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Jon, you continue to take a hard look at Scientology most basic concepts and practices. We really excited that you turned your attention this week to that most familiar of Scientology accessories, the E meter! Tell us about it.
JON: The first Electropsychometer used in Dianetics was developed by Volney Mathison. coque samsung a70 lilo stitch It is a device based on a Wheatstone bridge, an electrical circuit which measures resistance, in coque iphone touch 6 artcorekirbies34031 this case through sensors held in the hands, so it measures the conductivity of skin also known as coque huawei p30 militaire galvanic skin response. More accurately, it measures changes in the sweat glands, by passing a small electric current through the body. AIR MAX 97 UOMO Such meters were not new Hubbard claim to have made the only valid discoveries in the field of the mind and spirit in 50,000 years are not borne out by the development of the e meter, which actually had nothing to do with him, and had been enthusiastically supported by Jung and others many years before.
The original meters the Mathison meters were plugged into the mains, and had to be earthed to a radiator, so that they didn electrocute the Experiences with this meter may have encouraged Hubbard to develop his electrical hypotheses of the thetan, expounded in Scientology 8 80 and forgotten soon after (as were so many of his the 1970s, Saint Hill two E meter repair men were disappointed at the poor quality of the Mark V e meter. Because they repaired them, they knew that the cheapest components were used, including germanium transistors, which had long been considered obsolete elsewhere. frost green fjallraven kanken backpack mini They set themselves a simple task: what would happen if, instead of the cheapest components, they used the best
One night, they left their new meter alongside a standard Mark V, with the same input to both meters, and a pen read out to show how they reacted. When they returned from their pleasant evening at the pub, they were surprised to find that the Mark V had registered twice as many reads as their new high spec machine. Brooklyn Nets Jersey fjallraven kanken classic backpack purple violet cover iphone x red 903otz To their surprise, the Mark VI was actually little more than a Mark V in a soap box coque reggae huawei p20 lite (which someone must have thought was futuristic). At around this time, Texas Instruments quoted $38 per meter to build the Mark VI, which were already retailing for over $500. They soon passed $3,000.
The high spec meter was eventually released to the Independents in about 1984. It was called the Ability Meter and just the jewel on which the needle pivoted cost more than the whole component coque iphone 6 homme artcorekirbies32621 cost for a Mark VI. This was the Rolls Royce of E meters.
Along the way, however, coque iphone 6 cookie artcorekirbies35094 the cheap meters used in the cult had begun to cause problems, precisely because they generated their own reads. Someone at last discovered this (having ignored reports from our two repair men, for coque silicone iphone 6 blanche artcorekirbies36501 years), and the problem was isolated. The potentiometer coque iphone 7 marvel iron man pretty much coque iphone 7 personaliser a volume control, like a dimmer switch for a light (which is the arm on the meter) was shedding carbon dust into the works, because of its primitive construction. These motes of carbon were causing reads. Worst of all, they were causing slams. the early seventies, there was a project to discipline anyone who had shown a rock slam during auditing. fjallraven kanken mini backpack ocean green The One rock slam project coque de huawei p9 sent a majority coque de telephone iphone 6 claires artcorekirbies31901 of the Sea Org onto the Rehabilitation Project Force. coque iphone 12 pro coque iphone X XR XS max F8822 coque nike logo I often saw E meters rock slamming without the being plugged in, so it was no news to me that these were false reads. coque huawei p30 pro supreme The suffering caused to Sea Org members, because of this elementary mistake, is awful to contemplate.
And, how about the accuracy of the meter in detecting areas of emotional charge Well, there is a peculiar statement by Ronald Hubbard that must be taken into account, and here it is: speaking of Committees of Evidence, Hubbard coque iphone 7 mobilyos said: E Meter is not to be used to procure evidence as it does not register lies on criminal types and, however vital and reliable as an auditing aid, is not always valid in detecting crime or acts [sic]. It can react on the flustered innocent ballistic tungsten coque iphone 6 review coqueiphone130297 and fail amazon coque iphone 6 ose gold coqueiphone129623 to react on the cold blooded guilty. Kobe Child In other words, if you don agree with the use of the E meter, it doesn work. coque iphone x xs The reference, should you choose to check it, is a policy letter of 7 September 1963, elegantly coques silicone huawei p8 lite 2017 styled Scientology Five, Justice, Committees of Evidence, Scientology Jurisprudence, Administration of. his excellent book, Blown for Good, Marc Headley explains that the Mark VIII E meter cost $40 per machine to build. coque samsung galaxy j5 coque iphone 5s nike galaxy A recent price list shows it at $6,000. coque iphone 5 snike And you have to buy two. Think on.
Video Vault: The Life Continuum!
Our source has come through with another video this week. We ask you this week to ponder the deepnesses of The Life Continuum
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Back to the video 00 we now see Al Baker (who has since left the Sea Org after 20 plus years and now sells automotive fuel treatments in Detroit) who plays the older gentleman looking through the rainy window. The shots with Al were done with a kid and if you look really close you can see that these were shot at the Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles. coque iphone 11 12 mini pro max detroit lions This was most likely done there as they needed a black guy and as there were only two at the Int Base they cant be in every single video that gets shot. To wrap this one up we have Chris Olander Leah O’Hare getting happily audited so they don’t end up like Granny Natalie.
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Event videos would usually come in around $15,000 to $30,000.
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