Posted on 06/28/2005 1:49:45 PM PDT by quidnunc
The ominous tagline in early trailers for the alien invasion blockbuster War of the Worlds was "They're Already Here" — but any learned Scientologist could have told you that long ago. As you may have heard, WOTW star Tom Cruise is a 20-year veteran of the Church of Scientology, which reportedly teaches that human beings contain clusters of "body thetans," or spirits, of aliens who died 75 million years ago in an intergalactic purge of overpopulated planets by the evil overlord Xenu. In Scientology-speak, these "BTs" adversely influence our thoughts and behavior, and must be "cleared" through "auditing," a form of confessional therapy. For Scientologists (whose Hollywood ranks now include John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, and Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson), battling creatures from space isn't just the stuff of allegorical multiplex spectacle — it's nothing less than the path to self-fulfillment.
War of the Worlds (opens June 29) is hardly Cruise's Battlefield Earth, but Steven Spielberg's film does make one Scientology-friendly tweak to H.G. Wells's 1898 novel of Martian attack (the aliens' war-making infrastructure has been implanted on earth for millions of years), and it's no wonder Cruise chose the movie as his first production to benefit from an on-site Scientology tent. "The volunteer Scientology ministers were there to help the sick and injured," Cruise told Der Spiegel, like a battle-weary soldier extolling the Red Cross; no word on whether the film's agon incited sympathetic revolts of BTs among cast and crew, though we can all cross our fingers that Katie Holmes's resident aliens, unbound by earthling non-disclosure agreements, will one day pen a tell-all book.
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(Excerpt) Read more at villagevoice.com ...
Yesterday on Good Morning Amerika, Cruise was on talking about Scientology.
He said that it was non-denominational. Anyone could be a Scientologist. He said he knew Catholic Scientologists, Baptist Scientologists, Jewish Scientologists and Hindu Scientologists. Grrrrr. I yelled that the TV.
It also leads many people into bankrupcy unless they are well-heeled like Cruise and his Hollywood cronies.
The auditors hold multiple sessions where the auditee holds the electrodes of a Wheatstone bride — which acts like a simple lie detector — while the auditor interrogates the auditee in order to make him confront and eliminate the ingrams which the body thetans implant.
Reportedly a full course of auditing runs into six figures.
(Starter quietly scraps his plans to start Everquestology.)
I wonder what it is about this B.S. that appeals to over-egoed, over-paid, over-emotional and under-talented Hollywierd types think it's so great? "Scientology" is playing to SOMEthing to catch them in the net.
You're kidding, right? I mean, this sounds like something a mildly imaginative second-grader came up with. There are grown people walking free who believe this stuff?????
LOL....yes, the key is EXPOSURE....isn't felos in this cult?
Yeah, but I bet he doesn't know any intelligent scientologists.
And to think that at one time, a young Tom Cruise had entered a Catholic seminary with visions of becoming a priest.
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"You're kidding, right?"
That is just the tip of the iceberg:
http://www.xenu.net/
Cruise told Der Spiegel...
Aren't both of them communist newspapers?
On December 5, 1995, Lisa McPherson was dead on arrival at a hospital 45 minutes north of Clearwater Florida. According to the coroner's report, Lisa was underweight, severely dehydrated, and had bruises and bug bites (see the entire report here).
Lisa's last address was listed by the police as 210 S. Ft. Harrison in Clearwater Florida, which is the Fort Harrison Hotel, a Scientology property. Lisa had been a Scientologist from the age of 18 to her death at age 36.
Lisa was put on the Introspection Rundown that Scientology uses to handle those who have had a psychotic break.
On November 18, 1995, Lisa was involved in a minor car accident. She was apparently not hurt, but she got out of her car and took all her clothes off and seemed mentally unstable. She was taken to a hospital where she was physically evaluated as being unharmed, but the hospital wanted her to be psychologically cared for. However, some Scientologists arrived and stated that Lisa did not believe in psychiatry, and she checked out after a short evaluation and left with the Scientologists. She went with them to the Ft. Harrison Hotel for "rest and relaxation" according to the church, but church logs from Lisa's stay there from November 18 to her death December 5 show differently. Some logs are missing, and a high ranking ex-Scientologist has written an affidavit in which he claims that the church has in the past destroyed documents that might get the church in trouble
I know how open-minded you are and also that you are a strong Christian, so I would be fascinated to hear your take on this. {g}
Further see The road to Xenu which is another autobiographical account of a cult survivor
And for even further reading PLEASE visit Wellspring Retreat which is a CARF certified residential facility that helps people recovering from cult or other mind control exposures. They'll tell you how people get sucked into cults and how cults work
Be informed however that the Cult Awareness Network has been bought by scientology (after being run out of business through many lawsuits by church members) and is now a front organization for scientology.
Thanks very much for your post. I'd forgotten about McPherson. I hope the next time Cruise goes off the interviewer asks him about her.
I won't hold my breath waiting for that one but I'd sure like to see it!
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