NxdBSC......if Scientology gave her such a bad time and she left, why does she still promote CCHR on her website?
I am not sure that it is entirely fair of us to try to hold Lisa Marie to our exacting ex scientologist and critical standards.
The process of re-aligning, if not re-calibrating, ones world following the crushing dissolution of our once firmly held even fanatical, belief in Hubbard's drug addled ramblings is terrifyingly huge.
Those of us fortunate enough to have had some kind of life experience prior to our fateful encounters with the cult at least had something to fall back on however tenuous that may have been. But spare a thought for the unfortunate child brought up in the mind-fuck.
The world is invested by evil whole-track psychiatrists who have invaded every nook and cranny of society and are pushing industrial doses of psychotropic drugs on our children and driving this sector of the universe ever deeper down the dwindling spiral....
How does one rebuild confidence in a society that is a bewildering mix of self effacing intellectual self-doubt on the one hand and blatantly scurrilous self-promoting hollow bombast (a la Palin and her ilk) on the other?
How does one find a sensible middle ground when one's entire life education has been founded upon the dangerously speculative, paranoid ravings of a neurotic sociopath? When ones social conditioning has been driven by the insatiable emptiness of an edacious self promoter?
In my own case, I would say it has taken me six years; four of that studying in university. Being exposed to the world of intellectual diligence, peer tested theories, reflection and comparison. Encountering the humanity of many wonderful people in the life sciences and the humanities. Delving into the beauty of the huge range and breadth of the canon of world literature; and exploring the worlds and minds of the men and women that produced it.
I was challenged by what was often agonizing confrontations with my own uninformed and mostly warped view. A certain humility was required, not a mindset encouraged in that shallow cult.
This, I am sure anyone who has been through it will agree, is a cognitive process of painful de-programming and re-evaluation. It goes on even long after one has intellectually rejected the poisoned Hubbardian paradigm.
I clearly remember being terrified of this psych imbued world. It was one of the factors that kept me in the cult long after I had seen that Hubbard was an insane fraud.
Lisa has a difficult road to travel now.
Her mother was a fourteen year old kid when she married Elvis. You would have to deduce that her education was not necessarily complete and well balanced at that stage. Her lack of experience and ignorance provided a mind that was prime virgin territory for Hubbard's vicious mind rape. Her wealth and connection to power had the Hubbardites panting. Lisa is possibly more of a product of her mother's cult than she is of her parents. You can bet that Lisa Marie's indoctrination, education, choice of mentors and even political influences were carefully selected, corralled and orchestrated. That would have simply been a matter of good cult business. This scion of music's and then scientology's elite is a product of all that. And by god, for her to rise above it even this far is laudable.
You cannot buy a well informed, sensibly balanced and healthily critical mindset. You have to earn it.