Bare-Faced Messiah by Russell Miller.
Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman.

Thanks!

What’d you think of Hubbard’s exorcism OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 steps?

How would you define Scientology in terms of what kind of practice it is, and what does it address?

I have yet to read a more insane statement than this one for this idiot.

If you apply his weird idea (MU’s of course) then you do not follow the surgeons procedure you just cut and hack as you see fit.

I never realised the true nature of an SP until I read this guys lunacy.

I left the COS 30 years ago, but to be honest, I never saw any insanity to compare to this evil idiot.

I hope he has been vaccinated many, many times for all the weird strains of all virus claimed to exist, and will go soon.

Thanks. No, I don’t have the red vols.

Scicrit,

The ultimate in recycling, scientology-style!

I volunteered for a while at a warehouse which sorted donations to a chain of UK charity shops. My job was to root out texts that were worth good money, and see them put on eBay.

On the first day, I noticed a poster on the wall. It emphasised that Reader’s Digests, Gideon Bibles and anything by L Ron Hubbard should be right into a very big cardboard box, designed to be handled by a fork-lift truck.

I asked why. It turned out the filled boxes were sold to a company who pulped the books. They were worth £8 a tonne.

All books that didn’t sell in the shops were put in there, but Ron’s went right in, because they had learned his books never sold. That was all there was to it. They took up valuable shelf space and didn’t sell.

It’s wonderful that Ron began as an author for pulp magazines, and his works are gradually returning to pulp 🙂

Do you have Subject Vol 3 of the red volumes?

If you have the red volumes, either edition, but the 1991 edition have more LRH HCOBs in it, but the first edition red volumes does have a bunch of the BTBs in it for history purpooses, but I found the subject Vol 3 of the red volumes is useful to have on hand to pretty much summarize what are the actual “commands” to reach “Clear” if you believe in this stuff.

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He should have just left training and delivery up to readers of his “tech.”

“Library Campaigns” are just promotional efforts when Hubbard the manager, which he ought never have been the framework builder/manager of Scientology.

He should have stuck with his “tech” practices period, and let people do the “tech” as they saw fit. Meaning let “squirreling” just go on.

It’s ingrained in all modern Scientologists that LRH’s management of the movement “administrative” writings are part and parcel of what the practice of Scientology is.

It isn’t though. It’s all in a person’s mind what the “full” definition of Scientology is. I snip the whole “admin” writings part of Scientology by Hubbard out of what Scientology is. To me all really what Scientology is is the Hubbard “tech” writings for procedures to delve into a person’s soul memories and alleviate the bad memories basically, and then upper Scientology has the massive amount of exorcism of surplus spirits that by telekinesis supposedly leak their bad memories onto us, so doing OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 alleviates that leakage from debilitating us.

All anyone needs to do Scientology is read a bit on the internet and figure out how one wishes to do this pseudo-therapy and exorcism, with another person, or solo, but it’s up to the person to decide whether to do this crap or not and how.

Subject Vol 3’s contents are on the internet free, and that’s all the commands to get to Clear. And then the “OT red volume” with the bulk of the rest of the stuff, and the exorcism steps, is on the internet too.

I don’t think anyone should do this stuff, but it’s there if someone wishes to do it all by themselves.

“New Slant On Life” book has the one chapter that says “SECRETS. SECRETS, SECRETS” and the proceeds not to give very enlightening “secrets”, that little section of that book pretty much sums up what your experience will be in Scientology.

Promises of secrets, and then no secrets.

Scientology is the pseudo-therapy and exorcism to supposedly alleviate one’s “case” and alleviate the “case” leaking from the surplus spirits that infest a person by exorcising those surplus spirits away from oneself.

The “Library Campaigns” are just feeble faulty Hubbard marketing sub campaigns. The LRH books don’t even give you the full layout of what you need to do Scientology on your own, you’d still have to obtain Subject Vol 3 and the “OT red volume” which has most of the upper levels of Scientology.

No one wants to do this, it’s too tedious even also. The runway Hubbard laid out is ridiculously long to get through all the Hubbard pseudo-therapy and exorcism steps, even if you had the time to do it free on your own.

And the people coming off the end of this official Scientology assembly line are no great shakes improved. It’s too subjective, it’s not that great.

I don’t know which library book was more fun to review. – A Billion Years of Scientology Ethics. Of course for those truly curious about the latter should read ABY.