From: martinh@islandnet.com (Martin Hunt) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: More OT Wins! Date: 4 May 1997 03:42:24 -0700 Message-ID: I came across some more of those wonderful OT wins. These ones really knock your socks off: "If Chapdelaine was confident of this achievement, [Ron] Howes was even more so. In an extraordinary interview which he gave a few days later, and which was published by the Psycho- logical Research Foundation (a Scientology offshoot in Phoenix, Arizona), he reveals touches of megalomania and in- tellectual hyper-confidence which are characteristic of the manic state achieved with a religious conversion. The content of the dialogue turns out to be, unfortunately, middle-grade science fiction, spiced with some muddled philosophy. I am quoting now some extended passages below so that the reader may judge the flavour for himself. Q: What do you intend to do with your new powers? Howes: They are not new. All I have done is to recover the full use of my control centres. I am reintegrating all my purposes, goals, postulates, effects, causes, until I have rid myself of all my agreements to be modi- fied cause. Q: What is possible? Howes: For me at the moment, anything and everything is possible. The only arbitrary is time. Now if I become other than what I am in the optimum state I may remove the arbitrary. Then everything, in an instant, is possible. After a rather dull patch in which Howes delivers a homily on creativity, and a point where he hints at telepathic powers he is asked a series of questions about his supposed super- normal abilities. The answers, which at the time were counted as being historic, are worth quoting verbatim to give some idea of what people were hoping for, for themselves and for others, from the achievement of the state of Clear: Q: What is your reading speed compared to what it was? Howes: It's mighty fast and improving steadily every day. I noticed, and my wife remarked upon it, that I seemed to be turning the pages about three times as fast. My comprehension of printed material has gone up enormously compared to the past. The more difficult paragraphs in technical reading are very easy now. No confusion, no identity, no failure. My ability to pick up errors in judgement of other people on paper is much higher. Q: Can you be affected by bacteria? Howes: I still believe that there are bacteria which I can't resist, but there must be many bacteria that I can resist now that I could never resist before. Q: What do you contemplate as your duration of life? Howes: In chronological years, if my anti-gravity plan works, I would assume approximately another four hundred years. Under present circumstances, one hundred and a quarter. Q: What experiments have you performed on yourself? One of them concerns such a simple little thing as sunburn. I had been sunburned approximately a full year, continuously, in my life. In the past had I taken even as much as fifty milligrams of niacin, I'd have burnt like a furnace for days. Now, after running out of sunburn, I can take niacin to my heart's con- tent. No more sunburn. The other night I loaded my- self with 400 milligrams of niacin - no blush, no heat, no pallor, no sunburn. Another experiment concerns changing the total pH of the body. One very definitely affects ability by changing the balance between acidity and alkalin- ity. I'm attempting to find out just how alkaline I can get and still be maximum cause. I've also tried to see if I can regenerate teeth. For the moment I've got some very sore gums but no teeth. Perry suggested to me, in a roundabout way, that I should regenerate teeth. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday I got extremely sore gums. Teeth were pulled out. I've regenerated tissue. To the maximum extent I can. The soreness is now disap- pearing. The gums are much more healthy. Next point is what constitutes a seed tooth? I think it's possible to construct them again. Incidentally, I haven't decided what I am going to look like yet. Q: Have you made any experiment with sleep? Howes: Yes. I went forty-eight hours without it. There was no diminution of my enthusiasm and my control, but there was a definite lag physically. The body re- quires rest. Rest permits muscles, blood, nerves to undergo certain readjustments. Without this rest one might continue for possibly two weeks without sleep. - pp 51-52 of Dr. Christopher Evans' _Cults of Unreason_. Christ; there's a Niacin dosage for ya! He can "take as much" as he pleases, eh? I wonder how Ron Howes' liver is holding up these days? Or is he dead already? He should be still quite youthful, hardly a dent in his 400-year lifespan! I wonder if his sleep "experiment" was the result of lower conditions? No; I suppose this was all long before liability formulas. You know, I often wish I could alter my pH at will, becoming more acidic or alkaline as the mood took me. There's a pile of .sig material in this collection of amazing wins with the tek. Druggies have these feelings, too; maybe Howes got the wins from Mescaline or something? ;-) In any case, I fear for his mind. Delusions like this cannot be healthy. -- Cogito, ergo sum. Just the FAQs: http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~av282 Books wanted: 1. Dianetics in Limbo by Helen O'Brien. 2. Scientology: What It Is And What It Does by Maurice Burrell. 3. The Official Handbook for Ex-Scientologists by Jim Samuels. 4. Scientology: The Technology of Enlightenment by Alexander, Brooks, et al. 5. Renunciation and Reformation: a Study of Conversion by Harriet Whitehead. 6. Inside Scientology by Robert Kaufman. 7. The Mindbenders by Cyril Vosper.