The Hidden Secrets of the Scientology Cult

Question answered by FreeZone 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!

FreeZone gave this response on 7/25/2000:

There are 2 main reasons, I think, that the CoS keeps this sort of stuff secret. I don't think it really has anything to do with the strangeness of the material; a lot of History of Man is at least as bizarre as anything on the upper levels.

One is that the mystery and secretiveness itself is a useful marketing tool. Hubbard said that thetans were a 'mystery sandwich', you gave them a mystery and they got stuck to it.

Another is just that secrecy and control of information became increasingly obsessive in the cult after 1965. Proir to this, no technical material, at any level, was ever made secret. After it, most new materials that were released were confidential. It wasn't just OT levels and NOTs, it was also DCSI, KTL, Happiness Rundown, Ls, Power, and more. And there was also secrecy in the Sea Org's movements that looked to any sane outsider like a joke. Elaborate cover stories were set up and one port and then changed at the next, as if nobody would be smart enough to find out there were contradictory stories and start asking why. Hubbard once found reporters waiting for the Apollo at one port, and sailed right back out, searching frantically for the 'spy' who had leaked their next destination. Actually, the reporters had been tipped off by public posters that had been put up all over town, advertising a free PR concert by the Apollo All-Stars. (It was this sort of weird conduct that probably started the rumors that the ship was a CIA front, and ultimately made it unwelcome everywhere in the Mediterranean area.)

From an Scn viewpoint, I see this as mostly unflat Grade 2. CoS had a long and steadily increasing list of crimes that it was frantic to keep secret, so secrecy itself, regardless of any rational reason for it, became a priority and later an obsession.

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