News

Under this heading we want to report news periodically to give you a better impression about what is going on in our org.

This month we had “Dutch weeks” once more – not that we painted everything in orange, and neither did we eat tomatoes and Gouda, but our pcs and students from the Netherlands visited us very eagerly. And after having had a running course room near Rotterdam for quite some time already, our people there now deliver more and more auditing, too. Backing up the auditors trained earlier, now one of our Dutch student auditors has started her internship and audits on the Grades! No doubt this is a real “forming org”, and we of course will continue to help them and support their expansion, so that soon there will be a Ron’s Org in the Netherlands again.

During the course I had several very valuable cognitions which contributed to my handling life – once more – better. The tone scale and the Ruth Minshull’s book which I “inserted“ helped me a lot in that.

Additionally I had the feeling as if a kind of nod was untied and I can now eventually start to do what I intended to do job-wise (and even if it is “only” a first step on the road to what I once really want to do and will do…).

On top of that I realized that I lead my life with more focus on my goals: those things that are helpful are taken along even if they come unplanned, those that do not help or merely inhibit can easily and with no bad afterthoughts etc. be rejected.
Something that influenced my life in a negative way is somehow “broken apart”.

It was a great experience to work at something without an auditor or course supervisor being immediately at my side (physically J ). Judging from the “benefit” this course has given me a lot as I can see it now at the moment. Dear Ulli, thanks a lot.
Marita

Hooray, today I completed the Data Evaluator Course. This really is a very valuable course which I can recommend to everybody.

Already during the course outpoints in my job environment came to my view more and more easily, and of those that had to do with my immediate post I handled most.
My point of view changed into the direction of a data evaluator more and more. Yes, that is what I want to be: A real data evaluator. That was my goal when I first heard about this course.

And today, after having had to do an evaluation for three times in a row after having been flunked, I finally got it (how good there is such a thing as a flunk J ). Now I am a real data evaluator.

Many thanks to all course supervisors that helped.
J.M.

As we had 10 days of org holidays at the end of August, this time the news are rendered for August and September together. The well-deserved time of relaxing was more than made up by other activities. E.g. there was the yearly Convention of the Ron's Org Committee on September 13th/14th, this time organized by Ron's Org Munich. Of course many from Frankfurt participated, and Otfried held a lecture with the title “The Free Will”, about the newest research of neuroscientists and how to interpret it from a Scientologist’s viewpoint. Also during the presentation of the various orgs Ulli presented a slide show and pictured the last two years in our org, including the remodeling of our house. A more extensive review of the Convention will soon be printed in our newsletter and also be published online.

Here you can see two photos taken during the Convention:

Otfried (functioning as translator) with Daniela and Sabine, the organizing team from RO Munich

Daniela and Sabine, accompanied by Erica and Max from RO Berne

But of course, there was busy auditing and studying as well! By the way, this quarter of the year we had a highest-ever of completions in the section for auditing on the advanced levels (OT levels) – no less than 6!

Finally I completed the Basic Admin Course!

At the end, my “Yes” as a reply to “have I understood the data and can apply them?” was hung up by my not having the concept of being able to write up and to apply an admin scale for areas in life that were really important for me.

So I sat down and began – a little bit strained – to set up the admin scale for three areas which have a meaningful bearing on my life. And lo and behold, after some time these things and how they work began to flow, and they had life in them, my life, and I had the Havingness to say, “Yes, I can do it. And I can apply it in life!”

Apart from that the Basic Admin Course was quite helpful with regards to the administrative department where I work. For example, I can now see errors in the organisational set-up and their effects on the staff very easily, as well as organisational mistakes made by colleagues and seniors themselves. A lot would be achieved if every colleague simply did his job and avoided Dev-T and Q&A.

In a spontaneous way, of the course contents I liked best the philosophy and technology of the org board, how the elements of it can be used and how they work if used skillfully, and how the awareness scale is incorporated in it to improve the conditions of companies, organisations, persons, products, whatever you apply it to, even of states.

Anyhow, to the contrary of my past opinion that administration was something incredibly rigid, a set thing that is irritating, wants to stop people and that is completely unnecessary, in Hubbard’s admin tech and the org board I could find out that administration and organisation are extremely useful, exciting, full of life, relieving, sensible and necessary. Great!

It appears to me that for the first time in my life I got an inkling of what actually is organisation and what it means.

Today I attested to Grade IV. This was the end of a journey that I started in 1992. A journey in the theory and auditing of Scientology. Needless to say that this journey appeared to be full of Q and A and stops, but this year, 2008 I decided to end all those justifications and just go for my purposes to get audited on the Grades and get Clear.

My success story is about what real purpose can do.

With the aid of my auditor Beate we did Grade III, started on Grade IV, where I got the Clear cognition, and continued thereafter to finalize Grade IV with some very interesting computations revealed that I used in my life to “survive.”
That is just what happened, but I can only try to describe the feeling that I got, now all the pieces of the ( this) puzzle seem to be in place. I got to see why I used certain computations and how insidious they were and what I needed to do then in order to correct the havoc I so abberatively created. All that energy spilled in vain!

With a feeling of having lost tons of weight, I now have full faith and know that the road to go is going to be even more challenging and interesting and that this road will lead to a new Ron’s Org in the Netherlands again: my next major purpose.

Thanks to Ron for his Tech, thanks to Ron’s Org Frankfurt for their hospitality and special thanks to Beate, my auditor.

The “avalanche” on the upper bridge is still going on. It was already observed several times that shortly after a completion of a relatively high OT level by somebody many other completions lower on the bridge were attested by others. As if there was space created in the theta universe which made it easier for others to expand into it. However it may be, we are happy for our Pre-OTs having wins on the bridge.

By the way, time and again we hear from Pre-OTs who had done OT levels in the CoS before and retreaded those courses at our org (mostly because the levels were not taught or C/Sed completely before) that they only now gained a full understanding of what the respective level is all about. The reason is that our checksheets cover enough information to really convey a full picture of the subject, and there is no skimping on data and creating of a big mystery. One example for such a “what do you know!” experience is one of the following success stories.

I have just completed the OT 3 Redo.

After having had big wins already on OT 2 – 20 years after the first time I did it – the same is true, even more so, after the completion of OT 3. Within ca. 40 hours of auditing I could complete a lot of open cycles, covering immense time periods. The result is real calmness and the certainty to finally have completed this level, too. The gain in personal freedom is enormous, and as always on these levels this is not just a first dynamic experience. Once more I realized how important a “clean slate” is to make efficient communication. As well as the importance to walk forward on the bridge with unimpaired intention, without duress and pushing.

Again and again it is impressive that we have this chance here and now to handle our time-track. Especially the broad information on the background of OT 3 rendered by Captain Bill gives quite a different reality than the one I had before. Now I really understood how things connect on the time-track and could sort out many earlier factors. Besides realizing what is going wrong in this Sector I also understood the reasons that brought me here, in a much wider context. Now I can really estimate the wins that were given to me during the past 20 years. This is just great.

My thanks go to Ron, Captain Bill, Otfried for his professional support and all “orgers” who helped me in this step.

The Clear Hat was the most interesting course I ever have done. It gave me some answers to questions I had always suspected but noone ever wanted to confirm them. Once more I am amazed at how Ron found out all of that and a remedy on top of it, too! There is nothing in this universe and beyond which is not related to this data.

The answers to the question “What is going on actually in this – our – universe?” are so incredibly interesting that I do not know what to say more.

Now I am very keen to go on the OT levels.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
R.K.

June brought not only hot but also very productive days. Most worth mentioning of all we could celebrate the Clear attests of two of our publics! The completion of the lower part of the bridge is not only a nice validation for the road you have travelled so far as a preclear, but it also demarks achieving a new and wonderful state of being.

Another good development took place on the level of the society: one of our staff members visited the University of Goettingen where he lectured in a seminar on Scientology to ca. 50 students about the Free Zone, its history and its relation towards the Church of Scientology. Prof. Gruenschloss of the Faculty of Religious Sciences who held such a seminar for the second time already has been intensively working on Scientology for quite some time, and he appreciated the contact to us the same as we did vice-versa. We will stay in contact with him and support him in his research.

On NED (New Era Dianetics) so much happened that I hardly know where to begin and what to write down. One could say it was a big, sometimes very long journey.

There were and are incredible improvements. Recently I have been to the optician, something was wrong with my glasses. He completely lost faith in his profession, how could both eyes improve in a 50-year old without operation, he had never experienced a case like that.

One day I had a noise in my left ear. The ear-specialist said he could do nothing but give me some pills. The cause of it had been loud jet engines, I once had been an aircraft mechanic, amongst other types for the MiG 21 (Russian jet fighter), and overly loud music at concerts. However after NED the noise is gone, simply gone. The ear-specialist probably also wouldn’t understand or believe it.

One day in the middle of NED my girl-friend said to me I was suddenly so nice, whether there was something I wanted from her? I myself hadn’t noticed it, I just noticed that people liked to talk with me. In the yachting club they wanted to make me chairman although in my view I didn’t do anything special.

I have noticed I have become faster an the tone scale, so fast that sometimes I wonder what has happened – if something changes I can often find out the reason. I can again remember things which I had long forgotten, I find solutions for problems much faster, sometimes they are so good I am surprised myself. I like long-term solutions. Additionally I have the impression that I can achieve more in less time if I want.

Recently I often find myself tackling something and getting it done although I had already done everything scheduled for that day, thus my capacities have become bigger. Anyhow, many things have improved, of course also my reality about the past very long ago.

Now I believe that for the first time on my very long time track real changes will take place. You could say I have jumped out of the treadmill.

Thanks a lot to my auditor Otfried, thanks a lot to Ron’s Org Frankfurt, that they exist at all.

Thanks a lot, Ron.
R.K.

Today I attested CLEAR!!!

A fabulous experience that I must reveal to you all.

When I started in Scientology and have read Dianetics a couple of times I got the idea that this apparently beautiful state mental freedom would be hard to get. Only achievable for a happy few.

After actively joining Ron’s Org in Frankfurt and my good friend Jan had audited me on grade II, I started on grade III. These sessions were running great when somewhere in the final sections of the Grade III processes we hit “solid rock” and massive mass was blown that was kept in place by a very “fine” service fac that blew at the same time. We finalised the Grade III processes with great wins, but since that very moment something definitely had changed for the best.
With great energy and interest I continued with my auditor Beate on the grade IV processes. Something in my mind was stirring and at a certain moment in session I got this enormous realisation and cognition of how service facs had been controlling my daily routines and functioning and all of a sudden the whole picture and all its masses blew and I felt FREEDOM.
What a wonderful feeling. I knew suddenly I was clear and the next few weeks I experienced like floating on a cloud in the air, being able to look at anything without any worry at all, still enjoying this gigantic win.
Today on June 8, 2008 exactly 55 years after I was born, I attested CLEAR after having gone through the required steps for clear certainty. The best birthday present anyone ever could have given me.
This is what makes it extra special to me and I can only say how happy I am that I have decided to continue on the “road to clear” and the narrow highway that is called ‘THE BRIDGE”

To all who have gone this path, you probably know what I am talking about. To those yet to go: do not hesitate but do it!

Thanks to everybody, especially Beate, who made this wonder happen.

ARC and much love
P.K.

In May we had quite something going on! First of all many of us were in Switzerland at the traditional full time study camp, offered by Ron’s Org Bern, where students from all countries and from different orgs come together. We studied together, twinned our drills, exchanged experiences and had a lot of fun! This group experience is of course the model for our full-time study weeks in Frankfurt, the next of which is scheduled for September.

Another highlight was our celebration of the 20-year anniversary of Ron’s Org Frankfurt! Actually it was due already in December, because the first time our course room opened its doors was shortly before Christmas 1987. But to celebrate in the warmer time of the year has its definite advantages!

After the obligatory speeches by our CO Ulli (left picture), our C/S Otfried (who had been there at the very start of the org as a student), of Max (right picture) and Erica Hauri from Bern who are with us already for 13 years there was, most important of all, a beautiful gathering.

Another programme item was a cut from a lecture which Captain Bill held 1990 at the Paris convention where he spoke about his first meeting with LRH.

All agreed that we will meet for another celebration in 20 years – and of course in the meantime at all occasions, too!

But in May we also had some nice completions, on the auditing side namely one Clear attest, and what also should be emphasized, on the training side two new course supervisors!

On the 12th of May I attested Clear. I didn’t write a success story as my attest to NED and it’s success story was already enough (so see for info my last success story from the 27th of April this year J). Now I did the Clear Extroversion Rundown, very interesting! I came to realize that although you loose something (when going clear) you also gain something. For me it is a viewpoint on my environment and how much game there is in living! (without things interrupting from the mind). I feel I even have more games than before! Isn’t that interesting??!!
I thank you all, my auditor, C/S, staff of Ron's Org, Ron and CBR for giving us this change! Also Arthur thank you for supporting me!!
ARC / ML S.v.M.

Today I am very glad to have completed the MCSC! If someone had told me one or two years ago that I was going to do it and would make the grade, I nearly wouldn’t have believed him. But this is just the beginning, because now I am to supervise a courseroom “for real”.
I am sure I will have the opportunity to hold this post here in Frankfurt frequently and my goal is to do the same in my home town, Stuttgart.
What makes me enthusiastic about the subject is that it is a third dynamic task and responsibility – after all, us Scientologists want to take care of the technology of LRH and make it available to each individual who wants to find out more about himself, life, relations to others, the things of life and of the physical world, what is true or untrue for him, to work it out and improve it, or to work at a given area like communication, study, auditing and to achieve more skills in it. A course in Scientology is fruitful for many areas of life!
It is beautiful to be able to contribute to this directly as a course supervisor. A comfortable potential and feeling.
Thanks to all supervisors and Scientologists who help me so eagerly in my training!
ARC, I.K.

Spring has come and the way up the bridge has become even more beautiful… seriously – we had some nice completions as you can see below. What was special this month was that after a long pause we delivered once more the “Comm Course 2” in Division 6, i.e. for new people. More commonly known is the Comm Course part 1 where the fundamental parts of communication are trained. In that way one does not only learn a lot about the theory of communication, but in the practical drills one has to do with those things which often make communication difficult in daily life. The second part of the Comm Course however is about intention and control and mastering those factors which often cross our intentions! The participants had a lot of fun and we plan to deliver this course (which is scheduled as a weekend seminar) as soon as possible once more…

I completed here a Progress Program after I had left the Church of Scientology.
Although I didn’t feel bad about my past auditing we could resolve quite a few aspects which I hadn’t suspected. I could clean up ARC Breaks of Long Duration and thus find some postulates that had influenced my existence up to now in a very fundamental way. Besides realizing some subversive conditions of suppression I also could resolve a very definite stop regarding art, namely music.

It was a great experience, I am very happy to have the chance to resolve all this. Thanks to Otfried who audited me “on the spot”, and of course to Ron for the tech and all that were involved.
R.W., 6th April 08

on April 13th, 2008, I attested Grade 0 (Communication) and am totally happy about it J

This Grade gave more space to me, or I recognize the space around me much more precisely. It is like I see much clearer now. I am in contact with my environment more directly and I feel that this connection is free from any restrictions or stresses. Additionally it is now much easier for me to see situations from different points of view and to understand these, too. It is a free and easy communication which I can now embark upon, and I also realized that there are much finer ways of communicating than language – and this is something very exciting and comfortable because this is the way of communication we know; I call it non-verbal communication. It is a real adventure to experience and engage in such a kind of communication and this is what I am looking forward to do J I also know now that I can speak with all and everybody about any subject as I like to. There is nothing that could hinder or stop me… and this gives me infinite power. I can achieve everything!
I want to say thank you at this place to my auditor Beate, with whom I could experience the finer kind of communication J Beate, you are GREAT!
I am looking forward to my further road!

Well, this comes a few months late, but we certainly don’t want to by-pass this one:

Yes, that’s right. Since December 1987 our org has been delivering courses and auditing without interruption. Of course some of the staff members involved changed, but some have been with us from the beginning until today! From 1995 on Erica Hauri from Ron’s Org Bern has been our Senior C/S (i.e. she is doing the senior supervision of the auditing). 1999 the little org of Marianne Frank joined us, and since December 2001 we are constituted as a formally registered association. In 2006 we moved to our new quarters in Karben-Rendel, where there is more space available to us than we ever had!
These were just the most important milestones of our history, and we can be proud to be one of the oldest continually delivering groups of the Free Zone. When hopefully soon a more tender season of the year begins we will of course celebrate our anniversary appropriately!

Success story ARC S/W
Today, 20 March 2008, I was attested on ARC S/W and am completely happy about it.
I have understood that everything is based on communication and that THIS is what happens in us and around us. I also was able to realize the difference between having the viewpoint as a thetan to think you are the body or to know you are a thetan and have a body.
I had some concepts and ideas on what ARC S/W is and how this process looks like and I also had some funny ideas what it means to go up the Grades.
All of that is gone with the wind because the doingness showed me what it really means to run ARC S/W. It means to get into contact with the environment and with myself more and more. And I can tell you that there is really nothing greater and more fantastic :-) I realize that I just become bigger.
I also know that I am more in communication than before and am looking forward how my life will develop :-) I am also looking forward to Grade 0 and to its cognitions!
MANY THANKS BEATE :-)
Jan S

Success story Dianetics Drug Rundown
On March 2nd I completed the Dianetics Drug Rundown. I have gains in that I have a greater wakefulness and can do the tasks of everyday life more easily.
It is much easier to embark on physical activities. Many negative attitudes are gone. The body is freed of a burden and easier to move. There is a growing calmness on my first dynamic. It is now more stable than in the years before. Sleep lasts longer, my ability to focus has improved, studying has become easier. Problems at the job can be solved faster.
Above those things I have found more of myself and also found out why some things in my life happened the way they did.
The beginning was difficult, but then it become simpler and simpler. There were different phenomena, e.g. an emotional antagonism against Scientology and sometimes the wish to quit, but it made no problem on the technical side.
I want to say thank you especially to my auditor Julia who got me through difficult times and never let me down.
Stefan

For the first time after a long break from February 11th to 17th we offered a full-time study week which was received very well by the students. Especially those from out of town took advantage of that offer, and thus about 20 persons from four different countries were on course or in session during that week. Some students were even doing Hard TRs. Here you can see a picture of our course room during the study week:

Our intention is to supplement the supra-org study camps in Switzerland and Russia at least twice a year by offering a study week for our students in Frankfurt. Of course those from out of town who want to come for a longer stretch in one go still can, by individual agreement with us, benefit from study times from Monday to Wednesday, additionally to our regular study schedule from Thursday to Sunday.

On February 9th, 2008, I completed the NED Drug Rundown.
At first, it was nothing more than a prescribed step for me which I would have preferred to omit. After all, I never have been a “junkie” and was convinced that I wouldn’t need that.
Now I found out that a big difficulty in my life disappeared into thin air which I actually had no longer realized was there, so much it had become a part of my life. I had not even mentioned it: The constant tiredness which made me sleep away half my life, my plans, chances and contact.
Thus it is rather something I lost than something I gained. I want to thank especially Beate for this “loss” and for everything else which I can hardly name and even less enumerate.
T.B.

Today I completed grade 0.
While I was doing this grade my willingness to create and receive communication has been largely improved.
In the past I often had considerations about whether or not I should generate communication, and in specific situations I couldn’t stand the idea of focussing attention on myself by generating comm.
By doing the grade 0 processes my comm has become less enforced and much more natural to me.
I like to thank all staff members of Ron’s Org Frankfurt, but especially my auditor Lothar for their help in achieving this success!
P.R.