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Mark 'Marty' Rathbun: Scientology's Worship Of The Past
http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/scientologys-worship-of-the-past/
Notice the word scientology is no longer capitalized in Marty's essays.
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Another excerpt from Deconstructing Scientology:
Once sold on the reactive mind construct as fact, the next most fundamental belief instilled through the scientology catechism is that we have all fallen from grace and must strive to re-attain it. We came from a state of perfection that was infinite in terms of potential and capability. Each of us once was divine ‘cause’. A scientologist’s mission is to return to that ‘native state.’ In order to do so one must confront that which created his descent into the human condition. Thus, the central practice of scientology is a form of abreaction therapy that returns one to and addresses each step one took down the ladder from his native condition.
Unlike more conventional psychotherapies, scientology’s abreaction practice is intended to be, and is in practice, interminable. That is due to scientology also teaching that each of us is a positive, separate identity that has been intact for quadrillions of years and beyond. It preaches that the unraveling of all the quadrillions of years of falling from perfection is the only road to spiritual freedom, even the only means to fully wake up from insanity.
The cathartic byproduct of witnessing events in the past serves as the glue that fixes the scientologist’s attention there forever. The belief in the holy grail lying in the deep past is firmly and cumulatively reinforced by every session one participates in that results in relief or release – or some other form of heightened emotion or consciousness – by witnessing an incident from one’s past.
Consequently, the second important prong of the scientology indoctrination is the belief that the answers to the mysteries of the universe all lay deep in the past. As much as scientology promises to create freedom from the past – and irrespective of how personally liberating one finds certain instances of regressing back to face it might be – scientology never releases the adherent from it. To the contrary, scientology continues to offer indoctrination at its highest levels that enforces a fixation yet deeper into the past. Scientologists will vehemently argue with a great deal of righteous indignation that this notion is blasphemous and defamatory. Yet, the words of scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard – which scientologists swear to understand and abide – demonstrate this to be the case. Hubbard’s thousands of recorded lectures are strewn with references to the good old space opera days. He liberally dropped dates like millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions, and quadrillions to the infinite power years ago when reminiscing about his exploits and by positive suggestion those of his adherents. In virtually all of Hubbard’s sci fi narratives beings possessed capabilities far exceeding anything known to humankind.
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http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/scientologys-worship-of-the-past/
Notice the word scientology is no longer capitalized in Marty's essays.
****** BEGIN QUOTATION ******
Another excerpt from Deconstructing Scientology:
Once sold on the reactive mind construct as fact, the next most fundamental belief instilled through the scientology catechism is that we have all fallen from grace and must strive to re-attain it. We came from a state of perfection that was infinite in terms of potential and capability. Each of us once was divine ‘cause’. A scientologist’s mission is to return to that ‘native state.’ In order to do so one must confront that which created his descent into the human condition. Thus, the central practice of scientology is a form of abreaction therapy that returns one to and addresses each step one took down the ladder from his native condition.
Unlike more conventional psychotherapies, scientology’s abreaction practice is intended to be, and is in practice, interminable. That is due to scientology also teaching that each of us is a positive, separate identity that has been intact for quadrillions of years and beyond. It preaches that the unraveling of all the quadrillions of years of falling from perfection is the only road to spiritual freedom, even the only means to fully wake up from insanity.
The cathartic byproduct of witnessing events in the past serves as the glue that fixes the scientologist’s attention there forever. The belief in the holy grail lying in the deep past is firmly and cumulatively reinforced by every session one participates in that results in relief or release – or some other form of heightened emotion or consciousness – by witnessing an incident from one’s past.
Consequently, the second important prong of the scientology indoctrination is the belief that the answers to the mysteries of the universe all lay deep in the past. As much as scientology promises to create freedom from the past – and irrespective of how personally liberating one finds certain instances of regressing back to face it might be – scientology never releases the adherent from it. To the contrary, scientology continues to offer indoctrination at its highest levels that enforces a fixation yet deeper into the past. Scientologists will vehemently argue with a great deal of righteous indignation that this notion is blasphemous and defamatory. Yet, the words of scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard – which scientologists swear to understand and abide – demonstrate this to be the case. Hubbard’s thousands of recorded lectures are strewn with references to the good old space opera days. He liberally dropped dates like millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions, and quadrillions to the infinite power years ago when reminiscing about his exploits and by positive suggestion those of his adherents. In virtually all of Hubbard’s sci fi narratives beings possessed capabilities far exceeding anything known to humankind.
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