Dulloldfart
Squirrel Extraordinaire
While a good churchie, I happily embraced the idea of Between Lives Implants. When I first heard that eponymous 1963 Briefing Course tape around 1974 I felt privileged to be one of the few thousand people on Earth to know the "truth". In my Dianetic auditing I duly came across a few whole-track implants, though none like any described in any HCOBs or tapes (except for something I decided was Fac One). It was actually quite exciting, electrifying even.
Now I can quite happily consider what I saw as the result of suggestibility. Whether it is or not, I don't know. It doesn't particularly bother me one way or the other if these large-scale implants are a facet of current existence or not. I suppose it ought to, since I certainly consider I will be picking up another body after this one stops working, but it doesn't.
So I have no real subjective idea of Between lives Implants as a reality rather than merely an LRH topic, and it's not a subject I'm aware of being mentioned anywhere outside of Hubbard and derivative works. In the absence of such supportive evidence, I could cheerfully relegate the subject to the same bin as Inc 2, Piltdown Man, or the Markabian Silver Surfer (or whatever those silly race-drivers' names were). Except for this:
Looking around at what goes on in this world, especially at government level, torture and murder and extortion etc. is commonplace. Assuming (big assumption!) one believes in some soul-thing (thetan plus baggage) leaving one body at death, doing whatever between lives, then getting hitched to another body next lifetime and repeating the cycle every few generations; then I don't see it as a big stretch to believe that some government with the technical capability of using electronic implants would not fail to use them to control populations.
I don't see it being particularly far-fetched that such electronic technology is possible. I'm not saying it exists on this planet right now, but looking at some of the things patented over the years in the area of mind control, why not?
Another comment in the area of logistics. If my memory is correct, Hubbard talks about this "current" BLI (it's in the 1990 edition 1963 Tech Vol under something like "Markab Between Lives Implant") as lasting several days. Now, the current death rate on this planet is something like 100 per minute. If it takes three days to process a thetan, that means about 400,000 need to be on the assembly line at any one time. Since each would need to be handled individually, that would be quite a production line.
Anyway, on balance, I would be more inclined to expect some kind of implant stations to exist than not, on the theoretical grounds of:
1. The technology doesn't seem that far-fetched, and
2. The desire of some in authority to dominate others by any means available is not unusual.
Paul
Now I can quite happily consider what I saw as the result of suggestibility. Whether it is or not, I don't know. It doesn't particularly bother me one way or the other if these large-scale implants are a facet of current existence or not. I suppose it ought to, since I certainly consider I will be picking up another body after this one stops working, but it doesn't.
So I have no real subjective idea of Between lives Implants as a reality rather than merely an LRH topic, and it's not a subject I'm aware of being mentioned anywhere outside of Hubbard and derivative works. In the absence of such supportive evidence, I could cheerfully relegate the subject to the same bin as Inc 2, Piltdown Man, or the Markabian Silver Surfer (or whatever those silly race-drivers' names were). Except for this:
Looking around at what goes on in this world, especially at government level, torture and murder and extortion etc. is commonplace. Assuming (big assumption!) one believes in some soul-thing (thetan plus baggage) leaving one body at death, doing whatever between lives, then getting hitched to another body next lifetime and repeating the cycle every few generations; then I don't see it as a big stretch to believe that some government with the technical capability of using electronic implants would not fail to use them to control populations.
I don't see it being particularly far-fetched that such electronic technology is possible. I'm not saying it exists on this planet right now, but looking at some of the things patented over the years in the area of mind control, why not?
Another comment in the area of logistics. If my memory is correct, Hubbard talks about this "current" BLI (it's in the 1990 edition 1963 Tech Vol under something like "Markab Between Lives Implant") as lasting several days. Now, the current death rate on this planet is something like 100 per minute. If it takes three days to process a thetan, that means about 400,000 need to be on the assembly line at any one time. Since each would need to be handled individually, that would be quite a production line.
Anyway, on balance, I would be more inclined to expect some kind of implant stations to exist than not, on the theoretical grounds of:
1. The technology doesn't seem that far-fetched, and
2. The desire of some in authority to dominate others by any means available is not unusual.
Paul