CAN You CONTRIBUTE (1) TO SCIENTOLOGY?

In the Havingness Scale (2), the sequence from Have up is Confront, Contribute to, Responsible for (willing to control), and Create.

You might reply to the article title with, "What I can contribute is to think what I'm told, and do what I'm told. It's all been done. Anything I might add (except praise) could only dilute Ron's revealed truths."

Or you might have noted something curious, unusual, and unexplained that you would like to share with others. Let me try doing this.

Immediately after my initial training in Dianetics and Scientology ca. 1952-53, I was invited to bring my old Matheson E-meter to the home of a local follower in Boston. He wanted me to use it on a then local "source of trouble and fuss."

So I asked this "source," a 40 year old Caucasian female, to "pick up the cans."

Lo and behold, when she did, all I could get was wild erratic needle behaviour. I didn't follow this up, just noting that it was something I had never seen. And so missed a great chance to find out something about what was later called "a rock slam."

Previously, in Phoenix, I had noted another oddity. A pc on the meter was running what seemed to be a trip through a junk-yard. As he shifted his attention from one piece of junk to another, the needle would shift and then stick while he was looking at it. When he shifted his attention again, the needle would shift to a new position and stick at that new position. This happened 5 or 6 times.

When Ron came out with his material on the Rock Slam and "Rock Slammers" (those with material opposing the church?) and implied that these are "baddies," it occurred to me that there might be a connection between RSing and a rapid flicking between multiple and probably opposing pictures.

At another time, I observed what I would call "an active needle," similar to an RS but smoother

Using Logic 7 (3), I could relate these phenomena crudely as possibly forming a gradient scale from a Rock Slam (a violent, rapid and compulsive shifting from one picture to another) to an Active Needle (a kind of hunting and searching needle) and then a shift to a very smooth Floating Needle (with someone just pleasantly contemplating his old War Stories?).

Using such an alignment, I could then think back and evaluate the junk-yard incident as possibly a slow RS stretched out through a longer period of time.

And then further theorize that an RS is basically a struggle or battle collapsed or jammed-up in time.

Can you see how this kind of approach might give clues for further exploration? If so, you might like to share some of your own "odd bits," and IVy could then approach even closer to journals like Science and Nature (4).
 
 

1 Contribute: to give or supply in common with others. To play a significant part in bringing about.

2 See Scientology 0-8: The Book of Basics, p.120.

3 Logic 7 Gradient scales are necessary to the evaluation of problems and their data.

4 Those journals where preliminary reports of new phenomena are often made, such as reports of a new particle like the neutron.