Hiya Rog,
Remember me (was "Gottabrain"?) Mind if I butt in for a min here?
You've been helpful to me in the past. I respect the work you've done to get rid of the L Ron controls, hallucinations and abuse from scn and keep what seems to be helpful. I don't necessarily agree with all your interpretations, but I think your heart is in the right place, your efforts are sincere and you've got a good mind. Not ALL of scn was BAD.
That said, there are only a few areas of tek I feel might be somewhat okay. The GPM area is one. Not the implant/helatrobus sci-fi BS (which, as you say, is bat crazy shit), or Hubbard's STUPID "gone to heaven" door so he could say he died and came back to life which never happened but sold a lot of books, but the opposing items/terminals/emotions stuff.
Much of early scn was based on this concept that things are hung up because of their opposites. And lots of psychology theories and major religions support this concept as well.
So there is a bit of good stuff in the early GPM tek.
I'd love to see what you've come up with on this and I promise not to tear it apart in the forum. Also, if you have any idea of the origins of this info - I mean, who/where did L Ron get it from?
Ta,
Sheila
Oh, Oh . . . looks like you are inviting me to do some more work, Sheila
Though I should get to and do it.
The problem in the "old days" is that Hubbard was dancing so fast to keep ahead of the suckers that he had to keep dreaming up new and dazzling things to entice them with.
I say this in the context that, there was much that was actually good and useful up till about the end of 1960 . . . though it was incomplete, and because of that, its application caused problems: example O/R, not solved till around 1964; failure to handle ascension experiences, not solved in Scn ever . . . etc.
I wrote to Hubbs around the end of 1960 or early '61 on the issue of "Purposes" . . . I thought it an important subject. He began his "Goals" stuff in '61.
I will write up all I think you guys who want to know should know on this on my other thread for "techies."
Other than that, my comment above on Hubbard dancing fast to keep ahead of the suckers is made in the context that we got sucked into believing he was brilliantly coming up with the magic right answers so fast and furious that we were constantly put in the mode of constantly running to keep up with his "latest and greatest" and we never had the chance to "stop, look and listen" and do a little review and honest inspection for ourselves.
In essence, we were kept
so busy keeping up with the new releases of the latest and greatest we were as though being misdirected by a magician all the time with his razzle-dazzle.
And thus, the great trap of those days in Scn, is that we in essence abandoned our own integrity of looking to see what was true and subjugated ourselves to Hubbard's representations of things . . . .
The details in a week or two on my techie thread
Rog