Scientologics I call the concept of applying plain logic and common sense to a broad subject generally referred to as Scientology.

There is a difference first of all between scientology as a subject and an organization officially named the Church of Scientology. The church is sometimes referred to as a sect, this is incorrect. A sect is by definition a split off. Correct is that the church of Scientology has over the years given birth to several sects. A few examples are the Ron’s Orgs, also referrred to as Freezone, the American Independents, Knowledgism, Landmark Forum etc.

Scientology is the title of a book written around 1934 by Dr. A. Nordenholz and contains a philosophical treatise and outline of a science of knowing.

Hubbardian Scientology is a collection of philosophical and religious views and techniques for increasing spiritual and mental awareness and abilities assembled, re-interpreted and invented by the late L.R Hubbard.

Hubbard did not follow the academic tradition of acknowledging and referencing his sources. He didn’t follow ‘proper’ scientific experimental procedure and only published his conclusions. Many of the principles of the actual Dianetics and Scientology counseling, could for example be derived from Carl Rogers work¹. Some elements trace directly to Freud and Jung.

But L.R. Hubbard inspired many and indeed forwarded and created new approaches in mass marketing spirituality, with concepts like self-analysis and ‘do-it-yourself or with a mate’  psycho-therapy. As a young psychology student in 1970 at Utrecht University, I was inspired, it promised adventure and was more attractive than listening to my professor declaring psychology to be the soulless “study of behavior and the forms of organization of that behavior”.

The first few years 1950-1954 Hubbard started a break away movement of independence from the orthodox psychoanalysts and he was one of the first to cry out against psychiatric abuses such as pre-frontal lobotomies long before Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote “The Myth of Mental Illness” (1961)

Some facts are…

that he inspired a spiritual movement and established a church, which was not christian science but it had scientific appeal.

It was instrumental to get a large number of people to experiment with their own minds and investigating the spiritual realms when this was not so common in the fifties.

He obviously used many sources and was not given to credit each one specifically but stressed his own mixn catharsis analysis, but with a fresh approach not only in marketing, but also int

The treatment of the subject in the media is as characteristic of modern media, full of generalities and imprecise statements and a mix of true as well as false data.

In Germany the state officials or politicians consider Scientology to be anti-democratic due to a Hubbard stating that “…democracy gave us inflation and income tax.” Considering the

¹Counseling and Psychotherapy, Carl Rogers (1942)

Personal

I have spent 25 years in the Sea Org and had a lot of fun and a good game, giving lots of counseling sessions to people mostly with great results.

I left when Miscavige became abusive and directly affecting my own life. I did the PTS/SP course in the RPF at Flag in Clearwater and left the Sea Org on graduation from the course, leaving no doubt as to my opinion of what was going on and who the real suppressive was.

Scientology Disconnection

I lost all contact to my ex-wife and two daughters since I voiced my opinions on radio and tv in the Netherlands since 2004. Soon after my first public utterances, at first still aimed only towards reform of the church, I received letters of disconnection from my daughters.

Perhaps this church is more christian than I thought, as even in the New Testament things like this are described, for example in Matthew 10, 34-37:

37. Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring         peace, but a sword.

35. I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

 36.  Your enemies will be right in your own household!

37. If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.

 Caspar de Rijk, ex-scientologist and Sea Org Member, Class IX