From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Xemu
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:38:48 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


isds22013010@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>    The most basic belief of Scientology is that what is true is what is true
>for you.  In other words, find out for yourself and don't always believe 
>what you are told because some "authority" says that is the way it is.

The flip side is that you are not supposed to object to ludicrous
teachings, I suppose because they may eventually become true for you.
Even if they are self contradictory. For example, in the following
Xemu file - just how do you freeze an immaterial supernatural being
with a liquid?

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Subject: Attack of the Thetans from the Planet Teegeeach!
Date: 07 Nov 85 10:45:18 PST (Thu)
From: jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa

[from the Los Angeles Times, via the San Francisco Chronicle]

SCIENTOLOGISTS SCRAMBLE TO KEEP SECRETS
Los Angeles

    Documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times show that the members of
the Church of Scientology believe that mankind's ills were caused by
an evil ruler named Xemu who lived 75 million years ago.

    Scientologists have been trying to prevent the release of the 
documents, which they consider secret and sacred, and about 1500
church members crammed three floors of the Los Angeles County
Courthouse on Monday, effectively blocking public access to
documents.

    Nevertheless, the Los Angeles Times had already obtained access
to the documents, which were submitted as part of a civil case
brought by former Scientologist Larry Wollersheim, before lawyers
for the Scientologists requested they be sealed.

    Wollersheim charges that the organization defrauded him by
promising him higher intelligence and greater business success
through Scientology courses that cost thousands of dollars.

    In arguing to keep the court documents sealed, the church has
told its members that it could be physically and spiritually harmful
for them to learn about the upper levels of Scientology before they
have mastered the preparatory courses. Scientology attorneys have
argued that disclosure of the material violates the group's
religous freedom.

    Scientology is widely known for its use of "auditing", a form of
one-to-one counselling in which a lie-detector-like instrument called
an E-meter is used to help a person erase negative experiences,
supposedly freeing him to achieve his full potential.

    The group bases its beliefs on the writings of L. Ron Hubbard,
the reclusive science-fiction author who in the early 1950's
published the best-seller "Dianetics: the Modern Science of Mental
Health."

    What is rarely discussed, however, is Hubbard's secret
teachings, which disclose his thoughts on why mankind has been
plagued by problems through history, the topic of the disputed
documents.

    Generally, the documents suggest that a major cause of mankind's
problems began 75 million years ago, when the planet Earth, then 
called Teegeeach, was part of a confederation of 90 planets under
the leadership of a tyrannical ruler named Xemu. Then, as now, the
materials state, the chief problem was overpopulation.

    Xemu, the documents state, decided to take radical measures to
overcome the overpopulation problem. Beings were captured on Earth
and on other planets and flown to at least 10 volcanoes on Earth.

    The documents state that H-bombs far more powerful than any in 
existence today were dropped on the volcanoes, destroying the people
but freeing their spirits, called "thetans," which attached
themselves to one another in clusters.

    After the nuclear explosions, according to the documents, the
thetans were trapped in a compound of frozen alcohol and glycol and,
during a 36-day period, Xemu "implanted" in them the seeds of
aberrant behavior for generations to come. When people die, those
clusters attach to to other humans and keep perpetuating themselves.

    Before a Scientologist can learn about thetans and how to 
eradicate them, he must go through a progression of costly programs.

    For hours on Monday, Scientologists swamped workers in the 
clerk's office with hundreds of requests to photocopy the documents.

    Superior Court Judge Alfred L. Margolis, over strong objections,
had issued an order Friday making the documents public at 9 a.m.
Monday - on a first-come, first-served basis.

    Scientologists, by snaking the line through three courthouse
hallways, made sure that they were the only ones to buy copies of the
materials.

    Shortly before noon, Margolis, at the request of Scientology
lawyers, resealed the materials, pending a hearing later this week.

    Jeff Pomerantz, a Scientology spokesman, said the strategy was
intended to "keep the materials secure ... Religion is not supposed
to be disseminated from the courtroom."

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Article 1141 of alt.religion.scientology:
From: goehring@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Scott Goehring)
Date: 17 Jan 92 14:42:58 GMT

[Excerpted from _L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman_, Bent Corydon,
page 364.  I have not edited this beyond word-wrapping it; any errors
are OmniScan's fault.]

The head of the Galactic Confederation (76 planets around larger stars
visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 years ago, very space opera)
solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet -- 178 billion on
average) by mass implanting.

He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb
on the principal volcanoes (incident 2) and then the Pacific ones were
taken in boxes to _Hawaii_ and the Atlantic area ones to _Las Palmas_
and there "packaged."

His name was Xenu.  He used renegades.  Various misleading data by
means of circuits, etc., was placed in the implants.

When through with his crime, Loyal Officers (to the people) captured
him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain
trap where he still is.  "They" are gone.  The place (Confed.) has
since been a desert.

The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation
never recovered.  The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia,
etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it.  This liability has been
dispensed with by my tech development.

One can _free wheel_ through the implant and die unless it is
approached as precisely outlined.  The "free wheel" (auto running on
and on) lasts too long, denies sleep, etc., and one dies....

In December '67 I knew somebody had to take the plunge.  I did and
emerged very knocked out but alive.  Probably the only one ever to do
so in 75,000,000 years.  I have _all_ the data now but only that given
here is needful....

Good luck.
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Don		D.C.Lindsay 	Carnegie Mellon Computer Science