“Now the real work begins,” her Case Supervisor said. “You’ve erased the reactive mind. Next: Operating Thetan.”

She keeps one souvenir: the plastic “Clear” badge. On the back, she has written in Sharpie: “I am not clear. I am free.”

Over the next three months, she was “routed out” — a process designed to be so degrading that you stay. She was forced to scrub floors with a toothbrush, then sign a “Freeloader Debt” bill for all the training she’d ever received ($150,000). When she didn’t sign, she was declared “Suppressive Person.”