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Ignored LRH: Hazing and Ron’s Journal 1968

Many of us know about the initiation of harsh punishment and severe reality adjustments which began in the late 1960s with the formation of the paramilitary Sea Organization and the issuing of KSW#1 which made doubting LRH a High Crime.

What is not generally known is that Ron Hubbard evidently had second thoughts about the effects he had created.

Plain Old Thetan located a long ignored Flag Order and a mysteriously undocumented Ron’s Journal of 1968. I think you will find both fascinating.

Ignored LRH: Hazing and Ron’s Journal 1968

I was rearranging the stuff in my Scientology library last week and found a copy of the Sea Org Product 2 pack. Sea Org Product 2 is, as far as I can tell, like Staff Status II for Scientology Org staff members; it’s a set of policies that supposedly guide the actions of a Sea Org member. The title of the pack was Keys To Competence Graduate Course, dated 1990. On page 47 in the pack, I found a very short bulletin:

Who’ve thunk it? There’s an actual Flag Order specifically FORBIDDING physical punishment of Sea Org members. It also forbids hazing (subjection to harassment or ridicule). And it’s a Comm Ev offense!

It would seem that LRH realized the problems that would arise from hands-on arbitrary punishment of Sea Org members.

The next thing I noticed is that, based on the reports that DM physically assaults people or orders the physical assault of people or orders the ridicule of people, is that another bulletin is being violated:



Which then reminded me of KSW #1, where Ron stated:

The most trouble in the past two years came from orgs where and executive in each could not assimilate straight Scientology. Under instruction in Scientology, they were unable to define terms or demonstrate examples of principles. And worse, it could not be straightened out easily because neither of these people could or would duplicate instructions.

That’s all very familiar. But I looked at it again and noticed that Ron said neither person could or would duplicate instructions. I look at this and say “any Sea Org member who physically assaults other Sea Org members either had study bugs, or service facsimiles and evil purposes preventing the assimilation and application of straight Scientology”.

So, we can now identify some more of the factors inside the Church leading to the current situation.

1. Recruiting into or admitting to the Sea Org people with study bugs.
2. Recruiting or allowing people in the Sea Org who alter straight LRH to accommodate their service facsimiles and evil purposes.
3. Recruiting or allowing people in the Sea Org who have not really been audited and who are incomplete on Grade II (overts and withholds) and Grade III (compulsively changing things that don’t need changing) and Grade IV (service facsimiles – unchanging situations in life).

If you haven’t heard it yet, Ron’s Journal 1968 has Ron discussing outnesses in the Church needing reform. Given the date of the HAZING issue, it seems that it was issued in part to address public perception and disapproval of extreme Sea Org activities.

What I heard in that lecture was LRH clearly defining the role of the Sea Org as well as additionally apologizing for the way that Class 8 was used to invalidate existing auditors. He additionally announces a number of reform actions that would make the existence of DM’s church impossible.

What? You haven’t heard it?

Then listen to it  here and tell me what you hear.

— Written by Plain Old Thetan

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