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From: ExScio-Kid (********)
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Subject: Re: Scientific American on false memories
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 09:39:20 GMT
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cultxpt@primenet.com wrote:

>   The September issue of Scientific American has a great article on
>how false memories can be easily instilled in people.  I think this
>has improtance here because auditing involves having a person go back
>through his/her life looking for bad past experiences.  The auditor is
>not supposed to evaluate what memories the pc digs up.  In other
>words, there is no concern in Dianetics or Scientology whether the
>memories are real or not.

Very pertinent point, this one.  As in "if the pc says so, it is".
Don't invalidate or evaluate the pc's data.  This naturally opens up a
whole fantasy area to be 'handled' ==> mucho auditing/training and
therefore bucks.

>   Dianetics and Scientology to me are bogus therapies for this
>reason.  It is quite probable to me that auditing often involves false
>memories that have been suggested by Hubbard's writings and by courses
>taken in Scientology.  Were you really a military commander on the
>planet Zorgon 20 million years ago?  If your mind thought that up and
>you believe it, the e-meter could well confirm it.
>   I don't think a therapy that is BASED on unsubstantiated past
>events is useful therapy.  And I also think that it could skew a
>person's view of reality to a dangerous level.
>

Anyone that has been around $cio for any length of time has witnessed
exactly this as a commonplace thing.  People in abject fear of
imagined past 'crimes', and the terror of being denied 'the bridge' as
the only way to handle these 'crimes'.

Of all of the Co$'s vicious and nasty practices, I still consider this
to be the worst; the creating and exploiting fears of some spiritual
abyss.  I can still recall my own teenage years when I was literally
sweating and shaking in bed as the result of such 'counselling'. 

And I still see similar behaviour in other younger members of our
family !

That is why I continue to consider the Co$ to be evil, despite Diane's
often sneering, jeering comments about people objecting to the
"eeeevil"  Scientologists.  As informed and literate and objective
(and even admired at times by me) as she is,  she just doesn't know
how this *exactly* constitutes brainwashing/mind-control (as
intuitively understood  by people).

Oh, it's evil stuff alright.  It's sadistic in that  it deliberately
encourages and guides people to debase themselves to such an extent
that they can then only see the abuser as saviour.

Typically, LRH was very much aware of the mechanism and wrote about it
at length.  He called it suppressive behaviour, as used by full-track
degraded beings - psyches and high-priests.

He was damn good at sleight-of-hand, this asshole of assholes.