The OT Committee blabberfests provide some interesting insight into the bubble. Usually we see stats reflecting the real scene, often they give us an idea of what the attention is on (it’s invariably MONEY), and sometimes they slip up by announcing “future plans.”
Of course, the impending Golden Age of Admin is no surprise. But this is the first “official” mention of it.
There’s not much left to turn into a “Golden Age” — and it’s a good one as all previous failures can be blamed on the “lack of standard Admin Tech.” Of course no “ideal org” is going to make it as the OEC has been squirrel since the day LRH wrote it. And it has taken Dear Leader, D/Source For Lost Tech, to straighten it all out.
He will announce, with great fanfare, that he has discovered a new “why” and the familiar pattern will happen all over again, just like it did for GAT and the Basics and the Congresses and GAT for OTs and GAT II etc etc. There will be a massive “training evolution” where all orgs are torn to pieces to send people to Flag for a 6 week training program that will take 2 years, and then a huge volume of materials will be printed, all with glossaries (and part of the release will be dictionaries). All “old” versions of the OEC will be destroyed (look out for the fire sales — 25% discount — on the OEC before the release). Everyone will be made to buy new ones. All failures of orgs will be explained. And for the umpteenth time he will tell the clubbed seals that THIS is the dawn of a new era of expansion unlike anything ever seen before.
For the information of readers here, Miscavige has been “working on” a project to “get the OEC on Source” since 2001. He had EVERY policy ever written laid out in chronological sequence and went through a parade of people, from Jon Horwich and me to Liz and Mark Ingber and Marc Yager to Jenny Linson and Angie Blankenship to Sue and Greg Wilhere and who knows who else. All “failed” to resolve what Miscavige is certain is the WHY. That the OEC is not in the correct SEQUENCE and that wrong issues are in the volumes. He has a theory that the course is not able to be duplicated because it is not in sequence, but it would be wrong to put it in strict chronological sequence. It’s not possible to understand his “reasoning” but when this big announcement comes he will surely explain it in grand Shermanspeak and it will make “perfect sense” to every clubbed seal. He will be hailed as a hero for “Keeping Scientology Working.”
The only things he has left after this are the Golden Age of KTL, Golden Age of LOC and Golden Age of PRD — all of which can be also positioned as “Why’s” that undercut all other failings (though that has already been done for each previous “Golden Age” release….)
In any event, here are the latest Valley OTC Minutes. Apart from the announcement of the GAAh, it’s pretty much same old, same old. Though I do note their GI is now at 0. So too Clears and pre-OTs onto their next step…
Valley Org OT Committee
April 15, 2014
Note: The minutes are for the sole use of Valley OTC members. All members receive a copy. Please do not forward the minutes to anyone else for any reason.
ATTENDEES Kathy Welch, Kathie Heard, Mary Lee Krackow, Mary Elizabeth Glosup, Diane Temps, Tamara Dahill, Mary Ann O’Donnell, Debbie Suplee, Charlene Thorburn, Carol Loweree, David Wilson, Bonita Wilson, Dean Glosup, John Cumming, , Kathy Di Galbo, Ralph Temps, Bob Brooks, Linda Massey, Bob Welch, Vered Ziv, Avner Golan, Bo Ellison, Marty Kassowitz, Bobbi Kassowitz, Lauren Perreau, Larry Marshall, Ben Ghiora, Judy Huelsman, Patty Riemer, Sherry Hermann, Cyndi Norberg,
Kathie Heard and Kathy Welch opened the meeting.
Mary Lee Krackow recited the purpose of the OT Central Committee.
STATS
Division 1 – Karen Brown
Active Members – Down from 58 to 53
Division 2 – Mary Elizabeth Glosup
Gross Income – Down from $191 from $0
Division 4 – Tamara Dahill
# of Volunteer Hours – Up from 237to 270.6
# of all GAT2 starts – Down from 4 to 2
# of Events & Briefings Held – Up from 0 to 1
# of Books Sold – Up from 3 to 8
# of Pre-OTs onto their next step – Even at 0
# of Clears onto their next step – Down from 2 to 0
Division 5 – Kathy Welch for Mary Ann O’Donnell
# of Route to Knowledge starts – Down from 5 to 3
Division 6 – Charlene Thorburn
Meeting Attendance – Down from 35 to 19
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Kathy Morrill briefed us on the very active OTC members helping with community events. Carol Loweree has delivered Truth about Drugs seminars to thousands of parents and children in the Valley! One Pastor has delivered 2 seminars to about 400 on the Truth about Gangs! Eight of our OTC members volunteered at the “Salute to Kids” event last week. There were booths for Happy House and the Environment, with arts and crafts, Choices booklets, and the Drug Free Marshalls.
On May 17th the 9th Annual Poker Party at “Bart Simpson’s house” is being produced by our own Honorary Mayor of the Valley. Please tell your neighbors they are welcome. 1:30 pm to 8:00pm
Bonita Wilson, Liz Baybak, Steve Donavan and Hagit Ron are presenting their spectacular OT wins at David and Bonita Wilson’s home on Saturday April 19th at 11:00am.
Quinn Taufer is BACK! With the SO project to help us get the Valley Ideal Org done!!! Our next big event is May 4th at the new Valley Org Chapel from 5:00 to 9:00pm. Arrivals target is 500. Quinn briefed us on the planned BIG events schedule. Quinn updated us on the amazing stats of the existing Ideal Orgs.
Target for Valley is to start construction in 5 months!
The next major release will be Golden Age of Admin!!
The Int’l Landlord’s Office prepared and sent over two surveys. All the OTC members took the survey data with each other and handed in the results last week. This action begins a project to get several hundred surveys done prior to the marketing design step in our new campaign. Everyone in Los Angeles should be getting Valley done!
Jennifer Jacobson announced the 64th Dianetics Anniversary Event Saturday May 17th 7:00pm on L Ron Hubbard Way.
Reminder:
Valley Week at the Freewinds was announced for May 1st – 8th. Package price includes flight, accomos and a week of special events. Ports of call include Barbados, St. Kitts, Dominica, St. Lucia and Antigua.
Reminder: Carroll Loweree announced the “Love It Forward” program: promoting random acts of kindness! She briefed us on the program and recent activities.
Kathy Welch confirmed OTC members for May 4th. The successful action of having the OTC members who were present at the meeting call and / or text others to increase the OTC meeting attendance. Bring at least one person.
OTC members went into production completing surveys on all OTC members.
The meeting was ended.
Great news — we “plan” on targetting to get going on starting the renovations in 5 months…. Phew, what a relief that is.
Like much else in Dn and Scn, LRH over-eingeered admin tech way beyond what was necessary and actually made it unworkable. Many of the fundamental concepts are totally workable but when overdeveloped there becomes so much stress that the whole thing becomes unworkable. How about all those stupid networks: the FBO NW, LRH Comm NW, FR NW, D/FBO MORE NW, SNR HCO NW, FR NW and probably half a dozen more I have not-ised out of terror. Admin tech would work beautifully if one simply took whatever fundamentals seemed sensible and ignored everything else.LRH’s basic modus operandi was to wring everything out as far as he could on anything he began exploring and often times the ultimate expression of a topic was often less workable than one of his earlier iterations. Look at O/W tech as one example that many people will have reality on. Look at Study Tech. Look at Prepchecking. Look at rudiments, for Gawdsake. How many thousands of sessions have been driven off the rails because rudiments had to “F/N” (a three swing F/N, no less) before the auditor could get on to the body of the session! My 2 cents.
There is a huge disconnect here, does Miscavige allow the ladies that lunch on this committee to pretend that the Church of Scientology is just like the Junior League? The “Love It Forward” campaign, booths at craft fairs, dinners at members’ houses? The Sea Org members must burn up at this stuff, I hope it helps them find the exits faster.
Good idea Richard. They are a total waste of space. Unless you have ZERO business common sense. (and then you have to separate out the insane stuff) I ran two businesses very well and found them useless or even destructive if used.
I don’t think it’s really fair for any of us to fully judge Dave on this deal until we see The Golden Age of Admin Phase II. So I’m thinking …. what? ….. 15 years from now maybe? And ….. it will be the freaking BIGGEST event EVAH! Seals … start your flippers …. and I expect ECSTATIC flipping, capisce?
Don’t forget we need a building first Joe…..we’ll need to fundraise for that 15 years straight.
i know i should give the hackneyed lyrics a break but almost every post brings a song to mind.
Come all without
Come all within
You’ll not see nothing like the Mighty Admin
Come all without
Come all within
You’ll not see nothing like the Mighty Admin
Everybody’s building Orgs and Lecture Halls
Some are building monuments,
Others jotting down notes
Everybody’s in despair, every girl and boy,
But when Golden Age of Admin gets here,
Everybody’s gonna jump for joy.
“And it has taken Dear Leader, D/Source For Lost Tech, to straighten it all out.”
Maybe he could figure it out now…
Deposition of DM, 1990 (without Shermanspeak and teleprompter …)
http://www.ami.com.au/~bradw/cos/Lisa/dm3.htm
“…
Q. DID YOU EVER STUDY ALL THE ORGANIZATION EXECUTIVE COURSES, MR. MISCAVIGE?
A. WELL, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT? LET ME ASK YOU THAT.
Q. WELL, THERE’S A SET OF GREEN VOLUMES —
A. MM-HMM.
Q. — GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS THE OEC VOLUMES.
A. HMM.
Q. THERE ARE STUDIES THAT GO ALONG WITH STUDYING THE ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT FUNCTION WITH THOSE VOLUMES; IS THAT A CORRECT STATEMENT?
A. NO, IT’S VERY INACCURATE.
Q. OKAY. WHY DON’T YOU DESCRIBE TO ME HOW A PERSON GOES AROUND STUDYING THE OEC MATERIALS?
A. GOES AROUND —
Q. GOES ABOUT STUDYING THE OEC MATERIALS. IS IT A CHECK SHEET FORMAT?
A. HOW A PERSON GOES AROUND STUDYING THE OEC MATERIALS.
Q. IS IT A COURSE FORMAT, A CHECK SHEET FORMAT?
A. THE OEC VOLUMES?
Q. THE OEC VOLUMES.
A. NO, THEY’RE IN VOLUMES; THEY’RE IN BOOKS.
Q. SO IT’S SELF STUDY?
A. I DON’T — NO. I’M REALLY NOT TRACKING WITH WHAT YOU’RE SAYING HERE, I’M SORRY.
Q. WHEN YOU STUDY THE OEC VOLUMES, IT’S A COURSE THAT YOU TAKE, ISN’T IT?
A. THERE IS A COURSE, BUT YOU SAY WHEN YOU STUDY THE OEC VOLUMES, IT’S A COURSE THAT YOU TAKE, AND I’M TELLING YOU IT’S ENTIRELY INACCURATE.
Q. OKAY. OKAY. THE OEC COURSE IS ENTIRELY SEPARATE FROM THE OEC VOLUMES?
A. YES. MAYBE. THAT’S 50-50. NO, I MEAN — NO, IT’S NOT AN ACCURATE STATEMENT.
Q. THERE’S SOME INTERPLAY ON THE OEC COURSE, GREEN VOLUMES?
A. POSSIBLY.
Q. ARE THERE SEVERAL DIFFERENT COURSES OFFERED FOR STUDYING THE OEC MATERIALS OR THE OEC COURSE — IS IT A SINGLE COURSE? LET’S START THERE. IS IT A SINGLE COURSE, SEVERAL COURSES? YOU HAD IT ONCE AND THAT’S IT?
MR. DRESCHER: WHICH QUESTION —
MR. HERTZBERG: WHICH QUESTION DO YOU WANT HIM TO ANSWER?
BY MS. PLEVIN:
Q. I’M TRYING TO HELP HIM FORMULATE HOW BEST TO RESPOND.
MR. HERTZBERG: WE HAVE TO FORMULATE THE BEST QUESTION FIRST BEFORE HE CAN RESPOND. WHAT QUESTION ARE YOU ASKING? YOU ASKED THREE OR FOUR DIFFERENT QUESTIONS THERE IN SEQUENCE. WHICH QUESTION DO YOU WANT HIM TO RESPOND TO?
MS. PLEVIN: I’M TRYING TO GET HIM TO RESPOND TO A SIMPLE QUESTION, IF HE STUDIED THE OEC COURSE.
Q. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT QUESTION, MR. MISCAVIGE? DID YOU STUDY THE OEC COURSE? DID YOU TAKE THAT COURSE, AND IF THERE’S MORE THAN ONE COURSE, LET’S CLARIFY THAT.
MR. HERTZBERG: HE TESTIFIED TO THAT ALREADY.
THE WITNESS: OKAY. LET ME —
MR. HERTZBERG: THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “THE OEC COURSE.”
THE WITNESS: THAT’S CORRECT — YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT “OEC” MEANS. OEC MEANS ORG EXEC COURSE. SO YOU’RE ASKING ME IF I TOOK THE ORG EXEC COURSE, COURSE. OF COURSE, I DIDN’T BECAUSE THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS THE ORG EXEC COURSE, COURSE.
BY MS. PLEVIN:
Q. BUT THERE’S AN ORG EXECUTIVE COURSE?
A. YES.
Q. DID YOU TAKE THAT COURSE?
A. WHICH ONE? THAT’S WHERE THE CONFUSION IS ENTERING HERE.
Q. ALL RIGHT. HOW MANY ARE THERE?
A. WHEN, NOW?
Q. HOW MANY ORG EXECUTIVE COURSES ARE THERE NOW IS FINE.
A. ARE THERE NOW?
MR. HERTZBERG: NOW, TODAY?
MS. PLEVIN: NOW, TODAY.
MR. HERTZBERG: I’M GOING TO LET HIM ANSWER. I’M NOT SURE HOW THAT’S RELEVANT TO ANYTHING IN THE COMPLAINT, BUT YOU MAY ANSWER.
THE WITNESS: I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT. I REALLY DON’T. YOU’RE CONFUSING A SET OF VOLUMES WITH A COURSE. WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU ASKING ME?
MS. PLEVIN: I THINK THE QUESTION STANDS FOR ITSELF.
MR. HELLER: WELL, IF YOUR RESPONSE IS YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND, THAT’S YOUR RESPONSE. DON’T ANSWER A QUESTION YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND.
BY MS. PLEVIN:
Q. WHAT IS IT YOU DIDN’T UNDERSTAND?
A. YOU ASKED ME HOW MANY ORG EXECUTIVE COURSES ARE THERE.
Q. NO. I SAID HOW MANY —
A. I DON’T GET IT. HOW MANY ORG EXECUTIVE COURSES.THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS. THAT’S MY ANSWER.
Q. HOW MANY HAVE YOU TAKEN SINCE — EVER?
…”
Sounds like an SP to me. All he does is try to confuse. I can imagine his wedding ceremony.
Q: Do you take this bride?
A: Excuse me?
Q: This woman.
A: The person next to me?
Q: Yes
A: Let me make sure I understand your question.
Q: Go ahead.
A: Go ahead with what?
Q: Fuggedaboudit!
DM had to come out with Golden Age of Admin. It will have newly discovered tech that will explain the graphs shown at events. No numbers, no dates, how to pad a stat, how to invent really nifty acceptable truths, how to lie….
Now DM will have “policy” to back up his criminal behavior!
I am truly impressed with the myriad ways that Scientology has invented to polish a turd. It is indeed the Golden Age of Turds. Enjoy.
Scientology stats: “Even at zero.”
Wow.
Love it. Hey, at least that’s not downstat — it’s just even!
Ah yes, the “love it forward” program. This can only mean either putting DM out of his misery, or sharing Mike’s blog with all other OTC members. I can feel the love from here.
Mike, here’s another lifeline that may prevent a hapless OSA’ite from treading salt water
Said OSA’ite could offer up a DMon pleasing ‘new’ stat of ‘mind boggling’ proportions.
Number of (fudged, naturally) ‘people’–to–‘sheeple’ conversions, now run into the billions, planet wide! ….. “just this week alone, we have 43,927 completions, p’s to s’s!”
Why not? In the fantasy world of Miscavology, surely ANYTHING is possible?
I left out other GEMs such as David Mayo money funnel tech ,nothin to do with LRH.
What you need to know is David Miscavige discovered how to boil a frog.
If one puts cold tap water into a pot and brings to full boil and toss in a frog, it will jump out !. Frog run’s away.
Now then if you put cold tap water into a pot and gently place the frog in, he stays put.
Turn up the heat ever so gradually and the frog stays in the pot till fully cooked frog !!!.
Doing this with people to separate them from their money is how this applies.
At Flag when I was there public were doing conditions for going bankrupt.
I would read the liability formula and they all remarked how they got to a point of bankruptcy as if by magic just after making incremental donations to the IAS
and Flag programs.
That is so sad, Jose. There is one reality in the Church. You (the PC, thetan, person) are responsible for everything — supposed “crimes,” ethics, avoiding “entheta,” “donations” (known in the rest of the world as payments for goods and services), alteration of “tech,” your purported M/Us and O/Ws and ARC-Xs, and so on.
The Church is only responsible for making sure you (the PC, thetan, person) are held fully responsible for everything. The Church ultimately takes responsibility for nothing other than that.
The Church, to illustrate the point, is at liberty to commit actual crimes, violate all known ethics codes, create massive amounts of entheta and secondaries if not engrams, hoard “donations,” alter the “tech,” generate M/Us, accumulate volumes of its own O/Ws, and ARC break the heck out of thousands of people.
And the why? It’s _your_ fault. Each and every one of you. Now, a person who behaved this way (like the Church does) would be a child with no discipline, no self-control, no ability to reflect and grow — probably an impulsive, no-sense of consequences, adolescent male child about 5’1. When pissed off he would get in fights. When he couldn’t control you — when you did not agree it was all _your_ fault, he’d kick you out of his club. Eventually though, he’ll be in his treehouse all alone. All those who got kicked out of his club found that real life is a lot more productive and rewarding. They’ll tell the club members. Pretty soon he is left up in the tree alone except for company of the real squirrels.
Better to be a wog than a hard boiled frog
An interesting figure is the # of attendees to this OTC=30. The active members 53. They sure are shrinking at a rapid rate.
As far as the GAA what is missing in the OEC Volumes is all these acclamation marks that have been prevalent in almost all recent promos and comms, you know, these ones !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe next will be GAT for Ethics on how to declare more SPs as the WHY of lack of expansion.
Re: The Golden Age of Admin
Does it matter? Really, think about it. So, DM produces perfect flawless tomes of flawed perfected policy, who cares? It’s not like it ever worked in the first place. Without a doubt he will introduce alterations/deletions/additions, etc, cause he just can’t help himself, being a Master Administrator and all.
The real victims in this will be the poor staff members who will wrap themselves around a pole trying to implement it. If they found LRH Admin difficult to apply, fasten your seat belts.
Mike, sorry, but I just have to get this straight. Is this a typo? Don’t you really mean: “The Golden Age of Idi Amin is coming”???? (is there even a difference?)
Let’s not forget that what we call “THE” Tech Vols are not the originals. They have gone through several re-incarnations already, each time removing and adding issues. I remember the event when DM announced the current NEW Tech Vols and OEC Vols. One thing he said was, “….AND THERE ARE NO MORE BTBs!” -to rousing, reactive applause.
“BTB” is short for Board Technical Bulletin, which is a Scientology Tech issue issued by someone other than LRH, approved by church mangement. There are also Board Policy Letters. Ironically, those New OEC Vols still contain issue entitled “Issues Types of” wherein LRH actually authorizes and defines BTBs and BPLs. He did authorize these types of issues, no matter what Slappy says.
And here is still another irony….. many policies and tech bulletins have been issued after LRH left the building. So, unless slappy has some kind of magic golden age of tech Ouija board, there is no way that Ron could have approved the final draft of any of those issues. So, they would have to have been written up by someone else (allegely) based on LRH advices. Or so the rumor goes. In any event that would make them all BTBs anyway by definition, wouldn’t it?
Another irony about these “new issues”, which are really BPLs and BTBs, is that Ron also stated in HCOPL 13 January 1979, Orders, Illegal and Cross, that no one can be comm eved or disciplined for not following BPLs or BTBs!
David Miscavige has been telling lies and creating confusions about Scientology for a long time.
This is truly predictable. What astounds me is the unapologetic ranting and raving the rcs continues to do in the face of obvious failure. It’s beyond delusion, more like hallucination at this point. I find myself thinking about a beautiful Grade O end phenomena I once heard in a session. I also thought of a really tricky computation that I located on someone on Grade IV and the excitement and joy the person had while running it out. That was a wild ride. I once audited someone with pneumonia and handled a major upset and she got well before my eyes. I feel the need to illustrate the possibilities that are being denied to people by this complex, continuous determination to harm and destroy, perpetrated by dm and his rcs.
These otc groups are extremely pathetic, off purpose and lost.
Yes, real auditing is a wonderful thing. Real auditors really care about others.
Herbie Parkhouse, wow a blast from the past,
I am experiencing cognitive dissonance. Do I understand correctly that Miscavige is not clear, is not OT, has not advanced in his own training, failed as an auditor (lack of emotional self-control) … and yet _he_ is the judge of how to organize the “tech” so it makes sense?
People need to quit following leaders and become leaders. For chrissake, everyone who is “in,” just quit following this clueless knucklehead.
Overrun, back in the day when I was querying something with a staff member, I mentioned that datum about no hidden data line and was told that their were LRH advices which authorized it, to which I replied, “Fine, let me read them”, and was told that public were not permitted to read these advices, to which I replied, “Fine, then let whoever is allowed to read them do this, because I’m not going to”.
Just another instance of how in the end I endeared myself to staff.
I love your spunk and integrity, Aquamarine!
Oh I get it now!!!
A. Get some new blood into the organization.
B. Get rid of all the old timers who have seen this kind of crap over and over.
C. Then get the new people to think that you are finding “Why’s” to make them feel that things are getting better, while sucking them dry.
D. Then when they start to realize that it is all bullshit, declare them too.
Start back at A. again and let the cycle repeat.
Sounds like Dave’s a vampire.
God help the poor sheeple!!
Rephrased Dianetic jingle: You’ll never climb a steeple if you worry about sheeple.
Quinn Taufer is back! It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out where he has been. That’s a sad thought, but at least he is back.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I find it just incredibly depressing to read the stats these folks shamelessly publish. If they weren’t such twits with blinders on, I would just feel sorry for them. They are so stoned on Kool-Aid they actually think other areas are doing well and they are the only ones playing this losing game. A local 4-H group or Glee Club at a high school has to have better stats than these guys. It’s just depressing. It would be nice to be able to have a cup of coffee with one of these folks and talk about something real (anything outside the bubble) just to cheer them up a bit. I don’t care how “OT” they are, this has got to be taking a toll on the spirit. Just writing this makes me feel like I’m kicking someone who is down. Wake up people. Please just wake up, just a bit. Please.
Active Members – Down from 58 to 53. Five blows. Ouch! I bet the witch hunt is on.
“Bonita Wilson, Liz Baybak, Steve Donavan and Hagit Ron are presenting their spectacular OT wins at David and Bonita Wilson’s home on Saturday April 19th at 11:00am.”
“Come to my home and listen to me talk about me me me.”
But that’s enough about me, let’s talk about you. What do you think of me?
MJ, I think I am awesome for thinking you are awesome.
Steph, I love that you love me
Totally right, Oracle. All the wins are about me, myself, and I. Go to a real church and all you hear is about helping their fellow man.
A very important thing to LRH was to let everyone know that there is NO HIDDEN DATA LINE. He said everything is there in the books and tapes. So Miscavige keeps finding all this new stuff, changing things around, blaming sp editors. If LRH was around he’d knock Miscavige silly.
What if LRH knew exactly what Dave was doing and just waited for us to take the ship back? Kind of like we’re doing now.
+1!
OH this is just great. A bigger money funnel.
Herbie Parkhouse had a racket going with GFO’s money funnel.
Kingsly Wimbush put rockets on the money funnel with De Dinging.
Golden Age of tech made the money funnel incredibly long.
Ideal Org program turned the money funnel into a Ponzi scheme.
Golden age of admin, I’m sure it’s a Ski mask and a gun
or have we gone past that ?
So, would that be a poker party at Nancy Cartwright’s on May 17?
Well, the great thing about 0 is that it sets you up for an affluence of 2 next week.
One thing that miscaviges interpretation of tech and admin enforces is that everything is as important as everything else. The placement of every comma and arrangement of sequence etc is more important than just understanding it. I don’t think one can understand it anyway until they get out of that environment and can be free to choose what works. Taking an org and saying it must be 100% “on policy” is useless. An org should just train auditors and audit PCs and use or create whatever policy is needed to get it done. Every group is different, like a living organism.
Well, you see, Dave really does know best. Ask any seal.
Yes indeed Chris! ‘Absolutism’ at its robotic best!!!
However, to become an accomplished journeyman/expert, in any trade/profession, surely you agree, that it is most easily achieved as an apprentice/intern, under the guidance of said ‘expert.’ Attaining real proficiency, is not attained through shortcuts, but rather the thorough ‘grounding’ of hard work in the ‘trenches.’
For instance, in your business, as an accomplished musician, what do you think of a dilettante, coming out of nowhere, proclaiming they know all they ‘NEED’ to know?
I’m assuming, that you are as aware as I am, that in the hands of a REALLY proficient auditor, your gains and wins were assured from the start.
To ‘be’ an unshakable ‘expert’ in the use of your ‘tools’, simply means that one can deliver the goods as expected, (especially under ‘adverse’ conditions,) whether an airline pilot, musician, surgeon, mechanic, or auditor, just as a few examples.
(By the way, is there a more ‘adverse’ condition, than that of having a ‘reactive mind’?)
Finally, are there any compromises, or shortcuts possible, to becoming an expert?
BTW, I have always enjoy your ‘nitty gritty’ posts…. keep em coming! 🙂
– Calvin.
Excellent points Chris and Calvin. LRH said you learn to audit by auditing. It was a huge stroke of evil to get rid of all the seasoned auditors in the gag 1 evolution. Malcolm Gladwell, in a book called “Outliers”, concludes, after much research, that it takes about 10,000 hours of work and effort to become very successful at something. Many people are considered talented or gifted, when the fact is, they put in 10,000 hours of hard work. That IS what it takes to become an accomplished auditor, without all the altered tech, and without all the rote memorization.
Good point. See also – http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1591842948?pc_redir=1398117564&robot_redir=1
I like the way this leaked email starts out with…
“Note: The minutes are for the sole use of Valley OTC members. All members receive a copy. Please do not forward the minutes to anyone else for any reason.”
If Miscavige had gotten the EP of the KTL Clay Table Processing, we wouldn’t have this problem now.
Trouble was, he just never could! He smashed the clay table to pieces, and throttled the Sup., while screaming obscenities and threatening everyone who even looked at him, before walking out the course room as though nothing ever happened!
So the “Ideal” Tech Dictionary and the “Ideal” Admin Dictionary are coming up soon?
The whole thing is just one big stop!
Ideal at stopping = IAS.
Ideal IAS = current IAS with 10x donation levels! I am a management genius!
Incredibly arrogant stupidity works too.
OMG does this mean I can finally dump the 800 lbs of admin tech books that I have been dragging around for 20 years.
Seriously though. Does anyone want all my admin books. I live in NC. LRH admin tech is useless in the real world.
I think he was a genius and a lot can be learned from studying admin writings. But I also realize it was written for Scientology orgs mostly in the 60s/70s.
So if you just blindly try to “follow” or “apply” things like HCOPLs to your business in 2014 you might have some problems. There are some really good and effective concepts, ideas and actions in there though if you can think with it. This is just what I think.
Yes Chris!
+1 Critical thinking can never be abandoned, it’s out integrity.
I wonder how many new policy letters will be found, handwritten by LRH, delineating the necessity to obey without question anyone who appears to have been somehow kind of authorized to be be a COB?
When Dave gets hauled off, we can all celebrate his golden age of prison. Fall into the GAP.
Don’t tease me, MJ! I dream of what you just posted.
Sweet dreams dude. 😉
You just can’t keep a good stork down. This one keeps on dropping mail down Mike’s chimney. Miscavige may have to fire a stork hunting mission.
“You just can’t keep a good stork down”. Nor a good mole up. Amazing intel, Mike, thank you. Desperate Dave is on a Why rampage. GAT II is obviously not cutting it. Stupid Power is not cutting it. Time for another Why,pronto. Gotta keep them Whys rollin’ rollin’ rollin’.
I’m just thinking: 20 years of 1 sit, and like, how many Why’s, fpr this same sit, each and every one wrong? Its amazing to me.
Why?
Jeezus, Valley isn’t done yet? I thought they had a building, and that they were using it. Maybe they’re just using part of it? I’m confused by this whole stupid Valley thing. And why the fuck do I need to travel to the Caribbean to spend a week on the ship – “Valley Week.” Wouldn’t the airfare and accomos be better spent buying door knobs and toilet paper? As my Auntie in Brooklyn used to say, “Oy Fuckin’ Vey!”
I wonder if the Valley OTC is getting the holy crap sec-checked out of them to find the leak. I truly hope it’s Marty Kassowitz or Tamara Dahill – they are such sweet people. Or Ralph Temps – there’s an example of a brilliant man falling for a stupid cult if there ever was one. Temps is one sharp dude.
Hell, maybe they’ll *all* get declared. Then I’d be able to talk to them again. I’d like to catch up with them.
-Gus
Love your Auntie Gus!
Me fuckin’ too!
Mike, the sad truth about the “Golden Age of Admin” is that it truly is not possible. You could make an integrated complete statement of the Tech with a few key issues and a lot of other “background” to flesh it out, especially if you leave out a lot of questionable bits. The Tech was for use, and those who used it honestly learned to use it effectively if they were not forced to squirrel it by those who Know Best.
But the “Tech of Admin” is just a mish-mash of random orders and bright ideas that never went anywhere with a lot of witch hunts and crusades to nowhere to make it crazier yet. I remember when Ken Delderfield did the first OEC – he had to put in a lot of non-LRH issues to make it make sense and fill in the gaps. Diana about broke her brain to put together a Vol 6 that made sense with almost no LRH. Now you can’t do that, it has to be all Green on White. The smartest thing would be to throw it all out except for maybe one or two key issues per department and write up a bunch of fake issues, pretend to have “discovered” them in the attic in Del Sol and proceed from there. Sadly, to do that you would have to know how an organization works and be able to lead something more complex than a Greek Chorus of Yes-Men. All the ones who could have done this have either blown or are stuck in SP limbo at Gold. No one is going to ask them! It is kind of sad, but there really is no answer that will work. The answers that will be put forward, full of arbitraries and held over time-motion studies involving mimeo machines and telexes from the 60s, will only befuddle and confuse the clubbed seals yet more.
Imagine a fully 100% on source executive, swinging into action to get the stats up before Thurs. at 2! He is the Production Off, full of fire to blast at counter-intention near and far! At his right hand is is Organisation Off, who is full of fire to Organize something (not sure what, does she just bypass all of HCO and hire some people? Uhh…Following not far behind are the ESTO, possibly an Exec Esto and several other minions, mainly to pick up the pieces after the Prod Off fires off his salvos. Crowds of other minor minions from various other HCO PL Hubbard authorized issues follow, eager to do their bit to get some Valuable Final Products so there can be some Stats, maybe even a liberty day off… OOPS forgot this isn’t the 70s… They descend en-mass on some unsuspecting staff member who sadly had to get a coffee. OOPS, now they have bypassed a whole other command structure of several levels, each with their own Prod and Org Officers and assorted minions. The other structure sees the first structure and the melee ensues – “Orders Illegal and Cross”, “Danger Conditions the Junior Who Accepts Orders From Anyone” fires across the bow. A salvo of “Executive Conditions Assignments” fires back. Time Machines, “Things that Shouldn’t Be” and Knowledge reports are flying in all directions. The clock reluctantly ticks past two PM and the only stat that is up is Ethics Filing. But all are busy, and if you go back to Green on White there are probably more sinecures and do-nothing posts that could be filled to make the system even more top-heavy and inefficient, except that almost no-one is willing to participate anymore.
Maybe we should pray for the Golden Age of Admin as that will certainly result in the destruction of any odd remaining actual real Scientology and the final collapse of the Reactionary Corporate Scientilogical Morass for good.
(A sad comment on me that I remembered all those goofy post titles 10 years later!)
Mike totally nailed it 100% on-the-money with exactly what is going to happen with the Golden Age of Admin and Bruce has just nailed exactly why this is an impossibility. This is honestly the best article and best comment I’ve seen on Mike’s blog in a long time in terms of its spot-on NAILED IT.
After reading this, I have nothing to contribute that hasn’t already been said. I just wanted to excitedly add that I could not agree more with Mike’s assessment of what is going to happen and Bruce’s assessment as to why it is the most colossal waste of time ever.
Chris, seen you around on a couple of videos and I like your aka name… so, here is my take on this, though I didn’t read all the comments. A person who does not know the Org Board and does not have a grasp on the basics of it, cannot really get the flow of it. If you don’t have that flow of the org board from left to right then it’s an impossibility. All the rest I can say we all know what an Administrator DM is and how shallow his GATS have been. Another shallow GAAAR… (whatever the name) this will be. The man just does not want people to get to the basics because then they will understand. Unfortunately for him as one ascends in Scientology he can grasp more and more of the basics. So, he/she will know. As many here did.
You and me both Bruce, I hated the “Prod Off” being followed around by their “Gestapo”, who would then be back in 15 minutes to see if you’d done what you’d given as time for the finished VFP 10 hours work already and scream if you hadn’t.
Followed by either a trip to cramming or ethics putting you even further behind your TM.
No I don’t miss it at all
Yep. That sounds about right. Of course, all of this is just too advanced for homo sap to comprehend and execute. Good Lord.
A mighty summary Bruce and excellent prognostications Mike.
To add my two cents to the mix, I will say this. If you’ve ever been in an old school Italian kitchen you’d know that there was always grandma, standing off to the side watching how “her recipes” were being followed by her daughter and her grand-daughter. Each of them in turn, adding or subtracting ‘just a little’ to make it their own. It was fascinating to watch and always resulted in an excellent meal.
My point – there was NEVER only one recipe or way to prepare the sauce. There was NEVER only one way to saute the meat. EVERYONE brought something unique or special and took it to the next level.
Policy – with one or two exceptions – was never more than successful hat write-ups grouped together to help someone with their post. That’s how I took it and ran with it. I never took it to the level of Red on White, because it never worked that consistently – it never did. It wasn’t Tech, it was Guidance.
There was another factor that all but guaranteed that Policy would never be truly effective – STATS.
Stats, were the single most destructive concept to be incorporated within the Church – ever. From its inception it was abused and misused. If you want or need a Why – here’s one ready for the picking – STATS.
STATS became the product, the sole focus of every over-amped and agitated executive to don a cap within the church. STATS became the motivator for every unreasonable and destructive act in SCN over the past 50 years. STATS were the Who and Why behind every cascading failure that created a PR nightmare within the Church. STATS wrecked marriages, businesses, families and ultimately our own Religion. STATS have the undeniable inherent quality to morph into something bad. Money is a simple needful thing that when labeled a Stat becomes insane and dangerous.
There was never anything wrong with Policy, like there was never anything wrong with grandma’s recipes. They were and still are useful pieces of guidance that we can learn from if we choose to and use if we wish to. That’s it.
Again, good post and comments guys.
Odd
Thanks, Mike and Bruce. As you suggested, I just finished my prayer for the Golden Age of Admin to go into full swing and be the death knell for this cruel cult.
It is uncanny how you are able to predict every next move of the wee one. It reminds me of a game of chess where unbeknownst to the dwarf, he is about to be placed in check mate and thus lose the whole game. Tick tock Davey.
Scientology and Dianetics are new News to most of the public, wogs.
One would think DM would be promoting that. LOL
Instead DM has manufactured new News to the sheeple.
LOL
What about KSW saying the tech has been found and only needs to be applied.
Laughter.
Mike – you make us laugh – we love how you present these releases! Excellent write up!
The leaks are incredible and it has to be driving Slappy Miscavige just crazy knowing that these leaks are released and there is nothing Scientology can do about it except BE SUPPRESSED.
Slappy is howling because we are winning!
Kuddos to the mole – “Note: The minutes are for the sole use of Valley OTC members. All members receive a copy. Please do not forward the minutes to anyone else for any reason.”
LOL! Thank you molse – keep the leaks leaking!
Please tell moles we LOVE them and thank you!!
I just announced the Golden Age of Taxdox I. My GAT I is free: http://scientologymoneyproject.com/
Subsequent phases of my GAT I involve disseming to various authorities, etc.
This is very well done.
Way to go, man.
Alanzo
Thank you Alanzo. There are already so many very talented and skilled people looking at these dox. There are now about 150,000 views of all dox scattered across many Scribd accounts.
Golden Age of Admin?
Guess I should have seen that one coming. Once again Captain Slappy is going to outdo any parody out there.
So does Dave give Jenny Linson the golden jugs award? Sorry, just couldn’t resist.
Charlene Thorburn…
Wasn’t she the guest star in a lawsuit presented by the family of a well known lover of classical Greek literature who sometimes frequents this blog?
Alanzo
So much that is not good about these stats. And only 2 routed on to the GAT starts? Looks like most are in non-compliance with “command intention.” Get with the program, guys! In the city with the largest concentration of Scns on the planet only 2 starts this week on GAT and only 4 the week before? This confirms the lack of interest in re-doing again the GAT, which would make 3 times through for some people. And it must totally tweak DM to no end to see minutes to the OTC meeting leaked and published on Mike’s site. Who are the moles? The dam has sprung so many leaks there is water everywhere.
Holy Mole-y!
🙂
Greta
Thanks Mike for this, but to be honest, the whole thing is just too painful to read. Reminds me of a song –
Where have all the OT’s gone, long time passing?
Where have all the OT’s gone, long time ago?
Where have all the OT’S gone?
Dave declared them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?
GAAAR!!! I have been waiting for this. A whole NEW book burning event, where LRH original materials are burned and pulped to make way for the DM revisions!!
This is the Golden Age of Actual Admin- Revised – or GAAAR!!!!
It will be a huge success. Rather than release on CD for $25 for the entire lot, DM will get them printed on “finest quality paper” for $25 a pop and sell them for $2500 each set. The reason it will be a huge success is that each of the 100 big whales will buy 100 sets. That will be 25 million dollars straight into CSI bank accounts in one night. Of course it will be cash only- no debiting off your account.
The other reason that it will be a huge success is that DM will find “typographical errors” in all the materials that are problematic for him. Thus all those pesky references about not doing fundraising will disappear forever.
I wish I could be there to watch the glowing faces of the seals, flushed with excitement at the idea of more book burning!!
This is so typical of DM. There are some execs that actually did the “chrono studies” that DM “developed”. They are all gone now. That is so typical. DM edited grades make “gone” pcs. DM edited admin tech creates “gone” executives.
The guy is a walking catastrophe. The recent graphs of interest in Scientology show what a screw up the guy is.
He’s a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Perfect MJ.
OEC volumes were incinerated in 1988 and 1989 at saint hill manor in the uk , everyday the volumes where burned in am incinerator there , i know because I put them into the incinerator , that was my job , to burn LRH books .