By Lana

Have you ever stopped to reflect on how many parishioners, staff members and Sea Org members are no longer on lines?

I used to work at the Int base when there were 800+ staff — and I witnessed the offload or declare or blow of hundreds, till the base was down to less than 200 remaining. I have no idea how many are there now, but rumour is that it is even lower.

There have been significant events in Scientology history that had resulted in the departure or ejection of parishioners, field auditors, mission holders, org staff and Sea Org members. My very basic (and incomplete list) is:

the Mission Holders Conference and declares in 1982

the cancellation of auditor certificates with the Golden Age of Tech in 1994

the implementation of the New Era of Management in 1995

the revised SOLO NOTs procedure in 1997 (that began the endless sec checking and arbitraries for SOLO auditors)

the Ideal Org evolution, forcing donations from locals to fund expensive ornate buildings

the offload of more than 3/4s of the staff at the Int base

the basic books and lectures evolution

I am sure that in the last 13 years there have been many more major incidents within the Church that I am not aware of and that our readers can fill me in on.

If you go through the Church ranks today you will find no ‘old timers’. This is not just a matter of those who were around in the 50’s and 60’s now being deceased, but you won’t find the Class VI’s, Class VIIIs, Class IX’s or Class XIIs from the 70’s, 80’s or 90’s around. Where did they go?

Most of them are now in the field — no longer active as Scientologists. Each has a story and none of them are happy endings.

In the last 10 years, as anti-Scientology efforts outside the church have escalated, the C of S has increased pressure on those within their walls, forcing disconnections from those deemed to be in bad standing, verbal declares, and heavy ethics for those found to be surfing the internet, etc.

All pretty heavy stuff.

But despite all of this, if you have a field that is filled with offline parishioners, staff and Sea Org members – most of whom have upsets with the Church, or have been dead filed or declared or over-regged to a point where they are in financial ruin — wouldn’t an ARCX program be the obvious way to deal with the problem?

It is covered in the OEC Vol 6 references for the Chaplain. It is detailed thoroughly in the Book of Case Remedies. But these don’t get applied and it is heavy, heavy ethics, injustices, sec-checking and more. The only way for online Scientologists to progress up The Bridge is to toe the line, donate, donate and donate some more, and jump when they are told to jump, disconnect when they are told to disconnect.

How any preclear or pre-OT can make case-gain under such duress is beyond me.

But further, why would the C of S not issue an amnesty, call a truce, extend open-arms, forgive and start to clean up the ARCxs and injustices and off-policy actions?

Why not apply LRH tech to get people winning and making case gain — regardless of whether they are no longer in the SO, no longer on staff? The millions of dedicated hours put in by past staff and Sea Org members, the billions that has been contributed by parshioners (through service donations, IAS status donations, amends and book sales) is surely sufficient to warrant the handling of bypassed charge and the smoothing of waters in the field?

But no — it is not done and has not been done in years.

There is benefit in keeping the experienced and long-term Scientologists off the lines. Particularly those that worked with or under LRH.

There is benefit in keeping the field muddy and people unhappy and away from church lines.

COB’s off-policy and out-tech alterations of LRH tech need to be unchecked, unquestioned, unchallenged.

The best way to do that is to keep people from noncomplying.

You either cooperate, or you are out on your ear. You follow directions — no matter how off the rails — or you are out, and in many cases, without your spouse, your children, your family and friends.

And what do you have to do if you suddenly find yourself outside of the Church walls (either voluntarily fleeing, or tossed out without consent)?

Well you have no money (and often vast debts to boot). You have no comm lines, and in many cases have to rebuild them entirely. New jobs have to be found – and if you were a long time Sea Org member, you have to come up with a way to get along economically in the world with no references, no CV, no networks.

And on top of this, you have your BPC, upset and mysteries about “what the heck just happened???” Or maybe you were on the endless SOLO NOTs treadmill and still don’t know up from down as you were sec checked so much you went up your own backside. Or maybe you were in the SO for over 20 years and never moved beyond ARC Straightwire and still don’t have personal reality on the gains available from The Bridge that you helped to put there for others.

I have concluded that all of this is by design. It is no accident.

There is no ARCX clean up program as there is no desire to get any of us back on lines. And there are lots and lots and lots and lots of us. We are expendable. We don’t have the money they want to fill Church coffers, and we tend to be a little too disagreeable or insistent that LRH tech is actually followed and applied.

So… other than a rant… what is my point?

I know something can be done about it – and no, I am not referring to a vile blog by that name.

It wouldn’t be hard to get our own ARCX program running in the field — certainly not to get people back onto C of S lines – but to alleviate bypassed charge, resolve and give relief on earlier out-tech, fly ruds and just bring back that FN feeling.

There are auditors – in the US, in Canada, in Australia, in the UK, in Europe.

No matter what some say, you can kick a Scientologist out of the Church (or force them to depart), but it is not so easy for the Church to stop a person being a Scientologist.

What is true for you is true for you.

There was a purpose at one point — no matter how thwarted it may now be.

There was personal gain at one stage — even if that was decades ago.

The Church is no longer Scientology — it is a squirrel group gone mad, claiming to be Scientology.

Let’s get the LRH handlings into place to bring about some relief for those in the field – even if for only one purpose…

…To bring back that FN feeling.

*** AFTERNOTE: If you would like to find out if there is an auditor near you, or just connect up with some active Scientologists in the field (not connected to the C of S), please write to lana@hushmail.com and we will do our best to network you to those in your region.