Study Technology

[Sthatting]

Just wanted to publicly state my support for the Study Tech. It's helped me out tremendously, and I'm seeing the effects it's had on others.

I was in the Church of Scientology Intl. for a little more than 2 years. I left back in March/April and joined up with Freezone. Freezone is where all the veteran Scientologists that get tossed out of the CofS go to continue Scientology as an applied religious philosophy. I was hardly veteran status, though.

Anyway, I've been using this study tech throughout school and in sessions with others who need help. I'm seeing a real improvement and release in my peers' lives and others who come in contact with the tech.

Now, since 2006, I've been using PR tech, as well, and I must say the efficiency is staggering. I became Director of Public Relations for the United Latter-day Church Intl. using that along with the study tech and the ARC triangle. I've since been promoted to higher positions in the church and the UPP.

I have the Scientology philosophy to thank for my success, as well as God, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, and Heber G. Smith. His blessings continue to increase the joy in my life and those in my family. Hallelujah!

 

[themadhair]

Isn’t there area forum rule regarding advertising?

In case anyone is curious as to what study technology here is a write up. There are three key ideas – mass, gradient and misunderstoods.

Mass refers to the idea that the best way to learn something is to be exposed to that something. To learn about a tractor you need a tractor for example. The use of clay tables for modelling concepts also features. Using pictures and stuff is a sensible approach but studytech, like most of its ideas, goes way too far with it.

Gradient refers to the learning curve of something. Shallower is better. I actually think gradients are a cleaver way of keeping scientologists from reading later texts like OTIII before they are sufficiently indoctrinated for them.

Misunderstood refers to words that are not understood. The idea being that reading past a word the student doesn’t fully understand will cause them to struggle with the rest of the text. Whenever a piece of text isn’t understood the problem, as per studytech, is ascribed to a misunderstood word (simply called a misunderstood). At this point a process called ‘word clearing’ takes place which involves a dictionary. Nothing wrong with using a dictionary, but to make this into a ritual everytime a concept isn’t grasped is pretty counterproductive. To divorce words from their contexts, which rigorous studytech does, is detrimental to a child’s education. It is great, however, if you want the student to accept scientology texts wholesale since any disagreement is always blamed on the student not understanding a word – and the resulting repetitive ritual of word clearing will soon break the student down.


So why are these three concepts used anyhow? To answer that you need to learn their scientology origins. There are two relevant scientology doctrines: The tone scale and the ARC triangle.

The tone scale is intended to assign strict numerical values to human conditions. Happyness is a 4 and death is a 0. Apathy, anger etc. lay between 0 and 4. A person who is doing well and has a high ‘tone’ may be called uptone. The phrase “tone 40” refers to an extremely happy person.

The ARC triangle consists or three concepts – Affinity (your liking of something), Reality (your understanding/agreement with something) and Communication (your ability to communicate something). In scientology these three concepts are linked together. If you raise your affinity you will in turn also raise you communication and reality. It is from reality that we get the origins of studytech. For example to read a passage and not understand a word would cause a decrease in your reality. This decrease in reality leads to an ‘ARC break’ which causes a person to move down the tone scale.

I should add at this point that the equivocating of agreement with understanding in the concept of reality is probably quite deliberate. Essentially, through the use of studytech, a scientologist is coerced into agreeing with the ’tech’ (scientology scripture) and believing that he/she has understood it. This is part of scientology indoctrination.

I hope the above brief summary makes sense. The best resource on studytech I know f is this essay by Dave Touretzky.

I should point out, in case it wasn’t obvious, that I am thoroughly biased with regard to scientology.

 

[scientologypittsburgh]

I hope the above brief summary makes sense. The best resource on studytech I know f is this essay by Dave Touretzky.

Dave Touretzky is probably not the best resource for this. The best resource would be an actual Scientology book on the subject. There are such books, one of them is Study Skills for Life by L. Ron Hubbard. I have not found anywhere on the Internet that you can purchase it but if you went into a church I'm sure they could help you get that book.

 

[themadhair]

I have not found anywhere on the Internet that you can purchase it but if you went into a church I'm sure they could help you get that book.

You can get it free off the internet. You can get most Scientology materials off the internet these days.