Scientology Study Tech In The Real World

[Infinite]

My favorite words in Scientology are the -ness words like as-is-ness and having-ness which one almost never ever hears in the 'real' world, but in context do describe concepts without another single word that describes the concept (so it makes sense to me to use them in that context)

Changing language is a very effective means of changing the way people think. In L Ron Hubbard's case, the new words were designed to reinforce his make-believe world of fallacious concepts and to further isolate Scientologists from wogs. One of the first things a person recovering from Scientology has to do is drop the unconscious use of the language so as to be able to correctly analyse what's happened to their mind.

 

[Claire Swazey]

I found a few of his study tech methods to be useful. Like the one where you set yourself examples of how a given principle is that way and isn't that way. But I did not find that those things were superior to non Scn study tips and techniques.

 

[loose cannon]

But I find the idea of "open source gnosis" much more interesting. I think Clearbird or websites like FreezoneAmerica are good examples of such an approach and that that should be promoted as a real alternative to doing scientology in the Co$, with much more freedom and possibilities. (I don't think that doing almost the same crap like Marty does is not a real alternative.)

Forgetful me! FreezoneAmerica was a great collection of open source scientology/gnosis stuff, but how could I forget about IVy??!!

 

[xemnu]

I didn't read the whole thread. I saw the Dave Touretsky link and I think he nailed it.
I never needed study tech but I liked it as it matched my own practice (I spent hours as a child in dictionaries and encyclopedias)
I found it useful to help Scnists. (Well, some faked that they had found a MU and cleared it--it's hard to evaluate how effective it is when people start to get disingenuous about it)
But it rarely worked in the real world. It was a source of frustration. I found it especially poor as a remedial tool (I had assumed the reverse)
One key difference is the interest in the subject. This is part of the Study Tapes but not too useful. Asking a schoolchild "why are you studying this subject in the first place?" is an odd question to them. They don't even think of it as a "subject"

 

[RogerB]

Hubbard, of course, stole the notions used in his "study tech" from Chuck Berners . . . it's written up by eyewitnesses on Alan's thread "Pandora's Box."

In actuality, like most all Hubbard touched he perverted it and screwed it up. What he calls "study barriers" are not barriers to study but barriers to comprehension, understanding and learning!

This is an unedited video of a workshop Virginia and I did in corporate America on the issue of "the barriers to comprehension and learning" that teachers and tutors need to understand and avoid.

Hubbard had his hang up on M/U's . . . the idiot never spotted that most folks have M/U's and think they understand and happily paddle along in error and it won't read on the meter.

What reads on the meter is the NON-understood or partially non-understood . . . that's what produces the charge that builds up to later read on the meter! Not the M/U . . . .

YOu'll note I actually run a drill for the attendees where I cause on them the "mind fog" that non-understood words, concepts, terms, symbols produce. Then as the second part of the drill, I remove the "mind fog" for them.

That "diagnostic tool" I was referring to when debugging a woman operating on an actual M/U, was at FSO. She was new staff routing into the HGC to audit NOTs and being checked out on her metering but flunking. Qual had failed to handle and debug her and, as an old friend of mine she asked me to coach her on her drills.

Please excuse the weirdness of the taping: I had to set the camera and then run up front to get into the action . . . so it starts off weird

Grr . . . I'm trying to paste into here the video that is on my Facebook page . . . but it won't take.

Here's the link. It is in four parts (Facebook automatically broke it into 4 parts when I uploaded it) if you have to watch it via this link, be careful which arrow you use to advance to part 2, 3, 4 . . . . when I checked it, I had to click on the left arrow to get part two . . . the bloody thing seems to want to work in reverse to logic.

LINK: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201904051990042&set=vb.1446199474&type=2&theater