Ya' gotta luv those whacky Scientologists ping!
My mother's best high school friend went in for it early on....in the beginning days...mid to late 60s I think.
Absolutely completely whacked out. Ironically, her dad had been an Army Chaplain.
The lady left her husband and two children and went to all these compounds. Serial and Group Sex, brainwashing, and above all...give them your money.
This was pretty wild stuff back then.
I just noticed that she and her daughter who followed her later always had a hard stare when they talked to you....like they wanted to look through you.
The son and the dad were wiser and rejected it all outright.
The lady and daughter are slaves to this day. Scientology is for nuts....the only positive PR they ever got was for drug treatment in the early 70s.
Too bad a better SF writer didn't invent a religion..lol
funny Elfman took hubbie's name.....ironically traditional or maybe she wanted Hollywood to think she was Jewish....lol
I wonder if her husband is kin to Danny Oingo Boingo Elfman who does lots of scores and soundtracks now?
Jenna Elfman on Scientology
How did you get into Scientology? (From a magazine interview)
**My husband has been a Scientologist for years, and I kept hearing him talk about Dianetics. So he gave me the book, which I said I'm not gonna read--it's too big. I'm not a big reader.. And then one day I ran into a situation that made me like, frazzled. I had a job dancing on Murder, She Wrote, and I was spending the night at my now-husband, boyfriend-at-the-time's house. I was so used to the alarm that it didn't wake me up, and I woke up an hour and a half after I was supposed to be there. And you know, you get that panic: "Oh, God! Ohhhh!" I got in the car and I was all frazzled and starting to cry and was rushed, and I couldn't think. I couldn't even put my seatbelt on. I was just a mess. Then I went, Wait a minute--that's purely reactive and insane. Look, I went, you're in the car, you can't get there any faster. So just turn the music on, enjoy. This has happened to me before and I arrived on the set and messed everybody's day up. Being so apologetic is really pushing people away and turning them off--and I had a horrible shoot. It's not optimum. So this time, I said, wait a sec. Now let's just apply what you learned last night. And I went da-da-da, da-da-da and got a lot more analytical about the situation. When I got there, I said, "I'm very sorry I'm late. The alarm didn't wake me up." And they said, "That's fine. We're not going to get to you for another few hours. Just take your time, relax. Get some coffee." Like, wow! I went, This is great. I like this. This helps me. It's just very simple: Scientology helps me live my life better. **
Jenna Elfman
Actress
What a bunch of F-R-E-A-K-S!