Secrets & Lies: How Lies Work on the Mind — Independent Scientology

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Check Out Axiom AI for yourself: https://www.ao-gp.org/axiom-ai Take our Incredibly detailed personality test!: https://www.ao-gp.org/personality-test We take on "Secrets and Lies" — the mechanics of how a lie works on the mind, on a single being, and ultimately on whole societies. Their stable datum comes straight from L. Ron Hubbard: a lie is an alteration of time, place, event, or form, and only lies persist, while truth fully confronted as-ises and simply vanishes. Drawing on the Axioms (34, 35, 38, and the cycle of action in Axiom 11) and a wide range of LRH lectures — The Axioms from the Phoenix Lectures, the Factors Lectures (1953) and the principle of the hidden influence, the Goals of Scientology congress (1953) on wisdom that frees versus wisdom that enslaves, Barriers from the 6th Advanced Clinical Course (1954), Component Parts of Being (1955) on mystery and the "priesthood," and the security-checking references from the St. Hill Special Briefing Course — they follow one idea from the inside of a single human being all the way up to the enslavement of the human race. Along the way they unpack the withhold as an undisclosed harmful act (not merely private data like a bank PIN or the Coca-Cola formula), the "good" alter-is-ness that lets bank accounts, house foundations, batteries, and computers work at all, and the way a justifier lie builds the dwindling spiral. They show why a missed withhold surfaces as sudden criticism or attack — "when the PC curses you out, find the missed withhold" — and how the same mechanic scales up into propaganda, manufactured mystery, and gated knowledge. Real-world examples give it mass: an Olympic gold medalist facing ten years for grabbing a chunk of paint from the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool while the Epstein files go un-prosecuted, national-park accounts pulled offline, and the brief government-driven shutdown of Anthropic's Fable AI model. Jonathan and Quenton then turn that same test on the corporate Church of Scientology itself — upper levels gated behind enormous fees and arbitrary vetting, confessionals recorded as leverage rather than discharged, and suppressive declares plus disconnection cutting the very communication lines that LRH says are the road out — the exact enslavement mechanic he identified, run while claiming his authority. The way out, they conclude, scales exactly like the trap: you don't fight a lie, you as-is it — confront it, take responsibility for it, tell the truth, and put knowledge into free circulation. That is the whole work of Independent Scientology and the Advanced Organization of the Great Plains (AOGP): unaltered, standard LRH tech, delivered on a gradient anyone can actually have. If this was a lot to take in, start at a shallower gradient with our Sunday services, get on course through Endeavor College, and explore the original references and lectures for yourself. You can work through this material directly with Axiom AI Volumes 1 and 2, get word-cleared in our knowledge base and lecture library, and read the real gains people are having over on our website. Secrets and lies build the trap; truth — confronted, duplicated, told, and freely circulated — is how you walk out of it, and that's the work we're doing every single day. Namaste, and we love you. LRH REFERENCES CITED IN THIS EPISODE • Milestone One — Facsimiles: How to Handle Recordings (7 Mar 1952); Thought, Emotion, Effort and the Overt Act (9 Mar 1952) • The Factors Lectures — LSL-02, the principle of the hidden influence (23 Mar 1953); LSL-04 (24 Mar 1953) • Congresses & ACCs — The Goals of Scientology, 2nd International Congress (28 Dec 1953); Barriers Pt II, 6th ACC (18 May 1954); The Parts of Man, Overt Acts and Motivators, 8th American ACC (20 Oct 1954); Component Parts of Beingness, Anatomy of the Spirit of Man (4 Jun 1955); Dianetic Assist and Presession 38, 1st American ACC (6 Jan 1956); Basic Relationship of Auditing, First Saint Hill ACC (24 Aug 1960) • Phoenix Lectures — The Axioms, Pt 2 (20 Aug 1954); The Axioms, Pt 4 (20 Aug 1954) • SHSBC — Games Conditions (20 Jul 1961); Sec Checks in Processing (12 Dec 1961); Organization and Ethics (18 May 1965) —————————————————— EXPLORE INDEPENDENT SCIENTOLOGY • What Is Independent Scientology? → https://www.ao-gp.org/what-is-independent-scientology • Auditing & Training → https://www.ao-gp.org/auditing-training • Independent vs. Church of Scientology → https://www.ao-gp.org/independent-scientology-vs-church-of-scientology • Axiom AI (LRH self-improvement tool) → https://www.ao-gp.org/axiom-ai • Free OCA Personality Test → https://www.ao-gp.org/personality-test #IndependentScientology #Scientology #LRH