Oh, Dear . . . more work
Dag wrote:
Dag, I fixed what looked to me to be a typo: I changed your “he” to “we” . . .
Yes, as has been noted on earlier threads, I lived the development of the subject of the cult. And I’ve even tangentially, revealed how come I got in . . .
As I’ve also recently noted, I currently still run a forum in which I have a small research group comprised of some Ph.Ds, M.Ds and other research scientists (university professor research types). My own background has been in research, having begun in the early-1950s as a champion swimmer involved in research into optimizing athletic performance. Forbes Carlile, then on faculty at Sydney University was my next door neighbor who led the endeavor. He later became the Aussie Olympic Coach and was Honored by the Queen for his accomplishments.
I have no axe to grind on this issue other than dealing with the historical and other truths of the matter.
My first contact with what turned out to be “Scientology” was accidental when I was pursuing an offered course in “Applied Psychology” at the “American College of Personal Efficiency” in Sydney. Forbes Carlile and I (and his team) had been also researching the issues of psychology as applied to athletic performance, and this offering appeared to be worthwhile to pursue.
Hence, my involvement in what turned out to be Scientology has always been a matter of my continuing research. Honest researchers investigate offered avenues that appear might, or that are claimed to have, beneficial results.
One should not beat up on oneself for getting “conned” by Hubbard . . . please realize that in the days before the internet was available to spread truth, anyone who was a published “best selling” author who also was cited as being a Ph.D. scientist was seen as being very, very credible.
Hence my pursuit of Scientology: it was a research project.
I was recently asked by a group to do a presentation of my findings and experiences. This is what I sent them to forward to their attendees.
Roger E. Boswarva FBIM, CPT
Roger will be talking to us about what has been learned in the sixty-six years he has been investigating the subject of human performance and the realm of our underlying spiritual Presence, Powers, Attributes and Capacities, with key information regarding actual true spiritual occurrences such as death and knowingly finding and inhabiting his next body, accidentally vanishing the physical universe for himself and another and then having to put it all back together again; and more—for example: what is “space-time?” Be prepared to have your questions answered!
So you know where I am coming from, that FBIM means I earned the position of being a Fellow of the British Institute of Management for whom I ran management and personnel performance training and at the Management Center Europe, in Brussels.
That “CPT” thingie represents that I have earned qualification as a Certified Performance Technologist with the International Society for Performance Improvement.
Thus the above spells out my particular gig . . . it is human ability and the capacity to perform. That is what I’ve been on about for 60+ years.
So, in that context, I’ll answer Dag’s and Rose 10’s call.
First of all, one must state two basic points and truths about what many experienced in the Scientology cult.
One: Folks did experience change when doing various of the procedures of Scn. Of course, not all change is good or beneficial, but often for many folks the change experienced felt, at first, to be good and beneficial.
Two: Hubbard, being the fraud that he turned out to be, along with his dishonest and incompetent research, all based on his pursuit of a dishonest dollar, irresponsibly delivered INCOMPLETE and often erroneous technology/material.
And it is those two points above that define the experience of many: they experienced change that they felt was good, but for some reason or other it did not seem to last and/or otherwise got trashed due to the inherent errors in the technology and/or the Scn enterprise’s abusive organizational behavior.
The first and most egregious error and point of omitted technology in the subject speaks to point number one, above. When folks had wins, and in their view the beneficial change of ascending into a new realm of awareness and ability; the ascension was not understood, was relatively ignored, and not correctly addressed to stabilize it so as to put the State of Being, powers, awareness and abilities recovered under the full knowing control of the person. And this routinely resulted in what Alan Walter later referred to as the “Ascension Crash and Burn Phenomena.”
Folks ascended up, but at that higher level of Being, awareness and power routinely unwittingly began to revivify (energize) other issues of encysted spiritual Life-Force (case) at that higher level of existence they had ascended to, and then felt what they referred to as “loss of gains” and/or “coming down” but yet still wanting to recover the high they had descended from. Alan even referred to this as folks being “ascension addicts” because they kept chasing these “highs.”
Of course, Hubbard was too dishonest to research this matter nor to take any guidance . . . his gig was to dream up the next thing to sell the suckers!
So, to answer Rose10’s question . . .
Here is an anatomy of the situation that I hope explains what this is all about in the context of a) what are/were we addressing, b) what occurs when we address it, c) why does a meter work and what on,
a) While many here do disagree, the fact is, many more folks know that they are Spiritual Presences capable of knowingly directing and deploying their Spiritual Life-Force. And, of what is this Spiritual Life-Force composed? . . . all of your native and natural faculties, abilities, powers and attributes such as potential (stem word “potent”), awareness, knowledge, love, truth, the ability to align and relate, etc.
All the Eastern and Oriental cultures are aware of their spiritual essence and partake of exercises to enhance this essence and gain more knowing control thereof. It is referred to by different, but similar, names: Qi, Chi, Prana, etc.
I have a Doctor of Osteopathy (a fully accredited and licensed Physician here my NYC) I work with (in the research sense . . . though he is currently treating Virginia for a physical injury condition). His particular specialty is realigning the encysted, misaligned or gone awry spiritual Life-Force impacts on the patient’s body. He does this at a spiritual level and by placing his hands on the patient’s body in appropriate locations. And to be noted is that this is a practice he has been honored to be taught by and be inducted into the Native American Indian Medical Man hierarchy for. Check out his website here:
http://www.medlodgenyc.com/
And the reference to the Native American spiritual healing practices he has been inducted into here:
http://themedicinelodgeclinic.com/interview/
And what are, and were, we addressing in the sense of trying to undo and improve the condition of? Well, it happens that, for various reasons, our spiritual Life-Force becomes encysted, blocked, stopped and locked-up in old conflicts and no longer under our full knowing control.
Colloquially, this encysted spiritual Life-Force has been and is referred to as “Force, Charge and/or Mass.”
It is locked up in what is generally referred to as “the mind.” Though, those who refer to it as thus have not correctly defined either what the mind actually is or what it is composed of. Also, it has not been fully comprehended by many that the encysted Life-Force thus held “in the mind” is held in a kind of energy form, a potential which when released, voluntarily or accidentally, discharges just like static electrical charge does.
b) When we address this accumulation of encysted old, pent-up Life-Force it can discharge and in doing so its content can become known and control of it be regained. Various techniques and procedures can accomplish this . . . they are not reserved to the cult of Scientology.
The spiritual practices of the East and Oriental China and Japan have been doing this for millennia.
c) Why does the meter work??? Well, look at that fact that spiritual Life-Force can become encysted, blocked, stopped and suspended in motion so as to express as and become Force, Charge and Mass. As such it has impedance to an electrical current but, when the nature or amount of the encysted Force, Charge and Mass changes, that change registers on the meter.
These last two points: b) and c), are well known in medical science, and used in procedures such as the electroencephalogram (EEG) which is a test that detects electrical activity in your brain using small, metal discs (electrodes) attached to your scalp. Though it is to be noted, they are using different terms than I have, and also that they might not have recognized the actual source of the “electrical” energy they are registering when reading the live Being (dead folks have no electrical signals from “the brain.”)
And this request by Dag will be dealt with in a next post:
Rog