Celebrity web sites are teeming with publicity for Kirsty Alley's new Organic Liaison "weight loss program".
Some web posters are spitefully alleging that her program is a faddish, useless, rip-off of technology invented by the world's greatest humanitarian and reclusive civil rights campaigner, L Ron Hubbard.
Web posters have been asking questions to the effect of "Can't Scientology, the world's best value religion, with all Kirsty Alley has spent on it, do something practical to help her with self control and get her to stop eating so much?"
Blogs are also alleging Ms Alley's profits from the scheme will be funnelled back to the Church of Scientology through WISE, the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises.
However, bearing in mind that a major purpose of WISE is to "prevent any business-related distraction or outside influence created by the public from interfering with the lines of the Churches of Scientology", does this really seem likely? Would WISE really be trying to profit from a Public Relations disaster based on selling corrupted L Ron Hubbard technology?
One could only imagine the short shrift an overweight Joe Scientologist off the street would be given if he started creating PR trouble by promoting ineffective therapies that were basically a rip-off of techniques invented by L Ron Hubbard.
In truth, Scientology can help with everything, including weight problems, because it is the greatest spiritual technology ever invented and its statistics are provably rocketing through the roof because of its fantastic successes for people from all walks of life.
However, Ms Alley is a high-level Operating Thetan or OT. Ms Alley has spent more than most people could afford in order to achieve special G*d-like Scientology abilities never before available in human history, putting her several levels above Jesus Christ, for example. This achievement would give her special powers such as the ability not to over-eat.
As Ms Alley said: "Say you have a problem in your life: a compulsion to strangle mice. That just came up. No reason. Anyway, say you wake up every day and you just can't wait to find a mouse, and it's taking up a lot of your time. You'd have a couple sessions in Scientology and soon you wake up and decide you'd rather go to Home Depot. You'd see a mouse on the way and not have any desire to strangle it. You're just, "Hey, there's a mouse." Scientology takes barriers out of your life and lets you have more fun. What I'm saying is that it's fun to have control, to solve problems, to eliminate compulsions. I define compulsion as anything you feel like you have to do that you don't necessarily want to do."
To billions of uninformed outsiders - the billions of future Scientologists - it might seem that Ms Alley is either trying to be a living billboard that Scientology does not work, or that she is not really a high-level practising Scientologist. Ms Alley's recurrent obesity seems to suggest that Scientology is not much help, even for simple issues such as self-control, even for top-level Scientologists like herself.
In truth, the physical meat body is not of great concern to a true Scientologist. Indeed, L Ron Hubbard, who was somewhat overweight at times, did not take great care of his body, smoke, drank, experimented with substances and chose to depart his body and let it be cremated. However, even a low-grade Scientologist could use such simple techniques as putting themselves into a condition of Emergency until they lost weight, or using an assist to provide nutrition to trouble areas and allow the drainage of waste products from their meat bodies.
This "Organic Liaison" publicity is not good publicity. Fairly or not, it puts Ms Alley in a bad light and, more importantly, puts Scientology in a bad light. It's Ms Alley's choice how she deals with her own credibility, but it becomes a serious matter when it tarnishes Scientology.
Celebrities are given a special, superior status in Scientology, just like they would be accustomed to being given in many hotels and restaurants. Indeed Celebrities get preferential treatment and their own Celebrity Centers. This is a much better deal than a Celebrity would get in many other churches, and it should be appreciated.
However, one has to be alert to Celebrities abusing their privileges.
I, for one, hope that Kirsty Alley will soon appear on Oprah to cleat things up and announce the end of "Organic Liaison".
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