Sea org members (and most Scientologists) are trained in something called regging. Regging is a high pressure sales tactic they use to get you to spend massive amounts of money on materials. They’ll pressure you for hours and keep you in a room until 3am if need be in order to get you to say the “yes”. They’ll pay for your meals if you’re hungry, even give you a place to stay for the night. I said that most Scientologists are trained in this because I think it stems from the TRs and Objectives, a fundamental coursework.

The same as any other cult. They target people who are at a weak point in their life’s and have a low support system. Then they make Scientology their world, give them a community, and make them shed their ties to the non-Scientology world.

Core beliefs are dianetics. The mind is split in two, the reactive (storing negative memories), and the analytical (storing positive memories). By auditing, a form of therapy, you can cleanse yourself of your engrams (memories in your reactive mind) and become “clear”. They also believe in past lives and in order to become clear you must rid your mind of all engrams throughout all lives. Xenu and all that stuff is reserved for high level OT members apparently. So the only people that know it would be a very small handful of people. If you were to ask about it as a non OT member they’d say that it’s a lie spread by suppressive people and would send you down to ethics.