Boson Wog Stark
Patron Meritorious
The cult hates this story being told, because it is mysterious and intriguing with so many dimensions. It is also the opposite of a lot of their PR.
SECRECY: The cult uses secrecy as a cornerstone and bait to lure in people to their labyrinth of courses, processing, front groups, packages, procedures and rundowns. Things like the Survival Rundown are things a member gets into after considerable indoctrination and the public isn't supposed to know about how lengthy or costly these things are, and what they consist of.
CELEBRITY: Scientology plays up the success and glam aspects of being a celebrity, and while they would like to snag and rescue a major celebrity like Carrey, given his history (mocking the cult), this is just embarrassing for the cult to deal with the intimate association of him with one of their now dead Celebrity Centre members, even though she was just at the bottom of the industry.
SURVIVAL: Survival is supposed to be one of Hubbard's genius revelations, right? This is horrible PR for the cult that this complex story can be reduced to a member who killed herself while on, or after months of, Scientology's elaborate, costly survival "package," I'll call it. Then there's the problem of "survival" conjuring up other intriguing and interesting things in the public's mind; survivalists, survival retreats, where people go on long treks into the mountains or whatever.
But no, in Scientology survival is just supposed to mean...well, what does it mean. Does it mean when you're a Scientologist, you have to learn to survive Scientology? Survivalists are expecting some kind of impending catastrophic event. People who go on survival retreats are hoping to shift their viewpoint through deprivation or a radically different experience from their everyday lives.
Hubbard didn't survive past the age of 74. I don't think Scientology wants the public to become curious about what Hubbard meant about survival, because not only didn't he do it for very long, his whole concept about it seems nonsensical to outsiders, or at least it did to me when i tried to read about it. In regard to Scientology, surviving the aftermath of years, dollars and abuse is more relevant.
She didn't survive the Survival Rundown. It makes it sound shady and dangerous. Scientology would like the public to believe that Scientology is whatever you want it to be that's good, helpful and that it has all the answers. It isn't supposed to be what it is: an elaborate trap to get people's money.
SECRECY: The cult uses secrecy as a cornerstone and bait to lure in people to their labyrinth of courses, processing, front groups, packages, procedures and rundowns. Things like the Survival Rundown are things a member gets into after considerable indoctrination and the public isn't supposed to know about how lengthy or costly these things are, and what they consist of.
CELEBRITY: Scientology plays up the success and glam aspects of being a celebrity, and while they would like to snag and rescue a major celebrity like Carrey, given his history (mocking the cult), this is just embarrassing for the cult to deal with the intimate association of him with one of their now dead Celebrity Centre members, even though she was just at the bottom of the industry.
SURVIVAL: Survival is supposed to be one of Hubbard's genius revelations, right? This is horrible PR for the cult that this complex story can be reduced to a member who killed herself while on, or after months of, Scientology's elaborate, costly survival "package," I'll call it. Then there's the problem of "survival" conjuring up other intriguing and interesting things in the public's mind; survivalists, survival retreats, where people go on long treks into the mountains or whatever.
But no, in Scientology survival is just supposed to mean...well, what does it mean. Does it mean when you're a Scientologist, you have to learn to survive Scientology? Survivalists are expecting some kind of impending catastrophic event. People who go on survival retreats are hoping to shift their viewpoint through deprivation or a radically different experience from their everyday lives.
Hubbard didn't survive past the age of 74. I don't think Scientology wants the public to become curious about what Hubbard meant about survival, because not only didn't he do it for very long, his whole concept about it seems nonsensical to outsiders, or at least it did to me when i tried to read about it. In regard to Scientology, surviving the aftermath of years, dollars and abuse is more relevant.
She didn't survive the Survival Rundown. It makes it sound shady and dangerous. Scientology would like the public to believe that Scientology is whatever you want it to be that's good, helpful and that it has all the answers. It isn't supposed to be what it is: an elaborate trap to get people's money.