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| Scientologese. |
Scientology has invented its own dialect, using words not found in common English. This section will help you understand some of them. If you have access to the Internet then there are fuller lists at http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~av282/terms.htm (Critic) or http://www.Scientology.org/p_jpg/wis/wiseng/gloss.htm (Scientology)
The action of running Scientology or Dianetic processes on a PC (a preclear; someone receiving Scientology processing). Auditing usually involves a Meter, with the PC holding onto the soup cans electrodes, and the Auditor taking down notes and asking questions. "Auditing in the HGC costs over $500 per hour."
The person who uses an E-Meter (a simple, ineffective lie detector used in Scientology with a needle and soup cans for electrodes) to find Overts (undisclosed acts) and Engrams (incidents of pain and unconsciousness) and audits them out of the person receiving auditing or preclear.
The list of auditing actions needed to get to the highest OT (operating thetan) level, currently OT 8. The Bridge costs roughly $300,000 US, and is depicted on the Gradation Chart of Human Awareness and Abilities. L. Ron Hubbard's "Bridge to total freedom" has two sides. One is auditor or therapist training classes or classifications, the other is receiving auditing or "therapy" such as Grades (q.v.) and OT levels. At the lower levels the grades and classes or classifications correspond, this pretty much stops after Class 6 (Saint Hill Special Briefing Course).
A person audited enough to be free of the "bank," or reactive mind. (The sum of the memories of pain and unconsciousness the person has) A low-level superman-type person; a baby OT (Operating Thetan). "Samantha just had her Clear Certainty Rundown, and is now considered a clear!"
In scientology all that ethics is for is to make it possible to apply the technology of Scientology. In other words, acts which a normal person would consider unethical, such as theft, are ethical for a Scientologist. Indeed, it would be unethical to not steal if the act of theft would benifit Scientology.
A crude battery-powered analog ohmmeter used to locate Overts (undisclosed acts), Body Thetans (evil spirits), and Engrams (moments of pain and unconsciousness). The PC or patient holds the soup-cans electrodes, while the Auditor or Scientology therapist watches the needle on the dial. Circuitry is based on the Wheatstone Bridge. The meter was designed by Volney Mathieson. Current "top of the line" models sell for about $4,000 US in a plastic case. Actual parts list is about $50-$100, making it a good money earner for Scientology, particularly since every auditor is required to own two in case one breaks down.
What we would call a 'Church'. The internals of Scientology are so complex that they have to have an Org Board, a map to the massive cult bureaucracy which details every post, division, department, executive, etc. That go to make up a Scientology Organization. Some Org Boards contain seven divisions, some have nine; they all have a large number of specifically defined posts.
Operating Thetan, one who is above Clear, a state of partial enlightenment, and who is not just free of unconscious impulses, but is free of other things too so that they can operate, and be causative over the physical universe and do kewl things like fry bugs, read minds, kill people with a thought, etc.
A cleansing process, intended to remove drugs supposedly stored in body fat through running, taking megadoses of vitamins and minerals, and sweating in a sauna for hours every day. The Purif costs roughly $1,500, and takes about two weeks to do. There is no Scientific evidence to back up the cult of Scientology's claims about the supposed benefits of the Purif.
A derogatory term for the ordinary public or non- Scientologists. "Body route some more Raw Meat into this Org, Sam, or I'll send you to Ethics!"
Rundown. An auditing or "therapy" process.
The place where Engrams, memories of pain and unconsciousness, are stored. On a higher level, Engrams are revealed to be none other than Body Thetans or evil spirits infesting our bodies by the thousands. Also called the Bank.
Suppressive Person, an evil person; someone who criticizes Scientology in any way.
Short for "technology", the quasi-Scientific auditing "therapy" processes and actions of Scientology, as found in HCOBs, Hubbard Communication Office Technical Bulletins, collections of which are found in the Red Vols, q.v. "You are hereby declared an SP, Sam, for committing Out-Tech."
The list of all human emotional states, arranged beside an arbitrary scale number from -40 (total failure), through 0 (death), to +40. "SPs are at 1.1, Covert Hostility, on the Tone Scale.
A derogatory and racist term the cult co-opted from British slang, and now uses to refer to people outside of Scientology's purview.
Sometimes spelled Xemu, the evil galactic ruler that packaged us all up, put us on Hawaii, and blew us up with H bombs 75,000,000 years ago, according to L. Ron Hubbard, author of Dianetics. The picture on the cover of Dianetics is meant to restimulate this incident implanted by Xenu, and force us to buy a copy. What's that you say? Hawaii didn't exist 75,000,000 years ago? Shhh! You'll wake him!
| Some of the Scientology jargon … may not be clear to
someone who has not had to undergo the task of having them explained over
the weeks. But their meaning is clear and they show out of the cult's own
mouth the frightening, disgraceful and illegal lengths to which it is prepared
to go and does go.
Judge Latey, High Court (Family Division), London, England |
| The Personality Test |
Most people's first introduction to scientology is through the personality test,. or to give it its more formal name, the Oxford Capacity Analysis (OCA). Someone sitting down to take the test is given a sheet on which is printed some 200 questions and told to answer "Yes", "No" or "Maybe" to each. one. The questions vary from the obvious, to the bizarre:
3. Do you browse through railway timetables, directories or dictionaries just for pleasure?
6. Do you get occasional twitches of your muscles, when there is no logical reason for it?
30. Do you enjoy telling people latest scandal [sic] about your associates?
59. Do you consider the modern prisons without bars system "doomed to failure"?
105. Do you rarely suspect the actions of others?
124. Do you often make tactless blunders?
The test is marked, and the testee is shown a chart which is purported to represent their I.Q. and ten personality characteristics, "Happy", "Composed", "Certainty", "Active", "Aggressive", "Responsible (Causative)", "Correct Estimation", "Appreciative" and "Comm Level". Invariably, someone taking the test will find that some of these levels are low, and that the solution is to take Scientology courses.
The 200 questions asked in the OCA are subdivided into 10 categories (as already mentioned above) with 20 questions in each category. The answers - Yes, Maybe or No - are graded on a scale of 1 to 7, with the scores for each question being added up to produce a round figure of up to 115 points.
To demonstrate how this works, this is how the first ten questions of the "Happy / Depressed" or "Trait B" column are marked:
| Yes | Maybe | No | ||
| 21 | Do your past failures still worry you? | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 27 | Do you often sing or whistle just for the fun of it? | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| 33 | Do you make efforts to get others to laugh and smile? | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| 36 | Are you sometimes considered by others to be a "spoil-sport" | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| 62 | Do you speedily recover from the effects of bad news | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| 68 | Do you enjoy activities of your own choosing | 6 | 4 | 3 |
| 71 | do you often "sit and think" about death, sickness pain and sorrow? | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| 71 | Do you often ponder on previous misfortunes | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 101 | Does the youth of to-day [sic] have more oppertunity than that of a generation ago? | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| 106 | Do you sometimes wonder if anyone really cares about you? | 2 | 3 | 7 |
Many of the "correct" answers are highly arbitrary. This is perhaps most clearly shown in the questions for trait I, "Appreciative / Lack of Accord". For instance:
| 9 | Do you consider more money should be spent on social security. | 3 | 4 | 4 |
For each trait, there is a range of which is considered "normal" and "desirable", all other scores are failures. This marking scheme gives the 'average' person a very low chance of passing, as low as 20% for the "Logical Reasoning (Appreciation)/Capacity for Error (Hypercritical)" section..
In 1971, Sir John Foster asked a group of psychologists to visit British Scientology orgs to take the OCA, as part of his research for the Foster report.. After taking the test, and answering "in a fashion designed to produce an unpredictable result," which any reputable test should detect, they concluded that "Taking the procedure as a whole, one is forced to the conclusion that the Oxford Capacity Analysis is not a genuine personality test; certainly the results as presented bear no relation to any known methods of assessing personality or of scaling test scores."
L. Ron Hubbard explained in "HCO Policy Letter of Feb. 15, 1961," the exact answers a tester should give. For example, the IQ section gave 3 separate answers, two of which ended in "Scientology training would raise that considerably," and the third ended in "Scientology will not only give you useful data, but can raise your I.Q. even higher."
The clear intent of the OCA test is to sell scientology courses to raw meat, through convincing them that they've failed an almost unwinable test.
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