How to think About The Technology of Scientology

How to think About The Technology of Scientology
Author	Nomen Nescis
Type of Article	Category:Articles

Introduction

Nomen wrote the following after he had heard the discussion on clear and auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) on the following YouTube site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLPLekjVyhY&feature=youtu.be . It was published on 20 Sep 2018

How to think About The Technology of Scientology

Many Scientologists after leaving the Church have continued to have great respect for or faith in the technologyThe methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) ''Abbr.'' tech and philosophy that Ron created. Many of these, having separated themselves from the source from which they first received it, have attempted to re-create that technologyThe methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) ''Abbr.'' tech in some form, outside the Church, as best they could, with whatever casethe whole sum of past by-passed charge. (HCOB 19 Aug 63) level, insight and general ability they achieved in the church or earlier.

Some have set up actual organizations, sticking to standard techAbbreviation for technology. The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65), others have changed things in the techAbbreviation for technology. The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) which they found unworkable, and others yet, probably the majority of those creative people, have invented an entirely new philosophy and technologyThe methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) ''Abbr.'' tech which could be said to be inspired by rather than based on either the techAbbreviation for technology. The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) (with the philosophy on which it is based) or simply their realization that casethe whole sum of past by-passed charge. (HCOB 19 Aug 63) gains are possible. The inventions of these latter have but a superficial resemblance with Scientology, for a science is a whole, and its parts only make sense in relation to that whole.

Whatever they do may be fine, but many permit themselves to state their opinions about Scientology or Ron, which are based solely on their ARC1. a word from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality, Communication which together equate to Understanding. It is pronounced by stating its letters, A-R- C. To Scientologists it has come to mean good feeling, love or friendliness, such as “He was in ARC with his friend.” One does not, however, fall out of ARC, he has an ARC break. (LRH Def. Notes)...more breaks or other charge1. harmful energy or force accumulated and stored within the reactive mind, resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant experiences that a person has had. Auditing discharges this charge so that it is no longer there to affect the individual. (Scn AD)..more, personal experiences - which may be quite factual but not necessarily informative about the techAbbreviation for technology. The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) - or simply poor knowledge of the original subject. In the other camp, a conviction that all is good when it comes from Ron or his spiritual heirs, is of course equally non-informative.

One cannot evaluate what one does not understand. In an early Philadelphia Doctorate Course lecture Ron states, only half facetiously, that society hasn't understood Scientology, for it's a general rule that anything that is thoroughly understood will as-is (vanish). It certainly does, at least as a subject of discussion and public interest. In present time, the subject of computers and cell phones are still objects of debate (e.g. in relation to work and school). Well, a hundred years ago electricity and telephones were much debated. Electricity could kill people, and who would want to have one's privacy invaded by whomever pleased to ring, at any time? Today we understand about electricity and telephones as such, and they exist no more as a subject of discussion the way they were. Predictably, computers and cell phones will undergo a similar fate.

Do we want Scientology to vanish, then? No. As long as we want it as a tool to promote our goals, we will continue to create it as needed. People may need to study it to auditThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) and arrange to get auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975), but that would just be done as a natural part of life whenever it was relevant. We do want it to vanish as a subject of strife and dissension, and since Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more and Scientology are basically sciences, we want to continue to develop them in order to refine them, apply them in more areas on all dynamicsthere could be said to be eight urges (drives, impulses) in life. These we call dynamics. These are motives or motivations. We call them the eight dynamics. The first dynamic -is the urge toward existence as one’s self. Here we have individuality expressed fully. This can be called the self dynamic...more, keep them workable as society changes, and, at this time very importantly: We want to clear them of any and all fixed ideas, superstitions and fantasies founded on aberrations and false data. This can all be achieved by a fuller understanding of Scientology.

Understanding everything that Ron said would not be possible, nor is it important. One should get a good grasp of Scientology before one presents one's opinions as facts to others. In studying Scientology, one should distinguish three kinds of data, and this is the central point in this article, this is how one can evaluate facts of the techAbbreviation for technology. The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65). They can be formulated like this:

One needs to distinguish

1. What Ron said and wrote - not just the words, but the meaning
2. The phenomena which exist in fact. These Ron observed and perceived, and he interpreted and understood them according to his viewpoint, including the theories and facts known to him (which is all an honest scientist can and should do)
3. Your own reality, i.e. those phenomena as they are or can become real to you: Can you perceive those phenomena for yourself, and does your reality fit with what Ron considers about them? 4. It's okay to accept an expert opinion tentatively, but when you study the matter in depth, that is the base on which you should evaluate what you study, and having done that, you certainly are entitled to your opinion about it (which is not the same as the facts). You are also entitled to change your mind3. a network of communications and pictures, energies and masses, which are brought into being by the activities of the thetan versus the physical universe or other thetans. The mind is a communication and control system between the thetan and his environment. (FOT, p. 56)...MORE as you become wiser, and nobody should fault you for doing that. I want to point out a few points that can be confusing to the student of Scientology.

The "Different" Rons

Ron's viewpoint changed during the years, and in studying Scientology one should not automatically think one can take data from one period and apply them to the context of another. Sometimes one can, sometimes not. We no longer go for prenatals at all costs, which were essential in 1950. We do stop a process on a floating needle and V.G.I.s etc., which were irrelevant earlier. If a thetan1. the living unit we call, in Scn, a thetan, that being taken from the Greek letter theta, the mathematic symbol used in Scn to indicate the source of life and life itself. (Abil Ma 1) 2. the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 3. the being who is the individual and who handles and lives in the body. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)...more goes exteriorthe fellow would just move out, away from the body and be aware of himself as independent of a body but still able to control and handle the body. (Spec Lect 7006C21)., today we end the process, in 1955 one might have begun drilling the thetan1. the living unit we call, in Scn, a thetan, that being taken from the Greek letter theta, the mathematic symbol used in Scn to indicate the source of life and life itself. (Abil Ma 1) 2. the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 3. the being who is the individual and who handles and lives in the body. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)...more exteriorthe fellow would just move out, away from the body and be aware of himself as independent of a body but still able to control and handle the body. (Spec Lect 7006C21).. Often it's not enough to know what Ron said, you also should ask when and in what context.

However, when Ron states that everything he wrote in Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more: The Modern Science Of Mental Health is true, yes , he is over-generalizing, but it's quite true that the phenomena he observed, e.g. the aberrations, could be handled, to a degree, in the ways he described. Book I Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more can still be used with the same results today because his observations and conclusions - of phenomena and how processes worked - were accurate and the technologyThe methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) ''Abbr.'' tech validated. There were also unwanted effects. Also, some cases were difficult to handle, some techniques were neigh to impossible to teach, and new and better technologies were created. He wasn't lying, though. He did paint the best possible picture that could be hoped for, and he did operate on gradients, not absolute truths. But then, pessimists in some ways are evaluate reality more accurately, but it's the optimists that survive.

Truth is relative to environments, experience and truth

This is a passage from Logic 7 . Think of it in this way
1. Relative truth: When in Rome, do as the Romans or you won't be real to the Roman, but "untrue". Also, don't wear a thick fur coat at noon in Sahara, it's not the true solution to the heat. It's true that you should try to stay cool.
2. Experienced truth: If you see a guy walking on the surface of the water, or a man flying through the air, ask yourself: Have I any past experience that informs me that that sort of thing is possible? Would you believe your own eyes when you see something like that? 3. Truth: If you erase an engram1. a mental image picture which is a recording of a time of physical pain and unconsciousness. It must by definition have impact or injury as part of its content. (HCOB 23 Apr 69) 2. a specialized kind of facsimile. This differs from other mental pictures because it contains, as part of its content, unconsciousness and physical pain. (Dn 55!, p. 12) 3. a complete recording, down to the last accurate detail, of every perception present in a moment of partial or full unconsciousness. (Scn 0-8, p. 11)...more, nothing is left once the feeling of relief has evaporated. Nothing, that is, except you. You are the basic truth of any mental MEST1. a coined word, meaning matter, energy, space and time, the physical universe. All physical phenomena may be considered as energy operating in space and time. The movement of matter or energy in time is the measure of space. All things are mest except theta. (Abil 114-A)...More, because mental MEST1. a coined word, meaning matter, energy, space and time, the physical universe. All physical phenomena may be considered as energy operating in space and time. The movement of matter or energy in time is the measure of space. All things are mest except theta. (Abil 114-A)...More is created, it is truly nothing, really, but once a sparkle in its fathers eyes (a lock that can be runUndergo processing. (Science of Survival, p.75) out). 4. I am elaborating a bit on the foundation for evaluating Scientology given above. But there's another point I want to make:
Very often the question should not be whether something is true or not, but under what circumstances it is true, and under what circumstances it is not true.

For instance, is Scientology good or bad? Is it true (workable) or not? I think most people would at least agree that it has some great truths, and that it may not be absolutely true in all respects. That's not much of an answer, really, but then, the question is much too broad. Much better questions might be whether you had any wins in Scientology, and any losses, and what specifically they were about. Probably everybody reading this has had both.

The great stupidity would be to espouse one's unshakable conviction that Scientology is all bad or all good. It's a violation of Logic 7, because if it were, that would be the absolute truth and then it wouldn't be there at all, nothing would be left but you (it would have erased like an engram1. a mental image picture which is a recording of a time of physical pain and unconsciousness. It must by definition have impact or injury as part of its content. (HCOB 23 Apr 69) 2. a specialized kind of facsimile. This differs from other mental pictures because it contains, as part of its content, unconsciousness and physical pain. (Dn 55!, p. 12) 3. a complete recording, down to the last accurate detail, of every perception present in a moment of partial or full unconsciousness. (Scn 0-8, p. 11)...more). Another example is exteriorization1. the state of the thetan, the individual himself, being outside his body. When this is done, the person achieves a certainty that he is himself and not his body. (PXL Gloss) 2. the phenomenon of being in a position in space dependent on only one’s consideration, able to view from that space, bodies and the room, as it is. (PAB 125) 3. the act of moving out of the body with or without full perception. (HCOB 22 Oct 71), the old goal of auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) in the early fifties, for which many Scientologists still yearn. The silly thing is that the criterion for being exteriorthe fellow would just move out, away from the body and be aware of himself as independent of a body but still able to control and handle the body. (Spec Lect 7006C21). is that you know - experience - that you are exteriorthe fellow would just move out, away from the body and be aware of himself as independent of a body but still able to control and handle the body. (Spec Lect 7006C21).. If you can imagine yourself hovering as a thetan1. the living unit we call, in Scn, a thetan, that being taken from the Greek letter theta, the mathematic symbol used in Scn to indicate the source of life and life itself. (Abil Ma 1) 2. the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 3. the being who is the individual and who handles and lives in the body. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)...more over the window sill while the body is sitting in a chair, you are exteriorthe fellow would just move out, away from the body and be aware of himself as independent of a body but still able to control and handle the body. (Spec Lect 7006C21).. It may be that you don't see anything, you have no thetan1. the living unit we call, in Scn, a thetan, that being taken from the Greek letter theta, the mathematic symbol used in Scn to indicate the source of life and life itself. (Abil Ma 1) 2. the awareness of awareness unit which has all potentialities but no mass, no wave-length and no location. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 3. the being who is the individual and who handles and lives in the body. (HCOB 23 Apr 69)...more vision, but that's not part of the criterion. Or it may be that you still feel the body around you; well, do you also experience that you are hovering over the window sill? Then you are exteriorthe fellow would just move out, away from the body and be aware of himself as independent of a body but still able to control and handle the body. (Spec Lect 7006C21)., even if you brought some body perceptions along; you are allowed to have two viewpoints. And an example by Ron: While the body is sitting in the chair, close your eyes and mock-up (imagine) how the chair would look without your body, imagine the seat, back, arms of the chair but no body; could you do it? If so, you were exteriorthe fellow would just move out, away from the body and be aware of himself as independent of a body but still able to control and handle the body. (Spec Lect 7006C21)., for you were not in a body, placed as you were where your head is in the real world which you managed to not-know.

This is sometimes very disappointing to people who imagined the state of being exteriorthe fellow would just move out, away from the body and be aware of himself as independent of a body but still able to control and handle the body. (Spec Lect 7006C21). quite differently. But then, truth is relative to experience, environments and truth, and one's expectations may not fit your environment, of which Ron's philosophy and techAbbreviation for technology. The methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) is a part. Your expectations did not truly represent what Ron meant. Nothing wrong with becoming wiser, to be sure.

That's what I wanted to say about how to evaluate Scientology, the technologyThe methods of application of an art or science as opposed to mere knowledge of the science or art itself. (HCOB 13 Sep 65) ''Abbr.'' tech and philosophy of. I'll end of with a quotation from The Phoenix Lectures. It is transcribed in an abbreviated form in Chapter 4 in the book. On the tape, speaking about the empire of Scientology and its organizations, Ron says, Not an empire of forcel. random effort. (Scn 0-8, p. 75) 2. energy with some direction. (PDC 56) 3. force of course is made up of time, matter, energy, flows, particles, masses, solids, liquids, gasses, space and locations. (HCOB 16 Jun 70), and particularly not an empire of convictions. In training a man to wisdom, you never tamper with his religious or political convictions (forcel. random effort. (Scn 0-8, p. 75) 2. energy with some direction. (PDC 56) 3. force of course is made up of time, matter, energy, flows, particles, masses, solids, liquids, gasses, space and locations. (HCOB 16 Jun 70) without wisdom). You teach him the knowledge, the data of the subject, and a subject (a theory, a science) has no opinion.

ARC1. a word from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality, Communication which together equate to Understanding. It is pronounced by stating its letters, A-R- C. To Scientologists it has come to mean good feeling, love or friendliness, such as “He was in ARC with his friend.” One does not, however, fall out of ARC, he has an ARC break. (LRH Def. Notes)...more

Nomen Nescis

Further article by Nomen Nescis

Affinity is Relational
History of Axioms etc.
Wundt, Fundamentals of Thoughts and Scientology