Scientology® Terminology Online Dictionary and Index

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1.1

see One One

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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."

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Aberrate

to make something diverge from a straight line. The word comes basically from optics.

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Aberrated

Hubbard's term for derangement or insanity. "The wog world is heavily aberrated." Departed from rationality, deranged. (from TD)

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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."

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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 labelled 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.

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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."

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Ack

see Acknowledgement.

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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."

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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.

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Action

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

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AD

After Dianetics. Used on issues such as HCOB's and HCOPL's (Hubbard Communication Office Bulletin's and Policy Letters) to show the year. It's 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Affinity

used as a synonym for love or like.

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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."

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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!"

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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 mileau 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."

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Anaten

a composite of two words, "analytical and attenuation, or partial or complete dilution or weakening of the functions of the analytical mind. The preclear goes "unconscious" for a moment in the session. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15)

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Anger

1. True anger is a hate hold. At exactly 1.5 on the tone scale we have a total ridge. It's hate. When we move a little above or below 1.5 we get a dispersal.
2. Anger is simply the process of trying to hold everything still. (from SOS glossary)

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Apathy

1. Complete withdrawal from person and people. There is in apathy no real attempt to contact one's self and no attempt to contact others. Here we have a null point of dissonance which is on the threshold of death.
2. A very docile and obedient, if sick, state of not-beingness.
3. No effort, all counter-effort. 5. Apathy, near death, imitates death. If a person is almost all wrong, he approximates death. He says, "What's the use? All is lost." (from SOS glossary)

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Antagonism

at the level of tone 2.0, affinity is expressed as antagonism, a feeling of annoyance and irritation caused by the advances of other people toward the individual. (from SOS glossary)

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AO

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

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Apollo

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

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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."

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ARC-X

see ARC Break

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ARC break

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

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ARC breaky

describing someone who is prone to ARC breaks, q.v.

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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, while (Eng) indicates the term is plain English, with no special Scientology meaning, included because of frequent use, topicality, or confusion with Scientologese. (net) refers to terms gleaned off the Internet.

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ARSCC

Alt.Religion.Scientology Central Committee; It's 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 'CAN' (the Cult Awareness Network). ARS CC (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 ARS CC, so it's 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 )

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ASI

See Author Services Incorporated

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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.

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Attention Unit

a theta energy quantity of awareness existing in the mind in varying quantity from person to person. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15)

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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."

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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.

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Author Services Incorporated

a Scientology front-group who's purpose is to skim money out of the organization and channel it to the person at the top, formerly L. Ron Hubbard. Also called ASI or just Author Services.

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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.

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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."

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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." (Eng)

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Basher

a person who is critical of Scientology. A Freezone term, q.v. "Don't listen to him; he's just a basher." (act)

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Basic Basic

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

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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!"

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Beingness

1. The assumption or choosing of a category of identity. *Beingness* is assumed by oneself or given to oneself, or is attained. Examples of *beingness* would be one's own name, one's profession, one's physical characteristics, one's role in a game - each and all of these things could be called one's *beingness*.
2. The person one should be in order to survive.
3. Essentially, an identification of self with an object. (from TD)

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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."

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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.

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BIS

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

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Black Hats

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

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Blanketing

this incident consists of throwing oneself as a thetan over another thetan or over a mest body. Blanketing is done to obtain an emotional impact or even to kill. It is strongest in sexual incidents where the thetan throws two mest bodies together in the sexual act in order to experience their emotions. (HOM, p. 62)

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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!"

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Body Raisins

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

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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.

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Body Thaytans

see BT's (ars)

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Body Thetans

see BT's.

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Boil-off

1. v. To become groggy and seem to go to sleep. (HFP, p. 100)
2. n. Usually a flow running too long in one direction. (XDN No. 4, 7204C07)

Boil-off was originally and sedately named "comatic reduction," but such erudition has been outvoted by the fact that it has never been used. (DMSMH p. 303)"

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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."

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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."

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Book One

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

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Boredom

1. Boredom is not just not doing anything. Boredom is an eddying back and forth which on its lower harmonic becomes pain and on a lower harmonic becomes agony.
2. Boredom is not a state of inaction. It is a state of idle action, vacillating action where penalties are yet in existence, and where they are grave, but a state in which one has decided he can't really do anything about them. It's just a high-toned apathy.

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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."

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BPI

1. See Bridge Publications. 2. Broad Public Issue; a notification on Hubbard Communication Office Bulletins (HCOB's) and HCOPL's (HCO Policy Letters) showing issue authority and distribution.

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BPL

Board Policy Letter, a precursor to the HCOPL, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, q.v.

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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 (q.v.) and OT levels. At the lower levels the grades and classes or classifications correspond, this pretty much stops after Class 6 (Saint Hill Special Briefing Course).

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Bridge Publications

the cult's publishing business; also called simply Bridge or BPI (Bridge Publications International.)

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BT

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

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BTB

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

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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. "The noise next door is coming from the students doing their bullbaiting."

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Cal Mag

Calcium/Magnesium mixture of unlimited restorative powers, according to self-proclaimed scientist, L. Ron Hubbard. See Guk Bomb.

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CAN

the Cult Awareness Network, 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.

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Cancelbunny/Cancelpoodle

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

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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!"

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Cans

electrodes for the E-meter. Steel soup or vegetable cans, unpainted, tops cleanly removed, label and glue washed off, tin plated or not, have been standard for many years. It is with these that calibbration has been done. (HCOB, 14 Jul 70)

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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.

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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."

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Case Supervisor

see C/S.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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Cedars

the short name for the giant blue Cedars of Lebanon complex in Los Angeles, formerly a hospital, now the world headquarters of Scientology, and home to many Organizations including ASHO (the American Saint Hill Organization), AOLA (the Advanced Organization of Los Angeles), CCHR (the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights), IHELP (the International Ecclesiastical League of Pastors), OSA (the Office of Special Affairs), and many others.

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Celebrity Center

see CC.

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Central Committee

see ARSCC.

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Chain

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

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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.'"

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CI

see Counter-intention, Intention.

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Clam

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

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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 become a running joke on ars, with threads about clambakes, clamchowder, snapping clams, clams in .sigs, etc.

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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, q.v. See Bridge.

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Class IV Org

see Org.

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Class XII Org

see Org.

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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.

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Class 6

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

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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.

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Class 8 C/S

a Case Supervisor (q.v.) trained to C/S folders up to a high level. Also, Class VIII.

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Class XII Auditor

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

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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."

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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!"

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Cleared Theta Clear

1. a person who is able to create his own universe; or, living in the mest universe is able to create illusions perceivable to others at will, to handle mest universe objects without mechanical means and to have and feel no need of bodies or even the mest universe to keep himself and his friends interested in existence.
2. next level above theta clear (which is cleared of the need to have a body)
3. one who has full recall of everything and full ability as a thetan. (Scn 8-8008, p. 114) 5. ... the thetan is immortal and is possessed of capabilites well in excess of those hitherto predicted for man. (Scn 8-8008, p. 9)

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Cluster

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

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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 onboard his ships. CMO Int (International) is based in LA, in a large building across the street from the Cedars of Lebanon Center.

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COB RTC

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

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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?

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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."

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Cognitive dissonance

a Psych term! (Disparaging Scientology slang for Psychiatrists) Horrors! It simply means the inability to fit two disparate concepts into one's mind. For example, a dichotomy like "I spent $300,000 dollars for all this" and "It's 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. (Eng)

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Command Intention

what upper management wants done; meant to imply that Scientology's management is OT, and quite capable of acheiving anything. See Intention, Counter-intention.

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Conservatism

at 3.0 on the tone scale we have the person who is democratic, but who is somewhat more conservative than the liberal at 3.5 in his attitudes and more given to social regulations, being more in need of them. (from SOS glossary)

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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.

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CoS

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

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Counter-effort

1. The *effort* which *counters* one's survival.
2. Any *effort* the environment can exert against you.
3. What we're talking about when we talk about a *counter-effort is the force of impact of an engram. The force of impact which gives the pc an engram is a *counter-effort*. (from TD)

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Counter-emotion

any *emotion* that is *countering* an existing *emotion*. (from TD)

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Counter-thought

you think one thing somebody else thinks another. Their *thought* is *counter* to your thought. (from TD)

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Counter-intention

resistance to authority, disobedience. "Any more CI on my lines from you, buster, and I'm routing you to Ethics to get your overts standardly handled." See Intention.

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Covert hostility

around 1.1 on the tone scale we reach the level of covert hostility. Here the hatred of the individual has been socially and individually censured to a point where it has been suppressed, and the individual no longer dares demonstrate hate as such. He yet possesses sufficient energy to express some feeling on the matter, and so what hatred feels comes forth covertly. All manner of subterfuges may be resorted to. The person may claim to love others and to have the good of others as his foremost interest: yet, at the same moment, he works, unconsciously or otherwise, to injure or destroy the lives and reputations of people and also to destroy property. (from SOS glossary)

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Cracked

describing a Case Gain (q.v.) 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!"

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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 VGI's on my PC."

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Criminal

1. One who is unable to think of the other fellow, unable to determine his own actions, unable to follow orders, unable to make things grow, unable to determine the difference between good and evil, unable to think at all on the future. Anybody has some of these; the criminal has ALL of them.
2. One who thinks help cannot be on any dynamic or uses help on anyone to injure and destroy.
3. Criminals are people who are frantically attempting to create an effect long after they know they cannot. They cannot then create decent effects, only violent effects. Neither can they work. (from TD)

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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.

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CSI

Church of Scientology international. Officially a non profit 501 (c) organization.

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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."

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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 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)

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Day

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

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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 DB's; without the tech, they won't make it."

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DC-8

Douglas jet aircraft resembling the Boeing 707, and used for trans-Atlantic flights starting in the late 1950's. 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? Dead Agenting, see D/A.

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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."

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Ded

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

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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.

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Ded-dedex

1. The overt-motivator sequence went backwards. You hit Joe, then he hits you. Although it went this way you had it figured out that he must have hit you first. So you invented something that he did to you to motivate your hitting him. (SH Spec 83, 6612C06)
2. where the preclear all out of his own imagination has done something to somebody else and then it has been done to him. (PAB 18) An overt act (which may also be covert or accidental) is an incident which the preclear does to another dynamic. A DED is an incident the preclear does to another dynamic and for which he has no motivator - i.e., he punishes or hurts or wrecks something the like of which has never hurt him. Now he must justify the incident. He will use things which didn't happen to him. He claims that the object of his injury really deserved it, hence the word, which is a sarcasm. A DEDEX is an incident which happens to a preclear _after_ he has a DED. It is always on the same chain of subject, is always after the DED. It means the DED EXposed. It is covered guilt. Its effect on the preclear is out of all proportion to the actual injury to him. A degrader is an incident or a chain of incidents whereby a low-toned person seeks to bring down the tone of a higher-toned person...If the preclear is prone to degraders, he has a DED-DEDEX situation on the same dynamic he permits to degrade him. If he accepts criticism from women, he has a DED-DEDEX on women - History of Man Pages 85-86. DED: an incident the pc does to another dynamic and for which he has no motivator -- i.e., he punishes or hurts or wrecks something the like of which has never hurt him. DEDEX: an incident which happens to the pc _after_ he has a DED. It is always on the same chain or subject, is always after the DED. It means the DED exposed. It is covered guilt. Its effect on the pc is all out of proportion to the actual injury to him. Glossary, Scientology: 8-80

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Degraded Being

see DB.

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Delusion

a belief in something which is contrary to fact or reality resulting from deception, misconception, or misassignment. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15)

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Deprogramming

a desperate ploy to recover lost children involved in a cult, usually at the parent's behest; employs kidnapping and coercive persuation to re-invoke the cult victim's former personality from before involvement. Now largely discredited in favour of exit counselling, which is only done on a consentual basis.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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Div 1

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

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Div 2

Dissemination.

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Div 3

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

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Div 4

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

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Div 5

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

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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.

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Div 7

Executive Division.

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DM

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

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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.

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Doingness

the act of doing something. See Beingness.

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Downstat

or Down Stat

1. 1. Describing the horrible condition of losing that all-important production statistic; also, a general term of derogation. "My local Class IV looks so Down Stat; it's dark, dingy, dirty, and squalid, not to mention grotty."
2. 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.

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Dreamball

a Freezone term. Describes people who are superior to meatballs, q.v., or ordinary people. (act)

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Drug Rundown

there's 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's 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's his admitted use of drug compounds on his guinea-pig followers.

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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?"

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Dynamics

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

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ED

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

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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.

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E-meter

1. the E-meter is a religious artifact used as a spiritual guide in the Church confessional...(HCO PL 24 Sept 73 VII) The E-meter is not intended nor effective for the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of any disease...(Scn Abridged Dictionary)
2. The meter tells you what the preclear's mind is doing when the preclear is made to think of something. The meter registers before the preclear becomes conscious of the datum. It is therefore a pre-conscious meter. It passes a tiny current through the preclear's body. This current is influenced by the mental masses, pictures, circuits and machinery. When the unclear pc thinks of something, these mental items shift and this registers on the meter. (from TD)

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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.

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Eng

English. Used in the FAQ to show a word is sourced from plain English, and isn't derived from Scientologese, q.v. See ARS.

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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. (Eng)

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Engram

a mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness, and a real or fancied threat to survival; it is a recording in the mind of something which actually happened to the preclear in the past which contained pain and unconsciousness, both of which recorded in the mental image picture called an engram. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15)

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Entheta

Bad Vibes. "This Usenet Newsgroup is so full of Entheta it's restimulating my bank."

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Enturbulation

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

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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."

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EP

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

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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.!"

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Ethics

Ethics actually consist, as we can define them now in Dn, of rationality toward the highest level of survival for the individual, the future race, the group, and mankind, and the other dynamics taken collectively. The highest ethic level would be long-term survival concepts with minimal destruction, along any of the dynamics. (from TD)

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Evil Purpose

an implanted evil goal given to us millions or billions or trillions of years ago in Implant stations (there's one on Mars) and still influencing our everyday lives, according to Hubbard.

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Exit counselling

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. (Eng)

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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 PI's. 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.

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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 7's and 8's 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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Fac One

was an outright control mechanism, invented cut down rebel raids on invader installations. It was probably designed by the Fourth Invader and used by him in its original state and "ritual" for a considerable time. It gave him a nice, noncombative, religiously insane commmunity. (Page 73, HOM)

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Facsimile

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

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Facsimile

1. Any mental picture, that is unknowingly created and part of the time track is a *facsimile*, whether an engram, secondary, lock or pleasure moment.
2. A theta recording. All physical perceptions, all effort, emotion and thought which a person experiences are recorded continuously, and these recordings are called *facsimiles*. They are not dependent upon an organism for their continued existence. Any *facsimile* which has been recorded is there to be recalled - when the individual has risen high enough on the tone scale, when he has regained enough of his self-determinism.
3. An energy picture made by a thetan or the body's machinery of the physical universe environment. It is like a photograph. It is made of mental energy. It means copy of the physical universe.
4. The pictures contained in the reactive mind.
5. A full *facsimile* is a sort of three-dimensional color picture with sound and smell and all other perceptions plus the conclusions or speculations of the individual.
6. A simple word meaning a picture of a thing, a copy of a thing, not the thing itself.
7. A *facsimile* is an energy picture which can be reviewed again. A *facsimile* contains more than fifty easily identified perceptions. It also contains emotion and thought.
8. Means the physical universe impression on thought and it means that section of thought which has a physical universe impression on it and it has a time tag on it. (from TD)

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FACTnet

Fight Against Coercive Tactics network; a cult information BBS with numerous files on the Scientology cult and others. (net)

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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's 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."

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Fall

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

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Fastflow

able to zip through course checksheets because of superliteracy obtained from M1 word clearing.

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FDN

Foundation, q.v.

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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!"

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Fear

1. A condition of alertness for counter-efforts that threaten survival.
2. A fast uncontrolled flow. 3. The emotion of fear and the dispersal of energy are one and the same thing because the dispersal of energy makes one feel like he wants to run away. (from SOS glossary)

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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's hard to get new Raw Meat in and onto our lines!"

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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.

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Fifth invader force

a thetan from the fifth invader force believes himself to be a very strange insect-like creature with unthinkably horrible hands. He believes himself to be occupying such a body, but is in actuality simply a unit capable of producing space, time, energy and matter. (Scn. 8-8008, p. 132)

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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 1980's."

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Firefight

The action of a quarrel between an auditor and a pc is called a firefight. (HCOB 21 Apr. 71RB)

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Fixed Attention Units

attention units which are caught somewhere down the time track in one incident or another in the form of entheta. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15)

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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 L's at Flag, and my case was really cracked!"

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Flub

a mistake made in the auditing "therapy."

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Flubless

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

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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!"

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FO

Flag Order, a blue-on-white written directive similar to Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letters, HCOPL's.

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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.

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Foundation

one of the two groups inside a Class IV 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.

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FR or F/R

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

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Franchise

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

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Freedom

Scientology's newspeak-monikered propaganda newsletter.

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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.

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Freewinds

the SO-run (Sea Org) ship that cruises around tropical ports and gives the OT-8's (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!

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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 Freezone is a little more liberal than the hard-core Churchies, as they like to call people in the cult proper, yet they often still have the trappings of Scientology, for example, the E-Meter, the concepts of Ethics, Overts (bad deeds), Conditions, and the use of disparaging terms for outsiders, (Meatballs, Bashers, Wogs, etc.)

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FSM

Field Staff Member. They recruit people into Scientology for a 15% profit of purchased services.

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FZ

see Freezone. (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."

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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.

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Generality

a general or non-specific statement which is applicable to all and used in Scientology to connotate a statement made in an effort to either hide cause or to overwhelm another person with the all-inclusive. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15)

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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.

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GO

Guardian's Office. The cult's KGB, responsible for attacking SPs, (Suppressive Persons; people who disagree with Scientology) 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.

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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 Nazi's and the Third Reich gererally 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!"

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GPM

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

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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 fo the Reactive Mind; the place where all the memories of pain and unconciousness 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. See also Class, Bridge, Level. The typical sequence for processing then goes up the Grades.

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Grade 0

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

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Grade 1

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

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Grade 2

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.

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Grade 3

deals with Upsets.

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Grade 4

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.

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Grade 4.5

recently (last decade or so) New Era Dianetics (NED, q.v.) was put here, if a person 'goes clear' on new era dianetics the grades 5,6,7 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.

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Grade 5

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.)

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Grade 6

preparation for the Clearing Course. R6EW, Route Six, End Words. End Words are a kind of verbal lock that keeps the reactive mind or whatever in restimulation.

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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.

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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.

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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 IV Orgs, lower level Orgs, uplines to higher level Orgs that run the course) that contain Scientology policy. See "Red Vols, OEC."

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Grief

1. A ridge and is occasioned by loss.
2. Grief takes place where one recognizes his loss and failure as in the death of somebody he loved and tried to help. (from SOS glossary)

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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."

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HASI

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

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Hat

1. noun. A post or job. "She's wearing the Ethics Hat now."
2. verb. To train for a post or job. "He is fully Hatted as the MAA."

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Hard way TRs

demand for a start, two hours of no twitch, no blink, no eye redness, no unconscious, no wiggle TR Zero. Really real TRs beginning with Zero. Like the Bulletin. (LRH Exec Directive 143 Int'l.)

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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.

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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.

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HCOB

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

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HCOPL

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

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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."

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High Crime

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

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Hill 10

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

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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.

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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.

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HQS

Hubbard Qualified Scientologist course.

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Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard. See "Ron."

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Hubbardese

see Scientologese.

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Hubbardite

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

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IAS

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

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I/C

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

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I-HELP

International Ecclesiastical League of Pastors; a cult front-group headquartered in Los Angeles across the street from the main building of the old blue Cedars of Lebanon complex.

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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."

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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."

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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.

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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.

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Indicate

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

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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."

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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."

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Interiorization

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

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Invalidation

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

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Invalidation

1. Refuting or degrading or discrediting or denying something someone else considers to be fact.
2. Any thought, emotion or effort, or counter-thought, counter-emotion or counter-effort which denies or smothers the thought, emotion or effort of the individual.
3. *Invalidation* by words is the symbolic level of being struck.
4. Basically, non-attention. Attention itself is quite important for attention is necessary before an effect can be created.
5. *Invalidation* is force applied. You apply enough force to anybody and you've *invalidated* him. How *invalidated* can he get? Dead! (From TD)

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Issue Authority

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

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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."

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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!"

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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.

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Kobrigram

a threatening letter sent to a net.surfer or sysop from Scientology lawyer Helena Kobrin, also know as the Ho' of Babalon.

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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)

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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."

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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?

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KSW

Keeping Scientology Working. A series of HCOPL's, 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?)

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KSW course

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

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KTL Course

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

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L's, L10, L11, and L12

Special, extremely expensive Rundowns done by Class XII auditors (Scientology "therapists") who shout at the PC (patient) holding the soup cans electrodes of the Scientology E-Meter. The L's 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.

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Lazarus

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

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Level

see Class, Grade.

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LF

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

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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.

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Life Repair

see Grades.

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Lines

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

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List One

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

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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."

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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."

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M1 or M1 Word Clearing

one of the 7 to 9 methods of word clearing used in Scientology. M1 is done on a Meter, and locates charge or upset on words misunderstood on the wholetrack or last 75 trillion years. M1 makes the recipient Superliterate, and able to fast flow through course checksheets without doing clay demos or checkouts.

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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.)

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Marcab Confederacy

a galactic confederation and the denizens thereof. It's 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."

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Marcab Confederacy

various planets united into a very vast civilization which has come forward up through the last 200,000 years, [it] is formed out of the fragments of earlier civilizations. In the last 100,000 years they have gone on with a sort of a decadent kicked-in-the-head civilization that contains automobiles, business suits, fedora hats, telephones, spaceships. A civilization which looks [like an] almost exact duplicate but is worse off than the current U.S. civilization. (SH Spec 291, 6308C06)

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Meatball

A derogatory Freezone (people who practice Scientology "tech", but who have left the cult proper) term for people who don't believe in their strange ideas. (act)

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Megalomaniac

a person who has delusions of grandeur, wealth, power, etc. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15)

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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."

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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.

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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.

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Mest

A coined word, meaning *matter*, *energy*, *space* and *time*, the physical universe. (from TD)

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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."

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Misemotional

1. Such a word would indicate that a person did not display the *emotion* called for by the actual circumstances of the situation.
2. Being *misemotional is synonymous with being irrational. (from TD)

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Mission

the Newspeak-corrected term for a cult franchise. Last heard, the package used to set up a Mission could be bought for $20,000. Trouble is, if your Mission ever makes it, it will be taken away from you. Also, a set of orders given to Missionaires (Sea Org members sent to clay demo and carry out some orders) to go out and do an action, usually gathering money from other (lower-level) Scientology Orgs.

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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."

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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."

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Mock-up

1. verb. To get an imaginary picture of. (from TD)
2. noun.
   1. *Mock-up* is derived from the World War II phrase which indicated a symbolized weapon or area of attack. Here, it means in essence, something which a person makes up himself.
   2. A *mock-up* is more than a mental picture; it is a self-created object which exists as itself or symbolizes some object in the mest universe. It is a thing which one can be.
   3. A full perceptic energy picture in three dimensions created by the thetan and having location in space and time. Now, that's the ideal definition.
   4. We call a mental image picture a *mock-up* when it is created by the thetan or for the thetan and does not consist of a photograph of the physical universe.
   5. Any knowingly created mental picture that is not part of a time track. (from TD)

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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!'"

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Motivator

1. An aggressive or destructive act received by the person or one of the dynamics. It is called a *motivator* because it tends to prompt that one pays it back - it *motivates* a new overt.
2. . Something which the person feels has been done to him, which he is not willing to have happen.
3. An act received by the person or individual causing injury, reduction or degradation of his beingness, person, associations or dynamics.
4. An overt act against oneself by another. In other words, a *motivator* is a harmful action performed by somebody else against oneself. (from TD)

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M/U

Misunderstood word. The cult is fanatical about not going by one, and insists that everyone look things up in dictionaries and go through every definition. This becomes quite tedious with words like "to", "set", and "be." "Look up your M/U's and quit your nattering Mister, or I'll have you busted down to Ethics!"

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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's because you went by a word you didn't understand. If you think it's 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's your problem. Get it?

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Narconon

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

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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!"

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NED

New Era Dianetics. Dianetics on the wholetrack, your last 75 trillion years. NED for OT's 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.

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Net

used after a definition in this FAQ to show that the term is sourced from the Internet. See ARS.

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Neurotic

1. Considered to be below 2.5. The neurotic has thorough concern about the future to the degree that he has many more fears about the future than he has goals in the future. He spends much of his time pondering the past. He acts and wonders if he has acted correctly and is sure he has not. Thoughts to him are as solid as mest. He is overwhelmed by sudden counter- efforts. He is operating on a subcontrol center which has been itself very blunted. He is ill much of the time to a greater or lesser degree. He has colds. He brings "bad luck" and disaster. He is Homo Sapiens at his irrational worst.
2. A neurotic is a person who has some obsession or compulsion which overmasters his self-determinism to such a degree that it is a social liability. 5. The computation of present time only. (?)

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Newspeak

George Orwell's "1984" explication of applied semantics. "1984" provides much insight into the cult of Scientology, BTW. (Eng)

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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's all about making more money. See Conditions.

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NOTS

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

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Objectives

low-level "therapy" procedures meant to instil pliability