A potential recruit is told that all Sea Org members get auditing and training for free all the way up to the highest levels of the great chart.
The recruiter emphasizes this although he mouths a lot of “But we’re really in it for the purpose, Kid.”
The kid signs up and goes into his basic training as a Sea Org member. This training inculcates in him a false sense of superiority, that he’s one of the elite of earth, one of the really able and capable ones on a mediocre planet. He buys into this empty flattery, but attendant with all of that is this idea of, “We are so fucking tough we don’t need any sissy first dynamic auditing, because WE are the auditors of the 4th dynamic engram, and if we don’t pull it off…” Blah blah.
I think Hubbard ingeniously understood that the HOPE his staff harbored to someday move up the Grade Chart, the anticipation of it, was more powerful than the actual achievement of it, with all of those possible pesky disappointments of unmatched expectations. So Hubbard encouraged “case gain through competence” and other ideas that kept the guy working and not asking too strenuously for auditing, lest he look like some kind of a weakling who joined up only to get his case handled.
So then, the poor guy works 27 years, with only drips of auditing to keep his HOPE alive, and when that is finally gone, he stays because he knows nothing else.
Just to add another bit of information, I think I had something like 60 folders last time I checked. You can put about 10 or 20 sessions in a folder.
I finished exactly one step on the Bridge to Total Freedom during the entire 25 years I was in the Sea Org. A step that I started in 1975 before I joined the Sea Org and finished in the 90s.
I was on it so long that it was no longer part of the official line-up by the time I got it done. The only reason they finished even that one step was because I started saying I couldn’t do more interrogations because I was in the middle of this action from the 70s.
So what is in that huge stack of folders? Crimes and misdemeanors, peckerdillos, bad thoughts about Dave, imaginary girl friends, excuses. Whatever I could think of when they demanded “What are your crimes?”
Probably just as well, I don’t have to un-think all that weird space opera stuff. Never even knew it existed until I got out.
Some people do get some Scientology in the Sea Org. Either they are professional auditors and make deals with other auditors, or they just don’t take no for an answer. But most of us were not treated like the bovines in the old saying “Don’t bind the mouths of the kine that tread the grain.” (1 Corinthians 9:9,10)
I cannot even count the number of fine young men and women I met in Scientology from 1972-1989. Hubbard had no right perspective on life, but only created a gnostic version of a religion that he could pretend to be reality and present to everyone. In the end, he only did a very brief search of the “spiritual world” and copied out a lot of data from Blavatsky and the Theosophists. He hit the market after WWII when people were looking for solutions. I ran into him after serving in the Army during the Viet Nam War. He seemed to be an alternative to the messed up state of affairs. But Hubbard was easily identified as a man going in circles especially when his auditing continued to spiral out of control. He excused himself by claiming that everyone was too stupid and he had to “undercut” the mass mind. Sad to say it was Hubbard with the lower, weaker mind. He twisted around with overt/motivator and “past lives” to justify his absurd conclusions. He dreamed up a pattern of thetan “time track” activity which was false and ludicrous. He tried to hijack Buddhism but failed putting himself into oblivion placing himself within the definitions of Buddhism into the lowest hell possible. It is a tragedy that those trapped in Scientology today must continue on with his madness.
Thanks, Chuck. It has been thirty years since my wife and I left Scientology. She never thinks of Hubbard while I still make comparisons. The reason is that I hit the original OT VIII level and got shook to the core. In “Lucifer’s Bridge” I mention Blavatsky. But since that time, I have read her books twice. She was really his mother in the sense of his spiritual ideas. But like a bad son he degraded mom’s precepts. Hope we meet someday. I have been spending a lot of time trying to get my Congressman on board the train to remove Scientology’s tax exemption.
My wife and I are fortunate because Miscavige did not pursue us. They actually gave up when I started laughing over the phone. Like once Lucifer comes out of the closet, you get a new perspective on Scientology. That is why I wrote the book. I still remember being in the course room on the Freewinds. I still remember the exact moment I read Hubbard’s absurd comparison of original Buddhism to original Scientology. At that moment, I found a stupid man who was my inferior.
Your book, and your confirming that long rumored Hubbard admission of being Lucifer (whatever was on Hubbard’s mind to try that angle on top of his religion angled “religion” just is so indicative of Hubbard’s deeper complexity nuttiness) you truly give one of the all time historical important anecdotes. (And Lucifer “beingness” on top of Metteya, on top of a generic “messiah” possible go at it, jeepers Hubbard couldn’t get his whole track beingness to line up with his megalomania, LOL.)
Messiah. No.
Lucifer. Yes. oops, No.
in the end, Hubbard was getting chased by that persistent Creston Ranch “body-thetan” or two that he couldn’t shake. Chased into his grave by his own “body-thetan” creative solution to his own madness.
I thankyou so much for your writings, on Marty’s blog when discussion was really good back then, and your and Roger Weller, and also my earlier reading and then email chat with Kima Douglas before she passed, all added up to taking a look at Buddhism (plus Vinay Agarwalla’s years of postings finally added up).
Thanks so much George.
PS: In the “Ron’s Mag” I think Photographer part 2, is the “final” LRH photo he took of himself. It’s the final image on that paperback Ron’s Mag, he shot the photo of his shadow wavering in the bottom of his swimming pool. That shot really touched me.
You are welcome, Chuck. Your excellent feedback outshines the comments by OSA calling “Lucifer’s Bridge” “The most awful book about Scientology”. Whoever wrote that comment knows “NOTHING” about Scientology and is seriously trapped in it.
Well said George. Hubtard never wanted followers who wee educated as they would more easily spot his scam by recognizing the plagiarism of works that he engaged in.
O/T. VIDEO: Scientology Freedom Medal Winner Nation of Islam Minister Tony Muhammad lectures on White people, Jewish people and the three book series “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews” in his lecture “Farrakhan Got The Devil On The Run” given at NOI Muhammad Mosque 48 in Dallas, Texas.
Please note the photo used for the video includes, in the upper right hand corner, the previously discussed Nazi propaganda image published in the July 1938 edition of Der Sturmer. This video premiered on 1/10/19, five days after Minister Tony Muhammad’s lecture at the Church of Scientology of Dallas on 1/5/19.
I should add that the lecture actually took place on Sunday 1/6/19, one day after Minister Tony Muhammad’s lecture at the Church of Scientology of Dallas on Saturday, 1/5/19.
Below is a sample screeenshot from the video of Scientology Freedom Medal Winner Nation of Islam Minister Tony Muhammad promoting the three book series “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews.”
The YouTube availability of the video is a rare treat. Usually, the videos of Minister Tony Muhammad’s lectures are posted only to Facebook. This video was also posted to YouTube because it took place at Muhammad Mosque 48 in Dallas Texas during the same trip where he spoke at the Church of Scientology of Dallas.
If you knew Davy, like I know Davy
Oh! Oh! Oh! What a guy
There’s none so twisted
Or so ham-fisted
Oh! Oh! Holy Hubbard, what a nitwit
Walked up to him, he spit and snarled
Like a mad dog
He’s the one that had to bark
If you knew Davy, like I know Davy
Oh! Oh! What a guy!
I was one of the lucky (pronounced unlucky) ones who got more training and processing than others while I was in due to the fact that I was shuttled off to the GO fairly quickly and Mary Sue saw to it that we got training and processing on a regular basis.
So I did a gazillion bunches of worthless tech and admin training that means zip in the real world and made it OTV, which gave me an ego the size of several rooms with no meaningful reason to have one that I had to figure out how to shed. That and $5.00 will buy me a semi-decent cup of french press coffee from the place downstairs.
Although those people are spinning their wheels getting no training and processing while in, they, in reality are lucky because they do not have to be deprogrammed when they are ejected or escape. They just have to shed the years of mental abuse and the belief that they didn’t get the processing through some fault of their own. Ok that’s just as bad.
That being said, that “rocket up the bridge” carrot is a pretty power carrot. I wonder if Sea Org recruits these days are buying it.
At the time, it not not too difficult to get audited on staff or to keep in a standard study schedule.
In fact, in the Guardian’s Office, a full enhancement schedule was enforced.
(Please note that this does not in any way condone the actions of the G.O.)
Very little of this auditing was sec checks. In fact I was almost at the end of my 5-year contract when I was given my first sec check. I got a whole heap of auditing which did get me up the bridge and was helpful.
A golden age it was not!
We had the Finance Police, the crushing of the missions and the crazy price rises, which made me think that we were our own worst enemies..
But there is no comparison to how it was then and how it is now.
Miscavige inherited a very non-optimum scene and made it infinitely worse!
“I guess he figures he’s better at doing what LRH would have wanted than LRH himself”.
Bingo! Spot on! And that is why Scientology is sinking faster than the Leaning Tower Of Pisa! Little Shit wants to be LRH!
Wow. those are real conversations too. I’ve heard them….even though a long time ago. I have a relative who was in the Sea Org and never even got onto the grades after 23 years! All repair and ethics is all she received. I rarely saw a staff member go up the grade chart. rarely. Spot on RB!
” I rarely saw a staff member go up the grade chart. rarely. ”
Um, isn’t that a violation of the Sea Org employment contract? I thought the whole point of joining was to ‘pay’ for your bridge with your freely given labour. Failure to fufill their end is a breach of contract. Could all these active and former sea org members sue?
Also, as they say, “Scientology makes the able more able” so it would be in the best interest of the org to get its employees up the bridge as fast as possible. As in, if the sea org members aren’t helping others get up the bridge on any given day then they should be going up it themselves. You’d get a staff member capable of more work. Or you should, according to them. Maybe they don’t really believe it?
Ah well, maybe i shouldn’t expect anything. Scientology charges employees for staff training – training employees need to do the job for the organization. Literally no one anywhere does that, and for good reason. That tells you something right there.
I can attest to the veracity of RBs strip today. I’ve seen that scenario over and over again. I got in over 4 decades ago. The only people left in Scientology are the brainwashed true believers.
When on my auditor training, we had to have staff to audit to learn on. They couldn’t let us loose on the HGC paying pcs just yet. But try getting a staff member in session. Their seniors resent that you’re taking them off post or auditing, and they don’t get enough sleep or food to metab so it becomes an exercise in futility.
Yep, that sounds about right. I audited lots of SO when I was in. Felt sorry for most because they really wanted to move up the bridge, but the majority were not sessionable, had body problems, or they were stuck in endless repair. I had one guy in despair actually beg me to audit him during his meal break. Wow! Great! Now I’m all pissed off again thinking back about all the squirrelly crap that went on and which kept getting worse and worse.
” Wow! Great! Now I’m all pissed off again thinking ………………”
Well Bog, that is why the Cult is known best for the gift that keeps on giving! Just scan a bit of $cientology track (as the still-ins call it) and you are sure to head into a black hole of Daveshit!
Here’s another idea for How $cientology Works for the young men and women who happens to get caught in the $cientology TRAP of Slave Labor Staff positions.
The Life Cycle of a $cientology $taff Member
A 25 year old guy walks into a Scientology Org with one of those brochures “ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS”
He is routed to the REGG
“I want to be an Actor. I want a girlfriend. I want to be able to communicate freely.”
The REGG gives him a Scientological Stare and hands him the Billion Dollar Contract.
He can’t do it – he dropped acid. So – he joins Staff so he can get that Bridge to Total Freedom and ACHIEVE HIS DREAMS.
….fast forward 27 years
Why he never left
1. He was broke, had no skills and was too afraid to go out into that scary Wog World where THE PSYCHS were electric shocking everyone and putting psych drugs in all food and beverages (An IAS REGG told him that his 2nd week).
He could never finish his Student Hat so he deemed himself as dumb and unable to learn but he was told he would get the Bridge and that would fix everything…. just as soon as they went Ideal.
2. He could never find a replacement for his posts – plus the Org had a list of his O/W’s they blackmailed him with – he liked to jerk off to porn – what a monster, eh?
He joined Staff 27 years ago after taking the Comm Course and mustered up enough guts to ask a chick out at the Org and they got married…
What a win! Scientology Worked!
They divorced the next year when she was determined to be the WHO when she would not renew her Staff Contract. Covertly, he was pressured to divorce her because she tried to hurt the church by leaving.
Currently, he is living in a $cientology Flop House with 5 room mates and the basement is leased out to out of town public Scientologists who come in for “serviced. There are bicycles in the living room, boxes of $cientology Basic Books every room mate was forced to purchase, urine stained mattresses on the floors of each bedroom and a case of Ramen Noodles under lock and key.
His wardrobe consists of an old bartender looking uniform that is too tight because the Org would not buy him a uniform so he found one in the basement of the Flop House he resides in. His shirt is yellow and smells of fear, cigarettes and body odor.
He is now 52 years old and owns nothing – his bedroom has a pee stained mattress and boxes of BASIC Books he was pressured to buy with his inheritance after giving the rest of it to the Ideal Org Scam.
His diet consists of Cigarettes, Coffee and Ramen Noodles coupled with Cal Mag and Emergencee plus any vitamins he can take from the Purif
He has no 2-D, no family, no friends. He sells sheets on Street Corners to eek out enough $$ for his staples: Cigarettes, coffee and Ramen Noodles
His pleasure moments consists of passing out WTH booklets at the baseball games….he gets to peek under the bleecher’s to watch the game
Weekly – he is living the STAT DRIVEN LIFE and now has cancer from the pressure and stress of Being a Scientologist but he is afraid of doctor’s and feels if he could only get his stats up to Normal, he could get that Dianetic Auditing that would save his life so he persists but secretly wants to die
Kev,
Spot on observation.
Down to the last detail of Scientologist selling those crappy poyester sheets on street corners.
FYI , The Scientologist that ran that sheet biz , putting other Scn on the corners,made a ton of money from it.
He segwayed that into selling them on Amazon, now making 6 figures a month selling the crappy sheets.
Don, the Public Chiropractor who got trapped into $cientology through WISE.
A guy in his mid 30’s makes a decent living but of course, he would like to make more.
He receives a brochure in the mail on the “Tech” to make your business BOOM. Don would like that. Don contacts the FSM for WISE – Leslie Bielhart with the Chiropractic Business Academy – a front group to get Chiropractors into Scientology so Scientology can fleece them dry.
Don signs up for a WISE seminar and during the program Chiropractors are VGI’s – bragging about making $50,000 a month with the tech. The excitement is unreal. Don joins up with the WISE program and takes on a $40,000 debt.
Don is told the tech is based on the works of L Ron Hubbard and is designed to BOOM your business.
He signs up – pays the $40,000 for the consulting he will receive from Leslie Bielhart and the materials from the WISE program. Don does not know who L Ron Hubbard is. Don is a trusting soul. He has no reason to suspect these people are lying. Don is excited.
The first bit of hot advise Don received from his $40,000 investment is to always pay the phone bill. Hmmm…wonder why that is in there. Don will find out soon enough.
Then Don is told to put boxes around various stores in the area offering a free massage, He does not want to give free massages but he does this and a few people come in to get the free massage but never sign up for Chiropractic Services. Don is feeling a bit duped.
Don calls Leslie and complains that this is not working and Leslie impinges on Don’s rational mind and tells him he must go up the Bridge to Total Freedom if he really wants to BOOM his practice. He must get rid of his reactive mind. She mumbles something about getting rid of the bank. Don is spinning.
Leslie comes to his office within the week with a Registrar from the Sea Org. The guy is in a naval uniform. Don feels special and a bit intimidated.
The Registrar tells Don he is needs to get up the Bridge to Spiritual Freedom or he is going to be a drug addict loser living in a cardboard box if he does not sign up. Don says he has no money and his wife would kill him if he spends any more money. He already can’t make the payments on the $40,000 loan he took out to purchase WISE.
The Registrar says no problem and opens up several lines of credit for Don along with credit cards. The Registrar congratulates Don on purchasing his entire Bridge to Total Freedom. The Registrar, knowing Don’s Bank will kick in and stop him from saving his eternity, went ahead and authorized payments without Don’s permission. In the best interest of Don’s Dynamics, mind you.
Don is overwhelmed with trauma and is caved in. Now he knows why they say “Pay your telephone bill”….because a WISE member will be overwhelmed with debt …and in such a state of confusion – they will be paralyzed and not be able to move or pay any bills let alone work.
Don files bankruptcy within the year, closes his doors and is working at Costco stocking shelves.
Leslie Beilhart contacts him and tells him he just needs to sign up for one more year.
Wow. That is one of the most depressing things I’ve ever read. I feel so sorry for this man. I guess it’s highly unlikely he’ll ever get out at this point. What a waste of a life.
I thought your post was about someone you actually know — hence my first reply above.
Apparently I read it too fast. I guess this is just a hypothetical situation? Still sad as hell since it’s probably quite accurate for many people who’ve wasted their lives in $cientology.
The thing about these cartoons is…every week I read them and I think, ‘omg surely they don’t really talk like this?’ And then you all post, ‘omg that is totally how we talked.’
There may not be a Target 2, but there sure is a parallel universe and it is scientology!
Yes 1973 was good (mostly), a time that, as public, there was hope, anticipation, fellowship, and action. Then…… it became that which it set out to change. Hubbard’s dark side won in the end.
So what do they tell SeaOrg members to keep them in when year after year they are stuck on the treadmill and don’t achieve all the promised gains? What is the turnover rate of disillusioned SeaOrg members?
They don’t have to tell them anything. After the first year or so, they don’t dare ask and are afraid to even think a thought because they will get a knowledge report written against them. They are told “you are totally responsible for the condition you are in” and they believe it. They think that if they were to be a better person they would not feel as bad as they do.
Also, keep in mind the Sea Org Schedule https://www.mikerindersblog.org/sea-org-schedule/ (that was 1987 – its probably worse now) and understand that people are kept busy doing nothing in order to force them to not think about the fact that they are continually running in a circle.
Here are my two cents on how it works:
A potential recruit is told that all Sea Org members get auditing and training for free all the way up to the highest levels of the great chart.
The recruiter emphasizes this although he mouths a lot of “But we’re really in it for the purpose, Kid.”
The kid signs up and goes into his basic training as a Sea Org member. This training inculcates in him a false sense of superiority, that he’s one of the elite of earth, one of the really able and capable ones on a mediocre planet. He buys into this empty flattery, but attendant with all of that is this idea of, “We are so fucking tough we don’t need any sissy first dynamic auditing, because WE are the auditors of the 4th dynamic engram, and if we don’t pull it off…” Blah blah.
I think Hubbard ingeniously understood that the HOPE his staff harbored to someday move up the Grade Chart, the anticipation of it, was more powerful than the actual achievement of it, with all of those possible pesky disappointments of unmatched expectations. So Hubbard encouraged “case gain through competence” and other ideas that kept the guy working and not asking too strenuously for auditing, lest he look like some kind of a weakling who joined up only to get his case handled.
So then, the poor guy works 27 years, with only drips of auditing to keep his HOPE alive, and when that is finally gone, he stays because he knows nothing else.
Just to add another bit of information, I think I had something like 60 folders last time I checked. You can put about 10 or 20 sessions in a folder.
I finished exactly one step on the Bridge to Total Freedom during the entire 25 years I was in the Sea Org. A step that I started in 1975 before I joined the Sea Org and finished in the 90s.
I was on it so long that it was no longer part of the official line-up by the time I got it done. The only reason they finished even that one step was because I started saying I couldn’t do more interrogations because I was in the middle of this action from the 70s.
So what is in that huge stack of folders? Crimes and misdemeanors, peckerdillos, bad thoughts about Dave, imaginary girl friends, excuses. Whatever I could think of when they demanded “What are your crimes?”
Probably just as well, I don’t have to un-think all that weird space opera stuff. Never even knew it existed until I got out.
Some people do get some Scientology in the Sea Org. Either they are professional auditors and make deals with other auditors, or they just don’t take no for an answer. But most of us were not treated like the bovines in the old saying “Don’t bind the mouths of the kine that tread the grain.” (1 Corinthians 9:9,10)
I cannot even count the number of fine young men and women I met in Scientology from 1972-1989. Hubbard had no right perspective on life, but only created a gnostic version of a religion that he could pretend to be reality and present to everyone. In the end, he only did a very brief search of the “spiritual world” and copied out a lot of data from Blavatsky and the Theosophists. He hit the market after WWII when people were looking for solutions. I ran into him after serving in the Army during the Viet Nam War. He seemed to be an alternative to the messed up state of affairs. But Hubbard was easily identified as a man going in circles especially when his auditing continued to spiral out of control. He excused himself by claiming that everyone was too stupid and he had to “undercut” the mass mind. Sad to say it was Hubbard with the lower, weaker mind. He twisted around with overt/motivator and “past lives” to justify his absurd conclusions. He dreamed up a pattern of thetan “time track” activity which was false and ludicrous. He tried to hijack Buddhism but failed putting himself into oblivion placing himself within the definitions of Buddhism into the lowest hell possible. It is a tragedy that those trapped in Scientology today must continue on with his madness.
Dear George, I never tire of hearing your summation of Hubbard. Have to continue reading your book now, again.
https://whyweprotest.net/threads/george-whites-book-lucifers-bridge-scientologys-lost-paradise.123232/
Thanks, Chuck. It has been thirty years since my wife and I left Scientology. She never thinks of Hubbard while I still make comparisons. The reason is that I hit the original OT VIII level and got shook to the core. In “Lucifer’s Bridge” I mention Blavatsky. But since that time, I have read her books twice. She was really his mother in the sense of his spiritual ideas. But like a bad son he degraded mom’s precepts. Hope we meet someday. I have been spending a lot of time trying to get my Congressman on board the train to remove Scientology’s tax exemption.
My wife and I are fortunate because Miscavige did not pursue us. They actually gave up when I started laughing over the phone. Like once Lucifer comes out of the closet, you get a new perspective on Scientology. That is why I wrote the book. I still remember being in the course room on the Freewinds. I still remember the exact moment I read Hubbard’s absurd comparison of original Buddhism to original Scientology. At that moment, I found a stupid man who was my inferior.
Your book, and your confirming that long rumored Hubbard admission of being Lucifer (whatever was on Hubbard’s mind to try that angle on top of his religion angled “religion” just is so indicative of Hubbard’s deeper complexity nuttiness) you truly give one of the all time historical important anecdotes. (And Lucifer “beingness” on top of Metteya, on top of a generic “messiah” possible go at it, jeepers Hubbard couldn’t get his whole track beingness to line up with his megalomania, LOL.)
Messiah. No.
Lucifer. Yes. oops, No.
in the end, Hubbard was getting chased by that persistent Creston Ranch “body-thetan” or two that he couldn’t shake. Chased into his grave by his own “body-thetan” creative solution to his own madness.
I thankyou so much for your writings, on Marty’s blog when discussion was really good back then, and your and Roger Weller, and also my earlier reading and then email chat with Kima Douglas before she passed, all added up to taking a look at Buddhism (plus Vinay Agarwalla’s years of postings finally added up).
Thanks so much George.
PS: In the “Ron’s Mag” I think Photographer part 2, is the “final” LRH photo he took of himself. It’s the final image on that paperback Ron’s Mag, he shot the photo of his shadow wavering in the bottom of his swimming pool. That shot really touched me.
You are welcome, Chuck. Your excellent feedback outshines the comments by OSA calling “Lucifer’s Bridge” “The most awful book about Scientology”. Whoever wrote that comment knows “NOTHING” about Scientology and is seriously trapped in it.
Thanks for the fascinating perspective George. That sounds spot on to me.
Well said George. Hubtard never wanted followers who wee educated as they would more easily spot his scam by recognizing the plagiarism of works that he engaged in.
O/T. VIDEO: Scientology Freedom Medal Winner Nation of Islam Minister Tony Muhammad lectures on White people, Jewish people and the three book series “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews” in his lecture “Farrakhan Got The Devil On The Run” given at NOI Muhammad Mosque 48 in Dallas, Texas.
Please note the photo used for the video includes, in the upper right hand corner, the previously discussed Nazi propaganda image published in the July 1938 edition of Der Sturmer. This video premiered on 1/10/19, five days after Minister Tony Muhammad’s lecture at the Church of Scientology of Dallas on 1/5/19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuESxrTMomM
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I should add that the lecture actually took place on Sunday 1/6/19, one day after Minister Tony Muhammad’s lecture at the Church of Scientology of Dallas on Saturday, 1/5/19.
Below is a sample screeenshot from the video of Scientology Freedom Medal Winner Nation of Islam Minister Tony Muhammad promoting the three book series “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews.”
The YouTube availability of the video is a rare treat. Usually, the videos of Minister Tony Muhammad’s lectures are posted only to Facebook. This video was also posted to YouTube because it took place at Muhammad Mosque 48 in Dallas Texas during the same trip where he spoke at the Church of Scientology of Dallas.
https://i.imgur.com/fyzSkfl.png
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If you knew Davy, like I know Davy
Oh! Oh! Oh! What a guy
There’s none so twisted
Or so ham-fisted
Oh! Oh! Holy Hubbard, what a nitwit
Walked up to him, he spit and snarled
Like a mad dog
He’s the one that had to bark
If you knew Davy, like I know Davy
Oh! Oh! What a guy!
I was one of the lucky (pronounced unlucky) ones who got more training and processing than others while I was in due to the fact that I was shuttled off to the GO fairly quickly and Mary Sue saw to it that we got training and processing on a regular basis.
So I did a gazillion bunches of worthless tech and admin training that means zip in the real world and made it OTV, which gave me an ego the size of several rooms with no meaningful reason to have one that I had to figure out how to shed. That and $5.00 will buy me a semi-decent cup of french press coffee from the place downstairs.
Although those people are spinning their wheels getting no training and processing while in, they, in reality are lucky because they do not have to be deprogrammed when they are ejected or escape. They just have to shed the years of mental abuse and the belief that they didn’t get the processing through some fault of their own. Ok that’s just as bad.
That being said, that “rocket up the bridge” carrot is a pretty power carrot. I wonder if Sea Org recruits these days are buying it.
I was on staff from the late 70s to the mid 80s.
At the time, it not not too difficult to get audited on staff or to keep in a standard study schedule.
In fact, in the Guardian’s Office, a full enhancement schedule was enforced.
(Please note that this does not in any way condone the actions of the G.O.)
Very little of this auditing was sec checks. In fact I was almost at the end of my 5-year contract when I was given my first sec check. I got a whole heap of auditing which did get me up the bridge and was helpful.
A golden age it was not!
We had the Finance Police, the crushing of the missions and the crazy price rises, which made me think that we were our own worst enemies..
But there is no comparison to how it was then and how it is now.
Miscavige inherited a very non-optimum scene and made it infinitely worse!
Regraded Being with the minions picture we’re used to from Thursday funnies!
Oh well… 🙂
“I guess he figures he’s better at doing what LRH would have wanted than LRH himself”.
Bingo! Spot on! And that is why Scientology is sinking faster than the Leaning Tower Of Pisa! Little Shit wants to be LRH!
If I were internet savvy enough, I would archive all these brilliant Regraded Being pieces in their own blog.
Someone please do it.
There is a “category/regraded-being” in the header (at the right side, below “Something Can Be Done About It, Mike Rinder’s Blog”)
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/category/regraded-being/
Thanks!
Good one RB,
Thanks for the Date/ Locate
Wow. those are real conversations too. I’ve heard them….even though a long time ago. I have a relative who was in the Sea Org and never even got onto the grades after 23 years! All repair and ethics is all she received. I rarely saw a staff member go up the grade chart. rarely. Spot on RB!
” I rarely saw a staff member go up the grade chart. rarely. ”
Um, isn’t that a violation of the Sea Org employment contract? I thought the whole point of joining was to ‘pay’ for your bridge with your freely given labour. Failure to fufill their end is a breach of contract. Could all these active and former sea org members sue?
Also, as they say, “Scientology makes the able more able” so it would be in the best interest of the org to get its employees up the bridge as fast as possible. As in, if the sea org members aren’t helping others get up the bridge on any given day then they should be going up it themselves. You’d get a staff member capable of more work. Or you should, according to them. Maybe they don’t really believe it?
Ah well, maybe i shouldn’t expect anything. Scientology charges employees for staff training – training employees need to do the job for the organization. Literally no one anywhere does that, and for good reason. That tells you something right there.
jmsr
I can attest to the veracity of RBs strip today. I’ve seen that scenario over and over again. I got in over 4 decades ago. The only people left in Scientology are the brainwashed true believers.
When on my auditor training, we had to have staff to audit to learn on. They couldn’t let us loose on the HGC paying pcs just yet. But try getting a staff member in session. Their seniors resent that you’re taking them off post or auditing, and they don’t get enough sleep or food to metab so it becomes an exercise in futility.
Yep, that sounds about right. I audited lots of SO when I was in. Felt sorry for most because they really wanted to move up the bridge, but the majority were not sessionable, had body problems, or they were stuck in endless repair. I had one guy in despair actually beg me to audit him during his meal break. Wow! Great! Now I’m all pissed off again thinking back about all the squirrelly crap that went on and which kept getting worse and worse.
” Wow! Great! Now I’m all pissed off again thinking ………………”
Well Bog, that is why the Cult is known best for the gift that keeps on giving! Just scan a bit of $cientology track (as the still-ins call it) and you are sure to head into a black hole of Daveshit!
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Dave, like a skunk, has a distinctively foul odor that travels a great distance even after he’s left the area. Personally I prefer squirrels.
So true RB. So True.
Here’s another idea for How $cientology Works for the young men and women who happens to get caught in the $cientology TRAP of Slave Labor Staff positions.
The Life Cycle of a $cientology $taff Member
A 25 year old guy walks into a Scientology Org with one of those brochures “ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS”
He is routed to the REGG
“I want to be an Actor. I want a girlfriend. I want to be able to communicate freely.”
The REGG gives him a Scientological Stare and hands him the Billion Dollar Contract.
He can’t do it – he dropped acid. So – he joins Staff so he can get that Bridge to Total Freedom and ACHIEVE HIS DREAMS.
….fast forward 27 years
Why he never left
1. He was broke, had no skills and was too afraid to go out into that scary Wog World where THE PSYCHS were electric shocking everyone and putting psych drugs in all food and beverages (An IAS REGG told him that his 2nd week).
He could never finish his Student Hat so he deemed himself as dumb and unable to learn but he was told he would get the Bridge and that would fix everything…. just as soon as they went Ideal.
2. He could never find a replacement for his posts – plus the Org had a list of his O/W’s they blackmailed him with – he liked to jerk off to porn – what a monster, eh?
He joined Staff 27 years ago after taking the Comm Course and mustered up enough guts to ask a chick out at the Org and they got married…
What a win! Scientology Worked!
They divorced the next year when she was determined to be the WHO when she would not renew her Staff Contract. Covertly, he was pressured to divorce her because she tried to hurt the church by leaving.
Currently, he is living in a $cientology Flop House with 5 room mates and the basement is leased out to out of town public Scientologists who come in for “serviced. There are bicycles in the living room, boxes of $cientology Basic Books every room mate was forced to purchase, urine stained mattresses on the floors of each bedroom and a case of Ramen Noodles under lock and key.
His wardrobe consists of an old bartender looking uniform that is too tight because the Org would not buy him a uniform so he found one in the basement of the Flop House he resides in. His shirt is yellow and smells of fear, cigarettes and body odor.
He is now 52 years old and owns nothing – his bedroom has a pee stained mattress and boxes of BASIC Books he was pressured to buy with his inheritance after giving the rest of it to the Ideal Org Scam.
His diet consists of Cigarettes, Coffee and Ramen Noodles coupled with Cal Mag and Emergencee plus any vitamins he can take from the Purif
He has no 2-D, no family, no friends. He sells sheets on Street Corners to eek out enough $$ for his staples: Cigarettes, coffee and Ramen Noodles
His pleasure moments consists of passing out WTH booklets at the baseball games….he gets to peek under the bleecher’s to watch the game
Weekly – he is living the STAT DRIVEN LIFE and now has cancer from the pressure and stress of Being a Scientologist but he is afraid of doctor’s and feels if he could only get his stats up to Normal, he could get that Dianetic Auditing that would save his life so he persists but secretly wants to die
Kev,
Spot on observation.
Down to the last detail of Scientologist selling those crappy poyester sheets on street corners.
FYI , The Scientologist that ran that sheet biz , putting other Scn on the corners,made a ton of money from it.
He segwayed that into selling them on Amazon, now making 6 figures a month selling the crappy sheets.
That’s one freaking cycle of sadness! Ramen noodles under lock and key. One of the saddest things I’ve ever heard..
Good one Kev.
I would like to contribute to the motion. LOL
Don, the Public Chiropractor who got trapped into $cientology through WISE.
A guy in his mid 30’s makes a decent living but of course, he would like to make more.
He receives a brochure in the mail on the “Tech” to make your business BOOM. Don would like that. Don contacts the FSM for WISE – Leslie Bielhart with the Chiropractic Business Academy – a front group to get Chiropractors into Scientology so Scientology can fleece them dry.
Don signs up for a WISE seminar and during the program Chiropractors are VGI’s – bragging about making $50,000 a month with the tech. The excitement is unreal. Don joins up with the WISE program and takes on a $40,000 debt.
Don is told the tech is based on the works of L Ron Hubbard and is designed to BOOM your business.
He signs up – pays the $40,000 for the consulting he will receive from Leslie Bielhart and the materials from the WISE program. Don does not know who L Ron Hubbard is. Don is a trusting soul. He has no reason to suspect these people are lying. Don is excited.
The first bit of hot advise Don received from his $40,000 investment is to always pay the phone bill. Hmmm…wonder why that is in there. Don will find out soon enough.
Then Don is told to put boxes around various stores in the area offering a free massage, He does not want to give free massages but he does this and a few people come in to get the free massage but never sign up for Chiropractic Services. Don is feeling a bit duped.
Don calls Leslie and complains that this is not working and Leslie impinges on Don’s rational mind and tells him he must go up the Bridge to Total Freedom if he really wants to BOOM his practice. He must get rid of his reactive mind. She mumbles something about getting rid of the bank. Don is spinning.
Leslie comes to his office within the week with a Registrar from the Sea Org. The guy is in a naval uniform. Don feels special and a bit intimidated.
The Registrar tells Don he is needs to get up the Bridge to Spiritual Freedom or he is going to be a drug addict loser living in a cardboard box if he does not sign up. Don says he has no money and his wife would kill him if he spends any more money. He already can’t make the payments on the $40,000 loan he took out to purchase WISE.
The Registrar says no problem and opens up several lines of credit for Don along with credit cards. The Registrar congratulates Don on purchasing his entire Bridge to Total Freedom. The Registrar, knowing Don’s Bank will kick in and stop him from saving his eternity, went ahead and authorized payments without Don’s permission. In the best interest of Don’s Dynamics, mind you.
Don is overwhelmed with trauma and is caved in. Now he knows why they say “Pay your telephone bill”….because a WISE member will be overwhelmed with debt …and in such a state of confusion – they will be paralyzed and not be able to move or pay any bills let alone work.
Don files bankruptcy within the year, closes his doors and is working at Costco stocking shelves.
Leslie Beilhart contacts him and tells him he just needs to sign up for one more year.
To Be Continued….
Wow. That is one of the most depressing things I’ve ever read. I feel so sorry for this man. I guess it’s highly unlikely he’ll ever get out at this point. What a waste of a life.
I thought your post was about someone you actually know — hence my first reply above.
Apparently I read it too fast. I guess this is just a hypothetical situation? Still sad as hell since it’s probably quite accurate for many people who’ve wasted their lives in $cientology.
I absolutely love how accurate those last couple of lines are. Brilliant job.
The thing about these cartoons is…every week I read them and I think, ‘omg surely they don’t really talk like this?’ And then you all post, ‘omg that is totally how we talked.’
There may not be a Target 2, but there sure is a parallel universe and it is scientology!
Delicious RB,
Yes 1973 was good (mostly), a time that, as public, there was hope, anticipation, fellowship, and action. Then…… it became that which it set out to change. Hubbard’s dark side won in the end.
So what do they tell SeaOrg members to keep them in when year after year they are stuck on the treadmill and don’t achieve all the promised gains? What is the turnover rate of disillusioned SeaOrg members?
They don’t have to tell them anything. After the first year or so, they don’t dare ask and are afraid to even think a thought because they will get a knowledge report written against them. They are told “you are totally responsible for the condition you are in” and they believe it. They think that if they were to be a better person they would not feel as bad as they do.
Also, keep in mind the Sea Org Schedule https://www.mikerindersblog.org/sea-org-schedule/ (that was 1987 – its probably worse now) and understand that people are kept busy doing nothing in order to force them to not think about the fact that they are continually running in a circle.
Good one, thank you
Geeze
That’s definitely a possible – and frightening – situation. After all, why should the lies be tendered only to public? 🙂