mentallo
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Just found this site today and signed up right away. I read "New Slant on Life" and thought it was interesting and went to the Celebrity Center in NYC. I was in Scientology for about 2 years in the late 90's. I did every introductory course and had some auditing and I was going to start helping out with the classes as a assistant. Then I read read "Barefaced Messiah" in one night and never went back to the org. They called me at home because I missed a course I was to help out on and I told them that I will never come back and they should never contact me again. I proceeded to throw out all my Scientology books, tapes and videos into a huge trash bag and brought them to the dump. I then went a little nuts on the internet and started to read and print out everything I could find about anti-Scientology materials for weeks...months. I think it helped me get over the deep disappointment I was feeling about Scientology.
I also started reading a lot Buddhist literature which compared to the cold and "scientific" view of life in CoS was a revelation.
I have been educating people about the true nature of the "religion" ever since.
So...hello
PS: Before actually reading "Barefaced Messiah" (which I found in a Barnes and Noble in Manhattan) I had suspicions about CoS because of the pushy nature of the staff and the quality of the writing by LRH which is truly horrible and pedestrian but stayed away from looking deeper into the issue because I started to get a little brainwashed myself.
I am really glad I made it out before I went into the "Academy" because I might still be in today.
I also started reading a lot Buddhist literature which compared to the cold and "scientific" view of life in CoS was a revelation.
I have been educating people about the true nature of the "religion" ever since.
So...hello
PS: Before actually reading "Barefaced Messiah" (which I found in a Barnes and Noble in Manhattan) I had suspicions about CoS because of the pushy nature of the staff and the quality of the writing by LRH which is truly horrible and pedestrian but stayed away from looking deeper into the issue because I started to get a little brainwashed myself.
I am really glad I made it out before I went into the "Academy" because I might still be in today.
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