what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the
problem but focus on the solution so before we get started like check this
out so although I am an atheist like I have no problem with religious people
all right like if you are a person of faith like do your thing boo
do your thing I'm not one of those atheists who like runs around talking
about you know Oh religious people are stupid that is none of my business if
that is keeping you happy if that's giving you you know direction if that's
whatever your beliefs are no matter why you do it whatever it is I really don't
care the only time I have a problem is when religions are hurting people that
is my issue right like one of the prime examples is the Westboro Baptist Church
and like this terrible disgusting things they do but today obviously you saw with
the title we're going to be talking about Scientology all right and I don't
know how many of you have watched Leah Remini
documentary or interviews with her but she is an actress and former member of
the Church of Scientology and she talks about how harmful this religion is and
how they try to destroy the lives of people but they don't I don't know other
churches that demand to destroy people's lives if they leave and speak out
publicly against it I don't know real churches who demand families to break
apart if one feels that they should leave the church and their policies
actually mandate to destroy people's lives it actually has doctrine that says
that that says find out what's important to them and go after it but yeah I
didn't realize that Scientologists were out here like actually trying to recruit
people like I grew up here in Las Vegas was a bunch of Mormons so I have a bunch
of friends who went on missions and you know the whole bike door-to-door thing
everything like that but my beautiful girlfriend Tristan she goes the the
college here in Lhasa and she was telling me about how
Scientologists like actually set up a booth in one of these like areas at her
school I think they have like a free speech area or something they set up
this booth and they use that little Dianetics machine and that's like their
form of treating mental illness and psychology and I'm not entirely sure but
I'm gonna discuss a little bit about their machine a little bit later on
right so I started like going into this rabbit hole and doing some research just
trying to figure out how they help people with their mental health issues
based on this machine but then then I realize they have an entire documentary
they even have a museum out in LA about like how psychiatry is this industry of
death and I sat down and watch this documentary with Tristan and it is
absolutely ridiculous alright so the way the documentary set up it's like it's
basically like I don't know ten or twenty videos like there are like five
minutes each put back to back to back if you watch the full thing I think you can
find all the segments separately so anyway it's like I'm gonna be discussing
just like the first half in this video if you guys like it and want me to cover
the second half just let me know in the comments or just give the video a thumbs
up or whatever alright but let's break down this documentary basically an
overall kind of synopsis of this documentary is they talk about the
history of psychiatry in the United States and I don't think it's a secret
that the history of psychiatry not even in the United States but around the
world is pretty messed up like going back like a hundred years right just
like they did so many awful things add these things that like we're basically
like torture devices right for the mentally ill and back then for a long
time they weren't even trying to treat people they were just locking people up
and just trying to get them out of society's way you know what I mean but
this documentary it goes through different
times in the history of psychiatry they talk about you know eugenics they talk
about lobotomies and like those weird torture type devices and everything like
that in this so here's the first issue all
right like when we're talking about the history of psychiatry from what like a
hundred years ago like that's not really a way to say that the current state of
this field is bad or it's wrong like just in recent decades we've had so many
so many advances in science like for example a great example is cognitive
behavioral therapy alright like I don't know how many of you have tried
cognitive behavioral therapy but this is an evidence-based form of therapy
alright so they've actually hooked people up to brain scans and they see
how the brain actually changes and rewires itself through CBT therapy
practices right so we do have scientific evidence for what's happening today so
to say oh don't don't go see a therapist or psychologist because here's what they
were doing a hundred years ago all right like the reality is is that any industry
that you look into was awful right like think about it like we we
have a history of slavery like if you look at the Industrial Revolution like
how long did it take until we had labor laws right and not working people to
death or not having any kind of standards in these factories what about
child labor laws you know what I mean what about schools and that type of
segregation everything like that like are we going to say that you shouldn't
go to school or go to work because the history was awful like if that's the
case then honestly none of us should even see a doctor alright so the next
thing that really fascinates me about this Scientology documentary is like
they're talking about what psychiatry was doing like pretty much a
hundred years ago but look at what Scientology is doing today all right so
this this little device right here is called an electro psychometry aka an e
meter which is supposed to help see your thoughts all right and basically this
thing is just a fancy name for something that's testing for skin conductivity so
it's like a poor man's lie detector all right
so like when if you ever take a lie detector test I've never had to say if
you ever have basically those things work by checking like your pulse your
heart rate and they also check to see if you're sweating right so that's kind of
what this little machine does but this is actually what's been at my
girlfriend's school because as you can see from this picture right here they go
around and they set up little boost whether like hey come on over let's see
your thoughts together and here's my theory here's here's my theory and if
any of you know more about Scientology than I do
you let me know if I'm going in the right direction but here's my theory
about why they do this why they push people away from psychology why they use
their little you know e meter and everything like that is when you push
people away from mental health professionals and the fields of
psychology and psychiatry and you know therapy and counseling and all those
things when you push people away it's easy to bring people in to that religion
because you could say no don't trust anybody else don't trust anybody else
right it's almost like this form of abuse like if you've ever been in an
abusive relationship one of the strategies that people use is to isolate
you from everybody else right like I don't like throwing around the word cult
all willy-nilly like I just I'm not a fan of that like I watch a lot of stuff
on cults and everything like that but like it's I have no problem saying
cultish you know and I mean but pushing you away from like actual science and
professionals and if you learn more about Scientology they
like trying to separate you from you know certain people and everything like
that anyways the next thing the next thing in this documentary which is
absolute like I can't I can't understand it
so one of the ways that they try to argue that psychology and psychiatry is
not something you should be a part of is they bring psychologists and
psychiatrists in their documentary to interview them like what and then I have
this other thought I'm like wait a second
do these like professors and psychologists even know that they're
being interviewed for a Scientology documentary that is completely anti
psychiatry like think about that like were they able to just walk up to a
psychiatrist or like a professor and say hey we're doing a video about how awful
your field is can you can you come over here and let us interview you like that
doesn't add up so I wonder if they could do what they were going to be a part of
so intertwined in these interviews that they do they also bring in these authors
right and as some of you know like I read a ton I read a ton and the primary
type of book I read like I read a lot of nonfiction but I absolutely love the
field of psychology that's one of the reasons I'm doing this video right
because there's so much science that backs it up anyways I read a lot of
books on psychology and all the different studies they do and the
advances that we're making that can help people even more with depression anxiety
and trauma and all sorts of other disorders right and when I before I pick
up a book I want to know that the author is credible right like I want to see
like you know what are their peers saying everything like that
and a lot of the books I get recommended or by other psychologists who are
recommending them right by other people who have made great advances so for
example I don't know how many of you know about like Daniel Kahneman he is a
Nobel Prize winner he's done a lot of work in like the
behavioral sciences and everything like that but anyways he has done work with a
guy whose book I'm reading right now I believe his name is Peter tetlock
anyways you could see how like credible people recommend other credible people
and everything like that so anyways in the scientology documentary they're
showing these different authors with the title doctor and found their name so if
i can't find any like anybody to vouch for those people i just go and i look up
like the reviews right i look up their reviews because then you can kind of see
like you know what what the books all about i try not to put too much weight
on my good or bad reviews because it's so subjective like i've i've seen
terrible reviews for books that i absolutely love but when it comes to
guys that they interviewed on here like ty Kolbert and Lee Coleman when you look
up their books like even on Goodreads which is like the haven for book reviews
they have zero right so for me this Scientology documentary in one of the
many many ways that it's misleading is showing these these doctors who also
have books that nobody has read right like there are doctors who get a PhD and
they're completely just like away from the field and the industry and their
peers are like uh-uh I don't I don't hang out with that dude he talks a
little talks a little cray-cray you know what I mean
but anyways finally throughout this documentary they have this like narrator
with this like ominous voice and he's just throwing out these like stats and
statistics talking about like everybody died there's so many people dying and
then it talks about like all the billions that you know the industry may
seem like the pharmaceutical companies to you know health care and everything
like that and hey Hey I believe that they are making you
know this is a huge industry it's a huge industry a part of it is because a lot
of people struggle with their mental health but but throughout the
documentary like they're just throwing these numbers and stats at you
everywhere and there is not one source not a single source all right
so they're just throwing numbers out there that you can't even verify you
know what I mean it's like where did you get these numbers from okay
but anyways what's the solution like I think it's important to talk about
things like this because for example like I'm a prime example I didn't know I
didn't know they were out here trying to recruit people I didn't know that they
were so anti psychology until recently you know what I mean and that that's
harmful you know um I've been reading a lot of books about you know the way our
brain works with like cognitive dissonance and biases and everything
like that and I could I could picture somebody who had a bad experience on a
medication about experience in a treatment facility about experience you
know with a therapist or psychologist and then stumbling across a documentary
like this and it confirming what they thought like oh okay this whole this
whole field is full of quacks no that's not how it is right
sometimes we'll try a medication that just doesn't really work well for you
try a new medication right sometimes you might go to a treatment facility that
just sucked but I worked in a treatment facility for a few years and a lot of
times what I saw was it was based on their subjective experience you'd have
two people one of them absolutely loved it said to save their life the other
person absolutely hated it right and when it comes like therapists and stuff
like that like sometimes you just get a bag therapist you know what I mean so I
I hope nobody watches these documentaries from Scientology and
completely writes off this entire industry because like I said at the
beginning there is science that backs this thing up so if you are struggling
with your mental health like go get help and if you
can't afford it like I couldn't for many many many years there are so many
resources out there for people who don't have insurance who don't have money
there are a lot of government funded programs here in the United States
pretty much in every single state I believe you can call two on one or go
to the Samsung website and and ya get help or if you if you don't have access
to that for some reason I get some plus like I said some of the greatest minds
in psychology in therapy and everything like that they are putting all of their
knowledge all their wisdom into these books there are workbooks and everything
like that like you can find CBT workbooks and start practicing yourself
the best option is to work with a mental health professional but I know what it's
like to not have access to one but that doesn't mean we shouldn't work on it you
know what I mean but anyways that's all I got for this video again let me know
if you want me to do a part two discussing some of the stuff in the
second half of this wacky documentary but if you like this video please give
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