Testing Openness to Scientology - 2005-06-12
Testing Openness to Scientology June 12, 2005,
The Rev. Susan Taylor, the D.C. church's president, said the stress test is a way for the organization to spread the message of Scientology, a faith movement that acolytes have lauded for helping people gain control of negative emotions but that skeptics have dismissed as a cult. "It goes back to" the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said Taylor as she retreated from the table to the shade. "After 9/11, it was realized by many people the amount of stress is incredible, and we feel we have some tools that can be beneficial."
Among those tools are the electrometers, which come with an array of dials and a roving needle. Taylor described the device as a "religious artifact used as a spiritual guide," not a "psychological or scientific instrument."
{{cite news | first = Paul | last = Schwartzman | title = Testing Openness to Scientology | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/12/AR2005061200251.html | work = Washington Post | date = 2005-06-12 | accessdate = 2009-12-20 }}