First a couple of qualifications. Just as in Handbook for Preclears, whether a person puts up with various outpoints has a lot to do with whether they are winning on post and in life. Secondly of course we all know that overts magnify the problems. But that doesn't mean that you can't criticise, you just have to be straight with yourself when you are doing it.
Next, I am still undecided about DM partly because I am not there and getting data second hand, which may be modified by the first paragraph. However I wrote up my concerns and sent them to the RTC, haven't been declared yet.
It is also important to look at pros and cons. People who produce can be #%*holes, its important to look at the product when evaluating them. One good thing DM has done is the Basics programme where people are now reading over the key books of early Scientology. OK if DM is departing from Scientology basics doesn't this set him up by educating people in them?
If we put aside the scenario that the C of S is owned by the CST which has a former IRS guy in it, therefore the IRS actually owns Scientology and of course the President of the USA reports to his Senior who is an alien. Or if as it has been suggested, DM has no senior, then how can he be removed? The same way he got in, by a coup.
Clearly there was a coup prior, those guys who were LRH's personal staff just saw that they should now run the show with no groove in? And also, just if DM got put on post by Ron doesn't make it for life, I met a lady who was running Flag Bureaux on the Apollo for a week before she crashed and burned.
She told how isolated she felt till Ron saw her and put his arm around her and offered a few words of comfort.
Scientology is at the crossroads. Those who attack it are misguided, because it makes Scientologists really mad and more determined and we actually grow during attacks despite the noise and inconvenience. However after 60 years the movement is undergoing generational change. This is a point where all the old timers get another body or not, and I am concerned that the best traditions remain.
For instance I detect a change of atmosphere from Saint Hill. I visited it in '81 and was given a tour of LRH's office. UK was a rich theta place but there seems to have been a change of guard and style. Of course the key to it was probably that it was the home of the BC. Whether it is better or worse I don't know but thats what I get.
I also felt some of the old guard in ANZO got the rough end of the pineapple, such as the CS Dot, when GAT came in.
I had my suspicions of it for a long time, I think it has worked as far as standardising delivery and reducing technical screw ups, but for me it has been mixed. I had good auditing in the past, persistent floating TA on pilot of the FPRD, blow out win on OT 4 that kept me on staff for the rest of the 80's, very OT ep on Method 1, all this before GAT, and a pretty good correction to a rough episode on clear check with GAT after a lot of wasted hours and then some good but not necessarily great auditing after that. Its been ok and sometimes good, to me it hasn't necessarily lived up to the propaganda, but maybe thats just me.
Scientology is now in almost all countries of the world, the Muslim world is the last frontier. If the symbolism can be adapted to the differences of Islamic style then it should go like a rocket. LRH had quite an interest in the Muslim world.
I tend to think that Scientologists as a whole are a body of theta. I respect that group, I am proud to be in it. I am not trying to get you guys back, but I respect the majority of you. Even our fearless leader, Emma (not her real name, I recall her briefly) probably goes on about Scientology because she really wanted to make it and didn't. I don't like to see good people wasted, but it you have decided to leave, by all means do your own thing and I hope you do well.
There is an incredible amount of stress in orgs currently with donations to pay for Ideal Orgs. The theory of this is that Orgs are now corporately owned at the local level. Secondly it involves the field and activates them. Personally I contributed but I can see better ways of building Orgs, the way they used to be. Together with the IAS handing out status for giving money an absolute joke to early Scientology, I see this as possibly going off in a different direction. Thus DM as he is putting so much force into this is going out on a limb himself. If the programme fails, down he goes.
But this is just about Management, and speed of expansion. Scientology will go on as long as people find value in LRH's ideas. It is still the mother lode for me despite the fact that in my time of being "out" I dealt with obvious flaws in his ideas about other things. On Scientology he is an expert, in other matters he did well and had and incredibly wide set of interests but any being's viewpoint has potential limitations.
What is Scientology? It is a project that through truth, undercuts this Universe. It is an incredibly subversive thing. It is theta.
Next, I am still undecided about DM partly because I am not there and getting data second hand, which may be modified by the first paragraph. However I wrote up my concerns and sent them to the RTC, haven't been declared yet.
It is also important to look at pros and cons. People who produce can be #%*holes, its important to look at the product when evaluating them. One good thing DM has done is the Basics programme where people are now reading over the key books of early Scientology. OK if DM is departing from Scientology basics doesn't this set him up by educating people in them?
If we put aside the scenario that the C of S is owned by the CST which has a former IRS guy in it, therefore the IRS actually owns Scientology and of course the President of the USA reports to his Senior who is an alien. Or if as it has been suggested, DM has no senior, then how can he be removed? The same way he got in, by a coup.
Clearly there was a coup prior, those guys who were LRH's personal staff just saw that they should now run the show with no groove in? And also, just if DM got put on post by Ron doesn't make it for life, I met a lady who was running Flag Bureaux on the Apollo for a week before she crashed and burned.
She told how isolated she felt till Ron saw her and put his arm around her and offered a few words of comfort.
Scientology is at the crossroads. Those who attack it are misguided, because it makes Scientologists really mad and more determined and we actually grow during attacks despite the noise and inconvenience. However after 60 years the movement is undergoing generational change. This is a point where all the old timers get another body or not, and I am concerned that the best traditions remain.
For instance I detect a change of atmosphere from Saint Hill. I visited it in '81 and was given a tour of LRH's office. UK was a rich theta place but there seems to have been a change of guard and style. Of course the key to it was probably that it was the home of the BC. Whether it is better or worse I don't know but thats what I get.
I also felt some of the old guard in ANZO got the rough end of the pineapple, such as the CS Dot, when GAT came in.
I had my suspicions of it for a long time, I think it has worked as far as standardising delivery and reducing technical screw ups, but for me it has been mixed. I had good auditing in the past, persistent floating TA on pilot of the FPRD, blow out win on OT 4 that kept me on staff for the rest of the 80's, very OT ep on Method 1, all this before GAT, and a pretty good correction to a rough episode on clear check with GAT after a lot of wasted hours and then some good but not necessarily great auditing after that. Its been ok and sometimes good, to me it hasn't necessarily lived up to the propaganda, but maybe thats just me.
Scientology is now in almost all countries of the world, the Muslim world is the last frontier. If the symbolism can be adapted to the differences of Islamic style then it should go like a rocket. LRH had quite an interest in the Muslim world.
I tend to think that Scientologists as a whole are a body of theta. I respect that group, I am proud to be in it. I am not trying to get you guys back, but I respect the majority of you. Even our fearless leader, Emma (not her real name, I recall her briefly) probably goes on about Scientology because she really wanted to make it and didn't. I don't like to see good people wasted, but it you have decided to leave, by all means do your own thing and I hope you do well.
There is an incredible amount of stress in orgs currently with donations to pay for Ideal Orgs. The theory of this is that Orgs are now corporately owned at the local level. Secondly it involves the field and activates them. Personally I contributed but I can see better ways of building Orgs, the way they used to be. Together with the IAS handing out status for giving money an absolute joke to early Scientology, I see this as possibly going off in a different direction. Thus DM as he is putting so much force into this is going out on a limb himself. If the programme fails, down he goes.
But this is just about Management, and speed of expansion. Scientology will go on as long as people find value in LRH's ideas. It is still the mother lode for me despite the fact that in my time of being "out" I dealt with obvious flaws in his ideas about other things. On Scientology he is an expert, in other matters he did well and had and incredibly wide set of interests but any being's viewpoint has potential limitations.
What is Scientology? It is a project that through truth, undercuts this Universe. It is an incredibly subversive thing. It is theta.