The documentary’s climax — a former Sea Org member describing being locked in a chain locker for 23 hours a day for “handling his doubts” — made Karen vomit.
“Now the real work begins,” her Case Supervisor said. “You’ve erased the reactive mind. Next: Operating Thetan.” Searching for- going clear scientology and the ...
She continued, but the magic was broken. The “wins” became mechanical. She noticed the forced smiles, the relentless fundraising, the Sea Org members (the monastic clergy) looking hollow-eyed from 100-hour weeks. Then she found a bootlegged copy of a book called Bare-Faced Messiah — a biography of L. Ron Hubbard that revealed him as a pulp sci-fi writer who once claimed to be a nuclear physicist. He wasn’t. He’d been investigated for fraud. The documentary’s climax — a former Sea Org