As already pointed out in earlier articles, by others and myself, Church management has recently resorted to a new tactic of “reducing” the “freeloader” bills of former SO members in an effort to coerce them back into the fold. But it is presented to people as a “special” favor to them “to help get them back on the Bridge.” While this appears to be a great gesture, I wish to point out that it is an alteration of Scientology policy and categorically is squirreling and criminal as well.

The truth is that 99% of the people who are labeled freeloaders of Scientology, are not and never were. The practice of labeling ANYONE who leaves the Sea Org as a freeloader is not only an abusive and suppressive system in vogue, but is a criminal means of extorting people to pay the church money in order for them to “be in good standing” or “to get back on the Bridge”. Considering that most people who leave staff still wish to progress with their Scientology auditing and training, then it is easy for the Church to extort “freeloader” payments from them first.

These policy excerpts below are what L. Ron Hubbard says, and if you read these, without any tainted views or “this is the way it’s always been,” you will be able to draw these conclusions, or should be able to:

1.     Freeloaders are clearly people who came on staff for a SHORT time period, got trained and then left. In other words, they freeloaded on the organization, which by definition is: “to impose upon another’s generosity or hospitality without sharing in the cost or responsibility involved.” – Webster’s dictionary “One who depends on another for support without reciprocating: syn: bloodsucker, hanger-on, leech, parasite, sponge” – ANSWERS.COM

2.     LRH never said nor did he even hint at that Sea Org members who gave years of their lives to Scientology would even vaguely classify as  freeloaders if they left the SO. Obviously, if someone gives years of their lives they are not freeloading – not by any stretch of the imagination.

The great myth, or false datum which has been palmed-off on Scientologists and Sea Org members is that they are freeloaders if they leave the Sea Org, but the label is both false and suppressive because active contributing SO members could never be classified as such by the very definitions given by LRH in the policy excerpts below or as defined by other authorities above.

When one considers the THOUSANDS of people who have left the Sea Org after 5, 10, 15 or 20 or more years, who have been falsely labeled as freeloaders and extorted to pay the Church before they can be regarded as in good standing again and eligible for services, one can see that it is a criminal activity.  Imagine, you volunteer your services to any other church and one day you decide to leave and they tell you that you must pay them money before you can resume membership. Hello?

The practice is called EXTORTION, a crime, and it is defined as:

1.     To obtain from another by coercion or intimidation. – ONLINE Dictionary

2.    Most states define extortion as the gaining of property or money by almost any kind of force, or threat of 1) violence, 2) property damage, 3) harm to reputation, or 4) unfavorable government action. While usually viewed as a form of theft/larceny, extortion differs from robbery in that the threat in question does not pose an imminent physical danger to the victim. FINDLAW.COM

It is my recommendation that we Keep Scientology Working and not agree to the practice any longer. The policies below were written for 1% of those that in fact do come in to freeload, and that’s where they apply.

KSW means just that, KEEP Scientology Working, and as unsocial or unpopular as it may be to make a stand against this abuse, it must be done. If no one stands up to the neighborhood bully then he gets away with it.  So stand up for your rights and other’s rights!

HCO PL 19  June 1958  FREELOADERS

“If a staff member does leave a TECHNICAL POST WITHOUT GOOD AND SUFFICIENT REASON in the first year of his employment, he is charged $1,000.00 for his training, providing he has not been dismissed.”

“The reason for this directive is the fact that the organization in Washington and London has been occasionally victimized by persons giving their services to the organization for the sole purpose of acquiring training. The expense of this training is such as to make these services useful only after a few months have been spent on staff.”

HCO PL 2 Dec 69R   FREELOADERS

“An SO mission to orgs in the US recently uncovered undermanned orgs as a reason for low stats.

“According to this mission many people had joined staffs, signed contracts, gotten free services and then went off staff. This is nice work if one can get it. It leaves the good guys burdened with tech delivery with no proper income.

“Such contract breakers are to be designated FREELOADERS.”

Written by OUTSIDE THE BOX

Samstag, 21. Auugust 2010, 20:56 Uhr

Der folgende Artikel wurde 1970 von LRH geschrieben und im Auditor-Magazin Nr. 51 veröffentlicht. Tatsächlich war mein Freund, Jeff Hawkins, damals der stellvertretende Herausgeber. In diesem Artikel erklärt LRH, daß mit den Zuwendungen für Training und Auditing ALLE Rechtsangelegenheiten bezahlt  werden sollen, ALLE Expansionsunternehmungen, ALLE Operationen, ALLE Bauprojekte; mit anderen Worten, die „IAS“ ist ein off-policy, erpresserisches Betrugsunternehmen, welches von David Miscavige erfunden wurde, um Scientology- Anhänger auszunehmen. Ihr könnte eine pdf-Kopie des Original-Artikels von LRH hier herunterladen. Natürlich ist das nicht das ganze Magazin, sondern nur ein kleiner Auszug. – Thoughtful

Es würde mich wundern, wenn Sie jemals eine Berechnung angestellt haben, was es kostet, eine neue Sache in diese Welt zu setzten, sie frei von falschen Einflüssen zu halten, dafür zu sorgen, daß sie richtig gemacht wird, mit ihr Fortschritte zu erzielen und sie zu verteidigen.

Was dies anbelangt, was glauben Sie wohl, wie hoch die Kosten für eine Organisation  sind, um eine Stunde Auditing zu liefern?

Ich weiß, daß die Dienstleistungen von Dianetik und Scientology kostenlos sein sollten und ich wünschte, es wäre so.

Ich habe persönlich versucht, meinen Beitrag dazu zu leisten. Tatsächlich wurden keine der Forschungsarbeiten in Dianetik und Scientology  jemals mit den Gebühren für die Organisationen bezahlt. Mit Hilfe meiner Schreibmaschine habe ich die gesamte Forschung selbst finanziert. Sie hätten es tun sollen, haben es jedoch nie gemacht.

Neben den Kosten für die Forschung, habe ich noch nicht einmal die 13,5 Millionen Dollar  eingefordert, die mir Organisationen für die zur Verfügung gestellten Dienste schulden, die 10% (das übliche Autorenhonorar), Vorlesungsgelder, Darlehen und Sonstiges, das ich aus eigener Tasche bezahlt habe.

Da sogar die Lizenzeinnahmen des ersten Buches den Organisationen gegeben wurden, damit sie arbeiten konnten, habe ich nicht einmal das Geringste an diesem Bestseller verdient. Die Taschenbuchausgabe ist in den USA ein erneuter Bestseller in den Zeitungsläden, aber selbst diese Lizenzgebühren fordere ich auch nicht ein. Selbst heute entnehme ich noch weniger Geld, als ein Organisations- Mitarbeiter, und die bekommen sehr wenig.

Ihre Beiträge, die Sie für Dienstleistungen bezahlen, gehen also nicht an mich.

Ein Mitarbeiter der Sea- Organisation hat außer Verpflegung und Unterkunft noch vier (britische) Pfund pro Woche. Wir betreiben unsere Schiffe und Landstationen mit einem Aufwand den ein Buchprüfer nicht glauben würde. Es fließen daher nicht viele Beiträge zu den Organisationen, obwohl diese die volle Last für das Management und die Reinheit der Dienstleistungen zu tragen haben.

Organisationsmitarbeiter arbeiten für sowenig Geld, daß deren Vorgesetzte ab und zu von Vermietern angeschrieben werden, sie sollten das Gehalt der Mitarbeiter erhöhen, damit diese ihre Miete bezahlen können.

Also fließt nicht viel von ihren Beiträgen zu Mitarbeitern.

Gelegentlich kommt eine Organisation oder Mission auf die Idee, hohe Gehälter zu bezahlen. Wir stellen das jedoch schnell wieder ab. Sollten Ihre Beiträge also für kurze Zeit für diesen Zweck verwendet worden sein, dann haben wir diesen Missstand  schnell behoben, da wir eine Geldmotivation auf das Äußerste missbilligen.

Einige Leute am Rande wissen, daß man Milliarden damit machen könnte, wenn man ein vollständiges Monopol über die einzige geistige Technologie auf dieser Welt besitzt, die funktioniert. Aus diesem Grund stehen sie „am Rande.“ Wir verhindern daher, daß Ihre Beiträge in diese Richtung fließen.

Was geschieht also mit Ihren Beiträgen?

—–

Seit 1950 haben sogenannte „ Gruppen für geistige Gesundheit“ dafür gekämpft, Dianetik und Scientology in Verruf zu bringen und ihre Macht einzuschränken.

Seit 19 Jahren haben diese psychiatrischen  Frontgruppen einen fortwährenden versteckten und unterdrückerischen  Kampf gegen uns geführt, indem sie ihren Presseeinfluss, ihre Lakaien bei der Regierung  und ihre Strohmänner dazu benutzen.

Warum? Sie fürchten, daß wenn unser Einfluss zunimmt, sie ihre leichtfertig bereitgestellten Subventionen verlieren und ihre Pläne für eine 1984-Welt zunichte gemacht würden.

Wir hatten nicht einmal mit ihrem Einflussbereich – den Geisteskranken – etwas zu tun. Doch ihre Furcht war so groß, daß sie unfassbare Summen ausgegeben haben, um uns zu zerstören.

Wir wissen nicht nur wer, warum und wo – wir können das mit Dokumenten belegen – wir kennen auch ihre schmutzigen Absichten für diese Welt. Ein Teil Ihrer Beiträge ermöglichen es uns, dieses Beweismaterial zu sammeln.

Schlechte Presse, Untersuchungen, Verbote, das ist nur die Oberfläche, die Sie sehen. Das sind deren Fingerabdrücke.

Darunter tobt ein heftiger Kampf – seit 18 Jahren.

Unsere Presseberater empfehlen uns, das niemals zu erwähnen, da es die „ Öffentlichkeit verängstigen würde“.

Wir sind in der merkwürdigen Lage, die vielleicht einzige, wirksame westliche Sicherheitsmacht zu sein. Wir würden nicht einmal fünf Cent für den gesamten Rest geben.

Wenn die Definition für Regieren lautete, einen geordneten Frieden aufrechtzuerhalten, in dem man seinen Geschäften nachgehen kann, dann existiert mit Sicherheit keine echte Regierung.

Ein Teil Ihrer Beiträge wird also dafür ausgegeben, den angerichteten Schaden zu reparieren, weiterzumachen trotz der Angriffe und die Aktionen gegen den Westen zu annullieren, die von einer sehr erlesenen Auswahl übler Burschen unternommen wurden. Könnten wir dies nicht mit Dokumenten belegen, hätte ich es nicht gewagt, es zu erwähnen.

Es kostet Geld, Fälle bis vor das höchste Gericht der USA zu bringen, wie wir das getan haben. Die Kosten für unsere gerichtliche Verteidigung, wie sie in einem Dutzend Ländern für uns anfallen, sind nicht gerade gering.

Ein Teil Ihrer Beiträge wird also dafür verwendet, das Gebiet [der Scientology] für Sie und die Welt verfügbar zu halten.

Wir arbeiten sehr hart daran, daß unsere Technologie einwandfrei ausgeführt wird. Wir scheuen keine Mühe, zwei Leute in ein Flugzeug zu setzen, u nd sie um die halbe Welt fliegen zu lassen, nur damit die Fallüberwachung und das Auditing in einem Gebiet in Ordnung gebracht wird, so daß Sie Vertrauen in die Dienstleistungen haben können, die Sie bekommen.

Es gehört zur Routine, unsere höchstqualifiziertesten Leute dorthin zu schicken, um „ARK-Brüche von langer Dauer“ im Feld oder auf Verwaltungslinien zu beheben, oder um dafür zu sorgen, dass sie behoben werden.

Ihre Beiträge unterstützen ein ausgedehntes Kommunikationsnetz, mit dem wir uns schnell um die Technologie, sowie um die Administration kümmern können.

Erst kürzlich wurde mit ein Teil Ihrer Beiträge eine Untersuchung eines rückständigen Landes gestartet, um dort sehr schnelle Ausbildungsmethoden einzuführen, damit seine Bewohner von der Steinzeit auf den heutigen Stand gebracht werden können. Das „Friedens-Corps“ war auch dort. Ausgestattet mit einem komfortablen Geldpolster der Regierung bauten sie Häuser für eine große Baufirma, mit ansehnlichem Profit. Wir jedoch, ohne solche Gelder, begannen mit der effektiven und tatsächlich benötigten Arbeit, um den Menschen zu helfen.

Ein kleiner Teil Ihrer Beiträge heilte ein Gebiet, das im Auftrag der Amerikaner von der Amerikanischen Marine verwüstet worden war.

Kleine Summen Ihrer Beiträge heilen eine Menge Dinge in der ganzen Welt.

Aber der größte Teil Ihrer Beiträge verbleibt direkt in Ihrem Gebiet. Er wird dafür eingesetzt, damit Training und Auditing und Daten für die Nachfolgenden zur Verfügung stehen, erstens, dadurch, daß Ihr Beitrag die Org dort erhält, zweitens, indem er dafür sorgt, daß jene Nachfolgenden von ihr Kenntnis bekommen und drittens, indem man alles dafür Mögliche unternimmt, damit das Training und Auditing, welches sie bekommen, standardgemäß und effektiv ist.

Ihr Beitrag hält Ihre Org am Leben und am Funktionieren  – und macht die Umgebung sicher.

Das ist nicht leicht, wenn man wiederholt so bekämpft wird, wie wir es werden.

Stufenweise, Stück für Stück, nehmen wir den Druck von unseren Organisationen. Stufenweise, mit Sicherheit und Bestimmtheit verlieren diese Schurken ihre Macht in der Welt.

Hätten wir die riesigen Summen, die für „geistige Gesundheit“ bewilligt werden, (und die tatsächlich zu einem großen Teil in ihre eigenen Taschen fließen oder die dazu benutzt werden, jeden anderen zu zerstören), würden wir einen viel, viel, viel größeren Fortschritt machen. Denn dann müssten wir auch nicht gegen die Lügen kämpfen, die dieses Geld in der Presse und der Regierung erkauft.

Aber wir erhalten diese Zuwendungen nicht. Es scheint, daß solche nur denen gegeben werden, die sich mit dem Tod befassen.

Und so, Stück für Stück, indem wir die Beiträge benutzen, die Sie uns für Ihre Dienstleistungen, Ihr Studium und Ihr Auditing geben, erschaffen wir allmählich immer mehr Bereiche geistiger Gesundheit.

Und in dem Ausmaß, wie sich diese Beiträge ausbreiten und die Gemeinschaft Release und Clear machen, vorausgesetzt, wir bleiben wachsam und kompetent, treffen solche Bereiche auf ein Land, einen Kontinent nach dem anderen und wir werden eine sauberere, vernünftigere Welt haben,.

Ihr Beitrag unterstützt die größte Hoffnung, die der Mensch jemals hatte und hält sie am Leben, er unterstützt die Organisationen und die Leute, die lebenswichtig für deren Überleben und Wachstum sind.

Ihr Beitrag bewirkt das, was nötig ist, um die Aufgabe getan zu bekommen.

Danke.

L. Ron Hubbard

Quelle: www.scientology-cult.com, What your fees buy

The following article from Mike Rinder is a followup to the survey we published on August 5, 2010 entitled “Survey: What Impinges?” which you can see here. I want to thank everyone who took the time to contribute answers. – Thoughtful

We Are the IAS…

Vulture Culture

I recently posted a survey designed to discover what caused people to stop supporting the Church of Miscavology and what current Scientologists are disaffected about.

Many responded on Steve Hall’s website, many more sent private emails. Thanks to everyone who participated. There were enough sordid stories to keep a horror movie fan occupied for nights on end.  

The responses may be helpful in reaching out to others. They are summarized below.

First, what impinged on you to start looking (there were 3 questions designed to get these answers and I have combined the results – of course this totals more than 100% as there was no limit on the number of things anyone could mention).

Not too surprisingly, OUT TECH was the most common response. Of the 68% who answered with this, most said it was problems with Clear or being sent back to re-do steps on the Bridge.

64% said it was the VULTURE CULTURE that shoved them out the door. More horror stories of late nite reg visits, money being taken off account without permission, absolutely no concern for Bridge progress – just relentless and incessant “give me your money. All of it. Now. Take a loan and give me more.”

The next highest percentage (36%) was squirrel ETHICS/INJUSTICES. Many mentioned being on the other end of an ethics cycle where the Church protected a big contributor in direct violation of standard policy.

35% said they saw Tommy Davis or the wicked witches LYING on TV or read the over-the-top Freedom Mags. Its always good to know what a great job the Church of Miscavology PR machine does to swell the ranks of those who see the real truth.

And Dear Leader’s IDEAL ORG strategy apparently only fools some of the people some of the time because 33% said they saw the lies as they had been in the orgs and knew they weren’t expanding, in spite of what the Chairman of Bullshit was trying to shove down their throats.

25% also said they saw the INTERNET and various write-ups/KRs from Mary Jo, Jason Beghe, Haydn, Jeff, Sherry, Geir, Paul Haggis, etc. usually after seeing a MEDIA report.

And the other main answers were — the disappearance of management terminals in the church, seeing Dear Leader pretending to be Source or just being himself up close and personal (“unlikable” is the polite term), being forced to read “the Basics,” forced disconnection, mistreatment of staff, and the Glittery Age of Tech Alteration. And just one other noteworthy point – one in twenty said the behavior of Tom Cruise made them start looking for the truth.

Sources of Upset

Now, these responses were interesting, but the real eye opener was: “What things do you know from personal experience are sources of upset from on-lines current Scientologists? (What have you heard others say — not just suspect).”

This question may have gotten the single most uniform response I have ever seen on a survey.

90% (the other 10% were people who said they didn’t speak to anyone currently in the church so had no answer!) said current Scientologists are upset about the VULTURE CULTURE.

This broke down as follows:

62% – Crush regging/IAS creating dangerous environment/no interest expressed in Bridge progress only where is your money/endless phone calls
17% – Prices (mostly cost to do endless OT VII sec checks)
11% – Mandatory events/briefings which are actually just reg events

There were other answers about out tech, disconnection, injustices, Ideal Orgs, no delivery, GAT/Basics, the impossibility of reporting outnesses internally, lies at events and how it doesn’t add up to what is seen in the orgs – but there is a button that is guaranteed to hit home with current church members: REGGING.

And more specifically, regging for the IAS/Org Buildings.

“Lost” LRH Reference

This opens a BIG door. Many have commented in the past that the way to get someone in the church to look is give them an LRH reference. Of course, there is no LRH reference for the IAS or the Ideal Org “strategy” so its hard to show an omitted.

But there is one LRH reference that is exactly on point.  It is something you don’t see referred to in the C of M these days, though it used to be broadly promoted. It is a magazine article LRH wrote in 1970 entitled What Your Fees Buy (title was changed later to “What Your Donations Buy” because fees sounded too commercial). Because this is such an important issue, the full text is made available on Steve’s website at http://www.scientology-cult.com/knowledge-center/419-what-your-fees-buy.html. You will not find it in the OEC or Tech Vols.

To summarize the salient points – LRH says he knows Dianetics and Scientology services should be free and wishes they were so. But what you pay for SERVICES has to cover all manner of expenses as Scientology receives no government handouts. Your fees cover the cost of providing the services (the buildings and staff), the support for Sea Org Management, legal defense and PR, eradicating psychiatry and planetary suppression and implementing 4th dynamic programs to help society. You can now show to any Scientologist what LRH says your fees for SERVICES cover.

Of course Dear Leader, finder of lost tech and stalwart of On Sauciness (for non-Scientologists, Mike is making a pun on “on source” which means to use Scientology in the way it was intended; instead of staying on source, David Miscavige is serving out his own sauce), has thrown this LRH reference out the window. What the hell, its “inconvenient” to current plans. So, let’s lose it – after all, “I am the lost tech king, and it’s good to be the King!”

Today Scientologists are expected to pay the IAS, the Ideal Orgs, CCHR, ABLE and WISE before you buy services. And even if you run that gauntlet and make it to a normal reg, they will try to sell you another set of Basic books or ACCs for your garage storage or to donate to libraries before they show any interest in actually moving you up the Bridge.

But, the picture inside the Vulture Culture is even grimmer. While Scrooge McDuckage sits on his ever growing mountain of gold the subject itself is going to hell in a hand basket.  That mountain is well in excess of a billion dollars – and if someone wants proof of the orders of magnitude, see the IAS 25th anniversary Impact Mag listing ONLY those who attained new Patron statuses just for the event – it totals $92 million. That does not include anyone who has ever become a Patron Gluteus Maximus or any other status at any other time, or annual or lifetime memberships. How much do you think the IAS has sucked out over 25 years?

Now, here is where the depravity really comes in. Dear Leader has become a broken record about how his “Ideal Orgs” are the only thing that will accomplish planetary clearing. In fact, he has conditioned the release of the mythical OT IX and X on all orgs becoming “Ideal”. And of course, an “Ideal Org” is a MEST item, not a Saint Hill size org. A lavish building. It’s why all the vultures circle – to get the MONEY to buy and renovate the building in order to make another “Ideal Org”. You cannot be an Ideal Org unless you have a new fancy building including the “Fully Automated Robot Television™ Public Divisions” (FART).

Burning Question

So here is the burning question every Scientologist should be asking.

If you could actually handle this planet and move people on to the highest OT levels (people who have been waiting for 20 years) by creating Ideal Orgs everywhere – why not BUY THEM FROM THE BILLION+ DOLLARS YOU ALREADY HAVE? (Granted, Dear Leader doesn’t let on how much money he has, but any blind bat with a calculator could read the IAS glitzfest mags and see the orders of magnitude)

If there are 100 orgs needing buildings (and there are certainly NOT more than that as there hasn’t been a new org in 20 years) and you allocated $5 million to each (which will buy and renovate a palace in most cities where there are orgs all the most expensive cities except Tokyo and Paris are done), that’s only half a billion? Wouldn’t even use half of McDuckage’s mound of gold (and just think of the massive income those orgs would generate, flourishing and prospering as they would be AND Dear Leader would still own all the property!) So, why not do this to save the planet?

Because it is predicated on a HUGE lie. These buildings do NOT make an org that flourishes and prospers. They send 50 Sea Org Missionaires to force some stats out of the latest ones for a video and the majority languish below make-break point. Invite anyone to visit the original pilot Ideal Org – the one everyone else is supposed to pattern their expansion on: Buffalo. It’s a small and failing, empty org in a lavish, oversized and now rundown building. Or stop by San Francisco where teenage body routers in Girl Guide uniforms will entice you into the org to give you free energy saving lightbulbs and then try to convince you to take a FART tour. Or, or, or.

But, I am afraid, it is even worse than this. Dear Leader is seeing that his sales pitch is starting to wear thin. It is becoming obvious as more and more “Ideal Buildings” are bought that this is NOT clearing the planet. So, what’s the new line for the Vulture Culture?  Donate to the IAS so they can make a stable planet so we can build Ideal Orgs!!! Whatever happened to making a safe planet through delivery of Scientology? That’s what LRH said.

So, you want to impinge on those who are still blinded by the bs?  Hit them where THEIR BPC is boiling. And give them an LRH reference, and some logic that cannot be denied, because it all comes right out of Dear Leader’s mouth and his publications.

And hopefully enough people can be woken up before what was formerly known as the Church of Scientology becomes just a bunch of empty palaces with the only sign of “life” being the hollow sound of videos reverberating off the perfectly decorated walls.

Written by Mike Rinder

To see the original survey from August 5, 2010 entitled “Survey: What Impinges?” which you can see here.

Click here to see the magazine article LRH wrote in 1970 entitled “What Your Fees Buy”

The famous “duck test,” attributed to “Hoosier Poet” James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), goes something like this: “When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”

The Church of Scientology likes to style itself as a “religion.” But does it walk and talk like a religion?

Over the last year, revelations by former insiders indicate that Scientology is acting like anything but a religion. But lately, it’s not just former staff who are revealing some very un-religious behavior, it’s the Church itself. They are so busy denying everything that they perhaps haven’t noticed what they’ve admitted to.

Case in point: when former RTC insider John Brousseau blew the Int Base, he took with him his own personal photographs, taken with his own camera, of David Miscavige’s private gym, his personal tanning table, and his custom motorcycle. So Church minion Warren McShane swore out a complaint to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. The Church is now denying that McShane ever made such a complaint (despite it being public record). And no wonder. Here are some of the gems.

The complaint stated that photos of Tom Cruise’s and David Miscavige’s lavish custom motorcycles were “proprietary in nature related to the internal operations and projects of the Church of Scientology.” So making custom motorcycles for the Church leader and for its biggest contributor is a Church project? Really? And that is a religious project because…?

The complaint goes on: “JB’s internet computer was different from other employees, in that it did not have any filters and JB could search the internet without restrictions.” Ah. So other employees of the Church cannot search the internet without restriction and have filters on them. Sounds very religious to me.

And this: “His ability to come and go from the facility is in contrast to other church members/employees, who do not enjoy the same freedom of movement.” Which is a nice way, I guess, of saying that they are on lockdown and cannot leave the Base without permission or come and go as they please. Sure, religions lock people up all the time.

And there’s more: “Mr. McShane told me RTC had previously contracted with a private security firm in the State of Texas, to monitor Mr. Rathbun’s activities.” Sure, using parishioner donations to hire private detectives to follow errant members. Very religious.

And here’s the famous “blow drill” verified:  “Mr. McShane summoned (4) church members/employees who know JB the best and sent them to Texas to attempt to contact him and perhaps persuade him to return to the facility in Hemet, CA.”

Then there was the so-called  legal “victory” in the Headley case, well summarized in this article

The article notes that “the alleged abuses themselves, which the church once tried to hide, have again become a matter of public record.”

“Most organizations would consider the practices themselves to be a failure, and they would take steps to persuade the world that real change was taking place to prevent further abuses. For Scientology, winning the right to continue these behaviors is considered ‘victory.’”

“Other practices that made it into court records include:

• Sleep and food deprivation of Sea Org employees;
• Heavy and demeaning manual labor as punishment;
• Screening and censorship of employee communications;
• Threats of job loss for those who refuse abortions;
• Physical and procedural restrictions on the ability of Sea Org employees to leave;
• Church-enforced “Disconnection” (utter rejection) of former Sea Org employees by their families; and
• Harsh discipline against Sea Org employees who voice a desire to leave.”

And let’s not forget the Church rebuttal to the first of the Saint Petersburg Times exposés.

The article notes that “Davis said his own internal investigation found that Rathbun attacked 22 Sea Org members in the years before he left the church — 50 instances in all.

“The violence played out at the church “base” outside Los Angeles in 2003 and 2004, the church says….Back at the base, the church said, Rathbun instituted a ‘reign of terror.’”

So while denying that Miscavige ever beat anyone (despite dozens of eyewitnesses coming forward), they do admit that the Church tolerates an environment of physical abuse.

So its not just detractors accusing the Church of bad behavior. In a desperate attempt to stem the tide of truth, Church spokespeople are losing track of who has told what lies, and are starting to inadvertently admit the truth about what goes on.

So let’s summarize. Have you ever heard of  a religion that:

• Physically and emotionally abuses its staff?
• Imprisons staff  in re-education camps?
• Uses heavy and demeaning manual labor as punishment?
• Uses parishioner donations to support the leader’s lavish lifestyle?
• Enforces abortions and divorces on its staff?
• Screens and censors employee communications?
• Deprives its staff of food and sleep?
• Restricts the freedom of movement of staff, and chases after them if they leave?
• Spies on whistleblowing ex-members with private investigators hired with Church funds?
• Disconnects families?

Does that sound like a religion?

Or does that sound like a cult?

“If it walks like a duck…”

The subject of Floating Needles has undergone some “fine drubbings” in the Church of Miscavige.  Much like “disconnection”, “security checking” and “fair game”.  However, the drubbing of this one meter phenomenon, the “free needle” is an egregious attack on the technology of auditing that in some ways outstrips any other single alteration, perversion and outright reversal of L. Ron Hubbard’s body of work that has been perpetrated by David Miscavige in the past three decades.  That is because this hits at the heart of results.  For any person familiar (or not)  with the policy Keeping Scientology Working, this assault on results is essential to subvert the entire subject.

I am not attempting in this article to present every single piece of information on the meter or its manifestations and their use in Dianetics and Scientology. This is not a substitute for a full study of and practice with the meter.

I will present the several issues that define and describe the manifestation of a Floating Needle.  They are few and the topic was completely covered by LRH with no need of interpretation or refinement by David Miscavige.

L. RON HUBBARD’S DEFINITIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF A FLOATING NEEDLE

The first thing I’d like to do is provide some clear definitions of terms used to describe the meter manifestation of an FN.

Float: to drift on or through or as on or through a fluid. Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary.

Drift: to move or float smoothly and effortlessly. Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary.

The first instance I have found where this term appears in a Hubbard authored issue is HCOB 30 June 1960 CREATE AGAIN with this section of that Bulletin: “I would advise help and not help on creations until the needle is floating with no reaction to questions of any kind on them.”

Prior to this occurrence of the term “floating” and subsequent to it, to this day in fact, the needle manifestation of a “float” was referred to as “free” and the earliest description of it was “idle”.

Free: not obstructed, restricted or impeded; not hampered or restricted in its normal operation. Merriam Webster’s Online.

Idle: as an adjective; not filled with activity. As a verb; to move slowly or aimlessly. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.  And in context from the original E-Meter Essentials of 1961; “The needle just idles around and yawns at your questions on the subject.”

The first description I found of this type of needle phenomena is from Journal of Scn Issue 1-G ca. mid-Aug 1952, Electronics Gives Life to Freud’s Theory:

“An idle needle, one which is drifting slightly to the right and slightly to the left very easily and gently, denotes a comfortable status of mind on the part of the patient, and tells the practitioner that he is nowhere near any subject that distresses him, or, if it follows an emotional outburst, tells him that the outburst itself is spent, and that the subject now can be abandoned for the moment.”

15 Oct 58 ACC CLEAR PROCEDURE

“If the meter is “Stage Four” [idle swing, not clear but pc can’t affect meter, which only swings up, sticks, falls and so forth on same pattern—a Stage Four needle has a stick in the top of its oscillation, a clear needle doesn’t]…”

(Note: this is an instance of a “free” needle being referred to as a “clear” needle. LRH compares a Stage 4 needle to a free needle again in HCOB 19 July 62 CLEARING – FREE NEEDLES “A free needle is not a stage 4 needle or an inverted stage 4. It is floating and free.”)

On 21 October 1968 the Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin (the main means of communication in written form of technical data authored or approved by LRH) FLOATING NEEDLES was published. This bulletin was revised on 9 July 1977 however the revision did not include any changes to the description of a Floating Needle. In fact, that description is completely valid to this day, having never been changed, cancelled, limited or altered, by any LRH authored or approved bulletin up until his death in January 1986. A brief excerpt, to include the description of the needle in a “float” is as follows:

“It is the idle uninfluenced movement of the needle on the dial without any patterns or reactions in it. It can be as small as 1” or as large as dial wide. It does not fall or drop to the right of the dial. It moves to the left at the same speed as it moves to the right.”

One year later, on 21 July 1978 another issue describing and defining a Floating Needle was issued over LRH’s name, with the title WHAT IS A FLOATING NEEDLE? This was two paragraphs long, consisting in its entirety as follows:

“A floating needle is a rhythmic sweep of the dial at a slow, even pace of the needle.

“That’s what an F/N is. No other definition is correct.”

Eight months later, on 21 Feb 1979, with the final correction and re-issue on 6 May 79, E-Meter Essentials Errata, an HCO Bulletin over LRH’s name added more description to a the section on Free Needles:

“RE: FREE NEEDLES:
Page 17, Section 41:
Delete: “It means an idle, uninfluenced motion, no matter what you say about the goal or terminal. It isn’t just null, it’s uninfluenced by anything (except body reactions).”

The entire section is replaced by: “It means the same as a Floating Needle, which is a rhythmic sweep of the dial at a slow, even pace of the needle, back and forth, back and forth, without change in the width of the swing except perhaps to widen as the pc gets off the last small bits of charge. Note that it can get so wide that you have to shift the Tone Arm back and forth, back and forth, to keep the needle on the dial in which case you have a floating tone arm.”

In case it appears that the description “idle, uninfluenced” for a Floating Needle is somehow or other “cancelled” or nullified by the above E-Meter Essentials Errata, it is to be noted that an LRH HCOB written on 3 May 1980, titled PC INDICATORS, refers to HCOB 21 October 1968R (revised on 9 July 77) FLOATING NEEDLES,  mentioned above, and that the Oct 68 definition of an FN, Floating Needle, Free Needle, is still valid.  THE DESCRIPTION HAS NEVER BEEN CANCELLED OR ANNULLED BY L. RON HUBBARD.

A subsequent issue, HCOB 2 Dec 80 FLOATING NEEDLE AND TA POSITION, reiterates the validity of the Oct 68 issue as follows:

“modifies but does not cancel all HCOBs that mention having to have the TA between 2.0 and 3.0 before the F/N can be considered valid, including: HCOB 21 Oct. 68R FLOATING NEEDLE”

(Note: for non-Scientologists or those unfamiliar with a meter, “TA” refers to the “Tone Arm” one of the operational parts of the meter, on its face, that is a small “arm” or lever, that is adjusted by the auditor to move the needle when it is displaced from a “set” position by a reaction, body or mental, of the preclear. A reading between the marked numbers between which this Tone Arm is moved,  of between 2.0 and 3.0 was up to that time thought to be necessary for a valid Floating Needle. That was found to be an arbitrary requirement and hence is changed in all issues that mentioned it).

There are many issues that have “definitions” of a Floating Needle in them, none of which are cancelled, and all of which describe in various ways, the needle manifestation of a “free” or “floating” needle.  For example, one issue HCOB 10 AUGUST 1976R REVISED 5 SEPTEMBER 1978, R/Ses, WHAT THEY MEAN states the following:

“…the ‘slam’ is a description of the needle violence, meaning it ‘slams’ back and forth. For a time all left-right motions of the needle were considered and called ‘rock slams’ until it was found that a smooth left-right flow was a symptom of release or key-out and this became the ‘floating needle’.”

By defining clearly in the 21 July 78 issue WHAT IS A FLOATING NEEDLE?, a Floating Needle, LRH did not state that every other description or piece of valid data relative to the needle manifestation was cancelled or invalid. Indeed, he refers to various other references, describing the Floating Needle, following this 21 July definition and none of these valid LRH issues cancel or nullify these various descriptions. They remain valid. They ARE valid. In fact, LRH wrote every one of them.  

There is however one issue he DID NOT WRITE on this subject.

DAVID MISCAVIGE’S DEFINITION OF A FLOATING NEEDLE

“HCOB” 21 July 78R, (revised and rewritten) was compiled by Sue Koon of LRH Research and Compilations, a division of the senior management organization of Scientology, Commodore’s Messenger Organization International, for David Miscavige, who was the final authorization for its publication.  This issue was put out on 8 October 2000, some 14 years after LRH died, and some 9 years after the same David Miscavige issued the final collection of all LRH authored bulletins, the Technical Volumes of 1991.

This issue, NOT WRITTEN AND NOT APPROVED by L. Ron Hubbard, is prefaced with the following:

“(Revised 8 October 2000 to include the full LRH definition of floating needle. LRH originally wrote this HCOB on 21 July 1978. In February of 1979, when updating the book, E-Meter Essentials, he augmented the definition with additional text. The full text, as it appears in E-Meter Essentials, is hereby issued in this HCOB. Revisions in script.)

The text from E-Meter Essentials that is interpolated by Sue Koon/DM, is the description of the needle as it widens in its float during the attainment of what is technically referred to as an End Phenomena of a process or the running of an Engram chain in Dianetics. It is however only part of that specific End Phenomena, and the remainder of the EPs (there are several items to look for when determining a valid EP, and for various processes or actions taken in an auditing session), are covered fully in several applicable LRH authored bulletins.

In other words, a description of an EP is interpolated in a definition of a Floating Needle.  These are two distinct technical points that are NOT the same.  Else, LRH himself would have said so, and he would have written the original HCOB to state as much. He didn’t.

(LRH did write HCOB 20 Feb 1970 FLOATING NEEDLES AND END PHENOMENA which describes in full the complete End Phenomena in Dianetics and Scientology processes along with HCOB 21 March 1974 END PHENOMENA, which further clarifies these EPs and distinguishes clearly the various different EPs of the various actions taken in Dianetics and Scientology.  For instance, the EP of handling an ARC break or Present Time Problem, as addressed at the beginning of an auditing session, or in a Cramming session, is specific and different than the EP of a major Grades process or the running of a Dianetic engram, as is the manifestation of the Floating Needle for each one of these actions relative to its intended result and EP.)

L. Ron Hubbard DID NOT write HCOB 21 July 78R.  He DID NOT ADD the material he wrote to replace the material of the 1961 edition of E-Meter Essentials to the issue he did write and then state: “That’s what an F/N is. No other definition is correct.”

By doing so, placing this data OUT OF CONTEXT, David Miscavige has re-defined a Floating Needle in an issue David Miscavige directed to be written, and approved over L. Ron Hubbard’s name.  LRH did not direct, nor approve any such issue dated 21 July 78, revised/rewritten on 8 Oct 2000.  L. Ron Hubbard NEVER defined a Floating Needle as described in this fraudulent 8 October rewrite of his bulletin.  IT IS NOT LRH’S DEFINITION OF A FLOATING NEEDLE.

It is therefore, by definition, NOT A PART OF VALID SCIENTOLOGY TECHNOLOGY.  To qualify for that it would have to have been written and/or personally approved by LRH.  He categorically did neither on the 8 Oct 2000 issue David Miscavige ordered and approved.

WHY DOES THE NEEDLE FLOAT?

To appreciate just how potentially catastrophic this non-LRH definition of a Floating Needle is it will help to understand WHY the needle floats in terms of mental/spiritual phenomena AND technically in terms of electro-magnetic manifestations. That is, what is happening with the person on the cans and the meter that results in the manifestation of a Floating/Free needle?

HCOB 17 March 1960 STANDARDIZED SESSIONS

“The basic freeing action of auditing depends upon the separation of thought from form,  matter, energy, space and time and other life.

“We see in “science” as currently practised a nearly total identification by the “scientist” of mass with thought. “Man from mud” is a natural conclusion by anyone
who has all his thought bound up in mass.

“The reason a clear’s needle is so free (and you’ve seen, certainly, how an E-Meter needle gets sticky, then freer and freer) is that his thought is separated from a matter,
energy, space, time consequence.

“The “dead-in-’is-’ead” case is totally associating all thought with mass. Thus he reads peculiarly on the meter. As he is audited he frees his thinkingness so that he can
think without mass connotations.

“What auditing is doing is making the preclear think key thoughts until they can be thought without creating or disturbing matter, energy, space and time.”

HCOB 30 April 1960 ACC TRs, which states:

“6. Free Needle: A needle which shows none of the reactions described above. It floats back and forth easily, registering only the body, its breathing, heartbeats, etc. While needle free, no facsimiles are being impinged on the body.

“Note: All movements may vary in amplitude (width of reaction on dial at given sensitivity) and velocity (speed of needle movement — units if dial/instant of time) from pc to pc, or from time to time on the same pc, particularly under processing.”

The above clearly describes what occurs with the person on the cans and the meter when the needle “floats” or is “free”.  Read it again.  THAT IS WHY THE NEEDLE FLOATS.

(NOTE: Why does an ARC Break needle float? HCOB 5 OCTOBER 68 ARC BREAK NEEDLES: “A real F/N means the pc is out the top, an ARC Br needle means he’s out the bottom. He ceases to mock up, through grief.”)

THE FALLACY OF AN ARBITRARY NUMBER OF MOTIONS OF A FLOATING NEEDLE

If you have clearly understood the foregoing, in particular, why the needle floats, then adding the following LRH authored HCOB should help to point out the fallacy of requiring a specific number of swings back and forth, or any arbitrary number of oscillations of the needle to have a “real FN”.

HCO BULLETIN OF 21 MARCH 1974 END PHENOMENA (Ref: HCO B 20 Feb 1970,“Floating Needles and End Phenomena”):

“Different types of auditing call for different handlings of End Phenomena.

“End Phenomena will also vary depending on what you’re running.

“The definition of END PHENOMENA is “those indicators in the pc and meter which show that a chain or process is ended”. Misapplication of this definition can
result in underrun and overrun processes or actions and the pc snarled up with BPC.”

(BPC; by-passed charge. Charge that has been restimulated but not disclosed.)

The issue goes on to state:

“In Dianetics, the EP of a chain is erasure, accompanied by an F/N, cognition and good indicators. You wouldn’t necessarily expect rave indicators on a pc in the middle
of an assist, under emotional or physical stress until the full assist was completed though. What you would expect is the chain blown with an F/N. Those two things
themselves are good indicators. The cognition could simply be “the chain blew”.

“In Scientology, End Phenomena vary with what you’re auditing. An ARC Broken pc on an L-1C will peel off charge and come uptone gradually as each reading
line is handled. Sometimes it comes in a spectacular huge cog and VVGIs and dial F/N, but that’s usually after charge has been taken off on a gradient. What’s expected is an
F/N as that charge being handled moves off.

“In Ruds it’s the same idea. When you’ve got your F/N and that charge has moved off, indicate it. Don’t push the pc on and on for some “EP”. You’ve got it.

“Now a major grade process will run to F/N, Cog, VGIs and release. You’ll have An ability regained. But that’s a grade process on a set up flying pc.”

Further the issue says:

“OTs and EPs

“An OT is particularly subject to F/N abuse as he can blow things quite rapidly. If the auditor misses the F/N due to too high a sensitivity setting or doesn’t call it as he’s
waiting for an “EP”, overrun occurs. It invalidates an OT’s ability to as-is and causes severe upsets.

“This error can also stem from auditor speed. The auditor, used to auditing lower level pcs or never trained to audit OTs, can’t keep up with the OT and misses his F/Ns
or reads.

“Thus overruns occur and charged areas are bypassed.

“This could account for those cases who were flying then fell on their heads with the same problems that blew back again.”

(Note: L1C is a prepared list to handle preclear upsets. Also note, the meaning of “fly” as in “fly a rudiment” is covered in the Tech Dictionary under “flying needle”; “So it’s just a colloquialism; fly a needle, float a needle, F/N, that’s all.” LRH, Class VIII tape #2.)

From HCOB 20 Feb 1970, Floating Needles and End Phenomena, referred to in the above issue one will read:

“The reason this subject of floating needles gets into trouble is that the auditor has not understood a subject called END PHENOMENA.

“END PHENOMENA is defined as “those indicators m the pc and meter which show that a chain or process is ended”. It shows in Dianetics that basic on that chain
and flow has been erased, and in Scientology that the pc has been released on that process being run. A new flow or a new process can be embarked upon, of course,
when the END PHENOMENA of the previous process is attained.”

“Floating needles are only ONE FOURTH OF THE END PHENOMENA in all Dianetic auditing.”

“If you watch a needle with care and say nothing but your R3R commands, as it begins to float you will find:
1. It starts to float narrowly.
2. The pc cognites (What do you know—so that’s . . .) and the float widens.
3. Very good indicators come in. And the float gets almost full dial, and
4. The picture, if you inquired, has erased and the needle goes full dial.

That is the full End Phenomena of Dianetics.”

NOTE: now compare the above description of the End Phenomena of Dianetics with the materialfrom E-Meter Essentials Errata of Feb 79:

“It means the same as a Floating Needle, which is a rhythmic sweep of the dial at a slow, even pace of the needle, back and forth, back and forth, without change in the width of the swing except perhaps to widen as the pc gets off the last small bits of charge. Note that it can get so wide that you have to shift the Tone Arm back and forth, back and forth, to keep the needle on the dial in which case you have a floating tone arm.”

AND this additional data, from that exact same section of E-Meter Essentials Errata:

“It can occur after a cognition, blowdown of the Tone Arm, at a release point, or on the erasure of a Dianetic chain.”

Each action has its own result. Not all actions have the same result. Not all actions have the same EP. To define a Floating Needle as David Miscavige has defined it in his 8 October 2000 “HCOB” he has collapsed all EPs with all EPs in an A=A=A.

How many swings back and forth does a Floating Needle have to have to be an FN on “flying” or “FNing” a Rudiment such as an ARC Break? Does it have to go “back and forth, back and forth” and “widen as the pc gets off the last small bits of charge”, as described in the LRH authored HCOB of 20 Feb 70 FLOATING NEEDLES AND END PHENOMENA and the EP of a Dianetic chain?

Is a Rudiment the same as a Dianetic chain? Is it the same as a Grade Process in Scientology? Is a Cleared Word, which has an FN that indicates it is clear to the person, the same as a Dianetic chain, a Scientology Grade or a rudiment?

Is there an arbitrary minimum number of back and forths or swings that an FN has to have to be a real Floating Needle? Can this be “derived” from any statement such as “back and forth” as LRH writes in the issue R/Ses, What They Mean above or “back and forth, back and forth” as he describes in the section replaced in E-Meter Essentials and the CONTEXT of that section itself and what it actually replaced? (and that’s a direct suggestion to read the ENTIRE issue E-Meter Essentials Errata to see exactly what it did replace).

Is it possible to have a one swing FN?

To answer that question one must consider ALL the data on the meaning and significance of an FN including what happens electronically as described above and all the parts of the specific End Phenomena of the specific action being accomplished.

A person could have a “fleeting FN” as per HCOB 23 Nov 73RA DRY AND WET HANDS MAKE FALSE TA.

He could have an FN that was so brief that whatever charge there was there moved off, the needle floated, and almost as quickly another charge/thought/mock-up that results in “creating or disturbing matter, energy, space and time” and thus affects the FN so that it quits after one swing.

How would one know this was an FN and not a clean needle? WELL? To answer this, I will invoke the Supervisor’s Code, HCO PL 15 September 1967, Issue II, point 19:

“The Supervisor will never give a student opinions about Scientology without labeling them thoroughly as such; otherwise, he is to direct only to tested and proven data concerning Scientology.”

It is MY opinion that it would be difficult to tell a one swing FN from a clean needle, moving left or right, however it is not impossible and one would have to pay attention to the person’s indicators, state of case, and the exact result one is seeking to achieve on whatever action one is taking, considering the HCOBs on End Phenomena.

Other than that, I have not found and there does not exist any LRH data or reference in any materials that assigns an arbitrary number of “back and forth” for an FN to BE an FN.

I won’t venture to guess how some people came up with a “three swing” arbitrary minimum for an FN to be an FN any more than I will venture to guess what exact incident David Miscavige is stuck in to qualify him as a Suppressive Person.

FURTHER READING

There are several references that I did find in my study of FNs that are of interest. These are by no means all of the references that refer to this needle manifestation

HCOB 5 May 1960 HELP

“The first thing to do is to put the preclear on a meter. If you don’t have a good meter, and you don’t know what a meter does, order one fast and get instruction. Discuss help with the preclear, and note the needle reactions. If the needle tended to stiffen and stick on any discussion of help, then you have your work set out for you. If the needle remains free and continues to be free on the subject of help, no matter what you run or how you discuss it, of course the button remains free.”

HCOB 30 June 1960 CREATE AGAIN

“I would advise help and not help on creations until the needle is floating with no reaction to questions of any kind on them.”

HCOB 29 June 64 CENTRAL ORG AND FIELD AUDITOR TARGETS

“And a person’s Cause Level will rise. Their psychosomatics key out (for what is a psychosomatic but an inability to hold life off?). They feel better. They begin to live. Their needles get floppy.”

HCOB 2 Apr 65 THE ROAD TO CLEAR

“People have been unable to define release to their own satisfaction. I find now a RELEASE is a person who has been able to back out of his “bank”. The bank is still there but the person isn’t sunk into it with all its somatics and depressions. The E-Meter reads at the Clear read! The needle of the meter is floppy. This is a simulated clear. We called it a “keyed out clear” quite properly. But it isn’t a clear I know now, it’s a RELEASE. The person has been released from his reactive mind. He still has that reactive mind but he’s not in it. He is just released from it.”

HCOB 2 Aug 65 RELEASE GOOFS

“1. Overrun

The first goof relating to Releases is the one done for 15 years—running past a free, floating needle on any type of process. THIS is the goof that held back all Scientology. And if it continues to be done, known as well as it is now that you mustn’t, one can only consider it suppressive—not just ignorant—as who now doesn’t know you wreck a Release by running past the floating needle?

“5. Not Recognizing a Floating Needle

Floating needle, free needle are the same thing. What does one look like? Once you’ve seen one you’ll never make a mistake on one again. For it floats. It ceases to register on the pc’s bank. It just idly floats about or won’t stand up even at low sensitivity.”

HCOB 4 DEC 78, HOW TO READ THROUGH AN FN

“An F/N speeds up or slows down or does different things while still remaining an F/N…”

FINAL THOUGHT

I suppose I couldn’t leave this topic without a comment or two on the apparent interpretation that abounds of the LRH definition of a Floating Needle.  Again, this simple statement is one sentence long: “A floating needle is a rhythmic sweep of the dial at a slow, even pace of the needle.”

What about this meaning of “rhythmic”?

The American Heritage Dictionary online defines “rhythm” as: Movement or variation characterized by the regular recurrence or alternation of different quantities or conditions.

“Rhythmic” is defined as: Of, relating to, or having rhythm.

If the needle moves in one direction and alternates its direction, it, by the above definition has “rhythm” and is “rhythmic”.  The direction is a “quantity or condition”.

I have offered my OPINION, and labelled it thoroughly as such, on the potential difficulty, but not impossibility of a “one swing FN”.  In order to grasp this fully, one would have to study and understand the references given herein.  Other than that instance, I can’t for the life of me understand how anybody can interpret the above definition to require an arbitrary number of swings to be “rhythmic”.

In that light, the following reference by L. Ron Hubbard, in full.

Any arbitrary entered into any line is a way to stop that line.

An auditor doing a job of auditing suddenly enters an arbitrary such as “The pc now has a grief charge so he must have a withhold as I’ve just cleaned up ARC breaks.” Or any such wild think. This arbitrary would stop that pc’s case right now.

You get all there is to know about tech from HCOBs, tapes, books.

This is all.

Here’s one—when the needle on an E-Meter read in the response to an auditor’s question, all you know is that the needle on the E-Meter read. That’s all you know. Now in the next few seconds you will prove out, as to whether the read was to the question or to something else like a protest. To assume anything else in regard to meter reads is an arbitrary and will close up that pc with a bang.

That’s the data. Knock off all the arbitraries NOW.

Punch in hard standard tech. Standard tech is that tech which has absolutely no arbitraries.

L. RON HUBBARD
Founder

DRILLS

Using a section from HCO POLICY LETTER OF l0 FEBRUARY 1966R, ISSUE II, REVISED 22 FEBRUARY 1979 TECH RECOVERY revisions in script, (Ref: HCOB 7 Feb 79R, E-METER DRILL 5RA—CAN SQUEEZE), there is a drill any person can do to aid them to see the character of the needle when it is floating.

“Note that a meter run with too high a sensitivity setting does not give a marked change when the needle floats. A meter cranked up to 128 sensitivity looks like a floating needle all of the time at a casual glance on most pcs. On the other hand, if the sensitivity is set too low then the free needle may not be seen. Thus the sensitivity must be set for 1/3 of a dial drop on the can squeeze for each session. Then a free needle will be plainly visible.”

The Book of E-Meter Drills also has material on applicable drilling to ‘spot an FN’.  

ALSO, as mentioned by LRH in HCOB 2 Aug 65 RELEASE GOOFS : “Floating needle, free needle are the same thing. What does one look like? Once you’ve seen one you’ll never make a mistake on one again. For it floats. It ceases to register on the pc’s bank. It just idly floats about or won’t stand up even at low sensitivity.”

Jim Logan

The following was written by LRH in 1970 and published in the Auditor Magazine No. 51. In fact, my friend Jeff Hawkins was the Assistant Editor at the time. In it, LRH explains that donations for training and processing is supposed to pay for ALL legal activities, ALL expansion activites, ALL operations activities, and ALL building projects, in other words the “IAS” is an off-policy racketeering scam invented by David Miscavige to rip off Scientology parishioners. You can download a pdf copy of LRH’s original article here. Of course this is not the entire magazine, just a small excerpt of it. – Thoughtful

I wonder if you’ve ever estimated how much it costs to launch a new subject into the world, keep it pure, keep it going right, make progress and defend it.

For that matter, what do you suppose it costs an organization to deliver an hour of processing?

I know that Dianetic and Scientology services should be free and I wish they were.

Personally I have tried to do my part in this. None of the researches of Dianetics and Scientology were ever actually paid for out of organizational fees. With my typewriter I paid for the research myself. Occasionally orgs were supposed to but they never did.

Independent of research costs, the 13 1/2 million dollars that orgs owed me for services rendered, 10% (the usual author’s royalties), lectures, loans, things paid out of my own pocket I never collected.

As even the royalties of the first book were given to orgs for their work, I didn’t even make anything out of that best seller. Its paperback is again a newsstand best seller in the U.S. but I don’t collect those royalties either. Even today I draw less than an org staff member and they draw very little.

So the fees you pay for service do not go to me.

A Sea Org member draws only about four pounds a week and his room and board. We run our ships and stations at a cost that would make a cost accountant disbelieve it. So not much of your fee goes to them even though they bear a full burden of management of pure services.

Org staff members over the world work for so little that Execs occasionally get letters from their landladies demanding orgs increase their pay level so staff members can pay their rent.

So not much of your fees goes to them.

Occasionally some org or franchise goes on a big kick of high pay. We very soon pull the rug out from under that. So if your fee went that way for a brief period we corrected the outness fast as we frown on money-motivation like a thundercloud.

Some fringe fellows know that if you had a complete monopoly on the only workable mental technology on the planet you could make billions. That’s why they’re on the “fringe”. So we prevent your fee from going in that direction.

Then were does your fee go?

Since 1950. So-called  “mental health” groups have fought to discredit and decrease the power of Dianetics and Scientology.

For 19 years, using their press control, government stooges and puppets, these psychiatric front groups have conducted a continuous suppressive covert operation against us.

Why? They feared that as our power increased they would lose their easy appropriations and fail in their plans for a 1984 World.

We were not even in their line of country – the insane. Yet such was their fear, they have spent untold sums to bring about our destruction.

We not only know who why and where with full documentation we also know their sordid intentions for the world. Some of your fee made the work to collect that evidence possible.

Bad press, inquiries, bans, these are the surface you see. Those are their fingerprints.

Below that level it’s a rough fight and has been for 18 years.

Our press consultants tell us we must never mention it as it “frightens the public.”

We are in the weird position of being perhaps the only really effective Western security force. We wouldn’t give five pence for the rest of them combined.

If a definition of governing is maintaining an orderly peace in which business can be conducted, then there sure isn’t any real government.

So a portion of your fee is spent on patching up the damage done, keeping going in spite of attacks and nullifying the actions against the West of a very choice lot of bad hats. If we didn’t have the documentary evidence I wouldn’t dare mention it.

It costs money to bring cases up to US Supreme Court level as we have. The legal defense expenses we have in a dozen countries is not small.

So a portion of your fees goes to keeping the subject available to you and to the world.

We work very hard to keep tech being done well.  It is nothing for us to put two people on a fast plane and send them half around the world to straighten up the Case Supervision and auditing in an area so you can have confidence in the service you get.

It is routine to send the highest class people we have to handle “ARC Breaks of Long Duration” in the field or on admin lines or to see they get handled.

Your fee supports a long and complex set of communication lines by which tech and admin can be cared for rapidly.

A portion of your fee just the other day began a survey of a backward country to introduce high speed educational processes to bring their people quickly from the stone age up to present time. The “Peace Corps” was also there on cushy government funds building houses for a big construction company at a nice profit. But we, unsupported, began the effective work actually needed there to help the people.

A tiny bit of your fee neated up an area ruined for Americans by the American Navy.

Small parts of your fee heal up a lot of things over the world.

But the biggest part of your fee stays right in your area. It is used to make training and processing and data available to the next fellow first by keeping the org there and second by letting him know about it and third by making as sure as possible that the training and processing he gets is standard and effective.

Your fee keeps the nearest org alive and functioning and the environment safe.

It is not easy to do, hit repeatedly as we are.

Gradually little by little we are taking the pressure off our orgs. Gradually surely and certainly the bad hats and losing their own power in the world.

If we had the fantastic sums appropriated to “mental health” (and put largely in their own pockets or used to try to crush anyone else) we would make a lot lot lot more progress. As we wouldn’t also have to fight the lies that money buys into press and government.

But we don’t have appropriations. They are given only to those who deal in death, it seems.

So little by little, using the fees you give us for your service, your training and your processing, we create little by little areas of sanity.

And as these areas spread out, releasing and Clearing the community, if we continue to be alert and competent, perhaps those areas will meet one country, one continent to the next and we will have a cleaner, saner world.

Your fee is supporting and continuing the greatest hope that man had ever had and the orgs and people vital to its survival and increase.

Your fee does what it takes to get the job done.

Thank you.

L. Ron Hubbard