SCIENTOLOGISTS:  What  do  they  really  do?  (Part 1)

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I am not a devotee of Scientology but I first came upon it in 1953 when I was on my 30 days annual leave from the Canadian Navy and was in Hollywood California visiting my mother who lived there. While I was there, I bought a book written by Ron Hubbard who is the founder of Scientology. The book was titled, Dianetics. I read through it and found his claims in his book rather silly but there was one part of the book that really intrigued me. Hubbard claimed amongst other claims he made in his book, that Dianetics could eliminate unwanted emotions. He suggested that if we go far enough back in our memories, we might find the sources of our problems and hopefully erase them.

That made a lot of sense to me as I was a hypnotist who had a week earlier, hypnotized a sailor at our naval base who was undergoing a very lengthy operation to remove all of his teeth that were rotten and because he would die if given any form of anesthetic, I was asked by his dentist to put his patient asleep post-hypnotically. The operation was a success and he slept through the entire operation even though I was a thousand miles away. Previously to that, I had used hypnosis to take my subjects back into their memories to get them to remember more details as to what they had forgotten and wanted to remember more details of those events again. Hubbard’s observation that we can go back into our memories and removed unwanted memories made a lot of sense to me. When I returned to my naval base, I hypnotized a man who had a real bad occurrence in his past that was creating havoc with him but he didn’t know what it was in his past that caused this problem. I found it by regressing him to an event in his past that occurred two months prior to his birth. While in that state, I put him in a state of amnesia. When he became conscious again, he remembered nothing about that event in his past that was haunting him. Yes, that can be done and it done quite often nowadays by psychiatrists who are also hypnotists. They too can regress a person to go back in their memory to uncover a memory of an event that occurred a month or so prior to their birth. That is because by then, the brain is fully functional and they can hear sounds of what their mothers are saying.

I am getting off track and should return to the subject of this article—Scientology. I only referred to Hubbard’s book, Dianetics because in my opinion, that statement about removing bad memories was the only thing he had said in the book that made any sense to me.

 I should add however that he said something else that made a lot of sense. He said if you want to make a lot of money, create a religion. He created what he wanted everyone to believe is a religion and as a result of what he created, he made a lot of money. In that sense, he was a very intelligent man. 

L. Ron Hubbard had been a science fiction writer both before and after his work on Dianetics and Scientology, however there is overwhelming evidence that the biographical Scientology literature on Hubbard is simply a work of fiction.

Rather than being, as he had claimed he was, to wit; a war hero, a famous Hollywood screenwriter, a U.S. intelligence officer, a record setting pilot, a Princeton graduate and a rocket engineer, Hubbard was none of these and in fact he was a mediocre-to-poor student at George Washington University who dropped out after two years and failed the one course in nuclear physics in which he was enrolled. His Navy fitness record states that he was “lacking in the essential qualities of judgment, leadership and cooperation" and was "not considered qualified for command or promotion.” The most notable incident of his military career appears to have been, when in command of a submarine chaser, he fought a prolonged, two-day battle against what ended up being a magnetic deposit on the ocean floor.

In a 1984 British custody battle involving Scientologists, Mr. Justice Latey, a high court judge in England concluded that Hubbard was not a war hero, a squadron leader, an atomic physicist, nor an intelligence officer for the United States. In that same year, Judge Paul A. Breckenridge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, presided over a lawsuit against the church. With respect to Hubbard, he said, “The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background and achievements.”

 But what about his religion which he created?

According to Hubbard's teachings, there existed an energy separate and distinct from the known physical universe and that energy was called ‘theta'. Under rather obscure and poorly described conditions, the single theta blew apart, and individual thetans formed from the explosion. These thetans are spirits or souls, and each one begins its existence having no mass, no wave-length, no energy and no time or location in space. According to Hubbard, at first these thetans have the same qualities as theta. Hubbard, however, was not clear about how a thetan was different from a static, which is something without mass, without wavelength, without time, and actually without position Thetans, according to Hubbard do have, however, the ability to create, which soon becomes crucial for the unfolding of universes. When he speaks of universes in the plural, I can’t help but wonder how many universe Hubbard was referring to. I have always thought that there is only one of them.

At some point thetans form their own universes, each of which is called a ‘home universe’. The creations of each universe involved making illusions, almost as forms of play or game. Again in a process that Hubbard described rather poorly, one thetan "got a universe and it just ate the other thetan's universe all up. And this is what the best universe is doing. Evidently it is an expanding universe and it just keeps on eating into everybody's time and space.

Hubbard claimed, for example, that thetans had to inhabit bodies along with lesser entities known as 'theta bodies' or 'body thetans.' The uncoupling of thetans from theta bodies became the basis for the secret OT levels that appeared in the mid-1960s and was central to the story that Scientologists read in OT III. (part of Scientology's secret ‘Advanced Technology’ doctrines taught only to advanced members of Scientology)

The events in OT III allegedly occurred 75,000,000 years ago, but Hubbard claimed that he first unravelled them in 1967 (presumably through auditing). He called these events "Incident 2." Most significant was the solution to overpopulation engineered by Xenu (or Xemu), who was head of a group of 76 planets called the Galactic Confederation that each had populations averaging 178 billion. He transported people to Teegeeack (i.e., Earth), then set off hydrogen bombs on the major volcanoes which, of course, killed the people. The people's souls or "thetans" that survived were transported (both from the Pacific area to Hawaii and from the Atlantic area to Las Palmas, Canary Islands) and grouped together as ‘clusters’. Xenu's renegade supporters (elsewhere identified as priests and psychiatrists) implanted the thetans with false and misleading information, some of which involved concepts of God and the Devil.

I can’t help but wonder if the priests and psychiatrists he is speaking of are those in this era who are criticizing Hubbard’s teachings. In any case, I am also wondering where he got all that information about those clusters of planets from. Obviously, it came from his imagination. What I find interesting is his statement about the the souls of the people of the 76 planets in which there would be more that 13 trillion of them.  If they then turned into human beings, wouldn’t that seem like the islands he spoke of would be a bit over populated? 

Further, where and how did Hubbard find the galaxy that had the so-called Galactic Confederation within it? Even our most powerful telescopes that existed when he made that statement couldn’t pick out individual planets in distant galaxies. And how did he know that the cluster of 76 of them were called the Galactic Confederation and that the people on those planets were called Thetans? 

We have to remember that he was a prolific writer of science fiction so I am forced to conclude that they existed only in his imaginative mind and nowhere else.

What really amazes me is that thousands of followers of Scientology really believe all that stuff that Hubbard was telling them. But then, I can’t really fault them because thousands upon thousands of Jews and Christians alike believe that the world was flooded and that the seas even covered the highest mountains in the world.

Aside from what Scientology leaders are telling their followers as to how humans came to earth from other planets as part of their religion, they also attempt to treat their followers for their mental and /or emotional problems. This is done with their procedure of auditing. Auditing was developed by Hubbard, and is described by the Curch of Sceientology as spiritual counseling which is the central theme as written in Dianetics and is part of Scientology's program of treatment. .

Auditing in the context of Dianetics or Scientology is an activity where a person trained in auditing listens and gives auditing commands to a subject, who is referred to as a ‘pre-Clear’. A pre-Clear is any person who has not reached the state of psychic purity known as Clear. Pre-Clears are subject to the negative effects of engrams, which disrupt and corrupt the functioning of the thetan, or soul. All people entering Scientology are considered pre-Clears and attaining the state of Clear is a primary objective for practitioners. Auditing involves the use of "processes," which are sets of questions asked or directions given by an auditor. When the specific objective of any one process is achieved, the process is ended and a further one can then be used. By doing this, the subjects are said to be able to free themselves from unwanted barriers that inhibit their natural abilities.

Here are some of the questions that have been asked by the auditors to the pre Clears being audited. Brace yourselves. Here they come.

Have you ever debased a nation’s currency?

Have you ever killed the wrong person?

Have you ever torn out someone’s tongue? 

Have you ever been a professional critic? 

Have you ever wiped out a family? 

Have you ever tried to give sanity a bad name? 

Have you ever practiced sex in some unnatural fashion?   

Have you ever made a planet, or nation, radioactive?  

Have you ever made love to a dead body? 

Have you ever engaged in piracy?  

Have you ever eaten a human body?  

Have you ever disfigured a beautiful thing?  

Have you ever exterminated a species?

Not in my wildest dreams can I imagine anyone answering in the affirmative to any of those questions even if they committed any of those things. Having such affirmative answers to those questions recorded would create nightmares to those who gave affirmative answers to those questions. They would be haunted with the possibility that someday their affirmative answers to those questions might see the light of day. And to think that these people who are submitting themselves to those questions are actually paying for the privilege of doing so is really mind boggling.

Shortly after the publication of Dianetics, auditing was taken up with great enthusiasm in California, and in 1950, Hubbard booked the 6,500 seat Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium for a momentous occasion for the unveiling of what he claimed was the world's first Clear—a college student named Sonia Bianca. The result was nothing short of a disaster. Miss Bianca not only could not recall elementary formulae from physics, which was her major at the time; she couldn’t even remember the color of Hubbard's tie after he had turned his back to her. Despite that setback which Hubbard considered was a minor one, within a year, the Wichita Dianetic Foundation was doing a booming business, charging over $500 for 36 hours of Dianetic auditing. Auditing currently can be purchased in 12½ hour blocks, costing anywhere from $200-$750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 & $9,000 for advanced sessions. Some people have actually spent more than a quarter of a million dollars for all the sessions. If I had to pay that much for the services of psychiatrist, I would want his house thrown in as part of his services.  

One former Scientologist, Gerry Armstrong , left the church after being assigned to write a biography of Hubbard. The documents he was given showed that L. Ron Hubbard had seriously misrepresented his past. Armstrong went to court to keep these documents, fearing that without them he would be vulnerable to some form of attack from the Scientologists. Armstrong had good reason to fear. In a 1967 memo that came to be known as the Fair Game Policy, Hubbard described penalties for lower conditions, including, "Enemy—SP (Suppressive Person—SP) Order—Fair Game. This meant that the person being chosen as a Suppressive Person was to deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist for having done so. Further, the SP may be tricked, sued, lied to or have his reputation destroyed. Hubbard's attitude to potential criticism of his church was that, “If there will be a long term threat, you are to immediately evaluate and originate a black public relations campaign to destroy the person's repute and to discredit them so thoroughly that they will be ostracized."

A chilling example of the above involves Paulette Cooper, the author of the Scandal of Scientology. The Church's response to Cooper's book is detailed in a document describing Operation Freakout which was designed to “get PC incarcerated in a mental institution or jail, or at least to hit her so hard that she drops her attacks.”

Ron Hubbard no doubt started the whole concept of Scientologist leaders getting even. In 1940, Ron Hubbard was living a hand-to-mouth existence in New York City, writing penny-a-word pulp fiction stories. Whilst there, he apparently had an argument with a steward in the hotel at which he was staying. He promptly got revenge by denouncing to the FBI the unfortunate man, who was of German descent, as being “a menace to the state”. This was, it seems, the first contact he had with the FBI and began what had later became a long tradition for him denouncing to the authorities those he disliked. He also hated Germans per se, a trait which he never lost (and which is still visible today in the Church of Scientology's campaign against the Federal Republic). Needless to say, Hubbard’s allegation against the steward in the hotel was patently baseless and the FBI recognized that fact and subsequently took no action against the steward.   

It is beyond me as to why governments in various countries were so anxious to classify this organization as a church. It certainly doesn’t act like a church unless of course you begin reminiscing about the Inquisition.

I will give my readers more on this topic at a later time if I haven’t been destroyed in the meantime by thugs from that particular church.