Birthday: 19 January

Dear Levi,
Remember Shane Weightman? Why aren't you allowed to talk to him? He escaped, you can too! It's okay to have doubts!
Amway and Scientology only want your money. They are using you, girl.
Inducing a state of high suggestibility by hypnosis, often thinly disguised as relaxation or meditation.
Suppressing doubt and resistance to new ideas by exploiting the need to belong.
There’s even a course, called SP/PTS Course
Creating a sense of family and belonging through hugging, kissing, touching and flattery.
Accelerating acceptance of new life style by constantly denouncing former values and beliefs.
Encouraging blind acceptance and rejection of logic through complex lectures on an incomprehensible doctrine.
Implanting subliminal messages by stressing certain key words or phrases in long, confusing lectures.
Achieving loss of ability to evaluate logically by preventing private contemplation. An example: Six bunk beds per room at Flag
Destroying ability to evaluate information, personal reactions, and body functions in relation to passage of time by removing all clocks and watches.
Encouraging child-like obedience by orchestrating child-like behaviour.
Inducing regression and disorientation by soliciting agreement to seemingly simple rules which regulate mealtimes, bathroom breaks and use of medications.
Creating disorientation and vulnerability by prolonging mental an physical activity and withholding adequate rest and sleep.
Removing individuality by demanding conformity to the group dress code.
Eliminanting non-cult ideas through group repetition of mind-narrowing chants or phrases.
Encouraging the destruction of individual ego through confession of personal weaknesses and innermost feelings of doubt.
Achieving increased dependence on the group by 'burning bridges' to the past, through the donation of assets.
Creating a false sense of righteousness by pointing to the shortcomings of the outside world and other cults.
Promoting acceptance of cult authority by promising advancement, power and salvation.
Inducing loss of reality by physical separation from family, friends, society and rational references.
Maintaining vulnerability and confusion by alternately rewarding and punishing similar actions.
Creating disorientation and increased susceptibility to emotional arousal by depriving the nervous system of necessary nutrients through the use of special diets and/or fasting.
Inducing dependence on the group by introducing games with obscure rules.
Accomplishing automatic acceptance of beliefs by discouraging questions.
Reinforcing the need for 'salvation' by exaggerating the sins of the former lifestyles.
Maintaining loyalty and obedience to the group by threatening soul, life or limb for the slightest 'negative' thought, word or deed.
Destroying pre-cult families by arranging cult marriages and 'families'.

Dear Levi,
Remember Shane Weightman? Why aren't you allowed to talk to him? He escaped, you can too! It's okay to have doubts!
Amway and Scientology only want your money. They are using you, girl.
Scientology Techniques
Hypnosis
[auditing]Inducing a state of high suggestibility by hypnosis, often thinly disguised as relaxation or meditation.
How Scientology uses Hypnosis
Peer Group Pressure
Suppressing doubt and resistance to new ideas by exploiting the need to belong.
There’s even a course, called SP/PTS Course
Love Bombing
Creating a sense of family and belonging through hugging, kissing, touching and flattery.
Rejection of Old Values
Accelerating acceptance of new life style by constantly denouncing former values and beliefs.
Confusing Doctrine
Encouraging blind acceptance and rejection of logic through complex lectures on an incomprehensible doctrine.
Metacommunication
Implanting subliminal messages by stressing certain key words or phrases in long, confusing lectures.
Removal of Privacy
Achieving loss of ability to evaluate logically by preventing private contemplation. An example: Six bunk beds per room at Flag
Time Sense Deprivation
Destroying ability to evaluate information, personal reactions, and body functions in relation to passage of time by removing all clocks and watches.
Disinhibition
Encouraging child-like obedience by orchestrating child-like behaviour.
Uncompromising Rules
Inducing regression and disorientation by soliciting agreement to seemingly simple rules which regulate mealtimes, bathroom breaks and use of medications.
Verbal AbuseDesensitizing through bombardment with foul & abusive language.
Sleep Deprivation & Fatigue
Creating disorientation and vulnerability by prolonging mental an physical activity and withholding adequate rest and sleep.
Dress Codes
Removing individuality by demanding conformity to the group dress code.
Chanting and Singing
Eliminanting non-cult ideas through group repetition of mind-narrowing chants or phrases.
Confession [auditing]
Encouraging the destruction of individual ego through confession of personal weaknesses and innermost feelings of doubt.
Financial Commitment
Achieving increased dependence on the group by 'burning bridges' to the past, through the donation of assets.
Finger Pointing
Creating a false sense of righteousness by pointing to the shortcomings of the outside world and other cults.
Flaunting Hierarchy
Promoting acceptance of cult authority by promising advancement, power and salvation.
Isolation
Inducing loss of reality by physical separation from family, friends, society and rational references.
Controlled Approval
Maintaining vulnerability and confusion by alternately rewarding and punishing similar actions.
Change of Diet
Creating disorientation and increased susceptibility to emotional arousal by depriving the nervous system of necessary nutrients through the use of special diets and/or fasting.
Games
Inducing dependence on the group by introducing games with obscure rules.
No Questions
Accomplishing automatic acceptance of beliefs by discouraging questions.
Guilt
Reinforcing the need for 'salvation' by exaggerating the sins of the former lifestyles.
Fear
Maintaining loyalty and obedience to the group by threatening soul, life or limb for the slightest 'negative' thought, word or deed.
Replacement of Relationships
Destroying pre-cult families by arranging cult marriages and 'families'.