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Stardom, Faith, and the Price of the Hero Myth ❖ ❖ ❖ Introduction: The Man Who Refused to Fall On a warm August evening in 2024, a sixty-two-year-old man leapt from the roof of the Stade de France, abseiled into a packed Olympic stadium, took an American flag from a gymnast and a mayor, and…
Between the Keys and the Cosmos Prelude: A Child at the Piano When Armando Anthony Corea first sat down at the piano, he was four years old, and the instrument had been set before him by his father, a Boston trumpeter who led a Dixieland band in the 1930s and 1940s. That domestic scene—an Italian-American…
Image: An AI-illustrated depiction of Xenu, the alien overlord of Scientology’s secret cosmology. Ruling a Galactic Confederacy seventy-five million years ago, Xenu solved overpopulation by luring billions to Earth, killing them with hydrogen bombs detonated in volcanoes, and subjecting their captured souls — called thetans — to implant films installing false beliefs about God and…
Place two of America’s most controversial religious movements side by side under the cold light of honest scrutiny, and what emerges is not merely comparison — it is a mirror. The parallels between Scientology and Mormonism are nothing short of startling. Both organizations guard their most unconventional teachings behind carefully constructed layers of secrecy, revealing…
In the heart of Los Angeles, nestled between the glittering facades of Hollywood and the nondescript office buildings of downtown, stood a building that was neither here nor there in terms of architectural beauty or significance. Yet, it was whispered about in hushed, reverent tones among the hopeful and the curious: The Church of Scientology,…
A disturbing video clip recently surfaced on Aaron Smith-Levin’s X account, showcasing an intense and seemingly unhinged rant by former Scientologist Nora Crest. In the video, Nora vehemently labels Aaron Smith-Levin as a narcissist, capturing a moment of high emotion and conflict within the ex-Scientology community. This public outburst has led me to wonder about…
Ha ha … just kidding. At first, you thought that read Douglas MacArthur, who served as a career Army officer for the majority of his life. MacArthur, one of the few individuals to achieve a five-star rank, notably served in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. Scientology websites paint their founder’s wartime exploits…
Battlefield Earth: A Scientology Saga of Cinematic Disaster Who can resist a good Scientology roast? Especially when it involves the perpetually tanned John Travolta and his passion project, Battlefield Earth. Based on L. Ron Hubbard’s sci-fi novel of the same name, this movie was a cinematic train wreck of epic proportions. Hubbard sent Travolta an…
Click the LAUGH TRACK, just to get it over with… Hey folks, let’s dive into a wild story combining bad science, questionable credentials, and a generous dose of audacity. I’m talking about L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, and his outlandish claims about radiation poisoning. Hubbard, in his infinite wisdom, wrote a book called…
When we think of technology, one of the latest topics of conversation is in the fast-evolving field of artificial intelligence. A company at the forefront of this space is OpenAI, a machine learning, and artificial intelligence research laboratory, co-founded by Elon Musk and others in 2015. In 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), a…