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Aaron Smith-Levin

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

So I don't want to say that Scientologists do not actually, I don't want to say, oh, it's all in their heads.

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

They think they're being helped, but they're really not.

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

That doesn't feel honest, you know?

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

But it's this thing where if Scientology was just

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

getting auditing when you wanted, about the subjects you wanted, and you could take it or leave it, that would be fine.

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

It's the fact that it's part and parcel to this entire organization and this entire experience that

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

that has, as a part of that experience, taking everything from you, demanding everything from you, controlling who you can speak with, controlling who you can have relationships with, who you have to erase from your life.

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

This is where, and it's hard to place one pinpoint on this is where Scientology goes wrong.

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

It's really hard to do that because the good parts of Scientology and the bad parts of Scientology

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

are all just Scientology.

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

Information control, access to the internet, access to any information critical of Scientology.

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

Is some internet access allowed?

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

Public Scientologists has no restrictions to their access to the internet.

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

They're just not allowed to read anything critical of Scientology.

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

They really push this thing that...

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

Unless you've been in a Scientology organization yourself, or unless you've actually been a Scientologist, you couldn't possibly know the truth about Scientology.

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

If you're only getting information from people who aren't members or former members, then you couldn't possibly be getting the correct information.

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

Now, they don't realize the math there doesn't make sense.

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

If you can find out the true information by becoming and being a Scientologist, then that means...

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

you can get the correct information from a former Scientologist because they traveled that path and they got the correct information.