The Weight Is Gone

The following was written as a comment at Tony Ortega's blog the Underground Bunker today in response to his posts.

I feel that today's post and many of the recent ones have really made the case quite well that needs to be made. Ron Hubbard was a deeply troubled boy who dreamed of ruling men and seducing women. He tried to achieve his dreams by combining hypnosis, loaded language and occult practices with rhetoric and psychology to make his own cult.

Long before the first page of Dianetics was written Hubbard plotted and schemed, planned and dreamed. He fantasized about unlimited power and wealth as a perfect man who was revered as a god, even above God, by an army of zealots and fanatics who would kill or die for him. He took that idea from his occult studies. Crowley, the OAHSPE and other occult sources provided many of the ideas and methods he used and plagiarized all through his life.

He never found or used ANY beneficial methods. Not in Dianetics, not in Scientology, not ever. He was a pathological liar and utterly lacking in humility and compassion for others. As a layman I can say he was a malignant narcissist and be confident in that. He abused and exploited people through lies and fallacies covertly.

The Scientologist cult still under David Miscavige is abusive and criminal. The evidence is overwhelming. I feel Tony Ortega has made it completely clear and plain to see with his blog. With accounts from so many sources and so many perspectives he created a whole that is great. Between the organizational analysis from Jeffrey Augustine to the history and undue influence dissected expertly by Jon Atack to the whistleblowing by Karen de la Carriere and of course the stories by Tony Ortega himself the case is made.

Obviously I recommend supplemental materials for greater understanding, but for many purposes this body of work is more than adequate, it's actually excellent. It provides more than enough evidence to show the true nature of Scientology and Hubbard. And now Miscavige and his cult.

I personally feel as if a great weight has been lifted. When I left Scientology two years ago I went on a nearly maddening and mind shattering journey. For many who are in for decades discovering Hubbard was not an enlightened messiah with spiritual wisdom but instead a cruel conman with nothing but lies and their life was a lie, as were all their beliefs and values, is an extremely traumatic and life changing experience.

Then after a few months of examining the evidence against Hubbard and Scientology for hundreds of hours I knew a much larger job needed to be undertaken. I knew hundreds of more hours of work had to be put in and may have underestimated the immensity of the task. I felt an obligation to discover and reveal a sufficient amount of information on Scientology to lay out the essential parts. After two years of continuing the journey I feel confident I don't need to dissect and expose Scientology. The job has been fulfilled with the Underground Bunker.

It's a tremendous relief. I don't have to study and research as if it's a full-time job and urgent mission anymore. Hubbard's influence will never ruin humanity. And it doesn't rule over me either. The responsibility of informing people about this is not mine or unfulfilled.

I and other ex Scientologists can relax to a degree and take on Scientology at our own pace and rest assured the relevant essential information is available and being given to critics and ex Scientologists, and even some Scientologists as well.