If central beliefs or ultimate concerns have been artificially created, transferred, or maintained by the application of coercive persuasion which bypassed true voluntarism, (freedom of conscience without any degree of compulsion in matters of belief), can there be free exercise rights for these "beliefs," and can the organization that implemented this technology be an establishment of religion?

Coercive persuasion is antithetical to the First Amendment. It contains aspects which could be interpreted as constituting the illegal acts of fraud, false imprisonment, coercion, undue influence, involuntary servitude, intentional infliction of emotional distress, outrageous conduct, and other tortious acts.

It is the unfair manipulation of the biological and psychological weaknesses and susceptibilities of one's fellow men. It is a psychological force not of a free society, but of a criminal or totalitarian society.

Freedom of religion cannot exist without first having an absolutely "protected" freedom of thought. Freedom of religion without this freedom of thought is an absurdity.

"Coercive Persuasion and Scientology," by Lawrence Wollersheim