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O.K. first of all, David Miscavage, the leader of Scientology looks like a legit psychopath.
I read the Vanity Fair article and this is one of the quotes that stuck out to me.
This cryptic explanation only fueled the mystery. Had Shelly fled the church? Was she in hiding? Some Scientology defectors believe she was exiled to one of several secretive and heavily guarded bases the church owns in remote western locales. There, the sources say, those who are banned endure lives of isolation, menial labor, and penury. The reason, they claim, is simple. “The law [in Scientology] is: The closer to David Miscavige you get, the harder you’re going to fall,” says Claire Headley, an ex-Scientologist who, along with her husband, Marc, worked closely with the Miscaviges. “It’s like the law of gravity, practically. It’s just a matter of when.”
I would guess that she was either murdered by the psychopath above, or she is drugged and held in some locked room somewhere because she threatened to leave him or something. 10 years is a long time to not be seen.
Then you have stuff like this.
Miscavige, who is about five feet five inches and was chronically asthmatic, had always defied his physical limitations. In the middle-class suburbs of Philadelphia, where he was raised, he had pursued his family’s passions—from football to Scientology—with terrier-like aggression. By the age of 12, he was conducting auditing sessions with adults. At 16 he dropped out of high school and, like all new Sea Org members, signed a billion-year contract that locked him in full-time and forever.
You have to realize that "audits" are a process by which Scientologists subject themselves to long interviews, sometimes hours, to let go of their past and cleanse their energy and be able to move to the next level of spiritual evolution. The audits are performed by higher level Scientologists that themselves already went through the audit process. For the current leader to have been performing audits at age 12 is like him being the chosen one.
So what they do is they hook you up with these potato machines and they ask you all these personal questions for hours at a time, this could go on for weeks or even months until the machine registers the correct amount of energy for you to pass on to the next level.
Then you have that people say he was prone to fits of violence.
While Miscavige had a hair-trigger temper that produced sudden fits of verbal and physical violence, according to several sources—at one point, he’d punched his own auditor—most of the time he was just a fun-loving wunderkind.
And of course this.
“We were kids, and it was all exciting, and it was all the future, and it evolved and evolved,” says Mark “Marty” Rathbun, who at the time served as Miscavige’s top deputy. “The thrill lasted about three years after the old man died. After that time, it progressed to insanity.”
Scientology is well sealed off from the rest of society. It would be difficult for the police to pull up to their main facilities and even make it inside. It would be fairly easy for him to get rid of his wife and just sweep it under the rug.
I read the Vanity Fair article and this is one of the quotes that stuck out to me.
This cryptic explanation only fueled the mystery. Had Shelly fled the church? Was she in hiding? Some Scientology defectors believe she was exiled to one of several secretive and heavily guarded bases the church owns in remote western locales. There, the sources say, those who are banned endure lives of isolation, menial labor, and penury. The reason, they claim, is simple. “The law [in Scientology] is: The closer to David Miscavige you get, the harder you’re going to fall,” says Claire Headley, an ex-Scientologist who, along with her husband, Marc, worked closely with the Miscaviges. “It’s like the law of gravity, practically. It’s just a matter of when.”
I would guess that she was either murdered by the psychopath above, or she is drugged and held in some locked room somewhere because she threatened to leave him or something. 10 years is a long time to not be seen.
Then you have stuff like this.
Miscavige, who is about five feet five inches and was chronically asthmatic, had always defied his physical limitations. In the middle-class suburbs of Philadelphia, where he was raised, he had pursued his family’s passions—from football to Scientology—with terrier-like aggression. By the age of 12, he was conducting auditing sessions with adults. At 16 he dropped out of high school and, like all new Sea Org members, signed a billion-year contract that locked him in full-time and forever.
You have to realize that "audits" are a process by which Scientologists subject themselves to long interviews, sometimes hours, to let go of their past and cleanse their energy and be able to move to the next level of spiritual evolution. The audits are performed by higher level Scientologists that themselves already went through the audit process. For the current leader to have been performing audits at age 12 is like him being the chosen one.
So what they do is they hook you up with these potato machines and they ask you all these personal questions for hours at a time, this could go on for weeks or even months until the machine registers the correct amount of energy for you to pass on to the next level.
Then you have that people say he was prone to fits of violence.
While Miscavige had a hair-trigger temper that produced sudden fits of verbal and physical violence, according to several sources—at one point, he’d punched his own auditor—most of the time he was just a fun-loving wunderkind.
And of course this.
“We were kids, and it was all exciting, and it was all the future, and it evolved and evolved,” says Mark “Marty” Rathbun, who at the time served as Miscavige’s top deputy. “The thrill lasted about three years after the old man died. After that time, it progressed to insanity.”
Scientology is well sealed off from the rest of society. It would be difficult for the police to pull up to their main facilities and even make it inside. It would be fairly easy for him to get rid of his wife and just sweep it under the rug.
BBC's panorama scientology expose's and HBO's going clear are a better watch.
