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From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 3 - November 1991

 

Two European Conferences

By Antony A Phillips, Denmark



In October two free-scientology (or post scientology) congresses were 

held, in neighbouring countries and on consecutive weekends.



The first one was probably the first time that 'gurus' of different 

persuasions (none of whom like to be referred to as gurus) have met at 

a conference since the rather stormy conference held in Switzerland in 

1986. There was a higher level of ARC and granting of Beingness here, 

which was very nice to see. However time was short for a really full 

interchange of views, and twice it became painfully obvious that one 

'guru' had not fully understood another, on one occasions offering 

(publicly) help that the other obviously (to me) did not need, and the 

other a rather poorly founded criticism of a demo (demos of real 

sessions are always a little touchy). It is a very good sign that some 

'gurus' (lets be more mundane and just call them opinion leaders) are 

now willing to go to others congresses, and are received with 

friendliness. The last Swiss Conference left a rather bitter taste in 

the mouth.



Holland



The conference (or congress - use which ever term you like best) in 

Holland was the third in the series of yearly so-called 'Source' 

conferences, which Ray and Pam Kemp, and Per Schi>ttz started in 

Copenhagen two years ago, and which continued last year in Berlin with 

Michael Zippel organising. This time the organiser was Elly Poortenar, 

of the Excalibur Foundation, Holland ('Excalibur' seems to be the 'in 

word' at the moment, call something an Excalibur, and you can expect 

lots of enthusiasm and lots of opposition). Elly competently delegated 

a lot of the work to a very able master of ceromonies. The planning 

and timing of the congress was excellent. The place was a delightful 

course centre in the country some kilometres from Drachten. 

(Delightful, but even the Danes present noticed that the country was 

flatter than usual)



The first speaker was Ray Kemp, who does not like to be called a 

'guru' as he feels that he is simply trying to get people to realize 

that there is a wealth of material in the LRH philosophy that only 

needs to be understood without the Church of $ spin, to bring a richer 

and fuller life and expansion towards the original goals of the 

subject. Speaking after dinner on Friday 4th Oct, on How to BE a 

Succes, he based his talk on the well known BE, DO, HAVE triangle, but 

emphasised that it was important first to decide what you want to 

have, then get in action doing, and finally be. He also emphasised the 

need for understanding the correct actions, and ones best guide to 

what was correct was obtained in Rons Data Series and Target Series.



'Sarge' (official first name: Frank) Gerbode followed, describing how 

his basic goal had been to help people be happy, that he had sought to 

do this through medicine and psychiatry but not been satisfied, and 

again sought through other means, including scientology, with success 

that had its limitations. His conclusion was that it was necessary to 

stop thinking of ourselves as scientologists and followers of Hubbard 

if we wanted to help broadly. He advised us to throw away all 

scientology jargon, which helped scientologists communicate with each 

other but now has made it extremely difficult for us to communicate 

with the world at large over a longer period. This was what had been 

done in Metapsychology, and he amplified on this theme. (An 

interesting question: what makes scientology scientology? The jargon, 

the techniques, or the philosophy? Or perhaps, what is important? The 

jargon, the techniques, the goal, or the philosophy?)



On Saturday Gerald French talked on Successes with Metapsychology, and 

Per Schi>ttz on Lifes Philosophy. After lunch, Ray Kemp, who in the 

last two conferences had emphasised basics, and the need to really and 

honestly achieve the state of clear (see the earlier Source Conference 

Reports), opened up the whole world beyond clear in a two part lecture 

on understanding the state of O.T. Pointing out that there was a 

tendency to "go for O.T." as either a solution to 'case', or an effort 

to solve perceived unwanted conditions in the relationship between the 

being and the physical universe, Ray went on to show that there needs 

to be a datum of comparable magnitude to O.T. before one can fully 

understand it. The datum Ray used was the field of Quantum Physics, 

the study of sub atomic particles and masses so small as to be 

approximating Zero Mass, Zero Wavelength, where the physical rules as 

generally known, observably start to break down, and the phenomena can 

only be explained by introducing such items as "Alternate Universes", 

"Time is a consideration". and "Particles are only located in space by 

the prior creation of that space". The talks were well worth hearing 

and recordings of them were made. During the break a couple of 

attendees, who had an existing background of Quantum Mechanics, got 

into an animated discussion, talking entirely mathematical formula and 

filling the blackboard with equations.



On Sunday, Pam gave an auditing demonstration on a Dutch lady, who had 

previously had something like 40 hours of auditing, and had a 

continueing problem handling children. This was done without an E-

meter (Pam was trained by LRH in the early days), and despite the 

language barrier it went deep. To give such a session in the presence 

of some forty people, and to observe the "in sessionness", while 

running a forty year long engram, splitting a major valence, and 

handling a service facsimile, all within about ninety minutes shows 

the skill of the auditor. Pam is a class IX auditor, trained by Ron in 

the early 50's, as well as later Flag training. She and Ray were the 

target of the original G.O. program "Control and takeover of US 

incorporated Missions" in 1974, long before the general exodus, and 

Pam has been succesfully counselling clients ever since.



A lot more than described above happened at the conference, and there 

was much interchange of comm between individuals during informal 

breaks and meal times. But it should not go unreported that Antony 

Phillips gave a short talk on the importance of having magazines like 

"International Viewpoints" circulating communication at periods when 

there were no conferences and for people who could not afford (time, 

or money) conferences. So tell your friends "Ivy" exists.



Belgium



Belgium was the scene of the fourth European IRM Conference. IRM 

stands for Institute for Research in Metapsychology, and there have 

been Metapsychologists working in Europe for a number of years, most 

or all of them being former 'church' scientologists. There is now a 

tradition with Metapsychology conferences, that they are accompanied 

by a symposium, and for practicing auditors (or facilitators as some 

of the 'no scientology jargon' people will have it), this is as 

important as the Conference itself.



The Symposium



In Metapsychology a symposium is a meeting of facilitators. It is a 

two-way comm affair where all can give, and (hopefully) all receive. 

It was from a series of three Symposiums in USA and one in Europe that 

Metapsychologies Curriculum (scn read bridge, others read way, or 

path) was formulated. Facilitators with many years auditing and C/Sing 

experience (many of them dating from the 50's, some from the very 

early 50s, and with widely differing auditing and c/sing backgrounds) 

came together, and over many days exchanged experiences on which 

processes worked best, where, what was illogical over the latest 

'bridge' we enherited, etc. After many hours of such exchange the 

Metapsychology Curriculum was formed. Not the result of one gurus 

dictation, but a consensus from a number of experienced people.



There were about 10 people participating in the Symposium at Brussels 

on the 10th and 11th October. My notes are very brief. Many, many 

subjects were covered, brought up by all participants, and solutions 

and other angles were suggested by the individuals in the group. It is 

impossible for me to give a good summary of the Symposium - auditors, 

facilitators and even other practitioners with a little background in 

those subjects jargons, really should come and attend the next one.



Friday Evening



On Friday evening there was a meeting at the Brussels Metapsychology 

centre where the centres member's (scn jargon: public) were able to 

come and hear Sarge Gerbode and Rafaella Landais. As the both spoke 

French, which I do not, I can not report the meeting. I can add that 

the leaders of the Belgium Centre, Madeleine and Jean Vandergoten 

organised all these Belgium events.



The Conference



This was held in the centre of Brussels at the Hotel La Legende and 

there were delegates from Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, England and 

Switzerland. The lectures were in English, with a sentence for 

sentence translation to French.



'Sarge' Gerbode spoke first. He mentioned that there was looming up in 

the Common Market regulative legislation on psychology and bordering 

subjects which threatened to require long training (my comment: an 

overrun?). He suggested we could avoid possible difficulty by 

emphasing that our subject is a form of education, which it was not 

possible to regulate - there are similarities within the martial arts 

and forms of meditation. The purpose is to improve the quality of 

life. There are two stages to learning, the receptive and the 

integrative, where one integrates what one has received with all other 

ideas. Sarge then gave a fairly detailed description of the 

Metapsychology Curriculum (read: bridge, way, path, ladder, labyrinth, 

maze as you feel inclined), explaining why things were put in the 

order they were in (Sarge was present at all the Symposia that 

contributed to the Curriculum, so is well familiar with the different 

views and reasons put forward). After lunch Sarge continued talking on 

the curriculum and unstacking.



After a break Gerald French talked about the IRM, mentioning that the 

materials had been very carefully checked against the possibility of 

infringement of copyright laws. He talked of PTSD (Post Traumatic 

Stress Disorder - yes, I know its more strange jargon, but it is 

jargon used by the broad establishment that is having to handle people 

with engrams keyed in, and does not know how, and is longing for our 

help if we can give it in a way they can accept and duplicate). IRM 

has been able to help handle people with engrams keyed in permanantly 

from experiences in Vietnam, and Gerald described some of their 

successes, including getting one organization to change its payment 

schedule to one which acknowledged that EP's (End Phenomena, End 

Points) do not come precisely 50 minutes after start of session, and 

you should not stop until an EP.



The next talk was by Beatrice French, from Brazil, and was -totaly- 

outside the tradition of scientology as I know it. However this is no 

surprise at an IRM conference, as IRM and its members are in good 

communication with many 'other practices' whose object is to help 

people be happy. Beatrice talked charmingly on spiritualism, Malkuti 

and Serphira, covered all sorts of orders of spirits round about, and 

(so far as I can remember, I was so entranced I stopped taking notes) 

ended by recommending we kept on good terms with our guardian angel 

(which I, dyed in the wool robot scientologist, interpreted as that I 

should make good postulates for myself).



After lunch on Sunday Rafaella Landais, from Italy, spoke about study, 

her motivation for developing study tech, stressing the point of 

automatic attention without volantary control. Jacques Regard talked 

of the value of the tools we have - communication, tone scale, study, 

handling time. And to end 'Sarge' Gerbode and Hildegard Jahn talked on 

the Body Programme.



Unstacking



There was considerable interest in Unstacking, a process designed for 

handling GPMs, which does not require listing, and which when goofed 

up does not make a dogs breakfast of the pc (viewer). Sarge had 

earlier said that it should be run as an audited, not solo, technique. 

On the five days after the Congress weekend there was a course in 

Unstacking.



The Extras



The above has really just skimmed the surface of the speakers at the 

two conferences. An awfull lot went on informally over coffee and 

meals. Bits I picked up included the following. There is a very 

definate EP to NOTs, which is in church confidential material, but 

which few have persisted to (Bill Casey). After a 'new baked' auditor 

had stated that some cases could not run objectives: -all- pcs can be 

run on objectives, and there was data on it back in the 50s (Paul 

Meyer). This latter reminded me than in about 1958, when I instructed 

the Academy, every auditor had to run and have run on him/her 10 hours 

'non-stop' of Opening Procedure by Duplication. Truly the riches we 

have in post scientology and neo Metapsychology are great, and the 

place to learn about more of them (apart from the pages of this 

magazine) are at conferences. We will try and let you know in good 

time when the next ones will be, so you can get your guardian angel to 

work getting you there.



In my opinion both these conferences were well in the tradition of 

furthering the better things which Ron has left us. Both Ray and Pam 

and the Metapsychology 'clique' use other words than Rons to their 

non-scientology clients, but their techniques are in the Scn tradition 

(in my opinion). However it should be noted that Metapshychology has -

many- differences from church scientology as it was known and 

practiced in the 70's and 80's, and in fact issue a leaflet detailing 

these differences, and run a sort of 'conversion' course (called the 

Update Course) to 'convert' ex-scientologists to Metapsychologists. 

And there are other 'post scientology' traditions with their own 

nomenclature. Communication between them is important, if all are 

going to do the maximum in helping people. And this does create a 

language problem.



But lets not be disheartened. Europe, with its many languages once was 

ridden with group ARC breaks and wars (both religious and political). 

But what is the scene now? We have not had a world war in Europe for 

over 45 years. And no real minor wars except at the moment in 

Jugoslavia. In fact European countries are cooperating and talking to 

each other as never before. There can be good communication between 

the different 'factions' of post scientology. And you can be part of 

this, by reading this mag, going to congresses, and finding pen, phone 

and personal pals amongst those you meet.


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