It is a wonderfully documented dismantling of the hype and lies spread about the wonders of GAG II.
While it may not be entirely proper netiquette to republish their whole posting here rather than just giving the link, I believe the important thing is to make the information as widely available as possible and I am pretty certain the powers that be in S Africa will agree.
“Golden Age Of Tech Part II” is a massive fail that accompanies the “ideal” org fail. They go hand in hand and are promoted as being the two pillars of planetary clearing. In fact, they are both dismal failures. The hype isn’t matched in ANY respect by the reality.
And here is more DOCUMENTED PROOF of that fact. Along with a wonderful pictogram of the GAG II circular Bridge which perfectly captures the entire concept at a glance. Whoever put that together deserves a pat on the back.
As you will have seen from the recent posting I did about the Bust At The Top Of The Bridge — the exact same analysis could be done at Flag.
In fact, at the end of this post I have put the FLAG AUDITOR TRAINING COMPLETIONS list and a few subsequent comments.
GAT2 report back……..
This is a lengthy, comprehensive article – we felt it important to supply as much data as possible given the subject matter and the amount of importance and attention on GAT2 and it’s progress internationally. This report focuses mainly on Joburg org, but we have every reason to believe that things may well be similar elsewhere.
So settle in, get your coffee and read on:
Prior to the release of GAT2 in November 2013, amazing claims were being made about how THIS evolution was going to be THE solution to the whole bridge. Here are some of the statements made in emails sent to the field:
This is THE MOST EXCITING time in Scientology and we are all getting ready for Golden Age of Tech Phase II!! Right now JBG Org has more staff training at Flag than ever in our history and the feedback from them is spectacular: Method I done in 1 1/2 to 2 days! Student Hat done in 1 week! Pro Metering done in 10 days!! And all with the full gains! And so it goes… Unbelievable!! – Albert de Beer 8 July 2013
My wife and two others are at Flag training for the new Golden Age of Tech phase II evolution. From what she has told me, and what data is presently publicly available, we are in for an even larger influx of people – old and new alike. – Ian Hammond 1 August 2013
As you may have heard, the release of The Golden Age of Tech Phase II is imminent. With this release will come an unstoppable surge of people rocketing up The Bridge! – Sebastian Howarth 17 September 2013
Seeing as Ideal Orgs are built to accomodate the Golden Age of Tech Phase II, they will be able to train huge numbers of auditors from there on out – giving it the capability of helping the multitudes of people coming to us for solutions to their ruins. Undoubtedly, Orgs that are not yet Ideal will help many people up The Bridge, through their Basics and on up to total freedom – but the point is “Orders of Magnitude”. Only an Org that is Ideal has the facilities and staff compliment necessary to be able to free men and women on the scale that is needed to Clear Mankind. – Sebastian Howarth 17 September 2013
With Golden Age of Tech Phase II, we are putting the Bridge there with 100% Standard Tech and KSW all the way! Yes, when this is released, it will be implemented in every org on the planet simultaneously. But what an Ideal Org will be able to deliver in terms of clearing and the creation of Auditors can’t be compared to a non-Ideal Org. They are two completely different worlds and completely different levels of Keeping Scientology Working. – Ken Krieger 20 September 2013
WE ARE ON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW UNIVERSE. THE MOST MOMENTOUS ERA IN SCIENTOLOGY IS SOON TO BE ROLLING OUT LIKE A TIDAL WAVE ACROSS THE PLANET. – Email from Joburg North 9 October 2013
I have just come back from Flag where I attended an International Executive Directors Conference…. [GAT II] will positively affect every aspect of your life as a Scientologist. And I guarantee you that nothing will be the same again. It will rekindle every loss and every failed purpose you might every have had to go up The Bridge and to expand across your dynamics. This will exceed your wildest dreams of what you imagine Golden Age of Tech II to be…. Golden Age of Tech II will accelerate our expansion beyond anything you could ever imagine…. With Golden Age of Tech II it has been fully worked out that it will be viable to be on staff and that staff will go up The Bridge faster than ever before. – Albert de Beer 10 October 2013.
In the words of COB himself: “The Golden Age of Tech Phase II is not a ‘refinement’ of Golden Age of Tech – it’s a whole new world. No, it does not change the Gradation or Classification Levels. Yes, it does remove any and all arbitraries – in fact, it obliterates them.” – COB RTC
The above is important since our aim is not to belittle the progress that individuals make or the gains they have or even forward progress made by orgs. But we do want to judge the scene against their own claims of what this means. Without their claims and the incessant pleading for funds the progress made is actually ok. Viewed against the claims though, it is very poor.
In one of our earlier articles concerning GAT2, we felt it only fair to give the org/s at least a fighting chance to prove the miracles promised by GAT2.
Well, that time has come, and here is the data we have been able to glean:
Shortly following the release, an email was sent out detailing the length each level was expected to take – we have reproduced this here:
Service Weeks to Complete Notes
| Purification Rundown | 3 | |
| Survival Rundown | 4 | The original schedule stated 1 week to completion, but this is highly unlikely as it states:125 Hours as Auditor,125 Hours as a PCUnlimited number of hoursTo full completion.We therefore doubt the 1 week and have added on another 3 weeks to be fair. |
| Student Hat | 2 | |
| Professional TR’s | 2 | |
| Professional Upper Indoc TR’s | 1 | |
| Professional Metering Course | 2 | |
| Method 1 Co-Audit | 2 | |
| Academy Levels 0 – IV | 10 | |
| NED (Class V) | 3 | |
| Solo Part One(as a Gr IV or V Auditor) | 1 | |
| TOTAL WEEKS TO COMPLETE FROM PURIF TO CLASS V, PLUS SOLO PART ONE | 30 |
GAT2 was launched during the weekend on 22nd/23rd November 2013. 6 months later, (28 weeks to be exact), on the 23rd May 2014, Joburg Org hosted a graduation proudly displaying their “recent” GAT2 completions. The graduation was for both Joburg Day and FDN.
All of the following photos were taken from the Joburg Org’s facebook page which can be seen here.
Some of the photos (about 4 or 5) were indistinct and we couldn’t make them out , so we omitted those – but the bulk of them shown here should give you an idea of the production of the two orgs in the last 6 months:
Purif Rundown:
With the exception of one or two faces we are not familiar with, the majority of Purification Rundown completions were OT’s and other long-time Scientologists (Des Muller, Madeleine Moll, Isabella Ryan, Renie Habib, Pat Habib, Melissa Berman, Mark Berman, Sabina Laktianova, Carol Dell). One glaring outpoint among these pictures is that of Greg Richards who did a purif in 2008 – and then besides a couple of life-improvement courses, never did anything further in Scientology. Here he is again aged 21, redoing the purif.
Processing Completions:
Of the processing actions completed, 4 PC’s are foreigners – not from Joburg Org public. Pictured as well is Scotty Spargo receiving his GRIII Expanded Certificate, but he was done with NED some time ago (pre GAT2), had left Joburg Org and attested to the state of Clear on the 28th February this year. We are not sure why or how he has been included in the “recent GAT2 completions” gallery.
For some reason, the photo gallery also displayed 2 “not so recent” Clears – neither of them South African public (although Corvin is a Joburg staff member), and of course as we cannot deliver the CCRD in this country, both of them had to travel overseas to complete this action. Most of the auditing these two received would have been pre-GAT2, so we are not sure why they are being claimed as “recent GAT2 completions”
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Training Completions
Of all the GAT2 promises made about lightning fast and obliteration of all training arbitraries, this is perhaps the saddest photo gallery of all.
Some special notes:
Ultric Coetzee (left picture, 2nd row down) and his brother were both making some good headway towards becoming auditors. They had completed Method 1 and Student Hat courses in 2011. And yet, here is a picture of Ultric having obviously redone both those courses GAT2 style.
Jenny White (right picture, 2nd row down) has been trying to become a field auditor for close on 5 years now. She took two years to get through her pro-metering course. Finally, in desperation, she went to Cape Town Org and got through this action with no problem. She then went to Saint Hill, but sadly had to return due to the ill-health and subsequent death of her husband. And here she is, proudly holding her Student Hat Certificate – she is back on the hamster wheel, 5 years worth of training and yet to take a PC into session.
Gillian Andersson – Joburg Org staff member, Class V Auditor and Joburg’s Lead C/S. Just completed her GAT2 version of Upper Indoc TR’s.
Isabella Ryan – qualified Course Supervisor and classed Auditor (level not known). She too, has just completed the new GAT2 Student Hat.
The majority of completions consisted of Student Hat, Pro-TR’s and Upper Indoc TR’s completions.
But perhaps the saddest story of all, and the one we left for last is that of Michiel De Mik. Michiel joined staff some time in 2006/7 and was put onto the TTC, At that time, the TTC was a team of some 14 members. He is the only survivor. It took him some time to get into the chair, but finally he made it and started auditing PC’s. In 2012, he became a Hubbard Advanced Auditor (equivalent to Class IV Auditor).
Enter GAT2, and Michiel is on the team that gets sent to Flag.
The result? We will let the following pictures speak for themselves:
In other words, Michiel left Joburg as a Class IV Auditor, did his GAT2 Training, and returned back to Joburg as a Class II Auditor. This is a tragedy of epic proportions.
There were a whole lot of other photos included in the “GAT2 recent completions” page, but the majority of these were basics courses, Life Improvement Courses and other ad-hoc cycles – none of them GAT2. In all, we counted about a dozen of these completions.
Of note, was that two people got certificates for having completed all their Basics – Madeleine Moll and Mike Stern.
Summary
- A number of OT’s and long-term Scientologists have seemingly started at the bottom of the bridge by re-doing previous training already completed, repeating the purif and doing basics or Life Improvement Courses.
- A handful of people (less than 12) attested to processing completions.
- Only a few new faces were seen among all the photos – these people seem to be either Outer-Org Trainees, or new recruits onto staff.
- Not ONE new auditor made in 27 weeks (bear in mind, the supposed training time to get an auditor up to Class V is supposed to be 30 weeks). The ONLY auditors pictured have gone backwards or have had to repeat their previous qualifications and training level.
- Not one South African (i.e. local public) has made it to Clear – and Joburg org (or any other org in South Africa) are still not able to produce Clears.
- Virtually no “brand new” Div6 public were featured
As for the other orgs in South Africa, very little news coming out of those areas, with the exception of this from Pretoria:
The photo above was posted on the 9th May, and that was the last post on the page.
We do also know that Simone Licht, supposed to be training at Flag to be the Extension Course Sup has been there for a year now, with no news of her return. Willem’s son Thinus who was also sent to Pretoria for GAT2 training, is still there. He had a short trip home to spend Christmas with his family and returned to Flag in January – and has been there since.
We have unconfirmed reports that Pretoria org recently lost yet another Supervisor, and that their Tech Division is in serious trouble with only one Sup in the whole org.
If anyone out there has data on how the GAT2 evolution is going in other orgs in South Africa, please send it to us – we are very interested to hear from you!
As a parting gesture, we end with the picto-gram below which should explain it all.
And here is the FLAG AUDITOR TRAINING COMPLETIONS FOR THE PAST 3 MONTHS (or MORE) with the red boxes around them:
The horrendous failure of GAG II is demonstrated once again.
Flag trained 6 Class IV and 5 Class V auditors during this period.
12 Completed Class o. 5 went on to complete Level 1 -3 and 3 completed Level IV.
But you should also note that they report 19 Pro Metering Course Comps and only 3 of them went on to Level 0. Which means the vast majority of them are Supervisor trainees. Which means that virtually all of the people on training are STAFF MEMBERS.
These numbers are pathetic.
Go back and look at the hype that Dear Leader spouted about the wonders of GAG II.
“Small and failing orgs” has been an unofficial category within Scientology management since the 1970s.
That’s the overall expansion of Scientology, they are increasing the number of small and failing orgs.
Miscavige is wearing the hat of WDC for Small and Failing Orgs, and he’s in power on that one of his many double hats.
THE CHURCH OF RECYCLEOLOGY
Back in the good old days I recall a cheapskate idiot who had done the TR0 to 9 course three times in 2 months and he had to be handled b Tech and Qualy on the fact he was not going to go clear doing the same course over and over again in order to save money
If he was still in todays Ideal scene he would probably be getting some sort of award and his name on a stupid piece of wood, along with a very large debt to his bank (reactive) or creditors.
You couldn’t mock it up LOL
I feel bad for the young people in the church now. So many reasons they get short shrift. Two big ones are they have no experience or time track with Scn other than now, so they can’t compare it to how it used to be when it was standard as LRH wrote it and before DM squirreled it. And there are almost no students on the BC and almost no auditors being made now, certainly not in the big numbers that were made in the 80’s and earlier. So they can’t even coaudit their lower bridge or go to a BC student to get their grades etc. That means even young people will have to make tons of money to pay for an over priced bridge. And young staff members? They are promised the bridge when they join staff, and yet how many have actually been able to take advantage of that perk? Not many because if they ever did get approved to get time off to go in session, or time off their moonlight job to go in session after post time, by then they are not sessionable from lack of sleep. And these young kids are the ones who will come out when it crumbles with no job skills, no degree, no way to earn a living in the real world. What a waste of a life.
Congratulations to Corvin van Stone for having attained the State of Clear!
VWD! 🙂
Not so well done on having actively enforced and contributed to the book burnings of the supposedly “old squirrel LRH books” 🙁
Hopefully you are doing well in Australia – and don’t ever forget what despair and damage the NAZI book burnings have caused!
You should be aware of that personally – just think what THE STASI did later on…
ARC
Very revealing and very accurate report of the falsity of GAT II. This picto-gram has an interesting entry “COB Loyalty Checks” which reminded me of an OT VIII who payed for 3 and 1/2 Intensives where only one question was run: “Has COB missed a withhold on you?”
Unfortunately this person was unable to be at graduation to receive her Certificate of “Loyalty Check” as by then she had resigned the Church.
“Method I done in 1 1/2 to 2 days!”
Give me a break.
ANYONE, who has ever audited Method I or even just cleared the words in bulletins on course knows that his is complete bullshit. Not only is this statement “bragging about the speed of delivery” ….. it is also a lie.
And if they are actually pretending to do this, they are also grossly shortchanging the people being audited of what can be a life-changing end results if this rundown is done honestly. Method One Auditing is supposed to result in the recovery of one’s education.
And the COS wonders why the public is “staying away in droves”?
This sort of bullshit is why.
They are not really delivering Scientology. They are pretending.
Here’s a little hint to the “quickie boys and girls”:
Sorry, but you actually need to look up each and every one of the definitions of each one of those words in a real dictionary and clear each one of them to a full conceptual understanding. There are no shortcuts. START.
Excellent rant Espiritu. The bragging about speed of delivery has been done with no shame, degrading the tech for decades. I’ve seen spectacular results with a well done Method 1 word clearing and you’re absolutely right, it takes as long as it takes, like everything else. Charge on study and words can have far reaching, disastrous effects and lack of proper handling has pretty much crashed Scn. DM is a perfect example of what you get when you neglect this area, the antithesis of rationality.
“Ultric Coetzee (left picture, 2nd row down) and his brother were both making some good headway towards becoming auditors. They had completed Method 1 and Student Hat courses in 2011. And yet, here is a picture of Ultric having obviously redone both those courses GAT2 style…”
I’m confused – Is this legitimizing GAT1 as a better source of the tech? If not, what is?
How about the arbitrary that the needle has to swing three times before you can call it an F/N, has that been removed as well?
That’s a good question.
Well at least someone did some training BUT
the checksheets they are on are Miscavige not
LRH.
The fn’s they are calling are Miscavige not LRH.
And quite frankly, the understanding
of the tech that some might get does not totally parallel LRH as he
would have wanted.
It’s more ritual than understanding.
I remember a tape I heard on the BC,
he was talking about auditors and auditing. How key
it was to really understand the tech. He then said
when ritual trumps understanding, the church is lost.
(not an exact interpretation nor do I remember the tape).
He also said any auditing is better than no auditing.
Nowadays I’m not so sure of that when it comes to GAG II
and Miscavige.
I’m sure there are wins pc’s are having….
but how long do those wins last with the
current org environment?
In my opinion one does not have to go out of an org
to experience some sort of suppression/invalidation at
some level.
When I did my auditor training, the statement “Any auditing is better than no auditing” was my stable datum. I never thought I was a good auditor, my TRs sucked – but despite all that I got some great products and acknowledgements.
Great products and acknowledgements….and
I’m assuming pc wins.
Maven I’d bet you are a good auditor.
Hey Maven,
I wouldn’t get down on yourself. Good auditors are those like you who can admit that they aren’t perfect.
My advice is just continue to audit.
LR
Mike,
You’re right.
The number of auditors made is pathetic.
This is what 6 months and they made what?
A whopping 5 NED auditors.
Like I’m totally underwhelmed.
I mean they made less than one NED Class V per month.
Usually this is type of stat you’d expect from an Class V Org at the bottom of the best to worst list.
But it seems nothing is usual these days.
No 6s or 8s. None nada.
Of course those who are left like Parody will go on and on and on and on…..about how GAT II is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Until maybe Phase III comes along if they haven’t imploded by then.
I’ve already said it but I’ll say it again.
RIP
Church of Scientology
remoteviewed, I don’t believe there has ever been any kind of GAT (I or II) materials for either Class VI or Class VIII, not to mention CL X-XII Of course they are not needed as there are not sufficient Cl Vs or “CL IX”s being made, and certainly almost no prospective paying public to even warrant bothering to prepare such materials. I don’t think Miscavige really wants CL VIs or VIIIs, as the more exposure to LRH-based Scientology persons training as auditors would get, the easier it would be to see that Miscavige-based Scientology is Squirrelology. Same reason there is no OEC or FEBC on the admin side of things.
True SSA,
Not one for Class VIII.
But I did the GAT (un)Certainty for VI though I don’t know if they made one for GAT 2.
Probably not as they don’t expect anybody to make it that far.
“All arbitraries removed” is such a ridiculous line. Heard it so many times. Right before I was declared last year, my super kool-aid friend spits out that line to me about GAT II. I said “which arbitraries?” He says, “ALL of them – duh.” I’d like to know what any of them were. Seriously, does anyone know what the actually arbs were? To me, it seems like many more were added, like having to redo everything.
That is the old Hubbard’s trick of letting you blow charge by pointing to you that you are being screwed by what he is doing, but doing it to you nevertheless.
Very clever form of mind control.
The Church of Scientology is the arbitrary needing removed.
Martin, what a classis line: “The Church of Scientology is the arbitrary needing to be removed.” It’s a brilliant in its simplicity.
I think the Church should just fold, and make a statement that anyone who wants to continue Scientology as an independent is free to do that with whatever group and whomever current Scientologists or already independent Scientologists he can find. What a farce the Church now is. It always was a sinister operation at the top.
That circular grade chart is a laugh.
Internet handling intensives, COB loyalty sec checks.
This was made by Jeff Augustine ?.
The only thing missing from the superb picto-gram is the “OT VIII” hamster in the middle, peddling away like mad.
Who is Jeff Augustine?
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From HappyChappie from South Africa. The circular bridge ‘is made’ by the author of the article from ScnAfrica.
Jeff agustine is a master at arms in the kingdom of satyre. He also signs OTiiisgrrr8!
Mike,
The wheel of Scientology Samsara. I love the Internet Handling Intensive step. Very funny!
Money for nothing..:
“Now look at them yo-yo’s that’s the way you do it
You play the Bridge on the GATII
That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it
Money for nothin’ and Implants for free
Now that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it….”
Ron wrote a few things about “PR” and suddenly everyone in Scientology is an expert in a field that is still in development. GM and Ford have an excellent PR campaign but even they know there comes a time when telling the truth and owning up to it is better than doing what scientology does of singing the praises of a horse which is clearly in its last death throws. But since they are “clearly much smarter and have all the answer,” they don’t need to face reality or consider what the rest of the world seems to know: Scientology as it stands, is dead.
Excellent, excellent blog post. The evidence is incontrovertible. The Church of Scientology is gagging.