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Scientology Film

In 2006 a film was made for Channel 4 (a UK television channel) that explores Scientology as a way of finding God. The protagonist was Hardeep Singh Kohli, a comedian and TV presenter in the UK.

The original idea for the film was to do Scientology through the Church of Scientology, but they didn’t want be involved…

…so it was made in the freezone instead, with the Ron’s Orgs.

I like this documentary because it shows how Scientology really is, away from the madness of the church. It gives a good account of some basic Scientology through the experiences of Singh Kohli. That being said, with something an experiential as Scientology it’s impossible to know what it’s like without trying it.

Towards the end is some actual auditing, which is something I haven’t seen before in a video about Scientology.

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Get The Message, Not The Messenger

I just read John Lennon’s last ever interview and found something in particular that he said quite interesting:

“But nobody’s perfect, etc., etc. Whether it’s Janov or Erhardt or Maharishi or a Beatle. That doesn’t take away from their message. It’s like learning how to swim. The swimming is fine. But forget about the teacher. If the Beatles had a message, it was that. With the Beatles, the records are the point, not the Beatles as individuals. You don’t need the package, just as you don’t need the Christian package or the Marxist package to get the message. People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I’m not. I’m a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message.”

I think this viewpoint relates to Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard. Scientology is not Hubbardism. LRH even said many times to not mix up his opinions with Scientology:

“Now, I’m not asking you to look at this subject through my eyes. There are two subjects here that I’m going to be talking to you about, just two, and one is Scientology, a precise science of universes and beings therein or beings who make universes. That’s one subject.

And then there’s Hubbard’s opinion of this subject and, boy, I got some wild opinions! You oughta hear them sometime. But that’s a different thing and you can tell very easily when I swing over into my opinion, when I start talking about some field of healing or when I start to talk about this or that, it’s obviously a big slant and merely is my selection of randomity.

Take it as amusing or evaluate by it or throw it away or anything. It doesn’t have anything really to do with Scientology.” LRH

- Scientology – How to Understand and Study It

The reason I bring this up is that some people seem to think that because LRH said and wrote some wild stuff it means that Scientology is a wacky subject. In fact, I have even seen some people in the Church of Scientology mistake what is clearly LRH’s opinion with actual Scientology!

As a Scientologist I don’t worship L. Ron Hubbard, and I know he made mistakes as a person and as a leader of an organization. The people in the church too often dramatize LRH’s mistakes and fanatically worship his opinions, yet forget (or never even learn) what Scientology is. They certainly rarely practice Scientology, although they hijack the name.

LRH had his opinions, but they aren’t Scientology…

“I stand here and I’m telling you two varieties of data. One of those varieties of data is the actual scientific datum, which has been dug up out of this universe and out of all universes.

That’s the specific datum and its application to the beings in this MEST universe. That data you can be darn sure of. Next is my opinions. Hell’s bells! I reward myself for my labors by having opinions.

Just separate out those two things. Separate out that Scientology is one thing, Hubbard is another. The point I’m making is there’s a lot of viewpoints that I have that you might not have at all. If I have a lot of axes to grind, they’re very obvious axes. Extremely obvious.

They actually don’t influence this data at all.

What I give you as fact, is fact. What I give you as opinion, you’re welcome to it or not as the case may be. But I’m not asking you to agree with me. For god’s sake, don’t do that. Just go look.” LRH

- Rising Scale Processing

So next time you hear that Scientology is all about aliens, or that Scientology is anti-psychiatry, realize that this simply isn’t the case. These were some of LRH’s opinions and considerations – Hubbardisms. Scientology is the Axioms, The Factors, The Logics, The Q’s, The Auditors Code, the Communication Cycle, the ARC triangle, the KRC triangle, the processes, the ethics conditions…

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Beautiful Sadness…

Not many songs are this good.

In case you don’t know the song is called In My Life, found on the album Rubber Soul and is by The Beatles.

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