Over the years, Sceintology has used various angles and ploys. One of these is the "metaphor" angle re. the "Xenu PR flap" with the "wogs," brought about by the publicizing of "Incident 2" in the media.
It was first used by paid $cientology shill J. Gordon Melton many years ago. This allowed Scientology to "handle" an unwanted "PR flap" situation indirectly. Nonetheless, Melton, then an employee of the Scientology cult, was doing what they wished.
Does that mean that the Scientology cult was telling its PCs that "Incident 2" was a metaphor? Obviously not.
The objective is to take the attention of "wogs" off the embarrassing topic of Xenu, etc. and place it onto areas where the Scientology PR wants the "wog's" attention to be. It's a "handling."
The material of book 'History of Man' is not part of OT 3, but the approach to "handling" any "invalidators " can be traced back to H.O.M.:
From the
'History of Man' [
"This is a cold blooded and factual account of your last 60 trillion years"] by L. Ron Hubbard, early 1952, originally titled
'What to Audit':
"Tell people who want to invalidate all this, 'Your criticism is very just. It's only fantasy.'"
It works like this: If it sounds really dumb or crazy, or is exposed as a lie, in front of any particular person or "public," not dumb or gullible enough to believe it, then, immediately, claim that it - whatever it was - is a metaphor, an allegory, a joke, a symbolic representation used as a teaching aid, etc. If this doesn't work, claim it was taken out of context, is only "a fantasy," or that
the complaining or ridiculing person or "public" are literal-minded, etc.
In fact, the idea of
the "literalizing of L. Ron Hubbard" was re-introduced, recently, by Marty Rathbun. This is an old Scientology PR handling from the many decades ago.
This is just a more gentle fashion - a "lower gradient" - of saying
there's something really wrong with the "antagonistic" person or "public."
From the 1955 'Manual on Dissemination of Material': "
Another frame of mind we would like to see the public have and register is that people attacking Scientologist have something wring with them."
"
Why are you making fun of L. Ron Hubbard?
There must be something wrong with you!"
It's a form of bullshitting which is used to cover an earlier bullshitting. It's actually pretty "workable," in that a fair number of people seem to fall for it, which means, incidentally, that it's likely to continue.
For example, this is what David Gaiman, then Public Relations Director for Scientology in England, told Paulette Cooper, in 1971, when asked about the billion year Sea Org contract:
From question/answer #19, in the 'Appendix' of Cooper's book:
19. (from Cooper)
"DO THE SEA ORG PEOPLE SIGN A BILLION YEAR CONTRACT?"
(From Gaiman)
"Never make an allegoric joke near literal minded humorless reporters."
Another angle is to simply say, "It's not important. It's tangential, not central."
Anyone who has done the Scientology Grade Chart knows that OT 3 is considered vital and central.
Why Scientologists continue to lie and spin about these things is a sign that anything but brief exposure to Scientology makes most people, not only less sane, but less honest.
Scientology intel op tech to whitewash and rewrite Scientology.
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