitals" to be idiotic, since I have been in numerous Scientology organizations, including three of the six or seven "advanced orgs", and NONE of them has a hospital on the premises. Knowing Hubbard's extreme dislike for "medicos" and "psychs", it is highly unlikely that there will ever be a Scientology org equipped with a hospital.

more: http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/antipsych1.html

Interestingly, Hubbard wrote that Scientology orgs are NOT in the business of healing the insane. In fact, persons with known "psych" histories are not even eligible for Scientology's "services". Hubbard wrote that Scientology offered its help to "help make the able more able", saying that Scientology OWED its help to no one.

With regard to the treatment by Scientology toward "Type Three PTS" (insane) persons, Hubbard said: "The Type Three PTS is mostly in institutions or would be." He recommends that in the treatment of psychotics, "one must disconnect the person from the environment" and further states that "The task with a Type Three is NOT treat- ment as such. It is to provide a relatively safe environment and quiet and rest and no treatment of a mental nature at all." In fact Hubbard even went so far as to state that placing the crazy person in a room, with nothing but an object, such as a rock, would cause an insane person to "rise in tone"! This is Hubbard's "scientific method". What else does the one-time science fiction writer have to offer? Read on.

Hubbard also states that in the handling of psychotics, "Medical care of a very unbrutal nature is necessary as intravenous feeding and soporifics (sleeping and quieting drugs) may be necessary, such persons are sometimes also physically ill from an illness with a known medical cure."

Perhaps for reasons intended to explain or justify failures of his "technology" [sic] for treating psychotics, Hubbard stated:

"But there will always be some failures as the insane sometimes withdraw into rigid unawareness as a final defense, sometimes can't be kept alive [emphasis mine] and sometimes are too hectic and distraught to ever become quiet...".

My guess is that Hubbard foresaw failures in handling psychotics with his methods. Unlikely however, is the possibility that he ever considered people would DIE while undergoing "treatment" with Scientology's methods, especially by certain procedures contained in his Introspection Rundown.

more http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/introspection1.html

Sadly, Lisa McPherson is one such person who died as a result of negligence from her Scientologist "friends". She had been held in isolation at Scientology's facility in Clearwater, Florida for seventeen days, during which time her body weight dropped an estimated 47 pounds, going from about 155 pounds down to 108 pounds!

Hubbard mused:

"Classification [of psychotic individuals] is interesting but non-productive since they are all PTS, all will Roller Coaster [get better, then worse, then better, then worse] and none can be trained or processed with any idea of lasting result no matter the temporary miracle."

Hubbard wrote in an article entitled "Psychotics", which was published in Volume 13, Number 2 of "Certainty Magazine — An Official Periodical of Scientology" published in February 1966:

"The true psychotic is one who causes hysteria, apathy, misconceptions and the reactions of stress in others. That is the identity of the being that is the source of psychosis." "The actual psychotic is covertly or overtly destructive of anything the rest of us consider good or decent or worthwhile." "The true psychotic worships destruction and abhors reasonable, decent or helpful actions." "The statistics of psychosis are not going to lessen in the society until this type of personality is completely isolated and understood."

These sections of Hubbard's "technology" are part of the basis for Scientology's justification for their "treatment" of individuals by ISOLATING the person from the rest of society.

In this same article "Psychotics", Hubbard wrote:

"We do not consider psychosis a field of practice in Scientology and Scientology was not researched or designed as a cure for psychosis or 'substitute for psychiatry'. But in the course of research, I have discovered these things and found them to be workable."

I have known of three Scientologists who went "Type Three PTS" and were isolated. All were subjected to proce- dures contained in the following referenced HCOB, or "Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin".

In HCO Bulletin of 23 January 1974RA "The Technical Breakthrough of 1973! The Introspection Rundown", Hubbard wrote regarding psychotic breaks:

"I have made a technical breakthrough which possibly ranks with the major discoveries of the Twentieth Century. It is certainly the greatest advancement of 1973 and is now being released after final wrap-up of research. It is called the Introspection Rundown." [...] "The breakthrough was made on a person who, after a series of wrong indications, went into a full-blown psychotic break — violence, destruction and all. [...] "Steps of the RD [Rundown] (Steps 0 and 00 are for a person in a psychotic break, not a normal person.) Put this checklist on inside front cover of folder as a pgm. "0. On a person in a psychotic break isolate the person wholly with all attendants completely muzzled (no speech). _______ "00. Give Vitamins (B Complex, including niacinamide) and minerals (calcium and magnesium) to build the person up. _______"

Additionally, Hubbard wrote in another "technical bulletin" — HCOB 20 February 1974 "Introspection Rundown Additional Actions":

"ISOLATION "In a person in a psychotic break, it is necessary to isolate them for them to destimulate and to protect them and others from possible damage. While in isolation the person receives the Introspection Rundown..."

The Scientology employee in charge of supervising a person suffering from a psychotic break is called a "Case Supervisor". According to the same HCO Bulletin of 20 February 1974, the "C/S Action — Cleared Cannibal Step" is given by Hubbard as:

"The C/S's action is a direct comm[unication] line to the person by notes. The person is provided with paper and pen to reply. The C/S must determine the person's responsibility level. Example: 'Dear Joe. What can you guarantee me if you are let out of isolation?' If the person's reply shows continued irresponsibility toward other dynamics or fixation on one dynamic to the exclusion of others damaged the C/S must inform the person of his continued isolation and why. Example: 'Dear Joe. I'm sorry but no go on coming out of isolation yet. Your actions threatened the survival of hundreds of people indirectly and 6 families directly by burning down their houses. You are unaware of the effects this could have had and still only concerned about your own welfare. You must hate the human race quite a bit."

Scientology's recommended treatment of psychotics, according to Hubbard's "technical" bulletin of 24 November 1965 entitled "Level IV Search and Discovery", consists of:

"The modern mental hospital with its brutality and suppressive treatments is not the way to give a psychotic quiet and rest. Before anything effective can be done in this field a proper institution would have to be provided, offering only rest, quiet and medical assistance for intravenous feedings and sleeping draughts where necessary but not as 'treatment' and where NO treatment is attempted until the person looks recovered and only then a Search and Discovery [Hubbard method] as above under Type Two [PTS]."

Somehow I doubt Lisa McPherson would have been subjected to "brutality and suppressive treatments" had she received treatment for her psychotic break ANYWHERE BUT at Scientology's facility in Clearwater. And to think that Scientology refers to this facility, the Flag Service Org, as "The Mecca of Standard Tech"...