Right, Bruce, non-religious religious nonsense. It all makes sense if you don't think about it.
Hubbard never really reconciled his pseudo-scientific ideas of pseudo-religion. He called it religious only because he wanted to hide it under the umbrella of the First Amendment. But then he also wanted it to spread like the cancer it is into …
Right, Bruce, non-religious religious nonsense. It all makes sense if you don't think about it.
Hubbard never really reconciled his pseudo-scientific ideas of pseudo-religion. He called it religious only because he wanted to hide it under the umbrella of the First Amendment. But then he also wanted it to spread like the cancer it is into education and medical fields. Thus, the Association for Better Living and Education, a true joke if ever there was one.
I was involved in a similar issue in the education field. Study Technology, not even invented by Hubbard but stolen from others, was to be installed in schools. We know how well that turned out for Will Smith and many others.
But the technology, so-called. included the use of a pseudo-religious artifact, the e-meter. Now of course an e-meter is just part of a lie detector, well known in non-religious fields. Hubbard got the US government to allow its use in Scientology by applying a sticker that called it religious.
How can they get away with using this religious artifact in non-religious schools? What about the vaunted separation of church and state? What dirty trick can we pull that the lawyers can say allows this?
They pulled a similar trick to Narconon, reprinting all of Hubbard's pseudo-religious claptrap with a non-religious format. Scrubbed! But the meter was still a sticking point.
Finally they came up with an e-meter that they called a "Learning Accelerator". This banana-shaped non-religious religious artifact worked just like an e-meter and had all the same controls with different names. But the circuit is a slightly modernized version of the old Don Breeding American Blue. It has its own patent and is a little better, though very critical eyes will note a very slight hitch in the needle movement on some units. Due to the crossover distortion of the National Semiconductor LM324 PNP-input opamp. (Discerning readers will disregard the descent into pure elitist electronic jargon of the last sentence).
With all traces of the Hubbard name and Scientology purged, Study Tech was poised to crash its name into educational institutions over the whole world. With the opening of the Spanish Lake Applied Scholastics facility some years later, John and Carlynn McCormick were ready to become household names in education.
Fortunately, all that never happened. Only a few hundred Learning Accelerators were manufactured. Study Tech is only used in a very few Scientology schools like Delphi, where it has proven to be an utter failure. The schools, at least, are safe from fake Scientology.
All the meter can do is show that the person on the cans has a reaction to something. If they react to questions about body thetans, or space opera, or being Cleopatra it will show on the meter. Doesn't have anything to do with the truth about the reaction. There is no way to tell if there really was an Arslycus or Incident One etc. Just that the person reacts to the question. So most of it is a reflection of the beliefs and wishes of the person.
The meter also shows the famous free needle reaction, which is associated with a hypnotic state of disassociation. Nothing to do with whether the person "handled" the original reaction that read on the meter, or banished the body thetan, or confronted his fear of snakes etc. It just means he or she is desensitized to the original issue and is in a state of false euphoria.
The meter is a lot more dangerous than proton packs or magic wands etc. because people actually believe in them. Make life changing decisions based on "information" derived from sessions. Follow the teachings of Hubbard because the "meter proves it!"
A natural high that in a lot of ways is far more dangerous and addictive than drug or alcohol highs. At least when you take a drug you know why you feel high and usually don't mistake it for super-powers or think you have discovered truth of some kind.
Being in a hypnotically induced euphoria makes you suggestive, one of the reasons a registrar is always waiting to sign you up for more as soon as you leave your session. One of the reasons Scientology is much harder to recover from than the simpler cults that don't indulge in pseudo-scientific mind-fuck.
Luckily I never had any "highs" from auditing and I just woodenly leaped into the fantasy that my imaginings about past lives were "real" all the while knowing they were not scientifically really real, just subjectively "real."
Such horsecrap.
The Emeter is in effect as BS as an Ouija Board.
I consider the Emeter a Proton Pack Ouija Board.
Fit for L. Ron Hubbard and chasing Xenu's R6 implanted body-thetans on OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
The Hubbard "tech" is just Hubbard's false claims and his flawed prejudices relabelled as "fact".
Just horsecrap.
Also, I don't call it tech anymore, it's quackery.
Right, Bruce, non-religious religious nonsense. It all makes sense if you don't think about it.
Hubbard never really reconciled his pseudo-scientific ideas of pseudo-religion. He called it religious only because he wanted to hide it under the umbrella of the First Amendment. But then he also wanted it to spread like the cancer it is into education and medical fields. Thus, the Association for Better Living and Education, a true joke if ever there was one.
I was involved in a similar issue in the education field. Study Technology, not even invented by Hubbard but stolen from others, was to be installed in schools. We know how well that turned out for Will Smith and many others.
But the technology, so-called. included the use of a pseudo-religious artifact, the e-meter. Now of course an e-meter is just part of a lie detector, well known in non-religious fields. Hubbard got the US government to allow its use in Scientology by applying a sticker that called it religious.
How can they get away with using this religious artifact in non-religious schools? What about the vaunted separation of church and state? What dirty trick can we pull that the lawyers can say allows this?
They pulled a similar trick to Narconon, reprinting all of Hubbard's pseudo-religious claptrap with a non-religious format. Scrubbed! But the meter was still a sticking point.
Finally they came up with an e-meter that they called a "Learning Accelerator". This banana-shaped non-religious religious artifact worked just like an e-meter and had all the same controls with different names. But the circuit is a slightly modernized version of the old Don Breeding American Blue. It has its own patent and is a little better, though very critical eyes will note a very slight hitch in the needle movement on some units. Due to the crossover distortion of the National Semiconductor LM324 PNP-input opamp. (Discerning readers will disregard the descent into pure elitist electronic jargon of the last sentence).
With all traces of the Hubbard name and Scientology purged, Study Tech was poised to crash its name into educational institutions over the whole world. With the opening of the Spanish Lake Applied Scholastics facility some years later, John and Carlynn McCormick were ready to become household names in education.
Fortunately, all that never happened. Only a few hundred Learning Accelerators were manufactured. Study Tech is only used in a very few Scientology schools like Delphi, where it has proven to be an utter failure. The schools, at least, are safe from fake Scientology.
Today I think of the Hubbard Emeter devices like they are Ghost Buster's "Proton Packs".
The Emeter is supposed to help tame thetans, meaning detect body-thetans and to tell when body-thetans have left a person's body!
Just like Ghost Busters' Proton Packs!
Emeters are just lamer than lame Proton Packs.
All the meter can do is show that the person on the cans has a reaction to something. If they react to questions about body thetans, or space opera, or being Cleopatra it will show on the meter. Doesn't have anything to do with the truth about the reaction. There is no way to tell if there really was an Arslycus or Incident One etc. Just that the person reacts to the question. So most of it is a reflection of the beliefs and wishes of the person.
The meter also shows the famous free needle reaction, which is associated with a hypnotic state of disassociation. Nothing to do with whether the person "handled" the original reaction that read on the meter, or banished the body thetan, or confronted his fear of snakes etc. It just means he or she is desensitized to the original issue and is in a state of false euphoria.
The meter is a lot more dangerous than proton packs or magic wands etc. because people actually believe in them. Make life changing decisions based on "information" derived from sessions. Follow the teachings of Hubbard because the "meter proves it!"
A natural high that in a lot of ways is far more dangerous and addictive than drug or alcohol highs. At least when you take a drug you know why you feel high and usually don't mistake it for super-powers or think you have discovered truth of some kind.
Being in a hypnotically induced euphoria makes you suggestive, one of the reasons a registrar is always waiting to sign you up for more as soon as you leave your session. One of the reasons Scientology is much harder to recover from than the simpler cults that don't indulge in pseudo-scientific mind-fuck.
Luckily I never had any "highs" from auditing and I just woodenly leaped into the fantasy that my imaginings about past lives were "real" all the while knowing they were not scientifically really real, just subjectively "real."
Such horsecrap.
The Emeter is in effect as BS as an Ouija Board.
I consider the Emeter a Proton Pack Ouija Board.
Fit for L. Ron Hubbard and chasing Xenu's R6 implanted body-thetans on OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.
The Hubbard "tech" is just Hubbard's false claims and his flawed prejudices relabelled as "fact".
Just horsecrap.
Also, I don't call it tech anymore, it's quackery.