((My comments in double parentheses - Homer))
 
                L. RON HUBBARD, MAN OR MORE THAN A MAN?
                            BY BOB ROSS (1)
 
                                EXM - 34
 
     Editor's Copyright (C) 1992 A Voice of the Free Zone (Electra)
       Redistribution rights granted for non commercial purposes.
 
 
     I read the article in Astounding Stories in May 1950.  This was a
very exciting article but I was not sure it was not a hoax, so I looked
in the phone book and found that the Hermitage House Publishing company
actually existed.  I called them and they said the book was being
published.  I immediately got on a subway train and went to their
offices where I found other people also trying to get the book.  But, it
wasn't yet off the presses.  I left money, to get my copy and got mine
on May 9, 1950.
 
     A few months later I saw a demonstration by an Elizabeth student,
of putting a young woman through a dental extraction under gas, this
made many things in the book more real to me.  I also audited and was
audited.  In December of 1950 I went to Israel with 50 copies of DMSMH.
That got me in touch with many people and Dianetics got going in Israel.
 
     I decided after two years and 4,000 hours of auditing that
Dianetics worked but that my expertise and knowledge left much to be
desired.  I had achieved one medical "miracle" by getting a woman (Emmy)
walking who had been bedridden for five years, and who had been given up
by three medical specialists, an internist, a surgeon, and a
psychiatrist.  It took 2,000 hours over a period of 2 years (I could do
it a lot faster today).  She did not dance, but she walked for five
years after that.
 
     Past Lives, Psychiatrists
 
     In November 1950, a month before I left New York for Israel I was
told in a whisper, in a corner, as a deep dark secret, that if you ran
dianetics long enough you ran into past deaths.  At that time, one would
become outcast from the psychological community for talking about such
things.  Freud, himself, didn't even acknowledge the actuality of
recalling life in the womb (Prenatal engrams).  He called them
"fantasies of life in the womb."  Jung spoke not of memories of past
lives, but of archetypes.  To actually consider that people lived before
was simply not acceptable at that time.  Today Past Life Regression
Therapy is a recognized sub branch of Psychological counselling, though
not by everybody.
 
     I once used creative processing on a teenager, who years later in
college went to a psychologist for help and recognized what he was
asking her to do.  He admitted to her that he had learned this from
Scientology.  Two years later one of my Israeli pc's had gotten back to
before conception and experienced going through a "wall of colors" to
enter the ovum.  A few days later she was listening as I ran her mother
on HER mother's death (The girl had been three-years old when her
grandmother died).  When I completed mother's session, I saw the girl
lying with arms folded across her chest in the "death valence" position.
I asked her, with a snap of the fingers, Who's dead?" thinking that she
had gone into grandmother's valence.
 
     "I am."  She replied.  I asked three times and got the same answer
each time.  I then took her into another room and ran that past death.
Then I directed her to run the intervening time up to present time.  She
ran directly into a between lives implant with "God" commanding her to
forget.  It was not until 1963, eleven years later, when I was at St.
Hill, that I heard Ron describe a somewhat similar between-lives
incident.  I knew then with great certainty that Ron had not made these
things up but had run into them with pcs and on his own track.
 
     Lack of Public Acknowledgement of LRH
 
     Even though there is no public acknowledgement of LRH by the
psychological community, every Psychologist and psychiatrist had a copy
of Dianetics hidden on his bookshelf.  As more and more people recalled
life in the womb and past lives, it became OK to talk about such things.
After-Death experiences, for example, became respectable.  Then medical
researchers, without mentioning Dianetics, proved that what was said in
operating rooms was recorded by patients and so could affect them.  The
Primal Scream by Janov is easily recognized as coming from Dianetics.
Berne's Games People Play puts one in mind of Service Facsimiles.  And,
so on.
 
     Pictures Of The Future
 
     In 1954 I visited Wing Angell in Chicago.  Wing told me that he had
seen Ron's picture of the future of Scientology.  I was unable to
confront that at that time, so I ignored it.  In 1964, ten years later,
I met Wing again, this time at S.H.  I reminded him of my visit and
asked him what he had seen.  He immediately had a compulsive outflow in
which he told me that he had seen Ron's mental picture of every future
gain, loss, and advance in Scientology.  And, that he had seen each of
these come to pass since I had last seen him in 1954.  This included
seeing the raid by the FDA on the Founding Church in Washington, D.C.
about 1959, five years before it occurred.
 
     About 1960 in Tucson Arizona I heard from another auditor about a
pc who after running many past life incidents ran a future track
incident of a fatal car crash.  The auditor said that he asked the pc if
he could alter that incident.  The pc was able to slow down his car
going up a hill enough to avoid a fatal collision at the top of that
hill with a car coming out of a hidden side road.  Five years later, the
pc recognized the hill, slowed down, and avoided hitting the car that
came out of that hidden side road at the top of the hill.
 
     Communicating With Ron
 
     Like all graduates from S.H.  I had the privilege, in 1964, of an
hour with Ron before leaving.  He said, "Ask me anything you want." I
asked him how he had arrived at the decisions he had made with regard to
South Africa when Peter Greene was denounced (I think about 1960).  He
said, "I lacked detailed information and when I lack detailed
information I take broad measures." In that instance his broad measure
was to replace all the executives.  He also said "When I chop heads off,
I later sew them back on.  This isn't always noticed."
 
     I remember in the 1960's Ron made some changes in the tech which
seemed at the moment as though they were only for the purpose of getting
more money out of people.  It took me two years to recognize the
technical validity of that change.
 
     I remember on the 18th A.C.C.  I wrote a note to Ron about my
course pc.  Shortly afterward Ron issued a broad public announcement in
Ability magazine saying that he was making a change in research
direction because of a letter he had received from Bob Ross.  That
reference and another both appear in the Red Volumes.
 
     Ron's Physical Appearance
 
     I have seen Ron many times.  Once I was standing in front of 1810
19th St., N.W.  when he came barrelling up the steps of 1812 past a
group of students about 15 feet away from me.  He seemed shorter than
most of them, about 5'6" or 7".  I saw him very clearly another time
toward the end of an after Congress party, about 1960.  I went up to him
to say "Good Night," and noticed that he was so tall (about 7' or 2.13
Meters) that my outstretched hand would barely have reached the top o
his head.  I took his hand, to shake hands and noticed that his hand was
extremely large and that I could see the pores of his skin as though
under a magnifying glass.
 
     At Saint Hill I saw him often on the grounds, where he talked
occasionally with students.  I met and spoke to him once as he was being
picked up by his chauffeur at the East Grinstead Public Library.  He
seemed to me to be having some trouble physically getting into the car.
I went over to him to say "Hello."  I had just come back after taking a
week's unauthorized leave to go to Paris.  He said to me, "I told them
you would be back."  I saw him again at a performance of a Gilbert and
Sullivan Operetta starring Jenny Edmunds, course supervisor and Reg
Sharpe's girl friend.  Ron was standing surrounded by many students and
was a full head taller than most of them.
 
     Missed Withholds
 
     To me one of the most important and least predicted discoveries of
Scientology was the discovery of the anatomy and effects of the missed
withhold.  It took 13 years to discover it and of all things in
Scientology it remains perhaps the hardest to explain to a psychologist.
Ron could be acclaimed a genius on that one point alone.
 
     Ron's plans For The Church
 
     Having failed to ask Wing Angell for what else he had seen in Ron's
plans for the future of Scientology (that had not yet taken place as of
1964) I have had to guess at what they might have been, based upon what
has occurred since.  When people left the church in droves in 1982-85 I
came to the conclusion that Ron had planned it that way.
 
     I am convinced that the church would have gotten far bigger than it
has, if Ron had not set things up to keep it relatively small and weak,
to prevent it from totally dominating the planet.  As the church exists
today, it serves to spread knowledge through books into society.  It
remains relatively small because as people come up tone and become more
capable they become able to recognize the lies and suppression that the
church uses.  I have been asked for my view on why the church went sour
and whether this had any connection to LRH.  Some people, of course,
think it went sour because Ron became paranoid.  However, in 1954 on the
Philadelphia Doctorate Course Ron spoke of the possibility of a Church
of Scientology developing and turning into a monster which should be
destroyed.
 
     My opinion is that he set it up to self destruct.  I deduce this
from the following policies known or inferred which he put into place.
 
     Keys To Church Self Destruction
 
     1) Taking non-auditor's on staff.  I personally know people on
staff who were highly unethical, did not have the goals of an auditor
and didn't know that auditing works.  I am sure that some of these were
infiltrated agents of the FBI, the Army, the Navy, the CIA, the
U.S.S.R., the Mafia and no doubt others.  I feel that I myself, was
driven out of the church by false reports and out-ethics actions by
persons who were afraid that I would see what they were doing.  However,
as early as 1956 I had heard that the most capable auditors never seemed
to last on staff.  At that time, I decided that Ron wanted them out in
society spreading the tech.
 
     2) The "No Verbal Data" Policy Letter.  This eliminated the line of
tradition which made up for errors and things left out of the course
materials, Ron had stated earlier (ca. 1956) that this line of tradition
was necessary for the proper transmission of the tech.  If some one had
heard all the tapes there might be no gap, but who has?  You might say
that the materials were somewhat booby trapped.  Without the tradition
line to clear things up if someone stole the materials (for example the
Russians) they would not be able to use them for lack of the verbal
tradition.  This was also evident in DMSMH itself.  I saw immediately in
1950 that as written the book would turn off establishment types who
would not even read it or take it seriously and this turned out to be
the case.  Only mavericks and science-fiction fans took the book
seriously at first.
 
     3) I infer that Ron set up Miscavige to drive out competent staff,
all at one time.  Ron is known to drop little comments to willing ears.
Also, what Miscavige did was completely contrary to the Ethics P/Ls
which I learned 100% star rate, as the first E/O (Ethics Officer) in NY
in 1965.
 
     Ethics policies (1965) also state that people who left or were
declared would not be readmitted to Scientology if they became part of a
group declared suppressive, until such time as that group was disbanded
or destroyed.  That way, every person who became disaffected and left or
was declared, was persuaded to remain out of contact with other
disaffected people for fear of being considered part of a suppressive
group.
 
     ((I am not sure how this benefits the field.))
 
     That is why I came to the conclusion that Ron had set it up to
"drive fledglings out of the comfortable nest" of the Orgs and into
society.  Driving most of the capable people out of the Orgs also
provided a more diffuse target for real planetary suppressives to shoot
at, as they were no longer all in one place in the Church.  It could be
said, however, that planetary suppressives have been attacking the field
to prevent the spread of Scientology via the church of Scientology
itself.
 
     4) I infer that Ron set Miscavige up to destroy the mission network
and kill the goose that laid the golden eggs, for the apparent purpose
of pulling money out of the Church into LRH's private accounts.  He made
it seem reasonable as part of legitimizing the transfer of copyrights to
the RTC.
 
     5) I have heard reports by and of people who were contacted theta-
wise by Ron and told to leave the church and set up various underground
and successor projects and organizations.  This included a report that
Ron had told some people at Saint Hill theta-wise of the FBI raid before
it occurred.
 
     6) I knew an ex-member of EST who told me that Werner Erhardt at
first sent his graduates forty or fifty at a time to the nearest Org for
more help and training, but Ron gave orders to reject them.  This kept
them relatively uncontaminated with Scientology and weakened the church.
Werner had been trying to expand the church by a different kind of
mission action.
 
     Man Or More?
 
     I used to dream of achieving a cleared planet, and wondered what I
would do after that had been achieved.  After all, I thought, if each
clear could clear just two other people every year the world would be
clear in fifty years or so.  I was not alone in feeling so confident.
 
     I can well remember a meeting of my dianetics group in Tel Aviv in
1951, we were very seriously discussing what kind of government we
should create for the cleared planet we all expected in the near future.
 
     What would I do next after the planet was cleared?  I imagined
arriving as a full OT on another planet, alone or as part of a team and
considered how to go about it without making it obvious that the tech I
was teaching was from off-planet, and without myself being worshipped.
I decided that it might take a few thousand years, coming back time
after time as one prophet or teacher or another to give pieces of tech,
so that it would then seem to be a logical development from local
philosophy and religion.
 
     The stories I've heard that "prove" that Ron couldn't be what he
obviously was, could only be believed by people who don't know that the
tech works, or that OT is possible.  The more I hear such stories the
more amazed I am that Ron accomplished what he did, supposing those
stories were true.
 
     I choose to think that Ron was on the side of the angels,
appearances to the contrary.  He said in the course of a lecture 1963-64
while I was at Saint Hill that being worshipped would prevent people
from thinking that they could achieve OT abilities themselves.  I choose
to think that he has deliberately made himself appear to be a very
fallible, money-hungry, human being lusting for power over others.
 
     Recently I heard a story from the days when he was hiding in
Clearwater, so that he wouldn't be subpoenaed.  While coming back from
Tampa, they were passed on the highway by a Police Car with flashing
lights and siren.  LRH crouched on the floor under a blanket or coat to
not be seen and then when they got back to their hideout, he hid under
the bed.  It took an hour for his aide (Laurel Sullivan I think ) to
coax him out.  When I heard this I laughed and thought how well he was
dramatizing his "humanity".  I could imagine doing that myself as a high
powered OT clearing a planet while appearing human.
 
     How would you do it?
 
     Well, that's my view of LRH.
 
     Bob Ross
 
     B. Robert Ross (B. for Bernard) H.S.S.  Cl VI (1964), Founding
Scientologist, 1950 born 4/30/21 Bachelor of Electrical Engineering,
1944, Licensed Professional Engineer, N.Y.  State, U.S.A. 1947, Servo
systems Engineer, E-Meters designer.  Old timer May 1950, brought Dn to
Israel 1951, Led Dn group 1951-3, HCA/HPA D.C. 1957, 18th ACC, 21st ACC,
Briefing course D.C. under Dick and Jan Halpem 1961, SHSBC (18 months)
1963-4, Full Cl VI auditor trained to run R6 on PCs.  (Knowledgeable on
running GPMs by R3M2), Staff member NY Org '65-7, D of T, Diseem Sec,
Distrib Sec, E/O, Review Auditor, Cram Off, Qual Sec, Staff D.C.  Org
1976.  Author, lecturer, auditor, engineer.
 
     IVy
 
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