Do you know what I think was wrong in Scientology? I'll tell you. I referred to this in an earlier post somewhere but I'll spell it out clearly here.
I spent about 12 or 13 years on Org staff, and obne doesn't have to have been there very long before one gets the idea that there must be something wrong going on here. I mean the subject is great and these are all decent people and auditing is great etc etc so what is keeping people away? Why didn't guys want to get into the subject?
after years of pondering on this and not quite knowing the insidiousness of the answer, I came to the point where what the Orgs were doing was for the most part not something I wanted to be involved in. So I left and continued with the parts of Scio that I did like and that worked for me and that I saw a being beneficial to othwers and which they also though was beneficil to them. And life was good.
But always I wondered What was it that went wrong in that place? How did such a good subject go so very screwy?
When I got the answer eventually, and part of the credit certainly goes to this board, it was so devious that at first I just couldn't reconcile myself to it. This was some years ago now - soon after the board started. But before long the pieces fitted the puzzle and I was OK on it all.
In Theosophy they talk about the Left Hand Path and the Right Hand Path. The difference, briefly stated, is that the Right Hand Path seeks to empower others while the Left Hand Path seeks to gain power over others. Along with this Power over others comes Greed, Dominance, Enslavement, etc etc etc. These are values that our society generally finds abhorent.
Well Hubbard himself was undeniably a Left Hand Path man. Dyed in the wool. While Dianetics and Scientology were originally quite Right Hand Pathish, and in the hands of good people they were very thoroughly Right Hand Path. These were the sort of people that I encountered in the Orgs in South Africa. Really good sorts of pepole. Then they started the Sea Org there and the Left Hand Path crap came into it all and things went screwy from there on.
Hubbard used - set it up - the Right Hand Path things to lure guys in and then - as Veda calls it - does the switch and gets them over to the Left Hand Path. KSW was always the big stick on this.
Now the big mistake in Scio was not so much that they mixed the two paths together, but rather that they did anything on the Left Hand Path at all. The old saying of "Power corrupts, and absolute power corupts absolutely" refers entirely to Left Hand Path power. Not to RHP empowering of others.
The Left HP can be guarranteed to always lead to degredation and corruption for the practitioner. Why? Well the answer is easily found in Right HP Scientology. Left Hand Path is alien to the basic nature of a thetan and so will lead to the destruction of theta. As LRH himself epitomised so clearly.
But hey, that Right Hand Path Scientology is good. It is very very very good. One has to keep it that way and eliminate from it all the Left Hand Path curves that LRH put into it.