Synthia, first, EXCELLENT POST!
Back in the mid-1980s I was FSO crew and sent out as an "advanceman" for the EUS Flag World Tour. I set up the events - booked the hotel, arranged refreshments, got the call-in going, got the promo sent out, etc.
I had a chance to meet quite of few of the "recently declared", as this wasn't long after the insane Sea Org missions decimated the missions and various orgs. There were large obvious contradictions between 1) what the Church and Hubbard claimed, and 2) the reality of these "suppressive people".
I met and talked with quite a few. The first thing that struck me was that while some were VERY angry about what happened, understandably so, and mad AT the Church of Scientology, they were ALL seemingly sane, honest, nice and decent people! I had to accept that observation. They were NOT at all how Hubbard painted them to be.
Now, I did make a distinction, one that many Scios fail to make. Hubbard defines a "case SP", as the mad and crazy fellow who is fighting some long-lost enemy of the past, and who has gotten "stuck in this incident" to the point where he or she has identified ALL humanity with the overwhelming enemy. This type of person feels that unless he or she reduces the power and ability of others, that he or she will and must lose/fail. There is
some sense to such an idea.
But, then there is the "administrative" SP, which is any person whom the Church LABELS an SP based on the list of Suppressive Acts. This realm of High Crimes are tied to the idea that anybody who is against Scn is/must be one of these people. Of course, that is not at all true. This involves a bit of Scn "logic" where if you accept certain claims of Hubbard, then it "sort" of makes sense. So, the result is that MANY MANY people "get labeled" as an "SP", and Scientologists
equate THEM with the nasty, case, Hitler-type "case SP". That identification is in severe error. But many over-indoctrinated not-too-bright Scientologists make that faulty identification of concepts. Hubbard and the Scn organization encourage THAT incorrect identification!
The "case SP" notion has to do with the "content" of a mind. The "administrative SP" is ONLY about BEHAVIOR - behavior that the Church of Scientology doesn't like because these behaviors inhibit its "survival". The two are usually NOT related.
Just as the Church of Scientology will hit you very hard with "
that is enemy line" if you, as a Church member, make any comment about the difference between the "subject" and the "organization", so also will you be hit with "that is enemy line" if you try to differentiate between the "case SP" and the "admin SP". Hubbard and the Church allow for no such differentiation, yet the difference is VERY real.
Anyway, one of my earlier realizations in the matter was that the entire "administrative - ethics - justice" angle of all this was largely nonsense, AND ALSO that it was GREATLY abused by whoever was running the Church (Hubbard included). It was often used as a "political" tool to "get rid" of whoever those in power wanted to get rid of.
But there is another angle. As time went on, as I gained more familiarity with the "LRH data", and also observed reality, another contradiction reared its ugly head. See, I myself never "got sick", had "accidents" or went "PTS" talking to these supposedly "bad evil people". In fact,
none of them ever did or said ANYTHING to me that was aimed at overwhelming me, caving me in, making me wrong or "not-is-ing" me. Of course, many did disagree with behaviors of the Church of Scientolgy, but simple disagreement with one's ideas and views does NOT an SP make - except in Scientology!
There was another aspect to this. As I understood Hubbard, a being "in very good condition or shape", either by having gone up the Bridge or simply because he or she was a "big being", would and should be able to "communicate with anyone" and also "NOT go the effect of the viewpoints of others". Right? It sure seemed that way to me. I mean, I myself could do THAT!
So, why was it that even the highest levels of OT could be so "susceptible" to "losing their gains" simply by being in the same space as and communicating with ANY person (SP or not)? It seemed to me that IF Scientology bestowed such
amazingly great POWER and STABILITY on a person that he or she should/would reach a point where sensitivity to SPs and "going PTS" would vanish. Yes? No? It sure seemed that way to me. I mean, why bother getting all "OT" and all if any nasty "SP" can come along, make a snide remark, and then all of a sudden you are all sick, out of PT, and having accidents? :confused2:
Once I had
again realized that the REALITY of things was FAR DIFFERENT than the IDEAS and CONCEPTS Hubbard claimed and asserted, in this case regarding his writings and talks on SPs and PTSes, I was one step further "out". People become trapped in the prison of Hubbard's framework.
But the Church and Hubbard SLAMMED this notion into the heads of adherents. The notion that you "are total cause", EXCEPT when you are "connected to an SP".
At some point I saw through the utter ridiculousness of that. I saw that the MAIN source of oppression (suppression)
in my life was coming from the Church of Scientology, with their endless lies, manipulations, force, demand, PR, and pressure to accept, adopt and forward this crazy paradigm of Hubbard's.
Of course, any sensible person does not want to put oneself into or stay within some situation or environment that contains active oppression. It IS sensible to "get away from" (disconnect) from REAL sources of oppression where some person or group is invalidating you, overwhelming you, making you wrong, or attempting to "not-is" you. But, that is NOT what the Church does when it declares so many people as SPs and orders its members not to communicate with them.
It IS sensible to
disconnect from the Church of Scientology because IT IS AN ACTIVE SOURCE OF ENTRUBULATION for any honest, caring and sincere person who is unwilling to go along with the lies of Hubbard. The Church of Scientology literally
overwhelms people with Hubbard's paradigm. Hubbard's labels, ideas, nomenclature and paradigm TAKE OVER a person's consciousness and beingness. The truth, looking from a framework of Hubbard's ideas, is that the
Church of Scientology IS the active evil, IT is the "SP", and
it aims to cave you in so hard (i.e. ruin-finding, accepting all the doom and gloom scenarios spewed by Hubbard) that you accept and adopt Hubbard's worldview forever after.
In fact, participation with Scientology "not-ises" YOU (making the C of S THE REAL "SP" by Hubbard's own definitions), and replaces a new personality/beingness ("you") in its place.
When a person says "I am a Scientologist", what he or she is actually saying is that participation and indoctrination in Scientology have eradicated/destroyed my previous "self", and that he or she has "become" a new and different "self".
Note: As I have stated before, to me, a valid path of spiritual advancement involves reducing and getting rid of ANY version of a "self". Participation with Scientology simply creates a different, but HEAVIER and MASSIER "self". One is actually WORSE OFF from the Buddhist perspective, because "self" has been "beefed up" markedly by involvement with Scientology. One is expanding the "thetan" ("self") out to infinity, while reducing all other universes to nothing (8-8008). The "thetan" is ACTUALLY the "self", and Hubbard has tricked all members into growing his or her "ego" instead of reducing it. It is quite a trick really. The auditing acts, in some good ways, to "remove aspects of self", but the entire Scientology organization acts to implant a whole new set of agreements that creates a new "self".
As I see it, Scn auditing
could be placed in a framework of "reducing the ego", with NONE of the trappings of the Scientology organization or KSW, and possibly be quite "workable". But, that is NOT what happens in organized Scientology. Also, though, Hubbard has greatly confused the subject with his own additives.
Oh, one last point. One empowers anything OVER and ABOVE you to the degree you grant it existence. To the degree you get
worked up about ANYTHING is the degree that some person or group HAS POWER OVER YOU. Sindy, that is why in a recent post where you stated that Scientology was recently "bothering you", that I suggested "letting it go". In Scientology, the reality and existence of SPs is endlessly slammed into member's heads, and of course, these Scientologists then DO go "the effect" of the SPs. It is all imaginary, and they DO go the effect of their own "mock-ups".
In Scientology there is strong action to constantly keep the adherents all worked up about "the nasty SPs". It grants the "SPs" power. It makes "SPs" REAL to the bozos who accept such dumb ideas, and just as you saw, many of them shy away from and cower in front of these "SPs". But reversely, some here on ESMB get "all worked up" about Sceintology, and to some degree, that does give it power
over you. You can and should talk about it, criticize it, make fun of it, point out the flaws, and continue to expose the contradictions, but DON'T "get worked up" (emotionally) about it. Or at least, talk and discuss so that for you, the emotional component diminishes over time, thus allowing it less and less power over you.
I loved the whole post, GT, really. If you'd only thought to point to all the scios in the room when your friend asked the above question... 
