Rick Ross

And he told his wife this, and then his family decided to do an intervention. And boy, that was a tough one. But eventually, he decided to leave Scientology. And I think the point that he kind of had an epiphany that opened his mind to the possibility that Scientology wasn't quite what he thought was when we talked about what's called the purification rundown.

And this is a drug treatment, kind of all drugs, toxins out of your body treatment that Scientology does, which is a process of saunas, ingesting vegetable oil, large doses of niacin, and supposedly they can leach the toxins out of your body. And this is premised on the belief that was posited by L. Ron Hubbard,

And this is a drug treatment, kind of all drugs, toxins out of your body treatment that Scientology does, which is a process of saunas, ingesting vegetable oil, large doses of niacin, and supposedly they can leach the toxins out of your body. And this is premised on the belief that was posited by L. Ron Hubbard,

And this is a drug treatment, kind of all drugs, toxins out of your body treatment that Scientology does, which is a process of saunas, ingesting vegetable oil, large doses of niacin, and supposedly they can leach the toxins out of your body. And this is premised on the belief that was posited by L. Ron Hubbard,

the creator of Scientology, that if you use drugs, if, for example, you once used LSD or you once used some type of prescribed drug that was not good, such as Scientology would say that any psychiatric prescribed drug is a negative thing. So Scientology believes that that drug is in the fatty tissues of your body indefinitely, and that only through the purification rundown can it be extracted.

the creator of Scientology, that if you use drugs, if, for example, you once used LSD or you once used some type of prescribed drug that was not good, such as Scientology would say that any psychiatric prescribed drug is a negative thing. So Scientology believes that that drug is in the fatty tissues of your body indefinitely, and that only through the purification rundown can it be extracted.

the creator of Scientology, that if you use drugs, if, for example, you once used LSD or you once used some type of prescribed drug that was not good, such as Scientology would say that any psychiatric prescribed drug is a negative thing. So Scientology believes that that drug is in the fatty tissues of your body indefinitely, and that only through the purification rundown can it be extracted.

And that if it isn't extracted, you're at risk, because at any time, that might be released into your blood and then you would hallucinate, you would have a problem functioning. And so Scientology charges money to do the purification rundown and people go through this.

And that if it isn't extracted, you're at risk, because at any time, that might be released into your blood and then you would hallucinate, you would have a problem functioning. And so Scientology charges money to do the purification rundown and people go through this.

And that if it isn't extracted, you're at risk, because at any time, that might be released into your blood and then you would hallucinate, you would have a problem functioning. And so Scientology charges money to do the purification rundown and people go through this.

And when I was working with this man who had been in Scientology for 27 years, I said to him, you know that medical science has proven that Drugs do not reside in your fatty tissue indefinitely. And a drug test will show the presence of drugs for only a certain period of time that they flow out of the body, you know, and they're no longer there. And he found that very, very difficult to believe.

And when I was working with this man who had been in Scientology for 27 years, I said to him, you know that medical science has proven that Drugs do not reside in your fatty tissue indefinitely. And a drug test will show the presence of drugs for only a certain period of time that they flow out of the body, you know, and they're no longer there. And he found that very, very difficult to believe.

And when I was working with this man who had been in Scientology for 27 years, I said to him, you know that medical science has proven that Drugs do not reside in your fatty tissue indefinitely. And a drug test will show the presence of drugs for only a certain period of time that they flow out of the body, you know, and they're no longer there. And he found that very, very difficult to believe.

And so I showed him a great deal of documentation and evidence. And I said, look, when L. Ron Hubbard wrote this, That was back in the 50s. It was a long time ago, but science has moved forward, and the research shows that Hubbard was wrong. And so science isn't static. It evolves based on research and new information.

And so I showed him a great deal of documentation and evidence. And I said, look, when L. Ron Hubbard wrote this, That was back in the 50s. It was a long time ago, but science has moved forward, and the research shows that Hubbard was wrong. And so science isn't static. It evolves based on research and new information.

And so I showed him a great deal of documentation and evidence. And I said, look, when L. Ron Hubbard wrote this, That was back in the 50s. It was a long time ago, but science has moved forward, and the research shows that Hubbard was wrong. And so science isn't static. It evolves based on research and new information.

And so what happened in Scientology is they're stuck because they can't ever question what Hubbard wrote. And so at that point, he really had this kind of epiphany and he said, wait a minute, Scientology, that's supposed to be like a play on science and that it's more than just a religious belief, it's somehow scientific. And yet you're showing me that something that is believed by Scientologists

And so what happened in Scientology is they're stuck because they can't ever question what Hubbard wrote. And so at that point, he really had this kind of epiphany and he said, wait a minute, Scientology, that's supposed to be like a play on science and that it's more than just a religious belief, it's somehow scientific. And yet you're showing me that something that is believed by Scientologists

And so what happened in Scientology is they're stuck because they can't ever question what Hubbard wrote. And so at that point, he really had this kind of epiphany and he said, wait a minute, Scientology, that's supposed to be like a play on science and that it's more than just a religious belief, it's somehow scientific. And yet you're showing me that something that is believed by Scientologists

that they claim is scientifically true is not. And Scientology, because it's so rigid, cannot evolve beyond that. Because, as Isaac Hayes once said, who was a Scientologist, what L. Ron Hubbard said is immutable. It is always true, forever. And so in that sense, Scientology is most clearly a religion based on belief.