Agreed. Common people just living their normal lives surviving in life, with the least amount of interference by unethical forces in life, living in a sustainable way, seems the main movement in life.

One thing you notice when you leave Sea Org (after 27 years straight for me) is that the world is slowly improving on its own, no help from the Hubbard quackery sales empire.

And that the world is predominately full of people far smarter and more tolerant than any of the persons (including lawyers) drawn to help continue the Scientology business quackery enterprise. Scientologists are intolerantly stuck in Hubbard’s mentally defective ruts.

Ditto, I thought that many times during my Sea Org staff life, that “we” were living communistically, or communally, and this was an ironic contradiction to Hubbard’s anti communist opportunism views. if not for the communistic/communal volunteer fanatics of the Sea Org working for pennies an hour, the wealth wouldn’t have accumulated to fortify the management system Hubbard wrote for the whole movement.

Further, the “captive audience” theme or motive that Hubbard had, ties back to his desire to make his writer living, which he was struggling with, after WWII. Starting up this new subject/practice/world-saving-human-discovery-solution (Dianetics and then Scientology) around which he could thrust his management communal staff life support operation, directly seems logical.

Hubbard wanted a captive audience, and the Scientology movement is a huge ramification of that motive of his, to have his captive audience, surrounding his universe saving subject, which even he believed in. Bolstered by the whole ethics/disconnection blackmail Sophie’s Choice Catch-22-isms he’d strewn into the membership rules.

It’s a tight package interlocking world Hubbard created for the members, and for the management which has today devolved to just Miscavige being the “bare minimum” manager of the subject today.

Keeping Scientology Working is Miscavige’s bible, he’s just as much a victim of the Hubbard blinders/hype/regulations as the members.

Keeping Scientology Working is only undone when a member takes Hubbard off the throne in their minds.

“Going Clear….” final pages, if fully contemplated by a Scientologist, would help start the process in their minds of dethroning Hubbard.

Hubbard’s OT 7 “solo execoricsm” quackery failed on even Hubbard himself, is revealed in the final pages of “Going Clear…”

“….I failed….” Hubbard told Sarge. But this word never got out and won’t seem to creep into the minds of the followers today, until they do divorce themselves enough to read the final pages of “Going Clear…”.

Further, the quackery of Hubbard blinded Hubbard himself, so Hubbard has to not be chosen as how to think about Scientology, the quackery (pseudo-therapy and exorcism), of this subject.

Scientology is another quackery subject in human history. Period. With the communistic/communal administrative system “running” the movement, opportunistically at the low wages/pay the staffs of Sea Org staff receive, and with the draconian spartan Sea Org rules Hubbard wrote for the Sea Org staffers’ lives.

And Sea Org staffers must lord Hubbard’s rules and regulations over the members.

A tight tough communistic/communal groups to take apart.

Hubbard is the crackpot cult leader leading the blind captive audience members, stuck with Hubbard’s limiting rules and hype.

Scientology’s top rules are Keeping Scientology Working.

Hubbard did briefly admit he failed, to Sarge, at Creston, as reported in the final pages of “Going Clear…” book by Lawrence Wright.

Keeping Scientology Working rules keep Scientology stuck with Hubbard’s false quackery practice (auditing is pseudo-therapy, and OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are the exorcism of Xenu’s body-thetans steps).

You can’t fix the subject of Scientology, which consists of quackery pseudo-therapy and the exorcism practices. Admin won’t fix quackery.

It’s still quackery at the end of the day, when all the admin rules and regulations actions and blaming is over. The admin part of Scientology just is a system of dodging off of the quackery part of Scientology.

The quackery, the “tech”, undermines the perfect application of the admin part of Hubbard’s output writings and rules.

I agree, and I was on several projects adjacent to Ken Delderfield, and I lived through the transition years, at Flag (Clearwater) in the admin training course rooms where we trained right through the transition years from the “old” OEC to the dispensing and cutting from all our admin training all of the BPLs.
Years later, in 1983-84, on a project at Int Base, the “routing forms” project, I had to read ALL writings by Hubbard on admin. (Years later, when I rose to be in ASI, in 1992-1995, I read all of the ASI advices traffic. In 1990-1992, I read all the INCOMM LRH traffic)
I don’t think anyone’s done that ever inside, except the various Exec Strata members who had the non published writings of Hubbard’s; also the persons who edited and decided what went into the 1991 edition of the OEC volumes (the messed up ones, which granted were truly chock full of thousands of typos, due to the draconian proofreading conditions and other problems of the compilers working on the updated 1991 OEC policies).
Incomplete comments get made due to people not having read (and granted Hubbard didn’t allow people to read his raw “advices” and “notes” except those in the compilations branches over the movement’s history).
Compilations history ought be written, and then the validity of what Miscavige is doing, can be selectively seen.
“Copyrighting” history needs written up, showing why additionally some issues which were not copyrighted or were coming close to losing their copyrighting protection, happened. I worked at ASI where the Copyrights Office, Alison Fine, also worked, in the early 1990s up to 1995 when I was busted out of ASI.
There is relevant history: compilations history, and copyrights history.

The sub subject of compilations history is guided by a whole slew of non public writings by Hubbard, I did the “Compilations Officer Full Hat Checksheet” in 1988, at Int, when I worked in the LRH Tech Research and Compilations Branch, under CMO Int, back when Dan Koon was doing the polishing up of the Tech Volumes for the 1991 edition. Also in RTRC (LRH Tech Research and Compilations Branch) .

LRH in 1977 ordered us in the training branch at Flag to NOT continue using any BPLs nor BTBs in training at Flag, that became an HCO Bulletin, and that’s the history point the BPLs and BTBs evaporated from use.

There were BPLs (I know, I read them in 1983) which were 100% LRH. One ought to have gone into the OEC, but it could not, the problem was LRH signed it “Board of Directors” in his own handwriting, and he never indicated that that particular policy ought ever be switched to state that he wrote it, so even though it was completely by LRH, it could not be trained on in course rooms, only staff who had the upper ranks jobs of that zone, could study it, as a hatting issue, for their jobs.

The checksheets that the WDC Members and Exec Strata members use for their jobs, and their filing cabinets, did contain, since 1983 when I was on the “routing forms” project, the non issued raw LRH “advices” and orders.

Janis Grady is an expert on all of the advices, and likely there are plenty of other ex Int Base upper ranks staffers who could easily read any of the non signed LRH “advices” and tell what is real, and what is bogus.

So, honestly, unless an observer gets at least briefed on LRH’s compilations rules, they will miss the latitude that Miscavige, and all future top AVC (editor type of orthodoxy policing job) will have for the whole future history of the movement.

There is important history of the AVC role job, and of the LRH compilations rules, and of the copyrights legal problems, that I have noticed that observers of the orthodoxy history of Scientology don’t take into consideration when the actual “tech’ legitimacy is considered.

And all your points, are all correct, I’ve concluded outsiders have the best take, on Scientology and Hubbard, almost all of the outsider criticisms of Hubbard and Scientology, and of Scientology’s “technology” and of Hubbard’s administrative writings, are all valid, despite not knowing the fine points of compilations allowance and orders that Hubbard did give to the compilers of his issues which came out in his name, based on his advices.

Google Phoebe Mauer, she received direct orders from LRH to write issues based on series of advices he had written to top management, I know, I “peer reviewed” the “Routing Forms, How to Write” policy letter that Phoebe compiled from the “routing forms advices” traffic Hubbard had written in 1982.

Chuck Beatty
ex Sea Org, 1975-2003

A bright shining star of reason for why the Orgs are empty now is the advent of the Internet, which Hubbard the Great Seer of Humanity could not see. Internet = Death of Scamology.

Of COURSE they’ll stalk and attempt to intimidate and young(ish) person to join staff — ANY staff, but especially the SO: They’re the only possible source of staff to keep up the Potemkin villages SEEMING to be going concerns, even if they’re amongst the 15 or so who can be seen in their promo pics of “folks going up the bridge” to nowhere. 15 seems to be the maximum # of ‘scientologists’ ever captured together at one time in pictures (Other than the cord-yanking extravaganzas which are on the decline. Cancelled? I think they have been, so Davey-Boy can’t get caught as easily.) RUN, Davey, RUN! Nothing’s more important than you not answering for your crimes.

Right, LmR; ALL the Idle orgs” scheme is good for is sometimes a bit of good PR, within the scn bubble, only … and to shovel yet more money into DM’s coffers. I think the clams are getting tired of ‘ideal’ things, though, which is why so little mention of them has been made recently.

Yawn, I see this as accelerating scn’s slide into total obscurity; only people like us paying attention to what’s happening behind the razor-wire fences.