From: inForm@primenet.com (Rev. Dennis L Erlich) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Anti-Christian Co$ Date: 29 Mar 1997 09:56:04 -0700 Organization: inFormer Ministry >Rev. Dennis L Erlich (inForm@primenet.com) wrote: >: >-------------------------------------------- >: >ASSISTS >: > >: > Class VIII Course, Lecture #10 > >: This is one of the documents I'm being sued for having made >: public. The entire taped lecture is 90 minutes long. It will be >: placed into evidence and be heard in its entirety by the jury (if >: Whyte allows me to actually have what is guaranteed in the >: constitution). The part quoted is 5-7 minutes long. Perry: >While I won't violate their copyrights, are there any choice bits for >my page? I'm doing a feature on Scientology/Christianity. > >http://www.ezlink.com/~perry/Co$/Christian I'd say the bit about how the cruci-fiction supposedly was implanted into our minds 75 million years ago to control us, is a pretty choice bit. It was important enough for me to risk what I did to make it public. >BTW, Dennis, I forgot to save your comments on the day Tubbo declared >Scientology a religion and you got to wear a collar. Care to speak into >the microphone, sir? Thank you, Perry. After a few brief prepared statements, I'll take questions. In 1967, when I first encountered the cult at 21, society as a whole seemed somewhat adrift. Whereas the interior of the cult seemed well organized and run with a palpable "fervor of purpose" in comparison. The ideas they presented seemed to be somewhat familiar. That there are mechanical laws of the universe, that the general public has yet to discover, which define all the relationships of mental/spiritual existence, in much the same way that physics and engineering relates physical matters. And that Hubbard had discovered them all. And that we could use our forthcoming knowledge of those mechanical laws to gain leverage over the difficulties of life, if we used them properly (exactly the way Ron said). The concept of thetan; a "you", apart from your physical self, is as spiritual as the subject was back then. The study was all about the existence of this dark, bad "reactive mind" that "Ron had discovered" which was dragging us pitiful humans around by our unconscious (third nostril, the SubGenii call them.) The Third Dynamic Engram, it later became to be known. But back then it was clearly a therapy to relieve painful and traumatic incidents and free the person from the continuing harmful effects of them. Reduction of incidents. Recounting. Then, as one advanced, it lead to general thought exercises (auditing) which were designed particularly to prove to you that, with the help of an auditor and an e-meter, you could change your mind and have it stick. But it was still therapy. I saw myself as an alternative therapist. After getting the training and fulfilling the 2 1/2-year contract, I intended to hang up a shingle and go into private practice. All the auditors did. Because that is the way Elrong had presented the material all through our training. "Here, use this. It works! Become successful." The orgs had some very bright people on staff back then. Lots of people from Cal Tech and JPL. Well, a few key people, for sure. I knew and respected a number of them when I was first on staff at LA Org. They mostly left or were driven out by the C-org mentality which Elrong was busy introducing into the cult during those years. (68 - 73) The big shocker for me came when, in '69, auditors were ordered to wear minister's outfits (collars and crosses) in order to make the operation look more "churchy". The org was ordered by Elrong to make up one of the normal weekend recruitment Beginning Lectures with trappings that make it look more like a traditional church service. Put up crosses everywhere. That kinda shit. I was a long-hair, skinny, motorcycle riding, rock guitar playin', ex-LAfreak, who had just been abandoned by an adulterous wife (taking with her my two beautiful infant daughters), and was looking to start my life over as a scieno-threapist. The whole "minister" thing, didn't fit my image. Not my look. But I went along. After all, Ron said life's a game. --------------- Questions? Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * *