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Subject: End cycle?
Answered: honorarykid
Asked: FredricRice

FredricRice asked this question on 4/27/2000:

What does it mean when a Scientology leader orders a follower to "end cycle?"

Thanks.

honorarykid gave this response on 4/27/2000:

The term "end cycle" in Scientology is a euphemism for committing suicide. The idea is that you end the particular bodily cycle that you are now in, to begin the next phase in your eternal life. After bodily death, according to official Scientology OT levels, either your spirit has learned to be free because in your life you studied Scientology and audited out all your body thetans, or else your spirit stayed stupid, confused and surving in the false, evil "Emanator," and then being reimplanted with brainwashing delusions on an implant station on Venus or Mars, finally being sent back to Earth to pick up another body and begin the next bodily cycle.

So, hypothetically, if a Scientologist ordered an "end cycle" that would mean they were ordering someone to kill him or herself.

But Frederic, I don't think this happens very often. It's only when someone poses the direst public relations risk to the organization that someone would say this, and then only in whispers, never in a formal, incriminating document.

There are likely others, but I only know of one such case. Former Scientologist Steven Fishman was involved in a scam in Miami to falsely and illegally profit by joining in on Class Action lawsuits to which he was not a legitimate class member. Fishman claimed that his supervisors in Scientology's Miami org were in on the scheme, and he alleged that most of the money realized from the plan went directly into the Miami org's coffers. He even claims that Scientology named the operation, and that it was called "Operation Acting Class." Federal regulators eventually uncovered the plan, and Fishman was arrested.

At this point, Fishman claims his supervisors in Scientology suggested that he "end cycle," knowing full well that they would be far less likely to be incriminated and/or far more likely to be able to lie their way out of trouble, if Fishman were dead.

Fishman (quite obviously) refused. He ultimately tried to incriminate the CoS as a conspirator in his crimes. They never were charged in the case.

Fishman spent a couple of years in prison for his white-collar crime, and later on, he sued the CoS in civil court. In his civil suit, he and his lawyer (Ford Greene?) made the bold move of introducing all the upper level OT secrets into evidence, thereby exposing them to anyone who wanted to browse over to the L.A. courthouse and read the case documents.

For years, the CoS actually assigned members to go to the courthouse every day of the week, check out documents in the Fishman lawsuit, and bogart them for the entire day, so that no one else could ever view their OT trade secrets. Incredible! But I begin to digress.

Although I know of several tragic and unnecessary suicides by Scientologists, I know of no case where a Scientologist was actually influenced to kill him or herself by their superiors in Scientology.

If anyone out there does know of any such instances, please let me know.

I hope this answer helps.

FredricRice asked this follow-up question on 4/28/2000:

By the way, I noticed that several of the Scientology "experts" on AskMe.COM have _lied_ about what "end cycle" means. I can understand the embarrassment but since finding references to "end cycle" all over the Internet, it seems that their lies are easily debunked.

I don't know whether you were ever in Scientology, but have you ever seen a document which covers "end cycle?"

honorarykid gave this response on 4/28/2000:

For the record, I have never been a Scientologist nor a believer in Dianetics or Clearing, or even in the idea that human beings are immortal spirits. Just so you know where I'm coming from...

I suppose that the Scientologist who have answered your question to the effect that "end cycle" has a literal meaning are not being complete liars. The term does have it's more literal meaning, too, even inside Scientology.

But I [ally,] perhaps they are misleading, since generally within Scientology, the term "end cycle" would informally be understood by the majority to mean death or dying of the meat body.

I've not seen any documents outside of Fishman's court case that discuss Scientologists trying to specifically coerce the suicide of another person.

I believe I recall reading in the Operation Freakout documents, that one Scientologist actively involved in the horrendously oppressive acts against [Paulette] Cooper did utter something to the effect that "wouldn't it be great if Miss Lovely (their code name for Ms. Cooper) killed herself."

But in her case, suicide was only one of several, equally desireable outcomes. A felony prison term or her institutionalization would have been equally acceptable to the GO team running the Black Ops against her. Luckily, Paulette Cooper reached down inside herself and found strength to endure the cowardly conniving and ruthless scheming the CoS put her through.

On the subject of dying, Scientology Proudly touts LRH as having been the first to discover the Truth (with a capital 'T') about death and dying. Read his arrogant pronouncements about it in a paper called "The Phenomena of Death" found at:

http://www.ronthephilosopher.org/page56.htm

In the paper, Hubbard claimed to have bodily died twice during his life, up to that point. The paper outlines the first time as being during an operation in the 1930s. His essay neglects to mention anything about the second time.

In Russell Miller biography of Hubbard, "Bare-Faced Messiah" Miller suggests that perhaps one of Hubbard's fantasies which he wrote into a science fiction story became more and more real to Hubbard. The story had to do with an operation in which the protagonist had a metal plate inserted into his head, and woke up from the operation with the ability to kill people with his thoughts.

Sorry for the rambling answer.

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