[extropy-chat] Operation Clam Bake

[Peter K. Bertine, Jr]

Wow Keith that was a great article.  I'm embarrassed that I was so
uninformed.

I've read all about you well before I joined this list.
It seems things have changed in the last few years.  I've learned most of
what I know about Scientology from Operation Clam Bake and a website in
Russia.  For the last 10 years I have prevented several people from joining
the cult and I had a girl friend that has an uncle high up at the "Gold
Base."

The Wikipedia info is brand new and very heartening.

Just a word about me, I had "UFO Abduction" fantasy/scenarios occur
throughout my youth.  Budd Hopkins hypnotized me in my late teens and I
became an "Abductee."  Thankfully, I also began to show bipolar symptoms and
a writing professor at NYU sent me to a doctor.  Once on Prozac and Lithium
the aliens stopped visiting me in my sleep.  Since then I have become an
aggressive debunker of all things "alien" and scientology has been one of my
most hated organizations on the planet.  Psychiatry and medication saved my
life and restored my reason.  I want to crush scientology.

Let me know what I can do to help.  I am willing to do anything and very
glad to have heard from you.

pete

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Keith Henson
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Cults

At 07:55 PM 2/15/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>BillK,
>
>This was an excellent article
>
><http://www.csj.org/infoserv_articles/zimbardo_philip_messeges.htm>
>What messages are behind today's cults?
>     Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D.
>
>One thing that amazes me is that one off the most destructive cults,
>Scientology, is left out of so many articles and is so hard to find
>information about.  I learned recently why this is so.  Scientology has
such
>an enormous legal fund and high powered lawyers at their disposal that any
>negative reference within most of the western world is crushed under
>litigation.  No server in America can hold criticism of scientology.

That's simply not true.  www.operatingthetan.com holds information about my 
adventures with the UFO cult and it is in the US.

short version here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Henson

and if you Google "sex drugs cults" (without the quotes) the first link 
will take you to an evolutionary psychology article I wrote on how cults 
get such a hold on human brains.

Incidentally, if you want some low cost glory, now is the time to get into 
the fight.  It looks very much like the scientology cult is on the ropes 
and won't last out the year.  Tom Cruise probably had more effect than I
did.

Keith Henson
(who is--none the less--still hiding out in the Mortmain Mountains)

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