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From: pilot@hiddenplace.com (The Pilot)
Subject: Super Scio Archive - <1/9> posts of Mar 97
Date: 25 Aug 1997  14:00:12


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SUPER SCIO PILOT POSTS OF MARCH 1997

These are the first messages posted following the 32 part Super 
Scio book (which was posted at the end of February).


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Contents (Headers):

Subj : SUPER SCIO - Open Letter to ARS
Subj : SUPER SCIO - SUPP - Repost <was 32 of 32> How to fix the orgs
Subj : SUPER SCIO - RESPONSE TO IVY 
Subj : SUPER SCIO - RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS 


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Subj : SUPER SCIO - Open Letter to ARS

I am reposting the following because there was a problem in the
original post.
SUPER SCIO - SUPP - Repost <was 32 of 32> How to fix the orgs
SUPER SCIO #1A Repost <2 of 32> Real Honesty About Whats Wrong

There has been at least one complaint that this is all off topic
and belongs in A.C.T.  instead.  But that's Homer's territory and I
didn't feel like forging his approval.  But I do hope he picks it
up and puts it on his website.

At this time I am still a member in good standing of the Church of
Scientology.  That might not last, but its true for now.  I believe
that ARS is an open discussion rather than mearly anti, therefore
the newsgroup seems appropriate.

I would hope that most of the anti's would enjoy #1A <2 of 32> and
#1B <3 of 32> so much that they wouldn't mind my taking up a bit
more space in the newsgroup with the rest of it.  Its not often that
you hear somebody that is still in the church talking with real
honesty.

I am at this time trying to launch a reform within the CofS.  The
freezone will shake their heads and say "been there, done that"
but it has to be tried again and again until it succeeds.

In a sane group, this reform could be launched on internal lines.
But that is a suppressive act per policy and results in the
immediate excommunication of the member attempting it.  So I have
to use external lines and this is the best one available.  Many
members read ARS even though they are not supposed to.

The highly trained technical people within the subject have been
thirsty for reform for decades.  It has been tried before.  The
senior technical staff gets purged periodically as a result.

One example was Captain Bill's Galactic Patrol.  I don't think that
highly placed technical terminals like Shafron and Sibursky really
believed that Ron's thetan had moved into Captain Bill's body.
They were just so hungry for reform that they wanted Bill or anybody
who had some chance of success to reform all the horrors within
the Sea Org.  Of course the plot was exposed and they all ended
up in the freezone.

The average auditor is heartbroken.  He doesn't mind making
starvation wages because he believes in the tech and is really
helping people, but he doesn't understand why the public is
paying a fortune for his services when he gets nothing.  He
doesn't want to disconnect from his old friends when they are
declared, but he can't bear to abandon the org.  

He doesn't believe you when you say its all a scam.  His own real
experience as an auditor shows him that it is not.  Because he
is not conducting a scam and he really is helping people.

He knows that at some level there is something very very wrong,
but he can't let himself think about that.  He clings hopelessly to 
the party line that Ron was perfect and is the only source for tech.
He thinks that policy and the sea org are as good as the auditing
tech which he knows works, and they are not.

You now have, on the internet, 800 pages of material that is well
thought out in accordance with the basics of auditing and Ron's
early research.  It is also full of slams against all the hateful
practices that have perverted what should have been a real bridge
to freedom into a cult of greed and power.  This will convert
any honest auditor into a reformer within the church.  Nothing
less would do.  The earlier attemps (which ended up in the freezone)
failed because they had no communication line on which they could
place anything of comparable magnitude to Ron's works.  Give this
new reform a chance.  The Church of Scientology could become
good neighbors and friendly netzines.

Of course it might fail, in which case I'll be talking to you 
from the freezone next year.
  
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Subj : SUPER SCIO - SUPP - Repost <was 32 of 32> How to fix the orgs


           SUPER SCIO - SUPPLEMENT


           HOW I WOULD FIX THE ORGS


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Feb 12, 1997


Whether or not anybody within organized Scientology is willing
to listen, it is still only fair for me to propose a plan for
straightening out the subject.

Here I will limit myself to short term practical improvments
which could be implemented now.  This does not right every wrong
or fix every problem, but it is, I believe, a good starting point
which gives hope for the future.

First a few points of theory, following which I will list the
points to be improved.



1. THE PROBLEM OF ORGANIZATIONS


One of the irksome things about the current Scientology orgs
is that Ron did not carry very much of the auditing tech or the 
basics discovered in Scientology into the 3rd dynamic (1st dynamic
is self, 2nd is family, 3rd is groups, etc).

Modern org policy mainly consists of practical business techniques,
things that Ron learned in the Navy, and stuff dredged up out of whole 
track organizations plus a smattering of scales and some attempts to 
improve communication.  That's all well and good, but where is the 
real tech and the high powered insights?

Let's see if we can really apply a few of the things we learned
about the 1st dynamic to the 3rd.

In the area of problems, we know that the PC (preclear) is usually 
burried under the weight of old solutions that he's still holding in
place and which generate tons of new problems for him (which
then must be solved in turn, etc.).  We handle this by undoing
solutions and taking apart the opposing forces that are locked
together in the problems rather than by layering more solutions
on top of the mess.

Ron once described policy as a series of workable solutions to
organizational problems.  So we should be working to take apart these
problems and undoing the solutions rather than building upon them.

This means "the less operating policy, the better".  I put it in
terms of operating policy because we also have useful knowledge
and ideas presented in the form of policy, and of that we want
more rather than less.  The target would be to have less rules
and more understanding.

Now situations do exist that have to be handled, and we do need
to use policies and orders to cool down the confusions and hold
the problems in check.  That is our first action.  But we can't
just drop it at that point because that will encourage a new
generation of problems.  Instead, we add a second step, which
is to go back and see if we can't find some way to undo the
source of the trouble and discard the policy.  Or at least
shift over to a more basic solution instead of handling a
surface manifestation.

And then we go a step further and review the policies we did
keep and reduce them to the absolute minimum.  And at the same
time, we find out as much as we can and publish key data so
that we can operate from greater understanding.

In the area of communication, we know that communication is the
universal solvent and that when the PC starts withholding and
blocking communication, its going to accumulate mass and back
up on him and kick him in the teeth.  It doesn't mean that the
PC has to blab all of his withholds to every passerby, but he
can't be actively hiding everything or he's going to sink 
under the weight of it all.  This indicates that things like 
confidentiality and hiding stuff for PR reasons are dangerous
to the health of an organization.

If you think about the average PR personality, it should be
obvious that their communication, although high in quantity,
is generally poor in content and somewhat undesirable.  This
is actually a very poor level of communication and these
salesman types are generally looked down upon with a bit of
distaste.  The truth of the matter is that the communication 
isn't real and the affinity is kind of false and people notice 
that.  It's out ARC (Affinity, Reality, and Communication).

A person can communicate a lot and they can promote things with
true ARC instead of this false PR crap.  The same is true of
organizations.  You do need to promote and advertise and 
put out lots of communications.  But if you get totaly PR
oriented, people smell a rat.  They are much happier learning
that you are working actively to fix things that are wrong
rather than hiding them.

But in terms of grades 0 (communications) and 1 (problems),
the orgs are only slightly screwed up and perhaps better off
that the average in the society.

Its grades 2 (overts), 3 (ARCXs), and 4 (service facsimilies - 
makeing yourself right) which are grossly out in the orgs.

At first glance, grade 2 looks hopeless.  The org almost never
admits to mistakes, makes amends, or even imagins that it has
done something bad.  It is all extremely well justified.

But you could help a PC with a case like this.  Let's say that
you've got someone who's made lots of mistakes, gotten things
screwed up, and turned into a bit of a con artist.  And
furthermore, there are angry people hunting him down looking
for blood.  How would you get grade 2 in on him?  It seems
like there is just too much and its too dangerous and 
overwelming.  But it could be done on a gradient.  You'd
find out what small thing he could confront taking responsibility
for and start with that and gradually build up until his lines
were clean again.

You can't just cave in to somebody who's looking for vengance,
because they're out for blood and can no longer deal with
you on a rational basis.  But most people are not fixated on
vengance and will cut you some slack if you make an honest
effort to reform.  So you attempt to deal on a reasonable basis,
admit the mistakes and find out what you can do to remedy the
situation.  You watch out for the occasional guy who'se too
viscious to come to a resonable settlement, but you don't
assume that everybody is like that.

So what kind of actions might start an org on the road to 
recovery?  What gradient of responsibility could be confronted
to start with?

A complaint department might help.  Big stores have these and
it doesn't cave them in to let people bitch about things and
exchange a few defective toasters or whatever.  It acts as
a bit of a safety valve and maintains good customer relations.

The org already has a post which almost does this.  It is the
chaplin, and sometimes a good chaplin will actively work to
right wrongs, but they do not have a lot of authority and are
quite constrained by the existing tech and policy.  This 
could be beefed up.  They could be given full authority to
override policy in individual cases.  They could actively
strive to clean things up.  They could even be advertised as
a complaint department.  

You would have to make it safe for people to complain to them.
They probably need a special dispensation to keep things told
to them in confidence from the rest of the org as priviledged 
communications, much like a priest or lawyer would protect
his client's withholds.  These chaplins would have to be 
highly trained as auditors and highly trained on policy as
well (the same is needed for ethics officers).

Many things could be done to compensate for mishandling.  
Best might be to give someone an academy training level because
that will raise the recipients understanding and responsibility
whereas a free intensive of auditing can sometimes encourage
the person to take less responsibility and make the org 
responsible for his case and abberations.

Appologies and admission of error can also help a lot.  The
chaplin could even write letters of appology on the org's
behalf to non-Scientologists in cases where they have been
harmed by things such as wrongful disconnection etc.

But this also needs to be carried up to a higher level.  There
should be a senior chaplin at the international level who has
the power to get policy changed when necessary and who keeps
an eye on the whole subject.  His job would be to really
make Scientology into a safe environment.

At one time Scientology was banned in Victoria, Australia.
Eventually the org bit the bullet and cancelled the fair
game law, sec checks, and disconnection.  As a result the
ban was lifted.  Even though these things have gradually
crept back in, the cancellations let in a breath of fresh
air and were of great benefit.  From that perspective the
ban served a useful purpose, but it would have been better
if the org had confronted what it was doing and cancelled
these without the need for heavy outside pressure.

Once the org began to take some responsibility it would become
easier for it to take some more and begin to tackel some of 
the bigger out points.  If they could bend just a little
and admit some mistakes and make good on them without the
roof falling in, then it will be easier for them to confront
the bigger sore spots and handle them.

Next in the lineup is grade 3 which deals with ARCXs.  Here
we have some extreme ones between the org and the freezone,
the org and the middle class, the org and the psychs, and
the org and "wog" society.  The very usage of the term "wog"
in Scientology is symptomatic of the deep ARCX and its use is
also a mechanism that further encourages the ARCX.

There are a number of factors underlying this.  One problem is,
of course, the various witholds.  Members who believe in the
subject don't want to admit to the more brutal or unreasonable
actions that sometimes take place.  At the same time, they
feel that they will be attacked or ridiculed for their beliefs.

Furthermore, Ron encouraged fighting psychs and squirrels etc.

And then there are the basic disagreements as to social values.
Those lead to breaks in reality.  The Scientologist is generally
trying to look at things from a multi-lifetime view and it
comes in conflict with middle class values.  This doesn't
mean that the middle class is suppressive.  They are a productive
and stable backbone to the country.

Instead of attacking, you find what goals you have in common and
promote those.  And you work to increase communication and
understanding between the two sides.

It is actually a bit of a mistake to primarily push Dianetics
instead of presenting Scientology to the society.  The culture
has grown a lot since the 1950s and there is a great deal of
acceptance of metaphysical concepts.  And the average Scientologist
has much more of a metaphysical rather than a psychological slant
on things.  A bit more promotion on past lives and operating
with the viewpoint of an immortal spirit instead of as a body
would make the Scientologists much more comprehensibile to the
public at large.

And again, I would beef up the chaplin to handle these things.
What is really needed is a chaplin's office of comparable size
and power to the ethics office.  This would act as a balancing
influence.  A large org would need both a public chaplin and
a staff chaplin, because there are screw ups and wrongs that
need to be righted in both areas.

As to service facsimilies, it should be obvious that the tech
itself is currently used by the org to make itself right.
This is why the tech has to be considered perfect and defended
against all doubts or criticism.  Delivering the tech and
freeing mankind justifies all possible overts.

Let's stop worshipping the tech and start learning to think with
it.  Let's realized that its flawed and admit the imperfections
and then promote it anyway because its the best we've got.

A service fac wouldn't blow that easily, but we can make a start.

At the highest level, we would also need a powerful chaplin's
division in OSA whose duty is to make peace rather than war.
If you have an army, you must also have a diplomatic corps.


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2. THE ORG BOARD


The org board is rumored to have come from Ron's recollection
of an anchient galactic civilization.  If so, then I would point
out that that civilization is now dust.

Any organization pattern worked out in detail and carried through
into practice would be useful to an organization, and the 
Scientology org board has its good points and is certainly no
worse than most of the management structures used in this 
society.  But its far from perfect.

The older 7 division pattern was expanded out into 9 divisions
based on Ron's coming up with the Mind/Body/Product theory 
that divides the organization structure in progressions of
three (3 executive divisions each divided into 3 regular
divisions which are each divided up into 3 departments etc.).

The theory itself is actually quite reasonable, but the 
application of that theory to devising the pattern of the
org was flawed.

When you see a successful team of 3 partners launching a business,
one of them will ineveitably be an expert in producing the
product of the business.  The other two may consist of an
expert at organization and an expert at sales and marketing.
And if its only a team of 2, then one is an expert at producing
and the other is the salesman and promoter and they will somehow
or other manage the organizational hat between them.  It never
really works if you're missing the technical person who can 
really produce the product.

If its a software company, one of the top 3 has to be a software
guru or you're dead.  And if its cars you're building, then
one of the 3 had better be an automotive engineer.  If you've
got a hospital and one of the 3 top execs isn't a doctor, then
you'd just better forget it.

Established companies often violate this rule, and they lose
their ability to deliver the product and they sink.

If you only have the organizational executive, then there is
nothing to sell and nobody to sell it and therefore it is
the least important of the three.

If you only have the salesman, then its all promotion and no
delivery and you end up with what's known as a get rich scheme
or a con game.

If you only have the technical hotshot who can produce, you
end up with these obscure but well respected little firms that 
gradually develope a small following but achieve little market
penetartion.  Even so, this is the only one of the three that
has any chance at all of surviving alone and therefore is
the most critical to the entire venture.

For a Scientology org, one of the 3 senior executives must be
a super expert on the tech and his executive division must
be devoted to the technical aspects of the subject.

When Ron did his division by 3s, he created a set of 3 public
divisions in one executive division and also had a dissemination
division (more sales) in another.  So the structure was heavy
with PR.  And to make room for this, he bundled up a treasury
division along with the technical and qual (QA) divisions to
form an executive division whose manager would be just as concerned
with money as with real delivery.  So his pattern is weak on
actual production and he regulates the technical hotshots to
a lower rung in the management hierarchy.

Its not surprising that we see so much promotion and so few
results with such an org board.

A better pattern would be as follows:

1st Executive Division:  Organizational
  (this is what the org calls the HCO exec div.)

1.1 External affairs
  (the president's office, planning, legal, etc.)

1.2 Internal Management
  (this is the org's HCO division)
  (personel, communications, ethics)

1.3 Treasury
  (income, disbursements, supplies)
  (in Ron's pattern, he has this in the 2nd exec below and places
   the dissemination division here instead)

2nd Executive division: Production / Technical

2.1 Auditor Training
  (this is only a department in Ron's pattern)
  (for software, this would be the analysts and designers,
   for building houses this would be the architects, etc.)

2.2 Processing (Auditing)
  (this and 2.1 above are both just departments in Ron's
   single technical division)
  (in other businesses, this is the appropriate main line
   production)

2.3 Qual (QA)


3rd Executive Division: Sales and Marketting

3.1 Sales (Dissemination)

3.2 Marketing (the public divisions)
    (this spreads across 3 divisions in Ron's plan)

3.3 Publications
  (Ron has this as a department in the dissem division.  But
   this is a critical area.  It is a key element in the spread
   of a subject).

As a further justification for giving publications its own separate
division, one of the key reasons behind IBMs success was its
exceptionally large publications division.  They are one of the
largest publishers in the world.  They combined this with a
fantastically strong sales force and swept the market in the
early days of computers.

At a minimum, this pattern at least assures that one of the key
people at the top really knows the score on the business that
the organization is in.


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         3. DETAILED LIST OF THINGS TO CORRECT


This is what I would do immediately if I had absolute power and 
authority to fix the CofS.

I believe that these 40 points in the areas of tech, policy, and
external affairs would be enough to completely turn things around
and revitalize the subject.


1. TECH

First of all I would keep the existing lineup pretty much
intact.  Experimental ideas like the supergrades that were
presented in the Super Scio writeup are best left to the freezone.

But some things do need to be corrected.

1.1 Cancel all eligibility checks except for routing on staff.
The FPRD would remain as a case action for use when needed, but
grade 2 and later OT grade 2 processes would be the preferred way 
of handling overts.

1.2 Restore the sanctity of the confessional.  All examination of
PC folders for any purpose outside of auditing is to be forbidden.
No ethics penalties, amends projects, or lower conditions are to
be assigned based on anything revealed in an auditing session even
if the session is an eligibility check or DofP interview that is
prefaced by the phrase "I'm not auditing you".  However, currently
dangerous or harmful situations are to be handled in ethics by
getting the person to do the right thing and eligability to join
staff may be refused even though no ammends can be required.

1.3 Some improved basics such as validating the PC's rightness,
shifting from setups to major actions as soon as the PC is flying,
etc.  See my comments on what is wrong with standard tech in
Super Scio #4.

1.4 Some general improvements in course supervision, especially
insisting that the supervisor be an expert on the materials that
he is supervising and an emphasis on raising understanding rather
than raising stats.

1.5 For TRs, you coach the thetan rather than the body.  Flunk
what the thetan is doing (such as flinching) rather than what
the body is doing (such as jerking sideways).

1.6 Running to two major release points in level 1 (help and
problems), level 3 (change and ARCXs) and level 4 (responsibility
and fixed conditions) as is currently done in level 0 (straightwire
and communications).  The courses remain the same.  Each of the
two grades is run and attested to individually.

1.7 Redefinition of the state of clear as being "no longer affected
by the force in mental pictures and free from stimulous response
reactive thought".  You will find that a clear has a moment of
free choice before he dramatizes something (he decides to let 
himself have an ARCX etc.).  But he can still have out grades
and other abberations.  Cancellation of the policy that makes
it a suppressive act to invalidate the state of clear.  The state
should stand on its own merits rather than needing to be defended.

1.8 We should reinstate level 0 to 4 training as a prerequisite
to the SHSBC even for Clears and OTs.  This encourages people
to do their levels right away and provides a fast and easy
gradient into training as an auditor.  And it will speed up
the SHSBC considerably.

1.9 Clears and OTs with somatics are to be handled first of all
with assists and if this is inadequate, dianetic rundowns can
be used by substituting recall processes for R3R.  NOTS can keep
a somatic restimulated (and should be included as part of the
assist handling on an upper level case), but if the somatic is 
run out, there is nothing to restimulate.

1.10 Cancellation of confidentiality.  However, all rules concerning
not going out-gradient on new people and avoiding stirring up things
above the persons case level will remain in force.  All discussion
of entities and BTs below the OT 3 case level is to be restrained
and handled by using the referance in "History of Man" (you get
worse if you give them power and you do fine if you ignore them)
and by further pointing out that our senior datum is that the PC
(not entities or whatever) is responsible for the condition he is
in.  As a last resort, a troublesome entity can be handled in 
review by using Nots techniques, but this is only if the PC insists
that its there, you never search for or stir up these things up 
below OT 3.

1.11 Improved NOTS correction lists.  See Super Scio #6.  Add
questions like "blaming something on BTs", "putting them there
to run", "bypassed the cause over life EP" etc.  The "point to
the being you divided from" process can be used experimentally
in review if the PC insists that he has a split off piece of
himself that needs to be handled.  Audited Nots rundowns are 
not to be done after a PC has achieved the Solo Nots EP (and 
it might possibly be achieved on audited Nots or even on OT 3).  
BTs can be handled if they show up, but you don't run processes 
to search for them once the person has reached the solo nots EP.

1.12 Audited Nots should be a brief setup and repair and the
main thrust should be solo.  Solo Nots should be exported to
the AOs as quickly as possible (discussed further below).

1.13 Clears and OTs with grades style difficulties should have
the appropriate grade run or rehabbed.  There is the potential
for OT grades processes which go beyond lower level grades,
but this would be something to research.

1.14 Immediate release of OT levels above 8.  We need to resume
upward motion on the bridge.  At a minimum, old 4 through 7 
can be expanded with additional processes from the 1950s.  But
the rumor is that Ron left more OT levels which could be released.
So we have lots that can be issued.  Beyond this there are things
like handling actual GPMs (see Super Scio #3), so there is no
need to worry about running out of levels before we make a real
OT.

1.15 We need a steady export of higher technology to lower 
organizations.  The ship and flag would remain as centers of
technical excellence and have each new OT level as an exclusive
for a period of time, but would not permanently hang onto 
services.  The ship can do new OT levels.  OT8 can be exported
to Flag (and Flag can also pilot new rundowns).  Solo Nots
can move to the AOs and Nots auditor training can be done
at Saint Hills.  The Briefing Course, CCRD, and solo to OT2
can be exported to the outer orgs.  The missions should be
allowed to train people through class 3 (leave class 4 and
specialist rundown training at the outer orgs).  Note that
the missions must offer training as well as processing or
else we will be forever short of auditors.

1.16 More 1950s tapes should be added to checksheets, expecially
on the upper OT levels.

1.17 If there is something abusive in the Introspection rundown,
it should be revised or cancelled.  The same for any other 
abuse in training or processing.




2. POLICY


2.1 The chaplin's office needs to be beefed up considerably and
given the hat of righting wrongs as discussed earlier.
An international chaplin becomes the post for reforming the
subject when there are abusive conditions in policy.  If some new
insanity like the "Finance Police" should start up, the Chaplin
International should be powerful enough to stop it dead in its tracks.

2.2 The org board should be changed to place treasury under HCO
and move dissem to the public divisions so that the org exec
division can become pure tech and get a tech hotshot on the
exec council as discussed earlier.

2.3 Management by stats would be changed to management by good
indicators with stats being a highly important management indicator.

2.4 Reinstate "Only Accounts Talks Money".

2.5 Cancel the RPF and substitute a non-abusive staff rehabilitation 
program to get failing staff members back in shape.

2.6 Real cancellation of Fair Game and Disconnection.  The 
non-enturbulation policy would remain in effect and would be
subsituted for disconnection when necessary to ensure case progress.
This is currently used when two Scientologists in good standing
are at each others throats and going PTS to each other.  We will
give non-Scientologists the same curtesy while ensuring that
the PC is left alone while he is getting audited.

2.7 Tech training of staff members is to be given preferance over
management training once a staff member has learned his post hat.
Staff co-audits on everything (using readit-drillit-doit as needed)
and local delivery of solo levels to staff (as soon as a CS is
available) will be used to ensure that staff make good case 
progress and move up the bridge.  This training and processing
is their exchange for long hours and low pay and should really
be pushed so that staff aren't taken advantage of.

2.8 Lower conditions are not to be assigned except in flagrant
circumstances.  And the chaplin has the right to overrule these
even in the face of policy.  Reinstate "Ethics exists to get 
tech in" (if its not interfearing with the PCs auditing, leave
it alone).

2.9 Review and cleanup financial and pricing policies.  We should
make our money on volume of flow rather than high prices.  Outer
orgs should not be drained to finance the top command structure
because they generate the volume flow that keeps the entire
structure doing well.  We should have regular lower prices rather
than crazy discount schemes.  Efforts should be made to streamline
progress so that people get more "bang for the bucks" rather than
trying to milk as much as possible before letting somebody move
on.

2.10 Simplification and removal of unnecessary steps on routing
forms.  It should be fast and fun to move through lines rather
than an annoyance.

2.11 Full reinstatement of the 1967 policy "New 2D Rules".  Drop
all rules against homosexuals etc.  Keep people from messing
each other up and encourage them to put aside their 2D games
while they are trying to get through a new level, but otherwise
leave them alone.  If somebody is abberated, it will get run
out eventually.  We are not the morals police.  The Sea Org does
have an image to maintain, so their staff shouldn't be wildly
promiscious or throwing orgies, but they don't have to be more
puritanical than what is currently accepted by the society at
large.

2.12 Re-emphasize that policy is a guiding thing rather than
an absolute (see "Theory of Organization: What is Policy").

2.13 More truth, more communication, more ARC.  Less concern
with PR.  More compassion and less harrassment.


Note that some abbusive things, such as the "overboards" were
cancelled long ago.



3. EXTERNAL AFFAIRS


3.1 An immediate end to the "war with the squirrels".  Acceptance
of the freezone as a group with shared goals but differences
of opinion.

3.2 Cool down the "war with the psychs".  Abusive and barbaric
phychiatric practices such as shock treatment remain a target, 
but many don't engage in these.  The orgs general attitude should
be that they are usually lacking in spiritual enlightenment and 
are a bit out of date rather than considering them to be a source 
of evil.

3.3 Stop fighting the metaphysical community.  Mixing practices
should remain in force to the degree that you don't engage in
metaphysical actions at the same time that you are trying to
do a Scientology level, but there is no other block.  Let them
read Krishnamurti or cast a horoscope as long as they keep it
off lines and put it aside while they are doing a course or
getting audited.

3.4 Cancel "Issue Authority".  Allow free and open discussions,
especially on the internet.  If we let satisfied public chat 
as they see fit without bothering them with ethics
and letting them talk freely (even when they disagree with
tech or policy), there will be enough good communication to
balance any amount of viscious attacks.  Also cancel "Jokers
and Degraders".  Humor is not a crime.  A viscious attack 
disguised as humor should be handled based on the visciousness
rather than destroying our sense of humor.

3.5 Stop attacking the internet.  Make peace with the webmasters
etc.  Build good relations.

3.6 Drop all court cases except those necessary to defend the
organization from harm, and try to settle those in a reasonable
manner as well.

3.7 Add a powerful Chaplin's division to OSA.  It should work to
right wrongs and clean up our external relations.  I would not
disarm OSA because of the occasional vengeful attacker who will
not see reason, but this becomes a last resort.  Walk softly and
carry a big stick becomes the keynote rather than savagely attacking
everything that moves.

3.8 Separate the publication of tapes, books, and bulletins from
orthodox Scientology.  Golden Era and Bridge should act as service
organizations who sell materials (even those currently labled
confidential) to everybody, even freezone and declared enemies
of the church.  Try to get everything available and get the prices
down.  Make money on volume.

3.9 Issue an absolute general amnesty, with no amends required,
covering every possible offense.  In the future, only declare
people as enemies if they are truely attacking the organization.
Do not declare people who disagree with us or blow or join the
freezone.  And realize that even an enemy is not fair game, the
laws of the land still hold true.  The high scaled viewpoint
is to fight one's opponents with honor rather than treachery.

3.10 Allow people to move between the orgs and the freezone
and back again.  The org should maintain its position by the
excellence of its technical delivery rather than by stomping out
the competition.

------------------------

There is lots more that could be done:  Group processing on TV,
a new Dianetic home co-audit book, simplification of policy,
expansion of tech, an honest biography of Ron etc.  But the above 
should be enough to clean things up and create a boom in the subject.



    =================================


The above is a bit too long and complex to serve as a rallying
cry, and it requires too much understanding of tech and policy
to be easily passed around.  

So here is an abbreviated, simplified list to use in pushing
for a reformation of Scientology.


      4. SCIENTOLOGY POINTS FOR REFORM

The general target is a restoration of truth, open communication,
and care for one's fellow man.


1. Recognition that the subject is still on a research line.
Redefinition of the State of Clear as being "no longer affected
by the force in mental pictures and free from stimulous response
reactive thought".  Acknowlegement that this does not errase the
grades of release or handle the basic problems, overts, and
upsets which originally caused the being to decay.  The OT levels
are a gradient to allow the being to reach these on the early
track.

2. Cancellation of confidentially.  Re-emphasis of Scientology
as a religion and abandoment of the viewpoint that it is a
business with trade secrets.  Termination of all leagal suits
except those necessary to defend the church from direct attack.
As a matter of relegious freedom, all materials should be
easily available to anyone regardless of their status within
orthodox Scientology.

3. Promotion of free and open communication.  Cancellation of
"Issue Authority" "Jokers and Degraders".  Use of "mixing practices" 
only to forbid actual practice while trying to do a Scientology 
level at the same time.  An end to the persecution of squirrels 
and psychs except for situations of actual physical abuse.  A 
recognition that we have shared goals with many other groups.

4. Cancellation of eligability checks for students and PCs.
Restoration of the sancitity of the confessional, even for those
who subsequently are labled as enemies.  Use of the FPRD only
as a major case action for the purpose of case gain and not
to gather data.

5. Cancellation of all policies on suppressive persons and 
an end to declaring people SPs.  Use of "non-enturbulation orders"
for the duration of training or processing as a last resort
when a PTS condition cannot otherwise be handled.  An absolute and
total amnesty for all past actions (because we'll never sort
out what was or wasn't justified).  Subsequently, people
are only to be declared as enemies if they engage in flagrant
and unreasonable attacks against the church.  People who
disagree or blow are not to be labled as enemies.  Elimination
of the use of "lower conditions" except in circumstances of
outright damage and danger.

6. Establishment of an International Chaplin, a chaplin's
division within OSA, and an expanded office of the chaplin
within the organizations, all with the power to right wrongs,
override policy as needed, and keep the orgs operating in
an ethical manner towards their staff and public.

7. An end to all physical abuse, including cancellation of
the RPF and an end to all penalties for lower conditions.

8. Intensive tech training, co-auditing, and solo auditing
delivered locally to all staff as an exchange for the 
low pay and long working hours.

9. A steady release of new OT levels and a steady downward
export of levels to the next lower level of organization as
the new levels become the premier service for the top level
orgs.
  
10. A cleanup and simplification of pricing.  Ethical behaviour
on the subject of money.  Restoration of the policy "Only
Accounts Talks Money".

11, Full reinstatement of the 1967 policy "New 2D Rules".  Drop
all rules against homosexuals etc.  The Sea Org does
have an image to maintain, so their staff shouldn't be wildly
promiscious or throwing orgies, but they don't have to be more
puritanical than what is currently accepted by the society at
large.

12. Change from management by stats to management by good
indicators with stats being a highly important management indicator.

13. Re-emphasize that policy is a guiding thing rather than
an absolute (see "Theory of Organization: What is Policy").

14. More truth, more communication, more ARC.  Less concern
with PR.  More compassion and less harrassment.


              ----------------

I would intend that amnesty to apply to everybody on both sides
of the fence.  One big reason that revolutions go sour when they
win is that they take revenge on the overthrown regime.  This is
why things never change so much as they remain the same.  The
revolutionaries soon take on the color of those whom they deposed.
You break this and many other deadly cycles by means of forgiveness.
Christ was right.  Forgiveness is one of the keys to getting out
of the trap.


========================


Subj : SUPER SCIO - RESPONSE TO IVY 


SUPER SCIO: RESPONSE TO IVY (International Viewpoints)

Yes, your proposal is acceptible.  I would like to see the materials
get into the hands of as many people as possible.

I would ask, however, that you also mention that the materials can
be found at Homer's archive at lightlink.com or by searching for
"Super Scio" on Deja News as well as being available at
http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/pub/ss/index.html.  This is
to ensure that there is no single target that might be attacked.

Thank you for doing a good job in providing an important
channel of communications.

ARC, 

The Pilot

PS. I'm also putting out a large (36K) post "SUPER SCIO - RESPONSES 
TO QUESTIONS".


========================


Subj : SUPER SCIO - RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS 


        SUPER SCIO: RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS

Much thanks for the large number of encouraging messages on
ARS and ACT.

I'm going to continue posting anonymously and will only do so
on rare occasions to limit my exposure.  I will put SUPER SCIO
in the message headers to aid in searching for them on Deja News.

I should have cross posted the first set to ACT as well.  You
can see that I'm still a bit of a newbie.  I'll be aiming 
everything at both groups because I think that many
of the loyalists might only be reading ARS.

Some of the hard core loyalists read ARS to keep an eye on the enemy.
They think that everything on ARS is "ENTHETA" (enturbulated
theta or in other words the ravings of viscious mad dogs).  Some
of them might wake up if they read the Super Scio postings.

But many other supposed loyalists are what the Church calls
"fence sitters".  They agree with the goals but not the methods.
Often they agree with the tech (which is why they don't read ACT)
and disagree with policy.  They are on a painful knife's edge and
often lurk on ARS for that reason, but they know that you are wrong
when you ridicule the tech.  This is the potential core of a
reform movement.

---------------

The original Super Scio Pilot postings are available at:

Homer's archive at lightlink.com.

http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/pub/ss/index.html
(Cornelius Krasel deserves the thanks for putting these here)

or search for "super scio" on Dejanews.

---------------

Joe Harrington had some nice commentary and interesting points
in response to "An open letter to ARS".

The > is from my original post and the # are from Joe's response.

> The highly trained technical people within the subject have been
> thirsty for reform for decades.  It has been tried before.  The
> senior technical staff gets purged periodically as a result.

# I left the Sea Org in 1990 and was on the Cl XII training program.
# There are still only about 18 Cl XIIs at Flag and most of the HGC
# auditors are inexperienced internes from outer orgs. "Tech" is 
# a joke. I wrote over 60 KRS for gross technical errors at FSO while
# an RTC mission was there. NOTHING was done about the horrific 
# incompetence being meted out at outrageous prices. The end result
# was that they RPF'd a nanny from the Cadet Org, for protesting 
# the squalor in the living quarters for the kids. There exists no 
# desire for true reform. Senior management only wishes to build 
# personal empires and maintain the status quo.  Heber Jenztsch was 
# a key player in the GO antics of the 70's and he's still around.

I think you're right about senior management.  The top of a power
structure always wants to maintain the status quo.  But even they
had high goals once and they might turn around if they thought
there was real hope.

But my real target is the auditors.

> The average auditor is heartbroken.  He doesn't mind making
> starvation wages because he believes in the tech and is really
> helping people, but he doesn't understand why the public is
> paying a fortune for his services when he gets nothing.  He
> doesn't want to disconnect from his old friends when they are
> declared, but he can't bear to abandon the org.  

# I endured thru this heartbreak for 25 years and pulled the plug
# in 1990. I fought the system all those years and got away with
# it, only because I was a skilled auditor. Welcome to Heartbreak
# Hotel.  :-)

My point exactly.  The auditors are the soul of the subject, they
bleed on its behalf.  Most are still enduring and haven't yet
pulled the plug.  Each will hang on as long as he can, and there
is always another who will step forward to take up the burden.

They do see the failures and loose ends.  They learn of the
organizational insanities.  All of this stuff keeps coming up
in auditing sessions, and no auditor who really wants to help
people could fail to hear it.  So management tries to shut the
PCs up by sec checking them endlessly and sending them to ethics,
but then the sec checkers themselves begin to wake up and end
up blowing from post.

There is policy that ethics officers and sec checkers must be
rotated periodically to other posts.  This is supposedly because
they get hit with too much entheta and become enturbulated.
But what really enturbulates them is that they learn too much
about what's wrong with the subject.

Unfortunately, the auditors wake up and blow on an individual
basis or in small groups.  They don't realize that they have
not only a right but an obligation to dictate to management.
They are the closest thing to source that remains in the subject.
But ethics cows them into submission, and a tradition of training
by force reduces (but cannot prevent) free thinking and increasing
awareness.

It is precisely because auditing does work (most of the time) that
the organization can get away with so many overts without sparking
a rebellion.  The average staff and public do get really pissed
off sometimes.  The auditing lets them get off the charge (for
those who don't know how auditing works, just think of it as
talking out the upset until the person feels better).  This does
not make them hypnotically change their minds (auditing is
not hypnotism).  Usually they still feel that something was done
wrong, but they also feel better about it and no longer have
the urge to strangle somebody.  So generally they let it slide
on the basis of it being unimportant compared to the lofty goals
and purposes of the organization.

If the charge gets auditied out, then it becomes intellectual
rather than emotional.  And its very hard to get a crowd of
intellectuals to rebel.  As far as I know, the American Revolution
is the only one that was sparked intellectually (Common Sense, 
Ben Franklin, etc.) and even that one had tons of emotions kicking 
around.

Of course sometimes the auditing fails and you get real screaming
fits, but those people are tossed out and declared suppressive
as quickly as possible.

So the real question is how to get the auditors to wake up concurrently
instead of being defeated on an individual basis.  That requires
a powerful communication line and a word of mouth reform movement.
The org handles this by controlling or smashing any comm line that
can reach the auditors.  But they have failed in their attempts
to smash the internet and so there is hope.

Even here there is a problem, because most staff members do not
have computers.  But most public and field auditors do, and
there are many close friendships which can carry the message into
the orgs.  And anything that really shakes up the Scientology
public will end up on the auditor's plates eventually.


------------------------

The largest number of questions were raised by Chris Owen, all
in connection with "SUPER SCIO #1B <3 of 32> What Is And Isnt True".
I'll try to answer some here (others may need some research).

The > is the original post and # are Chris's response.

>WHAT IS:  Before the founding of the Sea Org, there used to be a 
>rumor going around the organization about how the book "Mr. Roberts" 
>was written about Ron by one of the people who served with him in 
>the Navy.  Of course we all thought that Ron was supposed to have been 
>the wonderful junior officer who helps everyone in the story.
>
>WHAT ISN'T:  As we now know, Ron was the captain of that sub
>chaser, and the book pictures him as a psychotic.  I can't say 
>whether the book is an accurate picture or just sour grapes, 
>or even if it was really written about Ron, but it certainly 
>shows what's wrong with military organizations.  Check out 
>the movie sometime, its a lot of fun.

# Actually, Ron himself made the "Mr Roberts" claim in lectures and in
# an unpublished autobiography dictated in (if I remember correctly)
# 1972.  I'll dig out the precise quotes.  He claimed that he was the
# "Mr Roberts" character.  It's a long time since I've seen the film;
# wasn't "Mr Roberts" a heroic but downtrodden 1st Lieutenant?

Yes, Mr. Roberts was the good guy.  There was also a psychotic captain
running the ship (the bad guy).  This captain treats the crew in a
manner that sounds just like the Sea Org and Roberts works hard to
oppose him.  The captain also has grand ideas about revolutionizing
agriculture and has a forrest of potted trees (or something like
that) on the aft deck.  It is a small ship, either a sub chaser or
a destroyer escort (a midgit destroyer) much like the ship that
Ron was supposed to have commanded (see Miller's book).

I heard the Mr. Roberts rummor in 1966.  Maybe Ron heard about the
book but never read it.  And then he might have decided to encourage 
the rumor thinking that the good guy must have been based on his 
(Ron's) actions in building a tough and confident crew (which is, 
I'm sure, what he thought he was doing).  If he had read the book, 
he would have declared the author an SP.  Maybe he did read it
eventually, because the rumor seems to have disappeared at some 
point in the 1970s.

I'd be interested in reading the precise quotes you mentioned if
you can find them.  In fact the entire dictacted autobiography would
be very interesting.


>To her credit, Diana Hubbard tried to curb the SO craziness of
>the early 1980s but she failed and was slapped down for her troubles.  

# I think you're mixing up Diana with Mary Sue.  Mary Sue could see
# how Miscavige was taking over and reacted strongly against it, but
# lost the battle and was expelled from the CoS.   Her children were
# declared "out-security" [sic] for a while but appear to have been
# allowed back into the fold; I believe Diana has been sighted aboard
# the Sea Org flagship (whose name escapes me).

Both are probably true.  There were tons of rumors flying around
at that time and much happening out of sight.  I don't know most
of it.

One obvious fact was that Diana started putting articles in the
Comm Line (especially trying to stop the Finance Police by 
quoting earlier stuff by Ron).  The Finance Police responded by
shutting down the Comm Line.

For those of you who weren't there, "The Comm Line" was a magazine
put out by non-staff Scientologists (in other words, not controlled
by the org) which generally contained ads and articles by 
Scientologists in business etc.

The Finance Police were a rabid crew dispatched by Wendell Reynolds
(the "Finance Dictator") to handle the problem of people being
so terribly out-ethics as to invest their money sensibly instead 
of sending it all to Flag.

Around the same time period, Diana tried to play the confidential
Class VIII "Assists" tape at a confidential event for OTIIIs and
above so that they could hear the full story of Xemu and Incident 2.
Note that ordinary (non Class8) OTs do not normally get to hear this.
But in this effort also she was stopped.


>WHAT IS: OT (Operating Thetan) abilities.  Mind over matter.
>Telekinesis and telepathy.  Even teleportation (and Hubbard does
>not say this is impossible, he mearly says that it is done by
>disintegrating the object in one spot and recreating it in another
>rather than by shifting it).  I have seen these things and I have
>done them.  Almost any old time (pre 1968) auditor will swear that 
>they are real even if he has left the church.

# So can you still do them and are you willing to demonstrate it?

I never could demonstrate these things or do them at will even
though I did do them intentionally.

Everybody continually projects intentions in the normal course
of existance.  You intend to open the door and then you open it.
You intend to grab a cup of coffee and then you grab it.  You
intend to say "Hi" and you open your mouth and say it.  You
might easily be projecting and executing a thousand intentions a
week, if not more.

During the few months when I was in this keyed out OT state, 
about once a week one of these intentions would carry through
in a bypass of physical laws.  Maybe its always like that for
everybody but the normal batting average is only one in a million
(maybe once a lifetime) and my batting average improved to the
point where it happened once a week.

Even with a one in a thousand success rate, its too rare to drill
directly.  If you sit there trying to levitate an ashtray on
the basis of it working once if you try it a thousand times,
you will have failed at it so many times in a row that you will
convince yourself that it never will move and wipe out any
chance you have of doing it.

Here I'm only talking about directly observable violations of
physical law rather than things which might be considered lucky
or come about through simple telepathy or other less absolute
means.  And I'm also discounting those times when you're not quite
sure.

And yes, sometimes (but not often), I did have witnesses who were
astounded.  And it never seemed to key anybody in or upset them,
so refusing to do it on that basis is probably a cop out.  If
you had hung around with me constantly in that time period, you
might have seen something once.

There used to be a lot of this in the old days.  I wasn't the
only one doing it.  Many people saw these things and there has
been an occasional mention of this on ARS.  There was, for 
example, the guy who saw an OT move a salt shaker once.  My point
is that it was a one shot occurance for the OT who did it as
well as for the witness.  And my other point (see Super Scio) is
that this kind of phenomena is no longer common in the subject.

During the same time period I got freequent flashes of exterior
perception (maybe once or twice a day), but I certainly couldn't
tell you how many fingers you were holding up behind your back
or read the next card that was going to be delt off of a deck.

Since then there have been rare moments, but its not worth waiting
for.


>WHAT ISN'T: Stable OT abilities.  Stable achievements of OT states.
>Repeatable demonstrations of OT powers at will.  The current OT
>levels have been renamed PreOT levels because they don't produce
>these things.  If the CofS had anyone who could repeatedly lift
>an ashtray at will, they would have him on TV the next day.  These
>things are never demonstrated, not even in confidential briefings
>for OTs.  Ashtrays have been lifted, but Scientology never produced
>anyone who could do it on demand.

# So what is the point of doing it in the first place?  Lifting an
# ashtray would be a very impressive demonstration of psychokinesis,
# but if I can never consciously do it again, what's the point?

It is useful only as a learning exercise and a point of research.
Its like seeing a hairline crack when you're trying to break a
door down.

The old alchemists must have gotten a few drops of gold out of
a chunk of lead occasionally.  The procedure for making the
philosopher's stone and turning the lead to gold generally 
incuded heating the material and so there was always the chance
that some gold might be smelted out.  Now we have real chemists
and the periodic table and use blast furnaces on a regular basis.
It might not have come about without those few sporatic drops of
gold.

Sporatic results like this are a strong indication that we are on a 
hot trail but far from real understanding.  This is very important
to any honest researcher.

Of course this is a problem if you need to make money.  You can't
sell tickets if 99.9 percent of the performances are a dud.


>WHAT IS:  In 1967 Ron went to North Africa and tried to research
>OT III.  He went into it backwards and ended up half dead.  

# Probably because he crashed his motorcycle... he claimed to have
# suffered all kinds of injuries researching OT III, but there's a
# curious correlation between these and the ones he suffered in 1967
# when he came off his motorcycle at speed, breaking various bones.
# Naturally he didn't go to the doctor and spent the next few weeks
# in agony.

I hadn't heard of a 1967 motorcycle accident.  The one described
in Miller's book happened, I believe, in early 1974.  The OT 3
research was in Tangier at the begining of 1967.  Then he flies
to Las Palmas and meets Virginia Downsbury.  He does tell her
that he has broken bones from doing the research, but she doesn't
observe any even though she nurses him, and furthermore, he
had walked off of the plane earlier.  My assumption is that it was 
mostly mental stress, combined, perhaps, with pulling his back and
banging his shin.

But even if you're right, it still leaves us with the same
argument.  Either he keys in heavily while trying to research
OT 3 Incident 2 (and that could include being disturbed enough to
smash himself up in a motorcycle accident), or he simply gets
hurt or sick (one way or another) and makes up an incident to
explain why he's in such bad shape.

That brings us around to the basic question of is it mind first
and then physics or does physics rule and mind is mearly a side
effect brought about by random chance.  I believe the former,
and it seems to me that people generally set themselves up for
accidents.

If you'll grant me that the mind is primary source (if only to
avoid the centuries of debate that can be launched by that
question), then I will conceed that we have no actual evidence
as to what was the source of the mental state in question.  Per 
Scientology tech, it could just as well have been overts or
screwed up goals listing and the incident was simply being pulled 
up as a smoke screen.

Even as a smoke screen, the incident could still be real.  Good
smoke screens are made with real fires.  But maybe its nowhere
near as dangerous as its made out to be.  Which is what I
have been saying all along.

Whether or not Ron got keyed in by it, its wrong to put so 
much importance on one lousy incident.

If it was really that important, people who had done OT 3
wouldn't be so confused as to what the evil ruler's name was.
The XEMU vs XENU discussions on the internet are typical of
the whispered discussions between the OT 3 students when the
instructor is out of the room.  And the internet has missed
the third alternative which is XENN.  That's what it looked
like to me when I did OT 3, and quite a few other OTs read 
it that way too.  I suppose that eventually we will even find
people who thought it was XEMM or XEUM.  Unless the guy has
done the Class 8 course, he's totally adrift.

One thing that happens is that some OT might mention XENU to
another OT (even thought he's not supposed to), and then the
other OT say's "What are you talking about?".  The first
guy thinks that the other OT is subtily chiding him for 
violating confidentiality and shuts up, but really its just
that the other guy doesn't know who XENU is because he thought
the name was XENA.

I think that Ron ment it to be XEMU.  But there has been
so much XENU on the internet that I've grown used to it.

Don't ask me what it really was.  I have trouble getting 
forign names right that I heard yesterday nothing to say of
millions of years ago.  But if this guy had been the source
of all human misery, I don't think that I would
have trouble remembering his name after all the research 
auditing that I've been doing.
  
To be fair, the emphasis on OT 3 has gradually shifted away
from this XENU business in favor of a more general handling
of entities.

------------------------

From: "Homer W. Smith" <homer@lightlink.com>

The > is from my original post and the # are from Homer's follow up.

>WHAT IS:  The clam is described in "History of Man".  It is
>presented as being part of our evolutionary history.
>
>WHAT ISN'T:  This isn't a real incident.  The entire set of
>evolutionary pictures presented in the portion of the book
>that deals with the genetic line was later found to be an implant.
>Hubbard referred to this as the "Darwinian Implant" (see the
>1963 tape "Errors in Time" etc.).
 
# Is this true?
# If so, has any one ever audited real GE track?

Excellent question, and I'm interested in other peoples responses too.

Putting aside prenatals (I ran one once, not sure if it was dub-in),
I've never had any real GE track come up while being audited or
while auditing others or (more recently) while doing my own solo research.

I can spot incidents of mocking myself up as a snapping clam or
other creatures as part of fighting with another mostly bodyless thetan.

While running the Penalty Universes (Home Universe Era) as discussed in
Super Scio #5, I did run into one where I was being a sort of godlike
GE evolving a genetic line in competition with other rival GEs.
This one began with the item "To Grow is Native State".

I can imagin BTs getting in and out of lower lifeforms and possibly
following the GE track.  I have blow off BTs that thought they were
the GE.  I can also imagine that I and everybody else might have split 
off pieces of themselves busily running lower lifeforms, but this is
highly speculative at this time.

I can spot a sort of postulated machine which acts like a GE to
build bodies.  Not an awareness of awareness unit but just a
sort of theta computer which acts like the GE described by Ron.

There is some related information in Super Scio #6, "Divide and 
Conquor".

As to the Darwinian implant, I tried to scan it out while getting
run on Dianetics as part of my setups for Grade 6.  I had 
previously been keyed out OT and had trained extensively.  So
I got bored during the setups (we were trying to pickup and
flatten on 3 flows all of the possible somatic chains that might
have been touched while mucking about with 1966 style student
dianetics) and so I tryed to go after various implants which I
knew about from the 1963 tapes.

While scanning through it, I was pulling out items at random
and probably getting half of them wrong.  They seemed to
be in the form of "To live is to ..." but it was many decades
ago.

I was feeling great, and FNing at exams, and patting myself on
the back when we ended off on auditing for the day.  Within an
hour, I had a terrible tooth somatic and my jaw had swollen
up like a mellon.  Since I knew it was just restimulation, I
got through the night on vitamin C and mouthwash and by using
a compress of vinegar to reduce the swelling.  In the morning
we went back in and did a correction list and I found that
the exact same implant had been done over and over again.  So
I got back to the begining of the first run and the somatic
blew and I was better.

I hadn't known about implants being delivered in multiple runs
(damn those guys for keeping key information confidential) and
I discovered it on my own in this session.  I almost announced
it as my win in reception when I attested because I thought
that running implants was old and we don't do it anymore
(I mistakenly assummed that I'd be listing for my actual GPMs 
on the clearing course).

Since so few Church members listen to the tapes, most of them
don't know this stuff and still think that they are clams
as given in History of Man.  Its very funny really.


------------------------

From: bern@arcadis.be (Bernie)

>I believe that this is the status of "Clear Baby" who has shown up
>on the internet lately.  I don't know for sure, but she does seem
>to be communicating rather freely without looking out for the 
>Ethics officer.  People like this will probably communicate honestly as
>long as you don't push them too hard on delicate issues or try
>to pull the Church's withholds.  They might not even know anything
>about Flag Orders or the Church's internal operations.   If OSA 
>was smart, they gave this OK to devoted public rather than SO 
>staff and are trusting to the person's love of the subject rather than 
>trying to control the communication.

# I don't think that Pilot is right on this point, unless he means
# a tacit OK. I believe Heidrun came and staid in ARS on her own
# determinism, as did Tim Jones. The fact that the COS was unable
# to send some of their so-called liberated communicator to handle
# ARS is a major sign of failure for them, IMO. Heidrun and Tim
# proved that real communication is the key. Real communication
# would allow beingness of other viewpoints while still putting
# forth one's own, which is mostly what they did, and which is
# mostly where the COS is failing. Five or ten Heidrun or Tim out
# of their proclaimed 8,000,000 adherents would have been enough
# to handle the whole of ARS in a matter of weeks. Still, they
# didn't do it. One has to ponder as to why.

Of course Heidrun Beer has come out of the closet since I originally
wrote this (It took all of 1996 to put all the Super Scio materials
together) and I only squeezed in a quick line about that while
doing a final review of the entire work before releasing it.

I didn't mean to say that she was an official agent or hatted
up to handle ARS.  I thought at the time that she was being
used without knowing it (a bit more than a tacit OK, but the same
kind of thing).  It was because she used to talk about her
"friend at OSA" in her early posts.  Maybe she could clarify
this for us, as to whether they were subtily trying to push her
one way or another.

Of course I agree with the rest of your comments.

As to why, they are certainly scared about Scientologists becoming
opinion leaders and then taking off for the free zone.  Heidrun is
an obvious example whether or not they were encouraging her or
simply watching to see what would happen.  And if you have too
many withholds, you might be reluctant to apply Ron's ideas on
communication being the universal solvent etc.


------------------------

From: future808@aol.com (Future808)

# I almost shed a tear reading this. It would be great to one day have a
# church I could believe in again. But, I doubt it will happen. But the
# thought is more than nice.

There are two things to believe in.  First there is the religion itself
and second is the church and its leaders as an organization.

I stopped believing in the organization long ago.  I even stopped
believing in the infalibility of Ron or the various PR statements
about the tech.

But at the core of all this, there are some key religious concepts
which I do take on faith and I've never let go of those nor do I
see any reason to abandon them now.  And these are things like
it is mind (theta) rather than matter (MEST) at basic and that
we can find our own way out and that it is done by knowlege and
understanding rather than by ritual and that we do all get out
together.

It would be nice to have an organization that one could believe in,
and I hope that we can bring that about.  But failing in that,
you can still hold your own religious beliefs, no matter what I
or anyone else says.

Of course this raises the basic problem that you can't argue with
anybody about their religious beliefs because they are founded
on faith rather than logic.  But what you can do is raise awareness
and make more data available in the hope that they will refine
their concepts upwards instead of clinging to mundane superstitions
such as believing that the planet will be cleared by raising 
Flag's income statistic.


------------------------

From: Norman Culver <ndc@icanect.net>

# I haven't run anyting on a meter in many years but just doing a portion
# of one of these babies by inspection, almost ripped my face off when it
# blew.

Great!  I'm curious as to which one.

I put this stuff together in total isolation and I have no idea
what is common to everyone or just to some people or just to me
personally.  This is aside from the fact that I probably made
some mistakes.  And this ignores the problems of gradients or 
accessibility or the bank being blown so far out that any handling 
of platens is a wrong action.  

I think that a lot of feedback will be needed to bang this suff
into shape.

------------------------

From: stella@magenta.com (STella)

# I was unable to read all of your recent postings -- too overwhelmingly
# much, and much that doesn't (yet?) connect with my worldview.
# However, I thank you for posting, welcome you to ars, and hope that
# you'll weather the next years, full of changes for my group (the net)
# and yours, and find ever more freedom, safety, and enlightenment.

Yes it is a lot.  I felt that I had to get it all out at once so
that it wouldn't get derailed mid-stream.

As to worldviews, by all means persue your own.  Maybe I'll learn
something from you.  Everything doesn't really fit into a neat
series of ascending steps although we try to organize it that
way to make it easier for people.

For example, should kids take chemistry or physics first in 
high school (assuming that the school system hasn't given up
on teaching those subjects)?  If you have a strong math background
(as I did), physics is a lot easier and should be done first
(which is how I did it), but for most people, chemistry would
be the easier gradient.

If its true for you, then go with it.  You have to expand from
where you are, not from where you are not.  Although you might
later find out that your truth was only a relative truth or
a half truth (or even, heaven forbid, that you were dead wrong),
you still have to plow forward with it or else you'll just end up
sitting around scratching your head (or whatever part it is
you like to scratch) and never get anywhere.


------------------------

From: ssolomon@yelmtel.com (Steve Solomon)

# When I finished OT3 in 1978 I began down the same research line you did.
# However, two things (or more) stopped me. One, I didn't have NOTs; two, I
# left the CofS and got busy with life. However, while plotting my own GPM
# series I got so blown out at times . . . . . it was some of the best
# auditing I've every had. 

# So your guide may put my feet back in that direction. I've long felt that
# for a person to "go free" they've got to become their own source of tech.
# As long as your feet are on someone else's path you'll only go part of the
# way. And I've also long felt that one lifetime is not nearly time enough
# to finish this task. It took us godzillion years to get this degraded and
# it is unreasonable to expect a  complete repair in a few years with a
# minimum of pain and strain.

A friend recently reminded me that Ron said the same thing on one of
his tapes (I don't remember which one), namely that the bridge will
only take you so far and that each person will have to research the
final stages for themselves.

I'm quite interested in what you learned about actual GPMs.  I
think that we're following multiple patterns simultaneously,
carrying on old goals serieses from earlier universes, etc.


------------------------

Concerning Franklin Jones, aka The Da Avatar


I wasn't asked this question, but I'll answer it anyway, because
refugees from Franklin's group seem to be showing up on ARS.

It is indeed true that Franklin was a Scientology OT who launched
his own religion in immitation of Ron.  Unlike the ususal
freezone group, he copied the religion instead of the tech.
I believe that he is currently wealthy, worshipped, and living
in Tahiti.

In 1968, Franklin, his wife Nina Jones, and his mistress Pat
Morley (his two high priestesses) were all on New York Org staff.
Then he went to the Advanced Org in Los Angeles and did his OT
levels.  It was later claimed that he helped Sal Lucania (the
Mafia plant) fake his way through OT 3, but this might just have
been dead agenting.  The bunch of them were all declared suppressive
in 1969.  He neatly sidesteps all of this in his biography
"The Knee of Listening" and talks about his cognitions on the
OT levels while saying that he was doing nothing, no meditations
or anything, and having wonderful ideas just coming to him out
of the blue.

He was very charismatic, almost glowing with an inner light.
An interesting and enjoyable character.  Its too bad that he
wanted worshippers instead of friends.


------------------------

Definition of ISO.

Another question not aimed at me but for which I have an answer.

ISO stands for the International Services Organization at Flag.


------------------------

New Topic for Discussion:  Lafayette's E-METER

Nope, nothing to do with the L in LRH, just a coincidence.

Lafayette Electronics was located in Manhattan.  They later
became Heathkit and even marketed a build your own computer
kit in the 1970s.  I had a friend who built one of their
stereo tuner kits in the 1960s and it worked fine.

But in the late 50s or early 60s they had a build-your-own
E-Meter kit.  I saw an assembled one on display at an event
back around 1967 along with old Matheson E-Meters and other
pre-Mark V meters.

I asked why we didn't have nice cheep do-it-yourself E-Meter
kits anymore.  It seemed to me that it would handle one of
the expensive barriers to clearing the planet.

I was told that they were too cheep and didn't work right.

I suspect that the real answer was simply that they were
just too cheep and didn't make any money for the org.

Does anybody know any more of the story behind these meter kits?


------------------------

A Comment About Ron:

The unauthorized biographies complain about how paranoid Ron
was.  But they forget that Dianetics was launched at the height
of the McCarthy era.  At that time, it did look like the country
could turn into a police state and dissenting opinions could get
one jailed or worse.

And wild ideas like past lives were socially unacceptible and
might even get one labled insane in those days.  The county
changed in the late sixties and the society is much more open
minded now.

And just as these things were getting straightened out, there
was the most incredible series of assasinations.  It seemed
like the great men who really wanted to help people were being
gunned down like flies.

Its no wonder that he was worried.  Maybe he should have gotten
some auditing on it.  But how many auditors can do a good job
auditing somebody that they're worshipping?

------------------------

If you're trying to wake up an individual Church member, you'd
have much better results pushing "Ron, the self-sacraficing
hero" rather than "Ron, the con artist".  Point out that
he himself said that the road out is booby trapped and that
research is highly restimulative (too charged up for most
people to do).  Praise him for bravely plunging ahead 
anyway and shake your head sadly about how the weight of
restimulation plunged him into paranoia and overt dramatizations.

Just between us grownups, I think that the real truth is
somewhere in between.  A bit like the story of the music man
who stays in the end and trys to make good on his promises.
And the town loves the resulting boys band even though they
sound like a bunch of sick cats on prozak.  And you're never
gonna get rid of that band (the town even defends the music
man against others who want a piece of his ass for his
earlier swindels).  The only thing you can do is to try and
get a better conductor in there to clean up their act.

"The Music Man" (and its lesser cousin, "Rainmaker") should
be on the list of required movie viewing for ARS readers, 
along with "Mr. Roberts" and "Elmer Gantry".  

(what about "The Life of Brian"? - nooo, bad idea, scratch 
that one out).

Any Scientology is better than no Scientology, but a sane
Scientology would be light years better than what we have today.


------------------------


With Affinity,

The Pilot


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>There has been at least one complaint that this is all off topic
>and belongs in A.C.T.  instead.  But that's Homer's territory and I
>didn't feel like forging his approval.  But I do hope he picks it
>up and puts it on his website.

     All we ask is that you not cross post to both a.c.t.  and a.r.s.,
but to post separately to keep the followups originating from a.r.s.
off of a.c.t.   You seem to be doing this.

     You are welcome to have a directory in our archives.

     Your userid is pilot, but I need you to mail me a password using
an anonymous remailer.

     You can mail me anonymously sending mail to
homer@anon.lightlink.com (don't forget the anon!) but any remailer
will do.

     Then you can install your files yourself for robo posting any
time you wish using any anonymous remailer.

     My time is very limited, and it is not within my ability to
use that time to archive other people's work, except once in a while.

     Homer