This is INSANE and kind of fascinating at the same time Thank you for teaching us about the dangers of this cult ! You would really make an amazing teacher. I'm so glad you are out of this hell now ! Sending you lots of love from France !

One of the spookiest things for me is “no verbal tech” AKA no discussing ideas amongst each other, no comparing experiences or feelings.... or results....it’s so manipulative, controlling and all consuming. Especially for young people who are thrown in without knowing there’s another way to experience life 🤦🏻‍♀️😞thank you for sharing, it’s incredibly eye opening.

i feel like Chris is my teacher in my "Scientology is bat-shit crazy 101 " class.🤭 he's the best teacher I've had ever btw. passionate and intelligent and friendly . 😘. Chris you are loved here in Oregon. keep it up.

Wow! O-M-G. No wonder so many Scientologists walk around with a glassy, wide eyed, crazy look.

This was a very helpful, detailed episode. Thank you for the time you take putting these together. I have family members in Scientology so I'm wanting to learn as much as possible so that I can understand their point of view and perspective and hopefully someday be effective and helpful in their exit.

Jada Pinkett-Smith claims she wasn't a Scientologist but she was interested in the Study Tech. LOL L Ron needed to be sent to write the word CONTEXT on the board a million times. When you READ efficiently, you do NOT read every word. Speed reading leaves out MANY words. I'd have walked out on your "class" Chris, but you did great here! Thanks for explaining all of this!

This was a DEEP dive. I just can't imagine doing all of these. How children are thrown into this further boggles my mind. Great job breaking this down!

I worked as a Course Supervisor for about 4 years, specifically as a Theory Supervisor, TRs Supervisor and Objectives Supervisor. I just wanted to comment on one small mistake, pretty much everything else was correct as far as i could tell. What you described as M9 word clearing was perfectly correct EXCEPT it was M7 word clearing. M9 word clearing is similar to M7 except the student and word clearer look up "Each and Every Word" meaning EVERYTHING, one by one through the text or material. Love your podcast, keep it up :)

Wow. This really explains a lot about Tom Cruise. I could see him doing these things as you explained it. Those poor kids and everyone else in Scientology. Touching without consent is abuse/assault. Ugh! It is so wrong in so many ways. Thank you for your information.

Teacher, I think the word I didn't understand was "Scientology." Let me just google that...

The tediousness of this kind of studying would make my eyes bleed. Seriously I couldn’t do it. I would’ve been sentenced to the hole for all eternity 😔😔😔

Still get excited with the intro includes “getting into the nitty gritty details”. That’s why I’m here!

What a fantastic video! One of your best and that’s saying something! You really could teach professionally if you ever wanted to. You’d be the professor that everyone loves!! 😊

Thank you for going into so much detail about the study tech. It sounds EXTREMELY tedious and frustrating. I'm trying to picture people like Jason Beghe sitting through that. He'd be impatient to get on with the "good stuff" that he signed up for. It must have been quite a spectacle!

Language is a relational system. Much of the meaning comes from words' relationships to the other words around them. The breaking down and focusing on individual words seems to help break down this relational aspect. At some point it seems it would actually make understanding more difficult but sort of pulling elements out of their context. There has to be some impact on how you actually perceive things at some point. Focusing on the individual rather than the larger context. You are sort of taking words out of their world. Much like Scientology wants you to take yourself out of your world and put yourself in the Scientology bubble. It also gets you into this repetitive trap.... again getting you to think obsessively.. perfect for a destructive cult.In focusing obsessively on individual things and literal meanings, it is clearly a totally fundamentalist way of thinking in disguise. Interesting that it starts from the very first lessons. This whole approach also helps alienate you from others because the whole idea of relating and nuance is trained out of you. It also doesn't that you are actually learning how to communicate with people.... you are learning how to communicate AT people. I don't think the goal here is for people to understand one another. I think it is more just setting up a battle for authority and control. Also, it just seems like it would just kind of confuse you and make you question yourself. If you didn't already have some crisis or disturbance in your life that led you over to Scientology, you would be vulnerable after a few days of this. In some ways it is good to question how you have thought about things in the past. But this is just absurd. Once you have yourself all in upheaval, here comes Hubbard to fill that anxiety and vulnerability up with his fascist, narcissistic ideas. How insidious.

"Training is permenant" is my favourite one 😂, it's permenant until DM decides that it is all wrong and re-releases it all again.

Awesome! Thanks for this episode, Chris!

AND was the word that made me leave the first day LOL

Bill Clinton said "it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is". FLUNK. Report to ethics.

Chris, you're doing a great job. Please ignore any detractors.

I noticed that after my experience in Scientology I question everything I learn and study. I would disagree with things in the course room only to be told that I had an MU. Months and years of my life were wasted in the courseroom looking up words. My brain was occupied trying to handle all the contradictions I kept on coming across. I was constantly feeling like I dont know what I am doing, like i am never enough and i will never have any certainty. I always struggled to attest...how is a person supposed to attest to knowing that they can handle all situations with communication alone from here on out....its ridiculous.

Dear god, the drudgery of this learning style....I can’t even imagine, day in day out....ugh!!!

Very informative! 👌 ExJW Solidarity! 👍

Are you ever able to read for fun now? I can't think of any better way to kill the joy of learning than these techniques of Scientology. It makes me anxious and upset just hearing about it.

Oh God Chris if you could see what you do when you say the clay is nonsense! You wiped your eyes in such a way that said help why did I ever do this! Thank you for going over this all. I can see why you might have had a flash back! (Like you said in Q and A)!

Hey Chris - thanx for the informative Q&A. Love this part of your show; you’re at your best when you’re explaining thing so graciously to us. Thoughtful and respectful of your audience. You’re a good role model....which, for me, are very difficult to find.

I can’t imagine my ADHD-self tolerating any of this.

Great shirt, Chris! Even better tutorial! The more I learn about this, the faster I want to run away from it. You look much better clean- shaven, by the way!

Finished! So much new information - I had no idea the gaps in my knowledge. Thank you! And the RPF time is the clearly traumatic/abusive setting but you’re peeling the layers of onion to show just how much of the standard tech is abusive as well. So glad you broke out.

This popped up to top of your content on my video views, but still very relevant and informative. I feel sorry for you in some ways for having to revisit the insanity and trauma again and again to educate us never ins. Thank you so much for doing that, keep safeguarding your mental health. I am saving these just in case my granddaughters ever get interested in this awful cult. Vicky from Australia 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🇦🇺

What happens to the student who where slow learners or had learning disabilities?

That was close to my experience. Quite shocking to review. The stories we each told ourselves as students and PCs are fascinating in how they compare and contrast.

wow Chris, so very complicated, if someone goes thru all these hoops, they must have an incredible mind and capacity to learn. too bad it is in this context. Kudos to you and all that have survived this craziness. you all have the ability to have a great life outside this cult. all of you will have a wonderful life!! hang in there.

This was really informative. More of these long types of videos please.

I remember doing this, it was long tedious and somewhat fun. The reason I pursued auditing is that I could co-audit and save alot of money and it was fun and it was a better quality of auditing than the high classed auditing that I received at Flag. I also wanted the respect that an auditor gets rather than that from an administrative position. I also moonlighted as an auditor where I made cash on the side as a public student auditor. Yes giving auditing was rewarding but receiving student auditing was also good. Wouldn't do it again. And the word clearing , it was difficult when I co word cleared with someone that spoke 4 asian languages and I only knew English.

This all makes sense....omg...i'm clear! Now i know why Scientologists can't talk to regular people.

The irony of all of this is that when you listen to LRH speak in audio recordings or videos, he will often say "Uh" or "Um". LRH also makes frequent pregnant pauses and stammers over certain words.

Hi Chris Really glad you did this video because it essentially explains how it all worked with the study. It's so intense and rigorous. The student hats must have been worn out out after a full work day then having to stretch their minds around all of this in depth study during the evening. I can't imagine what it's like to be under this kind of pressure. Other people who are familiar with other cults have pointed out how it's a similar feature of them all to keep the flock always busy without a moment to spare or wonder what's going on in the rest of the world. It's eyes down, nose to the grind stone. Only half way, through, gearing up for the last hour... Wow - got o the end. This is a destructive process. It honestly makes a person into a programmed robot. It's drilling out compassion and the ability to reach out to another it's just making it an abusive process. Brain washing training is here in capital letters. So grateful to you for having the courage to show us all what goes on behind closed doors. Keep it up Chris, you're doing a sterling Joe sweetie. Kindest regards p.

I am an exec at my workplace and I work for scientologists. I am not a scientologist myself, but we as execs have to take all these L. Ron Hubbard courses. We've done about 10 books ranging from BSM to the Communications course. I just started the Communications course and it is getting really too weird for me. I want to draw the line with this one but am afraid I will be frowned upon. The courses are not mandatory but highly HIGHLY pushed. The lasy girl who opted out ended up having other problems and got fired. Any advice on what I should do?????

Excellent work, as always, sir! - DM

Supervisors are blamed when students skip classes? That’s crazy!

this was great. must have been exhausting.

Oh, I have a degree in ceramics! Maybe I should sign up for some clay modelling.....

"You become a PARANOID reader." How true, I remember as an ex-Scientologist. Chris, you are a great EX-course supervisor.

First post! But thank you Chris for the content and awareness of this Scientology crap! Keep it up!

Ha ha ha. Flanking because of use of ah hmm. That is what you are checked for in Toastmasters. Maybe LRH was in Toastmasters.

First, wanted to say how much I appreciate all your interesting and informative content. While we differ on many issues, your respectful manner always makes it a pleasure to listen and learn. I have two questions for you: First, did Hubbard specify which dictionary should be used? It seems like he would want control over that. Second, do you feel that Scientologists have better vocabularies than most due to their extensive word clearing processes?

Great video Chris

When you do impersonations, like of a dead thetan (also some Scientology hats), I end up pmsl. So goddam entertaining. Xx.

i have this image in my head of two nicely dressed people in a small room throwing each other around breaking furniture and shit, like cracking dry wall and pulling hair out. just full blown bar fight with slamming heads into walls and twisting their arms.... and then a timer goes off and they just fuckin straighten out their clothes, shake hand , and then leave sayin like “good job today you really worked hard, we’ve made a lot of progress” with like a pat on the back, and then going on there separate ways scientology is wild

I remember Leah Remini saying she had to research and memorize definitions for words . ( and, or, is…) That sounds ridiculously boring.

Word clearing = insanity

Liking the short hair Chris, looking good ! And of course loving your interesting insight into more of the B'shit. I was made to do the student hat when I was 13 and hated it so much. Made me feel angry, frustrated, confused and miserable. Think it really messed up learning for me going forward.

Thank you chris for another amazing video of info! So interested in Scientology and how it relates to most religions today 🧐

$cientology training and auditing seem outrageously tedious. The purpose must be to pound, pound, pound Hubbard's crap into the student so as to restructure the student's brain to such an extent that it will be next to impossible to free himself from the Hubbard programming, even when he wants to. One of the things I most dislike about Scientology is how it reduces individual human beings to a set of pre-fab labels and treats them as objects to be "handled" with cynical techniques. Chris, thanks for your excellent description of this corporatized brainwashing machine called Scientology.

2 hours with Chris!! Hurray

Hey Chris, at some point, an average person will get fed up with all the bullshit, and get up and leave. Isn’t that a bad thing? It seems like a supervisor would drive me away, as I would get pretty frustrated fast.

Is TR desensitization training how Mike Rinder and Tommy Davis got so tough, like when chewing out the investigative journalist in one of the documentaries? I was like “dayum!!!!”

I'm liking that shirt!

Talk about the gift of gab - well done Chris!

Really interesting talk. I love your tshirt!

Follow the leader with the meter

Even Richard Feynman (Novel Price) said that he didn't like learn names and definitions because that didn't teach anything about the subject you want to learn.

Sounds like the TRs are some bizarre combo of military interrogation training and exorcism applied to random individuals.

That training where you learn to take abuse would destroy snowflakes in a minute

Ty for this explained alot.

Thank you.

Please don't go a month without making a video Chris,i think ill go into withdrawals, from a Top Fan.

1:35:10 Excellent points, non stop, great job Chris. 1:51:22 sums it up. Just excellent summary. Hubbard's views that all humans are in such dire mental status as to require the Scientologist pseudo-therapists to be prison guard man handling proficient, speaks to Hubbard's view of all humans. Hubbard said earth was a prison planet in the Hubbard galactic bigger picture. So Scientology's authoritarian Hubbard justification makes sense to a damaged mind like L. Ron Hubbard's, now foisted off onto today's Scientologists who play out Hubbard's quackery training and quackery delivering script. Earth is a prison planet in the back of now dead Hubbard's sick mind, and that justified the Scientology fantasy required authoritrarianism. L. Ron Hubbard's auditng needs to be rather refered to as total quackery. And this talk is overwhelming evidence of how bad the Scientologist quack therapist is trained to adopt to enforce the Hubbard pseudo-therapy/exorcism onto Scientologists. Really great job with so many excellent conclusions, Chris.

Are all of the materials translated into all languages? I would think this teaching style would be particularly time consuming for non English speakers? Are there always word checkers who speak the language the students speak?

Hmm. Student Hat: A manual on how to be a student, by a man who struggled in school and didn't complete college. His word clearing checkout method starts out ok, but sounds like it includes mindless busy work.

I remember you from Santa Barbara. I dated a guy from there who left the cult. His name was Swearengine. It must have been in eighties.

Damn Chris. You startled me with the shave. It looks different... It’ll take some time to get used to it. Thanks as always for the content.

So auditor training is a verbal form of exposure behavioral training, but to everything. Well then.

That was eye opening... thank you. Now i can understand why they use punches ... because it is to push the person into a reaction to become clear and it isn’t the person they are punching but their reactive mind

Can I ask where you got your study course pack? Did you hold onto it after you left or did you find it online?

Chris, have you ever had a conversation with any of your ex students after you both got out. How was the conversation. I hope my question makes sense.

U have an amazing ability Chris 2 describe the indescribable & make sense of the non-sensible That Is The Bat Shit Crazy Abuse-ology!😜

I wonder if scientologists have more OCD than other people. The environment is certainly fruitful for that "purpose"!

So what happens if the preclear simply stops communication. Simply sits there quiet and won't say a word? They have to let the person leave at some point, right?

Hi Chris. I have a question. Is there a real benefit from taking these introductory communication improvement courses? I have no intention to actually take those, but can someone really benefit from the early open-to-public stages of scientology? Thanks

I enjoyed word clearing,and working through the definitions of "small simple words",however I do concur that there are deficiencies,even villainy.

What did your clay models of John Donne poems look like? 😉

Im surprised anyone even stays in the church after seeing the drudgery and treatment in the first class. I suppose people must really believe in the mission

Not anymore Scientology no longer has dictionaries in the course rooms I don’t even think they use encyclopedias basically Scientology has nothing to offer anyone for any purpose anymore

I would forever be in trouble, I always look like I am ticked off. I very rarely smile or give any real expression.

Training people with no experience, background, or education to use physical touch in processing traumatic experience is unbelievably unethical for both trainees and prospective clients. (In professional therapeutic work with trauma survivors, there is "Therapeutic Crisis Intervention" training for managing the physical responses of clients that are out of their own control -- not the therapist's!) On a lighter note -- I have found that sometimes cracking up in response to (especially) a ranting teenage client's "stand-up routine" -- assuming we have a good baseline relationship -- can be the most therapeutically helpful response, giving them permission to let go of their own angst! By the way -- what the #3!! are minors doing in these classes? Until they can rent a car, or at least drink, or at least die for their country (note age-irony), they need to keep making $#@! out of clay....

54:00 Sheesh. Did Dolores Umbridge (from Harry Potter) invent this mandatory style of studying??

It's hard to imagine you as a jerk supervisor

The tragedy of this -- besides the obvious abuse of multitudes of children and adults -- is that each of these techniques is, in itself helpful or creative. (And many of them, or variations on them, are widely used in effective education and therapy today -- though I don't know if their origin is related to Scientology!) But in this format, hideous. Perfect example of everything being created good -- but everything being able to be misused for any awful purpose 😱....

A pyramid scheme as a cult: makes the Mormns look normal.

Who the fk would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for that?

One easy way to get through autoing is to unplug the e mentor.😅😅

Its funny how I just loved student hat and all the control and paranoid obsessivenes, because I Was determined to make my supervisor Proud of my efforts to comply fully. Even if it Took a lot of time and I Was sent to ethics and given pink sheets.. I loved sitting in that quiet ordered room With dedicated assistance and supervision.. finally feeling I Was able to learn stuff and pass the exams.. not getting grades but only pass when having 100% understanding. I missed that in School.. I learned a lot of words and Got a lot of selfrespect out of that.. the backside is how all my expensive books were not opened in fear of ruining my Way up the bridge.. and yea I became very judgemental on the issue in general

First time commenting on your videos. Love listening. Didn’t LRH steal this idea of studying every word from someone else?

Happy new hair cut!

Love your channel btw ! Anyway to just take the good drills that help and re word or re work them to be better or at least avoid copyright claims - make a program to help people and create a corse that is not Scientology ????? At the end of the day that’s what they want US to think they want - we know it’s $$

Its cool your a follower of christ now amen love the shirt !

Let's tone 40 some ashtrays lol

It must make young Scientologists kids crazy having to use dictionaries! Now days they all use tablets. Does Scientology offer tablets now days? I mean.....it would be so much faster to get definitions.