Let's see... they deny that mental illness exists, deny psychiatric care to the crazies who join their cult, and the only way to get to the upper levels of their hierarchy is to pay tens of thousands of dollars?
So you have poverty-stricken crazies at the lower levels of the "org" and rich crazies at the top? Sounds an awful lot like -- gulp -- the DEMOCRATS!!
LOL...these folks in this cult are 'bout as crazy as it gets...since cruise fired his handler (publicist) and sister is now his handler (publicist), she's allowing him to be himself...which is crazy tom cruise for the world to see....are we now seeing in living color the self destruction of tommy boy? ;o)
Which is spent on more and more auditing. Evenetually when the member reaches what are called the OT levels (for operating thetan) they start auditing to rid themselves of these body thetans. But there's a huge catch. You can pick up more body thetans everywheer you go. So you get into an endless cycle of clean and get polluted again. This tends to lead most of them to some major psychosis.