Dynamism

[Cat's Squirrel]

Somebody mentioned Enid Vien, so I'd like to point out that she had or has a practice going somewhere on the West Coast of the US, based on something she calls Dynamism. Has anybody worked with her and been able to evaluate it? From what she says here it looks promising.

http://dynamism.org/

 

[Pitbull]

What an excellent question.

I wish I had the big bucks a few years ago to hire Enid as an auditor.

Interesting tidbit. You know the "Rich Dad Poor Dad" guy,

http://www.richdad.com/

Richard Kiyosaki? He's been milking the success of that first book
for years. Basically talking about real estate. A little positive
thinking, etc.

Very successful, but his rap is getting tiring.

He, apparently, was involved in Dynamism.

Don't know if he was ever a Scientologist.

 

[thetanic]

She's in the San Diego area. Very nice lady, but I haven't had the chance to work with her. Agreed, I wish I'd had the bucks to hire her as an auditor. Still could, I suppose.

 

[Voltaire's Child]

I only know her from her a.c.t. posts. Very sane commonsensical lady. I was impressed with her.

 

[MarkWI]

KSW News #46 and #47: attacks on Enid Vien

KSW News #46 and #47: attacks on Enid Vien
By Ron Newman
5 Jun 1995 15:25:02 +0100

This post continues my "Fair Use" quoting from the Religious Technology Center's magazine _KSW News_. As you may know, "KSW" stands for "Keeping Scientology Working".

I've previously quoted and commented on _KSW News_'s coverage of the Dennis Erlich case, in issue #46. The entire contents of that issue were submitted to the Federal Court as an exhibit attached to Warren McShane's deposition.

This time, I'll focus on their coverage of one of a.r.s.'s most loved and respected correspondents, Enid Vien of San Diego, who posts under the e-mail address [email protected] . .

---- Begin quote from KSW News #46 [my comments in brackets] --------



[article title]
Religious Technology Center
Safeguards Scientology Trademarks and Materials


[subtitle of this part of the article]
Squirrel Caves in on Fight,
Drops Appeal, Fully Agrees
to Federal Injunction and
Warns Others Against
Unauthorized Use of the Tech


Using the legal system, RTC makes squirrels cease suppressive acts against
Scientology and Scientologists. A recent case involved a San Diego squirrel
written about in an earlier edition of KSW News. This squirrel was sued
in federal court by RTC for illegally copying and using LRH materials.


Despite rantings and ravings by this squirrel about having a
"right" to rip-off the Church and LRH's tech as well as other lies,
the case resulted in total victory for Scientology.


[Note that, as with their coverage of Erlich, this _KSW News_ article
never once mentions Enid Vien by name. If they did, perhaps the
reader might feel some residual sympathy for the real human being whom
this article is viciously and viterupatively attacking. Especially
if the reader actually knew Enid Vien at some earlier point in his
or her life, when Enid was still a member in good standing of
the Church of Scientology. ]


In a landmark
decision, the Federal Court judge ruled that the Advanced Technology
of the Scientology religion is legally kept confidential by the Church
and that it is unlawful for anyone to use it without express permission
from RTC. The squirrel was barred from further illegal or unauthorized
use of LRH materials, and ordered to pay the Church $52,000 for violating
copyright and trade secret rights.


[This decision appears to conflict with another Federal Court decision,
RTC vs. Larry Wollersheim et al., case #85-6547 in the US Court of
Appeals, Ninth Circuit, decision issued August 8, 1986. That decision
was reported in The Los Angeles Times of August 9, 1986, reversing
a District Court decision that Interpreting California trade
secret law, it states that

The Church alleged no competitive market advantage from maintaining
the secrecy of its higher level materials. Indeed, to do so would
raise grave doubts about its claim as a religion and as a
not-for-profit corporation....The value of the confidential materials
is thus spiritual not commercial, and the materials cannot be said
to have the "independent economic value" necessary to qualify
as a protectible trade secret.​

It is unfortunate that, because of lack of financial resources,
Enid Vien was forced to throw in the towel early rather than continuing
her appeal of a District Court decision in apparent conflict with an earlier,
higher-level court decision of the same issue. See below.]


The squirrel appealed the judgment and tried to get the decision
reversed. RTC responded, but also continued to press for payment of
the judgment already ordered. Finally, in bankruptcy and realizing
the utter futility of any further actions, the squirrel caved in and
asked to end the case by droping the appea and agreeing to a permanent
injunction in full accordance with the Federal Court order.


[In other words, the Church/RTC hounded Enid into bankruptcy in order
to avoid an appeal that could well have reversed the District Court's
judgment.]


The case
was so ended, and the surrender was widely disseminated by the squirrel
to the same people who had received the squirrel's earlier lies and false
reports about the Church, by publishing the following:


"I am firmly convinced that it is unethical to pervert, plagiarize,
alter, or in any way use the copyrighted materials and trade secrets
of L. Ron Hubbard without proper authorization from the Church."
The squirrel went on to say, "The Church has their rights and these should
be respected. LRH's tech works when one hundred percent standardly
applied."


[The RTC wrote a statement for Enid to sign as a condition of settlement.
She did so, under duress, using language that is clearly not her own
and which is unlikely to reflect her true beliefs. I am quite sure
she would not use the Scientology neologism "standardly" in any of
her own writing.]


It seems even squirrels can experience ethics change when justice
persists. But the best news of all is that federal case is now over
and the judge's precedent-setting decision regarding the confidentiality
of the advanced materials _and_ the injunction against this squirrel
are both _permanent_.


[Had this decision been reveresed on appeal, as it should have been,
life would have gotten a lot harder for the RTC when it next attacked
Dennis Erlich. It is unfortunate that this decision was allowed
to stand in conflict with an earlier Appeals Court ruling.]


---- End of KSW News #46 quote ------

The RTC continues this scurrilous attack on Enid in the latest issue, KSW News #47:


----- Begin "Fair Use" quote from KSW News #47 [my comments in brackets] -----



[article title]
RTC's Actions to Keep Dianetics Working


...
The Inspector General Network [of RTC] discovers such situations in
many ways. One of the most important is Knowledge Reports and letters
to RTC from Scientologists and staff members around the world. Such
reports are invaluable to RTC and help locate situations that might
otherwise never be known about. And in some cases, reports have led
to the apprehension of squirrels and subsersives who have willfully
perverted the technology, attempted to rip off the Church, tried to
pull people off The Bridge, or other equally suppressive actions.


[In other words, the RTC promotes "finking" or informing on one's
friends, a practice ethically condemned in many other religions.
We'll learn more about this shortly. Keep reading...]


In one such case, a person's report led to a major legal precedent
concerning the confidentiality of our Advanced Technology. You may have
read about this in previous issues of _KSW News_. Yet there is an epilogue
to the story, which demonstrates both the power of standard tech and how
truth and integrity [!] do prevail in the end.


This person unknowingly encountered a squirrel masquerading as someone
who delivered Dianetics and Scientology services. Even though she was
not a Scientologist(TM) at the time, the woman astutely observed that
the technology wasn't working in the hands of this squirrel. Wisely,
she reported these suppressive activities to the Church and RTC, and
provided invaluable evidence for a federal lawsuit against the squirrel.
The case culminated with the Federal Court judge barring the squirrel
from any further illegal or unauthorized use of the materials.
Moreover, he issued a ruling that the Advanced Technology is legally
kept confidential by the Church, and it is unlawful for anyone else
to use it without RTC's permission.


[A decision based on a reading of California trade secret law that
conflicts with an earlier Appeals Court decision. They don't say
this, of course.]


While that in itself was a major victory for Scientology, there is
more. The individual who initially reported the matter to RTC was
recently rewarded for her efforts in alignment with
HCO PL 1 September 1969R, Counterespionage.


[What kind of a church has a policy on "Counterespionage" ??!!?]


But her best reward
of all is that she has now become a Scientologist, and is availing
herself of standard technology -- the technology which she helped
RTC safeguard.


[The article is accompanied by a picture of a gray-haired man in
a Sea Org uniform, shaking hands with a 50+-year-old woman and
handing her a piece of paper which may or may not be a check. The caption
reads:]


Counterespionage reward being presented by RTC to Ms. Gerry Salinas,
who helped RTC safeguard the technology by reporting and providing
evidence resulting in the prosecution of a squirrel for illegally
copying and using Dianetics and Scientology materials.


[How much of that check is Ms. Gerry Salinas still going to have once
she starts crossing the Scientology Toll Bridge?]


---- End quote from KSW News #47 -------

I don't know what agreement Enid and the RTC's lawyers finally signed. But I do wonder whether vicious articles like these violate either the letter or the spirit of that agreement.

If you are a Scientologist and are still reading this, how do you feel about your Church using its money and power to try to crush a gentle soul like Enid, and then having the effrontery to boast about this deed in two separate issues of a slick magazine?

I am disgusted.

http://cgi.amazing.com/scientology/ksw-1.html

I used to clap my hands at events for that.
Little did I know.

 

[Lermanet_com]

Somebody mentioned Enid Vien, so I'd like to point out that she had or has a practice going somewhere on the West Coast of the US, based on something she calls Dynamism. Has anybody worked with her and been able to evaluate it? From what she says here it looks promising.

http://dynamism.org/

was it this post?

I have been fighting my way out Hubbard's mind numbing hypnotic trance for 30 years. So perhaps I sound a bit 'out there', a bit 'tough', or as like like to put it, like a tough old bird...

For your information, when I first posted to the net, on Homer's alt.clearing.technology newsgroup, in 1993, I fancied myself a freezoner who believed that there was good in scientology...then scientology sued an OT named Enid Vein, who was printing NOTS packs, and someone killed her cat with a .22 bullet.

I was so enraged by that, and the fact that after they got enid over a barrel, in litigation, they forced her to settle and agree to never mention her cat again as part of the settlement, that with intent, I adopted the most destructive identity I could summon, and started posting to alt.religion.scientology... and at the same time, used hubbard's own words, when he would admonish us "always goto source" meaning to what HE said, I did it one better, and went to every book on mental manipulation, hypnosis etc published between 1940 and 1952, (the ones Hubbard read to craft scientology and dianetics) and read THOSE.. (and found that i had really gone to the source)...and 85% of what I found out from those researches has been webbed here:
The Hypnosis Index.. The rest i use when I am doing one on one deprogramming to speed recovery time of recovering scientologists.

Please just keep reading,

may you never be fooled again.

And I have a "dynamism" pack if anyone wants it...make a donation to lermanet.com for postage..Ill ship it off to ya'