Try paying more attention to such things as
words and
meanings. They are what
reading is about.
Mark A. Baker
Hi Mark,
I thought someone might say something like when I posted what I did and I appreciate your point, but I think I'm going to stick to mine. I'm a reader, and sometimes professional writer, and I know the importance of words and meanings. But I feel that part of the indoctrination and brainwashing of Scientology is that everything comes down to words and meanings. I've read posts on Xenu.net where someone is telling their story and describing their auditing sessions and the chain of command, and with the abbreviations, the definitions, and the general Hubbardese, I have no idea what they are talking about. I think after you've been in a few years, you may not realize that you are truly speaking a completely different language. And Hubbard was very precise about his words and meanings.
What I've observed in the books I've read about the church and moving up the bridge is that there is a process of desensitization where one becomes cut off more and more from one's feelings. It begins in the communication course where you learn to "control" another person, and go into numbing, hypnotic states. Gradually, I believe, you lose a relationship to your own moral compass and emotional core, which is why people can walk around watching and doing cruel and humiliating things and justify them, or can disconnect from family without a second thought.
My hypothesis is that part of healing from Scientology is learning to have a relationship with one's intuition again, regardless of the "words and meanings" that are being hurled at one continuously. One of the reasons for constant Sec Checks, or to bring people who have blown back to the base is that once they start getting away from those words and meanings in the real world, those definitions become meaningless. One has to learn to get past the words and say, "What am I experiencing in my body about what is happening right now. How do I feel about what is happening?"
For example: We are having a argument in this thread where Claire feels the need to defend herself and prove that she is not a defender of Scientology. Now, originally I asserted something about the Independent Scientology movement and she felt I was being judgmental and unfair. She then defended Terril's slightly nasty comment. My point is, Claire is sending a lot of words my way, and everything she says makes logical sense, but something about the defensiveness doesn't
feel right. I don't see why she couldn't say earlier, "I understand your point, but I feel there is another side to this." She calls someone a bigot, and then is pissed when I call her a Scientologist.
Now if I use only my mind, her arguments can persuade me away from my initial point, which was that I was outraged (and still am) that I feel too many in the Independent Scientologist movement, or at least the ones who present themselves to the media, want to act like COB is the devil, while letting LRH completely off the hook. And I argue that not holding Hubbard accountable for his crimes, perpetuates the harm that Scientology does, because even if independent scientologists don't run an RPF, or "harm children" as she claims, they still continue to revere the man who created those things and I find that problematic.
Claire called me a bigot and told me to some freakin' facts, which is pretty strong response to what I said. Now she wants moderation and understanding. The point is that now I'm starting to doubt whether I was right, or what we were even talking about in the first place, because NOW we are talking about whether or not Claire is a Scientologist. Which gets me back to my initial point about mystification. Whether Claire is aware she is doing this is irrelevant to me. The point is, we're off the topic and distracted from my original point - the destructiveness of the Independent Scientology movement when they continue to promote LRH.
So, in other words, as someone here, Similla I think, said, Scientology will not cure or fix Scientology- because Scientology is about the use of the mind. But everything isn't about the mind, sometimes it's about the heart. And it is only through regaining one's intuition that one gets their soul back from Scientology. Focusing on words and meanings aren't enough.