Description: The first critical treatment of Scientology that seeks to identify and correct what is wrong with it rather than to merely expose or advocate against the subject. A handbook for former, current and prospective members. The book can help to heal any damage done by misuse while rehabilitating any positives derived from Scientology. The book also serves to proof up an individual against being harmed by misapplication of Scientology in the future. As the first simple, accurate description of the philosophy from its introductory to its most advanced levels, the book will inform those interested in Scientology as no other available work has.
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra
Scientology technology is powerful in lifting an individual from being effect up to being more at cause.
In accomplishing that Scientology focuses heavily on, and makes great use of, Newtonian classic physics principles. Unfortunately, ultimately that world view tends to lock a Scientologist under a glass ceiling of sorts to further transcendence of awareness and qualities of equanimity.
Evaluated against the very axioms (including The Factors and Logics) Scientology is predicated upon one could easily reckon that to be the case. Paradoxically, Scientology contains laws of interpretation that make one of its own Logics, critical to growth and transcendence, forbidden practice:
Logic 8: A Datum can be evaluated only by a datum of comparable magnitude.
Thus, the first comprehensive fusion of Eastern thought with Western science ultimately disallowed study of either in the continuing search for truth and higher levels of consciousness.
A very good primer for a) evaluating what is valuable about one’s Scientology experience and what about Scientology makes it so effective, and b) beginning the process of transcending from where Scientology might leave one in terms of consciousness, is the book The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra (recommended to me by the irrepressible Scott Campbell).
Even though the book was first published in 1975, and it has been followed by dozens of authors treading similar ground of analyzing breakthroughs in sub atomic physics to Eastern wisdom and consciousness, I have found it to be the most thorough, layman-friendly piece on the subject to date.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who has experienced Scientology. Most particularly to those who have completed the Scientology OT Levels, started the Scientology OT Levels, or who have any intention of pursuing them in the future. It will provide vital context for your experience. It might help prevent you from becoming fixated, and set up for a big lose, on the quest for total causation. And it might help to take you to higher levels of consciousness not contemplated or permitted in Scientology (even through consequent practice of Scientology techniques).
As I have noted before, I believe that it is essential to the transcendence of Scientology to rise above the fixation on attaining to the permanent state of causation. The fixation can ultimately result in a painful state of effect or an arrogant state of hallucinatory cause. In either event, it parks one in any quest for continuing transcendence to higher states of being.
Here is an excerpt from the Tao of Physics that gives a brief description how the confluence of Eastern wisdom and Western science supports that view:
Many of the Eastern teachers emphasize that thought must take place in time, but that vision can transcend it. ‘Vision’, says Govinda, ‘is bound up with a space of a higher dimension, and therefore timeless.’ The space-time of relativistic physics is a similar timeless space of a higher dimension. All events in it are interconnected, but the connections are not causal. Particle interactions can be interpreted in terms of cause and effect only when the space-time diagrams are read in a definite direction, e.g. from the bottom to the top (note: space-time diagrams are explained earlier in the book). When they are taken as four-dimensional patterns without any definite direction of time attached to them, there is no ‘before’ and no ‘after’, and thus no causation.
Similarly, the Eastern mystics assert that in transcending time, they also transcend the world of cause and effect. Like our ordinary notions of space and time, causation is an idea which is limited to a certain experience of the world and has to be abandoned when this experience is extended. In the words of Swami Vivekananda,
Time, space and causation are like the glass through which the Absolute is seen…In the Absolute there is neither time, space nor causation.
The Eastern spiritual traditions show their followers various ways of going beyond the ordinary experience of time and of freeing themselves from the chain of cause and effect – from the bondage of karma, as the Hindus and Buddhists say. It has therefore been said that Eastern mysticism is a liberation from time. In a way the same may be said of relativistic physics.
Buddha’s Brain by Rick Hanson with Richard Mendius
Buddha’s Brain is authored by neuropsychologist Rick Hanson and neurologist Richard Mendius. Hanson is also a meditation teacher, and Mendius is also cofounder of Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. These fellows give a relatively easy to follow sum up of what developments in science have taught us about the function of the brain. They also, through work with Buddhist contemplative practice masters tested for neurological and hormonal/chemical patterns created by decisions of the being, detail how the brain – and thus the body – is affected by thought.
Buddha’s Brain provides great food for thought and correlation to those trained in Dianetics and Scientology. The authors’ description of science’s 2009 understanding of the human brain is remarkably consistent with L. Ron Hubbard’s 1950 description of the reactive mind in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. They describe the brain as being hardwired for avoiding danger, taking precedence over behavior/action patterns that seek pleasure or reward. They describe how transcendent states attained through contemplative practice – their main frame of reference being Buddhism – erase reactive neuron channels and create new, more analytical, intelligent and rational ones.
Just as Scientology was somewhat vague in differentiating between the Thetan (spirit) and the mind and nearly mute on the subject of the brain, the authors of Buddha’s Brain are somewhat vague on differentiating between brain and mind, and never label that which is making the decisions that are creating a better functioning mind/brain. To get hung up on such difficulties with constructs describing that which is invisible to the eye and physical measures would be to miss the forest for the trees.
Hard core Scientologists, if they could muster the curiosity or courage to read the book, would likely heavily tune out somewhere in the last 2/3rds of it. That is because the material for the most part prescribes contemplative practice that the authors claim demonstrably reforms the brain/mind. To react in such wise would be a mistake in my view. To read it, for example, might lead to some insights into why running pleasure moments, as in Self Analysis by L. Ron Hubbard, is so therapeutic. Could it be that Scientology processes do far more good than L. Ron Hubbard even knew given the relatively archaic state of science in his day? One thing is for sure, those who are afraid to look will never know.
The Shack by William P. Young
THE PSYCHOPATH TEST by Jon Ronson
References:
I am adding The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson to my recommended reading list. This short excerpt from What Is Wrong With Scientology explains why:
Ironically, perhaps the best way to understand the most fundamental flaw in the Scientology system of dealing with the influence of sociopaths is to read a book that touches on corporate Scientology’s vehement, costly protests against the alleged failure of the field of psychiatry to do the same. In The Psychopath Test, Ronson chronicles a member of corporate Scientology’s Citizens Commission on Human Rights (a group established to “clean up the field of mental healing”) and his quest to free an allegedly falsely labeled psychopath from a United Kingdom mental institution.
Ronson becomes fascinated with the apparent terrible injustice of “Tony’s” (pseudonym) incarceration. As Ronson researches the matter in greater depth, he comes to find the Bob Hare psychopath test, or checklist, rather rational and workable. The more time Ronson spends with Tony, the more he begins to doubt the fellow’s sanity against the psychopath test. Out of curiosity, Ronson puts the test to use on a businessman who is unrelated to the matter of Tony. When he completes the analysis, Ronson shares his condemning findings with a fellow journalist. His colleague points out that Ronson only spent a couple hours with the target, and perhaps his journalistic “skill” of catching a target out on lurid admissions, and his preconceived notions of guilt, played a part in his finding. Ronson, in his honest and entertaining style, rides the rollercoaster of enthusiastic certainty to self-deprecating doubt in his own and others’ use of the psychopath test.
Ultimately, Ronson causes the reader to consider that while there is a tremendous, accurate compilation of information that helps us detect sociopathy, can any one of us be trusted with the power to judge and sentence anyone else against that information? Are any of us worthy of the God-like power to condemn another to a life of quarantine and isolation? Do we, in wielding such a powerful tool of knowledge, tend to take on the characteristics of the sociopath when we sit in judgment?
Ronson seems to wind up in much the same place L. Ron Hubbard did when he published this statement: “I have come to find that man cannot be trusted with justice.” While Hubbard persevered and constructed an elaborate system of justice intended to overcome that fatal flaw of humankind, for whatever reason, his lack of trust was proved justified by his own creation.
Ultimately, though, L. Ron Hubbard said that the only guarantee that one would not wind up on the receiving end of a sociopath’s club was to understand how to identify one in the first place. And that conclusion was echoed by Martha Stout. The founder of Scientology and his long-time nemeses in the field of mental health ended up agreeing on one unifying principle: When it comes to the havoc others can wreak upon one’s life, the best protection is the truth – know it, and it shall set you free.
And so my recommended remedy in dealing with the very real problem of sociopathy, or the suppressive person, is as follows:
- Learn for oneself how to evaluate the worthiness and value of one’s fellows.
- Never forfeit your judgment to some authority, no matter how apparently wise and judicious, when it comes to judging the merits of others.
- Strive to be worthy of the trust of those you care about.
LIFE IS SO GOOD by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
Dawson was 101 years old when he worked with author Glaubman to chronicle his life which touched on three centuries. Dawson had become somewhat famous after having checked into Elementary school at 98 years old to learn to read.
This book will be of particular interest to those who bought into Dianetics or Scientology out of concerns for health and longevity – two things the subjects have consistently promised to better. In a way the book validates the core reasons the subjects posit as the primary causation of ill health and early expiration. On the other hand, it might help free one from the misconceptions the Corporate Scientology culture hammers into one about the alleged importance of becoming superman and lording over people and things.
It is a wonderful exercise in ‘problems of comparable magnitude’ (a Scientology concept that if you view a problem you are having against ones of greater magnitude than your own, your problem won’t look so nasty any more). Worried about starting a new life outside of the cult in your forties, fifties, sixties or seventies? Read George Dawson’s story.
In either event, it is a simple, enjoyable, and educational read. It is a view of the 2oth Century from eyes that simply observed with no jaundice, no agenda, no disappointment, no justifying.
It also a great study in the Tao. Though Dawson never references it and presumably was never aware of the writing Tao Te Ching, he certainly understood and lived in accordance with the Tao.
The Sociopath next door by Martha Stout
I am adding to that list a remarkable book that I just finished, The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout. I am adding it because I think it might do quite a lot of good for a lot of people who left the church of Scientology.
Stout is a clinical psychologist who specialized for twenty-five years in helping the victims of sociopaths. The first half of her book shares her real life observations about sociopaths and the effects they have upon social personalities. Her observations are remarkably parallel to Hubbard’s description of the Suppressive Person. Note, modern accepted characteristics of the sociopath very closely align with Hubbard’s descriptions of the emotional tone level of Covert Hostility and of the Suppressive Person. This is so much the case that I have taken to using the terms “suppressive person” and “sociopath” interchangeably.
But, Stout’s first and foremost marker for the sociopath is more complementary of Hubbard’s work than it is duplicative. Per Stout, the sociopath first and foremost lacks conscience. It is a very useful and workable observation she shares.
Perhaps most importantly, Stout describes how good, intelligent people wind up doing the bidding of a sociopath.
Excerpt:
Why are conscience-bound human beings so blind? And why are they so hesitant to defend themselves, and the ideals and people they care about, from the minority of human beings who possess no conscience at all? A large part of the answer has to do with the emotion and thought processes that occur in us when we are confronted with sociopathy. We are afraid, and our sense of reality suffers. We think we are imagining things, or exaggerating, or that we ourselves are somehow responsible for the sociopath’s behavior.
While the last 1/3 or so of Stout’s book meanders down a sometimes painful path of speculations about possible genetic sources for sociopathy, it still manages to impart useful observations. It was useful for me in this respect, I was able to recognize that despite Stout’s wonderful contributions (and clearly unintended validation of Hubbard’s work) modern mental health practitioners, regardless of their evolutionary progress over the past four decades, are still shackled by their inability to perceive or unwillingness to credit the spirit or soul.
Stout, as Hubbard did forty-five years ago, recognizes that our inability to properly identify sociopaths and prevent the havoc they wreak is one of the greatest threats to humankind.
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
Viktor Fankl survived several Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz.
Only one out of twenty-eight so imprisoned survived the ordeal. Frankl closely observed for the common denominator of those few who did survive. He did not find a single physical, physiological, cultural, or religious factor in common.
Instead, he discovered that those with a strong enough purpose (he calls it a meaning) to carry out were the ones who made it. There was no common purpose shared among them all. There was not even a predominant commonality of purpose. Some simply had a purpose to see a loved one again. Some felt work they had begun prior to incarceration was so important they found a way to endure what for others was certain death. Frankl himself fell into the latter category, and it so happened that the work he wanted to complete paralleled the observations he wrote about.
I recommend the book for anyone who survived long-term oppressive conditions or anyone feeling he or she lacks a driving, meaningful purpose in life.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
The complete mechanics of how slavery is accomplished and perpetuated can have a remarkably powerful and liberating effect on those who may have been subjected to them. I have never met anyone who has not experienced one or more of them.
The Autobiography of MALCOLM X
Here is a man’s brutally honest moral and intellectual struggle as he comes to grips with abuses in a religious movement that he continued to credit with converting himself from a thug to a religious scholar and human rights leader. The account is candid and personal. Malcolm and Alex Haley detail his criminal young adulthood, his self education in prison, his conversion to Islam and personal reform, his years as Nation of Islam’s greatest proponent and defender, the betrayal at the hands of an egostical, unethical religious leader, and his search for the true meaning of Islam. His evolution from a divisive figure in an aggressive and intmidating group to a dedicated practitioner of a religion he found his own meaning for can provide one with guidance on how to learn to be true to oneself.
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
Abraham Lincoln has been quoted as saying “I never tire of reading Tom Paine.”
Neither do I. Paine’s The Age of Reason was of tremendous help to me in moving beyond fixed, negative patterns of thought.
Tao Te Ching
There is a particularly good translation by Stephen Mitchell currently on the market and available at major bookstores or on Amazon.
It is a book one can read over and over and get something new and useful from each time. It is a pleasant read. In a simple and poetic manner it captures the fundamental truths upon which Scientology is based. The Factors and Axioms and basic truths of Scientology stem from the Tao. LRH made that clear in the “Scientology, Its General Background” lectures – part of the Phoenix lectures series. He said there, “…who knows but what if we took the Tao just as written and knowing what we know already about Scientology, we simply set out to practice the Tao, I don’t know but what we wouldn’t get a Theta Clear.”
I believe that statement is true. That organizationally things did not go in that direction does not make the statement untrue. How Scientology diverted from the Tao is a major theme of a long-term investigation of mine; the results of which I’ll share when I’m there.
One thing I believe the Tao can do for you is to help distinguish the positive you may have gotten out of Scientology from the negative. It might help you to validate and reinforce the positive, while jettisoning the negative.
On Becoming A Person by Carl R. Rogers
see recommendation for On Becoming A Person
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This is so profound! I have emailed my Scientology friends data from sites like ‘Friends of LRH.org” (which has misteriously disapeared), and have gotten the gamut of the Tone Scale. There are too many who refuse to see the truth!! Too much evil to confront I suppose.
The friendsofLRH.org website was removed by the host after getting the runs due to harassment by miscaviage’s legal wallahs. Information on them can be found here.
http://the-scientologist.com/helenakobrin.shtml
The site WILL be back. Work is being done back of house to ensure that next time it is up, it cannot be removed again.
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I visited Douglas’s home in Washington D.C. and right on the side table for all to see was the most beautiful china Tea set that the Queen of England had given him for all his work. The pen is mightier than the sword.
Thanks for that anecdote Nance. That is cool.
I enjoyed “Mao, The Unknown Story” by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. It goes into detailing the life of Mao, but also leads the reader to a full realization of how Communism is actually terrorism, where the State is willing to sacrifice 10% to keep the other 90% in line. There are many similarities to the Sea Org model, where self-criticism is damanded publicly, and “ethics” is arbitrary to keep the person in a low state of mind and obedient. It’s well worth the read.
I found “The Prosecutor” by Sergei Kourdakov to also be eye-opening. He grew up as an orphan in Communist Russia and became an enforcer for their military government, before converting to Christianity and escaping to the US. He wrote his biography right before dying in a “skiing accident” of a .45 caliber shot to the back of the head….
I would suggest Madame Blavatski’s Baboon. Much more relevant to you misguided people.
Every now and then I find a site about the evils of the Co$ and wind up spending several hours pondering it. I worked at CC Dallas for 5 years and 10 months in the 1990s. With working there and then paying back borrowed money for wasted services at Clearwater Flag, I believe I had not more than 20 days off during the decade of the 90s.
I am amazed at the precise specific reports ex staff and others write about on these sites. I could report some things that happened here and there but for the most part I can’t come up with the words to use. The astrology phrase “secret sorrows” comes to mind. I never signed anything saying I wouldn’t say anything bad about Co$.
I mostly feel; what is the point? Is that apathy? Maybe.
I suffered daily for 7 years starting with the 2 intensives at Clearwater and then decided I simply needed to get over it. At that point I was over it within 2 to 3 weeks.
I got over it by using the simple ideas of the American writer Vernon Howard which is basicly self observation. Hello!!!
Werner Erhard’s est Training and Douglas Harding’s ideas supremely helped me survive over 5 years at Celebrity Centre Dallas.
Oh by the way there is a supervisor 2 pay grades above me in the wog world now who screams and kicks a door when it won’t open.
Oh by the way again; looked at from about 300 miles away the earth is such a lovely place. Who would ever know the games that people play.
All the best to all of you.
Roy
Are you a professional journalist? You write very well.
I just ordered the first of these two books. I will read it soon.
I read “1984” twice while in the Sea Org. It is interesting that it didn’t open my eyes to what was occurring internally within the SO. I was so blind! I will be reading it again soon with an entirely fresh viewpoint.
THX 1138 the movie, is a good one too.
Any organization, person, government, etc. that tries to control it’s people or population and monitor it’s thoughts scares me beyond belief. Sadly, that is what has become of the current CoS.
friends of LRH.org site is back
Roy, good mention on Vernon Howard. I recommend the “mystic Path to cosmic power” by that author. Great book.
Montauk Book of The Dead is a good one too.
Another book that would interest many who view this website regularly is “The God that Failed”, edited by Arthur Koestler, first published in 1949 and still available on amazon.com. It’s original subtitle I believe was “Six authors reject communism.” I think you will find fascinating the control factors of the communist party, both inside and out of the old Soviet Union (and familiar unfortunately). I’ll add that my 40 years in Scientology include 35 years as a staff member delivering LRH Tech.
I recommend the gods of eden by William bramley.This was labeled forbidden reading for Scientologists in a hidden “nanny program”given to all “Scientologists on-line”.The book don’t mention Scn but in the bibliography is a couple of scn-books.(This fact makes this book extremely interesting).
Bramley mentions the conflict in the Bible between “God” and the Serpent. “God” was trying to keep a certain type of knowledge away from Mankind and the Serpent was trying to teach Mankind that knowledge. The victor of that conflict would be the ones (yes plural!) who controlled earth.
In Eden the members of “God” made it a sin to eat of the fruit. The fruit is an apple and it is symbolic for a certain kind of knowledge. To help keep Man away from that knowledge they taught that if Man learned it he would die.
Asking the question, “Why should learning knowledge be a sin?” (the original sin) and comparing it to modern day observations ought to wake you up to the fact that you live within societal system that was engineered by the members of “God” to empower themselves while keeping those who live within it ignorant. Do you want to test this theory?
I must say, as an African-American (so-called), I’m surprised that Mark Rathbun would use two of the most famous Black American narratives as an example of what members are experiencing in the CoS under David Miscavige. I’m not saying it’s inappropriate, but it is surprising and somewhat of a bittersweet validation that the black experience in an earlier, less evolved American society was (and is) a human experience that is understood by this generation. Much success with your struggle, Marty Rathbun!
Derek, the parallels are unmistakable for those who lived them. I think the earlier black experience I draw from is more widely applicable than just former C of Sers. Listen to the final words of Nas’ “We’re not alone” from the Untitled album, for example. If you’d like to discuss more you can email me at howdoesitfeel@hushmail.com.
“So, I say take off the wall from your eyes//Out with the old America, in with the new//End all racism, all injustice, all oppression//To poor people, any people, anywhere in this planet//Let’s come together, a new day is risin?”–NAS
Really good selection. Thanks for raising my consciousness a little more than it was at the beginning of the day!
Derek,
You got it.
Click to access The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X_0345350685.pdf
Handled an excuse for not having read it.
‘1984’ is just shudderingly ‘close to the bone’. I remember on OTII commenting (in writing) to the C/S ‘Oh my god! – George Orwell…’
2012 England, especially London with its huge omni-present network of surveillance cameras and its ‘new speak’ of obliterated consonants and non-grammar ‘init’, and beneath a very ‘soft’ exterior many outsiders are left with a very distinct impression of a very definite way to think and exactly what the right comments are, it is too common to hear; ‘you can’t say that’. My own opinion is that Orwell was seeing/looking at far more than a bit of fiction.
My own addition would be ‘Pilgrims Progress’ by Bunyan. If you can stomach the strong Christian theme and flowery language it is full of allegories of some very recognizable stops/barriers and identities that anyone runs into on any spiritual path or bridge. In fact some of characters remind me of the characters and chatter on other web sites – simply those that did not, for what ever reason, just keep on going on the path.
Hi Marty,
I just finished Janet Reitman’s book Inside Scientology.
Great read! Got it Sunday afternoon from the library and just finished it.
I was never a part of the church, but I did grow up with abusive, psychopathic parents who have harassed me for close to two decades.
Do you have any recommended reading on psychological profiling of cult perpetrators… or should I give the sociopath book you recommended a look?
Just wondering. Some of the things I have been through are similar to what I read in Janet’s book.
Thanks!
A Survivor
yeah
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Hi Marty, You might find the following book interesting:
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the People’s Temple by Deborah Layton
http://www.amazon.com/Seductive-Poison-Jonestown-Survivors-Peoples/dp/0385489846/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342222512&sr=8-1&keywords=seductive+poison
It was published on the 20th anniversary of the suicide-murder of the more than 900 followers of Reverend Jim Jones in the Guyanese jungle. Layton’s book was the first by a former high-level member of the People’s Temple. The author’s brother Larry Layton, also a survivor, was convicted for the conspiracy to kill Congressman Leo Ryan at the request of Jim Jones and spent 18 years in prison before being released in 2002.
It is, of course, a much, much, much more extreme case than what is happening with Miscavige and the corporate COS but both stories have common elements:
“Far from confirming the simplistically monstrous Jones of the public imagination, Layton paints the man as a dark, twisted shaman, by turns soothing, then suddenly malevolent and petty, with a hugely sadistic streak that belied his perfectly coifed hair, expensive suits, and impressive political connections.” ~ Amazon.com Review
also…
….intelligent people searching for a life with meaning, religion, structure and discipline falling prey to authoritarian and charismatic leaders and organizations, prison-like work camps where the mere thought of leaving was blasphemous, grueling physical labor, sleep deprivation, bizarre punishments, manipulation, disconnection from family and the outside world, how the first amendment, which guarantees freedom of religion, made it practically impossible for authorities to investigate the organization, a leader and an organization with a vision to change the world but with a huge undercurrent of disfunction, etc….
The book is, at times, unsettling….specially toward the end…but definitely worth the read…
There is also an excellent PBS Documentary called Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple that includes interviews with survivors, former members and family members
http://www.amazon.com/Jonestown-Life-Death-Peoples-Temple/dp/B000MTFFUO/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1342226547&sr=1-1&keywords=Jonestown%2C+The+Life+and+Death+of+Peoples+Temple
Regards,
Lily
i have a question really for marty, i did become interested in scientology and dianetics, and visited a couple of churches to get some books and materials and first thing they asked me for was my name address and telephone number i gave them stupidly my name and mobile telephone number. within 1 day they called me and called me everyday asking me to come back and do courses, until i had to change my number.. my question is how long would they have continued if i hadnt changed it and what techniques would they use to get me to come back if i had done so
1. How long would they have kept calling you?
Forever: The church policy which I read when I worked there in the 90s says keep calling until the prospect threatens legal action.
2 What techniques would they use?
Nothing special. They just keep calling.
In practice there are other ways to stop them ringing. It sometimes works to ask them questions about OTIII confidential materials for example.
An independent reference which exposes the vested interests behind the campaigns to destroy anything perceived as encroaching on the petrochemical industry/Big Pharma’s market share (e.g. Chiropractic, vitamins, free energy – whatever) is WORLD WITHOUT CANCER — The Story of Vitamin B17 by G. Edward Griffin, particularly PART TWO — THE POLITICS OF CANCER THERAPY (see http://www.vitaminb17.org/wwc_part2.htm).
That book, together with his later book, THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND (see http://www.thevenusproject.com/downloads/ebooks/6479760-The-Creature-from-Jekyll-Island-by-Edward-Griffin.pdf) about the international banker (who own and/or control the petrochemical industry/Big Pharma, mainstream media and the Military Industrial Complex) take-over of the U.S. economy, will give you a pretty good understanding of the bear trap LRH unwittingly stepped into by publication of DMSMH.
To naysayers who would dismiss all this out of hand as “conspiracy theory” (usually without even looking at the fully-documented historical record), I would remind them, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” (from The Usual Suspects – 1995)
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To Mr Rathbun I appreciated your candor in the UK channel four doc aired this week.I think you have also a wonderful partner who came across as stable and on a level ground in the midst of adversity that you BOTH suffered.I relate to your experiences being raised in a Closed high demand group.Nietsche said “what doesnt kill you makes stronger”.I believe this true in my case too.Dont repeat the pain of the past .An excellent read is Steven Hassans “Combating mind control”.All the best to you and your Partner partner
Don’t read anything but you must read The autobiography of Malcolm X!
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Marty, here is something interesting — maybe profound, I’m not sure yet — that you might like to tuck into your “read when in the mood” list.
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics/
The author doesn’t spell this out up front, but what we’ve got here is an intellectual tool that demonstrates, in rigorous and workable terms, how space and time are NOT fundamental properties of the universe, but rather seem to be “emergent” properties that are a function — and I’m groping to understand this — of more basic principles such as quantum entanglement.
You may be better equipped than I to dig this. There’s a physics article on Medium this week that hits on the same point, but with respect to time only.
Anyhow, I thought of you when I read this stuff.
Warm regards.
I am not a former cos member. I have spent the last couple of weeks watching you tube videos about cos. I was at a loss to understand the attraction. Monday, I saw HBO docu-presentation. Today,after finding this source, I know I want to better my life processes, and “Know” cos is no good right now. I do see ,now, Marty and Mike are the rightful hiers to the cos.When that happens, or, the tech becomes available to new members, I intend to under take a course of study. This blog,whichI just found today, is a great source to start. Marty you have my respect, I am aware of some of your deeds while in the cos. Continuing to bring tech, old and new, to the people is of great purpose. Hope to meet you some day. May DM fall, and soon!
Don’t forget the Tao Te Ching ! Or a book that does a nice job of analyzing the passages (Wayne dyer’s books are pretty on point for that). Thank u Marty for ur wonderful insight!
Lol I must have missed that u already recommended it! Oops! Well it’s so good it’s worth mentioning twice! Also the “Unbreakable Miss Lovely”, by Tony Ortega just came out and it’s awesome!!!!!
Dear Marty
Thanks for your courage and all you do.
I really appreciate your Recommended Reading, thank you. You might enjoy “The Basic State: The solution in all problems”. It’s free to download and can be found on this link
http://greatfreedom.org/writings.html
Just a suggestion! Might be helpful to your readers and those are still to benefit from your amazing service.
Much love
Thanks for the recommend.
Another great book is: More than a carpenter by Josh Macdowell
The Autobiography of Malcom X is an outstanding and inspiring read. Note especially that when Malcolm initially converted in prison, his first instruction was to read the dictionary cover to cover. Very reminiscent of LRH’s dictum forewords in his books to “never ever go past a word you don’t fully understand”. And “get a dictionary and use it”. Very sound advice and practice!
The Autobiography of Malcom X is an outstanding and inspiring read. Note especially that when Malcolm initially converted in prison, his first instruction was to read the dictionary cover to cover. Very reminiscent of LRH’s dictum forewords in his books to “never ever go past a word you don’t fully understand”. And “get a dictionary and use it”. Very sound advice and practice!
Tell me how does one so smart and intelligent get caught up with Scientology mess so very very long?
Marty. What’s the best way to get involved in Indy Scientology? 💘 your experience with the ex-gangbanger trash collector & his 👧. I live in Redondo Beach CA. Big fan of the 50’s LRH. Agree with you on Scientology & the Tao Te Ching. Any & all recommendations will be greatly appreciated. ARC my brother. 😄
The mark of an in ethics person is that they are willing to fight evil no matter where it is. Thank you for standing up to them.
The 3 hour plus interview entitled “A trip into the supernatural” by Roger Morneau is really the final answer on everything.
Although an old thread, I see comments are keeping it alive, fairly recent. I was first drawn to your blog after only recently watching several ex-Sci films. What really endeared me was someone else who read David Hawkins.
And the Tao te Ching, and Csikszentmihalyi. I got that far and need to re-read, but how can I have missed reading Fritjof Capra and most of all, Viktor Frankl, all these decades of having known of them?
Like someone said, a newcomer, even one who recognizes the most prominent former followers, can be confused not knowing the inside story of the ex-insider attacks. I can see why contact, even though I would enjoy it, is not an easy option.
My best shot at explaining my obsessively watching all these horror story films is that I was briefly in two of what I now call cults, Church of Christ as a teen and est-clone Lifespring as a twentysomething. and wish to make sure that I am cult-proof.
Because of them I have been so interested in cult studies that I knew all the greats since 1999: Margaret Thaler Singer who was still alive then; Steven Hassan who all these years later still runs his site, the hijacked Cult Awareness Network that was good before (guess who) Scientology bought it out, David Lane lawsuits, and followed Peter McWilliams in his last year of life, owning a copy of his “Life 102: What to Do When Your Guru Sues You.”
So see? Many seekers have been used and abused. I am still shocked that it went on so long — I was a teenager in the misogynist Church of Christ, and got out of there in 3.5 years. I stuck out all five days of Lifespring as the requirement for getting my money back.
At least I didn’t rise to power and abuse people! My “influence” ( har) amounts to comments and reviews stating that the precepts of Scientology are everywhere: Zen, Buddhism, Vipassana and Eckhart Tolle teach awareness of your “pain body” without ohmmeters (I’m an electronics tech); they teach multiple lifetimes; and even Catholicism, repressive as it is, has the confession quoted by an ex-Scientologist in one of the films.
Once I quit typing these walls o’ text, heh, I might actually have the time to read these books again.
Oops, I stand informed. If it uses a Wheatstone bridge, then I guess it’s a bit more than an ohmmeter. I guess you got AC and measure impedance.
That’s a whooperdoo, all right. (A phrase I borrow from a Ray Bradbury story — about a concocted device, come to think of it. Funny, that.)
I was just looking up what else a polygraph measures: all I gotta do is notice my breathing and heart rate, get a sphygmomanometer, and I’m auditing myself!
But, you know, I can feel it anyway when I’m upset or uncomfortable.
My life teacher for 33 years spoke of the programmed mind, and said “you don’t act, you only react”; Eckhart Tolle speaks of the “pain body” and that nothing but reactive programming can ever arise from that; Vipassana teaches the same awareness that Tolle teaches, that Jon Kabat-Zinn teaches; Emerson, David Hawkins, Paul Reps and Albert Ellis can teach you a lot without meters; and….
awareness is not dependent on meters. Awareness of one’s reactive mind is not a new concept.
It’s an old concept even with my lack of knowledge of one of awareness practice’s founders 2,500 years ago.
Watching your impedance change as you sweat may be a fun ancillary tool. I’d try it! But….
awareness is not dependent on meters. Awareness of one’s reactive mind is not a new concept.
Although this post is for Marty, if anyone else here has data on the questions I pose below, any answers would be greatly appreciated.
Marty, I wanted to get your opinion on something. I was recently reading a paper by someone in which he wrote that Scientology was a CIA front and LRH worked at ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence).
Unlike most Scientologists who would read that about Scientology, I didn’t throw away his paper in disgust and dismiss it. I didn’t do that because one, I’d already read enough of his other papers that I didn’t feel he was outing Scientology because he had an axe to grind, two because I confirmed what he wrote about LRH being ONI on Wikipedia (yes, I know Wiki is controlled by Intelligence, but they do mix in truth with lies, and on this aspect I believe them), and three, maybe most importantly, I’ve felt there was something off about Scientology for years; namely, and the most criticized aspect of the religion, is how expensive the services are. If you’re not rich, the only way to “go all the way up the Bridge” is putting yourself in debt beyond any possible relief, as my mom has done. The reason I was always given for how costly it is was due to the “high operating costs of the various churches”, and that Scientology is “for the able”. In other words, if you’re a truly “able” being you’ll find a way to succeed enough in life financially to pay for the services. But then on the other hand I would be told that Scientology’s goal was to “clear the planet”. So the obvious question then becomes, how do we clear the planet if only the truly able can afford the services? That would leave out 90% of the planet. So it was a paradox. Another thing that seemed off about Scientology is the fact there are people like my mom who have reached the upper levels (OT 7), yet I’m more awake than she is and I never even reached the state of Clear (because I refused to go into debt to pay for the services). For example, she believes the covid hoax, watches and trusts mainstream media, and believes in unicorns. OK, the unicorn part was a joke, but my point is she’s completely gullible and completely in the Matrix. And when I give her info to try to wake her up, she still can’t see it. If that’s what OT 7 bought her, I’m sorry, but I’m not really interested. And she’s not an isolated case. Other Scientology friends of hers are just as asleep as she is. I would think if Scientology really worked, especially at the upper levels it would make one more awake, more aware, not less. Another problem is the church has said since the ’80’s that they’re not going to release the upper OT levels beyond OT8 until all the churches reached “Saint Hill size”, which has never come close to happening. So it looks like an unattainable goal was set. Why? Probably because there are no OT levels beyond 8, so that was just a cover story (by the way, 8 is a number intelligence likes to use as a marker). Also, for the last 30 years or so I’ve heard from the church that they have 8 million members (that number hasn’t changed for decades, as far as I know), and again I just realized while typing this that’s another numerical intelligence marker. Lastly, when LRH decided in the late 60’s to give up his executive director role, he assigned David Mayo as the new ED. I grew up hearing about him in the early ’70’s because he became infamous. I’m sure you know the short story, that he was declared an SP after a CS reviewing a PC folder found some glaring outpoints, and he was ousted from the church, for life. At least that was the story told to me by my parents, who you may actually know, Pat and Abi Lusey. I heard your name growing up, which is why I say you might know them. But knowing what I now know, Mayo most likely was CIA and didn’t do a very good job of covering his actions. Or, he was outed intentionally simply to insert a better agent in his place. And this is where it gets interesting for me. The ED after Mayo became David Miscavige. Do you see what I didn’t see until just recently about those two names? Not only are both first names the same, they have the same initials! Just a coincidence? I don’t think so. Intelligence likes to use names as markers, just like dates and numbers. So they replaced their first agent with an agent by the same first name and initials. Also, I always thought LRH died at the age of 75 because I went by his birth year of 1911 and his year of death, 1986. But I didn’t think to check the month of his death until I read Miles paper, and what did I find? He died short of his 75th birthday, meaning he was 74, which is 47 inverted; year one of the CIA.. So yeah, there are lots of markers pointing to LRH and Scientology being a spookfest (i.e., intelligence).
I’d love to hear your comments on this, as well as anything else you might know about Scientology’s involvement or infiltration by the CIA. Was LRH always intelligence, or did he break away at some point to try to do the right thing by mankind? Do think like me that Miscavige is Intelligence? By the way, I’m a current Scientologist, but have been off lines for decades. Not declared, just inactive. Although knowing what I now know, I’m not so sure I’ll do services in the future.
Thanks in advance for your time,
Tom Lusey
Just saw My Scientology Movie and was moved to learn more about you. I like your book recommendations. I’ve long been a big fan of Mitchell’s translation of the Tao, and I’m about to order a copy of On Becoming a Person after reading what you’ve said about it. I hope you are well. I really felt for you and the predicament you spoke of after those people harassed you and Theroux said it would be best not to tell the actors as they might be upset.