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Disconnection:

Taken from Wikipedia, which says it better than we can http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disconnection:

“Antagonists to the Church of Scientology are declared by the Church to be antisocial personalities, Potential Trouble Sources (PTS), or Suppressive Persons (SPs). The Church teaches that association with these people impedes a member's progress along the Bridge to Total Freedom.

In a Hubbard Communication Office Bulletin (the official policy of the Church of Scientology), L. Ron Hubbard sets out the doctrine that by being connected to Suppressive Persons, a Scientologist could become a Potential Trouble Source (PTS):

‘A Scientologist can become PTS by reason of being connected to someone that is antagonistic to Scientology or its tenets. In order to resolve the PTS condition, he either HANDLES the other person's antagonism (as covered in the materials on PTS handling) or, as a last resort when all attempts to handle have failed, he disconnects from the person. He is simply exercising his right to communicate or not to communicate with a particular person.’”

Isn’t this just a form of Excommunication?

No, the HCO bulletin states that failure to disconnect from a Suppressive must itself be labelled a Suppressive Act. It isn’t a choice, it’s a forced condition. A Scientologist is not “exercising his right to communicate or not communicate” becasue he has no choice unless he, himself, wants to be declared an SP. Scientologits love to claim it was revoked in 1968, but, not surprisingly, it came back into use in 1983.

Wikipedia continues:
“According to Church statements, disconnection is used as a "last resort", only to be employed if the persons antagonistic to Scientology do not cease their antagonism -- even after being provided with "true data" about Scientology, since it is taught that usually only people with false data are antagonistic to the Church.”

The problem is that the Church’s position is that it is NEVER wrong. The tech is seen as infallible, so once the Scientologist tries to explain away a person’s concerns, if that person is still not conviced (and why would they be?), they MUST disconnect, be it wife, brother, child, or lifetime friend. You do not control your contact to the SP (as would be the case in ex-communication), the Church controls your contact with the SP.

Examples of a disconnect letter:

"Dear Mother, I am hereby disconnecting from you because you are suppressive to me. You evaluate for me, invalidate me, interrupt me and remove all my gains. And you are destroying me. "I [unreadable] from this time consider myself disconnected from you and I do not want to see you or hear from you again. From now you don't exist in my life." - Scientologist Karen Henslow to her mother,1966 UK Newspaper

"If you try to ring me I will not answer, I will not read any mail you send, and I refuse to have anything to do with you in any way whatsoever. All communication is cut completely." - Scientologist Erin O'Donnell’s note to her aunt.

In January 2008, Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of David Miscavige (the current leader of Scientology), made a number of allegations about the policy's effect on her family. She claimed that, once her parents left and she remained in the group, she had been forbidden to answer the telephone in case she spoke to them and that her parents only restored occasional access to her by threatening legal action.

 

 

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