From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@rogers.com)
Date: Thu 01 Apr 2004 - 03:06:34 GMT
There are dozens of these accounts on the Usenet group
alt.religion.scientology if anyone ever wants to do a scientific paper on
the subject. Keith Henson
From: name deleted @yahoo 21 March 2004
(posted with permission of author)
Subject: Endorphins and emeters
To: alerma@bellatlantic.net
I would just like to confirm what you have
hypothesized about emeters and endorphins. I was
"into" scientology when I was 19 or 20 years old for
about 6 months, and paid $2,500 for auditing and a
course in "confront." (I quit scientology after 6
monts because I didn't like it, the threats, the
weirdness, etc. And Hubbard, in his picture, to me it
looked like he was smirking derisively after a
while!)I didn't get much out of the confront course,
but after about 15 hours of auditing I got a rather
large "rush" which felt just like when I had been
injected with a morphine based pain killer in the
hospital some months before, durring my recouperation
from a knee surgery. That was about 25 years ago now.
But the thing is, I told them I felt like I was
floating, but not "exterior". They told me that I was
partially exterior. Interestingly, when they had their
little public recruitment speeches, lauding scientolgy
(and such) I recall a claim that drugs make one go
"exterior." Apparently, they have overlooked the
possibility that the emeter doesn't make you go
"exterior" but only releases a drug into your body;
endorphins. I would further hypothesize that the
"processes" concocted by hubbard were designed not to
enlighten or "clear" a person, but to keep the
individual on the emeter until an endorphin rush was
attained (along with providing some hocus-pocus effect
to favorably impress the "PC"). And I further
hypothesize that the processes were designed to elicit
and synchronize an endorphin rush with a proper
"finishing point" for the process. Diabolical! But how
would hubbard have figured this out? Which I am
confident he did. Have you looked into this?
Sincerely,
(name deleted)
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