FACTNet Index Scientology Books

Social Control in Scientology

by Bob Penny

Available in PostScript (35 pages, 210K, 79K gzipped)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Shared Self-Deceptions
   • "TRs" (Training Routines)
3. Friends to Be Cooperated With
4. A Destructive Cult
5. Scientology Training: Selling "Hard Sell"
   • Learning How to Learn
   • How Questions are Handled
   • I Will Wait until You Stop Asking
   • Another Example of Scientology Training: "I Am Not Your Auditor"
   • A Separate Realm of Thought
   • Start of the Trap: The Numbers Game
   • The Trap Continues: Gradual Erosion
   • After Gradual Erosion: Hard Sell
6. The Creation of Ignorance
7. But I Thought You Cared about Your Children...
   • Look Only Where I Tell You to Look
   • Take a Mile If He Gives an Inch
   • In Other Words... (a summary)
8. Scientology Ethics
   • Ethics as an Assertion
   • Ethics as the Destruction of Values
   • Personal Integrity
   • Advanced Skills of Being In-Ethics
9. The Defeat of Street Smarts
   • Caveat Vendor (Seller Beware)
   • An Example: Narconon and the Purification Rundown
   • Certainty vs Truth
10. An Example of Word Games: The Word Control
    • I Say BLUE; I Dare You To Say GREEN
11. The Web of Group-Think
    • Something Done Other Than What Was Said
12. Results
    • Enforcing the Appearances of Results
    • Don't Overlook the Obvious Absurdity
13. About the Author

Bob Penny, one of the founders of FACTNet (Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network), gives this account of how his book was originally published in a dual edition with Margery Wakefield's book, The Road to Xenu :

Margery wrote the first part of the book (The Road to Xenu), and I wrote the second part (Social Control in Scientology ). We decided that the two parts complemented each other, so we published them together in one volume which we first released at the 1991 Cult Awareness Network (CAN) conference in Oklahoma City (note: after losing a bankrupty suit, CAN is now owned by the Church of Scientology ). The printing was done in response to demand at the nearest Kinko's or other quick printer. The volumes were bound in a thermal binding machine of mine. Both Margery's work and mine were released to the public domain in 1993, when they were offered for download on the (non-internet) FACTNet BBS. Neither are on file with the Library of Congress unless someone else put them there. The text has been available (with no remuneration to either Margery or me) on the FACTNet BBS and on countless Web and ftp sites for I know not how long.