And now for the truth
And that's complete nonsense. The first day that someone signs up for
Scientology "courses" one's subjected to a variety of forms of
hypnotism. My online dictionary describes hypnosis as:
1. A sleeplike state usually induced by another person in which the
subject may experience forgotten or suppressed memories, hallucinations,
and heightened suggestibility. 2. Hypnotism. 3. A sleeplike condition.
The Scientology organization subjects its followers to what the
organization euphemistically calls "courses" that are
specifically designed to place the subject into hypnotic states with the
purpose of making the subject pliable and open to suggestion -- which is
all for the overall goal of extracting as much money from the mark for
as long as possible.
How does this work? What are some of the every-day metholodgies which
Scientology uses to make their victims pliable to the point where they
start halluicinating and start actually believing they've had "past
life experiences?"
The first thing people subject themselves to is called "TR 0"
or "Training Routine 0." This is a process where two people
sit in chairs and stare at each other for hours at a time without
blinking, moving, twitching, or even moving their lips. If either of
the individuals so much as moves, the other yells "Flunk! Start
Over!" and the clock starts again.
Humans are omnivores and within the carnivor world this behavior is a
dominance behavior. Here the Scientology organization forces its
subjects to engage in deliberate dysfunction of human behavior for hours
at a time, making the subjects pliable to suggestion.
The next step the crime syndicate calls "TR 1" or
"Training Routine 1" which is also called
"Bullbaiting." Like TR0, TR1 is a deliberate prolonged
violation of human behavior designed to break down the subject's will to
make them pliable and open to suggestion. TR1, however, has the added
practice of inflicting dysfunction upon the primate's "Fight or
Flight" reflex. In "Bullbaiting" the subjects are split
into two modes of operation where one subject is forced to sit still
without moving at all just like in TR0 while the other subject screams,
yells, mouths obscenities, and does whatever he or she can to get the
subject to move.
Followers pay extortionist prices for being allowed to subject themselves
to this level of hypnotic abuse. Later "levels" that followers
subject themselves to involve taking over the actual body of the person
and ordering them to do everything. During TR0 and TR1, however, as the
subject is sitting for hours, their minds edit out the real world and the
subject falls into a solid hypnotic state. Whether the subject starts
hallucinating depends upon how often they have subjected themselves to
this level of abuse however there have been reports from ex-followers who
started hallucinating the very first time they did these practices.
The next "levels" involve having another cultist order the
subject to relinquish control of their bodies. In these levels there
is one Scientologist who barks out orders controlling the subject's
body while the subject does them without thinking. As an exaple of this:
"Stand up."
"Thank you. Take three paces forward."
"Thank you. Turn left."
"Thank you. Take three paces forward."
"Thank you. Turn around."
"Thank you. Take five paces forward."
"Thank you. Sit down."
This goes on for hours and, again, the subject pays a lot of money to be
allowed to engage in this practice. In the previous stages the subject's
mind is controlled and in the later stages the subject relinquishes
control of their bodies over to the Scientologist.
Hallucinatory events are apparently common during these levels of
abuses which are, not at all paradoxically, often experienced when the
"course" reaches its completion.
In other "courses" victims are told to do things repeatedly
however they've given some leeway on how to do them. An example of this
would be:
- "Spot a spot on the wall and put your finger on it."
The subject walks over to a wall and puts their finger on it. Then the
Scientologist says:
- "Thank you. Return to your seat."
This continues for hours. All of it is designed specifically to induce
in the subject a lack of awareness of their surroundings, to induce
within them hallucinatory events, ad to implant false memories all of
which makes the subjects pliable and open to suggestion. Indeed it
is an absolutely requirement that Scientology subject its victims to
hypnotism to make them not balk when they're sold "OT3" or
"Operating Thetan level 3" wherein the follower suddenly finds
out that Scientology had been lying to them all along and that in truth
all their problems -- emotional, mental, and physical -- are caused by
the infestation of invisible murdered space aliens Scientology calls
"Body Thetans." Without first opening up the subject and
making them unable to think is a requirement to keep followers
from suddenly realizing they've been defrauded and leaving.
