Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Page #6

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To see if you can locate

any alien beings.

And when you do,

you tell them to go away.

I kept on trying to audit.

I could not figure out

how i could have

All these spirits

of dead people

attached to me,

Inside me, on me.

I was clear.

For god's sake,

i was clear.

People actually

have breakdowns,

You know,

nervous breakdowns,

Because they spend

so much time thinking

About being infested

by these creatures.

If you're

really believing that,

it can drive you crazy.

Those years of introspection

Eventually led me

to sincerely considering

That i was so bad,

That i couldn't confront

how bad i was.

I didn't know it

at the time,

But a depression set in

that was with me for years,

And the worst thing was

That lrh kept ordering me

to more auditing.

I had to find swords

that were stuck in me--

Hypothetical swords,

Imaginary swords that

were causing all this pain.

This auditing

went on and on.

It wasn't doing any good.

I should have been

left alone.

But everything

that i took offense with,

I rationalized

almost immediately.

I had to.

I could not continue

in this game of scientology

Without explaining away

what he was doing.

It got to be

a way of believing,

And every one of us

got into that.

It was part

of the mind control.

It was part of

the cultic manipulation.

He was the master

who did it to us,

And we took it on

and then we did it

to ourselves.

And i learned from it,

That i would

never ever again,

You know, go--

do the bidding of a tyrant.

Hubbard questioned

his own sanity

And actually wrote a letter

to the veteran's administration

Asking for psychiatric help

That he seems

never to have been given.

I think

that his whole creation

of scientology

Really was a form

of self-therapy.

If he were just a fraud,

then at some point,

He would have

taken the money and run,

But he never did that.

He spent much of his day

on the e-meter,

Trying to understand

what was going on

Inside his own mind.

Hubbard became

increasingly paranoid

That a powerful thetan

had infected his body

And that regular auditing

Wasn't strong enough

to make it leave.

When larry wright

was researching his book,

He videotaped an interview

with a scientologist

Who was asked

to help hubbard

expel the thetan.

He was having,

uh, problems

Getting rid of a bt--

body thetan--

So he wanted me

to build a machine,

And basically

blow the thetan away,

Just get him out of there.

Blow him out.

And also kill the body.

Basically, yeah.

Yeah.

But i didn't

want to kill him.

I just wanted

to scare him.

So i had read some books

about nikola tesla and stuff,

And i figured maybe

buildin' a tesla coil

Would probably be

the best route to go.

I had little electrodes

That you hook it up

to the e-meter,

So when he's on the cans,

Then, uh, he would

just flip the button,

And it would do its thing.

As far as i know.

He blew up my e-meter.

Burned it up.

Scientology

really is a journey

Into the mind

of l. Ron hubbard.

And the further

you get into it,

The more like

l. Ron hubbard

you become.

Thank you.

In 1980,

lrh moved off the lines

So that he could

continue his writings

And researches

without any distractions.

He has now moved on

to his next ot--

Level of ot research.

This level is beyond anything

any one of us ever imagined.

This level is in fact done

In an exterior state,

Meaning that it is done

completely exterior

From the body.

At this level of ot,

The body is nothing more

Than an impediment

and encumbrance

To any further gain

as an ot.

Thus...

Thus, at 2000 hours,

Friday,

the 24th of january,

A.D. 36,

L. Ron hubbard

discarded the body

He had used

in this lifetime

For 74 years,

10 months, and 11 days.

Although you may feel grief,

Understand that he did not,

and does not now.

Hubbard died

of a stroke in 1986,

But he left no plan

for succession.

The ambitious david miscavige

stepped forward,

And by bending arms

and making deals,

Took control of the church

And installed

a new generation

of lieutenants.

We want to make sure

That all of us end cycle

on this completely,

So we can get on

with the job

That is ahead of us.

The first time i met

miscavige was in '83.

He was a guy

running back and forth

Between hubbard

and the property

in hemet in a van--

Back and forth,

delivering messages.

Worked my way

through the organization.

Miscavige would

come down to florida,

Where i was

running the place,

And we slowly

but surely became friends.

By 2001,

i was working directly

for miscavige.

We'd sit and drink

a bottle of scotch,

And i'd hear

everything he had to say

about the church,

And about the people involved,

from his perspective.

And honestly, it was--

it was, uh, horrifying.

It was scary.

In scientology,

there was a concept

That 98% of the people

are good and 2% are evil.

Well, he worked very hard

to convince me

That it was

the other way around.

2.5% were okay

and the rest were

very evil and bad.

And somehow,

they'd all been dumped

on that base

So they could be around him.

He was--

he was extremely paranoid.

So, marty, is miscavige

a true believer?

Uh, yes.

He has to

continue to believe,

Because if he looks

at it rationally

And he sees that it

is as i say,

It will destroy him.

You know,

he'll just realize that--

Because he's done

a lot worse than i've done.

He's abused people

on a personal level,

Um, as a-- as a--

that's how he got to the top,

And that's how

he stayed at the top.

At the age of 11,

David miscavige

joined the church

with his parents.

As a child, his ambition

caught hubbard's eye.

So when hubbard wanted

to become a filmmaker,

Miscavige was

his assistant cameraman.

An auditing prodigy,

He claimed scientology

cured his asthma.

He became a sort of

general contractor

for the church,

And was soon named

action chief--

The man who did

whatever needed doing

for a church

That developed

a scary reputation

For attacking its critics.

Scientology has been

in the headlines

Off and on

for 25 years now,

Almost since the time

it was founded as a religion.

Scientology's story

is one of a church

Embittered by what

it perceives as harassment.

We're talking about attacks

From multi-billion dollar

media conglomerates,

World governments--

real powers of the world.

They take enemies

very seriously.

This comes right out

of hubbard's own policies

From the '60s,

saying, "we never defend,

we always attack."

And they have followed it

ever since.

They call it "fair game,"

And anybody who criticizes

scientology is fair game.

Whatever you're told,

Whatever needs to be done,

If it's against the law,

it doesn't matter.

The best example is,

in the mid '70s,

Scientologists were

walking in to these

department of justice offices

And irs offices

and taking documents

out by the yard.

The fbi raided

the church of scientology--

The largest raid

in fbi history

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