Here is the White House Petition response sent to my email address, the same response that was apparently sent to all who signed the peitition to EXAMINE THE GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY CRIME, FRAUD AND ABUSE:
From: The White House <info@messages.whitehouse.gov> To: rathbunmark@yahoo.com Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 6:19 PM Subject: Petition Response: Why We Can’t Comment on this Petition about the Church of Scientology
Why We Can’t Comment on this Petition about the Church of Scientology
The We the People Terms of Participation explain that “the White House may decline to address certain procurement, law enforcement, adjudicatory, or similar matters properly within the jurisdiction of federal departments or agencies, federal courts, or state and local government.” The Department of Justice is charged with investigating federal crimes and enforcing federal criminal laws. Accordingly, the White House declines to comment on the specific law enforcement matter raised in this petition.
Here is my response to that email:
Stay tuned to markrathbun.wordpress.com. You have made an election year error of magnitude.
I had already worked on an analysis and handling to post concerning an anticipated response such as this – it is about what I expected. I am holding it till early this week when a) the next installment of the St Pete Times has been aired and thoroughly discussed, and b) I am of a cooler, more rational frame of mind.
As many of you know I did not originate this petition, and have never advocated depending on any agency to solve the corrupt corporate church of Scientology. But, when I read the petition, I immediately signed on and encouraged others to do the same. Any injustice gone unremedied is another nail in the coffin of humanity. Now that we are engaged, the game ain’t over till the fat lady sings.
A little secret only Miscavige, Mike Rinder and I know. Remember all those confessions that Mike and I signed that corporate Scientology made such a big deal of in their Freedom mags? They were coerced as Mike and I have noted. However, there is a strong grain of truth to some of them. The ones where we take responsibility for alleged gigantic external legal and PR problems – what is true is that we did take responsibility for them. Now, here is the rub. We DID take responsibility for every tough break the church got in the past thirty years enroute to establishing immunity and Miscavige never did, even though his fingerprints were all over every loss. We hung in when the going got tough and ultimately saw that we prevailed on all fronts. Of course, Miscavige – who took no responsibility for any of the hard knocks suffered along the way – took all credit for the ultimate victories.
In other words, Miscavige is a fraud. A sniveling, punk coward. Not a single one of the billionaire Wall Street con men whose greed destroyed the US economy over the past decade was indicted, let alone convicted. For the very same reasons Miscavige – an habitual, repeat felon – walks free: MONEY. That – according to everything that the core principles of Scientology stand for, let alone the United States of America – denotes weakness of the most insidious kind.
We – on the other hand – are from the school of the hard knocks. We haven’t even broke a sweat in all the monkey business corporate Scientology has thrown our way over the past two years. Plan accordingly.
A society which in any way inhibits, suppresses or regiments its artists is a society not only low on the Tone Scale, but most certainly doomed. A totalitarian state, following its usual line of perversion of truth, talks endlessly about its subsidization of the artist, but it subsidizes only those artists who are willing to work for the state exactly as the state dictates. It regiments the artist and prescribes what he will do and what he will write and what he will think. This is in direct controversion to the function of the artist in society.
– L. Ron Hubbard, Science of Survival
Beware, apparently in a last-ditch power drive, death merchant David Miscavige is making a desperate foray into music and film.
After single handedly crippling the beingnesses and careers of such erstwhile giants as Tom Cruise and John Travolta, Miscavige is seeking to pimp out the entire Scientology creative pool in a vain effort to make Scientology hip.
Here is the latest use to which he has put the “church’s” most sacred, “religious” retreat:
He wants his “celebs” to “blow away”, “inspire”, and “empower” as many bots as he can to populate Hollywood, I suppose, to re-grip a power base that has for years been fading fast.
To understand just how Miscavige will use any such increase in the ranks to accelerate the decline of the image of Scientology through the arts, please see the latest from Tony Ortega at Village Voice, Scientology Chillin’ With Hip Hop; A Video That Cannot Be Unseen.
I have never seen the genre so shamelessly whored out. Not by the most brazen bling worshiping, gangster revering, drug promoting, mysogenist bad boys who nearly destroyed urban roots music and poetry. As bad as their influence was, there is a big distinction between them and Miscavige. The former, for the most part, were just trying to make enough cheddar to get out of the projects. Miscavige wants ALL the dough and wants to drive everybody into the projects in order to get it. Unfortunately for his empire, and fortunately for society at large, Miscavige’s enforced “art” is so repulsive it is probably the greatest guarantee he will never achieve his sordid aims.
Miscavige’s maniacal greed meltdown has reached out to and apparently destroyed the Mission network (the smaller “churches” that once provided introductory Scientology services to many people in just about every city of 1/2 million people or more). A very recent defector who was in a position to witness it all has risked his future relations with family and prospects for business to provide us with the facts. Meet my man Gabriel and be sure to let him know how you appreciate his courage.
I have served as a staff member in the mission network for a number of years. I have very current data in the SMI Network that corroborates what Mr. Rathbun, Mr. Rinder and so many others are reporting.
Currently the mission network is on the verge of collapse. In terms of management it has been completely unmocked. I know of three missions that have closed in the past year or so: Lake Charles, Lafayette, and Gulfport. Lafayette has been open for a decade and used to be pretty strong – until one of its Mission Holders (an OT) died of cancer. The other MH got a “handling” at Flag and came back saying that her SP was the MH Lake Charles. Need I say more?
Meanwhile the Gulfport mission, a new baby mission, got reged out of existence by PDU. PDU reges camped out at the MHes’ house and extracted approximately $2 million over the course of two years. The MH complained about paying the rent for the building to keep the mission open, and finally just shut it down. Of course, this was a DM mission from the get-go: no auditor, sup, or delivery terminal to start with, $50K in books in the garage, so what could you expect?
They got the first million from them to help pay for the Basics manufacturing facility. Which makes one wonder: did Dave have that bad boy paid in full by parishioner donos before the presses even started rolling?
Meanwhile many “missions” report no points in the Birthday Game, which equals “dead mission” (DM?).
The CO SMI EUS was transferred to WUS and stuck into the Pasadena Idle Org on mission never to return (until I guess it’s time to go put on a show at the next org). The CO SMI LATAM (who doesn’t speak English very well) was ripped to SMI EUS. No CO SMI LATAM replaced him, so that cont has no CO SMI.
A couple years ago, the SMI Officer Int, who was very strong in the mission network from everything I heard from MHes, Claire Edwards, vaporized. Rumors were that she went way up the line to Int. Now that I’ve been reading your blog I wonder if she might have gone way up the line to the Hole.
Mike Mason took the reins as Mission Consultancy Chief Int as the SMI leader, but also vaporized. I think RPF, then out, but I was not directly on those lines so not sure.
It is no exaggeration to say that 95% of all comm we get from SMI is: a) Basics sales b) IAS Donations c) Event Attendance d) Dianetics Seminars (which at first glance actually seems slightly closer to on-policy but actually is a joke)
There are no other stats or VFPs. This is all that we were judged by as of late 2011.
The latest push has been to hold a Dianetics Seminar every Saturday and Sunday in every mission. This is a totally bugged target. And heavy ethics were being applied. We actually had terminals from I think ILO calling the MHes and reminding them that their RTC Minimum Standards required them to hold a Dianetics Seminar. It was a thinly veiled threat: “Hold Dianetics Seminars every weekend or we’ll rip your licenses.” In desperation, mission staff took to shoving into the Seminar kids, staff, anybody – stretching out one person over three or four weekends a little at a time – anything (the CO SMI Int later reprimanded MHes at the conference for this very practice, verifying it was flagrant!)
When we didn’t have a Dianetics Seminar, it sounded like the cont CO was getting tortured. It was a huge deal.
And despite all this PUSH, DON’T DEBUG, DRIVE, seminar attendance remained very low even at the cont level.
More than a year before this point, SMI called the first SMI Conference that it had held since the Basics came out. That’s right, SMI had become such a book outlet that it didn’t even have a SMI Conference for years.
The SMI Conference was run directly by WDC Ideal Orgs, Blankenship. Same Blankenship that I learned from this blog went out-2D and has been paid for silence.
It was a surreal moment for me. Here the SMI Officer Int was gone up-lines, and SMI management was shredded from long-running missions to Idle Orgs, and yet here was WDC Ideal Orgs, as high up as you can get but an entirely different sector, running the SMI Conference!!! Talk about a total reversal!
Of course, I didn’t think about it too much. I had my own problems – how do I fill up this damn seminar every weekend? Especially because my CO SMI is reporting the data on the Dianetics Seminar progress directly to WDC Ideal Orgs.
This huge outpoint corroborates the data you have on Miscavige’s circle being so small and closing fast. There is a ton of pressure right now coming down on missions and I assume orgs to use DM’s magical Div 6 Routes (scripted PE in 2.5 hours with 100% guaranteed re-sign rate? Really?) and especially the HDS. I guess the new routes are DM’s “handle” on the fact that he has finally reached a point of desperation for fresh blood.
I will send more data when I can.
ML, Gabriel
Keep telling us about the man, Gabriel, just like Stevie:
Lyrics:
He’s a man
With a plan
Got a counterfeit dollar in his hand
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
Playin’ hard
Talkin’ fast
Makin’ sure that he won’t be the last
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
Makes a deal
With a smile
Knowin’ all the time that his lie’s a mile
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
Must be seen
There’s no doubt
He’s the coolest one with the biggest mouth
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
If you tell him he’s livin’ fast
He will say what do you know
If you had my kind of cash
You’d have more than one place to go oh
Oou…oou…oou oou…oou…
Any place
He will play
His only concern is how much you’ll pay
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
If he shakes
On a bet
He’s the kind of dude that won’t pay his debt
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
When you say that he’s living wrong
He’ll tell you he knows he’s livin’ right
And you’d be a stronger man
if you took Misstra Know-It- All’s advice oh oh
Oou…oou…oou oou…oou…
He’s a man
With a plan
Got a counterfeit dollar in his hand
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
Take my work
Please beware
Of a man that just don’t give a care no
He’s Misstra Know-It-All (Look out he’s coming)
Dum bum bum ba bum bum,
Dum bum bum ba bum bum
Bum bum bum bum bum Say
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
Can this line
Take his hand
Take your hat off to the man who’s got the plan
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
Every boy take your hand
To the man that’s got the plan
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
Give a hand to the man
Don’t you know darn well he’s got the super plan
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
Give a hand to the man
You know damn well he’s got the super plan
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
If we had less of him
Don’t you know we’d have a better land
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
So give a hand to the man
Although you’ve given out as much as you can
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
Check his sound out
He’ll tell it all
Hey
You talk too much you worry me to death
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
There’s a lot more to the story than what was in the St Pete Times. I’ll be doing a free workshop at the upcoming Freezone convention in Vegas on how to get your money back, not just the paperwork, releases and how to get those right, but the strategies as well. I also have the lines with the attorneys in Florida whether you are suing or not. (do not sign a gag order, period, call me if you need help now on a cycle) It took me 9 months and 16 days. When you see what really went down you won’t believe it.
I am certain it was my KR on Tommy Davis and Int Execs that got him put away. It got me months of “2 on 1” meetings with OSA, being refused service for 8 months unless I would change my mind. I assigned Int Execs treason for the lies and alteration of the most basic Scientology tech exposed in that interview by the very guys claiming to be “keeping the tech pure”. That was after I was going through hell for my KR on the gross revisions of the FPRD. As soon as I figure out how to do a blog I’ll have it all online. : )
Joe (Childs) was great, we spent months on the phone and he’s heard the real story, however I will never forgive him and Moe the photographer for not allowing me to smile or see the photo beforehand. I understand they want to make us look like we are “lost and hurt” from the suppression but OMG publishing that horrible photo of me on my 50th birthday for the world to see me as a poor victim?! Do I seem lost or hurt to you? I win everytime against them, period.
Remember The Little Yellow House? 1 million dollars, how did I do that? That’s another story and that also took 9 months of daily back and forth and threats of declare in my kitchen after 12 years of keeping that property from investors. I could write a book about the story of that property. But who won? They’ve only had a taste of me. Attempting to steal all that money off my account was the smallest crime they committed against me in 33 years. I handled that easily back in December of last year.
I’m still on post and I’m still working for LRH. They know I’m not going away. Okay you guys, are we ready to take it to the next level or what?!!! Anyone can reach me at
Tony Ortega at the Village Voice weighed in on the Money Machine series in the St Petersburg Times, Scientology’s Sale Pitch: “Pure and Simple Blackmail.” Tony made some interesting observations. One in particular deserves highlighting:
One of the most frequent questions we get about Scientology from people we meet is some variation of this: “You’ve written that the church is actually pretty small and losing people every day. So where is all this money coming from for new buildings?”
We have to admit, we never really had a very good answer for that. Until now.
The SP Times series, with most of it still to come, has already made us much more aware of how the “regging” process works, and how Scientologists constantly endure a hard-sell approach not only to pay for auditing services, but to make outright donations for new buildings, for memberships, and for books they already have copies of.
I take that as a strong validation of the work of Tom Tobin and Joe Childs and their dozens of sources. Since the mid 09 Truth Rundown series in the Times, Miscavige’s strategy has been to ignore facts, ignore reality, and make nothing of his own criminal conduct by constructing a BIG LIE. That lie was stated in its most blatantly over-the-top fashion in response to the Money Machine series:
The fact is that the church has expanded more in the past five years than in its previous 50, with new churches opening across the globe and our social and humanitarian programs extending our help across the planet on a weekly basis.
As we have known from the outset, this is brashest BIG LIE imaginable. I am glad to see that Tobin and Child’s work has put this lie to rest in such credible fashion that others are beginning to recognize.
The church is caught red-handed, with conviction-worthy evidence, of grand larceny and here is the totality of their defense:
The church characterized the unauthorized debits as a “misallocation of funds, not felony theft.” It said it considers parishioners’ pre-payments for services to be donations that become church property. So while diverting funds was not appropriate, it wasn’t theft.
“Indeed, in the United States, most parishioners claim tax deductions for their donations, indicating they have relinquished ownership of the funds,” the church said.
I have said it before and I’ll say it again here, David Miscavige has patently been engaged in systematic criminal behavior mis-using IRS tax exemption as a shield. Also, the title of this post was in reference specifically to this story. Notice how Carisa’s trust funds were only returned to mitigate the damage this very series of articles might cause Miscavige’s criminal operations. You can bet a number of atrocities will be ‘remedied’ by the church in response to this entire series – but only, only where Miscavige perceives that to do otherwise will be more painful than to return funds owed.
After detailing a series of hard sell horrors, including with the use of false imprisonment, the Times’ recounts Roccio Garcia’s story of being reged for basics packages in the auditing room of her auditor by her auditor. Please secure your beverage before reading the “church’s” response here:
The church denied that any of its auditors breached their ministerial duty.
It said church policy dating back to the 1950s requires auditors, as well as course room supervisors, to help parishioners get materials to further their spiritual pursuits.
“Ministers of every religion participate in disseminating the scripture and in fundraising,” the church said. “It is utterly offensive that the Times is questioning religious practice.”
No, what is utterly offensive is the cult of extortion and greed that David Miscavige operates in the name of Scientology.
See the latest video on the St Petersburg Times website, part of the ongoing Money Machine series: Luis Garcia and Synthia Fagen speak out in Basically Obsessed.
The St Petersburg Times has launched a multi-story series about the “church” of Scientology’s vulture culture. The several stories in the first installment focus on the revelations of former Flag Registrar Hy Levy and former Flag Public member Brian Culkin; both of them Independents. When you go to the link to read the stories, please be sure to watch the two video interviews with Hy and the one with Brian. They are intense and informative. Combined they describe with particulars how Miscavige has, in addition to creating a culture of violence, created a culture of unrelenting greed. the link, St Petersburg Times, The Money Machine. By all means share your comments here, but don’t forget to also weigh in on the St Pete Times website – don’t let the cult’s spamming trolls have their way. Thanks Hy and Brian, you have a done a tremendous service to the public on several levels.
By the way, note the “church” responses. They have lowered the bar from the even the days of Tommy Davis; the blatant falsity and incompetence are remarkable. Take this one for example:
” ‘Fundraisers do not persuade or pressure parishoners to take on debt’, spokewoman Pouw said.”
Now, compare that to this email sent around by Flag’s two veteran Los Angeles area Field Staff Members, Wendy Ettricks and Joanne Schintzel:
From: REttricks@aol.com
Sent: 12/30/2009 5:14:43 P.M. Pacific Standard Time
Subj: A Wonderful New Year for all of us
HELLO. WE WANTED TO WISH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY PROSPEROUS, HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR. THIS IS CERTAINLY THE YEAR TO STRETCH AND TAKE YOUR NEXT STEP ON THE BRIDGE. THE PLANET IS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE AND WE NEED LOTS AND LOTS OF OT’S.
NOW WITH WHAT’S BEING RELEASED AT THE NEW YEAR’S EVENT, THERE IS NO REASON FOR ANY OF US TO BE OFF THE BRIDGE. LET’S MAKE A BEAUTIFUL POSTULATE THAT THIS IS YOUR YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE MUST REMEMBER THAT THE BRIDGE GIVES ONE MORE WHEREWITHAL AND TIME TO DO EVEN MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE HAVE ALL THE TRUTH AND LEGACY OF LRH AND IT’S SO VITAL TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS RIGHT NOW. WE ARE GOING TO WIN AND WE WILL CLEAR THIS PLANET IN OUR LIFETIME. SO AS UNCOMFORTABLE AS IT MAY SEEM TO TAKE OUT LOANS, ETC. IT IS THE WINNING THING TO DO. YOUR SANITY AND ABILITIES SO OUTWEIGH THIS.
WE DO LOVE YOU AND WANT ONLY THE BEST FOR YOU. WE ARE HERE 24/7 TO HELP IN WHATEVER WAY WE CAN. SO LET’S DO IT. TAKE OUR NEXT STEP NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to share a few thoughts concerning the debate raging over spriritual philosophies and practices.
First, I don’t believe there is any substantive, divisive differences between Scientology philosophy and Eastern philosophies, including Buddhist, or even Judeo-Christian and Islamic philosophies. I agree with L Ron Hubbard when he said in the Phoenix Lectures that they are all best summed up – and perhaps were even divined from – the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu.
What I think is most unique about Scientology is that it contains a practice, that does not require belief or faith (and thus does not conflict with any of these brethren philosophies), that can and does enhance understanding of that common set of truths best distilled in the Tao. Scientology is sometimes difficult to understand because it is a doingness, a practice that assists one to freely change his or her considerations. It is not an intellectual debate toward enlightenment. Instead it is a methodology that assists one in achieving enlightenments. Note, the plural form of enlightenment. The entire subject being based upon infinity logic (there are no absolutes) the quantity of potential enlightenments is unlimited and inestimable.
I think the trap we get into, and the trap Corporate Scientology became, is the insistence upon absolutes. The constant and obsessive assert that the practice is the philosophy, that the philosophy is completely original and absolute and exclusive of any other philosophy, can serve no other purpose than to alienate and make people withdraw from it. As such it no longer serves as the unique methodology that can assist anyone increase his or her enlightenments and go out into the world exercising the ability of knowing how to know. Corporate Scientology then became the antithesis of Scientology philosophy by erecting walls and enforcements to dictate what it is an individual can go out into the world and know.
Knowing how to know is the definition of the word Scientology.
If involvement in Scientology creates the mindset that one knows all there is to know then what good does attaining ‘knowing how to know’ achieve?
The highest attainment I have seen someone reach through Corporate Scientology is KNOW ABOUT on the Know to Mystery scale. And when it is static, a destination, it becomes something far less, an arrogant sort of assert.
I’ve seen many an Independent Scientologist reach a far higher plane on the scale, called NOT KNOW. And from there,with some courage and curiosity (the very qualities that I believe LRH possessed in spades and led to his own discoveries), I’ve seen them get increasingly extended glimpses of KNOW on the scale.
And the real sharp ones recognize that an obsessive must-KNOW all the time leads to a motionless, timeless, lifeless, lack of game. This passage from L Ron Hubbard’s lecture of 9 July 1954, The Nature and Effect of Communication in Games is apt:
Well, if the state of total knowingness and total serenity were not horrible, then one would certainly stop communicating and simply assume it. Is that right? He’d simply assume this state, wouldn’t he? All that’d be necessary for him to assume any kind of a state of this character would just seem to be — to simply abandon all parts of the communication system – swish! Abandon them all, though, and abandon them all simultaneously, with no hangovers in any direction, before the system can police itself back into existence. Just have to skip everything. And if you did that, why, theoretically you’d get out into this state of total knowingness and total everything.
There must be something bad about this state. Must be. Just must be something horrible about that state. Or there’s something very, very betraying in the first considerations that came through, that you ought to start communicating in the first place. That must have been a trick then; it must have been based upon a base betrayal. And this base betrayal, then, must have led one into communication. Because nobody would start communicating at all, you know, and of his own free will and accord, knowing very well where it would lead to. That’s obvious, isn’t it?
Oh, so there must be something horrible about being totally knowing, totally serene and without any time of any kind, so on. This must be dreadful and probably is — probably is. Undoubtedly is. You probably got that way and were awfully bored. Only trouble with boredom is it’s a problem in barriers. You can always solve boredom. And barrier — boredom doesn’t exist unless you’re trying to go someplace, so we find boredom is part of the communication system — it’s the affinity corner.
Well, then, there isn’t anything bad about this state of total serenity at all, is there?
Well the way to assume it is simply drop all communication lines and all parts of the communication system and never do it anymore. That’s what Buddha said, Gautama. He said in one of his lectures to — discussions or discourses to a fellow by the name of Ananda: There are twelve things which you would just have to abstain from and any two of them would bring you bliss. He’s a great man but, right there, there was a great big raw-tooth bear trap laid on the track. If anybody abandoned any of these two parts of anything – by the way, they’re not the parts of communication but they’re wonderfully similar to some of the processes which we handle. That is to say, he just groups a number of actions. And if you didn’t ever do these actions anymore and if you just abstained from all these, then you’d get total serenity and so on.
Well, it looks to me like life is just life, isn’t it? That it isn’t bad or good unless you want to make it so. And that an individual could go into a 18 billion, trillion year communications spasm and then come out the other end unscathed. And — but think, he would have had all of the randomity. But, look, that’s a consideration too, that one has to have a game is consideration too.
Oh look, this is too much of a problem. I mean, it’s just too much of a problem, so let’s not maunder around about it. We’ll just look at the component parts of communication, restore the ability of an individual to conform with each of them and say, “All right now, you want to go be a personalized nirvana. Well, goodbye. And if you want to sell groceries, that’s all right with us too.” Because the truth of the matter is the primary violation which one could perform is a violation of an individual’s self-determinism.
Finally, let us never lose sight of the end object of Scientology, very concisely memorialized in Professional Auditor Bulletin 86, 29 May 1956:
The end object of Scientology is not the making into nothing of all existence or the freeing of the individual of any and all traps everywhere. The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.
Somehow, somewhere along the line, Corporate Scientology lost the following truths that make Scientology so workable. I point it out in the hope that none of us ever lose sight of them.
From L Ron Hubbard Lecture titled Scientology and Living, 4 July 1954:
Now, there are two other categories of human beings. And one is the category, upper scale, where things can be good or bad at will; everything on the Know to Sex in the upper scale can be good, you see? But when they’re on lower scale, everything on the Know to Sex scale – which is Mystery, there, to Sex Scale – is bad. And when you get something where everything on the Mystery or the Know to Sex Scale is bad, you have somebody who is inverted, very badly inverted.
And when they’re consistently and continually “everything is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad” — watch out. They’re well below 2.0. They’re using some kind of a mechanism of it’s bad, it’s bad, that’s why we’ve got to make something, you see? Or it’s bad, it’s bad, it’s bad, that’s we have got to make nothing. This is your 1.5. He is actually operating there 100 percent. He can only operate on emergencies.
“We are about to have this tremendous disaster, and therefore in view of the fact that we’ve got this disaster, we have to have this emergency legislation,” and so forth. “And therefore we can make something here. We can make this army so as to make nothing” — big compulsive sort of reaction, you see?
But it’s bad. All that reasoning is bad. The only reason we can do anything is because something is bad. They have lost concept of doing something because it’s fun, and there is your last keynote.
Individuals who can do things, no matter whether good, bad or indifferent or outrageous, simply because they’re fun — an individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they’re fun is a very sane person. And he’ll be in good shape. And the amount of laughter which a person laughs — which is, by the way, not your harmonics of laughter. Laughter, you see, has a number of harmonics down the line. Rather upscale laughter: a person, he laughs, he doesn’t laugh because he’s embarrassed, he doesn’t laugh this way and that, he laughs because he thinks something is funny. And if a person laughs fairly often, and is very easy in that laughter, you got a sane man in your hands.
And they just go downscale and laugh less and less and less or laugh more embarrassedly or compulsively or obsessively, more and more and more, as we get clear down to the bottom.
Person down at the bottom doesn’t laugh at all. He doesn’t live, either. He just lies there, a lump of energy, being mass, meaning and no mobility. He’s not even a symbol anymore.
from LRH lecture The Role of Laughter in Processing – Dangerousness, 5 July 1954:
Now, here is a coordination here. And so there is a coordination with laughter and a thetan. An individual can laugh as long as he feels he has some freedom to make nothing out of it. What do you think your preclear is doing as he sits there and chews and chews and chews on a lock or a secondary of the sort? And he doesn’t digest it even if he can swallow it. He’s unable to make nothing out of it. Well, isn’t there a simpler mechanism to make nothing out of things than to run this arduous seriousness? Yes, indeed there is, indeed so: to cure him of not laughing.
Now, supposing we just used this as an overall process, and we just cured our preclear of this condition: no laughing. We cured him of not-laughingness. We reassessed our cases that we confront on this basis: melancholia versus jovialovia. Today, jovialovia is the most horrible disease known to man. “Do you realize that fellow laughs? Hah! Give him the place of the president of the University? Oh, no! No, no! We need somebody who can drag his chin across the thresholds. That’s obvious that. That’s somebody we need!”
Moving On Up a Little Higher 