R2-45

:"Not to be confused with RJ-45."R2-45 is a Scientology 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" to leave the body (exteriorization). In 1952 during a meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Hubbard demonstrated the process of R2-45 by firing a shot at the floor.cite book | first=Stewart | last=Lamont | title=Religion Inc. | publisher=Harrap Ltd | location=London | year=1986 | pages=192 | chapter=1. L. Ron Hubbard: Guru, God or Demon? | chapterurl=http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/lamont/guru.htm | id=ISBN 0-245-54334-1] cite journal | author=Robert Rawitch, Robert Gillette | title=Scientology Critics Assail Aggressiveness of Church | journal=Los Angeles Times |year=1978-08-28 See [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/results.html?st=advanced&QryTxt=&type=historic&sortby=REVERSE_CHRON&datetype=6&frommonth=08&fromday=28&fromyear=1978&tomonth=08&today=28&toyear=1978&By=&Title=Scientology+Critics+Assail+Aggressiveness+of+Church&restrict=articles&x=60&y=18 official online archive] (non-free), and [http://www.xenu.net/archive/go/media/la280878.htm unofficial online reproduction] (free).] 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." [cite paper |author=Hubbard, L. Ron |date=1958-07-15 |format=lecture |title=AAC Procedure Outlined - E-meter TRs ]

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." [cite news | title = A Sci-Fi Faith | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913995,00.html | work = TIME | date = 1976-04-05 | accessdate = 2007-01-01] 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". [cite paper |author=Hubbard, L. Ron |date=1956-01-19 |format=lecture transcript|title=Exteriorization ]

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 (Peter Goodwin, Jim Stathis, Peter Knight, Mrs. Knight, Nora Goodwin, Ron Frost, Margaret Frost, Nina Collingwood, Freda Gaiman, Frank Manley, Mary Ann Taylor and George Wateridge) 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."cite book | last = Wallis | first = Roy | year = 1976 | title = The Road to Total Freedom | publisher = Columbia University Press | location = New York | id = ISBN 0-231-04200-0] [cite paper | author=L. Ron Hubbard | title=HCO ETHICS ORDER | date=1968-03-06 | version=No. 30 INT | publisher = Advanced Organisation Yacht Royal Scotman, via U.S. Dist. Court. S.D. of N.Y. | url=http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/hco-ethics-order-30.html | accessdate=2006-06-07] 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 "fair game" and ordering any Sea Org member who encountered them to use R2-45. ["Racket Exposed", "The Auditor", issue 37, 1968. [http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50grand/cult/auditor37.html Excerpt] ] [cite book | author = Bent Corydon| coauthors = L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. | year = 1987 | title = L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman? | publisher = Lyle Stuart | location = Secaucus, New Jersey | id = ISBN 0-8184-0444-2 Convenience link at http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/mom/Messiah_or_Madman.txt .]

ee also

*Suppressive Person
*Scientology controversy

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External links

* [http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/r2-45.html "Auditing Process R2-45: Did Hubbard order murders?"] at Scientology Critical Information Directory