He was determined to avoid the usual claim that Dianetics offered a triumphal march toward enlightenment.

NEWYORKER: The Apostate

He shot a group of Scientologists talking about the practical ways that they had used Dianetics.

NEWYORKER: The Apostate

In 1988, Scientology sponsored a Dianetics car in the Indianapolis 500.

NEWYORKER: The Apostate

Observing Zwick and Herskovitz at work got Haggis interested in directing, and when the church asked him to make a thirty-second ad about Dianetics he seized the chance.

NEWYORKER: The Apostate

Jefferson Hawkins, a former Sea Org member and church executive who worked with Haggis on the rejected Dianetics ad campaign, told me that Miscavige had struck or beaten him on five occasions, the first time in 2002.

NEWYORKER: The Apostate

Dianetics counselling had dramatically alleviated the symptoms.

NEWYORKER: The Apostate

There's no doubt about it that the people that didn't make it in Hollywood ? and I mean survive ? if they'd had Scientology or Dianetics they would have been here today, whether it was Elvis or Marilyn or...

BBC: [an error occurred while processing this directive]

He named his system Dianetics.

NEWYORKER: The Apostate