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			OT I
	'''Scientology''' is a system of beliefs and teachings, originally established as a secular ] in ] by author ], and subsequently reoriented from ] as an "applied ] philosophy".


			SPOT A PERSON
	It is most prominently represented by the ]. The Church of Scientology is also claimed by its critics to be a commercial organization with a long history of defending its teachings by use of ] and ] ], and sometimes using high pressure sales techniques to extract money from its members. Its history of using its full commercial weight in ] against private individuals has attracted criticism as not being in keeping with the image of a religion.

			by L. Ron Hubbard®
	==Scientology as a religion==
	Scientology is considered as a religion in the ] and ], and thus its practice enjoys the constitutional protections afforded to religious practice (]; ], s 116). Some ]an countries do not consider the Church of Scientology to be a ] ], but a commercial enterprise, or a ]. The nature of Scientology is hotly debated in all of these countries, regardless of the official position.

	The ] pursues an extensive public relations campaign arguing that Scientology is a ''bona fide'' religion. The organization has compiled a number of sources supporting this position, often cited by its spokespersons. As an example, they note the following studies on the religious doctrines of Scientology conducted by prominent experts of religion from various faiths:

			[There have been three different OT I's put out by Hubbard.
	* by Bryan R. Wilson, Ph.D., Emeritus Fellow, Oxford University England
			Here they all are.]
	* by Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor in Religious Studies, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
	* by Régis Dericquebourg, Professor, Sociology of Religion, University of Lille III, Lille, France
	* by M. Darrol Bryant, Ph.D., Professor of Religion and Culture, Renison College, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
	* by Alejandro Frigerio, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
	* by Urbano Alonso Galan, Doctor in Philosophy and Licenciate in Theology, Gregorian University and, Saint Bonaventure Pontifical Faculty, Rome
	* by Fumio Sawada, Eighth Holder of the Secrets of Yu-itsu Shinto


	Critics usually dismiss these studies as biased, contending that the studies were commissioned by Scientology to produce exactly the results that Scientology wants the public to hear.
			Earliest OT I

			On an E-Meter, find the last 3,000 years of lifetimes. Plot out the entire 3,000 year chart as follows:
	On the other hand, there are also some academic papers which do not come to the conclusion that Scientology is a religion:
	* by Stephen Kent, Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta, in Marburg Journal of Religion
	* by Georg Schmid, Professor of Theology, University Zurich (translation, German original at http://relinfo.ch/scientology/religion.html
	* by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Professor of Psychology, University of Haifa, in Marburg Journal of Religion

			1. Find an overt lifetime. Get the identity and the approximate dates of birth and death. Find the overt and pull all the justifications to it.
	In the U.S., in October of ] the ], after reviewing voluminous information on the Church's financial and other operations, the Church as an "organization operated exclusively for religious and charitable purposes". The Church is quick to highlight the tax exemption as proof that it is a religion. This subject is examined in the Misplaced Pages article on the ].
			2. Find the following motivator lifetime, and follow procedure as above. (Identity and dates.)
			3. Find the postulate from each lifetime and the basic postulate in each group of lifetimes.
			4. Continue the first three steps until the entire 3,000 years is charted and the individuals kharma, i.e. (over motivator sequence) becomes apparent.
			5. In some cases additional benefit could be obtained by locating the basic misunderstood which proceeded the basic overt on this chain.

	In ], the ] ruled that the State Government of ] could not declare that the Church of Scientology was not a religion (''''). The Court addressed the issue of belief, rather than possible ]: ''"Charlatanism is a necessary price of religious freedom, and if a self-proclaimed teacher persuades others to believe in a religion which he propounds, lack of sincerity or integrity on his part is not incompatible with the religious character of the beliefs, practices and observances accepted by his followers."''

			Second OT I
	==Origins of Scientology==
	Scientology was expanded and reworked from ] an earlier system of ]s originally set out in the ] book, '']''. Immediately prior to this work, Hubbard was intensively involved with the occultist ] in performing the occult rites developed by ]. Some critics have pointed out the many similarities in Hubbard's writings to the doctrines of Crowley .

			1. Route I ... The entire 15 steps as listed in "Creation of Human Ability".
	By the mid-], Hubbard had relegated Dianetics to being a sub-study of Scientology, although it is still promoted and delivered by Scientology organizations. The chief difference between the two is that Dianetics is explicitly secular, focused on the individual's present life and dealing with physical and mental or emotional problems, whereas Scientology adopts a more overtly religious approach focused on dealing with spiritual issues spanning multiple past lives as well as the present day.
			2. With an E-Meter, scan out entire present lifetime to a floating needle.
			3. Mock-up heat until body feels warm.
			4. Postulating mass: With the use of the E-Meter and the command "I have Mass", create a reactive mind. Put sufficient significance on to it to cause the T.A- to rise. Then spot it until the T.A. falls and the mass erases. Run to an FIN. Then mock it up again and erase it each time to a floating needle. This procedure is repeated until the pre-OT is certain he can create and dissipate a reactive mind.

	Hubbard was repeatedly accused of adopting a religious facade for Scientology in order for the organization to maintain ]-exempt status and avoid prosecution for false medical claims; these accusations have dogged the Church of Scientology to the present day, bolstered by numerous accounts from Hubbard's fellow science-fiction authors that on various occasions he stated that the way to get rich was to start a religion .

			Third OT I
	The word ''scientology'' has a history of its own. Although nowadays associated almost exclusively with Hubbard's work, it was coined by the ] Alan Upward in ] as a synonym for "]". In ], the Argentine-German writer Anastasius Nordenholz published a book using the word positively: ''Scientologie, Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und der Tauglichkeit des Wissens,'' or ''Scientology, Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge''. Nordenholz's book is a study of consciousness, and its usage of the word is not greatly different from Hubbard's definition, "knowing how to know". However, it is not clear whether Hubbard was aware of these earlier usages. The word itself is a pairing of the ] word ''scio'' ("know" or "distinguish") and the ] λόγος ''lógos''
	("reason itself" or "inward thought"). It seems plausible that Hubbard's meaning derived, like that of Nordenholz, from a simple translation of these root words.

			The current OT I is done outdoors and consists solely of one command, run until cognition:
	==Beliefs and practices==

			"Spot a person."
	''Main article: ]''

	Scientology's doctrines were established by Hubbard over some 33 years from ] through to his death in January ], issued in the form of thousands of lectures, books, essays, and policies. Most of the basic principles of Scientology were set out during the first 15 years of its existence, with Hubbard devoting much of his later life to the more esoteric upper levels (or "Advanced Technologies") of the Scientology belief system. The church describes his actions as improving and expanding on the workability and use of these principles.


	The central beliefs of Scientology are that a person is an immortal ] (referred to as a ''thetan'') who possesses a ] and a ], and that the person is basically good. The life one should lead is one of continual spiritual and ethical education, awareness, and improvement, so that he/she can be happy and achieve ultimate salvation, as well as being more effective in creating a better world. Scientology claims to offer specific methodologies to assist a person to achieve this.

			21 July 68
	Another basic tenet of Scientology is that there are three basic interrelated (and intrinsically spiritual) components that are the very makeup of successful "livingness": affinity, reality (or agreement), and communication, which equate to understanding. Hubbard called this the "ARC triangle". Scientologists utilize ARC to enhance their lives, primarily based upon the belief that raising one aspect of the triangle increases the other two.
			Operating Thetan
			Section One

			Instructions
	In an attempt to clarify the concept of conscious, subconscious, and unconscious minds, Hubbard wrote that the mind of man is structured in two parts: the "analytical mind" and the "reactive mind". He described the analytical mind as the positive, rational, computing portion, while the "reactive mind", according to Hubbard, operates on a stimulus-response basis. Scientologists believe the reactive mind is the root of an individual's travail, as well as the root of mankind's inhumanity and inability to create lasting, prosperous, sane societies.

			This section is done outside in the open air. It is done off a meter. But TA should be taken before and after doing the section. If the TA has gone high, a step has been (a) not flattened or (b) overrun. Find out on a meter which it is. Handle it.
	The central methodology of Scientology is called "auditing", (from the Latin root ''aud-'', to listen), which is one-on-one communication with a Scientology-trained "auditor". The auditor assists a person to have realizations about himself and unravel the reactive portion of his mind, ie, emotional "charge", specific traumatic incidents, his own ethical transgressions, and bad decisions of his past that tend to lock him into a life not totally under his own control.

			It is not the intention of this section to exteriorise anyone, but if it happens don't worry about it or fool around with the fact.
	The Church states that the goal of Scientology is a world without war, criminals, and insanity, where good decent people have the freedom to reach their goals.
			An auditors report is due for each session which can be one or more of these drills

			A great many phenomena (strange things) can happen while doing these drills if they are done honestly.
	==The Church of Scientology==
			Don't do a session on these drills if you have an ARC Br, a w/h, a PTP, are or are ill. Instead, go to Review first. Do these (andany others) OT section sessionswith rudiments in.
			If one of these drills turns on a somatic, the drill should turn it off if continued.

			Good Luck.
	''Main article: ]''

	The ] was first ] in the ] as a ] in ]. Today it forms the center of a complex worldwide network of corporations dedicated to the promotion of L. Ron Hubbard's philosophies in all areas of life. This includes drug treatment centers (]), criminal rehab programs (Criminon), activities to reform the field of mental health (Citizens Commission on Human Rights), projects to implement workable and effective educational methods in schools (Applied Scholastics), a campaign to return moral values to living (The Way to Happiness), an organization to educate and assist businesses to succeed (World Institute of Scientology Enterprises, or WISE), and a crusade directed to world leaders as well as the general public to implement the 1948 United Nations document, "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights".

			(Cancels Earlier OT 1 materials which were a Clearing Course Repeat)
	The Church of Scientology has been, and remains, a highly controversial organization. Countries have taken markedly different approaches to Scientology. The United States government regards Scientology as a religion, and thus considers the activities of the Church of Scientology to be protected under the ]; other countries, notably in ], have regarded Scientology as a potentially dangerous ] and have significantly restricted its activities at various times, or at least have not considered that the branches of the Church of Scientology met the legal criteria for being considered ]s. In Germany for instance, they are not seen as a religion by the government but as a financial organization. Scientology has also been the focus of criticism by ]s and has aroused controversy for its high-profile campaigns against ] and psychiatric medication.

			1. Walk around and count bodies until you have a cognition. Make a report saying how many you counted + your cognition.
	The many legal battles fought by the Church of Scientology since its inception have given it a reputation as one of the most litigious religious organizations in existence. (See also: '']'')

			2. Note several large and several small female bodies until you have a cognition. Note it down.
	===Independent Scientology groups===

			3. Note several large and several small male bodies until you have a cognition. Note it down.
	''Main article: ]''

			4. Find a tight packed crowd of people, note it as a crowd, then as individuals until you have a cognition. Note it down. Do step over until you
	Although "Scientology" is most often used as shorthand for the ], a number of groups practice Scientology and Dianetics outside of the fold of the official Church. Such groups are invariably breakaways from the official Church and usually argue that it has corrupted L. Ron Hubbard's principles or has otherwise become overly domineering. The Church takes an extremely hard line on breakaway groups, labeling them "]s" (or "squirrels" in Scientology jargon) and often subjecting them to considerable legal and social pressure. Breakaway groups avoid the name "Scientology" so as to keep from being ]d, instead referring to themselves collectively as the ''']'''.

			5. Seat yourself unobtrusively where you can observe a number of people. Spot things and poeple that you are not. Do to cognition. Note it.
	Free Zone groups are extremely heterogeneous in terms of doctrine—very unlike the official Church. Some Free Zoners practice more or less pure Scientology, based on Hubbard's original (Church-published) texts and principles but without the supervision or fee system of the official Church. Others have developed Hubbard's ideas into radically new forms, some of which are barely recognizable as being related to Scientology.

			6. Seat yourself unobtrusively where you can observe a number of people. Spot things and peple that you can have. Do to cognition. Note it.
	==Controversy and criticism==

			7. Note some physical thing about yourself you don't like. Observing people, in them note that body part. Do to some change, Note it down.
	''Main article: ]''

			8. Observing people, spot things that are not wrong with them. Do to cognition. Note
	Of the many ]s to appear during the ], Scientology has been one of the most controversial almost since its inception. The Church of Scientology has come into conflict with the governments and police of several countries (including the ], the ] and ]) numerous times over the years. Another point of controversy is Scientology's infiltration of the United States ] in what Scientology termed "]". Eleven high-ranking Scientologists, including Hubbard's wife Mary Sue Hubbard, served time in federal prison for their involvement in this infiltration.

			9. Walk around and note someone walking toward you, then someone walking away. Then someone walking toward you, etc. Do to cognition. Note it down.
	The ongoing controversy involving the Church of Scientology and its critics involves:

			10. Walk around and note how people stick to the ground and their sense of weight. Do to cognition. Note it down.
	*Criminal activities by the Church of Scientology and its members.
	*Claims of "brainwashing" and ].
	*Scientology's ] policy.
	*Accounts of L. Ron Hubbard discussing his intent to start a religion to make money
	*Deaths of Scientologists due to mistreatment by Scientology.
	*Scientology's harassing and litigious actions against its critics and enemies.

			11. Spot importances in people while looking at them. Do to cognition. Note it down.
	==Scientology vs. the Internet==

			12. Look into space and find places where there are no persons. Do to cognition. Note it down.
	''Main Article: ]''

			13. Walk around and note where there are people. Do to cognition. Note it down.
	Leaders of Scientology have undertaken extensive operations on the Internet to deal with growing allegations of fraudulence and exposure of unscrupulousness within Scientology. The organization states that it is taking actions to prevent distribution of ]ed Scientology documents and publications online; however, its critics (and many Internet users) claim the organization is attempting to suppress free speech. In January 1995 Scientology attempted to silence the discussions taking place on the '']'' ] by issuing a control message intended to remove the newsgroup from all ] servers, and started to sue people for posting copies of its scriptures on the group, acts that resulted in thousands of Internet users around the world taking a closer look at Scientology. From mid-1996 and for several years after, the newsgroup was subject to another form of attempted suppression, in the form of hundreds of thousands of ] messages posted on the group. Although the church neither confirmed nor denied that it was behind the spam, some investigators claimed that some of the spam had been traced to church members. Scientology's response to criticism was to issue a statement insisting that their actions were actually an assault against ], making numerous claims about hate and violence directed against Scientology.

			End of OT 1
	==See also==

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			L. RON HUBBARD®
	==Further reading==
			FOUNDER
	* Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard by Russell Miller (N.Y.: Henry Holt & Co., 1987) ISBN 0-8050-0654-0
	* L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman? by Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard Jr. a.k.a. Ronald DeWolf.(Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1987) ISBN 0-8184-0444-2
	* A Piece of Blue Sky, by Jon Atack (Lyle Stuart, 1990), ISBN 081840499X

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Revision as of 22:56, 3 March 2005

OT I

SPOT A PERSON

by L. Ron Hubbard®

[There have been three different OT I's put out by Hubbard. Here they all are.]

Earliest OT I

     On an E-Meter, find the last 3,000 years of lifetimes. Plot out the entire 3,000 year chart as follows:

  1. Find an overt lifetime. Get the identity and the approximate dates of birth and death. Find the overt and pull all the justifications to it.
  2. Find the following motivator lifetime, and follow procedure as above. (Identity and dates.)
  3. Find the postulate from each lifetime and the basic postulate in each group of lifetimes.
  4. Continue the first three steps until the entire 3,000 years is charted and the individuals kharma, i.e. (over motivator sequence) becomes apparent.
  5. In some cases additional benefit could be obtained by locating the basic misunderstood which proceeded the basic overt on this chain.

Second OT I

  1. Route I ... The entire 15 steps as listed in "Creation of Human Ability".
  2. With an E-Meter, scan out entire present lifetime to a floating needle.
  3. Mock-up heat until body feels warm.
  4. Postulating mass: With the use of the E-Meter and the command "I have Mass", create a reactive mind. Put sufficient significance on to it to cause the T.A- to rise. Then spot it until the T.A. falls and the mass erases. Run to an FIN. Then mock it up again and erase it each time to a floating needle. This procedure is repeated until the pre-OT is certain he can create and dissipate a reactive mind.

Third OT I

     The current OT I is done outdoors and consists solely of one command, run until cognition:

"Spot a person."

21 July 68 Operating Thetan Section One

Instructions

     This section is done outside in the open air. It is done off a meter. But TA should be taken before and after doing the section. If the TA has gone high, a step has been (a) not flattened or (b) overrun. Find out on a meter which it is. Handle it.

     It is not the intention of this section to exteriorise anyone, but if it happens don't worry about it or fool around with the fact.
     An auditors report is due for each session which can be one or more of these drills

     A great many phenomena (strange things) can happen while doing these drills if they are done honestly.
     Don't do a session on these drills if you have an ARC Br, a w/h, a PTP, are or are ill. Instead, go to Review first. Do these (andany others) OT section sessionswith rudiments in.
     If one of these drills turns on a somatic, the drill should turn it off if continued.

Good Luck.

(Cancels Earlier OT 1 materials which were a Clearing Course Repeat)

  1. Walk around and count bodies until you have a cognition. Make a report saying how many you counted + your cognition.

  2. Note several large and several small female bodies until you have a cognition. Note it down.

  3. Note several large and several small male bodies until you have a cognition. Note it down.

  4. Find a tight packed crowd of people, note it as a crowd, then as individuals until you have a cognition. Note it down. Do step over until you

  5. Seat yourself unobtrusively where you can observe a number of people. Spot things and poeple that you are not. Do to cognition. Note it.

  6. Seat yourself unobtrusively where you can observe a number of people. Spot things and peple that you can have. Do to cognition. Note it.

  7. Note some physical thing about yourself you don't like. Observing people, in them note that body part. Do to some change, Note it down.

  8. Observing people, spot things that are not wrong with them. Do to cognition. Note

  9. Walk around and note someone walking toward you, then someone walking away. Then someone walking toward you, etc. Do to cognition. Note it down.

 10. Walk around and note how people stick to the ground and their sense of weight. Do to cognition. Note it down.

 11. Spot importances in people while looking at them. Do to cognition. Note it down.

 12. Look into space and find places where there are no persons. Do to cognition. Note it down.

 13. Walk around and note where there are people. Do to cognition. Note it down.

End of OT 1

	L. RON HUBBARD®

FOUNDER