Tom Cruise conundrum

[Rev. Rye]

One other thing that helps, oftentimes, they look for desperate people. People with problems (ideally psychosomatic) they can potentially solve. If you've read Ruthless, you'll know that Ron Miscavige got into it in the first place because he was having headaches, and a fellow salesman (who happened to be a Scientologist) told him that, if he wanted to get rid of those headaches, all he had to do was look at the mirror and give it to the guy in the mirror. Crazy enough, it worked. It even cured his son David's asthma and allergies.

From what I've read, that's generally how they tend to bring people in: using the thin end of the wedge. And by the time they figure out that this self-help organization they're a part of is actually a fucking space cult, they've spent a bare minimum of $278,273.25 (assuming, of course, that you don't have to retake any courses or that you don't give any donations to the Co$, which is probably not likely, given how obsessive they are pressuring members to cough up more money in donations). That amount is slightly less than the median price for a home in New Hampshire. Hell, you could buy two in Alabama for that money.