Going Clear Movie Part 4, Hana Eltringham.
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Mark Rathbun: Hana Eltringham is brought in at 27:30 into the movie. Hana Eltringham has been a known drama queen on the subject of Scientology for many, many years. The omissions are amazing. She is very dramatic. But there is no balance whatsoever. Number one, a lot of what she says is discredited by the fact of what she said in the book. What was she trying to get out of Scientology? After all, that is what Lawrence Wright said this was all about. The movie, the book the whole thing, “what allures you?” What allures her was, she had some involvement with a crazy aunt who was a Rosicrucian that told her that Rosicrucian mythology said “later in the century there is going to be a redhead guru that appears, and he is going to be a vessel of God.” And, that is why she joined. Because L. Ron Hubbard had red hair; and she wanted to be at the feet of the Lord. No wonder she didn’t understand anything she studied in Scientology. She wasn’t there for that. She wanted to be a supplicant to the chosen one. Number two, she condemns the whole subject and says it’s a fraud. Just like Haggis, “I knew it was a fraud when I saw this stuff”, and yet, she is in it for another twenty years after she has “already determined it’s a fraud.” Even after she left the church of Scientology, she was still trying to monopolize the technology of Scientology. She brought suit for a billions dollars to try to destroy the church. It was booted out of court. It was only then that she picked up this whole schtick of the dramatic damsel. Just context. They use her and Paul Haggis, who were people who just either didn’t get the subject or didn’t want to get it, to talk about the core of Scientology. So, the bizarre that we’ve come to now (through twenty minutes of Gibney’s film) is just compounded through that. Look, Larry Wright had me devote all manner of time to go through it with him so that he would understand Scientology…watch the film and see how much explaining of Scientology I’m doing. Zero. They’ve literally taken some bites of where I had some criticism of the organization personally, and nothing about the substance of Scientology. It is based on the invention of Gibney and Wright, and then exacerbated by Eltringham and Haggis.
Moving On Up a Little Higher 