It's SaTerraDay again. Promotion in Scientology, “Outflow Equals Inflow” One of the pillars of “stable data” drilled into every Scientology staff member is: Outflow equals inflow. Leave it to the church to completely misinterpret and misapply this simple phrase. Terra Math First off, outflow does not equal inflow. Outflow equals outflow, and inflow equals inflow. The two aren’t identical. We might say, the former leads to the latter. Or that intelligent outflow of energy and production by individuals may result in a similar volume of inflow. But not necessarily; lots of factors … [Read more...]
Education, Memory, Grains of Sand, and Scientology
It's SaTerraday. Education, Memory, Grains of Sand, and Scientology How we learn doesn’t jive with LRH’s paradigm of the human mind. Since Ron was so “stats-oriented,” let’s start with the numbers. He said we’ve all lived for quadrillions of years. By multiplying this number times all the pictures in all our memories over this period, we come up with an amount greater than the number of grains of sand on Earth. Whoa. Terra Math One quadrillion (ten to the fifteenth power, 10^15, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) times (x) one trillion memories per lifetime (completely arbitrary figure) … [Read more...]
Everything Takes Longer….
Saturday, time for Terra Cognita! Everything Takes Longer in Scientology Scientologists may be cause over Matter, Energy, and Space. But “Time?” I think that ability must be addressed on OT 11. I would be generous in stating that all targets set by the church take twice as long as they say they will. If management sets a target of ten hours...double, triple, or quadruple this number. If the Director of Processing or Director of Training says an auditing or training action will take eight weeks...change the word “weeks” to “months.” If church leader, David Miscavige—master of prevarication … [Read more...]
Being Declared in Scientology… Kind Of
It's Saturday, time for some Terra Cognita... Being Declared in Scientology…Kind of “Being declared” in Scientology—short for “being declared a suppressive person,”—lets one know he or she is an evil, despicable, and degraded being, and that everyone associated with this person should disconnect from him or her immediately. LRH said an SP is someone who, many lifetimes ago, got squashed so severely that he or she took on the valence of his suppressor. He listed the characteristics of these people in HCOPL 7 August 1965, Suppressive Persons, Main Characteristics. “Nobody puts bab … [Read more...]
The Scientology Committee of Evidence
It's Saturday. Yay for Terra Cognita! The Scientology Committee of Evidence The Committee of Evidence—Comm Ev for short—is one of the chief instruments the Church of Scientology uses to administer justice. Over the years, this court-martial-like hearing has changed from a method of gathering facts and evidence to something more sinister. Nine times out of time, the outcome is a foregone conclusion, played out for show rather than in the interest of fairness and justice. For many church members, there is little more frightening than being called before a Committee of Evidence. As every Sci … [Read more...]
What Attracted Me to Scientology
Saturday is Terra Cognita day! If religion was the opiate of the people as Marx and my parents used to tell me, how in the hell did the latter’s offspring get involved in Scientology? Religion...Or Not I didn’t know Scientology was a religion until well into my HQS course (Hubbard Qualified Scientologist course). And even then, I didn’t accept that it was a bona fide religious entity but more of a new-age, self-help type of outfit. Werner Erhard and EST had set up shop locally, Moonies and Buddhists were common sights at airports, and yes, the field of psychology had become the lif … [Read more...]
Grief and Leaving Scientology
It's Saturday -- Terra Cognita is in the house! Grief and Leaving Scientology In 1969, Swiss psychiatrist, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross introduced her famous five stages of grief. Later, she expanded the model to include trauma such as the death of a loved one, major rejection, and the onset of disease. Over the years, others have modified her model. Her original five stages are: Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance Many Scientologists go through similar stages when leaving the church. Others pass through these stages once they’ve left. Denial Most e … [Read more...]
Why I (We) Write
Saturday -- Terra Cognita day! Yay! Writing is Communication One of the things LRH got right was emphasizing the importance of communication. The more we read and write, the more we understand what’s going on. Writing is connecting with others. Writing is learning. Writing is being. Writing is all sorts of shit. Writing is fun. Discussions on this blog have helped me understand the “stable data” I accepted while inside the bubble as something other than unquestionable truth. Scientology Cut My Comm, Fuck You Very Much For over thirty years Scientology cut my comm. Not only my commu … [Read more...]
Wins and Arbitraries
It's Saturday. Time for us to get our weekly dose of Terra Cognita. Fingers crossed for tonite. In case you are confused, there are TWO Emmy Award shows. The one today (and continuing tomorrow) is called the Creative Arts Emmy Awards and it includes many categories not considered "Prime Time" -- including documentaries as well as advances in sound editing and that sort of stuff. The "Big" or "Prime Time" Emmy show is next weekend and is broadcast live on CBS. This one is broadcast on FXX at 8pm tonite. Now, on with Terra. Wins and Arbitraries Lots of people have had wins in … [Read more...]
High Crime and the Cost of Scientology
It's Saturday and Terra Cognita is in the house. High Crime and the Cost of Scientology If LRH had really wanted to save the planet as quickly as possible, why did he make his “tech” so expensive? And therefore, so inaccessible to so many? If the world was going to hell in a handbasket, why charge Scientologists—tasked with saving the planet—hundreds of thousands of dollars? Why not just give them the “tech” and allow them to get to work bailing out our little rock? How ethical would it be to charge individuals a hundred grand for a vaccine to inoculate themselves against a plague decima … [Read more...]