Yeah, who but a nutter would get a permanent tattoo like that right over their eyes so that everyone who looks at them has to see it? Maybe it's some hypnotic voodoo symbology...
When I saw it, I thought it was the $cientology crop circles...
for Dr Hubbard, previous incarnation, would find his way back to land on this guy's forehead.
When I saw it, I thought it was the $cientology crop circles...
for Dr Hubbard, previous incarnation, would find his way back to land on this guy's forehead.
I still think there's some useful stuff at the lower end of the bridge. I think if you use what actually works for you and discard what doesn't, the dross will eventually fall away and you'll be left with the few grains of gold. I might still do TR's 0-4 if there was anyone who wanted to do them with me. That's where I got most of my gains in scn. And I still believe today, 35+ years later, that they were real gains. Anything else, I'm much less sure about.
We know there are no OT's or Book I clears, and no matter how much auditing or training you do, there's never going to be any. The lower grades probably won't hurt you, but once you know it's a blind alley, a dead end ... Dianetics, run the way it was circa 1970 where you did a White Form and then ran
what the pc was interested in running, might produce good results. I never saw it done that way, though. When I was in we did drug r/d's that went for hundreds of hours because we ran every reading item without checking interest. This forces the pc into whole track fantasy which is tacitly validated by the auditor, who cannot correct or invalidate the pc's data. Done this way, I believe it's a form of
intentional brainwashing that undermines the pc's ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. "Reality is proportional to charge off the case," LRH said. Reality = your agreement with
his reality.
I think, if you feel you need therapy, find someone with some actual credentials as a therapist. I had 2 1/2 years of psychoanalysis back in the 80's, a few years after I got out of scn, and found it infinitely more worthwhile. (Cheap, too. My therapist charged on a sliding scale. I paid $17/hour.)
If it's "enlightenment" you're after (whatever that might be), you could try meditation. I did Zen meditation for about 2 years roughly 10 years ago, on my own, no formal instruction, just read up on it and did it. A lot like OT-TR0, but you don't close your eyes and you're allowed to count from one to ten over and over. I felt having done god knows how many hours of OT-TR0 before, definitely gave me a leg up here. I got very good results from this; I even blew a chronic somatic. The trick is to "sit just to sit," JUST BE THERE and don't try to do anything else. (Even
trying to be there is doing something else.
) Don't do it for any reason or with any goal in mind. Of course this is much harder than it sounds. I eventually stopped because I just felt like it would be OK if I did, like I'd given myself permission to stop. It was good, though, if sometimes frustrating. I might take it up again someday if I feel like I want to.
I've edited my earlier post about the few good bits in scn: I changed "best avoided" to "no big deal."