The mock-up is such a core concept of the Spiritual Rights Foundation that the Academy for Psychic Studies would hold a six-week class (for the bargain price of $140) on the subject. For those who have completed the class or for those who just want to make a mock-up, there are "mock-up slips" that can be filled out with the person's mock-up. They are accepted only with the appropriate donation, of course.
Whenever someone "received" something that the leaders wanted to hold up as an example of prosperity or something, they would stand that person before the congregation to espouse the power of mock-ups and visualization. That event is called "manifestation".
It's a concept something like "The Secret" - whatever happens in your life, good or bad, is the result of your visualization of what you want in your life, good or bad.
Of course, as mentioned, "manifestation" of a good thing was celebrated. However, the "manifestation" of a bad thing is also celebrated.
Basically, whenever someone was placed in the doghouse for imaginary crimes the cry from the leaders was that the person "mocked it up". Whenever that person faces a setback (which we all do from time to time) that person was said to have mocked that up too. Like the person who got clocked by a car while riding her bike, for example. Or someone who suffered a heart attack or any other disease (you name it, you mocked it up).
Far from anyone offering help, they offer ridicule to anyone with a setback - unless you are clever enough to have made them think your rebound was as a result of SRF activity. Of course, I never did that - recently.
Anyway, the main thing that stood out for me was that any setback from disease to accident, to assault to the kind of mental torture and abuse doled out by the Spiritual Rights Foundation leaders took place because that person mocked it up. In short, the verbal beatings, the abuse, the degradation, the lies and extortion visited on the victims of SRF was the fault of the victims.
So, those who lost their life savings, lost their marriages, lost their children even lost their lives after their association with the Spiritual Rights Foundation are to blame for their woes. Because, those impoverished fools can't mock up a decent life for themselves.
There is plenty written on the Spiritual Rights Foundation and their role in the destruction of lives, financial ruin and broken families. That they played a part in that destruction is without question.
What was not yet clear is where that kind of thinking, the blaming of the victim, came from.
I ran into the following today. I think I know - Scientology.
Look at the below article. I'm not asking anyone to rate anyone else on the Scientology "tone scale" or the like. I am asking that you take a look at the main idea.
Read it carefully and compare it to your experience with the Spiritual Rights Foundation and the Academy for Psychic Studies.
How often were YOU told your illness, accident, setback was a result of your own negative mock up?
And what were you told to do to repair the damage: "Bring your tithing space into present time" or take more prosperity workshops at $300 a pop or go on a $300 special trance retreat?
What I remember is that everything necessary for the repair of my psychic mock up space took at least $600 out of my pocket.
What others remember are the ferocious and never ending tirades from Bill Duby and standing frozen in fear while Bill's spit flew into their face and his threats, insults, derogatory and demeaning invective dug deep into their very soul like the fists of a schoolyard bully.
I guess I was lucky it only cost me $600. Others paid a much higher price.
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Richard Ford Nov 8, 7:51 am
Many people can become bullies and tyrants. It depends on the
environment that formed them and on what was rewarded..
Even quite decent people will bully others if it means they do not become a target themselves. Some environments also encourage bullying by rewarding it.
Scientology ethics tends to turn people into bullies because it asks people to identify with bullies.
I will give you an example. Let us assume that a Scientologist is being picked upon by ethics. Who is he supposed to identify with? A Scientologist is forbidden from rewarding downstats- and what could be more downstat than a broken man with a rag around his arm?
The Scientologist is expected to ask why the victim 'pulled it in'. In other words it is the VICTIM who is worthy of punishment and not the bully!
Think about that for a moment!
It would logically mean that the Jews killed by Hitler must have been dreadful unethical people- why else would they pull in the Holocaust? It is sad... but they must have deserved it in some way!!!
The same applies to people without food or shelter. They must have pulled it in.
This is why the Church of Scientology never sends food or shelter to the needy. It sends copies of 'The Way to Happiness' which is a guide to ethical behaviour.
This turns all 'good' Scientologists into bullies to some extent. They hear of distant wars and famines and feel no desire to help. Their first instinct is to bomb and punish rather than send food aid.
Where is charity on the tone scale? There is no such heading but we DO have something called Pity at -0.1. This is below body death so it is actually better (according to Hubbard) to be dead than to feel pity for a hungry person and send them food.
It is impossible to imagine a greater perversion of ethics than this!
Powerful bullies are worshiped as being 'upstat' while the victims are condemned as being worthy of punishment.
Let us look at the Tone Scale.
Where is the bully on the Tone Scale?
+40 Tone 40
The Ethics bully is as high as it is possible to go on the Tone scale! The Tone 40 person has no counter intention. He imposes his will on others and shouts a lot! He is a sort of Superman with the Will to Power. Adolph Hitler was Tone 40 while David Miscavige aspires to it.
Where is charity and decency towards the weak?
-0.1 Pity
This is why Scientology breeds sociopaths and bullies. Everything in the tech leads there.
I guess Angela, Debi and Robin mocked up being scrutinized, exposed, slapped back financially, and riddiculed on this blog, because they and their enabling family members mocked it up? As for Bill Duby, I guess he mocked up dropping dead of a heart attack? Or maybe, God felt like he was ripping apart people with his narrcistic behavior and plain mean spiritedness that Robin, Angela and Debi slurped up like puss oozing out of an infected wound? Drink and be merry! You mocked up this blog exposing your evil deeds!
ReplyDeleteMany so called spiritual leaders like Duby, Bostwick (Mr & Mrs) have also said the same thing. If something bad happened to you, you were responsible for it. Another man made another statement to the same effect and his name is
ReplyDeleteWerner Erhard the founder of EST which later became Landmark Education.
Mr Erhard said the following, "People are responsible for their own experiences. They are equal to the context of their experiences." This is just another rationalization for the potential for bullying, scapegoating, abuse, manipulation and outright evil acts. I know I saw a lot of it!
Philosophically speaking, no one can be equal to the context of their experience. This says we have tremendous power beyond that which we actually do.
Many times at BPI, the mock up analogy was used to rationalize why someone left or something happened.
Once I was in Whole Foods in Santa Rosa doing some shopping. I ran into a woman by the name of Laura Hansen who was at that time the Director of the Sacramento institute. I had left the institute several years prior, but was still in the "brainwashed" state but slowly coming out of it. Laura was totally imersed and may be even to this day.
I mentioned to Laura how many people had lost their jobs at the institute. Her response to my comment was "Well it was their time to leave." Her rationalization was that they had completed their "mock up" and finished their spritual contract with the church.
I wanted to scream at her, but I restrained myself. Her statement completely denied the facts and reality of the situation. The reality was that Lewis had died (now the institute was sans a charismatic leader) Susan was taking over (just a Narcissistic control freak abuser), the economy was bad (this was in the early 2000's), people were not taking as many classes and ministers were leaving in droves (getting tired being asked to contribute more than they could). So of course the church was loosing money!
Was it their mockup to be let go? NO! Was it their desire to go? NO! But the church could no longer afford to pay them! The remaining staff only rationalized the situations even more and the church/institute started becomging more insular. Everyone was being forced to work harder. Every effort to "boost" revenues were failing. I would say that the majority of the problem lay with the fact that the economy was shifting and people did not have as much money to spend. Especially not on "personal development" things or "spiritual work" at least not legitimate things!