Sex Offender: My Father's Secrets, My Secret Shame

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Marro, Anthony (July 9, 1977). "Federal Agents Raid Scientology Church: Offices in Two Cities Are Searched for Allegedly Stolen I.R.S. Files" (PDF). New York Times. a b Wright, Lawrence (February 14, 2011). "The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology". The New Yorker . Retrieved February 8, 2011. The Fundamentals of Thought (1956) argued life is a game, describing some people as "pieces", others as "players", and an elite few as "game makers". Being a mother who is a caregiver for my children who have a father that’s incarcerated, I know the struggles that I face, and I’m sure I’ll give space. You try to put the kids at the forefront. You don’t think about yourself, how you have to get by, what to do when you don’t have it together and how to make sure you can keep going. They take care of everybody else and forget about themselves. I wanted this group to help those caregivers whether it’s the mom, dad, aunt, uncle or grandma that is taking care of them.

Bainbridge, William Sims. "Science and Religion: The Case of Scientology", in Bromley, David G.; Hammond, Phillip E. (eds). The Future of new religious movements, p. 63. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1987. ISBN 978-0-86554-238-9 Hubbard spoke of interactions with psychiatrists at both St. Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital in D.C. (top) and nearby Chestnut Lodge Sanitarium (bottom). We feel the anger. Sometimes, we’re very angry. We’re not only angry at the system, but we’re angry at the person who put us into position. This is not how we hoped to live our lives. Through no fault of our own, someone has thrust us into a system that we don’t want to be a part of. We feel angry. We allow people to feel those feelings. We try to share that we all have the right to have feelings. We can vent and speak to one another without any fear of being judged. Whatever we say stays here. Melton, Gordon (March 19, 2009). Lewis, James R. (ed.). Scientology. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1953-3149-3 . Retrieved November 23, 2020.Inspired by science-fiction of his friend Robert Heinlein, Hubbard announced plans to write a book which would claim to "make supermen". [90] Hubbard announced to the public that there existed a superhuman condition which he called the state of "Clear". He claimed people in that state would have a perfectly functioning mind with an improved intelligence quotient (IQ) and photographic memory. [91] The "Clear" would be cured of physical ailments ranging from poor eyesight to the common cold, which Hubbard asserted were purely psychosomatic. [92] [93] [94] Hubbard and Sara moved into a cottage at Bay Head, New Jersey, to finish writing Dianetics. The cottage at 666 East Avenue is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Hubbard's son Nibs later claimed the number '666' had special significance for his father. There are some people who have come to the group while their loved one was in the prison system. They continue when their loved one comes home because it doesn’t stop the day they come home. It continues. The support that your group provides is helping a lot of families deal with the things that happen when somebody comes home because they’ve been institutionalized. It’s not the same person. It’s so important for the success of the family and for that person. Thank you so much. Talking about families, there’s another group led by Alexis along with her mother and sometimes her son. Alexis, can you tell us a little bit about that group? Prison Families Alliance: We understand as few others can. We are not responsible for our grown children. They make the decisions they make, and as a parent, you do the best you can.

Slaves of Sleep (1939) features a man, cursed by an evil genie, who instead of sleeping must now enter an Arabian Nights-like world ruled over by an evil-genie queen. Rolph, Cecil Hewitt (1973). Believe What You Like: What Happened Between the Scientologists and the National Association for Mental Health. Deutsch. ISBN 978-0-233-96375-4. OCLC 815558. Miller 1987, p.149: "With cooperation from some institutions, some psychiatrists, [Hubbard] has worked on all types of cases. Institutionalized schizophrenics, apathies, manics, depressives, perverts, stuttering, neuroses—in all, nearly 1000 cases. But just a brief sampling of each type; he doesn't have proper statistics in the usual sense. But he has one statistic. He has cured every patient he worked with. He has cured ulcers, arthritis, asthma."Thomas, Aled (2021). Free Zone Scientology: Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-350-18254-7. Sonnenschein, Allan (June 1983). "Scientology Through the Eyes of L. Ron Hubbard, Jr". Penthouse. Archived from the original on August 1, 2023. ( alternative link)