scientology & celebrities

A conspicuous example of Dianetic processing involved John Brodie, the outstanding quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, who suffered an injury to his throwing arm in 1970 that threatened to end his career. Despite the best medical attention and physical therapy, his elbow remained sore and swollen. Finally, he went to Phil Spickler, a Scientologist and Dianetic auditor, who asked Brodie to tell him about previous incidents that might be keeping his arm from healing. Brodie related that he had been in a severe traffic accident in 1963, in which his arm had been broken. As he explored the incident with Spickler, Brodie seemed to recall one of the ambulance attendants saying, “Well, that poor sonofabitch will never throw a football again.” And yet Brodie was unconscious at the time. How could he have such a memory? Spickler told him this was all part of an engram that was keeping him from getting well. “The ambulance attendant’s prediction had been simmering in my unconscious for seven years, agitating all my deepest fears of declining ability or failure,” Brodie later writes. “It had finally surfaced as this psychosomatic ailment in my throwing arm. Phil made me tell the story again and again and again, until no charge showed on the E-Meter” (John Brodie and James D. Houston, Open Field, p. 166). The swelling on Brodie’s arm diminished. He went on to have one of the greatest seasons of his career, and was voted the National Football League’s most valuable player that year.

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Started the book this week, thanks to this thread. Something struck my memory. Didn't there used to be a searchable online database of people who had taken Scientology courses? I swear I've seen something like that on the internet in the last 5 years or so.

Oh nevermind, I was just thinking of this (list of known Sci-Tie celebs).

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/faq-you/celeb.txt

also lol at these youngs who are like "we are so going to fake-take scientology stress tests and then write about it" when they start to get calls and messages from the scientologists and then the calls never stop for the rest of their lives, wherever they move, no matter how many times they change their number

I accepted a free bible from some Mormons and it took me like a year to shake them.

the socialist party of north carolina didn't leave me alone for at least 3 years after i left the state
learned my lesson!

they'll probably find me again now!

This thread is deindexed. Your secret's safe with us.

i've taken scientology stress tests so many times on the streets of manhattan and they never asked for my phone #!

are you strssed?

well obvs

maybe thats why they didnt ask, they were like, yeesh, cant help this dude

he broke our tin cans

xp I think she meant people who publicly write about it. Scientology harasses its critics.

yup
they also know your name and how to find you!

have any ilxors done any coursework at COS?

james franco may have dabbled

i have

i've mentioned on ilx before that i've done a ton of coursework at landmark (aka est 2.0) tho not very recently (probably last course i did was about eight years ago). i've always been curious about scientology bc i know werner erhard took a bunch of courses w/ scientology b4 starting est and they accused him of stealing some of their "technology" and put him on their enemies lists, etc. i always heard rumors that they were behind the 60 minutes hit job.

Going Clear is the first book on scientology that I've read, so this is all blowing my mind. Letting depth charges loose on shadows is kind of lol, but damn this dude was dark.

Is stability in the e-meter reading what counts? I kind of want to try and game it and become OT7 from one sitting.

mordy start a landmark thread

there is such a thread: Landmark Forum

Finished Going Clear yesterday. I'm doing my best to not refer to people as SPs and PTSs or talk about my engrams.

I kind of want to try and game it and become OT7 from one sitting.

will never happen

someone pointed out to me that the whole john travolta "Adele Dazeem" thing is so much funnier once you think about how top-level scientologists are supposed to have master's grasp of spoken language and possess total mental clarity

he misspoke because of SPs like you, gr8080

I kind of want to try and game it and become OT7 from one sitting.
will never happen

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yeah, I can see that's not how it works now that I've read more. It'd perhaps be more fun to make the needle jump around consistently throughout the audit, suggesting that you've committed great crimes against the church.

but really, I'm not going to do any of these things bc I don't want TC to punch me in the face

TC would never bother to do that
You would get sent to the trailer to crawl from end to end for weeks while deliberately placed crumbs permanently embed themselves in your knees. Or you would just disappear.

;_; feel like I am owed at least one punch from TC

you have to already be very involved in scientology for them to send you to the trailer. new joiners don't see any of that hardcore shit.

yeah, the trailer was for executives on the Gold Base, no?

I wonder if the org chart is done

if you go to get tested, or to take an introductory course, and basically spend the time making jokes and clearly not taking shit seriously, they basically ask you to get lost.

get lost, enturbulator!

not cool, joke-man. very disrespectful.

james franco?

I am almost done I think? if true, the stuff TC has been privy to is like whoah

elisabeth moss ;_;

We are almost at the ocean when I bring up Scientology, the church Moss was raised in. Her affiliation with the church remains the strange, odd fact of her biography, the thing that does not belong in her regular-chick story. “I’m not going to talk about it anymore,” she says firmly. “I said what it meant to me, and anyone can go and look at that if they want to know what I feel. But now it’s private, off limits.”
She has previously spoken about how the church is personally helpful to her, not anti-gay, and “grossly misunderstood by the media.” But Moss does not talk about Scientology even with friends and seems very comfortable with how uncomfortable it makes other people. “I would feel the same way, honestly,” she says. “I think if there was something that I didn’t know and didn’t understand, I would probably feel as opinionated. You know how you’re opinionated about when someone breaks up? Celebrities break up and you just feel like you know what happened?”

I always wondered how many Scientology jokes the Simpsons writers have had to throw away/suppress.

The Joy of Sect episode had some pretty thinly-veiled digs, and the Leader of the Movementarians looked a lot like LRH:

http://thezipdownlow.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/joyofsect.jpg

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that one. Guess those digs didn't appear on Cartwright's radar.

GATII success stories!

http://tinyurl.com/p2bklle

it's full perception, exterior. solidly stable.

This is a good song btw

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that video was absolutely insane. Every time I try to read even the tiniest bit about scientology I feel like I'm down the rabbit hole with no way back except to shake it off and ignore it. so weird

This is something that I never even thought was possible. The amount of in-PTness I feel and how myself I am. Honestly, I had no idea that Objective processes could do this to a person.

And the C/S gives you a new process, it's like opening up a present. You're like "Oh my god! I'm gonna run that? This is awesome!"