a lot of stuff struck me
-one or two cuties
-some really bad hair in there
-the one woman's glasses
-the idea of gauging your spirituality on a point system ("I gained 690 points...")... maybe that's not how it works but that's sure how it sounded
-"you can smell Ron's ink" was killing me

I actually cut Scientology some slack as a religion... who am I to tell somebody else what to believe. As an organization though I tend to give a fair degree of credence to the horror stories, though the really awful stuff seems to be the experience of a minimal number participants.

My biggest client's a former Scientologist. He still feels like it helped him get through some tough times in his life, but I know he has regrets about it.

As far as celebrities go, Joe Boyd's book 'White Bicycles' has some pretty great insight into the change, good and bad, Scientology affected for the Incredible String Band (you know I love those guys), and his own somewhat bemused exploration of it following their conversion.