Scientology is a scam for fleecing chumps of their money. And it has the full backing of the US government. Well maybe we should isolate what makes Scientology so effective at finding these chumps and fleecing them. And maybe there are better ways that Scientology could do it once isoloted. This is a draft version as my thoughts develop.
1) What you are looking for is someone who is gullible. In the case of Scientology then we have a system of self-improvement created by a science-fiction writer. Anyone who comes through the door is gullible and is a potential victim.
2) They might not be very gullible. They could purely be curious and a bit of a rebel wanting to try out something that others disapprove of.
To find out how gullible they are then you see if you can get them to do something a little stupid without their having any resistance to it. The comms course is great for this because a person will be told that in order to communicate better with a person they have to learn to stare at them. In this case we have got them doing something stupid and getting no resistance from it. This is a win over controlling that person abnd well as confirmation that they are indeed gullible. And a bit of hypnosis enters as well, hopefully to make that person easier to control. Add to that getting them to ask quastions like "Do birds fly?".
"Do fish swim?" and you know what you have their is a gullible fool.
3) So the person finished the comms course and since it was an ordeal they feel elated and so you use this to praise him in front of the group and the group applauds him and he feels more of a member and so this is the time to hard-sell another course. TRs and Objectives.
4) With TRs and Objectives you get the person to scream at an ashtray with the idea that it will life up because of it. You get them to scream really loud as well. If you can get a person to do this then you are well on the way to controlling them. You also get them to do meaingless things like stopping things from going away. You arrange it so that this controlling of them appears to the chump that is *they* who are more in control. This is a very important thing and is the foundation for more control. Again, in controlling that person you have to trick them into thinking that it is *they* who are doing the controlling. That is why you have stupid things like "Start, Change, Stop". You get them to do these stupid things and they get used to doing whatever you tell them to and yet they are convinced that they can "start, change and stop" things in their universes more effectively.
5) At some point you have to wash away all their accumulated methods of thinking and habitual ways of acting because you want to superimpose a robotic structure on the person so that they always do exactly what you tell them to. To this end, the best way is to flush out everything they have learned with a massive amount of instructions an how to do everything under the sun. So you write "policy letters" and "technical bulletins" in their thousands they thay have got to learn. You swamp them with it and keep them tired. You push them into "applying" it and when not properly applied you get them to read more and more of these things and test them on it and retread them on it. You are, of course, giving them a complete mind-wipe so you have to convince them they are becoming "more able" or some such similar thing all the while. And when these things he is reading appear not to work then they have to be convinced that they must understand it better and learn more of them.
You have got to keep them at it and keep them tired.
6) If yu ae trying t gain control over people then you might want tham to commit an illegal act for you and to punish those who are opposing you or something like that. But right from early childhood people have had asense of what is right and wrong drilled into them and this could kick in and they might object to your command at some time. They way to get rid of this mechanism is to completely redefine moral right and wrong. Mkae it complicated like redefine it as ethics and then redefine what ethics means and srew around with it completely such that what the person ends up thinking as right and wrong is what you tell them. The Scientology Ethics does a wonderful job of this and even gets away with redefing ethics in terms of production. So you now have the person being mind-wiped working even harder at it while their normal sense of marals has been effectively removed.
7) Having got this far you are already in control of the person. You just need to pull a few little tricks to make that person your complete slave. You need to break their links with the normal world so that they can be exchanged for links to the group you are setting up to serve you.
To do this and also to circumvent the possibility that any negative information on what you are trying to do will get to them then you have got to knock out newspapers and television, making out there is a conspiracy going on to lie to people. So they stop reading newspapers and they stop watching television which further cuts them off from society and they think that they are being fed less lies when of course they are being lied to and tricked all the while.
8) If you are this much in control of a person then it is worth taking a pot-shot at separating them from their family. Since it is "love" that binds this together and that is very strong then this "love" must not exist in the new system you are replacing their thinking with.
Scientology does this very well. You have ARC which is a piece of techno-babble that even dilutes "friendship" and there is no mention of "love" anywhere else. The person you are controlling has no way to relate to it any more.
9) The "religion" angle must be used for a few reasons. Since you are effectively brainwashing a person and this will be obvious to any outside law-enforcement agencies who are studying what you are doing then by calling it s "religion" and your processess as "religious practice" and that to stop you from doing it as "religious intollerance"
then it gives you a great deal of protection. Also, you do not need to be "licensed" in carrying out these possible dangerous techniques so you are out of state or government control. Also, any donations you get in can be tax exempt so in effect the government is paying you to do this.
Add to that the recognition that being tax-exempt brings with it in the sense of it be an officially sanctioned organisation. But these are just minor compared to what you want to do with a person. You want to take off them any penny they can possibly get hold of and when that is gone take their lives in terms of service to you while they can still stand and be of use. And if you want them to take the rap for what you are doing to them then you have to be sure this person will commit suicide if you ask them and leave a note blaming themselves for many things so as to escape prosecution. Now in order to do this your system must ofer them something worth more than their lives and their fortunes. Much more. Scientology is very good in this regard because it promises them eternal life as a free and powerful "thetan".
10) You can enhance the effectiveness of these mind-wipe processes by equating their more pronounced effects with high standing within the group. So the people it affects the most and who attest to it are therefore more moral or higher contributors to the group. Not only will this boost the effectiveness through expectation but it will also result in a person feeling guilty if it seems less effective on them. They will feel less worthwhile members of the group. And if it is harming them they will end up feeling like they are criminals and will even accept penalties and punishments imposed on them through not changing fast enough or suchlike.
11) To extract maximum money from a person all the while then you have got to make the whole thing very expensive. You can have an inexpensive entry into the thing but it has to be made expensive after that. What youare trying to do is to extract all that person's money and enslave them. You are not trying to deliver what is promised. So you set the cost of these processes so that only the very rich can get to the top.
And as for the poorer members then after you have taken their money you can enslave them as staff members by promising that if they work hard for you then they will get to the top as well. So when you take them on as staff members then since you intend to work the person to near death you have to make sure they can't leave. So to achieve this you give them expensive training courses on staff telling them that only if they are properly trained will they be effective and successful and therefore qualify to receive advancement. But the whole point of giving them training is to financially ensnare them so that they understand that they have to pay back all the money for training if they quit their post. So they get their training as staff members that are paid almost nothing and then they owe YOU a large amount of money. This allows you to pressure them to work ever harder and bully them. Even punish them.
They are never likely to leave since you have already alienated them from outside society and even gotten them to believe outside society is evil in some way.
12) You need your own version of morals or ethics to punish doubters.
You also need to isolate them from the other members in case some form of disaffection spreads or in case some of the members start to question what they themselves are doing. Scientology does this admirably with its "Conditions" formula. The idea is you make them attone for trying to break free to even the slightest degree or even think about their doing so. You do not want them to even harbour thoughts of this and you need a way to find out their thoughts on this. So confessionals are a good idea and "security checks" to find out about these thoughts. Yoou also need to keep track on who might try to break free at some stage. It might be an idea to move them to a position where they are doing more manual types of tasks if this is the case to that theri thought do not get transmitted to others in the course of their duties.
13) At some stage you are going to lose a few members. Some will crack.
Some may oneday realise what you have done to them and attempt to go to the authorities. The best way to stop that happening is to use blackmail on a person. Scientology does this best of all. They encourage people to confess their misdeeds and bizarre thoughts and they write them all down. It can all be used to silence them if they leave. The more of the dark side of what you are doing gets exposed to them then the more blackmail you need on them. So you need different layers of public and staff with different degrees of blackmail material. As for the paying public, they do not see the darker side of things so all you need are their confessional notes to keep them silent. If you have given them some very expensive "secrets" then they could undermine your system so you have to make surte you have extra blackmail material on them before you give them these secrets. Also you could get them to sign a contract such that they get sued if they discuss these secrets. Scientology does both of these things with the "OT levels". The security checking of a person before they do these OT levels involves getting them to confess every single sexual feeling and act they have done in extreme detail.
This can be used to silence them and if it ever got to court then the persons reputation can be demolished in front of a jury. As for staff members, then you just increase the amount of "security checking" above that of the paying public. And as for the elite staff members then you simply use the same method of getting their entire history of sexual experiences as done for the people before they took their "OT levels".
14) Intelligence agency next but it's breakfast time. Fried egg, fried sausage, fried bacon, fried mushrooms, fried tomatoes, toast dripping with melted butter plus a mug of milky tea so strong you can stand a spoon up in it and watch the oxide strip off.
Roland -- "I notice that we all believe that Venus has a methane atmosphere and is unlivable. I almost got run down by a freight locomotive the other day -- didn't look very uncivilized to me." - L. Ron Hubbard, "Between Lives Implants" lecture, SHSBC #317. 23 July 1963.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~xemu/rams/Venusloc.ram