Scientology

[Kanada Kev]

http://www.xenu.net/archive/leaflet/xenuleaf.htm

Who is Xenu?

I'm going to tell you a story. Are you sitting comfortably? Right, then I'll begin.

Once upon a time (75 million years ago to be more precise) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.

Xenu the alien ruler Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were overpopulated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.

Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s (except they had rocket motors instead of propellers).

These DC8 space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around then H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.

The story doesn't end there though. Since everyone has a soul (called a "thetan" in this story) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown around by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams (the electronic beams were sticky like fly-paper).

After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".

When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.

As for Xenu, the Loyal Officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field powered by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today.

That is the end of the story. And so today everyone is full of these clusters of souls called "body thetans". And if we are to be a free soul then we have to remove all these "body thetans" and pay lots of money to do so. And the only reason people believe in God and Christ was because it was in the film their body thetans saw 75 million years ago.

Well what did you think of that story?

What? You thought it was a stupid story?

Well so do we. However, this story is the core belief in the religion known as Scientology.* If people knew about this story then most people would never get involved in it. This story is told to you when you reach one of their secret levels called OT III. After that you are supposed to telepathically communicate with these body thetans to make them go away. You have to pay a lot of money to get to this level and do this (or you have to work very hard for the organisation on extremely low pay for many years).

We are telling you this story as a warning. If you become involved with Scientology then we would like you to do so with your eyes open and fully aware of the sort of material it contains.

Most of the Scientologists who work in their Dianetics* centres and so called "Churches" of Scientology do not know this story since they are not allowed to hear it until they reach the secret "upper" levels of Scientology. It may take them many years before they reach this level if they ever do. The ones who do know it are forced to keep it a secret and not tell it to those people who are joining Scientology.

Part of the first page of the secret OT III document in L. Ron Hubbard's own handwriting

Now you have read this you know their big secret. Don't let us put you off joining though.

Edited May 16, 2007 by Guest

[Tricky]

now that I have all that info. I'm totally in. It just makes so much sense.

[elemeno]

scientology is just a big money laundering sceme for the rich and famous. its a great way to donate money to a charity and hid it from the tax man. and since all your rich and famous friends control the church of scientology they hand you a nice bag of cash each time you visit the church.

someone told me bobby weir was an alter boy at the church of scientology.

[bradm]

someone told me bobby weir was an alter boy at the church of scientology.

(The grammarian in me wonders what an "alter boy" actually would be...a seamstress' assistant, maybe? )

As far as any connection between any of The Grateful Dead and Scientology, the only one I've heard of is Tom Constanten. The wikipedia entry for him states that Dennis McNally claimed Constanten followed Scientology.

Aloha,

Brad

[Kanada Kev]

[bouche]

looks like you found the anon protests eh?

[SaggyBalls]

I think to an extend most of us have exposed ourselves to the same tactics as a part of regular society...creepy when it's all laid out.

"...This current generation of thought reform practices, in the opinion of many researchers, poses a greater threat than did the politically oriented behavior control practices of the past because its primary attack is not just upon the individual�s political views but rather upon the sense of self.

(6) "Basic consciousness, reality awareness, beliefs and world view, emotional control, and defense mechanisms" (7) are destabilized, with resultant loss of independent perspective and thus of the capacity for informed consent.

Some of the influence techniques that attract and hold people in a thought reform environment are:

• Creating a triad of "miracle, mystery, and authority...MIRACLE - ideology imputing miraculous powers to leaders and/or activities...to produce an atmosphere of awe...MYSTERY - secrecy obscuring actual beliefs and practices...[which] hides unattractive aspects of cult routine...AUTHORITY - claims on members� time, talents, bodies or property to meet group needs. A leader�s allegedly immense intellectual, spiritual, or even physical powers may rationalize whims and doctrines, [allowing him] to hold sway over followers. While leaders are intelligent and articulate, often their biographies and abilities are puffed up." (8)

• Attributing "all individual suffering to misapplication, misunderstanding or even casual doubting of the group�s unfailing teaching." (9)

• Inducing "sensory deprivation and sensory overload, guided imagery and visualization, trance induction through repetition of words or slogans..." (10)

• Controlling the environment, i.e., the group member "is deprived of the combination of external information and inner reflection which anyone requires to test the realities of his environment and to maintain a measure of identity separate from it." (11)

• Creating a mystique of importance around the group and its leader, so that the group and its goals are seen as more important than anything else. (12)

• Requiring a level of perfection that is unattainable, with consequent guilt and shame serving as powerful control devices. (13)

• Demanding extraordinary levels of confession, including confession to crimes that one has not committed, making it "virtually impossible to maintain a reasonable balance between worth and humility." (14)

• Claiming absolute infallibility of the group�s leader and doctrine. (15)

• Creating a unique language, often non-understandable to outsiders, the effect of which "can be summed up in one word: constriction.... [The group member] is, so to speak, linguistically deprived; and since language is so central to all human experience, his capacities for thinking and feeling are immensely narrowed." (16)

• Giving the member a new identity by bringing his or her thinking into alignment with the group�s, prompting a redefinition of the self and a reinterpretation of the past in terms of the new present. The individual "switches worlds...and through socialization, discovers the �plausibility structures� that make the new world coherent, fully tangible and fully believable...The formula for reinterpretation of the past is, �Then I thought...now I know.� (17)

• Relegating outsiders to the status of reduced value or non-person. (18)..."

[Kanada Kev]