Arnie Lerma's recommended reading

[Lermanet_com]

He concludes that Hypnotism is ONLY suggestions you have accepted, that's it.

This caused me to shift viewpoints regarding Scientology.

When I read DMSMH it was filled with Suggestions that I was ripe to assume.

I wish you would write more about this.
This is a crack in the armor,
of a Hubbard(tm) machine-man
that when prodded sufficiently
returns a compassionate human

I'll web it

[Lermanet_com]

For those who get through Francis Yates' Giordano bruno and the hermetc Tradition...

there is another book by professor yates..

The Art of Memory.

Before there was printing.. entire bodies of knowlege were handed down using oral tradition, and tools were developed that allowed massive amounts of information to be committed to memory and then recalled at will...

Anyone who has ever called themselves "A scientologist" has unknowlingly learned information using this technique called The Art of Memory"... You will note how well you can recall those supposed incidents Hubbard described on the time track, the perfect record going back through time.... and how well you seem to recall your 'engrams'... and seem to recall anything else that Hubbard associated with this time track.

Well, kids, i don't know a way to explain this and save face...

I will quote a bit from pages 5&6 of Francis Yates "The Art of Memory"

Some of you will feel sick, some will feel angry, as this sinks in... but I hope all will seek justice with renewed vigor....

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"An unknown teacher in rhetoric in Rome, compiled, circa 86-82 B.C., a useful textbook a useful textbook for his students which immortalized not his own name, but the name of the man to whom is was dedicated."

The title is Ad Herennium.

"The busy and efficient teacher goes through five parts of rhetoric (inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, pronuntiatio) in a rather dry textbook style. When he comes to memory as an essential part of the orator's equipment, he opens his treatment of it with the words:

'Now let us turn to the treasure-house of inventions, the custodian of all the parts of rhetoric, memory.' There are two kinds of memory, he continues, one natural, the other artificial. The natural memory is that which is engrafted in our minds, born simultaneously with thought. The artificial memory is memory strengthened or confirmed by training. A good natural memory can be improved by discipline and persons less well endowed can have weak memories improved by the art."

After this curt preamble the author announces abruptly, 'Now we will speak of the artificial memory.'

An immense weight of history presses on the memory section of Ad Herennium. It is drawing on Greek sources of memory teaching, probably in Greek treatises on rhetoric all of which were lost. It is the only Latin treatise on the subject to be preserved..."

(The Ad Herennium was thought to have been written by Cicero)

"The artificial memory is established from places and images:

Constat igitur artificosa ex locis et imaginibus

the stock definition to be forever repeated down the ages. A locus is a place easily grasped by memory, such as a house, an intercolumnar spce, a corner, and arch, or the like. Images are forms, marks, or simulcra (formae, notae, simulcra) of what we wish to remember....

The art of memory is like an inner writing. Those who know the letters of the alphabet can write down what is dictated to them and read out what they have written. Likewise those who have learned mnemonics can set in places they have heard and deliver it from memory. 'For places are very much like wax tablets or papyrus, the images like the letters, the arrangement and disposition of the images like the script, and the delivery is like the reading.'

If we wish to remember much material we must equip ourselves with a large number of places. It is essential that the places should form a series and much be remembered in their order, so that we can start from any locus in the series and move either backwards or forwards from it. If we should see a number of our acquaintances standing in a row, it would not make any difference to us whether we should tell their names beginning with the the person standing at the head of the line or at the foot or in the middle. So with memory loci. 'If these have been arranged in order, the result will be that, reminded by the images, we can easily repeat orally what we have committed to the loci, proceeding in either direction from any locus we please'"

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Or any other point on the supposed time track, eh?

The actual structure of what Hubbard said was "the reactive mind" was in fact the ancient "Art of Memory".... and he filled it with both his science fiction and our own imagined 'incidents'....

[Lermanet_com]

A selection from Ad Herennium ~84 B.C. translation by Francis A Yates

"Now nature herself teaches us what we should do. When we see in every day life things that are petty, ordinary, and banal, we generally fail to remember them, because the mind is not being stirred by anything novel or marvellous.

But if we see or hear something exceptionally base, dishonorable, unusual, or great, unbelieveable, or ridiculous, that we are likely to remember for a long time."


for example...from Hubbard, "The Obscene Dog"

[Lermanet_com]

"But the moment eloquence or the language of debate enters, true reasoning becomes impossible. For the purpose of the debater is not to find the truth but to win the argument, and to this end he will often stray as far as possible from the real issues"

"Eloquence and debate are designed, not to decide issues, but to sway people, for this reason they lean heavily on appeals to emotion and prejudice, and make use of neat, clever, and sometimes humorous turns of phrase rather than profound analysis of ideas"

"Of all this Confucious was contemptuous" Confucious by H. G. Creel Chapter "The teacher"

[Anonycat]

I will delve into this list - I know a Hubbard era SO/OT who went from the cult right into a hypnotism business, so I can't wait to check out that one recommendation too. In time, all.

[Lermanet_com]

The Lament (or the apocalypse)
by Hermes Trismegistus translated from Ficino by F.C. Yates
(The Yates translation is authentic, the guy that did the prior translations popularized in the west took great liberties)
This dates from the time of Zoroaster or perhaps before.
Hermes is also known as Thoth, The High Priest of Egypt. This was Thoth speaking to his son. This may be (c) from the beginning of Egypt..

There will come a time when it will be seen that in vain have the Egyptians honoured the divinity with a pious mind and with assiduous service. All their holy worship will become inefficacious. The Gods, leaving the earth will go back to heaven; they will abandon Egypt; this land, once the home of religion, will be widowed of its gods and left destitute. Strangers will fill this country, and not only will there no longer be care for religious observances, but, yet a more painful thing, it will be laid down under so-called laws, under pain of punishments, that all must abstain from acts of piety or cult towards the gods. Then this holy land, the home of sanctuaries and temples, will be covered with tombs and the dead. O Egypt, Egypt, there will remain of the religion only fables, and thy children in later times will not believe them; nothing will survive save words engraved on stones to tell of thy pious deeds. The Sythian or the Indian, or some other such barbarous neighbor will establish himself in Egypt. For behold the divinity goes back up to heaven; and men, abandoned, all die, and then, without either god or man, Egypt will be nothing but a desert.

Why weep, O Asclepius? Egypt will be carried away to worse things than this; she will be polluted with graver crimes. She, hitherto most holy, who so much loved the gods, only country of earth where the gods made their home in return for her devotion, she who taught men holiness and piety, will give example of the most atrocious cruelty. In that hour, weary of life, men will no longer regard the world as (a) worthy object of their admiration and reverence. This All, which is a good thing, the best that be seen in the past, the present, and the future, will be in danger of perishing, men will esteem it a burden; and thenceforth they will despise and no longer cherish this whole of the universe, incomparable work of God, glorious construction, good creation, made up of an infinite diversity of life forms, instrument of the will of God who, without envy, pours forth his favour on all his work, in which is assembled in one whole, in harmonious diversity, all that can be seen that is worthy of reverence, praise and love. For darkness will be preferred to light; it will be thought better to die than to live; none will raise his eyes towards heaven; the pious man will be thought mad, the impious, wise; frenzied will be thought brave, the worst criminal a good man. The soul and all the beliefs attached to it, according to which the soul is immortal by nature or forsees that it can obtain immortality as I have taught you -- this will be laughed at and thought nonsense. And believe me, it will be considered a capital crime to give onself to the religion of the mind. A new justice will be created and new laws. Nothing holy, nothing pious, nothing worthy of heaven and of the gods who dwell there, will be any more spoken of nor will find credence in the soul.

The gods will separate themselves from men, deplorable divorce. Only the evil angels will remain who will mingle with men, and constrain them by violence -- miserable creatures -- to all excesses of criminal audacity, engaging them in wars, brigandage, frauds, and in everything which contrary to the nature of the soul. Then the earth will lose its equilibrium, the sea will be no longer navigable, the heaven will no longer be full of stars, the stars will stop their courses, and will be silent. The fruits of the earth will moulder, the soil will no longer be fertile, the air itself will grow thick with lugubrious torpor.

such will be the old age of the world, irreligion, disorder, confusion of all goods. When all these things have come to pass, O Asclepius, then the Lord and Father, the god first in power and demiurge of the One God, having considered these customs and voluntary crimes, endeavoring, by his will, which is the divine will, to bar the way to vices and universal corruption ans to correct errors, he will annihilate all malice, either by effacing it in a deluge or by consuming it by fire, or destroying it by pestilential maladies diffused in many places. Then he will bring back the world to its first beauty, so that this world may again be worthy of reverence and admiration, and that God also, creator and restorer of so great a work, may be glorified by the men who shall live then in continual hymns of praise and benedictions. That is what the rebirth of the world will be; a renewal of all good things, a holy and most solemn restoration of Nature herself,...

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demiurge is an old word for the creator of the universe
if you recognize similar bibilical stories, this was the source for the revelations and predates the old testament. This was typed in by my hand, all typos are my own, .For more information google: Hermes Trismegistus

[Ladybird]

Thank you Arnie. This is important ancient truth. Everyone in Scientology (and other modern day belief systems) should study and compare and think about this.

[Telepathetic]

Arnie, based on your recommendation I read Battle for the Mind and True believers a couple of years ago. These books shook me to the core. I actually read them twice.

TP

[TG1]

And I'm reading the online version of Joost Merloo's Rape of the Mind that Arnie scanned some time ago. It's an eye-opener and at http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/

Thanks, Arnie!

[AnonLover]

Volney Mathison - Creative Image Therapy
http://www.lermanet.com/exit/creative-image-therapy.htm

Hivemind recently milked the Lermavault for a full scan of ^^This if anybody is interested.

sauce – http://www.lermanet.com/members/volney/

PDF version – http://www.mediafire.com/?mero2mq2zxl