A Childhood in Scientology!

Interpreting Note:

A childhood in Scientology means children who were born into the Scientology system or who were brought into it when their parents joined the organization. They were raised according to the fundamentals of this organization and grew up doing the drills of Scientology. From the time they are infants they were quashed by a prefabricated thought system that isolated them from social contact and human interaction in society outside of Scientology.
 

Maturing with Scientology's ideology is supposed to be guaranteed in the organization's private kindergartens and schools, where the children are "educated" and "counselled" according to Scientology's point of view. At the earliest possible age, children are drilled by Scientology that Scientology itself and working for Scientology takes top priority.  This amounts to nothing less than the "clearing" of the planet.

Many Scientology parents endeavor to get their children into Scientology's elite Sea Org unit, and to have that be their children's "career." Contained within the Sea Org elite is the RPF Rehabilitation camp, which is the equivalent to a Chinese re-education camp. That is where children are sent when they commit "crimes" in the Scientology sense of the word.

From the above it can be concluded that children are to be punished just as severely as adults and that they would receive punishments which are just as harsh as they are for grown-up.

See also "Brainwashing in Scientology's RPF" page 46
http://www.lermanet.com/scientology/gulags/BrainwashinginScientology'sRehabilitationProjectForce.htm

Since the sample directives apply to children as to adults, according to Hubbard, children are monitored and handled with the same policies.

As reported by a young women who left Scientology about her work in the Saint Hill Sea Org, after she finished her 8 am to 4 pm Sea Org courses there was manual work, during which time she was not allowed breaks. Throughout the day there were two breaks to eat, half hour each. Walking was frowned upon - they were urged to jog so that maximum production could be achieved. She practically never went to school, instead she and her friends worked to help build a sauna. In doing so they quite often labored the whole night through, and with little or no sleep would go back to the course the next morning.

Even when she was sick she had to work and take her courses because she was told,
"A Thetan can do anything."

When she tried to flee, she was apprehended by supervisors and locked in a room for hours. Her telephone conversations were listened in upon and her mail was read. She herself had been a part of this system, had monitored other people and opened their mail. She succeeded in getting vacation in Germany by giving the excuse that her father was sick. With the support of the local police and the German authorities, she was able to leave Scientology afterwards, never to return to the Sea Org again. Her story is here, in English:

"Tanya's Training as the perfect machine"
 

On page 65 of his book, "Cult Children" ["Die Sektenkinder," Herder Verlag, 1996], Kurt-Helmut Eimuth wrote under "Scientology: Conquering the World with Children" the story of an eleven year old girl who had to be carried away from the "Purification Rundown."

Scientology considers and treats children as Thetans in small bodies, therefore there is no place for childhood in the Scientology system. Procedures such as auditing and dubious communication training exercises, such staring at people, is also done by children; in all likelihood it leads to a loss of reality and social problems.
 

In "Child Dianetics," Hubbard said of auditing children:

Auditing for Children

 The most telling question of this interrogation is probably the first one:
    1. What has somebody told you not to tell?
    2. Have you ever decided you didn't like some member of your family?
    3. Have you ever taken something belonging to somebody else and never given it back?
    4. Have you ever pretended to be sick (ill)?
    5. Have you ever made yourself sick (ill) or hurt yourself to make somebody sorry?
    6. Have you ever wanted something very much but never told anybody about it?

Now these first six questions alone are enough by far to give children between the ages of 6 and 12 years a bad conscience, but there are 99 of them, each one of which is suited to give the child a bad conscience.

Here are a few more:
    14. Have you ever pestered older children or grown people who were trying to work?

    19. Do you have a secret?

    35. Have you ever done something you shouldn't when you were supposed to be in bed or asleep?
    36. Have you ever told others bad stories about someone?
    37. Have you ever tried to make others believe that your parents or teachers were cruel to you?
    38. Have you ever offered as an excuse for something you have done wrong that you are only a child or that you
haven't grown up yet?

    70. Have you ever cried when you should'nt have?
    71. Have you ever been a coward?
    72. Have you every made too much fuss over a little hurt?
    73. Have you ever tried to make your parents believe you were doing better in school than you were?
    74. Have you ever told on anyone?

  L. Ron Hubbard "Security Checks Children" HCO WW Security Form  8 of 21 September 1961
 

In Scientology-think, children are regarded as the bodies for the next generation:

How important it is in Scientology to indoctrinate children at an early age to become uncritical fanatics is shown in the following quote:
 

For the child in question, a childhood in Scientology is the equivalent of no childhood at all. It is more like suiting the child up with a totalitarian system and its often brutal, ruthless regulations and directives. In this case the question could be asked of whether freedom of belief might not have its limits?
 

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