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laundering systems in Panama, to numbered Swiss bank accounts. A              stand: the «analytic mind.» Like psychoanalysis, whose terms Hubbard
1991 Time Magazine article estimated the income of just one of their          appropriated, the «Auditing sessions» that cure these problems’ prices
branches at $503 million per year. The Golden Age comes with a price.         run steep and are the only way for a «preclear» (someone whose mind is
The church is often marred by lawsuits from disenchanted congregants          still cluttered with engrams), to achieve «clear,» or, in other religions:
who claim Scientology scammed them out of thousands of dollars –              enlightenment.
promising enlightenment.                                                              But Scientologists draw a hard line between the type of therapy
        «It’s an option,» Yingling said of the donations. «People some-       they offer and psychological therapy. Don, a church staff member,
times give more.» Rachel and Matthew are happy to work at the                 speaks at length of Scientology’s accepting nature – citing the Creed
Church. That way, their auditing sessions are «discounted.» A chart on        written by Hubbard whose first tenet is «that all men of whatever race,
the back wall shows them how many levels they have left before they           color, or creed were created with equal rights» – but he admits that there
reach «clear,» and shows the strata of enlightenment above that. It           is a kind of person they would be unwilling to welcome into the fold:
seems to go up and up forever.                                                «If you wanted to be a psychologist and gave lobotomies, then we’re
        Scientologists think a lot of things can be solved by «auditing,» a   against that,» he says. «We’re just against people hurting other people.»
process that medical professionals don’t agree with. A framed sign on         In a classroom just behind him, an instructor sports a shirt that screams:
Rachel’s desk reads, in friendly, curly script, «If you have come here to     «Psychiatric drugs turn children into Killers!!!» The argument that to-
be cured of a physical illness, see the registrar.» The registrar is a full   day’s youth is over-medicated has perhaps been more tastefully made in
time staffer who schedules auditing sessions. Scientology’s blacklist of      less absolute terms.
diseases, which are «purely psychosomatic» and thus curable through                   On Yale’s campus, academics looking solely at statistics would
auditing, include tuberculosis, heart conditions, the common cold, ar-        disagree with church leaders that psychology is detrimental. «The attack
thritis, and ulcers – from which Hubbard himself suffered. And some of        on psychology is dangerous precisely for people who need reputable
the biggest court battles Scientologists have fought have been against        counseling,» said Professor Butler. University Chaplain Rev. Streets,
the families of the dead who demanded repercussions for an institution        whose office provides pamphlets advertising «Mental Health and Coun-
which pulled their loved ones away from clinically proven modes of            seling Services» alongside pamphlets from «Indigo Blue, A Center for
mental healing toward a «religion» founded on the un-researched ideas         Buddhist Life at Yale,» is also worried about such a hard and fast divi-
of a man who failed grade school.                                             sion. «I believe that there should be and can be a healthy relation between
        Though the religion publicly disavows psychology, Scientolo-          science and health and religion,» he said. «Religious groups make the
gists» core beliefs encapsulate a good deal of psychological rhetoric, an     separation much more strongly than I would.» Like the Christian Right,
irony which isn’t lost on Butler. «Well, I mean, there’s a very crude         cults and religious sects galvanize their various supporters around a
parallel between Scientology and the earliest stages of Christian devel-      «Satanic figure,» Butler argues. «There are certain people in society
opment in the sense that you’re creating a new religious system,» Butler      who thrive on the existence of evil and the personification of evil.» In
observed. «And they use a variety of techniques to create themselves,         order to become a staff member of the Church of Scientology, one must
such as appropriating a language we esteem.»                                  swear an oath that one has not undergone psychoanalysis. Unlike relig-
        Closely following Freud’s theories of repression, Scientologists      ions interested in converting the downtrodden, Scientologists’ restric-
believe that bad memories, or «engrams,» become infused with every-           tion on who it will agree to «help» seems to counter an argument like
thing concurrent to them. To rid the mind of «engrams,» congregants           Don’s that the church is solely interested in «helping people.»
must consciously move their bad memory associations from this «reac-                  There is one segment of the «Gay Ivy» that Scientology might
tive mind» to the portion of their brain which can analyze and under-         not «help,» exactly: homosexual students. «I have gay friends,» says

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