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From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 1 - May 1991

The following article was written in 1990, and published in the first 
issue of International Viewpoints in 1991. It has been edited a little 
in 1995 to reflect some changes. (IVy).

Welcome
By Antony A Phillips, Denmark

Welcome to the first issue of a new international magazine. This issue 
goes out free, to as many people as we can find, who we suppose would 
be interested. Perhaps the first thing to say is that if we have made 
a mistake, and you are not interested, please let the editor, or 
(preferably) the distributor that sent you the copy, know. We would 
like people to retain the freedom to accept or not accept a 
communication, including this one.

What it is about

The magazine is very much concerned with the use of the philosophy and 
technology written and talked about by L. Ron Hubbard, and perhaps the 
first thing to note is that all concerned have a long time ago parted 
company with the C of $ (the joke gets weak with repeating, but that $ 
sign is for scientology, sometimes also called the Church of $(s)igh - 
sci.).

Since the departure of many from obedience (or should I say 
subservience) to the church, one of the things that has somewhat 
slowed the positive use of the subject is lack of communication. 
Admittedly there have been congresses at different times and places 
(the most recent, 1990, in Berlin), and much good communication takes 
place at those. But we can not all go to them (especially those that 
occur at the other side of the world), and then there is the question 
of the time in between conferences.

Increase communication

About 1987, after the second conference in Switzerland, an 
International Communications Network was set up, but it has not 
survived.

This is another attempt to increase the communication amongst 'free 
scientologists' (free from the suppression of the C of $), and it is 
based on five years experience with a somewhat similar magazine in 
scandinavia.

No more free samples!

No more free issues will be coming out, and the aim of this one is to 
get you to subscribe . This is a free sample. We hope you like it, 
will order more, and we hope that many who read this will be inspired 
to write in to us with their views and their news.

Changes since the split

However we hope that the magazine will not continue as it is now. This 
is because we want to reflect and relay the views existing within the 
movement, and as in any living body, these will change as time goes 
on. In years since I was thrown out of the C of $ enourmous changes 
have happened, three of which are worth mentioning. The first is that 
auditing technology is being used a lot more outside of the churches 
eagle and avaricious eye, the second is that the rampant fear of what 
the church might do to us is largely gone, and the third is that in 
daily life there is very little attention or interest in the church. 
However that reflects my limited observation -- things might be 
different in your area, and we would like to hear about it.

Would you like to know how "International Viewpoints" (IV, which I 
call Ivy, so as not to confuse with the roman numerals for four) will 
develop in the future, before you pay out money for it? Yes? Well I 
would also like to know. It is unpredictable because it is dependent 
on what our readers send in. However I can predict that it will be a 
little different than our elder sister, "The Free Spirit", and my 
prediction is based on my knowledge of the editor, for I suspect that 
it is on him the general tenor of the magazine will depend.

Your editor exposed

So I will let you into some secrets of the background of the editor.

From 2 hours before 1930 started up until 1969 he was British, of the 
English variety. Since then he has turned into a sort of a mongrel, 
with an atrocious accent when he speaks Danish.

He came into scientology in 1954 in a very miserable state -- how 
miserable you can tell from the fact that he first smiled in about 
1960, and this long delay was not due to the poorness of auditing 
technology but the toughness of his case. At that time his 
communication registered -100% on the OCA (equivelent to APA test -- 
both ably created by the illustrious Ray Kemp). He claims that his 
communication improved markedly under processing, but that the OCA did 
not register deep enough -- it should have registered him as -800%

Since coming into Scientology he has worked in scientology 
organisations in Dublin (Eire), London, East Grinstead, Edinburgh and 
Copenhagen, both in technical and admin posts. At East Grinstead in 
1965 he got involved in mimeo (photocopying of Bulletins and Policy 
Letters) and printing, and since that time has been quite obsessive in 
relaying communications, and this magazine is just the latest example 
of that dramatization.

He was thrown out of the C of $ in 1983, mainly because he was not 
imaginative enough to invent overt acts (bad things he had done) when 
on something called the Deck Project Force, which apart from demanding 
that he ran instead of walked around Copenhagen, required him to fill 
a large number of pages with descriptions of his sins. That is the 
'supervisor' set him a target of number of pages to write he could not 
reach.

Scientology and its organisations was quite mild when he started, and 
he had been subject to a very mild gradient as the organizations 
became suppressive (destructive). In fact he was gullible, and 
accepted hook, line and sinker all the church told him, like the fact 
that Mary Sue Hubbard was being unjustly tried and imprisoned for 
stealing copy machine paper. Probably he would have continued with 
them to this day if they had not thrown him out, but now he is a 
sadder and a wiser man.

A scientology fanatic

But perhaps the most important point about him, as regards this mags 
future, is that apart from a short period in 1962, he has been a very 
loyal scientologist, feeling that he has got an enourmous amount of 
negative gain out of processing over those years (and is still getting 
it), and he also feels that scientology has given him very great and 
usable stable data on life, which he totaly lacked before. So, funnily 
enough, he would like others to have the gains he has had, and this 
might show itself in the magazine. He also believes scientology should 
be cheap and thus is not likely to encourage advertisements of costly 
systems.

Uafh‘ngige Synspunkter

Your editor was one of the first 'free scientologists' in Denmark, and 
for a couple of years a small group met weekly at his flat, the rest 
of the group still being formally in the church. This group was 
involved in the passing on of the many badly duplicated papers that 
went around at that time. Papers which revealed things (and freedoms) 
which the church had kept hidden. The group formed Det Europ‘iske 
Informationscenter -- The European Information Centre -- with the 
object of sending information packets to all who might be interested 
in the truth about Cof$.

All these papers (and tapes) were in English, and there was a demand 
for something in Danish. So a number of people got together and in 
1985 started a magazine called "Uafh‘ngige Synspunkter" (Independent 
Viewpoints -- the mother of this mag). First it was run by committees, 
but from about 1987 your editor became the effective editor of that 
mag.

One failing

Your editor has one failing. Once he starts writing he can't stop. To 
stop this failing spoiling the magazine please send in contributions. 
We need subscriptions (sent to local distributors), local distributors 
in many areas (an autonomous thing), and, most, your news and views.

Help make it a good mag.

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