I read the book before I saw the documentary and the book goes further into the Hollywood connections.
In fact, I think some young actors join it just to GET connections.
But I don’t really get cults. I do, in a way, see how people allow themselves to be led into these things but I could not imagine myself buying into any of that and I’m far from the smartest guy around. When I read about Nazanin Boniadi, however, being involved with it, being auditioned as a wife for Tom Cruise, I’m kind of stunned.
She may be one of the most accomplished women I’ve ever read about.
Not only is she smart and successful and probably able to do whatever she wants, but she’s beautiful.
She didn’t need Scientology. But maybe it was her mother being involved. Sometimes it’s a generational thing.
Scientology is just like any other system of power. It exploits those at the bottom for the wealth of those at the top.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick