How Hubbard did it
Warning if you are a Scientologist or ex-scientologist, reading this may make you feel conned and cheated, You may become angry or sad. Don't read this if you wish to retain your faith in Hubbard's "technology". 
This expose of how Hubbard did it was prompted by a discussion about the validity of the Scientology experience and some people's assertions that they knew from their own experience that Scientology worked, or parts of it did, and that was sufficient proof to them of its validity.
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?t=3619
Derren Brown ran a TV program which I describe here (http://www.forum.exscn.net/showpost.php?p=64004&postcount=175) where he showed us how he had a 100% workable system for predicting the winner of horse races. He showed us film of a lady backing his tips and how each time the tip he gave did in fact win. Race by race she backed his tips and increased her stake as her faith in the system increased. After 5 winning tips, she borrowed £4,000, that she could not afford, and put it all on Derren's final tip!
Derren showed us how this was done by predicting he would toss a coin and get 10 heads in succession and then proceeded to show us with multiple camera angles and uninterrupted filming how he did in fact throw ten heads in succession!
How did he do this? Simple. He filmed, for what turned out to be a nine hour day, until he did in fact finally toss 10 heads in succession. He simply then showed us only the successful sequence! He limited our experience. This demonstrated how we judge the success of something by our own limited experience, without seeing the wider picture.
The racing system was 100% successful because the lady was only seeing her experience of it! The wider picture was this: Derren contacted 7,776 (possibly suggestible) people. Split them into six equal groups and gave each group a different tip in a six-horse race. Obviously 1,296 people experienced a successful tip. the other 6,480 people were told there had been a malfunction in the system and were sent away with an apology.
The 1296 people were divided into 6 groups of 216 people and each group were given a different tip in a six horse race. You get the idea?
216 people experienced a 100% successful system.
Next race 36 people experienced a 100% success.
Next race 6 people were convinced that Derren had a 100% successful racing system.
For the final race 1 person had experienced a 100% workable system and so she had such faith in Derren's abilities that she borrowed and gambled £4,000. She knew the system was working and was 100% accurate. She never saw the 7,775 losers. Even after the con was explained to her she could barely believe she had been conned. She had seen the five winning predictions after all. That was her reality.
Obvious really! So what? What's that got to do with Scientology? You know it works for you and that is good enough for you isn't it?
Question: How many people on the planet are currently doing a Scientology service in the CofS or outside of it? or another question would be how many people on the planet believe Scientology is 100% workable or at least major portions of it work for them to improve their lives?
Who knows the answer? Maybe it is a few thousand, even a hundred thousand. Nobody knows an accurate figure, but it is probably of that order of magnitude.
How many people since DMSMH was released in 1950 have done some sort of Dianetics or Scientology auditing? Remember, intitially it was a number one best seller and there is verified testimony from those around at the time that it was hugely popular.
Get the idea? Maybe a million tried it in those early years. Maybe 10% found that it worked more or less as it predicted.
How many people since then have been drawn into Scientology in the past half century?
How many people are still doing it or still basically believe it has worked for them?
How many people have dropped out at some point or another?
See, it is simply a numbers game, the oldest con trick in the book and we, I'm afraid, fell for it. We are the tip of the pyramid, the ones who experienced what Ron said we would experience just like the lady in the TV program.
Remember, also that Hubbard had studied hypnotism/suggestion and by all accounts was a charismatic personality. He must have known the simple datum that if you tell a group of people something with enough conviction and throw in a bit of suggestible language, that a percentage of them will experience that thing as being true for them.
Those who don't experience it, well like Derren told the losers that it was a malfunction in the system, Hubbard told them they were anti-social, evil, PTS, etc and got rid of them as swiftly as possible so that their lack of success was not allowed to infect the successful ones.
Then sell the successful ones another service, reminding them that yours is the only and 100% successful system and again a percentage will experience the predicted and suggested result. The rest of the failures were just never really ready to receive such success because of their evil ways and once again they are discarded.
In order to continue to experience success, the winners had to disconnect from the losers. In this way Hubbard ensured their suggesibility was not tainted by his detractors. The dwindling percentage of a percentage keep going, the majority drop out or are kicked out.
Meanwhile sucker in thousands more and tell them what they are going to get from the 100% workable system and run them through the numbers game.
As your regular percentage of winners continue to win, you get them to pledge larger and larger sums of money in order to continue winning. Make sure they never see the bigger picture, make sure they never really know the huge numbers of failures and just like the lady backing the horses, they will believe that Ron has a 100% workable system because it is working for them and they judge it by their experience, because for them that is the only really real reality.
Hey, you have a 100% workable spiritual technology! And all the time, while you are winning, you hear about the tremendous success other winners are having from this wonderful tech.
It is a limited view, numbers con with a heavy dose of suggestion thrown in.
You can shout or cry now....
Warning if you are a Scientologist or ex-scientologist, reading this may make you feel conned and cheated, You may become angry or sad. Don't read this if you wish to retain your faith in Hubbard's "technology". This expose of how Hubbard did it was prompted by a discussion about the validity of the Scientology experience and some people's assertions that they knew from their own experience that Scientology worked, or parts of it did, and that was sufficient proof to them of its validity.
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?t=3619
Derren Brown ran a TV program which I describe here (http://www.forum.exscn.net/showpost.php?p=64004&postcount=175) where he showed us how he had a 100% workable system for predicting the winner of horse races. He showed us film of a lady backing his tips and how each time the tip he gave did in fact win. Race by race she backed his tips and increased her stake as her faith in the system increased. After 5 winning tips, she borrowed £4,000, that she could not afford, and put it all on Derren's final tip!
Derren showed us how this was done by predicting he would toss a coin and get 10 heads in succession and then proceeded to show us with multiple camera angles and uninterrupted filming how he did in fact throw ten heads in succession!
How did he do this? Simple. He filmed, for what turned out to be a nine hour day, until he did in fact finally toss 10 heads in succession. He simply then showed us only the successful sequence! He limited our experience. This demonstrated how we judge the success of something by our own limited experience, without seeing the wider picture.
The racing system was 100% successful because the lady was only seeing her experience of it! The wider picture was this: Derren contacted 7,776 (possibly suggestible) people. Split them into six equal groups and gave each group a different tip in a six-horse race. Obviously 1,296 people experienced a successful tip. the other 6,480 people were told there had been a malfunction in the system and were sent away with an apology.
The 1296 people were divided into 6 groups of 216 people and each group were given a different tip in a six horse race. You get the idea?
216 people experienced a 100% successful system.
Next race 36 people experienced a 100% success.
Next race 6 people were convinced that Derren had a 100% successful racing system.
For the final race 1 person had experienced a 100% workable system and so she had such faith in Derren's abilities that she borrowed and gambled £4,000. She knew the system was working and was 100% accurate. She never saw the 7,775 losers. Even after the con was explained to her she could barely believe she had been conned. She had seen the five winning predictions after all. That was her reality.
Obvious really! So what? What's that got to do with Scientology? You know it works for you and that is good enough for you isn't it?
Question: How many people on the planet are currently doing a Scientology service in the CofS or outside of it? or another question would be how many people on the planet believe Scientology is 100% workable or at least major portions of it work for them to improve their lives?
Who knows the answer? Maybe it is a few thousand, even a hundred thousand. Nobody knows an accurate figure, but it is probably of that order of magnitude.
How many people since DMSMH was released in 1950 have done some sort of Dianetics or Scientology auditing? Remember, intitially it was a number one best seller and there is verified testimony from those around at the time that it was hugely popular.
Get the idea? Maybe a million tried it in those early years. Maybe 10% found that it worked more or less as it predicted.
How many people since then have been drawn into Scientology in the past half century?
How many people are still doing it or still basically believe it has worked for them?
How many people have dropped out at some point or another?
See, it is simply a numbers game, the oldest con trick in the book and we, I'm afraid, fell for it. We are the tip of the pyramid, the ones who experienced what Ron said we would experience just like the lady in the TV program.
Remember, also that Hubbard had studied hypnotism/suggestion and by all accounts was a charismatic personality. He must have known the simple datum that if you tell a group of people something with enough conviction and throw in a bit of suggestible language, that a percentage of them will experience that thing as being true for them.
Those who don't experience it, well like Derren told the losers that it was a malfunction in the system, Hubbard told them they were anti-social, evil, PTS, etc and got rid of them as swiftly as possible so that their lack of success was not allowed to infect the successful ones.
Then sell the successful ones another service, reminding them that yours is the only and 100% successful system and again a percentage will experience the predicted and suggested result. The rest of the failures were just never really ready to receive such success because of their evil ways and once again they are discarded.
In order to continue to experience success, the winners had to disconnect from the losers. In this way Hubbard ensured their suggesibility was not tainted by his detractors. The dwindling percentage of a percentage keep going, the majority drop out or are kicked out.
Meanwhile sucker in thousands more and tell them what they are going to get from the 100% workable system and run them through the numbers game.
As your regular percentage of winners continue to win, you get them to pledge larger and larger sums of money in order to continue winning. Make sure they never see the bigger picture, make sure they never really know the huge numbers of failures and just like the lady backing the horses, they will believe that Ron has a 100% workable system because it is working for them and they judge it by their experience, because for them that is the only really real reality.
Hey, you have a 100% workable spiritual technology! And all the time, while you are winning, you hear about the tremendous success other winners are having from this wonderful tech.
It is a limited view, numbers con with a heavy dose of suggestion thrown in.
You can shout or cry now....
