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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 06:44

(Note: "OT" stands for Operating Thetan -- a person who has regained his or her spiritual abilities. An OT "operates" or makes things happen in day-to-day life by thought. It's Murphy's Law in reverse. Within an OT's sphere of influence things just tend to go right. The telephone rings, opportunities arise, the right people show up, in short, when the mental brakes are removed things just move in the right direction. It makes living FUN and continually interesting. One rises to "OT" in three ways (all are necessary) increasing knowledge about the mind, yourself, people and life by studying Hubbard's books and lectures; by getting trained as an auditor (Scientology counselor) since that gives you skills to confront anything; and by getting auditing yourself, the various levels of which constitute the metaphorical "bridge" to move anyone from their existing state up to the higher levels of ability and potential you know you're capable of. But in the case of Scientology, those aren't just empty promises. Each step of auditing ends when you obtain a specific named ability -- and you are the one who determines when you have it. Some of those abilities include, "Ability to communicate freely with anyone on any subject," "Ability to recognize the source of problems and make them vanish," "Relief from the sufferings and hostilities of life," "Freedom from the upsets of the past and the ability to face the future," "Moving out of fixed conditions into ability to do new things," "Ability to handle power," "Freedom from dramatization," "Clear" -- a being who no longer is affected by his past bad experiences, "Return of self determinism and freedom from overwhelm," "Cause over life." Believe it or not, people actually gain these abilities one by one as they move up in Scientology -- provided they take responsibility for the world around them. Everything pivots on RESPONSIBILITY as T Paine explains in this excellent article. -- Thoughtful)

 

Old RKO logoI am calling upon you, as an OT, to look into the current situation within Scientology and take action based on what you find and your conscience.

I know you will have been told “don’t look at that! Don’t read that stuff," usually with accompanying threats. But what if there really is something wrong with Scientology today? What if those kind of prohibitive warnings are based on fear you’ll find out and those telling you not to look are engaging in censorship born out of their own vested interest? Because they are.

You should observe and decide for yourself, the actions of looking and deciding are not overts despite what you have been told, they are common sense, and they are in fact your duty as an OT.

You have a vital say in the future of Scientology. If you opt out of that responsibility you hand over control to others and make them cause over you and what will happen. For those of you that opt in and accept your responsibility, to make the right decisions you need the real facts, the true scene.

There are a great many valid accusations floating around against David Miscavige. But the contentions I’m placing before you here are simple and many examples of them are observable by obnosis. Remember that term? The action of observing the obvious.

My contentions are three in number, they are:

  1. That gross financial fraud and off-LRH-policy actions have been perpetrated by David Miscavige which put Scientology at risk.
  2. That willful out-tech has been and is being committed on you and others directly by or on the orders of David Miscavige.
  3. That the accomplishments and stats of Scientology, as relayed to you by David Miscavige, are false.

I am of the belief that you know and are aware of a great deal more regarding these points than you dare let on. I believe you have seen and experienced things that made you wonder: “what the hell is going on in Scientology today?” but you have suppressed such thoughts in an effort to avoid punishment. I know this because I have experienced the same thing and have spoken to OTs and Scientologists who have said as much to me -- so I assure you, many others share the same thoughts.

Gross Financial Fraud and off-LRH-policy actions

If you open up OEC Volume 2 at page 106, you will find a reference written by LRH in 1970, entitled WHAT YOUR DONATIONS BUY. In it LRH states:

“I know that Dianetic and Scientology services should be free and I wish they were.”

He then goes onto say why our services can’t be free and explains what your service donations buy -- dissemination campaigns, legal and other defense, the fighting of human rights issues, expanding your local org, even helping Third World countries with educational programs and cleaning up parts of the environment.

In other words, this article, along with the LRH Finance Series and a number of other finance references from LRH, explain the Scientology finance system and the fact that the concept of exchange is fundamental to it -- we charge for the church services we provide (auditing and training) and this is how we fund all our activities.

All of the above is the basic finance system of Scientology and it worked for many years. Parishioners pay for the services which they receive and this enables all the wheels to keep turning for the whole of Scientology as well as expansion, local and international.

But if this is our system why did Miscavige set up and continue the elaborate IAS fund raising structure? Why do you have to pay for legal defense, Third World country handlings, dissemination campaigns, the fighting of human rights issues and all the rest via your payments for costly church services on the one hand, only to have to pay for these same things all over again through “fund raising”? And you’d be right if you asked that question because you’ve probably had to pay for the very same things over and over again in the last few years. Simply put, you have been repeatedly conned into handing over money to pay for something you already paid for.

Miscavige has cleverly altered working Scientology finance systems because you will find no LRH reference on fund raising. And LRH warns us against people who mess with workable church finance systems. In HCO PL 18 Feb 1982 (Finance Series 27) CHANGING WORKABLE FINANCE SYSTEMS, LRH states: “Beware of people who change workable finance systems … The reason for … changes was evidently personal power. Org solvency declined, staffs went into apathy over inability to control their income … the cost to orgs was staggering … they [changes to workable finance systems] could have crippled Scientology.”

But what you have to realize is that in addition to your own personal finance distress, due to having to repeatedly pay, there are many other destructive ramifications for Scientology in this thing called “fund raising“. It is a highly injurious short circuit of the LRH system for running, managing and expanding our orgs. You see, with this bogus fund raising system in place, David Miscavige, the self appointed dictator of Scientology, doesn’t have to follow LRH policy and see that orgs expand in order to raise money, instead he can just get his IAS minions to put you into debt or get you to re-mortgage your house. Miscavige can even get the entire staff of Scientology orgs working as IAS reps (though that’s not anywhere on the LRH org board), raking in millions and millions of dollars that go straight to corporations controlled by him to the tune of at least three quarters if a billion dollars so far. And just as it is killing your finances, it’s killing our orgs, because it’s a destructive, criminal and unusual solution.

Remember, function monitors structure so this kind of short circuit warps our structure and turns it into one so oriented to heavily pushing money that it crashes Scientology. That‘s exactly according to LRH -- see HCO PL 31 August 1971, The Executive Council Network Disbanded, in which LRH explains how an income push crashed Scientology in 1971.  

And Miscavige extended this off-policy system to the purchase of buildings for orgs which is absolutely not your hat. The purchase of org buildings should never have been placed on your shoulders because it falls within the routine LRH designed finance system.

Look, in his general lip service to LRH, Miscavige tries to pawn off on you the idea that a “vertical straight up ideal org” is LRH, it is not. Read HCO PL The Ideal Org (OEC Volume 7, page 282), it mentions nothing about the elements of Miscavige’s bogus “strategy”. Then read HCO PL Quarters, Policy Regarding, Historical (OEC Volume 7, page 1394), which was written by LRH less than four months later and gives the real LRH scene on how to procure quarters for orgs which is the opposite of Miscavige’s “ideal org strategy” and utterly invalidates it. Then read HCO PL The Executive Council Network Disbanded (OEC Volume 7, page 162) written by LRH just a few months after that, which will give you the low down on what happens to Scientology when it goes on a money push. And see other articles on this subject at Scientology-cult.com.

Let me ask you this: ever heard of the LRH datum that you never reward a down statistic? Well, if an org is not upstat, if it is not expanding, why are you being asked to buy it a bright, shiny, huge, expensive new building and fund very costly renovations? That doesn’t sound like Scientology to me. Frankly, it’s the opposite; its squirrel and no good can come of it.

As for upstat orgs, LRH rewarded them with buildings because they had earned it, and guess what? The money came out of savings from funds the public had paid for services.

But there is even more to this problem. There is no transparency or accountability with the money that gets raised using these methods. Funds collected from the public for one reason when used for a different one or not used at all could be construed as fraud. When it inures to the benefit of an individual the church gets into even deeper potential trouble.

There are two types of donations to non-profit organizations, Restricted Income and Unrestricted Income. Unrestricted income is made up of general donations that can be spent on anything that legitimately furthers the purpose of the organization. But Restricted Income is made up of donations given for specific purposes and they can ONLY be spent on the purpose for which the donation was made. If you gave a donation to the IAS for “Current German Defense”, it is supposed to be spent and ONLY spent on “Current German Defense”. But that isn’t happening, because in amongst a few real situations, a great many alarming stories are told to you just so you hand over money, or the same alarming story is repeated over and over again. There is no way Miscavige is complying to the regulations on this (spending or correctly spending the specific donations).

Take Super Power donations.  Church registrars are now telling Scientologists they have to pay more money for Super Power because forty million dollars of Super Power funds was spent on the Oak Cove building instead. That is a major violation for non-profit organizations; those funds were not donated for that purpose.

But that’s not all, let’s just look at some other undisputed facts:

There are a number of witnesses and a video posted on the Internet of the fact that David Miscavige spent a quarter of a million dollars to throw a birthday party for his celebrity pal Tom Cruise on the Freewinds. It seems the Freewinds’ chefs were not good enough and chefs from Cruise’s favorite restaurant were specially flown in. Do you realize that Miscavige does not have the right? It is a misuse of church monies and it inured to the benefit of individuals (Tom Cruise and David Miscavige) and in the very least Miscavige is personally liable for having spent that money because he cannot justify it as a legitimate church expense. Just because he appointed himself supreme dictator of Scientology does not give him the right, within the law, to play fast and loose with church monies, far from it. It’s called breach of fiduciary duty – Miscavige has a duty to use church monies correctly.

A few years ago David Miscavige spent seventy million dollars constructing an RTC office for his own use. And no, the building is not as big as you think; it’s a sickening waste of church funds, so sickening and such a waste that it is another example of breach of fiduciary duty by Miscavige for which he is at least civilly liable to you and me, the parishioners. In cases involving other churches, parishioners have successfully sued their church leaders for recovery of such funds.

There are also countless examples of personal extravagance by Miscavige, expensive holidays, expensive cloths, you name it, including the use of IAS monies on such things.

Miscavige thinks he’s safe because by law he’s not required to file or disclose the accounts of religious nonprofit organizations so you‘ll never find out, but he is mistaken.

But, as an ex Sea Org member of many years, none of the above curdles my blood quite as much as the monies David Miscavige pays himself and a handful of his cronies -- hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in pay, bonuses and perks. That has me spitting blood!

In the above reference from 1970 (WHAT YOUR DONATIONS BUY), LRH also states:

“A Sea Org member draws only about four pounds a week and his room and board.

“Occasionally some church or mission goes on a big kick of high pay. We very soon pull the rug from under that … we frown on money-motivation like a thundercloud.”


Now, along with thousands of other dumb asses, I thought we (Sea Org members) were all in the same boat, working for the cause, not for money -- because that’s what LRH stated. So when I found out that Miscavige dominated the church so he could pay himself big bucks and even bigger bonuses -- we are talking hundreds of thousands of dollars per annum -- well, that alone is enough to start a revolution in my book, because that says it all: Miscavige is money motivated, making himself rich out of Scientology, it's utterly obscene. The self appointed top man in the church is corrupt.

Miscavige hijacked the leadership of the church (to which he was not entitled), smashed existing management structures to pieces so he had free reign and used his RTC Reps to stat push Advanced Tech Value of Services Delivered (that’s his/their stat if you can believe that) and pay himself big bonuses based on that stat quite in addition to sky-high pay.

If for any reason you don’t believe me go ahead and ask him how much he has been paying himself, you have every right to know because it’s your church too.

And there is absolutely no way RTC should have a Church service delivery stat, it's absurd, let alone one that zeros in on OT services -- that’s why he bears down on you OTs so furiously, that’s why he stat pushes OT completions and is one of the reasons he makes you have a sec check every six months, who cares if you are overrun to all hell, you represent his big bumper bonus pay packet. In Scientology terms it is absolutely criminal.

And a serious word of warning about the future of Scientology, Miscavige may justify it by saying that he doesn’t pay himself any more than the heads of other churches, so he thinks he’s safe, he’s mistaken. Employment law does not compare a situation in one company with a similar situation in another; it looks at, and expects consistency within any given company and expects the company policy to be applied fairly and evenly.  So what that means is that since Miscavige has been paying himself big bucks all these years, contrary to our policy (our sacred scriptures in fact), he has effectively set a precedent, undermined and CHANGED our policy and ALL Sea Org members and ex Sea Org members are due commensurate back pay. If only 5000 Sea Org members are owed just $100,000 for their years of service, that’s a liability of 500 million dollars. And because Miscavige has kept his pay hidden for so long lawyers should be able to get around any statute of limitations.

“Oh, but you were all volunteers” Miscavige will say. “So were you” we’ll all answer.

Now, I don’t think Sea Org and ex Sea Org members should get that money, I think Miscavige should be forced to pay back what he took. And I think he should be held accountable for the quarter of a million he spent on Tom Cruise and all the other items I mention and all the other things we don’t yet know about. That way everybody wins (except Miscavige).

Willful out-tech on you and others by David Miscavige.

As OTs there is a piece of blatant out tech committed on you that you have been a party to and I think you know it. Sec checking a pre-OT who is in the non-interference zone, unless they absolutely need it, is forbidden by LRH. So why have you allowed Miscavige to insist you pay for and get a sec check every six months if on OT VII, after OT VII, after OT VIII, after OT IV and before OT V etc.?  He uses these to enrich himself and to hold you under his control.

Dunking stool test for a witch
 If she drowns, she's a witch!
 Have a misdeed? You need a sec check!

Listen, you have been controlled by a test you couldn’t pass. It’s just another con. We all know, and Miscavige knows there is not one person on this planet that is free from overts; it’s the nature of the universe in which we live. And even if you are as clean as a whistle, pushed hard enough you’ll mock some up -- thetans have that ability. So, if you ever show any resistance to Miscavige you are thrown on the meter or into sec check and your overts are restimulated and ah ha! Gotcha! Because of course your resistance to Miscavige is coming from your overts and that serves two purposes, it shows the world “why” you resisted and it backs you off, and now suitably introverted you mistakenly feel it really was your overts that made you speak out about out-tech or whatever the objection was.

But don’t feel bad, you are not alone; Miscavige has used this and other mechanisms on staff and many others, which brings me to another key point. What Miscavige does could be termed as intentional and knowing restimulation, it could also be called behavior modification and many other things but that’s not my point. My point is that as an OT you have a duty to stop it, to put an end to this practice. You certainly may NOT condone it; it’s one of the few duties LRH gave you.

“6. No OT may engage in, condone or authorize any implanting or knowing restimulation.” -- L. Ron Hubbard, HCO PL 30 September 1966, OT REGULATIONS

And realize that if Miscavige is so willing to commit non-interference zone out-tech on OTs, what other out-tech has he willingly carried out?  Well, see articles on the Scientology-cult.com website and others linked thereon and especially Marty Rathbun’s website and blog for the real state of the tech in Scientology today.

But again, I think you know more than you let on.

I expect you are aware of the blatant use of confidential, non-actionable PC session data for ethics handlings on those PCs, because this violation of the priest-penitent privilege is now rampant in Scientology. Please tell me, how the hell can a PC sit in session, and remain “in session”, when he/she knows full well that anything could be taken down and used against him/her out of session? That kind of thing destroys case gain and PCs.

And frankly, I don’t see the results these days. Look around, I’m not impressed with PCs coming off the production line. Are you? The results I see are just so ho hum at best – or have I just told you the emperor is not wearing any clothes? But what do you expect? Do you think you can deliver auditing in a strained, heavy ethics, heavy reg, bear-down-on-you environment and get great results? If you do you miss the point regarding the true conduct and attitude of Scientology as stated by LRH, that auditing is FOR the PC and it only works when delivered in a genuinely pc-friendly environment.

Just as with your finances, you and the ones you care about are being sold horribly short when it comes to the tech.

Recall the atmosphere of Scientology orgs and auditing environments two or three decades ago and remember the wins and results that were being gotten back then. Now compare the current auditing/org environments and the results being gotten today on the same actions. The difference is all down to the out-tech and the fearful auditing/training atmosphere Miscavige has created. And it’s not just me, I know many people who would never dream of getting auditing in a Scientology org until this is fixed, they’d rather eat ground glass.

So when you say to yourself, “well I know there is something wrong with Miscavige and everything is not right and there are some abuses, but I don’t want to lose the Bridge”, you really should wake up to the simple fact that you are not getting it anyway and you will not really get it until this is handled.

The accomplishments and stats of Scientology, as relayed to you by David Miscavige, are false.

Now realize that if the above is true, to cover his tracks Miscavige would have to make sure that you thought Scientology was a runaway train of expansion and achievements, and that your money was buying more than his personal comfort, which is exactly what he tries to portray at the countless illegal events you are dragged to (they are illegal because LRH forbid them as a distraction to the public and the real duties of org staff).

It’s not for me to point out that Scientology really didn’t reach two billion people with VM tech recently or one billion people with human rights campaigns or that the stats of Scientology are not going up – all bogus claims made by Miscavige. It’s a well known fact to long term church staff that the international stats made a down turn in June 1991 (when Miscavige nuked church management) and have never reverted.

I know on-lines OTs who have expressed to me their disgust that Scientology accomplishments portrayed at events are heavily exaggerated at best, so I am going to assume that you know it too, and if you don’t then you need to go to an event and open your eyes and ears and observe. Observe the gross distortion in accomplishments; hear the stats rattled off so fast by Miscavige that you really can’t tell what he’s saying or the significance he’s trying to convey, it just sort of “sounds good”. And when you analyze his assertions they are impossible.

The simple truth is Scientology is not expanding and hasn’t for nearly two decades.

And if Miscavige is telling you falsehoods, lies and half-truths, how certain can you be about his assertions concerning OT IX and X on up? Well, you can’t because he’s lying to you about those things too. It’s all just part of the carrot and the stick. He beats you with ethics (the stick) while he holds out the mirage of the unreleased OT sections (the carrot) and for that, it seems, you will endure ANYTHING and pay ANYTHING.

Liabilities for Scientology

Now, if you add up all the different types of potential liability Miscavige has created for Scientology:

  • Disgruntled public wanting refunds due to out tech and ethics environment not conducive to auditing.
  • Hundreds of millions of dollars of fund raising monies coerced from people that might have to be given back due to being raised under false pretenses or incorrectly used.
  • Sea Org and ex Sea Org staff that are owed pay commensurate with that which Miscavige incorrectly paid himself.
  • Legal suits due to other employment law violations carried out by Miscavige at International Headquarters.
  • Illegal freeloader bills collected from ostracized staff in California (it’s against California employment law).
  • Plus class action suits based on other Miscavige abuses including enforced abortions.
  • Potential criminal investigation and/or action from the IRS.

And if you add up what it could cost to handle each, you will see that it is likely more than the corporations hold in assets. In others words, far from saving it (the commonly held but false myth) Miscavige has brought Scientology to the brink of disaster. Think I’m exaggerating? Well, part of what Miscavige doesn’t want you to see on the Internet is information on legal suits against the Church and RTC that have started this ball rolling and the countdown clock a ticking.

Time is short, you need to decide and act.

So, you need to think about this. You need to look into it, decide and act.

If you don’t act soon and help those that are determined to change things for the better, between governments and greedy lawyers the issue may be taken out of our hands and there might not be much left when the dust settles. Government departments are slow to act but when they get going they are hard to stop and they don’t much care about collateral damage. And when the legal fraternity smells blood in the water, look out.

Like many others, I never imagined I would see the day when I thought Scientology a fraud and a cult, but it is. Only the fraud is committed by David Miscavige on people like you and me. And Scientology has become a Davidian cult of the Miscavige variety, all of us coerced to deliver up blind, unquestioning allegiance while he plays footsie with the tech and your money.

Well, it’s all about to change. With his abusive actions over the years Miscavige has aliened thousands of old time staff and Scientologists. So the best minds that were in Scientology are now on the outside looking in, the best marketing guys, the best tech people by far, the real experts in legal and PR and most of the real managers. In fact, they are the people who really served you so well over these past decades, the people to whom you owe thanks. And they can’t be bought off with money like so many others have in the past, nor will they be intimidated by Miscavige and his bully boy tactics. And they are one hell of a team, because they share a common bond, the kind of unbreakable bond forged during the tough times of abuse dished out by Miscavige, or years on the RPF, or the times of real expansion for Scientology, or the heat of battle during the fight with the very real external enemy. As a group they are formidable in size and ability, the last of a breed, the last of their kind, but before they go they will see this thing put right.

It will happen, Miscavige left himself defenseless by getting rid of his best people, he will be ousted and changes within Scientology will be made, no matter what it takes. But with your help it will go faster, it will be easier and there will be much more of Scientology left standing when its all over.

And never again will a sole ruler dictate over Scientology.  

To join them all you have to do is anything you can to help, they are not looking for martyrs. They care about you. You and other Scientologists are why they are acting.

You have nothing to fear from them, they represent true Scientology, but you should heed your own conscience, that’s what you need to be concerned about, what you will do to you if you see these things and fail to act.

And they want you in the group, celebrating a bright new future for Scientology when this is all over.


Written by T Paine

 

Comments   

 
+2 # Swampfox 2009-10-11 12:19
I left the Church in about 1978, I was studying a professional auditing course that I was not allowed to complete. Hence, I am not one of your OT's. But I used to be GP,and I came here just to check out this thing that came to be known as Scientology. I have proven to myself that it is real, but that it is hopelessly degraded, that David MisCavage is a real SP, and that staff are too fearful to do their jobs. Probably the only thing that is degraded about Scientology is that staff are too fearful to do their jobs properly, and that may be due to MisCavage. If you are afraid of loosing your Bridge to MisCavage, you already have lost it.
 
 
+3 # friendofLRH 2009-10-18 20:10
Thank you all for being so brave to confront this evil that is happening to our group. Our church.

I sway between a tremendous feeling of loss and an anger that is so deep I wonder what it will bring about in me.

Should I risk the damage to my dynamics? Will it all come out eventually?

What will happen if DM is arrested? It is going to happen you know.

So many of my friends are Sea Org. They are of the finest cloth. These are the selfless people who care more about mankind than themselves. Truly.

Many have been caught up in the valence of the SP. There are many examples of this in history. If it were not so classic a case of an SP....

How did so many of us miss this for so long?

Being a veteran Class IV staff member I was on the front lines from the mid eighties. I am about ready to tell my story with some trepidation.

We must get rid of this SP (DM). We must. However, our church must also survive and we have to have a plan to keep LRH's good name and the tech in tact.

ML
 
 
+1 # Victoria 2009-11-08 07:41
I left in the mid 80's also. I'd had all I could take, the endless "madatory" meetings and the feeling that something very evil was coming from uplines.

Man, I survived even Dean Stokes mission but that sit in LA when David "Missedwithold" took over was unbearable.

It is a HUGE sense of loss, and I know exactly what you mean about losing your friends, it's devastating. They really are the finest.

That has been so long ago I doubt I'll ever find many of them. Is there a site or something where old and dear friends can reconnect?
 
 
+1 # Nicki 2009-10-26 17:05
Having been "unofficially resigned" from the church for 6-8 mos or so...I am still considered by friends to be part of the group, but I see that I will need to get ready to speak up.
I personally do not have any horrid experiences of abuse, but did quietly slip away from the confines of the church over the past several years.
I've never felt more free and able to look from the outside in at what had been my life as a dedicated Scientologist for 35 years. It had no longer become spiritual and fun, but arduous and with constant pressure to be responsible for every man, woman, and child on the planet 24 hours a day.
I completely lost interest in study at the release of the Golden Age of Tech...so threw myself into third dynamic activities.
I have much respect for the wonderful friends and Scientologists that are involved and hope they will see the light of day and begin to think for themselves again as I have. It is a difficult process to unravel oneself from the group think.
Am still a Scientologist, but feel that to be involved with the church is to be swept up in a frantic frenzy which is spinning out of control. Look at all of the people that are leaving...and I know that there are others like me who are just not active and hanging in there until we have the guts to reveal who we are.
Thanks to all of you who have come forward on this site and others to expose DM for who he is, and to reveal the activities that are perversions of the true intentions originally laid out by LRH.
 
 
+3 # pc 2009-11-07 17:36
What is being done?

My 3 years in Scientology does not give the insight it takes to see through the truth of the accusations against the Church of Scientology and especially DM.

I am amazed how many people like myself opt out of the Church of Scientology but still recognize LRH tech and call themselves Scientologists.

After reading heavily on the topic over the last two days my primary thoughts are as follows.

As true Scientologists we must surely have a responsibility to protect LRH tech against abuse, modifications, misinterpretation and bring the Church of Scientology back on track.

Simply by us as a group demands investigation of the organization and perform the appropriate conditions on the posts and people responsible for them, including DM.

And do all this in honor of Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard's name as a true Scientologists.

There should be enough of us out there to unit and take actions.

Perhaps all this is already happening and I just have not seen the light but then I'll hope that someone can guide me to the group.

/pc
 
 
+2 # Thoughtful 2009-11-08 01:11
That is a very funny question... "what's being done..." :-)

Through this website, Marty's blog, Geir's, Rebel008, KSW.com, and MANY more; through media such as the St Petersburg Times, and MANY more; through people like yourself who are writing comments; through books being published like Mark Headley's "Behind the Iron Curtain"; through OTs and auditors who have declared their independence from the Church; through hundreds of people who are coming to the realization that we don't have to follow suppressive orders such as disconnection and they are taking their friends and family BACK; through millions of people who wouldn't even THINK of ever listening to anything David Miscavige had to say; your own 4th dynamic is turning to deal with a certain 3rd dynamic which has been driven far off it's correct purpose.

In the pages of this website and others mentioned and not mentioned, we are exposing a conspiracy led by David Miscavige; we are pulling 3rd dynamic withholds and auditing the group back toward sanity; we are establishing transparency and accountability; we're handling the "Why" and the "Who"; we're getting ethics IN; we're putting the dynamics into communication; we're handling the lies and untruths that have been spread; we are dealing with injustice; we're lessening Miscavige's power to discredit whistle blowers with his lies; we're making it safe for people to be Scientologists outside the avarice and corruption and mafia tactics and psychological warfare waged incessantly by the Church; and we're making it possible for people at all levels regain a measure of peace; and we are putting the wheels of justice into motion.

Because David Miscavige may think he's tough... tyrants always do. He may think he's above the law. Tyrants always do. He may shake and spit in fury. Tyrants always do.

But to date, no tyrant in history has been able to stand for long when the entire 4th Dynamic turns on him and says, ENOUGH!

What is being done?

We are mobilizing the world. You've already found the group. Keep reading.
 
 
+1 # Tatiana Baklanova 2009-11-23 03:42
Dear T Paine & friends!
As much as I understand and appreciate a necessity of your fight to defend Scientology that is been abused by the Church of $, I see my way to contribute to KSW in increasing a general public ARC with a Free Zone Scientology field. There is way too much entheta spread about Scientology. So I believe what is needed and wanted is creation of theta website, containing the positive, constructive data on Scientology philosophy and it's history, introducing FZ Scientologists, Scientology technology and it's application. I am Russian and hardly can really write in English, but I am working on finding and collecting such articles and especially video-interviews on the web, to publish them on the http://www.freezone-tech.info and translating into Russian.
I understand that you are playing a different game, but I'll be most grateful if you let me copy some of your website articles, or if you even find it possible to suggest some links to positive video- and written data for my site.
Thank you for all you are doing!
Sincerely,
Tatiana Baklanova,
Scientologist.
 
 
+1 # Thoughtful 2009-11-23 10:44
Hi Tatiana, I sent you an email on this.
 
 
+1 # Fragmented 2009-11-28 16:23
I give my thanks to all of you that have started blogs, sites, and spoken out.

I unfortunately have not had the courage to do so until recently - but I am still reluctant to give too much info.

22 years I have;
- slowly witnessed the degrade of Scientology degraded so much now I doubt any of it really works. That is not to say those who have obtained higher levels haven't done so out of their own pure determination and keeping their own integrity.
- Of watching KSW not being applied. policy not being followed, altered, or ignored. Tech being degraded through change or being ignored.
- Of being made wrong for any attempt on my part to correct it.
- Of hoping that it would all work out for the best.

Recently coming to the conclusion "the wrong thing to do is nothing" it is time that I did speak out, but to what extent, and how can I protect myself from CoS, OSA, black PR, and information given in "o/w write ups, sec checks, and sessions" being used against me.

My experiences haven't been as far reaching in CoS as many have so I do not want to detract from what they have to say or expose.

I am just a lost Scientologist not knowing what to believe or where to turn.

Again my thanks to those who have spoken out (it is helping me to find my way).

All the best to all
Fragmented
 
 
+2 # Thoughtful 2009-11-29 10:28
Thanks for your post. You said after 22 years you doubt Scientology even works. I know many Scientologists share that view. But the fact is no one can get gains while connected to a suppressive person. DM and his goons (suppressive group) have thereby unmocked the case gain of thousands of Scientologists around the world.

Scientology is rife with Miscavige's out-tech such as lengthy six-month checks which violated the No-Interference Zone policy letter, installing video cameras into all auditing rooms to create an unsafe environment, using pc folder data to silence critics, redefinition of what constitutes an "instant read" and a "floating needle," incorrect implementation of Golden Age of Tech drills, pushing quickie grades (Tech Degrade), interrupting students on course for reg interviews (suppressive act per Courses, Their Ideal Scene), invalidation of all Class VIIIs even those trained by Ron, replacing Expanded Grades with old Quad Grades, replacing Academy Courses with extension courses (which LRH forbid from the Academy). Couple all this with continuous incorrect ethics condition assignments, forcing public to buy books as crazy "amends" and much more, it explains why so many Scientologists have moved up the OT levels, gotten sick and died.

And if you think this list is horrendous, wait till you see more revelations soon to come.

My point is, after 22 years of squirrel Scientology from David Miscavige it's no wonder you doubt if the tech even works.
 
 
+3 # Ann Howe 2009-12-04 20:11
The way to remove Miscavage is to sue CRT. It is charged with copyright protection and the posting of Miscavage. Suing them on the basis that RTC-Miscavage is not performing their legally described duties regarding the tech and copyrights. Policy and technical violations are the evidence of which there is much. This forces CRT upon successful suit to act and replace miscavage. He doesn't hold the position he has with impunity. There is a legal process to remove him and it is not suing the church but the organization senior to RTC which is the CRT.
 
 
# Nathan 2010-03-28 07:16
To 'Thoughtful'.

Can you give me any more info on that point you said of Miscaviage redefining 'instant reads' and 'floating needles'.

I'm trained ex-staff and this interests me to say the least. You can e-mail me if you like.

Thanks.
 
 
+2 # Jose 2010-04-04 23:16
One thing I have noticed in the COS controversy, in all it's aspects, is this - the tenets and beliefs of the religion of Scientology are condemned along with the management (i.e.: Sea Org) of the COS.

They are two different things. The tenets, beliefs and religious technology, as originally written and used by LRH and the original Dianetics and Scientology organizations, did offer and deliver great potential benefits to individuals and to mankind. In spite of the lies perpetrated by LRH himself, and in spite of his gradual mental deterioration prior to his death, he did manage to create a very useful technology that can produce phenomenal results (I am referring to the original work of LRH, not to the perverted forms attributed to him over the last 30 or so years.).

I began services in Scientology in 1970. I completed 'The Bridge' as it was originally created and I have achieved personal spiritual freedom as a result. However, management in the Sea Org has, over the years, gradually become more and more insular, paranoid, and abusive.

Though the Sea Org holds the 'legal rights' to Scientology, the management members of the Sea Org are not, in fact, true Scientologists. The organization was taken over by David Miscavige in a coup either sometime before (which I suspect) or shortly after LRH's death. LRH had turned the reins of the church over to Pat Broeker and his wife. Somehow, David Miscavige intimidated them into relinquishing the reins to him.

The true intentions of David (and perhaps of others working with him) are to pervert the religion of Scientology, using it only to control anyone who enters into the church either as a parishioner or staff and to suppress anyone who questions or objects to the pervasive perversion he has perpetrated on the tenets of the church.

I was a member of the Sea Org from 1974 through 1984. During that time I observed the Sea Org deteriorate internally as the upper management gradually became more and more insular and paranoid. This manifested itself internally by growing suspicion of the Sea Org's own members intentions and actions - as well as those of Scientologists who were not Sea Org staff. It has also been manifested in the misuse, misapplication and outright alteration of the Scientology religious technology.

As a result, most of the best and brightest of Scientology have left of their own accord or have been excommunicated (declared suppressive) or have been imprisoned within the Sea Org's Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), which is, in fact, very similar to the political prisons of the former USSR. Those who are strong enough end up having to leave the church and those who are weak become nothing more than robotic pawns under the control of the paranoid psychopaths who are currently running the church.

I, once one of the best and brightest of the church, was imprisoned on the RPF three times. I was finally 'fitness boarded' (a board of staff peers convened to determine the fitness of an individual to remain on staff) out of the Sea Org, much to my relief, in 1984.

I believe that the only way to salvage the church is to:

1. Rid it of the Sea Org in its entirety, including all individuals who have participated in the outright perversions of the religious, ethics and management technologies of the church,
2. Restore management as originally created to the individual churches as well as to overall church management,
3. Destroy all technological and management documents not written personally by LRH prior to his mental deterioration,
4. Create an autonomous ethics/justice system within the church that is not answerable to management, and
5. Begin delivering Scientology services to groups and individuals as they were originally intended.

Only then will the COS again be a viable asset to society and to mankind.

I am sure that LRH had mental problems long before they manifested to the point that the parishioners began to be affected personally by his insanities. I am also sure that there were lies all along and abuses all along.

Perhaps those of you who experienced Scn 40 + years ago will understand what I mean when I say that many of the parishioners during that time, in spite of any craziness going on behind the scene, were able to improve themselves by using or receiving many of the services being offered at the time. As I was not involved nor aware of the upper management, whatever craziness that was going on there was not apparent to those of us receiving services at Scn missions or orgs.

The original 'Grade Chart', which I completed, ended at OTVII. The OT levels of that chart from OTIV thru OTVII are no longer part of the current chart. Fortunately, I was not subject to later changes, such as NOTS, the L Rundowns and the revised levels of OTIV thru VII (Which are not in any way similar to the originals.). I personally believe that the chart was changed when it became apparent that those who successfully completed the original chart no longer wanted further services because they had attained a state of awareness, ability and personal certainty of themselves as spiritual beings, and there was nothing more that the church could offer them. By the time the chart was revised the church was already in the throes of insane management that was desperate to hang on to parishioners who no longer needed services. The stated reason for the changes to the chart was that 'the gradient of the original chart was too steep for parishioners to truly attain the benefits of each level above OTIII, so it needs to be altered to create a more gradual gradient to Full OT'. This was not true - I knew of many who had received the full benefits of the original chart. OTVII on the original chart was also called "Full OT VII" (Which meant that a being attaining this level had arrived at a point where he/she could further expand their abilities and awareness on their own, without the assistance of the church. They were no longer 'trapped in the physical universe'.)

I know that many commenters doubt the veracity of my statements regarding having attained a higher level of consciousness and spiritual awareness as a result of receiving earlier Scn services. To them I can only say that results from any spiritual pursuit, whatever form it may take, are always subjective, not objective. It worked for me, I did get what I hoped to get and the benefits have been with me ever since. This does not mean to say that this is or would be true for someone else.
 
 
+1 # Operating Lambda 2010-10-24 16:24
Hello Jose,

Excellent post and spot on. I, for one, do not doubt your gains from the original Bridge. My own personal Bridge should have ended with Power/Power Plus (c.1976). It was de facto the EP of Scientology for me. But I was too addicted to the group think and didn't get out until 1983.

Everything after that, up to "New OT V" and including R6EW and CC was overrun.

And yes, results are always subjective. So what? "If it's true for you..."

Best regards,

John Harry Watson
 
 
# Robert Earle 2011-06-02 22:53
Excellent article. I did experience a fair amount of suppression while working at org level between 88 and 2000. Your article above along with the numerous other ones on this site and others provide information which was more or less invisible at lower levels. Articles such as yours here are truely invaluable to Scientologists outside the perimiter of upper management. My own experiences from org level were mostly in the form of receiving clearly off policy programs and orders which I found myself repeatedly writing reports up lines to correct. The result was that I increasingly became a target to be made to conform. In mid 99 I informed HCO I would not be resigning a contract which was to expire in a few months I was promply ordered to CLOWUS for "handling" . After my "handling" including HCO sec checks by RTC rep etc, I returned to my org was shuffled off staff lines and declared SP in Jan 2000.
At the time it all seemed very strange as I was an OEC/DSEC grad from ITO in early 90s and the points I was writing up and in disagreement with were clearly off source and not just some minor point in one policy but points covered in dozens of policy letters . Yet here I'm being accused of being off source.And the materials in question were being issued by RTC. I had no idea that all of what is written or spoken on this and other related sites was going on but I knew for sure there was something seriously amiss at the top. I have found great relief in getting the information such as your above article as it fills the vacuum of ommitted facts which makes the prior events understandable. RTC has clearly grossly violated its very own purpose and functions, as covered in great detail in its own published booklet. And in that throughout this time David Miscaviage has claimed overall control of RTC then it is clearly his failure to wear the hat he had by his own published booklet. He has intentionally or unintentionally acted in ways which have been destroying the Church of Scientology, along with it's various staffs and parishioners.
 

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