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What Scientology Didn’t Tell You – And It’s A Lot

This post is a continuation in the series of ways to help yourself recover after leaving Scientology. 
In Scientology, one of the first courses a person is given is the Student Hat. This course is geared at teaching the person how to study. I have written an entire post about Hubbard’s study tech. Like most everything else that Hubbard taught in Scientology, study tech was a mishmash of made up ideas and plagiarism.

There are some okay theories behind study tech. However, Hubbard takes is and pushes it way too far. Sure, it’s not a bad idea to look up a word in the dictionary if you don’t understand it. But, Hubbard has to push it way past the logical conclusion. He created 9 different forms of clearing words. Hubbard made studying horrendous.

As with everything that Hubbard researched, he saw one person, maybe two, that made gains doing what he cobbled together and called it a product. There are so many different personalities involved when someone starts to study. My husband and I have dramatically different ways of learning something. I will pick up an instruction manual, read it, and I’ve got it figured out. He, however, is a visual learner. He will watch a video over and over and over and over. He usually leaves the room when doing so because soon I will be able to quote the video to him, and do so.

This does not make either of us smarter than the other, it makes us different. Hubbard, however, didn’t allow for different personalities when he created – well anything he created. Everything Hubbard codified was one size fits all. Which basically meant only a few people could actually get gains from it.

Learning in the highly structured manner Hubbard set out is good for a few people. And in the case of study tech, it is stultifying and makes them learn to dread even going near a courseroom. The more checklists a person goes through, the more times they have to re-read the same material, the more the drudgery.

In Scientology, if a person yawns, they are in trouble. But in Scientology, people are always exhausted. So a yawn is a natural extension of what the body is feeling. Being forced to read documents when under duress is also hard on a person. Hubbard did not factor any of this in, nor did he care. In Scientology, it is always my way or the highway. No questions asked.

The KSW policy (Keeping Scientology Working) ia hammered into everyone’s brain. Not once, but at the start of every single check sheet a person did. And every course a person does starts with a check sheet. A person learns from the first course in Scientology that they are not to question what it was that Hubbard said was right. Even when it makes no sense.

Well guess what? Now that you are out, that doesn’t apply. You can quit making clay demos of every concept. Unless you really think that helps you. You can throw away your demo kit. Unless it works for you. You can stop following word chains for hours and get the basic concept of the idea and learn to enjoy learning again.

No one person studies the same. And you are allowed to study how you want. There’s a whole world out there. There are community colleges, even in small towns that offer adult education in things that most people take for granted, but you probably aren’t sure about. Things like how to turn on a computer. How to send email, etc. Job Service helps people write resumes. And, The Aftermath Foundation even offers education grants. They also offer help in how to word your resume so you don’t have a giant gap in your employment called Sea Org.

Yeah, it’s a big world out there and you’ve just thrown off one of the biggest constraints ever. Go Learn. Enjoy. Welcome to freedom.

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Later today, you will get the files the FBI collected both from Hubbard and regarding Hubbard about Sara Northrup, the second wife he later disavowed ever having.