Gib
Crusader
I wish I had spotted the similarities between the Brainwashing Manual and the PTS/SP and Ethics techs earlier. IMO, Hubbard used his knowledge of Korzybski's general semantics to deliberately obfuscate what he was doing - ie he confused the "map and the territory". He was good at using words to create illusion, imo.
I totally agree.
The correct phrase is "the map is not the territory". So when I read Science and Sanity, and that phrase,
I realized the map known as the Bridge to Total Freedom is actually not the territory of the mind or spiritual freedom or immortality, meaning spiritual freedom is not accomplished by doing the scientology bridge.
For the territory in Dianetics and Scientology is that all human aberration is based upon the engram and basic basic, and Hubbard set up a map known as the Bridge to Total Freedom. But that is not true. And reading the Idenics book got me to realize that coupled with Korzybski's book. I connected dots. Others have connected dots in dissimilar ways.
Hubbard sold us on Engrams as the cause of our troubles. Korzybski is basically saying education is the cause of troubles.
The bottom line will be forever and ever,
there are no clears or OT's,
however in Hubbard's system there are people that think they are clear and OT.