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TONY ORTEGA
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The holiday season is still months away, but Scientology is already thinking about how it can get you to spend the big bucks and come to the cruise ship Freewinds for some pricey services in the Caribbean over Christmas and New Year’s.
It’s only at the Freewinds that Scientologists can complete the “Bridge to Total Freedom” by achieving “Operating Thetan Level Eight,” the highest auditing experience which is supposed to give you mastery over matter, energy, space, and time.
But the small number of wealthy Scientologists who come to the boat to do OT 8 doesn’t provide enough income to keep the expensive barge afloat, and so church members are also begged to come out for a week or three in various “conventions” to learn, for example, founder L. Ron Hubbard’s ideas about public relations (seriously, that’s one of the things they offer).
But what can they do to make spending time on a cruise ship learning about Hubbard sound more attractive that it will convince you to spend your Christmas holiday there?
Sure, Hubbard himself can be heard on tape saying that “There was no Christ,” and he explained in a 1968 lecture that the world’s religions are just a 75 million-year-old hoax perpetrated by the galactic overlord Xenu, but Scientology has never been shy about co-opting Christmas for its own ends.
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The holiday season is still months away, but Scientology is already thinking about how it can get you to spend the big bucks and come to the cruise ship Freewinds for some pricey services in the Caribbean over Christmas and New Year’s.
It’s only at the Freewinds that Scientologists can complete the “Bridge to Total Freedom” by achieving “Operating Thetan Level Eight,” the highest auditing experience which is supposed to give you mastery over matter, energy, space, and time.
But the small number of wealthy Scientologists who come to the boat to do OT 8 doesn’t provide enough income to keep the expensive barge afloat, and so church members are also begged to come out for a week or three in various “conventions” to learn, for example, founder L. Ron Hubbard’s ideas about public relations (seriously, that’s one of the things they offer).
But what can they do to make spending time on a cruise ship learning about Hubbard sound more attractive that it will convince you to spend your Christmas holiday there?
Sure, Hubbard himself can be heard on tape saying that “There was no Christ,” and he explained in a 1968 lecture that the world’s religions are just a 75 million-year-old hoax perpetrated by the galactic overlord Xenu, but Scientology has never been shy about co-opting Christmas for its own ends.
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The holiday season is still months away, but Scientology is already thinking about how it can get you to spend the big bucks and come to the cruise ship Freewinds for some pricey services in the Caribbean over Christmas and New Year’s.
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