Or at least one person believes that Scientology gives him super powers. Maybe Britney Spears could play a nude Scientologist with super powers? Apparently, there is a whole new level of Scientology that only one person has reached. No, it's not Tom Cruise. It' Matt Feshbach. He senses danger faster than most people. He appreciates beauty more deeply than he used to. He says he outperforms his peers in the money management industry.
Whoa. Scientology super powers can make you appreciate beauty more deeply and succeed in business? Where do I sign up? Oh, and how much will that set me back financially?
He heightened his powers of perception in 1995 when he went to Los Angeles and became the first and so far only "public" Scientologist to take a highly classified Scientology program called Super Power.Where in L.A. did he do this? "Just in Los Angeles," is all Feshbach will say. Super Power is that secret.
Under wraps for decades, Super Power now is being prepped for its eventual rollout in Scientology's massive building in downtown Clearwater. That will be the only place worldwide where the program, much anticipated by Scientologists, will be offered.
A key aim of Super Power is to enhance one's perceptions - and not just the five senses we all know - hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard taught that people have 57 "perceptics." They include an ability to discern relative sizes, blood circulation, balance, compass direction, temperature, gravity and an "awareness of importance, unimportance."
Church officials won't discuss specifics of Super Power. But Feshbach and another prominent Clearwater Scientologist who, like Feshbach, is a major donor to Super Power's building fund, provided some details in interviews with the St. Petersburg Times. A group of former Scientologists who worked for the church on a campus in California where the program was in development also described elements of it.
Super Power uses machines, apparatus and specially designed rooms to exercise and enhance a person's so-called perceptics. Those machines include an antigravity simulator and a gyroscope-like apparatus that spins a person around while blindfolded to improve perception of compass direction, said the former Scientologists.
Tell me why again the world thinks this religion is freaky?
Just in case you were wondering what some of the perceptics were, a list of a ll 57 perceptics, with L. Ron Hubbard's words in parentheses, are after the jump.
Scientology nearly ready to unveil Super Power [St. Petersburg Times]
(Image via Golden Fiddle)
Timen Sight
Tasten Colorn Depth
Solidity (barriers)
Relative sizes (external)
Sound
Pitch
Tone
Volume
Rhythm
Smell
Touch (pressure, friction, heat or cold and oiliness)
Personal emotion
Endocrine states
Awareness of awareness
Personal size
Organic sensation (including hunger)
Heartbeat
Blood circulation
Cellular and bacterial position
Gravitic (self and other weights)
Motion of self
Motion (exterior)
Body position
Joint position
Internal temperature
External temperature
Balance
Muscular tension
Saline content of self (body)
Fields/magnetic
Time track motion
Physical energy (personal weariness, etc.)
Self-determinism
Moisture (self)
Sound direction
Emotional state of other organs
Personal position on the tone scale*
Affinity (self and others)
Communication (self and others)
Reality (self and others)
Emotional state of groups
Compass direction
Level of consciousness
Pain
Perception of conclusions (past and present)
Perception of computation (past and present)
Perception of imagination (past and present)
Perception of having perceived (past and present)
Awareness of not knowing
Awareness of importance, unimportance
Awareness of others
Awareness of location and placement (masses, spaces and location itself)
Perception of appetite
Kinesthesia
*Scientology's tone scale, as defined in The Scientology Handbook: A scale which shows the successive emotional tones a person can experience.Source: Scientology 0-8, The Book of Basics, by L. Ron Hubbard.
2 Old 4 This says:
Not to mention what Super Powers have done for his acting career!
Seriously, Don't PF Flyers help you do all the same stuff? Run faster, jump higher?
maggie says:
Isn't that Danny Masterson in the photo?
Small Fry says:
Call me when this douche bag can predict lottery numbers. I can't believe some people actually fall for this crap.
Small Fry says:
Oh and one more thing. If you take a look at the list, most people with common sense have most of the abilities listed....awareness of awareness...yes, I'm aware that I'm aware of things, DER!
las says:
I think, therefore I am. WOW! I have Scientology superpowers!
Seriously, who is dumb enough to fall for this? Aside from a selection of Hollywoodites...
Lina says:
I used to think I had super powers... but then, I was 5 and was trying to fly while jumping off of the picnic table.
chars says:
check out this site
http://celebrityreligion.typepad.com/celebrity_religion/2006/05/scientology_sup.html
GERRY NEITA says:
WOW! SOMETHING IS SO WRONG WITH YOUR BLOG - YOUR PERCEPTICS ARE OBVIOUSLY DULLED BY DRUGS AND ALCOHOL. GET SOME SPIRITUALITY AND LAY OFF PEOPLE WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL. TOM CRUISE HAS BEEN A SUPERSTAR FOR 25 YEARS AND YOU'VE PROBABLY ONLY BEEN OUT OF DIAPERS FOR A FEW YEARS.
The True Voice of Reality says:
I just wonder how anyone can believe in a religion that was invented by a person (L. Ron Hubbard) who once said, "I can make a religion about anything and people will believe it."
Looks like he did...only problem is he died before he could tell everyone it was a joke!