Can Scientology’s OT’s deflect Hurricane Milton headed right for its HQ?

Incredibly, just two weeks after the Tampa Bay area experienced record-high storm surge as Hurricane Helene passed by on its way to wreak havoc on Florida’s panhandle and then into Georgia and North Carolina, another major storm is now aiming for a possible direct hit on Wednesday.

Hurricane Milton’s track is changing hourly, of course, and there’s a chance that it if strikes slightly south of the bay, it might not bring much surge at all. But if it tracks just north of the bay, it will bring deadly levels of flooding.

So naturally, folks in the area are watching the latest tracking and deciding whether or not to evacuate. Just a small deflection in the track could make a big difference, and it’s really just a random chance based on environmental factors.

But Scientologists, of course, believe that with their “OT abilities,” they have the power to control “MEST” — matter, energy, space, and time — and Sunny Pereira reminded us that OTs will literally be on the roof at the Fort Harrison Hotel, concentrating on directing the storm to go elsewhere.

Also, at Reddit yesterday there was this great posting from a Scientologist Facebook group:

“Admire” the hurricane away? Did Hubbard really suggest such a thing? Well, we looked up the lecture that the poster referenced, and it’s a doozy. Hubbard is all over the place. Here’s a substantial quotation from it that contains the passage about the power of admiration:

[Hubbard in 1953]

I want to talk to you this morning about the processes which we will use in our course here. This isn't really a course, but it's hard to find the right word sometimes. The processes which I have been using and which I have found to be highly efficacious are SOP 8, SOP 8-L and Six Steps to Better Beingness, Admiration Processing and Explosions.

I'll give you a very definite word of warning: One of these processes is very dangerous and that's Admiration Processing. And although it is very dangerous, it is tremendously effective. And because you have heard, possibly, tests run on Admiration Processing, I don't want you to shy off of it. It is, as far as I know, the best "open sesame" (if you're going to run anything on anybody in the body) to a very bad-off case.

Admiration Processing is a very interesting process and has a lot of variations but it is of the essence…

Fighting requires effort and energy. And if fighting requires effort and energy, work also requires effort and energy. And the person who won't fight, won't work. See that?

People substitute and often get mixed up on - they substitute anger for fighting. That fighting - anger is way down Tone Scale from fighting. People who just get mad and flare up, see - they just won't fight, that's all. People who fight simply fight.

I told someone rather recently when they were throwing a bunch of anger at me, one way or the other - they were being very, very hostile, and so forth - "Well, why are we doing this now? I tell you what: I'll get - I'll send down to a sporting goods store and we'll get some six-ounce gloves and we'll go a couple of rounds and then we'll feel better. But there's no reason to run me into a symbol like anger on this thing, that's all."

And this person, being a girl, she couldn't quite figure this, but that was in essence that - that's sensible. So, she's a girl; and that's too bad. She has to use - men had taught her - anger rather than blows, because her shoulders hinge differently and she doesn't strike the same blow as the man.

Women, by the way, very often go in for sword play, and so on, if permitted to do so (in the past) simply because this is better than running in a symbol for it. By the way, in running this you occasionally find, way back on the track, the women being the combative characters - tremendously combative characters. And the fellow just can't understand how he could be upset about women today, see? Because he has never fought with women today. Women have never done him any damage. That's way back on the track someplace, and so on.

Very often, as a little child, this is keyed in because older sisters, something like that, will have a habit of beating a little kid up, and so forth, and he never quite gets over it. But the rest of the society tells him he can't beat up women, so there is no interchange of effort. And you will find the interchange of effort as a - the vital point at which you're striking because you've got to rehabilitate the person's ability to run into effort. Now, the reason I've been talking to you about it is so we can get into "What are we trying to do with these techniques?" Well, we could go over this with great rapidity: We're trying to rehabilitate the preclear's ability to create, manufacture in any way, shape or form, use, direct, locate energy of the effort variety, see - energy of the effort variety.

And we're trying to rehabilitate his ability to admire broadly, and his best ability is admiration. That's his best ability. Effort is not his best ability; effort is downscale from that. Because everything - all force dissolves in the face of admiration. I give you the universal solvent there: it's admiration.

So the two kinds of processing which are extremely basic, of course, are Explosions and Admiration. And if you get hung up on a case and it's sticky and it doesn't exteriorize, and when it exteriorizes it starts out and goes spungingggg and goes back in again, you're up against a proposition of insufficient admiration and an inability to create or handle effort, which is energy. This is awful simple; it's a mechanical problem. It is not a problem that has anything to do with thought. It's strictly mechanical.

Isn’t that precious? Women often go in for sword play? What, Ron?

Anyway, we wish those OTs the best of luck moving Hurricane Milton away from Tampa.

But will the Sea Org slaves at the Flag Land Base get the chance to evacuate? We hope for their sake that they do.

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