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REFORM SCIENTOLOGY NOW
BY "THE PILOT"
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This page is addressed to members of the Church of Scientology.
Scientology is a religion which seeks to improve the spiritual
awareness and abilities of its members by means of auditing (pastoral
counseling). This auditing is generally directed to specific areas
known as "grades" such as grade zero which addresses communications or
grade one which addresses problems. When these grades have not been
handled and the person is having difficulties in these areas, the
grades are said to be "out".
Anyone who has honestly studied the "tech" of Scientology auditing can
see that the organization behaves like an individual who has his
grades out, stopping communications, committing overt (harmful) acts
and justifying them, and becoming embroiled in problems and upsets.
They turn a blind eye because they don't want to criticize the
organization or they justify this in some other manner. But it is time
to confront the truth and do something about it before the
organization sinks under the weight of its own aberrations.
For those of you who are not Scientologists, please follow the links
at the end of this document to find other sites which contain more
definitions and explanations.
Written July 1997, last updated 7/2/97.
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OUT GRADE ZERO (COMMUNICATIONS):
Policies which dramatize stopping communication (out grade zero)
include
Issue Authority
Jokers and Degraders
Disconnection
Confidentiality
Trade Secrets
Suppression of Free Speech
The use of Ethics to enforce good PR
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OUT GRADE ONE (PROBLEMS):
Problems are most often the result of solutions to earlier problems.
For example, when the gross income is down, the solutions include the
following:
Put people into lower ethics conditions
Sell services without delivering
Exhaust the staff with "all hands" bulk mailings
Shoot any critics who might really be spotting what's wrong
Sell unnecessary actions
Search for SPs in the organization
Of course these all become new problems, which lead to more abberated
solutions.
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OUT GRADE TWO (OVERTS):
The examples are endless. They include:
Exploitation of Staff (out exchange)
Abusive treatment (the RPF)
Assigning Liability without regard to previous contributions
and encouraging out-finances among the membership (debts)
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OUT GRADE THREE (ARC BREAKS):
Upsets with Independents (Squirrels)
Upsets with similar belief systems (mixing practices)
Upsets with similar practitioners (the war on psychs)
Upsets with the middle class (Wogs)
Upsets with Governments (OSA)
There is screwed up affinity, reality, and communication on every line
where there might be some commonalty of purpose or partial agreement
because of a self-righteous and fanatical viewpoint that attacks
instead of teaches.
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OUT GRADE FOUR (JUSTIFICATIONS):
Policy is always right
The org "never" makes mistakes
The org never makes amends
The Chaplain is powerless and ethics rules
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OUT DIANETICS (DRAMATIZATION):
This consists of the dramatization of Fixed Ideas and Arbitraries
carried forward from times when the organization suffered impacts such
as:
The loss of the first Dianetic Foundation.
And so we must make money instead of delivering
And so authority must be maintained with an iron fist
And so we must never admit to errors
The introduction of quickie grades and the resulting rebellion.
And so we must Keep Scientology Working (at the height of quickies)
And so the materials must be confidential (can't be questioned)
And so we must 'disconnect' from suppression (because we can't handle
criticism)
And so we must drive everything by force (lower conditions)
And so we must stop everyone from leaving (blows)
And so we must suppress any attempt at reform
The failure of "Snow White" and the resulting CMO Coup
And so one third of our missions became splinter groups
And so the Scientology business network in LA was destroyed
And so Scientology became a sue happy religion
All leading to the latest fiasco which is Scientology's war against
the internet and free speech.
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OUT UPPER GRADES:
The org is creating its own opposition. Most are attacking because the
org attacks first.
And the biggest dramatization of all:
Facsimilie One (see History of Man) Which says "You Mustn't Do
Anything With the Mind" (see the Hubbard Collage Lectures of 1952).
And so you mustn't try the processes
You mustn't self audit
You mustn't experiment with the Tech
You mustn't even discuss the Tech
You mustn't form up assist networks or co-audit clubs
You mustn't put group processing on TV
You must keep everything confidential
And you must attack anybody who does try to do anything with the mind,
including squirrels and psychs and other practices and even your own
people who dare to try to apply what they have learned without paying
big bucks to the orgs or following their fanatical fixed ideas.
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IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE
Write "REFORM NOW" on the PR you receive and send it back to the org.
READ THE INTERNET, ESPECIALLY
The "SCIENTOLOGY REFORMER'S HOME PAGE", at
wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/CoS/pilot.html or
www.igs.net/~michaelv/scnreform.htm
"THE PILOT'S HOME PAGE", at http://fza.org/pilot/index.phtml
The "ALT.RELIGION.SCIENTOLOGY" Newsgroup
And THE "ALT.CLEARING.TECHNOLOGY" Newsgroup.
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