This week I talk in detail about Scientology auditing and how it works, Tom Cruise and why Scientologists love him so much, why Hubbard is thought of so highly despite his bad looks and a lot more. Enjoy!
(1) I am curious about people finding themselves in auditing sessions where they could not leave. You have said that auditors are trained to physically keep people in the room until their needle floats (or whatever the goal is). I am really struggling to imagine what that would look like. Could the person be kept there for hours or days? Are they offered food and refreshments? Can they have bathroom breaks? If it is someone new to the group, will their phone have been taken away from them? If I were in such a situation I think I would just lie and say I was coming back, but then leave, but would that be a possibility? I would love you to explain what ‘keeping them there’ actually means.
(2) In a lecture to auditors (Clearing Congress series), LRH talked about being able to process people in comas and otherwise unconscious people. Have you ever heard about this practice, as ridiculous and impossible as it sounds? In the same lecture he talked about the ‘motivator sequence”. Can you explain what that is? LRH was, as usual, vague and incoherent.
(3) I’m a bodybuilder/ nutrition enthusiast. I understand being indoctrinated by the “tech”. I still don’t understand how someone can look at LRH, even in his prime, and think “I wanna be just like this guy”. He was balding, always overweight, had a very ugly looking face, not that great of a speaker and just overall looked like a person I’m afraid to look like when I get old. This man is supposed to be the example of the highest OT but yet couldn’t get his meat body to be even moderately attractive. When you were in Scientology did these thoughts about his looks or obesity ever come to your mind?
(4) Since Tom Cruise has been coming up a lot I have thought of another question about him. His relationship with Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes and his daughter failed. I guess you can say they were pts but it seemed like most of them tried to participate in Scientology. If Tom Cruise was not a celebrity and he was in the same situation wouldn’t he be blamed for being pts himself? Being an OT 8 he can’t handle his personal problems? He could ride a motorcycle or fly in the back of a F-18 but what is he doing to clear the planet anymore? He doesn’t sound like a very good Scientologist to me. I wonder if he got sponsored and never had to pay for Scientology services at all just for the marketing value of his name. How could they ask Tom Cruise for money?
(5) I have a question about why Scientologists are so reluctant to talk about the role that space aliens play in Scientology’s religious cosmology. I suppose maybe they don’t want their beliefs to seem weird, and I know that the OT3 Xenu material is confidential, so that only 5 percent or so of Scientologists even know about it, and even the minority who does know about it are forbidden to talk about it, but there are clearly public sources in which non-confidential extraterrestrial material is available.
Obvious examples would be “A History of Man” (1952) which alludes to invaders and the use of thetan traps, and “Have You Lived This Life Before,” which discusses past lives as extraterrestrials. There are also some audio tapes in which Hubbard makes allusions to nefarious ET plots to mess with us with foreign mental implants and stuff of that nature (I don’t know which, if any of these materials, are confidential).
I know they tend to use the thought-stopping cliche of “there are no aliens, only thetans” when confronted with this question. Is this just an attempt to deflect so they don’t have to have an uncomfortable conversation or is it also partially a sincere attempt to emphasize Hubbard’s idealistic (as opposed to materialist) metaphysics, so that we don’t focus on material bodies but on the fact that we are all non-physical beings?
(6) Talking about being “all in” when you join scientology, how on Earth do Jewish people join ? Do they have to turn against their Jewish faith and beliefs? I know a few Jewish Hollywood stars have swallowed up their garbage.
(7) I was wondering if you could explain the impact that Cruise’s new Top Gun movie will have within Scientology? Will David Miscavige attribute the box office success to Scientology, or use it as ‘evidence’ of Scientology’s dissemination? Will there be new initiatives pushed because of it? How will the Scientology laymen view it? Do you think a critical mass of people who understand Scientology’s abuses–and Tom Cruise’s complicity in that abuse–will ever be reached; to the point where the general public will no longer support him as an actor and therefore no longer watch his movies? Thanks!