According to former members and press reports, the few who attain the
highest level of instruction learn the following secret theology: 75
million years ago a tyrant named Xenu imprisoned other aliens near
volcano's on Earth and then nuked them, leaving their spirits, or
"thetans," to wander the planet and attach themselves to humans
- to be purged through further courses. While Scientology officials
dispute this account of their beliefs - spokesman Rinder calls it
"garbage, completely untrue" - they refuse to provide a more
accurate version, saying upper-level church beliefs are for insiders
only.
What distinguishes Scientology is Hubbard's bile and paranoia, which is
clearly demonstrated in much of his writing. Representative is the
"policy letter" written in 1969: "We must ourselves fight
on a basis of total attrition of the enemy. So never get reasonable about
him. Just go all the way in the obliterate him." There are many
other examples.
Furthermore, one of the central tenets of Scientology philosophy is that
20 percent of mankind is "suppressive," a Scientology term that
seems to mean "evil" and "meanspirited." Of that 20
percent, Hubbard wrote, 2.5 percent are "truly dangerous." Such
people, Hubbard wrote, "should not have, in any thinking society,
any civil rights of any kind�"
As a consequence, Scientologists are always on the lookout for
suppressives. "When we trace the cause of a failing business, we
will inevitably discover somewhere in its ranks the antisocial
personality hard at work," Hubabrd wrote - and to Scientologists
Hubbard's writings are considered scripture. "Where life has become
rough and is failing, a careful review of the area by a trained observer
will detect one or more such personalities at work."
As Cruise has told Entertainment Weekly, "I look at certain
people that aren't doing well and say, 'Well, who's around him? Do they
want to see this person do well?' And often I might find one person that
really doesn't want to see this guy succeed."
Hubbard left little doubt about how suppressives were to be treated.
Consider rule number twelve in Scientology's official code of honor:
"Never fear to hurt another in a just cause."
http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/Scien12.html
Begun in the late '60s, the Celebrity Centre started in a rented building
at 1809 West Eighth Street, with five or six members headed up by a
charming Australian named Yvonne Gilham.
How Charming?
I recall once, while I was still in Los Angeles the head of our cult
branch, Yvonne Gilham Jentzsch laughingly discussing putting up stained
glass windows to further dupe the *Wogs.
http://www.skeptictank.org/gs/sci631.htm
