Re: Top 100 Stupid Moments in Scientology
Don't be so quick to criticize the Student Hat. I consider it was worth every penny I paid for it.
Helena
I think i was criticizing the need to
RE-DO the Student Hat. That doesn't make any sense to me at all. If the guy can't study, how did the guy get to OT VIII?
But, your post makes me think of another really stupid thing about Scientology. The millions of hours of wasted time Scientologists are required to spend on goofy overkill. The Student Hat is a perfect example.
BACKGROUND: Now, over my career in Scn, I think I heard the STUDY TAPES a total of 8 or 9 times. The first checksheet I ever did required "3 times through" the tapes. And when I trained to be a professional course supervisor, a few years later, the checksheet required ANOTHER 3 times through the STUDY TAPES! And when I got in Ethics trouble once, i was ordered to "RETRAIN FROM THE COM COURSE UP" so I did the STUDY TAPES (Student Hat) another time! And when I was paid and enrolled on OT VI, before starting, everyone was required to do the "new" Student Hat. With all that and the fact of having been a course supervisor for everything from HAS up to the Briefing Course, I have personally trained a vast number of people.
THE STUDY TECH: Instead of having Scientologists spend weeks/months "learning how to learn" on the Student Hat (reminds me of "knowing how to know", lol) it's my opinion that the entirety of the Student Hat course could be reduced to about a 1 hour checksheet. That's right one hour, max. It would have a simple explanation of the "3 Barriers to Study" and you'd get a free credit card sized "REMINDER CARD" when you graduated. It would describe the 3 barriers and how to fix each one. Then the person would be put onto whatever course they wanted to do.
If during study they had a problem, they'd pull out their little "cheat card" and see what to do. (e.g. "Oh my, I don't understand what I am reading. Let me look at my little laminated Scientology study card.......VOILA! Oh, I'm supposed to go earlier to when I was understanding it and try to find a misunderstood word"
Easy right?
Instead of that, Scientology makes a major Hollywood production out of it. And you can't even do the 1-2 month Student Hat anyways, unless you've first done "Method One Word Clearing". Well that's what it was before, I don't know for sure now.
A person could literally spend 6 months or more (meter course, TR course, Method One Co-Audit Course, Student Hat...) before they are allowed to study something.
That's just craaaaaaaaaaazy.
I think there's a method to the madness, however--which is to keep Scientologists CAPTIVE inside orgs where the mesmerizing spell can really be fully absorbed.
About 90 percent of Scientology could be completely eliminated in this way. Why have a PC endlessly toiling on the lower Bridge when all they are going to do later is look for BTs anyways. Why not get them through their "grades" in the first couple months and then get them right on to the BIG BT HUNT without delay? lol