"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants
to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own
religion." Science Fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.

Because of the recent increases in advertising and activity of
this book on Ted Turner's Goodwill Games and other T.V. ads, it
is necessary to alert the public to the true nature of Dianetics,
its author L. Ron Hubbard, and the leadership of Scientology.
They have been thoroughly exposed and denounced the F.B.I.,
C.I.A., I.R.S., Reader Digest, the courts, various foreign
governments, Forbes magazine, the Los Angeles Times, St.
Petersburg Times, various respected mental health professionals,
and Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Churches.

The following are some of the statements:

"Scientology is one of the oldest, wealthiest, and most dangerous
of the major 'new religions' or cults operating in America
today." Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult, Readers
Digest 5/90.

"Psychological coercion by dangerous mind bending cults under
cover of religion can only occur like disease, when there is no
immunization against it. In this case, the immunization is
freedom of speech." Scientology: The Sickness Spreads, Readers
Digest, 9/81.

"As early as the 1950's officials of the American Medical
Association were warning that Scientology, known as Dianetics was
a cult...the I.R.S. was later able to prove in court that he
(Hubbard) was meanwhile skimming money, at least $3 million in
1972 alone and laundering it through schemes involving phone
billings, a dummy corporation in Panama and secret Swiss bank
accounts. In 1971 a U.S. federal court upheld a F.D.A. ruling
that Hubbard's 'scientific' claims were bogus and that E-meter
auditing would no longer be labeled as scientific treatment."
The Prophet and Profits of Scientology, Forbes 400, 10/27/86.

Following a case involving a Scientologist, High Court Justice
Latey described Scientology as immoral...corrupt because it is
based on lies and deceit...sinister...and dangerous because it is
out to capture people...indoctrinate and brainwash them so that
they become the unquestioning captives and tools of the cult."
London Daily Mail, 7/24/84.

Eleven of the leaders (including L. Ron Hubbard's wife) of the
Scientology were convicted and sent to federal prison for
conspiring to steal government documents, infiltrate federal
agencies, and kidnap a church official who decided to help expose
the crimes. Washington Post, 2/20/85.

"Fifteen Scientologists and the church itself are awaiting trial
(some have already been convicted) in Canada on charges stemming
from a 1983 police raid in which about 2 million stolen
government documents were seized in church offices." St.
Petersburg Times, 12/22/88

The St. Petersburg "Times won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for
expos‚s of abuse by the church. California Superior Court Judge
Paul Breckenridge ruled that 'the organization is clearly
schizophrenic and paranoid." (Ibid).

Psychologists have condemned the techniques of Dianetics /
Scientology as "amateurish and potentially dangerous meddling
with serious mental problems." Today's Health, 12/68.

The I.R.S. is currently suing the Church of Scientology for
millions of dollars in back taxes.

Former chairman of psychiatry at U.C.L.A. and head of the
Neuropsychiatric Institute, Louis West says, "Scientology is
harming the public", and "dianetics is a sham, a device designed
to make money through a science-fiction type of psychotherapy."
The Psychiatric Times, 10/89.

Scores of front organizations are operating in order to make
money for Scientology and draw people into the cult. Examples
are Sterling Management, NARCONON, Stellar Management, Uptrends,
WISE International, The Way to Happiness, Concerned Businessmen's
Assoc. of America.

"These latest developments should be widely disseminated to
protect our citizens from being further duped, deceived or lied
to. Some protection is needed against the propaganda of the
cult." Gabe Cazares, former Mayor of Clearwater and Pinellas
County Comissioner.

The president of Scientology, Heber Jentzsch, a Mormon, and "10
other church members were held pending possible charges of
illicit association, coercion, fraud, labor law violations, tax
evasion an flight of capitol...the culmination of a 9-month
investigation involving 30 wiretaps and searches of church
offices in seven Spanish cities." St. Petersburg Times,
11/24/88.

There have been many, many lawsuits filed and won or settled
against Scientology for abuse, fraud and severe emotional damage.

Refer bookstores, and other stores which display Dianetics to our
office for documentation on this destructive cult. Encourage
them to choose not to expose their patrons to this exploitive
group through the book Dianetics. Call our 24 hour dial-a-message
for requests for help or info, (205) 226-9316.

Watchman Fellowship
P.O. Box 19416
Birmingham, AL 35219

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Scientology: The Loss, Death and Resurrection

Craig Branch

Birmingham, AL

In an expos‚ of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard's teachings on
Christianity (from the Class 8 course) are exposed.

The book L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman, written by a former
high ranking member of the Church of Scientology, Brent Corydon,
quotes Hubbard as saying:

"Somebody on this planet, about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6.
I don't know how they found it, either by watching madmen or
something... it became what is known as Christianity. The man on
the cross - there was no Christ" (p. 362).

Corydon also writes that in a policy bulletin of that period
Hubbard wrote, "They (The Christian Church) took over the Nicene
Creed just before the year zero, reinvented Christ (who comes
from the `crucifixion' in R6, 75 million years ago and implanted
their way to power" (Ibid).

Note: R6 is apparently a process, a patterned action "when the
preclear has taken the locks off the reactive mind" and gains the
ability to go beyond fixed conditions (Dianetics and Scientology
Technical Dictionary, pp. 363, 182).

In another former Scientologist's recent expos, A Piece of Blue
Sky, Jon Atack also refers to confidential material where Hubbard
claimed Christ was fiction, that Christianity was an implant and
that "belief in reincarnation is also necessary for progress
through even the early stages of Scientology" (p. 383).

In a Hubbard communications bulletin (HCO, May 11 AD 13)
copyrighted 1963, Hubbard writes, "Some people have been very
cross with me for my lack of cooperation in believing in a
Christian Heaven, God and Christ. I have never said I didn't
believe in a Big Thetan (God), but there was certainly something
very corny abut Heaven et al... I've been to Heaven. And so have
you... So there was a heaven after all - which is why you are
here on this planet and were condemned never to be free again
until Scientology.

"The symbol of the crucified Christ is very apt indeed. It's the
symbol of a thetan betrayed."

Hubbard is referring to the science fiction Scientology belief
that we all existed as god-like beings, thetans, 75 million years
ago, and were captured by the evil ruler Xenu and implanted with
a lot of false ideas and banished to earth, devolving into our
present condition.

Even though Scientology repeatedly claims not to conflict with
Christianity, it teaches that Christ, the cross, and salvation by
grace are all implants and are fictitious.

Hubbard admits that the teachings of Buddhism and Hinduism are
found in Scientology but that Scientology actually precedes all
religions (The Phoenix Lectures, pp. 1 - 35).

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Scientology: From Engrams to Thetans

Science Fiction Theology
Rick Branch
Watchman Fellowship
Arlington, TX

L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology, first gained
notoriety in the minds of Americans as the author of numerous
science fiction novels. He would later use his skills to tightly
weave the web of science fiction and religion. His theology, which
is today accepted by millions, eventually leads to tales of
preincarnate souls trapped in ice cubes from the planet Mars.

"One preclear (student of Scientology) said that this thetan
(somewhat similar to 'soul' or 'spirit' had inhabited the body of
a doll on the planet Mars 469,476,600 years ago. Martians seized
the doll and took it to a temple, where it was zapped by a bishop's
gun while the congregation chanted 'God is Love.'

"The thetan was then put in an ice cube, placed aboard a flying
saucer, and dropped off at Planet ZX 432, where it was given a
robot body, then put to work unloading flying saucers.

"Being a bit unruly, it zapped another robot to death and was
shipped off in a flying saucer to be punished. But the flying
saucer exploded, and the thetan fell into space" (story as
reprinted in "Kingdom of the Cults," Dr. Walker Martin, p.346, 1985
ed.)

While this may be where the theology of the Church of Scientology
eventually leads, it is not explained to the initiate in these
precise words. Rather, it is touted to the world as the cure for
all man's problems and a way to gain every desire.

The Watchman Fellowship library contains several hundred pieces of
material from the Church of Scientology. One explains: "Today,
Scientology philosophy provides the tools and technology to solve
this puzzle and frees one from the unwanted conditions and
situations in life.

"There has never before been such a technology to help man help
himself towards greater happiness. It provides exact principles
and a practical technology for improving one's confidence,
intelligence, abilities, and skills... awareness, health and
success in life."

"Scientology gives the only answers and solutions to the age-old
questions of why people have trouble facing up to situations; why
they have difficulty communicating with others; the causes of
conflicts; and the solutions to why people don't use all the
abilities and potentials they have. Scientology is a religion by
its basic tenets.

"All denominations are welcome in Scientology. The common
denominator of all religion is the human spirit and Scientology can
attain the long sought religious goal of knowing one's potential"
(Scientology: What is it? p.1, 1990 ed.)

While the claims are appealing, it is not until the basic theology
is examined that potential students begin to realize that reaching
these goals is to become a never-ending trek.

Scientology's Basic Theology

According to Scientology, Man is, at the core of his being, a
Thetan. Hubbard's "Dianetics and Scientology: Technical
Dictionary" explains, "The Thetan is immortal and is possessed of
capabilities well in excess of those hitherto predicted for man.

"It is the individual, the being, the personality, the knowingness
of the human being ...in the final analysis what is this thing
called thetan? It is simply you before you mocked yourself up and
that is the handiest definition I know of" (p. 432).

The Thetan is thus that part of each individual which is immortal
and which has become contaminated and debased by outside influence.
What is this outside influence? MEST!

As another of Hubbard's numerous books states, "By MEST is meant
the physical universe of matter, energy, space, and time, as we
know them in the physical sciences" (Science of Survival, Book Two,
p.264).

Scientology if filled with words which were either coined by
Hubbard (e.g. Thetan) or are acrostics (e.g. MEST from Matter,
Energy, Space, Time).

Not only is the Thetan immortal according to Scientology, but also
"Hubbard discovered the means of separating the human personality
from the body and mind (a process called astral travel by non-
Scientologists).

"The theta has the power to create MEST, that is, matter, energy,
space, and time, or the basic stuff of existence" (Encyclopedia of
American Religions, Vol. 2, p.222).

Hence, Hubbard and Scientology would have Americans and the world
believe that Man is an immortal thetan, able to create MEST!
However, not all MEST is good MEST. Sometimes MEST comes into
conflict with the Thetan, resulting in an engram.

As Scientology endeavors to render this MEST mess intelligible,
they write, "An engram comes about when the individual organism
suffers an intense impact with MEST. Every moment of physical
pain contains with it a partial or major shutdown of the analytical
function of the mind (Science of Survival, Book Two, p. 28).

The engram is that memory which is caused by having an accident (be
it major or minor), or when any tragic event (again major or minor)
is experienced. However, at the instant that the engram is formed,
often the person (or Thetan) is unaware of the event. How is this
possible?

In a series of lectures during August and September of 1950,
Hubbard explained the process in this manner.

"An engram is a moment of pain and unconsciousness which contains
perceptics. Actually there are thousands of moments of pain with
just a little unconsciousness. Even a little thing such as someone
burning his finger still causes a flick of attenuation of the
analytical mind.

"The engram has one common denominator above all else,
unconsciousness... But unconsciousness is common to every single
engram, because unconsciousness does just one thing; it closes down
the analytical mind.

"So, we have coined the word "anaten"... It is a contraction of the
two words analytical attenuation. (Attenuation means shutting or
closing down)" (Research and Discovery Series: A Running Record of
Research into the Mind and Life", Vol. 3, p.114-115).

This engram is thus that "mental picture" which "...contains, as
part of its content, unconsciousness and physical pain" and is
stored in the individual's mind (Dianetics and Scientology:
Technical Dictionary, p.114). But which mind?

As Hubbard explained, every person has two minds - the analytical
mind and the reactive mind. Both having very specific functions,
though not necessarily beneficial functions.

In the booklet "Basic Definitions of Dianetics and Scientology" the
two minds are defined in the following ways:

"analytical mind: In Dianetics and Scientology the analytical mind
is the one which is alert and aware and the reactive mind simply
reacts without analysis."

"It consists of locks, secondaries, engrams, and chains of them and
is the single source of human aberrations and psychomatic ills"
(pp.2,23).

Basic Theological Tenets

What then are the basic theological tenets of the Church of
Scientology? Man in his true nature is an immortal thetan. The
thetan is responsible for creation of MEST (matter, energy, space,
and time). Though man created the MEST, sometimes the MEST
collides with the thetan which results in the acquisition of an
engram.

Because every engram is accompanied by unconsciousness to a greater
or lesser degree, not all engrams are known to exist by the
thetan's analytical mind. Rather the engram or painful memory is
stored in the reactive mind of the thetan. As a result of the
build-up of thousands of known and unknown engrams man seems to
experience problems throughout his life.

Thus, it is Scientology's purpose to rid the thetan of these
unwanted engrams.

Clearing Engrams

The stated purpose of Scientology is quite clear. Under the
heading "Aims of Scientology", Hubbard wrote, "We seek only
evolution to higher states of being for the individual and for
Society" (Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, p.120).

What is this higher state of being? In Scientology, it is known as
"Clear."

In his Technical Dictionary, Hubbard uses an interesting analogy.
Clear is "The name of a button on an adding machine. When you push
it, all the hidden answers in the machine clear and the machine can
be used for a proper computation.

"So long as the button is not pressed, the machine adds all odd
answers to all new efforts to compute and wrong answers result.
Really, that's all a Clear is.

"Clears are beings who have been cleared of wrong answers or
useless answers which keep them from living or thinking." The
Clear, "...can create energy at will, and can handle and control,
erase or re-create an analytical mind or reactive mind."

A Clear "is a person who can have or not have at will anything in
the universe. The Clear has no engrams which can be restimulated
to throw out the correctness of computation by entering hidden and
false data in it" (Dianetics and Scientology: Technical Dictionary,
pp. 75-76).

Hence a person or thetan who has reached the desired state of Clear
has, in actuality, become a blank state simply waiting for new data
to be entered. As Hubbard explained in his 1950 lecture series,
"Don't expect that the process of clearing is a process of re-
educating. It is a refiling of existing education, and you have to
have a new education if you are going to change a clear's
viewpoint" (Research and Discovery Series: A Running Record of
Research into the Mind and Life, Vol. 2, p.408).

Thus, new data, given by Scientology is not merely a rearrangement
of already existing beliefs and ideas. Rather, it is completely
"new" material, which is precisely what is needed for the "new
education." Without this new education it is impossible to reach
the state of Clear. But if Clear is the ultimate or higher state
of being to which all should desire to evolve, then how is this to
be accomplished?

By the Scientology practice of Auditing.

Auditing

Remember the reactive mind consists of "locks" and chains of
engrams. In order for each person (thetan) to be declared clear,
the reactive mind with its engrams must be removed by auditing.

"The reactive mind is removed by 'returning' the pre-clear to the
engram, and laying its contents before the scrutiny of the
analytical mind" (Dianetics: The Original Thesis, p.54).

Once the engram is openly expressed by the pre-clear (Scientology
student) then "Auditing gets rid of unwanted barriers that inhibit,
stop, or blunt a person's natural abilities as well as gradiently
increasing the abilities a person has so that he becomes more able
and his survival, happiness, and intelligence increase enormously.

"An activity of an auditor taking over the control of and
shepherding the attention of a pc (pre-clear) so as to bring about
a higher level of confront ability" (Dianetics and Scientology:
Technical Dictionary, p.28, parenthesis added).

After the thetan has remembered the engram (bad experience), it is
then removed from the reactive mind during the auditing session
with the aid of the Scientology "E-Meter."

This device, similar in function to a lie-detector, is said to be
"An electronic instrument for measuring mental state and change of
state in individuals, as an aid to precision and speed in auditing"
(Basic Dictionary of Dianetics and Scientology, p.11).

Conclusion

To summarize the basic theology of Scientology in a few words is
truly a difficult task. In the beginning were the thetans. These
were to eventually create the MEST, which in actuality would not
have been the best thing they could have done.

For when the thetan (person) who inhabits the MEST (a body) comes
into conflict with other MEST, and engram (bad experience) is
recorded in the reactive mind.

This engram, whether it be remembered or not (due to
unconsciousness which accompanies every engram), is stored in the
reactive mind and causes the thetan to believe false data
(erroneous ideas).

It is the purpose of Scientology, through its auditing efforts to
rid the thetan (person) of all engrams (bad experiences, memories)
so that in turn the thetan, who now possesses a new educational
perspective on reality (as a result of auditing), may advance to a
higher state of being.

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