Scientology and Oiliness: More Renderings from the Super Power Building

Scientology and Oiliness: More Renderings
from the Super Power Building
By Tony Ortega Tue., Jan. 10 2012 at 8:00 AM

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Yesterday, we made public a leak of major proportions: we obtained hundreds of new
renderings and architectural drawings of Scientology's $100 million "Super Power Building" -
- what the church calls "Flag Mecca" -- in Clearwater, Florida.

Of all the "perceptics" installations on the building's "super power" fifth floor that we learned
about, one that seems to disturb readers the most is the notion of an "oiliness table." We're
still not sure what Scientologists will be subjected to when they have their sense of "oiliness"
checked, but we found this rendering of the apparatus, and we have additional, never-before-
seen images from the building after the jump...

Before we show any more images, however, we thought we'd roll credits first. As in, we
found this list of who was responsible for turning church leader David Miscavige's dreams
into reality. As of 2009, these were the firms on board...

Another of the perceptics installations that confounds us is an egg-shaped room with the name
"Endocrine States." We're still not much closer to understanding what goes on inside it, but
going back through our files, we found this cutaway schematic. Can anyone make sense of
what's going on here?

Another of L. Ron Hubbard's 57 "perceptics" -- human senses -- he called "gravitic." We
found this rendering of the fifth floor's "gravitic elements" installation, and that vertical
portion with holes is referred to as a "climbing wall."

What would a Mecca to Scientology be without acknowledging its various front groups? We
found these circular rooms on the first floor, with various tributes to organizations that
sometimes play down their connection to the church: Narconon, Criminon, Applied
Scholastics ("APS"), and the The Way to Happiness Foundation ("TWTH"). On the other
hand, they do seem shoved into a dead-end little room next to the larger, central circle, which
pays homage to Scientology's "orgs" (churches), Volunteer Ministers (who get sent to natural
disasters to perform voodoo -- "touch assists" -- and hand out literature), Scientology's mini-
orgs (Scientology Missions International) and WISE (World of Scientology Enterprises),
which tries to convince businesses that L. Ron Hubbard was some kind of organizational
genius.

Getting back to oiliness -- we just can't seem to get enough of it -- let's put that oiliness table
in some context. Here's an overhead view of one room in the fifth floor "perceptics" section,
and you can see that the oiliness table shares space with a "friction table," as well as four
other stations: heat, cold, pressure, and pain. (At the bottom, you can see the doors to the
smell and taste walls.)

Wait a minute -- a pain station? We looked into that further, and found drawings that indicate
that the corner counter will feature multiple "spike plates" which can pivot. Some of them are
labeled in this fashion: "Combined Plate" (CP), Hot-Cold-Electric, Hot, and Cold Versions.
Are Scientologists going to get shocked with hot electrified spike plates?

Spike plates, oiliness and friction tables, spinning subjects on a gyroscope -- that fifth floor is
starting to sound more and more like some kind of S&M dungeon for wealthy Scientology
celebrities -- run, Katie, run!

Let's go back to the first floor, where there's a lot of nostalgia going on for L. Ron Hubbard
and his days at sea. First, we noticed this grand wall of tributes to the Commodore and his
many accomplishments. The wall is so long, we had to snip it into two different scans, first
the left portion and then the right, with a grand entrance into the Atrium between them...

And we were a little surprised that readers didn't seem to have more to say about the small
Sea Org museum outside the Commodore's office, which includes a diorama of what it was
like to sail on the Apollo back in the day. The recreation of a deck from the ship includes an
actual lifeboat replica, and here's a schematic...

And finally, we wanted to give a better indication of just how stupendous is the sixth floor
dome -- which extends into the seventh floor -- which is one giant room for running around an
illuminated column. First, here's another look at that artist's rendering for what the experience
is going to be like...

Now, we're going to reproduce the entire sixth floor's schematic so you can see just how much
space is dedicated to that running dome in a building that takes up a full city block. Those tiny
rooms that surround the running space are all auditing chambers. Hundreds of the little rooms
are also found on other floors -- Miscavige is optimistic about the huge numbers of people he
expects to use this facility.

We're still sifting through architectural drawings in the hundreds of files that were leaked to
us, so we may have other surprises soon. But check back often because all hell continues to
break loose for Scientology as its membership appears to be in the grip of a crisis in faith.
Coming soon: more escapes from the asylum!

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