See , the problem with blowing off the Commander Birdsong's of the world is they are the people most in need of help.
It's like in drug rehab how the clients are often rude , resentful , projecting , dishonest , immoral etc. and very unpleasant human beings DUE TO THEIR ADDICTIONS !
Bluntly the source of the harm Scientology does is in the ideas in the minds of Scientologists , and even many exes or indies or freezoners.
I don't suggest mass commitment or arrest or anything that prone to abuse and injustice.
Education and VOLUNTARY exit counseling are the only way to go for individuals already affected by Scientology.
The materials to educate them , in my opinion are not even made yet !
I believe books and booklets and videos exposing as much as possible how the con works and exactly what is the real source and purpose of each step a person takes in Scientology need to be compiled.
I mean so extensively as to cover ALL grade chart and other cult techniques - one by one .
I mean in such simple language that a person of BELOW average intelligence can easily understand !
Much of what I've studied has required learning about psychology , and hypnosis in significant detail and depth on my own just to be able to understand the materials and language !
Many terms and conditions in hypnosis are not what they are in regular English and you will be quite lost if you don't do your homework along the way.
Some people look at broad terms , like " well LRH OR COB have suppressive intentions ! , without which I can use the tech to help! "
Well , I'm sure you have good intentions , BUT what you are saying relies on magical thinking !
Mind control , in my experience and opinion is a mechanistic effect .
In other words it follows rules as precise as gravity or any other physical force or reaction.
If an apple falls I don't attribute that to the apple or anything else's intention .
If you use hypnotic mind control techniques REGARDLESS of your intention on people if they are without an almost encyclopedic knowledge and equal understanding of what you are really doing it will be just the same as Scientology !
Our minds are built with certain weaknesses and vulnerabilities and ways to bypass the critical factor and free will and the method achieves that , NOT the intention or will of the user.
Really will may be an inappropriate term for the ability to resist mind control . In my research thought stopping and resistance are very similar in effect and involve associations in the mind not a supernatural or innate force.
Another way to put this is if you said " oh yeah the war killed my cousin , war is bad " - and you did not notice getting shot killed your cousin and you went out believing shooting people " without suppressive intentions " would not harm them ! Uh , it most definitely will !
The only hope for this subject ( recovery from Scientology )and effectiveness in dealing with it to advance is a lot of tremendous individual effort to be thoroughly educated about it , and unfortunately this is not just one or two subjects to specialize in.
You will miss most of the subject and be largely ineffective in exit counseling ( including self exit counseling )or even explaining Scientology if you ONLY study any one or two of the following : critical thinking , logical fallacies , sources LRH stole from , normal hypnosis , LRH and his insanity ,the abuses and crimes in Scientology many basic ideas and theories in psychology and psychiatry , mass movements or any of several other aspects of Scientology.
It's similar to how I heard a mechanic explain that he needed to understand as much as A HVAC guy for the heating and cooling system and a computer guy for the computer and two or three other professions in order to understand and work on my car.
Some things require a lot of knowledge and frankly most people never get the knowledge to take apart Scientology ; some expert psychiatrists and psychologists have done a good job ( like for the Anderson report ) , BUT they then leave all the info in language so obtuse and complex for laymen that the research is largely ineffective as an educational aid to others , except equally educated pros , who would also see right through Scientology!
The job of translating this and doing independent verification is daunting , but very needed.
I have seen very few sources that even identify study tech as harmful , let alone a precise compound mind control array as I see it !
Some experts in hypnosis/language patterns just casually act as if it's so obvious anyone should see it , BUT they have expertise in persuasion or communication .
Some cult experts just say " well cults use self-hypnosis " as if that is enough explanation . But in Scientology it is so well hidden that for many Scientologists they will need a much more detailed explanation to understand , let alone recover.
See if you cut out anybody who is in or partway a believer you don't just neglect them , which at times is simply cruel ,you also leave the seeds for a future with Scientology or a successor.
This technology will be used by someone in the future , probably altered and under another name, IF widespread education does not happen.
I don't want somebody in fifty or a hundred years to use Miscavology or something on the population of a country or countries to establish a totalitarian hell .
I have met people who BEGGED to go back on the RPF afetr years of abuse in the Sea Org .
I have met people with top five , or even top one percent , IQs who blame themselves for ALL failures in Scientology.
I have known people in for twenty to forty years who NEVER see anything wrong , and die true believers !
The future DEMANDS far more and in some ways far smarter efforts to combat Scientology and totalism in other forms.
The official cult shrinks , BUT offshoots and future threats will survive.
In Scientology your mind is a prison ; to beat it many minds must be the weapon .
The work has been begun by Lermanet.com ( Arnie Lerma ) and Jon Atack , BUT there is still a LONG , LONG way to go .
Any effective help would be appreciated .
People have died, committed suicide, had their finances drained, miss their loved ones, had years of cult recovery all due to Elcon and DM's $cientology and you insist on flaunting your cult dementia in peoples faces here. Sorry but that's soulless and devoid of any compassion. Your "truth" is shit stirring for thread view stats and truth be told I'm tired of you. You defend cult abuse, child abuse, domestic abuse, in or out of the cult and I will reiterate what I said on another thread, if only I was a mod.
