Scientology’s sleep cures are enough to keep you up at night

 
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) has a new article on its blog that deserves comment. CCHR has a harder time than other Scientology front groups who can keep their writings based on some truth in their chosen issue. Foundation for a Drug Free World can write truthfully about how using illegal drugs is bad. Youth for Human Rights can write about the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But CCHR is stuck inventing its arguments entirely based on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard.

The Remedy of Tiredness

The fraudulent psychiatric billing bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), has quite a few entries related to one form or another of “sleep disorder,” many of which simply occur when a person is knocked out by some (legal or illegal) drug. And if a psychiatrist can’t find the real reason for a person’s troubled sleeping, they’ll just diagnose the catch-all “Unspecified sleep-wake disorder.” Psychiatrists assume that anything they can’t explain is a “mental illness.”

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Of course, the psychiatric treatment of choice is a psychotropic drug, many of which have known side effects of difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep.

 
The DSM-5 manual describes 11 types of sleep disorders and physicians rarely treat them with medication as a first choice. They are: Insomnia disorder, Hypersomnolence disorder, Narcolepsy, Obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea, Central sleep apnea, Sleep-related hypoventilation, Circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders Non–rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep arousal disorders, Nightmare disorder, Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder, Restless legs syndrome and substance-/medication-induced sleep disorder. It’s absurd to claim that people develop these mostly unrelated disorders from being knocked out by a drug.

 
CCHR combines these disorders into one category, and feels qualified to comment on sleep disorder because of L. Ron Hubbard’s obsession with promoting Scientology as a competitor to psychiatry. In 1957 Hubbard claimed to have developed a cure for sleeplessness and Scientology sells tapes of the 18th American ACC (Advanced Clinical Course) Lectures recorded in Washington, DC. One lecture is “Surprise – The Anatomy of Sleep,” which Scientology says describes “the difference between sleep and anaten and a cure for sleeplessness.”

“Anaten” is a Scientology-specific word of Hubbard’s invention. The definition is “an abbreviation of analytical attenuation meaning diminution or weakening of the analytical awareness of an individual for a brief or extensive period of time. If sufficiently great, it can result in unconsciousness. (It stems from the restimulation of an engram which contains pain and unconsciousness.)” In the 1957 lecture Hubbard describes his experiments with sleep and medication.

Now, hypnotics, taking hypnotics – Nytol, amphibinol, snooze-all, drowse-all, those things don’t work. They don’t work. I don’t know what it is about them but these sedatives have a kickback that – don’t give you very much about sleep. There isn’t anything connected with sleep. They’re hypnotics and I don’t care what anybody calls them, they’re hypnotics.

I was wondering what people were taking — you call this “tranquilizer” so I took a couple of handsful to find out what was happening about them, so forth, and I — instead of going to sleep as one was supposed to do, or feel relaxed, something of this sort, why, I felt my eyes snakk and pow-w-w and the diaphragms dilated like that and I put the body in a chair and went over and sat on the molding for a while and let it get over it.

Hubbard claims that the need for sleep is caused by the Genetic Entity (GE) recalling a time when it was plankton that responded to the sun. “The body, evidently, on the genetic line, has retained all the lessons of algae, plankton, monocellular behavior.” The cure for sleeplessness is “walk around the block until things start to look solid to you,” advice that CCHR uses to close its article.

Psychiatrists and family doctors are more likely to suggest a number of behavior modifications to treat sleeplessness. Set a consistent time to go to sleep and wake up. Avoid naps. Use the bed only for sleep and sex. Cut down or eliminate caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol. Get more exercise and lose weight. If these don’t work, a doctor may prescribe Amnien, Lunesta or another medicine. It’s only in the mind of L. Ron Hubbard that doctors turn to medicine as a first option when treating a sleep disorder.

— Rod Keller

 
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Source Code

“I couldn’t tell you where I lived in 1102 A.D. My memory on the earlier track wasn’t so bad, but they — in spots — but I realized there was practically nothing on the early, early track at all. Nothing! What was this? There were great big chunks like twenty years missing out of the track, see….During the war I remember vividly thinking about the Phoenician navy and how different our administrative system was than the Phoenician navy’s administrative system and so on. And of course I’d been in my same rank for so long, that I was getting moldy. That was true of anybody who went out to the combat areas. And I mentioned this to somebody. I didn’t tell them, I didn’t tell them I was remembering and so forth. I got dreamily reminiscent about the Phoenician navy and the good old days, you know. They printed me up a certificate on the ship and they printed me up a commission, feeling sorry for me for being in grade for so long, you see. And gave me my original commission back as a lieutenant in the Phoenician navy with the date of rank, 1003 B.C. printed on it. Only it didn’t seem very funny to me. Only they didn’t have lieutenants. Well, we won’t go off into that. There was another way of designating rank and grade. What all this comes down to was how willing I was to create the early track or to create the memory of an early track, which is all memory is. Now you have a reality on it because you know it is-was.” — L. Ron Hubbard, November 17, 1959

 
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Overheard in the FreeZone

“Thetans, until recently have kept only getting worse, losing their far superior innate abilities and instead buying into MEST livelihoods, MEST ‘solutions,’ bigger computers, AI and now 5G. It’s IT vs PSI. Which will win, and what direction are we Independent Scientologists pursuing, I wonder.”

 
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Random Howdy

“Scientology came into existence in the 50s, which saw the advent of the beatniks and new ageism followed by the hippies and a rampant world wide interest in the supernatural, occult, and paranormal. It’s fitting to me that Scientology peaked in the 80s with the rise of the yuppie.”

 
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Scientology’s celebrities, ‘Ideal Orgs,’ and more!

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THE WHOLE TRACK

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[TWO years ago] Days before jumping to his death, actor Brad Bufanda credited Scientology with saving his life
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[FOUR years ago] Our Scientology tech experts review Lisa McPherson’s grim cycle of guilt and self-blame
[FIVE years ago] More L. Ron Hubbard history that Scientology has done its best to disappear
[SIX years ago] LIVE OVER CLEARWATER: Watching Scientology from an Eye in the Sky
[SEVEN years ago] Scientology Accused of Spending Millions to Influence Florida Judges
[EIGHT years ago] Scientology Chillin’ With Hip Hop! A Video That Cannot Be Unseen

 
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Posted by Tony Ortega on November 17, 2019 at 07:00

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