Brainwashing Manual Parallels is down at the Scn Critical Information Directory

[Veda]

Brainwashing Manual Parallels is down at the Scientology Critical Information Directory. This is a copy:

Microsoft Word - Brainwashing Manual Parallels - Brainwashing_Manual_Parallels_in_Scientology.pdf

 

[Veda]

Preamble: It's a fine point, but, these days, with the spirit of totalitarianism sweeping society, and greater "top down control" by the government-corporate complex (the name for which is "fascism") being asserted, and the possibility of a "social credit system" and electronic monitoring of speech, commerce, movement and, conceivably, even thoughts, no longer being far fetched ideas from a dystopian paperback novel, I have to express my support for (unauthorized) "altered states." That may sound silly, but there's a nuance. I recognize the danger of "altered states" inside a (destructive) cult milieu, such as Scientology, but reject those who seek to assert control over our minds - often with the pretext of "protecting" us, and "safety," etc. - and I reject that control just as I reject something like Scientology.

The difference is that Scientology is small, and society and the government, etc. is large and encompassing.

I mention this because there seem to be some who oppose the totalitarian system of Scientology who seem entirely too comfortable with the trend toward totalitarianism in society. But, of course, I could be mistaken in that perception, and I hope I am.

Anyway, that's the end of the preamble.

Footnote on Hubbard's use of the term "psychotics." He sometimes used it to describe people who were not really psychotic. A person might disagree with Hubbard and Hubbard would call him "psychotic," etc. So, while no doubt there were some actual "psychotics," Hubbard sometimes classified people who didn't like him as "psychotic." He also classified those who didn't like Dianetics as "low" on his "Tone Scale," and thus not sane.

And ex wife Sara was described as having been PDHed, etc. (Hypnotized and drugged, and/or blackmailed by the Russians.)

Anyway, during that period - early to mid 1950s - Hubbard was trying out - testing - many ideas that he would implement, with gusto, beginning during the early 1960s. So it became even worse.

There are many things in Scientology that can lead to delusion, confusion, paranoia, obsession, depression, guilt, shame, suicidal tendencies, suicide, violence, and even murder.

1952

Mary Sue Hubbard reading about her last sixty trillion years ​

Scientology messes with people's minds. After all, "mental healing" was the entry point for both Dianetics and Scientology, and both emphasized that the person's SURVIVAL depended on how well the person progressed in its system of "mental healing."

(Cutting and pasting of other old posts begins here. Hope it's not too sloppy.)

"Advanced Courses are the most valuable services on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself."

L, Ron Hubbard, during the late 1960s, writing of his confidential "upper levels," from Mission Order 375,
from Scientology's Hard Sell pack for training Scientology sales people or registrars.​

Scientology was becoming increasingly more secretive before the "Advanced Courses" appeared.

Secrecy, deception, "implanting," authoritarianism, "brainwashing," being punitive, were mentioned, by Hubbard, to unsuspecting Scientologists, as things done by the bad guys - as "enemy tactics" - and then Hubbard would turn around and use those same ideas and actions on his own defenseless followers, who knew - with "total certainty" - that "Mankind's Greatest Friend" would never do such a thing.

This pattern was commented upon as early as October 1950, in the book, A Doctor's Report on Dianetics, by Joseph Winter, who had written the introduction for Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health. Winter had noticed that Hubbard liked to lecture about the evils of authoritarianism while being authoritarian himself:

"There was a difference in the ideals inherent in the Dianetic hypothesis and the actions of the Foundation in its ostensible efforts to carry out those ideals... as I saw them, included non-authoritarianism and flexibility of approach... These ideals... continued to be given lip-service, but I could see a definite disparity between ideals and actualities..."

Scientologists might say this was simply the result of working in an imperfect environment, where "We build a world with broken straws," etc., but, in 1954, Volney Mathison - whose electro-pyschometer, based on the much earlier Wheatstone bridge of the 1800s, and popularized, to some extent, by Carl Jung in the early 1900s - made this observation, referring to Hubbard:

_________________________________Begin quote________________________________​

...a certain type of sick patient is referred to as being vampire-like in behavior. But such a patient is not really aware of why he acts as he does, a far more despicable vampire-like personality is that of a vicious type of fraudulent cult therapist who operates in the two following phases:

First, he denounces or "exposes"... Then he USES THE VERY POWER HE HAS DENOUNCED [sic]... but the techniques he employs are of a covert type...

The victim is caught completely off guard. He has just heard all about the evils... so he believes that here is this kind and honest person whom one can TRUST...

_________________________________End quote________________________________
​

A virtual compendium of ideas and methods used by Hubbard on others, including his own followers, can be compiled by listing the things he denounced, or about which he warned.

The cover of Hubbard's hoax "Russian" manual of 1955 - which depicted Dianetics and, in a 1968 printing, "the Church of Scientology," as under attack by Russian communists - aptly describes the Scientology operation, in its definition of psychopolitics.

The original manual

Remarkably, this booklet was spotted as the "blueprint" for the Scientology movement as early as 1965

Many views on the Brainwashing Manual

​

The pattern of Hubbard warning people about the bad guys doing something, and then turning around and doing the same thing, was repeated over and over.

In the above manual, Hubbard was warning about "brainwashing."

Scientology presents itself as the antithesis of "brainwashing," while advising people to think for themselves.

​

Scientologists would soon be reading the super-hyped secret materials where Hubbard would tell them what's wrong with them.

And applauding his giant photograph in gratitude.

At the "upper levels" Hubbard authoritatively TELLS Scientologists the contents of their own minds and spaces.

And if they don't agree, or are not delighted with the results, that means there's something very wrong with them.

​

 

[Teanntás]

Brainwashing Manual Parallels is down at the Scientology Critical Information Directory. This is a copy:

Microsoft Word - Brainwashing Manual Parallels - Brainwashing_Manual_Parallels_in_Scientology.pdf

It's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing you now just to see if you're better New York is cold, but I like where I'm living There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening. I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record. Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear Did you ever go clear? Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder You'd been to the station to meet every train And you came home without Lili Marlene And you treated my woman to a flake of your life And when she came back she was nobody's wife. Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief Well I see Jane's awake She sends her regards. And what can I tell you my brother, my killer What can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you I'm glad you stood in my way. If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free. Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried. And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear -- Sincerely, L. Cohen

Transcript