The slavering cretin Travis Sargent, in a gross display of Scientology's disgusting attacks on medicine, just recently said that recent Scientology escapee Tory Bezazian was not good enough to be in his sick cult because she has epilepsy. The cult demanded she stop taking her medication, which she did for a while, suffering seizures and injury as a result.

The twisted cult that did this to Tory has done this to others, resulting in deaths. The sick bastard "Travis Sargent" may get a chance to see these posts before he is yanked off post and sent to RPF for creating a "shore flap."

OSA, you watching? That moron you sent here has created a nice Hill 10 situation and some great evidence for a civil suit.

-- James Stewart had been a student at the Scientology Advanced Organization in Edinburgh. He was a thirty-five-year-old epileptic, whose body was found fifty feet beneath his hotel window. The newspapers missed vital information in their reports. A few days before his death, Stewart had completed an Ethics Condition wherein he stayed awake for eighty hours. One of his tasks during this period was to crawl about the carpets picking out bits of fluff. According to Robert Kaufman, in his firsthand account, a bulletin had been posted on the Advanced Org notice board: 5 James Stewart has been put in a Condition of Doubt for having [epileptic] seizures in public thus invalidating Scientology. If there is any reoccurrence of these either consciously or unconsciously on his part he will be placed in a Condition of Enemy.

Stewart's real crime, having had a severe seizure, was telling the hospital that he was a Scientologist, thus supposedly giving Scientology a bad name. He had injured his head, and wore a blood-stained bandage while performing his demeaning "amends project."

He was possibly made to crawl across the steep and slippery slates of the Org roof, as a final part of his Doubt Formula. This bizarre practice was quite usual at the time. 6 Shortly before his death, Stewart had been suspended from his course at the AO. On the day he read a funeral notice for Stewart, fellow student Robert Kaufman saw Stewart's widow, Thelma, giving an enthusiastic speech on her completion of OT 2. In his book, Inside Scientology, Kaufman said Thelma "victoriously received the applause of AO members." A Scientology spokesman told the press, "Mrs. Stewart does not know how it happened, but she does know it had nothing to do with Scientology." The press was also told that Mrs. Stewart was a "more serious" student than her husband. In fact, Stewart, described in the newspapers as an encyclopedia salesman, 7 had been a founder of the Cape Town Scientology Org, and was a senior executive there. He was a Class VII Auditor, the highest level of training at the time, Clear number 153 (there were over 2,000 by then), and was on OT 3 when he died. One of his Success Stories was published in the Auditor magazine at around the time of his death. It was headed, "How Scientology Training Has Helped Me In Life":

I find that training and auditing experience helps me in innumerable ways - in driving a car (patiently, in heavy traffic), waking up in the morning, confronting anything unpleasant in life, keeping myself occupied in leisure hours, in writing letters, making telephone calls, in chance conversations with strangers - In fact, training helps in every conceivable situation or experience anywhere, any place, anytime - Try it for yourself and see!
5. The Observer, 11 August 1968; Kaufman, pp. 195--6f; Cooper, pp.81-2 6. Interview with Phil Spickler, Woodside, California, October 1986 7. Kaufman; The Observer, 11 August 1968; Auditor, "Special South African Issue," c. summer 1968 From _A Piece of Blue Sky_ by Jon Atack available at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/atack/

Another needless death of a scientologist.

Excerpt of Die dunkle Seite von Scientology - According to the records, Heribert P. died august 28, 1988, during the night from a heavy epileptic attack. He hit his head on the night table. (...) The scientology doctor reports that he prescribed vitamins for his patient -dispite regular attacks- in stead of treating him with proper medication. Such medication was indeed not detected in his blood during the post-mortem examination.

------------------------------------------------------------ Who was Heribert Pfaff and why is he dead after his scientologist doctor prescribed vitamins for him while he knew that his patient suffered severe epileptic seizures?

This page hopes to give an answer on those questions. For that I use material from a film by Mona Botros and Egmond R. Koch - ARD (Germany), April 1997 - Die dunkle Seite von Scientology (The dark side of Scientology) and the St. Petersburg Times plus some government reports and a critical essay. The pictures link to the releated pages, just click on them.

Some background In Scientology the use of drugs is frowned upon. Any "drugs". Taking aspirin will have the effect that the scientologist may not receive "processing" (Scientolgy's counseling). Considering that for scientologists the cult is the only way to salvation and that "processing" is part of that, being denied Scientology's counseling is a very real threat for them.

In HCOB of 17 October 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard it is allegedly written:

Pain or discomfort of a psychosomatic nature comes from mental image pictures. These are created by the thetan or living beings and impinge or press against the body. By actual clinical test, the actions of aspirin and other pain depressants are to (a) inhibit the ability of the thetan to create mental image pictures and also (b) to impede the electrical conductivity of nerve channels. Both of these facts have a vital effect on processing.

Scientology's "cures for illness"

If for a scientologist, that what Hubbard wrote = true, the next step to get rid of pain or discomfort of a "psychosomatic nature" (of course) is auditing these "thetan or living beings" which are causing it. And thus "New Era Dianetics for Operating Thetans" is a logical follow-up. Specifically NOTs Series 34 - a fair-use excerpt:

NED for OTs Series 34
C O N F I D E N T I A L
THE SEQUENCE FOR HANDLING A PHYSICAL CONDITION
(...)

Step Four - Cures for Illness You will now find BTs and clusters being cures for illnesses of the body part. Handle all such BTs and clusters by blowing them off. "Cures for Illness" will then cease to read.

Reading of the amounts Heribert had spent on courses, it's likely that he was involved in a high priced course which consisted of such procedures. Although Scientology's official attitude is that they aren't in the healing business, internally they very much do believe that they can heal. Passage of chapter 9 of the Foster Report - 1971
238. That the practices of Scientology constitute a therapy, which claims to cure people of their real or imagined ills, must surely be beyond dispute. ... Put bluntly, what is often said against the Scientology leadership is that they are quacks, dishonestly exploiting for their own financial gain the hopes of betterment or cure which they hold out to the anxious, the lonely, the inadequate, the credulous and the deluded, but in which they do not themselves believe.

But as attorney Ken Dandar in the wrongful death suit of Lisa McPherson was quoted to having said in the Tampa Tribune They claim to have cures for medical and mental illnesses ... Lisa McPherson is the prime example that they don't know what they're doing.

So reading the rest of the page, keep in mind that devoted scientologists do think that Scientology can cure them.

------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpt of SP Times article of December the 7th, 1997
Heribert Pfaff, 31
Heribert Pfaff, 31, became a Scientologist after a brother encountered a sidewalk solicitor who was recruiting students in Munich, Germany.

The decision to join, his family members now believe, was a fateful one.


For a decade after surviving a major car accident, Heribert Pfaff had suffered severe seizures that often came in the middle of the night.

In 1988 Pfaff traveled from his home in Munich to Clearwater to take courses at the Church of Scientology.

Pfaff's brother, Georg, told the Times that Scientologists in Germany promised a cure for his seizures and took Pfaff off medication that had controlled them.

The son of a wealthy German builder, Pfaff checked into Room 758 at the Fort Harrison Hotel. He had brought about $100,000 to finance his visit, family members say. His wife, Anita, told police she was staying with friends so she wouldn't be awakened by the seizures her husband had been having since he quit taking his medicine.

On Aug. 28, 1988, Pfaff's nude body was found upside down hanging out of his bed. An autopsy determined that a seizure probably caused his death. No anti-convulsant drugs were found in his bloodstream.

The $100,000 disappeared, says Georg Pfaff, his brother.

The family had stopped an attempt by Heribert Pfaff to wire transfer another $150,000 from a family bank account that was requested a few days before his death.

Georg Pfaff said he discovered after the death that his brother had paid $26,330 for one Scientology course and $52,000 for another.

The church was only interested in his money, says Georg Pfaff.

Scientology officials say Pfaff's treatment was not recommended by the church.

"If someone had epilepsy, they should see a medical doctor," Shaw said. "It was his choice to receive drugs or not."

Another of Pfaff's brothers, Joannes, remains a Scientologist.

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This is most likely the post-mortem picture of Mr.Pfaff. Caption:

1988, death in room 758. The victim is a 31 year old German.

------------------------------------------------------------------ The remark of Scientology spokesman Ben Shaw, that Heribert should have seen a medical doctor is very ironic. Especially when holding that statement against Scientology's own claims of medical cures. For illustration I've included a small section of a critical essay by Jeff Jacobsen - Medical claims within Scientology's secret teachings One aspect of these teachings, and especially the NOTs courses, are the medical cures that they seem to be promoting. While Hubbard had no medical background and in fact only took 2 years of college courses with dismal results, he still made astounding claims for his auditing process, such as:

Cure goiter - Dianetics Today (1975 Ed.), p. 280 "I've seen a goiter the size of a baseball visibly shrink and disappear in the space of one-half hour right after an engram was run." Cure polio- Dianetics Today (1975 Ed.), p. 353 "A girl crippled by polio was able to throw away her crutches after my first session." Cure arthritis - History of Man, p. 7 "Today, Eleanor has arthritis. She is audited... tonight she doesn't have arthritis" Speed broke bone healing - Dianetics Today (1975 Ed), p.110 "A broken limb will heal (by X-ray evidence) in two instead of six weeks."

Cure effects of drugs - Dianetics Today, (1975 Ed.), p.481 "ONLY processing by Dianetics and Scientology can handle the effects of drugs fully."

Raise the dead - Magazine Articles on Level 0, Checksheet 1968, "Dissemination of Material" p.75 "A child had died, was dead, had been pronounced dead by a doctor, and the auditor, by calling the thetan back and ordering him to take over the body again brought the child to life."

Cure migraines - Dianetics Today (1975 Ed.), p.125; also see HCOB 15 Jan. '79 "Handling with Auditing"

Cure cancer - The History Of Man (1961), p. 20 "Cancer has been eradicated by auditing out conception and mitosis." Cure skin cancer - All About Radiation (1979 Ed.), p.114 Cure radiation sickness - All About Radiation (1979 Ed.), p.109; also PAB no. 82 "Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns."

Improve eyesight - PAB no. 111 "Eyesight and glasses"; also Dianetic Auditor's Bulletin vol. 2 no. 7 January 1952 "An afternoon with Ron" "You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps."

Cure a broken ankle - HCOB 30 July 1973 "Scientology, Current State of the Subject and Materials."

Cure insanity - HCOB 28 Nov. '70 "Psychosis" "The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now..."

Cure bronchitis - HCOB 14 Dec. '63 "Case analysis Health Research" "12 days after this auditing the coughing was still in abeyance." cure brainwashing - HCOB No. 19 Dec. '55 "The turn of the Tide" "... in Dianetics in particular, we have the total antidote for the eradication of brainwashing."

Miscellaneous claims:

- DIANETICS (1987 ED.) p.72: "arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalogue of illnesses goes away and stays away."

- HISTORY OF MAN P.13: "The GE has the record of past deaths. Auditing it alters physical structure, eradicates physical malformations."

- HISTORY OF MAN P.14: "Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them."
-------------------------------------------------------- What if Heribert and his scientologist doctor truly were made to believe that the techniques of the cult could heal, who is to blame for his needless death other than Scientology in that case?

Kevin Victor Anderson, Q.C., already in 1965 stated in the Anderson Report, in a chapter headed: The healing claims of scientology The official attitude advanced at the Inquiry that scientology did not claim to heal was, and is, only a camouflage. The real intention of scientology is to inculcate in the minds of anyone who becomes interested in it the impression or belief that, as well as being a panacea for all problems, worries and aberrations, it is a gateway to sure cures for a great variety of mental and physical ills. And it is at the vary basis of scientology teaching that mental and physical well-being is assured to those who have sufficient scientology processing.

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