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Get The Message, Not The Messenger

I just read John Lennon’s last ever interview and found something in particular that he said quite interesting:

“But nobody’s perfect, etc., etc. Whether it’s Janov or Erhardt or Maharishi or a Beatle. That doesn’t take away from their message. It’s like learning how to swim. The swimming is fine. But forget about the teacher. If the Beatles had a message, it was that. With the Beatles, the records are the point, not the Beatles as individuals. You don’t need the package, just as you don’t need the Christian package or the Marxist package to get the message. People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I’m not. I’m a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message.”

I think this viewpoint relates to Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard. Scientology is not Hubbardism. LRH even said many times to not mix up his opinions with Scientology:

“Now, I’m not asking you to look at this subject through my eyes. There are two subjects here that I’m going to be talking to you about, just two, and one is Scientology, a precise science of universes and beings therein or beings who make universes. That’s one subject.

And then there’s Hubbard’s opinion of this subject and, boy, I got some wild opinions! You oughta hear them sometime. But that’s a different thing and you can tell very easily when I swing over into my opinion, when I start talking about some field of healing or when I start to talk about this or that, it’s obviously a big slant and merely is my selection of randomity.

Take it as amusing or evaluate by it or throw it away or anything. It doesn’t have anything really to do with Scientology.” LRH

- Scientology – How to Understand and Study It

The reason I bring this up is that some people seem to think that because LRH said and wrote some wild stuff it means that Scientology is a wacky subject. In fact, I have even seen some people in the Church of Scientology mistake what is clearly LRH’s opinion with actual Scientology!

As a Scientologist I don’t worship L. Ron Hubbard, and I know he made mistakes as a person and as a leader of an organization. The people in the church too often dramatize LRH’s mistakes and fanatically worship his opinions, yet forget (or never even learn) what Scientology is. They certainly rarely practice Scientology, although they hijack the name.

LRH had his opinions, but they aren’t Scientology…

“I stand here and I’m telling you two varieties of data. One of those varieties of data is the actual scientific datum, which has been dug up out of this universe and out of all universes.

That’s the specific datum and its application to the beings in this MEST universe. That data you can be darn sure of. Next is my opinions. Hell’s bells! I reward myself for my labors by having opinions.

Just separate out those two things. Separate out that Scientology is one thing, Hubbard is another. The point I’m making is there’s a lot of viewpoints that I have that you might not have at all. If I have a lot of axes to grind, they’re very obvious axes. Extremely obvious.

They actually don’t influence this data at all.

What I give you as fact, is fact. What I give you as opinion, you’re welcome to it or not as the case may be. But I’m not asking you to agree with me. For god’s sake, don’t do that. Just go look.” LRH

- Rising Scale Processing

So next time you hear that Scientology is all about aliens, or that Scientology is anti-psychiatry, realize that this simply isn’t the case. These were some of LRH’s opinions and considerations – Hubbardisms. Scientology is the Axioms, The Factors, The Logics, The Q’s, The Auditors Code, the Communication Cycle, the ARC triangle, the KRC triangle, the processes, the ethics conditions…

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Jason Beghe Leaves The Church Of Scientology and A Talk On Disillusionment

Here’s the teaser to the Jason Beghe video. I can’t find the full length interview on Youtube, and it seems Youtube won’t allow it…

But you can find the full length interview (2 hours+) here.

I just finished watching it, and if you watch part 5 you’ll see the root of the problem. The Church of Scientology does not deliver standard tech. Thus they do not get results and even harm their parishioners. Thus they do not deliver what they promise. And everything wrong with the church can be found to come down to that single fact. They don’t deliver what they promise. And so you get many people leaving who are angry, confused and sad about it all. Disillusioned.

LRH’s personal auditor in the late 70’s, David Mayo, set up one of the first freezone scientology centres in the early 80’s, which was very successful during the decade, until they were hounded out of delivering by the Church of Scientology. He once gave a very comforting talk on disillusionment:

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Anonymous vs. The Church of Scientology

I have a lot of respect for anonymous and their campaign against the Church of Scientology, and hope they continue and win in their stated aims. They have seemingly come out of nowhere to take up the task of dismantling the out of control machine that is the Church of Scientology…

But one must realize a few truths about the church if the campaign is going to be successful in the long run. Anonymous may have won the first few battles, but the war is a long way off from victory.

Firstly, the church is a very centralized organization and is to all extents and purposes controlled by one person, David Miscavige. There is much speculation amongst Scientologists outside the church about whether Miscavige is the true controller of church organizations, or whether he is merely a puppet…

Speculation aside, being the leader of the church, Miscavige is the correct target for attack in this campaign. He is the one not following Scientology policy, he is the one altering the tech so it doesn’t work as well (thus people feeling cheated about it), and he is the one who is doing most of the abuse, whether physically to his closest staff at Int, or mentally, to church members at events, with his lies and spin.

Once the person who controls the machine is removed, the machine comes to a halt. Thus victory.

There is a mass of material about Miscavige to use in the attack against him, so I won’t go into this now. I include in this focus of attack the protest of the church’s tax exempt status as being an attack on Miscavige, RTC and the Church of Spiritual Technology (who OWN the copyrights of Scientology materials and license them to RTC/Miscavige).

Another important challenge that Anonymous faces is that of the Church of Scientology members. This needs a bit of a preamble…

There are thousands of church members. And from what I saw at my local church org, and at an advanced org, most of these members had 2 characteristics:

1. They are young, mostly under the age of 50, probably most are between 20-40. I didn’t see many older Scientologists in the church (most of them are in the freezone.)

The fact that most church members are younger than 50 means that they can be members for many decades. They can fight for their organization, grow their organization, and gain a larger influence on society during this time.

2. They KNOW they are spiritual beings who live forever. And they know they are powerful. And they have great motivation and dedication in changing the world using Scientology as their philosophic machine.

This one is quite heavy, and it may go over the top of some people’s heads. The realization that one is a spiritual being and not just a one life body is a deep and powerful one. It’s important that everybody realizes that they are a spiritual being, and that the physical universe is our playground, our videogame. Unfortunately, this game has turned into a Matrix-type situation – people are trapped and they don’t know it.

This is the modus operandi of a Scientologist: realize you are a spiritual being with infinite creative potential and help others do the same. And that’s all a Scientologist is trying to do, including the one’s in the church.

So although it looks like they just want your money, the average church member doesn’t actually benefit financially from people’s donations. They want people to get auditing and training so they can realize their own spiritual nature and potential. For more information about this check out The Philosophy of Scientology.

The people in the church are having out of body experiences and recalling past lives, despite the degradation of the tech. Most of the staff, who are extremely dedicated to the church, are so because of their spiritual gains (although some were born into the organization who haven’t had much spiritual gain).

The combination of their young body age and high spiritual awareness means they have some horsepower as people. Add to that the mental manipulation that goes on in the church, the cult trappings most hate about it, and you’ve got a deadly combination.

The church has been slowly decreasing in numbers since the late 80’s due to internal factors – people getting expelled at the drop of a hat and off-policy and out-tech practices. I doubt Anonymous’ current protests are going to make church members quit the organization, it’s the church that makes people quit the church. I can guarantee that the average CofS member thinks the protests on the church are attacks on Scientology (not helped by signs during protests that read Scientology Sucks etc). So Anonymous probably won’t help shrink the numbers of church members using it’s current strategy.

Generally, members aren’t likely to just up and leave the organization because it means the loss of the tech (they don’t know the tech exists outside the church.) Thus the church will continue to persist, and it’s potential of expansion and a widening influence on society is always going to remain, at least for the next 30-50 years…

Will Anonymous guard the entrances to the church for 50 years?

Will they stay legion for the long haul?

There is another option. There is no need for a long drawn out war. Anonymous needs to win the trust of the church members, whilst at the same time attack the source of the problem – Miscavige, RTC and the Church of Spiritual Technology.

The big question then is how to win over the trust of the members of the Church of Scientology?

The answer is actually very simple: give them a Scientology alternative. This is where the freezone and independent field comes into the equation…

The church members need to be engaged personally about the church and the tech. They need to know that the tech exists outside the church. This can be done by signs that promote this fact, and by engaging with them on a more two-way basis.

Remember, church members won’t use the internet or at least won’t look up anything online about Scientology, and they certainly pay little attention to the mainstream media. So even if anonymous became headline news for the BBC and ABC, chances are, Scientologists in the church wouldn’t find out about it. This means a new type of operation needs to be conducted. A peaceful engagement in conversation with church members as civilians (not masked anonymous protesters.)

Obviously this needs to be done at a different time to protest dates, otherwise it looks suspect in the eyes of the church member (if they know that protests have been going on that day, they are likely to be in high alert mode to people’s behaviour around them.)

Now to engage in conversation with a church member doesn’t mean to stalk them and “accidentally” bump into them at a coffee shop or convenience store. It means that one would have to engage in conversation when they are disseminating – i.e. when they are doing stress tests, or when they are in their orgs and you want a “tour”.

During their dissemination one could engage in a serious conversation about scientology, the church and the freezone. Be sincere, state you think the tech sounds great, but you have your concerns about the church. Be totally positive about the tech, but raise serious, but not hostile reservations about the church…

Ask questions like:

“Is there other places to get auditing?”

“How does the church differ from the freezone?”

“Considering we are dealing with my spiritual freedom, why should I trust you more than Scientologists outside the church?”

Be genuine, non-hostile and sincere in these “innocent” questions and the barrier the CofS member might put up if you are hostile or sound insincere, might not go up, and the communication might penetrate and have an effect on them…

This, to some degree, is an operation of infiltration.

Now I’ve heard rumours that Anonymous plans to infiltrate the church and gain powerful positions in order to try and destroy it from the inside. Well, if this is true, it seems that it would be the second campaign of infiltration the church has suffered from: the first in the 70’s, meant the church got taken over and controlled by the CIA and IRS, and now the second “wave” of infiltration, if there is one, could possibly succeed in destroying the church completely. I personally feel that infiltration of this magnitude is unnecessary and that the following strategy is all that is needed for a successful and fast campaign…

Strategy Summary for a Successful Final Victory Against the Church of Scientology

1. Attack Miscavige, RTC and Church of Spiritual Technology. The material is there and Miscavige should be behind bars. Though he won’t be captured until he loses support from church members, who are his only protection. Remember, get the madman who operates the machine and the machine will come to a halt. Supporting this angle of attack is the fight against the church’s tax exempt status.

2. Win the trust of the church members. They need to know there is a scientology alternative (standard tech of course) for them if they leave the church. The freezone is a safe place for church members, and they will be welcomed with open arms. Signs at protests are one way to get that message across. But actual two-way communication with them when they have their guard down is required, and it needs to be done very subtlety.

Without handling the church members the church will always be a threat, for decades to come.

3. Continue with the campaign of alerting the general public about the dangers of the church of scientology. However, Anonymous needs to tread more carefully than it has done, as the general public is alert to religious intolerance. For example, see the tibet issue across the globe right now. So don’t lose the support of the general public by protesting against the religious beliefs of scientologists. Signs like “Scientology Sucks” negate this important factor.

Generalizations like “Scientology is a cult” and other such things again negate the aims of Anonymous. People are aware that the church is not quite right, but they also realize that the the subject is probably valid in some aspects. Using the word Scientology when referring to the Church of Scientology minimizes the focus of the protest message, and comes across as either ignorant and rude, or “not quite right”.

Additionally, when/if a church member sees that kind of message, they are going to think it’s the tech that’s being attacked, and the chances of winning their trust deteriorates.

Yet another factor about using these anti-scientology messages is that it offends, or least loses the support of freezone scientologists.

The fact of the matter is that there are more Scientologists outside the church than inside. And during the last protest there was even some support and presence from these Scientologists, but what I feel is stopping ALL freezone scientologists from lending a hand in this campaign is that they are not sure whether Anonymous REALLY means what it says when it states that it is NOT against the beliefs or practices of Scientology. There’s been too many signs that contradict that statement.

Thus, Anonymous really needs to clean up this part of their campaign and REALLY focus their message on the CHURCH of scientology.

This ends my discussion on Anonymous’ campaign, and I hope this has proved useful and thought provoking to those interested in Anonymous vs. The Church of Scientology.

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The CIA and Scientology – The Remote Viewing Connection

In the early 1970’s the Central Intelligence Agency sponsored the remote viewing experiments at Stanford Research Institute to investigate it’s potential use in clandestine warfare. Ingo Swann was the main remote viewer used in these experiments and the development of remote viewing, and was an experienced Scientologist who at the time had reached the highest levels of auditing available in the Church of Scientology.

It was actually Hal Puthoff, along with Russell Targ who co-founded the Remote Viewing experiments. Puthoff was also a high level Scientologist, Russell Targ was not.

Remote Viewing is considered an extra sensory perceptive ability, where a person can be trained to look at any place without using their human eyes. The CIA wanted to train people to be able to do it so that they could spy on the enemy. As you can imagine, having operatives who could perform remote viewing intelligence would put CIA in a very strong position to find out sensitive information.

In an interview for Coast to Coast AM, Swann talks about remote viewing and his experiences during the experiments and development of the discipline. Here is the first part (of 12):

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Is Tom Cruise “Out-Ethics”?

Something became clear to me when watching the Tom Cruise scientology video…

Tom Cruise, the most well known Scientologist in the world, has some serious misunderstandings about what Scientology is all about.

This is hardly surprising considering who taught him Scientology (the CofS), who are widely known to be changing the meaning of the subject by altering what L. Ron Hubbard wrote and said…

Tom is entitled to his view of the world and of scientology, just as I am by blogging here, but when he starts spouting off stuff about getting other peoples ethics in, he really needs to realize that ethics is a personal issue. You can indicate that someone is being unethical and perhaps they might want to look at it, but you cannot “put ethics in on someone else”…

In Scientology, it’s up to the individual to find out about himself. When it comes to ethics it’s up to the individual to find out what he’s doing right in life and what he’s doing wrong. Never try and put ethics in on someone else because:

1) It won’t work, and
2) It will backfire and cause you trouble if you try it.

But why is this?

Everyone has their own standards of ethics, and by you trying to “put ethics in on someone else” you’re simply enforcing your own idea of right and wrong onto another person. This creates resistance, resulting in upsets and trouble.

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Getting Closer to the Truth about the Church of Scientology…

Ok, I found another youtube video message to the church, although it doesn’t say it’s from Anonymous. It’s a message to auditors (skilled practitioners in Scientology) in the church. It asks them to look at the out-tech being done in the church. This is the type of message that needs to get through to members of the church of scientology.

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Anonymous Message to Freezone – Thank You!

This is a message from Anonymous to the Freezone posted on Youtube.

Thank You Anonymous! Your promise to concentrate on the church and not protest against scientology is appreciated and leaves me hopeful for what can be accomplished at your next protest in March.

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Anonymous, A Scientologists Viewpoint

As a Scientologist who isn’t a member of the church, but who uses scientology independently in the freezone, I have a unique perspective to give about Anonymous.

It was Anonymous’ protests on Sunday that spurred me on to start posting my views in this blog. I had already decided to create a blog and bought the domain a few months ago, but the protests gave me the inspiration to act and raise my voice.

I could be overly critical of Anonymous or praise them too much, but my considerations rest somewhere inbetween. I think they’re doing some things correctly and are a positive activist group. But on the other hand I feel that they need to streamline and focus their efforts in a way that will be more effective, and less hypocritical. Let me start at the beginning, when Anonymous started to create some effects…

The first action they did was to take down some of the Church of Scientology’s main websites. Okay, now this isn’t legal, but I see that they’re just displaying their power, and that it’s an act of civil disobedience. A way to kick off their campaign. I personally disagree with this type of action, as it’s illegal and to put it simply, makes them look bad. As far as I’m aware they’ve ceased this illegal action, but it may hurt them in the long term…

So what are Anonymous’ aims and purposes?

They simply state that they want to destroy the Church of Scientology, as per their Youtube videos.

And they give valid reasons why too. Personally, I would like to see the church REFORM back to how it was in the 70’s (before it was taken over), minus the Guardians Office, (I don’t think a church should have an intelligence department and still be able to call itself a church.)

Anonymous arrived with a big purpose and a big threat, and so far they’ve delivered on it. Their protests on the 10th showed they were strong in numbers, about 7,000 protesters. That’s quite impressive and no protests on the church have ever been that big. Well done Anonymous!

But it wasn’t just the numbers that impressed me, it was the energy. These guys and girls seem to be quite young, mostly late teens and early 20’s, and they truly believe in what they’re protesting about. I have no problem with people protesting in the peaceful manner that they did.

But I do have some criticisms to make of their protests…

Firstly, Anonymous state that they want to destroy the Church of Scientology, and have nothing against scientology itself or the belief system. Yet, looking at some of the signs displayed from youtube videos and picture galleries, I did notice a few “Scientology Kills” messages and lots of Xenu type stuff. If Anonymous REALLY believes what they say, then this needs to be avoided in future protests, otherwise it comes across as being a lie, saying one thing, doing another – just what the church often does!

Anonymous needs to focus their protest MESSAGE so that they are more effective in winning over the general public AND having an effect on the CofS members too. They need to remember that the majority of church members are good people, intelligent people, compassionate people, and very driven. It is only a few bad eggs in the management that are causing the troubles. And so the management needs to be addressed…

This requires that Anonymous does the research necessary to understand what happened in the church in the early 80’s, how David Miscavige gained power, and what he’s done with it since.

It also requires, in my view, a look at the US governments interactions with the church since the early 50’s. The church is basically run from the top, by a very few people – and everyone else in the church has to follow their orders, even if they’re non-scientological (otherwise you pretty much have to leave.) I can also recommend Pat Krenik’s book “Scientology(tm) vs. Scientology(tm)” which can be bought from eBay as an eBook.

So what slogans can I recommend that will have an effect on the church members?

“Church of Scientology = CIAology”
“Church of Altered Tech”
“Disconnect From David Miscavige”
“David Miscavige Declared SP”
“Where’s Heber Jentzsch?”
“Get Standard Tech Outside the Church”
“F/N Alteration + GAT + High Prices = Squirrelled Tech & Off Policy”

These messages might stand a chance of affecting church members to look at important questions, questions which if answered will lead them out of the church.

Whilst these slogans have meaning for Scientologists, what about messages for the general public who aren’t scientology literate?

Well, again I don’t recommend attacking the beliefs or tech of scientology, but concentrate on crimes committed by the church, of which there are many.

One last point that’s worthy of mentioning is the association of masked protesters and activists to the Ku Klux Klan. It is very clever of the church to create this association in their statements about Anonymous…

The problem is that by being masked, it does look freaky and scary from an outside perspective. It looks threatening and fear-inducing, which Anonymous obviously has no problems with, but looking scary might backfire in the long term by losing general public support. I’m not sure I have a solution for this…

…But as long as it’s Anonymous’ only weakness in the future, and as long as they focus their protests in a more productive manner, the fact that they look freaky and scary probably won’t make much difference, IMO.

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What Made Me Leave The Church Of Scientology But Not Quit Scientology?

As it stands, the Church of Scientology is an organization that is NOT following policy and is degrading and altering the technology. But what does that mean?

Look at the effects the cofs is currently producing…

The example of tech alteration that I linked to was from the PDC tapes, and is particularly relevant to the downfall and perversion of Scientology by the CofS. LRH talks about how Scientology could be used to enslave and trap people, just like any technology can be used for evil, and that the remedy for this is to pass the tech onto others so that it is widely known. As we can see, the CofS is hoarding the tech, claiming a monopoly over it, while in the process covertly altering it and using it to trap people. On the other hand the freezone is making sure that the tech is being passed along and used to help free people, help people become more aware.

As somebody (somethetan!) who has benefited from studying and using scientology, the tech is precious, like a great piece of art would be to an art lover, and as such seeing that it’s been altered by the church, I naturally had no alternative but to leave them. This wasn’t the only reason, but the straw that broke the camel’s back, as it were…

At the time I was researching tech alterations I was also delving into research of some of the malpractice of scientology policy by the church. The most significant of these is the price of auditing (receiving spiritual counselling, a fundamental practice of Scientology). The policy is for an intensive of auditing (before clear) to cost one months average income for the area the auditing is delivered in. This is the policy written by LRH.

But the church has abandoned this policy and charges nearly twice the average income.

Therefore to purchase scientology auditing in the church it costs considerably more than the average income. The repercussions of this Off Policy practice has lead to scientology being branded a rich man’s religion…

I also found out about a year after leaving the church of scientology that they had changed the definition of an F/N. This is a fundamental technical term describing a specific e-meter phenomenon used in the auditing process, and the changed definition has caused a lot of problems for those being audited in the church. Bottomline is that I wouldn’t want auditing in the church based on that one alteration of tech alone.

So here you have the fundamental reasons why I left the church. They engage in the malpractice of scientology, and there lies the root of their problems, at least from my point of view.

So why didn’t I quit scientology altogether? Well, that’s where the freezone came in. I found that there was a group delivering scientology auditing as written by LRH, and that people were winning in that group. I simply swapped sides to a team that was playing a better game!

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What Got Me Interested In Scientology?

Okay, let me describe why I got into scientology. I’m not going to give exact details like where and when so I can stay anonymous, but I will give a brief summary of the events leading up to me finding scientology and actively studying it within the church environment…

When I was in my mid-teens I suddenly became interested in spirituality and philosophy. I read quite a few books and dabbled somewhat in some practices, such as yoga. But although I got a lot out of reading philosophy, spirituality and religion (and I still do) by the time I was in my early 20’s I was still open to new ideas…

And scientology was the new idea that I found. An interesting philosophy, a practical application of the philosophy to learn and have, and an organization (the church) that delivered all of this. I hadn’t heard of the freezone at that point…

In my first year I mostly read dianetics, had some dianetics (with only slight gain), read and liked scientology, and did the purification program and TR’s and Objectives Course (an incredible course).

I fell in love with the subject, with the tech, with the wins (benefits and improvements).

In my second year I read about a dozen books, more than many staff members had read in 10-15 years! I also got some more dianetics, and due to having done the purification program I got a lot more gain out of it the second time round (drugs and toxins can cause mental blocks which restrict dianetics and scientology auditing which is why the purification program is done).

Probably my favourite piece of scientology is the philosophy – that life is a game. It’s something that I found very useful and saw much truth in. And still do, more so as I’ve learned more of the subject.

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