Well, Rose, your last post raises a different set of questions that I answered based on your first post.
I nor anyone else here would have any facts as to what Hubbard actually studied in his "research" other than what the con-man related in his lectures and writings . . .
You wrote above:
The thing is Rog Ive got into something called retracing and development. Basically if you consider that the body can heal itself given the right nutrients or environment eg a cut heals itself ....and a plant can be revived if watered etc...then the mind as part of this perfect machine can also heal itself.
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Well, OK . . . the body is the body, and it does as you say. I have written extensively on the subject of the body in other threads. I'm not going into any argument over that. I answered your original request in the terms you asked for.
Now for Dag's second question:
Ah! !But the records I want straight are about who came up with each grade as an example and what's the backstory?
Well, as I have noted elsewhere on ESMB, the beginnings of the Grade Chart gig occurred in Melbourne in 1963.
At that time we only had WOG, Clear (with variations like "Theta Clear" etc.) and "OT"
But what was happening we were running past big wins and causing cases to crash. A staff member buddy of mine, named Ross Turnbull, noticed this Over Running the process phenomena (O/R) and reported it to Hubbard that we were producing a kind of "release" but not a clear, and that this needed to be recognized.
Hubbard's response was to put out an HCOB revising the states of case as WOG, A Release, and Clear. I do not recall Ross Turnbull being mentioned regarding the discovery . . .
This was typical Hubbard. I had earlier, in 1961, written to him of my observations regarding theimportance of the subject of teh individuals goal and purposes . . . i.e., these are the individual's "driving forces" that we should address and rehabilitate, etc.
Following that, Hubbard released his attempts and the Goals tech.
Later Gordon Bell who was on staff in DC, and an "adept" in his own right (known here variously as Mystic and Druid, was tasked with writing up the first version of the "Grade Chart" that delineated the "Release Grades" and what processes would fit where.
A lot of this is covered in this thread:
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthre...S-BOX-Part-One&p=208552&viewfull=1#post208552
Here is the discussion on Study Tech, the Berners, etc. ACW
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthre...ology-ethics-conditions&p=1016364#post1016364
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