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Scientology Super Power Scientology nearly ready to unveil Super Power. In the works for decades, the closely guarded spiritual training program will be revealed in Clearwater (www.sptimes.com - May 6, 2006) Church of Scientology Makes Few Waves (The Tampa Tribune - March 19, 2008) |
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From sptimes.com: http://www.sptimes.com/2006/05/06/Northpinellas/Scientology_nearly_re.shtml.
Peter http://www.scamofscientology.nl Scientology nearly ready to unveil Super Power In the works for decades, the closely guarded spiritual training program will be revealed in Clearwater. By ROBERT FARLEY CLEARWATER — Matt Feshbach believes he has super powers. He senses danger
faster than most people. He appreciates beauty more deeply than he used to. He
says he outperforms his peers in the money management industry. He heightened his powers of perception in 1995 when he went to Los Angeles
and became the first and so far only “public” Scientologist to take a highly
classified Scientology program called Super Power. Where in L.A. did he do this? “Just in Los Angeles,” is all Feshbach will say. Super Power is that
secret. Under wraps for decades, Super Power now is being prepped for its eventual
rollout in Scientology’s massive building in downtown Clearwater. That will be
the only place worldwide where the program, much anticipated by Scientologists,
will be offered. A key aim of Super Power is to enhance one’s perceptions — and not just the
five senses we all know — hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard taught that people have 57 “perceptics.”
They include an ability to discern relative sizes, blood circulation, balance,
compass direction, temperature, gravity and an “awareness of importance,
unimportance.” Church officials won’t discuss specifics of Super Power. But Feshbach and
another prominent Clearwater Scientologist who, like Feshbach, is a major donor
to Super Power’s building fund, provided some details in interviews with the St.
Petersburg Times. A group of former Scientologists who worked for the church on
a campus in California where the program was in development also described
elements of it. Super Power uses machines, apparatus and specially designed rooms to exercise
and enhance a person’s so-called perceptics. Those machines include an
anti-gravity simulator and a gyroscope-like apparatus that spins a person around
while blindfolded to improve perception of compass direction, said the former
Scientologists. A video screen that moves forward and backward while flashing images is used
to hone a viewer’s ability to identify subliminal messages, they said. Hubbard promised Super Power would improve perceptions and “put the person
into a new realm of ability.” He believed it would unlock abilities needed to
spread Scientology across the planet. “I got it. I loved it,” he gushed. Feshbach, 52, and his two brothers became famous in investment circles during
the 1980s as the kings of short selling stocks — essentially betting which
stocks will tank. At one point, the California-based Feshbach Bros. managed
$1-billion for clients. Feshbach now lives in Belleair, where his wife, Kathy, runs a Scientology
mission. Because he donated millions to the Super Power building fund, he was
invited to undergo the program. It’s geared toward creating a “more competent spiritual being,” he said. “I’m
not dependant on my physical body to perceive things.” He offered this anecdote: He had just finished his perceptics training and was at the Los Angeles airport, preparing to fly home to Tampa Bay. He stood at a crosswalk with perhaps 20 others, including a woman and her
son, an antsy boy 6 or 7 years old. As the light turned green, the boy bolted into the street, ahead of his
mother. Feshbach perceived a pickup truck bearing down on the boy, driven by a
young woman. He yelled and saved the boy’s life by a quarter of an inch, he said. Coincidence? Feshbach doesn’t think so. No one else saw the pickup, he says.
He believes that, through the Super Power program, he elevated his perceptive
abilities beyond those of the others at that crosswalk. His enhanced perceptions
have played out numerous times since, he said. Super Power takes “weeks, not months” to complete, said Feshbach. He would
not discuss the specific machines and drills that former Scientologists said are
used to enhance perceptions. The perceptics portion of Super Power is one of 12 “rundowns” in the full
program, Feshbach said. But it clearly is a key aspect. Details of Super Power training have been kept secret even from church
members. Like much of Scientology training, details aren’t revealed until one
pays to take the course. Asked about Super Power, church spokesman Ben Shaw provided a written
statement: “Super Power is a series of spiritual counseling processes designed
to give a person back his own viewpoint, increase his perception, exercise his
power of choice, and greatly enhance other spiritual abilities.” Shaw would not say how much the program will cost. Upper levels of
Scientology training can run tens of thousands of dollars. He declined to provide further insight into Super Power. “It’s not something
I’m willing to provide to you in any manner,” Shaw said. Scientologist Ron Pollack, who donated $5-million to the Super Power fund
after making millions in hedge funds in the 1990s, said he got a sneak peak. The
head of fundraising for the project showed him a photo of “some high-tech thing”
developed by engineers in southern California that offers different aromas on
demand. It’s for a drill to enhance one’s sense of smell, he said. Pollack said he has no idea how Super Power will be set up, but is excited
about the parts on ethics and perceptics, which he likened to a “trip to
Disney.” Former Scientologists Bruce Hines and Chuck Beatty, once staffers at the
church’s international base in Hemet, Calif., said that while on punishment
detail, they made chairs of various sizes — ones big enough for a giant, others
too small even for a child — that were set up in a room designed to hone one’s
sense of relative sizes. One setback occurred when the church checked back on the staffers who had
been through Super Power. It turned out, Hines said, many had left the church —
hardly the expected outcome. “The fact that it was around in 1978 and it’s still not worked out 28 years
later, that’s pretty significant,” Hines said. “The building was getting done faster than the tech program itself,” said
Karen Pressley, a former church staffer at the same California campus, who left
the church in 1998. “This is a flap of magnitude in Scientology management,” Pressley
said. Shaw said those ex-members are just wrong. “These people know absolutely nothing” about the Super Power pilot, he
said. Scientology processes are technical and cannot be understood out of context,
Shaw said. “If someone is interested in Scientology, they should read a book and
find out for themselves what Scientology is and thus begin their own spiritual
journey,” Shaw said. Super Power is ready, he said, and 300 staff members are being trained to
deliver it. Construction delays in Clearwater, Shaw said, are due to a recent explosion
of church expansion worldwide. The church has spent hundreds of millions to
purchase and renovate properties. Last year, it purchased nearly 1-million
square feet of buildings in 18 cities around the world. That expansion, by far the largest in church history, diverted the church’s
attention, he said. Plus, he said, Scientology leaders have been compelled to
redesign the building’s interior repeatedly to make it a crown jewel. The Super Power program will be ready to go the moment the new building is
completed, he said. Scientology officials promise that will be 2007. [Last modified May 5, 2006, 21:35:30] |
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article discute du centre de scientologie de Plant City, Floride Un nom bien choisi pour une affaire qui s'implante, implante et établit
toute sorte de plans. Les chiffres parlent assez bien: 2000 bouquins vendus et quelques 200
cours à 50 dollars en un an dans un bâtiment de quelques 1000 m2, ça fait
pas derche. PLANT CITY - The story of what has happened in the year since the Church of Scientology opened in Plant City is best framed by telling what did not happen. Residents strolling the sidewalks of this city of 34,000 have not been accosted by overzealous Scientologists. Unlike in Pinellas County, there have been no significant anti-Scientology demonstrations. Nor has Plant City's Church of Scientology Life Improvement Center been the target of vandals or threats of violence, as have some of the church's worldwide facilities. The church, started in Los Angeles in 1954 by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, has made hardly a ripple in this community - despite residents' initial concerns. The Rev. Ron Churchill of First Baptist Church of Plant City, one of the earliest and most vocal critics, said there is little visible evidence Scientologists are in town. He remains puzzled why the church, with its nontraditional beliefs and celebrity membership, targeted Plant City in the first place. "I was really surprised when they came here," he said. "This is a pretty strong Christian community." Scientologists' local success - or lack of it - is hard to gauge, he said. The center is open seven days a week, and visitors and followers "come throughout the day," said Yamila Sene, director of public affairs for the Church of Scientology of Tampa. "It's not like everyone has to be here at 2 o'clock. And you have to understand, this is not a church itself," she said. The open, well-lighted center includes two state-of-the-art theaters which can screen any of seven Scientology titles in one of 16 languages. The mezzanine includes classrooms. The top floor of the 15,000-square-foot building is used for storage. "We didn't know what it was going to be like," and there's still uncertainty, Churchill said. "They don't really say they're a Christian organization. They talk about nebulous things; it's not really spelled out. It's very strange." Testing Stress Levels Their goal, Churchill said, seems to be to get everyone tested on the E-meter. Scientologists say the device measures users' stress levels. "One of things about the stress test: On every E-meter there's a little plate that says this machine is of no medical consequence," Churchill said. A functioning electropsychometer, or E-meter, is displayed at the Plant City Life Improvement Center, which has 42 informational exhibits and 12 interactive video stations. The meter allows a trained operator to determine an individual's primary areas of concern, said Peggy Guignon, the center's director since its March 18, 2007, opening. Guignon offers a few numbers: In its first year the center sold more than 2,000 books at $15 to $20 each and 225 people took $50 Scientology courses. Free English-language classes aimed at the area's many Hispanic workers, have drawn 40. About 30 people regularly visit the center, some to attend bilingual Sunday church services or weekly guest lectures, she said. Some visitors take advantage of the free written test of intelligence, aptitude and personality, Guignon said. The church has decades of experience opening centers in downtown metropolitan areas, but no one knew what to expect in comparatively rural Plant City. "We didn't identify specifics; we're just here to help people," said Guignon, who thinks the Plant City center has "achieved some tremendous successes" in its first year. "I'm thrilled with what I've experienced in integrating into the community and the number of people who've come in to look," Guignon said. The church joined the Greater Plant City Chamber of Commerce and representatives attend chamber events, Guignon added. "We know our neighbors." John Dicks, who was mayor when the city learned the church was coming to town, agrees: "They have been respectful, cordial neighbors. They've run their business and been respectful like every other business owner." Dicks said he is not surprised Scientologists have been accepted here. "Plant City, of course, has always been a community that has been able to work with all types of different groups and always greets people with a welcoming attitude," the former mayor said. Dicks also credits Scientologists with doing "a wonderful job" renovating the century-old building at 102 N. Collins St. in Plant City's downtown historical district. Actress Erika Christensen, whose film credits include "Flightplan" and "Traffic," was guest speaker at the Plant City opening. The next day, actor John Travolta participated in the opening of Scientology's St. Petersburg Life Improvement Center. The centers are part of a push to expand in Florida, church leaders said. Seller Of Site Was Criticized Church of Scientology of Tampa Inc. paid $620,000 for the three-story brick building in historic downtown Plant City, Hillsborough County property appraiser records show. The former bank and department store was assessed at $362,000 at the time of its 2006 sale. Today the improved property is assessed at $933,000. The building's former owner, Plant City real estate agent David Hawthorne, said he "took an enormous amount of heat" over the sale. "To those who would listen, I said I initially didn't know who it was." Once Hawthorne learned the identity of the buyer of the property, which was on the market for three months, he met with Scientology representatives. "I found them to be nice people, well-spoken, well-behaved." Hawthorne fielded calls from news reporters as far away as Sacramento, Calif. "I didn't understand the crazy reaction at the time. I guess it shouldn't have surprised me, but it did," he said. "This is rural Florida; I just didn't understand how it could be conceived as such a big deal. I understand Scientology is controversial. OK, so what's wrong with a little diversity and controversy?" he said. Little has changed since the church moved in, said Jerry Lofstrom, owner of the Whistle Stop Cafe, just across the railroad tracks from the Scientology property. "I think they came into town and brought with them a reputation - a reputation that was carried from Clearwater to Plant City," he said "We've seen none of that sort of activity." Saturday, as 150 protesters with the group Anonymous demonstrated outside the Clearwater Church of Scientology, two young men distributed anti-Scientology fliers in front of the Plant City center. Lofstrom, the Whistle Stop Cafe owner, wrote an April 2006 commentary predicting Plant City could co-exist with the Church of Scientology "without the struggles and strife found in other cities." Today, he said, Scientologists are among his customers. "You cannot tell them apart," he said. "They're not aliens, I don't think." Reader CommentsHOW DO YOU LIKE $CIENTOLOGY NOW Posted by ( AnonMomAnon ) on March 19, 2008 at 3:46 a.m. sorry, forgot to tell you that $cientology is also enslaving thirdworld
country teenagers to work at flag in clearwater. amnesty international is
looking into this because law enforcement and child protective service agencies
can't help with this situation unless someone can provide ONE name of these
teenagers and it can't be done: they're heavily guarded, bused everywhere, and
abused constantly. Posted by ( AnonMomAnon ) on March 19, 2008 at 3:51 a.m. oh! another thing: guess who's guilty of the biggest espionage infiltration
in the history of the united states? that's right: $cientology. (google:
operation snow white.) Posted by ( JackNelsonSteward ) on March 19, 2008 at 8:22 a.m. Have you ever found a snake in your house? Did you find it because it made lots of noise when it came in? Does your church have a department devoted to security? Does it hire private investigators to deal with people who disagree with what it says? There are religions where the members handle vipers. Many are bitten each year. Go carefully, Plant City. Posted by ( RunVapid ) on March 19, 2008 at 8:26 a.m. Scientology welcome center opens; on the other side of the globe Arthur C. Clarke dies? Coincidence? I think not Posted by ( bakersdaughter ) on March 19, 2008 at 9 a.m. The Church of Scientology welcomes people to find out about them, I have, while I am not a Scientologist, I have found them to be wonderful community oriented people. They are the first in line to help when there is trouble and believe in helping people get off drugs, learn to read and value themselves. I don't understand those that critizie them and have never stopped to find out about what they advocate. As to the $$$, they are no different than any other church. |
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Un must: "Ron Hubbard, le gourou démasqué" Ce livre de Russell Miller révèle la face cachée de la scientologie. On y découvre un Ron Hubbard, malade, mythomane et poursuivi par la justice. Il est disponible en format pdf ou html sur notre site. Nous avons également publié une version résumée.
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Posted by ( AnonMomAnon ) on March 19, 2008 at 3:42 a.m.
how do the good citizens of plant city feel about the fact that l. ron hubbard was a horrible bigot, that $cientology teaches that all religions are a lie after you reach the higher levels, AND that they force women to have abortions even if they're married because being pregnant and having a child would interfere with the work they need to do for the cult. of course, the cult won't pay for the abortions and the women can't afford it so your tax payer dollars pay for their abortions.