This page maintained by
David Gerard.
Personal encounters with Scientology
More of these are welcomed - please send yours
in! Anything from years in Scientology to a joyous tale of confronting
the Ronbot on the street...
"Carolynn has been VERY MUCH MENTALLY ABUSED. I had hoped that getting her
away from the cult would deprogram her by just life activities, but it hasn't
worked."
"Way, way back when I was a boy (about 12) I got to see my first
'psychotic break'. A woman at the local org was having some processing and she
totally 'lost it'."
"Anyone that has been around $cio for any length of time has witnessed
exactly this as a commonplace thing. People in abject fear of imagined past
'crimes', and the terror of being denied 'the bridge' as the only way to
handle these 'crimes'."
David Bromage and the NOTs
David Bromage webbed the NOTs, for a short time. This is Frank Copeland's page
about the affair.
An Australian classic. David was in the Church for many years, including
time in the Sea Org and at Flag.
"I was provoked by my disgust at the hypocrisy and abuse I witnessed at
the Canberra org ... Human rights are being abused and good hearted people
like Matt are being used and abused; and pushed right over the edge. Children
are growing up without parents. People are defrauding the government. This
is all occurring behind the facade of a 'Church', a religion, and a tax free
organization to boot."
Here we have VUT, Xenu
Magazine, NOTs in Australia and the Private Investigator. Plus other stuff on the index page.
You may also be interested in the Why I Do This page.
"I had the axle nuts on my car loosened (parked in driveway), my brake
line 'developed a leak', my phone was bugged, my home was bugged and I was
visited by PIs trying to get info by posing as family of cult members ... I
found that when you take a public stand against them and expose what they are
doing they back off."
Glen is the son of Tony
McClelland, who set up CultAware after Glen left Scientology
after exit counselling. "My exit counselling was basically the open
discussion of Scientology & L Ron Hubbard & the presentation of
information I was unaware of. Much of the time taken was with me reading
information (that was new to me) about the church of Scientology.
Incidentally, such a discussion could not have taken place within the church
as the expression of a negative view on any aspect of Scientology is defined,
by Scientology, to be 'natter' & it is treated as unacceptable; as
such it is quickly & methodically silenced."
Tue 02 Sep 1997, 10:30pm: a phone call from Brian Johnston
(roving researcher for the CoS in Australia) - fishing for information on the
whereabouts of American exit counsellor Joe Szimhart. Tony handles him
nicely.
A statement made by an Australian Scientologist after his release by police
from the Introspection
Rundown. Names and places have been changed.
Meeting the Ronbot in the street, doing the Personality Test, being
intimidated by the test marker, getting out with wallet intact ...
Stuart Riley: Open letter to son
Lee
As published in the Courier-Mail, Brisbane. Stuart actually got
his son out of Scientology by maintaining his protest against the CoS until
they kicked Lee out. It really works!