I grew up in Hemet, CA where they have a compound there. Look it up, there is video on it. My mother owned a home next to an apt complex where a grip of them lived. On a daily basis a bus would come and pick them up and take them there. It was a very surreal thing because they would all get on single file like robots. Even when on the bus they wouldn't look anywhere but forward. I enjoy making people laugh and exchanging jokes on the forum but I am not joking about this. It was REALLY WEIRD. At that point in time I was like a freshman in high school and I tried very hard to get a reaction out of them and I got nothing.
Scientology is not a religion. It is a business. Plain and simple.
Who would have thought, a science fiction writer "discovering" a religion that involves aliens?
Not to mention the lengths they will go to, to finance the "classes".. Liens on homes, etc etc