Scientology is not Science
...dedicated to all the victims of scientology, free speech, and, Lisa McPherson. Mirrored from codebot.
Scientology hurts people a lot. It hasn't stood the test of time, which makes it more of a cult than anything else. I researched Scientology for my college journalism graduate studies project and here's what I found.
As it's core tenet, Scientology
teaches that all the bad things in the world come from negative life
experiences. For example, if you were bitten by a dog as a child,
without realizing it you might develop an irrational fear of dogs
(preventing negative life experiences is why they insist their babies
be born in complete silence). Using special auditing techniques and
e-meter technology, both of which Scientology claims L Ron Hubbard created, they believe they are able to remove these bad thoughts from your body.
This premise of Scientology, when explained as being part of science, seems reasonable enough to get people started in the cult.
In actuality though, both auditing and the e-meter existed before L Ron
Hubbard created them. Auditing was an early type of psychoanalysis
experimented with in the early part of the last century. It was soon
discarded when the experts of the time came to the conclusion it had no
real lasting therapeutic value. The e-meter is based on the same
technology as a primitive lie detector.
At first they introduce you to courseware and studies using seemingly
innocuous subjects such as tapes on how to have a happy marriage, and
how to control you’re eating habits. Where things get really weird is
when they teach you to hate psychology and require you to pay money,
lots of it, for the courses and auditing sessions. These materials and
sessions are required to progress up the Scientology ladder.
As you progress up the ladder, the church begins to reveal more
information about itself to you. They contend it can’t be revealed to
you all up front, because the information is so powerful, that if you
were to hear about it with an unprepared mind it would kill you (it's
that powerful). What they begin to reveal is that all the negative
energy trapped inside you are actually thetans, and that thetans are
wandering immortal souls carrying past life experiences.
If at some point you cannot continue to pay for the courseware and the
auditing sessions, you will be offered a thousand year contract to
serve the church for free, in lieu of the fees. You see, the church
begins to teach their followers that by following the courseware they
will eventually become immortal, and a thousand years is pittance in
comparison to forever.
Working for the church is something that can turn quite unpleasant.
It's like an army structure without the organization. Superiors abuse
and degrade their workers. They make them do the worst jobs, and can
have them locked away using a special confinement technique.
Eventually the courses teach you that once you reach the state of
"clear" all thetans will be purged from you body. After "clear" you
progress to an OT (operating thetan). As an OT you will begin to
develop supernatural powers (John Travolta is a high level OT).
It's in the OT levels that the church begins to tell you the true story
of the universe. They teach you that the thetans were actually hundreds
and hundreds of billions of interplanetary space beings placed on Earth
by the evil galactic ruler Xenu. They were killed by Xenu when he
placed their bodies around volcanoes (somewhere around Hawaii) and
bombarded them with H-Bombs. Their souls attempted to escape after
death, but Xenu anticipated this and had machines ready to capture
them. The souls were taken to giant 3D cinemas and brainwashed into
believing all kinds of bad things, like the story of God and the devil.
Finally, Xenu released thetans into the atmosphere, where they began to
clump together and make their way into our human ancestor's brains.
To protect all of this information, the church uses its vast sums of
money to litigate into oblivion those that speak out against the
church. They have an entire dictionary of terms and plays to use
against people. For example, if you were in the church and knew someone
critical of it they would label you a PTS,
or potential trouble source. The outside person would be called a
suppressive person. As a PTS you are required to get rid of the
suppressive person. This leads to the Scientology policy of disconnection.
Another trick Scientology
uses is spying, threatening, and record keeping. See, the contents of
your auditing sessions are kept by the church. They have all your deep
dark secrets, and if you ever leave and are perceived as a danger in
any way, they won't hesitate to threaten you with this information.
Watch the scary video of scientology doing it's spying.
Scientology is dangerous cult. They have ruined lives and killed
people. If your are interested in learning more the many true life
stories of people hurt by the cult, search the Internet. Just don't
join their cult.