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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.   
      
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   WISH, but please do not alter or abridge it.   
      
   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.   
      
      
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