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| Scientology's First Celebrity Defector Reveals Church Secrets by Tony Ortega
'I was Miscavige's favorite boy,' says veteran TV actor Jason Beghe Veteran television actor Jason Beghe tells the Village Voice that the Church of Scientology will be feeling blindsided by the YouTube video of him that hit the Internet on March 14. Long-held frustrations with the church motivated Beghe to leave Scientology seven months ago, after he had spent about 12 years in the organization as one of its most celebrated success stories. Over the course of about a year, he negotiated his “disassociation” with the church, trying to give every indication to church officials that he was parting on good terms. In reality, he says, he was already planning to go public with damning allegations about L. Ron Hubbard’s controversial religion. Beghe most recently appeared in the CBS series Cane, and he’s been a regular television presence since the mid-1980s, showing up in series like Everwood, JAG and Numb3rs. Overnight, however, he’s becoming much better known for being the first Scientology celebrity to come out against the church. Hubbard’s minions covet celebrities like no other religion, and although some, like Nicole Kidman, have only temporary affiliations with it, none with Beghe’s experience has ever been so public in denouncing it. Speaking on the phone from his home in Malibu, Beghe, 48, says the 3-minute video is part of a much longer session. After leaving the church, Beghe had reached out to a Norwegian man, Andreas Heldal-Lund, who runs Operation Clambake (xenu.net), probably the most comprehensive anti-Scientology website on the Internet. Heldal-Lund convinced him to meet him along with another of the church’s most well known critics, Mark Bunker, known as “wise beard man” to the “Anonymous” movement that in recent months has organized worldwide protests against Scientology. “They came to my place out here, and we spent the day together. They set up a camera and I blabbed. And I barely scratched the surface,” Beghe says. Originally from New York, Beghe turned a modeling career into television acting with relative ease. “I’m one of those guys who works. I never had a problem getting a job,” he says. “I never became a huge star, but I never stopped working.” While taking an acting class from Scientologist Milton Katselas in 1994, Beghe says he decided he wanted to learn more about the religion. So he decided to hit up another student in the class, Bodie Elfman, then boyfriend (now husband) of Jenna. Elfman, he says, gave him a copy of What is Scientology, a lavishly illustrated hardback that introduced him to the idea that L. Ron Hubbard had come up with a “technology” of the mind that supposedly enables the devout to achieve superhuman capabilities. The purification rundown, a detoxification ritual, caught his eye, Beghe says. “This clear thing sounded good, too,” he adds. Hubbard’s followers believe that if church members go through an increasingly complex (and increasingly expensive) process known as “The Bridge,” they may unlock the capacities of the mind so completely that they become a clear, and have total recall, have the ability to leave their bodies, and are impervious to disease. After reading the book Elfman gave him, Beghe says he was ready to go whole hog. “Give me some Scientology, man,” he remembers thinking. And it didn’t take him long to get hooked. In his first training session, doing something that, in typically arcane Hubbard argot, was called ‘OT TR Zero,” he had to learn to “confront.” Which, oddly enough, meant sitting motionless with his eyes closed. “You sit three feet from someone with eyes closed, relaxed. You sit there and confront someone, unflinching, until you have a ‘major, stable win,” he says. Translation: after trying to hold perfectly still for twenty minutes, he had an epiphany. “I kind of left my body, and realized, in a new sense, who I was. And it was like, ‘Oh, shit.’” He explains that as a child, he realized that he was someone who had a deep curiosity about spirituality. He remembers that he would turn to another person, look into their eyes, and feel that he was able to learn something essential about them. But when he looked into the mirror, he didn’t get the same feeling. “Who am I?” became his mantra, he says, probably far younger than it does for, say, most college freshmen. It led him to have a sense of adventure about things spiritual. Now, suddenly, he seemed to have an answer. “I’m not Jason Beghe. That’s just a body, like a car. And I’m the person driving it. I felt like for the first time I felt like I knew who I was.” But now that he’s left the church, does he still ascribe that feeling to something L. Ron Hubbard had discovered, or some other psychological phenomenon? Only seven months out, he admits that it’s not really a question he’s been asked before. “There seems to be a level of hypnosis or brainwashing or whatever you want to call it, and this training is a way of getting people hypnotized. And there’s a lot of patter that you’re constantly hearing that helps you get in that state,” he says. But at the time, he was hooked. He remembers thinking, “Let me do this clear thing,” figuring that it might cost as much as $10,000. Instead, he was asked for $50,000 to start his progress on the Bridge. “I probably had $60,000 to my name. But I plunked it down.” Over the next year, Beghe says he rocketed through Scientology’s expensive levels like no one else. Along the way, he got plenty of special treatment. “Celebrity Centre. My own private sauna. Everybody kissing my ass, which I was uncomfortable with. But nice people. Couldn’t be nicer,” he says. His move to clear was so rapid, Beghe was told that diminutive Scientology leader David Miscavige considered him a “poster boy” for the religion. “I was Miscavige’s favorite boy, so they were doing all kinds of things to keep me happy,” he says. “I moved up the Bridge faster than anyone in history. I went at it 24/7 for about a year. I went clear. Got to OT V. I was a trained auditor.” (OT stands for “operating thetan,” and the highest level in the church is said to be OT VIII.) “I’m farther up the Bridge than Travolta, and he’s been in there a thousand years. He’s not a trained auditor.” To Beghe, some of the celebrities “seemed like dilettantes,” enjoying the perks but not really working hard at being Scientologists. “I was on a spiritual journey. I wasn’t trying to make money, or influence people. I just wanted to try it.” His wife also trained as a Scientologist and, like Beghe, reached OT V. Over his twelve years in the church, Beghe estimates that he gave Scientology about a million dollars. Only about three years after joining, however, he says he started to have major problems. He had reached OT IV and was doing some special auditing, something referred to as “L Rundowns” or “L’s.” Beghe says the rundowns cost $150,000 to $160,000, but the payoff was immense: successfully completing the series would give someone serious juju. “You’re supposed to have the power to like take over a country,” he says. Beghe says that others also getting the training would be asked what they wanted from the experience, and some would say “ten times my income.” “I didn’t like that question. I was just experimenting.” Beghe went through daylong sessions in which he was peppered with questions about his ethics and behavior while holding onto an “e-meter,” a device that tests have shown simply measures skin galvanism, but that Scientologists believe reveal deep secrets in the mind. Beghe had used the e-meter many times before. But these sessions were a disaster for him. For six hours at a time, he’d be hit with questions (Is there an upset? Did you commit a crime? Did someone almost find out something you did?). “But I had nothing to say. I wasn’t hiding anything.” His auditors weren’t satisfied. They were waiting for a “floating needle” on the e-meter to show he was in the right state of mind, but it kept spiking. “I was sitting there for hours, at $1,000 an hour. It went for weeks,” he says. And it cost that much, he says, because L’s required a “class 12 auditor.” “A class 12 auditor has more training than a brain surgeon. They’re the cream of the crop. They’re the only ones who can deliver the L’s. And they were making the biggest fucking mistakes,” he says. Beghe says the proof that Scientology was no longer working for him came when he was almost killed in a car accident. After the L’s, he points out, that shouldn’t happen. “A clear isn’t supposed to have a car accident. You’re supposed to be practically immortal.” To the Scientologists, the accident was an indication that someone was “suppressing” Beghe. So they pulled him in for more interrogation. “What about this gay person you’re friends with,” Beghe says one official asked him, implying that somehow the gay friend was causing Beghe’s clear state to be sabotaged. When Beghe objected, he says the official responded, “Well, he’s gay.” His training, meanwhile, continued to go badly. The next step, OT V, he says, was terrible. “OT V should take 3 to 5 weeks, and it took me three to five years.” Not only were his auditing sessions grinding on him, Beghe says he was also expected to keep quiet about his troubles, and still make many appearances at Scientology events to keep up the fiction that he was doing well. “My hat [role] was celebrity and model Scientologist…I couldn’t walk around looking hangdog. I had to go to a lot of events. ‘Hey, Jason!’ I didn’t even know these people, and they were always up my ass.” Courting celebrities is one of the things that Scientology is noted for, but Beghe says it goes beyond simply a PR tool. Hubbard had made it clear that one way to clear the contents of one’s “ethics file”—the record of misdeeds a parishioner admits to in auditing—was to recruit a celebrity to the fold. Bring in a star, and all crimes are forgiven. So the care and feeding of celebrity members is paramount on everyone’s mind. Beghe claimst that the religion’s top star, Tom Cruise, was actually mostly separated from the church for several years. Other celebrities, he points out, go through similar periods of no longer auditing or moving up the Bridge, but are still considered members. Bringing Cruise back into a more active role, Beghe says, was a major Miscavige project. “He was out for like ten years. There are people who just aren’t doing anything Some are out but don’t talk about it. Why? The church is scary. These are bad motherfuckers.” Once his disappointment was so great he began talking about leaving altogether, Beghe says the church sent people to talk him out of it. “Big fucking cheeses. At the end, one was David Petit, head of Celebrity Centre International. I’ve known him for a long time,” he says. “He told me: ‘If you want, I’ll make you the president of any Celebrity Centre, anywhere in the world.’ “That’s a sign of the respect they had for me. Petit doesn’t get to make offers like that unless David [Miscavige] knows.” Now that he and his wife are finally out, Beghe says he wants the world know how unethical and underhanded Scientology turned out to be. “Not one auditing session—which are supposed to be private—is not recorded on film,” he says, and claims that secret cameras are used at every session at the Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles, recording sessions that for Scientologists are supposed to be something like confessionals in the Catholic church. “Will Smith is supposedly dabbling in Scientology. Let Will Smith know that his shit was fucking recorded. And tell him to look them in the eye and see if he believes it when they deny it.” Even worse, he says, is that behind the backs of celebrities, Scientology officials gossip about what transpires in those supposedly private sessions. “Everything’s supposed to be confidential. But all they do is chat about it,” he says. At a church center in Hemet, California where the church has movie studios, Beghe helped make videos. “I did movies for them. I remember asking, who do we cast in this thing? How about this dude?” referring to another scientologist actor. “No, he’s been cheating on his wife,” Beghe says he was told. “It’s just a gossip factory. And I’m not talking about auditors. All over the place. The celebrities don’t know that their private troubles are gossiped about by Scientology employees.” Beghe says he was also motivated by what non-celebrities are going through in Hubbard’s church. “Being a celebrity, I got the greatest fucking auditors, case supervisors, all the best trained people. And they fucked me up this bad—and they admitted they did—but what about the poor schmoe at Orange County org? They don’t know what they’re doing. It certainly doesn’t deliver what’s promised.” Is he worried about what going public will do to his career? “I’m probably not going to be doing any movies for United Artists any time soon,” he cracked, referring to the Cruise-owned studio. But otherwise, he’s not sure how the publicity will affect his career. After Cane’s cancellation, he’s waiting for word on another deal that he can’t talk about yet. But for now, he’s fielding calls from television talk shows. “I don’t want to get bitter, and I don’t want to hurt anybody,” he says. But he’s determined to help others by telling them what he’s learned. “Scientology seduces you into thinking that it’s a process through which you can truly become yourself. But ultimately, what it turns you into is a Scientologist—a brainwashed version of yourself.” Video: Jason Beghe on Scientology : The Full Interview (XENUTV - 21 avril 08) English |
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Television Star Exits Scientology
Beghe Jason - photo Trap-Two-Zero Productions Inc. Ruggedly handsome actor Jason Beghe was best man at the wedding of "X-Files" star David Duchovny (his childhood pal) and actress Tea Leoni. In 1998, he starred as Demi Moore’s love interest in "G.I. Jane." He’s been featured in numerous TV dramas such as "Criminal Minds," "Numb3rs" and "CSI." In 2005, Beghe appeared in promotional spots for the Church of Scientology. But now, Beghe has escaped the church after taking courses since 1994. He’s made a video that’s up on YouTube. This is what he has to say: "Scientology is destructive and a rip-off." He also says: "It’s very, very dangerous for your spiritual, psychological, mental, emotional health and evolution. I think it stunts your evolution. If Scientology is real, then something’s f---ed up." You can see from the video that Beghe does not mince words. But his refreshing candor about the religion he joined in 1994 should shake the Celebrity Center to its core. "It ain’t deliverin’ what it’s promised. It sure has not." The video is billed as a three-minute teaser to a longer interview with Beghe that’s on its way. But the short video packs a powerful punch. Beghe still uses a lot of Scientology lingo like "OT" and "clear." Still, it’s quite easy to understand the point he’s making. After 14 years and a tremendous amount of money, he’s seeing Scientology in a different light. Beghe has completed so many courses that he’s considered a top Scientologist, or "OT 5" — similar to Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. But Beghe reveals: "The further up the bridge, the worse you get." He adds: "I don’t have an agenda. I’m just trying to help. I have the luxury of having gotten into Scientology and after having been in it, been out. And that’s a perspective that people who are still in and not out do not have." Actor Jason Beghe : Scientology Is 'Brainwashing' Jason Beghe is the bravest actor in Hollywood. He’s come clean about his 14 years in Scientology, the religion that Tom Cruise reveres. He says the purpose of Scientology is to create a "brainwashed, robotic version of you." He also says that he spent about $1 million to work his way up the Scientology ladder to become what’s known as an "OT5 auditor," or someone who listens to new members and teaches them the ropes. He was so successful as a celebrity auditor, he says, that David Miscavige, the head of the sect, referred to him as "the poster boy for Scientology." But now that Beghe and his wife have left the sect, the actor has concerns. They can be, he says, a vicious and vindictive group. When he asked for money back that he had banked for future study — some $60,000 to $70,000 — it was returned and he was banished. Once you ask for refund and repayment, that’s what it’s called, you’re not allowed to take another course or speak to another Scientologist ever again," Beghe says. On Tuesday, I told you that Beghe had posted a three-minute "teaser" video explaining a little about his exit from Scientology. A second, longer video will be going up on YouTube Wednesday or Thursday. It’s not to make money or to get publicity for himself, Beghe says, and I believe him. "If it helps people, that’s what’s important." And that’s because Beghe says that most Scientologists are completely insulated from the criticism that we all read or publish. All the jokes, the "South Park" stuff, anti-cult stories, real data about people who’ve suffered inside the sect largely go unnoticed by the Scientology community. "They just say, 'You don’t understand.'" Beghe is just beginning to comprehend what an impact his announcement has made. It should rock the world of celebrity Scientologists, the people Miscavige has counted on to carry the sect’s message to the outside world and make it seem plausible. But Beghe says not all the celebrity Scientologists are completely "in." Kirstie Alley, he says, is a friend and "could be gotten out." Tom Cruise, he says, was out for several years. "He was brought back in around the time of his divorce from Nicole Kidman. And then they put him through something called Ethics Cycle after Penelope Cruz left. That’s when you make amends for having not been in it for a while." Cruise’s Ethics Cycle, Beghe thinks, would account for the campaign Cruise went on while filming "War of the Worlds," through the meeting, courting and recruiting of Katie Holmes, the fight with Matt Lauer on "Today" and telling Diane Sawyer what kind of Scientologist he was on ABC — not to mention the couch-jumping on "Oprah." Beghe, for one, says he was not a good celebrity Scientologist. "They would ask me to come to parties for Tom or John (Travolta); I would say 'yes' and not go." Indeed, Beghe says he’s spent the last eight years trying to leave Scientology. "It was good for the first three years or so. But then I got nothing out of it." "Scientology," Beghe says, "delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It’s a ‘Matrix’ of you, so you’re communicating with people all the time using Scientology. So we’re seeing you ‘via’ Scientology. And it creates an addiction, so you come back for more." He says that he initially was recruited through acting teacher Milton Katselas’ class. Katselas has been cited in many publications, including The New York Times, for exerting pressure on his students to join the sect. "He gets kickbacks," Beghe says. Among Katselas’ students have been at least half a dozen celebrity Scientologists, including Giovanni Ribisi (who is thought to have recruited "My Name Is Earl" star Jason Lee and, in turn, Ethan Suplee) and his sister, Marisa, Leah Remini and Anne Archer. Beghe was brought to the Scientology center in Hollywood by Bodhi Elfman, husband of actress Jenna Elfman, who was in Katselas’ class. His appointment was for 10 a.m. He wound up staying at least 12 hours, as the sect’s auditors embarked on their "brainwashing." It was just before his career was taking off with a role as Demi Moore’s love interest in "G.I. Jane." "David Miscavige loved me. He took me to Hemet" — the Scientology fortress in the California mountains — "and he came with me to the premiere of 'G.I. Jane.' He let me do voice-overs for Scientology instructional videos, which was unheard of. And it would take a year to do a 15-minute video; he was that meticulous." But in a short time, Beghe saw that things were not going so well. "I was unhappy and depressed. They would say it was their fault, the way they were handling my ‘case.’ And I’d flip out another $50,000 for another course." Beghe says the biggest question at Scientology is where all the money has gone. "You never get any answers about it," he says. "And it’s all about money." It took Beghe and his wife, Angie — whom he’d brought into the sect and who also achieved the high level of OT5 — more than a year to negotiate their way out. (Their first child even endured the Scientology "silent birth" we’ve heard so much about.) Beghe says during that time his relations with his family and friends — like childhood pal David Duchovny — were strained. "Things are much better now with everyone," Beghe says. Video: Jason Beghe on Scientology : The Full Interview (XENUTV - 21 avril 08) English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--61oEkWGvM Coincidentally, A Current Affair also ran a report on Greg Speaking out. Watch both reports and see the stark contrast. Which Network is still partially owned by Packer, and run by Packers best mate ? ACA report still processing
Download the video (.flv - 14 Mo) - FLVPlayer (telecharger.com) Bryan Seymour reports on Greg Beghe speaking out. Will there be more from Greg? If you take what A Current Affair said at the end of its report, than more "dirt" will be "dished". But what would ACA know about reporting the absolute facts about the cult of scientology ? Video: Jason Beghe on Scientology : The Full Interview (XENUTV - 21 avril 08) English |
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Today Tonight report on Packer at 2004 leaked video event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRMvOy7911Q Scientology is against gambling, ron said so. He even wrote a bulletin called "The Gambler" and how they are psychotic. So wwhy does james Packer want to earn money from peoples "overts", if he as a scientologist is suppose to help people? Video: Jason Beghe on Scientology : The Full Interview (XENUTV - 21 avril 08) English Scientology--James Packer the scientologist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6XK1uoQDAY Jamie has been systematically selling off his PBL interests to fuel his interests in Gaming and Gambling since he became a scientologist. How elronic that since he was introduced to scientology by Tom Cruise, that he wants to make money in a business that is fuelled by 'overts' according to his own religion of $cientology. Video: Jason Beghe on Scientology : The Full Interview (XENUTV - 21 avril 08) English A Current Affair denies it's 'soft on Scientology'
JAMES Packer's Nine Network last night used its flagship current affairs program to spoil a critical story about the secretive Church of Scientology on the rival Seven Network. The executive producer of A Current Affair last night denied it had screened the soft story about Scientology, which Mr Packer is known to observe, in support of the Nine proprietor. However, Darren Wick admitted A Current Affair had changed its story schedule to air the segment at the same time the show's arch rival Today Tonight ran a critical piece on the church. "We understand you would be looking at the James Packer connection. But it doesn't filter down to us at all. I've never even had a conversation with him, full stop," Wick said. ACA reporter Howard Gipps's story was drawing inspiration from a US ABC Nightline segment, Wick said. ACA's story started with BBC reporter John Sweeney's now-infamous outburst at his Scientology minder Tommy Davis, which gained international notoriety this week. In his piece, Gipps referred to both as "nutters", before moving quickly to a scene from a Scientology documentary. "Now for the first time the real story, the video John Sweeney left out of his report," Gipps said, cutting to a church-shot scene of Sweeney yelling at celebrity Scientologist John Travolta at a movie premiere last year. Seven news and current affairs director Peter Meakin last night said Mr Packer's involvement in Scientology made the story more marketable. "We would have run it irrespective of who is a member," Meakin said. "(Singer) Kate Ceberano, who has a recent history with Seven, is also a member. "There has been a great deal of interest in the organisation for years." But "I can't imagine James Packer ringing up A Current Affair and asking them to do a positive story about Scientology. "I can imagine ACA wanting to do a story which would discredit the TT story. "And the Scientologists would have opened their doors to someone who was going to run the counter-argument. "I know James a little; I knew his father quite well. It was not the sort of games Kerry played. "They would have been at pains to take some of the sting out of the Today Tonight when it comes to credibility and pulling power. "That would have been more the motivation than propping up James Packer's beliefs." The Church of Scientology sent a camera crew to shadow Sweeney during the making of his documentary, which aired on the BBC this week. Ceberano and James Packer "fly the flag here in Australia", Gipps said. It was ACA's lead story, taking precedence over its heavily promoted Bali Nine/Schapelle Corby exclusive, and was the second time ACA had covered the story this week, with the Sweeney-Davis shouting match first aired on Tuesday. Video: Jason Beghe on Scientology : The Full Interview (XENUTV - 21 avril 08) English |
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Jason Beghe rechnet mit Scientology ab
US-Schauspieler rechnet mit Scientology ab Scientology-Demontage per YouTube: Sorgte vor wenigen Wochen ein bizarres Tom-Cruise-Video für Kopfschütteln, gehört nun die Aufmerksamkeit einem anderen US-Schauspieler. Jason Beghe war jahrelang Mitglied der Sekte, stieg aus - und rechnet mit bitteren Worten ab. New York - Mit knarziger Stimme und reichlicher Untermalung durch das "F"-Wort nimmt Jason Beghe per Video gegen Scientology Stellung. Die Sekte sei "zerstörerisch" und "Abzocke". Beghe-Interview bei YouTube: "Sehr, sehr gefährlich" Der 48-jährige Beghe, der durch Rollen in TV-Serien wie "CSI" und "Cane" bekannt ist, war zwölf Jahre lang Scientology-Mitglied und betätigte sich auch als Sprecher der Sekte. Jetzt ist er der erste Prominente, der öffentlich Stellung gegen Scientology bezieht. Vor sieben Monaten, sagte Beghe dem New Yorker Magazin "Village Voice", sei er ausgestiegen. Er sei frustriert gewesen von immer neuen - sehr kostspieligen - Programmen, die er zur Erreichung eines höheren hierarchischen und "spirituellen" Levels absolvieren sollte. Der norwegische Scientology-Kritiker Andreas Heldal-Lund habe ihn zu einem Treffen überredet, bei dem auch das Video entstanden sei, das nun bereits seit Wochen im Internet kursiert und unter anderem bei YouTube zu sehen ist. Ein weiteres, ausführlicheres Video-Interview mit Beghe soll am Wochenende folgen. Beghe schildert in dem bislang publizierten knapp dreiminütigen Beitrag, wie er im Laufe der Jahre rund eine Million Dollar seines Vermögens der Sekte überlassen habe. Beghe betont, dass die von Scientology-Gründer Ron L. Hubbard erdachte Strategie, prominente Mitglieder gleichsam als Werbeträger der Sekte einzusetzen, nach wie vor offensiv betrieben werde. Wenn es einem Mitglied gelinge, einen Prominenten als neuen Scientology-Anhänger zu werben, sagte Beghe der "Village Voice", werde als Belohnung eine Datei gelöscht, in der während der sogenannten "Auditings" Verstöße gegen die Sektenregeln festgehalten werden. Scientology sei "sehr, sehr gefährlich für die spirituelle, psychische, geistige und emotionale Gesundheit und Entwicklung", so Beghe in dem Video. "Ich glaube, die Entwicklung eines Menschen wird durch Scientology verkrüppelt." pad Video: Jason Beghe on Scientology : The Full Interview (XENUTV - 21 avril 08) English ZUM THEMA AUF SPIEGEL ONLINE:
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TWO MORE Scientology DEATHS in Australia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A72cJ9yV_rc&feature=related Download the video (.flv - 3,3 Mo) -- FLVPlayer (telecharger.com) On April 4th, 2008, a 25 year-old Sydney woman (who can't be named at this stage) pleaded "not-guilty" to the murder of her father and sister (who were active members of the Church of Scientology). The young woman, who has been diagnosed with Schizo-affective disorder, fatally stabbed her 53-year-old father and 15-year-old sister in a psychotic rage at the family's home. She also attempted to kill her mother. The girl's parents had denied her access to psychiatric medication due to their Scientology beliefs. Burwood Local Court Magistrate, Jane Mottley, committed her to stand trial in the New South Wales Supreme Court. The trial will go ahead in July 2008 and it is understood that she will mount a mental illness defence. Initially, VIRGINIA STEWART, Spokesperson for the Church of Scientology Australia, denied that the victims were Scientologists. However, recent developments have shown that this was a lie.
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Das Ziel von Scientology ist "eine gehirnge-waschene, roboterartige Version von Ihnen" zu schaffen' Source
: foxnews.com- April 16, 2008
Jason Beghe ist der mutigste
Schauspieler in Hollywood. Er erzählt hier die Wahrheit über seine 14 Jahre
in Scientology, der Religion die Tom Cruise verehrt. Er sagt, dass es das
Ziel von Scientology ist "eine gehirnge- waschene, roboterartige Version von
Ihnen" zu schaffen. Er sagt auch, dass er ungefähr 1 Millionen Dollar um seinen Weg auf der
Scientology-Leiter zu schaffen um das zu werden, was als ein
"OT5-Auditor" bekannt ist, also jemand der neue Mitglieder auditiert und
ihnen Er sagt auch, dass er ungefähr $1 Millionen ausgab, um seinen Weg
auf der Scientology-Leiter zu bearbeiten, das zu werden, was als ein
"OT5-Buchprüfer bekannt wird", oder jemand, der neue Mitglieder
auditiert und ihnen Neues beibringt. Er war so erfolgreich als Auditor, berichtet er, dass sich David
Miscavige, der Leiter der Sekte, sich auf ihn als "der perfekte
Repräsentant für Scientology" bezog. Aber jetzt haben Beghe
und seine Frau die Sekte verlassen, der Schauspieler ist jedoch besorgt. Sie
können eine gemeine und rachsüchtige Gruppe sein, sagt er. Als er um
Rückzahlung des Geldes bat, das er bereits für künftiges Studium im Voraus
bezahlte - etwa 60'000 bis 70'000 Dollar - wurde er ausgeschlossen. "Sobald Sie um Rückerstattung und Rückzahlung bitten, wie es genannt
wird, wird Ihnen nicht mehr erlaubt weiterhin Kurse zu belegen oder je
wieder mit einem anderen Scientologen zu sprechen", erläutert Beghe . Actor Jason
Beghe: Scientology Is
'Brainwashing'
Jason Beghe is the bravest actor
in Hollywood. He’s come clean about his 14 years in Scientology, the
religion that Tom Cruise reveres. He says the purpose of Scientology is to
create a "brainwashed, robotic version He also says that he spent about $1 million to work his way up the
Scientology ladder to become what’s known as an "OT5 auditor," or
someone who listens to new members and teaches them the ropes. He was so successful as a celebrity auditor, he says, that David
Miscavige, the head of the sect, referred to him as "the poster boy for
Scientology." But now that Beghe
and
his wife have left the sect, the actor has concerns. They can be, he says, a
vicious and vindictive group. When he asked for money back that he had
banked for future study — some $60,000 to $70,000 — it was returned and he
was banished. "Once you ask for refund and repayment, that’s what it’s called, you’re
not allowed to take another course or speak to another Scientologist
ever again," Beghe
says. On Tuesday, I told you that Beghe
had posted a
three-minute "teaser" video explaining a little about his exit from
Scientology. A second, longer video will be going up on YouTube Wednesday or
Thursday. It’s not to make money or to get publicity for himself, Beghe says, and I believe
him. "If it helps people, that’s what’s important." And that’s because Beghe
says that most
Scientologists are completely insulated from the criticism that we all read
or publish. All the jokes, the "South Park" stuff, anti-cult stories, real
data about people who’ve suffered inside the sect largely go unnoticed by
the Scientology community. "They just say, 'You don’t understand.'" Beghe is just
beginning to comprehend what an impact his announcement has made. It should
rock the world of celebrity Scientologists, the people Miscavige has counted
on to carry the sect’s message to the outside world and make it seem
plausible. But Beghe
says not all
the celebrity Scientologists are completely "in." Kirstie Alley, he says, is
a friend and "could be gotten out." Tom Cruise, he says, was out for several
years. "He was brought back in around the time of his divorce from Nicole
Kidman. And then they put him through something called Ethics Cycle
after Penelope Cruz left. That’s when you make amends for having not
been in it for a while." Cruise’s Ethics Cycle, Beghe
thinks, would account
for the campaign Cruise went on while filming "War of the Worlds," through
the meeting, courting and recruiting of Katie Holmes, the fight with Matt
Lauer on "Today" and telling Diane Sawyer what kind of Scientologist he was
on ABC — not to mention the couch-jumping on "Oprah." Beghe , for one, says
he was not a good celebrity Scientologist. "They would ask me to come to
parties for Tom or John (Travolta); I would say 'yes' and not go." Indeed, Beghe
says
he’s spent the last eight years trying to leave Scientology. "It was good
for the first three years or so. But then I got nothing out of it." "Scientology," Beghe
says, "delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity,
neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It’s
a ‘Matrix’ of you, so you’re communicating with people all the time using
Scientology. So we’re seeing you ‘via’ Scientology. And it creates an
addiction, so you come back for more." He says that he initially was recruited through acting teacher Milton
Katselas’ class. Katselas has been cited in many publications, including
The New York Times, for exerting pressure on his students to join the sect.
"He gets kickbacks," Beghe
says. Among Katselas’
students have been at least half a dozen celebrity Scientologists, including
Giovanni Ribisi (who is thought to have recruited "My Name Is Earl" star Jason Lee and, in turn,
Ethan Suplee) and his sister, Marisa, Leah Remini and Anne Archer. Beghe was brought to
the Scientology center in Hollywood by Bodhi Elfman, husband of actress
Jenna Elfman, who was in Katselas’ class. His appointment was for 10 a.m. He
wound up staying at least 12 hours, as the sect’s auditors embarked on their
"brainwashing." It was just before his career was taking off with a role as
Demi Moore’s love interest in "G.I. Jane." "David Miscavige loved me. He took me to Hemet" — the Scientology
fortress in the California mountains — "and he came with me to the
premiere of 'G.I. Jane.' He let me do voice-overs for Scientology
instructional videos, which was unheard of. And it would take a year to
do a 15-minute video; he was that meticulous." But in a short time, Beghe
saw that things were
not going so well. "I was unhappy and depressed. They would say it was their
fault, the way they were handling my ‘case.’ And I’d flip out another
$50,000 for another course." Beghe says the biggest
question at Scientology is where all the money has gone. "You never get any
answers about it," he says. "And it’s all about money." It took Beghe
and his
wife, Angie — whom he’d brought into the sect and who also achieved the high
level of OT5 — more than a year to negotiate their way out. (Their first
child even endured the Scientology "silent birth" we’ve heard so much
about.) Beghe says during that
time his relations with his family and friends — like childhood pal David
Duchovny — were strained. "Things are much better now with everyone," Beghe
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Un must : "Ron Hubbard, le gourou démasqué" Ce livre de Russell Miller révèle la face cachée de la scientologie. On y découvre un Ron Hubbard, malade, mythomane et poursuivi par la justice. Il est disponible en format pdf ou html sur notre site. Nous avons également publié une version résumée.
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