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17th March 2015, 14:16
#31
E-meter
I've had a fair amount of experience with E-meters including use on the upper levels called "solo auditing". For those who are not familiar with the term "auditing", it is just the $cientology term for counseling (in layman's terms). There are numerous types of "auditing".
I have found that E-meters are not always reliable as Hubbard would have us to believe. That is my experience. One can "audit", so to speak, without using an E-meter. It is just a tool, but I think too much emphasis is placed on it.
NanuXII talked about a "rock slam" on an E-meter a few posts ago. A "rock slam" is a wild, erratic behavior of the E-meter needle. It slashes back and forth. Hubbard said "a rock slam means a hidden evil intention on the subject or question under auditing or discussion." If that is true, then he must have had a sh*t load of them.
However, a rock slam needle action can occur due to equipment malfunctioning. I've seen it happen twice. Once when there was a bad connection in the can that one holds. Another time it was in the E-meter itself and it would come and go so it had me thinking that I was causing it until I realized what was going on. I ended up having to send the E-meter in for repairs. I no longer use an E-meter.
One of the more interesting uses for the E-meter is that it can be used as a monitoring tool in remote viewing and telepathic communication with a remote subject.
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17th March 2015, 15:08
#32
Auditing
Auditing is one of the most misunderstood subjects for those who have not experienced it or who have only had a limited experience with it. There can be benefits as to self-improvement and self-awareness with auditing if done properly. Unfortunately, there are sometimes adverse side effects to it, though, that have to be remedied with a different type of auditing by more advanced auditors. And sometimes the advanced auditors can't figure out what's going on so you're left hanging.
Auditing is one of the carrots that Hubbard used to keep people in $cientology. People often stayed in Scientology because of the benefits they were getting personally from auditing. However, I should point out that it is only a tool for self-improvement. It is not "the way", if you will. However, Hubbard claimed that it would save the world, end war and save the universe!
I've personally known many people who have achieved the highest levels of auditing and, frankly, I'm not impressed. I would rather hang out with my spiritually aware friends who have never had any auditing and who are more trustworthy, easier to get along with, are not bossy, are not phony and don't act like a know-it-all.
Hubbard made many fantastic claims about what auditing can do, but most of those claims are not true. He claimed that one would never get a cold again, that vision would be corrected, that IQ would go up dramatically, that psychosomatic illnesses would disappear (which he claimed included almost all illnesses), that one could come and go out of body at will, that one would achieve total spiritual freedom from the physical universe (matter, energy, space and time), etc, etc, ad nauseum.
However, that being said, I have to say that I have benefited from auditing. I have used it as a tool to become aware of myself as a spiritual being. I've used it (mostly without an E-meter) to recover the memories of many past lives thereby discovering who I am. It has been a useful tool for me to uncover the matrix in which we live.
There are problems with the way Hubbard set up the sequential steps of auditing which he called the "Bridge to Total Freedom", or just "the Bridge", for short. Because Hubbard's hidden intention was to achieve money and power, he set it up so that it was a very long, expensive process, which it needn't be.
There are two major carrots on the Bridge (see fantastic claims above) that Hubbard called "clear" and "OT". Both of these states of being are marketing ploys and do not exist in reality from doing his "Bridge".
Also, Hubbard modeled "the Bridge" after his own "case". Since Hubbard was a sociopath, you might be able to imagine what kind of problems that would create for the majority of people who are not sociopaths.
After Hubbard went into hiding, another sociopath, David Miscavige, gradually took control of the "church" of $cientology and screwed up auditing even more.
Some of the auditors who have left the "church" have tried to improve on the techniques but most of them can't seem to shake their allegiance to Hubbard or deprogram themselves of some of the erroneous technical conclusions that Hubbard made and strictly enforced.
Still, in my view, there is hope that a better system for self-improvement can evolve out of all this, but it all depends on whether people can shake off the "L Ron Hubbard", "Dianetics" and "$cientology" labels and separate the wheat from the chaff. This is not an easy task.
And to clarify I am not saying to throw out the bathwater with the baby. Just throw the baby out, then take the bathwater, filter it through charcoal and reverse osmosis, boil it thoroughly, distill it and then treat it with colloidal silver to make sure it is no longer polluted.
TLC
Last edited by TrumanLCash, 17th March 2015 at 17:10.
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17th March 2015, 16:55
#33