In addition to psychotropic drugs, does Scientology oppose other kinds of medical treatment?
No. They are particularly opposed to antidepressants because they see them as a kind of Band-aid that’s just superficially treating the problem rather than getting to the root of the problem, which is what auditing claims to do. So auditing claims that it can actually get to and pinpoint the exact origin of the problem and get rid of it. There was one case, of a Scientologist named Lisa MacPherson, in 1997, who died in the custody of Scientologists at one of their centers. She had been denied medical treatment and the church claimed that it was treating her in an appropriate way, but she died of dehydration. She was [also] severely malnourished. And there was a criminal prosecution, and Scientology was eventually let off, but it’s still hanging in the courts of the civil case, I believe. There’s a website devoted to her. Is “Dianetics” Scientology’s sacred text? I’ve never heard it described as a sacred text. My sense is that what’s contained in the higher levels of “operating Thetan”
