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From: Mike_Reuss@HP-Loveland-om10.om.hp.com (Michael Reuss)
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Subject: Rocky Mountain News 9/9
Date: 12 Sep 1995 22:06:57 GMT
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From the Rocky Mountain News (Denver CO USA) Saturday 9/9

(Typos mine, used without permission)
     
-- 
Michael Reuss
Honorary Kid

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"Scientology's secret beliefs no longer secret, expert says"
     
by Karen Abbott - RMN Staff Writer

   Secret Scientology beliefs already have been disclosed on computers around 
the world, an Internet expert testified Friday.
   Richard Cleek, who teaches a University of Wisconson class called "Surfing 
the Net" and follows information posted in cyberspace about the Church of 
Scientology, said thousands of computer users already have Internet access to 
church secrets.
   The church is trying to stop dissemination of the secret teachings it sells 
to members. Such sales provide the bulk of the church's income.
   The church has sued former church members Larry Wollersheim and Robert Penny 
for allegedly distributing the church's private beliefs in violation of 
copyright and trade secret laws. Last month, the church seized their computers 
and data.
   Friday's hearing before Senior U.S. District Judge John Kane Jr.was on the 
church's request for a court order stopping Wollersheim and Penny from 
distributing secret Scientology materials while the lawsuit is pending.
   But Cleek, testifying on behalf of Wollersheim and Penny, said the secret 
Scientology material already has appeared on the Internet several times this 
year.
   Tom Kelly, attorney for Wollersheim and Penny, said the secret beliefs 
include the discovery by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard that humankind's 
spiritual troubles are the result of actions 75 million years ago by an 
interplanetary federation chief.
   Faced with overpopulation, Kelly said, the federation leader is said to have 
chained or bound some federation individuals to volcanoes on Earth, then bombed 
them with hydrogen bombs.
   The souls of those individuals, called Thetans, now inhabit the bodies of 
human beings, and unconscious memories of the Thetan's traumatic experiences 
cause human psychological and some physical ills, Kelly said. He said the Church 
of Scientology teaches that its role is to cure those ills in counseling 
sessions designed to relieve people of traumatic memories.


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