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This page explains how to really find out whether you should stay in the
Church of Scientology, or rather change to the Freezone (independent auditors or
centers).
The condition "Doubt" given below is
original by L.Ron Hubbard. The Church of Scientology today doesn't allow their members to
fully apply this formula, because the steps 1 and 2 would require enough contact with the
independent person or group to really understand what they are doing and how good they are
in it. This contact as such is frowned upon and considered a crime which has very serious
consequences.
In their forbidding such contacts with independent centers, the Church
of Scientology operates also on policy written by Hubbard. This of course is conflicting
with the substance of the Doubt formula, and in fact would prevent this
formula to get fully applied.
You can resolve this conflict by sorting out which of the data - the
doubt formula itself or the rule to stay away from independent centers - has
the greater importance or weight, especially in a situation
where it is already clearly visible that the church that issues such a rule is breaking
their own policy frequently, severely and habitually, and that many attempts of devoted
members to correct this by internal means (reports) have been fruitless. (This not being
the case, the situation would be very different, and of course Hubbard's policy on
splinter groups has been written for a church that was expected to be performing well.)
For Non-Scientologists: the word "condition", as used on this
page, implies not only a certain state of affairs in life (like being in doubt about
staying in a group or leaving it), but also a series of steps which is designed to help a
person out of that situation. So here we have a person in the "condition of
doubt" who can resolve this by applying the "condition of doubt formula".
"Condition of doubt" is used for both, the situation and the formula (series of
steps) which lead to its handling.
The term "dynamic" is used for the 8 assumed sections of life:
1. self, 2. sex/family, 3. groups and nations, 4. mankind, 5. life-forms, 6. material
universe, 7. spiritual universe, 8. infinity.
Our comments are written for the typical situation of a member of the
Church of Scientology today.
Hubbards original text is in this font, our comments are in this font.
The Condition of Doubt
(commented):
When one cannot make up one's mind as to an
individual, a group, organization or project, a Condition of Doubt exists.
The formula is:
1. Inform oneself honestly of the actual
intentions and activities of that group, project or organization, brushing aside all bias
and rumor.
Comment: Without really having seen and examined an independent
auditor or center ("Freezone"), you have to consider all of the Ethics Officer's
(or other staff's) remarks about the "Squirrels" outside the church. This is 100% BIAS
AND RUMOR. Hubbard himself tells you in paragraph 1 to push this aside. Unless you really
get your own data thoroughly, you HAVE NOT APPLIED THE CONDITION.
If you think to leave the church and drop the subject totally, the church will make
it easier for you than if you want to continue your work outside of the church, on your
own or in an independent center. While there exists a lot of policies by Hubbard which
apparently support this viewpoint, there also exists a rule given by him which says
"Any auditing is better than no auditing".
Hubbard said Logic 14 Factors introduced into a
problem which do not derive from natural law but only from authoritarian command aberrate
that problem or solution.
So decide for yourself. Of course it's not granted
at all that the people outside the church are less trained than those inside the church!
Actually they are most probably BETTER trained and have left the church because their
very training itself enabled them to see and prove the incredible extent of perversion
which has become "normal" in the Church of Scientology during recent decades.
2. Examine the statistics of the individual,
group, project or organization.
Comment: Unless you really do this, you HAVE NOT APPLIED THE
CONDITION. It is understandable if you don't want to confront your Ethics Officer or your
organization's staff with such an activity. Decide on the basis of the "greatest
good" whether it's OK for you to do it on your own, with or without discussing it
later. If you are still afraid, again this is is very understandable. Just stay aware of
the fact that in this case YOU HAVE NOT APPLIED THE CONDITION and should not consider it
done, or attest to it.
3. Decide on the basis of "the greatest
good for the greatest number of dynamics" whether or not it should be attacked,
harmed or suppressed or helped.
Comment: "The greatest good for the greatest number of
dynamics" means that you have to consider not only your own progress or benefits.
Your decision will as well:
- affect the sanity and well-being of your partner and children (2nd dynamic) because of
your performance towards them and your influence and the example you are setting
- affect the sanity and well-being people with whom you work in your business or country
(3rd dynamic) because of your positive contribution (or lack thereof) and the factors you
are introducing into society (or fail to introduce)
- affect the survival potential of your Scientology Org and Scientologist friends (3rd
dynamic) because the decisions of the individual members will add up to a collective
movement which WILL force the international management to react, if nothing else does (at
least - what a shame - via the threat of reduced membership donations)
- affect the survival potential of humankind (4th dynamic) because of the level of
constructiveness shown by the groups and the country you are part of, and the behaviour of
the Church of Scientology which you are forming by the sheer activity of granting or
withdrawing your support to a given course of action
- affect the harmony within this planet's ecology (5th dynamic) because of the caring or
not-caring behaviour of humankind which is a direct result of the state of its collective
case, and the collective understanding which is a result of general education (modified by
study tech!!) and spiritual literacy (attained by training)
- affect the condition of the material and the spiritual universe (6th and 7th dynamic)
and the supreme being or infinity (8th dynamic) because you are part of these directly as
well as by being a part of the larger entities which compose them.
So while of course it is your personal decision what you will do in the future, your
responsibility in doing so covers ALL dynamics. If this is simply too much for you, nobody
will condemn you, but then stay aware of the fact that YOU HAVE NOT APPLIED THE CONDITION,
and don't attest to it.
4. Evaluate oneself or one's own group,
project or organization as to intentions and objectives.
Comment: This would mean to evaluate the intentions of the
Church of Scientology, which is currently your group. Are they really interested in your
progress, or are they rather interested in your money? Are they trying to dominate your
life by imposing their rules on it, or are they really helping you to work out your own
rules and find how you best apply them to your personal situation, here and now?
This might be quite different from Org to Org; in one case you might want to leave the
group, while another group will maybe share your considerations and will leave the Church
as a whole. In this case, the whole group would have to apply the Condition of
Doubt.
5. Evaluate one's own or one's group, project
or organization's statistics.
Comment: Statistics are not only graphs on the wall. A public
relations image (or the lack of it), a global goodwill (or the lack of it), the number of
produced Clears and OTs, the membership figures, even the number of critical web-sites and
the mood-level of press articles, all these are statistics which are a direct product of
the Church of Scientology's performance.
If you now are tempted to compare these with the "statistics" of the FreeZone
(which is not yet very present in the public awareness), please keep in mind that an
incredible amount of such groups - although they were completely peaceful and really
producing results -, have been destroyed by the Church of Scientology's untolerable
transgressions. This in itself is an indicator for a group tone-level
of 1.5 to 2.0 (anger to antagonism) and in fact another statistic for you to consider.
6. Join or remain in or befriend the one
which progresses toward the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics and announce
the fact publicly to both sides.
Comment: Many people on our lines have told us that they are
afraid to make their decision known within the church, because of the loss of family and
business connections (other Scientologists would have to disconnect from them). Decide for
yourself whether you want to comply with a system which loudly sings the praise of
self-determinism, and then robs you of your self-determinism by blackmailing your family
and business partners into an enforced disconnect!
In fact, it might even be a problem to make such a decision known OUTSIDE of the
church, because the fact alone that somebody WAS a scientologist is a serious social
stigma in some countries (see the example of Germany), which really could impede one's
career or destroy one's standing in the local community.
Under such unhealthy circumstances, it is a vital necessity to make one's
"outing" to both sides: To the church in order to show that one's tolerance of
stupidity and destructiveness is not endless; and to society in order to induce THEIR
constructive dealing with the subject. If the assets of Scientology are ever going to be
used on a broad public basis, then it is necessary NOW to get them separated from the
church's insane and irresponsible mis-management and its appalling misrepresentations.
If enough individuals publicly state their non-support of the church's destructive
practices, at the same time firmly insisting on their right to openly use Scientology's
spiritual enhancement technology without being punished for it, society will have to do
some more homework until they can accept this and re-integrate the constructive (genuine)
Scientologists sooner or later.
7. Do everything possible to improve the
actions and statistics of the person, group, project or organization one has remained in
or joined.
Comment: None necessary.
8. Suffer on up through the conditions in the
new group if one has changed sides, or the conditions of the group one has remained in, if
wavering from it has lowered one's status.
Comment: Please note that many Scientology organizations insist
ALWAYS on the application of the "Liability" formula after completion of
"Doubt". Hubbard does NOT state this. The "Liability" formula comes
next IF one has harmed the group ("lowered one's status") by having doubts. If
nothing like that happened, then "Liability" would be a wrong condition.
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