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Between high school and college, Jimmy decided to take a year off to play with his band and devote more time to Scientology. Wanting to give back to another Scientologist what Scientology had given to him, he learned how to audit...
Hubbard claims to have found the “single source of all insanities, psychoses, neuroses, compulsions, repressions and social derangements”: repressed, painful memory. Dianetics promises release through a process called auditing, a kind of non-evaluative therapy. After several courses of auditing, a Scientologist can become a “clear,” a person with no psychotic reactive tendencies. (Cruise is now an “Operating Thetan 6,” six stages beyond clear...
...walk up a staircase, past major construction to renovate the building. As we wind upstairs, Jeff tells us about himself. He had weathered a troubled adolescence. Then, 10 years ago, he became a Scientologist. The religion worked magic for him; he is now happy, employed, married, and substance-free. To demonstrate, he gesticulates and frequently smiles. Somehow, I find this endearing. Fleeing is getting less and less appealing...
...film ends, and Jeff returns into the screening room. I mention the doomsday rhetoric and he laughs it off. He invites me and Allen to return to the church. Looking at me, he describes how his IQ has gone up since becoming a Scientologist (a claim I heard repeated by several other adherents). He smiles...
...freshman year, Jimmy filled his room in Weld with friends and acquaintances. He gave a PowerPoint presentation on Scientology and offered to explain the religion to anyone curious or interested. Jimmy thinks he’s Harvard’s only Scientologist. But he can’t say enough about...