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Appendix
A: Dramatic Personae
Update Many if not most of the characters in my story have contributed to Scientology's high attrition rate. John McMaster (real name), recently deceased, the "World's First Clear," and for years Scientology's major spokesperson, left the group in 1969, appalled at Hubbard's policies. Joan Porter, who introduced Scientology to me, is, miraculously and loyally, still in the group. She takes a dim view of me for writing this book (though she's never read it!). Felicia and Gerald Tyber left Scientology shortly after John McMaster did, and got a divorce several years later. Felicia is deceased. Renzo Lancia is happily remarried, and of course out of the group. Morton Morvis is out. Marty Moussorgsky stayed with the group a long time. Current status unknown to me. Empress Green and Margo Zumbrich of the franchise Dianetics class are out. Five Brooks ("Joe Thetan") is out, bless his Blues in Bb. Edward Douglas presumably is still in, if still among us (he didn't reply to my letter addressed to him in Australia). I enjoy exchanges of Christmas greetings with Bruce Perkins, who is resoundingly out. Radcliff Jones visited me in New York for several days in 1989. He avowed his belief in "Tech," but enjoyed discussing it in a non-fanatical way. Rad was killed in an auto accident in South Africa in the early '90s. I exchanged letters with Elisabette, who is still in and saving her money for further processing. Frank of the Special Briefing Course may very well be out: one of his relatives is out, and this is contagious. The Commander of AOUK when I attended is out, and was running a "squirrel" (auditing not sanctioned by Scientology) group until his recent death. The fearsome Master at Arms is out, and "squirreling" (the organization better not mess with him, though). Cuddly Third Mate left, also the buxom redheaded Examiner; as well as other Sea Org crew members less prominent in the story. Certain others are a question mark. Some of them are Britishers, Australians or New Zealanders, whom I've inquired about by word of mouth only, with no luck. Bill Burgmuller I've failed to trace through rural Illinois telephone directories. Appendix B: English Translation of "Scientologist's Letter" Dear Dimitrius, immortal spirit emancipated from your body, thanks to Ron Hubbard, It's about time I replied to your last letter. This is my first respite in 1981 (31 years after the book Dianetics was published, viz., "anno Dianetics"). Here are the facts I promised you. Lots of wins at Upper Level Scientology headquarters. We're making rapid strides. Many individuals who have purchased Ron Hubbard's consciousness-raising techniques are getting reads (FNs = floating needles) on a biofeedback indicator that they have passed these drills, or have even attained the ability to leave their bodies and return to them whenever they like. Ron's rehash of his old material, including his emergency treatment for fully-restored souls like yourself, (but who need help despite their superhuman abilities) has made the difference. I'm now taking an advanced training course, and it's the greatest ever -- even more mental orgasms than the course preceding it. I've been totally free from the negative influence of my subconscious mind since I got the favorable biofeedback signs on my answers to several simple questions put to me by a Scientology practitioner. Last night I left my body behind for three hours. Proselytizing Scientology is effortless when you're not bogged down by personal problems (PTPs = present-time problems) and physical limitations. We intend to take over the planet (Admin = Administration) as well as anything else we find out there on our mental space missions. Not to bring up an unpleasant subject, but something is fishy at local headquarters. I've had a flash awareness that the Director of Training is to blame. I haven't seen all of his records of treatment on the most advanced drills, but a while back he was upset about something, started falsely and irrationally criticizing the way Ron wants things run, and left English HQ at full steam. Well, they got him back all right, got part of his story out of him, and put him through a long lie-detector type of test and some additional interrogation to find out who's been putting him up to his subversive behavior. He finally divulged the person's name, renounced him, and made it official by writing the culprit a letter stating that he would have nothing more to do with him. But that didn't end the matter. More recently he's been jabbering like one of those idiots who hasn't joined our group, complaining of pains (SOMS = "somatics") even after we checked out his performance on every drill he's done so far, and he's again behaving so erratically that he could damage our operation. The routing office got him back in the swing of things, and ordered him to go through two different sets of troubleshooting questions. He got so tense he had violent reads that finally blew out the machine. At some point he may have made a sham of our honor system by lying about his progress -- perhaps false statements concerning his competence at doing the drills by himself -- or else at an early stage he misrepresented his understanding of one of his neuroses. The guy may even now be reliving a past life in which he was hydrogen-bombed in an exploding volcano. In any event the poor bastard's flipping out, and we must find out who or what's to blame and fix it. If necessary the enforcement unit will have him work three straight days without sleep and send him to Ron's boat, where he'll be kept in strict compliance. I don't wish to go on too long about this; you must think I'm still playing the yenta. So long for now. I'm going across the road and kill a couple hours staring into the eyes of a cow, haha. Talk to you soon, man.
(That the English version of the letter is longer and much more cumbersome at last gives me something to admire about Scientologese.) I doubt that anyone can provide an accurate figure for Scientology's membership worldwide (churches and orgs in at least thirty countries). Such is the constant ebb and flow in and, I believe it's accurate to state, especially out of the group, it is unlikely that the organization itself has any idea of what its membership is on any given day. In my opinion membership has waned since about 1970. Scientology has had stiff competition from other cults, modern religions, New Age groups. Many of its staunchest members have left, and ever more of the raw public are reluctant to become involved. Among the reasons for this reluctance are:
But Scientology keeps rolling. If their membership is down, still they have managed to find more affluent people, on the principle that you may enlist either one thousand people who pay $1,000 each or, just as good, one hundred people who pay $10,000 each or ten people who pay $100,000 each. Scientology has scored points with the media with their "Celebrity Center," which hosts famous entertainers and sports stars in the group. And most importantly, Scientology was awarded a favorable decision as a non-profit organization in United States Tax Court, and can now legally call themselves a religion in this country. However, there have been strictures against Scientology in several other countries. Appendix D: The High Cost of Infinity Declining membership is perhaps what has made the Scientology organization push the book Dianetics so heavily, and caused L.Ron Hubbard to restructure his stages and courses, call his program "The Bridge," and raise his prices astronomically. How high? The E-meter I bought in 1968 for $150 cost $831.59 in August of 1984, the '84 "Mark V" model, in steel blue, peacock blue, beige or gray sold for $3,019.39, in black $3326.30. The black leather "limited edition" cost $5,745.24. All of these prices are probably substantially higher at the time of this book's publication more than a decade later. In 1968 I purchased softcover books, such as E-Meter Drills, for about $1.50; in August 1984 the same book, and a softcover of similar length, E-Meter Essentials, went for $26.34 and $34.46 respectively. In the '60s, hardcovers such as Science of Survival and Phoenix Lectures were in the $4-5 range; by August '84 their respective prices had risen to $79.76 and $65.25. It is fair to say from these figures that Scientology's rate of inflation far exceeds the wog world's. The August 1984 prices appear in The Auditor, a monthly journal, Issue 192, under the heading "Complete your L. Ron Hubbard Library Now!" Prices are also given for hardcover books, cassettes and "Course Packs." There are 21 softcover books, at a total cost of $531.23, which averages $25.25 per item; 36 hardcover books at a total cost (omitting any titles that are also available in softcover) of $5,938.51, which averages out to a few pennies short of $165 per item; 13 cassettes, total cost $3147,03 -- some of these items are sets, such as Philadelphia Doctorate Course, which comprises 76 tapes, thus making the average price for all cassettes on the list probably only around $25 per; 32 Course Packs, total cost $2191.97, averaging $68.50 per item -- the figure is brought down by eight items under $10. The total cost of all 103 items on the August 1984 price list, using the lowest figure for an E-meter, is $12, 646.33, for an average of $122.78 per item. Note that this hasn't yet got us any actual auditing or training, let alone "secrets." For these, let's turn to a price list called Flag Services, Accommodations and Bookstore Donations Fall 1987, sent out by the organization in a mailing. ("Flag" refers to Hubbard's "flagship." The "land base" is the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida.) The following entries, given here in toto, do not include cassettes and most of the books, which were discussed above, details about room accommodations at the hotel, or clauses about discounts for payments far enough in advance:
The total cost of these 25 items is $172,342, averaging $6,893.68 per item. Grades 0 through IV do not appear. They might be included in "12 1/2 hours Regular and Confessional Auditing." Here are a few more:
Nothing is said in the price lists and promo about the redundancy aspect. The effect of this is to raise the average cost per item, since a student who purchases several courses or Packs may be paying two or three times over for the same material. And more:
There follows a list of accommodations, starting from around $300 a week at the "Sand Castle," running to $3-4,000 a week for a suite at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida. A note at the bottom of the sheet says: FEES PROMPTLY REFUNDED TO ANY DISSATISFIED STUDENT OR PRECLEAR. A REFUND OF CONTRIBUTIONS WILL ONLY BE PAID SUBJECT TO THE POLICY OF THE CLAIMS VERIFICATION BOARD. A stupendous chart, called "The Bridge To Total Freedom," shows the new structure of processing and training. The author of the book you're reading got as far as OT IV, by way of the Grades, Power, Solo Clearing, OT I, II and III, and a couple of courses, at a total cost of about $8,000. The "Bridge" has added Purification Rundown ("if necessary"), Objectives Processing, Drug Rundown (includes medicine and alcohol), New Era Dianetics ("refined spiritual healing technology"), Sunshine Rundown ("confidential") and OT Preps ("advanced religious counseling"). The total price for the listed items is $59,762. OT V, VI and VII cost an additional $24,200. The latter two Levels are called "NOTs, advanced spiritual training and technology for OTs." OT VIII through OT XII are available, but I don't have the prices. XIII through XV are "not yet released." All OT Levels except II and III are designated "new." "Clear" is redefined as "a being who no longer has his own reactive mind" (emphasis added -- I believe they mean here not the reactive minds of "body thetans" and "dormant beings"). So far I've stuck to only one half of "The Bridge To Total Freedom" chart, "New Streamlined Classification, Gradation and Awareness Chart of Levels and Certificates." This is something to behold, about two feet high and one foot wide, jam-packed with print, some of it microscopic, fit into boxes. The other half of the chart sets out the "Bridge" for training, which ascends to Class XII "gold belt flubless auditor." I've talked to knowledgable ex-members about the prices. The drastic increases had made me wonder if the organization was trying to phase Scientology out. The ex-members' replies were always the same: Quite the contrary; people are indeed paying these prices. Appendix E: Processing Revisited One difficulty which faces anyone concerned to obtain a comprehensive picture of Scientology is that since 1956 no attempt has been made to produce a comprehensive and unified thesis on the theories and practices of Scientology ... There exist in an uncodified or unclassified form tape recordings which are said to contain 30,000,000 words spoken by Hubbard and writings by Hubbard which run into the tens of thousands of pages. The Herculean task of reducing to manageable size the content of these Hubbardian emanations must await the labours of a dedicated Scientologist with the time, money, capacity, and compulsion to undertake such a useless exercise. QC Anderson wrote his report in 1965. That gave Hubbard two decades more for making tapes, and writing not only Scientology material but also a ten-volume legitimate science fiction series commencing with Battlefield Earth, his ultimate goal apparently not so much to clear the planet as to inundate it with words (note that I'm referring, as I believe QC Anderson was, only to Hubbard's published or widely-distributed writings and tapes, not to his inter-organizational communications, private journals, notes and discarded material, if any of the latter. It is rumored that the unpublished writings would stack up to the height of the Eiffel Tower). From 1950 until his death in January of 1986, Hubbard "expanded" processing with the comfortable regularity of bird migration. The "new" processes strike me as remarkably similar to those of the '60s, which in turn hark back to Hubbard's early '50s books, available at any org bookstore (one exception I'm aware of is the "Purification Rundown" -- the "hot-box"). They are now renamed, laden with the latest jargon, fitted into the "Bridge" chart restructurization and sold at the astoundingly higher new prices. Each innovation is touted as definitive. As soon after my own involvement as 1970, The Auditor Issue 56 heralds, "The Scene Has Changed," and that '69 marked the achievement of "Complete Dianetics" and '70, "Complete Scientology." There are new "Expanded Grades" and "New Power." "Full Tech From 1950 Is Back In Use," Issue 58 proclaims; "OT III Expanded" and "Now you can get HOURS OF AUDITING. Orgs no longer sell Grades Packages or single grades. They sell HOURS OF AUDITING. And you get ALL those hours of auditing you pay for, too. No more `quickie grades.' Get some charge off your case! Buy a 25, 50, or 75 hour intensive at your local org today ... You don't have to decide anything ... except to get some auditing ... CONTACT THE REGISTRAR OF YOUR LOCAL ORG NOW." In 1968, per my story, six OT Levels were available and Ron was working on VII and VIII. In the early '80s Hubbard was rumored to project future Levels as high as OT XXX. An older process, probably an early version of clearing, is described in Hubbard's 1952 book Scientology 8-80:
Other of Ron's creations I'm grateful not to have encountered are "between-lives implants," "deds" and "dedexes," "demon circuits," "Black Dianetics," and the creature we were eons ago in past lives, when we were low on the "Genetic Entity Line" and spat out attacking waves on the seashore -- called "the Weeper," also known as "the Grim Weeper" or "Boohoo." Appendix F: A Message from L. Ron Hubbard, May 9, 1984 To each of you this 9 May A.D.34 -- Hello! Another Dianetics anniversary has arrived and we are celebrating a year that has seen one stellar tech breakthrough after another. It all started with Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health in 1950 and it continues with Dianetics today. Dianetics Clears that had been stalled on The Bridge have been pried loose and are now flooding up through their OT sections with lightning speed with one rave success story after another. I've also released tech developments for New Era Dianetics for OTs (NOTs) that deliver another powerful booster rocket to that star-bound tech. And at this moment, as we celebrate the 34th anniversary of Dianetics, yet another technical breakthrough has been achieved that finds and addresses false incidents on the track, that cracks cases and changes one's life as the being is freed from delusion. That will be coming to you soon as an entire new, exciting rundown. Meanwhile, technology that handles nonsurvival considerations and uninhibits the full power and potential of a being has been restored along with new discoveries that allow people to reach and have with their fullest potential. Yes, this is a year of startling and exciting technical breakthroughs and developments. What is on the "other side"? The chaos and confusion that created this trap still beckons to some while we, with our tech, soar above them and beyond where even the stars seem small. Yes, the future is ours and never was it brighter, more real or more within our grasp than today. The galaxies are warned. Here we come! Agreed? My love and appreciation to each and every one of you. Love, Ron Appendix G: From Hubbard's Axioms Axiom 1: Life is basically a static. Definition: A life static has no mass, no motion, no wave length, no location in space or in time. It has the ability to postulate and to perceive space as a viewpoint of dimension. Axiom 5: Energy consists of postulated particles in space. Axiom 10: The highest purpose in this universe is the creation of an effect. (from Advance 7, 1969, in AOUK Magazine):
Appendix I: Security ChecksSecurity Check ChildrenBulletin September 21, 1961 The following is a processing check for use on children. Be sure the child can understand the question. Re phrase it so he or she can understand it. The first question is the most potent. What has somebody told you not to tell? Have you ever decided you did not like some member of your family? Have you ever taken something belonging to somebody else and never given it back? Have you ever pretended to be sick (ill)? Have you ever made yourself sick (ill), or hurt yourself to make somebody sorry? Have you even wanted something every much, but never told anybody about it? Have you ever gotten yourself dirty on purpose? Have you ever refused to eat just to worry someone? Have you ever remembered something about yourself and not told anybody, because you thought they wouldn't believe you, or be angry at you? Have you ever refused to obey an order from someone you should obey? Have you ever told another child something that wasn't true, just to frighten or upset him? Have you ever bullied a smaller child? Have you ever deliberately got another child, or a grown-up, into trouble? Have you ever pestered grown people, who were trying to work? Have you ever been mean, or cruel, to an animal, bird or fish? Have you ever forgotten to give food or water to a pet entrusted to your care? Have you ever broken something belonging to someone else? Have you ever deliberately spoiled clothing of yours because you didn't like it? Do you have a secret? Have you ever noticed something wrong with your body that you were afraid to tell anybody about? Have you ever done anything you were very much ashamed of? Is there anything about you your parents could not understand, even if you told them? Have you ever failed to finish your schoolwork on time? Have you ever flunked an examination at school? Have you ever deliberately given a teacher trouble? Have you ever tried to make others dislike some teacher? Have you ever tried to make another child unpopular? Have you ever broken, damaged, or taken, any school property? Have you ever lied to a teacher? Have you ever been late to school, or late to a class? Have you ever stayed away from school, when you could have gone?? Have you ever cheated by copying someone else's work, taking notes into an examination, or looking up answers in a book when you weren't supposed to? Have you ever spoiled things for somebody? Who have you made guilty? Have you ever done something you shouldn't when you were supposed to be in bed or asleep? Have you ever told others bad stories about someone? Have you ever tried to make others believe that your parents, or teachers, were cruel to you? Have you ever offered as an excuse for something you have done wrong that you are only a child, or that you haven't grown up yet? Have you ever felt that your parents and home were too good for you? Have you ever felt that your parents and home weren't good enough for you? Is there anything you should tell your parents, and never have? Have you ever done anything to some else's body that you shouldn't have? Have you ever told anyone that you did something, when you hadn't really done it? Have you ever told anyone that you hadn't done something which you really had done? Have you ever ganged up on another child and made fun of him because he was different from the rest of you? Have you ever made fun of another because of the way he looked? Have you ever decided never to talk to someone again? Have you ever made your parents or teachers work harder than they should? Have you ever decided that you were too bright, or too smart for the other kids? Have you ever annoyed an adult by something you did or said? Have you ever hurt a child? Have you ever mae a child cry? Have you ever made a child sulk? Have you ever kept another child from having something that really belonged to him? Have you ever found anything and failed to return it to its owner? Have you ever told stories about someone behind their back? Have you ever lied to escape blame? Have you ever not told the whole truth about something so as to protect someone? Have you ever felt ashamed of your parents? Have you ever disappointed your parents? Have you ever run away when you should have stayed? Have you ever felt sure your parents wouldn't understand something that had happened in school, so you didn't tell them? Have you ever not told teachers something about your family because they wouldn't understand it? Have you ever failed to keep another child's secret? Have you ever felt it was just no use talking to someone? Have you ever hurt someone you didn't mean to? Have you ever been sloppy about your clothes or possessions? Have you ever cried when you shouldn't have? Have you ever been a coward? Have you ever made too much fuss over a little hurt? Have you ever tried to make your parents believe you were doing better in school than you were? Have you ever told on anyone? Have you ever teased younger children? Have you ever mae a mess and not helped to clean it up? Have you ever broken or damaged something and never told anybody it was you who did it? Have you ever let someone else get punished for something you did? Have you ever cried till you got your own way? Have you ever decided "Someday, when I'm grown up, I'll get even"? If so, with whom? Have you ever picked on someone smaller than yourself? Have you ever upset anyone by throwing a temper tantrum? Have you ever hurt anyone by telling them you didn't love them any more? Have you ever made out that you were more badly damaged than you were in order to make someone stop picking on you? Have you ever pretended to like someone that you didn't like in order to satisfy your parents? The Only Valid Security CheckSince a Security Check failure can compromise or injure a person's position or economics, and because we are not moralists, it is better to be more positive on the subject of a Security Check failure, leaving no part of it up to judgment. The question of what constitutes a Security Check failure has now troubled enough people to make it necessary to lay down the following policies. A Security Check to be used for any organizational reason must be made on a Hubbard Communications Office World Wide form. There are only three ways a Security Checker may flunk any person.
Lie reaction failure may no longer be considered a flunk. Important questions always have enough charge on them to cause a reaction even on bad criminals and the reaction will continue consistently or sporadically if the person is still withholding information. The question of something reacting because of past life crimes is ruled out it, when a question fails to clear, the Security Checker adds "In this lifetime?" to or in the question and works on that question continuing to use that added phrase. Reactions by reason of past lives tend to drop out and clear if this is done. The task of the Security Checker is to carefully question and clear if possible changes of meter needle behaviour caused by the question. Plainly note any level that failed to clear. This fails the person. The lie reaction questions were originally used in Scientology only to study the needle pattern of the person being checked so that changes in it could then be judged in their rue light. Some preclears, for instance, get a slight reaction every time any question is asked. Some get a reaction only when there is heavy charge. Both can be Security Checked by studying the common pattern of the needle demonstrated in asking the Lie Reaction questions. The purpose of the Lie Reaction questions is returned to the original intention. A totally stuck needle can be freed by processing, or by getting off withholds. If a person is flunked by reason of 1. above, they require auditing before another check is taken, the auditing to be taken at the responsibility of the person being checked. All Security Check sheets of persons Security Checked should be forwarded to Saint Hill, complete with all markings and the reason why the question would not at first clear, if important, or the drop marked which would not clear and whether or not the person was passed or failed. Nothing in this Policy Letter changes the responsibility of the Director of Training in preventing Scientology from being taught to persons who would use it in violation of the Code of a Scientologists. In reprinting this check sheet leave all directions as part of every sheet. ... The following statement should be read or quoted to the person being Security Checked: "We are about to begin a Security Check. We are not moralists. We are able to change people. We are not here to condemn them. while we cannot guarantee you that matters revealed in this check will be held forever secret, we can promise you faithfully that no part of nor any answer you make here will be given to the police or state. No Scientologist will ever bear witness against you in Court by reason of answers to this Security Check. This Security Check is exclusively for Scientology purposes. The only ways you can fail this Security Check is to refuse to take the test, to fail to answer its questions truthfully or if you are here knowingly to injure Scientology. The only penalty attached to failure of this check is processing or our refusal to employ you or issue you a certificate, and this will only happen if we find that you trying knowingly to injure Scientology. You can pass this test by (1) agreeing to take it, (2) answering each question truthfully and (3) by not being a member of a subversive group seeking to injure Scientology. The first questions are null questions to determine your reaction pattern.
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Are you sitting on a chair? Are you on the moon? Are all cats black? Am I an ostrich? Is this Earth? Have you ever drunk water? Are you holding up a tree? Am I an elephant? Are you a table? Is this a Security Check? ... Have you ever lived or worked under an assumed name? Have you given me your right name? Are you here for a different purpose than you say? Have you ever stolen anything? Have you ever done any shoplifting? Have you ever forged a signature, cheque, or document? Have you ever blackmailed anybody? Have you ever been blackmailed? Have you ever cheated? Have you ever smuggled anything? Have you ever entered a country illegally? Have you ever been in prison? Have you ever tried to act normal? Have you ever indulged in drunkenness? Have you ever done any reckless driving? Have you ever hit and run with a car? Have you ever burglared any place? Are you guilty of anything? Have you ever embezzled money? Do you have a secret you are afraid I'll find out? Have you ever assaulted anyone? Have you ever practised cannibalism? Have you ever been in jail? Have you ever told lies in Court? Have you ever been Court Martialed? Have you ever deserted from a military service? Have you ever illegally prevented conscription? Have you ever been a mutineer? Have you ever had anything to do with pornography? Have you ever committed arson? Have you ever been a drug addict? Have you ever made anyone into a drug addict? Have you ever peddled dope? Have you ever PDH'd anyone? Have you had any dealings with stolen goods? Have you ever divulged government secrets for pay or political reasons? Do you have a police record? Have you ever raped anyone or been raped? Have you ever been involved in an abortion? Have you ever committed adultery? Have you ever committed bigamy? Have you ever practised homosexuality? Have you ever practised or assisted intercourse between women? Have you ever had intercourse with a member of your family? Have you ever been sexually unfaithful? Have you ever practiced sex with animals? Have you ever publicly exhibited yourself sexually? Have you ever hidden to watch sexual practices? Have you ever practised sodomy? Have you ever consistently made a practice of sex with a member of your own sex? Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color? Have you ever committed culpable homicide? Have you ever committed a justifiable crime? Have you ever bombed anything? Have you ever murdered anyone? Have you ever hidden a body? Have you ever attempted suicide? Have you ever kidnapped anyone? Have you ever done any illicit diamond buying? Have you ever acted as an informer? Have you ever betrayed anyone for money? Have you ever betrayed a trust? Have you ever betrayed an employer's trust? Have you ever speculated with somebody else's funds? Have you ever knowingly implicated an innocent person? Have you ever withheld a communication concerning a crime or misdemeanor committed by another? Have you ever threatened anyone with a firearm? Have you ever been in illegal possession of firearms? Are my questions embarrassing? Have you ever been paid for giving evidence? Have you ever acted as an informer? Have you ever injured somebody's reputation by knowingly spreading lies? Have you ever injured somebody by spading tales you knew were true? Have you ever destroyed something belonging to someone else? Have you ever plotted to destroy a member of your family? Have you ever had a member of your family in an insane asylum? Have you ever been pronounced insane? Have you ever been a spy for an organization? Have you ever looted any place? Have you ever stolen from the armed forces? Have you ever conspired with anyone? Have you ever had anything to do with Communism or been a Communist? Have you practised fraud? Have you ever been a newspaper reporter? Are you hiding anything? Have you ever had intercourse after placing another under alcohol or drugs? Have you ever used hypnotism to procure sex or money? Do you collect sexual objects? Have you ever ill-treated children? Have you ever practised sex with children? Have you ever practised masturbation? Have you ever taken money for giving anyone sexual intercourse? Have you ever sexually coerced a servant? Do you have any bastards? Are you withholding anything? Have you ever had any connection with a brothel? Have you ever coerced anyone into giving you sex? Have you had anything to do with a baby farm? Have you ever killed or crippled animals for pleasure? Have you ever crippled a person? Have you ever been a spy for the police? Have you ever pretended a disability? Are you afraid of the police? Have you ever committed a misdemeanor? Have you ever committed a felony? Have you ever committed a capital offense? Have you ever done anything you are afraid the police may find out? Have you ever falsified the books in any firm you worked for? Have you ever criminally avoided taxes? Have you ever counterfeited money? Have you ever fraudulently altered or issued certificates or documents? Have you ever obtained money under false pretences? Have you ever done anything your mother would be ashamed to find out? How could you help yourself generally? What represents yourself? How could you help your family? What represents your family? How do you feel about sex? What represents (the Org (others (a group to you? How could you help (the Org? (others? (a group? How could you help mankind? Have you ever controlled people? How do you feel about being controlled? What is Communism? Do you feel Communism has some good points? Have you ever been a member of the Communist Party or any associated group? Have you ever been a member of any group with similar ideals as the Communist Party? Do you know any Communists personally? Have you ever injured Dianetics or Scientology? Have you committed any overts on a Scientology Organization? Have you wronged anyone in a Scientology Organization? Have you ever stolen anything from a Scientology Organization? Do you have anything in your possession that you shouldn't have? Do you have any overts on L. Ron Hubbard? Have you ever had any unkind thoughts about L. Ron Hubbard? Do you have any overts on Mary Sue Hubbard? Have you done bad things to leaders in Scientology or Scientology orgs? Have you withheld anything from executives in Scientology? Have you sought to get any staff member dismissed? Have you knowingly planned not to do your job? Have you ever had any unkind thoughts about Mary Sue Hubbard? Have you ever injured any Scientologist? Have you ever had any unkind thoughts about Scientologists? Have you ever betrayed Scientology? Do you know of any secret plans against Scientology? Do you plan to steal a Scientology Organization? Have you ever taken money to injure Scientology? Do you deserve to be helped by Scientology? Have you ever used Dianetics or Scientology to force sex upon anyone? Have you ever falsified a claim for money to be repaid to you or to be paid you? Do you know of any plans to injure a Scientology Organization? Do you know of any plans to injure a Scientologist? Are you upset about this Security Check? What question in this check shouldn't I ask you again? Have you withheld from answering anything because it might injure someone? What unkind thoughts have you thought while I have been doing this check? Have any of your answers here been designed to injure another? Are you upset about this Security Check? Security Check of Scientology StudentsPolicy Letter, June 29, 1961
Are you coming on this course
in order to get away from someone or something?
Are you here to get into something? to find out whether Scientology works? to prove that Scientology can't help you? Are you coming on this course with the intention of killing off your body? with the intention of spinning? or going insane? Are you presently taking tranquilizers? drugs? or medication of any sort? Have you had sex with any other student? a staff member? Are you trying to get another student to have sex with you? or a staff member? Have you coughed or distracted others during a lecture? Have you criticised this course, or the organization, verbally or in writing to non-Scientologists? Have you been thinking unkind or critical, thoughts about your preclear? L. Ron Hubbard? your instructor? your auditor? other students? staff members? Are you in disagreement with any of the stable data of Scientology? Have you secretly violated any course rule, or regulation? passes on restricted data of Scientology to unauthorized persons? tried to give Scientology a bad name? Are you making any Scientologist guilty of anything? Have you done anything that would discredit Ron or Mary Sue Hubbard, or your instructors, by reason of their having trained you? Is there anything that L. Ron Hubbard, or your instructors should mistrust you for that you haven't told them about? Are you in communication with someone who understands more about Scientology than L. Ron Hubbard? Is anyone hostile to Scientology assisting you financially on this course? Is anyone here counting on you to keep a secret for him? Have you any feeling of "injured innocence" at having been asked these questions? Have you been critical of the data or quality of the tapes? Have you ever written and then destroyed critical messages addressed to L. Ron Hubbard? How do you feel about these questions? Auditor's Sec CheckPolicy Letter July 7, 1961
Have you ever permitted a
preclear to take control of the session?
Have you ever startled a preclear when he was on a comm lag? Have you ever permitted a preclear to have secrets from you? Have you ever blamed the preclear for running over time? Have you ever blamed the Director of Processing or L. Ron Hubbard for your preclear's case not advancing? Have you ever failed to flatten a process when it was still biting? Have you ever jammed a preclear into a one-way flow and left him stuck there in it? Have you ever audited badly? Do you regard auditing as a punishment? Do you feel that auditing is too good for psychotics, or cripples or criminals? Have you ever been distressed because of a preclear's physical or mental pain under auditing? Have you ever stolen from a preclear? Have you ever stolen another auditor's preclear? Is there any question the Director of Processing or L. Ron Hubbard should have asked you and hasn't? Do you hope you don't be found out? Have you ever avoided receiving auditing yourself? Have you ever mistrusted your E-Meter? Is there anything mysterious to you about an E-Meter? Have you ever let a preclear control you? Do you think selling auditing is really a swindle? Do you think there is anything wrong with having your own privacy invaded? Have you ever sought to prove that auditing would not work? Have you ever done anything to slow down L. Ron Hubbard's research? Have you ever wasted auditing time? What do you wish you hadn't done? Are Scientologists', or Ron's goals really false? Are you upset by this security check? Appendix J: The Clearing Course Materials (1968 and Perhaps Subsequent) Wog experimenters, forget it! You not only need an E-meter; you cannot negotiate this process solely on this book's instructions and without the requisite Scientology training. PART ONE: The Sevens: BE
light (front, left); spot thetan
(1) to be nobody
(spot thetan)
to be everybody
(spot thetan -- etc. do this on each item)
(2) to be me
to be you
(3) to be myself
to be others
(4) to be an animal
to be animals
light
(5) to be a body
to be bodies
(6) to be matter
to be space
(7) to be a spirit
to be spirits
(8) to be a god
to be gods
light
The Sevens: DO
(1) to do nothing
to do everything
(2) to do much
to do little
(3) to do it all
to do not any
light
(5) to do more
to do less
(6) to do splendidly
to do awfully
(7) to do wisely
to do foolishly
(8) to do right
to do wrong
light
The Sevens: HAVE
(1) to have nothing
to have everything
(2) to have much
to have little
(3) to have all
to have none
(4) to have hugely
to have poorly
light
(5) to have greedily
to have pickingly
(6) to have mightily
to have sparsely
(7) to have magnificently
to have tawdrily
(8) to have totality
to have negativeness
light
The Sevens: THE STAYS
(1) to stay everywhere
to stay nowhere
(2) to stay here
to stay there
(3) to stay near
to stay far
(4) to stay up
to stay down
light
(5) to stay out
to stay in
(6) to stay back
to stay forward
(7) to stay earlier
to stay later
(8) to stay present
to stay absent
light
PART II: BASIC EWs (end-words)
(1) the now
(2) the past
(3) the future
(4) the time
(5) the space
(6) the motion
(7) the energy
(8) the masses
(9) the self
(10) the others
(11) the life
(12) the existence
(13) the conditions
(14) the effects
(15) the pictures
(16) the mind
(17) the histories
(18) the reaction
(19) the goal
(20) the chaos
(21) the universe
CONFUSION GPMs (goals-problems-mass)
light
(1) creating to destroy the now
destroying to create the now
(NOTE: There follow twenty more pairs, each with the "creating to destroy" and "destroying to create" combined with the BASIC EWs of PART II.) PART IV: The Objects (hollow) (Sixteen "objects" are given. Each is "spotted," or visualized, as moving towards and away from one's head at about shoulder level, first one at a time, the in duplicate, triplicate and quadruplicate. At the most complicated stage, then one spots the object moving towards and away from oneself on all four sides. First he imagines the objects "hollow." With all combinations of direction, there are 128 items run.) (1) triangle (9) prism (2) circle (10) cylinder (3) square (11) rectahedron (4) oval (12) flat cylinder (5) tetrahedron (13) pyramid (6) sphere (14) coil (7) cube (15) diamond box (8) egg (16) oval coil (Pictures of these forms are provided in the materials.) PART V: The Objects (solid) (Same procedure, with objects above visualized as solid. 128 items.) Appendix K: A Tempered Word for Scientology Christopher Evans, a non-Scientologist, wrote in his Cults of Unreason (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973): "Vast improvements in personality, intellectual ability and general human effectiveness can be brought about by sharpening up the individual's talent for communication, and thus introductory Scientology courses concentrate heavily in this area.... From a psychological point of view it must be admitted that exercises aimed at inducing introverted individuals to become more `outgoing' could be of real value. For many a lonely, shy and mildly neurotic individual the introductory Communication Course might work wonders, and no doubt has done." Evans speculated that Scientology might in time become an established "respectable" religion. I will quote him here also, since, again, he was nowhere near being a Scientologist himself but rather a bemused chronicler of "man's attempt to fit technology to a religion-like belief": "Scientology, even in its present confused state, seems to offer a real and, to a certain type of person, entirely plausible alternative to either psychoanalysis or orthodox religion.... There is nothing that the unsettled souls of our society require more desperately than the personal, unqualified, unjudging attention of another human being.... The point I am making is that despite all its faults, Scientology is making a serious bid to become one of the significant religious movements of this decade, perhaps of this century." Appendix L: Whither Scientology? The history of religion (for purposes of this discussion include Scientology if one accepts it as a religion) is turbulent. Religions whose existence we now take for granted suffered severe growing pains and were quite possibly, at their beginnings, considered as unlikely to endure as today Scientology may seem to its critics. Certain of these religions, in their gestation states, like Scientology, brought down upon themselves storm and controversy by their own excesses and abuses. By eliminating its worst aspects (of course, it could be hotly disputed whether there would then be anything remaining of the movement!), Scientology might indeed be on the path towards ensuring that its members may continue their practices "for the next billion years," as they have every right to do. In deference to the law-abiding kind-spirited vast majority of Scientologists the world over, I hope that this comes to pass. George Orwell, author of 1984, knew well the insidious uses to which language may be put. Robert J. Lifton also writes tellingly on this subject in Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism. Anthony Burgess contrived a bizarre language in Clockwork Orange to tell his story of the frightening future superstate. With the creation of what I call "Scientologese," L. Ron Hubbard took the traditional despot's lies and threats into a subtler realm. Hubbard did not employ the brute force of a militia to enslave people, rather, his own pseudo-scientific creation, the terminology of which proved a powerful vehicle for his purposes. "Subconscious mind" and "abreaction therapy" are English terms. "Reactive mind" and "Dianetic auditing" are Hubbardian terms, quite similar in meaning to the former but usable only in his context -- what Robert J. Lifton calls "thought-terminating phrases." They are cornerstones for Scientologese, a distortion of the English language that has distorted many minds. I don't surmise that Hubbard had diabolical intent with language when he wrote Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health almost half a century ago. Innovative language is bread and butter to science fiction writers; and in Hubbard's case, also necessary to support his conviction -- megalomaniacal, if you will -- that his material was unique. Later, Hubbard must have realized, or intuited, that changing the language in other people's minds was central to his increasing control over them (Lifton: "thought reform"). Hubbard's empire expanded concurrently with the development of Scientologese. Like other cult leaders, tyrants and con artists, Hubbard became hypnotized by his own words. And the newcomer's acceptance of and identification with this new language is a giveaway that he is buying a ticket for an extended stay in Hubbardsville. With the exception of a few vintage words, Scientologese does not consist of exotic items but, rather, common English words redefined or combined in phrases so they relate to auditing and the reactive mind ("auditing" and "reactive mind" themselves illustrate such usage!). Other, non-technical, words are given mystic overlay, esoteric import ("Handle," "Communication," "Intention," "Flow"). Grammar is changed. A verb becomes a noun ("overrun"). In Dianetics, Hubbard bludgeoned "clear" (an adjective or verb transitive) into a noun, "Clear"; and shortly thereafter "overt" (adjective) and "withhold) verb transitive) also into Scientologese nouns. Prepositions get a workout in the idiom: Grades, Postulates, Gains, TRs, Ethics, etc. are In or Out. "On" and "At" suffer: On Course, At Cause. There is a deluge of abbreviations and acronyms. Scientologese may, of course, be used in discussing any topic. Scientologists sometimes kid around with it (ex-members kid around a lot with it) to relieve their nerves from the cumulative pressures of the org and their "case." Apart from the Scientologist's Letter at the beginning of this book -- which approaches the extreme -- I limited the language here to what was essential to the events (thus obviously excluding the profusion of post-'69 jargon that probably dwarfs the pre-'69!). I also used restraint with acronyms, choosing, for example, "preclear," "Suppressive," "Director of Processing," "Director of Training," "Search and Discovery," "tone-arm" and "Reliable Items" over the acronyms that Scientologists are much more apt to use: "pc," "SP," "D of P," "D of T," "S & D," "TA" and "RIs." Nor did I use a small circle with a line through it to represent "thetan." For these reasons, this dictionary is much abridged. A comprehensive glossary of Scientologese would be a book in itself. Appendix N: First Abridged Unapproved Dictionary of Scientologese A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W
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