Here is Part 2:
The following comments were made by an ex-Scientology auditor and Case
Supervisor named Caroline Letkeman, who was highly trained (Class IX) to
administer the Scientology "technology" on the Upper Levels of Scientology's
Bridge, including OT3:
Begin quote.
In order for scn (Scientology) to "work" at the upper levels, the person
must accept the OT 3 incident as a literal and factual matter. If the
person does not experience the fragmented condition as a "conscious
and literal fact", or if he cannot accept Hubbard's interpretation of
the psychological phenomena expected at this level, the person is
labeled a "bypassed case" and is sent back to redo his lower levels.
I.e., his psychological state must be such that he can see his
psychological complexes as external autonomous entities, and he must
be able to literally address these entities with the exact volcano
story as given by Hubbard.
There is no getting around this point technically--either the incident
is real and "processible" or the person has not validly made his lower
grades. According to the technical materials of Scientology, there is
no one on this earth who has escaped the incident or who is immune to
its effects. That is why Hubbard labeled it as the "4th dynamic
engram."
Therefore, there is no further Bridge progress possible unless and
until the person can subjectively experience the required
psychological condition and its associated Hubbardian interpretation.
The Scientologist at OT 3 is not addressed on the basis of his
"beliefs" about Hubbard's materials. He is handled on the basis of
Hubbard's "scientific" evaluation of his literal psychological
condition. If the psychological condition of the person at OT 3 is
not sufficiently fragmented and projected outward, he will not be able
to accept the OT 3 incident as given by Hubbard as a valid
interpretation of his condition.
That Scientology publicly protests criticism of their "religious
beliefs" is itself dangerously misleading, in my opinion. Hubbard did
not characterize the OT 3 incident as a "belief"--he taught it as a
factual incident and as a scientifically researched psychological
explanation for the state that OT 3's find themselves in at that
level.
End quote.
If you need to know more about Scientology, start at the following web sites:
http://www.lisatrust.net/ and
http://www.xenu.net/ and Scientology's own web
site,
http://www.scientology.org/.
We do not object to anyone, Scientologists included, believing in alien
cosmologies and practicing their truly held beliefs or even accepting the
"reality" of those inter-galactic "events" as factual. We do have at least two
problems, however, with Scientology's deception about its alien space opera--
First, Scientology lies when it says that it is compatible with all other
religious beliefs. It cannot be and is not compatible with ANY religious belief
since it clearly teaches that all religion is an implanted false reality. In
fact, any other religious belief by a Scientologist is not even tolerated.
Talk about your faith in Christ or about prayer in an auditing session and off
to the Ethics Officer you will go for some PTS ("Potential Trouble Source")
handling because you are indulging in "other practices". OT3, the level when a
Scientologist learns about the alien cosmology and that religion is an
implanted false reality, obviously ends any possibility of further illusion
that Scientology can be compatible with ANY religious belief.
Second, Scientology keeps its alien cosmology a secret for financial reasons.
A Scientologist is required to go through a gradual progression of expensive
steps before they are allowed to learn about the alien cosmology. They are
told if they learn about it prematurely, it will create a life threatening
situation -- it will give them pneumonia and they might die. We know of no
reports of anyone ever getting pneumonia, much less dying from exposure to
Xenu and the alien story. Hiding the truth about this space opera serves
several functions, including, a) recruitment -- few would join if they were
told about the alien beliefs up front; b) money -- holding back the
information buys time to collect more money from a recruit before the
colorful information is revealed; c) control -- holding back the information
allows Scientology to use the "tech" to indoctrinate and induce a person not
to bolt when they do hear the alien story.
This entire cover-up of this alien cosmology in Scientology is all about
deception, lies and money.
The Lisa McPherson Trust's mission is to expose the abusive and deceptive
practices of Scientology and help those who have been victimized by it.
Clearly, the deception and lies surrounding the alien cosmology is something
we must stand up against. Let me make this clear: it is not the alien
cosmology itself that we object to; it is the deception and lies surrounding
it.
We are all well aware that Hubbard wrote all the policies used by
Scientology management today which are at the heart of the entire war that
Scientology has declared on its critics. Hubbard wrote the "Manual of
Dissemination," for example, in which he instructed his followers that the
purpose of a lawsuit is to harass, not to win. He also wrote the "Manual of
Justice," in which he says that a reporter who dares to write anything critical
about Scientology should be harassed and intimidated until he shudders into
silence. He also wrote "Attacks on Scientology, Additional Policy Letter," in
which he details how to destroy the reputation of anyone who is critical of
Scientology. There are many, many others, including the vilest of Hubbard's
policies, the "Fair Game" policy which has been in continuous use by
Scientology since it was written in 1967. Current management is revising these
Hubbard policies for the reprints of the OEC and Tech volumes for legal and PR
reasons, because Miscavige and his lawyers don't want the public to know how
rabidly insane and vindictive Hubbard really was. But these are Hubbard
policies, without any doubt. Current management continues to apply the original
versions of these directives, but do not delude yourself that it was
anyone but L. Ron Hubbard who wrote them.
We have spent many hours with former Scientologists all over the world and
have never hidden our feelings about Hubbard. To politely summarize those
feelings, we think Hubbard was a sinister con man and believe that the vast
majority of people who know anything about him share this view. While Miscavige
may be seen as a monster, he is merely a proxy for carrying out the evil
policies of L. Ron Hubbard. Miscavige is definitely not "misapplying" the evil
parts of Hubbard's tech -- we believe he is using them just as Hubbard
intended.
Further, we believe the creed of Scientology has many noble elements to it but
think the creed is a fraud because Scientology and most Scientologists do not
act in accordance with their creed. The creed is pure PR and Scientology and
most Scientologists are hypocrites. A simple example of this hypocrisy is that
their creed says that all men have an inalienable right to free speech, yet in
practice that right is only supported by the organization when the speech is
laudatory of Scientology. Otherwise you are publicly labeled a bigot and
hatemonger and the fair game policies are applied against you.
One of the most difficult aspects of recovering from Scientology seems to be
former members coming to terms with their irresponsibility while they were in
Scientology. Over and over we have had ex-Scientologists say to us, "I didn't
know about all these bad things going on in the organization," only to come
back later and admit that they just didn't want to see it. Former Scientologists
regret that they had bought into the management's lies so thoroughly that they
couldn't see what was going on all around them. Many ex-Scientologists have
told us that it was simply a lot easier not to have to take responsibility for
these things. But everyone in the organization is responsible for what the
organization is doing.
Remember that Scientology breeds irresponsibility and that Scientologists
become addicted to that irresponsibility. What else could happen when
throughout your experience in Scientology firstly it's "Engrams" and your
reactive mind that are the root cause of your problems; then it's space aliens
(BT's); then when you think you have eliminated all your BT's you discover
you've got drugged BT's, then sleeping BT's, then unconscious BT's and finally
you find that the entirety of the physical universe is a false reality that can
be done away with by auditing even more BT's so that you are able to step out
of the physical universe and be above matter, energy, space and time.