Because Sea Org (Scientology clergy) discipline is so complicated and full of so many different rules, I thought I would just give a few examples of rules which are rather extreme or wierd.

If you get a sunburn which stops you from producing on post for any amount of time, you are assigned Treason and have to work your way up the conditions, through Liability (a lot of amends), etc. This is actually in a Flag Order, but I can't remember which one.

If your dorm flunks its cleaning inspection for a few days, you are assigned Pigs' Berthing. This has different punishments in different orgs. When I was at the Int Ranch (6 yrs. old) we would have to sleep in a decrepit, rodent infested building called the Big House. At the Flag Cadet Org we would lose free time and would have a big lock put on our door (so we were locked out) until we agreed to clean up our room and do an ethics handling.

We were not allowed to date at the Cadet Org, and if we did we were "pulled in" to the Cadet Coordinator's office. There he would explain to us that clearing the planet and getting out training done were much more important than dating, so it wasn't for the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics.

So couples would normally break up.

If you pissed of any exec too much, they could've had you thrown overboard.

On a ship this would of course mean that you were thrown off the side of the ship (they would then retrieve you). At the Cadet Org this meant that two (or more) kids were ordered to grab you arms and legs and swing you into the pool.

The whole org was gathered around to watch this. The Div Six Secretary was supposed to say something like "May you arise a better person." One boy was scared of water and wasn't too good at swimming, so when they tried to grab him, he panicked and was running around the pool area, trying to open a gate.

The gates were locked, but he eventually fought the MAAs until they just let him go.

If you get sick in the S.O. you are sent to ISO, which is basically a bare room with mattresses on the floor for you to sleep on. Because being sick is supposed to be a sign of out ethics, you get less than standard treatment. All food is cold, and most of it has been sitting for hours, the ISO rooms generally don't have air conditioning, and they smell of mold and barf. They have plenty of bugs. And you are not supposed to do anything but sleep, get Scientology assists, or read LRH books. It is really a horrible experience, which far outdoes being sick in the first place.

At Flag you are supposed to treat the RTC Reps like royalty. So when one Outer Org Trainee bumped into an RTC Rep, he was assigned lower conditions, with something like 30 hours of amends. When I expressed surprise at this to the SHSBC Course Admin, she told me that he deserved it as he had run into the RTC Rep so hard that she had almost fallen over. And just as a note, staff think that RTC members are so highly trained that they can read people's minds.

One staff member bumbled a job for an RTC Rep, so the RTC Rep announced, in front of all of HCO, that he was a fag. Everyone believed it too.

All staff members are supposed to follow FO38, which is a set of rules laid out in Flag Order 38. It includes things like saying good morning, good afternoon, or good evening to any staff member higher than you in the org, getting out of the way in a hallway when higher staff are walking by, holding open doors for any senior staff, and calling all seniors Mr.________, even if they are female.

All personal or business mail for staff is opened and read. The contents are then stapled to the envelope and put through the communication system to the staff.

Calling family often (once every few weeks) is frowned upon. At the Cadet Org the Cadet Coordinator or MAA would listen to our phone calls as the only phone was in their office. They put in a public phone for a while but then disconnected it.

In LA, at the HGB where my sister worked, staff were not allowed to make calls without an ethics terminal listening in.

No staff can have TVs, computers with Internet access, or telephones in their rooms. Security actually go around the dorms and check to make sure the staff are following this rule.

As far as I know, all of this information is current. I only blew Flag 12 months ago. I'm sure that I'm missing much more, but this is all I could think of at the moment. I hope this gives you some idea of what being a Sea Org member is like!

Zoe Woodcraft

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