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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: WILL THE REAL SCIENTO
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plmlp@mail.bris.ac.uk (Martin Poulter)

Adrien Monteleone  <Stallion@megaweb.com> 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]

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