The Sad Fate of Lisa McPherson
If the full Lisa McPherson story can teach us something,
it is not so much what can happen if someone applies a Technology harmfully,
but rather what happens when a group of otherwise well-meaning people becomes
the adverse effect of a self-appointed Elite whose goal has solely become
to maintain their Power through Terror.
SYNOPSIS
I have limited my study of the McPherson case to first
hand reports, namely from Interviews and Hearings conducted by the Florida
State Attorneys, subpoenaed records and “daily watch reports” that are
publicly available. I have read them in their entirety.
The most crucial piece of evidence (Lisa's Pc's folders)
is lacking due to having been reportedly "lost". If Lisa's folders had
indeed been lost in what turns out to be one of the most high profile case
in the entire Church History, RTC would have ordered a literal army of
Sea Org members and even public to work around the clock for an entire
week, if needed.
Such a loss would have never been accepted if RTC
had been at the unwilling end of it. Therefore the fact that Lisa's folder
loss was anything but deliberate and calculated is by far the most plausible
explanation.
While I have not been involved with that case nor
possess any first hand knowledge of what took place on her last day, my
thorough knowledge of Scientology Technology and Procedures and great familiarity
with that type of case condition (which I have been called dozens of times
to handle personally as one of the very few experienced Introspection Rundown
Specialists on the planet), allows me to make a surprising number of conclusions
with the data that is available. Further I know all technical personnel
involved very well.
THE "WHO" (according to RTC)
Only a Class XII is fully capable of grasping
the irony of Web sites dedicated to Lisa McPherson showing her holding
her L-11 Certificate signed by Peter Buttery and by David Gellie.
In Scientologese, the Who is the Individual or individuals
found to be responsible for any situation adversely affecting the Church.
The unfortunate individuals found to be the who by
RTC were both Class XIIs, who C/Sed and audited Lisa through her "L-11
completion" , a mere 3 weeks before her Psychotic Break, They were promptly
ordered "PERMANENTLY OFF Tech Lines" by RTC. They are currently working,
the former as a janitor, the later as a Bus Driver and are explicitly forbidden
to be transferred out of their menial jobs unless so ordered by RTC. "They
may never hold a Technical Post again"
It is said that in a confidential Memo a Senior Management
individual stated: "They caused Lisa McPherson to die, so they deserve
the same fate as Auditors." So they are considered "dead" as Auditors and
as long as they pledge allegiance to the Mother Church they will be forbidden
to ever audit again. Their long tracks of several decades of dedicated
service and Technical accomplishments, some of it directly under LRH, was
according to RTC, the only thing that prevent their savage expulsion, prosecution
or an imaginative way to degrade and humiliate them further
THE "HOW"
The irony of Lisa holding her L11 Certificate,
all smiling is that L11 was originally designed to resolve and prevent
the
very condition she soon after fell in, This can
only be fully appreciated by someone who has done the Class XI course.
Shortly after completing L11, Lisa was put on a
lengthy O/W write up that went on for weeks, and without getting any corrective
sessions in spite of her bad indicators increasing.
O/W write-ups are a routinely short
term action to be done as part of a condition handling. One spends hours
writing
O/W Write-ups, not days or weeks.
Making someone spend weeks on it, is merely an invitation
for the pc to chew on bank and to Introvert, as the individual is continually
made to look inwards at his guilt feelings without any direction or guidance.
Severe Introversion and feelings of guilt is very evident in her write
up.
It used to be routine to send a person to the examiner
after each O/W write-up, to ensure they feel good. This apparently
is no longer being done at Flag. Apparently the
deep guilt someone or introversion someone may feel after a mishandled
or
overrun O/W write is no longer a concern in COS
any longer, but on the contrary, expected to occur.
Unfortunately such offbeat Ethics Handlings (which
are actually not part of Scientology technology, contrarily to the teachings
of RTC who claim otherwise) have become common place in the current COS.
These are not the product of LRH tech, but are solely RTC own brand of
Tech alteration, based on the case Manifestations of its promoters and
their frantic desire to maintain their power.. (It is a technical fact
that people will instinctively seek to program others for the very action
that they themselves need).
The Current Bridge as currently promoted by
RTC has degenerated in nothing else than a Huge and Monstrous Grade 2 (Overt
and Withold Technology) where Dianetics, Clear and OT levels has become
mere interruptions and side-trips on the overall program.
TECHNICAL DATA
According to Scientology Technology, an illness (covered
in the Assist Bulletins) or even a psychotic Break (covered
in the Introspection Rundown Bulletin are both preceded
by a “predisposition" and a "precipitation".
A predisposition is defined as a susceptibility
or propensity for something. It is what makes the mind liable or likely
to be
affected by some particular thing. Being tired,
living in an invalidative environment, recent flagrant auditing errors,
are
examples of predisposition
By precipitation is meant the occurrence of an incident
where what was being predisposed now comes to fruition.
In the case of an illness it is generally the incident
that brings about the infection. In the case of a psychotic break, it is
the
moment of introversion where the person actually
looses control.
One sees this type of phenomenon in the expression:
“The straw that broke the camel back”.
Adding straws, one after the other is the predisposition.
The actual straw that breaks the camel’s back is the precipitation.
In the case of Lisa McPherson, it looks like a virtual
certainty for all available data that L-11 was the predisposition.
L11 is designed to resolve and even prevent the
very condition in which she sank!
In addition there are a number of originations that
are telltale signs of specific unflat L11 steps . During the early days
of her
“non-sequitur talk”: she was in actual fact talking
directly out of restimulated and unflat L11 steps.
This is an expected phenomenon. It is possible for
the well trained individual to sieve through the apparent babble of natter,
screams or "non-sequitur talk" to track down the root cause of the condition.
It is actually the first step done by an auditor
in the introspection rundown. By making the "correct indication", it is
entirely possible, as I have done it dozens of times, to miraculously turn
off the insane babble and restore, at least temporarily and slightly sanity
to the individual.
The offbeat O/W Write up was the precipitation.
This is completely obvious from a number of her comments and actions.
In the actual psychotic Break Episode, she says
he needs help. She should have been red tagged right then and there,
as she obviously had immediate BPC on her current
action (O/W write ups and most likely others as well)
By going through her pc folders and recent reports
and write up, an indication should have been made to her. This should have
been made within hours of the Psychotic Break, not days later. This was
never done.
A BOTCHED L-11 RUNDOWN
If a trained Class XII examines some of her “early
non-sense” he can actually see that it actually makes perfect sense and
give vital clue as to what is wrong, even though she didn't know it.
1-On the 18th (the psychotic
Break episode), she says she needs help
2-Once in isolation she
says the following things (meaningless babble to the average person, but
extremely
meaningful a Class XI auditor in the light of the
fact she only recently did L-11)
"I created
time 3 billion years ago and now I am dramatizing it since than."
This is a Clear indication of a specific
unflat L-11 step meant to handle the key dramatization on the whole track
in a case.
"I am
LRH and I didn't confront it because I didn't confront that power."
This is an identity or valence problem,
a typical sign of a list error on L-11 as some lists will give exact valences.
There is an
unblown Valence/Identity.
Her statement:
"I can't confront force. I am dramatizing it."
More signs of Unflat L-11 which is
meant to handle the key aberration on a case.
"I was
1.1. What my chronic tone level is."
This is a Clear sign of introversion,
and guilt, which became quite apparent on her O/W Write up.
"I disseminated
my mother, but she didn't get handled. As I didn't confront force."
Either a wrong item from L-11 or from
Ethics or she is PTS to her Mother. (in which case she should have handled
it
BEFORE L-11)
" I need my
auditor…"
“Needing auditing is the typical manifestation
of auditing error, most specifically out-lists which cause the most
case deterioration on a case.
I need
to confront my mom.
PTS to her Mother (among other things).
Next report : “You have to follow the
light as Light is life”.
This is a textbook Whole Track Implant
description.
A Key implant on the case is one of
the key steps of L-11. This is yet another indicator that her L11 was botched.
THE REAL REASON (THE "WHY")
Sadly, RTC policy toward the prevention of disaffection
and dissent has been to instill a regime of Terror.
This was originally done through assignment to the
RPF and expulsion from the Church.
As time went on, cruel and long lasting cruel and
humiliating punishment became the norm.
People who work at the Flag land Base and have joined
the Sea Org, have typically donated all their assets to the Church and
are already working in excess of 60 hours a week for little or no pay.
In cases of "Down statistics" and emergencies" hours grow even longer and
what little benefit one would get even becomes smaller. Deprivation of
Food, sleep, and privacy, cancellation of right to meet one's spouse or
underage children are among the first penalties enforced to all group members..
Already hardened by these harsh conditions, the RPF
has slowly become, through the years, in many aspects, an actual improvement
over the average condition a Sea Org member, to the point that a the threat
of an RPF assignment is no longer carry the weight that it once did.
RTC answer has been to remove from the group of unfortunates
who work for them in a state more akin to slavery than ever prison would
offer the only asset they still possess: their Dignity and their Integrity.
Dignity is removed by broad publication of unilateral
findings against an individual. Whereas Scientology Policy dictates a sort
of Justice Hearing or Court called a Committee of Evidence, those are very
seldom done. Justice being served by pronouncing people based on evidence
the individual has not be allowed to confront or dispute. In other words
the Accuser, Judge, Jury and Executioner is one and the same individual
or group of individuals. In RTC vision of "Justice" the Accusation, Judgement
and Sentencing are now performed as a single step and in most cases no
appeal is possible.
There seems to be no limit to RTC's imagination in
creating new forms of Torments calculated to degrade and debase the individual
receiving their brand of Justice.
New posts with degraded titles get created and the
people are assigned to it. People are forced to make public confessions
eerily reminiscent of the Stalinist Purges, Marriage are ordered broken,
children in actual fact become wards of Church and are raised in
a manner entirely consistent with Germany's infamous "Hitler's Youths.
of the 1930s"
Therefore the prime motivation of most staff, though
none would dare admitting it, in an organization where merely having such
thoughts is a punishable act, is to "AVOID DRAWING RTC's NOTICE".
This eerie duplication of George Orwell' "Thought
Police" comes as a result of RTC's obsession with implementing the "False
Purpose Rundown Technology" at every level and its widespread and frequent
use.
A SOCIETY COMPOSED OF MINDLESS ROBOTS
The False Purpose Rundown seeks not only confessions
of any "reprehensible acts", but will demand the admission of any and all
negative or critical thoughts about the Church Leadership and Policies.
The idea is to nip any such disagreements in the bud, by inferring that
any disagreement with the current Leadership or Policies is an Overt and
that it can only exist in the presence of unrevealed "crimes" against the
Church. For that purpose the word crime has been redefined in Scientology
to no longer mean such things as Murder and Rape, but rather "omissions"
and "failures to take all the necessary actions" that would have been required
to prevent any downfall or "lowering of statistics" within the Church.
The fact that in most cases, the downfalls and down statistics could only
have been prevented by someone with the psychic abilities to foretell the
Future as in "20/20 Hindsight" is of no concern to RTC.
To the experienced staff member the only way to
salvage oneself is by "Not disagreeing" with anything and to not even form
within his mind even the shadow of a Doubt.
The end result is "utter robotism". Creative thought
has become so suppressed and even "Dangerous" that individuals no longer
dare making them.. LRH amply describes the characteristics of Robotism
in the Expanded Dianetics Materials and a Number of other Bulletins.
People suffering from Robotism and Slaves share
a lot in common. Both will avoid taking responsibility and can no longer
think clearly. they can no longer confront the environment that surrounds
them and they instinctively tend to ignore or "forget" their prior
knowledge. They will disregard any moral choices or "common sense" but
rather adhere to "safe" if unprodictive protocols. They have isolated themselves
from the painful and terrifying environment by allowing circuitry to take
over.
By understanding the above, one can now clearly
undeerstand the actions of people who were either trained in some way in
the medical field, or should have known that they should be "doing something"
more.
WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE
The first thing that should have been done when the C/S and Snr C/S
heard of Lisa's psychotic reaction, would have been to do an "Folder Error
Summary" of her applicable recent auditing. This would have
taken at most a few hours.
Then an auditor with the correct training Level and experienced with
the Introspection Rundown and L-11 should have made the right indication
to Lisa McPherson, wether she could be put on the meter or not, until some
type of relief took place.
When I left the in 1992, I was the only auditor fully trained in both
Rundowns. It is quite likely with all auditors having been put shortly
after, onto "Golden age of Tech training", that by the time Lisa needed
it, there was still no auditor qualified to do both Rundowns.
A small note in a one of the report, actually indicates
the true viewpoint of all people involved. It should have been to
care for the person in front of them, to truly help
her.
Unfortunately the note said that that the purpose
of "Watching" Lisa was to take care (or prevent) a Flap. This is the sordid
true purpose that Sea Org have degenerated to.
Staff no longer wishes to Help people of make them
free as their prime Purpose. Preventing flaps (Flaps are a virtual guarantee
that RTC would descend on those it pronounced guilty with all the expected
savagery of a sharpened guillotine) are now considered the paramount desire
of Staff members.
Individuals exhibiting the symptoms described above are clearly PTS themselves.
PTS individuals make mistakes. It seems to have never dawned on RTC
that by creating the dangerous environment they have, that previously flubless
auditors have now lost their skills and would make major blunders in Lisa
McPherson's case.
The invention of the "Golden Age of Tech" is just another unusual solution
to handle auditors who flub due to their exposure to a dangerous (suppressive)
environment. De-PTSing them would have been the answer, but it would also
mean loosing control.
The most easily controlled people are PTS. Robotism is merely a manifestation
of PTSness.
This is no coincidence that countless battered spouses will neither
complain nor leave their partner. They are utterly PTS and hence utterly
controlled.
Robots are the perfect example of something that is utterly controlled.
Therefore, RTC share a far greater responsibility than David Gellie
and Peter Buttery in causing Lisa's condition. David and Peter's error
was primarily to become PTS and ignoring it. (RTC made that handling impossible).
THE OFF-BEAT TECHNOLOGY OF WATCHING
In Lisa McPherson case, a number of inept watchers
are being brought one after the other into her room. Many show
very little ARC for Lisa (it takes truly exceptional
TRs to show genuine affinity to a person in that condition- something
one cannot expect from anybody but a veteran auditor.
These watchers became a major source of disruption
for Lisa. She became increasingly violent with them, and it is
obvious in some reports that some of them felt animosity
toward her. Of interest is that the only person with whom Lisa
never became violent was the only one who showed
great ARC. Paradoxically, it was the youngest and less experienced
of all watchers, a 17 year old girl called Heather.
Unfortunately the concept of 8C has become perverted
over the years. 8c simply means smooth and effective control.
Dianetics 55 clearly demonstrates that 8C can only
really exist in the presence of ARC.
In fact it is a key component of the Two Key interacting
Triangles in Scientology ARC (Affinity, Reality, Communication)
and KRC (Knowledge, Responsibility, Control).
Unfortunately in the Sea Org , 8C has become all
too often synonym with coerced or manipulative control, which a perversion
of the term. There continual reports of doing 8C on Lisa which in
this context simply means to force her to do something.
According to an early report, Lisa had trouble swallowing.
As time went on, she would either refuse or reject any food.
The answer of the watchers were to force feed her
(not with a syringe but with the crude medieval method of shoving
it into her mouth.
A PTS Type III individual sees suppressives everywhere.
How can a person in that condition react, when faced with people who attempt
some sort of violence (force feeding, prevented from leaving or from pacing).
The watchers soon became, as far as Lisa was concerned,active Suppressives
in the present time environment. On that standpoint alone, one could not
expect anything, but severe deterioration to take place.
AS far as Lisa case was concerned, New "Present
Time Suppressives" had been added to her environment. and it became that
much more unsafe.
LRH states that the ultimate result of Suppression
is Death. Therefore from the point the coercive environment in which Lisa
lived became firmly established, her fate was sealed.
It does not require a PhD in Medicine to conclude
that a person who has trouble swallowing has either some disease
or infection or at the very least requires immediate
Medical attention. Wouldn’t any normal, or even uneducated parent seeing
their child in that state, not seek instant medical attention? Even any
Dog lover would have rushed his pet to the Vet if he had exhibited Lisa's
symptoms.
In addition to the disruption caused by low ARC
people and a continual change of watchers (each watcher inevitably
sees the watch as a penalty as she must endure significant
hardship without any compensation).
Typically watchers are assigned to people who are
doing lower condition and therefore are already in some form of "Robotic
state"
Obviously a person who holds an unrealistically
long watch (16 hours will start to show impatience, lack of alertness),
This can only result in harming the person being watched.
Sleeping in the company of the psychotic is yet another
form of disruption. Since one is completely vulnerable when he sleeps,
the person who is deeply PTS will perceive anyone, especially a stranger
as threat and a reason to remain awake. Making watchers sleep with a person
in a psychotic is a complete Violation of all LRH materials on the Subject
of PTS and Psychotics.
The watchers have the false data, that as long as
they do not verbally talk to the person, other forms of communication is
OK. This is invented Technology and is contrary
to all LRH data on Psychotics.
This is based on a misunderstanding of the original bulletins that
deal with the subject.
One keeps absolute silence around a person in the
middle of a psychotic break episode. This is the actual incident
where the psychotic break manifest itself. This
is not the whole duration of the isolation period! The reason for the
silence is that on a normal person the incident
is a lock, but on the psychotic this incident is actually an engram and
anything uttered will become part of its content
and a command to be later dramatized.
In the book “The Creation of Human Ability”there
is an utterly silent process. One get a pc to comply with a
non verbal command.
This process is seldom run, as it is not part of
any standard Rundown or grade, though I have run it on a number of
people, including Flag public.
A typical manifestation occurring during the process
is the person becoming upset by the auditor utter lack of verbal
communication. This eventually blows off, as the
process is brought to its rightful conclusion (EP).
This clearly illustrates the fact that any individual
in a prolonged condition where is being denied verbal communication
can find the episode to be rather unsettling.. Technically,
one could argue that the "process of No Verbal Communication" is an actual
New case action or process undertaken on a case which needs to complete
incomplete cycles, not start new ones.
How would YOU feel, if a group of people would
forcibly bring you into a poorly lighted room and would maintain utter
silence in your presence, answering any verbal queries
through sign language with their insincere smiles.
You would most probably think that they feel
you have gone mad and that you are being treated like a complete loon.
Indeed this type of actions have been used around the world to unsettle
people or even make them feel crazy when they were sane, For the one who
has already lost his Mind, one may put the person beyond the reach of any
type of help.
If I would expect anything to occur in the presence
of these factors (disruptive or indifferent watchers, artificial silence,
denial of freedom of movement, it is simply the
restimulation of incidents on the tracks about being confined or
incarcerated (or in other words: being tapped) There
many such incidents on the track. Being trapped is not only
one of the key buttons of the bank, but a prolonged
enforced confinement could even develop into out-Int phenomenon
or restimulation
The only person who keeps bringing up suggestion
to do something different is Heather, a 17 year old girl. This is ignored.
EPILOGUE
The regime of terror instilled by RTC
ruthless reinterpretation of Scientology Tech and Policy has created an
organization of
robots and automatons.
The only thing RTC has truly achieved
is in recent years in gaining blind loyalty from a horde of unthinking
individuals.
Even a Medically trained Doctor (Laura
Arrunada) took no action on the numerous and flagrant physical ailments
symptoms
when they seemed completely obvious
to the eye of an untrained teenager (Heather).
Most of the other “watchers” appear
more concerned about their own problems and only see Lisa as a ” DEV-T
(unwanted) particle”.
When one realizes the impossible hours,
work and demands put on those people for little or no compensation, one
can actually understand their behavior, even
if one doesn’t condone it.
It is not the misapplication of Scientology that
killed Lisa, but rather the blatant refusal to utilize any one of many
elements that forms the vast array of available technology by people who
have been trained to no longer form self-determined thoughts.
Except for one person, Heather, everyone
involved was more interested in pleasing RTC by “preventing a
Flap” than helping the person who was
begging for help in front of their very eyes.
Pierre Ethier
Class XII