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Malignant Persuasion in Scientology

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Subliminal influence

Subliminal influence 1
A lot of the research on (behavioural) priming is conducted by exposing test subjects to subliminal stimuli. In this procedure, a word or picture is briefly flashed on the computer screen. The exposure time of the stimulus on the screen is at a level that ensures that the participant is not conscious of the stimulus being presented. ‘Subliminal’ literally means `below a threshold’, and researchers often draw a distinction between what they call the objective and the subjective threshold value. The former is a threshold value of exposure below which nothing is observed. This can be tested using a so-called forced choice procedure: participants are given a few choices and have to answer which stimulus they saw being flashed on the screen. When participants answer at chance level, this means that the exposure time was so short that no one was able to see anything (e.g., Cheesman & Merikle, 1984). Interestingly, when the presentation length is increased, participants slowly start to perform better than chance levels, even if they say they didn’t see anything. This illustrates the subjective  threshold, where people are not consciously aware they saw something, but the presented stimulus has an effect on memory processes nonetheless. It is in this time frame that subliminal perception takes place. It is difficult to give an exact estimate of the exposure time needed to present a stimulus subliminally, but can differ from anywhere between 10 to 100 milliseconds. This depends on the size and complexity of the stimulus presented, on the illumination and background contrast, where on the screen the stimulus is presented, as well as individual differences. Research on subliminal priming investigates what influence, if any, such subliminally presented information has on people’s thoughts and behaviour.

Notes

  1. Joop van der Pligt & Michael Vliek, The Psychology of Influence: Theory, research and practice (Routledge 2016). ↩

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Hubbard’s “Allied Scientists of the World” Scam

More information has surfaced recently about Hubbard’s “Allied Scientists of the World” scam, which he ran in 1951-52. 1, 2 [Read more…] about Hubbard’s “Allied Scientists of the World” Scam

  1. (Refs. Miller, R. (1987). Barefaced Messiah. p 198; Atack, J. (1990). A Piece of Blue Sky, ch. 3.) ↩
  2. See also: All About Radiation: The Revolt of the American Nuclear Physicists ↩

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All About Radiation: The Revolt of the American Nuclear Physicists

At the end of World War 2 a friend of mine, Lt. Commander of the Coast Guard, Johnny Arwine, and myself went to the California Institute of Technology1–Cal Tech– to meet with a great many old time atomic physicists who had been at the project that dropped the original bomb–from Los Alamogordo2, 3. It was our intention to organise these people so that some sort of sensible control could be monitored across the bomb. Nobody had thought about it at this date and Johnny Arwine and I were still in uniform. We were both in the world of engineering, then in the world of arts and then finally in the Services. Neither of us had a thing to do with atomic fission in its development.

We got these atomic physicists together. I took the chair and Arwine addressed them. We spoke of using a propaganda weapon against anyone who would use atomic fission further against the human race. We planned to use any means we had to educate the people in the world concerning this.

The nuclear physicist was already so furious about this that Arwine and I could not control the meeting. We could keep them in their place, tell them to talk but we couldn’t get across any thought that was even rationally workable. These men said one thing: “We wish to overthrow the government of the United States by force.”

That is an astonishing chapter in the field of nuclear physics which only a few of us know about. There was a revolt and later on offices opened in the United States to propagandise the public in a movement led by the late Albert Einstein.

Arwine and I failed and withdrew our support from that meeting and did our best to calm them. We reported the findings to the Navy Department and the President. We said that we could not associate our names with this organisation. But the atomic physicist did try and he is not going to do much more because Albert Einstein is dead.

The other day I read the list of atomic scientists who are now dead. It is practically the whole roster. They died of leukemia, cancer and the very diseases radiation sickness breeds. They died to a marked degree of radiation, mostly I suppose mentally because they had exerted a tremendous overt act against the world and have been unable to repair it in any way.

That is clear fact and not propaganda. I am just stating that there was a background where the nuclear physicist did attempt to revolt. The punishment taken against him was severe. The information given here is not even vaguely confidential and I am not in the possession of any confidential material.

From that time on it was what seemed to be a lost cause. We knew that the world was certainly in danger from the theory of atomic war, but I am afraid that none of us were clever enough to realise that continued testing would take place since it seemed so stupid. None of us counted on the factor that the airs of the earth would be polluted with radiation. That was not part of our understanding and so the only new thing that has happened here, has been a certain carelessness for public welfare in the continued testing of the bombs.

Now let us examine this “revolt” and let us see in it the truth of the threat of hysteria. Even the men who made the bomb became so hysterical for a while that they could not even calmly organise. They screamed disgracefully at their own government. The danger was never that great, certainly. Defences were being built, no new war threatened. Yet these men went a bit mad. The group could not be controlled. They would not even listen to the necessity of calm public education. They merely wanted more hysteria. By the actions of these persons can be predicted a possibility of hysteria on a much wider scale. Propagandists to the contrary, this must be prevented.

I do not believe that atomic fission will continue being tested to a point where everybody dies. But I do believe that bombs will continue being tested to a point where everybody could be worried to a point where a great deal of the ability would be gone out of society.

I am not talking against the United States. The United States was simply the first to develop this. Since that time the bomb has gotten into much more irresponsible hands, Russian hands and the Russian is attempting to capitalise on this hysteria factor.

In the final analysis man has done an unfortunate thing and unless defences can be found and the public educated he may very well pay a dreadful price.

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  1. Wikipedia: California Institute of Technology. ↩
  2. Wikipedia: Los Alamos National Laboratory. ↩
  3. In the 1989 edition of All About Radiation, the preceding sentence reads, “At the end of World War II, a friend of mine–Lieutenant Commander of the Coast Guard, Johnny Arwine–and I went to the California Institute of Technology to meet with a great many old-time atomic physicists who had been at the project that exploded the original bomb at Alamogordo.” See Wikipedia: Alamogordo. ↩

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Transcript: Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath – Bulldog Determination (Bonus) | A&E

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Bulldog Determination (Bonus)

A&E. (2017-02-15). Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath – Bulldog Determination (Bonus) | A&E.

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LEAH REMINI [text and background cross zooming in to center]

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LEAH REMINI

SCIENTOLOGY AND THE AFTERMATH
WHAT WENT DOWN [fading in]

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[Screen: The Church challenges the credibility of the contributors appearing in this program, and their statements.
As of the airing of this episode, the Church has not agreed to participate.
Information the Church provided about matters discussed in this series can be viewed at: aetv.com/aftermathletters]

[Screen:
CHRISTIE COLLBRAN
SCIENTOLOGIST FOR 36 YEARS
FORMER SEA ORG MEMBER
LEFT 2009]

CC: My name is Christie Collbran, and I was a Scientologist for 36 years. And I’m Mike Rinder’s wife.

I was doing courses and um you know, taking counseling at the age of ten years old.

LR: Right, right.

CC: So I was like indoctrinated from the beginning. This is the way we live. And um so by the age of sixteen I was in the Sea Org. That was like considered the best possible thing I could do in our family.

LR: Right.

CC: And it was just horrible.

You should just be able to walk out the door. You should just be able to get up and say “I am done. I’m leaving. Good-bye.” Just like you can anywhere else. Any other job. “I quit.” And leave. But you can’t. There’s pressure to stay.

People are dedicating their lives pretty much to helping mankind. And we were ALL miserable.

LR: Right.

CC: Supposedly we have the you know answers to making everybody free and happy and all of us there using this amazing technology were all miserable. And we’re all bad.

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LR: Part of the Scientology teachings is not to be emotional towards things. Not to see yourself as a, as a victim or survivor. But rather to look at yourself in a way of what you can fix. What you’ve done wrong. Like it’s so harmful, to your mind. Because you’re always thinking how bad you are. That there’s something wrong with you that needs to be fixed.

MR: Right.

LR: And the good side of Scientology that, that that is they’re now dealing with is the fact that I will not let [mute] go. If I find some untruth, or a half-truth, or omitted truth, I will [mute: f–king] find it.

And that’s the part that Scientology is going to have a hard time dealing with, with people like me, people like you and many others who have continued to speak out against it, is “You taught this in us!” Find the thing and peel that onion–

MR: Right…

LR: –because you will get to the truth.

And I think that’s the part that they’re now kicking themselves, going [makes grimacing face and expression].

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LEAH REMINI
SCIENTOLOGY AND THE AFTERMATH
WHAT WENT DOWN]

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  1. Source file retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIliJrm6pf4. Timecoded with Avidemux 2.7.0. ↩