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Aaron Smith-Levin

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

And this actually comes from an experience I had from 1998 to 2000.

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

I was living in LA.

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

I sort of had a two-year period of my life where I actually had almost no contact with Scientology.

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

And during that time, I found my way onto the internet.

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

And there was a website.

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

It might have been ESMB, Ex-Scientology Message, but whatever it was, it was, at that time, the main source of critical information about Scientology on the internet.

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

And I looked at it.

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

And remember, I was still a true believer.

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

And I looked at this, and it was so...

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

offensive, insulting, hyperbolic, exaggerated.

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

I was like, oh, just a bunch of bullshit.

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

I was in Scientology for 16 more years.

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

If what I had seen on the internet about critical of Scientology, if what I had seen when I had seen it was something that actually resonated with me, that I was like, oh,

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

that I believed was true, that seemed credible, I would have gotten out of Scientology 16 years earlier.

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

So I was like,

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

How can I help create an experience on the internet that if a Scientologist stumbles upon it, it will resonate with them instead of repelling them?

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

And that is exactly what I have set out to do and what I believe I've accomplished.

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

He genuinely loves it.

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

And also Miscavige does.

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

There's one celebrity who does have the most unique experience in Scientology, and that is Tom.