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"If you read the Scientology OT 2 materials there is no need for further explanation, except perhaps to help clarify technical mechanics from mythology."
This is followed by a bunch of New Age oobleck.
There is a dwindling number of "tractable" readers on Marty's blog, whose comments are permitted. Many non-cooperators are excluded.
Occasionally, Marty permits a dissenting voice, but it's harmless to his overall objective:
To salvage Hubbard's and Scientology's "image."
To accomplish this, apparently, Marty has realized that he's going to have to do several things -
Spill not a lot of beans, but a few beans. Enough to impress. And even I was impressed for a while.
Surround himself with smokey clouds of New Age verbiage and imagery. This serves as camouflage and distraction.
Ensure that his remaining followers - and pcs - don't abandon him. He does this by reaffirming his loyalty to Hubbard and Hubbard's Bridge.
Continue to assert decades old CofS PR lines, and PR lines used by for-hire CofS "religious experts."
Some time ago, I and others criticized Marty for his use of the PR handling of calling Incident 2 of OT 3 an: a) analogy b) allegory c) metaphor d) myth.
Anyone who studied Hubbard's teachings knows that, per those teachings, incidents (and engrams, and implants are a kind of engram) are recorded literally - time, place, form, and event - on time tracks... including the time tracks of Body Thetans.
"Myths" are ancient stories of collective origin.
The implants of OT 2 are not "myths" and Marty knows it.
And honest approach would be for Marty to say, "It's nonsense, and I don't deliver it anymore; or even, "I've taken some of the ideas and developed a new level, but it's no longer OT 2."
But that would be bad for business.
Me thinks that, recently, Marty has encountered someone ridiculing Hubbard&Scientology because of OT 2, so he's adopted the same handling as was done for OT 3.
This is disappointing, as I thought Marty was progressing.
IMO, what he's doing is extreme emergency PR damage control, with the idea of salvaging the ("true") Hubbard - the Hubbard before the supposed "relentless attacks from international bankers&psychiatrists. etc., drove Hubbard to extreme measures to save Scientology."
Of course, the Hubbard of the 1950s was also a mess, and his crazed 1950s FBI letters, his 1940s 'Affirmations', and his 1938 "Smash" letter to wife Polly, and other documents, show that the madness was not the result of "attacks," but the result of a life long toxic "philosophy."
So Marty has his work cut out for him if he's going to be presenting BS, specked with occasional truths (old Scientology formula), but his backsliding is sad to watch.
"If you read the Scientology OT 2 materials there is no need for further explanation, except perhaps to help clarify technical mechanics from mythology."
This is followed by a bunch of New Age oobleck.
There is a dwindling number of "tractable" readers on Marty's blog, whose comments are permitted. Many non-cooperators are excluded.
Occasionally, Marty permits a dissenting voice, but it's harmless to his overall objective:
To salvage Hubbard's and Scientology's "image."
To accomplish this, apparently, Marty has realized that he's going to have to do several things -
Spill not a lot of beans, but a few beans. Enough to impress. And even I was impressed for a while.
Surround himself with smokey clouds of New Age verbiage and imagery. This serves as camouflage and distraction.
Ensure that his remaining followers - and pcs - don't abandon him. He does this by reaffirming his loyalty to Hubbard and Hubbard's Bridge.
Continue to assert decades old CofS PR lines, and PR lines used by for-hire CofS "religious experts."
Some time ago, I and others criticized Marty for his use of the PR handling of calling Incident 2 of OT 3 an: a) analogy b) allegory c) metaphor d) myth.
Anyone who studied Hubbard's teachings knows that, per those teachings, incidents (and engrams, and implants are a kind of engram) are recorded literally - time, place, form, and event - on time tracks... including the time tracks of Body Thetans.
"Myths" are ancient stories of collective origin.
The implants of OT 2 are not "myths" and Marty knows it.
And honest approach would be for Marty to say, "It's nonsense, and I don't deliver it anymore; or even, "I've taken some of the ideas and developed a new level, but it's no longer OT 2."
But that would be bad for business.
Me thinks that, recently, Marty has encountered someone ridiculing Hubbard&Scientology because of OT 2, so he's adopted the same handling as was done for OT 3.
This is disappointing, as I thought Marty was progressing.
IMO, what he's doing is extreme emergency PR damage control, with the idea of salvaging the ("true") Hubbard - the Hubbard before the supposed "relentless attacks from international bankers&psychiatrists. etc., drove Hubbard to extreme measures to save Scientology."
Of course, the Hubbard of the 1950s was also a mess, and his crazed 1950s FBI letters, his 1940s 'Affirmations', and his 1938 "Smash" letter to wife Polly, and other documents, show that the madness was not the result of "attacks," but the result of a life long toxic "philosophy."
So Marty has his work cut out for him if he's going to be presenting BS, specked with occasional truths (old Scientology formula), but his backsliding is sad to watch.