We continue to receive reactions from readers since Scientology responded to the Whitney Mills wrongful-death lawsuit by angrily denying that she had been encouraged by a fellow church member to do a “drop the body assist.” The church said there was no such thing in Scientology, and we have been hearing from former church members who say that the concept of dropping the body — in other words, ending this lifetime to begin another one — is very much a part of Scientology culture. Here are two more messages that were sent to us that we thought you’d like to see.
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My father was an OT VIII Scientologist and Class VIII auditor. He was not in the Sea Org, but he was very active at the Int. Base in the 80s and 90s.
In 2009, he was diagnosed with stage four cancer. He was C/Sed [case supervised] to work with another Class VIII (outside of the Org).
This was all to make sure he was not in the Org or “under their care.” A Field Auditor went to my father at his home and accompanied us to Mexico seeking treatment.
The dropping the body assist was directed for the auditor to do. This C/S came from Flag, I was told. [The instruction to have this ill Scientologist leave his body came from Scientology’s ‘Flag Land Base’ in Clearwater, Florida.]
My dad did not want to die. He fought cancer hard and strong. His body was under attack but Scientology had rejected him for fear of out-PR [bad public relations].
As an auditor myself, I was told that my dad had the “OK” to leave his body.
He passed in January 2011.
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I worked for the Church of Scientology for 25 years and worked at the FLO in Hollywood for 10 years. I was an auditor and a case supervisor.
Scientology public and staff have a lot of theories, superstitions, and misconceptions about dying. Past lives are a big topic at the church.
Here is what I recall about drop-the-body assist: When a person is dying in the church, there is a lot of secrecy surrounding their illness, treatment, and subsequent death. As the illness progresses, security tightens up. When a person is very ill, their folder typically gets sent “uplines.” This would be to the Snr CS Office. In my day it would be C/Sed by Ray Mithoff or one of his assistants.
When one of my cases reached that point, someone took over the auditing and I didn't see what processes were ordered. It is my understanding it was some commands similar to what the person described yesterday. It would be very formal and very secret. Normally the person would be close to death when they got this process and would pass away shortly after. I don't believe they had a choice: Nature was taking its course and the church just took the credit.
In addition to this process, there are these superstitions. Scientologists believe that they die and then go back to earth to get a new body. They are told not to go to the light as this may be an implant station and all the hard-earned dollars they spent on auditing will have been wasted because they will not remember anything and will go back to being a regular mortal.
If the Scientologist takes this advice and goes to a hospital to pick up a body, they are supposed to look for one that is part of a Scientology family. If this isn't possible they should at least select a well-to-do family to make their next life easier. How all this is made to happen is not clear to me, but the person after auditing, especially the OT levels should just “know.”
Once the Scientologist picks up this body, they are good to go. They can even return to the Sea Org after 20 years if they want to carry out their billion-year contract.
Another part of this idea is that the Scientologist will choose the body of a person who is a relative. If you die and your daughter is pregnant, you want to pick up that baby's body. Some people believe this implicitly and will even question the parents of the new baby to see if the baby is aware of his or her past life.
I am not sure new moms always like this evaluation of their baby. They may not have liked the person who supposedly picked up this body and may not want to have to raise him. However, over-eager relatives will persist on this line, even going so far as asking the baby what they remember, pointing out similarities between the baby and the dead relative, and telling others that this baby is the reincarnated “Uncle Joe,” etc.
New parents probably find this disconcerting.
I am also surprised there haven’t been more LRH-in-a-new body stories. He should be showing up all over the place.
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"Nature was taking its course and the church just took the credit." How $cientological.
The 'drop the body' assist is real and is (soon to be 'was') given out when the Clam was dying. Be that death 'natural' or self inflicted, the 'assist' was done. Scream and shout all you want Clampire, the Whitney Mills family have you by the short hairs.
In 1976 at Flag, Clearwater, I was on Flag Service Org staff, training on the Dianetics lineup, and was a guinea pig patient to the Hubbard past lives delving quack pseudo-therapy. I ran an incident of a space ship battle, and not a few hours later, one of my then roommates claimed he was the Captain on that ship in the same incident I was running.
It's weird, to say the least, somehow I was able to just think everyone's "case" of past lives memories were their own.
Hubbard says in his pile of crap massive writings that even if people's past lives memories are sketchy and unbelievable, he said over time everyone each sorts out the sketchiness themselves.
So, everyone's past lives, Hubbard in some loophole comments, gives us all a break from believing TOO much into their exactness, saying there will be clearly wrong things.
So, this loophole, and all the other loophole Hubbard statements, are what theoretically allowed me to NOT get to excited about mine, or anyone else's, past lives memories which will be dodgy, to say the least.
What kept me duped all my wasted decades is the false promising Hubbard past lives "therapy" quackery cult (and the OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 exorcism "levels" to remove Xenu's body-thetans off ourselves, that's a totally ludicrous proposition), was that through doing all this quackery, I thought "we" were making soul flyers out of each other. I kept believing people were regaining their supernatural soul powers.
I thought people were getting into that optimum soul state as described in the 1950s "basic" Scientology book, titled, "Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought", specifically the chapter "Parts of Man" where Hubbard claims by doing his quack therapy the doers of this quackery will implicitly obtain the status of being fully conscious of themselves as a pure soul which is OUTSIDE the human body.
Hubbard's "Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought", chapter "Parts of Man", section on the thetan (soul, we each are our own core soul, we don't have a soul, we are our soul, and we learn from Hubbard's teachings we have soul memories debilitating to ourselves, and later on OT 3 and OT 5 you learn you have invisible souls infesting your human body which leak their debilitating soul memories into our "Clear'ed" mind, thus the reason for doing the OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 exorcism is to remove those invisible souls off us, and result in all their debilitating soul memories ceasing to impact us, making us way better than merely the Hubbard "Clear" soul status), all this is how I saw it.
Scientology was to make us all "OT" souls, fully capable of soul flying out of our bodies.
That to me is the ultimate soul con of Scientology, why I felt most horrible betrayed, and Hubbard blames all everyone's failure to become like in "Parts of Man" chapter , on us.
All the con not working is on us. Not on Hubbard's false claims.
But, I've concluded, and normal people see this before getting into Scientology, that soul flying out of the human body is a myth, it's a sketchy hallucination experience, "remote viewing" to me is simply hallucination, or mental imagery manipulation a person can become adept and convince themselves they are "exterior" to their human bodies, when they in fact are NOT.
Scientology to me is thus a con, on the "Parts of Man" out of the body false promise point, the biggest crux why I'd answer why it lured me so long, and why in the end, it's a big false choice, don't do it.
The biggest final joke, self caused by Hubbard, is the Xenu body-thetans soul theory explaining. Hubbard made it taboo of the highest order of taboo, to explain Xenu's mass murdering, Wall of Fire, body-thetans being implanted with the R6 implants, body-thetans infesting us humans today requiring the Hubbard OT 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 exorcism "levels" to remove all these body-thetans/invisible souls off our human body, supposedly, to free us to regain our supernatural soul powers we once had.
Scientology is a big long runway snipe-hunting tag along with other human soul powers cons, which only brainwash followers into parroting they have become supernatural, when in fact they have not.
This anonymous era YouTube song says it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyigdRxPOR4