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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