They are decent, caring and loving human beings who have freely chosen to help others who have made a similar uninformed decision about Scientology. Moreover, they are willing and able to share their innermost personal experiences in the Sea Organization or as Public Scientologists in order to counsel, educate and immunize others against the abuses and deceptions of Scientology. Scientology draws its members from a broad cross-section of society, and, like other destructive cults, uses a sophisticated combination of deceptive recruiting methods, false promises, hypnosis, behavior modification, sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation, information control, phobia indoctrination and other mind control techniques to entice and control its members. There is no shame in having been seduced into a group like Scientology. Likewise, there need not be any reluctance to leave after discovering that the organization is not capable of delivering on its promise of a road to total freedom.
Real freedom begins and ends with the never-ending quest of the human spirit to be free.
This perpetual quest is the single most important factor that keeps mind control from being irreversible. Organized Scientology claims eight million members, including anyone who has ever taken a course or bought a book. However, informed estimates indicate that there are at most no more than 200,000 active Scientologists in the world today. This apparent rejection of Scientology by 7.8 million people who have tried it is the single greatest testimonial to the fact that this organization does not deliver on its promises. The Board of Directors, Advisory Committee and staff of the Lisa McPherson Trust will do our part in Clearwater, Florida, to see that the human spirit of all Scientologists will always have a pathway to real freedom.