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...first my interest was voyeuristic. Allen and I read crazy quotes aloud to each other, laughing at their sheer absurdity. Allen proceeded with characteristic skepticism. But the more I read Dianetics, the less I laughed and the more I was seduced. In Hubbard’s manifesto I had expected to find the psychopathic derangement Cruise had recently taken to exhibiting, or at least a monolithic definition of the good life...
...Church of Scientology’s website welcomed visitors to take a personality test or come to visit the church. Allen and I decided to take them up on the offer...
According to multitudes of websites on Scientology, the Church was little better than a cult, the religion little more than a tax dodge, its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, little more than an egotistic pathological liar. But Allen and I committed to go see for ourselves...
...receptionist introduces Allen and me to Jeff, a representative of the Church who offers to show us around. At first, I feel only a fight-or-flight response. I look out the door. But Allen tips me to “fight...
Jeff shakes my hand and asks about my experiences with Scientology in a lilting voice. He has large, lidded eyes that stare for uncomfortably long. Allen expresses a degree of incredulousness about the religion right off the bat; he asks about a story gleefully popular on anti-Scientology sites on internet, that Hubbard believed that an intergalactic ruler named Xenu banished human spirits to earth 75 million years ago. Jeff dismisses the story outright and addresses the question by introducing a central tenet of the religion: it’s not true unless it’s true...