Nancy,

In spite of some physical issues with your ‘brain’ your ‘mind’ is working very well. I have two friends (well over 80) who recovered quite a bit with real MDs and PT technicians working with them. The amazing human body can do marvelous things when required of it.

best to you

Not only does the Church of Scientology not believe in the appropriate level of mental care by certified professionals, they believe the uncertified charlatans at any Scientology Org can practice such medicine better with often disastrous results.

I mentioned Jim Carrey’s ex-girlfriend, previously on Mike’s blog, who committed suicide while on course at an Org as an example.

Jere I will. Before me comes the family.
A lot of people this summer went in other countries and had parties and such things without respecting any distancing, no masks etc. Now this is the result – here in Europe it is not yet started but is already worst that March/April.
Stay safe.

Miriam thank you. Here in Italy is about 1 positive every 35/40 tests. However this single positive has already met minimum other 3 to 5 people. My point was that is starting again with trumpets abd fireworks (based on current numbers).
In regards of Scn if meetings or gatherings will be still fotbidden it will be a great KO.

Loosing my Religion, look at the relationship between the number of tests versus the number of positive tests.

Scribe, I’d say “Merchants of Chaos” also applies to the Scientology propagandists – always falling into psychological projection, and accusing others of what their own organization is guilty of and makes them do….

As with many things, there’s a kernel of truth and historical context, in that back around 1950, some of psychiatry was still pseudo-scientific and ineffective, such as the now-derided Fredian analysis in which the patient stereotypically lay on a couch with the practitioner above their head and out of view, and did things like talking about childhoold trauma and free associating, trying in part to explore the unconscious. It was at the time a trendy thing to do – Woody Allen became a sort of infamous long-term fan and refers to it what now seems excessively – and many analysts charged handsome fees and made a very nice living.

Hubbard had a certain cynical point that, for instance, if Hollywood types who might be classified as high-functioning minor neurotics or “worried well” wanted to pay a lot of money for analysis that was was a largely feelgood placebo-level exercise, he might as well be getting that money as someone with fancy credentials. However, again typically, Hubbard was actually late to the game and things were already changing in psychiatry and psychology by the time he was criticizing obsolete if not yet entirely abandoned practices (including lobotomy, which peaked in the late 1940s and quickly became rare).

The mental health professions quickly became increasingly professional, scientific and outcome-driven, not to mention taking advantage of signficiant advances in research and medicine. Scientology of course remained mired in a sort of static world of the 1950s – and very un-scientific.

“…predictability of a dog’s reaction to the mail carrier.”

Hilarious! 😆