Scientologists are very susceptible to conspiracy theories. It doesn’t matter much WHAT it is, many Scientologists readily buy into amu idea that there are a group of evil people determined to enslave/destroy/poison/control people. Here we have, according to Brian Gardner, “the most evil individuals of our time” (scientists?) trying to foist off the big lie…
Brian is a hardcore scientologist — you only need know he was the “PR” for SFO Org and read his last sentence to dispel any possible doubts about that.
Why is this willingness to latch on to these theories so prevalent in scientology? Because one of the all time great conspiracy theorists was none other than L. Ron Hubbard.
It began for Hubbard with the APA and AMA who were somehow in cahoots to destroy Dianetics. He added more and more to the conspiracy as the years went by and at the end of his life his forces of evil trying to destroy him and “man’s only hope” included bankers, the media (chaos merchants”), drug companies, Interpol, all tax agencies, the FBI, CIA, Naval Intelligence, courts, judges, police forces and of course, every single psychiatrist and psychologist on earth. With a teacher/guru instilling this worldview it’s no mystery that scientologists love conspiracies.
Am wondering how Brian views the words of his founder:
“The planet’s technology is on the surface very complex and sophisticated but is so bad in actual fact that experts do not give the planet and its populations 30 years before the smoke and fumes will have eaten up the air cover and left an oxygenless world. (The converters like trees and grass which change carbon dioxide to oxygen are inadequate to replace the oxygen and are additionally being killed by air impurities coming out of factories and cities.) If the technology destroys the base where it is done ‑ in this case the planet ‑ it is not adequate and may even be destructive technology.” Hubbard 20 Nov 1970
If a person educates enough, you see Hubbard’s whole line of ideas isn’t “working” and never will work.
Get back to more mainstream thinking in society and history.
Humans are not dominated by our mental spiritual negative soul memories causing all our human ailments.
Humans are not additionally infested with body-thetans dumped onto earth after those body-thetans were mass murdered and put through the Xenu created Wall of Fire, and the Xenu R6 implanting that went on supposedlly for 36 and 1/2 days of R6 implanting.
We are just not damaged by these Hubbard speculated problems, and earth societies are not in turn damaged by “engrams” and by R6 implanted body-thetans.
The world would be better off not engaging in the Hubbard pseudo-therapy and the Hubbard exorcism/soul-freeing.
I just hope Scientology’s core practices are laid out more simply when Scientology subject is brought up, so that people will always get to the punchline, “What Is Scientology?” more completely, and concisely.
Scientology is quackery pseudo-therapy aimed at past lives debilitating soul memories. And Scientology on OT 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 aims to exorcise/soul-free body-thetans supposedly R6 implanted by Xenu, and these body-thetans infesting all humans are the “big” target to fix earth ultimately, of Hubbard’s.
Just telling the public this, is enough to damper interest in doing Scientology. Always. Xenu is theoretically a big deal when you gobble up Hubbard’s spiritual theories of what’s wrong with earth. Xenu did it.
100 years ago there were scientists who were saying “in 100 years from now the greenhouse effect will be a problem.” Now it’s 100 years later and lo and behold, what they said would happen is what happened. This is when you know science works. They say something specific happens AHEAD of time, and then it does. As opposed to conspiracy theories, who wait until something HAS happened and then try find all the hidden codes in it. Or predict the same thing will happen every year until the stopped watch principle eventually occurs and then they claim they predicted it, ignoring the 40 previous times they predicted it and it didn’t happen.
The Terrestrial Biosphere is a dynamic environment within a Dynamic Universe.
Brian Gardner, a sad nothing of a $camatologist. Award winning journo? I could find nothing. Author? He scribbled a piece of self published crap years ago called Plan for America and the World which has since gone into the septic tank of history.
Gads, I found what could only be described as a bit of tripe about Brian by Brian:
“Brian has had many, many letters to the Editor published over the years and is an award winning Motor Sports Journalist for a review published in Autoweek magazine.”
Wow, he wrote lots of letters to the Editor and won a, most likely reader, award for a SINGLE review in Autoweek (of which incidentally I can find no trace). All this and he considers himself a journo?
Ssuurree, it does. Does that mean I can consider myself up there with Tolstoy and all them other good scribblers?
I did find a listing for The Banished (which is pretty apt because it’s been banished, to all intents and purposes, to the bin of history).
https://www.amazon.com.au/Banished-seperate-peoples-worlds-something-ebook/dp/B095BZKHHZ
Gosh, it’s a best seller and most certainly not a short novel, in fact it barely rates as a novella.
He put a self produced album, about 20 years ago, Songs of a Lifetime and Other Tales, which has no ratings at all and sales figures and now appears to have just vanished for ever.
Yet another rusted on and hard core sheepbot who could not survive outside the bubble ‘verse.
Oops, I just found another bit by Brian about Brian which almost made me choke on a piece of toasted sourdough fruit bread from laughing:
“He is currently the Way to Happiness Las Vegas Chapter Director and works with the Las Vegas Police Department, helping to lower crime in the area.
Climate science is hugely politicised, used by ideologues of every persuasion (typically via fallacies of exclusion). It is incorrect to assume “the science is settled.” It isn’t. It’s also irrelevant. Consensus is for narrative managers, not scientists. What matters to a scientist is a reproducible result.
When every scientific “fact” has a half life, the default attitude should always be skepticism and doubt. This is the basis of all scientific endeavour.
Well said and truly said.
And with the hefty bundle of series of policies for the Data Series Evaluator Course it makes you wonder.
That was my first course – the 2D Alignment Course was mostly just this but in miscellaneous order. I actually thought I understood what I was reading then – 1974 but did not use the information in life.
10 years later he publishes breaking news that the tech of the DSEC MUST NEVER BE STUDIED OUT OF ORDER AS THAT PRODUCES BAD RESULTS.
Guess thats why the earlier Exec training had produced ‘Tigers’ that were disqualified from ever holding a tech post again.
Oh and then more on point is the trouble I got in when I went to an event at Hollywood High about Alien Abductions. 😂 I got an Non-enturb order.
So happy to be far away.
Hope all is well Mike. Thank you for your work 💕
By volume, the dry air in Earth’s atmosphere is about 78.08 percent nitrogen, 20.95 percent oxygen, and 0.93 percent argon. A brew of trace gases accounts for the other approximately 0.04 percent, including the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone.Oct 9, 2019
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In 1950 there were 300 ppm (parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the air which translates to 3 molecules of carbon dioxide in 10,000 molecules of air and today there are just over 400 ppm or 4 molecules of carbon dioxide in 10,000 molecules of air. Whether the extra molecule is entirely caused by human activity is a matter of opinion and whose stats and computer models you are looking at and whether it spells near term human extinction.
In 1800 there were 1 billion humans on earth and I think there were 280 ppm. In 1950 there were 2.5 billion humans and today there are 8 billion. I wonder if anyone wrote a sci fi novel about a planetary population more than tripling in 74 years.* Very spacey, kind of like real life sci fi!
* Oh yeah – Mr. Hubbard said something about that
Current scientologists have more conspiracy theories to worry about than I did back in the 1970s
Indeed, I remember all those stories told by the IAS to siphon money from the gullible, which, however, were always vague generalities with almost never a who, and then nothing more was heard about it.
Note: Here where I live in Italy, it has been spring for a few weeks now, and there has been practically no winter. It wasn’t like this before.
These people are, unfortunately, completely incapable of having an original thought.
Brian is a big Trump supporter. There’s a surprise.
I have very little patience with this.
In order to convince yourself of climate change, all you have to do is look and believe the evidence of your own senses.
In California, I have seen the wild fires getting more and more severe, the prolonged droughts and the hotter summers.
Should I believe in this or in the ravings of some unhinged conspiracy theorist.
Scientology is supposed to help the individual to think for themselves and think clearly.
More Scientologists should try this out.
I saw emails a friend got from an OT8 (old man) during early days of Covid to tell people that he went to MIT and knew that viruses don’t hurt people and to just take vitamins to protect yourself from Covid. He also sent out emails on all sorts of conspiracy theories that he was certain were true (without any evidence). I got the idea he thought he was smarter than most people and was helping to educate people.
even some ex-scientologists I know seem to grasp at some strange conspiracy theories. I think it is part of the whole Scientology brain washing to believe that any conspiracy theory is true. I know some Scientologists who don’t believe that stuff but mostly they are no longer in.
It’s easy to overlook red flags and your own cognitive dissonance when your group is being attacked. Of course, the attack is complete folly. Because not very many people even notice your group.
But while the world is looking the other way, you’re shoring up the defenses for your horrible group. The time you spend bricking and sandbagging to defend against your fake enemies keeps you too busy to look under the hood at the flames warming the water pot your froggy self is writhing in.
Conspiracist thinking tends to be a feature across many cults. Jay Lifton’s pioneering book talks about “sacred science” — the group’s dogma that allegedly gives members super powers or deep understanding. The dogma must be infallible, which leads to the trap that Scientology is so good at springing on members: “the tech works 100% of the time when applied standardly,” which as we all know, means that if something works, Scientology gets the credit, but if it doesn’t, then you aren’t doing it right… and you need more Scientology to fix that.
Scientology’s higher-level dogma is the ultimate in overpromises that it could never hope to deliver — the upper OT levels tell you that you have unlimited mastery over MEST, including the ability to create entire universes with a wave of your hand. That’s going to result in massive disappointment when you try to put your OT powers to work and you can’t even get a parking space.
So conspiracy theories provide another reinforcement mechanism to get you to keep believing in the sacred dogma even when it (inevitably) doesn’t work. Instead of blaming yourself when your postulate fails, it’s easier to blame a shadowy network of degraded beings, psychs and SPs for things going wrong. Even if Hubbard wasn’t a conspiracy theory nutcase, it would almost certainly evolve in his followers because of the massive gap between expectation and reality.
So nice to hear from you John P. I always enjoy your take on things… (as I do many others, just haven’t heard from you for a while)
Mike, thanks for the kind words! I haven’t had time to do as much research and writing on Scientology over the last three years as in the past, because of increasing work responsibilities. However, my first read of the morning over breakfast is your blog and a couple of other Scientology sources. I’ve been glad to follow the good news about your medical recovery and to see the smiling family pictures.