Knowledgism the new Scientology?
Anonymous
"Down on a little former dude ranch in in the scrubby hills above Dallas is the headquarters of a quiet offshoot of the scientology religion known as Knowledgism. Its leader, a former Australian soccer champion, Alan Walter, who now bills himself as one of Americans top leaders in the human potential field and a "life coach" to the elite of the Fortune 500.
What many don't know about Knowledgism though is its roots in Scientology. In the early '60's when Hubbard was still developing the methods the grew out of Dianetics and into Scientology and the Church to support it, Walter was in Hubbard's inner circle. Walter acted as a researcher for Hubbard and is one of the first "clears" with the number 8 as his rank.
Walter's work still exists in some of the key technologies used by the Church, although under Hubbard's name, as Hubbard always published the technology and policy that way to instill the idea of "Source".
Walter went on to be the largest franchiser of the Church's missions, and by some accounts was responsible for creating over half of the church's empire in it heyday.
In the 80's, shortly before Hubbard's death, a new generation of leaders in the church were jockeying for power, and in a putsch known as the Mission Holders Conferences, went head to head with Walter and other prominent owners of the local Scientology franchises, and effectively confiscated their assets and drove them out of business.
Walter pursued other business interests for a few years, before finally deciding to again take up the reins of an organization devoted to spiritual and personal development, which he called Knowledgism.
Knowledgism differs from Scientology mostly in its culture and administration, where scientology has rigid policy about most any aspect of running its delivery facilities, Knowledgism is a much looser confederation of mostly independent practitioners. If Scientology is big corporate spirituality, Knowledgism is the mom and pop store.
The underlying ideas though are mostly the same. Where Hubbard had "dynamics" to describe the layers of life's influence, Walter has "Zones". Hubbard called his counseling techniques "auditing", while it is "processing" in Knowledgism. In Scientology, people aspire to become operating thetans, thetans being the word for the spirit. Knowledgists aspire to have ascension experiences.
The process's of both rely on a trained counselor guiding a person to look at events, and decisions and influences that have unseen, but constantly present affects on their lives. Knowledgism does not push a religious angle, but does state that some of its exploration are spiritual.
Both organizations also offer extensive training in both the counseling technologies and in business management. Scientology even has an off shoot that supplies non religious applications of its theories to business and education. These secular versions are mostly identical to what is practiced in the Church and generally considered a stepping stone to Church membership.
Walter's followers generally set themselves up and independent business consultants, and then introduce the counseling aspects as a part of that effort. While the knowledgists may not like the moniker of "a kinder, gentler Scientology" in effect that is their position in the universe of the new age life enhancement groups.
Is Knowledgism the new Scientology? Perhaps so, though less dressed in the cloak of a cult."
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> "Down on a little former dude ranch in in the scrubby hills above Dallas is the headquarters of a quiet offshoot of the scientology religion known as Knowledgism. Its leader, a former Australian soccer champion, Alan Walter, who now bills himself as one of Americans top leaders in the human potential field and a "life coach" to the elite of the Fortune 500.
Soccer? I thought it was Australian Rules Football.
Eldon
I agree. Knowledgism places great emphasis on abuse, which might have
something to do with Alan's own experience.
Out_Of_The_Dark
Sounds like Mark Rathbun set himself up in TX as Alan sets his juniors
up. Coun d they be affiliated?
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> Is Knowledgism the new Scientology? Perhaps so, though less dressed in the cloak of a cult."
Hardly. http://www.knowledgism.com/default.asp
I give Alan much credit for not calling his business a church!
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> On Apr 25, 4:26 pm, Anonymous <nob...@nymu.eu> wrote:
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Alan Walter isn't a Scientologist. Whatever he does, it is NOT
Scientology.
Alan Walter tries to remain in the background and not appear connected
to anti-religious extremists, yet he regularly associates with most of
the individuals featured in this site.
Among his close associates is anti-Semite Arnaldo Lerma, who
vigorously defends and espouses the Holocaust revisionism of Willis
Carto.
Of particular note is Walter’s connection to Joe Lynn, who was
employed by Walter in 1999 at Walter’s ranch in Texas.
Per the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) logs appended to this page, Lynn was
living and working with Walter at the time Lynn solicited sex from a
minor over the internet. Apparently Lynn, a fifty year-old man,
engaged in “netsex” with this fifteen year-old girl, then made plans
to meet and have sex with her in Dallas during Christmas of 1999.
It is evident from the logs that Walter, as well as several other anti-
religious extremists, knew of Lynn’s pedophilic activities yet took no
action to protect the minor by either contacting her parents or
reporting the matter to local police or the FBI. Their motive for this
is also apparent in the logs: Alan Walter (who goes by the handle
“use” on the Internet), Deana Holmes, Christine Norstrand, and others,
feared that exposing Lynn’s activities would politically damage their
“cause.”
What these anti-religious extremists did do was conspire to distance
themselves from Joe Lynn and the minor, refusing to allow either to
participate in an underground IRC channel where such individuals
gather.
It is obvious from the IRC logs on the Lynn page that these extremists
knew in detail of Lynn’s pedophilic activities; they were taking place
on a computer owned by Walter, and any telephone conversations between
Lynn and the fifteen-year-old minor took place on Walter-owned
telephones. The discussion on these logs shows their understanding of
the seriousness of this crime, and their knowledge of the consequences
should they condone it. They discussed reporting the matter to law
enforcement but obviously chose not to do so.
Another point clearly revealed in the logs is that the anti-religious
extremists on IRC appeared more interested in protecting Walter
(regarded as a leader amongst them) than protecting the minor. They
discuss the minor’s culpability — was she to blame, is she a security
risk to their anti-religious efforts - apparently everything but the
legally and morally right thing.
Thus, it becomes a legitimate question, what else do Alan Walter,
Deana Holmes, Christine Norstrand, Arnaldo Lerma and Grady Ward know
that they have not reported to law enforcement?
Per the IRC logs, Deana Holmes, Christine Norstrand and Alan Walter
also knew of Lynn’s possession of child pornography, yet this was not
reported to law enforcement either. Their discussion provides reason
to believe that Walter may have stored Lynn’s child pornography
collection while he traveled. Also, Christine Norstrand talks about
having kept some of Lynn’s computer files for him; was child
pornography amongst those files? Factually, Lynn constantly used
Walter’s computers during the time period Lynn worked for Walter,
leaving open the possibility that Lynn’s child pornography collection
was stored on Walter’s computer as well.
http://religiousfreedomwatch.org/anti-religious-extremists/alan-walter/irc-logs/
barbaralov...@gmail.com
original Mark Rathbun NEVER would work with a person as Walter.
And your links are DEAD, Mary.
Barbara Schwarz
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Interesting blog by a non-Scientologist:
http://outingextremistanti-scientologists.blogspot.com/
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Tilman Hausherr webs defamation on me that he and Korey Jerome Kruse
scribbled once on Wikipedia:
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/media-newsroom/tilman-hausherr/
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/media-newsroom/tilman-hausherr/
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/intolerance-hate/whistle-blowers/the-clearwater-letters/tilman-hausherr/
http://bernie.cncfamily.com/sc/kids.htm#Debate_with_Tilman_Hausherr
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Hausherr&btnG=Google+Search&domains=BERNIE.CNCFAMILY.COM&sitesearch=BERNIE.CNCFAMILY.COM
http://www.alarmgermany.org/tilman.htm
http://cyber-stalker-korey-jerome-kruse.blogspot.com/
http://phorums.com.au/archive/index.php/t-156307.html
Out_Of_The_Dark
> On Apr 26, 1:15 pm, Out_Of_The_Dark <formerlyfoo...@yahoo.com> wrote:> On Apr 25, 4:26 pm, Anonymous <nob...@nymu.eu> wrote:
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> And your links are DEAD, Mary.
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Not all of them. The classified advertising ones are but they were'nt
when they were posted to ARS ( see that link) as well as when I
emailed them to you at your request last year.
ps: I replied to the thread started that Alan's business was not the
new scientology and unrelated to it. Your reply should have gone to
that poster, not me.