The NOTs Scholars Home Page (Scientology)

Prerequisites for Beginning NOTs Scholars

• David Carter's essay on the basics of the Scientology belief system.
• Summary of OT III by Karin Spaink. Covers Xenu, the volcanos, the origin of body thetans, and the first level of confidential auditing procedures used to remove them.
• OT III Scholarship Page: see the Xenu story in Hubbard's own handwriting.
• Secrets of the E-Meter explains how an E-meter works and how it is used in auditing.
• Perry Scott gives a humorous overview of how NOTs auditing differs from OT III.

The Origin of NOTs

• Excerpt from Bare-Faced Messiah by Russell Miller. David Mayo is called in to audit a sick L. Ron Hubbard.
• Excerpt from Messiah or Madman by Bent Corydon. Hubbard introduces the concept of "body thetans" in 1978.
• Excerpts from A Piece of Blue Sky by Jon Atack. Mayo looks for "misconceptions" in Hubbard's auditing folders. Hubbard later shifts the emphasis to body thetans.
• Excerpt from a 1996 letter from David Mayo describing the origin of NOTs.
• Page 3 of NOTs 34, masked, as filed with the copyright office. Notice at the bottom of the page, the initials after "LRH" are blacked out. This was done for all 55 NOTs issues. In the Vorlon pack this line reads "LRH:dm:kjm". The "dm" stands for David Mayo.

Provenance and Structure of the Vorlon NOTs Pack

• Where did the Vorlon NOTs pack come from? An anonymous writer claims that several versions of NOTs were floating around outside of Scientology's control; that what appeared on the Internet as the Vorlon pack was originally the "Larry West" pack; and that for strategic reasons, RTC chose to ignore its circulation.
• The theft in Denmark by Robin Scott et al., described by Jon Atack in A Piece of Blue Sky.
• Decision in Religious Technology Center et al. v Scott et al. discusses the role of Mayo in developing NOTs, and contains some quotes that appear to authenticate the Vorlon pack. More info in Scientology and the Courts.
• Table of contents for the Vorlon NOTs pack.
• Notes on the structure of the Vorlon NOTs pack.
• NOTs on the Internet. Modemac has put together a concise history of NOTs on the Net.
• "Vorlon Jr." debuts at XS4ALL. On August 18, 1996, announces that NOTs will reposted. On August 19, posts ned1, ned2, ned3.txt">ned3,
  ned4,
  ned5,
  ned6,
  ned7, and two versions of the NOTs
  index.
  Then confirms the reposting,
  promising a key later. Posts some bogus keys, including
  Babylon5 and
  Morden. But Karin Spaink guesses the true
  key: Xenu.
  Finally, cancels his own postings
  (a futile gesture) when it becomes clear his anonymity is not going to last long.
• Zenon Pannousis posted NOTs twice from Sweden. His ongoing battle with the
  the Church is chronicled at this
  site in Sweden.

  The NOTs Dictionary

  A dictionary of acronyms and technical terms found in NOTs.
  Remember to never go past a misunderstood word!

  Demonic Possession in Scientology

  • Major section: Reverend Dennis L. Erlich answers your
    questions about demonic possession.
    Additional questions are welcome. Post them to alt.religion.scientology with
    "Demonic Possession in Scientology" in the header, and cc them to Dennis at inForm@primenet.com.
  • A 1924 discussion of
    exorcism reveals some antecedents of Hubbard's ideas about auditing out
    body thetans. Jack Parsons notes: exorcists always ask "What is your name?" In
    Scientology, it's "Who are you?".
  • 
    Chapter 7 of The Hubbard is Bare, by Jeff Jacobsen, discusses
    the gnostic roots of Scientology, with particular reference to infestation
    by "demons": the body thetans audited out on OT III and NOTs. (Readers may
    wish to skip the first section, on Aleister Crowley.)
  • 
    Hubbard and the Occult, an essay by Jon Atack.
  • 
    Catholic beliefs about exorcism compared to Scientology beliefs about auditing
    out body thetans. By John Mark Ockerbloom.
  • Possession by animal minds, not body
    thetans, is the real cause of human aberration according to
    ex-Scientologist (OT7) Michael Mourer. He agrees with Parsons that the key to
    eliminating them is to ask them their names.
  
  
  

  Why Are There So Many Levels of NOTs?

  OT III is where students first encounter Xenu and the body thetans
  (BTs). After completing OT III, the student thinks that they are rid
  of all their BTs. They are in for a surprise when they move on to
  NOTs, which consists of levels New OT IV through New OT VII:
  • New OT IV is the NOTs Drug Rundown. The pre-OT learns that some
    of his BTs were on drugs in their past lives, and so they more messed
    up than ordinary BTs -- which is why they weren't found on OT III.
    Identifying that they have a drug problem is the first step to getting
    them to blow.

  • New OT V is Audited NOTs. One learns to deal with BTs that were
    messed up for other reasons: they went clear or exterior in a past
    life; they were PTS (connected to a Potential Trouble Source); they
    were affected by incorrect prior auditing actions, etc.

  • New OT VI is Solo NOTs prep. The student is taught how to do
    solo NOTs auditing, by holding the two E-meter cans in one hand and
    operating the meter themselves. The cans are connected by a plastic
    insert to keep them from touching, which would short circuit the path
    of the current through the body. Students have already done solo
    auditing on OT III, where they first encountered Xenu and the body
    thetans, so this level of NOTs goes pretty quickly.

  • New OT VII is the Solo NOTs Auditors Course. This level can take
    years. The pre-OT examines himself for BTs and clusters, expecting
    most of them to blow by inspection. For those that don't, the various
    NOTs auditing techniques are applied -- telepathically, of course.

  

  The Practice of NOTs Auditing

  • Tory Christman (Bezazian) on OT7:
    what it's really like to do NOTs. And here
    is Tory on A Day in the Life of One OT
  .
• Solo NOTs Certainty Course,
  statistics on completions as for February 1998.
• Clay demo by
  Heidrun Beer /Traunstein-Frankfurt a.Main(of the Freezone) explaining the concepts of NOTs auditing. A body thetan
  was attacked by a bear...
• The environment
  in which NOTs auditing is delivered, discussed by Joe Harrington.
• Margery Wakefield's experience
  auditing OT III and New OT V (the first released level of NOTs, which
  actually came out before New OT IV).
• Gullibility Revisited, an essay by an
  anonymous ex-Scientologist, covers some of the basics of Scientology auditing,
  and the doubts he came to have about the "the tech".
• A Hierarchy of Higher Statuses considers
  the special status of Clears and OTs. This is an excerpt from one section of
  Scientology: To Be Perfectly Clear, an article by William Sims
  Bainbridge and Rodney Stark.
• If Christians were to use Scientologist Methods,
  an essay by "Entheta".
• "Generic NOTs'' from the FreeZone.
  The same ``advanced spiritual technology'' used by the Church of Scientology, but
  this is a freeware version. Also available in Word 6 format(search in the net).
  
  

  Medical Claims in NOTs

  "Medicine has long acknowledged that in order to scientifically test the efficacy of a
  new medicine, for instance, it must be compared to the effects of a placebo
  administered with equal solemnity, ritual and belief. This is because the solemnity
  and ritual and belief can themselves heal."

  -- from an analysis of Dr. Drown's Homo-Vibra Ray,
  another quack technology

  • Medical Claims Within Scientology's Secret Teachings, by
    Jeff Jacobsen
  • How Scientology claims to cure physical illness, a note by Mike O'Connor,
    who examines several of the NOTs documents.
  • See also The Henson Case: Keith Henson convicted of copyright infringement for publishing NOTs 34.
  • 
    Analysis of NOTS 34 by Tilman Hausherr
  • The Healing Claims of Scientology,
    chapter 19 of the Anderson Report (1965, Australia.)
  • Here is a summary of medical
    claims in What Is Scientology?
  • Scientologists must get permission before
    seeing a doctor.

  Has NOTs Harmed Anyone?

  A quote from this affidavit by
  Jesse Prince, a former top-level Scientology official, indicates that
  NOTs auditing was sometimes used as a substitute for medical care.
  The infamous NOTs 34 (discussed below) deals with treatment of
  physical ailments. The term "end cycle" means to cause or allow oneself
  to die.

  b) Ted Cormier, a personal friend of mine. He had Parkinson's disease. He
  was ordered to leave Gilman Hotsprings and go directly to Flag for NOTS 34,
  auditing to cure his cancer. When this failed, Ray Mithoff sent him orders
  in his Pre-Clear folder for him to "end cycle." He died.
  

  
  

  Summaries / Thumbnail Sketches of NOTs

  
  ... if it was defendants' intention to make the technology public, they
  could do so without infringing plaintiffs' copyright by creating and
  publishing a noninfringing description of the procedure.
  -- United States District Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer, in
  Religious Technology Center et al. v Robin Scott et al., 1987.

  • Thumbnail sketch
    of NOTs 1-55, by Peik J Stromsholm (pjs@uwasa.fi).

  Fake NOTs

  Keith Henson constructed
  a fake NOTs 56 using the Travesty program
  and some hand editing. (The real NOTs only goes up to 55.) Keith's
  effort appears as authentic as any of the real NOTs issues, which has
  led Scientology to claim it as a copyright violation.

  Commentary on Individual NOTs Documents

  
  When Scientology attacked the Internet, it smacked a hornets' nest.
  Now it gets to negotiate with each hornet individually.
  -- A peeved netizen on alt.religion.scientology

  Many of the people on alt.religion.scientology first became interested in
  Scientology as a result of the Internet war. Several have contributed
  commentaries below. However, there is another group of people interested
  in NOTs: the members of the FreeZone, who still practice Scientology but
  are estranged from the Church. I am especially interested in receiving
  FreeZone commentaries on the NOTs scripture.

  Attention NOTs scholars: multiple commentaries on the same document are
  welcome. There are many ways to analyze these writings.

  • NOTs 1: NED for OTs RD, Theory Of
    date: 15 September 1978.
    • <summary by Taneli Huuskonen
    • commentary by Jeff Jacobsen
    • commentary by The New Squirrel
      not the poor Skunks
    • commentary by Keith Cochran

  • NOTs 2: Why You Can't Run Engrams After Clear
    date: 15 September 1978.
    • commentary by Dean Benjamin and Ralph Hilton
    • message from Martin Ottman about changes to OT III

  • NOTs 4: Word Clearing and Information for Pre-OTs on NED for OTs
    date: 26 September 1978.
    • commentary by Dave Touretzky

  • NOTs 20: How You Operate A Meter
    date: 28 September 1978.
    • summary and comments by Dave Touretzky

  • NOTs 22: Anaten
    date: 26 September 1978. Issue IV.
    • commentary on medical claims by Dave Touretzky
    • commentary on medical claims by Mike O'Connor

  • NOTs 23: Remnant Ridges
    date: 27 September 1978.
    • reconstruction of NOTs 23
      by Keith Henson, described by Dave Touretzky.
    • announcement of reconstruction
      by Keith Henson

  • NOTs 30: Program Departures
    date: 26 September 1978.
    
    • commentary by Mike O'Connor

  • NOTs 34: The Sequence for Handling a Physical Condition
    date: 14 November 1978.
    • Day 4 of the Henson trial, in which Keith explains NOTs 34, "The
      Sequence for Handling a Physical Condition", is available at this
      overseas web site, despite Scientology's efforts to have this
      portion of the transcript sealed. Also available
      here.
    • 
      Analysis by Tilman Hausherr (contains full text of NOTs 34)
      
    • 
      Detailed analysis of NOTs34, with extensive quotation, by an anonymous NOTs scholar.
    • Analysis and commentary by Mike O'Connor
    • 
      Keith Henson's letter to Judge Whyte concerning medical claims appearing in NOTs 34.
    • parody "BOTS 34" by "conner"
    • commentary by David C. Smith
    • commentary by "Lurker"

  • NOTs 36: Rockslams
    Bulletin date:: 22 September 1978.
    • commentary by
      Jeff Jacobsen

    NOTs 38: Basic Fear
    date: 7 November 1978.

    • summary and comments by Dave Touretzky

  • NOTs 45: Partially Blown BTs
    date: 10 February 1979.
    • 
      by Keith Spurgeon

    OT III and OT III Attest
    date: 18 November 1981.

    Is OT III obsolete? by anonymous.

  
  

  Read the Actual NOTs Documents Yourself

  
  • As of December 2005, a collection of "upper level files",
    including NOTs, were avilable at the web site mentioned in this
    posting from alt.religion.scientology.

    Sweden keeps the NOTs public.
    News story from June, 1998 about a Swedish supreme court decision.
    Unfortunately, the Swedish government later caved in to political
    pressure from the US (spearheaded by Sonny Bono, who was Scientology's
    pet congressman), and you can no longer order the NOTs from
    the Swedish parliament. However, the documents may still be
    available from other government agencies in Sweden.

  • Operation Clambake, maintained
    by Andreas Heldal-Lund in Norway, contains a wealth of information
    about Scientology. Andreas suggests this page
    [search.freewinds.cx] for advice on how to obtain the NOTs by email.

  
  

  Beyond NOTs

  There is only one released level beyond NOTs. (Other levels are said
  to exist but have not yet been released by Scientology.) This level
  is New OT8, "Truth Revealed". The contents of New OT8 are not known
  for certain; several wildly different versions have appeared on the
  Internet, but none has been universally acknowledged as genuine. Here
  is one such summary of OT8 with the
  actual processes supposedly involved.

  ---

  David S. Touretzky

  Computer Science Department & Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891

  dst+@cs.cmu.edu, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst
  
  

  Anniversary Of Sheen's 9/11 Trailblazing Legacy

  
  

  Chain reaction raises profile of truth
  movement

  from

  Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones"infowars.com"
  Prison Planet
  March 2007

  
  
  
  
  

The latest
9/11 celebrity is Rosie O'Donnell, whom the media are normally
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Trump, but have chosen to largely ignore in the case of her public
savaging of the official 9/11 story. The usual suspect Neo-Con websites
have churned out their ad hominem hit pieces, including World
Net Daily today, but there remains a relative media blackout in
comparison with the widespread
coverage garnered by Sheen a year ago.

Some have criticized a suggested inflated focus on celebrities being
the torch bearers for the 9/11 truth movement, but the fact is that
we can have a multitude of professors, physicists and experts on board
and still not reach any new people who wouldn't otherwise have stumbled
across this subject. The only way to stop preaching to the choir is
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are willing to use it to spark the interest of newcomers.

We live in a world where perception is reality and what people see
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The garbage that is ceaselessly pumped out by the architects of the
zeitgeist is the primary reason why Americans and westerners in general
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We need to seize the levers of this cultural monolith and use it
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Charlie Sheen, Rosie O'Donnell and others have acted as the canary
in the coal mine for this process and we fully anticipate a number
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to follow suit.

Who will be the next 9/11 superhero? Only time will tell but one
thing is for certain - none of the great strides made by the 9/11
truth movement over the last 12 months could have been made without
the completely altruistic and awe-inspiring bravery displayed by Charlie
Sheen one year ago today by risking his livelihood and reputation
in the name of 9/11 truth.