From: lindsay+@cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay)
Subject: Re: Money Poll
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 21:55:46 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


rogue@ccs.northeastern.edu (Rogue Agent) writes:
>	One impression I have of Scientology is that it's expensive.  
>Now, all of my information comes from what I guess you'd call
>'hostile' sources.  So what I'd like to do is take an informal poll
>of people who've been involved in scn.

I'd like to see the results. Here's what I have to date:

-----------------------< prices FAQ >-----------------------------------

People often ask about the price of Scientology involvement.  I have
collected various posts that named numbers, and the answers vary, but
if you stick with it, it's certainly at least thousands. Three
cutdown postings follow:
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From: thomson@cs.sfu.ca (Brian Thomson)
Date: 31 Jul 91 14:44:54 GMT

I took many courses including SHSBC,
CLASS VII and VIII and interneships on all three. I'd
recommend them highly to current Scientologists (not the
general public of course). Here is a recent price list of
some of these services with which I am more than familiar

E-METER         3,523

STUDENT HAT       850
SHSBC          10,000
SHSBC INT.      2,000
CLASS VIII     15,000
CLASS VIII INT  2,000


OT I            2,500
OT II           4,755
OT III          7,650
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TOTAL          48,278


This is the minimum training in order to claim to have an
overview of the "technology". 
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From: dhelrod@nruris.dec.com (David H.Elrod)
Date: 31 Jul 91 23:16:59 GMT

> My friend's father is taking the Key To Life series of classes, and it's
> going to cost him somewhere between $25,000 and $50,000 when he's finished.

I wonder where?  The Key to Life course costs about $6000 - $8000 + roughly
$1000 for books.

Most folks do the Life Orientation Course after Key To Life which is probably
another $2-3K and another 1-2 weeks.

DISCLIAMER:  The above prices are rough, based on what I recall reading
during the past year or so.
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From: doering@ssdd475a.erim.org (Hazmat Response Team)
Date: 22 Aug 91 05:29:26 GMT

TRAINING
Hubbard Dissemination Course			 $250
New Era Dianetics
	Auditor Course				$4440
	Auditor Internship			$1100
Saint Hill Special Briefing Course
	All six levels				$9375
	each level				$1875
Class VI Internship				$1750
Student Hat Study Course			 $688
Hubbard Professional TR course			$1485
Method One Word Clearing co-audit		 $688
Professional Co-audit				 $517
Solo Course Part I				$2211
Solo Course Part II				$1441

PROCESSING
Clear Certainty Rundown
	per 5 hour intensive			$1859
OT Preparation auditing
	per 12 1/2 hour intensive		$4660
OT Eligibility auditing
	per 12 1/2 hour intensive		$4660
HGC Professional Auditing
for Grades, NED Auditing, Objectives,
Method One word clearing in the HGC, etc.
	per 12 1/2 hour intensive		$4660

BOOKSTORE
NEW Hubbard Dissem Course Manual		 $100
NEW Organization Executive Course Volume 0	  $72
Technical Bulletins by L. Ron Hubbard
	all 12 volumes				$1200

Special!  Color Hubbard Mark VI
E-Meter (tm) pastoral counseling device		Reg.	Special
	Black					$3328	$2600
	Reg. Mark VI				$3667	$2300

All prices are quoted from the order form insert in Issue 146 of CAUSE,
a publication of the American Saint Hill Organization Foundation in 
Los Angeles.  (from 1986, I think.  It was addressed to a previous resident
of a house where I lived at the time.)  The banner says the ASHO Foundation
"delivers upper level training and OT Preparation Auditing to Working
Scientologists (tm) Evenings and Weekends."

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Don		D.C.Lindsay 	Carnegie Mellon Computer Science