[Shedona C.]

I’m not Wiccan, but I am a member of a minority religion typically categorized as ‘pagan’ (though ‘gnostic’ would be more apropos). I perceive that all religions, spiritual paths, philosophies, systems of thought and/or belief, etc. in the world are all different languages or ‘maps’ describing the same territory – a territory of which NO human being on the face of the earth can ever accurately claim to have perfect, impeccable, unimpeachable, purely objective awareness. One of the main differences between pagan, syncretic or eclectic spiritual paths and the majority of monotheistic ones is the recognition of this fact. We are aware of the validity of differences and diversities in describing this ‘territory,’ while others consider that to be anathema and deception, preferring instead to claim there is only one ‘correct’ language and one ‘correct’ map, (and moreover, it is theirs, of course) and thus anyone who disagrees must be doing so because they are ‘evil,’ ‘deceived,’ ‘rebelling against God’ or whatever. I look very much forward to the day when the human species outgrows solipsistic behavior in the realm of spiritual and religious matters. To borrow a phrase from Christ himself, ‘By their fruits ye shall know them.’ Two thousand years has been more than adequate to test the fruits (war, prejudice, persecution, oppression, opposition to human advancement, etc.) of the ‘There is only one right way to think’ disease. These past two millenia of history reveal the results of that folly quite plainly.

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Name : Shedona C., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : daimono/pneumata-sexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Thelemite, Age : 35, City : Gaithersburg, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : web design/development, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

[Shedona C.]

Before starting the $cientology machine, founder L. Ron Hubbard inexcusably abused the one genuine privilege life granted him: to assist Jack Parsons with one of the most important spiritual experiments of the twentieth century, the Babalon Working, in 1946. Hubbard passed himself off as friend, brother-in-spirit, and confidante of his mentor Parsons, then absconded with Parsons’ yacht, girlfriend, and money. More than that, he absconded with at least a rudimentary working knowledge of the secrets of sexual and ceremonial magick he had learned from his time with Parsons. Hubbard added his own distinctive sci-fi blarney into the mix and twisted these powerful tools into a money-making machine. Publicized and sold bit by bit for increasingly exorbitant fees as a psycho-spiritual technology to cure to all human ills, $cientology became the hydra-headed pseudo-mystical religion it is known as today. Each step along the path of $cientology supposedly takes its marks deeper into the secrets of the ‘religion’ — ‘secrets’ which cost more and more at each step (some of the ‘high levels’ in $cientology are as modestly priced as a small mansion in southern California…) and which consist of this blend of sci-fi storytelling intermingled with practices and concepts totally ripped off from a hodgepodge of older magickal/mystical teachings from various paths, yet stripped of their true substance and usefulness, reconfigured to serve L. Ron and the Organization’s purposes: to bind its adherents into their respective posts as cogs in this perpetual-motion engine of self-promotion. $cientology is quite possibly the most successful attempt by a single human being to create a religion entirely for no other purpose than to make money. This is not conjecture; Hubbard is reported to have said as much in several conversations around the time he launched his project. Anyway, hit a search engine on the web and type in ‘scientology’ or ‘L. Ron Hubbard’ and I’m sure you will find more ‘secrets’ than you ever really cared to know.

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Name : Shedona C., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : daimono/pneumata-sexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Thelemite, Age : 35, City : Gaithersburg, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : web design/development, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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