by Nick Broadhurst

Created on: November 04, 2010

I am often asked by tertiary religious students who are trying to write an overview on Scientology, what is the most successful way we have of expanding Scientology. What is it that expands our membership? "Just give a quick overview."

The answer to this question is always the same. Scientology expands mostly by word of mouth. Of course we do book promotion campaigns, internet campaigns, street fliers, letterbox drops, and more. But nothing compares to the expansion by word of mouth. Word of mouth is the simple biggest expansion point of Scientology.

The true story of Scientology is that someone develops a philosophy of life and death. Others find it interesting and it helps them. They then pass it on to others. That should be all there is too it. A two line overview.

However there is more. If people were to get better and Scientology was to achieve its aims, such would include a world without war, without insanity and without criminality, then a lot of people with vested interests in insanity, war and criminality, could be in the unemployment line.

To be sure, here is the biggest industry on earth, the pharmaceutical industry. It would either have to close down or change its operations, maybe even concentrate on beneficial food supplements. This might even spell the end of fictional chemical imbalance of the brain theory. The pharmaceutical industry expands on mental illness and spiritual ill-being. If a well-meaning group were to come along and offer something that could truly rehabilitate people both mentally and spiritually such a good group could be in for a torrid time.

Some many may not benefit from such a good group’s presence, and the some many may be involved in war and criminality. Media magnates may bridge over as common boards of directors into the mental health, pharmaceutical and weapons industries. To a large degree this world, as it stands today, is ruled by these moguls and their families. To them add international banking which funds and profits by their work.

A standard way such a cartel can protect its own interests against a good group which opposes them is to make something controversial of the good group. In general, the natural therapy industry, while growing, gets a torrid time from the above cartel of pharmaceutical, weapons, media and banking industries. But while the natural therapy industry stays as a cottage industry it is no real threat to them.

Scientology on the other hand is different. It is growing fast. Scientology’s

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