Anatomy of the Human Mind
While watching some anonymous videos on youtube, this guy, Ron Savelo kept popping up on the side bar. So I curiously clicked over and it's actually a Scientology course on the human mind up on Youtube. I watched the first part in which they try to set up old LRon as an expert on the mind, tear down psychiatry, and keep hammering in the fact that psychiatry's a billion dollar industry (bitter much?). Anyway, I thought if you're interested in their war on Psychiatry or seeing what a Scientology "course" you might want to check out the "Anatomy of the Human Mind".

Now, keeping in mind that Scientologists want to totally discredit Psychiatry and claims that all these mental problems do not exist, I'm currently reading an article on Scientology critic Shawn Lonsdale and something that keeps coming up is Scientologists calling him crazy and calling his family to say that he needs mental help. But you know, mental illnesses don't exist, so how can he be crazy and need mental help? Well, he doesn't need it anymore, he committed suicide last month and some people are suspicious.

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	walkingundine 2008-03-07 05:40 pm UTC (link)
	I believe you may find that the way he died bears a more than superficial resemblance to the way Quentin Hubbard, L Ron's son, died some years ago. I think I saw a link about it somewhere on Enturb. (Reply to this)

	miss_padfoot 2008-03-07 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	If the police investigators are ruling it a suicide, and they know more about it than I do, I'm going to take their word for that one. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	miraba 2008-03-07 08:34 pm UTC (link)
	I'd normally say the same if there weren't so many "accidental" deaths within the CoS. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	criticalcricket 2008-03-07 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	Agreed. Just the simple fact that he's a Scientology critic AND this happened in Clearwater is enough to make me take a second look. Whose to say that the police aren't Scientologists? Now I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but really, it is enough to give one pause. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_lilybean 2008-03-07 08:43 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, here's a video about Scientology's involvement in the Clearwater Police Department. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nam_jai 2008-03-08 12:38 am UTC (link)
	Yowza. Yeah, I can understand why people might take what the police there say with a degree of skepticism. (Reply to this)(Parent)

magic_lilybean
2008-03-07 09:00 pm UTC (link)

Other links of interest (if everyone hasn't already seen them):

ExScientologyKids has a TON of great info, including a nice glossary of terms for people like me that were unfamiliar with Scientology before Anonymous. Also contains a number of life stories of people who grew up in Co$; one of the admins is Jenna Miscavige Hill.

From there I found this explanation of Co$ ethics, and this description of Study Tech.

Very illuminating.

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	viralmemory 2008-03-08 12:29 am UTC (link)
	I'm glad you posted this. The basic assumptions these people make about the human brain are staggeringly wrong or distorted. Also, the editing in these videos are awful, and could that guy be any more wooden? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	nam_jai 2008-03-08 12:41 am UTC (link)
	The first thing that hit me was the dreadful canned music. That's the best they could afford? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	criticalcricket 2008-03-08 01:05 am UTC (link)
	I found it interesting to see how they're exploiting the complexity of the human mind simply because it's hard to pin down. Though the fact that they got a slightly lisping non-professional to lure people into their trap seems silly. But I guess it's working. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

aristaea
2008-03-08 07:47 am UTC (link)

The exploitation seriously annoyed me. I'm in neuroscience, and I hate psychiatrists, but psychologists are not psychiatrists, and neither are necessarily neuroscientists. So what if there's a lot of misinformation about the mind (or, as we snobby psych people like to say, "the brain"). If you've ever seen the Jaywalking segment of The Tonight Show, it becomes apparent that lots of people are DUMB. UGH. *stabbity*

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Good God ...

pipssister
2008-03-08 02:38 am UTC (link)

(From Anatomy of the Human Mind:)
"Life has to do with livingnesses. It doesn't have to do with 'think think figure figure.' Life has to do with environment. It has to do with beingnesses. And doingnesses. And havingnesses."

Oh, surely that makes so much more sense than psychiatrists' and philosophers' psychobabble. Who knew that years of study and research could be easily explained away with self-help quackery baby talk?

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	Re: Good God ... hallidae 2008-03-08 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	Jesus Christ, I totally heard that line in the voice of my kindergarten teacher, and I wish I hadn't, because she was one of those women who turned into a raging, kid-hating bitch when she was pregnant, so she'd say totally cutesy things in an "I'm going to kill everyone in your family in their sleep" voice. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Good God ... pipssister 2008-03-08 10:20 pm UTC (link)
	There's a Brooke Shields joke in there somewhere ... I can't find it, though. (Reply to this)(Parent)