THE ART OF DECEPTION II

By Arnie Lerma

Introduction

The following screed will attempt to outline how Hubbard's collection of ideas create the state of mind called Scientology, amplifying and building upon the work from the original Art of Deception of October 1999.

The First Lie

The first Hubbard lie is when you read the word Scientology. Scientology looks as though it is a science, which is as intended. We are talking white robed, scientific methodology here. That is a false implication! People reading the word think SCIENCE, exactly as Hubbard intended. However, there is no science in Scientology, nothing other than testimony of those folks under the influence of the dream weaver himself, L Ron Hubbard. It is but an illusion, part of the plan. I wonder sometimes just how many people I'd have to hypnotize and lie to, who would then say that I held the secrets to the universe, before the IRS could be forced by my lawyers and private investigators to state Arniology was a religion? Would it take ten? One hundred? Perhaps a thousand? I guess I will never know.

The Great Promise

L. Ron Hubbard's "dissemination" drill(1) states that you find a person's ruin and then tell them directly that 'Scientology could help them with ______'> { that }. It doesn't matter what the problem is, if it's what's bothering the person, you promise Scientology can handle it.

The first step to become a Scientologist is when you believe the very first lie.

In the 50's and 60's Hubbard used to promise that one could survive nuclear radiation if one took Dianazene, a mix of calcium and niacin named after his daughter Diana, and used Dianetics to run out one's "engrams" (periods of pain and unconsciousness), using an E- Meter. With so many people worried about the possibility of nuclear war, the "duck and cover" routine being taught in schools at that time, Hubbard seized on this as it was a promise that no one would ever test - that by using Scientology and Dianetics one could survive a nuclear war.

Hubbard published this routine as the "The Dissemination Drill" which basically says promise them anything they want. It is practiced and drilled and if you take one of those OCA (28) "personality tests" you will hear them use it on you.

Staff members could of course promise anything because Scientology was a bridge to total freedom and ability. To be "total cause over matter energy space and time". A 1967 edition of the Gradation Chart actually states that the end ability gained for Scientology is total cause over matter energy space and time. This state was called OT8 for those who had finished their once secret Operating Thetan section 8. Wow, think of it! Everything you grew up wishing for while watching super-hero-kids-shows could be you! If only I had the money to go Clear and reach that lofty state of OT!

This is the Scientology mind set. It is also why Scientology must never be trusted even when supplying affidavits under penalty of perjury, because if a group thinks they alone have the ultimate solution, history has shown things rapidly get out of hand.

In his book, Introduction to Scientology Ethics ,(2) Hubbard lists on page 56 as a high crime "The disintegration of persons or belongings" - if this doesn't IMPLY incredible mental super power.. I don't know what does. I mean imagine having to control that much ability, imagine being able to kill with a thought!

The promise of incredible gains in Scientology is a contrived apparency that is only true while inside of the world of Scientology. While living amongst the field of fellow dreamers.

Federal Judges have held that Scientology's claims are a fraud.

"An individual processed with the aid of the E-meter was said to reach the intended goal of "clear" and was led to believe there was reliable scientific proof that once cleared many, indeed most illnesses would automatically be cured. Auditing was guaranteed to be successful. All this was and is false -- in short, a fraud." Federal District Judge Gesell 333 F. Supp. 357; 1971 U.S. Dist.

The Gesell decision came from an action brought by the US Food and Drug Agency against the device that Scientology uses called the "e-meter", as an effort to stem the deceptive practice of Scientology's false medical claims.

So what really are we dealing with here?

Carnival Roots

At the very start of one's indoctrination in Scientology, the first course one pays for, is often one that contains what are called TR's or Training routines. These consist of various exercises where one is told they help one to confront other people. There is, however, an amazing similarity to drama school, which in retrospect is extraordinarily similar to Scientology training. The motions and actions are the same but the real reason you do them is hidden.

Basic stage techniques consist of "how to sit on a chair or put on a coat gracefully so as not to distract from the dialogue; how to breathe from the diaphragm so the voice would carry; how to ask questions of a script and understand motives of a character."(17) It is this training in acting that makes Scientologists appear to be confident and poised, so he appears to have benefits from Hubbard's brilliance.

I've written before on my own web site (6) that "Scientology is like a 19th century seedy carnival side show, whenever someone in the audience would yell out how the trick was done, he would be dragged outside by a couple of toughs stationed there for this purpose, and beaten up. Scientology's demeanor is identical to this, only in the 'civil' 20th century they use lawyers. And the entire sordid affair is cloaked in bogus religiosity." This is not the end of the analogous similarity.

In some old time carnival magic shows, after the knives were placed through the box containing the lovely lady assistant, the performer would reach into the box and pull what appeared to be her clothes off, and then offer the folks in the audience a chance to look into the box themselves - for an additional 25 cents.

Audience members would conclude that for 'only' 25 additional cents they might get see the naked lady, but there was a 2nd set of clothes - this 2nd set of clothes is what the magicians call a pre-set.

This is the pattern of Scientology's once secret upper levels.

One believes the next secret step is going to be the one where all is revealed.

In August 1995 I posted the text of a copy of an unsealed public court record to the Internet. This was just another in a series of unsealed public court records posted to the net, nothing extreme, nothing different. Scientology claims to have spent one million seven hundred thousand dollars pursuing trade secret and copyright claims in that case. The following is a quote from the memorandum opinion, that Scientology lawyers sought to have sealed and could be described as a 2 million dollar sentence:

"Scientologists believe that most human problems can be traced to lingering spirits of an extraterrestrial people massacred by their ruler, Xenu, over 75 million years ago. These spirits attach themselves by "clusters" to individuals in the contemporary world, causing spiritual harm and negatively influencing the lives of their hosts ". USDJ Leonie Brinkema 4 Oct 96 Memorandum Opinion, RTC vs. Lerma

You see now that Scientology sells the idea of having a "reactive mind" and then long after investing years pursing the pseudoscience, you find out there are a multitude of these pesky things to get rid of. And only Scientology can do this for you - at great expense.

Magicians are also known as illusionists. An illusionist entertains the crowd by playing tricks on them. The crowd knows the fellow is a magician, is expecting to be entertained by cunning deceptions and then wonder how the trick was done.

Charlatans work a crowd for their money by playing tricks on them. But in the case of the charlatan, the crowd is told the performer is a great wise man of immense knowledge and integrity. The manufacturing of personal altitude by manufacturing credentials - "war hero", blood brother to the Blackfoot, is a way to silence doubts about the original false claim - that what they are seeing is REAL. Again the public is entertained by and then they wonder how the trick was done.

In the case of Scientology, it is expected that it might be revealed after they next secret expensive level, for an additional quarter.

When one of this charlatan's tricks does not appear to work, one is told that it is your fault for not watching the show in the correct fashion. One is told to duplicate the exact view point from which to watch the trick as described by the show's director, L Ron Hubbard.

You might sometime be told that it will not work for you, because you are connected to someone who 'antagonistic'. (Antagonistic means that one still has functioning critical thinking skills and is not looking at the trick from that exactly described view) An 'antagonistic' person is one who knows that the super claims of this carnival showman could not possibly be true, because if they were true, you would not be reading this line.

Misdirection and preset

Magic shows all include misdirection - the art of directing your attention away from the hand that does the trick. The pretty girl, the talking patter, the puff of smoke, all do this. In three card Monte, if a card is made to appear to be moved that wasn't, the 'mark' will pick the wrong card and lose his money. Street magicians will deftly remove a spectators watch with one hand, while directing their attention to their other hand so the person never notices.

Hubbard constantly directs members attention to his own false claims of being able to create the exalted states of clear and OT, with intent, thumping his own chest about his greatness so loudly that none might hear anyone question him.

Hubbard directs in written policy that busts of himself be placed in hallways and pictures in every room. All there to imply greatness that cannot be questioned. When I was at the very top of my physics class in high school, I was fooled by this technique, to not question his claims of greatness, as he was claiming at that time to be a nuclear physicist.(20) What high school kid in 1968 would argue with a nuclear physicist?

The E-meter

In Penn & Teller's book on magic called How to Play in Traffic, they say that one of the most important principles of fooling an audience is "Don't tell them what to believe. Show them something that lets them observe and come to their own wrong conclusion."

What better place to hide the cleverest pre-set of all, than right under your nose! This device and its characteristics are covered extensively in the prior edition of Art of Deception.

L Ron Hubbard's E-meter provides a small does of electricity that is in a range that is below the level of sensation to the human body, but enough to cause physiological changes. The current is in a range that has been documented to induce the human body to release its own natural pain killers, like opiates, called endorphins. (7) This is the big secret, the pre-set. The stage contrivance that nobody looks at. All magic tricks include presets - the secretly placed props, that are done before the show. In Scientology, a stage pre-set is the "e-meter".

The induced release of endorphins create in the subject, a predisposition to elation and euphoria. The many repetitive claims and promises in his books and materials, create an almost hypnotic expectation of a certain result, add to this the elation of induced endorphins and Scientology appears to work because Hubbard is so wise.

However, instead of one knowing that one is getting a small jolt of electricity that might have some adverse effects including future cancer and autoimmune dysfunction - one is never told about this pre-set.

Nor is one told that endorphins bind at the same receptors in the brain as morphine and heroin. Nor is one told that one might end up addicted to these induced endorphins and long for the 'release' of more of L. Ron Hubbard's side show carnival technology after one has had a taste.

This 'secret' must remain hidden. Because by keeping it secret, the recipient can only conclude that what he has experienced is due to L. Ron Hubbard's greatness, re-enforced by lies about his history and the statues in the hallway, and the pictures in every room.

Law enforcement would be well advised to treat Scientologists as junkies who have been tricked into taking a magic snake oil that contains morphine. In this case after the snake oil salesman got enough junkies to finance enough lawyers and private investigators he managed to get it called a religion to prevent further investigation, and to keep the scam fully cloaked.

When one tries to explain this to their current junkies they shout: "hate crime."

There is also no fanatic as motivated to, as Hubbard would say, "MAKE IT GO RIGHT" (15) as when he is in need of another fix.

The Cookie Monster

The problem with lying, is that after one tells a lie, one is forced to tell more lies to cover up discovery of the first lie. Much as a little kid starts telling more and more elaborate stories, ending up with the "cookie monster did it" to cover up that fact that is was that child's hand that actually entered the cookie jar, Hubbard goes on from his first whoppers to weave stories of ever broadening complexity.

First - all your problems are due to something called the reactive mind, and with lots of money, study, and time, one can get rid of this unwanted thing. Then you are told that you are infested with thousands upon thousands of space cooties each with their own reactive mind. And now the new "ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY" can get rid of even those. To weed through the piles and piles of rantings would take a lifetime, but it is supposed to take more than a lifetime.

The myriad of rundowns, actions, processes, lists, check sheets, policies, bulletins, drills, and books are just there to direct your attention elsewhere, anywhere, but question the core claims an attainable "clear" and "OT" state, at the end of Ron's bridge to total freedom.

Hubbard states repeatedly in Scientology that he'd "rather have you dead than unable" (21)

Better to have you dead than able to sue for fraud?

What a plan!

Complexity as a means to hide the lies

Go into any of Scientology's indoctrination centers. You will find a room filled to the rafters with published works of the great charlatan himself. This is just part of the show. It creates the apparency that there must be something there.

It also makes it quite evident at a glance that one does not know how Scientology works until one has studied all of these tomes.

And any sensible person knows that you cannot criticize what you don't understand. And Hubbard knew this, and used it to his advantage, by creating the reactive mind and then tools for resolving this creation that take years to learn, all the while hiding the real secret from you.

Inside Scientology they are fond of saying "What is true for you is true for you" The axiom's of Scientology define REALITY as Agreement. Well, this, when accepted less than critically makes everything else possible. There is AGREEMENT from the folks currently under the notion that Hubbard has a bridge to total freedom that Scientology works. So in fact, by Scientology's own definition of reality, inside Scientology it does certainly appear to be true. But outside of Scientology it is no more than an apparency.

Imagine if you entered a carnival crazy house of mirrors, in it you were told "what is true for you is true for you" and you were not allowed to speak to anyone that had found the door?

The only people you could talk to were also wandering around inside... clutching check sheets, routing forms, and course packs...all designed to send you to the next mirror, in a controlled and orderly fashion...while stressing repeatedly that the guy that built the maze was to be "duplicated exactly', and everywhere you looked you saw his picture....

Your attention is directed to myriads of details, thousands of them.

There is also a prohibition against "discussing one's case" - this also effectively keeps people from comparing notes, and keeps their attention focused in turn.

All these actions, promoted as safeguards for "Keeping Scientology Working", are merely ways to control your attention and make very sure folks don't start comparing notes.

The complexity holds your attention so you don't see the pattern of Scientology, a technology for extraction of money from deluded adherents at the highest possible speed before they figure out what the hell is really going on.

"Oh what a twisted web we weave when intent is to deceive" Shakespeare

Appeal to authority

This is one of the classic logical fallacies. Logical fallacies are methods used to win argument based upon faulty logic, and is a method used by Hubbard to make his converts. The first step to become a Scientologist is to believe just one of their lies.

The one and only "Authority" in Scientology is L. Ron Hubbard so L. Ron Hubbard must be crafted into an authority of sufficient magnitude that no mere human would have the temerity to question him. There is no God in Scientology, and if there were, he would have to report to Hubbard.

I was just sixteen years old when I was first exposed to L Ron Hubbard the nuclear physicist - or so the dust jacket of "All About Radiation" stated in 1967. Twenty five years later I find out that Hubbard never graduated from George Washington University and in fact got an F in the one physics course he took about nuclear engineering.

Scientology to this date still lies about Hubbard, claiming on their current web site that Hubbard was a blood brother of the Blackfoot Indians. Well, seems the Blackfoot do not have blood brothers, period.

But these are essential lies, because Hubbard has to maintained as an "Authority" that you will not question.

L. Ron Hubbard's invocation, "What is true for you is true for you" is bandied by Scientologists in a most glib fashion. It follows L. Ron Hubbard's definition of reality which he defined as: "Agreement". This is the sort of definition that truly makes anything possible, including Hubbard's claim to have "almost been hit by a freight train on Venus".

L. Ron Hubbard's Gilded Coach

Page xi of the preface to Dianetics states "It is suggested that you read straight on through. By the time you get to the appendix, you should have an excellent command of the subject. The book is arranged that way. Every fact related to Dianetic therapy is stated in several ways and is introduced again and again."

Might this not be taken as an admission of the use of repetitive commands?

One example of this is on pages 14 and 15, where Hubbard describes that "Some past observers [implies people not even so involved in the mind as you and I the real participants] called this "imagery".

Then he goes on to describe the state of "clear" repeating 4 times that "clears" have "full color-visio, kinesthetic, thermal and organic imagination" and memory of course in the course of a two pages.

"Asked to envision himself riding a gilded coach and four, he "sees" the equipage, moving in full color, he "hears" all the noises that should be present, he "smells" the smells he thinks should be there, and he "feels" the upholstery, the motion, and the presence in the coach of himself".

Reflect for a moment, reader.

Is this not how the state of clear is imaged by Scientologists themselves?

What is at work here?

We know Scientologists "envision" themselves as Clear and OT.

We also know for a fact There are NO OTs or Clears there as described above.

Are these things just another example of "What's true for you is true for you"?

People want this state, they will effortlessly agree to accept that it is true and exists, and by accepting at this point that they can create and mock up anything they desire, they are sort of tricked into creating and mocking up the reactive mind and the need for L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics and Scientology to get rid of it.

They want to ride in L. Ron Hubbard's gilded coach.

But just because they imagine they are Clear does not mean they are, it just means they imagine it, the physical evidence and tests show it's not there as the miserable failure of the first stage demonstration back in 1950 demonstrated.

That is why when anyone asks for proof, or questions efficacy they are promptly removed from the carnival tent, lest they wake up others who are "imagining" they are Clear and OT.

The Bridge to nowhere

Another reason that the length of the bridge to super powers in Scientology is so long and arduous is because Hubbard did not want any one getting across it and finding out that the Emperor in fact is wearing no clothes.

The history of Dianetics and Scientology consists of a pattern, of constant revision of exactly how much has to done, how much money has to spent, to achieve the goals stated in Dianetics and Scientology. Every few years Hubbard would come out with a new expensive routine or rundown. Always keeping the final goal of "Operating Thetan" - true immense spiritual power out of reach. This was a constant creation of new alibis, reasons for not achieving what was promised and had the added benefit of enabling the fully sold to have more they now needed to buy.

This makes perfect sense if the entire purpose was to make money.

Keeping up the Group Trance

In order to keep up a group trance, all subjects have to stay under the influence, - any ones that awaken, who might try to wake the others have to be escorted out quickly, before they ruin the show. Scientology has a number of policies that help accomplish this.

The voluminous nomenclature serves to isolate Scientologists from people around them. You might not see a wall around them, but it is certainly there, just as tough and tenacious as the fellow that created it. The esoteric words that Hubbard wove in ever widening complexities make it impossible for Scientologists to discuss Scientology beyond the on ramp routines of try it you'll like it, read a book, etc.

This makes it difficult for someone who has not been through the Scientology's mind numbing routines to be able to even discuss the topic much less reason with a Scientologist. It is also why Scientology seems to dislike the ex-members who have awakened from the trance more than those who haven't been there.

Scientologists like to say, "Well you won't know until you try"

While pointed to some famous deluded adherent like John Travolta who is, I'm sure, quite thoroughly convinced, that he is on cloud nine without the use of drugs any longer.

And one doesn't need to try heroin to know it is not good for you.

Esoteric nomenclature builds the wall separating Scientologists from society. To get through that wall one has to learn enough of the lingo to at least understand why they hate so much to be reminded that THERE ARE NO OTs IN SCIENTOLOGY.(12)

Because if there were just one OT you would not be reading this line.

All the lawyers, dirty tricksters (13), propaganda writers, and dumpster divers are all there to intimidate into silence anyone who, having awakened from the trance, tries to tell you how the trick is done.

Here are some of the ways they isolate those who awaken:

1) The organizational structure has many different, isolated, top to bottom command channels, thus, there is only a small band of hard core Scientologists, that actually has the big picture. These are the directors for the Scientology show, the rest are all isolated by the compartmentalized organization structure. They basically don't have a clue what is going on, but are used and manipulated with half truth and fabrications to play their parts well.

2) Staff that 'don't get it' any longer get sent to gulags to be rehabilitated under concentration camp style conditions, if you don't 'get it' there you get sent to the gulag's gulag where conditions are even harsher. Amongst the Soboboa a tribe that holds the land behind the Scientology facility in Hemet. There are wild tales of escapees running through the casino asking to be hidden from "Scientology".

3) Public that 'have a problem' or staff that refuse to go to the gulag get labeled with Scientology's version of a yellow star of David used to mark Jews. Notices get officially, posted to the public notice board and sent to all indoctrination training facilities, declarations that they are "troublesome sources" or "suppressive persons". In his book Science of Survival Hubbard states that people this low on the tone scale to be suppressive and that "The only answers would seem to be the permanent quarantine of such persons from society to avoid contagion of their insanities and the general turbulence which they bring to any order"(5) . This tends to clamp down very hard upon anyone who awakens inside and tries to warn the others.

4) Physical detention and isolation - as in the death of Lisa McPherson, where Hubbard demonstrates a literal interpretation of his words "I'd rather have you dead than unable" by unable, he means, unable or unwilling to pay him any more money.

5) If you do escape and begin speaking out they will try to use litigation against you, seeking to follow L. Ron Hubbard's instructions to use it not to win but to "destroy utterly". Meanwhile they attack your job, sources of income, reputation, friends, supporters, until some folks are scared of being around you for fear the cult will hassle them in order to isolate you, all so there is no one there to listen to you, and hoping you will take 'the gag' and the envelope in exchange for peace. We are discredited and associated will every manner of evil, so that those that do hear them, won't believe them. Their last resort is to try to 'simulate felonies' in order to make critics into people they can call criminals. They seek to label every effort to expose their fraud as a "hate crime". They generate elaborately crafted piles of paper chock full of bogus details and allegations, they try to get law enforcement to do what they failed to do so far.. Silence anyone who speaks out or helps those who do.

6) Disconnection - an official policy that they say has been canceled, but is still used, (22) that breaks up families, usually when one spouse is getting into or out of Scientology, sons don't call or write their mothers and when they do it, it is often with a Scientologist standing by coaching them, manipulating them.

Group Re-enforcement

It is quite pleasant to have membership in a group, and for some with no group and few friends it's quite seductive to find a whole slew of people why all THINK they are doing good things for mankind, even if all they are doing is creating more people who THINK they are doing good things for mankind.

The source book for L. Ron Hubbard's operating policies for crowd manipulation appear to be based upon the work of the 19th century French psychologist, Gustave Le Bon. Specifically from his book The Crowd, about the psychology of crowds and their manipulation.

The transformation of a hack science fiction writer with a failed Naval career into cult guru is accomplished by following Le Bon's recommendations.

It is also where much of the pattern of the organization is copied.

The busts of Hubbard in the hallway, the pictures of him on every wall are part of the formula for creation a cult following as described by Le Bon as is the fanciful military uniforms and campaign ribbons, and group adulation ceremonies.

The fact of secret esoteric levels is also described as technique by Le Bon that only the worthy are allowed access to. It isn't the silly data on these levels that is of significance, it is the fact of a secret.

The fact of a secret allows each participant to imagine something so horrific, so terrible, of such immense significance, that it makes Scientology's constant, painful, extraction of money appear worth being endured.

It was not the data in the secret Scientology levels that is important, it is the fact of the secret that is important. The fact of the secret allows the member to create something big enough and massive enough in his mind to pay through the nose to be spoon fed electricity long enough while swallowing a sufficient quantity of L. Ron Hubbard's yarns to reach a state that he is willing to believe anything.

Scientology maliciously abuses copyright law, but they have no choice. To explain fully to the public how the scam works one must see the big picture, in order to see the over all pattern. This makes the exposure of Scientology's materials essential. Until they are revealed they will continue to be able to tell their members that the pretty girl in the box has finally been disrobed and they can see the real secret, for another quarter.

It is also important to discuss Xenu because it makes the sham and mind controlling ability painfully apparent, with added icing that, as the New York Times said, that though Hubbard claimed these materials could kill by inducing pneumonia from premature exposure to them, " No epidemic has been reported."

Now with the Internet, Scientology, has no secrets, except perhaps the full list of criminal acts and fabrications of a felony that they have tried to foist upon those who can see through them and dare still try to inform the public at large.

What passes for ethics

When one questions the work ability of Scientology one is essentially disciplined by tedious word definition exercises called "word-clearing", if these actions do not result in compliance one is assigned ethical conditions that waste additional time.

Those that the ethics routines fail on - and get this, the ethics routines are booby trapped because they are all predicated upon the assumption that "Scientology works" . Which is the point isn't it? How can one follow their own ethics formulae on this basis?

For example, their own doubt formula states: ( from page 42 of Introduction to Scientology Ethics 1985:(23)

"1. Inform oneself honestly of the actual intentions and activities of that group, project or organization, brushing aside all bias and rumor"

Well this is all fine and dandy, but last I heard, Scientologists are being told "it is all lies" about the data on the various anti-Scientology web sites.

Scientology lies constantly about membership numbers, about number of organizations and to this date has been claiming expansion every year. In Scientology's own world, they say things are rosy except for a 'small handful of critics'.

True and accurate information does not exist in Scientology, it's as if members when they are in doubt are called upon to go to the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's 1984 for their data.

When a member asks about the 1982 US vs. Mary Sue Hubbard et al. criminal conviction, (with jail time served) case, he is told that Scientology was convicted of stealing copy paper. The actual admissions show that this 'copy paper' consisted of documents from inside locked IRS Chief Counsel, US Assistant Attorney General and US Attorney offices. The 400 page stipulation is available in full on my web site. Now, when current members ask about this massive conviction, it is dismissed as "we stole some copy paper !"

This makes step 2 of this formula impossible

"Examine the statistics of the individual, group, project or organization"

If a Scientologists were to ask for my own "statistics" my income would look pretty sorry, but then from the 'statistic' alone they would not know that my largest single client, All-Star Music on Wilson Boulevard in Arlington Virginia was purchased "by two guys from Florida" from a fellow for who music was his whole life but he had to say yes because they offered so much money he could not refuse. They included in the sales agreement a non-compete so that my friend would stay out of the business. This would sound like a normal business deal, except this store closed down and stood empty for 6 months and then turned into an ice cream store?

But this is just part of their show.

Step 3 of Hubbard's "doubt formula" is just more deception.

"3. Decide on the basis of "The greatest good for the greatest number of Dynamics" (Dynamics: The urge, thrust and purpose of life - SURVIVE! - in its eight manifestations.(24) whether or not it should be attacked, harmed or suppressed or helped.

These are all predicated upon the assumption that 'Scientology works.' In a group of people who all imagine that "If it's true for you it is true for you" how can anyone objectively analyze this? On it's face the doubt formula is one of Scientology's self evident style truths but within the contrived information structure of Scientology, it is just another way to control a person's attention who has doubts about whether there are any OTs in Scientology at all.

If one is doing the 'doubt' formula it might be because one has doubt that Scientology works, but this is no problem, because one is called upon to decide based on the stated goals and purposes of Scientology, which, themselves are a lie, as Scientology has no real goal or purpose other than to push as many bodies through the brainwashing shop as possible while fleecing them to keep the lawyers and private investigators well motivated to torment those who try to explain this.

Handling those who see through the game

If you do manage to realize that all is not as it is claimed to be in Scientology, and try to step back and size up the situation in the forest, there is a whole new world awaiting you, of PI's and lawyers, whose job is to intimidate into silence those who manage to escape.

When litigation is impossible or has failed to achieve silence then dirty tricks and character assassination begins, to make sure that nobody will listen to you. Using a tactic of "Turn a scratch into a broken arm",(25) for example, if you bump into some fellow on the street you will now be described as a known associate of said type of fellow. This is no exaggeration.

During a picket of Scientology in Washington DC a fellow walked up to me on the street, who was walking by, said he had been picketing up at the Hilton and thought Scientologists were weird and asked if I had another picket sign. I did, the fellow picketed for a few hours that afternoon.

Now I find I am described on one of Scientology's own web sites as being an associate of "The Anarchist Workers Party", which I've been told consisted of just this one guy, who became famous on the net for sending out thousands of e-mails and postings making various outrageous claims.

All this based upon the handing of a picket sign to a stranger on a public street.

In Scientology's big lawsuit against me for posting the story of Xenu and the Body Thetans to the Internet, in 1995, in 6 inches of ex-parte filings they managed to turn a copy of an unsealed public court record, the Fishman Affidavit, into "Stolen property" and were described as having 'unclean hands' in open court for this deception.

Scientology will also seek by dirty tricks to interfere with ones livelihood. A homeless critic doesn't have much credibility, this is the other side of the same coin of generating expensive litigation and defense work due to a combination of direct litigation, fabricated stories sent to law enforcement officials and covertly interfering in custody and domestic disputes.

Any questions? Hubbard states that the supreme test of a thetan [Thetan is what he calls the spirit, the person himself ] is the "ability to make things go right".

This all sure sounds to me to be like the showbiz phrase:

The show must go on, at any cost it seems.

I know your secrets

The most insidious technique used by Hubbard is the collection of persons secrets in a detailed, documented, and indexed fashion. Ex-Executive and "Pacific Fleet Captain" in Scientology's "Sea Organization", Scott Mayer testifies that it was routine to cull through a person's files to document all these secrets. From peccadilloes to actual criminal acts, all are collected, and at times are used to threaten those who manage to extricate themselves from the trance and then try to warn others. Scott Mayer states in his testimony to the 1982 Clearwater Commission hearings: (8)

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