Monday, July 11, 2005

Cruise Knows Pseudo-Sciences!


Tom Cruise Knows a Pseudo-Science When He Sees One!!!!


If you read yesterday's blog about Cruise Missiles, you saw where Tom Cruise stated that psychiatry is a pseudo-science! Tom warns us that there are no chemical imbalances and that the pseudo-science of psychiatry will lead us to the "Brave New World."

Interestingly enough, Tom may know the history of psychiatry, but does he really understand the history of his own "religion," Scientology. You can visit their website at www.scientology.org if you don't believe what I am going to tell you.

A basic tenent of Scientology is the improvement of oneself through the use of "auditing" sessions with a cleric in the Church of Scientology. The auditing sessions are designed to make you aware of spiritual "problem areas" so that you can address your own shortcomings. The auditing sessions are done with a religious tool called the "E-Meter." (I wish I was kidding!)(You can see this bad boy in the upper left corner of this blog -- if you can't see it, go to www.imokyousuck.blogspot.com and you'll be able to see it there)

The E-Meter is .....well, I guess I can't say it better than the Scientologists themselves, who say the following at their website:

"E-Meter is a shortened term for electropsychometer. It is a religious artifact used as a spiritual guide in auditing. It is for use only by a Scientology minister or a Scientology minister-in-training to help the preclear locate and confront areas of spiritual upset.

In itself, the E-Meter does nothing. It is an electronic instrument that measures mental state and change of state in individuals and assists the precision and speed of auditing. The E-Meter is not intended or effective for the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of any disease.

The book Understanding the E-Meter offers a simple explanation of how the E-Meter works and what it actually measures. In order to understand what the E-Meter does, it is necessary to understand some basic Scientology concepts.

There are three basic parts of man — mind, body and thetan. The thetan is an immortal spiritual being — the individual himself. He (the thetan) inhabits a body, which is a carbon-oxygen machine. He has a mind, which is a collection of mental image pictures he has created. These pictures have weight and mass and can impinge on the person when he is emotionally upset.

This is what makes the E-Meter read — the impingement of such pictures against the body. The E-Meter puts a very small electrical current (approximately one-and-a-half volts) through the body. This is about the same amount of current as in the average battery-powered wristwatch. When a person thinks a thought, looks at a picture, reexperiences an incident or when he shifts some part of the pictures in his mind, he is moving and changing actual mental mass and energy. These changes in the person’s mind affect the tiny flow of electrical energy generated by the E-Meter, which causes the needle on its dial to move.

The E-Meter thus measures changes that are caused by the spiritual being in his own mind (i.e., the movement of mental masses around him) and in this capacity, it is a religious artifact.

The E-Meter is used to help the individual who is being audited uncover truth. By locating areas of mental or spiritual trauma, the E-Meter helps both the auditor and the preclear locate exactly what to address in auditing."


Amazing! Tom Cruise has the audacity to call psychiatry a pseudo-science when he routinely hooks himself up to an e-meter to let a scientology minister "audit" him. I think that Mr. Cruise is in dire need of some intensive auditing.......he may even be suffering from a chemical imbalance himself......He may even need to see a, God forbid, psychiatrist!

Blawgerman

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