Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (2016-19) (3) or
Are we being properly (mis)informed or not? (Review of TV show that ran 3 seasons. Hosts: Leah Remini and Mike Rinder)
[Wiki: Remini tells the story of how David Miscavige took over the Church of Scientology following the death of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and interviews his father Ron.]
At 1:26 Mike Rinder: “David Miscavige is the chairman of the board of the Religious Technology Center, or COB. He likes to call himself the Pope of Scientology. He is the man in charge and the one who, uh, determines what is and isn't good Scientology.”
At 1:45 Leah Remini: “David Miscavige is running the Church with fear.”
At 1:48 Mike Rinder: “The undisputed dictator of Scientology.”
And there was I, thinking that Scientology was a topic and not a person.
At 5:48 Mike Rinder: “David Miscavige got himself into a position where he had communication with L. Ron Hubbard that nobody else had and it gave him enormous authority to be telling L. Ron Hubbard that people were doing things or this was happening, and couching everything in the framework that made him look good; and, anybody who he felt was a rival, look bad.”
Realizing what L. Ron Hubbard knew, the attacks that Scientology already had endured during decades, The warnings he was issuing in policy letters, why would he allow himself to be lured into what a David Miscavige was saying?
“As the organization rapidly expands, so will it be a growing temptation for antisurvival elements to gain entry and infiltrate, and attempts to plant will be made.
To foil these, all staff members must be alert to attempts of this nature and it is their duty to inform the Technical Director, or above, of any doubts they may have and to see that the necessary action is taken.” LRH (from HCO PL 30 Oct 62 I “Security Risks Infiltration”)
“... the United States government and the efforts of that government since 1955, stepped up since 1963, to seize Scientology rather than forbid or stop it ... .” LRH (from HCO PL 14 Jun 65 III “Politics, Freedom from”)
If David Miscavige goes out with the following in a public event held at Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on 27 Jan 86:
At 6:12: “L. Ron Hubbard completed everything he set out do, and more. He has now moved on to his next level of OT research. This level is beyond anything any one of us ever imagined. This level is in fact done in an exterior state. Thus, at 2000 hours Friday, the 24th of January AD 36, L. Ron Hubbard discarded the body he had used in this lifetime for 74 years, 10 months, and 11 days.”
Then are we going to believe that? The original OT VIII was the end of the line. The EP listed for that is rather conclusive.
Name of state
Ability Gained
Inability Lost
(per December 1970)
↑
Section VIII OT
Ability to be at cause knowingly and at will over thought, life, form, matter, energy, space and time, subjective and objective
Freedom from inability to be totally free and at total cause as a being
Néver before was ánything said about that you need to drop some body to continue some research. The research was done and over with. This we know, and this is what always had been communicated.
Even Leah Remini confirms some things here:
At 6:47: “The core belief of Scientology is that you're a spiritual being. L. Ron Hubbard had reached, obviously, the highest level in Scientology there is to reach, promoting this idea that there's an afterlife and he found the answer to it by deciding to discard this body to go explore new OT levels.”
Then she concludes:
At 7:05: “All of this is bullshit.”
Of course it is. Then she states (just this one sentence):
At 7:08: “L. Ron Hubbard died of a stroke.”
In fact we don't even know that. We factually don't even know if there was a body. Strange things happened as for example Mary Sue Hubbard was not allowed to see the remains of her husband. There is no stipulation for this found in the testament. Also the body was cremated very rapidly, again there is no stipulation for this in the testament either. The only stipulation that comes somewhat close is that no autopsy was allowed. See more details here (separate window).
In fact the whole thing is shrouded in mystery and if one regards various specifics it looks more like a take over of the Church.
At 7:10 Mike Rinder: “After L. Ron Hubbard died, Scientology changed. Miscavige took over.”
No, this already happened at least as early as Jan 82 with the establishment of the corporation Religious Technology Center (RTC) in where David Miscavige is listed as one of the Trustees. The timing of Mike Rinder is four years off! And it may even have been in the works as early as 1973. See here (separate window). Simply decide for yourself.
Jeff Hawkins about David Miscavige
He “spent 30 years in the Church” working with marketing, shares here some character traits that he says that he personally observed about David Miscavige.
At 7:29: “I had written an infomercial for Dianetics. I had sent it up to Miscavige. I get called up to the conference room. And there's about 30 or 40 executives sitting around the table. He starts reading from my script and making fun of it, and I said, ‘Sir, if I can just explain,’ and he goes, ‘See? You see how he talks to me?’ He said, ‘All I want to hear from you is your crimes.’ He said, ‘Why don't you tell people what your crimes are?’”
Jeff Hawkins continues his tale that involved physical abuse he says he was subjected to by David Miscavige. Apparently none of the executives did anything. Mike Rinder, who was present at that incident, comments at 8:30 that everybody “Watches silently 'cause you don't want to do anything that will attract attention to you so that you're the next one”.
Wow, “30 or 40 executives” all scared up and doing nóthing?!
At 8:38: “And then there was one time when I was in my offices and he came down, he was talking to us, and he just flattened me, knocked me on the floor. And he said, ‘You know what I did that?’ And I said, ‘No, sir.’ And he said, ‘To show you who's boss.’”
The key points are the comments about “what your crimes are” and “show you who's boss”.
At 9:05 Mike Rinder: “There were a lót of times when Miscavige would make a statement like, "Well, everybody in here has got crimes and you people had better figure out what your crimes are. These ones in particular, they've got bíg crimes and you'd better get to the bottom of it because if I come back and they haven't confessed to what their big crimes are, then there's gonna be big trouble. And I will expect that they'll have black eyes.”
Is this not dramatizing Scientology? What I can say is that, if these tales are true, then it would explain the behaviour of many staff as then it originates from international management. We had many missionairies at Flag at various intervals, and the way they went about things wasn't nice, it was authoritative and inconsiderate. Mike Rinder comments at 9:44 that “It was literally, ‘I am gonna beat the crap out of you before I get the crap beat out of me.’”.
At 9:49 Leah Remini: “And there's none of these times that you were like, ‘f*** this. This is sick’?”
At 9:55 Jeff Hawkins: “No. You know, I described my whole experience to a Navy SEAL and he said, ‘Oh, I would've just coldcocked that -- that guy. I wouldn't have stood for that.’ And I said, ‘Uh, suppose he was an admiral?’ And he -- There was a long pause and then he said, ‘Oh, I see what you mean.’”
Then again, this was not the U.S. military, and this was no admiral!
At 10:39 Jeff Hawkins: “David Miscavige is the guy who dispenses Scientology to people. And he can dispense it to you or he can withhold it.”
Actually I would oppose that! He can only do that within the boundaries of the Church.
At 10:47 Leah Remini: “Right, so regardless of David Miscavige being an animal, you still believed in Scientology.”
At 10:55 Jeff Hawkins: “Yeah, I did.”
I don't understand the point here. David Miscavige is not Scientology, its founder or its developer! The two have little to nothing to do with each other! Scientology existed long before David Miscavige was even born.
Tom DeVocht about David Miscavige
He is also from “Miscavige's inner circle” that appeared on this episode of the TV show that tells about physical abuse.
At 14:38: “I was a part of the Church of Scientology for 30 years.”
At 14:49: “I got involved in Scientology in 1974.”
At 15:29 from screen dump: “In 1976, at age 12, Tom Joined the Sea Org.”
This was in 1997, when a candlelight vigil for the two year anniversary of the passing of Lisa McPherson was planned. (text from screen dump at 17:32)
At 17:37 Tom DeVocht: “We got all these guys coming to demonstrate against us and that sort of thing. - And I get told by Miscavige, ‘I want every sidewalk around every one of our properties torn up so that they can't be on the sidewalks.’ And I'm thinking, ‘What?’”.
He failed to get a permit, naturally. He told this to David Miscavige who, according to Tom DeVocht, immediately “dove across the table, grabbed my b***** tie”. “I couldn't breathe. I couldn't talk.”.
At 18:40 Tom DeVocht: “I'm upset about not being able to do it, but, uh, now I'm being physically abused for, you know, not being able to pull permits on an absolutely impossible deal. Um, and he says I am basically an enemy.”
Interesting is how he justified it:
At 18:56: “That was the first time and it was -- it was an overwhelmingly... tough, crazy, emotional thing because I believed and I was insane. Now I look at it and go, you know? But -- But inside there, you really -- it's devastating.”
At 19:15 Leah Remini: “You believed that you had failed him.”
At 19:17 Tom DeVocht: “Failed him, failed the Church, failed Hubbard, failed mankind.”
At 19:23 Leah Remini: “Why?”
At 19:23 Tom DeVocht: “Because he was a f****** hero. That's how intense he is about clearing the planet.
So getting beat up by Miscavige was not a ‘F*** I just got beat up by Miscavige. I'm gonna beat this [bleep] out of the punk.’ It was, ‘Man, I f***ed up.’ And that was the level of control and -- and power that the guy had.
This f***ing built, over time, this -- the mental atmosphere, the organizational pattern, everything, into ‘I'm the f***ed guy.’”
He concludes:
At 20:27 Tom DeVocht: “Seeing the organization had been ripped the f*** apart and it was strictly about the.. Miscavige's power, um, it crumbled. Everything, the.. whole picture of what I thought I was involved in crumbled before me. It was like... But more than anything, it was the realization the whole thing's a farce. There.. there's nothing workable about it. Scientology does not work.”
As if Miscavige was Scientology, which he wasn't. If the stories are true we however can conclude he simply does not apply Scientology in his own life. Surely though Scientology principles do not appear in use at international management...
At 22:23 we get this sudden interjection. This picture shows up. And then this text from Leah Remini...
At 22:21 Leah Remini: “L. Ron Hubbard was sick all the time.”
What is she pulling here?! Just this picture coming out of nowhere? Does she imply this person looks sick?! I guess so. It was once forwarded by a journalist in a newspaper article somewhere around 1972. Its authenticity has never been established. As far as anyone knows it is doctored and a fake. Where does she all get it from? What is she thinking?
Sorry Leah, this is very unprofessional indeed!
Then we have this marvelous concluding commentary of Leah Remini:
At 25:47: “Stop killing yourself for something that's not doing the world good.”
What if..., one just does Scientology and is not following some authority or leader in that Church?!
Ron Miscavige about his son
At 28:07:
Leah and Mike reached out to Ron Miscavige. (text from screen dump at 27:08)
At 27:58: “My name is Ron Miscavige. I was a Scientologist for 42 years. I was a member of the Sea Organization for 26½ years. And my son is David Miscavige, who is the chairman of the board of the Church of Scientology. In 1970, I got my entire family involved in Scientology courses and this was in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
And I came home from work one night and I saw David laying in bed in his room. And I looked in, I said, ‘Hey, how's it going?’ He said, ‘Aw, Dad.’ He says, ‘I-- I don't want to go to school anymore.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said, ‘I just can't take it. I'd like to go and help L. Ron Hubbard.’ ‘Well, what do you mean?’ He says, ‘I want to join the Sea Org.’
‘Wow,’ I thought. ‘You know, he's 15. He's gonna be 16 soon. I was 17 when I joined the Marines. He's about my age. I knew that I wanted to do that. That turned out right for me, as far as helping me in my life.” I bought him a plane ticket and, the day he was 16, he quit school. Next day, he flew down to Clearwater and joined the Sea Org down there.
I was very proud of him. When he joined, within about nine months, he was working with L. Ron Hubbard out in California and L. Ron Hubbard was shooting movies and David worked there as a cameraman, shooting these movies. He rose up through the ranks. He's a tough kid, and smart.
At 29:14:
And, uh, then, once L. Ron Hubbard died, he saw his opportunity and he moved, uh, right up and took power. Although you may feel grief, understand that he did not and does not now. He saw the people who would stand in his way and he just removed them from power. he's a very charismatic guy and he can get people to follow him and this is what he did. But he was very clever about it and he eventually ended up being the head of all of Scientology.”
In 1985, Ron joined the Sea Org and served on the same place (Gold Base*) where his son lived. (text from screen dump at 29:55)
Leah Remini opens up a discussion about family relations that Ron Miscavige has with his son:
At 30:36: “I think people have an idea of you, because you are the head of the Church's father, that you hung out every day, you saw each other every Sunday, - you had family dinners, you know, y-- that -- that you guys were very close for --”
At 30:52 Ron Miscavige: “Sometimes, he'd be gone, come back, would be on the base for a month or two -Uh-huh. and wouldn't even call me on the phone to say, ‘Hey, how are you doing?’”
At 31:00 Leah Remini: “And you had no right, as a father, to go walk over to his office and go, ‘Hey, you little [bleep]. I'm your father I don't give a f*** who you think you are’?”
At 31:06 Ron Miscavige: “Absolutely not. Absolutely not.”
At 31:06 Leah Remini: “Why? Why not?”
At 31:08 Ron Miscavige: “That's the way it was. Family, uh, connections were considered a false dynamic, uh, meaning no spiritual being is the father of another spiritual being. On that base, he referred to me as Ron. He never called me Dad.”
At 31:22 Leah Remini: “And did you call him sir?”
At 31:25 Ron Miscavige: “Absolutely. I was a staff member.”
At 31:27: “And that started about maybe a month or three weeks when I first got in and I saw him walking with his entourage. And I wanted to say hello to him. I said, ‘Hey, Dave!’ He turned around and looked at me and he gave me a look that I knew that I did the wrong thing. ... And that I would be so impertinent to do that, and him being the leader of Scientology.
I was a staff member and that father/son relationship, at that moment, I know, had either gone into nothing or was starting to erode, right at that moment.”
Here we have Leah Remini again coming with a marvelous conclusion:
At 31:58: “The mother/daughter, son/father thing is taken away. Now Scientology is your teacher. Scientology is your parent.”
Now, has one not forgotten about this little publication from 1981 entitled ‘The Way to Happiness’, it says something about “HONOR AND HELP YOUR PARENTS.”. See that chapter in full here (separate window). How is David Miscavige or anyone going to explain this one away?
Ron Miscavige left, or rather according to his own telling on the TV show, escaped Scientology (from Gold Base) in 2011.
At 36:24 Ron Miscavige: “Now, once I went down in 2014 to talk to my daughters and, uh, I ended up on the porch of Denise and her husband's talking to me through the door. He says, ‘Ron, Denise and I are through with you and Becky forever.’
Thát was when I had decided to write this book. I don't have time for revenge in my heart or, you know, like a vendetta. What I have time for is doing anything effective -- like this, like writing the book -- anything that will bring about a change and families can be reunited. It's just the desire -- ‘Hey, I'd like to see my daughters and my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren.’”
In 2013, Ron learned that lawyers representing Scientology had hired private investigators to monitor him. (text from screen dump at 38:16)
At 38:21 Ron Miscavige: “I had a police officer from the Whitewater Police come to the house I was staying at. Goes, ‘Well, I'm with the Whitewater Police. I came to inform you that you've been followed by the Church of Scientology for the last 18 months.’”
The police brought the private investigator in for questioning. (text from screen dump at 39:12)
At 39:13 Ron Miscavige: “So, he spilled his guts and he says, ‘I know, at one point, it looked like the target was having --’ They referred to me as ‘the target.’ ‘It looks like the target was having a heart attack.’
I had a pocket T-shirt on, my cellphone was in this pocket and I was putting groceries in the car. So I stooped over to put the groceries in. I thought the cellphone was gonna fall out, so I grabbed my chest.
They're in a blacked-out van, looking at me. They called their contact and said, ‘It looks like the target's having a heart attack. What do you want us to do?’ So the guy says, ‘Hang on.’ A gentleman come on the phone, identified himself as David Miscavige, and said, ‘Listen, if it's his time to die, let him die. Don't intervene. Don't do anything.’”
If this is correct, then wow. Ron Miscavige was still open for reconciliation:
At 40:45 Ron Miscavige: “This is maybe beyond hope, but someday David could come up to me and shake my hand or give me a hug and I'll hu-- give him a hug. And I don't what the hell would have to happen for that, but -- So you would forgive him? Yeah, I'd -- I'd like to be back in communication with him, even after all this.”
Ron Miscavige himself does appear to live up to this chapter in the book “LOVE AND HELP CHILDREN” that we find in this little book ‘The Way to Happiness’ (1981):
At 41:26: “I'm his father. I was there when he was born. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. I know. You know, I taught him how to play baseball, how to play football, how to swim when he was 3 years old, dive off a 3-meter board when he was 4. Him and my other son used to help me fix the car. I wanted them to learn skills in life.”
In chapter “HONOR AND HELP YOUR PARENTS” in the same little book: “Children are indebted to their parents for their upbringing—if the parents did so.”.
Apparently Ron Miscavige did so, now it is up to David Miscavige to live up to these guidelines, no?
Little too late though as Ron Miscavige died in 2021 at the respectable age of 85 years.
Now, why is no one on the episode of the TV show making mention of this publication? Why is that?!
‘Golden Era’ (s1e05 - 27 Dec 2016)
[Wiki: Remini interviews Marc Headley about his time at Golden Era Productions, the Church's promotional organization, and his and wife Claire's escape from its Gold Base compound, a.k.a. as Int Base or Hemet.]
This needs some clarification. It was common practice that each Scientology organization around the globe was send a pre-recorded video copy of a main life event. After which the public was invited and they came to see this video play.
At 4:24 Leah Remini: “Five times a year, you are required to be at a Scientology event. It's mandatory that you're there. You're dressed up.”
She will have been attending the life event and you see people being dressed up. This wasn't particularly the case though for the tape play events held at the local organizations. I know I never “dressed up”.
Was it “mandatory” to attend the actual life event? I would actually doubt it. Of course they like you to come, and they really try to persuade you, but if you say, no, then that would be that. If you had other obligations some evening, you simply couldn't attend, and there will always be other events.
Every so often people would, on the life event, as soon as some person thanked L. Ron Hubbard, the audience rather hastily would jump up, stand there and enthusiastically clap and making sounds. This would be acceptable for an actual life event. The same however occurs at the video plays at the local organizations, we see the same routine. The video recording also was arranged in such a way that if the compilers figured the routine was called for that a picture was shown of L. Ron Hubbard. Success guaranteed. I counted at times how often the routine occurred. It could be just a couple of times, generally however it was about 13-14 times and sometimes even more than that. I thought it was rather annoying, after all clapping for a pre-recorded video, which I thought was particularly silly. These tape recordings itself generally lasted about 2½ hours.
At 4:34 Leah Remini: “And they start out with this movie.”
At 4:37 event video: “When the history of this planet is finally told, it will be a tale of a determined few who rose up against overwhelming odds and stood firm for the rights of man.”
At 4:51:
At 4:54 Leah Remini: “The horses... galloping. Look at this shit. Like, we're doing some shit man. We're slaying the dragons. Look at us.”
At 5:04 event video: “Our hallmark is unrelenting commitment and enduring compassion, extending a hand, however, wherever, and whenever.”
At 5:16 Leah Remini: “And then these graphics come up... ‘And we've saved that country and we took this drug company down and we won this and we saved thousands of lives here and hundreds of thousands here,’ and things like ‘millions.’
At 5:34:
So, if you had any doubts, which I did, when you hear some of these statistics, you're like, "Oh, my God, we are changing the world, so all of our sacrifices, the money, the time, the missed vacations... it's all worth it because, look, overall, look at what we're doing.”
The video clip replicated on the TV show appears at particularly IAS events. All Scientologists will remember the horses, the running off of statistics, ... the listings seem endless.
Believing that they tell at these event runs out after a couple of years. The problem is that you don't see local expansions or the advanced organizations. You don't see many or any new people coming in. Also it is not reflected anywhere at all in mainstream media or even alternative media.
At 5:50 Mike Rinder: “I don't think that Leah realizes the level of deception that is involved in those events. She doesn't know what went on behind the scenes. She doesn't know how those events got put together and how those things are staged.”
Leah likely doesn't, but I have some notion as I was staff at Flag, and have been helping categorizing surveys that were filled out by the public. Key words are then gathered on lists, questions they wrote down, things they wondered, what they liked most at the last event, etc. All this data is carefully evaluated and implemented in the script of events, to ensure the publics attention will be gotten. Most companies will however do this, it is the advertizing business. Anyway to me it didn't really fit in with the concept of Scientology. This was all so calculated.
At 6:15 Mike Rinder: “Marc was integral to the production of all of the events that were put on. He produced a lot of those events. He was intimately involved and oversaw all aspects of Scientology's propaganda machine.”
At 6:36 Marc Headley: “My name is Marc Headley, and I was a Scientologist for 25 years. And I was in Golden Era Productions... or ‘Gold’... and I left in 2005. When I was 15 years old, I signed a billion-year Sea Org contract.”
At 7:01: “I was very into audio/visual stuff. As a kid, I took apart TVs and radios and fixed them and knew how to solder and do all that sort of thing. And I was told, “Well, there's a place at the international headquarters where that's all they do, is audio/visual stuff.’ So, for me, I thought, ‘Oh, that's a... that's a no-brainer.’”
Marc Headley on the left
At 9:14 Leah Remini: “There were times when I doubted the Church and then I'd go to an event and I'd see these statistics. And I remember thinking, like, ‘Wow, Leah, you're an... Look at the amazing things that the Church is doing.’”
At 9:31 Marc Headley: “I mean, I can tell you from being involved in the production of events and promotional videos for Scientology over a 15-year period, it's most likely bull.”
At 10:06 Leah Remini: “Because of these statistics, I was, like, kind of brought back in. It makes me believe. And it makes me give up my money, and it makes me give up my time.”
The point of Scientology is taking services. Scientology was never about raising money for no service in return. This is how it was in the earlier days. Then somewhere during the late 80s/early 90s these events grew to become a standard of the day.
Marc Headley summarizes these events rather nicely:
At 12:02: “The best way I can represent it is, the events are not a documentary. They are a commercial.”
I could wonder how many people actually believed all these numbers and statistics, you basically only saw them presented at these events, but they got never reflected in the world outside of that.
Leah Remini then states:
At 12:17: “You think you're... you're being told the truth. And any one of those people will tell you they believe it. We all believed it.”
I have often carefully observed the audiences, and quite a few persons in fact were sceptical. You could see it on their faces. They surely wanted it to be true, or at least some of it, but one did not dare speak about if there was any doubt. These events presented ‘good news’, and that is what they wanted to hear. If some person that was not present at the actual event, he could play the video in the public area. I did always see people that were passing by suddenly dropping what they were doing and then also started watching even if they had been present at the event. It was like a compulsive handling, ‘event tape playing–need to watch’. It was often like if they would do a bad thing if they would not stay and watch.
At 12:43 Marc Headley: “There's a policy letter than L. Ron Hubbard wrote. It's one of the five tapes that you listen to when you join the Sea Org.
So, what is it, a policy letter or a tape?
And it's a lecture that L. Ron Hubbard gave to Sea Org members in the 1960s, which is, whoever controls the public relations controls the world.”
Right, not a policy letter, a tape lecture. These are the ‘Welcome to the Sea Org’ tapes. the last and fifth one was entitled “It's a P.R.O. world”. Which is a true enough statement.
At 13:16 Marc Headley: “If you are in the real world and you see Scientology, it doesn't look like it does in the events. They're so obviously blatantly misrepresented... that you could take any video in the past 10 years... you could give it to somebody and say, ‘I'm gonna pay you to fact-check this thing.’ And they would obliterate it.”
Indeed.
Claire Headley's considerations and fears
At 22:42: “My name is Claire Headley, and I was a Scientologist for 30 years. I was a member of the Sea Organization. I escaped in January 2005. I joined the Sea Org when I was 16. And within three months, I was promoted to the Int Base... in Hemet.”
At 23:01 Leah Remini: “And the International Base is where all the executives of Scientology are. The top... the top tier.”
At 23:04 Claire Headley: “That's right.”
At 23:07 Claire Headley: “I had been told, ‘Oh, it's an oasis of glory. You get to exercise. You get to meet celebrities.’”
At 23:17: “And the second I arrived there, the illusion faded immediately. You know, it's a heavily guarded property... and a lot of secrecy and a lot of control, specifically, ‘Okay, you're... you're not allowed to make phone calls without permission and with someone listening. If you want to send a letter to your family, you need to leave it open, and it needs to be read first.’”
At 23:41: Leah Remini: “At this time, are you thinking, ‘I should leave’?”
At 23:44 Claire Headley: “You know, I... Yes, I had that thought, like, ‘Holy...’ ‘How... How am I gonna get out of here?’
But I already knew, if I left, I would be declared a Suppressive Person and instantly cut off from my family. I would be given a freeloader bill. And at 16... to consider a bill for $40,000... it is overwhelming.”
So, she knew already all these things “within three months” after she had “joined the Sea Org” when she “was 16” years of age? How did she know about all these things so quickly? She doesn't tell nor explain! She probably was told these things by someone, but more interesting is that it is false information. You can simply leave the Sea Org and this done as per the Flag Orders would allow her to commence on a leaving staff routing form and remain in good standing and also skip some supposed disconnection altogether. Then a bill for $40,000 for “three months” in the Sea Org? Where is that coming from?
At 24:23:
The deal about this can be read here (separate window).
At 24:53 Claire Headley: “I would say the first few things I-I started to observe was, ‘A,’ people would escape frequently. I heard of people escaping. Staff were required to attend courses and training every once in a while, and it would be, ‘Oh, Joe's not here. He... He escaped.’ That happened on a regular basis. Like almost weekly... or every other week, you'd hear of someone escaping. ‘Oh, what happened?’ ‘Oh, he jumped the fence and he ran off and they're searching for him out ...’ I mean, the... the base is in the middle of nowhere. It's four miles to the nearest sign of humanity. So, it's not easy to escape, either.”
Seems to me it was not too hard to get out of the compound “escaping” if your mind is set for it. You take some food with you, you can walk “four miles” or may hitchhike a bit.
Ron Miscavige, the father of David Miscavige drove out of there with a car (see ep s1e4). Mat Pesch just said that “we're out of here” and he left with Amy Scoby his wife (see ep s1e1). I just wonder, what are they gonna do if you do not cooperate in any way, shoot you dead? I wouldn't think so. Mat Pesch said that “It's totally mental.”.
At 26:15 Claire Headley: “You know, I had seen people tracked down to the ends of the Earth. I mean, one... one RTC staff member escaped to South Africa and was tracked down and brought back.”
Isn't this a bit well surreal? What did they do? Kidnap the person and transport the person in a submarine and back to the Int Base? Now, if the control they had over this individual was not “totally mental,” then I don't know what is?!
Abortions and Claire Headley
At 26:29 Leah Remini: “In the Sea Org, you're not allowed to have sex with a boyfriend or a girlfriend. You have to get married.”
At 26:33 Claire headley: “That's right.”
It was seen in the Sea Org that people got married just in order to be allowed to have sex. A marriage however could last as little as just a few weeks.
At 26:35 Leah Remini: “So, you were married at what age?”
At 26:38 Claire Headley: “I was 17. Marc was 19.”
At 26:40:
At 26:41 Claire Headley: “When I joined the Sea Organization, I knew that their policy was no kids allowed. If a woman got pregnant, she would instantly be scheduled to go and get an abortion. If she refused in any manner, she would be segregated, not allowed to speak with her husband, put under security watch, put on heavy manual labor, and interrogated for... for her crimes as to why she wanted to leave because the reality was...”
At 27:09 Leah Remini: “...that getting pregnant meant you wanted to leave.”
At 27:10 Claire Headley: “That's exactly right. Yes.”
None of these things Claire tells I have ever personally observed or even heard of in the Sea Org, not at Flag, and not in the AOSH EU in Copenhagen. Some people believed I did not see it because it was kept from me, kept secret. Well, I serious wonder how that would be possible as I always was predominantly stationed in the HCO department and had easy access to ethics folders and so on.
Side note: Leah Remini may have claimed in season 1/episode 3 that she did not achieve the ability to talk freely with anyone on any topic when finishing this Grade 0 on the Bridge. However it is sort of ironic that on the TV show she has a rather big mouth, she is interrupting, finishing people's sentences and so on. To the degree that I find it rather annoying.
At 27:12 Claire Headley: “At one point, I made a list of all the people I absolutely knew had had abortions. And it was more than 50 women. Some of them had had up to six.”
She doesn't explain why she made that list, and not either how she went about it. Can she present the actual list? How did she manage to escape the attention of the security personnel when she checked all this out? Can anyone else confirm this? We don't learn anything about these things, and Leah Remini is not asking or inquiring!
At 8:00 (season 2/episode 11) Claire Headley added: “And as part of our lawsuit,
I had compiled a list of the many women that I knew,
and at the time, it was up to around 50.
That was actually filed in the court documents.”
And they are doing these abortions in that ‘Scientology’ area? If that be true then we indeed should very seriously wonder if any of these persons were Scientologists to any degree! It really does not sound like it... (please see here under Mike Rinder's comment and my response)
This is inserted in this episode of the TV show directly following the claim of Claire Headley here above! Wow!
At 27:22 Mike Rinder: “If you're in the Sea Organization and you got pregnant, you were expected to have an abortion. The Church claims that pressuring women to have an abortion has either never happened or doesn't happen anymore. The truth of the matter is, it is a mortal sin to get pregnant as a Sea Org member because that means you will have to leave the Sea Organization and thereby ‘break’ your billion-year contract.”
Even the sheer mention of abortion was frowned upon “in the Sea Organization” at Flag among staff. It was an absolute no-no-no if it ever was spoken about!
Indeed it is “a mortal sin” most particularly according to the book ‘Dianetics’ (1950). It condemns it, you can't even miss it, the word “abortion” appears 56 times in the book! It makes you wonder if anyone there at that Int Base even read the book?! Either way, abortion is unequivocally NOT Scientology! If anyone wants you to do that at some place in the organization, you just GET OUT OF THERE! It is this simple! You signed up for staff for a Scientology reason, did you not?
So, Claire, Leah, Mike, did any of you ever read the book Dianetics?! If not, then why not? It is the #1 book in Scientology! If you did read it, and you did understand it, then what were you still doing at that place? You stayed on while knowing? This is taken from a later episode in the TV series (season 1/episode 8) there it interestingly says:
7:54 Leah Remini: “The first book that was written was called ‘Dianetics,’ and after that was a book called ‘Science of Survival.’ In the books that every Scientologist has to read....”
So there we have it!
No, it did not“‘break’ your billion-year contract”! There is a Flag Order (FO) written by the ED International in the mid 80s that directed that if you got pregnant that you and your husband were to be routed to be staff at a Class IV organization which has much easier going working schedules and conditions, allowing you to properly raise a child. When the child would have reached the age of 6 years one was allowed to resume one's activities in the Sea Org .
At 27:48 Claire Headley: “I absolutely swore that I would never have an abortion. I wanted kids. Next thing I know, I missed a period, so I have to go see the medical officer. She had me do the test with her there, and sure enough, it was positive. And she said, ‘Well, you're gonna need to get an abortion.’”
At 28:07 Marc Headley: “Basically, the sentiment there is, ‘Get over it. Get back to work.’”
At 28:11 Claire Headley: “And meanwhile, inside, I'm dying.”
What a grand “medical officer” this is! It is a ratter disgrace to talk like that to a young girl about something this delicate. What kind of person would do that?
“Anyone attempting an abortion is committing an act against the whole society and the future; any judge or doctor recommending an abortion should be instantly deprived of position and practice, whatever his ‘reason.’”LRH (from ‘Dianetics, The Modern Science of Mental Health’ (1950, 1st edition, page 132))
It is obvious that it became a ruin for Claire Headley. I personally know people (outside of the Scientology world) who were persuaded to do that and it effected their life dramatically. They were unable to ever forgive themselves to have done that.
Claire does not make mention of her husband Marc Headley, where was he? Did he just accept the situation? The TV show does not tell. All we know is that he appeared tougher later in time at such time he stood up aginst David Miscavige. Anyhow, getting pregnant is according to Scientology guidelines no reason to enforce a disconnection of future parents! So, query it if they even try! I queried for much less delicate situations.
There is an irony to be observed here. See, if there was so much expansion around the globe according to what you are made to believe at these Scientology events, then why would you bother holding on to persons that did not want to be there. Wouldn't it be more worthwhile to get a replacement staff that actually wants to stay? Then forcing people to abortions just you want to prevent them from leaving? It is contradictive to say the least.
Leaving or escaping?
Then the matter of leaving, there is an array of references that make it rather clear you may leave. It is even directed to get these persons that want to leave off the premises within 24 hours. See here (separate window).
It gets particular interesting that suddenly this screen dump appears in this episode of the TV show at 35:22:
It implies here that if you left with authorization, which essentially means you underwent a so-called Fitness Board* and did fulfill a proper leaving staff routing form, that there then will be no label of an “enemy”. It means you can also skip the fear for a disconnection burden placed upon you as well! Leah Remini on this TV show actually confirms there is such a thing as leaving with authorization!
She did not make any distinction about this in season 1/episode 1. There it was like if you leave the Church you are now an enemy, your family has to disconnect from you and so on.
At 36:45 Marc Headley: “When someone leaves, they do what's called a blow drill. And an entire network of people are activated that all have specific functions. Some people go and cull your files. They find out, who are the parents, who are the aunts and uncles, who are the brothers and sisters, what are their phone numbers, what are their addresses, where do they live? And they... they scour all the neighborhoods. They go to the Greyhound station. They go to the airport. They go to hotels. It's a military-style operation where this person needs to be recovered, and it's sort of like, the longer they're gone, the less chance we're gonna get them recovered.”
I have never ever even heard of that. I have also never come across the term in any Scientology writings. Probably some routine that was only in use at that Int Base.
Both marc and Claire Headley had left the Church, however without this authorization. A consequence of that became to that family members that were still in Scientology apparently all disconnected from them. Here an interesting notice from Marc's mother:
At 40:22 Marc Headley: “My mother is also still a Scientologist, and she has no contact with us. She told her Catholic family... that if she ever spoke to Claire or I again, it would risk all mankind's future eternity.”
Wow! What does that mean really?! How does that even work? Are we back in the Middle Ages something? Even Leah Remini has a notion that is something is not quite right here:
At 40:36 Leah Remini: “Because it's gonna impede their eternity? When you think about it... you know what I mean? Really think about that. What about now?”
Prosecuting the Church
At 41:32 Leah Remini: “Have you told the authorities, the FBI of these abuses that took place?”
At 41:34 Marc Headley: “Oh, absolutely.”
At 41:35 Claire Headley: “Yes. In depth.”
At 41:39 Marc Headley: “We had filed a lawsuit individually and together - against them. All these different things that we said did happen... they admitted to them, but that they were part of our religious right and part of their religious practice that those took place.”
At 41:56 Mike Rinder: “Religions in the United States under the First Amendment basically have free reign to do whatever they want to do, and your option is, leave the religion, go somewhere else, because the First Amendment says, effectively, the government or any branch of government, including courts, may not entangle themselves in making decisions about the ecclesiastical or the religious practices of any religion.”
Are there not some caveats to be considered here? As many of the things they were subjected to are not condoned according to the written materials of said religion! It then becomes a personal wrong doing! Has anyone even tried this in court?
At 43:07 Leah Remini: “It's another thing to actually do something that's actually gonna help people. What can we do? What can you do? What can you do? What can our lawyers do here? I don't know what those things are, but I have to find a way to... to bring justice to some of these people who have been victimized and to prevent anything in the future from happening.”
Expose it is not Scientology that they are doing. But no one of the complainers is interested to even consider such an argument and try it in court or anything... As unfortunately, if it was considered, a consequence for those that already suffered is that they will not be able to blame the Church anymore for that they consider was done to them, it would simply fall back upon themselves and their own responsibility. They are just not likely going to do that...
‘Auditing’ (s1e06 - 3 Jan 2017)
[Wiki: Remini interviews Aaron Smith-Levin, who was a prodigy at the Church's practice of auditing along with his twin brother Collin, who died in an automobile accident after he was dismissed from the program.]
At 1:15: “You know like going on vacations or taking the time to enjoy this life is not, you know, not the goal. The goal is you do the work now so that there is a life for your children.
While I was working on ‘The King of Queens,’ you know, I would come here to Florida to do work from 9:00 in the morning till 10:00 at night while my co-stars were going to the Bahamas, they were going to Hawaii with their family, you know? For most of my life in Scientology, I was just doing the work every day, all day, 365 days a year.”
Now a girl came up to Leah Remini, still walking at the beach, asking to buy weed. Leah Remini reflects:
At 2:24: “I wanna save her, you know what I mean? Like I wanna do something about it. Like I wanna go tell her, she needs to go home. Me as a Scientologist walking away from her right now like I'm feeling emotions of guilt for not doing anything about it.
It's like that girl coming up to me and asking me if I had drugs would only reiterate to me as a Scientologist, I better get back, the world needs me, look how f***ed up it is, you know? Our work is so important. That's the mind-set.”
Persons themselves create this mind-set! Essentially it is not the time you spend on something, it is what results you get. To be able to do a good job, it needs relaxing from time to time. So yes, that “mind-set” is “f***ed up” if you go about it like that!
Auditing, Golden Age of Tech; Aaron Smith-Levin (GAT1)
At 6:44: “My name is Aaron Smith-Levin and I was a Scientologist for about 29 years and I was in Scientology until two years ago, 2014 when I was 33.”
At 11:42 Mike Rinder: “Auditing, in theory, is those steps that you take toward attaining spiritual enlightenment.”
At 11:51 Leah Remini: “What happens in this auditing is they have this thing called an E-Meter. You would sit with a person who is trained in the technology of helping people to get rid of this part of your mind that is reactive, that is causing you to think bad thoughts for yourself, making bad decisions. So you are trying to get rid of this reactive mind in this auditing. The E-Meter tells the auditor you are in the right direction.”
A fair although somewhat naïve and non technical description.
Essentially the E-meter registers mental charge, the purpose of auditing is to relieve the person from this mental charge.
At 13:03 Mike Rinder: “David Miscavige had come up with the new way of now training all auditors. That it had all been being done wrong for the 50 years previously. He had now discovered the real way that it should be done so every auditor in the world had to be trained newly in this golden age of tech.”
This is pretty much that it amounted to. This Golden Age of Tech came out as late as 1996. The key ingredient was drilling, drilling and more drilling. It consisted of all these binders containing the drills that had to be run. It was claimed this would created the 'perfect auditor' but in reality it only created a ‘robot like auditor’. This is not at all how L. Ron Hubbard had designed the auditor to be.
It also meant that all auditors had to be retrained on their training. And it didn't matter how long they had been an auditor. You were not considered certified anymore if you hadn't done the retraining.
There are warning signals obviously all over the place!
“The Field Auditor has a right: ...
7.
To respect for his training and experience.
8.
To respect for his certificates.
9.
To have and to hold his certificates without cancellation by anyone forever.” LRH
(from‘PAB* 112’, 15 May 57 “The Rights of the Field Auditor”, also issued as HCO PL 2 Oct 69 “same title” & HCO PL 28 Apr 82 “same title”)
The Golden Age of Tech and particularly its demands sound more like a sales effort to get more income by having people to do the same studies once more.
At 13:41 Aaron Smith-Levin: “So to purists it feels that the only true things in Scientology are things that came out of L. Ron Hubbard's mouth, and many feel that that was the first time David Miscavige changed Scientology to match his own image of what hé felt was proper Scientology.”
It is an interesting way of expressing this, “purists”, “Hubbard's mouth”. What it comes down to really is that if you have an auditing routine that was developed during 1950-70 and then announced complete, then are you forcefully going to change how you must study it after 26 years? The Bridge was already turned around during 1978-82, and now you have to redo the training of that with this excessive drilling? If you know the ropes of the trade after years of practice, sometimes decades, then would you require all that? Not likely...
In Scientology there is something called “Keeping Scientology Working”. The routines of auditing procedures are very exact, and it was found it will not work correctly if you make changes or do not apply it as written. The policy letter carrying that title was to prevent that from happening. More about that here (separate window).
A detailed study about the Golden Age of Tech initiative can be consulted at link here below: (separate window)
Aaron Smith-Levin and his twin brother Collin aged 11-12 commenced on studying this Golden Age of Tech.
At 13:59: “but I had no problem with the fact that we were being groomed to be the new and the best and the greatest thing that ever happened to Scientology and I really embraced it actually.
And for the next three years I basically lived as a Sea Org member. You are studying Scientology full time from, you know, 8:30 in the morning to 10:00 at night. And those are your study hours. I mean, you are up at 7:00, you are in bed at 11:00.”
At 14:20 Leah Remini: “And who's taking care of you?”
At 14:22 Aaron Smith-Levin: “Well, in a respect, we're taking care of ourselves but our mom is there too. She just lives in her own apartment with other women because it's segregated men and women.”
At 14:47 Leah Remini: “So, what's happening with your schooling? There is no schooling going on.”
At 14:51 Aaron Smith-Levin: “No. You are studying Scientology full time.”
How can anyone call this parenting? The other problem is that there is no primary or secondary schooling. If you only study to become this auditor then you are not going to be able to manage yourself in the world out there. You are being robbed from your general education. In most countries in Europe this is not allowed, apparently it was accepted or could be passed by where Aaron and his brother were at.
The (troublesome) Golden Age of Tech E-meter drill (GAT2)
At 15:24 Aaron Smith-Levin: “So, David Miscavige had put together these two special courses that were supposed to be the hardest versions of these courses ever done. These drills that auditors in training do to practice how to use an E-Meter in an auditing session, they're videoed. So there is a camera from behind shooting the E-Meter dial with the needle and then there is a camera shooting the auditor in training's face. These mock auditing sessions are recorded and scrutinized looking for any mistakes on calling the E-Meter read incorrectly. It's gonna be reviewed by the supervisor and passed and then it's gonna be sent to international management and passed.”
That you will created here is a robot auditor and not a natural or passable auditor like it was in the past. Golden Age of Tech subjects you to complete control and overseeing.
There was a problem with this E-meter course Golden Age of Tech style. There was a particular E-meter drill included in the E-meter drills pack, that was about impossible to get right or get it passed. I recall various Golden Age of Tech auditors in training struggling for months and did not get it right. One person was stalled on his training for about two years, because he did not get it passed, and in the end he gave it up and turned a dropout.
It is interesting that Aaron here says:
At 16:39: “And then David Miscavige decided that the video that people were doing to finish the program at the time when my brother finished the program that he wanted the video done a different way. So he made everyone who had already passed this video on how use the meter properly to do it again and do it in a way that made it much longer and much harder.”
His brother passed it the first time, but not the second time.
At 17:09 Aaron Smith-Levin: “Also in Scientology there is kind of a principle that if you are not doing well in your courses it's because you are doing something unethical that you are not being honest about. The way they describe it is if ethics is in then the tech will go in. So if the tech doesn't seem to be working well, it's because you are being unethical and you haven't come clean about it.”
Well, actually this principle is not applicable here on Aaron's brother. This very first thing that should have been checked if something was misunderstood from the materials he was studying, essentially that would come down to, finding your misunderstood word.
Aaron tells about a “lot of pressure” placed on his brother for not getting it done. And... then decided one morning he didn't want to be there anymore, left and went to his father.
Blowing; Collin Smith-Levin
At 18:30:
At 18:21 Aaron Smith-Levin: “Really once someone blows, they are considered to kind of be a criminal.”
At 18:31 Mike Rinder: “Scientologists believe that someone leaves Scientology for one reason alone -- they have crimes, they have transgressed against the good of Scientology and that it is their moral obligation to unburden the person of their crimes for having left. So they will spend as long as it takes interrogating the person as to what the crimes are that they have conducted that has caused them to want to leave.”
“BLOW” is defined as an “Unauthorized departure from an area, usually caused by misunderstood data or overts.” LRH (from HCOB 21 Sept 70 “Study Definitions”. A much more detailed description is found in HCOB 31 Dec 59 “Blow-Offs”. It is bit well tough a gradient to immediately regard it and treat it as something “criminal” and resort to “interrogating” as Aaron and Mike Rinder seem to imply. I can't say I have ever seen this applied that steep! If the person was recovered and taken in he was being interviewed by a person in the HCO division who would try to determine what the problem was, which usually was remedied in a gentle manner.
At 19:07 Aaron Smith-Levin: “So my mom got on a plane to go get him and they brought him back.”
At 19:10 Leah Remini: “So he is now gone from being this superstar to someone who is now Scientology demoted and now his existence is going into a room that is being filmed and recorded.” (At 19:25 Aaron Smith-Levin: “Yeah.”)
At 19:25: “With somebody who is badgering him for transgressions.” (At 19:32 Aaron Smith-Levin: “Exactly.”)
At 19:32: “Over and over again, hour after hour, ‘What have you done?’ ‘What transgressions don't we know about?’ ‘What are your evil intentions towards David Miscavige?’”
Wow, “filmed and recorded” as well. Sorry, I am unaware that such “transgressions” in auditing procedures were “filmed and recorded”. I have not ever seen that one in my time. The filming and recording was introduced with and exclusively in use for auditors in training, that is Golden Age of Tech style. May be it was introduced at some place for auditing, but there are no policy letters or other that state these things that I know of.
It is rather dramatically presented on the TV show here, we see pictures of the auditing room, the E-meter and then it switches to pictures of cameras attached to the ceiling.
At 19:45 Leah Remini: “What does it do to a person who is continually put on E-Meter and asked, ‘What are your crimes?’ ‘What are you hiding from me?’ That has to do some damage to a person's mental state. And that's what the Church does continually throughout your Scientology career until eventually you just become a zombie and you just let it go and you just go, ‘It's not worth the fight.’”
It's true that within the Church they have continually these interrogative kind of inserts in ordinary auditing procedures. I found these rather annoying.
It still rings true though that an auditor is required to abide to this “The Auditor's Code”. See here (pop-up window). Leah Remini suggests here an auditor that is breaking “The Auditor's Code”, otherwise why would it turn you to “become a zombie”. It makes you wonder what Leah Remini actually knows about auditing and its rules. Then you also have the right to break off a session. It is you sitting there, is it not?! So, take control.
At 20:18 Aaron Smith-Levin: “He gets through it and he decides to stay. After all was said and done he stayed and he was considered part of the group again and he went back onto his training and then David Miscavige decide that anyone who is training at Flag who had previously blown was now no longer qualified to be at Flag, and unfortunately that included Collin. Now he is being kicked out of Flag.”
I was unaware of that decision by David Miscavige. I knew there were criteria that you were not permitted to be staff in the HCO division in Sea Org, and also not staff at international management had you blown once. I have never seen any reference for it though.
(1) I figured the rule was silly because it works counteractive. You need able and before all caring people at these places and not cold machines that just follow orders. An usual argument among staff at Flag was that only very young people were qualified for Int Mgmt because they hadn't even reached the age to have produced anything yet or do something wrong.
(2) In addition the rule goes against existing policy: “if a staff member is getting production up by having his own statistic excellent. Ethics sure isn't interested. But if a staff member isn't producing, shown by his bad statistic for his post, Ethics is fascinated with his smallest misdemeanor”. Allegorically it states further: “In short a staff member can get away with murder so long as his statistic is up and can't sneeze without a chop if it's down.” LRH (from HCO PL 1 Sept 65 VII “Ethics Protection”). so, you “can get away with murder” but not with blowing? How does that work? This should have protected the rights of Collin for his past production, which as told by his brother Aaron, was excellent.
At 20:55 from screen dump: “At the age of 15, Collin was demoted to a Scientology staff position in their hometown of Philadelphia.”
Collin appeared successful at other studies:
At 22:21 Aaron Smith-Levin: “I guess he got a GED and he enrolled at the University of New Mexico and he was really excelling as a student. He was like an honor student at UNM.”
Then it turned:
At 22:33: “And through some phone calls he had with me he had said in his writing college papers on how Scientology is a destructive cult that tears apart families.”
Which is exactly what the Church had caused, as he had to leave Flag, whereas his twin brother and mother stayed.
Aaron responds here on the TV show:
At 22:48: “You can't call Scientology a cult and be taken seriously by a Scientologist.”
Aaron responded with:
At 24:08: “I wrote a big report on him and the conversation.”
He figured that his brother was...
At 24:26: “Publicly attacking and departing Scientology.”
Knowledge reports
At 24:42:
At 24:41 Mike Rinder: “Knowledge reports are things that Scientologists are expected to write and report to the Church about non-optimum situations. Scientologists are expected to write such reports because they believe that, by writing them, the person who is transgressing in some fashion or doing something wrong will be pulled in by the Church and corrected and that will be for their own good.”
Essentially you may write a report if, as in this case, it can be shown having a negative effect on the public service lines of the Church. Collin writing something in his “college papers” how will that effect any of that? Does this need fixing? Aaron could have inquired with his brother. Another thing is that you do not start with writing reports, you start with talking to the person according to the gradient steps that we find in HCO PL 29 Apr 65 III “Ethics Review”. For example:
“2. Noticing something non-optimum and commenting on it to the person” or
“6. Talking to the person derogatorily.” LRH
If these steps have no result you may write your report according to “9.”. It does not appear, per the TV show, that Aaron is talking to his brother about it. Did he?
Aaron relates this a bit later on the TV show, this after his brother had died in a car accident.
At 33:10: “Because of how much trouble Scientology has caused in his life, he didn't talk about it much when he was going to college other than in his papers. I know this because when I went to the funeral I met all of his friends, only some of whom even knew he had a twin brother.”
Per this it does not seem that a report written was particularly necessary...
At 25:10 Leah Remini: “If you are found guilty of a crime and somebody knew about it and didn't tell us, they are gonna be punished the same. So you learn that I better write this thing up that I heard about because if I don't I'm gonna get in trouble just like the other person so you will write somebody up.”
You are asked here to become a snitch. Remember the movie ‘Scent of a Woman’ (1992) there Lt. Col. Frank Slade (a role performed by Al Pacino) says “‘Boys, inform on your classmates, save your hide’ -- anything short of that we're gonna burn you at the stake?”. Now, ain't that all so very nice!
At 25:18-25:31:
Mike Rinder and Leah Remini refer to a policy letter from 1982, where all that existed prior to that was basically HCO PL 1 May 65 “Staff Member Reports” which directed: “Only in this way can bad spots in the organization be recognized and corrected. For reports other than one's own collect and point out bad conditions before those can harm the org.”. It says nothing about “ACCESSORY to the crime”.
As pointed out already this newer policy letter was written as late as Jul 82. It is part of the control system that came with the creation of the RTC in Jan 82 and that basically established David Miscavige as the person running the show.
Read more here (separate window).
Mark Rinder does acknowledge that...
At 26:01: “Knowledge reports are the epitome of a snitching culture.”
Indeed, but only if it carries the “ACCESSORY to the crime” addition from 1982.
The person suggested to have written this HCO PL from 1982 is likely to have been Robert Vaughn Young. He also admitted in a court affidavit to have written the infamous HCOB 10 Sept 83 “PTS-ness and Disconnection”. See here (separate window).
At 26:41 Aaron Smith-Levin: “I was like ‘f*** you. You're gonna attack me, you are gonna attack my Church, you are gonna attack my mother, you're not really my brother who loves me anyway.’ And so I wrote the report, and my mom wrote a report as well and I think about four to six weeks later we got the official word that Collin had been officially kicked out of the Church.”
The indications are that Collin had been kicked out because of these reports. How would the Church otherwise know about it? The solution chosen was to thus to not communicate.
At 26:52 Leah Remini: “Officially kicked out of the Church and that means that nobody who is affiliated with the Church can talk to him.”
At 26:58 Aaron Smith-Levin: “Right. And if they do, they would themselves be kicked out of the Church.”
A decision for all this do this was thus made by the parties involved!
Do you see how this ‘logic’ defies original Scientology principles? Yóu decide with whom you will communicate or not communicate, not an outer force or some Church for you...
“8. Do not give or receive communication unless you yourself desire it.” LRH (see all points of “The Code of Honour”here, pop-up window).
Here Aaron makes the conclusion that at 27:28 that “unconditional love does not exist in Scientology” and Leah Remini repeats it at 28:06 “Unconditional love is what Scientology isn't.”.
Now, of course it doesn't if you do not live by the original principles that we find in Scientology, but instead give the power of decision to some other entity...
Departing the Church
Aaron was starting to read up in newspapers about high executives opening up about conditions at international management. Aaron makes then here the evaluation:
At 35:36: “For Scientology to be true, international management had to be a utopia, nothing but highly trained Scientologists and veteran Sea Org members. If that place is an unpleasant and abusive place, then Scientology's not true.”
Why would that he concludes here be true? International management and this whole new setup, command channels and so on was build during the 80s. Scientology by that time had already existed more than 30 years! Why would a downfall of something that was created during the 80s have anything at all to do with the topic of Scientology?
I just don't get this. Was Aaron in it for Scientology as a topic or was he in for it because its ‘leaders’ and what someone told. We see that he does identify Scientology with the entity that at present is ruling the church and calling the shots! L. Ron Hubbard warned about these things for years, already in 1952, then the early 60s. He implied the intent was to have Scientology seized. See here (separate window).
That what Aaron states here is naïve and unintellectual...
Both Aaron and his mother were checking up on Scientology on-line. His mother got declared. Interesting is that his employer (“a VIP in Scientology”) gives him a choice to disconnect from his mother. Aaron said he had, but was later “turned in” for that he had not by his “kid's nanny”. What his employer does now is interesting and defines this employer:
At 38:08 Aaron Smith-Levin: “So he ‘laid me off’ just before I got declared, right. Because if I get declared and thén he fires me after having a stellar performance record for five years and getting raises and bonuses every year, then it's obviously a discrimination lawsuit.”
Wow! and that is supposed to be honesty and fairness of a Scientology employer?
Aaron gets his declare, then his wife is contacted that she has to disconnect or face a declare. She does not as they have three children together. Then their three three children “kicked out of their school”“which is run by a former Sea Org member”. It sounds all more like a ‘disconnection’ kind of sect!
The craziness however can still be topped, see here... They have a neighbour, a ‘Scientologist’. When she found out about the declare on Aaron, but his wife had not received one yet:
At 40:06 Aaron Smith-Levin: “So she had a talk with Heather and she said, ‘Okay let's have a conversation on how to handle the disconnection and how we are gonna handle the disconnection with the children, but I don't wanna disconnect from the dog.’ Leah, she said, ‘The dog wouldn't understand. I wouldn't want him to feel like I, you know, didn't want to see him anymore.’”
A ‘disconnection’ sect, excepting however dogs. That's nice! You just got to join that!
‘Enemies of the Church’ (s1e07 - 10 Jan 2017)
[IMDB: After Leah receives a letter from the church accusing her of provoking hate crimes, she meets with a young man whom the church says she incited. Leah also sits down with journalists who have been hounded by the church for their reporting.]
At 5:22: “My name is Lois Reisdorf, and I was in Scientology for 22 years. I joined the Commodore's Messenger Org. That was the organization that had all the messengers who worked for L. Ron Hubbard. This was the time when Gary and I actually met.”
At 5:49: “In the middle of 1976, we became an item. And we got married. in 1982, we left the Sea Org and Scientology, and we ended up moving to South Africa to be with my family, who I hadn't seen in 10 years.”
At 6:15: “During that time period, we have three sons. They knew about Scientology, but they weren't brought up as Scientologists. We didn't go events, we didn't do any courses.”
At 6:43 Mike Rinder: “After Lois and Gary left the Sea Organization, they maintained a low profile for 30 years. With the idea that that would allow Lois to maintain the relationship with her family, who were still very prominent Scientologists in South Africa.”
At 7:12 Lois Reisdorf: “Brandon got involved mainly because of us.
From a psychiatry point of view, he had bipolar issues, but we didn't even know that at that time. All we knew is that he was having problems. So even though we had left the Church, we were trying to handle it with Scientology.”
She said earlier that “we left the Sea Org and Scientology”, here she now says “to handle it [Brandon] with Scientology”. Then she hadn't left Scientology although she did leave the Church.
At 7:33 Leah Remini: “The Scientologists don't believe in mental conditions being treated with drugs. They believe they have the answer. And so they will handle this disorder with Scientology auditing, assists, and/or vitamins.”
Persons with such psychiatric issues are essentially not welcome in the Church to receive auditing. They may however do some courses if it works out well. The Church is not aiming at treating people with particular disorders, neurosis or the insane!
Basically “Scientology is for an able guy like you, or like me, able to function in life, able to make his own way, does his work and so forth.” LRH (from filmed interview ‘L. Ron Hubbard: An Introduction to Scientology (1966)’.
There are various reasons for that, for one it is time consuming to take in real problem cases, and secondly it could place the Church at risk if something goes wrong. It is for practical reasons.
At 7:51 Mike Rinder: “Scientology hates psychiatry so much because L. Ron Hubbard said that Scientologists should hate psychiatry. L. Ron Hubbard offered Dianetics to the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association in 1950, and they laughed at him. He then determined that they were the enemies of mankind. And so that became the sort of enemy that every Scientologist loves to hate.”
Wow! “L. Ron Hubbard said that Scientologists should hate psychiatry” and therefore “Scientology hates psychiatry so much”. That angle is new to me... Now, psychiatry is not liked in Scientology because of the general no result position they take and the treatments they did develop like ECT, lobotomy, and so on.
Again wow! Mike Rinder hints at as if L. Ron Hubbard deemed psychiatry “were the enemies of mankind” just because “they laughed at him” when he offered his findings in Dianetics? It is a misrepresentation. That is an obvious kick under the belt, Mike Rinder should know better than that!
Introspection Rundown (1)
At 8:38:
8:20 Gary Reisdorf: “One thing, you know, in 35 years that stuck with me is I'm like a little bit worrisome about psychiatrists. So our only solution, even though we were out of it, we used the Introspection Rundown.”
At 8:39 Leah Remini: “The Church of Scientology says that they have a solution to mental illness. And it's called the what?”
At 8:47 Gary Reisdorf: “Introspection rundown, and it doesn't work.”
Not “mental illness”. If you read HCOB 23 Jan 74 “The Introspection Rd” about it then you find it speaks about “psychotic break”. It is defined as a person that is subjected to “disorientation”. It is a seriously confused person. If that person can not be pulled out of that you will have a psychotic. The first reference to analyze the condition and offer some steps to pull the person out of the condition are found in HCOB 28 Nov 70 “Psychosis”.
It is true that HCOB 23 Jan 74 “The Introspection Rd” offers a list of procedures/steps to reverse the condition. It states: “It is better not to deliver this RD than to flub any part of it.” It thus required an indeed very well trained auditor. It aims at to get a person to extravert after having gotten introverted. That does not mean however that you can walk into that Church and receive the service, just like that. One first has to be accepted to be on auditing lines, and that may not be likely to occur for a person having such a condition. Why is that? Because the Church has had bad experiences with people coming in for services. Only later to find out they had missed that they had an “institutional history”. It is reasoned that “neither Scientology nor the org, but doctors and psychiatrists, have brought about the condition and such conditions are outside the zone of responsibility of the org.” This basically implies that if a person responds unfavourably (running amok, taking one's life) that may have been caused because of earlier treatment received elsewhere, that the Church has been receiving all the blame. This turned a huge issue during the 70s. For this reason HCO PL 6 Dec76 “Illegal PCs, Acceptance of” was written.
So, where do you go? Auditing is not only received in the Church, there are Field Auditors, private (free) practitioners and groups that have their own practice. Even someone in the family could be trained in the Church to then deliver it. The rules for example for Field Auditors were quite different during the 60s and 70s. It got really restricted, the Church tried at least, since 1982 (details here, separate window).
At 8:53 Leah Remini: “They're very aware of your son's mental illness or possibility of it. They say this thing will handle that.”
At 9:01 Gary Reisdorf: “Exactly.”
Wow! Would not have happened in Europe and most orgs. But apparently it would at San Diego org.
At 9:17 from screen dump: “After completing the Introspection Rundown, Brandon joined his brother on the staff of the San Diego Church of Scientology.”
This when Gary says at 9:03: “To make a long story short, he came back, I believe, in worse shape than when he went.”
Why then would Brandon want to join staff? If it didn't work! It is also surprising that he was allowed to due to his “mental Illness” that this San Diego org apparently knew about. You see, you have to fill out a Staff Application Form, it has questions about medical and mental history and things. Normally he would simply not have been accepted for staff, accepting of course San Diego org.
At 9:23 Mike Rinder: “Two of their sons ended up become staff members in the Church of Scientology. And that started the crack in the door of now there is pressure on the sons to get the parents, Lois and Gary, back into good graces with the church.”
At 9:40 Lois Reisdorf: “For three years, Gary and I were both going through the motions with the Church to try to get back into the Church in good standings.”
Suddenly they are not“good graces with the church”? Did they not have a son on auditing lines in the Church for the Introspection Rundown? I am sorry, but this does not make any sense. It is suddenly implied that you need to be in the Church otherwise you are not“in good standings”?
Now we get into:
At 9:51 Lois Reisdorf: “And that involved a lot of security checking, which is like confessionals, which we both had to pay for and go through many, many hours.”
At 10:00 Gary Reisdorf: “I didn't want anything to do with the Church in 35 years. I wanted nothing to do with it.
Subjected $30,000 worth that I could... And I didn't even want to do it. We did it purely to keep our family together.”
Sorry, but was Brandon really the only person in that family with bipolar issues? This is nutty! As far as can be determined this Lois and Gary were nót in bad standing with the Church! There was no paper issued on them or anything (that only came later in time), and you are willingly paying $30,000 for your personal interrogation? Wow-wow-wow!
This is interesting:
At 10:18 Mike Rinder: “Gary had been... and Lois had maintained throughout this entire time sort of unbeknownst to the rest of the world a relationship with Gary's family, even though they had been declared suppressive people.”
At 10:33 On a screen dump on the TV show it now shows a picture of “Dede, Gary's Sister”.
Now, how they the Church found out about that? The TV show does not reveal. Was it because of the interrogation undertaken on Gary Reisdorf? If he did know these things then why did he subject himself to that, if he wasn't in bad standing himself as yet?!
Now it gets to:
At 10:35 Mike Rinder: “Brandon realized how crazy this was and decided that he was not going to disconnect from his family. But Craig stayed. He wrote a Knowledge Report, ratted out his parents, that they were in communication with Gary's sisters Dede and Gale.”
It appears Brandon in spite of his bipolar issues appears a lot smarter than his brother Craig.
He himself describes a bipolar episode as follows:
At 13:57: “And it was an undiagnosed bipolar episode at the time, which later I did get diagnosed by real doctors. When I experience a manic episode, you're, like, hallucinating, right? And you're not sleeping. And it's like almost like a dream world that you're in mentally. And it's just... there's different ideas and thoughts about situations that are distorted than what reality is. I just can't control when that happens, like, what's going through my mind and what's coming out of my mouth and what I do.”
At 14:46 Brandon Reisdorf: “So I was at the home of two Scientologists, and they're both trained in this process that they were delivering to me. And so I was there for about six weeks, and it's... they were watching me basically for 24 hours around the clock. I was locked in a room for 24 hours a day. Experiencing craziness in my mind. It was just colors and textures and hallucinations.”
At 15:15 Leah Remini: “What is this solution that Scientology has to make you not have this disorder?”
At 15:21 Brandon Reisdorf: “To just let it go, and they claimed it will run out eventually, and then you're fine again.”
Is that all the ‘auditors’ did? It says quite a bit more in the HCOB about the steps. By the way they should not tell to Brandon what the End Phenomena could or would be. The HCOB does not share that even. This goes in the direction of breaking “The Auditor's Code”. The auditor just runs the process, he does not feed ideas or expectations to the person who is under his care.
At 15:35 Mike Rinder: “The introspection rundown is a, quote, ‘breakthrough’ that L. Ron Hubbard made where he took one individual who was having a psychotic episode and locked him in a room, and kept him without anybody speaking to him for perhaps a week, until he stopped screaming and yelling and going crazy. And Hubbard said that, ‘I have now found the cure for psychosis.’”
Where is Mike Rinder getting this tale from? On the episode while he is telling this we see a display of HCOB 23 Jan 74 “The Introspection Rd”, but... what he tells is nót in there! For all we know, he may just have made it up!
Brandon felt very disturbed because he figured that the Church had his brother to disconnect from his family.
At 16:50 Brandon Reisdorf: “And it was very scary losing my brother. Losing Craig, like, knowing I'm probably never gonna see him again.”
At 17:13: “Yeah, something just switched in me, and I just was enraged. And I felt disgusted with what Scientology truly is. And the only thing I could do was just make a statement. I drove up to L.A., and I went up to the Church. And then I threw the hammer into the window. It was a manic episode for sure.”
The police picked him up, escorted him to “the psychiatric ward down in San Diego. And I was in there for 19 days.”.
At 18:01: “I was expecting to leave the psych ward and see my family, and when I was leaving, like, LAPD was right there waiting for me. And I was taken into custody.”
At 18:12 Mike Rinder: “And from there, the Church did everything they possibly could to get you prosecuted so that they could claim that you had committed a felony hate crime - against Scientology.”
At 18:27 Brandon Reisdorf: “Right. So now I have a felony on my record. And I'm really not proud of it. I'm not... I've never been a violent person, you can ask any of my friends or family. The Church made a hate website about me. It's just destructive.”
Apparently the Church did not stop at that:
At 18:56 Brandon Reisdorf: “They handed my lawyer a paragraph that would be my apology to the Church of Scientology. Basically, it said that the reason why I did this was because I read books that... that were anti-Scientology or I went online and the media had all this stuff that was bad about Scientology, which was not true. The reason I did it is because they have destroyed my life.”
Indeed, and why would Brandon sign something like that? Whát advantage did/would the Church offer Brandon for that?!
Also this is pretty low behaviour of the Church overall... nailing a person like that for something they caused!
Mike Rinder and his hobbyhorse
In round-table with journalists, John Sweeney, Tony Ortega, Mark Bunker)
At 31:26 Mike Rinder: “The absolute hard-bound, ironclad rule dictated by L. Ron Hubbard is that everybody who says something that is in any way viewed by the Church as being derogatory or exposing something improperly or whatever have crimes. I guarantee you, if you look, you will find them. And they believe that. And the problem is that it just isn't a true thing.”
Mike Rinder makes these statements when suddenly this appears on the screen of the TV show. Probably in an effort to support his claim. Let's see how he is doing...
At 31:49-32:11:
lifted quotation
from HCOB
HCOB 5 Nov 67 “Critics of Scientology”
This is indeed a very simplified way to regard this. Then, does Mike Rinder herewith not admit that he himself must have behaved in such a simplified manner, just as he tells it? The question will have to be asked if he based that behaviour on the technical bulletin (HCOB) that is presented while he says these things.
This HCOB does not speak about “viewed by the Church”, it just says “Scientology”, which is quite a different thing. In fact it makes a huge difference. If you regard Scientology as a topic then you have isolated it from the Church! Reflect on that for a moment.
If you regard it from the aims of Scientology, its writings, its purpose and so on, it actually is “a true thing”. If that be the case, then you don't have to even“believe that”. Then of course, if you speak about “viewed by the Church” , then you can get it awfully wrong. You see how this one goes?!
This HCOB 5 Nov 67 “Critics of Scientology” originally appeared as an article by that title in the Scientology magazine ‘Ability 199’ at this same date. Mind that, just an article with no other authority than information. This is far far far away from being a “absolute hard-bound, ironclad rule dictated by L. Ron Hubbard”. It was made into an HCOB not earlier than 27 Aug 87. As such it was included in the technical bulletin volumes released in 1991.
Now, is it not reported that L. Ron Hubbard had died Jan 86? Then what authority had turned the Ability article in an HCOB? It could not have been L. Ron Hubbard, we can conclude that! At that an HCOB is a technical bulletin, it is nót a policy letter! Practically that means it was given a different authority. So where is Mike Rinder basing his conclusions on? He does not account for that...
At 31:54: “So when they can't actually find anything, then they send private investigators out and say, ‘Ah! He's got to be involved in child pornography, because, you know, the back page of the ‘Village Voice’ has these ads for pornography on them, so he's got to be involved in it, so you got to find it.’ So then, they're out asking neighbors, ‘We're investigating Tony Ortega for child pornography with the hope that someone may spring up with something,’ and here's a lead. But that will go on because there's only one outcome that is acceptable... the investigation must disclose horrible, sordid crimes that you're engaged in. And if they have not disclosed horrible, sordid crimes, they haven't done their investigation right.”
People, and more in particular sociopaths would behave and reason like that. Now, think about that too for a moment. If you have established the method, now look for the who...
John Sweeney and his core belief
He reminiscences March 2007, an interview with Leah Remini:
At 34:46: “I started asking you about my standard questions, one of which is... is it true that Scientologists believe in the space alien Satan called Xenu, who brought space aliens to Earth 75 million years ago and blew them up with hydrogen bombs inside volcanos. You said, ‘I don't know what you're talking about, - you're a lunatic.’ It's rubbish.”
At 35:08 Leah Remini: “You're asking me about something that's confidential in the Church. We'll be charged $100,000 any time we disclose what the confidential materials of Scientology are. Not to mention, we are taught that if we tell you the information, John, you're gonna die.”
At 35:37: “So here is a thing which calls itself a religion which doesn't tell the outside world about what its core belief is, - its core story.”
At 35:45 Leah Remini: “Right.”
So, that “story” is “it's core belief”? How did he or anyone figure that?! It is simply overlooked that Scientology is á practice. Any person that has understood the principles of running incidents in auditing, and additionally has read ‘Scientology: The History of Man’ (1952, original title: ‘What to Audit’) would not say these things. It is noteworthy that Leah Remini seems to be of the same opinion as John Sweeney. “confidential materials”? Really? Similar things are on tape lectures, in books...
I additionally wonder why John Sweeney can not let this go. Why can't he? He looks troubled when he brings it up. He wasn't particularly relaxed on the TV show, more like charged up.
I didn't know about the charge of $100,000 for revealing. On the screen on the TV show it showed a quotation from a contract that OTs* apparently were to sign.
Vocabulary:
AD..:
‘After Dianetics ..’. The main book ‘Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health’ was first published in 1950. Therefore for example AD8, AD12, and AD29 would respectively give the years 1958, 1962 and 1979. AOSH EU (or AOSH EU & AF):
‘Advanced Organization Saint Hill Europe (& Africa)’: A Scientology organization which services higher level auditing & training, located in Copenhagen, Denmark. audit, auditing, auditor:
The application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor (listener). The goal of the auditor is to make the receiver of the auditing look at incidents and reduce the mental charge which may lay upon them. The auditor may not evaluate and has to adhere to the Auditor's code. E-meter:
‘Electro-meter’ or ‘Electropsycho-meter’. 1. It is an aid to the auditor (minister, student, pastoral counselor) in two-way communication locating areas of spiritual travail and indicating spiritual well-being in an area. (HCO PL 24 Sept 73 VII) 2. An electronic instrument for measuring mental state and change of state in individuals, as an aid to precision and speed in auditing. The E-meter is not intended or effective
for the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of any disease. (Scientology Abridged Dictionary) 3. Used to verify the preclear's gain and register when each separate auditing action is ended. (HCOB 5 Apr 69R) 4.Electropsychometer. (HCOB 23 Aug 65) 5. The meter tells you what the preclear's mind is doing when the preclear is made to
think of something. The meter registers before the preclear becomes conscious of the datum. It is therefore a pre-conscious meter. It passes a tiny current through the preclear's body. This current is influenced by the mental masses, pictures, circuits and machinery. When the unclear pc thinks of something, these mental items shift and this registers on the meter. (E Meter Essentials, p. 8) Fitness Board (FB):
Its purpose is to determine the mental and physical fitness of personnel and recommend the issuance of probation or denial of a provisional or full fitness certificate. (FO 2630R) Flag Order (FO):
This is the equivalent to a policy letter (HCO PL) in the Sea Org (senior organization within the Church of Scientology). Contains policy and sea technical materials. They are numbered and dated. They do not decay, HCO PLs and FOs are both in effect on Sea Org orgs, ships, offices and bases. Black ink on white paper. Distribution to all Sea Org members. It is vital for SO units to have master files and quantity of FOs from which hats can be made up for SO personnel and courses. (HCO PL 24 Sept 70R) Gold Base:
Holds the Golden Era Productions facilities where Scientology religious training films and audio properties are produced and technical compilations occur. (‘What Is Scientology?’ (1992 edition), page 508) HCOB:
‘Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin’. Color flash–red ink on white paper. Written by LRH only , but only so starting from January 1974. These are the technical issue line. All data for auditing and courses is contained in HCOBs. For more information go here (separate window). HCO PL:
‘Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letter’. Color flash–green ink on white paper. Written by LRH only, but only so starting from January 1974. These are the organizational and administrative issue line. For more information go here (separate window). IAS:
‘International Association of Scientologists’. A Scientology membership granting amongst other 20% discounts and other financial advantages. IMDB:
‘International Movie Database’. Internet address: https://www.imdb.com. Used as a source reference. LRH:
An usual abbreviation for ‘L. Ron Hubbard’. org(s):
Short for ‘organization(s)’. OT:
Short for ‘Operating Thetan’. Denotes a person having advanced to the higher levels in Scientology. PAB:
‘Professional Auditors Bulletin’. Scientology periodical (monthly) send to all members to keep auditors informed about the latest discoveries concerning processing procedures and other. PTS, PTSness:
‘potential trouble source’. 1. Somebody who is connected with an SP (suppressive person) who is invalidating him, his beingness, his processing, his life. (SH Spec 63, 6506C08) 2. He's here, he's way up today and he's way down tomorrow. (Establishment Officer Lecture 3, 7203C02 SO I) 3. The mechanism of PTS is environmental menace that keeps something continually keyed in. This can be a constant recurring somatic or continual, recurring pressure or a mass. (HCOB 5 Dec 68) reactive mind: 1. That portion of a person's mind which works on a stimulus-response basis (given a certain stimulus, it gives a certain response) which is not under his volitional control and which exerts force and the power of command over his awareness, purposes, thoughts, body and actions. It consists of GPMs, Engrams, Secondaries and Locks. (Scientology Abridged Dictionary) 2. Stored in the reactive mind are engrams, and here we find the single source of aberrations and psychosomatic ills. (Scientology 0-8, p. 11) 3. ‘bank’: a colloquial name for the reactive mind. This is what the procedures of Scientology are devoted to disposing of, for it is only a burden to an individual and he is much better off without it. (Scientology Abridged Dictionary) 4. The reactive mind acts below the level of consciousness. It is the literal stimulus-response mind. Given a certain stimulus it gives a certain response. (The Fundamentals of Thought, p. 58) Sea Org (SO):
Short for ‘Sea Organization’. This is the senior organization within the Church of Scientology that see to it that Advanced Organizations (AOs) and the Class IV-V organizations do function well. They send out so-called missions if there are indications or if they find that improvement or corrections are called for. They also provide for dissemination and other programs that the Scientology organizations are to comply with. Missions may be send out to implement these and instruct the organizations. Sec Check(ing):
Short for ‘security check(ing). Wiki:
On this page this is short for Wikipedia. Used as a source reference.
that appeared on this episode of the TV show that tells about physical abuse.
