And didn’t he leave his successor in a jam, without a supply of fresh carrots – new and improved carrots, even – to dangle in front of followers, like the founder had relied on to keep things going? Of course Miscavige has committed some cardinal sins with things like the SHSBC – which from what I hear is another mess of sorts he inherited.

“Don’t ever romanticice trauma…” invites strange connotations. Is what you’re saying the same as never romanticize torture? That is also like saying Himmler wasn’t the problem, Hitler was.
Miscavige personally invented the finger declare and the Hole. How many wasted lives and careers did that cost?

It could also be suggested, the Alternate Route to Clear is not alternate at all, especially illustrated by that LRH ED, probably for the same reasons as the BC & CL8 have been abolished. It’s so much easier, with less technical proficiency required to run Dianetics than to train Power auditors and have students on the BC & CL8 questioning the legitimacy of Miscavige’s interference in technical matters. Remember what Miscavige did to Hubbard’s Saint Hill technical staff? He declared them, plus eventually declared Hubbard’s personally trained CL12s. Power process commands are relatively simple in nature & they wouldn’t be understood or impinge upon the uneducated or general PC coming up the line through a squirreled org. Quickie grades destroyed everything anyway at one point & brought Hubbard back on lines to sort out but as soon as he left Miscavige rolled his sleeves up and dismantled everything that even came close to what did make people feel good about Scientology. I remember the saying – “if it isn’t fun, it isn’t Scientology,” and that seemed to disappear around the time insane regging and recruitment became common place. Co-incident with the release of SOLO NOTS. The big carrot! It revitalized the desire… and set the one way trap.
Miscavige did well is undoing everything. He is the ultimate squirrel. Then again, Hubbard’s true colors, dirty washing and his insanely prejudiced policies are now on show for all to see. He was a crack pot!

I agree. I know I did prior to services and again on the purif. I guess the confusion and gross invalidation comes from having to fit yourself into a regimen where you’re believed. I don’t believe a strict enforced checklist shoved down someone’s throat is a good thing. Then what does it do for you even when you are eventually believed after paying heaps in time and money or signing your life away. Off to the reg again. Horrible cycle Scientology, pay up, then hurry up and wait for your next breakthrough as written or otherwise endless repairs, ethically and technically until the square peg fits the round hole. Even as Hubbard said, “there is such a thing as beingness but man only believes there is becomingness,” or something like that. Get involved with an org, and they dramatize being man very much so. They don’t want you happy and walking out the door, there’s no money in that.
The administrative overrides the technical in Scientology technology for profit and to cover up the fact that sooner rather than later Scientology technology becomes a system which is all dressed up with no where to go. OT doesn’t exist as a product, it’s wishful thing at best.
That’s my 2c on what I think of that organisation without a single cuss or swear word used.

To Serve Man has been parodied by The Simpsons in one of their Halloween specials.

When you think of it, there is a certain logic to the Clear Cognition.

Before a person first walks into any Scientology organization, or reads Dianetics, he or she doesn’t know anything about any “reactive mind.”

Then when the new person is introduced to the Scn concept of the bank, and accepts this construct, well, right then and there they “mocked it up”

Hubbard certainly did direct several training films, although I can’t recall if it was nine to be precise, but it was around that number.

This did occur. I was there.

These were not good films—they were corny and of low production value. Think “John Waters student film” to get an idea. Yet Hubbard was enthralled with himself as a film director, which seemed to be a Cosplay activity for him as much as anything else.

In his mind, it was he who’d unlocked 75 million year old secrets. How hard could it be to direct a bunch of films? Um, not so fast there, Mr. Savior of the Universe™️.

Indeed, I think Hubbard’s failure as a film Director created a narcissistic crisis within him that contributed to his going into that long decline from which he never recovered.

His failure became evident to him when the dailies were screened, and in that dark room, the raw footage showed just how terrible these films actually were. His narcissism wouldn’t allow him to believe that it was his fault: he was constantly blaming and belittling the Cine crew for anything and everything from willful unhattedness to outright sabotage.

Hubbard’s misplaced ire at his Cine crew even prompted him at least once to threaten to take his name off the films. “A Scientology Tech film by Alan Smithee” Ha!

Several years after Hubbard’s death, that Squirrel, Captain David Miscavige, ordered that these films be redone—a bold and blatant violation of KSW—yet one that actually did Hubbard a favor because truly, the Hubbard directed films were an utter embarrassment to him and all of the Cine crew and every scientologist that he had to watch them and pretend they were “amazing.”

The Hubbard-directed film TR 0-4 was probably the only one that should have been left untouched, but it’s been pulled from being shown because all the actors in it turned out to be SPs, martians or FBI agents.

I have not seen any of the “professionally acted” newer tech films, so I can’t really vouch that they accomplish the purpose of improving auditor training. But I bet they sure look a lot better, and that goes along with Miscavige’s ideal orgs program — not a lot of “tech” happening inside them, but they sure look fancy.

I hear that @Karl Woodrow. I appreciate all that you wrote here, including your own prior efforts to raise questions — logical ones. Of the stuff we studied that works, it was madness to see enforced violations. I figured at least one person in this blog community would be familiar with “To Serve Man.” I’ve never forgotten it!

I observed the same thing you did about the Gat Student Hat Course, Peridot.
While on the BC at ASHO everyone was made to take an excursion to do this sqirrelly S.O. chinese school version. I raised a lot of questions about issue authority and all that, and, because I was a very experienced word clearer, they just kind of put me off in the corner, let me do my thing, and signed off my check sheet. My course supervisors understood and knew that I was correct, but they couldn’t say anything. It was kind of a sad situation.
I do understand why David Miscavige wants students to use the rote, S.O., chinese school method of study and learning.
He is a sociopath who wants blind, obedient, robots.
He does not want people to understand the words they are reading with full conceptual understanding, because if they did, they would understand what he has been up to for the past 30 plus years.
“To Serve Man” ! I took that book out of the library when I was in junior high school and it was great! And Rod Sterling’s film treatment was was great too!
I agree that theme of the book serves as a macabre caricature of D.M.’s main purposes in altering the Student Hat Course.

Nicely written.