Regarding the SPTimes web article "Scientologists, protesters keep their distance" by Deborah O'neil (December 3), Scientologists repeatedly claim that critics live "in a world of lies". However, there are over 22,000 web pages, numerous published books, articles in leading magazines, critical of it. Moreover, many of those web pages, books and articles provide hard documentation, i.e., Judge's opinions, affidavits, court papers, documents seized from the church by FBI raids, etc., documents which support their claims.

It is interesting and alarming to note that a significant number of ex-Scientologists were once at the pinnacle of power in the church hierarchy, and whose first-hand testimonies of L. Ron Hubbard's excesses and wrongdoings are real eyebrow-raisers, indeed.

The Scientologists always exclaim that we critics are intolerant of their religion, but they never accept that plain fact that it is not their beliefs which are in question, it is simply that one must pay many tens, even hundreds, of thousands of dollars before their wacky cosmology is revealed.

A large body of their "scriptures" are confidential. They are called the "upper levels". Scientologists claim that if an adherent were to gaze upon the "upper levels" before he or she was sufficiently spiritually advanced enough to grasp it, he or she may acquire pneumonia and possibly succumb.

Nonsense. The truth is that the church knows that if an individual were to read the "upper levels" before the adherent is sufficiently indoctrinated, there is a strong likelihood that he or she will ridicule the doctrine.

And ridicule they do. Go to http://www.b-org.demon.nl/, and they will send you copies of the "upper levels" aka "OT levels". See for yourself what all the fuss is about. They also will provide you with an alarming number of Scietology directives issued by Hubbard himself, documentation on Scientology child-abuse, and other interesting items of which the public should be informed.

Remember, people can believe in that nonsense if they want, that is their priviledge, but Scientology keeps this stuff secret until you have paid them about the price of a Mercedez. That is where we critics take issue. People should be told in advance of where Scientology will lead them.

I heartily recommend any onlookers who might be curious to visit www.xenu.net. There are several weeks worth of entertainment there.

I sincerely believe that the Scientology movement has a definite insidious quality of which the public at large must be made aware.

Phineas Fogg

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