With all the focus on the marriage between Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise today, here are some words of, uh, wisdom from official Church of Scientology website. Scientologists believe that there are two minds–analytical and reactive–which store different types of memories in different “memory banks.” They believe that in times of stress, the reactive (read: bad, emotional) mind takes over, making it impossible for a person to access the good material from his or her analytical memory banks. Sound like phooey? It gets better!

The reactive mind can cause unknowing and unwanted fears, emotions, pains and psychosomatic illnesses that one would be much better off without. It holds a person back, getting in the way of his survival and success in life.
With Dianetics auditing, the contents of the reactive mind can be erased, freeing the person from its adverse influence. The previously hidden memories are now stored in the analytical mind, under the control of the individual.
A person who no longer has his own reactive mind is called a Clear. What he is left with is all that is really him, and with his mind’s potential now fully available.

The exercise:
Write about something so averse to actual science that it makes your mind spin. Have your character believe in it.