HCOB: Johannesburg Confessional List

HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 APRIL 1961RC¹
REVISED 15 NOVEMBER 1987

Remimeo
HCO
Tech/Qual

Confessional Form IRA

JOHANNESBURG CONFESSIONAL LIST

Ref:
HCOB 30 Nov. 78R Rev. 10.11.87 CONFESSIONAL PROCEDURE

This is the Johannesburg Confessional list further amplified by myself. This is the roughest Confessional list in Scientology. We will call it the “Joburg Confessional.” It does not necessarily replace other Confessional lists but it is probably the most thorough one we have now.

In reprinting this form, use legal length and double space everything except directions.

JOBURG CONFESSIONAL LIST

Name of Person__________ Date__________

Name of Security Checker__________

DIRECTIONS: Follow the full procedure as given in HCOB 30 Nov. 78R, CONFESSIONAL PROCEDURE.

The following statement should be read or quoted to the person receiving this Confessional list, when it is being done as an HCO Confessional:

“I am not auditing you. We are about to begin an HCO Confessional. We are not moralists. We are able to change people. We are not here to condemn them. While we cannot guarantee you that matters revealed in this list will be held forever secret, we can promise you faithfully that no part of it nor any answer you make here will be given to the police or the state. No Scientologist will ever bear witness against you in court by reason of answers to this Confessional. This Confessional is exclusively for Scientology purposes. The only ways you can fail this Confessional are to refuse to take the test, to fail to answer its questions truthfully or if you are here knowingly to injure Scientology. The only penalty attached to failure of this Confessional is our refusal to employ you or issue a certificate, and this will only happen if we find that you are trying knowingly to injure Scientology. You can pass this test by (1) agreeing to take it, (2) answering each question truthfully and (3) by not being a member of a subversive group seeking to injure Scientology.

“The first questions are null questions to determine your reaction pattern.

“We will now begin.”

Lie Reaction:

A. ARE YOU SITTING IN A CHAIR?

B. ARE YOU ON THE MOON?

C. ARE ALL CATS BLACK?

D. AM I AN OSTRICH?

E. IS THIS EARTH?

F. HAVE YOU EVER DRUNK WATER?

G. ARE YOU HOLDING UP A TREE?

H. AM I AN ELEPHANT?

I. ARE YOU A TABLE?

J. IS THIS A CONFESSIONAL LIST?
1. HAVE YOU EVER LIVED OR WORKED UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME?

2. HAVE YOU GIVEN ME YOUR RIGHT NAME?

3. ARE YOU HERE FOR A DIFFERENT PURPOSE THAN YOU SAY?

4. HAVE YOU EVER STOLEN ANYTHING?

5. HAVE YOU EVER FORGED SOMEONE ELSE’S SIGNATURE?

6. HAVE YOU EVER BLACKMAILED ANYBODY?

7. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN BLACKMAILED?

8. HAVE YOU EVER SMUGGLED ANYTHING?

9. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN PRISON?

10. HAVE YOU EVER INDULGED IN DRUNKENNESS?

11. HAVE YOU EVER DONE ANY RECKLESS DRIVING?

12. HAVE YOU EVER BURGLARIZED ANY PLACE?

13. HAVE YOU EVER EMBEZZLED MONEY?

14. HAVE YOU EVER ASSAULTED ANYONE?

15. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN JAIL?

16. HAVE YOU EVER TOLD LIES IN COURT?

17. HAVE YOU EVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH PORNOGRAPHY?

18. HAVE YOU EVER COMMITTED ARSON?

19. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A DRUG ADDICT?

20. HAVE YOU EVER PEDDLED DOPE?

21. HAVE YOU HAD ANY DEALINGS WITH STOLEN GOODS?

22. DO YOU HAVE A POLICE RECORD?

23. HAVE YOU EVER RAPED ANYONE?

24. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN AN ABORTION?

25. HAVE YOU ASSISTED IN ANY ABORTION?

26. HAVE YOU EVER COMMITTED ADULTERY?

27. HAVE YOU EVER PRACTICED HOMOSEXUALITY?

28. HAVE YOU EVER HAD INTERCOURSE WITH A MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY?

29. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN SEXUALLY UNFAITHFUL?

30. HAVE YOU EVER PRACTICED SODOMY?

31. HAVE YOU EVER CONSISTENTLY MADE A PRACTICE OF SEXUAL PERVERSION?

32. HAVE YOU EVER SLEPT WITH A MEMBER OF A RACE OF ANOTHER COLOR?

33. HAVE YOU EVER COMMITTED CULPABLE HOMICIDE?

34. HAVE YOU EVER BOMBED ANYTHING?

35. HAVE YOU EVER MURDERED ANYONE?

36. HAVE YOU EVER KIDNAPPED ANYONE?

37. HAVE YOU EVER DONE ANY ILLICIT DIAMOND BUYING?

38. HAVE YOU EVER BETRAYED ANYONE FOR MONEY?

39. HAVE YOU EVER THREATENED ANYONE WITH A FIREARM?

40. HAVE YOU BEEN IN ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF FIREARMS?

41. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN PAID FOR GIVING EVIDENCE?

42. HAVE YOU EVER DESTROYED SOMETHING BELONGING TO SOMEONE ELSE?

43. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A SPY FOR AN ORGANIZATION?

44. HAVE YOU EVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH COMMUNISM OR BEEN A COMMUNIST?

45. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A NEWSPAPER REPORTER?

46. HAVE YOU EVER HAD INTERCOURSE WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DRUGS?

47. HAVE YOU EVER HAD INTERCOURSE WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL?

48. HAVE YOU EVER USED DRUGS OR ALCOHOL TO PROCURE SEX?

48A. HAVE YOU EVER USED BLACKMAIL TO PROCURE SEX?

49. HAVE YOU EVER ILL-TREATED CHILDREN?

50. HAVE YOU EVER TAKEN MONEY FOR GIVING ANYONE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE?

51. HAVE YOU EVER HAD ANY CONNECTION WITH A BROTHEL?

52. HAVE YOU EVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH A BABY FARM?

53. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A SPY FOR THE POLICE?

54. ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE POLICE?

55. HAVE YOU EVER DONE ANYTHING YOU ARE AFRAID THE POLICE MAY FIND OUT?

56. HAVE YOU EVER FALSIFIED THE BOOKS IN ANY FIRM YOU WORKED FOR?

57. HAVE YOU EVER DONE ANYTHING YOUR MOTHER WOULD BE ASHAMED TO FIND OUT?

58. HOW COULD YOU HELP YOURSELF GENERALLY?

59. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST YOURSELF?

60. HOW COULD YOU HELP YOUR FAMILY?

61. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST YOUR FAMILY?

62. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT SEX?

63. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST THE ORG?

63A. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST OTHERS?

63B. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST A GROUP?

64. HOW COULD YOU HELP THE ORG?

64A. HOW COULD YOU HELP OTHERS? 64B. HOW COULD YOU HELP A GROUP?

65. HOW COULD YOU HELP MANKIND?

66. HAVE YOU EVER CONTROLLED PEOPLE?

67. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT BEING CONTROLLED?

68. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST MANKIND?

69. HOW COULD YOU HELP ANIMALS AND PLANTS?

70. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST ANIMALS AND PLANTS?

71. HOW COULD YOU HELP MATERIAL THINGS?

72. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST MATTER?

72A. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST ENERGY?

72B. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST SPACE?

72C. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST TIME?

73. HOW COULD YOU HELP SPIRITS?

74. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST SPIRITS?

75. HOW COULD YOU HELP GOD OR INFINITY?

76. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST GOD?

76A. HAVE YOU COMMITTED ANY OVERTS AGAINST INFINITY?

77. WHAT IS COMMUNISM?

78. DO YOU FEEL COMMUNISM HAS SOME GOOD POINTS?

79. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY?

80. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A MEMBER OF ANY GROUP WITH SIMILAR IDEALS AS THE COMMUNIST PARTY?

81. DO YOU KNOW ANY COMMUNIST PERSONALLY?

82. HAVE YOU EVER INJURED DIANETICS OR SCIENTOLOGY?

83. HAVE YOU EVER COMMITTED ANY OVERTS ON A SCIENTOLOGY ORGANIZATION?

84. HAVE YOU EVER STOLEN ANYTHING FROM A SCIENTOLOGY ORG?

85. DO YOU HAVE ANY OVERTS ON LRH?

86. HAVE YOU EVER HAD UNKIND THOUGHTS ABOUT LRH?

87. HAVE YOU EVER INJURED ANY SCIENTOLOGISTS?

88. HAVE YOU EVER HAD ANY UNKIND THOUGHTS ABOUT SCIENTOLOGISTS?

89. HAVE YOU EVER BETRAYED SCIENTOLOGY?

90. DO YOU KNOW OF ANY SECRET PLANS AGAINST SCIENTOLOGY?

91. HAVE YOU EVER TAKEN MONEY TO INJURE SCIENTOLOGY?

92. HAVE YOU EVER USED DIANETICS OR SCIENTOLOGY TO FORCE SEX UPON SOMEONE?

93. DO YOU KNOW OF ANY PLANS TO INJURE A SCIENTOLOGY ORGANIZATION?

94. ARE YOU UPSET ABOUT THIS CONFESSIONAL?

Passed__________ Failed__________

Why?____________________________________________________________

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Signed by C/S²

L. RON HUBBARD
Founder

Adopted as official Church policy by CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Hubbard, L. R. (1982, 8 March). Johannesburg Confessional List. Technical Bulletins of Dianetics and Scientology (1991 ed., Subject Volume 4, pp. 619-24). Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, Inc.

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