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?!
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Subject: Marv Wants you to stop