You need Power only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.
— Charley Chaplain
One of the most successful (expansion causing) actions in Scientology’s history was carried out by LRH in the 1960s. At St Hill, in England, LRH trained a number of auditors on the St Hill Special Briefing Course and sent them out into the world. It was the beginning of the "franchise" program. The auditors returned to their countries and home towns and began delivering. Though many of them began auditing out of their own homes or back rooms, they quickly expanded.
From this program, over the years, a string of large, highly successful "missions" were born. The mission network grew rapidly and soon dwarfed Scientology orgs in both number and size. If you look in the old green volumes of Scientology administrative technology from the 70s and read through the list of Scientology organizations in the back, you will see there were only forty four orgs at that time. There were many more missions than orgs and though you might say that later the number of orgs quadrupled, the truth is that many of the "new orgs" were missions that were forced by management to become orgs. Under the "guidance" of management, from the early 1980s onwards many successful missions were converted into failing orgs.
For example, when successful Brighton Mission was forced to convert into an org, half the staff left over night. By the early 1990s, there were only about 3 staff even left and the organization was deeply in debt. There were many other examples.
During the 60s and 70s, missions and the mission network expanded yet they had virtually no management. They were protected by LRH policies which forbid heavy actions against them and their “management” (Mission Office Worldwide) was located in a small hut on the grounds of St Hill, England. Its direct senior was the autonomous Guardian’s Office which had many more pressing matters to deal with than missions. In other words, Missions were simply allowed to get on without interference with it and a great deal of expansion occurred as a result.
Compare that with org management. Remember how LRH had to be replaced by hundreds of people (Worldwide Management of Scientology) when he resigned as Executive Director International in 1966? Well, the Worldwide Management of Scientology Organizations had to be disbanded by LRH just five years later (1971) because, despite warnings, he couldn’t get them to stop stat pushing income (collecting money) which was destroying orgs (see HCO PL, THE EC NETWORK DISBANDED, in OEC Volume 7).
With LRH off the lines, from 1982 onwards David Miscavige began to change things, smashing some of the largest missions and putting all missions under Sea Org management. By the summer of 1990, with top-heavy management of Scientology at its zenith in terms of size and interference, the international statistics of Scientology began a decline from which they have not recovered to this day.
Independent Scientology believes that expansion is, first and foremost, founded on excellent delivery of Standard Scientology tech and that a more organic approach, without management, is the way to go. Never again must we allow one sociopathic individual to grab the reigns and destroy Scientology.
Be your own leader
One of the purposes of Scientology is to rehabilitate the self determinism of the individual. For three decades, Scientologists kept quiet and followed orders and the result was disaster because following someone else as your leader violates the very concept of what a Scientologist is. As LRH said orders were only necessary after responsibility had failed. Why follow a leader when the entire idea is to rehabilitate your ability to be your own leader?
In all matters, you have your own opinions because you EXIST. And forever and as long as you do exist, you will HAVE your own opinions about everything and no leader has any right to dismiss your opinions. Every being in this universe has the same ticket and none are senior to any others. Your opinions and viewpoint are part of who you are because you exist.
Having a viewpoint, having an opinion... these things go hand in hand with EXISTING and BEING.
And that's the way it's always going to be.
If some dictator doesn't like it, then you need to move him out of the way. Because life isn't about him. Scientology isn't about him. Scientology is about casting aside all those things that make decisions for you because that is what's wrong with you.
So if you want to meet the Leader of Independent Scientology, just look in the mirror.
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Comments
Very well put and totally true!!
Great Job on creating and putting together this wonderful resource for all of us!!!!!
Thank you so very very much!!
Best Wishes,
Karry Campbell
The Policy THE EC NETWORK DISBANDED has been completely reversed by miscavige. Independents need no longer engange in the corrupt activities of a sociopath.
The last couple of lines of the PL: "There are no short cuts to honest prosperity.
We have the greatest possible tech when properly studied and applied. Why not deliver it?"
Why not, indeed?
Les
Could You provide the exact changes in that policy? I have an 1991 edition of the 7th OEC Volume, so I don't know if it will be "clean" or not... :/
ML, IdealGoal.
For my own "viewpoints",Guys! You really have "duplicated" and, more important: "understood" THE TRUE ESSENCE OF SCIENTOLOGY!
Very Very Very Very Well Done For This Gain, as much Very Thanks "To Be Here And To Communicate" As You Do!
My Infinite Thankfulness, ML, IdealGoal.
I figured out years later, on the OEC, she was celebrating that her main stat was now Paid Completions (delivery of service) - her first love.
In those days, local people ran local missions and local orgs. These people knew exactly what needed to be done on a daily basis.
Management in the last 30 years bypassed them continually and put them eventually into non-existance.
Can we talk ?
Lou
This is wisdom
As I said before: So Very Well Done and Thanks for the depth of your duplication AND understanding of what is Scientology!
Now, in between, something came to me:
- If for Missions, LRH looks having clearly found the right gradient of Ethics letting Auditors in the field organizing themselves to help people with Scientology, I mind about the main organizations, like Orgs Class V or superior organizations, I think needed for world wild clearing and training.
For me, they do not meet the characteristics of Missions, and so, the evaluation of LRH looks to me not applying to them. So,
- What about KSW, what about to check if the Tech is "in", standard or not?
I remember you that Source himself created the Sea-Org, and for good reasons, right?
All the problem is, as the scenarist made say to a character in "Babylon V": "Who is controlling the controller?"
Well, as LRH was no more on the line, looks no one has had the effective integrity to keep the Sea-Org itself on-purpose and sane. Does it mean that the Sea-Organization needs to be thrown away because of this error? I don't think so.
What we would need to correct the outpoint, is to apply indeed your maxim here to it:
- Make the Chief Captain of all the Sea-Org under the control of the collegial direction of all the EDs of any org of Scientology in the world, including Mission Holders of course, and why not, any independent certified professional Auditor. Like this, it would be completely clear for any Sea-Org Member that they are here to serve the Scientology Organizations and Public, and not to serve themselves.
To conclude:
- When we get any "highest management", as no other higher management could be create and that this one too needs to be controlled too, it is the base, the one who are concerned at the end by the service, the public, the organizations, who need to have this control under the Highest Level of Management or any World Wild Organization.
In any organization we need Ethics, Qual, Divisions, and yes, it must have one independent control, outside of each org, to ensure an "exterior viewpoint control" to ensure standard quality whole wild world.
Do you think so?
Love this website! Thank you for creating it!
ARC,
Randy
I was pleasantly surprised when I read this article since I'd been saying for years that we don't need a leader to replace Miscavige.
In fact the Ol'man in HCOPL LRH Relationship to Orgs had no plans of being succeeded by anyone especially by the likely L1 R/Ser currently falsely claiming this mantle by virtue of the fact that he happens to be the COB RTC.
If you look at the original Org Board there were posts that Directed, Controlled, Guarded and Advised.
There was never any top down management structure until the Sea Org "moved in" and wiped out the Franchise network and created an Authoritarian system of Governance which eventually became a virtual dictatorship.
Xtra, Extra, New, Upstat points to you Les. You are really telling it like it really is. Miscavige is a little man psycho who is destroying Scientology from within.
I agree whole heartedly. Miscavige is turning Scientology into the cult of Miscavigology.
oH MY GOD! WHATS GO IN
ON.
Couldn't agree with you more, Steve!
I'm sure, Marty, would, too. The conflict between you guys
and him, saddens me. Hope you'll find a way to resolve it.
Marcel Wenger
Ex. Missionholder, Cl.VI, OT VIII
I've often wondered why Indie's don't do more of the LOC on themselves.
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