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The way David Miscavage, the self-proclaimed head of the Church of Scientology, uses it is to punish people and to make them tow the line of what he says is right. If you dare to question the church or him personally or point out flagrant violations of what the church's founder, L Ron Hubbard wrote, he will declare you a "suppressive person" and have everyone in the church, including your family, friends, co workers, disconnect from you, which is like shunning. These people are told never to speak to you, to block your emails and calls, etc, and that if they do talk to you for any reason, they themselves will be declared suppressive and will be shunned. And more importantly, he uses the threat that if you are expelled from the Church of Scientology, you will never achieve spiritual freedom ("go to heaven" or however you describe this) at all because "WE, the church, are the ONLY ones who have the keys to Nirvana. This is not true. You can now achieve spiritual freedom outside the church, and only outside the church in the Independent Scientology world. I have seen many families torn apart by his cruel disconnection policy where mothers never see their children and vice versa, a person's livelihood is destroyed, and much more. This disconnection was abolished by L Ron Hubbard in 1966 or'68, but Dave Miscavage brought it back for political purposes and uses it as the club to keep his people in line.