The Story of Excalibur,by Ulrich (L. Kin), Germany

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>From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 8 - September 1992
 
The Story of Excalibur
by Ulrich (L. Kin), Germany

(Ulrich went up to Cl. IV and OT III at Saint Hill England. After he
left the CofS he did some work with Capt. Bill Robertson. At present
he is the chief editor of VAP, a German publisher known for the
translated editions of such books as "The Hidden Story of Scientology"
and "None Dare Call It Conspiracy", who currently - in the edition
Scienterra - publishes L. Kin's trilogy on Scientology philosophy and
tech in both German and English. Volume One, "Scn - More Than a Cult",
and Volume 2 "Scn - A Handbook for use", are published, and Volume 3
"Scn - the Solo Levels" is planned for publication summer 1993.Ed.)

Some people think "Excalibur" is a book by LRH, which is true, others
think it's a rundown by Capt. Bill Robertson, which is true as well.
Then there is "Excalibur Revisited", a book by Geoffrey Filbert. And
finally there is a group in Holland calling itself Excalibur
Foundation. So apparently, there are many things covered by the same
name.

This article, then, is about the rundown by Capt. Bill. It's about how
it was worked out and why it came to be called this name. To do away
with a possible misconception right from the start: Excalibur is not a
new development within the general framework of Scientology like for
example Dianasis; it's not an attempt to rephrase and rewrite the
whole tech in an effort to conceal that Hubbard is its source, as for
example Serge Gerbode did it with his IRM. Excalibur simply is an
auditing rundown to finish off OT III. It's an auditing method, no
more, no less. That it was turned into an ideology by Bill and upheld
as such by Bill's supporters, the Ron's Orgs, is a group
dramatization. It has nothing to do with the actual tech of the
rundown itself but with the people administering it.

Telepathic Telexes

Anyway, here's the story: In 1981 Capt. Bill found that "the boss" had
gone missing, so he got on his motorbike and travelled through the
USA. He noticed things were pretty bad in the places he saw, wrote a
report to the CofS top management which - naturally - got into the
wrong hands as it went up the lines, and Bill was declared SP. Feeling
that he had no supporters in the US he went to Europe.

Ten years earlier, in 1971, Capt. Bill had already been to Europe,
helping to set up the orgs of Paris, Copenhagen and Munich. So in a
way, he felt at home there. The first place he went to, was Madrid. He
knew an ex-CofS public there, John Caban, from having seen him at Flag
off and on. Bill arrived with not much more to his name than his
clothes and his motorbike. John put him up in exchange for Bill
redecorating John's new flat.

It was here, redecorating John's flat, painting a wall whilst standing
on a ladder, that Bill's paintbrush stopped dead in midair as he
received the first telepathic message from "the boss". He couldn't
make sense of it to start with, yet with the phenomenon persisting he
got off the ladder, took a pen and a piece of paper and wrote up what
he was told. This went on for a few weeks. The resulting bundle of
telepathic telexes were called the "Sector Operations Bulletins" by
Bill; they circulated widely throughout Europe, calling people "back
to arms". Many followed the call, some even believed that Bill was in
fact Ron. The Sector Ops Bulletins plus all sorts of added bits, like
analysis, evaluations and predictions regarding Xenu's influence on
the way the world was being run, came to finally be issued as the
"Sector 9 Book" (sector nine being the administrative unit of this
galaxy where the OT III incident is said to have taken place and where
Earth is situated).

Capt. Bill gets going

As he didn't speak the language, Bill couldn't really make money in
Madrid. Indeed, the number of ex-CofS public who spoke English and
were interested in receiving auditing or C/Sing, was extremely limited
since the CofS never had managed to get a foot in the door in Spain.
So Bill tried to organize what he called OTC International. There was
the 1983 OT conference in Marbella, there was a similar one the next
year in Alicante. Old commlines were picked up again, lots of
shoulders slapped, acquaintances renewed; there were thunderous
announcements of mighty deeds yet waiting to be done, there was a
general basking in the glory of future heroism. It was most
satisfying. And, as is usually the case with noisy undertakings,
precious little came off it.

Bill decided to go to Germany where the pickings seemed easier. After
all, people are civilized there; they speak English. He arrived in
Frankfurt in mid-1984, rallied people, and held fiery speeches. The
"Free Zone" was proclaimed. By the end of 1984 Bill had started
delivering the tech. He had found an auditor to work with (me) and got
down to C/Sing, delivering the OT levels and training up other
auditors. He was a smashing success. People came knocking at his door
from all over Europe, money started rolling in. Bill got himself a new
bike.

Meanwhile, some courageous characters, ex-CofS staff from England,
with a good portion of freebooting in their blood, had taken their old
Sea Org uniforms out of the wardrobes, dusted them off, travelled to
Copenhaguen pretending they were a tech mission from Flag, gained
entry that way, seized the NOTs materials and got out again before
anyone grasped what had happened. And within a few weeks, quite a
number of C/Ses in the independent field found large brown envelopes
in their letterboxes as they opened them in the morning. NOTs was now
available outside the CofS.

Everybody who had completed OT III, wanted NOTs. New Era Dianetics for
OTs. The magic rundown. The final revelation. The process to end all
mysteries. The magic potion, the cure-all. Funny that some people
should get cancer in the course of it and die. But never mind.
Everybody wanted NOTs, and so did Bill. He found someone to co-audit
it with (me), and sat down to study it. Three times through, like they
did it on the Flag Ship in days gone by.

Studying it revealed that the whole thing didn't make sense. Firstly,
it was incoherent with regard to authorship. You could tell by the
style that some bits had obviously been sketched by Ron and elaborated
by David Mayo who was then (at the time of the writing) Senior C/S
International, some were freely written by Mayo himself, some - and
only a very few - were LRH originals. Technically, it was incoherent,
too. Not a word of Dianetics. No running through incidents narratively
or by chains. No apparent connection to OT III which NOTs was meant to
finish off. All in all, a pretty cheap key-out solution that didn't
get to the core of the matter at all. ("NOTs is OT III with its balls
cut off", I heard someone say at St.Hill in 1978 when it came out.)

Bill was disgusted. After carefully taking off various layers of
theetie-weetieness, he found under this veneer of obscure and
contradictory ramblings what he considered Ron's true intention with
this rundown: to free a being from the whole of the composite case, of
the R6 bank. Equipped with those few data from the NOTs materials he
considered stable and trustworthy, with his knowledge of the Power
processes, his Class VIII C/S-training, and his understanding of OT
III as it was run on the ship back in 69, Bill sat down to work out a
program. The co-audit could begin. It was pretty wild both in terms of
the sort of stuff one would find oneself exposed to, and in terms of
TA-action. You could have fed electricity to all of Frankfurt for a
whole year, had our E-meters been wired up with the power supply lines
of that city.

The Ron's Orgs

This takes us to the middle of 1985. Successes and wins became
unquestionable, certainly something to write home about. The person to
do so was Maria Maloney, seasoned ex-CofS international registrar and
now the 2D-associate of Captn. Bill. Let us not mention Maria's
orthography, let's concentrate on the fact that she did pull people
in. Lots. From all continents the CofS ever had set foot on. 1985 and
1986 were the years of training. "Ron's Orgs" were set up all over the
world - one-man shows, usually, but it looked promising.

Amongst the first who came was Per Schi?ttz of Copenhagen. He arrived
with a sensible amount of scepticism, he left with VGIs. The cricicism
Bill held against NOTs was fully validated by Per who had been in one
of the first NOTs courses run by Mayo personally. He said that all had
"felt" the out-points rather than seen them, but then - the CofS never
having been a great place for open discussions - they went along and
did as they were told. At the time, Bill called his rundown Super-
NOTs, Per - so as not to get into trouble with the CofS - changed it
to Super-Seven ("Susi"). Finally, Bill came up with "Excalibur" in
honor of the mysterious book Ron is said to have written in the 30's,
where the suppression of Earth through extraterrestrial powers is
described.

When Per mentioned Excalibur at the next OT Conference in Murten,
Switzerland, Excalibur became the thing to do. The rest is history:
due to Bill's superficial courseroom style (consisting of verbose
lectures even when training mere beginners), due to his non-
supervision of the auditors and C/Ses he trained, to his unwillingness
or perhaps inability to administratively control the network he had
set up, the Ron's Orgs came and went. Bill, always a man to consider
himself being hunted by assassins, and never able to look after his
money, withdrew to Andorra in the conviction he had found a safe place
for the rest of his days. But he didn't have enough income for his
upkeep and went to Paris.

Having taken "Simon Bolivar" (HCO Policy Letter of 12th February 1967,
"The Responsibility of Leaders", Printed in "The Organization
Executive Course", Volume 7, p. 349 in 1974 edition. Ed.) literally
without ever grasping the real message of that Policy Letter, having
lived all the mistakes enumerated in it, he died in Paris in 1991. His
merits are that he re-instituted the Power Processes as a valuable
auditing tool outside the actual level of Power, that he taught OT III
in the spirit of 69, and first and foremost, that he re-established
trust in LRH as a leader and in the cosmic dimensions of his mission.

Excalibur - a mere process

Why so much mentioning of Captn.Bill's career, why so much talk about
the Ron's Orgs? Because they, initially, produced and spread the idea,
and so some think that Excalibur were tied to Bill and his network. It
isn't. It is being delivered by others as well, outside the Ron's
Orgs, and sucessfully so. Not all who underwent Bill's training
procedures went into a hypnotic trance and subsequently displayed the
ideological features pertinent to the movement. These features, to
repeat the opening statement, have no bearing on the technical aspects
of Excalibur. It is a process, a set of process steps, and it
addresses entities of any kind. Now that L.Kin's "More than a Cult?"
(See insert in this magazine for details and availability. Ed.) has
taken the lid off the "secret" of OT III, it is much easier to explain
Excalibur in an open forum than before. Certainly, at the start of
Excalibur the intention was to do away with the remaining OT III
entities (or "body thetans") after the actual OT III processes had
come to a flat point. In the CofS, the traditional remedy for this was
an "intention booster" based on the old OT VII of pre-NOTs days, to be
followed by OT III Expanded. Which still didn't do the job. The R6
bank proved to be more evasive than expected. NOTs was the next remedy
in line, but only apparently so, as many of those who had done a good
number of NOTs solo-auditing (up to 2000 hours) and who had officially
attested to NOTs completion, still found things to audit on Excalibur.
And only then, knowing they were through, they would attest. Excalibur
proved to be a finer rake, and a tougher one, than anything known
before - even in the rough and sketchy form it had in its beginning
days. When applied to the post-OT III case, an organized structure of
entities holding other entities in check, emerged. Bill called this
the "body thetans' org board". And that it does exist became confirmed
by too many cases independently of each other as to allow any doubts.

Excalibur was considerably smoothed out as one went along. In the
course of time, it came to be used for all sorts of entities as one
encountered them, even on Life Repairs. Still, Bill left it in a half-
done state: good enough to work with, not good enough to cover all
difficulties the bank would present. Bill's people, due to the same
misunderstanding of "source is always right and final" which has
wrecked the tech application of the CofS, didn't dare do anything
about it. The man who finished the job appears to be L.Kin. As chief
editor of VAP, the German publisher doing L.Kin's books, I had the
opportunity to read the manuscript of volume 3 of his Scientology
trilogy, called "The Solo-Levels". Apart from shedding light on some
oddities on the OT I-III band, it as well offers a useful and
generally applicable development of Excalibur. I consider it quite
satisfying that things aren't tied to single sources, like to the
person of Captn. Bill in this case, but that others can come along and
pick up the ball. Of course only as long as the general line of
intention is being adhered to and the tech isn't twisted around.
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Sincerely yours, Maxim Lebedev, Moscow,
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