In Christian lore, Jesus saved humanity from eternal damnation. In Tom Cruise’s alternate universe, Scientology saved him from illiteracy. He has actually told XL Semanal that at eighteen, when most American kids are college bound, he couldn’t exactly read. Luckily, the powers of sci-fi writer/Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard intervened in the downtrodden life of staring confusedly at books followed by Cruise.

NBC reports:

U.S. actor Tom Cruise said Scientology teachings helped him overcome childhood dyslexia, a Spanish magazine reported.

Cruise was quoted by Spanish magazine XL Semanal as saying he was diagnosed with the learning disability when he was 7 years old.

Cruise said he was often anxious, frustrated and bored as a youth and couldn’t concentrate in class, the magazine reported on its Web site Sunday.

The magazine quoted Cruise as saying he was functionally illiterate when he graduated from school in 1980, but learned to read perfectly as an adult through Scientology technology.

What I want to know is, what exactly is this Scientology technology? And how did he graduate from high school without knowing how to read?