I assume he is referring to his personal knowledge and as regards earlier taped lectures versus newer edits only. A comment of a very limited scope. PMD is probably well aware of the PR reinterpretations of LRH's life.
Of course, comparing newer and earlier tape edits is not likely to be very fruitful. The earlier ones were edited for PR purposes already before they were put out; they aren't the original recordings either, in case someone thinks so. Same with books, you have to go to the first edition to get anywhere near how the book was initially put together by the evil transcriptionists.
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I'm jumping into this discussion late in the sequences, because I was looking for Little Bear Victor's comments. Terril told me he was interested in the Mayan calendar, which I have worked with since 1992. Finding anyone who's been involved in Scientology to have any real interest in the Mayan calendar is so novel that I wanted to see what Little Bear Victor (LBV) had to say. Then I found his comments on the value and future of Scientology as a tech. Mmmmm... great topic for speculation and requires some ability to predict, which is my specialty with the Mayan calendar. Of course, each individual develops his/her own perception of Scientology and its tech with many personal variables that make each viewpoint and track unique.
A fairly recent parallel to Scientology (organization of comparable magnitude) was The Theosophical Society, founded in 1974 after Helena Blavatsky came to the U.S., in, as I recall, 1872. The growth curve of The Theosophical Society and Helena Blavatsky were similar to those of Scientology in many ways. Now, history does not have to repeat itself, and one does not even need history in strict terms. But that doesn't mean that history does not repeat itself and that people don't like to have histories to flesh out their stories.
The purpose of the Theosophical Society was to create an altruistic organization to further the aims of brotherhood humanity. The writings of Helena Blavatsky were the core (and a primary income) for The Theosophical Society (TS), who was as extraordinary woman in the Victorian Age. One of the little coincidences between the symbols of Scientology and the TS is that the group of students that Blavatsky selected for advanced work used a double triangle as its symbol. Blavatsky called this the Esoteric Section and the double triangle symbol is virtually lost to the TS, because the materials she issued to the Esoteric Section were recalled (returned from circulation) after her death in 1891. Blavatsky's Esoteric Section was supplanted by her successors with a garrish, comical system that easily rivals the Cof$'s symbol next to the runway by the vaulted repository in New Mexico.
At Blavatsky's death in 1891, followers of Theosophy splintered into 3 main branches which have all survived to the present amid tremendous disputes about Theosophy as a subject, not to mention application. The three main branches have developed numerous subgroups and interpretations. The original works of Helena Blavatsky were as brilliant and revolutionary in the Victorian Age as LRH's early works were at the dawn of the Cold War in 1950. "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health," "The History of Man," and "The Creation of Human Ability" are, in my personal opinion, brilliant.
In the parallel of Scientology to the TS, by 1886, Blavatsky had been virtually exiled from her own organization following much dispute about the administration of the TS. By 1888, one of Blavatsky's mentors with whom she remained connected to the end of her life had said that the TS had become a well run but soulless corpse. The well run TS survives to this day as a soulless corpse by publishing books at a time when they were a primary publisher of metaphysical literature. In the present, their income from publishing has been greatly reduced by proliferation of publishers of metaphysical literature and electronic communications.
The propensities of the population of this planet in 1986 at the time of LRH's death as they were in 1891 at Blavatsky's death. I suspect that the future of Cof$ will be similar to that of the Theosophical Society and run along as an organization until the society in which is functions simply outruns it.
I find much value in LRH's early work and personally believe that too many Scientologists bought into LRH's own PR about himself. LRH was pretty typical in that he wished to present himself within a crafted PR light, much the same as other people do. When some people see through LRH's PR, they stop looking to find out what else was really there that is useful. I like to look at what really was there behind the PR. LRH was a smart man with a strong background in the occult.
One of the LRH quotes I really like is from the Level 0 tapes, "Auditing Comm Cycles," 6 August 1963. I don't like this quote just because LRH said it. I like it because it parallels my own reality and understanding that I developed from numerous materials and not just LRH's work. Yet, it indicates that LRH understood a basic problem with which he had to deal on this planet. And it contributes to the understanding of how the highly sophisticated science of the Mayan calendar has been destroyed, lost, and completely reinterpreted within the restimulation and dramatization of Euramerica.
"Every once in a while somebody says, 'Well, why don't you...' something or other, something or other, something or other -- that's the crux of the situation -- ' Why don't you change all administrative actions? Why don't you alter all central organizational lines?' "Why don't you...' so forth. "Why don't we change everything in the course?' and so on. What they're dealing with is a problem they actually don't see the breadth and depth of.
"And that problem is this: The character of this planet and the population hereon makes it practically impossible to do anything with this planet. Now, I'm not taking off from a failure point. The stress and thought and prevention and cure and this and that which you have to go into on this planet to get anything done and running is absolutely fantastic...
"All right. Here's a population of, then, of minimal workers, maximal managers, artists, geniuses and perverts. What are you going to make out of this lot, huh?
"Well, actually, this group has gone ahead and made up, up until recent times, a totally different civilization than the civilization which planted it here. In the last ten thousand years, they have gone on with a sort of a decadent, kicked-in-the-head civilization that contains automobiles, business suits, fedora hats, telephones, spaceships -- quite interesting, but a civilization which looks an almost exact duplicate, but is worse off than the current U.S. civilization.
"Therefore, you find the current U.S. and Western civilization rather restimulative, because it has moved up to look like the Marcabian civilization. It's been moving up here rather rapidly. And now we're at a point, a very high level of restimulation, because the automobile design, the train design, ship design... and the fire engines and the stuff you do within men's clothes particularly -- all of these things are the same image. So you're going into a highly restimulative era, because we've not had this before. See? We've been moving up through strata of civilization, but we hadn't matched this one. And remember that this society at the present time looks dangerous; it looks very dangerous."
Best regards,
Krsanna Duran