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   From: nobody@mixmaster.it   
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   COGNITIONS OF A LIBERATED SCIENTOLOGIST   
      
   	In the years since leaving Scientology, I've become aware of   
   just how brainwashed I had been. I have probed for exactly HOW   
   an intelligent, well-educated, free-thinking agnostic could be   
   so taken in by a "religion," which I then did not believe it to   
   be. In discovering this, I could only be awed by Hubbard's   
   twisted brilliance. He knew exactly what he was doing. Had he   
   lived in more primitive times, before the mass media (which he   
   feared) and the information superhighway (which his successors   
   fear), he certainly would have succeeded. Should his autocratic   
   cult ever come to great power, he may yet become a God in most   
   minds, as he intended. And I believe the human race would then   
   suffer perhaps the most fascistic, mind-controlling domination   
   in history.   
      
   	What gets one addicted to heroin? Long before any physical   
   addiction, there is the rush, the high, the temporary RELEASE   
   from all suffering - emotional or physical, conscious or not.   
   For perhaps the first time, there is no anxiety, no fear, no   
   pain. It's gone! Blissful peace at last! I'm FREE! And freedom   
   tastes of reality!   
      
   	Nothing wrong with this, except its falsity due to the heroin,   
   which enslaves. If some psychological "tech" and its source are   
   corrupt, they bring the follower to this point, but then mislead   
   and exploit. In such euphoria, and with suggestion, there may   
   come a quasi-religious leap of faith: THIS IS IT! All my life   
   I've searched and prayed for this! The Source of this is GOD!   
   Anything this good MUST BE ALL GOOD! This is THE ANSWER, and   
   worth any risk! And worth any price! It's THE WAY to TOTAL   
   FREEDOM! Call it a drug, psychotherapy, deception - I don't   
   care! THIS IS THE WAY!!   
      
   	So commanding is this belief, that it blinds to all evidence to   
   the contrary. The rational, analytical mind, perhaps perceptibly   
   enhanced, becomes imperceptibly stultified, blinded. The word of   
   Source is now Gospel. Then comes the dark side of religion,   
   intolerance and hatred: Disbelievers? Devils! Evil foes of my   
   Source and his Church! Suppressives, enemies, fair game! This is   
   THE WAY, and the ONLY way - I must have more, everyone must! How   
   DARE they resist the will of Source and block the Bridge to   
   TOTAL FREEDOM?!   
      
    	What will a junkie pay for more junk? Anything and everything.   
   What will a junkie do for a fix? Anything and everything. Thus   
   he or she is easily controlled by even the suggestion it will be   
   denied. Then: I need money. I'll get more people hooked. My   
   Source wants me to - he's even taught me how. I must disconnect   
   from non-junkies - except those of value to my Source. I'll take   
   their money - my Source and his mob get that, but it earns me my   
   fix. I'll lie. Steal. Intimidate. Cleverly con people. It's OK;   
   it's the greatest good for the greatest number. This is THE WAY   
   TO TOTAL FREEDOM, and I'LL DO ANYTHING FOR IT!   
      
   	So thank you, L. Ron Pusher and his fanatical followers.   
   Fortunately, self-liberated from earlier religious   
   indoctrination, I was too smart for you - I soon sensed the   
   danger and never got fully hooked, though you sure tried hard,   
   with high pressure and covert manipulations, to suck me in   
   totally and take all my money. But I did want the euphoria, the   
   "gains," so much that I tolerated your arrogant disrespect, paid   
   a fortune, and put up with bad service and abusive, unscrupulous   
   treatment. Guess you don't have to be polite once your junkies   
   are hooked and you are the only Source around. In awakening to   
   how I fell into your trap, I've become far more free than you   
   wanted me to be. I am far happier for not being under your   
   thumb. I don't need your opiate, or anyone else's. I am my own   
   Source. Being "clear" is OK, but far less than what you claimed   
   for it. I believe that joining your staff is volunteering for   
   slavery, and the OT levels are little more than a sci-fi based   
   scam. An OT I knew is in jail, as Hubbard's wife and several   
   other Scientology officials have been. I've found SELF-   
   DETERMINED FREEDOM far better than what you offer, for as   
   philosopher J. W. Von Gothe said, there are none more hopelessly   
   enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.   
      
   	Had Hubbard been content to ethically deliver Dianetics(tm), he   
   would have a place in history alongside Freud and Korzybski,   
   from whom he took most of this "tech." Tragically, his   
   megalomania and greed led him to corrupt it, degrading it to a   
   con game and a paranoid cult world he could play God in, using   
   it to exploit and subjugate more than to heal and liberate.   
   Given the mindset of the ruling Scientology elite, the only hope   
   for reform lies in EXPOSING THEIR CRIMES AND LIES, making such   
   practices too costly to continue. As the truth becomes known, I   
   believe what is good in Scientology will find "total freedom"   
   from the cult monopoly and become available and affordable to   
   all. Until this psychological-spiritual technology is in truly   
   ethical hands, I must warn all - DO NOT RISK INVOLVEMENT! And if   
   already involved, LEAVE WHILE YOU STILL HAVE ENOUGH FREE WILL TO   
   DO SO.   
      
   Want to know more? Read the BOOKS AND ARTICLES EXPOSING THE   
   CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY listed below. The cult does not want you   
   to read these, so they may be hard to find. They reveal and   
   document the hypocrisy, greed, unscrupulous practices, and   
   serious crimes of this "Church." You will learn more about their   
   techniques of mind control and subjugation - the use of personal   
   secrets confided in counseling for intimidation and blackmail -   
   the exploitation of staff - abuse and slavery in their "RPF" -   
   brutal and degrading punishments - the big ripoff of   
   Missionholders by Hubbard's "Finance Dictator" and "Finance   
   Police" - harassment and terror tactics against dissenters -   
   Hubbard's tall tales, false claims and con games - imprisonment,   
   abductions, suicides, and unexplained deaths - criminal   
   conspiracies - and much more.   
      
   L. RON HUBBARD: MESSIAH OR MADMAN? - Bent Corydon & L. Ron   
   Hubbard Jr.   
   THE BARE-FACED MESSIAH - Russell Miller.   
   A PIECE OF BLUE SKY - Jon Atack.   
   THE SCANDAL OF SCIENTOLOGY - Paulette Cooper. For writing this   
   book, the author was harassed, terrorized, and framed by a   
   Scientology criminal conspiracy.   
   RELIGION, INC. - Stewart Lamont.   
   THE MIND BENDERS - Cyril Vosper.   
   SCIENTOLOGY: THE NOW RELIGION - George Malko.   
   THE ROAD TO TOTAL FREEDOM - Roy Wallis.   
   THE ROAD TO XENU - Margery Wakefield. Available from Coalition,   
   PO Box 290402, Tampa, FL 33687, or FACTNet, 601 16 St. #C-217,   
   Golden, CO 80401.   
   INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY - Robert Kaufman.   
   COMBATTING CULT MIND CONTROL - Steven Hassan.   
   SCIENTOLOGY: THE CULT OF GREED - Time Magazine, May 6, 1991.   
   THE PROPHET AND PROFITS OF SCIENTOLOGY - Forbes, Oct. 27, 1986.   
      
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