Former Scientologist Spills The Beans On Sick Cult

November 4. 2008

A former Scientologist named John Duignan has denounced the cult as dangerous, revealing the sick brainwashing and terrible extremes it drives members to, isolating them from family and friends. He spoke of the abusiveness of the cult and how they stalk and hound members who try to leave. Below are excerpts of his terrible ordeal:

I'd have killed for Cruise cult

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For John Duignan it cost him everything and everyone he held dear after he become a leading figure in the church’s British branch. John says he was so brainwashed that he would have killed for Scientology. And he claims another member was driven to a suicide bid when she was “rehabilitated” after trying to leave.

Under a regime of sleep deprivation, brainwashing and so-called counselling, John gave up his mind to the bizarre teachings. He says: “On one occasion I sat on the floor while others shouted in my face and flicked things into my eyes.

“It went on for hours. I wasn’t allowed to react or blink. You’re suppressing your natural reactions and that helps Scientology creep in to take over your mind.”…

“If I’d been told someone had to be eliminated because they were a threat to Scientology I could have justified the killing. They’d just lose their body, which isn’t needed.”…

He says: “We were expected to work, eat and sleep Scientology with every minute of the day scheduled, from 7am until lights out at 11pm.”…

Two years later John made his escape bid. He says he knew he would be hunted by the sect’s intelligence wing, the Office of Special Affairs (OSA).

John says: “Members who try to leave Scientology are subjected to the Rehabilitation Project Force. “This uses military tactics and are feared. A friend, Alice, was put through rehabilitation. At 19 she was subjected to daily interrogations for six months.

“One afternoon Alice swallowed a tin of paint thinner and jumped from a 15ft roof. “The whole thing was hushed up. Alice is now crippled.”

He says officers were sent after him and even staked out relatives. In a bid to lure them away he made sure he was sighted near the Birmingham Scientology office.Then he fled to Dublin when he knew the officers had been recalled to England.

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