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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of mormas stories podcast.

I'm your host John DeLin.

It is October 24th, 2019 and we are super excited for yet another interview with Chris

Shelton, former C. Org member of Scientology, former Scientologist, he has become not only

an ex-Scientologist but also an ex-Scientologist activist, a writer, a YouTuber, an advocate for

critical thinking.

So far we have done, I want to say 10 and a half hours with Chris.

We have talked about the history of Scientology with Elron Hubbard, the founding of Elron Hubbard

before he started Scientology, his work with Dianetics and his work as an author that led

to the creation of Scientology and the founding of Scientology.

That was our first chunk.

Our second chunk was the rise of modern Scientology which was when David Miscavich took over from

Elron Hubbard and built Scientology into what it is today.

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