The weekly show where I answer viewer questions from the comments sections of my Q&A videos or sent to me by email at AskChrisShelton@gmail.com. This week, the questions I answer are:
(1) Due to the international nature of the Church of Scientology, how does the Church maintain control over the non-American sections? Surely they can maintain less control over these sections? Does this translate into a situation where the authoritarian control and human rights abuses are less severe for those Scientologists who are based outside of the US?
(2) Hearing about the latest Kirstie Alley tweet I thought she was quoted as saying that Scientology saved her life, that she was addicted to drugs. I thought Scientology shunned people who admitted to using drugs. Is this another example of Scientology bending their rules for celebs?
(3) What kind of measures has David Miscavige taken to prevent a coup? I don’t understand why somebody hasn’t moved in and taken him off the COB platform. If he were running any other corporation, he would have been ousted long before now. Especially with the bad press and all of the leaked information. I understand there is no “board” that he is the chairman of so there’s really no vote or any of the normal stop-gap measures to move him along but, there are a lot of people working under him. It seems as though it would be easy to have a mutiny. He’s clearly suppressive, as described by Hubbard. It just seems to me, if I were a Scientologist, I might think about taking over. Even just to try and save the organization from this free fall it’s in now. Thoughts?
(4) What about you as a Scientologist, what did you expect to be the end goal? I get the idea that you want to go Clear and become an OT VIII and break the cycle of forgetting your previous lives and obtain powers to control MEST. But then what? From what I gather, Scientologists believe LRH did not die but assumed a state of being where he could willfully discard his body. Am I correct in assuming that is the end goal of all Scientologists? Does a cleared OT VIII thetan who has discarded its body spend the rest of eternity without a body? Or does a cleared OT VIII thetan look for a new body with the expectation that memories of previous lives and the ability to control MEST are retained?
(5) After all of my free time as an EMT (because I don’t wish harm to others) I have been listening to random stuff on the internet. The congresses that Hubbard has given are of course all over the web, but I find myself falling asleep while listening to him. On the up side, it’s a good 2 hour nap but on the downside, I have yet to find a way to “learn by osmosis.” If I, as a person who is only trying to understand the chaos that is Scientology, can’t stay awake how does anyone else listen to this without ending up looking like a narcoleptic?
(6) Do most Scientologists believe that Hubbard actually voluntarily left his body when he died?
(7) Hey Chris, is it common for Scientologist get married In full Sea Org dress uniform?
(8) Are Tom Cruise and David Miscavige honestly friends or is it a friendship of utility?
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The leader of the nxivm destructive cult was recently arrested for abuse. Is there anything from that case, investigation, and arrest that would be useful against Scientology?