Scientology’s plans to take over the world, spelled out in black and white
If you heard this week’s Group Therapy podcast, you may have heard Pete Griffiths reminding us that he’d sent over a really remarkable Scientology document.
We don’t think we’ve discussed this particular document before, but it has been around online for quite a while. Issued by Scientology in 1996, it appears that it was first put online by Wikileaks in 2008.
Whatever its provenance, it’s a dynamite document that lays out in black and white what Scientologists mean when they say they intend to “clear the Planet.”
Clearing, of course, is a Scientology term that goes back to the very beginning of the movement, when founder L. Ron Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health in 1950.
He claimed to be the first person in history to understand how the human mind actually works, that it is divided between an analytical mind and a reactive mind. Hubbard said that the analytical mind was like a perfectly operating computer that should allow us to have perfect recall, but the reactive mind, which took over when we were unconscious, was holding us back by storing all of our traumas in something he called “engrams.”
The goal of Dianetics was a kind of talk therapy that would help you recall those forgotten traumas and drive them away, ultimately removing the reactive mind itself so that you could become a “Clear.” Going Clear, Hubbard promised, was a kind of superhuman state, with raised IQ, improved vision, and perfect recall.
OK, so from the beginning Dianetics and then Scientology promised to help you clear away traumas and become a more accomplished person. But what did it mean when Scientologists said they wanted to “clear” the planet?
In this 1996 document, issued more than ten years after Hubbard’s death, that goal is spelled out pretty plainly in the goals of something called the “Clear Expansion Committee”…
The purpose of the Clear Expansion Committee is: To unite and coordinate all Scientologists, Scientology organizations and groups and social betterment activities in an area toward making LRH technology widely known and broadly applied with the ultimate goal of salvaging all beings, clearing the entire community and building a Scientology world.
Well, there you have it, in black and white. It’s just as we’ve been telling you, that Scientology’s goal really is to take over the entire world.
That’s a pretty impractical goal for a movement that probably peaked around the year 1990 and has been dwindling ever since, with maybe only about 20,000 active members around the world today.
But even if taking over the world really isn’t within Scientology’s grasp, it must follow Hubbard’s policies and at least try to clear the planet. And that’s an effort that needs to include all of Scientology’s various arms, as the document makes clear:
Again, there it is in black and white: The Narconon EDs — executive directors of the Narconon drug rehabs — are part of the committee that is supposed to be helping Scientology conquer the planet.
Keep that in mind the next time you see a news organization fall for Narconon’s public relations line that it is not affiliated with the church.
There’s even an example, later in the document, that suggests how the Narconon clinics can be part of a specific effort by the committee to spread “LRH tech”…
EXAMPLE: The Clear Expansion Committee launches a campaign to rid the entire community of drugs. This means the local orgs and missions broadly promoting and delivering the Purification Rundown. The org Public Divisions and FSMs place the book Clear Body, Clear Mind in public bookstores, health clubs and other specialized outlets and PR and media events are held to get LRH and his drug rehabilitation technology broadly known. Ads get placed to promote the Purification Rundown program. New Narconons get opened and neighborhood Purification Centers are set up by area field auditors. This all adds up to a massive but well-coordinated onslaught against drugs throughout the community, using LRH tech.
The document was issued by Scientology’s ED Int — Executive Director International — who we believe at that time was a man named Guillaume Lesevre. Eight years later, in 2004, Lesevre was thrown into “The Hole” at Gold Base by church leader David Miscavige along with a lot of his other top lieutenants, and Lesevre is not seen at international events today.
But even if the ED Int has been disappeared, and nearly 20 years has passed since this document was issued, we doubt that very much has changed as far as Scientology’s aims and the idea that all of the church’s various divisions and sneaky front groups still have these goals in mind.
It may be an unattainable goal, but Scientology, and its dangerous quack rehabs, its wealthy donors, and its funny naval paramilitary hard core elite, really do think that some day the Earth will be conquered by “LRH tech.”
Here’s the full document. Let us know what else strikes you about it…
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That’s all very well, but the only person who can make authoritative statements about $cientology is defendant David “he is NOT insane!” Miscavige. And you are not worthy to know how to reach him.
The cognitive dissonance has grown in Scientology.
Because the world has become considerably worse as more ideal orgs are created.
Miscavige has a total fail on his hands and the results of the US election, and current war in Ukrain and Isreal and now Syria are not good omens.
“We have the technology to build a civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war. Your org and the individual Scientologists in your field, working together, are the vehicle to bring this about. Your Clear Expansion Committee will make a huge difference in making the aims of Scientology an actuality in your area.”.
If Scientology has the technology to achieve these sky high goals, then whatever Miscavige and his crew are doing is NOT Scientology Tech because the world is in the worse shape it’s been since WW II. Or more factually, Scientology makes whatever it touchs worse.