The King, Karin and Scientology,
®
16 Apr 98
Subject: Sweden: Editorial in _Nordsjernan_
[delurk] Hey, guys'n'gals,
This article appeared in the Apr 16 edition of the
Swedish-American newspaper _Nordsjernan_, and was passed along to
me by a friend who was gracious enough to translate it for me.
The King, Karin and Scientology
Once upon a time I was on the point of losing my wife to the
Church of Scientology. Therefore I am not at all surprised at the
improper enlisting methods used by the sect. The latest example
is a propaganda film in which Sweden is depicted as a drug swamp
of crime and misuse. And so was put in a film clip with the King,
who was declared to be aware of the problems and a devoted patron
of the Scientology church. Because the sect never does anything
which will not make money for it, so is the essence of the film
to join the Narconon
®
program, which I am certain costs a pretty
penny.
The Royal Court is naturally upset and says that the King
never cooperated in the film nor had the slightest thing to do
with the sect. Over there in Clearwater Florida, site of the
sect's headquarters, no one can explain how they came by the film
clip of the royal couple, filmed over 10 years ago. Now from
Clearwater has come a letter to the Royal Court in which they beg
pardon for having used the King as a PR person in the film,
hundreds of copies of which have been sent over the whole world.
"We have made a blunder" says the sect's information
chief in Sweden, Tarja Vulto.
I declare that it is more than a blunder. That is an
inconsiderate, shameless, clear defamation that self-assumedly
draws in Sweden's King in the sect's propaganda. But not
surprising.
The priest Karl-Erik Nylund, who for many years has studied
divergent movements and wrote a book about them, Att leka med
elden (To play with fire), lists the Scientology
church as the most dangerous sect in Sweden. In addition, one
knows the manipulative sects through the four A's: Aggression,
Aversion, Alienation and Absolute Truth, he says.
As if I didn't know that! The darkest days of my life came
suddenly out of a clear blue sky in 1978, when my Karin was
snared by the sect's enlisters at her workplace. Their interest
in her was especially great because she was an unusually
attractive woman, whom they felt they could use as a "poster
girl." It began with her returns home after long evening
sessions. When she could not fire me up by the doctrine, which I
doubted after having read prophet Hubbard's weak literary
nonsense, she became less and less aware of my presence. The blow
came the day her master asked what my attitude was toward her new
belief. When she answered that I was quite negative, her group
classified me as "covertly hostile." There were just
two alternative conclusions according to them: my conversion or a
divorce. She dared to sleep in the same room as me, but treated
me as if I had the plague, and addressed me with epithets which I
didn't know were part of her vocabulary. She was suddenly like a
child of both God and Satan.
Hell took place for a few months. I thought to myself not to
give up this woman only because a few fanatics distorted her
head. I knew that she was too intelligent to need mental crutches
and too honest not to find sour dough under the syrup, after a
time. For Karin it went that way for a while, then it was
revealed and, as the poet Anders Österling would have said,
"she returned to firm ground and real living." Karin
has since passed away of cancer in 1996, only 56 years old.
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1998/04/24
(From the Depth of the Swedish heart)
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