Very Space Opera
1. Those are some damn expensive books and cassette tapes.
2. Every once in awhile when I hear someone say "OT" in the context of therapy, my mind interprets it as "OT" in the context of Hubbardism.
Hmm. I wonder what The Great and Mighty Hubbard's take on sensory integration therapy would be.
On an unrelated note:
All thetans on this planet and on twenty-one nearby stars have Incident II and 'R6' in common. Hubbard refers to these twenty-two planets as 'the Confederation'. [From above "OT" link.]
Somehow this tidbit escaped my attention during my last Scientology-related reading binge. What exactly is the function of this interplanetary Confederation, if any? Does Hubbard ever identify said stars and/or planets? Did he also claim astronomy as one of his numerous areas of expertise?
although 'mocking something up' usually means 'imagining it', in Scieno-lingo it means more than a mental picture; it is supposedly a self-created object; it is a thing which one can be. Operating Thetans are, again supposedly, able to 'mock up' a picture that has dimensions and location in space and time.
Someday I might have to do a specific analysis of Scientology's co-opting of existing words/phrases and re-defining them for its own purposes. We already know it's a common brainwashing technique, but I wonder if there are any interesting patterns in how they manipulate language. Even better, how does Scientology jargon work in non-English languages?
On the mental imagines implanted into thetans during Incident II:
The pictures contain God, the Devil, angels, space opera, theaters, helicopters, a constant spinning, a spinning dancer, trains and various scenes very like modern England. You name it, it's in this implant we call in its entirely "R6".
Somewhat telling that Hubbard includes "space opera" in this list of false knowledge. Are we to deduct that his very own space opera is a false implant as well?
The thetans were gathered on "electronic ribbons", packaged together as clusters and given 36 days of implanting, to render them servile and incapable of decision.
Try replacing "thetans" with "preclears," "electronic ribbons" with "Church of Scientology," and "implanting" with "auditing." Sound familiar?
In Hubbard's own words:
Body Thetans are just Thetans. When you get rid of one he goes off and possibly squares around, picks up a body or admires daisies.
Ha. Admires daisies. Why hasn't the image of a daisy been worked into the symbolism of Scientology?
Thus we get the concept of a "black theta body". This would be actual BT's stuck to a thetan plus pictures of BT's stuck to a thetan.
How...recursive.
Incident II sometimes forms gigantic clusters. In such there is a leader, an alternate leader and several (eight to eighteen) more.
How numerically specific. Also, Body Thetans are starting to remind me of barnacles that need to be scraped off the hulls of boats.
Incident 2 Patter: DETERMINE IF A LOYAL OFFICER, RESIDENT OF EARTH, or FROM ANOTHER PLANET.
I don't quite know why, but that just kills me. It's like you're asking the BT to identify which class its RPG character belongs to. Also, do BTs have gender identities??
About 1/2 of the BTs come off and leave and go live their own lives by doing the lower Bridge right, and the other 1/2 come off here by doing OT III correctly.
Yet the Church still requires you to pay for further courses all the way up to OT VIII....
3. Fun with Kern!
“You know gays are infiltrating city councils,” she said. “Did you know, Eureka Springs, anybody been there to the Passion Play? Have you heard that the city council of Eureka Springs is now controlled by gays?"
Hahaha. Oh noes! Not Eureka Springs! One of the nation's top 25 Small Arts Communities. Imagine gay people living there! How dare they take on leadership roles in their own communities!
Matter of fact, studies show no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades.
Captain Anthropology, your services are needed....
Anthropology to the rescue! Homosexuality has been around, accepted to varying degrees, in various cultures for thousands of years. And it's not like the almost exhaustive number of animals that perform homosexual acts all go extinct after a few decades, but I suppose such base creatures are exempt from the Law of God.
4. A Day in the Life of a Scientologist on OT 7
So I cruise around in my mind[,] check through my body, above it, around it higher, lower, inside of it, mmmmmmwhere is this BT? (Usually I was able to locate what I thought were BT's Pretty easily.) Ok.....one foot to my right....meter Falls.
So Body Thetans could in fact be located some distance away from the body?
BT: I am very upset because I am tired of people asking other OT's if they can heal people. I'm not healed so this question upsets me.
Heh.
Left Shoulder- Fall. (meter reads, someone is there)
(me) "What are you?"
(BT) "A broken bone"--Fall
(me) "I'd like to indicate you are a broken bone".
BT: Cool.....blow. F/n.
Ha. So to get rid of these Body Thetans, one need only 'indicate' its location/identity to make it go away?
And the following indicates how badly the CoS wants to keep its upper-level information away from the masses:
Me: Damn!! I forgot to lock that stupid window. It's closed, My entire house is locked up...this is crazy to have to do lower conditions for this one window no one can even get to.....but per the Security pack, I violated
it...so I'll call and see.
Now you have to Call your Director of Processing, in Clearwater, and tell them. They send you to "Ethics" on the phone, and you are assigned "Treason" and told to write it up, and call them once you get up to "liability". Then you have to "Make up the
Damage" by doing some work needed, and get an OK to return to OT 7.
5. HCO BULLETIN OF 11 DECEMBER 1978
[Meaning straight from Hubbard's mouth, or at least OK'd by him.]
Unblown BTs or clusters, or BTs and clusters messsed up on OT III, are sometimes at a distance of 6 - 8 - 10 feet out from the body.
This is a perimeter you wouldn't normally think to handle. They blew out to this perimeter and stuck there.
Huh. I guess so.
BTs or clusters who tried to blow but hung up against other BTs or clusters or ridges or bones.
Well shit. BTs can want to check out but get tripped up by your ribcage??
After handling a BT or cluster do not recheck or repeat the Repair list line, as doing so would invalidate the fact that you have handled it, and would restimulate others, cause others to mock up (copy) what was just handled.
It seems that moderation is sometimes encouraged even in the wacky world of Scientology.
Sometimes a BT or cluster will answer at first with a wrong item or items. Then there won't be any valence shift, nor will there be any blow. Finding the correct item (the valence the BT or cluster is obsessively being), will shift the BT or cluster out of that valence, and remaining steps of acknowledging the item, and asking "Who are you?" will produce the cognition: "I'm me", and it will blow.
BTs lie?! That sucks. But forcing them to acknowledge their true identity sets them free. Sounds like an after-school special.
Example 1 :
"What are you ? "
A tree
A tree trunk
A branch
A twig
A broken limb LF - F/N (The item)
Example 2:
"What are you ? "
A sword
An arena
A crowd
A wild animal
A lion
Dust
Blood
A dying man
A gladiator F - F/N (The item)
Whoa. I could have some dust or a lion or a gladiator attached somewhere to my body?
It is imperative, mandatory, that the Flub, Cram, Retread System be used on this listing technique on NED for OTs, and no C/S, Cramming Officer, nor Tech/Qual executive may get reasonable about this, nor allow any persuasion or pressure to undermine or counter this system.
Ha. I love the jargon-y use of the phrase "get reasonable" here. Reason and rationality will not be tolerated!
If despite the above handlings the same person persists in repeating the same errors, then you up against a case situation described in HCOB 8 MAR 62 THE BAD"AUDITOR", and HCOB 15 MAR 62 SUPPRESSORS, and such a person must be removed from Tech/Qual lines for the sake of others.
Of course it's always operator error if you require acknowledgment of the infallibility of the tech.
The following is an example which illustrates this routine, taken from the case history of a Pre-OT who was physically ill and under constant heavy PT stress.
1st session, 1st day.
The auditor began flying the rudiments. Not all ruds were flown as the Pre-OT brightened up and had a win on spotting the source of an upset. (None of the ruds flown in this session read as belonging to aBT or cluster.) Time: 10 mins.
...
4th session, 3rd day.
The ruds were flown (very little on ruds this session), then the NOTs Repair List was continued and the second line taken up resulted in a BD from TA 4.5 to 3.0 and a line charge. The session was ended with the Pre-OT in high spirits, F/N, VGIs and joking at Exams. Time: 0=2E16 mis.
(Of interest is that the BD above resulted from the Pre-OT recalling a this life person who "thought he was everyone, All is one".)
At this point the Pre-OT was put onto a biochemical handling in addition to the auditing. This consisted of: vitamins, minerals, and Cal/Mag to remedy deficiency; freshly squeezed fruit juice as Vit C issaid to go out of fruit juice within half an hour; and because the Pre-OT was under- weight and had been off oils and fat, a supplement of a blend of oils (soy, walnut, peanut and safflower) preceded by taking a balanced combination of enzymes a few minutes before eating to help digest the oil/fat. These were taken as a supplement to te Pre-OT's diet.
...
7th session, 6th day.
(After the last session pain turned back on again.)
In this session the auditor began by locating the area of the body where the pain had turned on, then identifying it as coming from a cluster. The cluster didn't answer up and so was run on "Hello & OK" until it woke up and came into communication. Then it was blown with NOTs Valence Technique, with a large TA BD, wide F/N, VGIs, Pre-OT line charging and amused.
...
Despite extreme and heavy stress on the Pre-OT from day to day, a full recovery to health was accomplished, with no further relapse since, and all of this in but one week !
So. Much. Jargon.
This doesn't apply just to NOTs, one time a girl who was sick - nigh unto death - and in looking it over it was obvious this girl was sitting on a withhold from her parents. There was an assess- ment of the ruds, and on the reading one I asked "What might that be?" and next thing there was charge flying off all over the place and she got a resurgence on that alone.
...
A pc one time got sick after a session during some auditing and turned on a 104.5 degree temperature and still raising and he was about to be rushed off to a hospital. The C/S looked over the folder and made up a little assessment of about eight items that it could be and had it assessed. The biggest read was on "wrong item" and this was indicated. The TA BDed from about 5.0 to about 2.5 and this guy sat up in bed and said "Oh yeah, so that's what it was!". His temperature turned off and that was that. No further action taken.
...
Example:
HCOB 20.12.79
Auditor: "Is there an ARC break?" (no read)
"Is there a present time problem?" Fall.
Pre-OT: Answers stating the PTP.
Auditor: Acknowledges the answer.
Auditor: "Is that present time problem yours? (Fall),
a BT's? (no read), a cluster's? (no read")
The auditor indicates what read.
This PTP will either F/N (if it hasn't
already) or it is taken E/S to F/N.
(Note: If you get into a tangle ask "Is it also yours ?", "Is it also a BT's ?", "Is it also a cluster's?", even "Is it also theirs ?".
There's a possibility it could belong to everyone present.
Keep in mind that "everyone present" means one person (the preclear or pre-OT) and all the BTs (Body Thetans) and BT clusters attached to his/her body. And remember that BTs are the unsettled, hypnotized souls of possibly-extraterrestrial beings that were abducted, brought to Earth, and murdered millions of years ago.
I believe that's enough of that for one day.
2. Every once in awhile when I hear someone say "OT" in the context of therapy, my mind interprets it as "OT" in the context of Hubbardism.
Hmm. I wonder what The Great and Mighty Hubbard's take on sensory integration therapy would be.
On an unrelated note:
All thetans on this planet and on twenty-one nearby stars have Incident II and 'R6' in common. Hubbard refers to these twenty-two planets as 'the Confederation'. [From above "OT" link.]
Somehow this tidbit escaped my attention during my last Scientology-related reading binge. What exactly is the function of this interplanetary Confederation, if any? Does Hubbard ever identify said stars and/or planets? Did he also claim astronomy as one of his numerous areas of expertise?
although 'mocking something up' usually means 'imagining it', in Scieno-lingo it means more than a mental picture; it is supposedly a self-created object; it is a thing which one can be. Operating Thetans are, again supposedly, able to 'mock up' a picture that has dimensions and location in space and time.
Someday I might have to do a specific analysis of Scientology's co-opting of existing words/phrases and re-defining them for its own purposes. We already know it's a common brainwashing technique, but I wonder if there are any interesting patterns in how they manipulate language. Even better, how does Scientology jargon work in non-English languages?
On the mental imagines implanted into thetans during Incident II:
The pictures contain God, the Devil, angels, space opera, theaters, helicopters, a constant spinning, a spinning dancer, trains and various scenes very like modern England. You name it, it's in this implant we call in its entirely "R6".
Somewhat telling that Hubbard includes "space opera" in this list of false knowledge. Are we to deduct that his very own space opera is a false implant as well?
The thetans were gathered on "electronic ribbons", packaged together as clusters and given 36 days of implanting, to render them servile and incapable of decision.
Try replacing "thetans" with "preclears," "electronic ribbons" with "Church of Scientology," and "implanting" with "auditing." Sound familiar?
In Hubbard's own words:
Body Thetans are just Thetans. When you get rid of one he goes off and possibly squares around, picks up a body or admires daisies.
Ha. Admires daisies. Why hasn't the image of a daisy been worked into the symbolism of Scientology?
Thus we get the concept of a "black theta body". This would be actual BT's stuck to a thetan plus pictures of BT's stuck to a thetan.
How...recursive.
Incident II sometimes forms gigantic clusters. In such there is a leader, an alternate leader and several (eight to eighteen) more.
How numerically specific. Also, Body Thetans are starting to remind me of barnacles that need to be scraped off the hulls of boats.
Incident 2 Patter: DETERMINE IF A LOYAL OFFICER, RESIDENT OF EARTH, or FROM ANOTHER PLANET.
I don't quite know why, but that just kills me. It's like you're asking the BT to identify which class its RPG character belongs to. Also, do BTs have gender identities??
About 1/2 of the BTs come off and leave and go live their own lives by doing the lower Bridge right, and the other 1/2 come off here by doing OT III correctly.
Yet the Church still requires you to pay for further courses all the way up to OT VIII....
3. Fun with Kern!
“You know gays are infiltrating city councils,” she said. “Did you know, Eureka Springs, anybody been there to the Passion Play? Have you heard that the city council of Eureka Springs is now controlled by gays?"
Hahaha. Oh noes! Not Eureka Springs! One of the nation's top 25 Small Arts Communities. Imagine gay people living there! How dare they take on leadership roles in their own communities!
Matter of fact, studies show no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades.
Captain Anthropology, your services are needed....
Anthropology to the rescue! Homosexuality has been around, accepted to varying degrees, in various cultures for thousands of years. And it's not like the almost exhaustive number of animals that perform homosexual acts all go extinct after a few decades, but I suppose such base creatures are exempt from the Law of God.
4. A Day in the Life of a Scientologist on OT 7
So I cruise around in my mind[,] check through my body, above it, around it higher, lower, inside of it, mmmmmmwhere is this BT? (Usually I was able to locate what I thought were BT's Pretty easily.) Ok.....one foot to my right....meter Falls.
So Body Thetans could in fact be located some distance away from the body?
BT: I am very upset because I am tired of people asking other OT's if they can heal people. I'm not healed so this question upsets me.
Heh.
Left Shoulder- Fall. (meter reads, someone is there)
(me) "What are you?"
(BT) "A broken bone"--Fall
(me) "I'd like to indicate you are a broken bone".
BT: Cool.....blow. F/n.
Ha. So to get rid of these Body Thetans, one need only 'indicate' its location/identity to make it go away?
And the following indicates how badly the CoS wants to keep its upper-level information away from the masses:
Me: Damn!! I forgot to lock that stupid window. It's closed, My entire house is locked up...this is crazy to have to do lower conditions for this one window no one can even get to.....but per the Security pack, I violated
it...so I'll call and see.
Now you have to Call your Director of Processing, in Clearwater, and tell them. They send you to "Ethics" on the phone, and you are assigned "Treason" and told to write it up, and call them once you get up to "liability". Then you have to "Make up the
Damage" by doing some work needed, and get an OK to return to OT 7.
5. HCO BULLETIN OF 11 DECEMBER 1978
[Meaning straight from Hubbard's mouth, or at least OK'd by him.]
Unblown BTs or clusters, or BTs and clusters messsed up on OT III, are sometimes at a distance of 6 - 8 - 10 feet out from the body.
This is a perimeter you wouldn't normally think to handle. They blew out to this perimeter and stuck there.
Huh. I guess so.
BTs or clusters who tried to blow but hung up against other BTs or clusters or ridges or bones.
Well shit. BTs can want to check out but get tripped up by your ribcage??
After handling a BT or cluster do not recheck or repeat the Repair list line, as doing so would invalidate the fact that you have handled it, and would restimulate others, cause others to mock up (copy) what was just handled.
It seems that moderation is sometimes encouraged even in the wacky world of Scientology.
Sometimes a BT or cluster will answer at first with a wrong item or items. Then there won't be any valence shift, nor will there be any blow. Finding the correct item (the valence the BT or cluster is obsessively being), will shift the BT or cluster out of that valence, and remaining steps of acknowledging the item, and asking "Who are you?" will produce the cognition: "I'm me", and it will blow.
BTs lie?! That sucks. But forcing them to acknowledge their true identity sets them free. Sounds like an after-school special.
Example 1 :
"What are you ? "
A tree
A tree trunk
A branch
A twig
A broken limb LF - F/N (The item)
Example 2:
"What are you ? "
A sword
An arena
A crowd
A wild animal
A lion
Dust
Blood
A dying man
A gladiator F - F/N (The item)
Whoa. I could have some dust or a lion or a gladiator attached somewhere to my body?
It is imperative, mandatory, that the Flub, Cram, Retread System be used on this listing technique on NED for OTs, and no C/S, Cramming Officer, nor Tech/Qual executive may get reasonable about this, nor allow any persuasion or pressure to undermine or counter this system.
Ha. I love the jargon-y use of the phrase "get reasonable" here. Reason and rationality will not be tolerated!
If despite the above handlings the same person persists in repeating the same errors, then you up against a case situation described in HCOB 8 MAR 62 THE BAD"AUDITOR", and HCOB 15 MAR 62 SUPPRESSORS, and such a person must be removed from Tech/Qual lines for the sake of others.
Of course it's always operator error if you require acknowledgment of the infallibility of the tech.
The following is an example which illustrates this routine, taken from the case history of a Pre-OT who was physically ill and under constant heavy PT stress.
1st session, 1st day.
The auditor began flying the rudiments. Not all ruds were flown as the Pre-OT brightened up and had a win on spotting the source of an upset. (None of the ruds flown in this session read as belonging to aBT or cluster.) Time: 10 mins.
...
4th session, 3rd day.
The ruds were flown (very little on ruds this session), then the NOTs Repair List was continued and the second line taken up resulted in a BD from TA 4.5 to 3.0 and a line charge. The session was ended with the Pre-OT in high spirits, F/N, VGIs and joking at Exams. Time: 0=2E16 mis.
(Of interest is that the BD above resulted from the Pre-OT recalling a this life person who "thought he was everyone, All is one".)
At this point the Pre-OT was put onto a biochemical handling in addition to the auditing. This consisted of: vitamins, minerals, and Cal/Mag to remedy deficiency; freshly squeezed fruit juice as Vit C issaid to go out of fruit juice within half an hour; and because the Pre-OT was under- weight and had been off oils and fat, a supplement of a blend of oils (soy, walnut, peanut and safflower) preceded by taking a balanced combination of enzymes a few minutes before eating to help digest the oil/fat. These were taken as a supplement to te Pre-OT's diet.
...
7th session, 6th day.
(After the last session pain turned back on again.)
In this session the auditor began by locating the area of the body where the pain had turned on, then identifying it as coming from a cluster. The cluster didn't answer up and so was run on "Hello & OK" until it woke up and came into communication. Then it was blown with NOTs Valence Technique, with a large TA BD, wide F/N, VGIs, Pre-OT line charging and amused.
...
Despite extreme and heavy stress on the Pre-OT from day to day, a full recovery to health was accomplished, with no further relapse since, and all of this in but one week !
So. Much. Jargon.
This doesn't apply just to NOTs, one time a girl who was sick - nigh unto death - and in looking it over it was obvious this girl was sitting on a withhold from her parents. There was an assess- ment of the ruds, and on the reading one I asked "What might that be?" and next thing there was charge flying off all over the place and she got a resurgence on that alone.
...
A pc one time got sick after a session during some auditing and turned on a 104.5 degree temperature and still raising and he was about to be rushed off to a hospital. The C/S looked over the folder and made up a little assessment of about eight items that it could be and had it assessed. The biggest read was on "wrong item" and this was indicated. The TA BDed from about 5.0 to about 2.5 and this guy sat up in bed and said "Oh yeah, so that's what it was!". His temperature turned off and that was that. No further action taken.
...
Example:
HCOB 20.12.79
Auditor: "Is there an ARC break?" (no read)
"Is there a present time problem?" Fall.
Pre-OT: Answers stating the PTP.
Auditor: Acknowledges the answer.
Auditor: "Is that present time problem yours? (Fall),
a BT's? (no read), a cluster's? (no read")
The auditor indicates what read.
This PTP will either F/N (if it hasn't
already) or it is taken E/S to F/N.
(Note: If you get into a tangle ask "Is it also yours ?", "Is it also a BT's ?", "Is it also a cluster's?", even "Is it also theirs ?".
There's a possibility it could belong to everyone present.
Keep in mind that "everyone present" means one person (the preclear or pre-OT) and all the BTs (Body Thetans) and BT clusters attached to his/her body. And remember that BTs are the unsettled, hypnotized souls of possibly-extraterrestrial beings that were abducted, brought to Earth, and murdered millions of years ago.
I believe that's enough of that for one day.
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