Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00211)

In a message dated 04/05/05 9:31:51 PM, mhart@idirect.ca writes:

>John:<<I think it is a
>possibility ...>>
>
>I thought it was a possibility, too. I'm 
>wondering if Leon has some sort of 
>Scientological background. (Not that 
>I'm trying to make a joke here, in case 
>you were wondering.)
>
>^:-/ ...
>Mauri

To forestall too much speculation... 

As a matter of fact, I was into Dianetics (the book that Scientology is based 
on) back in 1953 and gave it a good shot as what they now call a "book 
auditor" with one of my cousins. The technique for what they call "clearing" is 
something like psychoanalysis and involves switching roles as patient-therapist. 
The system seemed to work satisfactorily in recalling "engrams" and 
simultaneous auditory "psychological blocks" that had to be "cleared" through 
regressions of memory (while re-experiencing their trauma), in sequence, back to the pre 
natal level (which were relatively easy to verify through our family 
connections). 

However, that was long before Hubbard started his Scientology religion scam, 
invented an electronic "engram detector" (which is its only relation to 
"science") and made it into a money grubbing cult -- probably, so he could avoid 
taxes after his book and other sci-fi writings made him a millionaire. Later he 
went kinda crazy as the cult took off and made him even wealthier, moved the 
HQ to a stateless yacht, while other greedy people started to horn in and bleed 
off the money in local branches -- during which time Hubbard managed the 
whole thing with his dictatorial edicts and complex organizational plans 
periodically pumped out from the yacht. 

Before all that, I gave up the whole idea when I found that Hubbard's so 
called new science of Dianetics was nothing more than a gathering together of 
occult psychology from both the Buddhist and Hindu sources, coupled with a lot of 
Western style behavioral psychology... And, later, I found theosophy -- which 
led me directly to the prime sources, such as Patanjali among others, that 
seemed to work just as well -- without all the phenomenal costs of step by step 
training courses and getting "certified" as a "Clear" or "Operating Thetan," 
with a lot of other stages in-between designed to drain your money and, 
ultimately, make you a slave dependent on the system (unless you are clever enough to 
become one of its "insiders".:-) The whole cult, now promoted, and 
presumedly profited on by a few high powered Hollywood personalities, is not much 
different from EST and many other "self empowerment" cults (ostensibly based on New 
Age pseudo theosophical philosophies that stress money, power, and personal 
success as their primary goals. 

As for the word "Scientology"... There's nothing in its "science" or 
underlying philosophy that has anything to do with my ABC correlation of theosophical 
metaphysics with modern physics.

Leon...