Category Scientology

Is Scientology for everyone?

Geir Isene 20 Comments

A friend of mine that I met while doing OT VII (one of the highest spiritual levels in Scientology) told me an interesting story about his wife’s relation to Scientology.

You see, she was not a Scientologist, and they had been married since the 70’s when he got into Scientology and she had no interest in the subject. He tried early on to get her interested, but to no avail. Other Scientologists tried to get her interested, but nope, “not for her” she said.

It became an issue with the church that my friend was moving up the levels and being married to a non-scientologist. He got in trouble for this and more effort was put into converting his wife. He got frustrated – both because he couldn’t get her to see the light and because it was getting to be a situation with the church. And so he decided to write to Hubbard for advice on how he could get his wife to become a Scientologist. This was back in the 70’s when Hubbard was still in communication with his public.

He got back a very different answer than what he was hoping for. After acknowledging my friends letter, Hubbard simply said:

“Scientology is not for everyone”

I thought that was an interesting answer.

Any time thereafter when the church would bring up the issue of his non-scientologist wife, he would simply point to the letter.

Obsessing over the Man

Geir Isene 62 Comments

Who cares who said it? Who cares if it was Einstein, Hitler, Bach, Obama or the Easter Bunny? Who the frak cares?

The question is rather: Is it any good what whoever said?

It’s fascinating the mental laziness that some people indulges in. Discredit the source and the message dies. O RLY? Is that the logic of today’s revolutionaries? Or worship the source and anything sourced becomes gospel. Oh C’Mon!

What fallacy. Yes, it’s called Argumentum ad Hominem. And yes, I’ve been bitching about this before. And I think this will be my last repetition in trying to get some seriously dimmed down people to understand that a fact, statement or opinion stands or falls on its own merits. Regardless of who uttered the words.

Be bright enough to really examine the words themselves and don’t resort to lazy tricks to get others to toe your line.

The obsession about the Man is the one thing that the Church of Scientology Party-Line Toers and the Hard Core Critics most visibly have in common. It’s the sheer stupidity they share.

In the church it’s even policy to discredit the attacker to discredit his message.

It doesn’t matter whether the Man is L. Ron Hubbard, David Miscavige or some other Guy In Command. The obsession makes the obsessed look stupid.

I know the intended audience of this message won’t get it when I say; Get off it. But some others just might get the idea and not fall into the Rabid Hole.

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My current motivation

Geir Isene 19 Comments

When I left the Church of Scientology almost one year ago, I had three distinct motivations:

  1. To help stop the human rights abuses in and around the church
  2. To help the general public differentiate between Scientology and the Church of Scientology
  3. Get the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard freely released on the Internet

Since one year I have been quite active on the Net, first with my Scientology blog, then with The Scientology Forum and other forums and blogs, and now with this blog right here.

Looking at my motivation during the past year, it has gone from “getting out there and letting everyone know” and “let’s handle the abusive church” to something different in the present.

I do not feel compelled to stop the abuses by the church. Actually, I feel a stronger motivation for helping people in Somalia (as an example, albeit not a far-fetched one).

I feel the urge to help people, create, to do art and to communicate to individuals, to do amazing stuff one-on-one and to generally kick ass in the good sense. The urge to make a difference – not by stopping something bad but by doing something good. Nah, forget good. Doing something zesty, something excellent.

More later.

Dreams

Geir Isene 10 Comments

I believe there is much to gain through control of one’s own dreams.

On one hand your dreams can be your future reality. Gaining control of those dreams and ambitions will serve you well.

The other types of dreams happens when you are asleep. These represent your own imagination, your own universe if you will. Gaining control of these nightly activities may prove quite useful as they are the gateway to creativity and to imposing your own on the common reality around you. Maybe the two types are but aspects of one.

Ever since I was a child I had some control over my dreams at night. I could conjure scenes and populate them with people, things and monsters. I could sometimes decide I could fly. Or be invulnerable. But often the dreams got out of control and happily so. Except when the monsters got out of control, then it became a nightmare. I would often know that I was dreaming, and sometimes I could press myself to wake up from a nightmare.

Dream

A maze

The coolest experience I ever had while asleep was when I conducted an orchestra while I on the fly composed the music – violins, cymbals, clarinets and the rest of the ensemble. That was incredible. In fact I couldn’t believe I was doing it, so I decided to wake up to find out if I got the music as an external influence from outside my dream. As I woke up, I could hear the silence of the night. No music. Nothing. So I got back to sleep and picked it up from where I left it, only this time I decided to up it a few notches; I decided to mix the classical orchestral piece with Billy Idol’s “Hot in the city”. That was freakin’ amazing.

A few notable out-of-control nightmares kept returning – stuff that just wasn’t controllable. I would say there was a 30% chance in any given week that I would have a nightmare – pretty constant throughout my life. Until I finished OT 8 (a spiritual level in Scientology) four years ago. Since then, I have not had one single nightmare. If that would have been due to sheer chance, it would compare to picking up one single predefined proton on the way between our Sun and our nearest neighboring star (Proxima Centauri) (the chance is roughly 1 in 4*10^31). Albeit one of the very small gains from doing OT 7 and 8, it is still a distinct one.

I would argue that one of the symptoms of gaining more control of my life has been how well I can “play” my dreams – both while asleep and awake. Both are cool – but playing out my dreams with others in the game of life is the coolest.

Job description: Scientology hardcore critic

Geir Isene 26 Comments

A small part of the job description:

  1. Be passionate about Scientology.
  2. Keep in mind that Scientology is bad. Always.
  3. Don’t admit to anything right in Scientology.
  4. Don’t admit that anything in Scientology could possibly have a positive effect on you.
  5. Keep a negative attitude toward anything pushed by the church.
  6. Treat anything written by LRH as garbage.
  7. Thrash all Scientology celebrities.
  8. When encountering anything positive about the church or about Scientology, disregard it as “brainwashing”.
  9. Always attack, never defend against any criticism.
  10. Ridicule scientologists
  11. If a criticism “hits home”, react violently, loudly cry “foul” and dramatize so that the attacker can see how unfair the criticism was.
  12. Associate only with people who agree how horrible the Church of Scientology is.
  13. Label Scientologists (like “naive”, “brainwashed”, “idiots” etc.)

Feel free to suggest additional points.

Job description: A Church of Scientology Party-line Toer

Geir Isene 11 Comments

A small part of the job description:

  1. Be passionate about Scientology.
  2. Keep in mind that Scientology is good. Always.
  3. Don’t admit to anything wrong in Scientology.
  4. Don’t admit that anything in Scientology could possibly have a negative effect on you.
  5. Keep a positive attitude toward anything pushed by the church.
  6. Treat anything written by LRH as gospel.
  7. Support all Scientology celebrities.
  8. When encountering anything negative about the church or about Scientology, disregard it as “entheta”.
  9. Always attack, never defend against any criticism.
  10. Ridicule opponents (like Anonymous)
  11. If a criticism “hits home”, react violently, loudly cry “foul” and dramatize so that the attacker can see how unfair the criticism was.
  12. Associate only with people who agree how excellent the Church of Scientology is.
  13. Label non-Scientologists and critics (like “wogs”, “SPs”, “PTSs” etc.)

Feel free to suggest additional points.