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As Commodore, so COB
"...and he'll have fun, fun fun until Karma takes the Blue-Bird away." Hubbard's final years were spent on the lam in a blue-bird motorhome, miserably failing to outrun and escape service from his his karmic kreditors.
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If the aphorism "As Commodore, so COB" holds true, Scientology may well have other predictive derivatives to consider:
"As SP, so OT"
All this funny business in the cult of Scientology began back in the early days (50's / 60's) when the first Clears ascended to the miraculous new spiritual height of Homo Novis. Let's recall briefly how LRH proudly declared John McMasters to be "The World's First Clear!" Less than 20 months later Hubbard declared him to be an SP.
Not convinced yet? Sure, we can cite another example if that helps. Let's recall that for many decades Scientology's "C-Suite" (Commodore/Cob) has quite bombastically promoted the goal of building every org to "The Size Of Old St. Hill". This was not just some minor administrative rah-rah pep talk. The entire fate of mankind was precariously held at risk if they didn't meet these gross income quotas, because the Bridge itself (OT VIII, IX and X) would not be released until all these barely solvent McClearing franchises were sending millions of dollars uplines to Ray Kroc* Ron Kroc (of krap).
How's that for a hostage/ransom metric? "We've got the tech to save y'all from eternal hell but unless some of our Fast-Food-F/Ning-Franchises start flowing big bucks to our Founder--well, we ain't gonna let you DBs go Free, how 'bout dat?!"
Okay, let's take a deep dive then and see how the "Ideal Scene" in Scientology is really exactly the same as the worst case scenario (As SP, so OT). How ideal was Old St. Hill? How OT were the Operating Thetans?
Unfortunately the OTs are really SPs! Surprise ending. Here's a partial list which was compiled back in 2010.
The following is a list of the names of 37 of the 50 staff members from St. Hill, the last Org LRH run himself, which you removed and declared.
Ken Urquhart LRH Pers Comm, LRH Butler, for 15 yrs (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
J.J Delance Technical Staff Clear #17 Started Scn in France (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Leon Steinberg Exec Council Clear #10 Personal Friend of LRH One of the original LRH trained Class XII (DECLARED SP (Declared by Current Church Leadership)
Jenny Parkhouse Treasury Staff Clear #54 Personal Friend of LRH (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Pat Bloomberg Dissem Sec (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Peter Hemery HCO Secretary Personal Friend of LRH (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Mike Rigby Dir Accounts (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Joyce Popham LRH Pers Sec (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Joan McNocher: D/Guardian (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Robin Hancocks Deputy HCO Executive Sec (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Frank Freedman D/Qual Clear #127 Class VIII (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Betty James Ad Council Chairman (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
John McMaster SHSBC Course Supervisor FIRST CLEAR (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Pam Pearcy Ad Council Clear #211 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Reg Sharpe LRH Assistant Personal Friend of LRH Clear #7 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Tony Dunleavy Clearing Course Supervisor Clear #20 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Connie Broadbent Dir Accounts Clear #29 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Craig Lipsitz Qual Staff Clear #30 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership, but now undeclared)
Sheena Fairchild Tech Staff Clear #41 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Jennifer Edmonds Tech Staff Clear #15 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Bernie Green Tech Staff Clear #18 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Gareth McCoy Dissem Staff Clear #21 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
John Lawrence Tech Staff Clear #28 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Peggy Bankston Tech Staff Clear #34 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Helen Pollen Qual Staff Clear #47 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Fred Fairchild Tech Staff Clear #49 . (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Dorothy Knight Dissem Staff Clear #50 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Judy Gray Tech Staff Clear #56 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Cal Wigney Div 6 Staff Clear #57 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Mary Long Div 6 Staff Clear #58 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Bill Robertson Tech Staff Clear #61 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Linda Nussbaum Exec Staff Clear #62 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Robin Lindsell Tech Staff Clear #73 Class XII (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Val Wigney Saint Hill Interne Clear #87 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Edith Hoyseth Saint Hill Interne Clear #105 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Roger Biddell Saint Hill Interne Clear #107 (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Cyril Vosper Tech Staff (DECLARED SP by Current Church Leadership)
Brian Livingston Tech Staff Clear #35 Original LRH trained Class XII (DECLARED SP)
Approximately 98% of those who achieve the state of OT end up blowing Scientology, which is a "suppressive act" done only by SPs. Naturally Scientology has so many people to "declare SP" they sometimes forget to issue the "goldenrod" ethics order publicly condemning the person and carefully ordering all Scientologists to immediately disconnect from them. Even without a printed SP order the party is declared to be "NCG" which is "no case gain". Hubbard wrote innumerable policy and technical explanations that explicitly stated that the only reason a being does not get case gain is because they are an evil SP.
Even the greatest OT in the universe, Hubbard himself, ended up as a blown SP. The only difference, it appears, between Ron (the SP savior of mankind ) and Everyone-else (the garden-variety SPs) is that Hubbard's marketing was better. When he tried to kill himself and blew and betrayed all beings on this planet, the copywriters called it an OT miracle. Yup, he was sooooooooo OT that he had to depart ("shed his impediment") to continue advanced research out in deep space.
This all makes sense, because Ron's 50 years of research on this planet was apparently no good, which is why he ended up not getting any case gain (NCG) which made him just look and act like an SP. But he's taking responsibility for allowing the DBs, criminals and SPs on earth to screw up his messianic mission---and THAT'S why he had to rise above us and move to another galaxy. We did this to him, it's quite an awful way to thank someone who saved us all from becoming SPs and blowing before the Earth gets cleared.
PRO TIP TO SCIENTOLOGISTS: I know you are very, very, very excited for the day when all orgs have gone OLD ST. HILL SIZE and IDEAL and the highest OT levels are finally released, OT IX and OT X! But (spoiler alert) those upper levels have already been leaked. Just re-watch the "RON-IS-SO-OT-HE'S-DEAD!" event. Those are the confidential upper levels. When you complete them you don't get a completion certificate, but at least you get 20 thousand cult members standing and cheering.
* Ray Kroc (LINK)
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