Your Opinion Please

Wednesday, 10 February 2010 11:05

Predictably, over the next months or year or more, we will be seeing a tremendous metamorphosis happening within the Sea Org and Scientology as more and more people realize what is really going on under the David Miscavige administration. While he can continue to open up "ideal orgs', with himself on the podium to magnetize Scientologists into believing that he is expanding Scientology, we know the truth is quite the opposite. Life being life, and people being people, truth will eventually crack his facade and it is only a matter of time before his camp falls apart and HE loses control.

This quotation from Abraham Lincoln encompasses the situation very well, I think:

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~ Abraham Lincoln

Unfortunately we've seen the results of power in the hands of David Miscavige.

The question I'm posing to anyone reading this article is what do you think needs to be done, if anything, once David Miscavige is deposed or steps down? In other words, do we just let the Sea Org and the Church learn from its mistakes and morph and mature back in the direction of a stronger group that has gained insight from this experience, or do we take a more aggressive stance and propose or insist upon some kind of system or means of empowering Scientologists so they have a say in who leads the movement?

More and more people are going to join the ranks of independents. There are probably hundreds, if not thousands already hovering over that very fence as we speak. The question I am posing to anyone reading this is do we want to propose something, within the framework of LRH policy, which permits a free people to have the right of say-so about their government - in this case the government of Scientology? Or do we want to leave it to fate and hope and assume that in the long run Scientology will end up in favorable hands that will undo the insanities, perversions and technical and administrative alterations that the current administration has permeated the system with?

Realize too, if you read basic OEC Volume 0 policy, LRH does not say that the development of all policy has ended or is absolute - quite the contrary - he makes it clear that policy is developed through experience with the organization. It is a learning curve, and through that experience one sets down policy. Scientology has accelerated in expansion in its short 60 years of existence; through a period of dramatic and unfettered expansion in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and then it entered the realm of marginalized, dictatorial and authoritarian administration for the last three decades. We can all hope that when David Miscavige is de-throned, that his successor will be sane enough to revert Scientology back to its true form - but given that we are dealing with men and women who have weaknesses and are still human, we have to assume more responsibility than just hope and good intentions.

So... I am asking for your input, your ideas, what should we do for the future to ensure that Scientology stays in good hands once the dictator is gone? I am attempting to put together something, some paper or proposal, within the bounds of basic LRH policy, that would give us a sensible direction to go with this. Or, if the general consenus is that we should just let the Church morph on its own, and let Scientology dig itself out of the soup and mature by its own means without any outside pressure from Scientologists, then of course that should be put on the table too for everyone to see. I am not asserting which way to go with this. I do have my viewpoint but what I am interested in is YOUR views because in the end, WE have to deal with the mess that will be left behind.

Keep in mind that the governing body of Scientology is no different in essence than the governing body of any free nation - they both operate on the same principles and they must also provide the same rights and freedoms. Currently, WE, as Scientologists, don't have any rights to demand that our "government" in Scientology reforms - nor do we have the right to vote them out of office and to install others whom we feel would do a better job of government. That by definition is a dictatorship or tyranny or monarchy - all the same basic thing. A philosophical and spiritual movement with the purposes of FREEING all beings, cannot be run by an administration with a diametrically opposed mentality.

With that said - let's get your views on the table so that everyone can see it, contribute to it and see if we can make anything out of this.

OTB