From dcs@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM Thu Oct 5 23:16:16 CDT 1995 Article: 118060 of alt.religion.scientology Path: uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: dcs@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David C Smith) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,misc.kids Subject: Scientology and Punishment of Children - From _Child Dianetics_ Date: 5 Oct 1995 23:14:21 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800 Lines: 91 Message-ID: <452aet$q30@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Summary: L. Ron Hubbard on how to punish a child Keywords: Scientology, cult, Dianetics, scam, children, punishment Xref: uuneo.neosoft.com alt.religion.scientology:118060 misc.kids:213811 Status: OR -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- (Note: I'll include relevent definitions to some of the Scientology aka scieno-speak words at the end of this post.) The following passage comes from the book _Child Dianetics_ which describes how to apply the cult of Scientology's "Dianetic" tech- niques to children. Any typos are likely my own. *** BEGIN FAIR USE EXTRACT *** (from _Child Dianetics_ by L. Ron Hubbard, pages 39-40) (Note: ** around a word represents words printed in italics in the original text.) If punishment of a child becomes necessary, don't nag and hit the child and then nag some more. Tell the child the reason for the punishment in simple, direct language, and then apply the punishment in *absolute silence*. The punishment causes anaten; if talking goes on during and afterwards, the content of the lecture is grasped only on a *reactive* basis and becomes unavailable to the analytical mind. The child therefore cannot rationalize himself into good behaviour. he analyzes only the fact that these people are horribly mean to him. *** END FAIR USE EXTRACT *** In this passage, it seems that Hubbard tries to turn the Scientologist parent into an emotionless zombie. IMHO, this type of punishment could be very dangerous to the mental health of the child. **** DEFINITIONS: (from the glossary in _Child Dianetics_) Analytical Mind -- Analyzer: That function of the mind which perceives and retains data in order to propound and resove problems and direct the organism along the dynamics. It thinks in differences and similarities. Anaten: (neologism for ANALYTICAL ATTENUATION): Partial or complete attenuation of the functions of the analytical mind; shutdown of the analyzer. Child Dianetics: That branch of Dianetics which is concerned with promoting the optimum survival of the immature human organism until such time as standard procedure for adults may be employed to erase engrams, usually around the age of twelve. Dynamic: The basic motivation of an organism--survival. May be subdivided: 1. Individual, 2. Sex and children, 3. Group and society, 4. Mankind. Dianetics: The science and techniques as discovered and organized by L. Ron Hubbard; the science of optimum existence and survival. Dianetics means "through the soul." Engram: A mental image picture of an experience containing pain, unconsciousness, and a real or fancied threat to survival; it is a recording in the Reactive Mind of something which actually happened to an individual in the past and which contained pain and unconsciousness, both of which are recorded in the mental image picture called an engram. Reactive Mind: That function of the mind which files and retains physical pain and painful emotion and seeks to direct the organism solely on a stimulus-response basis. It thinks only in identities. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMHSs6l8NLo2vey9NAQGSdQP/bu7oyiep8HGtVQ26HXpsotxtjkMS0Z6W Gs3euMgfQWb8lAZXMaaUHkYN4/wd80u1Xav1HoZR1kzIEGEANVPFBdaEUS27nSe5 rfQQYVOKgJQSPB4hWinzs/ieYlXdLYyE7Eusd0pcdiLXlzwkAaHyrqfPS9ajmeCn WCylPV1dX/U= =irKn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- | David C. Smith - dcs@starbase.neosoft.com - Finger or email for PGP | | Keeper of the Clammer Kill Count Archives: public key. | | http://starbase.neosoft.com/~dcs/dcsclam.html | | "Don't play with the dead, boy. They have eerie powers.." | | SP 4.0, OT 8+, KOX, Clam Enturbulator 1.1beta ^ - Homer Simpson |