Sarah-Jane Adams

If a Thetan remembered its destruction, then it would die again.

It's a great movie.

Thank God for all these rules that make perfect sense.

No, but it's so funny.

Like if we lost people to this, how are we expecting vaccines to hold up?

Good old.

Glad they added that one.

This is so terrifying to me.

It's also, like, it's so funny, like, doing a historical topic, but you're like, wow, this is really happening in present day and I'm, like, unfolding this, like, wow.

Wow, guys.

Yes, it's when there is means and then you still...

Quite a lot happens over the next 15 years as Scientology not only gets established but grows into this international phenomenon with thousands of followers.

And while some of it is, like, of course, absurd, goofy, like Hubbard auditing a tomato plant claiming that he invented a vitamin that can cure cancer and his claim that he visited heaven twice, most of those years read as a guide on how to use control, extortion and deception to build a dangerously powerful religion.

Step one.

If we're looking at this guide, right, step one, expand your religion by targeting vulnerable populations.

After setting up his first International Institute of Scientology in England, Hubbard wanted to try something new to get more members.

He put an ad in the London Evening Papers with a telephone number and the offer to talk to anyone about anything.

This open line tapped into a deep well of loneliness that was facing the public.

The Institute was overwhelmed with phone calls.

One of the employees noted that they had everyone calling up from potential suicides to a girl who couldn't decide which of three men to marry.