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Through Liang's eyes, Mao appears as a cult figure, as widely known as a Pope and with equal mystical power. Liang recalls feeling guilt for nursery school wrondoing until told, "Chairman Mao has forgiven you." Later he goes on a pilgrimage to the civil war mountain stronghold of Mao, and on another to Peking, where he glimpses the party leader, Far from presenting a cool, outsider's perspective, or reactionary scorn, Liang's descriptions of these journeys are filled with personal pleasure and excitement...
What looks and sounds like a cult indoctrination is in fact a "training session" for employees of Japanese companies. They were at Ise last month at the behest of their employers to learn team spirit, feel team achievement and, in so doing, perhaps become better, more productive workers. Says Ise Training Center Director Yasuo Nakayama: "We want them to suffer. We want them to feel pain. But we also want them to enjoy, to sing and dance. We want them to empty out their old selves and become new people...
...another California court, Scientology is seeking to recover three cartons containing about 5,000 Scientology documents. The papers were placed under court protection by Gerry Armstrong, 36, who was authorized in January 1980 by Hubbard to gather papers for a laudatory biography. Armstrong found documents so damaging to the cult's credibility that he quit the church in disgust. He vows to use the papers to prove his charges, made in a sworn statement for a court case in Florida, that "Mr. Hubbard had continually misrepresented himself and had lied about his past...
...Hubbard's absence, the cult has changed dramatically. In January 1982, his young followers created the Religious Technology Center "for the primary purpose of ensuring and maintaining the purity and integrity of Scientology." One of the Sea Orgs, David Miscavige, 22, who claimed to be in regular touch with Hubbard, contended that the founder had "donated" all rights to his courses and techniques to the new corporation. Some defectors, however, insist that the church planned to purchase these so-called trademarks from Hubbard for $85 million. Others believe the new corporation, in which Hubbard is not officially involved...
Alan Walter, a Scientologist for 20 years and a mission holder in the Middle West, contends that "Hubbard was a genius in many ways. He was set up by these kids. They were doing insane things. It was a reign of terror." Larry Wollersheim, who considered himself "a cult salesman," says that he was trained to locate the assets of church members and then help them devise explanations to relatives for why they needed so much money. "I was constantly hammered to coerce people to get loans," he claims...