Have you ever wondered about the reasoning behind the intro steps of the Purification Rundown, The Happiness Rundown and the False Purpose Rundown. At the end of this last step you have a member who is totally committed, enslaved, in fact.
Let us start with the Purification Rundown.
This is a very laudable step. What a great idea to cleanse the impurities out of your body so that you are no longer the effect of them. I am sure many people will affirm that they got great results out of this and I am sure they did. After all, there would seem to be no down-side to this action.:confused2:
The downside of the Purification R/D is similar to the downside of any Scientology process. When the needs and demands of the organization impinge on the client, the client eventually loses. Also, setting the observable workability or advantages of a Scientology procedure aside, when the client is made to conform to Hubbard's theories and expectations, the client eventually loses.
A good processor doesn't fall into that trap, robotic or stat-driven staff do. Auditing is for the pc. Simple.
If a qualified person were to do the Purification procedure for, say, ten days to two weeks, and then end off on own determinism, he would be better off than not having done it at all. No cog necessary. I have seen it work that way in a medical setting.
Pushing for F/N, cog, VGI's can bypass more charge than it's worth to the client/pc. What does it mean if a person cognizes that they are free of impurities, where's the science in that?
It's the reg who needs you to be going emotionally "GaGa"
. But, oops, that's where the false purpose implanting begins.
Now to follow the money... For years the Dianetic book sales sucked swamp water. Ya, we heard about the great sales going on in L.A. and other places, the campaigns and ads, but where are the new customers? That's what I always wanted to know!
Thanks to the internet we find out a lot of the sales states were bogus. Books weren't bringing in the new people because new people never saw the books! So what to do about GI?
The rundowns you mentioned allowed for more sales to existing customers and there was a GI boom (at least in my Mission and a few others I am aware of) when those rundowns first came out.
In 1968 Hubbard wrote: "It was found in L.A. that over a period of several months (4-6) every single income slump was traced to the accidental acceptance of one or more drug (LSD, etc.) users into the Academy and/or HGC..."
Okay, it took a few years, but he figured out how to turn an apparent negative into a positive! Follow the money by following case realities!
From Hubbard's own writings, he observed two cases to determine the characteristics of persons who have been on LSD. That's right, two cases, hardly scientific.
The Sweat Program followed. The problem of how to sell it must have been on his mind. We had a few staff on the program; I don't recall any paying public.
Then comes the Purification R/D. It's a regimen, tightly supervised. There's jogging, and sweating in a sauna, and more sweating. Day after day. There's mega doses of vitamins. There's a mysterious niacin flush that replicates old sunburns. Invisible stuff comes out of your fat. You feel like crap; you feel great!
Man, that's marketable. (To the right people, of course.)
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Ted