A survey for those that still have feelings for Scientology
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Isme
Patron with Honors
I did not give 5 years of my life to Scientology Inc., mostly unpaid, to sit back and watch Scientology be unmocked.
With that in mind I have a vague plan of action, but first a survey.
What would you like to see changed in Corporate Scientology (in no way does this question infer that you would return to Corporate Scientology, and yes I realize this could be construed as a listing question.)?
I'll start with just a few ideas:
1. Abolish disconnection.
2. Abolish fair game.
3. Allow anyone to come and go as they please. If all they want is life repair and then want to go live their life, which would be just fine.
4. Establish a Board of Directors, half of which would be admin trained and half tech trained to direct Church activities.
5. Let the Board pick a General Manager to run the day to day functions of the Church.
I would add here to have mechanisms in place to REMOVE said General Manager, without all the current circus of blame and pain that goes on, if necessary. Explicit instructions so another David Miscavige cannot rise to power.
9. Release all LRH material under the Creative Commons license. No one should have a monopoly on truth. Nor use copyright as a tool to stop the practice of Scientology.
Would have loved to see that as #1. Add to it the right to practice or not practice as they see fit. Only the individual has the right to sink or swim, win or fail. No-one has the right to force success onto people.
Add in to abolish ANY attempt to use ethics as punishment and/or a brainwashing tool.
This is only valid as long as there is 1) short term limits and 2) a method to remove anyone on this council who is starting to resemble David Miscavige in actions and words. Otherwise you are setting up a power structure that only serves as a goad to "get up the Bridge" so as to be in a position to gain power, prestige and will only make another "power elite" the world doesn't need. Too often these "councils" become far too "ivory towered" and have no clue what is going on at the street level, and worse, start to not care one iota.
Get rid of that last phrase. I will NEVER give my heart and soul to anyone or anything but MYSELF and my immediate, intimate symbiotes. I'm sure that many feel the same way.
Since the IAS has been demonstrated to be ONLY a money-sink to enrich select peoples, how about just abolishing the IAS, period?
Bill
Gold Meritorious Patron
Your faith and trust in "OECs, FEBCs, Class VIIIs" and the rest is very cute. As if they were special beings, above all the rest.
What you seem to have forgotten is that all those "OECs, FEBCs, Class VIIIs" were there when Hubbard was committing his abuses and crimes - and did nothing. Those same "OECs, FEBCs, Class VIIIs" were there when Miscavige took over and started destroying lives left and right - and did nothing.
Those people aren't special beings "above the rest of us". Those people are flawed people, just like the rest of us - only they're more indoctrinated. They won't protect anyone or anything. If someone like Miscavige or Hubbard comes along and pushes them they will cave just like they did so many times before.
Scientology is a cult and cults hurt people. These vaunted "OECs, FEBCs, Class VIIIs, Class XIIs, etc." will do what they've done for decades: Allow Scientology to continue to hurt people - "for the good of the group".
What on Earth makes you think that "this time" it will be any different?
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scino
Patron
Yes, Scientology can and should be salvaged. I envision open sourced-tech and meters although centrally administered by the SO. The CoS playing a critical role in solving the planet's problems. Emphasize that Scientology has answers, stop ridiculing the Church but rebuild it.
I would start with...
6. Truly abolish crush sales and reg-ing for pure donations.
17. Create an independent review board to investigate illegal activities in the church and bring the perpetrators to Justice.
18. Remove the IAS membership requirement for services.
22. Release all of Hubbard's work to public domain.
23. Open source e-meters - but create a set of metrics meters should meet.
I have no problem with the word religion, Scientology -is- a religion, a truly modern religion.
I would start with...
6. Truly abolish crush sales and reg-ing for pure donations.
17. Create an independent review board to investigate illegal activities in the church and bring the perpetrators to Justice.
18. Remove the IAS membership requirement for services.
22. Release all of Hubbard's work to public domain.
23. Open source e-meters - but create a set of metrics meters should meet.
I have no problem with the word religion, Scientology -is- a religion, a truly modern religion.
Free Being Me
Crusader
Homo Scarabaeinae Hubbarditus
Feng shui-ing dung into spherical cult bubbles since 1953
Commander Birdsong
Crusader
we stopped fair-gaming him when he died AM
i'm using my poetic liscence here. fair game is another thing elron didn't invent but only gave his unique description of it. it's a horrible policy of course. but i'm not categorically opposed to an aggressive defense. CoS is grossly injudicious in it's application of aggressive defense though...
AnonyMary
Formerly Fooled - Finally Free
I just want to say that I really like and respect SanDiegoMember, for caring and trying to help his friends... He's also brave, in having come out by name.His sharing of his experiences on the internet is an important and valuable thing.
This hug is for Howard!
This hug is for Howard!
Mick Wenlock
Admin Emeritus (retired)
I just want to say that I really like and respect SanDiegoMember, for caring and trying to help his friends... He's also brave, in having come out by name.His sharing of his experiences on the internet is an important and valuable thing.
This hug is for Howard!
"L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs" Bernard of Clairveaux
Mick Wenlock
Admin Emeritus (retired)
Hmm
seeing as IAS membership came after the abuses that won't really fix anything and, as Hubbard already demonstrated - requiring a membership is on policy.
Why the "public domain"? What has that got to do with anything?
Seeing as "hard sell" is part of what Hubbard required for Scientology while agreeing with you that "pure donations" should be stopped you do understand that applying pressure to people to pay would continue?
It;s not a "truly modern religion" it's not even truly modern. It is 1950's pap recycled. We could debate about the "religion angle" as HUbbard called it but I am content to refer to it as a "religion" right alongside voodoo and wiccan.
But as Hubbards corpus of work leads inevitably to an abusive organization why would you wish to keep it going? You cannot have Hubbardian Scientology without the abuse because he included it.
But if you try to cut that all out - like KSW 1 for example - then, apparently you don't actually believe in the Hubbardian Religion - but in something of your own imagination. So why reform Scientology ? You apparently don't like it very much
TheSpectator
Patron with Honors
But Howard, Scientology is all a lie! Ultimately there is no good work in Scientology. If your friends have made Scientology their lives' work then they've thrown their lives away. I wish I could candy-coat it and ameliorate some of this, but that's impossible. Read or watch Mike Rinder, Marty Rathbun, Debbie Cook, Marc Headley, etc. to see they feel about their life's work in Scientology.
Here's a test: Tell your 4 close friends how you really feel about Scientology and see how long they remain your close friends. Do they really consider what you say or do they just turn you over to Ethics? If they consider what you say, then they're friends. If not, they're brainwashed Scientologists and not truly friends.
Meanwhile, no one can reform Scientology. It's a catastrophe from the very beginning. Get some help with this. Learn to let go of Scientology and live your life without it. You'll have a much more rewarding life.
westgrinsted
Patron
I did not give 5 years of my life to Scientology Inc., mostly unpaid, to sit back and watch Scientology be unmocked.
With that in mind I have a vague plan of action, but first a survey.
What would you like to see changed in Corporate Scientology (in no way does this question infer that you would return to Corporate Scientology, and yes I realize this could be construed as a listing question.
I'll start with just a few ideas:
1. Abolish disconnection.
2. Abolish fair game.
3. Allow anyone to come and go as they please. If all they want is life repair and then want to go live their life, which would be just fine.
4. Establish a Board of Directors, half of which would be admin trained and half tech trained to direct Church activities.
5. Let the Board pick a General Manager to run the day to day functions of the Church.
6. Truly abolish crush sales and reging for pure donations.
7. Truly abolish the use of ethics for the sake of ethics. Acknowledge the true freedom that a thetan deserves and only use ethics when tech isn't going in.
8. Getting rid of anyone in administration that is not tech trained, except as advisory/little power roles.
9. Release all LRH material under the Creative Commons license. No one should have a monopoly on truth. Nor use copyright as a tool to stop the practice of Scientology.
10. Restore the original OT levels.
11. Using ethics in coordination and conjunction with the tech to help the individual move up the Bridge and better conditions in Life (its purpose being not only when tech doesn't go in), and to wisely use it to also protect the group, even if that group is a field auditing practice.
12. A council of Class VIIIs (and/or XIIs) along with a few OEC/FEBCs (or even better if they are Class VIII and FEBC) to run the show.
13. Issue an unconditional amnesty, which in no way, shape or form is an inducement to come back to the Church, for all those who have given their heart and soul to Scientology.
14. Abolish the SO and all associated foolishness like the RPF.
15. Cancel all "Justice" policies.
16. Apply labor and civil laws.
17. Create an independent review board to investigate illegal activities in the church and bring the perpetrators to Justice.
18. Remove the IAS membership requirement for services.
19. Create a member-elected board of governors for the IAS.
20. General amnesty - unconditional.
21. Reset policy - establish a parishioner/staff board of directors or advisors to realign the admin scale including review, reissuance, and creation of applicable policy.
22. Release all of Hubbard's work to public domain.
23. Open source e-meters - but create a set of metrics meters should meet.
24. Stop lying.
25. Drop all reference to church and religion. Scientology is a practice based on ancient philosophical principles. Religion is too narrow a description, and in any case, not everyone warms to a 'following' or groups or organizations.
Thanks;
Howard Dickman
Former Senior C/S of the San Diego Org and an RPF graduate
Chandler, Oklahoma
I would like all of the 25 points changed, plus having new policy on prices that would bring an E-meter to cost of production + 20% benefit at the most, I wouldn't be surprised that the cost would come down under 200 US Dollars. Same for any other services except that I wouldn't go over Grade IV on the bridge. All the Xenu stuff and OT levels hasn't proved anything except that Hubbard went nuts at the end of his life and was saying all the time that there were more and more BTs.
TheSpectator
Patron with Honors
Re: Nobody told anybody to LIE
Lying or "telling an acceptable truth" are the same thing. It was Hubbard's doublespeak. Just read between the lines as in the Fair Game Canceled HCO PL.
Well, well, the truth will out, as they say. I have heard this "acceptable truth" stuff bandied around and never knew where it came from. I just searched the Tech vols. Nothing. Searched the OEC vols and found it in Vol 6. This is a Policy Letter in the PR series. I don't think ANYBODY bothered to read it. The whole bulletin is going on about how other practices lie and how scientologists shouldn't. How come nobody is quoting the part in bold from that policy ...
"Thus the law
NEVER USE LIES IN PR."
And the full quote being used against LRH is actually
"Handling truth is a touchy business also. You don't have to tell everything you know - that would jam the comm line
too. Tell an acceptable truth."
Anyone quoting that policy to show that lying was being encouraged has not read that policy, has crashing MUs, or has some other agenda.
The way I have heard this being used is to tell a lie which is acceptable to the wog receiving it.
Quite clearly Scientologists using it that way need to M9 *rate it with the MAA/EO.
Lying or "telling an acceptable truth" are the same thing. It was Hubbard's doublespeak. Just read between the lines as in the Fair Game Canceled HCO PL.
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Platinum Meritorious Sponsor with bells on
I did not give 5 years of my life to Scientology Inc., mostly unpaid, to sit back and watch Scientology be unmocked.
With that in mind I have a vague plan of action, but first a survey.
What would you like to see changed in Corporate Scientology (in no way does this question infer that you would return to Corporate Scientology, and yes I realize this could be construed as a listing question.
I'll start with just a few ideas:
1. Abolish disconnection.
2. Abolish fair game.
3. Allow anyone to come and go as they please. If all they want is life repair and then want to go live their life, which would be just fine.
4. Establish a Board of Directors, half of which would be admin trained and half tech trained to direct Church activities.
5. Let the Board pick a General Manager to run the day to day functions of the Church.
6. Truly abolish crush sales and reging for pure donations.
7. Truly abolish the use of ethics for the sake of ethics. Acknowledge the true freedom that a thetan deserves and only use ethics when tech isn't going in.
8. Getting rid of anyone in administration that is not tech trained, except as advisory/little power roles.
9. Release all LRH material under the Creative Commons license. No one should have a monopoly on truth. Nor use copyright as a tool to stop the practice of Scientology.
10. Restore the original OT levels.
11. Using ethics in coordination and conjunction with the tech to help the individual move up the Bridge and better conditions in Life (its purpose being not only when tech doesn't go in), and to wisely use it to also protect the group, even if that group is a field auditing practice.
12. A council of Class VIIIs (and/or XIIs) along with a few OEC/FEBCs (or even better if they are Class VIII and FEBC) to run the show.
13. Issue an unconditional amnesty, which in no way, shape or form is an inducement to come back to the Church, for all those who have given their heart and soul to Scientology.
14. Abolish the SO and all associated foolishness like the RPF.
15. Cancel all "Justice" policies.
16. Apply labor and civil laws.
17. Create an independent review board to investigate illegal activities in the church and bring the perpetrators to Justice.
18. Remove the IAS membership requirement for services.
19. Create a member-elected board of governors for the IAS.
20. General amnesty - unconditional.
21. Reset policy - establish a parishioner/staff board of directors or advisors to realign the admin scale including review, reissuance, and creation of applicable policy.
22. Release all of Hubbard's work to public domain.
23. Open source e-meters - but create a set of metrics meters should meet.
24. Stop lying.
25. Drop all reference to church and religion. Scientology is a practice based on ancient philosophical principles. Religion is too narrow a description, and in any case, not everyone warms to a 'following' or groups or organizations.
Thanks;
Howard Dickman
Former Senior C/S of the San Diego Org and an RPF graduate
Chandler, Oklahoma
Good list. But about #24. . .
Wouldn't implementing that require that all the books, tapes, tech and HCOBs about Clear, OT and Total Freedom be canceled?
HelluvaHoax!
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Actually, the "Hip! Hip! Hooray" tech works--but only if while saying it you click your heels together 3 times and think: "There's no place like Home-oh Novis".
Veda
Sponsor
Re-post
If it was all a lie we wouldn't be discussing it.
Using the old glue analogy, IMO, Scientology, as designed by its founder, consists of two main aspects: the solvent ("truth," "abreaction"/catharsis/"key-out" etc.), and the lacquer (the sea of words, half truths, falsehoods, smoke and mirrors, gimmicks, tricks, manipulation, etc.)
In the proper ratio, these combine to make a mind-glue that sticks a person to Scientology. Currently, Miscavige has screwed up the ratio of solvent and lacquer with too much lacquer and not enough solvent. (Without solvent, glue doesn't "work.")
As simply as I can state it, here's my view on the difficulty re. examining the topic of Scientology.
IMO, those who perceive Scientology's negative core often can't see the positives that - amongst the hype and soft manipulation - mostly speckle the outer display layer of the subject. Their explanations are often incomplete, as they can't see those parts of the display coating that are truly positive.
Those who perceive the positives - in the outer display layer - often are unable to see the negatives at its core. Their explanations tend to be extremely naive.
Conveying the idea that there is both a positive outer display coating which is ultimately subordinate, and also a negative hidden core which is ultimately dominant, can be difficult. It seems that the laws of nature, the laws of the human mind, and perhaps the laws of the human nervous system make recognizing both aspects difficult.
Scientology is a secretive and manipulative doctrine with a truth-coating. The truth-coating is displayed while the negatives are often hidden or disguised; or, when they no longer can be denied, are rationalized or "spun."
The "Scientology package" is both positive and negative. Scientology is a carefully crafted (by its founder) mix of "Black Scientology" and "White Scientology," resulting in Scientology.
Since the negatives are hidden, disguised, or denied, it becomes necessary to focus on the negatives.
Initially, my involvement with Scientology was through books, and without any use of an e-meter, and mostly away from the "Org."
However, I did, eventually, become involved in Scientology Inc. - as a student and auditor. And, yes, I had some positive experiences even then - amongst the insanity.
Years later, to gain an additional perspective, I spent a year reviewing the auditing portion of the subject (from ARC S/W to NOTs), as an auditor OUTSIDE Scientology (at a break-away Mission), so as to see the counseling "tech" in application, outside the Totalist (Totalitarian) environment of Scientology Inc.
I realized that auditing was a bait and switch operation, with auditing being presented initially as primarily asking the person to look and, then, becoming, primarily, telling the person what he will see. (Very close to hypnotism).
Ending on a "win" for my pcs, I advised my pcs not to venture into the confidential portions of Scientology auditing, where they would have been engulfed in the Scientology labyrinth. They did refrain, and are now doing very well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv49jlyX-co&feature=player_embedded
Auditing is an English language word.
Amongst synonyms listed by Merriam-Webster are: "Examination, going-over, review, scan, scrutiny, view."
The Latin root word means, "a hearing," or "to hear."
Scientology has adopted the word, "auditing."
Those introduced to auditing by Scientologists, both inside and outside the CofS, are often told the above definitions are descriptive of Scientology auditing.
IMO, it's important to discern between the "bait" portion of auditing where one is primarily asked, and the "switch" portion of "auditing" where one is primarily told.
"This is a cold blooded and factual account of your last sixty trillion years," from 1952's 'What to Audit' found Hubbard telling others the contents of their minds, but it was premature "mind grope," just as the early 1950s e-meter reactions projected on the wall with shadows, while the audience went "ooh!" and "ahh!", was premature "Your e-meter will tell you"-ism, and the 1951 "no rights of any kind" was premature SP Doctrine, and the 1951 "dispose of quietly and without sorrow" was premature Fair Game Law and premature disconnection - disconnection in its most extreme form.
It was too early for the implementation of these ideas on the still small, fragile and tentative membership. That would need to wait for a decade, as would Hubbard's implementation of most of the ideas outlined in the "enigmatic" (fraudulent) "Russian Textbook on Psycho-politics."
In the mean time, Hubbard surrounded himself with those excited about his much advertised vision of a better world, and excited about the full releasing of spiritual ability.
Hubbard liked to write and he liked to lecture, and he had a knack as a practical psychologist. He drew on the ideas and innovations of the most creative of those around him, and drew on his own knowledge of abreaction (catharsis, "get it [buried thoughts and emotions] off your chest") therapy, Korzybski's General Semantics with its "earlier similars" etc,, and Aleister Crowley's Magic(k). He re-worked the (four 'letters' - ingredients - of the) Kabbalistic 'tetragrammaton', and it became his 'Four Conditions of Existence'. Hubbard rewrote Crowley's 'Naples Arrangement' and it became his 'The Factors'. He borrowed Crowley's idea of a multiplicity of infinite minds and further excited Scientologists with that notion. None of these were original with Crowley, who was as much a relay point as was Hubbard. Yet, unlike Crowley, Hubbard would eventually incorporate the methods of psychological warfare into his system, and use those methods, not only on his perceived enemies, but on his own followers.
And when he finally - in the mid 1960s - unleashed, mostly covertly, the psychological warfare methods of the "Russian Textbook" on Scientologists, he also returned to fully utilizing those ideas he had briefly tested more than a decade earlier. He gave them a past, he gave them a future, he told them the contents of their own minds, and made it plain that only HE knew and others were going to be told.
Hubbard had written confidentially of the importance of "using enemy tactics," and would even use those "enemy tactics" on his own loyal followers. He had written of psychiatrists in August 1963:
"Psychiatry is authoritarian and tells the person what's wrong with him, often introducing a new lie. Scientology finds out what's wrong with the person from the person."
Soon to follow would be the secret and very serious, and very dangerous, and vital to your survival "Clearing Course," "OT 2" and "OT 3," in which Hubbard would do what he said the psychiatrists did.
Hubbard had done this in 1952, but now it was formalized and institutionalized, and a senior part of the doctrine of Scientology doctrine.
From Hubbard, 1966:
"Many persons experience unreality at the start of[implant] GPM running [told to you, not asked, by Hubbard through the materials]; this leaves when you see the meter reads."
L. Ron Hubbard, from 1946, from his (private) ''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."
Despite all this, is there some value in the simplest application (see the opening post) of the definition of auditing? - a definition that predates Scientology.
IMO, yes. However, as such, it is no longer Scientology.
Asking a person, "How ya doing?" and listening attentively, and acknowledging, qualifies as "auditing" by an introductory definition of "auditing," as does asking a person to recall a pleasant experience, listening, and then acknowledging.
Such introductory actions, presented as "auditing" are often what leads a person into Scientology, and causes the person to pursue the Scientology "bait and switch" Grade Chart.
Scientology/Scientology Philosophy/Scientology Doctrine, is sneaky. It wraps itself in positives so as to mislead the unsuspecting.
Not recognizing this mostly benign introductory aspect means not recognizing the "cheese" part of the trap, and means also not recognizing a main part of Scientology's disguise layer.
Thoroughly describing Scientology is the most dangerous thing that can be done to Scientology.
Scientology uses good people, and uses - sometimes - good ideas, to mislead, to build confidence, and to trap.
A description without noting the above is incomplete, IMO.
The definition of auditing changes as the person descends further into Scientology. At first, auditing is little more than one person talking with another person. At this stage, in and of itself, auditing is, essentially, benign. It may even be beneficial.
This "sells" the person on the idea of "auditing."
Then it becomes something else.
"Auditing" has multiple meanings that, in accordance with Scientology's "gradients of deception" and "bait and switch" pattern, mislead a person onto the Scientology Grade Chart, a Chart that begins with mostly benign actions, and eventually becomes manipulative, "hypnotic," and potentially psychologically damaging.
That's why issuing forth a Bronx cheer,
indiscriminately, on the topic of auditing is helpful to Scientology. Such a Bronx cheer asserts that one of Scientology's - initially benign, and even helpful - enticements, and lead-ins, is entirely without value, which is often simply not so.
Describing Scientology fully means gritting one's teeth and forcing oneself to recognize that there are some twinkling ornaments of light, and (even) truth, wrapped around the black hole of Scientology.
If it was all a lie we wouldn't be discussing it.
Using the old glue analogy, IMO, Scientology, as designed by its founder, consists of two main aspects: the solvent ("truth," "abreaction"/catharsis/"key-out" etc.), and the lacquer (the sea of words, half truths, falsehoods, smoke and mirrors, gimmicks, tricks, manipulation, etc.)
In the proper ratio, these combine to make a mind-glue that sticks a person to Scientology. Currently, Miscavige has screwed up the ratio of solvent and lacquer with too much lacquer and not enough solvent. (Without solvent, glue doesn't "work.")
As simply as I can state it, here's my view on the difficulty re. examining the topic of Scientology.
IMO, those who perceive Scientology's negative core often can't see the positives that - amongst the hype and soft manipulation - mostly speckle the outer display layer of the subject. Their explanations are often incomplete, as they can't see those parts of the display coating that are truly positive.
Those who perceive the positives - in the outer display layer - often are unable to see the negatives at its core. Their explanations tend to be extremely naive.
Conveying the idea that there is both a positive outer display coating which is ultimately subordinate, and also a negative hidden core which is ultimately dominant, can be difficult. It seems that the laws of nature, the laws of the human mind, and perhaps the laws of the human nervous system make recognizing both aspects difficult.
Scientology is a secretive and manipulative doctrine with a truth-coating. The truth-coating is displayed while the negatives are often hidden or disguised; or, when they no longer can be denied, are rationalized or "spun."
The "Scientology package" is both positive and negative. Scientology is a carefully crafted (by its founder) mix of "Black Scientology" and "White Scientology," resulting in Scientology.
Since the negatives are hidden, disguised, or denied, it becomes necessary to focus on the negatives.
__________
Initially, my involvement with Scientology was through books, and without any use of an e-meter, and mostly away from the "Org."
However, I did, eventually, become involved in Scientology Inc. - as a student and auditor. And, yes, I had some positive experiences even then - amongst the insanity.
Years later, to gain an additional perspective, I spent a year reviewing the auditing portion of the subject (from ARC S/W to NOTs), as an auditor OUTSIDE Scientology (at a break-away Mission), so as to see the counseling "tech" in application, outside the Totalist (Totalitarian) environment of Scientology Inc.
I realized that auditing was a bait and switch operation, with auditing being presented initially as primarily asking the person to look and, then, becoming, primarily, telling the person what he will see. (Very close to hypnotism).
Ending on a "win" for my pcs, I advised my pcs not to venture into the confidential portions of Scientology auditing, where they would have been engulfed in the Scientology labyrinth. They did refrain, and are now doing very well.
__________
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv49jlyX-co&feature=player_embedded
___________
Auditing is an English language word.
Amongst synonyms listed by Merriam-Webster are: "Examination, going-over, review, scan, scrutiny, view."
The Latin root word means, "a hearing," or "to hear."
Scientology has adopted the word, "auditing."
Those introduced to auditing by Scientologists, both inside and outside the CofS, are often told the above definitions are descriptive of Scientology auditing.
IMO, it's important to discern between the "bait" portion of auditing where one is primarily asked, and the "switch" portion of "auditing" where one is primarily told.
"This is a cold blooded and factual account of your last sixty trillion years," from 1952's 'What to Audit' found Hubbard telling others the contents of their minds, but it was premature "mind grope," just as the early 1950s e-meter reactions projected on the wall with shadows, while the audience went "ooh!" and "ahh!", was premature "Your e-meter will tell you"-ism, and the 1951 "no rights of any kind" was premature SP Doctrine, and the 1951 "dispose of quietly and without sorrow" was premature Fair Game Law and premature disconnection - disconnection in its most extreme form.
It was too early for the implementation of these ideas on the still small, fragile and tentative membership. That would need to wait for a decade, as would Hubbard's implementation of most of the ideas outlined in the "enigmatic" (fraudulent) "Russian Textbook on Psycho-politics."
In the mean time, Hubbard surrounded himself with those excited about his much advertised vision of a better world, and excited about the full releasing of spiritual ability.
Hubbard liked to write and he liked to lecture, and he had a knack as a practical psychologist. He drew on the ideas and innovations of the most creative of those around him, and drew on his own knowledge of abreaction (catharsis, "get it [buried thoughts and emotions] off your chest") therapy, Korzybski's General Semantics with its "earlier similars" etc,, and Aleister Crowley's Magic(k). He re-worked the (four 'letters' - ingredients - of the) Kabbalistic 'tetragrammaton', and it became his 'Four Conditions of Existence'. Hubbard rewrote Crowley's 'Naples Arrangement' and it became his 'The Factors'. He borrowed Crowley's idea of a multiplicity of infinite minds and further excited Scientologists with that notion. None of these were original with Crowley, who was as much a relay point as was Hubbard. Yet, unlike Crowley, Hubbard would eventually incorporate the methods of psychological warfare into his system, and use those methods, not only on his perceived enemies, but on his own followers.
And when he finally - in the mid 1960s - unleashed, mostly covertly, the psychological warfare methods of the "Russian Textbook" on Scientologists, he also returned to fully utilizing those ideas he had briefly tested more than a decade earlier. He gave them a past, he gave them a future, he told them the contents of their own minds, and made it plain that only HE knew and others were going to be told.
Hubbard had written confidentially of the importance of "using enemy tactics," and would even use those "enemy tactics" on his own loyal followers. He had written of psychiatrists in August 1963:
"Psychiatry is authoritarian and tells the person what's wrong with him, often introducing a new lie. Scientology finds out what's wrong with the person from the person."
Soon to follow would be the secret and very serious, and very dangerous, and vital to your survival "Clearing Course," "OT 2" and "OT 3," in which Hubbard would do what he said the psychiatrists did.
Hubbard had done this in 1952, but now it was formalized and institutionalized, and a senior part of the doctrine of Scientology doctrine.
From Hubbard, 1966:
"Many persons experience unreality at the start of[implant] GPM running [told to you, not asked, by Hubbard through the materials]; this leaves when you see the meter reads."
L. Ron Hubbard, from 1946, from his (private) ''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."
Despite all this, is there some value in the simplest application (see the opening post) of the definition of auditing? - a definition that predates Scientology.
IMO, yes. However, as such, it is no longer Scientology.
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Asking a person, "How ya doing?" and listening attentively, and acknowledging, qualifies as "auditing" by an introductory definition of "auditing," as does asking a person to recall a pleasant experience, listening, and then acknowledging.
Such introductory actions, presented as "auditing" are often what leads a person into Scientology, and causes the person to pursue the Scientology "bait and switch" Grade Chart.
Scientology/Scientology Philosophy/Scientology Doctrine, is sneaky. It wraps itself in positives so as to mislead the unsuspecting.
Not recognizing this mostly benign introductory aspect means not recognizing the "cheese" part of the trap, and means also not recognizing a main part of Scientology's disguise layer.
Thoroughly describing Scientology is the most dangerous thing that can be done to Scientology.
Scientology uses good people, and uses - sometimes - good ideas, to mislead, to build confidence, and to trap.
A description without noting the above is incomplete, IMO.
The definition of auditing changes as the person descends further into Scientology. At first, auditing is little more than one person talking with another person. At this stage, in and of itself, auditing is, essentially, benign. It may even be beneficial.
This "sells" the person on the idea of "auditing."
Then it becomes something else.
"Auditing" has multiple meanings that, in accordance with Scientology's "gradients of deception" and "bait and switch" pattern, mislead a person onto the Scientology Grade Chart, a Chart that begins with mostly benign actions, and eventually becomes manipulative, "hypnotic," and potentially psychologically damaging.
That's why issuing forth a Bronx cheer,
Describing Scientology fully means gritting one's teeth and forcing oneself to recognize that there are some twinkling ornaments of light, and (even) truth, wrapped around the black hole of Scientology.
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Crusader
Lets not forget success stories. It wouldn't be $cientology without the everyday mundane attributed as "oatee."
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