Easily Confrontable 
This post is fixed here as a landing spot for new arrivals.
If you become independent of the Church of Scientology, you will be exposed to new data on Ron’s life and career, the development of the technology, and an intimate history of the Church that you have never seen before
You have left an environment where ANY questioning of the Tech, Policy, Management, or Ron causes severe repercussions and have entered this new environment where you are permitted to ask questions and have to make up your own mind.
Can this shake your stable data? It sure can, especially when you start looking at aspects of the Tech, of the Church itself, and LRH that you have never permitted yourself to see before. For some of you, this can be a bit overwhelming at first.
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Some Confront Required 
Plain Old Thetan is on a roll. He has been analyzing the videos of the Maiden Voyage Event so you don’t have to. You have been spared being subjected to hours of Miscavige bombast and have the actual results neatly laid out with surgical precision.
If you have fond memories of your time in a mission, you can kiss those memories goodbye. The Mission Network is being attacked from above by the self-appointed Master of the Scientology Universe.
After you read this, you might want to send your nearest Mission Holder your condolences.
Maiden Voyage 2010 — Another Stat Push
The Church of Miscavige has perverted the mechanics and policy of L. Ron Hubbard once again. This time the result will be the ultimate destruction of Scientology Missions and field groups.
The writing on the wall was presented this way.
The OT Summit was held on the Freewinds June 27-July 3 2010. Parishioners of the Church of Scientology were crunch-closed to attend the video replay of the Freewinds events at their local orgs during July 17-August 7.
One night of the fabulous breathtaking dramatic spectacular extravagant astounding can‘t-be-missed cavalcade was titled “Opening the Floodgates to the Bridge: Planetary Expansion Unleashed”.
During DM’s presentation, the Miscavige ‘bots stood and applauded, smiling, at all the appropriate, orchestrated points.
Lots of approval. No substance. And the ‘bots didn’t or wouldn’t see the operation going on right under their noses.
In what has become a corny repetitious and all-too-predictable stratagem, the event presented the new Division 6 routes onto the Bridge. And, in the same vein, the “implementation program” for these new services was received in the past week at Missions.
The actual implementation program makes calls out the glaring omissions from the glitz PR presentation on the ship. The CofM is not supplying flanking PR…or TV ads…or magazine ads…or radio ads…or magazine ads. A clear violation of HCO PL 11 March 1982 PROPORTIONATE MARKETING if ever there was one.
Predictably, the implementation program requires that your local Mission — already short on personnel — is required to send a Course Supervisor to Flag for training to qualify the Mission to deliver the new, streamlined, fantastic Success Through Communication Course, HQS, and the new Life Improvement Courses.
The training line-up for what is likely your Mission’s only Course Supervisor is:
- Mini-Course Supervisor Course or Hubbard Professional Course Supervisor Course.
- The new Success Through Communication Course
- The new Hubbard Qualified Scientologist Course.
- The new Public Division Courses Supervisor Course.
So, in addition to unmocking what’s left of your Mission’s Course Room, you have to find a person willing to go to Flag for six weeks to six months to take the new courses.
Otherwise, you can’t legally deliver the new courses at a Mission or field group.
Of course, you can no longer purchase the old course packs. You also have to trash all your old course packs.
So, if you have a working installation at your Mission, you now are between the proverbial rock and a hard place.
Either you don’t send someone for this training and violate some nitpicker’s idea of the ideal scene, or you unmock your course room for six weeks (or more) to send a person who has a real job and a real family to Flag for training.
As if that weren’t enough, the Personal Efficiency Course and the Hubbard Qualified Scientologist Course have been modified to no longer have audited Self-Analysis on the checksheet. This means that Missions no longer have authorized checksheets on which audited Self-Analysis is delivered.
Instead, the Personal Efficiency Course now has NO auditing on it. The Hubbard Qualified Scientologist Course has the TRs and Objectives course embedded in it.
Delivery of the TRs and Objectives requires minimally a Class IV C/S and Class IV auditor. (These are needed to C/S the Objectives and run Objectives Correction Lists.) That means that if you don’t have a Class IV C/S, you don’t have HQS course delivery any more.
And here’s the kicker: I’ve looked through all the new course materials. Except for HQS, there’s nothing that actually requires additional training in this “new Division 6 routes” line-up. So whatever is on the new Public Division Courses Supervisor Course is probably superfluous.
If you’ve been watching the Scientology Mission scene lately, you’ve seen that most Missions don’t have the personnel to deliver these new courses, and they certainly don’t have the personnel to send off for six weeks (or six months) of training somewhere.
So what’s the bottom line? A Mission has to accomplish an impossible staffing and training lineup to deliver these new courses, or they have to shrink even further.
And even if the Mission does accomplish that staffing, then sending the personnel for training exposes their staff in the higher org to high-pressure recruiters and high-pressure IAS registrars and high-pressure materials salesmen.
That’s in addition to the now-obvious…that there’s so few public on lines at orgs higher than Missions that a six-week estimate is overly optimistic. Mission staff sent for training on the “new Book One lineup” weren’t back in 2 weeks, or 4 weeks, or 6 weeks. In every case I’ve checked, the staff were gone for months.
Not to mention that two Mission staff members I know were “transferred” to staff at the Idle Org where they went to train because the Idle Org “needed the staff”.
Adding pointless training actions to Mission staff training requirements is obviously a stat push.*
(*stat push – getting the number up, without getting the valuable exchangeable products represented by the number. A technique of temporarily raising a stat without the attendant requisite expansion to keep the stat uptrending. Example: the “cash for clunkers” program by the U.S. government was a stat push. Refs: HCO PL 20 September 1976 THE STAT PUSH; HCO PL 20 September 1976-1 STAT PUSH CLARIFIED)
It’s obvious now that the “new Book One” implementation program was simply a stat push. It was designed to get Mission staff and Field Group members to Flag and Idle Orgs, then keep them there as surrogate staff members while the Missions and Field Groups foundered.
The stat push trend is being repeated with the Maiden Voyage 2010 Division Six Routes implementation program.
I can hear the thinking now: “All we’ve got to do is to get Mission staff to an upper org while simultaneously unmocking Mission production…and to hell with dissolving Mission staff members’ dynamics into a pile of dry dust”. That way the upper orgs accomplish a stat push at the expense of the actual production and whatever minimal expansion was being done at the lower orgs.
Now that DM has destroyed field auditing, the obvious next target was groups and Missions. And this will do in the groups and Missions for sure.
So, DM has accomplished the next phase of his diabolical scheme.
By destroying field auditing, groups and Missions, DM has engineered it so that anyone who wants Scientology has to go to an Idle Org.
– written by Plain Old Thetan
If you ever wondered how CofS ethics handlings got so haywire that a PTS person cannot name a senior Scientologist or big IAS donor as the Suppressive on his case, wonder no more. Plain Old Thetan has done the research that will answer your questions once and for all:
Perverted PTS/SP Tech Aids and Protects Miscavige
One of the hidden – and false — data lines that’s cropped up with in the Church of Miscavology is that “A Scientologist Can’t Be An SP”.
This has horrendous collateral effects within the Church and its parishioners.
Here’s how I figure it came about.
LRH says in HCOB 20 October 76 PTS HANDLING basically that people with evil purposes and destructive intentions claimed they were PTS to explain their aberrated behavior. The discovery that led to a handling was that these people didn’t understand what PTS was or meant.
Hence, DM’s blanket TIP that everyone had to do the PTS/SP course. (Of course, it doesn’t explain why everyone had to redo, and redo, and redo the PTS/SP course.)
The issue says that studying the actual PTS material had a tendency to blow charge on past bad PTS handlings. (I have observed this to be true. I did the PTS/SP drills with an OT VII who’d been mishandled on PTS lines at Flag and she ended up in tears when she was able to ask me questions that I was then able to show her the references for. She moved from “PTS/SP tech doesn’t work” to “the Church’s mangled, perverted PTS/SP tech doesn’t work” in two and a half hours.)
That same issue brings up the notion of False PTSness, but it points out that “unhattedness, ignorance of Scientology basics for handling life, past bad auditing uncorrected, as well as unhandled bad intentions and personal out-ethics can be mistaken for PTSness and won’t resolve as PTSness.”
The original reference on False PTSness is actually HCOB 15 December 1973 THE CONTINUOUS MISSED W/H AND CONTINUOUS OVERT WITH DATA ON DEGRADED BEINGS AND FALSE PTS CONDITIONS. This issue says that a person who doesn’t respond to PTS handling should be dealt with as a person with continuous missed withholds and/or continuous overts.
Another LRH reference that applies is HCOB 24 April 1972 I PTS INTERVIEWS (C/S SERIES 79 / EXPANDED DIANETICS SERIES 5. It says “A somewhat suppressive pc will find the good hats suppressive. […] He is PTS to SP people, groups, things, or locations no matter how SP he is. […] DO NOT BUY ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE he is PTS to.”
The important, but always overlooked piece of that issue is that the PTS person, EVEN IF HE IS SOMEWHAT SUPPRESSIVE, is STILL PTS to SP people, groups, things, or locations.
Isn’t that interesting? Even a somewhat suppressive pc remains PTS to SPs. Real SPs.
And of course HCOB 24 November 1965 SEARCH AND DISCOVERY says: “lf, however, there is no success in finding the SP on the case or if the person starts naming org personnel or other unlikely persons as SP, the Ethics Officer must realize that he is handling a Type Il PTS and, because the auditing will consume time, sends the person to Tech or Qual for a Search and Discovery.”
Finally, in HCOB 21 May 1985 TWO TYPES OF PTSes it is stated that “On Pretended PTSness […] your very reliable clue is that the person says he is PTS to a well-intentioned person, such as a staff member or Scientology VIP. This is almost totally conclusive evidence that you are dealing with a person with an evil purpose. Thus, he would be programed for auditing geared to locating and handling evil purposes. He won’t get any relief on being found “PTS” to a well intentioned person.” (I am suspicious of this issue as its date is well within the dates that DM was influencing and issuing things under LRH’s name.)
Note that it does not say to refuse the item. Note that it does not say to stop the PTS handling and route him to Sec Checking/FPRD immediately.
Now, we know that the reactive mind operates on the mechanism A=A=A=A.
Due to that mechanism, this whole PTS/SP haywire mess has become altered, perverted and warped into the following:
“If the PTS person names a Scientologist, especially a senior Scientologist or big IAS donor, don’t accept that answer, and send the PTS person for sec-checking, because he has evil purposes.”
Even though the LRH tech says nothing of the sort.
(This has become so pervasive that I myself wasn’t allowed to name executives of a Scientology company individually on a PTS terminal list because…“He can’t be an SP because he’s OT VIII and gives lots of money to the Church.” Turns out that company has collapsed into dust since I quit. Hmmmmm.)
And the situation has become so insidious that a person I know went to Flag, got an S&D, named David Miscavige as the item, which blew down and F/Ned, and THE AUDITOR AND C/S REFUSED TO GIVE THE PC HIS ITEM BECAUSE IT WAS PRESUMED TO BE A “GOOD HAT”. The pc was promptly Sec Checked and list-repaired into apathy.
The pc had been out-list for over 10 years because of it.
I recently had this person on my C/Sing lines as a pc, and I ordered a list correction, because he was manifesting the horrendous bypassed charge and self-listing an out-list can generate.
He BD’d, F/Ned, and recovered from 10 years of hopelessness instantly when he was allowed to put the refused item back onto the list.
Notice how clever this is.
DAVID MISCAVIGE WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED ON A PTS TERMINAL LIST.
AN IAS REG WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED ON A PTS TERMINAL LIST.
A BRIDGE MATERIALS INSULTANT WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED ON A PTS TERMINAL LIST.
A FLAG PUBLIC THAT’S BEEN TRYING TO FORCE YOU TO GO TO FLAG FOR SERVICE USING BUCKETLOADS OF EVALUATION AND INVALIDATION WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED ON A PTS TERMINAL LIST.
The complication that’s avoided if you don’t accept these people onto a PTS terminal items is this: if you accept the item, you then have to ask “DO YOU WANT TO HANDLE OR DISCONNECT?”
No Church Ethics Officer who wants to keep his head is going to suggest that you “handle” David Miscavige.
No Church Ethics Officer who wants to keep his head is going to suggest that you “disconnect” from the glorious wonderful Church that is draining your bank account in order to make a shiny but empty org.
So the INVENTED and OUT-TECH solution is to say “you can’t put him on your PTS terminal list.
Another Flag pc I know got an S&D, and named an OT VIII completion as the item on that list, which blew down and F/Ned, and THE AUDITOR AND C/S REFUSED TO GIVE THE PC HIS ITEM BECAUSE IT WAS PRESUMED TO BE A “GOOD HAT”. (This is the worst kind of evaluation and invalidation: an IN-SESSION refusal of an item.) The pc was promptly repaired into apathy. (“Sad effect” and “a down tone and slow case gain” are the consequences of this nonsense, which could have been predicted per Laws of Listing and Nulling number 13 and 20.)
This happened even though the OT VIII in question couldn’t hold a post as a Div 6 Registrar, Dissem Sec, HCO Sec, Bookseller, or Course Supervisor. It happened even though the OT VIII in question physically attacked an IAS Reg in the parking lot of the org. This happened even though the OT VIII in question refused to be hatted on OCA evaluation technology. This happened even though the OT VIII blew staff and refused to do a leaving staff confessional.
No, he was an OT VIII, a Scientologist, and gave us lotsa money. So he couldn’t be a PTS terminal for someone.
Whaddaya know? A does equal A does equal A does equal . . .
In case you didn’t add it up, “OT VIII” = “Big donor” = “not-an-SP”.
Accepting the OT VIII as the PTS terminal for someone would mean at least one thing. Flag and the Freewinds let someone with obviously unhandled 3rd dynamic aberrations, service facsimiles and evil purposes onto and through OT VIII. They even took his time on staff — disrupting the org — as the evidence that was needed to allow him onto OT VIII.
It would mean Flag and the Freewinds totally f’d up. All because a pc was able to use the smokescreen of “donating lotsa money to the Church”.
It doesn’t matter if you have an OT auditing on interminable OT VII because YOU MADE THEM OUT-LIST, DOOMING THEM FOREVER TO AN UNRESOLVABLE PTS SITUATION.
(This approach totally ignores the possibility that the person you name as an SP strung you up by your thumbs and flailed the skin off your body…ten thousand years ago…and may be in Scientology today and have given a million dollars in donations to the Church. So he’s not an SP …to your Ethics Officer… even if he’s an SP to you!)
Now, let’s take a look at the OTHER PTS terminal.
HCO PL 16 October 1967 SUPPRESSIVES AND THE ADMINISTRATOR; HOW TO DETECT SPs AS AN ADMINISTRATOR gives a 6-item checklist for detecting a suppressive person:
- No ethics change
- No case chance
- No admin change
- Thick ethics files
- Thick (or no) case files
- Thick, full (or no) comm baskets.
The only auditor’s certificate I’ve heard anyone claim for David Miscavige is Provisional Class IV, from over thirty years ago. I don’t know of any processing level he’s genuinely demonstratively achieved.
I certainly haven’t heard how he attained ANY GAT training certificate. Is he an FEBC? I haven’t heard that, either.
He’s got a fat ethics folder. I’ve sent in dozens of KRs myself. Other parishioners have as well. This site and others, as well as published books, contain reports about DM’s savagery.
And DM didn’t commit any overts (just ask Jenny Linson). If anyone committed overts, it was those awful Sea Org members at the Int Base who struck people. So DM must be PTS to them. And since they’re so obviously “bad hats”, that automatically absolves DM of any FPRD or Sec Checking.
He certainly can’t be Sec Checked or FPRD-audited by anyone anymore. He obviously didn’t get any case gain from any Sec Checking or FPRD he received as he still physically attacks people and demands women get abortions. He’s alienated or emasculated or demoted or imprisoned anyone who could audit him from altitude.
What we do have is reports that the last auditor who Sec Checked DM — while LRH was still alive — who turned in those auditing reports and an ally of DM’s had those auditing reports removed from the report line to LRH, contrary to LRH’s orders.
And what also exists however are dozens of witnesses with tales of DM’s vicious physical assaults on subordinates; the assignment of probably well-intentioned people into an inescapable hole; the dismissal and invalidation of peoples’ case level improperly; the elevation of peoples’ case level improperly; violating the Auditor’s Code by using records of their Confessional sessions for entertainment purposes; false targeting well-intentioned people and assigning them hideous inhuman punishments and hordes of other crimes large and small, mostly imagined.
So DM has thick (or no) case files.
He enforced altered tech on auditors who are now no longer auditing, calling it a “Golden Age of Tech”, and declared or removed the certificates of auditors who refused to participate in that same mishmash.
Somehow, though, he can’t be allowed to be even on a parishioner’s PTS terminal list.
No wonder the parishioners of the Church of Scientology are PTS.
They’re denied the right item daily.
— written by Plain Old Thetan
P.S. If “A Scientologist can’t be an SP”, how come so many Scientologists are now declared SPs?
P.P.S. Is the difference between a “declared SP” Scientologist and a Scientologist in “good standing” a one-million dollar donation to the IAS?
P.P.P.S. Isn’t that the kind of thing that led to the Protestant Reformation?
I get emails every week from ex-staff and ex-Sea Org members. Most are happy to find a place where they can see new ideas presented in a non-threatening manner.
Occasionally, I get emails from Ex-SO members who feel I may be a part of a plot to “find out more abut them” and they base this judgment on the fact that I link to sites that are not “nice”. They are also concerned that they cannot get in comm with others who are out.
These suspicions may be normal for some who have been in the SO and cannot shake off the indoctrination they received, so I thought I would share a recent response for all to see.
Hi Ex-SO person,
I appreciate your candor and will try to answer your questions as directly as possible.
To answer your basic question, I think you are missing something and it is for reasons
that you may not understand right now. I will address that at the end.
If you have read my site thoroughly, you should note that my purpose is to help people
recover from the effects of their Scientology experience. I have been auditing for more
than 20 years and am still doing that today.
People leaving the cult environment may take years to recover, in the absence of any
remedial auditing. The most obvious effect is that the independent field has people
who are stuck in many different tone levels, depending on the experiences that have
affected them.
As a result there are websites that espouse the complete destruction of the CofS
and the eradication of everything that LRH wrote or said. On the other end of the
spectrum, there are sites which endeavor to carry on the deification of LRH and treat
his every word as Gospel. There are many more that pursue a middle way.
I received incredible benefit from some of the processes approved by LRH and lived to
see the complete antithesis of his early spiritual attitudes embodied as dogma and this
dogma being brutally implemented by Hubbard’s militant priesthood, the Sea Org.
The church used to train auditors who could free people from their pasts.
Today’s auditors spend far more time doing off-policy Security Checking and regging
for donations than doing grade chart auditing.
My frequently stated position is that we need to salvage what we can of the technology
that produced results and correct the tech and the mis-applications that brought
the church to its present degraded state. I get emails every day listing the abuses
that are perpetrated on unsuspecting public through the willful misapplication of tech.
I have linked to sites that contain information that cannot be obtained elsewhere.
There is no link to “xenu.com”, so you may have been referring to Mark Bunker’s blog
http://www.xenutv.com/blog/
which contains interviews of the most influential independents to surface recently.
I also question your reference to the “inactive” ex-scientology message board.
The URL is: http://www.forum.exscn.net/index.php
It is the largest and most active forum for ex-scientologists. It is an open forum
which may be strange to you because it allows the airing of contrary views. There
is a lot of by-passed-charge which gets aired on that forum and over time
the participants seem to get unstuck from their original viewpoints and start
looking at more positive ways to interact.
On my sites, I try not to exceed a visitor’s tolerance of new viewpoints so I
mark the more challenging posts with a warning of the confront level required
to read the article and gain information from it.
I do not feel that there are any areas that should be exempt from being examined.
The actual history of the CofS, of LRH himself, and of the transformation of the CoS
into a cult contain lessons that need to be known and learned from. This is not something that recently departed scientologists can easily face so they should approach everything on a gradient.
The biggest barrier to learning new things for some ex-Sea Org people is that they
are still stuck in their adopted Sea Org identity even though they left years ago.
Everything they encounter that they do not understand is regarded as “entheta”
or comes from a “squirrel” source. These “thought-stoppers” are well understood
in the independent field and we try to grant beingness to those who are still
recovering from the indoctrination they received.
Independents do not march to the beat of a single drum, We each have goals and
we are working out our destinies as Free Scientologists. Most of us recognize
no leader although we support those who are working to reform the CofM from
without and within.
You say that you would like to get in comm with people you can trust.
When you get up to the point of declaring your independence and going public
as a free scientologist, you will have no problem getting comm from your friends.
Best regards,
David St Lawrence
Old Auditor
Spend as little time as possible with those who would tell you what not to read and what not to think.
I was reading a number of Independent Scientology and anti-Scientology blogs recently and my tone level varied all over the place while reading the blogs and was often lower at the end than when I began reading.
It was not so much the relating of abuses that brought me down, but the efforts by some writers to control my attitude toward what was being said or being reported.
Straight reporting of situations in the Church of Scientology provides essential data for making decisions about future contacts with those who would be likely to need help recovering from their church experiences. I feel that it is necessary to know the truth about matters such as Heber’s imprisonment, the false statistics showing expansion where there is none, and all the true events of Scientology history. Once the truth is known, it becomes data we can think with and use.
On the other hand, efforts by well-meaning individuals to control how we should feel about these matters really is a downer. Efforts to steer us away from any discussion of LRH except in the most respectful tones smacks of the years of cover-up that Int Managements has been running. Efforts to quote KSW in order to influence our thinking are a complete denial of the critical role played by this document in creating a cult atmosphere in the church of Scientology.
Sunlight is a great disinfectant and open discussion will erase Third Dynamic engrams. Enlightened scrutiny of every Scientology Bulletin and Policy will go a long way toward blowing the charge that has built up over the years from wrong indications and unjust actions.
There is no reason not to take issue with someone else’s proposed ideas or to support those ideas which are unpopular, as long as your challenging or support comes from your own experience. It is the effort to stop inquiry or discussion that is destructive to the ARC of the group. There are topics that a group will decide are off limits and enforcing those bans is an exercise in judgment.
Telling group members that they may not hold certain opinions or discuss these matters on their own is the first step toward mind control and we have seen what that has done for the Church of Scientology.
This blog, for instance, is my effort to contribute to the reformation of the Church of Scientology and to improving the workability of the technology assembled by Ron Hubbard. To that end I am continually asking questions and reporting my observations on all aspects of church history, the real sources of the technology, all aspects of Ron Hubbard’s life and his personal application of the technology. My goal is to help create a stable future for the development of workable technology and a network for the delivery of that technology.
I have no interest at all in persuading my readers to move in lock step formation to accomplish the above. I am happy that you provide comments and suggestions. Your beliefs and spiritual practices are your own and I respect them. I am always open to new ideas that will expand the offerings available for spiritual enlightenment. I do not think we have all the answers yet because I have seen results from other spiritual practices that have not been duplicated in Scientology.
The true test is not whether someone can do a particular miraculous thing, it is whether she or he can explain it so clearly that others can learn how to do it also.
There are a growing number of people who have not announced their independence, but are Independent Scientologists at heart. They are the new Scientology Underground.
These hard working and loyal Scientologists within the church realize that something is terribly wrong with the Church of Miscavige but have made the decision to work from within the church as long as they can. They provide support and encouragement to those who are working outside the church while they do their best to serve in a useful capacity within the current church organization.
Some of these people realize that their church has become a cult, but they are doing their best to be sane and stable terminals in an increasingly chaotic organization. I know several who are still holding staff positions or volunteering while doing their best to follow the basic precepts that originally made Scientology a shining hope for the future.
They are torn between their loyalty to their friends and family and their growing awareness that there is no future in attempting to move on up the Bridge. These people are living under constant suppression and yet they are still making things go right.
Like members of the Resistance in an occupied country, these future Independents harbor hopes that some day they and their children will be free again. The time is coming closer with every action they take to spread the truth about what is happening with the church.
Some of these future Independents provide valuable observations and information to Independent Scientologists who are active outside the church. I receive emails almost every week with information that is not publicly available. If some one desires to tell their story or share their observations, I am happy to publish their stories and to encourage them in any way possible.
These people are not cowed by the suppression they face, but the sad truth is that they are intimately connected to a sociopath or to people controlled by a sociopath. They face the constant risk of exposure and possible discovery by true believers who will stop at nothing to protect the church leadership that has them in thrall.
We who are active in the field owe these underground Independents a debt of gratitude for their continuing support and timely advice. When they finally make their declaration of Independence, they should be recognized as the determined heroes and heroines they are.
I have the feeling that the few honorable activities that occur in the Church of Miscavige are the result of interventions by these Underground Independents.
We look forward to the day when they are free to speak their minds and live their lives as free Scientologists.
Some Confront Required
We have all heard the tales of abuse in the Sea Org and at the top management level of Scientology, but we are just beginning to see the true extent of the depravity and outright criminality that is being visited upon loyal public Scientologists who have dedicated their lives to supporting the church and to becoming more spiritually aware.
Chris submitted this as a comment to my thread “CofS Repayments – Get your unused account balances returned“, but I thought his comments were important enough that he deserved a posting of his own.
July 24,2010 at 6:04 am
Hello,
My name is Chris. I was a Scientologist involved in church services for 25 years. For about 12 years of this, I was receiving “CCRD setups”. This included one auditor literally falling asleep, telling me all about his sexual escapades during sessions, etc. I changed orgs but was not able to complete the countless years of CCRD setups so that I could receive my CCRD. I could not train during this time as the CS said I could not do the Pro TR’s course clay table auditing until I completed my CCRD. I tried my best, submitted LRH tech showing the out-tech, did knowledge reports, and nothing productive came of it. Watching this sad decline of the church and getting nowhere myself, I finally pullled the plug and called it quits. I don’t feel I am an ex-Scientologist, but rather a Scientologist that does not want to associate with a corrupt, out-tech group – the church.
So, in February of this year (2010) I initiated a repayment to get my money back from the church. I started with getting a full accounting of my funds on account. I received a complete list of debits and credits over the last 10 years. It totaled $12,348.35 and I was informed “and that has been the stable balance since Dec of ’08.” (Their accounting is missing a Pro Tr’s course as well.)
So, I started my repayment cycle. After five months of active, almost daily communication and lots of forms filled out, etc. I was told I had zero money in my account. Seems the church wiped my account clean with sending out materials without my knowledge or authorization. They even gave out materials to someone else and debited my account, telling me that I knew him, (which I did) and he said it was ok. I asked them if they had anything in writing, and of course they do not. The church said they have to get back their materials back before they give me any money. Of course, that is their problem, but they are refusing to give me back my money. I informed them that I was going to initiate a lawsuit if they do not fulfill their obligation. There has been no response. I will be suing for fraud as well.
I have been working with Chris on his repayment cycle for some time and this is definitely the worst violation of the Scientology-IRS agreement I have seen. This is an ASHO repayment cycle and those of you who have useful information to share with Chris are welcome to do so. I am sure that he will also appreciate any information you have on getting legal representation in this cycle.
This person and his friends are the reason I began writing this blog. I get an email like his almost every week. I could have been writing it myself just a year ago.
Hi David
I’m writing to you to maybe get some advice.
I can at the moment not disclose who I am as I have many
connections, family and business, that are still in the church.
I am a Scientologist for 30 years, 12 of which I spent in the SO. I
am mid my OT Levels and am a trained auditor. I have been fully part of the
group till my last OT auditing about 4 years ago. Too many
things didn’t feel right to me that I started to have my doubts –
the emphasize on 100% standard tech, while I had the impression,
nobody was really addressing me was probably the biggest outpoint.
When I heard that Mike Rinder had left, I started getting
interested and soon found your blog, as well as Marty’s and
Steve’s. I read almost everything I could find. It was like all the
points got confirmed, with appropriate LRH references, of what I
had perceived over the last years and had accumulated as
“considerations” or “disagreements”. So reading these blogs has
been relieving and it has become a habit to always read them as
first thing in the morning.
Over the last weeks and months I have been talking to many other
Scientologists and was a bit surprised to find out that I am not
alone. There is quite a group of old timers that see what is going
on in the church.
We talk a lot about the subject and discuss about the latest
entries from the blogs.
In between we still ask ourselves if it still could be all made up,
just to be reassured in the next second that this is not possible.
Now we feel the need to do something about the situation. But the
problem is, we really don’t know what. Finding out what is going on
in the church, at top management level, and i.e. the disappearing
of all Int Execs like Heber, Ray Mithof etc. really gives the urge
to do something about it! However, we are all very entangled with
family, friends and business and don’t want to make a stupid move
that is not going to help anybody in the end.
One friend mentioned that she’s going to proclaim her exit from the
church. I don’t think this is a good idea as comm lines will get
cut to her, leaving her with much less power to do something about
the situation inside the group.
We were also discussing how we could make more people in the church
confront the outpoints, but that is also limited for obvious
reasons.
I personally know the tech works, when it is applied, and that it
basically wouldn’t be such a big deal to apply it if one would be
let to do so. I have no problem with the philosophy and its
founder. I would still like to go further up the Bridge (complete
my OT levels as soon as possible). I would like to see the philosophy
helping people in my environment and see it expanding naturally.
After spending 30 years of my life to this movement, giving nearly
everything for it, I can not just sit back and think it will come
out right in the future. Seeing what the big guys (Marty, Mike,
Steve etc.) are doing, one could get this idea. Anyhow, I feel I
have a responsibility to do something about the current situation.
I hope I didn’t bore you with this and I’m wondering if you have
any advice for me and my friends or what your viewpoint is.
Best wishes,
yetanotherviewpoint
My response:
There are thousands like us who found the technology and used it to save our own lives and the lives of others.
We rejected all criticism of the church as “entheta” and kept our growing doubts in check until we personally experienced enough out-tech or off-policy actions to shock us out of our self-imposed complacency. We wondered why our leadership like Heber, Debbie Cook, Mike Rinder and others weren’t doing anything to correct the creeping insanity.
After a while our observations, like yours, convinced us that something was terribly wrong and that our technology and policy were being violated and rewritten right before our eyes.
We finally decided to look for ourselves and many of us started writing up our observations and conclusions in an effort to help others blow through the confusions and betrayal that enveloped them.
I invite you to read every post I have written as they describe my own voyage of discovery and I would like to help you and your friends with your own recovery of self determination.
You will learn that the entire Bridge including the “Ls” and the OT levels is being delivered outside the church by experienced practitioners. I personally am auditing every week and am delivering Grade Chart Processes right now.
It may amaze you to learn that 80% of all trained auditors are now outside the church. Many are not yet auditing, but I hope to inspire them to resume their auditing activity by bringing them in contact with other auditors and C/Ses who are picking up the pieces of their lives again.
One of the things you can do to help others in your situation is to publish more of your viewpoints in my blog and in other blogs. Your viewpoints are extremely valuable and your writing will help you sort out things that you may not have been able to discuss with others. You will also get valuable feedback from the readers of this blog which may guide you in the evolution you are going through.
Please keep writing. I will be glad to help you in any way I can.
Best regards,
David St Lawrence
Old Auditor
Some Confront Required
Plain Old Thetan has written an interesting analysis of the 2010 Maiden Voyage Video. For copyright reasons, we cannot include a link to this video, but if you are curious you might find it on YouTube or in your nearby CofM org.
I watched the part of the video Plain Old Thetan describes and was oddly disturbed myself. The video was beautifully done and used professional effects and actors and is a stunning example of how to use an aesthetic product to attract and fascinate the rubes and to lead them into the jaws of the cult.
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I woke up this morning fuming.
Last night I watched the amazing fantastic hyperbole-laden Maiden Voyage event announcing the new Division 6 routes onto the Bridge. During the video, I was inexplicably upset during the presentation of the magic hands-off video example explaining the Anatomy of Control for use during the Personal Efficiency Course.
Even though I was disoriented by this video during the event, I couldn’t explain WHY. I must have figured it out while I slept.
Because I woke up this morning fuming.
The part of the video that demonstrates “bad control” goes like this:
Narrator: Good control is certain, positive and predictable. For example, imagine being moved around in a room by somebody.
First, he tells you to go to the desk. To do so, you would have to start, change your body’s position, and stop yourself. Then he tells you to go to the chair, and you do so. Then he sends you to the door.
Now, oddly enough, you wouldn’t mind this as long as you are able to complete each cycle of action before you started another.
But let’s take another look at this.
Imagine for instance, someone told you to go to the desk, but before you arrive there, he tells you to do something else.
But before you did that, told you to do something else, and then claimed you were wrong in not having gone to the desk.
You would be confused and upset. This would be bad control, since it does not permit you to finish any cycle of action before another cycle of action is demanded of you.
Bad control is uncertain and unpredictable.
There can be so much of it that some of us begin to believe that all control is bad. Which is not true.
Actually, there is no such thing as bad control. It is actually NOT control, because one either controls something, or he does not.
Why did I wake up fuming?
Because DM was very proud of this video and his audience on the Freewinds actually applauded… and when the rubber meets the road, all you see is a dictator who is just plain evil surrounded by a bunch of robots who are both blind and stupid.
Let’s see why I say that.
People who completed OTVIII years ago have nowhere to go on the Bridge.
OTVIIIs now have to go back and redo OTVII.
People who completed a Purification Rundown had to go back and redo the Purification Rundown.
People who years ago completed OT III had to go back and do OT III Expanded.
People who did extensive FPRD programs had to do the FPRD Rundown.
People who did the PTS/SP course had to redo the PTS/SP course. And then, just for good measure, redo the redo of the PTS/SP course.
People who completed the TRs and Objectives course…or completed Objectives on their Grade I…have to go back and redo their TRs and Objectives course. Or get their Objectives redone at HGC rates.
People who attested Clear and did part of the upper Bridge have to go to AOLA and get NED at AOLA rates because they weren’t really Clear, but they’ve seen advanced course material.
People who audited to Clear last lifetime have to get audited to Clear this lifetime in violation of LRH Tech Bulletins on this.
People who trained to Class IV, or Class V, or Grad V, or Class VI or Class VIII have to return to the beginning of their training Bridge and redo everything. Metering, TRs, internships. Everything.
People who received a gold seal cert for their training level were told it was “no good” and that they’d have to start over.
People who donated for Super Power were told not to wait for it but to do something else, whether it was on the Bridge or not (“do your ACCs”).
People who studied the basic books on their Solo Auditor Course, or SHSBC, or auditor training were told it didn’t count and they’d have to start over.
In other words, DAVID MISCAVIGE THROUGH HIS “CHURCH” HAS INVALIDATED EVERY SINGLE PERSON TRYING TO MOVE UP THE BRIDGE BY DENYING VALID PROGRESS.
He doesn’t let parishioners complete a cycle of action.
He’s even worse than the lousy manager in the Personal Efficiency Course’s ANATOMY OF CONTROL video.
So DM, standing on the ship, proudly boasting his video and watching it himself, is playing a nasty joke. He’s smugly showing everyone exactly what he is doing to everyone and laughing no one gets it. It’s the ultimate in arrogance.
It’s all done under the pretense of world-shattering expansion. But is having the actual effect of total collapse.
He’s the biggest violator of GOOD CONTROL Scientology has ever seen.
He’s running Scientology in reverse.
– written by Plain Old Thetan
If you get a chance to see this Maiden Voyage video, you will be struck with the contrast between the apparently on-purpose and uptone message that is being portrayed and the bizarre abuse that is visited upon Sea Org and church personnel on a daily basis. You can see the cruelty in David Miscavige’s face even when he brags about delivering what LRH wanted.
I invite you all to contribute your stories to this blog in the hopes that your stories will strike a chord with those who are still undecided whether there is a life outside the church of miscavige. A dear friend who writes under the name of Water Dragon wrote me today and wanted to share her realizations about the church we all help build and now have left:
David St Lawrence
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I don’t have a SO horror story like a number of others (but wait, isn’t non standard LRH tech a horror story enough?) probably because I didn’t stay in long enough when I was in the SO. But I did and do find many instances of non standard or altered tech over the years and my stable datum was always LRH.
I sounded like a broken record asking for the LRH reference when I was told to do things. Most of the time the people I was talking to couldn’t give me one so I just went on with what I knew LRH wrote. After time went on I rarely and then never would get a response from either the RTC, Int Management or the senior terminals in the church when I queried something.
I finished OT7 as one of the first to do so and was told at the time that LRH actually C/Sed my folders for completion. I then did OT8 on the original Maiden Voyage. The next year is when I really noticed non standard arbitraries coming into play.
My standard action then was to ask for LRH references. When told that everyone has to redo their OT5 rundowns I queried that for a reference and then was told I didn’t have to do them that my ‘case’ was fine. Then when they started putting everyone back on OT7 I again asked for a reference because I had a question that the C/S needed to answer. Never got an answer to my question and every reference they were willing to show me just reinforced what I was saying. Every tape I listened to, every book or HCOB/HCOPL I read just backed up what I was asking about. So I just backed off and figured the C/S would eventually figure it out. Then a few years later I knew they wouldn’t figure it out as long as DM was controlling things.
There are lots of instances I can tell of out tech or altered tech looking back now, but to me that’s not the important part. The important part is that there are people who recognize that something is wrong and that LRH is still right when followed standardly.
I’m still just stunned that so many don’t see the departure from LRH. I arm myself with LRH references and give my disagreements to those who close their eyes to what is going on with the right reference and that seems to help. My opinions don’t matter to them (or they don’t seem to hear them) but LRH does seem to get through. So that’s what I use to teach them. When folks ask me what group do I support, I say LRH, first and foremost. When asked how I can support a group outside of the church (the Independents) I tell them that I am unaware of any reference that says ONLY the church can practice standard tech.
I give them examples of a student being told in a higher org course room that you don’t need a dictionary and that the glossary is enough, that you don’t have to clear all the definitions, that it’s okay to get the general feel for what he is talking about and move on, or in session, the auditor feeds you a definition and then gives you examples such as “an SP is someone who doesn’t do their GAT training”! These are real examples! If they truly want LRH standard tech they get what I am saying.
People have seemed to lose sight of what’s important here. LRH tech is important and the church structure isn’t. It’s always been about what LRH has given us to use as tools. So used correctly they produce rave results. Used incorrectly, you get what is currently called the Church of Scientology. For me it’s always been a no-brainer…do what LRH says to do! LRH should be your stable datum in any confusion.
The Water Dragon
Willing to Confront Anything? 
– not for the squeamish
The Church of Scientology has set up a private prison system where top executives have been kept under lock and key since 1992. Those few who broke out and found their way to freedom have harrowing tales to tell.
Claire and Marc Headley, author of Blown for Good, escaped some time ago and are now suing the CofS for back wages among other things. Church lawyers are seeking to get a summary judgment to dismiss the charges.
In terms of the case, it is moving forward. The Scientology organization has made several attempts to have the case dismissed or delayed and these have not worked. They have also reportedly spent three million dollars so far fighting this case. Obviously, this is insane as what Marc and Claire are asking for in terms of the unpaid wages is LESS than what they have spent trying to make the case go away.
Marty Rathbun has written a signed declaration explaining the criminal activities of the Church of Scientology to support Claire and Marc Headley’s suit. You can read Marty’s entire declaration here and should read Marty’s story The Headleys to get the back story.
If you have been wondering why you have not heard from Heber Jentszch or any of your old friends in the Sea Org, the following excerpt of Marty’s declaration should make it perfectly clear:
From 1992 forward Miscavige required that RTC implement measures to make leaving the Int base next to impossible for the several hundred RTC, CSI and Gold staff. We set up security watch at staff apartments in Hemet, California.
The purpose of the security guards and watches was to make sure nobody left in the few hours staff generally had for sleeping away from the Int base.
The security force on the base met with members of personnel and training divisions responsible for the personal enhancement and schedules of staff. They called this the “perimeter council.” Its job was to put a monitoring system on any staff member on the Int base who might show the slightest sign of disaffection with life there. It was security’s job to keep a close eye on them; never letting such people leave the base for any reason. RTC usually had a representative sit in on Perimeter Council meetings.
If any staff member expressed the desire to leave, or if Miscavige or anyone in RTC even suspected as much, the person was assigned to the Old Gilman House. It was a group of dilapidated structures off in a remote corner of the property where extra security was stationed throughout the night to prevent any departures. Fences encircled the Int compound which were outfitted with motion detectors. When the motion detectors alerted Security to any movement they arrived at the scene of the movement within minutes to find any escaped staff member and return him to the compound.
Absolutely chilling! Can you imagine the novels that will come out of this when the survivors finally get released?
Some Confront Required
As members of the Church of Scientology, we were well schooled in following directions and not asking questions about what we were being told. Our obedient behavior may have made life smoother for those in charge, but it left us wide open to manipulation by unscrupulous executives like the current COB, David Miscavige.
There are no checks and balances in the Church of Scientology. Once an abusive and suppressive individual takes the reins of the organization, everyone from the top of the organization down to the prisoners at the Hemet base in California marches to the tune of Dear Leader. Public are bullied into complying with the most outrageous demands on penalty of losing their access to the upper levels of the “Bridge to Freedom”. The ironic quotes are intentional because for the last 15 years access to the top of the Bridge meant exposure to becoming psychotic, having major health issues like cancer, and incidents of suicide and murder.
Every week those leaving the church provide ample evidence of the growing insanity of the Church of Scientology in their published Doubt Formulas. Against these firsthand reports, the Church of Scientology raises an increasing unreal screen of photoshopped events, carefully scripted success stories, and increasingly strident calls to arms to defend the faith against unbelievers. When that doesn’t work, they send their lawyers and armies of private investigators out to intimidate dissidents who are celebrating life outside church walls.
Those who wait in bewilderment for signed affidavits of wrongdoing and photographs of abuse will still be waiting for proof when their families are destroyed before their very eyes, either by being run on Black Scientology processes or being forced to rerun processes that are already complete.
Meanwhile, outside the church walls, arguments rage on whether LRH wrote a particular bulletin or policy or whether he wrote the other policies and bulletins that contradict the first ones. It is time to get over treating LRH as an infallible deity. He was both brilliant and brutal by turns, a most complex and charming individual, with all the faults of any individual who succumbs to the lure of unlimited power.
LRH wrote much that explains how to help individuals and we should use it.
If we run into material by LRH that is destructive of individuals and organizations, we do not need to explore how he came to write it, we just need to mark it as destructive and why and move on.
For example, it is a waste of time to argue whether LRH said to lie or not to lie when using PR. The simple fact is that the Church of Miscavige lies continuously in their PR, in their recruiting, in their offers of help, in their promotion of services. The group no longer has both oars in the water and have become an example of what not to do in almost every area of endeavor.
We know from bitter experience what does not work, so we might as well spend our time and efforts doing those things that do work.
We should identify those policies and bulletins that are destructive and avoid using them. We must also identify those policies and bulletins that help individuals go free and use them regardless of who wrote them.
Furthermore, as we discover more ways to grant beingness and to increase abilities, we should adopt them and acknowledge the source. We will inherit the future we create. Taking responsibility for that creation is the first step toward self-determinism.
Willing to Confront Anything? - not for the squeamish
I was talking to an ex-Sea Org member who has been frustrated by the lack of response to her well-researched and carefully written Knowledge Reports. Like many loyal and hard-working staff members, she was trained to believe in the Scientology Justice system and in the power of Knowledge Reports.
She hasn’t realized that in today’s CoS, Knowledge Reports of wrong doing single the writer out for “special handling”, usually verbal abuse and Security Checks because revealing off-policy activities or outright criminality embarrasses the Church and may inconvenience some high-rolling criminal from getting his OT8.
Writers of Scientology Knowledge Reports generally suffer the same fate as whistleblowers in the US Government and for the same reason.Top executives are more interested in covering up wrongdoing than bringing the perpetrators to justice.
Right now in the Church of Miscavige, money is king. If you are a potential source of major money, the church will avoid looking in your ethics file and will ignore documented Knowledge Reports of child abuse, spousal abuse, kidnapping, and a host of other felonies. If you do get pulled off an OT level because the heat is on, you can get reinstated by a suitable donation and nothing will ever appear in your ethics file.
On the other hand, if you are a troublesome Knowledge Report writer, you will have an ethics file full of manufactured false reports and will be subject to endless Security Checks at your own expense. If you continue to pester church management with requests for justice, you may end up being threatened with Scientology’s lawyers. Scientology maintains a large stable of attorneys to fend off the Justice Department and to keep troublesome parishioners in line.
The Scientology Justice system went south many years ago when David Miscavige first ascended to power. Church justice is what DM says it is and nothing more. Any hope you have of obtaining restitution or justice depends entirely on the whims of the sociopath calling himself the COB.
So, what is an ethical Scientologist public or staff member to do?
Your only hope of regaining your self-respect and taking control of your life, is to take your story to the Internet where you alone control the communication channel. You can set up a website (free in many cases), or post on a forum like the Ex Scientologist Message Board , or post comments on any of the high profile blogs like Scientology-cult, Leaving Scientology, or Moving On Up A Little Higher and your story will reach thousands of people and the Church of Miscavige can do nothing about it.
Once you are published, you also keep publishing every attempt to stop you from reporting the truth. This is the last thing that the church wants to see as it drives away new prospects and encourages other staff to report wrongdoing also.
Stick to the truth and tell what you know without excessive drama. You may be distraught at what the church is doing to you and your family, but people will read an account when it is factual and will remember the facts you present. You really don’t need to appeal to reader’s emotions by telling them how awful you feel and how badly you have been treated. Say what has happened and they will be able to connect the dots themselves and draw their own conclusions.
Don’t be afraid to ask for advice or for help. There are plenty of us who are willing to help you get back on your feet. Most of us are still getting over the fact that we helped to build one of the worst cults in recent times and we know how hard it is to snap out of the indoctrination we all bought into for many years.
One of the first steps you might consider is looking at what condition you have let your First Dynamic fall into. If you are like many staff members, you were convinced to abandon your First Dynamic years ago. If you are not working up the conditions on your First Dynamic, all of your efforts to right the wrongs you have experienced will be in vain.
Write your Knowledge Reports on the Internet where they will be read and understood.
Mark Headley was a street-wise kid who survived the Sea Org and became a tough minded and resourceful adult while learning valuable skills along the way. He has written an important book, Blown for Good.
His book, in my opinion, has more informative about the built-in inefficiencies of the Church of Scientology organization than any of the other books by ex-scientologists.
His book clearly shows how a suppressive top down management system sows the seeds of its own destruction. The daily meetings and the endless rants by Dear Leader reminded me of the 8 hour rants of Castro and other dictators.
This book shows David Miscavige to be an incompetent and irrational manager. I lost track of the vast sums ($Millions) of parishioner money that DM wasted because of his lack of planning and foresight.
Mark never dignified DM by making him out to be a person of real importance, merely showed him to be a daily source of terror for those who had to work around him. It would appear from Mark’s book that the Sea Org has adapted to Dear Leader’s oppressive rule by being totally obedient to his face and then reverting to whatever actually works when Dear Leader leaves the scene
The description of the False Reports from Marc Yager and Guillaume Leserve in the 1980s was most revealing. I finally learned where the true reporting of stats gave way to MEST descriptions. Yager invented the means to cover up falling student completion stats by saying that if you took all the course completions and stacked them end to end, they would reach halfway around the moon! (Page 234)
This was Marc Yager’s solution to reporting that student completions were 12,000 instead of 15,000 the year before. I remember reading that description and never thought of what it was concealing.
I did not realize until six years later when I was a Mission Holder how the stats were being padded at every level in the management structure. Our seniors at Scientology Missions International would pad the figures we gave them and ignored our efforts to correct the final reports.
This book is a great read and I felt it was best consumed in small bites because there were revelations in every chapter that I needed time to digest.
I urge all of my friends who are still hiding below the radar to read this book. It will help you formulate your own Doubt formula.
Some Confront Required
In the future, I expect to see many leaders in the field, not just one or two. We will be going many different ways and creating many different futures. I think this image is a fitting metaphor for what will happen as we realize our true potentials. Think of it as life after the CofM becomes history.
An organization such as the Church of Scientology is bound together by agreements. With a charismatic leader like Ron Hubbard, there was enough affinity for the professed goals that people of all persuasions joined together to make that goal a reality and agreed to put the organization ahead of their personal interests.
When the agreements of such a group are violated enough by the leaders, the group wakes up out of its trance-like state and starts to disintegrate. This is not an easy task because the group members have a strong sense of duty and that sense of duty is exploited by the leadership to keep members captive as long as possible.
When members publicly leave the group, they are made to feel degraded and are often convinced that their self worth is meaningless.
This why many people are leaving by degrees instead of coming out and making a public declaration. They are too “busy” with work to get more auditing or training. They have business trips that prevent them from attending events. They find “legitimate” excuses for being less involved as an active Scientologist. As they spend more time away from the church, the frenzied registration cycles and meaningless stats seem more and more unreal to them. They may still make donations to the Idle Org campaigns and to the IAS, but it becomes a protective measure to avoid being singled out as an SP.
Either way, the person eventually finds their way to the Internet and their conversion to rationality is only a matter of time. They see that they are not alone and their observations of wrongdoing are not unique. Eventually they come out and the transformation begins.
The path back to being a normal human being takes a fairly standard trajectory.
The first step is to withdraw and try to recover from the shock of separating from the church. During this stage, the person may be vulnerable to entreaties to return to the cult and all will be forgiven.
The next stage as the shock begins to wear off is to become angry at efforts to disconnect them from friends and family. All sorts of social pressures are employed by cult members and cult-related employers to get the escapee to return to the fold.
The next step often involves intensive study of the actual facts about the Church of Scientology. This starts with reading about safe things like staff member abuse and criminal registration cycles. Then it expands to reading about church criminality, disconnection, and Fair Gaming of those who spoke out about the church.
At this point, the person has begun to discover truly unsettling things about the church and Ron Hubbard which shake almost every stable datum they have. Some cut and run to find security in groups that assign all blame for the current church to David Miscavige. This gives them a safe group where they can discuss their feelings and share their experiences.
Others find that this treasure trove of reports going back 40 years validates what they always suspected and a curious divergence of activities occurs.
Some feel such revulsion and betrayal that they abandon Scientology completely, either moving on to a more acceptable philosophy or becoming outspoken critics of the church, of Hubbard, and of the entire Scientology philosophy.
Some decide that the church urgently needs reform and become committed to exposing the crimes and human rights abuses of the CofS. They may protest with Anonymous or support blogs like Ex Scientologist Message Board, Leaving Scientology, Scientology-cult, and Marty Rathbun’s blog where their primary focus is on bringing the abuses to an end.
There are others who see the primary need as one of rehabilitating the hardworking staff and loyal public who have finally woken up and are making a new life outside of Scientology. I happen to be in this category and my newest priority is helping rehabilitate auditors as they are a priceless asset which is urgently needed in the Independent field. I see this entire rehabilitation effort as the great long term need outside the church. Thousands of Independents will surface this year and they should have auditing gains to look forward to.
I think we can make this happen. Not as a giant concerted action, but by rehabilitating individuals one at a time using standard processes under the Auditor’s Code with C/Sing and programming designed to benefit the Preclear, not anyone else.
The takeaway from the CofS debacle is that Independent scientology does not need a leader – it will have many leaders. We are not going in the same direction from here on out. We are free to chose our direction and our friends. We will see a lot of new leaders and many interesting ways of delivering spiritual freedom. We may even see people dedicated to seeing that this cult madness never happens again.
I hope to be taping new paths while continuing to use what we have found to be workable in the past. That is the game I have in mind. Creating a game for others. There are a few of us doing that already and there will be more in the future.
(photo credit to Steb Belton http://blogs.fruitportschools.net/jstebelton/)
Willing to Confront Anything? – not for the squeamish
It is only a matter of time until a critical mass of staff and supporters realize that their personal survival depends on escaping the clutches of the CofM and take action.
Many have had the realization, but are still hanging on in the hopes that someone will save the day and “make things better”. It is not going to happen. Those in the church who could have done this are locked up in Hemet or are degraded shadows of their former selves.
The movers and shakers that remain are firmly in the valence of Dear Leader and are screaming and slapping faces in an effort to get staff to stand tall and make more money for the church.
This constant abuse can drive someone down into the Robot band where they need orders and are completely other determined. Read Robotism, 10 May 1972, to get the true horror of what is happening to CoM staff members and public today.
They are so deeply conditioned that it is virtually impossible to get them to listen to any voice but Dear leader’s.
If you thought that Orwell’s 1984 was a flight of fancy, you have not been watching the CofM closely. I have dear friends and an ex-wife who respond violently when asked if they know about Heber or abuses at Hemet. These are OTs who worked with Heber or were his friends!
If Dear Leader says Heber is an Unperson, they put all memory of Heber out of their minds. They are bloody Clockwork Oranges with loose bits of contrary data clinking around in their heads.
Since we are not likely to be able to penetrate their conditioning directly, our best and most humane solution is to cut off their money supply.
When the money supply drops below a certain level, and beatings do not change the downtrend, Miscavige’s lifestyle will be impacted enough that he will either (a) declare the church to be infested with incompetents and leave for greener pastures, (b) start to recognize what he has caused and pull in a serious motivator, or (c) insist on being right and do a “Jonestown” in his bunker.
Looking at the recent church promo, it seems that they have entered an alternate reality where stats are up, staff is highly motivated and Scientology is making inroads all over the planet. They are on a collision course with reality and the result is going to be quite painful for all remaining staff and public.
I doubt that Dear Leader and his followers will still have an operational cult by Christmas. The negative public relations created by Independents publishing the truth will cut new donations and recruitment to a trickle. The pressure on the faithful will escalate until there are more Rex Fowler disasters and that will be the beginning of the end.
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