Hannah Ferguson

real psychologists, and Nicole's father was a quite renowned psychologist here in Australia.

Wow, of course.

There was even an alleged case in the UK that a six-year-old girl was declared a suppressive person for failing to disconnect from her mother.

This is fucking insane.

Oh.

On your following.

The crazy thing is, is, like, when we were saying we need to talk about the sort of inception of Scientology, but the next, if we were to, like, continue this for another two episodes and get to modern-day Scientology, it gets into all kinds of fucking crazy.

Yeah.

Evil.

Also, Scientologists were encouraged to write knowledge reports about

on one another, so pretty much like dobbing on each other, detailing any ammunition that could be used against their fellow followers if they became an SP, a suppressive person.

And a list of punishable acts was published with internal agency established to follow through on these perceived threats.

Step three.

But you see that in modern-day Scientology as well.

Like, they will sue you into oblivion or threaten to.

Step four, make them pay.

In 1965, Hubbard introduces the Bridge to Freedom, a step-by-step path of training to reach OT state, and it is incredibly expensive.

We don't know the cost of training when Scientology was founded, but in 2025, the average cost of completing the Bridge to Freedom was just over half a million dollars.

Not only that, but the Bridge to Freedom was incredibly secretive about its advanced levels.

So lower members who were paying for the service did not even know what they were working towards.