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TONY ORTEGA
Excerpt:
We first heard from Pamela Nickel Williams here at the Underground Bunker four years ago, when she shared with us some writing from a planned book about how her parents were among the first Dianetics adherents and raised her in the strange world of early Scientology.
Now, Pamela’s book is coming out on August 31, and while pre-orders are available, she’s generously shared an excerpt with us. Please enjoy the introduction to her book Clearly Lies Are True, and consider ordering a copy.
I have often and seriously wondered which came first, my family’s insanity or Scientology? Growing up as the daughter of early Scientologists, I sensed how secretive and different my family was from other families that I knew and observed. But as a child, I didn’t understand how my parents’ behavior, including their inability to nurture and care for me, emanated from their Scientology beliefs.
How were my parents’ propensities toward certain thoughts, beliefs and actions exacerbated and fueled by their personal experiences in Scientology? Were my parents genetically wired and pre-destined to suffer from mental health issues and abusive tendencies, or was Scientology the catalyst that activated these pathologies?
Trying to answer these questions, or at least learn how my parents’ beliefs evolved and influenced their actions, has guided my writing and my search for truth, in as much as it can be found. Yet the quest for truth can be an elusive pursuit. Most cults, like Scientology, prey on those who seek promises of healing physical and emotional brokenness. Dogmatic, yet convincing beliefs, and the enticement of spiritual elevation permeate cult mentality, leading many “truth seekers,” like my parents, down a perceived path of enlightenment.
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Now, Pamela’s book is coming out on August 31, and while pre-orders are available, she’s generously shared an excerpt with us. Please enjoy the introduction to her book Clearly Lies Are True, and consider ordering a copy.
I have often and seriously wondered which came first, my family’s insanity or Scientology? Growing up as the daughter of early Scientologists, I sensed how secretive and different my family was from other families that I knew and observed. But as a child, I didn’t understand how my parents’ behavior, including their inability to nurture and care for me, emanated from their Scientology beliefs.
How were my parents’ propensities toward certain thoughts, beliefs and actions exacerbated and fueled by their personal experiences in Scientology? Were my parents genetically wired and pre-destined to suffer from mental health issues and abusive tendencies, or was Scientology the catalyst that activated these pathologies?
Trying to answer these questions, or at least learn how my parents’ beliefs evolved and influenced their actions, has guided my writing and my search for truth, in as much as it can be found. Yet the quest for truth can be an elusive pursuit. Most cults, like Scientology, prey on those who seek promises of healing physical and emotional brokenness. Dogmatic, yet convincing beliefs, and the enticement of spiritual elevation permeate cult mentality, leading many “truth seekers,” like my parents, down a perceived path of enlightenment.
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A new book about Scientology is coming, and we have the introduction
We first heard from Pamela Nickel Williams here at the Underground Bunker four years ago, when she shared with us some writing from a planned book about how her parents were among the first Dianetics adherents and raised her in the strange world of early Scientology.
tonyortega.substack.com
I think the truth is, we tend to give short shrift to how many Scientology fanatics become that way because they were already so imbalanced and/or emotionally vulnerable so as to be predisposed to so eagerly and thoroughly buy into the fantasy. That by no means lets Scientology off the hook for these people's distortions of reality and accompanying misbehaviors, as it is through Scientology that they find the place to feel safe, encouraged and validated to be this way. Scientology's "cure for insanity" is to validate it as "the only sane ones" and to indoctrinate into the channeling of one's insanity into devotion and dedication to Scientology.
