Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: WILL THE REAL SCIENTO Message-ID: <9509191352.0JHZ202@support.com> References: Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.35 Distribution: world Date: Tue, 19 Sep 95 13:52:48 -0700 Lines: 59 plmlp@mail.bris.ac.uk (Martin Poulter) Adrien Monteleone wrote: > What I am interested >in are the beliefs and principles of scientology. I wish to >see and judge for myself what measure of truth(from my >perspective) they contain. All helpful responses welcome. I Martin: >I am not a scieno or an ex-scieno, but to my knowledge, there are three >stages of belief: > >In the first, you are required to believe that your problems (i.e. all >psychological problems; most medical ones; even >not-being-really-successful) are due to painful memories dating back to >the moment of your conception (never mind the biology of how a zygote can >have a memory or understand language). They tell you that you can erase >these memories with their training routines and auditing sessions. >You are told that once you purge yourself of these memories, you will have >a perfect memory, an IQ of 200 and an extra ability to succeed in >business, attract the opposite sex and so on. > >In the next stage, you are required to believe that these memories stretch >back through *previous lifetimes*, going back trillions of years. You are >told that your present self is polluted by the negative effect of crimes >that you might have done while you were a concentration camp guard in >WWII, or an evil space tyrant who destroyed a planet. The only way to free >yourself is to confess all these crimes while your skin resistance is >monitored by an "e-meter" > >The third stage is the belief that all your problems are due to an >infestation of alien spirits which have been implanted with confusing >images by the evil Marcab Confederacy. [I know it sounds wacko, but to >these people this really is the secret of the universe.] Just as in the >first stage you removed "memories" from your own spirit, you now have to >erase them from each of the spirits that is attached to you. >Someone at this level can expect to gain freedom from their own body and >other super-human powers, so that when the Marcabs return, the faithful >scientologists will be able to take their place as citizens of the galaxy >-the rest of the human race will be doomed. > >Okay, the levels aren't as distinct as I have shown them, but I hope the >idea of "what a scientologist believes" comes across. Close enough for ars, Martin. >The ideal person to answer your sort of question would be Dennis Erlich, >but some shyster has trod his free speech rights underfoot. On the other >hand, you could talk to Larry Wollersheim or Bob Penny... ooops, some >shitester raided their homes and took their research materials...oh,well. [no comment - but I would if I could] +--------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * dennis.l.erlich@support.com + inForm@primenet.com "tar baby"