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Wednesday, 14 October 2009 12:52 |
Today, one of our readers asked, “This is all very interesting - a sort of Martin Luther King event horizon for the CoS. A good thing, for sure. I personally don't know what past critics have said. I have noticed that the Church (David Miscavige) has tried to falsely label and stigmatize us as "critics of Scientology." This is surely the same line of attack that other whistle blowers have faced for years. So let me first answer what makes us different from what the Miscavige spin doctors would have you believe. To be clear, as whistle blowers, we are not critics of “Scientology"; we are critics of “criminality." Freedom of religionWe believe and support freedom of religion. All freedom depends on protecting the freedom of religion. It is flat out WRONG to attack religions or religious beliefs. Why? Because people have the right to believe whatever they want. A person's beliefs are based upon ideas that match their own observations and experience.However, freedom of religion does not mean freedom to commit crimes in the name of religion. When a group gets overrun with criminality, the tendency is to decry the entire group. We are not generalizing, but instead we are selecting the correct target which is really the individual within that group who is the source of the criminality. And in Scientology MOST of the red flags all point back to one person: David Miscavige. Hubbard never authorized Miscavige to take over Scientology. There is no hidden data line that put him in power. He got his position through lies and deceit. In the past, some critics of Scientology were attacking the religion. No one has any right to do that. It's a religion! It's protected by the Bill of Rights. Why Scientology is a religionThe reason Scientology became a religion was that if it didn't go in that direction, auditors (Scientology counselors) would potentially have to have been licensed by the state to practice as "psychotherapists." That gives unqualified bureaucrats in government the opportunity to affix incorrect labels to Scientology, to dictate Scientology philosophy, to mix in other studies, to leave out potentially important teachings.So Scientology became a religion. And it does qualify as a religion, not in the Western sense (there is no worship or faith required in Scientology). But in the Eastern sense, yes. Scientology is a cousin to Buddhism. Scientology deals with the spiritual nature of people and the rehabilitation of abilities. Furthermore, I'm an active auditor. And I certainly wouldn't want the state to dictate how to apply Scientology auditing procedures! No offense to the government, but can you imagine anything more offensive? Turning on the lightsSo we are NOT critics of Scientology. We are proponents of Scientology and staunch critics condemning criminality within CoS management. Criminality, wherever it resides, needs to be exposed and eradicated. All of us have the right to insist on an organization and even a world without crime. It is our duty to so insist. Whether it's the Catholic church, Scientology church, political parties, police department, or even within your own family, you have a right to the safety and security that are only possible in an environment without crime. Some Scientologists are afraid to "rock the boat." Well, exposing the criminality within Scientology's ranks won't hurt Scientology. It will cure it. Criminality is the organizational cancer that is KILLING Scientology already. If we don't expose the criminality, we will lose the subject utterly. And that would be a very irresponsible thing to do. Scientology is not for all of us, that is true. But it really is most definitely wanted by some of us because it offers a way out of entrapment of any kind. We are not sheepleWhile we are not critics of Scientology, that does not mean we refuse to look at Scientology with a critical eye. In fact, LRH said to do so which is one of the first things people learn about Scientology, and why so many people love it in the first place. It comes from LRH’s essay on Personal Integrity written in 1954,WHAT IS TRUE FOR YOU is what you have observed yourself And when you lose that you have lost everything. What is personal integrity? Personal integrity is knowing what you know— What you know is what you know— And to have the courage to know and say what you have observed. And that is integrity And there is no other integrity. Of course we can talk about honor, truth, all these things, These esoteric terms. But I think they’d all be covered very well If what we really observed was what we observed, That we took care to observe what we were observing, That we always observed to observe. And not necessarily maintaining a skeptical attitude, A critical attitude, or an open mind. But certainly maintaining sufficient personal integrity And sufficient personal belief and confidence in self And courage that we can observe what we observe And say what we have observed. Nothing in Dianetics and Scientology is true for you Unless you have observed it And it is true according to your observation. That is all. Like everything else, Scientology has its share of sheeple. They take everything on faith, observe nothing. They have lost touch with what they know. They have no personal integrity. There are things in Scientology that are wrong. It is not perfect. But life is about improvement. We all (those who are sane) try to improve as we go along. Same with any organization. Any sane manager tries to improve it as he goes along. But not Miscavige. Same boat, better paddlesThose of us who have left the Church of Miscavology are in the same boat as thousands of others before us, but thanks to the Internet we have a more effective way to do something about it. In another article, I published an incredible fact that 98% of all the staff from Old Saint Hill are today declared! I have it on very good authority that David Mayo saved LRH's life when he was dying and the result of that was the creation of New Era Dianetics for OTs! So, just like Hitler took out 17 key people in order for him to take over, in the 1980s, David Miscavige painted Mayo up as a fiend. Yet Mayo had saved LRH's life. Despicable! Criticism of LRH and Scientology TechIn addition to being a writer, a marketing expert and other things, I am an auditor. I use Scientology every day and it works for me. For example, a good friend of mine (who is not a Scientologist) had a problem -- a really bad problem relating to her career. She was really bugged and no amount of friendly advice from me improved the problem one bit. One day while listening to her I realized "she can't think with the subject! She has false data." So I just asked her (because I know the procedure from memory) "Have you been given any false data regarding this?" About 45 seconds later the false datum was blown, and she went right in and got a $10,000 raise the next day. And I know if it hadn't been for False Data Stripping, she would have gone to her grave with that problem because nothing else could crack it. In my observation there are so many problems in life that only Scientology can unlock. Critics of ScientologyNow. Since we’re on the subject, it might be interesting to note that critics of Scientology by which I mean people who spread falsehoods about the tech and/or LRH (as opposed to the suppressive organization led by David Miscavige) fall into various categories (this list is not all inclusive):
Does it really hurt anything to have critics? Well, Hubbard didn't think so. He thought it was healthy. In fact he protected critics by writing into the Creed of the Church of Scientology the following lines: "We of the Church believe... That all men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own pinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others." What is a “cult”?A cult is a secretive and lawless organization that uses its religious status as a cover to victimize its members.The Church of Scientology is today a "cult" because David Miscavige with malice aforethought has made it into a cult. Not because it needs to be a cult innately. The CoS does not publish its statistics any more. The CoS does not even follow its own policies. In response, thousands of people just decided to ignore this corrupt “church” and they practice Scientology independently. What else could they do? Not privy to the actual crimes of David Miscavige, they could hardly do much to stop him. With us, however, it is different. We saw and experienced his abuses first hand. I was personally threatened by Miscavige and personally saw him assault others. That makes us eyewitnesses. So we, as loyal Scientologists (loyal to the people) and ex-staff from the Int base are blowing the whistle on David Miscavige in a way probably no one else can. And we are using Scientology to do it. We cannot be bought offAnother thing that makes us different from a few key staff who have tried to blow the whistle on criminality is they accepted hush money. Or they were blackmailed into silence through the practice of disconnection (which David Miscavige uses as a political weapon). I don't blame a person for accepting hush money when there is no other alternative. I'm glad they at least got something with which to start their life over. We are no better than past whistle blowers. Just lucky that now we have a way to actually force a reformation. Miscavige has millions, but we have the ears of the world. Using Scientology to fix ScientologyLRH said the solution to any problem is the problem itself. Where as others have sought to “solve” the problem by starting a new group along side the old (like David Mayo did) we are addressing the problem itself and communicating about it to bring about a vanishment of the problem.We have declared ourselves independent because we are. But we have not started a new organization. We are using Scientology Axiom 19, which states, “Bringing the Static to view As-is any condition devaluates that condition.” In other words, when a being really sees the cause of a problem, the problem is weakened and the being is strengthened. This is the basis of all auditing. Third-dynamic auditorsWe are auditing the Church of Scientology.By exposing crimes and bringing transparency we also bring sanity back to the Church of Scientology which currently remains a lawless, immoral, abusive, mafia-like group that is manifesting insanity as defined by L. Ron Hubbard: "the overt or covert but always complex and continuous determination to harm or destroy." Toxic shockTo call a spade a spade, David Miscavige is an SP (suppressive person, which means a toxic personality). Int Management is an SP group. The Sea Org, having been subverted and corrupted by Miscavige and Int Management, has become an SP group. I recommend to everyone, if you haven’t done it already, you need to disconnect from these SP individuals and groups because they are toxic to your spiritual well being and even your health.The point is not to destroy Scientology, but to clear from the organization the parasitic criminal elements which have encysted themselves inside the organizational body, feeding off its life. To put this in real terms, David Miscavige who is supposed to earn per LRH the same as any other Sea Org member, earns instead 62 times that much, not counting rent for his mansions, furniture, clothes, gifts, private jet, helicopter flights, paid vacations, full-time servants, etc. And David Miscavige spends a huge amount of his time goofing off: playing golf, going out to movies, hobnobbing with Tom Cruise, etc. That’s a parasite. They're ugly, just as you would expect. What really sets us apartWhat really sets us apart from some critics like Margaret Singer who sent OT materials to my mother in 1979; or the deprogrammer-for-hire who came to my house in 1979, took money from my mother and tried to seduce her too; or a certain family member who criticized me for 25 years for being a Scientologist and who, even after I left the Church and had to start over with nothing, continued to criticize me for the next 3 years until I put my foot down... what really sets us apart from those kinds of critics is that we aren’t on any personal vendetta. As individuals, we have surely been wronged, but that is not why we are speaking out. We aren’t being paid. We aren’t out to settle a score. After sinking 25 years into Scientology, we could hardly settle any score by investing even more time and effort into it. No, that would be stupid. |
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I don't know that Vaughn Young ever took any payoff. It appeared he cared a lot. I truly believe lot of SO members cared a lot or they never would have entered into the quest for truth and freedom. I just personally feel that they all (anyone left) and DM needs to be relieved of duty. There was a movie with Denzel Washington whereby he was a naval commander and relieved the guy incharge I can't remember the name of it but you know it is the right time. Cutting off the income is one way and a powerful way but I feel that is already happening. He physically and the rest of them need to go and I am not sure how that will play out. Perhaps we all need to go remove them!
This is about all one needs to know in order to understand and do something about the awful situation in the Church today!
We sent out a big info pack yesterday and have currently reformed three others and I think other Scientologist are doing the same. We´re moving forward towards the reappearance and renaissance of Scientology as we know and love to use!
Any way just to add my two bits but the fact is Ron was on the fence about calling Scientology a religion even though he wrote and spoke in many lectures that he was entering the area of religion with the discovery of past lives and the capabilities of the spirit. Despite what the haters say.
In fact there was much debate among Scientologists at the time whether Scientology should be called a religion, a science or philosophy and it wasn't till J Burton Faber incorporated the first Church of Scientology in California that Ron decided that it should be called a religion.
In this case the solution to the problem became the problem because of many peoples idee fixee, mind set or what we call service fac or computation of what a "religion" should be, least of which the State Licensing Boards and as Ron calls them the "Infernal Ravening Service". Not to mention the lil' guy who currently runs it who demands blind obedience and worship.
Probably why the Ol'man had much trepidation and when Ol'Burt made it a fait accompli spent much of his time defining what Religion is as we can see in The Phoenix Lectures where he gave several lectures on the subject.
Well the fact of the matter is that it is as Ron says "a religion in the oldest sense of the word" and that's the truth, despite efforts by various morons to label it otherwise, but it is also a science and a philosophy as well. So if religion turns you off you could call it either one of those.
Me I don't care as long as it works for me :-)
We need to apply the ethics gradients but Casey I agree with you, if things don't improve after several of us have written KRs not only uplines but most importantly BPI to all Staff & Public, we should start marching & take back our Church! I thought of a public demonstration outside an International Event or at FLAG, PAC Base or INT Base of 100s maybe 1000s of Scientologists, no mask w/total TR-O in. Peaceful, calm, ARCful with signs identifying us Like “Concerned OT-V, 20 yrs in”, “Concerned CL XII, 27 yrs in”, “Concerned Div 6, 1 month in”… w/banners stating things like “We want transparency”, “We want to look not listen. Show us the Stats”, “Where is Mark Yager, Shelley Miscavige, Heber Jentzsch,…” No antagonistic signs like "Take David Miscavige off post” but rather signs that would indicate/communicate to other Scientologists that haven’t started looking seriously at the outpoints yet. Having the media show up, interviewing some of us stating “we are concerned w/the rumors that our Church is committing Human Rights violations”, “we want to take back our Church”, “either clear conclusively the accusations or reform upper management” or whatever the leaders of our movement decide is appropriate. The main idea is to have a totally uptone & theta demonstration showing a large volume of Scientologists (EX-SO/Staff, declared “SP’s”, Public in good standing or not, working all together) taking a stand that the abuses and violation of policies of all sorts have to stop. I truly believe that the presence of Theta can de-enturbulate entheta and I think this could be an effective blow to the enemies. We could have copies of Mary Jo's & others KRs that we would handout. I know it would take a lot of organizing & lots of logistics to be effective but I believe that that's a specialty of a lot of us. In addition, it would be fun to meet all of you in person :-)
And as for the upper levels, I'm doing my OT V outside the Church. And I think the creation of this website, having everyone involved, and all of your comments are a prime example of what "OT" is all about.
I've now added a new section into the article which is a defense of the OT levels. Let me know what you guys think.
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The only difference between them and us is we have the Internet. Thank god for that. It is an unstoppable communication line that puts us all into communication and enables the facts to spread far and wide.
Many, many honorable people came before us. We are in their debt.
I care deeply about Source, and that is mostly I believe in the philosophy of LRH, because it does work indeed. I know this for a fact, in auditing 25,000 hours of auditing for 20 years from the grades to FPRD, to NOTS. Keep in mind, I was ignorant 15 year old when I caught on.
This is an interesting ride indeed.
Thanks also for acknowledging all the whistle blowers and those who were betrayed.
I read it within minutes of you updating the site and I see there are new sections. I look forward to perusing it again.
You can expect some interesting developments on the religion front beginning October 27, when the verdict is due in the current French fraud trial. That case has been covered in English by a Brit journalist named Jonny Jacobsen as part of his research on a book. His blog is well worth reading.
http://infinitecomplacency.blogspot.com/2009/05/20-scientology-on-trial-in-france.html
(That's the introduction to 31 more articles and counting; see The Paris Trial links starting about midway down in the right column.)
In this trial, the prosecution initially sought to dissolve (legally shut down) Scientology in France as a criminal organization. Shortly before the trial began, however, a rewording of the law was mysteriously slipped through under the guise of "simplification" that eliminated that possibility. But no matter; the judge can still order that the organization cease to operate for five years; or that it cease using the OCA personality test, delivering the Purification Rundown, and using the e-meter for psychological evaluation. Those three prohibitions alone would mean that Scientology can't operate per policy.
There have been a few suicides in France by people who were financially ruined or cruelly disheartened. Last year, there was a scandal regarding a woman whose brother, an OT and medical doctor, kidnapped her for an Introspection Rundown that was as badly delivered as Lisa McPherson's. Fortunately she was rescued by the police. These tragedies are underscored by the fact that Scientology is not recognized as a religion, and that no religion is allowed to dispense or interfere with medical treatment anyway. That goes for Christian Science and the Jehovah's Witnesses, too. There have been similar problems with the Purif in Russia.
What it comes down to is that "freedom of religion" in some countries does not give an organization absolute license to extort money, practice medical quackery and engage in political manipulation as it pretty much does in the United States. If you think Scientology has a bad reputation there, check out the rest of the world.
I love to read them more than once, so this is great!
I've been out of the Cult of Miscavology for over a year now and I'd be still in there if it weren't for many earlier critics who braved the unknown and published what they'd experienced or found regardless of the (sometimes terrible) consequences.
Without the Net, they were lone voices crying in the wilderness. But they kept going because it was what they had as their personal integrity.
For those of us who've witnessed the miracles that can occur from even something as simple as an assist, we do need to keep pushing the message that "it isn't all bad - there is a different side than the one you have been told."
Too many have only heard one side - and that includes those in as well as those criticizing.
It's time to be different and apply that Personal Integrity - thank you again for doing that so eloquently, Steve.
What works, works. For me (most of) the early tech worked like a swiss watch. When "red on white" tech bulletins started becoming "beige on white", I knew we were in big trouble. "Keeping Scientology Working" was thrown out the window.
I never fully understood why in the current major portion of criticism of scientology one sees attacks on the tech along with the church, until I read the section above, "Critics of Scientology". Thanks for that too.
John McMaster - not
HSS VI OT VI
Thanks Thougtful
thank you all for being on this planet at this time, doing what you are doing.
Any way I can contribute, please let me know.
Aloha,
Candy Swanson
Ira Chaleff's first wife
John McMaster's companion SH Manor
Mary Sue's friend/Liability Cruise
Ron's top Power Missionaire
Yvonne's First Celebrity Auditor
friend of Scientology/Scientologists
Also, I really have to thank you for ending with Hubbard's Code Of Honor. I am a graduate of LRH's Personal Ethics and Integrity course and to see it again truly made my day.
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