Scientology -- Is This a Religion?

Stephen A. Kent Ph.D. researches new and alternative religions, combining perspectives from sociology with religious studies.

Scientology -- Is This a Religion? In this article by professor Kent explores the many aspects of the Church of Scientology, making many insightful observations about its structure and behavior.

Although some social scientists insist that Scientology is a religion, the more appropriate position to take is that the organization is a multi-faceted transnational that has religion as only one of its many components. Other components include political aspirations, business ventures, cultural productions, pseudo-medical practices, pseudo-psychiatric claims, and (among its most devoted members who have joined the Sea Organization), an alternative family structure. Sea Organization's job demands appear to allow little time for quality child rearing. Most disturbing, however, about Sea Organization life is that members can be subject to extremely severe and intrusive punishments through security checks, internal hearings called "Committees of Evidence," and a forced labor and re-indoctrination program known as the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) and its harshest companion, the RPF's RPF. Taken together, these harsh and intrusive punishments likely violate a number of human rights clauses as outlined by two United Nations statements.

You can read the entire article online -- Here --.

Hollywood, Satanism, Scientology and Suicide

Is the Church of Scientology (CoS) the way to happiness or the way to hell? For some, Scientology is a way to suicide.

There have so many suicides connected to the Church of Scientology over the years it's actually quite difficult to keep track of them all. These reported suicides come in from around the world. And some of these reported suicides are very suspicious and may actually have been staged to hide murder. Alarmingly, the numbers seem to be increasing. Could it be the result of the increasing number of gang bang security checks? The family's of the victims would like to know, "What the hell is going on inside Scientology?" Why do so many members and ex-members end up killing themselves? See -- Why Are They Dead --

The Scientology celebrities are kept ignorant, and are shielded from all bad news. They're kept totally away from all the cruelty and the abuse that goes on inside the organization, and at Scientology's gulag-type concentration camps and punishment program called Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF).

Most Scientology celebrities are victims themselves and don't know that they are being systematically deceived. A very few of them know about Scientology's secret goals, but most of them have no idea about the suicides or the attempted suicides at the Celebrity centers or other centers. Any time they hear anything negative they are told "It's all lies. Don't listen to it. It's just the psychiatrist attacking us again." See -- The Fable --

If Scientology were actually working so well for people why don't they open themselves up for a truly scientific review of the results that they claim are so miraculous? The truth is they can't and expect to be able to continue. They actively resist any outside scrutiny or any form of scientific testing on their technology. So, it's obvious, Scientology's obsession with secrecy has developed for a purpose. Their secrecy and religious cloaking is meant to hide its failure to deliver on its promises, its abuses, its casualties and its real, evil purposes and its true, satanic nature.

Operation Freakout

Scientologists will tell you that L. Ron Hubbard's "fair game policy" was cancelled in 1968. If that is true, then that cancellation hasn't stopped Scientologists from continuing illegal attacks on their critics.

Operation PC Freakout, was a Church of Scientology (CoS) covert black op intended to have the author Paulette Cooper imprisoned or committed to a mental institution. The plan, undertaken in 1976 following years of Church-initiated lawsuits and covert harassment, was meant to eliminate the perceived threat that Cooper posed to the Church and obtain revenge for her publication in 1971 of a highly critical book, The Scandal of Scientology. The FBI discovered documentary proof of the CoS's illegal attacks and the preceding campaign of harassment during their own investigation into the Church of Scientology in 1977.

You can read Paulette Cooper's book that caused the CoS to freak out,
online here -- The Scandal of Scientology --

You can read Paulette's personal version of Operation Freakout as she experienced it,
online here -- "The Inside Account of the Story That Almost Killed Me" --

Scientology: A Coercive Psychological System

This essay is an analysis of the Church of Scientology as an coercive psychological system.

Anybody can unfairly accuse or attack an organization or group they disagree with or dislike by calling it a "cult" or saying that they are using coercive mind control or coercive psychological systems as you call it. FACTNET uses specific criteria to determine if a coercive psychological system has been used. It does not imply organizations or individuals are using coercive pyschological systems or are destructive or dangerous cults without careful research and determination that the evidence fits definite criteria.

So does the Church of Scientology fit the criteria? To find out read this revealing article from the Cult Awareness and Information Center. -- Read More --

Free Gullibility Test

How gullible are you? Now keep in mind that whatever is true for you is true, there is no harm in being gullible. You get to be right no matter what kind of nonsense you believe in. After all the millions of religious people around the world can't all be wrong about that, can they? That is what our constititional religious rights are all about, right? What could you be willing to believe in? Watch this video to explore the funny side of Scientology -- Here --.

Study Tech by Dr. David Touretzky

Study Tech has been around for several decades, but today, only Scientologists recommend it for use in public classrooms. Its proponents claim miraculous results, yet no independent evaluation of its effectiveness has ever been done. Its creator claimed that it represents a revolutionary advance in learning, yet it is in practice little more than a method of compelling mindless rote learning devoid of any critical thought or interpretation.

Those who support Study Tech undoubtedly believe in its effectiveness. Then again, as Study Tech's supporters are overwhelmingly Scientologists, they also believe many things that the general populace would find hard to accept as everyday reality: recall of past lives, possession of super powers, and at the advanced levels, telepathic contact with space alien spirits. No proof is ever offered for the existence of these things. That poses no problems for Scientologists, as proof is never requested. For Hubbard's followers, it is an article of faith that whatever Ron says must be correct, even if its correctness is not evident to anyone else. The effectiveness of what Scientologists call "the tech", of which Study Tech is a part, is a matter of religious doctrine. It HAS to work.

But Study Tech is no more a secular learning methodology than wine and communion wafers are a Sunday morning snack. Its ambitions may be entirely conventional, but its vocabulary and practices are part of a religious doctrine closely tied to Scientology beliefs. The end product of Study Tech is an individual who has been taught to "duplicate" uncritically any proposition, no matter how dubious. It deprecates critical analysis and genuine understanding in favour of a mindless acceptance of the author as an unassailable authority figure. It reflects L. Ron Hubbard's profoundly authoritarian desire to be seen as the "Source" of all Scientology wisdom and it serves his aim of encouraging unquestioning acceptance of his authority.

The real danger of Study Tech is that it was designed for indoctrination, not education. While it may be good at producing obedient Scientologists, it is completely at odds with promoting the ability to think independently. It quite deliberately aims to reduce a student's ability to think critically. Students are taught to distrust their own intelligence and background knowledge, passively and uncritically accepting whatever they are being told. This can only deprive students of a skill vital in an age saturated with conflicting messages, where critical thinking is essential to making sense of the world. Study Tech's doctrinaire and authoritarian approach to teaching is hostile to, and deserves no place in, secular educational institutions.

If you would like to read Dr. Touretzky's complete critique of Study Tech and Applied Scholastics click -- Here --.

Dentists Defrauded by Scientologists

In 1999, Mark Bunker created XenuTV which features streaming video about Scientology. XenuTV was dormant for a couple of years after Mark moved to Clearwater, Florida to join with Bob Minton and Stacy Brooks at the Lisa McPherson Trust where he produced videos for LMT Media.

The World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE) organization has numerous facades and front groups, many of which deny their connection to Scientology. They are feeder organizations that get professionals involved by offering them administrative technology and then shifting them into the Church of Scientology. WISE specifically targets dentists, doctors, architects, veterinarians, chiropractors, optometrists and other professionals because they've got the money.

In this set of videos Mark interviews two dentists from the Chicago area who were defrauded by WISE and were demanded a refund from the Church of Scientology. Expecting trouble in their attempt to get their money back from Scientology, they called the Lisa McPherson Trust. Mark bunker flew to Chicago to do a video interview with them. The dentists interviewed in the videos say that the Scientologists were absolutely ruthless, willing to do or say anything to get money.

Watch these revealing videos -- Here --.

Psychiatry Industry of Death Refuted by 13Heathens

The Citizens Commission for Human Rights is obviously another front group for the Church of Scientology.

L Ron Hubbard was a paranoid schizophrenic. This can be seen throughout his writings, which would later become the scriptures of the Church of Scientology. CCHR, whether they claim to be a separate entity or not, also embraces these twisted ideals.

While watching "Psychiatry: Industry of Death" by the CCHR the fears of the founder of the cult could be seen reflected within the claims of this propaganda film. They present it as if were a legitimate documentary, however many of the facts have been changed, exaggerated, doctored, and in same cases invented.

The 13Heathens YouTube channel does a pretty thorough job of debunking CCHR propaganda film called Psychiatry Industry of Death. To view 13Heathens' videos click -- Here --.

Nut Jobs R Us

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Disconnection

Any PTS who fails to either handle or disconnect from the SP who is making him or her a PTS is, by failing to do so, guilty of a Suppressive Act.

- L. Ron Hubbard, HCOPL of 23 December 1965, "SUPPRESSIVE ACTS"

By far one of the greatest tools Scientology has to keep members is the policy of Disconnection.

If you join the church and have friends or family that do not approve of Scientology you will be forced to sever all ties with them.

When someone leaves Scientology for any reason they are often "Declared" a SP, or Suppressive Person. As a SP anyone you knew inside the church is forced to disconnect from you.

Essentially by leaving the church many end up leaving everyone they've known or cared about during their time as a scientologist.

In addition to the Disconnection Policy members of the Sea Org may be forced to move far away from other family members or be denied the ability to speak directly to them. More information on the Sea Org and what it does to families can be found here.

What is Scientology Anonymous?

Scientology Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from Scientology. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop practicing Scientology. There are no dues or fees for SA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. SA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution. Does not wish to engage in any struggle with the Church of Scientology or its supporters. By serving the needs of recovering Scientologists, SA hopes to serve the needs of all mankind. Our primary purpose is to stay free from the personality disintegration caused reading or studying the works of L. Ron Hubbard, and help other Scientologists to achieve freedom from their dependence on Scientology.

If your are now practicing Scientology's self-destructive tech and would like help to recover or would just like to find out more, follow this link to ScientologyAnonymous.

Good Training for Criminal Con Men

L. Ron Hubbard is considered to be a god by adoring Scientologists and a very clever con man by his skeptics. Whatever he was, now that he is dead, remains to be determined by the future. But his legacy, the Church of Scientology, lives on as a kind of viral meme, infecting the minds of his followers with the amoral message -- the ends justifies the means. "Make it come out right!"

Reed Slatkin a former Scientology minister ruined the lives of hundreds of families. You could say that he found their ruin in their desire to find a good safe return on their investment capital. "My money's with Reed," Scientologists used to brag as the wunderkind investment broker returned high dividends for high-rolling Scientologists like Anne Archer and Greta Van Susteran. That was before it was discovered that Reed was actually perpetrating the biggest Ponzi scheme in history and donating much of his illegal earnings to Scientology. Altogether, investors lost 200 million dollars. The investors weren't just high-rollers either, many were your average middle income folks. Reed is now serving a 15 year term in prison. Being a white collar criminal he'll probably be out in 7 years. Of course Reed was declared an SP, no doubt, because some Scientologists were also caught up in the scheme. Watch YouTube video -- Here --

Herb Zerden another criminal Scientologist and owner of the Florida Foreclosure Assistance Solutions, LLC is operating a different scam. This time it's an unlawful Mortgage Foreclosure Rescue Scam run as a telemarketing operation.

Homeowners who responded to Foreclosure Assistance Solutions were pressured to immediately sign a $1,200 contract. Once Foreclosure Assistance Solutions received its fee, company representatives rarely interacted with clients. When homeowners repeatedly called the company seeking information or action, they were ignored. Because the terms of the company’s customer contract strictly prohibited homeowners from directly contacting their mortgage companies, Foreclosure Assistance Solutions inaction worsened the situation for many homeowners. -- Read More --

Scientologists Harrass XenuTV

Last month Mark Bunker had his YouTube account suspended by Scientology. And although it has subsequently been restored, you may also be interested to know that the Scientology Office of Special Affairs (their secret police -- ya go figure -- what sort of religion has a secret police force) has been gloating about this:

Claiming that Mark Bunker's videos represent 'hate speech'. The interesting irony is the Scientologist account has the motto

'WE ARE OSA. WE ARE LITIGIOUS! EXPECT US!' note:(This has now been removed, to avoid embarrassment no doubt.)

If they seriously think that they can abolish free speech by branding anything critical of them as 'hate speech', they are sorely mistaken.

Jason Beghe escapes Scientology

A celebrity poster boy for the Church of Scientology has escaped the religion and slammed it on YouTube, dubbing it "destructive" and a "rip off".

Jason Beghe, who starred as Demi Moore's love interest in G.I. Jane and featured in TV dramas such as Criminal Minds and CSI, became a Scientologist in 1994.

Beghe, who has completed so many courses that he's considered a top Scientologist like Tom Cruise and John Travolta, started appearing in promotional spots for the church during 2005. But now he's slammed the religion, saying that it's "very, very dangerous for your spiritual, psychological, mental, emotional health and evolution."

"If Scientology is real, then something's f*** up," he said.

Watch what Beghe has to say. **WARNING - he says the F-word a lot.

The video is billed as a three-minute teaser to a longer interview with Beghe. But the short video packs a powerful punch. Watch it -- Here --

Scientology's Richest Man 'Disconnects' from Church

Mr. James Packer was introduced to Scientology by his friend Tom Cruise in 2002 at one of the lowest points in his personal and business life. He was overweight and depressed, his marriage to his first wife, Jodhi Meares, had ended and he was reeling from the humiliating and very public collapse of One.Tel, losing $350 million from the family business on the way.

A video from 2004 shows Mr Packer in the front row with the world's most senior Scientologist at a convention in Los Angeles at which Tom Cruise was awarded a large medal before a roaring crowd.

Now the Church of Scientology has lost its grip on James Packer. The billionaire's closest friends have revealed that he has quietly distanced himself from Scientology, labelled a cult by some former members, as it faces international controversy about its anti-psychiatry stance.

Members of Mr Packer's inner circle have confirmed that the billionaire, who had ranked as Scientology's wealthiest member in the world, was no longer undertaking Scientology courses and had slowly moved away from the religion, telling his closest friends he no longer "needs it".

High Pressure Money Grubbing Cult

"If you really want to enslave people, tell them you are going to give them total freedom." -- L. Ron Hubbard --

Watch this YouTube video from XenuExposed .

In the video ex-Scientology staff members reveal how they manipulated new recruits into cashing out life insurance policies, sell cars, and mortgage their homes in order to pay for costly Scientology courses. From highly-calculated emotional manipulation to bizarre hour-long staring sessions, the lengths which the Church of Scientology (Co$) will go to acquire money is truly disturbing.

Unholy Assult: Scientology's attack on Psychiatry

The Church of Scientology has taken upon itself the goal of eradicating psychiatry from the face of the earth. This may seem like a strange project for a "church," until one reads the thoughts of Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
In 1950 Hubbard published Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health. This unscientific and unproven method of "clearing" the mind of problems was seen as an alternative to what psychiatry at that time was providing. At first Hubbard did not consider himself in competition with psychiatry, and in fact had sought psychiatric help himself earlier. But dianetics was rejected by the psychiatric community and Hubbard gradually became more and more irate at the profession.

In 1969 the Citizens Commission on Human Rights was formed as an arm of Scientology to fight against psychiatry. In 1993 CCHR was granted tax exempt status in a secret IRS agreement of the Church of Scientology's exemption. CCHR and Scientology continue to attack psychiatry. CCHR's website states that CCHR is a non-profit, public benefit organization dedicated to investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights.

Scientology also operates stealth attacks using http://youtube.com/user/psychetruth and www.myspace.com/psychtruth . They are also behind the book Psychedout. Here is a list of materials available from CCHR.

Psychiatry's Corruption of Law
CHAOS & TERROR Manufactured by Psychiatry
CHILD DRUGGING Psychiatry Destroying Lives
COMMUNITY RUIN Psychiatry's Coercive "Care"
CREATING RACISM Psychiatry's Betrayal
DEADLY RESTRAINTS Psychiatric "Therapeutic" Assault
ELDERLY ABUSE Cruel Mental Health Programs
HARMING ARTISTS Psychiatry Ruins Creativity
HARMING YOUTH Psychiatry Destroys Young Minds
MASSIVE FRAUD Psychiatry's Corrupt Industry
PSEUDOSCIENCE Psychiatry's False Diagnoses
PSYCHIATRIC HOAX The Subversion of Medicine
PSYCHIATRIC RAPE Assaulting Women and Children
PSYCHIATRY Hooking Your World on Drugs
REHAB FRAUD Psychiatry's Drug Scam
SCHIZOPHRENIA Psychiatry's For Profit "Disease"
THE BRUTAL REALITY Harmful Psychiatric "Treatments"
UNHOLY ASSAULT Psychiatry versus Religion

CCHR seeks to destroy the psychiatric profession and replace it with an irrational, unproven process invented by a science fiction writer. They seek to persuade people to ignore their psychiatrist or counselor's advice, enticing some to forego proper medical advice and treatment. They attack an entire profession with bigoted unsubstantiated claims. By these actions and teachings CCHR harms society. The Church of Scientology proclaims themselves to be the foremost experts on the mind. And their goal is to "Clear" the planet. The actor Tom Cruise claims he can get someone off heroin in three days through Scientology's detox programs. The question is who would you trust licenced professionals or self proclaimed experts who don't even know the meaning of the word science.

Scientology's attack on psychiatry is yet another "religious" attack on science. - Read More -

Personality Test Results in Suicide

Kaja Bordevich Ballo, aged 20, the daughter of Norwegian MP Olav Gunnar Ballo, committed suicide two months ago after been persuaded to take a free Scientology personality test. The family blames the Church of Scientology for her death and has decided to go public with the story. Ballo's Test results and suicide note were discovered after her death.
On March 28, 2008, Ballo, a student at the University of Nice took the Scientology personality test. A few hours later she killed herself by jumping from the window of her dormitory. Her friends and roommates claim she was in good spirits and showed no signs of a mental break down or depression prior to taking the test. The test was stamped and dated by the Church just hours prior to her suicide.

"I believe Kaja would have been alive today if she had not gone to the Scientologists," says friend and fellow student Henrik Møinichen, 19, to Dagbladet.

The Church, which is located only meters from Ballo's dormitory, states that the results had shown Ballo was "DEPRESSED, IRRESPONSIBLE, HYPER-CRITICAL and LACKING IN HARMONY" (results contrary what her friends and family report). The Church also states that it is "unfair to blame Scientology" for Ballo's death and that the test is not dangerous and had nothing to do with it. However, the Church has since REMOVED THE TEST from its Norwegian website (an action strongly suggesting the test was responsible for Kaja's death). Kaja left behind a note telling her family she was sorry for not "being good for anything."

The incident has generated criticism against the Church from friends, family members and politicians. Inga Marte Thorkildsen, one of the members of Norway's Parliament, told the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet that "All indications are that the Scientologist sect has played a direct role in Kaja's choice to take her own life."

Psychologists state that the "Oxford Personality Test" used by Scientology has no Scientific validity and that it is deliberately rigged to produce poor results. The candidate, in the face of a disappointing result, is then encouraged to buy expensive books and courses to "improve themselves". The test has no connection to Oxford University and the cult uses the title to give the test a false validity.

Bare-Face Messiah by Russell Miller

"What is true is what is true for you." - L. Ron Hubbard

There are two wildly conflicting versions of the life story of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the

Church of Scientology, The first, promoted by the Church, is that he was an unfailingly honest, generous humanitarian whose profound insights have transformed the world. The second, propounded in its fullest form in Bare-Faced Messiah by Russell Miller, is that he was a pathological liar, a fraud consumed by greed and paranoia who sucked literally millions of people into an extraordinary fantasy world.

The quotation above is one was one of Hubbard's favourite aphorisms, highlighting his claim that subjective truth is all that matters. If that's correct, then either account is equally plausible. But if objective truth is at all important, relying on evidence and reason rather than pure belief, then Bare-Faced Messiah is considerably more convincing. I have provided links between Miller's account of Hubbard's life and that of the Church of Scientology (on their Web site, www.lronhubbard.org). Compare and contrast the two biographies, look at the supporting evidence and then decide for yourself. -- Link to Bare-Face Messiah -- the book.

Foreward By Chris Owen

Anonymous: a Model of Viral Distribution

Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet. Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, ebooks, brandable software, images, or even text messages.

The goal of marketers interested in creating successful viral marketing programs is to identify individuals with high Social Networking Potential (SNP) and create Viral Messages that appeal to this segment of the population and have a high probability of being passed along.

Paul Carnes AKA MrFetch, AKA PaulFetch is a YouTube troll and scientologists who has been trying to establish himself as a recognised leader of anonymous. He gained instant e-fame when he promised to raise an army and confront Anonymous. It was instantly obvious to Anonymous that his video address was a furious ball of repetitive nothing.

Carnes, who learned of Anonymous from news stories covering PROJECT CHANOLOGY, apparently misunderstood Anonymous to be an organized group consisting of contentious adolescents looking for a cause. Carnes hoped to recruit such anons as soldiers to fight his personal battles on the issue of religious bigotry. When declaring himself the King of Anonymous failed, Paul grew petulant. Paul continues to make videos in an effort to troll Anonymous and regain his e-fame.

Cult Friction by John Cook

After an embarrassing string of high-profile defection and leaked videos, Scientology is under attack from a faceless cabal of online activists. Has America's most controversial religion finally met its match? To read more check out this article is from the April issue of Radar Magazine. -- Read More --

The Secrets of Scientology by Dave Touretzky

The Church of Scientology is a rich and vengeful religious cult, or as one critic puts it, "a cross between the Moonies and the Mafia." But it would be a mistake to dismiss its underlying technology as harmless or ineffective. Scientologists know a great deal about thought control, social control, rhetorical judo (defeat by misdirection, deft use of logical fallacies) and high pressure sales, though as victims of their own technology, they wouldn't characterize it that way.

Despite its extensive advertising campaign, including half-hour TV infomercials for Dianetics, the Church has been careful to maintain a veil of mystery about its teachings, in part by outlawing any meaningful discussion or analysis of them. -- read more --

Music by Enturbulator 009

Make Money, Make More Money is the moto of the Church of $cientology and a new song by the band Enturbulator 009. Now the music by this hip rock group brings music to the ears of SPs and Anonymous around the world as they picket. Their music is said to be inspired by Lord Xenu. It seems that the anti-Scientology movement is becoming a subculture in its own right. Maybe it's not so cool to follow in the celebrity of Tom Cruise after all. Could this mean the ultimate demise of the "Fastest-Growing-Religion-in-the-World"?

Dianetics Exposed

Secrets of Scientology. Xenu the space alien, subtle thought control techniques, sacred lie detectors, and more. Everything the Church of Scientology (and Tom Cruise) don't want you to know.
David S. Touretzky is currently receiving legal threats from Scientology lawyers over his site, and was even picketed at work once.
Looking for Scientology's "we can kill you" release forms?
Click here.
The Secret Library of Scientology, founded by Dean Benjamin. The books L. Ron Hubbard would not want you to read.
Stop-Narconon.org: protecting the vulnerable from Narconon/Scientology.

A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed, by Jonathan Atack. Read it online.

Cult of Greed and Power

Scientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power

This famous article By RICHARD BEHAR critical of Scientology has been the target of an organized book-burning campaign by Scientologists is detailed in the Scarff deposition. The piece was awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business and financial journalism, the Worth Bingham Prize and the Conscience in Media Awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

Scientology sued Time Magzine for $418 million and lost. Time spent a reported 3 million defending itself.

Message from the Church of Scientology to the World: Criticizing Scientology is expensive.

Counterfeit Dreams

Jeff Hawkins spent 35 years working for the Church of Scientology, all over the world, and at all echelons, including the top level at the Scientology International Base in Hemet, California. This link contains his story.

We all dream.
We dream of a better life. A better us.
Even a prisoner in the darkest cell dreams, if only of escape.

Every guru, every spiritual guide, every cult leader knows this. They know how to appeal to this inner dream. "You can be great," they say. "You have greatness within you. Your body, your life, your limitations, are just illusions. You have within you a core that is powerful, aware, transcending time and space."

It's a very, very seductive message. Because we feel that there is a truth there. What is the human mind really capable of? No one knows. Where do we go when we die? No one can answer. Will we ever reach wisdom, freedom, fulfillment, enlightenment? No one can say.

Except the guru. "Follow my path," he says, "and you will have it all."

And not just for yourself. "Follow me," the guru says, "and together we can bring enlightenment and freedom to the world."

Try Handling Anonymous

The leaders of Scientology have made a rather big mistake. They have assumed that Anonymous can be handled the way others in the past have been handled with their fear tactics. But Anonymous feels no fear. Anonymous has no leader. Anonymous is a hoard, a swarm, and represents the intention of thousands of anonymous independent individuals. Anonymous has no head but responds immediately to every vain attempt Scientology makes to put a new spin on the struggle. Their attempt to depict themselves as the victim and Anonymous as religious bigots is ludicrous. Anonymous knows who they are and their own intentions. Anonymous doesn't need directions from an authority to function.
Scientologists can't seem to comprehend the true power of peers each acting independently of any central command because the CoS is a dictatorial structure with a single leader at the top who micromanages everything. Sorry, David Miscavige, you have met entheta that cannot be handled. Now it is just a matter of time. Anonymous is disseminating the thing you fear most. Anonymous is disseminating the truth. Telling lies won't work any longer for you because you have been identified as the liar you are. Throwing temper tantrums and beating people up won't work any longer. Even the most devoted members have limits to the amount of abuse they will endure at your pathetic hands. What will you try next? Whatever it is, Anonymous will respond.
Anonymous cannot be stopped. Expect them.

Make Money Make More Money

A little of what it takes to bring Dianetics and Scientology to the world. Make the person feel really, really bad about the condition they are in. You take their problems and you magnify them and you get the person to think about how bad their future will be. And you get them to the point where they feel that their future is nothing unless they do something. Then you tell them that their only hope is Scientology. You don't let them decide. You tell them what to do. You handle them. People were told to re-mortgage their homes, cash-in policies that were supposed to pay off their mortgages, borrow against their pensions, sell their family jewels, sell their cars anything you could possibly imagine that a person could do raise money, people were persuaded to do, to pay into Scientology.
Watch this YouTube video

Potential Trouble Source

"PTS means POTENTIAL TROUBLE SOURCE. It means someone connected to a person or group opposed to Scientology. It is a TECHNICAL thing. It results in illness and rollercoaster and IS the CAUSE of illness and rollercoaster."

— L. Ron Hubbard
HCOB 17 April 1972R C/Sing a PTS Rundown

New Advancement in Religious Technology

After spanning the globe doing research into ancient arcane pseudo-psychotherapeutic technologies, and spending years doing exacting pseudo-scientific research, Jeff Jacobsen, the founder of the Church of the Personal Truth Science (Church of PTS), has discovered a method to sharply increase a person's IQ, eliminate asthma, and improve personality. (note: Sadly it doesn’t help people to quit smoking due to interfering volcanoes.)

First, shave a 3" circle directly above each ear. Then, purchase 2 of the Church of the Personal Truth Science, specially designed Sucker Puller (tm) suction cups (in your favorite color!). Squish one directly into the middle of each shaved area. Now, with your first finger in the handle of each Sucker Puller (tm), gently pull out on both SP's (Sucker Puller shortened) at the same time. DON'T do this while driving. Keep

pulling and releasing in a comfortable rhythm for approximately 15 minutes in the morning and evening. While you are doing this, CLEAR your mind of any thoughts whatsoever.

For an even greater effect, you may have our licensed, highly trained Field Sucker Manipulators (FSM's) come and do the process for you in the most precise, spot on method known to mankind. A sliding scale of donations has been set up for your convenience.

This method has been scientifically tested on 26,300 subjects with 100% results. Any confident pseudo-laboratory should easily be able to validate this process and its amazing improvements on health, IQ, and social skills. Oh, sure, there are those skeptics out there, but to them we say, get your own Sucker Pullers (tm) and try it yourself! It's the only way you'll know if it's true or not! All the research has already been done for you! Shave your head and do it! The fate of mankind rests with you.

Jeff Jacobsen,
Founder Church of Personal Truth Science (CPTS)
Send lots of money to become a member (sell your house if needed).
Send your checks to BT's and Clusters R Us
P.O. BOX 080808
8008 Gullible Rd.
Knoxville, TN

Attack the Critic

Scientology doesn't take criticism lying down.
Members of OSA are involved in this practice.

Dead Agenting means to spread malicious lies and rumors about an Anti-Scientologist person or organization, in an attempt to so thoroughly discredit them that everyone concerned will be disgusted with them, and not listen to the information they have to give about the cult. Many attempts to Dead Agent the recently destroyed CAN (the Cult Awareness Network) and FACTnet (Fight Against Coercive Tactics network; a BBS that supplies information about the cult) have been posted to ars. (alt.religion.scientology)

See Scientology's Religious Freedom Watch webpage.

Pseudopsychotherapeutic Dianetics

Scientology, as a religion (NRM[1]), constitutes a body of beliefs and related practices initially created by American science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard. The beginning of Scientology can be traced back to the phenomenal success of L. Ron Hubbard's book Dianetics. The practice of Dianetics (the precursor of Scientology) as described in the L. Ron's book, came under attack for making claims of medical cures without its claims being established scientifically. Rather than conducting any scientific studies to prove its efficacy, L. Ron decided to reintroduce Dianetics practices under the protective umbrella of religion. A religion can be just about anything that a person or group claims it to be as long as the practices do not violate established law. In the beginning Scientology sold courses and auditing services according to a price schedule and they did not enjoy tax-exempt status. Later the Church of Scientology was careful to ordain ministers, hold church services and define all fees for training and auditing as voluntary donations. And then they took the IRS to court to demand recognition of their tax-exempt status.

[1] NRM: New Religious Movement is a neutral term that is suggested as a replacement for the word "cult" because it is an emotionally charged word that has negative connotations. What constitutes a religion or a cult is debatable. Critics of the Church of Scientology (COS) call it a cult. Scientologists dislike the term cult if it is used to characterize Scientology. Whether a person considers the Church of Scientology a religious cult or not largely depends on the person’s relationship to, or experience with, the group. This is a topic for another blog. Selling Scientology

It Works Doesn't It?

There are thousands of Scientologists around the world that have declared that Scientology works for them. You can visit the Church of Scientology (COS) website to view many testimonials that verify the truth of its efficacy. So, why is the COS considered controversial and why do so many people seem to be opposed it? See Jason Beghe Operation Clambake