himself. they both road to enormous heights in the church of scientology. she was the highest rated auditor in the world two years running and danny was instrumental in bringing scientology to israel but they became disaffected by the church s actions and started a scientology center 90 miles north of israel. you re one of the top auditors in the world. what happened? how did you go from this loyalty to the church to suddenly beginning to change and think differently about it? in the 70s and 80s and end of the 90s, beginning of the 2000s, the pressure from upper management was more and more and more.
bureaucracy from the little old lady who goes to church on sunday to pray for her grandchildren s health. why then is it so difficult for many people to differentiate between the church of scientology and the religion of scientology? religious institutions want to present themselves as the sole arbiters of the faith. but that s not any more true about scientology than it is about any other religion. and there s no better proof of this than the independent scientology movement, this reformation of scientology. you know, recently some films were made about scientology exposing all the bad things in the scientology organization. exposing, you mow, whistleblowing. it s so important. but they ask the question why intelligent people in this place seeing horrible things happening and still staying there and not leaving. and that s how the word scientology became a bad word. you know?
devout believers who are making enormous sacrifices for their faith. hi. hello. randy? reza. randy and team timm were once two of the church s best trainers of auditors. the church of scientology claims to be the only constitution authorized to trained saw auditors. they ve agreed to take me through some of the training exercises they do with their students. these training drills are ones that hubbard himself created, right? we are going to start with tr-0 which is confronting. have the student and coach sit facing each other and say and do nothing. you get the idea. tr-0, start. this is not a staring contest.
for her grandchildren s health. why is it so difficult for many people to differentiate between the church of scientology and the religion of scientology? religious institutions want to present themselves as the sole ash tors of the faith. that s not any more true about scientology than any other religion and no better proof of this than the independent scientology movement. this reformation of scientology. recently they exposed all the bad things in scientology organization, exposing why intelligent people were seeing all the things happening and staying there and not leaving. that s how scientology became a bad word. it s knowing how to know.
religion, which i am and we havy to whole catholic church scandal with the sex abuse. catholicism is an interesting one. the vast majority of people when they look at the church abuse scandal can separate that from the little old lady that goes to church on sunday and praise ays does the rosary. a lot of people can t separate the church of scientology with the religion of scientology. what these independent scientologists are saying is these are separate things. the religion is different from the church. don t confuse the two. this is the first time really ever that we are finding out what scientology is. what do these people believe? why do they believe it? not just the usual controversies and the usual stories about corruption and celebrities and all that stuff. how big is this religion? do you know how many people are identifying themselves as scientologists? well, the church says there are millions of scientologists around the world and this is