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Post by K on Jan 26, 2008 5:33:34 GMT -5
ED, 1. Executive Director, the chief officer of a Scientology organization. 2. Executive Directive, an issue type; EDs may be written by Executive Directors at the local level. L. Ron Hubbard EDs were written by L. Ron Hubbard himself.
ED INT, Executive Director International, the head of the Exec Strata, currently Guillaume Lesevre. This is not the head of the cult, despite the title; the head honcho is David Miscavige. The ED INT can be written to at: Executive Director International, 4833 Fountain Avenue Los Angeles, California, 90027. There are also message boxes for the ED INT in each org. He replies, too, or someone does in his name. This is the SO-1 line (qv) now that Hubbard is dead.
E-Meter, or Meter, electrometer or electropsychometer. A crude battery-powered analog ohmmeter used to locate Overts (undisclosed acts), Body Thetans (evil spirits), and Engrams (moments of pain and unconsciousness). The PC or patient holds the soup-cans electrodes, while the Auditor or Scientology therapist watches the needle on the dial. Circuitry is based on the Wheatstone Bridge. The meter was designed by Volney Mathieson. Current "top of the line" models sell for about $4,000 US in a plastic case. Actual parts list is about $50-$100, making it a good money earner for Scientology, particularly since every auditor is required to own two in case one breaks down.
End Words, words that act like mental locks to keep the reactive mind, the chain of memory incidents of a harmful nature, keyed-in or in an active state.
Engram, a posited memory trace that remains after a moment of pain and unconsciousness. Hubbard didn't coin this word; it can be found in Webster's, and is part of the ISV, the International Scientific Vocabulary.
Entheta, enturbulated theta. Bad Vibes. "This Usenet newsgroup is so full of entheta that it is restimulating my bank."
Enturbulated, Hubbardese for being upset. "Suzy found ars so enturbulating, she ran away."
EOC, 1. End of Cycle, the end of a cycle of action (start, change, stop.) 2. Suicide. "After your mission to infiltrate the FBI, do an EOC to prevent leaks."
EP, End Phenomenon. The result of a Scientology processing action. "The EP for OT 15 is cause over the universe."
EPF, Estates Project Force, where new recruits are first placed so that they may receive indoctrination into the Sea Org echelons of the cult and prove themselves worthy of being into the Sea Org. Per policy, all recruits must finish a course called "Product Zero" and a 7A Security Check.
Ethics, a section of a Scientology Org (organization) that keeps people in line, and the Hubbardian policy that deals with it. "Keep your nose clean, or I'll route you to Ethics, Mr.!"
EUS, Eastern US. See CLO.
Evil Purpose, an implanted evil goal given to us millions or billions or trillions of years ago in Implant stations (there is one on Mars, you'll be interested to know) and still influencing our everyday lives, according to Hubbard.
Exec Strata, see Senior Exec Strata.
Exit counseling, an ethical method of recovering people from destructive cults, involving talking and giving out information in a non-coercive manner. "Combatting Cult Mind Control" by Steve Hassan best exemplifies the methodology. Compare Deprogramming.
Ex-Scientologist, a former member of the Scientology cult who has left and has gained a greater understanding of what was done to them in Hubbard's brainwashing machine, and who has a desire to see the hidden truth behind Scientology's carefully constructed PR facade exposed to the public. Most Ex-Scientologists do this for the public interest, despite personal risk of harassment and groundless defamation lawsuits from Scientology's Office of Special Affairs department and its small army of lawyers, agents, and PIs. We have little or nothing to gain by going public with what we know about the cult from the inside, and some of us will pay dearly for our devotion to the truth. We were lied to and ripped off by L. Ron Hubbard, in both a spiritual and monetary sense, and we don't want to see anyone else manipulated the way we were. Scientology has in many ways destroyed our lives; we would be less than human to stand idly by and watch as more "raw meat" public are ripped to shreds in Scientology's money-making mill.
Exteriorize, to leave the body. Scientologists believe we can step outside our bodies in the form of a disembodied "Thetan" or spirit, and hover about looking at things. This is deemed to be a very important goal of every Scientologist, usually only obtained at the highest "OT level." OT VIIs and VIIIs who have left the cult claim it is an induced hallucination. "Exteriorization is the goal of the End of Endless Int Rundown." See "Interiorization."
Facsimile, a mental image picture. "June has a facsimile of a dog biting her leg."
FACTnet, Fight Against Coercive Tactics network; a cult information BBS with numerous files on the Scientology cult and others operated by Lawrence Wollersheim, and various other directors at various times including Bob Penny, Kim Baker, and Arnie (Arnaldo) Lerma. FACTNet has undergone a shift toward carrying the torch for free speech on the Internet more recently after lengthy and expensive litigation with Scientology.
Fair Game, the notorious Scientology policy describing how to deal with critics, ex-members, and other undesirables dehumanized with the label "Suppressives"; they may be "Sued, tricked, lied to, or destroyed," as per policy. A more recent policy has banished the WORDS "Fair Game", but the policy of what to do to these "SPs" or "Suppressives" cannot ever be cancelled, as it is Hubbardian scripture, and his words cannot ever be altered in any way per Scientology's policy. "Dennis Erlich, being an SP, is subject to Fair Game."
Fall, a Meter read of about an inch movement to the left.
F&F, the name of the mission that was sent to execute the programme targets establishing the "United Churches" front (Flag) in Clearwater, Florida.
Fastflow, able to zip through course checksheets because of superliteracy obtained from M1 word clearing and the Student Hat.
FB, Flag Bureaux - Oversees all Sea Org service organizations and all Class V (formerly Class IV) organizations. - Jonathon Barbera.
FCB, Flag Command Bureaux - In charge of internal management of upper middle management. - Jonathon Barbera.
FDN, Foundation, qv.
FDSing, False Data Stripping. Brainwashing 101; an auditing ("therapy") procedure involving stripping away "bad" thoughts or wrong ideas and replacing them with the proper cultic dogma. The ideas are located, cleansed, and replaced with the "true data". "Success Story: today I had a big win using FDSing to get rid of the False Datum that Psyches are trying to help people!"
FEBC, the Flag Executive Briefing Course. A top-level training course for EDs and other executives delivered at ITO and possibly a few other high training orgs. The FEBC used to incorporate strange events like the Kali ceremony, the ritualistic destruction of model orgs.
Field, noun. The "wog world" (disparaging term for everyday society and the non-Scientology world) outside the Org. "The field is getting so muddy that it is hard to get new Raw Meat in and onto our lines!"
Field Auditors, roaming Scientology recruiters and auditors who are meant to channel people into missions and Class V Orgs. See FSM.
Fifth galactic invader force, insect-creatures with horrible hands. Psychs (Scientology's derogatory term for psychiatrists) are from these galactic invaders who threaten our very existence on this planet, according to L. Ron Hubbard.
Finance Dictator, the person in charge of extracting money from all the little people or peons in Scientology. An Apt name, given the brutality with which this all-important function is carried out. "The Finance Dictator went after the Mission-Holders in a big money-grab in the early 1980s."
Flag, the former name of the ship Hubbard was Commodore on, the Apollo. When the Sea Org (high level Scientologists who sign billion-year contracts) came ashore in Clearwater, Florida, they set up the Flag Land Base, an upper-level Class XII Org, now just called Flag. "I got my Ls at Flag, and my case was really cracked!"
Flag Executive Briefing Course, see FEBC.
FLB, see Flag.
Flub, a mistake made in the auditing "therapy."
Flubless, perfect auditing without errors; a "star-high goal" that is never achieved, as numerous therapy "repairs" point up.
F/N, Floating Needle. A rhythmic swinging of the Meter needle back and forth indicating end of session, or completion of a "therapy" process. Also commonly used to indicate good vibes, as in "I've been F/Ning all day!"
FO, Flag Order, a blue-on-white written directive similar to Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letters, HCOPLs, for Sea Org members. There is a Sea Org Briefing Course which consists of all non-confidential FOs still in use. Flag Orders are a vital policy line, as the Sea Org is the commanding and controlling organization in Scientology which runs as a thread throughout the entire cult.
Folder, an Ethics (Scientology's corrections section) folder or Auditing "therapy" folder in which Scientology collects all the dirt on people obtained from auditing sessions and Ethics actions which can be used as blackmail to keep critics quiet. Culled information from folders of former Scientologists who have turned into critics has a habit of showing up on ars.
FOLO, Flag Operations Liaison Office. See Flag.
Foundation, one of the two groups inside a Class V Org, which is a Scientology organization that delivers lower level services. Foundation works the night and weekend shift, while Day works days. "Sally works for Foundation, while Sam is Day." See Day.
FPRD, False Purpose Rundown.
FR or F/R, Flag Rep. A minor post in a Class V or lower level Org; a liaison with Flag, an upper level Class XII organization. "Ronald was the FR from HAW FDN."
Franchise, an old name used before the more appealing Newspeak "Mission," qv. Franchise connotes the financial business aspects of Scientology too much, and so the term "Mission" is now used to add more religiosity. A Mission is a low level Scientology money making organization; a franchise, in other words. See Mission.
Freedom, Scientology's newspeak-monikered propaganda newsletter, used for PR dissemination. See PR, good roads fair weather.
Freeloader debt, a debt incurred by staff members who break their 3, 5, or one billion year (in the Sea Org) contracts, and are thus required to pay for every auditing action and training course done to them while on staff. The freeloader debt usually runs into the tens of thousands, but cannot be collected in most cases as the contract in not considered to be in good faith.
Freewinds, the SO-run (Sea Org) ship that cruises around tropical ports and gives the OT-8s (top level Scientologists) a hangout while they proceed with their auditing. Ah, how nice it must be to be at the top of the Bridge on a Clear day!
Free Zone, (also Freezone); a loose affiliation of people who still believe in some of the ideas of Scientology auditing procedures, but who have left the formal structure of the cult in a type of Scientology Reformation. The Free Zone is a little more liberal than the hard-core Churchies, as they sometimes like to call people still in the cult proper, yet they often still have the trappings of Scientology, for example, the E-Meter, Auditing, the concepts of Ethics, Overts (bad deeds), Conditions, and the use of disparaging terms for outsiders, (Meatballs, Bashers, Wogs, etc.) The cult proper hates these splinterers and labels them "squirrels". Their newsgroup is alt.clearing.technology; they also have their own periodicals, such as the _Free Spirit_ and others. "The "Free Zone" was a term first used by Bill Robertson in the early 80s. Robertson was a fan of LRH and set up a network of organizations that delivered the CofS's upper and lower levels grades, including the Clearing Course, OT levels and NOTs, at a cut-rate." - Joe Harrington.
Free Zoner, (also Freezoner); a member of the Free Zone, qv. Opinion is split on whether this term is or is not derogatory. Some people are happy to be called Free Zoners, and apply the term to themselves. Others claim it is derogatory when used by critics, but this may be a confusion with attitudes as expressed in sentences and simple nouns. Does a sentence like "Canadians are politically stupid liberals" make the term "Canadian" a derogatory term? Free Zoners have been called deluded for still adhering to Hubbardian views and holding the vile man in high regard; I do not believe that this can make the term itself derogatory, but others feel differently about it. The term did not arise within the critical arena, which sheds further doubt on the derogatory label hypothesis.
FSM, Field Staff Member. Mercenaries who recruit people using selection slips for Scientology and get a 15% profit of the value of services purchased by their recruits in return.
FSO, 1. Flag Ship Organization. In reality this has been various ships and locations over the last 30 years. 2. FSO also means Flag Service Org which is in Clearwater, FL and is usually referred to as simply Flag. "FSO - Flag Service Organization - Highest level training organization in the world and can deliver the processing side of the Bridge up to New OT VII. Located in Clearwater, Florida, USA." - Jonathon Barbera.
FSSO, Flag Ship Service Organization, Clearwater, FL. The Flag Ship was the Apollo in Hubbard's day, now it is the Freewinds out cruising the Caribbean. OT 8 is done on the FSSO, the Freewinds.
FZ, see Free Zone. (act)
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Post by K on Jan 26, 2008 5:34:34 GMT -5
Gang-Bang Sec Check, a cruel process involving getting the victim to confess to "crimes" or Overts while on a meter and in front of a group of people. Used as a heavy brainwashing technique when a PC threatens to blow. "Three people in the past year have said they have had Gang-Bang Sec Checks recently."
GE, Genetic Entity. A low-grade soul that stores whole track engrams (memories of pain and unconsciousness from the last few trillion years of the patient's life) like the clam incident (people descended from clams, according to Hubbard.) The concept of the GE can be hard to understand until one realizes that it is unadulterated nonsense, like much of Scientology.
GI, 1. Gross Income. One of the most important Stats (statistics) for cult groups. 2. Good Indicators; a smiling face after an auditing or "therapy" action.
GO, the Guardian's Office. The cult's KGB, responsible for attacking SPs, (qv) publishing Dead Agent materials (largely manufactured dirty laundry on perceived enemies), framing political figures and judges, intimidating witnesses, etc. Now renamed OSA, the Office of Special Affairs, qv.
Godwin's Law, a rhetorical construct that postulates that the mere mention of the holocaust in an argument renders it null and void, as the slaughter of seven million Jews in WWII is a singularly momentous and ghastly historical event. Some people stretch the law to apply to mentioning Nazis and the Third Reich generally in any debate, but this is a dubious over-extension at best. "You are comparing the RPF to Nazi concentration camps? I hereby invoke Godwin's Law!"
Gold, this has been used to refer to both Golden Era Studios and Gold base, now usually referred to as INT, as most INT orgs have relocated there. In the Sea Org we used to refer to GOLD as "over the rainbow", and meant a "secret" location in Hemet. - Miss X. "Golden Era Productions, in charge of producing e-meters, films, television advertisements, and lectures on cassettes. Includes PDO (Planetary Dissemination Org)." - Jonathon Barbera. Note: E-Meters were also produced by Bridge. Grady Ward: "My first impression of Gold Base as Keith Henson drove me through it on Monday is that it looked exactly like a Nazi theme park. A delightful little caricature of a Scientology 'church' with a flowering bed in front of it - surrounded by the nastiest razor wire, floodlights, and video observation cameras I have ever seen."
Golden Age of Tech, the. Releases from 1996 reportedly sharpen up auditing. Apparently the "100% Standard Tech" sold to public over the last several years was not standard after all. The changes to unalterable tech include: a revamping of the E-meter with a variable gain; a student certainty course covering the barriers to study, parts of the student hat, the TRs, and the metering courses; the Golden Age of Tech Drills which are rote handlings compiled from HCOBs and put in quiz/drill form for training on a twin basis for grades and solo auditing courses; a read generator has been added to the E-meter; and more emphasis on study and drilling to the point of not having to think about what to do in a particular situation.
Good roads, fair weather. A PR technique which all Scientologists are instructed in to automatically handle criticisms with bland statements about other things. The idea is to discuss something "non-reactive" to the person, and also steer the topic away from Scientology, a topic Scientologists are indoctrinated to not discuss in any depth for obvious reasons. See PR.
GOSA, see OSA.
GPM, Goals Problems Mass. A supposed mass which develops when one is thwarted from reaching a Goal by a Problem or stop.
Grades, preliminary steps to the true enlightenment and understanding of Body Thetans (evil spirits inhabiting the body) on the OT (Operating Thetan; a person as a spirit able to operate free of the body) levels. The Grades range from 0, learning to talk, to VII, clear certainty, and come before clear (a person who is freed from the effects of the Reactive Mind; the place where all the memories of pain and unconsciousness are stored) on the Bridge. Actions before the Grades usually include Life repair, Purification rundown (which involves sweating in a sauna, running, and taking vitamin overdoses for a fee of $2,000) and the Drug Rundown, said to remove the harmful effects of drugs by using the E-Meter. The typical sequence for processing then goes up the numbered Grades. See also Class, Bridge, Level.
Grade 0, learn to communicate with anyone about anything. Too bad no one in Scientology has reached this level! See Class 0.
Grade 1, (I) learn to handle your Problems, as long as they don't include being a victim of a money-grubbing cult.
Grade 2, (II) Overts and Withholds, your dirty laundry aired in public. Don't tell them anything you wouldn't mind posted to Usenet or given out in pamphlets to your neighbors, co-workers and friends.
Grade 3, (III) deals with Upsets.
Grade 4, (IV) Service Facsimiles, "I'm right and you're wrong" type of blaming behavior. Guess that lots of people in this "church" need it. See Ser Fac.
Grade 4.5, (recently, last decade or so, New Era Dianetics (NED, qv) was put here. If the mark 'goes clear' on new era dianetics then grades 5, 6, and 7 are skipped. The person does a simple process called the sunshine rundown, and goes on to OT 1) (No; the cult doesn't call it Grade 4.5. This is where it would be logically.)
Grade 5, (V) Power, awareness of self as source. I got the Power, yeah, yeah. Just keep repeating it; you couldn't really be wasting thousands of dollars, could you? After all, this is America! You should be able to buy spiritual freedom! (God knows, you can buy everything else.) See Power processing.
Grade 6, preparation for the Clearing Course. R6EW, Routine Six, End Words. Meant to release the locks from the reactive mind. End Words are a kind of verbal lock that keeps the reactive mind or whatever in restimulation; more pseudoscience on parade. See R6EW.
Grade 7, Clearing course. Wow! At last you can throw away your glasses, a la Bates! You'll have perfect recall of what you ate for dinner! Your IQ will zoom! Your eyes will become glazed! Your pockets will be feeling a severe drain! (Unless your last name is Gates.) You're now ready for OT 1; last chance for cognitive dissonance before the railroad to Total Freedom (tm) routes you straight to hell, or a close approximation thereof, and all for just $129.99$! (Oops! I mean $129,000.99!) Visa or Amex accepted, but cash preferred. Loans available at 25% per week. Financial help with getting a mortgage on your house free of charge. See Clear Certainty Rundown.
Gradient, a gradual approach to brainwashing that Scientology employs so as not to scare off potential recruits. Things like OT-III, widely available over the net, are deemed to be "out-gradient", as they drive away raw recruits because they look like insane gibberish sputtered from the foaming mouth of a brain-fevered baboon. Also called a "gradient scales approach". Deviating from this tech is called going "out gradient"; a serious error.
Green Vols, the green volumes of the OEC (Organization Executive Course; a high-level and very expensive course that teaches executives how to manage an organization. Used to siphon money from Class V Orgs, lower level Orgs, uplines to higher level Orgs that run the course) that contain Scientology policy. See "Red Vols, OEC."
Guk Bomb, a mixture of benzedrine, vitamins, and glutamic acid Hubbard thought helped the auditing "therapy" go smoothly. See also Dianazene, Purif.
Handle, to fix something up or solve a problem. "Helena Kobrin and Elaine Siegel were assigned to handle the situation in ars."
HAS, the HCO (Hubbard Communications Office) Are Secretary; a petty executive in charge of HCO, one of the nine divisions in an org. The HAS (pronounced like has), is often the person who recruits for staff; personnel is one of their duties.
HASI, Hubbard Association of Scientologists International. A precursor to the IAS, qv. Just another way to make money; all Scientologists must buy memberships in the IAS for about a $1,000.
Hat, noun. A post or job. "She's wearing the Ethics Hat now."
Hat, verb. To train for a post or job. "He is fully Hatted as the MAA."
Havingness, a feeling of ownership or possession; something quite unfamiliar to SO (Sea Org) members. "Pete had such Havingness after he bought his Tech Dictionary." See beingness.
HCO, Hubbard Communication Office. The center of power while L. Ron Hubbard was in command of the cult (1950-1986); produced the HCO-policy letters and HCO "tech" bulletins.
HCOB, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, a red on white directive containing Hubbardian "tech" for auditing or "therapy" procedures.
HCOPL, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, a green on white issue containing administrative policy.
HES, the Hubbard Communications Office (HCO) Executive Secretary, one of the three executives directly under the ED, the Executive Director, along with the PES and OES. Also called the HCO Exec Sec.
HFA, Held From Above. HFA is added to a post title when there is no one posted to a position. A post is then "held from above" by the next person up the chain of command on the org board. - Miss X.
HGB, the Hollywood Guaranty [sic] Building, a twelve story office building at Hollywood Boulevard and Ivar formerly owned by the Bank of America. It is an old building that was constructed in the 1920s and purchased by Scientology with cash in the mid-'80s. All International management (upper middle management above continents and below *INT* - see Int) is located in this building. It is a twenty minute walk from the Cedars Complex, and houses IHELP, OSA Int, and the CMO IXU (Internal eXtension Unit), WISE Int, ABLE Int, and more. The various orgs on different floors in 1993 looked like this: 12th floor - OSA Int (includes office of the President of CSI). 11th - CMO IXU, AVU Int, confidential space. 10th - FCB, Networks. 9th - FB. 8th - FB, IHELP Int, SMI Int. 7th - WISE Int, ABLE Int. 6th - Dining room, canteen. 5th through 1st - ITO. 1st - LRH Exhibit, lobby. Basement - HGB Estates, FB's mimeo collection, INCOMM office.
HGC, the Hubbard Guidance Center; the place where the expensive auditing of Scientology processes or crude psychotherapy is done. "The HGC is down the hall on the right."
High Crime, a serious offense within the cult. "Going by a misunderstood word is a High Crime."
Hill 10, a serious situation or problem area for Scientology requiring immediate attention. "OSA now considers ars to be a Hill 10 situation."
HoM, History of Man; an L. Ron Hubbard book which purports that the Piltdown Man hoax was the ancestor of modern man, and that we evolved from clams, among many other absurdities. Recommended reading.
Ho' of Babylon, a nickname given to Helena Kobrin, a lawyer for the cult of Scientology who sent out threatening letters to numerous net.surfers in a crude attempt to silence them. (Ho means sleeper, prostitute.) See Kobrigram.
Hollywood Guaranty [sic] Building, see HGB.
HQS, Hubbard Qualified Scientologist course.
Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard. See "Ron."
Hubbardese, see Scientologese.
Hubbardite, a humourous term for a Scientologist, coined by Science-Fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein. See Clam.
Hubborg, (also Huborg) a pun combining Hubbard + Star Trek's "Borg", as Scientologists are seen to have a collective hive mentality at times akin to the science-fiction Borg. It has also been claimed that it is a combination of Hubbard + Org [anization], with an earlier genesis; it is possible that it has had two distinct origins. "They've been assimilated into the Hubborg Collective."
IAS, International Association of Scientologists. The first six months is free; after that, it gets very expensive. To receive Scientological services, IAS membership is mandatory; even staff are required to pay up, thus sacrificing their entire meager salary for the fee, frequently. See HASI.
I/C, In Charge. Someone running a Program or project. "She's the Tech Field Hatting I/C."
I-HELP, International Ecclesiastical League of Pastors; a cult front-group headquartered in Los Angeles, formerly just across the street from the main building of the old blue Cedars of Lebanon complex, now relocated to the HGB, qv, on the 8th floor.
Illegal PC, a Preclear who cannot be audited by virtue of actually needing some kind of help. Auditing is only for the able, or people who don't need help, as per policy; it is for making the able more able, or bilking them for more money. This paradox is explained by the fact that people who actually need help are harder to turn a profit on. Specifically, an Illegal PC is one who has had psychiatric treatments in the past, or appears to Scientologists like they have (a streetperson or prostitute, for example) and is deemed too damaged to touch, and a serious security risk to boot. "Jack Farmer is an Illegal PC; he may not receive the next auditing level he needs and wants."
Implant, a hypnotic suggestion smashed into one's mind millions or billions of years ago in Hubbard's Space-Opera Scientology Cosmology. "One Implant was installed using giant movie screens."
Incident One, 4 quadrillion years ago we were implanted with visions of cherubs blowing horns, chariots, and blackness. That's right; 4 *quadrillion* (4*10^15th, or 4,000,000,000,000,000 years!) What's that you say? 250,000 times the age of the universe? Don't let that stop you from believing, and anteing up the hundreds of thousands of dollars it takes to get to this level of brainwashing.
Incident Two, 75 million years ago Xenu, the evil galactic overlord, froze us, then blew us up with H-bombs on Hawaii, remember? Also called the wall of fire, or the OT 3 incident. The cover of Dianetics is meant to symbolize this cataclysmic event, and compel Wogs to buy the book by restimulating them.
INCOMM, Shown on the official Command Channels chart as Central Computer Banks (CCB), but this is a part of INCOMM's Division 4 (Tech/Production). This organization is in charge of computerizing Scientology and management. INCOMM does not have a CMO as it is directly managed by RTC. - Jonathon Barbera. Now in the HGB, qv.
Indicate, to read on the E-Meter. Generally used as a synonym for ringing true. "Boy, that really indicates for me!"
In-Ethics, describing a person who is upstat (increasing his or her production) and not violating any of the crimes of Scientology. "The new ED of VANF is very In-Ethics on her post."
Int, the International Management level of Scientology's massive bureaucracy, upper middle management above continental level and below the INT level. Much of it is now located in the HGB, qv. INT and Int are not the same thing; Int stands for International whereas INT refers to the higher INT level organizations. Crew members of INT level organizations are required to have an INT security clearance which is somewhat difficult to acquire.
INT Base, see Gold.
Intention, a metaphysical Scientological concept of being able to project theta into physical objects and other people to exert mystical control over them. "Put your intention into that ashtray and make it do what you tell it."
Interiorization, the unfortunate condition of being stuck in one's body. "I was so Interiorized yesterday; my sinuses ached from it!"
Introspection Rundown, a therapy for handling psychotic breaks in the cult. Involves locking the person up to prevent bad PR with the isolation step, also called baby watch. Sometimes instilling such wacky ideas as Xenu, Body Thetans and OT III can make people a bit unstable; the IRD is used to contain people when they flip out.
Invalidation, to belittle or make nothing of. "Andy felt so invalidated by the SPs on ars, he caved in, and left."
Iso, see Introspection Rundown.
Isolation, Isolation Step, see Introspection Rundown.
Issue Authority, the right to publish certain of L. Ron Hubbard's works.
ITO, International Training Organization - located at Flag in the late '70s. Formerly located in the Cedars Complex in LA, taking up several floors of the HGB, qv. Course taught there include the HPCSC, the FEBC, the KTL, and many others. The org is basically just a large academy with many courserooms. Almost all the students are from America, Canada, and Mexico. The Org is run by Sea Org crew. See HGB.
J&D, Joker and Degrader. According to Hubbard, joking and degrading about Scientology are signs of a suppressive personality. Worn as a badge of honor on ars due to one Scientologist labeling certain people Jokers and Degraders.
JBG, Johannesburg, South Africa Scientology organization. The AOSH (Advanced Org, Saint Hill; for upper level bridge auditing, ie, clear and OT) and CLO (Continental Liaison Office) for Africa are there.
Joburg, a lengthy sexual and criminal security checklist performed on staff as an auditing action on the E-meter, commonly seen as the roughest "sec-check" in the cult. The results are used as blackmail to keep departers silent about the abuses they've seen in the cult.
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Post by K on Jan 26, 2008 5:35:19 GMT -5
Key-In, to restimulate (make active) and turn on an engram or memory incident of pain and unconsciousness so that the PC (Preclear) patient manifests behavior from it. "John was Keyed-In by the sound of the plane crash."
Key-Out, to be released from the bad effects of one's Reactive Mind; the section of the mind, according to Hubbard, where painful and unconscious engrammatic memories are stored. "Dianetics can really Key you out, man!"
Kha Khan, an award supposedly given by Hubbard to those who did him a great service. The awardee gets spared the death sentence ten times.
Kobrigram, a threatening letter sent to a net.surfer or sysop from Scientology lawyer Helena Kobrin, also know as the Ho' of Babylon. Also Kobragram, Kobringram.
KoX, Knights of Xenu. They found the evil galactic overlord Xenu of Hubbard's quaint Scientology philosophy locked up in a box, and let him out, the naughty net.surfers! (ars)
KR or K/R, Knowledge Report, a write-up of a cult member's supposed "crimes" given to the Ethics division; cult members are encouraged to report each other's transgressions a la Orwell's "1984."
KRC, Knowledge, Responsibility, Control. The senior of the two Scientology triangles, ARC/KRC (ARC stands for Affinity, Reality, and Communication.) Control is senior to Affinity, get it?
KSW, Keeping Scientology Working. A series of HCOPLs, Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letters, designed to ensure Scientology lasts for hundreds of years, and also that Hubbard's fondest wish, that his name be smashed violently into the history books, becomes a reality. (Didn't Manson have a similar desire?)
KSW course, a course based on the KSW, Keeping Scientology Working, policy letters.
KTL Course, the Key To Life course. Involves lots of pretty pictures to drive home the brainwashing. Quite expensive.
L10, List ten, a series of processes directed at doingness. Audited by Class X auditors. Available on Bridge after Grade IV Expanded at FSO (Flag) only. Over 20 or 30 individual rundowns. A few include: Lie Rundown, 2D Rundown, Groups Rundown, Enemy Rundown, and Greatest Overt/Motivator Rundown. Most of these rundowns deal with overts and evil intentions which the being is using to restrain himself from doing more. - Jonathon Barbera. See Ls.
L11, List eleven, The New Life Rundown. A series of processes directed at havingness by handling ridges and masses around the person. Audited by Class XI auditors. Available on Bridge after Grade IV Expanded at FSO (Flag) only. - Jonathon Barbera.
L12, List twelve, (The Flag OT Executive Rundown). A series of processes directed at beingness and exteriorizing the person with full perceptions. Audited by Class XII auditors. Available on Bridge after Grade IV Expanded at FSO (Flag) only. Three steps include: handling why the person is pinned to the body as well as handling old PTS situations including the phenomena of being PTS to self, handling identities, and handling a unique phenomena involving stability and its past, present, and future consequences (this phenomena may be stuck attention beams on self from others). - Jonathon Barbera.
Lawn Ornament, David Miscavige. He's a dwarf, geddit? See Poodle.
Lazarus, a program written by Homer to tell posters to ars when their posts have been canceled by the cult censor on Netcom known affectionately as the "Cancelpoodle." Thanks, Homer! (ars)
LDNF, London Foundation Org, evenings and weekends.
Level, see Class, Grade.
LF, Long Fall. A swing of the Meter needle to the left of a couple inches.
LFBD, Long Fall BLow Down. An E-Meter read involving a swing of the needle to the left, and a consequent need to move the Tone Arm (potentiometer) of the Meter to keep the needle on the dial.
Life Repair, see Grades.
Lines, the cult's auditing ("therapy") and academy (training) services. "Ken isn't on lines at Flag anymore."
List One, a sec-check list for overts against Hubbard or Scientology; see RS.
Locational, a light auditing ("therapy") technique that gets the thetan (spirit or soul) centered in the MEST (Matter, Energy, Space, and Time) universe, so he knows where he is. Technique involves making the PC (Preclear; patient) look at trees, cars, people, touch books, etc. "Gary is outside doing a locational on Robert."
LRH, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, founder of Scientology cult. See Ron.
LRH Archives, CST, Church of Spiritual Technology. Also, COST.
L. Ron Hubbard, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Mediocre pulp-SF writer. Said in 1947 "If you really want to make millions, the fastest way is to start your own religion." Scientology cult founder; author of the turgid "Dianetics"; born 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, USA; died 1986. See "Ron."
Ls, L10, L11, and L12. Special, extremely expensive Lists or Rundowns developed in 1970-71 and delivered at Flag. They are done by Class X, XI and XII auditors (Scientology "therapists") who shout at the PC (patient) holding the soup cans electrodes of the Scientology E-Meter. These were designed to handle psychosis, although now they are used for all Scientologists who are wealthy enough to afford them. The Ls material mentions the fact that the Reactive Mind, the storehouse of engrams or memories of pain and unconsciousness, is composed solely of Body Thetans or evil spirits. See the individual Ls.
M1, or M1 Word Clearing, one of the 9 methods of the endless word clearing used in Scientology. M1 is done on a Meter, and locates charge or upset on words chains by subject, taking each back in time (often to fabricated past lives). M1 supposedly makes the recipient "Superliterate", able to "fast flow" through course checksheets without doing demos or checkouts. See also M8.
M2, metered word clearing done by having the student read aloud, then look up each word stumbled over or that reads on the meter.
M3, verbal word clearing done by the supervisor in the classroom and used whenever a student says s/he doesn't understand something. The sup then asks them to look earlier for a word that isn't understood, (the implication of Hubbard's perfection being implicit; if Hubbard wasn't clear or used the wrong word, this is just not acknowledged) has the student look it up in a dictionary, and then use it in sentences in the usual way. M3 is one of the most commonly-used methods of word clearing, along with M4 and self-study. In self-study, every word found is looked up, used in sentences, and cleared in each definition, pronunciation, and the derivation, as in all word clearing. "Set" is checked in all its permutations that were known already since childhood. "To" is diligently looked up, although it has little or no intrinsic meaning. "The" and "a" and "an" are all checked repeatedly, "definitions" memorized without being understood for the next supervisor star-rate checkout. For all their word-clearing, Scientologists are not particularly adept at language, missing the fact that most words are learned via context and use, not endless consultation of dry, dead, dictionaries. The average student in Scientology may spend hours each day flipping through the dictionaries, yet they don't seem to benefit from the activity at all. "Word clearing" is an integral part of the brainwashing in the cult. Its real aim is to make people compliant by doing absurd and meaningless repetitive tasks while instilling the cult's twisted semantics and thousands of neologisms and redefinitions from the two large cult dictionaries of such key terms as "critical thought", redefined as a completely negative activity. It is Orwell's _1984_ brought to life by another, albeit inferior, Science Fiction writer.
M4, metered classroom word clearing. The student is asked to focus on sections of text of about paragraph to page size and asked if there's an MU, then the meter is checked for any reaction. The word so metaphysically located is then looked up and cleared in the usual way. M4 is one of the most common forms of word clearing, along with M3 and self-study, as the students works by themselves to "clear up their MUs". Not clearing up one's own MUs may result in ethics actions being taken for going by MUs, a serious offense. This is another cult catch-22 situation, as all students can be asked for definitions of words like "be" or something equally ridiculous, hesitate, and end up in trouble. During star-rate checkouts, definitions are often demanded out of the blue. "What's the definition of 'too'?", "The number 2?", "Flunk!" being a common occurrence with no recourse given. Any opposition to the obvious unfairness of the situation just gets the person in more hot water in the totalitarian system. Any opposition or complaints are, after all, a sign of 'natter' produced by, you guessed it, MUs! Word clearing is an integral part of Scientology brainwashing.
M5, the student is asked what words mean from a list, as in auditing commands. The ones the person can't define quickly and accurately are flunked.
M6, key word clearing. The most important words relating to a specific post are looked up and word cleared in a dictionary upon any hint of slowness or hesitancy on the part of the staff member. This is based on the idea that so-called "MUs" can thwart someone's production on post; an untested idea, to put it mildly.
M7, used for illiterates, children, and foreign-language persons. The student is made to read aloud, and at each omission or stumble or hesitation or frown, the word is explained to the person verbally or looked up for him or her by the twin or word clearer.
M8, part of the Primary Rundown, its end product is superliteracy. An alphabetical list of every word in the materials being studied, such as a book or tape, is looked up. This is the most thorough methods of W/Cing. Its requirement for the exalted state of "superliteracy" has been superseded by M1, or was at one time in the cult.
M9, unmetered word clearing action. Student is made to read the text aloud while the word clearer follows along in another copy of the text. When the student stumbles or frowns or coughs, etc., the word is thoroughly looked up and "cleared" by the usual method.
MAA, Master At Arms. A Sea Org (highly indoctrinated Scientologists who sign billion-year contracts) Ethics Officer, responsible for keeping Ethics in (keeping the all-important production up; someone who produces well in Scientology is almost always regarded as being in-Ethics; the ends justify the means is policy.) Their lower org equivalent is called an Ethics Officer, or EO.
Marcab Confederacy, a galactic confederation and the denizens thereof. It is a star system in the astronomy charts. It is also supposed to be the source of most of the destructive suppressive influences attacking the Earth at this time and in the past. For the last 100,000 years they've been driving cars, wearing business suits and fedora hats, using telephones, and flying spaceships. Remember that episode of Star Trek? "The Marcabians are coming to Earth, and they're going to lay waste to it, according to Captain Bill."
Meatball, A derogatory Free Zone (qv) term for people who don't believe in their strange ideas. (act) See Basher.
Mental Image Picture, a picture in the Reactive mind, the repository of memories of painful and unconscious moments. "Bob has a stuck mental image picture of an atom bomb going off on top of his head 200 trillion years ago."
Merchant of Chaos, a cult synonym for an anti-Scientologist or Suppressive Person. A bad person; a person who speaks ill of Scientology, and should therefore be punished.
MEST, Matter, Energy, Space, and Time; the constituents of the physical universe, or the physical universe itself. Seen as a lesser domain than the spiritual or Theta realm.
Milgram Experiment, the; a psychological influence process. "A very famous psychology experiment with a rather depressing result. Milgram's subjects were put in front of a device that was supposed to administer electric shocks to someone in another room (the other person was actually an actor who responded as if he were being shocked) and were then ordered by Milgram to administer increasing levels of shocks, even levels that were marked as 'dangerous' on the device and that elicited a simulation of agony from the actor. He found that most of his subjects obeyed him, even when they generally believed that they were injuring the other person. The experiment basically showed that the 'Nuremberg defense' mindset is alive and well in the US; people are conditioned to obey authority and will compromise their own principles to do so. The experiment was done in the late '60s or early '70s; I doubt things have gotten better since then. Remember that most Americans now think of the late '60s and early '70s as one of the worst periods in American history, and cite 'lack of respect for authority' as one of the main reasons for why it was so terrible." - Eric Bohlman. Read Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, by Stanley Milgram (Harper & Row, 1974).
Misemotional, describing a display of inappropriate emotion; for example, crying for no reason. "Mary has been misemotional since her last action; she needs a repair."
Mission, 1. the Newspeak-corrected term for a cult franchise, as Hubbard originally and more accurately called them before the "religious angle" was adopted to garner tax breaks for his company. Last heard, the package used to set up a Mission could be bought for US $56,000. A year or two ago, the Co$ management gloated that 1,000 mission franchises had been sold at $56,000 each. That works out to $56,000,000 all told. If the cult's total annual gross is $300,000,000, then this one source accounts for nearly 1/5. These franchises are meant to pay their owners 15%, trouble is, if your Mission ever makes it, it will be taken away from you. Missions cannot train auditors, but they can deliver low-level courses and processing; they are meant to send their "products" on to the next higher org on the ladder, the nearest Class V Org. 2. A set of orders given to Missionaires (Sea Org members sent to clay demo and then carry out some orders) to go out and do an action, usually gathering money from low-level Scientology Orgs, getting back "blown" staff members, and so forth. Missions are notoriously violent in their methods, and lower-level orgs live in fear of getting a set of these Sea Org bully-boys with their daggers and uniforms in to "put in their ethics" (make them fork over more money) and "get their stats up" with intimidation tactics. Missions are sometimes given absolute ethics authority, meaning they are allowed to do anything to "get ethics in".
Missionaire, a Sea Org member specially trained to do a Mission, and given orders, (which are often clay-demoed) and sent out to get something done. "The Missionaires from Up-Lines arrived, and demanded $25,000 from our local Org."
Misunderstood, misuderstood word, see M/U, M3, M4.
Mock Up, to make up; particularly mental imagery, but may also apply to physical things. Scientologists may often confuse external reality with imagination or fantasy, and may well not see the difference between imagining a wall, and taking a hammer and nails and building one. "Mock up a wall. Thank you. Now destroy that wall. Thank you."
Motivator, a nasty thing that one "pulls in" as a result of having prior overts, undisclosed naughty acts. In other words, anything that happens to you is your own fault; you deserved it because you are essentially evil. "The cult of Scientology has lots of motivators; they keep saying 'look what they did to us!'"
M/U, Mis-U, or MU; a misunderstood word, meant to cause everything from blows (sudden departures) to overts and withholds, and actually being the root cause of SPs. Because of the centricity of "MUs" and their destructive potential it is a crime to go by them when studying, and subjects the student to the risk of getting a kangaroo "court of ethics". The cult is fanatical about not going by one, and insists that everyone look things up endlessly in dictionaries and go through every definition. This becomes quite tedious with words like "to", "set", and "be." Extensive pieces of the "tech" are devoted to "word clearing", qv, and so the hapless student ends up trapped in a arbitrary system which may punish or help, punish or help, alternately, with the word clearing or the ethics actions. The very definition of "MU" is mutable and arbitrary in that it is a word that makes one frown or blink or stumble on or slow down on reading, etc., as spotted by others - all of this adds to the coercive, conforming, and group- pressure nature of the beast. See M3, M4 for more on this topic. "Look up your M/Us and quit your nattering Mister, or I'll have you busted down to Ethics!"
M/U Phenomena, the emotional upset leading to Blows, disappearances from the organization, that follows going by a misunderstood word, according to the cult's "study tech." M/U Phenomena is the only reason someone gives up on Scientology, according to Hubbard. If you think it is all nonsense, it is because you went by a word you didn't understand. If you think it is dangerous, and that the RPF (Rehabilitation Project Force; the cult's gulag) is repressive and sick, you just have an M/U. If you think the Purification Rundown is bizarre, you have an M/U, and it is your problem. Get it?
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Narconon, a cult front-group that purportedly cures drug addition. Narconon is used for cult recruitment; its techniques have been called unscientific, medically unsound, and possibly dangerous.
Natter, to say negative things; to give off bad vibes. Natter is said to be caused by going past Misunderstood words, and having Overts or undisclosed bad acts, and can thus lead to Blows. "If you don't stop Nattering, you're going to the RPF!"
NED, New Era Dianetics. Dianetics on the wholetrack, your last 75 trillion years. NED for OTs is abbreviated NOTS, and as this is done solo, with the soup-can electrodes of the E-Meter in one hand so the other is free to write up the session, it is then called Solo NOTS. See Grade 4.5, OT 5.
New OT I, II, etc. See OT I, II, etc.
Newspeak, George Orwell's "1984" explication of applied semantics. "1984" provides much insight into the cult of Scientology, by the way.
NLSCC, the Netherlands branch office of the ARSCC, which also does not exist.
Non-E, Non-Existence. A production level; someone is said to be in Non-E when they are new on their post, not known to all the other Org terminals (people), and not producing anything. There is a formula for getting out of Non-E all the way up to Power, the best condition, or measure of an individual's production. It is all about making more money. See Conditions.
NOTS, NED (New Era Dianetics) for OTs (Operating Thetans). See NED, OT 5.
NYF, New York Foundation Org, evenings and weekends.
Oat Tea, what the bus driver sometimes calls the OT or Operating Thetan levels of Scn's bizarre space-opera auditing "technology" in which body thetans are removed from the mark for a few thousand bucks.
Obedience to authority, see Milgram experiment.
Objectives, low-level "therapy" procedures meant to instill pliability and sheep-like passivity in new Scientologists. Most involve physical manipulation of the body, on the premise that the "raw meat" is too "low-toned" to be run or real auditing. See Control.
OC, see Orange County.
OEC, Organization Executive Course. An executive training course and its associated policy in HCOPLs, Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letters, collected into a set of eight large numbered green volumes, also called the "Green Vols." A person knowing the data in these volumes fully and applying it could completely reverse any down-trending statistics, or even a bring back a failing company, Hubbard says. "OEC 0 is the Basic Staff Volume; read it before you commit a crime on post." See also "Red Vols."
OES, the Organization Executive Secretary, one of the three executives directly under the ED, the Executive Director, along with the HES and PES. Also called the Org Exec Sec.
Off lines, not paying and taking Scientology training or "therapy". See lines.
One One or 1.1, someone stuck at 1.1 on Hubbard's emotional Tone Scale, an SP (Suppressive Person; someone who disagrees with Scientology and deserves to be destroyed because of their beliefs.) See Tone Scale.
On lines, taking Scientology services in the form of processing "therapy" or training. Also used loosely as meaning in contact or communication with, as "Mary has a Psych on her lines." See lines.
On Source, following Hubbard exactly as written; being true to Hubbard's word. See Source.
OoS, Organization of Scientology, pronounced "ooze". Similar to Co$ and many others, a joking name for Scientology sometimes used by its critics, in this case as a protest against the application of the term "church" (as in CoS, Church of Scientology) to what is essentially a giant con game cum criminal conspiracy.
Operating Thetan, the exalted state that is the target of Scn's weird "technology" of removing body thetans, said to be accompanied by strange powers like the ability to kill someone with a thought or fry a bug at a considerable distance. See OT.
Operation Foot Bullet, a joke at Scientology's expense; the Scientologists whose job it is to "contribute" to ars often seem to be doing so poorly, it is as if they're shooting themselves in the foot. Humorously named after the seriously criminal Operation Freakout and Operation Snow White. There's been some call to update this to Operation Foot Bazooka, given the incredible stunts the cult has pulled recently like suing the German government.
Operation Freakout, a plan to carry out the Fair Game policy, the policy of attacking perceived Scientology enemies, on Paulette Cooper, the author of the book "The Scandal of Scientology." The GO (Guardian's Office, the cult's KGB-like security organization responsible for covert operations and dirty tricks of all kinds) operation involved framing Ms. Cooper with a bomb threat made to the Arab Consulate, among other things.
Operation Snow White, see Snow White.
Op Pro by Dup, an Objective, qv, that involves copying the auditor's simple hand motions like the child's game of pat-a-cake. See Control.
Op-Term, a situation of opposition to a terminal or person, giving a reason to fight. "Sue started Op-Terming with the SPs on ars; she would have been better off not giving them a game."
Orange County, OC, - also abbreviated SOC for Scientology Orange County. When I was in the Sea Org it was located on Irvine Blvd in Tustin, CA. - Miss X.
Org, Noun. Organization; a cult group, internally called a "Church." Org usually refers to a Class IV Org (now Class V); Higher up than a low level Mission or franchise, but lower than a Class XII Org, or Advanced Org, (AO), or Saint Hill Org. ASHO stands for the American Saint Hill Org, while AOLA stands for the Advanced Org, Los Angeles. Both ASHO and AOLA are higher up the power chain than a Class V Org.
Organization Executive Course, see OEC.
Org Board, a map to the massive cult bureaucracy; details every post, division, department, executive, etc. that go to make up a Scientology Organization. Some Org Boards contain seven divisions, some have nine; they all have a large number of specifically defined posts. See Division.
OSA, Office of special affairs. The "dirty work" department, the cult's KGB. Took over from the GO, Guardian's Office, when the GO's leaders went to jail for infiltrating government offices, stealing and altering official files that put the cult in a bad light. "OSA Int - Office of Special Affairs International - Oversees DSA (Director of Special Affairs) network as well as handling international external threats against the Church of Scientology and international legal matters." - Jonathon Barbera. Also called GOSA as a pun on GO+OSA, and as a means of putting the lie to the constant PR refrain that "we've reformed; we're no longer criminals". Yeah, right. Only the name changed, in fact; the dirty tricks and harassment operations continue to this day. Just ask any of the ars regulars for examples; many have first-hand experience. OSA Int is now located at the HGB, qv.
OT, Operating Thetan, one who is above Clear, a state of partial enlightenment, and who is not just free of unconscious impulses, but is free of other things too so that they can operate, and be causative over the physical universe and do kewl things like fry bugs, read minds, kill people with a thought, etc. Note: most of the OT levels have been modified over time, sometimes extensively. These modifications are designated "New OT (level)".
OT I, (OT 1), comes after completing OT eligibility and OT preps (qv), this consists of walking about and counting people until one has a "win", and similar god-like procedures. EP (End Phenomena) is to extrovert a being, and bring about an awareness of himself in relation to others and the physical universe. Also called OT (Operating Thetan) orientation. OT I has had various incarnations over the years. BTW, there's this swamp land I've got for sale in FLA...
OT II, (OT 2); consists of hundreds of boring "implants" written in Hubbard's hand like "to be or not to be", followed by "spotting the light" that accompanied the "implants." EP (End Phenomena; the final result of processing "therapy") is rehabilitation of intention and ability to project intention. With an EP like that, it can't fail! "A series of processes directed at whole track implant materials (GPMs) dealing with dichotomies and binary thinking. Available at Advanced Organizations and higher." - Jonathon Barbera.
OT III, (OT 3); Operating Thetan (level) three, also called the wall of fire. Deals with Incident 2, Xenu, the evil galactic overlord, and the H bombs on Hawaii 76 million years ago. Hubbard said that anyone who was exposed to this level casually would "freewheel" through it, become a chronic insomniac, then get sick and die. "Locating and auditing of body thetans on Incident I (first incident in MEST universe) and Incident II (incident which caused the degradation of these beings into body thetans and clusters as caused by Xenu approximately seventy-five million years ago). Emphasis on this level is ridding the pre-OT of body thetans which are conscious enough to respond to the auditing. Available at Advanced Organizations and higher. Partially replaced by New OT V." - Jonathon Barbera. See Incident Two.
OT IV, (OT 4); the Operating Thetan drug rundown. New OT IV gets rid of the effects of taking drugs in past lifetimes for a few thousand dollars. You should really see this land in FLA; it is near Clearwater... "Mocking-up and unmocking implants from Clearing Course in order to prevent future implanting plus the handling and rehabilitation of past auditing. Product was supposed to be an OT Exterior. Replaced by New OT IV: handles the effects of drugs, medicine, and alcohol by addressing BTs stuck to/in drugs, medicine, and alcohol incidents. Audited by Class VIII auditors at Advanced Organizations and higher." - Jonathon Barbera.
OT V, (OT 5); get rid of those d**n Body Thetans! EP (End Phenomena) is cause over life. Should be cause over your debt; you'll need it. New OT 5 starts what is call New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans, NED for OTs or NOTS, reputed to be for removing BTs (Body Thetans; evil spirit infestations) that didn't respond on OT3. Physical universe familiarization, for only a few 'thou, was a part of old OT V. "A series of drills directed at the Pre-OT's handling of, and relationship to, MEST. Drills were to be done exterior. Replaced by New OT V: A series of steps directed at clearing the Pre-OTs body of body thetans with some attention on body thetans which are causing particular conditions (including health conditions, rock slams caused by the evil intentions of body thetans, PTSness caused by suppressive body thetans, etc.) Audited by Class IX auditors at Advanced Organizations and higher. 55 HCOBs." - Jonathon Barbera. Note: this level has been published on the internet at many locations, however reading it won't help to understand it much, as it is insane garbage.
OT VI, (OT 6); what, more body thetans? New OT 6 teaches the sucker, I mean the Pre-OT, to do NOTs, New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans, solo. OT VI is very expensive; it is easy to run up a $40,000 bill to get ready for the next step, OT VII. OT ability drills for a few 'thou more constituted old OT VI. "Drills dealing with exteriorization, emotions, and sensations. The drills were supposed to be done exterior. Replaced by New OT VI: A course which trains the Pre-OT on how to solo audit Solo NOTs. Available at FSO (Flag). 14 HCOBs." - Jonathon Barbera.
OT VII, (OT 7); and still more? On OT VII one does NOTS, New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans, solo. New OT VII is cheaper than New OT V, as only the six month C/S'ing and the final certainly check are paid for and the main work is left to the mark himself. Old OT VII was projection of intention and polish up for a few more 'thou...and you thought shouting was all you needed to project your intention. "A series of processes, drills, and training steps directed at intention. Replaced by New OT VII: the purpose of this level is the further ridding of body thetans. Done at FSO (Flag) and at home for two to three years. Product is an OT." - Jonathon Barbera.
OT VIII, (OT 8); Rumours are that the EP of this level is to cognite that Hubbard is god. After US $360,000, Hubbard had better be god, d**n it, otherwise you've just been royally duped! Will you gain god-like abilities yourself? Plonk down the US $360,000 or so to get to this stratospheric level, and find out...or you could rent a clue for ten cents and buy a nice house and a couple cars with the money you'd save. OT VIII is the top of the current Grade Chart - OT IX won't be released until all the present Orgs are the size of the old Saint Hill Organization in East Grinstead, England, in the '60s - not until hell freezes over, in other words. The Bridge, or Gradation Chart of Human Awareness and Abilities, tops out at OT 15, in some versions, although information is sketchy for the last few. OT 8 is a big expensive mystery, only delivered on the newspeak-named Scientology cruiseliner "Freewinds" out on the Caribbean. People who have completed this level have said that it is a review of all of the person's auditing and a verification/ nullification of discoveries the person has made about himself, that it is Route 1 and 2 from the _Creation of Human ability_ book, that it involves looking into your past auditing folders in order to spot any moments where you were being somebody else, e.g. past life identities, which you have discovered on Int Rundown or NED and any body thetans you have unleashed on OT III, OT IV, OT V, OT VI, OT VII and on Lists L10, L11 and L12, then a meter check to see if these identities are right or wrong items. At the end of this new process (New OT VIII), you will have recovered all of your own time track, supposedly. Two slightly different sets of the complete process have been posted to alt.religion.scientology, allegedly from people who have finished the level on the Freewinds. These procedures do indeed involved the 8th dynamic (god), as well as other steps, including material from _A History of Man_.
OT IX, (Orders of Magnitude). Prerequisites imply more implant material on this level. The word "orders" may merely suggest levels or may possibly indicate commands for the OT to perform as a Scientologist. - Jonathon Barbera.
OT X, (Character). Rumors have suggested that this level produces whole track recall. - Jonathon Barbera.
OT XI (Operating). Probably further rehabilitation of the OT's abilities. - Jonathon Barbera.
OT XII (Future). Probably is directed at the OT's handling or prediction of the future. - Jonathon Barbera.
OT XIII, Title not given. Probably incomplete or nonexistent. - Jonathon Barbera.
OT XIV, Title not given. Probably incomplete or nonexistent. - Jonathon Barbera.
OT XV, Title not given. Probably incomplete or nonexistent. If it did exist, this level's product would be Total Freedom. - Jonathon Barbera. Note: it has been suggested that the old OT levels have been bumped up to fill these slots 9 to 15, so if and when these levels are released to the public (supposedly only after all current orgs are the size of the booming early Saint Hill), the current OT VIIIs may be in for a shock re-doing all their old levels over again, if they are old-timers.
OT Eligibility, a series of Sec Checks or confessionals a Pre-OT must go through to prove they are ethical enough to do the OT (Operating Thetan) levels. (And a useful source of blackmail material should the Pre-OT decide they don't like the OT levels, and want their money back.) "A False Purpose Rundown form which verifies the ethics level of the Pre-OT. Rumors have suggested that some Pre-OTs are required to make amends or prove their worthiness to do upper levels by assisting Scientology in various ways. Done at Saint Hills and higher organizations." - Jonathon Barbera.
OT levels, solo-audited (self-metered; the soup-can electrodes of Hubbard's crude ohm-meter are held in one hand, and notes are jotted down with the other; saves money (for Scientology) over having an auditor do it) and expensive processes at the top of the Scientology "Bridge." The levels currently run from New OT I to New OT VIII.
OT Preps, OT preparations, probably basic case handling steps to make sure the Pre-OT is ready for solo auditing and does not have attention on past auditing. Done at Saint Hills and higher organizations. - Jonathon Barbera.
Out 2D, Illegal or immoral (in cult terms) sex.
Out-Ethics, not obeying like a good little slave. Welcome to the exciting world of the totally free. "She is so Out-Ethics, she has to be declared to get the Tech in on her." See In-Ethics.
Out-Gradient, see Gradient.
Out Point, something that doesn't fit, or doesn't help to "make it go right." A reason why something fails. "Jake's program failed because of the out-points in dealing with suppression."
Overt, an evil or Suppressive (damaging to Scientology) act. Of course, it is only an Overt if it hurts Scientology; shooting an SP (Suppressive Person; an anti-Scientologist) under the Fair Game Law (Suppressives may be tricked, sued, lied to, or destroyed, as per policy) could be redefined as not being an Overt, as you did it to help to "clear the planet", and it "did the least harm to the least number of dynamics." "She has committed so many Overts, she can't see her own Case anymore." See MU.
Overboarding, the habit of Scientologists in the Sea Org of chucking people over the side of a ship. If they hit the rubbing strake on the long fall to the water and break their arm, they must have pulled it in. If they can't swim, they're just dramatizing their wholetrack overts. In any case, it is their fault. The pirates used the same tech, but they called it walking the plank.
O/W, Overts and Withholds, undisclosed naughty (anti-Scientology) acts and the attempt to hide them from public view. Also called O/W "tech".
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Post by K on Jan 26, 2008 5:38:48 GMT -5
PAB, Professional Auditor's Bulletin. An issue type for Scientology auditors or therapists. Some of Hubbard's "technical" writings to his flock of auditors may be found in these.
PAC, Pacific Area Command, the Los Angeles area in Hubbardspeak.
PACRPF, Pacific Area Command - Rehabilitation Project Force, in the basement of the Cedars Complex. Most RPF'ers live in Lebanon Hall and do their courses on the first floor of the main building. Only a few are sent to the basement the (RPF's RPF) down in the extensive tunnel network under the main building that extends out under the parking lot.
Particle, a person seen as a thing to be routed, or a piece of information in the cult's communication theory.
PC, preclear. Someone who is getting auditing (spiritual counseling) who is not yet "Clear," Clear being that state of being free of unconscious impulses that cloud your judgment, and not having any memories of pain and unconsciousness or engrams. PC or preclear is often used to mean anyone taking Scientology "therapy" even if they are Clear or above. A person who is OT 1 through OT 8 and being audited may be called a PC or sometimes a pre-OT.
PDC, the Philadelphia Doctorate Course; dates from 1952. Now offered as a series of tapes of Hubbard's lectures known as the PDC lectures.
Perceptics, the list of senses, extended far beyond the usual five by Scientology.
PES, the Public Executive Secretary, one of the three executives directly under the ED, the Executive Director, along with the HES and OES. Also called the Public Exec Sec.
Piltdown Man, a ancestor of man with huge jaws and a nasty habit of using them to eat his wife, according to Hubbard. NB, this was a fraud perpetrated on the scientific community from 1912 until 1953, when it was proved to be a hoax, of a human cranium and an ape jaw "discovered" near Piltdown, Sussex, England by Charles Dawson. However, Hubbard never withdrew his ridiculous claim that Dawson's hoax was a direct ancestor to modern man.
Poodle, a pet name for David Miscavige, the dictator of the cult of Scientology. Dennis Erlich: "Patrick Jost, in a conversation with me, described the little pr*ck as looking like a poodle. Knowing Miscarriage as I do, I thought the handle fit well, so I've used it ever since. Although I think lawn ornament and (*) fit him well, too." (*) is crude ASCII art. Very crude.
Postulate, to wish into existence; a supposed OT super-power along the lines of Tone 40 and Intention, qv. "David postulates that the Psyches will all be destroyed by the year 2000; our program of dead-agenting them will make his postulate stick." Ted Mayett: "I have a definition for Postulate. - body english on a bowling ball."
Pot Kettle Black, from the saying "the pot calling the kettle black", a common phrase on ars in reply to, for example, a Scientologist calling ars critics "bigots" when it was the cult's leader Hubbard who wrote "the trouble with China is there are too many Chinks", and that blacks had bigger reads on the E-meter due to having bigger overts (sins) that whites, and other racist remarks, to which a critic follows up "Pot Kettle Black."
Power Processing, (Grades V & VA - Power and Power Plus). First set of processes are directed at the upper part of the awareness chart (source, existence, conditions). These levels are only done when a PC does not go Clear on New Era Dianetics and is audited by Class VII auditors at Saint Hills and higher organizations. - Jonathon Barbera. See Grades.
PR, Public Relations. A central theme in the cult with several drills and many written policies. The whole idea is to make Scientology out to be something good, something great, and to attack all sources of criticism vigorously with an end to silencing them. Many of the low-level Scientologists will go into PR mode automatically and wax enthusiastic about the wonderful "gains" they are having and so forth without realizing the false picture of Scientology they are creating. High-level Scientologists engage in outright lying and distortion of facts, such as calling modern Germany a "Nazi state" or saying that psychs, (psychiatrists) are behind some global conspiracy, or turning failed lawsuits into "big wins" with bland propaganda and so on. See Freedom.
Preclear, see PC.
Prenatal, an Engram (moment of pain and unconsciousness) received while in the womb. Hubbard guessed the womb was a nasty place, full of bumps and grinds and horrible noises.
Pre-OT, a person who is being audited and is above Clear on the grade chart. See PC.
PRO, Public Relations Officer.
PROAC, Public Relations Office (or Officer) Area Control.
Process, an auditing or "therapy" action.
Processing, the action of auditing a PC or patient. A coldly distant term for Scientology's "therapy", which itself can be very cold and distant; the term shows Hubbard's lack of respect for the people he conned out of their money for his quack cult "therapy".
Pro TRS, the Professional Training Routines for auditors or therapists, involving long hours staring at another student, reciting verses out of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", Bullbaiting or insulting each other, and doing lots of Clay Demos, or figures in Plasticine (tm). "Our son was made into a zombie on the Pro TRs."
Psychs, psychiatrists and psychologists. Seen by the paranoid cult as being the ultimate in evil and corruption on Earth; out to destroy us all by cutting out our brains with transorbital leucotomies, or zapping us into submission with electro-convulsive therapy (ECT), or zombifying us with selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like Ritalin and Prozac. The cult front-group called the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a la Orwell, is dedicated to destroying these evil beings known as Psychs, but who are really members of the fifth galactic invader force, qv.
PT, Present Time, the here and now. "SPs are stuck in an incident in the past; they need to be brought up to PT."
PTS, Potential Trouble Source. Someone who is in contact with an SP, a Suppressive or anti-Scientology person, and therefore may cause trouble for the cult. "Mary is a PTS Type III." Adjective; "She is PTS to that Wholetrack SP on her lines." See also individual types of PTS - 1 to 3, and A to J, SP, Disconnection.
PTS/SP Course, a training pack that deals with how to handle and disconnect from SPs (Suppressive Persons; people who disagree with Scientology) that are enturbulating (disturbing) you, usually in one's immediate family.
PTS Type One, a person who has an SP in contact with them, trying to help them get out of the cult.
PTS Type Two, a person who has an SP in their past who they can't name. A catch-all for people who don't improve using the unworkable quack therapy of Scientology.
PTS Type Three, a person suffering a psychotic breakdown due to connection with an anti-Scientologist or psychiatrist, supposedly. Often this label is applied to people who flip under the incredible strain of Scientology's paranoid bullnuts. PTS Type Three's are then placed on the Introspection Rundown, where they are locked up to hide them from authorities, who don't like to see people driven round the bend by the cult, and may make waves.
PTS Type A, people intimately connected with SPs through family or marital ties who are likely to have help getting out of the cult or be exposed to the other side of the question.
PTS Type B, criminals.
PTS Type C, people who make legal threats against the cult, or who publicly attack Scientology.
PTS Type D, people who believe that Scientology is responsible for what it did to them, who won't buy the line that they are completely responsible for all the destructive things the cult does and won't accept that the victim is solely to blame for any mishaps.
PTS Type E, people who are forced into being audited by others. To be effective, the impetus must seem to come from within, then they only have themselves to blame.
PTS Type F, people who aren't certain that Scientology's quack therapy works, and want to test it.
PTS Type G, rich or influential people who want free quack auditing "therapy" based on their status.
PTS Type H, open minded people who aren't certain and 100% dedicated to Scientology, as the cult demands.
PTS Type I, people who do not believe that they can get better using the cult's quack therapy, thus the placebo effect will be weakened.
PTS Type J, people who are likely to have a critical bent regarding Scientology, who may not swallow the BS in one big gulp - judges, boards, newspaper reporters, magazine writers, etc.
Purif, the Purification Rundown. A cleansing process, intended to remove drugs supposedly stored in body fat through running, taking megadoses of vitamins and minerals, and sweating in a sauna for hours every day. The Purif costs roughly $1,500, and takes about two weeks to do. There is no scientific evidence to back up the cult of Scientology's claims about the supposed benefits of the Purif. See Grades, Guk Bomb, Dianazene.
Put a head on a pike, a Hubbardian policy learned apparently from Vlad the Impaler to intimidate critics by taking their leader and doing their worst to him or her through harassment, lawsuits, frame-ups, etc. in the hope that this will scare others off. "OSA and RTC have really put a head on a pike in the media industry with Time/Warner being sued for 400 million dollars; the libel chill should make other magazines think twice before writing about Scientology."
Q & A, question(ing) and answer(ing); not going A to B, but rather wasting time, querying orders instead of blindly obeying like you are meant to. "Don't Q & A on the order; go out and kill the judge's dog!"
R6EW, Routine 6 - End Words (Grade VI). The first solo audited level done by PCs who did not go Clear on New Era Dianetics. This level is directed at R6 (reactive mind) implant material by finding the ideas (endwords) which the PC is dramatizing. Available at Advanced Organizations and higher. - Jonathon Barbera.
Raw Meat, A derogatory term for the ordinary public or non-Scientologists. "Body route some more Raw Meat into this Org, Sam, or I'll send you to Ethics!"
RD, Rundown. An auditing or "therapy" process.
Reactive Mind, the place where Engrams, memories of pain and unconsciousness, are stored. On a higher level, Engrams are revealed to be none other than Body Thetans or evil spirits infesting our bodies by the thousands. Also called the Bank.
Reality, "basically an agreement", sputtered Hubbard. Trouble is, the general population doesn't agrees with that definition.
Red Vols, the huge set of red "technical" volumes that contain the Scientology "technology." See OEC, Green Vols.
Reg, register, registrar or registration. To sell Scientology services or the salesmen of the Org. "Your next step after course completion is to see the Reg, Sally." "We need to get more Regging done to boost GI by next Thursday!"
Repair, a fixer-upper for when the "100% standard" uniformly workable "tech" of Scientology fails or goes wrong; a common occurrence. "Beth just paid $2,500 for a repair."
Restimulate, to turn on unpleasant memories. "By reading the OT 3 materials posted to ars, my Case has become heavily Restimulated."
R-Factor, Reality Factor, a harsh and brutal cussing out by a superior, usually given to one who is downstat, or not making enough money.
Rice and Beans, the naughty SO (Sea Organization) member's diet regimen. Guaranteed to lose weight, or gums and teeth, or resistance to Scientology's weird concepts - whichever comes first.
RICO, Racketeering, Influence, and Corrupt Organizations Act. An American bill put forward to curtail organized crime, like Scientology, for example.
Ridge, a solid mass which purportedly develops when two flows collide. "He's creating such a ridge by arguing with the public." "I still have that ridge in my forehead from the baseball that hit me."
Rock Slam, an erratic E-Meter needle movement, see RS.
Rock Slammer, see RS.
Ron, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. L. Ron Hubbard is often called "Ron" by his followers. Other names frequently used for him are "L. Ron Hubbard", "The Commodore", "Source", "LRH", and "The Admiral." Born in 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska; died in 1986.
Ronbot, a derogatory term for a Scientologist. See clam.
RPF, Rehabilitation Project Force, the cult's internal gulag where bad people are sent for punishment or "rehabilitation"; a brain washing and penal organization.
RS or R/S, Rock Slam, a type of "read" that registers on the E-Meter, indicating that you have an evil intention. The needle swings violently back and forth. Round about '77 or so, everyone in the Sea Org had to be run on "List One", a list containing items like LRH, auditing, E-Meters, etc. If an R/S showed up at any point on the list, you went directly to RPF. Do not pass go, do not collect $17. Rock slammer technically means any person with one or more R/Ses shown in their PC folders. In slang, it means a criminal or SP. "Harry is a real Rock-Slammer; better get him into a sec-check fast."
RTC, Religious Technology Center. David Miscavige is COB - Chairman of the Board - of the RTC, which holds the cult's "trademarks" and "copyrights." That's right; "trademarks" and "copyrights!" Scientology is the only "religion" (so it claims) around to try to patent spiritual freedom. Of course, it is all a money-making scam; if the laughable "tech" was made free and public, on the Internet for example, who would pay $300,000 for it? Jonathon Barbera: "Senior-most management organization in Scientology (on the chart). Protects the technologies of Dianetics and Scientology through the ownership of the trademarks. Includes the Inspector General Network which is responsible for the three main realms of activity (ethics, tech, and administration). Each of these realms are overseen by an Inspector General (IG Ethics, IG Tech, and IG Admin)."
Rundown, an auditing or "therapy" process. "The Sunshine Rundown sells for $5,000."
Running Program, in an effort to help tired executives who only worked 18 hour days, Hubbard devised a program of taking megadoses of mineral supplements and running circles around a pole or tree for five hours a day in desert heat. "David Mayo was on the Running Program at Happy Valley in California."
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Post by K on Jan 26, 2008 5:39:31 GMT -5
Saint Hill, the manor Hubbard bought in East Grinstead, England, with his ill-gotten gains. See SH.
Scamizdat, a net.zine containing much of the secret Scientology "technology" and policy. Scamizdat got its name from scam (Scientology) + samizdat, an underground press for publishing and disseminating dissident works in the former Soviet Union; also, the materials so published. It is an abbreviation of samizdatel'stvo, meaning self publishing (house), from sam-, self, + izdatel'stvo, publisher. The creators of Scamizdat obviously see parallels between Communist Russia and Scientology in the way they deal with critics and free-speech. Spam Killer, achilles@ilium.net: "'samizdat' is a clever pun. It means 'self-published' but it takes force from 'gosizdat' (sp?), the Soviet acronym for Government Publishing."
Scieno, a term for Scientologist, which is a bit long to type out over and over and over. The origination of the term according to Dennis Erlich: "The term was coined by none other than Bill Franks himself. He was made the Executive Director International for life by the Phattard in 1979 (i believe). After poodleboy had him kidnapped, taken to Hemet and held against his will, he escaped and came back to Clearwater to picket in front of the Ft. Harrison." Usage is generally somewhat disparaging, but less so than "clam".
Scieno-speak, see Scientologese. (ars)
Scientologese, a term used to describe the strange new language used within the cult of Scientology; an odd mixture of rather illiterate English and thousands of new terms that Hubbard introduced in his extensive writings. Also called Scieno-speak, Hubbardese. (ars)
Scientology, Hubbard's money-making venture into religion; started after Dianetics. Word comes from Nordenholz's book "Scientologie 34."
#Scientology, an IRC discussion channel devoted to Scientology. Formerly #clambake.
Scn, short for Scientology.
Sec Check, confessional dirty-laundry type Scientology "therapy." See "Sec Checking."
Sec Checking, Security Checking. Running lists of questions on a PC or patient using the Meter to find criminal behavior that can be used as potential blackmail, should the PC ever blow or become critical of the cult. Similar to a confessional; the PC is lied to and told the revealed secrets and Overts will remain confidential, yet the cult often publishes and distributes the items found by Sec Checking, which are written down in folders at the time of the session. Term comes from Hubbard's extreme paranoia about Communist, governmental, or psychiatric infiltration of Scientology, and the need to run Security checks on new Scientologists.
Senior C/S (Case Supervisor) Int, part of INT management and is located with CMO INT. The person holding this post is considered the senior-most technical terminal within the Church and is responsible, with his or her juniors, for overseeing standard delivery, receiving tech related petitions, and c/s'ing difficult cases which cannot be resolved at a smaller organization. - Jonathon Barbera.
Senior Exec Strata, Senior Executive Strata. Management organization in charge of developing programs to be done in service organizations to boost various areas of production and delivery. Each of the members of the Exec Strata are responsible for a specific area such as selling books or field activities. - Jonathon Barbera. Head of the Exec Strata is the ED INT, currently Guillaume Lesevre.
Ser Fac, Service Facsimile. A mental image picture the PC (Preclear or patient) uses to make himself or herself right and others wrong, help him dominate others and himself escape domination, or to enhance his own survival and injure that of others. At least, that's what the tech says; in reality, the term is applied to people who are not "up-stat" - running around like a chicken with their head cut off to make money fast for the cult. If someone is moping, looks depressed, is making excuses, saying "oh, poor me", justifying their errors and generally "acting the victim" and trying to get sympathy instead of being 100% dedicated and "making it go right", they are said to be ser fac'ing (pronounced FACKing). In other words, if someone isn't living up to the fascist ideals of Scientology, they're said to be dramatizing their ser facs."If you keep pulling down stats in my area with your Ser Facs, I'll write a KR on you!" Grade 4 deals with auditing this type of engram out of the mark. See Grade 4.
Service Facsimile, see Ser Fac.
Session, an auditing or "therapy" regimen; PC patient holds the cans, Auditor "therapist" behind the Meter. Also called Processing, Auditing, qv.
Severe reality adjustment, see SRA.
SH, Saint Hill manor, in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. Hubbard set up Scientology's worldwide headquarters there for several years, until he was kicked out of the UK by the government's Home Office.
Shore Story, a lie told to cover up illegal activity or give a good PR facade to fool wogs, non-Scientologists. "Your Shore Story while on mission will be that you are working for an independent research facility out of Dallas."
SHSBC, the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course for auditors, ("therapists") given at Saint Hill in England originally, and now given at any Saint Hill Org, like ASHO (the American Saint Hill Organization.) The SHSBC is mostly on tapes, and is very long, arduous, and expensive. It is meant to give a very high level of proficiency to the auditor "therapist", and is recommended for the unreleased higher OT levels IX and above. See Class 6.
SLD, Southern Land Development Corp. - a front name used to purchase the Ft. Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida.
SMI Int, Scientology Missions International International - Oversees all Missions ("Franchises"). - Jonathon Barbera.
SNC, abbreviation for the Stevens Creek Mission.
Snow white, the code name for a cult espionage operation. Snow White's goal was to infiltrate government offices and purge their files of incriminating material that made the cult look bad. 30,000+ documents were stolen from the IRS, the DEA, the Coast Guard, and the US Attorney's office. Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue, was sentenced to four years in jail for the operation, which was carried out by operatives in the GO (Guardian's Office; a precursor to OSA, the Office of Special Affairs, the cult's answer to the KGB.)
SO, the Sea Org, the commanding and controlling element in the cult, partly working off ships, partly land-based at Flag in Clearwater, FLA, the Cedars Complex in Los Angeles, and other places. The core is now at the INT Base and the HGB, qv.
SO 1 Line, Standing Order number one line. All communications sent to Hubbard, so we were told, actually went to him, and were read by him, and answered by him. Not true; there was a team of letter readers/writers to deal with the volume, right down to forging Hubbard's signature on the replies. "When all else fails, there's always the SO 1 Line!" See ED INT for more information and the address for the replacement for the SO-1 line.
Solo auditing, a self-auditing procedure used at the higher levels of the cult's "Bridge," or levels of enlightenment chart. The E-Meter cans are stuck onto a plastic holder and held in one hand. Saves money for the cult, as solo levels aren't any cheaper, but there's no need for an auditor or "therapist," only a C/S, Case supervisor (the person in charge of running "therapy" actions on the Preclear or patient. Solo violates one of Hubbard's primary rules of auditing, that the PC (Preclear) cannot audit himself. "Solo Auditor Course, Part Two, includes confidential solo steps to be done in order to further train the new solo auditor. Done by everyone prior to first solo level (either R6EW or New OT I) at Saint Hills and higher organizations." - Jonathon Barbera.
Solo NOTS, self-auditing, solo "therapy" NED for OTs, New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans; the running out of Body Thetans or evil spirits. See NED.
Somatics, pains and aches restimulated or turned on during a "therapy" session, or contained within an engram or memory incident. "The PC got a heavy somatic in her jaw while auditing a clam incident."
SOS, Science of Survival; an L. Ron Hubbard book that details the dynamics of life, and the principle that we are all just trying to survive. Recommended reading.
Source, L. Ron Hubbard is the Source (capitalized) of Scientology; his written orders in the form of Policy and Tech, and his spoken words on tape are Source. "I feel so much better after getting back on Source."
Southern Land Development Corp, see SLB.
SP, Suppressive Person, an evil person; someone who criticizes Scientology in any way. (the two are one and the same in the cult) SPs are the cult's _1984_ Goldsteins, and give definition to the group and a common enemy. Supposedly, some large fraction of the total population is composed of these "anti-social" characters, variously cited as 2% or 20%. Hubbard listed 12 traits of the SP, such as talking in generalities, criticism, and so forth. SPs are formally "declared" with a goldenrod issue, and lists are kept of these dangerous people. Ars has adopted its own SP levels as a badge of honour; in Scientology, there are no levels of SP. SPs create PTSes, people who are influenced by them. See MU, PTS, Disconnection.
Spaink, verb. An ars word. If you win a lawsuit so decisively that your opponent has to pay your legal costs, you are said to have "Spainked" your opponent. Scientology was first Spainked by Karin Spaink, nlscc luminary, then Spainked by Zenon, and now has been Spainked by Magne Berge in Norway.
SP levels, a badge of harassment worn with pride by ars posters; they mock the OT levels, and show how suppressive a particular participant to ars is; the higher the level, the more damage that critic has done to Scientology, and the more fire they have drawn in the process.
Spokesclam, a Scientology spokesperson or PR agent. See clam.
Squirrel, a person who subverts Hubbard's "Tech" by alteration. The name probably came from the idea of squirrels burying, or being associated with, nuts. In the cult jargon, Squirrel refers to someone who is too insane to follow Standard Tech. "Mayo was a Squirrel because he altered Source." May also be used as a verb denoting the action of subversion of Scientology "Technology," as "Koos has been squirreling auditing tech."
SRA, Severe Reality Adjustment. The use of screaming and demeaning right in someone's face, usually by a superior, to get the person to fit into the mold of the Scientology cult better. Similar "tech" to that used by drill sergeants in boot camp.
Standard Tech, in theory, all of Scientology is 100% Standard Tech, meaning it is just workable, and yet full of unadmitted errors needing constant repair actions on PCs (patients). "Flag has the most 100% Standard Tech on the planet!" See Golden Age of Tech, the.
Stats, Statistics. Each Scientologist has to monitor his or her success, which is transmitted to control organs, e.g. the EO, Ethics Officer. Stats must be up every Thursday by two (pm), or the hapless cult indoctrinee is punished by being made to do Conditions or extra work. See also Conditions.
Straightwire, an auditing technique, using hypnosis to place the PC (Preclear) right back in the memory incident, to see and hear it all over again.
Student Hat, an approximately $1,500 dollar course that teaches students to never go by a word they don't understand, and do little clay demos out of Plasticine (tm). A good revenue source, as most of the course is done from audio tapes, and requires little effort from the Supervisor or teacher. See also M3, M4.
Study Tech, the cult's training methodology, involving ensuring the student never goes past a word he or she doesn't understand, making little Plasticine (tm) figures, and demoing by shuffling a kit of small blocks and toys about with the hands. "Stewart paid $1,500 to learn Study Tech on the Student Hat course." See also M3, M4.
Success Story, a coerced write-up required to complete any auditing "therapy" action. Success Stories are usually filled with bland, often meaninglessly nebulous statements about "blowing mass", "having cognitions", and "big wins." See "Win", "Big Win."
Sunshine Rundown, an expensive auditing "therapy" routine similar to a locational, in which the Preclear (patient) is told to look at things about them. "Solo audited without a meter. Spotting drills where the Clear spots specific things in the environment. Four of the five things to spot may include something near, something far, something big, and something small. Available at Class V Organizations which deliver the CCRD and all higher organizations." - Jonathon Barbera.
Superliterate, referring to a Scientologist who has done the Student Hat course and M1 word clearing to enable him or her to fastflow through course checksheets. Superliteracy mainly means that the Scientologist has no upset on misunderstood words, not that they are really super literate, although this is sometimes implied and tacitly agreed to. "Hey, you're Superlit? Must be a big win to fastflow through your courses like that!"
Super Power, A series of 12 rundowns including: Ethics and Justice Repair Rundown, Personal Revival Rundown, Consequences Rundown, and False Data and Loss Rundown. Delivered by Super Power auditors at FSO (Flag) and might also be delivered to staff at Class Vs who have completed KTL (in English speaking organizations) and LOC. Release of this rundown is expected to make planetary clearing and the expanding of all service organizations to the size of old Saint Hill a reality. - Jonathon Barbera.
Suppressive person, see SP.
TA, Tone Arm, a potentiometer on the E-meter that adjusts sensitivity. TA motion indicates "blowing charge", or success in auditing "therapy." Like almost every word in Scientologese, it has a loose definition, and is often used to indicate happiness, general success, warm fuzzy feelings, etc. "I was really getting some good TA on that editor in Clearwater!"
TARSCCDNE, acronym for "the arscc does not exist", the standard disclaimer, usually lower-case. See ARSCC.
TD, Technical Dictionary; the cult's wonderful study of semantics gone awry; complements the Admin Dictionary. Recommended reading. Hubbard recommends certain dictionaries in the Student Hat course, and gives several reasons why certain dictionaries are bad. His own dictionary fits snugly into his own definition of a bad dictionary. Sometimes called the Tech Dictionary,
Tech, short for "technology", the quasi-scientific auditing "therapy" processes and actions of Scientology, as found in HCOBs, Hubbard Communication Office Technical Bulletins, collections of which are found in the Red Vols, qv. "You are hereby declared an SP, Sam, for committing Out-Tech."
Teegeeack, Earth. Its old name. 75 million years old, according to Hubbard.
Tenyaka Memorial, a world-conspiracy that Hubbard was paranoid about; he was convinced this mysterious organization was responsible for coordinating attacks on Scientology, and that various mental health organizations were in cahoots with it, along with Nazis, drug companies, banks, Communists, spies, and, of course, psychiatrists. Compare Tanaka Memorial, 1927, a Japanese plan for world domination followed in aggression against China and later in WWII, named for prime minister general Tanaka, d. 1929. Hubbard seems to have misspelt and borrowed his paranoid delusion, just like many other things in his life! (Dianetics from dianoetic; Scientology from Scientologie, etc.)
Terminal, a fully hatted (trained) person on their post (job), to which particles (people or paper) can be sent to and from. A dehumanizing term for people, but not a derogatory word inside the cult. "After being Declared, your only Terminal is the International Justice Chief."
Theta, 1. Uptone. "That was a really Theta speech Miscavige gave about how we are stopping the Psyches from taking over the world." 2. Life force. "This universe was constructed by Theta."
Theta-L, an email discussion list for Scientologists in good standing. Discussion mainly revolves around vapid "wins" and hollow "success stories", interspersed with the occasional plan to destroy or remove alt.religion.scientology.
Thetan, Spirit, Soul. "I now realize I am a Thetan, not a body."
Thursday at 2:00, the end of the week of production and making money in the cult of Scientology. "The Execs are adding up our week's statistics now; you better hope you're upstat by Thursday at 2:00."
TOK, Tokyo Organization.
Tone Arm, see TA.
Tone Forty or Tone 40, the top of the emotional tone scale, seen as a godlike state of command and control of others; see Intention, Postulate.
Tone Forty Command, an order given at Tone Forty, and therefore filled with mystical OT, Operating Thetan intention that must be instantly obeyed.
Tone Scale, the list of all human emotional states, arranged beside an arbitrary scale number from -40 (total failure), through 0 (death), to +40. "SPs are at 1.1, Covert Hostility, on the Tone Scale."
Touch Assist, a cult medical regimen meant to reduce ridges (afflicted areas due to impact) in the body due to injury. Several methods are used. One involves repeatedly touching the injured part back to the object which caused the injury. Another involves using the hands to smooth away the supposed built-up ridges or force lines from impact between objects or flows. Yet another involves sticking a finger on the body, and saying "feel my finger" repeated, as always, ad nauseum.
Track, the timeline of life's memories; both this life and earlier ones.
TRs, Training Routines. Designed to train the auditor "therapist" to be unresponsive to the PC patient. Side effect is creating a cold and distant "thousand-mile stare" in Scientologists' eyes.
TWC, two-way comm. See 2WC.
Two-way comm. See 2WC.
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Post by K on Jan 26, 2008 5:40:19 GMT -5
UK-ARSCC, the United Kingdom branch office of the ARSCC, which also does not exist.
UFZA, United Freezone Alliance, a loose affiliation of former cult members who still can't throw off the tatters of Hubbard's "tech". See Free Zone. (act)
Up Lines, towards the top of the cult hierarchy of Organizations. "All the money from Class V Orgs goes Up Lines."
Up Stat, describing a condition of having the all-important production statistics going up, indicating increased output and more money coming in. Also, a general term of goodness or cleanliness, showing a kind of Scientological glow. After all, what could be better than having more money? "You should see the new ASI offices in LA; they are so incredibly Up Stat it would blow your mind." See Down Stat.
USB, United States Base - same as Flag Service Org. See FSO.
Valence, possession by another personality or evil spirit. "You sure mock up a good SP valence!"
Verbal Tech, the cardinal sin of describing the cult's "tech" by word of mouth, or through one's own writing, deemed a "High Crime." "If you don't shut up with your originations of what you think a Fall means, I'm sending you to Ethics for spouting Verbal Tech!"
VFP, Valuable Final Product, the end result of a plan of action drawn up with targets. Each post in an org has a VFP it is meant to produce; ie, the VPF of a supervisor might be well-trained students.
VGIs, Very Good Indicators. A bright, shining, smiling face expected and rewarded after a feedback session with an auditor "therapist" and an E-Meter. "Sally was F/Ning with VGIs after her Sunshine Rundown."
Wall of Clay, the extensive clay demos of Plasticine (tm) done on the Pro TRs (professional training routines for auditor "therapists.") A whole chapter from a book needs to be clay demoed. It can take over a week of 16 hour days, if doing TRs (training routines) the hard way, according to SO (Sea Org) standards.
Wall of Fire, the OT 3 incident with atomic bombs being dropped on our frozen souls on Hawaii. See Incident Two, OT 3.
WDC, the Watchdog Committee. A high-level cult security arm designed to keep an eye on the other branches. Jonathon Barbera: "Senior-most management organization in the Church of Scientology. WDC Chairman is, officially, the head of the Church. In 1993 this post was held by the CO CMO INT somewhat secretly, but it may be policy for these two posts to be held by the same individual. This organization oversees large areas of Scientology such as OSA, WISE, SMI, SO Service Orgs, etc. and each one of these areas are overseen by a specific executive (referred to as WDC OSA, WDC SMI, etc.).
WDNE, which does not exist. Used after ARSCC, as: "the arscc (wdne)" or tarsccdne. See ARSCC, TARSCCDNE.
White Glove, a clean-up make-work done at the end of each week by Sea Org staff. It usually entails removing every speck of dust from a room with dirty grey rags and little or no cleaning supplies to a standard whereby a white glove wielded by the superior cannot pick up anything when wiped on various surfaces around the area involved. Of course, if a group is downstat, the cleanup takes longer; white-glove inspections can take many hours. "This is the sixth flunk on the white glove in this room; if I have to come back again if it doesn't pass next time you're all staying and working for another five hours to get your f**king stats up!"
Wholetrack, the timeline of trillions of years of memory Scientologists claim to have. "Sally has major Overts from six million years ago on her Wholetrack."
Why, a reason to explain why something happens; a cause. "We need to find the why behind the failure of Operation Snow White."
Win, a success from a Scientology perspective. "David Miscavige announced some Big Wins we had in Germany in 1994." See "Big Win", "Success Story."
WISE, World Institute of Scientology Enterprises. Business department of Scientology. Licenses L. Ron Hubbard's "Tech" to corporations and then infiltrates them in high-level takeovers. A cult front-group, now located at the HGB, qv.
Withhold, after committing an Overt (undisclosed bad act), people try to hide it or Withhold it; thus a Withhold is what you're hiding. "Sit down and write up your Overts and Withholds." See MU.
Wog, a derogatory and racist term the cult co-opted from British slang, and now uses to refer to people outside of Scientology's purview.
Wog world, the mundane society away from the totally free supermen inside the cult of Scientology, seen as an aberrated sea of insanity and criminality to be feared and avoided.
Word clearing, a very common and central activity in the cult. There are nine formal methods of word clearing, many being done on the E-meter with an auditor (word-clearer). See the individual methods under M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6, M7, M8 and M9. See in particular M3 and M4 for a more detailed explanation of what word clearing does and what its real purpose is.
WUS, Western US. See CLO.
Xenu (ZEE-new, ZEEN-you), sometimes spelled Xemu (ZEE-moo, ZEEM-you), the evil galactic ruler that packaged us all up, put us on Hawaii, and blew us up with H bombs 75,000,000 years ago, according to L. Ron Hubbard, author of Dianetics. The picture on the cover of Dianetics is meant to restimulate this incident implanted by Xenu, and force us to buy a copy. What's that you say? Hawaii didn't exist 75,000,000 years ago? Shhh! You'll wake him! Note: which spelling you choose is up to you; the field is split about 50/50 in ex-Scientologists, critics, and even authors on which one is best. Each side vigorously defends their pet spelling, and both sides have documentation to back up their version, which they insist is the only correct one. I believe either is correct, but I prefer Xenu with an N, pronounced ZEE-new. It is rumoured that this emotional debate will eventually lead to a schism of the arscc into two distinct and warring camps (can't you *see* the difference? *He's* black on the *left* side!)
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