Scientology really need to hire a PR guy!

They just keep getting it SO wrong all the time. They try so hard to be accepted in society and then with small stupid acts they undo years of goodwill work instantly.

And they are doing it, ALL THE TIME.

They recently sent dossiers of people who protest outside their UK HQ to local councillors, whenever protestors show up at their Hollywood branch they all run inside, smokescreen their windows and lock their doors and the websites they create about those who leave and speak out… all make Scientology an absolute laughing stock on the world stage. Imagine you leave a religion and then they put your darkest secrets divuldged under a sacred seal of secrecy out into the open? Would you trust such a religion with your most intimate thoughts?

So why do they do it? It is in their DNA and they don’t have a competent PR guy dealing with public relations. They need someone with the skills needed to tell them the new limits in today’s uber connected society. They simply do not know where the line is.

Let’s take the first example, they produced dossiers of people who protest against them in the UK and sent these to local councillors. First why? Easy to understand, Scientology wanted the protests to stop, so they appealed to the local council to have them banned. Arguing the protestors were on a public road and the protestors were endangering themselves and a traffic hazard for motorists who may go into the middle of the road to pass them with respectful space… So far so good right, reasonable argument, worthy of local councillors to consider. Fine.

The councillors deliberated and decided that the right of the protestors to have their say was more important than concerns about people crossing the road or being in close proximity to a road. And was going to recommend at the next council meeting that the protests not be banned.

So… the church thinking it would help its cause a bit, thought all it had to do was let the councillors know how bad these protestors were, so sent dossiers to the councillors to this effect. Listing past transgressions and current bad habits.

In Scientology, this is a logical thing to do, attack your attackers, right? They are a kick ass religion, darn they beat the US IRS!

Here was about 15 locals holding up banners at events… Obv answer, they should be squashed by any legal means.

So for Scientology it is an easy formula…

Sending the dossiers isn’t illegal, right?! It is not, it is entirely legal to do this.

So if it isn’t against the law then it can’t be held against them, right?

What Scientology can not see cause of it’s own righteousness, is this:

The protestors got word of all this.

They did a little research, turns out the data about the protestors who had never been in Scientology came from PIs who had gone through their rubbish. The data about ex-scientologist protestors could only have come from confidential counselling session notes taken during their tenure in Scientology.

So they published all this online. Net result, the PIs get fined and Scientology makes the headlines for spilling the beans on preist/pentient/sacred records of their ex members into the public.

Scientology promised they would be counselling you in confidence, made notes of your confessions, kept this on file as a sacred trust… until you leave, evidently. And they don’t make a secret of it either. They want those within to know what’s coming if they also leave…

So this is your ex religion stabbing you in the back with your most dark secrets that you gave up in a moment of utmost vulnerability now being used against you in the court of public opinion. Or they used PIs to literally dig up dirt on you. But it was all legal right, yeah so was slavery.

Legal does not equal moral. They got away with it until the internet.

Now a days neitzens know Scientology has done the dirty here, it was all ok, until they sent the dossiers. Now they have betrayed themselves. They promise to keep your secrets given up in sacred trust during a private counselling Scientology session with a certified minster of the ‘church’ under the pretense that this will be held forever scared… until you speak out against them and protest their abuses, then they send them to your local councillor in a dossier – they do not tell you this when they recruit you (or are born into it) but it hangs there in the background if you ever think about leaving.

Scientology has yet to catch on to the fact that when they do shit like this the world sees right through their play book now.

Any PR guy worth his weight in salt would immedaitely say ‘DON’T DO THAT!’ and walk the execs through why not and then give a solution.

How should Scientology deal with these protestors at Saint Hill then if they can’t get them banned? It could easily be done. Acknowledge past abuse and promise to do better is the typical cant for most institutions, you just need the right PR guy. Befriend them. It is well explained in Scientologies religion that for a problem to exist there must be two opposing forces. So invite the protestors, build them a little sitting area just a little back from the road, serve them tea and biscuits, put an awning up for them to stand under, provide astrays and supply heat with a couple of garden lamps.

As soon as those protestors realize that Scientology isn’t bothered by them and in fact makes an effort to make them welcome… they are going to stop doing it. They are doing it because it causes an adverse reaction, they are doing it for kicks. And 90% of what they are saying is that Scientology isn’t nice to people who leave and speak out, so what happens when Scientology starts being nice to protestors? They make the news for being the bigger person and the general public gives them kudos for being benevolent.

What about the Hollywood situation and the guys outside screaming about xenu.

For example, how do Scientologists deal with being asked about Xenu today?

Anyone to a Scientologist: What about Xenu?

Imagine if it went like this…

Scientolgist: We don’t believe in Xenu or anything for that matter, Scientology is about knowledge and not belief. Ok to be clear, the world already knows of Xenu and yes it does appear in the OT level materials and of course South Park did their thing, which is quite frankly cheap and distasteful, it portrays a small, out of context, part of our theology as if it was our creation story in a cartoon, and it just isn’t. Imagine if South Park did an episode like that mocking the Jewish creation myth?

While the events surrounding Xenu have had serious effects on us, it is a miniscule part of our theology. The events surrounding Xenu, DO NOT represent the core beliefs of Scientology. Scientology does not believe in beliefs.

We don’t do creation myths. We say we know what we know… so far.

All we know so far is what has already been recalled, through numerous accounts. We have records of events occuring 76 trillion years ago and are keenly waiting on science to catch up and prove or DISPROVE, we’re open to that to.

Xenu isn’t what we believe in! That is an obvious insult and afront!! Xenu explains an historical event that is suggested to have happened in this universe some 76 trillion years ago, now did you hear me right there, it is only SUGGESTED, this is in reference to a path Hubbard followed himself, he invites others to follow him in this discovery but lays out a very stringent path to get a person to the point where they can actually recall these events for themselves. There is no such thing as a belief in Xenu in Scientology, the overlaying principle with Scientology is if it is true for you then it is true for you.

There are many Scientologists who don’t think there is such a thing as past lives yet but they continue their search, albeit having a little faith. But then there is even more members who don’t believe in past lives but know they have lived before. They are on the doorstep of beginning to know what is to come on the OT levels. But to be clear there is no such thing as Scientology beliefs, so South Park got off on the wrong foot there, but Scientologists all know what they know.

If Scientolgy could be said to have had a creation ‘myth’, it is well described in Hubbards texts, and I am happy to point these out. It happens to also propose an explanation for dark matter and dark energy.

It is well discussed in the book Science of Survival, 1951, in which Hubbard describes enturbulated MEST (Matter, Energy, Space + Time) and enturbulted theta (thought) also known as enmest and entheta. If Hubbard propsed a creation story it is available for all the public to read at their leisure, it is available from many book outlets and on sale online for about $40-$60 and Scientology has made a considerable effort to make it available through public libraries world wide.

Scientology is not a belief system, it is a bridge to discovering your true power as a soul.

We know what we know, would love to share it, we want to help the community, as we make our way to immortality.

I hope you find a path you can devote yourself to in life, beyond picking at our religion.

This should be made into the mantra of a Scientology defender.

And for the websites against their ex-members, they should change these to make them tributes for the good they did while working within the religion, a sort of thank you, fare thee well type site, with a ‘sorry for any grievances’ msg as well. Makes Scientology the bigger person and it would kinda take the wind out of the sails of the likes of Leah Remini.

So, this solves the dossier sending, xenu response and the websites, but what about the question of $$$, Sea Org welfare, excessive bullying within and without, empty buildings, declining membership ad infintum, Scientology really needs ALOT more help with their PR.