Oddbean

😂 Oh I’m well aware, lol. This was entirely a joke. The whole Scientology thing is an explicit and well designed scam. One of the powerful techniques has always been to get massive investment before slowly revealing piece by piece the “story” behind it all. By the time they hear the entire thing, they are so emotionally and financially invested that it’s vastly harder to allow themselves to deny it. It also doesn’t help that it was reported by past friends of Hubbard that he talked with great enthusiasm during his college years about how “religion is the best money making business there is.”

Yeah, but it's a bit more complex. It does actually work for some people. It's a bit like breath control, mindfulness and linguistic programming. It's just that the audit sessions are very expensive.