54. Starting over after Scientology
All The Wiser
Kimi Culp
4.8 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
At a ranch for the kids of Scientology’s most powerful members, you don’t get to see your parents for more than a few hours a week. In the military-style dormitories, children spend their days pulling weeds, hauling rocks, and evenings in Scientology studies. As the niece of Scientology’s most powerful leader, David Miscavige, Jenna didn’t know things like birthday parties or family vacations. She knew fear, work, and longing. But when you view people from the outside world as scary, how do you leave the only life you’ve ever known? And what do you find on the other side?
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In this episode we talk about:
- Growing up in the isolated world of Scientology
- What really went on at the ranch.
- Fear based teachings.
- Leaving the church.
- Re-entry into the world outside of Scientology
Episode benefitting The Edible Schoolyard Project
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| 0:54.4 | everything secure. And so we slept there in dormitories and we had jobs and we did schooling |
| 1:01.5 | and Scientology studies and then we would see our parents just for a few hours on the weekend. |
| 1:08.2 | Usually it was like Friday night and then we would see them Saturday |
| 1:11.6 | morning. Jenna Mascavage Hill was just two years old when she started living in those |
| 1:18.5 | dormitories at a ranch for Scientology children in the outskirts of L.A. Jenna was prohibited |
| 1:26.6 | from seeing her parents during the week and spent her days doing manual |
| 1:31.4 | labor between evening studies and regular confessions. |
| 1:36.2 | I sort of viewed people from the outside world as like a little bit scary, like that you |
| 1:41.5 | could tell them the wrong thing and it would become this big problem. |
| 1:45.5 | And it was a big problem, but not in the way that Jenna was taught to believe. |
| 1:50.9 | Not until she started asking questions and receiving punishments instead of answers. |
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