This week, it’s more than you ever expected to know about Scientology worksheets, memory and engrams, video games in Scientology and a lot more. Enjoy!
Baby Shark cover I like the most
(1) An interesting subject just occurred to me: auditor worksheets. This was one of the most challenging areas for me as a student auditor: making an accurate record of what occurred during an auditing session. Hubbard said NOT to practice “Stenographic Auditing.” (Stenographic Auditing: to take down every word the PC says.) He wanted his auditors to limit the contents of worksheets to essential information. But, to be accurate, I found it difficult to avoid writing down virtually everything my PC said in response to the auditing questions.
With modern education apparently abandoning instruction in the cursive form of handwriting, what do you see as the future of auditor training? Will Scientology become obligated to teach cursive to all auditors? Will a form of rapid printing become a new skill and requirement for auditors? Might electronic worksheet creation finally become a tool invented to support auditing, a tool arguably more useful than the E-Meter itself?
(2) Let’s say two people have the same “engram” – the same incident involving pain and unconsciousness. This means both guys have the same reactive recordings in that period of time of unconsciousness, including the spoken words from a third person. So according to Dianetics, if they were both to “run” that same incident in auditing, they should have the same recall of the surroundings including the spoken words that have been said during their time of unconsciousness. Is there any such evidence you know of? Any such case where they actually say the same spoken words from the engram? Or is there any evidence that proves that this is NOT the case and engrams don’t exist?
(3) I am kind of nerdy about video games, I was curious about whether or not playing video games or playing specific types of video games is something that Scientologists look down upon? Do they consider it largely to be a waste of time? From what I gather, it seems like watching movies or television in your free time (if you ever have any) is not a big deal. I am curious about video games considering they became popularized much later in time.
(4) I don’t know if you’ve heard this but it’s been in the news that the former head of the Israeli Space Program has come forward and said that aliens are real and we have been in contact for a few years. He says they are peaceful, just curious about us, and the United States is aware of this and is also involved. What I’m wondering is if Scientologists have heard this due to their isolation? But if they were to hear this, would it cause them to doubledown on their belief system? Perhaps make it even more difficult for people to escape or simply to stop asking questions. What effect would this have on the Scientology community?
(5) Given that analogies play a huge role in thinking about a complex situation, what analogies did LRH and DM use to describe things? I know that LRH borrowed a lot of stories from military lore such as wanting to visit the stockade to see men who could fight, not look pretty on the parade ground. The moral implications of military service when speed and decisiveness are sometimes life-savers are different than those of a non-lethal environment but do Sea Org members think about the difference in moral issues?
(6) How is your mom doing, particularly during this time of isolation due to COVID-19?
(7) In your Q&A #301, you talked about situations that would ban a person from Scientology. What about someone with Downs syndrome or Autism? How would they even begin to deny them services?
(8) Do you like or dislike the Baby Shark song?