Very interesting expose of Scientology from people who went inside with hidden cameras. I haven’t seen the testing procedures outlined like this before. That said, I kind of hate this style of journalism. It’s so slanted that it loses credibility. I could imagine being on the other side of it with a subject I’m interested in, like alien abduction, and see it (and have) subjected to the same cynical treatment. And I’m a person who despises Scientology – something that espouses the “science of the mind” will no doubt have robotic followers. While it’s good that there’s an expose of Scientology so people know what it’s about, I’m sure you could find someone who didn’t lose their life savings and/or have been helped by it.  Weirdly, the documentary comes from a slightly pro-Christian standpoint, which could be the subject of the same type of documentary.

This video here is incredibly strange – worth a watch maybe more than the above one. I haven’t seen Scientology ever described as an apocalyptic sect – they want to “clear” people’s minds to fend off the apocalypse. Amazing that this is real life, seems very much like fiction, which in turn has been inspired by the imaginings of a science fiction author.  Sometimes I do think that we’re all part of some crazed novel.  Here’s proof:

Their war against psychiatry is truly dangerous…to a degree. Because it’s true that anti-depressants are over-prescribed and could turn into a new Soma. But that’s not all of psychiatry, and their gleeful vitriol towards psychiatry is demented.

Bonus: my fellow Backword author writes about her trip to a Scientology center. Someone once told me he was asked to sit in a room for an hour with wallpaper of hundreds of owls staring back at him. Then the auditing started.

If you need a refresher, here’s what Scientologists believe about Xenu.

Posted on March 14, 2010 at 1:47 pm
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