Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Page #2

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Sea org

is the most fraternal order

of the organization.

It's people who really,

really believe in the cause

And sign

a billion-year contract,

Which i did when i was--

you know, as soon as i could.

I left skid marks getting

to that billion-year contract.

You thought

you were doing something good,

To have a positive effect

on all of mankind.

That's what howard says.

Everything you do for endless

trillions of years

Depends on what you do

here and now within

scientology.

I began to ask this question,

"what is man?"

and i found, oddly enough,

That nobody could tell me

what man was.

What did he consist of?

Where was he going?

What was he doing?

To really know life,

you've got to be part of life.

You must get down and look.

You must get into

the nooks and crannies

of existence,

The-- you have to rub elbows

With all kinds

and types of men

Before you can finally

establish what he is.

And you in fact did this?

Yes, i've slept

with bandits in mongolia,

And i've hunted

with, uh,

Pygmies in the philippines.

Matter of fact,

i've studied 21 different

primitive races,

Including the white race.

And my conclusions were

That man is

a spiritual being

That was pulled down

to the material,

The fleshly interests,

To an interplay in life

that was, in fact,

Too great for him

to confront.

And i concluded, finally,

That he needed a hand.

To understand scientology,

You have to understand

the life and mind

of its inventor,

L. Ron hubbard.

Hubbard was

a prolific writer.

He actually holds

the "guinness book

of world records"

For the number of books

published--

More than 1,000.

Hubbard got his start

in the depression writing

pulp fiction,

Named for

the cheap paper used.

Writers were paid

a penny a word,

So hey had to write a lot

to make money.

Hubbard hammered away

so fast

On long rolls

of butcher paper

That he used to drop sweat

on his typewriter.

Hubbard's career took off

when he began to write

for a magazine

Called "astounding

science fiction."

Along with authors

like isaac asimov

and robert heinlein,

Hubbard wrote stories

with a sense of mission--

To get man to the stars.

He found his true mtier

in science fiction.

And a lot of

what scientology is

He had previously written about

in the form

Of his science fiction.

He had the ability

to fabricate these

amazing tales,

And he transported

those imaginary stories

Into his theology.

After pearl harbor,

hubbard took command

of a sub chaser,

But he was still a man

prone to invention.

He would write that he sunk

two japanese subs,

But, in fact,

just off the coast of oregon,

He opened fire on what

turned out to be a log

And dropped most of

his depth chargers

On underwater

magnetic rocks.

When he accidentally shelled

a mexican island,

He was relieved

of his command.

After the war,

Hubbard ended up

in los angeles

Where he settled in

with a small group

of seekers and visionaries.

A guy named jack parsons,

a fascinating man,

Was one of the founders

of the jet-propulsion

laboratory.

And there's actually

a crater on the moon

named after jack.

He was a significant

scientific figure,

But he was also

the head honcho

In this black magic cult.

It was called the o.T.O.,

Or the ordo templi orientis.

They followed the teachings

of aleister crowley,

A famous sexual magic figure

in england.

Parsons had a mansion

in pasadena.

They would have ceremonies,

And they were seeking

some sort of goddess figure

That he could impregnate

In order to create

the antichrist.

Hubbard moved in

and became parsons' assistant.

One night,

this beautiful redhead

Named marjorie cameron

showed up at the door.

She was perfectly

willing to engage

in this sexual ritual

In order, supposedly,

to produce the antichrist.

She and jack

eventually got married.

That happened after hubbard

ran off with jack's girlfriend,

Sara northrup.

Scientology

and hubbard

Would later refuse

to acknowledge

His relationship

with sara.

But we uncovered

sara's own recollections

Of her time with hubbard.

He was 13 years older

than i was.

I thought

he was a great war hero,

A captain of a ship

that had been downed

in the pacific.

And he was weeks

on a raft,

And he'd been blinded

by the sun,

And his back

had been broken.

All these things

were complete lies,

But i didn't know it

at the time.

I believed

every word of it.

If only sara had seen

hubbard's military records.

In a 900-page file,

Hubbard's activities are laid

out in extraordinary detail.

Hubbard told people

that he had been blinded

and crippled

During the war,

and the practices

that would form

The basis of scientology

had cured him.

But his records show

that his only wounds

Were mild arthritis

and conjunctivitis.

We had this terrible fight,

And he told me he was going

to commit suicide

If i didn't marry him.

I really believed him,

So we got married.

We spent the winter

in that lighthouse on the lake

in the poconos.

I remember one awful night,

When i was asleep

and he was out typing...

and he hit me

across the side of the head

With a .45...

Because i was smiling

in my sleep,

And he said i was thinking

about somebody else.

I got up,

left the house,

And walked

on the ice of the lake.

I was terrified.

He always said

that he would kill me

Rather than

let me leave him.

The only good thing

i got from ron

Was my baby.

We moved

to elizabeth, new jersey,

And he started

writing "dianetics."

The book was conceived

And he started

working on it in 1950.

He said many times

that the only way to make

any real money

Was to have a religion.

That's essentially

what he was trying to do

with "dianetics"--

Get a religion where

he could have an income

And the government wouldn't

take it away from him

In the form of taxes.

"dianetics" was

an immense success.

From the moment

it was published in 1950,

It swept through america

and other countries

around the world.

This book--

that's the background

of all of this.

That's what started

all the trouble.

We expected this to sell

about 6,000 copies,

And it hit the top

of the bestseller list

of "the new york times"

And just stayed there,

month in, month out.

It was like

i started an avalanche.

The modern science

of mental health"

Is considered to be

the fundamental text,

Which is the foundation

upon which all else is built.

One of the theories

of "dianetics"

Is to discover these things

that are very traumatic

Or have been very upsetting

to you,

And if you can observe

Exactly what happened,

The power of that incident

To influence you today

Is removed.

The concept of "dianetics"

Is that you have

two sides of your mind.

There is the analytical side,

Which is a perfect computer.

It remembers everything.

It's flawless.

It never makes a mistake.

And then there's

a reactive side.

And this is where

all your neuroses, anxieties,

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