Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Page #3

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And fears are stored.

And where do they come from?

They come from engrams.

An engram

is like a memory.

A man has

an automobile accident.

He has a picture

of an automobile accident.

He has all the sensations

of having been hurt

In the automobile accident.

It takes him a long time

to recover,

Because he's still wearing

the automobile accident.

If you said,

"hey, why don't you take

"this automobile accident

and throw it away?"

Well, all of a sudden,

he recovers

From the automobile accident,

naturally,

Because the thing that's

keeping it impressed upon him

And his body

is his mind.

An auditor is a practitioner

in scientology.

He listens

and he computes.

We have a meter.

A meter simply shows

Where an individual

is aberrated.

The e-meter is

a very powerful instrument.

It's one-third

of a lie detector.

A lie detector would also

measure your respiration

and pulse.

There's two cans

And there's electrical wires

Carrying an undetectable

amount of current

Into a meter

with a needle on it.

According to the church

of scientology,

It actually detects

the mass of your thoughts,

Although there's no evidence

that thoughts have mass.

The current

passes through your body,

And as your mental mass

increases,

So does the resistance

to the circuit.

So the auditor will

ask you a question,

"tell me about

an upset with your mother."

"what's truly bothering you

about being with, you know,

"with your wife's behavior?

What is it?"

"why are you upset today?"

"well, i had a fight

with my wife."

"well, i can see."

"that there--

was that the same thought?"

"say that again."

And gradually, the needle

will have less response.

And in that manner,

you discharge the emotion.

Then you're asked to go back

to earlier incidents

That were like that.

And you might say,

"well, my mother spoke to me

"in the same

scolding tone of voice."

And you recount that story,

And eventually,

you discharge the emotion.

And that's very much

like freudian therapy.

But with scientology,

Then they'll ask further.

"well, that's as far back

as i go."

Well, maybe not.

The auditor might say,

"something just registered

on the meter.

"what was that?"

"i had an image

in my mind."

"well, what was the image?"

"it was a barn."

"are you inside the barn?

Go back to that image.

"okay, open the door.

What do you see?"

"well, it looks like

19th century france."

You walk outside

and you see

The people dressed

in their costumes,

And the e-meter is

saying this is real.

This is a real memory.

It's just as real

as those other memories

that you had.

Beautiful little soft needle,

and everything's good.

Needle's rising, which means

he's getting, you know,

Thinking a lot.

The needle just, like,

goes "pfft,"

Like a lot of sh*t

blows away.

The theta bop,

which is a very quick little

thing like, "doo doo doo,"

Which means

exteriorization.

When you come out

of an auditing session,

You feel euphoric.

That confessional nature

makes you feel better.

Somebody would say,

"oh, you're going

to have a session."

I would feel better

just hearing that.

Man is asleep.

He is hypnotized.

Now in scientology,

reverse the process,

And you'll make him

wake up.

Such a man

becomes un-brainwashed,

you might say.

He becomes unhypnotized.

This sounds, mr. Hubbard,

in a sense,

Like an extension

of psychology

or psychiatry.

Oh, no, psychiatry

has to do with the insane,

And we have nothing to do

with the insane whatsoever.

Is this is a form

of psychoanalysis?

No, psychoanalysis,

they lay back and--

Don't associate scientology

with such people.

That's terrible.

That's bad manners, you know?

When l. Ron hubbard

first wrote "dianetics,"

He thought it was

a tremendous psychological

breakthrough,

So much so

that he would be recognized.

He wrote letters to

the american psychological

association.

They couldn't make heads

or tail of his ideas.

To them, it was like

psychological folk art.

For instance,

he would talk about "clear."

That means that

the individual

Has erased

his reactive mind--

His unconscious mind

is gone--

And he is totally alert

And totally capable.

Once you've taken away

all these traumatic memories,

From this life

and previous ones,

Then you are clear.

Someone who had

a perfect memory,

Who was never ill.

Your eyesight

would be better.

We tested people

before scientology processing

And after

scientology processing,

And uniformly found

that their iq had raised.

We are making

such individuals,

We're making them regularly,

and we're making

them routinely.

An overt act

is an effort to individuate.

It is a withhold

of oneself...

Ron gave lectures

everywhere

For large amounts of money,

and money just started

pouring in.

I mean, these people

were paying

$500 apiece

in the 1950s

For training

in "dianetics."

I felt that he was stealing

from people

And that he was

hoodwinking them.

All the business of sitting,

holding hands,

And putting

all these false memories

into people's minds...

Then they would finally

come along and say,

"oh, yes,

i can remember it all."

We were surrounded

by sycophants.

He began to believe

that he was a savior and hero,

That he really was

this god figure.

He was absolutely convinced

That he had the cure

for the psychological ills

of mankind,

And that the only reason

that it wasn't being propagated

far and wide

Was that the medical profession

had a vested interest

In keeping people sick.

I think he was afraid

that some psychiatrists

Would pop him

into an institution.

He degenerated into

a really paranoid,

Terrifying person.

Sara threatened

to leave hubbard

Unless he got

psychiatric help.

He responded

by kidnapping their baby

And taking her to cuba.

He was incapable

of taking care of her,

So he put her in the charge

of a mother and daughter

Who were both

mentally retarded.

And they apparently kept her

in some kind of cage.

He called me and told me

that he had killed her.

He said he had cut her

into little pieces

And dropped the pieces

in a river,

And it was my fault.

Then he'd call me back

and say that she

was still alive.

And this went on

and on and on.

When hubbard came back

to the u.S.,

Sara persuaded him

to agree to a divorce

And give her custody

of their daughter.

When i left him,

he cleaned out

All the joint bank accounts

So that i wouldn't

have any money.

Hubbard soon lost

all his money, too.

"dianetics" proved

to be a passing fad,

like the hula hoop.

But hubbard still had

his imagination.

So he repackaged the ideas

of "dianetics"

Into a religion

called scientology.

Hubbard added more science

and more structure.

Along with the e-meters

came a payment plan.

Every step to "clear"

had a price tag.

How would you describe

your business model?

Rapacious.

It's all about making money.

Hubbard, from the beginning,

knew that

People would pay

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