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Peter Presland Wrote:How can people turn into such blind witless sheep?
Have you watched some of the crap the put out on television these days, Peter?
I could easily become robotic after a few episodes of what Sky television chooses to call entertainment.
Hold on a dang minute...
I have Sky television....
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
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Interesting article from The New Yorker. (Hope this link works)
Feb 14, 2011 ... Haggis was prominent in both Scientology and Hollywood, .... Keep up with The New Yorker and newyorker.com using your favorite RSS reader. ...
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02
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One evening in Boston in 1970 a "street person" thrust a half-sheet of paper into my hand announcing Free Introductory Lecture on Scientology."
I went up the stairs to the room of metal folding chairs where the black used-car salesman in the plaid jacket chalked Psych 101 terms on the board (I called him on it).
At the conclusion he had me hold the wired, washed-out, topless and bottomless soup cans while he asked me irritating questions and made faces at my negative reactions measured on his e-meter.
February 12 of this year Ian Punnett on Coast to Coast AM had as his guest Marc Headley who left Scientology circa 2005 and has subsequently made revelations unfavorably received by the mighty Oz.
http://blownforgood.com/
Apparently they were to work for slave wages to support the pharoah.
Gee, that's novel.
Here's part one of his three part you tube presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk0NLEohgKo
My continuing realization is: Conditioning and intimidation are to us as the sea to the fish.
