The Hidden Secrets of the Scientology Cult

Question answered by HBeer in Scientology

FredricRice asked this question on 7/25/2000:

Again this question is more for Scientologists still stuck inside of the cult, however I'd like to web everyone's answers.

I'm curious why Scientology's management doesn't tell people about Xenu and Body Thetans ad everything else that forms the core of Scientology. I'm curious why the truth about what Scientology actually is all about had to wait for the court system to make public.

Thanks!

HBeer gave this response on 7/25/2000:

We will probably never really know the entire truth about this question.

Fact is that L. Ron Hubbard put an enormous amount of importance onto this secrecy. Lots and lots of policy is centered upon the "security" of the "advanced materials". No matter whether his reasons for this were rational nor not, the very presence of so much policy makes it nearly impossible for the church to let go of these patterns.

Fact is also that Hubbard was quite free with informations about these things in earlier writings. People who read them in books like "History of Man" just don't know that this is the same stuff they will encounter on the OT-levels. Why he changed his mind about keeping them secret is up to speculation.

Interesting too are his many statements about the value of mysteries in order to get or keep people's interest and attention. In the absence of a mainstream agreement that something like "spiritual hygiene" should be part of our daily routine, he might have concluded that something else was needed to keep people working at their cases. The mystery around the OT-levels might well have been this something.

At the moment where spiritual "dirt" (accumulations of old negative energies) are removed daily - because we have our session like we have our shower -, and where spiritual "muscles" (abilities like visualizing events and then making them happen) are trained in other sessions - like we go to the (physical) fitness-center a few times a week -, no more mystery tricks will be needed to keep people working at the most important foundation of their lives: their mental and spiritual fitness and strength.

You rated this answer:

You know, you're the second person to mention "History of Man" in that context. Since Hubbard wouldn't tell followers about Xenu and Body Thetans until they paid large sums of money, why did he sell History of Man which is just as improbable?

I think you're right: We'll never know.

Thanks

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