Accidentally Swallow Scientology’s Poison and It Will Give You the Antidote…For a Price

By Jerry Staton

The following can be cut and pasted into the online contact forms of both your U.S. Senator and Representative in Congress. To find out who your U.S. Senator is, go to
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm . To find out who your Representative in the House of Representatives is, go to http://www.house.gov/writerep/ . To express your or your organization’s support for the petition to order the Church of Scientology to disclose the proven harmful effects of its practices to practicing Scientologists and all those who are now considering or may in the future consider engaging in the practice of Scientology, you can do so online here.
. To those readers who may view this as an attack on our First Amendment Protections I posit the following: People practice Yoga…Yoga is a philosophy…why is there no tax exempt “Church of Yoga?”

The threat to our national security and danger to the American people posed by the Church of Scientology can no longer be overlooked. Everyday, countless numbers of people are introduced to the practice of Scientology either covertly through the Church’s many front groups--the outward appearances of which belie their true affiliation with the Church of Scientology—or directly via the free personality tests and introductory “auditing” sessions offered by the Church.
Whether an individual is lured into the practice of Scientology covertly or approaches the Church of Scientology directly, both have one thing in common—the eventual introduction to the Church’s main practice of “auditing.” The purpose of this initial—and usually free—auditing session is to literally make the unsuspecting individual “sick” so that they are then more than willing to buy the Church of Scientology’s brand of “cure.” There is no market for the Church of Scientology’s product other than that which they create. The free introductory "auditing" session induces an "attenuated" or "transient" psychosis in the unsuspecting person, which is then seized upon by the Church of Scientology staffer as an opportunity to “counsel” them into signing up and paying for classes to teach them how to overcome the problem that they did not have prior to their having been audited.
It should be noted here that none of the Scientology “auditors” are licensed or credentialed in pastoral counseling nor are they licensed or credentialed in clinical hypnotherapy, and the practice of “auditing” has been determined by experts to be in fact authoritarian hypnosis.
At the present time, Indiana is the only state that requires licensing and credentialing to practice clinical hypnotherapy, yet anyone can open up a very lucrative private “auditing” practice in Indiana and totally avoid these regulatory requirements. Something must be done to protect the American people from this menace. Tax exempt status or no tax exempt status, this practice is immoral, unethical, and should be illegal. This organization is literally poisoning people and then offering them the antidote--for a price. What the Church of Scientology is doing is no less serious then if a drug manufacturer was inviting people to take a tour of their manufacturing plant and then infecting them with a disease that only they had the treatment for in order to ensure a market for their product. This absolutely can not and should not be allowed to continue.
There is presently a petition before the FDA (2006P-0390) to order the Church of Scientology to disclose to anyone practicing or considering practicing Scientology the inherent danger that the practice of Scientology poses to their mental and physical health so that these people are able to make an informed decision.
At the present time, none of these people are aware or are made aware of the fact that the practices of Scientology have been determined in numerous courts of law to be dangerous, or that “auditing” is authoritarian hypnosis and has been determined to constitute a form of coercive persuasion in the context of Scientology (Lawrence Wollersheim v. the Church of Scientology of California), and that persons subjected to coercive persuasion without their knowledge or consent can develop irreparable physical and psychological disorders up to and including schizophrenia, self-mutilation, and suicide (the United States v. Lee). Your support of this petition is needed and would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
(Your Name)