How Scientologists Deal With “Entheta”

[Karen#1]

Excerpt:

“Entheta” is a term in scientology which is a contraction of “enturbulated theta” — enturbulated means upset and theta means life force.


In simple english, entheta is bad news. It is not something that is untrue, just something you don’t want to hear. Anything that will cause upset (or in the case of scientology itself, doubt about it).~~~READ MORE

How Scientologists Deal With “Entheta”

www.mikerindersblog.org

 

[Helena Handbasket]

Entheta, as used above and in Mike Rinder's blog, is news or other broad announcements that disrespect the Church of Scientology. But it has a greater meaning -- communication that makes the recipient feel uncomfortable.

When I started in a mission, I was disciplined many times for spreading "entheta" -- usually not a comment on the C of S as a whole, but an attack on an individual that was not welcomed. "You're enturbulating people" they told me again and again. And I had no idea what they were talking about.

It was only in this year that I started to get a clue. What you say -- and how you say it -- can trigger the fight-or-flight reaction which makes you feel uncomfortable, trashes your productivity, and saps your attention so whatever it was you were going to do is easily forgotten. It does not matter if you say your anger is directed at someone else; it affects everyone in hearing range. (I knew someone whose father, many years ago, would fly into rages. They were so bad even the cat would run and hide.)

I now have a name for this. I call it blitzing. (Sort of a term derived from "backflash".) It does affect people, perhaps far beyond what was intended. It is contagious in that if you are routinely blitzed, you tend to start blitzing other people -- perhaps never realizing you're doing anything wrong in the first place. In some arenas, like the military and some businesses, blitzing is normal and acceptable -- and if it doesn't get instant results, why the solution is even more blitzing. (Only going from higher to lower ranks, of course.)

This could be the explanation for being PTS. I once complained to the D of P that I was PTS -- and they gave me a 10 August. Like I give a **** if someone in my environment doesn't like the C of S. I was PTS, but not type A.

In my life, I've had much difficulty in making and maintaining friendships and relationships. Now I figure this is why. Now on my desk I keep a little bottle of pills that turn off the fight-or-flight reaction. I take a quarter of each pill (one to block cortisol and one to block adrenaline) when I start feeling blitzed, although sometimes more is necessary. It's really too soon to tell if it's going to change my life or not.

That's all.

Helena

 

[XenuHimself]

Sometimes the truth can make one feel uncomfortable. Would that be considered entheta?

Entheta, as used above and in Mike Rinder's blog, is news or other broad announcements that disrespect the Church of Scientology. But it has a greater meaning -- communication that makes the recipient feel uncomfortable.

 

[Pepin]

Sometimes the truth can make one feel uncomfortable. Would that be considered entheta?

I think the hate mail that came into the Org was just put in a folder labeled Entheta, and that was that.

 

[Enthetan]

Sometimes the truth can make one feel uncomfortable. Would that be considered entheta?

At one time, a Sea Org member asked me (and I forget what exactly I said) "Why are you saying that ENTHETA ?!?"

And I replied "Because it's true". She walked away.

And that was the origin of my ESMB name.

And yes, statements that are KNOWN TO BE TRUE by all parties will be considered Entheta if they point out data which is uncomplimentary to Scientology.