The weekly show where I answer viewer questions left in the comment section of my Q&A videos or sent to me by email at [email protected]. This week, the questions I answer are:

(1) Who ACTUALLY has the power in the “church” to declare someone an SP? Do they all come direct from Miscavige? If they don’t, does he need to approve all of them? Or is it something lower ranking executives at Org levels have the power to issue without higher approval?

(2) I’m interested in the beaching policy. Could you explain the offenses that would result in beaching and does beaching automatically declare you or does it mean you go public or make amends? I would love to hear an interview of a former Sea Org member who was beached.

(3) So Scientology all begins with potentially a body router gets you to come into an Org & you fill out the questionnaire and probably whatever you write the rep is undoubtedly going to say…”we can help you with that” and so it begins. So now you begin your arduous and expensive journey up the Bridge to Total Freedom. Then as you continue to rise, you will experience some basic gains such as the Communications Course and then you come across other issues on things that don’t make as much sense as the earlier courses but you think that as you have spent all this money maybe it’s just you since other people around you seem to be doing well. Maybe the next level will clarify things. And so it keeps going but then once you have read OT 3 and accepted what it says, the next levels makes no sense to me.

From what I understand is that you now pay an increasingly large amount of money and audit yourself which is called I believe solo auditing. You are identifying where all of your body thetans are located and removing them one by one. Correct me if I’m wrong here but isn’t that like for example wanting to learn French and you pay a large amount of money and are given a book and told read it and that will be $50K. Anyway assuming this unbelievably is still making sense to you, you then continue on up to OT 7 & then finally to OT 8.

I have many books by all of the major critics and I listen to as many You Tube shows and podcasts on this subject as possible. I am almost addicted to this subject as it’s so damn interesting but in the same way a car crash is. It’s hard not to look as most of the stories are amazing and what’s more they are real. So what I really want to know is whether I’m correct in my assertion that the main benefit of paying all that money and the hours of studying is so that when you die you now have the ability to choose a body and return to Earth with full memory of your past life and be a full OT 8 Scientologist. Do I have this right? What is the point of doing this as the big prize at the top of The Bridge is basically unattainable to the rank-and-file Scientologist. Please help me to understand.

(4) Has Scientology historically favored a particular political party or are they just opportunists who seek to corrupt any government officials that further their goals, regardless of affiliation?

(5) You once told me that it has been a long long time since Miscavige was in session. If he were to get hurt (ex: break a leg skiing), would he also go through PTS Handling, or would he just go to one of his secluded mansions and stay out of site until he was feeling better? Or would he just pick some Sea Org person on his staff, and say they are the PTS and tell his subordinates to “…sec check the bleep out of that person…” i.e. skip any formal PTS process? I’m guessing he must have caught a cold, or gotten hurt sometime in the last few years.

(6) What remake/reboot/sequel are you most looking forward to in 2019?

(7) How similar is Scientology to black magic, which Hubbard studied? Does black magic work?

(8) I think you mentioned somewhere that even people who trained with L. Ron Hubbard himself had to re-do their training. How could they justify that?