Udarnik
Gold Meritorious Patron
I've read a fair amount on Scientology. For a never-in I consider myself more informed than your average bear on this subject.
But every time I dig a little deeper (and one of the things I love about this board is that it makes me dig deeper and deeper), I get blindsided by some shit that is so crazy I can't believe it's really true.
Let me reproduce something I wrote on another thread just now:
All right, I know there are some old-timers on these boards, and others who have had extensive conversations with old timers.
Did anyone know Puthoff personally? What was he like? Why did he leave $CN? And most importantly,
DID ANYONE ON THESE BOARDS PARTICIPATE IN THOSE EXPERIMENTS?
Dirt, people, I want dirt!
But every time I dig a little deeper (and one of the things I love about this board is that it makes me dig deeper and deeper), I get blindsided by some shit that is so crazy I can't believe it's really true.
Let me reproduce something I wrote on another thread just now:
You know, it takes a lot of chutzpah to come to an EX Scientology board and promote the "research" of a practicing scientologist who used other scientologists as test subjects into paranormal research.
As noted by Martin Gardner:
Puthoff began his career as a dedicated Scientologist. He had been de¬clared a “clear”—a person free of malicious “engrams” recorded on his brain while he was an embryo.
Oh, a Natural Clear, eh?
And this guy:
The Targ and Puthoff experiments were part of the government funded research at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) from the beginning of the 1970's until 1992, when the project was transferred to the Science Applications International Corporation (Wiseman, 1998). The tests Parker refers to where conducted during the first decade with alleged high scoring subjects like Pat Price and Hella Hamid. Some of them had been recruited from the Scientology Church, due to the fact that Puthoff at the time were a member of the sect (Alcock, 1998).
My bold.
All right, I know there are some old-timers on these boards, and others who have had extensive conversations with old timers.
Did anyone know Puthoff personally? What was he like? Why did he leave $CN? And most importantly,
DID ANYONE ON THESE BOARDS PARTICIPATE IN THOSE EXPERIMENTS?
Dirt, people, I want dirt!