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Public Scientologists are those individuals who are not staff. They pay the Church of Scientology for training or auditing services, and live and work independent of the organization. [3]: 70 Collectively, non-staff Scientologists may be referred to as "members", the "public", or the "field". [4]: 128, 228
Despite a relatively small membership base, Scientology is one of the most widely discussed fringe religious groups in the world, thanks in part to its more famous adherents. And while some ...
Recently, Alex Gibney, the filmmaker behind the documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, expressed shock that Tom Cruise, a famed Scientologist, has not been called out for ...
The organization has had a written program governing celebrity recruitment since at least 1955, when L. Ron Hubbard created "Project Celebrity", offering rewards to Scientologists who recruited targeted celebrities. [1] [2] [3]: 254 Early interested parties included former silent-screen star Gloria Swanson and jazz pianist Dave Brubeck.
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[27] [28] She and her husband are Scientologists, [29] and in 1995 to People she said she is "a strong advocate of their ethics". [30] From August 2006 until January 2014, she was a co-owner of the Old Mill Inn, a restaurant in Mattituck, New York, on the North Fork of Long Island. [31] [32]
Shelly Miscavige was a member of the Sea Org, the organization responsible for the international management of the Church of Scientology and its affiliated entities. From the age of 12, she was a member of the Commodore's Messenger Organization (CMO), the internal Sea Org group responsible for personally servicing Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard aboard his flagship, MV Apollo, in the 1970s.
Steering clear of Clearwater? Jerry Seinfeld set the record straight on long-standing rumors that he was once a practicing member of the Church of Scientology. “I did do a course in Scientology ...