His inner circle is not the ex Int Execs. He has a handful of trusted (currently) people who make up the COB Office Staff. They are mostly secretaries and communicators.
It is high discipline all the way and he simply picks those who don't defect no matter what he does. They do believe he is the most on-source and dedicated Scientologist in the universe and does what LRH would. He has the repute to have been (and to still be) LRH's best friend. He appears, as long as you believe he is right and you are wrong, quite brilliant in many ways. While the greatest bulk of the respect he has gained among his staff comes about from flat out (mild description) ethics pressure, it's not like he's just an "anybody." As I mentioned, he does think extremely fast and he chosen to follow a single goal that has molded his life into what it is: Expand Scientology despite anyone or anything. How much that goal is colored by the fact he is pretty much the only one who is gaining in that deal is hard for me to estimate. It is undoubtedly a factor, but it's significance may have been overstated. Personally I think he has gone blind from power and sees himself as surrounded by people trying to take him down, which postulate is one that is now becoming a reality.
The circle as a group will never turn on him. It will be on an individual basis. LRH policy makes sure of the fact that you can never have a mutiny, white of otherwise and get away with it. Any suspected disaffection is reported immediately as per Knowledge Reports and dealt with harshly as an ethics matter. It rarely gets past the point of a few individual indicators which are dealt with. It's pretty brutal. And it is very easy to believe you're the only one having critical thoughts, which per Scn tech means you are the one that has overts against your target of criticism. So you can never express them to anyone around you while in Scientology.
Besides, as you say, LRH does tells us that your eternal salvation depends upon you having no secrets, no overts, no withholds. So either tell the ethics officer or the auditor and take the consequences or forever forgo spiritual improvement, at which point you have lost all hope and the reason you came into Scientology.
That's the way the game is rigged.
Victor
Wait a sec...have you read Virginia McLaughrey's comparison of the PDC lecture #20 -the old and the new?
How is that standard?
I had listened to the Study Tapes, oh, four or five times, and always had trouble following one section. I'd word cleared it and word cleared it but never felt good about it. Then one day I wanted to refer to it quickly but there were no Study Tapes handy so I grabbed it out of the BC tape.
When I read the BC tape transcript it made so much more sense - they had removed an entire section on GPMs and R6 which included the point he was trying to make!
I felt completely betrayed at the time, like somebody was trying to get between "me and LRH" and lessening my understanding of him. I ended up re-listening to all of the study tapes once again, but this time directly from the BC tapes and felt my understanding was vastly improved. Even so, it was always in the back of my mind - if the Study Tapes had been edited without telling anyone, what if the BC tapes have also been edited? How would I even know?
I wouldn't have minded quite so much if it had at least been made known that they were edited and that more was available.
Researching it a bit further, I found that the original white Study Tapes cassettes in the blue binding matched the BC tapes. The tapes with the rocket ship on them released around 1989 is when they started editing them.
Another version of the tapes was released in the mid-ninties sometime which excluded the "education tapes" and I seem to recall were even further edited but I could be wrong about that part, it's been too long.
I had the same experience listening to one of the 'new' (circa 1989) levels tapes. A total blank spot. I went over it and over it. Finally realized the 'blank spot' was actually not there. there was about a half a page in the transcript that was not on the tape. Someone editing it had carefully joined up two sections which seemed to follow one another, but they actually didn't.
From that point I have not trusted ANY of the re-released anythings. Actually I left shortly after that, but history seems to have proven my instincts correct.
Regards,
Kookaburra
Weren't Christian scriptures also edited in a similar way (Council of Nicene?) leading to the formation of a formidable Church?
Are we looking at a similar dramatization? Is the original data being preserved somewhere outside CoS?
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Weren't Christian scriptures also edited in a similar way (Council of Nicene?) leading to the formation of a formidable Church?
Are we looking at a similar dramatization? Is the original data being preserved somewhere outside CoS?
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Yeah. Well, what they did was decide what books to even recognize and include in the Bible.
That's no joke. And consider this for a moment: It is very likely we will never see such books as Child Dianetics, The Second Dynamic, The Hymn of Asia or Mission into Time again. So, if you have copies of any, don't throw them away. One day they may be historical evidence. One day soon.
Yes, DM is editing entire books out of the library "for PR reasons".
What are the PR reasons?
Mission into Time: I don't know what the exact problem is. Lack of proof I would guess -- If the mission purpose was to prove LRH's whole track recall, why would you not publish the book?
V
I beleive either Child Dianetics or the 2D book was written by and credited to Mary Sue. That was why publishing was cancelled. (At least that is what we were told).
Also what about the book Diantetics Today? What happened to that one? It had some really good quotes in it I used as a C/S to help and correct auditors, then it disappeared.
I believe the main reason is that the LRH C/Sed sessions in the book include sessions of people who were OT3 and above.
Some tapes that were earlier released had the same fate.
Yeah.
Whatever happened to The Role of Earth?
Yeah.
Whatever happened to The Role of Earth?