Ex-Scientologist Tom Weeks has posted his account of being lured into Scientology, his time spent inside, and his eventual escape.

While discussing the abilities of Scientologist and who had gone past the state of clear and were working on becoming clear as spiritually beings, called Operating Thetans (O.T for short) , Ron pointed one of them out to me. A red haired, older and confident women walked past the desk and onto her business.

“She’s wearing glasses,” I observed.

“What do you mean,” asked Ron.

“Well in Dianetics, it says that a clear doesn’t need glasses because they have perfect eyesight.”

Ron explained that the clears didn’t have perfect eyesight due to causes rooted in previous lives and Dianetics didn’t treat previous lives. These root causes took much time and effort to track down and treat. In fact, Scientology was used to treat them, rather than Dianetics. As a result, very few clears had perfect eyesight.

In retrospect, I had made a critical observation and Ron had given a wholly unsatisfactory response. Hubbard had made the claim that an attribute of the state of clear was perfect eyesight. Yet clears didn’t have perfect eyesight. Therefore the claim was false. I didn’t pick up on it. Had I been more sophisticated I would have seen right then and there that Dianetics didn’t work as promised and might have even extrapolated that Scientology probably didn’t work either.

I just lacked sophistication and critical thinking skills for sure and maybe I was so caught up in wanting the claims to be true that I lost any objectivity that I did have. Excited as I was on the prospects of Scientology, I didn’t want a little inconsistency to stop me from benefitting from this wonderful new discovery.

Give it a read and pass the link on.

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