Katie Holmes sent to Scientology boot camp

It's Wednesday already, and what would a week be without some completely inane Katie Holmes story alleging that Tom Cruise is brainwashing her and keeping her locked in a pantry in the basement of his Switzerland manse?

Star says Katie recently "endured" a three-day retreat at Gold Base, some Scientology camp in Hernet, Calif. Actually, they call it a boot camp, but we've never been there, so we don't know. It doesn't sound like fun, though.

"It included various tests, confession sessions, tons of reading and physically challenging purification processes," a Scientology source tells the glossy. "Tom insists that auditing and purification practices are incredibly beneficial to Scientologists at all levels." 

Apaprently these auditing sessions are a routine thing for her these days, since she's going to be moving to New York for a spell to act on Broadway and needs to be chipped like a wayward cocker spaniel. The mag says some sessions have lasted 36 hours with hardly any sleep or food. It's like watching War of the Worlds, complete with a ridiculous ending!

[Photo: AP]

Comments

[Andy]

I work in downtown Clearwater, so I am getting a kick out of these replies.

[Dman]

Who cares? Another Hollywood idiot played by the biggest sham in the world. And this is news?

[Dave]

Auditing = hypnosis. This nonsense about recalling events and traumas in past lives is no different than the quack psychology used to implant false memories in the children in that 1980s sexual abuse day care center case, which turned out to be false.

Scientologists are gullible people. They feel good after an auditing session, so they think they're "achieving" something.

The problem is, they never go any further. There is no "Bridge." There is no ending. You are the same person you always were, except poorer and a bit more of a sucker for bad parlor tricks from a charlatan.

But hey! Keep giving them your cash and reliving all those wonderful adventures throughout history!

[Markay Bayan]

OTIII is the scientology level known as the wall of fire. It is here that you learn that your miseries and ailments are the result of the alien spirits or souls known as Thetans. Those alien spirits were brought to earth by an evil intergalactic war lord named Xenu. With the help of psychiatrists, he rounded up aliens from over-populated planets and brought them to earth in ships that L.Ron said looked like airplanes. They were then dropped into volcanoes and exploded with H bombs. The thetan/spirits were then captured and made to watch movies that implanted them with ideas about religion and such. These thetans then went on to inhabit the earth looking for host bodies to inhabit.
According to hubbard, these things cause all kinds of problems for you, giving you bad "engrams," and making you sick and miserable. So they need to be located and removed through the process of auditing. Auditing is also supposed to help clear left over engrams from previous lives.
To me auditing appears to be a cross between regressive therapy and hypnosis. The questions are very repetitive and with "sec checks" they can get intense and aggressive in the interrogative manner they are performed. The idea is to intimidate you to make you confess any doubts you've had in the "workability of the tech" and test your loyalty.
So no, they don't really think we ARE aliens - that would be silly. They just think that we are infested with clusters of alien spirits from over-populated planets.
Now, it is true that pretty much every religion has some crazy stories associated with them. I will not argue with you there. BUT with valid religions, you can learn about these stories without ever having to spend a penny before deciding to join or not. With scientology, you are not allowed to have access to this information until you are an OTIII (There are 8 OT levels), which will cost you about a couple hundred thousand dollars. Or you can just sign a billion year contract (this includes your future lives of course) to become a dedicated slave of the organization.
Now, it's abuses of those people that the critics have a problem with. We don't care that they believe we are all infested with space ghosts, but we do have a problem with the fact that they brainwash these poor souls into believing that the abuse is worth it because they have been made to believe that they are the only ones that can save the world. They believe that they must sacrifice in this life in order to ensure better future lives. They truly believe that the end justifies the means - and that can be a very dangerous thing if their ideal "end" is not compatible with the rest of society.

[Stephen in Wesley Chapel]

Has anybody ever stopped to consider that everybody thinks somebody else's religion is crazy? Imagine how absurd your "mainstream" religion would look like to a stranger to this world, or, for that matter to someone not brainwashed in the cult of Christianity that passes for religion in the US.

Of course Scientology is laughable. But no more than any other religion or superstition.

[Tim]

Don't Tase Me LRon!

[Tim]

Don't Tase Me LRon!

[Quentin]

Katie has received scientology's electronic interrogation called a "sec check" which is designed to introvert and coerce the interrogatee. Scientology is a brainwashing racket that needs to be shut down.

[David Mudkips]

whyaretheydead.net

[boogerhead]

aliens.
we are the universe.
how can we be alien?

[Clearwater]

Why can't peope leave these guys alone.

[thrrd3y3]

1st: I'm anon. I have every intention to participate in protests and will do everything in my power to do so.

2nd: I'm actually reading the books. I will have several with me for bystanders to flip through and decide for themselves.

3rd: know your $cientology: LRon didn't say we're aliens, but that we're actually spiritual beings. In his 'only' (can't check that as fiction even though I don't believe it) recorded interview, he seemed to seriously believe in what he preached. If I can find a portable DVD player, I will also see about having that playing as well.

Anonymous needs to step it up. Information is free. Find/know the information before you use it.

[Damien]

For all of you pseudo-scientologist ranting about the rest of us getting their facts straight: I hate to be the one to inform you of this, but pretty much all levels of tech are available online, resting comfortably on overseas servers, outside of the reach of your 'church's' lawyers. There are far more informed people outside of the Co$ than there are in it. Of particular note is xenu.net, which links up to Scientology Kids, in which Jenna Miscaivage herself lambasts this cult for what it is. Rip. Off.

Who, in their right mind, would sign a billion year contrat? Sea Org does.

[napagirl]

Katie made a deal with the devil. I do not feel sorry for her in any way. Suri is Chris Klein's kid. They paid him big money to keep his mouth shut, too.

[napagirl]

Katie made a deal with the devil. I do not feel sorry for her in any way. Suri is Chris Klein's kid. They paid him big money to keep his mouth shut, too.

[Carrie]

Scientology. What a joke. A so called religion made up because L. Ron Hubbard bet a friend he could get gullable people to believe any story he made up. Obviously he won that bet. No one in their right mind would subject themselves to this type of brainwash. Maybe Katie should just pay them off - that is how Tom Cruise and John Travolta got so high up. If she pays them enough maybe they will leave her alone.

[My Name Be Balack Obama]

Ain't no way Katie Holmes-Cruise is gonna get sec'd! Maybe I should just put my man RevWright on the case, and he can go speak some jibber-jabber to her and that Tom Weirdo.

$cientology isn't going to win me any election, and neither is my wife, who hasn't always been proud to be an African-American.

[Anon]

"Also, I have NEVER heard anyone talk about us being aliens or any of the other stupid other comments I read online about Scientology. "

Thats not what Jason Beghe said.

But hey, he was only the poster boy for the CoS and an OT5.

[Jeff]

Could you please fire up your research machine and get some background information before adding another piece of biased gossip to the internet?

Keyword: auditing
http://www.doctrinalauditing.org/

Keyword: purification
http://www.purificationpgm.org/

Keyword: "GOLD" aka Golden Era Productions
http://www.scientologytoday.org/Common/question/pg41.htm

Time: 35 seconds

[Rach]

These comments are SO stupid. I have known SEVERAL Scientologists, and even done a few courses myself. I will tell you first hand that you MUST have PLENTY of food & sleep before any session or study.
People should avoid forming their opinions about religions from things they read in the press!
Also, I have NEVER heard anyone talk about us being aliens or any of the other stupid other comments I read online about Scientology.
Try being open-minded and read a book or two written on the subject, and see for yourself. Trust me, you won't get brainwashed!!
PS- getting Sec Checked would not have anything to do with Marriage Counseling! I am glad you are trying to sound like you know what you are talking about, but you should learn the meanings of terms before you try to use them!!!

[Rach]

These comments are SO stupid. I have known SEVERAL Scientologists, and even done a few courses myself. I will tell you first hand that you MUST have PLENTY of food & sleep before any session or study.
People should avoid forming their opinions about religions from things they read in the press!
Also, I have NEVER heard anyone talk about us being aliens or any of the other stupid other comments I read online about Scientology.
Try being open-minded and read a book or two written on the subject, and see for yourself. Trust me, you won't get brainwashed!!
PS- getting Sec Checked would not have anything to do with Marriage Counseling! I am glad you are trying to sound like you know what you are talking about, but you should learn the meanings of terms before you try to use them!!!

[ANONYMOUS]

With all the press that they are seperating, it sounds like she either got sec checked, or some major marriage councelling is going on. Which is still a sec check.

*Sec check- Hard core confessionals done on an e meter.

[anonymous]

she has nobody to blame but herself ... definitely agree with that

[L.RON]

Did you know that Scientologist believe that we all are aliens? How retarded you should be to think that you are an alien?

[Natty]

HA HA HA

$cientologists are the biggest jerk-offs on this planet. Katie has nobody to blame but herself. What a sad situation.

[Natty]

HA HA HA

$cientologists are the biggest jerk-offs on this planet. Katie has nobody to blame but herself. What a sad situation.