85 - Growing Up In Scientology w/ Aaron Smith-Levin

Adult Child

Andrea

Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Aaron Smith-Levin is the creator of the YouTube channel "Growing Up In Scientology". Aaron worked for the organization full-time, as a staff member and a Sea Org member, from the age of 12 to 26. He held various positions in Philadelphia, Clearwater & Los Angeles, all related to training Scientology auditors. Aaron left the Sea Organization in 2006 and officially left Scientology in early 2014. Since 2015, he has been educating the public about Scientology and exposing abuses within the organization He is also board member of The Aftermath Foundation which helps those who want to leave Scientology.

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0:00.0	When people leave cults, they don't even know that they left a cult.
0:08.0	My name is Andrea and this is adult child. wild. Let it all go. What's making you slow now?
0:25.0	Let it all go.
0:27.0	Welcome back to it old child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family.
0:33.6	Ahoy my shit shows.
0:36.7	Today we are diving deep into Scientology.
0:42.3	Love me some Scientology, love me some cults. Now I consider myself to be pretty
0:49.0	knowledgeable about Scientology and I'm sure most of y'all have everyone's heard the term and I'm sure a lot of you guys know about
0:56.2	it but I want to provide a little background for those who might not know that much about it. So Scientology, the church of Scientology is based off a set of beliefs and practices developed by this guy named Elron Hubbard.
1:17.8	So Elron Hubbard was this science fiction author who then wrote a book called Dianetics, which Wikipedia defines it as a set of
1:28.3	pseudo-scientific ideas and practices regarding the metaphysical relationship between the mind and body.
1:37.0	So Erron Hubbard developed a set of beliefs, Dianetics, he publishes this book, and then through that comes Scientology.
1:45.0	And so the angle of this of Scientology is called Going Clear.
1:51.0	So what the hell does that mean?
1:52.0	It is defined as a condition in which a person is free of the unwanted emotions or painful trauma, which are not readily available to the awareness of present time.
2:06.0	So essentially, repressed trauma and memories not just from this life but also from all past lives and so there's essentially
2:15.9	this ladder that one has to climb up in order to go clear so you could kind of
2:22.0	compare it to, you know, working the 12 steps.
2:25.9	Going clear there is this very defined path on how you do that and instead of taking steps,
2:32.2	you are taking courses. Sounds all good and dandy, right
2:36.2	y'all except that they charge people hundreds of thousands of dollars to take these courses and go through
2:46.7	thousands and thousands of hours of auditing sessions. So you could compare that to therapy except the person who is facilitating these
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