Virginia Tech and the cult of Scientology

source : alt.religion.scientology (April 20, 2007)

The Scientology representative said that Volunteer Ministers were "forbidden from proselytizing". That's just nice PR, since really it is Scientology policy to use human tragedy as a recruiting tool, as promulgated by Hubbard :

«He should represent himself to the person or the person's family as a minister whose compassion [sic] was compelled by the newspaper story concerning the person. He should then enter the presence of the person and give a nominal assist, leave his card which states exactly where church services are held every Sunday and with the statement that a much fuller recovery is possible by coming to these free services takes his departure. A great many miracles will follow in his wake and he is liable to become a subject of the press himself. However, in handling the press he should simply say that it is a mission of the church to assist those who are in need of assistance. He should avoid any lengthy discussions of Scientology and should talk about the work of ministers and how all too few ministers these days get around to places where they are needed. Some small percentage of the persons visited or their families will turn up in his group. Thus he will build a group and naturally from that group he will get a great many individual preclears.»

-- L. Ron Hubbard, PAB 28 February 1956

«This is a pretty routine drill really. You get permission to visit. You go in and give patients a cheery smile. You want to know if you can do anything for them, you give them a card and tell them to come around to your group and really get well, and you give them a touch assist if they seem to need it but only if they're willing. And you for sure make sure that there is someone on the other end when they ring up. Giving them a schedule of your HAS Co-Audit will avail much. I've got a book scheduled named the "sick person" as a working title that will make good fodder for this. But your statement, "the modern scientific church can cure things like that. Come around and see." will work. Its [sic] straight recruiting !"»

-- L. Ron Hubbard, HCOB of 15 September 1959

http://www.spaink.net/cos/essays/owen_ambulance3.html

I would like to fair-use scans of the above documents if anybody has these.

Ray Hill - April 20, 2007

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