As a volunteer, I’ve dealt with mentally ill homeless people whose behavior was creating an imminent severe risk to their health and life. We actually need more intervention for the most severely afflicted, but the movement decades ago against institutionalization – which Scientology had some small part in – ended some abuses that needed addressing, but went too far and left the worst off out on their own when they need more structure.

I can understand that there are people sort of in the middle, who might want flexible treatment options other than psychiatry. But that’s a nuanced, different discussion.

The Quakers tried solitary confinement in the early 1800’s and found it drove prisoners batty. With Hubbard’s all-knowing all-seeing big beingness one wonders if he even looked around the physical universe from time to time.

Yes, it is…

Karl,

You make an EXCELLENT point! It makes total sense to me. The cult’s insistence that we all sign all those releases and waivers truly does demonstrate the unreliability of their services.

It was a difficult read because it was heartbreaking.

Hahaha ha! I did the same thing, Glenn. I even used key word clearing on them for parts of the document I didn’t want to sign so that they would understand my reluctance. Then they would look the other way while I crossed out and initialed sections so that they could get a “start”. I always felt that them insisting on those paranoid “releases” “waivers” only
demonstrated a lack of confidence in their own product delivery.

Incredible! Me, I was pre-smoked to believe the “tech” (the Hubbard quackery) was going to make everyone who stuck to the bitter end, would be spiritually amped up to OT status.

The supernatural carrot overpowered all the downsides.

Good for you, and the Reg knew getting your money was what management also wanted most, and would let the legal p’s and q’s sputter unfulfilled. (Upstats have their ethics reports filed with a yawn, no action taken on them.)

Generally, it’s public wifi that’s the culprit. I get the same thing at my library and the local Barnes & Noble. What I end up doing is turning my iPhone into a hotspot … problem solved for now. Checking in with hosting platform for a solution. Thanks for checking in.

Great letter from James Beebe! He deserves an award.

Scientologists hateful of psychiatry never reveal Scientologists’ secret exorcism beliefs.

https://www.semissourian.com/story/96469.html

The broad public needs to know Scientology means exorcism, OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are exorcism of alien spirits which Scientologists get taught infest our human bodies and can only be removed doing Scientology secret OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 exorcism steps.

And Xenu dumped these messed up spirits onto earth which infest all humans today.

Could he have been angry at being locked up in a cabin on an ocean-going ship, with no access to the larger world outside?

I doubt if the drugs and treatments available to psyches of that era would have done a lot better than Hubbard’s “lock ’em up in solitary confinement” treatment. The results of using it on Lisa McPherson point to a truly horrible and deadly medieval torture done due by ignorant, unthinking, unfeeling blind followers of the scribblings of Hubbard.

The big difference between the rantings of a malignant narcissist like Hubbard, and those who practice under the rules of science, is that science tries to diligently and accurately observe events, test hypothesis as to the causes and effects, and validate the results rigorously many times in many ways before saying “here is something new in the world.” On any day a new test of the hypotheses may validate or question earlier results, and thus the known world expands by critical questioning.

“No critical questioning of Hubbard’s edicts is allowed.” That is Scientology in a nutshell.

Since that event on the Apollo true scientists have examined the effects of solitary confinement, of forced isolation, of severe shunning, and found the effects to be very demeaning to the human spirit, and to be harmful to the isolated person both in the short and long term.

Poor Mike. With his family’s blessing he travels halfway around the world to train to be an “executive’. but ends up sitting on a hard chair in a narrow corridor, on watch to make sure the monster behind the locked door would not escape.

Every account from those days shows the Apollo under Hubbard was a madship run by a madman.