From: dst+@cs.cmu.edu (Dave Touretzky) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Steven Fishman: "Scientology Is An Implant" Date: 21 Nov 1995 04:45:41 GMT Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 119 Message-ID: <48rlhl$qbs@casaba.srv.cs.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dst.boltz.cs.cmu.edu The following article by Steven Fishman is posted with permission. ================================================================ SCIENTOLOGY IS AN IMPLANT What Scientology accuses others of it is most guilty of. L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology Tech on the upper levels deals with the Between Lives Area, what happens to the thetan when the body dies, and describes passing through an implant station where the memories of your past life are wiped out due to various overwhelming implants, including those called R6, the Helatrobus Implants and others. These ideas were Hubbard's viewpoint of what happens, not what really happens, since that is unknown. If Hubbard were the Eighth Dynamic, Source or God (as New OT VIII wants you to accept unconditionally as truth revealed), then he would have certainly come back to tell us all what the Between Lives Area and the Implant Stations at the Gates of Mars were all about like he presumed they were while delivering the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course. But on this earth, the ones being implanted are the Scientology preclears. What does implanting mean? I define it as mental processes, even thought, that evokes or induces negative emotions. A Scientologist understands this as points below 2.5 on the Tone Scale. To the non-Scientologist, implanting evokes or induces negative emotions such as anger, covert hostility, fear, resentment, etc. When a preclear (person) gets audited, he is being implanted with cognitions which state that he or she has engrams (moments of pain and unconsciousness) which have to be desensitized or flattened. But the auditing process slowly, on a gradient scale, makes one more susceptible to accepting anything as true, which gradually becomes more and more bizarre. On the Clearing Course, for example, you have to audit out the light, which spiritually or theologically most religious people (no matter which faith) would recognize as being God or a concept of God. Now, one might argue that auditing out the light sets up the preclear to accepting evil in place of the light, which in my opinion is precisely what happens down the road in Truth Revealed when you are spoon-fed the cognition in New OT VIII that L. Ron Hubbard = Source = the Eighth Dynamic = God. Accepting L. Ron Hubbard as God might arguably be evil, or satanic, or demonic, etc. That falls under the domain of personal belief and interpretation --- of theology, which is not the subject of this communication. However, just be aware that this logically follows as a possibility, and something to think about. Since alt.religion.scientology is the appropriate forum to express theological viewpoints, I am not going beyond the fair use doctrine of Religious Technology Center's soon to be non-existent claim to copyright, (since the conveyance of all copyrights and trademarks by L. Ron Hubbard to Church of Scientology of California may have been a forgery and was definitely improperly notarized by David Miscavige one month after it was signed or forged). What is important to understand is that each auditing step or action has a predetermined or preconceived cognition, which is a required or expected answer, and to me, having been through it all on both sides of this mind game called Scientology, if you are audited with the sole expectation of coming up with a cognition which is the cult's and not your own, you are being implanted. If it walks and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. When I was at the Court of Appeals Hearing in Pasadena this past Tuesday (no decision yet ---) and I moved through the gauntlet of the Watchdog Committees of the Religious Technology Center and the Office of Special Affairs, and I saw and experienced the taunts and the jeers and the cursing via all of the hatred and anger, I witnessed first hand what implanting was like and how it manifests itself in human form. I thought long and hard about what I saw, and I came to realize that it is not Scientology which keeps these twisted human beings together as a group. It is the implanting --- all the camraderie of hatred, anger and evil rolled up into one --- and I looked around and observed that it was all implanting. These OSA people and their lawyers, they were all implanted. Here I was, walking amongst the robots. Of course, OSA Spymaster Eugene Ingram (a/k/a Eugene Engram) was there, and he is not implanted. He is just a mercenary, having been thrown off the Los Angeles Police Department for pandering (being a pimp). Do you know what is sad? When these implanted people get into ethics trouble and are ostracized by their fellow third dynamic implantees, they are all alone. Take Timothy Bowles, for example. He was the lead attorney for the Church of Scientology International in the Fishman / Geertz case. After the Church voluntarily dismissed its own lawsuit against us with prejudice, Timothy Bowles was degraded, and the law firm of Bowles and Moxon became Moxon and Bartilson, and lo and behold. Timothy Bowles was nowhere to be found the day that I went to Pasadena. I would like to be a fly on his wall so I could hear the thoughts inside his head right now. He must feel very, very betrayed, nearly like a pariah. One comment on David Miscavige --- his day will come. After all, he lost the bridge --- gave it all up --- by refusing to have his deposition taken in the Fishman / Geertz case. The bridge was the most important thing to Scientology --- and Miscavige threw it all away, just because he did not want to lose his power, or he did not want to incriminate himself, or he did not want to reveal to the world that the secret agreement between the Church of Scientology and the Internal Revenue Service made admissions that Hubbard, who was a fugitive from justice when he died of a stroke on January 24, 1986, was guilty of what the government alleged about him in their criminal complaint. I won't go so far as to say that Miscavige has been implanted, although he may have been, because, after all, the buck stops with him (literally). But one day, as Capricorn says, when Miscavige is relieved of his command, he might look around him and ask, Where am I? and wonder, Was this all an implant? Judging from what I know, the answer is yes. -- Steven Fishman November 19, 1995