Blow; Blow-offs; Blows

BLOW, v. leave hurriedly. (HCO PL 25 Jun 72)

BLOW-OFFS, departures, sudden and relatively unexplained from sessions, posts, jobs, locations and areas. One can treat people so well that they grow ashamed of themselves, knowing they don’t deserve it, that a blow-off is precipitated, and certainly one can treat people so badly that they have no choice but to leave, but these are extreme conditions and in between these we have the majority of departures: people leave because of their own overts and withholds. That is the factual fact and the hard bound rule. A man with a clean heart can’t be hurt. The man or woman who must must must become a victim and depart is departing because of his or her own overts and withholds. It doesn’t matter whether the person is departing from a town or a job or a session. The cause is the same. (HCOB 31 Dec 59)

BLOWS, n. desertions. (HCO PL 22 Sept 70) -v. recognizing the source of an aberration in processing “blows” it, makes it vanish. (HCO PL 18 Sept 67)

Hubbard, L. R. (1976). Modern Management Technology Defined. Los Angeles: Church of Scientology of California Publications Organization United States.