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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
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OPERATIONAL BULLETIN NO.9
19 December 1955
THE TURN OF THE TIDE
The London Daily Mail feature editor, John
Hall, took it upon himself on December 13, 1955, to personally interview
me, and write exactly what he found. He published in the Daily Mail, a
first run paper published in London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Paris, a
very long and friendly story which will probably do us more good in the
British Isles and France than anything which has happened for a long time.
Time Magazine has written eight pages, there have been about 80 columns
in U.S. magazines such as Life, Liberty, Look, and there has been untold
press released on the subject of Dianetics and Scientology. But aside from
one young communist who spent about three minutes talking to me on the
stairs, at Elizabeth, and a fellow who wandered in, from Life he said,
and never wrote anything, in Los Angeles, there has been no press reporter
near me since before the publication of Dianetics. The Modern Science of
Mental Health.
That feature editor, John Hall, did take
it upon himself to actually do an interview, and that the results were
favourable caused me to make a little investigation concerning how press
has been operating before, and on what it has been operating. Evidently
the total activity of press has been to pick up slanted and hearsay information.
So I was interested to find out how this information came into being. Apparently
it works this way: to make some sort of "face", somebody who met me at
a cocktail bar then pretends a considerable knowingness on the subject
of all of my life and activities, and gives forth at a considerable pace
not handicapped in the least by the possession of no data, and this by
and large whether done by Scientologists or casual acquaintances has been
the total sum of information which has been ci?culated about myself since
the late ‘30s.
As even John Sanborn can tell you, I have
been very chary about releasing any actual information about myself. I
had a rather large collection of old-time photographs which I thought we
might put into Ability, and at the last moment made John put in something
else. I have not been anxious, in other words, to put up a big show of
myself, thinking that Scientology was enough for its own sake. In this
I have apparently made an error. I look over possible available sources
of unbiased information concerning my own past, and discover that while
it could be traced down on official records in libraries and other places
and confirmed, there is no one who even knows enough about it to do that
job of coordination. Thus it is necessary that I release some accurate
biographical information to supplant some of this rumour and hodge-podge
which has been spread around in the name of information. There is plenty
of authenticating and documenting material if one cares to look for it.
Now I know that it is extremely bad taste
to put out any data concerning oneself, or to talk about oneself, but if
people see fit to talk about one and, having nothing to talk about, therefore
lie about one, and if this rebounds as widely as it has, through presses,
books, plays and motion pictures, certainly one has some responsibility
for putting out something like an accurate biographical narrative to say
the least, and so we are doing so at this time, and then I can forget about
it and go on doing something more important.
For sure, however, the tide has turned
on the subject of press, which doesn’t mean, however, that we should give
the technical materials of Scientology to press. The best way to talk to
press is to sort of two-way comm process them, and show them stacks of
case histories, and let the deeds speak.
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BRAINWASHING MANUAL
HISTORY
In our studies of brainwashing it has been
necessary to procure what information existed on the subject. Fortuitously,
in Phoenix there came into our hands two manuscripts on the subject; as
well as I can recollect, they were left there at the front desk with the
request that they be mailed back to their owner. We are not sure exactly
from whom these came, but we understand now that this is unimportant since
the subject is broadly rather well known in a book on Psychopolitics. It
is to be found in the Library of Congress. It is in German, but we suppose
it is the same manual. As we needed this material for research, we read
it off onto a tape, compiling the two manuals and removing from them some
of their very verbose nomenclature, substituting for it more common English
terms, and we have had a few copies of this struck off for use in our research.
It is necessary if one is confronted by
a case of brainwashing to understand the motives and general procedures
of the people who did it. I must say an inspection of this manual does
not make for much respect for the motives of people who brainwash other
people. In the early pages of this manual, there is a letter from the person
who purportedly gave these manuals to the organization, "Charles Stickley",
supposed to be a professor at Columbia University in New York City. This
letter, included in the manuals as printed, makes it definitely and adequately
clear that these manuals were reprinted for study by research workers.
However, in handing out a copy of one of these manuals to one of our own
people who had not heard of it, he made several wrong estimates of the
manual itself. At first he thought it was a piece of communist propaganda.
Then he thought it was something the organization had composed. Then on
further inspection, he did not know what to think and it had to be pointed
out to him very specifically that this was a synthesis of a Russian instruction
book on the subject of brainwashing, and it had to be pointed out to him
that it was reprinted for the benefit of people working to remedy and heal
brainwashing. It had to be pointed out to him additionally that there was
a cover letter in it which explained these things. Thus if you have one
of these copies and it gets away from you which it might, you may find
it necessary to explain exactly what it is.
We certainly have the right to have in
our possession materials covering something as intimately connected to
mental research as brainwashing. We have the right to know why and where
and who. Furthermore, this material is evidently well known to various
governments and is not classified, since the subject "Psychopolitics" (which
is the technical name for brainwashing) is to be found in the major libraries
of the world.
In the original text of this book there
was a warning to psychopolitical operatives that they must stamp out Dianetics,
Christian Science, and practical psychology, as these alone represented
a menace to the brainwashing programmes. This reference in the text to
Dianetics (which has been known to the Russians since 1938) makes the matter
very much our business, quite aside from research. Yet if most of the vagaries
and upsets from which we have been suffering have stemmed from a desire
on the part of some political group attempting to accomplish a political
coup and in the road of which we have been standing, then we certainly
have the right to know why we have been knocked around by press and governments
to the degree that we have been. Hardly a word uttered against Dianetics
and Scientology has had any truth in it. The prevalent official but not
the public opinion regarding Dianetics and Scientology is that they are
phony sciences, tricked up to hoodwink people. Contrast this with the fact
that in Dianetics and Scientology alone in all the world of mental healing
lie the answers to increased intelligence and ability, and not very incidentally,
in Dianetics and Scientology and in Dianetics in particular, we have the
total antidote for the eradication of brainwashing. In other words we could
unbrainwash them with Dianetics as fast as they are being brainwashed,
given enough staff. Furthermore we can put troops and persons in a condition
where they cannot be brainwashed. This we can do in Scientology.
Thus if brainwashing is being counted upon
heavily to accomplish a great deal inside and outside the nations under
attack, there would be only one organization
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which would be standing thoroughly in
the road of that programme, and if that programme inside a country had
advanced to a point where officials could be influenced, then you would
discover of course this odd official opinion of Dianetics and Scientology,
that they are quack sciences.
We are not planning to use this reprinted
manual for purposes of propaganda. However, to prevent any misunderstanding
from occurring, the highest police in England and America have both received
copies and have been told that this is a reprint manual, and that we do
not wish to cause them any extra labour in case another one of them falls
into their hands. Actually, however, it is my belief that they have had
the original, which is to say the communist version of these manuals, in
their possession for years, and have simply been unable to credit it or
unable to do anything about it. Thus our reprinted version should come
as no shock to them.
It has been my experience with Anglo-Saxon
governments that where idea propaganda line attacks were concerned they
couldn’t care less. They do not believe that propaganda is effective. Otherwise
they would themselves engage in more propaganda activities. The Anglo-Saxon
traditionally depends upon force in order to accomplish his ends.
This is one of the reasons why communism
has made such vast progress across the face of the world. It is an idea
advancing against arms, and the arms of course will never be able to stop
an idea. An idea will be necessary to stop the idea. We may very unfortunately
be those persons in possession of the idea that will stop the other idea.
Certainly the way things are going, if we don’t use our ideas to stop the
incoming ideas across the face of earth, we are going to wind up one of
these days in the middle of a total communism, living in a totally brainwashed
society, the way I look at it.
WASHINGTON CONGRESS
My very best wishes to the Congress and
my hopes for a highly successful time by all. I have made several recent
tapes on material of some interest and value which have been sent swiftly
and rapidly across so that the latest material would be available at the
Congress. I have not made, however, a welcoming tape as I ordinarily would,
and take this opportunity to thank those people who came, and hope that
they go away feeling better, and feeling happier about things. There is
no doubt that the Washington operation is on the steep upgrade and my principal
communication in Scientology is between myself and the Washington operation
where Bill Young, Julia Lewis, Ken Barrett, Don Breeding have things pretty
well in hand. The silver ministers’ crosses are ready now and are supposed
to be a knockout. The Co-Auditor’s Manual is ready, the "Brainwashing"
pamphlet is being released to those who are interested in the subject,
and it should be with all a very successful Congress indeed. I wish I were
there.
NEWEST PROCESSES
I am tabling up all those processes which
have been successful in starting low toned cases. These have amounted to
about 24 new processes in the last three or four months. This table will
be available in the near future with an analysis on it. However, I wish
to call to your attention the singular success of Waterloo Station in handling
low-ordered cases. Not-knowingness is time. If a person cannot not-know
he becomes the slave of time.
One of the more interesting late developments
is a process called " ‘Orrible Fates". You ask the preclear to tell you
some ‘orrible fates. The theory of this is very simple and will probably
become Axiom 55, which will be to the effect that the cycle of action of
the physical universe is create, change, destroy. Thus, anyone trying to
make things better and in very close agreement with the physical universe,
in reversing this cycle, will bring upon himself some regret. We have a
wild example of this in the cycle of action imposed upon us by Christianity
in the good works, the hounding and the death of Christ. This mechanism,
also handled in Fac One, gives us the oddity that we are trying to put
create forward in time, whereas destroy lies forward in time. One then
either masters the subject of time, by running not-knowingness processes,
or he
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puts into the future inventions of horrible
fates for various persons and himself and this universe, until he runs
out the considerable regret which is accumulated every time he has envisioned
a good action. Naturally the final solution of this is the solution of
agreement with the physical universe. When one breaks this and it is no
longer disagreement or agreement, he has really done something, and the
keynote of doing this thing is, of course, in "not-knowingness".
NEW AUDITING STYLE
I have made a direct deliberate test, not
of a process but of the auditing style itself as a helpful agent. The keynote
of new auditing style is that any boil-off, somatic, anaten, swing of attention
or going out of session on the part of the preclear is occasioned by some
sort of error or miscomprehension on the part of the auditor, and the preclear.
I used a general process not ordinarily very therapeutic, but not destructive,
and starting with this process and a preclear, worked only in one direction:
to keep the ARC of the preclear advancing continually throughout the session,
proceeding from the level of ARC of the preclear just before he came into
session—in other words, consistently and consecutively bettered him. I
did this by two-way communication, and communication bridges. Every time
the preclear tended to go out of session even slightly, every time any
slightest sign of dropped awareness occurred, I assumed at once that something
had gone wrong with the session. I assumed that something had been said
which he didn’t understand, or something had been overlooked, or that something
had been done in error on the two-way comm formula, and immediately researched
this fact to put the session straight again. In other words, during this
entire session I did nothing but put the session straight with two-way
communication, and run a relatively noncommittal duplicating process on
the preclear. The process I knew of old was not going to produce any grand
rise in tone. However, this preclear who was usually difficult to audit
finished up a half-hour session in much better condition than this preclear
had been in in years.
The assumption here on the part of the
auditor is that if the preclear goes into a slump, has a somatic, or otherwise
drops in ARC, then a difficulty has arisen with the session. We calculate
this from the following: that at the top of the tone scale we have knowingness
and awareness, in the middle ranges we have ARC, in the lower ranges somatics,
and in the far lower ranges, varying degrees of unconsciousness. Thus when
we say that the preclear’s tone should be promoted throughout the session,
we mean of course that he must not be slumping toward unconsciousness.
He must be advancing toward higher levels of consciousness.
Therefore today it can be said that good
auditing does not result in boil-off and somatic unconsciousness, dope-off,
or pain, but results in a constant and consistent advance of the ARC of
the preclear from the first moment of the session to the end of the session,
when it should be much higher, and that any time there is anything wrong
at all with the session, the preclear will reply by getting more unconscious.
This was about the most arduous and rigorous test that could be made of
new auditing style with a difficult preclear and following very solidly
the precept that it would be an auditing error if the preclear dropped
off in attention or consciousness. Thus when I have said that in the new
auditing style we should always advance ARC, I meant exactly what I said,
and have even gone so far as to run an auditing session which was nothing
more than an auditing session to demonstrate that an auditing session all
by itself with the two-way communication consequent to it would result
in increased tone for the preclear. By the way, this type of auditing also
results in increased tone for the auditor, so we are winning both ways.
REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON
Washington has recently received a stack
of forms from me which they were supposed to fill out weekly and send through
as reports on conditions, finances, etc. This is really not so much an
effort to fill up my "vacuum of information" as it is to get the Washington
operation to pay very close attention to these details themselves. The~
theory is that if they have to compile these data, they will then know
these data, and, knowing them, they will see what the situation actually
is.
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I believe much of the activity which goes
on in an organization is done without any real realization of what the
condition of the organization is, and it may very well be that for the
last five years, only myself and a few others have been actually conscious
of the real condition of Dianetics and Scientology organizations with regard
to their business organization and finance. This sort of situation cannot
of course continue. Dianeticists and Scientologists working inside of organizations
and keeping them running would be as competent as they knew what was going
on in the organization, and they would know as well what was going on in
the organization as they were acquainted with the problems which the organization
actually faced in terms of business and finance.
Probably one of the things which has held
us back more than anything else was a good working knowledge of business
itself. The basic maxim of business is simplicity itself, and that is first,
that there must be an organization there, and second, that it must perform
its duties and functions, and third, that it must originate communications
as well as receive communications, and fourth, that its income must be
slightly greater than its outgo, and fifth, that persons inside the organization
should know what was going on generally in the organization.
I instituted this report system when I
discovered that the Washington operation could sit there and not notice
that the training department itself had never originated a single letter
of procurement to prospective students. Mary Sue was originating all these
letters, and when she left Washington to come over to London (having stayed
behind to square things away), the training department, which had the responsibility
for emanating all communication on the subject of procurement of students,
wrote not one single letter to anyone anywhere. Thus Washington is involved
in a slump. Similar to Australia, where internecine warfare kept people
from communicating out to the world at large, Washington was brought into
an intensified usual Christmas slump by a failure to originate communications.
Another circumstance came to my attention which was very amusing. Over
a period of two weeks, I was being asked by the downtown office if Silver
Spring had received a cheque for expenses. Downtown Washington was communicating
with me to find out a datum about Silver Spring which if a map is inspected
will be found to be eight miles away. Silver Spring was not communicating
this information to downtown Washington, and downtown Washington evidently
never thought of asking Silver Spring. I let it ride until they eventually
got together on the subject. Interdepartmental bulletins and meetings to
exchange information are absolutely necessary if an organization is going
to continue in a healthy state.
It is time that the central organization
of Scientology began to circulate bulletins on what it is doing. I know
definitely that in each department branch of the entire Washington operation
everyone, with very small exception, is doing his all-out level best to
keep everything rolling and they are doing a wonderful job of it. I think,
however, that from department to department the Washington operation doesn’t
know this. How about meeting each other, you guys?
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ts
Copyright ~ 1955
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
LRH TAPE LECTURE
London, England
22 December 1955
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