Oddbean

I’ll be perfectly honest, the most appealing thing about Scientology to me is the vast difference between the nominal and physical age of Tom Cruise… I mean, if that has anything to do with Scientology, I might just go to one or two meetings just to find out what’s up. nostr:note1d33a4rgrqvl9zgx6tjnpy5ejafga8dkev77uxpf7r5nrre2938ls0re5wa

There is plenty of science (but not 100% proof) that indicates his diet is Paleo in nature. From AI. His favorite snacks are nuts and blueberries. His main diet consists of fish, chicken, egg whites, and vegetables, with protein powder as a complement. He avoids oil, butter, and sauce when dining out, opting for steamed white fish and vegetables. ----- He's on a protein based diet. He could probably be even younger if he adds in red meat (grass fed/finished) instead of protein powder! And there is nothing wrong with butter and egg yolks. Your brain is made of fat and cholesterol! Bet your doctor/Government did not tell you that before they tried to get you on a low fat diet and take statins to get your cholesterol down!

It's based on dianetics and engrams, which are parts of Jungian depth psychology. An engram is what McLuhan would call a "cliche". Something you've heard over and over so it's lost its energy. But it's buried in the psyche. Engrams can be worked on, for example, by brushing it up against another engram in a kind of chemical reaction of the psyche (cliche to archetype). Consider the banal words "red" or "bull" evoke no reaction. But together they release energy. It's a kind of chemisty of the individual psyche. But can apply quite well to the collective (think psy ops). What scientology does is something called "dianetics" which puts you in a semi-trance like state (like NLP), and then investigates your psyche and engrams. The simple tool is to find the first psychological barrier that is blocking your and see if you can unblock yourself on that. Rinse. Repeat. This is a bit like some yogic techniques like the Kundaliní first chakra. All well and good, however Hubbard also figured out you could do more by making a sci fi myth around it, and try and get people to believe it. That's the start of problems. Secondly, they are something of a racket. They target celebs and then stalk them. Trying to extract the maximum cash from them. They infiltrate large organizations, inc. the US Coast Gaurd. They steal rubbish and go through it trying to find out how tney can black mail famous people. Very little known story was they stalked Led Zepplin "I hear a rustle in the hedgrow". The BUYING a stairway to heaven was a direct jibe against those guys. I guess I know more about this than I should, lol. I think there's some valid psychological techniques there, but you can just do it yourself. He basically tried to start a mythology, and it devolved into an anticult, which was, of course, inevitable. As with alot of things, it will work for some people, but probably not for everyone.

😂 Oh I’m well aware, lol. This was entirely a joke. The whole Scientology thing is an explicit and well designed scam. One of the powerful techniques has always been to get massive investment before slowly revealing piece by piece the “story” behind it all. By the time they hear the entire thing, they are so emotionally and financially invested that it’s vastly harder to allow themselves to deny it. It also doesn’t help that it was reported by past friends of Hubbard that he talked with great enthusiasm during his college years about how “religion is the best money making business there is.”

Yeah, but it's a bit more complex. It does actually work for some people. It's a bit like breath control, mindfulness and linguistic programming. It's just that the audit sessions are very expensive.