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Preface
Hubbard was master of only one thing, the Art of Deception. Where he
learned it is currently a subject of discussion. The roots of the control
mechanisms used by Hubbard may have come from a mix of stage magic,
mind control, esoteric writings, perhaps inspired by the work of George
Orwell, author of '1984' or what are known as black magic or satanic
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Wherever it came from, it has the distinctive scent of evil, however, one
doesn't need that answer to solve the Scientology problem. It is only
necessary to familiarize oneself with the pattern of conduct of those who use
this 'black art' to become effective at neutralizing their influence.
I've been thinking about how he does it - attracts good, well intentioned
people, into his palace of deceptions. I've also marveled at how he manages to
keep up the deception for so long. But not as much as I marvel now, that this
deception is tolerated at all, in modern society anywhere, much less in the
United States of America, the purported leader of democracy and freedom in
the world.
Because if these techniques could induce me to invest the best decade of this
life furthering this madness, I dread to consider what it could induce in others.
I left Scientology after ten years involvement, with my life, which is more
than I can say for a number of people I knew and befriended personally
during my involvement. I also left with my core sanity, more or less intact,
but wish to remind my good reader that it took me 15 years before I could
even consider those questions for which I thought Scientology had answers.
Who am I? Why am I here? Is there a God?
I am not going to address those questions here, as this missive is not about
those things. It is about one thing that claims to have those answers but, of
course, does not.
Late at night you may have seen it, the picture of a volcano and "Dianetics,
The Modern Science of Mental Health", in the TV advertisements along with
the latest exercise gadget and a magic blue laundry ball (note 9) that cleans
clothes. Here are the Scientologists, late at night, trolling for the clueless. Call
1-800-FOR-TRUTH, they tell you. "For Truth" seems to echo for a while
after reading it, now, doesn't it?
Well, hang onto your hats, I'm going to work fast here, and tell you in my best
Paul Harvey style, "The rest of the story" behind that weird looking volcano.
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Before you even buy this book, it manages to use a technique called deceptive
implication. In the title is the word "Science," just as in SCIENtology, the
implicationis that there is science at its core. Of course there is not!
Hubbard was neither a war hero, highly decorated, wounded in action, nor a
nuclear physicist. His discharge papers reflect the only affliction he seems to
have acquired while in the Navy was an urethral discharge.
If the entire stated premise for the creation of Dianetics was a lie, then it
follows that everything that comes after it must also be a lie.
There are four major vectors that this virus of the mind is using to permeate
society.
3) The best agents for this deception are their own already hoodwinked
members, using word of mouth. They are paid a fixed commission of 15 or
10% for inducing others to spend money on Scientology.
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around the world, currently posing as bona fide "Churches" in the United
States under an unprecedented secret closing agreement with the United
States Internal Revenue Service. This agreement was granted after a private
investigator set up and video taped a certain IRS Commissioner having sex
with a 12 year old.
I imagine our own government would prefer that this mess get swept under
the carpet.The private investigator was most likely working double-blind.
This describes a pattern of conduct. An operative will be working for one law
firm which in turn is working for another law firm, which is working for
Scientology. Thus any potential legal discovery process is blocked bythe
Attorney/Client Privilege.
This is the pattern used for dirty tricks operations, for which they have a long
and ignoble documented history. These indoctrination centers refer to people
who are not Scientologists by the term, "raw meat". The most popular way
they find their "raw meat" is to use street hawkers, who pass out seemingly
innocuous tickets on street corners that offer "TO ADMIT ONE" to a free
movie and personality analysis.
All of this is well documented elsewhere. This piece is not going to be about
how bad they are. Most people know that. In fact, it is becoming difficult to
hand out flyers about "How bad they are" on the street these days, as most
folks say,"I KNOW"! But what these same people don't know, and what is
most important to those who are currently under the spell of Hubbardian
Cosmology don't know, is the purpose of what you are reading right now, and
that is to explain how the machinery of deception works.
Scientology's use of the FAIR GAME LAW [c] L Ron Hubbard, will be
disputed only by deluded adherents. This maxim has been described in court
cases as the policy used to "if possible, destroy utterly" those who seek to
"harm" Scientology.
However, this technique starts at the first contact with the public.
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Now once you locate what is "RUINING" this person's life, regardless of
what it is, he or she is instructed by Hubbard to say:
"Scientology can help you with _________[that]. [Insert the ruin found
during discussion of the personality test evaluation]
The facts show that Scientology cannot help you with "THAT." In fact, those
few that do 'think' this way, turn out generally to be in a state of induced
conviction. They feel that they indeed found a solution, only to find out years
later that it was no more than a hidden effect described later in this essay, and
the placebo effect, as expressed by the headline on the poster in "The X-Files"
Agent Mulder's office - "I want to believe".
Once a person is thus duped into opening this book, the entire implication of
Dianetics is to get the trusting adherent-to-be to mock up a reactive mind.
How this Reactive Mind works is explained in grisly, pedantic, lugubrious,
detail. Now, after learning how this fabrication, this piece of science fiction,
the 'reactive mind', purportedly works, Hubbard uses this as the program to
trick you into creating your very own reactive mind.
Scientology even has the gall to promote Dianetics as "The owners manual
for the mind."
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They claim that purported way out of this 'trap' which is life on earth as we
know it, across the Bridge to Total Freedom [TM], is Dianetics and
Scientology. However, if anyone did in fact get across this bridge, I assure
you that you would not be reading this right now.
Instead of ability, you are given a picture of people who look able. Instead of
a Bridge, you get a picture of a bridge. Instead of a "bank" or "reactive mind,"
you are merely tricked into painting in this part yourself. Almost like a paint-
by-numbers picture. This is what creates the Scientology trap. In Scientology
words, you continue to create the "reactive mind" in order to then audit it. Of
course all this is at great investment of your time and money.
Wait, wasn't the Clear realization basically "yeah, you made it all up
anyway?" The Clear realization is my PROOF of this CONCEPT. The official
Scientology [TM] Clear Cognition being "I MOCK UP MY REACTIVE
MIND" or "I MOCK UP MY BANK" or "I CREATE MY BANK."
The concept of the reactive mind was obviously fabricated. This is psycho-
political warfare, where ideas are the weapons instead of bullets. It is
essential that anyone in contact with those living under the spell of L Ron
Hubbard's lies familiarize himself with these concepts, so that they might
effortlessly articulate them at every opportunity, to break these good folks,
once just like you and me, out of this deception-induced trance. Instead of just
saying "Scientology is evil" or "Scientology is bad," explain this to those
people under the undue influence.
The "reactive mind" you are then tricked into creating, or "mocking up" is
that very same 'reactive mind' that you spend years getting rid of in
Scientology. Pointing out this conundrum to a scientologist would be both a
potentially devastating mind warp as well as one which turns the powerful
mechanics of the trap to our advantage.
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Scientologists will chant, "You haven't tried it, You won't know until you see
for yourself" at anyone who dares criticize Scientology's outrageous and
bogus fabrications masquerading as claims of efficacy.
Scientologists say "you can't understand it except by doing it" and some
people buy that. These are the same people who believe a heroin pusher who
claims "trust me, you won't get hooked".
It's just that these 'acts' are appropriate fare only in a carnival magic show.
Gradients of Deception
So how does one, on a gentle gradient, slide a person from one 'reality' into a
manufactured, and in the case of Scientology, a science fiction style, 'reality'?
Salesmanship books teach this technique but instructing the wanna-be high
producer salesman to get the target's head nodding in assent.
You must CLOAK the lie you are trying sell in truth.
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So I tell you a self evident truth. You think, "Yes." I tell you another one and
you think, "Yes," nodding your head at same time. I tell you another self
evident truth. You think, "Yes."
I read you a bit of Aristotle. You think , "Yes," [ but I don't tell you this is
Aristotle ].
I read you some Plato and you think, "Yes," [ but I don't tell you this is
Plato ].
I read you some Freud. You think, "Yes," [ but I don't tell you this is Freud ].
This product has been SCIENTIFICALLY tested! You think, "Yes", because
of the implication of the "also a lie" that "Hubbard was a Nuclear Physicist.
Then I read you my science fiction. You think, "Yes", [ but I don't tell you
this is my old Science Fiction! ].
The world needs my collection of truths. You think, "Yes, if the prior is true,
then this is OBVIOUSLY true too!"
I have these secret levels wherein I explain the secrets of the universe. You
think, "Yes, if the prior is true, then this is OBVIOUSLY true too and a good
idea. I wouldn't want to 'ruin 'my ability to receive this vast knowledge by
doing something out of order".
I have the only bridge out. You think, "Yes, if the prior is true, then this is
OBVIOUSLY true too!"
But you have to give me your money and your life. You think, "Yes, if the
prior is true, then this is OBVIOUSLY true too!"
Oh and one more thing, you must not speak out about the things you find that
are not right, or if you disagree at some point in the future, OK?
"What an astute, lucky man I am," you think, "Yes, indeed I am, I have found
what I have been looking for all my life!"
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The Art of the "Con man" is the building confidence to gain the credibility
needed to then get the money.
Now some might say, "Well this is just basic marketing" and indeed they are
correct. Marketing is the art of creating "perceived value" but with one caveat
- there is the assumption that the commodity in question in fact has some
inherent intrinsic value to begin with.
Well, now, doesn't that sound like fun? Sure sounds like an effort to create
perceived value here. But then if just one person ever atatined this, I would
likely not be here to tell you these ugly truths.
The only intrinsic value of Scientology is the vast amount of money that an
artfully engineered con game can extract from its targets. Much of this, to the
tune of $26 million a year (Note 8) is fed to lawyers to ensure that the public
at large will not find these things out until after they have exhausted all their
money, ruined their lives, and now, penniless, try to fight a well financed
legal machine!
What a brilliant scheme! By the time they find out what it is all about, if they
are still capable of rational thought processes, they will likely be unable to
defend themselves, so the lawyers can have a skeet shoot!
As the years have gone by, I have determined, that if it doesn't make sense to
me, chances are it does NOT make sense. Lets call this bafflgab. Now, when
you enter the Hubbardian Belief systems, you are confronted with piles of
material. In addition to the implication that "there must be something to this",
there is an immediate assumption that one will never be able to grasp it all. I
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contend that this is fabricated on purpose. Just to have that exact effect.
Judge Brinkema was later informed that what I had scanned, turned into text
and posted to the Internet, was merely a copy of an unsealed public court
record, from the Central District of California. This was the infamous
Fishman document. It contained 61 pages of purportedly Trade Secret and
Copyright super dooper "ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY" of Scientology as
exhibits, as well as the notorious "Christ was a pedophile" issue purportedly a
'forgery.'
Just like in 6 inches of filings they filed to get the raid, Earle Cooley failed to
mention that this was a copy of a public record in a court case. Judge
Brinkema found this so outrageous that she raised this issue herself in so
many words in open court.
One experienced litigator, early on in the case remarked about the voluminous
filings, even Judge Brinkema complained about the huge filings. The
massiveness of the filings was an attempt also to raise the expense in lawyers
time to digest this torrent of paper, in order to run us out of money, before we
could finish the case.
Once again, just like the bookstore crammed with books, just like the
thousands of taped lectures that you must buy and listen to.
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The amount of material one would have to digest to sort it all out is beyond
what one man could do in a lifetime. Ah, but what better way to both
maximize the amount of money you get out of a person and make the runway
long enough they never get to the end, because if they do, they just might find
out what Michael Pattinson did.
So the same tactics used to recruit 'raw meat' are used on all "raw meat".
Judges are just more "raw meat." To be expertly manipulated, in exactly this
manner, so there is never a chance, under their horrific caseloads, especially
with the current level of understaffing, to sort through the bafflgab.
Dianetics, causes the reader to assume his mind works this way, and by
implication, Dianetics causes the reader to MOCK UP HIS OWN
REACTIVE MIND
Oh, and speaking of shyster lawyers. Earle Cooley kept repeating this phrase,
"ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY" over, and over, and over, at every
opportunity, in full capitalization too. During depositions, in pleadings and in
court, he was using this same technique of manipulation by implication that
Hubbard used in Dianetics, the Modern "SCIENCE", etc., and
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Hubbard only initiates those who have reached a state that I like to describe as
"Being willing to believe ANYTHING". That is my definition of a
Scientologist in the "afterburner stages" of the scam. Which are designed to
consume any money they might still have left.
By inventing Body Thetans and the exclusive Copyright and once Trade
secreted means of removing them, NOTS {New Era Dianetics for Operating
Thetan), auditing, and the story of Xenu and the Space cooties which is called
"Incident II", a part of OT Level III.
This purported incident happened 75,000,000 years ago. It concerned the evil
ruler XENU, who after calling in the inhabitants of 'this sector of the galactic
federation' for income tax audits, captured them, froze their bodies in ethylene
glycol, antifreeze, transported them to earth, stacked up the billions of
inhabitants around volcanoes and then blew them up with hydrogen bombs. In
the ensuing melee the disembodied spirits were gathered up with an
"electronic ribbon" and "implanted" using electronic force beams and bad
movies. They were then packaged into clusters and attached to you and me.
This is the source for many of the 'clusters of body Thetans' that are stuck all
over you. I assure you I am not making this up, but Hubbard did, and tells you
this is the way things are. He calls this scene of his magic show: "The Wall of
Fire"
These same materials state that premature exposure to them will cause a
person to be awake for days, unable to sleep, and then die of pneumonia.
Shortly after I posted these documents to the Internet (Note 6), the New York
Times closed an article discussing how dangerous this material was supposed
to be with a memorable sentence. It described this claim of death to those not
prepared by Scientology's expensive 'techniques' to mentally deal with this
ghastly secret with one line:
Oh yes, and one more thing, about the volcanoes, you know that volcano in
the advertisement for Dianetics on last night TV, that is supposed to be a
subliminal reminder to your soon to be acquired "reactive mind". That
volcano is supposed to remind you of this incident and compel you to buy the
book.
Hubbard even has a good laugh at you, when you are told to 'run' the incident
described in this once secret level, from the beginning up until you see the
picture of the "THE PILOT SAYING "I AM MOCKING IT UP"
I bet he's a jaunty looking nautical pilot with bad teeth just like Hubbard.
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Now, like one of those late night gadget commercials, "Wait, there is still
MORE":
"I now know what I am not, and am ready to find out what I am" [source for
this is Michael Pattinson "New OT8 completion" that now considers
Scientology to be a complete, and utter fraud].
Give me a break, isn't that why many of us joined Scientology to begin with?
Once you enter the Scientology Circus tent, in order to maintain the illusion
that "it works", the stage is carefully choreographed. The things that you are
allowed to view are the props crafted to imply that Scientology is truly a road
to ability and ultimate truth.
Much is made of a few deluded big shot Hollywood stars' names, but they are
just stage props for your deception. Much like that old TV series Mission
Impossible, where identities are stolen and situations fabricated in order to
gain access to the target.
To maintain the illusion, whenever someone inside the show awakens, and
realizes that it is in fact, just a show, they are spirited away, and whisked from
view.
You are told that they had a "psychotic break", and that they are the ones who
are crazy. You are very sane, you see, as long as you give your money and
your life to Scientology and are not concerned about things going on outside
of Scientology's tent.
The policy used to accomplish this is called "disconnection policy" and the
policies for handling folks, called "Handling PTS" [ PTS = Potential Trouble
Sources ] There is also expensive 'auditing' that you mustpay for to fix these
"troublesome conditions" , which stem mostly from just asking hard questions
and exercising common sense.
The public mark soon learns how to avoid these pitfalls, and go along with the
program, so he won't have to spend the extra money to get his reward of a
'good feeling' from his auditing experience, and can get up the bridge as fast
as possible.
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Those adepts who have had the misfortune to become employed within this
organization, and in my opinion, those who know too much, and could
possibly provide damaging testimony against them, have another treat in store
for them.
The physical descriptions of the actual brain damage that occurs when stress
levels stay high for extended periods of time indicate that this technique
would do much to erase the memories these folks would have otherwise
available to them, if called upon to testify.
This express intent to destroy evidence is also the reason Scientology sought,
and then acquired, the huge volumes of evidence, and information, gathered
by the old Cult Awareness Network. Today, if you call the Cult Awareness
Network, a Scientologist answers the phone, being owned, controlled, and
staffed by Scientologists.
This is a page right out of George Orwell's '1984' where the government was
rewriting history to make the present conditions acceptable. Here an
organization that would love to run the world is already hard at work doing
just that.
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What I found important was that the stressed rats preferred sugar water
solutions to plain water and that various physical changes in brain physiology
were noted after examination of the brains themselves, some of these changes
were noted to take an extraordinary amount of time to reverse themselves.
Also noted and measured was an increase to cortisteroid levels in the brain.
Cortisteroid levels are elevated when there is cellular damage, and one of the
functions of this powerful hormone is to destroy damaged cells, however
chronically high levels of this hormone directly cause healthy cells to be
damaged.
This sure looks like the RPF, ( Rehabilitation Project Force) Isolation &
running programs have induced brain damage as a product of their use by
Scientology.
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After telling members that the Rehabilitation Project Force will help them the
result is destruction of personality through induced stress related damage. The
constant subliminal electric current supplied by their E-meter, described in the
next section, might also be a considered a hidden stress vector.
I admire these men who would learn this information, and publish what they
learn from animal studies..
At least the "Evil PSYCHS" as Scientology describes them, have the integrity
to use animals... AND to disclose what they find, for the betterment of man.
Unlike Scientology that runs these horrific stress programs on people with the
intent of destroying their minds or in some cases pursuing them until death
results as they did to Lisa McPherson.
Psychiatry does this only to animals so that humans can benefit from the
knowledge.
Scientology does this to humans so that Scientology may benefit from their
silence.
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In The FDA versus Article or Device Case [The E-Meter] the Federal
Government held that "by itself the E-meter does nothing"
But ladies and gentlemen that was a conclusion based upon the hard science
available at that time. [ 1971 Gissell Decision ] It is now 30 years later. The
same science that brought the controls on electro-magnetic radiation
limitations for computer monitors is new science. And it is not the varying
magnetic and electric fields that cause harm - it is the transformer like,
induced electrical currents in the human body due to those electromagnetic
fields.
This area of this inquiry is not yet concluded. Preliminary data indicates that,
if the published NATO, USAF, IEEE and European Union's electro-magnetic
Field (EMF) exposure limitations which are expressed in field strength, are
converted into an equivalent current through a conductor described as the
circuit between one's left hand and one's right hand, then, the E-Meter
exposes a participant in the Scientology charade to an order of magnitude
greater exposure than what is considered 'acceptable' by published
government recommendations.
Measurement made by this author, (who spent some time while in Scientology
actually involved in the building of E-Meters) , of a Mark Super VII [TM]
model of Scientology's E-Meter yielded the following: The E-meter exposes
the human body to a hand to hand current of an average value of about 100
Micro Amps. 1/8th of the value that is generally considered noticeable by a
person. In fact some members have reported to me, being able to feel the
current go through their bodies. Hubbard himself pointed out how some
people could feel it in his own writings.
Electroplating
One can deposit the same amount of metal at one tenth of one ampere in 1
minute, as one would deposit with 1 hundredth of an ampere in ten minutes -
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The point being that if the number of actual charge carriers is what is the
factor, that is, if it is the actual ionic transfers that do the work [ plate the
metal] or as I will illustrate later that mediate actual activity at the cell wall
boundaries, the opening and closing of ion exchange pathways through
individual cell walls, THEN the E-Meter cannot be said to do nothing. It *IS*
having a physiological effect on internal and external cellular functions.
The magnitude of charge provided to the human body by a set of three shocks
used in a single treatment of Electro Convulsive Shock therapy, ECT, is
approximately 1.2 coulombs
Ironic isn't it, that Hubbard's arch demonic enemy, Psychiatry, in a single
shock, give people the same dose of electric charge that Scientology will give
the unsuspecting public in one session?
There are various devices on the market, all licensed for use by the FDA
under the direction of a physician, which consist of two electrodes which are
applied to various parts of the body. As in the treatment of lower back pain.
These are called TENS units - TENS is an acronym for transient electro-
neural stimulation. There are many flavors of these devices, including devices
that have been clinically shown to provide pain relief from the effects of the
electrical currents they put through your body. The method by which these
devices provide the sensation of pain relief has been the subject of much
investigation.
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It is remarkable that the body has a group of peptides called endorphin. These
particular messenger molecules evoke a pain killing effect when they bind at
their specific receptors. The opium family - morphine, heroin, codeine, etc. all
end up traveling a metabolic pathway to create morphine, and morphine - the
most effective pain killer as well as most addictive one - binds at the same
sites as your bodies own endorphin.
One theory of how electrical pain killing works, is that it induces the body to
release its own endorphins. Studies have shown that a small electrical
stimulation with a small morphine dose has a therapeutic effect of a larger
clinically significant dose. Which indicates there is a close relationship
between these two factors.
The actual amount of charge delivered to the body by many FDA approved
medical devices is of the identical order of magnitude of the small current
provided by the Scientology E-Meter.
Thus I conclude that the E-meter directly provides a pain killing adjunct to the
implied result of Scientology auditing technology's release state.
This is also the source of the sag effect. This is a case of a participant feeling
great after auditing, yet having a sagging emotion tone some few days later -
as his body's endorphin levels go down past normal in a hang over effect, in
which, like a heroin addict, he wants another dose, only it is of auditing.
There is another theory titillating me lately; that actual nerve synapses, the
repeaters on a nerve trunk lines, when artificially stimulated, [irritated ] for
thousands of hours by the DC current of the E-meter - might look, and READ
on the E-meter just like BODY THETANS... you see Hubbard said, that if
someone doesn't "Have any body Thetans" when they get to OT III, "send
them back to do more auditing at the lower levels" { to hold the cans for a
good long time} until the BT's "appear" no doubt..
Perhaps it's just the E-meter current induced damage that becomes the Body
Thetans. Hubbard used to hold the cans for hours upon hours doing
'research'.. I also heard tales of his ranting and raving like a madman about his
"damn body thetans". I bet by this time that may have had thousands of
irritated nerve synapses. I discussed this with Michael Pattinson, Full OT8,
and he said he thought he had tons of BTs until he put the CANS down, and
they gradually went away.
Dennis Erlich told me that he could feel the electricity when he held the E-
Meter electrodes. He said that he thought it was a factor when he first left
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Scientology. The research I've been doing supports this rather tenuous
conjecture, in many surprising ways.
How long would I have to send a subliminal electric charge through your
body, while telling you things that you wanted to hear, until you thought that I
was truly 'the one who had all the answers'?
Note: In 1997, faced with falling income and statistics around the world due
to increased exposure of their true nature in the media and on the Internet,
Scientology ordered an upgrade to all of it's E-meters that raised the shunt
current going through the participants body, promoted as a way to make the
E-Meter more resistant to induced 'body motion' and make it more sensitive,
in a desperate effort to hold onto its dwindling number of adherents. This was
called the "Super 7" Upgrade. (Note 7)
Protecting yourself
The coercive tactics described herein are used by any organization that is built
upon deceit. To avoid this trap, wherever you find it, here are a few
recommendations:
A) Never trust anyone who tells you there is anyone you must not talk to,
especially if they were once friends or family.
B) Never trust anyone who feels they have the answers to the universe.
One day there was a man who had been suffering effects from association
with the Scientologists. He was a religious man, a minister, so I played the
snippet of one of L Ron Hubbard's lectures in which Hubbard's voice say's
"There was no Christ". After playing this perhaps five times, the reverend
looked at me, blinking, and said, "Brother, I have seen the light". I was told
by Reverend Bellamy that I should become a Minister. I asked the good
Reverend why? He asked me, "You tell the truth?" I said, "yes". "You hold
the truth to be sacred?", I said "yes". And the good Reverend then said,
"Because Truth is God's word, you should become a Minister, that's what you
do" . I have no quick comeback for this to this day. But it does mediate my
view of what truth is, and where you shall find it.
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These tidbits of prior art are woven together into a compelling matrix that
makes the inquirer think that what comes next is AS TRUE AS THE
STOLEN PRIOR ART. And what comes next?
The lies.
Other systems of mind control use similar tactics, all disconnect you from
your family, all make less of your friends and anyone you ever considered an
authority or source of knowledge.
While titillating you with pieces of wisdom, you will be given one source, a
guru, the leader, the con man, who will then take your heart's joy at being
shown these pieces of wisdom and then use your heartfelt joy to make you do
his bidding - as this has now become 'the way'.
This purported unique 'way' is in fact a program that demands your obedience
or you are dismissed from the group. That demands that you separate yourself
from all others who might disagree. That demonizes those who hold opinions
that are not part of the program.
This is one person or group following a formula designed to control you and
impose their will upon you.
This is why there is a first amendment that no voice should be silenced by the
state.
The founding fathers never conceived that voices could be silenced by gag
agreements in abusive civil litigation conducted outside of the spirit of the
law.
They never conceived that corporate entities would be granted those same
constitutional protections intended to protect a citizen, meant to protect the
individual from tyrannical, despotic, governments.
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I was asked, "How does Scientology maintain its hold on John Travolta and
Tom Cruise?" And feel this deserves attention. There are 1100 pages of
sworn under penalty of perjury testimony on my website from the 1982
Clearwater Commission Hearings. Video of these is also available on another
website, http://www.xenutv.com. Many ex-members testified, including an
old friend, Scott Mayer. He testified that he took confidential information of a
very personal nature which had been taken from a lady's "confessional
formulary files" with him to visit her. And he let her know in no uncertain
terms that she would cooperate or it would be made public.
The hearings went on for 4 days. Each person was asked whether they would
have chosen to get involved with Scientology at all, if they had known that
the information that they divulged during the 'auditing experience' could and
would be used against them if they every turned against Scientology.
Every little thing you ever did, or you knew about that someone else did gets
written down. This would include the Scientologist that was a roommate with
William Jefferson Clinton in college. Now I know for sure, based on the
pattern of this evil, Scientology knows far more about Mr. Clinton than just
whether or not he inhaled. They know everything his college roommate knew.
The IRS's Howard Schoenfeld refused to answer this question, under advice
from DOJ counsel, in a deposition for Tax Analysts v. IRS: "Was there any
input in your decision from the White House?"
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In 1940's and 50's it was still possible to find "electric shock machines"
configured like the drug store scales - "Your weight for a Penny". These
devices existed when Hubbard was a kid, consisting of an insulating phenolic
platform, with two round brass balls like the globes on the top of a staircase
banister... 5 inches in diameter mounted at the top on the right and left of the
pedestal that the subject would place his/her hands on.
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and morphine] from the induced cellular damage. I bet the "Old Man" [as L
Ron Hubbard is referred to by members,] when he was a child, came across
these devices. I bet he stood on one, placed a penny in the slot, and held onto
the round electrodes... and noted that he felt better.
Gordon Bell recalls those shock machines "being all over carnivals" and Alan
Walters recalls seeing them when he was a kid "in railway stations and fun
parks". I bet he (Hubbard) remembered this when he met Volney Matheson,
the inventor of the E-Meter; and I bet he hoped you would never read these
conjectures today.
Earle Cooley claimed in front of Judge Brinkema that all Scientology cares
about are its copyrights, and the secrecy of the upper levels.
Just like his statement in front of Judge Brinkema that his religion prevented
even he from reading the OT Levels in The Fishman Document. Then some
time later he told a reporter in Boston that he was not a Scientologist.
I did not suspect anything else was going on, really, until one day, I was
ferreting through old Hubbard tapes and materials in the little room next to his
old office across the street, and up the block a bit. There I found a dumbwaiter
which I noticed was between the 1st and 2nd floors. I pulled it down. And
what did I find?
It was filled one half full to the top with Hubbard's Mark IV model E-Meters!
When I asked why there were so many of these devices in a dumb waiter, I
was told that during the raid conducted by the FBI that initiated the E-Meter,
Article or Device case that resulted in the Gissel decision, they were hidden
there, and the agents doing the search never pulled the rope.
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Even when suddenly, in 1967 or 1968, there were orders coming down from
Hubbard and "PreClear folder administration files" became "Confessional
Formulary", and a cross was dragged through the door.
When I consider all the litigation about the story of Xenu and the body
thetans, I am reminded of the story of Briar Rabbit, who called out, "Do
anything to me, but don't throw me into the briar patch". Scientology's
feigned 'Briar patch" is the story of Xenu and the body Thetans. For
Scientology, complex copyright law, is just an opportunity to create an
expensive litigation tar pit for their target, especially when abused with the
express intent, of enforcing silence.
You see Hubbard, (in a manner similar to the Romulan Cloaking Device in
Star Trek) created in 1954, and then invoked into the mainstream
indoctrination centers, what I call, "Scientology's Religious Cloaking
Mechanism", which became the outer layer of the Scientology onion of
deception for one reason and one reason only.
I had been an active Scientologist for a decade, having been in the 'elite', and
fascist, "sea organization", joining them for the voyage of the Bolivar out of
San Francisco Harbor (immortalized by the 1970 hit song, "Ride, Captain,
Ride upon your mystery ship...73 sailors set sail, out of San Francisco bay,
here's some of the things that they had to say.."). I took my first adventure in
the "elite" Sea Organization, management arm of the Hubbardian belief
systems with my old friend Scott Mayer, with Captain Bob Young at the
helm. I ended up as Financial manager for what is now Bridge Publications,
built E-meters, and sometime later got a marriage license and blood tests to
marry the boss's daughter.
I have been on the receiving end of one million, seven hundred thousand
dollars of Scientology's most brutal litigation* (note 5). Now, after many
pickets, hundreds of hours in many conversations with 'true believers', and
after successfully exiting some of those, after 30 hours of radio talk shows,
and 5 years actively fighting to expose Scientology on the Internet, and in the
media - the following are some techniques I have found successful in
breaking the coercive persuasion trance.
If one understands how the mechanics of Hubbard's prison for the mind is
constructed, it should be possible to turn this knowledge to our advantage and
use their own programming to extract them! After all, they are the ones living
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a lie.
Hubbard explains two important factors, whether they are true or not in the
real world is of absolutely no significance, as they are a fact, by definition, in
the Hubbardian belief territories.
Well now, as our targets are living in a world thus defined, let's first,
determine exactly how long the person has been an inhabitant in the
Hubbardian Belief Systems Territory. Then when you have finished
explaining how the Hubbardian E-meter supplies a subliminal electrical
current to their bodies, ask them to tell you how many hours they have held
the E-Meter cans. (They call the electrodes 'cans' as they are typically tin
plated soup cans). This establishes the duration of Auditing experience, and in
their world might turn on the perceptions of it, as an incident.
I would then get the adherent to discuss how he got into Scientology. Trying
at all times to locate the instant that he made the decision that "THIS IS IT".
What you are doing is using their own definitions of the mind construct that
they have agreed is "true for them", to get them to 'run out' the incident of
their involvement in this charade.
I find it useful to view the target as if he were someone who was running a
computer program, not unlike Windows 98, but instead of reality, this
operating system evokes complete control over him, by explicit and implicit
command structures. Evidence of this is contained in what is effectively an
internal innovation in Scientology: "DUPLICATE SOURCE" - that means
run the program exactly as written. This makes a computer out of one's mind.
This program defines "The boundaries of the realm known as Scientology,
and ALL THAT OCCURS WITHIN IT, while defining in terms that 'make
less of' all sources of critical information outside of the Scientology program.
I have held signs that state simply: WHAT PROGRAM ARE YOU
RUNNING? I sometimes ask WHOSE PROGRAM ARE YOU RUNNING? I
don't know if they work. I do know the Scientologists were told not to look at
the signs, including mine. Before you attack the subroutines of a person's
belief system, you must first make that person aware that he is in a belief
system, or as I like to say, "Running a Program'. Their condition could also be
described as running a script, as a participant in an elaborate theatrical. All
these analogies are viable.
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Before one can attack a complete operating system for defining a reality, you
must realize that it is an operating system that includes definitions of you and
your efforts as being "all lies, paid for by the evil psychiatrists" or just
"nutballs" or "suppressive person" - all forms designed to "make less of it",
"it" being your efforts to expose the truth, instead of Hubbard's fictional view
of reality as rendered by his PROGRAM running in the target's mind.
You see if the minds of Scientologists have been expertly programmed, or, as
some say, infected with the mind virus called Scientology, it is very difficult
to make them let go, as they know their program is right because "auditing
works" for them, at least that is an apparency for them.
So I do this.
"No OTs in Scientology, if there were just ONE OT, you would not be
listening to my voice right now"
They do not like this, as it reminds them that they are all there waiting to
achieve a promise, which, like the story about "The Emperor's New Clothes",
does not exist, except as part of the stage magic show called Scientology.
I explain to the person some of what I have described herein previously, with
emphasis on how Dianetics tricks you into mocking up something called the
"reactive mind", and how the "E-meter may help to induce a euphoric
response to the expectations of the "Auditing Experience" and that "There are
NO OTs in Scientology".
And of course the target is rejecting all of this all along. But that's ok, just
depending on time, repeat these concepts gently as long as time permits.
After a while, when you intend to end off the conversation, tell the fellow
this:
"OK, so you don't feel you are the target of deceptions by Scientology or
Hubbard, or in any sort of trance, stage play or illusion, or running any kind
of mental program. right? {emphasis on 'right?')
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He agrees.
"So how about this, lets make a little friendly wager, ok?"
He agrees.
"Here's the deal" [ then I state with emphasis, command style, with 'intention',
very directly ].
"The next time you hear the words, 'Pick up the cans please, this is the
session' you will remember everything we discussed in this conversation
today".
Now the fellow has just denied all of your allegations, and agreed to this
wager... and you have commanded him, (he is after all running a program) to
recall this conversation at a very specific time, a time in which Scientologists
are at a heightened level of expectation - as those words: "Pick up the cans,
this is the session" commence every auditing action with an E-meter!
And what will he have to deal with at the beginning of his next auditing?
And hopefully he notices.. Gee, that guy was right, I *AM* running a
program.
This is one technique I think might crack the mind armor that Scientologists
wear under the guise of "Thinking for yourself".
I don't know if it works, but the last two public Scientologists that were
assigned to keep me busy during a picket have yet to be seen again!
On L Ron Hubbard
Two different people have contacted me, both saying that they had seen his
private notebooks, with the invocation written in the margin saying "That all
men shall be my slaves and all women shall grovel at my feet".
Hubbard goes on to convince you that only in Scientology are the answers to
the secrets of the universe. Only in Scientology is the key to escape what
Hubbard himself describes as a Prison Planet. What better way to make you a
slave, than to play the part of the grand director, and trick you, yes, FAIR
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GAME YOU, into building Hubbard's prison for your mind, for Hubbard, for
the good of Mankind! For the good of "the agonizing future of every man
woman and child on this planet" { from Scientology's Policy, "Keeping
Scientology Working" which should more accurately be titled, "The show
must go on"}
What better way than but to convince you with lies and artifice that only
Hubbard's pseudo-technology has the key to something they peddle called
"Total Freedom"[TM] Religious Technology Center.
No wonder your Scientology experience was so much about money, and the
dreaded "reg cycles" used to extract it from you, where you would be
mentally beaten with the same steel bar of your cage that you had been
tricked into creating.
Only in Scientology, the inmates are conned into building and managing their
own prison.
The challenge for those of us who had once been hooked, line and sinker by
Hubbard's elaborate fabrications and plagiarisms, is to work to bring this to
closure and do whatever we must to bring the scales of personal justice back
into balance.
The rule seems to be to do whatever one is best at, to use whatever gifts one
has, to best advantage. We each have unique gifts to bring to this table. All of
them are valuable to the degree they help educate the public, to a point, that
there is no one left to deceive.
The citizens effort to expose Scientology is viable. It won't stop. The one big
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We will see if this acute awareness of the techniques of deception - and the
price paid by so many - provide sufficient insight and motivation - to undo
this as well as other patterns of mental manipulation and control which fester
in society like slow growing cancers, by feeding upon the goodwill of the
trusting and naive...
What those of us who have gained this knowledge, dowith that knowledge,
will determine if all the years of deception, the broken lives, the lonely
parents, the buried bodies, are in fact in the end, worth something.
This is the responsibility of those who have breached the real wall of fire,
deception.
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form
of tyranny imposed upon the mind of man" Inscription inside the dome of
the Jefferson Memorial, in Washington DC, by Thomas Jefferson
What is Scientology?
and then
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Arnie Lerma
Thank you
Secrets are the mortar, binding lies as bricks together, into prisons for the
mind
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Scientology tried to get sealed so you could never know that the story of
XENU was indeed real.
Note 7: http://www.lermanet2.com/exit/shock1.htm
Note 11: "Church in Cyberspace; Its Sacred Writ Is on the Net. Its Lawyers
Are on the Case." August 12th 1995 Washington Post
http://www.lermanet2.com/cos/wpost.html
Scientology, Dianetics, The Bridge to Total Freedom, are all [TM] Religious
Technology Center or CSI or whatever corporation they have assigned them
to these days
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