Hi r, I totally understand. I happen to have Glenda The Good Witch on call because I am terrified of The Flying Monkeys! XO Ann B.

hearts

(only reason why I said auntie… i am reminded of being lost and longing in OZ.)
we r family.

Thank you. I will wear one everyday. For the leader.

Hi r, Thank you and this space has been family for me for quite sometime now.I am definitely ancient enough to be called Auntie does not bother me at all.Goodness all the Honey do this and that I got in SO when all that was wanted and needed by me was that I disappear according to the GO/I.Long ago now,but I still recall more of it all.Takes years to flush the Ron Aid out.So good to find you here.XO

Thank you aunt b, i mean Ann, and i love you dearly for what perceives to me to be the very same reasons. Feels like family.

Hi r, Good to meet you.I liked your post. You are very skilled at empathizing with those newly out or needing some direction.You are a strong and good soul.XO Ann B.

simplicity is a beautiful thing…
All it takes is a single thought… to send the mind in a new direction.

Yes, encouragement and nice truck-load of nutritional, critical thought would be in order…
to convert the hardened scientologist back to a properly oriented self-identified person.

True, the cult is all about indoctrination thru disorientation and isolation.

But hours of hammering the point? Yeah, Hubbard-tology has a lot of details, years of work, all supporting and strengthening itself. All the same mass, intellectual blob.

A particle of truth can blast a creed into oblivion, once recognized.

No wonder there is no humor inside the Church of Scn-gy. There is another valuable lesson, to not take yourself too seriously. Your job, sure, but…
You may be wrong, about everything, and wind up lost to humanity. You might end up out of your mind, too, just like the real way Hubbard died. You might wind up sending out messages like the speech David Miscavige made, on that fateful day…

My point here is that everybody has to figure this out by their own wits, themselves. We can offer what we know, guidance and support, maybe how to know when you are being conned, but… do we really need to point out the myriad of details, the endless list of ways to conjure up a devoted servant? Yeah, that’s complicated… and as necessary as telling a freight train which way to go… beyond pointing a finger.

Here’s my simple approach to talking about this cult.
Assume everything about scientology is entirely sinister and wrong. You would be mostly right in that assumption, but…you can write a thesis on the exceptions, if you feel a need. That project is done.
Now what to do about the guys and gals still unwittingly trapped?
Well, here is a nice video, to get the ball rolling. Might carry you all the way out the door, and…

Well, I do wish there were a train, to pick you up at the gate and carry you away, to go where you want to and not feel bad about anything. I wish I had directions to the How To Be Human Center, or if I could be standing there to say, hey, it is not as bad as it looks out here… You are not alone. Your mind is obviously strong or you wouldn’t be standing here, on the outside of that blue monster. Be glad. Freedom finds you at last. Look at what you can do. There is, after all, a lot to be grateful for…

We could start a new Top-Ten list:
You May Be Trapped In a Cult if…

1. The leader claims to be indisputable and beats up his chosen executives anyway.

2. “Salvation” turns out to have monetary demands beyond the attainable AND keeps a horridly rigid schedule that includes sleep-deprivation.

3. Nobody you knew before knows where you sleep, or how to contact you, and everybody you see and talk to every day is a cult member.

4. Everybody believes doctors are enemies, scientists are frauds, and that social scientists are particularly useless. Wait, that might not be a cult, you must be a scientologist.

5. You may be in a cult if Google-ling gets you in trouble with the boss. If you think the Leader knows everything worthwhile already, congradulations, you have made your leader very happy and all doubt has been removed… you are in a cult.

Well, that’s enough for me already. What next. Find the key to contentment. Help others. Give without expectation. Find three things to be grateful for everyday. Daily affirmations. Explore possibilities. Forget faults for an entire day. Let something go. Kiss a girl, I mean an attractive other person. Or just work on possibilities, something that makes some one else’s life a little better. Recall a laugh. Recall someone else’s laughter. Positive psychology, man. Risky business, huh? Thank god for failure, I say. No reason to give up, much as that feeling comes around. I’m getting out. Look, I’m learning. HEY, I’m out already. Thank you thank you triple gratitude, thank you. What is great is not being angry any more, thank you.

“Have them believe their body is only a vessel to carry them to the next, higher state of being.”
and
“Have them believe parts of the mind are inferior and need to be purged.” All this does in fact have a very familiar ring…

How true it is, that Scientology keeps the subject unwary through deception and then isolated from family and friends. Get them in. Nurture their fears. Keep them isolated. Demonize outsiders, keep enemies well-established. Block critical information. Remove support and doubt… Keep them isolated.

Do you remember this one: “You become what you resist.” (?)
I sure do.
I racked my brain, trying to make sense of it. Explain that again, Ron…? How could it be true, that by trying to resist a temptation or an evil you become it?
Of course, there is no “sense” to be had from the statement. You become what results from your intention.
No being escapes the wisdom drawn from human experience. Nothing else makes sense, except to the cult-leader who wants to keep his followers trapped! Now the world is evil, your enemy. You become what you resist. You must stay inside with our special knowledge… be only with those who “know”.

Isolation from yourself is believing what scientology tells you.