As usual I will agree wholeheartedly with Gib and GP ;
I want to add that basic critical thinking , called common sense gets TURNED OFF in scientology indoctrination , and for some people NEVER gets turned back on .
It gets replaced with LRH's programming.
I'll throw down the gauntlet right now and say I'm an abolitionist ; I want ALL forms of LRH tech criminalized PERMANENTLY ; I've looked and looked and seen nothing but slave-making fraud from top to bottom.
Sometimes , as the British say you need to call a spade a bloody shovel.
It's the most well hidden brainwashing EVER , disguised as help and religion and science and anything else LRH thought people would want , accept reach for and BUY.
Some people even after figuring out to some degree that something's not right , STILL are mentally enslaved by the LANGUAGE their mind now runs , trapped by their own thoughts !
Many cult and brainwashing experts write about this. ( Steven Hassan , Robert J Lifton , Margaret Singer )
To be free from scientology I found COMPLETELY rejecting ALL doctrine and forcing myself to think and speak in English is essential.
I got lucky ; about a year and a half ago I got a job with wogs , and realized I had to think in English for them to understand me , that helped LESSEN the semi-permanent trance ENOUGH for other things to FINALLY break a crack in my cult identity .
That started the process of LOOKING at the cult for the first time in 25 years , without the cult filter automatically blocking everything.