TECH outside COS: Rons Orgs Convention, Bern, 2006
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This years convention was held in a beautiful hotel on the outskirts of
Bern, Switzerland, Saturday and Sunday the 26th and 27th of August
2006,
attended by approximately 95 people.
Melinda Hauri was the Master of Ceremonies for the event. The various
speakers presented their talks in either English, German, French or
Russian. There were a series of translators, placed at strategic points
around the hall and also on the stage with the speaker.
The event started on Saturday afternoon with a number of people from
orgs around the planet giving a brief summary of their position.
There were: Volodya Bychko from Russia, Jennifer
Freeman,
a guest speaker from the Freezone in the USA. Henrik Sabol, talked
about
the establishment of Ron's Orgs in Denmark and the UK. He also gave
some
interesting details of some harassments he had been subjected to. For
example, anonymous communications to business colleagues containing
false date and attempts to Black PR him - which the English police were
very interested to learn about as those types of campaigns come under
the heading of 'Hate Mail' - a form of discrimination that is
treated
as
a criminal activity. Tasha Nicol, also from the UK, talked about the
establishment of the latest Ron's Org in the UK in the west of the
country. Caspar de Rijk spoke about Holland, Ulli Schneck gave details
of the their expansion into a new building for Ron's Org Frankfurt.
Petra Kastenmaier announced the opening of a second Ron's Org in
Munich.
Then Yvan Mayor talked about events in Switzerland. These were followed
by Ursula Staub and Daniela from Munich giving some details from
Ron's
Org Munich. Vitek from the Czech Republic talked about events in the
Czech Republic.
Next Beate Fritz presented her talk - "Games and Cycles of Action
from
an OT Viewpoint". This lecture covered data such as using gradient
scales to achieve ones goals, step by step.
After a beak for refreshments the event continued. Melinda Hauri
presented the new Ron's Org logo. The ideas behind the logo and its
development were given. The logo is an R and the symbol for theta
together on a blue background.
Then Max Hauri gave a talk on "Ron's Org, Communication and
Polices"
and
"How to bring Scientology to the Future". Max stressed mainly the
fact
that we must have good comm between each other and especially centres.
By not duplicating each other and by not accepting and confronting the
abilities of others the orgs or terminals will snap terminals and be in
the valence of the other and thus trapped. So policies have to be given
that every org can be an individual and independent org and will
exchange with other orgs really.
In the evening entertainments were presented: A musical sketch,
compositions on the piano and singing from a number of talented artists
including Melinda, Nicole and Dirk, they were supported by a cast of
many in the opening sketch.
The next morning Erica Hauri gave a lecture on "Freedom". It was
stressed that, Tech applied with friendship is the guarantee for a
being
to be freed of whatever game he played or will play. This proved to be
an emotional lecture for many of the attendees as Erica talked of a
subject and its consequences, dear to the heart of all.
After a break for refreshments Otfried Krumpholz gave a talk on the
subject of "Religion and Scientology". He first developed what
exactly
is a religion and in how far is it different from a philosophy, as both
deal with the "ultimate questions" of life. He gave the three main
criteria: A philosophy is a mere school of thought, while in a religion
you find groups and organisations who have binding beliefs or rules for
members. Secondly, while a philosophy is a body thought built purely on
logic and observation, a religion includes a subjective element, which
can be beliefs, personal convictions or experiences. And thirdly, while
a philosophy is a theoretical endeavour, a religion includes practice,
as well on the third dynamic level (like religious services or other
communal forms) as on the first dynamic level (prayers, meditations,
applications to enhance the personal spiritual well-being). Otfried
concluded that while each person may decide what Scientology is for
themselves - a religion, a philosophy, a weltanschauung - in its
typical
form, a Scientology org, we can clearly see all criteria of a religion
fulfilled. Thus we as a group should give some thoughts to our
positioning in the future, taking into account that a religious group
has constitutional protection in most countries of the world which
other
third dynamics have not."
The event closed with a farewell ceremony, with thanks and
acknowledgments to speakers and translators and supporting people,
including the hotel staff. It was also announced that next years
convention will be in Russia.
Every one thoroughly enjoyed the convention weekend. Old friends met up
again and all made new friends to meet up with and work together with
in
the future! Then there was lunch, informal meetings, hellos and
goodbyes
till next time.
Clive Nicol
29 August 2006
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