Chuck Beatty
Internet Posts, Apr 2009
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Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
(I was intimately involved in Scientology, a lifetime staffer, from
1975 until I left Scientology staff, in 2003. 27 straight years on
staff, for Scientology. See me earlier review of this Lewis
anthology book on "Scientology.") I will sub review each chapter of
this anthology of articles on "Scientology." I begin by reviewing
the "Introduction" by the editor, James R. Lewis.
Lewis starts his introduction by mentioning an anecdote of his
displeasure observing a non scholar expert, being interviewed on a
cable TV news station. To an ex member such as myself, who has been
trying to get scholars interested in really properly studying
Scientology, and I've spent considerable time myself reaching out to
some scholars. I know who is receptive, who is watching the chat
sites, and who the other informed ex members think which scholar
actually knows their stuff, and which scholars are arrogant blowhards
and "experts" in their own minds.
Ex members who spent a few decades in Scientology only universally
praise one scholar, who was NOT included in this anthology, Professor
Stephen Kent, of University of Alberta, who outside of the Church of
Scientology, Professor Kent's trove of research materials on
Scientology is bigger than any other university in the world. Also
Professor Kent's personally interviewed dozens of ex members, and ex
members send Kent their memoirs. Somehow, Kent is embroiled in some
conflict with some of these scholars included in this "Scientology"
anthology, and Kent was not included, I have no idea why. He should
have been, and any disagreements set aside. Kent in my opinion has
the widest ex member set of contacts, and he's the most diligent in
listening to ex members speak the details of what goes on inside the
staff ranks at least.
But Lewis in his introduction first page anecdote of watching this
"expert" on cable TV news, I knew instantly that Lewis was referring
to Prof Dave Touretzky of Carnegie Mellon University ("...a respected
university..."). Professor Dave Touretzky is a vocal critic of
Scientology, and indeed Touretzky has several times been on CNN and
CBS and Fox News also. Prof Dave Tourekzky indeed is not a cult
expert, nor religion sociologist nor new religious movement scholar.
But strikingly Touretzky is at least an extremely well read and
informed academic who has taken up Scientology and has at least been
willing to listen to ex members discuss their firsthand experiences in
the movement. Lewis failed to mention that to all the public's
benefit, Professor Dave Touretzky's web site at Carnegie Mellon
University provides the single largest easily accessible assembly of
books and government papers critical of Scientology,
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/ I've spent hours reading from
Touretzky's Scientology reference site.
A few sentences into criticizing "non expert" "non scholar"
Professor Touretzky, Lewis states this "...research professor from a
respected university.......He [Touretzky] emphasized standard negative
information about Scientology, such as the Guardian Office's covert
infiltration program (neglecting to mention that the Church eventually
shut down the Guardian's Office and disciplined the individuals
responsible for illegal activities)...."
Now, here's a point against Lewis, and against those from whom Lewis
got his information, and this is EXACTLY relevant to the humility
point that Lewis lacks, and to this petty issue scholars argue over,
the "expert" game.
No one claiming to be an expert of Scientology would fail to know that
the Guardian's Office was replaced by the Office of Special Affairs.
Only scholars bamboozled by Scientology Office of Special Affairs
Public Relations front people would be stating the Scientology PR
line.
The Office of Special Affairs existence and functions, and details,
are in the public domain, and scholars who have NOT looked, read, and
met a few ex Office of Special Affairs staffers, would say in arrogant
ignorance what Lewis unfortunately says, and ironically, he uses this
as an example to play one-up-manship with "non expert" Professor Dave
Touretzky.
This is the type of gaffe I wish scholars like Lewis did NOT make, but
they aren't humble enough to even admit this type of major mistake on
their part.
Lewis should minimally meet and interview an ex staffer named Frank
Oliver, Frank's been filmed on TV, Frank is an undisputed real expert
on the dirty deeds still perpetrated by the Office of Special Affairs,
since he apprenticed under the Office of Special Affairs and engaged
in, and publicly revealed what he, Frank Oliver, did.
Frank was Department of Special Affairs, which is the lower echelon,
with Office of Special Affairs International being the top rung.
Frank was from the Miami Scientology church, apprenticing in LA
helping and working directly with Office of Special Affairs
superiors.
Further Frank leaked his training pack into the public domain,
"Investigations Officer Full Hat" (training pack of Hubbard church
policies, and significant is these policies were titled "Office of
Special Affairs Network Orders" and they all had L. Ron Hubbard as the
byline, and further, today, there is an internet site with a
comparison, policy by policy, of the old "Guardian’s Office" policies,
with this new set of "Office of Special Affairs Network Orders"). I
detail all this, since this is what I thought was what real scholar
experts did, which is dig up the Hubbard writings, compare the old
Guardian's Office writings to the Office of Special Affairs writings
of today, and see if the stuff is the same!
Which scholar met with Frank, years ago? Professor Dave
Touretzky.
Which scholar knows that the Office of Special Affairs today does what
the Guardian's Office did of old, is still doing today? Professor
Dave Touretzky.
What scholar looked up Frank for this anthology, to correct Lewis'
mistake on page 1? None.
What "expert" even read this page one of the Introduction to this
"Scientology" vaunted Oxford University Press scholarly book and even
spotted, and even commented on this completely relevant research
point!!!!
An ex member of the movement, me!
If Mr. Lewis had asked me, I'd have referred him to the site that
"amateur" Scientology critics have put up, where the old Guardian's
Office writings of L. Ron Hubbard are compared to the Office of
Special Affairs policies guiding Scientology today. The Office of
Special Affairs Hubbard writings today, leaked luckily by Frank
Oliver, a man Lewis surely hasn't interviewed, but Frank Oliver is
someone Dave Touretzky knows and has spoken with and Dave knows the
significance of the OSA policies that Frank leaked and which we
luckily have in the public domain today as proof of just how much
Scientology's Office of Special Affairs is the new Guardian's Office
of days ago.
So, who is the expert?
Lewis wouldn't be able to actually comment accurately about the
Office of Special Affairs without first reading the leaked
"Investigations Officer Hat Checksheet" pack, and speaking to Frank
Oliver, and speaking to the other several ex Office of Special Affairs
staff members who have defected and are willing to speak, some
publicly, some privately.
That's what us ex members, who ARE experts in Hubbard's Scientology,
ARE willing to do. We will speak to scholars who can sift through
the Hubbard writings, and listen to us!
Humility, and honest research. More is needed! Ex members will help
scholars find the Hubbard reference, and we'll tell how we applied
those Hubbard references, and the issue about the Guardian's Office's
offensive tactics, exactly what is still done today, what Hubbard
writings are still "on the books" well scholars have to at least get
up to square zero, look at the Hubbard material in the public domain,
speak to some ex members, and LISTEN!
And maybe quote a few of Hubbard's extant Office of Special Affairs
writings, here are my favorite, for the public to see here, but what
they won't find quoted in this "Scientology" anthology:
"OFFICE OF SPECIAL AFFAIRS NETWORK ORDER
15, 18 February 1988 Confidential BLACK PROPAGANDA (Originally
written by LRH on 12 January 1972. Issued as OSA NW Order on 18
February 1988.) ... To cease to be the effect of classification and
become in our turn the cause of it, the classifier, is to win the
propaganda game. Our propaganda is dirty.... We do this trick by
survey and attack.... we become re-classified as attackers and the
enemy as bad hats as they're for the evil if they attack us... We just
run propaganda campaigns....It reclassifies our attackers as evil
people... we (1) Seek to avoid opportunities for the enemy to classify
us. (2) Contest or expose any previous classifications as false (dead
agentry, etc.) (3) Engage in a series of campaigns which confuse past
classification. (4) Achieve for ourselves a dominance in classifying
ourselves and others." "L. RON HUBBARD, Founder , Adopted as official
Church policy by CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL “
"16 FEBRUARY 1969 ISSUE IV REISSUED 24 SEPTEMBER (Reissued with
updated distribution.)" "Limited Distribution: OSA NW [Office of
Special Affairs Network], IMEC [International Management Executive
Committee, consisting of the Watchdog Committee and the Executive
Strata and other leadership positions from Scientology movement's top
bureaucratic ranks], PRs" "Confidential" "TARGETS, DEFENSE"
".....The errors we have made have been:...4. Failing to attack early
and hard.....7. Not learning enemy tactics and using and bettering
them." "....B. Our next best defense line was being sure the public
knew we were a Church." "...The vital targets on which we must invest
most of our time are: ...Depopularizing the enemy to a point of total
obliteration." "....Use all other similar groups as allies."
"L. RON HUBBARD" "Founder" "Adopted as official Church policy by
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL"
These two references are key explanatory references showing the
focused targeted tactics of the Office of Special Affairs against the
young people's group of anti Scientology protestors, called
"anonymous."
Scientology has engaged in a very propaganda like campaign against
"anonymous."
The point? Scientology is still doing what it did before, which is
spreading dirty propaganda against its enemies.
What is the evidence that the church of Scientology is still doing
tactics which are from the Guardian's Office era? I just quoted two
of the offensive Hubbard policies, still on the books, above.
These references by Hubbard above, leaked when Frank Oliver leaked his
training materials into the public domain.
Ex members count, and what Hubbard wrote counts.
Scholars, like Lewis, had better start cracking and doing some real
honest research.
I certainly don't begrudge media resorting to listening to the amateur
experts like Professor Dave Touretzky.
"Non expert" Professor Touretzky has done more homework on Scientology
than real "expert" Professor Lewis, in my ex member (27 years of
intimate Scientology lifetime staffer duty) opinion.
And further, Professor Stephen Kent, Univ of Alberta, not included in
this anthology, has done way more detailed study and time spent
interviewing ex members who can today speak freely, thankfully, has
done way more time learning about Scientology and Lewis for some
reason couldn't include an article from Kent.
This is what I think of, when I read the first page of the
introduction of "Scientology" edited by James R. Lewis.
Page 2 tomorrow.
Chuck Beatty
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
On Apr 19, 5:21 am, "xenufrance" > I've right now gotten the excellent "Devoir d'Enqu te" show from the RTBF
> At the end of the good and long summary of scientology crimes, where John
> He's blinking every two seconds if not more, is stumbling on words, adds
> A terrible exemple of what a scientologist of the upper levels, with an
> Poor Marc Bromberg.
> He was one of the people who came after we left long ago, so as to get us
> So, not only scientology made him a dishonest liar publicly lying on the
> Pitiful.
> r
What is so sad, is this all traces to Hubbard's personal lack of
humility, and this lack of human humility transfers and smothers the
personalities of the Scientologists who are trained to be the
spokespeople of the movement.
They are trained in the policies that the great Vaughn Young wrote so
eloquently about, these high level Scientologists who become the
people who try to publicly defend Scientolgoy are limited in their
Hubbarfd public relations training.
They are not free to mix the outside world's smarter ideas into their
heads and act like normal citizens who have access the freedom to
adopt other ideas which are NOT just Hubbard's ideas.
Scientologists who speak for the Scientology movement are sadly stuck
with the Hubbard repertoire of rules and public relations side
stepping tactics.
And when these OT 8 Scientologists like your old friend Marc Bromberg
try to do their duty in defending Scientology, their lack of spiritual
achievements (no demonstrable "super powers" on display in their
behavior or wisdom, or shining glowing compassion or understanding),
instead, these Scientologist men and women inevitably bumble along
stuck within L. Ron Hubbard's mindset.
They don't even see how they've limited themselves, the opposite of
becoming free to speak their opinions and really compare and freely
debate.
They can only do what Hubbard limits them to say and do. And it is
dead Hubbard's rules that are their limiting barriers today, and they
cannot do anything but play within those Hubbard rules, all because
dead Hubbard gave them no option to fight and change his mistaken
rules.
They can only warp their minds to agree that Hubbard's stifling rules
are correct, and they praise these rules that keep them isolated and
unfree from normal citizen's freedom to debate and praise OTHER ideas
of other leaders and other smart people.
Hubbard's Scientology is a mind crippling system that isolates the
members from praising other great minds, and from normal citizen's
rights to "think freely."
Scientology when studied by any normal citizen long enough, if the
citizen will look at the critical debates against the worst of
Hubbard's rules, will inevitably see the predicament demonstrated by a
supposed TOP level Scientologist like Marc Bromberg, OT 8 (non super
spiritual powerful person, rather a normal citizen with layers of
Hubbard's rules stifling their thinking processes and speech).
Disconnection I think is the issue that even scholars will agree is
too extremely employed to everyone's detriment.
Does Marc Bromberg have any SP family members?
Chuck Beatty
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
On Apr 21, 8:48 pm, CaptainAdderall > I am a critic from Washington DC and LA....
> Please explain this to me-http://bayimg.com/image/caolkaabe.jpg
> If you are a religion, why do you charge people THOUSANDS of dollars
> And when people ask about it, you claim it does not exist...
> Recently Tommy Davis confirmed that this document is intact legit...
> So why all the secrecy, lying, fair gaming, disconnecting, and money
> Religion is free.... Scientology is not.
> If you are in Washington, DC or the Los Angeles/Hollywood area... and
> CaptainAdderall
Scientology founder died in 1986, well before the internet spreading
of information.
Hubbard made the mistake of starting out in the late 1960s making the
OT 3 and other "upper level" spiritual procedures and their theory,
confidential.
He wrote severe penalty rules guarding their secrecy.
Were it not for these penalty rules, Scientologists would have evolved
and been able to discuss the Xenu space alien leader's causing that
mass mega genocide (planticide) that resulted in the zillions of
bodiless "body thetans" that have been trapped by the electronic force
fields, etc, trapped here on earth for millions of years, and those
"body thetans" attach themselves to us.
Hubbard's style all throughout the whole Scientology new religious
movement history has been to downplay the science fiction reality
aspects of this new religion (or fraud cult that sells pie in the sky
spiritual abilities that no one ever achieves).
The Scientologists today cannot think their way around Hubbard's
penalty rules.
I feel their problem is directly due to those penalty rules relating
to NOT ever publicly discussing the confidential levels of
Scientology.
In the last almost 15 years, with the Xenu story and all the rest of
the OT levels being leaked into the public domain, now the public is
catching up, and what I feel is needed, to actually break down the
Hubbard penalty rules, is a dumbing down of the confidential story, so
the public can absorb the story simply.
Other cults never die off quickly, and Scientology will not be dying
off quickly, there'll be no sudden collapse.
The whole group of believers slowly unwind from the Hubbard mindset,
it's not a quick sudden collapse in their beliefs in what they
consider good about Hubbard's various "techs".
Realisitically, what I think is good, is continue to make the
confidential materials available, like you are doing, and also give
simple explanations, of it all, to the Scientologists, since most of
them never get up to OT 3, especially the staff of the Scientology
churches and organizations.
I think a more neutral simple telling of their confidential materials
back to the members, will erode the Hubbard penalty rules that they
themselves cannot change.
Hubbard left them with upper manangement structures that are
disfunctional, but those upper structures (Watchdog Committee and
International Executive Strata) should actually be the ones to propose
some sort of change so as NOT to penalize their own members for
discussing what is already in the public domain.
Right now their members are heavily penalized (they risk forfeiting
being allowed to do the upper spiritual levels) if they breach the
security and discuss the upper levels.
The best they can do is like Tommy Davis, and admit these levels
exist, and admit that the voice of Hubbard telling the Xenu holocaust
story on YouTube is Hubbard's voice, and that's about as far as they
can go, without their penalty rules kicking in, and them being guilty
of violating those penalty rules, which would result in a forfeiting
of them being allowed to do the upper spiritual levels.
It is a huge predicament, a HUGE one, for them.
The public I feel should get a simple neutral telling of the OT
confidential story, and be shown the materials, like the media does.
The members are stuck wtih Hubbard's penalty rules, which is why they
cannot even "go there" and discuss Xenu and "body thetans."
So I suggest always play the Hubbard 6-8 minute clip of the Class 8
Assists lecture where Hubbard in his own voice tells of the holocaust
Xenu incident.
It's "new news" to most of the Scientologists, and is an important
educational cultural phenomenon that is transpiring.
The outside world is being widely exposed to these confidential
materials, and no one is getting sick nor having any ill effects.
But most important, they will at least understand the big confidential
story about why there are so many "body thetans" floating bodiless on
earth today, and why those "body thetans" are stuck to all of us, and
why the OT levels today are so important, since only the Scientology
OT levels will help a person get rid of their load of "body thetans"
who are attached to us. Our "body thetans' " cases leak into our
thoughts, and cause us mental trouble.
We don't simply have our own "case." We are also influenced by the
"case" of every "body thetan" who is somewhat "awake" and active.
Per Hubbard when we think, we can activate the thoughts of some of our
hitchhiking "body thetans" and the thoughts of our hitchhiking "body
thetans" can leak into our own thoughts, confusing and influencing us.
Truly, this whole Xenu and "body thetan" story and reality (real to
Hubbard, real to Scientologists) explains why Scientology is a
spiritual therapy.
From Dianetics mental therapy, to dealing with the "case" of the
spirit, to dealing with the "case" of the "body thetans" attached to
us.
That explains it all, it is a spiritual mental therapy.
And the science fiction aspect of it is obvious.
I feel Scientology is a science fiction reality spiritual therapy cult
new religion.
So I agree it is always good to talk Xenu, talk body thetans, talk
about Scientology being a therapy that addresses the "case" of the
participant, and in the upper levels of Scientology, they address the
"case" of their "body thetans." by doing their upper levels
spiritual procedures to get their "body thetans" to eject off them,
that relieves the upper level OT Scientologists from any mental
influence of their "body thetans' " cases.
Simple as that. And they believe this.
And the Hubbard penalty rules prevent them from talking about it, and
they can't change his penalty rules.
Chuck Beatty
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