The recent events of Lothar and AlexR coming here with their stories triggered my past history in Scientology, some of it not so good, but therapeutic to revisit in a new unit of time. You can't run from your experiences. They tend to follow you everywhere you go. There comes a time when you have to turn and face your darkest fears. Only then can the fear shatter and release you from its grip.
There are a number of similarities Scientology shares with poleshift.ning/zetatalk and those coming from that culture share the same confusions and fears anyone feels coming out of a closed society in which they were heavily invested -- physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I have intimate knowledge of what it feels like to have the rug pulled out from under one's feet. I feel great compassion for each and every one of you, and I have never lost my intense love for poleshift.ning, its people, and Gerard. I have forgiven Nancy and I will leave it at that.
We are the forward thinkers, the leaders, those who are going to make a difference in the Aftertimes (both groups). We wouldn't be here if it weren't so. But we got sucked into third density crapioli.
So, in the spirit of healing the wounds between our groups, I humbly offer the following, which is the Foreword to my novel on life in the fictitious cult of Religinon (which is very much modeled after Scientology). It is my hope it will help verbalize for you what you have gone through. Being able to identify what happened is a key component of healing. And it helps to raise your awareness so it hopefully won't happen again. The U.S. is suffering a similar fate for lack of those who would stand up and just say no to tyranny.
FOREWORDLooking back, the 80's were a time of great anxiety. Like knowing in the back of your mind that if you were to look over your shoulder suddenly, you'd catch someone following you; or if you dared to look up, a TV screen would be ruthlessly reporting your activities to Big Brother.
The horizon, it seemed, was a constantly churning sea of black funnel clouds, and you never knew when one would suddenly turn in your direction. So the sensible thing to do was duck back into the sea of ignorance where it seemed safe. But safety was just an illusion. The unease was intentional to keep the ignorant from ever getting their heads above water long enough to see what was really floating on top.
Truth, that once bright light, grew dim as it was blitzed by lies that buzzed like flies over its blood-spattered cadaver. Its perverted corpse, floating face down in the sea of unease, was used to paint minds into corners and push souls over the edge. Truth-in-fact was concealed well for many years. If leaks sprang up here and there, the resulting harsh actions were explained away as inevitable birth pangs that accompany any paradigm shift. After all, who could argue with the mantra: What price freedom?
Perverted truth is the genesis of thought reformation. Why do analytical sentries stand at unblinking attention, guarding the gates of the mind, while thought reformation processes breeze right past unchallenged? The answer, at least partially, may lie within the story of the Trojan horse. People are easy to deceive because they tend to see what they want to see, and hear what they want to hear. Especially, if the war (or sales interview) has gone on for too long. The outward appearance, if attractive enough, is accepted without question by some and by others, who may be more resistive, with the assistance of hard sell tactics. Once sold, justification becomes a way of saving face for one's mistakes. Or one becomes comfortable with the language, the friends, the business connections, and making a change would be too costly in terms of losing those connections and that comfort zone.
Even though an argument can be made that a modern day Trojan horse – for instance, one framed not in wood, but in a pseudo-scientific language, children's art and literature (Scientology's Key to Life course), or purported communication exercises (Scientology's TR's) – would not likely raise red flags in people's minds, the underlying amoral purpose could never be accomplished if people had a firm enough grasp of their own core beliefs so that they could recognize and challenge new ideas. The outward trappings of most successful lies appear intelligent, reasonable, even innocent or humorous, but they are lies nevertheless. There is truth in the old adage: "The devil has blue eyes and wears blue jeans."
Once begun, and allowed to proceed, the onslaught of thought reformation processes create a continuous erosion until suddenly, without warning, critical reasoning faculties short circuit and shut down. Night becomes day and day becomes night when poorly understood core beliefs are challenged with half-truths and lies, and then beaten into submission with abusive tactics. New beliefs slip in, snuggling up against old, eventually gaining a stranglehold, until old beliefs fall easy prey. What follows is the destruction of the foundation of personal ethics and integrity.
Each passing day the malignant processes continue their mute progression, gnawing at the underpinnings of reason and logic, until one day the bridge is crossed and a mental coup d'etat is achieved. Right becomes the old way of thinking and wrong becomes the new standard of righteousness.
As a result of continuous mental assault, it becomes accepted that any atrocity, no matter how heinous, is righteous if it assists in achieving the goal of emancipating civilization from the horrors of murder, madness, and mayhem. The reformed mind becomes "enlightened" so that it can now understand how murder, madness, and mayhem are morally justifiable methods to employ in the war against murder, madness, and mayhem. The beauty and simplicity of the logic becomes clear: the end justifies the means.
For unsuspecting soldiers in pursuit of this "new" civilization, logic becomes circular, life becomes insular, sleep becomes irregular, and friends, family, and finances become expendable extra-curriculars. Deception encourages surrender and sacrifice of independent thought on the altar of a "higher" consciousness.
This soldier woke up right in the middle of a counterfeit spiritual renaissance, like awakening from a bad dream ... heartsick and disoriented; not sure what was fact and what was fiction; what to do or where to go; who was friend and who was foe; searching for a light strong enough to force the darkness back into the recesses of a wounded psyche long enough to escape and recover from the damage done.
This story, though a work of fiction, gives the reader a glimpse into those disheartening days.
Cheryl Nelson
January 2001
The above was written to explain the following poem I wrote, which is all about mind control. I can tell you they did not like this poem when I posted it on an anti-Scientology site, not one whit....
To Infinity and Beyond
The Trip Will Blow Your Mind!
Where meet unknown seas and wizen'd suns
and minds marching toward blank horizons
where roaches roar and seafood scream
and captive souls dare not dream
Where leaves turn fiery with trees yet green
as you ride the high tide of a breeze unseen
turning brown, withering, landing in a yard
raked into a pile, set ablaze and charred
Where ashes to ashes and dust to dust
mean nothing to you because the next gust
will whip you up… up… up and away
to infinity and beyond ... so they say
Where terminal velocity no longer applies
moving faster and faster you continue to fly
and gravity can no longer hold you down
or keep you chained … eclipsed … earthbound
Where Damocletian swords hang by a hair
as you sit for hours in your chair and stare
those swords ready to sever old mind from new
some go in a moment … others, in a few
Where truth has died, blitzed by lies
that feast like flies on its blood-spattered cadaver
its perverted corpse melts the mind and warps
the soul pushed off the wharf adrift forever
Where bridges are burned at critical points
when mental coup d'etats surreptitiously anoint
newly enlightened minds with how to achieve
a new civilization…simply said, the end justifies the means
Where deception demands sacrifice of your personal morality
in the fiery furnace of a "higher" reality
and sadly it's surrendered with nonchalance
a living sacrifice to the ersatz religious renaissance
June 6, 2012 – SPACE – A user has found a ‘huge asteroid’ while scanning the virtual heavens using Googly Sky. Youtube user planetkrejci, who has investigated other anomalies on NASA pictures, claims the object – found using the Google website which transports the heavens to desktop computers and smartphones – is an asteroid which is heading towards Earth. He says the asteroid – which, if real, has not been spotted by other scientists or astronomers – has only appeared recently on Google Sky, which receives updated images every few months. Announcing his find on YouTube, he says the black object, mottled with green spots, is so clear that it must be within the solar system. The user had been exploring the region a few months earlier, and had ‘bookmarked’ a spot just to the left of the asteroid – so he is certain the object was not there previously. One thing that planekrejci does not substantiate is his claim that the object is moving towards the Earth, as it is not apparent how this calculation could be obtained without more information than the image provides. However, if planetkrejci has found a new object, it will be quite an achievement for an earth-bound Internet user to discover a new object in our solar system before NASA or other observatories. The object is easy to find on Google Sky, by typing in the co-ordinates 5h 11m 33.74s -12 50′ 30.09″ – although conspiracy theorists might read something into the fact that the search function on Google Sky is currently down. –Daily Mail
