Dictionary of the secret language of Scientology

Definition of Terms

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Some definitions from the cult's literature

A sample of Scientologese

Notes

A: Return to the Index

(*), see Poodle.

{_}, see Chowderpot.

1.1, see One One.

2WC, two-way comm, two-way communication. Hyped-up technobabble for simply talking between an auditor and a pc or a supervisor and a student. Also TWC, Two-Way Comm. "Use 2WC on the PC to a win."

AA, attempted abortion. According to L. Ron Hubbard's book Dianetics, pregnant mothers routinely tried to kill their unborn babies with knitting needles and douches, thus most people are filled with AA engrams or hidden memories of pain. "The Preclear had 51 AA incidents in her bank."

Aberrated, Hubbard's term for derangement or insanity. "The wog world is heavily aberrated."

Aberration, an instance of insanity. Also, another term for an engram, or a hidden memory of pain and unconsciousness. "You are putting Dev-T on my lines because of your fucking aberrations."

ABLE, Association for Better Living and Education. One of many Scientology front-groups. The purpose of these front-groups is to escape from the increasingly bad name Scientology has earned over time by implementing its surprisingly vicious and vindictive policies such as SP declares (in which perceived enemies of Scientology are labeled as suppressive or destructive to Scientology's aims), disconnection (whereby family members are told to stay away from the rest of their family who are not Scientologists), Fair Game (in which Scientology's enemies may be sued, tricked, lied to, or destroyed, as per Scientology policy), etc. "ABLE Int - Association for Better Living and Education International - Oversees secular activities such as Applied Scholastics, Narconon, Criminon, and The Way to Happiness Foundation." - Jonathon Barbera. Able Int is now located at the HGB, qv.

Academy, the area in an Scientology organization (known as an Org) in which the advanced training is carried out. Lower level training is done in the Div 6, public division course room. "Route the raw meat out of Div 6 and down into the academy to boost the stats."

Ack, see Acknowledgement.

Acknowledgement, used to end a cycle of communication in Hubbard's rather stilted communication theory. Usually a "good", "ok", "I got that", or "thank you." "Give me an Ack, or I'll ramble on and on until I ARC break."

ACT, alt.clearing.technology. Often in small letters, "act", or with periods, "a.c.t." The hangout for the relics of the cult who still practice the strange "technology" or rituals developed by Hubbard, but who have left the cult of Scientology proper. Of course, some people have it that the group actually deals with acne pimple remedies... See also ARS.

Action, an auditing or processing regimen; an instance of the application of Scientology's "technology" on a person.

AD, after Dianetics. Used on issues such as HCOBs and HCOPLs (Hubbard Communication Office Bulletins and Policy Letters) to show the year. It is based on the Christian calendar, but with a base year of 1950 with the release of Hubbard's book "Dianetics"; thus AD 15 = anno Domini 1965.

Admin, administration. Detailed bureaucracy taken to new heights; thousands of green on white issues written by L. Ron Hubbard (Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letters) cover the design of this monumental testament to inefficiency that would make IBM proud. The OEC Vols (Organization Executive Course or Green Volumes) cover most of the Admin policy.

Admin Dictionary, a large green Scientology dictionary made up of quotes from L. Ron Hubbard that defines some of the thousands of new terms Scientology introduced with its massive administration bureaucracy.

Admiral, L. Ron Hubbard. A final self-bestowed promotion, given humbly to himself (there was no one else to do it) by Hubbard just before his death. L. Ron Hubbard was also referred to as Ron, Source (capitalized), LRH and the Commodore.

Adore, A Divine Operating Religion of Excellence; a splinter group. See Free Zone.

Affinity, used as a synonym for love or like.

Affluence, a condition or level of high and climbing production. Aptly named, as higher production means more money. "The stats will be in screaming affluence again this Thursday at 2:00."

Alter-Is, to alter the way something really is, and thus to create a persistence. See As-Is. "If the Flag Rep keeps Alter-Ising the Tech, she'll be K/R'ed!"

Amends Project, a way for a down-stat (not producing enough or looking less than fixedly happy) Scientologist to get back in good graces. Usually involves long hours scrubbing toilets and such, followed by a mass petition collecting signatures of completion to break down the willpower and personality of the cult indoctrinee based on group rejection/ acceptance, peer-pressure and milieu control. "Jan's doing an Amends Project, as part of his Ethics Cycle; I'm not signing his petition until he cleans my room to white-glove standards."

ANZO, Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. One of Scientology's "continents". See CLO.

AO, Advanced Organization. A Scientology group that delivers the higher parts of the Bridge, such as Operating Thetan (OT) 1-8, the Ls (lists that are shouted out to the patient), etc.

AOLA, Advanced Organization of Los Angeles - this org has had at least three different locations in LA over the last 30 years, and is currently at the Cedars complex.

AOSHANZO, Advanced Organization Saint Hill for Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.

AOSHEU, Advanced Organization/Saint Hill Europe - in Denmark. Also referred to as AOSH DK - located in Copenhagen.

AOSHUK, Advanced Organization/Saint Hill United Kingdom - at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex, England.

Apollo, was one of L. Ron Hubbard's ships in his toy navy. Ron loved to play sailor-man. See Flag.

ARC, Affinity, Reality, and Communication; when a cultie meets a cultie, a comin' through the rye. ARC is used as a synonym for love or like or general warmth to be applied to raw meat marks (green Scientologists) to smooth the earlier stages of brainwashing. ARC = understanding, according to L. Ron Hubbard. The ARC triangle is inferior to the KRC triangle, which stands for Knowledge, Responsibility, and Control...which equal money. "Use a little more ARC when you reg people in, Sam."

ARC break or ARC-X, a break in affinity, reality or communication between two people causing upset, anger or tears.

ARC breaky, describing someone who is prone to ARC breaks, qv.

ARS, alt.religion.scientology; the newsgroup this FAQ is posed to. Often lower-case; "30,000 people a month read ars, according to Arbitron." (ars) after a definition shows that the source of the term is ars; terms which are sourced from Scientology itself have nothing after them. (act) is for terms from alt.clearing.technology.

ARSCC, Alt.Religion.Scientology Central Committee; It is a game. The OSA Scientologists have tried to represent opposition to Scientology as emanating from one or other focus - at first, it was Dennis Erlich. Later, it was FactNet. At other times and in other contexts the opposition has been represented as 'psychs' and the now-destroyed 'CAN' (the Cult Awareness Network). ARSCC (Alt.Religion.Scientology Central Committee) is just a kid's game, a troll, like the game of 'there is no Cabal' which is played on newbies on alt.culture.usenet. There is no ARSCC, so it is no use begging me to send you the Red and Blue codebooks. Even if I had them, I'd have to deny their existence. There is a real inspiration for this. At various times, Hubbard would allude in his bulletins to shadowy organizations such as 'Smersh' and 'The Tenyaka Memorial'; another example, taken from his mythology, is 'The Fifth Invader Force'. Another time, he described the opposition as just twelve highly powerful suppressives (yes, bankers and financiers). He just loved to spin yarns, and in honor of this, we do the same. (Tony Sidaway)

ASHOD, American Saint Hill Organization Day - located at same place as ASHOF in the Cedars Complex, Los Angeles.

ASHOF, American Saint Hill Organization Foundation (night and weekend org) - located at 1413 N. Berendo Street (now L. Ron Hubbard Way) LA CA 90027. Previously ASHOF was located at 2723 West Temple Street, LA (from 1968 until 1977).

ASI, Author Services Inc. 1. A Scientology front-group whose purpose is to skim money out of the organization and channel it to the person at the top, formerly L. Ron Hubbard. Also called Author Services. Jonathon Barbera: "Not officially on the chart. Probably immediately under RTC. It is senior to all other organizations but is not part of the command channels. Probably owns the copyrights and is in charge of LRH PR projects, the vaults of LRH's writings, and collecting money (through royalties) for LRH." ASI spends its money on several things: "special properties" ie, prints, rare books, LRH signed books for the Preservation of the Tech project - the bomb-proof shelters in the desert. ASI also contributes to dissemination of Dianetics, and operates the "Writers of the Future" SF contest held each year. 2. ASI - Applied Scholastics International, a cult educational front group.

As-is, to look at something and make it vanish like magic. "Jim as-ised and blew some charge is session today." See Alter-Is.

Auditine, a pun on Scientology's pseudopsychological "auditing" therapy, likening it to an addictive drug (benzedrINE, etc.)

Auditing, 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."

Auditor, 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.

Author Services Incorporated, see ASI.

AVC, Authorization, Verification and Correction, now the AVU, Authorization, Verifications and Corrections Unit. Set up to ensure that all the drivel that comes out is "on source" and not "off policy". AVC is part of RTC, originally it was the approval line for drivel coming out of the FLB, but now their imprimatur has to be on everything. The imprimatur means that the issue has been reviewed by a Scientology authority and has been given "IA", or Issue Authority (seal of approval).

AVU, see AVC.

B: Return to the Index

B-1, bureau one. A segment of the Guardian's Office (the cult's intelligence, dirty deeds and strong-arm tactics branch; now called the Office of Special Affairs or OSA) responsible for covert intelligence; its functions are now taken over by OSA.

Baby Watch, see Introspection Rundown.

Bank, the reactive mind; supposedly packed with "overts," or undisclosed acts, and engrams or moments or pain and unconsciousness. Also, anything negative seen as coming from the reactive mind. "All you'll find on alt.religion.scientology is just bank talking."

Barratry, the use of frivolous lawsuits to harass. "Scientology has been found guilty of barratry, given the thousands of useless lawsuits they have brought to court and wasted taxpayer's money on."

Basher, a person who is critical of Scientology. A Free Zone term, qv. "Don't listen to him; he's just a basher." (act) See Meatball.

Basic Basic, the earliest incident on a chain of engrams, sometimes just called Basic.

Beingness, a word Hubbard probably plagiarized from Nordenholz. Implies the rewarding experience of being something, assuming a valence (another personality) or hat (an office or post in Scientology). Hubbard fit beingness into a triptych with doingness and havingness. "She has so much beingness on her shiny new post!"

Big Win, something seen as being of great benefit, but tends to be ephemeral or nebulous. A Big Win may be incomprehensible to Scientology outsiders. "I had such Big Wins all week on the Purif. I began to see what really lies behind my case!" See "Win", "Success Story."

Billion-Year Contract, the newly-indoctrinated SO (Sea Organization; a tough inner core of Scientologists, some of whom may be found on the cult's ships, while others are settled in land bases) member signs one, supposedly coming back life after life to fulfill it. LSD users need not apply.

BIS, Bodies In the Shop. how many people are in the Scientology organization and on lines; an important Org Statistic.

Black Hats, the bad guys. Ron wrote corny Westerns for a while, which might explain where the term came from. "Ars is full of SPs wearing their Black Hats."

Blow, 1. To leave suddenly. Also, the person who does this. "Sam Blew off post today; he's our third Blow this week!" 2. To get rid of the charge or mass of an engram (a moment of pain and unconsciousness). "I blew so much mass in my session!" See MU, M3, M4.

Body Raisins, a grape name for BTs, or Body Thetans, evil spirits which permeate our bodies, according to L. Ron Hubbard. See BTs. (ars)

Body Route, to steer public into a Scientology Organization, get them on lines, sell them services, and make some money off them. The idea being that public are such low-toned wogs (a common Scientology derogation of Scientology outsiders) that they have no self-determination, and need to be led like sheep to the slaughter.

Body Thaytans, see BTs. (ars)

Body Thetans, see BTs.

B of I, board of investigation. A Scientology kangaroo-court-like internal Ethics board. "A B of I will be convened for Harry next Tuesday."

Boo-Hoos, along with clams and Grim Weepers, these are Wholetrack (a person's last 74 trillion years or so of existence in this universe) ancestors to Man, and are responsible for the origin of human belching, gasping, sobbing, choking, shuddering and trembling. Also called "Grim Weepers", and just "Weepers."

Book One, another name for L. Ron Hubbard's book "Dianetics." Also describes auditing "therapy" as laid down in "Dianetics." See DMSMH.

BPC, bypassed charge. Charge that has been turned on, or restimulated, without being as-ised, blown, or gotten rid of; in other words, an unpleasant memory that has been recalled, but hasn't been fully dealt with or erased. See "Charge."

BPI, 1. See Bridge Publications. 2. Broad Public Issue; a notification on Hubbard Communication Office Bulletins (HCOBs) and HCOPLs (HCO Policy Letters) showing issue authority and distribution.

BPL, Board Policy Letter, a precursor to the HCOPL, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, qv.

Bridge, the bridge to total freedom; 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 and OT levels, qv. At the lower levels the grades and classes or classifications correspond, this pretty much stops after Class 6 (Saint Hill Special Briefing Course).

Bridge Publications, the cult's publishing business; also called simply Bridge or BPI (Bridge Publications International.) New Era Publications in Europe is a part of BPI.

BT, Body Thetan. Usually plural. Evil spirits which need to be exorcized. "OT 5 consists entirely of running out BTs; what a bore."

BTB, Board Technical Bulletin, a precursor to the HCOB, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, qv. Hubbard decided that only he knew the true path of technological enlightenment of the wallet.

Bullbaiting, a training routine involving two students. One is to sit silent, unblinking and unmoving, while the other does everything s/he can to get a reaction. The receiving student must simply accept whatever is done to him or her, in what is basically a lesson in passivity. The stated purpose is to train the student to be unresponsive to a PC's (preclear; a person receiving Scientology "therapy") originations during the auditing or "therapy" session, while the actual process of bullbaiting itself flattens a person's emotional affect; it is perfectly natural to laugh when a person says something funny, whether this occurs in real life or in an auditing session. In bullbaiting the person is drilled to not react to what is being said in any way, to not show any empathy at all, producing a virtual robot, despite Scn's protestations about not doing robotic TRs. "The noise next door is coming from the students doing their bullbaiting."

C: Return to the Index

Cadet Org, any of various orgs for warehousing children of Sea Org parents. Policy is for SO women to abort their babies when ordered, but when the unfortunates survive to full term, they are placed in these horrific organizations. Reports are rampant with child abuse in these places ranging from neglect, to maggots in their food, to severe under staffing, filthy and smelly conditions, and enforced parental neglect (SO parents are allowed as little as one hour per week to see their children, called "family time".) The Cadet orgs even have their own RPFs, or punishment camps.

Cal Mag, a mixture of calcium and magnesium in water said to have amazing restorative powers, according to soi-disant "scientist", L. Ron Hubbard. See Guk Bomb.

CAN, the Cult Awareness Network, formerly a loose-knit educational and group-therapy association. A Scientology target for special hatred in the form of Suppressive (describing a person or group who goals are at odds to Scientology's goals) status, CAN has now been destroyed through Scientology exercising its policy of using lawsuits to utterly ruin its enemies, and if you dial the number, you get a Scientologist on the other end of the line!

Cancelbunny/Cancelpoodle, these refer to the ubiquitous OSA (Office of Special Affairs; the cult's private CIA/KGB) cancelers who frequent alt.religion.scientology and visit it with their censorship of people's posts. (ars)

Cans, soup cans used as electrodes for the Scientology E-Meter or lie detector. The PC (patient) holds them in his or her hands. "I was on the Cans for three hours today!"

Case, The sum of one's problems, bad memories, Engrams (moments of pain and unconsciousness), BTs (Body Thetans or evil spirits infesting the body), Overts (undisclosed harmful acts), Etc. "My Case has really improved by doing the Sunshine Rundown." See Bank, Reactive Mind.

Case Gain, improvement in a PC's (patient's) case (problems) due to auditing or Scientology-style "therapy." "Paul had tremendous case gain running Grade Zero."

Case Supervisor, see C/S.

Cave in, to destroy someone by forcing them over into the dark side of the bank or reactive mind (the sum of one's memories.) "Helena Kobrin wants to cave in the critics on ars."

CC, Celebrity Center. There are several of these around the world, incorporated with the intention of luring in actors and other prominent people to give the cult a shiny PR image, the theory being that if John Travolta and Kirsty Alley are Scientologists, other people will want to join up and sign away their life savings. One large CC is located right in Hollywood, and run as a ritzy hotel, utilizing the slave labor of Scientology's Sea Organization staff to provide all the amenities to the first class citizens and celebrities. "CC Int - Celebrity Center International - Largest celebrity center which delivers Scientology services to celebrities and those who can afford the higher donation rates. Also oversees the other CCs." - Jonathon Barbera.

CCHR, the newspeak-named Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, run by a Scientologist by the name of Dennis Clarke. CCHR's main purpose is clearing away the "Psyches" (mental health professionals; seen by Scientology as evil aliens from the fifth galactic invader force) to make way for Scientology's advance into society. CCHR is a front group for Scientology.

CCO, Child Care Org. See Cadet Org.

CCRD, see Clear Certainty Rundown.

Cedars, the short name for the giant blue Scientology Cedars of Lebanon complex in Los Angeles, formerly the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, which moved and became the Cedars Sinai Hospital. Cedars was the world headquarters of Scientology, and home to many Organizations including ASHO (the American Saint Hill Organization), AOLA (the Advanced Organization of Los Angeles), an EPF and RPF, qv, and many others. IHELP (the International Ecclesiastical League of Pastors), ITO (the International Training Org), and OSA INT (the Office of Special Affairs International) have now moved to the HGB, qv. CCHR has moved elsewhere. See HGB.

CESO, Cedars Estates Service Org, the org responsible for maintenance in PAC, Pacific Area Command the Los Angeles area. Similar to the EPF, the Estates Project Force. See EPF.

Celebrity Center, see CC.

Central Committee, see ARSCC.

Central Files, see CF.

CEO, Scientology's Cadet Estates Organization. See Cadet Org.

CF, Central Files. "By policy, the names of any Scientologists at any org who have ever received a major service at an organization below Flag must be forwarded to Flag, where the names become the CF for Flag. A major service is considered paying for and completing a level or training, technical or administrative, or an auditing intensive. To sign up for a major service, a member must either have 6 months free IAS membership in existence, or be on the yearly paid membership." - Joe Harrington.

Chain, a run of memory incidents or engrams of a similar type, or with the same content.

Charge, mental mass in restimulation, or constant upheaval, contained in the reactive mind, or memory bank. This may not make much sense, but then, many things in Scientology are like that. In colloquial usage, charge refers to areas a person may be touchy about. "Jim has a lot of charge on the word 'critic.'"

Chowderpot, {_}, an award given to arscc members who, through their actions, manage to shut down a cult org or mission.

CI, see Counter-intention, Intention.

Clam, a derogatory term for a Scientologist. See Ronbot, Hubbardite, scieno. (ars)

Clambake, a westcoast seafood cookout or party. The term was adopted on ars as the name for the IRC channel #clambake (now #scientology), and has more recently been applied to any situation where Scientology suffers a big loss. Also the name of a popular webpage which exposes the cult's secrets. See clam.

Clams, Man descended from them according to "History of Man" by L. Ron Hubbard, and the incident gives us painful engrams (memories) of being dropped onto rocks by birds, and extreme jaw pain from the bivalve's hinge. This has been a running joke on ars for some time, with threads about clambakes, clam chowder, snapping clams, clams in .sig files, etc., although some now see it as a pejorative and have quit using it.

Clamspeak, see Scientologese.

Class, a means of defining how high an Org (Scientology organization), Auditor (Scientology therapist), C/S (Case Supervisor, a person who oversees Auditors), etc. is on the Bridge (Scientology's chart of levels of enlightenment); corresponds to Level or Grade, qv. See Bridge.

Class IV Org, now called Class V Org. See Class V Org.

Class V Org, the most common Scientology organizations; most major urban centers in the Western world have one. They are senior to missions or franchises, but otherwise at the bottom rung of the command channels. They can deliver services up to and including Class V auditor training and processing through to New Era Dianetics and clearing. Once Clear, PCs must move on to higher orgs, such as ASHOs, AOs, or FLAG, all qv. See also Org.

Class XII Org, see Org.

Class 0, A Class 0 auditor (therapist) can audit a person on Grade 0 after which they can supposedly talk to anyone about anything (except that Scientology says they shouldn't talk to suppressives, or criticize the church, or talk about their auditing except to certain people, or talk about OT levels and the material on them (etc. etc. etc.) See Grade 0.

Class 6, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course. See SHSBC. Also Class VI.

Class 8 auditor, A class 8 auditor is highly "trained" and can audit anyone on repair stuff up to OT 4 (or the grades, etc.) Also, Class VIII.

Class 8 C/S, a Case Supervisor, qv, trained to C/S folders up to a high level. Also, Class VIII.

Class XII Auditor, trained to deliver the very expensive L Rundowns or Ls at Flag in Clearwater, FLA, that use a form of auditing involving yelling listing items at the PC. Tree! Oak? Elm? Cottonwood?

Clay Demo, a Scientology Study Tech method of training involving making little figures out of Plasticine (tm) on a table. "I've done 54 clay demos so far this week on the Pro TRs."

Clear, 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!"

Clear Certainty Rundown, CCRD. Verifies and validates a person's state of Clear. Available at some Class V Organizations and all higher organizations. - Jonathon Barbera.

Clearing Course, Grade VII. Solo audited by PCs who did not go Clear on NED, New Era Dianetics. This level is directed at implant materials (GPMs) which keep the reactive mind in place. Available at Advanced Organizations and higher. - Jonathon Barbera.

Clear-L, an email discussion list for the clearing field or Free Zone, qv. Koos was banned from it by the members. Homer is the administrator of the list.

CLO, Continental Liaison Office - in charge of the internal management of middle management organizations. - Jonathon Barbera. There's one of these for each Scientology "continent"; the world according to the cult is cut up in a rather bizarre way, eg, EUS and WUS (East and West United States) are separate "continents", as is ANZO (Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania), Africa, and others.

Cluster, a bunch of Body Thetans, evil spirits inhabiting the body, all stuck together. "I had a cluster blow from my forehead during session!"

CMO, the Commodore's (L. Ron Hubbard) Messengers Organization. A Sea-Org run power center within the cult, started by the teenyboppers in hot pants who used to serve as Hubbard's mouthpieces on board his ships. CMO PAC (Pacific Area Command) is based in LA, in a large building across the street from the Cedars of Lebanon Center. The CMO IXU, the Internal eXtension Unit, is in the HGB, qv. CMO INT and CMO Gold are at the INT base.

CMO INT, Commodore's Messenger Organization INT - Senior-most CMO and is in charge of overseeing all CMOs. The CMOs are in charge of getting the management and service organizations producing and complying with upper management orders. - Jonathon Barbera.

CMO IXU, Commodore's Messenger Organization Internal eXtension Unit - this organization is part of upper middle management and acts as the CMO for the managements organizations grouped with Flag Command Bureaux. This organization started requiring INT security clearances for its crew in 1992 or 1993. - Jonathon Barbera.

CO, Commanding Officer.

COB RTC, Chairman of the board for the Religious Technology Center, the copyright holding body of Scientology, currently former Commodore's Messenger David Miscavige.

Coffee Grinder Incident, this is where some evil implanters, people or aliens who instill bad memories, used a little box to play a push-pull wave of energy over you and lay in a bone-deep somatic or pain, remember?

Cognition, a sudden realization about oneself having to do with Scientology. "Fanny had a cognition about how her father was a big Suppressive during Session; now she's on the PTS/SP course."

Cognitive dissonance, a psych (disparaging Scientology slang for psychiatrists) term! Horrors! It simply means the inability to fit two disparate concepts into one's mind. For example, a dichotomy like "I spent $360,000 dollars for all this" and "It is all a bunch of garbage." The flip side of cognitive dissonance is that if you get someone to do something, it is easier to make them believe something, and vice versa. Actions influence thoughts, and thoughts influence actions. One person adds: "I thought this was more akin to warping reality to maintain a belief system. For instance you buy a car that has all the features you consider to be good in a car, but your friend buys a superior car which costs the same amount. You have cognitive dissonance and berate the other car by warping factual information to make your purchase more appealing than perhaps it factually is." In this sense, it is a component of the psychological influence that keeps people in Scientology; they warp the reality of the utter worthlessness of the auditing "technology" after paying so much for it. It becomes very hard to let go of something after making such a huge to commitment to it, whether that commitment is psychological, spiritual, monetary, the investment of time, or something similar. Webster's 9th New Collegiate says: "cognitive dissonance n (1963) psychological conflict resulting from incongruous ideas and attitudes held simultaneously." The conflict is resolved via the distortion of the perception of reality. Eric Bohlman: "...it is almost a textbook example of attempts to resolve cognitive dissonance. A classic social psychology experiment is to take a bunch of people who have just bought new cars and present them with product brochures from various car companies. Inevitably they'll spend most of their time reading the brochures for the cars that they bought, and will give only cursory glances to the brochures for the competing models. Somebody who has just made a major commitment (such as spending a lot of money) is likely to seek out information that would portray the commitment as a good decision and avoid information that would call the decision into question, because the alternative is to believe that they've been duped, which would be damaging to their self-images."

Command Intention, what upper management wants done; meant to imply that Scientology's management is able to "make it go right", infallible, and quite capable of achieving anything. The peons only worries are seeing to it that they jump high enough when ordered. See Intention, Counter-intention.

Commodore, the name Hubbard gave himself, no doubt based upon his stellar naval career. "A picture of the Commodore hangs in every Academy." See "Ron."

Comm Ev, a Committee of Evidence; a cult "justice" action. "Fred was declared at his Comm Ev; now he's an SP, and subject to Fair Game."

Conditions, the Ethics formulas of Scientology. They are, in descending order, Power, Power Change, Affluence, Normal Operation, Emergency, Danger, Non-Existence, Liability, Doubt, Enemy, Treason, Confusion. All the conditions have formulas, and they are designed to get cult members to produce more, ie, make more money for Scientology. Thus, conditions are deemed very important, and Scientologists are often seen scurrying about trying "improve their condition."

Control, a metaphysical Scientology construct. Control is worked into low-level therapy like Op pro by Dup to get the "raw meat" used to the idea of someone controlling him or her to a high degree. Control is exerted on every action and step taken by the Scientology newcomer; with what amounts to supreme arrogance, Scientologists assume that ordinary people, (whom it disparages as mere "wogs"), are simply incapable of wiping their own ass, and are therefore subject to full control by them. This is manifested as "body routing", and it is the justification for hard-selling the PC onto his or her next level immediately after taking a "therapy" session. See Tone 40, Intention, Postulate.

CoS, Church of Scientology. Also, C of S, CofS, COS, Co$. Some people on ars take "Co$" to mean "Cult of $cientology."

COSRECI, Church of Scientology Religious Education College International, incorporated in Australia. It shares the "castle" at Saint Hill with AOSH (Advanced Organisation Saint Hill).

COST, Church of Spiritual Technology. Also, CST, LRH Archives.

Counter-intention, resistance to authority, disobedience; the last thing an SO member would want to have to Command Intention, qv. "Any more CI on my lines from you, buster, and I'm routing you to Ethics to get your overts standardly handled." See Intention.

Cracked, describing a Case Gain (qv) of such proportions that one's Bank or Reactive Mind (memories of pain and unconsciousness) is knocked back forever. "I finally had my case cracked on OT 2; it was a big win!"

Cramming, an action taken to remedy a small Scientology tech "outpoint", a failing of some kind. "I had a cram cycle on my metering after failing to get VGIs on my PC."

Crutch, a pun on Church, as in Church of Scientology. Clams tend to lean on the crutch; they need it, so bad. "The Crutch has been losing turf in Germany recently."

C/S, noun. Case Supervisor. The person in charge of assigning auditing regimens to Preclears or patients; s/he tells the Auditor or Scientology therapist what processes to run on the mark, and reviews the written worksheets of processing sessions.

CSG, Commodore's Staff Guardian (Mary Sue Hubbard).

CSI, Church of Scientology international. Officially a non profit 501 (c) organization. The offices of el presidente are at the HGB, qv.

CSIINTB, Church of Scientology International - International Base/Bureau.

C/Sing, verb. The action of reviewing and prescribing Scientology processing or "therapy" actions. "The C/S at AOLA C/Sed my case this week."

CST, Church of Spiritual Technology. Also, COST, LRH Archives.

Cult, (definition from the Cult Awareness Network, now taken over by Scientology after bankruptcy brought on by Scn litigation). A serious problem exists in our society as a result of the emergence of groups, popularly called cults, using mind control (undue influence) and unethical means to recruit and retain followers. Association with these groups can be harmful to followers and disruptive to families, friends and society. MARKS OF A DESTRUCTIVE CULT: -Mind Control (undue influence): Manipulation by use of coercive persuasion or behavior modification techniques without informed consent. -Charismatic Leadership: Claiming divinity or special knowledge and demanding unquestioning obedience with power and privilege. Leadership may consist of one individual or a small core of leaders. -Deception: Recruiting and fundraising with hidden objectives and without full disclosure of the use of mind controlling techniques; use of front groups. -Exclusivity: Secretiveness or vagueness by followers regarding activities and beliefs. -Alienation: Separation from family, friends and society, a change in values and substitution of the cult as the new family; evidence of subtle or abrupt personality changes. -Exploitation: Can be financial, physical, or psychological; pressure to give money, to spend a great deal on courses or give excessively to special projects, or to engage in inappropriate sexual activities, even child abuse. -Totalitarian Worldview (we/they syndrome): Effecting dependence, promoting goals of the group over the individual and approving unethical behavior while claiming goodness.

CXI, the Church of Xenu International. A mocking take-off of CSI "set up" by "General" Martin Ottmann, "Chairman of the Board" CXI. Other members include: "Admirals" Alvin Brattli, Birgitta Dagnell, and Andreas Heldal-Lund. See Admiral, COB, CSI.

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D/A, verb. Dead Agent; to spread malicious lies and rumors about an Anti-Scientologist person or organization, in an attempt to so thoroughly discredit them that everyone concerned will be disgusted with them, and not listen to the information they have to give about the cult. Many attempts to Dead Agent the recently destroyed CAN (the Cult Awareness Network) and FACTnet (Fight Against Coercive Tactics network; a BBS that supplies information about the cult) have been posted to ars. (alt.religion.scientology)

Day, one of the two divisions Class V (a lower-level Scientology Organization) cult centers are cut up into. Hours roughly are from 8am - 6pm, Monday to Friday. See Foundation.

DB, Degraded Being. Someone so infested with Body Thetans, evil spirits, as to be in-auditable or insane. Also used as a general derogatory term. "These psychs are all DBs; without the tech, they won't make it."

DC-8, Douglas jet aircraft resembling the Boeing 707, and used for trans-Atlantic flights starting in the late 1950s. Hubbard said they were used millions of years ago as spaceships to ferry people about the galactic confederation. Perhaps someday Scientology will apply for a patent, and sue Douglas for copying their design?

DCSI, Dianetic Clear Special Intensive, a a five hour auditing block (as opposed to the usual 12 1/2 hours that auditing is usually sold in) that is essentially a date locate procedure for finding the moment of the clear cognition for those going clear on Dianetic auditing, which is said to happen in 2% of cases.

Dead Agenting, see D/A.

Declaring, the act of blacklisting within the cult; the result is an "SP" (Suppressive Person, someone who does not like Scientology) who can be "Sued, tricked, lied to, or destroyed" as per the cult's policy. "Eric was declared Suppressive at his Comm Ev."

Ded, another name for an overt, a harmful act one does to another that comes before justification of the act.

Dedex, another name for a motivator, an instance of blaming another for a crime you have committed yourself, or finding some justification for your aggressive or harmful actions that you are committing at present in your victim's previous actions.

Degraded Being, see DB.

Deprogramming, a desperate ploy to recover lost children involved in a cult, usually at the parent's behest; employs kidnaping and coercive persuasion to re-invoke the cult victim's former personality from before involvement. Now largely discredited in favor of exit counseling, which is only done on a consensual basis.

Dev-T, Developed traffic. A particle (a person or form) sent unnecessarily to the improper terminal; a waste of time or an item which slows down the all-important production inside Scientology.

Dianazene, a formula combined with vitamins and other materials (such as benzedrine) to make the intake of nicotinic acid more effective. Dianazene runs out radiation - or what appears to be radiation. It also proofs a person up [sic] against radiation to some degree. It also turns on and runs out incipient cancer. (All About Radiation, pp. 123-124) Strangely, Hubbard thought that drugs were destructive enough to warrant a Purification Rundown to try to eliminate them. See also Guk Bomb, Purif, Drug Rundown.

Dianetic auditing, a quack therapy process based on Hubbard's book, _Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental Health_ (DMSMH), written in 1950, and later volumes. Also called book one auditing.

Dianetic Clear Special Intensive, see DCSI.

Dianetics, Hubbard's derivative (of Freud's abreactive therapy, among others) mental healing therapy; scorned by the mental health profession as being unscientific nonsense. Strangely, even though Hubbard used mainstream psychiatry as a source for Dianetics, he went on to vehemently attack psychiatry and its practice with paranoid fervor.

Disconnection, the act of severing ties with family, friends, and loved ones that the cult often forces its victims to do when these same loved ones are declared SPs, Suppressive Persons, (often for expressing doubts about the victim's involvement in the cult) which the victim then supposedly becomes PTS, a Potential Trouble Source for Scientology, to. "I was ordered to disconnect from my wife after she was declared." See SP, PTS.

Divisions, sections of the Org Board, the Scientology Organization layout showing positions within the bureaucracy that Hubbard used to define all the posts in an Org. Various Org Boards were utilized, some with seven Divisions (Divs), some with nine; they are kept on a wall in the Organizations, and drilled each morning.

Div 1, HCO; Hubbard Communications Office. Also, Div One, etc.

Div 2, Dissemination.

Div 3, The treasury; money being so important it deserves its own special division in Scientology.

Div 4, Tech. Where the Academy courses and HGC, Hubbard Guidance Center, auditing are done.

Div 5, Qual. Where one attests to "therapy" actions, and gets certificates for courses in Scientology. Also, where corrections are done.

Div 6, the public division; deals with routing people into the Organization (Org), low level raw meat (fresh converts) courses, showing hokey '50-ish L. Ron Hubbard movies, selling books, reception, etc.

Div 7, Executive Division.

DM, David Miscavige; the leader of the cult of Scientology, presently on the run from process servers. Also called the poodle. (ars)

DMSMH, Dianetics [sic, should be dianoetics], the Modern [sic, outdated] Science [sic!] of Mental Health [sic!]; Hubbard's first foray into his newly invented "Science" of mental health, and the launchpad for the cult of Scientology, misspelled from dianoetic, meaning intellectual; pounded out in a few weeks on a typewriter in 1950 without even a hint of research. Also called Book One. Should be: Dianoetics, the old fashioned pseudoscience that creates mental problems.

Dn, Dianetics. See Dianetics.

Doingness, the act of doing something. See Beingness.

Downstat or Down Stat, 1. Describing the horrible condition of losing that all-important production statistic; also, a general term of derogation. "My local Class V looks so Down Stat; it is dark, dingy, dirty, and squalid, not to mention grotty." 2. Noun; referring to Down Stat individuals; people who are not doing well in a Scientological sense, that is, cranking out enough product. "Farnham is a real downstat; look at how miserable he looks on post. Route him to Ethics." See Up Stat.

Dreamball, a Free Zone term. Describes people who are superior to meatballs, qv, or ordinary people. (act)

Drug Rundown, there are two of these, one at the bottom of the Bridge, one near the top. While the Purification Rundown is meant to remove the drugs residues supposedly stored in your fat, the Drug Rundown is meant to audit out the harmful effects of drugs on your mind. It is all very spiritual. (Or is that medical? Or should that be financial?) See Grades, OT 4, Purif. See also Dianazene, Guk Bomb, for comparison. Two things seem to be pulling in different directions here; on the one hand you have Hubbard trying to cleanse drugs out of the system with his Purification Rundown, and on the other hand there is his admitted use of drug compounds on his guinea-pig followers.

DSA, the Department of Special Affairs, an office that acts as the local outlet for OSA in Class V orgs. See OSA.

Duplicate, to make an exact copy of; to fully understand in order to obey. "You are Out-Ethics, Mr.! You need to do your Conditions! Do you duplicate me?"

Dynamics, the eight Scientological subdivisions of life. Self, Sex, Group, Mankind, Animals and Plants, Universe, Theta, God.

Dynamism, Enid Vien's breakaway movement from Scientology; a part of the Free Zone, qv.

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ED, 1. Executive Director, the chief officer of a Scientology organization. 2. Executive Directive, an issue type; EDs may be written by Executive Directors at the local level. L. Ron Hubbard EDs were written by L. Ron Hubbard himself.

ED INT, Executive Director International, the head of the Exec Strata, currently Guillaume Lesevre. This is not the head of the cult, despite the title; the head honcho is David Miscavige. The ED INT can be written to at: Executive Director International, 4833 Fountain Avenue Los Angeles, California, 90027. There are also message boxes for the ED INT in each org. He replies, too, or someone does in his name. This is the SO-1 line (qv) now that Hubbard is dead.

E-Meter, or Meter, electrometer or electropsychometer. 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.

End Words, words that act like mental locks to keep the reactive mind, the chain of memory incidents of a harmful nature, keyed-in or in an active state.

Engram, a posited memory trace that remains after a moment of pain and unconsciousness. Hubbard didn't coin this word; it can be found in Webster's, and is part of the ISV, the International Scientific Vocabulary.

Entheta, enturbulated theta. Bad Vibes. "This Usenet newsgroup is so full of entheta that it is restimulating my bank."

Enturbulated, Hubbardese for being upset. "Suzy found ars so enturbulating, she ran away."

EOC, 1. End of Cycle, the end of a cycle of action (start, change, stop.) 2. Suicide. "After your mission to infiltrate the FBI, do an EOC to prevent leaks."

EP, End Phenomenon. The result of a Scientology processing action. "The EP for OT 15 is cause over the universe."

EPF, Estates Project Force, where new recruits are first placed so that they may receive indoctrination into the Sea Org echelons of the cult and prove themselves worthy of being into the Sea Org. Per policy, all recruits must finish a course called "Product Zero" and a 7A Security Check.

Ethics, a section of a Scientology Org (organization) that keeps people in line, and the Hubbardian policy that deals with it. "Keep your nose clean, or I'll route you to Ethics, Mr.!"

EUS, Eastern US. See CLO.

Evil Purpose, an implanted evil goal given to us millions or billions or trillions of years ago in Implant stations (there is one on Mars, you'll be interested to know) and still influencing our everyday lives, according to Hubbard.

Exec Strata, see Senior Exec Strata.

Exit counseling, an ethical method of recovering people from destructive cults, involving talking and giving out information in a non-coercive manner. "Combatting Cult Mind Control" by Steve Hassan best exemplifies the methodology. Compare Deprogramming.

Ex-Scientologist, a former member of the Scientology cult who has left and has gained a greater understanding of what was done to them in Hubbard's brainwashing machine, and who has a desire to see the hidden truth behind Scientology's carefully constructed PR facade exposed to the public. Most Ex-Scientologists do this for the public interest, despite personal risk of harassment and groundless defamation lawsuits from Scientology's Office of Special Affairs department and its small army of lawyers, agents, and PIs. We have little or nothing to gain by going public with what we know about the cult from the inside, and some of us will pay dearly for our devotion to the truth. We were lied to and ripped off by L. Ron Hubbard, in both a spiritual and monetary sense, and we don't want to see anyone else manipulated the way we were. Scientology has in many ways destroyed our lives; we would be less than human to stand idly by and watch as more "raw meat" public are ripped to shreds in Scientology's money-making mill.

Exteriorize, to leave the body. Scientologists believe we can step outside our bodies in the form of a disembodied "Thetan" or spirit, and hover about looking at things. This is deemed to be a very important goal of every Scientologist, usually only obtained at the highest "OT level." OT VIIs and VIIIs who have left the cult claim it is an induced hallucination. "Exteriorization is the goal of the End of Endless Int Rundown." See "Interiorization."

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Facsimile, a mental image picture. "June has a facsimile of a dog biting her leg."

FACTnet, Fight Against Coercive Tactics network; a cult information BBS with numerous files on the Scientology cult and others operated by Lawrence Wollersheim, and various other directors at various times including Bob Penny, Kim Baker, and Arnie (Arnaldo) Lerma. FACTNet has undergone a shift toward carrying the torch for free speech on the Internet more recently after lengthy and expensive litigation with Scientology.

Fair Game, the notorious Scientology policy describing how to deal with critics, ex-members, and other undesirables dehumanized with the label "Suppressives"; they may be "Sued, tricked, lied to, or destroyed," as per policy. A more recent policy has banished the WORDS "Fair Game", but the policy of what to do to these "SPs" or "Suppressives" cannot ever be cancelled, as it is Hubbardian scripture, and his words cannot ever be altered in any way per Scientology's policy. "Dennis Erlich, being an SP, is subject to Fair Game."

Fall, a Meter read of about an inch movement to the left.

F&F, the name of the mission that was sent to execute the programme targets establishing the "United Churches" front (Flag) in Clearwater, Florida.

Fastflow, able to zip through course checksheets because of superliteracy obtained from M1 word clearing and the Student Hat.

FB, Flag Bureaux - Oversees all Sea Org service organizations and all Class V (formerly Class IV) organizations. - Jonathon Barbera.

FCB, Flag Command Bureaux - In charge of internal management of upper middle management. - Jonathon Barbera.

FDN, Foundation, qv.

FDSing, False Data Stripping. Brainwashing 101; an auditing ("therapy") procedure involving stripping away "bad" thoughts or wrong ideas and replacing them with the proper cultic dogma. The ideas are located, cleansed, and replaced with the "true data". "Success Story: today I had a big win using FDSing to get rid of the False Datum that Psyches are trying to help people!"

FEBC, the Flag Executive Briefing Course. A top-level training course for EDs and other executives delivered at ITO and possibly a few other high training orgs. The FEBC used to incorporate strange events like the Kali ceremony, the ritualistic destruction of model orgs.

Field, noun. The "wog world" (disparaging term for everyday society and the non-Scientology world) outside the Org. "The field is getting so muddy that it is hard to get new Raw Meat in and onto our lines!"

Field Auditors, roaming Scientology recruiters and auditors who are meant to channel people into missions and Class V Orgs. See FSM.

Fifth galactic invader force, insect-creatures with horrible hands. Psychs (Scientology's derogatory term for psychiatrists) are from these galactic invaders who threaten our very existence on this planet, according to L. Ron Hubbard.

Finance Dictator, the person in charge of extracting money from all the little people or peons in Scientology. An Apt name, given the brutality with which this all-important function is carried out. "The Finance Dictator went after the Mission-Holders in a big money-grab in the early 1980s."

Flag, the former name of the ship Hubbard was Commodore on, the Apollo. When the Sea Org (high level Scientologists who sign billion-year contracts) came ashore in Clearwater, Florida, they set up the Flag Land Base, an upper-level Class XII Org, now just called Flag. "I got my Ls at Flag, and my case was really cracked!"

Flag Executive Briefing Course, see FEBC.

FLB, see Flag.

Flub, a mistake made in the auditing "therapy."

Flubless, perfect auditing without errors; a "star-high goal" that is never achieved, as numerous therapy "repairs" point up.

F/N, Floating Needle. A rhythmic swinging of the Meter needle back and forth indicating end of session, or completion of a "therapy" process. Also commonly used to indicate good vibes, as in "I've been F/Ning all day!"

FO, Flag Order, a blue-on-white written directive similar to Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letters, HCOPLs, for Sea Org members. There is a Sea Org Briefing Course which consists of all non-confidential FOs still in use. Flag Orders are a vital policy line, as the Sea Org is the commanding and controlling organization in Scientology which runs as a thread throughout the entire cult.

Folder, an Ethics (Scientology's corrections section) folder or Auditing "therapy" folder in which Scientology collects all the dirt on people obtained from auditing sessions and Ethics actions which can be used as blackmail to keep critics quiet. Culled information from folders of former Scientologists who have turned into critics has a habit of showing up on ars.

FOLO, Flag Operations Liaison Office. See Flag.

Foundation, one of the two groups inside a Class V Org, which is a Scientology organization that delivers lower level services. Foundation works the night and weekend shift, while Day works days. "Sally works for Foundation, while Sam is Day." See Day.

FPRD, False Purpose Rundown.

FR or F/R, Flag Rep. A minor post in a Class V or lower level Org; a liaison with Flag, an upper level Class XII organization. "Ronald was the FR from HAW FDN."

Franchise, an old name used before the more appealing Newspeak "Mission," qv. Franchise connotes the financial business aspects of Scientology too much, and so the term "Mission" is now used to add more religiosity. A Mission is a low level Scientology money making organization; a franchise, in other words. See Mission.

Freedom, Scientology's newspeak-monikered propaganda newsletter, used for PR dissemination. See PR, good roads fair weather.

Freeloader debt, a debt incurred by staff members who break their 3, 5, or one billion year (in the Sea Org) contracts, and are thus required to pay for every auditing action and training course done to them while on staff. The freeloader debt usually runs into the tens of thousands, but cannot be collected in most cases as the contract in not considered to be in good faith.

Freewinds, the SO-run (Sea Org) ship that cruises around tropical ports and gives the OT-8s (top level Scientologists) a hangout while they proceed with their auditing. Ah, how nice it must be to be at the top of the Bridge on a Clear day!

Free Zone, (also Freezone); a loose affiliation of people who still believe in some of the ideas of Scientology auditing procedures, but who have left the formal structure of the cult in a type of Scientology Reformation. The Free Zone is a little more liberal than the hard-core Churchies, as they sometimes like to call people still in the cult proper, yet they often still have the trappings of Scientology, for example, the E-Meter, Auditing, the concepts of Ethics, Overts (bad deeds), Conditions, and the use of disparaging terms for outsiders, (Meatballs, Bashers, Wogs, etc.) The cult proper hates these splinterers and labels them "squirrels". Their newsgroup is alt.clearing.technology; they also have their own periodicals, such as the _Free Spirit_ and others. "The "Free Zone" was a term first used by Bill Robertson in the early 80s. Robertson was a fan of LRH and set up a network of organizations that delivered the CofS's upper and lower levels grades, including the Clearing Course, OT levels and NOTs, at a cut-rate." - Joe Harrington.

Free Zoner, (also Freezoner); a member of the Free Zone, qv. Opinion is split on whether this term is or is not derogatory. Some people are happy to be called Free Zoners, and apply the term to themselves. Others claim it is derogatory when used by critics, but this may be a confusion with attitudes as expressed in sentences and simple nouns. Does a sentence like "Canadians are politically stupid liberals" make the term "Canadian" a derogatory term? Free Zoners have been called deluded for still adhering to Hubbardian views and holding the vile man in high regard; I do not believe that this can make the term itself derogatory, but others feel differently about it. The term did not arise within the critical arena, which sheds further doubt on the derogatory label hypothesis.

FSM, Field Staff Member. Mercenaries who recruit people using selection slips for Scientology and get a 15% profit of the value of services purchased by their recruits in return.

FSO, 1. Flag Ship Organization. In reality this has been various ships and locations over the last 30 years. 2. FSO also means Flag Service Org which is in Clearwater, FL and is usually referred to as simply Flag. "FSO - Flag Service Organization - Highest level training organization in the world and can deliver the processing side of the Bridge up to New OT VII. Located in Clearwater, Florida, USA." - Jonathon Barbera.

FSSO, Flag Ship Service Organization, Clearwater, FL. The Flag Ship was the Apollo in Hubbard's day, now it is the Freewinds out cruising the Caribbean. OT 8 is done on the FSSO, the Freewinds.

FZ, see Free Zone. (act)

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Gang-Bang Sec Check, a cruel process involving getting the victim to confess to "crimes" or Overts while on a meter and in front of a group of people. Used as a heavy brainwashing technique when a PC threatens to blow. "Three people in the past year have said they have had Gang-Bang Sec Checks recently."

GE, Genetic Entity. A low-grade soul that stores whole track engrams (memories of pain and unconsciousness from the last few trillion years of the patient's life) like the clam incident (people descended from clams, according to Hubbard.) The concept of the GE can be hard to understand until one realizes that it is unadulterated nonsense, like much of Scientology.

GI, 1. Gross Income. One of the most important Stats (statistics) for cult groups. 2. Good Indicators; a smiling face after an auditing or "therapy" action.

GO, the Guardian's Office. The cult's KGB, responsible for attacking SPs, (qv) publishing Dead Agent materials (largely manufactured dirty laundry on perceived enemies), framing political figures and judges, intimidating witnesses, etc. Now renamed OSA, the Office of Special Affairs, qv.

Godwin's Law, a rhetorical construct that postulates that the mere mention of the holocaust in an argument renders it null and void, as the slaughter of seven million Jews in WWII is a singularly momentous and ghastly historical event. Some people stretch the law to apply to mentioning Nazis and the Third Reich generally in any debate, but this is a dubious over-extension at best. "You are comparing the RPF to Nazi concentration camps? I hereby invoke Godwin's Law!"

Gold, this has been used to refer to both Golden Era Studios and Gold base, now usually referred to as INT, as most INT orgs have relocated there. In the Sea Org we used to refer to GOLD as "over the rainbow", and meant a "secret" location in Hemet. - Miss X. "Golden Era Productions, in charge of producing e-meters, films, television advertisements, and lectures on cassettes. Includes PDO (Planetary Dissemination Org)." - Jonathon Barbera. Note: E-Meters were also produced by Bridge. Grady Ward: "My first impression of Gold Base as Keith Henson drove me through it on Monday is that it looked exactly like a Nazi theme park. A delightful little caricature of a Scientology 'church' with a flowering bed in front of it - surrounded by the nastiest razor wire, floodlights, and video observation cameras I have ever seen."

Golden Age of Tech, the. Releases from 1996 reportedly sharpen up auditing. Apparently the "100% Standard Tech" sold to public over the last several years was not standard after all. The changes to unalterable tech include: a revamping of the E-meter with a variable gain; a student certainty course covering the barriers to study, parts of the student hat, the TRs, and the metering courses; the Golden Age of Tech Drills which are rote handlings compiled from HCOBs and put in quiz/drill form for training on a twin basis for grades and solo auditing courses; a read generator has been added to the E-meter; and more emphasis on study and drilling to the point of not having to think about what to do in a particular situation.

Good roads, fair weather. A PR technique which all Scientologists are instructed in to automatically handle criticisms with bland statements about other things. The idea is to discuss something "non-reactive" to the person, and also steer the topic away from Scientology, a topic Scientologists are indoctrinated to not discuss in any depth for obvious reasons. See PR.

GOSA, see OSA.

GPM, Goals Problems Mass. A supposed mass which develops when one is thwarted from reaching a Goal by a Problem or stop.

Grades, preliminary steps to the true enlightenment and understanding of Body Thetans (evil spirits inhabiting the body) on the OT (Operating Thetan; a person as a spirit able to operate free of the body) levels. The Grades range from 0, learning to talk, to VII, clear certainty, and come before clear (a person who is freed from the effects of the Reactive Mind; the place where all the memories of pain and unconsciousness are stored) on the Bridge. Actions before the Grades usually include Life repair, Purification rundown (which involves sweating in a sauna, running, and taking vitamin overdoses for a fee of $2,000) and the Drug Rundown, said to remove the harmful effects of drugs by using the E-Meter. The typical sequence for processing then goes up the numbered Grades. See also Class, Bridge, Level.

Grade 0, learn to communicate with anyone about anything. Too bad no one in Scientology has reached this level! See Class 0.

Grade 1, (I) learn to handle your Problems, as long as they don't include being a victim of a money-grubbing cult.

Grade 2, (II) Overts and Withholds, your dirty laundry aired in public. Don't tell them anything you wouldn't mind posted to Usenet or given out in pamphlets to your neighbors, co-workers and friends.

Grade 3, (III) deals with Upsets.

Grade 4, (IV) Service Facsimiles, "I'm right and you're wrong" type of blaming behavior. Guess that lots of people in this "church" need it. See Ser Fac.

Grade 4.5, (recently, last decade or so, New Era Dianetics (NED, qv) was put here. If the mark 'goes clear' on new era dianetics then grades 5, 6, and 7 are skipped. The person does a simple process called the sunshine rundown, and goes on to OT 1) (No; the cult doesn't call it Grade 4.5. This is where it would be logically.)

Grade 5, (V) Power, awareness of self as source. I got the Power, yeah, yeah. Just keep repeating it; you couldn't really be wasting thousands of dollars, could you? After all, this is America! You should be able to buy spiritual freedom! (God knows, you can buy everything else.) See Power processing.

Grade 6, preparation for the Clearing Course. R6EW, Routine Six, End Words. Meant to release the locks from the reactive mind. End Words are a kind of verbal lock that keeps the reactive mind or whatever in restimulation; more pseudoscience on parade. See R6EW.

Grade 7, Clearing course. Wow! At last you can throw away your glasses, a la Bates! You'll have perfect recall of what you ate for dinner! Your IQ will zoom! Your eyes will become glazed! Your pockets will be feeling a severe drain! (Unless your last name is Gates.) You're now ready for OT 1; last chance for cognitive dissonance before the railroad to Total Freedom (tm) routes you straight to hell, or a close approximation thereof, and all for just $129.99$! (Oops! I mean $129,000.99!) Visa or Amex accepted, but cash preferred. Loans available at 25% per week. Financial help with getting a mortgage on your house free of charge. See Clear Certainty Rundown.

Gradient, a gradual approach to brainwashing that Scientology employs so as not to scare off potential recruits. Things like OT-III, widely available over the net, are deemed to be "out-gradient", as they drive away raw recruits because they look like insane gibberish sputtered from the foaming mouth of a brain-fevered baboon. Also called a "gradient scales approach". Deviating from this tech is called going "out gradient"; a serious error.

Green Vols, the green volumes of the OEC (Organization Executive Course; a high-level and very expensive course that teaches executives how to manage an organization. Used to siphon money from Class V Orgs, lower level Orgs, uplines to higher level Orgs that run the course) that contain Scientology policy. See "Red Vols, OEC."

Guk Bomb, a mixture of benzedrine, vitamins, and glutamic acid Hubbard thought helped the auditing "therapy" go smoothly. See also Dianazene, Purif.

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Handle, to fix something up or solve a problem. "Helena Kobrin and Elaine Siegel were assigned to handle the situation in ars."

HAS, the HCO (Hubbard Communications Office) Are Secretary; a petty executive in charge of HCO, one of the nine divisions in an org. The HAS (pronounced like has), is often the person who recruits for staff; personnel is one of their duties.

HASI, Hubbard Association of Scientologists International. A precursor to the IAS, qv. Just another way to make money; all Scientologists must buy memberships in the IAS for about a $1,000.

Hat, noun. A post or job. "She's wearing the Ethics Hat now."

Hat, verb. To train for a post or job. "He is fully Hatted as the MAA."

Havingness, a feeling of ownership or possession; something quite unfamiliar to SO (Sea Org) members. "Pete had such Havingness after he bought his Tech Dictionary." See beingness.

HCO, Hubbard Communication Office. The center of power while L. Ron Hubbard was in command of the cult (1950-1986); produced the HCO-policy letters and HCO "tech" bulletins.

HCOB, Hubbard Communications Office Bulletin, a red on white directive containing Hubbardian "tech" for auditing or "therapy" procedures.

HCOPL, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, a green on white issue containing administrative policy.

HES, the Hubbard Communications Office (HCO) Executive Secretary, one of the three executives directly under the ED, the Executive Director, along with the PES and OES. Also called the HCO Exec Sec.

HFA, Held From Above. HFA is added to a post title when there is no one posted to a position. A post is then "held from above" by the next person up the chain of command on the org board. - Miss X.

HGB, the Hollywood Guaranty [sic] Building, a twelve story office building at Hollywood Boulevard and Ivar formerly owned by the Bank of America. It is an old building that was constructed in the 1920s and purchased by Scientology with cash in the mid-'80s. All International management (upper middle management above continents and below *INT* - see Int) is located in this building. It is a twenty minute walk from the Cedars Complex, and houses IHELP, OSA Int, and the CMO IXU (Internal eXtension Unit), WISE Int, ABLE Int, and more. The various orgs on different floors in 1993 looked like this: 12th floor - OSA Int (includes office of the President of CSI). 11th - CMO IXU, AVU Int, confidential space. 10th - FCB, Networks. 9th - FB. 8th - FB, IHELP Int, SMI Int. 7th - WISE Int, ABLE Int. 6th - Dining room, canteen. 5th through 1st - ITO. 1st - LRH Exhibit, lobby. Basement - HGB Estates, FB's mimeo collection, INCOMM office.

HGC, the Hubbard Guidance Center; the place where the expensive auditing of Scientology processes or crude psychotherapy is done. "The HGC is down the hall on the right."

High Crime, a serious offense within the cult. "Going by a misunderstood word is a High Crime."

Hill 10, a serious situation or problem area for Scientology requiring immediate attention. "OSA now considers ars to be a Hill 10 situation."

HoM, History of Man; an L. Ron Hubbard book which purports that the Piltdown Man hoax was the ancestor of modern man, and that we evolved from clams, among many other absurdities. Recommended reading.

Ho' of Babylon, a nickname given to Helena Kobrin, a lawyer for the cult of Scientology who sent out threatening letters to numerous net.surfers in a crude attempt to silence them. (Ho means whore, prostitute.) See Kobrigram.

Hollywood Guaranty [sic] Building, see HGB.

HQS, Hubbard Qualified Scientologist course.

Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard. See "Ron."

Hubbardese, see Scientologese.

Hubbardite, a humourous term for a Scientologist, coined by Science-Fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein. See Clam.

Hubborg, (also Huborg) a pun combining Hubbard + Star Trek's "Borg", as Scientologists are seen to have a collective hive mentality at times akin to the science-fiction Borg. It has also been claimed that it is a combination of Hubbard + Org [anization], with an earlier genesis; it is possible that it has had two distinct origins. "They've been assimilated into the Hubborg Collective."

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IAS, International Association of Scientologists. The first six months is free; after that, it gets very expensive. To receive Scientological services, IAS membership is mandatory; even staff are required to pay up, thus sacrificing their entire meager salary for the fee, frequently. See HASI.

I/C, In Charge. Someone running a Program or project. "She's the Tech Field Hatting I/C."

I-HELP, International Ecclesiastical League of Pastors; a cult front-group headquartered in Los Angeles, formerly just across the street from the main building of the old blue Cedars of Lebanon complex, now relocated to the HGB, qv, on the 8th floor.

Illegal PC, a Preclear who cannot be audited by virtue of actually needing some kind of help. Auditing is only for the able, or people who don't need help, as per policy; it is for making the able more able, or bilking them for more money. This paradox is explained by the fact that people who actually need help are harder to turn a profit on. Specifically, an Illegal PC is one who has had psychiatric treatments in the past, or appears to Scientologists like they have (a streetperson or prostitute, for example) and is deemed too damaged to touch, and a serious security risk to boot. "Jack Farmer is an Illegal PC; he may not receive the next auditing level he needs and wants."

Implant, a hypnotic suggestion smashed into one's mind millions or billions of years ago in Hubbard's Space-Opera Scientology Cosmology. "One Implant was installed using giant movie screens."

Incident One, 4 quadrillion years ago we were implanted with visions of cherubs blowing horns, chariots, and blackness. That's right; 4 *quadrillion* (4*10^15th, or 4,000,000,000,000,000 years!) What's that you say? 250,000 times the age of the universe? Don't let that stop you from believing, and anteing up the hundreds of thousands of dollars it takes to get to this level of brainwashing.

Incident Two, 75 million years ago Xenu, the evil galactic overlord, froze us, then blew us up with H-bombs on Hawaii, remember? Also called the wall of fire, or the OT 3 incident. The cover of Dianetics is meant to symbolize this cataclysmic event, and compel Wogs to buy the book by restimulating them.

INCOMM, Shown on the official Command Channels chart as Central Computer Banks (CCB), but this is a part of INCOMM's Division 4 (Tech/Production). This organization is in charge of computerizing Scientology and management. INCOMM does not have a CMO as it is directly managed by RTC. - Jonathon Barbera. Now in the HGB, qv.

Indicate, to read on the E-Meter. Generally used as a synonym for ringing true. "Boy, that really indicates for me!"

In-Ethics, describing a person who is upstat (increasing his or her production) and not violating any of the crimes of Scientology. "The new ED of VANF is very In-Ethics on her post."

Int, the International Management level of Scientology's massive bureaucracy, upper middle management above continental level and below the INT level. Much of it is now located in the HGB, qv. INT and Int are not the same thing; Int stands for International whereas INT refers to the higher INT level organizations. Crew members of INT level organizations are required to have an INT security clearance which is somewhat difficult to acquire.

INT Base, see Gold.

Intention, a metaphysical Scientological concept of being able to project theta into physical objects and other people to exert mystical control over them. "Put your intention into that ashtray and make it do what you tell it."

Interiorization, the unfortunate condition of being stuck in one's body. "I was so Interiorized yesterday; my sinuses ached from it!"

Introspection Rundown, a therapy for handling psychotic breaks in the cult. Involves locking the person up to prevent bad PR with the isolation step, also called baby watch. Sometimes instilling such wacky ideas as Xenu, Body Thetans and OT III can make people a bit unstable; the IRD is used to contain people when they flip out.

Invalidation, to belittle or make nothing of. "Andy felt so invalidated by the SPs on ars, he caved in, and left."

Iso, see Introspection Rundown.

Isolation, Isolation Step, see Introspection Rundown.

Issue Authority, the right to publish certain of L. Ron Hubbard's works.

ITO, International Training Organization - located at Flag in the late '70s. Formerly located in the Cedars Complex in LA, taking up several floors of the HGB, qv. Course taught there include the HPCSC, the FEBC, the KTL, and many others. The org is basically just a large academy with many courserooms. Almost all the students are from America, Canada, and Mexico. The Org is run by Sea Org crew. See HGB.

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J&D, Joker and Degrader. According to Hubbard, joking and degrading about Scientology are signs of a suppressive personality. Worn as a badge of honor on ars due to one Scientologist labeling certain people Jokers and Degraders.

JBG, Johannesburg, South Africa Scientology organization. The AOSH (Advanced Org, Saint Hill; for upper level bridge auditing, ie, clear and OT) and CLO (Continental Liaison Office) for Africa are there.

Joburg, a lengthy sexual and criminal security checklist performed on staff as an auditing action on the E-meter, commonly seen as the roughest "sec-check" in the cult. The results are used as blackmail to keep departers silent about the abuses they've seen in the cult.

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Key-In, to restimulate (make active) and turn on an engram or memory incident of pain and unconsciousness so that the PC (Preclear) patient manifests behavior from it. "John was Keyed-In by the sound of the plane crash."

Key-Out, to be released from the bad effects of one's Reactive Mind; the section of the mind, according to Hubbard, where painful and unconscious engrammatic memories are stored. "Dianetics can really Key you out, man!"

Kha Khan, an award supposedly given by Hubbard to those who did him a great service. The awardee gets spared the death sentence ten times.

Kobrigram, a threatening letter sent to a net.surfer or sysop from Scientology lawyer Helena Kobrin, also know as the Ho' of Babylon. Also Kobragram, Kobringram.

KoX, Knights of Xenu. They found the evil galactic overlord Xenu of Hubbard's quaint Scientology philosophy locked up in a box, and let him out, the naughty net.surfers! (ars)

KR or K/R, Knowledge Report, a write-up of a cult member's supposed "crimes" given to the Ethics division; cult members are encouraged to report each other's transgressions a la Orwell's "1984."

KRC, Knowledge, Responsibility, Control. The senior of the two Scientology triangles, ARC/KRC (ARC stands for Affinity, Reality, and Communication.) Control is senior to Affinity, get it?

KSW, Keeping Scientology Working. A series of HCOPLs, Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letters, designed to ensure Scientology lasts for hundreds of years, and also that Hubbard's fondest wish, that his name be smashed violently into the history books, becomes a reality. (Didn't Manson have a similar desire?)

KSW course, a course based on the KSW, Keeping Scientology Working, policy letters.

KTL Course, the Key To Life course. Involves lots of pretty pictures to drive home the brainwashing. Quite expensive.

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L10, List ten, a series of processes directed at doingness. Audited by Class X auditors. Available on Bridge after Grade IV Expanded at FSO (Flag) only. Over 20 or 30 individual rundowns. A few include: Lie Rundown, 2D Rundown, Groups Rundown, Enemy Rundown, and Greatest Overt/Motivator Rundown. Most of these rundowns deal with overts and evil intentions which the being is using to restrain himself from doing more. - Jonathon Barbera. See Ls.

L11, List eleven, The New Life Rundown. A series of processes directed at havingness by handling ridges and masses around the person. Audited by Class XI auditors. Available on Bridge after Grade IV Expanded at FSO (Flag) only. - Jonathon Barbera.

L12, List twelve, (The Flag OT Executive Rundown). A series of processes directed at beingness and exteriorizing the person with full perceptions. Audited by Class XII auditors. Available on Bridge after Grade IV Expanded at FSO (Flag) only. Three steps include: handling why the person is pinned to the body as well as handling old PTS situations including the phenomena of being PTS to self, handling identities, and handling a unique phenomena involving stability and its past, present, and future consequences (this phenomena may be stuck attention beams on self from others). - Jonathon Barbera.

Lawn Ornament, David Miscavige. He's a dwarf, geddit? See Poodle.

Lazarus, a program written by Homer to tell posters to ars when their posts have been canceled by the cult censor on Netcom known affectionately as the "Cancelpoodle." Thanks, Homer! (ars)

LDNF, London Foundation Org, evenings and weekends.

Level, see Class, Grade.

LF, Long Fall. A swing of the Meter needle to the left of a couple inches.

LFBD, Long Fall BLow Down. An E-Meter read involving a swing of the needle to the left, and a consequent need to move the Tone Arm (potentiometer) of the Meter to keep the needle on the dial.

Life Repair, see Grades.

Lines, the cult's auditing ("therapy") and academy (training) services. "Ken isn't on lines at Flag anymore."

List One, a sec-check list for overts against Hubbard or Scientology; see RS.

Locational, a light auditing ("therapy") technique that gets the thetan (spirit or soul) centered in the MEST (Matter, Energy, Space, and Time) universe, so he knows where he is. Technique involves making the PC (Preclear; patient) look at trees, cars, people, touch books, etc. "Gary is outside doing a locational on Robert."

LRH, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, founder of Scientology cult. See Ron.

LRH Archives, CST, Church of Spiritual Technology. Also, COST.

L. Ron Hubbard, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Mediocre pulp-SF writer. Said in 1947 "If you really want to make millions, the fastest way is to start your own religion." Scientology cult founder; author of the turgid "Dianetics"; born 1911 in Tilden, Nebraska, USA; died 1986. See "Ron."

Ls, L10, L11, and L12. Special, extremely expensive Lists or Rundowns developed in 1970-71 and delivered at Flag. They are done by Class X, XI and XII auditors (Scientology "therapists") who shout at the PC (patient) holding the soup cans electrodes of the Scientology E-Meter. These were designed to handle psychosis, although now they are used for all Scientologists who are wealthy enough to afford them. The Ls material mentions the fact that the Reactive Mind, the storehouse of engrams or memories of pain and unconsciousness, is composed solely of Body Thetans or evil spirits. See the individual Ls.

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M1, or M1 Word Clearing, one of the 9 methods of the endless word clearing used in Scientology. M1 is done on a Meter, and locates charge or upset on words chains by subject, taking each back in time (often to fabricated past lives). M1 supposedly makes the recipient "Superliterate", able to "fast flow" through course checksheets without doing demos or checkouts. See also M8.

M2, metered word clearing done by having the student read aloud, then look up each word stumbled over or that reads on the meter.

M3, verbal word clearing done by the supervisor in the classroom and used whenever a student says s/he doesn't understand something. The sup then asks them to look earlier for a word that isn't understood, (the implication of Hubbard's perfection being implicit; if Hubbard wasn't clear or used the wrong word, this is just not acknowledged) has the student look it up in a dictionary, and then use it in sentences in the usual way. M3 is one of the most commonly-used methods of word clearing, along with M4 and self-study. In self-study, every word found is looked up, used in sentences, and cleared in each definition, pronunciation, and the derivation, as in all word clearing. "Set" is checked in all its permutations that were known already since childhood. "To" is diligently looked up, although it has little or no intrinsic meaning. "The" and "a" and "an" are all checked repeatedly, "definitions" memorized without being understood for the next supervisor star-rate checkout. For all their word-clearing, Scientologists are not particularly adept at language, missing the fact that most words are learned via context and use, not endless consultation of dry, dead, dictionaries. The average student in Scientology may spend hours each day flipping through the dictionaries, yet they don't seem to benefit from the activity at all. "Word clearing" is an integral part of the brainwashing in the cult. Its real aim is to make people compliant by doing absurd and meaningless repetitive tasks while instilling the cult's twisted semantics and thousands of neologisms and redefinitions from the two large cult dictionaries of such key terms as "critical thought", redefined as a completely negative activity. It is Orwell's _1984_ brought to life by another, albeit inferior, Science Fiction writer.

M4, metered classroom word clearing. The student is asked to focus on sections of text of about paragraph to page size and asked if there's an MU, then the meter is checked for any reaction. The word so metaphysically located is then looked up and cleared in the usual way. M4 is one of the most common forms of word clearing, along with M3 and self-study, as the students works by themselves to "clear up their MUs". Not clearing up one's own MUs may result in ethics actions being taken for going by MUs, a serious offense. This is another cult catch-22 situation, as all students can be asked for definitions of words like "be" or something equally ridiculous, hesitate, and end up in trouble. During star-rate checkouts, definitions are often demanded out of the blue. "What's the definition of 'too'?", "The number 2?", "Flunk!" being a common occurrence with no recourse given. Any opposition to the obvious unfairness of the situation just gets the person in more hot water in the totalitarian system. Any opposition or complaints are, after all, a sign of 'natter' produced by, you guessed it, MUs! Word clearing is an integral part of Scientology brainwashing.

M5, the student is asked what words mean from a list, as in auditing commands. The ones the person can't define quickly and accurately are flunked.

M6, key word clearing. The most important words relating to a specific post are looked up and word cleared in a dictionary upon any hint of slowness or hesitancy on the part of the staff member. This is based on the idea that so-called "MUs" can thwart someone's production on post; an untested idea, to put it mildly.

M7, used for illiterates, children, and foreign-language persons. The student is made to read aloud, and at each omission or stumble or hesitation or frown, the word is explained to the person verbally or looked up for him or her by the twin or word clearer.

M8, part of the Primary Rundown, its end product is superliteracy. An alphabetical list of every word in the materials being studied, such as a book or tape, is looked up. This is the most thorough methods of W/Cing. Its requirement for the exalted state of "superliteracy" has been superseded by M1, or was at one time in the cult.

M9, unmetered word clearing action. Student is made to read the text aloud while the word clearer follows along in another copy of the text. When the student stumbles or frowns or coughs, etc., the word is thoroughly looked up and "cleared" by the usual method.

MAA, Master At Arms. A Sea Org (highly indoctrinated Scientologists who sign billion-year contracts) Ethics Officer, responsible for keeping Ethics in (keeping the all-important production up; someone who produces well in Scientology is almost always regarded as being in-Ethics; the ends justify the means is policy.) Their lower org equivalent is called an Ethics Officer, or EO.

Marcab Confederacy, a galactic confederation and the denizens thereof. It is a star system in the astronomy charts. It is also supposed to be the source of most of the destructive suppressive influences attacking the Earth at this time and in the past. For the last 100,000 years they've been driving cars, wearing business suits and fedora hats, using telephones, and flying spaceships. Remember that episode of Star Trek? "The Marcabians are coming to Earth, and they're going to lay waste to it, according to Captain Bill."

Meatball, A derogatory Free Zone (qv) term for people who don't believe in their strange ideas. (act) See Basher.

Mental Image Picture, a picture in the Reactive mind, the repository of memories of painful and unconscious moments. "Bob has a stuck mental image picture of an atom bomb going off on top of his head 200 trillion years ago."

Merchant of Chaos, a cult synonym for an anti-Scientologist or Suppressive Person. A bad person; a person who speaks ill of Scientology, and should therefore be punished.

MEST, Matter, Energy, Space, and Time; the constituents of the physical universe, or the physical universe itself. Seen as a lesser domain than the spiritual or Theta realm.

Milgram Experiment, the; a psychological influence process. "A very famous psychology experiment with a rather depressing result. Milgram's subjects were put in front of a device that was supposed to administer electric shocks to someone in another room (the other person was actually an actor who responded as if he were being shocked) and were then ordered by Milgram to administer increasing levels of shocks, even levels that were marked as 'dangerous' on the device and that elicited a simulation of agony from the actor. He found that most of his subjects obeyed him, even when they generally believed that they were injuring the other person. The experiment basically showed that the 'Nuremberg defense' mindset is alive and well in the US; people are conditioned to obey authority and will compromise their own principles to do so. The experiment was done in the late '60s or early '70s; I doubt things have gotten better since then. Remember that most Americans now think of the late '60s and early '70s as one of the worst periods in American history, and cite 'lack of respect for authority' as one of the main reasons for why it was so terrible." - Eric Bohlman. Read Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, by Stanley Milgram (Harper & Row, 1974).

Misemotional, describing a display of inappropriate emotion; for example, crying for no reason. "Mary has been misemotional since her last action; she needs a repair."

Mission, 1. the Newspeak-corrected term for a cult franchise, as Hubbard originally and more accurately called them before the "religious angle" was adopted to garner tax breaks for his company. Last heard, the package used to set up a Mission could be bought for US $56,000. A year or two ago, the Co$ management gloated that 1,000 mission franchises had been sold at $56,000 each. That works out to $56,000,000 all told. If the cult's total annual gross is $300,000,000, then this one source accounts for nearly 1/5. These franchises are meant to pay their owners 15%, trouble is, if your Mission ever makes it, it will be taken away from you. Missions cannot train auditors, but they can deliver low-level courses and processing; they are meant to send their "products" on to the next higher org on the ladder, the nearest Class V Org. 2. A set of orders given to Missionaires (Sea Org members sent to clay demo and then carry out some orders) to go out and do an action, usually gathering money from low-level Scientology Orgs, getting back "blown" staff members, and so forth. Missions are notoriously violent in their methods, and lower-level orgs live in fear of getting a set of these Sea Org bully-boys with their daggers and uniforms in to "put in their ethics" (make them fork over more money) and "get their stats up" with intimidation tactics. Missions are sometimes given absolute ethics authority, meaning they are allowed to do anything to "get ethics in".

Missionaire, a Sea Org member specially trained to do a Mission, and given orders, (which are often clay-demoed) and sent out to get something done. "The Missionaires from Up-Lines arrived, and demanded $25,000 from our local Org."

Misunderstood, misuderstood word, see M/U, M3, M4.

Mock Up, to make up; particularly mental imagery, but may also apply to physical things. Scientologists may often confuse external reality with imagination or fantasy, and may well not see the difference between imagining a wall, and taking a hammer and nails and building one. "Mock up a wall. Thank you. Now destroy that wall. Thank you."

Motivator, a nasty thing that one "pulls in" as a result of having prior overts, undisclosed naughty acts. In other words, anything that happens to you is your own fault; you deserved it because you are essentially evil. "The cult of Scientology has lots of motivators; they keep saying 'look what they did to us!'"

M/U, Mis-U, or MU; a misunderstood word, meant to cause everything from blows (sudden departures) to overts and withholds, and actually being the root cause of SPs. Because of the centricity of "MUs" and their destructive potential it is a crime to go by them when studying, and subjects the student to the risk of getting a kangaroo "court of ethics". The cult is fanatical about not going by one, and insists that everyone look things up endlessly in dictionaries and go through every definition. This becomes quite tedious with words like "to", "set", and "be." Extensive pieces of the "tech" are devoted to "word clearing", qv, and so the hapless student ends up trapped in a arbitrary system which may punish or help, punish or help, alternately, with the word clearing or the ethics actions. The very definition of "MU" is mutable and arbitrary in that it is a word that makes one frown or blink or stumble on or slow down on reading, etc., as spotted by others - all of this adds to the coercive, conforming, and group- pressure nature of the beast. See M3, M4 for more on this topic. "Look up your M/Us and quit your nattering Mister, or I'll have you busted down to Ethics!"

M/U Phenomena, the emotional upset leading to Blows, disappearances from the organization, that follows going by a misunderstood word, according to the cult's "study tech." M/U Phenomena is the only reason someone gives up on Scientology, according to Hubbard. If you think it is all nonsense, it is because you went by a word you didn't understand. If you think it is dangerous, and that the RPF (Rehabilitation Project Force; the cult's gulag) is repressive and sick, you just have an M/U. If you think the Purification Rundown is bizarre, you have an M/U, and it is your problem. Get it?

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Narconon, a cult front-group that purportedly cures drug addition. Narconon is used for cult recruitment; its techniques have been called unscientific, medically unsound, and possibly dangerous.

Natter, to say negative things; to give off bad vibes. Natter is said to be caused by going past Misunderstood words, and having Overts or undisclosed bad acts, and can thus lead to Blows. "If you don't stop Nattering, you're going to the RPF!"

NED, New Era Dianetics. Dianetics on the wholetrack, your last 75 trillion years. NED for OTs is abbreviated NOTS, and as this is done solo, with the soup-can electrodes of the E-Meter in one hand so the other is free to write up the session, it is then called Solo NOTS. See Grade 4.5, OT 5.

New OT I, II, etc. See OT I, II, etc.

Newspeak, George Orwell's "1984" explication of applied semantics. "1984" provides much insight into the cult of Scientology, by the way.

NLSCC, the Netherlands branch office of the ARSCC, which also does not exist.

Non-E, Non-Existence. A production level; someone is said to be in Non-E when they are new on their post, not known to all the other Org terminals (people), and not producing anything. There is a formula for getting out of Non-E all the way up to Power, the best condition, or measure of an individual's production. It is all about making more money. See Conditions.

NOTS, NED (New Era Dianetics) for OTs (Operating Thetans). See NED, OT 5.

NYF, New York Foundation Org, evenings and weekends.

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Oat Tea, what the bus driver sometimes calls the OT or Operating Thetan levels of Scn's bizarre space-opera auditing "technology" in which body thetans are removed from the mark for a few thousand bucks.

Obedience to authority, see Milgram experiment.

Objectives, low-level "therapy" procedures meant to instill pliability and sheep-like passivity in new Scientologists. Most involve physical manipulation of the body, on the premise that the "raw meat" is too "low-toned" to be run or real auditing. See Control.

OC, see Orange County.

OEC, Organization Executive Course. An executive training course and its associated policy in HCOPLs, Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letters, collected into a set of eight large numbered green volumes, also called the "Green Vols." A person knowing the data in these volumes fully and applying it could completely reverse any down-trending statistics, or even a bring back a failing company, Hubbard says. "OEC 0 is the Basic Staff Volume; read it before you commit a crime on post." See also "Red Vols."

OES, the Organization Executive Secretary, one of the three executives directly under the ED, the Executive Director, along with the HES and PES. Also called the Org Exec Sec.

Off lines, not paying and taking Scientology training or "therapy". See lines.

One One or 1.1, someone stuck at 1.1 on Hubbard's emotional Tone Scale, an SP (Suppressive Person; someone who disagrees with Scientology and deserves to be destroyed because of their beliefs.) See Tone Scale.

On lines, taking Scientology services in the form of processing "therapy" or training. Also used loosely as meaning in contact or communication with, as "Mary has a Psych on her lines." See lines.

On Source, following Hubbard exactly as written; being true to Hubbard's word. See Source.

OoS, Organization of Scientology, pronounced "ooze". Similar to Co$ and many others, a joking name for Scientology sometimes used by its critics, in this case as a protest against the application of the term "church" (as in CoS, Church of Scientology) to what is essentially a giant con game cum criminal conspiracy.

Operating Thetan, the exalted state that is the target of Scn's weird "technology" of removing body thetans, said to be accompanied by strange powers like the ability to kill someone with a thought or fry a bug at a considerable distance. See OT.

Operation Foot Bullet, a joke at Scientology's expense; the Scientologists whose job it is to "contribute" to ars often seem to be doing so poorly, it is as if they're shooting themselves in the foot. Humorously named after the seriously criminal Operation Freakout and Operation Snow White. There's been some call to update this to Operation Foot Bazooka, given the incredible stunts the cult has pulled recently like suing the German government.

Operation Freakout, a plan to carry out the Fair Game policy, the policy of attacking perceived Scientology enemies, on Paulette Cooper, the author of the book "The Scandal of Scientology." The GO (Guardian's Office, the cult's KGB-like security organization responsible for covert operations and dirty tricks of all kinds) operation involved framing Ms. Cooper with a bomb threat made to the Arab Consulate, among other things.

Operation Snow White, see Snow White.

Op Pro by Dup, an Objective, qv, that involves copying the auditor's simple hand motions like the child's game of pat-a-cake. See Control.

Op-Term, a situation of opposition to a terminal or person, giving a reason to fight. "Sue started Op-Terming with the SPs on ars; she would have been better off not giving them a game."

Orange County, OC, - also abbreviated SOC for Scientology Orange County. When I was in the Sea Org it was located on Irvine Blvd in Tustin, CA. - Miss X.

Org, Noun. Organization; a cult group, internally called a "Church." Org usually refers to a Class IV Org (now Class V); Higher up than a low level Mission or franchise, but lower than a Class XII Org, or Advanced Org, (AO), or Saint Hill Org. ASHO stands for the American Saint Hill Org, while AOLA stands for the Advanced Org, Los Angeles. Both ASHO and AOLA are higher up the power chain than a Class V Org.

Organization Executive Course, see OEC.

Org Board, a map to the massive cult bureaucracy; 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. See Division.

OSA, Office of special affairs. The "dirty work" department, the cult's KGB. Took over from the GO, Guardian's Office, when the GO's leaders went to jail for infiltrating government offices, stealing and altering official files that put the cult in a bad light. "OSA Int - Office of Special Affairs International - Oversees DSA (Director of Special Affairs) network as well as handling international external threats against the Church of Scientology and international legal matters." - Jonathon Barbera. Also called GOSA as a pun on GO+OSA, and as a means of putting the lie to the constant PR refrain that "we've reformed; we're no longer criminals". Yeah, right. Only the name changed, in fact; the dirty tricks and harassment operations continue to this day. Just ask any of the ars regulars for examples; many have first-hand experience. OSA Int is now located at the HGB, qv.

OT, 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. Note: most of the OT levels have been modified over time, sometimes extensively. These modifications are designated "New OT (level)".

OT I, (OT 1), comes after completing OT eligibility and OT preps (qv), this consists of walking about and counting people until one has a "win", and similar god-like procedures. EP (End Phenomena) is to extrovert a being, and bring about an awareness of himself in relation to others and the physical universe. Also called OT (Operating Thetan) orientation. OT I has had various incarnations over the years. BTW, there's this swamp land I've got for sale 