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- Decide who are one's friends.
- Deliver an effective blow to the enemies of the group one has
been pretending to be part of despite personal danger.
- Make up the damage one has done by personal contribution far
beyond the ordinary demands of a group member.
- Apply for re-entry to the group by asking the permission of each
member of it to rejoin and rejoining only by majority permission, and if
refused, repeating steps 2-4 until one is allowed to be a group member
again.
When a person first begins a job in Scientology, he starts off in a
condition of Non-existence, for which the formula is:
- Find a comm (communication) line.
- Make yourself known.
- Discover what is needed and wanted.
- Do, produce and/or present it.
In other words, find out what needs to be done and do it.
Having done that, one is now in a condition of Danger. This
condition applies when an activity is in trouble. The formula is:
- Bypass (ignore the junior in charge of the activity and handle
it personally).
- Handle the situation and any danger in it.
- Assign the area where it had to be handled a danger condition.
- Handle the personnel by ethics investigation.
- Reorganize the activity so that the situation will not repeat.
- Recommend any firm policy that will hereafter detect and/or
prevent the condition from recurring.
When the person has gotten his activity out of danger, he or she is
then in a condition of Emergency, for which the formula is:
- Promote and produce.
- Change your operating basis.
- Economize.
- Then prepare to deliver.
- Stiffen discipline or stiffen ethics.
If the person has successfully applied the Emergency formula, the
condition of Normal Operation now applies and its formula is:
- Don't change anything.
- Ethics are mild.
- If a statistic betters, look it over carefully and find out what
bettered it and then do that without abandoning what you were doing
before.
- Every time a statistic worsens slightly, quickly find out why
and remedy it.
If things are going well and the formula for Normal Operation has
been applied for a period of time, then the person could be said to be
in a condition of Affluence, for which the formula is:
- Economize. Be sure you don't buy anything with a future
commitment to it.
- Pay every bill.
- Invest the remainder in service facilities, make it more
possible to deliver.
- Discover what caused the condition of affluence and strengthen
it.
If things are going really well, the person may make a Power Change
into another area of endeavor. If not, the person is in a condition of
Power for which the only rule is: Don't Disconnect. Take ownership and
responsibility for your connections.
These are the Ethics Conditions in Scientology and they are taken
very seriously. Each week, each person working for the organization
(i.e, "on staff") will turn in his or her "stats" to the Ethics Officer.
The person will be assigned a condition by the Ethics Officer, and will
be required to apply the appropriate formula for that condition to their
job. In addition, the Ethics Officer can assign a person a condition in
any area of his personal life, and the person must apply the appropriate
formula and submit a written application to the Ethics Officer for
"upgrading" to the next higher condition.
For the Scientologist, the ethics conditions and their formulas is a way
of life.
Another function of ethics in Scientology is the administration of
"security checks" to members. Security checks, called "sec checks," are
administered with the member on the E-meter, and in this case the
E-meter is used as a lie detector.
The first sec check encountered by a member will be the Staff
Questionairre which is given when the person first joins staff. Some of
the items on this questionnaire are:
1. Name
2. Life history
3. How did you come into Scientology?
4. History in Scientology
5. Do you have any psychiatric institutional history?
7. Do you have a criminal record?
8. Do you have any crimes for which you could be arrested?
9. Do you have any physical disabilities or illnesses?
10. Do you have any record of insanity?
11. Are you connected to anyone who is antagonistic to Scientology
or spiritual healing?
17. Have any of your family members threatened to sue or attack or
embarrass Scientology?
26. What are the details of your 2D (second dynamic, or love life)
history over the last year with names and dates.
27. Have you any homosexual or lesbian history -- when and with
whom?
28. Drug history.
31. Are you here for any different purpose than you say?
Sec checks are a fact of life in Scientology. It must be remembered
that should a member defect, their ethics folders with the written
answers to these questions can be used, per Guardian's Order 121669, to
blackmail or otherwise intimidate the defector.
One of the earliest sec checks was called the "Joburg," which was
developed in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was a much feared security
check for many years. Sample questions from this interrogation include