AboutLaurie Hamilton Expertise I am able to answer questions regarding Scientology practices and procedures, belief system, donations, religious rites, management, administrative and staff matters.
Experience I am a second generation Scientologist whose parents began in Dianetics in 1950 and studied directly with L. Ron Hubbard. I have been personally active in the church for 40 years, have eleven years former staff experience in both technical and administrative areas, and extensive technical and administative training and counseling. I am "clear" and "OT." I come from an extended family of many religions, but my spouse and children are Scientologists, as are my siblings and their spouses, several cousins, nieces, nephews, an aunt, and an uncle. Between us we have had every good and bad experience one might go through in the church at every level.
Can Scientology processing, remove any bad/good results you have receive from practice such as hypnosis, meditation, neurofeedback, etc.? Would these practices prevent you from resolving the reactive mind? That is, would they block your progress in this lifetime or would your case supervisor be able to circumnavigate any problems you created through lack of stable data on the reactive mind and it's constituents? Have you heard of such cases where a preclear has tried something impractical and had slow gains or no gains at all? I am aware electroconvulsive shock therapy or extensive brain damage because of drugs and lobotomies could definitely create a no-win situation. I am more concerned about the practices I enumerated and the ones you have heard could bog a case. Thank you!
Cordially,
Alex
Answer Yes, those practices could, and almost certainly would bog a case, especially if in pursuing them, the PC had believed they got "gains" which were in fact restimulations of manic portions of the reactive mind. Further, they tend to get a person thinking in a given direction, and then when you try to educate your PC in how to run Scientology, they keep referencing their old understandings of prior practices in order to frame their understanding of Scientology - which almost always results in false data and a resulting failure to be in session during auditing.
Any number of former practices can also lead to temporary states of release. And if the PC is trying to recapture or duplicate the temporary release, that can become a hidden problem.
That's not to say these problems can't be overcome. I believe they can. If, however, the person is mixing practices and doing any of these things while being audited, the case is going nowhere.
