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			<title>Correct Emidubu</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1156</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Boy does your description fit right in! I think we all seem to experience what you've described, whether we're on the inside (which I am definitely guilty of having been and inflicted upon others in years' past) or on the outside (where, thank God, I am today, after seeing Marty's video last year). The part we can take comfort in about ourselves is that we don't put up with suppressive reasonableness once we spot the correct target! Thanks! Idle Org]]></description>
			<dc:creator>idle org</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:43:08 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>800 OT\'s and counting.......</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1133</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One of the best parts about this forum is that my fellow indie's continue to validate the horrid operating basis in the circus tent with their valuable comments which follow the myriad of usefull and informative articles. "L", hearing that 800 OT's at the top of the Bridge are putting in their Personal Integrity is indeed uplifting. Hopefully this person's report to you was accurate. Them telling you this data seems a bit off but then so is Midgetville. I received a somewhat pathetic "survey" on email today from Flag, asking, basically, how they might improve their email promo. Never do they ask: "What about the church is troubling to you???" Only, "What would you like to see in future emails?" What kind of survey is that? Can you imagine if I answered that survey honestly? Can you say Goldenrod? Now, based upon reports I've seen on this site, Flag is dead with a capital D. And these recent "surveys" as well as other promo being sent out by FSO do indeed have a sort of "Oh Shit.....we're dying" tint to them, I've noticed of late. DM is reaching through cyberspace, cell [censored]one, MAA's, snail mail, old "friends", etc, to key us in and make us PTS. Period. He either wants us drinking koolaid and giving away our life savings toward his big mess or he wants us silenced. He does not want you flourishing and prospering in your personal life. Why do you think this stuff keeps coming back on our lines continually? To key us in. Period. Thus, my article. I'd bet the church is not only unable to get new public in (as was and is the case in my org for sure), but is now confronted with their former public fighting back and saying "no". Do not go against what you know, ever. It utterly sucks when you do. If you lose your integrity, you have absolutely nothing left, really. No power. No pride. No joy. I would bet that Tom Cruise is sitting very uneasy in his multiple, palatial mansions and sports cars. I do not envy him one bit, despite his wealth or his quickly fleeting fame. (Another DM product, no doubt). Idle Org]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Idle Org</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:12:15 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>OMFG!</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1131</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Speaking for myself here, I now see a trend: 1st I compromise (or loose) my personal integrity. 2nd I loose my self respect. Then I wonder why I am lost, misemotional...!? Thank you all.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Fellow Traveller</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:40:08 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Yep, me too!</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1127</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Old "friends" crawling out of the woodwork. Not a word in decades, but now it's time to get back in comm (meaning back on VII as one of the arbitrary 10,000). It's pure one-way comm. They hear nothing of what I say. I grew weary and stopped answering. Now the "Public Officer FSO Sea Org Mission I/C into the WUS" e-mails, "I was sent on a Sea Org Mission here to work with you, but I will be frank, the response I’m getting from 800 OTs at the top of the Bridge, its not quite what I was expecting." Oh? I must not be the only one who isn't playing ball. Ah. Is that a goldenrod I see? (:-))]]></description>
			<dc:creator>L</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:47:55 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>The Flying Monkey</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1126</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Always, always, always trust YOUR knowingness. I've done so many conditions and this has always been my downfall over and over. Now, having said that...I live in one of those areas where one of those mazillion dollar new orgs has just been bought. I got a text message from one of the Execs recently: Hello there! Are you going to come and see my new building? It's really wonderful! I text back: No. I left that Org 10 years ago, and I have no intention of ever returning. I did a demo of the factors 10 years ago and realized that we are not even remotely on the same page. To me, DM is not a midget. He's like the chief flying monkey from the Wizard of OZ. He even looks like one. Give him a banana, throw the skin on the floor and hopefully he will not notice it and skid off into hell where he belongs. Ooooopppsss..did I say that?? Uhhh Ohhh..it's that damn FPRD case rearing it's ugly head again. ~]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DragonFly</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:56:43 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>thought provoking says:</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1125</link>
			<description><![CDATA["Being an independent Scientologist is about taking back your knowingness, taking back your sense of integrity, and taking back your sense of honor." I agree with this statement completely. Great article, Idle!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>thought provoking</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:37:22 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Sinar says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IO - great article and perspective for one who's thankful that there are currently no contact details with CoM. Cocoons is an apt term. Really wondering if this is just "Volunteer" work or some kind of OT Committee thing or project.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Sinar</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:41:10 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Hammer</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1122</link>
			<description><![CDATA[My awakening was unusual and it was like a hammer to the soul. Soul ripping but I am in a better place now that I can see and know. I did not buy some of the church actions when in but I did buy the koolaid to large extent. It took me years not to go back to that addiction but now I am past it. I wrote my last bye letter as well to a person who drank it worse than I did to the point he on purpose did not keep his integrity in because he was told he was not allowed to talk to me.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Fancy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:32:22 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RenegadeX says:</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1119</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Excellent article IO! Great cog's on the PTSness aspects. It's amazing how freedom of communication seems to be, I mean is, a major sin in the church today.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RenegadeX</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:44:23 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>jim logan says:</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1118</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Beginning in 1981 with the infamous declare of 13 of the top execs in Scientology, carrying forward to the instant, and squirrel, SP declares at the SF Mission Holders conference, and carrying forward all these decades, DM has systematically invalidated and brought into disrepute the body of knowledge on PTS/SP. Why? SO HE WILL REMAIN UNDETECTED.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jim logan</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:59:59 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>emldubu says:</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1115</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Idle Org, Thanks! Terrific article - Smack on! I've been there, done that. I even had a "friendly" face to face. Oh, woe, the obvious, almost humorous, intolerance of viewpoint in the name of spiritual freedom. Ugh. I held my position, didn't talk too much, give too much. Fortunately, I walked away without being too shaken, but as you said it certainly wasn't comfortable. Since, with each email, call or contact, I take a truthful, non-cooperative position and reply. I liken it to building my freedom muscles with consistent exercise - practicing my rights. I admit, I enjoy it - like [censored]ysical exercise, while you're doing it sometimes you wonder WTF am I doing, this isn't fun, it hurts. but, afterward the endor[censored]ins kick in and you're stronger. Hmmm, I need to find time to do that more often!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>emldubu</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:37:14 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Thanks for sharing your wisdom!</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1114</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I love it! You're so right, some people are so immerged into the kool-aid that although their words could be very sweet & sugary their thoughts & actions are very sticky LOL. I've experience a few of these cycles & heard of a few more. The intentions are apparently good but the actions show that your "friends" never address or confront the glaring outpoints you bring up but rather gather info to nail you with. Makes you wonder how do these nice, bright & honest people became so blind??!!! I say many need some "brain-drying" LOL. Keep up the good writing IO]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Freetothink</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:58:01 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Need the Hat!</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1112</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Idle Org- great post! We, too, have run that process: Get "in" the case by talking to church terminals; get "out" of the case by talking with sane people who care for you. In. Out. In. Out. Now look at what it is - OH! It's suppression! *POOF* Getting oneself to slight, gentle cause is pretty easy after that. I think your meta[censored]or of a cocoon of ignorance is inspired. That describes it exactly. Small. Insular. Cut-off from the rest of the world yet, to those inside, it IS the world. Glad to finally be on the outside looking in.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>lunamoth</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:24:02 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>This is so true!</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1111</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What's most amazing is that, with almost every post of one person's experience -- be it this type of thing or others -- there ends up being a steam of comments on this and other blogs of others who have had similar experiences. I haven't had anyone contact me yet (basically because they wrote me off months ago because I wasn't donating any money), but I know people who have been contacted like this. On the reverse flow, I've lightly tried to take the koolaid cup out of the hands of some of my friends only to be confronted with Stepford-wife-like responses that really surprised me. One of these is someone I've always looked up to as being quite "standard" yet when I pointed out a small but pervasive outness to them, they quickly dismissed it in the most ridiculous way. I found myself experiencing the same knot in my stomach and sleepless nights. I finally realized that, until they hit "need of change" like I and many of you here have, they won't be able to see the squirrel trap that they're in.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Freedom Fighter</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:44:04 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Thanks Thoughtful, RJ, Old Auditor!</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1107</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thoughtful, Old Auditor and RJ, Thank You! This was a personal story which actually did occur. A brief key-in, but, more than that a great opportunity to learn a few of the tactics going on. I wrote it to protect people who might run into this sort of thing (and many will), so your comments are great additions to the overall message. Compared to what you dealt with uplines Thoughtful, it doesn't even compare. I haven't had any nightmares. Just "daymares" :-) I sure didn't get into Scientology to be playing any of these covert ops games, but, since it's in fact the situation I find myself in, well.....play ball! Idle Org]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Idle Org</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:02:15 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Oh my God!</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1109</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Do you also know what I had for breakfast? Stop spying on me! :-)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>TheEmperorIsNaked</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:51:17 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Thoughtful says:</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1106</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What a great article. You're right, IO, about those ping pong paddles bolted to the sides of their head for blinders... that is unless maybe even those aren't large enough. What's bigger than a ping-pong paddle? Maybe closet doors? They're so PTS it isn't funny. And true to the [censored]rase "potential trouble source" all those who worship the midget make trouble. The more they worship, the more they make trouble. Most of us... take that back... ALL of us, every single one, who left Int were bothered by nightmares. Many still are -- especially those who have not taken any action to do something about their situation. In other words, they have yet to move to "slight gentle cause." In some cases, we aren't being so gentle about it. Funny thing, however all the nightmares stopped when I launched this website. Now I sleep well. No colds anymore either. No accidents. So you're right, it is PTSness. And you don't need a PTS Rundown to figure out who the SP is. Being an independent Scientologist is about taking back your knowingness, taking back your sense of integrity, and taking back your sense of honor. If you don't wish to connect with someone, then DON'T do it. That is called integrity. I applaud your fortitude and setting a great example for the rest of us. Great article!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Thoughtful</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:07:14 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>RJ says:</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1105</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Keep writing 'em and I'll keep reading 'em Idle babe, seems like you're handling the source of suppression just fine as Lennon & McCartney say "with a lil' help from my friends." I vote to make the following our theme song: tp://www.last.fm/music/The+Beatles/ _/With+a+Little+Help+From+My+Friend s]]></description>
			<dc:creator>RJ</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:04:53 -0600</pubDate>
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			<title>Derail the conversation with politely delivered tr</title>
			<link>https://mail.scientology-cult.com/cocoons-of-ignorance.html#comment-1104</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I received one these "reaches" and decided to play dumb on my first response. I asked what they were doing these days and got no answer, just a request to talk with them on the [censored]one. I said that I had a busy schedule and it would be far more convenient to discuss things by email. A few more exchanges where they were trying to use the tired old "mystery sandwich" routine and I said let's drop it until you can tell me what this is about. I could see that they were trying to push my guilt button, but unfortunately mine is broken. Now when I get any church communication asking for support on a project, I ask directly, "Is it possible that you are unaware that Heber Jentzsch and other top execs have been locked up in sheds at Gold for several years?" "Are you ignoring the off policy activities by management or are you covering up for David Miscavige?" I finish by saying, "If you need any assistance resolving this for yourself, I will be happy to help in any way that I can." No one has taken up my offer and I am still on the church mailing lists. Most staff I exchange email with are on the edge of overwhelm. I am sure that these "volunteers" are much in the same state of mind.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Old Auditor</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:03:11 -0600</pubDate>
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