Journalist Lawrence Wright’s new book, Going Clear, is a penetrating look at Scientology and its famous practitioners. The book centers on Crash and Million Dollar Baby screenwriter Paul Haggis, who famously left the church over its support for an anti-gay marriage initiative in California.
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Interview: Lawrence Wright, Author Of ‘Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood And The Prison Of Belief’ | NPR
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Scientology cult Hubbard Class VIII Assists Xenu lecture recording 1968 - WikiLeaks
"Classified" Scientology cult recording of founder L. Ron Hubbard from Oct 3, 1968, "Assists" course VIII. The recording, in Hubbard’s own distinctive voice, expounds Scientology’s dissembling alien creation myth, whereby the earth is populated by the evil "Galactic overload" "Xenu" (or "Xemu") and humans are parasitized by alien spirits called "body thetans".
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Scientology_cult_Hubbard_Class_VIII_Assists_Xenu_lecture_recording_1968
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Mondo Diablo Episode 353: Come Sail the Freewinds
This week we sail the Freewinds with Scientologists, and tackle a deep subject from an atheist: how do you deal with the fact that there is no afterlife, and that life is so damned short? It may not totally be an atheist answer.
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ToT-Dialog inside Scientology Part I
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Anonymous: Just for the lulz? - RN 360 - 30 July 2011
‘Anonymous’ is an online community known for their cyber attacks against The Church of Scientology, government and corporate websites. Anyone can be a member but nobody has the right to speak publicly about what they do. There are no rules, no leaders, no rights or wrongs… Or are there? In this documentary Gabriella Lahti tries to reach the bottom of the anonymous rabbit hole, discovering; a whole new internet culture, people with strong political opinions and an interesting sense of humour in everything they do. What is Anonymous really all about… and what do they want?
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THE NEW YORKER: APOSTATE: Part 1 - Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology
Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology.
by Lawrence Wright
Copyright © 2011 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
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THE NEW YORKER: APOSTATE: Part 2 - Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology
by Lawrence Wright
Copyright © 2011 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
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PART 3 - THE APOSTATE: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology.
by Lawrence Wright
Copyright © 2011 by The New Yorker
Read by David Erdody
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Fact-Checking The Church Of Scientology: Journalist Lawrence Wright : NPR
New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright explains how he found a number of inconsistencies between documents the Church of Scientology says are official records of founder L. Ron Hubbard’s war service and the actual official military records that Wright obtained.
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/08/133561256/the-church-of-scientology-fact-checked
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Righteous Indignation Episode 58
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