Sidebar...I feel the need to rant about something
I’m still on my “walkabout” but I have been keeping up with what’s been going on around the old corral over the last 2 weeks or so. As always, lots of good stuff is consistently put up on ESMB by all Y’all. Wish I had the time to participate a little.
It’s gonna be another couple of weeks before I resume “Shooting Stars”, but, I have couple of things I wanted to say and rather than start a new Thread I thought I’d just post it here.
A big chunk of my walkabout has been helping someone go through and convalesce (as much as a brain damaged and ten thumbed nurse can help) from hip replacement surgery. Talk about Standard Tech…WOW! Hip replacement is incredibly precise, technical, mechanically extensive and mathematically complex. The basic design of the implant device has not change in over 30 years but the materials and techniques have evolved to where there are some hotshot Surgeons (like the one my friend had) that can do the whole job in a few hours with only a 4-5 inch incision and without cutting any muscles. My friend was able to stand (with assistance and support) 8 hours after the surgery. The healing process is long (at least 10-12 weeks) and it will be probably 12-14 months until the peak benefit is realized but already they are no longer suffering the striking, withering pain from the severely damaged arthritic hip socket they had.
I am humbled by the skill and kindness of the Surgeon and his team and the nursing staff at the hospital. These folks are highly competent, they care and they are dedicated. I am humbled by humankind’s instinct to aid and help the afflicted and ease the suffering of others with patience, professionalism and probity and facilities such as this particular one are truly one of the the houses of our better angels.
Which brings me to the point of this post.
My friend was never a Scio but is friends with one of the folks I know that’s still very much “in” and is one of the reasons for my anonymity on ESMB. A year or so ago my friend’s arthritic hip began to rapidly deteriorate and their lack of mobility began to steadily lessen and the chronic pain went from moderate to severe. Our mutual Scio friend’s solution was that my friend just needed Dianetics and Assists and offered to do “Book One” on them. When my friend declined to have any Scn practiced on them our mutual Scio friend contacted me (as I had the “better comm-line” and wanted me to do a PTS handling on my friend as they were “obviously PTS” and sent, unsolicited, all the “new” PTS and Assists packs that were free of all the “Mis Dups” and “Omitteds” of the past.
Now, I have received Scn Assist Processes that have been helpful and I have received some that were not helpful, and I have received some that actually made me feel worse and had PC results likewise as an Auditor. But, I have also had good results receiving and giving massage, traction adjustment, listening to narrative descriptions, just plain touching without repetitive commands and the “laying on of hands” so to speak. The power of a loving hand, caring touch and soothing words and benign “listening” is nothing new, and has been known about since before Humankind loincloths were fashionable and anyone that has been around animals some knows that they instinctively know of this force of nature.
Degenerative arthritis from genetic predisposition and over 3 decades as a professional athlete (as was the case with my friend) is not some simple injury that any Scn Assist or process, or any other therapy, is going to cure or rectify. What little pain might be relieved by any such therapies will shortly return, sometimes within minutes.
Likewise, the condition of my friend was not the result of being connected to a “present time SP” or some “case condition”. It happens to many professional athletes over 50 years old, including Jimmy Conners. There are only a few things that can be done to provide temporary relief; moist heat packs, limiting physical activity that involves the hips, supplements and herbs, maintaining appropriate weight, and pain medication…which is the most effective of all. The only way to “cure” the condition is surgery. The difference between an X-ray of an arthritically damaged hip and a healthy hip is dramatic and stark.
The pain a person in this condition experiences is striking, searing and withering. All controlled movement in athletics emanates frome the “core” and the foundation of the “core” is the hips and pelvis. The primary pain is from bone grinding against bone in the hip socket with every movement of the body that involves the hip. As the hip degenerates, the alignment of lower torso becomes skewed, which then creates further pain from improperly aligned stress force vectors to the sesamoid bones of the foot and knees. As the sesamoid stress increases, the outer calf and inner thigh muscles are placed under increasing stress that causes them to tighten up and cramp and become yet another source of pain. Finally, in the latter stages of hip degeneration, the stresses move into the lower back and then to the shoulders and neck. At this point, the pain throughout the body is sever and constant even when lying in bed and without pain and occasional sleep meds life becomes near unbearable and the idea that Scn Assists, PTS handlings and Book One Auditing are a true and proper therapy at this point is more than ludicrous--it is dangerous and inhumane, IMO.
Furthermore, the concept that a person that was genetically predisposed to this condition and spent a lifetime excelling in the studied, highly controlled and graceful use of their body--maximizing through discipline, focus and hard work the expression of physical gifts that a small fraction of folks are born with, for the enjoyment them self and entertainment, inspiration and instruction of others--“pulled it in” is vile and callous in the extreme.
But, sadly, that is the crux of the “Legacy” of “Ron, The Healer” and the crucible for “On Source” Scios, to wit; the dramatic “instant ‘cure’”, the rationalization of any failure to produce the dramatic “instant ‘cure’”, the disdain of the infirmed and ill and the blithe betrayal and arrogant abandonment of they that require and deserve real and actual, complete, intensive and effective 24/7 care.
All of Us have seen it, heard about it and/or been a party to the Scn deaf, blind and dumb “handling” of the ill and infirmed. We’ve all heard the grandstanding stories and claims of miraculous and instant “cures” of all manner of physical maladies from Assists and “OT Powers” and “Standard Tech”. And, all of Us know that in the Scn Community, when a someone becomes ill or infirmed they are isolated, rarely spoken of but in hushed, muted and dismissive terms and regged for every dime that they’ve got…and then every last dime they don’t got that can be got.
The day after my friend’s surgery I informed our mutual Scio friend that the surgery had been very successful and the Surgeon (who said on three seperate occaisions that my friend had been a “pleasure” to operate on due to their fitness, perfected anatomocal structure, Physical abilities and talent) gave a prognosis of a recovery of up to 85-90% of mobility and flexibility. That was 10 days ago and neither my friend, or I, have heard anything from our mutual Scio friend. Sadly, this to me is understandable--they’re just too busy and caught up in the “Wins” of Clearing the Planet” and content living a life blinded by the shroud of El Ron’s “Legacy”... helping to bring "Earth a civilization of which it can be truly proud”.
End of rant and I thank all Y’all for listening.
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