Post by Wieber » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:03 am

The next TR is TR 0. This is just like OT TR 0 except now you do it with your eyes open.



It’s been a while and I can’t remember all the numbers. Anyway the next thing is a TR something or other bull bait. In this one you tromp on your partners buttons. Button is scienospeak for an area of embarrassment or discomfort. So if you partner has acne you would say something like, “Hey pimple face!” Then when he reacts to that you say, “flunk” for whatever reason and you start in again, “Hey pimple face!” Eventually he gets to a point where “Hey pimple face!” no longer bothers him.



There’s a benefit to doing this, but I would recommend you stay away from it. Learn to control your negative responses to things on your own. You’ll be better off.



This is a difficult drill to get started on. I had a hard time with it at first. Many others do, as well. Eventually you figure it out.



Then you do several drills in which you use phrases from Alice in Wonderland.



After that come the upper indocs. Indoc being scienospeak for indoctrination.



I want to put a quote here from 1984 from the essay in the appendix called “The Principals of Newspeak.”



“Even in the early decades of the twentieth century, telescoped words and phrases had been one of the characteristic features of political language; and it had been noticed that the tendency to use abbreviations of this kind was most marked in totalitarian organizations. Examples were such words as Nazi, Gestapo, Comintern, Inprecor, Agitprop. In the beginning the practice had been adopted as it were instinctively, but in Newspeak it was used with a conscious purpose. It was perceived that in thus abbreviating a name one narrowed and subtly altered its meaning, by cutting out most of the associations that would otherwise cling to it. The words Communist International, for instance, call up a composite picture of universal human brotherhood, red flags, barricades, Karl Marx and the Paris Commune. The word Comintern, on the other hand, suggest merely a tightly-knit organization and a well-defined body of doctrine. It refers to something almost as easily recognized, and as limited in purpose, as a chair or table. Comintern is a word that can be uttered almost without taking thought, whereas Communist International is a phrase over which one is obliged to linger at least momentarily.”



In scienospeak, organization becomes org; distribution secretary becomes dist sec; executive director becomes ED (most people say “ee dee.” Hubbard himself used Ed as in Ed Sullivan); in charge becomes I/C; counter intention is CI; facsimile becomes fac. This brief selection of examples is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg as it were.



A major upper indoc TR occurs when you go into a sound proof room and yell at an ash tray. I was paired up with a young blonde skinny guy with glasses – and pimples. We went into the furnace room of the org. (What an ugly word – org.) The idea behind this drill is to become skilled at giving an order that will bypass any and all intermediary barriers and be obeyed without question or hesitation. These drills, by the way are done both ways, so you also become skilled at obeying an order without question or hesitation.



What you are doing in this drill is only occupying your space and the space of the ash tray. Then you give it commands to “stand up” and “sit down in that chair.” So that’s what we did. First you yell the commands as loud as you can. Then when your throat wears out you speak them in a normal voice. So you tell the ash tray to stand up and then you raise it up off the seat of the chair and into the air above your head. Then you tell it to sit down in the chair and you lower it onto the chair. You repeat this until you have a win. We repeated it until we thought we had a win. We were new at all this so we weren’t exactly sure if we had had a win or not. But we knew when we had had enough.



The next drill is one where you get another person to look at a wall and then go over to it and touch it. The person you do this to is supposed to give you as much grief and resistance as possible to prevent you from having your orders carried out and you by using intention get the other person to obey the commands. This is actually quite a lot of fun. So is bull baiting by the way.



I finished the course in about a week as I was doing it twelve hours a day. Sometime during all this I let it slip to Norma Staunton that I had a $1000 bond saved up. Back then university tuition for the year was $800 and a place to live was $500 for six months.



When I had finished the course Norma comes up and says, “I have a great idea.” And her great idea was that I cash in my bond and buy word clearing method 1. “Just a suggestion,” says Norma and walks away.



I went into agreement with this very quickly. I went home, handled my parents’ antagonism, cashed my $1000 bond, found some more money and took the whole lot back to the org and gave it to Norma. I think that without the conditioning of the course I had just completed I wouldn’t have been so easy to handle. (Norma being a public registrar got something like a ten percent commission, which more than made up for her cigarettes that I smoked. Regular registrars get a one percent commission with bonuses for high stats.)



I have more to tell about this period of time but while we’re on the subject of money, I have this observation. Hardly a day goes by where someone involved with the org doesn’t ask you for money for something. Just about every time you go to the org you come away with less money than you went with.



The image that comes to mind is of an African Massai tribe shooting an arrow into a bull’s neck so they can harvest his blood, mix it with milk and drink it. The only thing is I’m the bull with the arrow in the neck. But it isn't just about me. Just about anyone in scientology is the bull with the arrow in their neck.