Comm lag

In Scientology there is a concept known as Comm Lag. This is any pause before speech- particularly when answering a question. Comm Lag is supposed to be a bad thing because the Thetan does not think as such (it simply knows by a process of instant intuition) so Comm Lag indicates that it is not the Thetan who is answering but the reactive mind.

The longer an individual pauses in speech the more they are judged to be lost within 'thinkingness' and the more 'reactive' he is.

Many of you will be smiling inwardly because LRH has the most appalling comm lag. He waffles on and on for hours on his tapes and often creates sentences that are literally meaningless. During his wilder speculations he will pause, draw out his sentences and often abandon them half way through. All of these are manifestations of comm lag and it grows markedly worse when he is talking his OT nonsense.

Much of Scientology can be seen as Ron's efforts to resist his own creeping insanity. He was a sociopathic drug addict who invented programmes to cure sociopathic behaviour and drug addiction. All of these programmes were ultimately failures because they were the product of a sick mind. It is tempting to believe that the doctrine of comm lag was an effort to cure himself of his own OT delusions.

The real effect of the comm lag doctrine is to prevent any form of thought. If somebody barks a question at you in the Sea Org you had better come back with an instant response- or else.

Unfortunately thought requires time- so it is possible to stop a person thinking by denying them time to do so.