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Subject: How Scientology's trap works
Date: 5 Sep 1995 09:15:18 +0200
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How does Scientology brainwash people? What is this fanatic belief in
something that is so blatantly false, such as the OTIII materials
whose falsity can be proven by geologic and archeologic evidence? How
do people getting sucked into this?
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L. Ron Hubbard himself told everyone how his trap worked, in one of
his favorite anecdotes which he used often. He loved to tell the story
of the "Assassins".
He told of this "sect" that existed in Arabia called the Assassins
whose terrorist activities there was no defense for. He said the
Assassins would kidnap someone and drug them with Hashish (for which
they were named), and put them in a Harem surrounded with beautiful
women. Of course the guy was in heaven, and that is what the Assassins
would tell him.
There was one hitch however. This was just a preview. In order to come
back to heaven forever the person would have to perform one little
task. That was usually to murder someone that the Assassins
designated, after which he would be killed and would return to heaven
forever.
The Assassins virtually controlled the Middle East during their heyday
because if you said "NO" to them, you didn't last long.
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I did my own research on this, and this is what I came up with. It is
from the book, "Chronicle of the World" by Ecam Publications in Mount
Kisco, New York. It is a book of world history, told as newspaper
style articles. Here is what they had to say about the Assassins:
Syria, 1245
<some deletia>
Founded over 200 years ago, the sect was nicknamed the "Hashinshin" or
"Assassins", because its adherents were rumored to take the drug
hashish. The euphoria induced by the drug was said to give the men
such ecstatic visions of eternal bliss that they could not wait to
die.
Generals serving the Abbasid calpiphs in Baghdad - who claim descent
from the familiy of the Prophet Mohammed - and Seljuk Turkish
mercenaries were despatched with ease by Assassin undercover agents
planted in camps and cities in Persia. In 1092 the extremists killed
their great enemy Nizam al-Mulk, minister to the Seljuk sultans.
In 1094 Hasan Sabah, the first grand master of the Assassins, captured
the Persian fortress of Almut, below the Eldburz mountains at the
southern end of the Caspian Sea. From this base, Hasan commanded a
growing network of guerilla strongholds all over Persia and
Mesopotamia.
Hasan, known as "The Old Man of the Mountain", built a library and
encouraged learning amongst his men. The Old Man took Isma'ili free
thinking to extremes saying: "Nothing is true, everything is
permitted".
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(If you believe that people are "multi-lived", I'd say that last
paragraph comes close to describing L. Ron Hubbard himself, complete
with the Alstair Crowley philosophy, "Do what thou wilt is the
entirely of the law").
I wish to put forth that Scientology does exactly this. Some of the
lower level technology is VERY effective and can produce quite a
marked sense of inner well being.
Based upon these early experiences the initiate takes for granted that
the later "levels" are simply more and better of the same type of
thing, and he wants more, like a drug, he wants stronger and stronger
doses.
Unfortunately, at about the level of Power Processes (Grade V), the
technology starts to fall apart. Some would say that L. Ron himself
never properly did Power Processes, whose purpose is to enable a
person to handle power. LRH's theory was, when a person is given
power, he will use that power unconciously, to prevent some horrendous
things he's experienced in the past, from happening again. This is why
"absolute power, corrupts absolutely". A person will inflict his
unconcious paranoia on everyone under his control, and this could get
very subtle.
I'd have to agree with the estimation that Hubbard flunked power
processing. He is a prime example of "absolute power corrupting
absolutely". So is Miscavage from what I've seen. His failure to make
any statement explaining his actions shows his contempt for us.
Above power processing is basically L. Ron thinking he knows
everything and TELLING people who and what they are, instead of
letting them discover for themselves. I'd say, if you follow his OT
levels the way he wants you to, you are going to end up auditing
yourself closer and closer to the brink of insanity.
I can only say this because:
1) I have never seen any proof that OTs have any more power, nor are
any more sane than they were before they were OT.
2) I have seen MANY OTs who became very fragile people after they
started the OT levels. They could not listen to anything that
disturbed them. They REQUIRED a good comm cycle. They had a continuous
battle going on with the world around them. They would constantly run
home to their meter and materials to "solo audit" to the point that
they could not deal with life without that.
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Scientologists are the Assassins of the 20th century. They are about
to embark on a Kamikaze mission of self destruction and will take
whomever is nearby with them when they go.
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