Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Aaron Smith-Levin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
See mentions of this person in podcasts
1354 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

So now you're auditing yourself.

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

You're telepathically talking to the things that are stuck to you.

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

You are thinking the commands instead of saying them out loud.

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

And you sort of do drills where you practice looking for e-meter reads at the instant you have a thought.

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

You're telepathically auditing spirits that L. Ron Hubbard says are stuck to your body.

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

Does this sound like a recipe for a mental breakdown?

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

Very often does.

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

And you combine that with the fact that Scientology is against any forms of mental help or health outside of Scientology, and you have a recipe for disaster.

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

Now, you might go, where did all these spirits come from that are stuck to your body?

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

This is where Xenu comes into play.

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

So Hubbard says that 75 million years ago, Xenu was basically a dictator at...

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

The Galactic Confederation is like 70-something or 80-something planets somewhere in the Milky Way.

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

And Xenu was like a dictator, an overlord for either one of these planets or the whole system.

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

And they had a population problem.

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

And Xenu was like, we need to get rid of like half the people.

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

So we called them all in for tax audits.

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

Alvin Hubbard didn't like the IRS.

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

So of course the story has to do with tax audits.

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

Okay.

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

Called them all in for tax audits, said, psych bitches, froze them in glycol, loaded them up on space planes, flew them to earth.