Samara, November 20, Interfax — The Samara city court has banned work of Dianetics Center as its staff-members worked without license and practiced hypnotherapy and Ron Hubbard teaching. The Samara Region Prosecutor’s Office reported that staff-members of the Dianetics Center lectured at seminars and courses on dianetics and scientology without having special licenses. “These educational courses allegedly aimed at forming world outlook and life style based on priority of human values. They … [Read more...] about News: Hubbard Center closed up in Samara (2008)
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Article: The True Story of Scientology (2007)
From an often-quoted article by L. Ron Hubbard: THE TRUE STORY of Scientology is simple, concise and direct. It is quickly told: 1. A philosopher developed a philosophy about life and death. 2. People find it interesting. 3. People find it works. 4. People pass it along to others. 5. It grows. When we examine this extremely accurate and very brief account, we see that there must be in our civilization some very disturbing elements for anything else to be believed about … [Read more...] about Article: The True Story of Scientology (2007)
Book: Steve Hassan on “Unfreezing” (1988)
Leah Remini promoted Steve Hassan's book[1. Hassan, S. (1988) Combating Cult Mind Control. Park Street Press] on Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (Season 1, Episode 8). THE THREE STEPS TO GAINING CONTROL OF THE MIND [...] On the surface, the three-step process to gaining control of the mind seems quite simple. These three steps are unfreezing, changing, and refreezing. Unfreezing To ready a person for radical change, his reality must first be shaken up. His indoctrinators … [Read more...] about Book: Steve Hassan on “Unfreezing” (1988)
Book: Studies on Hysteria (1974)
Josef Breuer (1842-1925) was a pioneer in the use of hypnotism as a method of treatment for hysteria, a method which formed the basis for his collaboration with Freud in the early 1890s. [...] First and foremost, Freud was the discoverer of the first instrument for the scientific examination of the human mind. Creative writers of genius had had fragmentary insight into mental processes, but no systematic method of investigation existed before Freud. It was only gradually that he perfected the … [Read more...] about Book: Studies on Hysteria (1974)
Lecture: Future Org Trends (2) (1962)
I want to talk to you tonight about a very strange subject--a very, very strange subject: Scientology, its organizations. Now, this is a strange subject: Scientology organizations. There comes a time in any activity when you have to look forward to the shape of things to come and what they will be. Now, let us envision this as an activity. We do nothing cohesive, everybody just goes his own way, we have no central control of any kind, and people just wander out and process people and so … [Read more...] about Lecture: Future Org Trends (2) (1962)
Lecture: Seminar: Withholds (1961)
I remember an Air Force major who all of a sudden turned up on my front doorstep and wouldn't tell me his name. It was very weird. I did - I went along with this just as a gag almost. But I processed him every afternoon for an hour, and at the end of the hour-because he couldn't give me his name and address, you see, and it was all not-know anyhow, and everybody- why, he'd hand me a fifty-dollar bill. Which is kind of-very amusing-handing me money anyhow-because I don't-normally will take the … [Read more...] about Lecture: Seminar: Withholds (1961)