The Voice has obtained hundreds of new renderings of Scientology’s Super Power Building in Clearwater, Florida, as well as a comprehensive collection of its architectural drawings. [Go here for our primer: What is Scientology? Update: More renderings of the building’s odder features. And we reveal part of how the Super Power Rundown itself works.]
A few renderings of Scientology’s expensive new “mecca” were published as long ago as 2007, but that release, and a few since, have included only a few images of how the building’s interiors will look once it is finished.
This new leak of material to the Voice is much more comprehensive, and includes detailed information down to the building’s fasteners, fixtures, and signage, not to mention its major architectural schematics.
Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard devised the “Super Power Rundown” in 1978. He envisioned it as a series of counseling routines, some of which would be used to enhance the human senses with the use of elaborate and futuristic platforms and machines. Hubbard died in 1986, and it wasn’t until the early 1990s that the rundown was performed on a few wealthy donors at Scientology’s secretive “Int Base” in the California desert. Then, in November 1998, Hubbard’s successor, church leader David Miscavige, broke ground on a massive new building project, “Flag Mecca,” known commonly as the Super Power Building, where the new rundown would be housed. Thirteen years and $145 million in fundraising later, the building is thought to be largely completed, but it is still not open for business. On the following pages you’ll get a detailed look at what’s inside… 1
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