I had a dream about my own mother last night. Similar to many I’ve had. A nightmare that my mother is still alive but she won’t tell me where she is. She died many, many years ago.

Hubbard actually spent a good bit of time living with (and stealing the girlfriend of) Jack Parsons, rocket scientist and follower of Aleister Crowley, leading a local chapter of OTO. So it makes perfect sense from what I’ve read about the man.

O/T LaVey was a hack author looking to make a quick buck on shock when “Devil worship” was in the popular media. Humorously, the official Church of Satan is more tolerant and contributes more to the local population than many Christian organizations.

I don’t remember the TRs being done for hours and hours, especially the staring competition. I’m sure it was 5 to 10 minutes max. Only much later in life did I learn Scientology ‘proper’ repeats everything ad nauseam ad absurdum.

And then the questions on the cans. How can a 9 year old respond to adult questions about reproduction? Sickening. Even teenagers will be totally embarrassed.

The word of Hubbard is the word of God – unquestionably always correct. How to make perfect Ron-bots. Glad I missed out on that.

Alex asked: “why is that wrong now??????”

Because Hubbard, in his infinite wisdom and bigotry, said so, and the bulletin/PL can’t be changed now. He seemed to think that the different “colors” were different races (meaning species) That’s DESPITE the well-documented ability to interbreed, proving that we’re all the same species no matter how well we tan or other minor variations in our bodies. There WERE different species eons ago, the Denisovans, pro-magnon, and neanderthals, but modern Humans are the “last Man standing”, so to speak: Homo sapiens Sapiens, as I recall.

Good people are often times literally “sucked in” to something like COS because WE (& i include myself in that) NEVER seem to think that there truly ARE evil people out there who wish to do others harm.

We want to do good , & often times think we are truly helping, what we fail to realize is that our good inner self is being taken advantage of & used.

Fortunately for me, hindsight being 20/20….I listened to “if something seems to be too good to be true or real,…..it probably isn’t”…..THAT kept me of Hare Krishna, Moonies, Children of God etc…while a few of my high school friends got sucked in.

That’s the reason….not many people ARE intellectually OR emotionally ready to FULLY commit to something like this….even at 18+ years. To have a CHILD sign a “billion year contract” is ludicrous because they don’t have the capacity to understand what they’re signing up for.

Hubbard’s statement about at 7 year being kissed on the lips…..every time I read or heart that I want to vomit…………

Plus getting the idea that your not your meat body drilled into your head. All of the above is so true.

It’s common for kids of Scientology to do the purif a few times. We used to go into the sf org and just twin with people on tr’s. Or get sessions in between studying the student hat.

She’s definitely been “enlightened “ by Scn
All that nasty news must be fake right Karen ?

She’s exactly where I was on the bridge on the training side when I left the cult. Imagine the time spent on the course. I don’t remember exactly all the prerequisites to be an auditor class 0, but it’s so many hours spent in a classroom instead of just being a little girl. It’s a time in her life that is completely wasted and will never come back.

It’s really sad.

Not related to brain development but just general intellectual development, a long time and respected contributor to the scn blogs once said, “Most of us were intellectual adolescents when we entered Scientology, having little or no background in science, religion or philosophy.”

I fit that category when I entered scn in my mid twenties. I believed I was engaged in an honest and serious investigation of the human mind and human emotions and reactions.