PseudoScientology

Scientology volunteer minister opens yellow tents in Baguio convention center

Baguio City, Phillipines (26 January) — On Thursday morning 9:00am, January 31, the Scientology Volunteer Ministers’ International Goodwill Tour will hold a launching event in Baguio Convention Center, their “Something Can Be Done About It” yellow tents are there to invite anyone who are interested to join them.

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Volunteer Ministers

This is called “The largest Independent Relief Force on Earth.” (at least that’s what the banner for their web site says).

Yes, helping others is a good thing, but let’s put that in perspective. The next time you hear a story like this, remind yourself that there are nearly 1,500 four-star charitable organizations doing great work around the world … most without any religious affiliation. (more…)

At this point in your life are you standing, spiritually speaking, on a firm foundation? Every person lives out his life, however consistently or inconsistently, on the basis of some foundational beliefs, upon some set of presuppositions that he considers to be true. These beliefs may be well thought out or they may be more or less held without ever having given them serious thought. Whatever your current beliefs are, you need to take the time to give them serious thought because there may be more at stake in your beliefs than you realize. (more…)

The Church of Scientology doesn’t take kindly to negative coverage

By Robert W. Welkos
Staff writer for the Los Angeles Times
November/December 1991

In the late spring of 1990, shortly before the Los Angeles Times published a comprehensive series on the Church of Scientology by staff writer Joel Sappell and myself, a deliveryman arrived at my house and propped a large manila envelope against my front door. It was from a mortuary, and inside was a brochure extolling the benefits of arranging your funeral before you die.

“Investigate the pre-arrangement program at our memorial park now,” the brochure read. “You’ll be glad you did, and so will your family.”

Curious, I telephoned the mortuary and asked why they had sent me the material. To my amazement, they didn’t know they had and told me they never sent brochures unsolicited because it can be upsetting. They assured me they were always sensitive to such concerns and that it would not happen again.

But it did.

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But I thought they were a group of enlightened individuals seeking the best of what life has to offer, and spreading peace and harmonious human relations.

Uhhhh … No! See more below.

The Scientology Story
by Joel Sappell and Robert W. Welkos

A six-part series in the Los Angeles Times, June 24-29, 1990

I don’t support most of their tactics, but I thought the video was interesting.

What do YOU think?

Indicators of a delusion
(Munro, 1999)

1. The patient expresses an idea or belief with unusual persistence or force.
2. That idea appears to exert an undue influence on his or her life, and the way of life is often altered to an inexplicable extent.
3. Despite his profound conviction, there is often a quality of secretiveness or suspicion when the patient is questioned about it.
4. The individual tends to be humorless and oversensitive, especially about the belief.
5. There is a quality of centrality: no matter how unlikely it is that these strange things are happening to him, the patient accepts them relatively unquestioningly.
6. An attempt to contradict the belief is likely to arouse an inappropriately strong emotional reaction, often with irritability and hostility.
7. The belief is, at the least, unlikely.
8. The patient is emotionally over-invested in the idea and it overwhelms other elements of his psyche (psychology).
9. The delusion, if acted out, often leads to behaviors which are abnormal and/or out of character, although perhaps understandable in the light of the delusional beliefs.
10. Individuals who know the patient will observe that his belief and behavior are uncharacteristic and alien.

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L. Ron Hubbard, in his own words

“MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.” - L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 9 March 1972, MS OEC 384 (more…)

Clues

Around the late 1960s Hubbard was asked why he had turned Scientology into a religion. Some people, Hubbard said, might think it was mere opportunism. “There are many, many reasons. Amongst them is that society accords to men of the church an access not given to others. Prisons, hospitals, and institutions … cannot do otherwise than welcome men of the church …” [Scientology: the Now Religion, by George Malko, 1970. page 65].

Opportunism would be too kind a motive to assign to Hubbard’s methodology … there are much better words: PLUNDERER - to take wrongfully, as by pillage, robbery, or fraud; PERLOINER - to steal, often in a violation of trust; SWINDLER - to put forward plausible schemes or use unscrupulous trickery to defraud others; SCAMMER - a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud; EQUIVOCATOR - to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; FABULIST - a person who tells or invents fables.

Seven sentences written by L. Ron Hubbard, excerpted from his “Route to Infinity”

In interpersonal relations, you will notice that when you have a person agreeing on a decision, you will get action. If a person agrees on a decision, you will get action if it’s an action decision, and if it’s a “not to be” or an inaction decision, you will also get the inaction. In other words, you get what you want by bringing to pass an agreement. This is very, very important in interpersonal relations and is actually the one problem of interpersonal relations. You’ll find all arguments are based upon an inability to agree. You will find that all friction which occurs between an individual and a group, an individual and another individual or a group and a group is simply on this basis of disagreement. And this disagreement comes about because of a divergence of decision.

Huh? You’re kidding me … right?
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I believed in Satanism.

Penthouse, June 1983

There was no other religion in the house! Scientology and black magic. What a lot of people don’t realize is that Scientology is black magic that is just spread out over a long time period. To perform black magic generally takes a few hours or, at most, a few weeks. But in Scientology it’s stretched out over a lifetime, and so you don’t see it. Black magic is the inner core of Scientology –and it is probably the only part of Scientology that really works. Also, you’ve got to realize that my father did not worship Satan. He thought he was Satan. He was one with Satan. He had a direct pipeline of communication and power with him. My father wouldn’t have worshiped anything. I mean, when you think you’re the most powerful being in the universe, you have no respect for anything, let alone worship. (more…)

The prophet and profits of Scientology

By Richard Behar - Oct. 27, 1986

ONLY A FEW CAN BOAST the financial success of L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction storyteller and entrepreneur who reportedly died and was cremated last January at the age of 74.

For roughly three decades Hubbard ran the notorious Church of Scientology®, a “religion” he formed to “clear” mankind of misery. It came complete with finance dictators, “gang-bang security checks,” lie detectors, “committees of evidence” and detention camps. In 1977 the FBI sent 134 agents, armed with warrants and sledgehammers, storming into Scientology centers in Los Angeles and Washington. Eleven top church officials, including Hubbard’s third wife, went to jail for infiltrating, burglarizing and wiretapping over 100 government agencies, including the IRS, FBI and CIA. Hubbard could hold his own with any of his science fiction novels. (more…)

Hubbard’s Magic

by Craig Branch

In a 1984 child custody case involving a Scientologist and his non-Scientologist wife, the court awarded custody to the non-Scientologist after seeing the documentation on the horrid practices of the organization. (more…)

I know Miscavige. I have also worked directly for him for many years. Miscavige is a second generation Scientologist. He was born into Scientology, a high school drop out and became one of Hubbard’s Commodores Messengers as a teenager. In this capacity, I have been informed and believe that he was responsible for many multi-million dollar illegal international currency transfers. He did this as an innocent looking young courier. Miscavige has never known of a life outside of Scientology. ‘He is as close to a ‘Rondroid’ (L.R. Hubbard droid) as it is possible to be. He rules Scientology like David Koresh ruled Waco and the Branch Davidians. He endorses Hubbard’s goal of Scientology taking over the entire planet including all heads of government and news media. Hubbard said “take all of the people, put them in Scientology and have them run under the processes of Scientology.” Hubbard’s plan is for Scientology to interface with planet earth for one person to be in charge and for the whole planet to be under a Scientology seven Division org board.

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The Church of Scientology by Stewart Lamont

The story of Scientology reads like the plot of a bizarre and sensational movie. A science-fiction writer founds a religion, makes millions of dollars in the process and then becomes a recluse. His followers, who dress in naval-style uniforms, engage in a cops and robbers game with the FBI and the American Inland Revenue Service which leads to Watergate style burglaries and multi-million dollar lawsuits for and against the cult. Smear campaigns are conducted against its enemies and accusations of brain-washing are
levelled against the church by psychiatrists. A breakaway movement leads to purges and the break-up of families and hundreds of members are declared ‘Suppressive Persons’. Then a young lieutenant of the cult leader takes over amid accusations that he has forged the documents which give him power over the cult’s millions.

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Wow! Pass me some more popcorn … should be an interesting read!

Church Of Scientology: Power, Corruption, Lies - Part 1

Last night’s Glosslip Radio show with author Ian Halperin was an incredibly powerful and explosive look at the deception and danger which lurks within Hollywood’s most influential organization, The Church of Scientology.

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Niece of Scientology’s leader backs Cruise biography

PARIS (AFP) — The author of a controversial new biography on celebrity Scientologist Tom Cruise has found an unexpected new ally: the niece of Scientology’s current leader, David Miscavige.
In an open letter to a senior Scientology official that has been widely posted on the Internet, Jenna Miscavige Hill described how her own family was broken apart by the movement’s policies.

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To pay for “stuff!”

It pays to pitch Scientology, according to earnings reports the church has filed with the Internal Revenue Service. One man averaged almost $200,000 a year in commissions from the fees of new members he had solicited to become Scientologists.

The church gives its proselytizers 10 to 15 percent of what newcomers “donate” for church services, such as the process called auditing that tells how far from salvation the newcomer is. That means the top pitchman in the 1990s, identified only as Barry Klein, drummed up more than $1.3 million for Scientology each year.

Another interesting expense is this: $7 million on the seven nuclear blast-resistant doors for a vault where Hubbard’s papers would be stored within titanium capsules, which cost another $7 million.

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Do as we say, or you may be transferred to the “Rehabilitation Project Force”

The Rehabilitation Project Force, or RPF, is a controversial program set up by the Church of Scientology Sea Organization, intended to rehabilitate members who have not lived up to the Church expectations or have violated certain policies. As part of this program, and in addition to the application of Scientology procedures, members do manual labor tasks around Sea Org bases. There have been some reports of overwork and mistreatment at RPF facilities, and the program can take years to complete. (more…)

Stop the insanity, Tom. You can’t handle it.

Mark Morford - S.F. Chronicle

It is, in a way, a seminal piece of film [the Tom Cruise Video]. It finally removes all doubt that one of the wealthiest and most successful celebrities of this generation is, indisputably, many, many fries short of a Happy Meal. It’s as if you crossed Mitt Romney with Mike Huckabee and rolled it in the hot goo of Ted Haggard and packed it all into the body of a junior-weight high school wrestling champ, with exactly the same level of verbal articulation.

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Scientology Comparative Theology Page

A scholarly study of the beliefs and practices of Dianetics and Scientology. The “Church” of Scientology is less than forthcoming in revealing its entire belief structure to the general public. Scientology publicly claims to be an “applied religious philosophy”, as well as being compatible with other religious belief systems. However, the private upper levels of Scientology introduce many concepts that stretch the definition of “compatible”, and L. Ron Hubbard says many uncomplimentary things about religion in general and Christianity in particular. This website explores the beliefs and practices of Scientology, then compares those beliefs and practices to those of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism.

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You can’t handle the truth

L. Ron Hubbard was a pulp science fiction writer who wrote Dianetics and founded Scientology. He died in 1986. Scientology falsely claims he was a war hero, philathropist, and Ph.D. In fact, he was a drug abuser, a bigamist, and a liar.

The that’s just the short list.
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What They Say About Scientology

“[The court record is] replete with evidence [that Scientology] is nothing in reality but a vast enterprise to extract the maximum amount of money from its adepts by pseudo scientific theories … and to exercise a kind of blackmail against persons who do not wish to continue with their sect … The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder, L.Ron Hubbard.”

– Judge Paul Breckenridge Jr., Los Angeles Superior Court (1994)

Amazing Scientology Factoids - Wikipedia

L. Ron Hubbard used the term Incident in a specific context for auditing in Scientology and Dianetics: the description of space opera events in our Universe’s distant past, involving alien interventions in our past lives. It is a basic belief of Scientology that a human being is actually an immortal spiritual being, termed a thetan, that is presently trapped on planet Earth in a “meat body”. The thetan has had innumerable past lives and it is accepted in Scientology that lives antedating the thetan’s arrival on Earth lived in extraterrestrial cultures.

In his writings and lectures, Hubbard describes many key Incidents said to have occurred to thetans during the past few trillionyears. Generally speaking, these followed a consistent pattern. A hostile alien civilization would capture free thetans and brainwash them with implants designed to confuse them or otherwise render them more amenable to control. Often, instances of implantation are termed Incidents, while the subject of the implants are often termed Goals, although these are not set-in-stone rules. Not all Incidents deal with implants; some are simply unusual and traumatic events said to have happened to thetans millions of years ago.

This trauma is said to linger for trillions of years and causes unresolved psychological problems in the present day. According to Hubbard, only Scientology methods can resolve the burdens left by such traumas.

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Gee whiz Uncle Ron, that’s a really far out story. It’s kind of scary too, but lots better than your other stories. I hope it helps you make some money to pay your bills. If you make it into a book I’ll be sure to buy a copy next time I go to the drug store. 

Scientologists play hardball … to be exact!

St. Petersburg Times, published January 28, 1998

When prosecutors filed charges in the death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson, the Clearwater-based Church of Scientology — the defendant — had one clear response: (more…)

The Scientology Story

by Joel Sappell and Robert W. Welkos — a six-part series in the Los Angeles Times, June 24-29, 1990.

What is Scientology? (more…)