“Every day in the daily papers one discovers people who have been victimized… [The Scientologist] should enter the presence of the person and give a nominal assist, leave his card which says where church services are held with the statement that a much fuller recovery is possible by coming to free services… Handling the press he should simply say that it is a mission of the church to assist those in need.”
L. Ron Hubbard, King Scientologist; February, 1956 — as reported in The Independent
“Casualty contact is very old, is almost never tried and is almost always roaringly (sic) successful… 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… Your statement, ‘the modern scientific church can cure things like that. Come around and see’ will work. It’s straight recruiting!”
L. Ron Hubbard, Worst Sci-Fi Writer Ever; September, 1959 — as reported in The Independent
Vacuous
Pronunciation: \’va-kyə-wəs\
Function: adjective
1 : emptied of or lacking content
2 : marked by lack of ideas or intelligence
Merriam-Webster
Two weeks after a massive 7.0 earthquake destroyed whatever was left of Haiti’s cities, Scientology has set up specialized aid stations offering their own unique brand of disaster assistance.
According to reports there are currently 150 Scientology volunteers in Haiti, as well as 250 medical staff. Mostly American, these volunteers are called Scientology Volunteer Ministers, and have responded to a request from a Scientology Volunteer Ministers Disaster Response Coordinator to join the team in Haiti. According to a report in The Independent newspaper, the cult “hopes to have 400 of each in place.”
Scientology has also responded to disasters around the world, including after the recent earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia. The cult has several bizarre methods of treating survivors who have been traumatized by earthquakes, tsunami’s, Katrina and even man made disasters like the events of September 11, 2001.
These include “touch assist”, during which a “properly trained” Scientologist touches the effected person repeatedly near their injury while letting the person know what’s going on. There’s also the “nerve assist” which, according to their literature, involves the properly trained therapist stroking the upper body, legs and arms with their index fingers to release “standing waves in the nerve channels of the body, improving communication with the body and bringing the being relief”.
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