Scientology

I started doing a little research on this “religion” a while back and found they are a very dangerous mind control cult. They create fronts including the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, HealthMed and Narconon to get people into the cult because if people found out what they were really getting into they would quickly bolt. At risk to this cult are mostly only the uneducated but they have plenty of tricks to lure the educated. Even David Miscavige, the current head of the cult, is a high school drop out. Because of certain misguided and uneducated celebrities, most notably Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley, they get a lot of press. Also note the above mentioned celebrities are only high school educated at best.

Read this Time Magazine article to get some background if you want more information about some recent scandals and a quick look at the founder, L. Ron Hubbard. It talks about how they use mind control at their “audits” in which they claim therapists will cure you from drug addiction and other ailments. The various fronts they use to hook new unsuspecting members; and how they bilk these people out of millions of dollars.

The basis of the “religion” is that an evil alien named Xenu brought people to Earth billions of years ago only to kill them with a volcano. The spirits of these aliens are still on Earth today and possess all living beings. Your goal as Scientologist is to cleanse your body and rid it of these evil spirits. You do this through intense “auditing” which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. As you progress through the “auditing” sessions you advance in rank from raw meat (right off the street) to OT8. A level OT8 has fully cleansed his body of all evil, alien spirits so they can never get sick and are immune to all disease. The reason people get sick is NOT from viruses but from these alien spirits, which cause all illness and disease both mental and physical.

How they hook people is they do not give you that whole story all at once but slowly over many hours of “auditing” and after you have already invested much money. As you advance in rank you also advance in power and I guess this lust for power and rank clouds their minds. You don’t even find out you’re possessed until OT3 and your goal through OT7 is to purge these spirits from your body; some of which are sleeping and are harder to expel.

One of the purposes of these “audits” is for the Scientology association to obtain all information about an individual’s life; delving into every corner including every sexual experience. Now if a person wants to leave they can publish intimate and sometimes embarrassing details of their life as blackmail to retain wealthy members.

Anyway, be careful because these cultists retain many lawyers and employ many tricks to get you hooked. Sometimes you do not know who they are at first until it’s too late.

Sarcastic side note

They should add a volcano to the list of weapons in Clue. Miss Scarlett did it in the Library with a Volcano. That sounds perverted!