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That is the floor plan for the Church of Scientology’s new $145 million training center in Clearwater, Florida. Several hundred files documenting the plans and construction of the awesomely-named “Super Power Building” were leaked to the Village Voice, which has posted them in an in-depth virtual tour of the campus. After numerous setbacks and extensive fundraising, the complex, which the church calls the “Flag Mecca,” is set to finally open within the year, with the expressed purpose of instilling and fostering superhuman abilities in members using sleek retro-futuristic machines encoded with NASA technology, including a time machine, an anti-gravity simulator and an “endocrine states” capsule (think Darth Vader’s meditation chamber). Fitting, then, that the architecture is reminiscent of the X-Mansion, clad in a revivalist facade with matching entryway and wood paneled study rooms and dormitories, behind which lies the hidden technological core of the enterprise.