exesso96@yahoo.com (Lulu Belle) wrote in message news:<7db3d0ad.0207291656.2395b87d@posting.google.com>...

> > The new building will include a 150-foot
> > running track on the sixth floor, which will be used as part of Super Power.
>
> Ever since I started reading ARS, I have seen many references to the
> RPF and "running around a pole." The impression was always given that
> it was some kind of torture. That's not the case. I thought I might
> explain what this is in actuality, so as to clear up any
> misunderstandings.
>
> From time to time in the church, new rundowns are "created." These
> supposedly come from LRH advices or LRH research. Whether or not they
> actually come directly from LRH data I don't really know. The point is
> that they are new, and they are untested.
>
> Sometimes the RPF is used as guinea pigs for these new rundowns. I
> believe this is especially done if the rundown is supposed to address
> something in the area of ethics with the individual. The RPF was used
> to "test" the FPRD, for instance, in the early 80s before it was
> released to the general public. It's probably also true that the RPF
> was used to test the Purif earlier on. I know that regular (non-RPF)
> staff were used to test the Purif when it was the "sweat program."
>
> The "Running Program" was tested on the RPF in the early 80s. I
> believe there were some technical bugs, and it went back to the
> drawing board. To my knowledge, no RPFer was put through this program
> from the mid-80s on.
>
> Presumably, it is now ready to be released to the general public, or
> it will be soon. I think it has another, more esoteric, name now.
>
> Just thought I'd clear that up.

No, I would have to disagree that your giving us the Scn rationalization "clears" anything up. It only perpetuates the Scn version and rationalizations of what "clearly" amounts to torture, whether they wanted to call it that or not. While it is true that the RPF was used as gunea pigs for various LRH "rundowns", that does not in any way convince me that having David Mayo and his colleagues run around a pole for 11 hours a day in 110 degree deseart heat was anything less than torture. I don't buy for one moment that the intentions were to "rehabilitate" Mayo and his colleagues. This was Miscavige taking gleeful joy in bringing David Mayo down, who was his greatest threat to being LRH's successor. While I realize that the "running program" was less extreme with other RPFers, it still amounts to nothing more than cruel, sadistic quackery and torture in the name of experimentation. Let's get real here. In the real scientific community, people wanting to do experiments and research need to get approval from review boards for the research, by showing that the research will not harm the subjects. Of course, Scientology, by calling themselves a "religion", is outside the realm of such safeguards and has gotten away with these sorts of human rights violations for years.

The thing to realize is that in Scientology there's always what the Scientologists are labelling something and the truth of the matter. The Scientologists, in Orwellian 1984 style, called the RPF "rehabilitation" when it was nothing more than a device to incite fear in the SO staff, so they would be more obedient. To come out of the Scientology mindset, it is important to see the differences in what Scientologists call something and what is really going on.

Monica

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