The arival of Ursula in Clearwater

Question answered by HBeer in Scientology

FredricRice asked this question on 7/25/2000:

I got to watch Ursula C. arive in Clearwater, Florida, to give a presentation on the Scientology cult. (The video can be viewed at http://www.xenutv.com/trust/arrival.ram or http://www.xenutv.com/trust/dslarrival.ram by the way, and .rm versions of those are available for download.)

The behavior of the cult followers is _extremely_ insane and I'm curious what experts on Scientology has to say about whether these people were insane going in or whether it happend to them while they were inside.

And if I may, I'd like to web your answers.

Thanks!

HBeer gave this response on 7/25/2000:

It probably happened to them while they were inside.

A person who goes into Scientology most probably needs guidance in some life area which is too difficult to master without help.

In this situation, people give up a part of the responsibility for themselves. It is similar to hiring a fitness trainer. By hiring a fitness trainer, I say: "I want to become more fit, but I don't have the knowhow. I'll pay for your knowhow. Here is the money - now tell me how to do it."

This same pattern happens if a person is in need of spiritual guidance. By "hiring" the coaching of the church, they invite an inflow of knowhow which they are willing to consider superior to their own. If this knowhow is flawed, they have no way to find out, because they don't have an own knowhow which could be used to compare against.

Sooner or later the outcome of the application of flawed knowhow will become apparent because of life upsets, financial problems and other negative feedback. Until then, any bad feelings will probably be invalidated with a thought like "Well, they certainly know better than I, and my bad feelings are because it is new, I am not used to it, and every change is kind of uncomfortable."

So for a little while, they might become temporarily insane if they have ingested insane knowhow, or are copying insane behaviour patterns which result from the perversion of an originally sane knowhow, as in the case of Scientology.

Of course a coach who relates flawed knowhow will be out of business sooner or later. People WILL find out that their trust has been betrayed and their resources have been exploited, and will fire the gangster (or gang). It is just a matter of time until the "church" of Scientology will be history.

I hope that people will not lose their interest in spiritual coaching just because they happened to come upon a bad coach first. The "good guys" are in the majority - black sheep exist in every profession -, and maybe the experience with Scientology shows even more urgently how important it is to live a clean life with full responsibility for others.

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