Gib, thanks for this, I did not know that
regarding Motivation & goals, from Mike Rinder blog
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/straight-up-and-vertical-not/
"For about 30 years now the FSO has been pushing an arbitrary [STRIKE]target[/STRIKE] goal ( $) of “10,000 onto or through OT VII” as the solution to “handling the planet.” It comes from a twisted interpretation of this quote from a 1952 lecture: “…at any one time on earth there were not more than about 10,000 people of a caliber that was sufficient to do a little steering or leading…”
"“It was a mathematical equation, all extrapolated out. From the real physical universe effects this would create in terms of case gain and resultant third dynamic activity, including mid-New OT VIIs and New OT VII’s joining staff, it was estimated this absolutely would achieve the goal of bringing about the release of OT IX and X. But not only that, it was estimated that 10,000 on or through New OT VII would be able to do a lot of steering or leading on Planet Earth as LRH said.”
All are just goals used to motivate people into believing they can attain super human powers, or as Hubbard called them "homo novis or OT".
Oh yes, Hubbard even had an answer as early as 1950 with dianetics if anybody thought it was BS or was skeptical or cricital in the very beginning.
He called those thoughts (BS, cricital or skeptism) "denyers" and other such terms. The "Reactive Mind" had denyers or commands received during an engram that would deny a person's own thoughts as those thoughts actually came from the "reactive mind", as Hubbard explained and thus
"Hard Sell" came about. Yep, one had to care about the person, really "hard sell" him to continue to get auditing until he was "clear", in his own estimation, but not until one had traveled "the bridge to total freedom".
Add in "success stories" w/o any proof for people to see the results. And then people believe somehow.
Add in Hubbard's installing of "fear" that an engram can come into restimulation at any time and a person can go nuts, why one feels compelled or motivated to go "clear", and then "ot".
Add in others have traveled "the bridge to total freedom",
add in nobody can talk about their "case"
add in PTS/SP fake technology
add numerous Hubbard gibberish that sounds good stolen snips of truths from others
add in fake statics
on and on............................
what a fuk'in scam.