Scientology

Oh my god, nearly got GOT by a Scientology yesterday. There were some girls on a stand outside the tube station asking the public to have their stress levels tested on a 1950s looking stress monitor device. I would never normally have stopped, but in the name of the blog I thought it might make a good story in my otherwise humdrum day. I had to sit down and hold onto 2 electrode things... relax, and think of things in my life that make me feel stressed. 'Sitting in-front of Shepherds Bush Green at rush hour' I thought and the needle went whizzing up the stress o meter. Ok so I thought about money, lack of, and up it went again, and my biological clock, whoop, off the scale it went! The theory of overcoming ones stress is in a book by an American dude called L. Ron Hubbard... Ron reckons that our minds are split into our 'analytical mind,' the part that stores memories like files in a computer, and our 'reactive mind,' (the naughty part), that they say prevents people from being more ethical, more aware, happier and more sane, oh and can prevent allergies and sex deviations too apparently. I wonder if it helps get you sex, in order for you to find out if it stops you deviating? The goal of DIANETICS - 'The Modern Science of Mental Health,' as it is known, (not Callanetics the 80s fitness craze), is to remove the so called 'reactive mind'. My very sweet 'instant therapist on the Green' was selling Rons chunky book for £13. Apparently it has sold millions of copies in zillions of languages too.. so why a trestle table on Shepherds Bus Green I think to myself.....I have since discovered that it is practiced by followers of Scientology... no mention of that while I was squeezing my electrods.