Scientology Revelations tonight on Coast to Coast , page 1

I heard the program and thought it was very good and full of information that needs to be heard by people who may be thinking of getting into Scientology. As I write this post I have a friend coming over to listen to it with me on stream-link.

A few years ago I read the book Dianetics and thought it was fairly interesting. It was to me just another self help book, but the thing that got me wanting to learn more was the promise of perfect recall if you could "Clear" yourself.

I loaned the book to a friend (same one who's coming over now) and he read it and was equally interested. We went to a seminar to learn a little more about Scientology - we told them that we were both active in our churches and didn't want to change religions; to which we were told that you could be a Scientologist and a Christian at the same time.

My friend and I were pretty creeped out at the meeting. They played a video in which you would occasionally see a picture of L Ron Hubbard and when they did that, everyone in the meeting would give the picture a standing ovation.

My friend is a big South Park fan and on the way home that night he started telling me about an episode of South Park that talked about Scientology and we were wondering if that was the real ideas behind it. It sounded so FAR OUT that we both were thinking it couldn't be what they really believed. The Dianetics book and nothing we saw at the meeting pointed toward alien overlords or anything like that. We found out later on that yes - that is part of their belief system, but you don't find that out until you get much deeper involved than we were.

You Tube Video

We were just barely scratching the surface of Scientology. I actually went to the Office once and had a counseling session and an "Audit" done, I bought a video and I attended that one meeting and that's all I ever did. My friend had never been to the Office - I call it an office - they might call it the church - I don't know, he went to the meeting with me and bought a workbook and that's all he ever did.

We got calls from that office for probably a year or more asking how we were doing and if we wanted to come back for this or that. We would get stuff in the mail all the time - little fliers and adverts for events. We kept just blowing them off and getting off the phone with them hoping they would get the point. Eventually the calls stopped. I moved two years ago - I have not been in contact with them AT ALL since I moved. A couple months ago I got another flier from them.

They know where I am!

I'm not afraid of them or anything, its just kind of wild that they found out my new address, and are persistent enough to continue sending me stuff when it's now been three or four years since I was in contact with them and all I ever did was buy a video at their office, and came to one meeting where I thought they were going to serve me and my friend a free dinner. (turned out to be cheese and crackers and little sausages - dang cheap Scientologists)

I didn't really mean to make this post so long (sorry bout that and thanks for bearing with me) - I realize now that there is a lot more to my story that I could tell but I'll leave that for another time.

Edit to change embedded video to a link. And I realized I heard the program, and didn't see it LOL

[edit on 21-11-2009 by sagestranger]

[edit on 21-11-2009 by sagestranger]