The Scientology Nightmare
Willing to Confront Anything? 
Many of us who dedicated our lives to Scientology are suddenly waking up from our self-induced trance and are facing the nightmare in which our dreams of a better world have been transformed into a degraded horror show.
We, who were public and not staff, were not directly exposed to the chilling insanity of International Management and our warning signs consisted mainly of invalidative reg cycles and bewilderment at claims of unparalleled expansion when our local organizations were scraping by and staff members were unpaid for weeks at a time. We must have been asleep at the wheel because many of us endured this for almost 30 years.
Fifteen years ago I could see that management was behaving strangely but knew that it was unwise to entertain serious doubts about the church. After writing KRs and getting no answers, I stopped doing services and withdrew from attending events. I knew a number of senior executives and I felt they would eventually straighten things out, but I was no longer waiting for results. Like many others, I simply dropped off all Scientology lines and built a life elsewhere.
Those who were receiving auditing in the ‘Eighties started seeing a whole new era of Case Supervision, where programs were designed to increase org income instead of moving PCs up the Bridge. This was hard to believe at first, but became more apparent as CCRDs turned into extensive auditing cycles and 6 month checkups for Solo NOTS became interminable sec checks.
In session, it was apparent that the auditing was no longer for the PC but was a manifestation of an increasingly paranoid organization. Security Checks became more important than giving PCs the gains they had paid for. Auditors seemed to evaluate for PCs when they were not operating like automatons. Session ARC was a thing of the past and it was especially noticeable at Flag even in the early ‘Eighties.
More recently, public were forced into buying book packages and making IAS donations if they wanted to continue up the Bridge. The threat of denying public access to the Bridge was a guaranteed money maker for many years. Financial stress on parishioners is now at an all time high. Some public, like OT Rex Fowler, have snapped under the pressure and committed murder.
Now public are waking up to the fact that the C of S has assumed the worst attributes of a power-mad cult and are publicly leaving the church in increasing numbers. Invalidation by church staff and emotional abuse are causing more people to leave the church in order to maintain their sanity.
When you finally find out that there are hundreds of staff members locked away on the Gold Base near Hemet, California, it dawns on you that you are supporting sadistic and perverted practices that violate human rights every day.
If this was a tale told by a few, it might be dismissed as pure fancy but these gruesome tales are being told by many executives who actually participated in the abuse before coming to their senses.
Read 45 Days in the Hole for a chilling account of the degradation of Debbie Cook, once the top executive at Scientology’s Flag Land Base in Clearwater, Florida.
Once you have read it you will probably want to protect your family members and friends from any contact with Scientology. That would be a very wise move.
The next post in this series will address the solutions provided outside the Church of Scientology.
Free to read ESMB on February 3rd, 2010
Benzedrine often helps a case run.
L Ron Hubbard “The Intensive Processing Procedure” (1950)
Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away. (Dianetics) -You know this is false, don’t you? Try cortisone for arthritis.
We’re playing for blood, the stake is EARTH.
(7 November 1962) – Whew!
A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
(Polictics, 13 February 1965)
Nice guy you’re following.