"Je Suis Celui Que Vous êtes il Que Vous êtes Moi Et Nous Sommes Tous Ensemble" Is No Joke In French

How did "being open-minded" get to be considered good, when so many examples of it's pitfalls surround us?

Roger Gonnet,...is the subject of a special feature in the latest edition of French magazine XXI,.... 

This time however, his journey from dedicated Scientologist to the movement's most vociferous critic in France is told in the graphic-novel format. 

Gonnet's story is the centrepiece of a 34-page dossier dedicated to Scientology in the latest edition of XXI, which appears quarterly. 

L'Evadé de la Secte (roughly, He Escaped from the Cult) is built around his experience of the movement: but it also works in the basic story of Dianetics, Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. 

Bringing his story to life in a 30-page strip is Renaud De Heyn, a Belgian comic-book artist and illustrator with several books to his name. 

...De Heyn recounts how Gonnet and his wife Françoise got pulled into Scientology by his uncle, who with an American friend ran a successful franchise of the movement. 

At the time Gonnet was a business consultant and Françoise a teacher: but this was in 1973, at the tail end of what was still a thriving hippy movement in France, when people were open to all kinds of unconventional ideas.

Tell me something I don't know - TMR's got a "delusional thinking" tag. 

At the bottom of the post - look.

I'd love to have someone illustrate my cult story, especially for the French, since part of it takes place there and I find the frogs, generally, so on-the-mark about cults but so "off" when assessing America. And the cult of homeopathy. 

We, both, require more study.

Where was I? I don't know - Scientology's on trial in France, and will probably be getting the boot soon, or something. In this, we can learn from The Frog Nation. Nobody needs this shit.

 But make no mistake: 

From here on out,...

That's about as "open-minded" as we should plan on getting about anything.

FOR REALS,...

The Unicorn Left The Gate (Dragging Niggas Behind It)

In time, we'll discover every "despicable" Boomer "belief" and behavior has a cult behind it:

Jon, we know that Scientology relies on its celebrities to burnish its image. But in at least one case, there’s someone very famous whose involvement the church would rather keep under wraps. We’re talking about Charles Manson, diminutive cult leader and ward of the state of California. What do we know about Charlie’s time in Scientology? 

JON: In 1969, when the Manson Family exploded across the headlines, the Guardian’s Office successfully downplayed Charlie Manson’s involvement with auditing. Manson says that he became “pretty heavily into Dianetics and Scientology” while he was in prison in the early 1960s. GO documents, seized by the FBI, show that Manson had received about 150 hours of auditing. This is more than I received in my nine-year involvement, and I reached OT V. The GO was also successful in keeping the involvement of other Family members from the press, but internal documents show that three others had been caught up in Scientology: Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, Lanier Ramer, and Bruce Davis all received auditing. Manson was still keen on Scientology when he met Davis, and was attracted to Davis because of his involvement. 

In prison, before the formation of the Family, Manson had gushed about Scientology to other inmates, including Alvin ‘Creepy’ Karpis, who was serving a life sentence for fourteen gangland killings. 

THE BUNKER: In 1971, Paulette Cooper, in The Scandal of Scientology, not only reported that Manson had been involved in Scientology, but she also mentioned that he might have been involved in a Scientology breakaway group. 

JON: That’s right. Two defectors had set up their own brand of Scientology and renamed it The Process. Along the way, they had also changed their own names, from Robert and Mary Ann Moore to “De Grimston.” Initially, they styled their splinter group Compulsions Analysis. Eventually, they settled on the title The Process Church of the Final Judgment. The De Grimstons and their followers dressed in black and walked their German Shepherds along the beaches of California. They accepted the Hubbard dictum that only adventurers make for worthy members of society, and they disdained the “greys,” who lived humdrum lives. For followers of The Process — of whom Manson was one — it was essential, as Hubbard stated his own central purpose in life, to “smash” their names into history. To the De Grimstons morality didn’t come into it, so they revered Hitler as a great success. 

It is more than likely that Manson’s own despicable ideas were influenced by this take on Scientology.

Oh yeah, and he ain't alone. Give it time. Meditation, yoga - all the self-hypnotizing bullshit: 

 Cults will eventually be tagged as the horrible, historical, source material for it all.

That ain't what I was looking for when I left the ghetto - it's what they "gave" me,...

 

TMR: We Have Answers For All Life's Problems

Here's a pretty good talk about Scientology, where it's pointed out the "religion" scam is only carted out when it suits the cult's needs.

It used to be the non-religious psychological "breakthrough" of Dianetics, remember?

And then, later, what starts off as a great topic for discussion - why some women are so gullible to the "supernatural" gambit - devolves into some boring "maybe they don't get enough science" bullshit we've heard waaay too many times before.

Have these people ever actually met any cultish women?

We know we shouldn't be surprised - since it's a conversation between scientists - but it reminds us all-too-well (again) how trapped scientists are in their own cultish bubble, and how wrong-headed they can be without first-hand experience with cult behavior. (On the other hand, of course, if they had first-hand experience they wouldn't be asking questions to begin with.) Anyway, here's a clue - from someone who's experienced - for anyone who cares:

If you give cultish women science training in anything, by the time they're done with it, it will have become a pseudoscience they're trying to force up the ass of the medical profession.

So what's our solution to the problem?

It would suit the needs of the nation better if we made them prostitutes selling pussy in the snow.

Welcome Back To Earth, Buddy, Glad To See You

"Jeff Hawkins is on a mission to expose what he says is a cult."

-- Thom Jensen, on Scientology's latest defector - the marketer behind "Dianetics" - as the rats leave the sinking ship, for Oregon's KVAL, CBS 13 News.