Tom Cruise, Scientology and XENU

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On Friday October 23th,2009 ABC News Nightline programme covered a story "HOW SCIENTOLOGY ATTRACTS CELEBRITIES". Scientology has long sought high-profile public figures as "Walking Success Stories". Celebrities and the Church of Scientology seem to go hand-in-hand. And actor Tom Cruise is arguably the world's best-known celebrity Scientologist. An excerpt of an interview Tom Cruise gave and which was leaked on the Internet last year, is feactured on the show.

During the course of the programme, Martin Bashir the programmes presenter interviews Sceintologys director of public affairs Tommy Davis. His mother is the actress Anne Archer, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a betrayed housewife in the movie "Fatal Attraction." 

Bashir: Do you believe that ... a galactic emperor called Xenu ... brought his people to earth 75 million years ago and buried them in volcanoes?

Davis: OK.

Bashir: Do you believe that?

Davis: Martin, I am not going to discuss the disgusting perversion of Scientology beliefs that can be found out commonly on the Internet and be put in the position of talking about things for ... that ... talking about things that are so fundamentally offensive to Scientologists to discuss...

Bashir: Well, I ... I have the burden of my own journalistic responsibility ...

Davis: Uh-huh.

Bashir: ... that I bring to this meeting and I hope that, I've been appropriately respectful of you in my asking of the questions ...

Davis: Well, you haven't to the degree that the question that you asked me you know, by virtue of the fact that it's been made very clear in other media entities that it's something that we consider offensive ... It is in violation of my religious beliefs to talk about them.

Bashir: So, just for clarification ... just for clarification, do you personally believe ...

Davis: I'm going to stop you, if you're going to ask me that question again and you're going to repeat things about volcanoes and this kind of thing and so on and so forth, I will stand up and walk out, Martin. Because ... because what you're doing by doing that is you are intentionally asking me things which you know I find offensive, and you're insisting on asking me. So I'm asking you one more time...

Bashir: Mr. Davis ...So, for a moment, if you wouldn't mind, I'm not trying to offend anybody. I'm just trying to ask you a series of questions about the public face that you have. I'm not trying to mock you, I'm trying to understand what your beliefs are.

Davis: Sure.

Bashir: You've explained what auditing is....you've explained the growth of the Church, you've done all of those things.

Davis: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Sure.

Bashir: I am asking you in the context of those questions, in the context of those questions, is it true that L. Ron Hubbard said that understanding the origins of the human race and described through Xenu --

At this point Davis stood up and left the room.

So who is Xenu? Where did he come from and where is he now?  

Once upon a time ( 75 million years ago to be precise ) there was an alien galactic ruler named Xenu. Xenu was in charge of all the planets in this part of the galaxy including our own planet Earth, except in those days it was called Teegeeack.

Now Xenu had a problem. All of the 76 planets he controlled were over-populated. Each planet had on average 178 billion people. He wanted to get rid of all the overpopulation so he had a plan.

Xenu took over complete control with the help of renegades to defeat the good people and the Loyal Officers. Then with the help of psychiatrists he called in billions of people for income tax inspections where they were instead given injections of alcohol and glycol mixed to paralyse them. Then they were put into space planes that looked exactly like DC8s.

These DC8s space planes then flew to planet Earth where the paralysed people were stacked around the bases of volcanoes in their hundreds of billions. When they had finished stacking them around the H-bombs were lowered into the volcanoes. Xenu then detonated all the H-bombs at the same time and everyone was killed.

The story doesn't end there though. Since everyone has a soul ( called a "thetan" in this story ) then you have to trick souls into not coming back again. So while the hundreds of billions of souls were being blown aound by the nuclear winds he had special electronic traps that caught all the souls in electronic beams.

After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".

When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed together as clusters and inhabited these bodies.

As for Xenu, the Loyal officers finally overthrew him and they locked him away in a mountain on one of the planets. He is kept in by a force-field by an eternal battery and Xenu is still alive today. 

Why all the secrecy? What are Scientologists hiding? What are they scared of?

The Church of Scientology forbade individuals from reading of the OT III Xenu story without first having taken prerequisite courses. Scientologists warn that reading the Xenu story without proper authorization could cause death by pneumonia ( apologies to all who read this story and die from reading it ). The Xenu story is part of Scientology's secret "Advanced Technology", normally only revealed to members who have already contributed very large amounts of money. 

Where does the story come from? Who created it?

The Science Fiction writer and creator of Scientology L.Ron Hubbard, wrote XENU also known as OT III in late 1966 and early 1967 in North Africa. In a letter of the time to his third wife Mary Sue Hubbard ( who was later imprisoned for her role in the  largest government infiltration in U.S.A history), Hubbard said that, in order to assist his research, he was drinking alcohol and taking stimulants and depressants ("I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.") His assistant at the time—Virginia Downsborough—said that she had to wean him off the diet of drugs to which he had become accustomed. 

Is the story true? How do we know it is accurate? Who leaked the story?

Despite the Church's efforts to keep the story secret, details have been leaked over the years. OT III was first revealed in Robert Kaufman's 1972 book Inside Scientology, in which Kaufman detailed his own experiences of OT III.  The story  came to greater public fame in a 1985 court case brought against the Church by Lawrence Wollersheim.  The Church failed to have the documents sealed, and attempted to keep the case file checked out by a Scientologist reader at all times, but the story was summarized in the Los Angeles Times later that year.   

Since then, news media have continued to occasionally mention Xenu in coverage of Scientology or its celebrity proponents such as Tom Cruise. In 1987,  the BBC's  investigative news series Panorama aired a report entitled "The Road to Total Freedom?" which featured an outline of the OT III story in cartoon form.

On December 24, 1994, the Xenu story was published on the Internet for the first time. This led to an online battle between Scientology lawywers and detractors.  Older versions of OT levels I to VII were brought as exhibits attached to a declaration by Steve Fishman  on April 9, 1993, as part of Church of Scientology International v. Fishman and Geertz. The text of this declaration and its exhibits, collectively known as the Fishman Affidavit, were posted to the Internet in August 1995 by Arnie Lerma and David S. Touretzky. This was a subject of great controversy and legal battles for several years, notably a copyright raid on Lerma's house (leading to massive mirroring of the documents) and a suit against Dutch  writer Karin Spaink—the Church bringing suit on copyright violation grounds for reproducing the source material, and also claiming rewordings would reveal a trade secret.

The Church's attempts to keep Xenu under wraps have been cited in court findings against it. In September 2003, a Dutch court, in a ruling in the case against Karin Spaink, stated that one objective in keeping OT II and OT III secret was to wield power over members of the Church and prevent discussion about the Church's teachings and practices:

What not to do?

Never, never, never  under any circumstance ask a Scientologist about XENU, either in written or in oral form, either in direct conversation or over the telephone. They may well find it obnoxious and offensive to be asked such a question . It would seem to me at least, that asking  a scientologist about XENU is like asking a Vampire to eat Garlic.