Inside Scientology’s ‘Super Power Building’ where worshippers can become superhuman

Daniel Miller
Daily Mail 
September 28, 2011

These incredible images show the inside of the Church of Scientology’s new $90m training centre where devotees of the controversial religion will be told they can develop superhuman abilities.

The Super Power Building in Clearwater, Florida, is due to finally open later this year after being beset by a long series of delays, which saw construction halt and costs spiral.

The imposing structure, a bizarre cross between a Mediterranean-style hotel and the Starship Enterprise, boasts 889 rooms, an indoor running track and Nasa-style training equipment to help worshipers boost their ‘theta’ power. 

The building contains specially developed equipment, which the church claims,’expands on the technology developed by Nasa to train astronauts’. Among the most bizarre contraptions is the anti-gravity simulator – a gyroscope that spins a person around while blindfolded to improve their perception of compass direction.

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8 Responses to “Inside Scientology’s ‘Super Power Building’ where worshippers can become superhuman”

  1. this is a disgrace on true science.

    • I was trying to think of what to say but I see YOU hit the nail on the head with a hammer, MR.MCDANIEL.

      Thank you!

  2. These Tom Cruise idiots are a laughing stock…

    • Charles Manson was a scientologist. That outta tell people something.

  3. Mad science is fun, but Scientologists desperately need a better PR guy.

  4. I don’t know much about Scientology except that L. Ron Hubbard was a major fraud, drug user, alcoholic, philanderer, abuser and liar. I like the absurd pricing schedule they use to remove emgrams (part of your memory) as you are being audited (sick).

    Brainwashing is a very simple mechanism. One gets a person to agree that something might be a certain way and then drives him by introverting him and through self-criticism to the possibility that is that way. Only then does a man believe that the erroneous fact was a truth. By gradient scale of hammering, pounding and torture, brainwashers are able to make people believe that these people [i.e., the victims] saw and did things which they never did do (Hubbard, 1957: 84; also quoted in Hubbard, 1976b: 55)

    I guess you can really become superhuman when you forget you are human. Junk science. Good luck brainwashed superhumans. Then you can marry Katie Holmes and get her addicted to it too.

    As subjects being audited hold metal cans connected to the device, “The e-meter (many were for sale on ebay) emits a low-level electric charge that goes to the brain,” explains former Scientologist… Arnaldo Lerma. “In response to that stressful stimulation, the body releases endorphins, hormones that cause a pain-killing, mood-elevating effect.”

    David Touretzky, a research at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, says that auditing may also spark an endorphin release in another way. “One hypothesis is that there is an endorphin bump caused by the focused attention of the auditor,” Touretzky tells Star. “It’s socially rewarding.”

    Either way, for Katie and thousands of other Scientologists, those endorphins can be a natural drug, Dr. Gregory A. Smith, a California addiction expert.

    (Did anyone think about taking an early morning run of 5 or more miles? What a bunch of crap.)

    “Endorphins are natural painkillers in the brain that block pain receptors from within the body exactly the same way drugs like morphine kill pain from an external source,” Dr. Smith explains.

    “So when you stimulate endorphin activity within the brain, you are doing the exact same thing as taking morphine or other opiates, such as heroin on opium.

  5. Wow, what ever happened to good old-fashioned talismans and quartz crystals?

    • Look up the Cult Awareness Netework, Scientology controls it.

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