Scientology

"It was one guy who somehow got it in his head it would be a neat idea and put Church of Scientology San Diego on the list, " Davis told me.

"It sounds strange to me that a non-Jewish baby should be called Suri, " Ackerman said. Cruise is one of the devotees of Scientology.

He said the song is a symbol of their love and Scientology is a basis for their companionship.

By the time she graduated from high school, at the age of twenty, she had scarcely ever heard anyone speak ill of Scientology.

Later Hubbard said that Scientology eradicated cancer and was the only specific cure for atomic-bomb burns.

Haggis had not spoken publicly about his resignation from Scientology.

The implication, Haggis said, was that he could "pick and choose" which tenets of Scientology to believe.

In Variety, Scientology has advertised courses promising to help aspiring actors "make it in the industry. "

The worst thrust, Miss Cooper says, came after a Scientology agent stole some of her stationery, faked bomb-threat letters and framed her.

This is a piece of scientology propaganda and it is not surprising that it was such a failure as a film.

Anne Archer told me that the reputation of Katselas's class as, in Gordon's words, a "Scientology clearinghouse" is overblown.

Like the courses at the Playhouse, Scientology offered actors a method that they could apply to both their lives and their careers.

"It's not a sense of humor you often encounter among people who believe in Scientology, " Herskovitz continued.

Scientology tech says you first help body get rid of the charge in the body, then you get rid of the reactive mind.

In order to call off the Scientology legal war, her publisher agreed to withdraw the book.

In the process, he developed the "research" that led him to discover "Dianetics" and Scientology, the answers to most of mankind's ills.

To Haggis's friends, his resignation from the Church of Scientology felt like a very public act of betrayal.

He was in pain. Travolta offered to help, saying that he had just reached a new level in Scientology.

For one course, she decided to write a paper about discrimination against various religions, including Scientology.

In a Justice Department agency, a Scientology employee-plant actually worked in a vault containing top-secret CIA and defense documents.

They include: Women, Scientology, the United States Tax code, Chinese telegraph code, Microsoft Visio 2004, and Obama's Nobel Peace Prize.

Scientology seemed to him less a religion than a set of useful principles for living.

In his resignation letter, Haggis explained to Davis that, for the first time, he had explored outside perspectives on Scientology.

and, despite glowing accounts from some celebrities, the Church of Scientology basically is a mind control organization.

Scientology is one of the oldest, wealthiest -- and most dangerous -- of the major "new religions" or cults operating in America today.

The Scientology officials hid behind claims of religious liberty while inflicting injuries upon every element of society.

The initials stand for L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, whose extensive writings and lectures form the church's scripture.

Revoking the Church of Scientology's tax-exempt status garnered three times more votes than raising funding for childhood cancer.

She defined the GO's objective: "To sweep aside opposition sufficiently to create a vacuum into which Scientology can expand. "

Rick Ross, an expert on cults, added: "Scientology is a potentially unsafe, if not dangerous, organization. "

Over the next decade, Scientology became a potent force in Hollywood.

In the official Scientology literature, it is claimed that Hubbard was assigned by naval intelligence to infiltrate Parsons's occult group.

BRIN: The Scientologists made a copyright claim against an anti-Scientology site.

Scientology defectors are full of tales of forcible family separations, which the church almost uniformly denies.

"A core concept in Scientology is: 'Something isn't true unless you find it true in your own life, ' " she told me.

The Church of Scientology is a notoriously difficult subject for journalists.

It is important for scientology as the base of the curriculum in higher education.

The concept comes from "Dianetics" ; it is where you start if you want to ascend to the upper peaks of Scientology.

I'll post some church photos tomorrow; including the church of scientology that Tom Cruise belongs.

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Hubbard had boasted that Scientology had raised some people's I. Q. one point for every hour of auditing.

The Church of Scientology was officially founded in Los Angeles in February, 1954, by several devoted followers of Hubbard's work.

When Haggis first turned to Scientology, he considered himself an atheist.

Less fortunate was Anne Rosenblum, who spent nearly six years in Scientology.

Rank-and-file members, however, are dealt a less glamorous Scientology.

Katselas died in 2008, and Scientology no longer has a connection with the Beverly Hills Playhouse.

Haggis opened the book and saw a page stamped with the words "Church of Scientology. "

They sat near each other at a Scientology-sponsored dinner event before the race.

Previous targets included the Church of Scientology and the government of Zimbabwe.

If you hurt yourself, the first thing I and other Scientology kids do is go quiet.

In 1988, Scientology sponsored a Dianetics car in the Indianapolis 500.

Haggis had heard about Scientology a couple of months earlier, from a friend who had called it a cult.

In the early nineties, Rennard wrote to the International Justice Chief, the Scientology official in charge of such matters;

Church of Scientology's 'Operating Thetan' documents leaked online - Scientology's secret, and highly litigated bibles

Like Scientology, the Playhouse presented a strict hierarchy of study;

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief. By Lawrence Wright. Knopf; 448 pages; $28. 95. Buy from Amazon. co. uk