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The person on the other end of the line didn't have any guidance to offer - nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero. In fact, the longer I talked to her, the more evident it became that she very clearly COULDN'T CARE LESS about the person I was trying to help. She was annoyed that I was bothering her. With a real life case. Of the exact thing she had supposedly devoted her career to helping.
What. The. Hell. ?!?!?!?!??!
Sadly, over time, the pattern became clear - for all of Scientology's talk about human rights, and existing to help people, and achieving supposed wins all over the world, in many cases, it was all just a bunch of hot air.
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Welcome to ESMB, White Rabbit.
I pasted together some items which might provide some background.
From Hubbard's 'Excalibur' letter of 1938:
"Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same. The entire function of man is to survive. Not for 'what' [any ideal] but just to survive... I turned the thing up [the 'dynamic principle of existence: Survive!'], so it's up to me to survive in a big way.
"Personal immortality is only to be gained through the printed word, barred note, or painted canvas or hard granite [or stainless steel]. Foolishly perhaps, but determined none the less, I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all the books are destroyed. That goal is the real goal [hidden agenda] as far as I am concerned. Things which stand too consistently in my way make me nervous.
"It's a pretty big job. In a hundred years Roosevelt will have been forgotten - which gives some idea of the magnitude of my attempt...
"Psychiatrists, reaching the high of the dusty desk, tell us that Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and Alexander were madmen. I know they're maligning some very intelligent gentlemen...
"I can make Napoleon look like a punk..."
Yet, Hubbard, while despising and distrusting psychologists and psychiatrists, saw himself as a master of psychology.
From Hubbard's 1946 (to himself) 'Affirmations':
"Your writing has a deep hypnotic effect on people and they are always pleased with what you write...
"Your psychology is advanced and true and wonderful. It hypnotizes people. It predicts their emotions, for you are their ruler."
Insincerity and "lip service" seem to have been an issue in Scientology, even back in Dianetics days.
In October 1950, Dr. J. A. Winter, who had written the 'Introduction' to 'Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health', resigned in protest from the Hubbard Dianetic Foundation. He described the ideals presented by Hubbard as "lip service."
In March of 1951, John Campbell, publisher of 'Astounding Science Fiction', also resigned in protest against the "cult" of Dianetics.
Meanwhile, Hubbard was busy writing letters to the FBI describing many of his former Dianetic associates as communists and communist sympathizers.
Hubbard was soon to write the book 'Science of Survival', where he would present the Hubbard Chart of Human Evaluation and Tone Scale. One little twist that Hubbard included was that placement of the person on the Tone Scale could be easily ascertained by noting the person's opinion of Dianetics, the Hubbard Chart of Human Evaluation, and the book 'Science of Survival', and, of course, its author.
Wrote Hubbard in 'Science of Survival' of 1951:
Those chronically below 2.0 on the Tone Scale - which would include those who don't appreciate his teachings - should have "
no rights of any kind," and, ideally, be "
disposed of quietly and without sorrow," or at least be quarantined or isolated from society.
This was an early expression of what, in the 1960s, would become known as Disconnection and Fair Game.
According to Hubbard, his teachings - Dianetics and Scientology - were so true, and so powerful, that any kind of "attack" on them could be extremely dangerous for the attacker.
From the Hubbard's 'HCO Manual of Justice' of 1959:
"Dianetics and Scientology are self-protecting sciences. If one attacks them one attacks all the know-how of the mind. It caves in the bank. It's gruesome sometimes.
"At this instance there are men hiding in terror on Earth because they found out what they were attacking. There are men dead because they attacked us - for instance Dr. Joe Winter [wrote Introduction to 'DMSMH', and the book, 'A Doctor's Report on Dianetics' with an Introduction by Fritz Perls].
He simply realized what he did and died. There are men bankrupt because they attacked us - [Don]
Purcell, Ridgeway, [publisher of 'DMSMH']
Ceppos."
Hubbard even gloated over the assassination of John F. Kennedy in his 1966 PR piece, 'What is Greatness?', blaming Kennedy for the early 1960s FDA e-meter raid, on the Washington, DC org. The message, essentially, was that Kennedy had "pulled in" his own assassination by attacking Scientology.
Despite the idea that the universe itself would destroy "attackers" - without any action by Hubbard or his followers - Hubbard was still preoccupied with "attacking the attackers," and almost anything could be regarded as an "attack." This had been Hubbard "philosophy" since even before 1950.
However, it wasn't until 1955, in his 'Manual on Dissemination of Material', that Hubbard began instructing Scientologists on such things as "attacking" and "ruining utterly."
And his instructions in this area continued, with Hubbard developing special "tech" for various forms of attacking, overwhelming, dominating, influencing, deceiving, and manipulating.
Much of this "tech" was directed at outsiders ("wogs") and at former members of Scientology who "squirreled," but much of it - in various forms - was also directed at members of Scientology in good standing.
A question from Hubbard's Security Check for Scientologists of 1961:
"Have you ever had unkind thoughts about L. Ron Hubbard?"
Hubbard remained concerned with what he called "SPs," and wrote extensively on the subject. He wrote in 'Discipline. SPs and Admin' in 1969:
"I am not interested in wog morality... I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday School teacher."
Excerpt from the 1960 'Department of Government Affairs' by L. Ron Hubbard:
"
If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to get them to sue for peace...
"
The goal of the Department [of Government Affairs, renamed Guardians Office, renamed Office of Special Affairs]
is to bring the government and hostile philosophies or societies into a state of complete compliance... This is done by high level ability to control and in its absence by low level ability to overwhelm. Introvert such agencies. Control such agencies..."
In the late 1960s, Hubbard wrote about "
taking over political guidance" by "
taking over absolutely the field of mental healing."
Those who were in a position to decide (and police) who is to be classified as "sane" or classified as "insane," and who had control over "mental healing," would rule, so the idea went.
And From an LRH Executive Directive of 24 November 1968:
"
We're going to take over mental hospitals and political guidance and the whole field of mental healing [which includes criminal rehabilitation]
It may take us years, but we've got the years. We've got the tech..."
And finally, from Hubbard's 1969 'Intelligence Actions, Covert Intelligence Data Collection':
"...
take over absolutely the field of mental healing on this planet in all its forms...
"
Our total victory [over the 'psychs' and 'wogs']
will come when we run his organizations, perform his functions, and obtain his financing and appropriations."
Travelling back in time to the 1950s, finds Hubbard again concerned with psychiatrists:
'PABs' were precursors of HCOBs. This is from a
'Professional Auditors Bulletin' of 30 September 1955:
I could tell you about long strings of psychotics run in on the Foundation and the Association, sent in to us by psychiatrists who then, using LSD and pain-drug-hypnosis, spun them and told everyone that Dianetics and Scientology drove people insane. I could tell you about the strange politics and ambitions of psychiatry, so well covered in the book Psychopolitics [Note: Hubbard's hoax Russian textbook, which he had just secretly authored and was not yet published]
, and give you a proper riddle as to why we, a small group, the only ANGLO-SAXON DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD OF THE MIND AND SPIRIT[sic],
have been subjected to so much attack and finance... But I am not telling you stories or being dramatic. I am inviting your cooperation in your own future security...
As for dealing with those whose behavior became erratic or an embarrassment after Scientology processing, Hubbard wrote, in the same 'PAB':
You'll find the family physician or psychiatrist was called in midway in processing... You'll find there is a vested interest somewhere in the insanity of the person. An so testify that you suspect it. We will have on hand lots of literature on LSD...
And it went on and on, until one day in 1973 when Hubbard made an announcement.
THE TECHNICAL BREAKTHROUGH OF 1973!
THE INTROSPECTION RD
I have made a technical breakthrough which possibly ranks with the major discoveries of the twentieth century. It is certainly the greatest achievement of 1973 and is now being released after a final write-up of the research. It is called the Introspection Rundown.
....
In 1970 the actual cause of PSYCHOSIS was isolated... In the ensuing years this has been proven beyond doubt to be correct.
But what is a psychotic break?
Man has never been able to solve the psychotic break. In fact, human beings are actually afraid of a person in a psychotic break and in desperation turn to psychiatry to handle.
[And here Hubbard goes on about psychiatry, ice picks, electric shocks, etc., then...]
THIS MEANS THE LAST REASON TO HAVE PSYCHIATRY AROUND IS GONE.
[Then there are the steps of the RD, and the HCOB ends with...]
THIS PLANET IS OURS.
[Then there's the
HCOB of February 1974, titled...]
INTROSPECTION RD
ADDITIONAL STEPS
....
ISOLATION
In a person in a psychotic break, it is necessary to isolate them for them to destimulate and to protect them and others from possible damage...
There comes a point where the C/S must decide to release the person from isolation. To do this the C/S must know if the person can take responsibility for his actions...
The C/S's action is a direct comm line to the person by notes. The person is provided with paper and pen to reply. The C/S must determine the person's responsibility level. Example: "Dear Joe. What can you guarantee me if you are let out of isolation?"... "Dear Joe. I'm sorry but no go on coming out of isolation yet. Your actions threatened the survival of hundreds of people indirectly and 6 families directly by burning down their houses. You are unaware of the effects this could have had and still only concerned about your own welfare. You must hate the human race quite a bit."
[This eventually leads to the cognition...]
"But, but, I never meant to threaten others' survival. I just wanted to burn down their houses because I like fires. Gosh, I didn't mean it. I don't hate the human race. Oh, I really don't hate the human race."
But Hubbard didn't stop there. He continued making discoveries about psychiatrists even while doing his advanced upper level research in the early 1980s.
HCO BULLETIN OF 26 AUGUST 1982
PAIN AND SEX
...Despite the false data of Freud, psychologists, psychiatrists and other criminals, they are not native to a being. They are only artificial wavelengths. They have exact frequencies that can be manufactured. A being or a machine can synthesize either one.
Destructive creatures who do not want people big or reaching—since they are terrified of punishment due to their crimes—invented pain and sex to shrink people and cut their alertness, knowingness, power and reach...
These are data which emerged from recent thorough research of the whole track. This is not theory or some strange opinion. It is provable electronic fact...
And there's lots more, but this was just a sampling.
And, in honor of your moniker, White Rabbit, some music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oRKvpZ7PjE