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From: referen@bway.net (Diane Richardson)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Hubbard's Tech and Lisa McPherson Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 09:56:19 GMT Message-ID: <33c5f381.39257247@snews.zippo.com> After reading the SP Times revelations about Lisa McPherson being force-fed during her final stay at the Fort Harrison, I remembered having read a relevant Hubbard bulletin. I dug it up and quote the relevant section. It's called "Search and Discovery," otherwise known as HCOB 24 November 1965. Contained in this HCOB are methods to be utilized to identify and handle suppressive persons and potential trouble sources. Hubbard begins by categorizing three types of PTS. Under "Handling Type Three" Hubbard writes: "The type three PTS is mostly in institutions or would be. In this case the type two's *apparent* SP is spread all over the world and is often more than all the people there are--for the person sometimes has ghosts about him or demons and they are just more apparent SPs but imaginary as beings as well. "*All* institutional cases are PTSes. The whole of insanity is wrapped up in this one fact. "The insane is not just a bad off being, the insane is a being who has been overwhelmed by an actual SP until too many persons are apparent SPs. This makes the person roller coaster continually in life. The roller coaster is even cyclic (repetitive as a cycle). "Putting the person in a current institution puts him in a bedlam. And when also 'treated' it may finish him. For he will roller coaster from any treatment given until made into a type two and given a search and discovery. "The task with a type three is *not* treatment as such. It is to provide a relatively *safe environment* and quiet and rest and no treatment of a mental nature at all. Giving him a quiet court with a motionless object in it might do the trick if he is permitted to sit there unmolested. Medical care of a very unbrutal nature is necessary as intravenous feeding and soporifics (sleeping and quietening drugs) may be necessary, such persons are sometimes also physically ill from an illness with a known medical cure. "*Treatment* with drugs, shock, operation is just more suppression. The person will not really get well, will relapse etc. "Standard auditing on such a person is subject to the roller coaster phenomena [sic]. They get worse after getting better. 'Successes' are sporadic, enough to lead one on, and usually worsen again since these people are PTS. "But removed from apparent SPs, kept in a quiet surrounding, not pestered or threatened or put in fear, the person comes up to type two and a search and discovery should end the matter. But there will always be some failures as the insane sometimes withdraw into rigid unawareness as a final defense, sometimes can't be kept alive and sometimes are too hectic and distraught to ever become quiet. The extremes of too quiet and never quiet have a number of psychiatric names such as 'catatonia' (withdrawn totally) and 'manic' (too hectic). "Classification is interesting but non-productive since they are all PTS, all will roller coaster and none can be trained or processed with any idea of lasting result no matter the temporary miracle. "Remove a type three PTS from the environment, give him or her rest and quiet, get a search and discovery done when rest and quiet have made the person type two. "The modern mental hospital with its brutality and suppressive treatments is not the way to give a psychotic quiet and rest. Before anything effective can be done in this field a proper institution would have to be provided, offering only rest, quiet and medical assistance for intravenous feedings and sleeping draughts where necessary but not as 'treatment' and where *no* treatment is attempted until the person looks recovered and only then a search and discovery as above under type two." It occurs to me that, in Lisa McPherson's case, a "modern mental hospital" would have been far less brutal than Hubbard's "safe environment" as practiced at the Fort Harrison. I'm also struck that Hubbard admitted his tech with PTS Type III individuals doesn't always work. He was quite specific that "there will always be some failures" in treating them. Lisa McPherson was one of those failures. It's a pity that Lisa's baby watchers didn't recognize their failure somewhat earlier -- it might have saved her life. Since so much speculation has taken place here about Lisa McPherson's final days, I'd like to offer my own scenario. I have no facts to back up this speculation, although the failure of the CoS to provide any records covering her final days might be relevant. Baby watch duty with Lisa McPherson could not have been enjoyable. From what we've learned from the released records, she was not cooperating with her handlers. Perhaps no records for Lisa's final days were released because maybe no one was caring for her at all From what we know of the CoS, we can be sure of one thing: it is a rigidly bureaucratized institution. People are assigned the duties they perform. Sometimes people are assigned far more duties than they can reasonably be expected to accomplish. Sometimes they're assigned duties they are not suited or properly "hatted" to perform effectively. Whoever was responsible for seeing that Lisa McPherson was cared for might not have been able to find people to do the job. Perhaps that responsible person was busy with a multitude of other duties and simply didn't get around to the task. Maybe the people who were assigned baby watch just didn't show up. I think there's a possibility that Lisa McPherson spent her final hours alone and forgotten in the very center of the "spiritual headquarters" of the "church" she turned to for love, understanding, and care. Diane Richardson referen@bway.net |