Because cults like Scientology function as corporations, is the new Berlin to market it so interesting. A city in transition produces more lost souls as rich cities like Hamburg or Munich. A visit to the German headquarters.
Subscribing to the German headquarters of the Church of Scientology at the Otto-Suhr-Allee in Berlin Charlottenburg, progressing to begin with a trellis of colourful balloons and country flags. Slight discomfort, one that is finally in the last few months much has been written about the sect from Hollywood. About the bullying tactics and brainwashing, which conspiracy fact world power plans, and, of course, about the film star Tom Cruise.
About the celebrity journalist Andrew Morton just written a book, the film star as brother number two in the hierarchy of Scientologists describes his film “Valkyrie” on the Hitler bombers Stauffenberg merely as a Trojan horse for his cult work in Berlin produced.
Subscribing to the headquarters as a passer, met at the reception area, a young gentleman in a dark blue suit, politely offered his help. The atmosphere in the six glass is cool and factual. And stone floors are carpeted in grey tones, the furniture in subtle shades of red and blue. of course, is a nothing. One has already questions. That does it for the ladies in the department for testing and enrollment.The best book for entry? “Dianetics – The Guide for the human mind.” Is there not these personality tests? “Please follow me.” It takes place at a desk, get a pencil, eraser, and the questionnaires for the Oxford Capacity Analysis “, which consists of 200 questions.The questions revolve repeatedly to the same weaknesses – nervousness, inhibitions, aggression, uncertainty. The result provides a computer. On a table that curves upward – the setpoints. Only a curve goes down – the test results. The falls in with Scientology always bad. “Because you can still much to work,” says the consultant, and is characterized with the pen warning arrows in the curves.
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So does the same even when you make magic. You read for a little money out of hand, find dark, disturbing sign, the only one in a second, can indicate expensive meeting. Thus begins with a Scientology courses incorrect system and processes.
First, you go to the gallery. There is coffee, cake and conversation in a relaxed round. Whether you might want to see a movie? On the ground floor are four small cinemas. In one runs an interview with the late 1986 cult founder L. Ron Hubbard. You can see the author been for Penny novels in the dark blue suit in his office at the desk. Almost an hour Hubbard explained his teaching. The aims to empower people, its potential to grow, to raise his IQ, his destiny to control. A mixture of balance psychological techniques promise of salvation and spirituality because it offers.
As Hubbard book “Dianetics,” published in 1950 in the following decades, a whole community of faith around constructed, but it proved not only a tremendous feeling for the business, but also for the Zeitgeist. During the fifties and sixties triggered the search sense in exotic religions and modern technologies from the subcultures. What with the spiritual journeys of beatniks and Hipster began soon swelled to a wave of spiritual fashions, which culminated in the countless sects of the sixties and, finally, in the esoteric movement took place.
Hubbard recognized early the need of the people, the technocratic progress beliefs of the twentieth century with spiritual content to fill that are no longer in the traditional dogmas of the world’s religions were bound. A common enemy, he quickly found – the psychology, the science is the first time the human spirit with concrete worldly resources treated. Here lies the great danger that lurks in every sect.
In principle, any belief system is a method, a clear mind off. Aimed faith against science, however, can have lethal consequences. Because let their children starve bios, Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse blood transfusions, and the absolute prohibition of Scientology, psychotherapy or psychiatric drugs to use, has already led to suicides, which could have been prevented.
Hubbard demonization of psychology had a good reason: The Scientology is a religion to excessive psychological and technical world view. And it is perceived as such: The American Psychological Association has warned its members in September 1950 before Dianetics. Because they, like most spiritual techniques that create dependencies. The methods are similar. Often they are based on a brainwashing, whose designs have the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton in his basic work “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism” of 1961 defined.
Thus, there are eight criteria for this technology. The control of relations with the outside world (Scientologists are encouraged to so-called oppression of people even in his own family away), the allegation that the group had higher goals than the rest of the world (Scientology is considered infallible doctrine), the confession (Scientologists undergo be regular tests with the E-meter, a lie detector), a purity of thought (Scientologists are in a lifelong process of cleaning), the doctrine of a sacred science (Scientology claimed an advantage over the natural sciences), a hard-understand jargon (already the book “Dianetics “contains a 75-page glossary), a group doctrine (the group is more important than the individual), and a promise of salvation (Scientologists are working on a redemption of the souls of aliens, according to the teachings Hubbard prevent any people, the real people ). Hubbard’s highlight: the normal state of human beings is that of a brainwashing, but the Scientology may awaken him out.
The anti-Semitic core But this is a business. In the United States, it is under the guise of a church even taxed. And because stars as an advertising figures from the beginning of the nuclear expansion strategy Hubbard, they also get a special treatment. The Celebrity Centre at the foot of the hills of Hollywood is essential, a clown-colour building, with its turrets and bay windows at a French country chateau recalls. Here, the stars in luxury retreat from the world, but only some of them will – autographs, the press conferences, photos, contracts. Here they get – peace, help, encouragement.Now, not only does Scientology so. The Kabballah Center, the brainwashing its practices based on Jewish mysticism, won Madonna, Britney Spears, David and Victoria Beckham for themselves. Also Kabballah wants to Berlin, even if the center so far only from an office in the middle. Furthermore, the Transcendental Meditation Tale of Guru Maharischi Mahesh Yogi Huge before in Berlin. The sect that once the Beatles managed to win over, will together with the director David Lynch on the Teufelsberg a university building, plus 150 temples across the country.
Why Berlin? Because faith is a billion dollar business, are cults such as corporations. Berlin is a new market, as a city that is in transition, it will produce more lost souls as rich cities like Hamburg or Munich.
With so much money of course, lurking dangers. But at the core of the debate lurking same pattern as in the cultural pessimism, which is directed against Hollywood and in the United States a demonic nation to recognize says. Since money is a positive culture, a culture of egalitarianism and accuses a world conspiracy suspects. However, the pattern of anti-Semitism from the 19th Century. The reverse can be found in the peculiarly passionate defenders of Tom Cruise.
Hungry; it as a saviour of German history from Hollywood high, it is expected to bring relief from the burden of the past – from one who stands for the old enemy images. That makes a sober debate impossible.
Tom Cruise is not the German reputation abroad still save Germany for the capture of Scientology. If he is lucky, he is still his career with an Oscar to save.
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