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Kind of funny, she got involved in 1998, me in 1987 thanks to the Dianetics ads on TV saying Dianetics was a science of the mind, whereas she was religious. Only 10 years difference.Molly McMullen tells her story
Scientology Recovery
A healing resource for those who have left the Church of Scientology.
First video:
"The lure of the pseudoscientific vocabulary and promises of dianetics cannot but condemn thousands who are beginning to emerge from scientific illiteracy to a continuation of their susceptibility to word-magic and semantic hash."
As an 80s kid, to me Scientology was always a "spiritual practice" aka religion. The science part was being toned down in the 90s, I think partially because of the "practicing psychotherapy without a license" threats.
there you go.
yep, I used to promote that to my friends to try to get them involved. I said getting auditing was like getting high but no drugs. I said once you have a cognition about something, you feel on top of the world. You have that "oh ha" moment, and it seems so clear, like I get it.
Yep, things did in fact change and not just during the transition from the Hubbardian era to the Davidic era.
That's exactly what it was.
Nah - The floating needle is caused by sweaty hands. Scientific fact. No Twelve Step recovery program necessary.
Scientology "eras" - hmm. Scientology has gone through several changes, evolutions, phases in its brief seventy year history. Maybe someone will write a History of Scientology book, maybe not.
My own terms entirely. As far as I know nobody else uses it, but I find them to be useful terms. We might as well call them the megalomanic era and the extortionist era. Or the narcissistic phase and antisocial phase.
you could probably say that about any religion (or so called religion).
actually somebody has written a history of dianetics, it can be found here:
