Article: Scientology secrets revealed

The Church of Scientology has lashed out at a new book by its leader's niece, which recounts a stolen childhood and how she was brainwashed and cut off from her family before eventually escaping.

In "Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology And My Harrowing Escape," Jenna Miscavige-Hill -- whose uncle David Miscavige runs the secretive group -- also claims she was forced to work as a child.
 
Once you are interested then the fish-hooks start to bite and it is extremely difficult to withdraw. Either mental or psychological blackmail is applied to any wayward followers who might consider abandoning the "faith".

An evil sect with no redeeming features, except to enhance the lifestyle of the leaders and originators
 
Excerpt
What it was like growing up in Scientology | BabyCenter Blog

By Jenna Miscavige

I definitely didn’t grow up in anything you’d recognize as “traditional.”

I didn’t sleep in a warm house with food cooked at home by my mom. I didn’t have sleepovers with friends or a toy box, much less toys to fill it. My parents were high up in the Church of Scientology, and from the age of six, I lived in a boarding school for children of church executives. I shared a dorm room with seven other girls; it was attached to a bathroom we shared with the neighboring dorm which also held seven girls. Where a TV would have been (if it were allowed) instead stood a picture of the founder of Scientology, seemingly watching and judging our every move.

Our days often began with military close-order drilling, followed by four hours of labor, which could be anything from hauling rocks to build walls, to digging irrigation trenches, to painting the exteriors of the compound’s buildings. This was all part of the Church’s philosophy. We were taught that only criminals got things for free, and our work was our way of giving back, in exchange for the food and beds we were lucky to have.

We were taught that we were spiritual beings called “thetans” who lived many lifetimes, and had been around with different bodies for billions of years. For that reason, despite our child bodies, we were treated as adults, both physically and mentally. Imagine a group of seven-year-olds being spoken to as though they’re adults, and expected to work to that level! But this was my reality, the only one I knew.

My parents lived about 20 miles away, but I rarely saw them. In our belief system, no thetan or spirit could give birth to another thetan, and so the family dynamic was merely temporary and a distraction to our parents’ mission to save the world. And so we only saw them once a week for a few hours on Sunday morning before returning to “The Ranch” as the school was called. Those drives back were among my saddest moments as a child.

I left the Ranch when I was just 12, but things didn’t get any better. During the next six years I saw my mother twice and my father four times, usually for less than an hour. We went to school one day a week, and even that stopped when I was 16. We were too busy with our duties and working 14 hour days, seven days a week, for the Church.

Jenna Miscavige Hill grew up inside Scientology as the niece of its current leader, David Miscavige. Her new biography, “Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and my Harrowing Escape,” was on Amazon’s “best books of the month” list in February.

"This is part one of two posts about growing up in Scientology. Part two will be published next week."

From http://blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories/03062013children-in-scientology/
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To be robbed of her youth is disgusting, these people are truly deluded. At least she survived it mentally and could write a book about it all.
 
agerbon said:
And this is different to other religions?
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Erm, well.... I do not know about you but I do not see most moderate religious people shipping their kids off to a place like this.

Extremists in anything might.... even non religious groups. Or are we not counting the brain washing of the child soldiers in central Africa and the like?
 
Devill said:
Erm, well.... I do not know about you but I do not see most moderate religious people shipping their kids off to a place like this.
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Well, there is that documentary called, "Jesus Camp" you should have a look at , but yeah, you cant really compare the two with a straight face. Sure both are bad, but you cant compare a religious shun to a disconnect, or "Jesus Camp" to Clearwater.

You can also safely write an article on the Church of England without it sending PI`s to investigate you, without it picketing outside your house and without it putting flyers in your neighbors posts boxes claiming you are an evil person.

For the Church of Scientology. Extreme is the normal, not the exception. Though saying that.... Scientology dont fly planes into buildings...
 
Devill said:
Erm, well.... I do not know about you but I do not see most moderate religious people shipping their kids off to a place like this.

Extremists in anything might.... even non religious groups. Or are we not counting the brain washing of the child soldiers in central Africa and the like?
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I guess you won't find much of that here in South Africa. I know for a fact that in Portugal catholic boarding schools where a nightmare. At least the one I went to.
 
agerbon said:
And this is different to other religions?
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I saw this question coming, but seeing that scientology is a fairly new religion (only known as a religion for legislative purposes, but actually a cult), so to attack other religions would be one big red herring fallacy?
 
/shameless bump for those who missed out on educating themselves about this dangerous cult...
 
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