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It's the Freewinds' maiden voyage celebration and in honor of this event one of the "many" OT VIII completion successes was circulated among scientologists, that of Ed Russo.
For those who don't know The Freewinds is the organisation calling itself the church of scientology's flag ship. Last year, 2008, its complete refit was interrupted when it was found to be riddled with blue asbestos, for the 3rd time since it was bought by the organisation.
OT VIII is the highest state of OT one can currently achieve; although some wag claimed to have pre-released OT IX on this very site.
Completion successes are something a scientologist writes up at the end of courses, it reinforces to them what they gained from the course. It is against the rules in scientology to invalidated someone's success, aka win. I am not a scientologist and so don't conform to these rules; I am what is called an Suppressive Person.
Here is some comment on what Ed Russo had to say:
Ed Russo - Scientologist OT VIII success quote: "Have you ever perceived the MEST universe as a slight speck somewhere in your field of vision? My guess is that you’ve had such a perception at one time or another, if only for a fleeting instant. I’ve seen it as such before, but only on rare occasion. And whenever I would get a glimpse at this universe from that viewpoint, something or some condition or someone would inevitably grab my attention and “bring me back to reality” in very short order. Thus I would end up writing the entire experience off as “imagination”. Or, if not that, I would at least tell myself that maybe someday I could really have and hold onto such a lofty viewpoint."
- MEST = Matter, Energy, Space, Time or to put it simply everything in this universe.
1st, being able to attain such profound perceptions as Ed describes is not that difficult with a bit of practice in meditation etc.
2nd, the apparently god like nature of Ed's chosen perception of "the MEST universe" does not preclude him being otherwise quite human (shoot him and he will die regardless of how he perceives everything). Never the less now he has achieved OT VIII he sincerely believes:
Ed Russo - Scientologist OT VIII success quote: "That lofty perch I spoke of? The one that is immeasurably distant from the MEST universe? I can now assume it with ease. And when I do assume it, no longer am I unexpectedly drawn away from it. I abandon it only when I so choose to abandon it. Why abandon it ever or at all, you ask? Because there is work to do, that’s why!"
My advice to Ed would be to not go there while driving a car, which of course he won't. He will only go there when he believes he is secure from the physical world interrupting him and if he is interrupted he will be convinced it was because he wanted to be interrupted and he was expecting it; unless someone shoots him of course - which I don't advocate doing of course.
3rd, this email success is very carefully crafted to inspire other scientologists who haven't yet paid to receive the OT VIII training and all the pre-requisite training. It is also crafted quite cleverly to keep them working and sacrificing for the greater good. "There is work to do, that's why [I sacrifice being able to stay in this wonderful state permanently]!" Implication being that if I am prepared to sacrifice all that then the least you can do is work harder. And what of this work?
Ed Russo - Scientologist OT VIII success quote: "There are billions of beings on this planet who’ve yet to read and cognite on The Basics. And this place is littered with unhappy people, many of whom are actually still bright enough to turn around one-hundred and eighty degrees after doing nothing more than reading The Way To Happiness. There are citizens who can’t even read and write properly, for crying out loud. And there are enemies to defeat – those who would take everything we are trying to accomplish in Scientology and squash it in a heartbeat if we as much as drop our guard or pause for a brief instant to admire a butterfly."
In other words, we need to keep selling the organisation calling itself the church of scientology's materials: "The Basics" and "Way to Happiness" being the main two consumables within the organisation. We must also keep fighting the enemies, which is anyone who appears to contradict or get in the way of the organisation calling itself the church of scientology.
Oh and Terryeo, you talk of play and watching children in the park well beware, you must not drop your guard or pause for even a brief instant to admire a butterfly! Seriously, play it seems is something you just cannot afford lest someone come along and squash everything scientology is trying to achieve.
Ed has more to say on this work...
Ed Russo - Scientologist OT VIII success quote: "That’s the work which needs to be done! And getting it done means diving right down there into the woof and warp of this old, crusty, dirty universe. Operating inside of it. Even BEING it at times, if that’s what it takes to get the job done."
Yes, it is pretty dirty, hard work that must be done 24/7 365 without pause for play. Fortunately...
Ed Russo - Scientologist OT VIII: "Now, having completed New OT VIII, not only can I assume lofty perches, but I can also do all of that “dirty work” quite effortlessly – and much more efficiently than ever before, in fact – because I now have the ability to engage this universe, do battle with it, and emerge unscathed no matter how terribly dirty or nasty the job gets."
So, the reason you're all suffering under the strain is because you're not OT VIII like me. All you need to do is pay for all the pre-requisites and the OT VIII itself and you're home dry - everything else is easy after that. Except of course most will simply never get there, why? Because they cannot afford it, even though staff get courses for free they rarely get the time to progress very much; still always the next life time, eh?
There then follows a bunch of sycophantic praise for the current administration of the organisation calling itself the church of scientology for making this all possible which means this guy is definitely heading for greatness, at least in his own mind and perhaps within the organisation too. This is likely to help counter the whisperings within the organisation, particularly about David Miscavige the current de facto leader. Indeed Miscavige is praised because Ed was once OT (having paid to get there) but lost it but has now realised that he lost it because he didn't have "The Basics" as provided by David Miscavige (who tirelessly worked to provide the tech as L Ron Hubbard intended, or so he says).
Meanwhile in other OT related news: OT Stephen Brackett, 54 commits suicide having suffered serious financial troubles with his business. http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_12475945?nclick_check=1\
Which is duly covered up the the organisation calling itself the church of scientology: http://thebluemelreader.blogspot.com/2009/06/rank-and-file-scientologists-cover-up.html
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