Aaron Smith-Levin

It's actually quite easy to get to the number.

It's not more than 35,000 in the entire world.

And that's being very generous and charitable.

I was intentionally generous.

I broke it all down in a spreadsheet and everything.

Can you give like some insights of how you get that info?

Sure, there's about 175 to 200 Scientology organizations in the world.

Anybody who's ever worked at these organizations know there's not more than 35 to 50 staff members per org.

There's not more than one to 200 public Scientologists per org.

I broke down the number of Sea Org members who'd be working at every continental management unit, middle management, international management.

I broke down the mission network and I was generous.

I mean, my numbers were like, if L. Ron Hubbard came back and they were doing an event, L. Ron Hubbard was coming back and announcing OT 9 and 10.

How many Scientologists could we scrape together in every city to come to this event?

It wasn't more than 35,000.

Now contrast that to what Scientology says.

millions, 10 million people.

Is this less people than there used to be?

Yeah.

At its peak, it was about 100,000 active members.

Oh, yeah.