OT - Not just a cereal

A former inhabitant of my house (ie. before I or my housemates lived here) was a Scientologist. It would appear that she fled Scientology when she fled the house, because we have been getting her Scientology mail for some months now.

And what a riot it is. All OT (operating thetan) and havingness and so on and so forth. It's basically a whole new language, and trying to work out what the pamphlets and magazines we get say is difficult to say the least.

Yesterday a great big magazine arrived celebrating the birthday of LRH (L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology founder), with a big article proclaiming Scientology's many successes over the last twelve months.

Besides the disturbing news that LRH has received an award from the UN (a slight overstatement, says my googling effort) and that his 'technology' is being used by hundreds of governments, what I particularly enjoyed was the bit where they mentioned that media coverage of Scientology had increased by 300% over the past twelve months.

This figure actually seems quite modest, when you think about all the press over Tom Cruise and his nutty Scientology-inspired antics.

I think perhaps the maxim 'all publicity is good publicity' has now been stretched to breaking point.

(NB. Pic above: To acknowledge one’s attainment of New OT VIII, a Scientologist may wear the OT bracelet)

PS. Speaking of Scientologists has anyone else enjoyed Fat Actress?? I might post on this later.