Just a note on the GPM timeline: My goals were listed by LRH in 1956. I know that it was 1956 because I was mildly pregnant with my DISCONNECTED Daughter.
You have placed the goals finding at 1963, IIRC.
I admit that I have steered a wide swath around any goals listing since LRH denied my goal. I held the idea that "own goals" was a lock on "implant goals", and our own goal blew off as a lock.
Also, the question arises as to why the goals that we set when we do Admin Scales do not count as " own goals". I think that setting goals as an action on an Admin Scale is perfectly valid and is considerably easier than to go for them in auditing. An Admin Scale is prolly looked upon as a 3D activity, but those of us who have done them,have done them across the Dynamics.
What say ye Tech Mavens?
Challenge
This tech maven says this:
LRH lightly, very lightly touched on and dealt with "goals" and "purposes" at various times prior to the big push in Feb. '61 when he started off with S.O.P. Goals as written up in the Tech Vols. And the own goals and GPM tech continued to be developed and processed till April ’63. That’s the public and HCOB record. He certainly will have dealt with the stuff “off the record” before it hit HCOB publication.
As I wrote on Alan’s “Opening Pandora’s Box” thread, LRH made the idiotic statement in April, 1963, “That all goals/GPMs processed to date, were not your own, but implants.” That HCOB is not reproduced in the Tech Vols . . . along with many others HCOBs.
On February 24, 1964, Hubbard reversed himself with the HCO Policy Letter titled: “Urgent: Org Programming.” In it he stated:
“GPMs
“Issue publicly PCs do have their own goals and GPMs. The best way to get them run is to graduate up through the levels.
“The invalidation of the idea that a PC had his own goals was a severe blow. Invalidation of a PC’s own GPMs, calling them implants, produced an instant ARC Break and physical repercussions.
“So correct this quick on Broad Public Interest (BPI), regardless of classification.”
However Hubbard and the tech never returned to running the PC’s own Goals and GPMs. It is a dropped out and abandoned tech subject. He even knocked out ascertaining PC goals as part of session setup in the beginning Ruds.
So folks who came into Scn after April 1963 got the bum rap that implants are where it’s at, and your own goals “do not matter” as it’s implants that are screwing you.
As I look at this now, I actually get a little angry for I can’t see why LRH did this or let it happen unless he was colossally bent, dishonest, criminally irresponsible or really, as some hold, that he was a criminal fraud through and through. Certainly what he did in this respect was a colossal technical error and damaging to folks; and certainly criminally negligent “research.”
Personally, as noted in my Pasadena lecture, I have seen implants are an “in-the-physical universe light lock on the real deal" of your own creations and, of course, your own goals.
The idea of games and domains of existence and "universes" prior to or outside of and above the physical universe (PU) was not part of Scn tech till around 1978-80 . . . I wrote it up after I could not date locate a spiritual connection on OT3 in the PU, but found it to be way earlier . . . this finding later was introduced into Scn.
Obviously, we have had goals and purposes as spiritual Beings way before the existence of implants in the PU . . . for Hubbard to suggest or let it be a part of the tech that implants preceded own goals and that they are the basic is a gross irresponsible violation of truth.
The reverse is the case . . . . the "implanters" attempted to superimpose over and on top of and to "harness" the charge, force, and life-force of our own basic powers as locked up in or basic to our own goals/purposes.
“Goals,” as you note, Challenge, are not that “big” a deal . . . we are setting and creating them all the time! They are what sparks energy into the game. They are what directs our life-force. And whether it is done as part of an Admin Scale, or for personal reasons, they are still important to your life as they are what
direct your life!
But it is the jammed-up, failed and encysted old goals/purposes that are locking up our true deep-down spiritual powers that are the problem. Our human level goals and purposes are light weight by comparison.
So, Hubbard was certainly in error, criminally so, to invalidate anyone’s goal(s). It is also a perversion of truth to portray “implants as being the basic on the subject, and that your own goals are lesser and only locks.”
The truth is, we have each been operating on and following an “own goal/purpose” (or more than one) since the beginning of our involvement in games, any games—for games are based on such. And we have been doing it for a very, very long time . . . way, way earlier than the PU and any attempts to control us with implants.
RogerB