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Hi Pete and All,
On Mar 30, 2013, at 5:00 AM, trom-requ...@lists.newciv.org wrote:
Here is an interesting article. Note that the development of
Scientology started with relief from the reactive mind then later
focused on the development of abilities. TROM is all about relief
from the mind and does nothing about developing OT abilities.
Keep on TROMing
Pete
Another perspective is that abilities are not gained or developed,
they are already there and inherent to what an OT is. One just
eliminates the chains and barriers holding oneself and his abilities
back. Those chains and barriers are self-imposed via the reactive mind.
Is Spirit of Quality or Quantity?
by martyrathbun09
For the first several years of L. Ron Hubbard's research into a
path to enlightenment, his focus was on simplicity. In that wise,
his quest aligned perfectly with the ancient universal truths he
sought to make more easily and uniformly attainable. Those truths,
per Hubbard, were particularly well articulated by Siddhartha
Gautama (the Buddha), and Lao Tzu in the Tao TeChing. Hubbard
seemed to understand, and could communicate in modern language, the
Buddhist and Taoist descriptions of the spiritual, the difficult to
conceptualize ideas of 'emptiness' or 'nothingness'. Hubbard
lectured as follows on 1 December 1954:
You can have a quality in complete absence of a quantity. You
don't have to be 'a quart of good boy'. And this was what he (the
scientist) was assuming, see. The next time you see a pound of
lust, send it around and we'll put it in a museum. These things
are not quantitative.
So we had to get out of quantitative thinking, thinking in terms of
objects and masses, before we had any real comprehension of
existence. And this was very easy to do. Very easy to do. You
merely had to define what zero was . And we find that life,
basically the awareness of awareness unit in life, is not a thing
of quantity ? not even vaguely of quantity. It is a thing
ofquality, of ability.
Where you have ability, you have life. Where you have space,
energy, mass , I don't care what kinds of energy. The energy
contained in your engrams. The energy contained in mental
pictures. The space contained in your visios or lack of them.
Anytime you have any quantity of any kind, you have walked downhill
from life. Just like that. And this works out. This works out in
processing, works out gorgeously.
Scientology counseling (processing or auditing) does work out quite
gorgeously when a thetan (the awareness of awareness unit, or
individual spiritual being) is considered in this wise. When this
framework is kept in mind, Scientology procedures are rather
simple. That is because all of them are used toward the result of
removing additives, or complexities, and returning the quality of
the awareness of awareness unit to itself. That quality is
uniformly found to be good by universally recognized human standards.
Hubbard clearly mapped philosophy and procedures that brought about
abilities (qualities) in a being that culminate in the state of
Clear. Hubbard defined a Clear as 'an unrepressed and self-
determined being" who is no longer subject to stimulus-response
reactive thought processes.
Unfortunately, the issue becomes muddled as one assays to move
higher on the Scientology path, called the Bridge. Above Clear,
they reached for states no longer expressed in terms of freedoms
from the additives that hamper a being. Instead, Scientologists
shoot for the vaunted state of 'cause'. Cause over matter,
energy, space, time, and life is the state that is promised.
Powers become the target. Rather than the removal of additives
the goal becomes the inclusion of an additive, expressed in a term
that infers physical properties or force, power.
In formal, organizational Scientology the relentless promotion and
cultural propaganda and pressure hammer that theme home. They
seize upon some later seemingly contradictory words of Ron
mentioned in policy letters and bulletins because of later turns
Hubbard himself took. By the mid sixties he began to contradict
the maxim regarding quality versus quantity. Beings were
increasingly considered to vary in size, or to be recognizable by
something other than quality, the new measure being quantity.
For example, in a policy letter issued on 22 March 1967 Hubbard
introduced the idea of size with respect to thetans. He wrote,
"Some thetans are bigger than others. None are truly equal." He
went on to instruct that smaller beings, whom he designated as
degraded beings, occur 'about eighteen to one over Big Beings in
the human race' (minimum ratio).
Along with that shift of focus onto size came the introduction of
different goals for processing. Rather than the original goal of
returning a being to the simple, uniformly good, freedom from the
additives tainting the being?s quality, the focus went toward
achieving powers. Conditions of existence were issued along with
formulas one could apply in life to improve one's condition. Those
conditions were determined primarily by the quantity produced as
measured by statistics. The most senior of those conditions to
which all of them were designed to lead toward was called 'Power'.
While those condition formulas were, and are, very workable, the
schema contributed to a culture of lust toward attainment of power.
The very definition of power in Scientology radically changed as
follows:
a) The ability to maintain a position in space. 1 March 1958
b) The amount of work which can be accomplished in a unit of
time or the amount of force which can be applied in a unit of
time. 6 December 1966
Over time the adjective ?powerful? became regularly associated with
'thetan' in Scientology think and speak. Scientologists began to
promote and covet the idea of becoming a big, powerful thetan.
Scientology promotion became more geared toward such ideas as
'unleashing the power of the thetan', and bestowing 'super
power'. Achievements in the Scientology world were ascribed as
attributes of 'powerful thetans' and 'big beings'. Conversely,
bad conduct was routinely condemned as that of smaller beings.
Exacerbating matters were more Hubbard policies that excused
otherwise destructive behaviorof beings based upon the size or
power of the individual, particularly when that alleged size or
power was abused in the forwarding of the power of Scientology as a
movement. Thus, in the policy The Responsibilities of Leaders,
Hubbard's 'seven points of power' suggested the ends justify the
means when protecting the 'power' one relies upon for his own
power. Hubbard suggests the physical beating of the critic of the
power one relies upon and serves is commendable behavior. He even
suggests that a real power would accept those who rely upon his
power murdering enemies of the power. And that a true power would
encourage his underlings to keep him ignorant of the crimes they
commit in increasing his power. In fact another Hubbard ethics
policy letter stated that an individual who produced a lot toward
expansion of Scientology could 'get away with murder'.
This is true of several OT 8's that I personally know about.
In the years that Scientology evolved in this fashion, most
particularly after the death of Hubbard, its very aims were
demonstrably altered in significant ways. Gradually, alleviating
the world of 'insanity', 'war', and 'criminality' was replaced by a
drive to wreak 'planetary obliteration' or exact 'global vengeance'
against the Scientology-designated evil-doers of earth.
It fairly makes one wonder whether somewhere along the line
Scientology lost sight of its own purpose and the quality of life
it was created to restore.
Does Scientology address beings as 'qualities' that lost sight of
their own very nature by introduction of the confusion of
'quantity' into the equation?
Or does Scientology address beings as 'quantities' that need to
have some quantity added to them to become sufficiently big and
powerful?
I am pleasantly surprised that Marty has come around and is seeing
truth. I followed him closely while he was an executive in Scn. He
partook in several Out-Ethics endeavors being the Scn front man. The
major one that comes to mind is Scn's interference with the lawsuits
against Eli Lilly and Prosac. He could disclose a lot more that he
probably knows about.
Marty's above viewpoints are very much in line and parallel with what
I found to be true for me about Ron and Scn. Especially the timing.
Keep Tromming, Paul, Level 5 in progress
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