Miscavige cleverly tailored the myths to parallel Tom’s ego, which already had him half believing he reallywas the superhero he portrayed in the movies and in his public life. Miscavige informed Cruise that Hubbard considered most of the inhabitants of Earth to be “degraded beings.” He created an inside-secrets-of-the-universe world for Tom, which was sort of an Ayn-Rand-on-steroids, social-Darwinism construct of the few lonely, strong beings, held down by the pathetic weaklings who were crippled by such degraded notions as compassion and sympathy [FULL ARTICLE BELOW]
UPDATE - here are my own thoughts on whether Cruise will leave the cult or not:
hmmmm, I reckon a straw poll puts it at 50:50 whether he’ll leave the cult or not.
I’m not sure where I stand at the moment so I’m going to make myself an espresso* [I have a funny story about espresso and New York.... remind me if you want in case I forget it later on]
I’ve actually given this a lot of thought – not so much from a genuine aesthetic but more from “if I was a bookie” angle, i.e. I would have to give accurate odds.
MY CONSIDERED ANSWER – YES, HE WILL PUBLICLY LEAVE SCIENTOLOGY!
I don’t want to sound pompous but I briefly bumped into the dude in Nells nightclub in New York in the mid 80′s… pretty much a month or so after Top Gun had come out and he was about to become mega. It’s important to note that Nells was the hottest club in town but in a discreet Eurotrash kind of way… it was run by English guys and was well known for NOT fawning over celebs… I actually saw them turn away Michael Douglas and heard they wouldn’t let Jagger in either. It used to be a Bistro style restaurant so wasn’t your typical club. Anyway – I noticed him when he came in (he’s so tiny etc), surprisingly he was by himself… he stood by the entrance for quite awhile and if body language was anything to go by I imagine he was hoping someone would recognise him; the thing is most ‘Eurotrash’ which I would have to admit I kinda was, would make it a point of not recognising a celeb as it was considered vulgar.
So, we have a freshly-minted mega brat-pack(ish) celeb turning up to the happening club in town by himself and not getting recognised [were the seeds sown then, ed?].
Now, off tangent but relevant. During this time I was dating a gorgeous young thing from one of those ‘One Life To LIve’ soap thingies. She was a Brown graduate so wasn’t your typical actress…. quite the opposite in fact. I lived with her for 2 years and almost got married but alas, things were not to be…. she moved out to LA (to further her career).
How is this relevant you might ask? – well, this is the thing. I visited her a few years later and I was gobsmacked at her change. At first I didn’t notice anything but when we went to a popular restaurant and some so-called producer/director/someone who could further her career walked in she just became a totally different person…. it was like I wasn’t even in the same room. I was pretty much stunned to see such a drastic instant transformation.
I hinted at her bad manners the next day but she was blind to it. Years later, and when she left LA she did admit that LA made you like that and was really sorry.
Where am I going with this?…. well, the thing I learnt was that actor/actress types have a an amazing desire to be successful in their business (or just be employed) but it was this burning desire to be considered relevant that transcended that. To have people recognise them. It’s part of their DNA….. you just have to look at all the lame ass Dancing With Stars type shows to see that they’ll do anything to be “recognised”. But it’s being recognised on their own terms! God forbid if my actress girlfriend had a zit she couldn’t cover up…. she just wouldn’t go out.
You see, they like to be recognised but it only works if it’s considered positively, in their minds, anyway. If they think people might laugh at them or point fingers then they just stay at home.
It’s beyond EGO, we all have those, it’s actors’ EGO which is a life unto it’s own.
Right now Cruise’s ego has taken a massive battering and he seems to be getting solace from normal people (as normal as other actors can be) and I’m sure some of them have brought the subject up…. I mean, he was drinking with Matt Damon all night and can you imagine Damon NOT bringing up the dreaded S word?
The way I see his brain working is ‘WHERE AM I GOING TO KEEP GETTING MY ADULATION FROM?’…. one path is the Scion path but I can’t believe that he’s so stupid to believe that the cult really is going to clear the planet and he’ll take his rightful place along Miscavige as the anointed two. No, whatever else he is his ego is greater and the only way it will be sufficed is if he goes the other way….. now, if he was to do this slowly and quietly it wouldn’t be sated. He knows there would be a chance that he would just go off radar and become a leading man has been. He won’t/cannot accept this – he will need to seen as being a massive victim to continue to be relevant…. and the only way to do that is as I said above:
YES, HE WILL PUBLICLY LEAVE SCIENTOLOGY!
The Scientology Inc. Gates of Hell
A preview from The Scientology Reformation: What Every Scientologist Should Know (Pancho and Lefty Publishing 2012) available on Amazon books later this week:
Chapter Eight
The Gates of Hell
Hell has three gates: lust, anger and greed.
– The Baghavad Gita
Some still caught in the throes of denial may be saying to themselves, “But still, to compare Miscavige to Pope Leo X? After all, Miscavige isn’t having naked little boys jump out of his birthday cake!”
If you harbored such a thought, you would be correct on one score. We have no reports of naked little boys jumping out of birthday cakes for David Miscavige. But, fact being sometimes far stranger than fiction, we have reports of far more degraded, cruel and outlandish depredations, regularly practiced by Miscavige on Scientology parishioners’ dimes and dollars.
Around 2002, already a narcissistic personality, David Miscavige went beyond the point of no return. After I had spent more than two years recovering Tom Cruise to the Scientology Bridge, auditing him for dozens of hours, indoctrinating his children to choose him over their mother (his former wife), auditing and guiding him through the entirety of OT V, OT VI, and onto OT VII (three of the highest levels of Scientology spiritual advancement), Miscavige became impatient. He wanted Tom’s affections and would stop at nothing to receive them.
Miscavige forbade me from letting Tom get on with his life as a free Scientologist. Until such time as Tom “connected back up” with David Miscavige as a personal, cloying friend, I would be assigned to Tom Cruise full time. I was prohibited from telling Tom to call Dave; Tom had to come to the realization on his own that Dave deserved his gratitude and close friendship. Many of my after-session encounters with Tom ended up with this type of colloquy, with me attempting to steer him toward Miscavige:
Tom would say, “God Marty, thanks, you saved my life.”
“Don’t thank me. Thank Dave. He was the one that put me onto this full time. For me, auditing is fun. He is the one that has to handle all the rough parts of my post while I’m here with you.”
“Yeah, I’m gonna have to call him one day.”
After many such conversations, Cruise finally asked me for Dave’s number. He called Miscavige and was invited to the 500-acre Scientology headquarters near Hemet, California. The entire several-hundred-person headquarters crew was called into action to prepare. Every square inch of the property, inside and out, was cleaned, spic and span, to military white-glove standards. Exotic foods were flown in from around the country to satisfy the five-star, around-the-clock service Tom would receive, all compliments of Dave.
Cruise became a regular visitor, put up in the special multi-million-dollar L. Ron Hubbard guest house. Miscavige lavished Cruise with praise, gifts and slave-labor services of every imaginable kind, all clearly compliments of Dave. Miscavige began regularly visiting the Cruise home in Beverly Hills. While there, noticing upgrades that could be made, Miscavige dispatched slave-wage Sea Org craftsmen to execute modifications to Tom’s home, all designed to bedazzle him. Tom’s personal bus was upgraded, as was his personal SUV.
Miscavige plied Cruise with bizarre, but apparently believable (at least to Cruise), world-views, allegedly supported by his hidden, insider, unwritten knowledge of L. Ron Hubbard. Miscavige convinced Cruise that he and Tom were two of only a handful of truly “big beings” on the planet. He instructed Cruise that LRH was relying upon them to unite with the few others of their ilk on earth to make it on to “Target Two” – some unspecified galactic locale where they would meet up with Hubbard in the afterlife. Miscavige cleverly tailored the myths to parallel Tom’s ego, which already had him half believing he reallywas the superhero he portrayed in the movies and in his public life. Miscavige informed Cruise that Hubbard considered most of the inhabitants of Earth to be “degraded beings.” He created an inside-secrets-of-the-universe world for Tom, which was sort of an Ayn-Rand-on-steroids, social-Darwinism construct of the few lonely, strong beings, held down by the pathetic weaklings who were crippled by such degraded notions as compassion and sympathy. Degraded beings gravitated toward, clung to, and parasitized the minority big beings. Most big beings, because they were unaware of Hubbard’s technology, ultimately were dragged down to the level of the riff-raff degraded beings. But Tom and Dave, being intelligent and perceptive enough to recognize Scientology as the only road to total freedom, were in a league of their own. High above the rest of the lonely minority of big beings on the planet. Tom took to Miscavige’s mythology like a hungry dog to a bone. He became increasingly zealous, and more and more loyal to David Miscavige.
Miscavige was transformed. He had achieved the cherry on the cake of the man who had everything. He now had the undying loyalty of the world’s biggest movie star. He relished living the high life, traveling only in Cruise’s private jet, attending world premieres as the guru to America’s biggest star. Miscavige’s mythology was so effective in controlling Cruise, and Tom’s return of validation back to Dave for being his big-being mentor were so gratifying that Miscavige began believing his own creation.
As much as Miscavige’s head swelled in the Tom Cruise inner circle, he became more and more detached and individuated from the Sea Org members of international management who had built the empire he was profiting from. They slaved on in squalid communal quarters, working long hours with no time off and next to no pay. That was not good enough for Miscavige, though. Apparently, he needed to prove his own degraded-being mythology to himself. Miscavige needed to prove to himself that the world view he had painted to lure in Tom Cruise was truth. He set out to prove just how pervasive the degraded-being phenomena was. And he set out to make those surrounding him as degraded and dangerous to a big being as were those he’d described while explaining “the facts of life” to Tom…
