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Compilations Unit, I was involved in the project to compile Super Power and thought that it might
be interesting to relate my experiences with it. Had I written this twenty-some years ago when I
compiled the rundowns, I could have quoted them
chapter, line and verse. As it stands today, some of the rundowns that are part of Super Power I
still recall well, while others, unfortunately, hardly at all. What I am giving here are my personal
recollections having been involved with the original piloting and, years later, with the first
complete compilation of the rundowns. Anyone is free to make of this what they will and use it or
not as they see fit. Many thanks to John Aaron Williams for putting all the references together.
Backstory
At the beginning of 1978, LRH returned to his home
in La Quinta, California near Palm Springs, after
having been away for several months following the
FBI raid in Los Angeles in July 1977. Soon after
returning he wrote about the need for locating Sea
Org staff members who had been, intentionally, he
put it, gumming up the works and hindering
Scientology expansion. The few staff who were truly
dedicated to stopping the show were termed List 1
R/Sers. (I have heard from another that this project
"Rifle", LRH's home 1979 had been in the works even before the FBI raid, but I
did not learn about it until late winter 1978.)
An R/S is a rock slam, the wild and crazy manifestation of the E-meter needle. It indicates, per
E-meter theory, that an evil intention has been touched on regarding whatever topic was under
discussion at the time the R/S manifested. List 1 is a list of subjects for discussion in auditing that
relate to Scientology, its organizations and principles, such as L. Ron Hubbard and Mary Sue
Hubbard or organization executives.
LRH’s solution for locating the staff who he felt needed to be taken off the lines was to sec check
each S.O. staff member on the subject of List 1. If the person being sec checked turned on an R/S,
that meant he or she had an evil purpose on the subject under discussion. If such were found, the
staff member was to be taken off post and sent to the RPF to have the evil purpose handled before
being allowed back into the general group. LRH’s expectation was that the few staff who did have
R/Ses would be located and moved off for handlings with little disruption to the organization and
significant improvement in its operation. That was not what happened in practice.
The key technical person over the project had a crashing misunderstood on the difference between
a rock slam and a dirty needle and the confusion resulted in half the staff at LRH’s base in La
Quinta being sent to the RPF and an almost equal number RPFed at Flag and the PAC base. It was
probably the biggest debacle in the Sea Org’s history up to that time. As word spread about the
number of staff disappearing and winding up in the RPF, people going in for their own List 1 sec
checks were nervous and under stress and this tended to produce more dirty needles, which, called
R/Ses, landed them with their fellow staff in the RPF.
Meanwhile, LRH had immersed himself deeply, very deeply, in shooting the first technical training
films. That pretty much consumed his days, every day for the first 2/3rds of the year. In late
summer, though, he came up for air and asked for a report on the status of the project. He was
shocked and horrified when he learned the number of people who had been RPFed. He stepped in
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The
Rundowns
LRH laid out 12 individual rundowns that make
up Super Power. The initial concept was to help
staff members become more causative and efficient on their posts so as to create faster expansion
for Scientology. Blithely ordering someone to find the List 1 R/Sers on staff and remove them had
not worked out too well, so LRH dug in more thoroughly this time to get to the bottom of staff
inefficiencies. (This, by the way, was the approach he commonly took: when faced with a situation
to deal with, try the simplest, fastest way possible and if that doesn’t work, then dig in more
energetically.)
He began working with a recently formed compilations unit called LRH Technical Compilations
(today called LRH Technical Research and Compilations, RTRC) to prepare and pilot the
individual components of Super Power. At the time RTRC formed up I was an auditor in the Qual
Div of WHQ but joined RTRC the following year, in 1979.
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initial reason for its development, the Ethics Repair List will do a lot for a person’s button on the
lack of justice existing in the world.
Auditors at the La Quinta base began running the list of those recently reprieved from the RPF and
the list was modified based on the pilot reports being received. LRH would review and correct as
needed each of these revisions and finally authorized the list for use in its final form. Late in the
year the ERL was broadly released for a short time but then pulled out of circulation. It has been
on the Internet for many years and freely available for download and use.
“There’s an implant on the track on the subject of “We are all one”, “All is one”. Someone
stuck in this actually goes from the generality of “All is one” and then individuates from that!
That’s actually the basic definition of individuation (as different from individuality)."
“A thetan who is “dead” acts like . . . there’s nobody running the show . . . This is the
Socialist, everyone belongs to “The State”, individualism is negated, it’s all “The People”.
“TV, Drugs and Socialism are the factors that are bringing about the current deterioration of
society, and with these three you can predict a super break up. You get NCG cases, or
subtle NCG cases (these make only minor gain), they are a collective mass. The speed of
effect of auditing would go up after an Ethics Repair List and Criminality Rundown because
on the Criminality Rundown you’ll get a “demutualization”.
"If you have a TV and Drug culture and enter in a Welfare State you’ll get this. In
Communism a person is severely punished if he shows any individuality."
“There are crime waves after waves which are due to a super association with Death. Then
guys have seen so much Death, they consider themselves dead. It isn’t that they’re taught to
kill, it’s that by association with Death, they have become “dead” and irresponsible.
“Therefore as a rule, while engaging in any collective social or organizational activity, you
have to foster individuality.”
LRH’s general notion was that some (or many) staff were irresponsible on their jobs because they
were, as stated above, more or less dead as beings. In fact, the colloquial name for the rundown
when it was piloted was the Dead Man Pilot. The general approach, as near as I can remember, was
to assess a list of possible conditions such as deadness, unconsciousness, unfeeling, numbness,
etc., on the pc and then address whatever read with processes. The processes were recall processes
on whatever items read. For example, if “deadness” read on the list, the auditor would run, F1,
“Recall deadness.” F2, Recall another’s deadness,” F3, “Recall others’ deadness,” F0, “Recall your
own deadness,” or commands to that effect.
The idea was to take the person out of whatever past experiences had been laying on him or her
like a lead blanket and enable them to come back to life.
This rundown was piloted to some extent in 1978 but not finalized at that time that I recall. It is
also known as the Criminality Rundown in some issues, so far as I recall.
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Consequences Rundown
Once the person was freed from whatever “deadness” he was manifesting, the next part of Super
Power was directed at helping him look some distance into the future and heighten his ability to
predict consequences of his actions. A couple relevant bulletins explain the theory of this rundown:
From HCOB 24 MARCH 1960, GOALS IN THE RUDIMENTS, which you can find
here:
"If pc is still reluctant and upset about goals or isn't getting better faster because of the
Solutions Process above, run some consequences in this fashion: "What would you be likely
to do if you didn't have a bad foot?" This makes the pc look at it some more, and some
Responsibility run on what he has said he might do will clear the thing away."
Then, from HCOB 6 JUNE 1969, PREDICTION AND CONSEQUENCES, which you
"Probably the reason overts of omission and commission are done at all lies in man's inability
or faulty ability to predict and to realize consequences. Men are rather thoroughly stuck in
the present and so involved with its confusions that they rarely foresee anything and are
mainly oblivious to any consequences of their own actions or failures to act."
A process relating to this was from Ability Magazine Major 6 [1955, ca. early September], available
here:
IX. CONSEQUENCES:
“What would happen if you were apathetic?
Repeat, etc.
Repeat, etc.
Because a criminal doesn’t really think about the consequences of his actions (i.e., he doesn’t see
that if he breaks into the house to steal some stuff that the police are going to come looking for him
and put him in jail), this rundown helps the pc improve his or her ability to predict the
consequences of their actions. The basic thrust of the process was to ask the person to recall an
action of theirs in the past and then ask that when they decided to take that action, did they think
of the consequences. In other words, did they think of whatever happened afterwards as a direct
result of what they had decided to do.
This seems to be a different slant on one of the processes on Grade 1 (taken from the Grade 1
Process checklist of November 1987):
13. GOALS
(Ref: PAB 137, SOME MORE CCH PROCESSES, Section on Goals
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Part One:
1. WHAT ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE WILL HAPPEN IN THE NEXT TWO MINUTES? (one
hour, three days, one week, three months, one year, etc.)
Discuss it to complete pc certainty on each time span before continuing to the next one, i.e., one
hour, three days, one week, three months, one year, etc. The auditor must all the time be sure that
the preclear is certain that these things are going to happen in the next two minutes (or whatever
the time span is) to ensure that the process really bites.
2. TELL ME SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO IN THE NEXT TWO MINUTES (one
hour, etc., increasing span of time.)
Part Two:
1. TELL ME SOMETHING YOU ARE SURE WILL BE THERE IN TWO MINUTES, etc.)
One of the values of Super Power when delivered to a Dianetic Clear is that the Bright Think
Rundown accomplishes in part what Power Processing was designed to handle on a case. Dianetic
Clears may not receive the Power Processes but may be run on Super Power including the Bright
Think Rundown.
This was the last Super Power rundown that was worked on before LRH’s death in 1986. The
remaining rundowns were listed out and he wrote one or more dispatches to RTRC or Snr C/S Int
about the remaining parts of Super Power, including how it was supposed to be exported to St. Hill
Orgs. But no other rundowns were compiled and nothing was ever again submitted to LRH on
Super Power.
What happened was that in the late fall 1978, LRH called for a team of auditors from each St. Hill
org as well as Flag to be brought to the WHQ base (winter headquarters in La Quinta) for training
on Super Power. His first action was to call for demonstrations of their TRs. This ran headlong into
a barrier in that their TRs were inadequate to deliver Super Power. At this point Super Power went
off the radar and LRH’s focus of attention for most of the next year was TR training. Large TR
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courses were established at Flag and in PAC and LRH spent a lot of time looking at TRs videos,
dictating critiques to students and, because it became like pulling teeth to get students to submit
acceptable videos, working out broad, large scale handlings to deal with the situation of a “world
out of comm,” as he described it. These offshoots of the TRs evolution became the Key To Life
Course and the Life Orientation Course. Numerous other bodies of tech grew out of his work
during this period including a codification of False Data Stripping, the Product Debug Checklist
and the Purification Rundown among others.
RTRC struggled to even keep up with the flood of dispatches and orders and Super Power became
back-burnered. The RTRC Dir, Phoebe Mauerer, bless her, dutifully filed every piece of paper
relating to Super Power and stored them in bankers boxes and for the next 8 years kept these
boxes right above her desk until the day she died in late 1986. (Phoebe and LRH were close. She
was one of the early S.O. members and served well and with distinction for many years. After LRH
died in early 1986, she just kind of said, Screw this, I’m out of here,” and a lifetime of smoking did
the rest. Her sense of humor stayed with her until the end, remarking at one point with
appropriate irony, “Dan, my Int is really out right now!”)
RTRC did not get around to Super Power again until the fall of 1991, 13 years after LRH began
work on it. Phoebe’s careful filing and protection of the papers on Super Power made the job of
completing compilation of the remaining rundowns merely difficult instead of hopeless. Some of
the remaining rundowns LRH said very little about and it was left to RTRC to search high and low
for clues how to assemble them.
Study Rundown
At this juncture in his Super Power processing, the person will be pretty cleaned up of certain
factors that were dragging his attention back into the past. So, now his ability to learn and think
with data can be addressed. The first stage of this is the Study Rundown, which consists of being
audited on The Study Green Form, which is available here.
Many people develop blocks against assimilating information and learning because of oppressive
schooling or other reasons. The Study Green Form locates these and addresses them.
The handling developed was to find areas in the person’s life where he or she might be having
difficulties as the result of false data, find a false datum and strip it off using FDSing tech and then
locate the loss prior to accepting the false data. Then, once the loss was found, to audit that out
using various tools (perhaps Recalls on Clears and OTs or NED on preclears), including, as needed
False Purpose Rundown. Note that FPRD was not developed until 1984 and LRH mentioned the
correlation between False Data and Loss in 1978. Whether this was LRH’s intention will never be
known.
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Cause Rundown
Well, I draw a blank when I scour my memory for what this process consists of. I don’t recall that it
was anything too remarkable like some of the other rundowns and no one who received it on the
pilot said too much about it. That may not be the case but I simply don’t recall anything about this
particular rundown or the process it entailed. I can theorize now that it would have to do with
helping the pc reestablish his level of causation, now that he or she had been cleaned up to the
extent that the previous rundowns would have accomplished that.
The way these would apply to Super Power and making a staff member more effective on his job
would be to rehabilitate his power of choice about doing his job. (As a note, should more
information about these two rundowns or any of the rest become available it will be made known,
either in a revision to this article or in a new one.)
Perception Rundown
Amid the hoopla surrounding Super Power, the Perception Rundown is smack dab in the center of
it. The reason for this is the many different kinds of equipment and special rooms that have been
developed for this part of Super Power.
As is well known in Dianetics and Scientology and in other fields as well, a person’s ability to use
one or more of her sense channels can be impaired or blocked by traumatic incidents from the
person’s past. Ray Charles was said to have lost his sight at a young age when his brother drowned
in a washing tub in front of his eyes; shortly thereafter, overwhelmed by guilt, his eyesight began to
deteriorate and he went blind for the rest of his life. Whether or not this is a convenient
coincidence to support the claim, nearly everyone recognizes that one’s eyesight or hearing or
sense of smell is capable of fluctuating in keenness from day to day, even throughout the day.
The Perception Rundown was designed to sharpen or even restore a person’s ability to
communicate with the world through any or all of the 57 sense channels described by LRH in
HCOB 23 July 78R, LIST OF PERCEPTICS, which you can find here. The rundown consisted of
first locating and auditing out charge that may be inhibiting a person’s ability to see, hear, smell,
touch, etc. Then, once the charge is handled on a specific sense channel, the person drills using
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that particular channel which puts him more in control of it and can greatly heighten his
awareness of communication along that line.
The first part of the rundown simply consists of clearing and assessing the entire list of perceptics
and finding the ones that are charged. The mental aspects of the reading items are audited out
using R3RA for cases below Clear and recall processes on four flows for Clears and above.
Perception Drills
Once the charge is handled on a particular perceptic, one drills the perceptic to improve the ability
to use it. The total amount of direction that LRH gave about how to put those drills together is
contained in the previous sentence. It was one line in a despatch saying to drill the pc on the
perceptic after the charge had been handled.
RTRC (me, the compiler) undertook a several days long search to find some clue to these drills.
The solution was found in materials around the time LRH wrote Science of Survival and the action
was to alternate putting one’s attention on the sense channel and taking one’s attention off of it.
Simple, when we finally found it.
Say the person had trouble with his hearing. You’d put a ticking clock (or something similar) on
the table and have the pc put his attention on the clock (listen to it) and then take his attention off
the clock (causatively don’t listen to it). The general idea is to have the pc put his attention on the
perceptic channel and take his attention off it and alternate this back and forth to the end
phenomena of the process.
From this description of the rundown it seems likely that the perceptions which a person has
trouble with (and REALITY on) and which will therefore read are the usual suspects such as sight,
sound, touch and smell. Sense channels along which the person has little or no reality will not read,
per basic auditing theory.
Nevertheless, the church has spent millions researching, prototyping and producing fancy
machines, stations and entire rooms so a person can drill such esoteric perceptics as Awareness of
Awareness, Saline Content of Cells, Perception of Conclusions (past and present) and the like. That
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is not to say that someone could not drill each of his perceptions using this equipment but that is
most definitely NOT part of the rundown as laid out by LRH. Of course, if something reads it will
be run and then drilled. The likelihood of some of these rooms and machines every being used
seems to indicate the incursion of marketing and fundraising considerations into tech.
Learning Drills
By this time the person receiving Super Power has been brought out of any case condition what
might distract him from doing a good job in his post, he is in present time and his senses have been
sharpened up nicely.
Now he/she does the Learning Drills as laid out in PAB 110, 15 April 1957, EDUCATION, which
you will find here.
For example, say a guy is a cabinet maker. You would drill him on measuring a piece of wood, drill
him on setting up his saw and cutting the wood, drill him on sanding and planing the wood, drill
him on assembling the cabinet, installing the hardware, staining and finishing it, etc. Pit crews at
the Indy 500 drill tire changes and filling gas tanks and it pays off. Same idea here.
They did not go to Miscavige as all tech issues did for final approval. These were just pilot issues.
Once compiled, a group of Gold staff were selected to receive the rundown. Several Qual and Snr
C/S Int Office auditors were trained on the rundowns and began auditing their pcs. Pilot reports
and success stories received from the pcs after each rundown were encouraging. Some particularly
remarkable things occurred during the Perception Drills. Pcs commented how sharp their
perceptions became from the simple drilling of putting their attention on the sense channel and
then taking it off the channel. LRH had commented that some people did not hear well, for
example, simply because they did not listen, meaning they had muffled or closed down that
channel. Drilling opened the channel back up and put people at cause over their perceptions again.
One pc remarked how it was almost scary how sharp and attuned her perceptions had become.
(As a note, no fancy equipment was developed for use on the pilot, but simply objects, odors, sights
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Each pc who completed the rundowns felt they had experienced many many positive gains. The
proof, however, would come in their post performance afterwards.
Without exception each pilot pc performed exceptionally well on post for a good long period, a year
or more.
However, in the LRH dispatches he laid out how Super Power should be delivered to a staff. One
would put each member of an area, such as a division of the org, through Super Power before going
on to the next division. (For purposes of the pilot, this was not possible.) The reason, he said, is
that the staff working around the Super Power completion would eventually drag the person down
again with slowness, inefficiencies, etc. And this is what happened with the pilot pcs. They did well
for a long time but eventually ran into trouble in one form or another. A couple, I think, even
ended up in the Hole (http://freeheber.com/index.php?title=The_Hole), the infamous lockdown
for certain staff at the Int/Gold base.
A couple of the Feshbach brothers came to Gold and received the rundown in the mid-90s in
exchange for each donating $1,000,000 to the Super Power Project coffers.
Caveat
I am writing this up more than 20 years after compiling the rundowns. I have put it together as
best I can remember and have had it checked by other ex-staff who received some or all of the
rundowns. Naturally the specific tech for each rundown is not given. Two of the most key parts of
Super Power, the Ethics Repair List and Bright Think Rundown exist as LRH approved them in
1978. Other parts such as the Study Green Form, HC Lists and Learning Drills have existed for
decades.
Undoubtedly, people at Int have recompiled Super Power and what eventually is released by the
church may bear little resemblance to what is laid out above. From all the attention being paid to,
and resources being poured into, the Flag delivery building, it certainly appears that Super Power
will become a main line service for paying public at Flag. That was never LRH’s intention. In fact, if
one reviews the various parts of the rundown it is obvious that LRH pulled extensively from tech or
tech theories that already existed and sequenced it in an order that would accomplish the desired
product of a competent, efficient staff member.
Super Power was and always will be primarily for STAFF. Only secondarily is Super Power for
Dianetic Clears. That is not to say that public will not benefit from it. Anyone would. Yet, Super
Power does not supplant anything on the Grade Chart. It is not superior in some way to SA Lists,
Book One, the Expanded Lower Grades, NED, Power, R6EW, the Clearing Course, OT levels I to
VIII and the Ls.
But if you put yourself in LRH’s shoes in late August 1978, with a Sea Org, half of whose members
had just spent months falsely assigned to the RPF with the wrong item of List 1 R/Ser, what actions
would you take to help clean them up and help them do better when they returned to their posts?
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