PRINCIPLES OF ADORE

PRINCIPLES OF ADORE

1.) The Self can have anything it desires merely by desiring it.
At each stage of the desiring process the Self can veto the creation and
let it go back into vanishment. Only by saying 'This is good, I like
this!' can it enter into the following stages.

2.) The Self desires undesirables for a while.

3.) Persistence of whiles is caused by resistence.

Acceptance with expectation of vanishment causes vanishment.

Resignation ('acceptance' with expectation of persistence) causes
persistence.

At first the being resists causing persistence, then 'accepts'
causing more persistence.

"Dear Lord, teach us to 'accept' what we can not change" is a trap.

4.) Resistence to the while is created by considering the while is
forever. This invokes a NATURAL resistence born of violation of
Sovereign Desire which is to only experience a while for a while. The
very thought of a temporal forever will put the soul into a raging fury,
and everything will go crystal solid on him instantly for as far as the
eye can see.

All things that are posulated, are postulated in a while. Without
the while there is no creation.

Thus the original creation of something INCLUDES both its
inceptin and deinception at the end. Beginnings and endings
are postulated at the same time.

This is an as-isness of the creation.

The being causes a persistence by entering the while, and
considering that only the beginning has been created and that
the end will never happen.

This creates fury and solidity.

The question 'When will this ever end?' starts the cycle of Q&A
(Questions and Answer) with the original source point which knows damn
well when it will end, because it was created with a beginning and an
end, and thus causes time and the endless quest for surceasement which
forever fails.

The end arrives when re-enlightenment as to the source point is
attained.

Until then he lives in dying despair.

5.) The resistence is held in place by travestic logic, gorgeous
ridiculousness. All persisting sorrow is humor entombed in lies and
illogic. All tragedy gains its power from travesty (of logic). Humor
is the prior truth, sorrow is the persisting result of the lie.

6.) While in the while, the self knows that sorrow is forever and
hopelessly serious, and that nothing can be done about it. The soul
considers that 'this must never happen again', and tries to create
solutions that will guarantee that 'this will never happen again', and
he will engage in forgetfulness, occlusion and oblivion to create the
illusion that the sorrow never happened in the first place. Other than
that, the soul seeks continuously to find 'what will ever make this up
to me', but remains forever unconsolable.

He is off the creation point into a Q&A, 'What can be done about
this?' The question seeking an answer creates time and further removal
from his original source point.

Worse he wants whatever solution he finds to persist, and thus
every solution he creates eventually becomes yet another persisting
problem to him. He gets further and further away from the original
humor and creation point and deeper and deeper into travesty and
tragedy.

7.) However once the lies and illogic holding the sorrow in place
are spotted, the creative humor is returned, and having lived the joke
becomes worthwhile with high appreciation for ludicrous demise. He
would do it again if he weren't so busy creating bigger and better jokes
to live. The humor that created the sorrow is self consoling. Once it
is found and run out, the sorrow vanishes in laughter and tears, and the
whole event erases forever, it becomes like it never happened in the
first place,

And the soul is finally consoled, he found 'what would ever make
this up to me?'

"Laughter is the only kind justice there is, and the only justice
you will ever need forever for real. This thing ain't called a religion
for nothing." - Adore

At this point the event can happen again, but won't ever happen
again unless the being desires it to. That's the only thing better than
must never happen again. That's the best Source can do.

Homer

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Homer Wilson Smith The Paths of Lovers Art Matrix - Lightlink
(607) 277-0959 KC2ITF Cross Internet Access, Ithaca NY
homer@lightlink.com In the Line of Duty http://www.lightlink.com

Tue Sep 13 07:12:19 EDT 2005

KANT'S IMPERATIVE

((This was the second part of vote2008 to be found at:

http://www.clearing.org/cgi/archive.cgi?/homer/vote2008 ))

KANT'S IMPERATIVE

A more serious application of Kant's Imperative is the recent
request by the New York Attorney General to remove various google
newsgroups from our servers named after child pornography.

Otherwise known as usenet news, the newsgroup system, which existed
way before google was sucking its thumb, is a global unmoderated and
anonymous communication system built on the power of the internet.

It is very much like the postal system, anyone can send anything
from anywhere without being tracked, only in this case a copy is kept
around for a while so anyone can read it who is interested.

Anonymous unmoderated posting, anonymous unmoderated reading.

Moderated means someone in the middle checks the posting for
political correctness before passing it on to readers.

Anonymous means the source of the posting can not be tracked.

((Encrypted means only those the posting is directed to
can read it.

Signed means unrepudiatable, its the opposite of anonymous.))

You can post a political commentary today, and it will be all over
the world in 5 minutes, and no one can track you down or punish you for
stating your views about the local or not so local regime of thugs that
have been taking your children or family in the night.

You can also post child pornography with impunity, but it ends up
in the hands of every police department and child protection agency on
the planet in those same 5 minutes.

What criminal sends pictures of his crimes, the victim and the
crime scene to every cop and social protection agency on the planet 10
minutes after the crime?

Yes, a lot of drooling psychopaths can also get the picture, if it
is posted to a newsgroup, but if it were your kid, which would you
prefer, to have everyone have the picture with some chance thereby of
finding your kid, or have no one have the picture and maybe never even
find out the abuse is happening or if your abducted kid is even alive.

Fortunately most abused kids are not abducted kids, most of whom
are dead after 24 hours.

Abused kids are not lost to society, they live at home, they eat
dinner with their parents, they go to school, they go to doctors, they
go to Church, boy Scouts, to camp just like every other kid.

But interleaved in that normal life are times of abuse, either by
the parents themselves, or the Church priest, or the boy scout master,
or the camp counselor.

The kid is not lost, we know where he is, he's right there saying
grace at dinner along with the rest of the millions of kids in the
world, but in this case he is also being abused.

Kids are often threatened with horrific things happening to them or
their parents if they tell what is going on, its not the sex that ruins
them so much as the secrets.

Once a kid can't tell his parents about something, just exactly
that amount of his relationship with them is ruined, until the secrets
come out.

A relationship means to relate, which means to tell, a relationship
consists of many many little relatingnesses, and if a kid can't relate
something to a parent, that part of his relationship is dead.

Relationships of any kind die mostly from accumulating and
undisclosed secrets on both sides.

But once the abuse comes out in the open, the child can start the
healing process, as the secrets come off the case, and the offending
parties are exposed.

You know if the cops simply took all that child porn they claim is
posted to the newsgroups, and make a compendium of the faces of all the
kids every week and made very grade school teacher look through them,
teachers would quickly recognize any kid in their classes that was being
abused and whose pictures were posted to the internet.

Once the secret is out, the kid is no longer bound by promises to
protect as it isn't his fault his abuse was discovered, and he can't
argue against the picture anyhow. The relief from this is enormous.

This one action alone would drop the incidence of child abuse to
near zero in a few years. Child abusers can not help but post and trade
images of their exploits, and every time they post them to usenet
newsgroups, they help a child be found and themselves be caught.

The internet has helped cops free more children from the nightmare
of silence that surrounds their abuse and catch more child abusers in
the past 10 years than have been brought to justice in the entire
history of planet Earth before that.

The internet has not increased the amount of child abuse actually
going on, but it has made it trivial to create endless digital
photographs and distribute them widely through the use of the internet
in general and usenet news in specific.

Where before they had to have secret photo labs, and make many
copies at greate expense, and mail them to their cohorts, all of that
has changed. Digital cameras can create endless numbers of pictures,
and the internet allows instantaneous dissemination and copying of those
images all over the world in a few minutes for no cost.

It's not even the same ball game any more for the abusers.

But its also not the same ball game for the police and child
protection agencies who before had an impossible job, and now have a
fighting chance.

Wouldn't it be cool if every criminal posted pictures of his crimes
all over the world 5 minutes after committing the crime? You know how
easy it is to make a mistake and leave something in the picture that
gives away where the scene happened that someone might recognize?

You know if every PARENT simply perused the child abuse groups once
a week, they might be surprised at who is being abused...

And now they want to shut it all down?

It might seem to be a good idea, because pictures of abused
children are considered by some to be themselves, enticement to abuse
children pushing some over the edge of restraint into criminal action.

This argument makes a lot of sense, as most of the child pictures
are of kids at that age when they are sexually the 'hottest' and most
attractive, meaning biologically ready for marriage in the months just
prior to having their first period.

It's all down hill from there.

The Supreme Court however has argued that the existence of virtual
child porn might actually be good for society because it 'fills the
need', thus keeping people who might other wise go over the line from
doing so.

Virtual child porn (google it) is computer generated images that do
not use real children as models.

Well if virtual child porn, which is 'virtually indistinguishable
from the real thing but doesn't use real children', can keep people from
abusing children, then so can the real thing.

(The problem with the real thing then is not the people who
look at it, but the children who are used to make it.)

The same argument rages over violence on TV, which is a form of
virtual violence. To some it causes violence, to others it fills the
need. We leave the bottom line on that balance sheet to the experts.

Problems remain with real child porn in that the child has not
given their consent or signed a release form to an image that is perhaps
degrading, humiliating and compromising, even if it was an ad for
marriage, and results in a permanent record that is almost impossible to
erase from the social networks for the rest of time.

Childern are also considered to be under the age of consent in
these and almost all sexual matters anyhow, so consent is moot other
than to imply that if consent has not been given, other's should not be
looking at the images, even if they are publically available.

The problem with newsgroups is that posters can post anything to
any newsgroup they wish, and by removing the one's marked 'garbage goes
here', they can and WILL start posting the garbage to groups like
my.cats.health where people definitely do not want to see it, and might
suffer a heart attack if they did.

This would then make the whole communication medium dangerous to
peruse, because you would never know when you were going to run into
something seriously offensive while looking for a good place to buy your
bridal gown.

Thus removing the newsgroups pandering to child porn in no way
stops the posting of child porn to other groups, thus defeating the
whole purpose of removing the groups anyhow, and also ruins the whole
whole communication medium for everyone.

It's kind of like the war on spam, through all the efforts to stop
it technologically, who is winning?

The ONLY solution to the newsgroup problem would be either to
remove all newsgroups completely, or make them all moderated, or make
all posters non anonymous.

The internet was not built to be moderated or authenticated in that
way, just as public phones are not. Child abusers have been using the
public phone system and modems to exchange their wares for years. Total
anonymity and total non moderation. Is it time we got rid of public
phones?

And you know how much the government hates cash transactions, total
anonymity and total non moderation.

And the public mail system, total anonymity and total non
moderation.

Perhaps every picture you take with your cell phone should be
automatically sent to a clearing house to see if it meets present
political, social, moral or religious standards?

They are working on that one, they just don't dare talk about it
yet...

Does your cell phone company keep copies of all the pictures you
take? They certainly have software now that can quickly find the images
with too much flesh tone...

The point is that with any global anonymous and unmoderated
communication system, you either get rid of it entirely, or you use it
and accept as collateral damage that bad people will use it too.

There is no middle ground, "only good people can use this free
system of communication to everyone".

The above will be my defense statement when the good Attorney
General Andrew Cuomo throws me before a grand jury for refusing to
remove certain newsgroups because of their names, and thus "allowing
child porn to flow through our newsgroup servers."

Since removing the newsgroups with panderous names won't stop the
flow at all and in fact will create a war where the flow will spread
where it is not wanted, my only alternative would be to remove
newsgroups completely as Time Warner, Sprint and AT&T have done. Talk
about collateral damage.

What is it, 89 million homes can no longer talk publically and
freely with safety and no censorship?

Over my dead body.

Which I am sure the good Attorney General can arrange.

One of my more crass friends once said to me "Homer, as long as the
child porn is flowing, you KNOW the political commentary is safely
flowing too."

And so, at least at lightlink, while people are getting their
political awareness enhanced, perhaps their awareness of child abuse
will be increased too.

And the next time little Susie complains she is being abused by
some unreproachable so and so, rather than telling her she is lying, the
parent can go LOOK and see if it might be true.

Don't, it's illegal to look at child porn even if it proves your
own kid is being abused.

The problem is that the law is created by sovereign citizens for
the protection of the sovereign citizen. Once the law says that a
soverign citizen may not LOOK at something to determine if or what laws
should be made about it, who then will be making those laws?

And if you can't even LOOK at something bad, because it is illegal
to do so, how will you get real on how bad it is, or that it even
exists?

Thus we do not remove the newsgroups with salatious names, because
Kant's Imperative tells us that if every ISP did the same, the posters
would either create new groups to post to, or post to inappropriate
groups, thus destroying one of the finest most versatile politically
safe global anonymous unmoderated communication systems that has ever
existed.

And in a different place and different time, some might consider it
wise to immediately terminate with prejudice anyone taking exception or
offense to the above paragraph.

What would be the alternative?

A controlled, moderated, trackable communication line where
only the politically correct were safe?

Is that the world YOU want to live in?

Homer

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homer@lightlink.com In the Line of Duty http://www.lightlink.com

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TOMBSTONE JONES

ADO-4
10 March 1993

Copyright (C) 1993 Homer Wilson Smith
All Rights Reserved

The Soul is a strange thing.

He has one foot in the Heavens and one foot in the Hells.

Like a keyhole, the Soul or conscious unit is a channel from the
higher planes of consciousness and the inner world, to the lower planes
of consciousness and the outer world or the external physical universe.

Like the lens of a projector, inside the Soul lies the Light and
the source of Light, and outside the Soul lies the great projection
screen of Life.

Knowledge of the outer world is gained through the scientific
method.

Knowledge of the inner world is usually considered to be gained
through revelation or direct observation of what's there.

The problem is that the Soul is in a blocked state, he can no
longer see inwardly, only outwardly. His access to the inner world is
stopped by his own transgressions, unwillingness to see and personal
responsibility in the matter.

Thus using the methods of the outer world, people have tried to
build a science of how to open back up the door to the inner world.

The problem is that it is very hard to PROVE to anyone who can only
see the outer world that you have indeed opened up the inner world.

Sure you can move mountains at a glance, or drop sharp objects on
someone's head with your mind, but I doubt it will do him any good, and
it certainly won't do YOU any good. If you were to put on such a crass
display of power to those who themselves do not have power, you would
soon find your self the coveted or hated celebrity of the century with
long paths of people beating their way to your door either to anoint you
or crucify you.

A few might want to learn from you.

A very few.

But those you can find in other ways than demonstrating to the
world at large that you have regained the operability of your High God
Hood.

Anyhow physical powers are only one fourth of the matter, there is
God Hood awaiting for everyone on the emotional, mental and spiritual
planes as well.

It is much better to be able to face your Eternal future with
equanimity than to be able to move mountains. Usually people who seek
physical powers wish to do so only to better protect their mortal frame,
mainly because they are scared to death of death. Without emotional
power, physical power is always abused towards mortal ends.

But just so, without mental power, emotional power is also abused.
And without spiritual power, mental power is likewise abused.

Thus it behooves us to attain spiritual power first and then the
rest shall safely follow.

Spiritual power is the ability to assume and recognize full
causative responsibility for your condition, in the past, in the present
and in the future.

Full causative responsibility means, you chose to do it, and you
did it, and you knew what you were getting yourself into and there were
no surprises.

Choosing to forget a choice does not in anyway relieve you of that
causative responsibility.

Who or what put you here in the first place, eh?

The way in is the way out.

If you are able and willing to come IN, you can get out. If you
deny that you CHOSE to come in, then you can't get out.

In this way Life is a chinese finger trap of magnitude.

It's been claimed that some people NEVER get out.

I think that's just to scare you though. No one would responsibly
chose to create and enter a game they could never leave.

They might however chose to create and enter a game they THOUGHT
for a while that they could never leave. It would take some guts
though.

So you still have the problem of proof. Suppose you work out a
science of the Soul that helps people get back their memory of
responsibility. Soon they can remember back to the beginning of time,
and they regain all of the power that that would entail.

You know regaining your memory is really only regaining your memory
of CHOICE. That's really the only thing of value to be regained. The
rest of it is just so much created existence, travail and romance,
although no doubt some of it is very precious to you.

You could always just create it all over again if you ever really
lost any of it. But you would have to CHOOSE to.

Anyhow you can see the problem, how would you PROVE to another who
had not gone through this same process, that indeed your contact with
the inner world had been opened up and was free again.

Show them the silly grin on your face?

Science in the external world is much simpler, if you know
something, if you can do something, you do it, and you show it to
other's. They don't have to be able to know or do the same thing to
know that you can do it.

But that's because they can see what you have done. If they are
blind or have no sense of the external world, then you will never be
able to prove your discoveries to them until they can see. If the whole
world were blind deaf and dumb to the external universe, you could never
have a science, except maybe a science of one, you.

Who would there be to verify your science if no one could see the
results of their experiments?

So worse if your science happened to be a science of blindness and
how to cure it, how would you prove to the blind that your science
worked unless you used it on THEM!

Those who screamed "prove it, prove it or we won't try it", would
remain blind forever because you could never prove to the senseless that
you or other's had regained their senses.

The blind would have to try it first and when and if they regained
their senses, they would have their proof. "Prove it or we won't try
it" is a death knell for the blind.

It's part of the Chinese finger trap mechanism, needing to know
before you go.

Just so with the inner world and the new emerging science of the
Soul. You may be able to walk down your own time track a million years,
you may be able to recover Sovereign choices that would scare the
bravest man and move the hardest heart, you may be able to do all sorts
of things, but unless other's can observe what you can do they will
never be satisfied that you have a science and that it works until they
use it for themselves!

Thus people who have clear contact only with the physical universe,
are always demanding proof of a physical nature of your spiritual
progress. They could care less if you can remember your past lives or
can determine your future lives, they want to see hard physical proof
that you have attained something. Maybe move an object or two or go to
some past grave site and show you know who is buried there. That's
fine, but what of lives that existed millions of years ago on other
planets, in other galaxies or even other universes?

What of your ability to discern or even determine the future?

The "prove it!" case will never know because you can't prove what
you have gained on the spiritual, mental, and emotional planes using the
physical plane as the medium of proof.

Of course once you gain real physical power on the physical plane,
why then you can prove all you want to about the physical plane. You
can lift cars, kill people at distance, feel girls up from behind, what
ever your heart desires. And boy will the "prove it!" cases believe
you then, because that's what they understand, that's what they can SEE,
HEAR and FEEL.

Give them a good physical WHUMPING coming at them from out of the
blue and they will KNOW they have been hit by a Spirit.

They will also follow you as a God for the rest of time not daring
to let you give THEM those same powers too! It's too much work, it's
too much danger. Besides who needs power anyway when YOU have got it
all and you can do everything for them!

But you know, no matter how many physical powers you demonstrate to
these physical people, no matter what you do for them or to them, you
will never be able to prove to them that they or you are Immortal, or
chose to come into this universe of horrors, or that you have lived
before or will live again, or that it was all worthwhile, and all is
well with the world.


And that's because these things do not reside on the physical
plane, they reside on the emotional, mental and spiritual planes!

You might ask how can it all be well with the world with all this
suffering going on? Admittedly from the point of view of someone
hanging on a Cross, things could be better. However if you trace back
the sources and causes of why that person is in a universe hanging on a
Cross in the first place, you will find a time LONG AGO when he made the
postulate that all was not well with the world when it was.

Thus in present time he is suffering from the inevitable natural
consequences of his own lie. If you trace this back to the first time
he made that lie along with the reasons why he made it you will actually
get that person off his Cross and back into a state of Grace. Not with
God, but with himself.

Thus as an Ascended Master you may be able to lift cars with
Sovereign Desire, but do you have the equanimity to face your Eternal
Future with appreciation and willingness to view more? The physically
sighted but emotionally blind will never know if you do or not, no
matter how much physical power you demonstrate.

And they won't be bright enough to realize that you could not
possibly regain the physical power without first regaining the spiritual
power and all the other one's in between.

So mainly they will become very scared of you. Half of them will
want to destroy you, and the other half will want to work for you so
that you will take care of them.

This can be useful, they will be very happy to die for you fighting
off the one's who want to destroy you.

Perhaps 5 will want to learn from you how to have power themselves.

So if you can do these things, if you can lift cars with your mind
and throw lightning bolts that others can feel, go ahead and talk to
them of cars and telekinesis all you want, but don't ever mention PEACE,
or they will begin screaming "prove it, prove it!" again until you don't
have any more.

People can see their own memory or lack of it, but they can't see
yours. Until you bring them up to a point where they can see your
memory, they will never know for sure that you can see theirs too, no
matter how much you tell them about themselves.

They will always find reason to doubt or blame your powers on the
Devil or some such thing.

Reading minds and seeing memories is a mental plane ability, so you
can't really prove it FOR SURE using physical plane demonstrations.

Of course you will always be able to stir up some evidence on the
lower planes that you can do these things, but nothing that will really
stick because the only way that they are ever going to see that you can
see is for them to be able to see too.

So each person is only able to know what he can observe, and when
you have a world full of people who are 3/4's dead, people who can only
observe Time Stone and Tombstones, why then you are going to have a real
hard time showing them that you have a whole new science of the Soul
aborning.

And it won't be a SCIENCE to them until you put them through the
wringer themselves, because they won't be able to observe your results,
and they won't be able to repeat and independently test your results on
others until they have repeated your results on themselves first.

And if they DON'T WANT POWER OR FREEDOM YET, then they will never
get it and so they will never be able to verify any of your claims at
all. It's hard to start a new science when no one WANTS to verify it.

A science of the Soul is just as real as a science of the body, but
proving that to bodies can be hell.

So follow your heart in this new science, keep it going on a true
path. Don't heed the Tombstone Jones's or the "prove it!" cases and
don't ever heed the siren calls of faith, belief and false certainties
born of despair and desire.

Desire is Sovereign. In its native and unadorned state it has no
time for desperation or self delusion. If by YOUR Sovereign Desire you
have lost the Sovereignty of your own Desire, you will never get it back
by faith or belief or wishful thinking. Only the re-operation of
MAJESTY will restore you to your pristine state of POWER and GRACE with
yourself.

Majesty is the Sovereign Desire that Desire not be Sovereign for a
while.

Power IS in part the operation of Majesty.

The purpose of Sovereign Desire is the crafting of its own optimum
Non Sovereignty.

For a while.

Thus in this world, the regaining of power stems from the
reoperation of Majesty.

But neither should you heed the cat calls and self casting doubts
of horror, preposterousness and total irresponsibility.

Self casting doubt means 'If I were really Immortal and Sovereign,
how could I possibly be able to doubt it, and then feel so bad about the
possibility that I'm not!'

"If I were really Immortal I could never feel this bad about NOT
being Immortal, and how the HELL could I ever lose sight of my certainty
of my Immortality?"

"No way man, I must be made of meat."

Wrong.

That IS the mechanism by which Sovereign Beings sink themselves
into this feast of darkness.

They SCARE themselves to death with their own fear of death.

They don't KNOW they are going to die, but the horror of their
doubt convinces them they will. "I couldn't feel this rotten about the
possibility of dying if it weren't true."

That's fine emotionally, but it's not a certainty and in fact
anyone that falls for it deserves what they get. That's HOW they
arranged to get it!

Falling for self casting doubts is a loss of Personal Integrity and
the beginning of Corruption, Temptation and Seduction.

Know what you know, and know what you don't know.

No more and no less.

Then keep finding out more by looking and learning, and the Truth
will lead you Home, a Home far more beautiful than you can now dream. A
Home in which this house of horrors is but a play thing of comedy and
tragedy in your own back yard.

What melancholy can there be that does not spring from the well
spring of comedy, laughter and love?

Something for those on their Cross to contemplate as they while
away their time dying.

Of course this is a raging insult to those who hold their
victimizations sacred.

However this may be, Good Humor and Crossness are opposed.

And where one is the Truth, the other is a Lie.

Of course at this point one wouldn't be a human any longer, now
would one.

Perhaps that is what Christ found out when he cried out just before
he died, 'Oh how doest thou Glorify me!'

Perhaps that is why he got to come back to show he had made it.

He made it back to Good Humor and Truth which ended His sojourn in
his feast of darkness, this endless dark night of the soul.

Perhaps that day Creator and Creature became one again.

Perhaps that is what being Reborn in the Spirit means.

Recovery of recognition of Who Did It, and Why.

You did it and it was glorious.

It is no small measure of Divinity that you could have and would
have chosen to do this thing to yourself.

It is this WILLINGNESS that defines the highest nature of Divinity.

To become the creature for but a while.

It is NOT KNOWING HOW you did it that hides the beauty of it from
your eyes, and keeps your eyes in sorrow.

Homer

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ARC BREAKS AND SYMPATHY

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ARC BREAKS AND SYMPATHY

Huggie said:
> Homer What a being says about his own ARCXs is about as full of
>piss as if he were permanently drunk! All you have to do is admitt
>that beings (meaning you) are responsible for creating their OWN ARCXs
>in an aberrated attempt to gain sympathy!

(An ARC break is when a person goes out of Affinity, Realness or
Communication with something or someone.)

This is not clear. Why would someone want sympathy if they
weren't already ARC broken?

Evil intention just to bring other's down?

The guy is doing perfectly fine and he mocks himself
up as sick and says:

"You can't help me, nyah nyah nie nyah nyah!"

Maybe.

In the first place, the definition of ARC *BREAK* is unclear, it can
mean a sudden sundering of tone, the guy suffers a loss someone runs over
his cat, and goes into sorrow. Is that an ARC break?

Or it can mean a *BREAK* from the ARC, whaterver it is,
meaning cutting the event off completely. The forgets he ever had a cat.

Thus even flaming anger is NOT an ARC break unless the guy
is seperating off from it to make nothing of it.

Covert efforts to gain sympathy usually result after
forthright efforts to attain justice and fair play have failed.

In the game of dog eat dog, efforts to gain sympathy are definitely
a last ditch ploy to not get eaten, squeal in just the right way and
the animal might stop chewing on your bones.

I makes me happy that others have found peace with their future,
awareness of their responsibility for their own conditions and able and
willing to be here with equanimity, knowledge, responsibility and control,
never to know despair again, but for me, looking into the eye of the
dragon all day and all night, that's all a pipe dream.

And no, I can't just take responsibility for what I see because I
can't reoperate it in present time.

And if I could I would probably fry all those idiots who claimed to be
free but who weren't, or who didn't help if they were free, because I was
'unworthy'.

Homer

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Homer said:
>My own ARC break with all of existence is beyond repair.

Huggie responds:

Homer What a being says about his own ARCXs is about as full of
piss as if he were permanently drunk! All you have to do is admitt
that beings (meaning you) are responsible for creating their OWN ARCXs
in an aberrated attempt to gain sympathy! When you have taken that
responsibility, then and only then will you be able to allow it to
ceast being created and be FREE of it.

Been there and done a hell of a lot of that! Huggs

Lion said:

You are dancing on Homer's dance floor, aren't you? Homer is a
very intelligent and passionate being, and doesn't really need
anyone's help in the conventional way.

Homer says:

Well any thing that start off "All you have to do..." to resolve
the issue of existence clearly hasn't done so himself.

Huggies answer may be 'true' in some sense, but it is also
dismissive, contemptuous, glib and discountive.

It doesn't show the beauty and majesty of such decisions, and
doesn't show the humor. Desire for sympathy may have something to do
with this, but where is the joke, where is the Eternal superhuman
laughter/tears that leads to eternal peace?

A thetan's condition is not stupid, is not 'too stupid to
contemplate or give further consideration to.'

An infinite being can form infinite charge, and it is a WORK OF
ART, and releasing it is not a trivial matter, any more than a super
nova going off is a trivial matter.

It is tempting to claim the thetan is putting something there
because he doesn't want to admit there is nothing there, and doing so
from innate character flaw, stupidity or ignorance.

This is an ARCX with the enormity and beauty of what the thetan
decided and is able to do to himself. It manifests as a fear of
finding out how it all happened lest you never admire or appreciate
yourself again for being so ".......", fill in your favorite
denigration.

The more I audit, the more case gain I make, the more
overwhelming the core charge becomes, the more preposterous it seems
that anyone would dare claim to have brought 'Behemoth' low.

So when I hear someone claiming to be free from fear of their
future, I say "Cool, let's nail you to a cross so we can see now how
close you are to your God."

Adore says "Your aren't getting any younger, your wisdom can't be
that great."

Adore also says "You are crucified on the cross of being cross
while you are crucified."

Until people can leave and enter time at will, they will remain
crucified on the cross of time forever.

And ARC broken as hell about it.

"What are the aesthetics of being crucified on the Cross of
Time?"

Homer

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ACTUAL vs REAL

ACTUAL vs REAL

Homer:
>> Actual = what is true
>> Real = what we think is true, what is real to us

Huggie:
> Are such 'word-games of any importance anyway?

Well if not why are you playing them?

So called 'word matrices' are important in that they lay out a map
for the territory that is consistent and useful.

A word matrix is a constellation of words designed to work together
to give a clear and unconfused view of a subject, so the important
questions can be asked and answered and everyone knows exactly what
everyone else is talking about.

For example by defining actuality = reality, then we lose the
ability to distinguish between what is merely real to a person and what
is actually true about things as they are.

People who don't like to think their realities are based in
illusion or just simply wrong, will not take kindly to the idea that
reality is not actuality.

Reality is the agreed upon *APPARANCIES* of existence, namely at
"Apparancies are Reality" on the tonescale at 26.0.

The thetan engages in games of illusion, and delusion about
illusion.

"Source sources what Source is not" - Adore

Source has no space or time or finiteness, but engages in
holographic projections of such. The holographic image doesn't actually
HAVE any space or time, but looks like it does, this is illusion.

At the time the projection is made the thetan knows it is an
illusion of 'out thereness' and external cause. The thetan knows that
the actuality is a projected virtual reality that exists only in his own
conscious experience bubble of space/time.

Then the thetan falls into delusion about illusion at 26.0 on the
tone scale and comes to believe what is portrayed by the illusion is
actual. Thus space and time become REAL to the thetan even though they
are not actual.

If one were to equate reality with actuality, then the whole above
description of how Source operates would be very hard to do in English.

Thetans like to screw up word matrices so that actuality CAN NOT be
described. This leaves them stuck in their realities.

The actual definitions of any word is of course completely
arbitrary, but the USEFULLNESS of any particular word matrix (groups of
words used in relation to each other) is not.

Homer

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CB Willis (cbwillis@adore.lightlink.com) wrote:
>Closer for me would be: we don't need to be goaded by others demands no
>matter what threats they may use, no matter what they say the refusal
>"implies" about us, and whether others will believe the derogatory
>"implication." Bottom line is if we don't wanna, and doing what's
>demanded goes against our better judgment and intuitions, then don't, and
>be willing to take whatever consequences. It's more about respecting
>oneself and own intuitions. If the demander is disrespectful, that's THEIR
>problem, I don't need to make it mine.

Correct.

Basically the person demanding proof of powers really needs to
run the Prime Directive rundown. That's what the honest person wants,
a resolution to what powers he wants to have, and what he would do
with them.

Somewhere in there he will cognite with great force that power
exists and its ok that he "doesn't have any". It's actually a power
to not have powers, the magic of no magic.

His actual cog will be along the lines of "Holy Smoke, I got LOTS
of power and I am using it all the time, but I'm just going to stay
acceptable for the moment, thank you very much."

You know the game of power became SO dangerous, that it wasn't
even safe to HAVE the power even if you never ever used it. It wasn't
even enough to *PRETEND* you didn't have it, you really had to not
have it to be safe.

"How would it be acceptable to have power?"
"How would it be unacceptable to have power?"
"How would it be acceptable to not have power?"
"How would it be unacceptable to not have power?"

Homer

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ABSOLUTE GOOD AND EVIL

Homer:
>> How would you define absolute non relative evil?
>>

> Why would you want a definition for absolute non-relative evil?

?

You made the statement there was both subjective and objective good
and evil.

Hubbard was very much a relativist, good and evil, beauty and ugly,
are alike mere considerations.

What is good for the tiger is bad for the impala.

He thus claims that although man acts 'badly' meaning destructively
to himself and others, these always result from good intentions modified
by ignorance, illogic, reactivity.

Sometimes it is accidental, free will without wisdom or omniscience
can regret itself, but it can also be intentional, he called it pure
cussedness.

But he doesn't go on to say what those good intentions might be.

One can talk platitudes about greatest good for greatest number of
dynamics, as if man is basically a cooperative sympathetic soul, but if
you look at the animal kingdom, territoriality tends to take precedence
over 'goodness' and sharing except in limited family settings, like the
cheetah that brings back food for the cubs and let's them eat first.

Most games between people have at least two sides which are opposed
to each other, often in deadly terms. The French and the English had
declared each other fair game back in the 1700's, and the Christians and
the Muslims have been going at it for a long time.

'Great' conquerers are held in great esteem, like those that made
Rome into what it was, as it spread its influence and power half way
around the world.

All of it is a kind of territoriality, or Borg assimilation if you
will.

Is that good? If so, then so be it.

Is it bad? Is there a better good? OK, then what is it?

Is there such a thing as fundamental mal intent?

Towards one's self? Towards others?

Is all mal intent agreed upon such as in a foot ball game, 'we are
going to cause you to lose!' governed by sportsmanship and awareness of
invite for both sides into the game?

Or is there just simply unappeasable, unpropitiatable,
unnegotiatable mal intent?

What exactly is the nature of the intent of a GodSoul that creates
games of apparent utter demise for itself and others to suffer?

What about the God that creates such games for other souls, and
creates those souls and dumps them in that game without their consent?
If such a God existed, he would be considered inhuman.

What about the God that creates souls for his own purposes, and
tests them for obedience, and then punishes them in hell forever for
failing his gauntlet?

So can we give definitions of good and evil from the creator point
of view, so we can judge the creator himself?

Can we give definitions of good and evil from the creature point of
view so we can judge the creature himself?

Generally the creature is a gregarious fellow and considers anyone
good who will team up with him against the physical universe in terms of
survival and fair exchange.

That's a very self oriented view though, what's good for me is
good, and if you are good for me, then I will consider you good, and if
I am good for you, you will consider me good.

The bad guy tries to get others to do good for him while refusing
to do good in return, thus the fair exchange is out.

That's called a criminal rip off.

Most people won't allow that to happen, but when the bad guy has
more force or trickery of deceit, then the bad guy wins, at least that
round.

Then the need for 'criminal justice' comes in which means basically
doing criminal things to criminals. Violating their will as they
violated ours.

Then the good start to act bad towards the bad guy, doing to the
bad guy what he did to them or something similar, either to teach a
lesson, or quarantine, or to outright punish pain for pain.

For example if a bad guy kidnaps someone and stows him away, the
good guys try to take the bad guy by force and stow him away too, in
prison.

Not much difference except for who started it and what the intent
is.

The good guys intent is to produce more than he consumes, and to
help others who help him to do the same.

The bad guy's intent is to consume more than he produces by getting
others to help him, through deceit or force, but not help in return.
This is basic criminality in the physical universe.

Criminality is a violation of knowing willing fair exchange.

Slavery is an example of rip off by force, is that evil?

Is any of this different than basic animal territoriality?

Admittedly most animals will fight for their square foot of land,
but then NOT go on to conquer the whole known universe, slaughtering
everything in its path.

But male lions will kill lion children once they vanquish the older
dominant lion, in order to put the females into heat again. Is this
evil?

If a human did that to a woman with child, killed her husband, and
children and then made the woman his own, would that be evil?

If not for the lion, but so for the human, why? Is the human
suppose to know better, while the lion is just a dumb animal? If so,
WHAT is the human supposed to know better?

But then there are animals that will try to kill and slaughter
everything that comes into their sight and which do try to take over the
whole world, virii comes to mind.

So basically, humans tend to consider cooperativeness in survival
and pleasure to be good, and excooperativeness to be bad, particularly
when based on force, deceit and treason.

But if one keeps it overt and out in the open like the French and
the English did on the high seas of 1700, then is either side being
evil?

So what is good and what is evil?

If we agree to fight to the death, then fighting is good?

But if one sides wants peace and the other wants war, which
side is evil?

Is there any definition of good and evil that is independent of
what makes me feel good?

The problem exists with beauty and ugly.

Can we argue that harmony is mathematically absolute, and
disharmony the same?

We admit tastes in harmonies and disharmonies will apply,
but are there absolute harmonies that ALL will judge harmonious,
and absolute disharmonies that ALL will judge disharmonious?

Can we say that prior to decent down the tone scale all enjoy
pleasure and all abhor pain?

If so why would a god make pain for itself or others?

Is it possible to make pain beautiful and pleasure ugly?

Is there such a thing as beautiful sorrow?

Homer

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Amended...

POSTULATES

Every being has the inalienable right to make his own postulates for
the greatest good of the greatest number, according to his own true desire
and wisdom at the time.

Balancing that right is the duty to take full responsibility for the
consequences.

Anyone who abdicates that right and duty becomes subsumed by
whom they have abdicated to.

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((My comments in double parentheses - Homer))

LETTER FROM BRUCE BISHOP

CD - 4
Christmas 1983

Copyright (C) 1983 Bruce Bishop
Redistribution rights granted for non commercial purposes.

Bruce Bishop Designs
Box 27592
Los Angeles, Ca 90027
(213) 662 5369


Dear *****,

Thanks for your warm and thoughtful letter... and for those
excellent LRH references (it is always refreshing to read the real
thing).

I don't know how you obtained a copy of my letter of last May, but
I was pleased that you duplicated it for what it was: a letter of non-
cooperation with those specific unethical individuals in
management...NOT a letter of resignation from the Church.

I was concerned then (as I am now) with the untenable prices for
fundamental services (now hundreds of dollars per hour for auditing),
excessive and off-policy ethics 'handlings' of those whom I knew to be
able and well-intentioned people, and the low tone level of management
as evidenced by authoritarian statements and the widespread use of force
and threat.

But the most troubling, the most heart-breaking aspect of this
scene is the growing alienation and estrangement amongst Scientologists.
The reason for this discord is not that some of us are good and upright
while others are evil and dishonest. That is rare. The real reason
lies in/is revealed in differing Realities. Realities differ because of
differing data.

Some have had experiences or access to data that, bluntly
expressed, is unbelievable to the rest, thus, if they communicate, they
lose the credibility and trust of their fellows...they are easily
isolated and slandered in the absence of our defense and our concern to
bridge that Reality. Few have the courage to defend--even investigate--
once an individual is said to be bad or misguided. I observe that most
of us would prefer to avoid rather than confront this area. 'Keep your
nose clean and get on with your auditing.' 'It's always been that way.'
'They pulled it in.' 'They can always write it up, it'll be fixed.'
'It has nothing to do with me.'

((There is no one to write it up to.))

I'll tell you the experience that May letter provided me: my
statement did not achieve much duplication from several top officials to
whom I addressed it, including, it seems, an international 'External
Influences' mission of the Church of Scientology, Int. They thought my
crossness about prices was not, as I stated, because I want services
within the range of ordinary people, but because I was either a dupe or
a representative of some subversive group whose aim was to destroy the
Church.

This was a startling revelation to me, that one could no longer
register a difference of opinion or a complaint without being a member
of a antagonistic conspiracy.

I word-cleared parts of my letter for them. This helped. Then
they were anxious about who I had sent it to. When I explained that I
had only sent it to Top Management (International Justice Chief, RTC,
Watch Dog Committee, President of the Church, etc.) and 5 or 6 intimate
friends, this further reduced their agitation. All in all, it was an
informative meeting. Unhappily, it confirmed not my best expectations,
but my worst by the manner in which it was carried out.

Rather than call me directly, the missionaires arranged the meeting
covertly. It started out like an interrogation. You know the drill:
the uniformed mock-up, dripping braid; an adversary attitude; 3 arrayed
against 1; with one martinet ((a rigid authoritarian military
personality, after a French military officer of the same name)) quick-
firing questions in a very intimidating manner, the others saying
nothing, but writing down everything you say. (I kept stifling the urge
to look over my shoulder to see who they were addressing--who was this
horrid criminal that required such treatment?)

That I was not Declared after that meeting I took to be a sign of
health for the organization. I have since learned (from an Exec. in the
RTC) that the reason I've not been declared for being outspoken is
'because it would be bad PR'.

You tell me that this past year is the most strange and crazy
you've seen in 20 years in Scientology. Well, I find it hard to argue
with you. But the problem is not with the Tech, baby, just what has
become encrusted around it.

You ask my viewpoint on the current Scientology scene. It's a tall
order. I'm not sure I can cover it in one letter and a little uncertain
if you'll be up to having it if I do! I was prepared to respond to your
Christmas message and pointed inquiry with a standard 'good news and
fair weather' reply...but I couldn't manage the glibness. We go back
along way and I owe you more than social veneer. Besides, you're a
tough old coot. You can handle straight communication.

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

You realize that, in reviewing outpoints like this, I am painting a
very black and admittedly lop-sided picture of events. Please
understand, this does not mean that I think everything is horrible and
nasty and wrong or that there are no redeeming virtues remaining. I am
not after balance here, but correction. (When you go to clean a window,
you scrub at the dirty spots, that doesn't mean you don't value the
clean).

________________________________________________________________________

A Scientologist has a duty, on observing an injustice or an
outpoint in our organization, to write it up to the appropriate terminal
so that correction can be made. This I have done myself and have urged
others to do. In the past couple of years, however, I have learned by
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE that this line of correction is blocked.

((He means that LRH is still alive but not receiving.))

I have also seen it blocked for others. There is an apparency.
The LINE is insisted upon, giving the hope and illusion of proper
handling. But there is no TERMINAL. You'll recognize this condition
from the old Reality Scale where, just below 1.1 is 'No terminal, solid
line'. (It's the reality of invisibility--which is verified by the
number of times I have asked and been asked 'Who is running the
Church?', 'Who is the Watch Dog Committee?', etc. I have never found
out for sure.)

We have complained of this before and here it is again. This
marvelous technology is not being applied--or at least insufficiently
applied to our own organization. Who do you know that looks the Church
over from time to time against its own Creeds and Codes and Scales to
see how its doing? Maybe I'm just a freak on these because I published
them for so long, but their magic isn't in my imagination. Review
these:

Havingness Scale: Must Be contributed To.

Scale of Motion: Management Moves Secretly.

Effect Scale: Believes A Large Effect is necessary to handle
others, is incapable of doing this in any other than a covert way. Must
cause an effect but is unwilling to be known as the cause of bad
effects, etc.

What do you think our marks are on the Know to Mystery or the CDEI
Scale?

((Know to Mystery: WAIT

CDEI: NO AUDITING))

Anyway, the point I was making is this: Of all the letters I have
put on lines to Management since my return from Europe and discovery of
worsened conditions (and I have written to EVERY key terminal known to
ME) NONE have addressed the issues raised. NONE. Yet this management
still asserts its competence: and, in fact, high condition. No
condition above Non-Existence could be assigned an administrator unable
or unwilling to communicate. I have investigated others experiences and
have had this perception confirmed.

Let me give you a specific example: during a particularly
unpleasant situation concerning someone dear to me, I met with an exec
of the RTC named Warren McShane. In the course of this meeting he made
reference to several stats which I queried. He promised to furnish
these to me. This was 3 months ago and they have still not arrived. I
have nudged him repeatedly. Each time he makes new promises, but
continues to withhold the stats. What evaluation would you make of
this?

Frankly, I'm still confronting the broad situation. I've been on a
gradient run at it for some time. I love this Tech. It has been my
mainstay for two and a half decades. That I can dissent or criticize
points of the current management does not mean that I love the SUBJECT
less--on the contrary, I'm willing to risk the intense displeasure of
management in its defense. ((And that's putting it mildly))

Before, as you know, I buried myself in the philosophy and the
technical applications of Scientology. Once I had topped up to Class
VIII, PRO, NOTs completion, there ensued a long period of digestion...of
sorting and evaluation. During this period I had more interest and
attention free to familiarize myself with the organizational structure
of the Church and to follow its activities, personnel and policies. In
recent years, I have observed increasing outpoints, including a
tremendous expansion of bureaucracy and with it the trappings of any
bureaucracy: waste, regimentation, and un-responsiveness...a committee
mentality which often smothers individual initiative.

There is a big difference between the Tech of improving conditions
which LRH gave us and the organization which was established to deliver
it. This difference has multiplied (especially) in his absence. It is
clear to me that, despite what is said, he is not around. The focus on
USING the Tech in any and every way, that pan-determinism, that sense of
high adventure which was so evident back in the mid-60s when you and I
were studying under him is gone. What replaces it is a pale and hollow
shadow of what once was. Those who weren't there in those days, simply
don't know the difference. To them the shadow is the substance.

The Organization now kisses by the book. The pioneers who
originally helped Ron put the show on the road are gone and their names
forgotten...Never have I known a group that so expunges the memory of
its loyal supporters. Old-timers and leaders from the 50's and 60's and
even the 70's are gone...some left in disgust, other blown away, their
fierce old-fashioned independence unwelcome. So many of those we worked
beside in England and Spain, Scotland and America--gone with their
skills and their bright hope. And something irreplaceable is gone with
them. It's as if a small but vital population were blotted out.

We Scientologists seem to have replaced Rolls of Honor with Lists
of Declares.

To my disgust, I have sometimes heard this waste of our companions
justified by twaddle like 'They must have had overts to have pulled it
in.' Measure the judgment, loyalty and the compassion in that. What is
the tone level of a group where its individuals count for so little.
Compare it to the broad and humane characteristics of the upper Chart of
Attitudes. Can you imagine the cries of treason that would greet
someone applying that same logic to an illness of LRH or an attack on
the Church?

((Zoom, right over everyone's head.))

The other day I came across the original list of Clears from 1967.
There is something to make you feel a thousand years old. You will
understand this--your name is also among those first few hundred
Clears--it was like reading a list of the Fallen in battle. So few are
still among us. Scanning the names was an exercise in pathos. It made
me think of the debt we owe to their persistence, of the obstacles we
overcame in those formative years of Tech development, the plans, the
successes and the camaraderie. It was a wild bunch...salted with
characters and mavericks, but there was great strength drawn from their
multi-faceted backgrounds and worldly experience.

The Orgs now are filled with kids who have so little experience.
They have never known LRH and have no sense of his person, of his
3-dimensionality. All they have is what's on paper. To duplicate the
man and the breadth of his work requires literacy and the good judgment
born of experience. Unhappily, my observation (and the stats--the real
stats, not PR figures) show these requisites sorely lacking. Witness
the isolation from reality, the amateurism, the irrational money-
grubbing (do people not have to EARN these demanded sums?), the on-going
legal suits (so many of which have been self-created), the fixation on
PR instead of product, the recent return to expansion-shriveling pricing
policies.

For these kids that are running the Church now, Ron is, at best, a
distant and fugitive figure. Few have met him, seen his compassion or
known his staggering capacity for communication and attention to detail.
None have experience of the Church before it became a burdensome
bureaucracy. To them the current state of affairs is normal. They have
no other model. A surprising number of them have been brought up in the
Sea Org. They have not been educated in the world and many feel only
contempt for it. They have not worked in Society, they know virtually
nothing of its culture. They know only what they are told and this is
thin soup in comparison with what IS.

((EP of OT VIII is Ability to Hold a Job in the Wog World.))

As an example, I spoke to a young executive at Celebrity Center not
long ago and discovered that she wasn't sure what the RENAISSANCE was
(although she thought it maybe occurred 'somewhere in Europe.')

My god, she was a sincere person, but such ignorance in a senior
executive is a telling symptom. She and those like her have the
arrogance to believe they are going to bring about a New Civilization--
Christ, they don't know the OLD, how will they recognize the new? Blind
to history, these youngsters have no clue as to what has failed and what
has proven successful in Man's track, yet they have the power to command
and the authority to spend the enormous resources of Church money and
manpower. As a member, I find myself embarrassed to have them represent
me. I am not interested in PR and legal suits, nor is the handworking
staff. I want inexpensive books and services for everyone who reaches
for them. We want the game of ever-expanding cognitions and
realizations. We want the fun of helping people without hinder or Big
Brother domination.

((LRH himself was widely read in the ways of the world and had much
experience rubbing elbows with the real world as he called it, even if
many of his recorded exploits were imaginative fancy in this life.))

Nor can I believe that LRH intended that his subject would be a
substitute for a broad, standard education, that Scientology would
eliminate the need for a thorough grounding in literature and history,
the arts and sciences. Yet that is the attitude of the current
management. I have heard many times that 'we' have the only true or
really valid data, that Scientology data is all that is really needed in
life, that other subjects are in some way inferior, off-purpose or too
riddled with lies to be of service. (The hypocrisy is that these same
people don't hesitate to enjoy the fruits of those subjects; the
calculators and automobiles and medicines.) There is a frightening
unconsciousness here, as if all the answers have been found, we have
achieved perfection, the world has come to an end--in all the unending
future there will be no further development or discovery!

Look at the level of education in the Sea Org. Where are cultural
values promoted? When have you seen staff members in a quest for higher
education? Notice the intellectual horizon which ends with LRH's
writings. Hasn't it been noticed that LRH himself is enormously well
educated, that this was a vital aspect of his power, that without this
breadth of education in the world, in philosophy, in religion, he could
never have developed Scientology.

I do not perceive staff members in the Orgs to be surviving well
across their dynamics, in good communication with the broad environment,
with awareness and good reality. I see an inverted third dynamic which
is, for many, a substitute for their first and second and other
dynamics.

((An inverted dynamic is one that a person falls down to once he is
BELOW the first dynamic. He becomes compulsive and obsessive, it
controls him, he no longer runs it.))

I see harried but basically good people operating with startling
unrealities and misunderstandings about the society that are attempting
to transform, lacking, in some cases, the fundamental concepts of
economic, political and social realities.

I tell you, 'outside' existence is commonly looked on with disdain,
those taking the time and trouble to be informed on world events or non-
Scientology topics are seen as 'off-purpose' and of questionable ethics.

I don't know how it is where you are, but Los Angeles is a major
power base of the Church and in the course of meetings with even the
highest executives, I look in vain for an informed and enlightened
leadership. In the past few months I have gone out of my way to meet
such luminaries as David Miscavige of the RTC, Ray Mithoff, Senior C/S
Int., Norman Starkey of Author's Services (where the money is). I have
long known Heber Jentzsch, President of the Church. I tell you with
absolute honesty, old son, I would think twice before hiring any of them
to perform responsibilities as great as those with which they have been
entrusted.

In trying to locate the source of outpoints in my group by meeting
its leaders, I'll tell you what I looked for: Honesty and competence, a
decent tone level, high communication ability, some sense of humor
(always a key element to me), and, finally, the most important: a
harmony between their speech and their actions.

After observing these individuals (and a number of others) first
hand, I found them lacking in even these basic requirements. Between
you and me, old friend, I couldn't find enough integrity in the lot of
them to make one self-respecting thetan. Not one could I consider a
friend...or even a colleague to be proud of. These lads will tell you
anything you want to hear if it will serve their ends. Behind the
smiles of a couple of them I saw the mentality of bullies.

I personally heard Mithoff, in a public meeting suggest that those
who altered tech be physically beaten up. This is our senior technical
terminal! So much for understanding NOT-ISness or Hatting or Ethics
policies. A number of zombies around me actually applauded. Here is an
ethics level for you. (And a C/S for jail).

Heber, last month, was ranting AD NAUSEUM about psychiatry. It
appears that he believes this to be the root of all our troubles and the
world's woes. The last time I heard that speech, nearly verbatim, was
in 1971 at the Los Angeles Elk's Club where it issued forth from the
mouth of 'Captain Bill' Robertson. It has the same lunatic ring now as
it did then.

This fall I had an experience which accelerated the changes my
thoughts have been going through in regard to the Church. The impact on
me was out of proportion to the event itself...much as a sudden auditing
insight can transform your viewpoint. It clarified for me the condition
of several of these senior managers.

I attended a meeting in which an intelligent CMO exec named Brian
Anderson, stated with righteous fervor that the Tech is senior to the
Law, SENIOR TO THE BILL OF RIGHTS. Such a statement will make queasy
any careful reader of history, but the killer implication was contained
in what could only be gotten from the context of these remarks--he
wasn't just referring to the unquestionable value of technical
materials--his inference extended to church organizational policies and
TO HIS AUTHORITY AS A CHURCH OFFICER OVER ANY PARISHIONER INSIDE OR
OUTSIDE THE CHURCH'S EMPLOY.

Until then I had been unable to understand how these fellows could
justify their actions, how they could find the concept of fundamental
rights ludicrous. Now it became clear to me. These guys honestly
believe they are above the Law. 'God is on our side. We can do no
wrong, for ours is the true faith. Any Means are justified by our lofty
End.' This is the primrose path that led a number of our executives
into prison.

In this blend of innocence and corrupted judgment, I saw what it
was like to be a moral neuter, an ethical eunuch. This is how crusading
Christians were able to slit the throats of Muslims and yet maintain
their sense of goodness. This explained in vivid, personal terms
questions which I had always had about why history was a chronicle of so
much brutality. This is the heart of darkness. This is the implacable
soul of the zealot. When Principle is displaced in the conduct of men,
nothing remains but arbitrary prosecutions and squabbles for possession
and control. Brian didn't even blink as he made the admission. I'm
sure that he would be astonished that I even found it noteworthy.

What is missing here is fundamental ethics. We cannot demonstrate
the superiority of our technology to the society in which we live and
which we wish to improve by being moral invalids, by violating basic
rights and laws. This recognition undercuts all else. It is like
commonsense, impossible to discuss, you either have it or you do not.
It is like a tree which stands before one, you either perceive it or
not...it is pointless to argue the matter.

As incredible as it may seem, a painstaking inspection informs me
that these individuals lack the perception of ethics necessary to a
common ground. In the simplest terms, the matter hinges on my
insistence that administration of the Church be conducted on Principle
(formalized in public Policy), while those I have spoken to find
expedience (and hence the arbitrary use of power) fully justified.

This explains so much of recent management behavior...the hidden
data lines ('confidential orders'), the numerous recent demands for
compliance to verbal orders ((verbal orders are a high crime as they
leave no paper trail of accountability)), the refusal of the Finance
Police to put orders in writing, the violations of agreements, the
incursions into private and secular businesses, etc.

I have no choice but to be hostile to this viewpoint. Studying the
deceits of Machiavelli long ago, I settled this question of Ends and
Means. There is no decision to be made, save this one: What to do about
it? Attempts to contribute solutions by respectful write-ups on
standard lines have been to no avail. Locating the missing (or non-
communicating) terminals and broaching these issues one-on-one has
revealed our fundamental positions to be hostile. I can never agree to
abandon principle for expedience as they do. It is not within me. You
must be asking yourself, as I have, 'What alternative does one have?'
But let me order my thoughts before returning to this question.

Old friend, this dichotomy of allegiance between the VIRTUE and the
VEHICLE which is supposed to deliver the virtue has just about pulled me
apart. I am convinced, based, not on hearsay, but on personal
experience and intimate knowledge of Church actions against The Apple
School(s), R.G. Stewart and Co., several Missions as well as
individuals, that the Organization has been morally corrupt and legally
indefensible in many of its dealings. It scares the hell out of me, not
so much because it puts the Organization at risk, but because it is only
a matter of time before the Tech itself will be tainted and perverted in
the Orgs. If that happens there will be no choice but to turn away.
They will no longer be supportable in such a condition. This is the
magnitude of the crime of these mal-intentioned managers. These are the
lessons of history. Thus it has been with Christianity, Buddhism, Islam
and every other ethical movement whose administrators adulterated
principle to safeguard their power.

I assure you this is not hysteria. Nothing has brought more
heartache, spilled more blood than religious warfare. Even today you
cannot pick up a newspaper without reading of a Khomeini who is
murdering or jailing those EVEN OF HIS OWN FAITH for their beliefs or
differences. It is the grim repetition of history. Who can fail to
think of the Inquisition where militant Jesuits were considered crack
troops in the defense of the articles and applications of the Faith. No
deviations from official interpretations were permitted. They tried as
heretics those Catholics who failed to be unquestioningly obedient, who
complained of corruption (like the selling of indulgences at huge
prices) or of bureaucratic excess. Those found guilty were often
tortured for confessions and burned to protect the purity of the dogma.

How far do we in the Church have to go? It is a tough question
and, these days, not one for the faint-hearted. These are conditions
that have heightened my concern for our group:

1. We have a highly regimented, paramilitary Sea Org which brooks
no interference with its considerable and growing authority. It is
pleased to describe itself in forceful terms such as 'hard hitting' and
'ruthless' rather than having as modes WISDOM, INTELLIGENCE or
COMPASSION. This represents more the bottom than the top of the tone
scale.

2. We have witnessed the creation of a Financial Dictator whose
Financial Police have been 'fired off' on missions around the world to
investigate the 'financial irregularities' of those with even spotless
records. The up-front charge for this service was $15,000. per day. I
have been told that they were empowered to levy fines as well and did so
to the financial insolvency of several cooperating Missions. I have
personal knowledge of their efforts to extort money from private
businesses: off-line, off-source and off-policy, without legal or moral
justification.

3. 'Eligibility' confessionals, at the cost of thousands of
dollars, are now a prerequisite to normal auditing. What made us
INELIGIBLE?

4. A Los Angeles Attorney was fined $30,000 in addition to fees
paid for several confessionals at Flag. This followed an unpleasant bit
of bullying by the Finance Police. It is a disquieting precedent.

5. The Findings of a duly convened Committee of Evidence on two Los
Angeles Scientologists, Jon and Vivien Zegel, were knowingly changed and
falsified by Church authorities. One of the Committee members protested
and was intimidated into silence.

((Zegel has 4 tapes in the field chronicling the history of the
take over of the Church. The 4th tape is a retraction of the first 3.))

6. The day has arrived (and this is very bitter) when Scientology,
this technology for freeing Man, has been used for political ends.
There have been examples of 'gang' Sec Checking (two auditors, one PC,
interrogation style) by the Financial Police and for the undeniable
purpose of intimidation and introversion. Also of tragic significance
are violations of the sanctity and privacy of the PC folder--data being
gleaned, edited and published for the purpose of silencing and
discrediting opposition.

David Mayo is not the Devil Incarnate and lying about him will not
make him so. The field public is not accurately described as 'out-
ethics pigs' as one Executive Director, Int'l. termed them about a year
ago in a staff meeting. Nor is all 'Management' corrupt and rotten to
the core--some, it so happens, are bright and ethical and Herculean
workers. However, it is inescapable that there are in present time a
number of malicious individuals in high management positions.

The stats that I have seen are incontrovertible. But it doesn't
require figures and graphs to know. Observe the atmosphere of fear and
intimidation. Be called 'disaffected,' as I was, for suggesting that
lower prices would make more tech available to more people--this was an
unthinkable heresy. I recently received a flyer for a book by LRH
costing $3,500! What kind of obscenity is this?

And this unending paranoia about squirrels...the old man covered
that years ago: Those delivering a crappy, altered product will be
abandoned. Who needs to rush about wasting valuable time and money
trying to kill them? They'll collapse on their own. Staff members have
better and more productive things to do.

((Ex-Scientologists are Expanded Scientologists.))

Then there is the continual concern for PR--not 'What's true', but
how will it LOOK. This attitude among management has leached away at
the integrity of our group. My wife was told (McShane again) that, yes,
the Church had wronged Richard Stewart, but that no apology could be
made because (apart from making the Church look bad) 'LRH said never to
apologize for any mistake, real or imagined.' That's the Auditor's
Code, for AUDITORS to apply to PCs in AUDITING SESSIONS. With Mis-
Understoods like these being operated on by senior managers, we are
fortunate that the Church is doing as well as it is.

((I don't have the policy, but I believe he says that if you put
the wrong person's head on a pike, you 'dust their heads off',make your
apologies later and reinstate them. It's in Staff Status 0))

((HCOPL 23 December 1965,

RIGHTS OF A SUPPRESSIVE PERSON OR GROUP

A truly Suppressive Person or Group has no rights of any kind as
Scientologists and actions taken against them are not punishable under
Scientology Ethics Codes.

However a person or group may be falsely labelled a Suppressive
Person or Group. Should the person or group claim the label to be
false, he, she or they may request a Committee of Evidence via their
nearest HCO. The executive with the power to convene a Committee of
Evidence must do so if one is requested for recourse or redress of
wrongs.

...

The committee must pay attention to any actual evidences that the
person or group that is accused of being suppressive may produce
particularly to the effect of having helped Scientology or
Scientologists or a Scientologist and if this is seen to outweigh the
accusataions, proof or lack of it, the person is absolved.

...

Failing to prove guilt of Suppressive Acts, the Committee must
absolve the person or group PUBLICLY.'))

This is enough, although I have not mentioned the authoritarian
suppression of the Missions last October and the collapse of numerous
field groups (unadmitted--in fact, denied by RTC) or the arbitrary
closing of all field ethics practices. It is enough.

The book that I am writing deals with such issues in principle and
historical example. It appalls me all the more therefore to see such
startling parallels within my own movement...to hear the echoes of an
authoritarianism which I despise, to observe the ugly name-calling, to
witness the hardening of hearts of Scientologist against Scientologist
as individuals become increasingly polarized.

((Inside Scientology joke,

"What's the difference between a Nigger and a Squirrel?"
"The Nigger is a Human Being."))

All this effort, waste and enturbulation when what we all should be
doing is auditing and training people as quickly and honestly and
cheaply as we can. What is need before it is too late is a
reaffirmation of our fundamental purposes and the freedom and
encouragement to pursue those purposes. Our leadership is burdened by a
fanaticism about control, unreal demands for money and compliance,
overweening ((?)) emphasis on stops and careful-of's and wrongnesses.
This is throttling the application of this technology. This is obvious
to any factually informed observer. I talk to more and more valuable
people who no longer want to play the game--there is too much emphasis
on rules and barriers, no enough on the freedoms and purposes.

You're right, LRH has said it all, but the quotes that are being
laid down in recent issues are notable absent in pushing rights,
prerogatives and rewards. I haven't seen ESSAY ON MANAGEMENT get much
attention--it's too downright revolutionary--or even the CREED with its
'inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely
(your) own opinions...' Yet this is just what, in my opinion, will
bring a return to good health to our group.

One thing I know for a certainty: if we are to have a civilization
of which we can be proud, it will be based on respect for Truth; clearly
delineated individual Rights; free and uncorrupted, unperverted and
unaltered Communication.

Prattle of 'OT' and 'Total Freedom' is empty without some display
of application in our Orgs.

There is a limit to how long officials can say, 'You'll get your
standard Ethics later, after the emergency is over. We'll come back and
pick up the pieced and handle injustices then'. (This from Miscavige
when I protested the abuse of the Mission-holders in San Francisco).

There is a limit to the money we will donate to legal funds for
'harassed and innocent' Church executives who turn out to be guilty of
knowingly criminal acts.

There is a limit to the lies and misrepresentations that can be
swallowed about our fellows and about the society with which we should
be sharing enormous and increasing Affinity, Reality and Communication.
EVEN THOSE WHO DO NOT TOTALLY AGREE WITH US.

We would do well as an organization to move up-tone, to begin
operating less on the authoritarian, chain-of-command type basis and
more approaching Jeffersonian democracy, a much higher level LRH pegs at
3.0 on the Scale. At the very least we could begin providing a means
for more representation from the broad membership of the Church to an
identified Board of Directors. Is this utter heresy? It is common
practice for most churches.

When an organization begins making Clears and above, it must soon
begin operating at a tone level equal to theirs. An Org that fails to
do so will lose its high-toned members or be FORCED to change by them.
It is my belief that many of our recent problems derive (ironically)
from the effectiveness of Flag and the Orgs in producing Clears and NOTs
completions. These individuals have had their perceptions, tone, and
havingness enhanced. (The Tech DOES work). They are not so content
with Authoritarianism...after all, they are more able, more causative,
more trustworthy. They will want and must be allowed to exercise these
virtues. It will only be exaggerated by successful results in the PC
chair. When there is growth, it is the Org's job to accommodate it. It
is the Org's job to trust the individual, to get out of the way and give
these more powerful beings their head...and to enjoy the fruits of
supplying their expanding needs while continuing to assist others to the
upper end of the tone scale.

You cannot make free beings and then expect to control their
destinies. Their gratitude may grant you a temporary protection, but
their silence cannot be mistaken for support. Can you imagine real OTs
consenting to an authority which would determine what they can do, who
they communicate or associate with?

A management that cannot tolerate the challenge of dealing with
free Men will attempt to suppress them. It will make every effort to
bring them under control, to dominate their affinities, to limit their
communication lines, to license their activities.

Through the language may cloak the fact and men be assured that
these incursions to their freedoms are for their own good or the
survival of their group, they will ultimately feel the constrictions to
their beingness and either abandon such a group or move to make it
change.

The Price of Freedom is, indeed, as LRH has defined: 'a constant
alertness, constant willingness to fight back.' Are we willing to apply
this to ourselves, to our group? Are we willing to pay it?

Those who aren't willing to pay the price can live without it.
That is just. For myself, I have reached the point where I can no
longer remain as silent and acquiescent as I have been. The power which
maintains any leadership derives from the agreement of individual group
members. If we now have managers who are unethical, it is because each
of us is allowing them to be. Their strength is in our meekness, our
irresponsibility, our silence.

You remember the transition of the G.O., staffed originally with
tough but high-minded individuals. You, too, watched it feed on secrecy
and hidden data lines while its power superseded everything else until
it was bloated with arrogance. With too few people saying 'No!' it
became corrupt.

Five years ago it was very unpopular to say anything negative about
the activities of the Guardian's Office. Surely only a Suppressive
would suggest that this elite group of powerful and enlightened OTs
could be doing wrong! Their actions were above criticism, sacrosanct.
These would never have maintained secret dossiers on Scientologists in
good standing, these would never be committing criminal acts. Well,
since the Church (or none of us) put ethics in, the Society by-passed us
and had to do it.

I never told you about being treated like treasonous scum for
protesting its unethical behavior. I had designed a book, SCIENTOLOGY:
A WORLD RELIGION EMERGES IN THE SPACE AGE, for them--a big elegant work
suitable for Senators and corporation execs.--my reward for a job well
done was having Henning and Mary Heldt cheat and lie to me and then
threaten me when I protested. Another case of good people whose
integrity turned to jelly under pressure and the 'any means is justified
in a Good Cause' mentality. My only regret is that I protested so
little, that the treat of Declare held enough terror in those days to
silence me. I was cowardly then and it shames me now. ((It's OK, we
forgive you :-) ))

(It occurs to me to stop for a moment and give you thanks for
listening and duplicating. What began as a brief note has become a
major unburdening. These are things that have made me feel soiled and,
as I set them down, I am feeling more and more relief. My 'think' is
becoming clearer. You see, I have suppressed a lot of communication.
Over the years, I've justified the unjustifiable. I have not leapt to
the snarling defense of those I knew could not be so guilty as was
claimed. I have allowed reputations to be smeared by strutting little
tyrants. Too many times it was easier to look the other way. In
communicating this to you I am experiencing a return of integrity. This
scene may not be pretty, it may not be true for you, but its true for
me.)

However, that is all long past and there is nothing to be done but
this: TO DRAW OUT EVERY LESSON, CLEAN THE SLATE AND PLEDGE MYSELF TO
NEVER REPEAT THOSE ERRORS. To be hostile to wrong in whatever guise.
To ignore my fellows when they mutter and put pressure on me not to rock
the boat, but to be 'reasonable' and accommodating.

It is tragic to discover that for all the hoopla and assurances
that the Guardian's Office has been ousted and their excesses cleaned
up, in fact there has only been a change of name. Now there is 'Special
Unit' which even boasts many of the same old G.O. personnel, although
now they wear Sea Org uniforms. Warren McShane is one of these.
Smiling face. Sympathetic speech. But I happpen to have seen examples
of the destructive intent behind the mask. Why would his junior
actively 3rd party my wife, saying she is 'out to destroy the Tech'?
Why attempt to extort the compliance of unwilling secular businesses to
punitive contracts? Why lie to me and withhold promised statistics?

I look around and see those among us who are keeping their heads
down, saying nothing, just happy the goodies are there at any price,
hoping the bad will all go away if they just ignore it...I see this and
I know what has put these scoundrels in power and what is keeping them
there.

((Lack of Free Market Competition? Nah.))

There is a terrible irony in this scene. That over the years,
while we gained in perception, ability and personal well-being, we have
been giving up our rights...they have gradually been leached away. Our
right to speak freely, to associate, even to think freely has become
debilitated.

Now, to regain my self-esteem and the full measure of my freedom, I
am taking back these basic rights. Those that have enjoyed the power
which I, and others, gave them by silent acquiescence (in the misplaced
intention to aid or strengthen the group) may now resent this change of
status. But these prerogatives were never rightfully theirs. It was an
error for me to have allowed their enfeeblement--no group is
strengthened by weakening its individual members. And this resurgence
of integrity informs me that I was overdue to reclaim them.

I am amazed to discover so much to say. Had it not been of so much
personal benefit in clarifying issues I would have ended this letter
long ago. Let me leave you with one last thought on the subject from
LRH's Tech Dictionary: 'THE GOAL OF SCIENTOLOGY IS THAT THE THETAN BE
HIS OWN PRINCIPAL ORIENTATION POINT, AND THAT HE HAVE THE ABILITY TO USE
OR DISCARD ANY OTHER POINT OF REFERENCE.'

When I have finished the work that's been neglected over the
holidays, I will write you once more. Letter II. This will address the
question of What to Do? and of the future of Scientology--for I realize
now what it will be.

I do hope your family is doing well and that you continue to apply
yourself unswervingly. There is so much hope and richness in this
world. It's our job to preserve and enhance it. My kids are doing
wonderfully...Brook is making us very proud with his astonishing
precocity. And much fun.

I have returned to the Board of Directors of the Society for
Calligraphy, editing and designing its Journal. It is a satisfying
challenge, but devours time and energy. Our newly established CENTER
FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDY in Spain is going into it 2nd summer program
with flying colors. 80% of last summer's attendees want to come AGAIN
(and they are a fabulous group of young people!). We may be expanding
to France after next summer! Wish us luck.

Meanwhile, I am slaving away delightedly on my book, LIBERTY, LOVE
AND OTHER MISLAID NOTIONS. It has almost doubled in size...I've added
art plates and several essays. I'm pushing to complete it before I
leave for Europe in the spring. Then will come the tasks of gathering
names and addresses, writing promotion, mailing and such (I'm going to
mail order the 1st edition). Oh, for an extra body or more hours in the
day!

Must close, with warmest regards,

Box 27592
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(213) 662-5369

Bruce Bishop

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