The MGT Institute for Consciousness has opened its academy again for those who wish to study the ‘classic’ Scientology training levels from Academy Level 0 to Class IX.

We are exterior to Scientology, we do not identify with Scientology or identify ourselves as scientologists. We are not connected to the Church of Scientology (CO$). Our position is that we can use anything out of scientology, just like we use other applicable spiritual technology.

The MGT Institute operates on a multiple viewpoint system (multi genius technologies) so anyone studying here understands that other subjects are also taught in the same or in adjacent spaces and a high degree of tolerance for different viewpoints is required.

One important thing to understand is that scientology is not a singular. Scientology is a word which denotes a complex which consists of a church, a paramilitary naval organization, management organizations, a religion, a philosophy, a social-spiritual movement, a founder, several brilliant but unnamed researchers, two sciences (a psychology), a number of spiritual and mental technologies and a number of derivatives, and a history from 1950 to the present.

Scientology has been defined in several ways, one of those definitions is: ‘That branch of psychology which treats of (embraces) human ability.’ LRH

If we just limit ourselves to technology then there are several distinctly different versions of Hubbardian Ecclesiastical Scientology, there is an official Scientology™ church version. There is Robertsonian scientology promoted and delivered by so called Rons orgs. There is something less clearly defined, known as independent scientology, meaning not depending on the church but technology-wise often rather close to the technology delivered in the church.

There is the science of consciousness known as Nordenholz scientology of 1934.

There are the KSW (Keeping Scientology Working) and non- or pre-KSW versions of Hubbardian scientology. There is a variety of Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard an individual and L. Ron Hubbard as a trademark and there is the L. Ron Hubbard Library. L. Ron Hubbard library is a property of the Church of Spiritual Technology and it has legal license to authorize the complete re-writing  or editing of the works of L. Ron Hubbard.

There are Neo-Hubbardian and Post-Hubbardian developments of scientology technology.

One Neo-Hubbardian who is continuing in the footsteps of LRH is Class XII, Pierre Ethier who is (re)-constructing an Upper Bridge beyond OT VIII. Then there is Ralph Hilton of Scientology Austria, who is researching OT 9. There was Ken Ogger aka the Pilot who developed a range of scientology materials. There are probably several more. Another one was Andreas Buttler, who claimed he had been Hubbard in his last lifetime and developed his scientology version and called it Spiritologie. But Buttler gave up all claims and quietly withdrew in 2013.

There is even an LRH contemporary and former partner who published a complete scientology lineup that is different from Hubbard’s in many respects. This we could refer to as Filbertian scientology. (G.C.Filbert)

Then there are the various technologies (techniques) published under the Hubbard name. Book One Dianetics, Standard Dianetics, New Era Dianetics, New Era Dianetics for OTs, Scientology technique 80, Technique 88, Creative Processing, Effort Processing, Advanced Procedure, SOPs, SOP Goals, GPM processing, Clearing procedures, pre-OT levels, L10,11, and 12 etc.

We recognize L.Ron Hubbard as the polymath he was, but also see the mad genius aspect. The genius part played mostly between 1950 – 1965, thereafter the madness started to show in his harshness, paranoia and claiming he was the only source of scientology technology when the facts – now known – clearly show other sources and that many brilliant researchers assisted in the development of that technology.

We see scientology essentially as an incomplete subject that pretended to have the route out completely taped, a very valuable collection of research data, some proven technology and some things to be investigated further.

We have people on lines with all kinds of different backgrounds, some studied Robertsonian Scientology (Capt Bill Robertson’s technology), or Spiritologie and switched to ‘pure’ Hubbard tech and vice verse. Some people may study other spiritual technology or different types of processing or use different kinds of galvanometers or other  biofeedback instruments.

Therefore certain technical choices must be made.  Such choices are always made in full agreement with the being, after having been fully advised of the possibilities, conditions and implications.

Terms and Conditions, Exchange Rates

We deliver only, what we call, binary training, in scientologese it is called the twin system.

Our schedules are published on www.mgtconcepts.com

Courses should be booked at least one month in advance and an enrollment form filled out.

Courses are charged at € 50 per day.

A minimum of 7 days must be prepaid at the time of booking.

The NOTs, Scientology (Review) Auditing and Power Processing Class IX rate is € 95 p. hr. Rates may vary per auditor usually € 65 – 95  per hr.

The Class IX Senior Case Supervisor is the highest authority on scientology technical matters.

It is questionable whether it is even possible to completely disconnect from one’s fellow human beings. In a limited sense it may even be considered a human right not to allow communication from another, if this communication is not desirable or negative. In fact such disconnection is not uncommon. It occurs in religious contexts like amongst Jehova’s Witnesses and is also known as religious shunning. It is found in families beyond any religious context, for various reasons. It is met in political contexts as in countries severing diplomatic ties. Historically the practice of ostracism goes all the way back to ancient Greece.

One could say there is nothing intrinsically wrong with disconnection in the sense that anyone has the right to communicate or not to communicate as part of self determination or free will.

But the ‘disconnection’ practiced in Scientology is of a different kind and inconsistent with Scientology’s own advertized beliefs and principles. This is what scientologists themselves should be made aware of.

What we are talking about is the practice of disconnection from family members as it is done in Scientology nowadays. This would not have been allowed and was frowned upon in the early seventies. Scientologists who had trouble with family members were admonished to always seek to handle by proper communication and disconnection was only used as a last resort.

To explain this fully we will need to review some Scientology principles and specialized terminology.

Hubbard and thus Scientology adopted in 1965 the view that some small percentage of mankind is anti social in the extreme and that these people are psychotics and do not respond to treatment.

Hubbard referred to such people as Suppressive Persons and promptly started to also use this same label to get rid of staffmembers or others who would not quite agree with him or ‘were damaging scientology’ for example by ‘failures to keep scientology working’,‘continued membership in a divergent group’, ‘informing fellow staff members and others that one is leaving staff’or ‘initiating a breakaway group’ etc.

A person, a scientologist who was connected to such a person became known as a potential trouble source or PTS.

The rule was when a PTS was found he or she had to handle or disconnect.

In September 1983 the Church issued a bulletin that changed the way scientologists had been dealing with family members who were no longer in agreement with the Church. In this bulletin the reader is subtly misled (through source bias, confirmation bias) and suggested to read over the internal inconsistency. It states on the third page:

“When an Ethics Officer finds that a Scientologist is PTS to a family member, he does not recommend that the person disconnect from the antagonistic source. The Ethics Officer’s advice to the Scientologist is to handle.”

Further down it actually defines the characteristic of the person (SP) to be disconnected from as one whose normal  operating basis is one of making others smaller, less able, less powerful. A person who does not want anyone to get better, at all.

On the next page an example is given which shows that instant disconnection is required when the antagonistic source–which incidentally could also be a family member– is labeled SP by the organization itself.

The internal inconsistency was that the text said clearly that disconnection is used only on a persons whose normal  operating basis is one of making others smaller, less able, less powerful.

This could obviously not be said of old-time Scientologists, people who had been personal friends of LRH, former high ranking Sea Org members, OT VII’s, and even Class XII auditors who were declared SP by the Church, without invalidating the workability of the technology. Therefore this rule was sneaked in in such a way that it could actually be denied that there was such a rule.

Requiring scientologists to disconnect from any scientologist who dared to question or criticize church management or demand reform of some kind and was therefore declared to be an SP, can be understood as an attempt to protect the leadership of the Church.  For this purpose the concept of SPs was redefined to include people who tell the truth about L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology and Scientologists.

So what is wrong with disconnection in Scientology, is the same thing that is wrong in many cults, governments and closed groups which try to prevent the membership from looking too close into the doings (intrigues) of their leadership.

See LRH original viewpoint on disconnection as expressed in a letter to the Australian Board of Inquiry  LRH Letter re Disconnection

Scientologics I call the concept of applying plain logic and common sense to a broad subject generally referred to as Scientology.

There is a difference first of all between scientology as a subject and an organization officially named the Church of Scientology. The church is sometimes referred to as a sect, this is incorrect. A sect is by definition a split off. Correct is that the church of Scientology has over the years given birth to several sects. A few examples are the Ron’s Orgs, also referrred to as Freezone, the American Independents, Knowledgism, Landmark Forum etc.

Scientology is the title of a book written around 1934 by Dr. A. Nordenholz and contains a philosophical treatise and outline of a science of knowing.

Hubbardian Scientology is a collection of philosophical and religious views and techniques for increasing spiritual and mental awareness and abilities assembled, re-interpreted and invented by the late L.R Hubbard.

Hubbard did not follow the academic tradition of acknowledging and referencing his sources. He didn’t follow ‘proper’ scientific experimental procedure and only published his conclusions. Many of the principles of the actual Dianetics and Scientology counseling, could for example be derived from Carl Rogers work¹. Some elements trace directly to Freud and Jung.

But L.R. Hubbard inspired many and indeed forwarded and created new approaches in mass marketing spirituality, with concepts like self-analysis and ‘do-it-yourself or with a mate’  psycho-therapy. As a young psychology student in 1970 at Utrecht University, I was inspired, it promised adventure and was more attractive than listening to my professor declaring psychology to be the soulless “study of behavior and the forms of organization of that behavior”.

The first few years 1950-1954 Hubbard started a break away movement of independence from the orthodox psychoanalysts and he was one of the first to cry out against psychiatric abuses such as pre-frontal lobotomies long before Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote “The Myth of Mental Illness” (1961)

Some facts are…

that he inspired a spiritual movement and established a church, which was not christian science but it had scientific appeal.

It was instrumental to get a large number of people to experiment with their own minds and investigating the spiritual realms when this was not so common in the fifties.

He obviously used many sources and was not given to credit each one specifically but stressed his own mixn catharsis analysis, but with a fresh approach not only in marketing, but also int

The treatment of the subject in the media is as characteristic of modern media, full of generalities and imprecise statements and a mix of true as well as false data.

In Germany the state officials or politicians consider Scientology to be anti-democratic due to a Hubbard stating that “…democracy gave us inflation and income tax.” Considering the

¹Counseling and Psychotherapy, Carl Rogers (1942)

Personal

I have spent 25 years in the Sea Org and had a lot of fun and a good game, giving lots of counseling sessions to people mostly with great results.

I left when Miscavige became abusive and directly affecting my own life. I did the PTS/SP course in the RPF at Flag in Clearwater and left the Sea Org on graduation from the course, leaving no doubt as to my opinion of what was going on and who the real suppressive was.

Scientology Disconnection

I lost all contact to my ex-wife and two daughters since I voiced my opinions on radio and tv in the Netherlands since 2004. Soon after my first public utterances, at first still aimed only towards reform of the church, I received letters of disconnection from my daughters.

Perhaps this church is more christian than I thought, as even in the New Testament things like this are described, for example in Matthew 10, 34-37:

37. Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring         peace, but a sword.

35. I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

 36.  Your enemies will be right in your own household!

37. If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.

 Caspar de Rijk, ex-scientologist and Sea Org Member, Class IX