THE UK -- PART TWO

A CLEAR UK DISASTER

When you’re dealing with a purity of technology, the weapon in your hands has such velocity, that it isn’t the airy-fairy days where you couldn’t cut below the reality of the PC and louse him up. There were years past where the technology as it went along did not plow under and overthrow the reality level of the PC. Well, you’re not dealing with it now. You’re dealing with pure dynamite.

-- L Ron Hubbard, September 1968, Class VIII Tape 4, Standard Tech Defined

The vicious out tech perpetrated on Scientologists by David Miscavige regarding the state of Clear is a worldwide disaster and of his many crimes is the one that has been perhaps the most damaging to Scientology and Scientologists. But there is nowhere in the world the destruction was more concentrated than in the UK, for a number of reasons.

THE SCENE OF THE CRIME

Firstly, the UK is a small “continent” distance-wise and in terms of its number of orgs. It has only eight Class V orgs plus St Hill Foundation and most of them within a couple of hundred miles of London. And it’s a small “continent” with an AO (Advanced Org --AOSH UK), so that AO is able to easily reach across the relatively small distances and influence the orgs.

Secondly, prior to the implementation of Miscavige’s “handling” on the subject of Clear a project had been done in the UK by AOSH UK (and pushed down CMO lines) to round up all the PC folders of all UK Clears. So they had all the folders and a full list of all UK Clears and OTs. In other words, and most uncharacteristically for the UK, they were actually well organized and set up for once. Only in this case, and just our luck of course, they were wonderfully set up to effectively unleash what I term David Miscavige’s out tech Clear virus on all the unsuspecting Clears and OTs in the UK and Ireland.

And lastly, one other factor has to be taken into account – the FSO or Flag as it is known. Set up by LRH in the 70s, it took over the mantle from his St. Hill org of the 60s and for more than two decades did a stellar job of holding a technical standard but with the advent of Miscavige’s outrageously misnamed “Golden Age of Tech,” it became utterly dominated by him and he insisted that all major technical staff for all orgs in the world be trained there, so it became his primary means of injecting his out-tech viruses into the Scientology system, and remains so to this day. In fact, FSO made it very easy for him. All Miscavige had to do was beat FSO technical terminals into submission (personally and via his army of representatives there) and they would do a job for him on the rest of the Scientology world – which is exactly what happened.

MISCAVIGE’S SPECIAL BRIEFING

As Birmingham Org executives and long term staff, both Lucy and I had felt a number of qualms over the years, but our first real feelings of foreboding took place in the UK and at the hands of David Miscavige himself. It was just after the IAS event in 2003, David Miscavige decided to do a “special briefing” for a select number staff which included Lucy and me.

It was at this hastily arranged St Hill briefing, filmed by Gold, that we heard Miscavige announce his quickie grades, saying that LRH had placed the major grade processes at the end of the grades checklists so as to prevent people quickying them (his exact words) but, in Miscavige’s “infinite wisdom”, he was going to change all that and make them much shorter. That he had neither the right nor the qualifications to set aside LRH’s tech he didn’t bother to mention.

But what he did mentioned was the subject of Clear. Looking around the room at the hundred or so faces he rather blithely announced “most of you in this room did not attain the state of Clear.” Besides a chill passing through me, I remember thinking: "Man oh man, how could he possibly know that without studying the PC folders of everyone in the room?" which he certainly had not done, and even if he had there is no way anyone with any decency or any tech training would make such a statement in public, but there he was with his broad, sweeping and all encompassing assertion. And it also struck me that inventing a hidden data line on this subject was a safe bet for Miscavige because the LRH issues that covered it were highly confidential, so few if any people in that room could run off and review the LRH issues and compare them with Miscavige’s verbal tech.

But it got worse; Miscavige intimated other things at total variance with LRH issues on the subject of Clear, the key one being that as far as he was concerned, there was no such thing as a past life Clear. He made it sound like it was merely something people had invented to trick him. I mean are you kidding me? I saw storm clouds brewing on the horizon.

[As an aside, this was the briefing in which I saw him give his wife Shelly a searing glance of pure hatred, the first time I had ever seen him drop his guard in public, lower his public façade -- a precursor to her eventual banishment no doubt].

Now as a Clear I felt as though the rug had been pulled out from underneath me but my wife Lucy also felt destabilized, here was the King of Scientology telling all his subjects (Clears and OTs alike) that they weren’t Clear so even she introverted and started wondering about her status and she was OTV.

THE NOT AT ALL MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

Just before the briefing by Miscavige, another key event took place in this epic tragedy, AOSH UK’s newly Flag trained Senior C/S (Peter Thompson) returned from Flag with all of Miscavige’s out tech on the subject of Clear fully trained in on him. I know all about this because a few months after Miscavige’s special briefing Peter felt the need to come up and brief me on Clear and other issues – Birmingham Org was important to AOSH UK as it was sending a lot of public there for CCRDs and OT levels.

Now, I’ve known Peter since 1977 and love the man but what he told me about Clear as we sat together in my office chilled my blood. The story goes like this: once upon a time everything was going more or less fine on the subject of Clear in the world of Scientology until one day David Miscavige (who other than doing some Academy Levels way, way back when, is not trained and is certainly not a C/S, CCRD C/S, NED Auditor or C/S, Grad V auditor or C/S, Grad VA auditor or C/S, Class VI auditor or C/S, Class VIII or IX, or XII) discovered something every tech trained person in the world had somehow, miraculously, failed to notice or discover, and something that isn’t written anywhere in the works of L Ron Hubbard – the fact that most Clears weren’t actually Clear! Peter briefed me that, according to Miscavige there were 7 separate points all of which had to be present for a person to be Clear. Consequently, very few people in the world were Clear -- only a very small percentage of existing Clears and OTs had really attained this state, less than ten percent (his exact words).

Now, as it happens I’ve seen the confidential LRH Clear issues, long after I’d attested Clear, while on the RPF in Los Angeles in 1989 and they said absolutely nothing about Miscavige’s 7 points. And thousands upon thousands of people attested to clear while LRH was still on the tech lines and did so according to his parameters so how Miscavige could set all that aside was beyond me.

I pressed Peter on the point of past life Clear and he hemmed and hawed, perhaps because he knew that, unlike confidential issues on the CCRD, LRH issues on that subject were publicly available, and though he didn’t come right out and say it I got the definite idea that past life Clear did not fall within Miscavige’s 7 deadly points. Besides, Miscavige had already said as much in his “special briefing”.

COMPLEXITY AND CONFRONT

Now, I am a trained C/S. I have read the C/S Series perhaps twenty times. Nothing, but nothing about LRH tech is complicated. Each auditing action has an exact EP, the grades and rundowns have exact EPs. If the exact phenomena are present then – bang – that’s it, PC is done. Hell, LRH said it better than I ever could when in the same Class VIII tape he said:

And it’s the one thing the bulk of you who are studying this course don’t know. You don’t know that you’re dealing with an invariable science. It has no variables. It is absolutely clank.

-- L Ron Hubbard

Miscavige was squirreling and complicating the LRH published issues of Clear beyond belief and it is a serious Scientology ethics offense because he is C/Sing cases without being trained, and you can’t even say he is committing the offense of “C/Sing above his level” because he never had a level in the first place, he is not a C/S, so his crime is much worse than that and I knew then it would have dire consequences because this was executive C/Sing of the worst possible kind (executives interfering in tech matters which cause a deviation from standard tech) and on an incredibly broad scale.

And the mistake he makes is he now thinks he can case supervise also. This is another field. It’s based on the same principles, but you have to know. If you have to know it well to audit it you have to know it ten times as well to case supervise it.

L Ron Hubbard, September 1968, Class VIII Tape 4, Standard Tech Defined

Obviously Peter, a Class VIII, bought into this rubbish, and I can tell you he was not alone, because he was trained on it at FSO so all the tech people at FSO must have bought into it too, forced into it by Miscavige and his RTC Reps. In fact, I learned later that Miscavige interfered directly in cases at Flag even though not trained and no one stopped him so obviously the tech people there were and are very backed off. The tragic case of Miscavige meddling with the auditing of Lisa McPherson, resulting in her death was an infamous example of his interference but not the only one. And because the tech staff at FSO feared Miscavige (with good reason) they couldn’t confront him, but because they didn’t confront him and allowed him to do whatever he wanted technically, they opened the door to accepting his out-tech complexities and they were doomed at that point. But unfortunately for us that also allowed Miscavige to compound his felony many times over by interfering with the cases of a great many Clears and OTs!

I am not going to get into Miscavige’s 7 weird points that a PC has to achieve to qualify as a Clear in his complex and out tech universe, I am trying to lessen confusion not add to it. But suffice to say that in the months that followed I saw some strange things pass across my Birmingham desk as the folders of our PC’s who had originated Clear came back from AOSH UK with notes in them. One lady was rejected as Clear because at some point in her life she had once taken a tranquilizer pill. I mean, how crazy can you get? And the sad fact is that, true to Peter’s prediction, only a tiny percentage of people were allowed to be Clear in the UK.

MADAME GUILLOTINE

Somewhat like Madame Guillotine during the reign of terror after the French Revolution, working night and day, AOSH UK called the Clears and OTs in the UK one by one, brought them to St. Hill and gave them the word they were not Clear. This resulted in a myriad of unnecessary programs for OTs and the dreaded going back onto Dianetics for the unfortunate Clears and I was no exception because eventually they got round to calling me. I really didn’t want to go because I’d seen the writing on the wall and it didn’t look pretty. But I went and it felt like going to see Madame Guillotine.

They went through elaborate motions of giving me “set ups” and a CCRD – really don’t know why they went to so much trouble. And I can tell you that auditors staring myopically at the meter hoping to see one of DM’s squirrel, has to have three swings FN, did not help me because I sat there wondering what the hell they were staring at. Then came the not Clear R factor. Well, I exploded; I went off like a rocket. I threw down the cans, kicked over some furniture and the next thing I knew I was in the St. Hill parking lot, trying to find my car while Peter Thompson tried to persuade me to stay and attempted to calm me down.

I can’t say what others went through when given the not-Clear R factor, I can only tell you how I felt, that after 30 years in Scientology, at the hands of such invalidation it took every ounce of my being and strength to force myself to stay on staff and stay in Scientology. The overriding urge was to disappear into the woodwork – I’m not kidding. Every minute of every day I forced myself to keep going and not pack it all in. And I wonder how many people didn’t force themselves to stay and did pack it all in because I’ve heard of people just disappearing and dropping out of Scientology. Suddenly and first hand, I knew how they felt.

I know that mistakes were made on this Clear line even before Miscavige’s insanity was added in which resulted in people spinning out of the Scientology orbit. Well, imagine the vast destruction now a production line was specifically set up to botch Clear cycles, mistakes that were no longer honest errors but were being done by design and with real intent. All forced in by Miscavige via his personal RTC representatives stationed at AOSH UK who policed the whole thing and had to approve anyone AOSH UK wanted to declare as Clear.

Next for me came the hours of persuasion to accept the R factor and I look back now and it seems very strange because there is absolutely nothing in Scientology tech that requires that degree of persuasion so it obviously wasn’t Scientology. And I’m sorry to say that between that persuasion and never wanting to re-experience that CCRD again I was beaten down eventually and I went back in session on Dianetics which was without doubt an overt I committed on self because things just jammed up, went nowhere and … well, I’ll say no more.

But I do know a number of Scientologists that utterly refused to go into orgs once word got out what AOSH UK was up to with Clears and OTs. The only problem being that they were now caught in a catch 22, accept Miscavige’s evaluation they are not Clear and receive gross out tech in the hope that they might make it to OT one day or hold their ground, keep their integrity intact but go nowhere on the Bridge because no one was about to accept that they were Clear.

And I know people in the UK who have bounced between that persuasion to go back on NED and having another CCRD, resulting in some having 5, 6, 7 or more CCRDs in a desperate attempt to sort themselves out. And as LRH said above, nothing in Scientology tech is that variable so that alone proves my point -- that something has been implemented that is absolutely not Scientology.

So AOSH UK methodically worked their way through the UK Clears and OTs giving them the R factor. Hell my wife got two different ones. One that said she was definitely clear, and one that said they weren’t sure which kept her hanging mid air, such was the complexity of the so called 7 points. And I know even OT8s have been pulled in.

I can’t even begin to calculate the destruction this has brought about in the UK and Ireland nor count the number of people that have been plowed under by this gross out tech. But I can tell you that it is one of the major factors and reasons why Scientology today is only a shadow of its former self in the UK.

MONEY AND CONTROL

And there are only two sensible explanations I can give you for Miscavige perpetrating this technical treason.

The first is money and lots of it. Multiple CCRDs and unnecessary NED rundowns for Clears delivered at the Advanced Org (and at their rates) plus extensive additional PC programs for every level of OT, all delivered at very expensive NOTs rates or even higher in the case of Flag and the Ship, which was and is a veritable gold mine for all Sea Org orgs. And don’t forget that all Sea Org orgs are forced to send huge sums of money to Miscavige every week, including AOSH UK. In fact it’s no secret that Miscavige personally tells the heads of AOSH UK and St Hill Foundation how much they should be sending to him. Lucy and I know this because the heads of those orgs both told us.

Miscavige manufactured a cruel and false demand for “Clear handlings”, his representatives implemented and controlled it and in return he reaped a fortune which no doubt helped fund his millionaire life style.

The second reason can be summed up in just one word – CONTROL. People achieved states. Those states were taken away by Miscavige and could only be gotten back with his blessing, all controlled by his representatives. As part of learning this severe lesson and regaining their Clear status, people had to accept him unquestioningly as their high priest, higher even than LRH, no longer able to query or confront him, just like all the tech staff at FSO.

But hope is far from lost because I believe that LRH’s prediction will come true for David Miscavige when, in the same Class VIII tape, Ron said:

… you were given some folders to case supervise. Then doing a case supervision of them you decided what was wrong with the PC. Which is a direct violation of the Auditor’s Code. Evaluative case supervision will be your downfall.

-- L Ron Hubbard

T Paine
(Haydn James)

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