A little celebrity Scientology news for ya.

[progressoid]

Laura Prepon Credits Scientology for Making Her Calmer


“When I first got into Scientology, I did Personal Values and Integrity and then Overcoming Ups and Downs in Life. These courses touched on the observations I was aware of when I was younger. It was right there in black and white. It was amazing, and I felt that finally something was speaking my language. It totally connected with me,” she explained. “Pretty soon after that I got onto the Purification Rundown, and I started moving up the Bridge.”

The 35-year-old devoted Scientologist went on to explain how “auditing” helped her relax. In case you’re unaware, Scientologly believes that a MEST universe keeps a “thetan” trapped and that through the church’s rituals, you can liberate the thetan from the MEST primarily through a process called “auditing,” which is essentially therapy. (MEST stands for matter, energy, space, and time; and according to the religion, the “thetan (spirit) uses its mind as a control system between itself and the physical universe.”)

“The auditing has stripped away all of this charge, false ideas, decisions and mis-emotions that were affecting me. I recently had one of my biggest cognitions in a New Era Dianetics session,” she explained. “I spotted this decision I made a long time ago that was affecting me to this day. It was a huge realization…When you really cognate that you are a thetan and you have a mind and body, and that the MEST universe does not control you - it puts things into perspective. It takes the weight off you and things become very easy."



http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/laura-prepon-credits-scientology-for-making-her-calmer-201577#ixzz3ifIIaPPx

Saw this in a magazine at a friends house.

[Warpy]

1. Celebrity? Who the fuck is she supposed to be?

I just can't keep all these new fake celebrities straight.

[progressoid]

2. Also from "That 70's Show"

Apparently Danny Masterson (lower right) is also a Scientologist.

[kickysnana]

3. Donna in "70's Show" and forensic artist/sleuth in Lifetime Movie(s).

If she wanted to give away her money for some bad advice, I was available but I could not offer up Tom Cruz and Vinnie Barbarino as testimonials.

[onager]

6. Thanks for jogging my memory.

Knew I'd seen that face. I'm a big fan of Lifetime's true crime movies (but NOT the crappy rom-coms). So that's where I've seen her.

Or...Lifetime movies, Where Careers Go To Die. Good old Rob Lowe is a staple there. Just off the top of my head, he has played these parts and probably more:

--Illinois wife-killer Drew Peterson
--Georgia wife-and-girlfriend killer Bart Corbin
--In a rare turn as a victim, Fontainebleau hotel heir Ben Novack Jr. Who was whacked in a really gruesome way by his wife Narcy and her brother. The twosome had already murdered Novack's elderly mother for inheritance purposes.

[Rob H.]

4. Cognitive behavioral therapy would've done the same thing

without all the aliens and atom bombs and volcanoes and shit, and for a LOT less money.

"I felt that finally something was speaking my language." <Starts spouting Scientology gibberish.>

[DetlefK]

5. Maybe if schools focused less on materialism...

Tell the kids about philosophy, about the models of the human mind that exist. Tell them about the greek philosophers, about Confucius...

Get the kid to think about its mind and discover it and become self-aware and form its own opinions before some cult comes along with
"You have been lied to the entire time! This is the truth!"

Oh, who am I kidding. There already is a cult in school who tells kids "This is the ultimate truth!"

[Brainstormy]

7. "mis-emotions"?

You gotta love that.

[edhopper]

8. My guess is she didn't

watch the HBO Documentary.

[LiberalAndProud]

9. Add the role of Alex in Orange is the New Black.

Religious delusions aside, she's an interesting actor.

[AlbertCat]

10. Klonopin is less embarrassing.