SP

en-noun

SP (countable and uncountable, plural SPs)

SPs (plural)
S.P. (alternative)
S. P. (alternative)

suppressive person
suppressive person#English

(Scientology) Initialism of suppressive person.


blow

en-verb

blow (third-person singular simple present blows, present participle blowing, simple past blew, past participle blown)

blows (present singular third-person)
blowing (participle present)
blew (past)
blown (participle past)

From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).

der

Church of Scientology
Church of Scientology

(Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.


clear

en-adj

clear (comparative clearer, superlative clearest)

clearer (comparative)
clearest (superlative)
CLR (alternative)

→ Welsh: clir

From Middle English clere, from Anglo-Norman cler, from Old French cler (Modern French clair), from Latin clarus. Displaced native Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr (“clear, bright”)), Middle English skere (“clear, sheer”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr (“sheer, clear, pure”)), Middle English smolt (“clear (of mind), serene”) (from Old English smolt (“peaceful, serene”)). Cognate with Danish klar, Dutch klaar, French clair, German klar, Italian chiaro, Norwegian klar, Portuguese claro, Romanian clar, Spanish claro, and Swedish klar.

Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair. She said that you gave it to her that night that you planned to go clear. Did you ever go clear?

1971, Leonard Cohen, Famous Blue Raincoat:

(Scientology) Free from the influence of engrams; see Clear (Scientology).

clear-tila

scientology: free from the influence of engrams

no adjective, cases of this noun used to produce adjectival expressions


clear

Today, clear status can be conferred only by high ranking ministers of the church, and clears are not presented for examination by outsiders.

1985, Rodney Stark, William Sims Bainbridge, The Future of Religion, page 269:

(Scientology) A person who is free from the influence of engrams.


squirrel

From Middle English squirel, squyrelle, from Anglo-Norman esquirel and Old French escurel (whence French écureuil), from Vulgar Latin *scūriolus, diminutive of *scūrius, variant of Latin sciūrus, from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skíouros, “shadow-tail”, from σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”)).
Displaced native Middle English acquerne, aquerne, from Old English ācweorna.

der

even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while

even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then

even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while

(Scientology, often derogatory) A person, usually a freezoner, who applies L. Ron Hubbard's technology in a heterodox manner.


circuit

From Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus (“a going round”), from circuire (“go round”), from circum (“around”) + ire.

(Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.


withhold

withholds (plural)
with-hold (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English withholden. Equivalent to with- + hold.

I was afraid to go into review for the help I needed because of the withholds I had against the organization, withholds acquired at the franchise: our late evening discussions, our kidding around at the expense of other Scientologists.

1972, Robert Kaufman, Inside Scientology: How I Joined Scientology and Became Superhuman, →ISBN, page 150:

Dianetics is concerned with purifying the individual of negative emotions, evil spirits, overts, and withholds.

1976, Nathaniel Lande, Mindstyles, Lifestyles, →ISBN, page 133:

The scientology theory is that marriages fail because one or both partners have undisclosed withholds, and when they confess these to their spouse their desire to end the relationship is dissipated and the marriage is saved.

2022, Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology, →ISBN, pages 138–9:

(Scientology) An immoral action or condition (an overt) that has not been disclosed to others; the consciousness of such an action or condition.


audit

→ Polish: audyt

Borrowed from Latin audītus, from audiō (“I hear”).

[ Werner Erhard said:] I got a lot of benefit from auditing. It was the fastest and deepest way to handle situations that I had yet encountered.

1978, William Warren Bartley, Werner Erhard: the Transformation of a Man: the Founding of est, New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., →ISBN, pages 146–47:

The trainings of Landmark, Block Training and UP Hans Schuster und Partner thus display strong similarities with the self-improvement seminars of Scientology, which are incidentally called 'auditing sessions', a term taken from the business world.

2007, Martin Ramstedt, “New Age and Business: Corporations as Cultic Milieus?”, in Daren Kemp, James R. Lewis, editors, Handbook of the New Age (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion), volume 1, Leiden: BRILL, →ISBN, pages 196–197:

(Scientology) Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.


audit

en-verb

audit (third-person singular simple present audits, present participle auditing, simple past and past participle audited)

audits (present singular third-person)
auditing (participle present)
audited (participle past)
audited (past)

→ Spanish: auditar

In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited.

2011, Diane Saks, Overcoming Celebrity Obsession, page 225:


wog

The origins are not entirely clear. The term was first noted by the lexicographer F.C. Bowen in 1929, in his Sea Slang: a dictionary of the old-timers’ expressions and epithets, where he defines wogs as "lower class Babu shipping clerks on the Indian coast."
The most common theory is that it is a clipping of golliwog, which was first used as the name of a black-faced doll in Florence Upton’s 1895 book The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg. A variety of folk etymologies exist, with the most common claiming that the word is an acronym for one of either westernized, worthy, wily, or wonderful preceding “Oriental gentlemen”. Another erroneous claim is that it was used in the mid 1800s, with WOGS (meaning Working On Government Service) stencilled on the shirts of Indian workers in Egypt.
The Scientologist sense is from the usage of L. Ron Hubbard, who apparently accepted the folk etymology from “worthy Oriental gentleman” but employed the term to mean “common ordinary run-of-the-mill garden-variety humanoid”.

perker

an offensive term for a dark-skinned person

So yes, they do keep records, but no they are not 'accurate' in the wog world meaning of the word.

1998 December 31, Hartley Patterson, “Documented Membership??”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), message-ID <76gomd$tae$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>:

I'm of course talking about Hubbard's books (including Book One) being extensively rewritten, and Scn's decision to remove any mention of LRH from materials intended for wogs.

2007 June 21, Dave Touretzky, “date correction for DM's big revelation”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), message-ID <467ab5da$1@news2.lightlink.com>:

At the Org there were mixed feelings towards wogs because, at any given time, there were wogs in our midst. Wogs coming in off the street in search of Scientology services were looked upon favourably […]

2012, Bruce Clark, Love, Sex, Fleas, God:

(Scientology, often attributive) A person who is not a Scientologist.


thetan

Coined by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, from theta + -n, from Ancient Greek θῆτα (thêta, “theta”), used in Scientology to represent the source of life.

coined

Actually a thetan is in a very, very small amount of mass. From some experiments conducted about fifteen or twenty years ago – a thetan weighed about 1.5 ounces!

1972, Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Scientology for 1972 (R. P. 55/1973), Pretoria: Government Printer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 198:

According to Scientology doctrine, each human being is actually a thetan or spirit, an immortal, godlike expression of the life force (theta). […] In his writings, Hubbard traces the existence of this life force back trillions of years. In the beginning theta was separate from the physical universe. Theta had no energy or mass, time or location; it was simply energy. Thetans therefore existed before and are the original source of the material universe.

2009, David G. Bromley, “Making Sense of Scientology: Prophetic, Contractual Religion”, in James R. Lewis, editor, Scientology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 91:

One of the things Hubbard claimed he had "discovered" was that the essence of the human being was a spiritual being. This spiritual being, which is in itself good and fully conscious, Hubbard called a "thetan." From this deeper understanding of the human essence, where he saw survival as the fundamental urge for all thetans, he also discovered that the four dynamics of Dianetics had to be expanded to eight: […]

2014, Kjersti Hellesøy, “Scientology: The Making of a Religion”, in James R. Lewis, Jesper Aa[gaard] Petersen, editors, Controversial New Religions, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 260:


overt

From Middle English overt, uverte (“open, uncovered; unfastened; accessible, unobstructed; clear, manifest”), from Anglo-Norman overt, Middle French ouvert, Old French overt, ouvert, uvert (“opened”) (modern French ouvert), past participle of Anglo-Norman, Old French ovrir, ouvrir, uvrir (“to open”), from Late Latin operire, variant of Latin aperīre (“to open”), from aperiō (“to open, uncover”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away; from”) + *h₂wer- (“to cover, shut”). The English word is a doublet of apert and ouvert.

der

Scientologists are sure that the person must have “overts” against Scientology, therefore nothing a former member says can be trusted.

1990, Jon Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed, →ISBN, page 148:

Masturbation is an overt—strictly forbidden in Scientology, as Hubbard believed that it can slow one’s process to enlightenment.

2006 February 23, Janet Reitman, “Inside Scientology”, in Rolling Stone:

Anyone who leaves has committed “overts” (harmful acts) against the church and is withholding them. The church is obligated to make such people come clean, Hubbard said, because withholding overts against Scientology can lead to suicide or death by disease.

2019 October 17, Thomas C. Tobin, Joe Childs, “Part 1 — Scientology: The Truth Rundown”, in Tampa Bay Times:

(Scientology) An action or condition said to be detrimental to one’s own survival and thus unethical; the consciousness of such behaviour.


disconnect

(Scientology) The deliberate severing of ties with family, friends, etc. considered antagonistic towards Scientology.

siteiden katkaisu

scientology: deliberate severing of ties with family and friends


Clear

(Scientology) An idea state of beingness free of unwanted influences.


OT

(Scientology) Initialism of Operating Thetan.


engram

Borrowed from German Engramm which was coined by German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon in 1904. First attested in English in 1921 (see quotation below). Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + γράμμα (grámma, “writing, picture”).

(Scientology) A painful, negative mental image representing a past event.


auditor

auditors (plural)
auditour (alternative obsolete)

From Anglo-Norman auditour, from Latin audītor (“hearer, auditor”).

(Scientology) One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.


squirreling

(Scientology, often derogatory) The application of L. Ron Hubbard's technology in a heterodox manner.


reactive mind

(Scientology) A portion of the brain akin to the subconscious where painful memories, or engrams, are stored.


tone scale

(Scientology) A subjective appraisal of a person's spiritual aliveness, usually given by an auditor, ranging from 'total failure' to 'serenity of beingness'.


Helatrobus

(Scientology) An "interplanetary nation" which existed trillions of years ago, the reasons for the demise of which are uncertain.


Xenu

From the works of L. Ron Hubbard, of unknown origin. Richard Abanes notes that a Journey into Mystery science fiction comic story featuring an alien warlord titled “Xemnu the Titan” (1961) was reprinted in 1967, the year that Hubbard composed the Xenu narrative.

He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb on the principal volcanoes (Incident 2) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic Area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged." His name was Xenu. He used renegades.Various misleading data by means of circuits etc. were placed in the implants.

1968, L. Ron Hubbard, OT III: Wall of Fire, archived from the original on 2013-01-12:

The documents Scott took are a refinement of Hubbard’s account of Xemu, assertedly an evil tyrant who planted the seeds of aberrant behavior in people 75 million years ago. ¶ According to documents obtained previously by The Times in Los Angeles Superior Court, Hubbard contends that Xemu trapped people in a compound of frozen alcohol and glycol and deposited them in 10 volcanoes. Xemu then dropped nuclear bombs on the volcanoes, according to Hubbard, destroying the people but freeing their spirits, which clustered together and were brainwashed by Xemu.

1985 November 23, Robert Welkos, Joel Sappell, “Scientologists Win Major Court Victory Over Defectors, Documents”, in Los Angeles Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-12:

Seventy-five million years ago there was a galactic confederation consisting of seventy-six planets which had an over-population problem. The head of the confederation was named Xenu and he resolved that he would entice the entire population of the confederacy to Earth (called Teegeeach) and blow them up. […] Contacting the BTs is done telepathically and they are then guided back down the time-track to the moment seventy-five million years ago when Xenu vaporized them, which is known as Incident 2.

1986, Stewart Lamont, Religion Inc.: The Church of Scientology, London: Harrap, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 50:

"Trapped" made merciless fun of Mr. Cruise and Scientology, but stuck mostly to the church's actual beliefs, including such notions as frozen aliens and a Lord Xenu who ruled a galactic federation of planets.

2006 March 24, Alessandra Stanley, “A 'South Park' Character's Return Becomes an Opportunity for Revenge”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-03-14, Television:

At the heart of Scientology’s belief system is the story of a galactic dictator called Xenu who, 76 million years ago, imprisoned the billions of people of the 75 planets of the Galactic Federation in volcanoes on Earth and dropped H-bombs on them. This traumatic event separated the thetans from their bodies. These deeply troubled thetans attach themselves in their millions to humans today; and are responsible for illness, perversion and many of the other problems of the human race. Advanced levels of auditing can help Scientologists to rid themselves of these ‘body thetans’.

2007, Una McGovern, Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained, Chambers, →ISBN, page 607:

That incident, the story of Xenu, is an extremely important incident theologically, because it explains why everyone is infested with body thetans here on earth. It is a serious event considered to have happened.

2008, Michael Streeter, Behind Closed Doors: The Power and Influence of Secret Societies, New Holland Publishers, page 219:

More than a few Scientologists read the Xenu story as “a bizarre science fiction story,” as one former member described it. But fearing they'd be denounced for doubting Hubbard's teachings—to do so would be a thought crime — they held their tongue.

2011, Janet Reitman, Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, Houghton Mifflin, page 100:

A more elaborate version of the Xenu/Xemu story appears in a lecture attributed to Hubbard from September 1968, also now widely available online.

2011, Hugh B. Urban, The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion, Princeton University Press, page 103:

(Scientology) An extraterrestrial galactic leader said to have transported aliens to Earth 75 million years ago and murdered them with hydrogen bombs at sites of volcanoes, turning them into thetans.

Journey into Mystery
L. Ron Hubbard
Richard Abanes
Xenu


restimulate

en-verb

restimulate (third-person singular simple present restimulates, present participle restimulating, simple past and past participle restimulated)

restimulates (present singular third-person)
restimulating (participle present)
restimulated (participle past)
restimulated (past)

The sound of firecrackers restimulated the war veteran, and he felt tired for several days after.

(Scientology) To "awaken" a previously lost or hidden memory (engram) from the past, in (a person).


enturbulence

(Scientology) The state or quality of being enturbulated, agitated or disturbed.


obnosis

Coined by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, apparently as a blend of observe + gnosis.

Here you will find the Instructor's Code, Obnosis and the Tone Scale and one of the best descriptions of Assist processing ever published.

1958, Ability, Hubbard Association of Scientologists, International, page 12

Obnosis (observing the obvious) must be used at every moment to determine the best next step with any student.

1970, B. Robert Ross, A Parent's Guide to the Teaching of Reading: A Compilation of Old and New Methods of Teaching and a New View of the Reading Process: Upstat Pub. Co.

Hubbard created Scientology's language to be unique to its members. It includes words that are interpretations, or variations, of standard terms: "isness," for example, which Scientology's glossaries say, in essence, means "reality." But there are also words that are wholly made up, such as "obnosis," which means "observation of the obvious."

[2006 February 23, Janet Reitman, “Inside Scientology: Unlocking the complex code of America's most mysterious religion”, in Rolling Stone:


E-meter

Short for electropsychometer, a device that can detect charge in the brain.

(Scientology) An electronic device used in auditing in an attempt to diagnose whether a subject has been relieved from spiritual impediment of his or her sins or charged memories (engrams).


cognite

cognite (third-person singular simple present cognites, present participle cogniting, simple past and past participle cognited)

cognites (present singular third-person)
cogniting (participle present)
cognited (participle past)
cognited (past)

I abruptly cognited that "Have You Lived Before this Life?" was our first new book in two years.

1959 April 27, L. Ron Hubbard, “HCO Policy Letter of 27 April 1959: Why New Books Are Few”, in The Organization Executive Course: An Encyclopedia of Scientology Policy, volume 2, published 1974, →ISBN, page 21:

Unlike psychoanalysis or psychiatry, the person (auditor) treating another person never evaluates for them. The processes used are intended to allow the person to cognite on his sins or wrongdoings and change his ways.

1963 February 11, C. C. Morley, “[Letter to Edward V. Long]”, in Invasions of Privacy (Government Agencies): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure […] United States Senate, Eighty-Ninth Congress, First Session […], volume 2, published 1965, page 794:

One requirement, before a preclear can advance beyond a particular level, is that he should "cognite" on everything scientological up to that stage, and a failure to satisfy the organization that one has a reality on all relevant scientology theory to that stage delays the issue of the HPA certificate.

1965, Kevin Victor Anderson, Report of the Board of Inquiry Into Scientology, page 82; republished as “Chapter 12: The Teaching of Scientology”, in Martin Poulter, editor, The Anderson Report, 1997:

(intransitive, Scientology) To become aware, or think so as to become aware, of some fundamental truth.


bullbaiting

en-noun

bullbaiting (countable and uncountable, plural bullbaitings)

bullbaitings (plural)
bull-baiting (alternative)

(Scientology) A process in which a person is subjected to simulated threats and verbal abuse but must not respond.


Teegeeack

From the works of L. Ron Hubbard, of unknown origin. Perhaps after Terra and Gaia.

He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb on the principal volcanoes […]

1968, L. Ron Hubbard, OT III (manuscript); republished as “OT III Scholarship Page”, in David S. Touretzky, editor, Secrets of Scientology, 1997, archived from the original on 2023-03-14:

The church believes that 75 million years ago, the leader of the Galactic Federation, Xenu, solved an overpopulation problem by freezing the excess people in a compound of alcohol and glycol and transporting them by spaceship to Teegeeack -- which we know as Earth.

1995 August 19, Marc Fisher, “Church in Cyberspace”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-16:

(Scientology) The planet Earth at the time of Xenu.


Church of Scientology

(Scientology) the largest organisation promoting Scientology.


exteriorization

exteriorizations (plural)
exteriorisation (alternative)

/ɪkˌstɪɹiɚɪˈzeɪʃən/

/ɛkˌstɪɹiɚɪˈzeɪʃən/

From exteriorize + -ation or exterior + -ization.

(Scientology) The process of a thetan leaving its human body.


preclear

(Scientology) One who has not yet reached a "clear" state (in which they are free from engrams).


Xemu

Publication of secret documents blaming the world's troubles on an interplanetary tyrant named Xemu has held the Church of Scientology up to public ridicule. But church officials insist the disclosure will leave no long-term scars, and they predict the controversial organization will continue to gain members and to prosper.

1985 November 17, Miami Herald staff, “Scientology battered but not bowed in row over secret papers”, in Miami Herald, page 12A:

Xemu ruled the 90-planet Galactic Confederation 75-million years ago, when overpopulation was a problem. So Xemu solved the problem: He trapped selected beings and flew them to volcanoes on Earth, then called Teegeeach. He then dropped powerful H-bombs on the volcanoes. The beings were destroyed in a wall of fire. However, their spirits, or "thetans," weren't. Gathering them into clusters, Xemu trapped the thetans in frozen alcohol and glycol.

1988 December 23, Stephen Koff, “Xemu's Cruel Response To Overpopulated World”, in St. Petersburg Times, page 10A:

After the explosions, the Thetan spirits, deprived of bodies, were packaged by Xemu and electronically implanted so they would reproduce in later generations of human beings. Each human today is a cluster of Thetans with one dominant. This is the cause of aberration, internal conflict and unhappiness. Only through paying for the costly further Scientology training could humans break through the wall of fire, revisit the Xemu incident, have their less dominant Thetans removed and at last become unaberrated, mentally healthy.

1998, Robert Cogan, Critical Thinking: Step By Step, University Press of America, page 226:

A more elaborate version of the Xenu/Xemu story appears in a lecture attributed to Hubbard from September 1968, also now widely available online. This provides further details of Xemu's evil plot: apparently, the thetans were packed into refrigerated units, put onto DC 8 planes, and then blown up in volcanoes. After that, the disembodied thetans were collected, packed into boxes, and forced to watch 3-D movies. Meanwhile, a group of loyal officers revolted and captured Xemu, locking him in the center of a mountain with an electric fence.

(Scientology) Alternative spelling of Xenu.


rock slam

(Scientology) An erratic slashing motion of an E-meter's needle, supposed to indicate evil intentions in the subject.


suppressive person

suppressive person (plural suppressive persons or suppressive people)

suppressive persons (plural)
suppressive people (plural)

(Scientology) A person who is seen in Scientology as having an "antisocial" personality, due to leaving the Church or other causes.


perceptic

(Scientology) A sense; a perceiving faculty.


Purification Rundown

Purification Rundown (plural Purification Rundowns)

(Scientology) A detoxification program used by the Church of Scientology, involving exercise, vitamins, and long periods in a sauna, and supposed to treat long-term effects of drug abuse or exposure to toxins.


Purif

Purification Rundown
Purification Rundown


Elron

(Scientology) L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986), American author and founder of Scientology.


Dianeticist

(Scientology) A practitioner of Dianetics.

(Scientology) Someone who supports the ideas and practices of Dianetics.


touch assist

(Scientology) The pseudoscientific practice of touching a person who is injured or ill for the purpose of healing.


MEST

Coined by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as an acronym of matter, energy, space and time.

acronym

(Scientology, often attributive) The physical universe, the universe of sensory perception.


upstat

From up- + stat, from stat (“statistic”).

(Scientology) A successful person who is making progress.


downstat

From down- + stat, from stat (“statistic”).

(Scientology) An unsuccessful person who is failing to make progress.


O/W

WENDELL REYNOLDS then mounted the rostrum and made the audience there and then write down all their O/Ws (overts and withholds, or sins to use religious terminology).

1986, Stewart Lamont, Religion Inc.: The Church of Scientology, →ISBN, page 100:

In confessional rituals, a parishioner must declare his O/Ws -- "overts and withholds" -- immoral acts that include harmful, undisclosed transgressions against Scientology.

1998 December 6, Richard Lei, “The Life & Death of a Scientologist”, in The Washington Post:

These courses were introductions, respectively, to […] O/W (Overt/Withhold) Write-Ups, and cycles of action (start, change, stop).

2017, Donald A. Westbrook, “Researching Scientology and Scientologists in the United States: Methods and Conclusions”, in James R. Lewis, Kjersti Hellesøy, editors, Handbook of Scientology, →ISBN, page 24, note 5:

The nature of the O/W was not really important at that time, only that I felt guilt.

2022, Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology, →ISBN, page 10:

(Scientology) Initialism of overt/withhold.