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I never before thought of these three things, hiding, camouflage, and misdirection as aspects of raw physical survival. Is this basic material in some subject, or did you come up with this yourself? Very cool either way.
Thanks Gadfly. I can take credit for applying the concepts to Scientology I guess, but the concepts themselves come from study of evolution, which has always intrigued me. Some mammals puff up to look bigger when threatened (even house cats will raise their hair and arch their backs). Many animals use camouflage -- not just for defense but for attack (take humans with their hunting gear and bird blinds to hide from ducks). Birds will misdirect a predator -- for example an adult bird on a nest may draw a predator away from a nest by feigning an injury and making a lot of noise.
Since these survival strategies seem rather rampant not just in mammals but also in other animals, it would seem probable they show up in humans and therefore in human groups. Perhaps what Darwin said in "Origin ..." fits -- something like "nature read in tooth and claw." We are an interesting species, capable of such beauty and such horror (I'm thinking of a line from the movie "Contact.")
By the way, someone above mentioned they had good experiences giving and receiving auditing. Me too. In my metaphor above, I mentioned there are beautiful things in this enchanted forest. But maybe a better metaphor is the field of flowers in the Wizard of Oz. Gosh it is a beautiful field and there is the Emerald City within reach! But the flowers are made soporific by a bad witch. And the travelers are almost lost forever.
Finally, to play with the metaphor of God-Hubbard and sacrificed sons Christ-Quentin, here is another symbol. Christ of course died on a cross in Christian tradition. Poor Quentin died an apparent suicide while looking at cross-shaped machine flying in the sky near a Las Vegas airport -- airplanes, which are a cross-shaped when viewed from a certain angle. Perhaps these and other coincidences show nothing more than the fertility of the human mind in creating connections and constructing realities.