Tom Cruise’s bizarre Scientology ‘book-and-bottle’ ritual revealed
November 7th, 2009 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
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Melbourne, November 07 (ANI): A new book has revealed that Tom Cruise spent three weeks talking to books, bottles and door knobs, as part of Scientology ritual.
Marc Headley, who has an experience of 15 years in the Church of Scientology, has claimed in his book ‘Blown for Good,’ that he joined the ‘Top Gun’ star in his Upper Indoctrination Training Routines, 19 years ago.
“It’s known as the book-and-bottle routine,” the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying.
He added: “It was supposed to rehabilitate your ability to control things. And to be controlled.”
Hedley alleges that he was permitted to work as Cruise’s apprentice since he was trustworthy.
He said: “It couldn’t be someone who might run off the next day and tell the National Enquirer that Tom Cruise was telling me to talk to a bottle for the last three weeks.”
Headley had earlier worked at Scientology’s formerly secret Southern California headquarters. (ANI)
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November 8th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Sometimes people (mostly from the media) ask me about the treatment of Scientology in the media. At times I roll my eyes, and at other times I think, ‘well, I wouldn’t want to have their job.’
Since the famous French magazine started, about 50 years ago, Paris Match, the media has tended to focus more and more on harm, controversy, conflict and sensationalism. In other words, focus on the negative. Tacitly known as Gloom and Doom.
Why, would anyone be surprised if I said it is all about sales. We have to shock the public into buying the news. It’s either that or the latest celebrity scandal. In days of old, gossipers were run out of town or put into pillory and vilified. Nowadays you can get a lot of money for a totally fabricated story with some pictures to match. Get a celeb at the right angle and she has cellulite or a baby bump. Indeed Guy Sebastion apparently became a Scientologist just by walking by the building!
It’s no wonder we do sometimes have media troubles. The real story of Scientology itself and all the work Scientologists do, is not reported as, interesting that it may be, it does contain the controversy news media unfortunately feel is necessary to have a “good story”.
Scientologists are basically good people. People who do know us, know us to be a people of integrity and decency. One guidepost we use is The Way to Happiness, written by L. Ron Hubbard as a common sense guide for better living. It’s all about respect of oneself and others, and tools to achieve happiness.
Personally I worked with a at-risk Pacific Island youth who were in trouble with the law using Scientology techniques on study and education right here in Sydney. Every one of them got through the program and handled their literacy and now have jobs and families. None got in trouble with the law.
Scientologists in Australia have given out well over 300,000 drug education booklets to youth and parents in only the last 4 years and all on a volunteer basis. We were in fact inundated with stories of youth deciding to quit their “partying” (drug taking) after reading up on the real effects of drugs.
Scientologists helped in disaster relief after Cyclone Larry in Queensland, bushfires in ACT, Victoria and the Blue Mountains of Sydney. That’s not to mention their help overseas after such disasters as the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia or the more recent one off Samoa.
Day in and day out you will find Scientologists are some of the most willing and helpful people you will meet.
These kind of events get reported far too infrequently and thus leaves people with a severe lack of true information on what Scientology is, and who these Scientologists are.
That a new religion has come up in the modern age, based on an understanding of the mind and spirit, based on a real technology to relieve pain and suffering of the past, based on a respect of people of all races, colours and creeds IS NEWS.
But whether the big corporate media wish to print such news is up to them. The public are more and more aware of choices in the media with the internet. Newspapers, TV and radio don’t have the sway they once did.
But media and especially newspapers have an altruistic purpose of yore. They can be a guiding light. But there is no light in the gloom and doom they concentrate on today.
While news media find their way in the global 2.0 society, the Church of Scientology will keep doing what is does best: unreservedly helping people in times of need, unabashedly expanding such assistance and unrelentingly promoting a spirit of tolerance and respect of all peoples.
November 8th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Everyone interested in Scientology should research the subject for themselves.
Start with Operation Freakout, then look up the RPF (Rehabilitation Project Force), then move on to the secret at Scientology’s core: the Xenu story.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Cyrus:
You just wasted a lot of space and time. You could have simply written “I am an imbecile, and nothing I say should be taken seriously.”
You should also be severely beaten with a comma. Pro tip: proper punctuation makes you look slightly less ridiculous. Slightly.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:50 am
To all those who defend the Cult of $cientology, I think this says it all..
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6907914.ece
November 9th, 2009 at 2:02 am
Say, you don’t suppose Cyrus is a $cientologist cult member, do you?
November 9th, 2009 at 6:46 am
“That’s not to mention their help overseas after such disasters as the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia or the more recent one off Samoa.”
As quoted from the Guardian Uk:
One of the religious groups in Aceh is the Church of Scientology. Gregory Churilov, who is working for the Scientologists there, explained his faith offers the Acehnese “a methodology to handle loss and trauma”. But, as England observed, “in an unusual twist on the notion of bringing aid to the destitute, Churilov says his group arrived in Aceh with nothing and were given tents by the army and food by friendly locals. Unfazed that the aid flow was meant to go the other way, he used this as an example of how well accepted the Scientologists were by local people, rather than as an example of traditional manners.”
Scientology does’nt seem to do any charity work, it’s just prosyletizing. Could’nt Scientology spend at least a bit of the millions it spends on lawyers and private detectives to equip the prosyletizers it sends out in the field? It takes some brass ones to bum food off tsunami victims.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Cyrus is right.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Jerry, your source is full of forgeries and distortions. Unfortunately, a few anonymous insist on incorrect information that supports their hatred for something they do not even really understand AT ALL.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Cyrus is right. Thaindian is wrong.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Look at what the Church says about Heady.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Thanks Jerry. But prior to any of those things, someone wanting to find out should read the very first books on the subject and DECIDE FOR THEMSELF. I don’t mind either way what they decide, but say a person read Dianetics: the Modern Science on Mental Health or Scientology: A New Slant on Life. They would much better understand the core beliefs of the religion. To think someone will get it by reading the Internet is like to really understand Islam, don’t read the Qu’ran. Nuts.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:29 am
There’s no way I just saw you compare Scientology to Islam. I must have imagined that.
So transparent. Everyone knows the cult has people monitor stories about them and spread crap like this. It’s pathetic.
If I was on the amount of drugs Elron was on, I would come up with something like the Xenu story too. I might even really believe it. Man was a psychopath and a liar, and you should be ashamed at being so gullible. You’re obviously a grown man. So what’s the matter with you, Cyrus? Head injury?