16 October 2018
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Nikita Petrov (nikitapetrov.me) and Tony Ortega (tonyortega.org, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely)
- How the Church of Scientology managed to run a “prison” . 02:37
- L. Ron Hubbard’s theory of the mind . 06:50
- “Auditing” and the “superpowers” it leads to . 11:09
- Did Hubbard believe his own mythology? . 21:35
- The cruel humor of LRH’s space opera . 33:50
- The SeaOrg: A billion years of snitching and interrogations . 01:04:17
- Scientology after Hubbard and outside the U.S. . 01:28:02
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Recorded:Feb 28
Posted:Mar 13, 2017
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