The weekly show where I answer viewer questions left for me in the comments section of my Q&A shows or sent to me by email at AskChrisShelton@gmail.com. This week, the questions I answer are:
(1) Do you have any thoughts on the CNN documentary Holy Hell about the Buddha Field cult? I saw so many parallels to Scientology.
(2) There is something that puzzles me leading on from one of your last videos about life on the Freewinds and how it came about that people handed their passports in to the organisation. I have heard a number of stories of ex-Scientologists who felt they were trapped within the organisation because their superiors had possession of their passports. I ask myself why this should have been such an issue for them? If I am in any foreign country and my passport is lost, stolen or appropriated by someone, all I have to do is get hold of or go to my nearest consulate and report the issue, then apply for a new passport. Democratic countries generally go a long way towards supporting their citizens with such things. There is something about the ex-Scientologists concerned that seems to me pretty naive and ill-informed about their own rights as citizens and being able to stand up for these. I ask myself whether this mind-set, this innocent overlooking of what makes me a citizen and a person of independence might not be part of what makes someone susceptible to the machinations of such a cult?
(3) What past life experience of your own, that you may or may not have shared with your auditor, sticks out in your mind? Also, did you always have the same auditor? Are they assigned to you or do you use an auditor that just happens to be available?
I would love to hear stories from auditing sessions as I am fascinated by the process. I guess I always assumed that auditing was more of a confessional for Scientology to use against its members. Also, does David Miscavige now or did he ever recieve auditing? Is he even considered Clear or moving up The Bridge?
(4) I have a friend who worked at the Sea Org’s publications organization. She told me that Hubbard’s books were updated to match the current society: in the original version of New Slant on Life, Ron stated that a society was doomed when the wife left her job of raising the children to take a paying job. When many women moved from the home to the work force, the book was updated to be in agreement with this.
Are there any similar updates to Ron’s tapes now that science and the internet have exposed many of Ron’s statements as false:
* Ron says Incident 1 occurred 4 quadrillion years ago. Science puts the age of the universe at around 13.5 billion years.
* Ron defines many volcanos in Incident 2 which occurred 75 million years ago. Geologists have come out stating that these volcanos did not exist 75 million years ago.
* Ron states in a lecture that Mary Sue was auditing him when he flew out of his head and ended up on Venus where he was nearly hit by a train. Satellite mapping of the entire surface of Venus has shown there are no trains.
(5) I was a second generation Scientologist from birth. I only ever went to Scientology-based schools and played with Scientologist friends. I was briefly in the Sea Org and got to peek behind the wizard’s curtain, but had to stay quiet about it since that would be “natter.” I quietly got out of Scientology about 10 years ago, though my family is still very much involved.
Do current Scientologists, either public or Sea Org, not know the Int exec strata was wiped out? Would a Class V or Flag public even know Senior C/S Int, WDC, etc. are supposed to exist? If so, what’s the justification that’s used to explain their absence? For example, what answer would I get if I asked a New OT VIII who the Senior C/S Int is today?
(6) When I was a public, the question about where David Miscavige came from was speculated time and again. Apparently, Ron knew him from wherever or whatever planet he came from. His parents gave him over to Ron to take over when Ron dropped his body. It all seems so foolish now. What was the Sea Org saying about him?
(7) How often do you hear Trump compared to LRH (rounded off to the nearest 100)
(8) Do you have an endless supply of T-shirts?
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