R2-45
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In Scientology, R2-45 is an auditing process created by L. Ron Hubbard.
The process of R2-45 specifically pertains to shooting the target with a Colt .45 pistol, causing the victim's "thetan" (soul or spirit) to leave the body (exteriorization). It has been claimed that in 1952 during a meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Hubbard demonstrated the process of R2-45 by firing a shot at the floor.[1][2]
Hubbard's 1954 handbook The Creation of Human Ability includes the "auditing process" but describes it only as:
"R2-45: AN ENORMOUSLY EFFECTIVE PROCESS FOR EXTERIORIZATION BUT ITS USE IS FROWNED UPON BY THIS SOCIETY AT THIS TIME." [ALLCAPS as per the original][3]
In a lecture of 1958, Hubbard comments that "Death is not the same as clearing but there is, remember, R2-45. It's a very valid technique. A lot of people have used it before now." [4]
While representatives of the Church of Scientology have publicly acknowledged that "Auditing Process R2-45" refers to "someone being killed and [their spirit] leaving the body", they insist that it was presented as a "jest" or "joke" by Hubbard."[2][5] In the transcript for the lecture "Exteriorization", in which Hubbard refers in passing to R2-45, a footnote refers to the process as being "used humorously".[6]
However, critics of Scientology have pointed out that Hubbard also used it in apparently non-humorous contexts. On March 6, 1968, Hubbard issued an internal memo titled "RACKET EXPOSED," in which he denounced twelve people as "Enemies of mankind, the planet and all life," and ordered that "Any Sea Org member contacting any of them is to use Auditing Process R2-45."[7][8] Former Scientologist Bent Corydon wrote that in late 1967 at Saint Hill, he personally received a copy of an order naming four former Scientologists as enemies and ordering any Sea Org member who encountered them to use R2-45.[9][10]
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- ^ Lamont, Stewart (1986). "1. L. Ron Hubbard: Guru, God or Demon?", Religion Inc.. London: Harrap Ltd, 192. ISBN 0-245-54334-1.
- ^ a b Robert Rawitch, Robert Gillette (1978-08-28). "Scientology Critics Assail Aggressiveness of Church". Los Angeles Times. See official online archive (non-free), and unofficial online reproduction (free).
- ^ Hubbard, L. Ron (1954). The Creation of Human Ability.
- ^ Hubbard, L. Ron (1958-07-15). "AAC Procedure Outlined - E-meter TRs" (lecture).
- ^ "A Sci-Fi Faith", TIME, 1976-04-05. Retrieved on January 1, 2007.
- ^ Hubbard, L. Ron (1956-01-19). "Exteriorization" (lecture transcript).
- ^ Wallis, Roy (1976). The Road to Total Freedom. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04200-0.
- ^ L. Ron Hubbard (1968-03-06). "HCO ETHICS ORDER". No. 30 INT. Advanced Organisation Yacht Royal Scotman, via U.S. Dist. Court. S.D. of N.Y.. Retrieved on 2006-06-07.
- ^ "Racket Exposed", The Auditor, issue 37, 1968. Excerpt
- ^ Bent Corydon; L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. (1987). L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?. Secaucus, New Jersey: Lyle Stuart. ISBN 0-8184-0444-2. Convenience link at http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/mom/Messiah_or_Madman.txt .
