The Levine Report: Scientology Secret Mind Control Techniques Exposed
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Markus
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What a perfect article!
Just finished reading the Levine Report - What a great work!
First I would like to quote Gary Morehead one of Marty Rathburns true believers:
"I mean there is a policy – an advice that L. Ron Hubbard wrote that says if you leave the Int Base you automatically get declared, so, you know, you’re basically never going to be able to see your family again if you do this, and do you really want to do this?. . ."
Does anybody know this policy or "advice" of Hubbard? If yes may you please post it here?
Then I would like to tell you how hard it is for me to realize again and again how my brother Uwe was trapped by this cult. It is helping me to understand how this could happen but it hurts me so very deep inside my heart especially because I always felt that there is something very wrong in this cult and because it is hard to confront how my father and my halfbrothers are trapped by this mechanisms too.
I know, I understand now....
It took me many years to free myself from this mind manipulation - so I understand completely and still I have to ask WHY? WHY Papa? - why are you not able to wake up right now - before it is too late - too late again.....
Why are you not able to just listen to me I could help you to wake up.
But there is this other effective suppressive instrument which was installed by Hubbard called "DISCONNECTION"
My father is not longer talking to me since May 2009 because I started to attack his cult because I know that Hubbard with his crazy ideas is responsible for the cruel suffering and death of my brother Uwe. I don't know if anybody is able to understand how horrible that is for me.
Best wishes
Markus
P.S. the following is a quote from another must read article about Hubbards mind control mechanisms:
"After an in-depth examination, an Investigative Commission titled "So-called Sects and Psycho-Groups" set up by the German Bundestag (Parliament) described the organization in its final report as an anti-constitutional movement with a criminogenic structure. This evaluation is in agreement with that of the German forces of order. Behind the cloak of a new religion, this organization – described as a psychogroup and not as a religious community by the Investigative Commission – was able to skillfully hide its salient structural traits until recently, namely organization and logistics of a commercial corporation; expansionist strategies of an aggressively functioning structural distribution system (marketing of franchises by forming chains of subsidiary companies,hard-selling of human leadership and change in the form of social engineering. In other words, ruthless of psychological and social techniques borrowed from behavioral psychology in order to recruit workers, customers and members; use of totalitarian organization techniques to thoroughly discipline and intrumentalize its workers by constant control in terms of time and space."
from a work of Dr. Jürgen Keltsch for the Bavarian State about "What is Scientology" you can find it here:
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?t=19028
Just finished reading the Levine Report - What a great work!
First I would like to quote Gary Morehead one of Marty Rathburns true believers:
"I mean there is a policy – an advice that L. Ron Hubbard wrote that says if you leave the Int Base you automatically get declared, so, you know, you’re basically never going to be able to see your family again if you do this, and do you really want to do this?. . ."
Does anybody know this policy or "advice" of Hubbard? If yes may you please post it here?
Then I would like to tell you how hard it is for me to realize again and again how my brother Uwe was trapped by this cult. It is helping me to understand how this could happen but it hurts me so very deep inside my heart especially because I always felt that there is something very wrong in this cult and because it is hard to confront how my father and my halfbrothers are trapped by this mechanisms too.
I know, I understand now....
It took me many years to free myself from this mind manipulation - so I understand completely and still I have to ask WHY? WHY Papa? - why are you not able to wake up right now - before it is too late - too late again.....
Why are you not able to just listen to me I could help you to wake up.
But there is this other effective suppressive instrument which was installed by Hubbard called "DISCONNECTION"
My father is not longer talking to me since May 2009 because I started to attack his cult because I know that Hubbard with his crazy ideas is responsible for the cruel suffering and death of my brother Uwe. I don't know if anybody is able to understand how horrible that is for me.
Best wishes
Markus
P.S. the following is a quote from another must read article about Hubbards mind control mechanisms:
"After an in-depth examination, an Investigative Commission titled "So-called Sects and Psycho-Groups" set up by the German Bundestag (Parliament) described the organization in its final report as an anti-constitutional movement with a criminogenic structure. This evaluation is in agreement with that of the German forces of order. Behind the cloak of a new religion, this organization – described as a psychogroup and not as a religious community by the Investigative Commission – was able to skillfully hide its salient structural traits until recently, namely organization and logistics of a commercial corporation; expansionist strategies of an aggressively functioning structural distribution system (marketing of franchises by forming chains of subsidiary companies,hard-selling of human leadership and change in the form of social engineering. In other words, ruthless of psychological and social techniques borrowed from behavioral psychology in order to recruit workers, customers and members; use of totalitarian organization techniques to thoroughly discipline and intrumentalize its workers by constant control in terms of time and space."
from a work of Dr. Jürgen Keltsch for the Bavarian State about "What is Scientology" you can find it here:
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?t=19028
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KnightVision
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Hi Markus,
Thank you for your post. I am truly sorry for you and the awful experience you are being put through with having lost your brother as well as the severed contact with your remaining family members that are caught in the Cult of Scientology. Levine's article has helped to come to a better understanding of how decent people with good intentions to help others can end up becoming imprisoned within Scientology. It's really quite sordid and repulsive.
I believe the day will come when this Cult shall be brought to justice on a wide reaching scale. Keep your story alive Markus, the world needs to know...
KV
KnightVision
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Pg.25 from Levine's Declaration (emphasis added)
67. Perhaps the epitome of Scientology’s manipulations to gather potentially
self-incriminating information – and, I would argue, their most creative--was the auditing process, which I have already described under my discussion of thought control. It is certainly possible that, as promised by Scientology, auditing can help a member achieve personal growth (i.e. go clear). (I have not, however, seen empirical evidence that it actually does so). Certainly,
however, the revelations that came out of these sessions about a member’s personal flaws left them that much more vulnerable to potential retribution by Scientology in the future.
68. In a totalistically insular organization like Scientology, fears of what this
personal information can be used for get exaggerated in the mind of the member. One becomes easily convinced that the organization has information about them that can be brought out to ruin them at any time, in any future endeavor; and, in the case of Scientology, it was understood by
members that the organization knew no bounds in how far they would, in fact, go to ruin anyone who resisted orders; and it was perceived that the organization would go that much further to ruin them if they tried to leave. The actualities of what Scientology would do to hurt the member was less important than the member’s perceptions of what they would do. In the end, members were left feeling that what they had revealed about themselves left them even more deeply immersed within the control of the organization.
This information would serve well to be introduced to new people who are considering joining Scientology.
67. Perhaps the epitome of Scientology’s manipulations to gather potentially
self-incriminating information – and, I would argue, their most creative--was the auditing process, which I have already described under my discussion of thought control. It is certainly possible that, as promised by Scientology, auditing can help a member achieve personal growth (i.e. go clear). (I have not, however, seen empirical evidence that it actually does so). Certainly,
however, the revelations that came out of these sessions about a member’s personal flaws left them that much more vulnerable to potential retribution by Scientology in the future.
68. In a totalistically insular organization like Scientology, fears of what this
personal information can be used for get exaggerated in the mind of the member. One becomes easily convinced that the organization has information about them that can be brought out to ruin them at any time, in any future endeavor; and, in the case of Scientology, it was understood by
members that the organization knew no bounds in how far they would, in fact, go to ruin anyone who resisted orders; and it was perceived that the organization would go that much further to ruin them if they tried to leave. The actualities of what Scientology would do to hurt the member was less important than the member’s perceptions of what they would do. In the end, members were left feeling that what they had revealed about themselves left them even more deeply immersed within the control of the organization.
This information would serve well to be introduced to new people who are considering joining Scientology.
Mockingbird6
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From the document:
87. Their situation is reminiscent of that of many cult members. It has been said by ex-cult members that nobody joins a cult; they simply postpone the decision to leave. Levine, 2003, supra. The problem in manipulative, exploitive organizations like these is that participants get caught deeper and deeper in the web as time goes on. We see this clearly in the case of the Headleys – the signed documents, financial commitments, social connections and accumulation of other fears that increasingly tied them to staying. As one’s commitments to a group increase, they are left with more to lose. This leads to an irrational and counterproductive way of thinking that cognitive psychologists call the sunk cost trap. The term sunk costs refer to non-recoverable investments of time or money. The trap occurs when a person’s aversion to loss impels them, in economic terms, to throw good money after bad because they don’t want to lose their earlier investment. See, e.g., Hammond, J., et al., Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Decision Making Boston: Harbard Business School Press (1999).
The bolded items above were experienced by me as a public. This helped me understand this. Thanks DOF.
87. Their situation is reminiscent of that of many cult members. It has been said by ex-cult members that nobody joins a cult; they simply postpone the decision to leave. Levine, 2003, supra. The problem in manipulative, exploitive organizations like these is that participants get caught deeper and deeper in the web as time goes on. We see this clearly in the case of the Headleys – the signed documents, financial commitments, social connections and accumulation of other fears that increasingly tied them to staying. As one’s commitments to a group increase, they are left with more to lose. This leads to an irrational and counterproductive way of thinking that cognitive psychologists call the sunk cost trap. The term sunk costs refer to non-recoverable investments of time or money. The trap occurs when a person’s aversion to loss impels them, in economic terms, to throw good money after bad because they don’t want to lose their earlier investment. See, e.g., Hammond, J., et al., Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Decision Making Boston: Harbard Business School Press (1999).
The bolded items above were experienced by me as a public. This helped me understand this. Thanks DOF.
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Just read it. Whow mindblowing stuff. I came upon the article via a discussion on fb and this thread can use a bump.
Eva
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smartone
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Knight Vision I just love your posts. I wish I had the ability to express myself as you can.
I thought KTL would handle that but now I know why it didn't.
I've always had the same considerations as yourself regarding groups. Never trusted them, therefore I never joined staff.
As is your thoughts on why people suffer for so long in this cult. I've never really understood that. But then I had no family in the cult and wonder what I would have been willing to suffer just to stay in comm with them.
Smackthis.
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Re: Thought Control
"This simplistic thinking is a common lure in cults, which often attract recruits by offering them simple answers to the complexities of life."
All of life's complexities can be boiled down too one word, SURVIVE.
And the best way too SURVIVE is to clear your MU's.
and empty your wallet.
"This simplistic thinking is a common lure in cults, which often attract recruits by offering them simple answers to the complexities of life."
All of life's complexities can be boiled down too one word, SURVIVE.
And the best way too SURVIVE is to clear your MU's.
and empty your wallet.
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