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The whereabouts of L. Ron Hubbard chronology (1)  or      A closer look at 1972, 1977 & 1982 (L. Ron Hubbard or not? (1972): Introduction, The years 1972, 1977 & 1982, Stanford Research Institute, Remote-Viewing, Original OT VIII, ...)

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1) G e n e r a l   o v e r v i e w / i n t r o d u c t i o n :   M i s s i o n   s t a t e m e n t ,   o v e r v i e w ,   r e s e a r c h   s p e c i f i c s I n t r o d u c t i o n   t o   S c i e n t o l o g y   a n d   L R H K e e p i n g   S c i e n t o l o g y   W o r k i n g ,   f u n d a m en t al s S c i e n t o l o g y   i n   m e d i a   a nd   I n t e r n e t   ( +   f o r u m s ,   W i k i p e d i a ) S c i e n t o l o g y :   I t s   t r u e   h i s t o r y   e x p o s e d ? S c i e n t o l o g y   Q & A   ( F A Q ) E x t e r n a l   l i n k s M a t e r i a l s   w a n t   l i s t R e c o m m e n d e d   l i s t   o f   m a t e r i a l s 2) R e s p o n s e s   ( w i t h   a n n o t a t i o n s ) : A p p r e c i a t i v e   r e s p o n s e s   t o   m y   p a g e s C r i t i q u e   r e c e i v e d   ( 1 )   f r o m   c h u r c h g o i n g   S c i e n t o l o g i s t s C r i t i q u e   r e c e i v e d   ( 2 )   f r o m   o u t - o f - c h u r c h   S c i e n t o l o g i s t s C r i t i q u e   r e c e i v e d    ( 3 )   f r o m   a n t i - S c i e n t o l o g i s t s 3) T o p i c s   o f   p a r t i c u l a r   i n t e r e s t : (a): G e n e r a l   t o p i c s H o l y   S c r i p t u r e s   v s   S c i e n t o l o g y L R H   v s   D i c t i o n a r i e s L R H   v s   t h e o r y   o f   e v o l u t i o n L R H ' s   w o r k s   o f   f i c t i o n (b): O r g a n i z a t i o n a l   t o p i c s A   p r i n t i n g   h i s t o r y   o f   t h e   m a t e r i a l s   o f   S c i e n t o l o g y S c i e n t o l o g y   M e m b e r s h i p :   H A S I   v s   I A S L R H   v s   p r i c i n g   p o l i c i e s T h e   c o p y r i g h t s   i s s u e   a n d   l i c e n s i n g (c): T e c h n i c a l   t o p i c s H i s t o r y   o f   G r a d e   C h a r t :   a )   G e n e r a l H i s t o r y   o f   G r a d e   C h a r t :   b )   D e t a i l e d ‘ C l e a r ’   d e f i n e d N E D   f o r   O T s T h e   ‘ P r i m a r y   R u n d o w n ’ 4) C o n t r o v e r s i a l   t o p i c s : M i s t a k e n   i d e a s   o f   ‘ E t h i c s ’   c l a r i f i e d T h e   F a i r    G a m e   L a w P r a c t i c e   o f   D i s c o n n e c t i o n S e c u r i t y   C h e c k i n g F r e e l o a d e r s   v s   E x - s t a f f   m e m b e r s T h e   ‘ R e h a b i l i t a t i o n   P r o j e c t   F o r c e ’   ( R P F ) 5) C h a n g e s   i n   t h e   f l o w   o f   ‘ i n f o r m a t i o n ’: (a): A l t e r a t i o n s   ( L R H   o r   n o n- L R H ? ) L R H   v s   A l t e r a t i o n s N o n - L R H   t u r n s   i n t o   L R H ?   &   P r o p o s a l   t o   s o l u t i o n T h e    ‘ C r a m m i n g   S e r i e s ’   -   L R H   o r   n o t   L R H ? B a s e d   o n   L R H   p u b l i c a t i o n s (b): G e n e r a l   o v e r v i e w L R H   v s   A   N e w   O r d e r   ( i n t r o d u c t i o n ) → A d m i n i s t r a t i v e   a n d    o r g a n i z a t i o n a l   m a t t e r s S e t u p   o f   t h e   p r i n t e d   m a t e r i a l s   ( 1 9 7 3 - 8 6 ) T h e   R T R C ,   t h e   u n i t   t h a t   w r o t e   L R H   i s s u e s   ( 1 9 7 3 - 8 2 ) T h e   d a w n i n g   o f   R T C   a n d   n e w   m a n a g e m e n t   ( 1 9 8 2 - 8 3 ) → T e c h n i c a l   m a t t e r s I n t r o d u c t i o n   t o   t h e   e v e n t   o f   l o s i n g   a   B r i d g e ) A n a l y s i s   o f   H C O B   “ T e c h   C o r r e c t i o n   R o u n d - u p ” L o s t   B r i d g e :   T e c h   c h a n g e s   d u r i n g   1 9 7 8 - 8 2 T h e   h i s t o r y   o f   t h e   o r i g i n a l   O T   V I I I ‘ G o l d e n   A g e   o f   T e c h ’   ( G A T )   a n a l y s i s D r i l l i n g   i n   S c i e n t o l o g y (c): T h e   m a t t e r   o f   D a v i d   M a y o S t o r y   o f   D a v i d   M a y o ‘ S O   E D   2 3 4 4   I n t’   a n a l y s i s T r a i n i n g   d r i l l s   ( T R s ) M a y o   r e f e r e n c e   l i s t 6) C o n s p i r a c i e s   -   I n   L .   R o n   H u b b a r d ' s   f o o t s t e p s S c i e n t o l o g y   v s   a   N e w   W o r l d   O r d e r → W h e r e   i s   L .   R o n   H u b b a r d ?   ( c h r o n o l o g y   o f   S c n   h i s t o r y ) W h e r e a b o u t s   o f   L .   R o n   H u b b a r d   c h r o n o l o g y T h e   e r a   o f   a d o r a t i o n ;   P r e s e n t a t i o n   o f   L .   R o n   H u b b a r d L .   R o n   H u b b a r d   i n t o   a r t i s t r y :   M u s i c   &   F i l m → W h e r e   i s   h i s   w i f e   a n d   f a m i l y ? S t o r y   o f   M a r y   S u e   H u b b a r d T h e   l a s t   s t a n d :   T h e   G u a r d i a n   O f f i c e 7) S c i e n t o l o g y   u n d e r   a t t a c k (a): A   p r e m e d i t a t e d   s e r i e s   o f   o c c u r r e n c e s ?   ( ’ 8 0 s   c o n s p i r a c y ) I n t r o d u c t i o n   &   R o n   D e W o l f G e r r y   A r m s t r o n g   ( ‘ a f f i r m a t i o n s ’ ) R u s s e l l   M i l l e r    ( ‘ B a r e - F a c e d   M e s s i a h ’ ) A   r e l i g i o n   c r e a t e d   f o r   t h e   m o n e y ? (b): B a t t l e s   f o u g h t   a n d   t h e   i n t e r n e t   ( 2 0 1 6 -   ) L e a h   R e m i n i :   S c i e n t o l o g y   a n d   t h e   A f t e r m a t h   ( T V   s h o w )

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	“So anybody that knows the remedy of this subject—anybody that knows these techniques—is himself actually under a certain responsibility; that's to make sure that he doesn't remain a sole proprietor. That's all it takes; just don't remain a sole proprietor. Don't ever think that a monopoly of this subject is a safe thing to have. It's not safe. It's not safe for man; it's not safe for this universe.”
	L. Ron Hubbard
	(from Philadelphia Doctorate Course lecture #20 “Formative State of Scientology, Definition of Logic”, given on 6 Dec 52)

The whereabouts of L. Ron Hubbard chronology  (page 1, index page)

 
Index:

		Introduction & disclaimer (page 1)
		The years 1972, 1977 & 1982
			- In the year 1972 ... (Includes: ‘The Missing Ten Months’ (4 Dec 72 - mid-Sept 73); ‘The Scientology Connection’; The ‘Dane Tops Debrief’; The tale of Ken Urquhart & ‘My Meeting with LRH’ (Fall 1973) (by Pierre Ethier))
			- In the year 1977 ...  (Includes: HCOB 24 Jan 77 “Tech Correction Round-up” & The early ’80s)
			- In the year 1982 ...
	Relevant events in chronological order
		‘Stanford Research Institute’ (SRI) and the ‘Remote-Viewing Program’  (Jun 72)
		The dropping out of the original OT VIII  (1972: The scope of Scientology)
			(OT VIII: The end of the line... cancelled?;  The story of the original OT VIII  (A chronological track);  Mention of OT levels above OT VIII  (A brief chronological track))
		Sec Checking (1):  Integrity Processing/Confessionals  (Dec 72-Jun 76) (page 2)
		Reported technical developments in the period 1972-76
			- Published printed materials 1972-76 - Taped lectures 1972-76  (Includes:  ‘New Vitality Rundown’ (NVRD) (Oct-Nov 75))
		‘Snow White Program’ (Apr 73) & ‘Operation Freakout’ (Apr 76)
			(Includes:  Ethics and justice A.D. 1970)
		An L. Ron Hubbard that is drastically changing his working operation? (establishing an unit that wrote LRH issues) (1973-82)
		A redefinition of PTS or How the condition turned from handling in auditing to a matter of concern for ethics (Aug 73)
		Restricting the freedom of the auditor (1):  Demand for ordination  (Sept 73)
		The era of adoration celebrates its birth  or  The presentation of L. Ron Hubbard through the years (Sept 73-present)
			(‘Hymn of Asia’; ‘LRH room’; Idolatry;  SO #1 Line’ or ‘Write to Ron’; Biographies; His family)
		The establishment of the ‘Rehabilitation Project Force’ (RPF)  (Jan 1974)
			(Introduction and FO 3434;  Its origin;  Authorship of FO 3434 and its subsequent series;  RPF working conditions)
		The ‘Primary Rundown’  vs  The incidence of a technical slip  (Apr 72-Aug 74)
		The significance of GPM's in regards to the reactive mind dismissed  (Jun 75)
		Why ‘Flag Land Base’?  or  The move ashore  (Sept 73-Nov 75) (page 3)
			- Going onshore... - ‘Playing Dirty’ - A ‘sea captain’ turning to ‘musician’?
		Into artistry: Music (since 1973-74) and Cine (since 1976-78), and onward
			(Music: ‘The Apollo Stars’ (1973-74);  ‘RJ 28’, ‘Space Jazz’, ‘The Road to Freedom’, ‘Mission Earth’ (1976-89);  Film: ‘The Secret of Flag Results’ & ‘The Case He Couldn't Crack’ (1977-78);  Technical training and dissemination films (1978-90))
		Pricings for services are being interfered with  (Sept 76-late 84)
		The year 1977...: A reversal in tech (Jan 77)  &  A matter of copyright (May 77)
		“1978—The Year of Lightning Fast New Tech”
			(Includes notes about: ‘New Era Dianetics’ (NED) replacing ‘Standard Dianetics’ (St Dn) (Jul 78); Clear redefined, ‘New Era Dianetics for OTs’ (NOTs) & Scientology grades V-VII abandoned (Sept 78))
		Re-interpreting E-Meter reads  (since Dec 76/Jul 78)
			- (a) Alteration of the definition of a ‘floating needle’ (Dec 76/Jul 78) - (b) The ‘still needle’ phenomenon (Apr 82) - (c) ‘Ten main needle actions’ versus ‘Sixteen main needle actions’ (1988) - (d) Mark Super VII Quantum E-Meter (May 96)
		Witch hunts (1) (late ’70s): ‘List 1 Project’ & ‘Rock Slams’  (1977-78)
			- Where was L. Ron Hubbard? - ‘List One’ - Establishing ‘Pacific Area Command’ (PAC) base (1977) - A redress of the RPF assignments - About Paulette Ausley/Cohen - ‘Rock Slam’ (1962-78)
		Restricting the freedom of the auditor (2):  Making a profit (any and all practicing Scientologists must now pay a license)  (Feb & Nov 79, Apr 82)
		L. Ron Hubbard's return to fiction writing since the late ’70s (page 4)
		Non-LRH turns LRH or The quest for the Cramming Series  (1981)
		Dianetics to be received after the grades  (Nov-Dec 1981)
		Witch hunts (2) (early ’80s): The dawning of ‘Religious Technology Center’ and new management  (1982-83)
			(A new management dawns (an array of new corporations, 1979-84);  RTC (Jan 1982);  The KR system established, rough ethics and ‘scare’ factor (1982- );  Turning from a non-profit to a for-profit corporation?;  The hunt for expansion, more income and control through the Birthday Game;  A manhunt on ‘squirrels’ spearheaded by RTC (1982- );  Are all unlicensed Scientologists squirrels?;  Practice of Disconnection reinstated, Change of rules for Declares (1983))
		Original OT levels (OT IV, OT V, OT VI & OT VII) dropped  (Jan-Mar 82)
		Sec Checking (2):  ‘No-Interference Area’ outruled?  (since Mar 82)
		‘L. Ron Hubbard Breaks Silence’  (February 1983, Rocky Mountain News)
			(Includes:  Overview & Three letters )
		Sec Checking (3):  ‘False Purpose Rundown’ (FPRD)  (Jun 84)
		The official version of the death of L. Ron Hubbard  (Jan 86)
			- Official announcements and referrals from the Church of Scientology - The ‘last’ Flag Order - The incidence of the three wills (1979, 1982 & 1986) - A few things to ponder about ...  (Includes:  1) Mary Sue Hubbard not considered as a Trustee or other on any of the wills;  2) Mary Sue Hubbard entitled to “all ... tangible personal, residential and household effects of every kind” in 1979 will, but dropped in 1982 and 1986 will;  3) No display of the physical remains (not even for Mary Sue Hubbard);  4) An autopsy first prohibited in late 1983, and again in the 1986 will;  5) The fingerprints issue;  6) Pat Broeker versus Mr. David Miscavige;  7) The 1986 will details about copyrights/trademarks contrasting with HCO PLs from 1958)
	Theorizing, summaries, and considerations
		1973 - The turning point? (page 5)
			(Includes:  ‘Full publication reference list’) - 1970 - We have the technology - The status quo of A.D. 1972 – Following the Tech, Admin and Publication line
		Chronological overview with annotations (Sept 73)
			Introduction;  a) Rougher times & attention on Sec Checking, Confessionals and reporting;  b) Into artistry: music, film, and returning to writing fiction;  c) The move ashore;  d) The Tech line;  e) Limiting the freedom of the auditor;  f) Theorizing about Clear and OT;  g) The financial angle;  h) Photographic record (and film);  The recurring ‘September 1973’
		Additional interesting observations relating to these matters
			- The year 1968: ‘Fair Game’, ‘Sec Checks’ & ‘Practice of Disconnection’ abolished - How to determine if some person is the real L. Ron Hubbard and when not? - ‘Old tech’ is ‘valid tech’
		Will L. Ron Hubbard be returning?
			- Main sources for the rumours - The work completed? - On guard forever?

Introduction & disclaimer

“Tell us more, grandpa!”

Various theories exist concerning the whereabouts of L. Ron Hubbard in different time eras. It has amongst other been proposed that L. Ron Hubbard would have been replaced by an imposter, or may even have been ‘PDH’ed (subjected to Pain-Drugs-Hypnosis = brainwashed). The years that are in particular noted from which year he supposedly was not himself anymore vary from 1972, 1977, 1980, 1982 and some name 1984. The official version is that he passed away in 1986, and yes it has been questioned if this was really L. Ron Hubbard. This page starts with a gathering of various rumours or conspiracy theories that have been proposed or that are going around. Alongside this I offer a chronological overview of various facts that have occurred in this same time frame. Foremost I have chosen to follow the tech line. With this I mean that I try to establish from which time on valid tech got invalidated or simply was dropped and not reversed by L. Ron Hubbard. All these theories may all be very nice, but if it be that there has been an imposter then one should ask oneself the question what the motivation would have been to go through all that trouble. For sure it would not have been done without a reason. Now L. Ron Hubbard lived for his technology, therefore the continued workability of this technology could be used as a measure of some sort to determine if he was still around or not. While going over these things one should also look past any possible bias and/or various claims made. You look, you don't listen.

Let's assume for a moment that L. Ron Hubbard indeed did develop a valuable technology that does better man. Then some persons could worry about some things, these some persons would then do all they can to maintain their already established control. And they may work along the line that certain knowledge should be available only for a few. Now what is the best way to achieve that purpose? Forbid this technology? This will not work, as people will grab on to it more arduously than ever before. Now what about continue to represent it as the real thing, but meanwhile implement officially approved changes. Distraction tactics also work very well. To make it stick you also have to coordinate a massive public relation acknowledging that what you want people to believe. It would be very smart to leave many false tracks behind you, many rumours contradicting each other should be going around all over the place. In this respect I can confirm that it is very hard to determine what is head or tail. One person says this, and another says something else. That which is found on the Internet is rather confusion. Why should one believe one person and not the other? First of all one should actually establish what criteria should be used to determine which is correct.

My data is taken primarily from the published printed materials. And as I explained earlier, it is my choice to follow the tech line. It actually comes down to ensure that we are still actually having and/or using the correct technology (ref. HCO PL 7 Feb 65 “Keeping Scientology Working”).

Disclaimer

Various entities will not appreciate that I am delving in these things and are drawing attention to them. The reality is however that so very many different confusing stories are circulating out there on the Internet. I have simply made an attempt to sort out various rumours and offer this information alongside various historical facts in chronological order. If these conspiracy theories are untrue then they will have to enervate themselves. As always data has to prove itself for its truthfulness or correctness. There may be arguments in favour of them and there may be arguments that counteracts them. Let it be very clearly understood that I investigate materials. If possible conclusions that I may draw are to be found offensive then this can not be helped. I follow the leads where ever they may take me. This is simple plain research. The attempt has been to enforce logic on the occurrences. Please understand well that it has not been my intent to forward a particular interpretation of such rumours. It is all presented as-is. It can not be denied however that there are indications that seem to be in alignment of some of the claims made, but then this not mean either that we have to swallow all of it. I challenge any out there to actually think for themselves. Firstly I relate about the conspiracy theories that are around and secondly I relate about the historical facts. In my last chapters I play around with it and theorize a little. You however will have to figure out which is true for you.

Feel free to contact me about anything you may find that I would be in error about. I have received and do receive many advices and hints from people. If you have a good point, in time I will implement your information onto my pages.

The years 1972, 1977 & 1982

• In the year 1972 ...
          - ‘The Missing Ten Months’ (4 Dec 72 - mid-Sept 73)
          - ‘The Scientology Connection’
          - The ‘Dane Tops Debrief’
          - The tale of Ken Urquhart
          - ‘My Meeting with LRH’ (Fall 1973) (by Pierre Ethier)
• In the year 1977 ...
          - HCOB 24 Jan 77 “Tech Correction Round-up”
          - The early ’80s
• In the year 1982 ...

These are years that are referred to as from which time L. Ron Hubbard (according to some) that he was not in control anymore of the direction that Scientology was taking onwards. Other years may have been noted, although the ones that I picked here are the significant ones.

 
In the year 1972 ...

• ‘The Missing Ten Months’ (4 Dec 72 - mid-Sept 73)
• ‘The Scientology Connection’
• The ‘Dane Tops Debrief’
• The tale of Ken Urquhart
• ‘My Meeting with LRH’ (Fall 1973) (by Pierre Ethier)

 
‘The Missing Ten Months’ (4 Dec 72 - mid-Sept 73)

A strange story got posted on a newsgroup on the Internet on 12 February 1998 by an anonymous poster. We are actually being challenged: “You will scoff--at first. You are welcome to scoff. But please read to the end of the document, even if only to prove how righteous you are in scoffing”. Indeed at first there is much reason to actually scoff, which is actually exactly what I did. Then when one goes into it a little deeper things may not be that evident anymore. One has to admit that the person that put this together speaks from a certain know-how, or it must be that this person did some research in order to put a plausible fairy tale together. So, which is it? Many details can be confirmed for their historical accuracy, however this does not automatically mean that the conclusion drawn is correct as well! So, if it can be enervated, then let's try to get it enervated.

Now, why do I make this available here? It is not because of the story and the claims made themselves. It got however everything to do with the time era in which this supposedly occurred. Now, at which time got workable tech put aside and not counteracted and put back into use again!

 
‘The Scientology Connection’

 
The ‘Dane Tops Debrief’

 
The tale of Ken Urquhart

Ken Urquhart at the Advanced Ability Center in Santa Barbara, California in 1984 It bears particular significance that what this person tales about, after all he functioned basically as the butler of L. Ron Hubbard, offcially being posted as the LRH Personal Communicator. How he came to write however that infamous Flag Order that established this Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) in January 1974 is to me a bit unclear regarding him being a butler of sorts and all that. Let's suffice to say that it is a bit well strange! Last but not least he was actually one of the 3 persons actually present when L. Ron Hubbard disappeared for these noted 9½ months. Also Ken Urquhart has not been silent about his experiences and he frequently has shared his views on these and other events. My focus of course will be on what he had to say about this particular time frame. Since 1997 he has been a frequent contributor in the bimonthly periodical ‘International Viewpoints’ (issued from Denmark). It was however not until 2008 when he created this blog of his on the Internet and where he started to share some very interesting details about that time frame. On that blog, on Wednesday, 19 March 2008 he posted a particular article entitled “Notes on Main Reasons for the Degeneration of Scientology”. The passages in this article of particular relevance to the topic are printed here below:

	“Up until 1972, when LRH left the ship to spend a year in the US (so as to avoid extradition from Morocco to France for trial), I had known him as capable always of great kindness. On his return to the ship in 1973, a year later, he had changed substantially. He became more and more bitterly angry but still capable of occasional kindness. By early 1975, when I last saw him, he had become all but unbearable.
	One could argue from this that one reason that Scientology deteriorated as it did is that LRH allowed too many people to become executives who were not trained auditors and who had not proved themselves willing and able (and courageous enough) to go into session with another human being and see the session through to a good result time and time again. I will go so far as to say that this is a major Why. ...

	“In the mid-seventies, he changed his direction, and I could not follow him. ...
	I last saw LRH in 1975, when he left Clearwater, Florida, for Washington, DC, and then for California. I was no longer a trusted confidante of his: I could not nor would not be the kind of goon that he grew to want his assistants to be.”

A comment has to be made here that these articles are not found anymore on his blog. The blog itself is still there, but not these articles, they are gone. I know it was still on the blog in 2009 when I saved it off-line, but it is not there at least since the end of 2010. The articles themselves however are still found at some places on the Internet, but it is not always indicated that Ken Urquhart actually authored them. It does seem though that ken Urquhart gave up this original blog and transferred these articles to some Independent Scientology website, the only difference here being that the articles posted there are not carrying their original release date.

	“Yes, he left the ship in 1972 and returned the following September. I don't recall the date of his departure. I remembered it as in September also, but may be wrong.
	I know he left because I put him on the plane out of Lisbon to the States.
	When he came back he was different, but to say that he was PDHed or replaced by an impostor is completely ridiculous. He was changed by his experience of the ‘outside’ world, his more intimate contact with the culture and society of the time, and by having so much time to himself for so long rather than having the daily crush of the affairs of the ship and of international scientology coming at him.
	LRH never left a scene without returning to it full of fresh ideas. Whether the changes were good or bad is a matter of viewpoint. I would say that a good rule of thumb to use in evaluating the rumours about LRH is that the wilder it sounds, the less likely it is to be true.
	Very many people rattle their brains, wag their tongues, and flap their lips without having any idea of what they are talking about; it's just part of the human condition.”

I personally find his “rule of thumb” proposed here not a very good one. The problem we are facing here is that there are just too many rumours around. And these rumours are rather persistent, they have not gone away. Someone or something tries to confuse us. A better “rule of thumb” to have it indicated that we are likely dealing here with a take-over or conspiracy. This has turned to be true in regards to the murder of JFK, but also the 9/11 twin-tower catastrophe. So, I would rather propose here “that the wilder it sounds, the [less] MORE likely it is to be true”.

	“He left for the US because at that time he was living with MSH in their house in Tangiers. Morocco, of course, has close ties with France. Then, there was a big court case in Paris against scientology for which he was wanted as a witness and potentially as an accused person. The GO found out that the French authorities were getting a warrant to extradite LRH from Morocco to France for the questioning. So he skipped.
	That's all there was to it. He went into hiding from the French police.”

In fact I find this very illogical indeed! It does not explain that he in fact would need to be in hiding from everyone! It would have sufficed to just hide (keep away) from French territories and such. And thus, NO, this answer will certainly not do!

 
‘My Meeting with LRH’ (Fall 1973) (by Pierre Ethier)

Even though that Pierre Ethier asserts: “This is LRH!!!” and figures that “There was no denial about his true identity.”, still one should be investigative about if that really was the case. The reputation of L. Ron Hubbard was that he always was in communication with people, but here we have Pierre Ethier relating about a “man who was friendly staring at me straight into the eyes across the room” and that was introduced as a “‘Mr Harris’ who was described as an ‘Old personal friend of LRH’”. It all strikes me as a bit odd. Pierre Ethier then states that he was “being an introverted type person at the time”, without giving any (satisfying) explanations about why this would be like that.

 
In the year 1977 ...

• HCOB 24 Jan 77 “Tech Correction Round-up”
• The early ’80s

 
HCOB 24 Jan 77 “Tech Correction Round-up”

It is obvious that we have some odd indicators here. Why for instance was the HASI allowed to go defunct? An answer could be the copyrights of Scientology that thus far were kept by the HASI. With the HASI out of the way they resided (fell back) for a short while to the Church of Scientology of California (CSC). They afterwards transferred these copyrights back to ‘L. Ron Hubbard’ on 4 May 1978. But L. Ron Hubbard had already 20 years earlier –and by blanket assignment– assigned all of these trademarks and copyrights into perpetuity to HCO. Why would he have wanted them back? All these questions remain unanswered to this day.

Either way these combined happenings marked for various people the beginning of the end of the old era.

 
The early ’80s

The happenings that occurred since 1977 culminated into that what happened during the early ’80s. So to say the former directly caused the latter! Nonetheless some support the 1980 argument that L. Ron Hubbard was still considered in control during the ’70s, but that he was not from about 1980 or so and forward. May be the year is just chosen out of convenience? It has been reported that the person L. Ron Hubbard lastly appeared in public may be October 1979, some say January 1980. It is also reported that Mary Sue Hubbard lastly is claimed to have seen him somewhere in 1980. Then the first release of ‘The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology: Volumes I-XII’ cover the period up till December 1979 (volumes published 1976-80). Some individuals have decided to only regard these volumes as valid technology. Or one may just like the round number that closes off the ’70s decennium? It in itself is actually quite contradictorily in my opinion. If you want to accept/believe in a take over, you should not say from 1980 and onwards, you should start already in 1977. Those that support the 1980 argument then also do accept the technical breakthroughs of 1978 as valid technology.

 
The year 1982

This is by far the most adopted option.

The birth of the Religious Technology Center coincided with various new developments in the structure of the Scientology organization. A rough and hectic few years commenced (for details see chapter “The dawning of ‘Religious Technology Center’ and new management (early ’80s)”. Consult here, separate window).

‘Stanford Research Institute’ (SRI) and the ‘Remote-Viewing Program’  (Jun 72)

“... 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”)

	“We now have O.T. in direct and real sight with only a few hundred hours of actual skilled auditing intervening. This is an astonishing break through, a real by-the-boot-straps necessity level research sprint.
	We are then only months away from having O.T.s, a year at the most.
	No Scientologist need be told what that means.”          LRH (from HCO PL 25 Jun AD13 “An International Objective” - all indications are that this never has been published, only available as a manuscript)

The official releases of the various original OT-levels: OT I: Aug 66;  OT II: Sept 66;  OT III: Sept 67;  OT IV, V, VI: Jan 68;  OT VII: Sept 70.

“Wednesday, 16 July 1975   OT III Pat Price arrives in Las Vegas, en route first to SRI, then to Los Angeles. In Vegas, Price is met by an old friend named Bill Alvarez and his wife, Judy. The three check into the Stardust Hotel and go into the restaurant for dinner. Price begins to complain that he doesn't feel well, and tells the Alvarezes that someone ‘had seemed to slip something into his coffee’ at dinner in Washington the night before. Price soon feels so bad that he goes up to his room to lie down. He feels even worse and calls the Alvarezes. They come to his room and find him on the bed apparently in cardiac arrest. Bill Alvarez calls paramedics, who try without success to resuscitate Price. He is declared dead in the local hospital's emergency room. A mysterious ‘friend’ of Price's turns up at the emergency room with ‘a briefcase full of his medical records,’ which, along with the statements of the emergency room's physician, are enough to waive an autopsy—which would normally be performed on an out-of-towner who had died outside the hospital.” (source: Jim Schnabel; ‘Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies’; Dell 1997)

Are these just coincidences or does it mean something else? More about the death of Pat Price can be found here (external link) (last checked: 10 Apr 2013).

If in fact there is any truth in all this (and you have to make up your own mind about all that), then my question would be if this plan could have been carried out as long as L. Ron Hubbard would still be around? This in its turn raises some interesting issues. Namely it does coincide with that L. Ron Hubbard was out of reach during 4 Dec ’72 till mid-Sept ’73. Some tell that it was not the same L. Ron Hubbard that returned, others claim that he was in hiding for tax purposes. It is interesting to see how many contradicting information and theories that actually are going around in regards to these time periods. Probably the only viable criteria that can be used is to determine when some part of Scientology became less workable (because of implemented changes), or workable parts that were either invalidated, discontinued or replaced with other that may have acted against Tech basics.

Ingo Swann

“Ingo Swann:  Ingo is a well-known modern artist whose works hang in many public and private collections and have been featured in several exhibitions. He states Scientology had a decisive influence on his art as he expanded his awareness and increased his abilities by going up the Grade Chart. Then in 1971 after Ingo completed Section III OT, he began demonstrating his regained OT abilities under strict scientific conditions with trained scientists. This included changing the state of objects at a distance without physical means. In 1975, among hundreds of other experiments, he did ‘out-of-the-body’ explorations of Mercury and Jupiter, astounding the scientific community with the remarkable accuracy of his descriptions of those planets later verified by unmanned rocket flights. Numerous articles and mentions of Ingo and his advanced abilities have appeared in newspapers and magazines, including ‘Time,’ ‘The Smithsonian,’ and ‘Psychic.’ He is Clear 2331, full OT VII, Class VI Auditor.”
(from ‘Advance! 44’, (Jan 77))

He also appears at an OT Symposium (first ever) that “brings together a distinguished and very active group of OTs to discuss questions not only pertinent to the world-view of OTs, but also to all who are following Ron's Bridge to Clear and OT”  (as printed in ‘Advance! 44’, (Jan 77), see pages 17-21). Participants were Heber Jentzsch, Chick Corea, Ingo Swann, Yvonne Jentzsch and Bonnie Bishop.

	“Ingo ceased involvement with Scientology in the early 1980s. ...
	He was as much interested in, and influenced by, his involvement with the Monroe Institute as with Scientology, but did enjoy his role - for a time in the early/mid 1970s - as a ‘Scientology celebrity,’ being also a painter of some note.”

The Monroe Institute also made studies about remote-viewing or as Robert Monroe called it: Exteriorization.

The dropping out of the original OT VIII  (1972: The scope of Scientology)

	“COMPLETE DIANETICS - 1969.
	COMPLETE SCIENTOLOGY - 1970.”          LRH (from ‘LRH ED 117 Int’, 26 Aug 70 “Current Cases”)

“Section VIII OT” as listed on the Grade Chart from June/Dec 1970 read: “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”, which would have been the end of the line, but it was not to be.

The mystery of the original OT VIII that although a release was announced for years, it never was released. It truns for the worse as it gets cancelled altogether years later, and with it was also cancelled the Scientology Clear (turning Grade V-VII conditional) and the original OT levels V-VII. Here the Bridge had turned complicated, lenghty and also costly. The question is who had the hand in this? Was it L. Ron Hubbard or someone/something else?

Vocabulary:

     ..R, ..RA, ..RB (etc) or #R, #RA (etc):
For example: ‘HCO PL 24 Sept 70R’ & ‘HCO PL 24 Sept 70RA’, etc. The given date denotes the first time it has been published in issue-form. The R, RA indication may also follow after an issue-number. The R stands for ‘Revision’ and would refer to that it has been revised since it was first published. If it is revised a 2nd time it is indicated as RA, a 3rd time RB, then RC, and so on.
     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.
     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.
     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)
    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).
     LRH:
An usual abbreviation for ‘L. Ron Hubbard’.
     Operating Thetan (OT):
1. Willing and knowing cause over life, thought, matter, energy, space and time. And that would of course be mind and that would of course be universe. (SH Spec 80, 6609C08)  2. An individual who could operate totally independently of his body whether he had one or didn't have one. He's now himself, he's not dependent on the universe around him. (SH Spec 66, 6509C09)  3. A being at cause over matter, energy, space, time, form and life. Operating comes from “able to operate without dependency on things” and thetan is the Greek letter theta (θ), which the Greeks used to represent “thought” or perhaps “spirit” to which an “n” is added to make a new noun in the modern style used to create words in engineering. (Book of Case Remedies, p. 10)
     org(s):
Short for ‘organization(s)’.
     OT:
Short for ‘Operating Thetan’. See at that entry in vocabulary.
     PDH, PDHed:
‘Pain Drugs Hypnosis’. A person is put into a trance through use of pain, drugs and hypnosis and is told things. Roughly it means you have become stimulus response without really having control of yourself anymore.
     ‘The Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology’:
This is a series of books that contain the HCOBs, and any references that are primarily dealing with technical matters. The HCOBs are printed in red ink on white paper, and the volumes themselves come in red bindings. The references are arranged in chronological release order (per issue date). These books may also be referred to as the ‘red volumes’. The ‘old red volumes’ then would refer to the 1976-80 release, the ‘new red volumes’ instead to the 1991 release. See a listing of published volumes here (pop-up window).