Through the Church’s hermetic seal (especially hermetic in 1987, pre-Internet), whispers and speculation made their way: someone who’d done something wrong-“gone out-ethics”-had been chained for days to a toilet in a brig or forced to live in something like a gulag, eating rice and beans and doing menial labor, but these rumors had nothing to do with my own experience. I found them reasonable, kind, ethical, straightforward, and sane. This was generally true of the Scientologists I’d come to know in my five years in the Church. Ron Hubbard’s religious technology, yet even as she ensured that the mission (she called it a “Center,” choosing, with purpose, a less religiously charged word) adhered to his policies, she was never dictatorial. She wore simple, elegant clothes, black and tan and linen. As head of a Scientology mission-the “mission holder”-she would refer to them often. Of course Jessica kept these books close to hand. Another bookcase held the equally large set of “admin” volumes, bound in green, which contained everything Hubbard had ever written about how to found and run an organization.
A bookcase behind Jessica’s desk held the entire set, bound in red leather, with an inch-and-a-half gap where this one had been removed. Ron Hubbard had written regarding auditing, Scientology’s form of counseling. It was one of a dozen volumes that contained, in chronological order, all the policy letters and bulletins that L. On her desk lay a large red book embossed with gold letters. ISSNĪn ISSN is a standardized international code which allows the identification of a serial publication.Īn ISSN consists of eight digits in two groups of four, separated by a hyphen.Her lovely face revealing nothing about the purpose or mood of our meeting, Jessica ushered me into her office and closed the door. The twelfth digit is a check digit and usually appears at the bottom right of the symbol.Įnter all digits found on the item (e.g., 008817006925).The next ten digits encoded in the symbol are below the bars.The first digit is the Number System Character (NSC) which appears on the left side of the symbol outside of the bars.Hyphens or spaces usually separate the elements of the The UPC appears as a barcode symbol with 12 digits printed below it. The Universal Product Code (UPC) is a barcode symbol that is used to track trade items in stores (e.g., audio and video products). Enter an OCLC number without leading zeros. OCLC assigns a unique number to each bibliographic record input into WorldCat. Thirteen-digit ISBNs must begin with either 978 or 979. An ISBN is a unique number assigned to an item by its publisher.
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