"Free Mind" for Sale
Sect commissioner warns of new Scientology magazine
Scientology advertising campaign in Berlin taxisDialog press release
Berlin, Germany
3 June 2003
Numerous Berlin taxis have been driving through the capitol city recently with covert Scientology advertisements. On June 3, 2003, sect commissioner of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg, Rev. Thomas Gandow, warned about the taxi advertisements for the new Scientology magazine "Free Mind - Reise zum Ich."
The connection of the advertisement to the Scientology organization is not readily apparent to either the taxi driver or to the potential buyers. This is because the word "Scientology" is not mentioned, although the advertisement is for "Dianetics" and Scientology founder Hubbard. Further details: http://www.ingo-heinemann.de/FreeMind.htm (English version below)
On the cover page of the magazine is an image of US actor and active Scientologist John Travolta. Instead of advertising for Scientology, though, he appears for Dianetics, which is a basic Scientology psycho-course.
Those who contributed to this edition of the magazine include Lothar Kiessel, who runs an "L. RON HUBBARD Press and Information Office" at the same address as the publishing addressing for the deceased L. Ron Hubbard. Besides him there is Volker Kubillus, author of "Die Männer hinter Hitler", one of Scientology's anti-psychiatry's books. Kubillus is or was listed as a member on the advisory board on the letterhead of the KVPM(Kommission für Verstösse der Psychiatrie gegen Menschenrechte e.V."), a Scientology front organization to fight psychiatry.
Scientology and Dianetics inventor Hubbard stated that his psycho-courses were going to replace psychiatry and psychotherapy. Erich Fromm, who back in 1950 was a renowned psychotherapist, wrote that the Dianetics book was "alarming." He said the book was a "symptom of a dangerous trend." http://www.erichfromm.de/lib_1/1950b.html (also see http://www.xenu.net/archive/fifties/)
From that point on Hubbard was fighting psychiatrists. Scientology demands that psychiatry be done away with. It was to obtain a mental treatment monopoly for its own methods. Accordingly, the fight against psychiatry is one of the focal points of the new magazine.
"Free Mind" is printed by Verlag New Era Publications GmbH in 21220 Seevertal-Maschen. There is no doubt this is a Scientology corporation whose business consists primarily of dealing in Hubbard books.
The Scientology organization is under surveillance in many German states. According to a 1995 decision of the Kassel Federal Labor Court, Scientology is not a religion in the sense of Article 4 of Basic Law (BAG 22. März 1995 AZ: 5 AZB 21/94) http://www.religio.de/dialog/295/295s19.html; (or http://cisar.org/950322a.htm)
from Ingo Heinemann
http://www.ingo-heinemann.de/FreeMind.htmScientology "Free Mind" magazine on the stands: deluding readers
In 2003, the Scientology organization put a magazine on the stands which doesn't contain the word "Scientology" or hid it so well that it's hard to find.
Title line: "Everything you ever wanted to know about yourself and others"
Everything?
In reality the magazine contains nothing more that the usual clippings from Scientology, but with the word "Scientology."
The magazine does not contain anything that can't be found in other Scientology magazines or in publications Scientology distributes for free.
As far as I can remember, this is the first magazine that Scientology has distributed through normal magazine channels. This proves once again that Scientology is a commercial concern, whose numerous branches, firms and cover organization are working overtime in diverse legal forms as a solitary commercial operation in abuse of legal formation laws.
On the cover is Scientologist and actor John Travolta, an interview with him is inside. Wherever Travolta would have said Scientology, now he says Dianetics. No mention of Scientology in his short biography. A brief reference to his roll in Battlefield Earth, but no mention that it had to do with the filming of a book by science-fiction author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, whose name dominates bylines elsewhere in the magazine.
The magazine is printed by the Verlag New Era Publications GmbH in 21220 Seevertal-Maschen. There's no doubt it's a Scientology enterprise that deals primarily in Hubbard's Scientology books.
Those who contributed to this edition of the magazine include Lothar Kiessel, who runs an "L. RON HUBBARD Press and Information Office" at the same address as the publishing addressing for the deceased L. Ron Hubbard. Besides him there is Volker Kubillus, author of "Die Männer hinter Hitler", one of Scientology's anti-psychiatry's books. Kubillus is or was listed as a member on the advisory board on the letterhead of the KVPM (Kommission für Verstösse der Psychiatrie gegen Menschenrechte e.V."), a Scientology front organization to fight psychiatry.
"Dianetics" is the title of Hubbard's first book after he apparently became familiar with psychiatry. Today the Scientologists call it "Book 1" and celebrate its birthday every year. It is also the Scientology Bible, so to speak. Hubbard later sold the book, along with the rights to the word, due to lack of funds. At that point he needed a new trademark and chose "Scientology." That, however, had already been chosen as the title of a book previously written by a German-Argentinian named Nordenholz. The contents of Hubbard's book contained details that were similar. Not one word was spent on that, however, in the magazine's "Biography of L. Ron Hubbard." Instead it contains the usual stories. As was put by the 1979 book, "Scientology and its cover companies": The Scientology sect uses every available opportunity to spread Hubbard's biography. He alleged could ride a horse before he could even walk. The rest of his childhood was even more adventuresome, as if it had been written as a child's adventure story by an author of children's books. Nothing in it was proven.
The magazine mentions once more that Hubbard, as a child, had "a deep friendship with the Blackfoot Indians" and was the "bloodbrother of a medicine mad." In the same volume two pictures show how in 1932/33 Hubbard was allegedly the leader of West Indian Mineralogical Expedition. Hubbard was 21 years old at the time. You can tell it was an expedition because the people in the pictures are wearing tropical hats. "Hat" was later used by Hubbard to describe the job that someone is carrying on at the moment. Just as an expedition leader wears a tropical hat, a commodore (one of Hubbard's favorite roles later on) wear's a captain's hat and a chimney sweep wears a top hat. Even today there is a "hatting course" for training and "hat write-ups" are job descriptions.
Hubbard had originally ascribed his teachings to psychology and psychotherapy, which he wanted to reform. He was, however, severely rejected. Erich Fromm, who back in 1950 was a renowned psychotherapist, wrote that the Dianetics book was "alarming." He said the book was a "symptom of a dangerous trend." http://www.erichfromm.de/lib_1/1950b.html
From that point on Hubbard was fighting psychiatrists. Scientology demands that psychiatry be done away with. It was to obtain a mental treatment monopoly for its own methods. Accordingly, the fight against psychiatry is one of the focal points of the new magazine.
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