Scientology's Paramilitary Boot Camp: The EPF

hey everyone you know sometimes I get asked questions for my Scientology my critical Q&A show that I do every week and the answers to some of those questions are longer than would be appropriate for my Q&A show and so those become the subject of their own separate video and that's the case here today where I'm going to talk about the Scientology's see organization and the bootcamp process of getting into the Sea Org and what that entails exactly it's it's a little bit involved and so I thought rather than kind of give it a brush-off well it's like boot camp instead I would talk in some detail about it and give you guys a real breakdown step by step of what goes on on the EPF or the estates project force starting with why is it called the estates project force what does that even mean well in this case a project force is a group of people a force of people who go around doing projects and it's the types of projects that the estates project force works on our estates project in other words grounds work building work things that have to do with the went back when they were on a ship ship work right maintenance work that sort of thing upkeep kind of work I mean I don't mean down in the engine room kind of maintenance work I mean sanding the decks or republishing things or refurnishing or refinishing things stuff like that would be called estates work because in Scientology lingo at least Estates refers to the actual physical grounds and buildings of an organization so the estates project force on a sea org base works to improve or maintain the grounds and buildings of the base that they're on and so the estates project force ends up filling in for where there are people missing really in in the division of the organization that's responsible for estates so when the person comes into the Sea Org to learn how to become a Sea Org member before they're officially recognized as a see York member they have to go through the steps of the estates project force it usually takes somewhere between two to three weeks although it can sometimes drag out for months it totally depends on a person's ability to study duplicate information and be able to regurgitate it back to somebody when they're getting checkouts or tests or exams and in a tree and it realize also on the person's ability to do physical work the work that in that goes on on the EPF well let's go ahead and take a look at the schedule and we'll sort of break it down that way the when you come into the EPF you are assigned a dorm there's male dorms and female dorms even if you come in married and your and your spouse comes in with you you still are assigned to a male or a female dorm you're given an EPF uniform and usually these uniformed parts are simply recycled on a daily basis it's not like you're issued a uniform that you're going to keep forever and it's usually shorts and a t-shirt because you're gonna be running around doing you know hard work and and it's gonna be sweaty work and in a lot of cases so so you get some shorts and you get a shirt and and a cap usually in a belt and I don't think the issue shoes or boots I don't remember that although that that's totally up in the air they meant that very well could have changed I did my EPF in 1995 when I first joined the see organs in the summer of 95 so it's been some years since I had my a PF experience but of course I was in the C work for 17 years and all the way up until 2012 I was watching people doing the EPF snow I was kind of familiar with how it ran and it was pretty much the same program all those years and and I don't know any real reason why it would have changed since I left back then so schedule wise you were assigned the dorm and then you wake up and in the morning first thing that happens is there is a muster a lot of mustards in the CIE organ and especially on the EPF you get everybody together and they line them up and they teach them how to stay and at attention and at ease and parade rest and you learn you know these sort of military things it's it's treated as a military exercise in case anybody is coming into this totally fresh and there's no idea what I'm talking about the see organization is a paramilitary group it is Scientology's core group of the most dedicated members so this is the this is the boot camp for that activity then there and this is usually pretty early in the morning by the way that the muster happens I think it's you know yet around 7:00 7:30 something like that and then they break off and go get some breakfast and then muster again and usually in the morning is when study happens although study can happen in the afternoon or even in the evening it depends on the unit and the area and how the schedules are run it's no there's no life formalized process on that but it's five hours of study a day where you're getting through a series of courses and I'm gonna break those courses down for you then when you're not on study and you're not eating because there's a you know breakfast lunch and dinner of course with musters after each one then you're working and you're assigned to these these States projects okay also by the way this is where you learn how to clean to what's called a White Glove pass meaning that the person who's doing when you've cleaned an area let's say you're gonna clean a room you're going to dust it you're gonna vacuum you're gonna clean the walls you're gonna do all the normal cleaning things that you do but the way that the pet that you get a pass on the cleaning is a white glove comes out right or napkin will substitute for a white glove and the person will will take it and go randomly whoever's doing the the check out on the cleaning will randomly go around to hidden crevices and corners and cracks and run the white cloth or the white glove over that area and if it comes up with any dirt or dust well that's a flunk and you got to clean some more and then they'll leave and then though you know you got to cut them to come back and and get it checked out and this level of cleaning is used in the Clinton the the quarters that you're sleeping in the dormitories so every morning you're supposed to get one of these passes and then there's also during the musters it's not just a counting for everybody with everybody lining up and and doing close order drill enough attention you know at ease attention at ease there's a lot of that but there's also other kinds of drills that are team oriented drills in order to get everybody kind of out of their head and out of being an individual and being part of the team it's a the C organization is all about the group first and the individual last so right from the get-go you are being drilled in that you're part of a team that your individuality is not really that important and it's not really so different from a regular military boot camp in that regard in fact the attitude is exactly the same so anything that would tend to differentiate a person or make them stand out as an individual whether it's their dress makeup hair or anything like that that's gonna get thrown out real fast right if a person's and of course any kind of dress or makeup or jewelry or anything that would violate you know how the Sea Org is very conservative military type look all that's gonna go by the wayside too so you're not gonna see anybody on the EPF with nose rings or your plugs or lip you know the studs or tongue studs or anything a kind of said well that's going out that's us forget all that again not so dissimilar to a regular military boot camp and team drills or there's that there's hundreds of different kinds of team drills anything that will get a bunch of people working together to a common goal is pretty much the kind of drilling and this could include also dividing up into units and competing units one against another so they might go up to the parking roof where there are fire hoses in you know caps Kip rolled up and they might go and unroll the fire hoses and roll them back up and keep this against a stopwatch right and this requires people working together because believe me trying to roll up a fire hose by yourself is a near Herculean task or there might be you know passing a ball or a message or whatever you know any kind of drills like this this is the kind of thing that is done during the the musters and then there are assigned the projects for the day every project that is done in the EPF is in writing you never it's never you never told go clean this area and that's all you're told right or go mow the lawn or go you know wipe those walls down or something that's not how it works instead you're given a project and the EPF maybe let's say it's 20 people is divided into units and the units will have an in charge or an IC for in charge and for people under that in charge that would be a decent you know a regular sized unit so the EPF of twenty people might consist of four units of five people each each unit will be given their own project orders now if it's a big project there's a lot of people then maybe the entire EPF might have to go do that based on a set of project orders or maybe half the EPF goes and works on that however it's however it works out you receive written project orders with a series of targets to do one two three four five and you generally go through them in sequence and go to an area and the first target might be you know gather up the the materials you're going to need and you run off to the place that's the tool shed that's got all that stuff in it let's say you're gonna go out and do some estates work on the mowing the lawns you know at the base in a particular area so you go to the tool shed you get the rakes and the plastic bags and the lawn mowers and you know any other equipment or be listed in the project orders and the team then goes out and figures out who's going to do and the in-charge is the one who's sort of assigning all of that and runs through the project orders and tries to get them done and the idea is that everybody's running all the time this is no there's no slacking off there's no laziness there's no wandering around wondering what to do it's like stop stop stop tup snap and pop activity and the I see is the one who's held responsible for the actions of the of the juniors the people that the IC is running so generally speaking on your first day you're not going to be the IC of a unit and anyway they whatever the work is they go through the project orders and when the project is done they then run over to the EPF in charge or the grounds personnel or a state's personnel who might be overseeing that project and get them to look and make sure that the project was done satisfactorily and completely and then they sign off on the project orders that that was done and the project orders are then turned back into the overall in charge for the EPF and that person is a validated fully completed Sea Org member already that's their job is to be the EPF in charge or EPF IC so and that person is usually a bit of a drill instructor drill sergeant type personality they run the EPF hard they are generally fairly pretty unsympathetic to any pleas for help or for I mean not totally it's not like they won't help you out but you know if you're crying or complaining or whining they're not interested at all and what you're saying it's like you know straighten up toughen up you know shut the hell up and get moving is sort of the attitude of the EPF IC right is there you're there to get through to do these projects and the idea with all of this is not just to do grounds work or do a state's work the the theoretical idea behind this is that you are teaching new people coming into the Sea Org how to confront messed and messed is a Scientology word for matter energy space and time put together it is messed and that means the coat you know the physical universe okay that objects things that occur that exist in the very in the real world are called messed okay this is a piece of messed okay so you're supposed to learn to be able to confront messed right deal with it get hands-on get dirty get in there deal with it because the idea is that as a see work member you're supposed to be able to confront messed so that you can then confront people and deal in and can by confront I mean not just look at or face but handle manhandle deal with that's the idea right is get control over these things because a see org member is expected to be at cause over matter energy space time life inform Hubbard defines a see org member the same way he defines an operating thetan or an OT right and as I definitely respected to be able to tolerate any conditions deal with any situation no matter how rough and simply make it go right to solve whatever problems need to be solved deal with whatever barriers need to be overcome so that you get done whatever it is you've been assigned to do that's the attitude and the EPF is supposed to toughen you up and train you in how to have a make it go right attitude so you just are tough as nails and you just get done okay that's basically the operating attitude of the sea org and of course you can see how this would lend itself to some degree of abuse in fact quite a degree of abuse when taken too far but on the other hand you can also see how this could have a recruitment appeal to people who are you know out in the non Sea Org world that this is a place where you're going to get rough tough and hard and you're gonna learn how to deal with things and you're gonna learn how to solve problems like this has some appeal to people right and that's why people join up for this and that's why they will endure something like a boot camp you know in this again very very parallel to how people join the military and go through that whole rigorous process because I don't think anybody would call any kind of boot camp a walk in the park and it's the same with the EPF now some of the yeah cleaning this I made a couple notes here I'm just looking at you cleaning restrooms cleaning the streets moving furniture around landscaping grounds work any of these things could be the kind of work that end up being done by the EPF they also often were in the galley where all the food is prepared for the base doing cleaning after meals of the galley spaces or also just cleaning all the dishes that we're just used at the meals because if the dishwasher isn't around or there is no dishwasher posted in the galley then it's you know the EPF becomes a kind of service facility for the galley where they just rely on the EPF to get that kind of work done so those are the kind of work activities that are going on and generally speaking I think there's about eight hours of sleep scheduled on that time so generally I think the EPF is up and about until I don't know around 11:00 or something then they go to bed and then they're up at you know 7:00 7:15 the next morning and right back at it again and the EPF is a no days off no frills no thrills kind of activity you you know not there to you know be like I said slacking or moving slowly or taking your time or figuring things out none of it no there's none of that it's like go go go go go okay now as far as the course work goes okay let's talk about the courses because the EPF is ostensibly a manual labor activity but you're only there as long as it takes you to get through a series of courses I believe there's five of them I listed them out here and we'll walk through each of these courses I think I have the sequence right I said it's been a while and I couldn't find anywhere online that had the whole program laid out but I happen to have done some work on some of the EPF courses when I was in the Sea Org and so I had some you know some recall of this and I and I got what all the the courses are it starts with the what's called the basic study manual which is a course that anyone in Scientology can do at any level in any Scientology Church and the basic study manual is sort of a rapid survey of Hubbard's theories on education and study and how to study and I've done videos on this already you can find this in the basics of Scientology series that I did so I'm not gonna rehash all that now but you know like the thing about looking up words in the dictionary you don't understand that kind of stuff so the basic study manual is basically a course designed for children it's got children like illustrations and very simple writing and saw in one book and you go through that course would probably take your average literate individual you know a couple days to get through it at most and and that's that and if you come in to Scientology you come into the Sea Org semi illiterate or illiterate and there are no shortage of people who do that you're gonna be on the basic study manual for a lot longer so in its and when you're in the course room doing this study you have a supervisor somebody who's overseeing all the progress of all the students in the class and all the students are not on the same class or the same course they all study there at their own rate in there on their own course materials so you could have one student on course a and another student sitting right next to him doing course B and another guy over you know in the room doing course C and maybe you know another person on course a I mean it doesn't really matter everyone could be doing different courses or everybody could be doing the same courses and it doesn't matter the classes run the same everybody comes in they have a check sheet of one two three four steps to do and the steps take them through the materials of the course and by the time you've finished all the steps which could consist of things like read chapter one then write an essay then do a demonstration showing you understand this and then get a check out on that material by another student on and on and on you know there's a there could be twenty thirty forty a hundred steps in the course on a on a check sheet you go through all those actions in sequence and by the time you're done the end result of the course is supposed to have been achieved with the basic study manual the end result is a student who can study using Hubbard's methods right so that's the first first thing you do and it's pretty obvious why that would be the first course following that is the introduction to Scientology ethics course and this is a this is another regular course that's delivered across site in the world of Scientology but in the Sea Org it's the Sea Org introduction to Scientology ethics course so there's a few Sea Org specific issues included in the materials as well as a coverage of a book called introduction to Scientology ethics which has all of Hubbard's theories and ideas about how to be a good person how to be ethical in other words how to be following the rules and guidelines that Hubbard lays out as far as what is you know a good moral character and how should you behave and how do you act around others not from an etiquette point of view but from an ethics point of view how do you relate with others in an honest way with integrity right is the idea and of course Hubbard's ideas about ethics are a little creative in some ways and I'll cover all of that in another video in the future when I that basics of Scientology series but but the ethics the the ethics course the idea with the ethics course is it teaches you Hubbard's system of ethics and also Hubbard's system of justice and that's another whole involved thing but it involves courts of ethics and knowledge reports which most people who have followed Scientology have heard something about the snitch culture of Scientology how everybody's writing reports on each other all the time well this is the course that teaches you how to do that and there are communal reports and courts of ethics and and things called ethics conditions which are kind of involved and again will be the subject of another video because it's very involved but the idea being that you are you know in some condition of operation and you can improve your condition by following Hubbard's very clearly and very rigorously laid out steps to follow and if you follow these steps then your supposed to improve your condition and and make things better is basically the idea whether you're doing that with yourself personally or with the job that you have or with a group you are involved in these steps are supposed to be universally workable for anybody in any circumstances to improve their condition and make them better basically in a nutshell so you learnt about all of that on the introduction of Scientology ethics course and you also get a Sea Org attitude about ethics and I should make a note about that here that one of the purposes of the Sea Org or the original purpose of the Sea Org was to get ethics in on the planet okay and that's a little Scientology phrase get ethics in on the planet meaning getting the planet operating in an ethical manner right and for now this is all according to Hubbard's guidelines of what is and isn't ethical so for example drugs drugs and Scientology are highly unethical under most any circumstances I'm not talking about medicinal drugs now I'm talking about recreational drugs out out with them right so getting ethics in on the planet would include getting rid of all recreational drugs that would be an ethical thing for a Scientologist to be working on so and that is an effort Scientology is making and anybody who watches Scientology knows how how horribly they're doing with that because their materials are full of false information and there's lots of record drugs that there's really nothing wrong with it all and it's really not unethical to to be doing them but but Scientology makes it a right wrong proposition as to whether you should be taking recreational drugs so that is something that would be you know handled with getting ethics in on the planet okay once you're done with that course and you have a you're thoroughly indoctrinated into what is right and what is wrong according to l ron Hubbard your next course is called the basic C org member hat a hat in Scientology is a term for a job or a post or what it is you're assigned to do you have a hat right because Hubbard based this off the idea that different jobs have literally have different hats a fireman's hat or helmet is different from a policeman's hat or cap right so the hat that you're wearing determines the job that you're doing so in Scientology they call these things a hat and the basic C org member hat is a course that gives you some basic references and issues from al ron Hubbard on how to be a see org member and what's expected of a see org member and I pulled out a couple of these just for grins so you can get an idea of some of what Hubbard is telling people there's one for example there's an issue in this course called toughness this is a very heavily used reference from Hubbard in the Sea Org but but in outside of the Sea Org people don't see this public Scientologists don't generally see this material because they are contained in a separate kind of issue from what the public see in the sea organization you have Flag orders okay in sight in regular Scientology you have policy letters and you have bulletins and I've quoted from those extensively in my videos rarely have I quoted from flag orders but flag orders are black on white issues they're black type on white paper and they are directives for the Sea Org specifically and most of them are considered confidential and not shown to the general public so when I'm reading you right now is highly confidential and and this is called toughness and Hubbard says this toughness is high on the scale at upper levels in Scientology we find our sale ourselves unable to handle one area and so instead of doing the natural thing and reducing the area we are trying to handle we just double the size of the area that's the way theta works and theta is Hubbard's word for spirits or spirituality how many times in your life have you decided well let's see I couldn't handle so-and-so I guess I better handle just a little bit less and then the first thing you knew you couldn't even handle that what if you had said all right now let's see I don't seem to be able to do this well where's two of them I recommend it to you very thoroughly you can't handle something you say find a couple of tougher ones the point is that you go in Reverse you've decided already longtime sense that it was rough handling a messed body a prio tea right somebody who hasn't yet reached the OT levels a prio tea who's fairly convinced that it's tough gets kind of anxious about handling this body he knows he can only do one thing at once he knows this he knows it completely let him go down the street and work two bodies at once oh no you could say no this isn't the right Road out this couldn't be that's just more quantity that's dot dot dot Hubbard says I'm afraid that this is the road out the job gets tougher as you move up the line to higher levels fortunately I've designed it so each new level is attainable for most the thing to do is keep moving up them over the bridge keep working on the next level and soon you'll be on the other side I'll see you then so this is just one example of how Sea Org members are indoctrinated to you know if you can't handle what you're doing well then clearly you just need to take more not less right and you don't need to stop and figure out what you're doing you just need more piled on top of you okay this is sort of the see you are gotta tude and it's a lot of funding games and not really it's actually an invitation to an extremely abusive environment is what actually goes on and I'm being rather light about it right now but the truth of the matter is that issues like what I just read to you are the justification or the rationale for why Sea Org members pile on abuses on other Sea Org members and expect them to just deal with it right that's that's the kind of thing which is why I wanted to read that to you you also have the code of a Sea Org member and this is talked about every now and again but I thought I might go over a couple points here with you just to give you an idea of what kind of moral code Sea Org members have that they think they should be following and you have instance examples here this is a the code of a Sea Org member has 18 points I won't read all of them to you but they have things such as I 17 point number 17 I promise through my actions to increase the power of the Sea Org and decrease the power of any enemy okay and anything goes when it comes to fulfilling these points of the Sea Org code number 18 I promise to make things go right and to persist until they do right whether that means staying up all night to make that quota you're making things go right and you're persisting until you do right this is again justification or rationale that Hubbard gives Sea Org members for doing completely wackadoodle things like staying up all night five nights in a row in order to get some job done which happened to me while I was in the Sea Org we have here I promise point number two and this is an important one I promise to uphold forward and carry out command intention now command intention is capitalized and basically when Hubbard was alive command intention was anything l ron Hubbard wanted l ron Hubbard was the head of the Sea Org he was command and command intention is what it is that command wants that they pushed down the line to the rest of the Sea Org in order to get done so you promised here to uphold forward and carry out command intention that has now been turned over to david miscavige who currently runs the Church of Scientology and is the head of the Sea Org now so when you're on this course you learn all about these things the next course is called the welcome to the Sea Org lectures and this is a series of 1 2 3 4 5 lectures that you listen to that Hubbard gave in 1969 onboard the Apollo the ship he was running at the time to New Sea Org members and he was personally you know lecturing them about how to be sea org members at 1969 the Sea Org was only 2 years old so it was still relatively fresh and new and the first lecture is called the quality of the Sea Org and what is a seaman and that course that lecture talks about landlubbers and being on a ship and confronting mast like I went over with you and those kind of points the next lecture is called welcome to the Sea Org most of that lecture talks about drills now of course on a ship on the ocean you need to drill your crew because they need to be prepared for an emergency at any notice at any moment on any short notice right but Hubbard took that principle and applied it to land as well he said anybody in the Sea Org needs to be drilled and build and drilled on what they're doing and how to do it and the whole crew needs to be drilled on things and so when I was in the Sea Org we were drilling you know at least once twice a week on the ship of course you're drilling you know almost every day and Hubbard talks about that and that lecture the next lecture is called why the Sea Org is successful and in this lecture Hubbard directly addresses shouting and getting in trouble and why it is that so you see Sea Org members shouting at other Sea Org members and why people are generally pissed off all the time when they're in the Sea Org and why it's acceptable to be in condition and why that's actually a good thing and why getting in trouble is not really that big of a deal and Hubbard really didn't understand why everybody was so concerned about it this lecture was a really interesting look when I was reviewing the transcripts for all these lectures and sort of like oh man reminding myself of some of the stuff I'd been reading and listening to this lecture was a really interesting look into Hubbard's thought processes of of heavy ethics heavy justice actions that he would take on the crew and then brush it off as though it didn't mean anything yet we're talking about actions like throwing people you know little kids into a chain Locker which is the locker at the front of the ship that has the chain from the anchor wound up in it right and and you throw a kid in there and and you drop anchor and that kid could get killed by that chain when on this on the ship when Hubbard was running it he threw a four or five-year-old kid in there for days as a as a disciplinary punishment action and he just brushes that kind of stuff off as you know yeah that's just how things are in the Sea Org he also talks in this lecture about team and ship surviving as a team and and why not everybody is meant to be in the Sea Org many are called and few are chosen he says the next lecture is called third dynamic activity and making things go right now third dynamic is a Scientology term for groups if you're involved in a group that group would be called you know your third dynamic or one of your third dynamics it's a group you're part of okay so third dynamic activity and making things go right and in this lecture he talks of course about groups and he talks about how staff this is again another insightful lecture into Hubbard's mentality and these lectures are not things the lectures that any public Scientologist is ever going to hear they're not available at local churches you can't go into Denver org or Milano org and ask to listen to these lectures and hear them there Sea Org only so in this lecture Hubbard talks about how staff Sea Org members do their posts and don't seem to care that much about they're there in you a lady or themselves or getting you know paid or getting fed or doing their study or this sort of thing and how that's just kind of how the staff are and I I found that fascinating considering that you know one of the most one of the things that a lot of X Sea Org members remarked on and one of the reasons I left the Sea Org for me personally is because I didn't have any time afforded to me and my schedule every day to do study and do Scientology and yet I was there delivering Scientology to everybody else but I wasn't getting any of it and then this lecture Hubbard full-on gives that a pass and says yes that is how things should be and I'd actually forgotten about that but that was in one of the most you know one of the lectures you listen to being indoctrinated into how to be a see work member so you know you're sort of being told right from the get-go that you don't really matter that much as far as your own personal survival and Enhancement goes because the group is all and the individual is nothing and that was basically Hubbard's attitude then the last lecture is called it's a PR oh world okay P our public relations officer and vibe at Hubbard was referring to the subject of public relations and he talked in this lecture about public relations about shore relations about how when a ship goes in and docks in an area if that ships gonna be there for any length of time they have to have some relationship with the people on the shore and in the port and the local community and Hubbard talks about the difficulties that the the Sea Org and Scientology have had pretty much in every port they went to and oddly enough Hubbard never really looked at what they were doing and thought maybe we aren't quite doing this right well he he did a little bit and he talks in this lecture about that and about how you're supposed to listen to the locals and and pay attention to local customs and that sort of thing unfortunately you know well I don't know is the Scientology does practice this the Sea Org does use this in their community relations and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and if you're ever wondering why it is that like for example in Los Angeles the LAPD cozies up to Scientology it's because when Scientology arrived in Los Angeles they started looking at the police they made inroads into the police station the police force found out what it is that's valuable to the police and started to provide that to the police like for example hiring off-duty police officers to be security for Scientology events and cozying up to the Chief of Police and this kind of thing and telling them what he wants to hear is actually applying this information from this lecture so that's how Scientology improves its public relations now I had another quote for you from Hubbard here because he talked about psychiatry in here and this is a quote that you're not gonna hear very often and so I thought I would read it to you because I thought you might be amused by Hubbard's attitude towards psychiatry and here's something he tells Sea Org members about this subject quote the psychiatrists actually shaking down government's working for other foreign powers were actually able to get enough false intelligence information into enough files about Scientology and about us that we're a country becomes very active they start looking up all this information which is all false the situation heats up and then they all of a sudden put the heat on and then they become very curious about us and about what we're doing and so on in yap yap-yap yap-yap then of course the psychiatrist is protecting a multi-billion dollar empire he has the greatest racket in the world governments all over the world appropriate him money they appropriate him millions just off the cuff oh you want a little money for research oh good we'll give you a little money for research how about a hundred million huh so this is how Hubbard talks about psychiatry to the Sea Org right so you wonder if you're if you're under Hubbard's spell and you're listening to this nonsense for any length of time then you're gonna hear Hubbard rant and rave about psychiatry and since I was going through the transcript I just thought this was a an appropriate quote to pull out to give you guys an idea of how he talks about this all right once you get through those lectures your next course is called the Sea Org etiquette course and on this course they cover some Emily Post book passages about manners and etiquette and there is a sea org issue called etiquette which I pulled up here which I thought I might read you guys a couple of the points it's the pages long and it's all about Corte sea and thoughtfulness on the on board a ship but we were reading this on land and we were still expected to apply this in one way or another on the Sea Org base that we were operating on wherever we were in my case Los Angeles so see if you can figure out how to apply some of these on land obtain the captain's or senior officers permission to leave the ship before changing course or speed or starting engines obtain the captain's permission when boarding or leaving a ship always salute the quarterdeck whether the flag is flying or not okay really useful stuff right and this goes on for pages and pages a coxswain always offers the tiller to the most senior officer great had zero applicability to my life the entire time I was in the Sea Org anyway just some of the nonsense that you have to learn on the Sea Org etiquette course then you have the personal grooming course where you learn how to tie a tie and you learn how to wash your face and learn how to comb your hair and this kind of thing Hubbard expected Sea Org members to be relatively clean and presentable and then you have the last course which is called the basic cleaning course and this is a course where you literally are educated on how to dust how to clean windows with newspaper how to polish brass with brass oh and you and you practice all of this in the in the classroom right you dust tables and you you know you polish some brass and this sort of thing so so that's the the cleaning course right and it's called the basic cleaning course there is no advanced cleaning course in the Sea Org it's just this one this is where you learn how to do those White Glove passes and that kind of thing and so once you finish all of those courses that whole lineup that I just walked you through then you're eligible to actually graduate from the EPF and you just need the the overall in charge for the EPF needs to sign off that you have you know satisfactorily you learned how to confront messed and the course room supervisor who's been overseeing you through all these courses needs to sign off that you're a good student and you can study and you you know you're good a little Sea Org member and then they have a graduation ceremony and and you graduate and then you are assigned to an actual organization within the Sea Org and a specific job that you're gonna do and that's when you start your official CE or career so all of that is a pretty detailed breakdown of the EPF or the estates project force and how people go from regular Joe Scientologists to C org member okay so I thought that might be of some interest to you guys out there I hope that that you found this interesting educational and informative please leave any comments or feedback you have on this or questions about it if there's anything that I've left out here in the comment section below and I'll do my best to answer them thanks for coming around and I will see you guys next time bye bye

Channel: Chris Shelton

Views: 22,178

Rating: 4.8026905 out of 5

Keywords: Scientology, Sea Organization, L. Ron Hubbard

Id: z1Ho86xi3-o

Length: 43min 30sec (2610 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 11 2018