From dcs@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM Tue Sep 26 10:17:38 CDT 1995 Article: 115389 of alt.religion.scientology Path: uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: dcs@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David C Smith) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,misc.kids Subject: Scientology Auditing "Fixes" Bad Boy - from _Child Dianetics_ Date: 26 Sep 1995 10:06:38 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Lines: 110 Message-ID: <4494tu$2lv@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Summary: Extract from cult of Scientology book _Child Dianetics_ Keywords: Scientology, cult, Dianetics, scam, bad boy, auditing Xref: uuneo.neosoft.com alt.religion.scientology:115389 misc.kids:211004 Status: OR -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- (Note: I'll include relevent definitions to some of the Scientology aka scieno-speak words at the end of this post.) The following passage comes from the book _Child Dianetics_ which describes how to apply the cult of Scientology's "Dianetic" tech- niques to children. Any typos are likely my own. *** BEGIN FAIR USE EXTRACT *** (from _Child Dianetics_ by L. Ron Hubbard, pages 40-41) A four-year-old "bad" boy was taken to an auditor. According to the parents, if he had been six feet tall he would have given Genghis Khan a good run for his money. Hew would go upstairs and pull mama's clothes off the hangers and practice mutilation on them with scissors. He would go into another room, preferably one which was very neat and tidy, and slash the wallpaper with a knife. Someone in the family about to eat breakfast would find his cereal liberally sprinkled with shredded cigarettes. He was artfully clumsy; he seemed able to break selectively every valuable piece of bric-a-brac in the house. What he obviously needed, they said, was more discipline. Inquiry into how much discipline he had experienced brought out chastisement averaging four spankings and a clout on the head a day. The only thing that could be said for the punishment was that it was consistent: no matter what happened, he was punished. Furthermore, there was unanimity in the family. Father agreed and punished him. Mother agreed and punished him. And the one grandparent who was always around also agreed and punished him. Here was a red-hot rebel, a verifiable insurgent in the community, leading a successful revolt. The matter was solved very simply. The auditor, taking note of the fact that the adults who brought the boy were not very tall, made the announcement that the next person who laid a hand on the child would be personally accountable to him. They agreed that this was a new reality, and within twenty-four hours thre was a change in the young pre-clear. He picked up his own clothes. He bagan to do the dishes! Suddenly he was no longer a hellion. *** END FAIR USE EXTRACT *** This seems to be typical of some of the claims often found in the cult's teachings. A person is "cured" thanks to Dianetic auditing. Hubbard has claimed to cure many deadly diseases and sicknesses many times in his writings. Outrageous claims seem to be standard fare for Hubbard's "self-help" and Scientology writings. Also, something makes me think that the "bad" boy revolt leader may modeled after Hubbard himself. **** DEFINITIONS: (from the glossary in _Child Dianetics_) Auditing: Listening, computing, and guiding with the intention of helping the pre-clear to resolve his case. Auditor: An individual who conducts dianetic processing. Child Dianetics: That branch of Dianetics which is concerned with promoting the optimum survival of the immature human organism until such time as standard procedure for adults may be employed to erase engrams, usually around the age of twelve. Dianetics: The science and techniques as discovered and organized by L. Ron Hubbard; the science of optimum existence and survival. Dianetics means "through the soul." Engram: A mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness, and a real or fancied threat to survival; it is a recording in the Reactive Mind of something which actually happened to an individual in the past and which contained pain and unconsciousness, both of which are recorded in the mental image picture called an engram. Pre-Clear: One who is undergoing dianetic processing. Reactive Mind: That function of the mind which files and retains physical pain and painful emotion and seeks to direct the organism solely on a stimulus-response basis. It thinks only in identities. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMGgW6F8NLo2vey9NAQGx3AP/a3hpC6eKY7GLsP+boi+dD1HSS69pktvz kR+Asr0ZFAnaFfiwcx6bWcGU8RJ7DUmWjVJNrGf0RwG+NXY6EB2UiMNYXEd3B0GY sPP7iyNGfUAx5cn57cgiayOeDPE5ZH2zqDK3AzGKOR4Zj0JGbVTBSCCT4qkRvC62 pP/Rgml13Rs= =fSrm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- | David C. Smith - dcs@starbase.neosoft.com - Finger or email for PGP | | Keeper of the Clammer Kill Count Archives: public key. | | http://starbase.neosoft.com/~dcs/dcsclam.html | | "Don't play with the dead, boy. They have eerie powers.." | | SP 4.0, OT 8+, KOX, Clam Enturbulator 1.1beta ^ - Homer Simpson |