This week, it’s answers about testing in Scientology, how I think Hubbard’s death had to be explained and a lot more. Enjoy!
(1) Recently I went into a Church of Scientology and did some of the tests they offer as a free service. I did the OCA or personality test as well as their 30-minute IQ test. I have a few questions for you about them:
a. Was the IQ test designed to be hard to complete in 30 minutes?
b. With the OCA, I did not say I was very depressed, or aggressive or critical of others, nor did I say I had the feeling my life was without a point. The person administering my test came back after I completed it, and said I was very depressed, quick to anger, and someone who looks down on others, and then said I was someone who did not see the point of living. Was this a one-off, or does this happen to everyone who takes the OCA?
c. After completing these tests, my IQ was listed as being in the high 120’s, which they said was significantly higher than most people. Is that normal?
(2) How do you think the leaders of Scientology would’ve explained Hubbard‘s death if he had died in some other fashion, such as falling off a cliff, a car crash, cancer or whatever? How would they have framed that, since I think if he just died suddenly they’d have a hard time repeating the whole “went off to do OT research” story. What are your thoughts?
(3) I once knew a bully from my school days who one day messed up with the wrong guy. After that he was like a different person. Do you think something like that could happen with David Miscavige if someone fought back?
(4) I was thinking about the fact that when someone attests to the state of Clear in Scientology, they get a Clear Number which tells them where they are in the grand queue of Clears. When they take that status away and then you re-attain it, do they re-number you or do they artificially inflate the numbers by counting these twice?
(5) I was wondering what would happen legally and within the institution of Scientology if a child/minor of Scientology parents was declared an SP? Would they just throw them out on the street? Let’s say they had no other family to go to. How would that scenario play out?
(6) I’ve been listening to LRH lectures from the Clearing Congress (1958). At one point he talks about working on a mother’s valence to get rid of her son’s valence (lack of personal creativeness). What is the Scientology theory behind this? I know it doesn’t make sense, but clearly for LRH it did. You can’t cure someone of the flu to get rid of someone else’s flu.
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