------------------------------------------------------------------- F.A.C.T.Net, Inc. (Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network, Incorporated) a non-profit computer bulletin board and electronic library 601 16th St. #C-217 Golden, Colorado 80401 USA BBS 303 530-1942 FAX 303 530-2950 Office 303 473-0111 This document is part of an electronic lending library and preservational electronic archive. F.A.C.T.Net does not sell documents, it only lends them according to the terms of your library cardholder agreement with F.A.C.T.Net, Inc. ===================================================================== JEWS IN CULTS BREAKING THE CHAINS OF MIND CONTROL ANONYMOUS MOMENT, August 1993, p.32 Our struggle to free our young- est chilcl, Nancy, t~rom tile Church of Scientolog)' was b~' thr the most teri'it~,ing crisis we have ever faced. ~ be- lieved if we fought the Chnrch it mig!lt persuade her to "discomlect" from us permanently. If we did notlling, she could lose her self, a self we actually saw disappearing before our very eyes as the Church did its magic, using tecil- niques ~riously described as authoritative hypnosis, liltlid control and ulanipulation, altering her personallW, her met!lod of re- ali~ testing and iler belief systenl. Judaism luterested Nancy. For a brief pe- riod she and I had gone to a Conservative synagogue on Shabbat mornings. Nancy !lad attended a Reform Stmda)' school and pri~,ately stu›lied Torah ;m›l .}ta›laism. But o~ly if Na~cy'sJcwish experience had made Iler wary of otiler religions or educated Iler about destructive cults would she Ilave been ›itl gttard against the Scietltologists. S~m~ellling of a loner; Nancy had beeu lured into taking cotn'ses at a local Church "org" by an older man with wbom slle had "cstablis!~ed a relationsllip." At 17, she had c›lmpletetl high school a year eai'ly. For a while she took a job doing inertial work in MOMENT * AUGUST 1993 a laboratory. Then she applied for admis- sion to college and was accepted. While waiting to begin, she left home. Her "friend's" urging, tile self-doubts every ado- lescent feels and the Church's promises of mastery over matter, enerp,', space and time (as well as more mundane matters such as becoming a more confident driver) got her started on a series of increasingly expen- sive "auditing" sessions and "courses" sup- posedly leading to file exalted state of "clear." Initially, through a misnamed "personal- ity test," the victim discloses inadequacies that tile recruiter exaggerates and prom- ises Scientology training can alleviate. If the "pre