A Scientific Scrutiny of OT3 [2/2]

Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,alt.clearing.technology From: an126005@anon.penet.fi Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 12:41:18 UTC

Subject: A Scientific Scrutiny of OT3 [2/2]

[A Scientific Scrutiny of OT3, continued from part 1]

2.3 Other Information given 2.3.1 The search for explosion traces

It happens that earth scientists are interested in and searching for locations and sizes of asteroid impacts in the geological record. Interest is fuelled partly by a conjecture that asteroid impacts can cause continent-splitting and affect the pattern of mantle convection, partly by the effort to establish causes of mass extinctions at various times.

Impact traces and craters are located in several ways: visible signs of cratering: satellite and other remote sensing [15]: shocked quartz grains and impact ejecta [16]: gravimetric surveys [17]: electric resistivity [18].

There has been little cratering evidence found for around 75 M.y. ago, the closest being the Iowa crater (35 Km across), recently redated at 73.8 M.y. [20], 2 others listed for 74-78 M.y. are Eagle Butte (10 km) and Dumas (2 km).

It is estimated that there should have been approximately 350 impacts over the past 100 m.y. with sufficient kinetic energy to produce craters greater than 10 km in diameter, however only a few dozen are currently known [21]. This gives some indication of the difficulty in locating explosion traces. The picture may soon change if extensive gravimetric mapping gets under way, since craters buried by up to a kilometre of sediments can be detected by that means.

Considering Hubbard's claim of widespread H-bombing at many more volcanoes than the ones he lists, the search for but lack of explosion evidence for the time of interest indicates either that they didn't happen at all, or were concealed - perhaps through being exploded by near-to-erupting volcanoes. Since most of the sites he names for H bombing didn't exist at the time, any claim that volcanism masked the effects is in any case, untenable.

2.3.2 Human and other life 75M.y. ago

In his OT3 statement Hubbard listed earth as one of the 76 or so planets ruled by Xenu that were suffering human overpopulation

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Earth's population in the 1990s is about 5<< billions, so that if there were an average population of 178 billions 75 M.y. ago, then population density would have been about 30 times greater than now.

Let us now make a thought experiment: Here was a massive human population on earth, and scientists of today very eager to trace the earliest possible signs for past human existence. Why then do we hear no reports of finding rubbish dumps, roads, houses, or other human remains or traces of any sort whatsoever? Why on the contrary do we find evidence of dinosaurs, whose remains and prints are regularly found in rock strata dated to the end of the Cretaceous, and whose existence was incompatible with such a massive human population? Why do we not see mass extinctions of species happening at 75 M.y. ago due to human foraging, pollution and warfare, when evidence is that species persisted or gradually declined through that time and only suffered mass extinctions at 65 M.y. ago? (and also in the 20th Century, alas). The oldest trace of human existence or remains found so far are Homo Habilis, Malawi, dated at 2.5 M.y. [22]. It is thought that humans, chimpanzees and gorillas may have evolved from a single ancestor about 9 M.y. ago [23].

Although mass extinctions did happen at 65 M.y. ago, the iridium layer together with soot present in the rock 'K-T' layer corresponding to the time are not pointers to H-bombings. Iridium is a common element found in asteroids, also present in the Earth's mantle. It is not a byproduct of atomic fission or fusion.

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3 Summary and interpretation of findings 3.1 Summary of findings

Referring to the veracity of the volcano list for 75 M.y. :-

Asia and Pacific North Japan false did not exist as separate island(s) South Japan false did not exist as separate island(s) Krakajawia false did not exist Mount Washington false volcanism too old Mount Ranier false did not exist Mount Hood false did not exist Mt. Shasta false did not exist San Gorgonio false underwater Indonesia true? but only for a little of the area Philippines true? not fully checked Himalayas false did not exist (Hawaii) false did not exist, nor any substitute Andes true? different geography, over-broad desc.

Atlantic Tangier false no volcanism for any locations St. Helena false did not exist Kolomonjero false did not exist (Las Palmas) false did not exist Canada true over-broad description.

I have tried to be unbiased, informative and accurate, but don't care if the above table should prove incorrect in places since the evidence overwhelmingly supports a conclusion that the OT3 statement describes a non-existent geographic scenario for 75 M.y. ago.

There is no evidence to support Hubbard's assertion of widespread H-bombing, notwithstanding an ongoing scientific search for explosion traces.

Palaeontological evidence contradicts Hubbard's claims of human population 75 M.y. ago.

My conclusion is that the Incident II of OT3 was impossible, viewed against objective scientific evidence.

Incident 1, preposterous as an event anyway, is dated ten thousand times older than science dates the universe, (going by "Big Bang" theory). I suggest that the "boobytrap" in disbelieving this incident is of Hubbard's making, where both timing and content of the "incident" deny reason. The scientific "criterion of falsifiability" by which scientists insist that statements be testable such as to conceivably be shown false, cannot be applied to the story, thus it cannot class as a scientific statement. The combination of "Incident I" and "boobytrapped" concepts can be described as a 'double bind'.. i.e. "Heads I win, tails you lose!"

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Hubbard has stated in higher courses than OT3 that there are parallel universes, and runs Scientologists on spiritual "fleas" in these parallel universes. There is no objective scientific evidence for parallel universes, and such notions class only within the realm of conjecture, imagination or Science Fiction.

3.2 Interpretation of findings

Since the use of psychogalvanometers and other techniques of Dianetics are being applied to the provenly non-existent events of OT3, and good results claimed, Dianetics must be doing something other than is claimed for it. It is noteworthy that Dianetics is derived from Freud's Clark Lectures, where Freud later on said that the technique failed to uncover "key repressions" and so was therapeutically insignificant.

I would assert that getting Dianetics results from running impossible incidents is evidence that Scientologists are being pushed towards controlling psychogalvanometer behaviour, get results to order, and to regularly deceive others as well as themselves about the truth. If they dont get results, they are deemed to have lied on earlier courses and punished by being either sent back to beginning Scientologist status, or thrown out of Scientology. Scientologists take the OT3 materials home with them, and over the many months they are doing this course, would quite possibly attempt to locate the volcanoes in books and find out more about them. I have witnessed the pathetic spectacle of Scientologists saying Hubbard was wrong about the volcano list, and then go running Edinburgh and other volcanics that they have found to be valid for the time, or for 65 M.y. ago, in an attempt to be less unreal. By Dianetics theory, to make a trauma vanish the exact time, place, form and event must be located, and Hubbard is here unequivocal about 75 m.y., with a specific but impossible volcano list for locations [26]. To run anything else is still faking it.

I conclude in general that OT3 Dianetics, being impossible to run as factual trauma therapy since there was no such trauma, functions instead as a cognitive behavioural training action coercing Scientologists to manufacture falsehoods to order, or be punished for "lying".

The effect of OT3 is to train the Scientologist to project intention to control others through many-times-repeated practice in communicating to imaginary souls within their bodies. More sinister is how the OT3 story has a ready explanation in terms of implant conditioning at Hawaii or Las Palmas for any one of feeling dizzy, not wanting to continue, blankness, sensations of pressure, rough or careless communicating to others, impacts, finding nothing, effort to stop, effort to withdraw, rush, protest, suppress, or the setting up of automatic mental machinery to run the process. Such reactions are ascribed to spiritual "flea" reactions that the Scientologist has "mistaken" as his own thoughts. The Scientologist's own reaction is not allowed as part of the OT3 activity! In this manner the Scientologist's

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independent thinking and reactions to the story get regularly confused and re-directed into the nonsense of the OT3 "incidents". The result is a person who in a sense is "free from overwhelm" since he is beaming narrowly focussed intentions to control others, is blinkered and interpreting reason and objections in terms of others trauma, and is not in control of his own reasoning but is controlled by Hubbard. I suggest that this represents debilitation of the mental independence and cognitive function of the participant. This is opposite to what is claimed for OT3.

3.3 Credits

[1] S Uyeda, A Miashiro, (1974), Geol Soc Amer Bull, v85,p1159 - 1170, "Plate tectonics and the Japanese Islands: A Synthesis."

[2] S Maruyama, T Seno, (1986), Tectonophysics 127, p305-329, "Orogeny and relative plate motions: example of the Japanese islands."

[3] WB Hamilton (1988), Geol Soc Amer Bull, v100, p1503-1527, "Plate tectonics and island arcs."

[4] BD Johnson, C McA Powell, JJ Veevers, (1976), Geol Soc Amer Bull, v87, p1560-1566 "Spreading history of the eastern Indian Ocean and Greater India's northward flight from Antarctica and Australia." D Schelling, (1992), Tectonics, v11, n5, p925-943, "The tectonostratigraphy and structure of the eastern Nepal Himalaya."

[5] DA Clague, RD Jarrard, (1973a), Geol Soc Amer Bull, v84, p1135-1154, "Tertiary Pacific plate motion deduced from the Hawaiian Emperor Chain".

[6] DSDP 192 Deep Sea Drilling Project report for hole 192 and 192a.

[7] Physiography of the United States (1967)

[8] WF Barbat, (1971), Geol Soc Amer Bull, v82, p1541-1562, "Megatectonics of the Coast Ranges, California."

[9] I Baker, (1967), Nature, v215, p1451-1456, "Geocronology of the St. Helena volcanoes." (1969), Geol Soc Amer Bull, p1454 "Petrology of the volcanic rocks of St. Helena Island."

[10] BH Baker, LAJ Williams, JA Miller, FJ Fitch, (1971), Tectonophysics, v11, p191-215, "Sequence and chronology of the Kenya Rift Volcanics."

[11] SJ Gaciri, (1991), Tectonophysics v209, p139-142, "Lineament map of Kenya: correlations of lineaments to known geological data."

[13] X Le Pichon, PJ Fox, (1971),J Geophy. Res. v76, p6294-6308, "Marginal offsets, fracture zones and the early opening of the North Atlantic."

[14] Rothe, Schminke (1968), Nature, v218, n5147, p1152-1154, "Contrasting origins of the eastern and western islands of the Canarian Archipelago."

[15] JB Garvin, CS Schnetzler, RAF Grieve, (1992), Tectonophysics, v216, p45-52, "Characteristics of large terrestrial impact structures as revealed by remote sensing studies."

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[16] Geol Mag v131 (3), (1994), p361-367.

[17] J Kakkuri, (1991), Tectonophysics v216, p41-44. "Traces of impact craters in the geoid"

[18] H Henkel (1992), Tectonophysics v216, p63-89. "Geophysica aspects of meteorite impact craters in eroded shield environment, with special emphasis on electric resistivity."

[20] New Scientist 13 Nov 1993, p17 "Ancient asteroid not guilty of murdering dinosaurs."

[21] RAF Grieve, (1987), Annu. Rev. Earth Planet Sci, 15, p245- 270. RAF Grieve, (1984), J Geophy. Res. v89, B403-408, "The impact cratering rate in recent time."

[22] Nature 1993, p833: New Scientist 30 Oct 1993, p15., "Human jaw hints at Africa Trek"

[23] Journal of Human Evolution, v25, p201 : New Scientist 30 Oct 1993, "Three way split for our ape ancestors."

[24] New Scientist, 30 Oct 1993, p14, "Thumbs up for an older universe."

[25] Hans Burgl, (1967), Tectonophysics, v4, p429-443, "The Orogenesis in the Andean system of Colombia."

[26] HCOB 15 November 1978 "Dating and Locating".