The Really...Really Dark Side of Scientology?

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The Really...Really Dark Side of Scientology?

Postby 8bitagent » Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:22 pm

We've been hearing about this most recent anti Scientology movement, but a
1983 Playboy interview with L Ron Hubbard Jr begs the question: is there an even darker side to Scientology thats beneath the surface?

http://www.lermanet.com/scientologynews ... w-1983.htm

The well known accounts of L Ron Hubbard and the history of Scientology seems weird enough:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_Ron_Hubb ... activities

After the war, Hubbard met Jack Parsons, an aeronautics professor at Caltech and an associate of the British occultist Aleister Crowley.[51] Hubbard and Parsons were allegedly engaged in the practice of ritual magick in 1946, including an extended set of sex magic rituals called the Babalon Working, intended to summon a goddess or "moonchild." The Church says Hubbard was working as an ONI agent on a mission to end Parsons' supposed magical activities and to "rescue" a girl Parsons was "using" for supposedly magical purposes. In a 1952 lecture series, Hubbard recommended a book of Crowley's and referred to him as "Mad Old Boy"[52][53] and as "my very good friend".[54] Hubbard later married the girl he said that he rescued from Parsons, Sara Northrup.[55] Hubbard also described Parsons as his friend in his Scientology lectures rather than a person he was investigating. Crowley recorded in his notes that he considered Hubbard a "lout" who made off with Parsons' money and girlfriend in an "ordinary confidence trick."[14][12]

Sara Northrup became Hubbard's second wife in August 1946.[56] It was an act of bigamy, as Hubbard had abandoned, but not divorced, his first wife and children as soon as he left the Navy (he divorced his first wife more than a year after he had remarried).[12] Both women allege Hubbard physically abused them. He is also alleged to have once kidnapped Sara's infant, Alexis, taking her to Cuba. Later, he disowned Alexis, claiming he was not her father and that she was actually Jack Parsons' child.[57] Sara filed for divorce in late 1950, citing that Hubbard was, unknown to her, still legally bound to his first wife at the time of their marriage. Her divorce papers also accused Hubbard of kidnapping their baby daughter Alexis, and of conducting "systematic torture, beatings, strangulations and scientific torture experiments."[58][59]


But back to that Penthouse interview...

L Ron Jr says that L Ron Hubbard became obsessed with performing abortions on women as part of some sort of occult science. He said L Ron's dream was to create a human surrogate or "moon child" for a dark spiritual union from the days he worked with Aerojet's Jack Parsons.

He said his fathers obsession of abortion-forced psychotropic drugs, etc
culminated in what he called "soul hacking", breaking someone's soul and consciousness down through acute trauma and drugs to open for possession and mind control

He claims that the core of scientology is pretty much the blackest form of power grabbing mystery religion, just meticulously spread out for a long time.

He goes on to say that often times, in Scientology training women would be locked up for weeks at a time.

He says Scientology has gone to extreme lengths to silence detractors, cooerce and or compromise politicians, etc

He claimed his father L Ron Hubbard Sr and Erroll Flynn enjoyed having sex with young boys and children in Europe

This is what L Ron Jr says of Errol Flynn and the Labor Party of England

He was a double agent for the KGB and for the British intelligence agency. He was also a raging homosexual. He wanted my father to use his black-magic, soul-cracking, brainwashing techniques on young boys. He wanted these boys as his own sexual slaves. He wanted to use my father's techniques to crack people's heads open because he was very influential in and around the British government --plus he was selling information to the Russians. And so was my father.


He claims Scientology infiltrated the highest levels of the British government and intelligence

He claims L Ron wanted to take over the world using scientology and his political connections. He was obsessed, he claims, with destroying peoples lives...not merely having them killed off.

He says Scientology leadership motto is "do what thou wilt" and has had people killed. He says L Ron Sr would severely and savagely beat women and compared L ron and Scientology to Hitler and the SS

He ends the interview with this little nugget behind L Ron and Scientology

The explanation is sort of long and complicated. The basic rationale is that there are some powers in this universe that are pretty strong. As an example, Hitler was involved in the same black magic and the same occult practices that my father was. The identical ones. Which, as I have said, stem clear back to before Egyptian times. It's a very secret thing. Very powerful and very workable and very dangerous. Brainwashing is nothing compared to it. The proper term would be "soul cracking." It's like cracking open the soul, which then opens various doors to the power that exists, the satanic and demonic powers. Simply put, it's like a tunnel or an avenue or a doorway. Pulling that power into yourself through another person --and using women, especially -- is incredibly insidious. It makes Dr. Fu Manchu look like a kindergarten student. It is the ultimate vampirism, the ultimate mind-fuck, instead of going for blood, you're going for their soul. And you take drugs in order to reach that state where you can, quite literally, like a psychic hammer, break their soul, and pull the power through. He designed his Scientology Operating Thetan techniques to do the same thing. But, of course, it takes a couple of hundred hours of auditing and mega-thousands of dollars for the privilege of having your head turned into a glass Humpty Dumpty --shattered into a million pieces. It may sound like incredible gibberish, but it made my father a fortune.


Now to be perfectly fair...

L Ron Hubbard Jr before his death in 1991 recanted a lot of what he said in the 1983 penthouse article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_DeW ... Hubbard_Sr.

The interview was peppered with a lot of accusations of L Ron claiming to be "Satan" and heavy involvement in "KGB Activities" in the 50's

That almost sounds a bit too John Birch and cliche to sound believeable

So what say you, is there truth to any of this?

Is "Egyptian based black magick" and mindcontroll the basis for scientology?
That theres more than mere simple brainwashing techniques, and Scientology has even infiltrated governments and intelligence agencies?

RI-minds want to know:)
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Postby cptmarginal » Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:39 pm

He goes on to say that often times, in Scientology training women would be locked up for weeks at a time.

Well, that accusation seems to be borne out by the Lisa McPherson affair. She was the one who was locked in a room for so long that when the door was opened she was found covered in cockroach bites, correct? I might have her confused with another victim.

I've always been interested in the stuff said in this interview.

BTW, your quote tags got a bit f'ed up there...
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Postby compared2what? » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:19 pm

Believe me, this is just one of those questions where the quintuple, double-reverse counter-disinfo mindfuckery out there makes a simple answer impossible. Jack Parsons is really, really interesting, and under-researched, imo. Sarah Northrup, too, although human decency recommends leaving her alone if she's still alive and that's what she wants.

Margaret Cameron continued to be a major OTO player until her death, which wasn't that long ago.

But...if I were compiling a list of cold-call sources on this subject, fwiw, Paulette Cooper would be at the top of my list.

ON EDIT: I've also always wondered whether the Northrup sisters had any connection to the Northrops of Northrop-Grumman, owing to the aviation-industry aspect already present via Parsons. I went through a superficial review of public records without finding any. But without a budget, thorough research of that kind isn't really possible. So I don't know. Just a thought.
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Postby OP ED » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:31 pm

Not to just dismiss it out-of-hand, but I must admit it sounds like a lot of babbling nonsense to me.

Scientology is bad enough without people making stuff up.
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Postby 8bitagent » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:55 pm

OP ED wrote:Not to just dismiss it out-of-hand, but I must admit it sounds like a lot of babbling nonsense to me.

Scientology is bad enough without people making stuff up.


Yeah, I got the feeling that he may have been just throwing out all sorts of randomness.

However, the connection between L Ron Hubbard, the British intelligence/government, Jack Parsons, OTO, US defense companies, and brainwashing is pretty intriguing.
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Postby OP ED » Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:01 am

Of course its "interesting". Anything with that many memes in one basket is "interesting".

I don't doubt that people at the tip-top of scientology may be involved in unsavory stuff. Fact is, it is likely given how murky their activities are even at the bottom. I find this "too good to be true" as testimony however, if you get my meaning. Throwing together a dozen ideas and mixing some "satanic" elements in for flavoring tends to muddy the waters with so much sensationalism that picking out the true parts becomes extremely complicated.

Probably half of it is true, but which half?
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Postby compared2what? » Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:41 am

Op Ed, there's corroborating-ish evidence to support some of it. So I don't think it's pure bullshit, personally. Off the top of my head, the first example that springs to mind supports the part about L. Ron was into oh-oh-oh, it's-MagiCK at a much later date than his DEFINITELY NOT GAY workings with Parsons. It's in a little ditty known as...either "the admissions" or "the affirmations." Or something very similar.

It's a transcription of him talking into a tape recorder of dictaphone for the writer working on his then-proposed biography. There's nothing hinky about its provenance as far as I know. And he is talking some indisputably Crowley shit. That's little noted, as far as I know, but the literature is vast, and not that many people are in a position to recognize Crowley shit as distinct from simply insane shit.

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Postby compared2what? » Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:02 am

My bad on the dating, they're from the Parsons period. Still. The other thing that sprung to mind was that he (Hubbard) referred to drug use in correspondence to his wife. (I mean Mary Sue, but possibly also Sarah.) And I noted a page that glancingly referred to letters to wife about drugs, while looking for that. So fwiw, I at least didn't imagine that that's alleged. I should review where the allegation came from before posting it, though. The admissions come from Gerry Armstrong, and were in part read into the record during his tussles with the CoS. And here's his presentation of them:

http://www.lermanet.com/reference/Admissions.pdf

Which I didn't read, just snatched the link. I'm assuming it has the Crowleyan stuff, but if it doesn't will be back shortly. Plus, I'm not sure that there isn't also something specifically for the biographer, and if there is, this isn't it.
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Postby compared2what? » Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:59 am

Yeah, that was the material I was thinking of. So glad that, as he affirms/admits, Hubbard did not have snakes at the foot of his bed. Anyway. It's authenticity is signed off on legally; it's definitely OTO all the way; it's quite clearly the basis of OT III, and some other major doctrinal components of CoS. So....it's not a pure bullshit assertion, the black-magick stuff, I'd say.

He was an odd man. To me, the must-reads in his own hand are the thing I just linked to, and his adolescent diaries, which I think also come from the Armstrong case, since that's the most logical place from which they might have. His naval service records are pretty interesting, too. Were it not for the fabulism in the diaries, which predate the sulfa treated clap mentioned in the affirmations, I would wonder...I don't know. He seems to have a significant and extensive history of less than stable behavior reliably documented from (roughly) his senior year of high school until (roughly) 1946, when he hooked up with Mr. Parsons, and by then he evidently had eye problems, though I don't know when that began.

So, given his subsequent behavior, and his almost total seclusion toward the end of his life, I sometimes wonder if he ever had syphilis, treated or not. It would have been before antibiotics, so treatment wouldn't necessarily mean cure. Under that hypothesis, the eye problems might be syphilitic conjunctivitis and some of the other stuff either neurosyphilitic, or a long, long slide into paresis. Which would be a tenable hypothesis if there were any evidence that he ever had syphilis to begin with. But there isn't, as far as I know.

WRT drugs, it slipped my mind that CoS is alleged to use chloral hydrate to create the appearance of PTS3-ness in disaffected members. There must be testimony about this somewhere in the McPhereson litigation, mustn't there? Anyway. It's notable, in that (I think) it was a la mode at Jonestown, too. And, you know, the CIA wasn't unaware of it either.

Rather moving, totally anonymous and unverifiable story below.

http://www.lermanet.com/exit/Kathrynsstory.htm
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Postby Searcher08 » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:04 am

Thanks for that, c2w - as you say, a very moving story. I wonder if they are still within the Co$?

Some people say that the CoS is just an extortion business model imposed on a religion/ personal development framework.

Like attracts like, so I would be very surprised if there was not at least exchanges of information between CIA and C0$ with regard to "Tech".

The response of the C0S system to a "malfunction" in a sub-system (ie Kathryn's breakdown) was very instructive. Denial, isolation and cut-off from the host - sort of like an ultra tight tourniquet to deal with... a sprain on your pinky.

This shows that the great weakness of the Co$ is actually it's lack of adaptability, it's otherwise intimidating alien mechanicalness.

Sort of like being at the end of the worst call-centre droid you have ever encountered - trying to tell them the call-centre is burning down - and all they say is "Do you want a new loan? Let me tell you why it will benefit you."
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Postby compared2what? » Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:04 pm

Searcher08 wrote:Thanks for that, c2w - as you say, a very moving story. I wonder if they are still within the Co$?

Some people say that the CoS is just an extortion business model imposed on a religion/ personal development framework.

Like attracts like, so I would be very surprised if there was not at least exchanges of information between CIA and C0$ with regard to "Tech".

The response of the C0S system to a "malfunction" in a sub-system (ie Kathryn's breakdown) was very instructive. Denial, isolation and cut-off from the host - sort of like an ultra tight tourniquet to deal with... a sprain on your pinky.

This shows that the great weakness of the Co$ is actually it's lack of adaptability, it's otherwise intimidating alien mechanicalness.

Sort of like being at the end of the worst call-centre droid you have ever encountered - trying to tell them the call-centre is burning down - and all they say is "Do you want a new loan? Let me tell you why it will benefit you."


I agree. But additionally posit: That's only a weakness if you're in the Bridge-to-Total-Freedom business. If you're in the Retain-Power-in-Kremlin-and-Nothing-Else-Matters business, arguably, it's a strength.
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Postby Eldritch » Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:06 pm

Years ago, I would have written off as pure rubbish the claims about L. Ron Hubbard's "darkest" activities.

I don't write this off at all anymore—even though the term "satanic" carries with it a built in snicker factor, courtesy of big haired preachers and other hyperventilating religionists.

That L. Ron Hubbard was courting the darkest of energies seems pretty clear to me. And given the effectiveness with which his cult seems able to strip people not only of their common sense but also of their basic ESSENCE, I consider it likely that Hubbard breathed into his organization the same darkness he himself courted.
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Postby Searcher08 » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:06 pm

compared2what? wrote:
I agree. But additionally posit: That's only a weakness if you're in the Bridge-to-Total-Freedom business. If you're in the Retain-Power-in-Kremlin-and-Nothing-Else-Matters business, arguably, it's a strength.


Very interesting point - the purpose of a system is what it does - I think that decades ago LRH probably set sail on the Bridge-to-Total-Freedom but since the "new crowd" coup, it appears to be much more in the Retain-Power-in-Kremlin-and-Nothing-Else-Matters business.

My take on seeing the BBC program and how theC0$ big-wigs interacted with him it that those people are mind-controlled to the point of Hive consciousness. Their belief system is so dominating their interactions and SO self-protective that there seems to be no way in - and the perceived hell of leaving the Sea Org provides the heavy gravity that makes escape velocity very difficult.
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Postby 8bitagent » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:11 pm

Eldritch wrote:
That L. Ron Hubbard was courting the darkest of energies seems pretty clear to me. And given the effectiveness with which his cult seems able to strip people not only of their common sense but also of their basic ESSENCE, I consider it likely that Hubbard breathed into his organization the same darkness he himself courted.


I wouldnt doubt that. Same sort of harnassed darkness that flowed like wine through the ancient Egyptian elite, the Romans, the Aztecs, the British monarchy, the Nazis and the Pentagon.

Of course, you won't hear Anonymous/Chanology refer to this stuff:)

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Postby American Dream » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:19 pm

8bitagent wrote:
Is there any connection between Scientology and "The Nine"?


The circles overlap. Russell and Elizabeth Targ are prime examples of a larger ecology that includes Esalen and the Stanford Research Institute, and hence, "The Nine", Scientology, STARGATE, and et cetera.
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