Memphis Business Journal
Letter to the editor
Aug. 9 2002

I respectfully suggest that writer Joan Mcgraw and the MBJ should talk to some former scientologist before printing promotional garbage from the Church of Scientology.

Scientology's Purification Rundown is a quack procedure that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard took out of a health food book. The Purification procedures are built around extreme overusage of saunas and vitamins. This is a scam that is completely uncertified and untested and yet they make false claims about it and charge big dollars. A dentist in chicago last year suffered such severe liver damage on the Purification rundown that she lost her health insurance and couldn't get coverage. She and four other dentists in the chicago area were lured into Scientology via the Marcus Group, a Scientology front group which uses management training as bait to lure professional people into Scientology.

I found from personal experience as a Scientology member that Scientology is a dangerous and subversive cult. The legacy of involvement with Scientology financial ruin, broken families and often mental derangement. Dianetics is used as a front name and the prices they quoted Ms. Mcgraw for her article are a lie. Scientology courses are very expensive many of them costing tens of thousands of dollars. A clever hypnotic methodology is set in motion on the very first course and is used every day and on every course and auditing session.

I left Scientology when some of the programming wore off and I realized that L.

Ron Hubbard was insane and that his Scientology was a nazi-style cult with a world domination agenda. I was a member when Hubbard realized that he could get out of paying taxes by declaring Scientology a religion. We were told to call ourselves ministers and to wear clerical collars so that the public would perceive us a real 'church.' It was a farce then and it is a dangerous con now.

Scientology gained tax-exempt status after an intensive harassment campaign against the IRS and individual IRS agents. This has been written up in the New York Times.

The core of Scientology is a quack counseling procedure they call auditing.

They charge $1000 and hour and beyond for auditing, wherein you tell them all of your dark secrets which are written down and kept in a folder. These recorded secrets have been used against people who tried to leave Scientology.

Everything in Scientology is L. Ron Hubbard. There are no other thoughts in Scientology and Hubbard is never wrong. New members are quickly programmed into Hubbards' mind set via the hypnotic methodology.

For anyone having contact with the Church of Scientology, I suggest that you keep in mind two things: 1: Everything Scientology does is devious. 2:

Everything Scientology says about Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard are lies. For example, the keep claiming that they have 8 million members but the truth is that they have less than 100,000.

Here are two good websites www.lermanet.com www.xenu.net for information

Jim Beebe 44 Court of Greenway Northbrook, Il 60062 847-205-1134

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