Edgar Winter

03/27/20 • 14 min

Celebrities are an important part of luring people into Scientology and accepting that the information and technology L. Ron Hubbard wrote actually works.

In the first decade of my life in scientology I was regularly shown photos of celebrities from race car drivers to athletes to actors and their testimonials that raved about what scientology did for them. The magazines the church printed always had a celebrity on the front.

I didn't know that it was all vetted and built to be promotional pieces (I was a child) so I believed every word of it. I also did not know that this was a strategy L. Ron Hubbard wrote to strategically get people to join.

Celebrities in scientology get special treatment. They are coddled and fawned over. Every Sea Org member basically kisses their butts to make them happy. In hindsight, I SMH when I think about how I helped create this fake world.

In this episode, I share how certain celebrities helped me become even more dedicated to L. Ron Hubbard and serving in the Sea Organization despite the abuse I was going through...as a child.

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Does Scientology Believe In God or A GOD?

We are merely meat. Meat bodies. I mean, we inhabit meat bodies.
Life is going to repeat for us. What about God? Where does God enter into my world as a Scientologist? Since I was dedicating my entire life to Scientology Aims, Goals, Directives for LRH would my next life be better? Who keeps track of all of this crap?

I explain how I explained to myself, “Was there God?” “Is there A GOD?” I had to figure it out alone and I began to question it way too late.

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The Mysterious Return of a Family "Friend" - Episode 11

In the 1970s a woman befriended my mother. She was a scientologist that worked for a few of the Sea Organization church groups: Guardian's Office/Office Of Special Affairs (today) and Author Services. Mom really loved her and for the rest of her life, she talked about that friendship.

My mother, who had to dumpster dive to feed us, spent every extra moment she had executing the orders coming from these two groups. From sending my sister and me into a bookstore to buy every L. Ron Hubbard book at Waldenbooks (and storing them all in every extra space we had in our house) to sitting in a make-shift electric shock machine on the State Capital stairs.

Now don't get me wrong, Kathy may have had NOTHING to do with any of these shenanigans but one thing is for sure: she knows about it all. She was my mom's "friend".

In 2020 why is Kathy back on my radar? My mom passed away in 2006. Now that I think about it no one from scientology stepped up to help us during that time. That's another story.

How is LinkedIn and Kathy Wattman and scientology connected? This is what I dissect a bit...and why I'm worried about it.

PS: I do not capitalize the word scientology on purpose.

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