Member Tracking

The CoS is notorious for asking its members to undergo intense interviews (Auditing sessions) for hours on end in order to rid the members' head of "engrams", traces of pain or suffering from a prior trauma or incident that occurred in their life. The real purpose of the sessions, as you will see, is to gain as much detailed information about the member as possible. The system is flawless because the auditors (minimally paid members of Scientology) believe wholeheartedly in what they are doing, and the people being audited truly trust that the sessions will eventually clear them of all pain and suffering. Therefore, the process is allowed to work by itself, the members fueling the members.

In this document, however, we see what the CoS is really looking for from these auditing sessions. One would think that there would be progress reports of some kind, detailing the positive or negative advancement of the member's career as a Scientologist through auditing. But in this document, which was confiscated by the FBI in a raid on the Church of Scientology's main offices in 1977, we see the real information that the Church keeps in their files.

Cutting to the Chase

I don't want to waste anyone's time with a welcome message; what I'm going to try to do is post one piece of interesting or enlightening information about Scientology every day. If this pattern can be kept, then hopefully a small, self-compiled record of Scientology's actions can be made and commented upon.

The first thing I want to post is a set of questions from a 1961 Security Check document that is still used to this day in the CoS. A Security Check (Sec Check for short) is a questionnaire designed for Pre-Clears (PCs) which is intended to force the PC to confess if they have any unclean thoughts about or against the Church. The purpose of a Sec Check (and of many auditing sessions) is to gather personal information about a Church member in case said member decides to turn against the Church at some point in the future. It's a fascinating list of questions to read, and it shows just how much knowledge Scientologists have about each of their members. It also shows quite clearly the track-covering and paranoia present within the organization.