This week, it’s answers about revisions to Hubbard’s work, the occult origins of Scientology, a breakdown of how Scientology management is done and a lot more. Enjoy!
(1) If everything that Hubbard wrote was unchangeable how come David Miscavage has on multiple occasions issued revisions to what Hubbard wrote? How is that possible if his writings were sacrosanct? The cynical side of me has what I believe to be clearly the answer and that is another way to scam more money from the public so is that the answer because it sure looks like it?
(2) In Jesse Prince’s book, Expert Witness, he talks about David Miscavige and others piloting the first OT 8 on the Freewinds and it being a major flap. When Jesse Prince took a look at the materials, it said everything before that point was what the person made up, to stop making it up, and that Hubbard claimed to be Satan and that Scientology is de-identified Satanic ritualistic practices. One couple left the ship in search of an exorcist. Another woman on the ship thought she was a World War 2 Japanese Kamikaze plane and was making airplane noises as she repeatedly crashed her head into the ship.
Similar comments were made by Jamie DeWolf at a Flag Down Event in Clearwater (2014) where he read aloud a manuscript from his grandfather talking extensively about the Satanic origins of Scientology.
All the TV shows, various YouTube Channels, and websites describing the abuses of Scientology, seem to be describing characteristics or experiences of the outcomes of Scientology; while these two items hint that Hubbard thought it to be a foundational church doctrine.
Could you expand on this topic?
(3) Does Scientology have any measures to evaluate the success of previous efforts? How do they study their own history?
(4) I heard this saying as a Sea Org member and Scientologist for years, concerning inadequacies of Clears: “I’m only Clear on the First Dynamic, you know!” It’s interesting, it had been the go-to excuse for any “human” behavior that betrays the definitions of Clear and pre-OTs. It drew a lot of cognitive dissonance and unease for me as I was born to two Clear parents, and that was used to justify anything suboptimal with their behavior. It’s only in my 30s when I decided to leave Scientology and decompress, I heard the line again and I had an internal brain explosion: WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? I don’t even know where it’s from and if it is from Hubbard.
(5) I was re-watching the interview you did with your mom, and I am wondering if your family knew when you were sent to the RPF, and what did they think about your situation? Given how it seems like your mom had quietly left the church and the conditions of the RPF, it makes me wonder if they knew you had been sent there and if they did, were they upset and worried about both your physical and mental safety while you were there?
(6) Do you think there are any high-level people who have died on Scientology property and have not been reported, such as Heber Jentzsch?
(7) What would a Sea Org reality show be like?
(8) What would happen if I were to give the “clear cognition” in one of my first auditing sessions? Could I start the OT levels and skip doing The Bridge?
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