Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology

The Joberg which is published for the first time in Inside Scientology consists of 104 questions about every criminal activity you could conceive of.

'Have you ever kept a baby farm?'

Each question has to be cleaned and this Joberg took three weeks because there were so many students up for a Joberg and so few review auditors. Three weeks sitting in a small waiting room on straight-back chairs reading science fiction vou learn to be wary of the link with a big smile who sidles up to you and asks,

'What do you think of the new attestation order?'

'I'm sure RON knows what he is doing.'

And it's a good thing to scream out as if you just couldn't contain yourself, ' Thank you Ron! '

whenever you pass an Ethics Officer or a Sea Org member.

We who considered ourselves politicals kept apart from common criminals and fuckups. That one is guilty of drunken auditing besides which she is the worst old bore this side of California.

The Public Ethics Officer prowls in and out.

'I hear some of you guys have been discussing your cases and nattering.'

One of the politicals, who has been in the movement since 1945 and seen all the old comrades get the axe, tells me he is there to prove that RON has betrayed the revolution. This dangerous confidence unnerves me completely. Even to hear such a statement compromises one beyond redemption.

Lunch break. The canteen is filthy the sandwiches soggy. The soft drink machine is in a Condition of Liability for being broken. Cart it off to Ethics. Several violators, dirty and unshaven with gray rags around their arms, petition for signatures so they can get back in and spend some more money.

'William Burroughs, report to Ethics.'

They want me to disconnect from Mr. Bradly Mr. Martin, a character in my own writing. Well, he was getting old in any case.

So back to the Joberg...

'Have you ever hidden a body?'

'Of course not.'

'There's a read here, what do you consider this could mean?'

Sharp and clear on screen I see myself hiding a body in some ancient Near Eastern alley the smell of the alley and the feel of another time.

'I think it's Whole Track.'

'In this life have you ever hidden a body?'

'No.'

'That is clean.'

These film glimpses will occur in auditing. I don't say you are remembering another life but you are remembering something. A writer always gets his pound of flesh and a number of scenes later used in The Wild Boys were remembered on the E-Meter. Later I was able to obtain the same results through self-auditing.

After the Joberg and two more reviews, all of which were obligatory, and carried out at my expense, I finally arrived at the Advanced Org in Edinburgh for the clearing course. A hulking CIA type gave me a final See Check.

'Have you ever known any Communists personally?'

'Oh yes, lots of them and CIA men too...'

'Are you withholding anything?'

'I don't think so.'

' That reads.'

Finally I had to confess the truth.

'I have made magic against RON.'

'What made you do it?'

'Suppressives, of course. They wanted to keep me from RON.'

'Your needle is floating.'

The Clearing Course consists of a series of contradictory propositions and running this material does give a certain immunity to contradictory commands. So when some one says...

'Creating me to be a spirit to be a God destroying you to be a body to be an animal...'

You just look at him and say... 'I'm floating.'

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties. It is based on a tight ingroup like the CIA, Islam, the Mormons, etc. Inside are the Rights with the Truth. Outside are the Commies, the Infidels, the Unfaithful, the Suppressives. Rarely has this formula been expressed with such consummate effrontery, like you go into a store to buy a suit the clerk puts you in a Condition of Doubt, you work all night in the stock room and go around with a gray rag around your arm and petition the entire store to let you back in so you can buy something.