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Aaron Smith-Levin

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

I mean, you're working all the time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

There's no concept of the weekends.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

There's no, oh, thank God it's Friday.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

It's very similar to just any other business as far as you can have your human resources, you can have your sales, you can have your accounting, your operations, your quality control.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

It's just that in Scientology, your operations is delivering courses and auditing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So your operations and your quality control are where most of the activity occurs as far as delivering Scientology.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And then you've got your, you'd call it business development, but that's just bringing in new members, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So the function of a Scientology organization is very comparable to a normal business in the normal world.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So auditing is, so we described earlier, Dianetics auditing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Scientology auditing is very similar to that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So at first glance, it looks like psychotherapy, a kind of therapy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

All Scientology auditing is going to look like that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

It's one-on-one talk therapy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

You're in a room by yourselves, no distraction, no noise.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

One-on-one?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

So like this?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

And in Scientology, they have what's called an e-meter.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#361 โ€“ Aaron Smith-Levin: Scientology

Right.