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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: HUBBARD ALLOWS SCIENOS TO
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dst+@cs.cmu.edu (Dave Touretzky)

>We've heard a lot about how Scientologists have to learn to stare into
>someone's face for two hours without blinking in order to pass TR 0.
>(Note for newbies:  TR = Training Routine.  TR 0 is one of the earliest
>exercises in Scientology.)
>
>That stare sure sounds amazing.  I know *I* could never do this.  Hold my
>eyes open for 2 hours straight?  No way!!  "Surely those Scientologists must
>have amazing superhuman powers to be able to do this, and to teach others to
>do it."  Isn't that what we've all secretly been thinking?
>
>Guess again.  Scientologists do blink.  They're *allowed* to blink.  The
>following is a direct quote from "the tech",  HCOB 16.8.71RA (Re-revised
>4 Sep 1980), "TRAINING DRILLS REMODERNIZED".  This is probably still
>copyrighted.  So bite me.
>
>** Automatic body functions which are not distractive, such has normal
>** breathing, swallowing, blinking, are not taken up by the coach or the
>** supervisor.
>**
>** To clarify what has been known in the past as "Blinkless TR 0", the
>** statement should be made that this does NOT mean the person never blinks.
>** It is defined here finally and in full to mean that when a person's TR 0 is
>** in he doesn't exhibit manifestations of inability to confront, including
>** blinking nervously or flinching or doing anything else that would be
>** distractive to a pc and shows non-confront.
>
>I sure was sorry to read this.  Another Scientology myth deflated.  The
>legendary  "Blinkless TR 0" is mere hyperbole, just like the story that
>ashtrays can be made to float with a Tone 40 command.  (In practice the
>student has to raise the ashtray up with their hand.)  No one in SCN has
>actually demonstrated a freely floating ashtray, but it remains part of
>their folklore.  Apparently they haven't escaped the need to blink either.
>
>Sigh.  I'm *so* disappointed.
>
>-- Dave Touretzky, KoX (SP4): SCIENTOLOGY = FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME
>   L. Ron Hubbard sez: "Blink if you must, just don't blink nervously."
    
    Blinkless TRs were part of the Pro TRs course all through the
    70s.  They are still effectively part of the training at 
    higher levels.  Two hours - flat (ie. no reactions to sitting
    there motionless with your eyes open looking at another 
    motionless person, at all) is required.
    
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           Rev. Dennis L Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
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