The Church of Scientology’s in-house magazine Source has promoted the program as being aimed “to shift the creation of a new civilization into overdrive”.

Apparently the one thing this building has guaranteed is substantial profits. Not sure how this guy (in that outfit) represents a “new civilization” today, perhaps it will offer a temporary defusing of tensions in the middle East by reason of wide spread befuddlement about the program in itself.

Hi Valerie – years ago, my husband told me that I should not patronize my gay hairdresser because he was well, gay and therefore 1.1. He might mess up my hair on purpose or something like that and couldn’t be trusted.

I told him kindly that a smart man never interferes with the relationship between his wife and her hairdresser. It’s “women’s business”, plain and simple. He never brought it up again.

Regarding the outfit, it has nothing to do with religion. It’s part of the gimmick, along with emulating Space with a blackened out room on the CRRD. It’s not really necessary.

Valerie,

That was my first impression, a tad on the gay side.

A “running in space mockup”. I see. But you wouldn’t run in space with a body now would you? Bodies are earthly material. This is supposed to be an OT process, for the thetan, so what does it matter what the physical mock up is? Except that you have to drag your body through it, so a little lookie-see to the outside might be nice. It’s a little convoluted. Whatever. If anyone likes it and it makes them happy and fulfilled is well enough. To each his own.

I still don’t get the windowless room trend though.

It is mocked up to be like “running in space” — sort of a scientology “Space Mountain.”

Marc Headley wrote:

“It is so super dark inside the running program (CRRD) at the Super Power Building, the biggest issue they have is public running into the pillars!”

This makes me think of something: What’s with the super dark room for the CRRD, which would be nice to do with windows all around, so you could have a nice view outward (since Clearwater does) as you run? It seems to me that this might be helpful to distract your attention from any discomfort and help you keep going by putting your anchor points out into the horizon. Even auditing rooms that have a shaded window are nice because you perceive the sunlight and the outdoors behind you as a preclear. I always liked that but then again, I just like the outdoors period. Is the darkened room to emulate Space?

I noticed a similar pattern with the Int Base, that has windowless offices on floors where people work all day, with extreme florescent lighting. Why is this? What’s wrong with having a view or a connection to the outside and natural light?

I’ve also noticed it with a lot of the new Ideal Org course rooms. In many renditions I’ve seen, there again, windowless rooms. This strikes me as odd, there’s just something off about it to me.

Mike Ricketts, that is

Have a heart, Mike donated three kids to the damnation navy …