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   From: freespeech@4eva.com   
      
   SCIENCE AND THE "CLEAR PILL" - WHY $CIENTOLOGY HATES PSYCHIATRY   
      
   Chances are it IS all physical after all - that the soul or "thetan" IS the   
   brain, or a concept held thereby. This is generally considered fact by   
   psychiatry.   
      
   Should you do work such as welding that presents the risk of burn injury,   
   you probably know that it is advisable to keep cold water available nearby   
   for quick application to the burned body part. You dunk the burn as quickly   
   as possible, or run cold water on it, and leave it in the cold water for a   
   minute or two. The pain is quickly relieved, damage minimized, and healing   
   occurs much faster than it would otherwise. Where a blister would normally   
   form, there is only a red spot that quickly fades.   
      
   Neurologists explain this phenomena as follows:   
   Neurons in the brain receiving the pain signals are actually injured by   
   them. Stopping the injurious pain signals by quickly cooling the burn before   
   extensive brain neuron damage occurs thus minimizes the effects of the   
   injury. Brain damage tends to be considered permanent because the means of   
   reversing it are generally unknown. Thus the "engram" stays in place, even   
   after the site of the physical injury has healed. The engram resides in the   
   brain.   
      
   $cientology's dianetic "engram running" or "auditing", and to a lesser   
   degree "assists", appear to be   
   means by which such neuron damage can be reduced or healed. These somatic   
   scars are thereby accessed and eradicated, just as corrupt computer files   
   can be. There is nothing "spiritual" or "religious" about this - it is   
   simply a means of healing that science is beginning to understand and   
   becoming able to explain. Psychologist Alfred Korzybski developed this as   
   "abreaction therapy"   
   long before L. Ron Hubbard stole it and used it to make money and start his   
   "religion".   
   Scientific knowledge always dispels the superstitious or fabricated beliefs   
   put forth   
   before the truth became known. Ignorance is only bliss to the scammers that   
   exploit it in others.   
      
   We see here another reason behind the Cult of $cientology's hatred of   
   psychiatry and physical medicine. If brain damage can be reversed, drugs can   
   probably be developed to do this without "auditing" - and do so far more   
   quickly and inexpensively. The doctor or therapist then has no chance to   
   brainwash the patient with such self-serving and harmful nonsense as the   
   fable of Xenu's "implants", which actually is L. Ron Hubbard delivering his   
   desired implants to the "pre-OT".   
      
   Some happy day we may have a CLEAR PILL that can reverse all brain damage,   
   and thus efficiently "run out" all engrams, secondaries, and locks. This   
   medical miracle will not come from an unscrupulous con-artist cult founder,   
   but through the progress of the medical science that cult fanatics would do   
   anything to stop, as it is a threat to their monopolized and soon to be   
   obsolete "tech".   
      
   True science, not the cult of $cientology, will free us all!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)