I was one who was completely taken in by Xenu, volcanos and ice-cubes etc, and utterly swallowed his tales of 5th Invader Forces, Markabians, Implant Stations on Mars and all the rest of the bullshit.
There wasn't a more disappointed person on the planet when it dawned on me that the whole thing was a scam from beginning to end and I had just been conned. (Not conned from a financial standpoint as I didn't shell-out thousands of £££'s or $$$'s buying useless 'auditing' like so many people have done, but conned by the lure of 're-discovering latent abilities that I had lost as a result of being enslaved and implanted'.)
As I thought to myself on opening my Clearing course materials:
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The first item in the bank is a light'. Holy shit!!!
This is what I came here for!!!
Another one of the Connodore's gullible victims.
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The first (earliest) bit of the bank is not an item but a light. It appears to the left front of the face, some distance away (Look ahead and to the left a bit and you'll spot it.)
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It is the source of unconsciousness and produces it when contacted. There is a light before each run...
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When you spot a light or object or combination of objects, you should get a read on the needle.
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You repeat verbal items aloud...
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The objects - hollow and solid...
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The objects appear about an arms length away...
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They move...
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Explosion...
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Never proceed past a non-reading item. To do so can be very deadly..."
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Many persons experience unreality at the start of [implant]
GPM running; this leaves when you see the meter reads."
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It's not so much the weirdness, but the covert hypnosis or covert suggestion, and trickery, that is woven throughout "Hubbard Guidance," particularly "Hubbard Guidance" at the "upper levels."
Weirdness, or "craziness," is one thing, but this is another element, one which, rather than being funny, is insidious.
In the 1960s there were articles in major magazines (pre-Internet when people read magazines) ridiculing Scientology's "craziness," but no comprehensive description of Scientology was provided, thus people were not adequately warned.
I can think of many people who read one or more of these ridiculing articles and, nonetheless, became involved with Scientology.
Scientology's boom of the late 1960s and early 1970s, its period of greatest expansion, occurred despite the "craziness" having been showcased.
Mmmm... That's almost a topic of its own.
"People who read stuff that should have steered them away from Scientology, yet, still, walked, willingly, into Scientology."
Oy vey!