THE DANE TOPS DEBRIEF
Providing full and complete data is more than just ethical, it is
mandatory on the bridge to freedom. As we have previously mentioned,
providing complete historical background information is only one step
towards total honesty and truthfulness. A step that must be taken if
we are all to benefit from technology that has proven itself workable.
(The term "workable" will probably be approached by us some time in
the future.)
The following letter, which has been purposely denied and ignored by
us, can now be brought to light. We do this with the knowledge that
public acceptance of our honesty and truthfulness can only come about
with a sincere effort on our part. We cannot deny that the following
information is uncomfortable for us. We also cannot deny that we are
now willing to confront that part and to deal with it.
Please understand that our goal is to create a new beginning once we
have full handled our shadowy past. These posts are but one small step
in that direction.
Public Relations
Church of Scienotology International
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ca. June 1983.
THE DANE TOPS DEBRIEF
Hello, I am a highly trained OT and staff member. I want to talk
to all my friends and hope you will circulate this comm to others and
get in better comm from it. I believe the current problems in the C
of S are due to a completely hidden third party who is the source of
trouble. Please bear me out.
The APPARENCY of the problem is between the "field" (including
splinter groups) and the MANAGEMENT, including the Financial Police.
The current opposition between these factions has caused untold
devastation to the Church. However, I believe NEITHER SIDE is the
source of trouble-although EACH SIDE believes the OTHER SIDE is
source. I do not know who this hidden WHO is but it has been there a
very long time.
A complete data analysis should go back at least to 1965 when
ethics conditions first came out, possibly earlier. Since 1965
forward one can view the use of heavy force to control, fear tactics,
and physical restraint, etc. Those who were there remember the
inception of these methods. From that time forward, one finds the
misuse of ethics conditions on persons with great enturbulation
resulting... one finds additives to the ethics conditions in the form
of make-wrong mechanisms including outright physical body punishment.
One finds ARCX (ARC breaks) occurring, some severe enough to cause former
upstats to leave altogether. It is true that some people left before this
time, but it was due to the case strain from running research processes.
So from 1965 on, we find individuals who had heavy force used against them or
who were assigned wrong conditions--then made wrong about the wrong
condition. An example of grossly applied wrong ethics was when John
McMaster was thrown overboard on the Flag ship (a practice used
commonly on erroring auditors), broke his arm on the way down and made
to tread water for 3 hours while begging to be pulled in as he did
have a broken arm. McMaster left Scn because of "misuse of ethics"
and no one ever got back this chief spokesperson, a top class 8
auditor. This public opinion leader was responsible for thousands of
thousands of people coming into Scn. This is one example, but this
sort of thing happened to many many persons..
((John McMaster was the first real Clear produced by Scientology
tech besides Ron himself. He claimed he was personally responsible
for much of the Grade V Power Levels that later came to be used in
the Church, and the importance of his leaving in disgust can not be
overstated. McMaster died in 1992, leaving behind him many tapes of
personal interviews made during the years after he left the Church.))
Every few years a new wide scale internal suppression arises. When
the protest becomes too great, everyone involved plus a few scapegoats
are declared as source but then the cycle repeats itself--two or so
years later--and a new wide scale horror story of some other misused
force comes up. The WHY of this occurrence is never found. The
stories are there, but let it be said that an era started in which
the IDEA OF USING FORCE rather than ARC seems to have been introduced
about that time resulting in various dramatizations--each followed by
a cleanup attempt. The cleanups, although correcting the existing
scenes at the time rarely went back and picked up the pieces, i.e. the
keyed in, blown Scientologists, or the ones who had reduced their size
and sphere of influence as a result of the force used on them.
Amnesties were an attempt to bring the people back, but the majority
did not come back on the amnesty as the amnesty did not indicate the
correct BPC (by passed charge) the people were sitting in. Thus Scn
did not keep its people. The turnover of staff became a routine joke.
The highly dedicated most able were left behind. Thousands of
excellent auditors, CSes, sups and admin personnel who would have
stayed indefinitely for low pay and long hours, were left behind
after each of these 3rd dynamic dramatizations of "purifying" the
organization.
Very able tech terminals and record stat-producing people such as
John McMaster and Rocky Stump do not suddenly "turn SP"-nor were they
"SP all along, but finally found out". A true SP would never have
been able to produce phenomenal stats over a long period of time and
of course could never have been able to duplicate and use the tech nor
embody the spirit of Scn. The idea that a person could do this and
then suddenly, after many years of such service, "show his true
colors" is as erroneous as it is absurd. SOMETHING HAPPENED TO THESE
GUYS. They CAN be fixed but - - it is done. Prior stats are not
viewed, only some CURRENT situation. The basic goodness of a person
is not viewed, just the CURRENT restim then the attempt to destroy it
because it is entheta...we do not perceive the source of the fellow
going south. Actions against people are justified by the use of the
concept that it wouldn't be that way if "he hadn't pulled it in".
Eval and inval. This concept of "unreasonableness" has been
interpreted to mean that the person is not to be duplicated as to
sequence he went through so as to arrive in such a situation. Thus no
true understanding exists. Without true understanding, the SOLUTION is
bound to be DESTRUCTIVE.
Let us go back to the famous meeting that took place on Flag at
the end of 1981. That meeting took some days and it was hot and
heavy. In that meeting, forty plus top stat-producing mission holders
grouped together in a room on Flag and they placed Flag management in
a lower condition. They told the management that if the situation was
not corrected there were going to be splinter groups. They explained
that there was a very very large disconnected, ARCXn field out there.
They explained that the suits against the Church were the Church's
failure to handle. This enturbulated some of the Flag management and
rightly so, BECAUSE IT WAS A WRONG CONDITION AND INDICATION. The
VISIBLE Flag management was NOT in a lower condition according to the
data they had. Neither were the mission holders in a lower condition.
In fact neither party was at fault--although both thought that the
other was. In spite of the enturbulation caused to Flag management
from being assigned a wrong condition, the two groups started to comm
and events started to occur to clean up the problems. The mission
holders and other leaders were allowed to set up an office in FOLO.
((Flag Operations Liason Office)) They (mission holders) heard the
cases of hundreds of Scientologist who were inactive/off lines, ARCXn,
sitting for years in a mis-assigned condition, etc. These people were
contacted through public meetings held by the leaders.
The meetings were hot and heavy because each of the attending
persons was loaded with his own personal BPC from his own lost bridge.
Through the meetings, lines were established, and each person was sent
to the FOLO office so that the time and care needed for a personalized
handle could be given and the people gotten back on the bridge. These
meetings were open to anyone and everyone no matter how long they had
been out of the Church and no matter what they had done. Needless to
say, the meetings were absolutely packed with highly trained OTs and
ex-staff who were all inactive in PT ((Present Time)). Over 20
inactive class 8s were rehabbed the first month. The second major
stat of these meetings was that people suing the C of S were contacted
by the leaders of the meetings and other volunteers. The list was
given to the mission holders--so obviously there was some co-operation
going on, as well as permission to set up the office in FOLO. It was
discovered that each of these suits boiled down to non-delivery of the
bridge.
In other words someone paid money but left at the end of the
service in an ARCX about the delivery. It was found that each of
these persons cleaned up easily on two-way comm and proper indications
and otherwise standard tech, and that they dropped the suit. Over 70
suits were contacted. In these meetings a lot of charge came off.
Some people came out of curiosity and got charged because they hadn't
known about the upsets that existed. The huge majority of tone,
however, was of relief; great relief, because one could say anything,
be acked, listened to without eval. The person then was given a line
to handle their grievance--that line was helpful, not evaluative and
interested only in getting them back on the bridge. That line was
willing to take the time and space to do what needed to be done (at no
money charge) and that line was not willing to waste people nor were
they desirous of it.
That line also had the beginnings of authority
to publicly indicate past slanders of persons by wrong conditions
assignments, an action necessary to fully blow the charge for the
person and the group. Also, these mission holders were highly trained
people, thus able to as-is what would look to a lower-trained person
like only "natter". Rather than "NATTER" an unbiased trained person
sees out lists, wrong whys, MW/H's of nothing, wrong condition
assignment, and ARCXs on not thereness, BPC, etc. etc. etc.
With only the use of "All ARCXs stem from MW/H's" and not all the
tech on MW/H's and ARCXs, an untrained person would not, of course, be
able to bring all persons in trouble to an as-is-ness. So even
without doing a lot of auditing on the inactive Scientologist, these
meetings were producing a phenomenon in the field--a few thousand
members worldwide turned up in a few short weeks with many more on the
way as the word got out. Also, the people threatening to splinter
joined to help. Thus a great resurgence of hope that the Church would
stay in one piece took place.
All this happened in the beginning of 1982. FACT: Up to this
time there was only one major splinter group delivering the bridge
including the OT levels--to the public. That group is run by Larry
West, a class 8. It is located in San Diego. FACT: In March 1982, a
series of declares started. First, each of the leaders running the
rehabilitation meetings was declared--unless they stopped. Second,
those people in management, including the ED Int. ((Executive
Director, International)), who were in comm with the field, were
declared. Third, the GO ((Guardian's Office)) was declared almost
totally as a whole group. FACT: After this date and consistently over
this past year, splinter groups have been forming practically by the
week. They are delivering the OT levels and NOTS.
In short, the top management, the top field auditors, the top
tech persons and the GO were all declared at one time, with one fell
swoop. AND for the first time ever, many were ILLEGALLY DECLARED--i.e.
no comm ev ((Committee of Evidence)), no proof, no verification and
often completely surprising those declared because there was no prior
notice or discussion. Others had comm evs AFTER being declared. When
something was printed up about these declared persons it was done in
such generalities that it wasn't possible to tell what these person
were supposed to have done--no time, place, form, or event--no
specifics. All the hundreds of people in the process of coming back on
lines went back off lines. All the recently rehabbed class 8s and
lower level auditors went back off lines.
The attitude generally in
this group was "I told you so..." They had been convinced it was
going to work, just started to believe it, and then had the people
helping them DECLARED. Not only did this affect these recently
rehabbed persons, but it affected everyone because the declared people
were the leaders of the orgs, the leaders of the tech, and the leaders
of the field. Therefore, other splinter groups formed: formed by
persons who had not previously even considered such an action. They
decided to get away from the confusion so they could "AUDIT AND TRAIN
IN PEACE."
It is time to define the difference between a splinter group and
a squirrel group. Squirrelling means altering Scn (look it up in the
dictionary). A squirrel group alters LRH tech and does not produce
the products of the bridge. A splinter group is on source with LRH
tech, admin and ethics and produces the same products as any "on
source" Scn org. However, a splinter group operates outside the
jurisdiction of the main organization because of disagreements they
have tried to handle, but failed. It is time to understand the
reality of the splinter group or their escalation will only continue.
We can not handle what we do not understand--and the component parts
of understanding are affinity, reality and communication. A survey of
splinter groups turned up common reality such as:
Can't make a living with prices I was forced to charge;
Had to leave the Church to continue to audit full time;
I was spending all my time handling misuse of ethics
and tech on others so I left so I could have clean pro-
ducts all the way through;
Why should I spend all my time making money when every-
one here is willing to tech exchange the whole bridge;
Here I can audit and train full time and do the upper
bridge too;
The persons I most admired were declared and my faith
was shattered;
We tried everything we could to stay in; the first thing
we audit on people is the loss they have and the charge
they have about the craziness in the Church;
We have not been able to change the Church, but we sure
can pump out those well done auditing hours.
There are now over 20 major splinter groups in the US and several
dozen more forming. I do not have the stats outside this country. At
least seven of these groups offer the full bridge and are run by
highly trained class 8s through 12s. The prices for OT levels range
from 1000 to 5000 dollars and NOTS prices vary. Also some accept
barter and some accept payments while you are there doing the service.
No one is making a lot of profit but the production is high. This
progression of splinter groups started right after the first sweep of
declares.
For a while, in 1982, there was no apparent management in Scn,
because the past LEADERS were wiped out. There was a lot of
confusion. However,--AND THIS IS ONE BIG POINT OF THIS
DISSERTATION--the TRUTH is there was a management the whole time
before, during, and after these events, and it was and still is
ENTIRELY HIDDEN FROM US ALL. This hidden management had the power to
declare hundreds of key posts and opinion leaders and got away with
it. Then a new org board was formed. Previously uninvolved SO ((Sea
Org)) members were chosen to occupy the posts of the new org boards.
These persons were not previously involved with what happened before.
They were not there to see the sequence of how the splinter groups
were formed. Instead they were told that squirrel groups were a
SOURCE of the chaos, not a RESULT of it.
They were told the prior
leaders and splinter groups were "stealing" from Scn, and were the
source of the problem. Criminality was the "WHY" and the "handle" was
to prosecute in the US courts of law. There are many other false
concepts that have been given to the RTC ((Religious Technology
Center)) and FP ((Finance Police)). The MUs ((Mis-Understood words))
and false data and complete lack of prior situation that led to this
mess are not known by these new org board people. Their power comes
from the fact that they are truly dedicated, caring Scientologists.
The misuse of power comes from MUs that were put there by someone who
hatted THAT person. The same WHO who authorized getting rid of
everyone who used to run things. The same WHO that sets the policies
of the RTC and gives it its power. Thus an enormous worldwide ridge
has developed between the so-called management and management oriented
persons and the "field" (meaning everyone else).
Each "thinks" the other is causing it. Each cares desperately.
And they are DESTROYING each other. The best tech terminals we had
are now "criminals"; our most inspiring leaders are "outcasts".
Everyone is losing, even though there are many who avoided all this
and continue to win. But the 3rd Dynamic is in civil war. As in all
wars there is a THIRD PARTY. Perhaps it is someone close to Ron who
causes wrong decisions. Or perhaps Ron is completely uninvolved and
there is a hidden control group. But there is one. There is a hidden
data line and it is no anyone we are looking at. Perhaps different
persons have occupied this hidden "post" over the years. But the
"post" has been filled. We are so locked into putting the blame on
the wrong terminals, that we find it hard to realize we have judged
each other wrongly. We have all done it (with a few exceptions) and
we have all hurt each other badly. Some say it is irreparable this
time. I say there is a WHY. ALSO A WHO.
ILLEGAL DECLARES AND OTHER PERTINENT DATA
A recent ASHO ((American Saint Hill Organization)) posting
announced there were over 600 declares in the past recent months.Many
of these were declared BEFORE Comm Ev. Some were declared for
opposing management opinion about how things should be done. Others
for unproven or unidentified points. Most list completely generalized
charges with no specific account of what the person did. It has even
gone so far as to list sexual behavior such as "adultery" as part of
the reason this person is now considered to be a suppressive person,
deserving of being expelled from the Church.
Over 50 field auditors, CSes and whole field groups in LA have
terminated their practice in the last six months because their
delivery lines were shut down by the new UNWRITTEN POLICIES and by
policies WRITTEN BY SOMEONE OTHER THAN RON. Specifically, in one
week, all field ethics delivery and admin scale delivery was forbidden
and still is all done verbally. Those who questioned it were placed
under immediate ethics investigations so everyone else shut up. All
Volunteer Minister actions have been verbally forbidden to the field
and the policy that the field could set its own rates for those
actions was verbally cancelled. Any credit or barter (formerly OK for
V.M. ((Volunteer Minister auditing)) and Book 1) was also forbidden.
Plus Book 1 auditing was now supposed to be sold in intensives.
In addition, the field auditors (like the missions: see Mission Holders
Conference San Francisco, late 82) were fined 10,000 dollars for every
PC they had done actions on after the person had reached clear. The
field (like the mission holders) were told if they'd done this they
were criminals and were guilty of the crime of having ripped off the
orgs of their rightful public. As none of this was clearly written,
communicated or defined prior, most missions and field auditors had
inadvertently become criminals. Prosecution was threatened for anyone
who didn't pay up. Frightened, auditors and missions called their
people and dropped them in the middle of admin scales, repairs,
ethics, grades, etc. Thus thousands of public ARCXs occurred on
losing their terminals. So the field went into the woodwork and the
missions went frantic trying to dig up funds already dispersed for
services already delivered.
The field auditors were to be charged
10,000 dollars per clear, even if the amount accepted from a clear was
only 10 dollars. (See Mission Holders Conference S.F. 7 Nov 82/SCED
2104) plus the missions were to pay for any SO missions ((an
investigative team of SO members)) at the rate of 15,000 dollars per
day if the SO deemed it necessary to investigate them--whether they
were found guilty of anything or not. The small number of auditors
left in the field were caused to turn away half of their clients and
income. (see above).
Simultaneously, a 10% tax was demanded of their remaining income
and thus field groups were driven out of activity. Several have just
moved out of town. Some long-standing high volume producers have been
declared suppressive without Comm Ev--one is Trey Lotz. Some have
notified the Church they are leaving, but will continue to deliver
standard Scn. tech (L. and T. Greenberg). Others, no longer being
able to make a living delivering tech, changed professions and stayed
in the Church.
A survey has turned up the overwhelming reality that missions and
field auditors felt they had a choice of staying in the Church but
having to give up their professional Scn. careers, or of leaving the
Church so they could afford to deliver Scn., secure in knowing they
could count on being able to continue to deliver it. In fact, they
felt more secure facing a potential suit from the Church than they did
in the Church--knowing their certs could be instantly suspended with
no ethics protection of proper ON POLICY procedures. Now there is a
pitifully small number of field auditors remaining and they've joined
"I HELP".
It is not only the field that has been unmocked from these
non-LRH policies and orders. Last year, hundreds of SO and non-SO
personnel holding org posts in the PAC area alone were off loaded
simultaneously with no provisions for qualified replacements. This
included our most important tech posts such as the Class 8 courses and
lower org internship sups ((supervisors)). All non-SO staff working
for some pay were offloaded with no replacement provision. Now, one
year later, key posts remain unmanned. Not only was the Class 8
Course sup offloaded with no replacement, even the Class 8
confidential course room became used for sessions and the students on
the confidential course were ordered to study their confidential packs
in the non-confidential course rooms.
ARCXn complaining students were
sent to ethics if they didn't go along with it. Naturally, some
students blew. This is just one of the many unmocked areas that
occurred in the spring and summer of 1982 during the wholesale
offloading of staff. The Class 8 sup, by the way, was a good sup and
offloaded only because she wasn't SO. As the non-SO staff were paid
salaries, this offloading was supposed to be a cost cutter, so money
was actually the whole issue in point, such an issue in fact that it
took precedence over keeping the major courses of orgs intact at all.
These days the SO (many SO were also offloaded) is hurting for staff
and going into heavy-handed recruitments. They also have been forced
to hire back some non-SO staff, particularly tech staff, as tech has
been one of the more heavily comm-ev'd areas of the SO.
Over 10 missions and orgs have openly left Scientology because
they could not afford to pay the fines levied on them in the San
Francisco Mission Holders Conference of Nov. 7 1982. (You must read
this to understand fully what has happened.) Other missions have left
because they were unwilling to continue under a management that used
threats and force to control them and which accused them of being
criminals. Reading a copy of this meeting will make it plain why there
is a large and growing exodus from the Church. The leaders and even
the C/S Int have been influenced way from the very most fundamental
concepts and principles of Scientology, influenced by someone into
actually believing that force, threats, and punishment drive
mechanisms will create a product.
This non_Scientology technique has
created a reaction of recoil away from the Church and that reaction is
in proportion to the out-of ARC force that was used. Fortunately, you
can get a copy of this meeting and verify the data here. The persons
who delivered the meeting have an MU to such a degree about the
workability of their methods that they are actually PROUD of the
disgracing document and WANT it to be distributed and read. (If you
absolutely can't locate a copy send me $5.00 and I will send one to
you). To understand and have ARC for the out-of ARC force you will
find it is necessary to USE your tech.
This means recognizing that
anyone seeking to control you unworkably has an MU on how to do it.
This has happened in the current management. The MU added to a wrong
data analysis and wrong why of what they consider the problems to be
(criminality within Church etc.) explains why and how it is that they
have acted in a manner to create the opposites of their intentions.
Who had the MU in the first place is another question.
Twenty groups, including some entire missions and orgs that
seceded are now delivering or preparing to deliver the entire bridge
at reasonable prices, and more such groups are in the making. The
tech delivery is by ex-org and SO Class 8s - 12s; the tech is
standard. These people have concluded that the main Church is not
salvageable and that Scientology will be salvaged by such groups.
Their reality is that free enterprise must exist in order to get
auditing delivered in volume, and that it is OK to charge what you
want and need to survive and produce in volume, even if it is far
lower than the Church rates. The dedication to LRH in these groups is
high, just as high as it was when these persons worked in the AOs
((Advanced Orgs)) and at flag.
Illegal and unjust declares of upstat Scientologists have
CRASHED their businesses when that business was Scientology run or
Scientology supported. No thought is given such persons when the
declare comes down. It is said by Finance Police that we must
"safeguard the group first and pick up the individuals later". Is the
Church going to repay the thousands of dollars of loss to those
persons whose businesses suffered or crashed, due to illegal or unjust
declares?
Persons who are Scientologists who are also professionals in an
area which helps others are being attacked for "altered or squirrel
tech". The view point is that Scientology is the ONLY knowledge that
helps people, and other technologies which "pretend" to do so are
suppressive or invalid. This is very erroneous as there are many
people with technologies which are of proven help to others and the
persons using them are kindred souls to ourselves. When such a person
uses Scientology to improve his own tech, such as a priest using it in
a sermon, a medic teaching and using it in emergency medicine, a
chiropractor using it to give a better adjustment, ad infinitum this
should be GOOD, not SQUIRREL. Scientology should be USED in all of
life; there is no activity or profession that its principles could
not be successfully interwoven into, thus improving it. An extremely
destructive idea has crept into the Church in the last year. It is a
new idea in Scientology, utterly foreign to all its 35 years.
That idea is that the tech can be very dangerous and harmful and
do untold damage if even the slightest of MUs accompany its use. Fear
of doing harm is being instilled in those who have remained in the
Church and the idea that KSW ((Keeping Scientology Working)) consists
of an unrelenting robotic attention to outnesses. The study tapes
thoroughly describe the demise of any subject when is is made too
dangerous to
use.
The following may be found in 8-8008, 8-80 and the early PDCs
((Philadelphia Doctorate Courses)).
The AESTHETIC FEELING of Tone 40 "unreasonableness" is the clue
to the beingness that has taken over the management and it is this
beingness that management is now attempting to create in others. As
there is such a great aestheticness to the feeling of total Tone 40
unreasonableness, it becomes almost impossible to see the effect of
this beingness once one is viewing life through it. This is the
mechanism through which heinous acts may be committed by good beings.
Because the being is attached to the aesthetic he goes along with the
rest of what went with that aesthetic and is actually blind to the
actual consequences of his actions. The end can also justify the
means when one has a great enough aesthetic attached.
Thus such a
thing can actually occur where persons in rousing agreement with the
"aesthetic" of KEEPING SCIENTOLOGY WORKING at all COSTS then take part
in purifying Scientology. They buy the idea that time is scarce,
there is great danger, there isn't time for routine justice actions.
They buy the idea that they can afford to make mistakes and fix them
later. The group aesthetic of "purifying" becomes moblike and the
momentum of the group carries it forward. Only when there is no one
left to remove, when too many posts become unmanned or improperly
manned, when stats crash, does the " aesthetic" lift enough to start
to see that some really pretty heavy disaster has aken place.
When one has become the effect of such an aesthetic beingness, he
is likely to believe he has "seen the light" and all others who do not
share the beingness become the unenlightened. As far as duplication,
the beingness acts as a set of blinders on a horse. One cannot
actually duplicate anyone who doesn't share the beingness because the
beingness is an additive to the comm formula. In Scientology the
"purify the tech" BEINGNESS that is being instilled is having the
effect of separating and individuating people from all those who don't
have the same beingness, WHETHER THE OTHERS ARE DELIVERING STANDARD
TECH OR NOT. This arbitrary beingness that is being mocked up and
demanded is one of the biggest additives in Scientology, and it is
lowering duplication.
The IDEA of using Scientology in conjunction with other techs
being "mixed practices" is the other great additive, for if this was
indeed true, Scientology has just ended right here and now. The
current idea is that the Bridge IS Scientology and THAT is where we
USE Scientology. We don't deliver it with a particular slant into the
reality of an athlete or a doctor. This would be "mixing practices",
a "great and threatening danger". Yet Scientology SHOULD be combined
with EVERYTHING and if an expert in a field improves his field through
Scientology and teaches that to non-Scientologist in the field, that
is GOOD, not squirrel. It is no dangerous, there is no terrible thing
that will happen to others. If such a person had a principle
inadequately commed, then he would be HAPPY to be crammed, as it would
improve his product.
But the idea that the ACTIVITY ITSELF is
squirrel demonstrates a total MU on the concept of mixing practices or
altering Scientology. The ability to match realities, to duplicate, is
of prime importance in Scientology. We are condemning those who do
it. We have made it a crime to teach anyone anything to do with
Scientology. The verbal tech HCOB ((Hubbard Communications Office
Bulletin)) was never intended to be used in this way. If we are so
terribly afraid that our smallest communication of a Scientology datum
or idea will constitute the demise of some fellow, we would have no
self ability to judge or evaluate both abilities which must be
gradiently acquired if one intends to be free. We have become so
fearful of the terrible consequences of "out tech" that the tech is
going off the lines of communication and mutual interchange. The lie
is that it ever would have been that terrible, provided the ORGS kept
their standards in. The wrong handling behind that is that
squirrelling is a major problem that needed handling, when it was
actually a matter of administrative disagreements and power struggles
in management.
To go deeper, MONEY is a very big issue here. The Church now
wants to tax all persons who help others using all or part of
Scientology for profit. If Scientology was being allowed the freedom
it actually needs to ever be a force in the culture, this taxation
would be impossible to regulate because EVERYBODY would end up making
profits through the use of Scientology and through teaching it to
others. Any professional would feel DESIRE to impart it to others in
his profession and would disseminate it or give it to others.
Eventually all such contacted persons would go to orgs, but first they
would learn Scientology within their own activities.
But such a vision could never take place with a Church paranoid
about being "ripped off", attempting to tax all such use. Someone in
our Church is very very concerned about money. Someone has spread the
idea that the Church's members are rampant with financial overts and
outright criminality. And that someone is demanding funds. In trying
to get money, that someone has handed down policies, orders and
declares in a Tone 40 aesthetic package that has wreaked havoc on us.
Only medical doctors are seen as immune of this other-practices
idea, as Ron has sanctioned them as useful on the bridge. When others
ARCX with the idea that they have "mixed practices" by using
Scientology, it is seen as proof of their overts so sec checks
((security checks on the E-meter)) are demanded. Cramming cycles for
MU cleanups are not the rule; sec checks are in.
Apple School has recently been attacked by an actual raid by
Church officials on its premises. Once again the issue turned out to
be money. A portion of the Apple School income was demanded for the
"right" to use LRH tech. When one of the school heads asked to see
this in writing, it was called a noncompliance and a sec check was
demanded of the school's officials.
Persons are blowing because the policy on ethics gradients is not
applied. Persons are blowing because ethics are being applied when
not called for. Then they ARCX. Then they are accused of missed
withholds. Then they are told to come up with thousands of dollars to
clean up their own overts and MW/Hs. Then they leave.
Because a wary Scientologist secretly taped the blatant off P/L
((Policy Letter)) actions of a member of the FP and sent that tape to
many people and because on top of that a SO member from the LA area
went personally to the CS Int ((Case Supervisor, International)) and
spent HOURS talking to him about the rabble caused in LA by this
particular member of the FP, the management has been forced to recall
and take action with that person (Don Larson). However, such a
reprimand will not correct the situations in this letter. Don Larson
is not an SP any more than the others who share the beingness that has
been taught to them as the way to make Scientology work. He is only
being recalled because his actions were secretly taped so could not be
denied (although before knowing about the tape a report was written
that denied the very things on that tape).
Ten years ago, when the prices were lower, the field did not use
credit and barter as a rule. When the prices were raised the field
resorted to more and more credit and barter, not having training to
fall back on as the orgs did. Using credit and barter some field
practice (not all by a long shot) stayed in existence no matter what
happened to the prices. Missions too, resorted to hidden financial
means in order to make it possible to continue to service a broad
public. As so many thousands of Scientologists were dead stopped on
the bridge when the price raising practice came about, these persons
were more than happy to take advantage of some other way to pay
besides money up front. An example of hidden financial methods in
missions is Carl Barney's phony loans for PCs setup. Across the world
persons who desired to audit resorted to off-line practices in order
to stay active.
These practices were withholds from the orgs
"justified" by the field as necessary to stay in business. The orgs
and field got very stingy about anyone who might have enough money to
pay as such were the minority of the public. So animosity and
competition festered between the two. Org reges would fume at losing
a prospect to a field auditor who gave a better deal and this brought
on the enforcement of the 2 year rule. But the problem was actually
too few prospects with enough money. Eventually, thousands of
Scientologists became inactive due to price increases and are still
so. The running record that reges grew sick of was "But to make that
much money I'd already have to be OT. It's a vicious circle". A ten
year examination of statistics show that although at some times GI
((Gross Income)) has temporarily gone up from price increases, the
numbers of persons being delivered to, proportionate to staff has
decreased.
Those who were around, remember the once crowded course rooms of
the LA orgs, the BC on Temple St., and the Class 8 Course with
Sylvester running it. In 1970 the LA org was so full that they burst
their seams, having to be packed back to back in the CS room and Qual
((Qualifications Division)). The amount of course room space the LA
org uses in its complex headquarters is actually less footage than it
was in the old LA org and the student flow by comparison is a mere
dribble. The bridge cost about $5000 back then.
It is interesting that "Financial Overts" is one of the big whys
being given us for all the declares. The original financial overt was
to raise the prices, and cause ((create)) inactive Scientologists, and
turn off the public. The "crimes" that person have committed to try
to get their own bridges or continue to deliver it to others may or
may not have actually been harmful, depending on the individual
circumstances in each case. But one thing is obvious: such "crimes"
occurred in an attempt to handle pricing policy that not-ised the
natural economic laws for maintaining solvency.
And try as we did, not a one of us ever was able to find out WHAT
PERSON made the decisions on pricing; there was never a Who. Although
widespread disagreement with pricing has existed a long time, the
demand for money has especially stepped up in the last year ever since
the release of the Financial Irregularities PL.
In one of the former 3rd dynamic engrams of our Church, HCO sec
checks and enforced disconnections brought outrage to Scientologists.
It was not nearly as severely enforced as today and sec checks were
not charged for, but there was still huge outrage and protest. In
1968 the Church was reformed and it promised through Ron that these
two actions would NEVER be done again by the Church. Even Weber,
today's President of the Church, went on the public media to state
this promise. Today the Church is breaking Ron's promise to us. And
charging you for it to boot.
Furthermore, if a sec check is to be done, it is supposed to be
done in the HGC (Hubbard Guidance Center, where auditing takes
place)), not the HCO ((Hubbard Communications Office, Div 1)). And it
is Tech ((Technical Division 4)) and Qual ((Qualifications Divsion,
Certs and Awards, Division 5)) that decide on the advisability of sec
checks after case folder study--HCO is not qualified to make that
decision. See HCOB 30 Nov 78, No. 22. Today, tech and qual are not
even consulted and sec checks are automatic for whole groups of
people. Persons are being ordered to have them for voicing
disagreements and no one has even looked at the fellow's folder.
Standard tech is being driven out of tech and qual and arbitrary
decisions are taking precedence over the C/Ses in the orgs.
Unfortunately, I cannot mail this to all the key SO and org staff
members as it would not be delivered to them by the Comm Dept. The
staff is well shielded from the facts and are well insulated by false
pictures of what's happening in Scientology. Because of that well
ingrained false picture, ridges develop. Only continued comm can
dispel those ridges. They are not there because someone doesn't care,
but because of mis-information. Therefore it must be up to each of us
to communicate, to find out the truth and exchange data any way we
can. It is up to us to refuse to cut our comm lines with one another
and to find out ourselves if what we've heard and been told about
others is true.
The idea that it is dangerous to communicate because
out tech may occur has become so prevalent that Scientologists are
actually VOLUNTEERING to cut comm lines so this won't happen. This
fear became so instilled in the Matlocks that they shut down the Who
What Where, the survival comm line and connection line of LA,
providing theta connection and exchange between Scientologists, and
better survival for us all. This way of thinking is utterly
un-Scientology, but because it is being done in the name of saving
Scientology, people are convinced, and are agreeing to cut comm lines
and communication lines so that bad things don't have a line to flow
on. Scientology--its very ESSENCE, its most BASIC FUNDAMENTALS, its
very REASON for working, is being tampered with here. A monumental
misunderstood is being transferred to Scientologists and it is so
large it has overwhelmed the connection to Ron.
RON would NEVER NEVER give LESS communication and NO
communication as solutions for the problems we are handling. RON
would tell you to INCREASE communication and INCREASE ARC. RON would
NEVER tell us to handle entheta by STOPPING our theta activities. He
would say to INCREASE the theta activities and put your attention on
creating that which you wish to be there.
I have deliberated a long time before deciding to include the
following information but have decided that only by truth is there a
chance. You can verify this story if you take the time to do so.
Twenty-two year old David Miscavige is the VISIBLE head of the Church
at this time. There is also Pat and Ann Broker who are never
mentioned and are more hidden. Others who APPEAR to be running the
Church are also EXTREMELY young and often not trained in red on white
((Tech bulletins, policy was green on white)). Yet these people are
making the decisions about the technical expertise of long standing
tech terminals, with decades of stats behind them showing their worth.
The same goes for the top admin figures, i.e. the youngsters are the
apparent ones with the authority to have the admin and tech persons of
long standing declared.
David is likely to be comm ev'd as the obvious scapegoat. ((As
of 10/15/93 David is still going strong.)) However, simply removing
the youngsters would not give us necessarily the SOURCE of their
actions against the leaders of Scientology, as they could just be
replaced by whoever it is who is giving them their orders. These
youngsters have been convinced their actions are "saving" Scientology.
Before the RTC was formed, David Miscavige had a mysterious
authority over the CMO ((Commodore's Messengers Org)), the Watchdog
Committee, Flag and all other orgs. He had no known post on the org
board and there was no command channel line. David implemented the
joint "Comm Ev" of David Mayo, Gleeson, Horwitz (father of Ron's
grandchild), Peter Warren (Diana's right hand man before she left the
SO and stopped appearing at events), Buchanan etc.--the 16 top execs
and tech terminals. See RTC Conditions order I. 9 Oct. 82. This
coup was accomplished by removing these persons from the Flag Land
Base to the secret headquarters in Gilman Hot Springs, Riverside
County, CA. These execs, David Mayo included, were locked up and held
under physical restraint from leaving. They were awoken in the middle
of the night and interrogated many times. Brainwashing techniques of
getting each to confess to the crimes of the other were employed until
there was little drive left to go back and take up their posts. After
months of being held, these persons are now in various places around
the country, destimulating. This is not the only incident of its
kind. Ron predicts this would be done in Scientology in PDC no. 20.
The Church has already started legal proceedings against Don
Will, the CO ((Commanding Officer) of one of the seceding orgs. It is
the contention of the splinter groups that the C of S cannot win
rights to a monopoly over a religious practice due to the US
Constitution guarantee of religious freedom. Whether the C of S
"wins" over its dissatisfied ex-members or not, we will all lose. We
will lose because no one here is contesting the validity of STANDARD
TECH or of the bridge; only the rights and freedoms of those
delivering it. ((???I don't follow this last sentence.)) In other
words the argument is not over alteration of LRH tech, but over
NON-LRH written orders, policies, procedure and controls.
Thus we have groups of dedicated Scientologists who will be going to court
against one another over who has the right to promote and deliver
standard tech. Also, even if the C of S wins, it will only cause more
splinter groups who will simply avoid the trademark usage. As the
splinter groups will force the C of S into higher and higher courts on
the grounds that an American may freely practice his own religion, the
case could conceivably go to the highest court of the land. There,
the issue would be forced--does religious freedom exist or, when
religion is highly priced, can a monopoly exist? Just suppose, due to
the tenor of the times (Reagan Fundamentalist Christianity), the
highly unlikely ruling occurred that limited the US constitutional
rights of complete religious freedom to all Americans through some
technicality such as a "trademark" or other? Our Church as a whole
would then have "succeeded" in establishing a constitutional
compromise that would end religious freedom in our country! When we
have failed to use our own technology of communication and duplication
to such a degree that we have to publicly air our difficulties in the
courts we have failed indeed.
When trained Scientologists do not use
the tech of as-is-ness with one another, how can we possibly expect to
use it on the psychotics and true SP's of the world or even on the
average Joe with his widely diverging realities and practices? We
will never clear the planet when we cannot even settle things amongst
ourselves without the use of an non-Scientologist arbitrator and
enforcer. As such an action further discredits us in the eyes of the
public, it makes laughable our claims to possession of the full
communication tech as the 'universal solvent'. The differences of
realities amongst most of us are barely different at all compared to
what's out there in the world, yet we have not been able to duplicate
one another. Duplication produces an AS-IS-NESS of the problem.
Non-duplication produces persistence and worsening. It takes time and
willingness to trace a fellow's opinions back down to source. We are
not doing that for each other.
A major sit ((situation, furthest departure from an ideal scene))
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