Marc Headley, a prominent former Scientologist, reveals the secret list of questions that Scientology’s founder, Sci-fi writer L Ron Hubbard, created to be asked during interrogations of children (known as security checks) after any kind of tantrum or misbehaviour.
Here is s a handful of random selections from the list.
What has somebody told you not to tell?
Have you ever decided you did not like some member of your family?
Have you ever pretended to be sick (ill)?
Have you ever wanted something very much, but never told anybody about it?
Have you ever gotten yourself dirty on purpose?
Have you ever refused to eat just to worry someone?
Have you ever refused to obey an order from someone you should obey?
Have you ever told another child something that wasn’t true, just to frighten
or upset him?
Have you ever deliberately got another child, or a grown-up, into trouble?
Have you ever been mean, or cruel, to an animal, bird or fish?
Have you ever forgotten to give food or water to a pet entrusted to your care?
Do you have a secret?
Have you ever noticed something wrong with your body that you were afraid to tell anybody about?
Is there anything about you your parents could not understand, even if you told them?
Who have you made guilty?
Have you ever done something you shouldn’t when you were supposed to be in bed or asleep?
Have you ever tried to make others believe that your parents, or teachers, were cruel to you?
Is there anything you should tell your parents, and never have?
Have you ever done something to your body that you shouldn’t have?
Have you ever done anything to someone else’s body that you shouldn’t have??
Have you ever decided never to talk to someone again?
Have you ever made your parents or teachers work harder than they should?
Have you ever decided that you were too bright, or too smart for the other kids?
Have you ever run away when you should have stayed?
Have you ever cried when you shouldn’t have?
Have you ever been a coward?
Have you ever made too much fuss over a little hurt?
Have you ever decided “Someday, when I’m grown up, I’ll get even”? If so, with whom?
Have you ever hurt anyone by telling them you didn’t love them any more?
Have you ever made out that you were more badly damaged than you were in order to make someone stop picking on you?
Have you ever pretended to like someone that you didn’t like in order to satisfy your parents?
Have you ever done anything wrong according to your own religion?
Have you ever made friends with people your parents didn’t approve of?
Have you ever thought someone was crazy?
Have you ever done something to someone that you’d hate to have done to you?