Title: XENU is a covergirl? boy? coveralien! WOW! Atlanta Press
Author: Arnie Lerma <www.lermanet2.com> <Arnie_member@newsguy.com>
Date: 16 Jan 2000 23:30:32 -0800

In article <85udoi$mtb$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Scamtology says...
>
>::: Atlanta Press: Xenu and the Martians! :::
>
>[commentary by Dick Farley]
>
>Today's hot-off-the-press tabloid "Atlanta Press," (Jan. 15-21, 1999;
>p. 8-10), a 32-page free weekly billing itself as: ..."metro Atlanta's
>alternative news weekly" and bearing resemblance to "City Paper" in
>other major municipalities, has on its cover a full-page "gray alien"
>face looking over the horizon of Planet Earth.  It is captioned:
>
>
>"Meet Xemu: The Church of Scientology's Unknown Celebrity."
>
>Authored by one Richard Wood, the article is a somewhat
>tongue-in-cheek piece reporting author Wood's forays to learn "the
>truth" about Scientology, including a visit (with Wood's uncle, who "as
>a hobby...looks up articles about the church on the Internet") ...to
>Scientology's Golden Era Productions compound, east of Los Angeles.
>
>Atlanta Press is distributed free throughout the Atlanta metro
>area, (50,000 copies at 850 locations).  The paper does not have a web
>site (that I have yet found) where the full story is posted. And any
>veteran Scientology watchers and Scientologists-in-harness doubtlessly
>are mo' better informed about the Church than this
>article of two full (4-column) pages makes one.  But "UFO"
>investigators and New Age warriors, "in the know" that more of this
>article is "true" than its author wants to let on, will smile.
>
>HOWEVER, what's important about this story is that it ran at
>all, in this venue, on the cover...with the "art."  Although the author
>plays for laughs and bets on readers' preference to keep sailing on the
>river of denial, the story will be unsettling to the new "wet-behind-
>the-E meter" Scientology recruits; all the more-so to "UFO abductees."
>
>After writing about his Atlanta visit to a Scientology "free lecture"
>and experiences during a $100 first run at "auditing," author Wood
>reprises recent developments about Germany's negative stance toward the
>Church, the high-profile celebrities in the U.S. who are Scientology's
>most-public members, and reported current felony charges of members in
>Clearwater, FL, stemming from the
>1995 death of Lisa McPherson: "..an estranged Scientologist who died in
>confinement under mysterious circumstances."
>
>Sidebars include quotes from Scientology founder L. Ron
>Hubbard, including one captioned "On Civil Rights," which
>states: "Perhaps at some distant date only the unaberrated person will
>be granted civil rights before the law," (which goes a long way toward
>explaining why the Germans might be a bit hoity-toity
>about Scientology gaining official status among the war-like
>Germanic tribes).  Quote is from "Dianetics Quotations from Chairman
>Hubbard," by Jeff Jacobsen. (Web site is listed following.)
>
>So, what's the "kicker?" Well, although it might sound a bit "alien" to
>uninitiates, it won't be news to those of us who have read somewhat
>between the lines of Hubbard or another "fighter against alien
>possession of humanity's souls and minds," i.e., one Mark Prophet,
>former husband of and current "Ascended Master" guide of Elizabeth
>Clare Prophet, who recently announced her
>retirement from the throne of her Church Universal and Triumphant, out
>Montana way.  Mark Prophet also warned of "the gray" contamination of
>humanity's "interstitial vulnerabilities," and business has been good.
>
>Quoting author Richard Wood, in the current "Atlanta Press," here's THE
>answer.  I'll quote the final few paragraphs of the
>article, hoping to have this considered as a review and not
>copyright infringement.  The paper's FREE, and it's a fun read
>on an otherwise sunny, fair, clear Atlanta winter afternoon.
>Call them and get one (below).
>
>Wood closes his article as follows:
>
>"Darkly Bespectacled People Fighting Xemu..."
>
>"In the Golden State, I meet my Uncle in his home, about an hour's
>drive east of Los Angeles, the holy land of the church of Scientology.
>We head out to the town of Hemmett, Hubbard's old stomping grounds
>where he did much of his writing.  Here the
>church has one of its most sensitive sites, the Golden Era
>Production compound.
>
>"Scientologists at Golder Era make films, produce tapes in 50 languages
>and manufacture e-meters, mysterious devices used
>to measure mental activity during audits.
>
>"The sprawling expanse teems with well manicured golf lawns, posh
>mansions and dozens of uniformed, darkly bespectacled people. They are
>most likely members of the church's elite SEA Organization -- the
>highest defenders of the faith, named for the crew of the yacht that
>Hubbad roamed the seas in for most of his twilight
>years.  Scientologists have a reputation for harassing the
>critically curious.
>
>"Here they snap photos, scribble notes and report on walkie talkies as
>we drive by.  Nonplussed, we go into one of the
>entrances.  A sign says the golf course is open to the public,
>but we find no one in the building.  The course is closed.
>
>"The guards are not in a talkative mood, but we want some answers.
>What makes Scientologists so devout?  What do they
>truly believe in?  My uncle and I head back to the ranch to
>cruise the Internet.  We dig up some startling information.
>
>"A popular science fiction writer, Hubbard did not go far to draw up
>the foundation of his religion.  Understandably, the
>events that set the stage for Scientology are not something most
>members discuss -- or even know about until they've reached a
>high level in the church.  Yet incredibly, here's the core belief of
>Scientology, according to Hubbard's own words, the New York
>Times and many ex-Scientologists:
>
>"'Eons ago the evil ruler Xemu, also known as Xenu, banished hundreds
>of billions of people from the overpopulated Galactic
>Federation to volcanoes on Earth.  He then blew them up with
>atomic bombs.  But his subjects' spirits, or thetans, wouldn't
>go away and today clusters of them inhabit our bodies.  To
>remove the pesky thetans, which manifest themselves as our
>problems and afflictions, everyone must be "cleared" through the
>auditing counseling sessions.' (End italics.)
>
>"That's it?  Pulp science fiction as the truth of the
>universe?
>No wonder Hollywood types like John Travolta fall for it.  I imagine
>they want to star in the movie when it comes out."
>
>--- End, article by Richard Wood, "Atlanta Press" (Jan 15-21, '99)
>
>
>Website references listed after the article, descriptions as per
>Atlanta Press:
>
>www.xenv.net -- Get the scoop on "Xenu," aka Xemu.
>www.factnet.org -- Internet library dedicated to "protecting freedom of
>mind."
>www.lisamcpherson.org/cos -- Read some more gems from L. Ron
>Hubbard.
>www.scientology.org -- Want to join?  Browse the official site
>for the mother church.
>
>Atlanta Press: (404) 524-4424 or 524-5818.
>Editor-In-Chief is: J. Patrick Best...<best@atlanta.com>
>- - - - +
>CloudRider's (Dick Farley) comment:
>
>Who can say?  When I was asking the FBI, back in 1994, to let
>me have a look-see in the file on then-missing "Unicorn," Ira Einhorn,
>the Bureau "took a pass," but sent a list that included a former side-
>kick of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's, one Jack Parsons, among
>others.  Of course, some say CIA and NSA have their share of
>Scientologists in the fold, especially among the teams which track "the
>aliens" and the political figures to whom "they" might become
>attached.  The best treatment of "consciousness contamination" I've
>seen was by Janet and Chris Morris, in their sci-fi book for ROC,
>(1994), entitled "The Stalk."  The Stalk is slang for the space station
>Earth has constructed on the outer
>orbits of our solar system, with guidance and the "encouragement" of a
>multi-dimensional culture of beings, calling themselves
>"Unity."
>
>At least in their "fictional" dealings with interdimensional diplomacy
>Janet and Chris keep their characters' sense of humor. Of course,
>Hubbard's contemporary, Robert Heinlein, always
>maintained his characters' sense of adventure and humanity,
>didn't matter WHAT planet or time-line they were on.  Lazarus
>Long's attitude toward just about anything is a good one for
>"UFOlogists" and those engaged in resistance to an alien "Conquest By
>Consensus!" (Oops, that's a copyrighted phrase; my soon book). Let's
>see, that advice would be..."Keep your beer cold."  And the others also
>will do.
>D.F.
>- - -
>For more of Dick Farley's perspective: Read: "UFOs and Mental Health,"
>by Bob Teets; Headline Books, Inc., P.O. Box 52, Terra Alta, WV 26764.
>(304) 789-5951.
>
>For another approach to handling "thetans" attached to one's
>consciousness, try Dr. Bill Baldwin's "Spirit Releasement Therapy and
>Past Life Regression Manual," also a Headline Books, Inc.,
>publication.  But do be prepared to have your paradigm shifted! Through
>Headline Books, you can learn about Dr. Baldwin's
>therapist training course.
>
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