Patricia Krenik - Overview of Early Days in Dianetics and Scientology
Patricia Krenik - Overview of Early Days 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 and Scientology
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Pat Krenik was there from the beginning. She audits, C/S2. the C/S is the case supervisor. He has to be an accomplished and properly certified auditor and a person trained additionally to supervise cases...MORE's and trains people 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 and Scientology yet today, after 60+ years. Truly an amazing and wonderful spirit. We love you Pat ♥ David LaCroix
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The difference between how the Church of Scientology is runUndergo processing. (Science of Survival, p.75) now compared to how it started out is like comparing cowboys and Indians to the present society.
- Then: May 1950—great excitement generated about L Ron Hubbard’s new book, Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health. Book sold 100,000 copies, a landmark in non-fiction book sales. Eager people read DMSMHDianetics the Modern Science of Mental Health and a many of those started co-auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) with friends and starting groups.
It was presented to a society whose greatest fault was alcohol, not drugs. I was 21 when I read the book, one of the younger ones to get involved at that time. I stayed up all night reading the book and my eyesight improved. I gave the book to my then boy-friend Jack and he read it. We went to his brother and sister-in-laws home and talked about it. Dick was skeptical—said try it out.
We had never auditedThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) anyone. Somehow we asked for a death, got his granddad’s and Jack told Dick to move through the incident of his grandfather’s death. Dick did—and low and behold he started crying. Wiping his eyes he admitted there must be something to it, because he had never cried about his grandfather’s death before.
His wife Betty responded to the finger snap routine. With the snap, she was instantly age 13, and blushing. She didn’t tell me what happened, but she did know that finger snapping worked.
, The Modern Science of Mental Health original editionI can only guess how many of those who read DMSMHDianetics the Modern Science of Mental Health did what we did, read it, got others to read it, and demonstrated it. I’d like to think 50%--50,000 people doing similar things all over the country. It was a tremendous surge of interest, with groups springing up all over the country. LRHL. Ron Hubbard gave a lecture in 1950 or 1951 in LA with one thousand people attending. I wasn’t there—I was in Seattle, but I heard about it.
Always those I knew were reaching for more information. A few went to the Dianetics Foundation in Wichita to take a course. From our area was Ed Clark in Seattle, and Audrey Robbins in Tacoma, WA. Audrey held weekly meetings in the basement of her home.
It was easy for LRHL. Ron Hubbard to get agreement about how bad Psychiatrists were back then. Cartoons and jokes about Psychiatrists were abundant in the 1940’s—they did not command the respect that they are currently given by society. By and large they were, as well as psychologists, ineffective and the country was looking for a new therapy.
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—make no mistake—is a therapy. (see related article John W Campbell - Dianetics as Therapy or Religion)
So while the public clamored for more data some, like Alphia Hart [[1]]and a fellow named Chamberlan, wrote books and Newsletters and kept the field informed/misinformed. Strange off shoots started to develop like E-Therapy and CO2 therapy. Meanwhile, LRHL. Ron Hubbard kept us on a steady lineThe military type of organization form whereby there is a definite ascending and descending chain of command. Orders pass from top management down the line of command and compliances and data pass on up without by-passing the chain of command. (Modern Management Defined (c) L. Ron Hubbard, 1976) with his P.A.Bs that came weekly from the Hubbard Communication Office.
So visualize activity, co-auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975), groups forming and meeting, subject being discussed, lectures occurring, and group auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) happening. Just plain high level fun.
Note too, that during this time the Summary Course Booklets with all the fascinating information on the whole trackThe whole track is the moment to moment record of a person's existence in this universe in picture and impression form. (HCOB 9 Feb 66), thetans, blanketing, space wars, implanting1. a painful and forceful means of overwhelming a being with artificial purpose or false concepts in a malicious attempt to control and suppress him. (Aud 71 ASHO) 2. an electronic means of overwhelming the thetan with a significance. (HCOB 8 May 63) 3. an unwilling and unknowing receipt of a thought. An intentional installation of fixed ideas, contrasurvival to the thetan. (SH Spec 83, 6612C06) and just about anything you can imagine was coming out of sessions. History of Man arrived with its new view of what to auditThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975).
Some of the early manuscripts were typed on old- fashioned typewriters. Not even electric. The Mathison Electropsycometer arrived to make sessions even more interesting. Tech was wonderful, but also it was terrible. Auditors made huge mistakes. Buss B. auditedThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) a pc while a couple of us watched. PC1. a person who, through Scientology processing, is finding out more about himself and life. (The Phoenix Lectures, p. 20) 2. a spiritual being who is now on the road to becoming Clear, hence preclear. (HCOB 5 Apr 69) 3. one who is discovering things about himself and who is becoming clearer. (HCO PL 21 Aug 63) was down the track in an incident, yelling, “don’t touch my ankles”. Buss, not knowing better thought he could move him through by touching his ankles and did so—the pc, in full blown dramatization1. to repeat in action what has happened to one in experience. That’s a basic definition of it, but much more important, it’s a replay now of something that happened then. It’s being replayed out of its time and period. (SH Spec 72, 6607C28)...more screams into present time, picks up a plate, breaks it and slams a shard into my lady-friend’s shoulder. Chaos. Buss went to tend to Evelyn’s shoulder and I took the pc out to his car where he went over what happened just then a few times.
We handled pc’s, their cases, their dramatizations all from a little book knowledge and the experience we were gaining. Meanwhile while this grass-roots group was spreading across the USUnited States. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976)., an organization was being put there by LRHL. Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue. We hadn’t yet heard of TRs, acknowledgements, or adminA contraction or shortening of the word administration, admin is used as a noun to denote the actions involved in administrating an organization. (Modern Management Technology Defined (C) 1976).. Sessions were not written up. Some auditors took a few notes during session, some didn’t.
My first 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 break was with Wing Angell. Much I later came to love the guy, but in 1954 he and Smokey and the Farrells were planning to give an auditor1. one who listens and computes; a Scn practitioner. 2. one who has been trained in the technology of Scn. An auditor applies standard technology to preclears. 3. a person who through church training becomes skilled in the successful application of Dn and Scn to his family, friends and the public to achieve the ability gained as stated on the Gradation Chart for his class of training...more’s training course in Seattle. I wanted to attend so badly—I could even come up with the hundred bucks for the course (quite a bit when my then husband made $200 a month wages) but Wing turned me down. I didn’t have a certificate. All the others had had training with Ed Clark or Audrey, but I was still a book auditor1. one who listens and computes; a Scn practitioner. 2. one who has been trained in the technology of Scn. An auditor applies standard technology to preclears. 3. a person who through church training becomes skilled in the successful application of Dn and Scn to his family, friends and the public to achieve the ability gained as stated on the Gradation Chart for his class of training...more. I just couldn’t understand that, because I had read everything the others had read and had done at least two hundred hours of auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975)—more than most on the course. He said “no”.
I knew nothing of the developing organizational structure back then; I only knew I was being stopped unfairly. It broke my heart. Still, I was young and went about my life and continued to have babies and study Scientology. My daughter Teresa, born in 1954 (earlier than the above scene) had a silent birth in the Tacoma General Hospital. The hospital staff was friendly and co-operative—at one point a doctor asked me if I would like to give a lecture about how come the silent birth to other doctors. Bravely I said I would, but later was told they decided not to have that meeting. Close call!
If there was one word that would describe the field around the development of Scientology it was “activity”. Things were happening. By 1955 I had challenged the HCA course, and Dick Steves from QualQualifications: the division on many Scientology organization boards that certified the correctness of products (including auditing levels gained) and corrected outnesses and bad products from other divisions. [[User:AntPhillips|Antony A Phillips]] 23:17, May 9, 2014 (MDT), Wash D.C. org came out to Seattle in 1956 and did the Exam. I passed and then after delivering another 50 hours of auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975), had my first Certificate. I went on to work with others developing Churches. J. Fred MacLean did all the legal work. We started one in Bremerton and one in Seattle, the Church of Scientology of Washington.
Now it is the Church of Scientology of Washington State. Once we put the Church of Scientology of WA together HCO stepped in and asked us to dissolve, as they had their own way of doing legal. We did, never gave it a thought. It was really one for all and all for one at that time—the division between the Church and the Field didn’t really come until later.
What was so different in the early days? For one thing there was no interference (or almost none.) No ethics1. The rules or standards governing the conduct of the members of a profession. (HCO PL 3 May 72). 2. A system of removing the counter-effort to the forward push. (6711C18SO); we were a wild bunch but still made casethe whole sum of past by-passed charge. (HCOB 19 Aug 63) gain. We knew about LRHL. Ron Hubbard’s misdeeds in his younger days, and could care less. We teethed on whole trackThe whole track is the moment to moment record of a person's existence in this universe in picture and impression form. (HCOB 9 Feb 66) and understood people did wrong to others and that we had glass houses ourselves for eons and shouldn’t throw stones. We cared about the game, and we cared about clearing the planet. We were still young and optimistic and believed it could be done.
And for those in present time who are picky, the word “we” is used because we felt a bonding—we who were auditors and wanting to clear the planet, we who studied and applied. Notice “we” didn’t have drilling. It was read it, do it, and no study 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). Study 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) was much later, in the early 70’s and in this time I am talking about, up to about 1956, we had no c/ses,no Purifs, no E.O., even no meters. We had nothing written except the books, PABs, and tapes. There was no HAS course, no TRs course, yet we made releases, and even later discovered we had made some Dianetic Clears.
We had no Internet, and we bought LRHL. Ron Hubbard’s handwritten copy of 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 ’55 so he could raise money to have it printed in a book form. We paid $100 for a lifetime membership to help him get money together to keep the show on the road. The early Churches were poor, really poor and struggled for rent, paying it late.
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 started in homes, living rooms, basements and went from there to store fronts. We didn’t have the concept then of “rich pc”, but a lot of auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) got done. We didn’t even have a Bridge1. the route to Clear, the Bridge , which we call the Classification, Gradation and Awareness Chart. (Aud 107 ASNO) 2. a term originating in early Dn days to symbolize travel from unknowingness to revelation. (Aud 72 ASNO). to discuss or fight about. It was the participation that brought the subject alive.
In that way, we haven’t changed. Without participation, there is no Scientology.
Patricia Krenik, January 8, 2013, AD 63
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