Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [91]
The Super Power pilots had been being done at the Int Base for a few years, in 1991 and 92 but that was it. The rundowns were delivered to about a dozen staff. It was a pilot program, something LRH had written up in the late 1970’s but that had never been released. It was sort of like the Star Wars movies. LRH had envisioned the processes, but the earth technology did not exist to do what he had laid out. Then LRH ended up handling all of the reasons he could never release Super Power by dealing with TRs (Training Routines) and then Key to Life (grammar and communication course). The first complete pilots were those in 1991. There were very few Int Base staff that were trained on all of the LRH writings on Super Power and they were the only ones who could audit it. And in order to audit on Super Power, you had to have first been audited on Super Power. It was like the chicken and egg problem. One of the rundowns on Super Power was designed to hone in all 57 perceptions, some of which included: Sight, Taste, Rhythm, Smell, Blood circulation, Gravity, Motion, Balance, Magnetic Fields, Compass direction and Pain.
The processes for each of these were devised based on what the staff in the LRH Technical Research & Compilations area thought would work best. These were then written up for the auditors that were doing the Super Power Pilot program and they wrote up whether or not they “worked” or what happened instead.
I remember seeing one of the Feshbach brothers on the Par Course (fitness trail) one day with his auditor, Gelda Mithoff. The Par Course was an exercise course at the Int Base that had various obstacles and sand pits off to the side of the track where one could work out and check one’s heart rate. He was walking across one of the wood balance beams. Hmmmm? Could he have been perfecting the perception of “balance”? Maybe. He could have been doing a whole series of them. If he fell down at any point during the course they could switch over to the “Pain” perception. Anyway, that is where they apparently did a bulk of the perceptions with the Feshbach brothers.
After a few weeks and they had all “completed” the pilot rundowns, the Feshbachs donated at least 4 million dollars between them and their families to the Super Power Building in Clearwater, Florida.
There was very little written up by LRH on what to do on some of the rundowns. On this one rundown, the Perception Rundown, he said that the perceptions needed to be trained and tested. There was very little direction or writing on how to do this. Hubbard had said to have the person put his attention on the perception and then take his attention off it. This was one of the biggest blocks to Super Power getting done. No one on staff was qualified to figure this out. Some of these things were highly technical and required complicated engineering and design work.
The Super Power building plans had been announced in 1991. Five years later they had not even been designed! How would they design and build and test 57 perceptics systems that could be installed and used at the Int base and then perfected and reinstalled at the new Super Power building? In 1998, discussions occurred about how they could properly pilot the Super Power Rundowns in order to know how to build the building in Florida. Would they have to build all of the perceptics systems at Int BEFORE the building could be properly designed? This was a huge situation that needed to be addressed. Not only did it need to be worked on, but it had to be worked on by people that were not already working on some other aspect of Super Power as then that would come to a screeching halt.
Dave Miscavige came up with the solution. Who within the Scientology organization structure had designed and built things that were not already figured out by others? CST. The Church of Spiritual Technology was the organization responsible for designing