Later in my involvement, I was commenting to a Scientologist friend on how it
was the "entheta" I'd seen that interested me in Scientology in the first
place, including the Public Eye segment. She was quite proud of how Heber
"controlled the comm cycle" and how "he must be the only person that just made
Bryant Gumbel shut up."
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Monica Pignotti wrote:
> Evan Jones wrote:
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> > In short it was a beautiful interview, and portrayed Scientology
> > correctly for what it is: an applied religious philosophy which
> > is there to help people lead a better life in their own estimation.
>
>Well, what would you expect? The Scientologists also thought that
>the interview with Heber Jentzch on Bryant Gumbel's Public Eye
>was a "beautiful interview".
>
>Monica Pignotti
>
This is very true! I had just gotten involved in Scientology at the time
(literally, I had just walked into the Org the day before that episode of
Public Eye), and my mother and I watched it together. She was quite unimpressed
with Heber, and said he was "ranting" and made Scientology "look like a group
of crazy people." I was slightly embarrassed about the whole thing, and full of
question. The next time I visited the Org, I asked about Lisa McPherson. I
told my mother what I'd learned, and that I believed what Scientology said to
be true.
Later in my involvement, I was commenting to a Scientologist friend on how it
was the "entheta" I'd seen that interested me in Scientology in the first
place, including the Public Eye segment. She was quite proud of how Heber
"controlled the comm cycle" and how "he must be the only person that just made
Bryant Gumbel shut up." I never met a Scientologist who didn't, at least
publicly, greatly admire Heber's performance, and I did discuss this with quite
a few Scientologists in the process of trading how-I-got-involved stories. Even
when I was in Scn, I was bewildered, especially at the beginning of my
involvement, by their admiration of Heber's performance.
I still silently agreed with my mother the whole time, and I am certain that
there were many others also, just silent. It seems it was that way with a lot
of things in Scientology.
Charlotte Kates