Going Clear

obedience-and-authority

• Her new baby daughter was taken away and placed in the Child Care Org. Nearly two hundred people were crammed by the dozen into old pa…

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• Miscavige saw him as a rival… Rathbun rushed down the hill to Miscavige's bungalow, where Shelly was waiting just outside the screen door.

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faith-and-doubt

• You're constantly audited and in a highly suggestible state… like being pulled along very slightly to the point where now I might as well just be here.

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• Clears are supposed to be invulnerable to mental frailty… McPherson was screaming in the hallways. She looked insane. How did she get to be Clear?

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trauma-and-survival

• Cooper had gone into a deep depression. She stopped eating. At one point she weighed just eighty-three pounds. She considered suicide.

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• Claire Headley had been pushed to have two abortions by the time she was twenty-one. She estimates 60 to 80 percent of women on Gold Base have had abortions.

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