The Truth About Scientology

When I read all the negative comments about Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard on line, guised to be the “Truth About Scientology” I have to laugh.

What’s with these people anyway? What kind of people are they?

I’ve actually met a few of these devoted anti-Scientologist, and without naming names let’s just say every single one of them that I have personally met is absolutely NUTS!

REALLY NUTS! (And notice I don’t even qualify that statement.)

Sometimes you have to evaluate the source of the opinion before you pay any attention to what it has to say.

And yeah, I know, they have these “ex-Scientologist” and guys “who use to work for Scientology” but that is not what I am talking about here when I say evaluate the source of the opinion.

Who were these people, before they were Scientologists, before they use to work for Scientology?

Take my cousin , for instance. He is a good case study of an anti-Scientologist and I know him well. He was an “ex-member” of the church and even worked for them for awhile.

The most important thing you should know about my cousin is that before he was a Scientologist, before he was an “ex-Scientologist”, before he was a “person who use to work for a Scientology church” he was first and foremost a person whom we would commonly call NUTS!

Get it. He was NUTS, NUTS, NUTS … long before he was exposed to Scientology. And along the way to becoming a Scientologist he went to architectural school, chiropractic school, became a Buddhist monk, got married and divorced, and you know what? He doesn’t have anything nice to say about those experiences either.

Now how do I know he was nuts? Well, simply put he tried to commit suicide a few times, failed at all those above career attempts, failed at being a Scientology minister, and ended up by the time he was in his 30’s living with his mom, collecting welfare as his only source of income, and spending all of his welfare checks at the horse races, trying to win a fortune. He lived with his mom like that for about 30 years until she died.

My cousin had an awful attitude towards the Church of Scientology. You know, all the usual stuff you hear from the lips of gossip and scandal mongers.

But even though he hated Scientology and hated the church and its organization, when I came along after graduate school, he taught me all about Scientology auditing and wanted to audit me and wanted me to audit him.

Now the things he taught me about Scientology “auditing” (various self improvement procedures) were interesting. I had just spent four years in graduate school studying psychology. And after my cousin started teaching me about Scientology, I began to wonder why no one had ever shown me this book called “Dianetics” which was written in 1950 and had a better explanation of the mind than anything I had ever read in my entire 8 years of studying psychology.

I thought this was very weird and felt a little…. no actually…. a lot, betrayed by my education. Wasn’t school supposed to be a place where you go to learn about stuff? To gain knowledge. I didn’t think that universities and teachers were suppose to hide knowledge from you.

But back to my cousin….

Now I did think it was more than a little odd that he wanted desperately to practice this thing he so vehemently hated. But I knew my cousin was indeed more than a little odd and it was a very interesting topic for me so I went along with it.

Now this is where it gets good.

My cousin trained me to audit him and we worked together for about three months. Within two weeks he was telling me I was a natural and was already a better auditor then he was. (Sadly, he was right. He had four years of training, but I was already a better auditor than he was. I could even tell.)

Then I started reading his books. (I had to in order to learn how to do the auditing procedure.) And as I read the books I began to realize that my cousin was doing everything wrong. He was misinterpreting everything and wasn’t doing anything right.

So it turns out, not only was my cousin NUTS, he was STUPID!

I on the other hand had had a full scholarship to a top graduate school, had earned nearly a 4.0 GPA in four years of Graduate School in Psychology, and was a card carrying member of MENSA. It would appear, I was anything but stupid. (At least book wise.)

Anyway, I was tolerant of him in the beginning, but after about 3 months when I realized he had no idea of how to apply the procedure correctly, I told him he could not audit me anymore. I told him I would continue to audit him, but I would not allow him to audit me because he really didn’t know what he was doing.

Well that relationship lasted about another week after that, then he said let’s just call it off. I got the idea that if he couldn’t waste my time by doing Scientology incorrectly on me, he had no real interest in getting better himself.

So when I ended it with my cousin, it left me in an odd position. I was very interested in Scientology, but all the gossip and innuendos had me more than a little scared to pursue it.

My cousin had a half dozen books or so. I initially resolved my dilemma by asking him f I could borrow his books, and he let me. I read them all. Hmmm…nothing weird here…but I began to see where his upsets and ineptitude came from – he had a lot of misunderstandings of the things he had read and studied.

Then I ran out of books….. but I had to have more, so despite my fears, I went down to the local Church of Scientology, ran in and bought a few more books, and then ran out again. (I actually did this for months and months until I had systematically read all the available books.)

After a quite exhaustive personal research into Scientology (by reading all the books myself) I came to a conclusion. – There was not one thing I had read in any of the Scientology books that I disagreed with or would consider weird. But there were two things I knew for sure about my cousin. My cousin was NUTS and STUPID.

Hence, I let go of all the lies and misconceptions my cousin had told me and walked into a Church of Scientology and told them what had happened. My experience with the Church from then on was very positive and the Church was very much like you would have predicted from the books that I had read and the opposite of all the lies and inaccuracies that my cousin had portrayed.

So you see when I read all the negative comments about Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard on line, guised to be the “Truth About Scientology” I still have to laugh. These are just more NUT CASES and IDIOTS like my cousin. (Unfortunately my cousin has no monopoly on being NUTS and an IDIOT!)

And believe me, I have met more than a few of these anti-Scientologists over the years. In all cases, they have either never read Scientology for themselves and just operate off of what other people have told them about Scientology ( I call this THE BIGGEST IDIOT OF ALL FACTOR) or they have read books or worked for the organization themselves and like my cousin have misunderstood almost every single thing they have read. ( I call this THE PLAIN OLD IDIOT FACTOR.)

Scientology is one of the sanest philosophies around. It may not be right for everyone, but it may be right for you. And given the magnitude of the help it can give someone, it certainly is worth a little investigation to find out if it IS or ISN’T right for you.

And if you are not an IDIOT or NUTCASE, then you will get the point of this story.

When I went to graduate school in psychology I had 8 or 10 buddies who were simultaneously going to Medical School. One of those guys was like me. He got almost straight A’s in his courses. Most of my buddies got straight Bs, and a few got all Cs or worse.

Now whom would you want operating on you or diagnosing your case? The guy who got straight A’s or the guy who got straight C’s?

With regard to any philosophy or profession, there are going to be people who are A students and get it and people who C students and probably don’t get half of it right but manage to “pass” anyway. And of course their will always be our D and F students who fail miserably but have the freedom to talk about their experiences anyway.

Every profession, whether it is auto-mechanics, salesmen, computer programmers, or Catholic priests, has its share of IDIOTS and NUTS who somehow get licensed to represent the profession. Do you see pages and pages of websites about the "Truth About Auto Repair" condemning all Auto mechanics and listing anyone who has ever had their car repaired? - Well, they probably do have some....but I think you get the point.

Yeah, there does seem to be a good number of Catholic priests who have been exposed as perverts, but does that mean we should condemn Christ and Christ's philosophy and make a list of anyone who has ever been in a Catholic church and post it on the Internet?

You can't judge a Religion, a philosophy, a profession by the misdeeds of the IDIOTS, NUT CASES, and CRIMINALS who somehow get involved. This is America. We can't put up a sign at the local community college, or the local Catholic church, or the local church of Scientology saying "NO IDIOTS ALLOWED." (Even though we sometimes might like to!)

The correct way to evaluate something, is not to listen to what all the idiots have to say, but to read the source materials yourself (if they are available to you) and make your own decision.

I think we all remember the recent “Weapons of Mass Destruction” fiasco. Some times source materials are not available, but that is not the case with regards to Scientology. Scientology books are everywhere and easy to evaluate.

When you rely on other people’s opinions about things, or information “in the news” you are exposed to 1) a lot of opinions or information that can be based on evil intent (lies) designed to manipulate you, or 2) less viscously, you are exposed to opinions and information based on the simple stupidity of all those people out there who aren’t that bright and like my cousin simply get it all wrong.

So don’t be an idiot. If you want to know the “Truth About Scientology” don’t read other people’s opinions about it, pick up a source book and read about it yourself.

The only thing that matters here is YOU. Will Scientology help YOU as it has helped others?

I don’t know. But I do know the only way for you to truly find out is to read the source books yourself, and make your own decision and not listen to what I or anyone else has to say about it…….

…….Well, excuse me now, I have to get go back to laughing at all those on-line anti-Scientological idiots. After all life is supposed to be fun, and laughing IS a fun thing to do.