This week, it’s answers about the Xenu story killing people, Hubbard’s obsession with scents, auditing and memory, and a lot more. Enjoy!
(1) If Hubbard said (and believed) that exposure to OT III was harmful or even deadly to people, how on Earth could the man justify writing Revolt in the Stars, which is obviously the subject of that screenplay? Did he seriously not consider that the Scientologists who paid thousands of dollars to reach OT III would be extremely surprised, angry and confused that he was now selling this pitch to Hollywood? What if the film blew up like Star Trek or Star Wars and the “Wall of Fire” was now something everyone knew about?
(2) I know a Scientologist who is completely anti-perfume and cologne but he was not like this before becoming a Scientologist, which led me to write to you about this topic. I seem to remember, and it may have been on your show that Hubbard had some totally strange ideas about perfumes and colognes and was absolutely against them. Can you shed some light on this very strange topic?
(3) I understand that auditing changes your memory. How and how much would auditing change your memory? Would Masterson have a truer memory of the events than the Jane Doe’s that had auditing? I am really out of date on how hypnotism works but it used to be that you could not testify in court if you had used hypnotism to remember something. Also, there are times when you have sounded like I can’t trust any of my own childhood memories.
(4) I heard today of the passing of Kirstie Alley. I was surprised that she was only 71 (which is considered pretty young nowadays in my opinion) and that she died of cancer. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Kirstie OT 8? Why are so many established Scientologists dying of cancer? Is it something to do with their “training” or perhaps the underlying stress of being part of that cult? I would love to hear your opinion on this matter.
(5) So when you’re in the Scientology bubble, you see Hubbard as Source, which takes on a monumental stature. It’s as if he’s the grand architect of culture, the most influential person ever, and one can start to think that he was behind stuff he wasn’t. It can seem that a lot of other movements and media products and games, even academic subjects, were created as derivatives and offshoots from his groundbreaking research. Scientologists can start to even see proof of his genius in new inventions and discoveries, inwardly crediting Ron. It seems this is a point of cult-think that is common but not necessarily mentioned that often, the subtle way that psychological totalism can make one nutty, likely even pathologically so. What are some things you used to think Ron influenced or made that he wasn’t credited for? Did you ever have this thinking pattern?
(6) Scientology has the cross-like symbol on the top of the facility but they also have the 2 triangles with the S through them. Is there a special meaning to that symbol?
(7) Hubbard was very vague about things but I’m curious if he ever described what some of the Invader Force aliens looked like. Did he just leave it up to your own imagination or did he ever mention that in lectures or the OT levels? I would assume there would have been many species in his reality.
(8) At some point while traveling Scientology’s Bridge to Total Freedom, a person has full cause over the MEST universe. Do Scientologists think these people can move the E-meter needle? How do they square these abilities with the “infallibility” of the E-meter?
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