: Why the beliefs of Scientology matter

Why the beliefs of Scientology matter
From: Bob Minton  <bobminton@lisatrust.net>
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Subject: Why the beliefs of Scientology matter
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:25:08 -0500
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Xenu and the space aliens:
The lies and deception behind the Scientology space opera

If you are interested in learning about the lies and deception that surround
Scientology's beliefs, this pamphlet is for you. If you are one of the few
people who are considering Scientology, this will give you a brief view of
their cosmology and help you decide if this is a group you wish to be
associated with. And, if you are already a Scientologist planning on moving
up the "bridge to total freedom", this document will give you a heads-up on
what to expect.

L. Ron Hubbard was a mediocre writer of science fiction and westerns who
decided that real money could be made in religion. Scientologists might say
that the story that follows came about by something like divine revelation but
others would contend that it came about from the over-active imagination of a
poor and struggling science fiction writer. Whatever you believe about the
stories origin, it is the core belief in the group known as Scientology. This
story is only revealed to Scientologist after they have paid a lot of money
over several years and reached a "higher level of awareness". If the people in
Scientology at the lower levels knew about this story, maybe they would
question why they are staying on the Scientology treadmill. The story goes
like this:

75 million years ago, there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu who was in
charge of 76 planets in our sector of the galaxy, including planet Earth,
whose name at that time was Teegeeack.

All of the planets Xenu controlled were over-populated by, on average, 178
billion people. Social problems dictated that Xenu rid his sector of the
galaxy of this overpopulation problem, so he developed a plan.

Xenu sent out Tax Audit demands to all these billions of people. As each one
entered the audit centers for the income tax inspections, the people were
seized, held down and injected with a mixture of alcohol and glycol, and
frozen. Then, all 13.5 trillion of these frozen people were put into
spaceships that looked exactly like DC8 airplanes, except that the spaceships
had rocket engines instead of propellers.

Xenu's entire fleet of DC8-like spaceships then flew to planet Earth, where
the frozen people were dumped in and around volcanoes in the Canary Islands
and the Hawaiian Islands. When Xenu's Air Force had finished dumping the
bodies into the volcanoes, hydrogen bombs were dropped into the volcanoes and
the frozen space aliens were destroyed.

However, Xenu's plan involved setting up electronic traps in Teegeeack's
atmosphere which were designed to trap the souls or spirits of the dead space
aliens. When the 13.5 trillion spirits were being blown around on the nuclear
winds, the electronic traps worked like a charm and captured all the souls in
the electronic, sticky fly-paper like traps.

The spirits of the aliens were then taken to huge multiplex cinemas that Xenu
had previously instructed his forces to build on Teegeeack.  In these movie
theaters the spirits had to spend many days watching special 3-D movies, the
purpose of which was twofold: 1)  to implant into these spirits a  false
reality, i.e. the reality that WOGS (Hubbard's derisory term for anyone not a
Scientologists) know on Earth today; and, 2) to control these spirits for all
eternity so that they could never cause trouble for Xenu in this sector of the
Galaxy.  During these films, many false pictures were implanted into these
spirits,  which resulted in the spirits believing in all the things that
control mankind on Earth today, including religion.  The concept of religion,
including God, Christ, Mohammed, Moses etc.,  were all an implanted false
reality that to this very minute is used to control WOGS on Earth.

When the films ended and the souls left the cinema, they started to stick
together in clusters of a few thousand and remained that way until mankind
began to inhabit the Earth. Today on Earth all the spirits of these aliens
have attached themselves to our bodies and are the root cause of the false
reality that all but Scientology's "Homo Novis" or OT 8's on earth experience.
It is the job of all Scientologists to remove this false reality from the
world by auditing each and every space alien spirit and human on earth to
CLEAR not only this planet but the universe.  For those who oppose Scientology
and stand in their way like the Lisa McPherson Trust and all Scientology
critics, Scientology promises to do away with them "quietly and without
sorrow".

We have calculated that on average, each person on planet earth has 2,209 of
these Body Thetans (BT's for short), Hubbard's term for the alien spirits,
attached to you causing you and all mankind to be constrained by Xenu's
false reality. The average cost for Scientology to OT 8 is a mere
USD 360,000, meaning that each BT only costs USD 163 to clear.  Now
that is a bargain if there ever was one.

Hubbard never said the overall cost to the planet would be cheap, but let's
examine it. The planetary cost equation is as follows: 13.5 trillion spirits
times USD 163 equals a mere USD 2,205,000,000,000,000. Just think about
it -- USD 2.2 quadrillion -- WOW!, that's enough to keep Rear Admiral
Miscavige, the current head of Scientology and Marty, his number two, in
casino chips for a long time.

To finish the story, the Loyal Officers of the Marcab Confederation finally
discovered how evil Xenu was and overthrew him. He is now locked away
in a mountain on one of the planets and kept in by a force-field powered by
an eternal battery. Several of Xenu's relatives can often be found on the
internet newsgroup called alt.religion.scientology or ARS for short battling
Scientology daily.

Many Scientologists who have left from the highest levels of Scientology have
told us that they have sat in a room at Scientology's Sandcastle building in
Clearwater, Florida for 5-7 hours per day for up to 10 years, holding two
asparagus cans together, attached to a primitive lie detector, talking all day
to these dead space aliens. And guess what? You'll never ever finish talking to
dead space aliens until you leave  Scientology.

We are repeating this story to you as a warning. If you become involved with
Scientology then we want you to do so with your eyes open and fully aware of
the sort of material it contains. And, if you're in Scientology you should
know how you will be spending the rest of your life.

If you need to know more about Scientology, start at the following web sites:
http://www.lisatrust.net/ and http://www.xenu.net/

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We do not object to anyone, Scientologists included, believing in alien
cosmologies and practicing their truly held beliefs. In fact, the core beliefs
of Scientology discussed above are a very colorful addition to the richness of
the tapestry of beliefs held by mankind in the "spiritual" realm.

We do have at least two problems, however, with Scientology's deception about
its alien space opera--

First, Scientology lies when it says that it is compatible with all other
religious beliefs. It cannot be and is not compatible with ANY religious belief
since it clearly teaches that all religion is an implanted false reality. In
fact, any other religious belief by a Scientologist is not even tolerated.
Talk about your faith in Christ or about prayer in an auditing session and off
to the Ethics Officer you will go for some PTS ("Potential Trouble Source")
handling because you are indulging in "other practices". OT3, the level when a
Scientologist learns about the alien cosmology and that religion is an
implanted false reality, obviously ends any possibility of further illusion
that Scientology can be compatible with ANY religious belief.

Second, Scientology keeps its alien cosmology a secret for financial reasons.
A Scientologist is required to go through a gradual progression of expensive
steps before they are allowed to learn about the alien cosmology. They are
told if they learn about it prematurely, it will create a life threatening
situation -- it will give them pneumonia and they might die.  We know of no
reports of anyone ever getting pneumonia, much less dying from exposure to
Xenu and the alien story.  Hiding the truth about these alien beliefs serves
several functions, including, a) recruitment -- who would join if they were
told about the alien beliefs up front; b) money -- holding back the
information buys time to collect more money from a recruit before the
colorful information is revealed; c) control -- holding back the information
allows Scientology to use the "tech" to indoctrinate and induce a person not
to bolt when they do hear the alien story.

This entire cover-up of this alien cosmology in Scientology is all about
deception, lies and money.

The Lisa McPherson Trust's mission is to expose the abusive and deceptive
practices of Scientology and help those who have been victimized by it.
Clearly, the deception and lies surrounding the alien cosmology is something
we must stand up against. Let me make this clear: it is not the alien
cosmology itself that we object to; it is the deception and lies surrounding
it.

We are all well aware that Hubbard wrote all the policies used by
Scientology management today which are at the heart of the entire war that
Scientology has declared on its critics. Hubbard wrote the Manual of
Dissemination, for example, in which he instructed his followers that the
purpose of a lawsuit is to harass, not to win. He also wrote the Manual of
Justice, in which he says that a reporter who dares to write anything critical
about Scientology should be harassed and intimidated until he shudders into
silence. He also wrote Attacks on Scientology, Additional Policy Letter, in
which he details how to destroy the reputation of anyone who is critical of
Scientology. There are many, many others, including the most vile of Hubbard's
policies, the "Fair Game" policy which has been in continuous use by
Scientology since it was written in 1967. Current management is revising these
Hubbard policies for the reprints of the OEC and Tech volumes for legal and PR
reasons, because Miscavige and his lawyers don't want the public to know how
rabidly insane and vindictive Hubbard really was. But these are  Hubbard
policies, without any doubt. Current management continues to apply the original
versions of these directives, but do not delude yourself that it was
anyone but L. Ron Hubbard who wrote them.

We have spent many hours with former Scientologists all over the world and
have never hid our feelings about Hubbard. To politely summarize those
feelings, we think Hubbard was a sinister con man and believe that view is
shared by the vast majority of people who know anything about him. The point
here is that while Miscavige may be seen as a monster, he is merely a proxy for
carrying out the evil policies of L. Ron Hubbard. Miscavige is definitely not
"misapplying" the evil parts of Hubbard's tech -- we believe he is using them
just as Hubbard intended.

Further, we believe the creed of Scientology has many noble elements to it but
think the creed is a fraud because Scientology and most Scientologists do not
act in accordance with their creed. The creed is pure PR and Scientology and
most Scientologists are hypocrites.  A simple example of this hypocrisy is that
their creed says that all men have an inalienable right to free speech yet in
practice that right is only supported by the church when the speech is
laudatory of  Scientology. Otherwise you are publicly labeled a bigot and
hatemonger and the fair game policies are applied against you.

One of the most difficult aspects of recovering from Scientology seems to be
former members coming to terms with their irresponsibility while they were in
Scientology. Over and over we have had ex-Scientologists say to us, "I didn't
know about all these bad things going on in the church," only to come back
later and admit that they just didn't want to see it.  Former Scientologists
regret that they had bought into the church's lies so thoroughly that they
couldn't see what was going on all around them. Many ex-Scientologists have
told us that it was simply a lot easier not to have to take responsibility for
these things. But everyone in the church is responsible for what the church is
doing.

Remember that Scientology breeds irresponsibility and that Scientologists
become addicted to that irresponsibility. What else could happen when
throughout your experience in Scientology a) "Engrams" and your reactive mind
are the root cause of your problems, b) then it's space aliens (BT's), c) then
it's drugged BT's, then sleeping BT's, then unconscious BT's and d) you find
that the entirety of the physical universe is a false reality that can be done
away with by auditing all the BT's so that you are able to step out of the
physical universe and be above matter, energy, pace and time. Read Stacy
Brooks' auditing post to ARS at http://www.lisatrust.net/Tech.htm and her post
on the family at http://www.lisatrust.net/Family.htm. Then, read the
outstanding Cartesian Award winning essay by Erik Snead at
http://www.lisatrust.net/literaticontest/contest2000/00erik.html to get an
insight into how this addiction to irresponsibility happens.

The above being said, we will defend the right of anyone to practice any truly
held belief they choose.  As some have chosen Scientology "outside the church"
we believe they should begin by publicly renouncing the evil and destructive
policies of Hubbard and renounce the church's use of those policies. You see,
as long as those policies remain in place, we don't have a lot of confidence
that another brand of Scientology would not just become another "Church" of
Scientology, if given the opportunity.

Bob Minton