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The personal part of my story is now told. The telling of my story has been
like a confession, and exorcism - and I didn't have to pay for it!! It has
helped me finish with the Church of Scientology, and the massive feedback I
have had tells me it has helped many other people as well - which is
wonderful. The support I have had has been nothing short of ASTOUNDING - I
thank you all for your incredible caring, support and love. I love
you too!
WHERE TO NOW?
I have to finish healing, personally, on my own now. In a few days, I am
going to take a holiday - mountains, sea (it is summer here!), forests, old
friends, art, music, good times! I am going to reclaim my life for ME before
I consider what I will do next. I am not the type of person that can just
forget an evil, and go on with my life - so I will be back next year. The
CoS will no longer dominate my life, but I WILL give a portion of it to
opposing this evil - and focus the rest of my energies on being creative -
on working towards constructive goals, so badly needed here in South Africa.
In closing, I'd like to offer some of my thoughts, and my position as
regards the Church of Scientology.
REFLECTIONS
The profile of the participants on a.r.s is very interesting: out and out
sceptics, scientists who see the "religion" aspect as a complete fraud; ex-
Church members who have either rejected Scientology and any form of
spirituality completely, or who have continued using the religion while
rejecting the Church, or who have taken up a new religion; people who have
never been in Scientology, but are concerned about the cult aspect, and
occasionally, even some Scientologists!
WHY SINGLE OUT THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY FOR ATTACK?
Everyone's attention has been captured by the ACTIONS of the Church of
Scientology (as distinct from the religion/philosophy of Scientology).
The Church is UNIQUE in its aggressive litigation and harassment of
critics - unique from any religion, any cult. This draws attention to it,
and distinguishes it as an organisation needing closer scrutiny. It is
UNIQUE in its copyrighting of its materials - "religious scriptures" - while
calling them "trade secrets". It is UNIQUE in the exhorbitant charges it
levies at its adherents - called "donations" - where in fact these
donations are fixed, and services cannot be taken WITHOUT them, and without
membership of the International Association of Scientologists (a registered
business). The Church is UNIQUE in its exploitation of legal loop-holes,
using an armery of highly paid lawyers, paid for from its billion dollar
"War Chest". It is UNIQUE in its use of front groups, such as WISE,
NARCANON, Education Alive, etc.
It is THESE aspects that provoke such anger and outrage from society - these
aspects that explain the continued attacks on the Church, the singling out
of it from other cults.
IT FITS THE PROFILE OF A CULT AS WELL
Then, there are other practices that the Church uses, which parallel those
used by other cults - the "shunning" of critics, punishing of dissenters,
subtle mind control, emotional manipulation, the COMPLETE absorbtion of
people's lives, demands for loyalty, etc.
The mind control aspect is a whole subject on its own - I could write
VOLUMES in it - I may still do, as in this world as it stands now, mind
control needs to be researched and understood in order to effectively combat
it - too little is known about it.
MIND CONTROL - THE ANTITHESIS OF FREE WILL
For now, I will limit myself to just saying this: ANYTHING that demands the
relinquishing of your own thoughts, your own FREE WILL, and the total
acceptance of another's thoughts, without question, is mind control. How do
I justify my conclusion that the Church uses mind control? The founder of
the Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, had this to say:
"We have learned the hard way that an individual from the
public must NEVER be asked to DECIDE or CHOOSE...you can teach
them anything, particularly the truth. But never ask them to
decide...by processing up through the grades, this person will
soon begin to see and be there and understand and decide. And
she'll surely decide she's a Scientologist, as its true all
the way."
>From HCO Policy Letter 16th April 1965, "Handling the Public Individual",
by L. Ron Hubbard.
There you have it. No free will, free thought or choice is allowed UNTIL you
become a Scientologist. Once you have accepted their way of thinking, free
will is no longer a threat - because of course, you now think like them.
And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, in a nutshull, is mind control.
WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?
To dismiss the philosophy of Scientology as a complete fraud is dangerous.
To ban the Church outright, is wrong. Because this will only kill off the
evil of mind control, without UNDERSTANDING WHY this phenonmenon persists -
and all that will happen is that it will re-group, and emerge in another
form. To deal with it effectively, we have to UNDERSTAND it. And there is
only ONE way to do that.
GET THE COPYRIGHTS AND TRADE SECRETS LIFTED! Let the public SEE these
materials, and judge for themselves. There are several people working
on this - give them any support you can. Contact the experts via
FACTNET. Get the whole subject of Scientology BACK INTO THE AREA OF
FREE WILL, OF CHOICE. In this way, those who see the philosophy as a
load of rubbish, can continue to reject it out of choice. Those who
are interested in the philosophy of Scientology can explore and use
it WITHOUT being bankrupted, hurt, forced, manipulated, brainwashed,
co-erced, controlled, brutalized and used.
In this way, the litigation, the harassment, the use of front groups, the
infiltration of governments, the goal of world domination, the danger of an
Orwellian 1984 nightmare, can be avoided. It is the only way. AND IT IS WHAT
THE CHURCH FEARS THE MOST.
HOW CAN WE DO THIS?
Simple. Tell everyone about it, get literature on the crimes of the
organisation and show it to people. Educate, educate, educate! When there is
enough awareness, and enough support, lobby your governments. I can tell
you from personal experience, there is NOTHING any government, any court of
law can do to oppose THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. South Africa is the proof of
this. Contact FACTNET (sorry guys, I know you're overloaded), and get
guidance from them. DON'T take on the Church on an individual basis - that
is why they have continued to persist, as it is very easy for an
organisation to crush an individual. TAKE THEM ON WITH THE WILL OF THE
PEOPLE!!!!
AND FINALLY...
Personally, I have not decided on my own spiritual future. When I do, when I
am ready, it will be by CHOICE - I can be a sceptic, a buddhist, a freezoner,
a Christian - who knows? I have reclaimed the right to DECIDE for myself!
And that is my story. Thank you all for listening. I love you!
Kim Baker
Kim Baker
Cape Town, South Africa E-Mail: Kim@uctlib.uct.ac.za
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"Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man. It's insiduous. It can get
hold of you without you even knowing it."
- From "Nineteen-eighty-four", George Orwell