Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
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We will begin the session now.
You will remain aware
of everything that goes on.
Okay.
We're going to find
an incident in your life
You have
Then by sending you through it
at the time it happened,
We're going
to reduce it.
We will reduce the pain.
Go to the beginning
of that incident.
Tell me what's happening.
Well, these things
get all so...
I joined in 198--
like i was young...
We were all very heated,
Can you recall a time
when you were happy?
hubbard, and i was in awe...
We did, because you thought
we were doing good.
I mean, so you had
some gratification.
I felt a tremendous amount
of relief.
I got the answers
for everything
Within the religion.
What are you most afraid of?
It was dark.
3:
00 in the morning,There's a knock
on the hotel-room door.
Stop! I'll say whatever
you want,
I'll write up anything
that you want.
I flipped out.
in the walls.
Things didn't seem quite right.
And you just feel
so foolish at that point.
Do you have a secret
you're afraid i'll find out?
Yes. Yes.
Go to the beginning
of that incident.
Okay, all right.
Tell me about it.
I was 21 years old,
Living in london,
ontario, canada.
I wanted to be
a documentary filmmaker.
And someone had told me
About what they called--
they said, "there's this cult
"in new york
called scientology,"
"and if you give them
all your money,
"they'll make anything
possible in your life."
i was walking down the street.
This guy was there
selling books.
And i realized
they were all the same book--
"dianetics,"
Which again,
He handed me one
and asked me to look at it.
He was talking.
I wasn't really listening
to him.
I opened the cover
and it said--
Stamped on the inside page,
it said "church of scientology."
And i said,
"take me there."
All right.
All right, here we go.
I'm not a great multitasker.
You know, and if i feel
like doing something,
that's what i do.
And, uh,
i was into this sh*t,
And i was becoming
an auditor.
Like, i was in scientology
probably four months,
And i had done more
than john travolta had done,
And he'd been there
for 85 years or some sh*t.
My agents called, you know,
"you got an audition."
"eh, f*** it, i don't really--"
you know what i mean?
I was on--
i'm on a spiritual adventure,
And this was like, "whoa,
this is an interesting road."
You know?
So, uh,
what was the question?
So tell me,
how was it you first
got involved in scientology?
Well, i was introduced to it
by some friends.
I don't know if they said it
or if it was just talked about
By others that
they had super powers.
And i-- i was, like,
really young,
But i thought, "i'd like
to have super powers!"
But also i had done
so much...
Political-social work.
that it was a solution
To handling a lot
of the world's problems.
Instead of trying
You could deal with it
person by person,
Make each person better,
and thus the world would
get better and surer.
Well, thank you very much,
And welcome
to our whole new world.
It's a world where
"exceeding all expectations,
"transcending all parameters,
"extending the boundaries
beyond any boundary,
"not to mention
godspeed, lightning speed,
"and a quantum leap
up the bridge."
We're out to make every life
extraordinary.
And if by chance
it ever seems laborious
or a sacrifice,
Then you are looking
at the offramps instead
of the highway.
You are missing
the signpost up ahead,
The one that reads,
"next stop, infinity."
Probably my favorite concept
of scientology
Is a world
without criminality,
And i know
of no other group
That their goals
are that clear.
Look, i don't--
you name me another philosophy,
Religion, or technology
That one of its main goals--
besides the three
i mentioned earlier--
Where joy
is the operative concept.
These are
the times now, people.
Okay? These are the times
we will all remember.
Were you there?
What did you do?
So what do you say?
Yeah!
Okay.
Because we're counting on you.
okay?
All right?
To lrh!
Hip-hip--
Hooray!
Hip-hip--
Hooray!
Hip-hip--
Hooray!
Scientology is such a subject
of fascination for people.
How did you get engaged
in the story?
Well, i've always
been interested in religions
And why people believe
one idea rather than another.
I've studied jonestown,
radical islam.
They're oftentimes
good-hearted people--
Idealistic, but full of
a kind of crushing certainty
That eliminates doubt.
You know, my goal
wasn't to write an expos.
It was simply
to understand scientology,
Trying to understand
what people get out of it.
You know, why do they
go into it in the first place?
I was
interested in intelligent
and skeptical people
Who are drawn
into a belief system
And wind up acting
on those beliefs
In ways they never
thought they would.
The church of scientology
turned out to be
Two offices
above a woolworth's store.
He asked me,
"what's ruining your life?"
I said,
"oh, i'm in love.
"i'm in love with this woman.
It's impossible.
"i don't know what to do.
I need some help."
And he said,
"we can help you with that."
I said, "really?"
"yes."
And i ran home and got her,
and i said, "we have to
sign up for this.
It could save
our relationship."
So we both signed up
the next day to do a course,
Which i think cost $50.
The thing that
absolutely got me
And stayed with me forever
Was the very first thing
i read when you open
the course pack,
And it said--
i'm paraphrasing--
"don't believe any of this.
If it works for you, great.
"if it doesn't, discard it."
I was troubled by the fact
that they called it a religion,
But i figured,
"oh, it's some tax scam.
It's fine with me.
"i don't really care about that
as long as it works."
The first exercise,
after you do all this reading
and stuff like that,
Is this thing called
o-t-t-r-0,
Which is basically,
you stand-- you sit
Just like this,
eyes closed,
Three feet away
from somebody who's
doing the same thing,
And you basically
confront them.
You know?
And in scientology lingo,
I went exterior.
Exteriorizing
is what they call it.
You know,
you leave your body.
So it was a... Transcendent
experience for me.,
And that made me go,
"holy f***ing sh*t,
"this is-- wow."
I was reading books,
going to lectures,
and going to things--
Different events
at the mission-- at the local
santa clara mission.
And then i knew
i wanted to join the sea org
And get really involved
as soon as i could,
Which would
be right out of high school.
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