Lisa McPherson

Question answered by honorarykid in Scientology

Michael_Crichton asked this question on 9/14/2000:

Can anyone here look at the Lisa McPherson autopsy photoes (

http://www.parishioner.org/agree.html ) and _not_ think it obvious that she was severely mistreated prior to her death?

honorarykid gave this response on 9/15/2000:

For those who don't know the story, Lisa McPherson was a pretty, youngish (35), Scientologist who died of a pulmonary embolism while being held captive at Scientology's Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, in a "religious" ritual that Scientology calls the introspection rundown.

The idea of the Introspection Rundown procedure is to completely isolate a mentally disturbed person, until they calm down enough to resume Scientology hypnosis and self-hypnosis procedures, which they believe will always be effective in handling the original problem that led the person to become psychotic in the first place.

In Lisa McPherson's case, the Isolation Rundown did not succeed at calming her down. It killed her.

The photos taken of her body at the autopsy are quite disturbing, so don't casually surf over and view them. If you do wish to view them, I suggest that you mentally prepare yourself.

Obviously, Lisa was mistreated by her fellow Scientologists. The photos of her corpse show some severe bruising, which is consistent with the logs of her guards, who said that at various times, she was jumping around, and falling down.

It would be nice to hear Scientologists say they were sorry for the way they treated her. But I'm not holding my breath waiting for such an apology. So far as I can tell, no Scientologist appears to feel any sorrow or guilt for results of the church implementing L. Ron Hubbard's theories.

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