The Tables Have Turned
“Parsons showed Hubbard a way – a kind of format for forming a religion,” Pendle said. “Crowley came up with this kind of structure of a mystical society. A hierarchy where you move your way up, and each time you move up a level, you find out more, but you have to pay to move up those levels. And so, I feel like Scientology’s whole structure is based on this cult that Parsons was part of.”
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Parsons always did what he wanted with whomever he wanted. Betty leaving him for his “friend,” made the mad-scientist uncharacteristically jealous, and he dealt with it in strange ways. Sure, he did a lot of unconventional things, but, at this point, he seemed to be falling deep into a downward spiral.