Anonymous ID: 02c7f8 June 20, 2019, 11:27 p.m. No.6805020   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Sorry, Wikipedia:

 

Freewinds is the exclusive training center for OT VIII (Operating Thetan Level 8), the highest level of Scientology and the last of the published OT levels. Members of the Church of Scientology who have reached the highest levels must receive their training on the Freewinds, as the Church does not deliver this service anywhere else.[14]

 

Besides the OT VIII training, Freewinds is used for delivering lower-level classes, auditing services, and recreational activities for Scientologists. The ship hosts a "Freewinds Maiden Voyage" each June as an "OT Summit" for high-ranking Scientologists at which Scientology accomplishments and plans for the future are publicly celebrated.[15]

 

A significant portion of the ship is given over to its use as a religious retreat for Scientologists. As well as various course rooms and a library of L. Ron Hubbard books, Freewinds has areas given over to the Religious Technology Center, Sea Org and International Association of Scientologists. As is common practice in other Scientology organizations, the ship also has an "LRH Office" symbolically set aside for L. Ron Hubbard's use (Hubbard died in January 1986, approximately nine months before the vessel was purchased).

 

Allegations of abuse onboard

In 2011, former Sea Org member Valeska Paris reported that she had been imprisoned onboard the Freewinds to prevent her from leaving Scientology, after joining at age 14. Once she was taken to the ship, expecting to be on board for two weeks, Paris said her passport was taken away and she was held on the ship against her will and forced into manual labor for 12 years, and unable to leave the ship without an escort for six years.

 

Her story was corroborated by a former Sea Org member who said "[Valeska] made it very clear she did not want to be there. She had been sent to the ship so as not to be in contact with one of her parents and that's not what she wanted, she was very, very distressed." The Church of Scientology has denied the claims.

 

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