John Travolta Angers Church of Scientology By Admitting Son was Autistic
The Church of Scientology is none to pleased with Jon Travolta. According to a Bahamian police report taken in February after his son Jett’s death last year, John Travolta acknowledged in his own words that “Jett suffered from a seizure disorder and was autistic.” That’s a big no-no in Scientology.
Travolta’s use of the term “autistic” seems to be a break from church doctrine, which teaches that psychiatric diagnoses are fake ailments invented by Nazi psychiatrists so they can give people drugs to keep them from realizing their true potential of controlling the physical world with their minds.
Prior to Jett’s death, his mother Kelly Preston attributed his problems to a rare disorder called Kawasaki disease and to “environmental toxins” from carpet-cleaners. She claimed that a Scientological detoxification regime had helped to ease his symptoms.
After Jett’s death, Scientology representatives denied that the church has taken a stance on autism, saying, “It’s medicine. The church deals with the spirit. If people have a medical problem or a physical ailment, they go to a doctor. It’s church policy that they do so and they get that addressed.” But autism is a psychiatric disorder described in DSM-IV, psychiatry’s diagnostic bible. While a case could be made that Travolta was only using the term generally, to describe a disorder with physical roots that he thought could be explained, Scientology-style, by toxins, it’s certainly unusual for a high-profile representative of the church to use the word.
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But Scientology also does plenty of great. And no, That’s not me the next poster-boy for that bunch. I eventually left the group just about three decades ago. What Scientology does do is assist enhance awareness, specifically spiritual awareness. Personally, that benefit helped me in education, immensely. For an artist friend, it helped him make paintings in hours for what might have taken weeks. Prior to Scientology, conceptually I had usually thought of myself as a spiritual being in a temporary body. With Scientology counseling, that reality became vividly clear. Exterior with full understanding. Performing miracles from the magnitude of those performed by Moses. And most interestingly, I discovered I understood Christianity far much more totally than I ever had.