Psychological operations

Followers, throw off your stigmas

I'm not a "follower" any more than you are a "follower.” Are you a follower? Like Flipper, doing anything for a fish? It’s bullshit. It's a put down. An invalidation. And it's pure black propaganda.

Apparently, DM’s strategy is to black PR Marty and position every Indie as a subservient “follower.” Everyone in the DM camp keeps repeating this enemy line.

See, there aren’t enough resources discredit everyone. And some people, like myself are nigh impossible to discredit. I never beat anyone at the Int base, and I have a terrific track record proven by what I’ve done on my own bat with Scientology-cult.com -- starting by the way in December 2007, one year before Marty joined the fight. Which also takes me out of the “follower” class. But really chronology has nothing to do with it.

PSYOP by the CoS

What the CoS is really attacking is your sense of personal integrity, specifically points 14, and 15:

1. Never desert a comrade in need, in danger or in trouble.

2. Never withdraw allegiance once granted.

3. Never desert a group to which you owe your support.

4. Never disparage yourself or minimize your strength or power.

5. Never need praise, approval or sympathy.

6. Never compromise with your own reality.

7. Never permit your affinity to be alloyed.

8. Do not give or receive communication unless you yourself desire it.

9. Your self-determinism and your honor are more important than your immediate life.

10. Your integrity to yourself is more important than your body.

11. Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.

12. Never fear to hurt another in a just cause.

13. Don’t desire to be liked or admired.

14. Be your own adviser, keep your own counsel and select your own decisions.

15. Be true to your own goals.

-- L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology 0-8, The Code of Honor, Nov 1954

Those in the CoS are the followers. We are the leaders. And that is what makes us strong.  The SPs hate that.

The entire “follower” prank is a black marketing op -- textbook PSYOP. Select a leader and start a massive black PR campaign against him. Reposition (and stigmatize) everyone else as a “follower” (a covert put down implying you don’t have a mind of your own, can’t think for yourself, you are a mindless automaton, etc.).  It’s a negative button.

This prank is so busted.

Written by Thoughtful

Or is something bigger?

What is going on here?

Economic buffoonery

Handling originations

The common definition of “religion” in use

Phony Sunday services

Loyalty

Admin scale

Generating hostility

Ideal scene

Tax exemption

Let's discuss Scientology's tax exemption. 

Let’s take a drive down reality street. Reality street is paved throughout every town in the world. You can go clear across the United States. Pick any route you like. Pass through any towns, small or large.  Wherever you go, you will see churches. In every neighborhood you will see churches.

And not one of them will be a Church of Scientology.

Thirty one years ago when I got into Scientology there was a tiny mission in Houston. Today, there is still a tiny mission in Houston. Do you know how big Houston is? Thirty one years ago Dallas had about 75 full-time staff members. Today there is a great big empty building out in the sticks (Idle Org) and about 35 actual staff.

The Church of Scientology, “saving” all that imaginary money on taxes, has become so tiny as to be almost imperceptible in the general landscape. Compared to any other church, Scientology isn’t even on the map.

They aren’t “saving” anything. In San Francisco, they are giving away compact fluorescent light bulbs as a means of getting people into the Church for a “tour.” Can anything be more pathetic?

When you create mistrust among 50% to 75% of your public, when you offend people and create an operating climate of hostility because they see you as a fraud, the waste is nearly 100%.

Which would you rather have: an ocean of money but pay taxes on it, or two pennies in a tin teacup and not pay taxes?

If you selected the ocean, you could pay a lot of taxes and still have plenty. If the tin tea cup, well, things are kind of tight. Maybe that’s why Miscavige just shakes people down for cash and doesn’t even bother making auditors?

Personally, I’m not interested in Scientology’s tax exempt status, but since so many non-Scientologists bring up the subject as if Scientology is saving a bundle, I just wanted to point out the obvious omitted income which dwarfs any ignominious savings.

Besides, there is no reason under the sun that Scientology couldn’t be a nonprofit. And donations could still be tax deductible without having to have a religious status.

Coming out of the pigeon hole

Considering the definition of “religion” used by most of the Western world, Scientology is not one even remotely. It's bigger than that.

Trying to force fit the spiritual philosophy of Scientology into being a religion is like trying to jam a whole city into a parking lot. Why pigeonhole it? 

Sure, Scientology deals with the soul. It rehabilitates spiritual abilities. It definitely can legally qualify as a religion. There is no disputing that. There is no reason Scientology can't have ministers. Can't offer Sunday services. Can't perform marriages and funerals and all the rest. But let's not dumb it down by calling it a "religion."

Scientology requires no faith, no belief. It just works. There are no candles, crosses or incense; no hymn books; no Sunday School teachers, robed preachers or solemn Latin phrases. No pews of people with nothing to go on but faith alone.

That faith is what sustains them. Yet they could surely use a few answers to questions like why are we here? What happens after we die? Who are we? Where do we come from? Those are philosophic questions that are answered in Scientology.

But by placing those answers in a jar labeled "religion" we would force people to violate the terms of their own faith, to violate their own religion that they already have in order to reach for Scientology. If we put the correct label on the jar by calling Scientology what it actually is -- a spiritual philosophy -- then the whole world can reach freely for those answers and benefit from them.

Scientology IS a living vibrant spiritual philosophy.

Simple.

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Home on the range: my shack in Dallas

Since the Church of Scientology under the boot heel of David Miscavige has drifted about as far off course as it can get, there is no other choice but to stand up to the monster it has become.

For many decades, LRH and the Church of Scientology were attacked relentlessly through black propaganda campaigns. You can learn about black PR in the book Black Boomerang by Sefton Delmer (1962). Delmer was the real deal and dealt the Nazi’s some withering blows in WWII.

For years and years the anti-Scientology black PR campaigns went on. Many dirty tricks were played on Church leaders. But through “constant alertness and willingness to fight back,” the Church persevered. And eventually LRH learned the attacker’s plan and launched an organization to beat them at their own game: the Guardian’s Office, headed by Mary Sue.

As LRH wrote in HCO PL 16 FEBRUARY 1969, Confidential, TARGETS, DEFENSE,

We do not have a Utopian dream or a planned society.  We are trying to survive.  Our theory is that if individuals become more honest and less harassed they will be capable of building a better society.

The fact is we would have gone along happily minding our own business.  But these fantastic and continuing attacks have pushed us more and more into developing a technology and direction of defense.

The Scientologists fought back. They fought hard. They fought rough. And eventually, they began to fight dirty.  

And that was the beginning of the end.

Once they began to violate their own principles and ethical codes, they corrupted the subject and planted seeds of ruin.

Sefton Delmar broadcasting to Germany (Courtesy of the Delmer estate)

Jeff posted a very applicable biblical quote on Marty’s blog the other day: “There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight. What you have whispered to someone behind closed doors will be shouted from the rooftops.”

Add into the mix a genuine sociopath and what you have is the perfect storm: An organization under siege, conditioned into a no-holds-barred fight, now directed by a man of profound evil.

Designer Jeff Hawkins

My friend and colleague Jeff Hawkins was the first person to point out to me that Miscavige is a sociopath. I was astonished to discover the definition of “sociopath” fit Miscavige like fingerprints on a bloody knife. As Jeff wrote just days ago, “Sociopaths do not recognize the individuality or rights of others, and so there are no checks on their behavior.  They only see two types of people, suckers and sinners. People are either enemies or tools to be used. The sociopath discharges powerful feelings of terror and rage by humiliating and dominating others. Anyone who has met with Miscavige knows that this is an accurate description of the man’s actions.”

If you haven’t already read it, you should read Jeff’s article in which he gives a full description of a sociopath.

But my purpose in this article is to cover the subject of black propaganda. For in destroying the integrity of Scientology, the Church became the enemy it once fought. As LRH said, what you resist, you become. Material originally intended to handle genuine high-level enemies, are now used against ordinary Scientologists, whistleblowers and virtually anyone that David Miscavige sees as a threat.

LRH defined the subject of black propaganda or “black PR” as it’s known in HCO Policy Letter 21 Nov 1972, HOW TO HANDLE BLACK PROPAGANDA, RUMORS AND WHISPERING CAMPAIGNS:

"Black propaganda" (black = bad or derogatory, propaganda = pushing out statements or ideas) is the term used to destroy reputation or public belief in persons, companies or nations.

It is a common tool of agencies who are seeking to destroy real or fancied enemies or seek dominance in some field.

The technique seeks to bring a reputation so low that the person, company or nation is denied any rights whatever by "general agreement." It is then possible to destroy the person, company or nation with a minor attack if the black propaganda itself has not already accomplished this.

When the Church was fighting for its life, LRH wrote many confidential issues for the Guardian’s Office. These issues are now available through Wikileaks (click on "File" to download). Today, by subverting the Office of Special Affairs to his own personal agenda, David Miscavige uses these same directives to discredit and hopefully, he believes, to destroy -- not real enemies, but decent people -- anyone who dares to blow the whistle on his criminal actions.

And it’s really not the Office of Special Affairs who is behind the dirty tricks and black propaganda. The actual command structure of OSA is:

DM and Lou (Laurisse)
Office of COB  (only 5 people left according to JB who left only weeks ago)
RTC only 12 staff left.  These are headed by Warren McShane as "Legal Director"
RTC Rep in the ILO building -- Tracy Danilovitch
OSA Int (Linda Hamel Commanding Officer, with Kerstin operating directly on a bypass from Tracy)
The rest of OSA are lowly puppets.

Miscavige follows intelligence actions per HCO PL 25 Apr 1968, Intelligence Actions:

The maxim is... “when under attack... attack.” The point is... even if you don’t have enough data to win the case... still attack... LOUDLY.  Reason is, it is only those people that have crimes that will attack us, and they will soon back off for fear of being found out when attacked back.

Now the dumb thing is, the motivating factor is not our crimes, but his. And those crimes are not minor. But let’s go more deeply into the subject of black propaganda. LRH wrote another previously secret issue on 12 Jan 1972 (which is also now available on Wikileaks):

Confidential
BLACK PROPAGANDA

Black propaganda is a covert communication of false data intended to injure, impede or destroy the activity or life of another person, group or nation, usually issued from a false or removed source from the actual instigator.

It is used heavily in “psychological warfare.”

It is a specialized technology of its own.

It relies chiefly on the technique of “classification” of another or a group or a nation as undesirable or evil.

It has many counter weapons and is itself essentially fragile because it is false. Dianetics, Scientology and myself for a very long time have been subjected to a very standard black propaganda campaign instigated by trained persons - the AMA in the US, the British Psychological Association in Australia, the National Association of Mental Health in England and internationally.

What is being attempted by black propagandists is to classify us firmly in the public mind by constant repetition of certain words like “cult.” The more we let such propagandists do this, the more chance we give them, the more opportunity they have.

A black artist has to be carefully trained to do this and I am suddenly quite interested in such fellows. It isn’t just “the way things are written.” Such are well trained intelligence pros in the field of psychological warfare.

Psychiatry today advises advertising and propaganda and designed of course this campaign we have experienced.

The subject is even touched on by Dr. Thomas Szasz as a psychiatric technique in his book Ideology and Insanity, page 49, chapter 4, page 53 section IV, page 67 section IX and his whole article “Psychiatric Classification as Personal Restraint,” page 190 of the same book. Of these, page 53 section IV is the most interesting in application to this subject of classification.

“Classification is a social act. The classification of individuals or groups entails the participation of at least three different types of persons: Classifier, Classified, and a public called upon to accept or reject a particular classification.”

While Szasz is not using it as it applies to psychological warfare (black propaganda) or advertising, it is nevertheless a key point in psychiatric planning of any campaign.

The AMA counts on this utterly.

So this is their one trick.

To cancel an enemy’s chief weapon is in itself a part of victory.

To cease to be the effect of classification and become in our turn the cause of it, the classifier, is to win the propaganda game.

Our propaganda is dirty but it is not black because it is true. Black propaganda is essentially false.

We can do this trick by survey and attack. As what is attacked is already popularly evil, we become re-classified as attackers and the enemy as bad hats as they’re for the evil if they attack us.

We won’t be running a black campaign as we deal in truth.

Black campaigns ARC break [upset] people since they depend on false reports and are thus out-reality. Hence your dead agent actions work.

We just run propaganda campaigns.

The objective is to be identified as attackers of popularly considered evils. This de-classifies us from former labels. It re-classifies our attackers as evil people. Which they are.

In the book Black Boomerang by Sefton Delmer (1962) published by Secker and Warburg, London, Delmer gives various formulas of black propaganda used in WW II. They used intelligence to get enough facts to run a convincing but fake “German radio station” from England.

Since WW II psychiatry has moved its techniques into advertising and propaganda and the think of these is in the Szasz references above.

So we

(1) Seek to avoid opportunities for the enemy to classify us.
(2) Contest or expose any previous classification as false (dead agentry, etc.)
(3) Engage in a series of campaigns which confuse past classification.
(4) Achieve for ourselves a dominance in classifying ourselves and others.

Out of this strategic planning can come operating policies and campaigns.

-- L. RON HUBBARD

Number of People Declared

Many of the individuals who have stood up to blow the whistle on illegal acts being done by the Church are being targeted one way or another with black PR. Number one on the list is to declare any whistleblower a “suppressive person.” With that declaration, goes the rule that if any Scientologist fails to sever relations with the newly declared person, they will be declared suppressive themselves. That is pretty brutal, especially considering that LRH cancelled the practice of disconnection in the 1970s due to abuse.

David Miscavige reinstated it in the ‘80s without LRH’s approval and has since that time used it as a political bludgeon to wreak havoc.

But let’s put that into real terms. In 6 or 7 years of operation LRH only found ONE real suppressive person and he wasn’t even sure about him:

But you don’t have somebody that’s been around three years and [...] turn up suddenly to be an SP.
. . .



In all the time we’ve been around here we’ve only had one SP that I know of… Now whether he was an SP or PTS I’ve not made up my mind to this date because I haven’t investigated the case enough.

-- L. Ron Hubbard, LRH Recorded Lecture "About Rhodesia," July 18, 1966

David Miscavige hides the information on how many people he and his people have declared, it wasn’t always such a closely guarded secret. In Flag ED 2830, of 10 Sep 1991 there was a list of people who had been declared. The list was 34 pages with 140 people per page. That is 4,760 people declared suppressive by the Miscavige regime as of 1991, a mere fraction of what it must be now.

While in terms of impact, if you figure each one of those people had at least 10 friends or family members who were forced to disconnect from them, that means Miscavige has destroyed nearly 50,000 friendships and relationships by 1991, twenty years ago. It is safe to say that number is more than all the active Scientologists in the Church today.

So even in terms of Valuable Final Products, David Miscavige is running Scientology in reverse. Instead of making people free, he shakes them down and eventually declares them a “suppressive person” disconnected from friends and family.

An example

But if declare and disconnection don’t keep the person quiet, he or she may eventually be attacked by black PR which can be pretty devastating if you aren’t accustomed to dealing with it.

Once they set on a particular line of black propaganda, they keep repeating it in each new utterance until enough doubt grows to undermine public trust.

In my case, I think they went way over the top. Because I was once cast to play the part of Jesus in a 1992 picture story published in the book What is Scientology? the Church of Miscavige has published in their Freedom magazine and elsewhere that I claim that to be “Jesus, God and Buddha” which is misinformation (false). I was cast for the part because I had a beard. Everyone liked the photograph and for a short while Steve Young (our photographer) and a few others would sometimes call me Jesus but it was all in fun. I have no idea why he threw in Buddha, too. One thing is for sure, everything OSA publishes is verbatim DM spin.

I’m really just illustrating a real-life example of the Church’s black PR antics. The Church also says I “barely eek out a living picking up doggie droppings.” As for my profession, I own Steve Hall Creative, LLC. I am a freelance advertising creative who specializes in website design, copy, photography, video, logos, branding and SEO (search engine optimization).  If anyone questions my marketing skills, consider what I’ve done for Independent Scientologists through this website against a corrupt organization. This website was designed to take over the second highest search term on the subject of “Scientology”: the phrase “scientology cult.”  We are now #1 out of more than 6.4 million search results on Google.

I also own a guerrilla marketing company called Break Thru Designs, LLC and another company that is helping to clean up the environment, Sgt Poopers, LLC. All three companies are successful.

There has been more black PR from the Church but it’s all just as silly. Like them saying I am the “webmaster” for Marty and Mike. Marty is totally capable and built his own website, and Mike doesn’t have a website.

The view from my neighborhood:  Half a block away is White Rock Lake, the largest urban lake in America. Completed in 1911, it contains miles of woodland, natural prairie and parks. Laced by trails, bike paths, picnic areas, playgrounds and bird sancturaries, there's even a dog park across the bridge at right.

More secrecy revealed

And he is using another issue that used to be confidential but now is available on Wikileaks. The full issue is also available here. HCO PL  16 Feb 1969, Confidential, TARGETS, DEFENSE:

The vital targets on which we must invest most of our time are:

1.  Depopularizing the enemy to a point of total obliteration.

2.  Taking over the control or allegiance of the heads or proprietors of all news media.

3.  Taking over the control or allegiance of key political figures.

4.  Taking over the control or allegiance of those who monitor international finance and shifting them to a less precarious finance standard.

5.  Generally revitalizing the societies in which we are operating.

6.  Winning overwhelming public support.

7.  Use all other similar groups as allies.

Unfortunately, because David Miscavige is using lies rather than truth, instead of “Winning overwhelming public support” he is winning overwhelming public condemnation. And loathing.

Dirty Tricks

Miscavige has been responsible for a lot of dirty tricks in the past. You’ve heard about some of these being played on Marty and Mike. Dirty tricks include posting false advertisements in Craig’s list and placing anonymous “tips” on hot lines to get people into trouble with the authorities. Another dirty trick is sending private investigators to do noisy investigations of neighbors and doing anything possible to get the target to lose their source of income as was done with Haydn James and many others.

A stock in trade is to use the Third Party Law in reverse to stir up dissension. This is also used heavily against any media to stop them from publishing anything negative about the Church or David Miscavige.

His dirty tricks won’t work on us because we are armed with knowledge and we can fight back thanks to the Internet.

Miscavige: Epic fail

Miscavige is failing to accomplish targets 1 through 7 (above) because he is trying to do them underhandedly. Independent Scientologists with zero budget and no official organization are making huge strides because we are truthful.

Yet the targets listed above in themselves are not bad. In fact, we actually are accomplishing all these targets ourselves not only because we are honest but because we are remaining true to the core of Scientology philosophy.

1. We are depopularizing Miscavige by exposing his rapacious crimes.

2. We have gained trust with the media because the truth makes sense and blows Miscavige’s lies away.

3. Key political figures like Senator Nick Xenophon are on our side because we are exposing abuse, secrecy, and crime -- everything people hate.

4. On the subject of finances, we are hopefully helping those concerned to pull strings on misappropriation of Church funds and false promises.

5. In so doing we have created a new beginning for Scientology and have revitalized many priorly disillusioned Scientologists who were victimized by the Miscavige regime.

6. We are winning public support with non-Scientologists who are finding inspiration in our efforts. Several have even become Scientologists just from reading Scientology-cult.

7. We are completely allied with similar groups such as the Freezone communities who practice Scientology outside the reach of David Miscavige.

In short, we are doing what LRH said to do, “We won’t be running a black campaign as we deal in truth.”

Classification

LRH said in “Black Propaganda” above,

(1) Seek to avoid opportunities for the enemy to classify us.
(2) Contest or expose any previous classification as false (dead agentry, etc.)
(3) Engage in a series of campaigns which confuse past classification.
(4) Achieve for ourselves a dominance in classifying ourselves and others.

(1) We have avoided opportunities for the enemy to classify us. For example, they have tried several times to involve me and others in commercial activities so we can be pigeonholed as “profit motivated.” One guy in Clearwater advised me to “start my own church.” Others have offered commissions all of which I’ve turned down. William Harper who posts under Marty’s blog as “Bunkai” suggested I start selling old LRH books “to my followers” and even sent me four old LRH books as a “starter package.” James Koch said he was a not a Scientologist but "really wanted to help" and in so many words attempted to get me to invite him to infiltrate the Flag Land Base, a likely setup intended to backfire on me. Who knows for sure, but all he'd have to do is go into Flag and scratch someone or break something then say "Steve Hall sent me" at which point the Church would have perhaps tried to classify me as a "terrorist." Those kinds of "dirty ops" ARE part of what OSA does. I mean Miscavige has classified their Internet pranksters -- mostly kids pulling pranks for laughs -- as "cyber terrorists." Meanwhile the Church itself as been known to phone themselves and send themselves various threats to classify themselves as "victims." 

They try to appear to only play defense. But in secret, they attack whistleblowers relentlessly.

(2) I have just exposed several previous classifications as false, most notably I’ve shown that David Miscavige is intentionally spreading false information.

(3) We have taken on Miscavige’s key assertions and exposed them. Namely, (a) that Dave Miscavige is the “pope” of Scientology. Can there be a more offensive idea?  (b) That Dave Miscavige “equals” Scientology whereas the only correct equation is Dave Miscavige = sociopath. (c) That the Church of Miscavige equals the spiritual philosophy of Scientology when they are opposites. (d) That no one can practice Scientology outside the Church or without authorization. (e) That whistle blowers are “apostates” (commonly defined as “a person who abandons or renounces their religious beliefs or principles”). We are Scientologists who are using Scientology to expose the corruption and abuse within the Church.

(4) We have already achieved a dominance in classifying ourselves and others because our classifications are done in the spirit of tolerance, compassion and personal integrity. For example, many people who have left the Church are no longer Scientologists. But they are still friends with Independent Scientologists. We don’t exclude, we include... except for people like Dave Miscavige, Tommy Davis, Jenny De Vocht... they classify as criminals.

So it isn’t the LRH policies or issues that are wrong. It is in the intent of the person using those orders. One can either carry out LRH’s orders in the spirit in which they were intended or with malice.

Alleged affair

Jenny Linson-DeVocht

By the way, I mentioned some weeks ago that allegedly Jenny De Vocht had an affair with Dave. There are two sources for that information: Shelly Miscavige and Tom DeVocht. Both knew about the affair, but were powerless inside the Church to stop it. Shelly went to Tom and demanded he do something about (1) the ongoing affair and (2) the fact that Dave was coming unglued... what LRH called “Type III” i.e., Dave ranting about buried treasure, trying to “ground out” mental energy by grasping thick copper cables, imagining himself surrounded by enemies, claiming to be the “pope” of Scientology, and drinking heavily. When Dave found out Shelly had spoken to Tom she vanished.

Anyway, this helps to explain why the Church continues to react soooo heavily against CNN and Anderson Cooper in particular. Secrets. Plus he wants to take over "the control or allegiance of the heads or proprietors of all news media" by basically beating them into submission.

Yesterday, Googling Tom’s name yesterday brought up this harebrained “ad” -- black PR from the Office of Special Affairs:

That ad is so badly written it begs for banjo accompaniment.

The real problem with the Miscavige skeleton crew is they have committed crimes. Thus they continue to work for Miscavige. Like Marion Pouw. Pouw destroyed Stacy Moxon’s suicide note just before the police arrived. Another ex-RTC staff member, Bitty Miscavige, wife of Ronnie Miscavige saw the note and she told her son Justin about it, and the secret slipped out as secrets normally do.

Incidentally, Stacy’s father is Kendrick Moxon, a lead attorney for the Miscavige clan.

Q: What kind of man can lose his own daughter to the man he works for, and keep quiet about it?

A: No man would do that.

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A builder asked me recently about the Scientologists he’s seen on TV -- Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis and the ESI Inspection Sisters (Every Square Inch). I told him “Scientology is like a pump. You can get water out of your basement with a pump. But use it in reverse, and that same pump will flood your house. The pump is not the problem. The pump is simply technology."

“And so is Scientology. Used properly, it makes people more free. Used in reverse, it can turn people into robots.”

He got the point. Any technology can be used for good or for bad.

Thirty years ago when David Miscavige set out to grab control of Scientology he excused his illegal actions by pretending he was “saving Scientology” when actually he was hooking up the pumps to run them in reverse.

When the flood waters started to rise, Savior Miscavige said it was all due to the enemy attacking the Church! True enough. But few realized he was the “enemy.”  And so came more illegal, off-policy and off-purpose actions... and the flood rose higher still.

Those treading water pondered how would they ever go free? They could purchase auditing, but all their hours would be wasted on sec checks. Or their F/N killed because “it didn’t swing three times.” Or they would be run on wrong processes. Or made to repeat the same rundown twice. Today, they can’t even purchase auditing. They have to donate their money to the IAS!

Afraid of consequences, they clapped and cheered and did everything they were told... coughed up every last dime. And still the waters rose.

“Ah-ha!” Miscavige said. The problem is YOU!  YOU don’t apply ethics/YOU are blind/YOU never really 'got' Scientology/YOU aren’t really Clear/YOU must disconnect/YOU aren’t giving enough cash..."

Thus public enthusiasm gave way to frustration. Frustration gave way to desperation. Desperation gave way to apathy. And still the waters rose.

At one time spiritual freedom seemed so close. But now... so far.

A few months before I left the Int base, I happened to read a book that said, “The victim cannot be rescued, but must pull himself up by his own boot straps and rescue himself by being responsible for his own rescue.  The problem with Earth is it is a planet of victims. Stop being a victim and take responsibility for yourself.”  That one hit me right between the eyes and I woke up.

Entrapment

LRH had much to say about entrapment. “If one wants to understand existence and his unhappiness with it, he must understand entrapment and its mechanisms. In what can a person become entrapped? Basically and foremost, he can become entrapped in ideas.” (LRH - Dianetics 55!)

One of the key ideas Scientologists are entrapped by is the idea that they cannot move up the Bridge outside the Church. Or they think it might be an “overt” to attack the church even after it has been subverted into making “totally enslaved victims” instead of “free beings.”

Their attention is fixed on penalties like disconnection and on seeming loopholes in policy such as the threat of being forever barred from auditing and training within the Church.“Examining freedom, then, we have to examine why people do not attain it easily or understand it. They do not attain freedom because their attention is fixed upon barriers.” (Dianetics 55!) Another barrier is that their reputations will be ruined by the Ministry of Propaganda that OSA has become. “It is fascinating that blackmail and punishment are the keynotes of all dark operations.” (HCOPL Honest People Have Rights, Too)  “Black propaganda was a Nazi specialty.” (HCO PL Justice--Correct Application) But frankly, people with integrity see right through the lies. It is very clear that we are telling the truth and as LRH said, “SANITY is basically HONESTY and TRUTH” (HCOB Word Clearing OCAs). And virtually no one believes or trusts the Church of Miscavology anymore.

The key, in our case, is to remedy reality and communication. What is reality? That is what Scientology-cult set out to handle -- to lay out clearly what IS. “The component parts of freedom, as we first gaze upon it, are then affinity, reality, and communication -- which summate into understanding. Once understanding is attained freedom is obtained.” (Dianetics 55!)

And so, the pursuit of reality brings us to truth. And on that subject, LRH was explicit: “Truth is by definition -- is what is.” (Class VIII lectures, #4)

Whereas Miscavige in true 1984 style has redefined “truth” to mean “acceptable truth” then redefined even that to mean “any blatant lie to cover up unseemly truth.” Where as LRH said “Truth is the exact consideration. Truth is the exact time, place, form and event.” (Phoenix Lectures)

Silver lining

The enigma of Scientology for the last few decades as been how to walk the road to “truth” in a church that deals in lies. The Church today has become a grand jigsaw puzzle with a single, but indispensable, missing piece--TRUTH.

Along the way, some bright individuals actually did solve the problem for themselves. But the Internet was not yet in its prime. And so they had no effective way to disseminate their observations. Most were simply victimized.

The fact is, you can’t walk the road to truth in a church that deals in lies.

It’s impossible to hold onto case gain when one is connected to a suppressive person or group. And in the Church you have both. Those who have left the Church have experienced an enormous resurgence in cause level, in OT, in their postulates working, in freedom from illness and roller coaster, in stability, in “good luck” and more. They flourish and prosper because they are no longer PTS. The counter intention may literally be killing those who continue to hold onto the charade. NOTHING good will come from staying connected to genuine suppressive persons.

In our lifetime, with LRH off the line, we have seen the Bridge to freedom destroyed... but only in orgs.

Outside of the orgs, the Bridge to OT is open at least through New OT VII. And what’s more, one can do the original OT Levels IIIx, IV, V, VI and VII and VIII -- technology which has been lost. The only thing that to my knowledge isn’t available is New OT VIII and I may be mistaken about that. Even the Ls are available outside the Church.

And eventually, like all thugs, criminals and gangsters before him, Miscavige will come to an end and we will get our church back. Disconnection will be cancelled and we will restore the checks and balances that LRH intended.

Missing jigsaw piece

The road to truth begins when one actually starts to deal in truth. If you are reading this website, you are dealing in truth. And that opens the door to honor and integrity.

So, the missing jigsaw piece on the road to total freedom was independence symbolized by the letter “I”.

Independent means free from outside control; not depending on another’s authority;
self governing; capable of thinking or acting for oneself; not depending on something else for strength of effectiveness.

For America, freedom came through a Declaration of Independence. A document celebrated on July 4th. But Independent Scientology is worldwide. So perhaps we’d better replace the dot on that “I” with our planet.

In the independent field you can throw off the PTSness by leaving the Church, save your money from IAS racketeers, save your children from the Miscavige’s body snatchers, and make real Bridge progress right at home. You won’t believe how easily your needle will F/N in the comfort of your own home, where you are under no stress, (i.e., with secret video cameras and crazy executives looking in and even telling the auditor what to do via microphones in their ears). At home where auditor + pc IS greater than the bank; at home where no one is going to send you to Ethics where you must bring a checkbook and credit cards for “amends”; at home where no one is going to censor your friendships or disconnect your family auditing... you are safe.

“Scientology is a body of knowledge which, when properly used, gives freedom and truth to the individual.” (Creation of Human Ability)

And now that we are dealing in truth again, and able to produce freedom, we are fit to call ourselves Scientologists, so there is the letter “S”

If the entire goal of Scientology is freedom: the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint; absence of subjection to domination or despotic rule; the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved; being physically unrestricted and able to move easily.

That’s freedom!  And that is what we have with INDEPENDENCE.
For those moving up to OT, the missing ingredient was independence.

Like an auditing process that asks questions but leaves it to you to find the answer, we as a group have been asked by life itself and finally we have answered. Today Independent Scientology IS.

And what appropriate letters those are ... IS.

I have no doubt that long before next July 4th, our Indie 500 list will be complete and the back of disconnection will be broken. Our websites are important because they are the vanguard and a venue for reality and communication on a broad scale. In fact, Scientology-cult is itself a “multiple viewpoint system” enabling one to see Scientology from multiple viewpoints for an accurate analysis of the existing scene.

And beyond there is the Freezone where for years thousands have been quietly getting on with the job of helping people go free. That’s where you will find many of those who saw through the smoke and mirrors years ago, but were not yet in a position to deal directly with Miscavige though many tried.

So in fact, it is independence that completes many original postulates of Scientology. Here we have finally come full circle, from being independent but Effect when we first came in, to being dependent on the church for help, to being enslaved by a corrupted church, back to being independent again but now at Cause.

Only by going independent can one counter, utter or write upon the opinion of David Miscavige without being buried under a dog pile of ethics officers, yet that is basic Scientology. "We of the Church believe... That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others."

Only independent Scientologists have fundamental human rights, such as the right to communicate anything their heart desires. "Perhaps the most fundamental right of any being is the right to communicate. Without this freedom, other rights deteriorate." (L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology Ethics, PTSness and Disconnection, pg 205)  

Only the Indie Scientologists are living breathing examples of free speech. We practice what we preach, whereas Church robots are a crude hypocrisy, uttering only carefully approved, and rehearsed canned messages. "As a Scientologist, I pledge myself to the Code of Scientology for the good of all... To work for freedom of speech in the world." (L. Ron Hubbard, HCO PL 5 Feb 1969R, Code of a Scientologist)

OSA operatives run programs to destroy Freezone Scientologists and the Independent Scientologists movement. Indie Scientologists intervene only in matters of criminality, abuse and victimization. Otherwise people are free to believe at they choose. If someone doesn’t want to be a Scientologist any longer, we are still happy to stay friends. "We of the Church believe...That all men have inalienable rights to conceive, choose, assist or support their own organizations, churches and governments." You can read OSA's program to destroy the Freezone earlier published on this website and on Marty’s.

"We of the Church believe... That all men have inalienable rights to their own religious practices and their performance." Okay, try walking into the Church and saying "I don't want to be a Scientologist anymore."

It is not possible to be self-determined and be in the Church of Scientology. They only allow one to be other-determined. You must follow without question “Command Intention” and forget LRH. "Q1  The common denominator of all life impulses is self-determinism." (L. Ron Hubbard, The Qs Lecture 10 Nov 1952) But outside the Church we are entirely self determined, so much so that we often act in concert without even trying.

Miscavige himself reinstated disconnection, countermanding LRH who cancelled it in 1968. When I came into Scientology in 1979, disconnection was still cancelled and it was NOT allowed. "Since we can now handle all types of cases disconnection as a condition is canceled." (L. Ron Hubbard, HCO PL 15 November 1968, CANCELLATION OF DISCONNECTION) Today we are breaking the back of disconnection by getting enough people to ignore Miscavige and have some decency.

LRH found one single suppressive person in seven years at St Hill. On the other hand, David Miscavige finds himself surrounded by suppressives everywhere he goes (Type III -- “crazy”) including 98% of LRH’s personal staff at Old St Hill. "But you don’t have somebody that’s been around three years and [...] turn up suddenly to be an SP... In all the time we’ve been around here we’ve only had one SP that I know of… Now whether he was an SP or PTS I’ve not made up my mind to this date because I haven’t investigated the case enough." -- L. Ron Hubbard, LRH Recorded Lecture "About Rhodesia," July 18, 1966

Miscavige and the IAS are merchants of chaos, for who in their right mind would donate to a “war chest” if there was no war?  Likely it is the Church’s battle against Anonymous was intentionally stirred up by David Miscavige because he NEEDS a threat to convince Scientologists to violate Policy and part with their cash so he can live the life of a wealthy man. “They deal in confusion and upset. Their daily bread is made by creating chaos. If chaos were to lessen, so would their incomes.” (OEC Vol 7, pg 1039)

Outside in the independent field we DO deal in affinity, reality and communication. And we are THRIVING as a result because we DO hold ARC sacred. “A true group must have a management which deals in affinity, reality and communication, and any group is totally within it’s rights, when a full and reasonable examination discloses management in fault of perverting or cutting ARC, of slaughtering, exiling or suspending that management. ARC is sacred.” – L. Ron Hubbard, Essay on Management

Who we are now

And so, these two things, independence and the technology of LRH’s legacy complete each other to bring Scientology back into alignment with itself.

In the final image below, the "S" (front side of the infinity symbol) isn't really complete without the "I” (back side of the infinity symbol). And in real life, strangely enough to our surprise, that is exactly how it is.

And while anyone can declare themselves “independent,” without the knowledge, training and auditing of Scientology, IMHO they will never be as truly independent or free as they could be with the ability to freely use the tech as they see fit.

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