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THE FABLE -- HOLLYWOOD, SATANISM, SCIENTOLOGY & SUICIDE |
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A FORMER SCIENTOLOGY CELEBRITY SPEAKS OUT Here are some excerpts from an article on Scientology and celebrities from Premiere Magazine (9/93.) In it is a courageous interview with Diana Canova. "I remember having a choking anger against anyone who ever said anything against Scientology," says actress Diana Canova (Soap), a former member. "I would get crazy, I was just so angry. I would have done anything for them." During her seven years in Scientology, Canova experienced the Celebrity Center from both sides of fame. "When I started, I wasn't in television yet. I was a nobody -- I'd done some TV, but I was not one of the elite, not by a long shot -- until I did Soap. Then it became ... I mean, you really are treated like royalty." "There was always pressure to get other celebrities in. The first time I walked in those doors they said, 'Just give us all the money in your bank account. You'll get it back tenfold.'" When she joined, auditing prices were about $25. "It went up to about $175 in the early '80s," she recalls. "That was shocking to me. I was beginning to wonder, is it really worth it? They're telling you, 'Don't spend $100 an hour on a shrink's couch, it'll ruin your mind.' Auditing is so much better?" "It took me years before I decided to quit," says Canova. "I guess finally I was so fed up with being afraid. You've heard all these horror stories ..." Canova warns: "They're capable of doing a lot of things." Canova says she spoke up because she thought it was important. "I see some of my friends having to keep their mouths shut for personal reasons, for business reasons," she says. "I don't believe that's right. If it's going to be termed a religion, or a church, then those kinds of fears have no business being there. Nobody should be afraid. And you can quote me on that." FROM OTHER CELEBRITIES WHO ARE OUT Singer Lou Rawls, 42, still appears on church membership rolls, even though he has long been disaffected. "Lou is no longer involved in Scientology. It's not an interest at this point, and never will be again," his agent says. "He doesn't want to be associated with those people." John Brodie, a former San Francisco 49'ers quarterback, was involved in Scientology from 1970 to 1982. He was one of the first 25 Scientologists to reach the level of OT 7, considered a formidable accomplishment by members. Still, Brodie says he never considered himself part of the group. Brodie said he gave up promoting Scientology after some of his friends in Scientology were expelled and harassed during a power struggle with church management. "There were many in the church I felt were treated unfairly," Brodie said. There are many Hollywood people who have left Scientology, but fear speaking out. Some of them leave and just order Scientology to stop using their names and "success" stories. Hopefully, because of this report and the full Scientology celebrity listing at the end of part two, more former Scientology celebrities will begin to tell their stories in the media. ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY’S TOP CELEBRITIES Several years ago a male porn star collected $100,000 from a tabloid for an account of his alleged two-year homosexual liaison with John Travolta. Travolta refuses to comment on the story. His lawyer dismissed questions about the subject as "bizarre." Two weeks later, Travolta announced that he was getting married to actress Kelly Preston, a fellow Scientologist, a relatively unknown starlet who wanted to break into Hollywood. Kirstie Alley of Cheers fame is the big celebrity promoter of Narconon. She travels all over doing events for them. The Narconon Scientology front group takes drug addicts and addicts them to Scientology through repetitive hypnotic trance. Alley was chained to drugs and now she's chained to Scientology. Is Kirstie Alley any more free? She's not suffering drug problems - but hasn't she lost her life again? According to a twenty-two year former member, Tom Cruise went somewhat insane while doing Scientology's secret initiation levels (OT III, the story of the galactic Emperor Xenu). The member from which this information is coming said Cruise was getting his "OT III repair" processing at that time. To prevent a public scene, they quickly got him into some more hypnotic trance induction and mellowed him out. Did Marcia Clark lie to the media during the O.J. Simpson trial by saying she wasn't a Scientologist. You don't marry someone in Scientology's intelligence division unless you are a security cleared Scientologist. Her husband is one of the heads of the Citizens' Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), which is one of the intelligence division's main front groups attacking psychiatry. The Michael Jackson Scientology recruiting story is intriguing. Celebrities who bring in other BIG celebrities (like Mimi Rogers who brought in Tom Cruise) are treated even more royally inside the organization. The speedy Lisa Marie Presley Michael Jackson marriage fits the classic profile of Scientology celebrity recruiting, and in some ways is similar to the conveniently fast Travolta Marriage. Michael Jackson was a highly vulnerable target. He had just come out of a drug rehabilitation program, went through child molesting charges, and his career was slumping. Lisa Marie reportedly chased him and wouldn't take no for an answer. Michael Jackson is the ultimate plum to Scientology. In Scientology's mind, one Michael Jackson can bring in millions of new young and naive members. A fanatical Scientologist would easily marry or divorce to prove his or her total dedication to "bringing in" millions of people (clearing and controlling the planet.) Those celebrities who have been through the OT III initiation know that "clearing the planet" really means they are one of the elite aliens trapped here. They know the Scientology secret initiations woke them up to their real identity and world historic destiny, and that they will have to go back out into the galaxy and eventually re-fight the old space war. (The Scientology secret initiation process produces a fanatical loyalty at a virtually irrational level.) Is Lisa Marie a Scientology fanatic? She was married to a Sea Org member who signed a "billion year" contract. She has lived extensively at Scientology centers. By this time she has probably passed the OT III initiation. It's well within the scope of Scientology covert operations and loyalty testing for her to have been on a celebrity recruiting operation for acquiring Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson may be Scientology's current #1 celebrity recruiting target. Unfortunately, going from the PR nightmares of his recent past into the world's most dangerous satanic cult, will not be the best way to improve his marketability. He may find that what he gets with Lisa Marie may not be worth the "marriage" benefit. The parallels make one wonder, did Scientology offer Lisa Marie Presley an easy public relations solution to Jackson's sexual identity problems and his potential child molesting problems? Getting married after being considered a homosexual or a child molester is a good way to quash those notions in the public's eye. Was this another Travolta Kelly Preston quick marriage orchestrated for public relations benefit? If Jackson is being manipulated to get in, will he ever dare go public? If he is not in yet, are Scientology and Lisa Marie slowly isolating him by replacing his non Scientology staff and advisors with pro Scientology people to effect the final conversion? Will Jackson and his staff smell the con, and distance themselves completely and permanently from Lisa Marie and the cynical Scientology celebrity manipulators? Only time will tell... The political arena from politicians to lobbyists is definitely a high priority Scientology target. Sometimes when it better suits their secret goals, Scientology tries to hide or play down a celebrity connection. A good example is Sonny Bono. Scientology pretty much owns Sonny Bono the politician. This is because he is an initiated Scientologist. His first loyalty must be not to the government, not to anything else, but Scientology first and foremost. Sonny Bono is now a member of the House of Representatives in Washington. Although Scientology was reported to be secretly telling its members to donate to Bono's reelection campaign, Scientology has down played Bono's membership. Maybe Scientology believes that if more secret Scientology becomes public, it's not good for his and their political destiny? (The OT VIII Bulletin talks about Hubbard coming back as a politician and fulfilling the prophecy of the Antichrist coming back as a political figure.) Sonny Bono also happens to be on the U.S. copyright committee. Scientology uses copyrights and copyright raids to try to enforce secrecy of its secret initiations. SCIENTOLOGY'S MOST (IN)FAMOUS CELEBRITY: CHARLES MANSON One famous celebrity involved with Scientology that Scientology does not boast about, talk about, or probably even want you to know about is Charles Manson, the convicted murderer of Sharon Tate and her friends. Scientology made extensive efforts to hide or destroy Manson's Scientology records. They have continually denied that he was a member, but in the FBI raid on Scientology's headquarters, the F.B.I. found abundant Scientology internal intelligence information regarding Manson's involvement with Scientology. The New York Times stated that Manson first got interested in Scientology while he was incarcerated in the McNeil Island Penitentiary in Washington (Scientology has recruiting programs for prisons). From another report, Manson received about 150 hours of Scientology counseling in prison, and at one point went psychotic. "Charles was very preoccupied with this new thing called Scientology," one of his friends from prison has told. "He thought that it could do something for him." Manson himself has told that he learned the methods very quickly, because he had not been programmed in advance. Manson had lessons in Scientology by three of his cell mates. One of them, Lanier Palmer, was "Doctor of Scientology." After his release from prison, The New York Times reported, he went to Los Angeles where he was said to have met local Scientologists and attended several parties for movie stars, possibly the July 18 initial dedication of the first Celebrity Center. Scientology literature was also said to be found at the ranch when Manson and his family were captured. There were hints that he later got involved with other OTO groups or may have joined the Process, the sex and Satan group which originally broke away from Scientology. It is interesting to note that the OTO is commonly considered the mother cult of Satanism to western society. Scientology was derived in significant part from the OTO. The Process came in significant part from Scientology. Another escapee-group from the Process was the notorious Son of Sam cult. The Son of Sam cult had cells that spread all over the USA. Since 1976, about 15-20 cult killings were committed by the sect in the New York area, especially of young girls. The leaders in New York were among others, David Berkowitz and the brothers John and Michael Carr. They killed "to bring this era to an end." At David's home, the police found the telephone number of the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, Scientology's main secret level training center. David explained to the police that the Son of Sam cult was an escapee from Scientology, though there is no proof of David personally being close to Scientology. Many Scientology celebrities are no more that manipulated victims themselves. They are kept isolated. They have no idea what the real nature of the secret organization is. They have no idea about the camps, the suicides or the abuse. They never have seen the FBI raid documents that talk about Scientology doing covert operations on anti-Scientology celebrities, showing that Scientology was gathering histories on celebrities to use for either possible recruitment or as covert operation targets if they were an "anti-Scientology celebrity." They do not know about Scientology illegally acquiring the tax returns of John Wayne and Frank Sinatra, or the covert operations on cartoonist Andy Berry. (The person who draws Berry's World Cartoon.) Although it is not advertised, gradually the celebrities do learn that he or she too will become "fair game" if he or she publicly acknowledges the abuses or real secret nature of Scientology. In spite of the preceding, Scientology celebrities now must be held legally co-responsible for the damage Scientology causes, because they're allowing their names and images to be used to bring children, young adults, and families into Scientology, and because they are getting something for helping it. They are getting paid in free services, commissions, and country club perks. If celebrities still choose to continue to be celebrity spokespersons, or allow their names to be used in Scientology's endorsements and success stories, Scientology celebrities should begin to assume that the organizations which promote compassionate religion, family values, and other humanitarian social values in opposition to the secret values and goals of Scientology, will soon begin, through public education and dialog, to target their careers and public relations images. The tremendous pain, loss, anguish, and anger Scientology has caused to so many individuals and families is real. (See included suicide appendix #3.) It would not be surprising to find more and more Scientology celebrity careers caught up in the growing backlash against Scientology in the courts and in the media, both here and abroad. THE HOLLYWOOD "RELIGION'S" BACKFIRE POTENTIAL The main program for Scientology's worldwide expansion is currently its celebrity program. But, what is gradually happening is that a lot of non-Scientology Hollywood people are getting hip to the Scientology con. Scientology has made a very bad strategic decision in linking its future expansion so solidly to Hollywood celebrities. First of all, they are betting their future on the concept that people will buy sincere and real spirituality from the endorsement of a slick Hollywood celebrity. That's a bad bet, because most people today are wise enough not to buy whatever a Hollywood celebrity endorses until they know the product personally. Second, Hollywood has long been know as the neurotic center of the universe. Hollywood is also known to be a "tinsel town" of insincerity, and has so many other negative connotations, why would any legitimate religion seek celebrity endorsements or try to create a religion around the unspirituality of celebrity fame? Most legitimate religions use good works or some humble program of their philosophy for promotion. But Scientology is desperately looking at its celebrity recruitment as its savior, the idea being if these celebrities can be in it, it must be good -- another BIG mistake for David Miscavige, the celebrity-crazed new leader of Scientology. Hollywood's strange population of too many overpaid shiny people fails to impress most folks who tend to laugh at them and their fame-distorted lives. Next, Hollywood is infamous for its lack of loyalty. When more people understand what Scientology really is, and the first few Scientology celebrities are named for damages in new lawsuits against Scientology, Hollywood and Hollywood celebrities will distance themselves from Scientology faster than you can say "let's make a deal." Finally, don't be surprised to see leading anti-Scientology critics soon challenging Scientology's top celebrities to appear on any national TV shows to debate the topics discussed in this report. THE SCIENTOLOGY CELEBRITY MASTER LIST Go to appendix 2 at the end of this story for the 10-plus page list of Hollywood stars and Hollywood people involved in Scientology, or who have left Scientology. You may be very surprised at how much of Hollywood is involved.
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