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Looking for facts in a sea of weird, misleading, confusing and downright false information? Ask here! I am an ex-Scientologist so I will be able to provide actual facts. I will give you straight information, not church PR.
Because of various problems with Blogger, I've copied everything as of November 26, 2012 over to WordPress. The new location is Ask the Scientologist. I am not deleting this blog and will still accept comments and answer questions here too, but any new articles will appear at the WordPress location. I apologize if this causes any problems.
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Frequency of articles
I know a number of people want me to write more frequently and I consider that a great compliment.
I would, but I refuse to write just for the sake of writing. I want to have something to say that is worthwhile. I've written a lot and, too often, when I'm researching something I want to say, I find I've already said it, sometimes several times.
When I started this blog, there was a lot of confusion and bad information which I intended to help clear up. I think I did that. Now there are many very fine blogs and other sources of factual information and excellent opinions. Often, when I'm researching something, I find that others have already covered it quite well.
This is wonderful but, I ask myself, what will I write about then?
Well, I'm always glad to answer questions, both publicly and privately. That hasn't changed.
And, sometimes, I do find something more to write about.
I would, but I refuse to write just for the sake of writing. I want to have something to say that is worthwhile. I've written a lot and, too often, when I'm researching something I want to say, I find I've already said it, sometimes several times.
When I started this blog, there was a lot of confusion and bad information which I intended to help clear up. I think I did that. Now there are many very fine blogs and other sources of factual information and excellent opinions. Often, when I'm researching something, I find that others have already covered it quite well.
This is wonderful but, I ask myself, what will I write about then?
Well, I'm always glad to answer questions, both publicly and privately. That hasn't changed.
And, sometimes, I do find something more to write about.
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Corrections, additions and suggestions are gratefully accepted.
I have a sibling who is a devoted Scientologist. How much does it cost to be a Scientologist? For example, about how much does it cost to become "Clear"?
ReplyDeleteRe: Cost of Scientology
ReplyDeleteThat is a moving target. Especially if you are talking about "Clear". Clear is a very, very vague "state". According to L. Ron Hubbard, one could "become Clear" after only a relatively small amount of Dianetic auditing. So that would be, perhaps, $20,000 - $30,000.
But usually, it takes a lot more auditing than that.
But that isn't really it. Because it's such a vague "state", your sibling would, inevitably, be declared "not Clear". At which point they would have to repeat everything to try again. This can, and often does, occur multiple times.
But the state of Clear isn't anything special. All Clears feel pretty much as they felt before. Not any significant improvement.
So, they believe that the real amazing states are the states above Clear. The "OT" levels. And those are much more expensive.
At each OT level, the person will again feel no significant improvement, and so they will believe that the next OT level will be "the one".
Eventually, they get to OT 8 at a cost of over $300,000. But that is still not all. While on the OT levels, a Scientologist is "expected" (read that as required) to donate generously to all the Church of Scientology's fund-raising projects. This will cost more than $100,000, often much more. This is not optional.
Since the "amazing improvements" and "OT powers" are still not appearing, the Scientologist may elect to get other, optional auditing, such as very, very expensive processes known as "the Ls". Which also do not produce the promised abilities and powers.
All in all, doing Scientology can, if a person can keep paying and doesn't run out of money, run well above half a million dollars.