How I fell Victim to Scientology's NLP!

Note: this was originally published on Operation Clambake's Messageboard.

So to give a quick premise, I did have some level of understanding of how NLP worked by reading some of Steve Hassan's books and Snapping by Flo Conway and Jim Seigelman. I didn't have a full understanding of it, however but just a brief introduction on the subject.

For those of you who don't know neuro-linguistic programming is a technique advertisers, mentalists, hypnotists, and cults use to control wants, desires and needs by conversational techniques, visual or audio signals and suggestions. Anyone is subjectable to this process and we usually are everyday when we watch television, listen to the radio, drive in our cars and even a stroll down the street.

Scientology has insisted that all Scientologists view the 2007 OT Summit in where David Miscavage makes a long presentation for the new basic books and lectures. I have viewed this a couple times trying to get an idea of how they can market an "event" into one long winded sales pitch and nothing more. I was baffled. How could anyone get tickets to what would seem like a an entertainment style event and get ol' bait and switch an just sit through an infomercial and NOT be upset.

I kept watching thinking perhaps they might get into some kind of talent show or something worthwhile. Nope, just flashy pictures of the books and lectures, snippets of the audio, excuse making for squirreling tech, and DM's big bag (or perhaps little bag in his case) of hot air.

Ohh well, I thought. I showed some snippets to a few of my friends to show them the correlation between that and 1984's (which I had them read or watch long before) memory hole and how they were in that style of totalism and deleted it forevermore.

A few months later I noticed that all of those library donations Scientology has been pushing their members to give have been turning up in library books stores with the shrink wrap still on from anywhere from 50 cents to 2 dollars. Lots of brand new in the cellophane basic books were on Amazon for one penny plus 4 dollars shipping. Now I've had A History of man and Dianetics for a while as a reference, but I thought, "Hey, why not get them and build a reference collection? I also spent another 50 bucks on other cult material and anti-cult books

So 50 dollars I was probably going to spend on fast food was sacrificed (i guess for a good thing, I can always find more reasons to loose some weight) for Scientology's books. Aside from Evolution of a science which was an '89 edition I found in a thrift store I got all of the new basic books, and not a penny when into DM's caves.

After I was waiting for the last book to be delivered I looked more into NLP as part of my understanding of cult mind control, and even just another brief introduction again realized I'd been duped by the cult! Now, I was never in Scientology! When I looked into Scientology i realized it was a con game from day one! How could this have happened to me? NLP! It's the same method that Darren Brown used to convince this man in a short minute that what he wants is a red BMX bike rather than his real desire.



I personally have no problems admitting I was duped after I realized I've been duped. I've been duped before and so have the rest of us. If smart people can never be duped this message board would not exist. However, this technique should be noted by everyone for their own freedom of mind.

Concerned (a user on OCMB), this is what happened to you. This is why, even though you are skeptical of the OTs levels and the Church, you feel the need to buy and do basics again. I'm thoroughly convinced DM has studied NLP for the soul purpose of getting members to buy shit they already have again because LRH isn't exactly coming out with new material anymore.

As for the books I have got. I have made tabs of things damning to the cult (like the policy on disconnection in Intro to Scientology Ethics Tommy Davis swore doesn't exist and the avocation of genocide of people below 2.0 on the tone scale in Science of Survival and such) and promised myself never to read them because of my (and everyone else in the world's) subjectablity to NLP.

Jump and the net will appear!

On a side note: I'd also like to thank those who have paid almost 500 dollars to have these books put in libraries because the libraries don't want your trash mixed in with real books with real literature and knowledge in the buildings and pawning them off anywhere from 1/5th to 1/60th of the retail price so that I could buy them up use them against itself!