Demented LRH
Patron Meritorious
Like some recipients of Dianetics auditing, OTs also hallucinate, although for a different reason -- they are told in advance what to expect when they go through the OT TRs. This mind-bending phenomenon is called “preconditioning”. People susceptible to preconditioning can create vivid hallucinations in themselves by convincing themselves that hallucinatory images they are about to see represent real events from their past, including their past lives.
Details of a hallucination are not important as long as OTs are having roughly the same illusory mental pictures. For example, an OT could see 5 volcanoes exploding, while his peer could observe 7 volcanoes spewing out lava -- from CoS perspective, they both are doing fine because they are recalling real events from their tracks. Of course, if an OT sees Hubbard taking shit instead of seeing Xenu’s spaceships landing on Earth, then he has a withhold and must resolve the issue until further trips to higher OT levels.
Some time ago I read an article about preconditioning (this article has nothing to do with Scientology). According to the authors, only 10% of the mankind are susceptible to preconditioning. This explains why the number of OTs is so small -- 90% of Scientologists cannot be preconditioned.
This is my advice to the active Scientologists -- there is 90% chance that you won’t make it even to OT 1 level, there is no reason to waste your money on this crap.
This is what happens to the OT wannabes -- they are told that they have a withhold and because of it they cannot proceed to OT 1 stage. Because of that withhold they are declared PTS and receive additional auditing. That does not help a bit, and in the end they are declared SP. The selection procedure works perfectly -- on a paper, everyone becomes an OT provided he/she does not have a withhold. Vast majority of the former Church members who think that they were unfairly declared an SP are the ones who could not be subjected to OT auditing.
According to the “Hubbard doctrine” anyone can become an OT, But if there were too many “OT rejects” hanging around the Church, many of its members would suspect that Hubbard was a talking head who could not deliver what he promised.
There are exceptions from this rule, as usual -- rich CoS members who give sizeable donations to the Church are told that they can work on their withholds as long as it takes. “Just take it easy, do not try to overstress yourself while digging for a withhold”, they hear from DM.
MY FRIEND’S DELUSIONS.
Janet (this is not her real name) was an OT 3. During the day Janet was all right, but after the nightfall she was often talking nonsense. One day she told me that she was seeing Hitler’s thetan in the bushes. “What he is doing there?”, I asked. “He is being punished”, she said. “What is his punishment?”, I asked. “He cannot move, he is stuck in the bushes forever”, she said. I did not want to invalidate her, so I did my best to switch the topic. (By the way, the word “validate” does not apply to people, it applies to inanimate objects such as documents, etc -- Hubbard’s knowledge of English was awful).
The other evening I had the weirdest conversation in my life with Janet. “There is a thetan sitting at the tree branch”, she said. “What he is doing there?”, I said.
“I do not know, but I can move him closer.”
“Where he is now?”
“He is 3 feet away from you. I can talk to him on your behalf”
“Ask him why he is here”
“He is in hiding, he destroyed a human race on his planet”
“Does he know who I am?”
“He does not know and he does not care. He wants to kill you”
“Why he cannot kill me?”
“He is in a force triangle, he cannot move, but I can move his triangle”
Looking back, I do not think she was talking about Xenu -- it is nowhere said that he is hiding in Los Angeles. Besides, he is in electronic trap, not in a mysterious force triangle.
TREATMENT OF CELEBRITIES.
The last thing CoS want is Tom Cruise talking to thetans during filming of a movie. To prevent this from happening they do not subject celebrities to preconditioning before sending them on OT trip. Celebrity OT auditing is very different from the one that mere mortals undergo. So, when a celebrity is telling journalists that OT auditing does not make him hallucinate, he is telling the TRUTH.
During OT auditing celebrities are not told in advance what they are supposed to see, they are just guided through the useless TRs, so they see nothing. After the TRs are over, they are told that their implants have been weakened (I do not remember the exact terminology, and I do not care), and after that the auditor gives them Xenu data to read. That’s all, no preconditioned hallucinations for Hollywood gods.
P.S. I do not know for sure what kind of OT auditing the Freezone auditors use. My educated guess is that they use the Scientology celebrity auditing -- the clients burn their money, but at least they do not hallucinate.
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Ex-scientologists do not believe that implants exist (Hubbard invented them because he was an idiot!), so they can skip this post. But active Scientologists may want to know why it is impossible, in principle, to have implants.
An “implant” is another word for “posthypnotic suggestion” (remember, those poor thetans were subjected to some kind of hypnotic procedure). For the reason of brevity I will call posthypnotic suggestion “PS”.
This is an example of PS - a person under hypnosis is told by a hypnotist that after awakening every time he hears a bell ring he will raise his right hand. Indeed, the procedure works -- a bell ring causes a person to raise his right hand. But it happens 2 or 3 times, and after that PS wears off -- which is a medical fact. PS lasts for a brief period of time. There is a good explanation of that -- as soon as person notices that he is acting strange, he modifies his behavior, and PS goes away because it is inferior to the freedom of choice.
For the same reason PS cannot change person’s behavior to such degree that he commits suicide, or follows a religion that a hypnotist had chosen for him -- there is always freedom of choice. Whether this free choice came as a result of evolution or was given by God is debatable, but one thing is for sure -- it is a scientific fact that people choose their own course of action, no one, even Xenu with his implants can make a choice for them.
There is another difficulty with Hubbard-style PS’ -- there is no videotaped evidence that the thetans were hypnotized. In contrast, hypnotists videotape all their sessions, so they could present the evidence of what happens when people are subjected to hypnotic procedures. Science is based on facts, not on suppositions of something that may or may not have happened. Hubbard was an imbecile who could not possibly grasp the meaning of valid scientific procedures, so he produced unbelievable amount of totally unscientific crap.
MORE EXAMPLES OF OT HALLUCINATIONS.
have also known OTs that spoke to disembodied thetans, one case involved a naughty thetan hiding in woodland making sure that nobody discovered the body of the girl he had buried there in his previous life, apparently the OT told this thetan about scientology (telepathically of course) and told him (notice the thetan had sexual identity) to go find a new body and get into scientology. Of course he didn't bother to dig up the body as this would have proved the whole thing an elaborate hallucination as there was in all probability no body there to be found.
Another girl was walking by a hospital when she got that "someone just walked over my grave" sensation, the OT she was with said that a woman had just died (dropped her body) and was clinging on to her in a state of great fear and confusion. The OT pretended to communicate for a few seconds, then said, "It's ok, she's gone now."
Details of a hallucination are not important as long as OTs are having roughly the same illusory mental pictures. For example, an OT could see 5 volcanoes exploding, while his peer could observe 7 volcanoes spewing out lava -- from CoS perspective, they both are doing fine because they are recalling real events from their tracks. Of course, if an OT sees Hubbard taking shit instead of seeing Xenu’s spaceships landing on Earth, then he has a withhold and must resolve the issue until further trips to higher OT levels.
Some time ago I read an article about preconditioning (this article has nothing to do with Scientology). According to the authors, only 10% of the mankind are susceptible to preconditioning. This explains why the number of OTs is so small -- 90% of Scientologists cannot be preconditioned.
This is my advice to the active Scientologists -- there is 90% chance that you won’t make it even to OT 1 level, there is no reason to waste your money on this crap.
This is what happens to the OT wannabes -- they are told that they have a withhold and because of it they cannot proceed to OT 1 stage. Because of that withhold they are declared PTS and receive additional auditing. That does not help a bit, and in the end they are declared SP. The selection procedure works perfectly -- on a paper, everyone becomes an OT provided he/she does not have a withhold. Vast majority of the former Church members who think that they were unfairly declared an SP are the ones who could not be subjected to OT auditing.
According to the “Hubbard doctrine” anyone can become an OT, But if there were too many “OT rejects” hanging around the Church, many of its members would suspect that Hubbard was a talking head who could not deliver what he promised.
There are exceptions from this rule, as usual -- rich CoS members who give sizeable donations to the Church are told that they can work on their withholds as long as it takes. “Just take it easy, do not try to overstress yourself while digging for a withhold”, they hear from DM.
MY FRIEND’S DELUSIONS.
Janet (this is not her real name) was an OT 3. During the day Janet was all right, but after the nightfall she was often talking nonsense. One day she told me that she was seeing Hitler’s thetan in the bushes. “What he is doing there?”, I asked. “He is being punished”, she said. “What is his punishment?”, I asked. “He cannot move, he is stuck in the bushes forever”, she said. I did not want to invalidate her, so I did my best to switch the topic. (By the way, the word “validate” does not apply to people, it applies to inanimate objects such as documents, etc -- Hubbard’s knowledge of English was awful).
The other evening I had the weirdest conversation in my life with Janet. “There is a thetan sitting at the tree branch”, she said. “What he is doing there?”, I said.
“I do not know, but I can move him closer.”
“Where he is now?”
“He is 3 feet away from you. I can talk to him on your behalf”
“Ask him why he is here”
“He is in hiding, he destroyed a human race on his planet”
“Does he know who I am?”
“He does not know and he does not care. He wants to kill you”
“Why he cannot kill me?”
“He is in a force triangle, he cannot move, but I can move his triangle”
Looking back, I do not think she was talking about Xenu -- it is nowhere said that he is hiding in Los Angeles. Besides, he is in electronic trap, not in a mysterious force triangle.
TREATMENT OF CELEBRITIES.
The last thing CoS want is Tom Cruise talking to thetans during filming of a movie. To prevent this from happening they do not subject celebrities to preconditioning before sending them on OT trip. Celebrity OT auditing is very different from the one that mere mortals undergo. So, when a celebrity is telling journalists that OT auditing does not make him hallucinate, he is telling the TRUTH.
During OT auditing celebrities are not told in advance what they are supposed to see, they are just guided through the useless TRs, so they see nothing. After the TRs are over, they are told that their implants have been weakened (I do not remember the exact terminology, and I do not care), and after that the auditor gives them Xenu data to read. That’s all, no preconditioned hallucinations for Hollywood gods.
P.S. I do not know for sure what kind of OT auditing the Freezone auditors use. My educated guess is that they use the Scientology celebrity auditing -- the clients burn their money, but at least they do not hallucinate.
----------------------------
Ex-scientologists do not believe that implants exist (Hubbard invented them because he was an idiot!), so they can skip this post. But active Scientologists may want to know why it is impossible, in principle, to have implants.
An “implant” is another word for “posthypnotic suggestion” (remember, those poor thetans were subjected to some kind of hypnotic procedure). For the reason of brevity I will call posthypnotic suggestion “PS”.
This is an example of PS - a person under hypnosis is told by a hypnotist that after awakening every time he hears a bell ring he will raise his right hand. Indeed, the procedure works -- a bell ring causes a person to raise his right hand. But it happens 2 or 3 times, and after that PS wears off -- which is a medical fact. PS lasts for a brief period of time. There is a good explanation of that -- as soon as person notices that he is acting strange, he modifies his behavior, and PS goes away because it is inferior to the freedom of choice.
For the same reason PS cannot change person’s behavior to such degree that he commits suicide, or follows a religion that a hypnotist had chosen for him -- there is always freedom of choice. Whether this free choice came as a result of evolution or was given by God is debatable, but one thing is for sure -- it is a scientific fact that people choose their own course of action, no one, even Xenu with his implants can make a choice for them.
There is another difficulty with Hubbard-style PS’ -- there is no videotaped evidence that the thetans were hypnotized. In contrast, hypnotists videotape all their sessions, so they could present the evidence of what happens when people are subjected to hypnotic procedures. Science is based on facts, not on suppositions of something that may or may not have happened. Hubbard was an imbecile who could not possibly grasp the meaning of valid scientific procedures, so he produced unbelievable amount of totally unscientific crap.
MORE EXAMPLES OF OT HALLUCINATIONS.
have also known OTs that spoke to disembodied thetans, one case involved a naughty thetan hiding in woodland making sure that nobody discovered the body of the girl he had buried there in his previous life, apparently the OT told this thetan about scientology (telepathically of course) and told him (notice the thetan had sexual identity) to go find a new body and get into scientology. Of course he didn't bother to dig up the body as this would have proved the whole thing an elaborate hallucination as there was in all probability no body there to be found.
Another girl was walking by a hospital when she got that "someone just walked over my grave" sensation, the OT she was with said that a woman had just died (dropped her body) and was clinging on to her in a state of great fear and confusion. The OT pretended to communicate for a few seconds, then said, "It's ok, she's gone now."