Word: velona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corner of the room a man kneaded and shaped figures in clay, as Hubbard peered down from a photograph. The student, according to Velona, was taking abstract concepts like fear and anger and shaping them into simple shapes. He was bringing "significant, immaterial concepts down to earth," Velona said...
...sits facing the student and the dials of the console, and asks the student to consider certain questions. The student's reaction to these questions register on the dial of the E-meter and allow "a trained counselor to determine if a person feels bad in a certain area," Velona said...
...METER, according to Velona, measures the changes of resistance" within a person's body and the person's response to certain concepts or thoughts. "Everything has certain resistance," Velona said, standing over the meter. "All recollections have a molecular mass" which are registered on the E-meter and interpreted by the trained auditor. Velona said that the auditor, however, does not evaluate a person's response but "encourages a person to come to his own realizations...
...basis of the test is honesty--the individual is his own best counselor and judge," Velona said...
With the more than five million world-wide followers it claims to have today, perhaps Scientology will continue to grow. After all, Scientology literature claims that Hubbard has applied science to the humanities, unifying the realms of the spirit and the natural sciences. And, as Velona said, John Travolta is a scientologist...