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Ex-Scientology OSA volunteer Tommy Gorman Interview (Warning adult language) 27 year member Creed Pearson tells his story
Ex-member Chuck Beatty's story Ex-Sea Org Gary Weber's story Dan Garvin's Story Artist Ex Sea Org More Ex-member Stories and Audio Lectures including Tory Bezazian, now Tory Christman and D/Commodore Hana Eltringham, and Stacy Young Through The Door - Still MORE Ex-member stories and a place you canw write yours RIGHT NOW Dear Scientologist - A letter you can send to your scientology freinds (no "OT" materials)
Click on image for Hi-Resolution scan of Hubbard's Death Certificate  Click on image above for Hi-resolution scan of Hubbard's Toxicology Report NEW! Shannon Report ponder these documents about Hubbard's real history Ida's Promise A mother's 27 year battle with Scientology after her son "Disconnected"
What Your Fees to Scientology really buy: Links to information related to this article Pattern of Lying to Smear ex-members and critics Terminology FAQ
Definitions for Scientology Lingo by ex-member Martin Hunt
About L Ron Hubbard's Death
Mysterious Death of L Ron Hubbard
(links to LRH will, and autopsy)
Long time member Vaughn Young's 1st hand account, of Death of LRH
Chapter 4 of the book, A Piece of Blue Sky by ex-member Jon Atack about
Hubbard's Death
Chapter 5 of the book, A Piece of Blue Sky
After Hubbard
Bare Faced Messiah - Chapter 22
Missing, Presumed Dead
A Day at Gold Base with David Miscavige, by Jesse Prince
Deaths in Scientology
Quentin Hubbard Coroner Report, and background by Ex-Flag Cramming Officer Dennis Erlich
Secret Lives Transcript with images
Secrets Lives Transcript
Text and link to Video
Scientology Litigant's, and activist Karin Spaink's
L Ron Hubbard page
Fake war claims:
Chris Owen's Ron The War "Hero"
Legal Organization of Scientology
Declaration Vaughn Young
Sworn testmony for ex-member Lawrence Wollersheim
Use of PC File data against it's enemies
Scientology Matrix article by Ex-member
Zegel Tape transcript
Ex member gives details
Conspiracy for Silence
Use of Gag Agreements as the cost of doing business
1982 Clearwater Commission hearings
1000 pages of SWORN testimony by
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L Ron Hubbard's son by his first marriage Ron DeWolfe
REAL AUDIO file, Lecture by Ex-member David Mayo at his organization before it was destroyed by Hubbard, describes Scientology bragging about doing "a burglary every day"
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IRS Secret IRS Agreement
Newstories
Actual Closing Agreement (Long)
Report from the day Hubbard invoked Religious Cloaking Some of the Sources from which Hubbard molded Scientology
Hubbard the master Stage Hypnotist - What do kangaroos and body thetans have in common?
Why I dont trust Scientologists
What A Scientologist faces who wants to leave
The Scientology Matrix
Scientology's Real Secret - the E-meter
Hubbard caught lying on video Secret Lives snippet Scientology's Private Army of Private Investigators Major News Articles of Interest to Ex-Members Son of Scientology - An interview with Ron Dewolfe Pulitzer Prize Winnning 14 Part series in the St. Petersburg Times Offlines.Org Warrior's Archive The Very Strange Death of L Ron Hubbard the King of CONs Through the Door: Movies that a great for understanding Scientology: |
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Why Sanity and Scientology are not related> Editorial Note: Clarifications of Scientology nomenclature have been added in italic by Arnie Lerma. Those that require longer descriptions are footnoted. These as well as important keywords are hyperlinked to clarifying information Not that credentials matter, but to get them out of the way, in a past decade I was a sr cs,(Senior Case Supervisor note 1) I audited OTS(Operating Thetans - Note2) in LA (Los Angeles) in other countries. I was considered a case cracker and did some special training/work under David Mayo for a brief time. Brief because he was canned. I have listened to LRH on tape countless times, and read the admin (administrative Note3) volumes, the tech volumes countless times, along with every book that was available to staff and public. I vaguely remember FN stats (Floating Needle Statistics Note 4) - my pcs FN'd my auditors pcs fnd. I have opinions on what that is but that is not my topic here. If anyone wants more I am happy to oblige with more. Scientology has based it's entire premise on the idea of mental image pictures and thetans. Mental image pictures are what holds us back, along with those pesky BTS that are somehow not up to Thetan status. What Scientology did calling mental image pictures "mental image pictures" is not new--Plato, Aristotle and countless other since have called them exactly the same thing. Yet, somehow it has been dubbed a new term that we must learn. Perhaps this is true if we consider the word as a contextual construct, a word that can be ahistorically, without intersubjectivity, i.e., an awareness how LRH texts relate to, borrow from or exist in the stream of written texts since antiquity. What LRH has neglected to tell us, that so many philosophers have noticed and told us again and again, is that the creation of mental image pictures is natural. Yes, mental image pictures, like life, contain everything, the good, the bad and the ugly...but to get rid of them is a waste of time. If anyone has seen the movie Paycheck then it is obvious why. And it is not less knowledge of other philosophies one needs but more, because when I was in the church, thinking was really prohibited. The only reading we were supposed to do was reading of LRH materials. We cleared MUs until finally we got it, and we agreed. Interesting here is that thinking is closely tied to the creation of mental image pictures, at least in classical philosophy. Also, the imagination is driven by the creation of mental image pictures. SO, if thinking and the imagination and the creation of mental image pictures are related, why would Scientology want to eliminate them? Sanity has nothing to do with deletion of the 'bank'. To delete the bank is to delete the past, something the COS seems to enjoy doing even on the internet. Sanity is not even a desired effect in a being. If anyone has read modern philosophers grappling with modernity, technology, etc, such as Nietzsche, Foucault, Bataille, Deleuze, and others, the tag of "normal" just means you are a drone. A happy drone does not rebel. A happy drone accepts the social order. Well, certainly, a social order exists in Scientology and if you go against it, how different is that from trangressing any other social order, such as the family, a church, a government? Trangression is how human beings advance, how change and creativity happen. Words like happiness, freedom etc. do not mean what we think. Freedom is a difficult word that modern, still living philosophers such as Jean-Luc Nancy and others grapple with. Baudrillard has an incredible book called Passwords which touches upon Evil and freedom. If you read Passwords and think about Scientology, suddenly the impossibility of Scientology is made clear. The problem with Freedom is the problem of evil. Freedom when unrestricted implies the ability to transgress, to act individually. Obviously this is not the freedom Scientology proposes, is it? Isn't the freedom scientology proposes a freedom to be happy, a freedom from rather than to? But again, happy is also a difficult word. Nowadays people think of happy and think of having things...a nice car, a nice partner. Things make us happy. In scientology auditing is a very expensive thing that makes people happy. And this happiness comes at the hands of another, a priest as you will. Somehow in Scientology, one must get permission from another to FN, to be happy, to move onto the next level. And here is where Freedom and happiness, Scientology style, hold no appeal. Part of existence IS dread, IS suffering. And these things are not things to get rid of in order to achieve a kind of commercial or manufactured happiness of Scientology. NO. What scientology wants to get rid of for us is experience. My answer to that is that all of experience IS experience and that to remove any of it, even the most terrifying is to remove what makes us human. To remove lower moods from the tone scale likewise makes us less than human. The problem with "good" is that if one were every going to achieve it, some evil would have to happen. Something always comes at the expense of something else. To have a table you cut down a tree. To form a church you set "values" and automatically make a "Judgment" and thus assign as outside or "Other" any values that don't suit you. By its nature, the Good sets limits, wants to capture experience within a social order. To be sane in a Scientology was is not desirable. To be sane in a way that allows for the full range of action, mobility, emotion would imply a kind of exterior position to any social order. Note that I did not say that in having this exterior position one would not be able to function in society...only that one would not be bound by or constrained by a social order. Freedom is an individual process. To claim to be able to eliminate mental image pictures or the ability to create them is ridiculous because it's impossible. Mocking up, being creative is what people do. This is why no amount of auditing will ever clear anyone. Beings do what they do and mental image pictures are what they do. We love images. If anyone has doubt, read Society and the Spectacle by Debord. The problem is images is less their creation and more their use. Images are used by Scientology to sell. They use images to sell freedom, happiness and health. Images are used by Hollywood, by politicos. Images and the way the state uses them is an old problem. You can read Plato book X and find this covered. So mental image pictures do not cause us ill health. It is how the images are used. It is how we misunderstand them. I would say that Scientology understands well how to use them to cause held down 7s...how to use them to cause guilty, desire, and any number of other human emotions. Freedom is not something you get from paying for auditing. It is something you experience in the moment, on your own, alone as a human being. Social orders, religions....they don't provide this because they need compliance. Even Christians have it wrong in a sense because they want to belong and in the desire for belonging to a group, forget that mediation through another human being limits their relationship with anything Divine. This problem is very well delineated by a philosopher named Kierkegaard in his book Fear and Trembling. I am not implying that attaining community is wrong. I am not placing values here except to point out that any system that offers things like freedom, health, sanity, and happiness for a price or through a system or through the mediation of a priest or practitioner by that very fact becomes a system of exchange. Call it what you will: Master/slave, capitalism what have you. A price has to be paid. And this is the point. To do, Good and Evil are always enterwined. To create a utopia where no one works and everyone floats around doing whatever they want requires a class system. There must be someone then, who does not enjoy utopia and who keeps the "machine" of it humming for the lucky ones. Good needs its henchment. Even in Plato's republic Book X, in the depictions of heaven we see the henchmen throwing people who won't make it into heaven. Heaven is an exclusive club and you can only get there if you submit. You can only get there is you sacrifice. What you sacrifice could be another, could be yourself. It always implies a rejection of something, a hatred of something. This is the lover who wants your soul but must rebuild you, must change you to make you suitable. To be involved with Scn is to be in a Sado-masochistic relationship. This is the gated community, bigotry, the us/them problem to the extreme. Scientology is filled with resentment, and in that sense "clearing" can never happen. The only "clearing" scientology does has to do with wiping out the individual, creating a tabula rasa or clean slate where they can then "write" what they like. So Sanity and Scientology are not related. Scientology's version of Sanity is sanitized, wiped clean of the individual existence in order to satisfy the greater "good". Sadly, the greater good is not always the greater good. Many an important contributor to humanity was not understood in their time and yet contributed important things to the development of civilization. If they had not trangressed, if they had not acted anyway, where would we be? I don't doubt that some claim benefits from Scientology. Some people need or want the very things this post would warn against. It is too frightening for some to conceive of thinking, or actually existing when existence itself is dreadful, filled with dread, filled with possibilities of harm...but possibility, not understanding is what should drive us. Understanding of the type Scientology offers is impossible. Kant, Hegel tried and failed. It's an effort to tie a bow on life and contain it. Why would we want to contain life rather than to live?? Note 1: Each scientology organization has one person who is the overall authority on the use of Hubbard's technology, this one person reviews each auditors report and the persons folders and writes a directive to the auditor on what shall be done next, and questions to ask, and orders the auditor to corrective training when things do not go well. Case Supervisors are usually the most highly technically trained person in a Scientology Organization.
Here are some additional suggested sites to assist you: http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/timeline.htm
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