End Scientology Addiction

Ok, I made this, just for fun. But isn't it interesting that the symptoms of drug abuse are so very, very similar?


Are You or a Loved One Suffering from Addiction to Scientology?

Scientology is a cult that has a profound impact on the emotional balance and logical ability of the brain which directly affects how you feel and act.

People who are suffering emotionally sometimes use Scientology, not so much for the "rush" or "high", but to escape from their problems. They are trying to self-medicate themselves out of loneliness, low self-esteem, unhappy relationships, or stress. This is a pattern that too often leads to cult abuse and addiction.

The repeated and excessive use of Scientology, like any cult, leads to loss of money, loss of family, loss of health, and loss of ability to think clearly (impairment of cognitive functioning).

Find out how to recognize the signs and symptoms of addiction to Scientology in yourself or someone you care about -- before it is too late.

Signs of Scientology Addiction

• Blank stare or excessive staring.
• Change in overall attitude/personality with no other identifiable cause.
• Loss of interest in family and family activities; being “too busy” for family.
• Changes in friends; new hang-outs; sudden avoidance of old friends.
• Drop in grades at school or performance at work; skips school or is late for school.
• Claims school or other activities are “unimportant”.
• Scheduling their day around Scientology.
• Excessive talkativeness about how wonderful things are.
• Extreme “fake” cheerfulness; silliness or giddiness.
• Difficulty in paying attention; forgetfulness.
• Moodiness, irritability, or nervousness.
• Sudden oversensitivity, temper tantrums, or resentful behavior.
• Feeling annoyed when other people comment on, or criticize your use of Scientology.
• Paranoia.
• Excessive need for privacy; unreachable.
• Secretive or suspicious behavior.
• Unexplained need for money. Constantly asking for money for “the most vital and important” things.
• Paying bills late, collection agencies calling, inability to keep track of your money
• Loss of appetite, increase in appetite, any changes in eating habits, unexplained weight loss or gain.
• Inability to sleep, awake at unusual times, or sleeps constantly.
• Paleness from being indoors too often.
• Continuing to use Scientology even though you realize your job or education is in jeopardy

The line between cult abuse and Scientology dependence is defined by the role Scientology plays in your life. Addiction occurs when Scientology becomes so important that you are willing to sacrifice your work, home and even family. Once your mind gets used to the practices you are engaging in, you begin to require increasingly larger and more frequent doses, in order to achieve the same effect. This in turn requires increasingly larger and more frequent "donations".

For most of us, it’s a no-brainer to avoid Scientology: we see that the dangers and destructive long-term effects outweigh any momentary pleasure the cult affords and act accordingly. But it’s also easy to understand why people use Scientology even when it poses risks to health and well-being. It’s a matter of lack of education, emotional vulnerability, and curiousity. Some are thrill-seekers, some just curious; some try Scientology because their friends use, or they want to be perceived as cool. Even more susceptible, though, are the many people who use Scientology in order to cope with unpleasant emotions and the difficulties of life. The National Alliance on Mental Illness estimates that about half of all cult users also suffer from a mental illness such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. [this is the drug statistic NOT a real one.]

When these problems are faced and thoughtfully addressed, there is hope for overcoming cult abuse and addiction. With new ways of coping with life's problems, without the use of Scientology, the tight grip of addiction will begin to loosen its hold. Recovery is possible with the right help and social support.

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If you remember, vee, Scientologists openly and willingly refer to Scientology as "their drug." They also say it in humor, but so many of them say it. Scientology i think though, is not addicitve because of the euphoria and semi hypnosis of the auditing, but rather the way in which they build you up. I think they are addictive for the same reason that being in the skinheads is addictive for a young person, or being on the internet 24 hours a day is addictive for an antisocial kid. It builds you up, makes you think you are better than everyone else, makes you think that you are accomplishing great things in the world, all the while doing relatively little work to justify said accomplishments, yet getting the same euphoria. If skinheads and those kinds of things are like a 2 in this sense, Scientology is a 10.

As soon the OSS began, George Estabrooks (b. 1885, d. 1973) started traveling to Washington, D.C.. Estabrooks was a Canadian who spent three years at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He received a doctorate, in 1926, from Harvard. He was a prominent figure in the American hypnosis scene for fifty years--from the 1920s to the 1970s. Most of those years he was head of Colgate University’s Department of Psychology. Estabrooks produced the first recorded induction (a Victrola record). He published over sixty articles and several books, the most interesting of which is titled simply Hypnotism.

Estabrooks promoted the use of hypnoprogrammed spies by both the military and police

Estabrooks estimated that ten hours of hypnosis would be enough to accomplish his basic intention. However, he recommended a ten-month regimen for candidates who were to be both personality split and highly trained. What he called “candidates” were not volunteers. His basic procedure (given in Hypnotism, p. 195) for creating the unknowing hypnoprogrammed subject began with a disguised induction. It then proceeded to suggested amnesia, sealing against hypnotic competition, and the giving of a posthypnotic suggestion for instant re-induction by cue:

1) Covertly identify a specimen of the 20% of persons who are genetic somnambulists and easily can go to an amnesic depth of trance. Induct by a “disguised” method.

2) While the subject is in trance, give a posthypnotic suggestion for him to become deeply hypnotized again whenever the hypnotist gives a certain cue (such as tugging the left ear lobe with the right hand).

3) Also, give a posthypnotic suggestion which will deny the subject any conscious knowledge of this hypnosis, or any subsequent one. That causes an artificial, selective amnesia for all hypnosis events.

4) Give a posthypnotic suggestion that nobody else can hypnotize this subject (called sealing).

5) Give a suggestion under hypnosis that the subject will act in trance just as if awake (called waking hypnosis).


I know you disagree with my contention that Scientology is a hypno-scam , but remember that LRH was an accomplished hypnotist before he gained training in Naval Intelligence Service on mind control using hypnotism. Dianetics is a clear rip off of Cybernetics which was the program the OSS used and which used hypnotism for mind control. It is not magic and cannot take full control on a single session, but continued use of post hypnotic suggestion over long periods of time can. Luckily the long term use can in stronger minds have the opposite effect and the subject can break loose of the control, but it may take many years. LRH was well aware of this research and culled much of the work in his book Dianetics. He was obsessed with mind control and that in the end is what the "drug" of CoS is and what Scienos are addicted to. Point by point the effects of hypnotic mind control are exactly the points you describe as addiction to CoS. Without hypnotic mind control methods there would be no Scientology. That is the name of the scam, the abuse by those who have control is the crime.




http://www.hypnotism.org/Research.htm