Div6
Crusader
Veda has pointed out (correctly imho) that to understand LRH you need to understand his stated motivations, goals, etc. and points to the "Admissions"
written around 1947 as fertile ground to look. Having read these many years ago, I did not find them all that startling as material. This kind of stuff comes up in sessions of all types in my expericence. I will admit that there is 'shock value', as LRH did shamelessly promote that he had "risen above" the bank, so to those believers it will come as a surprise perhaps.
But I think we need to look even earlier than these to understand the repeating pattern of Hubbard's "power trip". 1938 was the alleged genus point of "Excalibur". The "story" was that LRH "went under" on nitrous oxide in a dental operation, and
found "the akashic records" and was then given a "forgetter" command and "woke up", realizing that the nurse and doctor had thought he was dead.
The story continues that LRH wrote a manuscript from this experience called "excalibur' and said that ANYONE who read it would go insane.
I find it notable that he said the same thing essentially, about his "advanced course materials" 25-30 years later.
Alan would call his 1938 dental operation an "Ascension Experience". It is quite common when one has a "near death experience" or "out of body experience" to feel elated, expanded and want to share the knowledge and awareness of this new view point of Cosmic Consiousness with others. The "New Age" writings are full of such...as are the writings of Christian mystics, the Theosophical Society, the Krishna's and punk rockers (joke).
What is unique, I think is to "sex it up" with the idea that it is lethal.
"She said, I know what it's like to be dead..." - The Beatles
And then again, maybe not.
But once one has achieved "cosmic consciousness" what else is there to do, other than become a monk and preach the word?
"You, who are on the road
Must have a code
That you can live by"
- Teach Your Children CSNY
LRH mentioned 2 more dynamics above the 8 outlined in Scn.
Ethics and Aesthetics. Filbert points out that the Upper Dynamics rule the lower ones ( and he delineates 16 of them).
Ethics, while given much lip service in the CoS, in truth is just an enforcement mechanism in practice. Which is not how ethics is defined, but that would introduce too much cognitive dissonance into the "group mind".
And Aesthetics in the CoS are manufactured behind razor wire fences in a desert compound ruled over by a land locked navy. I am given to understand that there are hundreds, if not thousands of 'advices" having to do with the production of aesthetics that are only available to those locked into the "ethic level" appropriate for such powerful knowledge.
"When threatened with unmocking, a thetan mocks up compulsively" - LRH
Filbert -
"If a person takes a drug, the body feels threatened and the pc reacts by mocking up some bank hard below his awareness level. Drugs, whether it is LSD, marijuana, alcohol, or whatever, produces a threat to the body, like any other poison. The threat is to the body and the thetan reacts by mocking up. He can either mock up an engram, secondary or some combination of fantasy and fact. In some cases, he will mock it up so hard that it will become more real and safer than PT. Thus, under threat, he goes out of PT. A person who needs a Drug Rundown, a person that has taken drugs in other words, has a time track that is not make up of wholly present time events. It is a composite of past track, imagination and present events. Thus, right before your eyes, the person is apparently in the same room as you are, doing the same things you are, but from his point of view, he is really only partially there and he is partially back in some past events, He seems to be there, but he isn't really fully tracking with PT. What is constant in this is that he is not running the same series of events as other people."
So this leads us to the laughable picture of a Naval Captain, sitting in the desert, surrounded by picture making machinery enforcing ethics derived from a drug induced fantasy, compulsively mocking up enemies because of the perception of threats, while trying to control the "believers" through bigger, better and purer "aesthetic productions"
Can I attest now?
written around 1947 as fertile ground to look. Having read these many years ago, I did not find them all that startling as material. This kind of stuff comes up in sessions of all types in my expericence. I will admit that there is 'shock value', as LRH did shamelessly promote that he had "risen above" the bank, so to those believers it will come as a surprise perhaps.
But I think we need to look even earlier than these to understand the repeating pattern of Hubbard's "power trip". 1938 was the alleged genus point of "Excalibur". The "story" was that LRH "went under" on nitrous oxide in a dental operation, and
found "the akashic records" and was then given a "forgetter" command and "woke up", realizing that the nurse and doctor had thought he was dead.
The story continues that LRH wrote a manuscript from this experience called "excalibur' and said that ANYONE who read it would go insane.
I find it notable that he said the same thing essentially, about his "advanced course materials" 25-30 years later.
Alan would call his 1938 dental operation an "Ascension Experience". It is quite common when one has a "near death experience" or "out of body experience" to feel elated, expanded and want to share the knowledge and awareness of this new view point of Cosmic Consiousness with others. The "New Age" writings are full of such...as are the writings of Christian mystics, the Theosophical Society, the Krishna's and punk rockers (joke).
What is unique, I think is to "sex it up" with the idea that it is lethal.
"She said, I know what it's like to be dead..." - The Beatles
And then again, maybe not.
But once one has achieved "cosmic consciousness" what else is there to do, other than become a monk and preach the word?
"You, who are on the road
Must have a code
That you can live by"
- Teach Your Children CSNY
LRH mentioned 2 more dynamics above the 8 outlined in Scn.
Ethics and Aesthetics. Filbert points out that the Upper Dynamics rule the lower ones ( and he delineates 16 of them).
Ethics, while given much lip service in the CoS, in truth is just an enforcement mechanism in practice. Which is not how ethics is defined, but that would introduce too much cognitive dissonance into the "group mind".
And Aesthetics in the CoS are manufactured behind razor wire fences in a desert compound ruled over by a land locked navy. I am given to understand that there are hundreds, if not thousands of 'advices" having to do with the production of aesthetics that are only available to those locked into the "ethic level" appropriate for such powerful knowledge.
"When threatened with unmocking, a thetan mocks up compulsively" - LRH
Filbert -
"If a person takes a drug, the body feels threatened and the pc reacts by mocking up some bank hard below his awareness level. Drugs, whether it is LSD, marijuana, alcohol, or whatever, produces a threat to the body, like any other poison. The threat is to the body and the thetan reacts by mocking up. He can either mock up an engram, secondary or some combination of fantasy and fact. In some cases, he will mock it up so hard that it will become more real and safer than PT. Thus, under threat, he goes out of PT. A person who needs a Drug Rundown, a person that has taken drugs in other words, has a time track that is not make up of wholly present time events. It is a composite of past track, imagination and present events. Thus, right before your eyes, the person is apparently in the same room as you are, doing the same things you are, but from his point of view, he is really only partially there and he is partially back in some past events, He seems to be there, but he isn't really fully tracking with PT. What is constant in this is that he is not running the same series of events as other people."
So this leads us to the laughable picture of a Naval Captain, sitting in the desert, surrounded by picture making machinery enforcing ethics derived from a drug induced fantasy, compulsively mocking up enemies because of the perception of threats, while trying to control the "believers" through bigger, better and purer "aesthetic productions"
Can I attest now?