Larisa Smith

The Terrible Culture of Scientology: Part 3

by Chris Shelton
October 13, 2016October 12, 2016
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This is the third and final part of my interview with Larisa Smith and her family about growing up with and in Scientology. All of what was gone over in the first two parts has been leading up to this. I think you’ll see why we wanted to cover her early life and experiences in such detail, so as to put everything that she describes here into a full context.

The Terrible Culture of Scientology: Part 2

by Chris Shelton
October 6, 2016October 5, 2016

This video continues the story of Larisa Smith, former Scientologist and daughter of Tim and Sylvia DeWall. In part one, we covered Larisa’s upbringing through… Read More »The Terrible Culture of Scientology: Part 2

The Terrible Culture of Scientology: Part 1

by Chris Shelton
September 29, 2016September 28, 2016

Scientology has been a lot of things to a lot of people, some claiming it did them a lot of good while others, not so much. One thing for sure is that Scientology is much more than simply some books that L. Ron Hubbard wrote or a New Age mix of feel good literature and plagiarized psychotherapy. Over the years since L. Ron Hubbard first unleashed Dianetics upon the world in 1950, he gathered a small but intensely loyal core of followers and created a sort of alternate reality, a bubble world of belief in both him and his outlandish mythology.Read More »The Terrible Culture of Scientology: Part 1