Here is my account of Birega Haus (Caspar and Andreas).

It is an article for the upcoming IVy 102.
Since The debate is raging now, I have released
it to the IVY list and now here as IVY 102 still
is several weeks from publishing.

I have tried to hold it in objective style and
refer to myself as "the Class 8 auditor," etc. (third person)

Rolf K., IVy editor

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Source or Potential Trouble Sources?

In the sleepy East German village of Biere, 150
km south west of Berlin, a torrent of events has
of late attracted considerable attention in the
Freezone. What happened to Muti Genius
Technology? What happened to Caspar de Rijk? And
who is now running the show and in what
direction? The answers to these questions are at
this time not quite clear. But we can give some
details for your own assessment.

Caspar de Rijk left the Sea Org in 1997 after a
25 year tech career. In 2002, he started RONS Org
in the Nederlands, delivering standard tech up to
OT 3. Around 2006 he bought a big old house, "a
fixer upper," in Biere. Biere is a 900 years old
village, streets paved with cobbler stone and
brick, of 2.500 inhabitants. It is situated in
the former DDR. In 2007, Caspar was introduced to
Spiritologie, a tech developed by Andreas
Buttler. Caspar, who is an experienced Class 9
auditor and case supervisor, started to deliver
Spiritologie rundowns as an alternative to
standard scientology, and he now called his
center for Multi Genius Technology, an umbrella
organization for testing and delivering new
technologies and developing new advanced
services. As things developed he had more and
more clients doing Spiritologie and the influx of
preclears wanting standard technology dried up
due to lack of promotion. He became heavily
involved with Spiritologie and Andreas Buttler.

Andreas Buttler

Apparently, what happened recently can be
understood as a shake-up between Caspar de Rijk
and Andreas Buttler. The contest was between
doing the Multi Genius concept or only doing
Spiritologie. Andreas Buttler is a Book One
auditor who calls himself Source. Buttler, the
developer of Spiritologie, now claims that this
program is the new OT Levels. He has at several
occasions stated that "the fourth dynamic engram"
is now handled and therefore, the OT levels known
as OT 1-3 are no longer needed; nor does there
seem to be any room for NOTS or Solo NOTS, etc.
Captain Bill's bridge is out. His efforts have
been in direction of replacing the upper bridge
with his Spiritologie rundowns.

Andreas Buttler claims to be the reincarnated L.
Ron Hubbard. Since Buttler was born in 1966, when
Hubbard (1911-86) was alive and well and just
leaving Saint Hill Manor, Buttler's claim demands
a new model for how this could happen. He claims
in his book, "Spiritologie," that a Being
typically can run several bodies simultaneously
and thus LRH, and many other Beings, can have
several bodies at the same time. He claims to be
such a clone of LRH. According to his book, Mr.
Buttler entered several Scientology organizations
in Germany and Copenhagen and stated just that.
He wanted to subject himself to a confidential
test to prove his true identity. (In the book, he
compares the test to what Tibetan Buddhists use
to identify their Dalai Lama once the old Dalai
Lama is dead.) At one occasion Buttler would only
leave when the staff threatened with calling the
police to get him removed. He claims to be Source
and wants "to take back CoS" and steer it in a
new direction, using this new Spiritologie tech.
To do this, Buttler needed a credible tech
terminal and that is where Caspar de Rijk comes in.

The Shake-up

For about a week in late February, 2009, Caspar
and company were working on getting back into the
Sea Org. They were working on their so-called A-E
steps (program intended to turn around declared
suppressive persons.) They were apparently
working under the orders of Mr. Buttler. The plan
was to stage a takeover of CoS and "cram senior
management." Part of the A-E steps is to deliver
a devastating blow to "the enemies of CoS."
Therefore, anyone in the Freezone was, according
to their plan, Fair Game. The leaders of the
Freezone were to be given a chance. They were to
be called in, one by one. They should "report to
Biere to get handled." Ideally, this would mean
that all key terminals in FZ would do steps A-E
and support the effort of taking CoS back by
joining Sea Org. They could join up or get "destroyed."

It is, of course, a long running discussion
whether those who actually apply LRH tech
faithfully in the free field are right target for
such attacks. It seems more like a convenient
target in absence of the needed confront of what
is going on this planet and the ability to handle
that. You can always blame any misfortune on
well-behaved lame ducks that are in your cross hairs.

Rejected by CoS

Andreas Buttler, Caspar de Rijk and company
sought to reenter as staff of the Sea
Organization in Copenhagen. The Center in Biere
(the house) was to be sold. On their website,
MGTconcepts.com, many different conflicting
messages would be posted, only to be gone the day
after. What we can conclude is that the
Spiritologie people apparently weren't accepted
by the Sea Org.
They seem to have had no luck with David Miscavige and company.

At this stage it had already been stated in press
releases that Multi Genius Technology was
cancelled and the only service delivered in Biere
was Spiritologie. Only, Spiritologie as a
separate subject from Scientology had also been
canceled; it had reportedly been as-is-ed by
Buttler, and it was not to be delivered in Biere
but through the CoS. This was an odd position as,
as far as we know, there at no point was any
interest in such a change on the side of CoS.

Flag is Now "Here"

After the direct take-over attempt failed, the
next move of the Spiritologie people was to
announce that the Flag Service Organization no
longer was the establishment in Clearwater,
Florida. With immediate effect, The Birega Haus
in Biere was now Flag Service Organization
according to the Being calling himself Source.
Also, Tom Cruise, the best known Scientologist,
had to report in immediately for a cramming
there. The topic was, to cram the Hollywood actor
on how to speak about psychiatry in the media. He
had received much opposition in attacking
psychiatry publicly in a matter involving Brook
Shields, a well known Hollywood actress.

Birega Haus and Standard Tech

At the time where all this was in the making, a
Class 8 resided in the house. He had an agreement
with Caspar about setting up a standard tech HGC
there as part of the Muti Genius Technology
concept. He had had several discussions with
Caspar before getting there and many more took
place on the premises. It seemed to meet
considerable resistance from Mr. Buttler who
didn't reside there but was in daily long phone
conversations with Caspar. Apparently there was
considerable resistance, on Mr. Buttler's part,
to have any activities besides Spiritologie at
the location. Mr. Buttler was by Caspar described
as a Book One auditor without any advanced tech
experience. He had worked as a Book One auditor
for a German CoS for a number of years. He had
also had auditing and done several advanced
levels at RONS Org in Munich. In present time he
made his living as an actor and rock singer,
being the fore-singer of the group, Stimmkraft
(voice power). He was not currently running a
practice as an auditor but wanted to concentrate
on his artistic endeavors.
Andreas Buttler had never been a Sea Org member.

"Get Rid of Him"

At the time the handful of residents in the house
were all doing Spiritologie as solo auditing. The
Class 8 had also expressed interest in doing so
as solo to be able to form an opinion. Apparently
it had long since been decided by the Being
calling himself Source that the presence of an
additional Scientology auditor would weaken his
control of the location. Instead Mr. Buttler
apparently conspired with Caspar to find a way to
show what we know as standard tech the door.

The Class 8 first received a metered interview
from Caspar. As it developed, it was a rather
bizarre affair. First, it wasn't a D of P
interview as first announced. It developed into
what could be called a philosophical discussion
about the tech, the axioms, and this universe.
Caspar wanted to stress his views on the axioms
and had little patience with anything else. The
MEST universe was all our own creation in present
time. "Reality" was only what we postulated here
and now. It had no existence outside our own
considerations. The Class 8 mentioned that there
possibly was a creator, whether it was "the theta
body" or a higher Being. This turned the
interview into a grueling attack on the presumed
preclear. Reportedly, he put down the cans but
willingly continued the session as a theoretical
discussion. The idea of an exterior Creator
turned on what was described as a fanatic look on
Caspar's face. The preclear later called it the
look of an inquisitor. Again later, Caspar
rebutted this and said he was being invalidated
by his preclear. The preclear stated that through
the ages, the origin of this universe had never
been determined in any conclusive way. Each
religion and major philosophy had their own views
on this. Scientists, again, had other ideas. It
could be said to be unknowable. Again, this word
"unknowable" apparently was too much for Caspar
to deal with as it appears at the bottom of the
know-mystery scale and his expressed conclusion
was that the preclear in front of him was very
low on the scales. The discussion about, if there
was any objective reality and who was responsible
for this universe went on and on. At the end, it
was clear that Caspar had "won." Apparently, that
was what this interview was about. It appeared
that anyone walking in the door who believed in
an objective reality had no business in
Spiritologie. This conviction could also explain
why a house that for 2 years had served as the
home of MGT and Spiritologie was in such
miserable disrepair. Several rooms had blankets
as doors. Windows had holes and big leaks or were
left permanently partly open, even in minus15
degrees Celcius. Many walls in public areas had
big holes and were left unpainted.

A "Memorable" Session

The Class 8 was still interested in trying
Spiritologie, solo. After all, there were some
interesting points in that tech and people doing
it seemed to have good wins. One simply finds the
postulates and fixed ideas behind any unwanted
condition and handles them with creative
processing. Postulates formulated as timeless
decisions or attitudes were of special interest,
such as, "I am always late for work," "I will
never succeed," "You always put me down," etc. as
they tend to float in time and have a continuous
effect. If the complaint was, "I hate my
mother-in-law!" Run the postulate, "I hate my
mother-in-law," (and of course a multitude of
related postulates, such as, "She is a mean
bitch," "She wants to put me down in my
marriage," etc.) Run flow one: "Imagine another
causing you `I hate my mother-in-law'." This may
bring up incidents that will have to be flattened
before it can go into imagination and its end
phenomena. This is run on four flows. It has some
workability and is quite similar to "Get the idea of..."

A Saturday afternoon, Caspar was to give his new
preclear a groove-in session. He had no other
session appointments that day. After letting the
preclear sit and wait for 7 hours, the time had
come. The metabolism test on the meter, that is
supposed to give a long fall, gave only a
reported tick. The session was started anyway.
The process was: "Imagine something you don't
want others to know about you." In other words,
it asks for withholds, and misses many more,
without pulling them. The session went on and on
without producing a Floating Needle to the
auditor's satisfaction. Caspar is a supporter of
the current definition of F/Ns: It has to swing 4
times at least. When the preclear would start to
bring up a real withhold, the auditor would
stress that the preclear should only imagine
things. It should be no mystery why this session
didn't go anywhere. The approach is described in
an HCOB of 8. March, 1962, called "The Bad
`Auditor,'" and in HCOB of 15 Marts, 1962, called
"Suppressors." The HCOBs describe the auditor
that misses withholds because he doesn't want to
know. He is afraid of finding out what really
happened as it could be embarrassing. He is
afraid of the naked truth and of reality.

Later on, Caspar would even state in some detail
what his intent was. Since it was meant as an
additional invalidation of the preclear's case,
we will not quote it in full. But it is available
to anyone who visits our office. The last line is
in quote: "I WAS KNOWINGLY SUPPRESSIVE ACTING
TOWARDS YOU AND NOW YOU KNOW IT!!!"

Suppressive Person Declare

Sunday morning, the following day, the preclear
was woken up by someone, a messenger, knocking on
the door. The message was from the Being calling
himself Source. The Class 8 had to leave the
premises immediately, "Because you are not
FNing." The auditor demanded an explanation from
Caspar and got one about an hour later. Caspar
had made a long list of issues the preclear
wanted to do something about, including unhandled
things from past auditing and a past
relationship, etc., etc. To that was added that
the preclear believed in a Creator and similar
theological and philosophical points. It was a
list of "wants to handle," items. Nothing
unusual, perverted, or criminal in any way.
Anyway, based on this list originated in session,
D of P interviews, and informal discussions,
Caspar declared the preclear for a suppressive
person and told him he had to leave immediately.
Being one person against a determined group, the
Class 8 realized he had no business there anymore.

Tech and Intention

The Class 8 never got to try Spiritologie. He was
given a choice after all the above. He could join
the group doing the A-E steps, intended to turn
around an SP declared person, and rejoin the Sea
Org with the rest of them - or he would be
"forever out." In other words, "Stay where you
are (in the Freezone), or join us in our attempt
to commit professional suicide."
Any tech is only valid if it is delivered with
sincere intention. Unfortunately, that wasn't the
case here. It could, on the contrary, be seen as
"Black Scientology" as it, according to the
auditor's own admission, was delivered to do the preclear in.
There may be some workability to the basic
process of Spiritologie. It could be compared to
Emotional Freedom Technique, EFT, where the
elements and considerations behind a condition
that is bothering the client are sought to be
duplicated and thus as-is-ed. Only, Spiritologie
is done on a meter while EFT is done with a
ritual of tapping with the fingers on important
acupuncture points of the body. EFTs basic thesis
is that any unwanted condition is due to
disturbances in the body's energy systems. These
"energy systems" could roughly be translated to "the bank."

Spiritologie

Spiritologie is based on a theory that seems to
be consistent with the axioms, especially axioms
1-3. Any condition you are experiencing is
basically due to your own postulation thereof. If
your unwanted condition is "fear of cats," you
find all the negative and charged (reading on
meter) postulates you have made about cats and
run them directly with creative processing. Time
is an illusion and it is therefore not necessary
to run timetrack incidents, unless the preclear
brings them up. Anything that bothers the
preclear IS in present time in some form. Each
postulate is run on 4 flows: Imagine another
causing you fear of cats; imagine you causing
another fear of cats; imagine others causing
others fear of cats; and: imagine you causing
yourself fear of cats. Incidents may, as
mentioned, come up and are itsa-ed
(described/talked out) as hypothetical scenarios.
When the preclear has regained the ability simply
to make up postulates and incidents about cats,
it's time to look for the floating needle and the
end phenomena of the flow. This, in theory,
sounds good and sound. There seems, however, to
be little understanding of the power of old
agreements, called reality. Another weakness, it
seems, is that one only runs what the preclear
already knows about. From running chains, such as
in Dianetics or Confessional processing, we know
that the postulates behind a resistive condition,
and all the charged details it is lodged into,
can be more bizarre and surprising than anyone's
imagination could come up with. Thus, it seems,
the LRH maxim of "What the preclear already knows
about it not aberrative" is violated. The general
rule in Scientology tech is to take an unwanted
condition and trace it back to old and hidden
agreements, incidents, and postulates that were
buried at the bottom of the pile of charge.

Don Quixote

The idea that one can just postulate things into
existence and as-is them (make them vanish) by
handling the original postulate is upheld in
Scientology when it comes to one's own universe.
It is one of the basics that makes auditing work.
It also accounts for the working ingredient of the basic Spritiologie process.
In groups and in the physical universe,
controlled chaos rule. Who postulated what and
why has usually long been lost. We are dealing
with an is-ness (reality) brought about by
countless steps of alter-is-ness (change, efforts
and counter-efforts, revised plans of action,
wars, etc., etc.) It is well described in books
and policies how to deal with realities of groups
and the MEST universe. To get a result, one has
to complete cycles of action. To complete major
cycles of action, correct and detailed data,
including intelligence data, are needed. The
planning and programming have to be well thought
out, yet be flexible when surprises are
encountered. The execution of the plans takes
effort. To produce anything one has to do work -
sometimes long and hard - to bring about the
desired product. Only dreamers and criminals
think that they can have anything they postulate
just like that. The recent events out of Biere
seem to indicate that the Green on White tech, as
contained in policies, is not well understood nor
considered necessary.
We hope they learn a lesson from recent events.

To us, the Spiritologie group, Caspar de Rijk,
Andraes Buttler and company, seems like a noble
and tragic figure. The group as such acts and
reacts much like the Don Quixote figure in
Cervantes' famous novel. Reality no longer
exists. Windmills are made into dragons and then
attacked for the glory of it. Sancho Panza, Don
Quixote's helper who tries to stay grounded and
helpful, is in a blink of the eye seen as a devil
as he painfully reminds the Spanish nobleman
and crusader about reality.