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manipulations are nearly unbearable to contemplate. More tortured
rejects are beginning to straggle home because they are useless to
(Scientology) now. Some are simply chronically psychotic, while others
... cannot control the content of their minds enough to work out their
life problems.... (15)
In the Lewis Carroll-like world of Scientology, and especially on
the OT levels, a person might well wonder if he has gone "through the
looking glass," so bizarre are these levels.
Why do people in Scientology go along with these levels?
"It's kind of like The Emperor's New Clothes," one former
Scientologist explains.
Nobody wants to be the one who says the emperor has no clothes on.
But it's other things, too. You believe that Hubbard is right, that
he is like God. You believe that if he says it's true, then it's true.
And, too, because everything is so expensive, you just assume that it
has value. After spending a few thousand dollars on Scientology, no one
wants to admit that he's been had.... (16)
It is interesting that the goals of both Hitler and Hubbard were the
same: to create a new race of supermen (and women) -- Hitler through
genetic breeding, and Hubbard through auditing.
Two men, born of the same occult crucible, who have wrought untold
destruction in the lives of those whose paths they happened to cross.
It is reported that Scientology has allocated a half million dollars
in a special trust to ensure that the name of L. Ron Hubbard will live
on forever.
Whether he will live on in fame, or in infamy, remains to be seen.
Notes
- Corydon, p. 356
- Scientology magazine: "It's Time to Improve Your Life; Your Guide
to Scientology Services"
- Hubbard, "OT Course Section Two", p. 2
- Ibid, p. 3
- Hubbard, "OT Course -- Part One", p. 23
- Ibid, p. 23
- Hubbard, "Operating Thetan Section Three", p. 1
- Ibid, p. 24
- Ibid, p. 24
- Hubbard, "OT IV Solo"
- Hubbard, "OT V -- Cause Over MEST"
- Hubbard, "OT VI"
- Hubbard, "OT VII Rundown"
- Conway, Flo and Siegelman, Jim Information Disease: Have Cults
Created a New Mental Illness?
- Rudin, Marcia, The Cult Phenomenon: Fad or Fact?
- Affidavit of an unnamed (by choice) ex member of Scientology
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