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Leaving the fold // Third-generation Scientologist grows disillusioned with faith

Title: Leaving the fold // Third-generation Scientologist grows disillusioned with faith
Date: Monday, 12 February 2001
Publisher: San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Author: Don Lattin
Main source: sfgate.com

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Astra Woodcraft, apostate and defector, is the latest enemy of the Church of Scientology. Woodcraft, 22, never really joined this controversial psycho-spiritual movement, at least not as a free-thinking adult. Astra was born into it. Founded in the 1950s by L. Ron Hubbard, a prolific science fiction writer and freelance philosopher, Scientology describes itself as "the only major new religion established in the 20th century," as a bridge to increased awareness and spiritual freedom. Woodcraft, a third-generation Scientologist, paints a different ... [Read the rest at sfgate.com]