Does Scientology engage in brainwashing or mind control?
It’s not true that they don’t engage in brainwashing or mind control, although I don’t think those are the best terms to use. I would use “indoctrination”. CofS members are constantly indoctrinated. If they speak out of turn, if they are critical of any high profile Scientologist or of anything the church is doing or of anything Hubbard did, they are sent to ethics. If they do it enough, they are threatened with explusion and disconnection from their families. It happened to me. I was told I could not post to the internet about Scientology and that I could not even read the particular forum in question (alt.religion.scientology). Then they implied they’d mess with my marriage since my getting expelled would have made it impossible, they thought (they don’t know my husband at all) for my husband to stay married to me. In the end I said no dice, and they expelled both of us. Of course that’s control. It’s indoctrination. It’s coercion. I don’t believe auditing or doing training drills in
