we are in San Francisco this week. yesterday when we finished our meetings we passed by the Scientology church in downtown. they advertised a free stress test and the guy at the entrance invited us to check it out. being in a good mood and curious we entered..
after a tour of the lobby we were taken to take the test.
idan tried it first. after a short calibration of the machine he was asked to think about something. the alien designed stress-o-meter immediately detected a serious stress situation (see below)
idan was taken for consultation to see if the answer to his stressful life can be found in the church of scientology.
i took the test next.
i was asked to think about my family, friends, work, home.
the dial did not move.
i was asked to concentrate. the machine was re-calibrated.
nothing.
next i made a conscious effort to become stressed, i tried thinking about running out of money… about marketing boxee… about talking with VCs… about having another baby…
still nothing.
either i am one cool cucumber or the machine’s ‘randomize’ function didn’t work.
so the guide asked me what I think would be a cause for stress in my life. i said "work". she said she is sure they can help. and sent me to speak with a counselor about my work situation.
my counselor asked me what i do for work. and i was surprised that given the fact that we were in downtwon San Francisco she still didn’t know what a start-up is.. i explained what boxee does (figured there is no need for an NDA in this case). she asked what are the potential sources for stress in boxee. and i explained about the raising the money stuff, the marketing challenge, competition, etc.
she mostly nodded. i think i kind of bored her. but it was good to spill it out.
she thought several of their work-related booklets can do magic for me. $5 for each booklet, and that sea of knowledge written in big fonts, short sentences and illustrations could be mine. i decided to pass. said i’ll check their website.
before i left i saw they have a Celebrity Worship Center in NYC. i asked whether i could go there (given that celebrity spotting is a hobby of mine). she said celebs need their own private space and that i will have to go where everyone else is going.
after careful consideration of the Church of Scientology i have decided to wait until i become a celebrity, get addicted to drugs, sex or both and then check these guys out again.
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It happens quite often that the scientology "e-meter" does not give any answer or give a false one.
Then Hubbard gives an explanation like "the person is dea in his head", or "the scientologist can't read a meter", or "the hands are too dry" or whatever. Hubbard has all sorts of explanations for the innumerable failures of his "techs".
No surprise: most come from the thin blue of his own head.
Suggesting stress to everyone who walks in the door is to invoke emotions, and those emotions make you more "suggestible." The personality test is one a few variations of the "confusion technique" used in hypnosis to make a person more suggestible.
These are just a few "rituals" created by Hubbard to start any neophyte on the magickal bridge to being, "clear," so they can fill your head with clusters of demons. The more dissociative "splits" they cause, the more "demonic spirits" you can be possessed with. Many stressful engrams, many past lives, many dead alien spirits, are all ways to create a schizoid state of thought possession, to say the least.
These lost in space, magickal space alien-possessed
supermen create the elite force whose arrogant master space ranger race conquest is to "clear the planet," like Hitler did in his pure, "Pan-Aryanistic" occult spirited style.
http://www.lermanet.com/exit/hubbard-the-hypnotis…
Imagine a Letter
From L Ron Hubbard
Here is the first way I gain your confidence. Offer a stress test and sell a Dianetics book. There is a simple trick used to gain a persons confidence and convince them that the e-meter works. Tell them that they can see their thoughts. What they don't know is how I use their own imagination to make it work!
(continued)
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