From: sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne)
Subject: Purif Summary (Comments Requested)
Organization: ScotSoft Research
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 06:01:37 GMT

Ok, here is the first (and final?) draft on the Purification Rundown.
Anyone reading this who has read the documents or participated in the
procedure and has some disagreement with something here, or feels that
something has been left out, please comment here or send me mail.
You'll have a better chance of getting something changed if you can
cite scripture (or tech, or whatever you call it) and get the other
SCN's to agree. Critics, please wait until we can find out exactly
what the Scientologists believe before criticizing (unless you feel I
have misrepresented their position). PLEASE NOTE: I DO NOT AGREE WITH
WHAT FOLLOWS, AND DEFINITELY DO NOT ENDORSE IT.

sdb
-------Purification Rundown------------

PURPOSE
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Hubbard claimed that drugs (both medical and 'street'), 'chemical
poisons, toxins, preservatives, pesticides' etc. are locked up
primarily in the 'fat tissue' of the body. These chemicals prevent
'case gain', or spiritual advance.  The Purification Rundown is a
method to remove these chemicals from the fatty tissues of the body
and allow spiritual progress. Hubbard also felt that the Purification
Rundown was worth 'doing for its own sake', without the incentive of
spiritual progress.

Since Hubbard felt that the environmental toxins were significant, not
only people who have taken drugs but really everybody should take the
rundown, since everyone is exposed to the environment.

METHOD
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RUNNING OUTDOORS (why only outdoors?) increases circulation, carries
out cell waste more rapidly and causes deeper blood penetration into
the muscles and tissues (allowing deep clensing of the muscles). Once
the impurities were in the blood stream, SAUNAS are used to cause the
toxins to leave the system through the pores.  It's important to drink
water to assist in flushing and cleansing the system.

Fat cells don't exist, but fat tissue does. If you starve the body, it
will hold onto its fat stores, which is bad news for detoxing since
Hubbard said the toxins are stored mainly in the fat tissue. The
solution is to give the body OIL to encourage it to exchange the bad,
toxic oil for the good, clean oil. Thin people in particular can also
have drug deposits inside cells, so even if you have very little body
fat you still probably need the rundown.

Hubbard had a theory that NIACIN interacts with Niacin deficiencies
that 'already exist in the cellular structure', and that everything
Niacin does is the result of running out. The term 'running out'
apparently refers to a form of cathartic elimination, where the
original stimulus (drug trip, medication, sunburn, etc) is eliminated
by reliving or 'restimulating' it one more time.

NIACIN can break up the toxins from both the tissues (fat) and the
cells. Hubbard describes one case where 1g of Niacin released enough
LSD to cause 'a full blown LSD trip'.

Hubbard claims that the flush which some people experience on Niacin
is actually sunburn or radiation damage which is being cured by
restimulation (running out and through) the original damage.
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