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Aaron Smith-Levin

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

And no medications almost at all?

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

you're allowed to take medications.

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

It's just, there's no rules expressly prohibiting it.

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

It's just most Scientologists tend not to.

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

You can take Advil, but many Scientologists won't.

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

You just can't take anything prescribed by a psychiatrist, a psychologist, or any drugs that are psychotropic drugs.

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

I mean, SSRIs are considered probably the closest thing to pure evil in the world of Scientology.

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

What about, weird question, what about sex?

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

Is there boundaries on what's

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

There used to not be.

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

It's become very puritanical in the last many decades for a reason I can't actually explain.

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

Like, Miscavige does seem to be infatuated with controlling sex.

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

Like, that is one thing about Miscavige version of Scientology that's gotten very strange.

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

I mean, L. Ron Hubbard even specifically wrote a policy that says we are no longer going to

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

regulate in any way the bedroom activities of people.

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

He literally said, from this point on, no one is allowed to be subject to any justice actions of any kind whatsoever for anything they do in their sexual lives.

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

But that still did not give permission for gay relationships.

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

That was still referring to straight stuff.

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

According to that over on Hubbard Policy, you can.

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

Yeah, but you're not.