See my announcement on Friday — I am revisiting earlier posts during my vacation. Each day there will be a different one.
A Special Correspondent sent this to me and it is an interesting study for a couple of reasons.
First — you can see the contempt LRH had for The Auditor being “damagingly commercial” and “putting emphasis on speed through courses.”
How do you think he would view the current scene in scientology?
The statements made in this Auditor are positively pathetic compared to what is said today about the “speed up the Bridge” and with GAT II ESPECIALLY focused on the “speed of training.” But even worse, commercialism pervades EVERYTHING in scientology these days — it is ALL about the money.
Below this issue is a full copy of Auditor 35 so you can see what it was that got him so pissed off.
But there are some other fascinating things in this issue which I noted below. And something that even surprised me.
Featured prominently on the front page — Otto Roos. Soon to become an internationally reviled SP. Along with virtually every other name you see on this front page. Ray Kemp. Allan Walter. Baron Berez. I am sure there are others. This is a theme that runs throughout this magazine. Just how many people who were the “leading lights” of scientology fell into disfavor and became “overnight suppressives.” This is NOT a new phenomena. It has been going on since the days of Dr. Winter and Don Purcell.
Here we go again — the stars who became “SP’s” are legion on this page too.
I wonder what percentage of these people still consider themselves Scientologists? Probably a tiny percentage.
This page is where it really gets interesting. The bombshell drops in the section entitled “Racket Exposed”, oddly I have never seen this before and I do not recall it ever surfacing in court cases either. I have seen the Fair Game policy raised MANY times and various ethics orders that refer to Fair Game, but I have never seen this before where it says:
“Any Sea Org Member contacting them is to use Auditing Process R2-45” and
“If they ever come to a Qual Division they are to be run on reverse processes” and
“find any and all crimes in their pasts and have them brought to court and prison.”
These commands from LRH are NOT “tongue-in-cheek” or “jokes.” They accompany other statements that are clearly not intended to be anything other than “fact.”
For any who still hold to the notion that the abuses within the church of scientology all emanate from “others” and that “if LRH knew he would not sanction it”, time to wake up and smell the coffee. It’s not all rainbows and butterflies.
This is reality. The practice may have been canceled due to bad public relations (and I am sure this generated some bad public relations) but the fact remains these statements were published in the international magazine of scientology for EVERY scientologist to read. Remember the old motto “If it isn’t in The Auditor, it didn’t happen.” Well, it IS in The Auditor and it DID happen. And the excuse that the meaning of Fair Game was “misinterpreted” and it ONLY meant that people were not permitted recourse to scientology justice is as big a lie as Hubbard ever told.
Again, featured prominently is “Clear 1” John McMaster, on a world tour. He would soon become an “SP” — though he was personally supervised and CSed through the Clearing Course by LRH? How is this possible?
Gotta laugh at this page. Neville Potter is still around. He was the spy for Miscavige who was with Mary Sue after she was released from prison and until she died. Today he is the “comm line” to Arthur, Suzette and Roanne — performing the same function.
Showgirl Nikki Freedman would go on to become CSG Assistant — Mary Sue’s right hand and much feared. She married Rick Merwin and left the Sea Org, though I don’t remember when.
William Burroughs being promoted as a “big catch.” That did not last long either.
Again, the page is FULL of “SP’s”? How is this possible? It is WAY more than 2 1/2%. And these people were not all “declared by the Miscavige regime.”
I believe there are some more early issues that may be available.
The provide valuable and interesting insight into the history of scientology and some perspective on the current scene.
UPDATE:
Some have asked about the “Racket Exposed” and as usual, a Special Correspondent sent in the original Ethics Order it was reprinted from.
And there on page four is Arnie Lerma completing the HAS Course at the DC Org. This truly is a list of some of the greatest SPs.
The Racket —-
What was thar upper level material, stolen, altered, of research nature only.. ???
Sounds like SO much BS.
“research nature only” — weasel words used by this cult to hide ridiculous beliefs from the public at large, or a shore story designed to handle public and staff.
What juicy smoking gun or far-fetched OT secrets did they have?
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Think I’ll Google a few of those names. 🙂
Marvelous and so valuable, Mike.
I’d like to be able to print out copies of this mag and stuff a copy into each business reply envelope from them.
and leave piles of them at the Starbucks near the FH.
And flyer their damn cars. (so deserved)
Maybe the mailer insert should be a copy of The List, (3000 left or declared) with all the relevant names highlighted.
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I don’t have delusions it would wake up anyone, but having access to truth is foundational.
Valuable, Mike.
Hope you all had a great vacation!
Thanks
I reread it and found it really full of useful information. Thank you. Meanwhile on the web I saw some early 70’s Source. At that time people went to India, looked for different spiritualities etc. And what did those magazines have on the cover? Buddah and then Metteya with Hubbard’s face. What a marketing. To laugh.
Great article. Great proof of all the things you commented throughout the article.
Scientology’s been a mess all through its history.
What else to expect from an unbalanced megalomaniac who falsely promises so much as Hubbard did, and then blames the followers and practitioners of the quackery for failing to attain the undeliverable false promises of the megalomaniac.
Are there actually ‘reverse processes’?
Any of you x auditors ever seen HCOBs on this?
On 2nd thought, I thought of 2
“You are not clear after all”
“Not an FN. It didnt swing 3x”
Sooooo glad I don’t depend on this crap anymore.
I saw this Ethics Order back around 1977. Perhaps in someone’s file when I was writing recruitment letters for Flag. It didn’t sit right with me, but I convinced myself somehow that it wasn’t what it (obviously, now) really was.
“How do you think he would view the current scene in scientology?”
I think the gates of hell would appear. Also because there is no attention on anything other than on the public already on the lines. Furthermore, scn TV is useless. It’s a line for PR. It does not serve to illuminate anyone. It lacks a lot of ‘reality’.
Hubbard would be furious with today’s Scientology, not because it’s any worse now than it was under him, but simply because he was nearly always furious about how Scientology was being run, and it was always everyone else’s fault, even when they were doing exactly what he told them to. In that respect, Miscavige is truly On Source — he behaves the same way.
Dan: laughing! You are right. Being coherent in ruling scientology it must be a constant. I had never looked at it from that angle. Thank you.
Loosing asked:“How do you think he would view the current scene in scientology?”
He’d be justifiably livid when he saw all of the Twit’s™ alterations and how shamelessly he’s denigrated Tubby’s writing skills, but might admire how much *MONEY* Dwarfenführer® has been able to squirrel away. That’s taken some seriously inventive con-game skill to pull off. And to think, “the Kid™” started out as one of Ron’s assistant camera operators before clawing his way to the top of that tiny hill of dead & dying bodies he created.
Jere Lull. I agree. Meanwhile the hill of dead bodies became a mountain.
Freda Gaiman
Related to the GO (and OSA) stalwart and overdose-vitamin-emporium founder David Gaiman?