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By Ian Berke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

March 1, 2017<\/p>\n

I love documentaries, which I always see on the big screen, but somehow missed Alex Gibney\u2019s highly praised look at\u00a0Scientology, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief<\/em>, which screened here briefly two years ago.\u00a0 I just watched it last night.\u00a0 Even seeing it on a small screen, I was blown away, as we often said 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

Scientology was much in the news in the 1990\u2019s, with everything from Tom Cruise\u2019s rapturous endorsement, to the group’s many lawsuits against critics.\u00a0Gibney is a major documentary filmmaker, with at least 37 full-length films.\u00a0Many are not only well known, important and award winning –\u00a0Enron, The Smartest Guys in the Room<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(2005),\u00a0Taxi to the Dark Side<\/em>\u00a0(2007),\u00a0Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(2010), and\u00a0Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine<\/em>\u00a0(2015), and\u00a0Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief<\/em>\u00a0(2015) – but have often had significant influence, a rarity for documentary films.<\/p>\n

Is Scientology a cult, a scam or a religion?\u00a0 In 2013, Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for the New Yorker, published a well-researched book,\u00a0Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief<\/em>, in which he interviewed more than 200 current and former members of Scientology.\u00a0\u00a0Wright made a strong case that Scientology is a cult and a scam, abusive and exploitive of its members who are under rigid psychological control.\u00a0Much was shocking, like his revelation of a prison system secretly run by the Church to discipline members thought to have strayed or questioned dogma. Other punishments included forcing people to clean toilets with toothbrushes.<\/p>\n

The organization was founded by L Ron Hubbard, a prolific science-fiction writer in the 1950\u2019s. Hubbard had commanded a sub-chaser in Southern California during WW II and was relieved of command after peculiar Queeg-like behavior that included shelling Coronado Island.\u00a0He had long been paranoid and was enraged at the psychiatric profession, which he was convinced was evil.\u00a0He developed extremely bizarre and elaborate theories that Xenu, an evil galactic master, had stripped the souls of millions of his subjects, whose spirits (Thetans) reside in our body and can only be purged with intensive individual counseling (\u201cauditing\u201d) sessions conducted by trained auditors.\u00a0The process uses a machine, which has the subjects grip two metal cylinders while a meter purports to show their inner state, akin to a lie detector.\u00a0 Initial auditing sessions are cheap but the faithful are pressured to do more intensive and costly auditing, after which doctrinal secrets will be revealed.\u00a0 This generated an enormous income stream because these upper-level sessions cost thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n

In the 1970\u2019s, the Church infiltrated the IRS and stole documents in an attempt to force the IRS to grant them tax-exempt status, a crime for which a number of members ultimately went to jail. Clearly orchestrated from the very highest levels of the Church, the principals nonetheless denied any involvement. In 1993, the Church finally won their decades-long battle with the IRS to achieve recognition as a religion, a huge economic benefit.<\/p>\n

Gibney has used Wright\u2019s book as the framework for his film.\u00a0But Gibney\u2019s interviews, and archival footage, give the story a power greater than print.\u00a0Some of the clips of the Church\u2019s major presentations in front of thousands are astounding and resemble footage out of North Korea, where hundreds of thousands hail their supreme leader.<\/p>\n

Scientology is known for being highly secretive and aggressively litigious whenever it perceives itself under attack, which seemingly includes anything from the questioning of its doctrines and its complex financial dealings and practices.<\/p>\n

Gibney interviews eight former Scientologists, including Paul Haggis (director of\u00a0Crash<\/em>), about their involvement, growing disenchantment, and finally, separation. Three of those interviewed held senior leadership positions.\u00a0After leaving, all were surveilled, harassed and threatened. Even without this abuse, leaving the group was extremely traumatic for all of them.\u00a0None had been in Scientology for less than 20 years.\u00a0 Most had joined or been recruited when they were in some life crisis or depression.\u00a0 Psychologically vulnerable, they would be emotionally supported by fellow members while being attracted to the promise that achieving higher levels of consciousness through intensive auditing would make them stronger. Of course they were encouraged to drop contacts with non-Scientologists.\u00a0 Most said that it was difficult to describe their initial and enduring sense of comfort (often for years) but all used the term “brainwashing.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0They described an atmosphere of paranoia, fear and constant infighting among senior leadership.<\/p>\n

Hubbard was fascinated by Hollywood and correctly realized early on that having film celebrities who were open members would be enormously helpful in their recruitment efforts.\u00a0Tom Cruise and John Travolta, the two most famous members, are both highly supportive of the Church.\u00a0\u00a0But the Church was always afraid that the nonmember spouses or partners would somehow succeed in luring members away from the Church.\u00a0 In particular, Nicole Kidman, formerly married to Cruise, was surveilled and her phone was tapped.\u00a0 Ultimately the Church succeeded in its efforts to separate the two.<\/p>\n

Hubbard died in 1986 and was succeeded by his assistant, David Miscavige.\u00a0\u00a0The ex-members portray Miscavige as obsessed, vindictive, and greatly feared.\u00a0\u00a0A scrolled coda states that Gibney tried repeatedly to interview Miscavige, Cruise, Travolta and other senior figures.\u00a0None responded.\u00a0Cruise continues to be an effective spokesman for the Church and the clip of Miscavige presenting him with a Freedom medal is disgusting. Cruise comes off as mindless, to say the least.<\/p>\n

The financial empire that Scientology has created is mind boggling.\u00a0Wright calculates that just three of the 20 organizations that make up the Church are alone worth between $3 and $4 billion.\u00a0 In addition, there are huge real estate interests, not just in the US.\u00a0Of course tax-exemption has been a bonanza. All donations are deductible for which we taxpayers pay.\u00a0 Likewise, the Church\u2019s many properties are exempt from property taxes.\u00a0Although a church spokesman claimed 3.5 million US members in 2007, several analysts have estimated that figure to be no higher than 40,000.<\/p>\n

Going Clear<\/em>\u00a0is very well done, riveting, powerful, often shocking and deeply unsettling. It is unforgettable and I came away with a sense of paranoia myself.\u00a0Running time: 120 minutes.<\/p>\n

HBO financed this film and it is available through Netflix or online. I never thought I would recommend anything on the small screen, but this is fascinating and important, well worth watching – even on your television or computer.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2017, Ian Berke Real Estate. All rights reserved.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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