- A hope of longer life.
- A higher sense of awareness.
- Immortality
- A Community
- The Technology
1. A Hope of Longer Life
In Dianetics, published in 1950 Hubbard asserted ‘We do not know how long, being a Clear, increases ones life span.’
It’s common knowledge within the Scientology community that Scientologists live longer and need doctors less. If you just think that and do not check the numbers.
Now in 2020 we know there is no evidence that Dianetics processing does anything to increase ones life span on it’s own. It’s counselling based on 1940 psychology.
However, in 1954 Hubbard did evolve his self-help/quasi psychology movement into a religion. He then stipulated that his followers should not drink alcohol or take drugs.
Abstaining from alcohol and drugs will more than likely increase your life span. That is a truth Scientology claims but does not own.
Bear in mind if you do at some point decide to indulge in a drink or perhaps the odd recreational drug use – you will be shunned and might lose your family.
It is a fast and authoritarian rule. Your in the drink/drug taker club or YOU ARE NOT! One way or the other. To be one of us you must be toxin free.
Caffeine and nicotine consumption is rife. Helps you be productive, right. Make more money. But drink and drug fun are no no’s.
There is a get out clause though… (£), read on.
2. A Higher Sense of Awareness.
This was one of my biggest hang ups in stopping Scientology after being born into it. Hubbard’s works do argue to put the whole species before the individual.
Which is not a bad idea in theory. For me it’s taken to abusive levels though.
Your encouraged to think of the ‘greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics’. To survive.
In brief the dynamics are avenues we pursue to survive. We do this on a 1st dynamic as an individual. Then game up to a 2nd dynamic and survive as part of a family, then 3rd dynamic is survive as part of a group, then the 4th dynamic is to survive as mankind…
A too fancy way of saying ‘do what you can by you and yours and then by others’ but anyway.
So if you make a decision that is better for the world and humanity more than just you and your family then… it’s a good choice. More survival. It’s the greatest good for the greatest number of ‘survival’ dynamics.
It is a noble idea. Help thy brother. Be less selfish. Strive for one and all… it’s made way too fancy with an engineering term added in but it is ok as an idea.
Here’s the issue.
When you are being ‘regged’ or registered for Scientology services. It’s a cute term for being asked for the next cheque as you progress up their levels of spiritual ‘enhancement’. aka The Bridge to Total Freedom.
Since 1995, this ‘regging’ practice has included raising funds for new buildings as well. Which incidentally is not refundable.
Donations for services could be – depending on your countries law.
Crowd fund raising also became in vogue from the late ’90s.
But back to the old fashioned one on one regging, which is also still extant, just been around longer. Crowd fund raising was a tweek on the 1-1 regging.
So now your sat across from a pressure sales team, who are authorities of the ‘church’ (which holds the key to their version of immortality, that you have subscribed to, and also access to your family, at their finger tips) saying to you ‘make the best choice on the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics’
With a contract in front of you to remortgage your house and release £50,000 in equity to secure your next step on ‘The Bridge’,
Now it is nominally optional to contribute to this funding practice. For services and/or more new buildings. But there is a lot of peer pressure. For example those who give money are made famous in the group and given very grand rewards. Those in the group who do not are shunned. It is very much a ‘he who giveth the most is the best’ type culture.
Giving nothing got me expelled for my ‘crimes’. Speaking to my father was one of them. Incidentally my crimes were forgivable when I was paying in.
And whatever your ‘crimes’ are will be forgiven so long as you pay in to ‘handle’ them. Mines was cheating on my partner and doing the occasional ‘cash’ job. It was a-ok, so long as I paid in to handle it.
Good home for rich pedo’s then. I unfortunately met more than one while involved. The idea being – you can do no wrong so long as your using (and paying for) Scientology to sort it out.
So a ‘higher awareness’ can be loosely translated into ‘get away with what you like, just make sure you pay us and we will stand by you, even in court.’
The basis for morality is if your helping Scientology save the universe (which they think they are doing) then your a good guy, despite even the most gruesome faults. So long as your paying in to handle them.
Scientology protects their big donators with a vengeance. In the courts, media and streets.
So while you seem to be paying for a higher awareness your actually paying to purge your sins. And to some degree buying into a protection, look out for their own, racket.
But it’s expensive and you run the risk of losing your family if you decide to quit.
3. ‘Immortality’
Now here I was thrown a curve ball. It ain’t cool to blame one’s parents for ones lot in life but this one I have to place squarely on my mother dear.
Implanted memories is what I am talking about.
Her ‘off the cuff comment’ to me when I was 8 stuck with me until I was in my late 30s to contend with.
She said: ‘Mind when you were 4 and told me about fixing a motorbike in your last life?’ I was keen into my new BMX bike at the time. The idea of me fixing a motorbike was like – WOW.
‘Uh huh.’ I said, I could not, but mother could… so.
Until I was 36 I struggled with this. I’d remembered past lives and so therefore Scientology had ‘proved’ I was immortal and I had lived before. It was proof I would live again. I now thought I knew this to be true. I’d remembered it in detail.
I actually had not but I did later embellish the seed planted. ‘I was in my 40s… by a barn on a spring day fixing some motor bike…
I had made it up to suit the memory implant. I then gave this past life ‘memory’ up in Dianetics processing at 9 which my counsellor acknowledged as being genuine. It is encouraged that you seek any reference to past lives during counselling no matter how faint… So because they had given me the ‘power’ it was thus ‘proved’ to me that I was immortal through the wonderful ‘Technologies’ of Hubbard with his wondrous discoveries in making Scientology.
In fact it had been Mother dear who had given me a memory implant when I was 8.
It’s a cheap trick and one I detested when I got wise to it.
Being convinced your immortal is a heady gig for sure.
It’s open to you if you are willing to pay for it and ignore the fact it very well may not be true and if you give up your pursuit, paying for, this ‘truth’ you may well lose access to your family.
4. A Community
There’s 20,000 of them who are IN THE CLUB now. They are very rich as an institution and easily here for maybe 2 or 3 more generations…
Right now they will accept ANYONE!
If you pay in and molest 6 year olds, your welcome! So long as your handling that thing with young bodies. ‘But come on in, we really should look into this for you, how is business?’
The final analysis is: How upstat (rich) are you?
(stat = statistic, or a measurement of your personal production).
Reward upstats and penalize downstats. Is the thinking.
If you take heroin and then pay in £1000 your forgiven for taking the heroin as you are an upstat. Same applies to ANY transgression. So long as you pay in, your an upstat. So protected.
If you do not pay, your now a downstat. So run the risk of being shunned and losing access to your family.
But that rich 20,000 strong community will have you, no matter your faults, so long as you pay in.
5. ‘The’ Technology
It’s extant religious ideas mixed with 1940s psychology with corresponding counselling that ‘works 100%’ on everyone and anyone can learn it. For a price.
The ‘Tech’ is make-work gobbledygook.
Hubbard takes 1940s psychology, sprinkles it with a flavour of being spiritual and came up with dictionaries of his own words to describe it. It’s a very basic idea, if you control the language you control how people think.
Hubbard exerted massive control on how people communicate with one another. From his training routines to ethics policies he, he ruled all communication and thus controlled group think. If you can control what people say to each and how they say it. Then you control them how their mindest will be. If it ends up being love Hubbard loads – then everyone would naturally love Hubbard loads.
Gobbledygook is defined by google as:
“Language that is meaningless or is made unintelligible by excessive use of technical terms.”
Since 1950 the doors of Dianetics and Scientology centers the world over have been open and welcomed people in to expose them to Hubbards works. The amount of people thus exposed or sold one of his books must now be near or passed a billion.
That is 1,000,000,000 people.
Scientology active membership is currently approx 20,000 for sure. 50,000 would include me as a member and I am hardly still enamoured.
So Hubbards 100% workable technology for everyone that anyone can learn… seems to be falling a tad short of 100%. In fact it’s closer to 0.005% of the population that Scientology is workable for.
Which includes Tom Cruise and John Travolta.
Btw, met them both. TC is a Nazi with wee man syndrome dolled up with a fake charisma and JT is the most generous, gentle gianted soul you will ever meet.
But a mega sales point in Scn is the’Tech’ works ALL the time on everyone IF done right. But either it is too hard to do right or it only works on 0.005% of the population. There sure as hell ain’t no 100% workable for everyone in there!
If someone showed me 50,000 ways to build a house and only one of them stayed standing. I would not call that person someone who knew how to build houses.
Of course if the Tech does not work on you then this is your own fault and you are thus shunned and may lose your family.
My Conclusion on Scientology:
And setting up new religions in general.
Religions do have a place in the world to the degree all it’s members assert better control over themselves and are easier to get on with in the world at large.
Religions offer a moral guide that our money, power grabbing politicians do not.
But per captia Scn ain’t welcome. They’re not trying to be welcome. They have a very dim view on what others may thing of them and their endeavors. Remember they KNOW they are the only ones who can save the universe.
They are not asking permission to be in society, they assume they should own it – too much. Islam and Christianity also do this to, but no where near to the same extent.
In their view they do not need permission to be here. Only that they have the right to enforce their will on others and get away with anything in the name of that pursuit. Even felonies.
Ultimately I think we have enough religions to deal with. I wanted to set one up once. I have decided against it as they seem to be more trouble than they are worth in the end for a longer and/or better life.
Your better picking your individual path and doing what good by others as you can.
I do have to argue for a Scientology upbringing before it was taken over by David Miscaviage. It did leave me with a sense of eternal optimism.
It’s a shame Scientology is currently behaving like a retreating Third Reich, if it stopped regging for new fancy premises that are not needed, so much and went back to being more grass roots instead of a rich persons play ground then it might even survive and help the world.
It’s bad practice to put peoples families on the line.
It’s not fair play.
But behaving like the Third Reich will get you the same result.
Cheerio.