WHAT WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS SAID ABOUT L. RON HUBBARD AND, OH BY THE WAY, IS IT OK WITH TOD IF I'M A HUGE FAT THETAN WRAPPED IN ALUMINUM FOIL, OLD WIRE, AND MASKING TAPE, SPRINKLED WITH BACO-BITS AND SMOTHERED IN TANGY LIME JELLO WHO CALLS HIMSELF "MEOW MEOW GRILLO", WALKS AROUND CRYING "MAKE WAY FOR THE LORD! THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT IS AT HAND!" AND SINGING SONGS ABOUT CAP'N MEOW MEOW MATT??? BRUCE WHILE SMELLING BAD AND OOZING PUS? _________________________________________________________________ From "Dr. Benway" Organization Interzone University Date Thu, 04 Apr 1996 15:04:17 -0400 Newsgroups fido7.music.uue,alt.religion.scientology,talk.bizarre,alt.fan.ru sh-limbaugh,alt.barney.die.die.die,alt.0d,alt.cascade,alt.lorene.bobitt.chop.ch op.chop,alt.anger,alt.angst,alt.evil,alt.lust,alt.slack Message-ID <31641D31.59CB@interzone.edu> _________________________________________________________________ Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, says that certain words and word combinations can produces serious illnesses and mental disturbances. I can claim some skill in the scrivener's trade, but I cannot guarantee to write a passage that will make someone physically ill. If Mr.Hubbard's claim is justified, this is certainly a matter for further research, and we can easily find out experimentally whether his claim is justified or not. Mr. Hubbard bases the power he attributes to words on his theory of engrams. An engram is defined as word,sound,image recorded by the subject in a period of pain and unconsciousness. Some of his material may be reassuring: "I think he's going to be alright." Reassuring material is an ally engram. Ally engrams, according to Mr Hubbard, are just as bad as hostile as pain engrams. Any part of this recording played back to the subject later will reactivate operation pain, he may actually develop a headache and feel depressed, anxious, or tense. Well, Mr Hubbard's engram theory is very easily subject to experimental verification. Take ten volunteer subjects, subject them to a pain stimulus accompanied by certain words and sounds and images. You can act out little skits. "Quickly, nurse , before I lose my little nigger," bellows the southern surgeon, and now a beefy white hand falls on the fragile black shoulder. "Yes, he's going to be alright. He's going to pull through." If I had my way I'd let these animals die on the operating table." "You do not have your way, you have your duty as a doctor, we must do everything in our power to save human lives." And so forth. It is the tough cop and the con cop. The ally engram is ineffective without the pain engram, just as the con cop's arm around your shoulder, his soft persuasive voice in your ear, are indeed sweet nothings without the tough cop's blackjack. Now to what extent can words recorded during medical unconsciousness be recalled during hypnosis or scientological processing? To what Extent does the playback of this material affect the subject unpleasantly? Is the effect enhanced by scrambling the material, pain and ally, at very short intervals? It would seem that a scrambled engram's picture could almost dump an operating scene right in the subject's lap. Mr. Hubbard has charted his version of what he calls the reactive mind. This is roughly similar to Freud's ID, a sort of built-in self defeating mechanism. As set forth by Mr. Hubbard this consists of a number of quite ordinary phrases. He claims that reading these phrases, or hearing them spoken, can cause illness, and gives this as his reason for not publishing this material. Is he perhaps saying that these are magic words? Spells, in fact? If so, they could be quite a weapon scrambled up with imaginative sound-and-image track. Here now is the magic that turns men into swine. To be an animal: a lone pig grunts, shits, squeals and slobbers down garbage. To be animals: A chorus of a thousand pigs. Cut that in with video tape police pictures and play it back to them and see if you get a reaction from this so reactive mind. Now here is another. To be a body, well it's sure an attractive body, rope the marks in. And a nice body symphony to go with it, rythmic heart beats, contented stomach rumbles. To be bodies: recordings and pictures of hideous, aged, diseased bodies farting, pissing, shitting, groaning, dying. To do everything: man in a filth apartment surrounded by unpaid bills, unanswered letters, jumps up and starts washing dishes and writing letters. To do nothing: he slumps in a chair, jumps up, slumps in chair, jumps up. Finally, slumps in a chair, drooling like an idiot helplessness, while he looks at the disorder piled around him. The reactive mind commands can also be used to advantage with illness tapes. While projecting past cold sore on to the subject's face, and playing him back to him a past illness tape, you can say: to be me, to be you, to stay here, to stay there, to be a body, to be bodies, to stay in, to stay out, to stay present, to stay absent. To what extent are these reactive mind phrases when scrambled effective in causing disagreeable symptoms in control volunteer subjects? As to Mr. Hubbard's claim for the reactive mind, only research can give us the answers. The RM then is an artifact designed to limit and stultify on a mass scale. In order to have this effect it must be widely implanted. This can readily be done with modern electronic equipment and techniques described in this treatis. The RM consists of commands which seem harmless and in fact unavoidable ... To be a body ... but which have the most horrific consequences. Here are some sample RM screen effects ... As the theatre darkens a bright light appears on the left side of the screen. The screen lights up. To be nobody ... On screen shadow of ladder and soldier incinerated by the Hiroshima blast To be everybody ... Street crowds, riots, panics To be me ... A beautiful girl and a handsome young man point to selves To be you ... They point to audience Hideous hags and old men, lepers, drooling idiots point to themselves and to the audience as they intone ... To be me To be you Command no 5 ... To be myself Command no 6 ... To be others On screen a narcotics officer is addressing an audience of school boys, spread out in front of him are syringes, kief pipes, samples of heroin, hashiesh, LSD. Officer: "Five trips on a drug can be a pleasant and exciting experience..." On screen young trippers ..."I'm really myself for the first time" Etc. Happy trips ...To be myself ...no 5 ... Officer: "THE SIXTH WILL PROBABLY BLOW YOUR HEAD OFF" Shot shows a man blowing his head off with a shotgun in his mouth... Officer: "Like a 15 year old boy I knew until recently, you could well end up dying in your own spew ..." To be others no 6 ... To be an animal ... A lone Wolf Scout ... To be animals: He joins other wolf scouts playing, laughing, shouting To be an animal ... Bestial and ugly human behaviour ...brawls, disgusting, eating and sex scenes To be animals ... Cows, sheep and pigs driven to the slaughter house To be a body To be bodies A beautiful body ... a copulating couple ... Cut back and forth and run on seven second loop for several minutes ... scramble at different speeds ... Audience must be made to realise that to be a body is to be bodies ...A body only exists to be other bodies. To be a body ...Death scenes and recordings ... a scramble of last words To be bodies ... Vista of cemeteries ... To do it now ... Couple embracing hotter and hotter To do it now ... A condemned cell ... Condemned man is same actor as lover ... He is led away by the guards screaming and struggling. Cut back and forth between sex scene and man led to execution. Couple in sex scene have an orgasm as the condemned man is hanged, electrocuted, gassed, garroted, shot in the head with a pistol To do it later ... The couple pull away ...One wants to go out and eat and go to a show or something... They put on their hats To do it later ... Warder arrives at condemned cell to tell the prisoner he has a stay of execution To do it now ... Grim faces in the Pentegon. Strategic is on the way ... Well THIS IS IT ... This sequence cut in with sex scenes and a condemned man led to execution, culminates in execution, orgasm, nuclear explosion ...The condemned lover is a horribly burned survivor To do it later ... 1920 walk out sequence to "The Sunny Side of the Street" ... A disappointed general turns from the phone to say the president has opened top level hot wire talks with Russia and China ... Condemned man gets another stay of execution To be an animal ... One lemming busily eating lichen ... To be animals ... Hordes of lemmings swarming all over each other in mounting hysteria ...A pile of drowned lemmings in front of somebody's nice little cottage on a Finnish lake where he is methodically going through sex positions with his girl friend. They wake up in a stink of dead lemmings To be an animal ... Little boy put on a pot To be animals ...The man has just been hanged. The doctor steps forward with a stethoscope To stay down ... Body is carried out with the rope around neck ... Naked corpses on the autopsy table ... corpse buried in quick lime. To stay up ...Erect phallus To stay down ... White man burns off a Negro's genitals with blow torch ... Theatre darkens into the blow torch on the left side of the screen To stay present To stay absent To stay present ... A boy masturbates in front of sex pictures ... Cut to face of white man who is burning off black genitals with blow torch To stay absent ... Sex phantasies of the boy ... The black slumps dead with genitals burned off and intestines popping out To stay present ... Boy watches strip tease, intent, fascinated ...A man stands on trap about to be hanged To stay present ...Sex phantasies of the boy ..."I ponounce this man dead." To stay present ... Boy wistles at girl in street ... A man's body twists in the electric chair, his leg hairs crackling a blue fire To stay absent ... Boy sees himself in bed with girl ... Man slumps dead in chair smoke curling from under the hood saliva dripping from his mouth... The theatre lights up. In the sky a plane over Hiroshima ...Little Boy slides out To stay present ... The plane, the pilot, thew American flag ... To stay absent ... theatre darkens into atomic blast on screen Here we see ordinary men and women going about their ordinary everyday jobs and diversions ... subways, streets, buses, trains, airports, stations, waiting rooms, homes, flats, restaurants. offices, factories ...working , eating, playing, defecating, making love. A chorus of voices cuts in RM phrases To stay up To stay down Elevators, airports, stairs, ladders To stay in To stay out Street signs, door signs, people at head of lines admitted to restaurants and theatres To be myself To be others Customs agents check passports, man identifies himself at bank to cash cheque To stay present To stay absent People watching films, reading, looking at TV ... A composite of this sound and image track is now run on seven second loop without change for several minutes. Now cut in the horror pictures To stay up To stay down Elevators, airpts, stairs, ladders, hangings, castrations To stay in To stay out Door signs, operation scenes ... doctor tosses bloody tonsils, adenoids, appendix into receptacle To stay present To stay absent People watching film ... ether mask, ether vertigo ... triangles, spheres, rectangles, pyramids, prisms, coils go away and come in regular sequence ...a coil coming in, two coils coming in, three coils coming in ... a coil going away, two coils going away, four going away A coil straight ahead going away, two coils on the left and right going away. three coils left right and centre going away, four coils right left centre going away A coil coming, two coils coming in, three coils coming in, four coils coming in ... spirals of light ... round and round faster, baby eaten by rats, hangings, electrocutions, castrations.... The RM can be cut in with the most ordinary scenes covering the planet in a smog of fear ... The RM is a built-in electronic police force armed with hideous threats. You don't want to be a cute little wolf cub? All right, cattle to the slaughter house meat on a hook. Here is a nostalgic reconstruction of the old fashioned Mayan methods. The wrong kind of workers with wrong thoughts are tortured to death in rooms under the pyramid ... A young worker has been given a powerful hallucigen and a sexual stimulant ... Naked he is stripped down and skinned alive ... The Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time ...The Ouab bird stands there, screams, washing through his wild blue eyes. Others are crabs from the waist up clicking their claws in ecstasy, they dance around and mimic the flaved man. The scribes are busy with sketches ...Now he is strapped into a segmented copper centipede and placed gently on a bed of hot coals ... Soon the priests will dig the soft meat from the shell with their golden claws ... Here is another youth staked out on an ant hill honey smeared on his eyes and genitals ...Others with heavy weights on their backs are slowly dragged through the wooden troughs in which shards obsidian have been driven ...So the priests are the masters of pain and fear and death ...To do right... to obey the priests ... To do wrong? the priest's very presence and a few banal words.... The priests postulated and set up a hermetic universe of which they were the axiomatic controllers. In so doing they became Gods who controlled the known universe of the workers. They became Fear and Pain, Death and Time. By making opposition seemingly impossible they failed to make any provision for opposition. There is evidence that this control system broke down in some areas before the arrival of the White God. Stellae have been found defaced and overturned, mute evidence of a worker's revolution. How did this happen? The history of revolutionary movements shows that they are usually led by defectors from the ruling class. The Spanish rule in South America was overthrown by Spanish revolutionaries. The French were driven out of Algeria by Algerians educated in France. Perhaps one of the priest Gods defected and organised a worker's revolution ... The priest Gods in the temple. They move very slowly, faces ravaged with age and disease. Parasitic worms infest their flesh. They are making calculations for the sacred books. "400,000,000 years ago on this day a grievous thing happened..." Limestone skulls rain in through the porticos. The Young Maize God leads the workers as they storm the temple and drag the priests out. They build a huge brush fire, throw the priests in and then throw the sacred books in after them. Time buckles and bends. The old Gods, surfacing from the immemorial depths of time, burst in the sky ... Mr Hart stands there looking at the broken sellae ... "How did this happen?" His control system must be absolute and world wide. Because such a control system is even more vulnerable to attack from without than revolt within... Here is Bishop Luanda burning burning sacred books. To give you an idea as to what is happening, imagine our civilisation invaded by louts from outer space... "Get some bulldozers in here. Clear out all this crap..." The formulae of all natural sciences, books, paintings, the lot, swept into a vast pile and burned. and that's it. No one ever heard of it. Three codices survived the vandalism of Bishop Landa and these are burned around the edges. No way to know if we have here the sonnets, the Mona Lisa or the remenants of a Sears Roebuck catalogue after the old out-house burned down in a brush fire. A whole civilisation went up in smoke... When the Spaniards arrived, they found the Mayan aristocrats lolling in hammocks. Well, time to show them what is what. Five captured workers bound and stripped, are castrated on a tree stump. the bleeding sobbing, screaming bodies bodies thrown into a pile... "And now get this through your gook nuts. We want to see a pile of gold big and we want to see it pronto. The White God has spoken."