by Bob Penny
Released to the public domain in 1993

SCIENTOLOGY -- L. RON HUBBARD'S INCORRIGIBLE BRAINCHILD

Table of Contents:

• Introduction

• Chapter 1:  Shared Self-Deceptions

  • "TRs" (Training Routines)

• Chapter 2:  Friends to Be Cooperated With

• Chapter 3:  A Destructive Cult

• Chapter 4:  Scientology Training: Selling "Hard Sell"

  • Learning How to Learn

  • How Questions are Handled

  • I Will Wait until You Stop Asking

  • Another Example of Scientology Training: "I Am Not Your Auditor"

  • A Separate Realm of Thought

  • Start of the Trap: The Numbers Game

  • The Trap Continues: Gradual Erosion

  • After Gradual Erosion: Hard Sell

• Chapter 5:  The Creation of Ignorance

• Chapter 6:  But I Thought You Cared about Your Children...

  • Look Only Where I Tell You to Look

  • Take a Mile If He Gives an Inch

  • In Other Words... (a summary)

• Chapter 7:  Scientology Ethics

  • Ethics as an Assertion

  • Ethics as the Destruction of Values

  • Personal Integrity

  • Advanced Skills of Being In-Ethics

• Chapter 8:  The Defeat of Street Smarts

  • Caveat Vendor (Seller Beware)

  • An Example: Narconon and the Purification Rundown

  • Certainty vs Truth

• Chapter 9:  An Example of Word Games: The Word Control

  • I Say BLUE; I Dare You To Say GREEN

• Chapter 10:  The Web of Group-Think

  • Something Done Other Than What Was Said

• Chapter 11:  Results

  • Enforcing the Appearances of Results

  • Don't Overlook the Obvious Absurdity

• About the Author