[8mmMauser]

What is so interesting about Clearwater and home of Judge Greer and those so anxious to see people die? It is a key site of the Scientologists where their many celebrities pass through. One of these is Top Gun Tom Cruise with his mission in life and his music to the ears of the death merchants.

Here are some excerpts:

In his own spiritual life, Cruise has continued to climb the "Bridge to Total Freedom," Scientology's path to enlightenment. International Scientology News, a church magazine, reported last year that the actor had embarked on one of the highest levels of training, "OT VII" — for Operating Thetan VII.

At these higher levels — and at a potential cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars — Scientologists learn Hubbard's secret theory of human suffering, which he traces to a galactic battle waged 75 million years ago by an evil tyrant named Xenu.

According to court documents made public by The Times in the 1980s, Hubbard espoused the belief that Xenu captured the souls, or thetans, of enemies and electronically implanted false concepts in them to keep them confused about his dirty work. The goal of these advanced courses is to become aware of the trauma and free of its effects.

At Cruise's high level of training, ex-members say, devotees also are charged with actively spreading the organization's less secretive beliefs and advancing its crusades, including Hubbard's deep disdain for psychiatry, a profession that once dismissed his teachings as quackery.

At Inland Base, Scientologists Trained Top Gun

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to 12/09)

[Ohioan from Florida]

At Cruise's high level of training, ex-members say, devotees also are charged with actively spreading the organization's less secretive beliefs and advancing its crusades, including Hubbard's deep disdain for psychiatry, a profession that once dismissed his teachings as quackery.

IMHO, those teachings are still quackery. However, I am not a psychiatrist, nor do I play one on TV, but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.

[presently no screen name]

From your link....
Former members say they were told the mansion was built for Hubbard's return.

"The whole theory of that house was that before Hubbard died in 1986, David Miscavige told us, Hubbard told him he was going to come back and make himself visible within 13 years," Schless Pressley said.




Gee, maybe they forgot to bury him with a calendar watch - he's at least 6 years late! What a bunch of clueless saps! Some spent 20 to 30 years before they woke up! What a rude awakening.

[floriduh voter]

IMO scientology uses the same principles as dance studios who sell granny lifetime dancing lessons in a binding contract. Lots of grannies were fleeced that way, probably still are.

[floriduh voter]

I read on one of the links that their version of the cross is a crossed out cross. I always wondered about that.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I have a bad feeling about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. She apparently disappeared for several weeks, and when she resurfaced, she had a Scientology minder, and key people were fired.

Now she's pregnant. I don't recall any comments from Katie's Catholic family regarding their daughter.