Was Scientology Partly Responsible for the Manson Family Murders?
We all know how the Church of Scientology likes to wheel out its Celebrity recruits in an attempt to give the cult and its arcane practices an air of respectability. Less well known, however, are the cult’s infamous Celebrity parishioners, which include no other than CHARLES MANSON, the lunatic who ordered his followers to murder actress Sharon Tate, entrepreneur Leno LaBianca and a number of others – and, whilst on trial, for carving a Nazi Swastika into his own forehead. Manson was introduced to Scientology by Lanier Rayner, a cell mate at McNeil Island Penitentiary, Washington, in 1961. Manson became so obsessed with Scientology that he would speak of nothing else and, when asked by the prison service for his religion, he would reply “Scientology.” It is known that whilst serving this prison sentence, Manson took over 150 hours of Scientology training. It has been documented that when Manson was released from prison in 1967, he had developed a philosophy of life that blended Sciento
