I ran across an ebook with an interesting title, and by an interesting “publisher,” the combination containing two recent trigger words. “The Akashic Book of Truth” by Geoffrey Filbert, published by “Akashic Applications for Scientology.” I’ve been scientology-curious for as long as I’ve been aware of it. Not join-curious, of course. The type of curious where I familiarize myself with their jargon from everything I can find that is free or pirated. Because this is who I am. I am a student of cults who believes that it is remarkably silly to give all of your money to cults. And then the Akashic angle. The idea that there is a permanent record of everything past, present and future accessible to anyone who has reached a certain level of mastery in certain esoteric pursuits is quite appealing, although I have come to the conclusion that all esoteric orders are merely sources for mnemonic and creative visualization training. And that’s okay.
The time frame is 1982. America was in a weird state in 1982. The end of the disco, and further social splintering. So many weird things were going on that it might have seemed like society had lost its mind.
I’ve read pro- and anti-Scientology material for decades, and one thing that really gets my energy hopping is finding a document, such as this one, that’s truly out there on a soft fluffy layer of everything that has come before. Rather than the layman, the target demographic of this piece is insiders, people who know the ins and outs, who grasp the nuance in all the jargon. The benefit of this is that someone like me, who is arguably more attuned than the average man-on-the-street, but nowhere even close to resembling an insider, has to work to absorb the words. And this is how I learn best.
“Of the over twenty-five million words of philosophical, technical, theoretical and religious speculation covered under various Scientology and Dianetic and Hubbard copyrights, less than one-half of a percent have any bearing or proximity to workable application of that subject. Less than 125,000 words of it are true. Approximately one-half of that quantity of information is true, with another half being dangerously close. Whether intentional, or by random accident, the bulk of this text relates to outlining the true quarter of this one percent and correcting the other quarter of that one-half percent.”
It led me here: https://exscn2.net/threads/geoffrey-c-filbert.3354/
And then it led me here: https://www.wiseoldgoat.com/papers-scientology/popup-windows/scn_article_golden_ball.html