Mel, you look great. I think the Scientology is working, I really do.

梅尔，你气色不错。山达基教还是起作用的。真的。

The women have since left the church of Scientology which they are also suing in a civil case.

自那以后，这两名妇女离开了山达基教会，她们还对该教会发起了一项民事案件。

Or the teenager arrested for calling the Church of Scientology a cult.

或者那个因称山达基教会为邪教而被捕的少年。

I had to do a little research, myself, to find out about Scientology.

我必须自己做一些研究，才能了解山达基教派。

Scientology has fought long battles for acceptance as a religion.

【battle】科学论派为使人们接受它为一种宗教而展开了长期的斗争。

Well, L. Ron Hubbard started this movement called Scientology; it is sometimes called a religion.

嗯，L。 罗恩·哈伯德 (Ron Hubbard) 发起了一场名为山达基的运动。它有时被称为宗教。

It came just after he had taken up Scientology and, with it, began to wonder about the effect he could have in the world.

当时他刚皈依山达基教，开始思考自己能给世界带来什么影响。

She soon came to believe that no part of her life would be off limits to Scientology.

她很快就相信她生命中的任何部分都不会对山达基教有所保留。

Then she had a near-fatal car accident that shook her to the core, and Scientology's teachings suddenly piqued her interest.

然后，她发生了一场几乎致命的车祸，把她吓得魂飞魄散，山达基的教义突然激起了她的兴趣。

Scientology, like some other religions, believes that you have an immortal soul.

像其他一些宗教一样，山达基相信你有一个不朽的灵魂。

My entire adult existence was founded on the guidelines of Scientology. I thought I was progressing toward a higher state of being.

我的整个成年生活都建立在山达基的指导原则之上。我以为我正在向更高的状态前进。

But, Scientology is against both of these things.

但是，山达基反对这两件事。

Now that her years-long battle with Scientology is behind her, LeClair hopes it will prove to be about something bigger than herself.

现在，她与山达基教长达数年的斗争已经过去，勒克莱尔希望这会是一件比她自己更重要的事情。

I was ordered to walk the halls of the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Hollywood asking random members to read and sign my confession.

我奉命在好莱坞山达基名人中心的大厅里来回走动，随机邀请成员阅读我的供词并签名。

The self-described poster girl for Scientology had fallen in love with a woman, and, she says, the controversial church did not approve.

这位自称“山达基的海报女郎”的人爱上了一个女人，她说，这个有争议的教会不赞成。

Steve looked over the booklet. This is Scientology! he said. A cult! I'm not going there. Are you out of your mind?

史蒂夫把小册子看了一遍。“这是山达基! ”“这是狂热崇拜！我不去那里。你疯了吗？”

In fact, the building here in Los Angeles where the Scientologists - the people who believe in Scientology - is called the Church of Scientology.

事实上，山达基教徒（相信山达基教的人）在洛杉矶的这座建筑被称为山达基教堂。

We were going to save the world! And then it became perfectly clear: I would never be free to be me and be a member of the Church of Scientology.

我们要拯救世界！然后事情就变得很清楚了：我永远都不能自由地做我自己，只能成为山达基教会的一员。

I knew little about Scientology except what I'd gleaned from my mother-that practitioners gained self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment through training fashioned after founder L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics self-help book.

我对山达基知之甚少，只从母亲那里知道了一些——教徒们模仿创始人L.罗恩·哈伯德(L. Ron Hubbard)的《智力学》自助书籍的内容进行训练，借此获得自我认识和精神满足。

Scientology was started by an American science fiction writer, a man by the name of L. Ron Hubbard, and it began back in the 1950s as what we would probably describe as a self-help philosophy.

山达基教是由一位名叫 L. Ron Hubbard 的美国科幻作家创立的，它始于 1950 年代，我们可能将其描述为一种自助哲学。