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Can Scientologists come and go as members of the Church if they wish? Why does the Church have confidential scriptures? Do Scientologists believe they are descended from aliens? McPherson gave more to her church than average Americans donate to traditional churches. Although she later resigned from the staff, she remained a devout Scientologist. And when her life began to fall apart, she turned her back on conventional medical treatment and sought refuge in Scientology.
Kent, a sociologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, who has studied the organization. Scientology founder, Hubbard, said people were immortal spirits who have lived through many lifetimes and accumulated traumatic memories that are obstacles to achieving their full potential.
Adherents believe that those afflictions can be eliminated through a series of counseling courses, known as auditing. Despite her income, Ms. McPherson lived frugally. But no expense was spared when it came to Scientology. The final year of Ms. In June , she apparently suffered a mental breakdown. Her payments to the church fell sharply, but within a month she had resumed paying thousands of dollars a week for courses.
Her commissions at work remained low, however, and she borrowed from her employers to pay for the courses. AMC payroll records show that Ms. By September, she apparently had recovered enough to reach the coveted status of clear. Photographs of her award ceremony show Ms.
McPherson beaming, and she wrote passionate letters of thanks to fellow Scientologists. But the roller coaster was headed down. In late October, she was on the telephone to her mother, sobbing that she had let down her group at work, her aunt said.
Two weeks later, she telephoned Kelly Davis, a childhood friend in Dallas, and said she was going home to stay, by Christmas at the latest, Ms. Davis said. In a sworn deposition, Ms. Davis said she interpreted Ms. Her aunt, Mrs. Liebreich, said the family also thought that Ms. McPherson was considering leaving Scientology.
Church lawyers said she had no intention of leaving the fold. About dusk on Nov. McPherson was driving her Jeep in Clearwater when she struck a boat being towed by a car that had stopped for an earlier accident. Damage was minor and paramedics at the scene examined Ms. McPherson and found her uninjured. Then she took off her clothes and began to walk along the street. Bonita Ann Portolano, one of the paramedics, helped her into the ambulance.
Portolano said Ms. McPherson was muttering about not needing a body to live and said she had taken off her clothes because she wanted help. In a later deposition, Mrs. Portolano estimated that Ms. McPherson weighed pounds. After Ms. McPherson was taken to a nearby hospital, seven Scientologists, including some senior officials arrived.
Did you also know that there's a psychiatrist somewhere in the Middle East who once said that suicide bombers considered their behavior to be normal? Or that the leader of the cult that did the nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway was a psychiatrist? K, so here's a history lesson: Back in , a German psychologist named Willhelm Wundt claimed that the soul didn't exist, and that people were like any other animal.
Which, according to one of the boards in the museum, can be easily disproven:. Obviously, this isn't true anymore, dogs DO drive cars. However, the other two points stand. Despite this, psychologists decided to try and change people's behavior in the same way they would with animals—by using aversion therapy. As the museum tells it: "this belief that force can monitor thinking laid the foundation for one of the most destructive eras in man's history. Oh, and do you know why Hitler was so down on Jews n' stuff?
And this is how the holocaust happened. Or as this museum calls it, "a psychiatric movement that would cause the deaths of millions.
Because their "their beliefs were very, very similar. This part of the museum is a little jumbled and confusing, but the gist of it is: every single act of racism in the last couple of hundred years has been the result of a secret plot by a global gang of psychologists and psychiatrists.
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