An answer to the article

"The False Purpose Rundown"

by Volker Keller

Hello Heimdal,

I have read your article on the FPRD and want to say something about it. Mostly I do not agree with your evaluation. In parts I have the impression while reading that your statements are not wholly free of polemic. Especially I have the suspicion that you first had your judgement ready and then looked for suitable arguments.

I am myself a trained FPRD auditor and have been applying this rundown successfully for many years. For me its authenticity is secondary as long as it works. And it does if applied correctly. It is very suitable to get OCAs up and bring pcs up on the tonescale.  This is because it handles specifically what got man as a case into the situation in which he often is today, that is overts and evil purposes. A thetan is only as much willing to let himself become more able as he can trust himself. As long as he has a destructive potential he cannot. Thus he keeps himself imprisoned in the trap. If you know that many evil purposes have been implanted a long time ago you see that they still fulfil their purpose today.

The FPRD can make the difference between a saved pc and a completely messed up case. I myself got several intensives on various FPRD forms in the 90s and it was the most valuable auditing I ever had.

LRH has corrected himself during his life several times and owned up to former errors. This underlines his greatness. This was not only about the "analytical mind" of which he already said in 1961 that there is none such thing (Tech Dic, last def. of "Analytical Mind"), but about much more important things, e.g. the misestimation of the state of Clear in the Dianetics book. The subject of overts was completely misestimated in Book I, too: "We are not interested in what you have done but only in what has been done to you."

Thus it makes no sense to doubt later statements of LRH or mark them as nonsense just because they are in conflict with earlier ones. The opposite is correct: you can grant him to have expanded his own understanding through his research. Anyway the FPRD fits very well with his technical structure and its philosophical umbrella. The "prior confusion" is not at all turned upside down, but it is the make and break point of bringing new postulates into existence. Those are the self-created stable data which seem to terminate the confusion. 

The same applies to derogatory remarks on the function of justification in running overts. As per LRH's HCOBs of 21 Jan 60 and 7 July 64 justifications have a central significance in pulling overts. The pc, by getting off all the justifications he ever used in a new unit of time, really takes responsibility for what he did. This does not happen by just making itsa on an overt. That is why the old (unrevised) confessional procedure is a mostly useless tool if you look at it from a viewpoint of therapy.

Without going too much into technical details I want to point out that evil purposes and service facsimiles are blood brothers.  (Ref. e.g. HCOB 6 Sep 78 II.) Sometimes the wording for one or the other category just differs in one word. Both of them are postulates that fully dominate the individual. Both inhibit rational thinking and acting in the individual and they do not give way to normal auditing. The individual who does overts because of a underlying evil purpose does it compulsively. No sec-check, no matter how well done, will stop him from doing them again and again.

Nobody should be so self-complacent and believe he had no evil purposes. LRH says in HCO Info Letter of 2 April 64, "Two kinds of people", "About half of the purposes of any individual are constructive, the rest is destructive". Only thanks to ethics, active and passive, society is not dominated by chaos and anarchy.

But as an auditor I want more. I want to bring about people who get up on the tonescale and stay there. Somebody who controls himself by applying ethics and successfully stops himself from dramatizing evil purposes in life does not become happy just because of that, quite in the contrary. So he who vilifies the FPRD as the technical answer to destructive postulates should offer workable alternatives. I do not know any. ExDn is not a full substitute as it cannot be run on Clears and OTs.