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Saint Hill
Scamizdat
Scieno
Scieno-speak
Scientologese
Scientology
#Scientology
Scn
Sec Check
Sec Checking
Secondary
Senior C/S
Senior Exec Strata

Ser Fac
Service Facsimile
Session
Severe reality adjustment
SH
Shore Story
SHSBC
SLD
SMI Int
SNC
Snow white
SO
SO 1 Line

Solo auditing
Solo NOTS
Somatics
SOS
Source
Southern Land Development Corp
SP
Spaink
SP declare
SP levels
Spokesclam
Squirrel
SRA

Standard Tech
Stats
Steps A-E
Straightwire
Stuck in Present Time
Student Hat
Study Tech
Success Story
Sunshine Rundown
Superliterate
Super Power
Suppress
Suppressive act
Suppressive person

Saint Hill

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The manor Hubbard bought in East Grinstead, England, with his ill-gotten gains. See SH.


Scamizdat

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A net.zine containing much of the secret Scientology "technology" and policy. Scamizdat got its name from scam (Scientology) + samizdat, an underground press for publishing and disseminating dissident works in the former Soviet Union; also, the materials so published. It is an abbreviation of samizdatel'stvo, meaning self publishing (house), from sam-, self, + izdatel'stvo, publisher. The creators of Scamizdat obviously see parallels between Communist Russia and Scientology in the way they deal with critics and free-speech. Spam Killer, achilles@ilium.net: "'samizdat' is a clever pun. It means 'self-published' but it takes force from 'gosizdat' (sp?), the Soviet acronym for Government Publishing."


Scieno

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A term for Scientologist, which is a bit long to type out over and over and over. The origination of the term according to Dennis Erlich: "The term was coined by none other than Bill Franks himself. He was made the Executive Director International for life by the Phattard in 1979 (I believe). After poodleboy had him kidnapped, taken to Hemet and held against his will, he escaped and came back to Clearwater to picket in front of the Ft. Harrison." Usage is generally somewhat disparaging, but less so than "clam."


Scieno-speak

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See Scientologese. (ars)


Scientologese

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A term used to describe the strange new language used within the cult of Scientology; an odd mixture of rather illiterate English and thousands of new terms that Hubbard introduced in his extensive writings. Also called Scieno-speak, Hubbardese. (ars)


Scientology

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Hubbard's money-making venture into religion; started after Dianetics. Word comes from Nordenholz's book "Scientologie 34."


#Scientology

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An IRC discussion channel devoted to Scientology. Formerly #clambake.


Scn

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Short for Scientology.


Sec Check

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Confessional dirty-laundry type Scientology "therapy." See "Sec Checking."


Sec Checking, Security Checking more

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1. Security Checking. Running lists of questions on a PC or patient using the Meter to find criminal behavior that can be used as potential blackmail, should the PC ever blow or become critical of the cult. Similar to a confessional; the PC is lied to and told the revealed secrets and overts will remain confidential, yet the cult often publishes and distributes the items found by Sec Checking, which are written down in folders at the time of the session. Term comes from Hubbard's extreme paranoia about Communist, governmental, or psychiatric infiltration of Scientology, and the need to run Security checks on new Scientologists.

2. Withholds don't add up to Withholds. They add up to overts, they add up to secrecies, they add up to individuation, they add up to games conditions, they add up to lot more things than O/W. Although we carelessly call them Withholds, we're asking a person to straighten out their interpersonal relationships with another terminal. Our normal security check is addressed to the individual versus society or his family. It's what people would consider reprehensible that makes a Withhold. In a Catholic society, not having kept Mass would be a reprehensible action. In a non-Catholic society, nobody would think twice about it. So, most of our security checks are aimed at transgressions against the mores of the group. That is the basic center line or the security check. It's a moral code that you're processing in one way or the other. You're straightening out somebody on the "Now, I'm supposed to's." They've transgressed, they are now individuated. If their individuation is too obsessive, they snap in and become the terminal. All of these cycles exist around the idea of the transgression against the "Now I'm supposed to." That's what a security check clears up and that is all it clears up. It's a great deal more than a Withhold. (from TD)


Secondary

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A secondary engram is a mental image picture at a moment in the past containing misemotion anger, fear, grief, apathy - where loss either is threatened or accomplished. However, a secondary can not exist unless an engram underlies it. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15)[others]


Senior C/S (Case Supervisor) Int

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Part of INT management and is located with CMO INT. The person holding this post is considered the senior-most technical terminal within the Church and is responsible, with his or her juniors, for overseeing standard delivery, receiving tech related petitions, and c/s'ing difficult cases which cannot be resolved at a smaller organization. - Jonathon Barbera.


Senior Exec Strata

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Senior Executive Strata. Management organization in charge of developing programs to be done in service organizations to boost various areas of production and delivery. Each of the members of the Exec Strata are responsible for a specific area such as selling books or field activities. - Jonathon Barbera. Head of the Exec Strata is the ED INT, currently Guillaume Lesevre.


Ser Fac

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Service Facsimile.

A mental image picture the PC (Preclear or patient) uses to make himself or herself right and others wrong, help him dominate others and himself escape domination, or to enhance his own survival and injure that of others. At least, that's what the tech says; in reality, the term is applied to people who are not "up-stat" - running around like a chicken with their head cut off to make money fast for the cult. If someone is moping, looks depressed, is making excuses, saying "oh, poor me", justifying their errors and generally "acting the victim" and trying to get sympathy instead of being 100% dedicated and "making it go right", they are said to be ser fac'ing (pronounced FACKing). In other words, if someone isn't living up to the fascist ideals of Scientology, they're said to be dramatizing their ser facs."If you keep pulling down stats in my area with your Ser Facs, I'll write a KR on you!" Grade 4 deals with auditing this type of engram out of the mark. See Grade 4.

Ser Fac

Service Facsimile

1. these are called "service facsimiles." "Service" because they serve him. "Facsimiles" because they are in mental image picture form. They explain his disabilities as well. The facsimile part is actually a self-installed disability that "explains" how he is not responsible for being able to cope. So he is not wrong for not coping. Part of the "package" is to be right by making wrong. The service facsimile is therefore a picture containing an explanation of self condition and also a fixed method of making others wrong. (HCOB 15 Feb 74)

2. this is actually part of a chain of incidents which the individual uses to invite sympathy or cooperation on the part of the environment. One uses engrams to handle himself and others and the environment after one has himself conceived that he has failed to handle himself, others and the general environment (AP&A, p. 7)

3. it is simply a time when you tried to do something and were hurt or failed and got sympathy for it. Then afterwards when you were hurt or failed and wanted an explanation, you used it. And if you didn't succeed in getting sympathy for it, you used it so hard it became a psychosomatic illness. (HFP, p. 89)

4. every time you fail, you pick up this facsimile and become sick or sadly noble. It's your explanation to yourself and the world as to how and why you failed. It once got you sympathy. (HFP, p. 89)

5. that facsimile which the preclear uses to apologize for his failures. In other words, it is used to make others wrong and procure their cooperation in the survival of the preclear. If the preclear well cannot achieve survival, he attempts an illness or disability as a survival computation. The workability and necessity of the service facsimile is only superficially useful. The service facsimile is an action method of withdrawing from a state of beingness to a state of not beingness and is intended to persuade others to coax the individual back into a state of beingness. (AP&A, p. 43)

6. that computation generated by the preclear (not the bank) to make self right and others wrong, to dominate or escape domination and enhance own survival and injure that of others. (HCOB 1 Sept 63) Ser Fac, service facsimile. (HCOB 23 Aug 65)[others]


Service Facsimile

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See Ser Fac.


Session

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An auditing or "therapy" regimen; PC patient holds the cans, Auditor "therapist" behind the Meter. Also called Processing, Auditing, qv.


Severe reality adjustment

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See SRA.


SH

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Saint Hill manor, in East Grinstead, Sussex, England. Hubbard set up Scientology's worldwide headquarters there for several years, until he was kicked out of the UK by the government's Home Office.


Shore Story

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A lie told to cover up illegal activity or give a good PR facade to fool wogs, non-Scientologists. "Your Shore Story while on mission will be that you are working for an independent research facility out of Dallas."


SHSBC

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The Saint Hill Special Briefing Course for auditors, ("therapists") given at Saint Hill in England originally, and now given at any Saint Hill Org, like ASHO (the American Saint Hill Organization.) The SHSBC is mostly on tapes, and is very long, arduous, and expensive. It is meant to give a very high level of proficiency to the auditor "therapist", and is recommended for the unreleased higher OT levels IX and above. See Class 6.


SLD

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Southern Land Development Corp. - a front name used to purchase the Ft. Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida.


SMI Int

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Scientology Missions International International - Oversees all Missions ("Franchises"). - Jonathon Barbera.


SNC

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Abbreviation for the Stevens Creek Mission.


Snow white

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The code name for a cult espionage operation. Snow White's goal was to infiltrate government offices and purge their files of incriminating material that made the cult look bad. 30,000+ documents were stolen from the IRS, the DEA, the Coast Guard, and the US Attorney's office. Hubbard's wife, Mary Sue, was sentenced to four years in jail for the operation, which was carried out by operatives in the GO (Guardian's Office; a precursor to OSA, the Office of Special Affairs, the cult's answer to the KGB.)

More about Operation Snow White on Wikipedia.


SO, Sea Org, Sea Organization more

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The Sea Org, the commanding and controlling element in the cult, partly working off ships, partly land-based at Flag in Clearwater, FLA, the Cedars Complex in Los Angeles, and other places. The core is now at the INT Base and the HGB, qv.


SO 1 Line

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Standing Order number one line. All communications sent to Hubbard, so we were told, actually went to him, and were read by him, and answered by him. Not true; there was a team of letter readers/writers to deal with the volume, right down to forging Hubbard's signature on the replies. "When all else fails, there's always the SO 1 Line!" See ED INT for more information and the address for the replacement for the SO-1 line.


Solo auditing

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A self-auditing procedure used at the higher levels of the cult's "Bridge," or levels of enlightenment chart. The E-Meter cans are stuck onto a plastic holder and held in one hand. Saves money for the cult, as solo levels aren't any cheaper, but there's no need for an auditor or "therapist," only a C/S, Case supervisor (the person in charge of running "therapy" actions on the Preclear or patient. Solo violates one of Hubbard's primary rules of auditing, that the PC (Preclear) cannot audit himself. "Solo Auditor Course, Part Two, includes confidential solo steps to be done in order to further train the new solo auditor. Done by everyone prior to first solo level (either R6EW or New OT I) at Saint Hills and higher organizations." - Jonathon Barbera.


Solo NOTS

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Self-auditing, solo "therapy" NED for OTs, New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans; the running out of Body Thetans or evil spirits. See NED.


Somatics

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Pains and aches restimulated or turned on during a "therapy" session, or contained within an engram or memory incident. "The PC got a heavy somatic in her jaw while auditing a clam incident."


SOS

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Science of Survival; an L. Ron Hubbard book that details the dynamics of life, and the principle that we are all just trying to survive. Recommended reading.

More about Science of Survival on Wikipedia.


Source

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L. Ron Hubbard is the Source (capitalized) of Scientology; his written orders in the form of Policy and Tech, and his spoken words on tape are Source. "I feel so much better after getting back on Source."


Southern Land Development Corp

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See SLD.


SP more

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Suppressive Person, an evil person; someone who criticizes Scientology in any way. (the two are one and the same in the cult)

SPs are the cult's 1984 Goldsteins, and give definition to the group and a common enemy. Supposedly, some large fraction of the total population is composed of these "anti-social" characters, variously cited as 2% or 20%. Hubbard listed 12 traits of the SP, such as talking in generalities, criticism, and so forth. SPs are formally "declared" with a goldenrod issue, and lists are kept of these dangerous people. Ars has adopted its own SP levels as a badge of honour; in Scientology, there are no levels of SP. SPs create PTSes, people who are influenced by them. See MU, PTS, Disconnection.

SP

Suppressive Person

2. A person who rewards only down statistics and never rewards an up statistic. He goofs up or vilifies any effort to help anybody and particularly knifes with violence anything calculated to make human beings more powerful or intelligent. A suppressive automatically and immediately will curve any betterment activity into something evil or bad.

4. The person is in a mad, howling situation of some yesteryear and is "handling it" by committing overt acts today. I say condition of yesteryear but this case thinks it's today.

5. An SP is a no-confront case because, not being in his own valence he has no viewpoint from which to erase anything. That is all an SP is.

6. Those who are destructively antisocial.

7. A person with certain behavior characteristics and who suppresses other people in his vicinity and those other people when he suppresses them become PTS or potential trouble sources. (from TD)

More: Suppressive Person


Spaink, verb

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An ARS word. If you win a lawsuit so decisively that your opponent has to pay your legal costs, you are said to have "Spainked" your opponent. Scientology was first Spainked by Karin Spaink, NLSCC luminary, then Spainked by Zenon, and now has been Spainked by Magne Berge in Norway.


SP declare

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A vicious and vindictive policy in which perceived enemies of Scientology are labeled as suppressive or destructive to Scientology's aims.


SP levels

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A badge of harassment worn with pride by ars posters; they mock the OT levels, and show how suppressive a particular participant to ars is; the higher the level, the more damage that critic has done to Scientology, and the more fire they have drawn in the process.


Spokesclam

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A Scientology spokesperson or PR agent. See clam.


Squirrel

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A person who subverts Hubbard's "Tech" by alteration. The name probably came from the idea of squirrels burying, or being associated with, nuts. In the cult jargon, Squirrel refers to someone who is too insane to follow Standard Tech. "Mayo was a Squirrel because he altered Source." May also be used as a verb denoting the action of subversion of Scientology "Technology," as "Koos has been squirreling auditing tech."


SRA

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Severe Reality Adjustment. The use of screaming and demeaning right in someone's face, usually by a superior, to get the person to fit into the mold of the Scientology cult better. Similar "tech" to that used by drill sergeants in boot camp.


Standard Tech

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In theory, all of Scientology is 100% Standard Tech, meaning it is just workable, and yet full of unadmitted errors needing constant repair actions on PCs (patients). "Flag has the most 100% Standard Tech on the planet!" See Golden Age of Tech, the.


Stats more

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Statistics. Each Scientologist has to monitor his or her success, which is transmitted to control organs, e.g. the EO, Ethics Officer. Stats must be up every Thursday by two (pm), or the hapless cult indoctrinee is punished by being made to do Conditions or extra work. See also Upstat, Downstat, Conditions.


Steps A-E

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A Scientologist who is the target of an SP declare must perform steps A-E in order to have the SP declare order cancelled, and be accepted back as a good standing member. These steps require the person to stop criticizing Scientology, to make public announcement recanting their previous criticism, to pay all their outstanding financial "debts", to retrain from the bottom-up at their own expense, etc. [rh, ref]


Straightwire

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An auditing technique, using hypnosis to place the PC (Preclear) right back in the memory incident, to see and hear it all over again.

Straightwire

1. When we say straightwire, we're simply talking about stringing a line from cause to effect through the past.

2. Straight memory is also called straight wire because the auditor is directing the memory of the preclear and in doing so is stringing wire, much on the order of a telephone line, between I and the standard memory bank.

3. A technique of direct memory.

4. In 1950 in the early HDA lectures we described this as the act of stringing a line between present time and some incident in the past, and stringing that line directly and without any detours.

5. Straight wire is - the recovery of the actual time, place and object. (from TD)


Stuck in Present Time

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The condition of a person being incapable of moving on the time track into the past. In actuality the preclear is in some incident which forces him to be in the apparent present. (HCOB 11 May, AD 15)[others]


Student Hat

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An approximately $1,500 dollar course that teaches students to never go by a word they don't understand, and do little clay demos out of Plasticine (tm). A good revenue source, as most of the course is done from audio tapes, and requires little effort from the Supervisor or teacher. See also M3, M4.


Study Tech

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The cult's training methodology, involving ensuring the student never goes past a word he or she doesn't understand, making little Plasticine (tm) figures, and demoing by shuffling a kit of small blocks and toys about with the hands. "Stewart paid $1,500 to learn Study Tech on the Student Hat course." See also M3, M4.


Success Story

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A coerced write-up required to complete any auditing "therapy" action. Success Stories are usually filled with bland, often meaninglessly nebulous statements about "blowing mass", "having cognitions", and "big wins." See "Win", "Big Win."

Examples of success stories from the Church of Scientology publications.


Sunshine Rundown

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An expensive auditing "therapy" routine similar to a locational, in which the Preclear (patient) is told to look at things about them. "Solo audited without a meter. Spotting drills where the Clear spots specific things in the environment. Four of the five things to spot may include something near, something far, something big, and something small. Available at Class V Organizations which deliver the CCRD and all higher organizations." - Jonathon Barbera.


Superliterate

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Referring to a Scientologist who has done the Student Hat course and M1 word clearing to enable him or her to fastflow through course checksheets. Superliteracy mainly means that the Scientologist has no upset on misunderstood words, not that they are really super literate, although this is sometimes implied and tacitly agreed to. "Hey, you're Superlit? Must be a big win to fastflow through your courses like that!"


Super Power

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A series of 12 rundowns including: Ethics and Justice Repair Rundown, Personal Revival Rundown, Consequences Rundown, and False Data and Loss Rundown. Delivered by Super Power auditors at FSO (Flag) and might also be delivered to staff at Class Vs who have completed KTL (in English speaking organizations) and LOC. Release of this rundown is expected to make planetary clearing and the expanding of all service organizations to the size of old Saint Hill a reality. - Jonathon Barbera.


Suppress

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To squash, to sit on, to make smaller, to refuse to let reach, to make uncertain about his reaching, to render or lessen in any way possible by any means possible, to the harm of the individual and the fancied protection of a suppressor. (from TD)[others]


Suppressive act

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According to Hubbard, suppressive acts are acts calculated to impede or destroy Scientology or a Scientologist. In reality, anybody exposing or criticizing abusive practices of Scientology is "guilty" of suppressive act. [rh, ref]


Suppressive person

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See SP.


This page is based on the work of Martin Hunt:
The ARS Acronym/Terminology FAQ v3.5
Copyright: (c) 1994-1997 Martin Hunt
Source: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/a538284aada2c346