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Scientology Auditing Kids: Proof From Church's Own School Website

By Tony Ortega Thu., Jul. 12 2012 at 7:00 AM

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For the last two weeks, we've been asked one thing more than any other: what was Suri facing as a six-year-old in Scientology if she hadn't been taken out of it by her mother, Katie Holmes? Does indoctrination in the church start at such a young age?

As we reported earlier, in 1961 Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard created a "security check" for children aged 6 to 12. This list of 99 questions was designed to be used to interrogate a child holding the sensors of an e-meter by an ethics officer outside of the presence of the child's parents. Claire Headley told us she was "sec checked" at only 7 years of age, and she knew of other kids who went through it as well.

If sec checking is the dark side of auditing, we wondered about auditing itself -- the counseling that Scientologists go through as they clear their minds of clutter in order to discover their true, immortal selves. How common is it for small children to go through auditing, we wondered, and we wanted to get evidence of it today, not from some policy Hubbard might have written years ago.

Well, we found an intriguing answer to that question, and from a pretty impeccable source -- a website from a Scientology-affiliated school.

The Mace-Kingsley Family Center in Clearwater, Florida was originally founded in Los Angeles in 1980 by two women, Debbi Mace and Carol Kingsley. It's been in Clearwater since 1989.

According to its website, the center "was founded on the concept that using L. Ron Hubbard's technology to work with children and families is the key to resolving difficulties and problems they may have."

The website features numerous articles about children and auditing. We were struck by the youth of the child in the photo that accompanied this headline...

That story includes this paragraph...

So what then can you possibly audit with an infant, baby or child? There are many, many processes that help a being get oriented to the physical universe and become in better control of his body and environment. The results of this have been a happier child, who grows well with little illness and accidents.

Hey, that sounds fun.

Then there's this piece...

Which includes this heartwarming anecdote...

Our 7 year old daughter did not want to learn to read...It had gotten so bad it looked like our 5 year old daughter would be reading before our 7 year old. Her postulate to stay young was so strong, even her teeth were coming in late - at about the same rate as her younger sister. We took her to Mace Kingsley and bought her some auditing. She went through her program and lo, and behold, we had a beginning reader on our hands.

And then we noticed the opening line to this piece...

And if that weren't enough, on another part of the website we later ran into this bit of reality...

We're not sure how infants hold the cans, but at least we know a toddler can get a head start on ridding himself of engrams at Mace-Kingsley.

So now we know: Suri is definitely old enough to get auditing and begin her indoctrination into the Scientology way of thinking and talking. Katie had plenty of reason to get out of there, if her goal was to keep Suri from getting too deep into Scientology's interrogation culture and mind-bending lingo.

A further note: Mention "Mace-Kingsley" to students of Scientology history, and they will wince. From 1987 to 2002, the Mace-Kingsley Ranch School was a notorious place that existed in California and later New Mexico where Scientology kids were sent and then complained about hardships and abuse, as Janet Reitman noted in her 2006 Rolling Stonearticle, "Inside Scientology," which led to her 2011 book of the same name.

Steven Hassan and Karen Pressley Break It Down

A few days ago we complained that Steven Hassan had been wasted by Piers Morgan, who put on a segment about Scientology so rushed, Hassan hardly got a chance to get going.

Thankfully, he's taped his own discussion of recent events with ex-Scientologist Karen Pressley, and their conversation is very watchable. They go into child sec checking and many more subjects. Enjoy.

some of the stories in the comments are shocking, sad and disturbing

PROOF THAT THE CULT 'AUDITS' BABIES (do yourself a favour and google Mace-Kingsley Family Center to read about the horror there)